skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I mostly agree, except that in theory an A4 at 21% efficiency is 13 W, not 6. But those monocrystalline panels produce 0 in the library, on the subway, on the bus, etc.
>it's way easier to find exactly what you want in the online catalogue of literally everything than it is to move around in the physical world

Perhaps if cities and communities were pleasant places to walk and bicycle this could change. In that case, the traveling is a positive addition and makes the trip enjoyable rather than a negative cost.
Not everything needs to be monetized.
Cool! Any recommendations for where I should look for more information about Spanish projects?
Secure boot can only be disabled on x86/_64 systems. It is decreed that ARM systems not be user deactivatable.
Yeah for sure I was just struck by the simple brilliance of it. Of course even the ability to live at home and attend college is a privilege many folks don't have access to these days.
That's the thing about seeing a problem coming and working to fix it before it happens: an adequate reaction looks the same as an overreaction from the outside, and the "lol overreaction" narrative is way more viral.
Thanks for the PDF link. I downloaded it and the funny thing is that it ended up at 4755(1).pdf on my computer. I had downloaded it in July, but neglected to read it, or remember that I downloaded it!

BTW I found an earlier citation for the hourglass metaphor after publishing the post:

https://www.oilshell.org/blog/2022/02/diagrams.html#addendum

(John Aschenbrenner in 1979, with reference to a 1984 article by Jean Bartik)

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I see your point, but my main focus is on writing O(M + N) code, not O(M * N) code, and the narrow waist captures that. I'm making an analogy from networking to software.

The linked video uses "coding the area" vs. "coding the perimeter", but even that doesn't capture the idea that there is a narrow waist that somebody actually designed! The waist is a real thing and it makes the interoperability and code reduction possible.

I think the key difference is incentives:

- In networking, there is a big incentive to interoperate (Metcalfe's law). And arguably the Internet "completed" this task decades ago.

- In software, there is an incentive to build your own walled gardens, and not interoperate (Microsoft and Win32, Apple and iTunes, Google and the Cloud, etc.).

But fundamentally there is the O(M x N) issue in both cases. Basically I'm tired of writing software for this reason :)

I'm not sure I agree that the narrow waist "falls out" of the end-to-end principle even in the networking domain. See all citations about the moving narrow waist. It's far from clear what the design should be. The narrow waist isn't pure or mathematical -- it's a deep engineering compromise and can be done well or poorly.

Even if it does fall out in networking, it definitely doesn't in software. Like the Unix syscall interface is small but far from trivial. It's been haphazardly extended. People argue about its design all the time. Ditto for ISAs -- the designs are heavily debated compromises.

There are constant arguments about narrow waists on Hacker News. The bias I tend to see is favoring local convenience over system integrity and economy.

It sounds very related to your Holy Wars article -- Thanks, I will read it and the other ones :) The Spolsky article is great and I quoted a few others here: http://www.oilshell.org/blog/2021/07/spolsky.html

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There are more dimensions to this that I would like to cover, e.g.

https://old.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/t2bapy/the_int...

Comments appreciated. I should mention the relation to Metcalfe's law, monopolies, and the end-to-end principle later at some point in the series.
Reports (to be confirmed by other sources):

"...3,500 Russian soldiers were killed, and almost 200 more were captured..."

https://www.moscowtimes.ru/2022/02/27/minoboroni-vpervie-pri...
> How is that any different from some 19yo kid from a opioid infested family in Midwest going to Europe or Middle East in the name of democracy? Do you think those kids know what they are doing?

mandatory conscription vs a decision and desire to join? is that really not clear?
skorch also supports GPyTorch, see https://skorch.readthedocs.io/en/stable/user/probabilistic.h... :)
Off-topic: when reading the wikipedia articles that talk about "hot topics", if you want to see a less biased version, it pays to check edit history. In this case the page was last changed in November 2021 [0], before a set of changes occured starting at 21st Feb 2022. So... Be careful to at least notice the propaganda when it is happening.

