skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I sincerely think we do pay more attention to this planet than Mars, e.g. many people advocating mars are also involved in electric cars and solar energy.
I wonder if it will help improve ios canvas performance - currently it's somewhere on ie9 level for our use case at least
I had a deja vu moment in the article, when the banks realized that the first one to sell would have an advantage. Then overnight they dumped their positions, done by the time the market opened the next day. That is pretty much the plot of the excellent movie "Margin Call" (2011):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margin_Call
+1 for this. A lot of people lack scope when they submit their programs, which is mostly fine since HN ranks posts by upvotes. This is really one of those "bigger fish" moments for sure, though.
It's worth noting that hydrogen fires burn bright and quickly, but tend to not be very dangerous to people.

Gasoline and batteries are heavy and tend to stick to surfaces (including people) when they burn, almost like napalm. Hydrogen rushes upwards, away from people and surfaces, as it burns, and is generally quickly exhausted.
Could be that a lesser amount of people negotiate on an issue, which then gets voted on by everybody? I agree that the voters would need more time to learn about the issues they are voting on, but not everyone needs to be involved preparing an issue for a vote.

Switzerland has a lot more democracy than any other western government that I know of. Switzerland is a federation of cantons, each averaging 300k people, each with it's own constitution and parliament, collecting its own taxes, administering its own health care, even entering into certain treaties with other countries, etc. Each canton is subdivided into municipalities, some as small as a few thousand people, that decide more local issues including police, schools, etc. Divide and conquer, so that people can decide things for themselves. The magic seems to be that the people, via referendum, can add and/or delete laws they don't like [0]. So they have representatives but the people have ultimate direct power over them. Higher levels of government are involved only where necessary, for issues involving multiple lower levels of government. Seems to work well for them.

Many people seem to believe that government needs to be big to be effective. The opposite may be the case, as Leopold Khor convincingly argues [1], that "bigness" is the cause of many problems.

[0] https://wolf-linder.ch/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/Swiss-poli...

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gaszpQaNwAU
"This is really an actually very consumer friendly"

This is morally bacrupt and tyranical
Why not? Are they not bailed out indirectly?
>Why penny pinch on pay and risk having employees that might not be as good?

with regards to the game industry: because outside of maybe a dozen studios worldwide (EA and Rockstar studios level of profit), most of the games industry literally cannot compete with the salaries FAANG offers.

all those trillion dollar companies have dozens of services and products to monetize off of (indirectly or directly). Games need hundreds of employees to deploy one short lived project in a few years minimum. And attempts to monetize in a service format (the default for FAANG) has been met with much criticism. So games operate on razor thin profits.
He stopped development. Here is the continued effort OSCAR, the Open Source CPAP Analysis Reporter

https://www.sleepfiles.com/OSCAR/
It got two legs, so it's more like AT-ST
Lack of universal infrastructure is an avoidable travesty caused by privatisation.

What sort of country would have roads only going up to some select houses? A pretty shabby one.
> ... Over the course of the next several months, we’ll be migrating the underlying technical implementation of Docs from the current HTML-based rendering approach to a canvas-based approach to improve performance and improve consistency in how content appears across different platforms.

This article talks about some of the tradeoffs between Canvas and DOM approaches:

https://www.kirupa.com/html5/dom_vs_canvas.htm

The thing that seems least appealing about replacing DOM rendering with Canvas rendering is the lack of CSS. You may gain performance, but assuming even a fraction of the responsibilities CSS handles so well seems very daunting.

That's why I suspect this approach will do best where the content least resembles a read-only document, and more resembles a game, such as Google Docs.
Search by image is conceptually easier because you don't have to map between text and images, but it's a very different product. It is something we've considered.

Encoding words and images into the same space and doing ANN is kind of what the current system is, if you look at it right. The ANN is framed in terms of similarity rather than distance -- and is approximate because of the sparseness approximation. But the big difference from the papers you linked is what we use as the encodings: not the traditional penultimate layer of a network, but classifier scores for images and projected word vectors for text. This gives us a space with semantically meaningful dimensions, which lets us build the system without a large multimodal training set; our text and image models are independently trained on different datasets.
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Should K-12 students learn NoCode instruments instead of real programming?
I strongly disagree with this statement.
They are using the SimH DPS8M emulator. Here's a good page about how to set it up yourself:

https://multicians.org/simulator.html

Unfortunately, while I'm aware of at least one preserved Honeywell DPS-8/70M at the Computer History Museum, I'm unaware of any running examples.
My experience is, don’t sell lifetime subscriptions, and don’t sell self-hosted versions.

