skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The main thing preventing nuclear is lobbying from fossil fuel energy companies and petroleum exporting countries. You often hear anti-nuclear claims from environmental groups, but follow the money and see who is financing them:

https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/P-9-2022-00127...

But they lobby against anything that could practically reduce dependence on fossil fuels, not just nuclear. If you want to do anything about it you have to overcome that.
Wtf, dairy mayo? Is this an american thing? Mayonaise is oil, egg yolk and optionally mustard/garlic/spices/flavourings.
Show HN: Llama2.f90 – Toy LLaMA2 model inference in Fortran
We can blame both, and we can even do it simultaneously.
I love this “logic.”

You can do something wrong but if it works out, hey, it’s fine right?

This also creates a wonderfully sloppy veil. Hey it’s proven safe. So we’re going to go ahead and fuck with the settings more.”
With enough training data it should be possible to make fully automated AI surgeon bots that outperform human operators. Who wants to sign up for the private beta?
We know driving is possible. So, check.

Cost effective, I don't know what this means in this context. Development costs, rider costs? I don't see why this matters.

Safety is easy to measure. Just measure crash rates.

If your concern is can we engineer a self-driving car with acceptable safety performance, there is only one way to figure that out and it's to try to build one. You're not going to somehow prove it out on paper before trying it.
Some people have conditions that make dark mode text harder to read, not easier. Astigmatism is one of them. Also, myopia.

It can cause "halation" which is like a foggy glow around objects which are brighter than their relative surroundings. Like a streetlight at night, or white text on a black background.

I have this to some degree but I still prefer dark mode most of the time.
> Where many modernists greeted the Great War as a moment of disenchantment and disillusionment, a young Tolkien, who fought in it, took it as a spur to a mission of re-enchantment for a world desperately in need of myth.

The anti-war sentiment of Tolkien’s work isn’t even highlighted explicitly enough I find.

Dead Marshes echo WWI trenches and WWII fascism casts shadows over Sauron's dominion.

Frodo's scars mirror war's enduring trauma.

Myth making for himself, his children and general world (re-)building.

To mend, yes.
Wow. None of the namby-pamby stuff that one has come to expect from political leaders. The Pope doesn't mince words here!
Computing is ripe for disruption. I think it's high time for computing to end bring the next big field in tech.

The various industries have deeply balkanized the field & expertly extract value with endless apps that primarily capture value for the app maker, while barely creating value for the user. We are in a late-appification stage.

I think the biggest value area of the future are undoing the damage of all this disruption & market capture - of undoing all these apps! - & building strong principled powerful general computing systems.

This is targeted to data scientists far more than general general computing, but I like how broadly this post expands the problem of what data science computing is: The Road to Composable Data Systems: Thoughts on the Last 15 Years and the Future. That unpacking of concerns, understanding & building the general substrate, calls powerfully to me. I think even more general computing forms lie in this direction, that expand how all computing by all users would work, in a way that better augments the user's intellect. https://wesmckinney.com/blog/looking-back-15-years/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37367236

Figuring out how to make general progress that's even more accessible, less specialists & more "just how this computer works" in a way that everyone can potentially see & touch is the valuable work that is almost entirely ignored & unworked on now. It's a colossal opportunity.
Is this something I can use eg with tiptap/prosemirror or some other text editor to add CRDT-based collaborative editing?
One concrete factory corporation will output astronomically more than a familly of human
Like I said, it kind of builds on GTD, but it is not GTD. I would call GTD about 10% of it. And it is a completely different methodology than zettelkasten. He is very much about hierarchical organization — not the free-linking world of zettelkasten. PARA and zettelkasten are really at opposite extremes of organization. So it’s not a repackaging of either. It’s a different thing.
> optimized for retention.

Failed hard on me. Perhaps I am weird.
Seems like a cool application. Wondering if it supports Indian languages.
You say that as if people in the country can't shop on line.

