skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have created a map to showcase which cities/communities in Germany (and other countries) do switch off lights at night - mostly for saving energy, some for protecting #biodiversity
I'll be updating this list / map whenever I notice new items.

Almost every item has the corresponding news link as reference.

The map: https://www.google.com/maps/d/viewer?mid=1nxZDQjCwxKov-cHD8t...

The data: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1ZePwJHgj5UdnZfQp2UaS...

Add cities to the list by filling out/submitting this form: https://forms.gle/FyZBS23njYPpc8BY7

Feel free to use the data as you like or share. It's public data anyway.

Side-effect of the switch-off is clearly less light pollution and thus a relief to nocturnal species.

It might help convincing the one or other mayor or administration that there are already many others who switch off lights at night (some since years).
Check out this snazzy looking fellow:
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/scientists-dressed...
38 Injured in NYC apartment blaze caused by micromobility lithium-ion battery
It's not transformative at all, nor quoted for study/discussion, and that's exactly what makes it a problem.

If the snippets merely had attribution, they'd be both legal and acceptable to most open source authors.

The code is not transformative because the quoted code is not used for some other purpose like as part of an article discussing whatever the code does, it is used to do exactly it's original job.

If you wrote a book by quoting choice paragraphs from other books, without crediting any of them, presenting the new book as simply your pile of deep insights, that is not transformative, even though your book is not the same as any single of the source books. It's also not fair use, even though all the quoted bits are short, both because of the usage and the lack of accreditation.

We could have something like copilot just fine if done above board, but as it is right now github are simply outlaw and with no excuse at all.
I read about 4-6 books per month, usually with plenty of notes. In my case, it’s spending less time doing other things I enjoy (playing games, watching movies) and putting that time towards reading (which I also deeply enjoy). I always read at my own pace and never sacrifice comprehension in order to eke out another book. That said, some books are easier to read than others. The more you read about a particular subject, the faster a section of reading might go in another book on a related topic.
"....scholars recognize the profound importance of materials such as the Dorsey collection—resources collected and preserved informally by African Americans at a time when white historians claimed that African Americans had no history to speak of."

Imagine how much Black American (descendants of slaves) history has been lost to time because of mindsets like this. Tragic too because they built this country, yet the full extent of their contributions will never be known.
That was almost exactly what happened to me a couple of years ago. The company hired a terrible guy with an architect title. What he did was some really simple 3rd party integration sending some transaction details to an accounting provider. Instead of reading from db, he decided to intercept those before saving to db coz some of those were not saved at all (only a problem for accounting, but most of the customers did not use accounting providers anyway). So, he spent over a year on that and moved on to another project. I took the project over and lots of complaints from beta testing customers. My manager and I spoke to him about it and never get anywhere. "Look, I can spend another year on this, and it might never really work. How about let me scrap his sh*t and start over?" I proposed. Months later, green light I got. So I deleted all his code solely for that part, around 5k lines and replaced with merely ~300 lines, never had an issue since then. Soon we hired a new Product Lead, the first thing he did was asking how many lines code we wrote in the past year. Errr, okay, so I pulled out stats from source control. Ouch, it was minus ~3k lines.
Gab is a Mastodon fork that's basically locked out of the Mastodon Fediverse by the moderators. There's no reason why Mastodon qua infrastructure should be identified with the "right".
I don't think what you're saying is true. I worked with some really skilled programmers where I'm from. I've never seen a skill disparity between where I'm from and the Valley. There is a massive, unexplainable pay disparity though.
Just look at the latest Apple silicon. Transistor per dollar and TDP is showing great strides.

Intel and Nvidia just got too lazy or fumbled their node progress.
Yeah, Musk is starting to ban anyone that rationally argues with him on twitter.
Um, you might want to let Intel know that the US is too expensive: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Intel_manufacturing_si...

By my count, of the 7 fabs on the latest process, 5 are in the US.
It's about looks more than it is actual violence. This is advertising so that's not throwing shade, it really is actually about looks. It's also about actual violence, but looks here are very important. And it looked like Twitter was doing something about the violence. Maybe not 100% successfully, but they were trying, and officially disavowed doxxing and violence.
Twitter apparently has 166 million "monetizable daily active users", which seems enough to bring in $1B in revenue per month.
Here’s Notre Dame [1]. For some reason I also see a Venus de Milo standing in front of it.

[1]: https://demo.f4map.com/#lat=48.8526614&lon=2.3504599&zoom=18...
I'm wondering where it is getting the data for the high-resolution buildings?

For example, Big Ben at the Houses of Parliament in London has a detailed model, and so too does nearby Westminster Abbey, and several famous structures nearby.

https://demo.f4map.com/#lat=51.5006147&lon=-0.1253329&zoom=1...
The author of the blog post isn't an American.
> My manager is remote and has no idea any of this is happening

God, what a nightmare, that’s absolutely not your problem, tell your manager

>I don't want to be the asshole to ask people to speak in English, or make my manager be that guy either.

