skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I believe you.

I don’t have a stake in it. I’m not in CA and it doesn’t appear to impact me doing business with CA companies.

I imagine it’s a bummer for anyone trying to make their own way on their own terms in that state though. It might just be an unintended consequence, or maybe it doesn’t impact CA sole-proprietorships at all if they know the magic words to say or the right contracts to provide. Or perhaps it’s not as big of a deal as it sounded when they told me.

Just sharing my experience and saying I’m glad I live in AZ based on my limited knowledge.
> anthropogenic global warming scientific consensus

Isn't there some serious, vigorous debate on this topic?
i only see posts from freecodecamp and other organizations now, it sucks. medium back in the day had some great posts.
Well, I largely think that NIMBY is still at play. If you are a senator you have nothing to gain with a nuclear reactor in your district. Compare this to Japan that doesn't have ridiculously cheap natural gas, and yet is still doubling down on nuclear despite Fukushima and constant protest.

I think renewables are amazing and have a long way still to go, but I look at the current energy mix and it's hard to see a 100% renewables grid in our lifetime with foreseeable technology.
The alternative heat point is interesting, you don't need to be able to heat your entire house with alternative heat for extended periods of time. If properly designed, 99% of the hours of the year should be warm enough for the heat pump to provide 100% to heat and the remaining hours can be made up with a small space heater or a fire or something else minimal.
It reminds me of the "charm tables" of some Monster Hunter games. Charms are equipment with randomly selected skills. When you create a character, you are assigned a random "table" and all charms you may get are selected from that table. There are 17 of them, 12 of them are normal with some slightly better suited to some play styles but it is a really minor thing, the remaining 5 are called "cursed tables", they are much smaller and you will never be able to get the best charms. It is not game breaking, but it is annoying if you want a highly optimized build.

The reason it happen is that the random number generator has only a small state (I think 16 bits) a limited number of possible rolls, and some seeds have a really short period, which limits it even more. Also, the seed is stored in your save file. It means that if you have a bad seed, you will always have a seriously broken RNG and the only way to change that is to create a new character. I think in later games, the same terrible RNG is used, but a new seed is picked each time you start the game, so you won't stay in the same "table". And while "charm tables" are the most obvious consequence, if probably has other, less noticeable effects on gameplay.

The weird part is that while it is obviously a bug as it negatively affects the experience of some random players, it is rarely referred to as such. It even persisted between versions. Some people even wrote tools to find out early on which table you are, and techniques to get the table you want, along with a variety of RNG manipulation exploits.
About half of CA lives in apartments. EV makes more sense in urban areas, where the percentage is probably way higher. Fraction of CA homeowners with a Tesla (long range and can use supercharger) is probably not much.
The rules for live DJ sets is very different from copyright rules that limit published music. This is the same as when artists use samples of meme audio, which otherwise would be copyrighted. Guetta has a long very large body of work and deserves the benefit of the doubt when it comes to the question of Eminem okaying it. He very clearly wants there to be a discussion about this. Celebrity impersonators for singing have been a thing for a long time. This isn’t about one artist in particular.

I was playing with Tortoise TTS and was genuinely surprised by how good it is with just a few minutes of clean audio. It didn’t take me hours to train or fine tune, the generation step is sort of long, 5-7 minutes for 30 seconds, but it feels really similar to stable diffusion where you do quick test with slow samples and iterations to find a decent seed, and then you let it do a more complete regeneration. It’s zero shot generation that ran on my laptop 2070 max q and i7 10750h. It’s not perfect but it’s believable when layered with music.

https://github.com/152334H/tortoise-tts-fast
The term you are looking for is "neutron activation". Irradiation alone doesn't make things radioactive, they have to capture fast neutrons specifically in order to be transmuted into unstable isotopes. Hydrogen and Oxygen are less susceptible to this than heavier elements which is why it is so hard to make heavy water. It does happen inside running nuclear reactors but spent fuel doesn't give off enough neutrons for it to be an issue.
Speaking about the technical content: it seemed to max out at intermediate-level content, at best. And then trended downward down towards beginner-level content after writers started racing to get paid.
Back when Stack Overflow was in beta, the original design was really rough, so I mocked up a suggested new design for the main page via Stylish and submitted it to them. Within a day or two, they adopted something almost identical but never acknowledged me. One could argue it was a pretty basic idea (I only spent around 15 minutes on it myself) and they probably arrived there independently, but I still like to believe that I influenced a major site's design.
can you explain why?
I don't think that most software is a variable-latency distributed system. I wouldn't use it for a simulation, for example, or anything which depends at a high level on non-integer numbers (TLA+ can't model-check floats or reals).
I definitely blame the Fed.

