skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I really cannot understand why people set these things at odds with each other. They are both better than fossil fuels or degrowth.

Mostly because in many places nuclear power is currently politically blocked from any further build-out, if not outright banned. One of the main rhetorical moves that various "green" (i.e. anti-nuclear) lobbies say to justify not building out nuclear power — which regulators seem to have absorbed and now believe — is "for everything we'd use nuclear for, we can just use PV."

This statement has a clear refutation: nuclear is base-load + grid-scale, while PV elastic-load + individual-site-scale; so if you need to e.g. double the electrical capacity of a large city in response to population growth, then PV isn't going to work—you want nuclear (or another base-load grid-scale power technology, like hydropower.)

But these arguments don't get heard; rather, the regulators say "but we have PV, what's the point in building nuclear rather than just supporting the build-out of more PV?" as a conversation-ending rhetorical statement.

In order to convince regulators to allow the build-out of nuclear, there has to be some equally-powerful rhetorical statement that can be used to "reopen the conversation." Which would, intuitively, come in the form of a clear and effective condemnation of PV as a base-load / grid-scale power technology. But if regulators don't understand terms like "base-load" or "grid-scale", then what you end up having to do to get them to stop packing up and shooing you out of the room, is to condemn PV full-stop.
Obviously there's no universal agreement on which phrase is correct. Otherwise, we wouldn't be having a discussion. I don't know how many people we're even talking about. I'm certain the group that uses "comprises" instead of "comprised of" is not entirely "people from 100 years ago from prestige university who wrote a dictionary."

I understand languages change, which I think is an argument for the edits. If the language pivoted one way, pivoting back is just as valid a change as any other. "Comprised of" and similar phrasing doesn't come out of the ether. They build in popularity as they propagate through writing. There's a big snowball effect. I suspect going forward, you'll see "comprises" or "consists of" because people just copy what they see. Most don't have a strongly formed opinion about which phrase is better.

Personally, I view writing as a craft or skill like any other. Writing is different than speech and always has been. There's a huge qualitative difference in text that has been edited and text that is streamed out of someone's head. The former is almost always clearer to understand. Consequently, if someone points out a grammatical issue to me I say "Oh, TIL, thanks for letting me know" and then I adapt and go on with my life. My bias is to the established norm, not arguing that I'm riding the wave of a linguistic revolution. If I have an open question on something, I'll consult an established resource, just like I would in any other field or craft.

I think the problem is people get embarrassed when they're told they're using the language incorrectly. I get it. I've been there. It's true that English does not have a governing body like French, but I don't see that as a compelling justification for redefining terms or just arguing that nothing can ever be wrong.
Because financialized/late-stage capitalism makes long-term investments like nuclear power generation financially infeasible, while funneling subsidies to "green energy" solar/wind industries is extremely profitable in the short-term.

In other words, the thing that actually works is significantly less likely to happen, and therefore requires far more support.
There's 380 million native speaker of this language, but another billion non-native speakers. If this change helps that latter billion, should the former 380 million object?

(On a personal note, as a non-native speaker of English I've always found the phrase "comprised of" confusing. I infer the "directionality" based on context but am unsure how to use it correctly myself.)
That’s neat
There's also the distribution of work... if one set of teams manages the deployments or communications issues between the microservices, while the micro-service developers can concentrate on the domain it can be a better distribution of work. Where as if the same teams/devs are going to do both sides of this, it may make more sense for a more monolithic codebase/deployment.
> The number of farmers from our community with Parkinson's is staggering

There are many documentaries on youtube regarding pesticides and Parkinson's (France and Germany, IIRC). Some people claim that single spill on their hand gave them Parkinson, in just few years. Those pesticides are then everywhere and in everything, even if high-end wines (makes sense, wines are supposedly sprayed upto 40? times when growing).

Farming based on spraying poisons everywhere is one of the dumbest ideas of our age.

> I've been following the gut/brain theory for years. Hopefully this is going somewhere ...

Same.
I was also a PS beta tester around that time, and prominent testers such as Stu Maschwitz were actively pushing the PS and After Effects teams to incorporate linear light compositing.

Stu was able to get linear compositing into AE, but I think PS had already evolved into more of a graphics tool than a photo tool. They added 32bpcc and HDR, but it's for specialty workflows, not general use.

Fully embracing linear light would change almost every part of PS—everything from blend modes to the built-in filters were written for perceptually encoded values that don't go over 1.0. Even today, Curves works with 32bpcc, but only shows you the 0–1 portion.
The Intestine as a Remedy to Aging
Which is especially funny for discord as they are private servers. I don’t want discord checking what I’m saying in my own server with my own friends.
> There are probably a lot of easy gains here reformatting your code to use longer lines or maybe no indentation at all.

