skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The link does not really show any evidence that marine ecology at brine outlets is disturbed.
It does however suggest that pouring the brine on land or roads (for de-icing) are alternative solutions, which I doubt ;).

I was more thinking of proper studies, such as reviewed in [0], which says in the abstract:
"Ecological monitoring studies have found variable effects ranging from no significant impacts to benthic communities, through to widespread alterations to community structure in seagrass, coral reef and soft-sediment ecosystems when discharges are released to poorly flushed environments. In most other cases environmental effects appear to be limited to within 10s of meters of outfalls."

So, impact yes, but "release area is just dying", probably not.

[0] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S00431...
Things don't always just work on windows. Just look at any windows forum. And the solution is usually doing things in a different way to not hit the problem or installing some third party software that does what you'd do by typing a few commands in a shell, but in a more cumbersome way (requiring a compiler, writing an actual program, etc).

Anyway, the main issues in linux tend to be with proprietary software which were not properly ported to linux (because of the small market share) or that weren't ported at all (and you're running them with wine). It's a chicken and egg problem. If linux had a greater market share the proprietary stuff would "just work" as much as they do on windows, anyway.
a) I don't have a diesel generator
b) I am not in California
c) I have never experienced a blackout
d) Yes, the oil companies did all of that.
I used to work for someone who owns hundreds of rental properties in my city (slumlord is apt)… he had trees cut down as he acquired properties to reduce financial risk. He once confided his thoughts on the matter to me: “I hate fuckin trees”
instructions per clock have been going up, l3 cache sizes going up, core count going up, new wider instructions becoming available (avx 2 and 512 ), branch predictors improving.

overall speed increases are still nothing like the old days and spectre style mitigations have been eating away at the improvements
> thinking about how to do the exact opposite of your goal is sometimes the best way to ensure you achieve it.

It also makes for a great clickbaity headline.
It's very cool, I enjoyed reading the post describing it!

Personally I use Emacs, org-mode, and org-roam for Zettel-style links between documents. Org-roam uses sqlite to store its links and index, but documents remain in plain text .org files.
Making an inventor of all my lego and adding a search function would be so amazing. This is in my opinion much more appealing than getting suggestions for what to make. I'm also not in what I assume to be the target audience, but I would likely pay for that feature.
Russia has a judiciary. It can be a little random, but parts of it are good. This is definitely a country where you can bribe an official, do something illegal and then later find yourself in a courtroom with a judge who won't be bribed.
You mean the order to either transfer patient samples to more secure labs or destroy them?

That's standard biosecurity when a new, dangerous pathogen is discovered. Regulatory agencies in other countries would have done the same thing.

A bunch of patient samples were sent out to diagnostic labs before anyone knew they contained a novel coronavirus. You can imagine regulators freaking out when they discover those samples contain a new, possibly dangerous virus.
FTS is great but it's a solution that's designed to work mostly with the English language. For other languages, with accents and so on, you would probably want to normalise the FTS data first by removing the accents.

For Chinese, Arabic and so on you'll need to a custom tokenizer which may or may not be available on your target platform.
Yeah, now we can have Electron apps compiled to WASM running in virtual browser instances hosted remotely in the server with feeds sent back via H.264 streams that then have to be decoded by a local browser instance to be rendered to...
It does, though, reduce heat, right? Which ultimately is more cores per socket. Which hits the thing that actually matters...price/performance.
All the fluff aside you just said that the US (or any other country for that matter) needs to mess with other countries in order to keep their military in proper shape. Sure it does make sense from that standpoint. Or maybe not and conducting military exercise is more than enough given your already very advanced state.

The receiving end however might hold a different point of view.
Suppose I want to build a program that trades in the markets to make money.

So to do the opposite I would try to lose money as fast as I could, according to this?

But the way to do that is just to churn my book a lot and pay costs and spreads.

It's not clear how that illuminates how to make money.
Humans have a larger neocortex compared to other mammals, which gives them more storage, working memory, and computational potential than other animals.

The curses of the human condition are anxiety and regret, the conditions that render people unable to engage in the present moment. The former is characterised as being stuck in the future psychologically, and the latter is being stuck in the past. Since neither the future or the past can be changed by obsessive thoughts in the present, these psychological conditions are a recipe for unhappiness, because happiness can only ever happen in the present moment, which is lost.

What characterises flow state and mindfulness is total absorption in the present moment.

What if animals that are not burdened by human quantities of neocortex, such as insects and canines, which exist in the present moment, are actually experiencing flow and mindfulness?

The spider weaves its web in perfect concentration, not stopping to contemplate, plan, or exercise executive judgement. Might not that be akin to flow?

