skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Frauenhofer pv report says 4 months to 3 years EPBT depending on travel distance, grid losses (both in manufacture and generation) and install location. If you install on a single axis tracker in Chile and use the energy DC then 2 months is believable. These lose about half the light, so up to six years assuming the decorative tile part is negligibly higher carbon than what would go there anyway.
SpaceX worked to prevent Ukraine from using Starlink internet with drones
SpaceX has balked at some Ukrainian uses of Starlink, according to Reuters. Specifically, the outlet reported on Wednesday, Elon Musk's company doesn't want the Ukrainian military using the service to control its battlefield drones, which conduct a variety of operations from scouting to dropping bombs.
They’re practical for certain tasks but it’s not like they’re the only thing which can go off road or tow something. The bigger thing is that you’re giving up fuel economy, ride quality, seating, and handling so it really depend on how often you need those extra things versus the cost you’re paying all of the time. For many people a rental (or delivery) the times they need more construction supplies than fit in a car but not enough to need a bigger truck, or want to go car camping, will be a significant savings.

Mostly, I wish we’d stop subsidizing them - let every pay the same taxes, add a pollution tax, and charge for parking by the square foot. That’d bring back the smaller trucks which did the job for years, but since they’re a popular lifestyle accessory in certain circles there’s basically no chance of that.
Student pilots = flying multiple trips several hours almost every day, on a tie down outside.

Compared to the doctor owner pilot who flies 1 hour to get a hamburger once or twice a year, and keeps it hangared the rest of the time.
The difference is that LaserDisk worked as advertised.
I throw my events in databases and then query them in the dbs themseveles through services when it makes sense to do so
> millions people should be let go

Where did you get the notion that millions of people have been laid off?

Not that it is the canonical source of truth, but according layoffs.fyi:

- 2023: 100k people laid off at 332 tech companies

- 2022: 160k people laid off at 1044 tech companies

source: https://layoffs.fyi
“If you don’t pay for the product, you are the product” is true… but deceiving. It implies that if you pay, you aren’t. Which isn’t true.

You are the product even if you pay, because they make more money that way.
This is cool, I briefly read through the paper, one thing I’m curious of is how hard it would be to add ability to do scale transformation (eg zoom in/zoom out) in addition to translation and rotational transformations. Would it be as simple as just adding a scale factor to the optimization objective and rework a bit of the math?
Have you considered working with any third-party recruiters? It seems that going through one is the only way to get the attention of most companies, these days. I would advise not taking the lack of responses personally, because cold applications are, generally coldly, disposed of (a human never passes judgement on them).

FWIW, I found my last two jobs through third party recruiters, and still count them as friends. It's an industry with an oddly-poor reputation, but there are some real gems of people to be found in it.
Why big tech companies need so many people
More places really really need to use [essentially] unphishable 2fa (security keys) and make that the sole method of 2fa except maybe in a break-glass case. but even them, you can have multiple security keys including backup ones
Maybe the point is pointing out how distorted the market is, and maybe the distortion is the issue.
>That's really how it wants its relationship with its junior faculty to be?

How many people apply for each position? For many areas (not CS) its a buyers market not a sellers one in terms of faculty labor.
When you know for an absolute fact that you hold ownership and are held accountable for a codebase, assuming you're competent, things like tech debt and bugs suddenly become much more important and consequential to you.
The Retreat of the Amateur Investors
I want my email to stay in the same structure Thunderbird has now.
i know many that charge with a standard outlet at home, including myself. for many, maybe most, that's enough.
That's the surface of the eye not inside the eye.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2948372/
"The eye attempts to limit local immune and inflammatory responses to preserve vision. This phenomenon, known as ocular immune privilege, is mediated by a combination of local and systemic mechanisms. While immune privilege is believed to protect the eye from day-to-day inflammatory insults, it is not absolute and its mechanisms are still incompletely understood."
“Business”? This is a weekend toy project, and good for them for trying to explore monetization as part of the exercise.

