skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why is that bad news? If you're interested in the outcome - someone has saved you work.

If you're interested in the process - or exploring your specific approach then why stop?
You actually believe, that producing a solar panel, transporting it to the installation site on the other side of the planet, and maintaining it consumes more energy than the module will produce? Where do you get your numbers from, the back of a cereal box bought from Wish?
> I'd want to remind you that there are countless complex OSS projects that are pushed ahead by remote teams.

... remote teams comprised of top 1% talent because they love their job so much they do it for free in their spare time.

Its not quite the same when you have a bunch of lazy wage slaves that want to do the bare minimum.
> Germany - the most vocal proponents of wind/solar - is the most polluting country in the whole EU.

Are they? Looks like it's Poland who is generating the most CO2 for electricity production.

https://www.eea.europa.eu/data-and-maps/daviz/co2-emission-i...
The energy budget is too low to allow for an additional layer of abstraction plus all the conversion that's needed.

For example, Apple just barely managed to make streaming spatial audio work on the airpods pro, and even then it has a noticeably shorter battery life then competitors, ~5 hours in ideal conditions.
Where you live you are subject to disinformation and nuclear is the last effort of delay and distraction.

You could put up massive solar and wind farms next year. How long would it be until sufficient nuclear capacity came online?
> and if (like YouTube) you don't care about a good user experience

Other than ads, which is the business model and keeps the content flowing... does YouTube not care about UX? I generally find the UX pretty good. I can always watch a video near-instantly, on nearly every device I own, search is astonishingly good even when my Apple TV mis-hears my searches, and it's one of the biggest video streaming sites in the world.

As a user I think the UX overall is pretty great. Sure there are things I'd tweak, but I can see reasons for them.
Which is already happening on non UNIX OSes.

Even on OSes that happen to use the Linux kernel like Android, those that insist on using the NDK and pretend it is like GNU/Linux, beyond the official supported use cases, end up bumping their heads against the wall.
I'm currently making a language learning app and I'm intentionally not gamifiyng it, as it is aimed at users who want to actually learn the language.
I don't want "a" directly elected commissioner.

I want a directly elected Commission. The same system would suffice - chosen by the elected parliament among its members.
Gaussian Splatting in general or this specific approach to animation. Can't comment on the latter but fine detail renders very nicely on still scenes.

https://lumalabs.ai/capture/ed9d985b-9cc1-49e0-a39c-88afa203...

https://lumalabs.ai/capture/83e9aae8-7023-448e-83a6-53ccb377...

https://lumalabs.ai/capture/7f8df9c9-c548-4a47-9892-e945637c...

https://lumalabs.ai/capture/076fcfdc-ea80-4fdc-8159-c9fed831...
>But easiest is to just null out the POSIX

And then wonder why some shared library dependency few layers deep blew up.
I don't think most services are requiring specific vendor attestation for Passkeys. I think most services are requiring authenticators that support user verification. Does your USB security key support uv?

E.g. https://www.yubico.com/products/yubikey-bio-series/
Well most structures will need repairs and updates over 33 years. Materials degrade for instance one the most common roofing materials asphalt shingles depending on the style has a life time of about 20 to 30 years. You also have things like heating and cooling system and such (they don't last forever) Plus just generally wear and tear and things like carpet that eventually just become and nasty and needs replaced.

Let alone things just getting dated.

If you look at typical house most of the labor and expense for materials is in the finishing not the rough structure like the framing. Look at the price of 8 ft 1x4 trim piece compared to just 8' 2x4 despite the 2x4 having twice the amount of wood. Then look at what generally needs to be replaced its not the framing unless the building was neglected or poorly built.
I bet it's a tax haven leeching of the countries around it.

To be honest, I also don't accept the argument if only you are well off in a poor country where everyone suffers but you make big bucks with a low tax rate. Are they enjoying a comparable healthcare? Adequate pension? If so, you should have been taxed more. I am a social democrat by heart and think that in the end economy serves society and successful entrepreneurs have inherent social responsibility because of the economic power they have.
> The elegant way out is to have the person owning the land self-assess its value, set the LVT at x% of that value, and be legally bound to sell it to anyone who comes up to them offering that price.

That doesn't make any sense in the context of a land value tax.

The whole point of a land value tax is that a parcel of city center land is taxed at the same rate whether it's got a parking lot on it or an apartment block.

