skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well documented? This claim about extreme weather gets repeated and echoed by people who assume that it must be true because they keep hearing it, so they don't check. But it's not actually true.

There's a summary paper here that explores the data and shows this to be true:

https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1140/epjp/s13360-02...

The analysis is then extended to some global response indicators
of extreme meteorological events, namely natural disasters, floods, droughts, ecosystem productivity and yields of the four main crops (maize, rice, soybean and wheat). None of these response indicators show a clear positive trend of extreme events

There are other indicators you could use but they also don't show any crisis of extreme weather, often the opposite. Examples:

- Wildfire burn acreage is drastically down over the past 100 years.

- Hurricanes are in decline, both in frequency and energy.

- Rainfall is also down slightly.

You can google those claims to find them if you like because the datasets are all public, except maybe the third which is a bit obscure so I'll give it here:

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S00221...

the small- and medium-size precipitation systems both exhibit significant decreases during 2001–2020 with trends at −1.13 and −2 mm/h per century, respectively. The large-size precipitation systems exhibit nonsignificant increasing trends during 2001–2020.
It's likely subsidies that still make it profitable to produce even at negative prices.
I think the calculus-based explanation is the simplest one, and also easy to extend to an arbitrary number of dimensions.

If we look at the direction from the tip of the cone to the base, the volume is an integral of the area of the circles that are the cone sections. The radius of those circles grows linearly when the point is moving from the tip of the cone to its base. The area grows proportionally to a square of the distance from the tip. An integral of x^2 is x^3/3. Hence 1/3.
Strangely their 'Pro' page is still listing subscriptions https://gfycat.com/pro

(I haven't gone further than the login to try and actually purchase one).
Did you call them "drop light" or "trouble light" (Drop light for me)
I bet that most, if not all, H1B visa holders working for Twitter, would be able to land a job pretty quickly if they wanted to.
I didn't find it on amazon.in, but in Germany we have this option which I'm very happy with https://www.amazon.de/gp/product/B0054PSH9C

These come pre-flashed with Tasmota, which can rudimentarily be controlled via an HTTP API, and fully via MQTT.

Here's a list of all Plugs and Sockets which can be flashed with this firmware: https://templates.blakadder.com/plug.html
I do find it strange that AMD is not allocating more resources to ROCM, given that that seems to be where the money is, at least from my viewpoint. I guess they have been able to sell more cards than they could manufacture, but that seems to be changing.
Nah, you want an account which you have full control over and is the bearer of your generated content, rather than your content spread across thousands of independent servers which you have zero control over.

People are fundamentally misunderstanding thier needs and how they can be properly implemented.
Perhaps he forgot the ultimate liability is himself aboard.
Gizmodo and Kotaku write poorly constructed outrage-bait articles…AI will honestly do a better work than their perpetually underpaid writers.

I don’t even understand the logic of writing outrage bait all day if you get paid so low for it…sounds like horrible living.
As others have said you need a tariff that's hourly, be warned though people got bitten with this when prices soared to many pounds per kW/h, it's not always this low.
> Why would you equal-to-coal today? You need to equal wind, solar or at least gas safety.

Some countries are closing nuclear plants and ramping up coal. (Look at Germany)
Charging an electric car will earn you €10-€15 and you get to drive your car a nice distance too.

Battery storage could earn you more if you discharge at the right moment, but energy prices aren’t negative often enough to warrant the expenses on a battery pack. You could also trade on intra-day pricing differences (buy low, sell high) but I doubt this will be an interesting business case for the average consumer.

Of course large scale battery parks work the same way, but they will have contracts with the grid provider to balance capacity, a more lucrative market.

Large scale electrolysis has the same problem as home batteries: big investment, so you won’t recoup the investment unless you can run the electrolyser often enough. Another issue is that electrolysers can’t scale up or down very quickly, so you can’t respond to capacity issues and get lucrative deals in that market.
They're gearing up for the battle of troyca
> Is there a reason for this, though?

Because performance was not a concern when it was designed - or it could be that it was designed for small communities, and therefore not possible to scale-up cheaply. One of the problem is the caching of pictures from the different instances connected (if I remember correctly) which makes the data storage requirements go up very fast
I've done using chatgpt on some demo code I got it to write between languages and Frameworks, it works to an "ok" level.

Edit: this was demo code I asked chatgpt to come up with in the first place, so the output had no problems license wise that the input didn't already have.
You're right to be proud of the NL installed solar capacity per capita but I have to mention you're second behind Australia. PDF[1]

No one gives away money for PV systems like Australia. Long may it continue.

[1] https://iea-pvps.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/PVPS_Annual_...
RSS is one way, ActivityPub two. If your blog makes articles available to ActivityPub, then people can e.g. comment directly on the blog post without having to post a link to it, and others can follow those posts.

