skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just yesterday, I spent several frustrating hours trying to find t-shirts that fit my requirements, which are somewhat different than yours.

I want a t-shirt to be as thin a material as possible. The whole point of a t-shirt is to either wear it as an undershirt or standalone in warm weather. Thick material that is more durable is antithetical to either use.

"Fits well" is stupid hard to find. The vast majority of t-shirts are boxy with straight lines that have zero form fit. The sleeves come down so low and have such a large circumference that they cover any muscle you might have. They are also long enough to cover most of your ass, which is overkill for tucking and looks super dorky when untucked. Of course all if this is relative to your dimensions. I am 5'11" and reasonably fit. Even if you are not fit, the standard cut looks horrible.

Another aspect of looks is color. There are always the boring generics: white/black/mottled light grey and sometimes navy. For standalone use, there are some few outfits that these colors work for. As an undershirt, these colors work more often, but I have found that there can be better color matches if the undershirt is visible (and especially if you are doing the west coast thing with an unstructured sport coat over a t-shirt).

That covers much of the (lame as hell) t-shirt market, but of course there are some standout brands with better features. If you asked me 2 years ago, I would have said True Classic as they have a more tailored cut, reasonable length and arm circumference and better selection of colors. The material is 60/40 cotton/poly and not too thick (but not very thin either). Recently, they changed the length (added 3 inches!) and ditched many of the cool colors, which I think is due to this inane fashion ideology of change it up annually and these are this year's "cool" colors.

The ultimate shirt is one that is tailored to your spec and fit. There are some online options for that, but they all cost more than buying a generic shirt and spending ~$30 to have it tailored (or DIY: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XeWUPBeL5XM).

If you are in the EU, Asos has some branded shirts that are a step up and reasonably priced.
https://freshcleantees.com/ is a True Classic dupe, but I haven't tried them.

I ended up going with TC, despite the lack of colors I wanted because it is pretty easy to shorten the length.
That's why I hate Chrome's monopoly.
The song itself isn't output by the machine.
Sure, ideally. In the real world hiring managers have to take what they can get from the applications that come in. And in a rapidly changing industry the specialists that you need today might be useless in two years. One approach that can work in some organizations is to hire mostly generalists as employees, and bring in specialists when needed as temporary contractors.
That is true only in a free market, which labor is not. Employers have far more bargaining power than any individual looking to sell their labor. To say workers thought it was fair to work "70 hours with no overtime compensation" is delusional. It was the best deal they could accept given the material reality of their conditions.
Are those 20000 plant species of any actual relevance though? There're hundreds of thousands. For context:

>The world’s food supply depends on about 150 plant species. Of those 150, just 12 provide three-quarters of the world’s food. More than half of the world’s food energy comes from a limited number of varieties of three “mega-crops”: rice, wheat, and maize.

Not everything is valuable by just existing.
...and central air conditioning.

2 evaporator coil leaks in my 5 year old house already, another one currently suspected.
> what about the fact that electric cars just become a useless heavy paperweight in eight to ten years (guaranteed because of the chemistry and physics of battery - charge/recharge cycles

An understandable concern, considering how quickly smartphone batteries degrade.

But the batteries in most EVs are treated a lot better than smartphone batteries - heaters for when it's cold; water cooling when it's hot; and enough capacity it's easy to keep the charge level in the most durable range.

There are reports [1] of Teslas with 100k miles on the odometer still having almost the same range as when they were new.

And even if not every EV fares that well, if your EV starts its life with enough range for a 4 hour drive and after a decade you only have the range for a 2 or 3 hour drive, that would still meet the needs of a lot of motorists.

[1] https://www.carmagazine.co.uk/car-reviews/long-term-tests/te...
> it is user-actions caught by the Controller which do

OK, and how does this work? The view is rendering the filter box, allowing the user to select an option. How does the Controller know what option was selected, if the view is not registering a click handler and communicating this up?

What ends up happening is that as your application grows, so does the number of controllers, models, and views. A user action in one view can cascade to many different controller updates, which can overlap and conflict in difficult-to-debug ways, and render inconsistent data states. Flux architecture solves this, which is roughly what React is based on.
> This war was never about saving Ukraine. It is and has always been a proxy war between two super-powers

Well that's a blatant False Dichotomy

It's not one or the other, it can be, and in fact almost certainly is, Both.
>You can e.g. look at metrics like "number of scientific publications per capita", where the UK is only number 20 in the world, and the US is number 33

Why is the metric of focus the number of papers and not their quality?

I know Austrian universities also obsess with number of papers published to look good in statistics, even though many researchers I know admit that what they publish is pointless, they just do it to have published papers under their belt and to inflate the numbers to make the university look good.

