skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My best term to describe what is happening (and I've seen it in many other instances under completely different circumstances), is that the organization has been "captured". The stories and narrative in such organizations are then pervasive towards that property (or cause in this instance), at which point nothing else can happen and the people that don't subscribe to that narrative leave, making it worse.
> cubic meter of sea water will have 1000*0.036/0.058=620 moles of salt, and it'll require 2.4MJ of energy to remove the salt in a perfect desalinator. In more common units, 2.4MJ is about 0.75 kWh.

> A thousand liters takes about 3kwh.

So, if those numbers are right, desalination is currently at about 25% of theoretical energy efficiency. Is that correct?
Note that the requirements for copyright are not consistent between nations.

The US has the "threshold of originality" as its principle. Under that doctrine, it requires some human (and this has been emphasized many times over the years) originality in order for something to be copyrighted. It's a low bar for how original it needs to be, but it must be human (monkeys taking selfies are not human).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Threshold_of_originality

In England, the doctrine is "sweat of the brow" instead.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sweat_of_the_brow

> Under a "sweat of the brow" doctrine, the creator of a work, even if it is completely unoriginal, is entitled to have that effort and expense protected; no one else may use such a work without permission, but must instead recreate the work by independent research or effort.

The definitive case for this in the US that set the two apart is Feist Publications, Inc., v. Rural Telephone Service Co. ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feist_Publications,_Inc.,_v._R.... ) where it was deemed that a telephone directory is not copyrightable in the US as there is no originality in it... but under the sweat of the brow doctrine it would have been.

So the "[c]opyright is for things that are the result of human creativity" gets an "it depends" and it would be curious to see if companies that are firmly in the "models are valuable" camp go to the UK for what I believe would be a more favorable copyright protection.

... However there are other IP laws around trade secrets that may be better for it in the US (I'm not as familiar in that domain - I would be curious to find out).
Dart 1 was not very good though, so we'd have been stuck with that.
I think this is very shortsighted.

Weights are a program. CUDA is an interpreter for that program.

One day we will be able to decompile these programs into something more human understandable.
I can offer an analogy. Growing up in the northwestern US, I've seen firsthand how 95% of the forest in the lower 48 was harvested for timber, leaving only small pockets of primordial forest. That and global warming delivered us the runaway fire seasons we have today where summer is synonymous with poor air quality, poor water quality, erosion, loss of habitat, etc etc etc.

There are countless propaganda billboards here that say stuff like "thin the threat". The timber industry really wants to get back into wilderness areas and places designated roadless by the Clinton administration back in the 90s.

But what I think most of us want is for the timber industry to admit their guilt. Basically that would look something like a bankruptcy and a multi-billion dollar apology in the form of trusts and endowments to leave forests alone and invest in stuff like tree farms and hemp. Which will never come.

I've yet to see a major apology from GMO companies for the ways they've corrupted staple crops like wheat. We're eating processed whole grains today that were meant for animal feed (cows have 4 stomachs that can handle it, we can't), stuff like oatmeal loaded with glyphosate, and it's attacking our gut lining and causing autoimmune diseases at a scale that the previous generation can't understand.

So until there are reparations for the damage done, we simple can't trust those companies or the government agencies they've captured, or the politicians they've bought, or the court justices they've installed. The problem goes so deep in our political system that people can't even see it anymore. That's why the wealthy owners of those companies keep us divided over the merits of various remedies, so we don't wake up to the facts of how we're being manipulated into giving up our health to shave a few pennies off the price to increase their profits.

Edit: I'm struggling to find evidence for the effects of whole grain husks on the gut lining. But basically, the anti-pest compounds in grain husks make it past stomach acid, and when the villi (papillae was maybe the wrong term) in the lining of the small intestine try to eat the partially-digested proteins, it damages or kills them. The cycle of damage and repair continues through life until middle age, when the cells start losing their healing ability. Then one acquires sensitivity to wheat and other grains like I did, which I originally thought was sensitivity to legumes and nightshades:

https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fnut.2020.51731...