Neither of them work out, business-wise.
This truck will be mass produced by 2026 but there are some difficulties ahead

First it is a liquid hydrogen one, second they are calling for massive investments from government

Volvo is selling very well a lng truck, and the biolng theme makes it quite compelling.
> caffeine, tobacco, alcohol, coca leaf

You may have missed his point. The four you mentioned are highly addictive. You crave them after a relatively short period of use.

An addictive substance — regardless of what it does or doesn’t do — will have a leg-up in the marketplace.
Not always. My grandparents were poor, but lived within their small means. I remember them telling me how horrible it was to live through the 1970s inflation that decimated the small amount of savings that they had.

But like I said about the no universally good or bad, inflation is good for effectively reducing debt.
Although the article talks about the limitation of (purely) type driven/guided development, I'm still wondering how programmers in non-functional land like me get some benefit from these type driven style.
Yes, I understand and agree.

My second paragraph was maybe a bit unclear, I meant that the user would expect platform conventions to be respected over application conventions. (especially if we consider platforms with different primary interactions)
The Programmers Oath
Counterargument: the problem is not the form of the government. Rather, the problem is that the government has a say in whether you can personally construct a building on "your own" land.
Are they hinting at e.g. the option of using these for a similar blackout to the recent Texas one.
Just ship in as many of these "on demand" and handle momentary demand spikes.
I think the more immediate use cases will be industrial. These sound like exactly the power requirements of a data center.
>WiFi exploits will always be subject to proximity though?

Something as simple as a Pringles can will dramatically increase "proximity". If you are in (or as perceived as) a juicy enough target area why wouldn't someone use something like this? Great way to monitor people, find out which houses are ripe to break in, etc.
"1-20 megawatts of thermal energy"

Large reactors are usually 4GW thermal power converting to 1 GW electric, so you're going to get, I don't know, 10%-25% electrical conversion efficiency out of this, so 0.1MW to 5MW of electrical power.

On the plus side you can probably dual-use this to run communal home heating systems, maybe even hot water.

It'd be great for cold-climate towns (or space-colony applications) provided you can get some funding together.
Quantum Spookiness (2001)
Oh cool! maybe they are finally getting with the beat.

What about spinners, pull to refresh and other things ... would be nice to standardize all of these such that they display with your system's native widgets. The code for those CSS spinners is horrifying spaghetti code whereas I should be able to just do <spinner> and get an Android native spinner on Android and an iOS native spinner on iOS.
>What will it take? An asteroid impact?

I think dislodging US dollar from being 'reserve currency', and subsequently removing US (and UK) financial and judicial systems from being the 'international financial litigation and contract management' realms -- will do it.

If it USD is replaced by a gold-backed crypto currency network that uses something other than 'Proof-of-Work' to ensure resiliency against attack. This will be 50% of the steps to get to the above.

Replacement of US and UK judicial systems as 'arbitrators' of the contract terms -- will be harder to replace, however.

Overall US dollar seems, now supporting what some would call, 'perception based' economy.

Where majority of the leverage are afforded to non-material based businesses (Ad networks, financial services, legal services, etc).

This kind of focus, perhaps affects the direction of the world progress.

Not sure if this 'skewing' is good or bad for the world and future generations.

For long time, there was no alternative to Western world ideals and approaches in many respects.

But the trust in these has been quickly eroding, and it started decades ago.

We might be at the 'apex' of the trust erosion process, but yet to see where it will go.

Right now, whether it is a 48K USD for an influencer's ticktock post, or 60K USD + for a bitcoin, or 20 Bln USD losses by a small hedge fund.

This all hardly makes any sense ... to many.
Unless you look at it as faint indicators of the USD super-volcano-sized inflation, erupting.
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The main issue is that the first thing you have to do is secure your financing then you're paying interest on your loans over the near decade it takes for the regulatory approval apparatus to do its thing. If this allows you to get approval for a one reactor site with the right to expand to 24 more reactors of a given design without re-approval it might be very significant.
There's actually interesting issues with how property paid for through mortgages are impacted by nuclear regulations. I recall something deep in my mortgage about how (I think) the nuclear regulatory control act placed restrictions on local use vis a vis nuclear energy.
> The magic seems to be that the people, via referendum, can add and/or delete laws they don't like.

This is also true of California; that's not the magic. I'd say identifying bigness as the problem is much more on target.
This is very common when controlling equipment in C++.

Technically, all C++ programs control equipment. Differences include that one program may run for weeks or even years, and is mostly the only program running, or the only one on a core. This happens from microcontrollers on up to servers with a TB of RAM running, say, high-frequency trading, and in networks of hundreds of those, running weather simulations.

