skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We need to be pro-growth but it is difficult to balance that with sustainability. For example:

In practice, carbon taxes are easy to game and are counter-productive. The companies prioritize profits (growth) to the exclusion of sustainability; the governments are bureaucratic and slow, so they're always years behind the businesses playing the game.

> "uses less energy by being more efficient" (prime example are actually petrol cars, which have massively increased in efficiency in last few decades).

Jevon's Paradox is that as resource usage becomes more efficient (cheaper), there is a _greater_ overall use of the resource. This isn't bad per se, but it does mean that greater efficiency will not lead to reduced usage.

Nuclear power is one of our best current options, even though it's often derided for cost. But in lots of ways, we can't stop developing nations from burning fossil fuels, so energy developed nations produce from other sources can be use to capture those emissions.
I was an interviewer at two FAANGS, the best candidates clearly had the problems memorized.
That's an odd nonsequitor strawman you constructed to knock down. Did someone suggest LLMs as the solution or are you just asserting superiority over an imaginary guy?
No, because otherwise you wouldn't say "the foundation has been built". You'd say the "the house has been built".

Does a house need a foundation? Yes. Is the foundation the same as the house? No.
The problem with rooftop solar in the US is that the install cost is so high. Even if the panels were free, there are many areas where you'd be looking at 15+ year payback, which is a bad investment.

I'd love to do solar, but the only way I can make the numbers work is if I DIY'd the full install.
I can tell you from wearing a fit bit for a few years, in my personal experience all it did was increase my anxiety.
Time was when the word 'Hacker' meant somebody what was so clever that he could make marvellous things happen with minimal resources.

Now it merely means somebody who is antisocial enough to break into computer networks.
I don't have the link to the github issue handy, but I remember that the key was to ask for a lower version of python and then supply the `--force-reinstall` param. The fact that it only happened to some students was evidence that conda wasn't as hermetically sealed as nix.

My real gripe is that in that issue, the app developer couldn't really help--since it was a packaging problem--and the conda folks were unaware because the users had gone straight to the app developer. If there must be a third party doing curation, it seems to me that they should be more narrowly focused on whatever particular suite of tools enables whatever particular group of people--not on individual packages.

I know that conda lets users do this too, but I don't think that the environments compose as well as they do with nix. If you want Jim's envioronment, but with Susie's custom build of foo-tool, you can just take both as inputs, overwrite foo-tool as desired, and output composition. Your maintenance burden remains small. If conda handles environments with this kind of compositional attitude, I'm unaware of it.
Nowadays the default eco cycle that is used to rate European dishwashers typically takes about 3 hours or more, and drying could indeed be better, but other than that, I can't really complain. You can still select a 1-hour 70° heavy duty cycle if needed.

Same with washing machines. My wife gets annoyed, but as far as I'm concerned, I don't really care whether the default cycle takes 1h30 or 5h.
No, but I am torn between sad and "fine with it", because of the "it is my planet" logic.

Arrogant, and the likely justification for strip-mining etc, though honestly that thinking also lives in my mind.
My understanding is that NeRF¹ is just one (very interesting) approach to this. Another approach would be "Multi-View Stereo (MVS)", which you may be familiar with via software like COLMAP.

¹ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neural_radiance_field
The solution there is DDNS, which is one of the things behind MS AD and just works, and configuring that on pure Unix infrastructure is surprisingly easy.
https://archive.ph/baUlY

and John Berryman and his quote, “Literature bores me, especially great literature,” the narrator of one of John Berryman’s “Dream Songs” says, is further explored in an earlier New Yorker article https://archive.ph/oa4BJ
I think more to be able to live in climates where hunting, foraging, or farming year-round was not possible.
Worthwhile noting that most single hose AC units can usually be converted into double-hose with some cardboard, hose, and a lot of duct tape.

It's worth doing too - you'll normally get almost the double the cooling effect from a double hose unit of the same wattage as a single hose one, just due to the fact you aren't wasting coolness out of the window.

If you do this, note that it's important to use extra large and short (insulated) hoses, simply because the blower fans in your unit aren't designed for so many yards of hose.
Qualified immunity is doctrine and it is the law. It is doctrine that arises as a necessary implication of the foundation of a legal system.

> laws already protect law enforcement officers in the process of their duties; the removal or codification of qualified immunity would not affect that in the slightest

This is nonsensical. Qualified immunity is the very thing that protects law enforcement officers (and all other government officials) in the process of performing their duties.

To say that removing qualified immunity would have no effect on qualified immunity is not only tautologically false, it's a vile and dishonest attempt at gaslighting.
It looks like for Al Gore climate change is an opportunity to wage class war. And definitely an opportunity to score political points.

Yes, oil drilling companies made a lot of money from extracting and selling fossil fuels. Yes, those fossil fuels, once burned, created the mess we are in now. But we were the guys who burned them, we are equally culpable.

