skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This was news to me when I learned of it a few years ago.

The degree to which Europe is blessed by a tremendous inland water-based navigable network --- the Danube, Rhine, and Volga in particular, is hugely underappreciated.

Inland water transport is hands-down the most efficient means of moving large-bulk materials. It's slow, but when measured as mass-distance/hr (tonne-km/hr or ton-mile/hr), net rates of flow are phenomenal. Even where rivers don't meet, the intervening distances are often small, and can be bridged via highway, rail, or canal systems.

The boundaries of most modern European countries can be rougly arrived at by looking at the corresponding watersheds. See:

https://www.visualcapitalist.com/maps-worlds-watersheds/

Especially this map: https://www.visualcapitalist.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/...

(I note that well-developed countries tend to have either many useful ports, significant useful waterways, or both, and less-developed ones not so much.)

Russia lacks for warm-water year-round ports, but its inland waterway does link the Mediterranian (via Black Sea) and Baltic seaports. This is in sharp contrast with eastern Russian (Siberia), which largely has south-north flowing rivers which don't reach warm-water ports (Arctic Ocean), or link between river systems.
Does the army and law enforcement not use energy?

Do banks not have server farms?
> Most people, regardless of their politics, understand that healthcare, notably in the US, is too often unaffordable and sometimes destructive through financial means.

The US is an outlier. There are countries with a similar and a much higher GDP/per capita that pay almost 50% less.

https://www.finder.com/healthcare-costs-by-country
I can't tell you how much I enjoy refreshing these crypto threads. Comments are turning from black to gray to black again like I'm at a disco.
> When lying on one side you do not even need the arm as a pillow: when the lower shoulder is fully hunched

Hmm what. That doesn’t sound possible.
The supply of ETH is only related to electricity when it's possible to mine it with electricity. Otherwise, what keeps the price of crypto up is people competing to get currency for uses like remittance. Since sending money to another country using a cryptocurrency ties up an amount of currency for a period of time, users have to compete for the available tokens in order to exchange with them.
True, the USD just requires violence and cohersion.
Nice to know, thanks for pointing this out.
The Problem is that TeXLive still defaults to doing a full install.

A full install means installing ~4000 packages, including their source files (tens of thousands of tex files) and built documentation (thousands of PDF files) and hundreds of free fonts (otfs, ttfs, texs own format).

This is huge (>7GB, not just the 5 GB claimed here).

However, you don't need 99 % of this for any given document.

Not installing the source files and documentation PDFs will alone reduce the size by roughly half.

Only installing the packages you really need from a minimal installation gives you a few hundred megabytes at most for even complex documents.

It's a bit annoying to get the list of packages needed though, since there is not really any working dependency management.

I wrote a python wrapper around the tex live installer [1] to make this easy for CI jobs, see e.g. [2].

On a side note: I'd recommend luatex over xetex.

- [1] https://github.com/maxnoe/texlive-batch-installation/

- [2] https://github.com/pep-dortmund/toolbox-workshop/blob/8b00f0...
It's not like Safari are leading with this feature and others are catching up.

With this particular feature, that's exactly what's happening. It's not the first time Apple shipped a new web platform feature before Google and Mozilla; it's the fact that it's been the most highly anticipated CSS feature in the recent history of the web platform.

Leading implies followers.

Apple shipped :has() December 2021 in Safari Technology Preview 137; it's been shipping in production since March 14, 2022 with Safari 15.4. That's a big gap in web time before Chrome ships in production.
There's so little between Eugene and Redding (which itself is mostly just meth) that HSR almost makes more sense for that stretch.
https://archive.ph/xK9wL
NASA’s Longest-Lived Mission: Voyager Probes Log 45 Years in Space
No. It's still a cryptocurrency.
Yes. An honest one. “Due to the complicate GDPR rules of the EU, we are unfortunately not able to serve visitors from the the European Economic Area.”

