skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Not sure if you're writing that off as unfeasible, but clearly there are solutions being thought about, and there are companies in the market today selling storage with costs going down every single year. It's not unreasonable to think that the 'feasible' plan for storage is to, well, simply buy/install it; which becomes cheaper every single year.

Yes, it is. There's enough known lithium deposits to produce 5 minutes worth of storage. With current mining techniques, there's an estimated 20 minutes worth of storage. [1]

> Also, solar thermal plants (no storage required) are a thing:

Solar thermal is more expensive than nuclear.

1. https://dercuano.github.io/notes/lithium-supplies.html
Arizona advances bill forcing Apple and Google to allow 3rd-party payments
Thank you for that second statement. Too many people that I know personally justify pirating audiobooks because they already own a physical copy. A well-done audiobook (for example, Hyperion) is a production all on its own. It's an experience above and beyond the actual printed text.

I don't know if that adds to the conversation or not, but I did want to thank you for that distinction!
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I had never heard of "Z-Library" before, so I followed the link. The z-library front page copy requires serious reading between the lines to tell that it's a piracy site.

> Here you can always find the relevant information on the available domains for your region.

Was the only tip-off for me, and that's quite subtle. While I have conflicted thoughts on piracy, I could see casual users using this site without knowing it was piracy, which definitely seems off to me. Maybe if I click through further it becomes more obvious?
I've tried an anti-histamine and it's not helped.
When the whole universe is in a stable thermal equilibrium after the last proton decays, what's the meaning of time and space anyway?
I have bought many native Linux games that simply don’t launch, but run perfectly in Proton. Companies also stop updating their Linux ports often. There is so little market pressure to support Linux in the first place that Proton’s effect is basically irrelevant. Most Linux ports sucked anyway and often Proton performs better including with things like Unity games, so no big loss.
Same here! Syntax is often the easy part and building an end-to-end product is usually a challenge. I wrote this book for precisely this reason. I hope this book helps you :)
On my blog, I write my posts in markdown. After it's converted to HTML, I use regex to search and replace images (for high-res and alternative formats), and get the first paragraph (for a 'preview'). I've been doing this for years, so the 'never use regex over HTML' advice isn't holding up for me.
> The "system" for dieting is also simple (eat less, sport more), and yet many people struggle with that too.

Yes, but do people then go around saying "this dieting thing is totally dumb and a complete waste of time", "I just don't get why anyone would go on a diet", etc.? And how do those who have managed to stick to a diet and think they have benefited from it look at such people? Because this is the attitude that I think I am seeing in many comments in this thread.
Tesla's miles have the advantage of being inherently autopilot capable, and turning off when things get dicey for it.

Human drivers do not have those advantage.

So Tesla is comparing drivers in situations where AP doesn't even try to drive the vehicle because it couldn't.

This is amazingly misleading. And Tesla knows it.
According to Wikipedia only 51.3% voted for Biden/Harris.
Gluglu with their chromeOS has pushed the linux adoption line quite rapidly.
Valve finally making SteamOS a viable product is definitely going to impact the change significantly.

The only reason I still keep Windows dual booted is the Office suit, which is still unbeatable.
> It's not as good as open source but let's be real, you'll never get AAA open source games.

Free software philosophy (the "F" in "FOSS") allows the art and data files (levels) of a game to be proprietary, while keeping the code open-source. Sell the game itself, code comes for free.

https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/funding-art-vs-funding-softwa...
That’s an important distinction, which I appreciate. It’s worth noting that there are a lot of things in CSS-for-SGML/XML/HTML that look like CSS-for-SVG (like the aforementioned `path` type) and are decidedly non-rectangular.
The economy is a concept that exists strictly on Earth (until someone like Musk colonizes Mars). A huge portion of our energy comes from the Sun both in the form of plant matter from agriculture and from solar power as we increasingly build solar panels to harvest the Sun's energy. The simple fact that we can take this exogenous source of energy and feed it into our economy to grow it means that yes, it's zero sum if you consider the Universe, but from the perspective of the economy here on Planet Earth, that economy getting energy for free and grow in excess of your zero sum thinking.
> Pay a security researcher for an independent review

Yes, that is the normal practice, and any bigger project worth their salt pays for an external security auditor.
I do not believe the parent comment were assuming they have money just suggesting that the grandparent comment not do what they were currently doing.

A 1 TB swap sounds like it will thrash a disk to the point of failure pretty quickly and perform quite poorly compared to a system with more appropriate amounts of RAM.

Having to replace disks more frequently and have tasks take longer than an appropriately equipped system could potentially be the more expensive in the long run.
fixed-width integers have exactly the same semantics as true integers bar overflow, which is a very easy to understand concept.

