skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Northern Lights Imperiled Infra from Power Grids to Satellites, NOAA Memo Says
https://archive.today/6PBF1

FOIA Responsive Records: https://assets.bwbx.io/documents/users/iqjWHBFdfxIU/rSaNJk9u...
The article and many commenters only mention food, so it’s not veganism but vegan diet or vegan food (according to Wikipedia).

I have the feeling English language lacks of a proper word for that. Other languages call it "vegetalism". When you embrace the differences you understand more easely the motivations and why many some follow or tryout a trend then quit, while others sticks longer.
If I tally up my total hours across games, it's just a difference of taste :)

I stick to things that I can easily pick up or put down.
Writing a book in the age of open source
She's advocating for childcare in the workplace. From the article:

>If you really want to make a difference for parents, offer on-site childcare.
I think this basically sums up a lot of our relationship. Lots of arguments. Usually over small stuff but some big things. I ultimately didn’t feel I wanted to invest this much energy into making the relationship work, but she did and felt like I was giving up and thought I was “stronger than that”. I totally understand where she’s coming from being the person who seems to have been less affected by the arguments, but I just had to make a call for myself at the end of the day.
Netflix Built a Self-Healing System to Survive a Terrifying Concurrency Bug
Passports are kind of a big deal. The customs agent is going to visually verify the photo vs the holder, but the customs agent is going to trust the valid RFID chip probably 100% of the time as it's assumed to be unbreakable.
> "what sucks about this job?" [...] I frequently get high-signal responses from it

That's fair, it is your experience, but I think it's about whether you're on the same wavelength about what level of corporate suck is standard and acceptable. I don't love the framing of this being specifically an "earlier-career" issue but I'm an IC and ICs are not a borg that I have assimilated into (yet), so some have internalized varying amounts of corporate suck relative to me.

For example: I find in some places, low-autonomy is just considered par for the course, and when asked "what sucks?" certain ICs might respond "this job is the best one I've ever had, I have no complaints." But, if asked "what part of project delivery is most frustrating?" or another more specific question they might say "requirements change sometimes arbitrarily and we're expected to respond to any changes without changing the delivery target." The point I was trying to make is specificity helps to get higher signal answers when you don't understand your interviewer's baseline. One man's yuck is another man's yum or whatever.

> "what's your funnel look like for this role?"

I think this is a fine question to ask. It is fairly corpo-speak sounding, but it doesn't communicate the same "Do you like the others better than me?" vibe as the question you contrast it with. It communicates that you are evaluating them, not asking them if their evaluation of you is going ok or not. If you're interviewing with the C-levels then they also have enough information to give you a clear response, and the answer will give you details about how long it will take to reach a hiring decision.
Could? Making people pay more is the entire point.
> Btw, I will check your PNW and raise you the Green Mountains in VT and White Mountains in NH during the fall.

I've long been unimpressed with the ancient and eroded 'mountains' of the East when set against the tall and imposing Mountains of the West. The Rockies and Cascades just hit different.
I'd argue the exact technology or how it works does not matter at all. The only thing that matters is if it's performed by a human, because making derivative works is a right only granted to humans.

Therefore, by definition and AI cannot create a derivative work. Because it's not human.

I see no reason to grant computer programs human rights. I think a lot of people would have a hard time articulating some reasons to do that. So they don't, and talk about the technology instead. I think that doesn't matter. If you can't tell me, and convince humanity, why a computer program should be granted human rights then I don't think we can even get to a point where the technology itself matters.
It's tongue-in-cheek. They did not have a fight over which direction to cut kiwis. It's a joke. A cute joke.
Is Michael Mann's 'The Keep' Coming to Blu-ray Soon?
I feel really guilty that we farm animals and honestly it’s getting harder and harder for me to be complacent. What should I do? If we already had lab based meat I would gladly migrate to that but thats far off.

What should I do? I know I need meat and animal protein, I just know it.

Should I just eat game meat and wild fish?
I can also add this set of articles from Matt Strassler which explains it all with surprisingly simple math. It really is quite understandable and I wish more pop-sci discussions of the subject threw in a few equations now and then to explain such stuff.

https://profmattstrassler.com/articles-and-posts/particle-ph...
You could model the internal state like code that a LLM can work with.
Identity's Hidden Business Value
Certainly, you are generating some greenhouse gasses in the process, which is a trade off to ensure immediate waste destruction. To note, you will have to flare methane from the landfill in perpetuity when landfilled. If one is so inclined, internalize the cost of direct air carbon capture into the cost of waste disposal for those emissions.

https://www.epa.gov/lmop/basic-information-about-landfill-ga...

