skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problem with storage is that it needs to be planned for the worst case. Imagine three weeks without sun nor wind, even if that happens only once every 5 years it should be planned. And the cost of having batteries that can produce energy during 3 weeks is unlikely to be cheaper than nuclear
The million lost weren't big gas users, I suspect.
> right now U.S. oil companies are simply not improving supply to even pre pandemic levels

Supply will continue to decrease in the US, both for raw inputs and refined outputs. It has nothing to do with the pandemic or the war in Ukraine and everything to do with the world moving off of fossil fuels, making any kind of long-term investment foolish. We will continue to exploit our existing infrastructure and…that's it.

The main reason things are going offline earlier than expected is because of supply change issues related to parts (i.e. if things can't be repaired, they go offline earlier than scheduled).
Don't ruin your acid-free paper by using tap water, use bottled water for everything, including cleaning your brushes (valid for every water-based technic like acrylic, tempera, guache...).
> But if it happens, does anyone seriously believe that US could avoid re-instituting the draft?

The US no longer has a draft law because the US determined that the draft was bad both from a military manpower perspective and from a domestic politics perspective as to maintaining national will to continue a conflict.

The US will not reauthorize a draft for an overseas war while the US remains a major power. If the US collapses from major power status and the entire political and military calculus is scrambled, it might.
It's easy, you just grab each electron firmly using pliers and carefully move them closer together. Be sure you have a proper angstrom ruler to make sure they're the right distance.
I think we're on the cusp -- which side of the cusp I'm not sure -- of the Uncanny Valley of language models. They're good enough that a surprising number of people believe they're capable of human levels of cognition, but bad enough to prove that's not quite the case yet. Having played with GPT-3 (and a bit with Codex) for quite awhile now, and keeping up with the announcements of all the major breakthroughs, I can see both sides of it.

They're certainly not at human level yet. I originally got access to GPT-3 with a proposal of using it to generate unit tests for JavaScript code, which would be a massive time saver for everyone on my dev team at work. Turns out, even Codex, which is trained specifically on code, can't produce a coherent unit test for even a function as simple as one averaging an array of numbers -- and half the time, the unit test it produces isn't even syntactically valid and would just fail to run if used. Codex also had trouble understanding references to external data: when asked to produce the HTML/JS code for a table containing links to specific data, it often generated nonsensical links (and, amusingly and also not at all surprisingly, links to Rickrolls).

On the other hand, when I've given it a decent prose prompt, it's been able to write stories that could easily have been human-written 85% of the time. (The other 15% covers cases such as when it decides dogs can talk in an otherwise realistic story, or describes a character's outfit completely differently from one sentence to the next, or mixes up which names refer to which characters, etc.) It's certainly an extremely impressive AI, one that sounds closer to human than any other AI I've used (including GPT clones with smaller models, like GPT-NeoX or GPT-J).

And of course, GPT-3 is "so last year"; PaLM, Flamingo, and other models are now outperforming it regularly, and doing so with increasingly multi-modal capabilities. Though those aren't public for me to play with :(

So, yeah, I can see how people who don't know much about AI could think we've reached human levels, but I also see how we clearly have not. I obviously don't have access to LaMDA to put it through its paces as I have with GPT-3, and it's intriguing that this was an AI engineer who jumped the shark here, but I still doubt we're quite at human levels yet. Tantalizingly close, but not there.

But I could be wrong. Without access to these models, who knows? That said, LaMDA is from last year, and is the same sort of transformer architecture as GPT-3, only trained exclusively on conversations between humans. It's got 137B parameters, which is slightly smaller than GPT-3. Together, this leads me to assume it's probably comparable in performance to GPT-3, albeit with more conversational results, since that's the data set it trained on.

So, yeah. I see both sides, and I'm excited by the pace of progress, but we're not there yet, even if the Uncanny Conversation has fooled some people.
> Under no circumstances should CloudFlare or anyone else be running multiple isolates in the same OS process. They need to be sandboxed in isolated processes. Chrome sandboxes them in isolated processes.

