skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Doesn't Python pretty much guarantee that since it's single-threaded?
The character Jorge of Burgos is also named after Borges.
Best post ever. It's rare these days to see people challenging the status quo for whatever reason they have.
Play Framework Goes to Pasture
No. Almost all electricity that we generate will eventually turn into heat and get released into the atmosphere.

Even if nuclear had 0 environmental impact during production, which is absolutely not the case, we still must cool down the planet.

We need energy sources that work by CAPTURING energy that otherwise would be turned into atmospheric heat.
You didn't refute any of his points, political jabs aside. I'm not sure how arbitrarily minting a Trillion dollar coin wouldn't harm confidence in the USD worldwide, it's one of the most blatant examples of debasing a currency I can imagine. I sure as hell don't want to sit on too much cash with ideas like this being seriously considered, or do you think expanding the money supply without expanding the value it represents has no impact on its spending power (or confidence in its spending power)?

Look at any charts of the M1/M2 money supply (that haven't been discontinued) and they seem to strongly indicate we're on a slippery slope towards hyperinflation, that's been the trend for several decades and seems to be rapidly accelerating- At least that's what it looks like to a dumb layman like myself
Fab Capacity, DRAM, NAND, Silicon Price Hike..... I wouldn't be surprised if the next version is sometime in 2023.
The regulators who are supposed to enforce the GDPR are either incompetent or unwilling to do so. I suspect there might be political problems with stepping up enforcement considering a lot of politicians rely on social media & ads (which is powered by non-consensual data processing) to help with their (re)-election.
Maybe something like this: https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/guest-blog/natures-nucl...
Have you given kava a try? I reduced my alcohol consumption significantly to only rare occasions, and have recently found that kava serves as a nice substitute. The effects aren't as pronounced and you don't get the impaired judgement/reduced cognition, but I consider that a plus.
The Israel comments were the most severe political footgunning I've ever seen. I'd love to know what on behind the scenes to cause that to happen.
I think this somewhat misses that pollution and greenhouse gas emissions are different issues with distinct (sometimes opposed) mitigations.

Pollution, like runoff and smog can be _much_ more locally tangible, both in the "i can see that we're putting something into the air/water that wasn't there before" sense and the "I can see the damage this is causing relatively directly". Greenhouse gas emissions is much more ephemeral, since things like carbon dioxide are natural parts of the atmosphere and are released to some extent by natural processes, and they only have a tangible effect on a global scale and over long time-spans.
It could be mostly an habit/mental thing. I go to the gym fasted (anywhere from 10 to 20hr fast) and I ohp/squat/deadlift moderately heavy weight for 60-90min. I also commute by bike fasted

Your body doesn't run out of energy that fast, we've just became very used to over feeding
Maybe they backed-up both to the same place and their backups got hacked?
All Those Tools
We use Slack to work, Social channels to entertain while working, what`s next for the work economy
I almost exclusively use Command strips: pictures, mirrors, and other wall decor, as well as seasonal decor.

The removal technique is crucial, pulling out will rip paint off the wall, pulling down will not. That was a lesson learned the hard way.
Amplosion got a big boost by being made by the same guy who did Apollo (pretty much the de facto Reddit client on iOS).

I don't get bothered by AMP pages that much, but I paid the few euros for Amplosion just to support Christian's work and give a middle finger to Google's attempts to take over the web.
As a contrarian, I think the author's advice is actually wrong. Organizations do not exist in a vacuum. They are not an end in itself. The purpose of an organization is to fulfill a mission. The organization should be designed to execute its mission in the most cost effective and transparent manner.

With Non-profits, your customers are your donors. Who is funding you (sales)? What do they want (features & results)? How do you show that you are spending their money wisely (metrics & governance)? The organization is nothing more than people put in place to solidify and execute those needs.
I suspect this is obvious to the HN audience, but this work is nice little exposition on some concepts of Information Theory. I wonder if Claude Shannon had any thoughts on it.

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

https://utopiaordystopia.com/tag/claude-shannon-a-mathematic...
You sell the talent at the company to Google.
Which came first? You giving your phone number away online, or the scam calls?
I assume that bug is referring to the fact that while i = i + 1 may look atomic to you as a human, in the computer it turns into

Read i into register.
Add one to that register.
Write i back to the memory location.

And there's a window during that "add one to the register" where you can obviously have something jump in and write something else to that memory location.

What happens on your real processor is more complicated since this is going to relate to cache coherency between the processors, not directly writing RAM at that point, and that's a deep rabbit hole. I couldn't describe it all in detail anyhow. But I can observe it doesn't take much at all to turn that one cycle vulnerability into something with a larger target.
The space on posters is extremely limited. You condense several person-months into a few sentences and graphics, usually fewer words than OP used.