Don’t you find quite insulting when companies lies straight to your face to be polite? It’s not even their fault. Just tell it like it is.

This is probably the biggest cultural divide between the US and Europe.
The descriptions of the childe empower in the Forbidden City and scheming civil servants remind me very much of “Titus Groan” and “Gormenghast”. I need to check this book out.
Disease is a form of population control in a survival of the fittest sort of way. They're probably much more useful than we'd like to think in the long run. Scarily, we're replacing all those mechanisms with us..
Your remark brought back memories. My wife studied precision engineering as one of few girls (5 out of 700) in vocational college in the late 80s. She wrote all assignments on 1st Word Plus on our Atari ST. And turned them in printed on a dot matrix printer. At a time when everyone else of course was using pen and paper.

Needless to say she got lots of respect. Not only for this reason but that's for another post I guess.
Bitcoin is still software. Software can change. It's the people who refuse to change it
It's like that webcomic where the guy complains he has a fetish for JPEG artifacts because he grew up downloading porn in the 90s...

Personally I don't understand it. Pixel art looks way better crisp than blurred to hell with fake scanlines and a TV bulge, and I lived through that era
KiCAD is excellent. You can use it to simulate circuits and play around consequence free as you learn. It has tools to go smoothly from schematic to simulation to PCB design including autorouting and checking netlists, which can be tedious and error prone to do by hand.

As far as general resources "the art of electronics" by horrowitz and hill is still a gold standard for all-around electronics knowledge, and is written with good pedagogy.
Do you mean something like nyxt?

[1] https://nyxt.atlas.engineer/
I have a similar effect to you usually with diet soda, maybe a slight rise. Only some of the newer ones caused my readings to funk up.
There are server farms within the military, so by proxy, the USD does require server farms. Then the private financial institutions have server farms.
Is someone out there buying ETH because of the power that went in to mining it? It's more about supply and demand, I think. The supply of ETH does change after the merge, but from what I understand there will be less generated than before.

All the tokens and contracts that use Ethereum will still need to pay gas fees and now instead of miners earning ETH, stakers will.
Hmmm. The ocean phytoplankton do it for free. All we need to do is warm the oceans up a couple degrees, dump in a few million tons of old car carcasses for iron, and the resulting algae blooms will suck all the CO2 you want out of the air. As a side effect you get free infinite algae- based oil, plastic, and garden burgers. If you wanted to do this in a slightly more controlled way, you could flood the Sahara about a foot deep and turn it into a giant algal carbon sink and energy (garden burger) generator.
Yeah. Loudly announcing a retreat from social media is similar to announcing an anonymous charity donantion.

but ... somehow we (all society) need to work out how to use these new tools for the best.

Like say cars and roads - that conversation has been evolving for decades - seat belts, drink driving, cyclists and so on. Some driven by regulation, some by social change (In my parents time drink driving was seen very differently to now).

Anyway, this is part of a conversation trying to find out how people currently feel about social media and mental health (both and seperatley) and what they are or not willing to chnage.

These sort of articles (and this thread) are polls before the pollsters even know what to ask.
Computer monitors were much higher quality than TV's (and even higher if a Trinitron CRT, as many Mac monitors used), and a 2002 CRT was higher quality than a 1985 one.

The CRT shaders seem to really try to recreate what it looked like when an NES was running on an average department store TV in 1985. And to my eye and memory, the strength of the effect is pretty spot-on -- Super Mario Bros was definitely quite blurry and color-fringed when I played it back then.
On the contrary, doing a two-stage generation where the second stage simply judges whether a generation is correct can help a lot. It works even better if you give it several generations and let it choose whichever is the most truthful. I wrote a basic example of this here that uses my own confabulation-suppressing prompt in the first stage, but simpler variations of this exist in the published literature: https://twitter.com/goodside/status/1559586486705602562?s=21...