But reverse engineering the implementation, even trivially, is more intellectually interesting than the effort itself. It’s good content for HN and a really valuable beginner’s lesson for the author.
"should" invites "what imperative, to whose purpose" as a question.

"should" the board demand senior executive pay cuts? Why? they're fam. They're part of the tribe. You cut the slaves, you cut the foreigners, why do you cut family?

"should" investors demand the senior executives get pay cuts? Why? They just executed thousands of slaves, and there will be a massive drop in costs, and the share prices will rise. Why would I punish them, when I am going to benefit?

"should" society at large demand Google and large corporates share the pain?

Well yes, but nobody is going to make them do anything. "should" is the wrong dynamic.

"we" should make them do it demands the question: "who is we here and what is our lever?"
> The missing text problem from NLU is an example of a problem that is thought to be impossible for Turing machines/algorithms but is trivial in most cases for humans.

Not thought to be impossible by people who believe in scientific materialism, and current mainstream ideas in theoretical physics (like the Bekenstein bound and such), and who have thought carefully about the issue.

The laws of physics are believed to be computable, and the information content in a bounded region of space, finite. Therefore, it is believed that, in principle, a Turing machine could run an accurate physical simulation of a person, and could therefore do any cognitive task (as far as input/output correspondence goes) that a human can.

If you’d like to explicitly reject scientific materialism though, I’d have no complaints about you doing so.
If you look at old cook books from the US, say before 1950. There were more recipes for more parts of the animal. Offal was more common. Things like Sheeps Head, Intestine, Tongue, etc. were not rare. In the US' case it was really just a case of the United States becoming really wealthy (plus meat industry subsidies making meat cheap) that enough people started opting out of eating those things. 2-3 generations later and its disappeared.
I have visited some of those Maersk ships.

The crew quarters and the living areas are nice.
Some of the ships even had a swimming pool.

It is possible because they have a very small crew relative to the size of the ship.

The red and white checkered tablecloths are traditional danish style (colors of the flag, i guess), and probably oil-cloth which is easy to clean and provides some friction when the ship is rolling in the waves.
If my interpretation of the overarching sentiment here on HN is accurate, it is that the big tech companies make tons of profit and hence the layoffs are unnecessary. It is within that context that I said that.
The problem is that "industry wide" doesn't mean much if you know your company is doing well. It's jarring seeing "record profits" and "layoffs" mentioned within a few weeks/months of each other. If you get laid off even when things are going great, what hope do you have for knowing when the next layoff occurs?
There are several long bed pickups that can carry a 4x8 sheet flat with the tailgate closed. Your Subaru can carry lumber more conveniently than those trucks?
Have you tweaked Whisper in any specific ways to improve accuracy?
So, about the same as motorcycles, with probably much less danger to the general public.

I'd say most of these deaths (for both motorcycles and GA) can be attributed to poor judgement outside the scope of FAA regulations or road rules.
People get really weird about money. Sometimes it sets a social pecking order. Sometimes it has a large effect on their opinion of you. If they discover there's a large differential with you either way, it can make life unpleasant.
Fingerprints form was a mystery – until now
Or, make said funded loans being paid off contingent, to some degree, on student success?

The gov-funded loans were created to solve a problem as well.
Assuming you could, wouldn't the immune system lose that fight? It specifically attacks the immune system after all. deliberately increasing HIV viral load would probably be on the same level of danger as nuking someone's bone-marrow to prepare for a bone-marrow transplant.

HIV is also a retrovirus which means it embeds its genetic code into host cell DNA. It can't be cured simply by getting rid of all present viruses.
They need a human to scale in the photos or something
>On trial for cocaine dealing.

https://www.reuters.com/business/finance/court-convicts-cred...

"A former employee was found guilty of money-laundering in the trial, which included testimony on murders and cash stuffed into suitcases [...]"

Whew!
> People displaying this condition can speak normally.

