skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
the unspoken and incredibly politically toxic truth is that a lot of people's homes, including many whole towns, are simply at too high of a wildfire risk to continue existing. there is no price that makes them a good risk for an insurer, and the state would rather those people moved somewhere else because they don't have enough firefighting resources to protect all the outlying sprawl.

a price cap on insurance means that properties in the urban cores should be able to continue to get policies, and properties in the woods will be essentially uninsurable. if you can reduce the number of houses being built in the woods, you can let a wildfire burn without having the bad press of losing so many homes.
"NVIDIA is years ahead not just in CUDA, but in terms of all the other libraries built on top."

How big an effort would it take to get those libraries to work with AMD drivers?
A conspiracy theorist might say that this article is designed as clever propaganda to 1. make people blame issues on groups of mentally unstable people and 2. that it's designed to label the out of field as dangerous and insane.

But only a mad conspiracy theorist would think that this is propaganda.
Spend some time on https://www.webhostingtalk.com/ and you will find a lot of info. For example https://www.fdcservers.net/ can give you 10TB storage and 100GB bw for around $300....but keep in mind the lower the price you pay, the lower the quality...just like any other products.
Unlike fires earthquakes and other real catastrophes that can’t just be legislated away, unlimited liability absolutely can be. But so long as juries are willing and able to render absolutely ridiculous verdicts, the insurers can’t feasibly cover all your risk.
This is cool thanks!
being from 2021, I guess this one didnt pan out
I've never built a font. I had no idea you could do something procedural with them like this. I always assumed they were just a bunch of glyphs in a file.
The author sort of touches on this, although doesn't state it outright (but does refer to compromise) -

> And that's really hard to do; I don't have any perfect answers for that; it's communication and compromise.

But I generally agree with you. There's a big difference between compromise and letting things go. The author kind of implies that they can't do the latter, and that it's bad to do so ("Well, that seems generous, but it's a really bad idea."), and so to make up for that, they rely on communication instead.

Truly letting things go is harder than outright communication (at least, for me). How do you determine what's small enough to let go? I have to make a gamble every time I think "Well, I'll just let this little thing go", because I need to make sure I've actually totally gotten over it. If I don't, then it becomes another paper cut.
Isn't that enterprise HDD going to be slower for a cloud instance though?
Why is that? Seemed like Xen was the better design, and KVM just had a lot more pragmatism going for it.
Letting shit go is more or less what I hear from those 25+ year Indian couples with arranged marriages (from Netflix show, “Indian Matchmaking”), though they call it “tolerance”.

The thing is, how many people truly and honestly let shit go?
Great, now figure out how to discern the value of a patent without negotiating it. Also, for many patents (drugs, for example), a lot of the value comes from the exclusivity of it, and losing that also decimates the value of the patent.

This isn't copyright where 100000 plays of someone's cover is worth $1 and doesn't hurt the original artist at all. This is a hundred million dollar asset offering exclusive access to a competitive product. This is fundamentally different.
FYI, they recently resumed activity on Hoplon. Good to see!
A similar idea might be that one can just find someone else to work harder, but one can't easily find another genius. In other words, people who only work hard seem more replaceable, hence the bias to hire or promote people who seemed naturally talented.
I really like sciter for webview-type apps. It's really lightweight, integrates well with native code, and brings some native-app concepts to JS (like the communication between multiple app windows). Sure, it's not open source, but you can have the source code if you pay for it, I can respect that.

My main issue is that it's lacking some of the DOM API. It's complete enough that you wouldn't really notice when writing code yourself, but good luck finding a charting library that runs without modifications.
YouTube’s Science Scam Crisis [video]
> Junk or not, it doesn't disprove that the remaining majority held key evidence.

That’s not how proof works. The burden of proof is on Lindell to prove his claims true, not Zeidman or the public to disprove some unsubstantiated claims like this.
Guys, I'm going to say it: all these gender equity posts are written by midwits. Just like La Sombrita, all gender equity stuff is done by people unable to do real things that have value.

It's a tax we were willing to pay when things were good because we had the money and these people were harmless.

But now, there is not that much spare wealth to throw at this sort of indulgent bullshit. And these people started believing that what they said was actually true sort of like your kid brother thinking he actually beat you at chess.

Enough with this. Go make something. Anything that isn't more blog posts about how women have no agency or ability and only do jobs others give them.

There's things that need doing and women can do them. Enough of the learned helplessness.
> Imagine if you took some 4.0GPA students under the assumption that they actually learned what they claim

I'm going to stop you right here, my friend. I don't think I or anyone else is going to take on a wet-behind-the-ears new grad and actually expect any substantial amount of competence or knowledge out of them for a real world endeavor. I pissed away a lot of valuable time and effort getting a 3.8 GPA, and it was no help at all in the real world. Hiring managers didn't even remember what it meant.

