skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Italy, one of the sunniest countries in Europe, should do ok.
Cheap power enables a lot of things, like synthesis of fertilizers or the ability to cheaply desalinate water.

It won’t fix these crisis directly, but it would reduce or remove a lot of the contributing factors.
Internet Historian recently made a good documentary about Floyd Collins and his rescue attempts: https://youtu.be/Ip9VGZeqMfo
This and 10x this :)
One thing though, doing exercises (or problems, whatever you want to call them) is extremely helpful for actually learning math. For your matrix example, I had a very excellent teacher for linear algebra and one of the most helpful things they did was spend the first few weeks of the course teaching manual calculation and actually forcing us to do the manual calculations. At the time this felt like a total waste of time, since after all that is what computers are for, right? However, actually doing the calculations helped greatly to reinforce my memory for matrix manipulation and what is actually occurring.

Yes, proofs are a powerful part of mathematics, but they aren't at all the only goal. For someone like a machinist, proofs seem entirely impractical and like a waste of effort. My high school geometry class was heavily proof based, and most of the people in my class couldn't understand why we were doing these exercises. As a result, they didn't actually learn many of the helpful tricks from intro geometry that can help with things like machining or carpentry. In fact, I'd talked to someone who was in that class that now runs a cabinetmaking shop and they mentioned feeling cheated in high school due to our geometry class. I thought it was very well taught, but I ended up doing a BS in math. I was surprised that we ended up with very different views of the same class >10 years later.

Plus, even after MS level math courses, I can appreciate the need to do exercises. I look at them the same way as practicing playing an instrument. Sure, you can intellectually understand everything about a performance, but the only way to learn is through practice. I haven't had to touch 3d calc in a hot minute, but an upcoming side project will need that. First thing I am doing is (legally acquiring) some undergrad textbooks and solution guides and working through problems before comparing results. Yes, I can do proofs, but going through a worked example and comparing results is an excellent way of learning.
Depends on the product.

If a product provides some value that requires additional resources for using it like cloud and keeping information constantly updated (like email) then subscription is fine.

But many now create a product that just sits on mobile or PC without any real need for additional resources or efforts from the company that released it. Like a meditation app with list of audio files of guided meditations that user constantly use daily just replaying them — this shouldn't be subscription or at least should be a very cheap one. Like $1-2. A meditation app that doesn't produce anything outside installed app that asks for the same money as Netflix for the mere fact that users use it daily is just wrong.

Obviously, a meditation app is just an example. You may easily add Adobe products here. If one just uses an app for personal use on one's own PC without needing to connect to other team members or upload anything in the cloud, there is no need for subscription. One-time payment would work much better. Especially when one doesn't need every new update and could stay on the version one bought without being pushed to pay for features or updates one doesn't need.

Again, if subscription then it should be really small for such cases. Adobe desperate acquisition of Figma is exactly the sign that Adobe executes wrong pricing policy. The company could make even more money than it does should it provide really cheap or free access for personal use and make real money on businesses. There would be fewer open seats for competition to eat Adobe's pie and more users invested and familiar with Adobe products that would want to use them in businesses too — basically free customer acquisition. Figma did this and crushed it making Adobe in desperation pay $20B for the same product it already has — pure defensive move.
Yep, and a lot of people never visit Japan or Asia in general because of that.

That being said, it's all relative to income. Wages are low in Japan, and taxes are higher. Wages have also remained flat ever since the 90s when the bubble burst, and Japan hasn't experienced any inflation until this year. Meanwhile inflation has continued in Europe and north America, so travel has consistently gotten relatively more expensive to a Japanese person.
>Lets start with employees... both Tesla and especially SpaceX had hordes of people wanting to work there. I don't currently see the same for Twitter, and Elon just removed a bunch of talent.

I don't know of anyone who is clamoring to work for Twitter now but the people he fired definitely don't seem like the type you're describing either. I think he views the majority of Twitter to be inmates running the asylum.

The real question is will he be able to find replacements that share his vision/passion for Twitter like he did with those companies. Twitter seems a lot less prestigious than SpaceX or Tesla.
> produce enough food to feed everyone? The soil crisis and the phosphorus crisis....

Are all ultimately problems of energy being too scarce (and therefore too expensive).
> there's only so much you can do for a fixed one-time payment

I think that in the pre-internet times, when companies were unable to use a subscription model, they simply increased prices to account for support costs.
We had SunRay at a municipality here in Sweden where I worked at the IT department. I tought it was really cool and I had built our own "session routing" script that could connect terminals to different servers based on the smartcard ID.
Terminals in the schools connected to a school server where students could login without smartcards, but if a teacher inserted their card it would connect them to the "admin" server or to a windows VM.