The program typically does all its heap allocation at startup. There is no reference-counting std::shared_ptr. You might have lots of std::vector<std::unique_ptr<T>>, std::string, the works, but they all get provisioned in the first second or two, and then just used thereafter. If anything goes wrong, you don't try to do anything clever or sophisticated; you just kill and restart, or even re-boot, and start over from scratch. That is fine if it doesn't happen too often, so you make sure it doesn't.

For communication between programs, some of the memory set up is shared, with a header containing std::atomic<std::uint64_t> sequence counters that each process can watch and compare against its last copy to know when something changed. Most commonly, actual messages show up on a ring buffer, so you don't need to act on them immediately; as long as you pick them up before they get lapped, you're good. If you get lapped, you might need to reset the whole system; so you make sure not to get lapped, by making the ring buffers big enough and by picking up messages soon enough. With big enough ring buffers and careful scheduling, you can leave all the bulk data there and just use it before it gets overwritten, avoiding expensive copies.

Often, once the program starts up, it does no more system calls at all, doing all its work by reading and writing shared memory, and maybe poking at hardware registers. On Linux one usually isolates cores doing this, with "isolcpus=..." on boot, and "nohz_full=...", "rcu_nocbs=...", "rcu_nocb_poll" etc. The ring buffers tend to live in hugepages ("hugepages=50000"), often just files opened in /dev/hugepages. This is all a simpler alternative to a unikernel/parakernel/demikernel/blatherkernel.

You might also have ephemeral processes that run just long enough to do a job and then quit, running on their own pool of cores and using their own pool of memory. This is usually how you administer the system: ssh in, look around, exit.
Looks like this would finally allow managing pseudo-classes via JavaScript? What a world.
Hyper Insider
if you fail as a CTO you probably still have your old job or can work somewhere else. you still keep your skills. if your investment blows up, you have to start from zero again.
You can have debt (a car bill) and still have savings ($500 in the bank). That savings is often an emergency fund, and when the effectiveness of that fund is reduced, so is your ability to respond to an emergency.

All of these things can be true simultaneously.
> You can make a very strong argument that monetary policy for the last 20 years has has little effect on CPI and strong effects on asset prices.

If you disagree with policymakers about what the likely course of inflation would have been without the policy intervention, maybe, but I've yet to see anyone make the argument for that disagreement, just assert it as if it were an undisputable fact. So, yeah, if you assume the deflation QE was ddsigned to fight would not have happened without QE, then you are forced to conclude that the low with-QE inflation meant QE didn’t cause inflation beyond what would have existed without it. But that’s largely just assuming the conclusion.
haha, nice and true to a point with a few caveats - you may search for what you think you need which is a "whatsit" which can be fixed by a "whoseit", which may be in fact be best solved by a "thingamajig".
If the cost of carbon is the cost to rip it out of the air then everything works out let them fly as much as they want. We don't really care per say about reducing consumption just fixing the side effects of consumption (green house effects).
Yeah, these are all very good points. I suspect companies which will make use of this first are companies which can control charging on both ends. Say UPS/FedEx/DHL buying a fleet because they can put strong charging points in their larger warehouses. Those trucks rarely drive more than 8 hours away anyway, parcels go from one distribution centre to the next, so that's excellent time to charge while the truck is being offloaded and loaded again. And they will have megawat-range connection to the grid for their warehouses already.
> Even using that engine your app must be self contained, you can’t download extra code, no matter the language.

That rule is honored more in the breach though
And they can use it for hundreds of years! With time, every home can get it own waste reactor with waste heat for heating!

Future is here, it just unevenly distributed.
To piggyback on your comment, Moshix also runs an HNET relay network with MVS nodes.

Node name list: http://moshix.dynu.net/

Web interface: http://relayserver.dynu.net/

About page: https://relayserver.dynu.net/about
If you're thinking about extrapolating what's happening in Seychelles to the US or Europe, don't.

There are several differences to consider between Seychelles (61.9% vaccinated) and Israel (56.2% vaccinated), which is much more representative:

1. MHC diversity is far, far higher in Israel than Seychelles. This means that a much broader variety of epitopes are targeted by both the humoral and cellular responses. This makes escape much more difficult for variants! (This first point is by far the most important.)

2. Per-capita GDP in Seychelles is $17.4k, whereas in Israel, it's $43.6k. Wealth is broadly protective, as it affords the ability to make decisions favoring safety over subsistence.

3. Seychelles has a total population of just 98,462 people, whereas Israel has 9,342,790 people. As you'd expect, the smaller the sample size, the weaker the conclusion.

