skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not a gamer but I randomly stumbled across someone playing this on twitch couple days ago, gotta say my mind was pretty blown at how far video game graphics have come (granted the last thing I played was Quake/UT/HL back in the day). Some of the cut scenes are basically just amazing movies, but even the in game graphics are fantastic. Does anyone happen to know what game is considered the gold standard for gfx in vidya games is these days?
Nobody cares about how cheap the power is when they’re risking their health and possibly their lives.
I've been told I'd have to have my wisdom teeth extracted by every dentist I've seen. Over 10 of them as I've moved around. Oral surgeons saying the same thing.

The first one to recommend this was 35 years ago.

I still have them, and the last dentist I saw says they are in good shape. The first one ever to tell me this. I've never had an issue with them.

Go figure.
I live in Austin (well known for its high energy prices relative to the rest of the state.) I’m at $0.09 for the first 300KWh (I’m including all fees/markups/charges in this calculation.)

For the next 600Kwh it goes to $.10, and then the next tier I used 882KWh at $0.12.

I find the rates reasonable. Texas is also leading the way on both solar and wind adoption. This is keeping the power supply at peak much more stable.
What if it REALLY is too expensive? You do realize that there are studies which literally cost millions of dollars? Getting funding for original studies is hard enough, good luck securing additional funds for replication.
I've made long enduring friendships with people at various jobs. Everyone acting like work should be strictly professional has missed out on a lot in life clearly. It almost borders on anti-social, but I guess I should expect as much from a lot of engineers.
I think we needed a user specific robots.txt

- here’s my website, take whatever you want

- here’s my photo repository, attribute me

- here’s my zoom, anonymize me
See our FAQ[1] on why we forked. As three years passed and both projects are actively developed, the divergence has grown a lot since. We aim for exposing the proper API instead of relying just commands, see e.g. our new Python bindings and rz-bindgen[2]. We have completely different concept of projects, new intermediate language - RzIL[3], and many other things. And under the new organization Cutter is a first-class citizen, not an afterthought as before.

[1] https://rizin.re/posts/faq/

[2] https://rizin.re/posts/gsoc-2022-rz-bindgen/

[3] https://github.com/rizinorg/rizin/blob/dev/doc/rzil.md
Cool tech, but IMO this is long-term useless for many areas. In a lot of the West, including California, the problem is that there is a buildup of fuel that, due to the dry climate, doesn't really rot. Eventually this fuel has to burn. We've kept increasing the technology applied to suppression, first with fire engines, then hotshot crews, aerial firefighting, then satellites that can detect fires, and now automated cameras. Each innovation makes the response quicker and more effective, so more and more fuel can build up before it finally burns.

I liken this to damming up a river with no outlet for the water. The water keeps accumulating, so you build the dam higher every year. After a while, the dam is so high that concrete isn't strong enough so you build it higher with carbon fiber. Then that's not strong enough so you start using carbon nanotubes. The end result is that you have this massively unstable system that is going to eventually catastrophically fail.
I don’t understand how the religious inclinations of the dentist have anything to do with their trustworthiness in terms of their diagnoses and treatment recommendations.
It's quite common for corporate/government contracts to have totally different terms that prohibit any kind of AI training (or recording/access at all). This has been the case for years now. Precisely because of the risks you highlight.

In these cases, companies train on content stored/transmitted in the free/individual consumer version only.
> When using Ubuntu/WSL2, there are not the same daemons running as on the same Ubuntu running on it's own.

Ah, makes sense. I have encountered some funky stuff with Docker+WSL, especially because I often prefer to use distros other than Ubuntu. It feels extra fragile/added complexity how Docker Desktop on Windows relies on WSL for Linux containers.

Thanks for indulging my curiosity!
Indeed, too big to fail is not seen as viable anymore, which should make the parent happy, but I'm guessing they have more ideological issues with these sorts of loans and of capitalism itself, unfortunately.
Yeah but you’re an office worker, probably not generating any sincerely net new ideas and just performing routine data entry to keep up rate of US dollar exchange.

