skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Great idea! Maybe start with yourself first though before sacrificing others.
I hate the feeling of "oh I had a great idea yesterday, that was so cool, what was it again? Oh no, is it gone?"

So I also try to make sure I get them jotted down. I used to use Dropbox, I think I will switch back to it again.
> Seems to me most people never started doing paintings like Michelangelo did, most likely because they were not capable and recognized their own limitations.

It’s a bit more complicated; Michelangelo was not a random artist painting alone in his workshop and you wouldn’t have been able to do what he did just because you were technically able. He was active durant the High Renaissance (like Raffaello and Leonardo), a period that ended with the Sack of Rome and the end of the Republic of Florence. It’s not that you couldn’t do it after him, it’s that the conditions that allowed him (and Raffaello, Leonardo and others) to do what he did were gone.
Wait, isn't the point of post-quantum crypto to be as good as existing crypto but also be secure against known quantum attacks like Shor's algorithm and factoring. I don't think the goal is to trade off anything for defenses against quantum attacks.

If anything these stories should be more confidence inducing. They show that the rollout is conservative and that the system works. PQC algorithm has a flaw and it is found. FWIW the way existing traditional crypto is proven safe is pretty much the same -- get a bunch of people to work on attacks and weed out the bad stuff.
The subtext on this comment is rather hostile. Refugees anywhere likely want to leave because of the current situation, not because they always hated/disliked/whatever their country.
Virgil is completely self-hosted. The git repository just has stable binaries checked in that are updated periodically (15-20 times over the past 12 years or so). It bootstrapped first from an interpreter written in Java, which is long obsolete.

Because of this, Virgil has no dependencies on other compilers or languages, other than for testing (bash and a little C).
Famous professor quote/reply about this: "in teaching, students are not the customer. They are the product."
I don't understand how PoS changes this. Also, that blog post does not consider CPU-mined PoW which is unprofitable for miners and sustained attackers.
It may have some physical aspect to it - some property of matter (panpsychism?) or quantum effects.
I've always liked the shared libraries that print version information when executed - it's a simple ergonomic convenience.

One of the central libraries in our system as, IIRC, its own main loop that's never run in normal operation - usually the process of injecting it into a target process also ensures it gets set to an entry point that'll actually do stuff.

But you can execute it and it'll just sit there spinning happily on its own like some kind of weird debugging singularity. There must be something we can use it for but I'm not sure what...
Thanks for this link. A bit hard to digest more than a decade after I last did formal math but very approachable non the less
No support in CompressionStream, that's too bad.
Totally practical and supported. See MikTeX: https://miktex.org/kb/just-enough-tex

But the reason I don't use it is because I don't always have Internet when I need to write my document. I'd rather download all the packages and their documentation beforehand.
Sky Perfect JSAT has selected SpaceX’s Starship for its Superbird-9 satellite
> they'll have to go nuclear

Germany built up more renewables in 20 years than there ever was nuclear and the speed is still accelerating:
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datei:Energiemix_Deutschland.s...

Nuclear currently is too slow to be built and too expensive for fighting climate change in time. France is partially to blame for the current energy crisis in Europe, because they put pride in their nuclear power plants before realistic replacements for their old reactors that are way over their initial designed runtimes.
I did a bunch of testing about five years ago and in some scenarios gzip was a bit faster, but I don't recall which exactly and it was five years ago so things may have changed. I thought I had saved the results somewhere, but I can't find them right now.

Overall, zstd still came out as the clear winner (also compared some other compression tools), so I went with that.
Oh it definitely happens, I'm not saying it doesn't. But in those examples you mention I would say there are more people who are bad at their job than just the IC who "faked it".
> Many doctors, from my observations, function as pen pushers in what seems an administrative bureaucracy, relying as often as not, on remembered-information rather than improvisation or critical thinking.

This contempt towards doctors never fails to impress me... I don't see it aimed at other professions either.
This misses the point that things become busywork because there are better alternatives. There is a difference between weaving a pattern by hand now vs hand weaving before the invention of the loom. My work isn’t busywork _yet_ because I don’t know of a way to automate it.

