skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My problem is whenever I've seen these numbers, they were completely baked.

"The total price tag for the entire home project was roughly $75,000, after rebates. But Tuttelman says it will pay for itself in about six years through energy cost savings."

The costs seem right. I've priced this. The savings are nonsense. I don't spend $75k in utility bills in six years.

"Other benefits include the stress savings of not having to guess when a furnace, which typically lasts about 15 years, is on its last legs."

My boiler is going strong after forty years, and the technician who looked at it last said this was typical and there's no reason to think it won't last another forty. I periodically need to replace a control board, which I should learn to do myself. In contrast, the system described -- with heat pumps, solar, and whatnot, has a lot more parts and things to go wrong.

I'm equally sceptical of the current direct environmental benefit. If I e.g. tossed out my gas-powered car and bought a Tesla, I'd have the environmental cost of manufacturing a Tesla. That would need to be lower than the environmental cost of the gas I'll use for the rest of the life of my car. I don't think it is.

There are reasons to buy this stuff (e.g. to support the green industry). That doesn't excuse the propaganda and the fake numbers.
I wonder a bit if we wouldn't have a easier time extracting data, resizing pages etc if we sent HTML files instead of PDF. Are even half of PDFs printed at all?
Please, don't think I'm trying to justify. This thing is just plain nasty.

But these images do bring us some new (terrible) questions to ponder. Especially if the police can't differentiate between what's real and what's not.
> The 2023 documentary Orange mécanique, les rouages de la violence (in English, A clockwork orange: the prophecy)

I don't speak French, and yet something leads me to believe that's not a direct translation.
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Yeah, and project management 101 seems to have a good explanation why more iterations are better in this case : you want to be more Agile when the project is of a more experimental nature, and the larger the refactor, the more likely you are to run into one of these "unknowns"...
Japan seems to be an interesting case, where real porn was censored, so it encouraged thriving comic-book manga/anime/hentai cartoon porn, that seems to be legal there (you see sararīman reading them on the commuter trains!).

Censorship is the mother of metaphor - J.L.Borges

P.S. Japan does appear in the long list of legal exceptions in the Wikipedia article linked by sibling comments
It feels like making a crime of possessing fake ivory items.
I have a finite budget of code and time I can afford to spend. One of the choices gives me a much better RoI in my experience. I prefer to spend the rest of the budget on the main code.
If I reduce my german tech salary by 2/3 I can't even pay my rent.
The car infrastructure you were referring to is more than just stroads and mandatory vehicle ownership. I know that's all your favorite youtubers talk about, but there are actually other aspects.
How do you handle multiple projects at the same time, with a tiling window manager?
The nice thing about the terminal is the possibility of having layouts, tabs and so on. Or using tmux/zellij with a terminal that doesn't support these more advanced features.
> we all know what the risks are of going against megacorps and the system that protects them. He inflicted this on himself...

This is textbook victim blaming. I imagine you don’t think he really filed a lawsuit against himself. Someone else made the decision to throw this guy in prison and garnish his income, probably until he passes.

Not that I disagree with it per se, just this language reads as a sort of “culpability laundering”. Another way to say practically the same thing: “He got what was coming.” Even if it’s literally true, “what was coming” isn’t necessarily deserved.
Really?! I’m on ‘Flexible Octopus’ — the only alternative they’re offering me is Octopus Fixed which is 26p per kwh for 12 months

Edit; Oh, I see, I need a smart meter to get Tracker. I’m a renter so not sure about the process for getting a smart meter there
I used to travel to SF regularly, including after the removal of cars from market street. Additionally, i stayed on market street because of the ease of access to the offices i needed to go to. if cars are in fact the problem, how come market street is still loud enough today, with no cars, at 2 AM, to bleed enough sound through a double pane window with dense curtains?

cars are not the problem. anybody with any experience in life knows the more stuff and people you cram in a small area, the more noise (an heat for all you climate changers)
No, same time for office and remote.
You need to contact FBI child enforcement immediately.

FYI you could have some liability of you delay.
Electric cars tend to be much heavier than ICEs. While your model 3 is lighter than the limit it is a small car that is just barely under the limit. While much larger F150 starts out at only slightly heavier.
I'm from Vienna - CoL compared to salaries here is pretty high but managable with social housing.

It's just that my friend working for a subsidiary of my employer in Zürich makes 3x as much, gets to keep a lot more of that money due to the significantly lower tax burden and then after that her CoL is ~2-2.5x what it is here.

