skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Its fun watching mouse users try to use a trackball. I don't like pair programming but when people ask me to I say sure just so I can see them flail with a trackball and Kinesis keyboard.
But that's what software cost. If you weren't paying Microsoft hundreds of dollars for a compiler you were paying Green Hills. Or you were paying a Unix vendor thousands of dollars for an operating system on expensive proprietary hardware. Etc.
> they are very rarely junked.

mmmm hmmm

As interest in clean energy surges, used solar panels are going straight into landfill https://hbr.org/2021/06/the-dark-side-of-solar-power

The Solar Boom Will Create Millions of Tons of Junk Panels https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-solar-boom-will-create-mill...

The Global South’s solar e-waste problem https://www.pv-magazine.com/2022/10/03/the-global-souths-sol...

Rising power costs worsening solar panel e-waste crisis as people replace panels prematurely https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-06-08/rising-power-costs-wo...

Solar recycling is broken, but there’s a plan to fix it https://www.theverge.com/2021/12/29/22857157/solar-recycling...

Are solar panels the next e-waste? https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2010/sep/03/solar-pa...
http://archive.today/ymRSg
I only have side hustles, PhD, workouts (running, powerlifting) and trying to prioritize life outside the university and already find it quite hard. Sometimes it is indeed feel impossible, and you just have to accept it. You just have to learn to be able to accept that if you want to focus more on PhD, your side hustles will suffer and vice versa. You also need to know what you want to get from your job and your PhD and only focus on those things, ignoring as much what is wanted from you by your boss or supervisor, but not aligned with your interests - because otherwise it will simply suck your time. You have to stop being perfectionist. You have to learn what the most productive hours of the day for you, what hours are good for doing what kinds of work (deep, shallow, etc), when is optimal for you to go to gym (I usually go after I am really done with all the work for the day). Sometimes there are busy periods, when one part of your life should take the majority of your time, and that is OK too. Hope, that some of it helps.
The trick is to work out what you would do if you had to implement the entire system on paper in a 50s style office with triplicate carbon paper. Then do that, but with computers.
>a fairly small forum with a bunch of mean-spirited people telling mean-spirited "jokes".

That is true, but that is only part of the story. If that was all, the website would not be so notorious.

Kiwifarms, now banned, official twitter page said their goal was “exploitation of the mentally handicapped for amusement purposes”. ( Source: https://archive.is/jYp5p ).

I think Kiwifarms is (borderline) criminal. Null, the admin of the site, outright said he was ok with users posting stolen financial information, such as Social Security Numbers and Credit cards. Source: https://archive.is/0fOcS . There are many examples of private financial information being posted on the site.

I would describe them as operating with a paper thin layer of "plausible" deniability. Officially you aren't allowed to harass or interact with the targets. But posting their home address, stolen passwords, phone numbers, and information about relatives is all allowed. Obviously, if they didn't want their targets harassed, they wouldn't post that.

But even the rule against interacting with "lolcows" (called "cowtipping") is haphazardly enforced. For example, one user had sex with a "lolcow" and posted photos. The admin explicitly said they would allow the content to remain up: https://archive.is/zYnpK#35%

I could probably post many other examples.
Throw in Joan Didion (e.g. Play it as it lays, Slouching towards..) to flesh this out even further.
(HK is part of the PRC, so the differentiation is pointless.)

Of course it's mostly Japanophobia based on unrelated, minuscule risks not pertinent to seafood safety.

If Chinese regulators wanted to slam their shoes on the UN lectern, they ought to decry the Japanese hunting of whales and dolphins.
None of the KF "victims" have been confirmed, and even so, it would be hard to legitimately claim that KF caused their deaths. People just hate that site because it's a gossip forum that exposes a lot of scummy behavior

Meanwhile, people have doxed others on Twitter, blown their heads off on Facebook livestreams, and posted manifestos on 4chan before slaughtering bystanders, yet nobody calls for any of those sites to be taken offline
In my opinion, there is no god or any other supernatural agents in the universe. There is no grand plan.

If there is a god then humanity is probably something akin to an ant farm to it. To expect god to care about any particular person is like trying to care about one particular ant in a colony.
It is usable right now and beta customers have been using it in production for a while, just not in the self-hosted version. You can sign up here and try it right now: https://transitiverobotics.com/.
This is incorrect. Accelerated weathering of olivine can do the job, even powered by diesel and coal, for about trillion in capital costs and a trillion a year in running costs. That's one percent of world GDP.

All the technologies involved are standard rock mining and pulverizing stuff that has been in use for many decades.

The downside, of course, is blanketing parts of shallow seas with rock flour.
Try Kagi Search if you're willing to pay for a better search experience!

I've been using it for over a year, 100% of the time, and love it. Great results and awesome functionality like weighting certain sites, AI summarization, etc.

