skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
These types of analyses would be better answered by people with tacit knowledge, which it seems is the missing piece over all. The workpiece in action would probably answer some of these relational questions between machinery across continents, but having people who can use them is prohibitive I suppose. Still, some progress is better than no progress and nobody is regressing back to using this stuff. Maybe an Amish community somewhere knows more?
Has anyone seen a technical explanation for how Nanite is implemented?

As someone technical but lacking domain knowledge in the gaming/graphics industry, I'm very curious about the way this is being explained as cheaper to render than high detail polygons.
When buying diamonds, be aware that most consumer name brand frqnchises will scam you. To protect yourself, you need to things: (1) a price sheet like from Rapaport and (2) an understanding of this diamond grading works. The most common craziness I saw while diamond shopping in USA was low quality diamonds but with large carat counts being sold at huge markups. Another thing to look out for is cheaper certifications; some certifications are much stricter on grades than others. GIA is reliable, look for it. You also need to read the etching of the diamonds cert number on the physical diamond yourself; in one instance a friend had his diamond swapped by the dealer, and proved it thru the physical etching.
Are you implying that docker containers don't run a unikernel that can only run one application at a time? /s
What's the name of that art style? It's like 90s clip art and I hate it.
I'm not sure what you mean by "there" because metropolitan areas typically do not have much agrarian enterprise, but Arizona grows plenty of cotton, beef, and citrus, and always has.

https://extension.arizona.edu/arizona-citrus-resources

https://www.arizonabeef.org/the-beef-story/cattle-in-arizona

https://www.cooperranchlife.com/contact

https://azgrassraisedbeef.com/shipping/

Of course, the urban landscape as it is now, used to be dominated by farmland, and so it isn't what it used to, but if you meant to write "they can't grow food there" that also another lie, because there is plenty of food that grows quite well here. In fact, several of my friends love to share the produce from the trees in their yards and their backyard gardens.
I really wanted to move everything to Porkbun from Gandi after their announcements, but they don't support .st names and I'm not interested in having multiple providers. So I'll be sticking with them until further notice. The price changes seemed to only(/mostly?) affect their email hosting offerings that I don't use...but the change of hands in general makes me nervous.
>> (OP) the agriculture needed to feed the amount of people on the planet doesn't seem like it will survive

> (you) The earth is getting greener, rapidly. The maximum human carrying capacity is probably higher

The actual myth (read beyond the title):

"CO2 is actually the "food" that sustains essentially all plants on the face of the earth, as well as those in the sea. And the more CO2 they "eat" (absorb from the air or water), the bigger and better they grow"

As I understand this exchange, you've challenged the claim that climate change will negatively impact agriculture by pointing out that Earth is getting greener, supported by yours

> Hint: The green stuff is food, for either humans or animals humans can eat.

The page I've linked debunks exactly this.

> A specific plant’s response to excess CO2 is sensitive to a variety of factors, including but not limited to: age, genetic variations, functional types, time of year, atmospheric composition, competing plants, disease and pest opportunities, moisture content, nutrient availability, temperature, and sunlight availability. The continued increase of CO2 will represent a powerful forcing agent for a wide variety of changes critical to the success of many plants, affecting natural ecosystems and with large implications for global food production. The global increase of CO2 is thus a grand biological experiment, with countless complications that make the net effect of this increase very difficult to predict with any appreciable level of detail.

> Sure, humans do that until they industrialize, then they slow down.

Overshoot is not only about population, but also about consumption and pollution.
> In July, Phoenix also set a record with a 31-day streak of highs at or above 110 F (43.3 C). The previous record of 18 straight days was set in 1974.

Something tells me the new record will stand for a long time.
Schedule for the release:

* https://www.freebsd.org/releases/14.0R/schedule/

Currently live release notes:

* https://cgit.freebsd.org/src/tree/RELNOTES

* https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-src/blob/main/RELNOTES

Particular commits that stated they should be noted in the notes ("Relnotes: yes"):

* https://cgit.freebsd.org/src/log/?qt=grep&q=relnotes%3A&h=ma...
I mean I’d even argue that Google domains is important in terms of making the product a seamless experience when using GCP (and generally just carving out Google as being part fundamental internet infrastructure). I wouldn’t underestimate how much a small QoL thing like having one company as both your registrar and cloud service provider can impact the choice of which otherwise commodity service to use. Not having to do a bunch of domain verification BS for every new piece of infrastructure is (was) a pretty awesome experience.

