skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As I said in another comment, the Bucharest summit 2008 started paving the way towards a NATO membership. Until 2014 under Yanukovych Ukraine itself suspended its membership ambitions, in 2014 it continued seeking membership. The Russian response followed and prevented a membership due to Ukraine being in an active conflict and this bought Russian time to either find a diplomatic solution or prepare the invasion.
This can help all the exhausted builders/founders like me
This is awesome! I love democratizing NLP/AI, and bringing it to the masses.
Residential crash is potentially already upon us, at least in the outskirts (East Bay for me). We've had our house on the market for over a month now, and nobody else in the neighborhood is selling either. Big changes from only 3 months ago, when sellers were closing in days.
Following the article’s links, I fail to find an actual example of anything failing to converge in flush-subnormals mode. I mean, I’m sure one could be squeezed out, but the justification given amounts to “Sterbenz’s lemma [the one that rephrases “catastrophic cancellation” as “exact differences”] fails, maybe something somewhere also will”. And my (shallow but not nonexistent) experience with numerical analysis is that proofs lump subnormals with underflow, and most of them don’t survive even intermediate underflows.

(AFAIU the original Intel justification for pushing subnormals into 754 was gradual underflow, i.e. to give people at least something to look at for debugging when they’ve ran out of precision.)

So, yes, it’s not exactly polite to fiddle with floating-point flag bits that are not yours, and it’s better that this not happen for reproducibility if nothing else, but I doubt it actually breaks any interesting numerics.
I wouldn't say the `vast majority` are `filthy, torturous, destructive, and unethical`. While that is undoubtedly out there, is sizeable, and should be addressed; it's far from the vast majority. You have to remember that these are still people raising these animals and that most people aren't monsters. They feel compassion and often aren't given a fair shake. Even the calloused, hard-ass, old-timers get teary eyed in certain situations. Hell, a lot of them don't like going to the zoo for ethical reasons.

Source; grew up in a hog-raising family in big-ag country.
https://learningsynths.ableton.com/
Actually, yes, they do do exactly that.
ARIN is investigating an issue related to external access of the RPKI repository
Blockbusting is a "thing" as well
OK, thanks.

I'm one of those pedants that cringes when anyone uses "exponential" to mean "very fast". In a technical forum like this, I expect people to use a word like that fairly precisely; I'm cool with the version "a linear-time solution to a problem with exponential-time complexity for classical algorithms".

I'm also OK with your claim about the economic viability of QC; I'm not OK with the implication that there is anything exponential about a 10x performance gain.
I think it's pretty clear from an energy perspective that melting/vaporizing or even pulverizing the rock is waaaaay more energy intensive as the force to shear rock is orders of magnitude less than melting it.

One way to think of this is to just imagine the chemical bonds holding the rock together. Tricone drills and TBMs both just sheer the rock, the latter on a massive scale, which is only has to expend that localized bond energy, whereas melting all of it is massively inefficient even with good heat recovery.

One thing I've wondered is if a focused energy beam could just locally break the bonds in a way that'd produce pieces optimized (size, shape, etc.) for transport back through the tunnel. In this way the minimum of energy needs to be expended by reducing the linear distance of cutting.

However, energy beams still have to heat up the rock a lot to vaporize it, so this would still locally be less efficient than cold sheering that current methods use, so when you think about it, TBMs, etc. are actually doing pretty good.
Most offices have physical layouts that make conversion to residential difficult to impossible. Big things like lots of interior square footage without windows and plumbing only to a few central locations.

