skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Counter-anecdata: I took to Nix very easily, including its more Functional aspects, despite my little prior experience with FP and 0 experience with Haskell specifically.
Ctr+f for "refining", 0 results. Extracting is not the PRC rare earth dominance bottle neck, it's the decades of infra and tech built up for processing. This is JP spending 40M on research+trial hoping for some sort of resource "moonshot". The lack of strategic resource land deposite continues to cripple the islands security, but underwater recovery/extraction unlikely to be economically feasible vs land producers. And where is JP going to process without fucking up the enviroment? ~80% of PRC rare earth is refined in relatively sparsely populated parts inner mongolia or sichuan, which are more or less periphery. Which part of JP is going to be sacrificed to turn into Mordor? Maybe Hokkaido? Or are these extracted materials going to be shipped to PRC for refining (like many current short/medium term plans for new AU/US rare earth extraction efforts), thereby negating the point of reducing reliance on PRC.
Why do you believe this problem is inevitable?
> With the Internet the government got their pound of flesh through taxation of all the new enterprises that sprung up because of their investments

Really. With all the tax breaks and ongoing lowering of the top tax bracked for corporate profit. Even as they offshore their legal entity to dodge taxes...

Even if the capital gains taxes were 90% like back in Eisenhower era and it was actually enforced, that still wouldn't justify handing over publicly funded research to private actors to profit. Publicly funded everything should be made publicly available and usable.
According to segaretro.org the Dreamcast did actually run an "optimized" version of WinCE (painful acronym) with DirectX. Some games ran on top of it but most ran a different OS that actually booted off of the game disc.

https://segaretro.org/Windows_CE
This story about hybrid fuel economy recently broke: https://electrek.co/2022/12/22/plug-in-hybrids-use-more-gas-...

EVs are the compromise!
That’s where the whole metaphor breaks down. Those are actions that law enforcement is supposed to deal with. Any aforementioned bar patron who just let “the Nazis” at the bar exist is in no way culpable for not having stopped them somehow.
Actually, I would. This is the only objective study that has this size and uses actually measurable criteria and looks into the issue in a fundamental level - even while using adults.
RIP google. There's a joke that the best place to hide a murder is on page 2 of google search. The fact is GPT has at bare minimum parsed the top page of google and reasoned about the top results to give the best answer with as much context of why it reasoned so. GPT is basically a superset of google with added reasoning. I can't see it giving worse results than Google. Both will produce a bogus answer if you ask a bogus question, but GPT will never produce a bogus answer when google has the correct one.
At my university there was a "Free Speech Club" that put on a panel of eugenicists and alt-right people who advocate for fascist actions. While the amount of noise Nazis make is disproportionate to their population, it doesn't take that many people to create a social change, for better or worse.
This is something a (now former) colleague of mine pointed out: that the kubernetes descheduler can enforce a maximum lifetime[0] that sort of forces continual reboots. So if your system cannot tolerate running for a long time continously, this is one method to gracefully restart long running pods.

[0]: https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/descheduler#podlifetime
They should pay a penalty if they do this to someone domestically too. It's shitty.
Even in a small number of paragraphs language models hallucinate. For example Barack Obama, it’s not hard for me to trick it into saying he was born in Chicago. He was not. But there’s a ton of text about Barack Obama in Chicago. Plus, Michelle was born there. When predicting the most likely next token for “Barack Obama was born in ______” there’s a lot of confounding text.

No, there’s a fundamental issue in that statistical language models don’t start with facts to form sentences, they form sentences based on previous tokens and statistical weights. The weights are not auditable or easily updatable.
Yeah, it looks like some (most?) water is evaporated -- but a significant portion is also returned to the river.

I saw elsewhere that google "consumes" around 4x as much water for hydroelectric power generation as they use for cooling. Hydroelectric will return essentially all the water back to the source.
> I personally think it was a gigantic mistake for them

It went well for them as long as they were on the winning side. Only after their side lost or they changed sides things started going downhill.
That's simple, we only burn the bad books!
Prescient of her to leave off Pluto/Charon. :-)
Sure... but that has nothing to do with free speech. They've moved past it into the realm of illegal acts. Which are illegal.
Don't eat after 8pm till 8am. Eat till your stomach is satisfied, not your tongue. To prevent cravings, don't restrict yourself any food, but eat everything in moderation.
If I understand correctly, the ChatGPT training is a continuation of the CoPilot training, which is a continuation of GPT-3 training. It makes sense they exhibit a similar behaviour.
It is entirely normal and correct that a free society harbors many diverse and even rancorously disagreeing and opposed political agendas.

Of course we disagree with our political opponents and feel that the policies they advocate are not optimal. It might be convenient to your politics if your opposition’s voice is dampened, but your opposition feels the same of your voice and does so for reasons no less sincere than your own.

