skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not saying it can't be done. I'm saying it hasn't been done yet. How about we try it before pretending that we can shift to 100% renewables or before legislating transitions that we don't know how to accomplish.

Hawaii is trying hard, but it doesn't seem to be going well with the grid becoming less reliable. BTW, this video is a solid overview of the power situation in Hawaii: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bbECmVdyWlQ&themeRefresh=1

I believe parts of the Azores have tried, but have not been successful.

I would be very interested in pointers to successful projects in this area.
“Disposed of” is what we do with corpses usually. Society tends to put quite a lot of weight on doing it the right way.

If your home town was invaded tonight, everyone you know and love there killed, and their skin used to upholster the president’s favorite recliner, would that make their remains an artifact now? What more is there to learn in keeping a corpse unburied in this case?
I've 'learned' the OSI model / TCP/IP / DNS / etc - probably - more times than you in the last quarter century

It. Never. Sticks!

Subnets? ...yeah - I know they exist (and ... 'matter'?)

IP classification ranges? Same

IPv4 vs IPv6? Holy freaking crap! Those make ABSOLUTELY no sense to me!

I care about only 2 or 3 things:

- what [private] IP range(s) do we have on this network?

- what NAT rule(s) do I need to know to get from 'here' to 'there' (and back again)?

- is my publicly-facing device group accessible from the 'public' internet?

Nothing. Else. Matters.

(yeah, yeah, yeah ... all those CCxx network engineers are having heart palpitations right now - but I. Do. Not. Care!)
There really is not much different between Xbox and ps5 anymore anyway. Xbox more open platform makes me want to trade the ps5 for an Xbox
You cannot tell if a particle has been measured or not without...measuring it.

The key to understanding this is that _any_ interaction with anything counts as a "measurement" from the particles perspective.

I like to think that our simulation has a bandwidth compression algorithm that only decodes the state of a particle when it needs to calculate an interaction. Just like how your dungeon crawler doesn't spawn mobs until they are within interaction distance. But that's just fun head canon.
Given how intertwined AI and search engines are it's hard to see how this helps aside from _maybe_ making things easier for Google, Microsoft, etc., unless you also don't want to be indexed by search engines.
Why wouldn't we want jobs to be automated exactly?
Well TIL that IA does not respect robots.txt.

Does IA themselves block crawlers? It doesn't look like it according to their robots.txt, even going so far as to say "Please crawl our files."

What would stop an actor from maliciously complying with a robots.txt file by just going to the internet archive instead.
Is the low level firmware open source?

I know it isn’t on the rpi, which runs a proprietary broadcom version of microsoft threadx.
I asked for domains related to golf courses and it returned all pet related domains. I wonder what happened.
Anthropologically, I think that this isn't super far from what has already happened for humans. Grandmothers specifically had a lot of repsonsibilities and importance and I believe that's why they generally live longer than grandfathers.

Instead of being about career development, it's been about specializing in hunter/gatherer stuff while still able bodied.

https://www.discovermagazine.com/the-sciences/grandmothers-a...
That would tie languages to language tools and IMO be a downgrade from having a slightly more verbose language that is independent of tooling.
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Religion is useful / Religion is a virus, are both utilitarian arguments because some people care more about what is useful than true AND because some people's standards for what is true is based on judging its utility.

To focus on Christianity (since you brought it up), religion not being useful would be a blow to the "Loving God" claim, as a God who (like a bad parent) gave lousy advice that harmed us wouldn't seem very loving. Similarly, if a utilitarian secular philosophy continuously failed to be useful based on its own utilitarian standards, it's self defeating.

Certainly faiths that don't assert a loving God, and secular philosophies that don't include utilitarian moral and ethical frameworks aren't effected. The usefulness of religion compared to secular philosophies doesn't PROVE one is correct, but if you can DISPROVE one or some of your largest competitors for mindshare, I get why the argument is so stressed.
Actually, I believe it was my education in pure mathematics (PhD), computer programming, and technology, as well as living in three countries and seeing the word that allowed me to truly realize how damaging AI can really be. Believe it or not, I was heavily into technology when I was in my 20s.

