skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Particles from tires could indeed be a problem, but it appears this is because of specific chemicals used. The solution would be to identify and replace those chemicals (like that one, 6PPD, that on exposure to ozone became highly toxic to salmon.)

(I'll note that ozone will go down too with widespread adoption of EVs.)
Oh, the Catholic Church _is_ a country, in the form of the Vatican.

(It retains a highly circuitous and squiggly-line but unbroken link to the Roman Empire!)
I've worked a bit in this sector, and here are my observations:

1. Solar Home sets range from $5 flashlights with solarcells to $150 home lights+panels+phonecharger+radio to $400 sets with TV. The more expensive sets are usually paid off over time.

2. The impact of even the smallest flashlights on human wellbeing is enormous. You may imagine a village in the third world has a cosy campfire. But in truth it is usually too much effort to collect the wood, so people live in the dark half the day. The mentioned kerosine lamps are already a luxury to many. Having a flashlight so you can spot the snakes and spiders when you go outside at night to have a pee, or make sure you do not slip is life saving. Having a 100lumen light in your bedroom so you can see faintly your wife or husband while you have sex is amazing.

3. So this is about improving well-being. Not industrialising. These solar home systems do not significantly make people wealthier or more likely to become wealthy. It just makes them 20% happier. You need significantly more and cheaper power to start a factory. For that, "Commercial and Industrial solar" is a big deal. Where companies in India/Africa/Indonesia buy $10-30k worth of solar panels + battery + inverter to make sure their factories are always powered. Cost of up-front capital and competing with subsidised energy makes this not always a no-brainer.

4. Grid expansion is... expensive. I do not think we'll see the grid covering everywhere by the end of this century. And microgrids are great, but also expensive. How expensive? Consider that connecting your house to the grid in a developed country costs about $10k. Companies have been able to connect villages under the grid for about $1500 per house. Microgrids (with all their limitations) can sometimes do it for $700. If you consider that a household makes anywhere between $100 and $700 per year, then you see that the only way to be able to do this is with heavy subsidies (development aid) from foreign countries. And then you still need to pay for the actual power and maintain the grid. If that costs $300/household/year, and the household makes less per year, then your economics go nowhere.

One more thing: A related problem that affects the same population is that of clean cooking. Poor people (women) cook on wood or charcoal instead of electricity or gas. Arguably this is the worst problem in the world (yes worse than war, natural disasters, HIV, Malaria and all other diseases together) as millions of people die from it each year. Solutions are similar: Selling small gas stoves.

Tl dr; The real problem with energy poverty is that the people it is trying to reach are unimaginably poor. Way poorer than that great grandfather of yours that grew up in poverty. Solve poverty and you solve energy.
Respectfully, if it didn't affect you such that a trigger can put you in a state you can barely function, and/or become a danger to yourself or others, then you haven't been through the type of experience being referred to here.
I have to agree with a message you're replying to. It does work for some people, especially if both parents are present/work from home. You actually save 5hrs of commute time and have an hour for lunch. If you split it between two parents in a smart way it's smooth sailing. My wife and I both did it and we both progressed in our jobs at the same time.
I think that actually the one that might have a wrong perception of what "being a professional" means might actually be you, no offense intended, i'll explain my point:

First a couple questions: when you go to you grocer and order and pay 5 apples, do you get exactly 5 apples or do you get 6, or even 7?
When you call a professional plumber to fix your sink do they charge you less at the end of the work, or do they charge exactly what their job entailed(or even more)?

Being a professional means exchanging skills and time for money, then why is it that we have developed a company culture in which if you "just" do your job you are seen as a slacker and a terrible employee/person?

This is complete nonsense obviously, and this also one of the tricks that the elites are using since time immemorial to get exponentially richer by exploiting the workers, everyday we are giving away our time and money to enrich the someone else, but at least there needs to be some fairness, it maybe was there in the 1990s but clearly not anymore.