Floating-point numbers behave like a physicist would do calculations rounding at every step, but doing everything in binary. Or hexadecimal if you prefer, it's equivalent, but still difficult to get your head around to. Then there additionally is + and - 0 and + and - infinity, and several settings for how rounding is done exactly.
Previously "“This destroys the RSA cryptosystem”" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26321962
and follow up "Did Schnorr destroy RSA? Show me the factors" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26334086
The Flying Dutchman?
Square to acquire majority stake in music service Tidal for $297M
Not to mention the supermods who are thinly veiled employees / contractors of Reddit.
Holy geez. I expected a tiny gap; this thing looks like an aircraft. Wild.

I wonder if this effect has contributed to some "ghost ship" legends in the past?
That's right, they've tried to obfuscate that their setter doesn't actually set.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26358876
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It's the exact opposite. It really loves large and small numbers, the precision of a number doesn't matter that much

That's the reason why they introduced https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bfloat16_floating-point_format

It's similar to normal half precision float but the exponent is the same as with 32bit float and mantissa has been sacrificed to get room for it.
Important to note that strcpy_s doesn't truncate, it aborts your app if it fails:

> "if the destination string size dest_size is too small, the invalid parameter handler is invoked"

> "The invalid parameter handler dispatch function calls the currently assigned invalid parameter handler. By default, the invalid parameter calls _invoke_watson, which causes the application to close and generate a mini-dump."

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/cpp/c-runtime-library/refer...
> Zola seem the most popular static site generator that allows you to generate a website without any JS bundle without using some strange hack.

I'd say Gatsby or NextJS are more popular due to being written in JS. They can both produce zero JS websites.
businesses can deny service to anyone as long as its not because they belong to a protected group
These are exposed to the Linux filesystem, right? Can you just add a symlink?
Game of Life in Basic from 1978
Actually come to think of it that’s a good question. Didn’t edit it adversarially if you know what I mean, nor long after posting, but there may have been a race condition as I was tweaking wording immediately after first saving. I see the edit indicator is there but I don’t recall if that exact portion was changed in the moment.
Anyone going to address the Texas/schoolbooks issue tangential to this?
Table layout is NP-hard
Tech Exodus: Is Silicon Valley in Trouble?
Fussell's book was a huge eye-opener for me. The mythological assumption in my family was that we were middle-class: small business operators in a poor, rural state. As such, we had very little visibility into higher classes and their practices and ways of life, outside of television programs.

It became clear, reading Fussell, that no matter what we thought about ourselves, our tastes, clothing and habits fit squarely into his high prole category, and everything suddenly seemed to make more sense, including the very belief that we thought we were middle class.

(Anyone hungry for more Fussell should read his classic: "The Great War and Modern Memory", about WWI and its place in 20th century Western society and literature. His book of essays "The Boy Scout Handbook and other Observations" is also great. It includes one about his personal experiences as a Princeton grad who went into WWII as an enlisted man.)
Tesla's miles driven is self-selecting, because AP won't engage when it can't because of poor conditions.

Humans don't get that luxury.

You can't say for Tesla (deaths/miles driven on good-for-AP roads in acceptable conditions) and for humans (deaths/miles driven on all roads in all conditions) and then act as if they are comparable or prove "improved safety", because they don't.
Have you uploaded pictures anywhere?
Of the 100,525 excess deaths last year, 76% of the total were among people over the age of 80 and 20% were among those aged between 65 and 79, ISTAT said.

It doesn't seem like the proportion of elderly is much different in Italy. [1] Italy does not top the deaths per 1 million either. [2] What are the other missing factors?

[1] - https://data.oecd.org/pop/elderly-population.htm

[2] - https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/
Since last Passat facelift, all* VWs have capacitive steering wheel, where it is enough to just have a hand on it.
I also think other carmakers moved to this in past ~2 years.
Rackauckas has done a lot of work to create the whole scientific machine learning (SciML) ecosystem (with collaborators).

Symbolics.jl is the new step to a universal CAS tool in Julia to bridge the gap between symbolic manipulation and numerical computation

It is especially useful as a foundation for equation-based simulation package ModelingToolkit.jl. In the foreseeable future, I expect ModelingToolkit.jl can be comparable with the Modelica ecosystem to provide fast, accurate modeling and simulation capability and easy integration with machine learning methods for Julia ecosystem, which is crucial for engineering application and scientific research.
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I think it does :

