skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, the CIA really focuses on aunties in their PJs posting Winnie the Pooh memes at 3AM.
Yes, of course you are at the mercy of a middle man. That's been the reality since credit cards where invented. Literally every business online or offline has to accept this. The price is cheap considering what these middle men provide.

You don't have to use a US card processor, there are European options. The fact is that these processors have millions of companies using them, handling probably billions of transaction every year. They are much more reliable than European banks, who will close the bank accounts of sites and journalists writing things the banks don't agree with.

As for donations, fair enough. Why not get your donations to an account outside of Germany to escape that headache?

> Again, middle men. Middle men that are going to censor you for whatever reason - no matter your political direction, by the way.

I'm aware of the censorship concern. Still it's worth a shot to try to bundle your content with like minded, you don't necessarily need middle men for this.

All in all, something will have to change with the way online content is consumed and produced - at least if we want to take full advantage of the blessings of the information age instead of rotting at the mercy of a media oligopoly.
When you need a lot of computing power for a very short time.
Ah I probably misremembered a bit. I did some digging and found this[1] paper which goes into some detail. It contains this interesting section:

Experiments show that solid tantalum capacitors can tolerate discharge currents at much higher levels of voltage (typically, close to the scintillation breakdown) than the charge currents, so current spikes are much more “dangerous” in combination with the increasing voltage that happens during charging. This indicates that a fast voltage increase to sufficiently high level is critical for surge current failures, and high current spikes are byproducts of the fast voltage increase rather than the prime cause of failure.

[1]: https://nepp.nasa.gov/files/24745/2013_n240_Teverovsky_ESTEC...
Everything in Docker containers + a service discovery layer (Consul on that particular case) will get you most of the way there as long as you don't get seduced into relying on cloud specific services.
The idea isn't limited to reducing evaporation, but for controlling algae. From the article:

> reduce algae growth and the need for maintenance by limiting sunlight falling on the water

Evaporation is an issue, for sure, but so is the cost of keeping algae under control. It makes a lot of sense to trade algae for solar panels even if you have to maintain the solar panels.
Good point and the whole idea of what is natural tends be anchored at some point in time, from some point of view. All too often, people use natural as a (unimpressive) rhetorical technique to justify some moral claim. Such claims fall apart when you (a) define nature at some other time or point of view; or (b) reject the notion that behavior we see in nature (in all its wonder, complexity, ruthlessness, and cruelty) should be the fundamental basis for human morality.
Show HN: A Personalized Message Writer using GPT
You're making money off Americans. Giving some investments to create jobs for Americans make sense. Henry Ford famously overpaid his workers to create demand for his cars https://www.npr.org/2014/01/27/267145552/the-middle-class-to...
> We gave China free access to our markets for decades.

I comment about the nature of 'free markets' in the general (but more specifically in the context of 'peer'-nation trade between the context of US-EU), and someone inevitably jumps in with an off-topic gripe about China.

China this, China that, it's like Beelzebub. Say the word 'trade' three times, and the thread's in for a derailment.
this is super cool, the named regions are a nice touch!
And after pointing out all the mistakes in the description, it took a very ... interesting approach to address my remarks:

> I apologize for the confusion. The image shows a block diagram of a basic amplifier circuit with a power supply, but it does not show any input stages, output stages, or load resistors. [...] The input stage is made up of an operational amplifier, which is used to amplify the input signal. The output of the input stage is then connected to the power supply, which provides the necessary voltage to operate the amplifier. The amplifier is designed to amplify the input signal to a higher level, which is then sent to the load resistor to power the load.

So it acknowledges the remarks, describes everything that is _not_ in the image and then puts the stuff back into the description anyway :)
> The Crab build system uses a Python script...