But the owner of an apartment block would self-assess their land as much more valuable than a parking lot, not wanting to be forced to sell their apartment block for the price of a parking lot. So you'd be back to having a property tax, not a land value tax.
Another alternative is that no one did any studies because there's finite amount of people and a lot of other topics to study, topics which are better financed by various conglomerates;)
Going niclear is such a FUD anti-renewables campaign, it is almost loughable people still fall it. New nuclear plants take decades to build, and are extremely expensive. So no, no significant nuclear capacity increase. All that campaign does, is making it harder for renewables, and thus easier for fossil fuels. Quite ingenious so, if you think about it.
> Though we don't have the computing power for this currently

I don't think you get how big BB748 is. To use a metaphor:

If you took stuffed the entire observable universe full of computronium that can do more calculations in a fragment the size of a human cell than our entire civilization, then shrank that universe down to the size of a grain of sand and filled our entire universe with that, THEN did this once for every possible distinguishable person (ie. If you can say after a lifetime of detailed observation that person A isn't identical to person B then they're distinguishable) you still aren't even close to BB748. In fact, I'd be surprised if you're over BB10 and you're definitely under BB20.
And bureaucrats are unable to use the market itself to help value land because?
> utilizing or selling "free" energy from fossil fuels? Companies extract these, they often don't pay for the energy (just the cost of extraction)

Is solar or wind energy not "free" in the same sense?

Also: are the balancing costs of the network paid by those people selling the "free" renewable energy? As I see they often don't pay for that (not to mention the pollution that causes, which is still not paid by any energy producer)
I thought ChatGPT and LLMs in general use vectored word embeddings - which captures that dog and puppy are related (so you can take puppy, subtract dog and add cat to get kitten).

Wouldn't this also capture that the Estonian token for dog is related to English token for dog etc? So ChatGPT is 'thinking' in some kind of semantic tokens not English.
As a celiac i am not surprised ;)
Well, that's sad. What do they get from the state that people in Czech Republic don't?
There was a story like that a few years ago.

An ATR42 on a commercial flight had to interrupt it take off above V1=VR, after the plane failed to rotate.

Pilot suspected bad weather.

BEA concluded to rugby team on board.

They then made recommendations about how to sit these guests.
It's only in French, unfortunately https://bea.aero/les-enquetes/evenements-notifies/detail/acc...
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1dB8v4qO2QzkcwIC3IJc...
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> slavery and mass murder

Slavery possibly, though it's hard to even know what the word means when you get to construct the mind from scratch in order to imbue its fundamental idea of what experiences are nice and not nice.

Mass murder? That's even harder to define when the brain configuration is static and the updates are the signals passing through that structure. If that is murder, then anyone with anterograde amnesia is dying every working-memory-duration.
Most thinking people move beyond this position. An arbitrary position is no position at all.
You did not answer a simple question - how do you decide someone is a free loader, whether they freely decided to not produce?

I don't know. Just assuming anyone to be a freeloader is immoral. (By and large, there can be exceptions where they are loud and obnoxious freeloaders, but these are just exceptions.)
Could you be less gnomic, please?

I can't see any reason for this to be a distribution, incurring the overhead of replicating all of Debian, when instead it could be a single-digit number of packages that apply on top of a stable Debian release.

Why are you doing all that extra work? What value does it give you beyond "it is slightly fewer steps to install my image vs a standard Bookworm"?
Why change something that is already a well defined term in the context of generative AIs ?
I'm impressed by Ruff. I heard about it a while ago and just assumed I wouldn't be able to use it because it's not just flake8 I like, but a bunch of third-party flake8-* plugin packages too.

Turns out Ruff went and reimplemented the majority of those I use, from scratch. https://docs.astral.sh/ruff/faq/#how-does-ruff-compare-to-fl...
And three mile island and Fukushima. Nuclear has some serious concerns that are clearly not addressed enough.

Usually this is when the low death toll is brought up but it's not just about deaths. It's about environmental destruction. And the potential to do so in the far future through its waste.

I don't think we should move away from nuclear altogether but use it as a buffer only for the times when the real green sources are low (eg solar and wind). And we should find a permanent waste solution.
In this epoch of digital transformation and e-commerce supremacy, Tola Odeyemi’s Pledge, the visionary at the helm of the National Institute for Post and Shipping Services (NIPOST), has embarked on an extraordinary mission. His unwavering pledge to metamorphose NIPOST into a world-renowned e-commerce powerhouse is nothing short of remarkable.
The strangest things for me about this case is that the police arrested a football player without apparent cause. But, then I looked him up and I think I understand what's happening now.

https://nfldraftdiamonds.com/2023/02/tayvin-galanakis/
The most common usage I can think of is "they laid on a great spread" which would mean a fantastic buffet was provided.

Northern England native.
Stable Fast: Lightweight Inference Optimization Library for Stable Diffusion
I like to date and place entries, good for todo lists, recipes, experiments, interviews or lectures (fun facts), any idea that makes you laugh for longer than a minute solid, etc. oh and doodles/sketches. Artistic talent not required for personal amusement
What is this?

stable-fast is an ultra lightweight inference optimization library for HuggingFace Diffusers on NVIDIA GPUs. stable-fast provides super fast inference optimization by utilizing some key techniques and features:

CUDNN Convolution Fusion: stable-fast implements a series of fully-functional and fully-compatible CUDNN convolution fusion operators for all kinds of combinations of Conv + Bias + Add + Act computation patterns.