Not really? They can speak in grammatically correct sentences, with connected speech, but what they say can be nonsense. I wouldn't call that normal. I think LLMs show that, solely with access to text, it's possible to produce a good enough model that what you produce is not only not nonsense, but so good that academic psychologists suggest it may have a theory of mind.

> However, often what they say doesn’t make a lot of sense or they pepper their sentences with non-existent or irrelevant words.

https://www.aphasia.org/aphasia-resources/wernickes-aphasia/
> LCOL state

Aspen is more comparable to SF costs than Sacramento is.
For most people, it's more economical to rent a truck when they need it than to buy one.

Most of these trucks are just urban commuter vehicles. The owners wanted them because they think they're cool.
I said the opposite of what you think I said.

People who are worse off are most likely the minority.

But I do think it’s worth noting that they exist.
I agree with the argument that this is being done by administrators, not academics, but there's a simple solution: tax endowments of private universities and use the money for state schools, trade schools, and community colleges.
I tried that before, blew out my storage (obviously since each small file now takes 4KiB block minimum in ext4, unless you specifically mkfs with a smaller block size or use zfs)
Is there supposed to be non-static video with this? I just see two still images over the course of the ~hour and forty minutes.

The conversation goes along as if there's periodic pictures to be seen of what's being discussed.

Yeah, just feeling grumpy about this not being a podcast like it used to be :)
The main reason someone flies a small single piston airplane anymore is to work towards their commercial rating. And practice in class B airspace is an important part of that.
Sure. The stuff Microsoft is doing in the Edge sidebar (generating text for emails/LinkedIn posts/etc) could easily be a Grammarly-sized company for other browsers. Copilot earns revenue for GitHub. First line chat support. Internal wiki ”Clippy”. There’s a million use cases.
I really wish people would stop trying to redefine the word "violence" to mean anything they don't like. In almost every instance it's a strong signal that you're dealing with an emotional person who is incapable of having a rational conversation.
Toolformer: Language models can teach themselves to use tools
This should be possible, since Whisper forks can support exporting results with timestamps per word. Indexing entire sentences / clauses is a more complex problem though.
That is an obvious feature, not a bug! This is so that you can delete images on your phone to reduce the use of absurdly expensive phone storage, while still retain your precious history in pictures on the server.
It's built-in :-)
Any specific part of it?
> One threading error, and poof! It's gone. Happened to me several times.

In all the years I've used Thunderbird, it's never happened to me, several machine types.

I like the way the file/folder structure is and do not want to see it changed.
It's also not always even envy. There's a whole range of possible reactions.

It can be just as bad if people discover you earn less than them.
It also sucks for drivers: we have a lot of two way roads which are no longer capable of handling two way traffic because they lost a foot on each side with wider parked vehicles and the passing trucks are wider, too. You only need one parked Canyonero on a block to force everyone to take turns.
Any chance you'd be open to sharing source? Also, curious if you used any tuning on Whisper to get transcription more accurate?
Even if something can change its semantics, you can still represent it as a state machine if you just make a copy of every state for every possible set of semantics. The semantic state can just be another part of the state machine's overall state.
I recently adopted Thunderbird as my email client (was using Gmail's web UI) and have really appreciated the power of it, enough that I donated to the project. NOT being like current designs has been part of the appeal. This development sounds high-risk, low-reward from my perspective. Could well end up nerfing the tool I just adopted. But c'est la vie, I guess. Probably the mistake was leaving Thunderbird without real governance back in 2012, so now as it's pulled from anarchy it's going to be painful watching "the law" of centralized development come down.

I would prefer if it were a more democratic process.
I uploaded a screenshot of the front page of hacker news

https://i.imgur.com/aTqN3qA.png
Google is getting worse and worse... but the others aren't better.

Somehow the "search for keywords" has changed to "search for what most users with those keywords actually want", even if that means ignoring a few of those keywords, using synonims or worse. If you're a random grandma looking for a new fryer, that might be great for you, but for someone who really wants that specific thing, it sucks.
The only problem they were created to solve was soaking future taxpayers with debt and a devalued currency, while keeping taxes low in the past and present.

