skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the phrasing of the title is incongruous to the material presented. It’s a bit anecdotal- not that I don’t think this thing isn’t real so much as I’m not sure what the real impact is. My guess is that NIMBYs, while frequently annoying and hyper-focused on selfish interests at the expense of their professed beliefs, are probably way less impactful than major business or local government groups when it comes to blocking alternative energy development.

I fully believe that disorganized/decentralized organizations (conservative, liberal, socialist, whatever) inherently have this problem (local chapters hijacking the brand) and it’s a direct tradeoff with their ability to produce results quickly (without national bureaucracy) and in a way that maps onto local interests more closely than the national/centralized option does.
What if there were solar sites with no endangered animals? Acres of rangeland, abandoned malls, warehouse rooftops, aqueducts, lakes...

I dunno if it's really an either or. Endangered species are often endangered because of extreme habitat loss, which means by definition there's not a lot of land left for them to live on, which means most projects won't intersect them. Of course the connection isn't that basic (desert is good for both tortoises and solar farms) but it does suggest one has more flexibility than the other.

What percentage of utility scale renewables projects are blocked by endangered species? One recent study suggests environmental impacts are a source of opposition in half of the studied projects: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S030142152...

That's a lot, but doesn't necessarily mean it was the only (or primary) source of opposition.

A lot of these bigger projects have to undergo environmental review via federal (NEPA) and state (CEQA) processes, which are expensive and slow (by design, to ensure their validity) and many projects stall when developers move on to locales with laxer rules and neighbors -- essentially giving up before the environmental impacts could be fully analyzed.

My underlying point is that these things are rarely black and white, and there may be valid reasons to consider each project on a case by case basis. However, there might also be a valid reason to overhaul these laws to allow weighting climate priorities against individual protected species. If so, though, that should be very carefully and rarely done... once we lose those, they're never coming back. We can always find alternate energy sources/sites if we're willing to pay more. No amount of money will bring back extinct species (yet).
Just trying to encourage clear and accurate communication. I agree with your first sentence. The only thing unfair is the author claiming it is a SQLite clone. It isn't, as we both seem to agree. It is a form of cheating.
No. Bad inference.
Lol nice. Reminds me of that one HN post a few years ago… https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31840331

> grug brain developer not so smart, but grug brain developer program many long year and learn some things although mostly still confused
Why charge on a subscription basis if you're getting a limited amount of usage? If Netflix charged me $12 and limited me to 5 shows a month, I'd be outraged.

At least offer up one time payments, even if you mark it up 10-20%
“Tech” is very broad but it’s still a field where the impact of a single individual’s effort scales disproportionately, because for the most part it’s all 1s and 0s over a wire. That’s fundamentally why tech salaries are high imo.
https://archive.is/JQ3I0
And I predict that in 2123 it will still be 'about 20 years in the future'.
The most 'empty' land is farmland at this point. Especially if you can find a swath that's quite a ways away from everything else (ie it's inconvenient to drive to). Like Nebraska, or Iowa.
It makes sense why some of these organizations operate in this way when you consider they were individually established to serve particular environmental interests. The Sierra Club was established specifically to preserve the wildlands of the US, with little concern for how society was burning fossil fuels.

In fact, the availability of cheap fossil fuels is what allowed average Americans to to visit the preserved wildlands in the post war period. That continues to this day, at least until we're all driving electric.

Audubon was created to protect the interests of recreational bird hunters against the demand for feathers for fashion.

The challenges facing the world with climate change subsume all of these narrow environmental challenges. The climate problem and its solutions are planetary
and civilizational in scale, not limited to a particular narrow environmental concern, no matter how valid that concern is.
How are families coping? In my friend group:

- Homeschooling at-home parents take on a side hustle (teach piano lessons, mobile notary, dog sitting)

- Buy a side of beef

- Buy beans in bulk (25# boxes)

- Grow a small garden for salad greens and herbs

- Don’t eat out

- No extracurriculars that cost money

- Use the library whenever possible

- Vacations are now camping with 2nd hand gear

- In general, buy used. As a result, prices in 2nd hand market are also inflated.
That experience is very limited, and the word “most” in that sentence is a.most certainly very inaccurate.

Some people are noisily turning vim into vscode. The rest of us love vim exactly for what it is, but love neovim a little more for any number of small or large reasons.
Doctors seem to get by just fine. They are paid a living wage like any professional, and take on little to no debt from medical school (one of the top schools is $4000/yr in tuition).
I implemented exactly this in https://github.com/anacrolix/btlink. It works fantastically well. Unfortunately I couldn't get any funding from OTF or similar, and nobody is commercially interested in making websites easy to host and scale.
The reference you provided looks like generic SEO content...not really something to build your case with...
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34163233

7 months ago you got a new gig in two weeks and making bank. Now you're unemployed and can't find a single job?
Federal prison is still held to much higher standards when compared to county jails, especially those run by for profit corporations.
I'd also note that just like a cover letter, a resume can be customized to the job you're applying for. I keep a base resume with all my experience, and then selectively delete irrelevant portions for each job application.
This is correct. Go is more than adequate for this but IPFS has architectural issues.
https://archive.is/VTWiM
To your first point, I was trying use ChatGPT to generate some examples of negative interactions with customer service to show sentiment analysis in action for a project I was working on.

