skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The cost of food is a great estimate of it's cost in electricity etc.

Its of course impossible to argue with neoliberals about this, but my entire point is that sometimes we have to step back and look at the overall picture and consider if what we are doing really makes sense. The ecological destruction in land, fresh water, the depletion of finite resources vs. renewable, the sustained poverty in developing countries for the last century combined with subsidized farming in the western world combined with a globalized liberal food market, etc.

> And those gigantic ships? The absolute cheapest (in fuel) way to move goods, responsible for essentially every advance in living in the last century.

Is it really so impossible to imagine any other measure of cost than what has been determined by the liberal market? Finite resources, the cost of the destruction of biospheres, the human toll this all has, none of this is calculated into your holy all knowing invisible hand of the market. Meanwhile people are suffering, poverty increasing, air and water become scarce resources and children starve to death all over. Whatever you imagine works so great, doesn't really for a LOT of people you never see or think about.
Love this.

Semi relatedly, the reason I chose my current smart watch is that it can go weeks without charging, I simply don’t worry about it. Yes it has a limited number of colors and I can’t browse the web on it or w.e. but that’s a feature.

Maybe I’ll seek out a phone with similar battery use profile…
My point isn't when you should be optimizing to the point that the optimization is publishable.

My point is that you should be writing fast optimized code by default in ML research because you tend to throw large volumes of data at that code multiple times a day, and slow code reduces the number of experiments you can run.

This isn't what I see however, lots of research code is horribly slow.
It’s an engineering challenge, but doable as you get about a ton of extra weight for EVs.

The main mental miscalculation I think people make when they say “why not just trains” is ignoring that rail is a super conservative industry, at least in the US, and in the case of passenger rail (not on existing tracks) that building out new rail infrastructure is super expensive, particularly for HSR where rights of way have to obey Newton’s Laws when it comes to turning radius.

It literally may take more time to do the environmental review for adding, say, catenary lines to existing rail than to just go to electric trucks. Some companies have been really effective at building out charging infrastructure. Additionally, just convincing the rail industry to make changes to enable/allow electrification (especially in non traditional ways) could take a generation.

Additionally, the US has removed a lot of seldom-used rail, so you just need a lot of trucking. Moving cargo from truck to rail to truck just may be a lot more cost and hassle than direct via truck.

Electrifying trucking, even long haul trucking, is just potentially the fastest way to electrify a lot of current logistics given the cultural, infrastructure, regulatory reality we live in today, as opposed to the ideal cultural, infrastructural, regulatory world we’d LIKE at here to be.

Engineering a decarbonization transition with realistic assessments of infrastructure & industry/regulatory inertial as a constraint is very different than “ideally we use trains for logistics as they have a lower coefficient of friction.”
Are you counting the resources it takes to raise the animal?
Axiom Programming Language
Yeah, it’s Cedrata
They boost the share price for a while, but then the competition takes over. Leadership get rich.

Steve Jobs has the best explanation for this.
https://youtu.be/P4VBqTViEx4
They're consuming real electricity and real time on servers that don't belong to them nor do they have permission to use.
Hard agree, I'd rather not leetcode-ify* the health system. Nor do I want to see swaths of businesses dedicated to cracking the medical leetcode interview.

*because it really feels as if some companies translate leetcode skills to actual skills
A normal day on Twitter in 2019
Built a Chrome extension to save myself money last Christmas: https://getscore.app/chrome?ref=hn.

Ended up saving thousands of dollars for myself so far (I shop a lot online), and friends & family really love the product. We also applied to YC – so let's see how that goes!
Show HN: 8menu, a 9menu-like launcher in Go
And any code you write is a repackaged version of the compiler. Spot the difference? Should the maker of the compiler claim ownership of your binary?
Almost all components and peripherals have ESD protection built into them, designed specifically to prevent human contact causing issues. There should be no reason to be worried about damaging your peripherals (or, especially, your PC). Are you having issues with components dying randomly or something?
If LLMs are transportation, here's to hoping we have a Netherlands like solution, with lots of bicycles and trains for longer distances, meaning lots of healthy people.

