skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hey! Owner of the original repo here :)

Like @tomdale, I'm surprised to see this on the front page of Hacker News!

I have been working on more detailed documentation about the overall model. It's also still in flux (and not ready for release ), but you can check it out at https://wycats.github.io/starbeam-docs/.
correct. These are "threads" that are managed by the JVM, and "context switches" do not involve a syscall.
Pardon my French, but everything about vim is serious.
What affiliation does this have with PostgreSQL?
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The only recent human population that lacked fire was the Tasmanians. They of course had fire when Tasmania was still connected to Australia, but lost the secret, probably in some catastrophe that wiped out hereditary fire-keepers.

Tasmanians were almost exterminated by British occupiers conducting safaris.
Slashing the throats of 55 billion animals every year after only a fraction of their natural lifespan is a very interesting definition of "thriving".
And, in turn, while I loathe Cloudflare, I would say that's perfectly reasonable; "Zero Trust" means that you distrust the network and possibly the clients, but you generally still have to trust, at the very minimum, something to provide identity verification, and usually some sort of network proxy in front of the actual application. So long as every connection is securely encrypted in flight, I'm pretty sure it still counts as Zero Trust.
I'm just happy to say you can now use SolveSpace to create STEP models of components for either one: https://solvespace.com/index.pl
Currently, the user is being presented with most things, so I think my framing matches the actual user perspective with better accuracy than a cheerier wording. ;)
Financial viability of farming as a business is independent of yield across all farms in a market. The consequence of radical improvements in agricultural yields lower prices (as a % of unskilled labor income) and usually means that most farmers go out of business (or export most of their crop). The upside is that the society overall gets much much wealthier.
>But frankly, I don't want to care about all this "oh, but you just have to do [insanely_technical_thing]"

>It should just work.

Then you should buy a laptop that ships with Linux and has official support from the vendor. Like the Dell XPS Developer edition, or anything from System76.
The limitations on my productivity are primarily my own reading and thinking speed. Monitor bandwidth is the least of my problems.
I don't think you can quantify any of the claims that you made in your post.

Is your argument that the "Computers can design chip components better than humans" paper is so fundamental to Google that they're silencing any critics? Conspiracy theories work better if there is even a kernel of truth to them. Maybe I could accept this if Chatterjee was rebutting advertising as a whole or something, but who exactly is so concerned about this specific paper?
You go to walmart you ask the employee "how much is that TV". The employee says $999. No contract between you and Walmart has been effected. If you go back tomorrow to buy the TV and the price has risen to $1099 you can either make an agreement or not by handing over the money in exchange for a receipt and a TV. Importantly a quote must be different from a contract because virtually all contracts have conditions beyond price that must be satisfied in order to effect a deal between parties and discussing price is a way to clarify that that particular precondition has been met not an indication that all possible preconditions have been met.

An individual can be forgiven for not understanding the difference between a quote and a contract but a corporate lawyer never had that misunderstanding in the first place. When they tried to accept and they got a response that wasn't in the affirmative they understood that no deal had been struck. What they are trying to do is argue that a hypothetical lawyer, perhaps one that nearly failed out of school, could have incorrectly concluded from a 4 word email that an agreement had been made until the next email came in an hour later ergo the court should absolutely enforce that!

The purpose of contract law is to enforce the obligations that arise from legitimate meetings of minds not for highly paid corporate lawyers to play gotcha with laymen. If the meeting of minds in question wasn't sufficiently clarified in the 4 word email then follow up clarify mutual understanding and move forward. It appears that further clarification was sought AND in fact it made clear that there was no meeting of the minds at all. Now after the fact they would like the court to enforce what they wish the counter party had agreed to irrespective of what they actually intended.

Instead they should find someone who actually wants to do business with them instead of suing people that obvious have no desire to. The court should instead make them pay for the opposing sides legal bills and a penalty for bring a frivolous lawsuit that misunderstands centuries of commerce which understands the difference between discussion on price and affirmation of a deal something that would have been expressed by a handshake in person or a follow up email to the effect of "yes that will be fine then"
> The "Harmful Partnerships" section is a list of issues the author has with third-parties, not DDG. Guilt by association.

That is literally Roy Schestowitz's entire thing, and it has been … since 2006, apparently. He's the idiot who harassed numerous free software developers for working on the Mono project (Ximian, then Novell, then Xamarin's alternative implementation of .NET; Xamarin was since acquired by Microsoft, fulfilling Roy's darkest prophecies, and nothing bad happened). His rabid blathering chased away contributors who were improving the Linux desktop and invited hostile, ugly people in their place.

