skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The only disagreement I have with this is the future tense. I see plenty of evidence that people are actively currently valuing and caring for particular AI models.

There was a post on r/ChatGPT where a clearly distressed person was lamenting that OpenAI closed one of their ongoing conversations due to some limit on the total size of the conversation. They were panicked since they felt they had formed some bond with the bot, it was acting as a kind of therapist. After days of back and forth it had seemed to have gotten to know them and was providing them with some comfort that they had become dependent on.

This kind of AI will be even more prevalent soon. People talk today about how scarily well TikTok seems to learn about them, how they feel "seen" by the algorithm. Some will undoubtedly train LLMs in similar fashion. They may prove to be irresistible and maybe even as addictive as TikTok.
He goes on to describe ways in which non-professors can be paid for their creative work without relying on copyright.
It seems that it does not support Windows natively, instead it has to be run inside Cygwin for now?
I would hope that this is more common than GP thinks, and this is also something I look for when I'm buying laptops- if they don't have an okay amount of extra PCIe lanes laying around, I don't want it- because they can become really fun projects (ie strap a GPU to it and get a few more years of Minecraft out of it, or use it as a network appliance with a built-in UPS)
This is mad. Only BEVs can be refueled at home, and that is the absolute killer feature. People are obsessed with public chargers but most EV drivers never use them, or at least, only very rarely, on unusually long trips.

I can't put more hydrogen, or gasoline, into a vehicle without getting it from somewhere else.
Commercial? Not really.

It's closed source freeware with a donation option.
I believe there are also EM ones, but in either case, my point still stands.
I got a pinprick sized 3rd degree burn from the end of a micro usb charging cable. It was more startling than dangerous, but I now have a little more respect for low powered devices, especially when plugged into mains.
> you have to take more from those who chose to work

Not the right framing, but not far off. It depends where you set the threshold and how much you extract. Remember that money is a resource where positive feedback loops exist: "you have to have money to make money", "the first million is the hardest", or "passive income." We can think of money as sticky and attractive. Momentum matters. Also remember that a capitalist market relies on competition and money to be fluid and constantly exchanged. Transactions are not zero-sum, but many times result in a positive value. This is even true in a pure fair transaction and without considering external costs like taxes.

tldr: there are sources and sinks in the economy and this is conditioned on the value in the previous time-step. Capitalism works well when value is continually exchanged: meaning sinks are bad.

Once we consider these things, "fair" gets more complicated. One can argue that it isn't fair that wealth begets wealth. That certain goods have an economic value that is not being captured by the evaluations, and are often difficult to put price tags on (e.g. air quality). Tragedy of the commons is quite real. One can also argue that it isn't "fair" that the system does not optimize for societies and instead optimizes individuals. Fair is difficult to define and none of this is as easy as it appears on the surface. Both pro and anti-UBI people make these mistakes. I'm not attacking a particular side but rather suggesting this isn't as straight forward as you have characterized.
The much higher capacity 8000 gross tonne hydrogen carrier can deliver about 1400MWh, after spending 3000MWh filling it up with a bunch of electrolysers then liquifying the hydrogen which you'd have to build a floating platform for.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suiso_Frontier

8000 tonnes of 200Wh/kg batteries is 1600MWh.

This is dumb, but hydrogen is much, much dumber.
One could also call this the Social Network of Things (SNoT).
Isn’t this all jobs though? I don’t get paid when I don’t work either.

This is the crux of the issue for writers: what used to be single, extended year-long gig in the age of broadcast TV has become a series of short-term gigs lasting a few months.

Each show writing gig lasts about 2-3 months for streaming, 3-4 months for network half-season, or 5-6 months for network full-season. (These timelines reflect the duration the writer is employed; the show's full pre-production and post-production timeframes are usually a lot longer than this.)

Also, good people in this field aren’t sporadically employed and keep a pretty good book of business.

This is definitely false. Variety and The Hollywood Reporter have interviewed a number of writers as part of this strike. A number of former showrunners of successful broadcast shows and film blockbusters have been affected by this. It's not an issue of "book of business" like it is with other industries; the problem is that the work itself is simply much shorter in duration than it was in the past.

For comparison: it would be as if your coding projects that used to last for a few months now only lasted for a few days, but you got paid the same rate by unit of time as you did before (i.e., you now only get paid $5k for what once would have earned $100k).
BirdNET has more data and more species but Merlin can work in real-time on your phone without internet.
I also remember my AVerMedia TV card had no way to output audio through the computer's speakers, so you'd have to take its audio out and plug it into your microphone input and enable playback of audio in.
I shouldn't have to do that, if someone wants to compare two nations' handling and come to a conclusion using statistics then they should be compelled to do the statistics correctly.
Indeed, who'd have thought an elephant would be bigger than a mouse.

