skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm wondering how well the data is preserved if you put it in a buffer like that.

It reminds me of the game where someone tells A some story, then A tells it to B, B to C, etc. and then of course the end result is that the story became completely different.
RIP AWS
Burning Man attendees unable to leave after rain turns site to muddy quagmire
Having a discord link probably sets some expectations about what to expect over there: chat, community, maybe voice chat, chilled vibe, temporary. All that from seeing the smiley joystick logo. It also signals cool modern startup. It may be be super convenient if your audience typically has an account already. Yes a tonne of downsides of course.
Are you currently doing this? Living in an expensive region like Western Europe/North America? If this first or second hand, let's hear more about it.
Yeah, I'm pretty novice, but I took that hourish long Andrew Ng class on LangChain, and they covered recursive summarization as a standard memory management technique.

https://www.deeplearning.ai/short-courses/langchain-for-llm-...
I've seen loads of plant based packing and cold beverage items. One thing these companies couldn't compete on was price. Mostly cause they couldn't get volume. I wish I had my notes at hand. Plant based for some plastic uses work. Current buyers have the switching cost. I'm sure, but can't prove it, that plants could replace a lot of this. And a small forcing function such as single use plastic tax could flip many of these volume buyers.
I know your deeds, that you are neither notepad nor word. I wish you were either one or the other! So, because you are lukewarm - neither notepad nor word - I am about to spit you out of my mouth.
Fair Allocation of Exposure in Recommender Systems
The may be more expensive to ship but it's unlikely that they will be more expensive to manufacture in the long term. If they can be used 100x times a cardboard box, the cost of manufacturing cardboard would be much more.

Also, as we move to renewables, the CO2 equation will move further in reusable materials' favor.
They don't have 9x9 puzzles. Any guesses as to why they only tried 3x3, 4x4, and 5x5 but not 9x9?

This work is interesting. I wouldn't have guessed 3x3 puzzles would be solvable by a large Markov chain. It would be interesting to know how large of a context is necessary to solve 9x9 puzzles. No existing model can currently solve 9x9 puzzles even though the recursive backtracking algorithm can solve any given puzzle in less than a second.
Are you unemployed, and therefore not obligated to file? The flowchart for that takes about 10 minutes. For anything more complicated, I don’t see how you can possibly complete, review and file your federal and state returns in 10 minutes.

For one thing, it takes more than 10 minutes just to buy a copy of TurboTax.

I typically budget 4-5 hours to fill out the taxes, and give myself a few days to find any missing forms, or call tech support for random corner cases that like to arise.

I also spend at least 2-3 hours a year dealing with donation receipts, etc.

I still regularly either overpay by 5-6 figures, then need to file an amended return, and/or get a (usually mistaken) letter from the IRS or FTB demanding more money.

If that doesn’t happen, I often get mailed a check refunding money with (taxable) interest because they took too long to process my return, which causes direct deposit to fall through.
But you are smart enough to use a computer or calculator. And AI is a computer. So the naive expectation would be that it would be capable of doing as well as a computer.

Also, you probably could do long multiplication with paper and pencil if you needed to. So a reasoning AI (which has read many many descriptions of how to do long multiplication) should be able to also.
In the US, 911 calls are automatically routed to nearest PSAP [0] which has a real number. In the event a user originated 911 call gets disconnected, the number 911 agent calls you from will be a local number. For this reason phones and networks cannot block incoming calls.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_safety_answering_poin...
If you’re growing the bamboo used in production, you’re starting by capturing the carbon that is eventually released on burning at end of life. So it’s likely carbon neutral already (though may produce other harmful pollutants).
Given what you just said in your comment, I guess what makes them different is that Microsoft 365 and AWS are enterprise-ready, so you can take away your data easily. With Google, with a regular account, you could as well using Google Takeout.

