skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
yeah a lot of the emissions remedies seem to overlook the realities of geopolitics. "Just force people to do it", what with your gas guzzling jet engine Abrams Tanks? At a base level the militaries of the world aren't giving up carbon and we only have like 2 decades left to do something.

We either need to to remove the carbon, affect the albedo of the earth, or deflect radiation coming to earth. Or all 3.

Deflecting radiation is a large engineering project. Maybe you should try to send a fleet of sun shields to the L1 Lagrange point. Or maybe you should try to pump large amounts of chalk dust into the atmosphere. I'm unsure what would be the better use of time. I've read that even just painting all the roads white buys us a few years.

Of all these possible solutions, the sun shield at the L1 Lagrange point might be necessary for humanity beyond just applications of global warming. It sounds big and ridiculous, but we really should consider it.
it might be a little hard to check it out 45 years later but i bet chip morningstar would be happy to tell you about it
hey hn, supabase ceo here.

This is an iteration of several things that we’ve developed to support Hugging Face.

1. Python adapters. The first is our python lib, Vecs [0], which now supports “adapters”. Adapters are simply a pipeline of transformations that an input goes through (for example: split the text into chunks, then turn it into an embedding). We’ve included support for Hugging Face sentence transforms to automatically download the models on first run, and then cache them for subsequent runs.

2. Deno support. I want to start by pointing out that most of the hard work to support Hugging Face in Javascript is through Joshua’s continued efforts on Transformers.js (Joshua is an employee at HF). To support this effort we’re rolling out support across all of the Supabase Edge Functions. We’ve started with sentence embeddings for now since that’s the most common use-case for pgvector. In the future we hope to attach a read-only disk of common HF models with our Edge Runtime - this will be accessible to all Edge Functions so they don't need to download the models (which means no cold-starts)

At the moment 98% of Supabase customers use OpenAI to create embeddings in pgvector. With today’s release we’re hoping to add more options, especially for situations where fewer dimensions are viable (for better pgvector performance[2])

A few of the supabase engineers will be in the comments to answer any questions, as well as Joshua from HF (@xenova on HN)

[0] Vecs: https://github.com/supabase/vecs/

[1] Transformers.js: https://huggingface.co/docs/transformers.js/index

[2] pgvector performance with lower dimensions: https://supabase.com/blog/fewer-dimensions-are-better-pgvect...
I sent you an email -- happy to help (virtually) with finding a good home for these. Cleaning out a lost relative's possessions can be hard. I think a lot of other people here might be able to help in some ways too.
All my new ASUS boards fortunately have a stealth mode that defeats all onboard RGB. Unfortunately my gaming pc still looks like the SF pride parade because the dimm’s are RGB. My latest workstation though just has regular ripjaw’s so it’s nice and stealthy.
They’ll probably pivot to becoming connivence stores.
Is this article AI-generated? If so, I feel like my time has been abused, as it keeps restating the same points over and over.
I am really sorry you had a bad experience. As a bit of background, we started OSS contributions initially as a way for new devs who were ramping up to grow on open source repos. We learned a lot, and from feedback, we took that away and for the last few months OSS contributions are now on par quality as commercial ones.

I remember your case personally and reached out to you over email to apologize at that time last year. If there is anything else did wrong, please let us know
For individual users there is the No-cost Red Hat Enterprise Linux Individual Developer Subscription.