I live close to big electronics stores and I buy all that stuff online.
> The thing is, when "background actors" get replaced by AI, how will acting get new actors?

Actors don’t break out by virtue of their stellar background acting work.

> Or what protects even large actors from studios using their face metrics and voice data which they have from CGI work to just use these datasets to "recreate" the actors without their consent?

Why would you bother recreating someone when you could generate someone better fit for the role?
I really hope that some day the ridiculous requirement to have a .com domain will become null and void. I really despise cybersquatters.
Fascinating. It's a little disrespectful IMO to refer to them as 'the lovers' just because of how they were laying. Given they think both are male ages 19 and 35, it's just as likely they could have been a father embracing his dead son or other relative. Or two soldiers even posed like that purposely by whatever invading force..
Can you make it happen multiple times at least?
If gluten tasted like cowpats smell, nobody would ever find out if they were gluten intolerant.
Pieces like this I usually just read and move on, unless I see someone in the comments decrying "alarmism". Messages have been mixed over the decades, I've read that things won't really get bad this century, or that things are already spiraling out of control. I've always known the IPCC underplayed the severity of the situation to fend off claims of "alarmism" but this summer has put what we're really in for into sharp relief. Like the acceptance of my own mortality, I just keep living the way I know how until I can't anymore.
Looking at Mercedes is foolish IMO. There's no reason to think they have any expertise in this domain. They have some press releases but very little technology to show for themselves. Cruise and Waymo are the other major players here.
How are Airbus and Maxar 3rd party vendors here? They own and operate the satellites themselves
Linked just above:

https://www.thecloroxcompany.com/wp-content/uploads/kingsfor...

That’s from a major brand.

I was surprised to learn this. But I’ve always been suspicious of charcoal briquettes — lump charcoal is much nicer. (And one should IMO always use a chimney starter or similar device in order to get them properly lit as quickly as possible and with as little other junk added and hopefully as little emissions as possible.)
There's something tragic that in normal work I spend a lot of time spinning my gears, eliciting what people really want, dealing with all sorts of entropy in my tools, etc. I've had these rare times where I had a unique vision and was able to be really 100% productive and in those cases I've gotten 0% out of it financially, or so it seems.

To be fair I do have something that's a bit like that in the queue (figured out a conversion from the XSLT universe to the OWL universe that is completely correct) and it looks like I can get some funding for it but thanks to my own screwed-upendess I missed one window for funding and will have to wait till it opens up again.
I don't think there's much demand for South American meat here in Denmark, but vegetables and especially fruit from Africa and South America is easily affordable and available when it's not in season in Europe.

Capitalism has failed to take account of the environmental cost.
One death reported after storms leave thousands stranded at Burning Man
> I avoid those.

You might want to reconsider. East and South-East Asia have been developing and using meat substitutes for at least several decades, if not centuries: they are based on soya, konjac, flour, mushroom fibres, etc, and they taste phenomenal. They may not precisely resemble the meat that they look like (there's mock mutton, mock shrimp, mock chicken, mock sausages, mock ham, mock duck, mock pork ribs, mock pretty much anything), but the texture, aroma, and taste are superb, and they work well both stir-fried, or as proteins in stews/gravies/curries.

I think the Western effort to imitate meat is less likely to be successful than the already-existing Asian mock-meats industry: in the West, it seems people want their imitations to look exactly like meat, with all the blood and fat and everything, which is going to be significantly more expensive and taste a lot worse than something that merely resembles meat visually and letting the taste and texture be different.

Consider the options here[1], for instance.

[1]: https://www.friendlyvegetarian.com.sg/
nothing new, I'm quite sure if you try to get to russian propaganda you would get to similar blockers.
Ask HN: International student in Canada struggling to find a CS internship
I am an international student who is starting his second year of CS in Canada, recently, I've been applying to many internships, however, there seems to be no hope based on the rejections I am getting.