Direct comparison of the largest LNG carrier in existance Vs. early proof of concept "maybe this is worth a shot" vessel isn't especially meaningful.

A sensible 'normalised' comparison might be energy carried per displacement kilotonne or some such.
Any ETA on the blog post?
The greatest threat to democracy is American Thought Control.

You are not alone in your own mind, and your voices want to be your God.
We were talking to (and using the sites) of all our customers of any reasonable size. This was one of them.
Anecdotally as a non-UK person, when British people complain about something, I think it means they're trying to make friends with you.

As a Canadian, I can reveal that when someone says "I'm sorry," what they tend to mean is, "I'm not going to pay."

Witticisms aside, manifestations of temprament across cultures are ridiculously diverse. If there were such a thing as a type-A-minus personality, I might fall into that category, where one presumes others take responsibility for their own words and actions. The excessive submissiveness in some cultures (calling people sir, inability to decline, etc) is difficult not to interpret as a form of perfidy and passive aggression, where if you aren't taking responsibility for the conversation, it implies I must. By some cultures I mean west of Nevada.

As an anglo, my interactions with people from France are predictably funny, and the effect of the intellectual sparring yields some amazing solutions, but resolving that we have the mutual dignity of peers tends to take a few rounds. If I were to characterize what people interpret as Canadian niceness, it's that we are typically raised to treat malice as an inferior sentiment. Even though it may be real and meaningful, mainly it means you're losing. As a result, we produce some uniquely insufferable pricks, but if you're wondering how someone can seem so oblivious to insult, this detail might provide some useful context.
Because I thought it could be fun if people took the bait lol
Yeah, I definitely have plenty of conversations about beta, etc, which is nice. But the closest any of those have ever come to turning into a friendship was someone mentioning the specific days and times they climbed and suggesting I try to synchronise.
Author here. You are totally right, this whole thing was a self-confessed shoe-string hack job so it was far from ideal in any respect. I was pleased how long it lasted though and performed.

Regarding temps, the modem itself, I seem to remember, never reported a temp higher than 55 degrees C. I don't live in a very warm place though...
In the cities, there is trash collection. Anywhere outside of the cities, it is dumped just outside of the commune (most of them have a road in and a road out, so there is two heaps). Usually smoldering. If you go to remote areas, you find trash heaps in the middle of nowhere.

It really has nothing to do with money since it is a communist country. The government could decide to allocate resources (ie: people) towards dealing with the mess. That's effectively what they do in the cities.

In Saigon, I lived on Truong Sa in a 5th floor apartment, so I had a great view of a large stretch. This street is along a river running through the middle of the city. Every day, there was several boats that would go up and down collecting the trash that people would dump into the river. All day long, I could watch people just stop their bike, get off, walk over to the river and dump their trash into it. The lazy ones would just dump their trash on the street or in the gutters, which tend to back up during rains and cause more flooding.
> Apple knows Meta will be forced to try to copy them to survive. But I think Apple is ready for it.

Meta hasn't gotten this far by copying Apple. They got this far by doing things Apple doesn't, like developing first-party experiences and focusing on the low-end market. They are intentionally running in the other direction, and have already drummed up a market 20 million strong without so much as an announcement from Apple.

If their first gen headset outsells the first gen Quest, it would be like the Lisa outselling the Apple II.
I went to university in Germany a decade ago (for CS) and I had the exact same experience. On the first day we got a usb stick with a linux distro for programming assignments and every course was essentially done with the expectation that if you attend the lectures you can pass the exams at the end of the semester. Book recommendations were sometimes given but basically always classic textbooks you can just borrow from the library.

I honestly struggle to understand why students would even participate in these textbook extortion rackets.
> there is also absolutely nothing legally preventing a nation from incorporating a megaton warhead, into a fireworks display

Well, "nothing" is quite the wrong word to use here... There is no international law preventing it, on some countries (including the US; for others, there is).
"No true Scotsman" at its finest.

You're also basically arguing the only people who should be artists are the independently wealthy. I'd rather have moderately long lived copyright than lose the works of the many artists I've enjoyed who make a living from what they produce.
It's not silly because it doesn't exist. It's silly because it weighs a hundred pounds and makes design trade offs to achieve a level of density you probably don't even care about if you only need one of them. The people who want that thing are the people who are going to fill a rack with them or more instead of several times that many racks with something else.

In practice if you need ~24 drives you get a couple of 2U array containers that each hold 12 drives and then buy a 2U server or two to plug them into and don't care at all that you used 8U for 24 drives instead of 4U for 72 because your 42U rack still has 34U to spare.
I don't have kids. I'm ok with the crying babies - there's very little anyone can do about it, and they're already doing it. I'm much less ok with poorly behaved kids bouncing around, yelling, etc.
Children not working is a modern phenomenon in privileged nations. When times get tough and people need to pay bills just to keep food on the table and a roof over their heads, see how fast that changes. And they are about to get tough.
All hash table sizes you will ever need
Oil is much more energy dense.

