skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There was also a news report about a swimming solar field on the surface of a lake a few days ago. Interesting that one of the major "innovations" in solar tech now seems to be political - i.e. finding spaces where PV can be installed without bothering anyone.

Still, it paints an interesting picture that no government would care about angry residents or potential alternative uses when building a road or prospecting for oil or coal (remember the Hambach and Lützerath events in Germany where entire villages were cleared because there was coal to strip mine).

Meanwhile, for wind we're still debating whether the safety zone to the next inhabitated building should be 1km or 2km...
They aren't trusting OpenAI. They are purchasing through Azure, and given most of these companies probably already trust Microsoft with a ton of data, this feels like much less of a leap.
It's not beneficial to believe that you have "RSI". That's like saying you have "cancer" and are treating it with chemotherapy. What if you just had Thyroid Cancer, in which case you merely needed to take a special iodine pill. In other words, both cancer and "RSI" do not have a single treatment. RSI doesn't have to be this chronic, debilitating condition... but in my experience, you can't put too much faith in orthopedic docs/surgeons, either.

I find orthobullets.com to be a very useful source of information on orthopedic conditions. Give it a look and see if your symptoms really do align... https://www.orthobullets.com/hand/6021/cubital-tunnel-syndro...
I’m going to go on a limb here, but I would say that coreutils main users aren’t human, but scripts. GUIs have had progress bars for ages as well.
I had some Japanese knotweed attempt to mess with my yard. Luckily even the knotweed is not exempt from laws of physics so after keeping it cut down for a while it gave up.

It can be a problem if you can't prevent it from setting up foliage. At least it's somewhat edible, and the dry stalks have airtight sections that explode if lit - kids love it.
TikTok Took over Restaurant Menus
God invents a beautiful little flower, a bright yellow reminder of the star which powers all life on our planet, which happens to be edible and tasty. When they go to seed, they turn into little puffballs that my kids pick and use to make their secret wishes. When my dog runs through the yard, she kicks up little clouds of seeds which float gently away on the breeze to spread more little flowers.

And humans are like, "fuck that, I just want grass. God forbid any little flowers should pop up on my lawn."

(disclaimer: I don't mean to shit all over your lawncare - I just find the impulse kind of funny. It's fine that you like a pristine lawn, to each their own).
Unlike privately funded projects, where the biggest factor is who can build it the cheapest?
BTC can be tracked by default. But, with a little effort, it cannot be.

You can either by BTC locally from an anonymous source, use a coin tumbler, or, in the BTC world you can do CoinJoins[1]

[1] https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/CoinJoin
Looking at things today doesn’t explain how they got this way. The existence of widespread car ownership changed the way Americans built, where they moved, etc.

I’ve done long commutes and I’ve lived close enough to walk to work. If I and millions of other people had prioritized car free lives 20 years ago we would already had noticeably different infrastructure. Instead I’m back to “needing” a car to get around based on these kinds of choices.
Kernel side backwards compatibility is a different story, and not just on Windows. Here we are talking about programs (userspace side).
In the United States, hospitals were not overflowing with patients and the curve was not flattened. It followed roughly the same curve and wave pattern of the 1918 pandemic. Hospitals were furloughing staff in massive quantities. Ohio tracked and published hospitalization rates and I followed them daily. There was never 100% capacity usage.
Thanks. I'll read that.

I was thinking demons mself. Being, above all, liars.

A quadrillion synthetic liars. Breeding and speaking at the speed of light.
Why does only one country get its data subdivided by ethnicity? I imagine that most countries have some groups that score better than others. Most ethnic minorities in Asia are "Asian", but in the 21st century there are plenty of non-white people in European countries.
Also could install a browser based VSCode on that remote server and access that.

https://github.com/coder/code-server
Probably much quicker for most people, and then they end up having to debug it to death. And yes, that includes pretty much any alternative mentioned here.
> “The majority of people who watch Bob Ross have no interest in painting,” she said. “Mostly it’s his calming voice.”

