skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You chose to buy it that way. Why didn't you make installing a 240v plug a concession in the contract?
The Immortal Horizon
I had to re-read the title to parse it properly.

My first reaction was, "I know bison, but this is the first time I hear about these other frameworks."
For a contrasting movie, I thought “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood” (2019) was the opposite. The movie spends something like 80% of the time with setup. I loved it, my wife hated it. Looks like it’s 70% on Rotten Tomatoes.
This is the closest HN submission resembling r/nosleep submission.
> Why not place exterior vents into building codes, instead of eliminating gas ranges?

If you make a law thats says "only allowed gas stoves eith exterior ventillation", you will be 90% of the way to banning them.

The ordinary domestic extractor is not able to get rid of majority of the No2 and other emissions
Wikipedia is the last place to look for the state of current scholarship. That page is 'curated', as many are, by a retired history professor desperate to fend off progress. Eventually he will give up, or die, and get out of the way.

Among working geologists, there is no discussion about whether it happened, and only about how. A recent survey article is Sweatman,

The Younger Dryas impact hypothesis: Review of the impact evidence

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S00128...

The remaining controversy is how much the strike contributed to the Younger Dryas development and other coincident events, including extinctions.

Opponents have been disgracefully sloppy and disingenuous. Sweatman is very generous.
How France’s prized nuclear sector stalled in Europe’s hour of need
> But is there any significance to be found in all these things having this attribute?

Is there any significance of a beautiful painting of a magnificent sunset over mountain meadow with horses grazing?
What are the blockbusters of equivalent quality nowadays?

I have to specify blockbuster because otherwise it doesn’t make much sense to compare Terminator to a small indie movie
>> Because that implies a kind of cohesive conceptual understanding of a single object, that I didn't think the current architecture was able to model that.

It works because it's all in one image, you still can't get the same consistency across different images.

Someone did the same thing with sprite sheets the other day:

https://www.reddit.com/r/StableDiffusion/comments/yj1kbi/ive...

Which again works because you're asking for a single image that is similar to other single images (i.e. other sprite sheets). I thought that was very clever.

So I guess the next big thing will be to train on datasets of entire graphic novels where all the pages of each novel are stitched together into "one image". Then we will finally achieve the graphic singularity and comic book artists will have been replaced, too :P
> I do not see any limit.

Hmmm, now I'm wondering if you're actually an advanced AI that has already simulated what's going to happen.
the US doesn’t really import natgas.
On the Security Vulnerabilities of Text-to-SQL Models
A business asking this question without a corollary question about how to recoup the cost somehow (e.g., through market access, product positioning, brand value, or subsidies) is shooting themselves in the foot. Additional questions:

Who is computing our environmental footprint? Are our interests aligned?
Do our competitors also have to pay it? Is it computed the same for them?
What is the penalty if we refuse to pay?
Do loopholes exist and will they be exploited by our competition?
Do tax programs already exist at a national level that go towards paying this footprint?
Does such a cost necessitate operating above certain economies of scale to be in business at all?
If we do business internationally, will we pay different costs in different jurisdictions?
Is our footprint a net-bad thing or is our product a net-good whose footprint should be subsidized but isn't?

The question is likely one that many business will have to answer (whether they ask it or not) given the regulatory and financial controls being implemented by supranational governance.
Four to six transparent Rubbermaid "Clever Store" tote bins (1), each with a bright orange label indicating the rough categories of stuff (Audio/Video, USB, Power/AC, Networking) plus a few larger ones which are big enough to hold old motherboards / boxed NICs / etc.

Within each, similar items are grouped into clear, labelled zip-loc bags. (e.g. USB mini cables, USB micro cables, Lightning Cables, 2.5mm audio adapters, headphones, etc.)

Random 1-off items (e.g. a weird Fuhu NABI tablet adapter) goes into the related category box (USB), which is usually good enough to find it later.

Most importantly, I repeat to the fam to CHECK THE BIN before buying yet another cable/adapter.

(1) https://www.rubbermaid.com/containers-totes.html
> no reason to have a gas stove anymore other than inertia and ignorance to the health risks.

