skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I’d want to know how many workstations and typical workload.

That sounds like: "Sure, we make a loss on every unit sold, but we'll make up for that with volume!"

If one workstation is better, a hundred workstations is a hundred times better.

> I’m thinking Intel is still well in the equation though when it comes to a typical workstation in an office.

Are they though? My "typical office applications" experience is that thanks to Electron they've become absolutely glacial, and better CPUs make a very noticeable difference even to ordinary staff. People rant and rave about how good the Apple M1 chips are for typical "productivity apps", which is directly comparable to the advantage AMD has over Intel.

As a random example of this, our virtual desktops in Azure are Intel-based. They're frustratingly slow. Switching them over to a largely identical AMD instance makes them instantly snappier and very usable.

PS: I had the opposite experience a decade ago with Citrix XenApp terminal servers. At the time, a few of our customers tried to save money by using inferior-but-cheaper AMD CPUs. Those servers were glacially slow, and there was nothing we could do to fix it.
Egypt's problem is population growth:

https://www.populationpyramid.net/egypt/2026/

And in particular their fertility rate, which remains stubbornly high at 3.33 children per woman.

A popular meme has been that as countries and people get richer, they have fewer children. But, that is not occurring in Egypt, which is about twice as rich as India or Bangladesh, but has about 50% more children.

Really, its just Egyptian and Muslim culture which prioritises volume of children ahead of all else. Egypt will suffer if they cannot bring their population to sustainable levels.

The President of Egypt agrees:

https://www.egypttoday.com/Article/1/98679/Egypt-s-populatio...

Keep in mind that Egypt has a scientific output equivalent to Luxembourg: https://www.natureindex.com/country-outputs/generate/All/glo...

Despite having a population 166x larger. So, Earth is not gaining much by having millions of Egyptians - just increased resource degradation.
Yeah. And payoff times are like 12-15 years. It sure doesn’t seem cheap here.
It killed lots of chipmunks in Eastern Oregon too. There were tons of them around, including the June litter, but few to be found after the heat wave. 20:3 is a then:now estimate.
I found the quote about the “new ways to kill the geese that lay the golden eggs” hilarious.
Ethiopia is really playing with fire. Cutting a country's main water supply is as legitimate a casus belli as it gets.
Yes. I have consulted with two solar companies. I need 25 year loan for the solar panels to have solar power to cover my monthly electricity bill.
Rakkas: The Dancing Web Frameork
Pleased to announce version 0.2.1 of , “the dancing web framework” which aims to unite a Next.js-inspired development experience with Vite's blazing speed. Please check it out, all kinds of feedback are most welcome. It's not production-ready yet but many features have been implemented:

- Hassle-free server-side rendering
- File system-based routing with dynamic routes, nested layouts, and thematic layout groups
- SPA-style client-side router
- Simple but effective data fetching system
- API routes to build API endpoints and middleware

This new version brings:

- Project initializer (`npm init rakkas-app`)
- Hot reloading for pages and layouts
- More robust body parser which now supports `application/x-www-form-urlencoded` in addition to plain text and JSON
- New website domain: rakkasjs.org
- Bug fixes
- Performance and package size improvements

And short term goals incude:

- Static site generation
- Optional data caching
- Support for serverless environments
- Localizable and customizable router

Check the github page for more info: https://github.com/rakkasjs/rakkasjs
The Audience-Community Flywheel
Ask HN: What do you install this on top of? Do you just start with the vanilla Raspbian installer, the bare bones installer without GUI, or something else?
I’ve tried to use classes in TS and they’re just so weak that I always regret it.

I tried to have a base class with a default serializer method and bam, right back to binding problems.
No, rules that require the use of disposable plastic pollution on multiple levels (distribution and manufacturing) contribute towards climate change.

Reduce, reuse and recycle.

Not disposable masks to go inside!
This is conspiracy theory logic, thinking that the armchair theorist and the subject matter expert are on the same level.