And while some or even most of this is fixable, major renovations are a ton of cost and effort to convert them to something that will still be expensive and weird, if even possible to meet the legal requirements of residential space.

https://sfstandard.com/housing-development/turning-downtown-...
Don't mistake this for shift in sentiments. They are not going to continue using nuclear energy in mid or long term, just postpone its shutdown.
That's what we're here for - thank you for the support. If they're still in need we'd love to support.
I actually disagree. I think in 100 years we will have at least a prototype for a WIRELESS brain computer interface. The form factor like the laptop and mobile phone are super limiting. The "internet" will come out of these devices into the real world. I also think that VR headsets will go the way of the MiniDisc, hot for a brief period of time, but defunct before they have a chance to take off because they will be obsolete.
At a previous company I worked at, we had an issue with our software (Windows-based, written in a proprietary language) randomly crashing. After some debugging, we found that this happened whenever the user made some specific actions, but only if, in that session, the user had previously printed something or opened a file picker. The culprit was either a printer driver or a shell extension which, when loaded, changed the floating point control word to trap. That happened whenever the culprit DLL had been compiled by a specific compiler, which had the offending code in the startup routine it linked into every DLL it produced.

Our solution was the inverse of the one presented in this article: instead of wrapping our routines to temporarily set the floating point control word to sane values, we wrapped the calls to either printing or the file picker, and reset the floating point control word to its previous (and sane) value after these calls.
> I have no idea what we could realistically ever do about that

There's some discussion about it here and there, but the most viable route seems to be just wrapping the planet in 5cm diameter superconducting wire:

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/international-journa...

Doing this on Mars would be a monumental task, but the concept itself isn't completely ridiculous.
It’s not even remotely the same.

I might fail to get a hole-in-one at mini golf, but the stakes of trying are pretty much zero.

Anyone who either has no dependents or comes from enough money that it doesn’t matter can’t begin to relate to this.
Winter awnings are a thing. Probably want it raised off the ground somewhat as well.
Postgres Migration: Collations and glibc mismatch
Those don't at all feel like low-hanging fruit.

International regulation requires global coordination. And there's always going to be some country that uses non-compliance as a way to make money. This makes A and B very difficult and expensive to tackle.

And C will never happen because big-agra is incredibly powerful.

By contrast, the EPA is a single entity that's powerful enough to enact and enforce changes across the entire USA.

I feel like people don't realize just how effective EPA initiatives are in this space. Energy Star regulations have drastically increased the efficiency of appliances all across the world. And have done so in only 30 years.
Mirror: https://web.archive.org/web/20220906155028/https://austingil...
I had the same initial reaction regarding the pipe character. But once I started thinking of the query as a pipe (like in the terminal) through which the data flows, where stuff like ORDER BY, SELECT, and GROUP BY are just operators, it started making sense.
People in SF have backyards? I can see NIMBY as a concern in the rest of the bay area, but SF, it's already stacked housing.
> Any encroachment by the government..... my ability to speak freely.

Look, if you are ok with authoritarian governments DDoSing human rights organizations, then say so.

> I'm not sure why you're dragging government into a scenario

So, one big reason why cloudflare is used, is by human rights organizations to protect themselves from being DDoS'ed by authoritarian governments.

If you don't care about that, then just say so.

> is otherwise devoid of government interference.

It is not devoid from government interference, because cloudflare stops authoritarian governments from interfering with human right's organizations.

And, as I said before, this precedent hurts cloudfares ability to protect human right's organizations from being taken down by these governments, by protecting them from DDoS attacks, from those governments.

> If there is a government actor, department, or anything

Every time cloudflare is pressured to stop protecting websites, this is ammo that authoritarian governments can use against them, to drop protections for other organizations, such as human rights organizations. It might not happen tomorrow, but it is more ammo that these governments can use.
From my understanding, it’s just like a legacy code base. It is just easier/cheaper to start from scratch than converting the entire thing a piece at a time.
Not the same but for a more pro approach and allowing to stream to a RTSP Server I use LARIX Broadcaster, which is both available on android and iOS and it's just superb to turn an old phone into a camera, ofc you'd need an other software to actually detect movement and such from the RTSP feed. Scrypted can do that (for example)
Some State initiatives to put MJ on the ballot were successful, and did not involve State legislature nor involve staking an extreme position.

Sierra Club seems to be pandering to their donor base.
They could do all of that without VC. To justify 100 mil of VC theyd have to expand far beyond just being a password manager.
Same. But it’s in Google’s cache and I was able to read it from there.
> The description of "being locked into a narrow programming language" really doesn't help the case of the author.

