skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
this is clearly targeted at the segment that wants something nicer than the dwindling stock of refurb SX70s, but is too cheap for Mint's SLR670. so the only thing that surprises me is it's not an SLR.

just about the only thing this could possibly beat an SX70 on is the autofocus if it's good, maybe shutter speed but they seem cagey about it, and maybe durability.

the foldable sx70 is just too nice. who wants to carry around a brick?

if you are a camera hacker check out the OpenSX70 project.

edit: specs on the shop page https://www.polaroid.com/en_us/products/i2-polaroid-camera

98mm/f8 to f64 (28mm equiv), shutter 1/250 (seriously?), and AF is infrared so you'll hate it. fuckin analog yo
I confirm that an aluminium refinery is not something you stop lightly. I remember something about taking two weeks to restart? Maybe more. Source, had family working at a large northern plant.
many (most?) other countries already pay that much, it’s very doable, and would encourage people to switch to more sustainable forms of transportation
> Rust's requirement to consider memory management and lifetimes actively interferes with design work with effectively zero contributions towards functional correctness

I don't really agree with that. If you've decided on a design in Rust where you're constantly fighting with lifetimes (for example), that's a sign that you may have designed your data ownership wrong. And while it's not going to be the case all the time, it's possible that a similar design in another language would also be "wrong", but in ways that you don't find out until much later (when it's much harder to change).

> Rust's type system is not unique and is massively inferior to the likes of Haskell and Idris

Sure, but few people use Haskell or Idris in the real world for actual production code. Most companies would laugh me out of an interview if I told them I wanted to introduce Haskell or Idris into their production code base. That doesn't invalidate the fact that they have better type systems than Rust, but a language I can't/won't use for most things in most places isn't particularly useful to me.
Why Unreal Engine 5.3 is a BIG Deal [video]
Veilid, a New Decentralized Application Framework Unveiled at Defcon 31 [video]
Question to those in the know about this tech: Once captured, what do we do with all that CO2 saturated limestone?

From an article in late 2022, I found “Heirloom removes that CO2 by heating the limestone into a powder and stores the extracted CO2 underground” which leads me to believe this isn’t actually solving the problem, only sweeping it under the rug.
I wish they could stop using CF
This effect is much more apparent if you wear glasses, especially so if you’re astigmatic.

The corrective powers of the lensing accentuate this effect.
The first amendment protect the right of the people to say wrong things, not just right things. The legality of the government suppression doesn't depend on the things being said being right or not.

People who said wrong thing may have committed crimes or subjected themselves to liability for doing so-- freedom of speech doesn't mean freedom from consequences. But the government doesn't get to go shutting down speech it deems wrong if it did the first amendment would have no force, because inevitably whatever is censored is viewed as "wrong" in some respect by whomever is doing the censoring.
One of the things that helped me out going head-long into a platform engineering team right after graduation was a map of our deployment platform's infrastructure and a self-paced guide on deploying an app from A to Z.

The more experienced engineers helped me with clarifying questions as they came up, but were otherwise not busied-out teaching the newbie.
CO2 removal is bullshit. It's an easy way to throw some money and buy themselves a conscience.

We need to consume less, that's all. There is no silver bullet here.
The China Model Is Dead
Teenage Engineering stuff seems completely impractical. Is that the appeal?

Take the record player. It looks cool. But only plays 7" records. Through built in speakers. You can use external speaker, but through a 3.5mm plug?

What's the use of something like that? Maybe the idea is to use it as decoration? I don't get it.

All their products are like that.
This one has full manual exposure settings (not available in any previous Polaroid integral camera, as far as I know), plus shutter priority and aperture priority, continuous autofocus using LiDAR, external flash sync, a better lens, ability to use both 600 and SX-70 film, a “real” light meter, a much more sophisticated viewfinder, and probably something I’m forgetting. It really is significantly more capable than the existing, cheaper models.