You keep stressing that the plan was preposterous and unreasonable, as if everyone one over there just did whatever they wanted and nobody was coordinating. This was an unprecedented operation, but by that same logic was the first ever heart transplant "preposterous and unreasonable"?

There's a world of difference between picking the best of many risky plans, and shouting over better informed people to advance the plan that makes you look like a hero.
So true. And even other engineers too.
and this too! glorious, hit me again you fucks. let's see if someone can have negative reputation on this bullshit site.
It's not actually that easy to burn away excess power when you're operating at grid scale.
Nice one op. It’s mostly due to my lack of knowledge of rust but the code is not easy to read unlike golang. Does anyone feel the same ? (between nothing to do with how op wrote but rather the language itself)
> This fast inverse square root function is very well known, with even a Wikipedia page, and it is more than 20 years old.

The Copilot algorithm didn't take this into account though... if it did, we probably couldn't complains about copyright infringement.
From December 2020 to April 2021:

1644 deaths and 28,000 serious adverse events.

On the credibility of the sources for the VAERS database:

"We identified health service employees as the reporter in at least 67% of the reports, while pharmaceutical employees were identified as the reporter in a further 5%. Lay people were identifiable as the reporter in only 28% of the reports."
That sounds expensive. How does this compare to the offering of Ikea in Europe?

https://www.ikea.com/be/fr/customer-service/product-support/...

The prices include taxes & installation, and it's probably not the best deal.
this is typical HN twaddle. well done.
There are a couple of reasons this is unlikely to happen.

A. The dam already contains more than 4.9 billion cubic meters of water. That along with the wet season rain will mean breaching it will result in catastrophic flooding of Sudan which will result in death and loss of arable land.

Each day that goes on, the water level is increasing, after a some time, Egypt itself will face flooding.

B. Egypt has powerful military but it seems it was designed to fight Israel, not Ethiopia. The distances are just too great. Not many nations in the world have that kind of power projection in the world. That's an exclusive club of great powers like Russia, France, and superpowers like the USA and China. Most Egyptian fighter/bomber aircraft don't have the range to reach Ethiopia. And Sudan seem to be against war so they're unlikely to grant them passage as they will be the ones that suffer the consequences of a breached dam.

The Egyptian airforce is getting new jets from France and Russia. Last I checked, which was months ago, only a few of those jets were delivered. It's unclear that the air crew have the resources, time, training to accomplish the difficult task of dam busting.

C. The renaissance dam is a gravity dam. Giant concrete structure. It's not going to be easy to destroy. And attempts could just make it collapse on the water spillways. Which might end up even more disastrous.

D. Dam or no dam, the water still flows from Ethiopia. And the Nile is not like the Amazon river in that it doesn't contain as much water. If Egyptian leadership plays a zero-sum game, where only they use the Nile then Ethiopia has zero incentive to protect and develop the water. In the age of climate change, this is a huge factor. Diverting some of the smaller tributaries would at most require a single grader and a few days of work. Diverting some 10 or 20% of the water would not be difficult. And that is far more disastrous to the stated objective of Egypt (Which is to maintain the colonial era agreement that allows them and Sudan 100% of the water).

E. Ethiopia is currently a divided country. But when it comes to the dam, its people are 100% on the same page. Most western lenders don't finance any project on the Nile due to Egyptian lobbying. So Ethiopian populace paid for it out of pocket. Most salaried people payed for it out of pocket. WHat that usually means is giving up a month of your salary for the dam. And When Ethiopia is united, it is capable of putting up a good fight.

As for the PRC, who do you think loaned to Ethiopia the money for buying the generators?

