skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Too vague, too general, and contains misunderstandings.

All the main Pis have had a Model B. There was a RasPi 1 Model B, RP 2 B, RP 3 B and RP 4 B.

Preferred alternative for doing what?
so hot in summer, cold in winter, best of both worlds :)
It's more than $20 for everything but you can buy extension PCBs that more or less turn the Pi Zero 2W into a full-size Raspberry Pi with USB-A and Ethernet ports, also making it compatible with some full-size Pi cases.
... And a partridge in a pear tree.
Opened the site, realized the vertical axis configuration, closed the site again.

Offsetting zero is an annoying practice.
> Anthropology has a lot to say about economic history, particularly when it comes to debunking some of the foundational myths like Smith's 'barter theory.'

It is not a foundational myth. It is certainly a topic of interest for some economists, but it is not something that you would get asked during your qualifying exams. Dynamic stochastic general equilibrium models are far more foundational.

> a lot of what passes for economic 'common sense' is actually historical narrative, which is exactly where anthropology excels

Everything is a text, therefore a literary studies professor is an expert on everything. Everything is a result of human action, therefore an economist is an expert on everything. Everything is a result of social interaction, therefore a sociologist is an expert on everything.

That’s a dangerous attitude that’s unfortunately common among such fields as sociology, psychology, literary studies and economics. It overstates the expertise of people in the field and mystifies the field itself.

Being an anthropologist doesn’t make you an expert on QM and GR just because the history of physics is a history of narratives.

> Cross-pollination between disciplines is how we get past stale paradigms.

There are lots of people who already do that out there. Economics is ripe with such examples, both past and recent. But being hostile and acting as if you know more than people who study the subject for a living leads nowhere.

> I'd also like to point out that economic anthropology is an academic field in it own right, for which Graber is considered a significant contributor.

And so is economics, for which Graeber is not considered a significant contributor. And that’s okay. The gift economy of Madagascar and the technicalities of the federal reserve system are very different topics. And it is possible to know a lot about one of them without knowing much about the other.
> While I find him truly interesting, there is an annoyance: he is strongly critical about "traditional" school system, while holding a PhD himself.

Isn't it possible that getting a PhD gave him a front row seat to observe the problems of academia? In some sense it lends credibility to his arguments since he's been on the inside.
https://www.myvisajobs.com/Reports/2023-H1B-Visa-Sponsor.asp...

No idea how reliable that site is, but it says Amazon.com sponsored 16,299, Amazon Web Services sponsored 5,056, and Amazon Development Center sponsored 2,119. So 23,474 in total.

Edit: I see a note that this is APPLICATIONS, not grants. Nevermind, that's probably not accurate.
I mean FAISS has IndexFlatL2 if you have it in hand and _want_ the full scan.
Clearly it's because he is offering to bankroll a supra-national group of elite soldiers to fight the alien menace that threatens our species and way of life, and he is hoping that

"[Musk] has been chosen to lead this initiative. To oversee our first—and last—line of defense.
His efforts will have considerable influence on this planet's future. We urge you to keep that in mind as he proceed. Good luck, Musk" - X-COM:Enemy Of Tesla
I realize this is probably just a joke that isn't intended to actually add much to the discussion, but thankfully actual mental health professionals without an agenda wouldn't dare interpret something so trivial and shallow as that as serious evidence of pathology.
The use of "remote work" as a chip on the bargaining table is risky. Employers will ship jobs overseas faster than any point in the last 20 years if employees demand that as part of a deal.

Unions have no place in technology companies. It will drive down wages and performance and ship jobs out of the U.S.
At 30 years of coding professionally in great engineering-focused organizations, and that on top of nearly a lifetime of having coded for myself, I’ve concluded code reviews barely work.

I agree with everything you say here, but honestly it’s quite ineffective. I wish we had found something better than unit tests (often misleading and fragile) and the ability of a qualified reviewer to maintain attention and context that a real review entails.
Likely continuous measurements rather than ice cores. We can clearly see the difference between winter and summer (what you call the zigzag pattern), when a small portion is absorbed by the biomass.
Besides a piracy group, they are a demoscene group. You can check their productions here

https://www.pouet.net/groups.php?which=158
The problem is, how trustworthy is any of the provided data, when we have seen that the historical records are edited (in the climategate nonsense)

https://web.archive.org/web/20160322230859/http://blogs.tele...

