skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As a counter argument in my day-job I generally assume that the DB will have available disk space and I don't have to worry too much about memory usage unless it becomes an issue (I do avoid naively globbing as much memory as possible but I also avoid premature optimization).

Both of those constraints do exist on programming but they don't come up often enough that generally we'll discuss or review code entirely ignoring those effects and instead favoring correctness.

Most of the items you listed aren't really important when discussing the nature of a function in the same way the fact that I happened to write my 1+1=2 algorithm on a RISC architecture isn't fundamental for teaching - sure it will potentially behave differently on a different processor - sometimes an intel bug might even cause subtle float errors - but those are implementation details and this article is focused on theory.
or even¹

h = g.curry(2)[f]
h[1]

function composition is available:

f = -> x { x * 2 }
g = -> y { y + 4 }
j = f >> g
k = j << g

j[1] #=> 6
k[1] #=> 14

and, topically, the Y combinator:

y = -> f {
-> g { g[g] } [
-> g { f[-> v { g[g][v] }] }
]
}

hence

fib = y[-> f {
-> n { n < 2 ? Array(0..n) : f[n-1].then { _1 << _1[-1] + _1[-2] } }
}]

fib[6] #=> [0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8]

although the more idiomatic Ruby might be

fibo = Hash.new { |this, n| this[n] = n < 2 ? n : this[n-1] + this[n-2] }

(0..6).map(&fibo) #=> [0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8]

in which the Hash self-converts to a closure via the & operator.

Anyone who says "Ruby doesn't have first-class functions" can fight me.

--------------------

⁽¹⁾ notwithstanding that I recall Matz once remarked the curry method is only included as an elaborate joke.
How hard can it be to have your own grid, but also have inputs on the edges to draw from? Or would that no longer be independent?
I would actually be happy with some well planned machine review and some clean rules that are actually enforced.

A man can dream, I guess.
I don't use anything besides Bronner's, and I use that sparingly. I haven't applied soap to any parts of myself except my hands for several years. My skin is in better shape than it ever has been, and I hear similar results from others who follow this path. I didn't come up with it myself, someone else shared their experience with me. It takes a week or two for the oil production to balance out. Our skin oils serve as protective layer, and also as the perfect "soap" for washing with water. When you remove them with soap, the skin freaks out and starts compensating.
His posts on floating point maths are very interesting too.
I have a couple HomeKit devices. “Hey Siri turn the lamp on” is easier than walking across the room as I enter the house in the dark.
runtime.LockOSThread?

https://golang.org/pkg/runtime/#LockOSThread
so many misconceptions on this text. this author knows very little about mental health and is just repeating this narrative these recent documentaries have been spreading - which was created, by the way, by those same fellas who created those systems and feel guilty now. Also, as an UX designer, he's pretty much getting money to apply the same stuff to his own projects, most probably.
Correct. Nuclear still requires water, and the water pumps/pipes are freezing because they weren’t properly weatherized.
Yes, but who's actually paying the $18 transaction fees to move some Bitcoin to Visa so they can spend Bitcoin instead of cash and incur a new taxable sale with every swipe of the credit card?

Has anyone confirmed that Mastercard is even going to support Bitcoin? Previous articles suggested it was stablecoins only.

In no way is spending Bitcoin as easy as spending regular old cash.
One nuke went out and was restored. Almost all missing generating capacity is natural gas.
no, a car for example devaluates over time.
Technically yes, but they went from "stage 1" alerts (voluntary conservation) just after midnight on Sunday night, all the way to "stage 3" (rolling blackouts) by 1:30 AM.

https://twitter.com/ERCOT_ISO/status/1361197991659503618

https://twitter.com/ERCOT_ISO/status/1361215084010352644
It's funny, I first heard of it a few weeks ago when discussing emerging startups, and how for every innovative ideas you might have in your day-to-day life, odds are someone else already made it into a business+website.
You think people will use something with $28 transaction fees as a medium of exchange? Any other crypto currency would work just as well and not have that problem.
> But the article conspicuously doesn't cover anything very much at all (the SSC haters I know also noticed a lack of any coverage of specific incidents people usually hate rationalists for).

