skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Tongue-in-cheek solution: use a ramdisk[1] for dm-writecache in writeback mode[2]?

[1]: https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/blockdev/ramdisk.tx...

[2]: https://blog.delouw.ch/2020/01/29/using-lvm-cache-for-storag...
SoftBank Vision Fund yearly loss widens to $32B on startups valuation cut
No, the way it works is having people write the content. Now are there crappy ones that just copy content, write bad stuff, etc.? Sure. But there are also those with helpful content. Here’s a content farm I only recently found that has a lot of helpful original content: https://bootspy.com/
Well, wait a minute here. If they're the same particle, then how is it I measure spin up on one of them[1] and spin down on the other?

[1] Yeah, "on one of them" isn't the right wording, given the assumptions of the question...
> I've never heard about starfish as a threat to corals;

it's a well-known thing.

2023: https://www.scubadivermag.com/9-8-million-program-to-protect...

2020: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2258714-coral-eating-st...

2018: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/05/world/australia/starfish-...
No - what is being explained is that you need constant electricity, and wind and solar are not constant, so you need a way to skim the "extra" energy when it's made, and to being it back in the system when there's no wind/sun - by for example using the extra energy to make hydrogen gas and bringing that back in the system at night
I think it is much more useful as a "word processor" than as a source of information. It's really good at reformatting text, changing it into questions/answers, summarizing it, etc.

For example, I'm a huge fan of Anki and I've found ChatGTP to be very helpful for generating questions from a block of text and in formatting Cloze cards. But I don't recommend asking it for information directly.

I wrote a bit about it here: https://neurotechnicians.com/p/generative-ai-and-anki-part-1...
ELT 101 – The Why and What of ELT (Or the Why Not of ETL)
We couldn't find a good and comprehensive ELT 101, so we wrote our own!

Key insights:

ETL was super helpful a decade ago!

But the assumptions that made ELT super useful don't hold any more (expensive storage, limited compute abilities of databases)

Now the world is cluttered with lots of ETL marketing, making it hard to see what's really going on.

ELT should be the default choice, always (and the rise of dbt backs that up).

Companies still on ETL should consider a switch.

ELT and ETL are architecture patterns for data pipelines. ETL is usually implemented with one ETL or data integration tool; ELT is usually implemented with one EL and one T tool (e.g., dbt).

Beware of the words "ETL tool" or "ELT" tools. There aren't any good conventions yet on those. (While there are ETL tools that support the ETL pattern, ELT usually is built with at least two tools. So an ELT tool is either a T only or an EL only tool - more confusion!)
Another great success that didn't exist 15 years ago - no more roaming charges
True, but I doubt they will do this because it evades their 30% take on ad revenue.
The full keynote: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNfINi5CNbY

And a 10-minutes version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QpBTM0GO6xI
Unfortunately they mostly do for wind - we get still days where instead of the ~20GW peak wind, we get ~1GW for a few days. And the low wind pattern often sits over the whole of NW Europe, so transfer doesn't help as much as people hoped since the whole area is low on wind.
Who decides what is "fake news" or "hate speech"? In Canada there is a very real scandal involving our Prime Minister accepting money under the table from China, as well as him knowing about foreign interference in our elections and doing nothing.

According to him it's all anti-Chinese racism and hate speech.
https://github.com/newhouseb/clownfish

Structural Alignment: Modifying Transformers (like GPT) to Follow a JSON Schema
You need to explain it a bit further.

What could you possible learn from the map you didn't already know before? The time they went and if they taught their native language their and similar stuff. Yeah, okay i see your point.
There is a bit of work within the last 5 years with creating more algorithms for temporal networks (think graphs that change over time like social networks, neural networks (with evolving architectures) or economic chain networks). These are essentially streaming algorithms over temporal edgelists. I worked on a research project that visualized these networks in real time. Very fun stuff.
Quite. I've tired of pointing out to overly-optimistic responses on the internet about how well countries are doing in this regard, when if you look at the overall energy usage pie-chart, there's a big chunk covering industry and transportation that's a looong way off yet from being covered by renewables.

Not that I wish to be pessimistic, rather realistic.
Except they produce horrendous small particle pollution, which even the most efficient stoves haven't solved.

https://amp.theguardian.com/environment/2023/feb/14/wood-bur...
I didn't do Erasmus, but I won a similar exchange program that brought me from the University of Granada to UC Irvine, where I met my now wife. Life changing experience.
Why do you need to prove no correlation? Even if there's a correlation, unless that correlation is extremely strict, there is some risk of a super-intelligence turning nasty. And a strict correlation is simple to disprove with, say, humans and bonobos. Humans fight and hurt each other, while bonobos are basically the "peace and free love" hippies of the primate kingdom.