Hold on a minute, this reminds of that one ARM project that needed JavaScript to compile...
My Retirement (Tom Peters)
Youtube. This is where Google have huge advantage having largest collection of user generated video
Has anyone investigated to see if OpenCyc can be converted to natural language (presumably English) and then injested into this? Cyc made an attempt years ago to "encode common sense" and a subset called OpenCyc was released. That might be a great way to kickstart information representation of the real world. The latest version of Cyc is proprietary but I think there OpenCyc is an open subset (though I'm having trouble confirming that, so the licensing may not be good).

Some links:
https://github.com/bovlb/opencyc
https://github.com/asanchez75/opencyc
Another way I'm feeling old... I remember back when OpenSSH was just a plucky upstart implementation of SSH.
> EVs are purely novelty item at this point. An EV vehicle is fundamentally simpler than a gas car in terms of parts required, and should be cheaper to make and way cheaper to buy new.

Which means they have less stuff to break and thus less operating expense, yes. But the main cost block for an EV is the battery pack and power electronics - the ICE industry has had like a century of time to optimize every nook and cranny out of the production line, whereas mass manufactured EVs are only a decade or so old. (Yes there have been historic EVs too, but they differ so completely from today's EVs that there is no way one can speak of continuous experience building)

The thing is, the operating expenses are way lower, for a small increase in base cost. No need to replace oil every so often, if you're running a diesel no AdBlue and no regular periods of increased fuel consumption to clean the particulate filter, no need to replace a clutch, timing belts or transmission, even the brake pads last longer because regenerative braking doesn't create any wear. For fuel, if you're somewhere in the suburbs, place some solar panels on your roof and enjoy virtually free, clean energy while the rest of your neighbors fuel human rights atrocities in OPEC countries.

And the comfort of driving one is waaaay beyond ICE cars. Even your base Tesla Model 3 completely floors most affordable ICE cars at a red light drag race, they're so silent, no vibrations but those from the road, better handling because of the extremely low center of gravity, no headache inducing smell from cold starts in the winter...
Kojima was playing with the idea back in 2001:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eKl6WjfDqYA&pp=ygUUbWdzMiBha...

It's probably a trope from even older sci-fi, though I don't know which.
The current focus you have sounds an awful lot like what the founders of Pragli (later renamed to Pesto) were trying to address. It just shut down recently. https://twitter.com/PestoHQ

When they began in 2019, they reached out to interview me because I had been working remotely for five years. I tried to tell them that the lack of a "sense of feeling together" wasn't the problem they thought it was, and I tried to steer them into taking a look at ways of doing better telepresence with VR/AR, with a focus on pair programming and the like. They didn't listen, and I'm sad to say I was right.

If you want to solve real problems with remote work, you need to focus on how to get work done inside a VR or AR environment, and offer things like easy two-way screen sharing, as CoScreen (recently acquired by DataDog) and ScreenHero (swallowed up and destroyed by Slack).

A workplace is fundamentally about getting things done. Trying to build a virtual office in 2D is just window dressing that will get in my way and has no hope of getting used. You have competition in the most obvious space, which is already handled well through IRC, Slack and Teams.

If you want to facilitate spontaneous conversations and team culture, your client cannot be the company the employees work for. Those things happen on back channels like text messages, Signal, Discord servers, etc.

I'd be interested in glancing at what you've come up with, especially if it's not just yet another web or Electron app.
Not sure studies would be particularly helpful for that, anecdotes and feelings are the best you'll get. But FWIW it's been my experience that Americans are more ambitious than people from other countries, including myself.
it's better than laundering gpl code, but it still breaks the licensing terms of those licenses as well, namely attribution
1-2% of the water that goes into the canals is currently lost to evaporation:

https://theconversation.com/installing-solar-panels-over-cal...

So, reducing that is not going to have as big an impact as, say, improved irrigation techniques, or building more reservoirs.

However, it will produce a lot of electricity. (Though probably less per dollar than putting the panels on top of failed farmland.)
Meanwhile, the only real C++ RAD alternative to C++ Builder in 25 years was C++/CX, killed by internal WinDev politics.

