skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You mean the total energy saved across all devices? The only context in which anybody could give a fig about that is as it relates to total global energy consumption, of which it is an utterly neglible speck.

Edit: Had a go at putting some numbers on that for fun, and will partially retract my comment (no I don't, see below).

If it takes [1] around 0.01kWh to charge a smartphone, there are [2] around 6 billion smartphones, each is charged once a day and this saves 0.05 (wrong,see below) of that usage, the saving is on the order of 3GWh/day, i.e. around 125MW.

Total global energy consumption is [3] around 20 TW, so the saving is around 0.0006% of it, and this is a very generous estimate (chrome isn't all the consumption of a smartphone, not all phones are in active use and charging once a day, etc).

That said, in absolute terms it's more than I would have guessed - comparable to the electricity consumption of a small town (no, much less, probably less than the output of a single wind turbine - see below).

[1] https://www.quora.com/How-much-in-kwh-does-it-take-to-charge...

[2] https://www.statista.com/statistics/330695/number-of-smartph...

[3] https://www.theworldcounts.com/stories/current_world_energy_...

Edit 2: On reflection, I think this is an big overestimate. I suspect the real saving is on the order of a few MW.

Edit 3: As the reply says, I missed a zero, which brings it down to probably on the order of a MW.
They are a business company.
ripgrep doesn't seem to just be fast, it has a good set of features compared to the alternatives too! https://beyondgrep.com/feature-comparison/
What you’re asking for as someone said is pretty much Heroku.

Heroku is so expensive up front that it usually seems cheaper to DIY on AWS directly though.
In practice, leftism has led to the most tyrannical, murderous, and totalitarian regimes in human history. That's the simple fact of the matter, and no amount of coping can change it.

The fact that you even dare to excuse Soviet totalitarianism with the perennial excuse of tyrants, "the need to defend the revolution never ended", betrays your own authoritarian leanings.
Isn’t the ukulele thing straight from Israel Kamakawiwo`ole’s take on “Somewhere Over the Rainbow”, or a bleak imitation thereof?

I want my 60s-70s orchestral muzak back. Complete with grainy 24fps footage of sunny cities with enormous futuristic-looking business centers and viaducts, successful-looking smiling people riding those ginormous cars to work. Keith Mansfield, David Lindup, Alan Hawkshaw. Big names of library music.

The synthwave era in comparison sounds somewhat decadent. But I like it too.
We used to call this the "Scunthorpe problem" - how do you filter for obviously rude names while still allowing people to have their actual names? Bearing in mind that some people's names are actually rude.

I worked on the application form processing for the Nectar card launch in the UK back in the early 2000's, and we had several cases. Luckily we had human data-entry clerks in the loop, so all we had to do was flag when a name contained anything on the "Scunthorpe list" and get a human to look at it. Even then it wasn't perfect and a few slipped through. One of the early PR messes of the launch was someone getting a Nectar card issued with a rude name, and of course they immediately went to the press with it [0]

I'm interested to see they still haven't solved this [1]

[0] I never saw the journalistic interest in this: this guy said his name was <rude name>, and then signed the form to say everything on the form was true. Why is anyone surprised or interested that we accepted his name was what he said it was and gave him a card in that name?

[1] https://metro.co.uk/2015/02/20/woman-refused-sainsburys-nect...
> But IP is much less clear, and the view that "it's my database so it's my data" is not actually universally legal when the data concerns humans.

The whole notion that someone could have a legal property interest in personal data collected by others is exceedingly modern. Even the most abstract scholarly work presaging the concept can only be traced back a few decades. Similarly, privacy as a concrete, distinct legal concept is only slightly older. (Notwithstanding the historical narrative gymnastics legal and social policy advocates often perform in their attempts to appeal to tradition.)

Suffice it to say, modern concepts regarding privacy and personal data aren't very useful in understanding banking practices and property regimes that can be traced centuries, if not millennia, in nearly identical forms.
I suspect that you may've skimmed the article a bit fast. The author uses terminology a little differently while developing their explanation.