Any net new work is too abstract and complex for the HN CRUD engineer crowd to be central too.

Go find a local job onsite. No one is going to miss you at your office because we all know implicitly this is just busy work to preserve nation state status quo.
Surely you mean GDP growth could be negative, not GDP. How would negative GDP even work?

That being said, I highly doubt their GDP growth is negative, you just have to build something to record positive GDP, not necessarily sell it. Whatever target the central government sets the provinces will meet on paper, and probably in reality (even if the activity used to generate GDP isn’t useful).

I would say look at the Li Keqiang index, but Li was recently fired, so I’m not sure what they are going by now for real numbers.
The above advice seems sound. Find out who your doctor(s) use as their dentist. Ask other people too like neighbors, coworkers, and friends. Google Reviews can be helpful in some cases like when there are a reasonable number of reviews from legitimate looking reviewers.

Be wary of pushy dentists that are unwilling to treat you unless you agree to their “plan”. I once was told by a dentist as a new patient that they would not perform a standard cleaning until they could do a more extensive, more expensive, not covered by insurance cleaning. Immediately left that office and found another dentist. Turns out I did not need that cleaning.
> Even china isnt silly enough to record people’s conversations to “train” ais.

China has a social credit score with facial recognition on their network of security cameras in public settings....

Recording peoples conversations to monitor for undesirable terms (likely with AI) is almost a certainty...
You all forget about all the telemetry, which most decent games from the last 5 years have. It is fact of life that they collect all kinds of data to understand better their user base and game usage for future improvements.
Cause Zoom works well for a lot of people, or you have no choice in the matter.
It's not a common trope, it is a fact. All but the most serious crimes are currently being dismissed, either by the DA or by judges. And those were the ones where the police bothered to make arrests.

There's an epidemic of property crime in SF and SFPD is doing nothing.
There are two big 800 MW projects going in right now, one off Martha’s Vineyard and the other in Connecticut, both of which will begin generating power in the next year or two (the actual construction speed for these projects is amazing!) These projects were supposed to happen before the pandemic, but the Trump administration delayed them by 2-3 years. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-windpower-offshore/u-...
Overall Hacker News is still very good. Two things I've noticed over the past few years.

1.) There are more low-value comments like flip two-word answers or blindly pushing wackadoodle conspiracy theories. They are pervasive in social media, but the moderation on HN keeps them largely in check. That fact is encouraging. HN is an existence proof that you can still have productive discussion and curious inquiry in spite of a flood of misinformation running through Western societies.

2.) On the other hand, HN has a libertarian hive mind that tends to drown out nuance in many of the conversations. There's a constant thread that vested interests are behind corporate decisions such as work from home or media coverage of practically any topic. (Example from today's home page: [0]). Simpler explanations like managers struggling with incomplete information or balancing competing interests tend to get drowned out. This perspective has always been present on HN, but I notice it more and now skip discussions where it seems to be getting out of hand.

These are blips, especially compared to the alternatives. Hacker News has a wonderful diversity of topics and is a great place to learn about new things, aided by insightful commentary from people who actually know what they are talking about.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37023400

Edit: clarity
That’s two centuries, not millennia.
Outside of two events in recent memory Texas also doesn't have rolling blackouts or brownouts; they are simply unheard of.
You want to be in office with people who don't want to be there?
Mostly in the form of quotes from SEC lawsuits
IKEA ADDE
> Why not simply not comment?

Please don't post attacks like this here.
I think there’s a bit of both. Ineffective middle management (which is most of it) has no place in a world where they cannot lord over their minions in an office setting. So builds an echo chamber between executives (with real estate investment) and middle management (the existence of whose very job requires them not to understand and promote remote work), at the expense of the actually productive.
I think you don't understand how much worse the internet has gotten - there are a large amount of bad actors actively trying to make google worse (junk content, etc) - Even just providing the same level of quality results with decreasing quality source data is an improvement.