My stack consists of Java, Python and Postgres.

I've worked with various packages, which include OpenCV, LangChain, SQLAlchemy, PyTesseract, Plotly and more.

Some of my projects are based around the creative use of large language models, where I tried to employ them as a means of getting answers to questions I've had or for making life easier.

Below linked is my GitHub and Resume, I would appreciate any feedback and suggestions.

GitHub: https://github.com/ahnafaf
Resume: https://online.fliphtml5.com/axwdk/hpoo/

I am looking for any kind of software engineering/backend dev/analyst role.

Based on my resume and GitHub, what are some roles you would suggest and what changes/advice would you provide? Any advice with the internship hunting process would be helpful too, like tricks that most people might not know.

My fall semester starts soon, and I have taken the note to establish further contact with professors and attend as many career fairs as possible.

One question I would have is, would it be wise to participate in the universities computer science events and contribute to the planning, like joining a position in the clubs, or is it better to use my time to improve my stack?
I suspect a 1% of revenue fee for being insufficiently wildlife friendly would have a huge impact.

For many businesses, 1% can be the difference between profit and loss, and if slight adjustments to farming practice can get them some biodiversity and save them a 1% fee, they will.
This can legit get pretty silly, but having heard celiac friends' horror stories about getting gluten'd from unexpected sources I'm definitely inclined to understand the "better safe than sorry" approach here. An explicit gluten-free option is always going to be the better choice for anyone in that camp, especially when the consequences of picking wrong can be pretty damn unpleasant.
> Software “engineers” cling to their management driven paradigm and resist true accountability

Yeah just gonna stop you there...none of us were given the choice to be accountable and hide behind "I will lose my license if I commit/deploy this." I'm also an actual engineer in addition to a software engineer, and being able to say "I'm not willing to go to jail for this" works when you have a P.E. license in an actual engineering project, but definitely does not work in the software industry. It doesn't even work in engineering if you don't have a P.E. outside of "No this will literally hurt/maim/kill someone"

Yes, either way (software or P.E.) you might be fired for saying "I'm not willing to go to jail for this" but it's much less likely you'd be fired for it in "hard" engineering, because everyone else on the team understands that you're not being entirely hyperbolic when you say "I'm not signing this because I could go to jail." If you said that in a software project people would rightfully think you're fucking nuts and don't understand how the world works, because there's an infinitesimal chance a software engineer would go to jail.

Even the criminals who deployed the Uber Greyball thing didn't face any consequences, which truly shocked me, as that was blatant obstruction of justice.
I really hope so. There's so much potential for this money to expand the pot hugely.

But there's also so much risk it all gets captured & eaten by the existing titans, that we don't make any gains begetting a new "silicon foundry" where new folks & new ideas get created. There's so much risk that chupmaming remains as rareifiedly arcane, in which case this money doesn't really help the world much.
> Software “engineers” cling to their management driven paradigm and resist true accountability and responsibility for engineers because, ultimately, it’s easier and more profitably personally to hide behind the excuse that “management” made the decision.

I wish it was that easy.

In almost all software companies, with the exception of one where we built software security tooling, management asked for cutting corners, to which engineers objected.

Guess who got the blame when things went according to what has been said?

The engineers.

In one case it was so pathetic that the company lost tens of millions of pounds in revenue. There was a code freeze.

Turns out a marketing director _told_ an engineer to apply a change. That change tipped everything over. Fortunately the marketing director was “freed” later on.

Similarly in other companies people payments were either processed twice, not at all, accounts lost, user login details mixed or leaked and so on.

Every darn time technical debt was raised someone would say that we should not over engineer things.

But hey they did agile and unit tests.

My invoices got paid. It is what it is.
"wreck" is actually "destruct", "same" is "reflexivity"...