I don't think the author is trying to make a "case". The author is just a newspaper columnist writing about degree regret.

The author was merely trying, and failing, to explain why some people promote humanities degrees. Note that there was not a direct quotation in that paragraph. In the next paragraph there was a direct quotation from Quinn Dombrowski, but Dombrowski did not exactly say what was said in the previous paragraph.
Global state is the root of so many evils! FPU rounding mode, FPU flush-to-zero mode, C locale, errno, and probably some other things should all be eliminated. The functionality should still exist but not as global flags.
I did read your entire post. And the OP post.

I have Intel Xeon Skylake processors, 48 lanes of PCIe 3.0, all of equal priority so they aren't tiered like in some of the earlier blue team processors or the red team processors. Across two CPUs that gives me 96 lanes. The slots are switched so either of the CPUs can use an individual PCIe card, or I can assign a PCIe card to a specific CPU. Alternatively if there are not enough PCIe slots I can run the PCIe cards through a separate switch. There are a lot of non-consumer grade motherboards out there that offer these features. It is rare that any deployment will require all 48 lanes on a CPU to be maxed out simultaneously, though I've been involved with use cases where that has taken place (8x 4K non-compressed video stream captures directly to storage), though what happens then is you run in to DRAM bandwidth issues and other problems.

In my workstation I have dual RTX A5000 GPUs, dual Blackmagic quad 4K capture cards, dual Highpoint USB 3.0 expanders with four separate USB controllers per board, a Highpoint M.2 RAID controller with on-board PLX, along with the onboard M.2, six channel U.2 through a switch, onboard USB & SATA.

What we should be asking for is better switching, not more lanes. Again, it is a rare use case where we can max out the bandwidth of all PCIe lanes of a CPU. We should also be asking for better switching for the direct DMA between cards which is a sorely neglected area across all architectures/motherboards.

P.S. Forgot to mention the NIC PCIe card.
To piggyback off of this, for those companies where WFH doesn't work (lab equipment, etc), now is a fantastic time to negotiate a deal.
That is one hell of a war story - I didn't realize that kind of failure was even possible, but it is truly terrifying.
I actually have no idea how old my well pump is, but it predates both myself and the previous owners. So probably 1970s or 80s.
> Services We Proxy Through Brave Servers

Would it not be better to proxy these through Tor? Brave already has support for Tor built in.
> a total US market portfolio *will* average about 6% after inflation.

has and will are very different claims when applied to market behavior.

Yes the US (and global) economy has been in an incredible period of overall growth for many decades. We've had particularly insane growth in the last few years. But I see no evidence that anyone in their right mind should expect that growth to continue indefinitely.

People believe that bear markets are basically a season in the contemporary market place, but there is no reason that cannot be the long term trend. Across the board we're seeing resource and energy constraints.

For every individual asset people are well aware that "past performance does not indicate future returns" but somehow when we consider the combination of all assets we forget all about that.
I’d be curious to get a better understanding of the “solar energy reali[sm]” that you mentioned. It sounds like you’re suggesting that solar is less practical or efficient than we’ve been led to believe.

I’ve got at least 3 neighbors by me with arrays that effectively eliminate their monthly home energy costs, that seems pretty great. Is that not a realistic expectation for most people with the time/money to invest in such a setup?
It's always going to be a semantics battle over details of how often those shipments occur. We aren't going to build a moon base or Mars base without some expectation of regular shipments either. We aren't going to string them along without at least some basic lifelines in place. "100%" "pure" self-reliance of a "colony" has never happened in the history of humanity and likely never will. We're too social of a species to do that.

McMurdo is about as self-reliant as we might reasonably expect any moon base or Mars base to be in the short term. The details of shipping schedules among the closest on this planet to those thrust upon us by the economics of orbital mechanics in space projects.