Sure you can have an MBA look at the situation and ask “Do we really need a registrar? The other cloud providers don’t have one and look at their margins”. So what this really signals to me is that Google has lost all capacity to be forward thinking, trendy and innovative. And without that (and thus a general relevance as a tech company), what is Google?
It’s on their Wikipedia page:

> In February 2023, Gandi was acquired by Total Webhosting Solutions, forming a new brand, Your.Online. In June, the company announced drastic price increases, including a new monthly fee for mailboxes previously included for free.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gandi
The article would have been stronger if it had benchmarks showing the performance improvements of this technique. My intuition is that the memory overhead of strings is not the main performance issue with most compilers.
What lie detectors? Polygraphs are not effective.
But that needs a bigger conspiracy than just kill JFK.

Either there are two shooters working together from the beginning, or one knows about the other and the other does not.
I've installed a clean windows 11 on some okay hardware a few days ago (i7 10750H, 32G ram, two 5GB/s NVMe SSD, GTX 2060) and everything is so astonishingly slow, at first I was mad but now I'm just utterly amazed.

I'll sometime wait three seconds for the explorer to open. Launching any non-trivial app takes on average 10 seconds. Sometimes copying stuff from a disk to another will show the incredible speed of 2 MB/s on stuff that should be literally instant. I have to wait for git which literally never happens to me on Linux ; just opening an MSYS shell lags (it's just a console and bash ffs!). MsMpEng.exe uses 15 - 20% CPU constantly even when turning every A/V shit off. And let's not even talk about usability - I got stuck for some reason with keyboard layouts that I didn't install, and apparently in Win 11, by default, not less than THREE SHORTCUTS will switch between layouts - ctrl+shift, alt+shift and win+space, which made coding absolutely insane until I could find a way to the "advanced keyboard settings" where the "alt+shift" shortcut could be turned off (which apparently also automagically turned off the "ctrl+shift" one).

And I could find hundred of messages on boards complaining about this, with "Microsoft MVPs" answering with the most generic and useless advice like "chkdsk", "do a check from your bios", "update your drivers".

Linux on the same hardware absolutely flies even when ran from a USB 2 stick, with as much eye candy with e.g. KDE Plasma.

And let's not talk about C++ compile times which are insane in Windows with the exact same compiler & toolchain (clang 16, libc++, lld...) compared to Linux, even when taking care of installing it on a separate drive, excluding the whole drive from virus scan...
... and based on that chart are now hotter than any time in the last 100k years, heading into the last few million. A few 10s (of million) years at +25c are going to be the "new normal"? I'm trying to understand the point. The rate of change is quite dramatic, and the last time (Eemian) there was anything like this there were "rapid" 12c oscillations.

Humans didn't exist. I suspect most current plant/animal species are "devolved" by such swings.
Rather than relying on generic text substitution using m4 or perl or whatever, I suggest using SGML, the basis and common superset of HTML and XML, which comes with easy type checked text macro (entity) expansion for free or even type-aware parametric macro expansion. Where "type" refers to the regular content type of a markup element (ie. its allowed child elements and their expected order) but also considers expansion and escaping into attributes or other context such CDATA or RCDATA. Only SGML can extend to the case of properly expanding/escaping potentially malicious user comments with custom rules such as eg. allowing span-level markup but disallowing script elements, does markdown or other Wiki syntax expansion into HTML, can import external/syndicated HTML content, produce RSS and outlines for navigation, etc. Works well for nontrivial static site preparation tasks on the command-line; cf. linked tutorial and command line reference.

[1]: https://sgmljs.net/docs/producing-html-tutorial/producing-ht...

[2]: https://sgmljs.net/docs/sgmlproc-manual.html
could this be relevant in this context?

https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1029/202...
Related to this I just came up with an explanation why I seem to do well at estimating risk--I'm a risk taker, doing seemingly dangerous things in practical & safe ways. After seeing and doing a lot of that, you development good senses.
I've raised this question several times, but it bears repeating: What's Google's rationale behind this decision?

Domain management appears to be a crucial component of a comprehensive cloud solution. It may serve as a loss leader, but it's undeniably an effective entry point for both Google Workspace and Google Cloud. After all, competitors like AWS and Cloudflare offer this service.
*) based on a computer model.
Oof, and it didn't work. That's pretty rough to find out at mile 200!
Less regulation more personal responsibility (FAA)
I made an Unreal map of my high school. Was really awesome and had pretty much all the nooks and crannies. Even had that weird stairway hidden in a crevasse of a hidden tunnel. Hadn't been opened in decades with the amount of rust. I mean, I did a hell of a job.

Next month, Columbine happened. That put an end to me releasing that map anywhere.
The best way I have to understand why it has been so hard to shift to renewables is: so-called "growth proponents" are the actual "degrowth proponents" who are completely okay (and would prefer) billions of people dying.

"Survival of the fittest."
Only some are more culpable than others. The climate crisis represents the single biggest failure of humanity. How stupid do our leaders need to be to know about an extinction level event (or at least one that threatens the breakdown of civilisation) with > 50 years notice and take no substantive action? They should be charged for crimes against humanity.
1. You write and prove the correctness preserving transforms yourself. They are low-level, so you only need to do a small number of them.

