skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That was 23 years ago, but still looks low-rent. Here's how Brightline & the Florida East Coast Railroad are doing it in Florida for their double-track (mostly) expansion to Orlando.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vINzBkK1d-k

Note that the ballast hoppers have a solar panel on them to charge a battery, which runs a motor to actuate the hopper doors. Much better than a couple of guys with a wrench.
Let's Verify Step be Step [pdf]
There was something about the style of the piece that grated on me. Which is clearly a me thing, not a you thing. I apologize.
Lots of plugins and manual fine tuning by an army of people on tons of subjects
> A just and civil society being one where the harder I work, the more taxes I pay?

How about: a just and civil economic system is one where the more utility I produce the higher quality of life I can achieve?

This is very different from what you implied (being punished for creating value). Taxes and UBI aren't in opposition to this. It still rewards production and those that create value. It also recognizes that hard work isn't always valuable (digging a tunnel with a spoon is harder than with heavy machinery. But the latter provides more value). Maybe we should frame things this way instead. Progressive taxes do not result in situations where a raise in pay causes a decrease in take-home money. It does instead address the issue that money is sticky and the mere existence of capital passively generates capital (which actually means you generate wealth without doing work). Fine at certain levels but clearly can get out of control (generate wealth for retirement vs generational/perpetual wealth where your children end up wealthier than you passively).
"Feel free to close my issues", I'm too cool for this shit.
Absolutely. My entire university experience confirmed this: Structurally, the place didn't give a shit. Individuals in the system were great, but the system itself was primarily set up to extract from students while they are too naive to resist it, and indebt them to the financial system.
Isn't those batteries the unfamous silicon anode batteries going into mass production? (rumors said they did work around the "significant size increase" issue at mass production scale).
This cop is either ignorant of history, or suicidal.

Likewise his lawyer who recommended a 1A approach to litigation is an idiot. Writing tickets is not private speech.
it was on hacker news
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36012360
Average USB cable? Not in my experience. And between my laptop power and USB cables, it's a laptop power cable that's the thinnest.
> isn't as negative a bbarn makes things seem either

In what way? Saying I disagree and not qualifying it makes it impossible for those unfamiliar to compare and contrast these divergent opinions.
Thank-you so much. And of course, it turns out Mel also programmed games. He was curious, persistent, and creative--all such factors when building primitives to exploit the spinning drum of a business machine:

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...
There’s plenty of precedent for bad decisions from the Supreme Court.
> For example. Go buy a bunh mi and they wrap it in a bag, and place it in a grocery bag (to hang on your scooter). Want a pressed sugar cane drink? Plastic cup, plastic lid, straw and plastic bag.

During my time on the motorbike with my gf, we made a huge effort to not use plastic. It was a struggle. We brought our own cups, reusable bags, etc... we'd give them a cup for that delicious sugar cane, then they'd pour it in a plastic cup because that is what they were so trained on, remember we gave them a cup, pour it in our cup and then immediately toss the plastic cup. I can't tell you how many times that happened.

> I actually got sick when in Hanoi and i am 50/50 on whether it was from the smog to be honest (the only folks in my party that didn’t get sick there were the folks that lived in Vietnam).

100% is was from the pollution there. Summers are brutal in Hanoi.
> it mentions Stanley Milgram's Small-world experiment (which as been debunked as pseudo-science)

This links to the wikipedia page, which mentions nothing about it being pseudo-science. There's a section on criticisms, but I don't see how the commenter reaches this conclusion
I invest $1000 on SPY every paycheck.
Well yes. This is precisely the type of info that OpenAI is keeping secret, because it could turn out that it's smart because its huge OR smart because it is RLHF-ed to death. Knowing which is the secret sauce might be sufficient for a large org to reproduce it.

E.g.: if the secret is that it has been trained on tons of "books", then Google could just throw Google Books at Bard 3.
I mean, Docker is using runc by default as well.
The way it works is pretty cool, they literally have server based consoles sitting racks as local to the user as possible that load up the games. But Sony only uses it as a solution for supporting old titles on new consoles and to an extent for allowing people to play games on SmartTVs. Pretty cool, but to be honest it's a novelty that wears off fast. Just charge us extra and build the old chips into our consoles or an HDMI stick. In the meantime, the emulated titles work well enough that bootleggers do it better than the Sony engineers.
Huh.

I'm familiar with the concept, I'd no idea it was that old.

(Much of my familiarity comes from the Selected Shorts / Isaiah Sheffer reading of a short story on the topic. I can't find a recording or mention, and don't know the author.
I went to University of Wisconsin-Platteville and they had a book center on campus with every book for every class. "Rental" costs were part of tuition (and something like $300/semester -- ridiculously low).