The dog and the cat and the cow and the horse, given physical comfort, do not seem to worry about the future or regret the past. Might they not be blessed with a form of mindfulness that humans in the rat race rarely manage to experience?
It says "vaccines work pretty well against the delta variant". Is that worthless?
I do have been there (I live in Aomori, so quite close), and it's exactly as you describe.
Have done some apartment renovations recently I find the same thing with architecture, architects.

Without a detailed plan a lot of space is wasted and the apartment ends up less nice and you often end up reconstructing stuff (if it is small and non standard).

The process takes 10-15% of the total cost of the project. Do people want to spend that? No.
Change any behaviour or habit without willpower
> telling a computer what I want, it does it

More like, computers do what you tell them to do, and not what you want them to do, don't recall who's quote it is.
So it’s all about having to choose between murdering one million people and finding some cheaper ways to test new toys?
Computing will never be finished like spoons in the software realm because software is like prose. It's a language where we write down our needs, wants, and desires, and instructions to obtain them, and those are always shifting.

I could definitely see standard classical computer hardware becoming a commodity though.

There will also be room for horizontal expansion for a LONG time. If costs drop through the floor then we could see desktops and servers with hundreds or thousands of 1nm cores.
A Disclosure provides a reader all necessary and relevant information regarding a purchase or promotion so they can make a well-informed decision. It’s “the fine print.”

A Disclaimer is a statement to limit your liability; that denies something, especially responsibility. It’s your “hold me harmless” blanket statement.

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Disclaimer: I am not a lawyer.

Disclosure: The above quotes are from http://ajfeuerman.com/disclaimer-vs-disclosure/
Bullshit ability as an honest signal of intelligence
I would be happy to pay more taxes. I’d pay more on taxes than I currently do in insurance premiums to get everyone healthcare (though it seems likely I’d end up paying less).
“A Tower of Capabilities” with Chris Lattner
This is super neat. I identified a desire for the tolerance clock (*) many years ago, but never thought I'd see it implemented.

(*) The tolerance clock always displays time that is within some tolerance of true time, but that is all it guarantees. I never worked out formal specs, so either crazy clock or early clock would suffice I think.

neat!
I think that this is the case, from the reporting it seems like it’s just their payment infrastructure that is affected. Likely they could handle cash transactions just fine. It’s just that the vast, vast majority of Swedish customers don’t use cash anymore, so it’s not worth it to keep the stores open until it’s fixed.
All German parties with even a slight adoption rate want this, not just via lobbying. There's no choice.

It's also not a "deal breaker" for a lot of people, same as with recent privacy-unfriendly laws(Bundestrojaner, Vorratsdatenspeicherung, etc).
To be fair, most of use `classnames` and likely have a higher order function for prevent

import cn from 'classnames'
const prevent = fn => e => e.preventDefault() && fn()

// don't forget key
{items.map(item =>
display && <SomeElement key="" onClick={prevent(foo)} className={cn(current: active)} />
)}
You now have your first data point. You now need to come up with a second strategy that loses money while, simultaneously, avoiding those steps.

Repeat until you run out of ways of losing money.
I wouldn’t be surprised if it’s illegal to accept payment without offering a receipt with all of the correct info, which among a bunch of things include a unique incrementing receipt number.
The update to Swift Playgrounds coming this fall is something I’m really looking forward to!
Transistor size is not the only factor in processing speed, architecture is also important. We will still be able to create specialised chips, like deep learning accelerators and such.
I'm very much in the same boat. I've had more than one attempt at gaming on Linux over the past two decades. The Linux situation is, still, a joke. Its better than what it was, but its still far more hassle than its worth. My free time is limited, and when I want to play a game I'd like to play a game, not play a game of "sort out the next bug / hurdle as to why this game wont run properly".

To some degree this is not the fault of our Linux developers, but the fault of hardware vendors who will not release decent working drivers.
>"Intelligence" is a vague complementary attribute like "attractiveness" and it doesn't seem like you can do anything with the concept except make post-hoc fallacies with it.

That’s just something unintelligent people say. It’s very easy to make predictions based on intelligence that are easily testable.
It was likely less about resources and more strategic influence. "Owning" Afghanistan would give America the ability to project power in a critically important region surrounded by American rivals where it lacked a military presence.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_military...

It boxes Iran in, it taps on China's exposed western shoulder and borders the stans that buffer Russia's soft underbelly and it's close enough to other established air bases that can provide logistical support.

Better yet, if you do manage to capture it, it's has some of the most favorable geography for repelling invasions of any country. If America was fully established there, getting it out would be pretty much impossible.

It's not a huge shocker it was seen as a prize worthy of an expensive gamble at a time when America felt it was at the peak of its power. Anyone remember fukuyama's "the end of history"? America had a pretty severe case of hubris in the 90s/early 00s.