And maybe by .NET 9, all the kinds of Delphi workloads will be finally supported by Native AOT and low level coding capabilities.

All enterprise products cost an arm and a leg, and at that level it hardly matters, license costs aren't where usually project budgets get burned.
What does it have to do with tables and how do I print the chairs?
I work in ProServe. But even when I was in doing regular old enterprise architecture on prem, with Azure, etc. You’re always locked into your infrastructure and the cost to migrate any large infrastructure no matter how “agnostic” you try to stay comes with major cost both real and opportunity and risk of bugs and down time.

Show me your “agnostic” solution and I can show you plenty of ways that you tied yourself to your choices. Not to mention all of the organizational constraints and coordination - architecture review boards, planning committees, project management organizations, etc.
I've seen a lot of solutions that look like this in the past: they all break eventually, usually when the attack prompt is longer and can spend more tokens over-coming the initial rules defined in the earlier prompt.

I bet you could break the GPT-4 version yourself if you kept on trying different attacks.

Often one that works well in my experience is imitating a sequence of prompts from the user and the assistant, as I did in the example here: https://simonwillison.net/2023/Apr/14/worst-that-can-happen/...
This opens a huge possibilities. It's likely we could simply plug in stable diffusion using a linear layer. As well as whisper and some TTS. Getting a back to back mixed image/sound/text engine running on a laptop.

I wonder if there's powerful enough ViT model that does OCR.
That's only if you fill up once a week. Anyone who does some remote working or any of a number of other mitigations is going to find an EV very expensive.

Which is annoying, because I want one.
I managed to get it responsive again.
I'm assuming if you're not actively trying to get pursued by a law enforcement official this isn't a problem.
> But that's never been the case, why should it be now?

For the same reasons TFA is making the argument "No Source Code == No Patent."

> If you forced every inventor to have to make their invention, it'd be a pro-industry burden that diminished the capacities of any smaller organizations or inventors.

If an inventor never made their invention, are they an inventor? IMO no, they're just an "idea guy" at that point.
Except Elio has struggled for 15 years to release a car. It needs a receivership, not one that permanently owns it, unless they are just deliberately playing with investors.
We'd have to combine it either with some sort of inflation model or with historical income distributions if we wanted to compare with current values, but:

https://taxfoundation.org/historical-income-tax-rates-bracke...

should enable a calculation of effective rates given any particular set of (taxable) incomes.
I've heard the sega Saturn is difficult to develop for, compared to the PlayStation. Is that true in your experience?

I would guess judging by the games that the Saturn was more capable with 2D games.
Please give examples!
What does any of that have to do with ESG or DEI?
Thanks. It's back now.
It's like something right out of a Douglas Adams book.
They're, at large, interested in conserving the structures of capitalism. They make an effort to seem progressive but continuously fail to make any meaningful changes to the systems in the US that have harmed people and have kept people in poverty for generations. They're generally in the pockets of capitalists and don't care about worker rights. There may be a couple exceptions but the democratic party in general is conservative
Stop quoting behavioral sink, it has been thoroughly debunked. https://gwern.net/mouse-utopia
Yeah, I guess it's to be distributed? There's no central driver repo to refer to.
I have a realistic scenario:

I write event (think food festival) software. 9-10 months out of the year there is almost zero traffic, 1-2 months have mild traffic, ~2 weeks are higher traffic, and then 1-5 days (during the event) are very busy.

I'd be hard pressed to find anything other than my current stack (Lambda/DynamoDB/S3/Route53/APIGateway) that costs as little. In the off-months my costs are ~$5 if that and in the month of the event that might get as high as $15-30. I cannot imagine being able to host it locally/colocated (for the month of the event) for that cheap and that doesn't even touch on the hardware cost (I'm thinking just electricity and co-locating costs).

