skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Geological survey also discovered huge Lithium reserves in India¹ recently. I wonder how much undiscovered Lithium resources we're sitting upon.

1: https://www.thehindubusinessline.com/blexplainer/the-lithium...
In my opinion management is only worth it if you own a large share of the company. Otherwise it's a headache without the upside and just lots of meetings.
Ah my two favourite 40k authors.
people love python. i never learned it but i figured the python indenting instead of bracketing thing would have spread more by now
That's because they do all of the above, and more, indirectly, using Russia as their puppet. They are too smart to do this openly. But you know, Putin would not start the war if he wasn't sure of China's support.
It's almost as if the goal of winning an argument might contradict the goal of coming closer to truth, or to an agreement.

Much like bringing a knife to a gunfight, attempting to seek truth during a status-assertion contest is not very efficient.
Ask HN: Anyone Sponsors YouTube Videos?
I recently saw some videos of YouTubers talking about their income from sponsorship. This got me thinking.

Has anyone here been on the other side and sponsored a video? How did it go? I'm curious if it was worth it and how much impact it did.
I share the same sentiment. It's taken me quite a while to be comfortable in Emacs, and honestly, I feel like I still need to spend more time to up my game in it.

My main gripe is dealing with several major modes at once, I still find that Emacs isn't the best at that.

I will say for anyone curious about Emacs, do try it out in your spare time. It's so much fun to customize and play around with.
“the disenchantment of the world” or “re-enchanting the world” is a body of literature probably worth your time to look into.
Don't take more than two weeks at a time vacation let alone loose access to your email if you value your job. Ever. While we get there all esoteric on taking time off to rewind because we have added so much value already and the world is beautiful a worth exploring, there are many people working non stop to take what you have... bummer
Facebook fumbling it's way into being the better open source AI than OpenAI would be amusing.
Tesla actually started with AC induction motors using no rare earths. I have that motor in my 2013 Model S. The BMW motor is a synchronous AC motor that doesn’t use permanent magnets. The Tesla announcement is about still using the high efficiency permanent magnet motors, but using permanent magnets without using rare earths (there are a few options, like iron nitride… this is an active area of research by folks like the University of Minnesota and Ames National lab in Iowa, often funded by ARPA-E as well as some startups trying to commercialize them like Niron Magnetics).
This is closely related to the effect you see inside orgs where nobody wants to touch the old thing because the replacement is coming but, critically, hasn't arrived yet and nobody can give you a date. That old service with all the bugs that nobody wants to add a feature to because the New Shiny Thing (which doesn't exist yet) will Make The Problem Go Away.

No. The current thing is the only thing, until it actually isn't. It is a going concern until it gets switched off. Yes, this means it needs maintenance, security patching, support, and, yes, new features.

The number of times I've seen teams fall into the trap of making their current situation worse by betting on an as-yet undelivered platonic future and intentionally ignoring their current estate because it's "not worth the effort for something that's going to be replaced" just makes me weep.
Apparently HN user Omershapiro got his electrical engineering degree from a school that should not be accredited.
How the Great Recession paved the way for influencers to inherit the Earth
As opposed to an anti-mullahs, anti-Russia, and anti-Hezbollah outlet that would be a normal geopolitics website?
Now I finally understand the comment in another Emacs thread. I thought people was talking about the Mew - a mail reader for Emacs.
It did in 1953 when Prime Minister Mossadegh wanted to nationalize Iran's oil. The US and UK launched a coup to stop that and installed a dictator (who was initially reluctant to go along with this and had to be convinced). Then SAVAK cracked down on domestic secular left opposition for decades, aided by the CIA.
> All of these seem like better ways the govt can help workers than legally protected unions.

Won't happen without unions. Capital would gladly have you work 12 hour days without weekends, and we know this because it was true until people advocated for their own rights. https://www.pbs.org/livelyhood/workday/weekend/8hourday.html Capital will gladly have you work in unsafe or inhumane conditions if it means profits.

Maybe unions aren't the ideal solution, but the wealthy (i.e. the employers) have outsized influence in government. Who is going to speak for the people, if not a union?
I think "bright" is relative. There are plenty of limestone structures in the world, including some modern-built pyramids (of much less grand scale). Limestone is soft and porous and will never glisten the way marble does.

It would have been very impressive, to be sure. But I don't think it's going to match the experience you have in mind.

Since any such modern facing would completely hide all of the authentic material, you might as well just build a completely modern structure elsewhere. With modern building techniques it wouldn't take all that long.
Why couldn't plastic be recycled for this purpose? Engine components seems like a perfect application for recycled plastic, whereas it can be challenging when it comes to food grade packaging, etc.

There's nothing particularly environmentally friendly about vehicle production in general, so it kinda seems to me that this point is grasping at straws.
> People still had kids because they needed them to tend farms. That isn't the case today.