The war was lost a while ago, of course. It's really hard to admit defeat however, and there's always a tinge of hope it might be turned around, a disbelief that the American military could suffer defeat, so, of course it dragged on.

Anybody who has worked on a huge, vastly expensive high profile project knows that inertia can drag it on for years after it's clear to everyone that it's dead in the water.
This is also how modern game engines work. Textures are converted to linear space and all rendering is done in linear space before being converted to sRGB for display at the end.

Not doing so results in weird looking shading, which has a very 90s/early 2000s feel about it.
> Yes but how does the cashier know what the price is?

My understanding was that it was just payment processing that was affected, not the point of sale systems. The scanners and things probably work fine, and I think they could accept cash payments without issue. It’s just not worth it when almost no customer pays with cash.
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hi i mostly liked your thought trail there, but if you've ever adopted a shelter dog they most definitely regret the past (they clearly experience nightmares)
"Manipulation" means faking data, deliberately altering it, etc. What happened in this case is that the authors removed the raw data from a database and then published an accurate summary of the data in a peer-reviewed paper.

> Since the CCP controls all aspects of Chinese research

Not everything in China is automatically connected to everything else. People working on a new medical diagnostic tool at one university are not automatically related to people doing bat coronavirus research at another institute.

> Or do we really believe there's nothing suspicious about a country of 1.4bn people having 5,508 reported deaths from COVID-19[2]?

I'm sure there are lots of people here on HN who live in China, and who can explain the extremely strict and effective measures China took in early 2020 to eliminate SARS-CoV-2 from within their borders. China had a first wave that was largely confined to one city, and has had no large outbreak since. It's had small, local outbreaks that have been quickly contained. There's really no mystery about this at all.
The "geopolitics" is just marketing. The point is to spend money that will disappear unaccountably into the Pentagon. Thousands of rich people get even richer. None of them care who is more secure or who dies, here or abroad. All of the fables that USA (war) news media excretes are for the purpose of making those rich people even richer.
For the little it's worth, my 30KB+ full-Vue progressive enhancements don't render block either. It's happening after DOMContentLoaded fires, replacing "real" content with Vue content. And yes, they use more CPU and RAM than -petite. My point there was that a lot of people focus on a bandwidth argument while their sites use [comparatively] massive blobs of media. 3MB bitmap image on their CMS uploaded by Sean in marketing because he doesn't know any better. That sort of thing.

Broadly speaking, I don't disagree. There's a lot of truly awful JS out there, wasting cycles doing things that CSS should be handling, but I think the tooling is slowly getting better.
There's a saying in my neck of the woods that captures this: If you can't optimize, pessimize!
US officer plays Taylor Swift song to try to block video
> Every day I feel like a passive spectator watching the industry move in a direction that is worrying ... What is the strategic move, beyond something like going with Linux or BSD for personal use?

The solution is to stop being a passive spectator and to start making proactive decisions. To make proactive decisions, you will need to decide what is important to you since you will never find the perfect solution. (There never was a perfect solution in any domain, only better and worse ones for a particular situation.)

If you've decided that you need Windows, that's fine. You will have to deal with the consequences of that particular decision, but it does not have to dictate every decision that follows. You can still choose applications that don't impose some sort of consumption model, require online accounts, or depend upon telemetry. I don't know what the situation is like for commercial software under Windows (surely there are some vendors who respect privacy), but there are always open source alternatives to consider. Feel free to choose according to your circumstances. If you're a graphics designer who needs Adobe products for your job, but can get away with LibreOffice for administrative tasks, then choose that mixture. Even though your decision won't put any pressure on Adobe, someone else's decision may (e.g. an office worker who uses Office 365 and Inkscape).

The way I see it, there are two big problems with the computer industry today: people don't like to acknowledge competing products that may better serve their needs when there is already a dominant player, and those who are aware of the alternatives are rarely willing to support them. In effect, this problem is partially the making of consumers who have been behaving as passive spectators.
The interesting thing about the markets is that if you had a strategy that consistently lost money, oftentimes you can use the “opposite“ of that strategy, so to speak, to make money. This is one reason why it’s difficult to find these losing strategies.
Is this used in image compression? JPEG, because of the Fourier transform, tends to have waves around edges of flat-colored surfaces. We might have much better compression if we encode images with disordered rows, then leave it up to the decoder to swap them.
A usual reminder that we're not getting smaller. This is marketting speech, transistor gates are stuck at 20ish nanometers.

What's still increasing is transistor density, but "Dennard's Scaling" is dead. we stopped decreasing voltages some time ago.

We have more transistors, so we can make smarter chips. but we can't turn them on at the same time ("dark silicon"), we don't want to melt the chips.

Short of using other materials such as GaN, frequency won't really go above 5 GHz.

