skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The explanation I read was HFCS is roughly 50-50 fructose and glucose (it varies by blend). Sucrose is actually 50-50, but joined by a chemical bond. Sucrose is split into fructose and glucose during digestion by sucrase, so by the time it's in your blood stream, HFCS and sucrose are essentially the same thing.
An odd way to describe a CPU. What makes them "military-grade"? Ability to perform math (and, therefore, "military-grade encryption" - this is a standard for equipment imports that China has applied in the past)?

Or is there something else in the design specs, like EMP hardening or the like (but then, are AMD/Intel ones which were being considered so hardened? I admit to being a bit far from that problem space, so perhaps there are such things).

Just seems... an odd descriptor without further explanation.
It was the work of a lifetime. Power here has been so reliable that people forget that it can fail, and even though he was somewhat prepared it turned out not to be enough.

Agreed though that it was a ticking time bomb. As for better backup plans: even autostart generators for data centers can fail when you need them most. Backup plans end up with more and more layers until you think you've got it all and then some little oversight will get you. In his case he probably could have done more but that's only because we're looking at it after the failure, for decades it worked.
I wonder if the Google+ social network failed because people were paranoid that they could lose their whole digital life for making ban-worthy posts on Google+.
Germany was at 40% renewables last year, and its electric generation sector is private. The UK—which privatized its electric generation under Thatcher back in the 1980s—was at 43%. China was at 29%.
The article does, but "the AquaDom was a 25-metre-tall (82 ft) cylindrical acrylic glass aquarium"[0] Turns out that's just poor reporting, they could have been more specific. It was the largest (by volume) acrylic cylindrical aquarium in the world.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AquaDom
This is very cool, thanks for sharing. I just built a jekyll site and have plans for another SG site, so this is likely to get played with.
Yes. For example the Nazi regime understood that the state needs to police speech. Otherwise enemies of the people could sow hate and division and undermine the Reich! /s

Censorship must be done by human beings. Human beings are faillible, so there must be a way to hold them accountable when they are wrong. But the censors could always just censor any criticism of themselves, making accountability impossible. Therefore, all systems of censorship are tyrannical and unjust
Based on your first example, I know what happened and can make an informed decision about whether I need or want to know the details of how it happened. I'd argue that that is not click bait, as it leads with the most important piece of information first. The title could further be improved by writing "Nixon resigned because of XYZ", but that would be nitpicking.

The most beneficial title from the reader's perspective is a title which allows the reader to quickly decide whether they need to know the information and informs the reader with the necessary information as efficiently as possible. Hence the now long dead practice of writing in the form of an inverted pyramid (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inverted_pyramid_(journalism)).
Many of the longer novels in classic literature were originally serialized, and only later compiled into the lengthy tomes we know today.
You turn it into a co-op. California can afford to based on what its residents are already burning in fiat on allowing PG&E to exist, and it's the world's fourth largest economy. Far smaller economies of entire countries have nationalized electrical grids (France is in the process of nationalizing EDF, for example, at a cost of $9.7B; to do so in California would be closer to $2.5B). Your expenses are then governed by stakeholders within the state of California instead of shareholders sucking profits out of a dysfunctional public utility. Taxpayers already subsidize PG&E, so that's not an excuse against nationalizing, they've already Crossed The Rubicon with regards to ongoing state support; any profits shareholders have/would receive are potential re-investments back into the infrastructure. Why are taxpayers subsidizing PG&E shareholders? Subsidize the infrastructure directly!

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/07/business/pge-bankruptcy-n...

https://www.eastbaydsa.org/campaigns/pge/

https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/wildfires-californ...

https://calmatters.org/politics/2020/02/what-happens-if-cali...

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1182562176667512833.html

https://www.mercurynews.com/2022/04/28/pge-revenue-profit-ri...
It quotes someone who says a tweet contained "stark cruelty" because it indirectly insults a group of people. Then characterises the stark cruelty as being "Dad level"

Sounds like a cesspool alright.
In my case, there was no issue with the sites. Pocket could archive them in offline mode just fine. It would just choose to send me to the online version, if it detected a network connection.

It wasn't a technical glitch, more like a dark pattern IMO.
The odds are certainly in favor of your scenario. But, creativity works in mysterious ways!
> snow scene

You’ve reminded me of a section in Laura Ingalls Winder’s ‘Little House in the Big Woods’, chapters 7 and 8 with the sugar snow.

They make maple syrup and it’s a bumper year as their is a cold snap after an initial thaw.

The description of the process, the celebration and the eating it neat.

https://www.gutenberg.ca/ebooks/wildersewell-woods/wildersew...
Ragequit? What evidence is there of that?

