skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It may not need to migrate. At some point between the Big Bang and now, the entire universe was habitable. Temperatures between 0C and 100C would have been the norm for some period, and the universe would have been much smaller than today. If RNA originated during that period, life may just be almost everywhere.
Ah, my apologies then. I felt like it was somehow tied to Edge, I should have dug deeper.
You don't have to substantiate possibilities. My takeaway was that the meteorite was asserted to be extrasolar, might be the result of some cosmic explosion, might be something else.
Calling people you don't like "nazis" doesn't change what you are doing. They are being deprived of their civil rights and no one is fooled. That's why we're having this discussion at all: you've managed to piss off the right people such that the problem isn't being ignored anymore.
Thank you. This is very true, and equally sad.
The big difference between the US and other western countries' philosophy about prison is that most (all?) EU countries see the main goal as rehabilitation whereas the US sees the primary goal as punishment.
What is "mixing in" mean in this context?

The image itself is copyrighted, or it isn't. Fair use may or may not come into play for things like replication of known copyrighted characters, depending on commercial use.

None of this has changed from the traditional copyright process. Even 15 years ago I could find some of my old works rehosted on obscure Chinese websites, and my options for recourse were the same as they are today. Many of my own works were already derivative.
Google's biggest problem is that they're a huge force. Google search directs an absurd amount of traffic to where-ever they point their search ranking. The bigger they've gotten the stronger the observer effect has grown.

Search engine spam isn't something that's happened to Google, it's a consequence of their dominance in directing web traffic. No matter which beautiful flower you find, point a power washer at it and all you get is dirt and mud.
Also aggregating the entire situation is Wall Streets unhealthy laser focus on each Quarter's profits.

Because we all know if a company needs to spend 100mill and a year to bring up a new supply source, their stock price will plummet due to analysts negative ratings.
I mean, this is just the inevitable outcome with autocracies/absolute monarchies. I think we should just assume that countries that are not liberal democracies are poor trading partners and not aligned with the interests of oter liberal democracies.
The whole existence of EU is to prevent war between countries within the union through making all depend economically on each other. So far it's been quite successful (0 wars so far AFAIK), but of course it's quite early to say.

Many of the countries in EU have quite the war history with each other.

It's easy to forget that countries like Denmark and Sweden, France and Germany, etc etc used to be bitter enemies with so many conflicts and wars between them that it's difficult to keep track.
I think a great example of why data privacy matters was the recent concern many American women had about whether data collected by their period tracking app could be used to persecute them for abortions. While you might believe that the data being collected about you is harmless, a government hostile to you could use that data against you with great effect.
You may be right. If there was a selective pressure against large penises due to intra-male fighting, and the lack of a strong enough pressure for larger penises (due to the relative absence of pair-bonding), that would support the observation that gorilla penises are small. For humans, where that sort of fighting doesn't happen, and where pair-bonding is important, penis size would naturally drift upwards until they become too big, or they take too much energy to grow/utilize.

One way to test this would be analyze the fighting techniques of various primate species, and then bin them based on their penis size and relative monogamy. If all primates that grab and tear have small penis, irrespective of their pair-bonding, then perhaps the former is more important.
Isn't road damage also dependent on the road design? To handle higher loads, I think the underlying materials are supposed to be thicker. Like the base sand and gravel under asphalt pavement.

There is a road here in Atlanta that gets torn up by 18 wheelers, yet the highway can handle it just fine.
W=Win, L=Loss? Why would you randomly abbreviate single 3-4 character words?

EVs are, at best, stagnation. At worst they simply go even further to hide the enormous external costs of everyone using giant, heavy wheelchairs to move around anywhere.
The original article is apparently on linkedin (ugh but hey)

https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7101572...

Not extraordinarily insightful but an amusing take on occult ritualism as engineering.
They have a OneNote feed sidebar now, too. Actually great for quick notes during browsing. Except that it's part of Edge, which is a privacy disaster full of dark patterns.
About same size, Model Y is 33% heavier

https://www.carsized.com/en/cars/compare/tesla-model-y-2021-...
If you don't agree to, refuse to follow, or ignore McDonald's terms, they will refuse to allow you to operate using their brand (ie. franchise).

There is no law that forces McDonald's to extend you a franchise license. It's their right to run their brand how they want.

Part of the franchise contract would be an agreement to use their approved vendor/parts list.

> or to harm others

Their policy exists for exactly this reason - prevent food borne illness from difficult to clean and maintain machines, ie. soft serve machines.