But after seeing environmental damage, reading widely in philosophy and sociology, writing about it to clarify it, I came to a different conclusion: that technology is not all it's cracked up to be, especially when it is plugged into a system of global capitalism whose ultimate aim is consumerism.

Just think: one of the biggest companies in the world (Google/Alphabet) has as its primary goal to promote unsustainability. If that doesn't make you think, what will.

And let me ask you this: are you so sure about technology, given that you were raised in a world that praises it like a religion? I think the fanatical religious witch hunters also thought they were right, simply because they were raised in such an environment.

Loving technology is the default position of the rich. Is that just a coincidence?
Counterpoint: Logo redesigns give management something to endlessly bikeshed about in meetings.
Not sure why what would matter. One party (US taxpayers) is paying another party (Intel shareholders) to do something specific. What recipients do with the money is their own problem.

EDIT: Sorry, read this as strings attached to what Intel could do with the money.

I would assume the subsidy is contingent on Intel actually setting up the fab and some output numbers, seems idiotic to do it any other way. Don't think this was a bailout or handout at all. I haven't seen the agreement though.
Admittedly, it is a slightly better set of reasons than 'because it is sacred[1]'.

[1]https://www.cnn.com/2024/01/05/world/peregrine-moon-mission-...
i don't know about self-driveing..

what would be far-better and far-easier, is just to use electrical buses instead of those diesel never-ever-turned-off 24/7 smoke-producers-on-wheels. in all airports. poor or Rich..

but no.
I did this a few years ago by porting the Writing an interpreter book (go) to C++. It was pretty nice for learning.
As people already mention positive aspects about Schiphol. The new hand luggage scanners allow you to finally take liquids of any volume with you, forget max 100ml sized containers. One of the few airports that has them afaik
If we ban stock buybacks then should we ban companies from issuing new shares as well? Why is one manipulation but not the other?
How does this compare to enumer? https://github.com/dmarkham/enumer
How Much Carbon Can a Tree Store?
> I believe this is because of reductions in child mortality more than increases in adult lifespan. So it doesn't affect the number of great grandmothers that much.

Accepting that, I'd offer that more is a value somewhere above 50%. That leaves a lot of modern people who aren't dying in their 20s-50s.

I look at a lot of death certs (genealogy) and and realize we've had a lot of advances in treatment (pneumonia), regulation (black lung) and health practices (tuberculosis, dysentery). Many routine killers from 80+ years ago are less common/less deadly now.

Last night I ran across a death from Tuberculous Meningitis and my take was - What even the frak? How did our ancestors survive millennia where life just sprayed death at us?
How to make an old immune system young again
It isn't, except when it is, and WiFi is established already. Sure, for a big industrial IoT rollout, you'd have to set up dedicated networks anyway, so you can choose them on their peculiar merits. For consumer IoT, requiring an additional hub or regional infrastructure is a losing proposition. For consumer-like commercial/industrial IoT and similar connectivity, think Redbox kiosks or fishing license machines where sites will not put the machines on their WiFi network, you might not have a good case for replacing cellular with your own infrastructure.

Where DECT might be competitive would be applications like wireless utility meters - high densities of installations where your own infrastructure could be more practical than cellular.
UV-K5 is the most hackable handheld ham radio yet
Executives are always incentivized to increase share value; that’s their job. Note: it’s the board of directors that issues new shares not executives. Executives can sit on the board, but the two are not the same. Executives are actually appointed by the board.

The reason stock buybacks are viewed somewhat negatively is because it’s a lazy way to increase share value. Preferably executives would use the money to come up with new products/services to increase revenues. But if we’re talking about huge mega corporations, who already spend a lot of money on R&D, capex and/or acquisitions, then using some additional cash flow on buybacks makes sense.