And also, PRC has dams on similar rivers. It unlikely to positively accept such an act.
An enjoyable read!
The app has become about 30-40% advertisements which I think is far too much. I don't ever want to buy any of these things because all of my ads are for coffee beans, which I would much rather buy fresh from a local shop.
? it tells you how to find the pieces FOR THE THING IT IS TELLING YOU HOW TO BUILD.

switch on before you reply next time
Yes, that's what they're saying.
Emojis solve the problem of texting being inefficient at the expense of ceding a lot of the expressiveness to someone else. Suddenly committees are deciding what you mean. Turns out that for a lot of people, thats fine.
> there were only 14% of the cases for which a vaccine reaction could be ruled out as a contributing factor in their death.

They should take same number of deaths in similarly old and sickly population reported after different vaccine and compare if they can rule out covid vaccine as the factor contributing to demise in people who never took covid vaccine.
40 years ago, this family set off from Winnipeg to the Amazon in a canoe
What does it mean to "enforce" a "permissive" license?
It's the engines that do the polluting.
There's some emojis I don't mind in prs, like rocketship for deploy and the worm for bug fixes
I use Vim for a few reasons:

1. It is fast to open. I can open a terminal and type `vim` and then `a` in about 1-2 seconds. This is useful because I'm often on a call when someone says something that suddenly seems profound, and I realize I should be taking notes that call. Using a terminal and Vim, I can open a buffer and start typing almost by the time the speaker finishes their sentence.

2. Key bindings. "Change in word", "delete in sentence", indenting whole blocks. "A". I just can't get this productive in any other editor, even those that offer "Vim keybindings" but don't bring everything.

3. I want local notes for `grep`-ing. Somebody asks if anyone knows about the `foobar_prod` table? `grep -Hrn foobar_prod .` in the `notes/` folder answers the question in a heartbeat. Using regex with grep's `E` flag is a feature I haven't found in common note engine search functions.

4. I use Vim for code. This means when I learn a new Vim trick while coding, I get the benefit of extra chances to use/cement it while note taking or any other text editing need.

5. Vim is ubiquitous. It's on or available for every system I use, every Docker container and every remote server. 99% of my note taking is on my Mac (work computer), but when I need to do it in Linux everything is familiar.

There are downsides I'd be happy to discuss if people are interested. I'm leaving them out now because OP asked about why I use what I use, not a balanced review of preferences and alternatives.
Unfortunately my Python skills start and stop at pandas and I use Rails for web development so I can’t comment on the actual code base in any meaningful way.

I just wanted to congratulate you on committing to something and putting yourself out there and am only commenting because you only got one response and that was a negative one which I know can be demoralizing. Saturday night was not the best time to post it, I recommend Monday morning when a lot of us are spending more time on HN than we should be and are more likely to engage with your post.

Regardless of what the actual quality of Sierra ends up being right now, you should be proud of yourself for doing what a lot of is struggle to do. You picked something, did it, and shipped it to the world for criticism. Good luck with your project!
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I wonder if this this is a generational thing or what other factors are at play: My peer group and I might use the occasional smiley, but it is exceeding rare that I would use any emoji for anything. I also don't see many emojis in messages to me.
It's worth noting there's also some solid competition for Raspberry Pis by other companies making similar hobbyist boards. I'm pretty sure there's one out there that might fit your needs but I forget the name of it.
Hey, 60% of Ethiopians don't have powers. Take a look at "earth at night" satellite images. Ethiopia is dark. I'm an Ethiopian national and this affects me deeply.

I am tired of desensitizing myself away from the plight of 4 foot 10 women carrying a load of firewood heavier than them.
All five “reasons” reduce to “our physics doesn’t explain it therefore it didn’t happen.” An appalling lack of imagination for such a noted and talented physicist and writer.

Assume, for a moment, that it’s real, as observed, and consider that you might be staring at a paradigm shift with greater implications about the universe than quantum tunneling.
Vegas has never been 50C.

The record high for the city is 117 degrees Fahrenheit (47.22C) at McCarran International Airport, most recent previous to today was in June 2017, according to the National Weather Service.