The idea of having to source these books is mostly foreign to me, though many of my friends went through it. I never did, and still do not, understand why this isn't a thing everywhere...
NOT true at all. Consider (say) a particular banana, in the hand of a particular hungry gorilla. That banana is the property of that gorilla. This concept of property is quite natural, and baked into the instincts and behaviors of animals far, far more simple than even the bottom end of the primates.

Vs. even comprehending the concepts of copyright and intellectual property requires a very modern human education and worldview.

(But consider how many $millions are paid to a great many lawyers, contingent on their managing to convince a great many people that those two very different concepts of "property" are the same, and a certain famous quote by Upton Sinclair.)
Schools were closed even more aggressively in parts of Canada. 20 weeks total in Ontario, which was the most in the country and one of the highest in the western world.
> Because there aren't real people on the internet who you can learn social skills from?

Ah yes, the famously well adjusted always online teens.

> Also, there's nothing that special about talking to adults that's that different from talking to teenagers... Basics of conversation are simple.

Have you ever listened to teenagers talk to each other? I honestly can't tell if you're trolling.
That's basically a hybrid vehicle where the engine is not connected to driveshaft. The thing is -- it's more efficient to connect engine directly to the driveshaft when driving at a reasonable speed, as there's no extra conversion of gas to battery charge (generator losses + battery charging losses + battery discharging losses).
"Just fix it in protools" is a common phrase uttered by too many musicians to count in the pages of TapeOp as well as their podcasts, to a degree that would seem to argue against your points raised here. There may be many artists that are technically proficient and still employ these techniques as an element of their aesthetic, but there are far more who acknowledge using it as a crutch.

(Professional recording engineer here)
> Even with an unusual amount of runtimes and apps, Flatpak somehow manages to use 37.73 GB, even with most browsers installed as a flatpak.

That's a lot. Complete operating systems with similar amount of applications installed can take a fraction of that. That's larger than / partition on my PC used to be not that long ago (until I stopped splitting /home out altogether).

My phone has a 32 GB eMMC. I have just a handful of small Flatpak apps installed on it and Flatpak already takes more disk space than the whole fresh OS did there. The thing is that it mostly scales not with number of apps, but with number of runtimes installed - and you only need a single app to still be on an outdated runtime to make it keep excessive space.
The perversion of “limited times” in the current US copyright regime fosters these extreme opinions. It’s a social contract. At present, it’s not an equitable example of one.
Two car lengths doesn't mean two car lengths? What is the conversion formula then?
That would be fine if you were actually entitled to the warning.

Well, sometimes it would be. Spending thousands of dollars in preparation to do something you had no idea was illegal isn't going to get your money back even if it doesn't get you arrested.

But a warning isn't mandatory. Which turns "3 felonies a day" into the erasure of the rule of law, because then if you do something they don't like that isn't illegal, they can still throw you in jail just by sniffing around until they find something you're doing that is.
Awesome thanks! Excited to hear your feedback
- note i'm one of the builders of this
Maybe you should flip your argument. The less we protect "IP", the more we rematerialize the economy, and reward people making innovations in pushing atoms over people pushing electrons. That might be a good thing
Incinerators require energy. This whole article is about how they don't have power.
> would you personally settle for less pay or privilege to enable this?

Absolutely. Among other things, I already spend a significant chunk of my paycheck supporting people who, in a country with a functioning social safety net and disability system that doesn't force people into poverty, would not need my support.

> are there real solutions in that?

So many problems in our industry are directly caused by capitalists being capitalists. We don't have enough positions for junior devs because companies need to execute as quickly as possible to satisfy VC's dreams of capturing the market before anyone else can come in. We take on mountains of tech debt for the same reason. Documentation isn't profitable, so we don't spend time on it. Big companies buy smaller ones just to kill off their products.

I don't have a perfect layout for a new society, but it's very, very hard for me to see how a defeatist attitude helps.

In particular, as technologists, I think we can do at least a little about this. We can stop carrying water for capital, for one thing; we can also stop aspiring to be capitalists ourselves. And finally, I really do think, even in this system and this economy, that we can carry some of the weight of building new systems for organization that don't serve at the whims of capital. ActivityPub isn't perfect, but it does work! We can iterate on that blueprint and build even better, more open, more effective social spaces that don't require billionaire bailouts. And we can support regulation that actually makes sense, and shout down legislation that doesn't.

There is so much we can do. I believe in us.
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Sure, but you need a driveshaft and a gearbox for this to work.

