skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe I've just been exclusively working on really boring stuff, but there are no examples that particularly come to mind.

There are programs and programmers that impress me, and once in a while I'll come across an interesting algorithm, but I can't really think of any code that is anything more than just code.

It's either too simple to do anything I'm interested in, too full of ugly hacks like most large programs, or deals with math and algorithms way above my understanding, to the point where I probably haven't even tried to read it.

Some of most memorable bits or code for me are the examples for frameworks and libraries, but those are more impressive for the code that isn't there, rather than the code that is.

I love declarative work(Not so much pure functional, but things like CSS and CAD constraints where a solver figures out how to make your intent happen) but again, that's notable for the code that isn't there.

I also really like hardware workarounds. It's so cool to be able to have software that runs fine on bad hardware. It's not that common, but occasionally you can pull it off in a reliable way that really is just as effective as using better hardware. Seeing pure code replace hardware is kind of like a further development of replacing mechanical stuff with solid state chips.

I really just don't care about code itself very much. I don't want to write bad code, but I only care about good code in as much as it will actually benefit the project. Once it's good enough, features or architecture improvements or unit tests or something might be more important, and interesting or clever code might bring the project down.

If I'm reading your code, I'm probably either adding to it and complaining that it doesn't have an API hook already there, or fixing a bug.

If I'm using but not reading your code I'm probably happily assuming it's great, if it's a popular trusted thing.
Because most registrars buy wholesale and sell retail.

I looked at a couple of my normal registrars and they were about a tenner per year per .uk domain.

If you can find one for under a fiver (for multi year) please let me know.
It really helps if you post a picture. Most people unironically picture a barrel of bubbling, glowing green goo when you say “nuclear waste” like something out of The Simpsons. It helps when people don’t have to generate a picture based off of your description[0].

[0]https://www.reddit.com/r/NuclearPower/comments/b5hy9b/what_n...
We ended up with fasthash64 and lookup3 by looking for a fast hash that is easy to port to the restricted subset of C supported by eBPF with minimal changes. https://github.com/rurban/smhasher is a great resource for that.

I would probably choose different, more robust hash functions if I was targeting regular C.
Not really, that's more related to the fixed precision of IEEE 754 floating-point numbers. In any fixed-precision representation there's always a certain representation which happens to be the best approximation of any constant like pi. That's the one you would pick.

However, you could perhaps infer from the article that IEEE 754 double-precision numbers are sufficient for most physical calculations.
Elizabeth Taylor outlived the major writer of her New York Times obituary: https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2011/03/23/134797518...
>Unknownatons you say?!! What evidence do you have for this? Well, I have none. But if I stack up the zero evidence I have for it against the stack of zero evidence that others are showing me that redshift can only indicate accelerating expansion in the spacetime fabric, it’s a wash.

This is where the lack of expertise in physics really shines through, and exemplifies my problems with this article. In science, a lot of knowledge and intuition gets built up but not published because it's "too obvious", and doesn't get communicated to laypeople because it's a mix of too advanced and too unimportant.

It's much more believable to me that physicists implicitly understand why there would be many more issues with alternatives theories to the expansion of the universe. And physicists rarely claim to have a perfect model anyway, opting for "best model that currently fits the evidence".

Maybe more evidence will come out against the expanding universe theory (the new JWST results could be the beginning) and will lead to a paradigm shift. And I appreciate highlighting the big assumption of "redshift is from Doppler". But the bulk of this article has low credibility to me.
To me, those balls are perfect
Is this because of greed/profit/capitalism? Like we have enough energy for ourselves but we can make a lot of money if we profit now of this bad situation, double our yachts length.
Finland is on bad terms with its neighboring country. Specifically, the one to the east, mentioned two times in the article.
It just so happened that the US became a net exporter a few years after conquering a large oil state. They keep saying it's domestic production but I don't believe in astrology
Yes, but that is something that changes with time as children get older, especially in different communities. I get the point though.
It also has a lot to do with not enough transmission capacity to get the electricity from north to south. At this very moment the spot price in north most pricing region Tromso is a lot cheaper than in Oslo region (~1/10th). Sweden has the same problem.

If I was from Norway or Sweden I would demand the national grid to massively invest into the transmission lines to make all the electricity produced in the country actually usable anywhere in the country. Basically work to get rid of these pricing regions within the country. This is how the network here in Finland works

Also why they are now talking about adding new lines from south of Finland to Sweden (also mentioned in the article) so the electricity produced in north Sweden can be sold to south Sweden through Finland as the national grid of Sweden just can't get it done.

edit:

You can go to https://www.nordpoolgroup.com/en/Market-data1/Dayahead/Area-... to check the day ahead prices in different price regions.
I like https://text-generator.io because the main SDK is either using the playground then clicking the "get code" button, or there is a one line change for people migrating in from OpenAI text generation.