I had to do all types of workarounds for it to generate something useful without running into the guardrails.
Privacy and politics are like this.

If you ever hear someone say "I am non-political" they are a broken shell of a human. Everyone gets political when their state starts making demands of them.
This is old news from Feb 6 2023, well before the collapse of SVB. While it could potentially reflect on the company culture and be relevant to SVB's recent troubles, it's not at all clear why KRON4 decided to present this as breaking news.

Primary source: https://www.justice.gov/usao-ndca/pr/former-bank-vice-presid...
https://archive.is/3tyII
well in CA at least, we have a situation with housing that grew to be stupidly expensive. So $180k is really not very much. So if companies want to keep people here, they would have to pay up.
The fact that as a customer that is impacted by this, I only found out about it when my backups and automated test restore failed is worrying.

I get that things happen, but not realising that this was going to be a service impacting event does not inspire continued confidence. Sure, this situation probably won't happen again, but what else don't they understand about their infrastructure?
Despite this, both groups do support renewables, at least nationally, with caveats:

https://www.sierraclub.org/ready-for-100

https://www.audubon.org/news/wind-power-and-birds
The insider trading charges were only for $11,000 of profit for the SVB VP. SEC charges are below.

https://www.sec.gov/news/press-release/2021-117
Even English kind of does this, just playing parcour through multiple languages, and with time and use shortening the compound words to shorter alternatives. A plane is an aeroplane, or aeróplanos, an air wanderer. A mobile phone is a mobile telefone, a movable far-voice.
Agreed. There are lots of arguments against the "ornamental grass lawn", but consumer water usage is a very weak one. Doubly so because consumers pay real rates for their water usage.

The water "shortage" in California is an "agribusiness water shortage". Shut down a bunch of farms and California has plenty of water.
Grandparent poster says "US is no better than Russia" (with regards to freedom of speech) which is patently false.

We can prove it false right now.

The US committed multiple crimes in Iraq and Afghanistan.

There, I said it.

If grandparent poster is correct, then I guess I'll be arrested here in America for committing the same crime.

We'll see.
In what way does this game go beyond what Unity can offer?
>There is no such thing as an ‘easy’ prison

According to a law firm's blog/advertisement. It may be true, but they are trying to get you to hire them to keep you out of prison.
Yes I said it was nationalized healthcare. But Taiwan’s tax burden isn’t oppressive either. Tax brackets are pretty similar to the US.

They start by not paying the insane wages the rest of the first world has normalized. There is no reason a typical doctor should be expecting half a million $$ in total compensation.

They also cut out a lot of middlemen. No private insurance. Doctors offices are also pharmacies. No domestic pharma industry abusing the paten system to extract rents from medications. Etc.
EFF did a talk on this at Def Con, and yea the amount of digital tracking in your life can be brought to bear by the power of the state is pretty terrifying.

Your car, your phones, other people's phones. It's all documenting your life and has few rules in the US.
Non-US doctor here. Completely agree. Licensing exams mainly confirm that the aspiring doctor won't harm/kill patients by mistake. Specialist-level exams assess standard of care.
Maybe I'm missing something in your post but I find the same types of games have been popular for many decades now. I'm not sure those are any less likely to succeed, or that "You're the OS!" is more likely to succeed.

And I'm pretty sure you can make this game in Unity...
Most everything can be fixed by percusive maintenance - except printers.
You aren't tortured or starved. You aren't physically or psychologically abused. The food is hot and you are fed enough calories to not be hungry. You are given jobs to keep your mind busy, can shower, groom, and buy goodies with your work earnings.

If I had like 50 million stashed away and had to live like this for about 2 years in prison, then I could get out and enjoy my millions, sounds good to me... sign me up. White collar criminal judgments for corporations, high rolling individuals and politicians is a joke compared to the average joe.
Keep in mind that what you are experiencing is related to the compensation change you get when changing jobs. The article isn't completely clear on this, but I sounds like they are talking about the salary for all jobs, including people staying in existing jobs. That one changes much more slowly, especially when people don't change jobs.

Also I expect to see minor cuts to compensation for existing jobs to first come in the form of slashing of bonuses, yearly raises and promotions. For various, mostly social, reasons employers are reluctant to cut the nominal salary of existing employees, even more so than they seem reluctant to fire people.

