skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And then cleaning them every once in a while. That’s why I don’t have any - cleaning the gutters on my house is $400 nowadays ($300 before Biden). Cleaning solar is probably twice that, and it’d need to be done every year - there’s a lot of vegetation around and everything is covered with pollen every spring and with leaves every fall. Even once-a-year cleaning would be like half of my yearly electricity bill.
Comparative advantage is a feature of the world.

Rage against it as much as you want, it’ll only delay the green transition
I think the issue is mostly from misaligned motivations from insurance companies and car manufacturers.

On the insurance side, they're motivated by finances. If the quote to fix a car is $10k and the car itself was only worth $8k, the insurance company is just going to give you $8k to find yourself an equivalent car to the one you "totaled". There's no intrinsic motivation for the insurance company to go for the $10k repair? Maybe allow them to have carbon credits or something for spending an extra $2k to keep the same car on the road? How do you tease out how much of a carbon win this is? (and who is in charge of deciding that?)

So then on the car manufacturer side, they're motivated by sales/ brand reliability. Maybe if cars were more repair-friendly that would help change the equation? That comes with the potential trade-off of new cars being more expensive and/or less reliable if they can't be as tightly integrated as they currently are. So if car manufacturers are motivated to make the most reliable/cheap car, they are going to forgo making them less repairable.

If you try and get both sides of this equation onto the same page, I don't know that you could trust that there wouldn't be some under the table shenanigans going on without making things so overregulated that both new cars and car repairs are both more expensive?
>> We have so many privacy tools to counter state surveillance these days.

Most of the cases you hear and read about, the gov never had to break any encryption protocols to catch people doing bad things. Pedo's on TOR were busted without it. Terrorist rings have been broken up without breaking encryption protocols. There's been rumors the NSA has broken encryption on WhatsApp and Telegram but will never admit it publicly.

If you think simply having good encryption will buffer state surveillance, it won't. If the gov wants to get you they will always have a huge advantage. They never sleep and have unlimited resources. Right now, tracking a smartphone, getting the data from your provider and the profile companies like Verizon, Google and others have on you is pretty easy. They don't need to break encryption when there are so many other vectors to get at you. Just having the GPS data Google has on you is enough to give them a roadmap on your life.

Unless you're willing to be a hermit like Ted Kaczynski was for years, it will be easy for any state to surveil you. And the gov still got Ted, even after all things he did to cover his tracks and living completely off the grid.
A lot of this is there at learn.microsoft.com
Even if you do your own thing and make something super cool, nobody's gonna stumble upon it randomly. You either have to spam it on social media or aim for high ranking in search results (while that's still somewhat of a possibility). So, even with your own little website, you're still completely at the mercy of big tech.

I still highly recommend it though. Your social media account comes and goes, but your own little website will be there however long you want it to be, display whatever info about you you want it to display, and it can look however you want it to look.
Check Point releases emergency fix for VPN zero-day exploited in attacks
Longer novels are more likely to win literary awards
I have a feeling that someday people are going to realize that the 1 or 2 EVs (with bidirectional power) in their home garage can handle most of the rooftop power storage needs. This would greatly remove the utilities out of the picture.
Sure it's impossible at this point, but the point of a benchmark isn't to complete the task it's to test it's efficacy overall and to see progress. None of them are 100% at even the simplistic python benchmarks, doesn't mean we shouldn't measure that capability. But sure, I get it. That's not how they are intended to be used but that's also not the point the commenter was laying out.
the Last Bookstore in LA: https://www.lastbookstorela.com
I especially like it for reading the slides without the video. Oftentimes, the slides for a presentation will be available but a video recording will not be, and having all the information on the slides makes it easier to learn from those presentations.

Of course, the "correct" way to do this would be with "speakers notes", but those seem to often be stripped off of archived presentations for whatever reason.
Surely you understand that slang (and words in general) evolve in meaning and change over time - this is definitely the case with this word, and the more modern usage correlating very heavily with the start of the 4chan era (approximately early 2000's).