Yes, I'm a small fish and this is just my side business but for me the cloud is way cheaper. Anything with very spiky/uncertain load can be good candidate for the "cloud" but a big part (IMHO) of making the cloud work is using the managed services and using them smartly. If all you do is spin up EC2 instances then no, the cloud is probably not going to be cheaper in the long run.
> Patents protect the little guy from the manufacturers.

As long as the little guy's patent can improve the process without stepping on any of the countless pre-existing patents manufacturers have accumulated. Now how often is that the case?
That doesn't sound very instagrammable.

You'd clearly never make it as a politician.
> I comment about the nature of 'free markets' in the general (and especially in the context of US-EU), and someone inevitably jumps in with an off-topic gripe about China.

We are talking about the US sanctioning Chinese battery supply chains specifically, to quote TFA:

> The rules are aimed at weaning the United States off dependence on China for EV battery supply chains and are part of President Joe Biden's effort to make 50% of U.S. new vehicle sales by 2030 EVs or PHEVs.
This is naive. There are tons of firmware changes that will render hardware unusable until the board is re-flashed (which you may not be able to do at that point), and even without moving parts the capability to damage components. Simple example, often firmware is the only thing that will stop your hardware from cooking itself if it is capable of doing so. Or if you mess with battery management you could conceivably get a fire. Or you mess with power distribution and send the wrong voltages, parts are fried. Or, etc. etc.
A bit off topic, but how are you liking the Ioniq 5?

I'm on a "2 year waiting list" with my local dealer for an Ioniq 5. It has 200 people on the list, and he got 8 years in the last year. Still a "2 year waiting list" though, even if you've been on it a year already.

It's apparently quite a popular car.
> Until all games start releasing native ports

More realistically, game devs can target Proton as a platform, making sure it works on that.
The rock-paper-scissors design of Age of Empires 2 (aka: Age of Kings) is more nuanced than what I described above.

So the meta pre-patch is that XBows are weak to Skirmishers. (10 E. Skirms can often win vs 20 XBows). Knights are weak to Monks (100 gold to convert a 60-food+75Gold unit is effectively a 120-food + 150-gold swing, so the Monk can die afterwards and you still got an effective conversion. Furthermore, Knights are the same speed as all other knights and have a ton of armor+HP, so the converted knight can likely escape).

If the monk survives for a 2nd or 3rd conversion, even worse. The monk already paid for itself after just one conversion.

The "intended" rock-paper-scissors was that Infantry (ie: Longswords) were countered by XBows. But...

You see, its more important to "force" your opponent into making otherwise worthless units. Skirmishers may counter XBows, but they're nearly useless against all other units in the game. So by "forcing" your opponent into a counter-unit, you've more effectively controlled the game.

So Longswords are countered by XBows. But guess what? XBows were the meta-play to begin with, so you just "forced" the opponent into making good units, what he should have been doing from the start!

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That being said, XBows only counter Infantry when micro comes into play: effectively knowing the XBow move-and-attack cooldowns. Its not a thing beginners do. If you just patrol-move into a pile of infantry, the Longswords kinda do okay.

So its only a counter much like how monks "counter" knights, I assume perfectly play on the part of the XBows (who have nearly the same movement speed, so they can perform a "retreating" kiting maneuver against enemy Longswords). If you are unable to micro like this however, its not really a true counter.
For what it's worth I've worked at multiple companies where we had an AWS technical account rep in our slack channels helping us solve problems.

Agreed that their general support (and some of the design and implementation of their services) makes me want to give up and go outside and touch grass instead of working in tech, but as soon as you reach the level where you are in contact with support directly, they're very responsive. It's a weird dichotomy.
Right, it’s not a purely scientific question. It’s impossible to extricate moral judgments from the question. Which is why Texas drawing the line at 6 weeks isn’t “fascist.”