https://github.com/flatpak/flatpak/issues/3797

"Recent versions of Steam can optionally put each game in its own container, using a Flatpak-derived tool named pressure-vessel."
I'd personally try NextJS, it's a lot easier than Gatsby. This is the main article that turned my mind after trying both: https://jaredpalmer.com/gatsby-vs-nextjs
This is all economics. Ship carried sand is the cheapest freight and from one ocean spot to another (tidewater to tidewater) is the lowest cost. So these ocean based dredges suck up sediment and do some initial water/screen segregartion to get rid of the large lumps and dust(which are dumped and contribute to coral deaths in the dust plume -see Australia.)
They then send the ships to where it is needed - usually by the next cheapest way = unit railcars.
There is not real sand shortage, there is a shortage of cheap sand. Dictatorships willingly ruin sea coasts, deomcracies less so. There is a huge amount of sand on land = costs you extra to dig sort and move. There needs to be as legally restricted way to do this, so assorted sea shores and sand banks are not sucked up = which BTW, leads to further shore losses as these protective barriers are removes. The USA/Canada and most countries do have these restrictions - varies by country.
So pay more for sand by law.
Silicon sand for the chip industry is a millionth or less than what is needed for construction - who would never use chip sand anyway = costs a lot more.
you should read this:
https://twitter.com/bgolus/status/1080213166116597760
I doubt people who want to avoid javascript will use a javascript based static site builder.
Writing Pong in Rust for My OS Written in Rust
The Wikipedia article contains a helpful table [1], which classifies optical illusions. One kind are "physical" illusions, like rainbows or distortions (think stick in water). I think the hovering ship is of that kind. Other kinds include "physiological" or "cognitive", which are tricking your brain.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optical_illusion#/media/File:G...
I've been using the two for a month or two now for work notes (everything I do has to be documented in case of Freedom of Information requests). It's really good, but the lag between screens is just enough to be annoying.

I tried the Boox Air, and it felt like trying to write on an overhead projector (for you youths, it felt like writing on a piece of stiff plastic). The one thing the remarkable does extremely well is simulate the actual feeling of writing on paper. That is very, very nice.

I wish I was able to modify my tablet, because there are so many super handy things you can do with it!
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The restarting issue also occurs for me on Windows 10. Although, it usually occurs 80% of the time rather than half for me. I suspect it might be due to me plugging in power to the headset after starting the system, but I've seen it occur without doing that as well, so I am unsure.
In my state, the test never touches the highway or any busy roads so you don't have to learn how to merge, stay in your lane, drive at speed, etc. Actually most highways around explicitly prohibit permit holders. I personally know more than one person who had their first experience on the highway after they had a license and it was an absolute disaster. They were white knuckled, driving 20-30mph under the limit and every merge was a close call. I think the only thing they actually test is whether you can parallel park or not.
The solution to that problem is to break up monopolies that have too much power.
With the recent push from Rust community to implement OS kernels in Rust I think it is apt.
I had a bout of "health anxiety" that I suspect had a strong biological component - maybe post viral syndrome, maybe some gut dysbiosis, autoimmune component, I don't really know.

Anyways I kept going to the doctor and all of my tests were normal / not bad enough to raise any major red flags so it got diagnosed as anxiety / psychosomatic.

In cases like this it seems like you can either find an online community that's dealing with a set of symptoms or accept that "it's all in your head." For the former, if you have the money, their set of friendly doctors who may be willing to pursue off label treatments. For me, I ended up sort of falling into the latter camp (though as I said, I do think something biological was happening). Diet, exercise, CBT, and time ended up helping the most.
I won't pass any judgement on either community, but to clarify, I was linking them as "popular" Lemmy instances as a demonstration of the technology
But not all symbols are numbers.
I think you're right, this is a mirage. The article uses both terms interchangeably.
Internet don't care 'bout Shakespeare.
> They generally don't address the causality violations

So the stated problem with causality violations is that if you went to the past and did something the(n), it's going to change the future from which you started.

What if it doesn't? As in, you can't really do anything which changes future, for a reason that an arbitrary numbers of time travelers have already went to past, changed it and had it reflected in the future, so after all those changes the timeline stabilized in an eigenline - that is, the future is robust towards any subsequent changes via the past. In this way there is no causality violation - go ahead, travel to past, try to change anything, the whole world is arranged so that the future won't be affected, one way or another. Roughly speaking, you won't succeed trying to kill your grandfather no matter how'd you try - something will always happen which would prevent it.
Teaching myself computer science fundamentals
Water and organic matter found on asteroid ‘Itokawa’ sample
I wish there were a way to use static site generators written in languages other than JS but still use JS features like JSX. I really dislike most templating languages because they are just hacks over a real programmatic way of composing content (via functions that return content). In templating languages, it's more like straight substitution of content.

It's similar to macros vs actual functions in something like C++. Sure, you could write everything in macros but why not use actual composition?
I think the key line is how much better this system is than humans attempting the same task:

> Political orientation was correctly classified in 72% of liberal–conservative face pairs, remarkably better than chance (50%), human accuracy (55%), or one afforded by a 100-item personality questionnaire (66%).

This isn't a matter of "recognize that old white people are conservative", because people will do that already, and they know all those biases. And the system doesn't lose much accuracy when comparing otherwise similar people.