Worth noting that this is seen as competing with the SX-70, which was previously the “serious” choice for Polaroid shooters. The SX-70 was $1300 in today’s dollars at launch, and fully refurbished ones are several hundred dollars now.

My impression based on reading reactions from people in the target market for this camera (ie serious Polaroid enthusiasts) is that the camera looks great and the price point isn’t crazy.
Same here for me.
Who appreciates coffee more? The person who drinks coffee made from rodent shit or the guy who uncritically chugs folgers?
Not really an issue to oversize anymore if the system uses inverter based compressors and multi speed fan systems. That said, those are unlikely to be used in the cheapest heat pump systems.
I believe one thing they're planning on doing is selling the CO2 to certain concrete manufactures.
Another thing is putting the CO2 back underground through certain processes!
I knew someone would respond to the "move over to the right". Yes, it doesn't apply to every single situation. In general, though, particularly for highway driving, it's a system that works well.
Le Guin's precepts on how to write fantasy are in "The Language of the Night".[1]
It's hard to get, but an excellent book.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Language_of_the_Night
Thanks for sharing. It is helpful.

I’m in the process of getting an income, but I’m working or becoming self employed, rather than an employee. I’m just wondering whether that can help me in anyway get a visa.
net send! I once accidentally messaged every computer in my high school "fck y" with that powerful little tool.
CEO should be fired - this is grossly negligent
Fuji has a couple Instax cameras that do that. They’re not as feature-filled as this camera, but they’re pretty cool.
If you put it “back underground”, wouldn’t it just get released again TBD?

Capture it, then use it for other purposes, but don’t release it again and don’t bury it hoping our grandchildren’s grandchildren will know not to go digging there.
They exist for pizzas in Europe.
I never stopped wearing a KN95 or better whenever indoors and also haven't gotten an airborne illness in over three years, which has been great. I think we will start to see long-term effects of people getting infected with COVID over and over (multiple times a year!) in the coming years.
At first glance I thought you were off by a factor of 4x, as 100gal of gas weighs around 1/4 ton but then I realised that the oxygen in the CO2 is coming from the atmosphere.
Totally. Getting everything to work was so rewarding. The actual playing of the games was icing on the cake
'All we want is revenge': How social media fuels gun violence among teens
> The 5 largest subtropical deserts in the world have enough room to hold 30 HEUs worth of solar farms.
If we built all those and turned them all on at once

Funny enough, this was done in the SF novel “The Hail Mary Project”, and derided by the scientists in the book for furthering climate problems dramatically by turning a normally heat reflective surface into a heat absorbent surface.

Worth investigating before committing our deserts to power collection.
Largest tennis match-fixing ring uncovered using cellphone records
> If you could get the price down to $100/ton

That is the price of a ton of coal. Buy it from China BEFORE it gets burned and you have a sensible strategy.

Sucking it back from the atmosphere AFTER burning takes 10x more energy which is complete insanity. "Getting price down" and "when it scales" is an utter misunderstanding of the situation. Scale doesn't defeat the laws of physics.
You're assuming that everything is run by purely logical data-driven statistics-oriented leaders with accurate models and methodologies.
The Computer Chronicles – Laptops (1989) [video]
This is all from memory:
Diethyl-ammonia works but is energy intensive to regenerate. Zeolites require less energy to regenerate but also absorb water. Some zeolite crystal structures might exist that are less hydroscopic, but have yet to be discovered. MOFs are like zeolites, but easier to fine tune and some good CO2 absorbers that are also not too hydroscopic have been identified. MOFs have some serious stability issues.
Some auditor recommendations from personal experience -

The top tier is Coalfire and Schellman, but you are looking at $100k in auditor fees. More affordable is BARR and A-LIGN. If you are happy to have multiple vendors, KPP for SOC2 and BSI for ISO.
https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/2511 Note the narrowness of (2) (a) and the broadness of (1)(a)/(1)(b).
This whole overachieving mentality is widely prevalent in the Asian American community. Every Asian kid from my generation was compared to their siblings, cousins, and peers relentlessly.

