skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Being a super power is about a lot more than just temperature.

Look up videos on youtube that describe why US geography is overpowered and then see which of those reasons might apply to Canada if, say, sea levels rise and temperatures increase.

Other important factors: coastal access, number/size/depth of sea ports, current and future demographics, river systems, culture, natural resources, trade partners, military, economic system, access to nuclear weapons, military alliances, etc.
> My understanding is that globally this matters little, but locally, this can matter a lot.

My understanding is that they checked in places with and without concrete (like the ocean, remote areas, etc).

The urban heat island effect is well understood: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urban_heat_island

It is not the reason for global warming, but it can be the reason places like Chicago and Phoenix are hotter than their nearby surroundings.
> it's about authorities asking for trust that has either not been earned, or has been destroyed

That's a lazy cop-out, because the alternative to trusting those authorities is trusting business authorities, whom you have zero democratic control over, who have done nothing to earn trust, and who are driven by incredibly powerful, self-serving profit motives to fuck you over.

Saying that the public can't fix climate change because you don't trust public institutions, while careening down the road of private institutions causing climate change is illogical nonsense.

As Churchill once famously said, public solutions are the worst kinds of solutions, except all the others that have ever been tried.
I remember the Fred Fish disk well. I always looked forward to getting a new one in the mail.
You can build or buy a filament recycling machine.

The issue is that it costs more than a 3D printer, and often times the filament is not as good later, so you end up spending time and energy recycling when it would be less time and energy to create new filament.

It would probably be better to put that time and money into insulating your house and growing flowers for local birds and bees.
> OP used it as a singular noun

Is that the case? Reads as a possessive adjective to me. The OP likes the Brits because of the characteristic that they possesse.
You know what? I needed that saga. That was fun. I don’t think I’ve been this interested in any research project since being a kid skimming thru popular science or something :)

It’s been so cool to see all of the replication studies, people talking about the latest news and all of that. Kind of a peek behind the scientific curtain to see all of the work that goes into confirming claims.
Hey - CEO here. Happy to answer questions if y'all have any.
What if some future technology or material breakthrough provides a sort of self-adjusting liquid memory that provides true constant time access to any address? I'm not being entirely serious of course, as I dream about sequences across nodes on planets through other solar systems.

Focusing on fundamental algorithms in the abstract provides a fun playground to explore and learn and teach, before you learn about memory hierarchy when all your hopes and dreams of the ideal data structure fades away.

I don't think there is any time wasted exploring the fundamental. Who knows what technology might see renaissance in the future as hardware continues to change. Analog computers, binary search trees, who knows.

It's fun to dream and take a break from reality sometimes, digging deep into a simple concept with a rich design space and complex analysis.
You don't need magic, but you do need something that also explains why lab animals are getting fatter even when they've been on controlled diets and their activity levels haven't changed.

https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2013/10/its-not...
I can understand Nintendo's actions because Genshin Impact's success was entirely based off copying Breath of the Wild.
https://archive.is/ThwbI
Do I understand this correctly: Crime is out of control and your solution is adding guns?
Radio operator exposure to RF/microwave radiation and the risk of brain tumors (2006)
>The dropbox app is 237.7 MB - that's so much more insane to me.

I vividly remember "printer drivers" whose installer would take a whole CD.
Turning off WiFi makes your battery life worse, because you'll forget to turn it back on.

Even if you're not joined to anything, it doesn't matter. The cellular antenna is the only one that uses any significant power.
Janet Yellen inadvertently ate hallucinogenic mushrooms in China
There is nothing remotely close to the category of "stp superconductor". This is quite obvious when looking at a plot of critical limits of known superconductors.
First, as a self-identifying muppet, I resent your using the term as a pejorative.

Second, and no longer tongue in cheek: You are definitely in violation of the HN guidelines. You can't comment like that here.
I have one friend that got laid off Twitter in November due to Musk. He just got a job this week.

I don't want to speak ill of him but he's the kind of TC/resume-maxxing type — has to work at top 10 company on "impressive" technology (ML, now AI). He did well on interviews and had offers but kept rejecting or stalling because it wasn't impressive enough. He was living at home so he could afford to do this.

I just took the first job I found that paid slightly more and I liked. I can interview again in a year if I don't like it.
He cracked yesterday for some reason, go check out his history.
There's a "paying the window-breakers to keep the glass-makers in business" illogic to that.

Why work to prevent any waste when we can just hire more people to generate more wasteful things?
For me, the real kicker is what feels like the cost of food and other common items doubling in the past year, and record profits, but the actual people working haven't seen a raise in a decade. With the bump in interest, and my home "value" doubling in the past 5 years, it's hard to imagine anyone not born into it being able to buy a home at this point forward.

