skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ok, so you're an outlier. Which is ok - we're probably not building the right service for you or your 3 friends (who can easily download and stop paying - we're not holding them hostage). We're definitely not trying to build for everyone - we have a target in mind, which is consistent with Flickr's original target 20 years ago, and you're probably not it. We're 100M+ members, not billions, and proud of it because we're focused.

I'm sad that you keep dodging what I view as the more important questions after you accused us of "actual hostility", though. I'd really love to understand how we missed the mark for you, and how we've been hostile, in case that applies to non-outliers and it's something we can improve on.

Was offering years of downloads on a _free_ service hostile? In what way? Was delaying deletion to give more people more time to download hostile? Why? Do you really believe hundreds of millions of consumers all had backups? What other similar Internet services are better examples of handling a situation like this?

Or are you just trolling and I've been feeding a troll (if so, congrats, I feel like my troll detection is relatively high)?
it's easy to calculate how big the effect is with units(1)

You have: stefanboltzmann tempC(20)**4
You want: W/m**2
* 418.76592
/ 0.0023879689
You have: stefanboltzmann tempC(0)**4
You want: W/m**2
* 315.65782
/ 0.0031679874

so in the temperature range of interest you're radiating 300–400 watts/m², derated for your surface emissivity at the relevant infrared wavelengths. as i understand it, the temperature will drop until the heat emitted through radiation is counterbalanced through heat that seeps in through the insulation and through the stagnant, stratified air above your pan of water, and, probably more importantly, through greenhouse-effect radiation from the warm atmosphere and any opaque objects you have unfortunately included in your field of view

tens or hundreds of watts of cooling is quite significant indeed when we're talking about making some ice or cooling some food
Thanks! Macroexpanded:

Please, Enough with the Dead Butterflies - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37341159 - Aug 2023 (3 comments)

Please, enough with the dead butterflies (2017) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27948008 - July 2021 (210 comments)

Enough with the Dead Butterflies (2017) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21788356 - Dec 2019 (28 comments)

Enough with the dead butterflies - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14460013 - June 2017 (163 comments)
yes a bit overkill for first use; deff want to tinker around with it without the extra moving parts at first; but i'd say if somebody is venturing into that space they should also consider security as well and should certainly try to get the added layers. a lot of companies miss out on security and implement it as an afterthought and run into more pain for everybody involved
This sort of feels like the "how do we define a recession" debate. You can establish some guidelines, but I think there's also a sort of "I'll know it when I see it" qualitative type judgement too. I'd say if you can still make lots of money writing apps for scheduling dog massages and aren't persuaded to go pick up a rifle or work an ammunition press, we're still a ways off from a real world war.
Avoiding POP3 is great. Some people like to say the future is JMAP, but those same people provide such a weak mobile email app that I find it hard to believe. Maybe the protocol can do better than the app by the same vendor?
Looks like they spotted a good niche. But the name seems very weird to me, making me think of ZenDesk and audio, when it has nothing to do with either.

The thing I mostly notice about these kinds of stories is that they succeed not because of technical brilliance but because they are good at all the marketing stuff, have channels to reach customers etc.
The problem with double-buffering is that you still need to know when all the readers are no longer using one of the copies.

T1: writer populates copy1
T2: readers access copy1
T3: writer populates copy2, and swaps
T4: writer populates copy1, and swaps

At T4 a reader from T2 could still be accessing the old data structure.

Unless I'm overthinking it.
There are some IR bands that are transparent between the ground and space so if you optimize your emissions in those bands (because you are not an idealized black body) and insulate yourself from conduction and convection heating, you can beat your local surroundings and cool yourself lower than ambient to a useful degree.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infrared_window

There are materials and even paints that have emission spectrums designed for this.