It's pretty hard to be in charge of a public company and say no to the shareholders who want you to take advantage of the sudden bubble in demand.

Companies would have been punished for not growing, and now they are being punished if they don't shrink.

Who created that perverse system of incentives? The Fed, by making a number of mistakes in the past decade that kept the economy overboosted, by boosting it even more during 2020, and then by taking drastic action to kill the monster they created.
> Russia dismisses the accusations, claiming the charges could be set by terrorists. The pipelines were eventually fixed.
> to create unity by exposing everyone to the same large landscape of stories, opinions and beliefs

Or, in other words: to the same reality (it doesn't matter whether it's factually accurate, only that it's widely shared).

Is there a way back to more shared reality without one side wiping out the other? A common threat that just makes the differences in perception meaningless next to the shared perception of that threat? Aliens invading would probably help, at least temporarily. Maybe, if you keep that up for two generations, they'll have forgotten most of the ideological identities that had divided them, and will only rediscover them after some amount of lasting peace?
> I have found fault with the argument, you just needed to read past the first sentence of my post.

My whole point is that you should have left that first sentence out. It immediately makes me discount your comment because it is insincere and points to you making emotional arguments that are pulled out of thin air.
It doesn't in vaccinated people - but it did in unvaccinated people. There was no guarantee that we'd develop a vaccine in any reasonable amount of time, and reducing deaths and the overburdening of our limited health care resources was the #1 goal in 2020.
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I've been wondering what would be involved in converting my Prius Prime to full EV. In theory it's just a massive battery upgrade, I guess.
If you want the cheapest power, then burn lots of coal and don't hold power plants accountable for their emissions. Do you really want the cheapest power?
Can you name a single other instance in history where a country at war significantly damaged its ability to raise money for the war to “send a message”? What exactly is the message? The US didn’t think Russia had a submersible and some C4 and now they do?
That store closed last year, I believe. That entire block of 3rd is a deserted wasteland now.
Oh damn. My bad - it's funny, I even though to myself : «he would have been quite young, wouldn't he ?»
True. Backlogs are one of several things that people think of as "agile", but have been around since forever. Although prior to agile, we called them "todo lists", but they were dealt with pretty much identically.
> so cheap and easy

I think this is a little misleading, unless there' a good story for storage and long distance power transmission, which I haven't seen yet.
Are there examples of sites/platforms that are doing it "right"? (however you interpret 'right' to be, I guess). Ones that have been around for a while and haven't enshittified?
That is the essence of being a hacker.
>God these headlines are going to be hilarious in ten years.

We'll see. I think you're pulling an "apples to oranges" here, comparing the AI situation to the advent of automobiles and computers/word processing.

The big difference is the typical application of the technology. By comparison, AI is absolutely RIFE with fraud & lazy get-rich-quick schemes - on an absolutely unprecedented scale & scope. Just like cryptocurrency: art generation/NFTs, SEO arms race, generated blogs, generated articles, etc. If you look at ChatGPT prompt repositories, these type of prompts are virtually always filling the top several pages when sorting by ratings/views.

I'm more than a little concerned with where things are headed as the internet gets more and more crapped up by AI generated hot-air, riddled with factual inaccuracies. Another concern is, as more companies adopt & rely these tools for regular use, they often downsize their workforces in the process and lose valuable subject matter experts (knowledge) along the way.

There's also the fact that this is going to compound in later training models. I'm not sure where exactly the demarcation point will ultimately lie, but I think we're going to end up thinking of the Internet as two main epochs: "pre-AI" and "post-AI".

IMO: All AI-generated or AI-assisted content should be clearly tagged as such.
no -- in previous eras, the brand name of the publication built expectation from the readers. If you want long form, high brow content then you look for it; if you are browsing for entertainment and not an intellectual, then ad-filled publications are pushed at you.. lots in between with topic-focused publications. The magazine rack of 1984 has not been replaced and readers are suffering for it... IMO
The 1099-NEC form you receive instead of a W-2 for contractor income even has instructions for how to report your employer to the IRS if you think you've been misclassified as a contractor instead of an employee. I'm sure the IRS carefully investigates all such reports to secure every single penny Uncle Sam is owed in back taxes and penalties.
The radioactivity accidents that are picked up by environmental sensors tend to be very large-scale. The little, nasty ones, like the mining source that was lost in Australia, tend to disappear.
> There's no data to back up their alarmist, knee-jerk hand wringing, just like when people thought novels were bad for people [1], or when writing would ruin our memories [2].

Before we knew about germs the "data" suggested that we could bleed out evil tumors to cure illness, or similarly that the sun revolved around the earth. Would you also have labeled such conjecture as alarmist, knee-jerk hand wringing? A lack of data by no means invalidates a hypothesis, on the contrary it encourages further investigation, which leads to scientific progress.