And orthogonality is not about ethics, but about goals. If you can have three very intelligent people, one of which tries to become an industrialist in order to become as wealthy as possible and live out their days in luxury, another of which decides to become a scientist and help humanity as much as possible, and one of which decides to spend their life building model trains, you have proof of orthogonality right there.

Unless you get a super-intelligent AI whose goal/behavior is exactly something like "always listen to humans and do what they say, but temper that by not hurting people, and don't try to get too far ahead of them and predict what they would want, and don't try to accumulate too many resources in pursuit of your goal, and also keep in mind that humans may try to invent other AIs may try to gain more resources in pursuit of their goals, and try to stop them if they go wild, but again don't go too far" and so on, for all the things I haven't even thought of but that are are also important, then you may have a really big problem.

If we can invent aligned AI, that will help a ton with all the other existential risks. If not, unaligned AI is the existential risk to end all others. Maybe things are changing fast enough now that the variance in our outcomes is so high that we're guaranteed to end no matter what. I hope not.
Usually "investment" implies that you give money to a company so they can cover up front costs (such as tooling costs, r&d costs etc) that will allow them to profit later. The idea is that a certain amount of money now will allow them to make a profit later by selling whatever product the investment allows them to build.

But that doesn't seem to be the case here. Reading between the lines, it sounds like Purism lacks the funds to fulfill the preorders that have already been paid, and the "investment" will just go into fulfilling existing orders. There is little potential for future profit, and instead it just sounds a bit like a ponzi scheme, where they have to keep finding new people to invest in the company.
Not sure if this is feasible, but have you considered dumping binary on the raw disk like done with tapes?
Thanks for replying with this. I know it's not my place to comment on what people spend their time on, but somehow couldn't resist commenting this time. I thought sharing my instinctive reaction may be invaluable, but it's true they probably get it a lot.

Oh well, I have a bit more time these days, I should finish up and submit the Matrix Spec Change I started drafting almost a year ago... Everything takes time.
Nonprofit status makes it much harder to extract large profits. A charity founder can pay himself a million-dollar salary, but he can't sell his shares in the nonprofit and become a billionaire.
Yes, everyone needs a "Ministry of Truth". Finally the great works of political scientist George Orwell are being appreciated and adopted by governments.

/s
PHP has 99 problems, but shipping code ain't one
Javascript is this generation's C++. It's a massive language and the only way to stay sane on a project is to agree to use a well demarcated subset of it.

Nothing wrong with being C++. The reason JS is so massive and weird is because it's the language that everybody uses, or has to use at some point. Upsides and downsides.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contempt_of_Congress

There is very little judicial relief for Contempt of Congress, and it is a crime against the United States as a whole. If you aren't the President (who is currently protected by executive privilege, which I personally think is an absolutely terrible idea), you can not only be imprisoned by the Sergeant-at-Arms. Continued willful non-compliance can be referred to the Department of Justice.

Also, while unlikely, there is also the possibility of pissing off enough of both Houses of Congress that they can muster a bicameral supermajority to custom tailor legislation just for you, which would be veto proof and carry force of law. You'd have to exceedingly piss off a lot of Congresspeople to an absurd degree, however.

Though it must be carefully done to avoid the Constitutional prohibition on Bills of Attainder.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_of_attainder

I.e. there will likely be Judicial due process involved. However, again, the Congresses's discretion in Contempt of Congress is given a wide berth by the Judiciary.

Long story short:

Wasting Congress's time excessively is a federal crime, can come with infinite detention, and is just very widely considered damn poor form.

There's also the
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mace_of_the_United_States_Ho...

Which looks like it'd hurt like a bitch.
> "you don't need a massive K8s infrastructure to handle hundreds of thousands of orders a month"

This is true of many languages that are slower and faster than PHP. It's not useful as evidence of PHP being a better choice for anyone.
I'd add Gossip Glomers [0] which are pretty similar to jepsen-io/maelstrom Documentation [1].

[0] <a href="https://fly.io/dist-sys"> Gossip Glomers</a>

[1] <a href="https://github.com/jepsen-io/maelstrom#documentation"> jepsen-io/maelstrom Documentation</a>
Coffeescript was well before "tree shaking" (the JS ecosystem's way of spelling "dead code removal") and code splitting, both being relatively new things in the bundler world ("tree shaking" being introduced with rollup if memory serves). Then came Acorn, which gave way to a whole slew of JS transformation bits.

It also didn't help that Node was fixed at 0.12 for years and years, and we had the IO.js fork until Node was released by Joyent for OSS community members to take over. That caused more issues to boot.