For example, with respect to compressibility, the author isn't saying that water isn't compressible in the physical sense, but rather that it's not compressible in the mode of its behavior in their prior example (which they refer to as a "Naïve Implementation"). Which they're correct about -- their naive implementation would be more like an ideal-gas at near-vacuum pressures, which would be pretty unrealistic for water under normal conditions. And they also explain that non-compressibility (in the physical sense) is merely an approximation.

Then as for pressure-differences, the author has stuff like a variable called "difference_in_p" and writes about the pressure-field and such. So, no worries, they're not actually confused about incompressible fluids being able to have pressure-differences.

You are right that they typo'd "Navier-Stokes equations" in two different ways: they always seem to miss the last "s" in "Stokes", and sometimes they non-idiomatically put Stokes's name before Navier's. Presumably the author should fix the spelling of Stokes's name -- the latter might be a stylistic quirk (sometimes folks may intentionally re-order a list of names, arguing that it'd be more fair that way).

All that said, I can appreciate how it might be odd to see common terms used in a conceptual-development in a manner inconsistent with their meanings in the standard literature. It might be helpful for the author to include something like a disclaimer that they're taking a constructivist approach, and that the terminology used during construction may vary from the final definitions one'd arrive at once the standard theory is constructed.
My car got beaten up not too long ago. Costly yes, but nothing compared to constant surveillance, it doesn't even come close. Of course that would have a chilling effect on behavior everywhere. If crime goes down, more security companies should go belly up. We don't yet see that happen with the latter.
Paywalled, looks interesting. I hope it explores the "to what goal or endpoints" form of "why". Chinese strategic planners cannot be unaware of the effect this alienation has, so there must be a rationale which justifies it internally. A story (if you like) which makes the cost acceptable for the benefit.

China is apparently unloading coal in previously blackballed Australian shipments. That's a stellar climb down in the trade dispute, a minnow (economically) has won a point over the giant.
MIT 6.840J/18.404J (Fall 2020) – Theory of Computation, Prof. Michael Sipser
Youtube playlist - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLUl4u3cNGP60_JNv2MmK3...
Right, wrt. C++ the "square" operation on signed integers makes the whole program undefined if overflow occurs, whereas the Rust equivalent is defined to wrap using two's complement arithmetic. And of course the square of INT32_MIN cannot be represented in int32_t.
Words can expand from their original meanings, you know. Look at any music player or just everyday speech, you'll see "song" being used to refer to a discrete unit of music in the same way you could use "track" or "tune".
> On top of that, many technology companies have built their whole platforms on top of LLVM.

That is irrelevant, as most of those companies are keeping their modifications to LLVM closed-source. They are not at all interested in fostering a healthy open-source ecosystem around LLVM.

> GCC doesn't really have that.

This is just wrong. Just as a single example, the first ever C++ concepts implementation was written for GCC by Andrew Sutton, a University professor and co-author with Bjarne of the concepts proposal. LLVM's implementation came years later, and it's not as stable or complete to this day.

> If Red-Hat and other private companies withdraw support, there are really few people familiar enough with GCC to keep it afloat, few people interested in learning and contributing because that won't land them industry jobs, etc.

Again, no. There is nothing in the 30+-years long history of GCC that suggests that this would happen.
Hah most PCs I used of that era would have complained about a non-bootable disk being in drive A: :)
AFAIK, YouTube actually losing money by offering paid ads opt-out.
> In other words, act like a person who is trying to make friends with another person.

Yeah, but "act like a person who is trying to make friends with another person" is unusable when you don't know how to make friends. It's like with holy texts saying "Love thy neighbour", but Kamasutra is more specific.
It seems like one potential endpoint of this type of research, beyond the medical applications, would be to explore the effects of synthetic amino acids that allow the incorporation of other materials into the protein output.