The government should either fund higher education directly, or give students cash.

This is the same playbook with deferred compensation like defined benefit pensions and retiree healthcare for government employees. Government avoids paying cash now so taxes are lower now, and use liberal accounting assumptions to understate the debt.
hypothetical, but, could easily make a script that, upon cd, checks all above directories for `.xdg-root`, and while inside, has envvars set to use said folder as a root for Documents/Pictures/Etc folders
*Marin County, not “San Marin”.
On that video it clearly doesn't work at all. I don't see any second where Tesla is driving and there is nobody behind the wheel.

edited to add comment below

Here is an old video of beta self driving car
https://youtu.be/__EoOvVkEMo?t=120
Temple is a state school. (Okay, I think I should clarify it's kinda complicated, it's not technically a state college, but it's a peer of penn state in the weird PA hybrid scheme. So if you thought Penn state was public, Temple is equivalently so.)
Trunk-based development reminds me of Agile Development: the drawbacks mostly accrue to the developers while the benefits mostly accrue to the managers.
Its paywalled so I can comment initially only to the teaser. He's a "trader" not an investor. amateur traders are quite different to investors.

If the article actually says there is a function here for individuals to direct preferences, and somehow "inform the market" well ok, wisdom of crowds.

If the article really means "a giant suck hole of chumps we can rip off because we know more than them, and they have sentiment, and enough stake to lose to make it worthwhile" thats kind of .. wall street bets but in a newspaper.
Wow, how'd you manage to get interviews split into different speakers?
Thats me :).
I know its hardly fashionable...but what's really wrong with release integration branches?
Regular Expressions make me feel like I need to read and practice more theory of computation.
It's hard to find the real chou doufu in major cities these days. Even the stuff in most night markets is toned down so as not to scare off tourists and piss off the other vendors.

I remember the first time I encountered it was in 2000 outside Shenzhen, China (which was mostly a construction site at the time). I literally thought a sewer main had broken.
Awesome, I just tweeted at your proj re: gpu
I've been to spices 3 many a time, tried some interesting dishes, but never went for the stinky tofu. I did try a spicy intestines appetizer. They should warn you it is served cold. The one dish I really want to try is something called "gangster casserole murder style", but it's some giant thing that I think needs to be shared by at least 4 people, and I haven't been able to find people willing to go in with me on it. It's got blood in it.
Crazy to see everyone on here haha.
that video presentation is heroic! what a riot to see the numbers sliced that way; and you are clearly cautios in the estimations. well played
What's the technique to unbox closures and ADTs?
Well shit, and the state doesn't actually own the endowment? That's ridiculous. Take those assets into state ownership.
> Employees are often reluctant to leave jobs where they have a lot of personal relationships, or if getting a new job would entail moving to a new city/state/country, even if jumping ship would entail a sizable payraise or other improvement in working conditions.

Yeah you know I’d much rather work in a place where I have a very limited relationship with the people I spend at least 8 hours a day with. That was sarcasm. One of the reasons I didn’t take a remote job last year was the lack of deep social connections I’ve experienced in other remote work.

I’ve observed that the best work is often done by small teams with deep social connections. Think the original Mac team in 1983 or id software in the early 90s. I want to like and even love some of the people I work with, even if the time is short and I’m fired. Because life is short and even a couple years with someone I connected with is valuable when it’s 8 hours a day for 1/40 of my life.
Omg boxxy???
I'm not sure I follow you. What do you mean by that?
I found Mail.app to be very quick to use, especially with Mail Act-On which gave me tons of filtering and best of all, hotkeys that made moving, archiving and applying any number of rules super easy.

The price has gone up a fair bit since I had to move away from Mac, so I don't know if the value proposition is still there, but I know it saved me hours of time...

