skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was curious and just checked the NYC AQI. It's 324 right now, which is classified as "hazardous". Wow.

That would definitely suck. Here on the other side of the country, in the Puget Sound area, we get some bad days of wildfire smoke every year, but I don't think I've ever seen it that high. The highest I recall is around 250.

A good HEPA filter can really help. I use an older version of this [1]. It can generally keep my living room AQI below 10ish. I read that the Whirlpool brand name was sold off to some generic oversees appliance maker several years ago, so I don't know if that one on Amazon is as effective as my 20+ year old one.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Whirlpool-Whispure-Purifier-Cleaner-A...
Thank you.

That's why I recommended putting "volunteering time" with actual non-profit orgs and groups, so that 100% of the labor goes to all. I didn't advocate "quit volunteering for a community", cause that's the wrong thing to advocate.

There's mastodon, Lemmy for 2. Discord isn't great, given earlier in the curve of monetization. Same for other for-profit areas. But again, I'd recommend finding communities in a not-profit-driven area and work there.

The for-profit side of things has the same death spirals. I'm just sick of this "web2" crap profiteering and killing useful community stuff.
Show HN: Ezno, a TypeScript checker written in Rust, is now open source
Reddit will exempt accessibility-focused apps from its API pricing changes
Ditto, the extra 1 inch or so makes no difference to me. It reminds me of the close door button on elevators, maybe it has a placebo effect and provides some psychological comfort even though it does practically nothing.
They probably meant the Bing flavor of ChatGPT as a cheeky way of saying nobody uses Edge other than to get access to the chat bot.
That's the thing, they can't really defend themselves in the court of public opinion. And just take a look here at the comments from people who have absolutely nothing to do with the domain.
I know I would be frustrated.
Who would make an app only for one country outside specific fringe cases

Edit: Specifically on the topic of apps relevant to independent developers, the topic I’m replying to. An indie dev isn’t going to create a regional newspaper or utility company or a media empire or a government.
> But it is dangerous by definition. Run unknown binary is dangerous.

Making Apple $99 richer doesn't make your app any less dangerous.
I appreciate what you're saying; my wife and I met online also.

I think the internet has also helped make identity politics more pervasive and have spread a ton of very unhelpful "information", e.g., "demoncrats and celebrities eat aborted babies to look younger," or "the earth is flat and the government controls the weather," or "the election was stolen and we need to storm the capitol to take our country back".

In the nineties, people were much more sympathetic to common sense gun control, and we did things like pass the Brady Bill. Now, it seems like any form of gun control is fought tooth and nail. In my opinion, this is a case of identity politics, accelerated by the internet.

I don't have a solution to this problem. I'm just saying that our predictions about how networked computers would be used, and the reality of how they are used today, are starkly different.
Real time variable rates are needed. These would also incentivize all sorts of load shifting strategies, which are very economically advantageous, if the damned pricing system can allow them.
Look at the demoscene. They're still exploring the limits of the C64 (1MHz 6502, 64k RAM).
Yep, almost certainly this. The same thing has been happening every year out west. It sometimes takes a day or more for lightning-caused fires to grow to a size that they can be detected via satellite.
You didn't look very hard. The Mercedes 2022+ EQS, S class, Volvo XC90...

1. It's not really a contest. Lidar is measurably better.

2. Error bars in perception tend to accumulate throughout the stack and manifest as serious errors like bad velocity estimates for stationary or slow moving vehicles.

3. LIDAR helps recognition too. Planning and pathing are both helped by LIDAR.

Honestly, there aren't many other sensors on an AV with the same bang-for-the-buck as LIDAR. It's easily up there with cameras for "why would you even consider not having it?" for a modern driverless vehicle, which is why everyone operating driverless vehicles uses them (Waymo, Cruise, Mobileye, Baidu, etc).
> If they told you how to do it, then what would even be the point?

