skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> just that unbeatable-ly fast

Counterpoints:

1. 0-terminated C strings are slow. There's the constant need to scan the string to determine its length. Taking substrings requires making a copy. Yes, you can manually do length delineated strings in C, but there's no support for it in the language, it's error-prone, and doesn't interface with anybody else's C code.

2. One thing I've noticed over decades of using C is that it's very brittle. What that means is, once an algorithm is selected, it is never changed because it's too hard to refactor the code. (For example, changing a reference type to a value type means changing all the -> operators to .) This means C programs tend to get stuck in a local optimum of inefficient data structures and algorithms.

3. No array bounds checking, leading to a lot of time lost debugging the #1 programming bug in shipped C programs.

If you're doing RAII in C, you're more than ready to move to a more powerful language.
I doubt it is a good idea to work on an HVAC with a hammer.
I knew that was going to be Explosions&Fire before I even clicked the link. His videos are a lot of fun even though I can't follow most of the chemistry.
Moderna sues Pfizer and BioNTech for Covid-19 vaccine patent infringement
Eating PhD Students
I am too much of a grumpy realist to enjoy fantasy books anymore. Magical cursed dragons I can handle. But anytime there's like, a giant fortress city in a wasteland with no agrarian economy I get thoroughly distracted trying to imagine how much food they go through.
The Bolt is indeed a good deal. Only negative (IMO) is the charging speed compared to other new EVs.
College tuitions and the special nature of student loans vs all other loans have been printing money.

A correction is not only fair but overdue.

The only thing unfair about it is what about all the people that were more responsible and determined that they can't afford it and went without rather than go into that much debt? It does flatly screw them.

And as one of them, I still say do it, because that's still better and more fair than what been going on for the last 20 or more years.
But the service isn't. It's going to come back online.
Ask HN: Replacement for 2010 MacBook Air?
I simply love my MacBook Air (2010, tapered body). The keyboard, the weight, the shape, the trackpack.

Although I still use it (with Linux) and have a couple of top-spec daily drivers, I feel it's a matter of time it will "join the bleedin' choir invisible". Which modern laptop will provide a similar feel, weight and size?

It doesn't need to be Apple, of course and lower end specs (RAM, CPU) are fine too, since I'll use it mostly for light work.
Precisely. I was trying to avoid sounding overly cynical of my own peer group, but there’s a lot of this. And as I was trying to get at in my main comment, I think it has to do with a tendency to avoid looking multiple steps towards questions like “what am I actually going to do with my education?”
I found myself in a somewhat similar situation. I learned to thing long-term:

(1) Publish initial ideas not in top conferences, but in second rate venues. Most publications in top conferences are, clearly, refinements of ideas that were first presented in inchoate form, in less prestigious workshops. Paradoxically, prestigious conferences don't like brand new ideas, but they like polished papers. And they like concrete open problems being solved. If a paper starts "We are solving the longstanding open problem from [17]" then that dramatically increases acceptance probability: most submissions to prestigious conferences are not rejected b/c they are wrong, but because it's unclear why they are more siginficant than all the other submissions. Solving a concrete open problem gives you social proof that the problem is significant (others worked on it) and hard (people failed). How do you create concrete open problems? By leaving them as concrete open problems in a previous paper.

(2) Create your own conferences. All now famous conferences started as small, low prestige workshops 10-20 years ago, e.g. the "Oakland" security workshop (now: IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy).

I learned this from my post-doc mentor, who is now a famous scientist with a whole research tradition to his name, that he created, bootstrapping from a first workshop paper.

PS, is your monoid work online, is it this https://arxiv.org/abs/2205.11659 ? I'm interested in monoids on GPUs.
What about the time needed to validate documents like birth certificates, etc?
Hegel wasn't a historical materialist though, the other way around no? IIRC Phenomenology of Spirit, we're about in the era of The Beautiful Souls
Resources are constrained only because of policies that say government services need to be self-funded to a greater extent than makes sense, even when this creates inefficiencies or perverse incentives (speed traps, asset forfeiture). Even if it's not intentionally anti-statist, the effect of undermining people's belief that the government can do anything useful or effective is the same.
You should make a plug in for Freshbooks
Ha, I also once had a job which just gave me, without being asked, a box of business cards I never even opened. I just assumed that kickbacks from a printing company to a VP somewhere were responsible.
> unscrupulous airline.

I'm unsure about this, but from what I've gathered, airlines can bring people to the border without verifying travel documents. The only caveat is they have to be willing to transport that person back if they're not admitted. And IIRC this can happen even if that person has a visa etc., since not every valid entry document guarantees admission, so it's not like carriers would know the admission result prior to the passenger's boarding anyway.