Having said all that, let's help people in Seychelles! A rounding error to us in terms of drugs, vaccines, and investment would help them a lot.
Yeah, with the addition that if you're going to go the synthetic hydrocarbon route you might as well go all the way to a fuel which is a liquid at normal operating temperatures to simplify logistics (and which isn't a massive GHG when it accidentally leaks like methane).
Not necessarily. Only the text rendering is done in canvas, which indicates they don't switch to flutter because in flutter everything is in a canvas. But if google, a major player in w3c and whatwg, decides that they don't want to use dom anymore and go through a great length to re-implement a major feature in canvas, this might indicates that this approach is beneficial enough and might double down on this route in the future.

If they simply dissatisfied with dom feature, they can simply influence the standard to make the feature they wanted happen like they always do.

As to why they don't want to use dom and instead use canvas at great expense of re-implementing a lot of basic text handling and accessibility feature, one can only guess. My take is moving to canvas will be beneficial to google because they can effectively kill dom-based adblocker, so it's only logical to start experimenting with canvas-only web applications.
> Citadel buying a controlling interest in a fund that was historically very profitable and hit a huge a landmine, allowing them to buy at a huge discount, isn't really a "bailout" in the same way you're suggesting. Citadel didn't slide them a couple billion dollars under the table and say "don't worry about it, you get me next time".

Sure, but the context is that they were doing very poorly and needed liquidity to survive. They received it. That is being bailed out, no? The entire point I’m making is that they receive incredible assistance when very poor decisions are made.

> This was, quite literally 12 years ago. These events are in no way related. Almost every bank was subsidized in 2008/2009. This isn't some unscrupulous "tax payer to hedge fund" hidden money pipeline.

Yes, that is my point exactly. Many of these banks wouldn’t exist if it weren’t for the tax payer.
This goes along with the coronal mass ejection risk story that was on the front page a day or two ago. Is a nationwide electric grid even a good idea anymore? Yes, it's more efficient, but it's also more fragile, in that a failure in critical infrastructure can cause nationwide blackouts.

Imagine if most places had a microreactor, a small fossil fuel generator, renewable + storage, or some combination of these, and each small to medium sized community of homes had their own. Things would go wrong all the time on the small scale, but there would be no such thing as a nationwide blackout.
The trailer tail aerodynamic devices are supposed to save 5% on fuel. They remain rare and 99% of those are left undeployed. The trucking companies don't seem to care much about easy cost savings.
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I'm not sure why you're talking about immigrating to the EU when my understanding is the topic is simply traveling to the EU as a visitor.
Most users have Find My turned on for their devices so that if they are lost or stolen they can find them.

Find My on your phone already has to get an approximate location, and it does so fairly frequently (since you can track somewhat realtime).

So having an Air Tag piggy back on the same mechanism won't cost a whole lot in terms of having to power on the geolocation capabilities.
I honestly don’t follow.
Perhaps it would be nice to ask him what is his opinion now. In the additional 6 month there has been a lot of additional testing.

> Should you do this thing scientists agree is safe? This one dude disagrees.

The article is mostly about Pfizer and Moderna, but remember that the Oxford/AstraZeneca has a lot of reports of problems and has been delayed/stopped in a few countries, and later allowed again.
I checked the websites and I don't know what I'm looking at. What games are being played?
One question I have (and please don't take this as criticism or judgement, it's purely curiosity): why Python 2 and not Python 3? Was it because of when you started working on this, or were there some architectural/design issues that prevented use of Python 3?
I'm not sure what there is to disagree with. Fire around gasoline is dangerous for a number of reasons, but liquid gasoline pooled just isn't as volatile as people imagine.

The vapors are different. See both sides of this coin here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DsZOE1nvlhI

Also, this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vln5-HZpgcA

Don't try this at home. Vapors can change things dramatically and horribly. The videos lightly demonstrate this too, but it can be worse.
An adequate on-site water supply to boil for the turbine is probably going to the limiting factor for "mobile microreactor" designs
This looks really awesome. The screenshots from the demo game take me back to Warcraft 3 days. The code is clear and well organized. Everything about this project is well done and extremely professional looking.
Maybe it's more (idea+1.000001)^execution - 1?

* Without execution, an idea is worth 0.

* Even without an idea, execution has value - go schedule a 45 minute meeting with a smart person with no set topic and something will happen.

* Execution is infinitely more effective than ideas at producing value.
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Yes of course, but those systems I think most people don't believe are perfect.

Weirdly, it may take a kind of 'irrational populism' to nudge the needle a few points to just get 'basic change' which is a real paradox.
Have you seen lion[0]? It is a stylable/white label set of web components. It also has a switch/toggle.

[0]https://lion-web.netlify.app/components/interaction/switch/o...