skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have hired and coached a few remote developers.

If you want, shoot me an email and we can schedule a call.
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ps: I am also searching for my next opportunity, but would love to help even if we are not working together
the question is, are the precepts baked into the equations around traffic flow, urban design, etc, truly a reflection of reality. In SC3K, my low density residential housing was never as happy as high density, is that based on reality? My enactment of endless (in sc3k, check all boxes) series of ordinances produced the best result. Was the neighborhood around the casino really crime ridden or was that a trope?

Are the models based on real life or are we using a game to pretend real life - like making a game about the wonders of say, collectivization, rather than maybe creating a simulator for how market trade reaallly works.
Cool I'll give it a shot.

I actually don't mind booking flights, but I truly loathe expense reporting. If you can do that task then you have a customer for life my friend.
I think at some point I will, but this is a task that takes multiple overlapping fields of expertise - from simulations to 3D rendering. I'll teach myself over time. I build little procedural generation experiments for fun that make their way into my books. But this is one of those dreams that will take me a couple of years to get to the level where I'm competent enough to go for it.
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Wasn’t it because Starlink refused to implement the court ordered ban of X?
Anyone have some screenshots? I'm not installing Cities Skylines just to view this. Sounds pretty awesome overall.
I’m guessing they live indoors and only go outside long enough to reach the next AC enclosure, like they do during Florida summers (aside from beachgoers).
This story seems to be getting buried, but I'd like to hear confirmation, etc.
Always find it amusing when people write about „blocking“ requests using robots.txt as if they are deploying a firewall
Meanwhile, second paragraph of the article:

> For a variety of reasons, including operational security, a crew’s internet access is regularly restricted while underway, to preserve bandwidth for the mission and to keep their ship safe from nefarious online attacks.
Probably Obsidian. It's popular for this because of the linking ability.
So two people (myself and Nimesha) working for about four months straight, I think. Mostly eight to ten hour days. Three academics helping us find data for when public sources ran dry (especially flow along the corridors) - see the workflow at https://github.com/team-watchdog/colombo-skylines/wiki/Intro...
Yes, and robots.txt was reasonable because it was created in the early days of the web. But the others don’t have any excuse (and they were warned about it as soon as they were announced and ignored people).
Where are you that has office buildings that are too warm?

Everywhere I've ever worked I bring a sweatshirt to the office because it's always freezing. And usually summer is even colder than winter!
>The point is that there should be no wifi at all during these deployments

You seriously expect a bunch of ~20-year-old people to go without internet access for 6-9 months at a time? Good luck with recruiting.
How do you power such plants? Good thing if you're an oil-rich country that can just readily burn what flows from the wells anyway (say, UAE). A bit harder if you don't have anything like that (say, Namibia or West Sahara).
Where are you getting this "nearly endless money" and "lobby for regulatory capture" and "monopoly on information"?

OpenAI competes with Google competes with a bunch of other companies, and surely this is only the beginning of a ton of competition as better and better models are developed. There's no "nearly endless money" when there's competition and GPU training costs a fortune.

The idea that all models should be open source to everyone or all content creators doesn't make any more sense than the idea that all the work I do should be open sourced to the authors of every book I've read, and every teacher I've ever had.

You ask two questions that have clear answers already:

> who owns the ideas?

Nobody. Legally speaking there's no such thing as ownership of ideas, except in the narrow case of patents (and if you consider trademarks to be ideas).

> who owns information?

You can copyright a particular, exact expression of information. The author of a book owns its text; the studio behind a movie owns the image in each frame.

But once you leave behind an exact expression of information, you're back in the realm of ideas, and there's no such thing as ownership of ideas. Which is why as long as ChatGPT and other models repeat ideas but not paragraphs of exact copyrighted wording, there's no legal issue. Because they're doing the same exact thing every human being does every day.
Atari had a video music "visualizer" device back in the late 1970s. Designed by one of the developers of the Pong game. One of if not the first consumer product of its kind.