Assuming the above is correct, what this implies to me is that—if an airline was willing to (say) take a deposit or something from a passenger to cover their cost of return, or if they were willing to (for whatever reason) foot the bill themselves—then they could totally let a passenger without valid documentation on board. The only thing that stands in their way of doing this would be their internal corporate policies, really. Unless there's an actual law implying otherwise that I'm unaware of, which is possible.
Which OS are you using? Did you try biktorgj's Modem Firmware (and additionally, the various proprietary releases, to see which one works best with your carrier)?
I've used non-terrible DMV in two states. The key is to not underfund them so that offices are sporadically available and serving an excessively large population.
Many are doing exactly this with Stable Diffusion + GFPGAN (https://github.com/TencentARC/GFPGAN) as a post-processing model.
I think a lot of people who watch these things suspect exactly what you wrote at the least. Apple funds much of TSMC’s research and development for a new node, pays for production for use in iPhones, both sides make tons of money and repeat the cycle on a new node and other companies come in and buy up capacity on that cutting edge node, seemingly comfortably coasting behind apple. I guess now Apple may use some capacity themselves for their mac cpus after the newest iDevices prove the tech.
Business cards are lame.

Calling cards. Now that's something to bring back.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visiting_card
Why is this not on brew yet! (╯°□°)╯︵ ┻━┻
No, I prefer a team who isn't willing to be bothered by nonsense anti-electron trendy commentary.
A good example was Windows NT. Over its lifetime, NT has supported Intel i860, x86, x86-64, Itanium, MIPS, Alpha, PowerPC, ARM, and ARM64. But today it only supports x86, x86-64, ARM, and ARM64. Alpha even had a Rosetta-like JIT to run x86 applications, though it was pretty slow.
Does anybody have first-hand knowledge of how well (or not) supplements for cows such as Mootral that are supposed to cut down methane emissions work?
yes, but I think we need to start discussing what value college is actually bringing to society. Many of these majors do not contribute directly to wealth growth (but teach 'skills' such as critical thinking etc.) Higher education has no incentive to lower prices because they carry none of the risk if a student defaults. Even worse, there is no guarantee that students will be financially successful after graduation and they are still responsible for the debt if they are not successful. I don't blame students for being resentful but I think the resentment needs to be directed at the correct source of the problem: higher education, rather than blaming businesses for not paying enough money to pay off a 100K student loan debt. I think it is a tragedy that we live in a society where you are viewed as 'less than' if one does not go to college. This view takes advantage of our emotions and leads some to go to college without a plan and load up on debt without a clear plan on what they will do with their life. Just to be clear, some people should definitely go to college but the current situation kids being told practically from birth (my evidence is the popularity of 529 funds parents/grandparents set up) that they need to attend college is ridiculous.
I think it jocularly meant "use something with fewer gates and a smaller cross section", not "use a smaller feature size". Or I could easily have misremembered: this was all last century.
Drought threatens coal plant operations, and electricity across the West
I have 5 laptops, 6 mobile devices and a desktop machine that I am constantly moving between. All of them are ios or macos. I have been using lastpass since it is so simple and works flawlessly. Will keepass work as simply for my use case?
And, other than that one Volvo study, the other studies show that while it does take more CO2 to produce an EV, the improved efficiency allows the EV to payoff that extra CO2 within about 12,000 miles of driving which is about a year for for the typical American driver.
I was thinking the same thing.

The material looks like it has the consistency of dijon mustard. To make a chair, you'd need to be able to have bridges, which that material couldn't do. Even if you could, how could you collapse it for packing?

Of course, even if you did decide to focus on small-scale use cases, does the savings in shipping costs due to smaller packaging offset the higher expense in manufacturing? And is it food safe?

It's a cool tech, but I'm just having a hard time figuring out how it could be useful compared to current tech.
> This makes me very thankful for the work that the Go team has put into the go GC.

If you read that part of the piece again, the problem with the GC wasn't necessarily with Java's GC implementation but with Cassandra's storage architecture combined with a mass delete, which tombstoned millions of records and then Cassandra had to scan them and pass them over: "Cassandra had to effectively scan millions of message tombstones (generating garbage faster than the JVM could collect it)"

Even if you had an incremental GC, you'd be eating CPU and thrashing the cache like crazy doing that. And you may never catch up.

Actually even if you didn't have a GC language, you'd likely still have scan or free operations.

Writing databases is hard. And actually the various JVM's GCs are top knotch and have had hundreds of thousands of engineering hours put into perfecting them for various workloads.

Still, these days I'm glad not to be near it and I work in Rust or C++.
Just buy more compute! It's easy! We don't need 10, 100x, whatever people when we have "the cloud"
"Printing money" makes it sound like an education was manifested out of thin air.

Semantically, I think cancelling student debt is much more of a "transfer payment".
Not sure that students should be able to sue their high school for something like this. Why aren’t parents stepping in/up?