Anyone who has worked in a restaurant with a soft serve machine knows how much of a PITA they are to maintain and clean. Which means they don't get properly maintained or cleaned on average. McDonald's policies force franchises to maintain the machines. It's really simple, and it's really good.
agile, scrum, sprints are all bullshit, software & development are endurance, long-distance running, you only need some milestones for releases, but never ever 1 week or 2 week sprints
It was fun sometimes to “recover” a crashed environment by going into the hardware interrupt console and forcing the program counter to the entry point address of the Finder and then hoping for the best with your corrupted machine state.
> which is every human activity

A lot of human activities don't use that much energy in the grand scheme of things. Playing board games, walking around a neighborhood, going to concerts or shows at the theater, these are all things that use very little energy when compared to heavy manufacturing, transportation, and most agriculture. Since most humans will bear the costs of climate change as it begins to destroy our past investments, I think it's fairly reasonable to fix that damage based on how much carbon activities generate.

> now you have to pay more tax

I mean I buy a cheap stock and it's value goes up, why should I have to pay tax on that too!? The value of the land has gone up because it has more amenities and benefits as well. If you feel you are not benefiting from the increased investment around your land, then you should sell it so it can be put to better use.

> it was EPA mandates

Correction: it was the exemptions from EPA mandates that created the huge truck situation. The fix would be to remove the exemptions for "light trucks"
One of the biggest arguments you will hear in favor of government taxation is "Who will pay for the roads?" But very little of taxes goes to actually building and maintaining roads. We need new and innovative taxes on top of the other taxes to pay for the roads!
Absolutely, because art isnt the same as crunching numbers. No accountant created the math they are crunching and then had a 3rd party come in and vacuum up their work and spit out a computer that creates a facimile of their work to replace them.
I hadn't heard about this one when I was researching options. I'll give it a go next time I feel inclined to play with Linux, it sounds like it supports most of the features I'd like.
"leaders from the BRICS bloc -- representing Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa -- meeting in South Africa over three days last week invited four Muslim states and two others to join the bloc, while keeping total silence over the racist and Islamist massacre by heavily armed Arab militias of black African civilians being carried out in West Darfur in Sudan over the preceding weeks."

"Modern slavery includes forced labor, child labor, forced marriage, and human trafficking."

"When we speak of slavery in the Muslim world," the journalist Hugh Fitzgerald related, "we think of Mauritania (with 600,000 slaves)... Niger (600,000 slaves), Mali (200,000 slaves), and Libya (where slave markets have opened in nine sites during the last two years). Most of us assume that in Saudi Arabia, slavery is no longer tolerated. But most of us are wrong."

Until 2019 and apparently longer, slave markets could be found on Instagram"
Out of curiosity, what are some examples of Google packaging and reselling data?
Maybe McDonald's has decided, their unique ice cream mix performs better in taste tests, or that it works better for McFlurries, or whatever... but the one downside is that it jams up machines much more frequently.

If you already anticipate that your ingredients are going to break machines quite often, and that you'll require a lot of repairs, it would benefit you to standardize on a single large-scale support contract rather than leaving it up to every independent operator for themselves. Kind of the same way taxi fleets usually mandate one single specific model of automobile despite thousands of independent medallion holders.
Nope. Electric SUVs don't induce more demand for parking nor require larger parking spaces than ICE SUVs, and the charging infrastructure doesn't induce more emissions than equivalent ICE infrastructure, nor do they induce more travel than ICE SUVs.

The only correct bit here is that they do require more CO2 to manufacture, but this is made up for by the dramatically reduced operating emissions in the first few thousand miles or so of driving (depending on the source of the energy used to charge it). Further, the grid is getting greener all the time, so operating emissions and the manufacturing emissions are both falling quickly while the operating emissions of fossil fuels remains extremely high (literally and figuratively).
I would contribute to a lot of open source projects if it took a few minutes at a time. Working full-time hours over many years is a different question however.
It's not that Google search has necessarily gotten worse, but it's lagging behind the shitiffication of the web caused by SEO and the new features (People Also Ask QA synopses) have absolutely horrible accuracy.

ChatGPT and other LLMs are also absolutely horrible on accuracy, don't get me wrong.

But, here's an example of what's wrong with Google.

I search something like "Can mangoes grow in Washington state?" and at the top of my results is the condensed "People Also Ask" question answer result. These attempt to read and condense a webpage (of questionable accuracy) into an answer for my query, but they are often full of shit.

For example expanding "Where are mangoes grown in WA" shows an answer about Western Australia rather than Washington. Another answer tells me "yes" but when I read the actual article it clearly says "no, they won't survive".
> wagons disappeared to be replaced by SUVs because of... EPA emissions standards

I think that's only half-true. In the US, people weren't buying many wagons when they were available. For the majority of people who don't use their SUVs off road, this seems irrational. I've heard a number of people say that the higher seating position makes them feel safer, though that feeling is not reality-based.
Corporations are essentially citizens, and citizens have the right to free speech. We can agree or disagree, but this where we've allowed ourselves to get.