He has not contributed anything remotely positive to the community for the entire history of his website. He is not a person who deserves an audience.
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Those ratios probably vary widely on the real world. Many are probably near 80%/20%, while a few may be around 99.9%/0.1% or 50%/50%.

As you get more data points, your generalization fails more and more often, and some failures are severe, adding more planning risk than everything else added.

Or, in other words, the rule works most of the time. And you can rely on it at all.
I wonder how much the software engineers at Tesla & similar think about this stuff. I bet not much.
The famines were from before the rational agricultural planning.
If time doesn't exist, then... does space exist? If space exists, does motion exist?

It's pretty clear that things exist in different places, that things move, and that for certain events, there is a "before" and an "after". It's really hard to take those seriously and still say that time doesn't exist.

Perhaps a more interesting question is, which time exists? There's (at least so far) a rather fundamental difference between time in general relativity and time in quantum mechanics. If time exists, which time is it that exists?
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Recent and related:

Achieving 5M persistent connections with Project Loom virtual threads - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31214253 - April 2022 (142 comments)
I've used my macbook in VR/AR using the Quest 2 and Meta's Horizon Workroom, and it's so obviously the future it's not even funny.

It's almost the present too.
Compared to using a real laptop, the resolution is not as good, and the headset does not last long enough, but it's already entirely usable today. I even experienced an upside: no more screen-glare!

With a way to have the headset be usable all day long, better network connectivity to stream higher quality picture, slightly better pass-through, and software that exploits the gigantic screen VR enable, I could see myself using this.

People that are skeptical of VR/AR replacing computer monitors, I suggest trying it first.
> But if your conclusions do not align with the funders desires, would your research see the light of day?

In academia: Yes. The number of grants that require pre-publishing approval from funding agency is extremely tiny. I never encountered one while in academia.
It's about exclusively saving people of a certain ethnicity, not about them helping at all.

Would you also defend charities set up to only rescue people of European ancestry, leaving Africans and Asians behind? Also why stop at rescue, all charitable help should be ethnically targeted. Nothing wrong with that, people like me can go and be black somewhere else, right?
Yes, that's not a resignation. At google, to technically resign involves filling out a form on a website, it's not something you can verbally state to your (manager's) manager. Again, Google can still say this and probably even thinks internally that's what happened, but having resigned twice from Google, that's not how it really works.
> To be sure, it’s not always exactly 80/20. Sometimes it’s 90/10. Sometimes it’s 70/30.

Note that the numbers do not need to add up to 100. Sometimes it's 50/50, 60/50, 95/90, π/e, ...

Sometimes you have no choice to go 100%, for example if you want to reach the summit of a mountain. It then makes no practical difference when you reached 80% of the height in 20% of the time (or whatever).

To make use of the Pareto Principle, and I do it a lot, means to permanently re-evaluate one's to-do list and switch task when someting else seems more promissing. This still leaves many questions open, such as: "Promissing in the short or the long run?", etc. Applying the principle is an art not a science.
The same of course goes the other way, Big Ag definitely is able to put its hand on the Department of Ag. The report I referred to is from GAO, which is much more independent than USDA.

I couldn't find the GAO report I mentioned but I found a more recent one published this year by the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, one of the more prestigious journals in the world. In their abstract in addition to mentioning US ethanol raised corn prices by 30% and other crop prices by 20% they say it

> ... caused enough domestic land use change emissions such that the carbon intensity of corn ethanol produced under the RFS is no less than gasoline and likely at least 24% higher.

Environmental outcomes of the US Renewable Fuel Standard
https://www.pnas.org/doi/suppl/10.1073/pnas.2101084119
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Another good thing about it is, that you are able to shave off heaps of overhead, if you do it right.
Most American cultures were wiped out largely by smallpox, measles and other Eurasian diseases before the Spanish got around to most places.
Well, whenever you add threads to the mix (native or virtual threads) if you don't design for it, I don't think things pan out properly (but I guess that I agree that if someone designed with native threads going for virtual threads where the same APIs can now make IO async switch threads it's probably easier to go that route).