For example: https://www.parc.com/technologies/self-cooling-paint/

Normally you would just be in the same thermal equilibrium with everything else having similar emission spectrums you'd give and receive similar amounts of radiative heating and cooling. Tweak your spectrum and you tip the balance in your favor.
And none of them are without support crew; The crew just doesn't need to ride on the train itself, but rather waits in stations or in depots along the tracks.
PageRank's linear algebraic formulation also has a natural interpretation in the GraphBLAS sparse graph linear algebra library. Here's an example from a paper that benchmarks C, Julia, and Python with pygraphblas (this example hasn't yet been ported to the newer python-graphblas library):

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/356707900_The_Graph...

(disclaimer: I'm one of the paper authors).

The GraphBLAS handles sparse matrices very efficiently, so extremely large graphs can be used, we were able to benchmark against graphs with 65M nodes and billions of triangles in just over a minute. Both the Python and Julia bindings came reasonably close to the "native" C implementation in LAGraph.
Yup, I find that incredibly frustrating -- it's a platform lock-in that any corp would be proud of.

I've had this gripe more with ObservableHQ notebooks -- great examples and a pointless resource all at the same time.

This framework effort seems to be a bit more open though (at least you can self-host), so I'm keeping an eye on it.
Arguable destabilizing NATO has some significant advantages in whatever eventual aims China has towards Taiwan.
I put myself somewhere in the middle :)

I don't bother shaving 6 days out of seven. By the time I take myself off to a barber on Friday mornings, I really need that shave.

UNIX/Linux since 1991.
SaaS: gmail, vpn providers, ebay.

IaaS: running your own email server, your own cloud, your own vpn.

I'm vehemently against the idea of a KYC for iaas. This just feels like another swipe at destroying internet anonymity. "Foreign actors" already route traffic over every network in the US. Preventing them from getting an ec2 isnt necessary as senators can already request aws drop customers because they dont like them (joe lieberman personally pulled the plug on wikileaks)
The owners of a company typically control and that includes the right to change the founding document. If they did it right the suit will fail.
Why isn't this replacing aircon over the whole world? Unless that IR-transparent window is made of gold dust, it has to work out cheaper than the energy cost of running an air conditioner.
And today we have corporate FAANG whose only vision for the future is a TV quite literally strapped to your head.
Great question!

“PDRC surfaces are designed to be high in solar reflectance (to minimize heat gain) and strong in longwave infrared (LWIR) thermal radiation heat transfer through the atmosphere's infrared window (8–13 µm) to cool temperatures even during the daytime.”

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passive_daytime_radiative_co...

I also posted this as a separate post for visibility. It’s an amazing technique that more should be aware of.
I too subscribed to Amiga World and remember that article.

That was only true for a very brief period of time with Amigas using the 68060, which they never came from the factory with.

I and, judging by their price on Amibay today, very few other people ever owned or used or even saw a 68060 accelerator card.

At the time I could barely afford the 030 accelerator for my A2000 and could sell it today for the price of a 4090. Hmm......
Glue + screw a Pi underneath a thermal printer???!?
> China is not similarly constrained and so could end up outcompeting the U.S.

With what technology ?

US has long term export controls on China and as they have demonstrated with Russia recently once you have secondary sanctions in place everyone falls into line. So it's pretty likely they will be effective.
The GP does say "_I've_ adopted", seems pretty specific to them.
Wow unradiant heat, or more accurately radiant cooling I suppose. Fascinating
Right but territory disputes (without actual fighting) are also just political speaks. Money and military supplies from China to Russia speak louder than political speaks - even without some of the Chinese bank settlements, China is still the main funder of Russia's war
I just did a quick search, so I don't claim to be an expert. The two main methods seem to be thead/tfoot and position:fixed. I didn't mean to imply that this are smarter/better, but they might be easier in certain conditions.
I think some events might be missing from this article. Nytimes and bancamp unionization efforts come to mind.
Don’t miss the part where there is only 1 vacancy for 10 workers.