As an aside about large software shops reassigning, I’ve found at large software shops a big part of the role is making up meaningful work for yourself that helps the firm, and that’s a large part of what is actually rewarded (as opposed to fixing bugs or maintenance). I think a lot of people fall into the career trap of needing their immediate manager to narrowly define what is useful exactly. Usually when you are made redundant nobody reassigns you directly they just kinda ask you to figure it out and give you a couple weeks to a month to talk to teams with headcount and pick one with a problem area you think you can make progress on.
These vehicals spent a month sitting and blaring horns 24hrs/day. They could have been working and not breaking the law and terrorizing people. They got kid gloves the whole time they where there and mostly went without consequence if they left before the police forces got their acts togethor.
I think Hangouts beat WebEx because you could invite someone to a meeting and they didn't need to download or install anything to join.

And I think Zoom beat Hangouts because you could invite someone to a meeting and they didn't need to create an account to join.
does hanging a chloride off of sodium scare you as well? sodium alone scares me a lot more...
Did you leave your country and community because they were bombing your block? Nah, bro, I just love McDonalds.
I don't care about all the handwaving here, it comes down to this.

The moment a fragment of code from a GPL'd or AGPL'd project shows up almost verbatim in someone's closed source or non-copylefted, etc. project, and someone proves it, sparks are going to fly.

And it's probably already happening, just people haven't discovered it yet.

How many years did the Oracle/Google lawsuit go on for? And in the end about a handful of a lines of code only tangentially related to the issue at hand?

Part of the lesson from that must be: employers should be telling their workers to say TF away from Copilot or things like it. And be careful in general when browsing source. License literacy is critical.

I don't touch it because I need to feed my kids. I don't need my career exploded. Overcautious? Maybe. I'll let someone else find out. I make a living in and around open source software.
And while a globe is obviously better, the orthogonal representation of North-South and East-West also allow for some easier instruction of some earth science topics - basically that the Earth rotates along the horizontal axis.
If you take selfish human-only view, nothing good there. But there is tons of them and they are important part of food chain even if they are tiny.

If we could selectively just eliminate those 2-3 sub-species that transfer malaria, dengue and say zika or yellow fever from human perspective the negative impact on environment compared to positive impact on often weakest and poorest part of mankind if... well incomparable. Ecosystem would take a hit but I can't seriously put half a million of human lives yearly, often small children, against some blip in our environment, which would in few years balance itself out into new equilibrium (probably with more insect of some other type taking the place) and choose insects.

What I would eliminate outright without any remorse are ticks. They are not that important in food chain, and are scourge for both humans and many animals.
Although for some reason its RSS feed seems to get consistently ignored by my reader (Feedreader). Never had that problem with SSC.
I have this book, still sitting in my bookshelf, from back in the day. I never got to use a Transputer for real which is a shame as I would have loved to try them out, but the book was still excellent and worth the read.
Nit: CAHSR is not quite 100% new track. The alignment between Anaheim and Burbank is the same as the Metrolink’s and between Gilroy and San Fransisco is the same as Caltrain’s. Both need(ed) major improvements, but so did Brightline’s.

I’m not saying though that both projects are comparable (they are not. CAHSR is several factors more ambitious), this was merely a nitpick.
TIL about soulver and https://github.com/soulverteam/SoulverCore
Paraphrasing from the article:

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a kilogram of gasoline gives you about 13 kWatt-hrs,

a kilogram of coal a little less, about 8 kWatt-hrs,

a kilogram of lithium ion battery can store only 0.2 kWatt-hrs, and,

a kilogram of water at 1 km altitude is just 0.0027 kWatt-hrs.

On the other hand,

a kilogram of Uranium 235 gives you 24000 kWatt-hrs!! There’s a lot of energy in Uranium 235!

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So, barring antimatter, U235 is the ULTIMATE BATTERY.

Most fusion research seems to be focused on fusing the lightest elements, usually isotopes of hydrogen: deuterium and tritium and occasionally lithium to produce energy.