Lots of good docs have you visually doing the setup/work, then you realise you can download/see a bunch of code for all the actions you did (e.g. everything UI doable is programmable and the tools taught you all the concepts), it minimises the actual programming, it is really hard/time consuming to mentaly translate API docs to code.
My thoughts exactly. I remember the early days when the photography world was just as split with Photoshop, where if a person used Photoshop to make edits to their photograph it is no longer "authentic" or "real". Nowadays, just about any Bob and Betty and their uncle uses filters on any social media platform and no one contests that the photo is theirs.

I can see a world where DALL-E and SD, or at least versions of them, are part of Photoshop (or some other photo editing suite). Much like how the clone tool and content-aware fill were groundbreaking, a new tool where you can type in "replace background with a dystopian city, cyberpunk style" would be just as ubiquitous (and reminds me of this post by Runway ML: https://twitter.com/runwayml/status/1568220303808991232?s=20...)
We have enough misinformation as it is that we can do without comments like yours without some kind of citation. No-one thinks that any electricity generation is zero-carbon, the question is only about the relative advantages/disadvantages across many metrics like cost, complexity, security, consistency, scalability, land-use and many others.

FOr example, a wind turbine is an awful lot easier to remove and make good than an entire power station if we eventually build something much better.
At issue is that a residential roof is no bigger than the residence. That does not make residential installations a dumb idea. They just cost more than alternatives.

On very large commercial buildings, a project may claim economies of scale, and support dedicated personnel to keep them operating well.

That said, roofs are far from the best place to site solar.
The stdlib is pretty impressive because you see stuff that at first glance looks like there's an obvious simpler way, but then notice the edge case their way handles or the extra thing it enables, and it's clear that it's all been polished over time.
The brain and gut work together on a lower than subconscious level to maintain your weight. And it is very very accurate in doing so. You're conscious mind cannot out think it. It counts calories and expenditures nearly perfectly. Only through serious effort can weight be reduced and it takes a very long time for the body to reset itself, if it even can.
tbh, that dont matter too. they cant stop one's death.
I wasn't insulting Argentina, at least not intentionally.

But, by your definition are not Mexico or Brazil 'the west' too? Is Argentina not more like these countries that your typical European country? Isn't there a valid distinction there?

For me - and this is a subjective but common understanding - 'the west' is all Anglo speaking countries (inc Australia and New Zealand) and western Europe (France, Germany, Spain, etc). This unit, seems to move in the same way financially, culturally, politically.
Hmm. Don't know why but it could be due to popularity of Node in general. Going with something that is popular is often the best way to ensure you'll always have candidates to hire.
At school, I somehow talked myself into a dumb competition with my math geek about memorizing digits of pi.

I won, with 35 digits memorized (he gave up early; that's also around where the first '0' occurs in pi).

I don't miss any opportunities to test that I still remember them correctly, to this day. ;)
> I mean Europe has not been this close to a nuclear disaster in more than 30 years and people arguing we should build more nuclear plants?

Are you saying war is a normal/regular operational situation for an energy plant?

Go and look up total number of deaths from either Chernobyl or Fukushima.

Hint: nuclear is one of the safest energy sources currently imaginable.
The premise of this line of comments is that the international traffic is so small it's not even worth making an adsense account.

Given that premise, there's no reason to want Europeans blocked other than spite or embarrassment.

Simply not caring enough to put in extra effort wouldn't look so bad, but that's why I'm pointing out there's no real difference in effort.
I dislike this kind of overblocking a lot. Not just TLD blocklists, but also IP blocklists.

I recently had to write an email to my local police station (xx@polizei.nrw.de) and their server was rejecting it because my IP (vultr) was on the "Proofpoint® Dynamic Reputation"-blacklist. I owned this single IPv4 for at least 3 years, so they whole vultr range must have been blocked by Proofpoint.

Great if you can't even contact your government because they are using some shitty blocklist product.

Personally, I run a mailcow instance with Rspamd and get only very few spam mails, albeit my email was being leaked in the ledger.com hack a few years ago. When I was still using mailbox.org, I got crypto spam mails (update your wallet yada yada) in my inbox twice a day. So just a configuration thing(?).
As fossil plants go, gas will be the cleanest and probably cheapest overall but it is not sustainable at scale. How long until the gas has run out or we are butchering the countryside to try and find hard to reach pockets?