The post tried to explain how journalism works. They used examples. But they also pointed out that a lot of people like yourself are demanding something from journalism which is not your right to demand. Journalism is often critical. So what?

> It's difficult to believe _nothing_ weird was going on.

It is totally believable that the life of a NYT author doesn't resolve around some unknown internet personality like Scott Alexander. This isn't a conspiracy.
In my view if your entire argument is the restatement of an assumption, you'd better offer a stronger proof than not knowing of any counter examples.
Why not add a separate, optional compilation mode that uses barriers?
When discussing Tweakers, https://hardware.info comes to mind, which has been run by the same guys as Tweakers since September 2020 and focuses on products. Its associated forums were discontinued in favor of the Tweakers forums.

The community on /r/thenetherlands on Reddit is pretty friendly (more friendly than Reddit at large, where arguments tend to devolve into snide remarks with a higher frequency).

https://fok.nl and its associated forums are still kicking, although I don't personally frequent the site.

There is also https://dumpert.nl, which appeals to a certain subset of the population. I admit some of the videos on there can be entertaining, but the community is offputting to me.

Other than that, there are of course a dozen news media (ownership of which is mostly split between two conglomerates: DPG Media and Mediahuis) which have an online presence. Reputable ones include NOS, de Volkskrant, NRC, Trouw, het Parool, de Groene Amsterdammer, FD, de Correspondent. Don't bother with de Telegraaf, it's the Dutch equivalent of The Sun or Bild (or in certain regards, Fox News). There are also media outlets covering Dutch-speaking areas outside the Netherlands (Flanders (Belgium), Suriname), but I'm not too familiar with those, being from the Netherlands myself.

Also of interest might be https://dutchnews.nl and https://facebook.com/NOSinEnglish, Dutch news coverage in English (the latter one specifically translating NOS's COVID-19 coverage).
The overwhelming majority of heat pumps across the US are air-source (rather than ground-source), so "yes, overwhelmingly".
America stop heating your houses, buy thik blankets and sweaters. Earth can't take it anymore.
I imagine it's similar to the LHC where an expensive project over decades breeds a lot of new technology and techniques (if you imagine the statistical equipment required to condense hundreds of petabytes of data over multiple years down to about 100 points on a graph, let alone building CMS and ATLAS).
>it’s possible the article is complete bullshit. Another possibility is that the article is itself disinformation.

Okay, that's fair.

Your question was about what kinds of information an attacker can use. I didn't think of your question in the context of the entire article being disinformation.

I need to think more about that.

>Yes, it’s possible there is more than one attack and they want to avoid revealing which ones have been detected.

>This may be the class of information they are protecting.

>There was no reason not to answer straightforwardly at the beginning. Weird that you didn’t.

I'm glad I didn't, and I'm glad you took the time to puzzle that through.

>Nice try

You want to give your attacker as little information as possible. Even information about the kinds of information you're restricting can be used against you.
This:

> a hearty crew of deniers / supporters / it didn’t happen but if it did it wasn’t violent

is exactly what we all saw for months regarding Portland's protests.

I've seen it online and I've heard it in person. Exactly that way of talking about it: it didn't happen, but if it did, it would have been justified and/or nonviolent.

I'm not defending the capitol riot, nor am I condemning the BLM protestors as a whole. What I am saying is let's not pretend that either one was a group of exclusively peaceful protestors.

If we accept that there were violent crimes committed, then it follows police can and should be investigating the protests, because there were real crimes and real violence. We can debate whether they should be using Ring camera footage to do it, but some here are treating the mere fact that there's an investigation as an assault on free speech and free assembly. A more likely explanation is that they're investigating the assaults, robberies, and vandalism.
Are you suggesting that all miners with renewable energy resources are located in the middle of a desert?