Instead of appealing to moral outrage, a much simple and equitable solution would be to pass a carbon tax.
With enough trees the microclimate changes enough that precipitation is more likely in that immediate area, which compounds the cooling effects on average.
Another commenter linked a video which I’ll re-link[0]. Essentially the conclusion of the HSCA was, as you say, literally entirely based on that recording. If the recording hadn’t been there, the HSCA actually was on the verge of concluding the same as Warren. (In other words, if the recording evidence wasn’t there they would’ve concluded Oswald lone).

The recording was, indeed, later found to not even be from the time of the shots but from an entirely different point in time, after police already noticed Kennedy shot. In that very recording, police officers say things in reaction to the shooting. After those voices, the “shots” from which the conclusion was drawn appear. Painfully obviously, that doesn’t make any sense.

Also the recording was in an entirely different point in space too, as it wasn’t even from a bike in the motorcade, as the HSCA thought but it from a different 3-wheeled-motorcycle stationed where Kennedy would’ve been arriving.

Drawing conclusions from that recording about the Kennedy shooting is probably less reliable than drawing them from the Live Aid concert version recording of Bohemian Rhapsody by Queen.

In summary, after adjusting for that lone error in HSCA, Warren and HSCA concluded the same.

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DC8tO16xdrY
Ok, but what other use cases are there for using this datatype? (Particularly in a web framework).
For programming, and other technicl troubleshooying, I think I'd add a step at the end of "Probe, Analyze, Isolate, Resolve"... Verify - verify that the actual problem was solved, or confirm the Resolve step if someone else is involved.

Mistakes and misunderstanding can happen throughout the process. A quick email or conversation regarding the resolution can work wonders.
Their issue was neglecting an automated SCRAM system that would halt all the trading or any alerting with manual intervention. The article touches on that. There was no excuse why the system wasn’t halted by 9:32 which would’ve avoided most of the kerfuffle
> Batteries can be sealed if needed, electric motors can be sealed too.

A gasoline/diesel engine will just seize up when exposed to water, and if it's on fire it will be extinguished. Same for electric motors.

Batteries however? No bueno. Both the Americans [1] and Russians [2] lost submarines to battery fires. Batteries are hard and marine environments are among the nastiest you can get with corrosive saltwater and mist everywhere and continuous extreme mechanical shock events from waves and storms.

This is also why I believe that it's a fools errand to waste any non-fossil fuel (no matter if "sustainable" production from grains, frying oil or similar, or synth-fuels) on heating homes like it has been proposed in Germany or driving cars with it. The stuff is far too valuable, we'll need it for a long time to power aviation and maritime navigation until we get batteries both high-capacity and safe enough for these cases.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Bonefish_(SS-582)

[2]https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jul/23/russia-submers...
One of the great UX features of printing is that it is a quick way to have an auditable form of state over time. I look at states 1-n, compare and contrast, which my debuggers don't make as easy.

I'd add many people don't work in languages with good debuggers. I work in TS and the debugging async node code is an absolutely garbage experience in many cases.
I only ever had the cold variety in Japan, but I can imagine the warm variety being nice as well.
Yep, “neural radiance fields”, effectively neural networks can be trained to model how light is emitted and moves in a volume of space to, for instance, take a few pictures of a scene and then be able the synthesize views of the scene. If it can be practically sped up it would be a way to make VR models of spaces without specialist talent in 3-d modeling.
And what about actual game sales and revenue through things like GamePass. It doesn't help your game if a million people bought a Nintendo Switch if 80% of them only buy Pokémon, Mario Kart and Zelda.
Can you please explain how does debugger can help in cases where you can't wait too long on a breakpoint because some thread or service waiting on it will fail? I do this many times at work in Java with intellij. I do fine with breakpoints most of the times but sometimes print statements is the only way to trace the thing.

From your comment I feel like I am missing better ways to debug.
I recently looked at a study about largemouth bass and discovered that in at least one lake, they don’t appear to be bothered by motor noise. Even if the boat is maybe 5 meters away.

They also appear to have interesting and unexpected seasonal migrations and spawning patterns. They will situate themselves for prolonged periods in very different parts of a lake, over and over. Almost like they have vacation homes, haha.

But perhaps most surprising to me was their lack of response to loud motors and water disturbance by boats.

I have no doubt motors do spook some species, like trout or salmon.
More and more software, especially on the web, is asynchronous microservices.

Debuggers are basically useless for both of those imo.

Debugger break points introduce synchronous behavior into your async application, which basically forces race conditions to fail when debugging.

And I'll admit to not being a debugger expert but I don't know of any that can watch multiple executibles at once.
The IPCC (aka broad scientific consensus) claims there will be net excess deaths due to climate change.