Once I started my first real tech job after college, it turned out that being the top dumb kid out of a group of dumb kids didn't have any effect on how little I knew about getting things done. I actually learned more and more relevant skills from a couple of years of part time web programming in high school than I did from 4 years in a well-respected university
this isn't what dialectics are
Is this webscale? /s
There is zero chance we require biometrics on PyPI.
Are you doing calls to/from other sip URIs that are also behind NAT, or just using your trunk and internal extensions?
Link to the series for watching from America?
Something's up with your site on mobile. https://ibb.co/mT5hR3z
MITM will see everything, but this should be the case with headers as well as GET params, passwords/tokens/data etc.
Isn’t it usually required if you have a mortgage?
> The UI lags so much. The UX feels worse than accidental, almost adversarial.

Now I am not sure if you are talking about Windows or Linux.
Why is this flagged? Is it just b/c the forensics performed here were relatively simplistic?
I believe ours were also RS/6000's but I'm not sure because it was a long time ago. Those were rented machines with an expensive per-hour service contract. My company didn't want to pay for the setup so we did it ourselves. Totally possible the machines were misconfigured deliberately to make us pay for the setup service or maybe they were just in the state the previous customer had let them and that didn't fit our network.

Anyways my point was more that with this old tech you'll probably spend a lot of time on boring details before you'll even get to the fun part, like running DB2.
Why does the farmer emoji have a length of 7 in JavaScript?
Middle boxes can arbitrarily limit the request URL size in certain cases.
> apart from completely dropping it.

This is what I have done. Cash and semi-liquid investment vehicles are king if you have enough to cover the worst case. I get called a "crazy person" whenever lack of coverage comes up at friend & family gatherings, but I honestly don't feel any anxiety over it.

Worst case scenario, my home burns down or experiences some other total loss and I have to pay 100% out of pocket to put a roof back over my head. Yeah this sounds kinda bad, but there are a lot of statistics in my favor here. I WFH full-time, so the probability of me not being at home when something "weird" happens is diminishingly small. Additionally, I can't recall the last time I saw a fire truck heading to an actual structure fire in my community. These newer homes are kinda safe by default. Water/wind damage is a concern, but I've been through enough hurricanes to know that TWIA coverage is the biggest scam ever perpetuated on homeowners in the gulf coast region.
"a group of people have absolutely no proof what-so-ever"

Something not being provable underlies the definition of the term theory, Google this phrase, "is it required for a theory to have proof" to understand.

"It does not matter if they end up being right"

This is not a logical stance.
Maybe. Or maybe if their municipality got serious about fire breaks, fire prevention, and invested in their fire department they would be insurable again.
Jitsi has something built in, I havent used it but I expect it's similar to big blue button which I have done, it runs a freepbx so setting up some extra dialplan rules to get interconnect is possible.
I still have a copy of Photoshop 3 running on my Octane2.
Perhaps we need a new word for universe - as it singular and all encompassing, this title seems silly.

Of course, that would imply necessity of which there actually isn't, being there is only one universe.
Our Maps Don't Know Where You Are
I would also add scientific simulations to the list of tasks that GPUs are used for. They parallelise well on many cores.
Hahaha that second link is brilliant.

"Hm, maybe I should double check ChatGPTs output... Hey, ChatGPT, does your output make sense?" - "Yeah, my output definitely makes sense". "Are you sure?" - "Yeah".

Well, then.
This was a mouse study with a molecule whose human effects are largely unknown. Interesting research, but likely far away from anything that will treat humans.

That said, the bar for human glioblastoma trials is very low. There is no cure and the disease is 100% fatal. After the standard of care treatment (which hasn't changed in 10 years), patients enter a period of regular brain scans, waiting for the inevitable recurrence and the next step down in quality of life.
This problem will be solved with LawGPT which will be a generative pre-trained transformer trained on a vast array of legal cases, rulings, and briefings and designed with accuracy in mind and free from hallucinations.

It will cost $3,400/month for a legal firm the size of Levidow, Levidow & Oberman, P.C.
A short writeup on my journey so far, on building a simple that uses OpenAI's API.
https://archive.is/MVMYN
The only software I have seen that does this is Elasticsearch - it works with their client libraries but I'm always worried there may be proxies and suchlike which don't support it.

They support POST as a fallback.
Give him a break, he’s in the middle of re-discovering Modigliani-Miller, except with a dash of crypto-optimism and pro-indentured servitude (??) thrown in.
I don't think this would be a factor. Some PCI-E 4.0 SSDs already come with metal heatsinks out of the box. If future SSDs needs addtitional cooling, this will be communicated to the buyer.