How would you avoid “my guidance counselor mentioned this, but they didn’t stress the importance?” My generation already struggles with the expectation of others to solve an individual’s problem - at the risk of sounding too cynical.

Suing your school does not seem like a good springboard into adulthood.
The creative process, like many kinds of fields applicable to business is about problem-solving. AI text-to-image generation doesn't replace that function, however it does form an excellent tool, especially when it comes to rapid conceptualisation.

This will allow more people to be creative problem solvers without needing to possess technical skills in image creation. Much in the same way that graphics apps allowed people to make image without needing to learn studio or art skills. Or DTP tools allowed more people to publish without the tedium and high set up costs.

I will still be hiring illustrators and designers, and this may be one of their tools, and it would be their responsibility to be experts in it, but it doesn't replace them - it makes them better illustrators and better artists.

The right way to think about this is not that it shrinks the field, rather it opens it and accelerates it - for that it's a very welcome addition.

No creative is scared of this - they're looking forward to the next-generation approach, and it's clear that 2D images are not the end point. Soon we'll have 3D (already in progress), soon we'll have music, soon we'll have this for animation and programming.

One can easily imagine all sorts of ways this technology can be implemented, take a simple example of a video game: Imagine a horror genre that hones into what scares the viewer and delivers further upon that.
Perhaps a better point of comparison would be soy as it's much more nutrient-rich. According to this[1], beef emits 31 times more CO2 per calorie of food than tofu does.

[1]https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2021/10/02/treating...
This is fantastic news. The only way we will be able to have abundant energy sources for the future is investment in nuclear technologies. Even with minimal investment the technologies in this space have advanced greatly. Modern reactor designs are much more safe and efficient than ever before, and future designs look to be even better in these regards.
You could always mount it on wheels, which would be way way easier than moving a car that's on fire (you can even keep big wire cutters nearby)

If fire hazard is what's stopping people I guess one could also build a fire-resistant brick cage around it (presumably just a shelf on top should be enough? so that it still can stay cool during normal operation)
> but for what it's worth, they basically sell these at cost with very little mark up.

That's worth nothing.

> it's not meant to be a consumer shop. I think they even warn you to not buy if you expect returns or customer service.

Reminds me of: https://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2004/03/24/the-adventures...

"Wow! I didn't know you could even do that."
My simple uses cases:

- Write repetitive stuff across any application, eg. my email is pretty long, so I expand it with a short ':e' trigger)
- Expand boring code, eg. functional programming functions to snap into pipelines
- Drop emojis here and there (https://hub.espanso.org/all-emojis)
- Write accented letters not available on the keyboard (I use a US keyboard, but I need to write Italian on a daily basis)
- Drop lorem ipsum paragraphs

With some setup, the config is synced between my personal and work Macbooks. I think I will also use it for email templating soon.
This stuff is really low hanging fruit from a climate perspective. It is quite shocking that the US is only now beginning to look at dealing with fugitive methane emissions.
I seriously think not only China is is deep sh*t
Block Is Sued for ‘Negligent’ Security After Breach of 8.2M Users’ Data
imperfection is the key to perfection
So, $100-400 depending on the size (CFR section 1.16(u)). That feels... excessive, but if processing a DOCX is automatic and PDFs require humans (I'm assuming), it makes sense.
Rome is "singled out" precisely because a lot of (Western) people mistakenly assume that they were on the cusp of an industrial revolution, and just ran out of time or something before the barbarians and the Dark Ages snuffed it out. They were a powerful state, populous, technologically and politically sophisticated, and we see toy devices from time to time that _look_ like tech that helped bootstrap the Industrial Revolution. There are discussions of Chinese civilization that are equally fascinating. [1]

The author's point is that an Industrial Revolution requires a very precise set of conditions to occur. Those conditions didn't exist in Rome, and they weren't far enough along the tech tree to make it happen even if they did exist. [2]

He does acknowledge that we have one and only one example of an I.R. happening, and that it overspread the globe before we had a chance to observe another independent example. (This stands in contrast to agriculture, where we have several.) Perhaps you are right, and there are another set of conditions that could trigger a similar result among another civilization, or a nomadic society. (Deeply skeptical though.)

[1] China is probably a good argument for why the specific conditions need to exist. They were even deeper into the tech tree than the Romans, and it still didn't trigger. Maybe they just ran out of time though; we'll never know.

[2] You could do a similar study on Mesoamerican cultures and the wheel. We see toy wheels, why no "wheel revolution" there? Probably because of a very similar set of conclusions.
One interesting development in this space: "Treyarch has been gradually integrating Rust into our tools and pipeline since 2018."

https://research.activision.com/publications/2021/09/the-rus...