This could open the door to materials synthesis and other types of fabrication.
Nicely done. I enjoyed it. One even had the airstrip on top I suggested elsewhere. Hurr!

I also didn't know someone seriously considered giant nuclear airships? Did this come straight out of Hollywood, or was it the other way around?!

But there is something in these concepts I don't get. In the depictions of the 'promenade' there is always solid ground where you stand on, and then have to lean over to look down through angled windows. Why not make at least parts of the promenade fully transparent, like it is on some observation decks in tourist destinations? Also the cabins seem to be a waste of room. I think something between a capsule hotel and https://sleepbox.com/ would suffice. In this mode of transport everything should be about maximizing the special viewing experience. The rest for lounge, bar, restaurant, salon, maybe selfcleaning toilets and washrooms. If tired? Sleep. Why would I need so much room for sleep? Given a travel time of some days to maybe two weeks? Just watch, watch, watch and relax :-)
They're not alone. Lots of states seek to regulate this terrible social policy outcome, algorithms are immensely bound up in governance issues.
The infinite four chord inspiration sound is quite dreadful (shame on you, Hans Zimmer), but I do hope we never revert to the times of KPMG, we're strong as can be: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NCvKXgp-Awo. If you haven't heard it, first prepare some ear bleach before you click.
> a broadly-representative sample population will naturally reflect the original Brexit voting ratios, approximately

Yes but that's not what you want? Surely you want to remove the effect of that, have 50% who would vote each way, so that ideology is removed and the results are purely about 'how it's going'?
Maximising Your Slut Impact: An Overly Analytical Guide to Camgirling
I agree, but I think that it is even worse than that.

French curriculum theoretically includes Python starting from at the latest in "seconde" (10th year of education). Before that, for four years this is theoretically Scratch.

The teaching of Python is abysmal in terms of quality (it was dropped on teaches that had no dev experience at all) but that's another story.

All the calculators for high school now have Python built in but when it comes to actually using it, well it is forbidden.

This is France in its glory: pretend that we are teaching "how to code", and then for the ones who actually learned it - forbid its use in exams.

The French education system has its great sides (especially early on, and particularly kindergarden) and also horrible ones that should quickly be changed (preparation schools, fake elitism and ideas of anonimization at the same time, ...). I know of many brilliant high-schoolers who unfortunately went abroad to get their diploma because it make more sense.
If you're not going to mention what it is then you come across as snarky.
I'm curious, doesn't Hyperbaric Oxygen Treatment contribute to oxidative stress? What happens if someone does it regularly?
That’s fascinating to me. How would you describe your dreams (as in rem sleep dreams)?
AMD says Windows 11 is slowing down its processors by up to 15%
Modern Visual Studio should be good enough for most projects. Also I've heard good things about CLion.

I'd try VScode as well. Not sure if it's good, but it'll get better, that's for sure, it's extremely hyped project ATM.
Relevant Tantacrul video about the current era of corporate music: https://youtu.be/AIxY_Y9TGWI
But in a Caesar cipher only some types of computation is possible (to wit, addition and subtraction).

Now, "multiplication" of letters is, well, dodgy as a concept. But, the thing is that you can build encryption systems where D(E(k) op V) is equal to k op V, and op contains both addition and multiplication.
Delivery drivers have amongst one of the most dangerous jobs in the western world.

https://www.ishn.com/articles/112748-top-25-most-dangerous-j...
The way Sweden and other countries do this is through a car ownership tax, where things like address road usage, traffic accidents, state own parking and other aspects get funded. Gasoline is then taxed independently, so when people buy a electric car they still pay the car ownership tax. On top of those are congestion and road tolls.