https://developers.redhat.com/articles/faqs-no-cost-red-hat-...
My experience with RN 2 years ago was that despite the usual headaches, it's a lot easier than dealing with native apps for most use cases. This was after years of doing native iOS apps.
I have a Nehalem/Lynnfield i5 750 that still runs like a champ. Won't play modern games without a good GPU but otherwise does everything I ask it to, and is still pretty snappy for its age. The biggest reason it's not my main rig anymore is because of a lack of USB 3 ports.
"Hi, sorry, our corporate security and legal review prohibits us from using the Zoom platform. Can we switch to Y platform for this call instead?"
Agree that it's gray, but the end consumer isn't seeing the benefit as directly as EV's. Given that they also consume fossil fuels for their electricity, it would be difficult to unwind full sticker price.
It could be even worse. I've seen x86 cores where the icache/dcache consistency logic ended up internally being most of a page fault and recovery once noticed by the processor.
So a few points of friction in the sign up process. 1st - the login verification pin is caught in Google's spam filters 2nd - after you sign up, there is no demo. There should be at least one demo form that is auto populated for the user to check it out and maybe edit. 3rd - To actually use the product even at a demo level, a credit card is required. At that point, the app hasn't demonstrated any value, why would someone sign up for it?
Funny, because I was wrong. Here’s the Nvidia privacy policy:

https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/about-nvidia/privacy-policy/

How I was wrong is was in the “valuable debugging information”. Because you can actually disable the sending of debug and crash statistics, but you cannot disable the collection of tracking everything you do except for password boxes!

The original source on the telemetry was a print magazine, CanardPC, but this is referenced quite a bit.

I was additionally wrong the GeForce Experience matters. This is currently untrue. After the original article was released of how much spying Nvidia does, the telemetry package was moved to the driver rather than GeForce experience.

Long story short: if you have an Nvidia video card and have not actively disabled nvtmmon then Nvidia is tracking every window you open, how long it’s open, which windows have focus and for how long, window locations titles etc, along with clicks (but not keyboard strokes) etc. *It is not only tracking games. It tracks everything. It does this with just the driver*. If you have GeForce experience, then that information is tied to your sensitive personal information. If you do not opt out, they sell that to advertisers. If you do opt out, the collection happens anyway, but they claim they’re not sending it to third parties.
I think they must mean legacy visual studio, rather than VSCode.

VSCode is of course very portable. It also seems to be Microsoft’s (successful) attempt to get everybody to use a reasonable Linux-style workfow. If you look at it as a text editor and terminal in a tiling window manager, it suddenly makes sense that it became so popular.
nvidia doesn't collect anything from linux drivers, i wonder if intel does the same?
"Groping for a light switch" would be a valid phrase in American English as well. But a "groper" on its own is going to have sexual connotations. E.g.: https://www.dictionary.com/browse/groper

I think that would be especially true for women, who, being the common targets of sexual groping, are going to be more aware of it. So even if it weren't my first association, I would still think it a reasonable association for women to make.

As she says, original intent doesn't matter a ton. If I write something that's accidentally a problem for part of my audience, I'll change it. Because what I care about is getting my point across. When I see instead strident defense of language that's bothersome to a historically marginalized group, I have to wonder about the resistance to mild change. A change I'll note the dig maintainers made back in 2017, so it's not like they care.
Based on the state of Microsoft software these days, I don’t think telemetry is as useful as developers think it is.
Jitsi is limited in that any organization big enough to have an IT security policy almost certainly prohibits standing up your own online meeting service for business use. You'll have to use the company-approved service, which is most likely Zoom or maybe Teams or Google. I haven't looked but I'd bet that Microsoft's and Google's terms of use are broadly similar to Zoom's for similar services.
I just moved to NYC so this sounds scary! How big of a trend would you say it is?
you are correct about fractional scaling being suboptimal and there are a few quirks here and there but linux has become largely usable at this point. most of the criticisms you have made about linux are due to inexperience and not being familiar with it rather than being fundamental problems with it. If instead of spending the last x years of your life daily driving windows or macos you had instead spent that time daily driving linux you would have all of the understanding infrastructure built up around linux instead and these would be non problems. I use fedora with gnome and I don't install any extensions or do any tweaking or workarounds as you say.

I know this is true because i'm a non developer, non power user (though still relatively technical) who has been using linux since 2006 and it works just fine. Not only that my dad has been happily setup using linux since around 2014 and he is as non technical as they come.

