skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Daily reminder that:

The manufactured controversy over emails stolen from the University of East Anglia's Climatic Research Unit has generated a lot more heat than light.

The email content being quoted does not indicate that climate data and research have been compromised. Most importantly, nothing in the content of these stolen emails has any impact on our overall understanding that human activities are driving dangerous levels of global warming.

https://www.ucsusa.org/resources/debunking-misinformation-ab...

https://www.factcheck.org/2009/12/climategate/

What's next? Urban heat islands? Cosmic Rays? Heat from the Earths core?
Imagine a loop of pipe filled with water, and a pump pushing the water: The water moves around the pipe. The movement doesn't cause any part of the pipe to get heavier.

Imagine a different scenario, where the pipe ends in a big box: This time the box does fill up with water, and gets heavier.

Mapping the analogy from water back to electrons: a loop of pipe is like a loop of wire and a battery; while the pipe ending with a box becomes a capacitor or antenna, and that will leak[0] before you can measure the mass change — but technically yes the the mass of any given wall of a capacitor or of an antenna will be very slightly changed by this sort of thing.

For a sense of scale, to get a total charge of 1 coulomb using electrons, the mass of those electrons will be about 5.7 nanograms, and trying to squeeze that much charge into the last millimetre of some length of a wire 1mm in cross section diameter, involves about 60% of the energy in this explosion: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wqKn_3iJOP4

As nothing gets close to being able to hold that kind of energy, even if you're trying to accumulate a lot of excess electrons, those electrons leak well before even coming close to nanograms of excess mass.

[0] The bit on the top with the sparks coming out is a capacitive electrode: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tesla_coil
What’s a must have 3rd party exclusive for the switch?
I don't know much about Sweden salaries but if it's close enough to general EU I believe it might be MUCH harder to get a net 50K job in Sweden than a net 100K job in the US.

Sure, in the US you will have less "prepaid" services or might need to pay much more for specific stuff but that's kind of the point of freedom of choices. You get to make your own mistakes without entering a collectivist group that on average is bound to make more costly mistakes.
and integrated to Google Maps
I’m taking it, and while I definitely feel it for food, I would say it does nothing for compulsive video watching or doom scrolling (as proved by this late comment).
Research into the internals of the networks have shown that they figure out the correct 2.5D representation of the scene before the RGB textures (internally), so yes it seems they have an internal representation of the scene and therefore can do enough inference from that to make shadows and light seem natural.

I guess it's not that far-fetched as your brain has to do the same to figure out if a scene (or an AI-generated one for that matter) has some weird issue that should pop out. So in a sense your brain does this too.
Not a carbon things (in fact may have made that worse) but plastic bag minimum charge laws have had a tremendous impact on littering. The usual suspects were all against it at the time but there is no major support for reversing the laws now.
Transformer was really about making it feasible to parallelize training of large context windows. More like using large compute resources effectively when available than saving on compute. This is also why it looks quite ad-hoc compared to simpler models like RNN or LSTM, which can be trained in large batches of data (hence still making use of parallelism to some extent) but have to be serial along the context dimension.
Skip connection increase the live range of one intermediate result across the whole part of the network skiped:
the tensor at the beginning of a skip connection must be stored in memory for longer while unrelated computation happen: it increase the pressure on the memory hierarchy (either the L2, or scratchpad memory).

This is especially true for example for inference for vision transformers, where it decrease the batch size you can use before hitting the L2 capacity wall.
"Though Asian longhorned ticks can carry diseases that infect humans, they are not yet considered a threat to human health in the U.S., per the statement"
Why bother with 7 cartridges? They are pretty flexible, you can totally put flash memory in it and have a multiple gigabyte large "rom". Emulators would have to be updated though.
"Man annoyed no fish wants to have a debate about his position that being wet is evil. Convinced this makes him right by default"
This is an amazing mechanical element
If it's a copy of the same thing then any measure that works against one would work against all. Other ways of reproduction add randomness and mutations which make it difficult
I am slightly dyslexic and I actually find it pleasing. To me, the hanging quote acts like an anchor to my eyes instead of a wall of text.
That, I suppose, is why ad-companies typically invest in anonymization. It may not be perfect, but it is good enough in terms of reaching an acceptable balance between respecting privacy and someone being able to monetize an app or a website imo.
How to build an automated content empire in 79 lines of Python
The browser is highly security critical, because of its exposure to the internet, as well as, because of the high-value assets it stores, security tokens, session keys, passwords, browser history, etc. Therefore, I prefer tools that don't extend that attack surface and that I don't have to trust that they observe every move I make on the web.
"High" and "low" pitch are not universal; sometimes there are crocodiles
Lack of z-buffer proved not much to be an issue. On the N64, late games didn't even use it because of the stress it put on bandwidth.