Low Precision & Fused GEMM: stable-fast implements a series of fused GEMM operators that compute with fp16 precision, which is fast than PyTorch's defaults (read & write with fp16 while compute with fp32).

NHWC & Fused GroupNorm: stable-fast implements a highly optimized fused NHWC GroupNorm + GELU operator with OpenAI's triton, which eliminates the need of memory format permutation operators.

Fully Traced Model: stable-fast improves the torch.jit.trace interface to make it more proper for tracing complex models. Nearly every part of StableDiffusionPipeline can be traced and converted to TorchScript. It is more stable than torch.compile and has a significantly lower CPU overhead than torch.compile and supports ControlNet and LoRA.

CUDA Graph: stable-fast can capture the UNet structure into CUDA Graph format, which can reduce the CPU overhead when the batch size is small.

Fused Multihead Attention: stable-fast just uses xformers and make it compatible with TorchScript.

Differences with other acceleration libraries

Fast: stable-fast is specially optimized for HuggingFace Diffusers. It achieves the best performance over all libraries.

Minimal: stable-fast works as a plugin framework for PyTorch. it utilizes existing PyTorch functionality and infrastructures and is compatible with other acceleration techniques, as well as popular fine-tuning techniques and deployment solutions.
There are definitely puffin crossings in London. But I think you're right - central London tends to have pelicans. The policy must not apply throughout greater London though.

Sometimes in the west end you'll have a hundred people waiting to cross - higher pedestrian signals on the other side of the road are probably more visible to everyone in that situation. And I guess it's helpful if crossings are consistent in an area: particularly in areas with lots of visitors.
I don't see this as a more suitable term; I had to check the definition of "confabulate" and the first hit in the macOS dictionary is "formal; engage in conversation" and the second is "psychiatry; fabricate imaginary experiences".

The fact I had to look it up to make sure, and that it isn't the primary definition, makes this a bad alternative to a well understood word which has already become established.
They take A decade, not decades. You're the one spreading FUD. There are successful new nuclear projects built very quickly in EU.

The only slow thing about nuclear is regulatory approval - hampered by EU that for many years didn't accept nuclear as "green".

Is nuclear more expensive that rebuilding the electrical grid and building enough storage to handle the wind/solar peaks and use the energy later? I don't think it's so clear. The solar/wind power plant itself is not the full cost.
Is that the problem though? Empty land held by speculators?
Latency and rendering optimizations in Phoenix LiveView
On open-source as a public good, licensing missteps, and community building
> ...that would be a pidgin... That's a creole...

What is it called when people (e.g. an colonized nation) generally speak one language but introduce a huge lot of loanwords from another into it (e.g. use their native words while speaking the colonizer language or the opposite) and generations grow speaking this 2-language hybrid as their mother tounge?
Office key = Ctrl+Alt+Shift+Win if you don't have a dedicated key for it on your keyboard.

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/topic/using-the-office-k...
Or the command line is too complex and/or poorly documented and chatGPT was quicker at solving it?
And it gave the 10x height rule for the distance to build new wind turbines. What a great achievement!

I do have the feeling so, as soon as the agricultural base of Bavarian conservatives can make more money per acre installing wind and solar power than by planting crips, they are going to be the first to jump at it.
SetEnvironmentVariable is thread safe on Windows, but their POSIX wrappers aren't. Windows has a better API design in this instance, and the guarantees by POSIX make it impossible to make a compliant implementation that can be used with threads.
Consider a similar irritation when seeing those with a superficial grasp of a complex topic oversimplify and make unwarranted conclusions.

And it's precisely the GPs unwavering certainty that HFTs are net negative that accurately informs they do not understand the full implications of what HFTs offer.

Because when you're aware of the full picture, it is not at all obvious society will be better off without it.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37912662
Currently the alternative to solar and wind, is coal and gas. Your argument that solar panels cost more in electricity to build and deploy could also be made about nuclear. I agree that we should build more nuclear power plants but do you have evidence that they require less infrastructure than solar? A nuclear power plant seems more expensive to build than a field full of panels. Uranium mining and refining is cheaper and easier than lithium mining and refining? Could you please share your sources I would like to read about that.

Nuclear, solar, wind, geothermal, etc are all better than coal and gas. We need to build more, upgrade infrastructure, not limit ourselves to one solution as our energy needs and decarbonization efforts will evolve over time. But the alternative to solar isn’t nuclear its the status quo of gas and coal.
It’s good to appreciate that people can be really different. For me your suggestion is a catch-22. For me to have a _close_ friendship with someone I need to like them a lot. But knowing myself, if I like someone a lot I _will_ fall in love. As in, this has happened and not once.

