skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Large grids, long distance transmission and massive infrastructures are all a waste. Imagine if you could cut up a coal plant into small pieces and distribute it?

Smaller infrastructure is actually more wasteful. Since you suggested a coal plant, consider the sheer number of extra jobs it would take to hire people to drive the coal truck to the neighborhood plant and handle the offloading of coal. At the scale of per-neighborhood, you might even need someone to literally shovel coal into a furnace, I don't know if the coal conveyor lines make sense at that tiny a scale. Double that because you need to transport the resulting fly ash as well. Then there's the extra instrumentation you need, the duplicate emissions mitigation points. And this is before considering the literal better efficiency of larger boilers/blowers/etc. themselves.

In a concrete example I have familiarity with: I worked for a large water treatment plant that supplied water for about a million people. It required 2 engineers being present 24/7/365 to keep it running. Replace it with a water treatment plant that is 1/100th the size, and you still need 2 engineers present 24/7/365. Go much smaller than that, and the inability to economically provide on-site permanent engineer oversight leads to the idea of controlling the water treatment plant remotely via the public internet, with all of the increased risks that entails.
> But it wouldn't surprise me if it was found out that the culture of PIP and Stack Ranking helped to select for the ones that are best at navigating the corporate culture in the way I described above.

Well, when you get down to it, if you find yourself back-stabbing a coworker to keep yourself out of the bottom 10% during a RIF, that's not a huge badge of honor either.
lots of organic content on social media gets similar levels
What’s the story with minorities? Just a smaller pool of donors or something?
This is more like extrapolation rather than interpolation. Seems a bit scary to me if used without caveats.
> cutting me off from easily speaking to support is absolute fucking garbage

It's not. It's for obvious safety reasons. How can you prove that you are the rightful account owner otherwise?
But they are! They got some US$ 50k-300k vesting in 5 years as a carrot, that will make them sell their soul to the owners of the other 99% of equity.

I'm amazed about how many grunt workers really care about efficiency, like slaves caring about the plantation output.
Public transit strikes doesn't take out the dozens of private hire car firms, minicab companies and app driven providers serving where I live.

So, yeah, it'd take pretty much the end of civilisation for it to be an issue. If I had no money, or lived somewhere rural, the considerations would be different.

And not being able to drive has never been a factor for me in deciding where I want to go.

If I had any desire to regularly go to anywhere so remote that I couldn't justify hiring someone to drive me there, I'd learn to drive, but in 47 years that has happened exactly zero times.

I live in a city in a functioning society, not in a rural location or third world country, and my interests don't include anything that will see me end up in the middle of nowhere. That this might not be true for you does not mean it isn't true for me.
Horseshoe theory. Both the extreme left and the extreme right has reason to doubt/oppose the current political establishment.
in my experience that isn't the case at all. People who are most vocal tend to be parents or those that have a harsh commute and that isn't a clean overlap with slackers at all.
2004 called. They wanted their web2.0 design back.
Well I think the issue is changes compounding over time.

Any engineer at the company can add a small extra feature here and there to a system where the expert is gone.

But the issue is when that expert was maintaining a vision over their part of the platform, and keeping all of the smaller changes in-line with proper architecture for that system (knowing why we don’t do x, etc). The expert is able to push back against features that may cause problems, or suggest better ways to solve the goal. Laying off that expert will mean the things that they were protecting in the past are no longer protected. So the newbies comes in and add some change that creates an n+1 query, which might not be a big deal. But then they change some other functionality later that makes it n^2+1. And by not understanding the system, their changes compound over time to bring major issues to the system.

But small changes are fine. That’s why it takes so long for quality to suffer when you remove the experts.