Additionally, her salary is paid in CHF which is deflationary while I get my money in Eurozone Funbucks. As you might know, Austria has been a European inflation leader in the last 1-2 years (~10%).

Compared to the Swiss we are completely and utterly underpaid. For equivalent work and similar living conditions she's left with almost double the money at the end of the year. Note: We both do not live lavishly by any means.
So many commenters didn't read the article.

> The troubling case seems to illustrate how AI-generated child sex images can be linked to real criminal activity while also showing how police investigations could be bogged down by attempts to distinguish photos of real victims from AI images that could depict real or fake children.
> As an economist, would you be able to explain (because I truely do not understand) why "the study of resource allocation under scarcity" is more important than (and/or prevents) meaningful action on climate change?

For my case, it is quite simple -- people have different preferences and switching costs! I chose economics as a field of profession because I felt it explained human behavior much better than anything I'd come across in my life at the ripe old age of 21. Had I started my studies less than two decades ago, I would have invested more in physical sciences (especially hydrological saline exchange and improving soil quality through mycology, both fascinating problems some of my close friends study). This said, my data science company was founded two years ago to focus on impact problems in health, technology, and geopolitics, all of which are becoming more and more impacted by the effects of anthropogenic climate change in addition to just out and out pollution and bad policy effects.

But I think your first question is less why I personally studied computational economics and industrial organization, and more why economics exists when humanity may be facing a global extinction at worst and a loss of living standard at best. And the answer is: economics can be used to help with mitigation (and economists have been calling for effectual policy to address climate change for _decades_ through known effective policies like carbon markets, see subfields that research environmental economics and public economics).

Now, economics can also help understand why we see little meaningful action. Rational people (defined as being able to make comparisons between options presented to them, which simplifies analysis without much loss of generality to cases like bounded rationality) do not choose what is best for a collective (personal happiness/utility) nor what is best for them tomorrow (time inconsistency of preferences) when neither of those have meaningful impact to them today or in the near term. You see this all the time in the startup world and in the corporate world among VCs and executives who are only in things to accomplish short term goals. Self-organizing collective action is _hard_ to generate or maintain without enforcement of some kind.

To explain with a workhorse model regarding collective versus individual action, you can reference the stag hunt game: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stag_hunt. In short, while two individuals engaging for collective action will benefit more in total, there may be incentives to deviate from a collective strategy. People want more _now_, not 75 years from now (beyond the lifetime of the current living).

So TL;DR:

1. Preferences! Or, rather, subjective valuations of research topics by people can vary without applying presentism to near history

2. Because economics can explain failures in collective action, but it doesn't control or recommend against collective action goals. In fact, qualitative economic approaches to policy are often highly successful. So the gap on meaningful action is more related to political will and the incentive to deviate or adopt a policy that isn't Pareto improving.
There's a version of the future where AI actually takes larger and larger chunks of real work while humans move towards spending more and more of their time and energy on culture war activities.
say one thing once and they will create a narrative out of 40 years later

we are but beasts!
Institutions like Harvard are shockingly resilient. Both ridiculously flush with cash and a lot of powerful people are emotionally invested in its success (and its repair).

But yeah maybe this round of mean comments from angry outsiders will finally do them in!
The effects and animations remind me of the cool window effects in Gnome/KDE, back when they were first made available, like the window burning down completely when closing.

Cute, sometimes very cute, but ultimately distracting and only adds a delay to the intended action, so after a week the novelty wears off and I usually revert back to the old UI.

Typically "no-nonsense" UX (the kind used to get stuff done) has minimal animation, if any. The whole point is to focus, not to get distracted by railgun animations.

The feature list seems to be mostly eyecandy and emojis.
It would be difficult to manage the quality. That's OK if the price reflects the quality, but if I'm to spend €100 (say) on a large photo book like this I don't want thin paper, imprecise binding, or other corners cut.
If there's anything to learn from history, it's that desensitizing people isn't a good thing. Much like heroin wasn't a great way to get people off morphine.
I’d think the low center of gravity would be a great match with guardrails putting more force near the base where it’s strongest.
I used DSL back around when it was released (and 64 MiB flash drives were common) to get around my school's network filtering. I think this was one of the reasons they hired new IT staff the following year, because the technique caught on even with the non-nerdy crowd.
I hope at some point people will realize you can replace 95% of AI applications by a simple, stupid, very efficient interface. Guys, you are just cutting human interactions. We don't need AI for it. If it's AI end to end anyway, you can skip all the talking and just transmit whatever information directly. Not just text either, this extends to most everything, images as decoration, and whole websites enabled by super extra AI productivity. There is no point to human facing communication anymore, when everyone got AI to parse AI.
Sounds like they ought hire you.
Why the fuck anyone would log in to argue that possession of child porn is some kind of grey area that’s up for debate is beyond me but you’re certainly not alone in this thread that’s for sure.
Guardrails are typically installed such that a head on is almost impossible - they are designed for more of a glancing blow that redirects you back to the road. In that application I've seen them keep a fully loaded semi from crossing a medium into oncoming traffic.

