skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Finding the most expensive solution to a problem sometimes works for DoD or NASA. But nuclear just isnt sexy enough.
> The internet is not a parallel universe.

John Perry Barlow begs to differ.

https://www.eff.org/cyberspace-independence
Apple Motion
This, this, so much this. When we build more complexity into a system, the less we understand it, similar to how development frameworks create multiple layers of abstraction to the point where the developers have no idea what actual code the framework produces, much less how to fix it.
Apple Music search is also horrible. It's almost like they're doing something as naive as an exact string match.
Because it’s a tool of authoritarians - and morally wrong?

Would you say the same thing about the drug war?

Just because it fails to achieve its goals, doesn’t mean I should support it. There’s destruction in its wake.
Well There's Your Problem did an episode about this I believe.

https://pca.st/episode/2bf5024d-d237-451c-af69-61d4e2aa386b
Purely incidental, but: I check housing prices in Tokyo every once in a while and I've found a lot more of what I'd consider "a good deal" in the last couple of months. Not buying a place anytime soon, just find it interesting to see.

I also took a short trip to Okinawa (the beach islands of Japan) and the Airbnb prices were anomalously low, in fact it was more expensive renting a car for the time I was there than my stay. Not surprising, considering that last year ~31 million tourists visited Japan but this year that number must be very low.
> I find the `ref` syntax of SML much nicer to use than the mutable record syntax in Ocaml.

Maybe I'm missing something in SML, but OCaml has `ref` as well and it works just like SML's?

let x = ref 0
x := 12
print_int !x

> SML strings are immutable which lends itself to a lot of potential optimizations (and there's always byte arrays if you actually need to mutate).

OCaml's strings are also immutable. They have been immutable by default since 2017 and prior to that one could opt into this behavior via a compiler flag.
Have you ever listened to Ben Shapiro's podcast? He generally backs up his arguments pretty well, and admits poor arguments when he sees them.
In the US we build giant monuments to people who not only advocates but who engaged in the use of violence as the means to resolve political disputes. We also put them on our money and name cities and states after them.
Karel Zeman: The Surprising Invention of Mystimation and Its Travels [video]
I'm more inclined to trust nonpartisan independent Pew Research than your opinion. It's not the only independent survey either. There's also survey evidence from before the occupation.
How does it compare to OCaml?
GPS in cities can be hit and miss. Also means more expensive/new devices.

Lat/long would give you a good idea of the 3-9 most likely roads involved, but it won't necessarily prove which road exactly... so humans would still need to review the entered road to lat/long and find the right road to plug in.

Alternatively, and perhaps this is what you were thinking... GPS-assisted drop downs (or scroll-able list of selections) might provide an easier user interface... Cop hits the "street" button, and the GPS provides a selection of the most likely suspects. It won't be perfect, since a manual entry field should still be provided, but it probably would stop fat-fingering.

But we're solving a problem to make data analytics and the lives of cops easier... The city wont make money, it'll probably cost them hundreds of thousands (or millions). So the incentive is very small. You or I, as lovers of accurate data, might like this. In court, however, a judge or lawyer will see "Lke Shore", see the cop meant "Lake Shore", and the conflict is resolved in milliseconds.
Meh... Call me unimpressed.

Twitter refrained from forwarding a story to which there is no factual basis. You can of course still read it with the New York Post if you so desire.

That's all there is to it.
You wouldn't have the development velocity of vs code without Electron. $50 of ram is a small price to pay for better software.
Nice :) I've managed 345, but only once. That's usually when I die also.
NTR is not anywhere near 2x chemical because of parasitic losses, in fact it may only barely offer higher net DeltaV.

NTR requires heavy engines, heavy shielding and heavy radiators to keep cool. The final NERVA prototype was as close to a functional NTR as ever built, and it massed 40,000 lbs while only generated 55,000 lbs of thrust, with a maximum ISP of 710 seconds.