To really go in on this point I bought a macbook pro when the m1 devices came out and the experience you have with linux I have with macos. It's the worst operating system I have ever used. You complain about linux having bad window management but macos has basically no window management. you double click the top bar and depending on the software sometimes it will maximize, sometimes it will pull the window all the way down the screen and sometimes it will do nothing at all. You drag the window to the top or to the side and nothing happens at all. Window management on macos is so bad that most people say that you need to install external tools to mac it even half way usable. Even when you do its still less performant and buggier than what gnome or windows offers out of the box. You say macos needs no setup, but I spent 10's of hours desperately trying to make the workflow and ux of macos not be a horrible experience for me. Everything from no tools and trying to work within its paradigm, simple window management tools even going so far as to trying yabai and none of them felt right to me.

Now that said I would bet a person who has spent a decade daily driving macos probably has internalized the ins and outs and quirks relating to macos and wouldn't find it nearly as problematic. Most of the issues people have with linux are much less problems with linux and much more a lack of workflow understanding that they haven't built up but have built up around other operating systems instead.

The main exception being that there are some proprietary tools that are pretty explicitly not supported on linux which require windows or macos.
On the other hand, spreading it out means paying less in taxes. Still, it almost certainly does not make up for losing the compound interest.
UK faces potential Covid-19 resurgence, expert warns
Maybe instead of sex the real need is connection, sex is one way to get it.
SLOs Are Overrated
The only reason you would want bit-reproducibility is because you haven't done the numerical analysis and have no clue how many digits of your "answer" to trust.

As far as I know, two sectors claim they need it: finance and climate.

"Do you want a better answer?"

"No, I want the same wrong answer that I got last Tuesday."

Science/Mathematics can't fix this.
Yes I rented a Tesla recently in Ontario and I didn’t realize it takes 6h for a full charge, I also didn’t had a charger in the hotel neither did I have a nearby.

Basically had to Uber while charging…
Intel drivers are part of the kernel, and I imagine Intel's attempt to put telemetry in them would be shut down fairly quickly by Linus Torvalds.
no apology necessary, i'm delighted to hear from you whenever
> I bet after (re)introduction, most of people yelling for it won't actually convert their JPEGs to XL.

The idea is converting workflows to JPEG XL (and particularly to enable uses for which JPEG isn’t suitable and even AVIF is supposedly less optimal), not converting existing JPEGs, mainly.
Is is possible but the data is more frequently populated and generally more reliable on google maps.

Google has some sort of system that auto-calls shops, I think, and asks them to verify that their hours are correct.

It's still pretty crap and I'm sure OSM could beat google maps at that game too but it doesn't seem to be a focus.
The roads are mostly filled with cars, though. If we only needed roads for trucks to stock stores, we could get rid of 90% of them.

Nobody is proposing getting rid of all roads, they clearly have value. People are just proposing making it possible to live without requiring a car for something as basic as grocery shopping. As long as cities are built from a car-centric perspective first, they will require a car to live in.
I think the "shock" at an old man page is pretty silly to begin with, but I think a better phrasing for #9 would be to ignore the trolls.

The problem with the dig acronym isn't that it was intended to be bad, but that viewed with today's (American) social context, the phrase would likely be taken to be distasteful. Therefore, I think the issue with the commenters isn't that they "challenge" the viewpoint. At a minimum these commenters have failed to grasp the concept and more likely they are simply not responding in good faith.

I do think there's a separate discussion to be had about the role of political correctness/word policing in modern discourse, but in the author's version of events, the blocked commenters aren't trying to make that argument.
I wonder if the tainting of "smart" over the last few years ever made Kwikset regret naming their entirely mechanical user rekeyable lock system "Smart Key"? Those came out in 2008.

For those who haven't seen those locks, they look like normal door locks, with a normal key, and are used just like normal locks (insert key, turn clockwise to lock, counterclockwise to unlock), except that there is a small hole next to the keyway.

If you put a working key into one, turn it 90° clockwise, insert a simple tool Kwikset provides into that small hole far enough to press a button at the bottom of the hole, and remove that tool the lock will release the key. You can then, being careful to not rotate the cylinder, pull out the key and put a new different key in.