Or preference for a superior cooking experience.
Even if you were using electric you need proper ventilation. It's amazing how many people think an electric stove somehow makes a kitchen hood unnecessary.
Acquaintance did some suburban kayaking and didn't see a 3ft drop (some kind of dam or culvert under a bridge) until too late. The fluid mechanics of that drop are such that there is a vortex at the base that makes it difficult to get out. He was able to stand but just barely - scary to think how close a call that was in a pretty innocuous looking setting.
Identifying People Using Cell Phone Location Data
> that imposes obligations beyond the commitments in this MOU
That seems like a bit of a loophole for FB organizations - namely, they can support legislation that imposes obligations that are in the MOU, but must not support legislation the reaches beyond that.
An email i got from the moderators

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Mhmmm. Yeah I wish the default were to not use a proxy. Though to be fair I'm not sure exactly what the performance implications would be.
The manor house where 60 people live together
The EU does.
And Michael Winslow should be gagged and locked up for the sake of humanity!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NAv1o9C9qow

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4NOmalcIZZw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eCvqSo0C5ns

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c-IJ1AilJ2I

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Winslow
> web components got rolled back

Unfortunately, they haven't. Google especially pushes them at every opportunity, and they are poisoning the web. E.g. Scoped CSS that covers about 80% of what web components are used for cannot progress because now it has to account for weird corner cases in the Shadow DOM.

Meanwhile none of the major and very few of the new frameworks view web components as a viable foundation. They still have multiple issues that will maybe someday be solved by throwing more and more Javascript at them (see how incompatibility with forms was "solved")
Zattsu Raito?
What if I did 3 second long impersonations of characters for a video game. I then used this tech to produce more lines of dialogue for each character in said game.
I know how to code and how regex works (I do teach it after all) so I'm pretty ok with what it wrote.
Funny I would stumble on your post today as I'm currently in a very similar situation...

I've been a full-stack lead developer for a few years and find myself naturally slipping more and more towards management and client facing tasks.

At first I though it would be a good thing, a way for me to get out of my comfort zone and a logic career path.

Now I feel like my technical skills are wasted and my mental health is clearly worsening. I miss coding to be honest.

Right now I am at a point where I have the opportunity to move up and become a department head. The status would feel nice but I am more and more convinced I would regret it in the end... That's a tough choice.
Not what I thought. Can you please provide more information?
An AI that can “write” is feeding delusions about how smart AI really is
I think it's important to keep considering whether or not something should be regulated, at least keep asking and not fall victim to an echo chamber.

But in this case, couldn't your argument have been applied to photoshop or video manipulation software? Those are meant to deceive, right?
You can call the productive activity what you will. Crypto has no "features" any more than it has "products".

Copilot works. GPT is helping me write more coherently. Stable Diffusion is entertaining my nieces with silly pictures. Biotech AI-based drug discoveries are being announced every day.
… except for the fact that the T2 trailer gave away the big reveal within the first 30 seconds. Cameron must have been apoplectic.
So, what's the mechanism there? You've got a smartcontract that robotically executes its code, and USDC collateral that lives on it and derives its value from US Govt Treasurys and some level of conventional-market oversight.

How does "loss of confidence" translate into the smartcontract no longer working, and the USDC not being redeemable for anything of value? Those are completely orthogonal dynamics.

The entire argument is based on this magic thinking of "it will all go up in flames at the same time for the same reason because it's all correlated, man".
35, level 12, and I slept poorly today too!
God forbid we regulate sodas, cigarettes, junk food though. Those deadly gas stoves are definitely a top priority and a menace to our society !! "health fear" lmao give me a break
Subsidize air-filters as a short/medium term solution, because this also solves the issue of plastic dust being breathed in from all the fabrics, carpets, appliances, couches, rugs, shoes, shirts, etc.
They are doing a ridiculously great thing with the position they found themselves in and of course people still have criticism about it.

Gail if you do see this you are an absolute badass and a fantastic member of the Internet community, thanks for what you've done here.
> even if you think it is built on shaky philosophical foundations.

What does this mean? What shaky philosophical foundations?
This whole article smells. Trumka has been a union politico most of his career, not a science or health & safety guy. The paper they cite is a meta-study, and it's curious that the meta is inspiring more action than any of the original papers[0]. That, and the primary researcher is from an "environmental" nonprofit (rocky mountain institute) rather than a health & safety one, and the board of this nonprofit consists mostly of private equity & energy guys[1].

[0] https://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/20/1/75

[1] https://rmi.org/about/board-of-trustees/
"My dad's not a phone. Duhhhh!" LMAO
I suppose it's possible to infer that Black and Latino folks in the US tend to be lower-income and thus they tend to live in smaller homes (more inhabitants per sqft) and perhaps thus have worse indoor air quality overall compared to their White or Asian counterparts.

But yeah, I still don't think it's necessary to bring race into it. If your science holds up and gas stoves are significantly linked to childhood asthma, you've got a good argument for phasing them out. If the science doesn't hold up, then you don't.
There are induction cooktops that have knobs. I believe one of the Frigidaire professional models has knobs on it. I think the main reason why induction cooktops typically don't have buttons is because it allows the surface to be used like more countertop.

Frigidaire Professional Cooktop: https://www.frigidaire.com/Kitchen-Appliances/Cooktops/Induc...
Cry more
1. some basic needs like food and clothing could be exempt from sales taxes, like it is today in many US states.

