skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Stupid question time, why not expose the sea water over a larger area and expose to sunshine? There's plenty of room in the UAE for this, somebody is even building a wall that could hold the water which could be dual purpose and act as cooling via evaporation...
Because by then it will be too late, letting the enemy take ground before mounting a defense is completely foolish. Maybe you're lacking some context so I'll clue you in: Mozilla already burned all their trust. This incident isn't occurring in a vacuum.

And why did they mark this matter as employee confidential, if they're not plotting something shady?
I don't see Germany to be morally arrogant here, they're fully aware that there are problems with the transition to renewables.
This is not how people learn. And I always found these books more useful after I have actually worked on a system than before. Do you know why people ask such questions at any company? Its because there is a rubrick at every company and 1/2 the people don't have a clue what else to ask except because they have no other good ideas or because they may have done it themselves and it was a nice problem without realizing what that experience gave them never actually gives the same to the new guy.

Skill addition is not additive it is about comparing choices and critically analyzing risks on things you *have already worked on*. Its as much about knowing what won't work i.e. subtractive. If you have never worked on a distributed system and are asked to work on some part of it the reasonable way it happens is:

1. You will be asked to initially to start working on a small part.

2. You will/should have someone to help you if you have no clue. This is called seeking feedback and it is done on google docs where people critique your design and you iterate.

3. You should have the time and sense to read up when you do (1), (2).

4. Maintain mental sanity and find mentors to help you out.

Notice that a system design interview prep will help you with exactly *zero* of the steps above. For all other situations where you are forced to do more than the above, run away in the opposite direction.

I think if someone just published a Cheat Sheet on the actual Rubrick it would be so thoroughly gamed that it would prove the point that these things are pointless.
I have a similar background as you. How are you finding handling the mechanical side of things? I assume your toy is more than a PCB.
If only Google had the courage to put Dart into Chrome...
The thing is, it doesn't have to be. The energy released by mixing salt into water is small, around 3.9kJ/mol.

Molar mass of salt is 58g/mol, and the average sea water salinity is around 3.6%

So a 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. Around here electricity is ~10 cents per kWh, so the absolutely lowest price of one cubic meter of desalinated water would be around 8 cents.
Thanks. This comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36585590 was all I needed to see:

“Japanese firm believes it could make a solid-state battery...”
Is multi threading (always) parallelism? I never questioned this but it just occurred to me that on a single-core CPU with a single execution thread, multithreading in user code is a noop? The code will run but won’t be any faster.
We’re building hardware, but I also extracted some of the business philosophy behind Framework to share what I believe “hardware is hard” means: https://eclecti.cc/bytes/what-hardware-is-hard-really-means
Looks neat, is your core product the AI for the construction site object detection?
> Mozilla has already killed off malicious addons by enforcing their signature requirements.

I don't think those signing requirements do what you think they do.
I think the statement is poorly worded. Perhaps a better formulation is that a monoculture carries a special kind of risk (it also holds benefits to a business of course). Same is true in politics where having a strong ruling party and an enfeebled opposition is not healthy. You need some external energy into the system to keep it on its toes.
> While it seems like most employees terminated during Twitter's mass layoffs are struggling to hold Twitter accountable to employee agreements, at least one ex-employee recently secured a win against the penny-pinching social media company.

> Twitter has settled with software engineer Alexis Camacho, Bloomberg reported. This settlement comes after the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) decided Camacho was "illegally punished" for her efforts rallying coworkers to protest Twitter owner Elon Musk's return-to-office mandate.

> An NLRB spokesperson, Kayla Blado, told Bloomberg that if Twitter didn't settle, the NLRB would have issued a complaint. Federal law protects workers' rights to discuss workplace conditions and take collective action.

> The terms of Twitter's settlement with Camacho have not been disclosed. However, Liss-Riordan represented Camacho, too, and she told Bloomberg she was "very pleased" with the "fair resolution" reached in this case.

Something to keep in mind for anyone subjected to RTO.
The government needs to get out messages to its citizens. If ads on facebook is more cost effective than sending out mailers or whatever, why shouldn't they spend money on facebook ads?
This is awesome. Fly.io is now a good replacement for my small team and some indie projects. Currently on render before but their team pricing turned me off.
It's also worth notice that Mozilla, for instance, removed Bypass Paywalls Clean

https://www.ghacks.net/2023/04/20/mozilla-removes-bypass-pay...
this guy is a fool. Ignore him. Or see his website.
We don't track port-o-potty use, just if they move. Vandalism is at an all time high on construction sites, tipping port-o-johns is a common teenage prank and the GC needs to know if and when this is happening on sites (and hopefully catch the perpetrators).
QA/QC is very expensive, especially for low volume. You send something out to a customer, they claim its broken, you ship out a replacement at your expense, maybe the customer eventually sends back the broken one, then it sits on the shelf for 2 years because you don't have the manpower to do a root cause investigation. Now you've sold 300 units and have replaced 50 of these and you have no idea why they're broken, what went wrong, and have to a a full validation of each one from scratch. Most of them seem to work fine in your test lab (maybe it was the customer's fault? But maybe your design is incompatible with their production environment?) and the rest all have unique problems which each take 1-5 full days of investigation to nail down a root cause.