The hallucination-suppressing prompt it implicitly uses the output of is here: https://twitter.com/goodside/status/1556459121834168320?s=21...
You cannot visualize a router between two countries on the opposite sides, without manually rotating the 3d globe (projected on a 2d screen).
Can’t wait till we look back and see the same thing for current shows and movies and then being designed for memeing and sharing on social media.
YSFlight Source Code Released
Nest.js uses express.js and socket.io underneath.

uWebSockets.js beats both on performance benchmarks. In fact it beats everything based on Node's built-in http module, such as fastify, hapi, koa.

https://github.com/uNetworking/uWebSockets.js
> Militia of random crazy people with guns "owning" a large urban zone is "what you hear usually" ?

No. What gave you that impression?

> You just focus on the gun problem here, not on the overall picture...

I know. I have visited a few times. It's a nice place if you can ignore all the murder that is going on...
Nuclear energy has so much potential. Pretty sad people are scared of it. It's clean, it's energy dense, and we can make a lot of it. France gets most of it's energy from Nuclear plants.
They do! It’s called abstract algebra and it’s very similar to type theory in a lot of ways.

But to get to the rigorous mathematician definition of manipulating dx and dy, it requires a large amount of the machinery from abstract algebra that’s hard to quickly absorb or explain.
Setting aside the academic implications for a moment, if you think that Copilot-like models won't be a significant part of programming in the future I'd like to point out this research from Google:

> We compare the hybrid semantic ML code completion of 10k+ Googlers (over three months across eight programming languages) to a control group and see a 6% reduction in coding iteration time (time between builds and tests) and a 7% reduction in context switches (i.e., leaving the IDE) when exposed to single-line ML completion. These results demonstrate that the combination of ML and SEs can improve developer productivity. Currently, 3% of new code (measured in characters) is now generated from accepting ML completion suggestions.

So 3% of all code at Google is now written by AI autocomplete, and Google developers who use this technology are 6% more efficient than those who don't[0].

Is it bad that students are cheating on homework with this? As bad as it was when students used Stackoverflow to cheat, I reckon. But will working with AI models be an essential skill to learn for new (and existing) programmers? About as much as getting comfortable with Stackoverflow was, I reckon.

[0]: https://ai.googleblog.com/2022/07/ml-enhanced-code-completio...
Even if you were fine with it in theory there is a massive risk to it in practice.

In essence you're giving up most legal protections (since you've got as much to lose as anyone else if the police catch you) while working with people who likely have no moral issues with killing you. Will they pay you or will they kidnap your family and cut off someone's toe every time you complain?
At my mom's house I had fun trying to explain to my 4 year old that we couldn't pause the TV, and that even if we turned it off the show would keep going.
Thanos enters the building..
Chineses version ，万历十五年，very famous in China. I recommend anther book called Macro History of China, also written by Huang.
Ask HN: What service are you using to send marketing emails?
We're using AWS SES for transactional emails and it hasn't been a problem so far. But, for bulk sending of marketing emails, I've only found services that depend on number of contacts we have such as MailChimp. It is just prohibitively expensive because we send a marketing email for announcements of new products, usually once or twice a year. For this, it makes little sense to continue paying $600-$1000 / year for MailChimp.

Curious, is there a better "hacky" way to send emails? I don't need analytics and a whole bunch of templating features like on MailChimp. I can manage my own mailing list just fine in Postgres. I simply need an API and I've heard bad things about using AWS SES for bulk emails.

Looking for a low budget infrequent mass email service, I'd appreciate some insight.
I like making flashcards for myself for new topics that I study, in addition to notes. Of course bash as a whole will not fit on a flashcard, but breaking it into high-level topics. looking through the cards I’ve made helps when I feel the need to brush up on a topic in a general sense before diving deeper.