Lowering standards would not solve anything here, even if everyone accepted any job and relocate accordingly to fill every single vacancy, unemployment would hardly go down.
Roku's Ultimatum: Surrender Jury Trial Rights or Lose Access to Your TVs
Clear F. I don’t see you passively cooling anything to below freezing when it’s 36C outside.
Very cool! I like how the various sources blend well together, regardless of where you go.

Nice work!
Interesting take. The “over round crescent moon” has also come to be a symbol for the moon that isn’t representative of how the moon actually looks.
this is a "ratchet" mechanism; once implemented, there is no going back. Everything is gravy when you are making the money and all your ID is accepted, but the first day you are fired and locked out for it, or the election in your country goes a way that someone does not like.. you may change your mind.

Is there a way forward? yes, penalties for abuse, not "papers please" life for every peon on Earth.
And that's exactly why the watermark is there, so your wish can come true (for money).
Boeing wrote most of the book on how to do this stuff safely - they just stopped following that book once they bought MDC and its management took over (and arguable laid off the engineering people at MDC who could do it the MDC way safely).

Thats why Boeing is trying to undo it, and repurchase Spirit Aerosystems.
Most software is internal software used by a handful of people in a certain department of a company. Even in large multinational conglomerates the applications used by every single country subsidiary can be counted using your fingers.
Therefore imagine the impact of reduced snow and ice due to global warming. It’s free cooling and we’re throwing it away.
Many years ago, I had an indoor swimming pool with solar heating. Some days in the middle of summer that water got too warm. So I'd run the water through the black plastic solar collectors at night-time to throw away that excess heat.
Karya Is a Music Sequencer
I would say that a large portion of b2b or internal software tends to come into this category. If you are building something for a single business that only operates in one jurisdiction, and you don't do i18n, why bother with global distribution? A lot of b2b stuff covers process that have legal stuff baked in, like tax handling or other assumptions.
China actually has very advanced technology in literally every area of the sciences now. They just don’t bother talking about it in english

I recommend you follow some of the specialist chinese AI substacks to see what’s happening over there.

Esp around chip building
Counterpoint: the proportion of USA who are foreign-born went from a high in 1900s to a low in 1970s.
Thanks for the paper link.

> My understanding of the more fundamental problem is related to how IQ tests attempt to quantify intelligence as a reliable predictor of future success.

This was indeed the original motivation in the past.

The fact that most variants to define the concept of "intelligence" in some kind of replicable test lead to to the observation that all of these concepts are strongly correlated with the g factor, so in my opinion the evidence is on the side that we formalized "intelligence" mostly correctly.

Now that we have a decent measurable concept of intelligence available, we can actually do studies with which other things (such as "future success") intelligence/IQ is correlated. And here the results are in my opinion, well, ... somewhat complicated.

For example, as of today, it is quite well-known that if you consider having a steep career as "success", it's rather that being in the dark triad is quite helpful.

Another example: it is well-known that attractive people are often thought by other people to be more smart than they actually are (halo effect; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halo_effect#Role_of_attractive... ; see also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physical_attractiveness_stereo...).

Thus: the problem rather seems to be that intelligence/IQ is not a predictor for quite some things that people would love it to be associated with. But this is in my opinion not a problem with IQ, but with social expectations.
That limitation was not about frequency, it was about supporting widespread TV hardware. Flickering was inherent to how TVs worked at the time, but Amiga software did not sufficiently account for that. If they had used the interlaced modes correctly, i.e. as a minor tweak over simple scanline doubling rather than a true increase in vertical resolution, the flickering would've been a non-issue.
You could also waymo to millbrae and uber to SFO. The price ($5.20) for BART to SFO makes it unattractive, especially since you often have to wait for a while. I've caltrained to millbrae and taken uber to SFO for $12, which is often worth the time tradeoff for me.
So, complete de-anonimization of internet infrastructure in the United States. If you have something to say on a platform we don't already control (Meta, etc) then you must provide your private data to the government to do so.

Watch the US say in a few years that they will block all international VPN connectivity for security reasons.
FTA:

>> Despite her status as the “world’s smartest woman,” vos Savant maintained that attempts to measure intelligence were “useless,” and she rejected IQ tests as unreliable.