It boggles the mind why the author would make up fanciful new names for the fundamental tactics in this "how to" article.
Hello, Austin. The PNW has been dealing with this for years. Happy to share!
It’s a tool of abstraction, I think? If you study almost any major historical event in detail, I think you inevitably discover deep layers of nuance and complexity. But we can’t really manage such depth and breadth at the same time as hoping to eke out meaningful lessons to be propagated into the future. So a moral is distilled and committed to story and song.

History is written by the victor… or the bard.
Yes, it supports Indian, African, Arabic, American, Asian and European languages. Basically most of the languages with the highest number of speakers covering 99.86% of global population. We will soon launch lipsync too.
I understand that. If there was no difference I wouldn't have been curious to ask.
He should take that information to a judge then.
It's no match for lucene (in practice ES or Solr) in terms of performance and features, as it's very different model of indexing and operating.
Keeping it running while 1000s of customers run search queries AND the app uses db AND users want faceting or other features is not an option.
There is an implicit assumption that "modernization" equates large energy consumption. Carbon emission of a German is half of that of an American, so are Americans twice as "modern" (whatever that means) compared to the average German?
https://www.theonion.com/archaeological-dig-uncovers-ancient...
Private Equity Borrows Billions to Bring You Broadband Internet
Then it makes no sense. If most middle schoolers have heroin and tasers we are talking about a very different situation.
https://archive.ph/NJ2X8
Here is an engineer that got sued because a bridge collapsed:

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatchewan/engineer-designe...

Edit: And here is one from a crane collapsing:

https://www.constructionnews.co.uk/health-and-safety/housing...
Yep! From the paper:

> Conflict of interest
>
> ML and MY have received travel expenses and compensation following presentations at P&G.
> Did it not occur to you to check this?

No it didn't occur to me to check that two of the thirty-seven authors were involved in a controversy 20 years earlier. Concerning those resignations the article notes that, "In a Climate Research editorial pre-published on 5 August 2003, its publisher Otto Kinne expressed regrets about the resignations of von Storch, Goodess, and a third editor, Mitsuru Ando." And it should be noted that resignations are not proof of wrong-doing, especially in a hotly contested area such as this where pressure can be brought to bear on people in any number of ways. Furthermore, pointing to an incident 20 years ago to somehow smear research published recently is rather a gauche and ugly way of refuting a claim.

I think the claim that the paper makes that what scientists have been measuring (when it comes to global warming) is in fact the difference between urban and rural temperature readings due to the urban heat island effect and the effect of increasing urbanization over time. This is how science works, no? If scientists show that there are errors in this paper then all well and good but can we stick to arguing about research on the merits of the research itself rather than going after the people who make the claims, that whole tactic is getting rather tiring.
Eggs are dairy!
While likely still wrong, Sapir-worf doesn't state that you developed the receptors at the same time but rather that things were processed/compressed/remembered differently when/if there was a single word for e.g. blue and purple.

It's closer (if we steelman a bit) to how if I think of different shades of purple as just purple I might not notice a difference between 2 objects while someone else would immediately tell that one is lavender and the other wisteria.
Awful gluten free baked goods are ubiquitous.

It just seems instead of eating baked goods that taste like sandpaper people should be eating rice or quinoa or corn or teff or millet. Some people just can't seem to get past sandwiches and pastries but if you get past that there is a lot of great stuff to eat that is naturally gluten free... But no, they have to have a gluten free BLT or a gluten free donut.
But it is the manager's fault: that's the person who holds all the cards in the decision-making process. If you want it to be someone else's fault, then start advocating a different chain of decision making, rather than complain about it being a default refrain.
Apple letter to HEAT initiative [pdf]
In my experience vegan food tend to mostly belong to a single food culture with its own blend of spices, taste and textures. It is as different to meat based food cultures as Indian food culture is to the food culture in Greenland.

A typical vegan dish when I see it presented at a restaurant or conference is usually one that is primarily based on beans, chickpeas, lentils, and Couscous, usually with minimal spices. On the side there is usually several dips, often variations of Hummus.