Thunderbird is the closest to productive I've gotten on Windows since, but I want those hotkeys!
If you want to grow your audience user-wise, allowing people to add alerts on specific terms would be pretty cool.

There's a set of people I always enjoy listening to whenever they're on a podcast, but it's hard to keep track of everything out there.
What “other means”? The people in the burbs are never going to support mass transit because it makes it too easy for “those people” to come into their idyllic burbs.

I’m both one of “those people” and I lived in the idyllic burbs until last year. I saw the attitude all of the time.
Very few of the wealthy people I've known have considered themselves rich.
The median 401k balance is downright scary. For ages 55-64, it's only $84k. Percentage participating in these plans doesn't mean much if they don't have much in it.

https://www.personalcapital.com/blog/retirement-planning/ave...
It's happened time and time again.

I'm currently reading Marx Das Kapital and it's amazing how all the narratives are more or less exactly the same. The worker is lazy, society will collapse if every moment of time is not taken from the socialised labour etc.

This never seems to end.
I honestly feel like EBNF or similar is easier to comprehend. I get that for short things it's easier and more legible to use regex but once you get to complex stuff the verbosity of spelling out a grammar is kind of a boon. And I say that as someone who has at various times been really comfortable writing some terrifying but accurate and useful regex.
You can claim it depending on your student scholarship (NSF GRF) or postdoctoral status and what it says on your 1098.
Sorry, my mistake, I somehow misread "macro" as "micro". More than once. But it was obviously an "a" all along because it's an "a" in my quote. I need to start paying closer attention.

So, having now re-read what you wrote upstream more carefully, can you elaborate on what you mean by "intervention"?

> The problem is that it is not clear from that argument alone why it applies to future states, but it does not apply to the past states.

I don't understand this. What do you mean that it "does not apply to past states"?

> another assumption is needed, such as the asymmetric relation between my macrostates A,B

Well, yeah, there is an asymmetric relationship: one precedes the other, and not the other way around. But that's not an "assumption", that is just how you defined A and B.

I really don't see the problem you are trying to describe.
Coin Cloud crypto ATM operator files for bankruptcy
Yes!

I have been writing regexes like this for 20+ years. The "well then just don't write line noise...?" realization comes easily for those of us that spent a few years "maturing out of Perl". Because first you stop writing Perl line noise, and then you realize that regexes are just another part of that line noise (because regex are so common in perl code).

Regular expressions DEFINITELY ARE the right tool if the problem that you have is that you need to parse a regular grammar (or near-regular grammar)!!!

Like, literally, they are 100% the right tool. Theoretically. Practically. Everything. The. Right. Tool.

And they are also the absolutely, terribly, completely wrong tool if you need to do anything other than parse a (very nearly) regular grammar.
> (Though the top ten look pretty terrible.)

The Gule Ærter (#6, pea soup) looked positively tasty, so I can't imagine what is hidden in it to make it so bad. I'd have no problem with the Vegetable Roll (#7) and would be happy to try the Sour Spicy Fish Curry (#10, Kaeng som). I like anise-flavored candy, so Anis de Flavigny (#5) is fine.

The pizzas (#8, #3) look like gut-bombs, but I'm sure a slice would be ok. I'm not a fan of kidneys, but I once ordered a whole platefull of them in Paris by mistake, (6 lamb's kidneys, I think) and ate almost the whole lot (Devilled Kidneys, #9).

I think I could taste the spider's legs at least once (#4) and I find it hard to believe that the whitefish salad (Indigirka Salad, #2) could be that bad from it's description...

That leaves only Hákarl (#1) as the one I'm genuinely afraid of.
> "CEO of AI company here [...] This is a gold rush"

Forgive my skepticism, but AI hype today looks remarkably similar to the NFT hype of yesterday. IMO there's certainly value in AI-assisted workflows, and maybe the hype around AI is doing legitimate work here a disservice, but I don't see any lasting, meaningful impact being had as a result of this wave.