Since the article brought up NZ, and so we are already talking about 'weird' job markets: here in Singapore the market is also supposed to be down, but I'm still getting pitched good jobs left and right by recruiters for my particular speciality.
I’m curious what part of Silo reminds you of B5?
There’s a branch of the Canadian military that admitted that they were running an information warfare campaign against actual Canadians during COVID.

Small and insignificant as it may have been, there are real psyop’s out there, and dismissing them all as a meme is lazy thinking.
Yeah, I wouldn't trust their process at all, if they'd rather have the server down for 1 week instead of aborting and performing a rollback to the last known good state.
There is nowhere in the US that someone with little debt and no major medical issues can’t afford to have their own apartment on $150,000 a year. Even SF and NYC would be no problem.
Office for the Preservation of Normalcy
The company I work for is installing and managing one of these large solar farms in Nevada and from what I’ve seen everyone takes the protection of the tortoises very seriously. I did a site visit a few months ago and had to watch hours of training videos on the tortoises and what to do when they are encountered. There are environmental monitors on site at all times and they even go around hiding fake tortoises to test the staff’s reaction. The panels were also installed in a less dense configuration to as to affect the environment less. They were also installed with variable length feet so the ground would not have to be leveled.

I am sure the tortoises would be better off if humans never came around but I have to say they are being treated pretty well in this case.
If I am reading these graphs correctly, don't they support hikingsimulator's point? The mean has gone up but the median has gone down.
How to Get into SV's $600B Startup School-Garry Tan with Emily Chiang [video]
> The closed source players have the best researchers

Is that definitely why? GPT 3.5 and GPT 4 are far larger than 70B, right? So if a 70B, local model like LLaMA can even remotely rival them, would that not suggest that LLaMA is fundamentally a better model?

For example, would a LLaMA model with even half of GPT 4's parameters be projected to outperform it? Is that how it works?

[I'm not super familiar with LLM tech]
I really hope that now that Amazon owns MGM that we will get a new Stargate series. I think so much time has passed that it has to be a reboot rather than a spinoff but I'm ok with that if it is good.
You forgot the line right before it.

> Kessler said the valley has less than 1% of Southern California’s population, but 28.6% of its golf courses.

The entire article actually made me feel better about golf courses existing than before I read it, and I think golf is stupid.
Does Flutter have enough marketshare, to make this the next best investment of time and energy?
Ah, and how could I have forgotten Claudia Black and Claudia Black? It's been a few years.

It was good to see both of them get a few good SG-1 seasons on the strength of Farscape.
I think that most would agree with 2024 coming quick, getting this situation taken care of with regards to political campaigns might be a little more important than dealing with Joe and Jane down the street...
Yeah, given the production timelines, even though the release order was Lexx -> Farscape -> Andromeda, its not likely any of them were copying much from each other.
I did a unit of AI at university, and the front of the textbook contained a quote by some ye olde AI theorist, something like:

"I'm not concerned that artificial intelligence will take over the world. I'm concerned that human intelligence has yet to do so."
...in English

But English has similar ambiguities. For example, a "girlfriend" is usually not just a girl friend. Other expressions are used when there is no romantic relationship.

I don't know toki pona but there is probably another expression for actual good people. Maybe something like "person of high value".
I’m not contesting that, just making an analogy to quibble against “the nerdiest game ever” claim. Like I appreciate its existence but just saying there are entire genres of this stuff.
Yeah, absolutely! I hear it whenever the space I'm in is relatively quiet. I also hear it a lot while wearing earbuds and listening to something, especially while walking. I presume it will be quite loud when I get back to running, but perhaps it'll be covered up by the sounds of my suffering.

As for the annoying: nah. It never bothered me, although I've been told that some people find it hard to get used to. Apparently, I made a groan of realisation in ICU post-surgery when my partner described the high pitch metallic clock/watch ticking noise to my parents to help them identify it. My partner pretends to be annoyed by it, but she doesn't _really_ mind.
I'm using neovim purely for the Telescope plugin
Somebody must be benfitting immensely it these gigantic solar and wind farms are built, such that some people zealously prop them up disregarding the local fauna, flora and well-being of the residents. And it's not talked enough
I thought this was well done, Emily is a great interviewer. He didn't really have a good answer as to why there aren't more women in yCombinator.

What ever happened to Jessica Livingston's female startup school? It does not appear to have restarted after COVID. Know a couple of young women here locally I'd like to see attend.
Or outright replace the computer. My MBA had a damaged charging circuit. Battery was fine. Computer ran fine on AC, passed their diagnostics. Just couldn't deliver a charge to the battery.

I expected $2-300 after parts and labor.

"Looks like that will probably run you $950. How about we talk about getting you into a new Mac instead?"