Last time someone on HN discussed the Australia law I asked if Australia had a car ownership tax. It seems that they do, but that the money isn't enough to support road maintenance. Seems the easy answer to the new Australia law would be to increase the car ownership tax, lower the gasoline tax to match the increase, and then you don't need a special law for electric cars. No need to reinvent the wheel.
A guide to using modern OpenGL functions
I've found out that Github provides clickable Java identifiers. Like IDE. Incredibly convenient for your use-case, if it works.
Mycelium Mesh – low-bitrate, long-range, off-grid text messaging system
A workaround is not available at the time. AMD suggests that customers use Windows 10 whenever possible instead as the operating system is not affected by the issue.
Oh, you mean target architectures. But stuff like SuperH is used only for embedded these days, where even C is often rather idiosyncratic. For most coders, Zig is comparable to other mainstream languages in terms of supporting mainstream platforms.

Anyway, this is really a matter of implementation, not a language issue. There's nothing about Zig that makes it inherently impossible to support SH2 or any other platform - indeed, as others have noted, they already have a C backend in the works, so the endgame is to support everything that has a C compiler.

Also, as far as C interop goes, if I remember correctly, Nim can't just take a C header and expose everything declared in it - you still have to manually redeclare the functions and types that you want in Nim, no? You can use c2nim, of course, but that's not really any different than generators for other languages, and requires extra build steps etc. Zig handles it all transparently.
Yang was an outsider who didn't have access to a deep bench of campaign talent the way an established candidate would. It seems entirely possible to me that you are correct but Yang himself isn't to blame -- amateurs were the best available people he had to hire.

In any case, he is right about the duopoly. In order to overcome the duopoly, we need the involvement of major public figures. I haven't seen many volunteer--I'll take what I can get. I would prefer he advocate for approval voting though: https://electionscience.org/
That's ironic.
When you say “if your stack was simpler” do you mean “if your problem was trivial”? I’m always interested in simpler ways to do things, but solving distributed system and data governance issues tends to involve putting things in different places.
IceCat has not had an update since before quantum came out iirc. Though I haven't checked in on it lately.
There seems to be a lack of argument here. What do you think the relative pro- and con- are of the UK's visa system vs the rest of Europe? Is it particularly difficult for a foreigner to get in to the UK?

Note that London has unusually high concentrations of foreign-born inhabitants, for example. It isn't clear to an outsider which will have more unfriendly policies between the UK and Europe.
I always wondered what the differences between all those mysteriously named search tools are, great resource, thanks for sharing!
> There are actually many examples of things working different for the mirror image, e.g. many medical/chemical compounds work differently based on chirality.

It "works different" because you consider only change in one part of system. You change compound, but rest of system stays the same. If you mirror entire system, it works almost the same way (differences due to parity violation by weak force are millions time smaller than required to even detect differences).
Great. I’m waiting eagerly to see how my competition will try to report my app to get it kicked from the App Store.

And Apple being apple they might even be successful.
Sadly I think this kind of is true.
I am used Modafinil it's work
It works well but shakes me when taken with coffee. I have been in it for over 10 years. Start small with a low dose and work your way to a dose that works best for you. Surprisingly, I slowly lowered my volume but still felt awake (especially). It’s not as good as Ritalin for strength training, like when I need to drive long distances. Don’t try to double it, all I got was a blind head! The very natural feeling of caution compared to Ritalin can make me a little “buzzy”.
I really like SourceTrail[0]. Unfortunately they've just announced that they're stopping development.
[0] https://www.sourcetrail.com/
It drives me crazy how socially acceptable racism against Chinese people is on hacker news. In another thread I saw a top comment say about a paper “I won’t believe it until westerners reproduce it”. This despite several authors being based at US universities (but having Chinese names!)
Samsung Samsung Foundry to Almost Double Output by 2026
According to WSJ, her NDA permits disclosure to Congress, regulatory bodies like the SEC, and law enforcement. The disclosure to the press (the public) however is a different question.

Transcript as alternative to YouTube

https://archive.org/details/CSPAN_20211006_050100_Facebook_W...
"When I Ran for President, It Messed With My Head"

https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2021/10/03/andrew-yan...
With default options, Rust programs overflow in a limited way most people call 'safe', and C++ programs that would overflow have undefined behavior which is very unsafe.

