skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why would you expect the COVID "lockdowns" to meaningfully reduce CO2 emissions? There was no concerted effort to reduce emissions or energy consumption, and in fact the opposite happened.

Demand for shipping, including large shipping containers and many small online-order car deliveries, skyrocketed.

People were working from home instead of large office buildings, which means less efficient use of energy in smaller heating and cooling systems

Energy use in homes (for heating, cooking, cooling, and lighting etc) is responsible for about 11% of greenhouse gas emissions.

Energy use in commercial buildings about 7%.

On the other hand, fossil fuels being directly vented into the atmosphere (from leaks, or burning excess fuel) also contributes 7%.

Agriculture, mostly meat and dairy production, and deforestation driven by producing feed for livestock, is responsible for about 18% of greenhouse emissions.

Reducing emissions is really straightforward, and no mystery. It hardly needs new technology, just better deployment of the technologies we already have.

Coal produces about a quarter of total energy, but nearly HALF of all emissions. We need to stop burning coal YESTERDAY.

We only generate about 10% of total energy using low-carbon sources like nuclear and renewable energy. We need to scale those up.

In addition, we need to replace inefficient energy use with more efficient energy use.

Lighting accounts for roughly 5% of all energy consumption. With incandescent lighting being 5x to 10x less efficient than LEDs, we can save about 1% of global emissions just by switching all the remaining incandescent light bulbs.
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This wasn’t a product for the average business owner, it was for megacorps to make strategic decisions with.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_re-identification

That said:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Differential_privacy

However it wasn’t clear how high quality the differential privacy algorithm was or if it was attackable. But the nefariousness of its use against groups and demographics was fairly apparent.
Great answer. Related: attention hijacking. There's so much online psychological manipulation that manipulates people's attention and intentionality.
Thanks for the heads-up. I have some disclaimers to add :-)

Fully agree with you BTW. Human intervention will not go away. From what I've seen people most of the time know the answer but don't know how to put it to words. This helps with that.
This is a real issue, but it has nothing to do with Google specifically. You’re basically saying that information on road networks should be obscured or restricted so governments can indirectly control the flow of traffic.

Japan actually has some soft regulations in this space about routing and road visibility (e.g. residential roads are hidden when you’re on thoroughfares). But they’re just suggestions so only domestic companies follow them and Google, Apple, etc still provide their usual global algorithms.

Maybe there’s a good solution to this, but I don’t think it’s getting rid of mapping services and going back to security through obscurity.
What Apple, Google, Amazon's websites looked like in 1999
> By contrast, in Vim you use $ to move to end of line, and ^ to move to begin of line. Not only is it unintuitive

Actually it's very intuitive, because ^ and $ mean start/end of line in regex.
Avoid providers that can't (don't, can't, they always can if they want to) provide you with useful limits. Use ones that can.
AFAIU, the patent is limited to South Korea.
Animated laptop stickers.

https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2020/06/building-a-minimum-viable-l...

First time I've ever built and sold something physical. Amazed at how many people liked them.
Unless they’re really established (and even then) you’re about right.

Turn the Internet off after installing any smart device and see what happens - that’ll be how it works when they shut down the servers. If it don’t work at least somewhat, send it back.
Presumably you had assistance. Altho if it was a wholly individual achievement, there should be a lot more celebration.
Maybe it's not too late to start learning it properly instead of relying on random posts.
If organic maps did traffic, reviews and opening hours I'd never touch google maps again. Literally everything else is worse.
There's a lot here, really the main point here that sticks out to me is this:

> What's morally bankrupt here is that we live in such a way that results in the emergence of a black market for loving touch.

I agree. We don't live this way, though. Some of us do. I see that as being a problem for those people that may require holistic change.
If you're not a Vim person yet and not super invested in learning Vim keybinds specifically, may I recommend Helix?

Helix has much better default keybinds, it has a lot of stuff built into it which would require extensions in Vim, and it has a much smoother learning curve (partially due to better keybinds, and partially due to the fact that it will show you which options exist when you eg. press `g`).

As an example: Moving to the start or end of a line is just `gh` and `gl`, which makes a lot more sense than Vim's keybinds. It's still going to take a while to get used to modal editing, but if you don't care about learning vim specifically, then I think that it's an improvement in every single regard.

My personal favorite feature is the multi-cursor editing, especially when coupled with the `s` key.
The pilot provided firing solutions for heavy SWAT ordnance, which then subjected the ragweed people to low-level, round-the-clock saturation "being in jail".
This guy on YouTube has some great Framework custom project videos if you are into such things (I am): https://www.youtube.com/c/elevatedsystems
I made something similar just for fun: https://github.com/aleksanderhan/labpilot
It seems Jupyter is perfect for these kinds of code assist tools. Instead of going to Wikipedia and scratching your head about how this algorithm worked again, you can just mention what you want and have a rough/good enough implementation in no time.
> No. I said nothing about null safety. What I said is that “sum types by themselves do nothing to force handling of errors”.