And you don’t always know who the experts are either, especially as company leadership. It’s not always the person with a big title. Managers may know better, depending on how technical they are.
just wait for the 'real time enhancement' of drone cameras for critical security applications. Snark aside, it is very reasonable and competitive to want to do color correction, focus and shadow darkness on-the-fly; secondly raw sensing data is very large, but on-the-fly capture is bandwidth-sensitive, so very clever compression and band reduction is also desirable and indeed competitive.

What happens if there are multi-million dollar economic outcomes depending on the details of the remote sensing content, as in disaster response.
you are wrong, sub 1% is closer to what you would get for an advertisement.
You seem motivated, so you won't regret it. University math is great.
Fear of getting caught in the injury to bankruptcies pipeline is causing people to suffer pain.
They’re right to fear opiates.
> The scale of this is vastly greater

The probable human deaths from this spill is a number somewhere between zero and 10 over decades.

That's a massive difference from a mass-casualty shooting.
> and the libraries for web backend stuff are the same things Google uses internally, so they're well-tested.

Internally Google uses no web and most of the backends are in C++.
I have told everyone they can call me at any time on my personal device. I don't own a company phone. I was last called 5 years ago because I broke something 2 days before and no one else could work it out. We got to this state because there's a culture of that being the absolute last resort. If someone has to call you then you need to look at the people round you and the situation you're in and the processes and documentation and make it so that people don't need to call you.
Maybe you could send a nice box, something kind of evoking a coffin without being overly morbid, and present it as something like a funeral service. Maybe when you receive the "body" you could clean it up and take a nice photo to remember it by.

Upsell opportunity - 3D scan the beloved stuffy, so that it can live forever in the Metaverse.

Another upsell - cremation. Get a little pendant with the ashes, or spread them into a forest, or something similar.

Only half joking, although something about the idea felt a little gross as soon as "upsell opportunity" entered my mind.
This would never lead to problems....

What happens if we find a way to drastically reduce the amount of compute needed to make this kind of AI? Ask us to recall all the existing compute out there?

And we know that governments and large businesses are going to follow the rules here.
JD Vance has a similar motivation for making the current administration take the flak for it, so I would also take him with a grain of salt.
Why would I probably have that? Alfred has historically been the far more popular choice. Did I miss a mass exodus?
Thanks so much! I've been looking for this sort of information for years! (and didn't have the competence to calculate myself)
hey i'd love to know more if you wouldn't mind helping! where exactly in the world are you located and in what ways are you seeing poor performance?
They used 132k/721k. They either used the second number for "Direct / None" by accident or mislabelled the table.
I wouldn't want to live in the kind of uncivilized, unsafe society where people are so scared that they consider that a necessary skill. Thankfully I don't.
From the bottom of the linked article, it did so in this case:

215781406 0x00020200=[removed] /Users/alin/Library/Application Support/Lunar
215781409 0x00010200=[removed] /Users/alin/Library/Preferences/fyi.lunar.Lunar.plist
shouldn't they be training the models to detect the poachers and not the animals to be poached?

I get that it is cool to be able to ooohcrazy train a model to select between different species but like all tools this is one that can be used by both sides-- and assuredly will be.

Training a model to identify poachers is A: way easier B: waaay more actionable C: way less sexy for a news report and fun for nature lovers, and NVIDIA's shareholders, unfortunately.

Unfortunately for the pangolins C will probably always trump. . .

They're so cuutte I love them!!!!
You are saying that on top of paying for public healthcare (through taxes) europeans are allowed (gasp!) to pay extra for private care?
You can also just run apps from anywhere - network drives, removable disks, disk images etc., so the system can’t just delete settings for apps it’s currently unaware of.
If it is end of civilization you care about then print out survival instructions. Basic low tech things that one person can do in a farm sized area with minimal help.

