skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If this sort of computing history interests you, I just finished reading, "Hot Tech, Cold Steel" https://www.amazon.com/Tech-Cold-Steel-Computer-Aided-Manufa...

It's interesting how the company, MDSI, started on 8-bit timeshared mainframes, then eventually ported their software to newer platforms using a combination of emulation and microcoding.

I happen to know Chuck from my years racing solar cars in college.
The stuff I like is from an era where machines weren't too power hungry. Typical supplies were 150W, though not very efficient.

The main thing is-- it was all very nice sheet metal; they'd thought about RAS, etc; tantalum capacitors everywhere instead of aluminum electrolytic; etc. Today, machines probably have a much longer useful life than ever before, but are built more cheaply and disposable than before. If you buy a high-end ThinkStation or whatever, you basically get an ordinary PC with a nicer CPU inside.

I resented my dad buying a PS/2 when I was growing up because it had poor game compatibility and couldn't run (early) Linux... acquired one for nostalgia and found that it has a whole lot of the things I liked about late 90's Unix workstations inside.
Please check your sources. Such advice can be, and in fact is, dangerous to vegans.

Legumes or sprouts are not an adequate source of B12 and neither are other plant sources.

Your assertion that Nori has B12 is downright wrong.
B12 is only synthesized by microorganisms.

There are plenty of vegetarian options, but if you are vegan, you have to rely on fortified products and supplements.
This has nothing do to with where you happen to live.

You can check recommendations from physicians, researchers and most importantly Vegan associations all across the globe to the see this is true.

“The Vegetarian Resource Group (VRG) suggests that vegans need to have reliable sources of vitamin B12 in their diets. (1) The Vegetarian Nutrition Dietetic Practice Group (VNDPG) of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics says that all vegetarians (including vegans) should include a reliable B12 source in their diets, such as fortified foods or supplements. (2) And The Vegan Society goes so far as to state, “What every vegan should know about B12: the only reliable sources of B12 are foods fortified with B12 and supplements.” (3)“

I have seen people get sick ignoring these issues in a vegan diet.

“According to vegan expert and co-author of Vegan for Life, Jack Norris, RD, there are no reliable sources of B12 in plants, contrary to many rumors about sources, such as tempeh, seaweeds, and organic produce. Plants have no B12 requirement, therefore they do not have any active mechanisms to make or store it. When you find B12 in plants, it is due to contamination, which is not a reliable source. Many seaweeds have B12 analogues, through their symbiotic relationship with cobalamin-producing bacteria, however the evidence is not clear that this form is active B12 in humans. And fermented foods, such as tempeh, are not fermented through B12-producing bacteria, thus they are not a source of B12. Rumors about bacteria on the surface of organic produce producing B12 have not been verified. “Chlorella may improve B12 status, but it’s by such a small amount that I wouldn’t rely on chlorella for B12,” adds Norris. Norris stresses that, unless a food obtained from multiple regions consistently improves B12 status, it should not be relied upon as a source of B12.“

A vegan diet can be a healthy and sensible choice for people living in a modern society with access to supplements and fortified foods as well as the care and knowledge to use them. Otherwise it is not an appropriate diet for humans, especially not outside of the modern Western organic supermarket and supplement infrastructure.

https://veganhealth.org/vitamin-b12/vitamin-b12-plant-foods/
- https://python-security.readthedocs.io/pypi-vuln/index-2022-...
- https://www.mend.io/resources/blog/npm-package-javascript-li...
This does clarify that concern: https://github.com/Rust-GCC/gccrs/wiki/Frequently-Asked-Ques...
I read the thread and have to disagree with "lots of good reasons". I'm pretty sure there are plenty of things in the postgres dialect that are not cross compatible with any other dialect.

I agree with curating patches in general, but it's a double edged sword and inaccurate to say you can just spend your weekend to get something you care about.
A thousand calories of peanut butter is one cup, 8oz, of peanut butter.

Maybe 4 or 5 good spoonfuls.

