skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As far as I understood from a pollution perspective yes. But not from a carbon perspective. Farming, shipping, selling, etc. a cucumber to a consumer produces far more CO2 than a small piece of plastic wholesaled to a producer. So if you can reduce the waste, you need fewer cucumbers and apparently this adds up to a carbon reduction overall.

Of course I think this shows the limits of the kind of thinking that reduces all environmental impact to just a single metric like carbon emissions.
Since pricing is purely based on storage used, it's very cost efficient for certain use cases.

I've been using Tarsnap for 10+ years. There's some Linux stuff getting backed up, configs and such. It costs next to nothing for this kind of usage.
> Positively affirming rights are passed, and often passed regularly.

If a legislature (or government generally) can grant a "right", then it can take it away.

That means it isn't a right, it's a privilege.

Oh, what's that? The government responded to the Will of the People? So, the Will of the People can revoke that "right". OR, a group that you think is abhorrent could get a majority to declare whatever rights they want.

I'm constantly astounded how many people confuse authoritarianism for liberalism.
I am disappointed by the fact that people are so willing to throw model explainability out of the window because black-box models have higher predictive accuracy and sound cooler. Or they say that SHAP can solve interpretability even though the model that SHAP presents is not the same as the one that is making the predictions. This can hide biases or reliability problems. I think throwing a big (semi) black-box at the problem is short term thinking. In this maintenance context, for example, you can only improve airplanes if you know WHY you need to do maintenance. So therefore you need explainable models. Put differently, you need explainable models to learn from the model and to steer it based on knowledge that domain experts have. We’ve learned the importance of this when working with the Dutch military on predicting who would drop out from special forces selection [1]. And yes, we had a smaller dataset, but I don’t think that matters so much. It takes effort to get an explainable model working on the data, but the knowledge that you obtain compounds and gives you better models over time.

[1]: https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/s6j3r
If I was less scrupulous, I can think of a few ways to easily monetize that. The first and simplest is to have a toll line that charges on call and have a recording on the 867-5309 numbers that refers them to call it.

Whether you go the sultry "really meet Jenny" angle or just try to find something that piques the interest of the average drunk male that would call, just to see what they're being referred to, you'd probably get enough takers to turn a tidy profit regardless of how crappy the ultimate toll line was. I doubt it takes all that much to convince callers that are already drunk and trying to do something they think is mildly funny already.
What is the usecase you have for multiple kernels in one notebook?
You can just live on a boat on a river? I assume it would involve permissions from authorities and some kind of rent etc, right? What do you do for water, electricity, sanitary services, garbage collection et cetera?
> If your only hope of not going along with this is having the EU come in and slapping Google's wrist, I'm concerned that you aren't willing to take a hard stance on your own.

I take umbridge at this implication. When a monopoly like Google takes anti-competitive actions it's not fair or just to expect individuals to stand up to it. Governments exist to counter anti-competitive behavior like this and governments have been doing a terrible job chopping down companies with too much vertical integration lately.
I'm pretty sure that most medieval laborers were not aware of that scientific literature ;)
Wow. Always hard to find reliable info on the electricity system.
Is this general advice or specific to Paris?

And what is the background here?
> But watch what they do when a baby poos in your local aquatic centre. They don’t fuck around. Everyone is out in seconds.

These days nobody knows the baby pood in the pool, they wear "swimmies"; diapers designed for swimming. It's disgusting.
Hmm, what advantage does Lisp offer here over Python?

>>> 1 + foo(20)
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
NameError: name 'foo' is not defined
>>> def foo(a):
... return a + 21
File "<stdin>", line 2
return a + 21
^
IndentationError: expected an indented block
>>> def foo(a):
... return a + 21
...
>>> 1 + foo(20)
42
>>>

Mind the hilarious indentation error, as I had not touched the old-school REPL in ages.

In normal day to day operations, I do the same thing daily with Jupyter Notebooks. I get access to as much state as I need.

With notebooks workflow it is normal to forget to define something and then redefine in the next cell. You could redefine function signatures etc. Ideally then you move cells in the correct order so that code can be used as Run All.

I "feel" ridiculously productive in VS Code with full Notebook support + copilot. I can work across multiple knowledge domains with ease (ETL across multiple database technologies, NLP-ML, visualization, web scraping, etc)

Underneath it is same as working in old school Python REPL just with more scaffolding.
The prices are absurdly high if your use-case is storage of large volumes of data that regularly change. It wouldn't be sensible to use Tarsnap for that, and you probably want to use one of the bulk backup services instead.