Maybe (null) types are the simplest form of error type, with null pointer exceptions being the simplest from of unhandled error. They are therefore the easiest example to illustrate my point. You cannot simply choose to ignore them and remain credible. Haskell's broken old IO APIs are hardly a model example. Your Haskell code will at least give a compiler warning for ignoring the output. I would configure the compiler to turn this into an error.
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jQuery is a few kilobytes not some huge libruary. You can do it n pure js but jQuery allows you to do it in less lines of code and cleaner.
If your definition of personal freedom also includes restrictions on entities that are not you, then your personal freedom is fundamentally at odds with literally any other person having personal freedom as well.

I don't see how this definition is meaningful or useful for society.
I remember forwarding funny website links and word docs full of copy/pasted jokes around in emails back in the 90s and early 00s. This was a favorite of mine, having dropped out of an applied physics degree with the memory of the "final straw" optics lab where I lost the will to carry on. The equipment was awful, and I was paired with the clumsiest partner in the world. (During our 3rd year work experience semester, he was the only student who received an entirely negative feedback from his employer with the summary "unemployable" - I believe he caused a fire). Every time i stripped an optic fiber cable and mounted it in front of the laser, it seemed like the entire universe conspired to break the brittle glass core. When we did finally line everything up, happily taking measurements, I too ended up drawing a line through noise. In fact I haven't even read the piece yet, so it's been 15+ years since I've seen it, and I still remember laughing out loud at that line.
The problem is that most companies who have gone down the relational path and optimized it to pieces are left with all their business logic within SQL (as much as 75%) with the entire application tier becoming a Facade to the database logic.
That's definitely nonsense, I'd put money on there being many more rich Londoners in desirably located flats than same price house (further out/not so desirable).

The majority (loosely/anecdotally speaking) of the particularly desirably located houses are converted to flats.
If you're interested in machine learning applications like this, others are being researched here [1] and there's an upcoming online event about them.

[1] https://fdleurope.org/
I'm not sure how it works in other countries, but in the US, dentists generally need to provide xray/imaging of the mouth to back up whatever diagnosis/procedures they recommend, or dental insurance will reject it.

It's only when a patient is paying fully out of pocket when a dentist would perhaps have an easier time getting a way with over-diagnosing. Even then, they can still get in trouble with the ADA since that treads closely with medical fraud.

As is the case in many parts of the healthcare industry in the US (and many other countries), for practitioners who don't care as much about the ethics of it, they'll tread as closely as they can without crossing over into outright fraud.
There are already games where the DM is an AI, doesn't seem to stop anyone from playing with a human DM.
Though I still don't see what that has to do with using an AI tool to improve your drawing skill/speed.
> In that case, workarounds are one way to resolve the issue.

Yea I always check "why" and if the feature request is not already reasonably well motivated, I'll reach out to the customer and ask.

In my experience it's quite frequent a non-trivial feature or change request can be solved as well if not better by a simple, but different change instead.

Alternatively it allows me to see that three customers are asking for nearly the same thing, even though the feature requests make them sound quite different.
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This may or may not have been described by Zipf's law.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zipf%27s_law
Forgot Zuckerberg's Workplace and Threads
Oh wow, such nostalgia for the simpler days! Thanks for sharing! :-)
I'm a very beginner in my self learning journey. My understanding is, that hibernation is the same as 'suspend to disk'. If that is true, memory is cleared and put in a memory on disk (eg swap). From what I found on the Arch wiki, it works with a partition and file.

Swap space can be used for [...] suspend-to-disk support. https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Swap#Activation_by_systemd

In order to use hibernation, you must create a swap partition or file [...]. https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Power_management/Suspend_an...
My father runs a car wash and I built a vacuum cleaner that accepted coins using coin acceptor from Aliexpress and Arduino. That was fun but it lasted only a few months until the device got too dirty from open weather to recognize coins properly.
No sense in making it more complicated. Might as well stick with 8kunGPT.
> Take Joyce Higashi, a San Jose homeowner who built an ADU in her backyard. She now rents out her 500-square-foot abode for $3,000 per month to traveling nurses.

That's not scalping, though is it? Scalping is when somebody illicitly buys up a lot of a limited resource (e.g. concert tickets) and then pushes the price up.

What this person has done is to add to the stock of the resource (rentable property), and rent it out at the market price.
Also what sort of team is that where you implement algorithms? - an API plumber dev
News companies are always interacting with politicians, always criticizing the government. The logic is to distance as much as possible the monetary help from the government. So you don’t have the appearance of collusion. Media companies themselves want it that way.
The amount of money invested in systems that emit carbon is massive. Those companies are happy to bet a few million here or there on the slight possibility that carbon capture might work. So it’s a good little revenue earner if you can create a few nice diagrams.
> I see many comments wondering why the original authors do not reveal their synthesis process. The reason is simple.

