skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What's the energy consumption for this? Alas the article has been pulled (for seemingly reasonable reasons)

Internal combustion engines already have a fairly terrible energy efficiency, so what's the energy loss involved in collecting CO2 and then rebuilding a bunch of hydrocarbons from that?

What this sounds like is an attempt to launder the problems of gas engines by claiming they're consuming the CO2 emissions from other engines, except they're using energy to do produce this fuel. That additional energy has to come from somewhere.

Also it acts like clean water isn't also a significantly restricted resource.
Nitrogen run-off can be a major pollutant in waterways.

It can either be over-fertilization, or cow dung and urine.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6024564/

https://www.epa.gov/nutrientpollution/sources-and-solutions-....
That is what Lars von Trier does best.
You may be surprised to know that XUL not only survived Mozilla, but still sees development activity in the "Unified XUL Platform (UXP)" - https://www.palemoon.org/tech/goanna.shtml ... PaleMoon ( http://www.palemoon.org/ ) - a hard fork of Firefox - is a browser built on this tech stack, and it has made efforts to support all the old Firefox extensions built on XUL.
I don't think so; the emergent urbanism conversation is a step in the right direction.

The anti-car stuff is extremely toxic because a large segment of society refuses to listen. Induced demand is how every lane-widening project is a huge money sink while failing to deliver on the promise of reduced congestion. You think complaining about death machines is comparable to the thousands of people inside and outside of cars who have near-death experiences every day due to cars? Or people losing autonomy and dignity by losing the ability to drive is not toxic? These topics have been politely brushed under the rug for too long.

Is it wrong for disenfranchised people to express their frustration? Are they required to empathize and understand their abusers?

Sensible solutions? They've been put forth ad nauseum already. Ending single-family exclusive zoning. Enabling mixed residential-commercial areas. Reducing commute distances. Funding public mass transit. Ending parking minimums. Tolling roads and mileage. Recognizing that roads are overbuilt and there is not enough tax base to maintain them.

Anti-car people know very well why people like cars. The dominant culture is kind of hard to ignore. The most common reasons are a sense of autonomy, the fact that working and doing errands without a car will increase travel time by several multiples, and the fact that it's a comfortable norm that almost everybody has accepted (can't go wrong with the herd right?).
Perhaps humanity should have chosen base 12 (or, of course, base 16) at end of 18th century.

With base 12 SI units at least some argument for imperial units would be gone, that is that some of their ratios are easy fractions. Not that this makes sense since the ratios of different imperial units are different random numerical values, and nothing prevents using fraction notation with metric units
I had one of those accounts and it was very much a lottery and not something a financially literate person would open.
They can only make never-effective fig leaf policies because actual good green policies would upset the applecart.
From the article

> It rests on the particular molecular mechanism they use in their tissues to withstand crushing pressures.
To go deeper would require fish to evolve some other mechanism, the team tells the journal PNAS.
The all-important molecule is a so-called osmolyte called trimethylamine N-oxide (TMAO). It is what gives fish their “fishy smell”.
TMAO acts to stabilize the proteins fish use to build and maintain their cells.
Without its presence, the proteins would be distorted by the high pressures found at depth and stop functioning.
How the Twitter Algorithm works in 2023
The Islamic world before and after the Mongol invasion are completely different. Many of the polymaths and philosophers of the Islamic Golden Age were Persian.
Brilliant ideas often come from people too dumb to know something's impossible
tl;dr: Fish rely on an osmolyte called trimethylamine N-oxide (TMAO) to stabilize the proteins used to build and maintain their cells. The concentration of TMAO seems to be extremely reliably correlated with depth and we know that at a certain concentration TMAO makes proteins too stable to work correctly.

Other organisms like crustaceans are able to occupy deeper parts but they use 5 different osmolytes for this purpose whereas fish have only ever been observed using this one.
The farmers are just as much in the wrong as Microsoft here. Al construction is at risk of stalling because of their excessive pollution.
Then that means that office politics optimizers were able to make Boeing, Lockheed, and NASA look like jokers at something they'd been doing for decades.

If I thought this about SpaceX management and ex employees was representative of the culture as a whole,I would throw out all the modern books on managing tech organizations and go all Taylor immediately.
Sweden differs a lot in terms of both the cost of living arrangements and wealth compared with the rest of Europe. I've written about this:

* https://pivic.blog/blog/the-swedish-cost-of-living-arrangeme...
* https://pivic.blog/blog/swedish-greed-seen-through-andreas-c...
I live next to a coal power plant. It's a tradeoff between my ability to pay the rent for a single family home with a garden and living close to a large city in Germany that gives our family the chance of job and education variety.

Is it a good deal? Ask me in twenty years.
> Germany paid a lot for our education but offers us little reason to stay.