Even then, we could have used the equipment (solar panels, wind turbines, etc) for something else. Unless the world is running on 100% renewable energy it doesn't make sense to say that something that requires energy doesn't cost (the world) anything because it's running on renewables.
> The best people are spike because uniqueness is a feature, not a bug

I like this and “spike” (as an adjective contrasted with “well-rounded”) is a new one on me.
What is clubhouse exactly? I try to understand it. So far it looks like a platform in which people end up in a even more isolated social bubble than existing platforms. It doesn't make sense.
Looks like some of the well known people using it (e musk for example) invested in this one billion valued company and now wanna pump the hype.
It's not a rolling blackout in Austin. I haven't had power in over 24 hours, and that describes everybody else without power here.

If you were lucky enough to be on a circuit with a hospital or fire station you have stayed up this entire time.

40% of Austin is offline and has been offline since 2 AM Monday.

They can't roll the blackout because every other circuit has a critical facility of some sort on it.

This is a fucking disaster.
Yeah, one of the problems with the BTC model. You either get convenience or security but not both. I had a similar problem where bter disappeared with 137k of doge[0] in my account.

[0] about $20 when I put it in IIRC.
Currently in ATX we haven't had power for over 24 hours, wood fireplace is saving the house from completely freezing but the whole city of Austin needs to evaluate how they setup their critical infrastructure to allow for rolling blackouts instead of having parts of the city with power and parts without for the entirety of an outage.
Nuclear relies on water and the water pipes/pumps are freezing because they are not properly winterized.
Yep, this is the thing no one is talking about. Dallas has easily added 10k apartment units in the past 5 years. Almost all of them are all electric (no gas heating).

Considering it’s more energy efficient to cool with Air Conditioning on the hottest summer days than it is to heat with electricity in the winter, it’s no wonder the grid collapsed when the region was below freezing for several days and some generating capacity was lost.
With Bash I use "pushd .", "dirs" and "pushd +1"/"pushd -1".

I guess that's not quite as advanced as z or fasd though!
"If an algorithm runs in a machine and no output device is around to show it, does it make a computation?"
Will there be something to watch live as it lands? What should I expect?
Dell is easier - they have options for most models. Lenovo only offers them on the Thinkpad line.
> For example, you might dictate ... migration to React or some other crap, from whatever current crap you are using. Or decide code style, and write or cause to be written, enforcement tools for such.

Or, y'know, make design decisions about the actual system your team is building? And collaborate with other teams on integration between systems. Those are the main ones.

> But more cynically

More? haha
Does Scott have the right to favorable coverage?
things should be getting cheaper with innovation and technology growth
It's not "weird", it's the result of deliberate enemy action. There's a propaganda machine running full-tilt as we speak to paint this as the fault of wind power, when wind was actually overproducing compared to ERCOT's models.
Club House is where C tier people listen to B tier hustler types talk about Elon Musk
>"Does anyone really think the person buying crypto $100 at a time in their Robinhood account wants to pay $18 (current average transaction fee) every time they want to move that BTC into their wallet?"

I'm curious is this the transaction per $100 or is $18 a flat fee regardless of transfer amount?
Is it your siblings spouse or your spouses sibling?
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Part of the issue is the github version did not match the distribution version?
I'm French and this comment really doesn't reflect our political landscape.
Total wealth of the United States is on the order of $100 Trillion USD.

Cash gets way too much emphasis in Bitcoin discussions, while ignoring the fact that investors aren't investing in cash anyway.
Sometimes the rumor of a weapon is better than the actual weapon, and can in fact be the actual weapon if you can use it to control your enemy's actions.

Eg. the prospect of imminent cheap laser weapons puts a lot of doubt in expensive hypersonic missile investment.
Restrictions breed creativity.
> It's amazing how much of a celebrity he is for Brazilians

Are you kidding? He looks like Santa!
Mastercard is without a doubt supporting Bitcoin.