The OP has shown (in a deleted comment) that the IPCC has includes his argument in their calculation. IOW, there are enough deaths elsewhere to offset any benefit from reduced cold deaths.
Electic fishing vessel should be electric propulsion fishing vessel to avoid confusion with electric fishing, electrocuting fish [0].

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrofishing
Yes. It would have.

The specific part is configuration as code. So the config change (flag activation) and code change (flag calling) would have been synchronized.

And there wouldn't have been one server of 8 with a different build for a meaningful time and also if it did fail to deploy on that one server it would have been obvious.
Sounds like something I might try. The only concern is 90Hz polling rate on wireless, which might be important for gaming.

Also my current keyboard is $15
I think the quick & easy presumption is that lightly poisoned humans tend to keep on less weight, in addition to some appetite-suppressive effect of tobacco.
Oh no kidding? That's super cool, I didn't know that. And agreed!--
> You are going to hit the same issues whether you do this with Nix or you do this with plain old chroots.

The main advantage of Nix here is not its binary cache and reproducibility.
It is Nix's ability to bootstrap any compiler tool chain + coreutils + kernel from scratch with just a bit of line of config.

Nix allow you to do what you would normally with a chroot but under steroid. It is not a magic bullet, far to be, but one order of magnitude easier to setup the exact tool chain you want than with anything else.

Most path related problems can be solved with a bunch of link and/or patchelf.

> will try to set a rare resolution & refresh rate using Xrandr (good luck!), or will try to use OSS

On this your are perfectly right. That will not protect you against this kind of crap related to exotic dependencies.

On that aspect Windows again is not much better (probably worst). Good luck to try to run in 2023 an old game that has a dependency on Novell IPX, an old version of Nvidia PhysiX or harcoded assumption on the GPU type
Seven accidents in seven days
I'm a big awk fan but I'm not sold on this. The awk program is not very readable- I think that's fine for a dense one-liner, I'm not really sure it carries over to a 60 line script. I think for something like this I'd prefer a bash script, maybe with awk invoked somewhere, that would be much easier to understand at a glance.

Is there something in the awk script that makes it advantageous over a shell script?

Edit: I hadn't read the author's conclusion yet when I posted, he agrees

I consider AWK amazing, but I think it should remain where it excels: for exploratory data analysis and for one-liner data extraction scripts
Ehhh... assuming their dependencies and your operating system maintain compatibility with it on the order of decades, yes. Which do exist, but they're understandably rare.

And it's complicated by this only being knowable in retrospect, as you can't predict the future. "Not abandoned" is a positive sign for "if we failed to predict the future correctly, it'll be fixed", rather than mostly relying on luck.

(Thankfully full-blown simulation is often an option nowadays too)
I can see why seeing someone else making poor choices wasting their own money, making their quality of life worse, and destroying our shared environment, could be upsetting.

In a way it's worse than seeing strip mining, or those people who fish with dynamite, or people who litter. At least all those people are benefiting from their environmental destruction.
To me, it seems there are two sides to your point, one about trust, and the other about dollar value in context to growing federal debt. As for the trust, I think part of where things go beyond trust comes from a sort of self-reinforcing economic strength.

When the average monthly expenses for an American household add up to about $5,500, certain industries (like transportation (16.8 percent of those expenses), or food (12.8 percent) will always view the American economy as a leading market to operate in. At a macro level, it would seem that many businesses making this similar judgement call would create a dynamic that goes beyond trust.

Regarding the buying power of pensions point, I believe there are cost of living adjustment laws for buying power which require Army or Social Security pensions to react to USD's changing buying power over time.
Also, frequently needed actions should be doable mindlessly. With hotkeys, for example. The example from the world of physical UIs would be that one Tesla car that does everything — including shifting gears and adjusting AC — through a huge touchscreen. You need to actually take your eyes off the road and dashboard to operate it because you can't do it without receiving visual feedback. If it had a physical lever for gears and knobs for the AC, you would've been able to control these things using just your muscle memory.
Different people have to do (1) and (2), so it's not really a prioritization question.

But if both groups argue that the other group has to do their part first, or they won't act, then nothing will get done.
This model isn't novel, there's been experimental engines using this technique for years now. They're just not practical at scale
The ideal dimensionality of the parameter space depends on the jaggedness of the curve. Derivatives are useful when they stay constant over a stretch of time; when derivatives vary too much, it becomes more efficient to use more points of lower degree. This is the same calculation in other domains of approximation: numerical integration, DiffEq, and Taylor series.

For example, to draw rough surfaces, point-to-point lines are the most efficient way, with a ton of points. For industrial geometric shapes, lines and ellipses become efficient. As the smoothness of the curve goes up, more derivatives become valid. But sometimes those higher derivatives are not useful.

This is why the parent comment likes the Pencil tool; it's optimal for high variation, because it is a local (smoothed) control of position, the zeroth derivative. The cost is some loss of smoothness, which likely doesn't matter for her domain, since her hands move smoothly enough.