I must say that the main usage I personally had of greenlets didn't have it in mind initially (it was used in an existing application where making the coloring wasn't really feasible as it was a huge app already and adopting green threads was much less work).
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Isnt this the Google Balloon
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I'm not sure I'm following. Rust allows:

println!("{}", if x == None { "foo" } else { "bar" });

How would unions make this more ergonomic? For example, in Python (with type annotations), you would have to do:

print("foo" if x == None else "bar")
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Thanks, I forgot where that one was.
While `x + sin(x)^2` may be monotonic itself, it only takes a simple linear combination of two neurons like `x+sin(x)^2 - (x/2 + sin(x/2)^2)` before you have a completely crazy loss landscape. I have a feeling this is why such activation functions haven't become standard.
It's a deceptive title, but it comes straight from the blog post. It's not going to teach you about straws (thankfully...are straws that interesting?). It tells you about the sources of plastic waste in general and justifies the most efficacious solutions to avoid plastic pollution. It is a short article focused on common sense, appropriate pictures, and well-chosen data.
"Fifty-six percent of all land used for corn, soybeans, wheat, and cotton was on farms that
used no-till/strip-till on at least part of their cropland in 2010-11: 23 percent of land was on
farms that used no-till/strip-till on all land in these crops while 33 percent was on farms that
used a mix of no-till, strip-till, and other tillage practices." (From the report summary.)

https://www.ers.usda.gov/publications/pub-details/?pubid=440...

Industrialized farming practices are capable of changing.
In large envs, 512gb ram servers were circa 2015. The servers being racked in those envs today can have > 10Tb and it would be unlikely to rack one with less than 2Tb, that would be a specialised node for some specific workload.
Honestly, I think the shift you are already seeing is from C++ -> a GCed language (python, javascript, java).

While C/C++ are everywhere, they are mostly in very low level places. You don't find a lot of new backend projects that go the C++ route.

Rust will likely eat up a significant chunk of C++'s current market share and SOME of the backend service market share (where CPU and Memory are REALLY important). However, I don't find it terribly likely that it will grow much beyond that.

As for the Cobol analogy, a good one, but you have to also realize there are about 1,000,000x more lines of C++ in the wild than Cobol. For cobol to die takes some institutional investment that most companies are not willing to burn. C++ will have a MUCH harder time being purged.
Didn't the great @jaden once say, "How Can Mirrors Be Real If Our Eyes Aren't Real"?
"Our simulation clearly shows that such a factor is just pure luck," say the researchers.

Yes, but remember, Fortune favors the prepared.

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I think you mean a moo point?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fLwYpSCrlHU
I used past tense because he stopped his blog/mailing list ;) At least in the form I used to read it.

But I agree that 'used to use' would be a better form without this connotation. I will strive to use this in the future in such cases.

He used to have a monthly mailing list, and I wasn't sure whether he still had a blog or something.
Well, this kinda thing isn't free. You need a rather large and complicated runtime to make it work. Fine for the JVM, which is already a large and complicated runtime, but it turns out that making a runtime like this optional is not really possible. So languages that don't have a runtime are stuck with async/await, which can be zero-cost.

And, to be fair, languages like Erlang and Go went this route LONG ago.
I agree. The declarative/functional nature of spreadsheet formulas is certainly elegant, even if you might not say the same about Excel as an application overall. The same could be said about other spreadsheets (e.g Google Sheets).
How does async/await mitigate #1? Interleaved execution is enough to give you data races; you don't need actual parallelism.
mutt, mainly because it's terminal-based and it's battle-tested. And it's not Pine.
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I've literally gone to Ikea just to eat "Swedish" meatballs
You're not going to underprice a sale because of that. Even if you believed that you could take the money and "100x itself in the cryptospace"", why not 100x $500M, instead of 100x $300M?

(Unless you disagree with the parent's point, that is, and think that that is a fair price for what was sold. I'm not commenting on that, only that "investing the proceeds in crypto" doesn't make sense in this argument.)
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Interestingly enough this genlock feature was also possible with the Sharp X68000, which was kind of like an Amiga but on steroids. Or maybe more like a late-80s/early-90s arcade cabinet machine but in a PC form factor. Beautiful machines, too bad Japanese only though they sold boatloads there.
I'm sorry to say I know little about you or the subject (so I apologize if either answer is obvious or addressed elsewhere) however since you're here:

What would you like to see NASA do differently?

What do you think of Racket (the programming language)?
That's basically what I'm hearing too!

item = np.random.choice(["macroeconomics","Venezuela"])

meme_du_jour: f"tell me you don't know about {item} without telling me you don't know about {item}"

print(meme_du_jour)
Yes, a Sun Microsystems training room in Sydney. The entire building is now gone. I was teaching sysadmin and performance classes there in the early 2000s, for both internal and external staff.
The main coloring problem beyond async is the wrapping of return types in futures, which Kotlin groundbreakingly make transparent.