The lock then rekeys itself to that new key, and you can then turn the cylinder counterclockwise 180° to verify this. Then turn the cylinder back 90° clockwise and remove the key and you are done.

This is quite convenient. I recently replaced my locks with these. Before I had one brand of knob and deadbolt on the front door, a different brand on of level and deadbolt on the back door, and a third brand of knob on the garage door. Each of these locks was on a different key, so that was 5 keys in total. And I'd long ago lost the garage key and the back door lever key.

I bought a Kwikset Smart Key comb knob and deadbolt for the front door, a combo level and deadbolt for the backdoor, and a knob for the garage. So that was 3 different keys. Then I picked the key that had the most variation in the depth of cuts, and went around to the other locks with the rekey tool and rekeyed them all to that key. I also picked up a couple of Kwikset padlocks that use this system and rekeyed them to that key. Later I added a deadbolt to the garage and put it on that key too.

I also had a sliding door lock. There doesn't seem to be a Kwikset Smart Key lock in the right form factor for that, but I noticed that the sliding door lock (a PrimeLine E2000) uses Kwickset KW1 keys, which is the same key blank that Smart Key uses. I was able to take that apart and rekey it to match the rest of the locks.

My key ring now only needs my car key and one Kwikset key. It's a lot less jingly now. If I'm not going to be using my car I just carry a loose Kwikset key in my pocket.
I think the sexual interpretation is pretty strong (at least today) - "groping" and "groper" have slightly different vibes - that warrants removal today imo. But yeah, I'm not sure if that was the case in the 80s.

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Edit: as pointed out below I hadn't noticed when I wrote this that the offending mastodon replies were apparently deleted so the 3 replies I mention here aren't actually relevant
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I did click through to the Mastodon link from the OP and had a look at the "dudes in the replies demanding that i prove [...]" - the replies were largely supportive, apart from 2 "dudes" saying they hadn't considered the sexual-assault meaning before now & weren't sure if that was intended BUT still strongly agreeing that it should be removed, and 1 other dude (possibly non-native English speaker?) surprised that such a sexual-assault-related interpretation existed and asking for further context (not "demanding proof"). That's all followed by a lot of extremely confrontational replies from the OP assuming bad faith in every case.

Julia is a fantastic tech writer, & I'm sure I'll continue to read her blog regularly, but... this isn't a great look. Asking for the manpage to be changed is perfectly reasonable but the ad hominem really wasn't needed here.
Even if it's buggy, I figure it'd at least be consistently buggy. Part of what spurred me to make this was an issue I had with account setup for a local utility's website; their client-side validity check for creating a new password was apparently using different logic than the backend code. I kept trying to create a password, the web page said it was valid, then I'd hit submit and get rejected for having an invalid password.
A few years ago I made a "string art" portrait for my girlfriend at the time. It's made from a continuous† 2 km long black thread, woven around a loom made from a bicycle wheel rim. I'm still very proud of how it turned out.

†OK fine, it broke at a few points and I had to knot the ends together, but it's the principle that counts.

https://imgur.com/gallery/ljoJeal

I really wanted to make something creative for her, but I'm pretty terrible as an artist, so I instead applied a talent I do have: making 200 line Python scripts. Apparently the first to do this was an artist named Petros Vrellis, though I did come up with it independently.

Sadly, we've broken up since then, and we didn't remain friends. I do wonder what happened to it, I can't imagine she'd've thrown it out, but on the other hand it would be odd to have a physically quite large memento to a previous relationship hanging from your wall.
The Charles Mingus CAT-Alog for Toilet Training Your Cat
I'll do you one better: I was making $8k annually as a developer a decade ago in my very much EU member country.

I was getting shafted, but I learned that my co-worker lowballed and had $5k - I think this was below minimum wage at the time, but the employer took advantage of a loophole in temporary contracts.

