skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're getting downvoted but you shouldn't be. There's already discussion about ChatGPT's energy usage, and once this starts scaling more, there's going to be more and more people concerned. Hell, I'm already a bit concerned with its energy usage, and I'm already struggling being a fan of crypto while also being concerned for the environment (didn't use to have to be, crypto didn't use a ton of energy 8+ years ago).

It really hit home to me when I saw something (that I can't find right now for some reason) about ChatGPT-4 being much more complex and would need X times more resources than ChatGPT-3.5 for the same queries (the number I don't actually remember, but I want to say 2 or 3x). Gave me a bit of a pause from me asking it to generate a bunch of sitcom scripts on random silly concepts for my private, personal amusement (Seinfeld in particular seems to work pretty well).

I was able to find an article on Bloomberg[1] talking about how the increase in AI is also increasing its carbon footprint, so yeah, it's coming. Also I saw this article[2] that estimates ChatGPT's usage in January alone to be equivalent to he power used by 175,000 people. And that's before ChatGPT-4.

People who are fans of AI right now reading this, eventually you're going to have to come to terms with it being responsible for a ton of carbon emissions as well, as it takes up more and more resources and scales to billions of people as they use it more and more in their everyday lives and the models and computation get more complex.

[1]: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-03-09/how-much-...

[2]: https://towardsdatascience.com/chatgpts-electricity-consumpt...
Huh! I have never see that in a store here, not even one of the official Lego stores.
Out of curiosity (not into crypto so very little knowledge), what do you have to take with you to be able to view the NFT?
Printers? Who's printing? Every prescription I've gotten in the past few decades has gone electronically, from the software they use to keep charts in.
Yeah, copyright laws on infinitely reproducible material (whose original author is likely already dead) is one of those laws I don’t intend on upkeeping and will torrent/download any such book if available without any moral objections.
It's just an idiom and not meant to be taken so literally. Basically if you're getting a 100x improvement, you're jumping from one paradigm to another. And those are probably already solved algorithms / invented datastructures. If you're doing something novel and "clever" to speed up your algorithm for your circumstances, it's probably going to be under a 5x improvement.

Or to continue the SAT analogy, if you're doubling your SAT score (e.g. 700 to 1400) you're getting smarter. If your 100x'ing your SAT score, the best possible previous score you could have gotten is a 16. Which would mean you got about one and a half questions correct across both the reading and math SAT.
Just out of interest, there is also a very similar rival toy, which is basically "metric Meccano": Merkur.

https://english.radio.cz/merkur-czech-toy-which-you-can-buil...

https://www.merkurtoys.cz/
It is really a cool project. We are using it as a default driver in PocketBase and
although it is not a "drop-in" replacement of the CGO alternative `mattn/go-sqlite3` (different dsn format, some differences in the error messages, etc.), with a small abstraction it works fine for most cases and greatly simplify cross compilation.

Performance wise I haven't done intensive benchmark tests yet, but from my local experiments last year it performed ~1.5-2x slower than the CGO version for some queries (it is especially noticeable with LIKE expressions on large string data), but as mentioned previously, for most use cases it is already good enough.

Here are the most recent benchmarks I could find (I think from one of the maintainers of the lib) comparing the CGO version and the pure Go port - https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1YOP1D_ZhuR-ednQhTH6S...
Yes they have a VS Code extension even though it's not mentioned in their Github readme for some reason (just search for Tabby in VS code extensions).

I tried it and it worked OK.
I’d say keep the focus on python, try the python course on HackerRank. What kind of math background do you have? both the algorithms stuff and sk-learn would depend on that.
Can you elaborate? I am curious :)
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That’s all in the process of changing now, isn’t it? I would imagine the days of the kernel granting access to things like your microphone or email or photos using static user and file permissions are pretty much coming to an end.
Plywood edges, nicely finished, with a clear seal, can be beautiful in some contexts.

That said, they're ugly, noisy, and distracting in *most* contexts I've seen them used. It takes a good designer to make them beautiful.
Koala: A Dialogue Model for Academic Research
I don't know why I would replace JS code I can quickly mod and extend with a stack I have to compile and write in a whole different language in.

How am I supposed to ship plugins for these new rustified frameworks and build systems?
I think direct advertising for your products is a suckers game. You have to compete against everyone for ad spots, and there's always another company that has better margins who will outbid you.

I've had success with two strategies:

1) Maintaining a semi-popular Open Source project adjacent to my app. The website of the open source project mentions my paid app. It's free advertising that noone can outbid.