There are exceptions. If I see a vegan dish in a Thai restaurant I would assume a different taste and culture, hopefully one based primarily on seaweed and mushrooms.
Found what?
That's not the point. The point is there are many less safe drivers on the roads than people in Teslas supervising FSD. As far as anyone knows there's been like, maybe one crash on FSD and no deaths.

(There are Autopilot/ADAS related deaths, though not a shocking number relatively, but that is not the same type of system and is also deployed on many other vehicles.)
I assume by that you mean it told you their beliefs are in-line with scientific consensus. Because the quote is in-line with scientific consensus.
I guess locale is a big part of it. I'm maybe spoiled in the Netherlands where quite a lot of people limit their meat intake and vegan options are plentiful.

I'm not sure why my comment above deserved all the downvotes though, I was only sharing my own experience and asking a question.
> There is no doubt that at least during the last two thousand years there has never been any period with temperatures as high as during the last 40 years

The archaeological record says the opposite. I don't know what Latin or Greek texts you're reading because they are full of references to things that can't be done today.

The Vikings were practicing agriculture in Greenland. [1] That's impossible now, it's too cold.

The Greenland climate was a bit warmer than it is today, and the southernmost tip of the great island was luscious and green and no doubt tempted Eric the Red and his followers. This encouraged them to cultivate some of the seed corn they brought with them from Iceland.

Bison skeletons have been found in mountain caves at altitudes that imply it was drastically warmer in the past [2].

From this it can be concluded that the beech limit but also the forest line during the »wisent time« (6,000 to 1,200 years before today) was much higher and the average summer temperature had to be at least 3 to 6 °C higher than today. Oaks (Quercus) at an altitude of 1,450 metres around 2,000 years ago also indicate a climate approximately 4 to 7 °C warmer than today.

This is well beyond the level that climatologists assure us means global destruction.

The fact that it was warmer in the past was not actually considered controversial up until Michael Mann started drawing his incorrect hockey-stick graphs. Go back just 20 years and you'll find the warmth of the Roman period being discussed quite openly, like this map [3] of suspected Roman England vineyard locations in which one is as far north as Lincolnshire, impossible in today's climate. This 2001 archaeological paper doesn't comment on the fact that it was warmer back then because everyone knew it and the fact was considered unremarkable.

Climatologists have done a great job of not only erasing this history but making it verboten to point out. Yet the problematic facts remain. Climatology doesn't have reliable methods for reconstructing past temperatures, has sparse data even for the modern era and routinely makes claims directly at odds with very well understood historical evidence.

[1] https://sciencenordic.com/agriculture-archaeology-denmark/vi...

[2] http://www.museumgolling.at/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/9_Sch...

[3] https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/27661.pdf (figure 6)
A simple solution to keep using pesticides and polluting the ocean may be switch human babies to formula, switch dolphin babies to human pumped milk, solving the cancer issues and the dolphin first-born problem except for the dolphin uterine environment which could possibly be fixed with cane toads.
Kenneth Iverson's Math For the Lay Man

[0]: https://asindu.xyz/math-for-the-lay-man/
I doubt this would be a major issue if this were the only demand. There are other demands that cost more money though.

Glancing through them, these seem reasonable, but it is a difficult Union battle nonetheless.
Really recommend 12tone's music analysis (building the break up from the individual drum grooves) [0]. Their videos are always fantastic; it's an amazing level of musical analysis. That said, not everyone likes their style of presentation.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LwOs4aM6upA
Keeping postgres alive is considerably less work than keeping anything Lucene based alive.
Vegans wouldn’t eat eggs. I’m guessing they mean conventional mayo made with eggs.
Unanswered questions about the causes of obesity
Aren't they all owned by Gawker, which was commandeered by Peter Thiel in the frivolous Hogan case?

I wouldn't trust a Gawker site for any information.