Can we create gas from anaerobic digestion? Sure. Can we do it to have an enormous amount of electrical power generated from it? Probably not. I suspect we might end up with some green gas plants to help with the dynamic load but we haven't built enough digestors yet to feed them.
I always liked Dropbox Paper's pseudo-markdown. I also liked their font enough to buy a license for my own website.
Other way around, they use that value because that's the most precision you get with IEEE-754 64-bit floating-point numbers, which is the representation also used by JS for floating-point.
I feel like we’re coming full circle.

1. Existing rich text solutions require applications to edit, let’s make one that is so simple you can read/write in plaintext. Markdown is born.

2. Wait I need more features, let’s add more stuff

3. Hey this is too complicated to work with, I need an editor!

That being said, check this out: https://code.visualstudio.com/Docs/languages/markdown
Well... I was speaking from the point of view of art as it was made before photography. Though we use the term `art' to describe both that which came before and after photography, functionally they are different. The same can be said of folk art and salon art. This causes heaps of confusion when discussing the two.

I believe (though I may be wrong) that you are using the term as a signifier of esteem (kinda 'this is so good it is art').

I have taught fine art photographers, some of the best in Asia. I have seen no problem calling it art.

I have worked in art schools for 1,000,000 years. Believe me when I say that I have seen just about everything presented as an art work (off the top of my head, public sex performance, vandalism of other people's art, playing football, covering your studio space with excrement etc).

The real question then is: `art or not, is it any good? Does it have value?'
Most hydro power is always running.
vscode + markdown preview :)
There is a lot of NIMBYism though. Also large parts of the east of the country can't really build wind power as it messes with defense (military radars at the Russian border). But still a lot of space and the best spots to build wind is at the sea anyway not inland.
What's wrong with Object Pascal?

"Plain" Pascal is about as efficient as C, uses slightly less memory, is safer because of its lower dependency on pointers, and is easy to work with, especially with strings.

Then Object Pascal has classes, units, interfaces, generics and type safety. Is it still not enough?
https://castle-engine.io/modern_pascal

An alternative would be to build a Go program with a wish/tk frontend, which is also cross platform, native and simple to write. It's actually straightforward to do with go-pipes for the binding with wish, and provides a nice decoupling between the program and its UI. Also, it's fairly small and efficient unlike Qt, or worse, web technologies.
But your plan assumes that the 2 neighbors production is complementary, what is is a bad winter, the demand raises in both countries, wind turbines need to be stopped for some reason and not country B needs to beg from country A, so A needs now to decide if they sacrifice their citizens to help the ones in country B.

You would need more then 2 countries to reduce the risks and you need some power plant that can work at a low capacity during the year but can fast go to full capacity to handle this cases, now this plants will not be profitable when running at idle/low capacity so you need some non-free-market program to keep them running.
Typora has an elegant, minimalist interface: https://typora.io/
Qt Creator? It definitely comes with some headaches but it ticks the boxes of being modern and cross-platform. I've used it to develop fairly complex applications that run on multiple OSes and look/feel IMHO pretty good.
I've had good results with https://typora.io/ writing articles a couple of years ago.

It was free when I was using it because it was in beta, it's now $15. If I needed to write in markdown more regularly I'd probably buy it.
A small non-profit that I'm part of uses Zoho mail. In my opinion it is comparable to other webmail services like Gmail, Fastmail, and better than Outlook webmail. It's especially cool that using your own domain is free.

I haven't tried any other of their products.
No, don't mention Canada that freezes people's bank accounts by edict. Don't mention Greece or Cyprus either.
> The Fukushima tsunami killed some 4000 people together with the power plant failure [0]

About 5 of these deaths can be attributed more or less directly to radiation. All the others being linked to the earthquake, tsunami, and stress following the mass-scale evacuation.
The "we didn't create the specific composition" bit is the one that's most contentious, I think. Even in Midjourney, getting an image to be just right takes a lot of time and skill with all the flags, word weights, and specific word prompts you have experiment with over hours. To me, the resulting image feels very much like my composition, with every element of the image placed exactly where I want them on the canvas, with the specific style, color, and feel that I dictate.

Your analogy with an assistant is interesting, but to me is flawed. A better analogy in my view would be an art director or concept artist coming up with a concept that they ask their team to execute. In that case, it's normal for the art director to take credit for the art, and in this context where the AI is just a tool with no agency, I feel the same way.
All of the continental Nordic countries, (Denmark, Finland, Sweden, Norway) are already in a single unified transmission grid and electricity market (Nordpool). The other half of the article was about building a new link between Sweden and Finland. The self-sufficiency here is therefore purely mathematical.