(I don't have a proof of course, ymmv, and all that...)

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Foundations_of_...
“He's always been a fairly plain speaker.”

Putin: No plan for Ukrainian invasion. Western hysteria.

Fairly plan liar, that is…
> Then most important lesson is never learned: si vis pacem para bellum, if we want peace we need to be prepared to war, war between countries, between People and Government, between single humans each others etc.

This is not true. It did not work to prevent WWII. The truth is that if you want peace, you need to work for it, not wish for the best. You need to keep a close eye on other actors, to act before a conflict arises, to promote understanding and cultural exchanges, and to do your best to ensure everywhere has a minimum of freedom and humanity.

This is what worked with the European Union, and how we should approach conflicts everywhere (conversation, verification, deescalation). In fact by weakening all military forces, we buy time before disaster happens. If everyone walks with a loaded and unlocked gun, sooner or later there will be (mis)firings.
“Today, most wheels have gone digital, run by algorithms programmed to favor the house”
CnC came out 1995 though - NfS 4 came out 99 ...
Thanks! However it requires Pharo 6.1, and Pharo is at v9 now.
I certainly hope we are far from that point.

Russia has had several aggressive incursions into Ukraine. Most notably the 2014 annexation of Crimea and arming of Ukrainian separatists. At the same time they were losing ground on other fronts in Ukraine. They were unable to prevent NATO troops and arms shipments from coming in. They were also loosing the propaganda and economic competition in Ukraine.
The only big sponsor being a cryptocoin startup doesn't inspire a lot of confidence.
From the article :

"Many seem surprised today, asking, "How it could come to this?" The answer can be found in these lines by Winston Churchill: "You were given the choice between war and dishonor. You chose dishonor and you will have war."
I think it’s easy to get sucked into it accidentally if the only source of tech news you read is your employer’s internal newsletters.
False dilemma

And the person you replied to oversimplified the outcome as well
Didn't Rosneft then gain whatever those shares are worth now? I get that they lost a strategic partnership, but the immediate effect is a gain for Rosneft, no?
i dont always submit youtube vids; but when i do:

im sure they are something i feel is important.

you need a hand crank to charge something up, you can modify a servo motor.

if you want to operate something from a distance, you wire two servos, or a servo and handcrank together, crank one and the other moves, so you could push a small lever to remotely operate something that goes bangbangbang, or pulls a pin out of something to allow mechanical action to occur.
After India abstained at the UNSC vote, the Ukrainian representative to the UN issued a threat, couched in the language of diplomacy, against the safety of Indian students in the country.[1] I guess Ukrainian border guards got his message:[2]

> Several Indian students fleeing Ukraine have alleged that they were harassed, beaten by the Ukrainian guards at the Poland border and were not allowed to cross over.
In one of the videos shot during night time, a student wheeling his suitcase behind him is kicked by a guard in uniform. It is not clear if the student is Indian but several other students who have been camping at the Poland-Ukraine border have alleged that Indian students have been harassed.

> "Situation is getting worse day by day. What is happening is they are torturing us. Indian students are being tortured. They are not allowing us to cross over to Poland. Even women students are being harassed. They are being pulled by their hair and hit with rods. Some women students have suffered fractures and injuries," Mansi Chaudhary, an Indian student, told NDTV from her car in Ukraine.

> "Indian embassy diplomats are helping us with food and shelter. Border guards are not letting us cross. If someone tries to cross, they attack them with rods. They are punching them in the faces. Yesterday, they also opened fire," said Ms Chaudhary returning from the Ukraine-Poland border after three days.

"I am in the car and am going back to my hostel. Have been waiting for three days, but we were not allowed to cross over. We have been tortured like animals. They are letting their people to cross over but not us," said Ms Chaudhary, who praised the efforts of Indian embassy.

This also tracks with reports of black people being prevented from crossing into Poland. There is something very wrong going on here.[3]

[1] https://youtu.be/pGj7hg76Nbk?t=84

[2] Stopped, Assaulted At Ukraine Border, Say Some Indian Students (https://www.ndtv.com/india-news/stopped-assaulted-at-ukraine...)