Tarsnap makes a lot of sense when you benefit from the encryption and (especially) de-duplication features that it offers. For me, all of my most important personal and business data, from multiple decades, compresses-and-deduplicates down to around 6GiB. Considering the high value of the data I store in it, tarsnap's pricing actually feels absurdly low.
I'm obviously missing something. What happens to people on that list?
As soon as Firefox started grabbing market share, Google backed them and at the same time (probably) started the process of creating Chrome. IE is one of those zombie things that's still around that does not matter. Arguably it's a nuisance even to MS at this point.
I think that means no iOS development so if you need that you need a real Mac
It seems a 50/50 situation so long as the lead is able to get the products most companies don't seem to bother a lot about the risks of this exposure
> Other times, I spend 5 hours diving extremely deep into research papers from fields I have no experience in and end up learning a ton of really cool stuff that is not at all relevant to my day job whatsoever.

Me too. In the last year or so I’ve been crazy about hydrology, climate, and nutrition. I can’t really do anything with any of what I learn, but I love learning more. But my diet is fine, I don’t do anything with hydrology, the climate is well beyond my sphere of control. What the hell am I doing? I’m glad (kind of) that I’m not alone.
The chat inside Gmail (I'm not even going to pretend to know or care what they call it now) has separate "windows" for each chat.
Lots of areas in Paris where you can't even walk around because it's too dangerous - the river is really the least of our problems.
Happens a lot with Zig's builtin functions: See https://github.com/ziglang/zig/issues?q=is%3Aissue+mentions%... for example
See for instance this paper:

> In light of increasing public pressure, retailers strive to remove plastic packaging as much as possible from fresh fruits and vegetables to reduce the environmental impacts along their supply chains. Plastic packaging, however, also has an important protective function, similar to the fruit's peel. For cucumbers transported from Spain and sold in Switzerland, our investigations in the form of a life cycle assessment study showed that the plastic wrapping has a rather low environmental impact (only about 1%) in comparison to the total environmental impacts of the fruit from grower to grocer. Hence, each cucumber that has to be thrown away has the equivalent environmental impact of 93 plastic cucumber wraps. We found that plastic wrapping protects the environment more by saving more cucumbers from spoilage than it harms the environment by the additional use of plastic. If, by using the plastic wrap, we reduce cucumber losses at retail even by only 1.1%, its use has already a net environmental benefit. Currently, in the cucumber import supply chain from Spain to Switzerland, the use of plastic wrapping lowers the cucumber losses at retail by an estimated 4.8%; therefore, it makes sense to use it from an environmental perspective. The environmental benefit of food waste reduction due to plastic wrapping the cucumbers was found to be 4.9 times higher than the negative environmental impact due to the packaging itself. Alternative strategies to preserve fresh cucumbers without using plastic wrapping will have to compete with this challenging limit.

https://www.empa.ch/documents/56164/19450914/2021.07.29_Cucu....
The thing I get peeved by is that none of the models say how much RAM/VRAM they need to run. Just list minimum specs please!
Came here to mention this.
Here is a full deepl translation of the post, for those who are interested (in the above linked post of a blog the blog author recites a mail from one of his readers):

"I work in the field and we discussed the preprint a bit in the research group this morning. In a nutshell, we don't believe a word of it:

Fig. 1(a) and (c) are implausible. Normally, this sort of thing looks like this. Note the gradual increase at low currents, this effect is especially expected for magnetic fields.

Also Fig. 1(d) cannot be correct. At Tc ~ 400K the Meissner effect would displace a much stronger field than 10 Oe = 1 mT. I.e. the distinction between FC (field cooled) and ZFC (zero-field cooled) should not be so pronounced. It should look more like this.

What the authors might mean is that they are outside the Meissner range, which can occur at higher magnetic fields (keyword: Type II superconductors). This then looks like this.

But in this case the temperature dependence does not agree at all with the critical currents of Fig. 1(a) and (c).

And also that ALL values in Fig. 1(d) are negative is extremely unusual, but this could perhaps be argued.

The data set in Fig. 4(b) is also a treat. It is VERY unusual to see the heat capacity decrease again at high temperatures. This can happen at low temperatures, but rather not at high temperatures.

I know the described experimental setup / cryostat very well. There is no reasonable reason why the authors did not measure at higher temperatures to show that the behavior above Tc ~ 400K is significantly different. E.g. a temperature dependence of the resistance would have been mandatory.

In general, the paper is very poorly written. The data are not adequately discussed, the explanations are poor, and the papers cited are rather, shall we say, meager. This does not inspire confidence in what the authors have measured and want to have seen there.

My personal guess is that the authors measured an insulator, accordingly no current flowed, and thus no voltage occurred (4-point measurement). Then it looks like a superconductor. But if you then turn up the current (i.e. the applied voltage), there may be breakdowns and a current starts to flow. This would explain the sudden increase."
Tarsnap is undoubtedly expensive, but it also donates to various efforts!

Neglecting the pricing, does Tarsnap have any advantage over Restic?