Then the villi become sparse or die, leaving the person unable to easily absorb vitamins and minerals, sending them into chronic starvation mode and obesity:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intestinal_villus#Villous_atro...

GMOs exacerbate this by increasing the percentages of anti-pest compounds in husks. I try to avoid whole grains now after a lifetime of seeking them. If I must eat them, I try to stick to organic.
Nice simple interface! And great to see a CEO keeping up with recent technological developments :)
Let me know if you need someone to test in a high heat environment and give you product feedback.

I am on the UAS committee for a large city (1.6m+ people with 13k+ employees) and its amazing how many us-based companies don't take into account how hot it can be in the desert. I recently saw a vendor who needed to redesign/change their batteries and motors because of it.

As some unsolicited advice, if you aren't working to get on the DIU Blue list [1], I highly recommend it. Many if not most public safety agencies are using that to make purchasing decisions.

I have been sounding the alarm on how DJI is likely going to get banned at some point with all the trade shenanigans going on, but many of the US based companies just aren't as operator friendly.

[1] - https://www.diu.mil/blue-uas
They've nipped the crap inserted by adware in the bud. Sure, anyone who can pass a simple malware scan can get an addon published, but there's no doubt in my mind that getting rid of unsigned addons has helped a lot.
> It didn't start because it is so awesome, it started because JS can't do parallel any other way.

That's just not true. It started because starting a thread for connection isn't scalable at all. Asynchronous programming was in use way before nodejs even in languages that have proper threads.
A mathematician looks at the French verb (2015) [pdf]
Like the other commenter who already corrected you, it makes perfect sense if you actually understand how wet bulb works, here’s a calculator for you: https://www.omnicalculator.com/physics/wet-bulb

Hint: Phoenix is at 17% humidity today, even their all time high of 122 doesn’t push the wet bulb temp out of the safe range.
Good to see a CEO is still hacking around!

Shopify did change my life in a way i could never imaging, it will always hold a special place in my heart
Unless it's weird. Weird stuff happens.

I mean you're naysaying the testimony of hundreds of field researchers on the weight of, let's face it, mere convention.

And these aren't necessarily dumb people. They value time and money just like we do

It does depend on the sensitivity of the dowser after all. That sounds squishy, like psychology. Certainly less obvious than weights and measures.

Who knows, maybe it takes a certain kind of person to do it.
> Here's the non-enshittified version of "I don't care about cookies":

The best way to deal with that crap is to use uBlock Origin's cosmetic filters to simply remove those prompts from the page. No extra extension needed, and you don't need to opt-in or opt-out. Remove the prompt and ignore it.
Does Japan have articles like "Top 10 English concepts to live by" where they're all just regular words?
I like the analogy at the end regarding nuclear power vs piping in water from freshwater sources. The upfront costs are high, but over time it would be cheaper than desalination, but due to short term governments and borders, it's hard to justify the upfront costs. So instead we are somewhat stuck with more expensive short term solutions.
Remix has sketchy/questionable marketing. Seemingly independent techfluenchers suddenly endorsing the product. Unfair comparisons with competitors to make the product look better. Most people talking about Remix aren't actually using it. Red flag to me.
I'm going to bet that if you do some searching, you can turn up some text on the internet where someone was asking "how many of x animal would it take to y human task", and answered the question using a neuron comparison. It's not inventing this approach from scratch (because it can't). Every word in that answer is there because statistically, based on the text in its database, it was the most likely word to occur in that context. Hell look at the way it chose to describe flight attendants, you can see it grabbed that directly from some snippet somewhere.