In Intel’s case, the buyback merits some discussion because it is implied that government subsidies are being used to buyback shares which is not the intention of the subsidy.

Edit: IMO, I don’t think Intel underinvested, I believe they invested in many failed ventures and under their past and current leadership they are not able to grow the company in any meaningful way.
1. Qualified immunity needs to go, it isn't even law; it was concocted by SCOTUS out of nothing in 1967.

2. A special force that only investigates law enforcement officers and their wrongdoing (like GIBS in Czechia [0]) could help. Not even police can police themselves.

3. A lot more professional education for officers would be good, US officers have less training than their counterparts in other developed countries. [1]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Inspection_of_Security...

[1] https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-56834733
This thread really brought an alarming number of tankies out of the HN woodwork. Not something you typically see on here!
Even leaving aside the ethics (which...yikes) I think this kind of falls down, logically.

Parents want to become grandparents after having the experience of being parents. If you cut the "being parents" out of that cycle, why would you even want grand kids? And having been parents prepares grandparents to step in if needed. If you skip the parenting step, why would they be any better at it just because they're 20 years older?

Also, frankly, infants are hard. They're great when you can give them back. But the loss of sleep and everything is something that does not go well with being in your 40s and beyond. It's hard at any age, but doubly so later in life.

All that said, it'd be great if society placed more emphasis on extended family involvement and if we start to really embrace remote work that might be more possible. (e.g., stop making people move thousands of miles away from their families just for jobs...) But accelerating child-having just for the sake of great-grandparents... bad idea, even leaving aside the ethics.
Why, we can all count fingers on one hand, can't we? We know whose proxy they ain't and after that it is process of what is not eliminated. Some say they are the original counter-counter-proxy (cause the others also liked the idea of this genre and made counter-proxies) and with the first proxies (in that genre) being the Mujahidin in Afghanistan hitting USSR troops, unless you want to go all the way back to Lawrence of Arabia and Ottomans ..

p.s. part of the deal Nixon made with Mao was that CPC would no longer support various cells in the 'Global Energy Zone' since they were now "partners" in the Global Economy. Overnight thousands of Maoist flowers all over campuses and in middle east went away. All these groups existentially require a powerful patron or two. So ISIS has a mommy and a daddy and it aint Russia and it aint Iran and China has been out of that game since 70s as a matter of historic fact. That leave US, UK ("the Empire"), the Europeans (French? Doubtful), and Israel, KSA, Qatar and UAE. Qatar is Muslim Brotherhood [& so is Turkey] so that seems to eliminate it [them]. That basically leaves Western and Abrahamic patriarch wanna-bes at the table of candidates.
Email works well. Would recommend.
Well at this point in time we live in a capitalist world and people need money to survive?

I assume you like being paid, buying things, food, etc.

Would it be great if we lived in a utopian society that money no longer mattered. Sure! Even with AI I see basically zero chance of that happening in any reasonable amount of time before AI destroys our society.
The author of that quote literally founded a company (Granito Group) to sell this message to sympathetic (obviously left leaning) organizations so that he could personally profit from it. Case closed.
> How does this end?

War, unfortunately.
The main problem of course is that the US government is so dependent on a single company because they allowed the instruction set to be protected IP since forever, allowed imports from countries without demanding they provide the same labor and environmental protections and they didn't invest in a well educated population that would allow for new advancements to be homegrown.

If the buybacks are undesirable they should tax them. If Intel is trying to divest they should start working towards alternatives and put the government contracts towards companies that do not create these issues.
I love everything about this. Pen plotter. Art. Midi. Programming.

In total awe of the skills here.

Ace!
> surgeon who branded a transplanted liver with his initials

If anything, I'd be happy if the surgeon engraved his initials on my liver. This likely means he was proud of his work.