On the tech sector, I'm feeling less than stable where I'm at and seeing a lot of dev jobs where the pay is roughly what I was seeing a decade ago or more. It may be great if you're on the top 1-3% of earners and making most of your money from investments, it's another if you're working for a living.
A poet’s guide to product management – Jane Street podcast
I can't speak to Spring, and I've never worked with it directly.

I'm from the Java/Jakarta EE parallel universe. Where everything is the same, but different. Both universes have impacted each other is various ways.

JEE has a lot of baggage and notoriety, but, to be fair, so does Spring as they both came up in the same domain at the same time. The XML Hell that JEE was notorious for afflicted Spring as well back in the day. Spring has been more nimble and brought many things to light before they hit the JEE standard, but JEE marches to a different drummer.

Modern JEE is pretty darn good. JAX-RS for web services is really nice, and there's a lot of different deployment options. A lot of the things you can love in Spring you can find in JEE, a lot of the things you can hate in JEE you can find in Spring.

Again, not able to speak to Spring, but JEE has been really stable over time. In that old code continues to work even in new containers. There's a good chance that could even deploy an old, creaky "J2EE" application from 20 years ago in a modern container.

The most disruptive thing to happen to JEE was the Jakartatization of it when it moved from Java EE to Jakarata EE, and all of the namespace changes that happened between Java EE 8 and Jakarta EE 9 with the move from Oracle to Eclipse. But even then, you can still deploy old code in new containers. This was far less disruptive than it could have been, frankly.

I'm certainly not going to suggest to not use Spring, but at the same time, I wouldn't discard JEE out of hand either. It's also an exciting space (for assorted values of "exciting" and "enterprise") for back end work.
Here in Bend also! There is also a lot of water that gets used up out on the East side of Bend on Old Deschutes Highway for ya, pretty much hobby farms for Horses.
Cost to the companies is usually a lot lower than retail. 1-2-4 is common - $1 to produce, $2 cost to company, $4 to customer.

40% return rate would increase cost to the company ~20%, plus operational expenses to process the returns.

I think it's even more complex - consumer confidence in return processes probably makes them more likely to buy something in the first place, which reduces overall cost due to scale. So if you reduced consumer confidence, they would buy fewer items, which probably also harms the business (and raises consumer prices because scale is reduced).
> What do you think web components are if not a way for people to dump a bunch of Javascript onto a page (and dozens of Javascript-only specs to accompany them)?

You can get most of what you need onto a web page with HTML. Some components need to be interactive. For that, you need JavaScript. The question is, do you:

1. Keep the rest of the HTML in place, and add JavaScript to that HTML for the interactivity you need (the web components approach)

Or,

2. Re-write the entire web page as a JavaScript “app”, including the parts that are just fine as static HTML, for the “convenience” of the pieces that need interactivity (the React approach)

Both involve “dumping JavaScript onto a page,” sure, but they are totally different approaches.

For a decade, the entire industry picked “2”, and now the internet is a bloated disaster.
> and quick start on the homepage what do you think the project does?

It adds some special attributes to HTML that magically perform some logic and it is not clear how and why.
Why would I use something like this over React?
What this thing is trying to solve?

> You render the HTML using the frameworks/tools/languages you fancy. HTMX provides custom attributes you can use to update content within a page without having to reload the entire page.

I still can't see what's the point of it. Why would I want to do it?
Great! If there's plenty could you please cite one or two?
I like them a lot for the moment. I predict it's going to be shit when people learn how to game the system though
Essentially you stop spending money to maintain the city. You no longer pay out any government workers, you stop paying for police, roads, etc. Just nothing. Let the people fend for themselves and reclaim the city how they see fit.

The city will ultimately be ruled by despots with gangs that might actually end up doing something to solve the homeless and drug addiction issues once and for all.
One minor thing. This is not an issue directly with htmx, but more on the backend. This always feels clumsy for me:

I land on the index page, and get the full site, then click on about page, and now htmx swaps the content for the about page. However if i refresh the url stays the same, but i now only get the content without the container.

I know this can be solved with checking for a htmx header, but i feel like "there must be a better way" like raymond httinger of python fame has said multiple times.
My wife will be very happy.

When I explained to her the potential if it truly was the breakthrough being reported, her first reaction was:

"I hope we establish a government agency to regulate everything floating around because I don't want to get bumped into by random stuff".
I really don't care what typesetter you use (Word, LaTeX, Quark, Broderbund Print Shop) but if I see a Computer Modern font I know you're headed back to grad school before I can finish onboarding you. Pass.
Listed for or selling for? I think there's an assumption on CL or Facebook marketplace that you're going to get bargained down 20% regardless so might as well start a little higher.
Ask HN: What are some self-hosted photo organizing/sharing programs?
I’m looking for a good privacy focused photo hopefully self hosted programs to backup and share photos. With the way everyone is training AI on everything now, I don’t really trust google, apple, etc with my photos and videos. So what are some good options that I can put on my home server and self host to share and organize my families photos.