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

If you've seen the movie Over the Edge, Claude and Johnny have one at their house.
Advanced Filtering of Chess Databases with pgn-extract
They also moved the servers from Steam to Epic around the same time, and it's unmitigated rubbish ever since. Match-ups are a joke. People with a lower ping than you basically have superpowers. With the addition of machine-learning bots becoming popular just after all that, it's made the game pretty hard to like these days.
Realistically I don't think the UDA (Urban Development Authority) will use this, BUT we have had calls with them where they asked to see a demo and seemed massively excited at the prospect of being able to visualize changes in the character of the city (in fact they wanted to know if we could build municipal buildings if they gave us the maps). University students who eventually become GIS folks seem more like the audience that will actually end up running and tweaking this.
Makes sense, but weren't you just saying that the desire for constant growth/capital gains is a bad thing?
Total efficiency of batteries is 80%/2 = 40%

Your own link literally says this isn't true.

According to data from the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA), in 2019, the U.S. utility-scale battery fleet operated with an average monthly round-trip efficiency of 82%,
Wonder if adding ~8 feet (a typical basement dig depth) of fill could be less expensive? After basement floor is built? Perhaps a development could be planned around this. Or, the lower floor of entire neighborhoods could be turned into basements, with stories added as desired. Areas of cities have been raised in similar manner, for different reasons, eg after a flood in Sacramento, after a fire in Seattle.
>In reality, a significant portion is exported to developing countries, where it often ends up mismanaged.

Source? This directly contradicts what the data in the above article, and that actually has sources backing it up.
Yes? These people are supposed to go fight wars for us and defend our freedom... I would expect them to be making a lot of sacrifices, the lack of Internet being a relatively minor one.
Landfill leachate is quite terrifying. You end up with a bunch of reactions between whatever random assortment of garbage found itself on the same truck, and the resulting liquid is acidic enough to dissolve pipes as well as heavily contaminated with heavy metals.

I am fine with landfills, but they're one of those engineering marvels -- like bridges, microwave ovens, sky scrapers, aircraft, high voltage transformers, cranes, or motor vehicles -- that are about taking something inherently dangerous and letting us interact with it safely.
Ads have been brainwashing people for centuries, and they now deliver malware.

As you once elegantly said: “It's like natural selection except our society has not selected them.” We now have the tools to remove them from the gene pool and it’s a good thing.
We spent decades taking leaps and bounds with every chip release. We've now seemingly settled into the incremental improvement phase. The chip makers have responded by burning tons of transistors on extra crap that spends most of it's life powered down.

It's hard not to be cynical.
Ah, so maybe I just don't like cyber punk then. I usually stick to hard sci-fi. :D
I've been stationed in a lot of places with no or little internet access, and it does suck. I'm sure it's worse for people that weren't used to circa 2003 internet...

but the hubris here. Getting caught then just lying and saying the system was only used in port and HAVING IT RE-INSTALLED. I can't even imagine that. The fact that the rest of them just got NJP too... this reads to me like a command failure.
spirituality is just the modern word for religion. it's each person's deeper meaning to life beyond this material world, if there is one.
What are you doing with a cell phone that doesn't require it to be connected to cellular service?
Methodology here: https://github.com/team-watchdog/colombo-skylines/wiki/Intro...

We've also tweaked many of the assumptions (traffic flow, citizen lifecycles etc) https://github.com/team-watchdog/colombo-skylines/wiki/mod-c... to get "somewhere in the vicinity" of how people actually behave - nursery school at 6 years old, high school after, then a job, maybe college, then employment and retirement at 65.

In some of the work that I was involved in years back we were using CDR (call detail records) to estimate human mobility. See: https://medium.com/@yudhanjaya/how-people-come-to-nallur-7d3...