However, lack of perspective correct texture filtering on PS1 was already ugly at the time.
Can you read my last sentence? Instead of letting "fact checkers" do the thinking for you, make some effort to actually think for yourself.

By the way, being skeptical of climate change doesn't mean being against measures to reduce pollution (which is the only sensible position).
That sentence gives no indication it is the main point of the post. It refers to a prior post and nowhere does it say anything about the current post. Even if the main point is indeed "the single best thing the Rust project could do for users is stabilize AsyncIterator" this sentence does not help reader understand this.

In the third paragraph it makes three points:

1. This post is rebuttal to another post

2. This post argues in favour of keeping poll_next

3. This post argues that AsyncIterator should be stablized now

This is the first point in the post in which it makes statements about the content of the post, and what I take to be the main points of the post.
This is illustration of real vs US healthcare prices, not call to action to buy off-brand online medicine.

To save money realistic options in US: if paying with insurance Novo Novordisk has some rebate system. And if paying out of pocket - buy in Canada.
Robodad, let's play pretend! I'll be the teacher, and you're dad. Your son Dash is sick and you tell me, the teacher, that he can't come to school today.
Nah, I think this is bullshit. One of the big movie of this year was Barbie, which is way more 'woke' than any Disney. A pretty 'woke' movie was honor among thieves, which wasn't great but still a better adventure/story than all recent Disney/Marvel movies (who imo are less 'woke', but I do not know the exact definition). Eeaao is also quite woke and was a huge success (the best postmodern film since Blade runner imho), and Dune was critiqued for 'being woke', and was still a success (I'd call it the worst Villeneuve movie, but it was mostly okay).

No,the reason why Disney movies fail is because they are bland rehash of already existing movies, who follow marketing instead of authors/directors. In general, I'm really disappointed in new movies from known directors, the worst being in my mind, Ridley Scott (who created the best medieval movie in 2007, and now all his recent film shit on historical realism, enough to bother me. And since my father worked on two of his recent movies, I had/have to watch it :/)
I worked through parts of TAOCP when I was a graduate student (and by parts I mean a very small, tiny fraction of the book). It was highly useful to demonstrate rigorous techniques of how we can analyze algorithms, and I used it a couple times as a reference material. I would only recommend the book to people who want a career in academic CS or are looking for an exhaustive theoretical understanding of the topics covered. A "proper" read of one TAOCP volume would probably take in excess of a year for a well-prepared reader.

TAOCP is extremely rigorous and detailed, the discussion of any topic there will cover every detail. For practical software engineering, it's not useful, you don't deal need that level of theoretical understanding as a software engineer (if you're one of the few who need it, you'd know you are). And you need a very solid mathematical background to actually understand it.

If you want to understand the theory of CS algorithms, I think the CLRS "Introduction to Algorithms" is an excellent textbook. It covers about everything most people are likely to encounter, has comprehensive mathematical analysis but is much easier to follow than TAOCP. For an understanding of the mathematics involved, Concrete Mathematics is a good book, it teaches the mathematical concepts and tools that are the foundation of other, more rigorous books.
I would venture to guess that people are largely poor because they've been thoroughly exploited by the rich, and short-term greed is allowed to take precedence over higher-utility outcomes.
i used MIPI sensors on jetson, and while the drivers were provided by the manufacturer we wrote a a python/c++ library based on V4L2 to acquire images
> But then tell me how would you run a platform that costs hundred of millions dollars without ads and without fee?