2. The aim is to apply the transforms in such a way that you get different code, which is still efficient, or maybe even more efficient. This is where you rely on the "intuition" of the LLMs. No guarantees there, that's why it was a question.
> Why can't we have an energy surplus and also need to reduce consumption of carbon-intensive goods? It's not clear to me why they'd be mutually exclusive.

The vast majority of carbon-intensive goods are related to energy production. Even when people talk about things like transportation and agriculture and construction, a major proportion of their CO2 emissions are from burning fuel.

> If e.g. smelters still need to use coal, then an energy surplus doesn't help them.

Smelters are using coal for heat. Burning it directly on site is more efficient than burning it in a power plant, losing most of the heat to conversion inefficiency, losing some of the electricity to distribution and then turning what's left back into heat.

If you had cheap electricity that didn't come from burning coal they could just use electric heat. At which point there would be no need to reduce steel consumption.
This is very close to my feeling on the matter, and if I remember correctly there was even a case of cover up related to the fact that he visited the embassies (which can also be interpreted as not wanting to divulge their intelligence sources).

However, it seems like the well known facts about Oswald (the communist background) weren't a major issue at the time (at least from what I gathered), so maybe there wasn't anything to cover up

Anyway, if the US government doesn't want to stir the cold war issues around the assassination, is it a conspiracy or just common sense statesmanship?

[edit]: I think I misread you, I do not think the soviets were involved, I think this is an extremely risky move no one would do. I do think there were probably fears it would be perceived as a foreign assassination which drove some actions in the US government.
I got a wrong answer (via API):

"Sally has 2 sisters. The three brothers are all siblings, so when it's said that each brother has 2 sisters, it means they all share the same two sisters - one of them being Sally."
They used it to upsell Google Workspace, as well as their own TLDs (.dev, .app). And although they didn't upsell GCP through it, the integration between the two was a nice (small) incentive to use GCP.
The phase-out under the Montreal protocol is an ongoing process, but we are far from there. The HFCs that replaced (H)CFCs in the 90s quickly turned out to be fastes growing category of short-term climate pollutants in many countries in the world [1]. The Kigali Amendment to the Montreal protocol from 2019 now covers HFCs too, and the EU limits them since 2015, but these things take time…

R-410A, commonly used in Europe, has a GWP of 2088. Worldwide, R-22 still is the most common refrigerant. That’s a HCFC, so stratospheric ozone depleting, and with a GWP of 1960.

[1]: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.1216414
It's not mentioned in the article, but the author uses AppImages for GUI applications wherever and whenever he can. He's very well aware of this aspect of the classic Mac OS and seeks to emulate it as closely as possible.
I'm a paying Workspace customer, running a domain for my family. I reallllly don't want to migrate off but with each passing month I'm growing more and more nervous.

What are my alternatives besides Office365?
When I was young, in 1978, I went to the US. Hess Open in Phoenix, in August. It blew my mind, how hot it was. Then in 1998 my wife and I moved to Arizona, but in a cooler spot two hours north of Phoenix in the mountains. Love Arizona after we lived in a crowded beach town in California.
Listening to the example audio the pauses are fairly long and awkward. Having been forced to communicate with AI like this in a drive thru, I can say personally that it's painful enough to make me reconsider ever calling back; I've never been back to that drivethru.

I would put a priority on making it far more fluid. Also important is the way it answers the call, which is completely lifeless and devoid of energy. Though I guess this matches the way most teenage workers answer the phone :)
Like this?

https://www.theonion.com/addressing-climate-crisis-bush-call...
I was there and in it for a little while. The strangest thing was it was over 100 degrees for most of the night many nights. It's crazy going outside at night and it's extremely hot. When it's over 110, sitting outside in the shade with a cold drink is even unpleasant. One needs to be in the pool or dripping wet after having just gotten out for it to be tolerable. There are no outdoor sports anyone can do at that temperature safely except swimming. Some people even refer to it as reverse winter because one has to spend so much time indoors and you can't even change your clothing to be comfortable outside.
polotics says "...what is now ao(sic) blindingly obvious to any casual reasonable observer..."

Hmmm, "any casual reasonable observer" - that would be a scientist perhaps, and "casual reasonable observation" would be "science"?
Maybe my assumption of how MoE would/could work is wrong, but I had assumed that it means getting different models to generate different bits of text, and then stitching them together - for example, you ask it to write a short bit of code where every comment is poetry, the instruction would be split (by a top level "manager" model?) such that one model is given the task "write this code" and another given the task "write a poem that explains what the code does". There therefore wouldn't be maths done that's combining numbers from the different experts, just their outputs (text) being merged.

Have I completely misunderstood, does Mixture of Experts somehow involve the different experts actually collaborating on the raw computation together?