I had my own server in the DC that I could then connect to from my desk using a multi-monitor SunRay terminal. At home I had a SunRay connecting in to the office with VPN. I could move between terminals by just inserting my smartcard in whichever terminal I was at.
There was even a company creating a SunRay laptop called Gobi that I tried using , but a regular laptop with the software client was a much better experience.
Yes! If you plan on spending a lot of money then this is a great time to visit
The consumer report review actually is a bit reassuring in that most brands _don't_ really have high lead levels, it's the cadmium you have to be concerned with. This matches what ConsumerLabs similarly found.

However both reviews indeed show a lot of brands have high cadmium, with the worst offenders about 2x the california 4mcg limit. But this is the limit present in food, it doesn't tell you how much is absorbed. I assume the california limit might already try to account for this, but in the large scale 2x over the limit doesn't seem that bad, it's basically within order of magnitude.
Good points. Thanks for sharing :) Interesting read.
Fortunately I don't believe we'll need to. From a previous glance of that report, scenario F is pretty close to what I'd imagined we'd likely aim for. It would've been a lot smoother and less costly if we'd started 40 years ago, but it's not shortage of minerals like lithium or cobalt that have been holding us up.
If the "Big rare-earth-metals-mining" industry had anything like the clout of Big Oil/Gas/Coal, we'd probably be half way there by now.
Drake?
Oh my god you're actually putting Murdoch forward as an example of a billionaire staying out of his media companies' business?
>I'm speculating a bit, and I'm not supporting his actions, I'm trying to explain then. I think he already had disagreement with his son that came out as trans later, and I think the major reason he changed his political position is because of his child. The child also cut all ties with him.

Maybe, but I find it more likely that his child cut ties with him because he was always fucking awful.
When we get far enough left, there's nothing left....
SpaceX probably has a more or less guaranteed future as part of the military-industrial complex, and I think it's very likely that's Musk's actual vision - inroads into becoming the next Lockheed-Martin.

Remember that one of the very first Tesla investors, Mike Griffin, since way before a rocket engine had even fired, later became Trump's Undersecretary of R&D, and had previously been a high-ranking scientist of the Star Wars satellite missile defense program (and head of NASA).
Although there are tons of non-EU chips going into these machines, there are tons with EU involvement too (think networking, memory). Also, while chips are a significant share of the expense, it is certainly not most of it. Housing, cooling, infra, racks; those are all things that can be done 'locally'.
> All analogue circuitry is characterized by non-linearity to a greater or lesser extent

The author seems to view this as a negative trait, which is bizarre to me. All acoustic instruments including the human voice are highly nonlinear. Perfectly linear synthesis is mostly dull and "too perfect", as was discovered quickly once computers came into the picture.
For being so impressed with this past few weeks, I still get stuff like this and realize the end of humanity because of AI isn't near worth talking about:

>How many homeruns did Aaron Judge hit in 2022

>>Aaron Judge hit 0 home runs in 2022, as the season was cancelled due to the >>COVID-19 pandemic.

Or:

>Give me a word that rhymes with Quinoa

>>Phenomenon
Subsetting is literally part of load balancing. It literally means to ask the client to choose a subset of the available servers and load balance among them. At Google's scale of RPC systems, there would be way too many connections if every client connects to every server.
So dems would not have come out to vote if Biden's drug addicted son has naked pics of himself on his laptop? I don't see that changing things.
The title doesn't match the contents. There is no actual justification of why this is a breakthrough.

IMHO it's a milestone, not a breakthrough. This is because it is only a marginal improvement on previous results and it is very unlikely to significantly change the state of either the science or industrial products without further work.
Free climbing? Though at gun point I'd rather climb without ropes than go caving or cave diving.
>In theory, would a gigantic room that was miles to the nearest wall be even better?

Yes, as effectively it's open space. In practice though, to record in high quality you would rather build an anechoic environment, as small as possible (preferably a booth).
I realize you may not want to share it, but if you have some sort of resource you could point me at I'd appreciate it, since I also like doing basic arithmetic as a mental game. I view it as similar to the type of casual timekilling that one would do with sudoku or minesweeper, but at least semi-productive in that I'm building mental arithmetic skills. If you feel inclined to share the source so I could run my own instance, I can be reached at my username + google's mail service.
I think the main reason that the subscription model is gaining popularity is that it can discourage piracy. To prove that you have a valid subscription, you have to log in each time. And it's harder to patch out a login system (especially if parts of the program code are stored server-side and are downloaded each run) than it is to patch out a simple cd key check.
I think twitter couldn’t be more mismanaged than under this narcissistic idiot, but free speech is far from simple — you just get mindless shitposting and hate speech without some form of moderation.
> Mixing in the enhanced track as needed works well. Using only the enhanced track may sound artificial at times.