Instead of "car-dependency" we should try to use LLMs as bicycles for the mind, still putting effort into every mental pedal.
Not necessarily. IMO a good model needs to follow your prompt well, and that was my problem with Stable Diffusion.

I've been trying to get a good portrait picture with "neon lights" on Stable Diffusion and it is almost impossible. Meanwhile with the new Dall-e, that was possible. The picture specially with SDXL is good, but it doesn't really have neon lights...

I tried now similar prompt on deepfloyd and managed to get there!
Nice, thanks.

Idk tbh, but i think it doesn't.
See the title.

> US officials lead urgent rescue talks for First Republic

There is no need for any urgent rescue talks. Fed will print money.
Re: issues w/ travel plans - I’ve gotten stranded or left SOL before. My general course of action is to just buy a new ticket/room/whatever and file a claim on my credit card. My wife cracked the bumper of a rental. Chase paid. Flight got canceled. Polish air refused to give me a refund until 6+ months later after I had filed a complaint with DOT. I booked a new (more expensive) flight and Amex covered the cost.

I did get absolutely screwed once though. Turns out you can’t book a hotel in Paris after midnight because the system rolls the date over. Ended up sleeping on a couch in the lobby that night.
It's much less of an issue with balanced leads, so just use those?
what does education have to do with schooling?
The author[1] has also created a number of other useful off- and online tools:

> Image Command Line — Manipulate images from the command line (download)

> Math — A command-line calculator (download)

> Plot — Generate graphs from CSVs or JSON (download)

> QuickScribe — Have you ever needed a buffer to hold or edit plain text, like Notepad https://qscr.be/

> Trading Game — https://tgame.aaronliu.dev/

1. https://aaronliu.cc/
That’s a flawed analogy, a power saw never suggests a cutting pattern while the very essence of what copilot/AI etc does is suggest coding patterns. Which may or may not be vetted.

Typing manually vs auto-complete is a correct handsaw/power saw analogy.
I disagree. Having done a minor in criminal justice, officers, lawmakers, and others involved in the justice system could absolutely benefit from exposure to sociology and academic CJ. The American "justice" system is a travesty and continues following methods that we've known not to work for many decades. To fix the system we need the folks inside it to understand the system.

Part of that is education. Part of that is hiring officers who understand the system and want to improve and protect rather than a jobs system for those who want to exercise power over others.
https://www.qr-code-generator.com/solutions/wifi-qr-code/ can build one, this is cool.
I really doubt frauds have become more common.

Currently reading a biography of Grant. He’s already gotten swindled multiple times and I’m not even halfway done.

This is availability bias of someone who consumes more news than history
Had the same issue a long time ago, it was surprising how much of the internet was just "turned off": https://blog.dijit.sh/cloudflare-is-turning-off-the-internet...
How do harvesting machines work with this mixed planting approach? Do you need to redesign existing machines completely for this novel planting scheme? Won’t it be extremely hard to harvest from one type of plant without damaging other plants that are “occupying different canopy layers”?
> Do you really know what you're giving up by signing these?

Yes. Everything. That's the point of near-every CLA.

So the corporation behind it have option to close the code if they want to, taking your contributions with it.

Some corps might not ever do it, but any company is one MBA away from "what we can cut from OSS version and move to enterprise to get more customers"?
I recently bought Dell’s latest 32” monitor to connect to my 2018 Mac mini and I’ve noticed that the screen blacks out for a few seconds randomly. I did a bit of a search and there were a few mentions of static possibly being a culprit. Didn’t actually try to confirm it though and now I’ll never get the chance to because I’ve switched 1) desk placement, 2) desk, 3) Mac Studio.

The problem has gone away.