I found it ironic that you referenced Socrates as an example of such alarmist claims, because the way I interpreted what he said is that without truly understanding a thing, and instead relying upon rote recitation, one could only continue to repeat the conclusions that others had painstakingly worked toward, but they would not be able to explain why or how, only that it is.

You need look no further than the embarrassing circus that was "fact checking" during recent political cycles to see that the concerns Socrates held have in fact come to fruition. Without any evidence except for a tweet hordes of people would confidently and voraciously defend a stance they knew nothing about, often times being completely wrong.

SOCRATES: "The same is true of written words. You’d think they were speaking as if they had some understanding, but if you question anything that has been said because you want to learn more, it continues to signify just that very same thing forever. When it has once been written down, every discourse roams about everywhere, reaching indiscriminately those with understanding no less than those who have no business with it, and it doesn’t know to whom it should speak and to whom it should not."
Who cares about how long the backlog is? A queue that grows indefinitely is the type of problem bothers the analytic brain of a programmer. But as the author says, the queue does service a purpose:

> Backlogs exist because they’re a great way to avoid difficult conversations and shift blame away from product to engineering.

> Whenever anyone asks a product manager for a shiny new feature, for example, it’s much easier to say “you’ll add it to the backlog,” than to spend an hour explaining why the suggestion is irrelevant.

I think this tone is a little condescending, but the broader point is true: PMs, QAs, and others in the process want to feel like their voices are heard. The backlog gives them a place to express their voice. And of course, not all of the tickets immediately enter the backlog. It's a place to gently lay down bad or low priority ideas without insulting the person who filed the ticket.
"statistical re-mixer" doesn't describe these systems very well. I see this complaint a lot, that supposedly DL models can only manipulate existing content without creating anything of their own. That's just false, unless your standard for originality is so high that humans can't reach it either.

These models that have hundreds of billions of "synapses", it's not very shocking to me that they can learn the abstract form of concepts. In fact, it's kind of beautiful that human concepts have this mathematical nature. It vindicates Plato, and disappoints everyone who has claimed that language and meaning is arbitrary.

But the main issue here is that for every conceivable empirical test we can perform, you'll still make the same complaint. Even after it's demonstrated better ToM abilities than you, by predicting and explaining other people's mental states better than you can, you'll say the same thing.

Maybe it's because you think that "understanding" requires not just accuracy, but having a certain kind of inner experience that a human could relate to.
I also loved this game it was my first MMO, and in many ways was so ahead of its time. I still dream about it occasionally.
The fossil fuel industry is not funding pro-nuclear arguments because they want to see 50% of their business lost to nuclear. They are not worried about losing huge profits to nuclear because from a purely economic perspective nuclear is not cost-competitive with fossil fuels. Hence it doesn’t pose a major threat, absent massive government-subsidized build-outs (which aren’t remotely on the table now.)

The fossil fuel industry is funding pro-nuclear PR because they realize that renewables do pose a major economic threat to their business in the short term, since they are now cost-effective enough to replace vast chunks of their business (even if not 100% of it.) Pro-nuclear (and coincidentally anti-renewable) PR is the most efficient way to protect their business. If they can convince the public [incorrectly] that the best way to decarbonize rapidly is to abandon/block renewable build-outs because “nuclear is the only way” then they’ve paid enormous dividends to their shareholders.

If your response to the above is “these random technical points are correct, what’s the problem”, then the problem is: those random technical points are largely a distraction from the important questions of how we decarbonize quickly. The fossil fuel industry understands this perfectly, because they have a lot of skin in the game.
I figured the idea of labeling the inventory as an asset was part of the practice of later deducting the cost (expensing). I.e. you can’t expense it twice.
> Controversial opinion: by scaremongering about nuclear power—which the west could have started adopting in the 1970s like France did—the naked tree huggers did as much to set back climate change mitigation efforts as the oil lobby.

You would have thought that France would have supplied the European continent with electricity now that Russia cut its gas supply, but it turns out that France received electricity from Germany even during this time.

It turns out that even new builds of nuclear power plants take years to be completed. Getting safety right is a challenge, the more we know about engineering and material science for nuclear plants, the more we know about challenges in building them, the more we need to do to avoid these risks, the harder it is to build a safe power plant.
It's probably an urban legend, but I read somewhere that at Amazon, they had a secret, special frontend just for Bezos's account. Whenever he went into a fit of product micromanagement, they'd add his requested feature to the "Bezos frontend" to mollify him, but without polluting the working (public) product. Like I said, probably an urban legend, but I've seen the pressure at other companies that would incentivize this kind of activity.
https://github.com/mattgreen/lucid.fish

It avoids pauses when doing `git status` on gigantic repos.
Abu Ghraib was over 20 years ago mate.