You wouldn't. So what? You don't need to do that.
flying is also not ecologically sustainable. We need alternatives, even if we can't eliminate long distance flights, to reach zero emissions quickly.
I never seen that on a Mac though.
Apparently there is another more accessible several volumes algorithm books from another Stanford University professor, Algorithm Illuminated series by Tim Roughgarden:

https://theory.stanford.edu/~tim/won1samplefinal.pdf
David Grusch (UAP whistleblower) seemed to believe this was a legitimate thing on his recent appearance on Joe Rogan. As interested as I am in the UAP phenomena, I just can't seriously believe this is real.
Yep, this is another good example (and agreed re: ultimate carbon impact).
Or, in case you need both `i` and `iterable[i]` within your loop:

for i, item in enumerate(iterable):
...
In Finland I've been using a similar tool for years now when picking up family members from railways stations and when getting out from the station and out to the platform to board a train: https://www.vr.fi/en/live-train-tracker-map

It's incredibly more helpful than timetables (printed or online) or late train announcements and trying to find the right train names and numbers. Instead of identifying the right train, then checking the latest changes for that train on the schedule board and wondering if "3 minutes late" really means "3 minutes" you just look at the map and see, oh there's my train half way here from the previous town, I'll go have a cuppa.
CSS specs are explicitly not interested in prescribing TeX-level control; text-wrap-style is a good example of this: it’s just hints, with the actual algorithms completely UA-defined. And in fact, they’re going out of their way to recommend including multiple distinct heuristics of prettiness, so that developers don’t use it as a proxy for just one thing and start relying on something that is explicitly and deliberately undefined. <https://github.com/w3ctag/design-reviews/issues/864#issuecom...> (And Chromium has done just this: <https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=143279...>.)

In other words: you’ve already lost!
I think you are focussing on the legality, and then equating morality with legality.

I would say that video piracy (if by that we mean watching what we want) is ethical, but is sometime not legal.
> being a world-class chess player doesn't indicate having "world-class intelligence".

I agree, but if chess ability does have a positive correlation with intelligence, isn’t that enough “proof”, as intelligence itself allows for “excelling in other intellectual fields”?
Point being you gotta get your measure to the millions of other clones.
I think LeetCode is one of the activities where it is worth reading TAOCP, more than for most coders actual jobs.
That XKCD is suddenly quite dated. Of course there are other hard problems, but image recognition has seen a ridiculous amount of progress in those 9 years.
... eh ... you lend money to someone for example if they need to buy food, and don't have the money, because you don't want them to starve? You take the risk because it might hurt their pride if you where to give them the money?

Charging for interests means that you are making profit of others poverty want want. This gives you incentive to promote desperation and desire.

If you lend w/o [edit]interest[/edit], you won't encourage lavish spending, but encourage a solution to the root cause of the poverty, so that you won't have to do it again? Instead you'll be promoting good, which a lot of people like doing just for the sake of it.

This is why Christianity and Islam forbade usury.

Sorry if this comes across as facetious, but do I really have to spell this out, are you human or an AI?

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Personal liberty arguments and all that aside, this comes across like the NZ government actually wanting people to smoke, so the tax income can fund tax cuts elsewhere. Quite sinister.
It seems weird to me that a company would actively hurt their bottom line just because I guess the argument is that they like tracking in the abstract? Like, if you are correct, and Facebook would make more money per user charging them €25 instead of showing them ads, then wouldn't they be idiots to purposefully price their product so high as to "avoid" people making them more profitable? The narrative that Facebook doesn't want to make more money on these users is just really awkward as it would imply the company doesn't have a working profit motive.

Maybe a different explanation is that, sure, on average they make €20 per user per year... but the distribution of how much money they make is extremely lopsided, such as a power law. They want everyone using the platform--even the most unprofitable people--as the service only really makes sense if you can find and communicate with everyone on it... but the people who are most likely to be willing to randomly fork over a bunch of cash to not get tracked are the very kind of person who also are most likely to pay for stuff in general and so facebook in fact might be making 10x as much off these users than people who wouldn't pay for the service at any price?
>> At any rate due to these factors you'd have to make various trade-offs when porting a game from PS1 to N64 or vice versa (cut back on multiplayer, reduce textures, adjust controls, compress audio, etc). There was also no such thing as a universal game engine like Unity or Unreal that could cross-compile for both platforms. On each system you'd have to bake an engine from scratch.

> starcraft made it onto that console, that in and of itself negates most of what is being talked about here

Your statement does not in any way negate the statement you're responding to. Or much of anything in the thread for that matter.

