skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My issue with this take is that machines are not people. We only have lax rules for humans precisely because they are humans, not on the basis that they can learn. Copyrighted works are produced for people and given how human learning works, applying the derivative works rule to humans would be completely impractical and destroy the point of works with copyright. The same cannot be said for AI companies treating everything on the internet as fair use for training AI.
Absolutely spot on. We'd all get very peeved if software we wrote (for sale) was being used without pay because the user felt it "wasn't worth paying for".
Mozilla does do a lot of underhanded or anti-user things, including the boatloads of telemetry some of which goes through Google Analytics. However, Mozilla is still a lot better than Google, and Firefox is leaps and bounds better than Chrome in terms of privacy, even given all of the problematic things Mozilla has done, even if the fact that there's a big controversy every time Firefox does something bad while everyone just expects Chrome to do bad things and so doesn't talk about it gives the impression that Firefox is worse. I think that's actually the reason why there's a big outcry every time Mozilla does something like this — Mozilla Firefox is kind of one of the last browsers to be relatively respecting of people's privacy and definitely one of the last ones outside of Google's Chromium dominion, so it means a lot more when they do bad things.
Crack<>cocaine
Is there any api where I can contribute my pm 2.5 data ? All of these sites have r/o apis. Even if the data is not 100% accurate and calibrated they could still crowdsource it like they do for temp and humidity.
Strictly speaking any compressor AC is a heatpump, but more colloquially, "heatpump" usually refers to reversible or heating-only units.
They might have all the data but they still might make questionable decisions. As often pointed out, Netflix’s strategy of cancelling shows after a season or two has prevented them from fostering productions that could have benefited from gaining a foothold both narratively and with an audience, leading to a negative reputation from viewers.

https://youtu.be/64QS38epsgk

It would be interesting if in the age of “interactive” audiences who freely choose content, if streaming services could try to mix up the relationship. Somehow charge die-hard fans a commitment to a show by serving them ads, perhaps. Something like the ransom model:

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

In any case, streamers looking at short-term numbers cause them to axe promising shows and cult classics before they have a chance to prove themselves. Which is something network TV has always done, see FOX in the 2000s, but you’d think with interactive technology and evolving formats they would experiment with new ways of going about it. There’s more to running a network than a simple cost-benefit formula.
This is just brilliant. Brings back memories, some fond others less so. Only addition I'd suggest is a subplot involving teaching/TAing duties and/or money problems.

Good to be occasionally reminded that slacking off is a legitimately important part of the scientific process. Wish this view was more popular in the industry.
I think a lot of American houses have central air with A/C systems that cool, and a furnace that heats rather than the AC, if I understand correctly.
Wow, I had ClearURLs installed forever ago and I just totally forgot about it.

I often have to manually delete tracking elements that make my URLs long and nasty, but I just realized that only happens when I copy a link that I haven't visited yet. ClearURL has been on my back this whole time!
Power given to the well-intentioned will get used by their successors.

I haven't tried servo since right after the transition to the Linux foundation. It seemed good for most of my browsing already, but with a bad ui. I looked for any good tickets for new contributors but all I found was something about xml parsing that I am unqualified for, plus I hate xml. If we could throw out weight behind it I think it could be an alternative for everything that shouldn't be a web app or native app.
"Character dreams about X" is just a cheap cop out. Real people anxious about things show that stress in many ways, and aren't always able to just direct it into a single coherent dream that gives them sudden illumination. It just comes across as lazy writing...
I have similar opinions to the post you are replying to and I don’t think you really addressed any of their concerns. We all know community parks and gardens exist and that our own yards need to be maintained. It is worth it to me to be able to grill, play with kids, swim, garden etc in privacy. If we want to go somewhere else or need extra space, we can walk to the park (there are 3 within a 5 minute walk).
Compared to a traditional air conditioning unit, the reversing valve is the major difference. Your standard AC can only move heat from indoors to outdoors. A heat pump can do the reverse to warm your space. My basement heat pump is rated to provide heat even when it’s -20F outside.
I'm not familiar with extension development or their capabilities, but perhaps the extension author can remotely activate the malicious parts after it passes the update process and perhaps Mozilla doesn't have the manpower to manually review the code of every extension update?
It's kind of pedantic but I would say that the market ceases to exist in those circumstances, not that it went to $0.
Sure, but it can happen anywhere. I was just reading yesterday about a person who died in Portland of heat during the dome.

Same with cold weather, if the gas/electric goes out during the winter. There's really only a few places one can live with moderate enough weather to avoid those scenarios.
Technically, from the point of view of physics, yes. That said straight cool systems (alternate name for air conditioners) are only one way heat pumps (in a physical sense) as they lack the reversing valve needed to reverse the heat flow. Heat pumps (in the common sense) can move heat in either direction.
https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/750015/send-alsa-au...