With Discord... you might have to strong-arm them into a GDPR claim or similar, so, vendor lock-in in a B2C SaaS is a thing.
AWS staples like EC2, S3, RDS are safe as long as you control the domain outside of it and have backups outside.
When I was a kid we used to get ice cream that came with a flat piece of wood to use as a spoon. It was fine.
Well, just wait a decade or two until we decarbonize most of our chemical industry until you burn it, ok? Right now all that plastic is much better down in a hole. We can always dig it up and bur it later.

Anyway, if you are going to tax anything, an actual carbon tax is guaranteed not to backfire on your face. A tax specific for plastic will almost certainly make everything worse.
Thought this would be common sense
I use to work in a library in Howard County, MD back in high school. While shelving books I'd find all kinds of stuff, including many things from people working for defense contractors and NSA... with URLs and logins/passwords I should probably not have had.

I just shredded those as I came upon them lol (didn't let curiosity get the worse of me...)
The fumes are incredibly toxic though and it’s not just carbon.
I do see a potential problem: being accepted as Indigenous requires no minimum amount of ancestry; identifying as Indigenous is increasingly seen as a social benefit rather than detriment, and hence people with that ancestry (or even without it) will seek that identity out; some Indigenous community groups will try to limit access to an officially recognised Indigenous identity, but those who seek it will gravitate towards those community groups which are most generous in recognising it, and those groups will grow in power and influence as a result, producing a feedback loop which encourages lowering those barriers over time; intermarriage rates between Indigenous and non-Indigenous people are high (over 50%) – isn't the likely result of this that, in the long-term, more and more of the population will be Indigenous? It is one thing to argue for "affirmative action" for a minority which is only 2-3% of the population - what happens as it grows to 5%, 10%, 15%, 20%, etc?

It also potentially results in two groups of Indigenous people – one group with majority Indigenous ancestry, found mostly in remote/regional/rural areas, who experience a great deal of social deprivation; another group with minority (in some cases even only slight) Indigenous ancestry, found mostly in urban/suburban areas, who experience far less social deprivation. With all this talk of "closing the gap", counting both groups as "Indigenous" makes "the gap" seem smaller than it actually is, and if the second group is growing, that growth can create a false sense of progress of the gap being closed, even as little or nothing improves for the first group.
I love the simplicity of it tbh, the homepage with it's builtin demo is just superb.

https://novel.sh/

Write ++ after the npm install or whatever, the homepage is an editable demo of the editor.
Apple had a bunch of technical obfuscation that may have convinced them that they'd engineered their way out of a tough spot. "Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether they could, they didn't stop to think if they should."

When it was made public people shot all sorts of holes both in the technical mechanisms themselves as well as their insufficiency even if they all worked as intended.

We should have some sympathy-- they did have some neat technology. But neat technology isn't enough.
If they made a TV-only version, sure. Otherwise I see no point in fragile components I’ll never use just for a handful of exclusives.
Pyrolysis can be used to turn waste plastic into a ~50/50 mix of diesel and syngas, that can in turn be converted back into propylene through a FT and hydroformylation process.

But cracking waste naphtha is about a tenth the cost and externalities are paid by those schmucks in the future.
Had 24h production outage (could temporarily rebuild in a test account luckily) due to this so it is a real thing.
I do remember reading the endless comments on licensing on GPL/LGPL/BSD on slashdot.

> Simply linking to the existing original code in a library program without modifying it does not create a derivative work. Using a plug-in or a device driver also does not create a derivative work, even if you look at the program’s source code to determine how to use the plug-in or device driver.

This is clearly debatable. Tainted linux kernels are a thing. It's one thing if you distribute a kernel with a proprietary driver (nvidia comes to mind here). It's another thing if you ship a GPL kernel, and another if the user decided to taint their own kernel with a driver with a proprietary license.

The combined program here is the Kernel and the Nvidia drivers. You can't get around it even though the NVidia drivers are "weakly" linked into the kernel.