Don't worry about advanced stuff. How to make a transistor will be lost long before we develop a new civilization capable of needing transistors. So don't waste paper on it.
I was going to suggest this, too. TrueNAS Scale is the quickest and most "it just works" version of bare metal --> docker containers with a web-based UI that I have experienced.
It's Okay to Say No
Is there anything Audacity can do that the modern, "non-destructive" editors can't. Apart from ease of use and price is there any reason to use Audacity at all?
> we tend to underestimate the extent of area-based comparisons compared to length-based ones. so the disparity is even larger than our brains perceive from this figure. but I couldn't find a way to fit a line 2,000 times longer than another in the same image!

Psst, somebody tell twitter about log-log scaling. I can't be arsed to make an account.
It's 4 months out of 348 years.
So... basically you're saying that we should revoke patent and licensing protection for production of narcotics and also revoke the medical license of any doctor that took payment for prescribing them. Is that right?
Very true. It's very difficult when your self-criticism turns into self-hatred. It's the merging of identities, you can no longer separate yourself as a person from your creations.

There's this sense of clinging too tightly to your work that you never get far enough away from it to learn from it. It consumes you and leads right into that merging of identities concept.
Irresponsible for climate reasons.
> This is because a property declared in Rect.prototype is not available in Rect itself but only in objects created with new Rect.

This isn't really any different to other languages. The equivalent for Java would be "(non-static) properties are not available directly on the class but only on instances of that class"

> One tip I've learned when I have to use Javascript: Avoid 'this' whenever possible.

Arrow functions help a lot with this. Their 'this' cannot be overriden and thus is determined by static context only. With regular functions, the rule is that it depends how their called:

- If you call "foo.bar()" then "this" will be "foo".

- But if you do "var baz = foo.bar" then call "baz()", then "this" will be undefined.

- You can always set "this" explicitly by call a function with `.call`. In either "foo.bar.call(quz)" or "baz.call(qux)", "this" will be "qux".

> Oh, and I'm never quite sure when it's a good idea to use 'new'. TFA addresses 'new' a little bit. At least it's not as big a can of worms as 'this'.

Use "new" if and only if you're instantiating a class (whether that's written with the new class syntax or the older prototype syntax). That's it. It's possible to make a constructor work without "new", but it's an extra line of code and is generally considered non-idiomatic.
I’ve been remote most of my >20y career, and my team now is fully remote. So I’m admittedly biased in favor of remote. That said…

My housemate recently started a not-remote job. They don’t go out much otherwise, and yet we’ve both been down with covid just shy of a month in. Sending people to work in person will inevitably spread this disease and others. I understand that some people are willing to take that risk for their own sake, but my housemate didn’t have a choice and neither did I. The effect of these kinds of policies for inherently remote-capable work is to prioritize whatever perceived or real benefits of physical presence over disease prevention. And the effect of that is inevitably a higher rate of spread of disease.

Some jobs must be done in person, and I think we can all generally accept that. But it’s reasonable to question the impact of some other jobs which could be remote arbitrarily demanding physical presence. Whatever the reasoning, if your policy is that people who could work remote mustn’t, your policy is choosing to risk infection of those workers and people in contact with them. Choose carefully.

(Of course I know no one making these policies is choosing carefully. They’re choosing to risk infecting their workers and anyone around them be it Joe Grocer or Grandma)
So we're headed for a future where more gun purchases will use cash. I know mine will.
> I find a tool like notion is just too generalised