I don't work for Kagi, I just seriously love it.
> 200 acres

The Atlanta cops and some large Atlanta based companies are building a 80 acre fake town for the police to get trained in urban warfare, right outside of Atlanta.

https://www.themarshallproject.org/2023/06/24/atlanta-cop-ci...
Would be more convincing if the city was larger than two square blocks..
By this definition of open source, an open source windows or mac app would be a contradiction in terms, since any such app would rely on libraries and os calls that aren't open source.
The West fell the day Australia banned No Game, No Life. Lolicons are truly the most oppressed class.
I hate giving out my phone number. I hope this will work well and with less trouble than getting a second phone.

Are there any cheapsish services out there that already do this that work in the eu? Last time I checked I couldn’t find any
Interesting. As long as the limitation in power is self-imposed by the omnipotent being, I don’t find it logically inconstant at all.

The “why” question is a good one. I’m not well versed in theology, but I thought the general idea was that God’s goal was to create independant beings with agency and free will. And in order to accomplish that God (an omnipotent being) would by necessity have to limit their own power. Without doing so it would be logically impossible for other free beings to exist.
https://archive.is/2023.08.14-100619/https://www.wsj.com/amp...
When my older sister was an elementary school student, a teacher in the computer lab berated her for using Google instead of AltaVista like the assignment wanted. That was an eye-opening moment for her that she remembers today.
They may not have talked about it to you, but that doesn't mean they didn't talk about it at all.
Is Type Theory Turing Complete?
I'm working with interval arithmetic.

Intervals have the annoying arithmetic behavior of tending to get wider.
So [1..3]+[2..5] ends up with [1..8]

On the other hand, if I'm trying to compute the "cover" of an area
this tendency to cover more area is what I want.

On the third hand, it seems that singleton intervals mirror arithmetic.
So [1..1]+[2..2] ends up with [3..3]. Since I have addition it seems I get multiplication.

Which leads me to the question... is type theory turing complete?
Can I compute any result using only types?
Can I create a "type computer"?
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Logic would dictate that OBCs would be a superset of SCs. And in his RTI requests you indeed see several SC professors in these departments. So why did he exclude SCs? I guess it doesn't make for as big a click-baity headline then?
Perhaps you aren't as informed about the recent political history of Ukraine as you imagine.
Yes, because

> They're the most heavily subsidized US company today outside of military contractors/weapons manufacturers

Without the American taxpayer doing more than their fair share to keep them solvent, they’d be selling at 30-40% more.

And they’re not selling. It’s why Musk started offering 84-month financing; to try and convince people to come buy them.
I had a good hacking opportunity on this game as well - a chap named Ravi Iyengar made a General MIDI sound driver you could drop into these SCI0 games (apparently they all did MT-32, but none did General Midi, and the driver from the later engine games wouldn't work), but for Colonel's Bequest the game would hang at the end of the intro sequence due to some sort of callback telling the script code the music had finished playing, which I identified and provided a patch for.

Funny thing to reminisce on an afternoon 20 years ago, hacking on a driver to upgrade the sound in a game that was already by then ~14 years old which I'd played as a kid.

Funnier still that only six months back or so I replayed this game again, but not before patching my ScummVM with a custom palette that I thought suited the game a little better than the default garish EGA colors..
or did they?? they were able to bring the boat up off the floor tantalizingly to make them thing they were going to raise it at some ridiculous rate of ascent only for the boat to split. they too got fooled by the claw. their parents were out of quarters, so they couldn't try again
Uhh, bad together, form a PAC, and use lobbyists to distribute money to politicians that support their aims?

I am sympathetic to people who peacefully protest and without disrupting others, or who get permits for expected disruption so that accommodations can be made for affected people.

I’m also sympathetic to people who refuse to comply with unfair laws, e.g. Rosa Parks.

What I’m not sympathetic to is people who intentionally try to torment others under the guise of protest.
This is really cool. I wonder how easy it would be to add 'chicken detection' so that the door doesn't accidentally close on one.
Most sites you can find from google will be blocked simply from the RTA label[0] being on the page - which all the major mobile OSes seem to support, and I imagine (proxy-based) desktop control software does as well.

0: https://www.rtalabel.org/index.php?content=howtofaq
I'm not saying the iMac was the sole driver of USB adoption nor even the majority of it... but it definitely had an impact far larger than the Mac's tiny marketshare at the time would otherwise indicate. A big enough impact to help drive USB adoption overall.

So many peripherals were still PS/2 (for mice), parallel (eg Zip/Tape drives), or serial (soooooo many things especially bespoke, industrial, or specialized equipment).

Think about it: do all PCs have USB ports? Definitely not. Do all PCs have a serial port? 99% yes. You're a manufacturer making a non-top-100 product. Do you use the new-fangled USB or do you use a serial FIFO? Obviously you use serial. That maximizes your audience.