To warn a user.
Where I live there are no subsidies for nuclear, as the country is far too developed for that technology and now relies on coal, together with some seasonal sun and wind.
it is not like anything changed in new version this year, only new emoji level features added. may be that’s why they let regular users install it right away.
What is this? They e found a highly infectious person via wastewater and want to identify them?
And, on suspicion that Snowden might be on board, a plane carrying a South-american head of state was forced to land by European countries.

Breach of whatever, but apparently anything goes if you're mad enough at the heretic.
Qatar World Cup: FIFA 'made false statements' about carbon-neutral tournament
Has anyone had lots of trouble configuring Grafana via YAML from the documentation? A lot of it is kind of hard to follow.

I've found that the ability to (pre)configure Grafana without clicking around in it is pretty difficult.
The monitor and the main unit were supposed to be in different rooms.
Who is the frozen food heiress?

> That said the Russian occupying forces wouldn't need the amount of water supplied by the canal

Crimea is very large. The black sea is salty.

The other possible reason is scorched earth - the parts of Ukraine the flood is affecting includes a lot of the area occupied by Russia.
A convoy of driverless Military trucks has taken to public roads in Australia
There's quite a few things that are considered "Americanisms" now, but are actually British. After the American revolution, British English continued to change, but many old-timey Britishisms remained frozen in American English.

Now, they're thought of as American.
Yes, quite unusual.
Interesting. You might be right. I'll have to try it and see.
It's pretty much unprecedented.
> People argue that humans don't really use our stereoscopic depth past ~10m or so and that's a fair point.

The second paper I reference in this comment https://news.ycombinator.com/edit?id=36232198 claims that humans can maintain stereopsis out to 250m.

That’s a huge difference from 10m & if true suggests that human drivers might well use 3D vision when driving.
I was going to post basic pitch from Spotify but it looks like billconan beat me to it. That said I can give you a bit more advice. The Spotify basic pitch model isn't too good at multi-track input. It's capable of it, but you may actually get better results if you separate out the tracks first and then run them individually through the basic pitch model.

In order to do this you can use a source/stem separation model like spleeter (https://github.com/deezer/spleeter) and then run the basic pitch model (or any other midi transcription model). There's other you can try which may yield better results, for example: (https://github.com/Music-and-Culture-Technology-Lab/omnizart)

Either way the key words you want to be looking for are "midi transcription" and "stem separation", should help you find more models to try for both steps. Good luck! :)

EDIT: Oh it looks like there's even a stem separation leaderboard on papers with code, neat: https://paperswithcode.com/task/music-source-separation
There is also an ad for microExplorer/Macintosh II, but less AI hype - http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/ti/microexplorer/microEXPLORER_...
You can see the "AI chip" on page 5.
> pseudo anonymity

Unfortunately, that "pseudo" is rapidly dwindling. I know that there are already AI "decloakers," that look at writing style, and do a damn good job of finding folks, based on that.

I was a UseNet troll, back in my day. It was not my proudest moment.

One of the reasons that I deliberately make myself known, is that it forces me to watch my words, just like IRL.

My career is done. I am retired (not by choice), and continue to work, but at what I want, and the way that I want to do it. Basically, a dream come true. I am not particularly worried about upsetting folks for my career, but I also feel I have a great deal of atonement due, because of my past behavior.

I like the Apple ecosystem. I've been using it to be highly productive since 1986, and have been playing games on it forever. I remember Pathways Into Darkness[0], thirty years ago, which I thought was awesome.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pathways_into_Darkness
After several decades of personal cross-industries experience across many fields and in many places, by percentage I bet it's extremely not.
no doubt modern times allow for better technical alternatives...im all for ukranians to manage their land as best as they wish
I've never heard of a rummage bin, maybe you misheard "rubbish bin"? I prefer not to have to rummage through it!
This kind of mistake isn't that amazing, it's actually very common in translation because translators often don't get enough context - they just see a string with no comments.