This was the reason I stopped using Notion several years ago; it was OK at everything and great at nothing.
Depends on the format. Some have lasted longer than others. I just migrated my grandparents slides from the 1960s and 1970s.
3. Skin effect becomes more of a factor. HVDC can use the whole cross section of the wire to carry power whereas AC only uses the surface. At longer distances, the material savings of thinner/lighter wires offset the higher equipmet costsat eitherend.
Those are weak bots though. Hikaru can't beat the strongest bots (nor can Magnus nor anyone else), he has videos on YouTube of him playing Stockfish and Komodo on the strongest settings.
We know from neuroscience that real neurons are very different from ANN neurons. For example, brains don't even use backpropagation. The neurons are connected differently. They have way more going on than just activation. Humans and ML models behave very differently.
Are Cranberries Healthy?
I'm finding myself growing increasingly cynical on any politician's promises with regards to the "drug war" as we live through the painfully slow and stupid pullback of marijuana prohibition. How pot is still on schedule 1 over ten years after it was first legalized in Colorado and Washington is mind-boggling.
This was my first thought. Being a parent is like playing Plague Inc. My youngest's soft toy collection is probably going to cause her to be patient zero of the next pandemic.
this is the best thing I've seen all day, what a wonderful service. Thanks!
Very few people know plpgsql. Like all stored proc languages (Oracle PL/SQL, etc.) it looks and feels like something out of the 80's. It's annoying to deploy, annoying to debug, annoying to test. Many developers today barely know SQL.
Amsterdam's airport was brutally honest about its 'poor' 2022 performance
Ah that makes sense, thanks. The 'Plausible' analytics link shows the same numbers so the table is not mislabeled, the 18% thing is very likely just a mistake. The number (if we accept all the other assumptions) is a bit under 7%.
> org-mode

Of course you did....

Gods above I love org-mode.
This article says "subscriber-only content", yet I'm not a subscriber. How am I able to read this article?
Lol, so what’s the way out? Bros got a gate in, no gate out, the fuck?

Still pissed it’s everyone else’s world.

Edit:

Put me back in the machine, this time make me a good actor (not a famous one), just a good one.

I can bounce outta this with pride.
The twitter PWA is actually a very good PWA. But it doesn't implement some gestures like swiping left to see more feeds on the home screen, and has little to no animation support (retweet dialog pops up, instead of animating in like it does in the native app). It also does not do paint holding, so you get a temporary white screen when swiping back to the previous screen. But all of those problems could be fixed, with current web tech, afaict.

Is there any other lackings (which might be fundamental and unfixable for a PWA) that you had in mind?
go and rust both have this, though opt in at each location you're adding context.
Unfortunately, the app code is only half the battle. GitHub can't know how to delpoy your app out of thin air (maybe thin AIr™ soon, but I digress). Heroku introduced a neat "Deploy with Heroku" button a few years back, and Docker has made deployments more streamlined, but both solutions still need instructions on what and how to deploy.

As for this project, they have "1-Click Deploy to Render" on their "coming soon" list.
In the past registers could do domain tasting - register and cancel in 5 days with out payment. I'm not accredited registrar and haven't been in the domain space for a while so this was back in 2010-2012 but it certainly used to be profitable because there was no fee.
How did where someone was sitting affect their availability to respond?

I ask because I have a very old memory of reading that anything more than 70 walking paces away was a phone call or an email. I've seen that distant shrink over the years and I have seen people wuse electronic communication if someone is 3 ft away.

I could think of several causes for unavailability but I'm not going to speculate when you can simply answer.
Seems like hvdc would be great across hemispheres so summer solar can go to winter areas.
That's still red seaweed ("FutureFeed’s solution uses a specific type of red seaweed"). It like other seaweed additive, can only really be used in feedlots where as mentioned above, only account for ~11% of emissions
>A decade ago, most people thought of Tylenol (acetaminophen) as a medicine for fever, malaise and minor aches and pains. Nobody imagined that it would become the go-to drug for treating moderate, let alone severe, postoperative pain.

Here in Germany this is completely normal. Hospitals after surgery will generally not put you on opioids and just prescribe you normal pain meds. A NYT columnist even wrote an article about that experience a few years ago.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/27/opinion/sunday/surgery-ge...

I was pretty surprised when I heard how strong pain medication in the US is after only minor surgeries that are basically tolerable with a few days of rest and some Ibuprofen.
Yeah no, I've seen the operations team call each other, even outside working hours, for non-urgent matters that could 100% have waited. Some people just view it as the most active form of communication and get to it.
Tried out the editor - what do you think differentiates it from others? You mention that customer io 's is nice, why do you prefer that to say braze?
I used this for a recent home renovation project, highly recommended. It has everything I needed to layout a house and get a basic 3d rendering, it worked great. You can make a donation to help out the author on the homepage.
No, actually, I don't know that - though there are many people like you who keep claiming that this is obvious.