But the iMac changed the thinking: This new iMac thing is hot. Seems like Apple is on the rise again. If I want to sell to these customers (who are more affluent and known to buy more software/accessories) I don't have a choice: it must be USB. I know the majority of the PC install base doesn't have USB yet but most new PCs do so I can still reach a lot of the PC audience. So the next version of my product uses USB (or a USB-FIFO bridge). As more of the market switched to USB even existing PC users installed USB expansion cards.

Would USB have eventually gotten there? Yes. Would it have done so as quickly? I don't think so. The wide-open nature of the PC has always been both its boon and bane. See the many attempts to supplant x86 in the PC world, the several attempts to replace or expand ISA before PCI, etc.
Learning is always more important than knowing
Nit-picking, but Witcher 2 is now legal in Australia. It was banned at the time because there was no MA classification available (something that has since been rectified).
Preface this with I’ve been at axon for a few years now. Feel free to skip reading my opinion.

I don’t subscribe to the whole being loyal to a company we are a team stuff that many tech companies seem to have (you can’t always expect the same “loyalty” back once times are hard or stock price needs some help). I can say that in the time I’ve been here I’ve never seen any of this and I’ve been at corporate h.q. for much of that time (remote now). I haven’t been tased. Honestly I kind of wanted to and when I joined some folks I worked with said it was always an option if I wanted to. I kind of like the idea in some ways - we are selling these products to the police and others to use on people - it makes some sense to me to understand just what the use of our products entail in the instance to get the gravity of the situation etc.

All that being said if folks have felt this way that’s no good to me and I guess I can’t really speak to other teams in the company. I’m farther in my career and a middle age white guy, it’s always possible that I don’t experience a feeling of pressure, regardless of whether it is intended to be there, the same way younger or more junior folks might.
You can keep telling yourself that just like the Vancouverites did 20 years ago. The industry statistics show otherwise.

I'm glad Georgia's economy has seen a positive result from the subsidies, however.
Not really. Every Hollywood studio has multiple lots larger than this. People have posted dozens of them already in this thread.
Other than him experiencing broken NFC readers and poor app experience it doesn't sound like a lot of personal experiences being shared. Making general statements of uptime isn't necessarily personal; I also agree they should work on uptime because clearly other people do experience problems and I've seen dispensers down I've just used the open one next to them whenever that's the issue. That whole "Many Reasons We're Switching" is largely him talking generally, but a few specific personal experiences are mixed in as short quips (like the charging latches). Him talking about the networks going with more expensive cables and them being slower to replace the cables when failed isn't necessarily a personal experience, just explaining why they struggle with reliability.

As for the app experience, I wouldn't know, I don't use apps to activate the chargers. And that sounds like that was easily half his personal frustrations.

Do you have a CCS car? You mention a limited experience with charging networks. How many years have you used them? How many times have you tried charging at a non-Tesla charger?
Have fun with those earthquake key wipes :)
I hope the door has a little klaxon and red bubble light while it operates
I think the BMW is more of the issue than anything else…
SF spends ~$1B/y on homelessness with little to show for it. Maybe they need to invest in more SROs on the outskirts and/or a federal declaration of a disaster including voluntary resettlement with comprehensive support. It's too big of an issue to solve at the local level, and it's too expensive to solve in the most expensive areas.
It is clear cut because the Stable Diffusion AI you refer to was nevertheless trained on public data to get to that point were it could then be 'fine-tuned' with your own art. Your own art is just a small addition to its much, much larger input/training set. The size of these public training sets are truly massive.

If you start with a Stable Diffusion program from scratch with all weights initialized at random (or whatever weights its initialization algorithm requires) and you train it on only your own photograph(s), then you will almost certainly find that it's not effective at all. In that case though, the low-quality output would be 100% your own.

The reason why generative AIs are so good is precisely because they have access to a large body of public data. Without the public data, they would not be good no matter how good the underlying software/algorithm is.
The crossover is 1.5 years, so EVs are a win from then onward.
It's basically just making a very poor case for corporate personhood.
The more elegant argument is that the organization has no right, but every human being that is a member of that organization has rights
You have an individual right to practice religion, and you have a group right to practice religion. Your ability to practice religion is not limited by joining a Parish or church organization. The Citizens United of Citizens United v. FEC wanted to Produce, Advertise and Air a documentary. They have an individual right to make a movie, and the court affirmed they have a right to make speech as a group. Citizens have a right to address political Grievances. So do Citizens United
I guess the way I read it was my like "why would you choose D when Rust and Zig exist"...but you're right, it could have been a perfectly curious question.
I skimmed the article hoping to see some king of pictogram type of icon...
Right. My quote was the original formulation of DRY as a principle, from The Pragmatic Programmer, and I think it's a good principle.

