skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In the Pacific (at least) there’s the concept of a “fish aggregating device” (FAD). Fishing boats build and deploy smallish structures that create a local environment that eventually results in the production of commercially valuable fish. Usually it’s just logs, rope, and such.

Apart from the energy, an offshore wind farm would be a great sanctuary for fish. If you need to visit regularly for maintenance, bringing along a few extra FADs and the occasional marine biologist isn’t going to break the bank.
Thank you for insight. Perhaps I heard or understood wrong. Almost sure I was not prescribed antibiotics before extraction that time but to be fair I may be forgetting, it was 4-5 years ago. I guess an implant becomes difficult after so long but I should look it up and see what dentists around say probably.
> I’m not a conspiracy nut

I think that term has lost all meaning. A more appropriate term for someone who no longer blindly trusts expert consensus without question is an inquisitive skeptic who takes in expert opinions and applies reason, judgement, analysis and data to determine a course of action.

It’s becoming more and more recognized that expert consensus has become highly politicized and that the problem with blindly following the science is that science often follows the money.
What about a system where peer replication is required if the number of citations exceeds some threshold?
Could someone explain to naive me the purpose or benefit of porting SD to Rust? I do use SD quite regularly the 'normal' way via Automatic1111. I just haven't paid attention to the model itself.

Is this meant to be an equivalent of llama.cpp so it can run on smaller hardware?
In what way is the article absurd?

Nobody is suggesting shutting down Cloudflare or its services. It's just pointing out an attack technique that is being used.

This thread is absurd!
I live near a ton of windmills in the hills 50 miles east of SF.

In highschool we would go to them, although technically illegal.

You stand on the ground, with the windmill churning away 100 feet above your head. It would obviously still be windy as hell near the ground.

I have a feeling that if you had 10 units of wind, and placed windmills in a linear line for a linear mile as tightly as you could... Just a small distance away you would still have 9.99 units of wind.

The density of wind capture devices relative to the overall mass of wind in the general area is so low I don't think you could make a big difference.

If anything, I'd worry more about solar farms that cause massive heat soak by placing black solar panels near ground level, where instead it would be light color dry dirt and dry greens that are a lot more reflective.
One reason is that on-shore wind in the US is really good. The Great Plains are so windy and big that it's not really clear the added expense of marine turbines gets us much. Texas already has wind capacity factors of 40%, similar to many offshore projects.
Absolutely. I watched a few people playing Early Access builds of BG3, and I can't believe more people aren't put off by how overly flashy everything is. Characters models overact expressions, and even the simplest action in combat is accompanied by loud sound effects and exaggerated actions.
It's very off-putting.
you say the good managers are necessary because you are limited by the data points we have today.

what prevents you from thinking that we can come up with a better people process and productivity technology that can improve workers productivity and mental health without the existence of the so-called "good managers"?

if you can't imagine an alternative, go back and read the paragraph about Lord Kelvin.
laughs in constant bing, onedrive, fucking edge, teams upsells on my paid version of windows.

Laughs in edge ignoring browser preferences screwing over firefox

laughs in constantly returning widgets, Microsoft reward currency on the start menu, forced telemetry.

Laughs in teams bundling.

Laughs in the coming super monopoly of cross domain AI finetuning in teams.

Lol, by the standards of the last century, they are worse than what did them in in the 90s
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I grew up in a house that was next door to a radio rebroadcasting facility, and we could definitely hear the radio station coming from the walls of our house sometimes, e.g. even their station identification so there was no ambiguity. I assumed it was the house wiring (mostly knob and tube) acting as an antenna. I'm reasonably sure that was AM, though.

Was the sound you heard like either of these?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uo9nGzIzSPw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b9UO9tn4MpI
If you trust the official Chinese GDP figures. Big if. Very big if.

(All countries seem to do some overcounting but not by 100-400%.)
Well you can choose to understand it however you want, including comparing it to 1950s money for some reason, but that's on you.
> it seems to literally be a scan of the ansi standard for ascii

More than “seems”. Page 1 says it is (“copies from USAS X3,4-1968”)
Yubikey support is coming soon to users and is being internally tested on staff right now.

Also, I'm not sure what's given you the impression that there has been any push-back on the feature?
People who say this are never able to produce a single actual search query for which Google returns acceptable results but other engines do not. Perhaps you can be the exception.
You could make an argument that number would be smaller if Apple was forced to make iMessage interoperable with Android devices.
Because many dentists are fraudulent. Morality is a big part of many religious doctrines. So they might be less likely to lie about unneeded procedures. But overall I agree that it's not in any way something you could rely on.
Buying a house is more expensive even if rents are cheaper (well, they are still in a big property bubble). Service in general are cheaper, but anything imported will be same or more expensive (obviously, since USD is being used to buy those). Cars were generally more expensive, and luxury cars still are, but low to mid end cars are about the same now.