Also the whole bundling fiasco started with Babel, which wasn't a bundler at all and instead started as a means to provide polyfills for supporting "old browsers" (really, IE). From that whole thing came the concept of "evergreen browsers" which is a term that has largely fallen out of the common vocabulary with the rise of Edge.

Now we have "anything is a valid feature request" TC-39, and "it's really just Google at this point" browsers dictating how the web works.

It's a nightmare. As a maintainer of several large JS packages, and being so dreadfully burnt out on JS, there are other words I'd use to describe the whole thing than "delightful".
Depending on the situation, a set of bullet points might seem insulting to your audience for other reasons.

Here’s a real-world example. I live in Japan. While I am fluent in Japanese, it is not my first language and I am not confident about writing formal e-mails, as the grammar, vocabulary, and strategies for making requests are quite different from everyday usage. Now, though, I can feed prompts like the following to GPT-4:

“Compose an e-mail in Japanese as follows:

Sender: [my name and affiliation in Japanese]

Recipient: [name of company in Japanese]

Content: Request to visit the company to tell them about [my product name in Japanese], which is our new accounting software that uses AI to streamline work. Tell them that I can visit their headquarters at any time on any weekday. Ask them to reply by e-mail or to call my mobile at [number].”

In a few seconds, it produced a much better e-mail than I would have been able to write without a lot of effort or someone else’s help [1]. From my experience, I can say with confidence that GPT-4’s e-mail is much more likely to elicit a response than anything I could compose by myself. (I would change one or two things in its version before sending it, though.)

Millions of people around the world are like me: doing much of their work in a second language and often feeling at a disadvantage to native speakers, especially when writing for formal or public-facing purposes. GPT-4 is a great tool for people like us, as well as for people who are not confident about writing in their first language.

[1] https://www.gally.net/temp/202212chatgpt/20230511-email-comp...
But there is no contradiction to wikipedia definition. The fact that there are optional non-OSS components doesn't make the whole thing non-OSS.

It's not that different to using linux with non-OSS modules.
Oh that's interesting. You probably still need to jump through hoops to figure out the right url for the grid square and level of detail you need. And the session parameter - so you still need to make the initial tile request to get the JSON.
I recall a study whose result said that beginners improve faster when they're told the solutions right away, and experts improve faster when they're given time to figure things on their own.

Struggling as a learning tool is important, but there's a good chance the fastest path to expertise is to start with examples of how to do it, and delay that struggle a bit.

What you don't want is to keep the crutch forever and never struggle. That would be a sure path to stagnation.
Some universities have very low number of students going to other specific universities.

Based on that alone I now know the unique ID of the people who went, and subsequently their start and end date, their gender, the courses they took, etc... Data that I would otherwise not know about them.

This isn't a theoretical risk either, i legitimately identified someone else, and learned information I did no know about them from that dataset.

Now we're friends and I'm sure they wouldn't mind me knowing what I learned, but it's nonetheless a violation.
Wow, what a terrible marketing video.

Everything is moving so fast, I can't really tell what I'm supposed to get out of it. All the videos playing in the search results seem highly irrelevant, I assume this won't be in the actual product, the marketing folks just thought it looks cool?

In the end, all I got out of it, as a technical person, is that there will be an LLM engine in there.
I bought two $40 components from Digi-Key last year and had them shipped to the EU for like $25, and the taxes were prepaid so UPS handed me the box and walked away.
i'm not a designer, but use Krita for very basic edit tasks and Inkscape on occasion. can't use GIMP well because it's GTK2 and the UI doesnt work well for pixel-scaled (HiDPI displays), and GTK3-based GIMP 3 dev builds often fail to compile: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/gimp-devel
Mistakes always cost money in terms of engineering hours spent fixing those mistakes. The feedback was poor and unacceptable from an engineering manager if the concerns are not backed by factual information and critical feedback to help steer you in the right direction you will not be able to grow.

In terms of your own self-improvement improve your internal processes for learning the code, and testing it before sending it off for a CR. Adding test cases for the work you do will help improve the quality of your work and enable it to be integrated easier into the overall codebase. If you need help or find issues with the code try to get clarification after spending time deep diving and learning and being curious (e.g., exhausted all other options).

Also note you can probably create your own dev pipeline so you can push to your hearts content and not break things, then only when things are working as expected submit a CR for others to review.
My impression is that Gates (and other tech billionaires) have been investing in fusion for a decade, so he probably knows or has leverage/access to people who know what’s going on, ergo Microsoft does too.

There is expertise in DOE and DOD, but there is an also a lot of private capital being invested in companies that don’t need to talk themselves up much. People in the industry generally know who most of the players are; that’s how you or your technical peers/friends get a job after all.