I wonder how much research has been done on the fusion of heavy elements such as lead (Pb)? If it were possible to reverse the fission of U235, i.e., fuse the fission end products such as Pb back into U235 in an energy efficient manner, and with a very low carbon footprint [1], that would solve the energy storage problem.

[1] Also from the article: "CO2 emissions resulting from current storage technologies range from 104 to 407 kg per Mega Watt-hour of delivered energy. Compare this with coal, which releases almost a 1000 kg of CO2 per Mega Watt-hour produced. " This is the CO2 emissions created in the construction and maintenance of the energy storage facility averaged over the total energy stored and delivered during its lifetime.
Crypto Is Tumbling, but in Argentina It’s Still a Safer Bet
Agreed. I just tried this by writing three sort functions named "some_sort", "another_sort", and "yet_another_sort". I started comments after each with "# The algorithm used in some_sort is known as: " and Copilot correctly completed them in all three cases (bubble, insertion, and merge).
Personally, at your age, I would live in the city (or outside but good connection).

And invest in decent equipment:

- Chair

- Keyboard and mouse/trackball that suit your preferences

- Monitors, like: Dell Ultrasharp - https://www.dell.com/en-us/shop/monitors/ar/8141

- Headphones, like: Sennheiser HD280 PRO - https://en-us.sennheiser.com/hd-280-pro
I had to implement floats and doubles a bit ago. Was a fun bit of puzzling to figure that out as a small break from other work.
> The vast majority of Canadians are sensible people.

This agrees with my point. Most of the money funding the protests was American not Canadian.

> The media over-represented the protests.

There was a lot of localized disruption. It fit into a wider issue of vaccination opposition. Seizure of protest funds is a story (agree with it or not). Whether it would spread to the US was a legitimate angle. So even though I disagree with the protests it was certainly newsworthy IMHO.

> ... and the police, negligent.

Here I will disagreee. The police and these protesters were largely the same people. This wasn't negligence. This was tacit approval leading to deliberate inaction.

In the US, dying from Covid, even after having refused an available vaccine, was counted as a death in the line of duty in US statistics. This then fed into a narrative that police work was dangerous.
Hmm...

uptime
20:49:05 up 15340 days, 32 min, 1 user, load average: 0.22, 0.41, 0.32

Guess not.
Apple shareholder here with 1/4th of my net worth in Apple stock.

Apple doesn't want multitasking to get too powerful on the iPad because they want you to buy a Macbook Air/Pro and an iPad. Their strategy worked. I own a Macbook Pro 16" (previously M1 Air) and an iPad Pro M1.

People need to let go of the dream of an iPad capable of doing what a Macbook Air can do in productivity. It doesn't make economic sense for Apple to do this (yet). It's possible that user behavior changes in the future and the entry-level Macbook and iPad Pro must merge into one device. But for now, it hasn't happened.
have you ever tested diet soda with the various artificial sweeteners? I've tried it personally and never seen the slightest notch above what would random noise whereas sugar is "straight to the moon, lois" a half hour to hour later.
Then I found out about weird poorly defined NaNs, which were kinda annoying, but fun nonetheless.
Doesn't this ignore the fact that a lot of DNS resolvers don't respect the TTL and cache for way longer than they should?
Victim blaming is inappropriate.

The refugees I know (none from Ukraine, though they were all victims of Russia-supported regimes) all liked their homes before they became war zones.

They experienced starvation-related long-term health issues, having loved ones arrested, tortured and worse, being hunted for sport, etc...

Whatever beefs they had with their local neighborhood prior to that didn't really enter into their decisions to leave.
One artist whose work you really must see in person is James Turrell. His work is to construct massive and immersive “light installations”, where the play of colored light is the art piece. I saw an installation of his in San Francisco in the early 2000s and it was not unlike entering a sort of sensory deprivation tank, except instead of being enveloped by darkness you’re enveloped by different frequencies of color spectra.
It's bullshit like this why I hate boomers and / or stuck up / and / or snobby / and / or ignorant software engineers, who, in the end, maybe aren't actually snobby, but just ignorant.