The city has recorded that high temperature five times, including today.
Instagram is like a magazine if the magazine was just ads and the ads were written all by the staff writers who you trust.
The people that characterize GNOME this way are desperate to identify themselves with a certain sub group of Linux users that prides themselves in doing things the hardest possible way (such as recompiling your terminal every time you want to change the font size) because it makes them feel 1337. Don't sweat it too much, it's just a little bit of garden variety internet tribalism.
And that’s all it needed to be to convey the same message, despite the author talking about needing to watch their words more carefully during the experiment.
The parameters I trained the model for were things like "greed", "preferred game duration for winning", "effect on game duration", and several 3-way tables of win rates for things like ally-ally-oppose and ally-oppose-oppose.

An interesting effect I noticed was that the pub games have all sorts of weird second-order effects.

E.g.: Some characters are unpopular because pub players play them ineffectively, and/or they're hard to play well because they're so niche, so few people get enough practice with them in the right kind of scenario.

Dota's Jakiro is a great example. It's a lumbering support hero with very slow spells and a glacial turn rate. It's like trying to do acrobatics with a jumbo jet. He's frustrating to play and when most people pick him, the effect on the overall win rate is about -15%, which is insanely bad for 1 out of 10 players in a game! My win rate with him was something like 25%, which is absolutely atrocious. That's "throwing the game" bad.

My picker app often recommended Jakiro when the enemy team had over-represented heroes that typically commit to a fight, such as Legion Commander or Axe. Those heroes are nailed to the ground in a fight and can't escape Jakiro's devastating-but-slow attacks.

I ended up playing Jakiro a lot, and eventually I got about a 55% overall win rate with him, which is an amazing swing if you think about it. It took practice though, figuring out how to best utilise him. If I had played him in random games, I never would have gotten anywhere. The picker app however made this possible, by providing these hints of when and how to use the hero.
I've been thinking of how to solve the "decision history" of a business being lost and this looks great! One question I have though is how do you propose people find these decision log entries a year or two from now?
Remarkable 2 Tablet. I find myself far more engaged by taking notes on it, it's close enough to paper that it helps with retention, but digital in a way that I can convert the notes, and the devices is otherwise not a distraction machine. Overall I've been happy with it.
Energy Guarantees? Maybe they want to protect their baseload from a lack of natural gas.
I heard that things like the Banana Pi (or similar) use horrid chipsets that have very limited support, so they might not actually be of similar utility. If you know of any good ones, though, I'd be grateful!

Nowadays I use an ESP8266 for most things, but it'd be nice to have a small, reliable Linux machine for things like file servers at my parents' house.
> If you have excess solar capacity why would you need to pay someone to take it from you?

You don't. Usually there's some external reason that selling renewables at a slight loss is still profitable. Like tax incentives or production quotas or fixed-rate contracts.

Then coal plants get dragged along because they can't change output quickly.

> Why not just sink it into the ground or something?

That takes equipment, which takes money. They won't install it if sporadic negative prices are cheaper.
> In 2019 the American population increased from 327.2 to 238.2.

That's...not an increase.

> In 2019 1.03million immigrants were granted permanent resident status.

That's kind of a non-sequitur. To make your case, you’d need net migration numbers, not number of immigrants granted permanent residency.

> The fertility rate is 1.73.

It’s actually 1.6375, but fertility below replacement isn't negative natural growth, though sustained over the long term with steady-state life expectancy it eventually leads to it.
A Chad Jones appreciation post (best theory on long-run growth)
Someone posted a mirror link to bypass the paywall here in the comments almost 90 minutes before your comment.
But what’s the cost of the externalities of non-renewable energy? Solar isn’t perfect, but at this point I’d say it’s actually cheaper than coal (still nowhere close to nuclear) once we talk about actual costs of using it to make energy.
Interesting.