[3] Ukraine: Concerns mount as black people complain of racism while fleeing war zone (https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world/ukraine-concerns-mount-...)
Skimmed. I was hoping to read a deeper question about Intel's power consumption. I keep seeing benchmarks showing Intel's massive gains with the 12th gen that avoid talking about power. It's not that hard to match or exceed a competitors benchmark if you double the power budget.

I've read that for the original iPhone Steve Jobs was in talks with Intel to produce a low power x86 chip. Intel said no. The silicon landscape would be very different if that had happened.
It's nothing new though. This doctrine has been in place for decades, don't feign surprise.
Books by Matt Ridley:

- The Evolution of Everything: How Ideas Emerge

- How Innovation Works

- Francis Crick: Discoverer of the Genetic Code
This is my fear and the reason not to charge. Even though I've had people ask me what they could pay :)
Dude is missing the complicated parts:

Check whom to to report the changes.

Check how to write your commit message, with or without Changelog.

Subscribe to some mailing list (because free software is stone age)

Post your patches. You are told to sign your copyright papers.

Ask the clerk to send you the copyright papers.

Fill out the assignment request, what you did.

Wait for the assignment PDF.

Print the PDF after you've received it, sign it, scan it, send it back. In most countries via snail mail.

Wait a week or two.

Check the change requests and reviews from the mailing list. People are picky, esp. free software people.

Rebase rebase rebase.

If you are lucky you are in after some time, and your code doesn't belong too you anymore.
MOSFETs (both Si/SiC and more recent GaN) switching transistors may be made on special (Epi or Sapphire) wafers, but the Fabs are very old school (e.g. 2-6in vs 12in for CMOS) and the process geometries are practically neolithic (e.g. 90s). Processing equipment is more limited by the lack of desire to build or support something so old. Die sizes are also quite reasonable (e.g. 4kW/cm2) However, there is still enormous capacity for processing them around the world (both in US/EU, and around Asia).

Perhaps, for the new GaN on Sapphire wafers there could be a significant manufacturing limit? Mostly, those are used for Blue LEDs today.
If you follow those creators, you may want to try Glen And Friends Cooking (https://www.youtube.com/c/GlenAndFriendsCooking) for interesting takes on cooking and recipes, with new episodes every few days. The subjects are fascinating and vary widely, but they do have some regular segments.

On Sundays, for example, they do "The Old Cookbook Show," in which they pick quirky recipes from old cookbooks, typically 50 to 100 years old, but sometimes going back centuries. They cook the recipes and then describe how the resulting dishes taste—sometimes with disastrous results but other times with the rediscovery of a forgotten dish. For example, one recent epsiode is on a "100 Year Old Mississippi Cheese Pie Recipe," believed to be the precursor of the "chess pie" of southern United States fame.
If you 'can't find a game to play' while having a fast PC, you probably aren't really interested in gaming any more, not enough to justify the time cost.

Or maybe you're overwhelmed by choice, between Steam sales, Game Pass, indie games, F2P, Epic Store freebies, and more, there's always something new you can try out whithout spending much money at all.

Although I suppose it can still be hard to find something really enjoyable to play if you were obsessed with a genre that's effectively dead these days (RTS? MMOs? Shmups?). But even then, there's usually indie devs out to fill every niche they can spot
Users are probably flagging posts like this because they want to minimise the potential for flamewar. Also probably because they are embarrassed by the conspiratorial tone of most comments under such posts. Try not to take it personally. It's difficult to debate anything on the internet when it becomes the subject of conspiracy theories.
You are right if it was just a simple bet on one number. But I suspect the article is skipping out on the full description. My guess is that it involved a system where multiple bets were placed each spin - Roulette's odds can be narrowed if you place bets on a color, a third, high/low, and a number, making sure to minimize doubling down on any possible result. That puts you in a position where almost every spin, one of your bets wins and offsets some other losses. When the spin lands on the bets with higher payouts, you win more and balance out the spins where you got lesser payouts. All told, you'll slowly lose money all night, and one of two things happens - you one number hits and you win big. Or the zero hits and you've lost. It is a very complex and pain-staking way to flip a coin. But, if you have any way to game that one number, and can afford to just let those bets ride for the hours for that advantage to play out... I could see it working.