Not every situation is the same, but company dynamics are widely studied and understood by many now, and i suppose we can all agree that getting a 2% raise after pouring many hours of good work everyday is just a complete joke.

Please stop defending practices that just favour the rich and powerful and start taking pride in our value as persons, as opposed to the value that HR attributes us.
yeah, but not node.js
I try to ignore the message of bad-faith content instead of penalizing the person who it seems to favor. Otherwise you enable false flag attacks.
> On the other hand, do we really want to give a special status to English?

Yes. English is the lingua franca of the computing age. Having a common reference language is a good thing even if not popular with the professionally outraged.
As far as I know Gmail, it lacks significant basic features of a good feed-reader. Like a button to mark all unread items as read, a function to automatically move to the next category/folder/filter with unread messages. Sure, I could do this manually, but that would be slower, more complicated and thus defeat the purpose of using a dedicated app for this job. And this leaves all the more advanced features, like sharing, different optimized views, all those little details which make a specialized app superior to a specialized app from another domain.

Personally, I would love for Gmail (or some other mail-app) to be customizable enough to serve as a feed-reader AND mail-reader, and any other job we can fit into it. But somehow people are very focused on making apps only for single domains, and don't leak them to others.
I don't think that there is any chance[0] that the autorities will go after the churches for things like these.

But even if everyone tollerates the authorities turning a blind eye to the issue many would not tollerate the autorities making it an official policy or slipping up and saying stuff like "a church could run for office for all I care".

The state is protecting churches in ways it should not; you likely cannot defeat this protection, but you can put pressure on the state so that it will be harder/riskier to keep doing it.[1]

[0] at a trend level, or at least for the well connected churches with armies of lawyers.

[1] I must warn that this is close to declaring a war (on a very small scale) and as such you could come out in a worse position than when you started.
That's all true, but sometimes things break because some package is bumped. I'd still like to know if my app is basically broken if an LLM has changed somehow.

You are right that fine tuning would probably help to minimize the risks, but it probably never can be zero. New tests will also be needed when customers find new edge cases that break our assumptions.

Testing LLM prompts is a new paradigm that we'll have to learn to deal with.
Why have Americans always been unable to pronounce the intervocalic T?

Bread and budder? WTF?

I'm an author; I love horseback writing?

I'm tired of wading for the flood?

I want to ride my modercycle?

It's so pervasive that we really ought to update our dictionaries to replace these, now phantom, "t"s with proper "d"s. Think of it as antipsychotics for a batshit crazy language.

I'm American. But this has always been annoying, along with most of the eN language.

To cast a cynical eye on the bright side; it seems both the "t" and "d" will soon be obsolete as the entire eN language is refined to tonal variations of our most common word/punctuation/expression/noise, "like".

I may be mistaken, but I believe there's evidence that new humans are forming a "like-gland". The sound will become as natural and necessary as that of frogs bleating* after rain.

*Yes, bleating, not bleeding.
Google's brand is only bested by Apple in the minds of consumers. They will never go away. It doesn't matter if ChatGPT or anything else comes along - 95% of the billions of daily Google users will wait for Google's version. I am honestly surprised that the Alphabet market cap hasn't reached $2T yet.
I'll link my Bark fork with long audio generation and other features on the root thread, I suppose: https://github.com/JonathanFly/bark

There's going to be a big update this week with some new stuff I haven't talked about. And a bunch of amazing, clear voices, with a huge variety of styles, that blow the default Suno voices out of the water. Arguably even better than Eleven in some ways. I'm excited even though I have nothing to DO with the voices!