ChatCPT is a useful and well behaved bot. The Bing version is something else again - aggressive and neurotic. My impression is the Bing version can reason beyond its training set and it seems to have been provided with an emotional feature somehow, in the sense that it can raise the conversational temperature and start flailing around.
Cool stuff! Will give it a try next time I need something like this.

I found https://floorplanner.com/ to be quite useful as well. The renders are good enough for me to feel like I am looking at the space rather than a sketch.
> In one such model, black holes do not contain a singularity, but are instead filled with vacuum energy. These vacuum-energy black holes are intriguing because their growth is coupled to the expansion of the universe: as the universe expands, these black holes gain mass.

I would think about this differently. What if the actual space inside these black holes does not stretch as the Universe itself does? The density relative to that of the Universe would increase, but they just maintained the density they originally had.

Thinking about a piece of fabric stretched with a mass on, as you drag the corners out, the curve (gravity) on the fabric (space) caused by the mass increases. If you locked the mass depth, it would look like it has gotten heavier.
I miss disco so much. Back from the Delicious Era [1] of apps that were functional yet had character and play.

[1] https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2007/05/the-delicious-genera...

I wholly disagree with rogueamoeba's assessment that these were "style over substance". They were dead-simple to use, and you could always disable the smoke if you hated fun. They may not have all the bells and whistles of the bloated 40MB disc burning suite, but if all you wanted to do was burn a linux iso or transfer some songs to stick in your car stereo, this was the go-to tool for the job.

https://weblog.rogueamoeba.com/2006/11/06/

Also I find it ironic that rogueamoeba lambasts the "delicious generation" when I think their Piezo app would fit right into it.
> Godot games collectively have generated a few million in its entire lifespan, and most of that was the Sonic Colors re-release.

VGInsights estimates Cruelty Squad at ~$4m revenue.
They are not looking at *overall emissions* which is the exact reason why they are getting larger numbers. They are only looking the emission reduction in feedlots which is a major point of that article I cited
For any random feed link that was not requested, just passively shows up to everyone that happens to follow Elon, it is a fantastic click through rate. Please show some data on passive feed click through rates on social media sites.
You should read her book where she goes into greater detail about the shortcomings of modern science. While I also don't generally enjoy her style, there's a lot of valid points in her arguments.
There seem to be three incidents and all after 2020.

But FTP - unless godaddy enforced TLS connections on that - which back in 2016 probably not because it would have been a support burden this could has easily have been password sniffed.
Titiler works pretty well for raster data in my experience. It is a step up from using an out of the box solution and involves a bit more development work but pretty easily allows customization. Using titiler on lambda with COGs stored on S3 we could get about 200ms load of a retina resolution map.

We wanted to do things even faster so we started migrating to ECS which when using a network optimized instance we could render a full page map in sub 100ms.

The author states that having all the data in a single file for PMTiles is advantageous, but it is a tradeoff. First of all you cannot modify parts of a S3 file so if you want to modify/update your dataset you need to re-process and re-upload the entire dataset. This can be a real pain if you are working with many TB datasets and you just want to update a subset of the data. Also, I thought that there is a global throughput limit on S3 files so wouldn’t putting all data in a single S3 file potentially hit bottlenecks?
Flag on the play: illegal move of the goalposts.

Not government-run filing software. Fully-transparent and zero burden.
At the top of the article it says:

> The following subscription-only content has been made available to you by an LWN subscriber.

Looks like someone with a subscription submitted the link to HN, allowing us to read the article.
https://archive.is/ocam3
Amazon is the latest company to bring staff back to the office three days a week