> Municipal solid waste (MSW) landfills are the third-largest source of human-related methane emissions in the United States, accounting for approximately 14.4 percent of these emissions in 2022. The methane emissions from MSW landfills in 2022 were approximately equivalent to the greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from more than 24.0 million gasoline-powered passenger vehicles driven for one year or the CO2 emissions from more than 13.1 million homes’ energy use for one year. At the same time, methane emissions from MSW landfills represent a lost opportunity to capture and use a significant energy resource.

TLDR Whether landfills or gasification, you are paying the piper regardless for emissions. Don't trust the human, pull forward the disposal.
>OpenAI is begging the British Parliament to allow it to use copyrighted works because it's supposedly "impossible" for the company to train its artificial intelligence models

If it was up to me, I would allow OpenAI access only if the license every single line of source under the GPLv3 (yes v3).

Under any other license, "tough to be you".

I expect OpenAI to go proprietary once they hit a certain level of market strength.
That's the thing -- hearing voices isn't a "behavior". It's something a person experiences, entirely without choice.

And also -- the article didn't say these experiences were "normal". It fully recognizes that they are experiences are highly unusual, and typically quite distressing to those who experience them.

That's why a more nuanced discussion is needed.

Far from being an old and tired topic (per the shallow dismissal above) -- we're just getting started.
The cow number includes rainwater that grows crops. My meat comes from cows grazing in the CA foothills.

The only almond trees left in the Central Valley are irrigated. Many of them from wells. Which are drying up. So they want LA's water, even though ag gets most of the water already.

Have not gone through this, but it's a response to the sources studies.
https://www.farmersagainstmisinformation.com/news/lets-discu...
What turned me off was the illogical premise and the let down of the final reveal.

The world is in eternal darkness so the aliens powered themselves by birthing/raising/feeding humans as electrical power sources? I would have thunk the aliens have invented some magical power source like Star Trek's dilithium crystals.

The aliens are super powerful and menacing but their attack formation is what prey fish do. When herring are attacked by tuna, their schools ball up into tighter and tighter formations. The aliens are supposed to be predators not prey.

The final reveal is that Neo negotiates with the aliens so that something something, I lost interest by then. Who cares.
being asked to leave implies that i am either oblivious towards the disruption my kids cause, or that i simply misjudge the situation and thought my kids are not as disruptive as the person asking me felt about it. both imply a judgement of my behavior, and that alone will make me uncomfortable. i do admit that i am biased by my experience in china where something like that would never happen as i explain here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41438834

not having experienced the situation i can't judge, but the fact that it prompted the person to write an article about it to me suggests that on some level it did make her feel uncomfortable. if it hadn't it wouldn't have been worth mentioning.
How you end up hiring a programmer while looking for a mathematician.

The math in this problem is rather simple, actually.
What do you suggest as an alternative? That we live in a world where people can evade legal prosecution simply by incorporating or working for a company that incorporated?

Why isn't violent crime comparable to stalking crime? Why is it socially acceptable to hoard personal information about someone and pictures of them as long as someone does it under the auspices of a business but it's creepy and weird to do it as a lone-wolf stalker type? Maybe they're both terrible and creepy business models and the EU is right to prosecute anyone who does it, articles of incorporation or not.
By the way, "cyan" is a very poor name to use for #00ffff. The term "cyan" refers to the kind of slightly greenish blue used in 4-color printing (CMYK), and was just a Greek word for "blue" chosen to be a jargon word to avoid confusion with the English color name. It has a totally different color than the equal mixture of typical G and B primaries in a computer display.

Similarly, "magenta" is a poor name to use for #ff00ff. The term "magenta" is a jargon word for the slightly purplish printer's red, which was chosen to avoid confusion with the English word "red". It has a completely different than the equal mix of RGB R and B primaries.

("Red", "green", and "blue" are also very poor names for the RGB primaries, which are substantially orangish red, yellowish green, and purplish blue.)
>Now, these guys need to learn Rust

I think the key point of contention here is that the Rust maintainers are insisting this isn't the case. For them, they retain oversight on the Rust bindings, not the C components they reference. What they expect is that when a breaking change happens, they are able to reach out to maintainers of the C component and get documentation, issue threads, etc that might help them resolve those issues.