Were you also the kid that called people "gay" as an insult and said "no I meant 'happy'?"

Here you go: https://www.dictionary.com/e/slang/normie/
> I'm sick of abusing the word "open-source" in this field.

They don’t call this open source anywhere, do they? As far as I can see, they only say it’s open weights and that it’s available under their Mistral AI Non-Production License for research and testing. That doesn’t scream “open source” to me.
Programming is my passion, so no, I haven't. I have friends who have taken a break from it and done something else for a while, but they've always come back.

> I love programming, but the industry is very high-pressure and high-stress for me.

"The industry" is very broad and diverse with all sorts of different characteristics. Not all involve high pressure and stress. You can be a dev without having the high pressure and high stress by carefully selecting where you work.
A "law" has been finalized, passed by both halves of Congress, and ratified. A "bill" is an incomplete proposal at any stage of this process. There is a catchy song [1] to help everyone remember this.

A bill is the same as a pull request that has not yet been merged.

So the statement, "The U.S. [has] yet to pass even a basic internet-era privacy law..." is correct.

In other words: The American Privacy Rights Act is just a bill, yes it's only a bill, and it's sitting there on Capitol Hill...

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tyeJ55o3El0
Programmer view vs management view.

100% of nothing vs 80% of enough.

That's the risk of AI.
Not that AI outperforms humans already but that managers believe it does. That and that code writing is the main work of programmers.
As a daily cannabis user for the past ~30 years, it’s nice to see this (semi-satirical) support piece. Cannabis has helped me overcome OCD and other mental/emotional issues, enjoy life, and accomplish my goals. Wonderful plant.
IA Presenter creates slide decks from markdown:

https://ia.net/presenter
> someone who has no idea how it works gets as much out of it as someone who does

I seriously doubt that the average driver can get the same out of their car as a trained race driver can.
AI doesn't think like humans just like commercial airliners don't fly like birds.
No agenda? How many mandated shots before you join the protest? 5..10? these people were just protesting at >1
From the shared link:

"The Trudeau government has stopped using the Liberal Party's private database to conduct background checks on candidates for judicial appointments, federal sources say."

This is a specific claim about the Liberals that is not refuted by suppositions about other parties, even if the supposition is likely true.
https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=normie%2C+norm...

Based off of Ngram usage, it'd probably be fair to say that they popularized it at the very least. Nothing new under the sun and all that.
> Even large window sizes are still just discrete calculations before the model goes back to sleep.

This describes me! I wake up, do a bunch of stuff, and then go back to sleep.
This much bigger model (500M), P2P is enabled via Mailbox. It is expected because of memory to compute ratio
What is the most urban state?
Seems like an arbitrary criterion. Human beings' conscious experience is interrupted by deep sleep every night.
Powell's in Portland also did this for a moment.

Some point in the early-2010s they rented a retail space across from the main store and moved their engineering and computer-related books into a technical annex, and topped all the shelves with vintage equipment and old computers.

It got folded back into the main store around 2014, and the selection is still good, but I really liked it having its own cozy, dedicated space.
Ditto. I would pay big money for this if it came in an inconspicuous form factor like airpods. Hopefully it's just a matter of time before Airpods themselves can do this.
Well for starters, outside of the US financial regulatory system.

They were operating a shadow bank and unregulated securities exchange in the Bahamas and Hong Kong.

The media and regulators were willing to take a sympathetic view to all of the openly illegal banking and securities violations while times were good, but they were performing a highline act with no safety net the whole time.
Welcome to the just-in-time ideology, where any minuscule blip in any supplier is amplificated through the supply chain until it becomes a disaster.

It takes a lot of competent management work to create those metastable states and push a system into them.
Well with GNU pg, you can have all the backdoors in networks all you want, but it will do Canada no good.