OTOH, I've seen people evading any mention of their name in the public releases of software code of horrendous quality by institutions, so I can relate this to my profession. Anonymous work correlates with bad work.
Worth noting: Charity Majors' blog on management and tech: https://charity.wtf/

She says several things I've always thought were taboo to even think, including the fact that management shouldn't be viewed as a promotion, it's a completely separate job and some people are better at it than others. My limited experience: it's a separate job, it's a lot more things to juggle and carry, and it mostly makes sense that they get paid more. I have zero experience on director/c-level jobs, so I'm not going to speculate there.
https://www.972mag.com/mass-assassination-factory-israel-cal...

Here is the original report. Why are you so confident that there is no evidence? Not the curiosity we generally expect at HN.
Agreed that symbolic moves like this are often release valves for the pressure that ought to be applied to improving things really, but the pearl clenching about the loss of some remarkable piece of history in this thread is the hilarious mirror on the topic.

It’s certainly meaningful to acknowledge the past and alter the way we celebrate it, including by deciding the things we take forward with us.
You can do this for free now with RealityCapture, not ML though.
>I think this is an interesting situation where “AI” has become just a general term that it has lost so much meaning thanks to things like chatgpt.

AI is just a branding buzzword by Big Tech companies....before AI, there were "machine learning" and "deep learning" buzzwords widely used. "Blockchain" and "SaaS" are also some of the most infamous buzzwords.
I was just pointing out the silliness of acting as if a possible thing that’s been done before is impossible. I wasn’t advocating a course of action.

Pretty much every time we arrange things to favor or necessitate domestic production in an industry, it’s done in the name of security (defense contracting and agriculture come to mind). Including semiconductors in that category is not crazy, and there is certainly more than one way to bring about those incentives.
It's still not a very satisfactory explanation IMHO.
I guess the litmus test is would you make the same argument if the results of the study had been the opposite? If they had said industrial life and being a parent increased happiness would you be just as skeptical?

I doubt you would say woah woah there people are sleeping on Guatemala, does being childfree get the same treatment?
I’ve been hanging around some MBA types lately, and I’m coming to realize the product doesn’t actually have to perform to high specs like engineers would demand. Palantir is selling a “story” that their AI system magically decreases casualties and finds good targets, and it’s got firm numbers printed in the console (that could be completely wrong) but that is more convincing to MBA’s than any wishy intuition. So the MBA’s buy into the marketing, and the executors are buying into offloading their conscience.
OK - that's fine then. I might disagree but I can't accuse you of inconsistency.
Numerous Holocaust museums and memorials are scattered across Europe, including former concentration camps, where high school students and adults visit to remember—and hopefully never forget—the lessons humanity learned during that period.

It's a soul-crushing experience that offers both small and large lessons, which should suffice to help people distinguish between right and wrong (and dispel any doubt that the book binding should be removed). Even for those who have never visited any of these sites, probably every corner of the world has had its share of historical lessons that (should) reinforce this understanding.
Somebody should add Redis RESP protocol to NATS \o/
Behind a VPN is fine, at least for personal use. At work, phones are never able to get on the same network as our servers though, and considering the random nature of apps people often install, my recommendation would be that they should not.
The very strange thing about your comment is that it doesn't even respond to my question of how anything was being glorified yet at the same time you accuse me of not reading the article with "you people".
good catch :-)

In respect of 802.11ah, it's still under 1000m, outdoors, IIRC. Great for the use-case of covering your factory in sensors, not so for the use-cases that LoRa is intended for.
> actually breaking Apple Pay/Google Pay support needs a lot of destructive energy on the merchant's/PSP's side.

They do bank whitelisting, not protocol breakage.
I typed two words and it generated some domain names. The website doesn’t explain if you should type in words or whole sentences.
The (policy) research that changed my thinking
Imagine Intel running at the full speed and efficiency of the US government.
He doesn’t need to. We cited a well respected journalist in a well known publication.
> Setting a modern precedent that any company doing business in the U.S. can suddenly be treated as if they’re somehow owned by the U.S. government and forced to make capital expenditures against their will.