The core of what people are responding to is that you state "console exclusives are a scam," which, at the point in time in history we're talking about, is verifiably not the case. You can point to agreements between companies (Final Fantasy VII being the most famous example) but these are not console exclusives in the modern sense. They were agreements, which had a mixture of commercial and technical factors, to make a game on that console. Once that decision was made, it wasn't really necessary to contractually enforce exclusivity because, until the PS4/XB1 era, porting to a different console was really, really hard.

Did companies do it? Yes. Was it planned in as part of the regular flow of developing a video game? At this point in time? No. It was a decision taken later.
Semiglutide is patented by Novo Nordisk, so in this case it’s not even clear where this online off-brand semiglutide comes from. I.e. it’s not legally produced as generic yet.
OpenAPI for Everybody
> as […] unsupported by CSS

Actually, slap `hyphens: auto` onto the CSS (since its default value is `manual`), and whatever your ebook reader does for things like hyphenation and justification is almost certainly spec-compliant, because all of that stuff is explicitly UA-defined these days.
Same. I bought physical copies years ago but ended up giving them away.

The main problem is that algorithm examples are specified in a fake machine code. It’s not that useful when things can just be Googled now.
Biome is also working on a feature that only formats changed files. See the associated PR [0] for more details.

[0] https://github.com/biomejs/biome/pull/753
> I was under the (possibly wrong) impression that you have the binary of either safe or unsafe

No, that completely misunderstands what the unsafe keyword is for. Rust has some very strict rules to preserve safety and everybody has to obey those rules. However, in safe Rust you don't need to think about that - or even know what the rules are exactly - because the safe Rust subset always obeys the rules. In unsafe Rust you are responsible for upholding all the rules, which means you need to properly understand what the rules are and be careful to do your job properly, the same responsibility you have in every single line of C++.

Another way to think about it is that "unsafe" means "trust me, this is OK". You may find that a more helpful way to understand what unsafe blocks do, but the reason I don't prefer it is that people (including Herb and Bjarne) seem to imagine we're just "switching off" the safety rules, and that's not what happens in any way, semantically, syntactically or de facto. Suppose I have an group of three integers (indexes start at zero) let group = [1, 2, 3]; println!("{}", group[5]); -- that won't work, Rust will reject that because it's a bounds miss†. But if we replace that println! with println!("{}", unsafe { group[5] }); the Rust compiler doesn't shut up and let us do it, in fact it complains even more, in addition to saying we can't do an out-of-bounds access it also warns that this unsafe block is futile, unsafe doesn't make bounds misses magically OK.

† We can tell the Rust compiler we insist on seeing this through to the bitter end, it will emit the program, and then when this code executes there's a bounds miss and it panics. The default is to reject programs which always just panic when executed.
What does this mean for Gitea? Is Gitea slowly moving towards open core?
Office is even better. Look at the release cadence of the different MS365 tiers. Small businesses pay to be the canary for enterprise.
More people should use monero!
Kiwi here. I'm furious over this. It is such an insane short-sighted choice, I can't see any reasonable explanation for it other than corruption.

Long term it's going to cost us quite a bit more money in healthcare costs.
"they literally don't matter and are a rounding error when compared to China and India"

Is that your gut feeling, or do you have some numbers to back that up?

Also China is investing quite heavily in renewables and one can argue that they started doing so, because the demand (through subsidies in the beginning) for them exploded, so then the prices dropped, so further demand happened - so now there is an industry in china that spits them out by the masses. Btw. it is a really comfortable position to say "look at china", how much they consume - when they mainly produce OUR stuff we then consume. One has to look at the CO2 consumption per human - (see here for example: https://ourworldindata.org/co2-emissions). How can we expect the low income world to lead with industry change, when we still consume way more per citizen, than they do?
The numbers are a lot more complex than that. 2/3 is a plausible but not incontrovertible number for cars manufactured now. It's reasonable to assume the ratio is significantly worse for older cars.
Alas, there are no free markets as far as human societies are concerned, so how far should governments go?
This is brilliant !

I would also love a similar setup with OpenWRT as it comes with a familiar configuration & UI.
People and businesses are learning that good intentions don't guarantee good outcomes. It is about time.