YoU cAn Go YoUr EnTiRe CaReEr AnD nOt UsE iT!!!

sure, this is true if:

- you don't work for / build / care about apps that have a persistence layer and serve more than about... let's say 20K daily users

- you don't care about perfomance

- you are confused

Postgres over:

- mongo: Postgres has ACID principles, where with Mongo you aren't sure you've saved ANYTHING at scale, there are multiple blog posts and humorous videos about them, i leave hunting them down to your discretion

- mySQL: don't even get me started, doesn't have any sort of plugin possibilities, is slower performance wise in literally ANY benchmark

- LiteDB: I know its the hacknews hipster rage, but seriously, you're going to rely on your entire backend via IO with a single file? ok, enjoy that one

sorry for the rant, i know it's not conducive to the hackernews mentality, but i've heard this rage and poking fun at postgres so many times, and nearly all have absolute NOTHING to with postgres' technical performance and much more to do with ego or some bullshit affiliation to some company and i'm sick of all of it and finally laying down the law:

Postgres is one of the BEST (if not THE BEST, bar none) databases currently available.
I’m sure mac was a wonderful dev environment for developing Mac GUI apps.
But was it a wonderful dev environment for developing high performance numerical code? Or web servers? Or robotics? Or...
Most developers don’t write GUI apps.
Even notably bad writing, even if espousing the fatally flawed and incomplete ideology of Objectivism, leading to the fatally flawed political movement of Libertarianism, which if practiced ultimately results in pure Socialism, may be ranked: bad, worse, and worst. I couldn't say exactly who the singular worst popular writer of the 20th Century was, but certainly Rand must be a strong contender.
But the budget and the cost estimate is used as the denominator in the utility justification function, so if it returns positive ROI at a certain cost, but cost overruns are 2-10x that, then it carries negative utility...
Not op, but I use this system which has instructions for installing to Linux, Windows, and macOS. [1]

It's described as "QWERTY for Western European languages" and supports quite a few characters with simple AltGr (right alt) key combos.
Alt+o = ö
Alt+a = ä

(American living in Europe, I haven't wanted to move from US QWERTY physical layout, but needed an extended character set in daily use)

[1] https://altgr-weur.eu/
Were there really any anarchy ever in estabilished communities (i.e. ones that were tied to land/infrastructure/location and couldn't just move easily)? I thought that, in every single case, either a hierarchy of power formed internally or they were subjugated to by outside power. I mean, why wouldn't it happen?
I don't understand how this meshes with their strategy of neglecting the Mac? If they want to push people to Mac, why make it worse in every iteration? The hardware got better but the software got worse in the last few years.
I think the other BSDs do too, including macOS.
Elementary school (usually up through 5th grade) in the US usually has one classroom and one teacher for most subjects. All of my elementary school classrooms had at least one globe.
FWIW The most pessimistic person I know is a ruby developer. Great guy, just very skeptical and pessimistic about just about anything.
The Transputer always sounded like a computer from an alternate future when I read about them before.

I don't know how practical the tech would have been to scale but I wonder how different computing could have been.

A conceptually somewhat related system (in the sense of a computer as a network of smart-ish components) was the (research prototype) Desk Area Network https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/research/srg/netos/projects/archive...

Mainframes had significantly powerful IO processors, meanwhile modern PCs contain many processors linked by effectively an internal network. With the right network hardware you can DMA to another system too. So I guess the lines have always been a little blurry between systems!
Worth noting that DALL-E automatically “rejects attempts to create the likeness of any public figures, including celebrities". So, you wouldn't be able to get an image that included the 4 Liverpudlians. It does allow you to create fake faces. Might be fun to try and recreate Miles Davis Tutu, Aladdin Sane, Piano Man.
I've been following Riley on Twitter and he's a constant source of fantastic GPT-3 tips, recommended: https://twitter.com/goodside
Reading this reminds me of Faulkner’s line: "The past is never dead. It's not even past"

The Ming was heavily influenced by the Han Empire which was more than a thousand years in the past.