It's been shown that those Asian kids can be great at anything. They're founders, CEOs, politicians, artists, musicians, writers, whatever. (Still working on athletics)

I hope the next generation gets it a little better. It seems like they are. I never want to tell the next generation what my parents told me, which is that they had it harder and still could do better.
So much discussion about whether Cruise slightly delayed the ambulance from leaving the scene. Hardly any discussion of the fact that it was a human driver that ran over the pedestrian, "critically injuring" (brutally crushing parts of their body, so they bled out after the driver fled I assume) them in the first place.

Was the driver charged? Did the street design contribute? Nobody cares, because apparently a few dozen San Franciscans' lives per year are a worthwhile sacrifice to save suburbanites a few minutes on their commute.
I cant wait until we manage to fuck things up while trying to fix things.
I understand the unlikelihood of this, but to really capitalize on the film craze they need to produce a higher “resolution” instant film. Old peel away film was fantastically high quality particularly when paired with a genuine glass lens (most current instant film cameras have a plastic lens). Improving the lens can only go so far without improving the film stock.
I think 77% sounds about right. But I can’t decide if it’s 80 or 95 percent of those 77% that don’t need php in the first place.
Products like this cost what people will pay for them.
> Many technologies would be in the $100-200 per ton range if they were scaled.

No
How so? It's a really obvious approach these days. Doing it this way provides a web-accessible front-end and the actual hardware may be something compact like a tablet, phone, headless SBC, etc. (whatever can provide BT and promisc. wifi basically)

The web offers a fairly universal cross-platform, network-accessible GUI that can be developed with really high-level languages which happen to offer tooling that includes an extremely-empowering degree of readily-available utility libraries. What other language or ecosystem is as easy and broadly-accessible?
The data shows masks aren’t helping much, Covid is endemic, tested cases are barely up ( https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us/ debate on where it lies between confirmed cases and actuality) the vaccines and boosters help serious cases prevent death but arent really preventing spreading, and Covid wasn’t affecting young (40-) people much anyway. It’s also true that there are people who have taken things too far by wearing masks while they’re alone in their own car. There really isn’t much for the reasonable person to do anymore. Whatever you do, it’s not moving the needle much, besides being a healthy individual by normal means of diet and exercise.
> No, it is a fact. The same happens in the US.

Then why is the Canadian real estate market so much f'ed up than the US market?
The post really reminds me of a component of a platform I’m currently building. The problem really with this is finding not just good questions that do not discriminate individual models but also providing a good sample size (eg not just 60) to get really some meaningful results. And even if you have those, there is a drift in the quality of responses.

I'm the founder of Pulze.ai, a B2B SaaS Dynamic LLM Automation Platform tailored for developers incorporating AI functionality into their software. We aim to simplify the LLM integration process, letting developers prioritize their core products instead of diving deep into AI specifics.

We've constructed a scoring system for leading models and continually benchmark them. Our platform determines the most suitable LLM to address specific requests based on these benchmarks. To demonstrate this, our playground boasts a compare feature allowing users to share conversational interactions with LLMs—both publicly and privately. As the context changes, we pinpoint various models for responses. These shared conversations can be forked and extended.

Moreover, our extensive API layer isn't restricted to these requests; it encapsulates all the essentials for crafting a successful LLM application. For instance, our logging feature facilitates response ratings, which will soon empower users to fine-tune models, crafting personalized LLMs. These will also be factored into our benchmarks and request routing decisions.

Concerning the comment on LLM benchmarks, I completely concur. Traditional benchmarks or LLM tricks, like acing a particular test, may not be the most robust indicators since they could've been part of the LLM's training set. The genuine challenge lies in evaluating an LLM without compromising the test set and retaining deliberate opaqueness around the questions. Trust issues indeed!

Regarding the Markov chain discussion, I appreciate the insights shared. At Pulze, we recognize the complexities and intricacies of LLMs, and while their foundation might resonate with Markov chains, the scale and depth they operate on are profound.