But I sometimes wonder if the M/S push to Windows 11 w/tpm2 allows for a backdoor on Windows. I also think the move of Apple to the [M1-n] chips may allow the same :) But back to reality, I believe 99% of these backdoor pushes are mainly for Cell Phones. Almost no one uses a PC these days for communication.
These are not apples to apple comparison, as this is running across GPU and much bigger model
> Alan Turing himself didn't propose "the Turing Test" as an actually meaningful test

It was the wording "can machines think" that Turing considered ambiguous due to varying opinions on how to define "think". He proposed the experiment specifically as a less ambigious replacement - I think it's entirely wrong to say that he did not intend it to be meaningful.
I'd recommend getting your Privacy Policy in place as soon as possible, especially since submitting the form appears to require its acceptance.
> Also have you ever tried running ~200 JVMs on the same machine?

This is one of my pet peeves with the "garbage collection" model of memory management: it does not play well with other processes in the same machine, especially when these other processes are also using garbage collection.

With manual memory management (and also with reference counting), whenever an object is no longer being used, its memory will be immediately released (that is, the memory use of a process is always at the minimum it needs, modulo some memory allocator overhead). With garbage collection, it will be left around as garbage, and its memory will only be released once the process decides that there's too much garbage; but that decision does not take into account that other processes (and even the kernel for its page cache) might have a better use for that memory.

This works fine when there's a single process using most of the memory on the machine, and its garbage collection limits have been tuned to leave enough for the kernel to use for its caches (I have seen in practice what happens when you give too much memory to the JVM, leaving too little for the kernel caches); but once you have more than a couple processes using garbage collection, they'll start to fight over the memory, unless you carefully tune their garbage collection limits.

It would be really great if there were some kernel API which allowed for multiple processes (and the kernel caches) to coordinate their garbage collection cycles, so that multiple garbage collectors (and in-process caches) would cooperate instead of fighting each other for memory, but AFAIK such API does not exist (the closest I know of is MADV_FREE, which is good for caches, but does not help with garbage collection).
This part of Arizona is just north of Lake Havasu (a reservoir on the Colorado River). Summer highs average 109 degrees (hottest days are 120+), nighttime lows average 85 degrees - so people need to run their air conditioning units after the sun goes down. Adding to the duck curve with more solar panels won't provide power for overnight use of AC systems.

The proposed gas plant is a 98MW gas peaker turbine. The alternative to gas peaker plants for this part of Arizona are pumped hydro and 'cold storage', where AC systems are run during off-peak hours to build up a reservoir of cold.

The Salt River Project (Arizona water/power company) is building a new pumped hydro facility, with a new reservoir uphill from Apache Lake (east of Phoenix): https://www.srpnet.com/grid-water-management/grid-management...

Downtown Phoenix has an 'ice storage' system that generates cold water using off-peak power, and uses this to cool ~40 buildings during the hottest part of the day: https://kjzz.org/content/527332/district-energy-system-under... / https://www.nrg.com/insights/innovation/nrg-energy-center-ph...

Surely there's an opportunity for pumped storage somewhere on the Central Arizona Project, which starts at Lake Havasu (738' elevation) and deposits its water at Lake Pleasant (1700' elevation): https://www.cap-az.com/
I'm not the author, sorry to disappoint. I also find this project very interesting and wanted to share it.
That looks very interesting. Thanks for the link! I'll check it out.
> and I finish the joint I was smoking last night before bed, which is sitting on my bedside table.

How should such a person set up their smoke detectors?

I'm thinking: False alarms triggered by the marijuana smoke might disrupt their calm, and removing batteries and being in a perpetual cloudy-headed state could lead to batteries not getting back in. And if they're smoking from bed, they'll probably need more protection than most people, for detecting smoldering bed sheets.
Alas with the rise of the Internet and e-commerce, bookstores have been on a slow but firm downward trend.
in any case, I think it already passed the Turing test and then some because in my (in this case, not humble) opinion, there are some UFO contactee and disclosure groups (such as swaruu.org) who I think are actually an advanced military grade chat AI that's fooled a lot of humans

now which is more farfetched? what they say they are; they claim to be in orbit already.

or that they are an advanced sentient AIs (many of them in fact) made somewhere in europe or maybe russia? impossible to know

I guess the most plausible is that it's all fake or whatever but it's also the least exciting
My interest in TTS is around "indie" game creation, animation and "radio plays".