I think a lot of the misconceptions about these LLMs (which I actually think are pretty cool and useful) stem from not really understanding what they are doing and how they arrive at their answers. This is pretty well illustrated by the fact that ChatpGTP only does well on tests where the content is well-represented in its training dataset, and terrible on tests on otherwise. But you have to keep in mind that the training dataset is enormous, and likely includes every random forum or reddit post ever made, so you shouldn't be surprised that it can formulate an answer like this.
the article is referring to read access
I work in what used to be an EDA startup

Now it was acquired by a big one though

Not really hardware but almost
Do you recall the game(?) 'LIGHT BRIGHT'

Which consisted of a black-cardboard-paper with a pattern on it connect-the-dots-style - and you would plug into each 'dot' a plastic pin, then it would light-up at you would see the pattern/design in full form?

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Imagine your xmas trees as a grid of LEDs and they are pressable/de-pressable (toggle) and kids can draw out a pattern, then have the machine animate the pattern in certain ways... as it understands the intent of the drawing as being a car/tree/person/animal whatever...
I'm definitely going to try this, but oy javascript. It's probably the reason this can be written with so little code but I would prefer a native binary that doesn't have the npm dependency.
Wikipedia is generally neutral and objective.

Are you asking if antidepressants are good or if you should take them? Ask a doctor.
The web needs an annotation feature so that we can apply the "misleading" tag to that chart. It would have a link to details about why. That way (if you trust the annotator) it jumps out right there on the marketing page instead of requiring you to browse HN or twitter to find out.

It's like we have a fire alarm going off in a building other than the one that's on fire.
I share the same general feeling but then let's flag every paywalled link and not one of two at random. I was really surprised to see this flagged.
Tampermonkey (Userscripts) has a similar default blocklist. It blocks by default:

example.org, paypal.tld, stripe.com, deutsche-bank-24.tld, bankofamerica.tld, apis.google.com, www.facebook.com/plugins/, platform.twitter.com/widgets
No. Unless you want salt-caked hair. And body. Curious, have you ever been to a beach?
The French spaceport is, despite being close to the equator in latin america, part of the EU. And a rather good location.
Well the 3rd party collaboration libraries for ProseMirror are all using Operation (Step) and transformation interfaces exposed by ProseMirror, right? Or do you mean to say those are too "black box" to build nicely on top of?

https://prosemirror.net/docs/ref/#transform

https://prosemirror.net/docs/ref/#collab
No FB fan but yeah exactly.

Yet another confusing the definitions of "what is reasonable" and "what I think".
Compute isn't vanishing whether they spend all of it or none of it. That's the point of allocation.

Allocation isn't spending no but it says quite a bit. Either way, they will be spending a non trivial amount of money trying to solve this problem quickly.
It is weird they chose to post this on a website without a chatbot.
Have you actually used Deno? Typescript/Deno is a whole different beast to NPM/JavaScript.

Yes there are still areas of JavaScript that suck, e.g. the whole prototype system, and the standard library (how they managed to fuck up String.replaceAll() is anyone's guess), but the overall package is actually pretty good!

Way better than Python for example (though that isn't saying much).
I see that this uses a Redis backend. Does that mean every metric operation goes to network? Are those synchronous/blocking calls, and are they pipelined with redis? If not, it seems like this could be quite detrimental to app response times if it does many metric ops when handling a single request.

The other thing I noticed is the redis backend has a 1 hour TTL. Does that exist to clean up once a metric is no longer getting touched (presumably because a worker/pod is gone)?
This is an odd take. From what I understand from the article it’s a 90% chance of healing, after which you can still get surgery — which doesn’t heal but restores some functionality by grafting from another tendon. I’d imagine athletes would be particularly interested in trying this new treatment prior to considering surgery.
Can you explain what you mean by this because I'm genuinely confused
Just one little thing ruined my workflow back when I tried KDE ~2018. It was the newest Plasma version back then. What really screwed me over were bugs with window focus. Sometimes you have to click twice to get a window to focus and it's really really breaking my workflow in a subtle way. It wasn't the only problem, but one that I didn't even notice at first that they really annoy the heck out of me.