Maybe 2-3 share a single root cause, and it's not clear how you'd prevent this from happening in the future.

If you're shipping large volumes, this can add 10% to the MSRP, but if you're shipping low volumes, $50-100/hr of weeklong diagnosis and investigation can easily add 50-300% to the price of each unit.

And that's if everything else is going perfectly. Which means you lucked out and found an amazing Chinese contract manufacturer who works with you hand-in-hand to fix any design bugs and manufacturing issues, and ensure parts availability.
It’s in the cards, pretty high in the stack, but I never make promises.

If you can write code and you don’t want to wait for me to add it to the default calendar app, you can build it and release it as a 3rd party app:

https://github.com/Invisible-Computers/image-gallery/blob/ma...
How interesting. Is there any religion without any opinion on the afterlife or is that the unifying thing for all religions.
From a layman's perspective when it comes to cutting edge AI, I can't help but be a bit turned off by some of the copy. It seems it goes out of its way to use purposefully exhuberant language as a way to make the risks seem even more significant, just so as an offshoot it implies that the technology being worked on is so advanced. I'm trying to understand why it rubs me particularly the wrong way here, when, frankly, it is just about the norm anywhere else? (see tesla with FSD, etc.)
Was going to say this, there are/have been many ideas to do just this - one was to build a huge canal and just then let the sea flood the area...

Also - there are lots of un-earthed treasures to be found under the saharan which was once a lush environ and have been covered with sand - so prior to flooding it, we need to lidar and excavate it.

What if we vaccuumed up all the sand and built a new island/continent with the material and just revealed everything underneath - then flooded it. (I believe UAE is in the market for more sand-built-land-masses)
I assume s/Evolution/Implementation/, it is a good book.
A buggy Windows 11 update keeps slowing down SSDs
Values for the variables do not the function make.
Move to Utah.

Lots of software growth, but much of that is hardware related.
Climate emergency may channel millions toward corn-based ethanol in the Amazon
Left-right is an inadequate system for classifying politics, but the AfD is certainly not center, and it's ridiculous to classify them as "left", either economically (where there are mostly neoliberal) or socially (where they are as conservative as you can get).
The intro video on the homepage does a good job at explaining it in 3 minutes.
The video is not upselling. The tool can do what the video promises.

Say your system is "well tested" for example with a combination of unit tests, integration tests, stress tests, failure injection tests (a la Jepsen), and more.

There are probably still hundreds of nasty little bugs hidden. Not even thousands of experiment hours with a Jepsen-like approach would surface them because they are very, very unlikely.
Antithesis will find these without breaking a sweat. It's designed to hunt for very unlikely (but possible) scenarios where your system misbehaves.

And here's the real kicker: once a bug is found, you can observe and step-through execution of your entire _distributed_ system. Similar to attaching a debugger to a single process but for an entire system composed of many clients and servers connected by a network.

It's language independent and doesn't require any modification to your system in order to use. It's pretty incredible. I would not believe this is possible if it hadn't seen it with my own eyes.

Presently, I am using it for work at Synadia (makers of NATS). NATS is like lego blocks to build all kinds of distributed systems in multiple languages, so it has a very large surface area. It's well tested, stable, and deployed successfully by many large and small projects and companies. Contemporary testing approaches can hardly find bugs. Antithesis can find very insidious edge cases where things break. And we proactively investigate and fix before any user/customer can be affected by these one-in-a-million nasty bugs, which would otherwise be very hard to find and resolve.
Tillitis AB

Our first product is the TKey - a new kind of USB security key - which we have been selling since May. TKey is very likely the most open source USB security key in the world, as well as the first one to feature unconditional measured boot, which we use as a method for key derivation.

Tillitis AB is a sister company of Mullvad VPN AB and Glasklar Teknik AB.
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rather ironically, I do not believe there is the possibility of launching the Ariane 5 from Europe.
What's funny is that ChatGPT is quite literally a Chinese room.
I mentioned it on another related thread but the strange thing is the more measurements you have the less quality the air seems to be.