Uhh is this really what wokeism has done to us? Your teams performance is at stake, this isn’t you being racist or “uncool”.
We don’t use email-style IDs; we use domain names (@alice.com) which will often be subdomains (@alice.host.com).

The auth schemes will evolve. That technique is meant for your main app.
This is big because it sets a precedent for broader usage of these "copy and make similar" ML models. For example, I believe it'll impact the future of AI image generation.
> and now he can do what he wants

Honest to gods I do not understand how you can think like this. Elon is not a medieval King. He can not just do what he wants. There are laws. Elon isn’t operating in a full-on cartel environment quite yet.
+1 for maze not disappearing. Comparing the different algorithms is the actually pleasing thing to watch.
> Now if my manager would look at the number of lines of code I would still write the stored procedure, however, rather than auto executing the SQL code, I would just copy and paste the auto generated code into my Python codebase increasing my LOC for that week.

Not everyone panders exclusively to optimizing grading metrics. I wouldn’t do that even if my manager looked at lines of code because I care about the quality of my work. I’m confident a lot of people share my sentiment.
I like the disclaimer Disney puts up on some of its streaming items - it's something like

"This content stereotypes some peoples or cultures - it was wrong then and now but we are keeping it here as a historical document (and to spark conversation)"

(If you have Disney+ go look for the original Dumbo)
Maybe cold fusion?[1] (probably not though)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold_fusion
Does Simula have pass through? I can information about it on your website.

Good luck with the project!
It's said that when "Gilligan's Island" was written, they'd intentionally named the shipwrecked boat after that FCC commissioner decrying TV's great wasteland.

The S.S. Minnow.
First, I understand subj as a sound bouncing of the walls multiple times, so you can’t track its origin or reason anymore, but it persists.

In a technological context, echo chambers made me a great disservice making me believe in certain “textbook truths” that are not. These truths just bounce around mindlessly. Some of them are (were) our well-known best practices and approaches. Maybe they are true in some context, but everyone reinforces them without providing it, and many of us work in very different situations. Pretty sure that this happens in all areas, and in those that you have no expertise in they create a complete trash views in your head which harm your own reality.

That said, people sometimes assume that there are echo chambers and also main/good views. I don’t believe so. As we tend (^tend, not always do) to turn every piece of knowledge into religious crap, it is everywhere. So ECs are bad, but it’s not that I consider them bad in favor of something else, because there is none.

For example, I fully, completely agree with the top comment (by norhi999), but we’ll probably start a flamewar here if I elaborate on what my “textbook truths” are.
Schemer here, so this question may be silly, but can't you declare or declaim or proclaim or whatever (safety 3) to get stricter typechecking?
"This, and other things CEOs say while smoking crack."

Computer code still runs on CPUs and not the aether. If its accepting connections from other computers it is the server in the client/server model. If it's on your desktop, it just typically means it doesn't have ECC memory and a battery backup dropping the reliability even further. Decentralized architectures have all kinds of fun and complicated failure modes, and especially for consumer use, high speed and low latency typically are not their strong points.
Decentralization allows for different forms of moderation across instances and allows for instances to monetize how they want, whether that is pay to play, donations, or advertising.

I would argue those are 2 of the most pressing issues social media faces. Maybe others would disagree however.
Thanks to Prof. Newport (and other experts), I have successfully managed to increase the number of books I purchase and read on how to become more productive.
A thousand times yes.

Another set of "philosophical muggings" that use the same trick and drive me nuts that people just accept them are trolley problems.

"Why shouldn't the surgeon kill a healthy person to save 5 others with his organs?". Duh, because the surgeon doesn't know what's going to happen and there's a high chance he's going to end up with 6 corpses, plus his own when anybody fins out. "No, you don't understand, it's a Gedankenexperiment, we're assuming it works out". That's the mugging, that's the con, you just gave them clarivoyance and from there you can be sold any bridge of their choice.

Never accept crystal balls. There are no paradoxes, just realities people don't like.
haha great! You are correct - this is where i pulled the term from! Such a great book.
When you replace bad democracy by outright dictatorship on command of foreign country, because foreign country is loosing money ... they you don't get points for complaining about original democracy being bad. And what you empower will be radicals who will be supported by everyone who hates you.

This us destroyed our leadership and we hated their goverment more interpretation is something I had from Iranians who later run away. They were happy about government going down, not happy about replacement. But the original government being seen as foreign imposed and illegitimate was strong feeling.

Eastern European countries also distinguish between "this was crappy but our thing and even had some democratic tilt" from "Russia/Germany supported full coup or came to colonize".
I assume he was smart enough to keep the operations staff (SREs, etc.)
Until someone forks/mirrors your project on GitHub
What does “advanced Python ecosystem experience” mean? Are we talking someone who contributes to the packaging tools themselves or just a competent release manager?