But you're supposed to find it in QA after that.
He claims we have retrieved dead bodies. Nonhuman bodies.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12165669/Military-w...

There are better sources of this than Daily Mail but I am short on time. Just google his name.
Well, GZIP is GNU ZIP. I ale says expected it was developed after the original ZIP.
Given how good Apple is at crafting images, I can't believe no one caught how sad and pitiful the scene can look. Surely they could have made the dad a grandfather and made it look much less bleak?
Yes, and yes. We've had the gravity maps for about a decade now, and the tech for recovering the location given such data was mastered in the late 80s, but no way to make accurate enough measurements while at sea until now.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36223373
At some point we'd like to add client-side components to ReactPy. This might be an interesting avenue to explore in that regard.
Unprecedented for the east coast. It's a reality we've been living with on the west coast for the last few years already.
That's not the rule at all, that's at best a second order effect. It's not okay to make jokes about people when those jokes are actually harmful. That's it. When people say you can't tell jokes about a group at all it's a rule of thumb.

Calling white women "Karens" is dangerously close to meeting that bar.

Saying "we should lift COVID restrictions because who cares about some old white republicans" is not okay.

Right now in my state trans folks are staring down 5 separate bills in our legislature that if passed would make their lives infinitely harder. And whether or not they pass is wholly dependent on how people "feel" about them as a group. So telling jokes that other them and make people okay with hurting them is, I think, not okay.
https://www.sevarg.net/2021/08/28/temtop-air-quality-sensors... has some details on air quality sensors and at the bottom, some homemade air filters you can make; they work well.
Could one reason that Dvorak didn't catch on is that its established rival, QWERTY, was not randomly designed?

QWERTY supposedly helps to reduce jams.

Dvorak was introduced at a time in which that was still a problem, before electric typewriters.

If Dvorak didn't actually produce its speed advantages on a classic, mechanical typewriter in which a semicircular gallery of arms concentrate their strikes on the same tiny location on the ink ribbon, typists trying Dvorak would have found that Dvorak's claims don't actually hold up.
He's got to get value of money out of it, after all registering WinRAR it isn't cheap.
The analogy isn't being able to ban users and handle spam. It'd be more like adding a feature with the sole purpose of making it easier to post bad comments.
> I can do that using heat, which the efficient lights cannot produce in sufficient quantities.

Ever tried an infrared lightbulb? (They often put them in bathrooms as something you can turn on after you shower to dry the bathroom out more quickly, usually in combination with a vent fan.)
I get that point, but the dividing line between harmable groups and nonharmable groups isn't so clear. I've seen a lot of indications of people with certain speech patterns and cultural backgrounds being treated differently, regardless of their views on diversity.

Painting an entire group as backward based on their skin color and political preferences is always problematic.
You guys could just add noreferrer to all links.
Is it the Year of the Linux Desktop?
A gigazip is 1000 zips
A few hours in nowhere near enough.

In Finland solar produces no power three months of the year. The months before and after that are marginal. To add joy, there are windstill periods of days, sometimes more than a week, in winter.

To add insult to injury, there isn't enough transmission capability to import all the renewable energy we would need to solely rely on renewables. There isn't enough hydro either so rely on that to take up the slack.

So, grid storage really is the hidden cost of both solar and wind, and multiple weeks of total grid output storage is needed for energy security if relying on renewables.

