skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You assume that the goal of everyone involved was to have affordable insurance.

This is also an easy way to get people out of wildfire areas without being the bad guy. Can blame Allstate that someone needs to move.

It could also be that it is better politically to have cheap insurance for 80% than more expensive insurance for 100%.

Or frankly, just an easy way to get some votes without really getting blamed later.
A direct link to the mentioned snippet:

https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/ROTWKG19120814....
no one? ;-D

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1EJXTh4HMAE
Developing countries will increase their energy usage but have the benefit of buying things from developed countries. As we've seen developing countries today have been able to jump right to modern technology for infrastructure.

They didn't need to build massive lines of analog telecommunications, they just jumped right to cellular and satellite technology. They can jump right to solar and other renewables as they electrify. They can skip incandescent lighting and go right to LEDs.
It’s mentioned in the gist

> To view the compressed data, you can use a command line tool called qpdf.
- option A: definite known spyware;
- option B: maybe potentially one day there is an attack/take over.

The choice is obvious.
I think the next step is to figure how many exajoules goes to waste heat.
The linked article literally mentions qpdf within the first few paragraphs.
Speaking only for myself, often a project is in a half-finished state, and any provided screenshot would quickly become out of date.
Listen, I'm getting tired of this discussion. If you link to anything at all which confirms your claim that his problem in the RustConf/compile-time computation debacle is that someone criticized his work on a technical level, I'll just accept that you're correct and move on. If not... well. I'm done.
Finding a new hobby.
No, we don't assume that its is better because it is robot. We assume it is better because it was specifically designed to give to a surgeon a better instrument. It allows more range of instruments movement and degree of freedom and eliminates issues with surgeon hands trembling.

Yes, there is no statistically significant evidence yet that it is better, but there is no statistical evidence that it is worse. I don't think it is beneficial to stop using this technology based on cost effectiveness.

I happened to had a tumor on my kidney 6 month ago, so I actually had to make a decision between regular laparoscopy and Da Vinci.
Tge surgeon who did not have access to the robot system said that robot is just marketing BS and he would do a surgery just fine. However, because the tumor was on the back side of the kidney it would require rotating kidney out of the place and would be a bit challenging. But he was confident that it could be done

THe surgeon with robot said that tumor position is not a problem for a robot whatsoever. So I went with the robot.

So, back to OP, the robot is better because it allows to perform surgery in places where it is not possible to go with non robotic instruments.

I also have plenty of anecdata from people who had similar surgeries performed on them with different techiques. It terms of post op recovery da Vinci wins unanimously. I had surgery on Tuesday and was back to work next Monday
Google - Android.
Apple - Darwin, Webkit, etc.
And cherry picks data starting at 2013. I was curious about pre 2013 and it seems i was right to be skeptical. The 2013 to 2016 period just had unusually low losses.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/428870/insured-property-...
I assume npm packages would get pulled in at "build" time.
To agree to these exceptional terms I would have to be offered something exceptional. A very large equity stake, or a very (personally) meaningful job. Something tells me that this company offers neither. No salary range mentioned in the posting and a vague description "ubiquitous cloud platform to store, visualize, and analyze data from biological experiments".

How many people wake up on a Saturday morning full of excitement to go to the office in Mission Bay to build some web visualization dashboards for B2B? Hmm...
Damn, I get to do "algorithmic programming" and have a standup on 86% of my days?
My anecdote about this is a case where I was an external consultant in a company.

The management decided to base bonuses on "number of open tickets assigned to a person measured on day X". Smaller being better.

(Un)surprisingly I got a bunch of tickets assigned to me on day X-1 and they were reassigned on day X+1. I didn't mind, since my bonuses were determined by customer satisfaction =)
I asked my SO but they were unable to think of one with the criteria "never gets boring". Hobbies tend to come and go over the course of a few weeks or months, but SO advised they usually come back to the ones that are most interesting.
I think I'd have more pressing matters to deal with than computer inventions.
And yet swaylock(-effects) and swayidle exist. While they don't implement the functionality of classic screensavers right now, it seems that one should be able to implement them using the exact same APIs as these applications use.

However, they do use protocol extensions, so you can still make the argument that this is bolted on after the fact.
I feel like I'm asking a dumb question here, but is that an actual app that gamifies being active outside away from tech, or are you simply doing that and metaphorically calling it an app? I did a quick search and didn't find it, but that doesn't mean it's not there.
I never had the ability to bill by the day, but if I head back to contracting will try it. By the time I learned about it, I didn't have new clients coming in the door to experiment with. And existing clients and I were okay with billing by the hour.