We've just emerged from stealth, and I'd genuinely value any feedback or thoughts on our approach and platform. Thanks for taking the time!
It's so deeply imbued in my culture, for historical reasons. Will take some time to wean off
> The cool kids had a Barton Athlon XP 2500+ and a Radeon 9600. The rich kids had a 9800.

This made me chuckle. For my computer I went though a bunch of local computer stores, going through all their CPU boxes and got lucky on the second day. There it was, an Athlon XP with AQZFA stepping. Overclocked twice as fast as the other models, and the coolest of CPUs in that generation.

Overclocking of an AQZFA Athlon XP was as easy as using a pencil to draw a line in between the two right pins. The mods I've seen on LANs to cool this thing were something else. From custom-built PLC radiators to water cooling setups, which were the new hot stuff at the time.
You apply the phrase "too fucking stupid" to others yet fail to mention that mask mandates are not effective:

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/21/opinion/do-mask-mandates-...

Those "1-ply cotton cloths" do little more than prevent police from IDing ANTIFA protesters burning, robbing and generally raise hell in, e.g., Portland, Oregon (even though police will likely never do anything about it).

Clean restrooms are something we can do - it only requires will, acceptance, skill and persistence: the will to maintain certain hygeine standards, the acceptance that some tasks are unpleasant yet worthwhile, the cleaning skill (most young'uns don't know how to properly sweep a floor, much less swing a mop) and the persistence to, well, persist!
That is what many marketers do, yes. I've worked in ads, I know how it works. If the numbers aren't there, they usually don't continue.
Some of his movies were ahead of their time, like Happy Together [1], amazing directing and performance. The acting was soul crushing [2].

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5VPvFaAWX9U

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qlPsE0gKTd4
Even after a half dozen lan parties, my group of friends could never figure out how to get windows file sharing working reliably. Eventually I set up an http server so people could download patches and stuff. Worked great. I put a sign on the wall with my IP address, 10.1.1.32.
This is what my desktop looks like:
https://i.imgur.com/Mo9ku4W.png
https://i.imgur.com/pq3fwBk.png

I use Kitty for my terminal, i3 for my window manager, vifm for my file manager, vim/neovim for my editor and Firefox. All of my virtual desktops handle different things, like watching movies, doing AI projects, web work, game development, graphics work, etc.

You can do all of this stuff in Windows or on a Mac, but I'm using minimal resources with a highly streamlined workflow. Everything that I can script, I script. I also use Zsh with quite a few plugins so the terminal itself isn't so important. I use Kitty because it's fast, can render graphics, is well documented and has a ton of features.
I’m looking forward to seeing how we turn solar energy into captured carbon energy for resale. It’s carbon neutral, after all.
Why turn it into charcoal? I guess decomposing would release it? What should one do with the charcoal?
All the China hype has shifted to anti-hype. Is it any more valid?

I have always tended to think China's model would hit a ceiling due to lack of individual freedom. If you can only do what government thinks is a good idea, it's hard to imagine much innovtion happening.

But many places, including Taiwan, grew rapidly under authoritarian rule, where those economic decisions were easy for government - when you start that far behind, you only need to follow a well-paved path. But my understanding is that they hit a ceiling when they run out of pavement and need to find their own way forward. Try to name any one person or organization in the US, for example, that could make those decisions for every business, technology, resource, university, etc. in the economy. It's just not plausible.

The others, such as Taiwan and South Korea, threw off authoritarian rule, became free, and then moved into the ranks of first world countries. China may do the same - it would be a great moment in human history, not to mention economic history, if the people in China found freedom.
> So that means if you have a mine, you can't just mine do minimal refinement and then throw it on to the international standardized metals market the way it works for other materials. You need to build a highly sophisticated chemical processing facility that can handle your material specifically and produce high quality materials in a sufficient quantity that car makers can go threw the many rounds of testing that are required before a new source material ever makes it into a car.