A SpaceX Raptor only has a Mac ISP of 380 seconds, but masses only 3,000 lbs, and produces 500,000 lbs of thrust. Add another 50,000 lbs dead mass to the NTR for shielding and cooling, and you see why Raptor will get humans to Mars well before any NTR and just as quickly.
It is possible and was tried (with honey bees) in 1956, then they escaped:
https://www.clemson.edu/extension/beekeepers/fact-sheets-pub...
Twitter has been claiming it's not a newspaper or editorial organization. They are legal benefits for Twitter to NOT be a newspaper. That's why they need to claim an objective reason for censoring/fact checking a specific story.

So, I understand what you say but Twitter would beg to differ with you.

Also network effects are harder to come by in newspapers. Imagine if there was one newspaper that had 100x the readership of the second most popular one. That'd be considered a threat to democracy.
If you care about performance you should not be using a laptop as your primary workstation. Period.
I laughed and shat my pants. Your comments is spot on.
I think the discussion is focusing on levels of the US government and what has been experienced by the public under that government since its founding. Actual exercised power by US governmental entities.

The discussion of other governments will probably lead this thread into a swampy delta and it will lose its motive force.
At least we still have pyIDM. We still have pyIDM right ?
Chiming in with my own stride improvements -

1. Slow jogs with the only goal being getting my footstrike under the hips. This fixed the rolling/lurching I had developed in adolescence.

2. Runner's supplements. This did a lot to reduce pain and stiffness. Magnesium in particular really made a difference.

3. Strength and mobility training. Yoga or calisthenics both work for this: the main limitation in both walking and running postures is in being able to swing the hips, shoulders and knees fluidly.
Can somebody explain the takeaway with Camus in this? I can't seem to understand it.
That used to be the case for x86, but not anymore: https://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-to-stop-linux-older-...
You are pedaling a fantasy that has been proven false by thousands of peer reviewed studies.
Not enough. Where are our degrees, he asks. And are your sources matching his political inclinations? Careful, now.
Oh look, a rare political post on Hacker News that doesn't get downvoted to oblivion. I wonder why.
> "Forcing someone to say something against their will"

As many on HN have said in the past, corporations aren't people. Speaking about their will makes no sense.
> Now, it would be great if there was a way to pipe the html from a webpage into another tool from inside lynx.

For future reference, it appears that this can be done with elinks.
This is another shortcoming of NTRs, as Hydrogen is tiny and slippery, leading to significant amounts of leakage over long trips.
"For a spacecraft to launch toward the sun, it must accelerate to nearly match the Earth’s velocity—in the opposite direction."

Source: https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/08/parker-s...

> If nuclear rockets or reactors are built in space, would this be a possible way of handling nuclear waste from reactors already in space?

If you're not already falling towards the Sun, it must mean you're in some sort of orbit around it. So you'd still need to cancel that out.
The point being let the user decide.

Having a fast machine that can sustain throughput and I/O is a perfectly rational desire, and for some of us, need.
They’re not addicting. They’re a complete waste of time. That’s what’s addicting.
For me personally, with also nearly 2 decades of C# and C++, exceptions is the best possible way to handle errors there is, especially for large projects. I have worked on projects which were built on exceptions, and on projects which were built on return codes. Exceptions is hands down the cleanest. Instead of becoming a mess of call/error handle blocks, you code can clearly separate business logic and error handling. If I had 10 cents for every time I've fixed a bug when an error analysis is skipped because it is not supposed to happen until it is...

Golang way is terribly flawed. As a matter of fact I've watched a video yesterday on golang best practices, and got very excited. And then I realized, this is still a language where you can't throw an exception and that made me very sad, as I realized golang is going nowhere. It will be exciting for a few more years, like ruby was once, and then everybody realizes what a PITA it is for large codebases, and it shall become another ruby.
Here's a pretty recent guide someone made. More info exists on the reddit.com/r/sml/wiki page.

https://saityi.github.io/sml-tour/tour/00-00-welcome.html
I don't think either of your opinions have to be acknowledged or assumed in order to have a sensible conversation about this issue.

