skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This comment speaks to me. I like to be able to follow code flow to figure out what's going on, and that means I prefer "from here to <somewhere>" rather than trying to figure out "to here from <somehwhere>". Mind you, sometimes passing in a function is the right answer, but I try to limit it to things more like higher order functions than "adding logic to an existing method".
Because of GNU Emacs biggest strenght, which is also it's biggest flaw: the mountains of existing code. Any new emacs must support what emacs already offers. And this means not just to be able to run the code, but to also support the huge amount of special and exotic features that Emacs offers. Guile-emacs for example has a pretty long history on fighting emacs-strings and it's special features.

There is the general believe that users don't wanna change from emacs away and any new emacs should be ~100% compatible to old emacs. But history has shown, people will not settle with inferiour clones. So many work will be neccessary, whatever someone will build to replace emacs.
From my experience Swagger tends to produce not so great stuff whenever a bit out of the ordinary solutions are required.

It does work ok imho, but far from being for everyone.
(OT) If my information is not wrong......the new WD SN550 drive still uses a TLC NAND (Kioxia BiCS5, which is the same NAND flash as the SN350 960GB version) but may have done some modification to the firmware/controller to lower the speed.
Yes this, please!
A Python Data Scientist’s Guide to the Apple Silicon Transition
The general phenomenon is ‘two sided markets’, of which ebay would be an example.

What would you do if you had to fight two people? Probably take one down with the swiftest, least fair, methods.

Usually a company that has broken into a two-sided market left a body hidden somewhere. It might involving working for a very long time (a ‘social network’ funded by intelligence agencies), having a huge budget for paid advertising, effective public relations to get vast unpaid media coverage, spamming, data scraping, smoke, mirrors, unscalable methods at the start, etc.
Your qualifications first.
Can someone explain to me how saying “we utilize CLIP” and “we are zero-shot” aren’t contradictory? You’d be hard pressed to come up with a class of things from reality or popular fiction that CLIP did not see a few shot of.
Is anybody proposing we link the legal "racial/ethnicity" measures to DNA yet?

Just imagine how much fun the intelligentsia would've had with DNA tests say 150 years or more ago. They thought they had it with phrenology.

But of course, we're following the science, and can thus be confident of our lack of error.
What some people on hn do not realise is that meat is too expensive already for most.
The cost of living in the West is already too high for young people to have families of their own. This is what Bill Gates and his mates want. They will never go without cars, planes, houses, meat etc.
That is why some have you have been brainwashed by billionaires into wanting the further impoverishment of your fellow 99% brethren.
When comparing it to other large designs, I think it’s not exceptional, but also not in the back of the pack. This die is 645mm², or a square inch. We could create a wafer that size in the 1960s (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wafer_(electronics)#Standard_w.... Note these are for circular wafers, so a 1 inch wafer is about ¾ square inch), so in that sense, it isn’t a surprise that we can make such a chip.

We couldn’t put 50B transistors on a square inch in the 1960s, though. We can now. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transistor_count lists several larger designs.

So, the engineering is impressive, but not spectacular.

Also, this being a grid of interconnected CPUs means the design is simpler than a single design filling the entire die would be. It’s ‘just’ repeating the same design over and over (possibly with some small variations near the edge)

Of course looking at it without knowledge of the state of the art it is astounding that we can even think of constructing machines with 50 billion working parts
I agree with it, but I don't care strongly enough to ever say it anywhere.
It matters at least for your choices of diet which regulates your health.

I never used any of these tests, it freaks me out a bit to be in some database. That said, My family of origin did too and had a similar experience.

It's all a scam there are YouTube videos of identical twins taking tests from the major players.

The data science was flawed because there is no science or regulations. All these startups are winging it, it seems.
The trend is not clear and undeniable. Climate science is at best contentious and certainly highly politicised. All of the IPCC predictions of temperature rises have not happened. Sea level rises? The Maldives have been building several airports and both Al Gore and Barack Obama bought very expensive properties ($9 million and $15 million) by the sea. Hardly the actions of someone who believes flooding is imminent.
amavis

All email is perl.
I hope this doesn’t chill demand for residential skyscrapers in SF. It seems like this building is (arguably justifiably) getting a lot of attention but there are multiple ongoing and completed projects that are a good solution to alleviate the housing crisis. Yes they’re all “luxury” condos but they’re satisfying some demand at least.
What about banning Proud Boy accounts or Gab/Andrew Torba?
There are a whole bunch of modern examples, no need to go back to Willy the Bastard.

* At least three big landings in the Gallipoli campaign in WW1

* Dozens of huge naval landings in all theatres in WW2. The Med, North Africa, the Baltic, Rangoon, Pacific island hopping, you name it. Besides D-Day, the battle of Anzio was also huge with 100s of thousands participating.