Using tabs for indentation needs fewer tokens than using multiple spaces for indentation.
One of my all time favorites.

EDIT: Actually, this piece is not the best of his essays in the collection ("Politics and the English Language and Other Essays"). But judge yourself:

https://www.fadedpage.com/books/20180223/html.php
Kavita: A fast, feature rich, cross platform reading server
Oh yeah thats the dream. To offer a 3rd party opinion on these generic forms of "verication". I mean whats the point of a twitter blue tick when you can simply buy them... And yes I do agree that it is in our interest to keep it generalized and domain unspecific.

1. Yes excuse my noob skills. I am still learning a lot. That's partly why I made it open source, so that other can contribute if they wanted. I'm still trying to get the UI polished.

2. The top addressses are from mocked data right now. Right now the only live features are registration, reporting and searching.
Viewing top addresses in each category is the next feature I am finishing. Sorry if that was not clear, I'll add a disclaimer.

3. I don't want to add comments as this starts becoming a duplicate of Etherscan then. I'd rather focus on simplicity for now. We have it so that only verified users may vote, to partially stop votes from being abused.

3. The contingency plan against what exactly?
Since the data is attached to a token and the token given to the user, I'd argue that the users owns their own data.
We as Open Info do currently regulate the data though. But only initially. Once an address's status is determined, it is up to the community votes to second Open Info's classification

Simply put, I would recommend someone build or defend their reputation on my platform as it can always be linked back to their Ethereum address.
For people who use burner addresses, this tool would be useless.
However, I personally would consider interacting with a burner address as a concern. I would prefer to interact with someone who has previous payment references to use as an indication of a successful delivery of goods.

Closest comparisons to my goal with this platform would be certik. What differentiates this however is that it is aimed towards an individual using an address as payment for some service or product.

5. Once again, excuse my frontend skills.
I'm not sure I understand though? Would you care to elaborate please and I'll try and improve it.
If the current usernames with four digit discriminator are unique, why do they need the new style usernames? Or at least grandfather existing usernames so those users don’t have to change?
Is 300M EV's the best use of manufacturing resources over the next 7 years to minimize climate change? Wouldn't it make more sense to upgrade old factories in Asia with advanced equipment to minimize their carbon footprint?
I think it's a really bad decision. I always thought very poorly of the platform, but the username system seemed effective enough at making many people share the same name without ugly xXx_user_xXx abominations, and it was also very distinctive compared to other similar websites, very hard to mistake it for a twitter handle for example. Asking hundreds of millions of users to change their username (which only one in ten thousand at worst will keep, ignoring the inevitable massive abuse incoming) is exceptionally lame. They acknowledge in the blog post users will just add numbers or find combinations with symbols that work, too. The only benefit seems being able to arbitrarily set your display name as anything you want, which makes up for ugly usernames, but that's all there is to it?
I do image processing with Pillow and it was obvious to me that things didn’t look right unless I did the math with linear light so I did.
Interesting tidbits to know about the English language but I'm not about to correct someone for that.
I'm enjoying the argument that the meaning of words in an encyclopedia should be subjective.
Cute.

How does the accumulated brake dust not affect braking performance? And can it tolerate getting wet inside, or is it somehow sealed well enough to go through puddles without getting wet?

I suppose one could build an all-wheel-drive EV that only uses mechanical brakes during emergency maneuvers.
It doesn’t seem like it’s that easy a task. I’d argue improving grammar and language in an encyclopedia isn’t altering the cultural landscape, I don’t think the usage of “comprised of” is a meaningful cultural artifact that requires embodying in an encyclopedias language style. I’d note the person also allows for people to revert the change without consequence if they feel passionate about the cultural landscape of “comprised of” usage vs generally accepted better alternatives.

I actually kind of admire these folks that do stuff like this. These sorts of obsessions are interesting artifacts of the internet’s cultural landscape.
> it reads like a reason why we can’t or shouldn’t decarbonize

Only if you give in to the strawman that it's either fossil fuel or EV, when in fact our top priority should be retiring most private cars anyway.

Independently from the engine type, developing our infrastucture and cities around car usage is unsustainable.
> What is stopping them exactly?

Not every city is laid out according to sound urban planning principles, or they have been remodeled and reshaped to accommodate and prioritize car traffic. Many American cities, for example, are organized around the assumption that people will be driving, to the detriment of other modes of transportation.

That, and the introduction of the car has allowed people to live far from places of work, food markets, stores, schools, churches, etc. There isn't as much pressure to build closely to minimize distance which is why postwar developments looks like sprawl instead of the compact cities that dominated historically. It becomes necessary to drive everywhere.

> People are just lazy.