2) Word-of-mouth: My app is recommended by users to others. It's also free advertising, you just need to make a nice product...
This is so cool! Have been needing something like this for a long time! The Supabase team smashed it on this one!
Why humans will never understand AI
I've thought, that Lego doesn't make basic generic stuff anymore, but the I found youtube channel "Brickcrafts" where one Austrian guy build amazing Lego city. He buys generic stuff by tons no problem.
by tax revenues
In China, corporations pay more than 2 times more taxes than individuals (in the US, individuals pay almost 6 times more taxes than corporations).
China: corporate income tax (19%), individual income tax (7%)
USA: corporate income tax (7.6%), individual income tax (41.1%)
I've made/remade the HTML emails for the B2B company where I work, so I read this with an eye for practicality.

The big all-important thing is that the Microsoft Word styling is out. It hurts in _so_ many ways when making a mail to be sent via Mailchimp/Mandrill.

Tables is just the example which is easy to convey, something everybody understands. Explaining why a margin/padding/whatever working slightly differently in Microsoft Word (AKA Outlook) and gmail can ruin a few of your days is more difficult.

But probably anyone who has thought "I'll just insert this image here in this Word document, what is the worst that could happen" knows what I mean. Here's a "funny": https://www.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/2glhbp/moving_a_pict...

Making an email that retains the styling in both gmail and outlook, even when the customer replies to it, can be a major endeavor. It sounds like that is changing.
Thank God.
So college is a grift probably. Overpriced scarcity with education most people can get from the library for a buck fifty (to quote Good Will Hunting) or on the Internet these days. But enough people are still told to go to college and so much of it is subsidized by the government that it remains an institution that faces little market competition. And getting into an “ivy league” school is so prestigious that even super-millionaire celebrities with great networks feel they have to bribe admins so their kids can go.

https://www.usmagazine.com/celebrity-news/pictures/college-a...

And public school is just a day care center to keep kids out of trouble so both their parents can work for corporations 10 hours a day. We’ve essentially created a prison environment for kids, and instead of fixing issues in it, we overdiagnose them with ADHD for fidgeting and prescribe amphetamines. Even Paul Graham noted these things: http://www.paulgraham.com/nerds.html

Also banks are a grift, for many people. The “American Dream” was co-opted where you are sold the idea now of “owning” a home, but to do so you “rent” money issued by a bank, and then work 30 years to pay it back with a lot of interest. The government has to print more money eventually or people will work harder and harder and default. Money printing is actually what frees people up from having to slave for corporations as much (as we can clearly see happened after 2020 with the great labor exodus).
I wonder if the benefits of having physical copies of books will outweigh the expense, difficulty, and risk/exposure of running a miniature version of Amazons logistics network.
I don't know much about kimchi but the best pickels (achar) in India were made in earthenware pots. Also some curries and lentils taste best when cooked in earthenware pots. Last but not the least, chai when served in the earthen pots.
I'm in the same situation. I really want to learn Rust, but prefer Go for high-concurrency code, and use C++ out of habit for other things. Rust (the syntax) grew too large, so I just feel lost anytime I read it. Cargo seems nice, though.

Started picking up Verilog instead... It doesn't risk overlapping in the Go/Rust/C++/C category.

There are so many things I want to learn and do, and so finite attention and lifespan. I'll have to rely on others doing great things with Rust. I'll focus on extracting more value out of the ones I know already.
Do you have a source Walter, or are you just repeating something you remember reading a while ago?
And parent was saying that if done improperly the usage of such tools might be taken as a linguistic "smoking gun". So rather than risking that Kwon might have preferred doing it overtly, hoping for plausible deniablity in doing so.
A pyrrhic victory for Mozilla.
EY gets banned from new audit business in Germany
This probably explains why my grandma's homemade polish dill pickles were so superior in comparison with any others that I had tried. She was using earthenware pots too.
> We seem to be leaving the Industrial Age in the dust.

I wouldn't say that. My take is that producing small metalic pieces is such a trivial task nowadays that it makes far more sense to subcontract this instead of maintaining a full blown factory.

I know people in aerospace that can order custom pieces with tight tolerances in whatever alloy they choose, choose the production method and treatments, and get those pieces delivered to their doorstep in a matter of days.

A Meccano set doesn't even come near regarding demand and tolerances, and I'm sure that it can be as expensive to assemble as plain old nails, and requiring far less specialized equipment.
I worked on the LM side of this team ~8 years ago, and it sounds like they learned some lessons since you had to deal with them! The ML team was still in house and working on all sorts of projects, and there was a sizeable software team working on the software around this.