Maybe the US and UK are not leading by sheer number of papers, but they do lead certain fields such AI/ML research, drugs/medical, etc. So your focus on numbers seems pointless.
> 10 to 20,000 USD whereas I projected it to around 25,000 because I am adjusting for inflation as the article is from 2020 and we're in 2023 with massive wave of inflation everywhere.

I would imagine the cost of batteries would go down as the technology improves, and the production scale increases. It wouldn't surprise me if this decrease was faster than inflation right now.
Ha, it's so funny to me khichdi is a sick dish - I thought that was just my fiancée's family at first. She made some for me which I kept eating in good health, but she couldn't/wouldn't eat it herself, put off by that association.

The British kedgeree (which has its origin in khichdi but frankly is quite different - like a breakfast biryani of smoked haddock & boiled egg; generally no daal) doesn't at all share that.
I definitely understand with the struggle to balance design freedom and brand identity (or good design). But wouldn't you still have the issue of content editors wanting to right align text and turn it blue regardless of the CMS you're using?
More accurately, they are "elevons."

(And yes that's a word)
Managing High Traffic: Ensuring Smooth User Experience During High Demand
> Are there actually stats that show this?

In general yes, I see 80% of charging at home, but you can google this as well as I can.

Specifically for Berlin / inner city I don't know.

A point of denser city living is to lessen the need for private car ownership. I'm also in an apartment in London. We don't have a charger, but then we don't have a car either, we don't need one here.
This - as most of this thread - reads like some well-crafted well put-together propaganda coming straight from some Paul R. Ehrlich type talking head of a person. Even if I would trust the data you provided, there is still the monoculture vs polycultlure in relation to fertilizer usage, job market, food security, microclimate aspects - each of which would require a separate thread. There is a whole socioeconomic ecosystem build around local farming, most post-communist countries had world-class agri systems in place before it was taken apart after 1989 (with local fertilizer production due to local beef production).
An analog to this might be the settings of knobs and switches for an audio synthesizer, or guitar effects settings. If you wanted to get the "Led Zeppelin sound" from a guitar, you could take a picture of the knobs on the various pedals and their configuration, and replicate that yourself. You then create a new song that uses those settings. Is that something that is allowed under copyright?

What if there were billions of knobs, tuned after years of feedback and observations of the sound output?
It’s not that this is good for workers. I believe the workers when they said it sucks. It’s all in the little details. As an example: you probably finished the article thinking “wow, farm workers make $30/hour!” Because that is what the owner said. But what was actually said was “Skilled cutters can earn more than $30 an hour”. Which probably means most cutters are making much less, and what about the other jobs on the farm? I bet there are more titles than just “cutter”.
The overcommit ratio for its phone lines and modems is a knob the business selects, and it's directly linked to their profits.

There's clearly an incentive to skimp here and resort to underhanded tactics. If you've promised unlimited use to the customer, it's definitely unethical.
FWIW, I always recommend charging 3 months of jr dev time for cross-licensing and use the cash to pay for a project-related internship. It's win-win-win:

- you get help with your project,

- the project (and its corporate user) gets new features or bug fixes or refactors,

- the student gets a learning experience.

Mentoring does take a surprising amount of time, so you can also tack on a little extra and treat yourself to a weekend at a ski report (or whatever your thing is) as a "thank you" to yourself for the free mentorship :)
Time to bless the populace with a who knows where it came from virus strain, that results in high uric acid/gout when eating meat. Problem solved.

Let the insects come.
What? Crimean Russians have been there for like at least 50 years.

Ukraine is making claims about recapturing this and that because they feel they can count on Western support to do so and because it lets them negotiate from a high starting point. I think that is largely fine if we are pushing for settlements behind the scenes
dabeaz signed my copy of python essential reference for 1.5.2
The crucial line:

> But again, there’s nothing to stop this. These subreddits can’t only fill themselves with joke articles to screw up a site like this, even if this one specific example is good for a laugh.

Most threads will be normal conversations, and reddit (and other discussion sites) can serve as a simple way of summarizing and generating news for 'free'.