I don’t have a IKEA chair, currently using a Herman Miller Embody but I do (did) have an IKEA desk. A bamboo worktop, a chest on one side and those weird, A shaped legs on the other.
I prefer cotton because for some reason polyester makes me sweat a lot
I think everyone trying to name a single first order reason for more power is wrong. I think many little innovations occurred and became possible for various reasons.

1. better computer control
2. advances in variable cam timing mechanisms
3. direct injection
4. coil on plug ignition systems
5. improvements in sensors (knock sensors, mass air, oxygen, etc)
6. improvements in machining/forging etc leading to tighter tolerances
7. improvements in engine oils

probably dozens of other things
Yeah, I dunno. It's a sorites paradox. I'm annoyed when a search engine delivers me a site that's clearly GPT-generated rubbish (and greatly annoyed when it's not 100% clearly GPT-generated rubbish, but likely is), but it's unrealistic to say that something is 100% human also.

I'd love a way to generally assure me that there's a human behind the thing I'm reading, but I'm not even sure I can define exactly what I'm after when I say that.
What areyou even on about? There's a clear customize button on the new tab page, that has a clear background image customization. If you want to change it where else would you look?
Yeah exactly, this is what I normally do. Just add more keys to the mix in every encryption. That's why I didn't understand the need for this.
Yes, and DMCA includes specific protections against breaking or circumventing locks that restrict access to copyrighted content.
We can keep using trees, but this particular use of trees is already energy-intensive, materially intensive (thousands of miles of plastic tubes), sensitive to the weather each year, and geographically limited.
I’m sorry but this is sorely misguided.

How many of the farms surveyed are the owner and operator’s full time job? How many of those farms are owned and operated by multiple families at the same time?

Farming in the US is nothing like a corporate job, or even most small businesses, for reasons I just don’t have the time to share. Your comparison to income for the general population…doesn’t work.

Farms with 2k acres or less are indeed small, family run operations. Especially if you only farm cash crops. These are the kinds of farms that rely on right-to-repair the most. Not the homesteader family with 16 acres and some goats.

Sorry all, your idea of what most full-time, successful, multi-generational farming operations in the US looks like is simply not accurate.
This deserves more attention than it's getting. The results shown in the videos are extremely impressive, despite the unpolished presentation (surprising for a DeepMind release).

It's trained end-to-end in simulation but works without modification on real robots, with the most agile and accurate non-preprogrammed movements I've ever seen on this type of servomotor-driven robot. This represents far more progress in robotics than the trash sorting robot that was recently on the front page.
I'd give my favorite toes for a windows computer that can turn on reliably without having to apply innumerable updates, open a document without involving a web browser, or leave my taskbar icons alone from one month to the next. And I would literally pay a fee if my MS-powered work machines were able to go a day without some inane popup notification getting between me and whatever I want to click on. The best UI for an is one that stays out of the user's way. I cannot stand all these over-engineered, ad-forwarding, popup obsessed cartoon interfaces. When I want you to open a PDF then open the GD PDF using Adobe and go away!

(I talk of my work machines over which I have absolutely no control. Every personal machine I own, that isn't a phone, runs some variation of linux.)
Does the increased memory footprint mean it can't be run on a normal desktop like SD?
Masked Autoencoding for Scalable and Generalizable Decision Making
agree on customization, but I like the look of the windows 11.

I just wish they would 'finish the job', rather than having hodgepodge of windows 2000 and 7 leftovers that don't blend well.

See how silly this looks.

https://youtu.be/UnlqKXijyY4?t=469
They are not 14.5V charged. They need about 14V to charge.

https://footprinthero.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/Lead-Ac...
isn't it closer to "a carpenter refusing to offload the design of subassemblies to an alien whose understanding of carpentry is completely opaque"?

although, i suppose, to your point, even an alien could introduce a skilled carpenter to a new table saw technique.
Is this a Samsung G-series (G7/G9)? I returned a G7 that would make a high pitched noise and also dim the entire screen when certain patterns displayed. It also did this very strange 'interlacing' behavior which was apparently a known problem with Samsung monitors. Maybe something similar for you.
I didn't try to imply such: Like I said, you had to remove things by law. No?