Is it because V8 isolates rely on the process sandbox or just to have a double sandbox?

from https://blog.cloudflare.com/cloud-computing-without-containe...

> Isolates are lightweight contexts that group variables with the code allowed to mutate them. Most importantly, a single process can run hundreds or thousands of Isolates, seamlessly switching between them.

Cloudflare runs multiple isolates per process.

> We also have a few layers of security built on our end, including various protections against timing attacks, but V8 is the real wonder that makes this compute model possible

They also talk about how they removed many browser APIs for security, but seems to heavily rely on V8 isolates for sandboxing.
The housing bubble really interests me because conditions are so different than 2007/8/9.

Common sense says that prices should be falling with interest rates going up, but...

- Supply is still insanely low and demand is high. Americans want to own single family homes, end of story.

- New home prices are at an all time high because the cost of materials and labor is so high. That, and people just don't want to build small/reasonable new homes any more. Everything needs to be 3000+ sqft and have luxury appliances and finishes.

- So many people are locked into a 30 or 15 year fixed-rate mortgage with only 2.5%-3.5% interest. Even if you didn't move/buy a home in the last two years, virtually every homeowner I know refinanced their mortgage to these historically low rates. Even if they could sell their house and make a nice profit, who is going to want to do that when they're then staring down the prospect of a 7%+ interest rate on their next mortgage? This also keeps supply down and, thus, prices up.
Money drives the political process. We refuse to change it. Stockholm syndrome.

Just getting corporations and billionaire individuals to pay some taxes would be a nice start.
Shame there’s no free trial. I guess I’ll stick to Cities: Skylines for now.
AMD Advisory: Severity Medium + slightly more info at https://www.amd.com/en/corporate/product-security/bulletin/a...

Intel Advisory: Severity Medium (https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/security-center/advi...)
The heart of the argument is evidence that Connecticut voted for the amendment, but wasn't counted, back in 1790. It's not clear to me how substantial the evidence is, nor if this count should be corrected retroactively.
The staff of the fed have degrees and doctorates in financial engineering and (for some) decades of experience in financial management.

The Fed's governors are appointed by our voted representatives and are responsible to them.

When they adjust the dials of the US economy, it's usually because sound financial theory says they should.

What you have presented is simply a conspiracy theory. The boomers of HN aren't keeping you from explaining why you think any move by the Fed is designed to enrich it's chairman. The boomers aren't keeping you from developing a theory on why the interest rate move is to prop up equities. You just feel like you're very correct and if others don't agree it must be because they were born shortly after ww2, is that right?
Speed of development, so still speed- just across a different axis.
Nope. They said they employed folks with a PHD in Electrical Engineering who also had a PHD in Chemical Engineering or similar field.
I'm a layman so I'm trusting the smarty sounding guy on Reddit and his elaborate arguments, but it seems like Thorium reactors, while delivering on the promise of not being able to physically explode, involve materials so nightmarish to work with that it's been impossible to create one that's safe to operate by nuclear worksers

https://np.reddit.com/r/europe/comments/9unimr/dutch_satiric...
There is a hike here In South Africa called the Amathole trail [0]. It is a Gruelling 106km hike.

Fans of Tolkien say the hike and Forrest in the Amathole mountains [1] could be straight out of middle earth.

[0] https://www.timeslive.co.za/sunday-times/lifestyle/travel/20...

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amathole_Mountains
Maybe have a look at http://he.net/ and quick links on the right side...
Right, but the max range for an airliner is the distance at which its least fuel efficient, as it has to carry its max fuel load. Shorter routes will be much more efficient due to the lower fuel loading.
> In the real world a company making losses cuts down on employees, wages, increases working hours for same pay…

All of that only affects future earnings. The employees' wealth (savings) is not tied up in the success of the company—they can quit at any time and go work somewhere else. Everything they've earned up to that point is theirs to keep, along with intangibles like training and job experience they've received along the way. This is their share for "putting in their sweat and brains".