I think that it is unabashedly a pro, because whenever you are adding value to the business and can defend it in an invoice, you're able to get value for it. Unlike when you are a salaried employee and the extra hours don't get you anything material (maybe noticed and provided with a raise. maybe).
In what way are they not liable, or designed to avoid liability.

>human kills someone accidentally they are almost certain to apologize and be obviously distraught

you start out wanting to use reason, then quickly jump to an emotional argument. I really dont care if if they feel distraught or not, I really do not care if they apologize or not.

I care if they are likely to be a danger to others in the future, I care if there is a pattern of dangerous behavior, and I care that they (to the extent possible) make the victims hole.

None of which requires them to express remorse, or be "obviously distraught" nor should any that be different between human and automated drivers.

For example new laws in TN and TX will require someone that kills a person while driving drunk to pay child support if the victim has a child. That concept could also easily be adopted to automated driving.

We do not need special laws, special regulations, etc. Human drivers and automated drivers should be held to the same standard. the Same standard.
Yes and?

Most of those retail jobs also keep you an hour or more under full-time status to deny benefits coverage because it's more profitable that way. Not much a standard of behavior to model.
“I was poking around, Googling ‘how to download Library Genesis,’”

LG literally has this info on its front page. Researchers will research, I suppose.
Maybe not bomb, but if I did something high profile enough, I'd be afraid they'd extradite me to USA, even if it's illegal. I'm pretty sure they wouldn't extradite me to russia.

And yes, russia definitely attacked EU and google+nsa spying on my phone definitely stopped them, sure.

Maybe nato shouldn't build so many bases and put so much american weapons all around russia (and china). The world would be a much nicer and peaceful place if US kept their army at home.... just the list of attacked countries is huge.
> the AI Horde approach of distributed models seems much more practical anyway.

i wasnt aware this was a term of art. is there a definitive blogpost or product explaining this approach?
is there enough data on the web for a LLM to be agnostic about the source languages, Russian, Chinese, English, German, etc? Where training on Russian and Chinese and English and German etc sources would also incorporate enough information about translation that if the AI learned about some topic only through Chinese sources, it could still recognize/use/apply/express those ideas in English?
I don't know the history, and can't see it on the page, but did they even entertain the idea of supporting both systems for a time? Like when firefox migrated to webextensions.
I'm terrified by the idea of breathing this in. Reminds me of asbestos snow.
Ok, I'd like to call you on that and provide actual numbers. I found this:

Before the invention of printing, the number of manuscript books in Europe could be counted in thousands. By 1500, after only 50 years of printing, there were more than 9,000,000 books.
https://www.britannica.com/topic/publishing/The-medieval-boo...

Which illustrates what the difference in scale I'm talking about.

> why should the artists’ desire for compensation outweigh the desire of audiences to consume the media for free

Because if you disincentivize the artist there are no media to consume. Why should your desire to consume for free deprive me from consuming at all if there is no artist willing to accept such conditions ?
> going scorched earth on others for technical criticism

I said JeanHeyd doesn't appreciate technical criticism, and I said he goes full scorched earth on others. However, I mentioned both in separate sentences. Please don't twist my words. You are the one linking them both, suggesting that one happened due to the other, when in fact I was merely describing aspects of his nasty personality in general, with no suggestion that this was the path this drama developed.

In this particular rust drama, JeanHeyd's pettiness caused him to go scorched earth over a perceived slight, once his talk was downgraded to a less prestigious slot. I have reiterated this over and over in several comments with you, and you keep twisting what I'm saying.

JeanHeyd, and also you in another comment have claimed that there was a grand conspiracy to sabotage his work with no evidence whatsoever. The only fact in all this controversy is that he had a talk downgraded. Not even cancelled.

> Just throwing accusations at people the way you're doing is actually a really shitty thing to do

You should start practicing what you preach. How about providing evidence that JeanHeyds work was being sabotaged without merit? Or you just accuse others without evidence?

Next time, stop changing what others are saying. Your conduct is not acceptable.
People involved in AI have incentive to say 'yes' to everything.

Nobody will make anything value in public, that they didn't want to be released for free anyway.

ChatGPT's vacuum has brought back a desire for privacy and will probably contribute to destroying piracy too.

ChatGPT has destroyed the 'study hard and get reward loop' for collaborative effort on the internet. If you use chatGPT, it absorbs all your question data and gives you nothing in return. You can't commit to random people, as they are expected to leak your IP onto gpt.

Isaac Newton using chatGPT would upload the core of calculus to GPT in research questions, and see no personal benefit for doing so.