No. It got repurposed into a DAW for my stepdaughter.
The Brocken – The Soviet Spy Mountain [video]
> 75KWHs

That's a lot of energy per day, mate. I'm in the US and not particularly careful with usage and I'm averaging about 25KWH a day. You might want to get a usage meter that lets you check various appliances/lights/switches in real time to find the heavy usage
There are no 50-plus-year skill shortages in market economies. The point is that there is lying going on. Which is not surprising, but that doesn't mean it's not the primary problem or that it somehow goes without saying. It needs to be said early and often.

If you redefine shortage to mean literally anything that people wish was cheaper, then it becomes entirely detached from reality and economics. But if you think it's the appropriate definition, then let's make sure everyone is on the same page. We don't want half the population thinking that shortage means something acute, negative, and resolvable.
Set phrases aren’t consciously created, they’re the accumulated contextual/cultural meaning that people remember for the phrase, until people no longer use it to point at the literal meaning. If some group always drinks coffee and never tea, then eventually “strong hot drink” means “coffee”, and an outsider who asks for their own group’s “strong hot drink” (always meaning tea) is going to get a bitter surprise.
I think penetration into society is a really nebulous statement. It’s possible AI (Even Generative AI) will penetrate society long before we know about it.

In fact, it wouldn’t surprise me that Wall Street is already using it to trade some non-insignificant fraction of the US economy. Similar to how Linux is probably holding modern civilization together behind the scenes but most people are completely oblivious.
Sounds like the opposite problem from lojban, where having highly precise conversation is possible (and like most of the point) but effortful to achieve.
How many fonts are there? A couple hundred? Plus bold and italics.
On the topic of "I hope the future will be like Star Trek, but I’m afraid it’s going to be like Babylon 5," the very first episodes of TNG loosely tell the story of what Earth was like from, say, 2000-2200. It was very bad. So, even if things are terrible now, we could be tracking towards that militaristic utopia that TNG made us all yearn for!
I can turn around and ask the same of you: what's your evidence that asylum systems aren't being abused by fraud? What percentage of refugees entered with no documentation? How many have had a through background check, verifying any claims of persecution? If >50% of refugees are entering without documentation, there is zero way one can credibly claim that fraud is rare.

Like I said, evidence is limited because governments aren't bothering to study the validity of asylum claims. You vaguely allude to action:"some courts" tried to look for fraud, and ministers "talked about methods for improvement". Of course people are dissatisfied with this response. Scrutiny shouldn't be limited to just some courts, and better verification shouldn't merely be talked about it should actually be done.

> Now, AfD's trick is now to convince people that the amount of fake refugees in itself is problematic, without giving specific numbers

Of course, there's no way to give a specific number unless there's more rigorous attempts at fraud detection. Again, this is like a company has no mechanism to report harassment, and the points to the absence of harassment reports to insist there's no harassment. This is a trick, too: claim a phenomenon does not exist, when there's been little effort to study it.
> Schema validation provides assurance that data is strictly similar to a set of patterns, structures, and data types you have provided. It helps identify quality issues earlier in your codebase and prevents errors that arise from incomplete or incorrect data types.

From: https://blog.logrocket.com/schema-validation-typescript-zod/

Most common use case I’ve seen is using schema validation for user input (like forms) so you don’t send junk off to the api, you can validate data at runtime (whereas typescript checks your types statically when compiled).
Base64 doesn’t require JS, it requires a Base64 decoder, which either every language has, or any CS student who’s taken an algorithms class could write in a few hours for the language of their choice. Base64 encoding/decoding is the type of thing you could ask most applicants to write during an interview. It’s like saying they encrypted it in UTF-8.
> Just for comparison, $180k would be out of range for anyone outside the US

I don't think it's too far off the mark for Australia. Mind you, that's gross. US$180 is about AU$280k. Of that, you'd pay around AU$100k in income tax (and then there's a 10% sales tax).
> They ultimately found that if someone can plug a small device into a USB port on the most modern version of the Deckmate

As usual - if the device is not secure from physical access, the rest of the security is moot.
I live in South Texas which seems to be transitioning into desert currently (co-worker's well just ran dry and everything). Maybe the tortoises can live here.
> ChatGPT is monitoring everything you type

Any evidence to support this? Or did you mean everything you send which would be completely expected and normal per their terms? I see no IP traffic when typing but not sending data to ChatGPT.

I think you could only do this by caching the characters and mixing them in with later queries, but that behavior should be visible in the client side code.
Not to be that guy but that should be a comma and not a semicolon.
The series is great. It had so many cast changes that required tweaking of storylines that I wonder what the show would have been like if they didn't have to change the cast.
The only hope for change is for the EU to force Apple to implement RCS. It should frankly be a requirement to get your phone certified onto any mobile network.