My wife would also be using it and she isn’t the most tech savvy. So something that is easy to use after initial setup would be ideal.

TIA
Just wait until you learn about AUTOEXEC.BAT ;)
Twitter sorts all the blue checkmarks to the top so on a thread like this you get blasted with all of Elon’s fan boys who are notorious for both their idiotic takes and their disdain for NASA since they think Space X is superior. It’s like the perfect storm for stupidity.
Sure, the right is crazy in one direction. But the left has shunned nuclear energy for decades, a viable solution that could have moved us in the right direction.

We should be proposing solutions, not blaming one side.
> If they combine that with smart policy-making like this

Importing migrant workers drives down wages. Whether you think that's smart or not depends on whether you side with workers or business owners.
I think that’s the crux of the point. Americans are trained to be demanding customers. Whatever is then packaged as a product/service for purchase, will be treated equally.

As you pointed out, students pay a lot of money for their education in US. Shouldn’t they have a say in it? If that’s not good for the society, maybe it shouldn’t be sold as a product in the first place.
How did all of these labs in China end up replicating the results of the paper? Were they just not reputable labs?
> You had to go back 80 years to find an example of a lack of privacy hurting enough people to make your point, and that's my point.

> Society has improved slowly, via heavy investment from anonymous activists and advocates who put themselves in harms way to improve it. Every single one of those activist movements relied on privacy. Quite frankly, there really aren't many examples of social movements that have improved society that haven't heavily used privacy and anonymity to aid them. Certainly at the very least this displays a startling lack of knowledge about the history of race and gender in America.

> If that's not enough, consider that there might be a reason why we literally have laws preventing the requirement of disclosure of sex/race in hiring today? Consider the countless studies about how anonymity benefits the ability of oppressed groups (particularly women) to participate in public spaces online, consider that the Supreme Court has very directly said that anonymity and privacy are an essential component of 1st Amendment rights. You also still really haven't grappled with the fact that multiple states today are pushing to get access to medical records and social media messages both to prosecute people and label minority groups. These are not issues that are affecting only one or two people.

I'm curious, do you have any examples at all of equal-rights movements that haven't used privacy and anonymity to help protect themselves as they accomplished their goals? Because I can't think of any. Social progress isn't magic, it happens because people make it happen, and they very often rely on privacy to protect themselves during those transitions.

Do you think we could get rid of laws banning employers from asking about race/identity on job applications and it would just be fine and there would be no downsides? We got those laws for a reason -- namely because without them there would be a huge increase in discrimination. And again, ask any anti-discrimination advocacy group whether or not anonymity matters today for protecting marginalized people.

If your opinion is that anything less than the genocide of 6 million people is no longer worth worrying about, then that is a wild perspective to have that I think the vast majority of Americans (and people in general) would disagree with. Privacy did not become irrelevant after WW2 ended.

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> and courts are annihilating many of the attempts made to the contrary.

Citation needed. Anti-trans legislation has accelerated in many states, not deaccelerated. It's by no means certain that that the situation won't get worse. A reminder that people said "the courts will shut it down" about abortion-rights challenges too.

In the meantime, doxing and violence against transgender people is at a nearly all-time high and people are stalking doctors.

Ask the transgender community sometime whether or not they think that privacy matters for them. I guarantee they will not agree with your assessment of the situation.
>This seems to be the very essence of abstraction

yes and that's exactly my point...

how does it make sense to utter the sentence "this has been abstracted [away]" when the `this` is itself the essence of abstraction.

i'm not really sure how people aren't getting what i'm putting down here: type theory can't be abstracted away because type theory itself is the thing that does the abstracting.
Thanks for sharing this. How do you think the local LLM movement will evolve? Especially as in the post, you mentioned startups and VCs both hoarding GPUs to attract talent.

There seems to be a good demand behind tools like llama.cpp or ollama (https://github.com/jmorganca/ollama) to run models locally.

Maybe as the local runners become more efficient, we'll start seeing more trainings for smaller models or fine-tuning done locally? I too am still trying to wrap my head around this.
That is what I was referring to - a period of lethargic, listless, slow physical being. The "zip" is not there. A few days after terminating consumption of plant-based creamer - back to normal.
Text gen ui is nice. Some specific nicities include pre formatted instruct templates for popular modules, good prompt caching from llama-cpp-python, and integration of a vector db.

But its also finicky, kinda unstable and the dependencies are tricky.