The question is at what point is "linking" established? During compilation? During dll loading? Or when you hit a rest endpoint?
Rain water harvesting and catchment - while in theory this is a solution, it has not been implemented in any major city at a large scale. For instance in Bangalore, around 200,000 households have implemented rain water harvesting. Why is this ?

Implementation problems - The process and procedure is not as straightforward as 'dig a hole, put some gravel and you are done'. In fact, if you don't follow the correct protocol, you will screw up the ground water table.

Lack of standards - I am yet to come across a protocol and standard for implementing RWH. Every RWH expert has their own protocol. In fact, someone as famous as Aamir Khan touted a revolutionary process of RWH, which proved to be disastrous for the water table.

The consumer need or want - This is the most impactful reason in my opinion. The water crisis is not in your face, it is not an impending problem. Also, having your own source of water or implementing RWH is not something you can flaunt and show off. Perhaps why people spend so much on the apartment/house and so little on RWH. Had there been a consumer need, private enterprises would have swung to action. We probably would have a Swiggy'ish startup solving RWH here.

Corruption, let's not forget the politician driven agendas for not enabling self sufficiency in water supply. If the water problem goes away, that tool is no longer available for elections. Yes, water crisis is a political tool and is a pretty big one. The farming community almost always is driven by this tool to decide whom they vote.

So, yeah while in theory everyone should implement RWH and the water crisis will be solved, this theory does not hold any water in practice. We need a herculean effort driven either by the govt or a non-profit to bring about the awareness in people. Once the consumer need is established, private enterprises will take care of the rest.
> So the answer is just bring your own fork and rinse it off when you're done.

I mean sure, but this was an international long haul flight. I can actually imagine a 100 people trying to wash their silverware in airport lavatories on a 767 after dinner service.
I see how this could work for notes, but as a software developer, a lot of my Projects would just be symlinks to my areas.

#> ln -s projects/'write monthly invoice' areas/$regular_gig/tex

#> ln -s projects/'write article on $foo' areas/$website/posts/foo

It just doesn't quite fit, because my short term tasks share repos (and note files) with long-term projects that I'm responsible for-- even regular invoices are long term repos. I suppose I could move it to Archive/Projects when complete, and have a script that moves it back every month.
Once upon a time I played 4th (ie. worst) division amateur soccer. It was about what you’d expect, lacking in skill but not in passion.

Our team was terrible and we got relegated to the social league. Surprisingly (to me at least), while the skill level was lower, the stakes seemed higher. The teams we faced seemed far more willing to get physical, play dirty, abuse the referee, and generally take out Sunday kick-around far too seriously.
Amen.

However, that real seasoned engineer is a small
fraction of the "dev team" and gets overwhelmed
by the boot camp developer's group thinking -
their opinion is just as good as the guy with the
CS degree they figure, after all, their boot camp
crowd seems to win the debates!

Oh my god. So true. Heaven help us.
Why are functional languages so popular in the programming languages community?
I’m slightly surprised to see no-one has linked this yet: https://pomax.github.io/bezierinfo/
Azure secrets works differently, and stores the keys outside of your project directory (traditionally). I'm sure someone could find a way to include them (and probably include multiple projects rather than a single project), but they would have to go out of their way to do this.
Can somebody give an ELI5 explanation of SIP? That’s a lot of functionality.
IIRC matrix multiplications are easier to work with/more performant in code.
That's still the standard around here. (Ireland)

Is it plastic in your parts? Plastic spoons always feel way too flimsy to me.
As an alternative, Markor has worked great for my own flat-directory of org files.
Life expectancy in various regions of US, effects from colonization period
> It rarely if ever is.