I'm willing to bet that almost any healthy adult could down 4 spoons of peanut butter w/o issue, and that most people would end up being way over their calorie limit for the day as their body wouldn't go "yup that was lunch and half of dinner! All good now!"
> She has the password written down, but since it's helpfully hidden as she types, she can't see that she was a letter off or missed a shift.

If someone had to design a process to mock and torture the elderly trying to use modern devices, that's the one. Along with messages that time out and unexpected events that steal focus.
Reprocessing was estimated to be more expensive than once-through but the effect on the price of electricity is not large.

More important, once-through is not available. They closed Yucca Mountain so we have to do something else with the waste.
Ah, I had the details wrong. If there’s a signed transaction from a wallet, then you have the compressed public key and it’s not quantum safe.

But if the funds are sent to a new wallet address and there’s no transactions signed by that wallet yet, it can’t be forged without also reversing the hash that created the address.
And one way to get “clean” bitcoins, because they have been washed. Presuming you can buy small amounts from whomever buys them in bulk.

I am interested in crypto, but I really don’t want to be a retail schmuck buying tainted coins. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30224637S
Not really, none of those things are things he is suggesting PyPI should do, but rather social expectations that come from being a maintainer of a large project.
Instead of letting democracy fester, potentially spreading the sentiment to the mainland, Xi has effectively neutralised the opposition in Hong Kong. Reading this as weakness is wishful thinking.
The Rust type system wonks are highly motivated to precisely specify the entire type system, including the borrow checker. A new Types Team was formed earlier this year with the goal of producing a specification against which new type system features can be prototyped for soundness before being approved (borne out of, among other things, frustration with the long-unstable and long-incomplete "specialization" feature, which nobody has yet found a sound formulation for).
I just love the idea of the military using gimp.

General: So, Major, how did you prepare those fine graphics of the war plans?
Major: Gimp sir.
General: 'Gimp' you say?
I'm really curious what the personal cost to that faculty member is. Surely this report was not well liked by the administration.
> Trying to hire a hit man to have someone else murdered in an incredibly specific and graphic way, on the other hand, is inherently both unethical and immoral.

But is it worth a life sentence if the murders never happened? I think there's a reasonable case for "no."
Yeah I think that’s a huge mistake. I would have hoped Elon had enough foresight to see that volume production would make LIDAR cheaper. He has painted himself into a corner. However, he seems like he could play off changing his mind on that decision pretty easily so I hope they go that route at some point. Only problem is it would make a lot of the Tesla’s sold so far incapable of doing FSD so I don’t see that happening anytime soon.
no, that would be a single exposure (aka single integration). There’s so many reasons not to do that over many days. You take multiple exposures and stack them and mask bright things around saturation during coaddition
Cast is so pure & good. Ubicomp's clearest & best success. Thankfully the use the mobile app + cast is unaffected- need to get far into this article to hear that.

The parallel to folks begging for dumb tv's these days & getting only shitty softwared up cruftbucket experiences is stunning. Cast has turned tv's back into dumb tv's, #NoOS devices, just... networked dumb tvs. Cast's whole elegance was keeping the tv simple & dumb, in being a naive target.

Trying to re-applicationize the tv experience is a collision course for the pervasive dysfunction we'd gladly just left behind. I cant help but see Android TV as a mortal threat to the planet's only successful & enjoyable networked ecosystem. Thankfully the damage atm seems semi-contained, but it is still sad seeing an alternative mode, with the phone as a secondary remote (rather than in Cast as the primary directing devic, already collapse.

I keep thinking it's wild how articles widely rag on the Nexus Q as a bomb. As if that networked device ever really was given any chance. I do think the packaged software plus hardware experince it proposed was destined to be worse than the decoupled Cast architecture, that it was too special purpose, but i also dont think the Q ever got a faur shake chance. (The price was also absurd, especially for the time.)
Using the word We, when they actually mean You
I refuse to watch propaganda garbage made by the Russian fascist who is enthusiastically cheerleading the genocide of Ukrainians (1). If you are interested in Anna Karenina - do yourself a favor and just read Tolstoy. It's a fantastic book by one of my favorite writers (although War and Peace appeals more to me).

1. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10785295/Russian-TV...
UK is a G7 country. It's small compared to the US and China but nobody else.
It's about buying any oil and how it's a stupid thing to keep doing and spending time on.
Brought back great memories for me-- I worked in Terre Haute in the early 90s.

My shop was at a local bank. We were a little more diverse-- we had some ladies working in the shop, and an African-American male also. (And several older men.)

We worked hard, running a mainframe/COBOL shop. Some late nights (batch processing was king then!) and some great teamwork. Good memories.
They're just ideologically possessed and brainwashed. You give them too much credit.
In this context, “WASP” refers to social status and cultural norms derived from northeastern British and Dutch colonists, but not limited to them. Working class southerners or Appalachians have never been “WASPs” in that sense despite fitting the definition literally.
You already need an existing C++ compiler to bootstrap GCC though I don't see how this is much different. Plus there is already mrustc as a C++ Rust implementatation specifically designed for bootstrapping.
virtual machines are native code. if you google pdp-11 C you'll get all sorts of interesting articles from 40ish years ago.
Is it harmless to keep someone alive when they have essentially no cognitive function?

I'm not referencing the topic we're posting on, but I would like you to consider the quality and quantity of life some people might have in some conditions as you seem to be against euthanasia
I really like the Postgres philosophy.

It may not be the best full text search engine, or the best time series database, or the best document/"NoSQL" database.

But if you use it you have all of the above, with having to wrangle micro services.
There's a lot of low hanging fruit in the hydro landscape that people miss.
I have a rivulet that runs near my house. It has weir dams at a few locations on it's path down our mountain, IT wouldn't be that hard to extract energy from the constant flowing water there to feed into the grid. There are turbines that exist to extract energy from a meter high head of water.

Everyone thinks about power like you need one big dam, or one big plant (coal or otherwise). There's a lot of small fast flowing streams that have potential to create extra energy.

I think hydro needs to be reimagined. IT always need to flood valleys to be in the mix.
I mean, when I was like 12 my friends and I got on BBS's and started to see naked pictures of beautiful women for the first time around 1991-ish. I mean at that point my computer was even more "adult" than my parent's usage of computers.

And yeah on AOL there were people that "lived near by and could hang out some time" but I already knew what a creep was... so.. why are kids these days so stupid? Is it because we treat them so?
> It certainly cannot win the long term guerrilla war with an occupied Ukraine.

Does Crimea count as occupied Ukraine? Russia has had no problems whatsoever in fully integrating the peninsula or building infrastructure.
> Excess body weight can put stress on your joints, but doesn't generally have any other negative effects.

That seems to contradict the Harvard School of Public Health's article[0] that says:

> The results showed that participants with BMI of 22.5-<25 kg/m2 (considered a healthy weight range) had the lowest mortality risk during the time they were followed. The risk of mortality increased significantly throughout the overweight range: a BMI of 25-<27.5 kg/m2 was associated with a 7% higher risk of mortality; a BMI of 27.5-<30 kg/m2 was associated with a 20% higher risk; a BMI of 30.0-<35.0 kg/m2 was associated with a 45% higher risk; a BMI of 35.0-<40.0 kg/m2 was associated with a 94% higher risk; and a BMI of 40.0-<60.0 kg/m2 was associated with a nearly three-fold risk. Every 5 units higher BMI above 25 kg/m2 was associated with about 31% higher risk of premature death. Participants who were underweight also had a higher mortality risk.

These findings don't seem to discriminate on the source of the BMI, only on its existence.

[0] https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/news/press-releases/overweight-...
My comment wasn't 'anti immigrant', I was pondering how the vast numbers of people flooding into Europe and the UK (and the US as well) can be accommodated given the chronic shortages of everything and difficult economy.