Also, back before casinos were computerized, people did spend years learning the specific machines in a specific casino. They would often do it in teams, so each person would take an 8 hour shift, and share the winnings at the end.
Not a single word about IME.
It does not require that much time either.
Agree, that really helps!
It turns out to be millions of years of sunlight, not hundreds of millions.

You have: earthmass 2000 K 1J/g/K
You want: J
* 1.1944337e+31
/ 8.3721685e-32
You have: earthmass 2000 K 1J/g/K/(circlearea (earthradius) 1000 W/m2)
You want: years
* 2968252.9
/ 3.3689851e-07
Why would I charge for my side projects? I make more than enough money to support my family from my day job. And my side projects are labors of love, not a way to get more money. Not to mention that by not charging for it, it increases the audience for the project, and knowing that other people find it useful is its own reward.
I hate IKEA stores because of the way they force you in a specific direction, like rats in a maze. It's almost claustrophobic. So I associate their brand with authoritarianism.
For Russians, this is geopolitical question.
What I mean, they feel themselves imperfect, if size of their country does not correspond with their weight in world.

Very similar to what WW1 and WW2 causes.

- In approx 1900, Germany becomes one country (before, there where many small principalities, and no central power lasts long).

So appear new country, powerful country, and they look on world and see colonial system, where nearly ALL powerful countries has colonies.
I mean whole world where divided between top countries.

First, Germany tried to reach an agreement with top countries, to cut some colonies from other countries and assign to Germany, but without fast success, because pre WW1 agreements system where extremely sophisticated, and they just cannot rebuild this system fast.

Than German powers conclude, that they could faster got wanted if make war, that's all.

To be more precise, Russia is large, but economically, it's position is worst in world, except Mongolia.
- Russia have longest in world size of land borders, near no borders on mountains, very little number of possible sea ports; extremely large territory is just ice, nothing could grow there.

- Russia really have reliable access to sea only in few places - Baltic, Black sea/Azov, and on Pacific, this is extremely little, for so large number of citizens (approx half of US).

BTW, current Russia situation is much better, than for example 200 years ago, because that time they had neighbors, who demand very high fees for access to sea.
To solve this, Russians occupied their neighbors - 300-200 years ago, Russians near constantly invade neighbors and assimilate them into their empire, so now they have another problem, google Belfast.

Now, Russians trying to work less crude, they trying to place puppet governments in all neighbors countries.

Ukraine have borders with three EU countries, and is one of the largest counties on Black sea, so Ukraine is extremely interest for logistics.

And unfortunately, current Ukraine don't have effective government system, as I said on another comment, current Ukraine officials are extremely corrupted and extremely illiterate.

So Russians concluded, that Ukraine could be easy target for occupation and/or to place puppet government, and prepared for invasion and invade.

I don's think, Russians really plan to assimilate Ukraine, most probably, planned scheme where similar to
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warsaw_Pact

BTW exists excellent movie, very good show atmosphere in Warsaw Pact countries:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bridge_of_Spies_(film)
Configuring Maven to generate code coverage report (Jacoco)
You lost me with "extra". What I'm talking about are core product team members, not freelancers. Maybe I'm hitting on the wrong issue here, but if I was a team member coding 4 hours a day I'd be just as productive as ever.

The problem I'm recognizing now is that maybe I'm really just miffed about the "butts in seats" mentality. I'd have no issue working "full-time" if that was just a way to say "team member" and didn't mean that I have to sit on my ass all day because big boss man likes it that way.