Restic also deduplicates, using little data.
If you travel "back in time" you don't enter your own timeline but another universe where you were Always going to appear.

Time travel (backwards) is not possible, only inter-universe travel.

What has happened has always happened and will always have happened.
did you even read what Fermi Paradox is?
It would be interesting if they got a hold of wages across Netflix and then made a report on that. How much is the median writer for Netflix original shows paid, how much is the median actor for Netflix original shows paid, etc.

Though $900k a year is a lot of money, it's important to properly contextualise things. Plus, different divisions tend to have different budgets. And I assume the potential value of properly leveraging AI on Netflix could be very high. It doesn't mean they're hiring someone to replace writers.

And here, mmm, maybe it's because of my tech-bias. I don't care if writers are being replaced. I'm sorry, I care about quality it doesn't matter where it comes from. AI can very well be used to enhance productivity I don't see that as a bad thing. Not from Netflix, I think automation/AI is a systemic issue... a lawmaking issue. In a country like the USA without any sort of social welfare, that's really the issue in my opinion.

That being said, I support the writer's and actor's strike because I think it's very much their right to organise and demand whatever demands they might be having. You don't really see this kind of tension in Europe at this level because they have much better work regulations and social safety nets.

So much is wrong with the US! But in any case, this article was pretty garbage. The Guardian can do better.
(caveat: I may be running on old tarsnap company info but) I must say, the ONLY thing that has ever made me shy away from seriously using tarsnap was the prospect of an unexpected Colin Percival outage. i.e. key person risk. I'm guessing I'm not alone in this.
Not sure that it is in Sony's case. But creating patents for anti-user ideas, where you don't intend on using them, locks the idea away for at least a while, and could be seen as pro-user.
Probably it has to do with the huge shift to non alcoholic beverages like coffee and tea which is a modern day drug?
Venetian glass beads may be oldest European artifacts in North America (2021)
To be fair, that has never stopped people from using C and C++ all around the world...

EDIT: and most languages made before 1990 too
They shouldn’t have the default set to that low.
They just blame adblockers for the Google Ads scandal happening right now where they faked ads reports to customers.

They can only blame themselves for faking data.
Seems to be a lot of non-answers to me?

Am I missing something?
The whole thing screamed a mix of mental illness and con artistry to me...
can't chromium be forked without wei. brave and vivaldi and others could work on and use the fork.
I won't take any of this seriously until they make their model and weights available.

This type of PR research is what is really holding back AI for medical images.
If we count everyone's one-weekend project that evaluates (+ 1 2) into 3, then there are probably thousands of Lisps that cannot be compiled. So what?
My ID is #2,715,751 and I still somehow have a 5-letter username
> It's not about suing, but defining expectations about how you can rely on a service.

Meeeeh, my ISP cut of around 100+ fiber connections in my town and spend three weeks fixing it. My neighbor have business line, there's an SLA on those that among other things, require them if reestablish his connection within 3 - 5 hours. It took them over 500 hours, so that SLA is useless for anything but forcing compensations.

The problem is that the SLA should give an indication of available resources, but in reality it's mostly a contractual thing for most companies, they'll pay the "fine" or refund a customer if they fail to hit their SLA and that's about it. Tarsnap most likely have better availability than many midsize competitors simply because it's just one person who really cares about it. Doesn't help if he's hit by a bus though.
In the linked article it actually shows max concentrations at 500. So for those areas it (basically) really is your original number.

It's further telling with this quote:

> Iowa and Illinois, where the most corn and soy crops are grown, accounted for 15% of national usage

Which means some states heavy skew the results and many, many areas of the country are below 100 or near 0.
I don't use NVLink
Heavy rain tends to overloads combined sewer systems, leading to potential discharge of untreated sewage.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Combined_sewer#Health_impacts
For QEMU's gitlab issue tracker we deliberately started our issue numbering from a higher number (I think 100 or thereabouts) to avoid that. (We ran into it very early on during the migration from launchpad so it wasn't a big deal to re-number the two or three issues that had already been created with low numbers.)
I don't know if would happen in practice but the one Silvio Gesell proposed would probably handle as much growth, stagnation or even degrowth as the people collectively decide to want.

The reason for that is that the concept of 'Freigeld' forces people to think about production and consumption schedules. With regular money you can pretend that labor can be stored like any commodity, which is actually not possible.
If you know you are in the Ponzi scheme, the first thing you do is stop throwing any more money at it, because it does become more risky as time goes on.

"Capitalism and not participating in Ponzi schemes don't go hand in hand with each other" becomes nonsense. The last one to jump off that track before it collapses becomes capitalistic winner. But the ones who jumped before that moment are still better on than ones who ended up paying to them.
You can, but only if you follow an hackintosh guide and spoof it with a "virgin" ID, it's tricky but doable.
This rule applies to any water near land. You get runoff from dog, cat, bird defecation among whatever chemicals may be found on land. This is even if storm water sewage does not overflow.