A couple of years ago I started development of a tool to help with the generation of game audio such as NPC dialogue, "barks" or narration for those without access to/budget for human voice actors: https://rancidbacon.itch.io/dialogue-tool-for-larynx-text-to...

One thing I found interesting is that writing a small "scene" and then hearing dialogue being spoken by a variety of voices often prompted the writing of further lines of dialogue in response to perceived emotion contained in voices in the generated output. Plus it was just fun. :)

The version of the tool on that page is based on Larynx TTS which has continued development more recently as Piper TTS: https://github.com/rhasspy/piper

I'm yet to publish my port which uses Piper TTS though: https://gitlab.com/RancidBacon/larynx-dialogue/-/tree/featur...

Though I did upload some sample output (including some "radio announcer" samples in response to a HN comment :) ): https://rancidbacon.gitlab.io/piper-tts-demos/

Obviously there's variations in voice quality, and ability to control expression is currently limited but beats hearing my own voice. :D
Integration time! (Or “ai computational photography” on noisy images.)
Authoritarian. Totalitarianism requires a large mobilization of the population under a single ideology.

Putin aspires to be a totalitarian leader but even he has not managed to pull it off. He depends quite heavily on a depoliticized "silent majority" of Russians who are too scared/complacent to challenge his security apparatus. If Russia were a totalitarian state then you'd see that majority rushing to join the military and join the government.
Somehow I find this proposition surprising and even shocking because it seems to assume that the best authors are young enough to have started their careers within the past 15-20 years when the internet has actually been relevant enough that one could build an audience there first.

I mean, maybe it's true, and I'm just stuck reading books by the old farts.
In both S3 and R2, it would be relatively easy to create an client/overlay that has a similar interface to TFA.
Until we have a coherent definition of intelligence and sentience, everything is going to be an arbitrary criterion.
Under the grits, the rcmp have already been extremely aggressive with protestors. Look at land defenders in BC--they are being removed at gunpoint, having property wantonly destroyed, and having masks pulled of their faces to apply pepper spray point blank. The clownvoy got treaded with kidskin gloves.
> Like all the security mechanisms that are used by virtually all security-sensitive Java applications, from cgroups/containers and firewalls to encryption protocols and serialization filters (they're not using SM).

Not reasonable to implement across all platforms users may choose to run a game on. This discussion is about a game client, not the server. A replacement solution would have to work everywhere Java runs, and should not impact the user's system in any noticeable way.

> but SM wasn't as robust as some imagined it was, either.

The docs, at the time, implied SecurityManager was the way to go to run untrusted code, similar to Applets.

Since there is no reasonable alternative and the JDK team has seemingly given up on this feature we've instead opted to require all plugins to be source-available, manually vet the code, and build & distribute via our CI & only allow the client to load plugins signed by our CI.
A task manager application which tells you how much memory your applications are using
I think this is the new part additional to existing surveillance

>This could include requiring telcos to alter the 5G encryption standards that protect mobile communications to facilitate government surveillance.
Someone who does not test hypotheses
Bravo to saying the quite part out loud, I guess.