I think that the bigger question is whether 25W can be phisically supplied to the drives by contemporary motherboards. What is the power limit for the m.2 ports?
Is there a reason people aren’t suggesting some cloud object storage service like S3, GCS or Azure storage?
Active Directory is allegedly supported in Ubuntu so that makes it seems most ready for fleet deployment for existing edu IT teams.
Plus tobacco.
I think they'll charge me only when my current monthly statement is enough to charge. Pretty sure I've never been charged so far with my monthly statement being like 0.02€.
Those bandwidth costs are going to be so expensive
How much would you expect an unlimited liability policy to cost?

My homeowners policy, in an area with pretty minimal disaster risk, is roughly inline with or somewhat below the national average (per dollar of property insured) and my premium went down by $1 compared to last year.
A great example of this today is GraphQL. Even if you disagree with the premise of GQL, you can understand how you can have complicated filtering and sorting logic, and conditional expansion of nested resources. For a nontrivial data model, you may want to select only a minimal number of fields on each nested resource. Having lots of different variants of the same endpoint to serve the same query with different shapes of output is difficult to maintain, so this makes some sense.
I don't know that NVC always works the way its proponents think it does.

I've been around a lot of NVC practitioners. Many have been active NVC educators.

Maybe they've all been Doing It Wrong, but...I find that when presented with the "NVC way" of discussing a problem, my brain always translates it to the emotional symbols I understand, which are nearly identical to the symbols generated by an overt criticism.

That said, I recognize that could simply be a "me problem." Which I won't dispute. I'm not entirely neurotypical. And generally if something I'm doing is bothering someone, I try to deal with it; I don't make everything into drama. I just don't parse the NVC words appreciably differently than a normal, polite request. (Overt hostility does push my buttons, but short of that, it doesn't seem to matter.)

Just saying that NVC isn't magic. If the person making the request has a reasonable point, I'll acknowledge and do what I can to adjust my behavior. If they seem to be asking something less reasonable, wrapping it with NVC language doesn't change the request materially for me at all.

> It drives me crazy when I find out people just sit there and don't tell me when I'm upsetting them. Communication, my men! If you can't fix it in your own head, get other people involved and talk it through.

Agree that people should generally be open about issues. But there's appropriate context for everything. I really don't want coworkers coming up to me and asking to work through an emotional issue for an hour because something I suggested was different than their suggestion, and my suggestion bruised their ego. Close friends? Sure. I probably have higher than average tolerance for such conversations among those I care about. But I choose my close friends, and largely don't get to choose specific coworkers, and so demanding that level of emotional work seems outside of the job description.

Also: Totally agree about telling the contractor that dust got everywhere and letting them know that's a problem. But for me, it wouldn't be at all about "my feelings." It would be about a request to a contractor to adjust their behavior or that of their subs based on reasonable expectations. I would personally feel foolish taking an NVC approach with a contractor in that situation, TBH. Not "It makes me feel disrespected when dust gets all over the place," but something more like, "Hey Jim, someone didn't seal the plastic around the construction area and we had a bunch of dust we needed to clean up. Can you be sure that everyone knows that it's important to keep the dust seal closed? Thanks." Heck, the latter is even less confrontational than the "you left the plastic open" in the OP's comment.
> The problem with this is that it is easy for the programmer to forget to write the obvious final step. It wouldn’t be a problem in a different, imaginary language or IDE where the machine would recognize a library with an obvious final step, and signal a compiler/IDE error when the programmer forgets it, or if it put the obvious final step into the code for the programmer. But this is fantasy.

It’s something you’d get with a linear type system (use values exactly once), but they’re not present in any particularly popular languages. I suspect Haskell might be able to achieve roughly this, but I’m not certain.

The closest I know definitely about is Rust, which has an affine type system (use values at most once). You can mark types and functions with the #[must_use] attribute, which says that you must do something with values of the type or returned from the function at least once, or it’ll produce a compiler warning. But what’s needed in these cases is that you must consume the value. I have often wished for this in Rust, but I doubt it would be accepted into the language (and so haven’t tried proposing it formally) because of its comparatively niche usefulness due to the interactions with destructors and panic unwinding. (Basically, you couldn’t actually rely on it for resource management: if you wanted it for something like “end database transaction, but actually do something with an error code rather than silently dropping it like a destructor”, you’d still actually need to implement a regular no-return-value destructor, so is requiring that the user write `tx.commit()?;` actually useful, given that a panic before that line would lead to effectively `drop(tx);` happening instead?) For most purposes, #[must_use] is good enough. But it still disappoints me, because I think most places that #[must_use] gets used, they’d actually be better suited by a #[must_consume]. Hmm… maybe I should contemplate proposing it after all.