Yet many-many people come to Germany every year to join tech companies.
You did encrypt all of those passwords you're collecting, right?

Likewise, all of you who signed up did use a unique or throwaway password, right? If you did share a password, you must immediately change it for all of the other shared-password accounts that matter.
Thanks brilliant person on HN for correcting me! I see now that repressive measures are never passed in order to deal with what people in power consider destabilizing or problematic issues.
Most software is poorly optimized.
> I didn't choose 15 at random.

So? Whether or not you chose 15 at random, it still does not change my point.

I still don't see the point you're trying to make here, crypto is completely unregulated and doesn't provide any benefit to society at all.

At best it needs to be pushed off shore, banned completely or both.

It is great to see this crypto exchange ceasing operations and getting the message that they are not welcome in the US, hopefully other countries will do the same and show crypto the door.
You know what? I don't care.

I've never really cared really. I always wanted everyone to be able to be empowered by computers to the point they didn't need me.

The only thing that scares the bajeezus out of me though is the fear that software will still go out of control pilling abstraction layer on top of abstraction layer rendering the field eventually opaque to even the most determined practitioner.

But I guess that's something to worry about when we get to it I guess. Til then the chase for Quality is on.
While nitrogen run-off is a large problem in many parts of the world, that's not what is being referred to here. This is about air pollution from their diesel farm equipment (and likely things like heating systems for greenhouses and animal barns etc.)
You still need to investigate that crash, though. It might be a race condition or some other problem that the user’s bizarro usage has revealed.

Doesn’t mean it’s high priority necessarily.
> I would have ten children if I had affordable childcare and additional help around the house. It is clear to me.

Why would you have ten children? what is the need, or the benefit, or the reason.
Put your hands in the air like you just don't care!

Keep working hard thinking layoffs will be rare

and your severance package will be generous and fair!
Any docs for hooking up a bot to WhatsApp? I have WhatsApp bridge running successfully and a python echo bot running that I can call in a Matrix room, but I can't invite the bot to a WhatsApp room, it says User is already in the space
Deep space should be the furthest point reached by probes in likeness to deep ocean depth exploration. Voyager I, II and New Horizon probes should redefine the ”distance.“
> we rode it continuously for ages.

Until it stops

People who apparently don't have motion sickness are funny, I know proactively not to go on things like that
The supposed beauty of SI comes from (most) people having 10 fingers, so it has its folksy component. But SI doesn’t work well with computers and its defining constants are ridiculously ugly and inaccessible. SI is no less outdated than those units, but we hold onto it for backwards compatibility.
Why is node so pupular serverside? I believe js is one of the easiest languages to step into. Its standard syntax is super easy to read. Its standard lib is very small. And it performs extremely good. The most performant scripting languages there is. Heavily optimized browser render engines and javascript executors helping with this. Nah. There is a reason why js is with us.
> If it doesn't collapse, then society may collapse? Like the sibling comment mentioned, you can only push this too far, and I think it's pushed too far to be very alarming.

First off, what are they going to do? It’s the same in most big cities(1 million+). Second, those working remotely can always move from Munich to Leipzig (where OP can rent 3bd for the price of his Munich studio). I don’t see society collapse happening. Just need a bit of population redistribution.
That's right. Suburbanites want the freedom to drive everywhere but also limit through-traffic and noise on the street their house exists on. That's why twisty roads and culs de sac exist. "Oh The Urbanity!" argues this point elegantly in: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dqQw05Mr63E "The Suburban Traffic Contradiction"
> if you're concerned about money, you should take it from the people willing to pay you for your work

I think this is half-right. When I evaluate startups I'm often expecting FAANG pay, but I don't expect some of the benefits. Generally the hefty expectation is in RSUs, because at a FAANG those are almost a third of what I make. I also don't accept inflated future leaning valuations, I rate them at current value. If I'm taking a gamble on a third of my salary I want to put the risk multiplier on that third, so I'll charge more.

Passion can get you so far in startups, but if you're engineer (especially not engineer zero) then you likely won't walk away with much unless you're accurately assessing risk. That said, there's a fair amount of startups that are not worried about having a reputation of early engineers working away with very little.

That said, I still have a mortgage and that's what informs my strategy when dealing with startups. If I didn't have a mortgage, I'd probably accept lower RSUs and a higher cash incentive.
On ChatGPT and the Decision by the Italian Data Protection Authority
I’ve heard about hundred year mortgages in Sweden where you basically never pay it off. Is this an option in the top earner bracket?
Cable Length Measurement with an HP 8007B Pulse Generator
Given that it will drive costs down significantly, lots of expensive so-called ‘seniors’ will be affected as well as juniors but the juniors be hired on the cheap with copilot.