Are they insisting on full-time in-person with in a high cost of living area? (Or a dress code?)

Do they have a policy preventing employees from working on open source software?

Do they have a reputation for requiring things like mandatory overtime or off-hours availability?

I have trouble believing this is true unless they’re answering yes to at least a couple of those questions. If they aren’t, have they considered changing how they’re looking? It wouldn’t be the first time bad leads are due to a recruiter who just isn’t the right person for the job.
Remind me again, which major brands advertise on 4chan?
Some discussion from the original site when it was first posted here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33290863
I found it very amusing when I learned that Mastodon, a decentralized Twitter alternative, was created because its creators thought there wasn't enough censorship on Twitter.

This seems to be along similar lines (though considering how other Reddit alternatives ended up, I guess that's fair enough!)
Something that isn’t clear to folks is that Jack is on the board and advises us, but Bluesky’s founder and team are pulled from the dweb community.
Does this affect federation? Or does Mastodon accept larger posts anyways for federating with non-Mastodon ActivityPub services?
> forget it. I mean, most developer tools cost less than that.

Maybe developers shouldn't be OP's target market. As a group we tend to be some of the cheapest people when it comes to paying for software. I include myself in this. But trust me folks in other industries don't find $13/month to be a sticking point if it solves their problem.
re. email:
That's a fair argument, but as long as gmail is not the only provider, its not really centralized. It can be concentrated in a specific ecosystem, but as long you can migrate to Fastmail, or ProtonMail, or Outlook mail. There is not the same lockin effects that happens with platforms.
>"That progress is just barely beginning to make large neural networks (Stable Diffusion, vision and speech systems, language model AIs) deployable in consumer applications."

Interesting. Is Stable Diffusion a product of neural network size then? Is the size of the network a function of chips density?
Also is there a Stable Diffusion app that currently works on edge devices?
Very nice! My only suggestion would be to include Jump Point Search (JPS) [1], which can be an order of magnitude faster than A* search in grid map settings. JPS has also been extended to 3D grids for quadrotor path planning [2].

[1]: https://ojs.aaai.org/index.php/AAAI/article/view/7994

[2]: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/7839930
The surface elevations are somehow scaled-down, making mountains seem like rolling hills, and hills like almost-level ground...

But otherwise, it's neat :-)
Glad to see more people dip toes into federated networks. Instance owners can read DMs. https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/18079
So you're "validating" symbols now (strange choice of word). But certainly validating that the higher-level construct that we're escaping is an email address. Because the escaping procedure doesn't care.
> I don't think I'm getting my point across.

Alternate proposal: you got your point across and people disagree with you.

Any ideas for how he's going to keep the lights on at twitter? Your suggestion that advertisers fleeing the platform is a "free speech issue" is highly questionable. What remedy would you propose? Forcing advertisers to spend, and how much should the government force them to spend, propping up political speech they disagree with?

Boycotts are protected speech. Even if you find that speech deplorable.
So what seems to have happened is that N number of EVs - where N is unconfirmed in any of the articles I have seen but all have the same photo of a white Tesla Model X - which were submerged in salt water storm surge for many hours, experienced battery fires due to this corrosion / conductive water intrusion following a hurricane which had the worst level of storm surge in a populated part of Florida that I can remember in my lifetime.

I know that at least some gas car fires also happened in the aftermath of this storm, submerging even a standard 12v car battery in salt water is inadvisable.

I'm not sure what we can usefully draw from that, other than to avoid leaving EVs in areas expected to be submerged in salt water, but that's generally good advice anyway.

I do think the difference in how these fires are managed versus a gasoline fire should be considered. The most interesting thing I have seen to deal with this is a fire department that just had several car-sized metal dumpsters. Drop the car in the dumpster, fill it with water from a firetruck, and come back in a day or two.
Ah looking at your link it actually does use roof data! Nice work!

I'd zoomed in on a place where I'd provided building heights and was pleased to see that it did use that. Not all "3D" OSM renderers do even that.

These renderers dearly need better topography though. The resolution is insufficient unfortunately.
Z-Library eBook site domains seized by U.S. Dept of Justice
Without looking at the code in question, I'd guess it's junk from the loader binary; mmaping the file into the range, but not filling the end properly seems like a much easier mistake than having a one off amd broken way to get disk content and a little extra into memory for loading loaders.
my point stands
Would you want to be associated with people who openly and unironically praised Hitler?
I have a crazy theory Microsoft may have been seeking this outcome.

Microsoft isn't stupid, and Copilot is so obviously legally dubious that it stretches reason they launched it without better legal justification or discourse. Microsoft employees basically treat any notion like it isn't legal as nonsense, even though they lack any real precedent to justify the position.

