skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Am I the only one who thinks that this phenomenon has pretty much always existed? The only difference today, as far as I can tell, is globalization. Things are simply less exotic now because homogeneity is becoming less localized.

If I were to really grasp at straws to defend the other position, maybe the contemporary aesthetic has become overly minimalist and utilitarian, as opposed to being style oriented. Restaurants are now cement cubes, all new apartment complexes look like hotels with a white|beige|gray palette and are also cubic, modern cars are all white and bulbous-looking, skyscrapers are either cubic or (ironically) overly whimsical in architecture to the point where they appear to have no obvious function. Perhaps if standard designs and architecture were less boring, people wouldn't care so much about homogeneity.
pithy, but there's already a saying that says, on average, people commit 3 felonies a day?
Query and storage layer are nicely separated in the Postgres codebase, you can absolutely rip out the complete backend if you really want it.

There is a Postgres interface to Spanner which probably did that.
How does food for 8 billion people get grown without fossil fuel inputs for fertilizer? What happens to the other 80% of uses for them?
>It's not just their bodily functions (which are very significant despite your feelings)

So were the bodily functions of the wild bison, and a boatload of other species that have disappeared or shrunk togheter with their methane output in rough equivalence to the growth in livestock and it's methane output (at least in the US tho I assume such calculations would be similar elsewhere.)
Additionally anything they put out is a temporary problem part of a carbon cycle. The shit they fart out was once gras and will go back to it a few decades down the line. Wish to reduce that ouput to buy ourselves some time (to excuse pumping up more oil and the like for a little longer) and you basically end up with chicken and similar animals as the acceptable solution.

So yeah cow farts are not the factor to look at when looking at the relentless increase in CO2 ppm.
Similarly most sequestration investments and drives are often little more than a scam, copium, equivalent to the push malicious push for single use plastics recycling by plastic manufacturers or at worst a push down the price of co2 for EHR.
There is one source we keep making excuses for ad nauseum that is a new introduction into this all and it's the hydrocarbons sequestered for untold years that we pump up(and methane from tundra now defrosting oh and the reduction in boglands.)

No replacing those fields with forest won't be your cure. Sadly they barely sequester anything at all compared to what we're putting out even if we'd severely reduce it. They largely take it up, die, rot and release it again in the process. We can rely on it if we accept our solution to take thousands of years.

>it's the enormous amount of land we clearcut and leave basically empty so they can graze.

I agree it's an issue. However remove it and you'll have a different one.
The fertilizer their manure makes up a significant portion of will probably be drawn even more from hydrocarbons (and rather finite resources like cheap phosphorus from morocco).
The same hydrocarbons that produce an actual very long term issue.
I have little trust in incentives leading us elsewhere.
Perhaps you wish to avoid this by forcing techniques that will generally ... require more land for the same output or for land to be left "basically empty".

I'd see some good things coming from such harsh increase in food prices and availability at least.
Some negative pressure on our relentless population growth, perhaps we'll learn to more often ditch some silly concepts such as unused lawns.
A dictionary having a definition in it isn't evidence a given usage is good. The primary mission of most dictionaries is to help people understand language they encounter, which may include ill-advised-to-use, misleading, ironic, code- or register-specific, or slang senses of words.

In this case, it was not a good idea to use the word "literally" this way, in this place. The clearest sign that it wasn't a good idea is that this discussion about the word is happening.
Whoa.

My GUESS is that since he's being prosecuted for fraud, et al, they can't say these were illegally obtained (innocent until proven guilty) and therefore they can't seize the funds yet.

And if the lawyers are in on it, they're over billing and keeping building an escrow fund that would go back to one of them at the end.

The scumminess is rather impressive.
> All you see coming out of the factory are white, silver, gray, black, the occasional red and the occasional blue.

Isn't this just fashion?