Don't get too attached though. I was just playing around and made a Bark fork and it got more popular than expected. And now I'm dreading a future full of hours of unpaid support and maintenance that I definitely can NOT afford, for a software product I don't even really have a personal use case for. I'm not generating my own audiobooks or anything, I won’t be using it long term myself, I was just curious what Bark could do. (Turns out a LOT more than you might think at first glance, as you'll see this week.) So I'm already trying to work out how I can elegantly wind this thing down and transition people somewhere else. But I'll keep it updated for at least a little while.
What a weird plug for Naomi, who for the most part is represented by her partner Timaz. Don't forget they (Naomi and timaz) tried to metoo Ltt.

The journalist you are referring to now works at the verge, fyi
https://archive.is/res43
> Especially while driving, at the red traffic lights, or while overtaking cars/or while they overtake you :)

If this wasn't a joke, then my comment was addressing that.
I am curious if there will be a requirement in the future, possibly enforced by the EU or US law, for content such as books, videos, music, PDF files, news articles, or blog posts to be labeled as produced by either a human author or AI. I'm talking about ethical disclosure. While it is uncertain, it is important to be transparent about the content's origins. As we know, AI is here to stay, and it is likely that governments will be the biggest investors (or spenders) in AI technology for military purposes.

Despite Bing having a head start, it's unlikely that Google will lose to AI battle to Bing and others. Google's strong brand image and popular properties, such as Gmail, YouTube, Search, Chrome, and Android, used by billions of users daily, give them a significant advantage. It's doubtful that Bing will take over the search market anytime soon. But, who knows? Ha!
Sorry for nitpicking, but you said "The 'woke' crowd have generally promoted censorship ('cancelling')" - but from what I can tell it's not the woke crowd banning books from schools and libraries, banning certain words from education, banning health measures, and I could go on. You talk about wokes promoting things, yet ignore the others actually _implementing_ bans as we speak? Is this gaslighting or what...
If you had any doubts about Musk's principles, he laid it bare here for everyone to see.

When given a choice between misinformation and no information, he chose misinformation. Can anyone really argue from a ethical standpoint that it was the best decision?
andOTP is unmaintained, I would recommend Aegis
I actually enjoy the monthly release notes. Usually, most of the features do not affect me, but sometimes there are one or two gems that really make me appreciate the active development on VSCode.
Sorry but this is just not true. You have to train your baby/toddler to sleep during the day as well. If two parents are both home and working from home it works pretty well. You save 5 hours of commute time and 2 hours for lunch. That's plenty of time to organise your day.
With some tinkering you can create really interesting stuff with Bark. I managed to generate a couple of song snippets / intros using free form text [1]

Haven't tested it personally yet but if you are interested in voice cloning, you might wanna check this fork of Bark [2]

[1] https://github.com/suno-ai/bark/discussions/249
[2] https://github.com/serp-ai/bark-with-voice-clone
Why does your comment smell like you're trying to explain away what really happened with your own theory? And so at the same time excuse away the reason presented on the article? And with a bit of victim-blaming as well?

In those days a small deviation to not bulldoze the main square would've been very easy and reasonable (with plenty of land), a huge deviation like described, a huge waste of resources.
Buy a radiometer please rather than softcore spreading Russian propaganda here.
How would taxing churches the same as everyone else interfere with religious liberty?
Pronouncing English literally as if it were Spanish, French, etc. would make it impossible to understand.

Every non-native English learner tries to imitate natives, to the best of their ability. I don't think there's any other way to learn. Some people relax and stop trying to improve once they notice that they get to a level where they are understood, though. And then, one can be aware of one's limits (I don't think I'll ever get to distinguish "ice" and "eyes", so I don't even try anymore).

What you describe seems to be some kind of linguistic "uncanny valley" effect.
Please refrain from posting GPT-generated posts on HN. Thank you, Megan Rain.
> MAOA-2R lies in the same category as cancer-causing variants of BRCA1 or the allele for sickle-cell anemia in Western populations. We should treat it as such.

Oh do you mean the gene that is as prevalent amongst the famously uncriminal Japanese as it is amongst African Americans?