China has high taxes on luxury goods, and what is considered a luxury good is pretty strange (eg Levi jeans for 800RMB).
The Economist recently did some interesting rethinking of the unstoppable power of the Chinese economy in their May "Peak China?" edition. Some links (sorry for paywall, but I do find them worth it.) https://www.economist.com/weeklyedition/2023-05-13

Is Chinese power about to peak? : https://www.economist.com/leaders/2023/05/11/is-chinese-powe...

How soon and at what height will China’s economy peak? : https://www.economist.com/briefing/2023/05/11/how-soon-and-a...

How China measures national power : https://www.economist.com/briefing/2023/05/11/how-china-meas...

The fall of empires preys on Xi Jinping’s mind : https://www.economist.com/briefing/2023/05/11/the-fall-of-em...

In short, they do have a number of functional problems keeping them from further growth. Chief among them is a lack of local resources. They must rely on importing base materials in order to have value added goods to export. Plus some indications that just because their government wants to grow their people may not have such a strong desire. They have something like 34 million more males than females. Also growing signs of toxic financial conditions in their real estate markets including fraud and abuse ("How to escape China's property crisis" https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2023/06/28/h... and "China’s economic recovery is spluttering. The prognosis is not good" https://www.economist.com/leaders/2023/06/22/chinas-economic... , etc)
Real estate is largely what funds local governments. Collapse is possible.
The point though, is that China isn't going to have a revolution, or dramatic collapse.

Instead, it is going to have a long and slow stagnation.

Therefore, the people saying "well, people have been talking about a China collapse for a decade but I haven't seen anything dramatic happen!!" Are wrong and missing the point.

Because a decade of stagnate growth for China is still a big deal, while not being dramatic in a way that obviously "proves" the China doomsayers correct.
I did not read it as a dig. Just a (very!) notable difference.
There must be at least some partial formula if some companies can consistently make critically acclaimed commercial successes.
Post hoc ergo propter hoc. They aren’t incompetent because they worked the same job for 15 years. And they probably weren’t even laid off because they were deemed incompetent.

You just got unlucky enough to interview them instead of someone who got laid off after 15 years and were amazing at their job and could pick up a new tech they’d never heard of and immediately be off to the races.
Once we found a cheap artist for a flier -- using Odesk. (Which has since rebranded as Upwork.)

My sense is just-starting-out graduates of art schools try these sites to "test the water," see all the low prices everyone else is charging, and lower theirs. We got to see samples of work, make changes requests, and ultimately felt like we got professional-quality work at a good price.
How many were laid off?
I went to 50 different software engineers: Almost all give a different refactor suggestion.
Oh, first I thought "measuring your pocket" meant that they somehow gauged your financial status.
I'm expect if it comes from one of their $X million support contracts their answer will be very different.
Coreweave*
It's hard to tell if it's Google's dominance causing search to suck or just the web ecosystem naturally optimizing for clicks. I will say most queries with even vaguely commercial intent do seem to get the max or nearly a full page of sponsored links. I don't recall what it was like years ago but I'm pretty sure it is worse. I also think it's pretty clear the platform take-rate needs to be generally lowered across the board, likely making it illegal to lock customers to a store or require payments go through the same store. This is a tax on basically everyone and provides very little value.
This is not new. These terms were quietly updated on 1st April 2023. Looks like very few people noticed it until now.

https://web.archive.org/web/20230401045359/https://explore.z...
Some easy heuristics that will save you:

- shower curtains instead of glass doors: subpar airbnb

- Kikkoman soy sauce: probably not the best sushi

- teeth whitening services: dentist not optimizing for dental health

The problem is that they all push teeth whitening ... but it's a strong signal if you find one that doesn't.
Yeah I've seen the central US wind farms and they're absolutely ginormous. We should do offshore too but we aren't lacking in wind turbines, we're just putting them in different places.
Welp, no wonder I had to redo my engineering mathematics course.