I've heard it argued that times of popular optimism and plenty tend to favour bright colours, extravagant design and conspicuous consumption. Think Calvin Klein underpants deliberately on show above low slung waistbands, analogous to frilly lace ruffs and cuffs in earlier ages.

Times of austerity tend to be associated with muted shades, and perhaps virtue signalling rather than wealth signalling.

Since the 2008 banking crises I think we've been firmly in the the dull, serious phase.
Today an allergist told me the random lip swelling I experience (angioterma) has been caused in many other patients by NSAIDs like Aspirin, Tylenol (acetaminophen), and a Alleve (naproxen sodium). I hate to think that's true, but apparently it is a studied phenomena: https://aacijournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/1710-...
Good catch, thank you for reporting this. I just rolled out a fix (Rails makes it easy by adding `case_sensitive: false` to uniqueness validations). Also changed your username from "matt" to "other-matt" to avoid confusion :). Feel free to change it from your account page if you would like.
Terraform for Data
In addition to the direct persistence hunting, also note that most bow and arrow hunting or even spear hunting is, in and of itself, a form of persistence hunting. The expectation that an arrow will take down the animal where it is hit is usually not how it would have worked with more primitive bows except with very small game. The animal would still have to be followed and possibly struck more times to actually bring it down. Bull fighting is a modern extension of this, though in an enclosed space.
You're right in that there is a convergence happening across everything, and I think it's a product of the increased pace of communication facilitated by the internet.

Whether this impending mono-culture is "better" or "worse" is really just a matter of values. Engineers, who evaluate things on how well they perform, might see the convergence as a good thing - the proliferation of winning designs. Designers and artists who see creation as having its own intrinsic value and variety being the spice of life will lament the trend.
Good luck! That's great news. I wanted to do the same but I have a 3 and a 5 year old and I need to be somewhere good now, before their childhoods are over. But I still hope the US (and Canada - notjustbikes is keen to point out they're horrible too) can improve.
What is a phev?
The dose makes the poison. Do you remember when digital ocean (or someone similar) did that promotion thing for opening PRs/contributing to open source projects? It was a nightmare for maintainers because they were inundated with outright spam and also well-intentioned but poorly executed PR attempts by hapless newbies.

I think one reason that open source even kind of works is because "people contributing to open source" has a shit-ton of positive selection bias "baked in". The type of person liable to open a PR to an open source project is probably several standard deviations (or, at least one, right?) above the average developer. So that probably has the general effect of making reviewing a random cold-open PR less onerous of a task.

But if we cross into a world where the average value of a PR opened with a project drops substantially - either due to AI or due to a permanent advertising campaign from some company rewarding badges for opening open-source PRs - I wouldn't be surprised to see lots of open projects close/ignore github PRs and start doing something that looks more like how Linux handles it, where it's a lot more social-based and puts some of that positive-selection-bias filter back in place.
This situation is so fucked and I am basically ruling out Intel as an option for my new mobile workstation because of it.
The Fed monitors job openings for inflation decisions. many listings arent real
Completely disagree. Streaming has unlocked music listeners and artists to quickly iterate so that choice is boundless. Do you really think being stuck with the same sound for 10 years is a good thing? You don't know what 2010s music sounds like because it's completely individualized. Maybe that has its own problems involving increased siloization and could be linked to political tribalization but claiming its "homogenized nothing" is senseless.

I think the issue is you haven't actually found the sound you enjoy. If you just let pop radio take you on your way you're going to get lowest common denominator sound. And streaming has made this effect much worse. Now music radio is only for people who can't be assed to choose their own music, so it's even more lowest common denominator than before.
I had a windows machine that had outlook on and such and then a VM that was nixOS and i did all my dev work in it.

It was super nice to have everything configured in a single file that specified every detail of the OS. But some things were super hard (writing my own packages) and I slowly moved on.
This isn't an income or gains tax. Not all taxes are about money gained. For example, sales tax when you pay $100 isn't negative $8, it's $8.