Despite all this, my brain is still Swiss-cheese.
good is what help maintaining life as a whole, so a human with a high carbon footprint is more bad than good, but a lizard or a bird plays a role in the ecosystem, and at least doesn't have a negative pollution impact, so they're not bad

trees: that's the symbol of life, of usefulness, they help to improve life in the ground and around, hold humidity, store carbon for most of them, are homes of many species, provide food, ...

dogs or any pets: not useful at all for the ecosystem, actually detrimental from their food https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pet_food#Impact and other services dedicated to them and their direct negative impact on the local wild life

mosquitoes: useful because their larva feed a large ecosystem, they also feed other insects, they also pollinate
I can assure you it is. You roll your shoulder inwards and sleep with your chin resting lightly on it
Hover has a concept of default NS records... If you have those set to cloudflare and bought a new domain without configuring that...

Then if you didn't claim your domain on cloudflare, I think someone else can if the NS records are pointing to them. This is a common issue with many services where they don't validate domain control, but will provision services to the first user who asks if the domain is pointed at the service.
I code for a living and Copilot can't do the least part of my job, though it is possible it could find uses here and there around the fringes (perhaps not even then).

I'm coding audio DSP along the lines (real example here) of, "Given that the Dolby noise reduction system is deeply part of the sound of classic seventies and eighties recording, what parts of it can be generalized to make DSP processing producing the same general effects on the sound, and having done so, how should this be tweaked and adjusted to optimize for pleasurable results?"

This doesn't exist on Copilot. Damn near nothing I do for work exists on Copilot, and even if it (being an MIT-licensed public code library) gets slurped up into Copilot, Copilot has absolutely no way to determine whether a 0.8273 in the algorithm should be leaning towards 0.83 to brighten the sound of something happening, that it would do this, or why you'd want brighter rather than darker, or whether you are right in wanting this or would do better to go darker knowing that other things will happen to the listening experience.

Copilot's inability to do these things is much like Dall-E's inability to do art. There is much visualization and a striking absence of purpose or intention. With Copilot, it will do all the boring or common stuff for you. If that's your job, maybe you're not aiming at the strengths of humans, rather you are aiming at things too easy to automate…
https://www.reddit.com/r/videos/comments/2yc7f3/john_carmack...
I'm going to echo the other comments here that Windows has this concept via rundll/32, and I believe the PE file format doesn't make much of a distinction either (both EXEs and DLLs can have both imports and exports.) My experience has been mainly on the Windows side so this may bias my perspective, but I've always thought how shared libraries work on Unix-like systems to be unusual. Perhaps it's a result of reusing the linking concept of static libraries and making it more like an add-on to a system which never had the concept of dynamic linking originally. As for PE vs ELF, the former is definitely a far simpler format than the latter (and Apple's MachO is even weirder.)
As the sibling comment also said, I don’t think the the difference in ethics of working for Facebook/Google vs Palantir/Raytheon as obvious as you state. I would have to think pretty hard about this, but my knee jerk moral evaluation has them all about equal.

Not to criticize you directly, but just sharing this perspective.
Fun fact, this site is from the co-founder of Figma.
So if the us replaced the dollar with Bitcoin they could eliminate or downsize their military?

Doubtful
>. Raytheon or Palantir employees, where the delta in morality is much greater, but convincing people to go from neutral-ish to good is harder than convincing them to go from bad to good.

Did palantir do shady things ? I now that the CEO got in trouble for looking down on poor people ( or something along those lines ?), but is there more ?
Ethereum in its current state is using proof-of-work (PoW) to ensure consensus amongst the thousands of nodes in the network. While PoW is reliable and secure, it is also extremely energy intensive. To produce each block on the network participants are required to use powerful and energy-hungry GPUs to solve a complex mathematical problem.

Alternatively, proof-of-stake (PoS) guarantees the security of the network in a different way. In PoS, anyone with 32 ETH can deposit that ETH to become a validator, a node that participates in the network's consensus algorithm. Finalizing a block requires 2/3 of all active validators to sign off on it. Should a malicious actor try to tamper with the underlying protocol by using a large number of validators to revert a finalized block (the equivalent of a "51% attack" in PoW) their funds are slashed — meaning they lose a portion of their staked ETH. This makes attacks extremely expensive; it would be like a PoW system where if you use your mining hardware to attack the network then your hardware catches fire and is destroyed.