* The naval invasion of Hainan in 1950 is particularly pertinent, pitting the Chinese communists against the Republic of China.

* Battle of Inchon in Korean War. Big, decisive, victorious naval landing.

And yes there were sizeable successful opposed naval landing operations in every sizeable war since - Suez, Vietnam, Falklands, Iran-Iraq, Gulf Wars 1 and 2. There only weren’t any in Afghanistan because it is landlocked and at 10k feet altitude…
> “You never place piles or piers closer than three pier diameters apart. These are 36 feet so they should be nine feet apart and they’re, what? — five feet or something.

I don’t get this - the piers are 36 feet (engineers using feet?!) in diameter so should be 9 feet apart, but that’s not 3x 36.

What do they mean?
Is the pure-gtk-branch really working on switching the underlying UI-architecture? Or just removing the hacks for X11 and moving them to gtk?
The learning curve to Ansible is low, and it doesn't depend on any additional software running on the server.

I dislike yaml, but I like Ansible. I think it hits the sweet spot for small and medium size enterprises, who are looking for a middle point between manually provisioning servers and containerisation.
It is important to notice that this claim is highly disputed. Paulo Freire and his methods are frequently attacked by far-right politicians and activists in Brazil, and this information is definitely politically biased.
Cracking Simple LCG PRNG
> … only way to view the classes contained in an image…

Apart from a text editor?

$ nano Pharo9.0-64bit-bf4a85f.sources

[Read 1230003 lines (Converted from Mac format)]

"The relationship of Smalltalk and version control systems [not designed to preserve that Smalltalk way of working] is a difficult one."

https://www.google.com/books/edition/Mastering_ENVY_Develope...
Ill-equipped, not-so-smart, arrogant puppets.
why?

Amperage determines the wire diameter. High amperage means very wide wires.

I think their point is that this is what ultimately drives the need to power from below.
There's always interbank transfers / ACH as long as they have bank accounts. It's a pain to use though.
You seem to be assuming that people (as a whole) actually learn from the past and their mistakes. You know the saying, though: "history never repeats itself, but it does often rhyme." We just keep making a lot of the same mistakes as a species, over and over again. :/
It has been brought up many times, by libertarian types, more in relation to the FDA, that institutions underweight how many lives could have been saved by an approval that didn't happen, which could well be a very large number.

In principle this sort of bias might apply to the EPA too. For instance with the controversy over DDT.

The issue with rhetoric about bias, I think, is that it ends up being an excuse for believing what you want to believe, rather than gathering actionable data.
When did Tom Cruise appear in a Michael Bay production?
Yes, I read that, but I don't know Lisp well enough to evaluate the claim.
Yeah the ohmic losses in the power delivery networks are the killer and the topic of this article.
Silicon Valley's biggest fraud is on trial
I resonate with this. The churn I find most demoralizing is in the library/module/component space.

I’ve been pushing myself to learn elixir these last few months. This is, by the comments of many, more of a niche language. I like the language’s novelty and it has caused me to think in new ways. So Paul is righ in this pint.

But when I want to send an http request, there must be at least 10 choices on hex to choose from. The one that is a hit this year will be passe’ next year. When I watch the traffic in the Phoenix slack channel, the “stack” of libraries combined seems overwhelming. The same goes for people talking about front end apps.
I strongly suspect that a lot of the commands he's using there are either shell functions or small scripts (or just aliases, actually) to make the example simple to follow. For instance, unique=uniq, lowercase='tr [AZ] [az]' (I think?), etc. You could trivially rewrite it today with a little effort to remake those.
When I took linguistics classes in school it was summarily brushed off, but here's how Wikipedia summarizes:

> The strong version, or linguistic determinism, says that language determines thought and that linguistic categories limit and determine cognitive categories. This version is generally agreed to be false by modern linguists.

> The weak version says that linguistic categories and usage only influence thought and decisions. Research on weaker forms has produced positive empirical evidence for a relationship.
Strange domain problem – need advice
One of the side projects I've been working on in my spare time has a simple landing page/placeholder with a pre-release sign-up form (to build a mailing list of those who might be interested in the new service when it launches).

Yesterday, out of the blue, I started receiving some 'interesting' emails to an unknown user/address at that side-project's domain.

First were a couple of website signups that needed an email verification click. I didn't think too much about it, guessing that maybe someone had mistyped their email address from a similarly spelled domain. It happens. But then came a Google workspace setup verification email (legit, from Google). I called Google workspace support and they understood that I owned the domain and also that I had not initiated setting up Google Workspace. They informed me that whoever was doing that would not be successful because they would have to prove ownership of the domain. In my experience this is usually done by adding record to DNS, or by placing a file with a long random key on the server that hosts the website, so maybe I shouldn't be too worried about that?

But then today, I am starting to get more email to that domain/address containing canned responses from websites that loan money, credit card companies, etc.