Back in 2003 $8k per annum was good money.
> It's only continued as an inertial funding exercise, reusing nuclear weapon simulation facilities long after supercomputers took over the modelling.

Sure, but that's also why they don't care about the inefficiency of the lasers themselves, which we already know how to improve upon significantly.

Which means…

> Still two orders of magnitude to go, based on 300MJ inputs. Not gonna happen.

Might happen.

Not guaranteed — even good lasers aren't great, though apparently 60.5% wall-plug efficiencies have been demonstrated[0], and even if the laser part was perfect there would be a lot more steps from this to making a power station (or a fusion rocket) — but it's certainly in the realm of being worth considering.

[0] still a loss overall, assuming 150% gain from laser in to fusion out: https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2020JSemi..41c2901R/abstra...
Date of Easter
The arrangement that helps Apple keep its edge in chips
> What options remain that are reasonable in the effort applied and remain plausible in a competitive world?

Depends on what is reasonable for you. My answer would be GNU/Linux phones, Librem 5 and Pinephone. Their development direction is not dictated by Google.
You can get ad blockers on Safari iOS. I think I have AdBlocker and Wipr. They don't work quite as well as a legitimate adblocker extension IMO, but I'm pretty sure they block a big number of ads and other garbage.
Ask HN: SEO or Chat Engine Optimization?
What do we do now to optimize our site for Chat Engines like ChatGPT and Bard and Bing ... etc? Is it more of the same (blogs, links, referrals, etc.) Or is it something different?
My favorite bit:

> As the issue seems similar to crbug.com/1178058 adding firsching to cc list for more inputs.
Why San Francisco Is a Homeless Mecca
The archetypal libjpeg has supported 12-bit for a long time, but it's a been a compile-time option, so an application (or distro package) had to choose which bit-depth to support.
Language evolves. I definitely associate "grope" more with sexual assault than trying to find a glass of water in the dark. It's understandable that the document could evoke discomfort.

The "they're just words" argument/defense is certainly never an acceptable response. It's one thing to go on a witch hunt and extrude connotation where there is none, but that's not what this is. Instead, use this as an opportunity to understand others better and learn to be more empathetic.
I switched to Librewolf just because of Firefox telemetry.
So the answer is generally no, i will however try your software in networkless
VM as last resort if alternatives don't exist.
I agree with you, and chalk it up to people projecting their own warped views onto otherwise innocuous things.
It's a pretty common abbreviation of high availability on this context, with a heavy implication on active-passive redundancy (although the GP looks like an exception here). It's more used than the full wording, and part of the name of some important tools.

So, yeah, it's good that you asked, because it's not as widely known as the people that use it think it is.
The domain is softwine.ai, so I think it is

From their about us:

> is this an AI-generated site?

> Parts are, but not really. And I get it, AI is a controversial topic - so here's my disclaimer:

> First off - all written content on softwine is created by me. Some is aided by LLM technologies, but only with the highest level of skepticism, creative intent, and editing.
Same here. I complain a lot about google, I mean a LOT. I use Firefox, I tried DDG for a while and now am trying to mostly use ChatGPT (which actually is typically immediately helpful in code questions which is my number one google search activity.

However Maps and Gmail. I don't have and probably don't need a replacement.
If you're interested in the ways in which especially women receive strident pushback in a way that trains them to self-censor, I'd suggest reading Manne's "Down Girl: the logic of misogyny". She's an analytic philosophy professor, so it's a bit academic in spots. But I think it does a good job cataloging the many ways in which women are put "in their place", a place that very much includes a lot of self-censorship.
> Should someone feel they have to self-censor just to avoid this?

I'm a little surprised to hear that people don't do this in person as well as online. There are numerous topics I avoid bringing up because I know nothing productive will result from the conversation. It is rarely about politics or religion, just topics whose novelty offer a low probability of productive insights and will probably require a sufficient time investment.

Choose your battles/topics of conversation, you only have so many hours in your life.
As moore’s law slows down, I’d guess this will become more of a thing.