Eliminating parking space would change the incentives. If you know parking will be a huge pain, it offsets a good chunk of the convenience. (It might be painful at first, but our current practices are financially unsustainable. Sometimes you have to break crooked bones so that they can be straightened out.)
To improve the signal to noise ratio.

Maybe 3 in every 1k of my command lines is noise. Finding anything useful in there takes effort, so I rarely use anything older than a few days.
The last bullet point is a highlight.
Sure, it was a quick test, but it works for me, YMMV

https://gist.github.com/benperiton/2d37ea18377a80f9b9768522d...
You asked why there is resistance. I summarized a portion of their argument, in blunt terms, as that makes it clear why some people might be upset.
> I've never played a wind instrument, but I understand those tend to be tuned to play in certain keys and it can be akward to play in others

It’s been a while since I played (stopped after college), but yes. Wind instruments really only play in one key. It is really rare to have sheet music in a different key and because of that transposing is not a skill that you really need to be successful. You still learn scales… I played one of the few instruments where you were expected to be able to transpose (F horn with some older music in Eb). Even then, while it wasn’t hard, it wasn’t a common skill.

Guitar, string, and piano are an entirely different beast. And that flexibility of scales and keys is probably why you don’t see many wind instruments professionally playing outside of orchestras.
> The students didn’t even distribute the keys among themselves in a plausible manner.

Then the answer to the headline is, "Have instructors who do not care about teaching." By the fourth "F major" announced, any musician with a working brain would know something is up.

> Each student chose an easy key to practice, so there were a lot of F majors and E minors, but no B flat minors or B majors.

B major fits the hand better than F major and is significantly more fluid to practice. The only two white keys are for your stubby little thumbs, and the black keys are for the other fingers. For both hands. It's a key that fits like a glove.

F major requires a "bump"-- the b-flat is played by the ring finger on the right hand-- this is a weak, long finger and it feels awkward to have to strike the higher black key with it. Edit: even worse, the stubby little thumbs are on white keys. A student lazy enough to cheat might start out shifting their wrist to accommodate the short thumb. When you try to speed that up you hit a wall and have to relearn the motorhythms of the scale. Relearning wrong physical motion on the piano is at least an order of magnitude more difficult than just learning the correct way. So now the student has less time for dates because they didn't cheat properly to begin with.

To learn to cheat properly you have to actually practice each scale and feel the relative facility. Oh, the irony!
It is an Ethereum project.

But I am just using the Binance test net to make sure it is working correctly before launching on the live net.

The Ethereum test nets are not as user friendly and hard to get gas for.

I want to migrate to Ethereum end of this month if I'm happy with the state of it.

Noted, then I should use EVM address for the time being thanks.
They're very much alive and well on MSVC. Our work projects use both unity builds _and_ precompiled headers.
>This stuff is also not about communication or sharing, areas where there are very strong network effect moats. It’s not chat or social media or collaborative office software.

An example business need: Take all my documents and create an LLM acting as an internal knowledgebase.

Likely eventual Microsoft/Google solution: Press this button to take all your documents from your Office 365/GSuite account into our LLM. The LLM provides answers and links to the original document. We have automatic retraining, but you can remove/add data and retrain with a few more clicks. We have set up authentication and filtering so that unauthorized users can't get at your data.

Likely eventual OSS 'solution': Find your API key, download all your documents, and train them manually on the NVidia GPU cards you bought. Setting up a virtual python environment with CUDA is easy-peasy! Now, host the documents on your curlftpfs host so that our LLM could link to them.... (I could continue but this is too depressing).

I’m not saying there won't be small players, but the Google Research spin of 'no point in investing anything, Open Source will eat all!' was silly in the extreme. There'll be other products, and a smart enough OpenAI has good chances to create its own moats.
>solar

I love the idea of being completely reliant on something where China controls 80% of the supply chain - https://www.iea.org/reports/solar-pv-global-supply-chains/ex...

Surely nothing could go wrong there, it's not like Russia pulled the same strategy and funded anti-nuclear activists in Germany to get them dependent on Russian natural gas.

>wind

I've talked to executives at energy companies who said they only built wind due to the massive subsidies. There's also major issues with what to do with the windmill husks once they are decommissioned and the fact they are a massive eye sore.

If the US was serious they'd spin out some of the US Navy's reactor tech and turn all that technology into a profit center. They could even do a "bases for reactors" program where nations get electricity in return for allowing the US to operate the reactors on their land

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Destroyers-for-bases_deal
So then doesn't it make sense that frontend devs focus on frontend and backend devs focus on backend?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuplet#Nested_tuplets not that I would have a chance in hell of playing that accurately.
David Holz, founder of Midjourney, on the future of imaging (2022)
I interpreted that statement by Karpathy as an accidental admission of Tesla's own limitations and not of the approach itself. (Note: I'm upvoting all your comments because they're very reasonable and supported.)
If Linux isn't about choice, crayons are indoctrinating children with abstract art.
Do they split it by age?