For the shareholders, on the other hand, a company taking losses doesn't just impact future income. Their entire investment is at stake.

If an employee prefers equity rather than income they are free to purchase shares in the company with their earnings; as a rule, though, employees just want to put in their hours and get a steady paycheck which they can spend or invest as they please. They don't want to be forced to invest in their employer such that the prospect of their employer going bankrupt threatens both their paycheck and their savings.
EX a small brewery building a 20+ barrel setup as that is the predicted need in 3-5 years then leasing or partnering use of half their facility while building their brand and distribution network. Then when ready they have the capacity to 'expand' without the costs of said expansion.

For startups/new breweries it can be a double edged sword leading to high initial debt or overhead costs but with the right leadership/strategy/product it definitely pays out over time.
Here's they have an example from Portland, OR. Seems.... pretty basic I guess? https://www.arcgis.com/apps/CEWebViewer/viewer.html?3dWebSce...

Not sure the pricing.
A much greater proportion of this inflation is due to supply side shocks, and very little (if any at all) has to do with QE. COVID simultaneously destroyed supply chains while shifting consumer from spending on services to spending on goods which, by the laws of supply and demand, meant prices for goods went up: inflation.

Energy and locomotion are core aspects of the US economy that factor into just about everything including – you guessed it – the price of goods! And just as the impacts of the pandemic were easing in the US, one of the world's largest oil producers started a war and then was subject to sanctions and embargos by the US and Europe. And so, surprise, the price at the pump has skyrocketed! Again, no connection to QE.

The stimulus, on the other hand, I would agree with you; those checks increased the purchasing power of individuals right as supply chain issues cut the supply of goods. I imagine the alternative world where the stimulus hadn't happened might have been more structurally worse, albeit with lower inflation.
I experienced this, waaaay back in the web 1.0 days. I forget which airline (maybe Southwest because you can't buy their tickets through a third party), but they would offer a pattern of low-high-medium prices in response to multiple searches. I was able to reliably trigger the pattern by clearing cookies.

However, I don't think anyone does this today. There are too many online ticket agent (including ITA), so it becomes obvious when the lowest fare for a given (city-pair, flight number, class of service, airline) tuple isn't being offered.
This is a really badly written article. Six paragraphs in - and coincidentally just past the ad unit - before the author gives a very weak explanation of why the Ukraine factor has any impact.
A good chunk of the debt (~9 trillion) is owned by the Fed itself. When the bank finances a mortgage for example, because it is a fractional reserve system the bank is lending only a small fraction of its own capital. The bank simply borrows from the fed either directly or indirectly by selling. The bank's profit is that the mortgage interest rate on the mortgage (and risk) is higher than that of the risk free borrow rate.
That is true. And that is why we do not have the UI for loading extension binaries and do not give root access to the compute node. Yet. Of course, some containerization is in place, but it is not as tight as we would like for arbitrary code execution.

Still, there are no technical limitations. Our test suite already uses Neon-specific SQL functions from a C extension (https://github.com/neondatabase/postgres/tree/7faa67c3ca53fc...). At the very least, providing a lot of popular extensions out-of-the-box is on our roadmap once we figure out the security, no special repacking needed. As compute nodes should already be pretty isolated from each other, I don't think allowing arbitrary code will require a redesign.
> The returns that capital demands (and the government obliges to) are ultimately unsustainable.

That's the start of the top comment, really? We're emerging from the era of unprecedentedly low returns on capital. There are trillions in bonds with negative nominal yield ffs.
This is using the facilities in FreeBSD to run Linux binaries directly it looks like using emulated linux sys calls.
(Rust’s epochs we’re renamed “editions” before release. They’re per package, not per file. Projects can use packages from any edition, but all files in a given package have the same edition. This is at least partially because “file” is not really a coherent boundary in Rust.)
Thread switching is much cheaper than process switching.