HE is within their rights to say no, we will not host or route to KF, to stop us would violate our constitutional rights to freedom of speech and expression. They would then point to a litany of issues surrounding KF, how it would impact their business, and then win their case with ease.

I'm kind of shocked EFF went to bat for KF If I'm being honest. When your speech is unaliving people, or responsible for wide scale harassment of minors, guess what, I'm not interested in doing business with you, and that's perfectly fine. The fact that they use such a weak argument like utilities, and mail service as a comparison to commercial internet service is wild.
>because people should decide for themselves what they need

"Your Liberty To Swing Your Fist Ends Just Where My Nose Begins."

Every successful, decent civilization is a balance between limiting personal rights where they impede on the enjoyment, safety, and security of others.

And extraordinarily few people are deciding anything for themselves. The epidemic of monster pickup ownership isn't some careful evaluation, but is decades of extremely successful marketing.
For $7,300/year, you can come over and cut up my trees. I might even let you use the chainsaw and log splitter.

On the topic of the article, I think the general skill one needs to remain in control of technology is managing context - specifically the ability to keep your own context rather than letting technology define yours for you. An axe is still technology, as is a chainsaw - the key is operating tech so that it serves your own goals, rather than being lured and lulled by it into serving someone else's goals.

Taking on more physical tasks helps expand your context (as per the OP). Having a life and goals outside of computers helps. Setting your own criteria that are contrary to the surveillance industry's siren song helps (eg libre software). Having full-sized input/output devices helps. Having many devices for different purposes such that "time wasting mode" is explicit helps.

The thing I worry about with abstinence based approaches is that they don't teach the skills necessary to moderate your relationship with technology. So even though your context is larger, when you end up entering the technological context (which society will inevitably force you to do for some aspects of your life), you're still completely unprepared.

Looking at Midland's website I see the article's characterization is a bit myopic (there's a picture of a group setting up solar panels, and a picture of someone with a laptop). But I'm speaking more about this general theme of anti-technology that involves romanticizing an axe (seemingly minimum viable technology) rather than say a chainsaw (which gets useful work done without addicting you).
Jon Durbin has been working on LMoE, which isn't pure MoE but uses a LoRA-based approach instead. Core idea is dynamically swapping PEFT adapters based on the incoming utterance.

https://github.com/jondurbin/airoboros#lmoe
How does my grandma do her own research under these circumstances?
Right but your argument can't be 'it's complicated' with neither the number nor the reason you're choosing your number that way. Presumably that's why the DOI report uses 'county tax as fraction of discretionary revenue'. You're using 'number plucked from unstated reference as fraction of ?'.
Yes exactly this. And with noisier measures come lower correlations.
Always been a fan of the simple suggestion we just Nascar up these folks: https://honestgil.com/nascar
The national flood insurance program shows one of the downsides with government participating in the private market (there are some plusses as well) - their rates were set too low, and that created a group of people who were politically motivated to agitate to keep them low. It's very hard to find the political will to raise insurance prices on those people, even though the majority of people/voters understand that it's a subsidy that doesn't make sense - first because its not fair, second because it encourages outsizes risk taking.
> I don't think you know the typical user profile of Jit.si. If people are happy with Google, Microsoft and Facebook, then why use Jit.si instead of their own video call offering?

This hits the nail on the head. It’s not just about having an account with those platforms or being unhappy with their video call services. It’s more about which platforms one chooses and for what reasons. Those who choose jit.si would be the ones who want to avoid these tracking and profiling platforms and/or are completely against those platforms.
Apple Cash is currently on the Visa Debit network for most users.

(You can check for yourself, open up the Apple Wallet app, select your Apple Cash card, use the Ellipsis […] menu to go to Card Details and it will show your card number and network among the details.)
Yes, I should have specified in the US. In places with shared passenger and freight traffic (ie a lot of Europe and Asia), freight services can't hyper-optimize on very long, very slow, infrequent service.

This does result in usually less tonnage transported by rail, but service that is more flexible to faster shipping.
That was my exact point; it's somewhat more expensive to import food into the UK now because of Brexit. And far more expensive to export (in relative terms to EU sourced food in the EU).
I abstract, i.e, put code into its own function, even when N=1, to make surrounding code more readable and simpler. At N=2, I definitely abstract. Abstracting doesn't mean building class hierarchies, when they are not needed. I abstract at the required level.

Premature abstraction, in my book, means abstracting in expectation of future needs. It is different than abstracting small and often. My abstractions are not premature, because they address existing needs.