Grain of salt, but Jindalee claims 97-98% extraction rate on acid leeching cores at the McDermitt site on the northern caldera, on an inferred 21.5 million tons of lithium carbonate equivalent. They're expecting 1400 ppm on 3 Bt. Cores from Lithium Americas's inferred 19 Mt LCE find at Thacker Pass on the southern caldera is extracting at 84% on acid leeching. (For context, Clayton Valley's brine project converts at 85%.)

Jindalee also claims they can also extract lithium phosphate from it and convert it to either carbonate or hydroxide. That's cool, but they don't really go into the cost of doing that, but I think the point is that it's supposedly a very flexible lode.

> Since the lithium industry is comparatively so small the necessary expertise to do these things is not at all common. A few companies can do it and that's not very many people. So getting a team together that can pull of a major project like that isn't easy.

GM and POSCO (the Korean cathode active material supplier for GM) are already working with Jindalee on feasibility of exploiting clay at scale, and GM already bought $650M of equity in Lithium Americas back in January for Thacker Pass. Probably know by February/March 2024 what the damage will be for processing clay, but Jindalee already expects to know whether they'll be shovels-in-ground by June 2024.

That is a very fast turnaround for something that hasn't really been done before at any scale, much less 30 Mt of LCE-scale. Which I think is also why this article is a bit more focused on whether they can learn enough from how this find came about to make more finds like it. They might not know how to extract clay for a while, but if they can learn how to find more similarly exploitable clay first, they can get more investment to catch up.

Inferring >30 Mt of LCE at 1400 ppm from just two sites in one caldera still seems like plenty of reason to fund figuring that out ASAP, though. Clayton Valley is like 6 Mt LCE; at this stage of the process, they were suggesting 1.3 Mt LCE at 900 ppm, on a feasibility target of 400 ppm. That was good enough for $700M in funding.
Restricting speech can lead to censorship and the suppression of dissenting voices, potentially undermining democratic principles. Determining what content should be restricted is subjective and can be susceptible to abuse, causing bias and political manipulation. History shows that limitations will expand beyond their original intent, stifling legitimate criticism (examples include McCarthyism, Patriot Act, Great Firewall of China). Instead of relying solely on government intervention, promoting media literacy, fact-checking, and responsible journalism can be more effective in combating misinformation while preserving essential democratic values. The temptation for authority figures to abuse their authority is too great.
Opt Out of Cynicism (2021)
weirdly I interpreted "long life" as a continually running program vs something that had a very clear input, short lived execution, and a clearly defined output.
How long until Google makes eye tracking a requirement of the open web, preventing anyone with banner blindness from using it?
Wouldn't it cost less to replace their stoves than to double energy costs?
> Well, finally, I would say that a blanket ban on the sale and manufacture of new semiautos with switchable mags would very likely make them disappear over time the way automatics would, for criminals as well. Then you aren't criminalizing their possession, but the supply will naturally go down.*

I don't support the most extremist takes on it, but with comments like this, you aren't a "tepid 2A supporter." You flat out oppose it, so let's at least clear the air and be honest.
Didn't paper mags come with subscription cards?
Along with every other goddam page on the web. Welcome to 2023.
R22 was banned from new HVAC units in 2010, and was only banned from import in 2020.

R410a isnt even banned from new HVAC until 2025, and they've stated they'll permit importing until 2037 for maintenance purposes.

Seems pretty straightforward that you can easily/cheaply service the unit for at least 10 years, then after that you're going to need to potentially pay a lot more.... which seems entirely reasonable, given that the service that requires lots of additional refrigerant is exactly the problem the EPA is trying to solve: refrigerants leaking into the atmosphere.

Honestly, I'd be much more worried about being able to find parts for the complicated heat pump systems (electronics, mostly) 10+ years down the road than I would about being able to find refrigerant.
Let's make life more difficult for the people already with the hardest life. Nice mentality.
Also the first day was mostly making sure the decentralized backups of MP3s and funny videos were replicated to all machines.
They get that rarely enough that it's newsworthy when they do.