skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Of course making roads more pleasant and safe so that half of the would-be drivers become walkers or cyclists is one of the best things you can do you improve the expertof the remaining drivers.
> There was also a breakthrough in late 2021, when researchers at the Joint European Torus (JET) facility in Oxford managed to release a record-breaking 59 megajoules of fusion

59 megajoules in useful units is 16kWh, less than 2 days use of my house. That's the biggest fusion reaction ever.
Sample size: 2 men

And in at least one picture it the cat looks like the cat doesn't want to be there. A man who doesn't care what an animal wants because his desire to have a cat in his photo raises red flags about the type of person this is.
My theory: the old joke that dogs have masters while cats have staff has always been true, and applies to this context too.
Dogs can be trained to execute orders, cats cannot, therefore the dog owner is seen as, an often is, someone who gives orders and expects them to be followed, that is, an alpha male, or someone that is a better/stronger companion, at least when the choice is led by latent caveman and cavewoman instincts we still possess. A man willing to appear strong will almost always choose a dog.

Which could also explain why I've very often seen a lot more cats among left wingers and more dogs among right wingers, and bigger aggressive dogs among extreme right wingers who bring them around exhibiting both their strength and the master ability to dominate them. To me it's all driven by instincts, both in men and women.
Maybe we should fraud these people trying to invest in a better solution with worse ones!
No, this is a good question - do managers share in this same kind of analysis
I hope that study wasn't in any way tax payer funded.
[spoiler alert]

The review leaves out the season finale of Atlanta. What an ending.
I was disinterested by art. And especially galleries. It felt like everyone was feigning interest to fit in or appear a certain away to peers.

But at age 27, I found something I enjoyed: "post-graffiti" street art. My interest likely stemmed from how and where I was raised... I think. It's nostalgic. So maybe it's not a feigned interest. I just needed to find something I enjoyed looking at.

Now I make my way to street art festivals and collect work from new street artists. My apartment is full of it. And it's all very inexpensive. The galleries are outside in the public for everyone to enjoy.
And you could kid yourself that it might just be a labour of love from a single engineer, rather than the product of a marketing team responding to quarterly strategic product directives triggered by engagement metrics.
With Goggles[0] (goggles/googles/potato/potato) you can get them. Curated lists by topic.

[0] https://search.brave.com/help/goggles
I live in Peru. There actually are incredibly expensive trains connecting Cusco/Puno/Arequipa. No one really uses them.

The problem is the terrain doesn't lend itself to trains at all without a super expensive investment, and the population of Peru is spread out so much once you leave Lima.

Flights in general are terrible in Latin America in terms of cost which is why the bus is popular. More so international but even domestic is pricey for the quality and distance. Plus stopping in Paracas/Nazca/Arequipa makes the bus a good way to cheaply hit those spots. Flying back to the start is a good move though
> if we can make computation 1000x more efficient per teraflop, we could use computers yo trivially design new drugs to cure cancer etc

You're assuming two things: that cancer and disease can be cured by any feasible increase in computing power (not that outrageous an assumption), and that the energy savings won't be offset by keeping an even older population of disease survivors comfortable and alive. Reality is not as simple as "cure all our ailments and we're good to go".
We don't know that - some people posit that but it's far from being provable.

All physically measured numbers have uncertainty, meaning the value obtained is not an actual number, but is a range, perhaps with some associated probability spread.

This is not measure zero.

We are also very capable "directly" using various things that may be continuums, such as energy, or time, or velocities, or many other physical quantities.
If you have a large number of people for whom a free bus is the only reasonable shelter then that is what will happen. Most European countries deal with homelessness, drug addiction, etc., differently. So I'm not sure that the experience is transferable.
Not at all.

There will always be places where solar+battery isn't viable. Northern Canada and Alaska come to mind.
It’d be great if Google would fix all their broken crap instead of wasting their resources and my bandwidth with these useless stunts.
The total of crypto VC investments for 2021 was reported at $33B.
I've never had a big enough n to notice this.
Are you the author? You should disclose if you are.
Erlang / Elixir is a underused powerhouse for real time communications, arguably its biggest strength. It’s other is taking data and “munging” it into something usable from a POST API. I’m also reasonably certain it would make a fast GraphQL server / cluster due to its processing model, but haven’t really had a chance to work on that problem with it.

If you’re building real time products I recommend giving it serious consideration
I feel like Google could be "easily" defeated (for a tech titan).

Step 1: get antitrust regulators to break up the search+advertising business from Chrome+Android products. Don't let Google favor Google products.

Step 2: build a better search engine. Can't be hard with all the crap results that Google returns now. If Chrome and Android no longer default to Google, a new engine could grow and thrive.

Even the EU taking action could begin to chip away at this monopoly.
Another comment links to a blacklist, which works.

