skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
the second this is popular worldwide, not an US curiosity, it won't be able to handle crime.

first thing I'd start is a public camera collecting face metrics and images, and then associating them with the iphone radio (plent to chose from) then criminals who steal a phone could buy the face unlock info after uploading a radio sample.
Exactly this.

Government employees should have some official channel that any constituent can use to communicate with them, but it doesn’t have to be every (or any) social media network.

The ability to reply on social media networks is largely an amplification mechanism, not a meaningful avenue for redress of grievances.

When I “block” you it variously means that (1) I don’t see your messages/replies and sometimes also (2) you don’t see my messages.

I think that #2 is problematic for government accounts but #1 is reasonable.
Yeah, no night, no atmosphere, constant power output, lot's of real estate, and panels in space do not need heavy superstructure to withstand weather or gravity, thus they could potentially be extremely light for the area (micrometers to tens of micrometers thick at most needed for light absorption). And in far future, if they are built of materials taken from moon or meteorites, you could also bypass most of the lifting cost for even that. Of course, that would need huge scale to justify the R&D to pull it off.

Anyway, space based solar power is the end game. Nothing on earth will ever provide the quantities of power (not even nuclear, fusion or fission) that capturing solar energy can.
I think it's neat that they did all these studies on feasibility and projected a start date into the 2000s.

Also neat that we ended up with complimentary energy generation and storage technologies to fix the "it gets dark at night" problem of solar electricity generation!
I was about to say that. It is just a badly disguised paid ad.
> and ensure class membership in the training data is representative.

This seems like the most productive focus area. Add in more variety in the training images and output should get closer to representing the global population.
>> The simplest explanation is their diffusion ~15,000 years ago.

The problem I have with that is everything started to change when the glaciers started melting. Civilization surely extended to areas that we now call the continental shelf. Sea levels gradually rose several hundred feet, washing away an awful lot of everything. It's hard to say what was where and diffused because there isn't there any more.
>but they will charge about $25 per quarter ($100 per year) to maintain your account.

This is entirely dependant on your plan and plan administrator. Some charge nothing some charge much more than $100/year (I was paying over $250/quarter with one 401k).
Silence Isn't Consent
Two things:

First, did you bother reading the article? He is the opposite of an activist these days. He goes out of his way not to preach to anybody to the point where there are longtime conservative volunteers there that have no idea about his personal politics. He is just living his life according to his personal ideals.

Secondly, what is your issue with communist activism? If someone genuinely thinks that's the best way forward and wants to try and spread the word, power to them.
Protect Your Game Servers and Back End Apps with Lectron DDoS Protection
Many thanks for the rec, will check it out for sure!
$400 for 16GB of ram that Apple is willing to warranty for 3 years.

Try pricing a 3 year OEM same day replacement warranty for any memory product in your country.

This is what you said. You're implying something here but you won't back it up with a link.
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT212940

https://www.macrumors.com/2022/10/07/iphone-wallet-ids-which...

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2021/09/apple-announces-first...
You'd think so, but from what I've seen, the overlap between enjoyers of Go and Java is tiny. The languages may occupy the same niche, but their design philosophies are at opposite ends of the spectrum.
> At the factories that produce silicon and composites for the windblades.

And if we compared these factories and their environmental impacts we would see a net increase from the production of solar and wind products? That's the point, and you ducked it hard.

> So far, no large country has managed to move to 100% carbon-free renewable generation. And I'm not seeing this changing.

Who said that we had to hit 100%? There is a place for burning stuff for fuels in our society for long to come, the point is not having it the default way we power larger systems.

> If we're talking about Europe, they are facing the problem of Dunkelflaute - long periods of no wind, no sun, and low temperatures in the middle of the winter. A worst-case once-in-century scenario would require around a _month_ of storage.

> So far no technology is even close to that.

Okay, that's a great argument to not continue investing in storage solutions, but let's be real, a new nuclear steam turbine isn't coming online _tomorrow_ either.

Let's do both, and not pretend like the more risky one is less dangerous than it is, when things go wrong.
You're in for a treat with the squirrel Olympics and the parcel thief traps.
Sapient paradox: Why humans got stuck in prehistory
For energy markets, and this includes gas and electricity, one must distinguish between the spot markets, and longer term agreements. The former ones have very high volatility during the day, while the latter ones base on long term contracts usually with fixed prices. The spot markets are generally only there to cover any additional demand that one didn't want to make long term commitments for, while the longer term contracts create the base load.

That's why it's profitable to keep the gas turbines running. You must also consider the price of the turbine and surrounding infrastructure: if it can only run profitably 10% of the time it will be a much harder sell than running it 30%.
Never knew about VAS. I guess I just need to lobby the store to implement the protocol then. Probably fat chance they'd actually implement it though.
Creative Labs Sound Blaster Demo: Dr. Sbaitso
>Apparently LAION doesn't republish the content, only the metadata

"LAION datasets are simply indexes to the internet, i.e. lists of URLs to the original images together with the ALT texts found linked to those images."