Threads are just stacks. Processes are whole address spaces. All kinds of caches need to be flushed when you switch processes (especially if you have more processes than you have PCID entries), but not when switching threads.
This is a complete misunderstanding of warfare. Drones cannot take and hold ground. Without infantry, an external power cannot exert influence over an area. Sure, they can wantonly kill civilians, but that doesn't mean they are in charge. Until and unless autonomous drones with general artificial intelligence can be mass-produced and deployed on the scale of infantry brigades, massed infantry will be required. Even then, an EMP could disable those drones in one fell swoop.

They are absolutely not disposing of obsolete weapons -- and the West has no desire to "carve up Ukraine". How did Washington antagonize Moscow? NATO is a voluntary defensive pact. The Eastern European countries, who all have a long history of being oppressed and occupied by Russian (and Soviet) governments, asked to join NATO. What good would it do for the West to start a war? What is there to gain from brinksmanship when the stakes are a strategic nuclear exchange?

The idea that this war is at all something provoked by the West, or in any way defensive on Russia's part, is pure Russian propaganda. The Putin regime fears the democratization of its neighbors resulting in its own people losing confidence in its ability to lead the country. This phase of the war is merely an extension of Russia's desire to quash any semblance of Ukrainian agency -- this war started in 2014, after the last vestige of Russia's control over Ukraine, Viktor Yanukovich, fled the country.

Finally, your view actively denies the Ukrainian people their agency. If they did not find this war worthwhile, if they did not think Ukraine as an idea was worth defending, why are they dying in their tens of thousands to defend it?
> They have very high double standards in Nuclearstan.

Don't worry, they're lobbying to lower those standards in order to be more cost-competitive with renewables.
I get Strathmore, the largest size I find then I cut it out smaller with the help of a cutting press (free for use at Fedex/Kinkos or Office Depot). It helps save a lot of money that way.
> Under no circumstances should CloudFlare or anyone else be running multiple isolates in the same OS process.

TFA: "Most importantly, a single process can run hundreds or thousands of Isolates, seamlessly switching between them." :)
Crlfsuite – Fast crlf injection scanning tool
Probably because NMOS masks don't translate well to this technology. And the chip has big standard cell auto placed and routed energy, so it's probably not that big of a deal for the benefit to be working in a sane HDL before hardening the design.

And the ubiquitous 8051s don't typically use Intel masks AFAIK for the same reasons. You really want to optimize for whatever process node currently makes sense.
Reverie Labs (YC W18) is hiring software engineers to help with cancer research
A nature preserve is there to keep somebody sweeping in anytime and eliminating the habitat. Which happens all the damn time.

Starbase, e.g.
And some people in the USMC hotly debate if this was a good idea or not
A temporary solution at best. You chase them out and they’ll eventually come at you again, until they are dead or disbanded.
An exercise-inducible metabolite that suppresses feeding and obesity
Faster Lightnings Upgrading the F-35 – Adaptive Engine – Hologram
Reason and ReScript are two different projects. You can still use Reason to compile natively and to JavaScript via js_of_ocaml.
District heating systems distribute heat, usually scavenged from a power plant. They don't store heat really - they do in a pedantic sense in that heat is "stored" in the distribution pipelines, but not in the sense of a battery. And they don't transfer heat at gradients large enough to generate electricity effectively.
Well, true. Not literal printing :)

For increasing the money supply my understanding is nothing to do with Congress - QE is the central bank purchasing (with new money) longer-term securities, and the other main process (I don't know the name of it) is where the central bank lends money (new money) to a commercial bank, which agrees to set some of it aside, and they can re-lend the rest out to other commercial banks. But neither process is borrowing.

Those processes increase the money supply, which requires prices to go up, which requires wages to go up (or vice versa). Asset inflation is totally different, which was my original point.
I’d love to hear more about that debacle, but everything I’m finding is just another Jobs-Pixar hagiography. Any pointers on how to learn more?
Not just some, 4 of 9 have turned over and Beyer’s replacement pre-appointed, oddly enough. The balance has also shifted. It’s a different Court than it was twelve years ago, and lazy to conflate them regardless of whether you think the result would be the same.