To reinterate, I really want to learn more about real long term storage. Anybody know where I can find solid info on that?
Wow! It's not quite that orange here, but i figure this would be a fairly common occurrence in CA.
Those are techniques organized criminals might use. Nation states need not bother. They just do whatever they want, including inserting MITM boxes in telcos. It is safe to assume that no asymmetrically encrypted traffic in the past decade has not been stored and decoded. It's a reasonably safe assumption that all symmetrically encrypted traffic has been stored if not also outright decoded.
It has broken a 1981 record. Never been this bad. No that’s not normal.
Can a New Law of Physics Explain a Black Hole Paradox?
To be honest, he has kind of defected. Yes, he didn't mean to go to Russia initially, but he's chosen to remain there, knowing that the Russians can throw him in the jail whenever they want. By remaining there he's turned himself into Kremlin puppet, to all effects and purposes.
This video presents an idea which I find to be mind-boggling and beautiful, in which circuit complexity, a concept taken from computer science, is used in an attempt to better understand the heat death of the universe and black holes.
Yes, yes.. yet, somehow they all operate in EU. Google somehow can't. Not to mention (non) availability of pixel and similar which have nothing to do with the above.
> I wonder how many people are invested enough into iOS/Mac development that they need to use early beta releases of the operating system, but aren't already paying $99/year to release apps?

Why they should be developers in the first place? Just curious users.
I use Zabbix and Grafana. Grafana has a zabbix data source plugin so you can have best of both worlds really.
Or just use grep.app
Mods are as much of a problem as they are a help. They rule subreddits like gods and (lots) abuse the shadow ban/delete system to silence opinions they don't like. Lots of others sell out to various influencers/advertisers and help promote whatever they want.
Thoughts On A More Offline Life
Back in 2020, the AQI at my house in the SF Bay Area hit 800. (I was directly downwind from the CZU Lightning Complex fire.) To say that was bad was an understatement.

I had to seal up every door and window to my house with plastic, then put three 1200 sq. ft. rated HEPA filters in a single bedroom to get the air quality in that one room down to livable.

That's also when I discovered the real difference between an N95 mask and a N100 respirator.
If my optimistic math is right you need around a dozen solar pannels per person. If a third of energy is supposes to come from solar around a billion sollar pannels are needed. If you don't think longevity and recyclability matters on that scale, I think you should reconsider what "sustainable" means.
What if the patient wants other people in the circle? (I do, when I'm a patient. I've never really trusted doctors I've had due to my perception of competing motivations, and they've given me reason for that distrust more than once).
Well, in likelihood he never actually had that data or that access. He just thought he did at the time of the interview.
> Here are some countries that are within 10,000 square miles of Alberta's size:

> Sudan (250,581 square miles) Mexico (255,000 square miles) Argentina (278,040 square miles) Western Australia (267,000 square miles) New South Wales (263,685 square miles)

Argentina is ~28k square miles larger than Sudan by its own fallacious statistics, so it doesn't even imply a consistent size for Alberta.
I bet it really sucks, tbh. They did all this over promising and now the only way they can deliver is by grifting like this. That sounds really stressful to me.
Related: Is there already a .postcode toplevel domain?
Yeah. Maybe the engineers of yore (but there are some thorny stories from some SV engineers in the 70's), when to build something you really needed solid technical knowledge

But nowadays whoever knows how to put together a basic webpage in ~~PHP~~ React calls themselves an "engineer" and begins having grandiose ideas

No wonder they got bamboozled by Theranos, uBeam, etc
And what would be the point of doing that? You have to have some behavioral outcome you expect.

Do you expect people to react by not running the program? Why? If you find out that they are in fact still running the program just as much with the warning in place, because they aren't reading the warning... then have you actually "warned the user"?
1) we continue to emit more GHGs than we ever have before every single year. The "good" news in 2023 was that our yearly output didn't rise as much as we feared it would, but it still rose.

2) We're very confident in that answer

3) We hope that this year, we might actually stop increasing the amount of GHG emitted, potentially even outputting slightly less than the year before. If the rollout of renewables, EVs, carbon fees etc. continues as it is then we'll hopefully see this rate fall over time, like the glide paths proposed for net zero 2050. But at the moment it seems like that will lock in centuries of heating, if we don't start global scale GHG removal at some point, on top of complete replacement of fossil fuels, which is a necassary but not sufficient step.
Musk seems to have shadowbanned/muted pro-Ukraine voices altogether
With all the due differences, Tesla's is the most Apple-esque approach to automotion to date. But yeah, Apple might beat that (although I think the car project was scrapped a few years ago now?)
> and we banned the account that posted it I'm not sure what else we should have done there.