If it was easy to extract better results there would be competition with better results.
I just took a 10 year gap from the Net. Thanks, jail. Did anyone check if he's locked up?
Hmpf, this is probably in the US? I always got the composite filling and it cost me almost nothing. The insurance pays most of it and the cost is not that high anyway.

We all go to the dentist every 6 months, let them do whatever they need to do (a good cleaning every visit, X-Ray every two years), etc. And it doesn't cost a lot.

(Western Europe)
But sometimes legal has the trump card in terms of dictating company policy, and having confidential information laundered into the public domain via training on "customer content" seems like a very red line.
Indeed, I have a copy of "Linear and Geometric Algebra" and its exposition is very friendly for self-learners!
Former Treasury secretaries react to US credit downgrade
> solely for the limited purpose of operating and enabling the Service to work as intended for You and for no other purposes.

To me (a former corporate lawyer) the "for You" qualifier would limit their ability to use content to train an AI for use by anyone other than "You". Is there an argument? Yes. But by that argument, they would also be allowed to "publicly perform" my videoconf calls for some flimsy reasons that don't directly benefit me.
Exposed is such a cool word. Did you know it used to mean revealing something that people didn't already know and hadn't already talked about non-stop for years?
Oh wow thanks for posting this. I read this and was thinking “I feel like deja vu from an article I was reading in a physical copy of RD from like 20 years ago” but the bottom seemed to indicate it was originally posted in 2020.
RISC-V is the ISA plus some auxiliary specs. A CPU, and even more so a SoC, contains enough other stuff that Qualcomm can torment their partners (and their lawyers) with. And of course they will do that.
Well, speaking from experience... most people are waiting for a client that doesn't suck before moving away from reddit.
> A charity is a group that helps poor and oppressed and defenseless people.

Well this is the BBC and if you asked someone in the UK to name a charity they might well choose Cancer Research. In that context I think the use of the word here is quite correct.
This history is also discussed in an essay by Garrett[0]. And there's been a few previous HN posts about it[1]. (I'm not suggesting the parent post is a dupe, but people might be interested in the essay and related contents).

[0] https://flownet.com/gat/jpl-lisp.html

[1] https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...
What's the right level of diagnosis for these?
Neovim does this. For example, if you have two lsp configured in nvm-lspconfig.lua as follows, it will use a specific lsp tailored to either SQL or ruby:

-- Initialization of Neovim's LSP client
local nvim_lsp = require('lspconfig')

-- Setup for the Ruby LSP
nvim_lsp.solargraph.setup {}

-- Setup for an SQL LSP (assuming one exists with the name 'sql_lsp' in this example)
nvim_lsp.sql_lsp.setup {}
So get people together once a year for an offsite in a central-ish city. Not that hard. Almost every team which is naturally distributed (sales is a good example, where regional coverage is required) do this once per quarter.
Both the TCP and QUIC variants of BBRv1 markedly improved YouTube's experience on jittery links. It might not mean much if you already have a good broadband connection but it makes a world of difference for the hundreds of millions who only have a smartphone with cellular data.
Well I agree with him. I strongly prefer in person work and find working from home depressing.

When someone implies it’s a character flaw or because you don’t have a social life it’s offensive. My life is fine outside of work.
I would add companies that invested into fancy office space, which is hard to justify because nobody wants to use it.
Kids these days.

Meanwhile in the 70s:

> [The Rocky Horror Picture Show] soon became a hit as a midnight movie, when audiences began participating with the film at the Waverly Theater in New York City in 1976. Audience members returned to the cinemas frequently and talked back to the screen and began dressing as the characters, spawning similar performance groups across the United States. At almost the same time, fans in costume at the King's Court Theater in Pittsburgh began performing alongside the film. This "shadow cast" mimed the actions on screen above and behind them, while lip-synching their character's lines.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rocky_Horror_Picture_Sho...
By that logic dairy farmers would be vegan
Every experimental paper I've ever read has contained an "Experimental" section, where they provide the details on how they did it. Those sections tend to be general enough, albeit concise.