There must be a correlation when creating a calming narrative with statistical features of the paintings: Painting two or more of a thing allows you to talk about friends, not being alone etc.

But somehow the friend effect only applies to natural objects. Charming little cabins don't seem to need a friend (or a chimney).
Enter Apple (https://www.theregister.com/2012/11/08/apple_rectangle_round....)

"Surprise, motherf!"
If weather patterns shift, the infrastructure built to store water will have to shift as well.

Earth is a closed system, so we should expect to see water storage decline in some areas and flooding increase in some areas.

It’s all climate change stuff.
And if it goes, the "terrorists and child sexual abusers" they're writing this bill to target move to Telegram. Then whatever other application allows them to speak in private. The rest of the electorate is left massively inconvenienced for zero gain. My guess is they spent many thousands of hours in civil servant time to achieve something of no use to anyone. The incompetency of this government honestly astounds me.
Some people need help and it's a positive sum game to help.
You have misconstrued me.

>Do some groups need really utility more than others?

Some people have a lot of utility at hand, and some people who have no utility at all, we can do some stuff so they also can use a tool.

>It really is one or the other. You cannot represent..

The 2d grid is stored in computer memory. You don't need speech to store it. Speech is just a communication medium. A lot of accessibility is just altering the communication medium. It has columns, rows, things that are described with words. You can index into the grid. It is true that sight is a good thing, but your total refusal to provide features to those with alternate needs is ableist. It doesn't matter if the visual component is the original source and I agree excel couldn't have been created without sight. Clay tablet accounting couldn't be created without sight. Doesn't mean you can't use other senses when something has been created. Why the refusal to share? It's pointless not to share. An ending note: Leonhard Euler was rather productive while blind.
> Don’t really care what Paris is like, tbh. Shit air is shit air. Saying it’s shitter somewhere else isn’t super compelling.

Shitty is always relative, especially if you're comparing policy decisions.
Yeah, the solar road is a bad idea. The solar roof or solar car park, on the other hand, is a more appealing idea. Many places are running out of "cheap" locations, that's why housing is so expensive.

> wires can transmit electricity anywhere it's needed.

Well .. yes, if you build the wires. A surprising amount of projects are getting held up on grid connection grounds. Whereas embedding the panels near urban demand reduces that problem.
Turn any GameBoy into a cold storage wallet. Generate a seed phrase using a hash of your button presses as you walk around and complete quests.
now that is an interesting thought, they would be more powerful than current MBPs... Screen Mirroring can already be done from MacOS to iPadOS for example. It would be super awesome if one could connect the headset to another Mac and use the screens / keyboard / touchpad of that device. Ideally it would allow virtual desktops to have quick access to both devices by simply swiping on the touchpad.
That would never have flown in our (UK) class, where we grew up drinking Dandelion and Burdock pop

It was however playground lore that touching them and licking your fingers would make you wet the bed. Indeed the French name for them is literally that, pissenlit, which they must have had good reason to choose over the perfectly fine English name for them, dent de lion.
It's because this project has a completely different use case with very different requirement:

Design with almost no actual research budget

Buildable with contractors and off the shelf components

Aligned with local research grants
This!
Even so my local utility is putting in tracking solar projects. Got to be eco-theatre as well. And they track over the day! not over the year. Here the sun varies 42 to 78 degrees to the south, but the panels are flat overhead (90 deg). Again, all that mechanism for so little gain.
Deliberately vague, overreaching legislation which leaves enough ambiguity to let the government basically do whatever the hell they want.

The last bit of legislation they brought in with similar properties led - completely and utterly predictably - to the arresting of peaceful protestors who hadn't even started protesting yet [0]

It was insanely obvious ahead of time that that would happen. And it's insanely obvious ahead of time again what's going to happen with this new legislation too.

It makes me extremely angry how hostile the UK seems to be becoming to its own citizens as well as its overseas friends.

Not everyone in the UK wants to treat everyone like a criminal until proven innocent, nor treat all foreigners as suspicious and unwelcome. Not even a majority now, retrospectively, even wanted to leave the EU.