Is it plausible they might have launched a product almost certain to face a legal case in order to establish precedent for using training data? The company is working in this industry and it likely needs to know for future projects that are harder or costlier to build.
I block your removal of node_modules from gitignore
“I’m sorry I created a blight on humanity, but now I can fix it, with blockchain!”

Thanks, but no thanks.
So I recently had a discussion with a copyright academic expert, and based on what he said to me, I'm wondering how they are suing.

Basically, the common conception of all produced work being automatically copyrighted is correct. However, one can only sue for copyright infringement for works that have a registered copyright (one can register after the fact, one is then just limited in the damages they can sue for, i.e. no enhanced damages for violations before registration).

My assumption is that even github copilot is violating peoples copyright, since the copyright for the vast majority of the code is not registered (does anyone actually pay to register the copyright on their code?), it can make it difficult to sue for damages, especially as a form of class action (where presumambly the class that has registered their copyright is minimal in size).

was I informed incorrectly (I'm also wondering, if this is true, how this would impact enforcement of GPL type licenses in the USA, as again, the vast majority of code licensed under it isn't registered, so while one could register it after the fact, how many people really do this?)
Love the visuals, looks kinda slow on a mobile
Hugs to you. T1 diabetes is so awful and hard. The daily burden is something non diabetics just can never fully understand. It's something that's with you always. We understand the burden of living on the knife's edge of life and death better than almost anyone.
We use DIDs for identity but presently no blockchain DID methods. Some people ask us for that, eg did:ethr or did:ion. Unsure it’ll happen (I’m skeptical) but that’s what Jay was talking about.
Oracle got a very thin copyright on API signatures. The "programmer convenience" ruling in Google v. Oracle basically precludes almost all copyright action on APIs alone.
Allowing desalination would enable Exxon expanding their shale extraction operation, an environmental disaster.

I.e., desalination by itself would be fine, except CC has enough water for its own use without. I suspect the tricky swap was meant as a way for Exxon to avoid getting blocked trying to do desalination on its own.
Do you have a source, and does that source define "monetizable" as "willing to pay at least $8 a month?
My guess is that current trails that aren't already accessible would struggle to support a machine of that size (secure cabin and then width of legs/etc), and there wouldn't be the demand for immediate upgrade of wilder trails. I've hiked a lot and can't remember the last time I saw a wheelchair on an accessible trail; prams are more common.

National parks have transitioned from trying to attract people to the outdoors to now trying to minimise their impact on the environment, so I assume they'd be reluctant to upgrade non-accessible trails like that. Smaller parks might have smaller budgets.

Then add risks on steep or exposed trails. My father in law is in a wheelchair (MS) and bumps/scraps doorways in our house. Move that to a trail on a slope and it would be very dangerous.
A proof machine I find incredible is no proof machine at all, but just an assertion machine.
If it's true that he fired developers based off lines of code then I think Liz Truss is smarter.
I don’t understand what’s the point to this federation thing, other than to offer bad user experince. Shouldn’t “decentralized” be like the number 30 in the long list of things a popular/fun social platform should aspire for, not the number one?

I swear I’ve tried to find an instance but either the focus of the instance is too specific, has only couple dozen people, or doesn’t accept new members because there’s too much of them.
In my experience, federation is like email, except in the early days before gmail was email, and if your ISP could arbitrarily and without notice subscribe you to a fire hose of illegal content.
Many county elections officials release downloadable lists of who has voted (but, of course, not who they voted for). For example, here's King County, WA (Seattle), which is updated 1-2x/day during balloting: https://www.sos.wa.gov/elections/research/2022-general-elect...

Here's at least one option for Los Angeles County: https://www.lavote.gov/home/voting-elections/current-electio...

They're often called "matchbacks," since it's a list of voter IDs that campaigns match back to the list of registered voters.
They’re physical, tangible, plainly understood by all, and auditable.
Thermoeconomics
The html contains a canonical link which HN uses.

link rel="canonical" href="//demo.f4map.com"
A related question: is photonics on the radar yet as a possible next breakthrough, or is it still in research and experimental phases?
How to Leave Twitter for Mastodon
Am I missing something that this is doing something other than finding shortest paths? For example A* on an empty map should generate a diagonal path with almost no checks outside the paths immediate neighbors. But I get this: https://link.ekin.dev/OTW2xy
> Is it that big of a deal?

Yeah. Companies typically come into the year with budget allocations. Some percent of that is going to upfronts / presold, for which you get a discount.

Twitter has a not-particularly compelling product. The dollars that Twitter lost almost surely got committed elsewhere.
I shoot exclusively with old manual focus lenses on my M43 body. It forces me to slow down and enjoy photography.

Plus, I'm getting real good and estimating distance and blidly adjusting focus to match.
You didn't write code there, fired.