skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
one of my favorite books on this topic is Cold Steel by the boss of Arcelor Mittal.

He chronicles in pensive details about the politics of Iron & Steel manufacturing in Europe and America.

The book is quite a thriller for the students of that subject. If you haven’t read it already, you’ll enjoy it.
> Don’t really socialize or make friends with people at work

Well there you have it. No need to be besties, just spend time with people you like. Be it at work or elsewhere. The rest follows.
Everyone is approaching the social media issue as if it was a technical problem - it's not. No amount of decentralisation or protocols address (or even attempt) the root cause. The closest would be the crypto-based social networks, which while they have their own problems at least attempt to address the issue of funding the platform. You know it's bad when the closest thing to a solution comes from crypto grifters. Same issue with the rest of the "alternative" world, whether it's OSes or software. Lots of time spent on technicalities or ideologies, zero time spent on addressing the actual problem - that's why the "year of the Linux desktop" is still a recurring joke.

The problem with social media right now is the lack of a non-adversarial, sustainable business model. All these changes stem from the fact that advertising-based business models are on their last legs and are fundamentally flawed because they are adversarial to the users - the Twitter API shutdown is at least partly because they want to drive everyone to use the official client where it's easier to impose user-hostile functionality.

Decentralisation merely side-steps this problem which works on a very small scale but not only will break down at a larger scale (operating a social media platform costs money) but also brings a lot of its own issues. Part of the appeal of a social media platform is its popularity, network effects and a sense of community where most people are happy with or at least tolerate the rules and moderation policy.

A Mastodon-powered future will have 2 outcomes:

1) every instance federates with everyone and the entire thing becomes flooded with spam and other unsavoury (or outright illegal, at least in some jurisdictions) content because there is no common moderation policy. Users eventually get fed up and leave to a centralised competitor.

2) instances federate on a case-by-case basis which fundamentally breaks network effects and makes global conversation and community building impossible. Good luck explaining to non-technical users why they can't see/interact with the same posts as their friends because they happen to be on different instances that don't federate with each other, or because the content they both want to see is on a separate instance that doesn't federate with theirs. Users get fed up & leave or can't get started to begin with and sign up on a centralised competitor instead.

In both cases I haven't even addressed the issue of funding the network itself - there is still no business model (and any business model where users pay would require the service to have enough value for them to begin doing so - chicken & egg problem when the value of a social network is in its network effects), and even if there was, it will be more expensive because decentralisation requires a lot more system resources.
I realized that this is what https://totalrealreturns.com/ does. It seems like at least a few mutual funds do beat the market over time, e.g. FPURX: https://totalrealreturns.com/s/USDOLLAR,VTSMX,FPURX,FBGRX
Maybe I'm missing the point of the article then. What's the low-resource scenario where inference speed is the bottleneck for transformer adoption at scale?
> Do better, Apple - if you say you're leading the way in helping the environment, especially when it comes to the disposal of old devices, an excessive drop in value when trading these in is not going to be a success.

Actually it will be a success - you will own the machine for longer and not buy the shinny new thing 18 months later ... or it will be a more attractive price for a second owner to get a good use out of.

Do better author.
I embraced that life is absurd and a mystery and that many people are kind and good hearted. Knowing they exist makes me less lonely, it doesn't matter if they can understand me, it only matters that they don't "think" that they understand me. I found solace in sonder I guess.

That's enough, the world and my life isn't meant to be understood or make sense, as far as I can tell my life is not meant for "anything" by "anyone"... though maybe I'll find out differently one day.

I don't know if that is part of ego death or what, but I am glad to be here, I'm glad and lucky I didn't die at 3, I do seek out people who are good hearted but weird, iconoclasts, unfiltered... in one instance I became a close friend to someone who has tourette's and I always know what's on their mind.

I don't know, I guess I ended up a misfit toy that really enjoys other misfit toys.
There really aren't that many places that won't extradite an American back to America. Like, North Korea and maybe Iran. All the other countries famous for not having extradition treaties with the US like Vietnam are happy to extradite on a case by case basis.

There are plenty of countries that won't extradite their nationals as a matter of policy like China, Russia, Switzerland, Lebanon, and so on (it's most of the world, probably), but the vast majority won't bat an eye to throwing her back to the US based LEO wolves.
Are you telling me there isn't a single system in this planet without a UI? Because that sounds like a bad claim.

I would also appreciate it if the standard library had a standard for UIs so you can build something UI library agnostic, that would be really interesting to see.