How many deaths were prevented in <25, <30, <35, <40 year olds?

What about 18 year olds? Those that had to take the vaccination to be allowed to attend university? How many of those were saved by it?
They are also testing in West LA.
The EU supports open source projects, for example through the Horizon program which distributes 95 billion euros:

https://research.redhat.com/blog/article/look-to-the-horizon...
Why not both?

Also, does ccache work with MSVC?
Fair question. I did read the TOCs, and studied the current TOCs of Imgur as well as my hosting company to make sure Haasie's covered the most important aspects.

Imgur atm still allows for NSFW, although presumably this will change. But as it stands the contents of these TOCs are not dissimilar from Imgur's or any other file hosts that allow for NSFW content.

To clarify Haasie is not intended to be a specifically NSFW host - like RedGIF someone here mentioned - but rather to host any legal content, which includes NSFW.

Emphasis here is on legal. The intention behind the TOCs is to specifically prohibit the use of the service for anything illegal or otherwise prohibited by the hosting company. And to state that Haasie will act on any content that is found to be in violation of the TOCs.
It's fundamentally different in that each elected representative still has exactly the same single vote in congress. It is still somewhat prone to gerrymandering, and most importantly requires minor candidate voters to effectively vote along party lines (to the extent of including the most popular party member in their ranking list, to be ensured of at least one of their choices getting elected) instead of voting only for those they think represent their concerns the best.

It also continues the effect of granting proportionately more voting power in Congress to districts with a small population. E.g. https://ballotpedia.org/Demographics_of_congressional_distri...

- In 2015 just over 1 million people represented by the single Montana at-large district to just over half a million represented by the two Rhode Island districts.
Related thread, https://twitter.com/binarly_io/status/1654287041339998208
This is not a GDP focused argument. We had the capacity to take care of everyone in the 1950s or 1960s.

However, while not an ecological argument, it would even be beneficial within capitalism to rebalance workers and the wealthy as the system is demand oriented. If you give everyone more money and stuff, they will be able to buy more, and one person's spending is another's income. It could be argued that GDP would increase faster under a more equal system, but I don't think the planet could take it (hence, like under our current system, planning will be needed to mitigate the environmental cost).
So if you register new account during this period, you might not end up with name you registered with?

And if your name is stolen, you might be able to steal someone else's username.

Which reminds me, anyone got list of Discord employees names? Surely those can be fair targets as well?
Lidar cost has already dropped a lot. Waymo’s lidar on their I-Pace is 90% cheaper than the previous gen. We’re also seeing car manufacturers (GM, Volvo/Polestar, Mercedes, Chinese OEMs) include inexpensive lidar units for driver assistance.

Tesla’s problem is that they’ve promised their existing cars on the road are capable of full self driving. They can’t add hardware to them, so they will maintain the “camera is sufficient” stance for a long time.
OK, but does that mean the phrase should be used as such in an encyclopedia?

For instance, the word "biweekly" now means both "once every two weeks" and "twice per week". I don't mind usage of that word for those two meanings. Obviously, linguists can gather data and analyze how it's being used. They may conclude that one meaning was more favored 50 years ago and the other meaning is now.

But when I'm reading an encyclopedia, I'd prefer it to avoid this ambiguous word.
It's not just regulators.

It's bureaucrats across a whole range of activities, or lack of activity thereof.

There was an article a while back on HN about the "Bureaucratic Failure Mode" that was worthwhile to look at.
If we are going to crack down on style, there are far bigger fish needing a fry. I hate how common passive voice has become, but I'm not going on an edit crusade to eliminate needless uses.
The last thing you want to do is to add niche features, those really should be handled in different processes. MM, IPC, interrupts, process creation/destruction/scheduling. That's about it.
It doesn't, I think it should but not sure how to add it to the prompt yet - I have a feeling that if I'll just add them after or before the command line, GPT will at least occasionally add hallucinated return codes to the autocompletion. Maybe I'll just add the unsuccessful codes or something, but it needs some testing.
> This person's arguments seem to hold water.

Not in the slightest. Categorically, he's using prescriptive arguments, which are bunk. Language evolves, people can use it however they want.
One of the things about tech bros I really don't like is that we generally think we are good in each field. Systems like proposed have been widely discussed & widely debated in the field Political Science (wherein my SO does research).

This sounds to me like a simplified or applied version of Brennan's "epistocracy". There's a nice podcast about this: https://hiphination.org/season-3-episodes/s3-episode-5-demon...

Or, in text, a summary of the book "Against Democracy": https://www.vox.com/2018/7/23/17581394/against-democracy-boo...

OT: Must-read on this subject and good reference material is Ruling the Void from Peter Mair.