It's amazing how many people on here seem to think that the first response to China should be to turn the US into China and start doing state-directed capitalism. Maybe "disappear" a few dissident CEOs.
Not in the southern hemisphere !
But there is some distinction in the world between things we treat as historical artifacts and those we don't.

I haven't seen anyone make a compelling case for why this particular item is a significant historical artifact, other than that it was already in the collection of Harvard Library.

We pass up things that could be preserved all the time. Curation is an intrinsic part of preservation.
Scientists weigh up current status of blue whale populations around the world
Someone without ADHD will never understand this, I think.
Can we simply tell that the entanglement was collapsed on the other end? That would be sufficient to transmit information.
If planet x is habitable when I get there, I measure/collapse this specific particle, whose counterpart is back on earth in a detector named "habitable". When the detector fires on earth because this particle was measured/collapsed on planet x, people on earth know planet x is habitable.
There's no need to know the outcome of the measurement, just the fact that it was measured/collapsed is information enough.
The same is true of governments.
I wouldn't call it morally indefensible for companies to make layoffs after the hiring irrational exuberance that occured in 2021. They're trimming fat.

I would use that label for a Private Equity firm leveraged buyout, followed by a complete gutting of employees, then a quick flip for profit.
>> Buildings need to be as air tight as possible

Perhaps in California, Australia or other desert areas. The pacific northwest had major issues when OSB met the concept of "air tight" housing. No airflow in/through walls leads to condensation, mold and collapse of many "engineered" wood products held together with glue.
No, it's not. This was against contemporary morality in the society in which it was done as well.
> There’s no longer comprehensive legislation trying to solve a particular (perceived) problem.

Of course, there is, but some problems are different and difficult. Why are they difficult? Because it's hard to find an alternative solution that ticks all these boxes: one that is socially acceptable to all parties involved, does not incur additional problems or direct costs to any specific party or group of interest, and does not disrupt the market, among other considerations. You also need to take into account current laws, the social contract, and politics. Sometimes, the most efficient, easiest, least disruptive, and most acceptable solution is simply to allocate funds to address the problem.
Paradoxes like this are actually defining characteristics of the scapegoat.

- he is a rich billionaire but also a broke failure

- he is the most hated, but also the most popular

- he has been a ny elite (insider) for decades, but his base is rural and blue collar (outsider).

- he is dumb and unsophisticated but also a cunning planner and schemer

Supporters are not immune from the scapegoat effect. They also believe one man can control the universe.
What do you mean you "taught" ChatGPT. In what way did you teach ChatGPT to find cool domain names?
It is also 2024. One would think that reducing the number of civilian noncombatants killed would be in order since then, no?
I had a day of it last week, debugging Rails / Kubernetes / Memory usage & OOM kills. I wrote it up so that maybe you can avoid my fate.

I won't spoil the surprise, but I did end up with one takeaway that I'll remember going forward when diagnosing.
Maybe? But this implies an elimination of/constraints on qualified immunity [1]. They don't need insurance if they have no liability.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qualified_immunity
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Look around, though. We do have this attitude towards programmers.

The biggest (e.g. Copilot) and most hyped (e.g. Devin) tools in the AI space are tools for developing software such that Stack Overflow is dead and the skill floor is rising on being an employable software developer.
Uh oh.. my doctors never told me this. That explains the last 10 years x.x
If it's such an important objective for the US government, perhaps they shouldn't muddle it up with DEI bullshit:

https://thehill.com/opinion/4517470-dei-killed-the-chips-act...
The fellow who committed suicide, Karl Koch, was only one part of a group of four. The person who was actually caught with Cliffs help was Markus Hess.
Doesn't TypeScript – as mentioned above – solve all JavaScript type problems? I have, in 6 years, never encountered a single type error originating from a TS file.
We can’t.