If it can be effectively blacklisted, then Google is dropping the ball. This isn’t difficult algorithm foo failure.

I don’t agree with your sentences, but I do agree with your point.
its not worthless either way. plenty of places that dont get large amounts of solar radiation during some seasons where fusion could be useful
Some would argue that this channel was performing a public service by putting police videos in a central place. Rather than the viewer having to traverse various police websites.
My experience has been that roles in less popular languages are rare but they also substantially help match up candidates and interesting opportunities. I've been interested in functional programming and Haskell since college and it's specifically helped me get roles I would not have gotten otherwise:

• I got an internship at Jane Street thanks to my Haskell and OCaml experience—I doubt I would have been considered at a similar company like Two Sigma

• I got onto a cool operations research/AI team at Target thanks to my Haskell experience—I wouldn't have considered them and they wouldn't have considered me without it

• at Target, I saw first-hand how using a non-standard language massively helped with recruiting highly skilled engineers
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That would be an argument for having more investment into fusion.
That's the problem with applying a curve as a rule. In a large org it's probably true across the board. But there will be outlier teams. How does an org handle those?

You can critique Amazon for basically saying "don't worry about it" so managers may invent plans like hire-to-fire to game the system and overall someone's gonna get screwed on that team, but it's a tough problem to solve - otherwise, what's to stop managers from all simply claiming "no, my team's a special case"? Introduce special cases and it'll just be gamed through that mechanism.

I'm a firm believer that if you want to avoid things like that you have to avoid large organizations. A large organization is highly incentivized to be bureaucratic so to minimize the effects of unexpected losses and to keep the money machine running.
You should read or re-read the article and references. There are multiple benchmarks showing this not to be the case. Actually half the article is a (well deserved) rant about how wrong compiler devs were in thinking that parsing intermediate C sources could ever match the new directive. Compiler internal representation of an array of integers also doesn't require a big pile of integer ast's.

According to the benchmarking data this extension is even 2x faster than using the linker `objcopy` to insert a binary at link time as you suggest.
The issue with tapes is not the bandwidth, it is the seek latency, could be around ~2 minutes end to end (with the correct tape already loaded). So tapes are not used as random-access, thus no central index on tape archive. The backup software systems keep their catalogs elsewhere.
Money isn't an issue. Thanks for the advice though - do you think employers or postgrad admissions officers will look upon it negatively though?
700 million people live in poverty

3 meals per day, 5$ per meal for 365 days is 3,832,500,000,000$
Honestly, it's not even necessarily about not liking dogs. It's about "I'm OK with dogs but that means all our plans would have to fit into his having a dog." Nothing wrong with that, but implication of a lot more buy-in than with a cat generally.
Migrating Your Open Source Builds Off of Travis CI (2021)
> Why

https://www.internations.org/press/press-release/where-expat...
I guess it simplifies transport a great deal? You can just stack everything up and send it back and forth at high speeds, sort of like a conveyor belt. I suppose the natural equivalent is shipping and settlement along rivers like the Nile in Egypt?
Still doesn’t stop the world burning, though
Going back at 25 sounds amazing! Were you able to connect with fellow students though? A 7 year age gap sounds pretty large.

What were you pursuing, if you don't mind me asking? 8 years for undergrad, postgrad, what exactly?

Thanks for the advice though. I genuinely appreciate it.
The WHO declares monkeypox a public health emergency
More nuclear heat for Arctic town
enable "desktop site"; the signal appears in the box on the right.
Just increase taxes for everyone instead of spending a ton of money on trying to catch people not paying their fare or technology to process payment.
I'm sure claiming that people's trauma is fake minimises people's trauma way more than any "fake trauma" that might actually exist in society.
Spent $3000+ at 3-star Michelin, worth it?
Thanks for the explanation! Since my last comment on anything was a couple of days ago I guess the cooldown gets tripped by something else too (possibly I went back+forward a couple of times so looked like obsessive reloading)
You do know that the bridge and tunnel tolls in Manhattan are used to subsidize mass transit? Drivers subsidize transit users in NYC, not the other way around.
Why? If you get 25 crypto startups for every fusion startups, you're necessarily going to see more funding in the crypto sector.
GP is not expressing those views personally but narrating views held by people who believe they need to walk on eggshells all the time lest they get in trouble with the “woke police.”
If meals cost 5$ all over the planet then there would be mass starvation
We could also make a website where people can submit links to great websites they find, and also allow then to vote on the submissions of other users. That way you have a page filled with the best links, as determined by users. Maybe call it "the homepage of the internet".

You could even add the ability to discuss these links, and add a similar voting system to those discussions.
> The only way to be not involved in politics is to totally accept the current situation and to align your goals and interests with those in power.

At a small, young, growing company, that's what the company needs - if your goals aren't aligned with the company's, you are going to be spending scarce resources on the wrong things.