That’s the fundamental bargain. You are neither obligated to hand anyone a megaphone, nor obligated to confiscate theirs.
Yes, and that is a world of complexity that manages all of that behind the scenes.

The fact that you need to "setup" anything is already a problem. I want stuff to Just Work. No extra processes. No extra steps. Nothing to update. Works today, works in five years. Just start one process and it will work. I don't understand what's so hard to grasp about that.

This is trivial to do with a compiler that has an okay-ish (not even "fast") performance. It's not feasible with TypeScript today, even for fairly simple applications with a few hundred lines of code.
Messages and SMS work with Matrix which works great on Linux.
Ignoring the abhorrent treatment of women in Iran, using the current protest as a measure of popularity would be as faulty as using the Occupy Wall Street protests as a measure of popularity, or in Canada, the Convoy Protests.

Unfortunately, as far as most of what I can find on the subject, most Iranians (who live in Iran) are either indifferent or opposed to the people currently protesting in Iran and Iran has a majority population that is highly religious and loyal to the current government.

It's mostly in the big cities, like Tehran or Shiraz where the protests enjoy support and the population is more liberal, but outside of the big cities in more rural areas people are much more religious and supportive of the regime.

I am certainly welcome to be corrected on this though.
I get it, I want to get off the public cloud too. But as someone with a pretty random and shallow taste in music, I also appreciate how Spotify broadens my horizon by suggesting other, similar songs with similar attributes but slight variations. That helps me eventually discovering genres or styles that I like. I think there's a lot of value in that for a lot of people.
Maybe Spotify could be one of the good guys.
You won’t die but that doesn’t seem like it won’t come with any ramifications nor does it sound healthy.
as those given house arrest have lower recidivism rates than those that go to prison I can accept a more lenient punishment that is more effective in preventing further crime. those under house arrest don't have their lives destroyed as totally as those going to prison so after their punishment are more able to reintegrate into society. for example many sentenced to house arrest with electronic monitoring are allowed to continue working while under house arrest, as they are never quit working they don't have to face the stigma against employing felons that prevent many ex-convicts from finding new employment after release and they aren't then driven to further crimes simply to make ends meet.
They could have changed the setting any time the user logged in. I pointed out that they used too few rounds over a decade ago, I believe. To their credit, they increased the limit to 256K in response (it was much lower before).
That Twitter thread is above my paygrade, but NE's final sentence (addressed to three other people working in his field) is rather relevant to this discussion "If this cipher has already been discovered, let me know where so I can give credit."
Oh sure, building a SaaS business that generates $100k is harder than getting a job that pays $100k. The key question is: what is the difference in difficulty, and does it justify the incremental benefit of generating a self-sufficient income stream, rather than a one-time payment?
Not to mention these are originally ROC / Taiwanese claims passed down to PRC when UN recognition formally switched, i.e. technically PRC didn't make these claims, but doing the geopolitically responsible / prudent thing of protecting them. Claims which btw predates other parties in the region, or UNCLOS formation, who does not rule on soverignty which makes PRC historic claims absurd and but also as legally valid as any other claims at UN (which does not recognize PCA "ruling" / kangaroo court).
Because different hardware will have significant impact on this number. You need to figure out your tolerance. Maybe your tolerance is higher than they expect - cool, bump it up. I did that many many years ago, thankfully.
It's just a fun thing, I don't know how history would affect it unless there was evidence he never said "I took the initiative in creating the Internet" which he did.
> battle it out in a propaganda (the neutral definition) war

How would that be distinguished from "cancellation", exactly?
If a github repo falls in the woods and noone is there to hear it, did it make a sound?
I’d be curious how they handle two things:

1. Repercussions for harmful or bigoted speech, as well as escalation of responses. For example what if a person or group is being bullied but it’s claimed under free expression? What recourse is allowed within the realms of their free expression? What happens when things escalate between parties beyond just words but physical harm?

2. Similarly how do they stop majority dominance and snowballing into group think? E.g if there are way more men or women in a program and they use their larger numbers to amplify their freedom of expression in a way that affects the others. That then risks reducing the number of the minority demographic as they slowly get pushed out, leading to largely heterogeneous programs.

I’m sure, or at least hopeful, that they cover it because it would be a ridiculous omission. However balance is tricky.

It’s why I typically don’t like using “free” as a descriptor often for freedom to do stuff. Society has tons and tons of limitations and absolute freedom of speech has never really been a thing, nor do I think it can/should be, because speech can have so many extreme consequences.
For beverages, I drink something other than water maybe once every two weeks. I don't miss the other stuff at all.
yeah, it's the glint following those curves that form the image (in contrast with the dark areas.) the curve controls how the glint moves wrt your pov.
Read the book "Burn The Fat, Feed The Muscle" by Tom Venuto. Also get the app Lose It! for your mobile device and start using it.