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=43896

(circa 2008 people were doing this... semi-unironically ;-)
I've read a few times that the population of the entire US south only really started to grow in earnest once AC was invented.

Ah, here's an article: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/04/upshot/the-all-conquering...

It's pretty crazy because growing up in central/northern Alberta, I never even really encountered air conditioning until I was into my early 20s and moved to southern Ontario (where living without it would be complete hell in the summer, hot humid disgusting "I feel like I'm being smothered in someone's armpit" summers). Our cars never had it and our houses certainly didn't need it; just an open window. Summers were mild and the heat when it came was a dry heat.

But now when I go home to visit there, A/C is everywhere there, and it's frankly needed; the last summer I spent time out at my parents west of Edmonton there were multiple days in a row over 30C and it was frankly quite hellish and them having a ground source heat pump that cooled the house was a godsend. Just the 2-3C difference in peak temperatures from the 80s til now is enough to push it over the edge into new territory.
I always went with this description too, though oddly a "heat pump water heater" only works one direction, yet "heat pump" is still in its name.
Once upon a time we had HTML Imports which were lovely. But it made browser vendors nervous since folks could do stuff without Javascript. And what would then happen to all their tracking ? So, they unanimously purged the feature.

<link rel="import" href="/partials/browser-vendors-hate-this.html" />
Apple does not use a one-size-fits-all in ppi.

The phones are assumed to be held close to your eye and have a 460ppi.

The MacBooks are assumed to be seen from a medium distance and use around 225ppi.

The Studio display and Prod Display distance is a little longer and use 218ppi.

Retina is a property based on subtended angle from the viewer's perspective, not on a physical property of the device.
Fund that beat 99% of peers by betting on China shares is shifting to Japan
Could you explain how the AfD is left leaning? Their positions align with the right:

- stopping immigration

- stronger rights for police and authorities

- emphasis on classical gender roles, ban of LGBT "propaganda" (as they call it)

- lowering taxes and reducing government size

- leaving the Euro zone and creating a new currency

And since they are taking these positions to their extremes, it seems entirely fair to call them "extreme right". No other parties would keep literal Nazis among their leadership.
A heat pump is an A/C with a reversing valve; in A/C operation, the A/C cools the inside and heats the outside; in heating operation, the reversing valve is toggled and the system heats the inside and cools the outside.
Powder cocaine (what was found) has a respectable history in medicine and finance. Crack is the hoodlum stuff.
I've never gone for a PhD, so I can't relate to the experience of this simulation, but found this game was actually really easy.

I completed my PhD in 4 years and 11 months, which feels quite reasonable. My "hope" never dropped below 45, and by the end, hope was 76.

If anything, this simulation just made me think getting a PhD would be a fun opportunity to do a lot of study, and didn't put me off at all.

EDIT: Why downvote? haha I'm just sharing my experience.
IANAL, I rather think the weight is not copyrightable anyway, and, if I build a model on copyrighted data, I would conclude that the inseparable but reproducible parts of weight retains copyrights, despite the whole weight not having its own.
IANAL, but I suspect that the "novel legal theory" in your last paragraph would fail. It might succeed if you gave GPT a hand-curated list of materials; hoovering up the entire internet is not that.
Even so, you can ask whether a given moral code is more principled than another (e.g. in the sense of having some algebraic structure), and use that to investigate what might be considered "more natural". For example, one might argue that if a "natural" right exists, then it ought to be symmetric under exchange of humans (or sentient beings or whatever). It's then "more natural" to conclude that you have a right to perform actions that have no interaction or consequences for other humans (e.g. to sing a copyrighted song to yourself in an empty room or downloading a song that you already have on CD but don't feel like ripping yourself) than those that do (e.g. taking food from someone because you'd otherwise starve).
> You might as well use that free and useless electricity to make something actually useful.

Like charge a battery? A battery located anywhere on the grid?

Why add more complexity by electrolyzing water, storing the resultant hydrogen, building a vast distribution network to physically move that hydrogen, and keep vehicles dependent on a single form of chemical energy storage?

With an EV, my car can charge off the excess energy in the grid, or from the battery I have in my house, for from fossil fuel plants, or from nuclear, or whatever. I can trivially do this at home (rather than having to visit a refueling station). I can do this at work. Or at the grocery store.

Everyone I know who has an EV will never go back to fuel-powered cars.