2. Taxes should only grow in relation to the growth of identifiable government needs. There is no reason that the government ought to grow linearly in proportion to the net wealth of the country.
That doesn't make a lot of sense to me as an argument. "We need to keep life more dangerous in general so that when we hit special cases it'll be easier to deal with" strikes me as generally doing more harm than good because our day to day is going to cause more harm and those special cases are always going to be special.

Unless you have specific examples that you're thinking of here.
Trade groups suggesting personal behavior changes to address systemic issues with the thing they sell are such a standard playbook that I am surprised it still works.
Dunno man. It's very hard to draw statistical inferences based on a solar stellar system. It would even require significant motivation to argue that the measurements are independent.
I believe the keyword here was "disproportionately". No one is denying that many white people also own gas stoves or for that matter breath exhaust fumes from a nearby highway or have an unfortunate encounter with a police officer or any number of commonplace societal ills. As a corollary, no one is suggesting to apply a fix to non-whites only.
3ds max harder than C++? hmm I don't know about that. I think it was the opposite for me as a young teen. C++ was like what the hell and it wasn't until college I could grasp that.
It was one of the easier pieces of 3d software to learn at the time I thought.
I believe it was Maya I also tried but didn't even bother.
The violent attack on Brazil's government was months in the making
That sentence made me lose some of my braincells
I’m fairly certain that I’ve yet to visit an upper middle class household without a high end gas range, albeit hooded. Surely this disproportionally affects the foodies and amateur chefs of the world.
> electric alternatives can be a fire hazard in their own right if the home’s electrical is sub-par.

I guess it’s possible, but they’re usually on a dedicated circuit and it’s incredibly rare for someone to turn all burners on max and preheat the oven simultaneously, and plug something into the accessory socket.

240V really does solve a lot of problems (and a lot of multi-residential buildings only feed 208V into 240V appliances, effectively derating them).

(All of the above is from the North American perspective of course).
I wish it was like a real war, I'd be rich just from making ebikes!

We spent over 3 trillion on war in Afghanistan, manifacturers of weapons made a killing!

We also made decisions in days that would destroy lives of millions. Today installing a single wind turbine take 4 years of consultation and planning approvals.

So np, its not a war, not by mpney spent, not by decisionmaking authority
Yeah, I can sympathize... I've been using "jest" as my nickname since college years, like 25 years now.

Now I'm bothered when someone upgrades @jest in their JavaScript project on GitHub or BitBucket
>even though there is a given optimal that users want to spend there.

Are you sure? It seems to me that the amount of time people would want to spend on a website surely depends on the website.
Yes, I do -- you can look at how the borrow rate varies with the fraction of available tokens borrowed, e.g.:

https://compound.finance/markets/USDT

It saturates at a pretty low level.

I have no idea what you mean by the expression "like USD bank rates" though. Fixed? (bank rates aren't that, necessarily)
I don't think wood-burning is a real emission issue since wood growing/burning is a carbon-cycle and not a fossil taken in the ground and injected forever in the atmosphere...

As long as the wood is coming from tree plantations, not from deforestation of course, which I expect to be mostly the case in North America and Europe.
Nuclear has seen a dearth of investment for about 40 years since everyone went into a crazy panic over Three Mile Island (non event) and Chernobyl (legit issue but addressable). Fukushima provided a final topper. Even though with each accident designs incorporate more and more security features so that safety is automatically passive. At the same time, governments increase regulations and permitting complexity which drives costs up DESPITE increasing safety standards negating the need for that.

Renewables like solar and wind don’t work at grid scale to supplant base load provided by fossil fuels without batteries. Regardless of the details, batteries have only just started to be able to be used for that, primarily due to smartphones and now electric cars increasing demand. You were never going to get there faster. And batteries, still, have terrible displacing base load because they’re not energy dense compared with fossil fuels. Oh, and batteries are NOT renewable, requiring strip mining precious metals that will get more and more expensive as easily accessible resources are depleted.

I have no problem with renewables and we SHOULD be investing in it. Unlike fossil fuels, nuclear can turn generation on / off pretty quickly without issue. So the more renewables are able to provide, the less we run the plants (it changes the unit economics of course, but we should be ok running nuclear at a loss, and yet we insist it must be profitable). But we should be honest about the reality and the consequences of going down the route of renewables without nuclear. Battery technology is great and improvements go faster than nuclear. That’s for sure. But

a) it’s still veeeeery early days for grid scale batteries

b) batteries are tiny bombs with potential for runaway chemical reactions. As density increases and larger battery installations are made, those are essentially massive bombs and fire risks. I’m not sure that’s less risky vs nuclear unless it’s in the middle of nowhere. I would personally feel more comfortable living to a nuclear plant than a massive battery (eg look at why fly wheels aren’t used even though they have insanely better density than lithium ion and as battery density increases, I suspect you’ll just approach flywheel behavior). Radioactive materials by comparison are more stable outside the reactor.