Could anyone share a recommendation for what to read to learn more about MoE generally? (Ideally that's understandable by someone like me that isn't an expert in LLMs/ML/etc.)
> If there’s a common workaround for this pattern in makefiles I’d love to learn it.

"make clean"?
You'll see, everything will be fine, even better than fine. Maybe you'll even live long enough to finally understand what this is all about, maybe not, that's not important. We'll be fine.
https://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/electronics/

and Leo's bag of tricks on youtube:

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGvOmwZvhVk

2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RWRbSn4uDow

3. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4F_O1RPyrC8

A Raspberry Pi Pico running micro-python is a nice way to play with electronics without completely leaving the land of software.
China is producing the majority of junk the rest of the world consumes. Also, while of course, China needs to be a partner in reducing emissions, but it's also important to remember that they are emitting less per capita then many EU nations, not to mention than the USA.

The ideal here would be for the world's richest countries, whose wealth has been built off of emitting the majority of the CO2 already in the atmosphere, to fund massive green energy projects in countries like China and India. There's no reason why China should be building new coal plants to bring electricity to their population while the already electrified EU and USA twiddle their thumbs and import another hundred million tonnes of plastic doodads.
Do you play piano?
If the JFK and RFK assassinations were done by secret services it seems to make a lot of sense (psychologically) that they'd use people that were the "opposite" of themselves as patsies.

So some right-wing CIA people (and their Mafia/Anti-Castro helpers) used a left-wing communist Oswald as the patsy for JFK. There was a lot of motive for these people to kill JFK

And then some Jewish Israel Mossad people copycatted for the RFK assassination, using a Muslim Palestinian as their patsy. There was a lot of motive for these people to kill RFK. (And I shouldn't have to say this, but I'm Jewish, so this isn't an antisemitic thing.)

But I agree with the point that it mostly doesn't have much impact on the modern world. Whoever was involved in these assassinations doesn't hold power any more. They're dead.

No kind of reconciliation process is truly required to prevent this kind of thing in the future. The world has changed and that's why these kind of political assassinations aren't used in the west today.

Not because there aren't people that wouldn't love to have this tool. It's just not as viable as it was in the time before mass surveillance and uncontrollable information flows.

Try to imagine pulling off the RFK or JFK assassinations with a large number of uncontrolled smartphones posting and even live streaming to the internet.
Tumor Wars
That also has some flaws if not combined with gender/race ratio in those levels. Underpaying for the same level isn't the only potential issue, but bias in hiring and promotions for more senior roles could be too.
Never heard about player feeling guilty about immoral action they performed in a game?
Fun memories. I remember when we had to borrow internet from a city building across a field, using some weird antenna setup. When it rained the internet went down.

And of course the random rage quits of keyboards being thrown across the entire hall.
I work for a federal defense contractor that is required to prove in Department of Labor audits that pay is not discriminatory. The possibility of losing those federal contracts is an existential threat to the company. Definitely not "niche cherry picked reporting stats that few people look at."

The significant restructuring (affected several hundred people) that you describe did in fact occur.
That seems a simplistic evaluation. North America is already experiencing anomalous weather events and climate change isn't necessarily just going to be areas getting hotter (although that will happen), but also weather patterns drastically changing. The big issue is of course food security and changing weather patterns are going to decimate some crops and result in widespread famines.
There are a few things
1) the tradition of tight code writing has been abandoned in favor of fast deployment, to the point of people expecting day 0 bugs in software.
2) webpages themselves are bigger.
3) latency from webloading trained people to expect it locally, and a lot of apps are just wrappers around what are effectively webapps.
This is the part of the problem it’s almost impossible to get people to accept and understand.

The wilful ignorance, even among some of my own relatives, is legitimately terrifying. I tried to explain the concept of a tipping point and got chastised for buying into fake news.

For a while I thought maybe a lot of people just think it’s exaggerated or something. Nope. They fully think the entire concept is a work of fiction, despite the overwhelming (and increasing) mountain of evidence.

It’s legitimately crazy out there.

Climate tipping points are poorly understood and are cumulative. We really don’t know if melting the glaciers is going to be enough by itself to raise the temperature enough to trigger the next domino to fall without further emissions which are also still increasing.

It’s not been over-dramatised. If anything, I believe the consensus view is too reserved in how it views the limits of impacts at 1.5 degrees.
A lot of things are making everything including cities hotter. Here in Texas it was 110 at my house yesterday in September. I live way way way outside of a large city. I personally think concrete/asphalt absorbs and retains a lot of heat keeping things hotter. If we could just reflect more back I think it'd help much more. I have solar on my house and it practically pays for my AC Bill.
can’t wait to get this CRISPR’ed into me
And yet, a significant chunk of Ukraine is under their control. So, send more billions maybe? :^)