When gifting large amounts of money, the IRS gets more money on top (so, if you're super rich, don't gift ALL off your money, and leave some aside for tax season).
Espistomology is awesome, I have soooo much fun with it....I think of it as the Achilles Heel of:

- Normies

- The Man

They are both utterly defenceless against it (yet: don't have any realization of it), it's almost like a weapon from another dimension of reality.
Just 2c about disabling an instance - you can delete all the instances of AlloyDB on a cluster for a time being and recreate after. The data will be safe - they are on a cluster level
Russia’s Economy Is Starting to Come Undone
That addage "worse is better" exists for a reason and is applicable here. Worse really is better.
Using Simple Things
Vinod Khosla – The Surprising Path of Artificial Intelligence (2012)
I want to point out that just because a top performer is self-driven, doesn't mean they will over-perform without incentives or in the direction you want.
Does it still require an out of tree kernel module? Because I just can't with that shit.
I believe the creditors would have to challenge the gift as a "fraudulent transfer", based on the idea that at the time the giver knew they were open to a huge liability from having taken the money in the first place. And then another similar step to go after the money that went to the attorneys.

And in this case the "creditor" would be the FTX bankruptcy estate, led by whomever has been appointed the receiver. Theoretically they should be working for creditors of FTX, but can obviously have their own motivations of expediency, not wanting to rock the boat by suing another firm, etc.
I'm interested about the macros automation. Could you point me to any resource?
Cruise Chevy Bolt Rear-Ends Municipal Bus, the Company Responds
It could be a trap if you value diversity or it could be a good thing if you value supra-national uniformity across continents, where people act the same way, think and build the same way, want the same cars and want the same visual traits in women.
Yeah, tailwind isn't intended to make it so you don't have to learn CSS. It very much tries to map to CSS fairly directly, so it wouldn't prevent you from needing to learn it.

> I'm just writing the css but in a different way. cursor-pointer class for "cursor: pointer" for example.

The difference is, when writing the CSS yourself you also have to find a way to apply this to the thing you want it to apply to. Which means you have to write your own selector. Which gives you 1000 guns pointed at your feet, and maybe two aimed away from you (and one of those is just the same one that tailwind gives you, but less portable).
your timeline is a bit off there, but yes
Less jarring than the keywords blog post to be honest. This doesn't skew away from existing Rust syntax at all, whereas the keywords proposal introduce more syntactic noise.
(tangent) Ok this confuses me:

> (in December, their $1.8 million Palo Alto home was used to secure a $250 million bail package after Bankman-Fried was released on a personal recognizance bond.

Their Palo Alto home is worth only $1.8M? Do they live in a 1BR/0.5BA shed?

edit: Apparently the assessed value (for property taxes) is $1.8M. But realtor sites estimate it at $3.1M, and it was apparently renting for $12,000/month back in 2013. Still cheaper than I thought for a 4-br home on Stanford's Dish

https://sfstandard.com/business/inside-sam-bankman-frieds-pa...
I Googled NIMBY. It seems like a non-conversation enhancing passive aggressive term.
Except the fact that a vast number of people actually do this for a living and make good money. A good fraction (no comment on whether that’s larger than 0.5 or less) do something real and tangible and produce value to their clients too.

Importantly, the good ones, what they do, is not necessarily something everyone (especially people with the mind of an engineer) can do well even though in paper it’s a stupid job. I can see prompt engineering be the same.

The vast majority of people I’ve seen, the only original things they can think of asking chatGPT is to come up with workout plans or ask unoriginal questions about common societal issues. There’s nuance and imagination involved in figuring out how to effectively interact with this human like system to get it to do exactly what you want.
Apple Rolls Out Buy Now, Pay Later
Indeed, when I saw this, I thought "Hacktoberfest is going to have problems this year."
That would be tough for the Colorado; it’s my understanding that so much water gets taken out upstream that all that remains is a trickle in the Mexican desert that sometimes evaporates completely before reaching the sea.
Just be aware that Fedora's got a six-month release cycle rather than whatever Ubuntu's LTS lifetime is (4 years?), and Fedora only supports current release and one back. So realistically, you've got a year a month to upgrade your workstation.