Not in the actual games themselves yet that we know of, but still very cool!
One datapoint: I don't know how popular OnShape is, but it seems to have a lot of features and I'm happy running CAD in a browser for hobbyist stuff.
Okay, now gimme a PowerShell version of it.
Your position/speed/acceleration analogy is misleading from a physics perspective. The amount of GHG in the atmosphere determines an equilibrium point. More GHG corresponds to a hotter equilibrium. There's some delay in moving to the new equilibrium, so even if we stopped all emissions, the world would keep getting hotter for a little while before settling at the new equilibrium. But removing GHG from the atmosphere does lower the equilibrium temperature, even if we don't get it all the way back to pre-industrial levels.
applied to other white colored product: https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/001/624/593/ac4...
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-global-petrodollars-colum...
Life is not fair and never will be. The sooner you learn that the happier you will be.
Good. The school should have been paid for by taxes anyway in the first place.
Even though I will not be benefiting from this student debt forgiveness, I support it.

The past generation or two of students essentially had the rug pulled out from under them — they were told by all the adults around them that going to college was the surefire path to a well-paid job in a world where well-paid jobs were becoming increasingly rare, making racking up the debt to do so worth it. So they went to college and took on that debt since that was the "right" thing to do, only to come out on the other end to find that getting a degree had little to no bearing on their ability to find a quality job after all and dooming them to working minimum wage jobs and barely scraping by for an indefinite period.

The biggest problem is that it isn't being paired with strict price caps on higher education, or at least restrictions on financial aid that render schools with unreasonable prices ineligible. Without that we're going to have another batch of kids-turning-adults in the same pickle in a few years.
I know where they're not going anywhere anytime soon. I was in Bogota a few years back and while walking on the street, even of some pretty nice, absolutely not dodgy areas at all, you will be handed this business cards reading "CHICAS", in some streets you could easily collect 5. Now, I dont want to be rude and just walk away and leave someone with his hand extended towards me so I generally just took them and carried on... By the time I came back to my appartment it'd look like I just came back from a meet and greet at a strip club.
Also their shipbuilding was impressive.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ming_treasure_voyages - whole fleets reaching as far as the Red Sea and East Africa.

But then they turned inward.

Some have argued that the reason Europe's industrial revolution took off is that there was no central authority to shut down industrial development and exploration over the whole continent.

> wrong kind of people were getting rich

In Europe, the nobility wasn't powerful enough to shut down the merchants.
The MacBook Air M1.
There are PR reviews worse than the #2 reviewer of most papers, so it's all about new software or forks, don't even bother upstreaming. /s
My town in the Bay Area has always been considered one of the more "affordable" options (which is why we live here). The estimated cost of living to do more than just survive here is roughly estimated to be about $96,000/yr. That factors in rent / mortgage, food, transportation, etc.

So who are really the one's doing the poor estimating? The new college grads staring down the barrel of a career that will allow them to just skate by after paying the cost of living on top of their loans, or the companies making record profits but exploiting new college grads by paying less than a thriving wage?

"Pay your dues" is the cry of the exploiters who profit more from your labor than you do.
in that case i hope there is forcible resistance. a government that robs its youth is not a just one even if a majority supports it.
This assumes the presupposition that god exists and is real which, as is the entire point of this thread, relies on a belief without evidence. You can't use the actions of a "god" as evidence for the existence of that god without evidence of those actions.
Reddit is perhaps not the best company to look at for operational excellence. They seem to be barely keeping the ship aloft
But even before the Industrial Revolution, technology was advancing shockingly quickly, at least on cosmological timescales. If there were no commercially exploitable fossil fuels, would we have simply developed better wind and water energy? Even primitive solar (point a group of mirrors at a pot of water to boil it) could have arisen.
I'm having a hard time seeing the advantage of this vs using the same docker image with all the right dependencies etc across a team. What am I missing? This way or that, the configuration needs to be specified manually.
Comparing programming languages to a specific tool is not the right analogy. A programmer can specialize in C, no carpenter specializes in hammering.
> But it doesn't really say why they chose to build on docx.

Having worked directly with their teams in the past (although not on this), a lot of their systems seemed to evolve naturally over time based on the needs present. In that industry, a large majority of the documents being passed back and forth are DOCX. So my semi-educated guess is someone built a system to handle some simple intake tasks for DOCX applications because a large majority already were, it evolved over a few years, and when they finally decided to fully automate the process, they decided to build upon what they have which only supported DOCX and it was cheaper/easier to mandate everyone submit in that format than to build a new system or add support for others.
CO2 Shortage has food producers scrambling
If only we knew where to find some.
(a) happens regulay. Moreso to people with brown skin - theyll deport you to wherever and call it a day
Multimedia subject area composition stuff:

vvvv.org

ubuntustudio.org

puredyne.org
That is unique to the US, normally the central bank prints money and the government can't just print whatever they want. Giving money presses directly to the people who try to win elections isn't a good idea, only reason USA can get away with it is because their currency is the world currency at the moment.