Look. I don’t disagree that nuclear had challenges to handle. However, to me they seem solvable because necessity is the mother of invention and we know that nuclear can meet all the every needs of earth many many times over. That seems harder with batteries because it starts way further back and requires meaningful R&D advances to make renewables viable to maybe take on current energy needs.
So you're saying she's wrong?
it's potential as a currency and store of value should not be dismissed based on its current limitations. Its adoption and value will likely continue to grow as more people become aware of its potential, particularly with the implementation of the Lightning Network which aims to improve scalability and transaction speeds
I would say the most likely reason is that 2D graphics is just plain hard. Jasper's classic essay[1] goes into more detail.

That said, I'd really love to see more stuff along the lines of what you describe. I think Vello could render, for example, something that visually looks like Mini Metro or Mini Motorways. I also of course would be a massive fan of using Euler spirals - the only curve that's truly, really simpler is quadratic Béziers, and making those look good in your application would be hard. I'm about to do a lot of Euler spiral math on GPU as part of the stroke rework, which you may find interesting.

Strokes are easier for GPUs than fills, because you don't have to worry about the winding number issues (non-convex paths, paths with holes, etc). There are two recent papers, Polar Stroking[2] and Converting stroked primitives to filled primitives[3].

Also check out Freya Holmér's excellent Shapes library[4] (easily integrated with Unity).

Tesselating curves via shaders is the future (through mesh shaders in particular), and I've got a colleague working on that, but portable infrastructure seems to me just as thorny a problem as compute. I am very biased, but if it were me I'd try to render the 2D stuff with a 2D renderer like Vello.

Best of luck with your project, and I'd be interested in following the progress. Feel free to stop by the Zulip[5] and ask such questions there, as well.

[1]: https://blog.mecheye.net/2019/05/why-is-2d-graphics-is-harde...

[2]: https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.00308

[3]: http://w3.impa.br/~diego/projects/Neh20/

[4]: https://assetstore.unity.com/packages/tools/particles-effect...

[5]: https://xi.zulipchat.com/#narrow/stream/197075-gpu
Honestly I wish there were mail, calendar and contact apps for other systems, as good as apples with solid webdav/caldav support. Thunderbird is kind of lacking in all aspects.
There are many codebases in the world that never need to deal with Unicode. Therefore, new language features which deal with Unicode are unwelcome when they replace the existing string API (which was often used to handle raw bytes)
https://youtu.be/MT_u9Rurrqg

I felt obligated to find and post the link to the scene. What a great movie.
Reading audiobooks seems like a good use case.
The goal is to eliminate that altogether, at least in the design phase. You put down the modules, they see each other, can communicate, do the coding about which modules' signal goes where, what processes what etc., and when you are done it either works as is or an automated thing can create the final boards/cabling/wiring for you.

The less hurdles in the prototyping phase the better. I know it sounds impossible, but this wiring this to that always gets on my nerves.

So a software wiring kinda thing with a "wireless" approach would be very much welcomed.
Here's an example of idiomatic Pandas taking 10 minutes while Polars takes 7 seconds:
https://www.pola.rs/posts/the-expressions-api-in-polars-is-a...
Taking over a Dead IoT Company
> i've seen 20 second tik-toks with more emotion and character introduction than a lot of newer movies.

Sure but this assumes movies are about characters and emotion. Michael Bay gets a lot of shit, but sometimes you just want to see things explode. Sometimes you just want to see robots fighting for two hours. Sometimes you want to see California swallowed by a tidal wave and the emotional character plot lines get in the way.

I would pay to see a movie called “Two Hours Of Giant Rocks Hitting The Earth: No Characters Edition”, and the fact Michael Bay is rich means a lot of people agree.
We just bought a replacement for a gas stove, out of concern for fumes and some other reasons. When I asked about controls that are not touch buttons I was told that is hard to find. The other point is that induction models were much more expensive (for our choices, 4k vs 1k).
There are like 8 billion humans alive at any given moment though, so this trick doesn’t scale for usernames. “Just be a little creative” has been extremely unlikely to work for years now at say…gmail
Whoa. Did this exact test in '95.

They made a point of this being your memory span, but it's definitely something which can be trained. This is something we would do as part of (professional) language transcription/translation, just recording mass amounts of numbers, because those tend to be important.
Yeah those things are notorious for that. Place I grew up in had a lot of small rivers you could pretty much wade across most of the year. But you'd still hear of drownings every once in a while and if it wasn't a small child it was always someone going over a low head dam.