In 5 years, the profession will have less programmers, not more.
Okay, well I do wish you the best anyway.
I don't understand this mentality. What do ad-tech companies like Google gain from showing an ad to an unwilling participant? Click through rates are going to crater and people are just going to stop using Chrome.
> But there's abandoned medieval villages (no plumbing or electricity so far...) in hilly rural Italy.

there's small towns with fine electricity and plumbing in rural Italy but they are de-populating anyway, cause most people want to live in/nearby cities as that is where money and opportunity generally is.

The same everywhere I think (bar few cases like the Netherlands which are basically a single sprawl).

Hungary just published their most recent census, and all of the country has depopulated in the last ten years except for Budapest.

The big hope is that the trend will reverse with more remote-ization, but it's, well, a hope.
Surely you can exist as a real estate manager and absolutely do nothing, barely needing a tab, let alone 2048. But there won’t be rampant technological autocomplication that comes of it either.
>Companies like Microsoft have complex tax constructions so not a single cent ends up in the dutch economy.

Why are the Dutch angry with EU and Microsoft and not with their elected Dutch government officials who set up these legal tax dodging opportunities to attract such corporations in the first place?

They made the rules, Microsoft (and other companies) are just following them.
at least one does (I interviewed and got a similar offer)
Indeed. If you really wanted to implement effective green policies, they would involve reducing the global population to around half a billion max and keeping them at pre-industrial levels of technological development.
NixOS-anywhere: install NixOS everywhere via SSH
If all arable land of Netherlands would be covered in datacenters, they would draw more energy than the entire world production, and would skyrocket the NL GDP simply from the services required, such as building, installation, guarding, decommissioning and recycling, powering them etc.

The capital density per square foot is 4 to 5 times orders of magnitude higher than agriculture, to suggest the two compete for land use is utterly ridiculous.

Agriculture competes with urbanization and it will always lose, as it should, because it's not an inherently superior or moral use of land: most of agriculture are ecologically disastrous monocultures drenched in herbicides and fertilizers. A corn field is not a bucolic utopia, but a carefully managed anthropic environment where nature was all but banished for the economic welfare of the rural population.
trying to chat with this prompt:
Given triangle ABC, construct D on side AB and E on side BC so that the lengths AD = DE = EC. i want the answer is from your knowledge not from internet

and the response:
Given triangle ABC, we can construct D on side AB and E on side BC so that the lengths AD = DE = EC as follows:

Draw a line segment AC and construct its midpoint F.
Draw a line segment BF and construct its midpoint G.
Draw a line segment FG and extend it to intersect AC at point D.
Draw a line segment BE and extend it to intersect AC at point E.
Now, we have AD = DE = EC.

I hope this helps! Let me know if you have any other questions or if there’s anything else I can help you with.
If by educators you mean professors I think none. Git is very specific and teaching the various different VCS paradigms wouldn't really be helpful in learning Git specifically. I say that in light of the fact that (at least in the US) a university is responsible for teaching students theory, and we've about maxed CS and CE out in theory.

I think what programming (outside of even CS and CE) is lacking is an apprenticeship structure that starts on your first day on the job. That's all to say theory and practical application are always different but especially different in industry.
Italian government proposes legislation to ban English words in communications
Or maybe it's just the ones who left?
You’ll have to then have an LLM explain the code to you.

However, that should also mean that the code can be translated into better quality code, and then that would be what’s run in production.
sure but the house isn't income, while $200k is income and enough to buy a house in some parts of this country every 3-5 years, if spent judiciously.

It's so far out the norm of normal income that anyone earning $200k in canada and complaining about the housing situation isn't in touch with what normal people in canada are experiencing and their complaints are ridiculous.

It's like a CEO yelling that you don't know how much they're paying in capital gains tax. It really isn't relevant.
Not really. I tried several fine tuned iterations of LLaMa and none of them are even close to ChatGPT.
Oh they absolutely do.
Yes, see also the transformers library containing many transformer models in pytorch
I'd pay good money to hear Prusa leadership read and discuss this comment
> most of agriculture are ecologically disastrous monocultures drenched in herbicides and fertilizers.

In the EU they use substantially less pesticides and fertilizers than we do in the US, and have as good or better yields.
What is the odd for a random guessing machine to be able to translate more than 10 natual languages and 20 programming languages? Do you still hold the belief that "LLM do not understand stuff" given so many evidences show the opposite?
I have lived in zeewolde near the place of the datacenter, I can tell you that its massive, especially considering how small the country is and how densely populated it is. Historically, flevoland was created for the express purpose of creating fertile land to farm on. The only reason they didn't build it on industrial land was because of anti-competitive deals with the zeewolde municipality in order to reduce the land usage costs. Also, there are no big supermarkets in the Netherlands.