We're certainly not that accurate, as the broader you go with simulation, the less deep you can get to. But as a teaching tool to help people think about the instersection of complex systems, it's decent.

If I had more time I'd spent it making a new asset pack so those houses look more Sri Lankan.
> What fashion advice would you give to someone who always seems to dress like they got lost in a thrift store explosion?
> But that's really not a major issue as you can always dig a deeper and wider landfill.

The submission suggests that landfills ain't dug, but just piled high. Digging a hole costs more time, money and effort than not digging a hole.
I think some more information would be useful. The website doesn't show anything. Also when you click the Mailyo button in the top right, it returns a 404.
On the one hand I’d love to be a vendor to make deployments suck less and more entertaining for servicemen.

On the other hand I don’t want to deal with procurement.
On the spectrum of awfullness this is kinda... low? Rocket League works in Steam and with Wine.
Maybe my terminology is off here, but a "pure time leak" to me would be something like a given operation varying in return time (i.e. execution time/latency being a function of some secret data), whereas this seems more like all operations take constant time, but in that constant time, RF emissions vary in their timing (e.g. on/off, strong/weak etc.) as a function of some secret data.
Maybe I don't work with niche enough software, but I rarely found docs particularly hard to find. For me, one of the real benefits of using an LLM is in making it easier to find where in the docs to look, or distilling exhaustive docs into common use cases. It's akin to the 'tldr' tool for man pages.
A better comparison: what if Comcast required you to pay 5% of your income to use their Internet. After all, you can always switch, right?
This "reading the room" problem... can we solve it with AI?

I envision smart glasses with AR capabilities that can detect the vibe in a room and offer us advice.
Instruction set wars were a 1970s concept anyways. The way x86 was built in the 80s vs. the way it's built today shows that it was a complete misnomer to begin with. It turns out instruction decoding really is the least important part of the pipeline.
To whoever downvoted me: if you can’t make money without breaking the law then you shouldn’t be in business. I’m honestly baffled people disagree with that.
Shows DK doesn’t test their games before releasing to the public.
Sadly, that happens. We use image overlay and exports off ESPG 4326 and tweaked the hell out of the coords until it worked. Even then there are still issues - which is why we're about 100m shorter than the real city. The overlays match perfectly, but in reality distances are always a few meters off across a large stretch. OSM imports broke completely, so I just ended up doing all the roads by hand with the maps on a second monitor.
Restaurants are catering to a growing number of solo diners
I mostly agree with you. However:

> Because solar isn't balanced and we haven't fixed the duck curve.

Well, landfill management is something you could (mostly) only run whenever you have excess (solar) power on the grid. So it's an excellent consumer for intermittent generators.
282 U.S. dollars per megawatt hour

Here in San Francisco, PG&E charges about $450 per megawatt hour (35 cents for electricity plus 10 cents for delivery, per kWh).

So it seems like solar would be cheaper even without any subsidy?
Ahh I miss anandtech already :)
>The key thing there is that OpenAI says this. Do the courts say this? Do the people agree?

That's going to be tied up in the courts forever, so it's a dead end from a discussion perspective.

>OpenAI is led by a pathological liar. We can't take anything that starts with "OpenAI says ..." without a huge grain of salt.

I'm not claiming what they're saying is true, only that it's not as hypocritical as you make it out to be.
Reflect Orbital debunked by EEVblog [video]
What benefit would you get from gasification compared to just straight up burning the trash?
Hidden SSIDs are a hack on the wifi protocol and don’t really do anything. Windows 11 just shows ‘Hidden Network’ for example.
I wouldn’t even call it a “skill”, but perhaps a “trait”
Sadly, the height maps and the OSM road imports were quite borked, so I just ended up doing all the roads by hand with the maps on a second monitor. Some screenshots of the process here: https://github.com/team-watchdog/colombo-skylines/wiki/Intro...
What's the standard of proof for a commercially available package other than "these are the municipalities/planning authorities that have used this before?"
I'm really enjoying The Baroque Cycle.
I joined the Navy in 94 (got out in 98). Reading these comments is giving me PTSD. I still had to mail letters and remember my calling card number to make calls when I got into port. That was the only way I could stay connected with home.