I'm either part of the team or a contractor anyway, so might as well make it official.
The fact that you thought it was a good idea to find a second source for an article from RT about RT says a lot about RT.
No sound insulation, probably loud.
"I have been deeply shocked and saddened by the situation unfolding in Ukraine and my heart goes out to everyone affected. It has caused us to fundamentally rethink bp's position with Rosneft," BP Chief Executive Bernard Looney said.

Narrowing in on the words "fundamentally rethink": I suppose that could indicate that BP did not anticipate this series of events unfolding, and that this decision to retreat was not planned in advance?
You don't need a long-term plan for waste – most plants just store it onsite – it doesn't take much space.
Brit here. Garbage. I have simply told the mixed US/UK company I worked for that they had no rights over a personal project of mine and they were cool with that. By your dismissive, failure-assured attitude I can guess that you've never tried.
Handsontable is very slow and in a lot of cases unreliable. I noticed on their own forum and their Github issues that they have many unhappy users because of these issues. So I built something that is fast and reliable (it has its own store & state and repaint functions).

It is very extensible. You can change the Context Menu, change top bar and bottom bar parts. Change theme, etc. You should find most in the docs (perhaps spend more than 10 seconds?)

I am not trying to compete with Excel here. I am offering a data table component with an Excel-like interface. I don't recommend anyone to add a "edit 1,000,000 rows" screen in their web apps. Nothing wrong with pagination.

Thanks for your comment and let me know if you have any questions: robbert@datagridxl.com
I was asking myself the same thing, and I am definitely going to change that soon.
Classic counterexample being Tim’s predecessor, Steve Jobs who took Apple from the brink and changed it into the most successful company of all time.
Bayraktars are good against Russia. Check out the video. Bayraktar destoys "Бук" - miss advanced Russian anti air-system https://m.censor.net/ua/news/3319858/bayiraktar_znyschyv_buk...
Yes, it’s basically a free buyback (reverse effect of stock split/dilution).
In case you are wondering about the mobile crematorium reference:

"Russia deploys mobile crematoriums to follow its troops into battle"
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2022/02/23/russia-dep...
Every time a post like this comes up, I state this opinion:

I fully believe that Windows will _eventually_ be replaced with a desktop environment running on top of the linux kernel.
Number of new startups, news, coins, and conversations people have about it.
I totally get where the author is coming from and it's definitely not a humblebrag. The best way I can describe it is that the author feels like the character Cypher from the Matrix, who regrets taking the red pill and waking up to reality, and wished he was warned ahead of time not to do it. That's the spirit in which the author writes this.

The character gained something, which is knowledge, but lost something, which is the ability to be satisfied ever again.

Maybe another good analogy is vampirism. Yes you gain amazing powers like the ability to live forever, shapeshifting, and super strength/healing, who could complain about that? But at what cost? You can't even go outside in the sun anymore or eat garlic knots, so maybe it's not that great.
I miss easily seeing how my coworkers use tools
I’ve seen him state that he doesn’t expect people to do all of the extra labor intensive steps. He’s showing you all the things you can do and how they enhance, you choose how far you want to take it.

I’ve been following his stuff since the aughts. At this point I almost never make his recipes as stated. I’ve learned which techniques I find worth it, which I don’t, and in others I’ve folded in things he came up with later on his own journey
Buk Missile System
This is against the portuguese constitution btw. The EU has no right to do this.
Are you hiring them per/hour? Why not do a part time salary position? They are expected to spend an agreed number of hours per week (or maybe do it by the day) and the salary is proportional to that.

If they want to change the hours then renegotiate time and salary.
Correct but since there's a characters limit in the title, I made a very small (and maybe not 100% accurate) excerpt.

>a region in the genome containing two genes has now been scrutinized by scientists: TBX15 and WARS2. This region is thought to be central to cold adaptation by generating heat from a specific type of body fat, and was earlier found to be a candidate for adaptation in the Inuits.
If this is censorship, I agree. If it’s simply restricting their access and freezing their resources, it’s fine. This is war.