"We haven't had this issue in history before: it's never been so easy to reach so many people with such bad information."

Is this a literal statement?

Is it bad information?
That's amazing. I've been trying to profile which extensions are causing my slowdowns but still not getting a satisfactory result. I think my ESLint/Vetur is re-checking all open files on every keystroke (not debounced) and it becomes slow after a few hours of the editor being open. But I can't really get it down to a specific extension.
Wang Professional Computer (Hardware/Software Tour) – Paul's Old Crap
This is really informative, thank you!
I Built a 4G Solar Rover to Explore the Australian Outback – Tonight
I built a robot that uses solar power to go on extended exploration missions, that I drive using a camera feed over the 4G mobile network.

We're aiming to travel 13km in three weeks to reach a distant public phone box in a far off country town.

We stream live tonight, 10PM ACDT on twitch.tv/whatuptkhere
Cooling is the Achilles heel of NTR, requiring massive radiators to remain functional over a long burn.
> If they can lock down the computer, they can drop the price while _increasing_ CLTV.

How much? I bet it's not much.

> That’s why System76 is more expensive. They’re NOT overpriced. They’re priced as “general purpose computers” must be to be competitive.

They're so much more expensive because they're niche. Not because of anything inherent to the product or producing it.

So "overpriced" sounds fair to me.

> I agree with this author, but this suggests that the strength of his conviction is maybe $400.

Is that not enough? If you can spread the word enough, and get enough people that are willing to spend $50 extra, you'll find plenty of companies begging for that money. The profit margin for building computers is bad.
I think you might look at it with this perspective. It will take them deserting X11 in order to get stuff for Wayland working because everyone is just like "well X11 will work well enough". Now people won't have much of a choice other than not supporting linux Desktop at all.
I really hope EFF is able to take this on.
Was the story that the NY Post article was the result of Russian 'disinformation' based on facts? Because Twitter did nothing to stop that, not a fact check, not a block, nothing. Twitter was certain that 'story' was true, but the FBI (who said they have no evidence the Russians did it) was clueless?

If I may, the reason you are unimpressed is that you are on the political side that benefited from Twitter's selective bias this time around. Next time you may not be as lucky tho.
Wonderful article; short, sweet, and to the point.
Sure, backups are essential.
Business has been moving to places like Austin for years. Las Vegas, Phoenix, Atlanta, Nashville, Orlando. The pace will accelerate now that it is even more acceptable to do so.
Let's not bring back the screwworm:
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/science/7-reasons-flesh-eating-...
It is already worse than the GFC in 2009. UK GDP dipped 21.7% in Q2, NZ ~13%, and the US ~10%. https://ourworldindata.org/covid-health-economy

Where it ends is anyone's guess, and the worst part will be the second and third order effects it won't be super easy to predict. Things like pension/401K/Superannuation funds with high Commercial real estate exposure leading to reduced retirement income, state pension funds that suffer as big US cities see revenue plummet after the population moves, European cities with vastly worse economies - the UK with London hurts there the most - and the cyclical effect of Italian demand reducing French production, reducing French demand reducing Italian production, ad nauseam.

This will be a multi-speed problem, with some countries, cities, counties, suburbs & streets affected far more than others.

If it wasn't so tragic it would be a truly fascinating thing to watch unfold.
Which is why my nameservers answer NXDOMAIN to use-application-dns.net, which DoH-using applications are supposed to honor.