I've had Fedora for over five years and I've never had my laptop get completely borked by an upgrade, but I've had just enough things break between releases in the past that I still get get the sweats every time I've gotta do the restart upgrade, whether it will come up completely and just work or whether my WiFi is now broken because resolve-d changed to systemd-resolved.
The time to be unpredictable and human
What do you think the steps will be between 1000 people with 100 million dollars and "kids making star wars".
No worries, text has a loophole:

> "Food or feed consisting of, isolated or produced from cell cultures or from tissues deriving from vertebrate animals is therefore completely prohibited for the use in the preparation of food, drink and feed."

Hence, you can make lab-grown meat from various insects (or crab or lobster) if you like with no concerns. Not sure if the public has an appetite for it, but these are apparently delicious when deep-fried:

https://www.mysabah.com/wordpress/sago-worm-butod/

I think lobster is the way to go. I guess octopus cells would also be an acceptable starting material (octopi are intelligent and shouldn't be hunted IMO).
It clearly works for you, and that is great to hear. When travelling with small children, an hour can be a long time. During busy periods like Easter, there are generally huge queues for the superfast charging stations close to the main motorways in the UK.

Technology will advance, and more superfast charging stations will be available soon. However, as the article highlights, there are still challenges. Unless you can charge at home, and unfortunately, not everyone can, EV trips can be more expensive. Time will solve this, however, that doesn't mean that the government can dictate policies without ensuring there is proper investment in EV infrastructure.
I use Emergent Mind throughout the day to stay informed about AI news, so sometimes notice issues while I'm reading the site. I was just saying that I don't proofread any summaries before Emma writes them, nor do I feel like I have to verify everything. Mistakes in the summaries and key terms are few and far between.
There are a lot of good reasons for "the AirBNB look. White walls reflect ambient light and can enhance existing light sources. This can help make up for small (i.e: cheap) windows or limited light fixtures.

Natural wood is durable but not hard and cold like metal or glass, nor will it break down and end up permeating your cell membranes like plastic. Exposed beams make ceilings more interesting visually but also dampen echoes and make a space feel less sterile and prison-like.

Humans have been living in shelters made from wood and stone since the beginning. It wouldn't surprise me if affinity toward these materials shows up somewhere in our DNA.

Not sure about the Nespresso machines.
PPS input/output is off to the side, look for the "User Interface Connector" paragraph on the website.

> What do you mean? Do you have your own DSP stack to deal with that while user receiving/transmitting? If there is, do you provide any control over it?

You can quickly pause whatever is running on the LA9310, push the NXP NLM stack, correct local frequency errors by synching to a cell network tower and then resume normal operation. It's going to cause a glitch, but if you want to maintain frequency accuracy it's a small cost you need to pay. Once you have absolute deviation and drift it should track quite well.

My understanding is that SRS and the like all require beefy desktop-class processors to run in?
"Convergence" is only true when you use the average of a very narrow distribution. If you take a very complex and multi-dimensional topic like design, ask a bunch of people their opinions and use the average, at best they'll parrot back what they've "learned" is good, and at worst you end up with a product that doesn't embody the collective desires of the group but the ho-hum middle that doesn't satisfy or offend anyone.

>> Things don't need to be different just for the sake of being different. Because different can also be worse.

Different is worse for the majority and that's a good thing, because it can then be really, really good for a small subset. If we repeat this everyone can get something really good, and have things they really dislike. This is the world I want to live in, emphasis on the living part.
Prosecutors might not be able to immediately seize assets, however if they have evidence that those assets were obtained through criminal activity then they can ask the court to freeze the assets pending the outcome of a criminal trial.
The teen mental illness epidemic is international – Part 1: The Anglosphere
Now for the sad news --- there are no "American" cars of any kind that don't contain a bunch of Chinese made parts.