Yes, but the reason is a different one: It's that they're busy writing / publishing a journal-grade paper and so they have postponed helping out other labs with reproduction efforts to the time after that. (Source: Hyun-Tak Kim said this in some interview.)
This sounds very familiar to me from a previous job at the height of the pandemic. All those interruptions are very mentally draining. I'd have about 4 or 5 meetings a day, and would get actual work done between interruptions.
I agree but I don't think the suggestion was to block ideologies. Rather, change the online ecosystem to stop driving people toward rage. How to do it is another question.
Perhaps the thermal issues could be solved with LK99 :)
I learned the basics of electrics and rewired my house. While doing that i also learned how to "make" network cables and everything. That in turn has lead to some cool house automation for lights pool and more and now i can make my own homekit adapters too =)
Co-author I suspect.
Funny how people just get a rough impression of things and then "go with it".

Her view of Sanders' 2020 bid was that people like herself were a big part of it--even 80 year old Nepalese grandmas were Sanders boosters, after all!

I think what really happened is that Democratic insiders, both in the media and the DNC, did their best to sideline his campaign, possibly even with some hanky-panky in the SC and Super Tuesday elections. The "Bernie Bros" narrative is perhaps part of that, but just as a Red Herring. Why did they engage in this evil plot? Not because they dislike Sanders so much, as because he would have been hopeless in the General.

I don't know. But if you want to study the question, you can see something happen similar right now with a very different politician, RFK jr. The average impression of the guy is "kook" but he's pretty sensible. (I mean, in terms of issues, he's shit, but that's completely irrelevant.)
> By contrast, in Vim you use $ to move to end of line, and ^ to move to begin of line. Not only is it unintuitive, it requires more strain of my hands/fingers

It is intuitive if you use regular expressions too because ^ and $ have (nearly) the same meaning there. But you’re right that your shortcuts work well too.

Other shortcuts that come in useful with no non-Vim equivalent that I know of:

vi" to select the content of a string
ca" to change a string
va{y to select and copy (“yank”) the contents of a curly-brace block
} to move one paragraph forward
) to move one sentence forward
v) to select the next sentence
iPhone and android phones share your location with apple and google constantly regardless of if you’re in maps or not.

Google does not need maps to have traffic data.
I have a Fairchild K-20 [1] lens from WW2 and I created a 3D printed camera for it so I can shoot large format 4x5 inch film handheld.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairchild_K-20
So you will find nothing intuitive in vim until you grok vim[0]. If you want to learn vim, you should accept that as soon as possible. Things are the way they are because they've been that way forever.

Once you learn the keys for certain operations and grok vim, you can combine them in a way that I would argue is actually the most consistent compared to any other editor.

In terms of strain, do you not feel strain moving your hand to the arrow keys every time you do those operations? If you do decide that you like those bindings (personally I avoid arrow keys), you can get those same bindings in vim. FWIW, I use `_` to go to the first none whitespace character in a line, not sure if that makes it any better.

Also the tabs in vim are second to none (only emacs and kakoune are equal). It's actually the biggest thing that annoys me about other editors. VSCode and JetBrains have good enough vim emulation, but their lack of vim-like tabs is my biggest complaint. I never see people advocate for vim tabs in these types of threads, so I've been championing them every time I can :).

[0] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1218390/what-is-your-mos...
I believe the latest Rich Hickey talk ‘Design in Practice’ might answers your questions in detail - I haven’t seen it recently, but it says something along the lines of don’t build features because they were requested, but instead ask why were said features requested, what’s the reason behind that and solve that problem.

As every Hickey talk, I can only recommend watching the whole thing, it is not clojure-specific at all if that were off putting for you.
Silly point as jQuery is a few kilobytes meanwhile your custom font is a few megs.
>I don't understand why people put so much effort in reproducing the products of a company that's always hostile to their fans.

I have realized I have a mental illness in favor of Nintendo, specifically Zelda. Its probably from being relentlessly marketed to as a child, before I was aware of corporate mascots.

I must play all Zelda games. I don't even like them, I can't even say I was happy about playing Zelda since Wind Waker(and really MM/OOT + 2Ds were the genuinely good ones).

Despite me hating Nintendo for exploiting my psychology as a child, I still beat all Zelda games. According to my therapist, this is most likely some sort of FOMO or a hope that I could relive those nostalgic moments.