Until we have languages like Rust and Go make headway with GUI stacks, we will be forever cursed to live in a world full of Electron web apps.
I have been getting LED bulbs that have built-in motion detectors recently. I replaced all of my exterior lights with them and they work very well. You can even temporarily disable the motion detector by just turning the bulb on and off 3 times quickly. They’re from GE, but others make them.
https://www.gelighting.com/led-lights/bulbs/e26/ge-led-motio...
I wonder if they don’t intend to offer one-ways at all, but are legally required to publish the tariffed pricing that nobody actually takes.
Her work experience is as an audio engineer - but again it doesn’t matter what her credentials are, she is wrong regardless and you are ignoring my whole point. She shows her ignorance of the subject matter (again willingly or not) when she applies her critique generally at Ml and not just at these specific applications - not sure how many times I need to say that.
What is the origin of the claim that lithium makes up 9% of the cost of a battery cell? Anode material is the majority of the cost, according to this: https://www.visualcapitalist.com/breaking-down-the-cost-of-a...

In reality it's 50% of the cost, so a 10X increase in input price would amount to a 5x increase in cost. Battery production has become a resource extraction problem.
Cooba!
No, this will not help. Thermodynamic law forbids this.

Otherwise one can create a machine concentrating all the thermal radiation of one black object at temperature T1, onto another perfectly white object also at T1 with a tiny black hole, heat up the second and then violate the second law of thermodynamics.

Keyword for further Googling: etendue
you mean this guy?

https://www2.cs.uic.edu/~brents/cs494-cdcs/papers/pywren.pdf
It’s happening slowly already due to which world views are repopulating and which are doing the opposite…
Maybe I'm the weird one, but Mercurial never made sense to me. I thought that Git's model made perfect sense.

I never tried BitKeeper, so I can't speak to that. But being proprietary seemed to doom it.
I still use python type hints (and TypeScript) - and while they have benefits, I find that they fall short of something like Rust, Haskell, etc (because they are just that - hints). I don't have the surety that the types as annotated are the same as the types at runtime.
Used to? I'm pretty sure it still does. There are comments on that issue from as recently as 6 days ago. Personally I can't recall a time when manual updates on F-Droid ever worked consistently.
I mean clearly this is all quite tongue in cheek but:

> It's also debatable if the entire concept of privilege separation as implemented in Linux and UNIX was a bad idea to begin with but we're stuck with it because of an endless ball of legacy programs controlled by egotistical open source people that refuse to change […]

Not a very charitable way to describe volunteers who don’t want to learn the flavor-of-the-month language to reimplement their old projects. Maybe if there were some folks who knew rust and were interested in doing this kind of work it would get done.
Well, I can’t speak to the school of course, but mine are.
> This may happen once in a while due to some algorithm weirdness, but it is absolutely not "often" the case

It's completely predictable, in fact I checked this claim at Google Flights before posting.

Say you want to fly from LON to NYC, next week, on OneWorld airlines, nonstop. Check the price for a one-way, then check the price when you add a return six months out.
I'm always sad to see articles like this when large pages are so impractical to use for games on Windows, from MSDN [1]

"The memory is always read/write and nonpageable (always resident in physical memory)."

To say nothing of the fact that you have to do a privilege change to even access the API.

[1] https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/memory/large...
It's honestly one of the coolest things I've ever done.

It's not just about the brightness of the stars, the sky literally looks 3d, which I didn't expect
>Just looked into universal analytics. It has a limited history, and must be used with a separate program to make sense of the data, and has no pre defined reports. If I'm understanding correctly.

Can you clarify the product here, as Universal Analytics is also the name of the version of Google Analytics that is being superseded by GA4.

If that's what you're referring to, then yes, we're switching, our marketing departments rely on too many integrations with the Google Ecosystem, including ads, to want to move away from that ecosystem in the short ter,.
As a data scientist, the greatest thing about Databricks is their marketing and sales departments. Not that they have a bad product, but they're not selling anything brilliantly unique.
I have no clue! I just appreciated them as a lowly user.
Mexico City > Dubai on a very comfortable Emirates flight
What does “environmentally degraded” mean?
NuScale's main safety feature is an enormous pool of water, so the reactors can cool down without human intervention. That's more physics than engineering.
I see them quite a lot in Berlin.
The article further notes:

>Holmes’ partner, William Evans, also bought a one-way ticket “and did not return until approximately six weeks later, returning from a different continent,” prosecutors said.
Ain't it funny how the knight moves?
An "update" does not necessarily imply an upgrade.

As mentioned above, I think the Win11 UI is horrid. It's trying to be the MacOS UI which is hands down the worst UI I've ever used.

Modern UI trends are all about flatness (which reduces discoverability), minimalism (hiding functionality), and dark patterns.