I'm surprised link rot doesn't make this a big problem.
AI Inventor and the Ethics Trap for US Patent Attorneys
Sure. But that is not in LAIONs responsibility. They provide URIs to images and the corresponding alt texts.
How could I weight it against someone not me if I'm not them?
Barring albedo effects, I dream of A self replicating robot that uses silicon in the Sahara desert sand to cover Africa with solar panels this fixing global warming once and for all. No negative consequences the end
Anyone can verify this via a quick search.

So do it
>It's hilarious (in a way) seeing USians comment on this post. The rest of the world has had contactless payment for at least a decade.

Huh? I remember making contactless payments from my Samsung phone in the USA back in 2013 just fine. It had an unfortunate name at the beginning, but otherwise worked great.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Softcard
You are doing a fine job in this thread. It is hard to think outside our own experiences. This passerby appreciates your efforts to get others to do just that.
No Ruby? :/

Nvm, datasette works fine!
Even if I didn't need to have my driver's license with me when I left the house, I think it would take a lot to convince me not to generally carry my small (business card holder) front pocket wallet with me. Being dependent of having a charged and working phone for almost literally everything is something I wouldn't be generally comfortable with even with a smart watch which would be a backup for most payments.
In theory yea, and where possible they will, but a lot of PV installations lack the ability or the incentive to curtail.

Households are usually not exposed to spot price signals, so residential PV will always produce electricity (network permitting).

Utility scale PV up to a few MW may not have the ability, or the operator may not have the option to curtail contracted.
Over-regulating and distracting from the truth that social media is an irredeemable cancer. Let’s not waste our time polishing a turd.
I believe the rotational speed discrepancy in galaxies is simply the most intuitive example. There are many more cases where mass appears to be missing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_matter#Observational_evid... . Crucially, these occur at vastly different scales, from individual galaxies to clusters and whole observable universe.

> ...have we really jumped to matter being the culprit without taking a look at gravity behaving in unexpected ways?

This is called Modified Gravity, or MOND: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modified_Newtonian_dynamics and is well-researched. It stands as a niche but actively pursued alternative to Dark Matter. For the most part, Dark Matter fits observations better and more parsimoniously.

But of course we don't have definitive proof/disproof for either.
Some digital cameras (looking at you, Fujifilm X100v) are now selling above release MSRP even three years after release!

As frustrating as it is, I must say it is kinda nice to finally have one sphere of consumer electronics where you don't have to update all the time!
Right... And the reports documenting increased down time, broken features and spam on the "for you" page are all a false flag operation by the liberal woke mafia to dunk on daddy Elon.
The article and the comments here don't make it clear why running it in production shouldn't be done. If slow_query is already running in production, why would running EXPLAIN ANALYZE slow_query be bad?

Is the overhead of running EXPLAIN ANALYZE so much worse than running slow_query itself?
I always feel bad when using mouse traps. I find mice really cute, and innocent.

Wasps and hornets, on the other hand, bring out my darkest urges.
So what happens if a bunch of businesses then decide to become worker cooperatives? No more taxes paid? So personal taxes go up?
Microsoft Kicks Twitter in the Teeth
i made a killing when i was 17 selling w32 POS software i developed in my bedroom with vb6(?) because i hit the time 1) everyone wanted the window look and 2) all the big players (with ascii art ux) were succumbing to flexLM pushing dongle licenses and they never worked.
Because it's the most economical assumption.

We know that there are various different particles and there are some that we haven't discovered yet. There's no reason why some particle wouldn't only interact via gravity and weak interaction.

Adding some "dark" mass in the simulations paints the picture that matches what we see.

Some galaxies were found without these gravitational anomalies, which all but rules out a general systemic issues with the theory of gravity.
You can stuff some pretty insane stuff in Redis keys beside ints, giant multi MB strings with globby query patterns. Your general point is dead on.
I find it funny how people just don't learn from history.

There is even a term for it, and it comes from the same exact behaviour from the same exact company: https://www.howtogeek.com/297651/what-does-it-mean-when-a-co...

Apple don't care one iota for any developer on their platforms.
But are also leading to more illustrations in children’s books and more children’s books.

I think it’s changing the job from pen and paper (allegorically) to a prompt wrangler who gets the image right for the editor or author. Kind of like how seo optimization became a job and didn’t even exist 30 years ago.
I got bed bugs last year in Germany. I was soo wtf that I originally thought they were fleas from my dog so just got him treated for fleas. A month or so later I found one and identified it as a bed bug. I tried for a month to get rid of them, that didn't work at all. It took about 4 months once I got pest control out. It seemed like a standard job for him.
yes for a large enough portion of the population - if your app is useful for every kid, every adult or all of one general traditional gender - that's a big market - if you're very successful the platform will take over.