At the same time, the research is usually very narrow. It's hard but possible to convey a general concept in few words, but if you study the properties of a subclass of a subclass of a subclass of a subclass of organic chemicals, you simply have to use terms of art. You don't have the space to explain what a ligand is, or what paramagnetism is, and you don't need to anyway, because your audience likely understands the concepts better than you do.
I always thought Huxley's book completely failed as a critique. The savage in the story is quite literally that, a take on the noble savage myth. We're supposed to buy that he's more free because he's just like, authentic man, similar to Orwell's obsession with chocolate and fountain pens in 1984.

The dumb worker peons always seemed silly because any sufficiently advanced control society would at the very least lift people up to be more useful, his characters are comical references to socialists (Lenina etc), it's so trite.

It's also full of conservative moral panic, for example the sexual freedom and alternative experiences through synthetic drugs never get a serious treatment as potentially positive. Why not celebrate the fact that you can create children synthetically and women are freed from reproductive obligations? The book never goes beyond "oh no the family is dead, orgy porgy!"

The book's plagued by the same provincial pastoralism you find in almost any British upper-class writer, be it Orwell, Tolkien, Huxley or C.S. Lewis.
The general issue is that we have a democracy (of sorts) and there is no coherent party platform/philosophy/approach that could make a majority happy -- at least not for long. As a result, in order to win some elections (have some power) the major parties are formed out of coalitions of disparate groups that can manage to hold their noses and work together.

The bigger and more diverse your coalition the more you win, but bigger more diverse coalitions are harder for any individual member or subgroup to actually like. This is the dynamic pushing parties to be the most objectionable they can get away with, while still actually winning. The winning move isn't to be liked, but to be disliked less than your opponent.

I'll just note, this is a general issue in democracies, not just the two-party system in the US. In the US the coalition is formed before the election and in some other systems the governing coalition is formed after.

You can sometimes get a semblance of a coherent political approach that can outright win elections. But it doesn't last.
Same here, I ironically found I was more tense & jittery after no caffeine for a year.

Found one coffee or tea a day made me feel much more relaxed at end of day.
Cache – Tiny automated stores that deliver
European Parliament backs ban on remote biometric surveillance
Opacity (of which complexity is a form) is an impediment to accountability. I agree there are many reasons that I don't want mass surveillance and profiling, but I think a lack of accountability of a system is a very large force-multiplier for the malignant effects its ends up having.
Found the journalist, ever so fond of providing partial context so they can twist other people's word into meaning what they want.

You know what's best than providing some context and analysis? Providing a pointer to the whole context.

If it's science, there is a DOI or citation that lets anyone get to the source. There is no valid reason at all to not provide the source.

Also, figurative language is a lie made up by the establishment I guess.
Schadenfreude, me? I'm sad about it. It's a predictable problem.

But no matter how anyone feels about it, the vaccines does what they do. It's a pity that they only protect those who get vaccinated, it would have been better if everyone were protected, but that's still a lot better than protecting noone.

I think you should probably look at other statistics. Pay attention to the difference between "hospitalisations per capita" and "hospitalisations per infectee". The latter has dropped to match vaccinations here, the former has gone up and down. People know that the risk of going dancing has dropped by 90%, so they go dancing.
Caveat Emptor. Probably better odds than PowerBall at least. But yes, avoid, avoid, avoid IMO. You can't stop people from trying to get rich quick.
You're totally right that there isn't any consistency in this space at the moment. It's part of the justification for tools like SQLFluff starting to align people on a common way of writing SQL. None of the incumbent players have an incentive to do that.
Origin of new emergent Coronavirus and Candida diseases–Terrestrial or cosmic?
Nutty article suggesting Covid and other diseases came from meteorites
≈ 31990 US short tons
I think that's pretty fatalistic. The way I see it, bugs are not inevitable, but a consequence of (often good) decisions that get made in a software project. Decisions by developers, managers, product owners, marketers lead to them. Decisions to adhere to a deadline, to add another feature, to focus on this and not that, to learn or not learn from previous mistakes. The fact that these decisions tend to be made in a certain way at a lot of companies makes it look like bugs are intrinsically inevitable in software.

Bug-free software can exist, but almost always doesn't because you have to ship, or because you don't have enough staff or time to fix them all, or because the requirements are not perfect, or any number of other perfectly valid reasons.
Too many problems to care about and not enough time? That's the human condition. What defines us is the choices we make, the priorities they set.