"Attempts to disguise the inconvenient truth of the Medieval Warm Period (MWP):
……Phil and I have recently submitted a paper using about a dozen NH records that fit this category, and many of which are available nearly 2K back–I think that trying to adopt a timeframe of 2K, rather than the usual 1K, addresses a good earlier point that Peck made w/ regard to the memo, that it would be nice to try to “contain” the putative “MWP”, even if we don’t yet have a hemispheric mean reconstruction available that far back…."
I think you'd be surprised. Plenty of people are interested in going into public service and especially policy related work. The high industry salaries can actually be a positive here, they allow workers to be FIRE'd in a decade or less. At that point they can switch to a lower stress/higher impact gov job and the salary being lower isn't a huge problem.
My favorite presentation of this is beloved XKCD https://xkcd.com/1732/
Nostalgia overload, especially with the UI
The US digital service tries to do this, but it just ends up maxing out the government payscale very quickly.
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a fixture of my childhood .... in the early 00's. aXXo being the other one.
I don't think anybody here is saying it's illegal to be an asshole.
Sure. If one is at a company that is entirely run by incompetent sociopaths, then get with the program, right?

But not all companies are sociopath boondoggles. Some are companies where people are trying to do the right thing (make money, grow business), and management would prefer to be successful. In those environments, we still get "promotion-driven-development" because, sadly, most managers are not software engineers and can be successfully bullshitted. And it's not even always malicious: you take someone who is a great people person but a mediocre engineer (huh, that correlates a lot), and they really think that this pile of steaming shit idea is a good idea, and their genuine enthusiasm convinces management who also don't know better. This mediocre engineer really wants to do good but has no idea why their idea is fucking herpes - because they are not competent enough to understand why. Dunning Kruger time. And of course the competent engineers are all Autistic and come across as rude, disparaging assholes in neurotypical management's eyes, and everyone gets herpes except mediocre engineer who gets promoted (possibly into management).

In that situation you have to have "... a handful of good engineers and going totally rogue, we outperformed the entire department pretty effortlessly."

All of my major career jumps have involved "going rogue", and having the outcome being recognized. And one time I was basically fired for it, and the work buried by a psychopath, and the remaining team did it anyway and delivered the solution, averting a product-ending scaling cliff. YMMV.

But not all companies are like that, and in some places you can point out to management that the idea is bad, and management agrees. In my current job we had someone pitch a fabulous promotion opportunity that was not merely a total waste of time but also fundamentally missed (didn't even attempt to identify) the root cause of the problem it was trying to solve, and fortunately management agreed when we pointed it out. Yay!

So I don't think it's as hopeless as you make out, at least not everywhere. I'm having fun right now, and getting paid enough (it's never enough).
Seasonality nature of CO2 with greater ability to measure
Why would anyone comply though? Let's suppose you need some global id to access the web. What is preventing me from publishing my private key so that anyone can use it? Everyone could participate in this and make it completely useless as an identification mechanism.
> The modern record of atmospheric carbon dioxide levels began with observations recorded at Mauna Loa Observatory in Hawaii.

> The seasonal cycle of highs and lows (small peaks and valleys) is driven by Northern Hemisphere summer vegetation growth, which reduces atmospheric carbon dioxide, and winter decay, which increases it.

https://www.climate.gov/news-features/understanding-climate/...
> . It's hard to say though because Apple has been a hell of a moving target.

Have they?

They were stuck on Intel's incremental schedule for years and years, then they made a gigantic leap with the M1-series, and it has been incremental again since then. Bigger increments than 7th gen > 8th gen Intel, but its a bit ridiculous to pretend they're making 8th gen Intel > M1 leaps every year.
Likely reflects the seasonal cycle (vegetation cycle) and before 1958 likely was no frequent measurements to see it.
I think there was another post about this a few days ago. IIRC the title was about a specific drug affected by it.
Imagine if you had clicked the link and learned that this was a site for finding AI-based Government jobs, and not some sort of regulatory statement where the government was planning to "ban AI models".

But that would require basic literacy, something that conservative reactionaries simply don't have.
No, I'm not implying that at all. The author of the software isn't the only one who might improve the software based on the criticism. A completely different person might decide to clone the software with suggested improvements, for example.
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Don't forget that while it's summer in your hemisphere, it's winter in the other one. I believe this has to do with the fact that there's land in the northern hemisphere and hence more biomass. I'm not sure if it has more to do with photosynthesis or cellular respiration. My guess is that the strongly seasonal effect is more photosynthesis in the summer, with the differential effect being stronger for the N hemisphere. I'm guessing respiration is less seasonal, and anthropogenic input is not very seasonal. I took classes about this a decade ago and I remember asking this question at the time, but don't remember the exact answer.
Website doesn't display correctly on FF on android. Text bleeds on left and right side.
The dangerous thing about AI regulation is that countries with fewer regulations will develop AI at a faster pace.