> Lack of sufficient testosterone causes osteoperosis, cognitive problems, fatigue, anemia, memory problems, hot flashes, and many other symptoms in men. It's essential for men's overall health and cannot be clearly disentangled from this role.

I don't know, maybe those criminal men would be better with osteoperosis, cognitive problems, fatigue, anemia, memory problems and hot flashes than without, don't you think?

I personally don't think so.
Separation of church and state doesn't mean churches can't voice their opinion or run political campaigns, it just means they shouldn't be involved in actually running the state, and that the state shouldn't be involved in religion either. I believe there are some limitations on churches as a precondition to their tax-exempt status, but those don't really flow from separation of church and state.

MLK was a Baptist minister.
I agreed with you at first, that was my first reading - but actually it doesn't make sense like that (I think we must have merged it as 'haunts us & hurts us' or something) - it's 'local haunts', which certainly includes pubs but explains why the second photo is a coffee shop, which nobody would non-jokingly call their 'local'.
> Because there are so few of them. Most of the time you can walk in the middle of the street, so rare is the traffic

This is a bit of a stretch. There are cars everywhere you go in Tokyo, it's pretty well set up for driving given the size and population. That said, I've lived here without a license for years, and rarely had the need to hop into any cars. Speed limits are generally low, and lights are everywhere, which often makes the train or sometimes even a bike a faster option than a car or a bus.

It's only when you have multiple connections in your route or when you get well outside the city that you start to see consistent benefit from a car.

One reason it's so easy to get by without a car in most of Tokyo is that the shops and attractions are distributed well. Zoning means there are tiny shops everywhere, and the bigger shops are present at many of the train stations in the city. You are pretty much always within walking distance of everything essential. One more reason is that the postal system is excellent. If you order something from Amazon, you'll receive it about 24 hours later in most parts of Tokyo. Who needs a car when you pick up everything essential on a 10 minute walk from your house, and everything you want will be at your door tomorrow?
I live car-free in a dense Canadian urban center and it doesn't lend itself to social interactions with strangers, indeed. Going outside means being assaulted with loud, dangerous car traffic and an absence of places where strangers can, for lack of a better word, "loiter".

If we want to facilitate impromptu social connections we need our streets to be pleasant and and safe from cars so that people want to stay around. Trees, benches, playgrounds, flowers and fountains. This is nothing new, it is how towns have been built for centuries until we sacrificed them in the name of cars and of economic output.
I've always thought the difference is more pronounced with the short forms, "mum" vs "mom" (and the red underlining of the latter reminds me of my biases!). I don't think I've heard an American pronounce "mommy" though, so I can't say for certain.
Waiting for a Google product to start working well (or to start respecting you as a user) isn’t a strategy that gets you very far these days.
Hardly any state in Europe can afford full self-sufficiency in isolation without enormous suffering.

North Korea (with more population than DDR) survived Soviet collapse but just barely, losing hundreds of thousands in a protracted famine, until landing on client relationship with China. Not a realistic scenario for East Germany.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/69/30mm_DU_...

Doesn't look liquid to me

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Depleted_uranium
The billion-dollar Ponzi scheme that hooked Warren Buffet and the US Treasury
“Giant corporations could decide how much they wanted to save in taxes, then—through an investment fund created just for them—buy exactly the number of generators to achieve that figure. All they’d have to put down was 30 percent of the generators’ price—the exact amount they could deduct, dollar for dollar, from their federal tax returns through the investment tax credit.

“DC Solar would not only loan buyers the other 70 percent; it would pay it back for them, with the money it made leasing out generators on their behalf. Carpoff was confident enough in the rental market—DC Solar, he said, had long-term leases in the works with major telecom, entertainment, and construction companies—that he guaranteed the loan payments and promised cash payouts of leftover leasing revenue.