If on the other hand you have the top selling real estate portfolio management app in the world I don't expect the platform will fold that up in their offerings, even if you are making more money on that than any of the apps with more universal appeal.
The funniest part is when an apple/big tech recruiter contacts you, you get to explain your app's design choices during the interview process, they don't hire you and launch that competitor of yours.
> Coders made up 14% of employees at tech companies

Wow is this true? If so, I'm extremely surprised it is this low. No wonder Elon could cut 80% of jobs and everything would keep ticking along.
I’d half thought that the K stood for K!
Everybody is different, and Trello is a great application (I use it for longer-term planning with my partner), but after starting to use Pagico, I'm completely sold. Being able to plan things as projects, and putting them to a unified or independent gantt charts is a great way to visualize daily and long term load.
I've played guitar for something like 25 years, and have been active on forums for the same time. I've oscillated between "collecting gear" and "playing guitar" many, many times - not that those are mutually exclusive, at all, but it I feel that it is such a ubiquitous thing in that space, that most everyone that play guitar seriously have found themselves in the same position.

Suddenly you find yourself with too much gear, and you've spent too much time just buying stuff, without putting equal effort into your playing / writing / etc.

Then you speak with the guys that are actually out there playing, and get a refresher to pick up your damn guitar and just play, gear be damned. So you feel very motivated for months...years...and then you're suddenly back collecting stuff, or spending too much time reading about the stuff.

And to be honest, it kind of reminds me of when I started coding. Back then, I had a compiler, a bare-bones text editor, and that was that. I was really productive, creative even. Then I got caught up in the world of tooling, and I spent more time on building my perfect setup, rather than building products. (as much as I'd want to, at least).
And SQL server's lack of backup with SSH piping makes it basically pain to administer.
sshd does this.

sshd 3891262 root 4u IPv4 15450342 0t0 TCP ibpmaas-testing:https->10.10.47.11:49064 (ESTABLISHED)

sshd 3891351 ubuntu 4u IPv4 15450342 0t0 TCP ibpmaas-testing:https->10.10.47.11:49064 (ESTABLISHED)

# lsof -ti ":49064"

3891262
3891351

edit for readability
I am not an expert, but, from listening to physicists and reading popular works, I thought they generally agreed that physics was radically incomplete.

For instance, the two most powerful physical theories, Quantum Mechanics and General Relativity, contradict each other. Quantum mechanics has no explanation for what the collapse of the wave function means (it's really QM + Collapse) and it cannot account for gravity. General relativity, by contrast, assumes continuous space (which is incompatible with quantization) which leads it to predict point singularities (which is incompatible with the uncertainty principle and the Planck limit for physical distance.)

As I said, I am ignorant, but someone more knowledgeable could expand on this.
The article mentions that limited agriculture could be conducted at the rectenna sites. I wonder if it could have actually been beneficial. A lot of middle America (where most of the sites would have been located) gets VERY cold in the winter. Would microwave warming of the rectenna sites allow growing more crops there for more of the year?
You said "It's easy to get voted up by +100 simply by making snarky low value comments that agree with the current HN vibe" - are you sure about this, or just imagining it? Because one can only see their own votes and for me I never had this happening.
Most Apple Watch owners charge their watch while they’re asleep at night.
AFAIK Walmart, for example, doesn't take Apple Pay. One of the reasons I don't really use Apple Pay is that I know (unless there are large cash only signs) that a credit card will work and, for me, it's at least as easy.
What happened with general relativity somehow explaining the "dark matter" observations?
> It’s unsustainable but [...]

I was nodding along, including to this bit — and then I thought, why? It echoes my experience of finding it hard to stick to processes like these even when I find the results not just useful but also gratifying. I guess there's something about it that I resist? The sacrifice of spontaneity perhaps? Why do _you_ say it is unsustainable?

I've often thought that the most impactful productivity tool for me would be a personal assistant reminding me to follow procedures that I'd previously decided were a good idea. Or barring that, a software equivalent. A personal digital assistant, if you will.
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The 23 minute video linked on the "ultimate notion setup for 2023" sounds like a great trap to fall into to not actually get anything done. I get the impression some people spend more time configuring these productivity tools instead of actually being productive.

Although I admit I've been guilty the same thing, perfecting my .vimrc instead of actually working on projects. Messing around with static site blog generators when I should actually just be writing content.
When employers realized that there will always be someone desperate enough to do the job for cheaper.
Not much, typically.
Droit de Suite
I just tried and they downloaded for me...
I'm surprised not more of support staff is getting laid off. Product managers is like 2.9% only for example.