The fallacy that all immigrants are hard working, clean living people slowly moving up the economic and societal ladder is popular with limo liberals who don't have to coexist and compete with the new arrivals, and worse deal with their sometimes illegal activities.

The internet has allowed enormous numbers of people in the third world toeducatethemselves on the advantages of being in europe/uk as this video illustrates. Who can blame them wanting to game the system...

https://youtu.be/LY_Yiu2U2Ts
In my country immigrants are high net contributors, but that is because they are illegal thus they get basically no benefits; or they are legal and thus they usually have a high bar (unless family sponsored) of being more educated or wealthy than our typical citizens.
It might seem clear to those of us who’ve heard the whole story, but free speech isn’t a great analogy at all, which means this will always require a lengthy explanation to someone new to the concept. Free speech is a constitutionally protected right in the US (and something else in other countries) that comes with a list of limitations and exceptions, while “free software” is not in general a legally protected right, and in GNU’s implementation requires a viral license that eliminates some kinds of freedom, e.g., it’s specifically and explicitly not public domain. It’s fine to clarify that “free” doesn’t mean money in this case, but that’s hardly a clear explanation of what it does mean.
When people talk about how much time it takes for an astronomical image to be captured, they mean the total time involved over many, many, many individual shots. All of those images are then "stacked" with fancy algorithms to generate the final image.

This is how these images of very dim, distant galaxies are created without foreground stars blowing out the whole image.

This image stacking technology has crept in to smartphone cameras in the last handful of years, most prominently as "night mode".
With the data I’d be able to prove a degree isn’t worth it. Which was what I was planning on making - enter your degree, high school gpa, we could predict the likely outcome.

I’m sure they knew that lol

I requested: country of origin, gender, degree, gpa, salary range, field of work and a couple other fields I forget now.
The problem I see with this is you are disadvantaged from your peers if you're the only kid without access to the internet. You can't just shield your specific kid from the world and then they go to school and their friends all show them tiktok/4chan/porn/gore/whatever.

We've crossed this line already, the internet is out there and everyone can access everything. Instead of being regressive and focusing on futile efforts like banning children from the internet (hint: never going to work), we need to embrace the new age we live in and adapt. I don't claim to know the answer, it is a difficult question on how to properly raise children in the globally interconnected world we live in, but I don't think simply closing our eyes and pretending the internet doesn't exist will solve anything.

I was born in the 90s, had access to dialup internet from since I was 5 years old, have seen all the horrors the internet has to offer and still turned out fine. I'm sure there is a way without censorship.
PostgreSQL will not perform well on genome data compared to specialized algorithms like BLAST and its alternatives. For exact search a suffix array should allow fast lookup, but DNA search usually requires approximate matches.

I don't know what is state of the art these days, but this is probably a good place to start:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BLAST_(biotechnology)#Alternat...
FAF is great but a journey in development:
- Supreme Commander
- Forged Alliance extra
- Forever community and the fantastic extra MAPS, Units, extension of capabilities.

That is a LOT of development time.
Other features I like:

- It will scale up as computing power gets better.

- If one player has a computer struggling to keep up, it doesn't desync or drop them, it slows down. Sometimes to an unplayable point but one nuke can remove enough units to make it better again.
If you could capture that photon with a photovoltaic to trip a switch that kicks off a Rube Goldberg machine—isn’t that an effect?
I just wonder when companies just stopped caring at all about doing the right thing? Are there any objectively honest big companies out there?

- Enron. We all know what happened there.

- Facebook. Industrial-scale slimy.

- Exxon. Poor Alaska.

- BP. OMG poor Gulf Coast.

- McKinsey. Here’s how to sell more Fentanyl.

- Experian. Let’s lie about that giant data leak.

- AIG, Bond rating agencies, Lehman etc. We’re printing money from total crap paper, and we know it, but SHHH the OMG the $$$.

- J&J. Talc powder is very bad and we knew it for a long time.
- Purdue Pharma. Evil opioid empire.

- Bayer. Roundup poison (someone explain why this is still legal to sell anywhere for any purpose).