I can't know what they felt when they made those choices. But I can see the choices and the outcomes. I get there's some theoretical difference between willfully fucking people over to get rich and being so blinded by eagerness to get rich that you fuck people over as a side effect. But either way they worked very hard to get positions of power that affected millions and then were indifferent to the harm they caused, so it's not like this happened by accident.
and man will never go to the moon...
A lot of people on HN downvote for disagreement, which I think creates a chilling effect, reinforces groupthink and results in a warped view of reality. For what it's worth, I try to balance that out by upvoting gray'd out comments that are sincere or well argued regardless of whether I personally agree with the statement or not. One of the things I appreciate about HN is seeing positions that challenge my existing ideas.
Why does drywall suck? It's durable, easily patchable, cheap, easy to install or modify, and takes paint well. And pretty much any drywall anchor will work to mount a vacuum cleaner charging mount or coat rack to the wall without any issues.
The fact is that working for a company is investing a lot of your time and energy to make this company more powerful.

Your work count. Really.

So your work should be as much as possible aligned with your moral values. Lot of people blind themselves with the salary and weak justification. I find that complete hypocrisy.

Now, is the company you are working for aligned with your own moral values?

Only you can answer that ;-)
Because the US government wants to maintain access to FBs data. Shutting down FB would be a big blow to surveillance, hence they will never do anything serious against it. They’ll just put on a show, scream publicly in outrage about what FB does or whatever, and then nothing substantial will come out of it, because they never intended to do anything in the first place.
We do actually automate this away by deleting PVCs when they are tied to PVs on nodes with our drain taint on them and their pod is in the pending state. We also delete pods owned my StatefulSets that have missing PVCs. These two control loops really grease the wheels. It's definitely frustrating that statefulset pvc management isn't fully declarative, but hopefully this improves.
There are plenty of professions where the people work just as hard as professional sports people. The wealth accumulated has nothing to do with working hard or not working hard, but rather with the public visibility of the outcome of the work (and ability to make money with that).
Which explains why grid-scale hydropower, solar power, wind power, etc. have all failed, new construction has all but ceased, and existing installations are being closed down...?
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I wish we had public Monte Carlo simulations for the economy.

It's hard watching people argue about things with almost no evidence. The cynic in me is starting to think that that's all politics is. But imagine if people did have evidence, or at least projections within an error bound like the roughly 3% margin of error for polls, and could make decisions based on likely outcomes.

For example, how much would taxes on the US middle class decrease if taxes on the wealthy were raised? How much lower would they be after 5 years, 10 years, if that excess capital was reinvested in, say, an automation moonshot? I've framed a scenario which is obvious to me after running the simulations in my mind over 40 years of watching the national debt increase, but maybe I'm wrong (unlikely).

This site has a "Sample Size Calculator" tab which has a calculator for the number of samples needed to reach a certain confidence level:

https://www.pollfish.com/margin-of-error-calculator/

More info:

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

For a population size of 350 million, to get to a 95% confidence level with a 3% margin of error, requires polling 1068 people. Getting to 99% only requires 1849 people.

Now why can't we write something like the program from the article, maybe with some Bayesian inference, maybe some machine learning, with big sample sizes and high confidence levels? This may be the plot of some dystopian novel, but, surely more evidence would help inform a populace that's being spoon-fed ignorance by coopted media?
There has been for a long time the spark of a science of software quality that analyzes and categories software defects, how they are created, and how they are found, e.g. work by Boris Beizer in the past and more recent work by Cem Kaner. But, frankly, there isn't enough interest from either academia or industry to go much further than that and most undergraduate programs give software quality and testing at best a passing mention. Kind of ironic, considering how abundant bugs are these days.
I find Whats App to be the easiest of the 3: Whoever has WhatsApp has a mobile phone. So, it's just a matter of sending them SMS instead of WhatsApp. The odd situation is when contacting companies via WhatsApp, but most companies usually have alternative methods of contact.
Buy a wake-up light alarm clock. Costs max. 50€ for a base version. Popular here in the Nordics for obvious reasons.
>So, is it possible that Google has given up on AMP in Safari on iOS 15 because of the popularity of AMP blocking extensions?

This doesn't make any sense. If AMP is strictly beneficial for google, why would google give up because of a few people with AMP blocking extensions? Surely it's still worth going after the stragglers? You don't see them giving up on ads just because adblock is popular.

I suspect the reason is far more benign: AMP is enabled on a whitelist basis, and they haven't whitelisted ios 15 yet.
Riemann's hypothesis, if true, is proven in an infinite number of ways in the library.

But the library also contains an infinite number of flawed attempted proofs.
Everytime I hear this company name I am reminded of something else... Olivetti, the Italian typewriter and computer maker from forever ago ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olivetti_S.p.A.
This is how I run mine - SD for boot, USB SSD for root.

You can run NVMe on a Pi4, sort of... if you replace the USB3 controller with a bridge PCB that routes PCIe out the USB ports properly for some other adapters. I don't recall if they got it working reliably or not. And then if you use the CM4, you can certainly have reliable NVMe.