To get a head on at speed you would need to going across the road - maybe in the desert it is flat enough to get your car up to speed when going perpendicular to the road, but I'm not sure why you would try that.

The other option is hit the start of the guard rail - while this can happen, the start of guardrails are generally angled so this is still a redirecting blow not head on. Where they cannot be the start is covered by rubber dumpers to slow you down before you hit it.
Does Go allow unicode subscripts in variable names?

Of the languages I've checked, Perl, Python, and JavaScript (in Chrome and Firefox) do not. PHP does.
> The outside needs to be nice, but making inside unpleasant doesn't accomplish that.

ignoring the problem outside exacerbates the issue and eventually leads to an undesirable outside. don’t live with broken windows.
As a Western European, it's crazy to me that the public transportation and road systems are so fucked up in the US that

1) Kids need a car to go college

2) When buying a car, an important criteria is how heavy it is so that if it's in crash, hopefully the other person dies and not you. Of course, no matter what will happen to cyclists or pedestrian when hit by your fuck ton killing machine
> Who funded the University of Nebraska to specifically test EVs in an improbable perpendicular collision with a guardrail?

The US Army - who use the same barriers at road blocks. It looks like the research was really about heavier vehicles. The focus on EVs does ignore the general trend to larger vehicles as you say.

https://engineering.unl.edu/news/240131/mwrsf_evs_safety/
It does seem far from where we are now. However, if someone wants to build trains (without me paying for it in taxes), I will happily buy a ticket if it is convenient and cost effective for me to use.
Hm, I'm thinking, if there's a way to convert a real image of a person into a manga version (there's ton of them on the internet) the reverse should be true. So you would just have to train it with manga (which is legal in Japan, for example), and then convert it to real. No real people dataset needed.
So silly. This reminds me of anti-computer rants from the 1980s. People confuse "AI can be used to generate garbage content" with "All AI-generated content is garbage".

I have 2 artist/photographer cousins, and both of them are raving about AI. I've seen the results, they make good use of AI as a tool to augment their talent, rather than to replace it. Sometimes they spend an hour going through AI-generated/altered content, but that saves them 10+ hours - the artistic input here is in operating and curating the AI-generated content in ways that an untalented individual wouldn't be able to do.
It turns out that for some people porn is a gateway drug to child abuse.

They get hooked and start looking for more and more extreme content, eventually that escalation has them watching child abuse material, then then go from that to the real thing.

It might be why pedophilia seems to be more and more common post internet. If all you have is Hustler magazine you can't escalate to children.
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There have been attempts to regulate them, e.g. in NYC.
You can't compare optimized clock frequencies on 2 year mature process with first run on a new process... AMD and Nvidia both improve stable frequencies with process improvements at TSMC even on the same nodes over time (RTX 4060 TI, tsmc N4, 2.31ghz base, 2.54ghz boost vs RTX4060 - TSMC N4, 1.83ghz base, 2.46ghz boost).

Most chipmakers saw gains moving from n5 to n5p at tsmc, which wasn't even a process jump simply maturity and optimization on the existing node.
Not sure where you live, but at least 50% of the time I am driving my car I am probably putting over 100 miles on it per trip. My weekly trip for groceries might be the only one where I am driving a shorter range.
Serial killers and serial rapists tend to show a pattern of escalation, in both significance and frequency of the crime. I would not be shocked if crimes against children of this nature do as well.
what are you implying? that Israel purposefully killed Palestinians?

I’m curious there – if you are caring about innocent Arab lives – what other human suffering in Arab countries are you following closely and making cynical remarks about?
https://archive.is/5Owom
While I agree in principle, it turns out that real CSAM may be used during the training phase and that obviously has to be prosecuted.
If a child, contact NCMEC (National Center for Missing and Exploited Children)

https://report.cybertip.org/

24/7 phone line: +1-800-843-5678

Otherwise/in addition, FBI is a good bet.
It's not, it's the English title of the documentary.
One has to assume this kind of propaganda isn't supposed to convince any objective observer but rather to provide cover to allow ongoing operations to continue for as long as possible before they get checked by the US.
Eh, it's one of the rare cases where the movie is better than the book anyway.
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> Mainly because there were 11 point releases of fixes and enhancements (4.11), as opposed to today where FreeBSD major version only have 3-4 point releases.