The book explains that you want to eat well and burn off calories with exercise since a caloric deficit will lead to weight loss, but reaching it through exercise rather than pure diet is much healthier. The app simply gamifies your diet and exercise and will help you track your journey towards your target weight (and you can do this on the free version)
Me and my friends are not interested in finding a new bar just because of some stranger’s abstract belief that we’re the ones who should leave when a loudmouth Nazi shows up.
Supporting free speech doesn't mean that you support absolute free speech without any limitation. We all have a lot of rights, and exercising those rights can impinge on the rights of others. Why would freedom of speech be somehow special and trump every single other right?

I don't know in English, but in French we have a saying: the freedom of some begins where the freedom of others ends.
That report requires you enter your master password, so I doubt it.
The Death of 2Advanced (2017)
Depends on who you ask. Fasting is turning out to be a very interesting thing to look at in the longevity field.
Seek out new things to try, recipes, veggies you've never tasted, dives you've never been in, cooking techniques by cook or by you. Food is one of the best ways to seek adventure, or at least understand yourself, humanity, and the planet better, in so many ways.
EVs are about six times better than gas cars. That is a lot!

EVs only give off about 30% more carbon than rail per passenger-km (on current UK electricity mix). And they are significantly more versatile! Carbon efficiency will at least double in most areas as we move to greener grids, without people needing to get new cars.

https://ourworldindata.org/travel-carbon-footprint
https://afdc.energy.gov/vehicles/electric_emissions.html

Don't confuse disliking cars with environmentalism!
Nonprofit just means there are no owners or shareholders. It's still organized like a business, has revenues and costs and salaries and can invest and such. They can make millions and pay millions, they just can't turn it into profit for the nonexistent owners.
The service that sent that receipt was one of those 3rd party services for small vendors. You go to a bakery and they are able to magically email you a receipt, that sort of thing.

So I very much doubt the person put their email in incorrectly, but I understand your point.

The exact mechanics of how it happened I don't know, but I very much disagree with firstname.lastname@gmail.com and firstnamelastname@gmail.com resolving to the same address.
I just asked Google assistant this: "How many oranges are in a cup of juice?". It responded with: "Two to three oranges", and then followed up with more information why and a link to the source where it derived the information (https://www.webstaurantstore.com/blog/2760/juice-in-citrus-f...).

I'm not sure why you didn't get this, but it seems better than ChatGPT.
> Making room for the full range of thought and expression is not an end in itself.

It is. And it ought to be.

The version being espoused here is conditional or contingent free expression.

It doesn't mean much.

In this form, expression is permitted only to the extent it is “enlarging understanding and uncovering truth.”

Is this the (sole) purpose of expression?
A generator wouldn't even have this file. You'd just see 54 embedded somewhere in a call.
Because no one gets cancelled?

The war of ideas is a game where the goal is to get the most amount of people to adopt that idea. No part of this is removing someone's ability to speak, but they may not be listened to by the masses that don't like their ideas.
But Free Speech does end with speech - vandalism and terrorism are already illegal, do we really need to prohibit everything that could potentially be a step on the path to illegal acts?

That’s getting darned close to precognitive law enforcement…
devenv is the name of Visual Studio executable for a long time. I wonder why it choose the name.
Mithril does full rerenders by default on event handlers and upon requests made with its request util. Normally, this would be a no-no in React land, but Mithril is fast enough that it's a non-issue, and it greatly simplifies state management (POJOs work great for global state, and closures enable a simple way to make stateful components).
> eat until your stomach is satisfied, not your tongue

I’m stealing that
Eliminate sugar except with fiber: Apples good, apple juice not. Glucose is fine. Saturated fat is fine. Vegetable oil, less so.

What used to be blamed on saturated fat turns out to be from fructose and trans fat. Trans fat was finally tracked on labels, and then banned. Backing out fructose will be a bigger fight.
If I wanted to be clever, I'd use software to detect a quick double-tap of shift to be caps lock.

Nowadays I have convenient access to it via a mod-key on a programmable keyboard, but still don't use it.

Holding shift seems to feel totally fine for my hand geometry, it's the extra distance to CTRL for my pinky (without shifting my forearm down) that gives me wrist pain.
California earthquake puts early warning system to the test
Yes, probably a continental landmass the size of Russia, or the USA represents its physical limit. Philip Dick presented a couple of dystopia visions of it, not all of which have been filmed yet. Yevgeny Zamyatin another. Although more correctly a totalitarian police state, than Lindbergh's or Henry Ford's vision of judenrein.
It isn't that they're terrified of their own students, but rather that the free expression things are easier to just surrender on instead of having it potentially blow up, since usually there isn't enough opposing sentiment (either because students don't want to risk their careers or because they're just busy trying to move on to paying back their loans).

