skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thank you for the feedback and for the link. This is something I also do for SQL code. Initially I was making this to be used as a pre-commit hook for SQL code inside Python for our team. Probably inspired by the black Python formatter. I just made the MVP and will propose to our team to use it after the holidays. If regexes would seem to be not enough, we still have the power of Python to lend a hand for more complex puzzles
With starship costs possibly being ~ $20/kg, some quick math says you could pull existing solar panels up from earth at ~ $100/kilowatt [1]. For comparison, it looks like installation on a house costs about $2500/kw [3].

It's no short-term thing, but it's the kind of thing that I might get to see in my lifetime. And it's certainly something that should get engineers excited, even if it's just considering what's theoretically possible.

Also, as the 2nd video notes, though it does send more heat through to earth, it's trivial in comparison to greenhouse effects, which are the kind of things this could mitigate, not just by cutting down on greenhouse gas emissions, but by providing enough cheap energy to make carbon capture feasible.

[1] https://www.inverse.com/article/60712-spacex-starship-elon-m...
[2] https://www.spectrolab.com/DataSheets/Panel/panels.pdf
[3] https://modernize.com/solar/panel-cost-calculator#:~:text=So....
Guilty as charged, as I've used those illustrations for a few personal projects as well.

For anyone interested, you can generate custom variations of them here and see more from work from the original artists:

https://blush.design/collections
Why not both? Flettner rotor works best when the wind is perpendicular and kite works best when the wind blows in the same direction to the ship's course.
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This seems like a vector for 1) malicious content (malware, spyware, cryptominers), 2) spam (referral links, MLM sites), 3) offensive content (shock sites, extreme pornography), 4) illegal content (child pornography, terrorist material).
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https://i.reddit.com

You can also append ".compact" to the end of a normal Reddit URL.

I think Reddit's UX anti-patterns need to be taught alongside the Digg v4 follies as ways to ruin a website.
This is a byproduct of the scientifically bankrupt implementation of the endangered species act.

If we as a society care about endangered species, there should be an option to make or improve habitat for such species to offset development.
Who is it giving the Inuit a pass? Why do they have a say in it? Someone shows up thousands of years after the fact and starts telling the Inuit what they can and can't eat? I don't see that as a defensible position to hold. The Inuit should be able to eat their own whales if they want to.
Probably depends how similar your output is to something copyrighted. I doubt the simple act of learning from previous art is disallowed or else literally everyone would be blocked because no one has a truely original thought.
The high end 3000 series cards use a faster, more expensive, proprietary kind of memory from Micron. Even with a little less memory capacity, bandwidth is still probably higher. I doubt the 3060 will use this.
"The Program audio series" is the only fiction podcast I listen to I heard about it first on HN.

It's hard to single out one episode as a favorite, but I really liked a recent one that is a good standalone episode. ("Read-only memory Computer" == ROM-COM) is the perfect display of the show's signature combination of humor, tech, and wit.

Link to the episode: https://programaudioseries.com/15-what-you-see-is-what-you-g... (but really, you should check out the whole show!)
Hire a VA to hire out and manage the services they select to achieve this.
I know, never claimed they were; it was just a response to how amazing the DC was at the time :)
iTunes used to support "iTunes Library Sharing" such taht you were more or less streaming your tunes from your library to the receiving device - anyone on the same wifi network could share libraries.

Now Apple Music is terribly confused about owned music versus streamable music. I haven't tried the owned library sharing in years, but I have problems trying to get tracks I own into audio processing apps - they should just be available, but it seems I have to download the track in Music first, then wait some unspecified amount of time before the audio is allowed to see it. The whole things counters the convenience I thought Apple was selling.
> No one will create a thread to say "everything is fine, keep it up".

I was lucky enough to receive a thread exactly like this [0], in response to a user complaining about my support response time [1]. Admittedly, it was in response to me saying "No-one ever writes threads like this", but it was still lovely to receive.

0. https://groups.google.com/g/cursive/c/Zw8JExDavrE/m/HDILSRCj...

1. https://groups.google.com/g/cursive/c/wZOjmj2Jits/m/Iu7_6iuD...
Pretty common in London as well
Without looking up the Drake Equation, here's a rough estimation of the problem.

Ignoring all extinct species, there's an estimated 8.7 million unique species of plants and animals currently on Earth. So let's do some dumb estimating and say that there's a one in 10 million chance of "intelligent" life evolving on a planet that supports life. (I will not address the controversial issue of whether or not human life is actually intelligent.)