There is no greater thief in history of academic work, than electronics.
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Human energy use isn't going to continue to grow exponentially for the next 500 years.

The world population is predicted to peak about 30% above where it is now and then fall back -- maybe to 7 billion people sustained. We seem to need about 200 GJ per person to be really happy [1], so let's assume 300 GJ per person.

We should be able to get by, happily, on 2000 EJ per year sustained. By your figures, that's less than 1% of what the sun provides.

[1] https://esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ecs2...
I have always wanted to move to a "deterministic app switching" workflow, since on any given day I go through cmd+tab thousands of times. I rely on it so much that on every macbook I've ever used the cmd key becomes visibly discolored and beaten up after a couple years :)

Have you found a way to do it for free, without paying for rcmd?
I don't know why we use `Id` for identifer, but that's consistent across our codebase and documentation (we may have missed a few spots, but that's an error on our part).

Not sure why it is inconsistent to have UUID be all caps and Id be title cased? They feel different to me. But maybe I'm missing something.
Maybe a little hyperbolic, but I've seen other studies that show humans can differentiate between odors better than dogs.

Dogs seem to be great at detecting odors in low concentrations. Once they are detectable by humans, however, it seems we have some pretty good olfactory skills.
Running. It takes a bit to get into it but it makes you tired and is pleasantly distracting, at least for me.
Do insurances actually end up loosing money in the sate of California for example? Or is it a negotiating tactic tp increase rate? So far the statement coming from insurers themselves, and I think the reason why it was denied, is that they refused to share they financial statements proving losses.
Rectangle and AltTab are two must have open-source apps if you are used to those basic features.
(especially as they've shown diatomaceous earth to be microscopic, razor-sharp fragments. Some people even eat this to try to kill parasites, eep! I'm not sure of the research here but my Spidey sense at least is going off the clock! D''''::::)
Agree, but my point was that choosing Vue today because it will still be around in 10 years doesn't mean much if it's no longer recognizable and you had to rewrite your code three times to get there.
That's the first sentence.

Second sentence:

"For the last ten years we have had numerous and serious causes of complaint against our non-slave-holding confederate States with reference to the subject of African slavery."

Third sentence:

"...and persistently refused to comply with their express constitutional obligations to us in reference to that property..." (my emphasis)

C'mon.
Deleting the only available copies of movies (which might be the case for some of these works) starts to get close. After all, I doubt anyone here would defend the Nazi’s book burning campaigns:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazi_book_burnings

Before you say the DMCA isn’t the same, here are some modern incidents where copyright was used to censor things by repressive regimes:

https://www.ft.com/content/63cbf209-656f-4f99-9ee3-722755c22...

https://www.accessnow.org/dmca-takedown-demands-censor-activ...

And a roundup of how it is being misused in other ways:

https://www.eff.org/wp/unintended-consequences-under-dmca
Studying - because there’s always new interesting things to learn about.

Yes - having a goal/focus helps me control my thrill-seeking (sort of). When I get bored that’s when I indulge in self-destructive sensation seeking behaviour, so having something that I can allow myself to get fixated on really does help.
> If it's not cheap, why bother?

The mortgage lender can require it. They don't want to have a burnt down house on the books for any amount of time.
What's the theoretical max energy for other sources of energy, such as nuclear (fission) power?
To 'save the planet' you want as many people playing video games, watching TV, or arguing on social media as possible.

If they're doing those things, consuming digital entertainment (eventually powered by renewables), then they're not out in the real world, travelling around using fossil fuels, consuming physical products, using up physical resources and emitting CO2.

Pretty bleak future though.
However, intact tropical South American forests overall were no more sensitive to the extreme 2015–2016 El Niño than to previous less intense events, remaining a key defence against climate change as long as they are protected.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41558-023-01776-4
What's interesting with Vitamin D supplementation is there doesn't appear to be any strong clinical evidence for its effectiveness unless you're severely deficient and on the road to rickets.

So long as your serum 25OHD concentration is >50nmol/L according to this meta analysis, there's no clear effects. [1]

> In conclusion, supplementation of vitamin D-replete individuals does not generate overall health benefits; however, correction of severe vitamin D deficiency remains essential.

Probably would be a lot better off going outside and synthesizing your own. Spending time in nature and in the sun does a lot of other useful things - for instance UV exposure induces nitric oxide synthesis too, which lowers blood pressure. [2]

[1] https://www.nature.com/articles/s41574-021-00593-z

[2] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5593895/
cool, someone should tell every corporation and education facility in the state.
Maybe an option to provide your own ROM with that asset would be a work around?
> If my maths is right, that's about 40,000 kcal per person per day, or about 15 times the energy consumption of an average adult.