This system is picking up on things we don't notice. Maybe it's the photos themselves (they are self-selected), maybe it's micro expressions in the face, maybe it's something else entirely.

But damn it's neat and maybe frightening. Imagine if your next hiring manager had a quiet little camera in the corner and chose you based on your predicted approval of unions.
To be fair, in 1991, 1mb of RAM was a substantial amount for a PC, so a single word per string instead of a byte per string could still add up quickly.
Strictly speaking, Stadia is "a streaming service with a Linux backend", but I think Steam could do it better than how Google's gone about it. The issue would be that Valve would need to renegotiate it's distribution deals to include streaming rights in addition to providing user downloads, and many publishers would drag their feet on allowing that, based on how publishers made noise and opted out of nVidia's Windows-based offering.

But a service that offers my Steam library via cloud streaming would be a very tempting offering.
It always amazes me to think about the influence of the industrial revolution and mass production. Prior to the industrial period, things like linens, blankets, lace, etc. considered extremely valuable and were part of your estate to be inherited by future generations. The only textile that retains a portion of this (aura? mystique?) is silk - but even this is largely mass produced now.
I haven't, but this thread got roon on my list to explore. I've used plex for movies for years, and google music's end got me looking for new things.

I have two music libraries: tidal and my own music (I'm using about 80% my own music). The music is well tagged already using picard, so I don't know how well that works out of the box. When I'm in the tidal library, I usually will mark an album/artist to be added to my normal music library and then it will start showing up there mixed in with my self hosted stuff.

The killer features (to me) are 1: playing by album instead of by track. I use the "random album" shuffle all the time and usually want to listen to an album all at once and 2: smart playlist builder which lets me make dynamic playlists around how many times I've played a thing, my personal rating, or when the last time I played it was.

https://imgur.com/a/7zchJC7

https://picard.musicbrainz.org/
The video, although reported to be from the same phenomenon is actually a fake: https://youtu.be/Xmrn2IuSW-Q
Field study shows icing can cost wind turbines up to 80% of power production
Counter-Strike has a bunch of anti-cheat systems, but they solve different problems (VAC, Overwatch, Prime Matchmaking, and VACNet). These systems all work together and I'd say it's pretty effective. TF2 could do with the same.

But my original point is that you don't need Kernel based spyware to do anti-cheat.
Official WinRT+Win32 Crate for Rust
Best programming book I ever read. His later "Condensed Pascal" isn't quite as good -- a little too, well, condensed. Too bad that's the only one I could find to buy after having had to return Oh, Pascal to the city library.

(OK, it's hard to compare; Code Complete and other much later stuff might be just as good. Too many decades between when I read them to say for sure.)
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No. The DS uses only fixed point numbers and does not wobble.
After playing around with them for a while types seem like the wrong paradigm for symbolic work.

Term rewriting systems based on rules capture most mathematical manipulation far better than ones based on functions and classes.

Differentiation was a breeze to solve when I sat down and figured out how to formulate it so everything had an understandable normal form. Then I could feed the output of that into another algorithm that brought simple algebraic equations into a normal form.

It's not a way I've seen much programming done outside of niches in academia, but it was extremely powerful.
Amazon could be a big winner of Rishi Sunak's UK investment tax break
> For example, on the "got talent" shows it goes like this: young man was living out of a dumpster, gets asked to try out for the show, doesn't look like much, then opens his mouth to sing and has the most beautiful singing voice ever heard. People swoon and claps their hands over their mouths. Everyone pretends they are witnessing a miracle. A miracle that happens reliably over and over again.

Wait a second. Assume someone made a completely legitimate "got talent" show. Wouldn't the outcome be the same?

Those "got talent" shows usually involve multiple rounds of auditions, starting with open auditions held in many locations where each act only gets something like 90 seconds. The big name judges you see on TV are not involved in the earliest rounds.

By the time acts are actually in front of the big name TV judges, the herd has been heavily culled.
I can't get my location list to fill up. `:lex system("ls")` then `:llist` works (files are listed). But after `:lex system("ag something")`, `:llist` doesn't show anything.
Were the humans experts or just random people though?

The real question is whether the tool can beat a lookup table of age, race, and gender probabilities. The tool isn't going to be winning points of phrenology here. Weight, hair color, and hairstyle would also likely tell you a lot.

I don't have any particular reason to believe this tool wouldn't work, but let's not pretend it's getting their by phrenology-esque topologies of people's faces.

A randomly chosen black individual in the united states has a > 72% chance of leaning democrat. A randomly chosen hispanic individual is ~55-65% chance of leaning democrat. I don't find it crazy to imagine they've got a few other smaller features to boost it.
Whirligig does not work for me with the recommended fix.
I have a 2019 MacBook Pro, which is my fourth Mac laptop going back to a 2001 PowerBook G4. I think about changing platforms, but OmniFocus has me locked in.