Using current gen batteries, this is a cargo of about 1200t for 240MWh

Oil would be 13000MWh of chemical energy. Or a replacement for 2000-7000MWh of electricity.

It would never be worth transporting electricity from the oil well, but if the option is transporting oil 3000km or transporting electricity from a wind turbine 200km away, the battery-ship is a better use of the ship (but maybe not a better use of the batteries than using a wire).
Maybe one day when space launches are so cheap we will have Brilliant Pebbles and make ballistic missile threats and long range nuclear war much much harder! Fighting ICBMs and MIRVs in the terminal phase is an unwinnable war.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brilliant_Pebbles?wprov=sfti1
What is preventing me from walking up to their Tesla and driving off with it?[1]

Yes, there are security mechanisms and social norms that would prevent most people from doing that sort of thing. Yet there are more than enough people out there who would gladly take exception to that sort of thing and gladly take the Tesla as their own. The whole notion of property rights is a social construct. We use governments to enforce that social construct. Until humanity can learn how to share things (rather than just take things), we are certainly better off for it.

Copyright is somewhat different in the sense that it is relatively easy to copy without depriving someone of their copy, yet it can still be viewed as depriving the creator of the potential value of their work.

[1] Don't worry. I don't drive.
I don’t think social media is going to survive AI, at least not in its current form.

It’s not just going to take a blow from the AI content production that’s on the horizon but also AI engagement.

Pretty much all of the signals social media platforms use to automate curation of content are about to turn into noise against the backdrop of nearly every participant in the social network being both incentivized and capable of running a Sybil attack with a seemingly infinite team of AI content producers and profiles capable of driving engagement.
If I make my own charcoal can I also be added to the list?
How does it compare to GPT-4 at coding tasks? I haven't tried it but everything I've heard suggests that it is noticeably worse.
Yes, I would really like to participate in an effort to ban them.

I'd also like to start something like a cooperative map of mosquito locations around the world, so that sensitive people can avoid these places/businesses and/or take protective measures (like putting on earplugs, or even just earphones, etc) when passing by.
That's not really true. Humans, at critical moments, do make implicit and even explicit plans of movement and follow them. We don't use literal velocity measurements for other objects, true, but in making those plans we do sometimes anticipate their locations at various points in the future, which is really what matters.

The best human drivers do this not at centimeter, but at the millimeter level. Look as downhill (motor)bike racing, Formula 1, WRC, etc..., These drivers can execute millimeter level accuracy maneuveurs that are planned well in advance at over 100km/h.
"Community garden" isn't quite the right term. It's actually primarily a food rescue organisation (takes unsold produce etc from supermarkets and redistributes it to poor people) that also grows a bit of their own produce as well, which is the bit I help with.

I happened to be at a kind of mini festival where there was a stand actively recruiting for volunteers. They seemed pretty surprised and happy when I immediately said yes.

The actual "community gardens" that I know of generally are on the model of members each have their own plot, which they tend. I don't know how one volunteers in a space like that, but maybe there are opportunities.
No, you're misreading the article.

The rate for a writer-producer is $7.4k/week. That is for a writer that also does producing duties.

Most writers are not also employed in production capacities. Staff writers make a lot less, and seasons are a lot shorter than they used to be, so there is a lot more downtime between gigs (since few writers have the clout to work on multiple shows at the same time).
This is a generalization. Being verbose/explicit is not seen favorably in every industry in the US.
EV Makers Confront the Nickel Pickle
No Paywall: https://archive.is/ZuJb8
In Laos / Cambodia, it is 95% China to blame. Well, technically, it is Laos/Cambodia for selling out their country to China. China is building a silk road all the way to Sihanoukville. Google it, there are a ton of problems. I've seen them first hand. Total destruction of the land to build railways and roads, with zero care for the environment or the people living there.

Vietnam isn't a fan of China, so there is less of the China dams in Vietnam. I'd put that blame solely on Vietnam.
> Child exploitation is not an immediate downstream effect of having illegal immigration. It is a downstream effect of having an exploitative system.

I disagree. You have people outside of the system. It's hard to pass a law that protects these people because they are outside of the legal system by being undocumented

> people overstaying their visas or escaping violence.

Most of the people that are caught up in this situation came without a visa so please don't conflate the two.

> I feel like the point you are trying to make is that "It's only the exploitation of people who came here illegally, so it's no big deal."