Windows 7 with the Classic theme and task bar grouping disabled was peak UI. It's been downhill ever since.
The Illusion of Interpretability of Large Language Models
Heh, funny story about Perforce. I bumped into one of their founders at a camp I go to, real down to earth dude. We had struck up a conversation over a few drinks, and the conversation drifted over to what we did. He asked "You know version control software?", and I replied "Like Git?" and he just responded with an exasperated sigh.
>I am continually baffled just how utterly stupid these rich people are.

Rich != Smart
It's pretty clear that LH is not going to ferry this passenger without further payment.
NaK cooled reactors have an advantage of not freezing when you shut them down since NaK freezes at -12C. However Nak explodes when mixed with water...
> ...companies that pay minimum wage are also saying is "If I could pay you less, I would"...

There is actually an important insight there that is being missed. Companies 'think' this about all employees at all times. My employer would, if given the opportunity, choose to pay me less. And all my co-workers. None of us are paid anything near as low as the minimum wage.

The minimum wage doesn't force companies to pay more, it forces them to fire all the employees who are less productive, until the only ones left are those worth paying the wages they receive.
God damn dude. Maybe you piss them off because you call their contributions “interference”. Honestly this is one of the most dickish things I could imagine saying about a colleague’s work.
The Lost Media Wiki
Thanks for the explanation. Emoji to me might as well be Chinese characters. It's just a "thing" I can't read.
I would love to see standard garage sizes as a background.

https://www.homestratosphere.com/standard-garage-dimensions/
Wait what, this is some kind of emoji/face? It shows up as a grey solid box that is slightly wider than tall for me, so not even the typical "glyph missing" thing...

Edit: ok apparently this is indeed the placeholder for missing emoji in Firefox for Android at least.
That’s what I found too[0]. Made me realise that algorithms aren’t to blame for echo chambers and outrage; it is us humans that are at fault with this.

Examples of echo chamber behaviour on Mastodon: all differing replies are labelled as “replyguys”, but agreeing replies are allowed. Defederation is common due to drama between administrators. Debates are discouraged and free speech is commonly villianised.

Examples of outrage behaviour on Mastodon: Check out the Fediblock hashtag (don’t), which has a big “outrage of the week” tone, everything from Hive to Raspberry Pi to journalists.

I’ll try to add a bit of value to my comment. The way I’m resolving this is to recognise this and filter them out actively. This is one place where algorithms do indeed make it harder (because it can “sneak back in”). Particularly, I filter out all political posts and any anger posts, especially anger posts about an out-group (“us vs them”).

Is this creating an echo chamber as well? Maybe. But I can try rationalising this by saying that an echo chamber of neutrality is better than an echo chamber of a particular side, political or otherwise.

[0] https://mastodon.social/explore
New Study Shows Where You Should Hide to Survive a Nuclear Attack
> So why not switch to nitrogen asphyxiation instead? Is it that much more expensive?

Food grade gasses (for brewers, at least) seem to put N2 as much cheaper. And that makes sense, it's aggressively abundant in the atmosphere. Concentrating it feels like it should be easy.

But I wonder if there's a safety aspect. If you're handling these gasses, you know if you're in a high CO2 area. Your blood acidity climbs and everything in your body tells you to get to better air. And it's rapid so you still have oxygenated tissues. In a nitrogen environment, you slowly deplete your reserves, faint and die. Maybe they could spike it with an odour like they do methane.
The quoted paragraph has nothing to do with language choice.
Maybe it's just a distraction for the real plan: off to Hong Kong on a cargo ship, through to Mexico in a car trunk, or simply living with an assumed identity after major plastic surgery.

A decoy could take the trip to Mexico for you...
https://www.newsweek.com/precious-metal-values-are-raising-b...

> In 2021, lithium comprised 9 percent of the cost of a battery cell. Nickel represented 12 percent of the cost. But for 2022, those numbers have risen to 13 percent and 21 percent, respectively.

I had just glanced at the Google summary, so I only saw the first part. Call it 13%, then.

It is not anywhere close to 50%. The cathode is made of more than just lithium. 50% is an incorrect interpretation of the graphic in the article you linked.
If I make it sound like a sinister conspiracy or cash grab, that's because that's what it as long as it's a private entity and not a public endeavor.

I don't deny that this might be a worthy pursuit or the right direction to be looking, or that that's the reason some people are in it. I just question the motivations of a private company valued at $10b which is going to have a lot more control over the direction of the industry than those passionate individuals.
We use Databricks on a data processing pipeline. I don't know of anyone in love with it. It is by far the number 1 source of problems on that pipeline. Just in the last week:

* It deleted hundreds of log files without warning

* We had a failure starting a cluster; the web UI listed the cluster, but in fact it no longer existed - we had to recreate it.