> The failure cases for mistaken wrapping and "mistaken undefined" (the latter meaning that the compiler is allowed to assume that overflow cannot happen) are not different.

They are extremely different. You still get a number with overflowing, and most of the time it's the number you want. If you expect wrapping, it will always be the number you want. Undefined behavior can be much more broken, and it will actively defy expectations.

No language will force you to write correct code. Safety is related but not a synonym for correct.
> Edward Snowden is absolutely a leftist

On what basis do you claim that? Does the following paint the picture of a leftist in your mind?

> And he became furious about Obama’s domestic policies on a variety of fronts. For example, he was offended by the possibility that the new president would revive a ban on assault weapons. “See, that’s why I’m goddamned glad for the second amendment,” Snowden wrote, in another chat. “Me and all my lunatic, gun-toting NRA compatriots would be on the steps of Congress before the C-Span feed finished.”

> At the time the stimulus bill was being debated, Snowden also condemned Obama’s economic policies as part of a deliberate scheme “to devalue the currency absolutely as fast as theoretically possible.” (He favored Ron Paul’s call for the United States to return to the gold standard.) [...] He sent Ron Paul two contributions of $250 during the 2012 presidential primaries.

Ayn Rand seems to have inspired his personal philosophy. [0]

[0] https://fee.org/articles/snowden-s-muse-was-ayn-rand-s-john-...
Google's text-to-speech and speech-to-text models are still closed source ...
But I never said the reverse, you're putting words in my mouth by way of the parent comment. Sure letting extended family members stay in touch is a good thing. Keeping childhood/high school relationships going past when they might previously have ended is probably good thing (I'm skeptical but I'd like to be wrong.)

But when those goals have to come at the expense of subversion of democratic institutions (elections of which no fraud can be found) and at the expense of scientific data that is deluding people to think that vaccinations are suspect I'll draw the line. FB does (and enriches itself from) far more damage to society than which it provides.
In some religious rituals, devotees offer luxury items to gods to appease them. These are items like new clothes, food, maybe even non-metallic jewelry. These are subsequently burned on a pyre by the way of offering them to the gods. Bitcoin is like that, only now you have a receipt on the blockchain. I like it.
What I mean is that it is almost never possible to prove who caused ESD damage. It just fries some unfortunate internal part of some integrated circuit.

And I can understand companies not wanting to deal with this.

When I design electronics I often think of how to make it resistant from people touching it on the outside (ports, enclosure, etc.) but there is about nothing I can do to prevent it getting killed due to direct touching the PCB.

And newer designs are only getting more and more fragile. This mainly due to more and more of the circuit being integrated in chips (so when you touch it it is more likely to hit directly a chip), faster communication paths (so they have less capacitance which could be helpful in filtering the shock) and finer manufacturing process (the chips themselves are less and less resistant to ESD).
Electrically that is probably pretty inefficient. No doubt that it still makes sense economically.
This is the exact summary of what is wrong and need to be improved. Thanks for that.

The .NET Foundation needs a revitalization and maybe a split into a ".NET Foundation" and a ".NET Community Foundation" to separate the .NET and the .NET community. The F# community is much better in this separation of community and Microsoft.
When trying to view a profile, I've been redirected to an interstitial page with this text:

> Please note that all Users on SpaceHey have full control over their Profiles and they are able to embed content from 3rd-party Servers. This means that in addition to the SpaceHey privacy policy, you are bound by the privacy policy of any third party content provider that the user may have embedded in their profile. By proceeding, you acknowledge this fact.

I appreciate the warning. At the same time I'm not comfortable accepting a privacy policy without being able to read it. It feels as if there should be another way to approach this.
We need a central baby bank to target a minimum fertility rate... People will call it out because it failed to reach its target.

The baby bank will do baby QE, it will buy birth certificates and in exchange pay college tuition. Then people will say that baby QE does nothing. Just because people can pay tuition doesn't mean they actually go to college.
Also, in theory, they get a fair compensation in case of injury.