Also Twitter Spaces clearly had a serious bug that needs fixing if suspended accounts could join.
If you are ok with Elon Musk (or any other plane) being trackable, you should be ok to have your license plate tracked and your movements published wherever you go.
I am confused because you're mixing things from UK, US and russia in this post which obviously all have different laws. I'm not sayig you're wrong it's just confusing beause the situations from different countries aren't always comparable unless you explicitly establish that they are, it would be better to just stick to examples from the same country.
That is quite vague statement to make. Linux let you try/change a lot more on its internal than MacOS, so you can definitely to more damage to your system on linux.

I don’t see you trying simple things like “apt install go” and your pc would stop working (unless faulty hardware).
And indeed would benefit from having sun kept from their roofs, helping the houses stay cool in summer...
Calories are the definition of health diet in human's. Nutrients are far more than 55 times or 100 times more than in meat than in vegetables. Equating calories with food stuff is near useless, even for weight loss.
> Now, of course, I understand that even Google can't reasonably be expected to provide free 24/7 customer support for the entire Internet.

Microsoft did this back in the 1990's. It provided a strong financial incentive to reduce the number of support calls generated per Windows installation, which is what they ended up doing.
Why solve the problem today when you can hype a solution that will solve the problem in 20+ years and book some of those sweet profits from fossil extraction in the mean time?
Everyone trying to understand Musk's motivations reminds me of the parable of the Blind Men and an Elephant [1]. Yes, he is engaging the right wing, including the reactionary factions, but that hardly makes him a conservative.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blind_men_and_an_elephant
The entire Western empire as it's run today is a subsidy for rich people by poor people and the rest of world. But as Eurasia unites against it and dollar hegemony breaks, these technocrats just double-down on their ideology and failed ideas.
Reads like opening to Stanislaw Lem's short.
I entirely disagree. I bet very few companies wouldn’t undo a similar ban when the company itself recommended the chargeback.
Trump's Trading Card Grift Is Worse Than You Think
International Life Sciences Institute, financed by food and chemical industries such as BASF, Coca-Cola, Nestlé, McDonald’s, Monsanto, Syngenta and Pepsi
The law is in place but hasn’t gone into enforcement yet.

Enforcement starts next year.
The whole purpose of electrical grids is to stabilize such things.

The word "guaranteed" is about lowest variance - most predictable. What is prone to unscheduled maintenance, breakdowns, forced outages, etc.

The forced outage rate of solar is almost 0, wind is about 1%. https://rmi.org/fuel-hand-make-coal-nuclear-power-plants-val...

In practice, forced nuclear outage is 1-2%. An additional 7% downtime is scheduled outages for refueling. Coal is about 15%.

Here's a live report: https://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doc-collections/event-status/... You can see about 7 are offline.

Disruptions are normal, daily, common occurrences and in practice, solar is pretty reliable in places like the Southern California desert where the grid-scale installations are built (example: https://www.google.com/maps/@34.7923792,-118.4060493,17707m/...). They are subject to occasional monsoons, but that's why there's more in other places such as down near the mexican border (https://www.google.com/maps/@32.7188416,-115.6454361,19457m/...). That's not farmland being replaced with solar panels btw. Instead it's called agrivoltaics (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agrivoltaics)

This is still early, scroll down to the map here: https://www.seia.org/research-resources/major-solar-projects... ... that's the kind of redundancy we're talking about.
I have not. Why do you ask? You have certainly piqued my interest.
I am no longer in the game industry in this fashion. But sure, would be happy to talk.
If it's anything like what I've encountered in German culture, literally everything hangs on the official credential.

Journalists who are working independently or for non-mainstream organizations won't get this treatment. On the contrary, the government would be more likely to push for them to be suspended or for their reach to be suppressed/
meanwhile they can't tow worth a damn due to their range issues, and when the temperature drops the same problem exists. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j8gH52gKejE
It should not be ignored, but like almost all nutrition studies, it should only change our confidence in our beliefs a little: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQ56uOkjccg
Seems like you could use a silicone caulk or something.
Counterpoint. I had a client that used a non-DB oracle product that was a barely functional monstrosity that required the client to keep around a windows XP XM to run a version of IE that could access the console. They spent 3 years trying to upgrade to the new version, even had Oracle professional services come in to help them with the migration, and they couldn't upgrade because the new version of the product was unusable because of bugs and performance, and the old version was a barely functional turd that had to be restarted multiple times a day.

At the end of it all after a multi-year (expensive) engagement Oracle basically just said "That sucks LOL make sure your payment isn't late". So maybe for the DB they are responsive but generally I've found their willingness to help customers similar to a lions willingness to help a wounded gazelle.
> In an effort to make this a little less political and a little more geeky

Is there a demand for essays like this? I've been playing around with an idea where I take some of the more talked about legislation and present a semi-neutral deep dive into the actual facts of the matter.
> Now, of course, I understand that even Google can't reasonably be expected to provide free 24/7 customer support for the entire Internet. If they had a normal phone number available where anybody could reach a human at any time, every confused person would call them with issues that are completely unrelated to Google's actual products and even Google would be overwhelmed.