It's absolutely not perfect self-reliance. It's still more self-reliance as an example than we are likely to find elsewhere on the planet and "good enough" for complaints that we aren't "ready" for space colonies because we haven't done enough of the homework. We've collectively done at least some of the homework.
Daniel Weinreb: Rebuttal to RMS’s Story About the Formation of Symbolics and LMI
OpenWRT is amazing, it's a regular Linux on consumer-level routing hardware. I kinda feels a bit like a BSD in some design decisions.

A pain point in upgrading the OS is that packages that were previously installed need to be reinstalled. In my case, this includes `dnsmasq-full`, which is dnsmasq with DNSSEC support and a few other features that are enabled in the regular `dnsmasq` package that comes by default. So after an update, there's not even DNS/DHCP in my local network. I need to configure static IPs, SSH into the device, and start reconfiguring it.

I keep very tidy notes on how to reconfigure from scratch, so it's not a big deal, but I really shouldn't need to do this on every OS update. Having to do this leads me to just sticking to a very close-to-default configuration, because any customisation will result in more issues upgrading next time.

It's improving though, this upgrade was smoother. Or maybe I just keep better notes?
Yes, but (1) the atmosphere is a lot thicker here, and (2) we would need to power it with green energy. The combination of 1 and 2 means that we would have to build a lot of renewable energy infrastructure dedicated to doing this instead of using that infrastructure to replace fossil fuel generation.

If it makes sense at all, I think that it would make more sense to deploy a solution like MOXIE-at-scale *after* we have replaced fossil fuel power generation. There's an argument that says that the planet itself could clean up the excess CO2 reasonably quickly once we stop adding more.
Nope. On an area-weighted basis most of SF is wasted on detached single-family homes. https://www.google.com/maps/@37.7470676,-122.4914956,314m/da...
Very sadly many of France's best treasures are lost mostly due to stupidity. Here are a few:

- Les Halles de Baltard

- Château de Saint-Cloud

- Tuileries Palace
The entire TLD is on the HSTS preload list, so .dev domains are only accessible via HTTPS. You can't use them unencrypted.
100 years ago, if you went to Detroit and asked people the next big thing, they’d tel you all about the companies trying to make Horse-less carriages. It’s gunna be big, we just don’t know what it’ll look like.

90 years ago they’d tell you ford is doing some cool stuff with the Model T but they wonder what’ll be next… there’s so many startups! The next thing is around the corner.

80 years ago they’d tell you ford is a massive player and is probably working on something new and exciting.

70 years ago they’d thank ford for a job, and tell you how exciting their mustang is.

60 years ago…

50 years ago they’d tell you how depressing Detroit got. Everyone left and the jobs left and it’s just ford still and they didn’t change much about cars!

40 years ago they’d tell you the same and cars are still basically the same but now everyone is buying a Japanese car because gas is so expensive! Ford will come back and show off a fuel efficient one shortly for sure!

30 years ago they’d tell you how depressing Detroit is. There’s so many Asian car brands now!

20 years ago they’d tell you about alternative fuel. Batteries (terrible!), hydrogen (promising!), biogas (maybe?). So many people working on alternative fuels for cars… that are just cars.

10 years ago everyone would tell you Tesla is the future. A car… but make it electric! The fuel efficient American car of the 80s came true.

Now? People tell you Tesla. Maybe every other car company will be electric.

TLDR. There might not be a next big thing for a while, but no one in tech will see it they way no one in Detroit saw the next big thing (it wasn’t cars). Tech is broader than cars, but we “figured out” computers, phones, etc.

Maybe VR and alternative interfaces aren’t established and have room to grow but maybe it’s just a toy. Maybe crypto will change how people do things… but maybe it’s a Ponzi scheme. Batteries may be big in the future, but that’s hardly a bold prediction based on how much we use batteries. Maybe AI generated content will supplement existing media but maybe that’s too uncanny for people and the tech won’t mature fast enough. People seem to be rejecting mass-social media (fb, twitter) in favor of more personal forms (DMs, BeReal) but maybe that’s just a reversion to normal after a temporary phase of society. Voice assistants exploded a few years ago, but now players are starting to back out (Cortana). Was that because every tech company FOMOed that trend that didn’t come?