Funnily, in order to use this sort of model for tasks involving speech recognition it's often recommended in the literature to mix back in some of the original noisy audio. This reduces the impact of artifacts introduced by the enhancement which would otherwise reduce ASR quality due to domain shift in the data.

Guess humans and computers have similar needs in this case. :)

These are impressive results, the audio mostly sounds like you gave the guy a lapel mic. :P
Just because it's available doesn't mean everyone has one.
See the linked chapter from the SRE book: https://sre.google/sre-book/load-balancing-datacenter/#limit...
India got a Mars probe in orbit - on the first try. The British crashed landed their Mars probe and lost it. Does the F-35 VTOL software get the same supercomputer modeling test treatment as the active retro thrust to final stage descent on Mars for nasa's surface vehicles?
Enough pollutant stays in the water table to be a health concern.
Mobile app stores are the worst at this, apps which have no business being subscription try to get you to pay monthly, like a sleep analysis app, nickle and dime with DLC and add subscription pricing on top. Never a dime to a company like this.

Continuously add value and allow old versions like JetBrains, totally makes sense.
Moduliths: Because we need to scale, but we also cannot afford microservices
From the outside, the US university tuition system looks concerningly like the used car market. Questionable sales techniques, aimed at impressionable customers who don't understand exactly what they're getting (and think they're getting a lot more), very little price transparency, and easy credit acting as a force multiplier...
This would be a dialysis machine. There is some evidence that they're capable of removing some perfluorinated chemicals, though it seems they aren't effective against all types, at least at low concentrations. I'm sure there are private clinics somewhere that will take your money and hook you up for a blood detox, but it's a four hour process so not a practical solution for everyone.

https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal...
Nor does a few accounts have as many followers as some famous people on Twitter.

Just because you decentralize won’t make all kinds of scaling easy.
With food available, many bears at Tahoe forgo hibernation
Thank you, works great! Any idea how I can make this the default setting, instead of needing to set it for each vault?

Looks like I am not the only one who would like that: https://forum.obsidian.md/t/custom-default-vault-settings/66...
Good point, but I'm sure the point was no new american automobile companies succeeded until tesla
I guess you missed this part:

> They are also somewhat volatile, so they sometimes migrate up. Sometimes as gases.

Also, I can imagine that while they stay on the bottom they still contaminate some water above slightly and continuously since molecules in liquids generally like to move around a bit.
Silly and curious question. Given he caved so many caves (or however you have to put it, I'm tired at the moment... English... 2nd language. I wanted to say "raided so many caves", lol), does every country have a cave? If yes, did he visit every country in the world as well?
A bit of googling suggests you can have 3 or 4, but I can’t find a US government source on that.
There could be, but there are (at least) three parties involved in whatever's causing the slow monitor response. I find it irritating even without a switch, just plugging in my external monitor should not take what seems like thirty seconds to actually turn on.

But in reality, you've got whatever tiny micro is inside the monitor, talking to whatever's on the graphics card, in turn talking to display drivers and who-knows-what-else on the PC side.

Slightly related to this, in some ways, is things like wifi connection. I have an ESP8226 that I've built a clock around. That thing will connect to the wifi, negotiate security, contact a time server, probably within one second. None of that is down to my ingenuity, it's literally how it works out of the box.

So the problem may just as much be on the OS side, rather than the monitor and the E-DID protocol.
No, you don't possess the box set for free. You already have all the songs in the box set that you paid for, and therefore you already paid for the contents of the box set. You own the box set contents in entirety, just not that specific box set you would walk out with from the store.

If you're confusing the medium with the actual work, consider the following. You own an original painting. Is it illegal to take a picture of that painting and not redistribute it? A picture is not an exact replica of the painting, but someone might say it is a close enough copy. What if you copied the painting by hand on a new canvas to be indistinguishable by human eye from the original. How about if you move the painting from one painting frame to another. Is the painting from considered part of the art? Are any of these illegal if you don't redistribute it? Stealing is illegal. If you take a box set, you're stealing the DVDs not just the contents of the DVDs. If you remux a movie, you didn't pay for that exact version that you now possess. Is that illegal if you don't redistribute it? If you buy a fork, 3D scan it and then 3D print it and eat dinner with it, is it illegal?

It all comes down to laws of one's country. But your analogy doesn't work because you're talking about physically stealing media and we're talking about digital piracy. Some countries it's actually not illegal to download, only upload. It gets even more complicated in the US when it comes to federal and state laws, copyright law, fair use, personal property, etc. I agree that it is not as clear cut legal as he's making it, but it's not as clear cut illegal as I feel you are making it.
Really like the project, I am curious if you would be willing to accept a PR for a LaTeX generator output flag? That seems like a fun addition to do, but it is a scope expansion so before spending time on it I'd thought I'd ask if that would be something you would accept for the project?