My wife on the other hand is a direct opposite of that. From having discussed past relationships, I don’t think she even knows what falling for someone the way I tend(ed) to do even feels like. I know that she loves me dearly, but that’s the kind of slow-burning long-term kind of love.

So, thanks, but no thanks. Following your advice would wreck my life.

Not that I have any problem with masculinity though. I doubt anyone sees me as super masculine to begin with.
Almost correct, except that since Windows 10 there is now a C runtime shipped as standard, ironically it is actually written in C++ taking advantage of its safety features over plain C, and exposing the C API via extern "C".

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/cpp/windows/universal-crt-...
If your handwriting looks good and gives satisfaction you will do it more. It truly helps embodying thoughts and ideas, and provides another significant layer (like flavour in a recipe) of learning and understanding.

I was fortunate to be taught Marion Richardson [0] style handwriting aged 8 or so, and decades years later my handwriting is still universally complimented. I hand write letters for pleasure and take notes by hand for more profound impact.

If you look after a young person or are willing to go relearn it yourself I highly recommend the discipline and style that Marion Richardson demands. While learning it at first it looks childish, but it provides a foundation that you will immediately adapt with your own flavour. It got dropped in UK schools in the 1980s for being too old fashioned, for which I read 'difficult'.

Sadly I cannot recommend any modern books or worksheets (through my own contemporary ignorance) but her original books from 1935 still stand up [1]

[0] https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/distributed/M/bo13...

[1] https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O1326657/writing-and-writ...
I don't remember it either, because I rarely write command line utilities.

Asking ChatGPT is just like looking up documentation, just faster ...
I wrote about my techniques for learning in an blog post^1 and a big part of my technique is the hand written notes and the zettelkasten. I like handwritten notes for a few reasons. It allows me to practice my handwriting, specifically cursive. It allows me to take a break from looking at screens. It also helps me remember things by creating that mind body connection. But also, it’s so easy to type almost word for word what is being said if you are a fast typer, or copy and paste large chunks of text and media verbatim into digital software. Handwriting notes makes me more selective of the things I write, which makes me have to think more about what I’m writing. Finally not having access to my notes all the time on my phone, or laptop means I have to actually commit then to memory. I can’t use being able to quickly look up something I wrote down as a crutch for not memorizing something.

Note taking is a skill and practice makes perfect. That and SQ3R has helped me get so much better at taking better notes. Plus alls I need is a some grid paper and a pencil, though my analog system has gotten considerably more sophisticated over time

1. https://www.deusinmachina.net/p/the-most-effective-way-i-kno...
thank you for the description. as a non-native english speaker i haven't heard the word 'confabulate' before, while hallucinate i learned from a young age.
>> Coal and gas plants are closing because they cannot compete on price with solar/wind + battery storage.

First of all, I'm not aware of any large scale battery storage facilities anywhere, they are prohibitively expensive.

Second, coal and gas plant's main cost, at least in EU, is carbon tax. So the fact that they can't compete on price is a result of political decision, not of any shortcomings of the technology itself.

>> Storage in particular is so early in the cycle that we can expect the cost will drop at least in half.

Battery costs will be rising for at least the next decade, before they can fall: we need to ramp up lithium production first, before we can do that there will be significant shortages driving the prices up. The more popular EVs will become the worse it will be.
Wow she sounds really secure in herself. Glad you got out.
Too late, the ship has sailed.
NASA's flickr account for high res images from Webb

https://www.flickr.com/photos/nasawebbtelescope/albums/72177...
Reads like a thinly veiled ad for Tower…?
That ship has sailed.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semantic_drift
> It’s something you just know if you’re bilingual or more.

Not in my experience.
While seasoning your weeds can be tasty and fun, it is significantly more labour intensive than Roundup. The additional hours put in to alternatives stack up quickly.
On the other hand, manager writing production code is a terrible footgun for the team. Time/resource conflict between helping a team and shipping code has no good outcome, either I let team down by decrease their productivity, or I let team down by slacking behind.
Plot twist: the research fueling these concerns was also published in major journals. Maybe the journals should get together and all their editors can decide to not publish research such as whether plants absorb heavy metals if you grow them in a medium shredded solar panels. Because that's obviously misleading bullshit.

"We removed the metal frames, electric cables, and plastic debris (Fig. 1) and then crushed the panel material into small pieces ... We used acid extract to simulate metal leaching toxicity and acidic corrosion, and then buried TFSPs in three types of soils..."
Oh? 50 years ago, the Lakewood, Colorado, police were called the "blue blazers" because they dressed with jacket and tie. I never heard they were better thought of locally.
Approaches to location-based pay (and the pros and cons of each)
You write as if there is no accountability in a democracy. The mayor can be voted out if he or she wants to use municipal funds to settle lawsuits due to poor judgement.