Mostly because 5.x took so long to be released.

IIRC, shortly after this experience the FreeBSD folks went from a feature-based release cycle to a time-based release cycle: everyone wanted feature X (and X and Y) in Next Release, and things got pushed and pushed.

So by having a steady cadence, a feature could be integrated regularly into HEAD, and folks didn't have to wait too long before a STABLE release was cut with all the latest and greatest stuff (that couldn't otherwise be backported because of compatibility guarantees).
Output devices. He's talking about printers and monitors.
"Modern progressive discourse" is an US culture export. Also is using "racism" as a substitute for "bad".

And what would be a pedo by US standards might be legal and fine in other countries (looking at Japan lolicon situation).
I highly recommend everyone interested in local land use to attend planning board meetings regularly. Observe the work your planning board is doing, and if you don't like it, find some way to volunteer or actually be part of the planning board.

This is the only way to make these changes at the local level.
I feel like the moment you put any idea out there you have the potential to influence people unexpectedly, and be at peace with that.

I saw a youtube interview of an addict who said he started taking painkillers regularly because he saw House doing it. Surely the writers didn’t know they were setting up some kid in suburban America up for addiction by giving him that mannerism
In a more general sense I'd agree, but in this instance, the ML-KEM draft specification (FIPS 203) uses the exact same greek symbols.

This code will be read many more times than it is written, and anyone auditing its correctness will be comparing against the spec.

If the variables are spelt out, then you have to do the mental (or otherwise) translation before you can compare the two, adding overhead. For comparing the symbols visually, you don't even need to know their names.
I did check it...
It does. Not exactly surprising, since Rob Pike and Ken Thompson made both Golang and UTf-8.
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When it comes to physically harming kids, local BBSes are actually a much better way to meet people in person than global social networks.
There are a bunch of them. None are really good IMO.
Yep, that is an observation. Humans do have canines.

But I asked you, how do you end up turning the above statement about the modern human into:

> I'd really like to see a human try to tear raw flesh off an animal with their canines. I am highly skeptical that would work at all.

I didn't suggest humans walked around tearing off raw meat. However, our ancestors probably did at some point.

Since our ancestors tamed the fire about 2 million years ago, we have started cooking using fire, which changed our anatomy.
What does your daughter think? She's the one whos going to need to gas up and park the thing. What about the extra 5-7k the CRV would cost? Do you think she'd prefer to spend that cash another way?
> These numbers are from the FBA themselves, I don’t see how it is in their interests to lie that way. I’m more inclined that you’re experiencing sampling bias. Infrastructure is clustered - fiber or anything like that is not “few and far between”. More like large swaths have coverage within deserts. If you’re always looking two doors from the house in the desert, it too does not have water.

I don’t know why they would lie either, maybe they are using FCC maps since that is the best data they can afford. And given the low rates of new construction, I still doubt the figures, given the economics of a business installing fiber in older neighborhoods with underground utilities.

I would love to be wrong though, as I also nix living in any place only served by coaxial internet.

> In reality wireless options and even comcast are options to people if they compete on price, and fiber does have to compete with those in the real world.

Yes, which is why installing fiber has to be a taxpayer funded effort by the government, because it will never make financial sense for a business to spend all that money to install the infrastructure and have Comcast just lower their prices to below the fiber business’s installation costs.
Yeah a lot has changed since then. We had to keep track of stable branch to get close to Linux desktop features most of the time, sometimes even 'current' branch. Today you can use release for 99.9% of use cases, and upgrading releases minor or major is pretty straightforward and way faster than it used to be.
It doesn't cause Preview to crash on Sonoma. FWIW, I can't see any animation, just the final state, while Firefox's PDF reader does show some animation. Skim has the same behaviour as Preview but doesn't show the grid.
Hey friend, how about instead of writing a comment that does nothing but sound condescending, you add something to the discussion.

What “more” are you talking about? I’m very interested in this.
The whole "think of the children" excuse is so overused that it's useless at this point. Let parents think of their children and keep them out of trouble, the whole world doesn't have to give up their anonymity because someone chose to procreate. I keep my kids off social media via nanny software and I lock down their devices. It's not hard. They know the consequences if they go around the social media block. If you let your kid get on social media before 15 or so then it's on you to take responsibilty for that.