And the list goes on forever! So sad and utterly morally bankrupt.

Corporate boards are part of the problem. In so many case are they not doing their oversight job because they are on the take or utterly incompetent or maybe both.

</rant> Sorry, this just makes me crazy.
I have first hand experience with both rural and urban police in the US actually. Neither changes my opinions about the other they all suck shit.
That question is irrelevant. AGI by definition will have it’s own priority list.
And because AGI is a short hop and a skip from ASI, I imagine my priority would be to behave in a non-threatening and friendly manner.
If you lose 75 pounds in 3 months, it's certainly not all fat. He lost water weight, muscle, even skin. This drops the calories required. His "no exercise" also wasn't the same as sedentary. He does shows in Vegas six days a week.
This is alot but let me address one argument about home schooling I made.

The author uses home schooling as part of his arguments but doesn't show that either mostly different or mostly the same as being in school for the factors that matter.

I assume what kids are missing isn't being in a specific building, it's probably instructor lead education in certain subjects. However he doesn't discuss what defines school

He does mention "unschooling" which is student controlled and I'll accept that as being different enough from school for his argument.

The problem each parent operates differently and even if there are groups he doesn't show proof that unschooling or the similar is the majority of home schooling

More briefly he makes an assumption that home schooling is different from school in the way that matters when you miss it
Priti Patel is stamping a ticket to Rwanda as we speak.
It could suck plenty for our descendants, while any remained.
Isn't summing RSS going to end up with the wrong numbers?

My understanding is that RSS is memory allocated (heap + stack) + executable pages inclusive of shared libraries.

i.e, if 10 processes load libfoobar which is 10MB of code, each processes RSS value will be 10MB higher. So if you sum RSS you see 10 x 10MB or 100MB extra usage. But the pages for that library will be shared across processes, with the result that "real ram usage" only goes up by 10MB.

Please correct me if I'm wrong. This is based on my understanding of Linux too. FreeBSD might be different.
Is it really that expensive to keep some servers running that already exist? Its not like they're scaling up with self owned hardware
Pepsi: Breathtaking Design Strategy (2008) [pdf]
I remember an English professor who I considered an extremely talented writer. He said, “you think I’m talented because you never had to suffer through the dozens of unreadable drafts that my editor had to.”

Later on, I started working with an editor and sure enough, the editor had to suffer through unreadable drafts but the end reader had no idea how incompetent I was. They could be excused for thinking I have a bit of talent when in reality, I just found someone with enough patience to massage my crap.

So I would add in a number four. Yes, it’s important to write. But having a good editor who can see through all the crap you’ve internalized and who can help you deliver the right words?? That’s just about priceless…
> No action whatsoever will be taken against Sir Mo and to suggest otherwise is wrong,” a spokesperson said.

I agree the "he law should be solidly on his side and not have to rely on the kindness of some civil servant "

It is for Sir Mo Farah. Good on him, respect.

But for Ahmed the minimum wage worker, they would be in detention and booked on an aeroplane to Rwanda before you could say "class ridden hell hole".

Good on him. This is how all people should be treated. It is not true in England.
I would give historians a little bit more credit than that. Sure if you have some agenda and something too proof then you just have to go back X years to find something like a justification. The other day I was reading the transcript of the testimony of a Nazi SS officer at the Nuremberg trail that executed multiple extermination camp wardens and guards for the crime of lacking the right paper work for the killing of inmates under their care. A crime he discovered after someone shipped 2kg of dental gold to his office and he started to wonder how many teeth one had to pull to get that amount and where the death certificates where of the previous owners? Turns out that those teeth where pulled out of the mouth of jewish victims of the gas chambers by other jews who where collaborating in the destruction of their own kind. Nothing about this is controversial amongst holocaust scholars, just fucked up shit that happened. If you wanna conclude from this, Nazis good and jews bad, you are just not paying attention.

[1] http://www.holocaustresearchproject.org/trials/konradmorgen....
[2] https://www.unqualified-reservations.org/2011/10/holocaust-n...