The fact that people serving in the military get ANY connection is blowing my mind right now. Especially given the operational tempo I am assuming they have to deal with day in and day out. I know for me every other day was a 21-hour day. Thinking about having internet while forward deployed just sounds exhausting.
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Would love something like this that allows users to trivially turn sites like Facebook/Twitter into RSS feeds. I'm sure this kinda thing is a useful stepping stone to doing that.
You don't really lose anything in a landfill. You just lock it up for a while.

We can 'mine' landfills in the future, if that becomes economically viable.
More like: we don't have AGI yet, and LLMs are not AGI. But what exactly is AGI? Apart from being a useful tool, after considering every possible definition of AGI, it can't be more than human. It can't be superhuman and general, though it may become superhuman at narrow tasks.

What does AGI mean to you?
Are they all based on Java?
>How is the inconsequential?

This is moving the goalposts. The original claim was "we destroyed the value of all human labour for nothing", now it's being moved to "it's not inconsequential "
Not a maintained list, but I remember finding these recommended from a subreddit for slow children’s programming:

Trash Truck
Puffin Rock
Snowy Day
Tumbler Leaf
David the Gnome
Elinor Wonders Why
Rosie’s Rules
Bear in the Big Blue House
Curious George
Here's an angle for HN to ponder: How could the navy have noticed this?

Noticing an SSID is easy enough to work around. What's next? Can one easily scan for just radio activity on wifi bands? What if it was all wired, could the navy notice the unplanned RF signature (note that it's quite directional)?

Do military installations scan their RF environment regularly to notice such unwanted things?

I'd assume CIA/NSA/embassies do make similar scans, to notice surveillance gadgets.
I would hope that our warships have sophisticated enough counter signals intelligence systems to detect the presence of rogue transmitters regardless of if they are broadcasting an SSID or not. Even a run of the mill corporate security setup will pick up rogue wifi networks on premises and pinpoint their location.
How many sacrifices would you make for $30,000 a year?
Good one dickheads, we are heading towards the "water wars" and you're pulling down dams.

Water is the life blood of the region everything depends on.

Dams force water back into the aquifers and ground water, which happen to be running out across the world.

But I guess more rainfall is the future, so lucky it will get better and fix the fact the aquifer recharge is now gone.

> 2,200 acres (890ha) of land

This is nothing, it's like one medium farm.

> By 2061, it is estimated that the chinook salmon population will have recovered by an average of 81%.

That makes it all worth it I guess. How many other animals will have died off by then.
Cable has a large latency too in the seconds range compared to OTA broadcasts.

Even live news has large a large latency with remote interviews. Some of them are so bad it's uncomfortable watching the anchor have the patience to wait for a response before stepping on the remote feed.
So does the NSA or NRO run the daily Starlink standup meetings ?
See also the German 'Green' party whose policies have led to lots and lots more CO2 emissions over the years.
IMO, Stephenson's books are too long for the stories they tell, especially the final 25-33% - those can be a real slog. I gave up on Seveneves at about 90% or the book, reading it was no longer fun. I read a handful of his prior work to completion when I was a book completionist, so I can't tell of it says anything about the nature of the novels, or my own perseverance.
This is my range
I'm reminded of Tom Stoppard's Arcadia, and the child genius Thomasina . . . "If you could stop every atom in its position and direction, and if your mind could comprehend all the actions thus suspended, then if you were really, really good at algebra . . ."
Awesome effort, always wanted to see our colombo on a game! It's really extensive and seems to be made towards public policy, Thanks Yudanjaya and Nimesha!
Well if electricity is so cheap/free. Then brine left behind is not a problem as you can get a lot of chemicals out of it by processing it. Doing that though needs a lot of energy so it's not viable currently but would be with cheap/free electricity
? since 2016 Ryzen made intel have to compete again and the 2020 M-series from Apple made day long battery life a reality.