No it is entirely reasonable. Even with a decline this quarter, Alphabet is sitting on ~$116 Billion cash on hand. Spending $1B on customer service would be trivial.

They won't though, because end-users are not the customers of Google, advertisers are. You can betcha advertisers get excellent customer service.
Closest so far is the plug-in Pacifica hybrid, which is really annoying - I'd love an all-electric minivan, or even a plug-in Sienna.
There's also this, which uses Chrome DevTools to automatically scrape it all: https://github.com/perkeep/gphotos-cdp
I didn't say that? The act of piracy is an act of copyright infringement. The act of watching a legally owned copy of LOTR until my brain remembers almost every single detail down to the smallest element is not copyright infringement, obviously. I don't see how piracy is relevant here at all.

Obviously if OpenAI or other AI researchers are committing media piracy as part of their research, that is something they're legally liable for. It doesn't mean that their AI "remembering" it is inherently infringing.
I’m fine with planes being tracked, I’m not necessarily fine with cars being tracked.

Cars don’t have to broadcast their location to not get blown up by air defense. Planes do. And we’re legally allowed to listen to all wireless frequencies.
It's a form of idol worship.

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/09/big-tech-f...
But Elon Musk’s license plate and movements are not being tracked?
They absolutely do. I have friends working as private sector IT consultants with federal agencies as one of their clients. These projects lock them into idiotic bureaucratic processes and extensive internal politics (more than in private sector). You can help improve quite a bit but it's like moving a plowing truck through pure molasses instead of snow.

The teams are often led by government officials who will do everything to keep things as they are to protect their position, of course with little to no repercussions.
> Now, of course, I understand that even Google can't reasonably be expected to provide free 24/7 customer support for the entire Internet. If they had a normal phone number available where anybody could reach a human at any time, every confused person would call them with issues that are completely unrelated to Google's actual products and even Google would be overwhelmed.

That would be the fair consequence of wanting to dominate the whole internet, no?

If any company providing a product would refuse to have a human that is reachable, they would never get to a dominating position.

And IMHO, google should be forced to provide that human service given its dimension, or scale down until it does.
Yep. I've always considered net metering immoral. Rich folks using poor folks for a free nighttime battery.

The fix is super simple. Just meter by the minute and pay out current wholesale electric rates as you send to the grid. When you buy, you pay retail for delivery depending on the instantaneous market.

Don't want to buy at potentially high rates during evening peak? Sounds like you need to invest in a battery system.

If you want to pretend you are a micro power plant, you should get paid as one.
Do you have an Android phone? It's getting harder to use them without a Google account.

In my university, professors and old T.A. have a mix of gmail, hotmail and yahoo, let's say 1/3, 1/3 and 1/3. But students have almost 100% emails from gmail.

I't not a monopoly, but it's getting very close.
I appreciate the replies. Still wondering why this could be -- what is it about the truck battery that makes it cheaper? Or are powerwalls simply over-priced?
I wanted to eliminate self-doubt, but I wasn't sure if it was a good idea.
Of course. Getting support from Google is against Google policies, so they're free to ban you.
A few interesting findings:

* the cl100k_base tokenizer has ~100k tokens -- previous tokenizers had ~50k. (enc.n_vocab gives 100277 but some numbers in that range don't work, starting at 100256)

* it has exactly 1110 tokens which are just digits. 10 1 digit tokens, 100 2 digit tokens and 1000 3 digit tokens! (none have preceding spaces). this is a huge improvement from GPT2's tokenizer, which was a huge mess.

* there are 
, 
, and 
 tokens (see Efficient Training of Language Models to Fill in the Middle)

The biggest news to me is the improved handling of numbers. This could explain some improved performance on arithmetic. One disappointment is that it tokenizes from the front, e.g. "1000000" -> 100|000|0. This is one of those "so close!" moments -- I would work for free to fix this.
One more thing that happened with Linux in last 20 years is complexity raised in orders of magnitude.

I remember Linux 2.x times and I had similar problems with hardware but a lot of them I fixed by following a limited set of tricks/patterns. Sometime I read a source code of some drivers or maybe applied some patches but not so often.

But at that time I felt confidence that most problems I could fix. Now I don’t (and actually switched to Mac 5 years ago)
I see your point, but planes and cars are not on the same level, in my opinion
Actually, the vaccine was developed relatively quickly. The testing and ramp-up is what took the vast majority of time.

You're sort of following the pre operation warp speed statements that the press and "experts" were spouting before they actually did it.

But now there are vaccines for covid that are made in the standard fashion. It took them longer to get out of the gate, but they're around. Not sure if they're in the US, though.
My speculation is that shorter books are read more often to the end and are recommended more often and more positively.