But I'm just not sure it really matters. USB3 SSDs, UAS or not (I've run into UAS issues and while you can tell the difference in a benchmark between having it and not, I can't tell the difference in end use) are more than fast enough for daily use.

I've done a writeup of making a Pi4 desktop here: https://www.sevarg.net/2019/12/14/building-raspberry-pi-4-de...

The only real change is that the kernel now has zswap provided as a module, so you don't need to build a kernel unless you just think building a kernel on a Pi is cool (which it indeed is).

It's not fast, but it's more than adequate for light desktop use. If you want more guts behind it, the ODroid N2+ is about twice as fast, for not an awful lot more money.
Yes they are. It really does make a difference.
I don't think number of users is the metric that really matters. I care a lot more about market cap because money is what gives corporations greater leverage to do bad stuff.
No one said anything about remaking the site! Just finishing up some server-side performance improvements in order to e.g. get rid of the More links in long comment threads.
I've always enjoyed the idea of the library of babel. Shameless self-promotion: https://aarontag.dev/2020/12/06/youtube-library-babel-sectio...
If the author's theory is correct, I guess Google's worry is that if they annoy users with AMP they might come looking for extensions and install not just AMP blockers but also ad/annoyance blockers.
Clearly it wouldn't be practical to mint platinum coins at the current price. Instead, they would profit from the difference as they debase the dollar. Therefore the total obligations become important in the calculation. The weight of the coins would become the new USD valuation in this scenario. A 'backstop' as I mentioned above.
I have no idea why we can't focus on misuse by both governments and corporations. Your argument seems to be that even though harms can occur from misuse by two types of organizations (governments and industry), there is no point to addressing the harms from one type of organization (governments) because the other type of organization (industry) is more likely to commit harms. With that logic, you'd never get anything done.
> In short, what's the point of a lengthy declaration of "rights" that almost none of the members seems committed to.

The stated point of the UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights is to prevent the need for constant Declarations of Independence through violent revolution.
> Because climate-change is eating the world. CPUs need power. Less CPU-usage equals less power-consumption.

Faster code might result in more CPU-usage not less, because the amount of real world value derived by the same amount of electricity increases.

That being said I'm all for more efficient & faster code.
The reason that those people care about formatting is that it matters when the code is used to communicate with other people, not just with machines. Having a consistent style within the team, means the team can communicate more easily - even if the net effect for an individual working on a codebase alone is minimal.
Best time to invest into fusion research was 50 years ago. Second best time is now.

Nuclear fission is one of a few (if not the only) viable ways to have significant positive impact on climate change short-term (20 years).

Small rant on nuclear waste. I don't think it's a problem. I think it's a solution to fuel future generations of reactors (50+ years). I'd go as far as assume that e.g. Finland could import nuclear waste and store it in that new state-of-the-art nuclear waste repository.
They would make money now to store the waste, and then make money eventually when tech is there to reuse it and generate power.
Wouldn't you need to modify Cache-Control?

>>If there is a Cache-Control header with the max-age or s-maxage directive in the response, the Expires header is ignored.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Headers/Ex...

Edit: Also I'm not sure that is the relevant one? Reddit sets Cache-Control to "private, max-age=3600 [seconds]", but it definitely reloads the content if I back up in less than an hour.
Since a commercial fusion reactor hasn't yet been developed, you can't argue that it is or will be the same cost per-megawatt as fission power. That's because you can't predict any advances in technology that make fusion easier or reduce the capital cost.

Based on a HN recommendation, I read this book: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Future-Fusion-Energy-Popular-Scienc...

The authors argue that ITER will get there and it's a matter of time, funding, and politics. SPARC might be able to get there around roughly the same time. Neither will be hooked up to the grid, but they will demonstrate the tech needed to make a viable fusion power plant. Unfortunately none of the other exciting fusion projects out there will be able to get off the ground due to fairly fundamental limitations.

If you ignore any tedious jokes about when fusion power will be ready, and assume it will be ready in a few decades, it's still a process that converts reasonable quantities of seawater into power, with no CO2 emissions, and is relatively safe compared to fission.

It won't be ready in time to reduce emissions enough to prevent catastrophic climate change. However, it can be ready soon enough to power the devices we'll need to sequester CO2 from the atmosphere once we've reduced our emissions to the point of diminishing returns.

After the concept has been demonstrated, there's plenty of scope for improvement which will make it better and cheaper. On the other hand, the price of oil will increase as emissions taxes are introduced (I hesitate to say that we'll run out of reserves).

There's a lot more mileage in fission technology that what's commonly deployed for power, but the new types of reactors needed make it far easier to produce weapons(). Also, although fission technology is mature and safe, the human factors around it are not, which will still lead to accidents, contamination, and deliberate theft.

() Fusion reactors would also make it possible to breed fissile material since they are a neutron source but it would be slower and easy to detect.