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gcc -O3 bench.c
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Wow, Damn Small Linux, what a throwback! That was how I was first ever able to run and interact with a Linux system back as a teen. I had no computer with Administrator access, but I found a zip file with DSL, a QUEMU.exe, and a .bat file which would run QUEMU and boot DSL, cause I couldn't figure out how. I never even got it to save to a persistent disk, I had to boot and re-do all the changes I'd figured out the prior time. What an amazingly educational little thing that was!
I found the same enjoyable read on BLERFMARKET.COM. It’s where I buy all my reads now.
The idea that the GNOME DE or GTK3/4 are resource intensive is a meme with little basis in reality.
The good news is that the Tesla is far from your only option for an electric car at this point.
> Yes, but both use the slogan ‘defund the police’.

No, the abolish/disband faction tends to use “abolish (or disband) the police”.
It absorbs energy electrically ~20%, as well as reflects it. Panels are also usually mounted several inches above the roof creating an air gap.
Fiction uses false statements about reality in order to (attempt to) describe a deeper truth. Cat Person uses true factual details (in addition to false ones) in order to concoct a lie. In that sense, it is the opposite of our usual notion of fiction.
And that is also why PHP is so robust: shared nothing. Preforking. Time and memory limits per request. Uncaught errors ends only the current request and so on...
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Not according to this detailed reporting by vice:

https://www.vice.com/en/article/ep4xy7/what-does-defund-and-...

“For the last week, mainstream publications and centrist thinkers have tied themselves in knots trying to explain that when activists say they want to defund the police, they don’t really mean that; “defund the police” is a slogan that actually means “make police departments smaller and more accountable,” they say. But many people who say “defund the police” mean exactly that—defund and abolish police departments, and use that funding to lift up communities.”

Claiming it to be a clear cut distinction simply isn’t supported by the evidence.
Apologies! Will not do that in the future
The main use I have for emoji is in the emoji-reactions in the Slack that we have to use at my current company.

The emoji-reaction this way is a kludge for a lower-priority asynchronous response that doesn't interrupt people with a notification (like a message would). They'll see the response when they return to the view.
> committees are deciding what you mean

Not any different from using the alphabet and words.
I hear you. I used to hate cubicle farms because of the monotony. But open office is just the worst.
I've noticed a lot of ads like this on Twitter too recently.
"source code from publicly available sources, including code in public repositories on GitHub." (from the copilot home page)

Pretty much says they did also use other sources.
Put your money where your mouth is. Train a homeostatic surprise minimization model to beat OpenAI’s PPO at Dota 2. The beautiful thing about benchmarks is that you can easily persuade everyone just by beating them.
VAERS has logged another 4,000-ish deaths since April 2021. Scary to think only 14% of those aren't a result of the vaccine.
Sure, the phrase "optimal dose" can be dependent on context. Maybe the optimal dose with respect to a decrease in hospitalization turns out to be 79.19 ug, and of course that's not going to be found when you only try 25, 50, 100, and 250.

But while a decrease in hospitalization is important, I disagree that it's the only thing that we should be optimizing against. I'm not sure what you mean by health data, but safety and immunogenicity (which might be upstream of hospitalization) are incredibly important to consider in the choice of dosage as well, and that's what optimal dose in the context of trials means. This is the context which I meant it in, and I'm just borrowing this terminology from other places, e.g.:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4944327/
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29420118/
Yeah, except for the lambda time limit...
Never heard of this term, but it sounds.. normal? I’m not really clear on the morality issue here; it seems to be that 1. People should own not rent, and 2. BTL players tend to operate as bad owners.

Point 1. is just absurd, because that’s obviously true but it’s also obviously true that renters rent for a reason — they don’t want to, or can’t afford, the cost of total ownership over the property; telling them not to rent is simply telling them not to have shelter (you must be in a good position, or you shouldn’t have a position at all is a ridiculous stance)

Point 2 is reasonable, but it’s not clear to me the relationship between BTL and bad ownership — the moral hazard seems to be purely with.. the owners themselves. There’s nothing described in the article that suggests BTL incentivizes or drives bad ownership practice, beyond giving the opportunity to be any kind of owner at all
Except for the fact that each infection is opportunity for the virus to mutate into something surely more infectious and even accodentally more nasty.