I increasingly do not recognise our government as one that is in any kind of alignment with my values as a UK citizen or even as just a decent human being.

Edit: And don't even get me started on the crazy rhetoric coming from the National Conservatism event [1]

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[0] https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/may/06/head-of-uks-...

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/may/16/terms-linke...
err, yes. Cars are very expensive, but for most they work to get you to a much larger number of places quickly. Time is very important to travel, cars get to a lot of places very fast. We spend a lot of money, but in return we can get a lot of places and do a lot of things that we cannot without.
Providing shade for 45 seconds of your journey...
> and given most of these companies probably already trust Microsoft with a ton of data

I don't think Apple is one of them
You're both right. There were some discussions that got through, but also a lot of suppression, e.g.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23660413

in which the top comment is asking why the story is flagged/dead. Also if we search during the first four months of 2020 for comments mentioning "Wuhan lab" the first comment literally says:

> I'm actually going to flag this, since basically it seems to be working quite hard to pretend that the US was funding Gain of Function research in Wuhan, when that doesn't seem to actually be the case.

and sure enough the story is flagged:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22943411

Fail! We now know that the US was indeed funding GoF research in Wuhan. We can even read the grant proposals for the work.
The guy that created orb.farm[0] is the same guy behind sandspiel.club[1], which is a browser-based Rust/WebGL powdertoy-like implementation. I added it to my phone's home screen so my kids have been playing with it for years!

[0]: https://maxbittker.com
[1]: https://sandspiel.club
It's always hard to balance delivering fast vs delivering quality software. I've been involved into multiple similar reviews were I'm coming as an outsider and assess existing platforms. Both what people will typically call "legacy" but also "modern" (read microservices) ones. Without a clear governance and consistency any of the approaches will end up with similar issues: performance, scalability, hard to extend/maintain, excessive use of tooling (there was one platform that kept all logs in a log aggregating tool, but didn't have any way to get the raw data). You can be fast and consistent/have a clear vision. No need to get it to production "no matter what".
I'm sure the CTA to pay for upgraded storage included in that warning is just a convenient coincidence, eh. I don't like the dark-patterness of it - it feels like blackmail.
I guess if want to do something this different you want an open source platform so that you can design a user interface that makes sense for VR.
This is much smarter than what they did in the Netherlands, where the panels are literally underneath the bike path, so bikes ride on them. They are constantly covered in filth and are not running anywhere close to their full capacity, irrespective of weather.
Damn, and that is with all the glaciers melting, which fills water reservoirs. Once they are completely gone, it is going to get so much worse.
The level of noise is the predominant parameter in my selection for a living place. I always consult the noise map[0] before moving anywhere in Vienna/AT. I hope other governments offer the same information.

[0]: https://maps.laerminfo.at/
The "privacy concerns" are that they're concerned that we have privacy at all
That would be funny, because on other occasion I remember collecting huge bouquets of "Hahnenfuß" (we called them "Butterblume") on walks with the kindergarten group. :)
Yes, so three nodes ahead.
Ah. I was thinking about this: https://www.reddit.com/r/unixporn/comments/3iy3wd/stupid_que...
> […] but an old-school open area with shops and restaurants.

Which was the original idea for them:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shopping_mall#Downtown_pedestr...

But then car-centric urban design happened.
As someone who worked at Realtime Worlds on the MyWorld project, this is very poignant.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Realtime_Worlds

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_MyWorld
If your instance is hosted by Microsoft, I doubt Apple would do the same.

My suspicion is that a company like Apple would want it on-prem, or not at all. A hosted instance with a pinky promise not to peek is not attractive to a lot of large businesses out there.

Your material point may still be valid. Apple could buy it, assuming MS was willing to give Apple a full copy and let them run it internally. (This would require divulging the details of its model to Apple. So I have no clue whether either of them are interested in dealing on such a basis? It would seem like a deal to me if MS could get the right price from Apple? But people a lot smarter than me make that call.)
> If for nothing else than to watch the dev live code with it.