Quite the opposite. I'm saying that pretending like having open borders and having all these undocumented workers and turning the blind eye necessary leads to exploration. And this includes exploitation of children. It's not humane to just pretend there isn't a problem. This is the same logic that thinks it's compassionate to let mentally ill people sleep on the streets and self medicate
Answering the original question, it's about 10-20x as much usable energy for the oil. So if there's a wind farm 5% of the distance than an oil farm, the cost of the ship part is a wash.
Can you think of any issues with Japan, its steeply sloping sea surrounds, large number of earthquakes, and hard to access wires on the seafloor?

Is it prudent to think about a parallel means of energy transfer that works in the immediate aftermath of another scale 9 earthquake and disaster?
Why is Go easier to debug? It kinda sounds like you're more familiar with one language than another and are basing your assessment of the tool on that.
For green energy look at Tony Seba, everyone underestimate the progression of renewable (expodential growth, expodential reduction in cost)

For the priority for the world look at Bjorn Lombergs work. He used to be about super green policies but the more he digged the more he found that things didn’t add up.
His work calculate what we should do, how it will cost, what effect it will have and when.

The point is to be effective in our policies. If we tax carbon (seems like a good idea) what effect does it have on the poorest of the planet? If we spend 1T$ on climate change how do we spend it, what impact will it have, when?

My view (by looking at Tony Seba work) and seeing the developpement of tech (Internet, AI, new plants varieties, etc) is that it 10-20 years will be in a much different world, and at this point with the current trajectory climate change will not be a concern anymore and we will wonder why didn’t we took care of the lives that were both easy and cheap to save. If anything population aging and collapse will be a far greater problem.

But it’s mostly a question of priority and effectiveness, I still think we should care about co2. If fact if we do we should be in China and India right now tryin to help them have more cheap and clean ernergy, they are those who are going to move the needle going forward. But I don’t think this is what we want to do. We want to put our plastic things in the recycling, ban plastic straws and plastic bag and feel good about ourselves.

I don’t know much about Germany, mostly french movement that failed to stop the nuclear and Greepeace that succeded greatly in the US and globaly to paint a dirty picture around nuclear.

I think in a sense those things are similar. Do they want to stop harm: yes. Are they misguided and doing more harm that good: probably at this point.
The thing I learned living there is that there is corruption everywhere. It is in the US just as much as it is in Vietnam. It just takes different forms.
Where would the hydrogen come from?
I find Qwitzatteracht, the golf game, both fun and uplifting. It's a great workout!
I hope eventually the cultural consensus on current copyright law shifts to be more negative, so that it can eventually change. There are international agreements which probably would make it hard for any one country to significantly shorten copyright duration.

I think a "reasonable" transitional copyright duration would be something like 70 years from publication. Basically the length of a life, strictly shorter than it is currently, not so short as to make corporations extremely upset, and no potential perverse incentives to kill someone to end their copyright. Shorter would be nicer though.
Nope, sorry that's dead wrong.

As the article notes: "The staff writer’s weekly minimum — $4,546 — would likewise need to rise 10% to equal the minimum in 2019-20 in inflation-adjusted terms."

And the article notes the average annual earnings of writers as well:
"The median staff writer on a network show works 29 weeks for a wage of $131,834, while the median staff writer on a streaming show works 20 weeks for $90,920."

Or in other words, less than half of what you claim. Writers were well paid, they're not anymore.
Both discrete and integrated GPUs can use as much system RAM as you allow them in your BIOS or operating system.

The problem is that system RAM is slow compared to onboard VRAM on discrete GPUs. Size isn't everything, speed and latency are also factors that have to be considered.
You're a saint. I meant that sincerely.
Here's an example of the reporting from 2021 that's missing context: https://www.beckershospitalreview.com/public-health/78-of-co...

> 78% of COVID-19 patients hospitalized in the US overweight or obese, CDC finds

> Among 71,491 U.S. adults who were hospitalized with COVID-19, 27.8 percent were overweight and 50.2 were obese, according to the CDC's latest Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report published March 8.

And here's the population statistics (which you'll note aren't in the reporting above): https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/obesity-overweight.htm

> Percent of adults aged 20 and over with obesity: 41.9% (2017-March 2020)

> Percent of adults aged 20 and over with overweight, including obesity: 73.6% (2017-2018)

It's not no effect at all, but the effect is pretty small. It definitely doesn't deserve as much attention as it's gotten, especially relative to other risks like age. I think I vaguely remember diabetes was another risk factor barely talked about that has a higher effect than weight.

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> but wasn't sure what ' like -for-like' means in this context

Some of the reporting would include the population context, but would say "78% of hospitalized patients were overweight or obese" and compare it directly to "41% of the US population is obese". It's technically correct but extremely misleading, since the reader will compare those two numbers directly even though they're not the same thing.
Up until recently, waste collection in San Diego was essentially paid for via taxes.

https://voiceofsandiego.org/2022/11/18/san-diego-dumps-centu...