You can always pay someone to maintain it. Not every thing has to be free.
I know for myself and my team, I often use placeholder values for config files, but they would often be tokenized, so easy to tell they were placeholders. For example "%%USERNAME%%" or "%%PASSWORD%%".
I don’t think it can work. When I interned at a consumer product manufacturer they used 1/3rd recycled and 2/3rds new plastic. Recycled plastic is too low quality to pass QA. And they could only used recycled bottles.
You forgot the effects of adjusting your prediction on questions that asked multiple different questions, not just one. I think I can guess okay how well it would do at forming a word with specific letters, but what's the probability of it getting five out of ten? Now we're bringing in unintuitive probabilistic reasoning as well.
Once Hyped as the Next Big Thing, Now Look Like the Dumbest Thing Ever.
Bamboo is a bit more environmental than wood (it grows easier and faster). Only 10% of disposable chopsticks in Japan are made of bamboo rather than wood, however. Not sure about forks and knives that were plastic before.
This is a blatant attempt at recruiting the obvious engineering talents of the OP to the cause of building guitar pedals and synthesizers, which I applaud.
I dont get it... does blimpy equate to some emacs commands or something where you cant type it in emacs' equivalent of insert mode?
The Kidney project has been at it for at least 8 years. Maybe they’ll have something in 10 years. I am not optimistic about anything coming out of it soon. It’s like the Moller Skycar.
not in a backpack... A Leatherman Squirt ES4 is my keychain, laser engraved with my phone number in case my keys get lost, but now that this model is discontinued, the tool is far more valuable than the keys.

To save you a few clicks: It's a miniature hobbyist/electronics multitool built around foldable pliers, where the inner part that usually grips different bolt heads is replaced with wire strippers 12 to 20 AWG. With a bit of angle and speed you can cleanly strip to 24 AWG stranded or 28/30 solid (although I'd just use teeth for the latter). You can still grab reasonably small & loose bolts with the end. It also has a knife, one-handed scissors, file, bottle opener, and flat as well as flat-sized-for-Phillips screwdrivers. I probably use this every single day at work and at home: opening packages or beers, making XLR cables, prototyping with microcontroller EVBs, trimming loose threads/tangled hair ends/a rough nail/tag wire, tightening drum heads when the keys are all missing, scraping/filing dirt from suede, slicing food, turning screws.

When I carry a bag it's a giant diaper bag with all that this entails or---more rarely---my camera bag which has a laptop pocket and a drink pocket for an insulated metal flask. Otherwise, a slim wallet and phone completes the ensemble.
There's simply no reason to do it. WTE (Waste to Energy) is superior in every single possible way except the emotional one.
SIP is more or less the signaling protocol for telephone service as VoIP. SIP doesn't include the actual audio, which is usually RTP on a different socket, but this client seems to do audio too.

If you've got VoIP service for a landline, it's probably SIP. I think VoLTE might be SIP too? There's extensions for text messaging over SIP as well.
:blimpy!
Does hot water freeze faster than cold water? Examining the Mpemba effect
I wonder if the QA standards are too high for throwaway goods.

Is a soda bottle a high-precision moulding that needs super-precise tolerances? And if so, are there ways to redesign this to reduce the constraints?
The government wants everyone except a select few companies to be wagies.
SIP is a protocol for Voice over Internet Protocol or VOIP.

SIP is the control channel and you use it to login to the server (once registered calls to a number will be sent to your program) and control both sending and receiving calls. The actual audio protocol is RTP, typically 20ms of audio is sent or received per RTP packet.
blimpy-mode forgave my student loan debt
Yeah, that must have been my collegue. Usually he was in charge of implementing all the new stuff, because he was able to deliver fast. And then I had to refactor, or usually just rewrite and redesign the whole thing, because it was immediatelly unmaintenable. I didn't mind, since at the end of the day, he was really good and doing these prototypes and selling them to management. I was good at making the application last and stable, so it kinda worked out.
Microsoft is slowly removing features, but is it adding any notable features?

Here are some examples of features I would like to see:

- Native Markdown viewer and editor, to replace Wordpad

- Disk space manager - graphically show where my diskspace went; allow me to find and delete large files

- Restartable and reliable file copy (similar to rsync on Linux)

- Notepad with same features as textarea element in browser, including spellcheck, multilevel undo/redo, completion, etc.