YouTube channel https://www.youtube.com/@PokeyRuleJams/videos
I use the pv “Pipe Viewer” tool to do the same. You can either put it in the middle of a pipe, or pass it a PID using -p
http://www.ivarch.com/programs/pv.shtml

It works by reading /proc/PID/fdinfo/*
Even linear workflows can handle conditional execution, you just lift the condition into a value, like into a Maybe/Option type, and later stages only execute if there's a value.

Or if you want to be more literal, declare a specific type:

type Authenticated(User) = No | Yes(User)

And each stage of your workflow matches on Authenticated.Yes, and so only executes if the user is authenticated. That's basically what any system does internally, this just makes that implicit behaviour explicit.
As the article says, this bill is not targeting whatsapp specifically. Any other e2e-encrypted chat app will have to leave the UK as well. (Which Telegram isn't, btw)
I think there's certainly a risk of information overload, but I'd say that's a risk of our modern lives in general, whether we have AR glasses or not. Well-designed AR would, in my opinion, be vastly less intrusive than having to stare into a handheld device for hours a day. I would trust Apple to make a well-designed UI for the thing if and when they manage to release them. 3rd party apps not so much (although certainly there will be a handful of great ones). That's more on users making informed choices about the apps they download than a downside of AR, though.
This is somewhat better than solar roads, as you're not driving over the panel with multi-ton vehicles multiple times a minute.

It's far less use than solar over an open car park roof though.
https://www.doctorofcredit.com/credit-cards/best-credit-card...

If you are in the US and aren't getting atleast 2 to 5 percent back on all your credit card transactions, you have a bad mix of credit cards
Newer versions of Linux dd support status=progress.

iirc, dd on *BSD will show progress on ^T because it sends a SIGUSR1
Very sad.

On a more positive note, my spirits are lifted seeing people talk about his bass playing prowess. I didn't think anyone listened to anything pre 2010 anymore, let alone noticed bass playing.
Sarcasm isn't a cost.
Let's do it and while at it also remove externalities for the alternative modes of transportation - including removing the subsides for trains/buses in American cities.
Yes, about 3 times the price of a rooftop install, which aren't exactly the cheapest way to do solar
Maintaining memory safety, thread safety, and avoiding UB is still much easier in Rust than C++. In C++ you have be vigilant to avoid a mistake slipping in. In Rust, you get a compile error if you make a mistake.
> Earth is a closed system, so we should expect to see water storage decline in some areas and flooding increase in some areas.

Of course, Earth is a closed system, but I am not sure it is that closed.
I don't know what the context of your laptop search is but just like AI prompt engineering, google needs prompt engineering too.

"build light thin custom diy laptop" got me slightly more relevant results.
Trade offs. Everyone has a different situation, but for most people in the world $5000 in a car would enable so many different things they can do that it is worth it (or would be worth it if they could find that $5000 in the first place - for many if they had a car they could earn more than $5000 to pay for it, but lacking the $5000 to get the car in the first place they can't earn enough to buy it)
They’re doing all of the above correctly, it’s placarded, and it’s obvious that since it’s all done similarly that there’s groups detailing how to do it.
This is one thing I really miss on Linux when compared with the BSDs, especially with dd(1). On BSD you can press ^t to see the status of a command. All you need to do is issue this command to activate it:

% stty status '^t'

btw, for Linux dd(1) I know about "status=progress", but for me it is a bit hard to remember and specific to dd(1). But, nice little utility :)
Agree. It’s incredibly ambiguous and difficult and spread out across the site exactly how privacy addressed across their product offering.

Trying to explain to management what’s ok and what isn’t and what are the risks - in this space - is quite a challenge without clear commitments and documentation.
The latency issue is very real. I work in Linux, Mac and Windows on fairly fast computers and programming in VSCode is so annoying because of the latency .
On my 486 in Borland Turbo C++ ide, I click on a key and I see it instantaneous.