It's a frightening thought: The countries with the least regulations will have GAI first. What will that lead to?

When AI can control a robot that looks like a human, can walk, grab, work, is more intelligent than a human and can reproduce itself - what will the country with the least regulations that created it do with it?
This is just a factually incorrect claim by someone who clearly has no background in biology.

Evolution is frequently observed in the lab, particularly in organisms the reproduce quickly and prolifically as in most microorganisms. You might want to google "antibiotic resistance", which is literal evolution creating a public health hazard.

Evolution has withstood well over a century of experiments. It's the inevitable consequence of the facts of inheritable mutations and natural selection. Biology doesn't even make sense without it.
.NET Framework should not be used for new projects unless absolutely necessary (IIRC MS Office Add-ins use it) because it is legacy, has (relatively) poor performance and will not receive any new features.

C# and .NET (6/7/8) is what you may be looking for.
The entrypoint for that would be the basics[0] (just pick in the left column whatever strikes your fancy, the official docs are good) and then if you are interested in back-end dev - ASP.NET Core[1].

[0] https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/tour-of-csha...

[1] https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/aspnet/core/fundamentals/m...

The rough overview of terms you have mentioned is as follows:

.NET (6+) - the platform almost everything runs on, like OpenJDK but encompasses the standard library and certain nuget packages as well

ASP.NET Core - main .NET's web framework for developing web applications like LOB CRUDs, gRPC-based microservices, etc. Doesn't really have alternatives that offer comparable performance/features ratio

EF Core - main .NET's ORM framework, its popular alternative is Dapper which is more hands-on and focused on writing SQL code directly

Notable mention: .NET Core used to be the name for .NET Core 1.x, 2.x, and 3.x version but was later on rebranded to just .NET. The version 4 was skipped to avoid confusion with .NET Framework 4.x which will live on forever by the nature of being included with Windows.
Post and beam was significantly more expensive than stick frame, as of the last time I looked into building a house.
Other thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38069887
Has anyone looked into the theory that SO2 is an "anti-greenhouse" gas and that much of the greenhouse effects of CO2 have been negated by SO2. Essentially SO2 particles stay in the air for a long time and reflects a large spectrum of light so it fails to be absorbed by land or sea/converted to infrared (infrared is primarily what the CO2 reflects).

Recently (since 2010ish but moreso since 2020 in shipping) there has been a global effort to reduce SO2 emissions (eg by installing scrubbers) which has caused the CO2 increase over the last 150 years to actually "take effect" since the SO2 is no longer negating the effects.

I stumbled upon this theory recently and it sounds compelling but am curious if better informed people could shine a light about this.

https://twitter.com/hankgreen/status/1687535525169930241

https://twitter.com/LeonSimons8/status/1688145475289931776

https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2023/07/sea-surface-temperatu...
This is how government hiring works. The job buckets are incredibly unspecific.

Related: Open jobs at the CIA with the title "analyst".
Most devices can indeed most likely handle software decode of more common resolutions, codecs and bitrates. But I'd really hope they'd pick the one that won't suck up all the battery, so H264. This line of thought is supported by the fact that YouTube still provides an H264 option with most if not all videos.

With higher bitrate things, HEVC seems to grow in popularity but even software decode support is not everywhere. Netflix for example requires the installation of HEVC support on Windows to play 4K content.

Actually hardware-accelerated video decode is even spottier and more unreliable across most platforms. The JS API for codec support (canPlayType) literally returns "maybe" and "probably". It's quite bad.

So far the best compatibility I've seen has been Edge with flags on Windows (MPEG-2, H264, HEVC, AV1, VP8, VP9 with most also supporting accelerated encode). It still fails with some content (Dolby Vision P5 colors are incorrect, HEVC Rext doesn't play - more info about HEVC is available here https://github.com/StaZhu/enable-chromium-hevc-hardware-deco...). Chrome on macOS is a close second in terms of codec support.

The worst in terms of HW acceleration being all the browsers on desktop Linux-s, few and fragile combinations that offer limited and janky support. But it's slowly improving. This combined with the not-the-latest hardware many use, means things like VP9 or AV1 tend to stutter.

I'd love to see some more generic stats, but considering the APIs aren't sufficient to determine actual support, these might be difficult to gather.