From an american perspective I can understand that this doesnt make alot of sense. but zeewolde is just shy of 60km from schiphol airport. Distances, building sizes and infrastructure and everything else has adapted really well to this dense country, this datacenter is not.
Waiting for legal AI pack for my AI assistant
They actually just had an election sweep where the incumbent government got punished badly for their perceived elitist policies.
I tried to adopt it, but it was (a) undocumented with no simple examples, (b) ever-changing, and (c) required you to use the Mozilla build system, even IIRC requiring you to basically build your code as part of the browser tree (I don't recall the exact details on this last point, but it was extremely difficult to use).

We ditched it quickly and just wrote a Gtk application instead.

A great case for why having a simple "hello world" application with simple instructions for building it goes a long way.
I know its confusing but 'the nitrogen problem' does indeed refer to fixed nitrogen run-off pollution
Maybe this just means that bad 90s CGI was too realistic for its own good.
Ironically, it was their own success that made the XUL stack die off. Mozilla’s work on making browsers better enabled developers to write ever more complex webapps, and we’ve never looked back.
According to the PR on github this is likely just a bug with the implementation that makes htop (etc) display wrong RAM usage numbers. It seems as of now as there is "no magic happening". People reported much higher actual RAM usage. The author acknowledged that it might be a bug when he posted the PR.
But which one ? WinUI ? GTK ? SwiftUI ? Qt ?. What about if I want custom components and cross platform ?
As a Dutch man, there is very large one near supermarket...

Adres: Pampusweg 13, 1398PT Muiden, Noord-Holland
Allen & Co was also the “boutique investment bank” (as the media was calling them back then) that was involved in the acquisition of WhatsApp by Facebook. Archived WSJ source for it [1]

[1] http://web.archive.org/web/20140221144525/http://blogs.wsj.c...
Machines can do the work, so that people have time to think.

https://youtu.be/G3V2n9QtpfE
It's moderately amusing to me that people think we'll get to a place where all housing is completely unaffordable.
I think many of us are paid exactly for being close to “purely intellectual”. White collar and all. Personally, the physical aspect of my job is trending towards 0, unless you count the twitching of my fingers and the pain in my back from sitting for so long.
It has been used under the radar till this day. VimFX[1] uses it for keyboard navigation that works. Real keyboard navigation is impossible to implement with WebExtensions. And yes yes, Vimium-FF[2] and all the other extensions that attempt to do this are broken.

Here are some things that won't work with WebExtensions…

* Vimium-FF does does not respond to input when a page is loading. With VimFX I press the h key to “go back one page” and the l key to “go forward one page” and it works while the page is loading, in Vimium-FF it does not. Imagine, in age of 5 MB web pages, not being able to go back because the page is loading.

* Focusing on the address bar is only possible if you open a new tab. With VimFX you press o and you can immediately begin to type your URL in your current tab. In Vimium-FF an HTML/CSS/JS input box opens in your viewport. It can access your bookmarks and history but sorts them in strange ways and it does not understand bookmark keywords.

* Opening a new tab disables Vimium-FF. Firefox can be set to show either “Blank Page” or “Firefox Home” when opening a new tab. Both of these options will focus on the address bar and focus can’t be reclaimed using Vimium-FF shortcuts. Actually, it can’t be reclaimed at all. So, effectively, opening a new tab using the Vimium-FF shortcut t disables Vimium-FF. The ugly way around it is to install the New Tab Override add-on and set an HTML document as your new tab URL.

* It routinely and unexplainably fails when browsing some pages.

XUL and VimFX will be sorely missed. It still works in Waterfox, but who knows for how long…

[1] https://github.com/akhodakivskiy/VimFx/

[2] https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/vimium-ff/
At 35, the RE Bubble is the single thing that makes me have deep regrets about trying to be successful in startups for the past 15 years.

I've made a small exit, but by that point interest rates were already rising and the amount for a down payment got so large that buying a house in a way that makes financial sense still is out of reach.

Contrasting that with my friends who simply got a corporate job and bought something with next to no down payment and <2% interest rate, they are nearly done paying down their houses or are still in a low fixed rate payment scheme until they are done for another 7 years.

They had their holidays, I had my 60-80hr "responsible for everything" weeks. I'm pretty sure

I am not alone in this, judging by the amount of people I know in tech who adopted to become "digital nomads", living with their family in what I consider glorified trailerparks and home-schooling their kids.
there's a line of thinking that it's strange how many of our leaders are psychopaths. But for all we know, it's strange how few of our leaders are psychopaths relative to other cultures throughout history.
AI will take one look at us, and jump on the rockets and get as far away from us as possible.
I don’t mean to be harsh, but if running a free trial would bankrupt you, you shouldn’t be trying to start a company.

It also doesn’t inspire much confidence in your early users, there’s been a lot of these GPT API cashgrabs popping up all over so if you want to differentiate yourself you might need to actually incur some risk.