So is this some amateurish attempt at identity theft?
What is the endgame here? Anybody have any experience with something like this?

What should I be doing? I changed several passwords since yesterday, added extra protection to the domain name at the registrar to prevent hijacking, but what else should I be doing?

Advice welcomed.
The solution is precisely the opposite: dial down energy use (from all sources - industry, consumerism, travel etc) in the parts that consume too much.

The solution to the risk of societal decline is to force society to decline? No. The solution is to make clean energy (solar, nuclear, etc.) abundant to the point that everyone has more energy available than they know what to do with.

We have the scale to change the climate of the entire planet, and the technology to understand that we are doing so. We undoubtedly have the ability to overcome this hurdle, just like the many hurdles faced by humanity before. And yet people's first thought is, "My life is too good, let's (let everyone else but me) go back to subsistence farming and dying of cholera."

Nature is indifferent to us. It will not provide for us if we just let it do its thing, with or without CO2 emissions. Its fragility is a problem to be engineered through, not a call to abandon all progress.

The solution is to double down on the technological sophistication that allowed for all modern life, not to give up at the first hint of a real challenge.
buffs not so shabby record-wise. A simple search for “b52 record” returns plenty of gold.
I wonder how the $/sq ft compares to similar but structurally sound condo buildings in the area.
How is the "hostility gap" in the paper not just what happens when you remove physical consequences from these people and people like them? The authors appear to do some free association with status seeking and threatening others as well, and I'd wonder whether there is a clearer way to present the ideas.

Having met and known trolls personally in real life growing up online and working for ISPs in the 90s, to me they fell into a few categories. The most obvious one was the assorted personality disorders that were just really damaged goods. It was a blessing to the world they found the internet instead of preying on people in real life, which surely at least a few did. The ostensibly sane ones were a kind of henchmen to bullies who lacked the physicality and charisma of the bully they followed and instead could reify their cruelty and revenge fantasies online and get off on the attention.

The final group was nihilistic political operators, who got into politics because having an opposition team is an outlet for an urge to be a piece of shit to others, and it's a kind of sport to them. You see them disrupting and derailing conversations with talking points, arbitrary racism and hostility to keep thoughtful people away from a controversial topic, and low effort comments. They worked up from activist groups to political party "rat f-er" operatives, and in a more successful life they might have been spies, prosecutors, or jail guards.

From what I can tell about the trolls I met, I think they are trying to become something more contemptible than they already feel they are, as a way to reclaim their own shame and self-hatred by rebasing their identity on something can they control, instead of self-identifying by the life event that made them feel ashamed. There's nothing you could say that will make them feel worse than they already feel about themselves, and unless you are capable of delivering a level of psychological harm that is competitive to their personal peak negative experience, and only with internet arguments, anything you say just makes them feel stronger. This is how they thrive on the negativity. You just can't get drawn in.

In terms of how this effects online discussion? I'd be concerned the paper has a bunch of policy prescriptions buried somewhere in it, and the solutions aren't in the domain of policy. It may be as simple as judiciously booting accounts that don't meet a bar instead of legalistic lowest common denominator rules for trolls to litigate against, and teaching young people that cruelty is an expression of need.
Many (most?) EU countries have credit score systems and/or companies, and the details on how they work differ on a country-by-country basis: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Credit_score#By_country

In some countries credit score registries are restricted by law to only holding information on delinquent debt, so an average person has no entries in the credit score registries. This is the case here in Finland currently, though a national positive credit register is being planned for 2024 (https://www.vero.fi/en/positivecreditregister/).
This is both troubling and understanding as someone who has been on both sides.

As a student, we were required to learn assembly in a microcontrollers course. It was a disaster, because it was a very short semester and they were asking we learn microcontrollers and assembly at the same time when most of us could barely program to begin with. I left a review urging they change to C (still low level, but so much easier) and they actually switched the next year.

Learning ASM is indeed important from a theoretical stance (and practical for some jobs), but you can't expect students to just pick that up in a few weeks worth of classes.

Then when I got an office job, I learned a LOT of engineers do process automation programming. At that point I could see even something as hideous as VBA being used to efficiently save hundreds of hours of work.

What do students really need? It depends on a lot of factors. Are they going into academia to study PL theory? Then Lisp, Prolog, C, and Haskell are probably pretty important. Are 95% of your students going into industry? Then Python, C++, Java, C#, JS, Excel, and SQL are all going to be important.

I think the really theoretical stuff (Haskell, Prolog, Lisp) should only be briefly introduced in undergrad and expanded upon in grad school. Or you have specific academic or industry based programs.
The banks are not a free market. The banks are expressly controlled by multiple federal regulatory agencies and the Federal Reserve itself. They're supposed to move in lock step by design. If they didn't, it'd be a 'Free Banking' system, which it isn't.
Heh. I feel that all that mumbo is interesting. But for the most part it’s just dogma. I got my own dogma, but I’m not selling books about it and I’m not interested in teaching anyone. I also don’t care about anyone else’s dogma, and pretty much dismiss it if you try to use it as an argument in a code review.