I think I need to break down how this works. Bitcoin L1 chain is a settlement layer where transactions are pooled per tx (its not 10 tx per second or whatever people think it is). Regardless, its L2 that processes small frequent transactions. That would be providers like Visa, Mastercard, Paypal, Circle, etc. They process the transactions and keep the account, only infrequently is it settled to the actual blockchain ledger. Then you get into the lighting network. Bitcoin can absolutely scale without issue.

nacs: because common sense
Or maybe Foucault’s Pendulum even?
A killer feature that can be replaced by a 6€ external module? https://www.ebay.com/itm/402641596500

(you can get crappier ones for 2€... this one has a charge controller [MCP73833] from a recognizable brand [Microchip] with datasheets available)
The excerpt is interesting but it isn't saying anything that people who are familiar with the history of social movements in the 1960s and 1970s didn't already know - "Marx, Mao, Marcuse!" was a routine slogan in the Paris 1968 protests, and yes the protestors very much had Mao's Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution in mind. There were quite a few naïvely enthusiastic supporters of Mao's "Revolution" back then, even in Western countries.

It's specifically people in the U.S. who are often unfamiliar with this craziness, because they were introduced to it quite late. To many others in the Western world, these ideas are, yes, genuinely worrying for obvious reasons, but also quite laughably old-hat.
Why is it so popular compared to other coins?
Dataflow, Pipelines, Signal Processing block diagrams, Functional programming, Flow-Based programming, Blender/Unreal Shader Graphs, The Grid in Bitwig, PureData/Max, VHDL, MATLAB Simulink, Node Red, Microservices, Tensorflow/Pytorch compute graphs, Houdini, Animation/behaviour graphs Unreal Blueprints, ...

There are so many things that we describe as a graph of boxes with inputs & outputs that we can indeed draw many parallels see many similarities between them. I think it's quite interesting to think about this diversity of tools and try to analyse what's common and what isn't between them (some are stateless others aren't, some have the notion of "time" and some have not, some are closer to state machines while other closer to mathematical functions, etc.) and it gives a lot of inspiration about new/alternative programming models & architectures
FF4J
We have great ways of storing electricity, it's just that they're only getting built right now, and they're getting cheaper so fast that waiting a few years will get you a 30%+ discount off the price.

There are currently 17GW of batteries in the ERCOT interconnection queue for the coming years, for a grid that's only ~80GW. The ERCOT of 2025 will be massively different from the ERCOT of 2021, and it's going to mean a lot less gas, a lot more storage, and a lot more solar.
Recent and related:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25622015

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25846504

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26028085 (a bit)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26029844 (a bit)

Others?
I am trying very hard to use Clubhouse, but unfortunately I am having the same experience.

I have followed people who I find interesting and groups that align to my interests - but the loudest figurative voices are still the ones who pop my notifications most often. Frustrating, but I’m going to keep at it through February at least.

I’ve also had to rebrand it in my mind, it’s not social media. It’s more like community talkback radio and has found a niche in my listening habits where I’ve given up a few hours a week in podcasts to listen in on some wacky chats.
Java does not have stack allocated objects like struct instances. They get allocated via the GC (sometimes the Java optimizer can optimize these to be stack allocated).

Personally, I make very heavy use of stack allocated objects, even for temporary buffers. Stack allocated objects cost nothing to allocate, nothing to free, and (being on the stack) are already in the hot memory cache.
Gold is also a poor place to put your money. The long term average is both volatile and underperforms most indexes.

https://www.macrotrends.net/1333/historical-gold-prices-100-...
Regulations probably.
The latter. They do not want federal regulation.

For the pedantic TX does have connections to other grids but the capacity is so low that it wouldn't have mitigated this event and is under whatever threshold is set for federal oversight.
It would be independent from a practical point of view but from a regulatory one it would become subject to federal regulations, which is the real reason Texas keeps theirs separate.
So you don't want to store pointers to GC objects in memory allocated yourself, or it may get freed if there are no other pointers? Seems like quite the footgun.
Hopefully that's 5C and not 5F.
I work with a rather complex database in my day job and occasionally maintain a very human-oriented ERD for employee education - I've looked at various auto-ERDs in the past and failed to find one that can actually produce a decently pleasant visual diagram as output - most of them will just give up on the task and lay tables out in a roughly hierarchical display based on distance from a relatively core table and then let links between tables lie where they may.