Of course if you never tried it, you wouldn't notice the difference and think I have some sort of OCD. But it is really noticable. I don't know if it's 100ms or 200 ms but there is a difference.
It looks super jank. Nice to get some shade though, for sure. Are solar panels so cheap now that they just didn't bother designing something that would hold them at a 45 degree angle while still offering the same amount of shade?
Probably goes to show where SIGGRAPH is headed.
There have also always been tricks to get that information for popular sites, like explained in the Browser history revisited [0] paper.

[0]: https://cseweb.ucsd.edu/~dstefan/pubs/smith:2018:browser.pdf
TOPS might take a more complex operation as a unit, same as computing shader passes per second might mean a very simple computation or a very complex operation every s^-1
On the main ChatGPT website there's already an option in settings to disallow use of anything you say in chat for training.
A better way to prepare for your coding interviews
So? We should allow one and not the other?

What about this false equivalency between China and the US? Even in a worse case scenario, data being taken by US intelligence is given SOME form of oversight. If you believe the US and China are similarly free, I invite you to tell me if you feel like you’re as free in New York City and San Francisco as Shanghai or Shenzen.

If you don’t think living in those two locations is equivalent, then why do you argue the data collection is the same.
Your argument is basically "macOS doesn't lock up your data but it integrates so well with iOS which means I can't help buying an iPhone. And now I have buyer's remorse because iOS DOES lock up my data". You don't need to use these integrations and you don't need to buy an iphone if you don't like your data taken hostage.
What I don't get, what would stop an attacker from also saying an option is not available, until they arrive at a weak enough option to crack?
Another humans are special and different argument.

Consider an inevitable AGI with autonomy and no ties to a corporate. Can it not learn and write text whether in conversation, creatively or academically? If it's held to the same copyright laws that humans are then of course it's fine, in my mind. Hell, AI will be _better_ at avoiding infringing on others as they can store so much knowledge and process new knowledge (searching the internet for similar works) than humans are at infringing.

If this is still a problem then doesn't this just boil down to racism against the machine?
Referrer header and rewriting links in messages?
Some changes would make your life better. The naive way most English speakers do transit is worse, but that doesn't mean transit itself would make your life worse if done in a different way.
If you asked any of the CEOs from those companies banning ChatGPT we're in for a glorious AI-shaped future, until it comes to them. It doesn't really inspire any confidence.

Can you imagine if Marlboro or Philip Morris forbade their employees from smoking for health reasons?
But this also disables history, making it a fair bit less useful.
Opposite experience for me. After I had kids, I realized how shitty and neglectful my parents had been. They kept me alive but they otherwise didn’t do much. They were more like roommates than parents.
Comparing MTIA v1 vs Google Cloud TPU v4:

MTIA v1's specs: The accelerator is fabricated in TSMC 7nm process and runs at 800 MHz, providing 102.4 TOPS at INT8 precision and 51.2 TFLOPS at FP16 precision. It has a thermal design power (TDP) of 25 W. Up to 128 GB of ram LPDDR5.

Googles Cloud TPU v4: 275 teraflops (bf16 or int8), 90/170/192 W. 32 GiB of HBM2 RAM, 1200 GBps. From here: https://cloud.google.com/tpu/docs/system-architecture-tpu-vm...

So it seems that the Google Cloud TPU v4 has an advantage in terms of compute per chip and ram speed, but the Meta one is much more efficient (2x to 4x, it is hard to tell) and has more ram but it is slower ram?
You originally wrote:

> Some popular browsers are supposedly "open source" yet it appears no browser user longing for saner times has ever tried reversed this change and recompiling the browser for their own use. No third party cookies by default.

And my response was simply it's way easier for the vast majority of people to change a setting once, than compiling the source (and remember to stay up to date with new releases)

> What I do know is that most users do not change default settings.

And they don't install alternative privacy respecting browsers either.

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One of the largest hardware/software companies is threatened by changes in the service economy?

I think your chat bot needs retooling or your audio input needs cleaning up. “Strategy PT” is probably meant to be ChatGPT…?