Journalists during Bush Jr's era were solid. Post Obama, the entire profession couldn't handle not being the under dog.

And now we're paying the price with untrustworthy or outright made up "anonymous sources".
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Around Vancouver our heat pump has performed adequately even down to -15C/5F. This may be related to it being a deep ground loop geothermal setup (vertical instead of horizontal), and the type of building (concrete). We do have a gas fireplace as backup, but have not needed it at the temperatures we see in this corner of the world.
It would be great if this was coordinated. Ideas that are good for people usually don't get a very intelligent effort promoting them compared to really bad ideas that make a few people really rich.
Regarding performance, hope it's not the same as Graphana's Loki.

Grapana Loki advertises lower resource requirement, but it's just a disk storage system. Any query will read everyrhing from disk.

The Elasticsearch has big RAM requirements if you create a lot of indexes of course. You can't have something more quick than indexes, and you can't have lower resource requirements without having fewer indexes.
My impression from perusing a book on Android development is that it feels like XML-oriented programming. It gave me EJB deployment descriptor vibes. A very curious contrast to Kotlin being a modern language.
lol, plus the case has qi.
do all platforms go through this? if so, it's very sad.
I've played this at the museum in Berlin. Very fun game. And it really does hurt, I remember my buddy's wrist was practically raw from getting slapped by the thing so many times.
I think we could build 100 plants in under a decade - it takes us being willing to build them assembly line like, meaning no more 'designed for the site' plants.
Well, somebody blew up that pipeline. And the list of possible suspects is very short. Germany, Denmark and Sweden have not yet blamed Russia.
If anything, the Ukraine invasion changed my opinion the other way. Germany had the largest investment in solar and wind anywhere in the world. But their dirty secret was that they were dependent on malicious petrostates to keep the lights on this whole time.

Meanwhile, the Nordics and France that when all-in on nuclear are enjoying relative energy independence.
The current economics of ads on the internet are such at "just add ads" is no longer viable alone like it was a decade ago.

That's why nearly every content creator that normally relies on ads has additional revenue sources. (Patreon/Sponsorships)
> Building dense cities that can be accessed by bike and on foot would have the same effect.

I love density, but, in my experience this is not true. London doesn't have a large competitive market of grocery stores. Neither does Boston or New York City.

Density means higher real estate prices, that means grocery store sizes go down, and the barrier to entry goes up. Yes you can get more small specialty shops (which is great!) but I've had times where I've had to go to 3 different large supermarkets to find some oddball item I needed, and density would make that even harder on me since stores would have a smaller variety of stock.

Of course the 2 largest grocery store chains in America are trying to merge, so very soon American cities won't have much competition either.

I'm not saying density isn't good, it is, and it makes lots of shopping easier, but certain types of (uniquely) American retail experiences fall apart when cities become more dense.

Heck Seattle already is dense enough that there is only 1 Costco within the city limits, the density of Costco's in the suburbs surrounding Seattle is actually quite high! Prior to living in the city proper, I was a 15 minute drive from two Costcos! Now I am a 30 minute drive from one Costco. Since I don't have the time to go that far on a frequent basis for groceries, I am paying more for food living in a city that has more grocery stores around me, than I was when I lived in the suburbs.
that's very true
While somewhat true, the capability is there to make this much more pervasive and subtle. Any recipe mentioning tequila can instantly become <insert brand> tequila.

Also don't limit your imagination to recipes. People googling car check engine codes will be recommended <paid advertiser> parts from <paid advertiser> websites which can helpfully be installed by <paid service center> nearby. I fear searching is going to get much uglier/noisier than it already is.
Tough to do, though, because there can be genuinely important stuff in the backlog that shouldn't be forgotten, but for various reasons won't be tackled anytime in even the medium term future.
It seems that the issue is that `January === 1`; so when you get to December (i.e. `12`) it rolls over to 0 rather than remaining as 12.
What is the point of crypto anymore?
Do you mean, for example:

https://blogs.icrc.org/law-and-policy/2018/11/01/respect-for...

> "Respect for dead bodies manifests itself in diverse ways in different cultures around the world.In Islamic law and Muslim cultures, burying the dead in the ground is the correct way to respect dead bodies. Cremation is prohibited under Islamic law because, unlike in some cultures, it is considered a violation of the dignity of the human body."

People from different cultures have to learn to respect one another's traditions if they're to live together in democratic societies, that's certainly true. Some people would instead destroy anything that offends their own particular views, unfortunately.