* Log files that it didn't delete show that it is having problems pulling some internal metadata from an AWS IP address (we are on Azure).

If the directive from on high came down that we are to rip it out and replace it with something else, nobody would be surprised, or care.
Executives lie left and right. Stay at a company long enough and you will see their stories shift. They are essentially politicians.
They still should. Rather than shutting down third party Twitter apps they should all get together and just swap out Mastodon for the backend.
Fediverse articles read exactly like Crypto articles used to. It'll solve all your problems, all the time, the problem is the users are wrong.

It's not gonna happen guys.
Do you not think there isn't still a different between something which can become sentient, somehow start operating outside of the computer it lives in and on and on ?

I mean it would have to be a pretty big leap from and algorithm optimized to do "something" to an algorithm which understands how to operate interdependently and then escape it's box and then start to do the wrong thing, and to add to that, be smart enough to stop us from turning it off before doing too much damage.

Actually curious what people think about this?
Emoji are text!
A near 100% renewable grid doesnt require as much storage as you'd think:

https://reneweconomy.com.au/a-near-100-per-cent-renewables-g...

This model projects that a 98% solar/wind/hydro grid is possible for Australia by building an additional 450GWh of storage. 1.3x snowy 2 (which is 350GWh).
100%. I definitely found my usage increase when I found a more delightful and well-built client with Ivory.

For those new to Mastodon, I wrote a huge 8K word post about it recently, from my POV as someone who worked at Twitter for 9 years: https://paulstamatiou.com/mastodon/

I go over some of the constraints that the federated model brings that might be particularly interesting.
so my bag at the moment is software is a form of literacy. And that implies that (for now) some people can read and write and some cannot.

Most business / software problems revolve around the problem of getting a person who understands the problem to explain it and work with the person who can write software.

Your example is fascinating- and suggests that it works better when one person understands both parts :-)
It adds 100% of what I would point out in code reviews to be removed from the commit message. It incentivizes an anti-pattern, so yes it's horrible.
The third person that came to your mind alongside Alexander Dugin and Mussolini was a Canadian professor and his fad diet promoting daughter?
> You've got to update it to 60% now for NE Brazil, South Australia and a few other generation grids

Most of that is hydroelectricity, not wind and solar. Why stop at 60%? Norway produces 100% (or very close to it) of its electricity from hydro.

Of course, the answer is that geographically dependent energy sources aren't very useful outside places that have the right geography. Most places with hydroelectric potential are already making use of it. The question is, how do we decarbonize the rest of the grid?
The building blocks of great docs
The meaning can also be inferred from… the face.
Cause recession? Money is suddenly tight?
I used the SSH server method for a while on a Windows machine since it's built in Terminal doesn't support mixed security contexts between tabs/panes.
Slippy maps is the baseline nowadays but it wasn’t always.

Example video showing terraserver: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=uaQNdMQ3NNk

As others mentioned there are also many maps meant for printing. There are also map servers that will generate a viewport-specific image (typically meaning no on-the-fly rendering) on demand.
What? When you're interacting with a person, you don't need to know their pronouns. They are the first person in front of you, so the pronouns are "you" and "yours".

The third person pronouns kick in when talking about them, to someone else, almost certainly in their absence.

That may happen in writing.
Yeah it can be done with X amount of risk and auditing ($)...

I was mainly asking has it been done by any service?

Risking your advertisers is not wise and audits will be expensive and reactive not proactive.
Yeah, that’s not for me. My tolerance for that kind of BS is way too low. It’d no doubt take less than a week before I started to follow the spirit of the rules, rather than the letter.
Unfortunately, the C locale will not achieve your goal: UTF-8 will be merely a subset of what you support, rather than getting rid of it.
> It's kind of sad to think that people would rather help create the next catastrophe by relying on treatments that are known to become less effective with use than act responsibly for prevention.

Neither condoms nor PrEP "become less effective with use". Either one is a way of acting responsibly for prevention.
> I'm on the spectrum, and I can't tell 99% of these things apart. Looks like a sad face to me. no different then the 500 other sad face emoji's I find. I'll stick with =(

If it's any consolation, I don't think anyone could infer that from the emoji itself. The meaning is like a subculture's slang.

I don't use emojis, so I only know the very basic ones (which I consider to be obfuscated emoticons).
Here's a presentation on their approach to safety: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JhrxFCtCPUo&t=2360s

They estimate that the risk of core damage is 3-5 orders of magnitude lower than traditional nuclear plants.
This one: https://emojipedia.org/pleading-face/