I don’t see a particular need for there to have been a top secret breakthrough to explain this deal.
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I honestly love what Carl Pei and the team is trying to do, inspiring us to get excited by new tech once again!
APM is bluffing. It doesn’t know your Node.js app latency
A list of genocidal dictators: https://www.scaruffi.com/politics/dictat.html

Anyone who comes into power enough to do something like this has a high amount of intelligence -- not necessarily book smarts, but the ability to persuade or manipulate other people.
They already make a profit from the service. I'm asking why I should provide them more than what they're already making. I believe their profit already gives them as much as they deserve for the service they render to society.
It's the question because the fact that Spotify has to buy from the three big labels has a friend - the big three labels have to sell to Spotify. Tidal's lack of success tells us that.
Please see the sister comment. If this is what “modern design” looks like — no wonder things are so bad.

Instead of clear text sizes and simple messaging like in https://qbix.com/communities, there are texts of at least 5 different sizes jumbled in.

Instead of contrast so you can read text — there is white text on black over white text on black.

There is also text that is gray and low contrast until you scroll it into view, but then it gets covered up by code examples. Most regular customers are scared by code examples.

Instead of one clear button or call to action per section, there are 20 on the screen, making the user unsure what to click and what the Information Architecture / hierarchy is.

And moreover, all the links are black on white or white on black — just like the text. No clear visual separation of where to click. It violates like every UX guideline I have read in the last 12 years.

It has GIANT TEXT HORIZONTALLY SCROLLING ACROSS THE SCREEN the minute you start to scroll down. Then when you get past that, it has a GIANT VIDEO THAT DOESN’T FIT and doesnt look like a video, more like some more text in many font sizes.

I could go on… but why? Do you actually prefer this monstrosity to clean design: https://imgur.com/a/IMT6pgB

By contrast, if you land on https://Qbix.com it looks empty and clean, and asks you who you are before showing you a page: a customer, an investor, a developer, etc. Then that page is specifically tailored to what you need.

Text is text. Colors are colors. A large black menu bar is unmistakably at the top, organized neatly so you don’t get lost, not scrolling out of the way.

Unless you think apple.com is old outdated design and modern UX is the payloadcms site?
I find this like saying you are actually writing binary code, what you code is not any language at all.
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It's not really a problem, even just moving all fossil fuels from heating and transport and using it in electrical generation gets you a 4x gain, from which you lose about 50-60% when turning it to electricity, so still ahead by about 2x even before you start adding in the wind and solar.

Plus we already built all that storage for gas and oil, might as well use it as part of the transition.
Is it worth watching? What is worth watching?
If electricity prices stay low other forms of energy will migrate.

Already people in the UK are hooking up electric cars and heat pumps to automated tariffs that charge/heat depending on the availability of cheap power (i.e. wind/sun availability).

The important thing is to double down on what is already working.
And the course they went to.

All of those things are personal information subject to GDPR. I would certainly get in trouble if I collected information on the location of specific people and made it available, why don't they?
It's the Guardian's raison d'etre to be critical of its country to the point of almost derogatory pessimism. I say this as a subscriber. Such analysis also fails to take into account the steps that are [necessarily] taken to mitigate the impact in protected areas and the fact that our land mass is pathetically small compared to other countries on that list.
I do care about that! But YouTube, the one profiting from those creators, should be the one paying creators more, from their already very high profits. Not me.
> I wish we could start over and redesign everything ...

I wish we all could learn that "because it works now" is a valid reason to resist change, and that assuring back compatibility is a condicio sine qua non for every change that we want adopted by people at large.
Miss the essays pg, when you lose the ability to blog, you gain the obligation to tweet.
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There are multiple ways to interpret this, as evidenced by the diversity of comments here; prejudice was the first thing that came to mind for me. Dyslexia is a condition that makes writing arduous due to such challenges as visual confusion between symbols, lack of memory for unusual spellings and difficulty comprehending abstract concepts from words alone. It's not merely a matter of preference to 'hate' writing. To those who have dyslexia, Large Language Models like ChatGPT could be a huge relief: might this finally be the spell-checker able to intelligently correct those misspellings which are so extreme that even non-dyslexic people might stumble on?

"When you lose the ability to speak, you also lose some of your ability to think."

"When you lose the ability to dance, you also lose some of your ability to think."

"When you lose the ability to see, you also lose some of your ability to think."

I hope these variations illustrate that writing unlocks only one way of thinking, and to some it's no great loss to replace it!
> whether the massive vulnerability you discovered was fixed.

Which massive vulnerability in particular? You'll have to be more specific, haha.

I confirmed the Firestore collections had some kind of server-side security rules added before publishing the post.
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