And I supply DNS-over-TLS and DNS-over-HTTPS locally. It's really not too difficult.
Austin was great.
I'm quite interested in what your relative thinks might be the impact of the looming property tax reform in CA; if the ballot initiative passes next month then commercial real estate will no longer be able to enjoy the prop13 caps by using pass-through entities to own the buildings, and changing the beneficial owner of the real estate holding corporation instead. Plunging rents plus escalating tax liabilities seem like a perfect financial storm.
Thanks, that was the one I was familiar with soI was surprised by the reference to Mexico here.
Better title: A one-line change decreased our "git clone" times by 99%.

It's a bit misleading to use "build time" to describe this improvement, as it makes people think about build systems, compilers, header files, or cache. On the other hand, the alternative title is descriptive and helpful to all developers, not only just builders - people who simply need to clone a branch from a large repository can benefit from this tip as well.
Remains found in Grays Harbor lead to discovery of new species (2018)
I'm from Jutland which might be part of the explanation. Also, I left 20 years ago.

I'm not sure what you mean by "most of these Tweets"; I'm reporting on my experience living in Silicon Valley, California, where power goes out a couple of times a month on avg.

I have all servers etc on UPSes but wish I could find bigger UPSes as most can only hold up about 1 hour which often isn't enough.
There's a rather alarming photo of a Cobalt-60 source with the label "drop and run". This is a 3540-curie source (i.e. a lot). Someone did the calculations and figured if you followed the instructions quickly you'd probably survive.

https://www.lanl.gov/discover/publications/1663/2018-august/...
> it would be negligibly more expensive and technically demanding to have high ceilings (it's free to build up)

Not true; standardized high-volume lumber dimensions make it much cheaper to build walls that are slighly less than 8 feet high. Hardware stores even sell pre-cut studs at 92 5/8" instead of 96".

The building code is another obstacle. It requires kiln-dried stamped+certified stud lumber for walls, and getting those in anything over 8 feet is a custom order (the 2x4x10s you see at your local hardware store are not certified for this). Above 11 foot ceilings the building code requires you to get an engineer to design the house and wet-stamp the plans.
> Please do not trust what this person is saying.

I don’t trust what you are saying either until you show me the sources of the claims.

I think it’s fair to say that everyone in a position to comply with US sanctions will carefully check what they need to do to comply with them.
I bet prices just go up store-wide to cover, and even higher on items where the cost is more asymmetric (prescriptions)
I have a MacBook Pro running Manjaro Linux, Audiophile Linux and the latest OS-X. There's no issue: there's a command that can toggle the security status. I think the instructions are even in the Apple documentation.

Now getting some of that configured to use the cheap hardware is a more complicated story.
This is one of the best Wikipedia entries I have read yet. Concise and relatively plain English. Clear description of benefits, shortcomings, and possible tests.
Starship can get to Mars in 3-4 months. It depends mainly upon how much payload you carry. Elon has discussed crewed Starships making the trip in 3-4 months to minimize radiation exposure, and cargo Starships maximizing payload mass and taking the 9 month Hohmann low energy orbit.
Powering those ion thrusters is a bit of a problem at the mass ranges you need for peopled interplanetary flight. Either you have an absolutely enormous solar array, or an absolutely enormous radiator array for your nuclear reactor.
> Eclipse was an anti-example of useful extensibility.

Eclipse is a fairly extensible IDE, with workbenches, it's just a terrible text editor. VSCode is a good text editor first and foremost. I saw a lot of complex enterprise projects using Eclipse and most of them ultimately were terrible to use because Eclipse didn't get the basics.

VSCode is rather easy to extend, since it uses JS and Web technologies.
No, it's the other way around. It originally was as the article described, and once Microsoft probably got scared about antitrust (or thought about how the heck they'd buy hardware for Azure and not be able to load their own secure boot keys), they changed the procedure. As of 2015-ish, the information I linked applies (for x86).
The title should mention that the story is from 2008.
7-Day Diet Meal Plan to Lose Weight: 1,500 Calories
There are no osha-approved laptops.
As long as you work essentially at one place, don't need to work on the go, don't need to show your work to a customer when meeting in a cafe, and genuinely can use a ton of processing power and storage, a desktop is a clear choice.