Koboldcpp has other nicities, like some different generation parameters to tweak and some upstream features pulled in from PRs before the official llama.cpp release has them. The UI is nice, predating llamav1. Its standalone, dead simple to compile and has integration with AI Horde, which is (IMO) a huge essential feature.
A lot of the hiring is also at a decade old pay rate... People may be working, but are they, generally speaking, making as much or more. I don't think so, especially in light of inflation.
So not everything has a perfect linear dose response relationship especially in the body when there are multiple feedback loops that may make things better or worse

Then there is the liver whose job is to filter out said toxins. It might not be able to do it's job if the concentration is 1000x but at 1x it should be fine(assuming the liver can recognize and clear the toxin in the first place)

You are right that we cannot reliably detect an increase in 1% risk but if the initial overall risk was just 0.5% does that increase even meaningfully contribute to anything?
I've been bamboozled by the Jetson series over at least three generations on a variety of platforms (TX1, Nano, AGX, Orin Nano).

They have their "special place" for certain applications but the software is a mess (old driver and CUDA versions, Jetpack is still based on Ubuntu 20.04), the ARM cores are (very) weak relative to ARM flagships, and the performance/price ratio makes no sense unless you really need the form factor and energy efficiency. Oh yeah and the SD card storage is typically frustratingly slow and often unreliable.

A $500 Jetson Nano devkit with 8GB of shared RAM has roughly 10% of the performance of even ancient cards like the GTX 1070 (8GB VRAM alone) that you can throw in a random used x86_64 tower or whatever for $300 all-in. For the extra couple of hundred dollars difference you can get a more recent GPU with higher compute capability, extra storage, more system RAM, whatever. Significantly higher power usage and larger form factor but with power optimization, scaling, etc this approach makes very little difference in practice for occasional inference workloads for "typical home use". I have this configuration idling (with models loaded) at 20 watts, scaling up to around 100-150w for however long given inference loads take to execute, and then scaling back down.
No because those brains increase the pool of inexpensive labour in the market, which will allow companies to avoid increasing salaries.

To be clear, this is a super hard problem and I'm not claiming limiting tech labour immigration is a panacea. It's not.

But unless this policy is paired with policies to increase local labour demand as well (which is the real hard problem), all this can do is drive down salaries while exacerbating the housing shortage, which is most acute in the markets where these workers are likely to settle (Vancouver, GTA, and Montreal).
Jet.com, before it was bought by Wal*Mart, used to do this.
The website seems to have more information https://www.systeminit.com/ the video is enlighting. I'm unconvinced by their product though, I'm not sure that this is a good approach.
If I wasn't clear, yes, the problem is human, not technological. At least inasmuch as humans using the technology better could at least do better than they are now, even if they couldn't get to perfect.

But first we must pass through a period of time where it becomes evident to even the dumbest and most self-interested people that automated enforcement of essentially arbitrary approximations is not in the best interest of society, no matter how appealing it may sound on the surface. Inhuman law enforcement is inhuman.
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Man, I normally have some respect for Spolsky's writing, but this one is overly-dismissive crap. Sure, Microsoft really needed to reel in the 13 versions of OneDrive they kept releasing and rereleasing, but that's the only part of the article that aged even remotely well.

"And the fact that customers never asked for this feature and none of the earlier versions really took off as huge platforms doesn’t stop him."

Go ahead, try and take away that feature now, see if any customers complain.
1. Check that it actually superconducts
Indeed. With a perovskite-related structure.
I don't get it, sorry. What would the money do? The damage is done, isn't it? I'm assuming often the item can't be sold again so it's just discarded, no? We can't pay the environment back for the damage we do by overconsumption.
it took 1 weekend of developers and support staff, tucked away in a conference room, for overstock.com to accept crypto payments on their site.

I think we can do better!
These rules are targeted towards H1B visa holders in the US. Basically, if you are on an H1B (including if about to expire) you can immigrate to Canada (and bring your family) w/ no job offer needed.

The fact that you can sponsor your family (parents, etc) is huge.
> Oh, I don't know. How about you just _don't_ give your kids a smartphone?

That would be the ideal solution, however imagine being the only kid in the class who doesn't have a smartphone; that would be a bullying experience waiting to happen.
Unfortunately finding the right balance between giving only what is right and not turning the kid into a misfit/loner is very hard.
The amount of influence fringe anti-nuke-groups actually have in most governments is ~0%.

The better criticism is that the 'left' that actually gets elected has done ~fuck-all to solve the problem, on any of the axes they could push. Of course, actually doing anything would be political suicide, and then the denialist-right gets all the power, and will also continue to do nothing.

It's not a 'two sides equivalence' issue. Anti-nuke people aren't the ones in control of the equilibrium, the right is. If the anti-nuke movement disappeared tomorrow, we'd still be in essentially the same pickle we're in. If the denialist-right movement dissapeared tomorrow, we might have some hope of making progress.

Just because you found one village idiot, doesn't mean that you should point at him, and shout that the village isn't really any different from the insane asylum up the road. They are not the same.