For Ts'o, maybe the concern is that producing the docs would be onerous, or that in reality they may have to provide more than the minimum expected level of support. I don't personally think the former is a reasonable complaint. I think the latter has grounds for discussion and compromise. And if he is passionate about the kernel as a project, he should introspect about how likely it is that the community will retain or expand its strength as he throws loud public tantrums voluntary contributions to it.
In golang you get `func (someName someType) funcname`, so it's much less greppable than languages using `func funcname`
Yubikeys don’t use a pin by default, but at least the ones I use all have the option to set one.
Yeh, it's a bingo list of the news stories to watch out for.
I guess some restricted/critical/secret infrastructure stuff as well.
> just tax the fuel instead of distorting the free market by putting weird mandates on manufacturers.

Unfortunately this is politically impossible when you've got people like Grover Norquist who will primary anyone he thinks had a hand in raising taxes.

When you scare most of congress away from using the tool of higher taxes, what you wind up with is massive deficit spending and misguided 'carrot' incentives when the 'stick' of raised taxes is taken away.
Phoenix weathers 100 days of 100-plus degree temps as heat scorches western US
IMO: I think this is a very strong case for copyright reform; and a very strong indicator that our public domain isn't healthy enough.
The difference between Mondragon, the kibbutzim, and other successful examples of collective labor, and the Soviet system, is precisely that the former are not governments, and operate in a capitalist system of property rights and free markets (in a practical rather than spherical cow sense of that term).

I'm all for more cooperatives, it's a good model. Operating in a system which doesn't compel that form of organization is what keeps them honest. Mondragon is a profitable company, emphasis on profitable.

The article talks a bit about how, while Mondragon is a pretty good deal for basic labor, they have trouble attracting high-demand talent like engineers, which they also need. In a free-market system, a worker's collective can solve a problem like that, by offering more perks, raising the 'level' for new engineering hires, waiving some amount of the up-front investment, or just getting by through, in effect, paying some of the salary in a nonmaterial reward of belonging to something which better meets some people's sense of ethics and fairness.

That's not how it works when the company you work for is also the police and the military. It's also not how it works when every company is compelled to organize itself this way. That compulsion leads to dysfunction, corruption, cheating, and at the extreme end, gulags.

So let's pass on all that. If you believe that worker cooperatives are a social good, as I do, buy stuff from them. Work for one, found one. It's working so far.
Private equity ownership of US hospice centers boomed in recent years – study
My response is: Ok. Not my problem. OpenAI isn't entitled to free profit. No one is.
Ordered one on Sunday and received mine today. Subscription not required. I paid $99 for a pair. Two sensors come in the box.
I think it is important for America and Europe to take the side of using copyrighted works for LLM is fair use/not illegal. Advancement in this space in the west will be hindered otherwise, and nations that don’t respect IP law will have enormous advantage.
Don't have high hopes for this but I just requested a replacement device through their support system as the offered mitigations are not something I would like to consider.
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Yeah, but my blood sugar was pretty low when I wrote that comment so I may have been more sarcastic than necessary.
I’d also like to know more about what you do.
In the paper they were measuring signal gain between two antennas, and as such the 6dBm gain appears to be the effect of collating more of the beam spread into the receiver (as one would expect of a lens). Given my schedule I don't think I'll have enough time to print one by November but it would make for some excellent discussion! Reading the permittivity paper that was linked here was also quite good and I'm wondering if something could be integrated into openEMS which would tie the two together.

I'm also tickled by the idea of a 'Newtonian' RF telescope using two lenses.
This has little to do with diffusion. The aspects described relate to images (and sound) and are true for VAE models, for example. I mean, what else is a UNet?
Infineon chips are used in some smart tachographs in EU.
This is likely to get very messy.

Extract those keys and your drivers can ignore all annoying work-time rules and you can just patch the files if you are audited.
Yes, this is useful for backwards compat too, like bash with an 'sh' mode.
You'd think there would be a way to use solar panels as roofing tiles, rather than mounting them above the tiles. Roofing tiles are quite expensive.
Not all that different from shares in a private company, or an interest in a partnership or multi-member LLC. Many corporate shareholders cannot freely sell; the idea of being able to sell stock for cash whenever you want to is unique to public companies.

And yes, the real problem is information asymmetry. This is always the real problem. Arguably the secretary who knows everything that's going on with the company via watercooler talk has more power than the CEO whose underlings tell him only what he wants to hear. A lot of corporate owners, even powerful shareholders like the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia, have been bilked by unscrupulous but savvy management who knows how to control information flow.
I've been using build123d (based on cadquery) quite a bit and I really like it. I still use solidworks for simulations, drawings, and most fillet operations - because it turns out that doing fillets right is very non-trivial.

Code-cad is great because you get exactly what you put in, but sometimes it can feel like starting with a bucket of logic gates instead of a microcontroller.