If there's a way, in a larger company, to prevent "necessary alignment" from turning into "political gamesmanship," I've never seen it. If the people in control of your fate have goals that aren't perfectly aligned with "overall health of company" then now it's games and bullshit and it gets real hard on the individuals. And that can happen very easily: Director X wants to be promoted to VP, needs to show results in their domain, maybe doesn't care if this has knock-on effects on other orgs; the company is 99% likely to be fine anyway, and it'll help them move up... do you get on board, or do you push back because it's a bad overall strategy? Good luck... :|
Discord is a black hole in the internet. People have discussions you can't search for and isn't indexed on Google etc.

It's convenient but it's worse than a forum for creating knowledge people can search through later. It's a shame it's used for such interesting discussion.
I work at small startups (up to 25 people), where there isn't time or space for much of that.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsar_Bomba ... was slightly larger than that.

Anyway, 59MJ isn't terrible if you can run it at 60Hz. Of course, I agree that the reality is a bit far away.
And Amtrak is often more expensive than car travel. I posted this last time it came up a few days ago but it bares repeating here;

>I wish the train was more economical then I could take the train more but it is not economical (on the west coast of the US). I live approx half way between Seattle WA and Portland OR and there is a train station within walking distance of my home. Every time I have checked the price of a Amtrak ticket to either city it was significantly cheaper to drive and pay for parking then to buy a single train ticket.
Looks like you forgot to add your sponsor disclaimer "message sponsored by NSA". ;)
Only if you ignore the implicit ± infront of sqrt
>vast majority of commercial produce has had a lot of its nutrition bred out of it

Citation please.
99% of pertinent programming skills are high-school grade.

I was programming real-life assembly, I was in my early teen, and many other teens were doing the same.

But the second you have to do accurate and serious floating point computations, you need at least a college/uni master degree in applied math.
I personally always check trains when I travel and end up not traveling because of this. It just takes too long to take the train.
> insanity

I am not sure which place revealed to be spared from that (probably Switzerland, Uruguay and Sweden - not sure at all).
When I was a beginner I once accidentally created an Amazon RDS Postgres database backed by tape. I was so flustered by how slow it was until I saw the setting.
but that doesn't change the fact that meat is a rich source of protein which is beneficial for physical development
Totally disagree. Solar + battery will never match the energy density of fusion.
No, 20 is not nowhere near too old.

But, I'm not really sure about value of difference in top 1 vs top 10...

But, personally I would consider the degree more if that is different. Will the new one be more interesting?
This is hilarious! Clearly this dude never had a home invasion turned into attempted murder by strangulation!

Cool that the dude from the 30s was big into Positive Mindsets or whatever though
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Good question. A brief search suggests hail is the greatest common hazard to the panels. I guess they’re going to act like a sail in a hurricane or tornado.
What about the west coast? Sf to sj? Sf to los angeles? Sf to san diego? Or seattle?
The vast majority of commercial produce has had a lot of its nutrition bred out of it, for example.

As far as I am aware, this is very much untrue. Modern agricultural practices have indeed resulted in lower levels of nutrition in many fruits and vegetables—there was a bit of chat about this earlier in the year—but to say it has been “bred out” is not accurate.

I’m no GMO hawk, but it seems entirely feasible that breeding or GMing produce to reduce dependency on various aggressive agricultural techniques offers the possibility of increasing the nutritional content of produce, rather then diminishing it.
I've been staying in the Torbay area in the UK where the local bus company has a 5 GBP ticket for unlimited local travel in one day, or 18 GBP for a week.

I think that the point is that once you reach the point that all the locals who will take the bus are already taking the bus then you have to consider how to attract people who don't normally take the bus (train, etc.). At this point the marginal cost of carrying an extra passenger is almost zero so any extra sale is almost pure profit. So you can drop the price quite low, just make it competitive with the cost of parking a car and away you go.
As I wrote, perhaps not explicitly enough, cosmic inflation cannot have anything to do with having perfectly 0 movement in the late epochs of the universe. We can do away with inflation entirely and have a consistent accelerating expansion of a vacuum universe universe. Cosmic inflation "only" helps explain some aspects of the observed uniformities in the distribution of matter that we can currently observe. There are other ways to add matter back to a vacuum acclerating-expanding universe that do not require a very-early-times and very brief period of inflation. Physical cosmologists need more data to properly decide among the various feasible alternatives.

Cosmic inflation == turned off much sooner than 10^-30 seconds after it started. (That's a million million million million millionth of a second. A verrry short time.)

Metric expansion == demonstrably ongoing, and accelerating, until at least a couple of million years ago (and in no more than a couple million years future astrophysicists will be able to demonstrate that it was still ongoing as I typed this).

The strength of the metric expansion is increasing slowly for billions of years. The strength of cosmic inflation has been practically (or even exactly) zero since before there were even electrons and photons.