There remain plenty of ways to improve performance though: improvements to system architecture (distributed, non von neumann, changing the ISA), compilers, etc. Adiabatic computing, 3D integration, carbon nanotubes, tri-gate transistors, logic in memory, "blood" (cooling + power) and other microfluiduc advances, modularization with chiplets.

The "simple" Dennard's scaling is over though, and we need to move beyond CMOS and Von Neumann to really leverage increasing density without melting away.
This article covers things really well: http://blog.johnnovak.net/2016/09/21/what-every-coder-should...
Anyone who can use a web browser can use IRC.

E.g.

https://kiwiirc.com/nextclient/irc.libera.chat:+6697#irc

https://web.libera.chat/?channels=#irc

There are also mobile apps with better persistence and even simpler interfaces.

IRC will never take over the world because:

* The protocol is missing some minor but important UX-enhancing features. This is fixable, but there's nothing valuable enough about the existing userbase for a capitalized entity to bother working with the entrenched groups. And non-capitalized entities move relatively slowly.

* There is no profit in it -- the corps who want to own messaging want to own messaging. This is a great idea for them, but a terrible idea for users.

* IRC networks don't want Eternal September to happen to them. Not that anyone is beating down their door.
To me this is a problem of user effort. Free open source software is not advertised as aggressively as paid versions so you have to go out and find it rather than it coming to you. There is still a preconception that paid software is somehow better than free open source software despite the abundant evidence to counter it. If you are scared of Linux then don't be. Something like Linux Mint is closer to Windows 7 (the last UI friendly version of Windows IMO) than Windows 10 and 11. Wine (for running Windows programs on Linux) is so good these days you can sometimes even play graphics intensive games using it.

There are more options than ever before to avoid corporate lock-in nowadays. It just doesn't come to you - you have to go to it.
I'm glad you like the podcast! I do push back when something doesn't sound right. I agree though that I could have asked more about fossil. I really didn't look into fossil that much when I prepared for the interview so it was a bit of a blind spot for me.

Not included in the interview is a discussion we had about types. I really think SQLite should be stricter in enforcement of types and Richard doesn't buy it. I may include it in a future bonus episode but the reason I cut it was it didn't really include any details about story of SQLite, it was just two people disagreeing about types. I've done a lot of episodes about types in the past and I wanted this to be about build SQLite, and not about types.
The general public doesn't understand the difference, but what they do understand is that an unmanaged open computer gets malware while a locked-down machine is much less likely to. This translates to: locked-down machines are more reliable and thus better.

We have to make general purpose computers secure or they die out except for servers and hobbyists.
I see the biggest challenge in this space as the lack of standardization. The article already mentions how different manufacturers choose different solutions. This problem will only get worse as more players get involved; each wanting their own slice of the market.

Hopefully this can be standardized through national - and ideally international - regulation.
In theory, absolutely you're right, it's much easier, and much more user friendly. Even if you have to type your command(s) in by hand, with tab-complete available in virtually every modern shell, it's quicker and more direct than fiddling through menus.

Although in practice, and in personal experience, users have a tendency to become effectively illiterate as soon as words appear on a screen instead of a physical media. They've been trained to look primarily for symbols or keywords ("Settings", "Internet", etc.) and ignore all that "other fluff." They don't want to read the output of a command line to figure out what happened, they want a pop-up that gives them their answer directly.
Too bad. In my opinion, Distill was the best thing that had happened to publish in the last 5 years.

I do understand that there is a lot of burden for editors.
Also, from what I see - a lot of serious research now ends up on arXiv, and it does not matter if it gets published in a reviewed journal. (At least, in the last 2 years in deep learning, some breakthroughs are only as a PDF on OpenAI or as a website by Nvidia.)

Still - for static papers, it is acceptable to submit them to arXiv. For interactive ones, Distill is (was?) the only suitable venue.

On a more personal note, I am in the process of writing a paper (interactive, on tensor diagrams) for Distill. So well, it will end up as a blog post. It is OK-ish - most of my quality blog posts had orders of magnitude higher impact than my peer-reviewed papers. Still - a persistent DOI, editorial help from Chris Olah, would be game-changers.
The Machinery of Freedom [pdf]
I agree about the 'everything in lua' config. I've found it frustrating.
Kind of telling that you’re mentioning some dollars lost, and soldiers losing their lives, and completely ignore the victims of the war.
Sure, anything cloud based is right out, I haven't worked at at single place in 20+ years that allows anything in the cloud. I'm talking about Petro/chem engineering.
SharePoint can be on premises, but that is revision/snapshot based, so the whole document is snapshotted, not individual cells. Within a revision a datum / cell might change multiple times, those changes are lost. Each cell change does cascade other changes in many other documents and drawings so being aware of each change is paramount. Missing a change not only would mean incorrect downstream /cross stream documents but it can result in the loss of life. It's a seriously tough problem with serious results.