Every business you see today wants more stability. Does Alexa exist because Amazon thinks the world needs a voice assistant and they can do better or because it gets people to buy more stuff? Every trend from a major company should be inspected for the line they share with their VPs when they fund it to know who wants this product.
If I understand you comment correctly, WebAssembly is on a path to give you that web based container that can be as powerful as your computer allows while still being sandboxed in the browser.
Walk this number of steps each day to cut your risk of dementia
> Ship an entire physical PC to the user pre-loaded with the application?

Ironically, that’s essentially what IBM did with mainframes.

Another example of what’s old is new again.
Lump sum broken up in increments is a very simple portfolio of cash and equities.

There is opportunity cost of the cash (inflation is 9% currently). These don't compare the same as apple and oranges.

Mathematically, as long as equity value is always accretive (due to passive flow from pensions) lump sum does win on a raw return basis. This doesn't take account of drawdown management. (Think 3AC)
I'v seen donkeys happily munching down plastic bags and cardboard. I sure you could feed dried donkey meat to a donkey (not saying it's a good idea)
-fyolo-math?

-fgoodenough-math?

-fbroken-but-fast-math
* Coughs in Urushi *

I once took the time to figure out how much ink I used per page. 1.1 mL of ink from the CON-70 in my Pilot Custom Urushi (FM) translated to 11 pages of writing on A4 paper (~ 350 words per page). Because A5 pages are half the size of A4, I now knew both how many pages of either size notebook it would take me to finish a bottle of ink: ~ 500 A4 or 1000 A5 pages to one bottle of Iroshizuku Shin-Kai.

That's going to take me while, but, due to the paper sizing properties, I have an easy translation of the information.
I can't imagine it not being sustainable, no. Farms that grow all kinds of crops and raise many different kinds animals are sophisticated systems, and humans have learned over centuries how to best utilize them in ways that don't pollute rivers or emit incredible amounts of methane. The reason why they don't work in much of the modern world is because they don't optimize their output for maximum pounds of beef that gets ultimately sold to McDonald's, for example.
Use the freezer cgroup to freeze everything, then kill it all off however you like.
Are you claiming that all authorities, organizations, businesses and experts acted (and are continuing to act) largely in bad faith?
Ask HN: Which startups have the most interesting pivot stories?
Someone on HN said Notion started as a research tool. Couldn't find info on that online, but it got me interested in thinking about unusual/interesting pivots. I've read about some of the big ones (Odeo --> Twitter, Tote --> Pinterest), but curious if anyone has more recent or lesser known ones.
It only works if you are just running queries in console. Any serious work with sql requires all sorts of weird stuff built around it like dbt, cubejs[1].

1. https://cube.dev/docs/
That’s the fundamental difference from the anti-GOF side. The fundamental difference from the pro-GOF side is that understanding exactly how a nuke works gets you no closer to being able to protect a population from nukes because there is no such thing as a nuke vaccine.

Your suggestion seems like a likely workable compromise if one of those labs is primarily in the US/Euro sphere and the other is primarily in the Russia/China sphere, with enforced transparency.
Actually I think that's exactly the concern - that people won't be allowed to keep their carbon-fuel heating systems, even as a backup.
I’m not near a big tech center, but I know of exactly 3 businesses in my town that no longer exist because they would not allow their employees to work remotely. Two of them were owned by former clients of mine.

They allowed themselves to fail because they wanted to make their employees’ lives more difficult. It was that simple. There was no need for either business to have a brick and mortar location at all. No need for all the overhead. But as the saying goes: “the cruelty is the point.”
I'd argue that a "crash" isn't really a "crash" if it comes after a 50% increase in 2 years.

Anything short of a 20% correction is simply a reversion.

If prices shot up 100% in 1 year, and then were down 3% in two months - no one would be talking about a crash.