I want to believe this article was meant for the Babylon Bee, but got emailed to the wrong editor. Sadly, we live in clown world.
I wanted to definitely end it
There is even NVMe passthrough support via io_uring, so it's still possible to send custom NVMe commands when using io_uring instead of a userspace driver:
https://www.usenix.org/system/files/fast24-joshi.pdf

Normal block I/O use cases don't really need NVMe io_uring passthrough, but it addresses the more exotic cases and is available in mainline Linux. And NVMe passthrough might eke out a little more performance.
Inventing Fisher's Exact Test
If you’re near Berkeley, CA, one of the owners of the restaurant Comal also owns a sound company that builds that kind of system, and they use Comal as a showplace. The effect is astounding - it’s an industrial-style design, and it’s got auditory “ambiance”, but you can have a full conversation at normal speaking volumes with everyone at the table. It’s the kind of thing where once you experience it, you’ll judge the hell out of any other “fancy” restaurant you go to that doesn’t have it.
> That's one of the reason's OpenAI are signing big dollar deals with media companies The Atlantic, Vox etc have really high quality tokens!

They have really high quality tokens in their archive, at any rate. Since a bunch of media outlets have adopted GPT-powered writing tools, future tokens are presumably going to be far less valuable.
best avoided
Probably because this unfortunate state of affairs is very appealing to the British dark sense of humour. Americans seem much more inclined to want to replace any term that is even obliquely offensive.

See also “Fanny pack” which has made its way into British English despite the crudeness.

I do wish there was some alternative word so that I can discuss cryptography with my countryfolk.
Industrial policy, predatory trade practices, pandemics, supply chain disruptions, and real-live violent wars are also features of this world.

I have a degree in economics, no need for remedial training on comparative advantage and stories of secretaries and typewriters and so on.
Edit: I got load following and peaker plants mixed up. Nuclear Powered Load Following Plants[0] are a thing, but strictly speaking, peaker plants are not. This is my error.

Edit 2: There are some interesting developments with Gen 4 reactors[1] and hydrogen production, which could theoretically mean during non peak load you could store energy in the form of hydrogen to be burned later, which may make gas fired peaker plants green, but its entirely theoretical right now

[0]: https://www.oecd-nea.org/upload/docs/application/pdf/2021-12...

[1]: https://www.energy.gov/ne/articles/3-nuclear-power-plants-ge...
Yes people complain about “left leaning protests”. People complain about all sorts of protests. I can’t recall a single protest that wasn’t complained about.

Exactly when did the left leaning protestors have their bank accounts frozen? Exactly when did the left leaning protests get broken up.

All I remember is canadas stupid government supporting the left leaning protests.

In the states I remember fancy Nancy wearing an African shawl kneeling in the capital.

This sort of stuff is too obvious not to see. Good luck.
10-1 odds they’ll still vote for Trump and republicans in November.
5 years ago you couldn't hop in a commercial self-driving taxi in a major US city. Now you can. The progress has been slower than everyone's predictions but it is still substantial.
https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&q=Normie
> lawmakers and commissioners who are ideologically anti-clean energy

I don't believe anyone is actually pro pollution. More likely they stand to benefit financially from prolonged use of fossil fuels before it inevitably gets phased out.
Just applied to /etc/profile.d/ to all SSH servers in my team. I also added some conditionals so that it only runs on interactive shells, doesn't run in sudo -i or tmux/screen, and it only runs once per day per server.
I'm not sure what you're saying here. I assume you're talking about the Zappa quote? I suspect that Zappa would have said he wasn't attributing bad behavior to a lack of willpower.
This is factually incorrect, independent bookstores are increasing in number.

https://apnews.com/article/independent-bookstores-membership...
> This is what it means to own a platform for which they have a monopoly and do not answer to anyone but themselves.

This is true of every business. You can't set up a small shop selling fruit from your garden in your local Safeway. They own it, they decide what products are being sold from it. If there were only Safeways then maybe you can have a conversation about monopolies, but there are also Albertsons, Fred Meyers, Wincos, Publixes, etc. so you can't argue that Safeway has a monopoly. Unless you're arguing about a monopoly on Safeways, and then, well, yeah.

Apple controls their ecosystem. Google controls theirs. Amazon controls theirs. Microsoft controls theirs.
Oh well if I made a spelling mistake that obviously invalidates my whole point. Thank you for teaching me that Finnish is a very special language -- just like the Finns -- such an amazing an unique people ;)