I can see a use case for hydrogen in fleet vehicles, or in long-haul trucking scenarios. But for consumer automobiles, it has way too many downsides compared to the EVs that you just plug into a regular wall outlet.
> Content comes to me, I don't go to it. I'm not going to search a dozen streaming sites for the thing I want. I'm not going to follow you to another streaming site because you wanted to segregate New Star Trek and old Star Trek into different platforms.

I can’t think of any industry that works like that. I can’t buy a new Toyota at a Chevrolet dealership. If my local Target doesn’t carry something, I have to go to another store. Even Amazon, as expansive as their selection is, doesn’t carry everything.

If I subscribe to National Geographic, it doesn’t mean I can grab this weeks copy of Newsweek from the local news stand gratis.
An echo chamber propagates the same idea through various channels making it look like the echo chamber is the only truth.

My subscriptions stay limited, no every creator creates the same video again and again, once I watch a video I am not going to rewatch it and get another new idea which solidifies the idea.

So I would argue that it isn't creating an echo chamber.
> As far as I can tell, this author is writing a language just for the experience of writing a language, without much regard to getting it used, so it sounds like their success criteria may be a fair bit different than yours.

Actually, his criteria was exactly the same as mine when I first started writing my own languages - learning experience, bragging rights, whatever.[1]

At some point, though, even I didn't use my own languages, because without a community of users, it soon became pointless.

That's the thing about some projects - they take off even when the objective is not to build something that takes off. It's why I admire (and maybe slightly jealous of, as well) Andreas Kling's SerenityOS.

It's the only project I can think of in recent years that was totally superflous and unnecessary (any solo OS or PL project is, at this point in time), and yet its gathering steam and shaping up to be a real contender.

But that type of thing is like winning the lottery - the odds are against it.

[1] One of my comments on HN last week mentioned that I want to write a Forth type language, and telling one of the responders to my comment that it isn't because there doesn't exist a quality Forth implementation.
That actual title suggests to me that even 'scientists and researchers' should make more of an effort to resist the framing of these anti-e2ee pressures (because that is what they are and have been for decades)
It really makes me sad every time Mozilla pulls stuff like this in Firefox. Firefox is basically the last usable mainstream browser outside of Google's indirect dominion via Chromium, and one of the few somewhat privacy respecting ones as well. I'm glad I project like LibreWolf exists to undo and rip out all of the stuff like this so that I can have a truly private and secure browser that isn't based on chromium instead of having to switch to Brave or something, because as much as I value my privacy and security I also value not giving in to Google's browser monopoly.
It’s not really accurate to say we “light stuff on fire” considering how fireworks function.

Not much in a firework is actually all that hot post explosion, for example.
Gates, Zuckerberg, and Jobs all recognized that the value proposition was not there and moved on. They did not stick it out to receive the graduate/dunce cap just to sooth their sunk cost pangs. Indeed, had they continued with it just because they started, that would be dunce-worthy.

Thiel suggests that the "colleges that matter" offer more, e.g. research labs, that bring more to the table. That may justify greater investment. Certainly researchers at Harvard have done a lot of ground breaking things. The role it played in those discoveries is why it is considered a college that matters. Can Reed College say the same?

Thiel's perspective may very well be distorted, but I am not sure these examples show that. More telling, if we want to play with anecdotes, would be to look at a graduate of Reed College, not someone who ran away as fast as possible because he felt the college was not offering him much.
LiteFS Cloud: Distributed SQLite with Managed Backups
Same - and more globally too. I'd love to know how GM got their quality act together, how Airbus builds 100 a320s a month with no public defects, etc.

The real, slow engineering stories have the best lessons
I don't know the projected number for Germany in 2050, but 10 locations could mean that you would need 30 GW per location (just a rough estimate). At todays prices for nuclear power that is an insane amount of money that needs to be put on the table upfront.

Experience in The Netherlands shows that if people benefit, they are a lot less resistant. People are eager to put solar on their own roofs, if it has a good return on investment. But also wind turbines owned by local cooperations meet far less resistance than turbines owned by a big company.

Of course The Netherlands has the advantage that there is plenty of space at sea for wind turbines.
How do you know what deserves credit and what doesn't, when the tool doesn't tell you? How do I know whether you had the valuable insight to craft an artful line, or ot was handed to you and you glued it to another and another?

When you write a program using a library, there is no such ambiguity or credit-washing. You wrote your app, the library authors wrote the library.

copilot is essentially stripping that. You get to not only write your app, but look like, and even, apparently, feel like, you produced everything that went into it. All that stuff that was done by someone else and gifted to you, well that's all just the tools you the real artist used. It's absurd to credit a paint brush eh?
> Good quality news can make you understand what's going on in the world so you can be at the edge when you plan for your future.