So what this really means is that "American" companies will now charge more while still buying parts from China (cause they're cheaper) and use the extra income to inflate the exec's stock options.

In other words, greed doesn't care about your silly nationalism.
The problem with this is that set of laptops is so small and restrictive. It's mostly just Clevo rebadges which feel kinda cheap and have design choices that are becoming outdated like 16:9 screens and a couple of models from Dell and HP.

My general rules of thumb for selecting laptops for linux:

- Avoid Realtek wherever possible, usually in favor of Intel. Even though Realtek hardware usually technically works on Linux, it's often in a reduced or buggy capacity.

- Avoid Nvidia. This might change soon now that Nvidia is finally being a bit more open with driver development, but for now Nvidia cards are still likely cause of unnecessary pain.

- If possible, avoid discrete GPUs. AMD cards are more likely to be well-behaved than Nvidia cards but often the most trouble-free experience is with nothing but an iGPU. This is really only practical for users who use laptops for their portability and have a desktop for where raw power is necessary.
And yes! It's STT/LLM/TTS where you can choose between different providers and run it across different platforms. It can be turn based (like the demo you linked from twitter) or streaming (this allows for conversation with interruptions!)
is this sarcasm, or are you really that fixated on Elon?
Check out the excellent "Not Just Bikes" and "Strong Towns" YT channels to know how dependant we are on cars (spoiler: a lot, unless you live in exceptional places like the Netherlands) and to see how we are still in time to build a better future.
Yes... they are more cost-efficient because they skip on background checks, safety tech (like face recognition ban lists, on-ground safety crews for investigating crimes, audio recording, etc.), and support operations.

They also have access to more drivers, because they will hire the drivers that were banned by the big guys.
Babylon 5 accounted for this in the first three seasons by making them start out episodic and switch to serialized over the course of the season, since by that time most would have settled into routines and watch the same shows each week.

Seasons 4 and 5 probably would have been the same except due to fears of cancelation they took the primary plots of both seasons and stuffed them into just season 4.
so when some societal reject with a CS degree sets up an intention bot to hack into/socially engineer the release of more gm viruses - or worse - what's your personal AI going to do about that?

this isn't about being enslaved, it's about being hurt by the actions of a human-like you-who thinks that AI is their route to the top, or just wants to watch the world burn. AI enslavement makes for good films, but we'll all be long dead before that happens
I've thought about setting up something like this before for myself. You might have given me the motivation I needed...
The Linux desktop left me. Somehow the community just doesn’t get that it is possible for text labels to fit in the space that is allocated to them. Contrast that to the refinement of the command line interface experienced through ssh. It’s taken Linux what, 15 years, to not make the same transition that Microsoft did with WDDM in Vista?

I’m annoyed by the “thoroughly pizzled” features in Windows such as the OneDrive file shredding system, attempts to stuff ads up your nose, etc. The thing is I can turn that crap off with a finite amount of effort, whereas Linux desktop enthusiasts can spend forever tweaking their desktop and it “just doesn’t work” no matter what you do. My satisfaction with a new Windows 11 machine I just built is about as high as my satisfaction with my Ubuntu server, the difference is that the Win11 machine has a GUI and the Ubuntu server doesn’t.
I meant more that as soon as you leave the workforce as a young man society will frame you as useless, which in turn leads to poor self image and depression, which then leads to a life of quick fix feel good activities like getting high and jerking off for days at a time.

If we decouple workplace productivity and social validity then people who leave the workforce can find other meaningful ventures in their lives without shame.
Well yeah, but remember the context here. We're not talking about programming languages today.

BASIC was invented in 1963 and exploded in popularity in the late 70s. Python 1.0 didn't come out until 1991.
The accelerationist dream is finally becoming a reality and these nerds wanna stop it. Deal with it