If you don't like Mastodon, there's Pleroma, Misskey, Calkey and others, as well as apps, or you can find RSS feeds from them if you just want to read, or you can use one of the alternate web frontends.
sudo: cd: command not found
sudo: "cd" is a shell built-in command, it cannot be run directly.
sudo: the -s option may be used to run a privileged shell.
sudo: the -D option may be used to run a command in a specific directory.
The point is that they systematically tried and succeeded to create doubt about climate change, when they knew well, that climate heating is happening. They actively mislead many people, who would rather grasp for the comfortable alternative lies than face the reality. They actively spent and did spend huge amounts of money to influence politicians to tell their "there is no climate change" or " it is all natural and normal" or "this would have happened even without humans" naratives.
You're just a number to companies.

If Bob from Accounting convinces Dave the VP your number is suboptimal or worse, counterproductive, you're gone, after 20 years of loyal and probably underpaid service.
wiki says:

> A 2019 National Bureau of Economic Research working paper by Peter Arcidiacono found that 43% of students admitted to Harvard College were either athletes, legacies, members of the "Dean's" or "Director's" lists of relations of donors or prominent figures

So mostly all the white folk.
In some previous HN thread, I dialed in on a recommendation for "Designing Data-Intensive Applications" by Martin Kleppmann, which I honestly still haven't gotten around to reading so....YMMV. Maybe if you search HN for that book title, it might lead you to other useful discussions?
I'd be worried about side effects.... I doubt more oxygen is exactly the same as less Co2, isn't oxygen toxicity a thing?

I wouldn't be willing to tolerate even a very small amount of toxicity just for increased productivity if that is the case.
How did the game depend on gfycat? Will the game break if Nintendo doesn't update for this?
If you’ve still got an insulated hot water tank with an electric immersion heater just dump excess solar generated electricity into that - you can always treat yourself to a good soak in hot bath!
I've seen plenty of extremely competenet tech people try out Mastodon and then quit because they couldn't bother with the UX and all the problems federation brings.

So no, it's not just "unwashed masses", it's people who value their time too much to spend it on some social media technical issues.
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My brain pulled that number from the article's discussion of Fukushima:

> In the worst case scenario, not made public until long after the disaster, the entire Tokyo Metropolitan Area - 35 million people - would have to be moved to temporary shelter. The very existence of the nation of Japan was at stake. And no one - not TEPCO, the utility that owned Fukushima, not the Prime Minister, not the Japanese military - could do anything but hope.

Feel free to call that unreasonably-worst-case or just hyperbole. (It kind of is.) But that's where I got it.
Escaping the template pattern hellscape in Python
My partner and I developed a website, aiarchives.org, that serves as a repository for ChatGPT/Bard dialogues. This makes it possible for them to be referenced, hence providing readers the opportunity to trace back to the original content utilized by an author. This is in response to this thread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36280026.
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@jonatron Maybe add a note explaining why you found this worthy of submission to HN?
I doubt there is a rule for that since it's fairly common behavior on here. Quite a strange culture...
> I don't see how that's true?

https://www.brookings.edu/articles/stuck-on-the-ladder-wealt...

^ This is real easy to look up. Google "Wealth/social Mobility" and you can find articles about how sticky it is. People who are poor, stay poor. People who are rich, stay rich.

There's a lot of data about this. Taxing people is definitely the way to do this. IDK why you think a carbon tax would have any effect on this (we should absolutely do a carbon tax, just this isn't what it's solving). Wealth tax would be the thing to do for this.
That makes as much sense as assuming structural engineers are most likely people who have
experienced infrastructural problems before opting for a career.
Sadly, the solution we adopted for cigarettes, namely letting them still profit by poisoning the children of the developing world, won't work for climate change as we share the same atmosphere with them.
It intuitively holds for 1, 2, and 3 dimensions. I don't know how to visualize the 4th dimension, but if it holds, it should take up a quarter of the "space" (point -> area -> volume -> space time?)