The point the GP is making is that if your goal is to understand what's going on in the world, there are better resources than the news. Trying to find quality news sources is fairly labor intensive, and partially a game of whack-a-mole.

> Not reading the news at all, can make you seriously misguided because things are actually happen in this world for this reason or another and eventually something will impact you too.

You're not wrong, but your statement applies even more to those who put too much stock in the news, and IMO that's even worse than not reading the news. The choice of what to report on is seriously skewed even with the "good" news sources (man bites dog vs dog bites man phenomenon). In my experience, those who don't follow the news tend to have fewer biases and are aware of their ignorance, and account for it. Those who follow the news tend to be heavily biased - and they have all these "authoritative" sources to back their biases. To remove those biases, you have to really go all in and spend a lot of time to get a better perspective - time over 95% of folks do not want to put in.

I am a former news junkie. I spent a number of years trying to get at the heart of issues. For every issue of interest, I would try to get N different perspectives (hint, merely getting the "other" perspective is not enough). I would track claims by journalists to see who is more reliable. I kept a mini-DB of statistics on various topics at hand to keep track of which news articles are misleading (e.g. lies of omission, etc). I spent time discussing/debating to get perspectives I had missed out. And so much more.

I learned a lot, and in that sense you are right: You get a better understanding of the world. The problem is that curve is not monotonic. If you don't read the news, you start off at 0. As you start reading the news, you actually go into the negative (i.e. worse off than not reading). Only with a lot of effort will you get back into the positive. The average person will not get to the positive.

The lesson I learned that I harp on: With news consumption, the path of moderation is the worst path. You should either drastically reduce the consumption, or drastically increase it.

The other lesson is that once you "get there" after years of effort, you start running into diminishing returns. Each extra news piece/article does little at improving your understanding of the world. Which is why I quit - there were better uses of my time.
It means trained on data from stock photo sites they own, for which all uploaders agreed to terms of service which state that uploaded materials can be fed into AI training.
To add some that haven't already been listed here:

- The Billion Dollar Molecule: story of Vertex pharmaceuticals and their new approach to drug design

- The Double Helix: story of the discovery of the structure of DNA by one of the principal scientists involved (Watson)

More of a business/economic history but if you liked Titan by Chernow you would probably also like "Iron Empires: Robber Barons, Railroads, and the Making of Modern America" which is the about the history of the railroad industry in America.
In the UK there was an MP who set up his own app, which was recently shut down but not before it saw a bump of activity following Musk's takeover of Twitter: https://www.wsj.com/articles/twitter-migration-matt-hancock-...
I live in a colder climate where heat pumps are not popular. After talking with a number of HVAC people about this I was surprised to learn that despite being very similar to an AC system in principle, in practice converting an AC system into a heat pump system doesn't make economic sense--you end up just ripping one out and installing the other.

I don't fully understand why this is the case, but I hope that there's something that can be done to improve it. I'd love it if I could drive my AC unit as a heater for 95% of the winter, resorting to natural gas only during in the extreme cases.
...and the Supreme Court could rule however it likes. It doesn't matter what anyone else says, or what any law says, what any lawyer or other judge says.

They could be completely biased, could completely ignore everyone and everything else and rule however they want.

I'm almost surprised they still bother to write any kind of "legal reasoning" in their ruling and don't simply focus on what the ruling is rather than why they ruled that way. But I guess such "reasoning" still serves a propaganda purpose and still provides a fig leaf for those who still believe in the quaint absurdity that "we are a nation of laws, not men."
My experience was: damn, I need to do tons of reading and research and writing. Like a full time job, not just chilling.

Which is a bummer. I was hoping I could just chill.
Certainly not at the FAANG I work at. We hire specialized engineers to work on device drivers and OS kernels and absolutely do not ask them questions on how to design distributed web services.

I encourage you to apply:
https://www.apple.com/careers/us/
You're welcome! The gaslighting attempts by his fans are getting more and more ridiculous. Musk's censoring and flipflopping are by now well-documented enough that nobody can honestly deny his MO.
http://doc.cat-v.org/plan_9/4th_edition/papers/sam/

look for the section on structural expressions.

I am not really an expert but my understanding is that they are called that because you can use them to define the structure of a match. in most regular expression engines the structure is defined as a line of text or the whole document and the expression only matches the contents. This is why they do so well with multi line records you just need to define a structure expression that matches your, well.. structure.

I never did learn sam all that well, I mainly used it as a non interactive sed replacement. however I just learned that apparently the vis project uses structural expressions. I might try it. Mainly because at least then my fingers sort of know what to do.
> Growing family obligations (marriage, kids, trying to write a thesis at 3am with a crying baby next room)

Oh ... I felt that one :-/