- Printing that can stay connected to printers on my local network

- Dictionary app (MacOS has it)

- Air drop compatible with iPhone

- A screenshot tool that allows you to type text (in addition to circling and highlighting and arrows)

- No system processes that randomly consume high CPU

- Command-line zip

- Instant search (Mac has had it for how many years now?)

- Stock app (MacOS has it)

- Beautiful widgets (like the old Konfabulator) https://arstechnica.com/features/2005/06/konfabulator/
They supply metal utensils in business class on every long haul flight. There’s nothing stopping them from doing it for coach beyond cost.
Theoretically, it seems like turning a box back into pulp could be easier than waiting 25 years to grow another tree.
Human Hibernation (among Psokv-regime peasants) – British Medical Journal (1900)
Not for me, but how much of your personal money would you like to chip in to bail out the current owners of tax prep companies?
50 cattle is definitely not a large farm. I'm not sure what you're thinking would count as "small".
Fukushima nuclear water release: How safe is it?
Plastics which can't be reprocessed back into the same food-grade product can sometimes still be recycled into lower-grade plastic products! Mixing all the different colours and contaminants together isn't always a problem, [edit: if the goal is to reduce waste to landfill rather than reduce production of plastic]. For example, turning soft plastics (the worst of them all?) into fenceposts (which last forever unlike wooden ones). Plenty of other examples: https://www.recycling.kiwi.nz/partners
I wish they made a TV-only pro with decent cooling so it can sustain 60fps. I’d buy that.
In my experience, something that really separates “A players” (in the career sense, rather than technical skills) from “B players” is focus on the metagame. Networking, schmoozing, manoeuvring, strategically chasing easier high-profile projects and side stepping poisoned chalices. Often this behaviour results in more rapid advancement at the expense of the people they they clamber over on their way up the ladder.
Whenever I’m forced to do a periodic performance/peer review, I just think about how I’m doing my manager’s job for them.

I’ve already spent the last quarter either complaining about coworkers or praising them, now you write the damn report! And as for the self evaluation, again, you write the damn report… unless you have no clue as to how I’m doing, to which I say, your performance really sucks as a manager.
Investigating intentional cranial modification in 3rd to 7th century CE Japan
Using smartcards, for the cool kids.
> Maybe if the rules are "your game shall not contain AI", then don't write a ChatGPT integration for it.

AI is such a broad term though. Either ban GPT/LLM architecture if that's the goal, or image synthesis, but be specific!

Probably more than 50% of all games out there contain something one could call "AI".
I really loved this era of computing. I really want to go grab a Performa 6400 and load up Bryce and Metrowerks.
If you have to deal with “donation receipts” you have an unusual tax situation.

Most people (87%)[0] are better off taking the standard deduction rather than itemizing. Taking the standard deduction, your donation receipts don’t matter.

If you have just W-2 income then filing through tax software is very quick. Not sure if it’s 10 minutes or 30 minutes but not that much time.

[0] https://taxfoundation.org/blog/standard-deduction-itemized-d...
Soda bottles are injection-blowmolded, which requires fairly predictable elongation under heat and pressure. I do know using 100% post consumer plastic would affect elongation, but I don’t know how significant the effect is or how hard it would be to compensate for.

Fwiw they do need fairly tight tolerances otherwise the cap won’t seal and the product will leak or spoil.
It’s amusing how nobody complains about pedestrian infrastructure over and under trains.
From googling your username, it sounds like you are connected to Skial, the TF2 server?

So I'm guessing you posted ASNs of (in your words, basically ISPs) of some players on your server, indicating generally where they live. Was it connected to specific people? I can see why Discord would consider that private info.
I love Abelson's style and sometimes will put these lectures on for background noise as I fall asleep!