Even today, there seems to be a current of rejection of the 20th century (and even before) and a strong push for something before that.

Xi in China seems more like a Ming Grand Secretary, than really anything Communist.

Modi in India calls forth the Hindu Empires of the Middle Ages and before than he does Nehru or Gandhi.

Erodogan is more Ottoman in outlook than Kemalist

Putin can best be understood through a Tsarist lens and his perception of himself as another Peter the Great.

Even the right wing in the US looks back more to Medieval European state sponsored Christianity than the Enlightenment influence of the US founding.
That's neat. But don't read the chatbox.
Not really. You can’t have a fiduciary duty to break the law. The downside risk is much higher to violate OFAC.
My Experience Building Africa DoorDash for Agriculture
It been over 2 years of setting on this journey of building Doordash for Agriculture, like Doordash logistics have been a key in the success of this, and building in Africa, Nigeria to be precise have come with it uniqueness of challenge. I came across YC materials 2017 and it has help along in the journey.

Three of my experience that I like to share building in the space and learning how it wouldn't work and how it will work are;

1. Just like many ecommerce that works in Africa build for business, it makes logistics cost worth it and enable avenue to make revenue on logistics.

2. Build on few niche product, this we make a mistake with when starting and till today our platform have multiple product, but really our focus on some select few.

3. Don't there to be all asset light, it is a mistake as inflation favors asset and many of the customer will be sticky all because of the logistics structure and asset all together. (So raise money early and go all in on Asset.

I hope to look back on this and have give away some wisdom and recipe to the success of what we are building, all together it has been a very tough journey and all thanks to grant and supportive founding team to have survive in an industry of low margin and tremendous impact. As Africa have 60% of the world arable land and with the work of digitization we are doing at DayDone holds a huge opportunity to a brighter and more sustainable future for all
Interestingly related, I just used AI image generation to create my EP cover.. first I tried running luciddrains dall e 2 PyTorch implementation using the prompt “death by Tetris EP album cover 2022” unfortunately I am using a Mac Pro so the gpu was not able to work. Then I tried imagen PyTorch implementation and used same keyword. This time it was working with the CPU unfortunately 2 days in we had a power outage so I had something but nothing complete. So I fed the generated image into the google dream generator and got my album cover!

https://willsimpson.hearnow.com/
I just copy and pasted 3 random Leetcode problem prompts to GPT-3. It successfully generated Python code that passed all test cases for 2 out of the 3.

Problems passed:
- Two sum
- Text Justification
edit: Newlines
When the Microsoft Store first came out, I remember they went around college campuses offering $100 per each app submitted to the store. This multiplayer version of Conway's game of life is one of the first apps I implemented and cashed in. I had previously participated in a hackathon that had us implement this version of Game of Life, and I thought it'd make a good app. Sadly, it looks like it's been removed from the store by now.

P.S. The Microsoft representative didn't seem to have much confidence in the quality of apps submitted. He sold it to us by saying that it was just for growth and that they were trying to catch up to the Apple store, which had already had its period of growth with "useless Fart apps". He even offered a "whack-a-mole" style template game that you could re-theme with different images and submit for $100.
That's hilarious. To me it reinforces how few resources you need to run an operation like Netflix. The hardware is brilliantly fast. The more engineering you do, the slower it gets. Engineering is an aristocratic tradition. What you see today is an imitation of that, done badly, which Netflix tries to circumvent.
Both of those reinforcement types have sudden failure modes and aren't commonly used for rebar because of this.
I have an extremely averse reaction when I feel like I'm being manipulated. There's not much I dislike more than that.

When twitch gets past my ad blocker, I reflexively close the tab. And those are only a few seconds. For the same reason I would be unable to watch a TV channel that has ads.

The article seems suspect to me. Possibly because I can't relate at all.
“Friends”

either they shouldn’t be friends with cheaters. Or they shouldn’t be salty at cheating friends cheating.
> No pre-existing binaries are required.

Except for of course a c compiler.
C is a wretchedly bad language for writing compilers.