It's a really tricky measurement to both grade and analyse because the more dense the city, the more measurements will be taken but also the more pollution will naturally occur.

it's just something to consider when reading this kind of data.
my sqlite pain point is not being able to access sqlite over NFS or remotely on a separate server. i want the best of both worlds: behave like a file locally + act like a server
Ah, that explains why I could not find it!
I don't know think I've ever seen a clever algorithm in a work environment.
> Your method relies on good nature and blind faith, and leaves you open to manipulation, ignorance and misunderstanding; what I describe uses societal forces and self interest to ensure quality. I’m sure you can guess which had better outcomes…

Is that how you read "take nothing at face value"? I question everything, so should you. Which are these infamous institutions you praise? Maybe some of them are among the sources this random internet stranger referenced at the end?

Linus Thorvalds once was a random internet stranger, now the world runs on his kernel. Your world view is very black/white. Most of the best content I've read are from random internet strangers, and not institutions. They're often from hands-on experience and not written for PR purposes.
Anyone knows if something similar to `deno compile` is planned for node in the future?
It's interesting because I know maybe two dozen people with PhDs and every single one of them has a story about a moment of hitting rock bottom during the process and losing all hope. Obviously they all pulled through and make it out to the other side but it really doesn't sound like a pleasant experience.
The caveat of this is, this don't workaround sites that just declares text unselectable.

The css property 'user-select' exists to allow developer stop user from select something like button text by accident. But end up abused so heavily. And you can neither disable all of them because you don't know if they use it in good faith.
These are opinions based on profound ignorance. Many sectors can never reach zero emissions without hydrogen. Things like airplanes and ships. You must invest in the infrastructure no matter what.

And how can you have hydrogen for steel production without necessarily reducing the cost to the ballpark of coal or natural gas? If you can grasp that part, you should realize that it must be a cheap fuel in the future. Cheap enough that it can be easily affordable for transportation purposes. And for those who can't afford BEVs or don't have access to chargers, that is major motivation to pursue hydrogen cars.

Ultimately, you're left with many unsolvable problems if you try to tackle climate change without looking at hydrogen where it is applicable. You also need to think seriously about the downside of alternative ideas, and not pretend they are magically perfect. Batteries are heavy and expensive, nor are they environmental friendly to produce. If you see hydrogen as a far greener type of energy storage, then you will see there are upsides too. In other words, you are only looking at the cons, not the pros and the cons.
> I loved grad classes and research but I hated Academia

Truer words have never been spoken.

I went back to get a PhD after a solid career where I was in a prominent leadership position at a respectable tech company (in my mid-thirties). I was bored, not motivated with work anymore, and wanted to do something that really pushed me and motivated me in ways that I hadn't felt in years. I also wanted to truly learn some advanced concepts through Grad classes.

I really loved the grad classes (although they were much much much easier than I expected). That is why I moved into research, to really stimulate myself and do something interesting to me in my specific area of expertise. I really enjoyed doing the research too. I was personally motivated and curious on the topics I was researching. It gave me a lot of new-found motivation in life and I really flourished.

But academia: the drama and games you need to engage in to do such simple (arguably trivial or non-important) tasks is ridiculous. I succeeded in my business career because it was results driven. If you produce results, people don't care how you got there exactly. But in academia I felt like it was a board game of "chutes and ladders", mixed with Risk and Monopoly where you had to own parts of the board that other people deem important, you hit chutes that set you back for no apparent reason, you were constantly collecting personal referrals and clout from other professors so you could get their blessing or IOUs. There's a lot of favors and ceremony around trivial tasks and the actual produced value often gets overlooked or forgotten about because you didn't march to the same drum as someone else.
interesting that most submission here are startups which are selling some hardware where ML is the main product and no-one who is doing discrete (analog) electronics
Water can be used for this purpose, and swamp coolers are something that can be pretty trivially implemented by people in relatively dry areas. For very humid places you generally need energy input for cooling.
Master-Blaster rules Bartertown!
Yea, that’s why I’m not using plastics for my product.
> I highly recommend you use a minimum amount of extensions anyway.

Given the number of extensions silently purchased by people seeking to spy and push malware, I've minimized the use of extensions that aren't vetted in advance by Mozilla/Firefox.

> Recommended extensions undergo full code review by staff security experts to provide a strong additional security check.

https://blog.mozilla.org/en/products/firefox/firefox-recomme...
Khm, PSP, Gameboys, etc. Handheld gaming devices have quite a lot of history.
A little considered aspect of current "moderation" is that the mere need to create an account limits the total content volume And percentage of posted content which one would need to moderate.

It's almost like a variant of security through obscurity which actually has a meaningful impact.
Larger area than the oceans?
> you can't make these machine things without literally feeding this copyrighted information into them, therefore they do contain a copy.