I view copy-pasted code as cancer of a codebase. It is very difficult to tell if two similar looking code function the same way, therefore making it practically impossible to DRY away, whereas calling the same function leaves no room for guess. Copy-pasted code reduces readability, understandability, makes code longer. It never happens under my supervision.
or is it having children?
Where is the talk from?
India’s Kombai raises $4.5M to simplify UI coding with AI
I've certainly found that google results for me are worse than they used to be, and that DuckDuckGo is a lot more competitive and the !g bang gets used less and provides less improvement to results than it formerly did. I've been online since the time when people were moving from Yahoo to Google, so I'm not a gen Zer with different search patterns to Google's historical audiences.

I'm not quite sure of the reason. There's a couple of possibilities:

1. DDG is relying on Bing for a lot of their search data, maybe bing's just got better, or DDG have configured their integration better. I don't feel that DDG's had a significant improvement, it definitely feels like they've caught google on the way down more so.

2. Google losing the SEO war. As it gets easier to run and monetise blogspam sites, more of them exist, and as time goes on, a longer tail of topics get "served" by these sites. Unlike the spam of years past which tried to convince Google that their viagra selling site was really about top ten movie downloads, these sites are nominally about the topic the user searched for, so maybe Google is having a harder time trying to evaluate "quality". LLMs are being given a lot of the blame for this, but this is an older phenomenon than that, there were plenty of sites doing e.g. templated articles fed product spec sheet, or pay a minimum wage intern to rephrase the wikipedia page before that.

3. I've cut down my usage of Google services to basically just YouTube and YouTube Music. I also run ublock origin pretty much universally. Maybe my de-Googling has just been successful to the point that Google doesn't have a accurate profile for me anymore, and this has more of an impact on search than I expected.
I can’t take this seriously. Why do people give so much weight to the opinions of crackpots?
Scrum I think is pretty bad. It’s designed to work in contract shops where you have a short window deliverable for the customer, and isn’t really well designed for a more collaborative development process. Also the cargo culting meetings are pointless.

Agile in theory is great, teams should just do what works for them. End of story. But the issue is that agile and scrum are synonymous in the “agile” industry of consultants selling agile training to companies which largely drives how it’s practiced.

Kanban I think is a great organizational method though. It tracks work, shows what needs to be done and the progress. And gets out of the way.
Expectations have changed too. FedEx was a pretty premium thing when it debuted. Now I'll order a new widget from Amazon because I'll get it as soon as I would have if I waited until I got around to driving to the Walmart 10 minutes away (and for the same price).

For a lot of things, consumers are like "What do you mean I won't get it for 2+ weeks?" CANCEL.
I think another thing to consider is that with ICE vehicles, you're doing (at least) double duty in road damage because all that fuel has to transported to the stations in another vehicle to begin with.
With your comment what is your though on the Dairy Price Support Program then? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dairy_Price_Support_Program
> I get possibly being creeped out that Google knows you prefer Pepsi over Coke and that you recently purchased an adult toy or whatever

Frankly, if I preferred Pepsi over Coke, I'd rather get ads (which sometimes include discounts/coupons) for Pepsi than for Coke.

Similarly, if I bought an adult toy, I'd rather get ads for similar adult toys than ads for <whatever the hell else the option for that slot would be>.

I'm definitely pro-privacy, but it's got nothing to do with "so I can't be shown relevant ads".
I'd blame the prevailing economic mantra that "profits are the only things that matter" more than any set of UD presidents.
Isn't Vietnam labor cheaper? also even if these countries are just giant warehouse of Chinese crap wouldn't that mean if Chinese supply did go down there's more stuff in the pipeline which helps buffer shortages and price spikes etc.
Meanwhile the Rivian SUV clocks in at 7,068lb!

Edit: 7klbs is also the magical number where the tax write-off goes up by ~$10k. So there is incentive to keep it above that weight. Public pays multiple times: reduced tax revenue, higher energy usage/emissions and higher road deg. Complete insanity!
And the laws are such that you can't even import the nice small cars they have in Europe.

My options for a small electric car in the US are the Chevy Volt (retiring at the end of this year) and the Nissan leaf (retiring at the end of next year?). I guess there's also the mini Cooper, but it's electric version only comes in a 2 door model that is impractical if you have children.
sort of; proper political donations can be looked up
https://www.opensecrets.org/members-of-congress
Using some typing shortcuts for common tasks sounds smart. If you frequently post a 30 minute meeting invite with a link and wanted to write that out as "m30" or something, hey that's a legit timesaver.

However, I think abbreviating simple words like "the" seems like a really tiny gain that doesn't make it worth the potential disadvantages.
I chuck it into unorganized piles (file system, Google Drive, Apple Notes, and Obsidian Notes) and have good search systems and make sure I know how to use them.

It works fine and doesn't require fiddling or cleanup time. I can find what I need pretty quickly.
> The games with kernel anticheat are exactly the user-hostile games you wouldn't want to play anyway. (PUBG, Valorant, Fortnite, etc.)

Oh? Tell me more about me not wanting to play games that are fun and very widespread in my group of friends?