But all things considered, I heavily doubt dropping H264 HW decode support was a good idea considering how often its still used.
This is great! What a complicated graph tho.
It is interesting - whats the validity of the historic data? Theres clearly some consistent patterns if that data is to be trusted.
I also had two Reds showing bad sectors after around a year, with a Synology. What "colour" drive do you usually buy now? Or even which manufacturer?
Thanks for the feedback. I just installed the Brave browser on Windows, and it's working on my end. I wonder what you think might be causing it not to work?
For those wondering why there is zig zag in the plot after 1958. The data source changed at that date [1].

* 1000 - 1958: Historical CO2 record from the Law Dome DE08, DE08-2, and DSS ice cores

* 1958 - Today: in situ air measurements at Mauna Loa, Observatory, Hawaii.

[1] https://www.co2levels.org/#sources
I'm publishing a book which teaches Rust CLI programming by rewriting a BSD Unix utility in each chapter. I'm using the 4.4 release from 1992 but looking at the contemporary source from modern BSDs (Free/Open) they're totally recognisable and often basically unchanged. It's also amazing that some bugs persisted for 10-20 years before being fixed. I'm sure there are a few still to be discovered...
Is owning one thousandth of one percent even close to do-able for a median employee, at any company?

I get what I consider a generous RSU package from my employer, but I currently own 0.00000011 of, or (if my math doesn't fail me) 1/90,000th of a percent of the company. Truly a minuscule amount.
I'd also be down to volunteer for this (i'm a software person)
If you had read the article, they aren't looking for money.

From April 2023, Meta’s lawyers made four offers to purchase the domain ‘threads.app’ from Threads Software Ltd. Every offer was declined. It was made clear to Meta’s Instagram that the domain was not for sale.
Is Mom scared because Musk told her to be scared, or because she thought about the matter herself and concluded that it's scary? Why do you assume that people scared of AI must be under the influence of rich people/corps today, rather than this fear being informed by their own consideration of the problem or by decades of media that has been warning about the dangers of AI?

Maybe Mom worries about any radical new technology because she lived though nuclear attack drills in schools. Or because she's already seen computers and robots take peoples jobs. Or because she watched Terminator or read Neuromancer. Or because she reads lesswrong. Why assume it's because she's fallen under the influence of Musk?
Guy, some men wouldn't stop beating their wives, and that's why there were (recent) laws where this is is a punishable offence. Or people dumping their garbage on the street. Or medicine companies cornering the market, filing a patent, and then rising prices.

That's why we have laws and taxes; so people can't be too much of d*ks towards one another. If even a minority of people can't be decent human beings on their own will and still behave like in the middle ages, punitive coercion in form of taxes or incarceration has been known to do the trick.
Do you have any stats that show that pickup truck sales are bolstered more by fleet purchases than other categories such as sedans and economy cars, both of which are also purchased widely for various fleets?
> [climate change] can be entirely prevented ...

People need to accept that this statement is just incorrect. We cannot stop it in the near future. Even if we had the means of producing non-CO2 energy in quantities enough to provide all our energy needs today (that is, net-zero CO2 today), what we've already added will still continue to add heat. We do not have the facilities to produce bio-jet fuel in industrial quantities at inexpensive prices. It's going to take years to convert the elect grid to wind and solar, and that's even when people want to do it because it's cheaper. We need some way to replace all the fossil fuel used in agriculture, somehow make concrete net-zero, efficiently create steel without CO2. Ain't happening any time soon, even everyone wanted it.

> ... if you can only somehow get through to people

Actually, a large number of people have actually decided. They want to ignore it. It's not the choice you want, and I don't think it's a responsible or wise choice, but if you want to actually solve the problem, you need to deal with that reality. Just saying "well, if we could only pass a law and force people..." is foolish (which is the next step after "getting through to people" doesn't work because they already made their choice).

If you want to solve the problem, make people want to do it of their own free will. For instance, make it cheaper to be net-zero CO2 than to burn it. Make it cheaper to take out CO2 from the atmosphere than to burn it. Make it so much cheaper to use less than people want to use less. Unfortunately, there are some hard problems from a chemistry standpoint here.
I solved that problem by moving.

>You participate in the process to get things changed

Will a union compensate you participating? Having to fight against both your boss _and_ union sounds like a nightmare.
Yeah sorry about that, it's not mobile optimized yet
Neal Stephenson wrote a whole novel exploring this theory.

It's called Termination Shock.
Propaganda from the people who will benefit from a world without fossil fuel energy.