So whatever estimation is used for the number of habitable planets in our galaxy, Only 0.00001% of those planets might have intelligent life. Next, you must factor in how many of the intelligent species develop technology capable of interstellar communication, and when do they do it? Humans have existed for a few million years, but we have only had radio for a hundred years. With the development of technology comes the risk of self annihilation. We humans have had the ability to destroy ourselves for roughly 60 years. How much longer we go is anybody's guess, but given that life on our planet has existed for roughly 3.5 billion years, and the planet will become uninhabitable in another 5 billion (when the sun changes modes), the time window is pretty small. It's likely that life needs some elements that were less available in the early universe, so let's assume that it's only possible on planets of third-generation stars like ours. Also consider the speed-limit of EM propagation (C). There are only 76 stars within 100 light years of us. It's unlikely that intelligent life exists in any of those systems, but if it did, the inhabitants (if they were listening) would just now be able to hear us. Assuming we survive our technological revolution/evolution for another 100 years, we might get a message from a nearby system. Before then, we might receive some communications from systems farther away, but how long does a technological civilization use radio with simple modulation schemes that we would recognize as something other than noise? Maybe in less than a hundred years, we will have gone through radio, optical, and then quantum communications technology. It's likely that other technological civilizations (if they exist) are using communication technology that is incompatible with ours.

I'm not sure if Drake considered all of these things, but it looks pretty bad for us with regard to our ability to confirm the existence of extraterrestrial intelligence any time soon.
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Related, from two weeks ago:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25424852
Bigger question is will point of use generation destroy the economic viability of the electrical grid.

It's already not particularly unreasonable for many residential users in California to generate all that they consume on-site with solar and a backup gasoline generator to refill the batteries during winter bad weather... the main cost in doing so is the batteries and people are continuing to predict decreases in battery costs.
Secret list of preferred colors: https://news.ycombinator.com/topcolors
> I doubt Microsoft (GitHub's owner) cares that much about such tiny usage.

They probably don't care about one person doing this, but if tens of thousands of repositories start doing this it becomes a problem.

> They run all of Azure, after all.

They get paid for that.
I don't know of any books, but I can offer some advice if you like. Let me know.
A looper pedal is a game changer!
My original point is “The problem is there is no better” is a defeatist attitude: there is a lot better.

Every other country in the world manages to model their own policies by using other countries of smaller or larger size, that have wildly different societies and governance.

Each state government in the United States holds legal and administrative jurisdiction within its bounds, yet somehow US states are special, and other countries have nothing worthwhile copying.

Almost every time someone says that other countries manage to do something better, the same tired canards are brought out in attack, usually with the undercurrent of “USA #1”, therefore any other way of doing things is wrong or inapplicable.

I don’t normally argue the point, because the counter-arguments like yours are so predictable and so spectacularly irrelevant.

You mentioned Covid. Watching the arc of excuses made by citizens of the US has been a black comedy: it started with excuses about how China managed to control Covid, it moved on to different excuses when some other Asian countries managed low death counts, then the excuses changed again once some first world countries got their shit together. The underlying premise was “USA #1” therefore if another country is doing better then let’s pipe up with a irrelevant excuse meme. The pattern is tragically hilarious.
As you mention, ARM had Thumb for ARMv7. It's important to remember that ARMv7 is still a product. The Innovator's Dilemma may blindly say to cannibalize, but instead, ARM probably thinks that these are two different sectors. The 64b sector doesn't need Thumb (which comes at an opcode space + decoder cost). The chips that ARMv8 are going into have massive DRAMs and while Thumb saves some, it wasn't enough. RISC-V on the other hand is all things to all people. So an embedded chip needs the possibility of Cray style vectors because reasons.

I do think that if someone wants an 8-wide RISC-V decoder all they have to do is throw the transistors at it. That's a consequence of fixed width. Yeah, RVC will require more transistors, but not n^2 (?) like X86 does.

RISC-V is pretty elegant, well except for the bit manipulation nonsense. They really should have plagiarized ARM instead of Intel there.
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I don't get this constant harping on size whenever it is pointed out how America sucks. “Oooh, it's so hard to govern a country this size!” Why?!? Sure, there's more to govern — but in exactly equal measure, there are also more resources to do it with!

Everybody stop dragging up size as an excuse, please. It's a stupid cop-out.
Assets are often held somewhere very different than the jobs, business, taxes etc. Banking licenses for example require holding enough capital in the jurisdiction to cover for unexpected shocks. But where the decisions physically take place is a whole different question.

In practice, for the Brexit/London question, it seems London banks set up small offices in the continent to ask as a front for regulators and EU clients, moved capital as necessary, but kept all significant business in London - so far at least.