Optimizing layout is a very interesting problem and one interest component in Factorio in particular is that you have some real values to measure as output like:

1. Total space used

2. Total energy required (more inserters means more power - more belts usually means more space)

3. Throughput

4. Pollution produced

5. Tile-ability of the design.

6. Proportion of unused space within a bounding box

Probably a few other fun ones - it actually sounds like a pretty approachable problem to get objectively good results out of.
Dumb answer, but it's simpler to not have to worry about this stuff. How you balance that with the risk is subjective, but it's not true that there is no downside to avoiding VOCs.
> the whole reason for this series of outages is because Texas took the bait and installed a bunch of solar and wind instead of taking the safe route and doubling down on coal.

That’s an outright lie. The vast majority of the missing production is in fossil plants.

Wind only accounts for about 20% of nameplate capacity, and has been performing above expectations for the period. And that’s with Texan wind being as un-weatherised at the rest (hint: when wind turbines work just fine in Montana or Washington State, if they freeze over it’s not because they’re wind turbines).
Created? Oh it's still creating - pollution.
Bitcoin didn't create that. Whoever was behind Satoshi Nakamoto created that.

And then it was duplicated across 1000s of other coins. The only advantage Bitcoin has in 2021 is that it was the first and most famous.
Hacker Leaks Files from Jones Day Law Firm, Which Represented Trump
Reading the essay, stumbled on Graham's Bel project.
Had to look it up, so for those also curious about PG & Bel (I knew about PG's Arc, missed that he did another take on Lisp with Bel) http://www.paulgraham.com/bel.html

And the HN thread from when it was released: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21231208

Thanks for sharing through all these years, Paul!

(P.S. Graham released his Lisp book freely on his site, worth a read if you haven't already.)
Wow. So the proletariat aren't revolting, because the society has met their needs? And that's a problem? Only if you're more concerned about having a revolution than about the point of the revolution - to make peoples' lives better.

And, the rights and freedoms that let the proletariat have a non-horrible life is therefore something to destroy, so that the proletariat will then have a reason to revolt? Yeah, um... "They eagerly seek you, not honorably, but they desire to shut you out in order that you may seek them." (From the Bible, actually.) Anyone who follows Marcuse in this is a friend of revolution, but not a friend of the human beings that the revolution is alleged to benefit.
The Doom Boom
I know exactly where you are coming from. I think this is somewhat different from usual shilling because shilling mostly involves statements that are vague or doubtful or having uncertain implications: "chain X signs an agreement to bring African government onto blockchain". Say "Uniswap processes $100 billion total transactions" is qualitatively different although not really relevant to HN. The news under question is pretty concrete and more relevant. Filecoin is a blockchain but it is a technology too.
They'll have a stream on NASA TV. Not so many camera feeds as a SpaceX rocket, but I'm guessing similar to this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LAL4F6IWC-Y

Space.com says NASA's landing broadcast will start at 2:15 PM EST on Thursday: https://www.space.com/mars-rover-perseverance-landing-webcas...

There's already some Perseverance stuff being broadcast today, I tuned in for a while earlier and they were answering questions from social media about stuff like the team working on Mars time after landing.
Gold has stored value for a little bit longer than bitcoin, and the volatility isn't really even within orders of the same magnitude.
It seems on par with a Bluetooth headset to me. Of course you have to use it over LAN and not over the Internet, but I don't think that's an issue for this particular use-case.
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It's also one of those odd films like Mean Girls screenplayized somehow out of a nonfiction book.
Ok thanks! I've seen that product and was just wondering what it was.
See, Factorio should be implemented by reflashing an FPGA every time one places a new structure :D
Approximately zero chance that that would be 5C