skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It didn't appear from nowhere via by Monkey Magic, that much is certain.

The source, then, is either

* raw lithium rich brines,

* Spodumene ore,

* waste from brine processing, OR waste from spodumene processing, (to create industrial scale supplies of industry usable lithium)

* waste from using lithium in industry to create (say) batteries.

Working through that list, lithium rich brines are largely in Chile and in some parts of China that are not Beijing, spodumene ore comes largely from Australia and parts of China that are not Beijing.

I'm not aware of, but this doesn't rule it out, brine or spodumene processing in the immediate vicinity of Beijing (it's quite likely there is some spodumene processing in that area) .. there definitely is large scale industry use of end product lithium in Beijing specifically to produce batteries.

The majority of lithium usage is related to "clean energy" .. or even just common battery use for electronics, so it's easily the most probable source of lithium turning up in an urban area such as Beijing.

Addendum: As grumpy-de-sre correctly points out below, the end of use disposal of lithium batteries in Beijing also deserves attention as a source.

The exact 'how' is as yet unknown .. it'll likely be tracked down and dealt with given the papers being published.

This will be of great interest to Texas a decade or so from now, the critical materials act and other recent activities have seen ground broken on lithium and rare earth concentrate processing plants on US soil in Texas (and elsewhere), the recent relaxing of EPA guidelines and reduction in oversight will likely lead to similar health issues appearing in due course.

Do you have any suggestions for where else it might come from?
Fortescue has 6MW fast charging for their mining trucks...
I don't understand what is your concern. What consistency? If you need engineers with storage engines domain expertise at scale, or query execution challenges, where else do you find those people if not in existing businesses that have already proven they have a workforce delivering exactly that type of work?
My experience with people trying to replace a keyboard is that they forget about my use cases and then they're surprised that their solution won't work for me. For example:

1. I'm in a team video conference and while we are discussing what needs to be done, I'm taking notes of my thoughts on what others said.

2. I'm working as a cashier and the scanner sometimes fails to recognize the barcode so I need to manually select the correct product.

Now let's look at common replacements:

A. Voice interface? Can't work. I would NOT want to shout my private notes into a team video call. The entire point of me writing them down is that they are meant for me, not for everyone.

B. Touch screen? Can't work. I can type without looking at the keyboard because I can feel the keys. Blindly typing on a touch screen, on the other hand, provides no feedback to guide me. Also, I have waited for cashiers suffering through image-heavy touch interfaces often enough to know that it's easily 100x slower than a numpad.

C. Pencil? Drawing tablet? Works badly because the computer will need to use AI to interpret what I meant. If I put in some effort to improve my handwriting, this might become workable for call notes. For the cashier, the pen sounds like one more thing that'll get lost or stuck or dirty. (Some clients are clumsy, that's why cashiers sometimes have rubber covers on the numpad.)

I believe everyone who wants to "replace" the usual computer interface should look into military aircrafts first. HOTAS. "hands on throttle-and-stick". That's what you need for people to react fast and reliably do the right thing. As many tactile buttons as you can reach without significantly moving your hands. And a keyboard already gets pretty close to that ideal...
Fastmail's servers are apparently located in the United States[1] - and the Netherlands, but there doesn't seem to be a way to know in which country your specific mailboxes are stored.

> Our colocation providers could be compelled to give physical access to our servers. Network capturing devices could be installed. And in the worst case an attacker could simply force their way into the datacentre and physically remove our servers.

So as far as warrantless surveillance is concerned, Fastmail is no better than if it were a US company or subsidiary thereof. They may themselves not be in a position where they would have to comply with US requests that would be illegal in Australia but whoever is operating their US-based DC absolutely is and they admit as much, even if they handwave this scenario as being no different from an ordinary hacking attempt[2].

[1]: https://www.fastmail.com/blog/fastmails-servers-are-in-the-u...

[2]: Of course the flaw in this comparison is that an ordinary hacker can't make on-site staff comply with their demands and prohibit them from disclosing the hack. To do so without the authority of the law, you'd need a Hollywood action movie level of criminal enterprise that would usually involve taking a retired police officer's granddaughter hostage for some reason.
Deep-Brain Stimulation adapts real-time to one's brain for Parkinson Treatment
Manifest: A 1-file micro-back end
I know this going to offend many but as an outsider, it is heart wrenching to see a foolish, greedy and extremely corrupt property dealer dismantling the greatest empire in the human history, piece by piece from its soft power (VOA, USAID) to its core functions (tempering with science and education) and there's no political force in sight that can be of any significance.
Not weird at all that a piece of paper you wrote 20 years ago which has like 5-10KB of info that you can decode without any tech can stand the test of time. Archives are hard because of scale, env factors etc.
According to the post, 24% "expressed discomfort: (it is uncomfortable or awkward to have to use the name Coq)"