Remember, this is finance, capital is transferred via a wire. It’s not mining, real estate or farming.
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Just says my url is invalid.
Guess there really is a service for everything. One would have thought though, that highly educated politicians and officials would intrinsically be well-read and have their own book collections already.
This sounds like a newspaper subscription...
Yeah the N64 was great, but in total worldwide console sales totals, PS2 = 155 million, N64 = 33 million, Dreamcast = 9 million. Partly the enormous total was because the PS2 stuck around for so long (and, cyclically, kept getting games for ages because of the installed base) but my point is, for most gamers, it's more like they didn't have a Dreamcast because they had a PS2.

That console generation had a clear winner, despite Nintendo doing its own wonderful thing as usual. Sega were out of the running, due to bad previous consoles, price, Sony's frankly dishonest publicity about what the PS2 would be able to do, some great hits coming to PS2 first, the DVD drive, and just the general network effect that means the winner of a format war sells many more units.
if there is computation people are doing a lot, and a hardware instruction can make it faster, i will take it.

so in a sense i agree you, but i only think that because i think javascript shouldn’t exist!
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This is my bugbear. All my smart systems are 'who cares'. I really want security, heating, and cooking to be smart as I have specific use cases but I don't have the time to Engineer the systems how I want them. Its particularly annoying as I have all the skills!
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David Patterson: Computer Architecture and Data Storage: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=naed4C4hfAg.
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> Javascript uses the double-precision floating-point format for all numbers. However, it needs to convert this common number format to 32-bit integers in order to perform bit-wise operations. Conversions from double-precision float to integer, as well as the need to check if the number converted really was an integer, are therefore relatively common occurrences.

> Armv8.3-A adds instructions that convert a double-precision floating-point number to a signed 32-bit integer with round towards zero. Where the integer result is outside the range of a signed 32-bit integer (DP float supports integer precision up to 53 bits), the value stored as the result is the integer conversion modulo 2^32, taking the same sign as the input float.

The semantics of numbers in JavaScript behave in a specific way. Since we are talking about numbers, it hardly gets more low-level and thus it makes good sense to design ALU operations targeting common numerical operations.
The ARM vs Intel story of leaving the low margin behind to focus on the high margin reminds me of USA vs China:

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-12-26/covid-fal...
The hardware overhead to implement this particular instructions is likely very small.

The floating operation themselves are done in fixed point with large registers.

This instructions tells the cpu to bypass part of the circuit. The javascript thing is just branding to make devs aware of the application of the instructions.

Ironically, this actually gives more control of the hardware rather than increase abstraction.
It has been a few years since I did the research but Im positive you were allowed to send anything up under a specific weight (I do not remember the weights but I Think it was under 7lbs or 5lbs). Not a lot but quite a bit. Most people were putting a phone, gps, hand warmers, small housing and a canopy for when the balloon eventually burst. I never built one but it was really affordable to do if you wanted. Im sure there were restrictions like launching next to an international airport but beyond that there really weren't rules. It was common courtesy to file a NOTAM, but wasn't required.
The Japanese are indigenous to Japan and have been hunting whales for a thousand years and maybe over ten thousand[1] so I guess we don’t get to tell them what they can and can’t eat either.

[1] https://japanwhaling.weebly.com/history.html
I also see the deployment of those massive fleets of satellites in LEO to be suicidal. It makes access to space more complex and expensive. If for some reason few collide they could start a chain reaction that could destroy most LEO satellites now operational and preclude access to space https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kessler_syndrome

>Aggressive space activities without adequate safeguards could significantly shorten the time between collisions and produce an intolerable hazard to future spacecraft. Some of the most environmentally dangerous activities in space include large constellations such as those initially proposed by the Strategic Defense Initiative in the mid-1980s, large structures such as those considered in the late-1970s for building solar power stations in Earth orbit, and anti-satellite warfare using systems tested by the USSR, the US, and China over the past 30 years. Such aggressive activities could set up a situation where a single satellite failure could lead to cascading failures of many satellites in a period much shorter than years.
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> 1. Nobody is doing rewrites from scratch anymore. That's just not the case.

This claim would be more compelling if it provided a few notable examples.
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Woah, I didn't know it was public. Went up a ton in the last 2 months too..
Thats terrifying and probably out fault. Who knows how many chemicals are dumped into the ocean that we unknowingly consume because they don’t smell bad.
Bellingcat - The Executions & The Hunt ‘the two-part series tells the story of a gruesome video that captured the world’s attention in 2018 and how a remarkable open source investigation sought to unravel its secrets.

The video, which had spread rapidly online, appeared to show unarmed women and children being murdered by men in army uniform. Which army the men belonged to was not clear. Nor was it apparent where the incident had taken place or who the victims were. But an international team of investigators and volunteers was determined to uncover the truth.’