In some fields, aside from specialized knowledge, good experimental work requires what we call "hands." For instance, handling air sensitive compounds, or anything in a condensed or crystalline state. In my thesis experiment, some of the equipment was hand made, by me.

Sometimes specialized facilities are needed. My doctoral thesis project used roughly 1/2 million dollars of gear, and some of the equipment that I used was obsolete and unavailable by the time I finished.
> I definitely underestimated the brand power of DnD and Baldur's Gate

I think you're trying to put too much of its success on "brand power". Social proof is a thing, but it's not powerful enough to overcome a bad game. Just look at what happened to the Call of Duty and Battlefield franchises.

I think it's doing so well because they nailed the execution. The graphics are great. The game hasn't had any opening week disasters despite getting more than 7x the expected numbers. The intro hook of the game really grabs you and keeps you wanting more (which is why everyone's still so excited about it 3 years later). Also, it's FUN to play.

That last one is probably the biggest factor. When was the last time a AAA game was truly fun to play? It wasn't too long ago that online streamers were publishing videos lamenting the lack of good games to play.
Maybe you are taking "China is dying" too literally, although I see that I should have used a different phrase, as it clearly took away from my actual point which was a data-based claim. I think it is fair though to say the people who think that China will see "Japanification" while still at ~13k GDP per capita are essentially saying that China is dying — and people actually were saying that China was collapsing after Evergrande; it is a real claim. I didn't mean to say that the linked aritcle meant this, only that people do say it, and the arricle feeds into with the title, which admitedly I did not articulate well. And as I said my main point wasn't even about the name of China's decline (dying, zombifying, ageing) but a comment about what analogous phase China's economy is in within Japan's timeline, which is a topic of the article as well as a common point discussed by economists.
Thank you for everything, Bram. Your legacy will live far, far beyond you. Farewell.

And on an old programming forum (where I wrote all my posts with the Vimperator external editor feature -- in Vim, of course), so my signature went.. :wq
Did you consider seeing a doctor? Dentists are sort of doctors, but MDs with teeth specialties could be better, I’m sure your GP could have given you a rec.

(Edit: it turns out orthodontist is not like ophthalmologist).
Looks great. Has anyone tried an integration with Emacs?
I've felt the same but working in-person is just not an option for me with my current company. I deal with it in other ways that are outside of the job. Spend more time with my partner, take care of my dog, go for frequent walks and have a side hobby that really interests me.
Nevermind about making a non-compliant SBI implementation.

Why make an implementation in the first place? There's no reason to use anything else than opensbi.
> Fundamentally China’s huge population means they will overtake the US

On one hand, we have reversion to the mean in terms of productivity per capita. On the other hand, we have (a) empirical evidence of the middle-income trap [1] and (b) theoretical underpinning for compounding economic gains as a corollary of economies of scale. In essence, China's dominance is inevitable only if they've solved the middle-income trap problem and either (x) economies of scale cease to matter or (y) the U.S. is destined to failing to capitalize on its own economies of scale. In summary, it's far from certain (though also far from impossible).

Also, China's population is shrinking [2]. It's forecasted to drop from over a 4x population advantage over America to less than 2x by 2100 [3]. By that point, Nigeria, Pakistan and the Democratic Republic of the Congo are forecasted to have larger populations than America. Any theory of population determinism must explain how Pakistan will come to dominate America while India dominates China.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middle_income_trap

[2] https://www.reuters.com/world/china/chinas-population-shrink...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Projections_of_population_grow...
Since there are other alternatives in the comments, I'll toss out Connect for Lemmy https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.kuroneko.l... which I find much nicer than Sync

One should also try https://github.com/dessalines/jerboa#readme from one of the Lemmy contributors
The terminology is perhaps not exactly correct because the "grids" one would expect Texas to cooperate with are either the Eastern or the Western - but it does make a fair degree of sense. It's pretty open that Texas's reason for operating their own interconnection is to avoid federal regulation by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission. By operating an electrical interconnect that is mostly confined by the Texas state borders, they create a strong argument that there is no interstate commerce, thus avoiding any federal oversight.