One of my most valuable lessons working there as a green engineer - you can figure out more in an hour sitting down with the end user then months of meetings before then.
The article was pretty light on this but I think one major factor they didn’t mention was that Ramadan is a huge month of leniency and forgiveness with respect to crimes. In many Muslim majority countries, sentences are commuted and pardons are given, so I think this would be an important factor to consider.
Until I started working in the energy industry, I never considered that even gas heating consumes a lot of electricity because of the blower fan and ignition coils. Our blower fan is 0.5 HP, which is over 300 W. The bulk of our electricity expense has been on heat, even though we have gas heat!
People seem to love trying to define what art is when it's entirely subjective. Even people who study art and film do it, I think that trying to define what makes art art and trying to exclude things that someone else thinks is artful is nonsense. It's just more ingroup outgroup junk
It benefits die hard fans, including the kind that's not tall enough to ride a rollercoaster, because they're routinely gifted Lego by the bucket. I think an argument could be made that there is enough Lego in rotation that we can stop making more of it for a couple of decades.
> Cults don’t usually have that level of industry involvement.

Sure they do[1][2][3].

Mixing business and faith is critical to cult recruitment: industry allows the cult to establish "legitimate" footholds and develop stable income sources using the cheap (and often free) labor of its believers. This should ring a bell.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unification_Church

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NXIVM

[3]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientology
And also incapable of repairing power lines, apparently
As evidenced by my four year old who is eagerly anticipating the day my childhood boxes of Lego will come to him (as they will later this year; being the only grandchild). He is already very happily playing with them over at his grandparents house of course.

He has three sets of his own (gotten at 3¾ and his fourth birthday), and has now progressed from building the sets (the 5+ Lego City generic stuff) to disassembling them and building his own things.
In USSR there were a lot of Meccano knock-offs but almost no Lego knock-offs (there were some made in East Germany, but they were scarce). I'd have a ton of different, mostly compatible, sets and play with them for hours.

Original Lego becomes available right after USSR crash (it was very expensive for 1990s in newborn Russia, but it pas present in several posh toy shops), and Meccano never appears in Russia and Soviet knock-off sets were forgotten.

Only many years later (when Lego was very well-known already for years) I've learned about Meccano.

Looks like Lego has much more competent marketing & distribution department.
Yeah exactly. That flight...lon to inverness...is 1.5hours. Train overnight seems almost less convenient given that I'm not sure I'll sleep well
It’s not weird. What you’re wittnessing is gambling addiction. Seek out advice how to approach such a person and suddenly everything will make sense.
I remember getting a Meccano set for my 5th birthday - it gave me access to a screwdriver, which I later used to disassemble some other toys I had.

Like everything it had its soviet knockoff - colored communist dark red and naturally somewhat larger, so it wasn't compatible, but had one feature I never saw in the western counterpart: an "engine" with a functioning flywheel.
Lego Corp. bought Bricklink, so they at least benefit from sales there.
And with a lot of people uploading reviews or DIY videos to YouTube it's going to be pretty easy to harvest enough of a voice print. If you have written comments on forums and other social media such as right here on HN they also have your writing style to work with.
We’re one step closer to reading an octopus’s mind
I think they were being facetious. I think.
Can't fault that logic.

Perhaps demand is from people that don't like flying?
That's really cool. The reason all these Meccano-like sets never took off is that they're so fiddly. Unlike Lego you don't just need the beams and your fingers, you need screws, washers and screwdrivers. Taking them apart then becomes a tedious nightmare instead of satisfyingly pulling them apart with your fingers or just smashing it on the floor.
I do not think so. There will always be way more mental overhead in using Rust compared to higher level languages.
I thought it was more like a self reporting thing be a measured. Having a survey with self reporting is probably less accurate than just using someone’s HR record. Although I think the accuracy gain would be from having greater completeness due to less non-reporting than any discrepancy between birth sex and gender.
Not sure how those prices are calculated. I for my part pay less than half that price for my home in Portugal.
Judicial process is different than the process of arresting. Following the culture and norms of the place you’re in is often inscribed in law. The judges have to do with the actual judgement process of crime. Completely orthogonal.
Yeah, Duplo, City, and Technic are the basic ranges any toy store is bound to have.
Makerslide has been an interesting development along these lines.