Incredible & horrifying to listen to.

https://www.bellingcat.com/resources/podcasts/2020/07/21/the...
I'm listening now and enjoying it. Very relatable as I have an 80s horror movie I saw one scene of when I was a kid and I still have not been able to find it. Haunts me to this day. A family is outside all afraid and some force is tugging a chain into the sky.
The infrastructure for creating and sharing e.g. virtual box images does not exist. With docker I can run just about any server product you can name with a single command line invocation. Those commands don't exist for vmware, virtual box or other common virtual machine. That infrastructure simply does not exist.
I'm looking at the Tomb Raider Last Revelations gameplay and it seems to run pretty fine.
The 20th century has been absolutely exceptional in the amount of technologically and politically driven social change and discontinuity; a lot of ""olds"" got swept away, sometimes by uncoolness, sometime at gunpoint. But I think in some ways the bigger disconnect for us in the Anglosphere was Victorian/Puritan "bowdlerisation" taking sex and bodily humor out of "public discourse" until the 1960s.
This being on HN front page I expect same good quality. Hopeful I will find something interesting.
If you see value and can afford it, sure go for it. The goal of my comment wasn't to dissuade people from spending on SaaS, but rather to inspire others who don't have the luxury of have extra cash to be not discouraged by articles like this.
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Do you think there's more of that stuff than stuff from a bigger city and bigger eruption in the same place nearly 2000 years later? How does archaeology work in your mind, pjc50?

It's centuries-old new media hype from landowners who realized their 200-year-old ruins wouldn't sell nearly as well as 2000-year-old ruins. It's everyone clinging to one man's account of an event that happened millennia ago while ignoring the mountain that fell on them centuries ago.

It might be the world's first tourist trap. Both eruptions happened and there's stuff to see from both, yes, but 95% of what's on display in Pompeii is from the more recent major eruption, in my opinion. The tools and buildings look so modern because they are so modern.
Almost all universities I know of have shifted to RISC V. UC Berkely, MIT any of the UC's,UW, even Harvey Mudd College. So it is not an unreasonable assertion.
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Another thing that may affect the probability of life in a solar system is the number of planets. More planets seem to make the planetary orbits much more circular and stable, allowing more time for life to occur and develop.

This matters because, as far as we can see, our solar system has more planets than any other system we have been able to observe (so far.)

See https://www.sciencenewsdigital.org/sciencenews/december_19__..., article #9 (subscription required.)
Yeah, statistics isn't really good at extrapolation from a single sample.

I think statistics is entirely bad approach to resolving this problem at least until we have more data.

We need to know more about how planets form (again, we have rather small sample we have studied well), we need to know what exactly is necessary to jumpstart life and how likely it is to happen. Then we have a hard task understanding why exactly intelligent life evolved and whether it is unavoidable or a fluke. And a bunch other questions that statistics is entirely unprepared to answer.
A major gap is that while we can reason consciously as individuals about the values of goods and services, as an society/economy we price things unconsciously.

There are many jobs that have well agreed upon social value but we have no way to wire up the economy to pay them commensurately. Think of caregivers being paid $9 per hour to clean up Grandpa's sick, or teachers who can't spend their summers on improving their craft because they have to take a menial off-season position to stay afloat.

It also works on the other side-- I think you'd be hard pressed to find someone saying that top athletes and actors are worth eight figures a year on their contribution to society alone, but the market has bid them there.

A much more hands-on system of wage and price controls could at least come from a conscious decision-making process.
The author has been writing about RISC-V with relation to Apple M1 and basically fanboying about it. It is basically the same as some guy coming in and say Rust will overtake C and C++.

And yet the article got interest, since it align with the general public and main stream media view of RSIC-V being the rising star. It is free. It must be better. etc.

I could have repeat most of his point with OpenPOWER. ( microWatts [1] ) And for many application there are lot of reason why OpenPOWER are much better than RISC-V. ( Rather unfortunate IBM is loathed by lots of people in the industry )

[1] https://github.com/antonblanchard/microwatt
This was the most disgusting thing I clicked on this month.
Regarding sleep that would be the role of e.g. systemd (or whatever you have on your system) and you'd have to write a service unit handling that (although I'm not sure what you'd want exactly, if you have a program running when you put your computer to sleep, it'll still be running once it resumes, so not much to do).

Regarding schedule that could be part of the service, but a simple cronjob can also do the trick depending on what you want exactly.
> However unlike the ARM, MIPS and x86 designers, RISC-V designers knew about instruction compression and macro-ops fusion when they began designing their ISA.

Since ARM64 was announced in 2011 this is plainly false for 64 bit ARM.

(And there is similar confusion between 32 and 64 bit ARM throughout the article).