I'm thinking that HN too could serve as a source for tech related news, couldn't it? Summarize the target article, then join it up with summaries/sentiments of the top comments in the thread. I didn't say I'm doing it, but if I could think of it, someone's probably way ahead of me already and has tried it.
An LLM is more like software than it is like media. The GPL defines source code as the preferred form for making modifications, including the scripts needed for building the executable from source. The weights in this case are more similar to the optimized executable code that comes out of a flow. The "source" would be the training data and the code and procedures for turning that into a model. For very large LLMs almost no one could use this, but for smaller academic models it might make sense, so researchers could build on each others' work.
Issues Page of the Web Environment Integrity API Proposal
It’s not just India. Trying to grow the right amount of any crop is insanely difficult for all farmers, no matter the region.
If they so scared of AI, they could just stop building it.
Sapir-Whorf theory, if you would like to look it up to find out that people have already thought of these objections. And “it doesn’t make sense to me” is a terrible reason to disagree with a claim about nature, nature certainly doesn’t always make sense.
Sam Bankman-Fried once wanted to buy the island nation of Nauru
What's the chance of a hydrogen fuel cell exploding?
From what I see they all offer drag and drop UI elements with the ability to dig into the underlying code if you want to. I'm not seeing a difference between all of them other than what the flavor of the week is in terms of lanugage powering the CMS. I remember when ghost was all the rage, and many others. Again, not crapping on your project, props to you for the dedication, and if you're happy working on it that's all that matters
Awesome, thanks, love the project I already signed up! Might give it a try on my company site if I found some templates for commercial sites.
>"The addition of overtime makes our already high labor costs completely uncompetitive to Mexico and Peru," says Schreiber, citing the top two asparagus exporters to the U.S. In both countries, cutters make less in a day than Schreiber pays in an hour.

The end result will simply be that the US farms go out of business. More South American rainforest cut down for agriculture, more climate change, less resilient food systems, and the cycle goes on and on...
We've Got a Vulkan Memory Allocator at Home
> There's "open source" in the original sense

That original sense never existed. Virtually nobody said "open source" before OSI's 1998 campaign for "Open Source", as bankrolled by Tim O'Reilly.

https://thebaffler.com/salvos/the-meme-hustler

I know it's been a long time, and we've forgotten, but there is virtually no record of anyone saying "open source" before 1998, except in rare and obscure contexts and often unrelated to the modern meaning.
That's the argument, but I'm not sure it makes sense.

Unless you're studying the difference in people's minds given language differences, it makes more sense to study a common language, otherwise language differences will color the results, making comparisons difficult or impossible.
The contests exist, but they have a person throw the plane.
What tests?
That's awesome! So glad you like it
I don't know. Here's someone making vintage movie posters with Midjourney[0]. Most professional artists would kill to be able to produce work like this.

Also another account[1]. I don't see lack of quality and creativity here. Other than maybe the bland face syndrome which (apart from weird hands) seems to be a problem with AI.

Granted, one could say that what quality and creativity there is belongs to other artists (notwithstanding touch-up work in photoshop, etc) but it's still clearly there. We're way past the point where AI art is qualitatively substandard relative to professional art, it's just subject to Sturgeon's Law, where most of it is low effort.

[0]https://www.instagram.com/todd_skull/

[1]https://www.instagram.com/drawiaj/
For me, even the name "sprint" just instantly
pressures me to feel rushed in my work and I
hate everything about this religion.

While I think Scrum is a small step forward relative to the chaotic nightmares I've generally experienced in this industry, I wholeheartedly agree with this criticism of the term.

"Sprint" makes zero sense as a term. By sheer definition, in the real world you cannot sprint all the time. In fact you can only sprint for a very short time. Perhaps less than 1% of your waking hours.

And yet, in agile, we are supposed to be "sprinting" all of the damn time. There is only sprinting. There is nothing else but the sprint.

Dumb and probably harmful choice of terminology.
My understanding is that these are controlled environment green houses. They have lights throughout and if any one of the pests you mentioned was found during a sweep, the whole system would be shut down and sanitized.

Think: urban hothouse agriculture with more lights.
> And the only reason CO2 per capita is lower is because those countries left their population growth completely unchecked.

Poorer countries have more population growth. This is not because rich countries decided to "act responsibly", but that people choose to have fewer kids for other reasons, which is well document across the board. And access to contraceptives.

Moreover, poorer countries run the most CO2-intensive parts of the global supply chain: production. Rich countries also send them their trash because they don't want to burn it themselves.

Is it true that we've been wasting time with signal politics in the West? Yes. Do other countries, like China, also have a responsibility? Yes. But, pointing fingers and whataboutism is exactly the type of "twitterati" style non-action that got us absolutely nowhere in the first place.
Stable Diffusion, likely.
It is unethical to tell people something based on assumptions you made and then do something else when it doesn't work out.

If it comes down to kicking people off, you need to reimburse them for their payment and say 'don't come back' and keep only the 'good' customers, or you need to invest in more phone lines and hope you make the money back.

The solution is not to advertise one thing then appeal to 'but we actually meant this other thing' when it doesn't work out the the way you think it should.
TIL that not only are there different kinds of rice, but people use certain types of rice with certain dishes. I just thought that rice is rice.
Before that, NATO broke its promise to "not expand one-inch eastward" and to not interfere with Ukrainian sovereignty. There are no good guys here.