As someone with a physics background... well... it's within an order of magnitude or two, so that sounds close enough to be probably accurate.
Trakt.com and then the Kodi integration with Seren
Try improv. Everything is new all the time by design, you want to do a good job so everyone has fun, and sometimes you perform in front of an audience.
I assure you, you can't just add hours to dig more ditches after a point. You mess up if you get tired.

The only kind of work I have done where you could add hours was security guard, since you do almost nothing all day.
> It doesn’t work so we keep doing it because we can’t try anything different because what we are doing doesn’t work.

Saying it “doesn’t work” is a stretch, no?

The large tech companies all give similar technical interviews for software engineers. Today, most people hired through this process are probably “good enough”.

And by what metric do I mean good enough? These companies are mostly demonstrating some acceptable level of growth. At the end of the day, that’s all their shareholders care about.

We won’t have meaningful change unless there’s an incentive. You think something is broken, but the key decision makers don’t agree.

Source: 10+ years in big tech
I just do the boring thing and get it in writing somewhere.

"This will fix the problem for now, BUT it will make _everything_ harder in the long run unless we spend time to do it properly".

Then when they complain about stuff taking longer than it should I can just refer to the ticket/email/meeting memo and remind them that I did say so.
ArgoCD is meh. Its a UI over your k8s clusters. What happened to us is sre/devops types just use k9s or the console. The devs could not be bothered to log into argo. They just merge, and code gets deployed. They don't hang out on argo. With 5k+ pods, the UI doesn't even work. So it isn't designed for large systems which makes it further weird.
Look at Intel's compiler or MSVC, vs. GCC and LLVM. The former two are known to rarely exploit UB, yet are competitive and even faster with certain code (especially ICC) compared to the latter two.

and UB is how we currently allow compilers to make those assumptions.

No, the behaviour of the target hardware is what should guide that.

Example: because it's undefined behavior to read pointers out-of-bounds, it is not possible for a valid program to scan a whole stack frame, so it is okay for the compiler to remove variables from the stack frame and instead store them in registers.

UB has no bearing on that. If a variable has never had its address taken, then there's no expectation that it ever be in memory.
Monthly fees don't stop cable TV from showing ads.
at the very least it'll remove a lot of 'magic' from programming. Today a lot of people seem to be not so fond of university education but I'm personally very glad it made me go through implementing a shell, a compiler, a little toy kernel and so on.

The feeling that you write code somewhere in the skies and have no idea how something works underneath has always really bugged me when I've used something.
More to the point, it’s huge. 33 TB is a massive amount, and I was grateful to sidestep it by downloading just the epubs.

Still, there’s always room for books4.
Sure, but since some states do it, it seems to me that getting 3 or 5 times the energy out our your fule before discarding it is something we should explore even if we ultimately bury it in the end.
Looks like it might be: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=eu.melkersson....

I got it from here: https://old.reddit.com/r/LifeProTips/comments/14m8ode/lpt_re...
If you have millions to spend on property, you may have millions to throw away. Elon Musk wasted billions on Twitter, so it’s no surprise that smaller wealth might be willing to waste a few million on a house.
Trade secrets are protected by law: https://www.wipo.int/tradesecrets/en/tradesecrets_faqs.html#...

I guess society disagrees, and honestly this like many comments here seem to have an anti-corporate agenda behind them that is truly irrelevant to the facts at hand.
Duplicate of: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37381596
On one hand you're correct. On the other hand: holy crap I thought all the "roast me" trends were dying down. I check back for one day and there's like 3 new variation of "AmITheAsshole" and "Roastme" each on the front page. Why?
I'm not sure if VS Codium has profiles like that, but Nix can be used to create them. There is support for configuring an installation of VS Code in the Nix language and using it as a package.
Is war ever “ok and acceptable?”

Leaders of militaries are targeted all the time during conflict.
For some value of “C”:

> Notably, it doesn't support:

> structs :-( would be possible with more code, the fundamentals were there, I just couldn't squeeze it in

> enums / unions

> preprocessor directives (this would probably be 500 lines by itself...)

> floating point. would also be possible, the wasm_type stuff is in, again just couldn't squeeze it in

> 8 byte types (long/long long or double)

> some other small things like pre/post cremements, in-place initialization, etc., which just didn't quite fit any sort of standard library or i/o that isn't returning an integer from main()

> casting expressions
MSVC and especially ICC got higher performance than GCC without exploiting UB, so how do you explain that?