Not necessarily. There were plenty of urbanites back then, and they often suffered more from the wars, sieges, plagues, famines, and so forth than their rural neighbors.

> nearly universally realized that subjecting a new consciousness to the multiple looming hells would be an act of cruelty

I actually that this is just self-justification for a selfish lifestyle, because hear me out: There have always been looming hells in history. Thank goodness people didn’t stop having kids during the Cold War, because we believed nuclear war was basically inevitable. Furthermore, this attitude hides that this is still among the most physically safe times to ever have children. Your kid isn’t likely to be attacked by a bear, or by a criminal before DNA testing was invented, and if they get a disease, expensive healthcare is still preferable to certain death.

Also, most of these looming hells… didn’t really come to pass. Look to the plenty of past panics. Right now, don’t be blind to the fact that the replacement rate worldwide is so low, the government may be physically unable to pay you social security, or house you in your old age. It’s already awfully close in countries like Japan and China. Population collapse is actually a great self-manufactured threat approaching.
I'd been in the Python community for around 10 years, spoke at several conferences, wrote libraries; contributed to CPython, Openstack, and others. I've been a technical reviewer for a book on distributed computing in Python. A big part of my career was built on this language, its community, and ecosystem. I'd say a big part of Python's slow-and-steady success is its community. Going to Pycon US, Pycon CA, and Pycon's around the world -- the user groups that the foundation funds with Pizza money and mentorship programs: it's a fairly unique experience.

Another major factor is how it serves as a glue language in the scientific community. Python provides a relatively simple programming language that powers complex, powerful libraries like NumPy, SciPy, PyTorch, SymPy, etc. It's like a scripting language for engineering and scientific computing tools, sort of like what Javascript does for browsers, Node, and Deno, etc.

I don't do much Python programming these days but I owe it a huge debt! May it continue to flourish and grow.
The switch to 48v is for the low voltage which is normally 12v. The high voltage system is the 300v from the pack.
Visa aims to lower credit surcharge
When did terms like "tomboy" come into vogue?

The idea of a person of one sex displaying common gender characteristics of the other sex is very old.
I find it highly unlikely that Scott Adams is a "dark dog whistle" kinda guy.

At best the most I'd believe would be that "some people who Scott Adams pissed off now like to say that when he says X he actually means Y".
I think BDD has very bad reputation because people associate it with test automation. And it is actually pretty terrible tool to teschnicall describe tests.

What BDD is good at, is defining project requirments, it is a thinking tool. Especially if used correctly, with examples and etc. It is a business not engineering tool.
People in Europe usually don’t have their healthcare and safety net tied to their work.
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It sounds like the author of this article is trying to use git submodules to replace a package manager. Of course you'll get annoyed with git submodules if you have something like cargo available. Unfortunately, there are languages (C and C++) where package management sucks and git submodules are a godsend.

> Provide an ad-hoc in-tree script to download the dependency

Add this to the list of things I hate. The last thing I want to do when adding a library as a dependency is figure out that it requires Python to download some source, then uses a makefile to build everything, and has a "nice" bash script to tie everything together. If I see that crap, I'm not using your library. This (contrary to what the developer may be thinking) does not make it easier to integrate the library into my project. It makes it so so much more difficult.

Please. Don't.

> Yes, really, git submodule is worse than ad-hoc Makefile runes

Please don't make monstrous makefiles that do a million and 1 things and do them all terribly and don't have any modicum of support for cross platform functionalities. This is terrible advice.

If your language has a package manager, use it. But in my experience, with a language like C or C++ git submodules are the perfect tool for the job and definitely more preferable than hacked together makefiles that do everything except build the source.

Tldr; this sounds like a blog post from somebody that tried to use submodules to replace a package manager. If you have a package manager, use it. Otherwise, thank God for submodules.
Being off the grid for more than 2 days puts you at a disadvantage if you value your Job, let alone taking long esoteric vacations. there are people working non stop to take all you have. If you value anything enough, protect it at all cost.
I really wish I didn't read some of those.. Just makes me feel we as a whole are not ready for any kind of AI, let alone GI.
Plastic is not environmentally unfriendly. Tossing plastic into the ocean is environmentally unfriendly.
Still not buying this in the current context but interested if you have any concrete example.
Please don’t call them “QA testers.”

There are testers. Sometimes testers are called QA. But there is no such thing as a QA tester.

A QA tester must be someone who finds problematic bugs and communicationally reports them into database storage for the developer programmers to fix resolve.
The attacker controls the login form. They could use javascript to just scrape it out of the password field if they wanted to. Those solutions might get in the way of existing tools for logging password forms, but there are trivial workarounds.
Ireland has one of the lowest corporate tax rates in among highly developed nations. And, in Holland, it is so easy to avoid corporate tax with transfer pricing via the Carribean. But yes, corporate taxes are high in France, and hard to avoid.
Did you ever think that maybe you're only hearing about US companies getting penalties because you're...in the US, reading US news?
That’s acceptable, people aren’t rational.