The word "maintained" is a link pointing to this blog post, reproducing an interview of vos Savant [1]. In the interview, vos Savant is quoted as saying:

>> Not that IQ tests are useless. Far from it.

______________

[1] http://sailom.blogspot.com/2007/04/are-men-smarter-than-wome...
I don't use Joplin for the aforementioned reasons earlier, but they should at least let you customize the "media folder".

The embedded media is already referenced using relatively standard markdown syntax in a respective MD note, e.g.:

![image info](./pictures/image.png)

Since apps such as Logseq and Obsidian work with your existing notes, they avoid this issue of massive file duplication and don't need to move the files at all.

EDIT: I just realized if you're talking about adding media onto a note through the notetaking application itself, take a look at what Typora does as a good example of how to handle it. It auto-creates a relative folder called "note_name.assets" and moves them to it. Obsidian OTOH lets you specify a "media" folder that exists for each subdirectory of your existing note structure.
The tech world is really becoming a surveillance nightmare.

Always for the same dubious straw men reasons of terrorism and co, they want to control everyone. Like for banks, the excuse is to ensure that no forbidden foreign actor is allowed the use of the service , but just for that the billion legitimate users will all have to provide their complete justificative info, IPs, and support documents to later be used by the org or gov for whatever reason they will want once they will have them.

Like for banks.

Imagine if the same thing was requested in the real world, like forced to prove your identity when you take gas, When you buy a computer, when you buy a condom.
I think it's equally shit at creative work too, that's just harder to dismiss as "wrong". It's still wrong, it's just harder to see.
> Reuters reviewed the letter, reporting that the WSC warned Modi that ending the moratorium "would mean tariffs on digital e-commerce and an innumerable number of transfers of chip design data across countries, raising costs and worsening chip shortages."

How can there be a shortage of chips that aren't taped out yet?
I'll just pop on over to the deep water port in my garage...
I’m guessing you don’t read many machine learning papers. Chinese research in AI coming out of their top institutions (e.g. Tsinghua University, Shanghai AI Lab), is pretty much on par with state of the art in U.S. labs.
Cancel the card. There are many ways to do that. Or simply, just tell your bank it's been lost or stolen and get them to issue you with a new card (along with a new card number).

It's a good opportunity to do a 'scream test' also. When all those subscription holders scream that they can't charge your card anymore, just give the ones you actually want to keep your new card number.
https://pagedjs.org has a polyfill that implements https://www.w3.org/TR/css-gcpm-3/#footnotes
this is a great paper, thanks

a thing to keep in mind with research papers is that in many cases they're concerned with finding how to get the largest effect, or demonstrate the effect in a way that's most clearly due to the reasons they claim and not some experimental error, or measure the effect most precisely, and only in rare cases are they concerned with how to get the effect most cheaply, a consideration which conflicts with the others

there are a lot of cheap materials that are transparent in the thermal infrared, like ldpe, potassium chloride, sodium chloride, silicon, and rock crystal. they're mostly a pain in one way or another (not that i have any experience with this)
Yes, I have a window manager hotkey to pop up the hourly weather image for my location in mpv, I recommend this as a good way to get a quick look at the weather today or tomorrow. I also have a shell alias to use kitten icat to display it in the terminal, although I use the mpv hotkey more. I also have a text weather alias in the terminal that just calls curl on the file that matches my location under:

https://tgftp.nws.noaa.gov/data/forecasts/zone/

I just looked through my state to find the right file but it looks like the "More Local Wx" link from the 7 day forcast page has the right name for the file (ORZ006 in my case).

I also have a few icat aliases to show radar; one for current, one for sequential, and one looping from this page (radar name same as on radar.weather.gov):

https://radar.weather.gov/ridge/standard/

However, I find the one hour accumulation view to be best and I couldn't find a way to get images for that view so I usually look at radar.weather.gov if it works (it has been working better lately but sometimes just doesn't work for me).