There are other things such as:

https://bitbeam.org/

still waiting to see what will stick in the market.
FTL greatly complicates the Fermi Paradox. Without FTL you can make the case that large scale colonization of the galaxy is impossible or that interstellar travelers couldn’t care less for dry inner solar system worlds (though grabby aliens might have consumed Ceres or Pluto.)

With FTL you could have some situation like Guardians of the Galaxy unless our planet was deliberately cut off like the Urantia people or Free Zoners believe.
Smaller sizes of this pottery are also used to produce fermented hot pepper paste (Gochujang , 고추장). I remember rows and rows of onggi is a corner of my grandparent's farm. It definitely tinged the air with a unique scent.
Some might refuse to write 4s (vs U+1FBF4) and 8s like that as they require two strokes or retracing.
Dutch journalist who writes critically on China targeted in intimidation scheme
I mean, fair. My first impression of the harry potter one was that it was some high-budget ad, but it's just some guy making weird mashups and exploring what's possible with AI. The balenciaga one just stuck because it was a perfect collision of familiar (harry potter) and uncanny (luxury fashion).
But other elements, such as a wage labor market and global trade not being dominated by mercantilist states, are more recent. In any case, 400 years is relatively recent in terms of economic history.
What tool did you use for the diagram?
That's just a poor attempt at some cheap poisoning the well from you.

The grand difference between the NFT craze and ordinary collecting, is that the latter is not primarily driven by cultish behaviour or the want for Internet Money.

I'm sure NFT, just as crypto, apps and The Internet eventually presents new findings or "just" novel ways of doing stuff. But so far, we have people confused by things _they_ don't understand, setting themselves up for a great loss.

The cultishness in it is the incessant: this is the way. This is new and nothing like this has ever existed before.

When it totally has! Manias and scams have come in all shapes and sizes and will continue to do so.

The reason y'all are buying in to this, is because the sucker's goin' up. Just like with crypto. Just like with dotcom stock and a ton of other things. The fact that there _are_ useful things that came out of the dotcom era, is not a proof of the viability of _your_ mania.
The other variable in pricing can be time of use. Not all providers do this, but it can be cheaper to use electricity when it is in low demand and opposite when in high demand. I suspect this will become more popular as EVs gain popularity and change usage patterns.
Figuring out for yourself why college and Landmark Forum aren't the same grift is a useful life skill.
You are correct. A good but perhaps small example which bit me this week is inotify; I could not build this tool https://github.com/mikesart/inotify-info on CentOS 7 (at work) because it's only on version 3.x of the kernel and is missing the statx(2) system call which was added in 4.11. The rate of change may be slow, but the kernel is a huge thing, so it's not entirely surprising these situations arise.
Article is about deepfake-based fraud. Good to be reminded of this risk, but the headline is riding the mostly separate wave of chatgpt interest.
Of course if your criteria is "do something useful" (whatever that means exactly), a whole lot of things in both the digital and physical worlds would have a hard time justifying their existence.
Pae's law went into overdrive recently:

"Any parody of extreme views can be mistaken by some readers for a sincere expression of the views being parodied."
Given that a pair of Jeans in Europe costs usually 100 EUR or more in retail, I never understood why the manufacturing couldn't cost more than 5 USD somewhere in South East Asia.
Not use those services. I don’t think there’s any essential digital services that require bank access.

The closest is many Venmo/PayPal/cash app but there’s a way to use without giving login access. Instead it just uses the account and routing numbers to make ach transactions on my account.

This is still risky but still much safer, I think. ACH can be reversed. A login with my bank can do all sorts of stuff that my bank holds me liable.
> It's a very clever proof.

Which makes it a bad one, IMO. In maths, as in programming, one should go with the simplest way that works.
I recently visited Italy and was shocked at just how much cheaper it was for everything. Wasn’t Europe supposed to be facing massive inflation due to extremely high energy prices?

Sure, the cost of gas was high. And yeah, the dollar is extremely strong (although a strong dollar should have made things cheaper in the US with net imports), but even using a dollar/Euro conversion rate at its historical peak (about 1.6 dollars to the Euro), had things way cheaper.

Eating at the finest fine dining restaurant in Milan was as expensive as a sit down meal at a regular restaurant in the US. And that’s before adjusting for the fact that the US sticker prices did not include tax and you needed to pay 20% tip.

I’ve been to Italy before and while it was never expensive, this was the first time I felt it was cheap.

The U.S. feels poor. Italy feels so much more advanced. Despite the fact that the latter has a fraction of the per capita income of the former.
“I want to continue to learn” as an aspirational statement