For example: Half the people on this board daily drive phones from the biggest spyware company on earth.
Do you still have all your fingers?
Cobalt-free lithium batteries are expected to be the most common EV battery in the near future.

LiFePO4 batteries are already the most common EV battery in China. For high future performance applications, Tesla's high nickel chemistry doesn't use cobalt.
> a hegemon that largely avoided conflict

I'm sorry but this ignores the history. Vast swathes of Africa, Latin America and Asia were in conflicts and turmoil, sometimes due to the same hegemon and her allies. The only region that was mostly conflict free in the post WW2 era was Europe and North America.
The “Kia Boy” Crime Wave
Vi commands are verb-noun (cw - change word). Helix are noun-verb (wc - select the word then change it).

Learn to use multiple cursors in Helix - many of the things I have found lacking from Vi - eg pressing . doesn't work the same way in Helix - can be made up with more or less by using multiple cursors.
Electric Cars 101: How EV Motors Work, Tech Differences, and More (2021)
It has only just occurred to me that 4chan's technology board is /g/ because it's tech-naw-la-G
Well..... It's still an enormous chunk. Assume you're making 350 cash comp (300+50 bonus), that's another 1.4m in stock vesting over 4 years (350/y)
‘any’ is great for porting javascript into typescript, and integrating with javascript libraries. You can add types gradually, without everything grinding to a halt.
> If most people cared, or were even aware of what's going on

You contradict yourself here.

Not being aware makes it impossible to measure whether they care.
Why are you going to lose your house?

You bought it while you had tech money and the bicycle mechanic money can't pay for it now?

Have you considered doing some consulting or something on the side? So sorry to hear this.
Well you should know that you're writing is just fine as it is! Definitely understand and appreciate your motives here either way. I don't agree with the fellow commenters that this alone is enough to dismiss the entire thing, its not that big of a deal one way or another.
"I don't wanna get into the whole editor wars - it's like picking a Pokemon at the start of the game."

This encapsulates my feelings completely, haha. Both require so much investment and you spend a lot of time with them, just like the pokemon you pick at the beginning.
This is terrible advice. One of the most important things in security (amongst other practices) is to ensure that people take regular longer breaks, because it's a great way of seeing where there are dodgy practices going on, and in particular people making themselves SPOFs. If you have inherent value, rather than just a castle defended by a moat of failing to cross-skill your colleagues, then you'll be safe taking longer holidays.
> Influence is not causality.

Yes it is, it just isn't very direct because the system we're trying to influence is very complicated. It's like the weather. We can influence the weather with things like cloud seeding, but it is a complex system so it is difficult to make precise predictions about. Introducing selective serotonin re-uptake inhibitors in the brain is similar.

If you are arguing it is not, then you are again arguing a matter of degree. We understand how rivers flow well enough to be able to change that, but all that's missing from doing the same to weather, or the brain, is sufficient understanding of the system.

> Are you familiar with the idea of 'self control'?

Yes, probably much more so than you are since I've struggled with a food addiction my entire life and have managed to lose half my body weight at one point.

Of course you think you are in control, the same way a nematode might believe it is in control, but since we can simulate the entire brain of a nematode on a computer we know that the control is an illusion and the nematode brain is a system reacting to its environment in a complex way.

Our brains are the same, they're just much much larger and more complex. Not being able to simulate them on a computer yet does not in any way suggest that this is impossible.
Curious how long that would take on 200gb.
Do you mean habitually under-deliver with things like making the crazy claim that they will grow at 50% CAGR?

https://twitter.com/ICannot_Enough/status/161837414087616512...
I wondered why I didn't see that comment of yours. Turns out the comment you replied to got flagged.
Has anyone managed to download this yet using the magnet link? Is it well seeded?
I occasionally (less than once a month) work on the rust project. They probably rightfully use submodules to pull in llvm and cargo and other dependencies. However, every time I change branch or rebase, there's some kind if conflict or breakage caused by the submodules.

Just last week I rebased and the cargo submodule was changed to dirty? I didn't touch the folder. I deleted the folder and reran my submodule init/updated dance to no avail.

I had to fix it by going into that folder and running `git restore .` because somehow everything got removed?

So yeah. I don't like submodules. They probably make sense but they are not at all intuitive if they are so fragile like that
It's like you didn't pay attention to the news for the last 6 months...
no, but that's why it's good
I found this set of web pages searching for a relationship between phi and pi,
from which I found the following (very interesting, in my opinion!) web page:

https://weslong.medium.com/finally-logic-is-revealed-behind-...