Edit: The reason I ask is that providing a tex generator would possibly help K12 teachers generate exercise sheets, since obviously the terminal output wouldn't do for providing to students. I see that basic Tex is availiable, but from what I see it doesn't support templates.
Spending two years in crypto made me realize I too was capable of being gullible. Education evaporates in these situations (I was jobless and in a hurry to escape from the pit, I'm not anymore which probably helped) you regress to very primitive social reflexes. Crypto was probably an amplified context but trading (and other similar money related activities) are similar.
Do you happen to know what Greenwald thinks about public broadcasters like Britain's BBC? His description of "unconscious allegiance" to the source of income is one of the most succinct summaries of the peculiar mindsets that those systems too seem to foster.
James Sharman's build is nuts. He has been at it for several years.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3iHag4k4yEg&list=PLFhc0MFC8M...

Usagi Electric is taking it all the way with a vacuum tube build.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y149hLe1zYo&list=PLnw98JPyOb...
We used to do this in the firewall at my first job. Every weekend the founder of the company would get drunk and login to servers and mess things up. So every weekend it was my job as the junior to go into our FreeBSD firewall and uncomment or update an ipfw line that blocked his IP-address.
I've got a U3223QE which is the same just larger. The screen itself looks really nice, its bright, no complaints there. The stand is pretty good, reasonably tidy. My only complaint is that when it said USB-C hub I expected it to have USB-C ports for peripherals and it doesn't, only USB-A ports. My older LG has USB-C ports, so I know its possible. It's annoying because as more and more stuff switches to USB-C the only place to plug those in is the laptop itself, which means messing around with too many cables.
Lithium batteries (as focused by the paper) are attractive for mobile applications, for grid storage the energy density is not very important and li-ion batteries have disadvantages like going up in flames frequently.

There are lots of overlapping options for running the grid with renewables from other battery chemistries to hydrogen, pumped hydro storage, long distance hvdc, hourly pricing to cut demand peaks, etc.
Not on a monitor (that I'm aware of), but it is a major feature of signal distribution equipment for installed AV and broadcast.

A large part of the delay that you are seeing is from EDID negotiation and HDCP. This happens of the 100kbit/s DDC channel and requires a bit of back and forth. On the above systems this is pre-negotiated so that switching can take place across a single frame.

A lot of that equipment is likely price prohibitive for desktop use, but you may be able to reduce the time a little with sidestepping that process either in your machine setup or with an external bit of lower cost hardware like and EDID emulator (e.g. https://www.extron.com/product/edid101h4kplus).
Seems to be unsuspended: https://old.reddit.com/r/ElonJetTracker/comments/zoypup/howd...
I was already vimming efficiently because I chose to ignore all those poorly written and factually wrong "tutorials" written by over-excited but under-experimented newbies. Instead, I followed the often overlooked built-in user manual, which taught me everything I needed in the most gentle and iterative way possible.

Vim is one of those tools where a couple of months of proper studying and deliberate practice puts you in a better place than 10 or 20 years of random fiddling.
Those over 70 generally have far more time to travel than the rest of us!
Please let me know how it goes!
I bought one of the first GSync monitors many years ago (ASUS PG278Q ROG Swift) and it goes from sleep to displaying an image in just a fraction of a second. It's totally amazing, way faster than any other monitor I've ever seen, including newer GSync monitors. It only has one single input port though. I've never tried hooking it to a KVM, but I bet it would switch super fast.

Maybe try one of the first gen (2014) GSync monitors along with a DisplayPort KVM, if that can work for you. It's my understanding that the first gen GSync monitors all used the same monitor driver board that Nvidia made, so they probably behave similarly.

Honestly I didn't know how much I needed fast wakeup until I had it. It's a way better feature than GSync, yet monitor and TV reviewers generally ignore it completely. There are probably newer monitors with fast wakeup but it's impossible to know without testing. My TV takes like 8 seconds to even turn on its backlight and it's just ridiculous.
Re car manufacturers using remote "unlock" pricing, I will admit to being horrified when I first heard about it.

Unfortunately for my emotions, there is a strong argument to support this new pricing approach-- which might be BS in specific cases but which, from a macro perspective, may nonetheless have merit-- in that fundamentally, all it is, is a mechanism for further granularity of the age-old thing called price discrimination, which is generally viewed as good for both producers and consumers (not that there cannot be exceptions to either that view, or the circumstances in which that view is valid...)
I found this article helpful when researching the topic:

https://off-grid-home.com/is-it-legal-to-disconnect-your-hom...

If highly depends on your State and also how your off-grid system works.
The application of artificial intelligence for quality control automation presents a more productive and accurate way of doing visual inspection in production lines. However, traditional machine learning methods present several limitations to how we can train and utilize models for defect detection. So in this article, we’ll discuss the advantages of unsupervised learning for defect detection, and elaborate on the approaches MobiDev uses in our practical experience.