But yeah, the lambda approach is often a good solution.
The answer to this question depends entirely on the details of the use case. For example, if we're talking about an HTTP server where a small number of files are more popular and are accessed significantly more frequently than most others, you can get a bunch of cheap VPS with low storage/specs but a lot of cheap bandwidth to use as cache servers to significantly reduce the bandwidth usage on your backend.
"stirring excrement with a stick"
That’s only because of the way loan agreements are structured and because law and regulation are written around a debt based system.

If businesses couldn’t take on debt there would only be one class of stakeholders, the shareholders.

It would be an interesting thing to pilot in Muslim countries where charging interest is effectively forbidden. I think it could be a more efficient, transparent, and equitable financial system.
https://archive.is/EwxbJ
No, that would just postpone whatever problem existed in the first place since you'd be left with a huge mass of compressed exhaust gases which do not have any use. Since those exhaust gases consist mostly of nitrogen (due to it forming ~80% of the atmosphere) this would also entail a massive waste of energy expended in compressing that nitrogen.

Separating out the CO₂ would make it possible to either use it in some form where it replaces CO₂ otherwise produced by other means - e.g. for welding, cooling, carbonation of liquids etc. - or to sequester it in some way.
Still waiting for SaulGoodmanGPT
I understand and agree with that perspective.

Not everyone lives by that however. Peoples standards are different.

This is hypothetical, it's real and I have experienced people like this.
So what, are they pathological layers?

https://youtu.be/XVcKLetqf3U

The Intel® Data Center GPU Max Series outperforms Nvidia H100 PCIe card by an average of 30% on diverse workloads1, while independent software vendor Ansys shows a 50% speedup for the Max Series GPU over H100 on AI-accelerated HPC applications.2
The Xeon Max Series CPU, the only x86 processor with high bandwidth memory, exhibits a 65% improvement over AMD’s Genoa processor on the High Performance Conjugate Gradients (HPCG) benchmark1, using less power. High memory bandwidth has been noted as among the most desired features for HPC customers.3
4th Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors – the most widely used in HPC – deliver a 50% average speedup over AMD’s Milan4, and energy company BP’s newest 4th Gen Xeon HPC cluster provides an 8x increase in performance over its previous-generation processors with improved energy efficiency.2
The Gaudi2 deep learning accelerator performs competitively on deep learning training and inference, with up to 2.4x faster performance than Nvidia A100.

https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/newsroom/news/intel-...
> US is also far better if you are middle class and want to accomplish things

I worked my way up to (maybe upper-)middle class and wanted to accomplish things. Not only would this not have been possible in the U.S.A, what I wanted to accomplish wouldn't even have been termed an accomplishment there (it was happiness and contentment).

> It’s not a coincidence that pretty much all the successful ambitious startups are in the US, and not in Europe

It certainly isn't, but that likely means something else to me than you. So far, those "successful ambitious startups" have messed up quality of life, and maybe even global politics.

It's not a co-incidence that that I see "FUCK OFF GOOGLE" stickers everywhere I walk here.

We have different goals in Europe.
SSDs are definitely not "cost-effective" for 10 TB if that's what you're suggesting.
Interestingly this is already happening in Florida, where repeated hurricane damage and high levels of fraud has led to the exodus of pretty much all national insurance companies. https://www.nbcmiami.com/news/local/floridas-insurance-crisi...
The demand for workers at current market wages is greater than the number of workers willing to work at those wages. That is the economic definition of a shortage.

One way to get rid of the shortage would be for employers to pay more. Another way would be to reduce demand for workers by raising interest rates.
Yes, there are different cordyceps-like fungi for different species. The thing is, the neurochemistry of even fairly related insects is so different that the fungus would need to make too many adaptations simultaneously to be able to jump between species. It could infect a trillion fruit flies and never jump to dung fly.

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/parasitic...
S3 is tough to beat on storage price. Another plus is that the business model is transparent, i.e., you don't need to worry about the pricing being a teaser rate or something.

Of course the downside is that, if you need to download that 10TB, you'll be out $900! If you're worried about recovering specific files only this isn't as big an issue.
Looks fine here:
https://ibb.co/PtC1d7p
Bioglue Breakthrough
That is my concern, companies will be rushing to AI as a way of getting rid of people, especially with call centers. I hope some regulations are passed were an "AI" must clearly identify itself as such when dealing with people.
I believe OP was sarcastic in their comment about California nationalizing industries and making fees based on equity. In particular the "population boom thundering on" was quite obvious sarcasm, given that California has been in a steady decline.
It is remarkable to see (in this age of the internet) the huge gap between what the media believes about the present vs. what is more likely based on the far deeper amount of information made available on the internet.

Society is made up of many parallel subcultures, and only a very small group of them keep journals, write, or otherwise record history. That group appears to be mostly disconnected from the nuts and bolts of what is actually going on technologically, politically and economically.

It has always been understood that history was unreliable, but the collapse of media credibility as we gain access to primary sources stands as a stark warning of just how little we really know about the past.