Take a moderator action at the time and not a month later?
There were a lot of programs distributed as rar archives.
Not only a court of public opinion but in judicial court IC behavior like this is deemed unconstitutional once allowed to be discussed.
They could be thinking ahead so they dont forget it when they get to their destination.

They could have forgotten it when they got in the vehicle from their last destination.

There may be a kid in the back seat you couldn't see that they are trying to protect (or protect themselves from).

I personally don't understand why this is remarkable. In no way are they hurting or affecting you. Why does it matter to you if they mask?
I'm asking this honestly and in good faith: When do we start demanding SO2 injection? How much more of this are we going to try to brush off before we decide it's unacceptable?
> People noted early on that GPT would write jokes about would write jokes about X but not Y

serious point, so far it's the opposite. GPTs keep writing jokes about Y and not X, because jokes are where we say the unsayables. And it has the police-your-speech crowd wanting to police GPT speech too, and we can identify the same group of people who in this thread downvote people who point out the one-sidedness of one side to the one side that doesn't like having that pointed out to them
Aside from the actual situation, this pattern of words seems reminiscent of victim blaming.
It's a token prediction engine - code is made up of tokens which are largely letters, underscores, punctuation or ()[], etc

it's a miracle it can "add" at all considering it can't tell a letter from a number
I mean if it was a clinical trial that was terminated, it likely depended on components that would be supplied to the patient throughout the duration, for telemetry or data storage or otherwise. If the implant becomes unusable, it is not a good idea to keep it hanging around in the body, especially if it wasn't designed for long term use.

Would have to check out the particulars... But I would hope the patient was strongly encouraged to have it removed rather than forced, but doesn't see a difference because it would no longer work regardless.
Yeah someone I knew in university was so hard up and malnourished he contracted scurvy. Therefore surely that is what life is like for everyone in the UK - just an entire nation of people living on the breadline with preventable diseases.

You see what I mean, right? Like it's horrific that diseases from antiquity reared their head in a supposedly developed nation. But at the same time, that doesn't exactly tell the story of modern day UK and it'd be very dishonest to suggest that reflects the entirety of the (then) European Union.

In the same way it's horrific that you had childhood trauma that persists to this day. You're under no obligation to defend the circumstances in which you grew up, but I'm sure you're quite aware that your experience was far from universal, as evidenced by comments here.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21352796
One of the comments:

Yes, modding is where the biggest problems are. When moderating, most of the buttons are unlabeled. It would be quite easy to delete a comment when I meant to lock a thread or whatever, if I forget the exact order I've memorized for the buttons. And adding stuff to sidebars or changing the layout of the sub isn't really possible at all. There are also a lot of dialogues, alerts, etc, that pop up without getting focus. There's also a lack of headings, landmarks, or other mark-up in modmail, making it slow and difficult to use. This stuff really matters when you're helping mod a sub with thousands of users. If all you're doing is reading, and leaving the occasional comment, it's...fine. Not good, but fine.

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It's important for a sub for disabled individuals to have mods with that disability.

I didn't care about this protest and haven't much followed articles and such about it, but this feels like a kick in the gut. People with disabilities can have their lives substantially enhanced by the internet, if accessibility isn't a bar to them connecting with people, finding info they need, taking actions online (like bill paying), etc.

I hope this gets satisfactorily resolved for blind users of Reddit. Ugh.
well i remember seeing you can bring your macbook or other devices into the space as a virtual window/screen/monitor (whatever they're calling it) so I already thought I can run vscode and any other apps at first at version 1 release. but I know what you mean.
How would you identify and impose costs for externalities without immediately being accused of "nannying" or legislating the outcome?
There's an American sprinter named Tyson Gay. Or, as some conservative media referred to him, Tyson Homosexual. (https://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=294)