PS: i am impressed by the time and effort that was given here to create fancy graphs, regressions, tests, etc...
What do you mean? There is right on the front a Demo Video of the product?
The internet you knew and mastered no longer exists.
Why Canada has plenty of eggs – and the U.S. doesn't
Frankly, I'd rather deal with the consequences of being compromised than with the problems of memorizing and recovering passwords.
It’s a nice car but it’s nowhere near as nice as Rolls Royce. You’re not doing your argument any favors by exaggerating this much.

However, I agree that Chinese EVs are a serious competition to other EVs.
> What would happen if the stock market were quantized to a blind one trade per-minute granularity?

Like one share of stock trades each minute in each name? Or one trade randomly executes?

If the former, you stop trading the stock and start trading something pointing at it. If the latter, the rich get to trade.

> less focus on beating causality and light lag

You’d have to ban cancelling orders, otherwise you bid and offer and then cancel at the last minute. Either way, you’d be constantly calculating the “true” price while the market lags and settling economic transactions on that basis. (My guess is the street would settle on a convention for the interauction model price.)

If you’re upset about stock markets looking like casinos, the problem isn’t the fast trading. It’s the transparency. Just don’t report trades until the end of the day.

If you aesthetically don’t like HFT, that’s a tougher problem as the price of the stock points at something tied to reality, and reality runs real time.

Both ideas sort of look like the private markets.
just like with crypto, AI culture is fundamentally tainted (see this very thread where people are defending this shit). Legislation hasn’t caught up and doing what’s essentially a crime (functionally this is just a DDoS) is being sold as a cool thing to do by the people who don’t foot the bill.
If you ever ask yourself why everybody else hates you and your ilk, this attitude is why.
The thing I don’t understand with AI though is that without the host, your parasite is nothing. Shouldn’t it be in your best interest to not kill it?
You have to deal with a lot more complexity; contracts, cables, network, power, cooling, hardware purchases/failures, disk failures, RAID, routing, BGP, operating systems, databases etc. With the cloud you just outsource that to Amazon and they charge you for it.
> In the USA you can purchase prepaid SIM card in Wallmart with cash, put it in your phone and you have anonymous phone number, again, this is illegal in Europe in a typical stupid European way

This is illegal in some European countries but not all. I more than bought one phone and one SIM card with cash in the past.
They seize it from criminals, not from everyday citizens. Also, with Monero, as long as your keys are safe, its's not going to be seized. It is unlike Bitcoin in that a wallet's balance isn't even trackable by outsiders.
Did they add a circle option ?
devhc (/dev/humancontroller)? :D (doubt, but would be interesting).
He's just right
No it is not. Proton mail won't stop Putin from knocking on the next door after Ukraine.
There are commercial services that provide residential proxies, i.e. you get to tunnel your scraper or bot traffic through actual residential connections. (see: Bright Data, oxylabs, etc.)

They accomplish this by providing home users with some app that promises to pay them money for use of their connection. (see: HoneyGain, peer2profit, etc.)

Interestingly, the companies selling the tunnel service to companies and the ones paying home users to run an app are sometimes different, or at least they use different brands to cater to the two sides of the market. It also wouldn't surprise me if they sold capacity to each other.

I suspect some of these LLM companies (or the ones they outsource to capture data) some of their traffic through these residential proxy services. It's funny because some of these companies already have a foothold inside homes (Google Nest and Amazon Alexa devices, etc.) but for a number of reasons (e.g. legal) they would probably rather go through a third-party.
BYD announces charging tech that's twice as fast as Tesla's
A "cloud" is just other people's computers, so a "sovereign cloud" is an oxymoron; renting other people's computers is in no way sovereign.
Good point, I didn't think of it like that. I should add search functionality
> They could apply Chinese policy and require foreign cloud corporations to have locally owned partners that will own the technology produced locally.

This feels like a misunderstanding of the situation. China used that tactic in cases where the Chinese people didn't know how to how to build or do a thing, and it would have taken a long time to rediscover. Saudi Arabia uses the same tactic for the same reasons.

Europe is full of people who know how to build a big cloud. It's not easy, and there's certainly learning-by-doing required, but as the author observes many of the people who work on the US clouds are from Europe or India or still live there. The knowledge transfer has been happening continuously since the start and in both directions.