Whatever the case. You should know its not necessarily under our control. Our brains are compulsive and things that happen to us as children have long term impacts.
Brass coin:

https://youtu.be/te130KONPP4
and two more small ones...
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If we ever found ourselves in a position where Clojure’s market share was decreasing YoY, do you think it would ever make sense for Clojure’s maintainers to design a new language that implements this + any other issues that come up on Clojure’s yearly survey (and other lessons learned) that might be more easily addressed by sacrificing backwards compatibility? Or do you do think the community would want them to focus on maintaining Clojure themselves?

I realize the maintainers likely would not even be interested in such a thing, of course, just daydreaming.
This could possibly be attributed to survival bias. I.e. the individuals are more prone to post their results only after a successful attempt.
But still loaded with Google products, especially Maps.
being able to crimp out ethernet cables is so useful
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> I'm still giving it a shot because everyone raves about how Vim makes them so much faster, but am I crazy for being highly skeptical at this stage?

You are not crazy. Vim default bindings are less intuitive than windows/macos/gedit/word default bindings which are all about using arrow keys with a combination of ctrl/alt/cmd. There's logic to vim bindings though but it's not the same. The ctrl/alt/cmd combos have equivalent in insert/visual/normal mode and <leader> (a special key, usullay "\") but there's nothing intuitive about those at first.

I think replacing vscode with vim can't be done in one hour. First one has to learn the modes and the bindings then there's the whole compiling/linting/fixing/debugging/custom_macros/snippets/etc to add. I love vim and its modal interface and how it's easier on my joints than default bindings and I can't use vscode without a vim extension but I am not sure I'd invest time in learning it if I had first started using vscode as my main editor. For instance: I am bad at replacing identical chunk of text in vim (I can do visual mode and shift insert and regex replace but I can see how column editing seem easier and looks better in vscode).

my 2ç:

Oh, and I use "0" to position the cursor at the beginning of the line. (and I just noticed by trying out what ^ does that I usually do 0e to position it at first word/character of the line to get the same result).
New superconductors offer chance to do the impossible (1987)
There will always be a need for the exceptional
Isn't it only a matter of languages of the input that the model was trained on?
If we want it to spit out Klingon, I'd have to be trained on Klingon input, no?
It's a shame because elixir documentation is gorgeous
Looking at Google Maps you get the feeling it's optimized for being a road atlas for long-distance driving. There's so few details on the maps and basically the only thing visible is the road network (and businesses) until about zoom level 17.
apparently, due to a strange combination of "elite production over-capacity" , climate angst and "capital and power concentration effects" .. there are emerging groups of unpaid, highly-skilled "helpers" who will never have children or property of their own, yet they use crucial data products like this one, to guard with their lives the preferred table refreshments of privileged diners. Helpers are writing automation of machine vision right now, using full-YOLO9 GPU capacity, causing NVidia stock to climb.
Call me crazy, but the AI generated Seinfeld brought me more entertainment in the last 6 months than anything Netflix has produced in the last year.

I think they're _very_ worried and rightfully so. I assume it would be very difficult to cancel an AI.
I review articles all the time. I look for things that tells me about their real work. there are nuances to some experiments that can't be known without replication.
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I’ve seen and experienced this first-hand. It happens a lot in niche music scenes. The internet will explode with rage about something someone in a band did or didn’t do, it will seem as if the whole world is united in rage or ridicule! …And then they go on tour and nothing is different. Or they post a statement and receive a flood of “This is the first I’ve heard about it.”
5.6 trillion trees per year... unless we plant them on the ocean that won't fit
I was working on web maps before google maps steamrolled (effectively killed) the competition. The big thing for us was that we couldn't compete with the storage and licensing requirements for satellite imagery. I suspect it was the same for other local competitors at the time: our local data was objectively better, but google's was just sexier, and you couldn't compete with free.

I've long since switched fields, but the irony is that the company I was working for survived and I heard maps for various business use is now much more expensive than our offer used to be and several large clients eventually switched back.

As a user, I loved maps when it came out. The pre-rendered tiled maps were clean and fast. The web UI was clean and responsive. Streetview was (and still is) absolutely mind boggling. Heck, I even applied to work for google maps at the time.

Nowdays maps is an absolute shitshow. I find it utterly unusable for almost any purpose except for streetview, which is the only reason I still know how it looks like.
Catastrophic loss of precision is, as the name implies, catastrophic in terms of the calculation context. For scientific/engineering codes, and things requiring a preservation of resolution for proper functioning, FP32 is rarely sufficient. FP64 is usually better. For ML/AI apps, resolution isn't nearly as important.
Well, maybe because I wasn't born there, but they're not always in the most obvious locations to me.
Not really answering the question, but…

Ignore those people - it’s perfectly OK to work on small problems, or even just to work to support a family or put food on the table. Little things add up to big things. Don’t beat yourself up about doing “just” earthly tasks. Enjoy the moment. Quit comparing yourself to a straw man aggregated from the best slivers of imperfect people. There’s a good chance any given person’s grand vision of what’s important turns out to be misguided anyway.