It's worth it if you're using it all the time, but for something only used on rare occasions I'll take the _maybe_ 10% efficiency loss to not lug around the extra weight and have more things that can break.
Some news reports about such bots:

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/mar/19/i-learned...

https://technode.com/2023/04/07/love-in-the-time-of-chatgpt-...

https://www.salon.com/2023/05/21/tech-wants-ai-chatbots-to-h...
It's not really that high of a power rating though

48V is ubiquitous through POE et al

And with 5A the gauge of the wire is important but it's not going to be running hot to the touch

I doubt you'll see it go much higher though, especially the current
The way I read that, it was only ruled in favor because they were directed to recreate x photo with some changes. If the Scream painting were still copyrighted, it sounds like telling an AI to "create Edvard Munch's The Scream just with lighter colors" would be a copyright violation - but something like "create a new painting in the style of Edvard Munch" would still fall under "artists can't copyright a style".
> "Property" is a natural concept since with physical objects you either have them or you don't.

The word "have" is just a linguistic feature (in English, no less[1]), or (at most) a concept. It's not inherent in the physical world.[2]

The concept of ownership is ultimately a linguistic and/or social convention. (Some) humans choose to think in terms of ownership, but they need not do so.

[1] - which might not even be present in some other languages, or might not be as natural to talk about as in English

[2] - except to the extent that all thoughts might be argued to be physical, if they are considered to be in the brain and everything in the brain is physical
sounds like having a law degree and lawyering experience is the perfect background.
Things get done when people are motivated to do them — either extrinsically ("I need money to not starve") or intrinsically ("I want my toilet to work").

Maybe I misunderstood you, but you seem to be talking about "work ethic" in the abstract, though — like, valuing the labor itself, rather than the fruits of it. My question is, why is that important? Who cares about labor for its own sake?
Governments can say whatever they want. My question was rather that if the government ceases to provide protection to... my exclusive right to my wallet, are others free to take it? Would this be theft, liberation or recovery? What happens if I simply begin to assert this exclusive right? What would this phenomenon be called? Is it really the case individuals can not assert their rights without a governments backing?
Yep, it's a constant onslaught until they to about 9 or 10 we found. It gets better once they creep up on teenage years. Not sure if it's just their immune systems improving or if it's a product of better hygiene once they get older.

Do not miss those years. And in fact I wonder how much of a toll the constant virus fighting had on me (combined with poor sleep and generally getting older, etc.)
To some people property means something where we pour essence of our life. It takes a lot of effort to create digital content even though it can be copied endlessly.
Yup for sure - would love an intro if you want to email us at clonedubaudio@gmail.com
I dropped out of High School. Tried community college. Dropped out after one year.

I taught myself to program. Built a career working for startups. Started my own startup. Now running a product agency.

Don’t worry about school. Apply yourself to work that matters to you. Be patient. Always seek to learn and improve. Don’t be afraid of failure.
Daily standups can be performed via a Slack channel and a template.
One point this author makes that I entirely agree with is that "copyright" has often been used to enforce forms of feudalism. And particularly odious forms, IMO.

One of the relatively few issues that actually has angered me a fair bit in recent years is the hoarding of content by companies that basically act as "landlords" and often do as little as possible beyond that.

In particular, I've had experiences with this as a researcher - doing the work and, these days, really doing all of the writing, editing, graphics, layout, etc. (i.e., "publishers" often don't do even the tiniest bit of traditional "publishing work" if at all possible) only to have the content then locked behind a paywall with websites demanding outrageous fees for access.

I've also had experiences with this in trying to support musicians whose work I love. It's virtually impossible to buy music through any of the larger companies and have any reasonable % go to the artists! I've tried multiple times to find services with reasonably extensive catalogues where, oh, I don't know, say even 30% of the money I spend would go to the people who MADE the music, and I've failed each time I've looked! So, instead, I mostly acquire music in other ways, and try to give money directly to the people who made it (and professionals involved in its actual production etc.) in other ways.

Now, I know if there's any forum in which I will be corrected if wrong, it's this one. And, I'd be grateful if anyone can point me to better options regarding music, and video (as well), etc.

I've been heartened by some of the firms publishing books using better models - providing unencumbered PDFs and the like. Also, significant efforts in academic publishing to change models, like "eLife", the various PLoS journals, etc. But, like many industries with questionable / potentially fading justifications for their models / continued existences in current form, many "traditional publishers" of various kinds have only become more of a PITA in their activities as time continues to pass.
Other languages have words with equivalent meaning. Even animals have property they defend
[citation needed]

Correlation, causation, etc.
only if the output is definitively a derivative work of an existing work. If it's the culmination of a thousand photos, it would be akin to a human spending a month studying a certain historical artists' art and painting a modern Tesla in their style.
I'm also not really sure where their training came from that copyright is a natural right haha. Seems like a straw man.
It used to work this way until recently, and none of the problems you describe were real issues.

It’s difficult to argue impossibility in the face of an existence proof.
So wait. We should wait until the energy grid is 100% clean before we deploy EVs?

Until then, we should continue to drive ICEVs, because they cause less pollution?