Thanks for the correction.
China could still turn into a North Korea writ larger with as extra lever the fact that they hold the keys to the manufacturing kingdom.
PPP was never the standard definition for GDP.
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Ask HN: Is there any mail-by-API provider for personal use?
I remember using mailgun a decade ago or so. But every single site I check now requires me to enter a company name or work mail address (no Gmail etc). So where to go when I want to send some simple alert mails to myself when something in my scripts goes wrong?
Locals or Substack with Rumble backend for videos seems to be an alternative.
They won't outperform b-trees in memory either. Cache lanes and cache hierarchies of modern computers (as in built after the 90s) mean that neither AVL trees or red-black trees have any place anymore.
I still remember the fireball in the trailer and I'm counting days to play the original one.
It’d be a perfect system because the machines could pretend to be accountable, just like humans do. And us humans could stop pretending!
| the reason those shiny new apps don’t stick is interoperability.

Shameless reference to Whatboard.app where we are working hard to address this issue. Admittedly, we are over-focused on sales, and less intra-document linked. Much work ahead for us, and several enhancements in the pipeline.

www.whatboard.app if you want check us out. Reach out if you have interest in getting involved with us.
I'm doubtful that a copycat operation like Spin really ran the numbers as much as a much-higher-scale operation like Lime who clearly came to the "yes, we need custom shit" conclusion: https://flutterawesome.com/custom-iot-for-lime-gen-3-e-scoot...
BG3 even has an explicit “slow hd” toggle in the options to help mitigate this issue.
What really sealed the deal for me checking out this game is the promise to not have any microtransactions. That's a trend that has only been getting worse for 20+ years now and I'd gladly pay full price for a game that simply gives me a whole game upon purchase.
I don’t know. That property bubble, they are still trying to inflate it even more. When it pops, I’m not sure what will happen: will it just be Japan bad and they stagnate for a couple of decades, or will it be much worse?

Anyways, I wouldn’t predict a collapse (that probably won’t happen), but I wouldn’t rule one out either. I’m just glad I’m not exposed to either anymore.
Zone of Proximal Development
So really he just carried unnecessary weight. He could’ve carried an extra pouch of tuna fish meant for humans and it’d have been the same.
No it's not. This is more similar to a waitress that doesn't wash her hands after going to the bathroom because f you, she'll do whatever she wants.
Why not just use the Gmail API? https://developers.google.com/gmail/api/guides
Presumably you think India will overtake China then. Is that accurate? Their population is already larger and is expected to grow further while China’s is declining rapidly.
It simply has too many upsides and is way too popular to be replaced with either

- a simpler language that does less

- a less popular language

- a more verbose / restrictive language

If you want people to switch to something better, make something better. Its not enough to simply call out the issues (which is valid, but not useful anymore), and it entirely dismisses that replacement languages like D (small, less active ecosystem) and Rust (hugely verbose and equally bloated) do not actually service the entire range of C++ users.

If all the other compilers and languages were THAT much better, they would be used.

For a lot of apps, Rust has been that replacement, but not for all domains C++ is used in.

Why do people still use telephones when calling via whatsapp, telegram, element or discord exists? Why do people still drive shitty motorbikes when electric cars exist? Why do people still write by hand when you can type instead?

Because the replacement is not a complete replacement and does not actually work better for everyone.
Analysis seems to miss out considering most of Middle East and Africa.
It sounds like a problem of organization (your tasks are too easy to block, maybe you lack autonomy or authority) and of communication and perspective (the colleagues who "never respond" have, or think they have, something more important to do, and you aren't able to convince them that helping you is useful) with far deeper roots than work from home.

If "communication flows freely" only when you put everyone in a meeting room, your team needs meetings: why don't you have virtual ones over video chat?
I don't know, the brief time I spent with D:OS2, there was quite a lot of inventory shenanigans.
I have a suspicion that histamine plays a role in how people react with MSG. All of those foods you mention are high histamine foods, in addition to MSG itself causing histamine release. Chinese food is often high histamine. White rice if not served quickly after preparation can even trigger histamine intolerance.

If there is a connection, it could also provide some level of explanation for studies. Histamine intolerance can seem random, depending on what foods the test subject has eaten in proximity to the test. There are lots of factors that determine whether or not a person with histamine intolerance will experience symptoms when eating a high histamine meal, because it depends on the accumulated levels currently present in the body.
This game also has the meta that most recent D&D games missed. If you know the tabletop game, you can build an optimized character in the bg series, because the game system is close wherever it can be. Some spells are just too freeform to work without a human DM, but they seem to have done very well, perhaps a bit too much focus on environmental damage like the divinity series, but they toned that down right? I haven't looked at it in over a year.
Failure Trends in a Large Disk Drive Population [pdf]
This is true across more domains than medicine - especially in IT, the absolute assurance that those idiots 5 years ago were brain dead but now we’ve solved all the things.
Google absolutely controls communication. Two examples,

Example 1: GMail. Google uses the mass adoption of GMail as a cudgel. It's no longer possible to independently host email without being marked as spam or rate limited by Google, https://tutanota.com/blog/posts/gmail-independent-email

Example 2: Google did a good old "Embrace, Extend and Extinguish" on XMPP, https://ploum.net/2023-06-23-how-to-kill-decentralised-netwo...
Even if not they are quickly at the limit of visibility. Here in NL there are a whole bunch of them just North of IJmuiden and you have to really strain to make out the individual machines. When the light catches a blade just so it is a bit easier but they're definitely not so visible that they would have to be placed even further out.