The reason Europe hasn't produced a competitor on the scale of AWS is simply because that business model is the exclusive preserve of already large tech companies. AWS, Azure, GCP and Oracle Cloud are all the products of huge firms that already had tens of thousands of software engineers and (with the exception of AWS) pre-existing very profitable businesses. They could afford to sink vast sums of treasure into buildouts well ahead of demand, and subsidize their clouds using the other businesses until they had been able to catch up with Amazon. In addition, they all had large pre-existing tech ecosystems to leverage.

European countries have failed to produce tech companies on that scale for all sorts of well analyzed reasons. Moaning about cloud specifically is of no use, it's just a symptom not a cause. The causes meanwhile are the usual grab bag of uncompetitive compensation (a symptom of being poor, it's a feedback loop), bad laws that retard innovation and yet which never get fixed (due to the prevalence of governments that are explicitly suspicious of companies being successful), and finally the culture of US firms which is very globalist, collaborative and internally open, making them pleasant places to work for the people in Europe who have the right skills.

Look at it this way - would a skilled engineer rather work on AWS, having global impact under a global brand selling to every kind of customer imaginable and justifying its existence through technical innovation, or on an explicitly parochial "Eurocloud" whose highest dream is merely cloning what AWS was ten years ago, and which exists for no better reason than some domestic politicians being unwilling to resolve their differences with one specific US administration?

It's just a fundamentally unappealing proposition even if pay was good, therefore, it won't happen.
Can you please write more details about "I block many AI crawlers from accessing code and photos"? The bots are trying to access your nextcloud instance? I'm also self hosting a few services, including nextcloud.
Hetzner might get a lot of love here but it's another service that treats protonmail users as second class citizens since they ask for ID. I would avoid them just because of this.
> are just parroting online meme talking points

This is a great way of discrediting somebody's else opinion and also incredibly a very rude one.

I earn more than you do but that's besides the point since I'm most likely in 95th percentile of the market. The point that you're missing and that I'm trying to reinforce regardless of the very good position I'm in is that 50th percentile of the market is not anywhere near +100k EUR figure. I worked with 100s engineers across different domains in Europe so the sample size should be pretty representative. I also hired many engineers so I am familiar with the market value as well.

Finally, you're also missing the point that your sample of dutch market isn't representative of all European countries markets.
static allocation is the recommended mechanism in embedded code for reliability reasons, you have thought about you worst-case allocation and accounted for it... right?
Also fragmentation and dynamic behaviour are bad things when your code has to run "forever".
The fundamental problem with a dynamic layout is that you need to look at it to know what the keys are. The one huge, underrated benefit of a static layout is that it's constant across the environments that you use it in, so it's (always to some degree, rarely perfectly) memorised. Qwerty doubly so, because so many people have it memorised. It avoids the problem with the Maximus that in order to take advantage of the dynamic layout, you really want to be able to see through your fingers. Your fingertips by default block the information you need.

I can see the Maximus being useful for switching between and learning new layouts - so if you want to give colemak a try you can, without needing to swap all your keycaps (even if that's possible on your keyboard), or swapping to blanks and forcing yourself to learn everything by heart. But I think the reason you don't see this idea repeated much is that it's self-defeating.
Improper disposal of used batteries (eg. burning them) is another potential exposure route.
Teams is a horrible, ghastly product that is absolutely impossible to avoid with clients :-( I'd prefer to stay on the free plan because it feels so soul-destroying to reward such behavior, but then you can't start calls unless invited to a meeting by someone on a paid plan (or something, it's disabled with no message).
It isn't easy or realistic, yet. But these things always start with the guys and girls with energy and skills. They write blogposts, it gets picked up. Somebody starts making improvements, convinces their manager to do it. Slowly things start to improve, people start building tools, sharing knowledge. Some of these people also work in, or for academia, industry, government branches. Once enough people are ready to pay real euros, there will be entrepreneurs ready to provide solutions on the market, also in Europe.

I don't buy the idea that Europa has lost all the big tech so we're doomed or something. No, maybe we won't have an aws/azure/google cloud competitor any time soon. But it has never been easier to start a software product, the thousands and thousands of SaaS services we rely on can easily be build from the ground up by devs from all over the world.
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Some of these have different pronunciation (depending on accent?), e.g. parish vs perish
Because that is not a statute
So you answered the question right? You are blaming CF yet your change is causing CF to detect you as an untrusted browser. Not their fault.
>Nobody assumes harmful intentions from the author

Then what's the issue or purpose? Other than satisfying or inflating some own moral selfimage?
That kind of social dynamic appears to be what this kind of things is about most of the time as opposed to preventing mental harm or stopping such issues from (re)occurring.

>Knowing this, and insisting on keeping the images is now willfully associating with harmful behavior.