Disclaimer: I haven't checked the veracity of the claims -- but I think there are some very interesting ideas presented!
This is great. It would be good if there were screenshots, or even links to YouTube videos for the different platforms showing this in action.
I remember being laughed at by my English peers for having an arranged marriage. I was effectively speed dated through many girls and we got to find each other quickly without the pain of being "dumped" or spending years with the wrong person.

Now looking at the success rate of those same peers (or failure rate) and divorces etc., I realised my low expectation marriage, married with someone of common interests to me has so much more value than dating dozens of random women for years and years never to actually find the one.
Now you just need the clutch to go with it: https://github.com/alevchuk/vim-clutch
Reminds me of [0]. The original poster's account is deleted, but it was "@Christian-Schiffer" — yes, the person who complained about presence of a Christmas-related icon in VS Code had name "Christian". And the VS Code team responded immediately, the icon was removed what, one or two days after the complaint, in an urgently published patch.

[0] https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/87268
That brother's name? Albert Einstein.
Oh they're getting the stock yearly? Yeah that's a lot. Well, good on them I suppose!
Hey warmonger. So which nation should bomb USA which has tons of nukes? What kind of sick reasoning is that? Iran, unlike nations like Israel, has inspections of their nuclear energy facilities by the IEAE.
Capitalism is the private ownership of the means of production in the hands of capitalists. State subsidies do not change the ownership.
> not having to worry about stupid office politics, planning, or performance reviews

You don't have performance reviews as a pilot? Maybe that should concern me next time I'm flying
They are pretty well tested as of today (now that multiple vendors respect it during node upgrade), but now they’re relatively under featured for the next set of problems:

1. No way to signal that the workload is ready to accept traffic but not ready for disruption (such as an async background refill)

2. No way to provide backpressure over a time window, vs just instantaneous (ie during a rolling node upgrade PDB doesn’t prevent you from being moved multiple times)

3. No way for an admin and workload owner to coordinate on the amount of disruption a particular disruption will cause and discriminate between light and heavy (restart on node, recreate on node, move across node)

But yes, everyone with a nominally HA workload should have a PDB.
it doesn't require a build step though
Especially if it were close enough to the sun to start making a cube!
Based on the domain name, no.
I posit to a friend that:

a) As these AI constructs become more advanced (especially around memory and personalization), we will eventually be able to treat them as people

b) Some business will eventually sell an off-the-shelf product (hardware and/or software) that is an AI you can bring into your home, that you can treat as a friend, confidant and partner

c) Someone will eventually lose their AI friend of many months/years through some failure (subscription lapse, hardware failure, theft, etc.)

d) Shits about to get real weird, real fast
I don’t think they’re increasing reliance on China. A lot of the presentation seemed to be about ways they’re actually reducing dependency on China. Giga Mexico, for instance, should have lower labor costs than Giga Shanghai. Scaling up across the board reduces the need for Giga Shanghai, which Tesla relied on to keep up with global demand.

They’re also in-sourcing electronics which should help give Tesla greater supply chain control.

Plus the non-rare-earth high energy permanent magnets thing is a pretty huge blow to China’s efforts to monopolize the rare earth magnet supply chain. China produces 92% of the rare earth magnets in the world, as well as mining the vast majority of the material and also processing.

Tesla doesn’t want to cut off China. But having less reliance on China helps prevent Tesla from being manipulated by the whims of Chinese government leadership, increasing Tesla’s bargaining power in China.
Not me, but a friend: did a PhD at UCLA, went to Canada to teach, got deep into STEM and other stuff. He loved the field but hated the job.

Started making cheese on the side, and he later turned that into a full-time cheese consultant business. Eventually worked for restaurants and local providers, few gigs with large dairy concerns, travel to areas to help set up literal cheese caves, etc.

Almost certainly makes less, way less, money than before but seems happy. Dude has a lot of connections and knows like every kitchen in the city, can rock up to restaurants and knows half the staff, etc.
But then you're in an office and you have to move around. Maybe go out to lunch at a cafeteria.

I wore a pedometer for a while. While I was working from the office I was averaging about 8000 steps, while during a full day at home sometimes the average was as low as 800 steps.
You can't really trust anything Iran says. They have a terrible reputation for lies.
I don't think I would agree with that statement. I would say that both are actually what most people want when using submodules, otherwise you would just vendor your dependency.

I would also agree with OP that submodules are horrible. Source: I have to deal with them everyday in my company's repo and they cause issues pretty much every time I pull, switch branches, merge/rebase, etc.

IMO, one of the MAIN issues with submodules is that there isn't an actual FILE, checked in the repository, and understood by Git, that lists the hash of all the submodules used. So diffs and PRs on Github, git, etc. don't show the actual changes in a way that we're already used to with files.