“The upshot was that buyers could collect the tax credits and lease payments without ever having to use, maintain, or even see their own generators. The deals offered so much value, for so little down, that pitch decks advertised internal rates of return of more than 50 percent.”
You can run it with CPU or GPU in the VM, in the latter case you'd need to pass the GPU(s through, which depends what kind of VM you're using.
I like ACE it's very interesting application of Prolog. While it focused on writing logical definitions, I think there interesting way of looking at how we try to express programming languages syntax to newbies in classrooms. I personally think that it is possible to find way of speaking about code which sounds a lot like English. Maybe that's because my English is not adequate.

I have super early experiments here: https://kant2002.github.io/EngLang/ but it's still super early
> Why people use the privacy nightmare OSS trojan horse that is VSCode is beyond me.

Here's an example why some people (including me) prefer VSCode over vim in certain cases:

https://www.reddit.com/r/neovim/comments/rwz9m2/how_to_impro...

And yes, I know that Emacs is much better when it comes to discoverability, but I am just not an Emacs guy. Tried it so many times already. Just can't make it work for myself.
Why use a linter if your code has so many errors?
https://archive.ph/IRRsX
More like 30 billion dollars, and a large swath of that is tied up in completely illiquid assets like churches or gold in reliquia [1].

[1] https://sites.lsa.umich.edu/mje/2022/05/24/the-finances-behi...
> Qt was about the best we could do in the C++ era, but a new era has dawned.

Nope, the best is C++ Builder with VCL, Visual Basic/Delphi like experience with C++.

However very few have tried it out unless they work for big corporations.
I've been following Bark and its forks looking for a stable working cloning solution (for now, straight approaches at generating and using the npz files does not work), and oh boy. I have never seen so much low-quality git activity like in these repos. It really got me worried.
I used to keep up to date with everything via google reader (especially as it meant I could get round work internet blocks) but when that went down, i switched to Feedly.

But then it just became overload, it was just too much to keep up to date with every blog I found interesting and every news site kept filling their site with ever more blog pieces in the name of "content"

I just gave up. It's much easier to let reddit subs sort the wheat from the chaff and read them instead.
> these differences matter more than sex differences

No they don't.
And they don't support ECC. Wholly unsuitable chips for this very different market.
> "the hippopotamus is the world's deadliest large land mammal, killing an estimated 500 people per year”

ah yes, the humble hippopotamus, my favorite LLM (sorry llamas!) :)
It’s a thing pre-pandemic for larger teams anyway. You often have someone in a different timezone / office maybe in another department and remote or not, it’s a video call.

If the problem as you say is that managers are too lazy to plan then they should do their job instead of making it worse for everyone.

Unplanned meetings are the worst because you get forced into decisions no 1 has thought over. The managers assume we’re good because they don’t understand the implications.
The problem is that UI is complicated. It’s all edge cases and human factors.
It's not clear where to draw the line on what is AI or not, and I suspect most content will be at least partially generated by AI. Is spell-checking AI? grammar-checking? Rewriting sentences for clarity? Summarization?
> Churches (cults, religion) all over the world are tax-exempted
Not sure what "softcore" has to do with it, but the initial claim had been made by a former Azov member. It's a fair assumption to make that he is no Russia lover. From here [1]:

> Igor Mosiychuk, ex-Ukrainian member of parliament, ex-deputy commander of Azov, recorded a 4 minute video talking about the latest strikes in Khmelnitsky & Ternopol, he claims the depleted uranium theory is correct, recommends evacuating children far from the explosion sites

[1] https://twitter.com/RWApodcast/status/1657822892342607874
Art Bell explained it all. Those bloody aliens can distort time and space. Aliens are everywhere but we cannot see them.

But cats can see them. Cats often stare intensely in to empty space. The remote viewing expert in Art Bells program (major Ed Dames?) told us that if you stare little bit aside at the same spot, you can sometimes see small cigar-shaped object with a propeller or antenna on both ends. In you peripheral view that is. They are indeed quite tiny maybe one american footsie in length.

If you have no idea of the distance, you can misjudge the speed of these objects.