Better still: do both and put up more wind power.
Hmm we got the internet and cellular phones because AT&T were broken up?

Citation needed I think. That sounds pretty far-fetched and over-reaching to me.
Not even a country with such strong protections as the US would legalize spying on their secret military installations…
I was in Google Ads 2008-2010 and I do remember: it was 3 top ads and 7 right hand side ads.
I remember when their server visited urls people posted in skype conversations. That was creepy as well.
> Some projects copy UX and GUI's extremely closely to the commercial version, is this actually legal?

Even if it is legal the company can still sue you until you drown in legal bills
Dentist can overtreat/under treat/aggressive/conservative(let’s not drill that cavity if we don’t have to). All depend their hungryness for money or morals. Some dentist can remove teeth for the smallest thing which could be borderline valid, but they get paid much more than saving the teeth
My go-to question isn’t “should I do X” but more like “would you do X if this was you” - with good providers it gets closer to the heart of the matter.
Free whitening kit with your cleaning!

means they're charging you enough for both in the fees.
I'd say their figures are weird. In some industries, output is truly astounding, making up 60-95% of worldwide total, and that is entirely verifiable and believable. In others, we see obvious lies. No one can really find out the truth, and some attempts to get to the truth only harm reputation of the one trying (like The Economist's own attempt to do it by measuring changes in night illumination, that was incredibly flawed and drew a lot of criticism - https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2022/09/29/a-study-...)
Some clarification:

ASCII is not a format, it's an encoding. You are referring to "plain text" vs. HTML. For the rest of what you've written, this feels like a million times more complicated than using markdown.
Fastmail has an API [1]

[1] - https://www.fastmail.com/for-developers/integrating-with-fas...
> PPP loans were not available (legally) to individual workers

They were available to contractors. Workers got extended unemployment and forebearance benefits. If you have an actual solution to propose, go for it. But complaining with misaligned facts isn’t particularly productive.
You want them in as much diverse locations as possible so that you're somewhat protected against outages due to weather or natural disasters.
Are you getting this info from financial reports or such? Cause it directly contradicts all the first- or third-party reporting I've seen from the big players in the industry. As well as the hacker discussions around trying to repurpose newer Limes and such (another link in addition to the one I put in the other subthread: https://scootertalk.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=30090&start=10 )

The biggest theft use I see locally these days of the modern Limes and Birds is using the batteries for charging shit at homeless encampments.

But there were a million copycat companies like Spin who launched with off the shelf stuff after Bird and Lime who seemed to copy the "light money on fire theft-wise" problems of off the shelf stuff.
Given Lisp Machines and Interlisp-D, I would state the issue with Scheme is more related to lack of tooling.
Many have made cases against Amazon, e.g. https://doctorow.medium.com/californias-antitrust-case-again...
Sure, but just like return to office rhetoric, executives will conspire to make sure there is no opportunity to opt out because all workplaces use the same abusive system.

It’s not really just a thought experiment.

Terrible things like slavery and indentured servitude aren’t wide spread because they are illegal… not because they wouldn’t be wildly popular with the class of people who could actually buy slaves and hire overseers to whip them.

In the past scheme, it may have been indentured servants getting the whip, but today it may be undocumented immigrants and H1B1 workers tethered to their current job.
Then you don't apply to the scenario where you want to virtually connect 2 physical meeting rooms.
There is an important differentiator, though. I'm happy to pay _once_ for tooling as a product, and potentially for subsequent major versions. I am not, however, willing to be a source of MRR.
You mean the bank collapses where banks had all the assets to cover their customers deposits and just lacked immediate liquidity for the bank runs, so that they were bought out by other banks who assumed all of their obligations, and none of the customers or taxpayers actually lost any money?
You’d like to think so but often even at that level you’re paying for it not to be your fault.

Now if your CTO golfs with an exec at IBM, you might get somewhere.
Yikes, and to think some schools force people to use Zoom...