I lived in Key West for half of my life. I got addicted to swimming daily and would always go, no matter what. Now I have sinusitis caused cluster headaches. When I trace back events, the first one happened about a year into the swimming. Now they are truly debilitating.

I would even add not swimming during an out-going tide if the water passes by nasty land. (nasty = like seemingly lovely mangroves where birds live or bird poo covered rocks)

Now I always check water quality reports to find the cleanest water on vacation as well. Most places do them, even if not advertised.
The deduping in restic is just on the edge of acceptable for me, making me think I'd have trouble with a lot more data. Basically the one a month "prune" operation takes about 36h (to B2) . I feel I could be tuning something but also it works and I don't want to touch it.
So.... argument
from authority?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argument_from_authority
I don’t know who should be embarrassed here. That org for having 400K members or Github for apparently having no limits on how many emails can be sent out with a simple `@`.

In any case an honorable mention goes to the useless “lock this now” pile-on comments.
And sure, throw black-box models at low-stake decisions like recommender systems, sentiment classification, or spam filtering, but I don’t think it’s wise for high-stake decisions where the decisions cannot easily be verified by a human.

But well, it doesn’t matter what’s the truth here. C3.ai wants to sell fancy algorithms and some Lt. Col. at the military wants to sound innovative. They both succeeded.
Well, QEMU has no graphical acceleration for macOS (no virtio drivers for XNU and Quartz) so it's basically unusable - software rendering has been historically borked on macOS, and never well tested.
True, not all companies have a perfect data to be relied upon. Some of them are old and redundant
If you are primarily cost-driven, you missed one:

Backblaze: $0.005 / GB storage, $0.01 / GB download.
> How do they have vastly better inter-city bus transport than the richest country in the world?

There is your error in thinking. The US is lacking a lot of basic infrastructure, even if it is it doesn't act like a rich Country at all.
How do you compare the two, price-wise? With Restic, you have to provide your own storage.
Yes, for example, atlassian have a bugtracker for bamboo, exemplary!:

https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/BAM-21743?filter=98685

I'm sure the various product owners and stakeholders from product convene regularly to address long standing issues and whittle down the backlog, right?
I wonder if a "release" build flag makes sense for go. There is so much optimisation potential left on the table for the sake of build time.

The current build should be "Dev" and a new "release" should be introduced.
You didn't even establish that they're white before you attacked.
> Most (all?) corporate endpoint security systems use it right in my experience.

I've never seen a usage of Safetynet which I would consider right, pretty much everybody thinks it creates some kind of "security" whereas it doesn't.

One very rare useful usage for it could be removing bots for game leaderboards but certainly not banking apps.
How to use a Python multiprocessing module
This is a difficult question to answer, really. Very few pension systems are orthogonal to others and so it's hard to equate. The US Social Security system (what I assume they are comparing to) is 6.2% (or 12.4% for self-employed, as they are their own employer and contribute both shares) for 420mos; at max contribution, this comes out to 2572usd/mo at age 62 up to 4555usd/mo if you wait til age 70. Meanwhile, to max out an Irish state pension, you would need to contribute 13keur/yr for atleast 240mos (longer at a lower contribution), which comes out to ~1076eur/mo starting at age 67.

I don't know what the Japanese system is like, but the point is that there are multiple variables to take into account. Length of contribution, type (tax rate and pre or post, or flat) + amount of contribution, when you qualify to receive it, recipient stipulations (can you work or not, does the rate change, does the age change, etc).

Based on some back of envelop comparisons from my little research of the Japanese system (what wikipedia provides, since I can't read Japanese); it would seem that the US system is a little fairer (or, at least, generally equivalent) for W2 employees: a lower rate and contribution requirement [6.2% vs 10%], with a shorter term requirement [35 vs 40 years] but a slightly lower payout at a later age [4.5kusd@70 vs 5.5kusd@65] with a lower overall tax burden [nominal 17% vs flat 25%]. But both are a fair bit better than the Irish system. Please feel free to correct me if those are off, however.

Even those are just assumptions based on you making no private retirement contributions and you working a white collar job and then going full state pensioner at the full retirement age. If any variables change, it can drastically effect the payout/taxrate. So it's almost impossible to fully compare.
And why should you? Is there some automatic right that one should have about being accepted into a foreign country and culture?
Gallium OS worked great... until it got abandoned.

Then, those seeking updates were stuck finding a distro that worked well, with available drivers, had to deal with the stupid keyboard and remapping the keys, etc.

I'm not going down that road again.
> Arguably it's a nuisance even to MS at this point.

Which is likely a big part of why MSFT tried to get rid of it.
Meanwhile in the UK https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-57947635