I haven't ended up looking at them often but I also made some icat aliases for 6-10 day and monthly temperature and precipitation outlook from:

https://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/predictions/610day/

https://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/predictions/30day/
No, the hours it saves per month are worth a lot more than $20. It really depends on your use case, personally I find it superior to any other model I've tried for coding, debugging and troubleshooting server issues.
It's implemented in https://pagedjs.org
My SO put up and finished the drywalls, cut and mounted the moldings and trim, and painted it all. She's far more handy than me.

She just find cables along moldings and similar to be very distracting visually, painted or not, hence the hard pass.
Go to McDonalds right now. You can get 10 nuggets for $5.39 or BOG$1 6 piece, so 12 nuggets, for $4.49. The 20 piece is $6.79. So that’s $0.53, $0.37, and $0.34 per/ct respectively. In the first case it’s not even a volume thing, you just get nuggets cheaper because of the dynamic pricing.

If you think everyone pays the same price for consumer goods you’ve been mislead.
Sounds like genocide.

Let's say I owned slaves, legally, through inheritance.

You want me hanged? Based upon some righteousness you've adopted a hundred years after the events about a topic you've only read about?

Do you ever wonder if you're the monster you want to destroy?
Reclaim your focus with ~12 lines of bash
Ahh, the good ole days. I remember having an IRQ conflict between my 2400 baud modem and my serial connected mouse. I had to keep moving my mouse to use the modem until I changed one of the IRQs.
"At minimum, U.S. IaaS providers must gather and retain specific identifying information from potential foreign customers and foreign beneficial owners to verify their identity, including their:

Name; Address; Means and source of payment; Email address; Telephone number; and
“IP address(es) used for access or administration and the date and time of each such access or administrative action.”

I'm pretty sure all IaaS providers already have all that (except maybe the phone number which is not mandatory
When in doubt, return fire!
ChatGPT-4 is wonderful for composing regular expressions. Saves so much time when transforming various Java strings that arise in my work.

Today's big time savings came from this prompt:
"Write a Java method that uses the Eclipse AST parser to create a simple markdown file showing the commented method signatures of a given Java class text file."
The greatest near term risk to progress here is cost but nobody wants to talk about it.
As long as you enjoyed the work, I would say yes. While it's true that live performances give you the acting, set design, and costume design for the work, a close examination of the writing helps with appreciating the wordplay and usage of language more—as some of the elegance might be missed with seeing a performance just once (though you could pick up more if you see multiple performances of the same script).
my air conditioner is rejecting 3000 watts to the outdoors right now, even though my bedroom is the same temperature as the nighttime outdoors. doing that with radiative cooling would require 8 square meters of emitter area at 400 watts per square meter and a clear, low-humidity sky (not necessarily night, but in the daytime, you additionally have to keep the sun off the panels). my air conditioner's condenser is significantly less than 1 square meter as seen from the sky and also works when it's cloudy or humid outside

basically forced-air convection heat transfer is a motherfucking miracle, and vapor-compression refrigeration even more so
[Docters still use pagers](https://ferd.ca/notes/rhip-doctors-and-pagers.html) and [put password in post-it notes on the device](https://ferd.ca/notes/paper-you-want-my-password-or-a-dead-p...) not because the new technology have no value, but the system it brings often fails to account for the reality, aka existing systems.

The 'what AI is trying to solve is not the problem' viewpoint of this article is also in the same vein, in that current AI discourse does not account for our society and systems.

Unfortunately as a non-specialist techno-optimist, I can't help but view it as a problem to be solved.
Perfect place to build your anarcho-capitalist utopian city without government interference.
replugging a mouse via ps2 either crashed the thing or just simply didn't work. same with keyboard
Technological innovation is not truly an exponential. It is instead a series of logistics. If we do not have further breakthroughs then AI technology will plateau. I do think we'll have those breakthroughs but it's impossible to say when they will happen.