I've had "test LLM's with code-cad" on my todo list for a while, as I think it has the possibility of greatly accelerating the production of the additional part libraries that I'd need to able to make more regular use of it.
And had so many stupid bugs that it looked like it was written by summer interns. Everybody I know who actually worries about actual security ran far, far away from it.

If, however, you just need https for web pages, it's good enough to get started.
If I'm gonna grind some multiplayer thing, I just prefer for it to be MtG these days. I can spend my week casually thinking of a decklist, and see how it performs with live players on the weekend. Still leaves decent time for Elden Ring or something.

I've dropped maybe $500 on Valorant, but it takes too much mental energy for me to enjoy casually playing it anymore. I also don't want to rely on getting a full squad in order to have a good time.
Looking at the results from lighthouse scores, you can totally translate that into a helpful guide for your users. You can even highlight the objects on the page with missing/poorly defined attributes.

This actually sounds like fun to implement. I suppose it should be opt-in, because some users genuinely won't care. And I imagine doing as much as possible by default would be ideal too, because this can turn into a huge chore which might make your product seem less efficient and convenient by no fault of its own.
People can change the behaviour for brief periods. But who they are day in day out is going to be pretty consistent. Telling people how I would want a good candidate to behave during an interview doesn’t help at all with candidate selection. An inclination towards saying things they think people want to hear is a characteristic I’d like to select out of my candidates as well, so perhaps I’ve been killing two birds with one stone here…
Asking for feedback at the end of the loop is great. A bunch of mega corporations are specifically instructed to give you absolutely nothing, but it's always worth asking.
Sure. After reading both accounts, it came across to me that the founder with the baby was being overly sensitive and chose to steer into the least favorable interpretation. We should strive to be polite but we shouldn't avoid confrontation just because someone may take it the wrong way, especially when doing so comes at the detriment of other people's experiences.
Also a lot of CI is "start a VM/container, run the build, save the artefacts, wipe everything", whereas the telemetry data is only uploaded every however often; most CI systems wouldn't collect data for long enough to actually send it before getting wiped anyway.
Word. I borrowed a circa 2005 – 2010 server and the fan roared on start-up. I would not want that on full-time for reasons of noise, power and wear.
A very misleading title, that's not what they're saying at all. They're saying that training does not constitute a breach of copyright. "legally copyright law does not forbid training."
`go telemetry local` will gather local data but not upload it.
> Either we have copyright or we don’t

Carve-outs used for the social good would be fine with me
Well this surely isn't a huge waste of time and money lol
Best? Sorry but I think that's a poor one because if someone else drink your milkshake, you don't have it anymore which isn't the case here..
Of course if someone copies your data, while you still have your data their value has decreased because the data's scarcity is reduced.
No it's because what they are trying to automate is creativity. I can ask any artist/writer to write me a story or create a character like "X" but black and they get to use the knowledge of that character. An AI needs context just like any other intelligence.
There are tools like that, but they tend to be specific to one brand of prefab. [1]

[1] https://impresamodular.com/design-modular-home-plan-using-in...
How much labor were they putting into those 1960s California starter homes!?
The alarmism in this thread is misguided. By advocating for excluding copyrighted works from LLM training, you are advocating an expansion of copyright protection. This attitude is opposite my understanding pf the hacker ethos.
I have a little nerve damage, so it's hard for me to even play these kinds of games anymore. Combined with the fact that I like these kinds of games as it's usually been reasonable to drop in, play for a while, have fun and not dedicate a portion of my life to leveling up or mastery.

For me, the peak in terms of time investment are around Q3A and Unreal Tournament. So it's been a long while since I played regularly. What's funny is I want to play, it just gets frustrating when your hands/fingers just don't respond right.
The ICC is a joke. It does not "work" on US presidents and politicians.
[Edit]: To be clear, while i responded to your comment, this is for added context and i generally agree with your main point: of course you don't have to avoid eating animal fat, but beware of the following:

From my dietician: saturated fat isn't as bad as you generally read, but is still vastly inferior to poly-insaturated fat for health, so fat from fish like salmon and eggs are to be prefered to fat from red meat or fat poultry (mostly mono-insaturated and saturated. Tip from me: if it isn't liquid at room temp, it's not poly-insaturated). Also, while it's true that in general, animal fat is "worse" than vegetable fat, this is an average: palm oil is worse than egg or fish fat.

Also, animal fat can store a lot of lipophilic drugs when dosing is made liberally, and while i'm pretty sure in the West (or at least in Continental Europe) drugs given to animals are regulated, this isn't the case everywhere, so depending on where you live and if factory farms near your home are recent and cheap, beware.