PoS does not require the same energy-intensive hardware as PoW. Any relatively recent consumer hardware should be capable of running the software required to operate a 32 ETH staking node. If you deposit more than 32 ETH, you will be assigned multiple "validator slots" by the protocol, but you will still be able to run them from a single computer, though hardware requirements go up the more you stake. Most estimates put the expected energy savings from the switch to PoS to be around 99%.

If you have any additional questions please let me know!
We didn't learn about projections per-se, but more than one teacher brought a globe to class, just to show how arctic and antarctic areas are spread out on 2d maps, and to show the distorsion when trying to draw stuff on a sphere onto a 2d paper.
Fiat currency is not backed by military power. Note that there exist several countries without militaries, and none of those countries have worthless currencies. And there have existed countries that put significant investment into their military and still wound up with a worthless currency at the end.
> The delusional shitcoiner's funny compilation

Yeah, thanks for reminding me. We all had out good laugh at that site at some point.
Please keep giving me zero ideas while judging me for my decisions
Better yet, highlight characters out of context. Not everyone writes in languages that are fully representable in ASCII, yet confusable characters are still an issue.
Somewhat disappointing...

Would have liked for her to call out NRGV as the actual investment scam it is, rather than just pathetically inadequate.

Would have preferred for mineshaft gravity storage to be mentioned, which is not a scam, in place of NRGV.

Would have liked for her to cite ammonia along with hydrogen as chemical storage media. And to mention recent, radical improvements in hydrogen electrolysis efficiency.

Would have liked for pumped hydro not to be described as if it were necessarily dependent on rivers. Or on hills (i.e. mention deep underground cavities as storage volumes).

Would have liked for variant battery tech to have been mentioned, particularly iron, zinc-bromide, and molten-metal chemistries.

But I am happy to see mention of very substantial compressed-air storage systems in production use.

Would have liked for her to mention undersea buoyancy storage as the dark horse. But I understand why she would not be aware of it.

Disappointed that she brought up nukes without mentioning that they are wholly unable to compete with renewables, on cost.

Finally, it would have been very helpful for her to have noted that for now and well into the future, money is overwhelmingly better spent on building out renewable generating capacity than on storage.
for lack of bfloat16 support
Scientists race to unlock secrets of the universe
I’m a child of the 80s and probably watched too much TV as a latchkey kid.

I don’t remember most of the TV shows on watches, but I remember many commercials. Some of them were really awesome.

Commercials now are lousier, but streaming commercials are worse for some reason. I don’t understand why MLB.tv commercials are awful, but if you watch the regional sports network they are better.
Canon's EOS RP, a mirrorless full frame camera with a removable lens, is smaller than an iPhone 13 Pro Max in every dimension besides thickness. In the past the brick size comment would've been accurate, but I would argue that it more or less isn't so anymore unless you pick up a pro camera.
Acronym could be better, but not sure what the rest of your comment is getting at.
Let us know if you find it. Sounds really interesting.
As a hypothetical, what would that case actually look like? I'm suing you because I have a strong belief that part of the codebase of your personal project was assembled from code I wrote and didn't license permissively, so now I'm claiming ownership?

Obviously IANAL so this is largely conjecture, but until we _actually_ see how this would play out in court, I'm leaning towards this being less of a legal issue than folks here act like. For personal projects, I'd say the likelihood of some other engineer reading your code, noticing a similarity or duplication, and dragging you to court for it is near 0.
Back in college, me and my friend hosted a text editing tournament, where you would compete to see how could edit a text file the quickest, thereby proving which text editor is unquestionably the best (and which one sucks the most =P).

It was probably my best memory from undergrad.

https://github.com/ebanner/TextEditorTournament