If the 4th dimension is time, does that mean a quarter of the "space" is spread out over time? What does that even mean? Anyone familiar with n-dimensional space able to weigh in?
(born in france from two polish parents) i just love how eastern languages words can be declined to alter their meaning ; atomicaly it's close to saying "adjective + word", they are also close to postfixes but not really since they alter part of the original word ; not only that it naturally involves that every word could be suddenly "casted" into something news ; which for some reason sounds very understandable but also makes the language very living and dynamic ; while French is inducing a complete paradigm shift with "verlan" - where we change the words by shifting the sylables ; fete -> teuf; mate-> tema ;
Goodbye Apollo [video]
Yeah that's the kind of thing I'm worried about, that's what I'm hoping to learn from the people here. I don't want abnormally high oxygen levels, I just want the same quality of air that I get when I'm walking through the forest. Or, in another case, I once went into an employees-only bathroom at a CVS and was astounded at how good the air quality was, I don't know why it was so much better but I never forgot about it, and always thought, "If I have a lot of money one day, I want air like that all day every day."
TWL that bees second-guess themselves too.
<*> was my own ad hoc convention in the moment. My
“.” style is the default for the mobile phone I’m on, which is the US, and I don’t mind sharing that since I’ve mentioned it in plenty of prior posts. But I do honesty appreciate the analysis, those aren’t things I’d specifically considered when posting now or in the past, and it’s always useful to know what subtle signals can be picked up in that sort of detail. Heck someone observant could probably infer broad geo region (time zone) just from the fact that I am making these comments at this time.
Yes. Like when you’re driving using a GPS map. You can’t look at the map and see if you’ve made the wrong turn, because it always recalculates the route and determines the currently correct path to your destination, and shows you as being on that path. (The only exception is when it tells you to make a U-turn.)
This sounds very interesting. Can you please elaborate?
By "bunch of electric heaters" do you mean GPUs and such?
> The definition of a black swan event.

An earthquake and tsunami in the country who coined the term is now a "Black Swan event" to make an attempt at painting the nuclear power plants failure in favorable light.

Even more entertaining is that Fukushima lead to widespread changes across the industry around independent core cooling and gas filtration.

The regulators found systemic deficiencies in the industry, but let's roll that back!

As an example: A nuclear reactor in Sweden had a severe incident in 2006 when many of the "defense in depth" layers had been accidentally removed through freak occurrences and upgrades. Thus independent core cooling was not a Black Swan event, it was systemic.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forsmark_Nuclear_Power_Plant#J...
> messy HTML5 over "XHTML"

Nothing messy about HTML, whatever version. It just uses SGML features from a more civilized age, such as inferring tags not explicitly present when unambiguously required by the content model grammar.

Btw a large fragment of markdown can be implemented using SGML's SHORTREF feature, as can customizations such as GitHub-flavored markdown. John Gruber's markdown language is specified as a canonical rewriting into HTML with the option of inline HTML as fallback, making SGML SHORTREF a particularly fitting implementation model since it works just the same. It's quite striking how a technique for custom syntax invented in the 70's (however imperfectly specified, though not in a worse-is-better way lol) could foresee Wiki syntaxes and also determine the most commonly used markup language (HTML) fifty years later.

Agree with the gist of your post, though. As fantastic as MacFarlane's pandoc is, the idea to re-assign redundancies in markdown (eg. interpret minute presence/omission of space chars to mean something) was bound to fail, and that was very clear to me skimming only through a few paragraphs of the CommonMark manifesto. When it was first discussed here back then, someone commented that this was bound to happen when a logician (McFarlane) approached Wiki syntax.
Becoming ethical, letting reason permeate throughout one's life, is a job for the individual.

If someone deigns to explain to me the moral implications of this and that, I have to ask - what special abilities do they have? How do they know the truth better than I do?

If someone believes they know what another adult ought to do, that, to me, would be an indication that they don't really have much of a clue at all!
so no more Ghislaine breaching her incarceration conditions? or is she still going to retail all her current juicy mod privileges?
I enjoyed it, it was entertaining.

If you only want the facts then I'm sure Wikipedia could service you.
Might as well start mining some bitcoin while you wait for storage
It’s certainly possible to store continuations. You just store the program counter and a copy of the stack at the point where the continuation was captured. (There may be more efficient representations - I’m just talking conceptually here.)

If you google ‘serializable continuations’ you’ll find a reasonable amount of prior art (e.g. http://wiki.call-cc.org/eggref/5/s11n). I think there has never been a good solution to versioning then against changes to the code.
I’ve got a Bluesky invite yet can’t use it because “account creation is temporarily limited”. Seems they’ve totally missed the opportunity of Twitter getting worse over the weekend.
aren't the tests also written by chatgpt then?
Shouldn’t the government simply make a law enforcing that? Maybe a CO2 tax? I assume Oregonians would be happy to vote for such a thing.
Oh God, wish I had this when I first started.
That doesn't work if . is at the end of $PATH though? Since the real ones would take precedence due to how executable searching works...?
Yes, from a taxonomy perspective, you are correct. I'll edit to be precise because the definitions don't change the point of my post.
I don't see the link between for-profit fedi instances ruining non-profit ones?
Netcamstudio doesn't support Linux, but more importantly it is closed source, so it should be blocked as well from going outside.
Asking out of genuine curiosity: What defines an ADHD friendly tutorial?
Might be easier for non-ADHD developers to help find what you are looking for if we know what to look for.
Trading with sanctioned countries: happens all the time in support of various US wars. Too many examples during the Iraq War, but Iran Contra Scandal is a big one as the US President was directly involved.