Could've been clearer, I guess.
Aren't soldiers supposed to have at least some violent tendencies? Can't really fight a war with folks who aren't interested in killing other people.
of course, but that's not the point being made here
Welcome to HN!

Try to write the documentation for the feature from a end user's perspective first. Stick to the bare essentials and effectiveness for the user.

Then try to write a brief about how the feature can be implemented using the developer's perspective. List down the translation units (i.e., source files), libraries/executables, databases/filesystem structures/files that will be impacted.

There will be multiple ways in which you could implement the feature. While writing this down, you can list all the alternatives briefly and then note down which alternative you have chosen and the rationale for it.

Then try to write a brief about how you will test it. At this time, it can be your overall test strategy and some key test cases (not necessarily all).

Keep all of this brief (you are not writing War and Peace).

With all this prep work, your mind would start using its associative capabilities to suggest how you can proceed with the actual coding.
you should NOT ground your chair directly, only ground it through a large resistor, 100K or so. (you might want to check that value, it's from memory, I think you want any potential electric "shock" to be down below the 1 milliAmp range)

I'd use a ground strap designed for wearing while you handle MOSFET ICs.

if you ground your chair directly, it is likely to make YOU be the best circuit to ground when you handle your computer or monitor's AC "mains" (us "uk") power cords.

The resistor will allow static discharge (very few coulombs at very high voltage) but limit the flow of electricity
8menu is a simple menu utility inspired by the behavior of Plan9's 9menu utility. it's written in go and uses fyne to provide a cross-platform gui.

Currently it lacks pre-compiled binaries for systems other than Apple Silicon, but only due to laziness rather than compatibility. If anybody wants to propose a github action to remedy this, it'd be my pleasure to merge that.

If you'd like to try it out, or provide feedback, it'd be my pleasure :) Thanks for checking it out!
Emerging Labor Sources on the Internet: The Case of AOL Volunteers (2003) [pdf]
High salaries in tech are over forever
> I hope this doesn't come off as me "dunking on" you, or whatever people do on social media.

Nah it’s all good. I spend my time advocating for people to engage in more healthy ways, I try encourage people to blog more, to write directly to other humans via email and mail, I try to push for more genuine connections so it’s not like I think everything is doomed.

But I’m also not naive when it comes to the internet or society in general.

People are obsessed with money. And very few are obsessed with distributing them evenly. Even in the creators space. Which is why I wrote what I wrote.

I’d LOVE for a different outcome. I just don’t expect it.
This endeavor is most akin to a performance art gesture—and not at a bad one.

Specifically because of the silence around every critical aspect of what this might mean, and why someone might pursue such a pledge, or what verification means, and with what aspiration.

All that is provided AFAICT is a "how"...

...and almost all that results is a wake of perplexity, punctuated by a froth of debate and publicity. Which I take to be the intended product.
The thing to note about copyright is that you can't launder it away, infringement "reaches through" however many layers of transformation you add to the process. The question of infringement is purely:

* Did you have access to the original work?

* Did you produce output substantially similar to the original?

* Is the substantial similarity of something that's subject to copyright?

* Is the copying an act of fair use?

To explain what happens to Model B, let's first look at Model A. It gets fed in, presumably, a copyrighted data set. We expect it to produce new outputs that aren't subject to copyright. If they're actually entirely new outputs, then there's no infringement. Though, thanks to a monkey named after a hyperactive ninja[0], it's also uncopyrightable. If the outputs aren't new - either because Model A remembered its training data or because it remembered characters, designs, or passages of text that are copyrighted - then the outputs are infringing.