Genius.
Those are the writers who get paid, and while they’re working. A lot have to write for “credit,” hoping that next time they can get a contract that pays
The when feature looks genuinely useful. Shame on you! But in another language an event listening on variable change privative would be pretty cool.

In JS you could then replace

[x,setX] = useState(0);

with

x = 0;
Why do we even need electric motors? For the last hundred years we could have been running ICEs on ethanol produced from organic waste...
The Meltdown at CNN
> I can't tell if the author has written any books, but I'd be happy to put them up for sale on Amazon if he does

I think it was mentioned somewhere that this would be count as outright fraud. So, may be copyright isn't needed in such case.

I am thankful for your networking books, helped me a lot.
even that is just noise
My memory is that some of the US sites required you to show ID, and could exclude some people. Possibly, all non-nationals.

I've had friends who rocked up for conferences who were turned away at the door because of state sanctions against them, and the presence of a swimming pool training reactor on campus. You sometimes need to be careful, depending on your national affiliations.
You’ve grown up in a world where the idea that someone “owns” a song, a story, etc, is culturally normal. That doesn’t make it a law of nature. It’s just your culture.

I find the culture of “ownership” of ideas morally repugnant. That’s not culture I perpetuate or encourage.

I’m willing to tolerate some of in the form of limited time monopolies if it benefits humanity.
> Imagine that tomorrow, overnight, US and EU governments clamp down on their companies domestically and stop producing single use plastic. It will be gone from developing world withing a few years.

100% it won't change in Vietnam unless the government there does some strict mandates and education. It doesn't matter what the US/EU does. You really have to spend time in the country to get an understanding of how it is literally ingrained in their culture to just dump trash wherever they want and use plastic endlessly. They really don't see the problem with that. Once it gets into the culture, it'll take many generations to extract it.
They could update their old books periodically. So the latest and greatest version of the first book in the series will still be under copyright.
Vietnam reluctant to link power to regional infra integration because it means linking to PRC controlled Lao's Mekong hydropower that PRC setup as "battery" of region. Not much to do but double down on indigenous renewables and imported coal or cede control to PRC influenced power grids.
Twitter already feels passed the tipping point, although that's purely just based on how it feels. On that note, there should be a name for when you start to mistake genuine human activity for being the product of AI. And obviously Philip K. Dick was onto this sort of thing decades ago...
They aren't outside of the legal system, labor laws don't discriminate by immigration status. They know that if they seek redress under those laws, they will be punished under others.

The system prioritizes immigration enforcement over the rights & safety of workers and children. The system chooses not to protect them. Other choices are possible here don't pretend this is the inevitable & only outcome there could be.

For example we could easily give temporary immigration amnesty to victims of alleged crimes. Instead we have ICE camped out at family court, companies like this using the threat of deportation to keep their exploited workers in line. To the point of using child labor. Look at what you are defending here.
Forks in git are connected by the fact that they contain identical sha’s.
> There we go again. I get the feeling you don't feel yourself asking for a magic genie here. Clearly you believe that there is an algorithm to determine a "reasonably well defined area" but are unable to provide one.

A catchment area is already being defined based on some rules, it's not magic. That's the place to begin. It's not going to be an algorithm, it's going to be a poor bag of heuristics. Suggesting the existing method needs refinements is not the same as suggesting magic.
>> hard to debug (because C) at scale

I think what the crun author is positing is the container runtime is closer to the kernal (cgroups) than it is the orchestrator (Kubernetes). I tend to agree.

Of course kernel / cgroups / container runtime need to be rock solid. There should be no need to debug these in most use cases.
I'm suddenly curious if this is a fairly static limit: 8GB for LLMs. Is there any paper or posting somewhere describing how this will move up or down with technology changes? Does it depend entirely on the "thickness" or density of the data being analyzed to produce a model? I'm imagining a spreadsheet or database table with 100 rows vs one with 1000. I guess it depends entirely on how thoroughly data was collected? Not all attributes are dependent, etc.
Limited range has been one of the biggest factors keeping EVs out of my hands.

I regularly have to drive a ~400 mile route. Usually a few times a month. In my 9 year old compact SUV, I am able to do that trip with ~1/4 of a tank left, even when it's packed full. I generally do it without stops.

I look forward to the day that EVs can get similar ranges to ICE vehicles. (And more so, truly self-driving cars, so I can do something better during that time! Unfortunately it's a route without any real public transportation and I often have a load.)
So they are not even removing carbon from atmosphere? Huh
AFAIK Pimoroni have had those "existing customer" measures in place for some months for the Pi boards; it's not a new measure. It's a good way of resisting scalpers, IMO.

As is allocating some of the stock to the "essentials kits" that most new customers actually need anyway (particularly Pi 4B customers; the official USB-C PSU is one of the few safe bets).