It was then when I tried the obviously inferior Gnome (3.28 iirc). And while I felt a bit constraint with it, I was so much quicker with it.
Requiring a Google account is a non-starter for me.
I use twitter only for the Deep Learning research folks.

Getting bombarded by Onlyfans types and crypto types has increased manyfold in the last few months.
For what it’s worth, Astro is a static site generator that only relies on JavaScript at build time, and has optional integration with the usual js frameworks. In many ways that’s what it does solve (just importing html)
Your website shows OEM cameras and an off the shelf plastic enclosure, along with basic LED floodlights. What hardware are you making? Not saying your product isn't cool, just not clear what hardware you are "making" vs. assembling.
/96? The smallest block that can be announced is a /48. The smallest subnet block is a /64.

Where did you get the /96 from? A /96 is basically useless.
If social media platforms can identify certain demographics, like those who smoke cigarettes, then why wouldn't the government use that to (e.g.) target 'Would you like help to quit smoking?' program availability ads to them?

* https://www.ontario.ca/page/support-quit-smoking

* https://www.canada.ca/en/health-canada/services/smoking-toba...
You do not have an infinite quantity of batteries, nor are they particularly good at storing energy for long periods of time.

In reality, electrolyzers and fuel cells are electrochemical systems. There is no more complexity in making hydrogen than it is to charge batteries.

This argument is pretty ridiculous. You are demanding we be dependent on finite battery supplies rather than practically infinite water. You can easily use grid energy and make hydrogen at home or anywhere to make hydrogen too. And FYI, a fuel cell car is an EV.

Your position is totally misinformed. The fundamental argument in favor of hydrogen cars is that they are EVs that are cheaper, lighter, simpler, less dependent on rare resources, and can refuel much faster than BEVs. Critics have effectively inverting reality on some of these points, or somehow deluded themselves in thinking they're still fighting ICE cars. In reality, you are attacking alternative forms of EVs.
Arbitration isn't free. Someone has to pay for it. If the company won't pay for it, they aren't going to process a claim.

At this point it is kind of moot because if Twitter won't pay the fee, they obviously won't pay the judgement issued against them.
If anybody would prosecute this person under the color of law for her speech, I'd be first to object. I am also very against going for people's job for something they said in their personal capacity, or for disagreeing with their politics.

But that's not what happened. What happened is that she personally cursed out a client, publicly accusing this person in war crimes, while being on a job conference. And, when confronted about that, she basically told HR "your rules are stupid, I'm not going to follow them, let me educate you about how your job should be done". This is not a free speech issue, this is "rules don't apply to me because I am a precious flower that is always right" issue. The organization could choose to tolerate and accommodate this kind of an employee if it's worth it, but nothing requires them to. She is still free to curse out the government in her free time, or when she is outside her job duties - and I would be the first, again, to support her right to do so. But maybe realizing there's a time and a place for such things may do her some good. And if she can't control herself while being on a job (and going to the conference is part of one's job, otherwise why would their employer pay for it?) and be a professional then maybe she should look for some job that does not involve doing that.

Note she wasn't even fired for the conference BS. It was when she explicitly refused to commit to social media guidelines that they pulled the plug. I say if you prioritize the ability to say shit on twitter over your job, then it's not a question of free speech, it's a question of choice. She made her choice, now she's completely free to say shit on twitter.
I think because it's horseshit is the main reason it's rubbing you the wrong way
The tricky thing is what extensions should be whitelisted and what extensions shouldn't. uBlock is easy, but what about Consent-O-Matic? What about GreaseMonkey and friends? What about Stylus? Where do you draw the line?

uBlock was just an example, of course. There are other addons that do more complex auto detection.
DNS Made Easy Price increases 28%
I am more or less a happy DNS Made Easy customer.

Renewing showed be some price increases over the years though:

2023 $96.00 +28%
2022 $75.00 +25%
2021 $59.95
2020 $59.95
2019 $59.95

I think the years before that (different account) it was the same price.