Renewable energy construction is proceeding rapidly in Texas because events have shown that the Texas interconnect lacks sufficient capacity or interconnection to reliably meet Texas's electrical demand. There is definitely a climate advantage, but it's important to understand that renewables are increasingly the cheapest option in the southwestern United States where land (the main resource wind and solar consume) is inexpensive, insolation is high, and the landscape is often amenable to wind production. The problem remains acute and the Texas legislature recently approved a ten-plus billion dollar program to construct new gas power plants to help address the need. It's more of an all-out scramble than a climate change strategy.

This situation is mostly self-made. Texas has not been a very attractive market to build generation in because the lack of interconnection makes it difficult to achieve good utilization over the full year. Texas has repeatedly backed out of efforts that would improve connectivity between Texas and the Eastern and Western through rectifier-inverter systems, for example the Tres Amigas Superstation, largely over political concerns about interstate commerce. The Texas power crisis is long brewing but didn't really achieve political visibility until the last few years.
What are some techniques to find dentists who do not engage in such aggressive over-treatments?

Asking friends for recommendations is the best approach I've found - are there others?
So people fled their blue states because of COVID policy, but they maintain allegiance to the policy makers? That's odd.
I don’t know, we might be closer to quality of service parity than we think.

Even without taking into account “costs” of blatant privacy disregard / violation, data theft, potential industrial espionage, etc.

If the tools continue to get better at the current rate; then the SREs you have to hire anyways will probably be able to deliver about equal results (while staying in control of the data).

I’m thinking about those GPU “coops” we heard about emerging, shared between SV startups.

And then think about what Oxide are doing.

Then binding all of those trends together through the promise of Kubernetes and its inherent complexity finally getting realized / becoming “worth it” at some point.

Multi cluster, multi region - multi office attached server rooms across CO’s locations? Everything old could be new again. Wireguard enabled service meshes, Cluster API, etc. We will get there at some point probably sooner than later.

Then you “just install” the fault tolerant Jitsi helm chart across that infra… with all the usual caveats of maintenance taken into account of course. Again hassles will be reduced on all fronts and SREs needed anyways.

I do lots of terraform and k8s in my day job but at this point I deem any work that isn’t directly related to k8s as some kind of semi (at best) vendor specific dead weight knowledge. Kind of why I’d never would want to be knowledgeable about browser quirks - I hate how much I know about these proprietary cloud APIs.

I know some people who work on Kubernetes for “real-time” 5G back-ending if you can believe it. Lots of on-prem there on the cellular provider sides etc. We are getting really close already.
I see, you kinda got nothing dealing with tense shit it seems. Like having to deal with too many leaks too late in a way ?

Losing skills is one of the most painful feeling I got to feel in the recent years. The idea of jumping is regular but you never know if the next one will be better ..
That's the critical thing. A/C isn't just a luxury anymore. As the Earth heats up, A/C becomes am absolutely necessity to avoid dying from temperatures exceeding the wet bulb temperature, where human sweat is no longer sufficient to cool people off, especially the very young or very old. The heatwaves across Europe a bunch of years back killed some 70,000 people from the heat.
Publishing even just the URL table would be a much smaller quantity of data and yet of immense archival value.
Indeed - this happens between people on two floors of a building I often visit, even when their offices are directly above/below one another!
Yeah well thanks, but I'll probably just use a product whose vendor gives a crap about Linux.