The metric expansion in the past few million years has much less than 10^-25 of the strength of cosmic inflation.

Finally, most physically-motivated variations on the simplest model of cosmic inflation gives the inflationary mechanism features that the expansion mechanism lacks, and cannot be hidden by equating expansion with super-weak inflation.

"Expansion" and "inflation" are not synonymous.

If you're genuinely interested, Alan Guth's 1998 book (while not representing the state of the art in physical cosmology) is probably more readable than what you'll get on hackernews. Guth is one of the originators of cosmic inflation, and his lively book explains how and why he got there. It also has useful appendices discussing aspects of relativity related to what you've written above. ISBN 9780201328400. It is a good "pop sci" book written by an actual scientist working and teaching in the field at the time. Konstantinos Dimopoulos's 2019 (1st ed.) introductory textbook is another good option; it is likely to become a standard textbook for second-entry undergraduates and advanced undergraduates. ISBN 9780367611040. Dimopoulos is a reader in particle cosmology at Lancaster University, in England. Most other (recent) textbooks at the top of my head are less focused on the issues you have "Cunninghammed" in this thread, or are clearly intended for graduate students.

I don't understand your third and fourth paragraphs, sorry.
Works for me. I'm using the nightly version though. Maybe that makes a difference? Icon appears at the top right below the search bar.
> I wrote my PhD thesis using groff

I was hoping it would be via gnu ed too, but they used vim. Shame.
I have to say that using an archive format with this feature set for source distribution or really anything but backups makes me uneasy. When I unzip some file from the internet I dont want it putting files owned by some random uid in ../../.

Like what if dogpictures.tar.gz contains a ../.bashrc. Untar from $USER/Downloads and whoops..
There is a somewhat similar system called Lektor, originally written by Armin Ronacher (of Flask/Jinja fame): https://www.getlektor.com/ You define your models, then start the local devserver to add entries for the models. In the end, it stores the data in the filesystem and outputs static HTML.
59 megajoules of sustained energy ^over the course of a few seconds^.

Ideally this energy output would be sustained for days within ITER.

JET is not designed to do this, as it has a copper magnet system, which means if you try to sustain such a plasma (confined with around 5 T magnet and around 2 MA plasma current) for longer than a few seconds, you would melt the magnet.

Edit: ITER would operate at 5-10 T, and around 15-20 MA plasma current.
I definitely go for polarizing over general appeal.

I’m also generally not looking for a relationship.

So there are also winner takes mosts in the fringes as well.
The problems I'm paid to solve pay a lot more. More than triple the maximum salary of government officials.
There isn't a one-size-fits all approach, but I've never worked on a project that encompasses as many computer science algorithms as a search engine.

- Tries (patricia, radix, etc...)

- Trees (b-trees, b+trees, merkle trees, log-structured merge-tree, etc..)

- Consensus (raft, paxos, etc..)

- Block storage (disk block size optimizations, mmap files, delta storage, etc..)

- Probabilistic filters (hyperloloog, bloom filters, etc...)

- Binary Search (sstables, sorted inverted indexes)

- Ranking (pagerank, tf/idf, bm25, etc...)

- NLP (stemming, POS tagging, subject identification, etc...)

- HTML (document parsing/lexing)

- Images (exif extraction, removal, resizing / proxying, etc...)

- Queues (SQS, NATS, Apollo, etc...)

- Clustering (k-means, density, hierarchical, gaussian distributions, etc...)

- Rate limiting (leaky bucket, windowed, etc...)

- text processing (unicode-normalization, slugify, sanitation, lossless and lossy hashing like metaphone and document fingerprinting)

- etc...

I'm sure there is plenty more I've missed. There are lots of generic structures involved like hashes, linked-lists, skip-lists, heaps and priority queues and this is just to get 2000's level basic tech.

- https://github.com/quickwit-oss/tantivy

- https://github.com/valeriansaliou/sonic

- https://github.com/mosuka/phalanx

- https://github.com/meilisearch/MeiliSearch

- https://github.com/blevesearch/bleve

- https://github.com/thomasjungblut/go-sstables

A lot of people new to this space mistakenly think you can just throw elastic search or postgres fulltext search in front of terabytes of records and have something decent. That might work for something small like a curated collection of a few hundred sites.
If anyone is interested in more of these kinds of easter eggs, I run a subreddit for them at https://reddit.com/r/eastereggs
As much as i dislike the names, kibibytes etc, it makes sense not to re-use SI unit prefixes. SI did comes first and it broadly applicable.

Ask for disk sector alignment; we don’t have disk sectors any more, we use SSDs with blocks. And the sizes don’t need to have a neat number of kilobytes. Just the same as a litre of water doesn’t have a neat number of H2O molecules in it.
Several floors were mentioned. Perhaps insulating one of them completely is an option then?