I've noticed similar behavior at my own university over the years. There are always several emails from the university president and the mental health office promising assistance when anything even slightly likely to matter to some of the student body happens anywhere in the world. IIRC some time ago they sent out an email to the entire student body about something scrawled on the wall of a bathroom stall.

Yet it took a lot of protesting and boycotting to get fair action taken back when Covid was just getting started (IIRC they tried to kick everyone out of the dorms without refunds and without enough time to arrange for alternative housing, which was especially bad given the large international student body and lack of clarity on student visa handling at the time). Similarly, the graduate student union has been gradually dialing up its activism just to get the university to pay enough to keep up with local cost of living with no acknowledgement from the university.
People forget that:

a) LastPass is extremely old

b) Browser extensions used to be completely different. You needed to call out to native code to do tons of stuff because the JS apis were extremely limited and slow. So it was either "roll crypto in JS" or "make users install a binary", the latter stopped being possible over something like a decade ago.
Eat a light breakfast, whatever light means to you.

Eat leafy greens and berries every day.

I got too much in my head with intermittent fasting (it made me obsess about food) but I agree that not eating after 8pm is hugely beneficial, since it often eliminates mindless, unhealthy eating.

Edit: one addition from Michael Pollen that I love due to the simplicity of the heuristic, never eat anything your great-grandmother wouldn't recognize.
Most of the ships aren’t ocean going vessels. They’re coastal ships.
Thanks for this comment. I mostly agree with you. A music theory professor used to lazily say that "nature says so" when asked why a major 3rd sounds better than an augmented 4th (i.e. tritone). Lacking a better explanation I assumed this had to do with consonant chords having notes whose wavelength had a lesser common multiple, but am not entirely sure. Can you provide some citations or resources describing the mathematical justification for a 12-tone basis for tonal music in more detail? I know there was a group theory element to some of Schoenberg's compositions but aside from that I have not been exposed much to this idea.
> Why would freedom of speech be somehow special and trump every single other right?

Because speech doesn’t cause physical harm or loss to others.
I found that I would gain weight much faster whenever I ate anything sweet after a meal. Since then, I’ve cut out all sugars and liquid calories from my diet. Helped me maintain the same weight despite not being able to workout for a year due to a shoulder injury.

Also, I found that regularly drinking 2tsp of turmeric dissolved in warm water at night helps reduce inflammation.
Happy Merry by Art Cashin (A Wall Street Treasure)
Tracking this closely honestly. Once external screens work I will switch to Apple hardware. But I hear that USB/TB is a total nightmare to RE and implement.

Very happy I won't need to do the nixos stuff myself!
This sounds like the saddest way to lose weight though…Like using abstinence as means of birth control and STD prevention.
fair enough, I do think it's arguable that users of ChromeOS would regularly do that, but I get your point.

Also, I had a System76 laptop for work once and absolutely loved it. I tried to buy it when I left, but they weren't happy about my reasons for leaving and refused to do so.
As a counter example I have helped hundreds of nontechnical people switch to Linux over the past 15 years who prefer it to Windows and can do anything they want via the GUI without knowing how to manage an antivirus.

ChromeOS and Android are also Linux and users seem to get along just fine with those too.

I never experience crashes except when I have maxed out my ram doing something dumb.
> The first requires no engagement, the second requires engagement

(1) people are innocent until proven guilty

(2) if one group is judge, jury, and executioner that's a problem

(3) authoritarians seek to quell dissent by censoring

(4) removal/ejection/ostracism from group is censorship

(5) contrary to your assertion removal/ejection/ostracism is a form of engagement

(6) in fact within the realm of free speech r/e/o is the most extreme form of engagement

(7) this is because it is the quashing of that ejected person's ability to freely express themselves

> The first has guaranteed results, the second is uncertain.

(8) hard disagree, the first is guaranteed to generate all sorts of backlash (perhaps not the results wished for)

(9) the second is guaranteed to generate debate, exactly what authoritarians and the censorious dislike

(10) ps: (quibble) the “Nazis” were terminated with extreme prejudice in 1945, any variants thereof nowadays are neo-Nazis

===

All the above is transparently obvious to me. It concerns me that in a so-called liberal society many clearly are either unwilling or are unable to see that everything I have outline is true in all cases. The fruits of this ignorance are all around us.
So ignore him, call him an a-hole, or get into an argue with him. You don’t need to turn to an authority figure to shut him up.
Right to repair means being able to replace the battery without risking damage to the device
Don’t be overly restrictive. A diet is only valuable if it is sustainable.

Diets should be goals you strive for and take seriously but allow for cheat days particularly when under intense social pressure.
When traveling short distances by car (maybe 2-5 hours), pack a healthy lunch and bring water.
Whole foods.