Model A itself - just the weights alone - could be argued to either be an infringing copy of the training data or a fair use. That's something courts haven't decided yet. But keep in mind that, because there is no copyright laundry, the fair use question is separate for each step; fair use is not transitive. So even if Model A is infringing and not fair use, the outputs might still be legally non-infringing.

If you manually picked out the noninfringing outputs of Model A and used that solely as the training set for Model B, then arguing that Model B itself is 'tainted' becomes more difficult, because there isn't anything in Model B that's just the copyrighted original. So I don't think Model B would be tainted. However, this is purely a function of there being a filtering process, not there being two models. If you just had one model and human-curated noninfringing data, then there would be no taint there either. If you had two models but no filtering, then Model B still can copy stuff that Model A learned to copy. Furthermore, automating the curation would require a machine learning model with a basic idea of copyrightability, and the contents of the original training set.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monkey_selfie_copyright_disput...

The whole monkey selfie just being on the article in full resolution is an interesting flex.
> I could name at least a few here in Germany from the top of my head, all of them commercially successful (tough I admittedly do not have calorie production figures for those and am not sure if they exist). But I'm not sure why the example of his farm warrants so much skepticism.

Because if it was that good, I'd expect to have been seeing all kind of articles about the massive revolution in agriculture. If there wasn't some kind of catch, why isn't it seeing wider adoption?

As far as what counts as "commercial success." It'd really have to be something that can compete with commodity agriculture to be a solution. If it's a "commercial success" because it's some boutique thing that can charge 10x commodity prices to make up for 5x costs by selling to self-consciously "ethical consumers" and elites by marketing its good local green permaculture vibes, then I don't think it will be anything but niche producers.
1.6 million out of how many total?
Yes, that makes much more sense to me now. I'm still not sure it's the analogy I'd use, but I see clearly what you're getting at.
Exactly, thank you.

Also, let’s be clear: we’re talking about the US. I’m sure it’s different in other countries.
Is the Linux kernel really that great?
You're using a strange and overly narrow definition of 'absorb'. The springs and dampers are both taking in the kinetic energy. And only one of them does it permanently, and it's not the springs.

I'd rather drive a car with (pressurized) shocks and no springs than drive a car with near-ideal springs and no shocks. I bet the former would absorb bumps much better than the latter.
I'd love to see a piece of hardware like this that you could reprogram easily; or the spin-and-say or whatever it was.
Meta: I had to re-word the title a bit to get it within the limit along with the date and PDF warning. Proper title is "Emerging Sources of Labor on the Internet:
The Case of America Online Volunteers".
I "ping 1.1" as my go-to network availability test.

It checks to see if Cloudflare is responding, which 99.9% of the time is going to tell you if your internet is working :)
A few non-desktop things I'm not fond of (allowing that I don't know that Windows counts these as ‘kernel’): Processes are expensive. Files are expensive. File names have nasty restrictions.

> KDE Plasma Desktop 5

Personally, I use KDE because it allows me to replicate one particular Mac feature that's important to me: leaving Control alone for terminal (editor) control characters.
So police have college degrees in other developed countries?
Totally agree, would love to have a local instance running
> Just a note that green card holders are residents, not citizens.

While there are time and other requirements after getting lawful permanent resident status (“green card”), the main limitation on access to citizenship is getting status in an immigrant category and thereby becoming an LPR.
Weirdly the massive increase in car performance has led me not to care about car performance anymore. I've been driving for a long time and now everything is freaking fast (by 40+ year old standards).

Today you can buy literally any car on the market and have way more acceleration, power and top speed than you need day-to-day. Take a really cheap car like the crappy $16k Nissan Versa which has 122hp in the base model. Compare to a 1970's Porsche 911 (125hp). They both weigh about the same too if that's what your thinking - modern materials are light!

Unless you're towing it's not practical to care about car performance anymore. You have a car? You likely have more power to weight than a sports car from 50 years ago.
I have become quite tired of disabling my VPN extension every time I visit a Cloudflare site. If I don't it just reloads the verification page over and over.