Also the weird split between software engineers and application developers or web developers ?
This was true of Microsoft in the 1990's. Just ask Gary Kildall among others.

My personal brush with this was in a startup I was at 3 years before RFC 2616 (HTTP compression). We had developed a client proxy and server that would not only compress HTML pages but also bundle in a zip file all the images (TCP connection ramp up time was a thing) and it dramatically sped up page load on what was then a slow internet.

Microsoft came sniffing, on the pretense they were interested in buying our company or at least licensing. But then they ghosted us, and if I recall correctly, those features ended up in IIS and Internet Explorer as proprietary extensions, when Microsoft was trying to embrace and extend the web to beat Netscape.
> That sounds a bit like using the latest features in the C or C++ standard, and then be surprised that many compilers cannot compile your code.

Compiling the Firefox browser is often an exercise in futility because of this.

Rust might be the best but not being able to compile existing programs looks really bad.
For people with nine hours to spare and an interest in this kind of thing, the Get Back documentary is incredible.

Five minutes of discussing the space, setup etc. Tea break. Hour of playing random riffs and scribbling on bits of paper. Desultory not-quite-argument between John and Paul. Bored Ringo. Friendly banter. Slightly less friendly banter. Then, after hours of faffing around, suddenly there's a reluctant agreement to get back to work - and everyone launches into one of the hits they're supposed to be recording, and suddenly it's the Beatles at their peak.
> The only difference to other DML statements is

Truncate is DDL. It's like dropping and recreating the table in a single operation.
I believe the UK's legal standard for considering monopoly power is 25%. The US has seemingly largely given up on actually promoting competition.
Like most things, it depends.

Having application logic in the db is harder to debug and test (and possibly scale, but that also depends). But as you mention, it can be much faster if the logic is working on a lot of records.

Also, IME, the data store often far outlives the original application. Having the logic tightly coupled to the data model means future applications are less like to break the assumptions made in the original data model.
Is this one of those sentiments people like to say until the monkey's paw curls and they too find out they are mediocre?
When money stopped beeing free (as in NIRP)...
“Ohhh, super cool!”
“Python 2.7”
I can’t even.
> So it's not that Apple disagree with the standard, but they don't want to bring it to iOS.

This argument would have held a lot more water a couple months ago ago, before Apple implemented web push notifications on mobile Safari. [0]

[0] https://webkit.org/blog/13878/web-push-for-web-apps-on-ios-a...
That assumes "supporting" functions from HR over Accounting to Sales are actually not doing anything at a daily basis...
Yet, what LAION is doing appears to be somewhat obvious. We are a non-profit and not publishing the images seems like hiding behind technicalities.
The author said a 2nd edition will be out later this year: https://twitter.com/shiffman/status/1646961509833011201?s=20
And oil will not sell itself (those artificial ones are probably plastic)
The main tip I learned from using PostgreSQL (or relational databases in general) is never use an ORM. They cause far more trouble than they are worth and it's far easier to see what is going on when you're writing SQL queries directly.
I wasn't aware of the galaxy rotation argument for DM - I have always heard it argued for using the bullet cluster observation for galaxy collision (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullet_Cluster).

That's not to say DM is the only way to explain such data, but it is a good motivation for it.
By definition, half of us are under the median.
I had an extra $1k to invest in 2010, and I narrowed it down between Apple stock and Bitcoin (lol). I ended up choosing APPL, which of course did well, but I ended up selling all of it shortly after to buy a laptop.

Long story short, I'm sure I would have sold Bitcoin a looong time ago too, had I purchased it. Don't beat yourself up over it! And especially don't go after other silly high risk investments to make up for the FOMO!
Monsanto enters the chat, gets a judge to shut chat down.
I doubt you can get venture capital for a startup HVAC business. The experience is different.
>Good

Sure, but there should be no surprise (or complaining) when the cycle reverses.

Remember the posts a year or so ago of people working multiple remote jobs?
‘That’s my tank on fire’ James Meek watches the video war in Ukraine
> But recycling is easy! Just put the right thing in the right bin!

Maybe if you live in very specific locations like Taiwan. Then yes you shall put right things in right bins, rinse your recycling first, etc. Not because it's easy or quick, it isn't, but because you will be financially penalized if you don't. In many other places recycling does nothing besides make you feel good and get off the case of the manufacturers who save money on plastic packaging and shift the blame around

> that's a good 20 minutes

Only once and only if you don't already skim the labels, which I bet you do if you try to avoid animal stuff in your diet occasionally. The small print ingredients take much longer to parse than an obvious Nestle logo.

I don't have a problem with not caring at all as much as saying that you care but it's too difficult, because in this case it really isnt.
I also use for T-Mobile where I get 3% back and then Apple Pay at 2% is a pretty good cash back scheme. Send that cash straight to the 4% savings account.