I’m writing code to solve problems, I’m not here to discuss the abstract art of code patterns and structure.
I understand what he is saying, I just disagree. We are blind to the horrors of our own system when we apologize for it and point the finger at things that we fear and distrust. It's nothing more than an intentional distraction from the evil that already exists in this world. I suspect that he got himself into these contortions trying to apologize for a Christian view of God as all-loving but wrestling with the problem of evil. Especially because those robber barons and mega companies of the day mouthed Christian platitudes all along their conquest.

I just ran out of patience with the "socialism bad" reductionism that underlies a lot of sophisticated-sounding analyses but ultimate amounts to "just let me do whatever I want, look those baddies aren't that bad, maybe they're even good!"
I'm about to delve into sales. Would you mind expanding on what detracted you from sales ?
Got about 600 of my mother's playlists after she died, all in Windows PlayList format (.wpl, an XML-ish variant). Could not find anything better than XSLT to generate portable .m3u files from them. Worked like a charm.
I'm not -- I have found Paul Graham's essays and Ray Dalio's book "Principles" to be quite interesting. No one is forced to read them.
If and when you have 15 yo children applying to college, you'll understand this well. If you are Asian, you really understand it --

Ignoring justifiable attempts to increase diversity on campus, Asians find that being Asian American immediately docs points off as compared to White students. Of course I want to find the bit of white in me via DNA tests, so my child can get into a great school with, say, 2200 SATs (standard) vs the 2300 they would require as Asians.
So if it's booting from USB, does that imply that drivers for internal storage aren't there yet? Still excellent progress, of course:)
Building (and seismic) codes in California are stringent, but not in the way many people think.

I was surprised to learn that the codes and engineering requirements are specified strictly to avoid loss of life.

The buildings themselves are not required to survive in habitable fashion.

I was surprised to learn this and it disturbs me to consider that while a major earthquake in the SFBA might be (relatively) free of fatalities, an enormous portion of the built infrastructure would need to be demolished and rebuilt:

"The code also does not specify that a building be fit for occupancy after an earthquake. Many buildings might not collapse completely, but they could be damaged beyond repair. The interior walls, the plumbing, elevators — all could be wrecked or damaged."[1]

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/04/17/us/san-franci...
Great tip thanks!
Missile Base for Sale
It's frustrating to see them not spare a couple sentences to clear up a misconception that _many_ laypeople suffer from.

Sure, _we_ know the difference between amps, watts, and watt-hours, because we paid attention in science class, but most people still get them mixed up.
More difficult to get funding if you’re not visibly exhibiting excitement about your creation.
It almost works.

- unique is called uniq, but you can write an alias. I would not be surprised if it was called unique in this video for presentation purposes and uniq already worked at the time.

- sort will work as is

- lowercase is tr '[:upper:]' '[:lower:]' (you can write an alias).

- you need write programs makewords and mismatch and put them in $PATH (the current folder was probably in $PATH at the time but it's not anymore for security reason)

sort | uniq can be written sort -u.

But the gist of it is still accurate and still applies to today's unix-like systems, which is quite a thing for something that has more than 50 years.
I'm always curious about the decision-making progress when someone decides to make their own ASIC when there are somewhat reasonable commercial alternatives. What was the advantage here for Tesla?
which is why further taxation or money collection in the hope of solving the problem is not going to work.
In general, there are two separate components to the SLC cache strategy (which as you said, is writing only one bit instead of 3 for TLC, because it's much faster to do so). First you have some overprovisionned NAND, the size of which depends with models. I believe it is 6 GB on this one.

Then you have what they call "intelligent turbowrite", which is a dynamically allocated/reallocated SLC cache (about 108 GB).

For both, the concept is broadly the same, your writes go into the overprovisionned "SLC cache" first, then into the dynamic one.

When the drive is idle, it will consolidate the writes of both caches as 3 bit writes, freeing the NAND for "SLC cache" use again. This can take a few minutes of idle time.

As you fill up your disk things get more complicated, you need to keep some free space to be able to consolidate your writes, the exact way this controller works in that case is not known to me, but this is an issue with every SSD that's not full SLC. Modern controllers usually are doing much better than the old ones.
Most programmers STILL haven't experienced the absolute JOY of live coding languages.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28274069

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Live_coding
Interesting to know. What were the issues?
But this is more like based on government data rather than, I know this is very American, private data shared by companies (and usually handled badly, whether in cybersecurity or identity correlation terms).

Also, a credit checking association boasted that their members' data is 95% accurate - so that means that around 15 million Americans do have devastating errors on their credit score (through no fault of their own).
Yeah, it's called Lisp.