I suspect a lot of the movement towards laptops was and is due to the desire to run macOS. It just so happens that Apple desktop computers are either way underpowered or way expensive. An MBP is basically the sanest way to run macOS. So MBPs tend to become makeshift portable desktops, with external screens, keyboard, mice / trackpads, power bricks, and cooling pads.

If your work processes are not beholden to Apple software, building (or ordering a customized) desktop is a refreshing gulp of power. You suddenly can afford much more, or spend way less.

I'm writing this from a Linux desktop, and I'm quite content with it.
Depends on what the workload is.

CAD, for example, barring new geometry work in progress now, is single threaded.

People working on high surface count models want these things:

Big, fat, fast cache

Sustained sequential compute performance

Sustained I/O

GPU that focuses on geometry and precision. This is not generally an issue today, but can be on laptops.

Desktop machines with active cooling are where it is at.
> stolen information

Who the hell cares if the information was stolen? Jeffrey Epstein's little black book was "stolen information" - do you object to using that information to make an indictment?

> intentionally misleading information

Crazy how a credible leak is "intentionally misleading" when it's politically inconvenient.
They did a billion dollars of revenue last year, their management and hiring systems seem to be getting the job done.
It's nice to hear that I'm not alone. I still have a music library, and rip dvd's with handbrake. Ripping a dvd with a 12 core desktop machine is a breeze, and so are other general computing tasks.

I know I'm probably a dinosaur. I run a lot of desktop applications for work, and run most my models locally. I use the shell to automate tasks, and rarely use the "cloud" and try to limit browser tasks.

What's funny about this post is that I'm actually in the market for a new laptop, and am quite paralyzed in the process. I can't get myself to spend $1500 on some mediocre machine where everything is soldered on the mobo, I can't replace the battery, and that will become garbage in 2 years.
Yes, as there's no distinction for enterprise vs. non-enterprise certification. All systems that pass Windows logo certification have to be able to disable Secure Boot AND load user provided keys.[0]

If I had to guess, Microsoft locked down the Surface RT and wondered if they could get away with it, then once there was backlash and they realized that high-security environments wouldn't like it, they never spread the requirement to x86. That or antitrust fears.

0: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/security/informatio...
They purchased I believe a third of the mortgages.
Scheduling Jobs in a Super Computer Cluster Using GitHub Actions
seems very slim to me, I've used a fork of it on a Raspberry Pi without issues (Side note: recent VSCode release supposedly has ARM support now)
Its especially weird/funny when you consider 99% of existing Amiga software was specifically hardcoded to floppy only A500 with 1MB ram, and doesnt benefit from any acceleration. It was also one of the reasons for its downfall.
Don’t be silly. Nuclear pulse rocketry is very well understood from an engineering perspective, the forces it generates are easily managed, and the radiation it produces easily shielded for.

Without a doubt it’s by far the most practical candidate for sending manned expeditions to the nearby stars.
Great, appreciate it.
> the "end of general purpose computing" isn't a result of manufacturers pushing in a direction but rather following consumers.

This is an even stronger claim than that consumers don't care if their hardware is closed. Consumers aren't begging for their hardware to be closed, and companies aren't passively trying to please them. The vast majority of consumers don't care if their hardware is closed until they discover something that their hardware is capable of doing that they're not allowed to do with it or something that their hardware is doing that they're not allowed to keep it from doing. Companies close as much as they can while trying not to upset consumers enough that they leave or complain to the government - which means either that they have to find ways to 1) add or limit functionality in a closed way, or that 2) they have to get all competitors to agree to prevent or allow the same things (to eliminate alternatives), or 3) they have to advocate a POV (and lobby for it in government) that whatever functionality is missing or required is dangerous to add or remove.

This is following consumers in a way; like building a wall behind them every time they move in a particular direction could be considered following them.