The common (mis?)understanding of DRY as primarily syntactic both overshoots and undershoots. As many here have discussed, it can lead to combining things you shouldn't (I jokingly call this "Huffman coding"), but it can also fail to recommend combining knowledge when it is represented differently. If I'm saying "there is a button here" in my HTML and in my CSS and in my JS, that's three places for that piece of knowledge even if those three places don't look anything alike. Changing the CSS to "here is what my buttons look like" and the JS to "here is how my buttons behave" would be DRYer.
Curious what kind of work you are doing where WPM is a limiting factor. I’m in software, like a lot of people here, so being able to type in speed is rarely the limiting factor. Besides stenographers, the only other line of work off the top of my head that needs this kind of speed are people who are paid to write subtitles for TV shows and movies in another language. Which I guess is just another form of stenography, when you unwrap it.

Or is it not for work and it’s just purely to see how fast you can type?
In which case it's likely such an establishment, lacking any meaningful competition, would be considered a "utility". Whether the law defines it as such or not, it's really bad optics to prevent people from eating.

In this case there is likely a limit to what a private business can grow into before it wades into the territory of public utility. A tenuous but related situation can be seen in trademarks where Kleenex has actually run entire ad campaigns to make people call generic tissue "tissues".

There's a larger philosophical argument here. Theoretically speaking there should be no limits to private corporations. However, when your corporation becomes a stable of modern life and the conduit of major utilities of society all of the sudden things start to turn into shades of grey.
I loved the high precision calculator and used it occasionally. Sad to see it going.
Yes, and are there warnings about this?

Perhaps areas with cameras should have special coatings and/or dedicated wiper devices.
> but I’m inclined to think people that get into managerial positions are more social and that seems to come with an intrinsic need to be seen, recognized, and given some form of public accolades

I got into management because I like solving problems and I reached a point where solving purely technical problems is no longer what it takes to actually drive a product forward and improve things. The problems I try to solve now are more organizational so that dev teams can actually reach that creative state where they are talking with the customer directly and engaged in the overall process. I'm an introvert. The face time and accolades are draining, but it's important work that you've got to be in a leadership position to take on effectively.
Global auto market is 80 million units a year. Tesla will be able to sell into a market somewhere, even if a market softens. They also sell $20B-$25B/year of stationary storage, and are sold out for the next 2 years.

Subsides are good if you believe in climate change. The top 40% (by income) of Americans pay federal income tax, they can afford to provide EV subsides. If you don’t believe in climate change, there is no value in a conversation.
> When I was younger I thought the visualization was really cool and somehow abstract. Now that I have lived a bit more, I find it not macabre, but nonsensical.

That's funny, it's not until I've gotten older and closer to an actual end that I start finding it motivating and not just distracting and stressful. I guess when I was younger I was more panicked with death.

Of course it's not meant to be accurate, but meant to instill "live now" instead of "live in the future", meaning I want meet more with people, stop working as much as I do and do what I enjoy, etc.

It's not really a focus, it's something I happen to accidentally glance at in something like a weekly basis. It's not hanging on the side of my display, so I'm not really "focused on my own mortality".
Not so much deliberate as just being a matter of supply, from what I understand.

> “teachers and mentors specialising in science are rare in the rural high schools attended by these students, especially Adivasis,” Sonajharia Minz, a computer scientist and vice-chancellor of Sido Kanhu Murmu University in Dumka, was quoted as saying.
Remote work is the main reason I've stayed in my current job. So yes I would probably quit but not to retain my remote status (I'm resigned to working on site in my next job) - it would just be that the cost/benefit calculation would have shifted.
Somewhat tangentially ... I'm not hearing about startups focused on being fully remote and directly competing with establish orgs who are demanding RTO.

Considering the savings of not having to rent expensive downtown office space and having a much greater pool of prospective staff, you would think the economics would favor such an approach.
How did you handle cleaning up aborted / rolled back transactions after binaries restarted? Or did you just let the pending records hang around forever.
Snidely, they aren't taxes for the simple reason that I couldn't itemize them in federal deductions. That isn't quite as relevant nowadays, I suppose.

There is also usually a benefit for Comcast in this, as well. As such, it feels somewhat ok to treat them separate from taxes collected by Comcast. In particular, it is not uncommon for the franchise agreement to free up a ton of advertising concerns that the company would otherwise have to do.

I do think an interesting question is if this is counted as revenue for them? I'm currently assuming that they do count it in gross revenue? As such, it is literally them finding a way to get more revenue for places that cost more to do business, without open faced charging more.

That is, yes it is an expense that they have to pay, but so is, for example, the gas they have to pay to send a technician out. For that matter, the vehicle is also an expense of doing business. I'd be annoyed if those were line item added to my bill as a way to inflate what I paid. Not sure how this is any different?
What concrete steps did they take?