Predatory infrastructure loans: that's what USAID, IMF and World Bank are basically set up to do.
Depends on the definition. If an organization is arranged as, say, a limited-liability company, then it is a business no matter what its goals are. And "profit to shareholders "is neither definitional nor mandatory; the value produced can be whatever the shareholders want it to be. Of course, most of the time it’s profit.
H1Bs don't actually get deported for that.
Nicely done judge.

But it's still ridiculous that he pleaded guilty to a charge of importing 18kg of DMT, when the results of testing the 18kg of bark he imported were that the "The bark contained 0.57 per cent of DMT."

So, about 103 grams of DMT, assuming 100% efficiency in extracting it.
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Optimizing a child for career success has become the norm–but at great expense
Presumably it's because the jet stream is currently over Britain and the wind farms are actually producing a significant amount of power:

https://renewables-map.robinhawkes.com/#5/55/-3.2
This is a conscience choice that has been made by the Rust team - they've chosen to create a very "powerful" language (which makes sense if they are trying to compete with C++) and thus require a very powerful syntax, at the cost of clarity and simplicity. I'm with you personally, it reads as a mess to me.

The opposite end of the spectrum is Go, which I love, but many hate for being too limited. I like seeing everything in the control flow represented as values - context and errors included - but too each their own. I'm not sure if you need to learn Rust for work or are just interested in a new language, if it is the latter I can recommend checking Go out. :)
Who should they vote for?

I would love to see candidates addressing the needs/wants of Gen-Z... But uhh, I don't know anyone who is actually appealing to them. The only 2 parties I see (in the us) are:

Republicans: Actively trying to harm them.
Democrats: Actively trying to maintain the status quo.

Neither of these groups are interested in Gen-Z issues. The Democrats pay lip-service, but don't actually want to shake up the social hierarchy. So instead they mostly try and move to the center for the more regular turnout they know how to ask for.

Gen-Z is not stupid. And I believe they demonstrate good turnout for the candidates they like... Maybe Politicians should be doing more to appeal to them instead of older generations that they claim are who they need to appeal to.
Disagree, most are actively harmful as it makes the product with best marketing win, not the objectively/subjectively best one.
Even one of the first 10 employees with single percentage digit options?
Another "tinypic" situation. Where you search for a guide and get nothing...

Also why did snapchat shareholders allow the compaby to spend money on a service and then just kill it. Was gfycat a snapchat competitor? How dothr anti competition offices allow it. Why do the shareholders allow it.
That's a very charitable interpretation.

It's rather, which would you rather the developing world be exploited by, US or China?

We have pretty extensive track record of developing countries being exploited by western economies. And it aint pretty. So the best case you can make for the US is thay familiar devil is better because it's familiar.
I did something similarly for my Yaml to Sql compiler at https://yaml2sql.netlify.app.

The process of flattening is kinda weird, but fun, worth the effort afterall.

For example, the Boolean expression flatten is good exercise for who wants to try out: https://github.com/revskill10/yaml2sql/blob/main/app/query.r...
We’re not talking about patents. Software licenses are about me allowing you to use code that I wrote, which is copyright.
I thought about this and negative energy prices make no sense whatsoever to me.

I get the whole "free market" idea, but this conveniently ignores all externalities, as well as the cost of subsidies. For example, if subsidies were used to buy generating capacity (like solar panels), subsidies should be (partially) recovered.

We have too many "free markets" where we ignore the cost of externalities.
The same way you should approach any illegal activity: you report it to the police.
It should at least have comments. Then it can freeze.
The problem isn't the syntax, it's the semantics. Matklad has a great post about this. You can try a bunch of different syntaxes, but rust doesn't get more readable with any of them. You need to remove information (and thereby change how the langauge works) for readability to improve.

And personal preference here, Rust is, with a few exceptions, actually one of the nicer languages to read once you add/remove all the extra information that rust requires.
Should I, or anyone here, know what the BSA acronym is? Or am I the only one?
The interpreter and JIT for which are written in C++, so... Is C++ even more universal?
GPUs cost a lot to exploit a small price issue like this. I would use a dirt cheap heat element heater - presumably you could acquire these very cheaply and get paid to use power.

The problem usually is that there's a physical cap on how much energy can be transmitted through a grid endpoint, and grids themselves charge a significant portion of the bill, meaning arbitrage only works if the actual price is eg. -14c (the case in my particular location)
Much less impressive, though still useful: ChatGPT is an awesome movie subtitle translator. Only very unusual phrases need to be corrected, often there are no such cases. There are projects on GitHub that automate the translation. Short SRT files can be just pasted into the chat with appropriate instructions.
Which party has their interests in their platform?

Who should Gen Z be voting for?
Forgot to add the link:

https://matklad.github.io/2023/01/26/rusts-ugly-syntax.html