I think the Pen tool would be a more competitive alternative with a better control scheme. For example, a Pen tool with local control would unify the Pencil and Pen: letting you draw jagged curves by holding your mouse down, and letting you draw straight lines and smooth curves by clicking. There would be no interruption of flow, as you can use either method freely to continue a curve. They should inherently be the same tool anyway, just with different numbers of derivatives.
We just told 2 big vendors where to go as a result of not just 20% rises, but one was an eye gouging 600%.

We spent 2 manic weeks scrambling to implement alternatives but we have now done so and in the process saved ourselves several hundred thousand bucks and got arguably better systems as a result.

Lean doesn’t have to mean poor.
Full Title: " COVID-19 Infection Rates in Vaccinated and Unvaccinated Inmates: A Retrospective Cohort Study"

"Yet, using p<0.05 as the threshold for statistical significance, the bivalent-vaccinated group had a slightly but statistically significantly higher infection rate than the unvaccinated group in the statewide category and the age ≥50 years category. However, in the older age category (≥65 years), there was no significant difference in infection rates between the two groups. This suggests that while the bivalent vaccine might offer protection against severe outcomes, it may not significantly reduce the risk of infections entirely."
Granted, sport may at it's best exhibit some of those virtues, but it also encourages tribalism, the linking of one's identity and mental state to essentially a die roll of weekly fixture results, encourages heroicising people who while good at sport often fail to live up to hero status in other aspects of their lives, and, at least where I live, is inexorably tied through corporate deals and sponsorships with vices such as gambling and drinking. If we're being intellectually honest, it's not all sunshine and roses.
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Germany has more trade with China and they aren't in the belt.

Their actions are pretty sane.

Ps. Trade imbalance with China is also a thing and China is the only country in deflation.

Additionally, there are tons of reasons to derisk from China.

Main point is: the road and belt is overrated. Not many countries benefited ( not any that I'm aware of), after 10 years, most participating countries just have more debts and nothing to show for.
"Funding" through one road one belt dried up a long time ago.
this is … not how I’d do it
Gaussian splatting is an interesting take on the technique that seems to speed up fitting and rendering, see this article from a couple days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37415478
Unfortunately dual-hose ACs are not widely available. I just couldn’t find any when I was in the market. It’s single-hose only in my experience. Why this is I don’t understand. Had to buy one and try it to finally conclude that I was sane and society was crazy.
A safeguard doesn't have to be a revert.

A safeguard could be rate limiting. And or the ability to disable an API key or whatever the equivalent is.

This actually seems pretty reasonable to me.
I love trees and want more of them in our cities, my only point is that they are not usually a substitute for HVAC unless your climate is in a precise sweet spot of plentiful water, dry air, and not too much heat. Rather than letting wishful thinking snowball into bad policy and disappointment, let's promote trees by focusing on what they do well (what you've mentioned plus aesthetics and sound damping) rather than by ignoring the limitations of evaporative cooling.
I wonder if techniques like this could work for Gaussian Splattering too?

Also, they mention AR headsets and Drones in the conclusion, which would both be fantastic use cases. High quality inspections could be done by allowing the drone to capture the absolute best angles just-in-time rather than a predetermined path
Both my father and father-in-law are like this (both engineers, though I am not sure that has anything to do with it).

It is not just computer stuff, but it definitely happens there. I don't know what it is exactly, but it seems to have to do with expectations and assumptions about their ability to observe and predict. They expect the world to be in just this certain way, and if the world is not, then it is the world that is wrong--not them, by god.

I think it has gotten worse as they have aged, though I don't know that there is a correlation with age (e.g., like not necessarily cognitive decline or something) as much as just this deepening, crystallising certainty that has come by the mere fact of continuing to operate this way.
> I am also skeptical of Landis, but what do you mean about preserving evidence?

I don't really know, but it hardly seems like good practise to pick up a bullet. Don't crime scene investigators usually take calibrated pictures of important items such as bullets and often try to determine the trajectory?

There's also the chain of custody to think about - the bullet could easily have been swapped with a different bullet after he left it on the stretcher.
A common case for this is very simple APIs with very complex internals that e.g. dynamically switch behaviors or algorithms in certain contexts. The only way to test all the major code paths through the simple API is to hardcode implementation detail into your unit tests to induce all the various switching contexts indirectly. It makes unit tests quite brittle. At the same time, these internals are definitely not public APIs and unusable as such.
Try it with multiband diffusion here: https://huggingface.co/spaces/spatialgeneration/musicgen-mbd
I’ve been in a wreck and burned by the hot explosive gases filling those harsh burlap sacks known as air bags; I am opening a window or door ASAP too.

It’s funny how advertising depicts air bags as these soft pillows when they are anything but inviting during the moment of deployment.