CPUs have been very interesting the past 8 years or so.
Investments in long range, high wattage cabling to connect grids might be useful. There's plenty of sun light further south.

Of course, you need to run the numbers to make sure it actually makes sense. Both economically and from a resource point of view. Cables ain't free to build nor maintain.

But there's probably a trade to be made with the carbon capture people to sell them trash plastic to bury (or to have them pay you to bury your plastic. No need to actually ship the actual plastic around.)
> seriously expect a bunch of ~20-year-old people to go without internet access for 6-9 months at a time?

Yes, we generally want mental stability in the people manning our war machines. (Also discipline.)
Agree with this take (disclaimer: working on create.xyz, which is step in this direction) It abstracts more of the things that trip non-devs up (deployment, etc.) but retains the things that makes code powerful (customization, etc.)
I don't know what I read to get a totally opposite meaning of the original comment, but rereading it now does make this ID10T level of WTF
Thank you again, I'm not able to determine if any of this is contrived but it's turned into a great teaching opportunity. I am highly impressed with Rust. The compile error looks extremely expressive of the core issue. I'm also new to zig if you can tell but this has helped me position the two languages and their goals better.
How to almost use Zettlr on Android devices
The largest open cut mine in the world, Bingham Canyon, is more than ten times as deep.

While it's not a good idea to just chuck stuff into an abandoned mine, the effort to excavate a hole that size is doable for a single site operated by a single company employing 2000 workers over a century. It's pretty trivial in comparison to any other environmental problem.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plasma_gasification#Advantages
Now you can grow it into Magnasanti (the 6 million inhabitants SimCity 3000 city)
There also seem to be simpler fixed-function implants (e.g. NTAG or similar NDEF-storage-only tags), but I don’t think there’s anything non-Java capable of doing something as complex as CTAP2.

For something that potentially needs surgery to remove from your body, I’d go for the most capable secure element you can afford for maximum flexibility and future proofing anyway; usually that’s also Java Card.
Video disks might not be superduper convenient; I don't know what kind of leisure devices navy peeps have, but you don't need a copyright exemption to lend them. If you don't mind tossing the cases, binder sheets for discs are pretty high density.
Only on HN would the answer to "How do I find a new career?" be Linux fanboyism. smh
What IDE existed for the HP 2000? (Where I learned, too. In Portland :)
>They can try that argument but it'll fall flat when you consider that a photocopier is reproduction agnostic, while LLMs generally have a ton of work going into them to prevent them from outputting damaging things (and they still fail). That fact makes them not at all comparable to a photocopier, setting aside the more obvious "subscription software service" different.

And what about my other point about coaxing google books to give you a full copy of a book via multiple snippets?

>Here a number of people noticed getting specific producer tags basically unaltered in the output when just asking for songs of a certain genre, which then also often sound similar to existing songs.

Can you provide an alternate source for this? I skimmed your link and it does not substantiate that claim.
My favorite book of his was actually one of his earliest - Zodiac.
I had a somewhat analogous experience with Seveneves, which many people have recommended endlessly.

At some point in the book, around half way IIRC, there is an event that happens which explains the title. And it goes from something like an interesting hard sci-fi, to a sort of weird meandering fantasy thing that took a nuke to my suspension of disbelief. It also felt like the book was basically two entirely different books at that point. I simply could not get into it, or passed it.
Reads like it's worth than just straight up incineration. At least with current technologies. (Apart from perhaps the installation on that American military ship. Maybe. But that's just because they have unusual requirements.)
The clearest, most intuitive explanation of the Fourier Uncertainty Principle that I have come across is by Grant Sanderson of 3Blue1Brown.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MBnnXbOM5S4