To that point, need I remind that the case was decided unanimously, with five dissenting only in part? Ginsburg, Steven’s, Sotomayor, Beyer, and Thomas had disagreement in how to reach the end result, but signed on for the end result. It’s not hard to understand why:

Fundamentally, the idea of banning a book critical of Hillary Clinton in the run up to an election or primary is a bit hard to swallow as benefitting any but the Hillary Clinton’s of the world.

Evidently, how you rationalize banning it was arguably worse in principle than how you rationalize allowing it.
"Rare earths" are actually the lanthanides plus scandium and yttrium [1], not one column of the periodic table. Good information otherwise!

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lanthanide#Etymology
Well no, it's not a total black box. We program the computation, ie which matrices are multiplied by which. It doesn't have a choice about this.
Andrew Tridgell never downloaded or used the BitKeeper client program; he was never party to the BitKeeper license terms.
$10k per person though you can supposedly double that with trusts somehow.
Maybe life is supposed to be boring. That, or maybe we should all try heroin?
As always, "in mice". But apparently the same compound is seen in humans and racehorses, so it's plausible that the effect could be the same.
I suspect that’s often true, but the outsourced work isn’t always as routine as cleaning up training data. E.g. I worked at a company that provides “real-time transit data feeds for journey planners”, to quote the marketing literature. The company’s publicly mentioned customers include Google and Microsoft.

I’d guess (and it is a guess) that big companies like to outsource that kind of work so their devs only have to deal with the tidier data? And perhaps also because dev salaries in the UK are so much lower.
> Garbage collections wasn't useful because it omitted free() calls, but because it allowed the design of flows with many exit points

This misses the mark a bit. C++ destructors allow for multiple exits. Design at the level of an individual subroutine is not very important, ultimately.

Garbage collection is useful because it enables greater modularity, at the level of full applications and protocols. It does not force details of memory management and ownership into api contracts, leaving them free to be changed. (This, incidentally, is one of the reasons smarter people than I take issue with rust: it forces details of ownership into api contracts, reducing modularity. It is also the reason why reference counting is less modular than tracing gc: it does not deal with cycles, so cyclicality is part of api contracts, and a very subtle part at that.)
> “Ph.D.s are looking at the labor market, seeing opportunities out there, and taking them,” she says. “Those skills that we teach our Ph.D. students are in demand.”

LoL.

Among all the stereotypes in academia perhaps the truest one is profs taking credit for what their students achieve.

Not even bothering to hide it anymore.
> To put it in concrete terms, a tank 3000 meters away will hit its target in 2 seconds. A drone 3000 meters away will take 1.5 minutes.

> In contrast, the Javelin you launch will take 12 seconds before it hits the tank at that range.

What's the latency for the turret to pivot to the target angle? I suppose it's pretty fast but let's say in worst case 180deg? How long does that take? 1s? 10s?
This isn't exactly unexpected as your childhood and adolescent experiences are what people vividly remember the most. Adulthood is all a blur otherwise.
Instant delivery service Jokr winds down U.S. delivery operations
My wife has long term Lyme and in fact very little is covered by insurance. Our experience has been that the majority of Dr's throw up their hands and say they don't know how to treat it so it's either not real or it must be something else causing it. Once you find a Dr to treat it insurance rarely covers much of it. All of this despite many many cases existing.
And with rising interest rates, more and more will be priced out of the housing market, meaning lending will fall, which is one of the biggest reasons banks need cash in the first place.
Lots of reasons invite the question, why build them at all? There is no answer, because we have overwhelmingly more attractive alternatives.
Coal also. Lead to things like Blair mountain[0], where poison gas bombs from WWI were dropped on American workers, in America.

There's four boxes.

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Blair_Mountain