They don't necessarily do. Think about that. You can take some copyrighted material and transform the information contained in it (for instance a fictional book). You can then write a summary. The summary contains information that was present in the original but it has been transformed and hence it's not a copy. The ML model contains information that has been generalized by some degree. So it's just a grey area IMO.
Yeah. Here I see Red Hat trying hard to live up to the letter and spirit of the GPL, but it's not getting appropriate credit on that one.

In some ways I think of the GPL(s) like the Bill of Rights. Great document, great ideas behind it - falls flat in some respects today due to age and ambiguity.
very cool to see the CEO of Shopify putting together this interface.
You can use any other language on the server side. What would be good is if wasm had full access to the DOM instead of through some JS layer. Or maybe a new browser is created that did away with JS altogether. It's always been my dream.
I was able to easily graduate in 5 years, only one false start because the simulation seriously overvalues preparing for the qualifying exam. Also, it doesn't consider that you usually get two attempts at such an exam, not just one.
Yeah I was working on something similar with Go. We weren’t exactly trying to turn it into a Lisp, but for various reasons outputting the Go AST as s-exps was interesting.

That got me thinking that if I ever do any language design again I’m almost certainly going to just start by writing a Lisp and then layering any additional syntax that appears desirable on top of that.
> https://paulstamatiou.com/digital-clutter/

Found your site a long time ago, and love the design.
Politicians don't believe that. But they know that the newspapers will vilify them at election time if they don't play along with the security & safety lobby, and the news media shapes voter preferences.
> Anyone attempting to solve climate change with software is at best skimming value off of the work being done by others in the physical world, and at worst creating markets for corporate greenwashing.

I fully agree with this assessment and I would love to hear more about your product.
:D

I’d love to get your advice, can I contact you?
We make the whole camera system because we couldn't find anything on the market that allowed us to do the AI we wanted. The value for the customer is all in the AI tracking and security detection as well as the ability to just login live and see what's happening on site. So, yes, our core product is our software, but we had to make the hardware to capture market share.
There was a Russian sigint satellite that somehow got programmed to roll 360 degrees and execute its initial burn to reach the desired orbit. Satellites are generally launched upside down. So it basically rolled over and de-orbited itself, fast.

Would you consider that a software failure or not?
We make physical advertising (DOOH) with real time bidding. If you have an image you want to advertise you just submit it and select the screens/locations where you'd like to end up and choose what you want to pay. Then we approve and rate your ad and if you are the highest bidder (ad quality is part of the equation too) you can end up on the screen right then.

The whole process can take 20 minutes, from signup to your ad being shown in businesses versus weeks to months for traditional advertising.

Also the minimum payment is only 20$. We have all sorts of non-profits, local bands, anything you can think of, on the network. I think we have the lowest barrier of entry of the industry.

https://oa.media/en/

If you'd like to discuss my email is in my profile.
I'm not the one who posed the question. And: file, filename, inode, ...? What's what and what's exactly to be counted?
"I'm trying to understand why it rubs me particularly the wrong way here"

Would I be correct to assume that superintelligence might have a negative effect on your earning potential in the future?

When I originally had my responses to this, this is one of the reasons I came up with. But, now that I see through most of the BS, I am OK...
In 2022, 85% of the country's drinkable water was produced through desalination of saltwater and brackish water. If there is a real need, and a will to address it, we have everything we need to to it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_supply_and_sanitation_in...
Can I shower in salt water?

Then all I need to do is desalinate drinking water.

“Distributed” home desalination for drinking water seems like the best approach in my mind, then people can pay as much or as little they need, but I have no real data to back this up.
Open AI spent at least hundreds of millions on GPT-4 compute.
Assuming they aren't lying, a fifth of compute budget (billions) is an awful lot of money to put on an issue they don't think is as pertinent as they are presenting.

Not that I think Super Intelligence can be aligned anyway.

Point is, whether they are right or wrong, I believe they genuinely think this to be an issue.
Show HN: I built a CLI tool that catches errors for you and solves them w/ ai
The answer would be if the weights are transformative enough, and the copyright would come from the person who decided what images to include in the training set.

The act of choosing to place images in a certain arrangement, such as a collage, can be copyrightable. The same could be said for the "act" of choosing what images to include in a training set and which parameters to use to train the model.
I'd guess that if anything they'd increase the pressure to raise the boiling point. That way things dissolve in it faster and the water doesn't evaporate away.
> They call themselves activists

My assumption is that parent comment was applying that label well beyond the group that labels themselves as such. Social media activism can still be activism. I’m not looking to gatekeep.

Given the context of this forum, people really love to throw this and other similar terms around in a way that reads as a pejorative. Basically, “people with a specific type of politics that I don’t like and who annoy me”. Ex. Elons “I support the current thing” tweet.