By the way, how many people died in the Russian invasion of Crimea and resulting occupation? Surely it was very bloody (like the current war) because Crimeans didn't want it, right?
I'm not a lawyer but I don't think negligence holds up well as a defense.

If the FAA is unhappy with what you have done or someone else who is loud enough is unhappy with what you have done, they can bend the loose definition to fit the situation. Look to Trent Palmer for a recent and pretty public version of this.
Key points:

"Carbon management is becoming increasingly popular with oil companies, since it plays to their know-how in trading, transporting, and storing molecules (as opposed to electrons from renewable energy, which are an entirely different business). ... It also allows Exxon to tap one of the most lucrative tax credits in the Inflation Reduction Act: $85 per ton of CO2 that is permanently stored underground.
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What reference materials would exist for a novel situation that no other human has ever lived before, anyways?

Some theorethical or sci-fi, I guess you'll be at least entertained to death.
If such a "derivative" model is a derivative work, then aren't all these LLMs just mass copyright infringement?
Even then. Nobody is perfect, not even companies.
> it also creates entropy

It's a nitpick, but it concentrates the entropy. It doesn't create any.

I do think it will make the answer more clear, as the hash concentrates the less than 64 bits of entropy on that 128 bits of original data into a usable 64 bits package.
So they're a battery company that makes average cars
Oh yeah this is totally expected.. I see it quite often in summer here in australia.
It makes me think of running a fever. Its easy to think of fevers as bad but I imagine it would be a lot worse to simply stop the fever (if that were even possible).
Globalization of food is primarily about control, for the sake of humanity always check the history, motives of people you consume literature from
The article says basmati accounts for 1/4th of the exports, yes it’s a higher yield crop, but basmati is consumed at a much much lower rate than let’s say sona masoori (at least in the south)
Correct, a single individual or small group would get clobbered.
Fully reproducible model training might simply not be possible if information from the training environment is not captured. In addition to data and code you might have additional uncertainty from:

- pseudo/true random number generator and initialization

- certain speculative optimizations associated with training environments (distributed)

- Speculative optimizations associated with model compression

- Image decompression algorithm mismatch (basically this is library versioning)

- ....things I'm forgetting...

It's just a lot of things to remember to capture, communicate, and reproduce.
How many of these employees are in the country legally? How many of them actually have much choice at all in their employment?

The "great" thing about the system is that the poorer the employees are, the lower a wage they will accept. So "fair" payment is only fair if they aren't poor and have options.

If you don't believe that, do you believe that price gouging does not exist by definition? It's exactly the same thing for transactional purchases, not labor relations.
I think a decent theory of information and institutions is the most mission critical thing not only for academia, but for society in general.

With all the resources going to academia, how much of them are focused on understanding the behavior of organizations? It's a reasonably tractable problem that's way underdeveloped, and would allow us to design new institutions that behave the way we want, rather than being beholden to institutions that having to tolerate the ubiquity of organizations with outcomes antithetical to the goals of the members.

The first problem to focus on could be assessing the effect of a decade-long induction process to be considered qualified to make the most miniscule contribution to academia.

I feel like I've noticed academics getting more and more cloistered, many of them rabidly defensive, completely shunning anyone with the slightest criticism of the process, credentialed and not alike. I'm guessing it has to do with (a) the thinning out of public resources, so more competition, more consequences to being wrong, more emphasis on sounding right rather than being right. (b) the fact that in most fields, the point of diminishing returns has been reached on the foundational axioms that define the field. And yet, defining a new field with new foundational axioms is extremely difficult, with scarce resources to explore it.

You could readily define new kinds of mathematics with different axia. The hard part is building off of those axia to make useful theorems. Some axia might lend themselves more readily to proving one theorem versus another, or might make it easier to model one thing versus another. We can see this with ZFC versus category theory. Similarly, analyzing fluids in terms of laminar versus turbulent flow yields distinct benefits. They rely on models with different core assumption. At the foundation of every field (or subfield) is a model & set of core assumptions that allows work to be built on top of them. Market economics versus game theory is a good example. The two models hold fundamentally different assumptions. Game theory is studied in economics departments, though, so its full potential isn't tapped. Any results from game theory can't too directly contradict what's come from market economics if it wants to get taken seriously in an economics department. If game theory had developed as a branch of sociology instead, we might see a very different ideas coming from it. No matter what, it can only be developed in directions is can get funding for.

If we really want to get at the truth, for every assumption we make, we should also define and investigate a theory that has the opposite assumption. For instance particles are indistinguishable. Great, that has yielded immeasurable results. Now let's fully flesh out at least one model that assumes they are distinguishable and hammer results out of it until they meet experimental predictions, too. We will likely find that there are some situations it can describe much more richly than our current models. And, that way people aren't going around forgetting it was an assumption to begin with.