Recommendations that I get from short books often come with the added argument ”and it’s so quick to read, you will finish it in a week”.

Accordingly, when the recommended book is very long, it always comes with the caveat ”it’s long, though, worth it, but long”
Idealism works much better when you have conviction of conscious. If you say 'all people should be free' and then proceed to buy slaves and beat them, it would appear that not only are your words worthless, but your intent is to take focus off your own bad behavior and put it on others.

Idealism comes with costs. Musk wants to bear none of them. Absolute free speech would also include me being able to say exactly where Musk is right now. Musk use, the excuse, "Oh no I could get hurt if people do that". Idealism is now in direct conflict with reality, so quickly and so obviously. And this is what makes free speech absolutism one of the dumbest ideologies of all time.
I read your answer before commenting and didn't think you were so much wrong, but dangerously close to right, just off slightly. Interesting enough, each studio and sometimes even each operator, will have their own preferred marker placements. We will also vary these markers when doing multi actor scenes, so to help determine the tracking of the individual actors as well.
I think it would be the perfect farm truck. The bed to move things, like fuel, seed, chemicals, and tools, from field to field, the cabin to move people from field to field, and electricity to power things, like welders or motors, in the field. You don't need much range and you've got tractors (field or highway) around for when you need serious towing capacity. The price is a little much for a farm truck, granted.
a little more than mere words; IIRC the "Cleansing of the Temple" involved at least a whip...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cleansing_of_the_Temple

Theologians argue as to whether there was Battery or not, but Assault is pretty much stipulated.
And if I were the president, I would ban avgas tomorrow.

The planes can all stay grounded till a replacement is available. The damage caused far outweighs the benefits of using it.

Yes, I know ambulance planes probably use it... Yes I know farmers use it for crop dusting. Yes I know some remote alaskan communities rely on flights for supplies. But spreading lead dust throughout the whole nation is worse than not having those things.
https://variety.com/2020/digital/news/twitter-unblocks-new-y...
google is not a small local shop only responsible for one tiny part of your life like a plumber. They have actively sought to make themselves integral to your whole life. When the plumber fires you, you do not lose access to your retirement account because ypu can no longer prove your identity because your phone and email both went up in smoke. That comes with responsibility. This is a quite false equivalence. Chargebacks are bad? Yes, well, so is not having human customer service.

The plumber has a wife answering the phone who can be reasoned with and who can reason with you and you can arrive at some compromise or understanding or other deal before getting to a chargeback. And that's just for a noncritical service. What compromise or understanding does google offer? For their service which they have actively made as critical as possible?

This sob story about how bad chargebacks are falls flat.
Launching a rocket in the worst possible way
For my company it's the massive cost and difficulty of rewriting a major portion of the codebase of a 20-something year old successful product.

It's been attempted a few times over the years, but gets canceled once management realizes the actual cost and difficulty.
Taking a break from my struggle just like a lion takes a nap. I wouldn't agree we are copying nature, rather, we are an inseparable part of it. The fact that we do some things other members don't isn't a convincing argument for me that we're not part of nature.

If you can't support yourself for whatever reason, you rely on others to do that work on your behalf. Social animals, wolves for example, try to provide for their sick and handicapped, but that's only after their own needs are met first.
They caught on for covering large areas (stadiums, aircraft hangars, etc.) but they don't really make sense on what you might call the "human scale", roughly 3 to 10 meters, say. At human scale wood and metal are strong and light enough that you don't really need geodesic designs. (Wood and metal are geodesic already, just at small scale, eh?)

- - - -

A slight tangent, but check out the demo carbon-fiber strut work here:
https://dragonplate.com/carbon-fiber-truss

> The truss measures 8 feet long, 16 inches high with a depth of 12 inches. This is just one of many structures that could be easily built using our square tubes and gussets. Weighing in at just 14lbs., the truss is light enough for a six year old child to lift and carry!

They show that: a cute kid holding it up, no problem. Then they load it up.

> ...we loaded it with 35 80lb. bags of concrete mixture, totaling a whopping weight of 2800 lbs.! Again, we saw no signs of weakness or flexing. We would have put on more bags, but we just couldn't stack them any higher!

We could cover whole cities with domes...
Chicxulub Easter Egg
I randomly stumbled across this after watching the trailer to 65.movie
I wouldn’t call such people mentally invalid.

However, as an Italian, i understand your feelings.

Public administration has always been the land of bureaucratic people that want to see sheets of paper, stamps and signatures.

They’re almost often unfamiliar with technology and they are mostly unwilling to change their workload.

The real problem if very often that upper management is often also old and unfamiliar with technology too, hence incapable of understanding the value that technology could bring hence unwilling to push its adoption.