Blackmun was a libertarian who snuck onto the court during the bad old days when the GOP failed to vet their judicial appointments. As professor Ely wrote: Roe “is not constitutional law and gives almost no sense of an obligation to try to be.” Roe was uniquely indefensible, having no basis in constitutional text, long-standing tradition, original intent, international consensus, or public opinion either then or now. Half a century after Roe was authored, most people even in liberal democracies still think you shouldn’t be able to kill a fetus with a face absent risks to the mother’s health.
The Biggest Fraud
I might be wrong, but it's my impression people can get their doors kicked in and their computers seized, returned 6 months later with hard drives wiped. No recourse, or very slow and painful.
You can get a $7500 tax credit on a bolt and a few other cars. This is also true with the just updated EPA rules. This also means materials and manufacturing especially batteries were primarily from the US, Mexico or Canada. So it's effectively 20k for many people.

EVs are expensive primarily because of the battery at this point. And the secondary reason is the tremendous demand combined with reduced availability of cars leads to dealers adding their dealer markup. There have already been EVs that sold for a lower price with software locked batteries that you could upgrade later. Almost 10 years ago Tesla offered that. There were cars with gas extenders like you described almost 10 years ago, the BMW i3 is one.
I wasn’t the hiring manager for those roles, so I’m not 100% sure. If by “can come in hot” you mean people with existing Elixir experience, then based on who we hired I’d say that previous experience would have been required.
Correct! A lot of people forget the big problem with “secret police” isn’t the “police” part, it’s the “secret” part.
IBM's Hybrid Cloud concept is promising.

Run your sensitive or expensive bulk resources like dbs onprem and go cloud for the rest. You can often save big just bringing your db onsite.
And why will google allow them to do that at scale?
"When you strike at a king, you must kill him."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The windows ten start menu is also laggy. I’ve also disabled and uninstalled as much crap as possible.
More platforms would be better but the answer is for someone - commercial or some free software initiative - to get a usable and supported device to market, not making impositions on an already established platform with its own strengths and legions of customers who are willing to pay slightly more because of them.
The fact you got downvoted for saying this shows how little critical thinking is going on around here. If people think this is a good idea, show us the numbers: how much would this cost including running all the cabling, building substations, linking into the grid, adding scaffolding spanning the canals, all for hundreds of miles. Compare that to $1800/kW installed for a normal solar power plant [1] and however much basic shade tarp or shade balls would cost to provide the same evaporation benefit.

And no, I don’t believe “the government already owns the land” is a good argument here. We’re talking about comparing to land cost for a power plant literally in the desert, of which there is an awful lot in Southern California.

[1] https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=48736
In software development the other big elephant in the room is the age of the field itself.

If the world thirty years ago needed fewer software developers, then you'd have fewer 20 year old new software developers - and that strongly reduces the odds of having as many 50 year old developers today as 20 year old developers today.
Terraform is not “cloud agnostic” anymore than using Python with the various cloud providers SDKs.

Each provider within TF is tied tightly with the cloud provider.

Standard Disclaimer: yes I work at AWS and I do IAC with the CloudFormation or TF depends on what the customer wants
It depends how much you drive the car, plus some ICE cars have the benefit of being tried and true workhorses that you assume will have a near 100% probability of meeting or exceeding your expectations, whereas an EV’s total cost is more volatile due to lack of data.
I have begun to find bing search invaluable. It's annoying to use google although I don't even like the bing user interface for AI search. Much too hard to get to. I don't want a single extra keystroke.
Could you share examples of things that can't be done from the SDK? Thanks!
README for codequery[0]outlines an overview of tool set to go from source code to visualization. (although, not as a generate live updates per editor changes)

[0] : https://github.com/ruben2020/codequery
CBC pauses Twitter activity after being labelled 'government-funded media'
Department of Defense Contract Finance Study Report [pdf]
Kodi Forum Data Breach
It used to not be possible at all, and now you still have to repeat it regularly if you want to keep using the sideloaded application, which makes it close to useless for anything else than development. Of course, as expected from Apple, doing it from another OS than macOS is a huge PITA too.
If everything was based on 100g, people would become used to roughly weighing things with their hands and knowing roughly how many calories are in their food.