Do you not associate with harmfull behavior in far far more direct ways? Perhaps something that's considered ridiculous for most people to avoid like paying taxes that get spent on bombs or the like?

If i want to make an article showing a prison and i pick one from google does it matter if that prison happened to be used in the past to house civil rights activists?
Is the implication that that somehow normalises, advocates for or otherwise inches towards oppressing civil rights movements in any meaningfull way?
Windows Phone (or was it Windows mobile) had an excellent keyboard with caron/accent keys. So e.g. if I they `C` and then caron key it will replace first `C` with `Č`. I was looking for an Android keyboard with same functionality but didn't find one.
Care you to elaborate on Racket 2 controversy? I don't follow the language, but I'm aware of it, so I didn't learn about the controversy.
Also --filter tree:0
Make 1/16ths great again!
Attempts at doing this are effectively already existing, the IEX [1] exchange being an example, albeit on a less ambitious scale than your idea:

> It's a simple technology: 38 miles of coiled cable that incoming orders and messages must traverse before arriving at the exchange’s matching engine. This physical distance results in a 350-microsecond delay, giving the exchange time to take in market data from other venues—which is not delayed—and update prices before executing trades
What's surprising to me is that established companies (OpenAI, Anthropic, etc) would resort to such aggressive scanning to extract a profit. Even faking the user agent and using residential IPs is really scummy.
EDIT 2: stable again after lots of intermittent errors.

EDIT: re-opened https://status.anthropic.com/incidents/3j3zbrx1cfbt

Still occurring in Europe despite being marked as resolved. There was a brief period where things stabilised, we are back to intermittent `{"type":"error","error":{"type":"overloaded_error","message":"Overloaded"}}` responses.
Our choice of email client.

Scripts that automatically pull emails and archive them locally or process them in some way.
A possibly better question could be how well it would perform if it was trained on selected material - see the efforts of Mortimer Adler in the USA, or the efforts of any good publishing house in the definition of editorial collections.

But I remain skeptical that without "critical thinking as a condition to write into "conscious" memory" the barrier of "conformism" will ever be broken.
Precomputing git blame should take the same order of magnitude of storage as the repository itself. Same number of lines for each revision, same number of lines changed in every commit.
I am curious how they got suspicious of a potential spy in the first place.
OVH and Scaleaway?

If not used the latter but the former was excellent back when I used to use them. They were a little more focused on traditional compute and lacks the general breadth of services that the likes of AWS offer. But if you’re in a position where you’re able to choose a cloud platform provider based on the location of their HQ, then the chances are you’re requirements from said cloud provider are pretty basic.
Have you used Koyeb? I really like fly.io, though it would of course be ideal if they weren't US-based.
I do not. Even with those skills you're still looking for a lot of hours to burn in. It only happens that those skills are more or less a prerequisite for more chance of success.
> peak charging speeds of 1,000 kilowatts (kW)

Obvious safety concerns aside, I really worry that we are losing perspective on what the grid is capable of and the possibility that distributed technology won't get us to the ideal outcome fast enough.

The power plant nearest to me could only handle ~1000 instances of this kind of charging before it is completely saturated. The transmission (transformer) infrastructure is the biggest bottleneck. Even if Entergy built several additional gigawatts of capacity on their existing site, they'd have no way to deliver it. Tesla would have to install supercharging stations in their switch yard and figure out how to operate at much higher supply voltages.
STACKIT too.
The postgres escape function actually worked fine before this "CVE". It was documented as escaping something for use as part of a postgres query.

BeyondTrust used it as input to the 'psql' tool, which is an interactive tool you're not really supposed to programmatically invoke, and the documentation for the postgres escape function didn't say it escaped input for psql. Even though postgres was fine calling it a CVE and fixing it, I think this is 100% on BeyondTrust for assuming that escaping a string for a postgres query meant it was safe for psql.

If BeyondTrust had just used it as part of a postgres query string, the escape function would have been sufficient.

.... and that's also exactly the reason that using parameterized queries is better. With parameterized queries, the escaping and the query parsing are done in the same place, so there's no chance of confusion for the programming language's string library to get in the way, or for the psql tool's input parsing to re-interpret and alter the escaped string before sending it over the wire.
This is the first I am even hearing about it. Interesting that Netflix has never recommended it to me as someone who watches a lot of fantasy, sci-fi, animation, etc. Although TBH if it weren't highly recommended I would be pretty hesitant to watch a show with muppets, despite my other interests. Even with this glowing recommendation I'm still a bit skeptical.
So why is barData being recomputed? Does anyone understand how React compiler works enough to answer this?