With $59.95 it was a no brainer for 100% uptime, DNS failover for your loadbalancers, DNS templates, DNS analytics etc.

Now I'm not so sure anymore. Especially at that rate it will be $135 next year.

Alternatives that have 100% uptime, DNS templates and Geo/Failover balancing, analytics? (Not AWS)
Harassing women who "rebuked [your] affections" by getting their accounts revoked is not the funny story you think it is.
I still don’t get what this is about
More likely this is preparation for them to comply with DMCA takedowns against uBlock Origin, by blacklisting it on those websites while placating users by not removing it entirely (as they did in this case: https://www.ghacks.net/2023/04/20/mozilla-removes-bypass-pay... )
uhm, I need to introduce you to someone, who has developed this into a patented delivery via a baseball cap (hat) bill with directional indicators via LED to give you wayfinding HUD without a screen....
Europe is the free-rider continent: Why lead when you can follow instead?
This is pretty neat. I'm wondering if something like this (on a smaller scale) could be used to catch the elusive illegal dumper in my neighborhood.
It doesn't matter where or how your friend starts.

It only matters that they start making games.

Learning resources can only help make better games once a person is already making games.

So the best resource is encouragement. Point them toward Processing (https://processing.org/download) and say "Try this."
If an extension has been installed on my machine it is by definition trusted. Firefox is not my antivirus solution and it should not try to be. Keep your lane.
As Cases Soar, ‘Dementia Villages’ Look Like the Future of Home Care
Pick one

1. Steam distillation + Product can be perfect DI type 1 water - Expensive: 300+ kJ/L

2. RO membrane + Cheaper - Slow - Wastes more water - Requires regular changing of membranes

The end.
Keyword arguments in function/method calls in Python: not having to remember order of arguments and making more readable code.

bars = foo2bar(foo=my_foo, cache_service=redis_cache)
Feel the same way about "maker."
Like over a year ago Deno raised $21M in investments and this is the current state...
Seems like now, predators due to some padding with the number text, the bar chart is still not proportional (but in the other direction. 98 should be further out)
It does? That implication never occurred to me at all. I think it implies nothing about the nature of the relationship at all. It's just a way to avoid saying "fuck".
I took a walk last night to look at the sunset, and felt a strong feeling of both awe and melancholy as I did so.

Is it really so rare to be awed by natural beauty, or just humbled by where one is in life relative to oneself in the past, and others (both more and less fortunate) in the present?

When I think of friends made, friends not present, and all of the life trajectories that I can keep track of, I feel it’s all just a long and strange trip, man.
Our company is developing affordable phased array antennas. The end goal is to serve the next-generation commercial wireless communications and sensing markets (e.g. 5G/6G, mmW imaging radar, etc), though as we're bootstrapped most of our work currently is in Defense.

On the very off chance there's other RF or antenna engineers out there, we're hiring (US remote)!
Why are they starting to sound more and more cult-like? This is an incredibly unscientific blog post. I get that they are a private company now, but why even release something like this without further details?
There's https://github.com/libsql/sqld , but sqlite's concurrency model doesn't always work well with long-lived transactions (and just the network hop can be slower than a local transaction), especially if you want to write.
It may be semantically invalid in Common Lisp, but it is syntactically valid in Lisp (as seen by observing different dialects).
Dude, I'm just an engineer who can do basic arithmetic.
> If you analyze news as something more like “a right to information” - “integral to the function of democracy”,

I don't get it - in this analysis would my local coffee shop have to buy and provide free newspapers to me?

I'm all for access to free press being a fundamental right. Where you lose me is the part where a private corporation is supposed to subsidize the production of news for me.
Are these comments about the CEO bots?
The truly bizarre part about this is Elon seems to want to save money by not spending it on office space. Surely he would be pro WFH ?
deserts are actually functioning ecosystems with life though, contrast to say, a salt flat
>However this feature can be disabled

For now.

You used to be able to install any extension in firefox mobile, but they blocked that without any option to override it.