And yes, Finland definitely has one massive hostile neighbor who started this war and caused this energy crisis.
>> thus a relatively small amount of electricity demand

That doesn’t smell right to me. Finland’s pretty chilly. Surely their energy usage has to be high?

According to world data bank, Finland has one of the highest kwh per head of population demands in the world. About 3-4x more than the US for example.

>> where wind turbines

The energy supply breakdown for Finland appears to be predominantly about a successful Nuclear deployment for electricity and social / district heating.
> Scheme has longer-function-names than Common Lisp

Depends. Common Lisp has naming from several decades, as does Scheme.

CAR is from Lisp 1 in 1960, when memory (RAM, punched cards, punched tape, magnetic tape, drum, hard disk drives, ...) was tiny.

UPDATE-INSTANCE-FOR-REDEFINED-CLASS is from CLOS (ca. 1987)

This longer naming is not unusual in Common Lisp.

> Also Scheme use a more functional style and skip the intermediate variables. Sometimes the name of the intermediate variables are like self documentation and make the code easier to read.

Yes.
Unusual, but very sensible. Military is trained to operate in chaotic environments where basic facilities (transport, communications, supply, ...) cannot be counted on.

Seems perfect for response to natural disasters, which seem to be becoming more common these days.

The military is about much much more than fighting/killing.
As a Finn I don't want to have my "do I freeze to death this winter" to be in the hands of any other foreign country be it friendly or not. Obviously it has not been in such a state for a long time but hopefully we can get there at some point.
replace "twitter.com" with "nitter.net", or for video embedding (discord, etc) use vxtwitter.com or fxtwitter.com. Tweetdeck is what a lot of twitter people use for "serious twittering" (lol).

For reddit use old.reddit.com instead of www.reddit.com. Reddit is Fun is a great native app for android and on iOS there's Apollo.

Both sites are laser-focused on driving conversions and engagement which means forcing you into an account and native apps (specifically their shitty native apps), and undoubtedly they'll start breaking the workarounds and third-party clients for realsies at some point.

But I mean, if users don't even have an account and native app install, how can they possibly get you doomscrolling all day? It's 2022, it's all about the engagement metrics, fuck user experience.
Our current tech is way greener than what we had 100 years ago.
Requiring solar on new builds is a good policy though and is implemented in various German locations.
But it does reach a steady state. All the carbon we are releasing comes from a time when Lignin essential did not decompose at all. And we are releasing orders of magnitude more of it than current gets captured and stays captured. Even large intact rainforests do very little to actively capture CO2, they cycle it and they keep a large chunk of existing Carbon bound but they do not capture new Carbon from the atmosphere since they already reached a steady state between growth and decomposition.
In my experience any ccTLD never gets blocked, including "funky" ones like .sh or .dj. My primary email ends with .online, and I also have some aliases in case .online "fails" (as in services refuse to send an email to it). I'd estimate it happens a couple of times per year.
Indeed, it is a modern language even if it is rather different from what we are used to today (mostly C descendants).

It is a niche choice but it is not outdated.
This part sounds alluring to me:

> “It does exactly what you tell it to do on a line [of code],” explains Stuart. ”Sometimes you get files that are 2,000 lines long, but they’re easy to understand because they simply do what they say they’re doing at that line.”

I don’t think COBOL is a good match for the programs I write in my spare time, but as a job it sounds nice. I guess the main problem if I were to find a job doing it would be the corporate culture at the kinds of companies that use it, but if I could do it remotely using my own workstation with any tools I choose I would do it.
There were many useful facts that I hadn't considered, to be honest, especially regarding what was counted (probbly print sales tracked by BookScan) and how (unique ISBNs).

Also, whenever some party brings up stats to make some point, I think it's fair to examine their figures, methodology and so on and just be a bit pedantic about it. And this was a claim made in a major antitrust case. The facts, and the general pedantry, show some serious likely issues and raise some important questions about the figures a party in a major trial made, and which were then - mostly uncritically - echoed all over the place.

Regarding Kristen McLeans comment:

The "in their dataset" is a very important detail that shouldn't be overlooked. The dataset for this is the book sales figures of the top 10 publisher published books. They get the numbers from partnered retailers (some 75% of retailers according to the article), and it only covers print copies, not ebooks, not audio books. It does not cover direct sales to larger organizational buyers, like library systems, either.

And it's grouped by unique ISBN, not by title. As the article points out, most books come in many editions (hardcover, paperback, etc), each of which has their own ISBN. The article author illustrates this by telling about his own book, which is one book with 4 different unique ISBNs (though one was for an ebook, and one for the audio book, both of which wouldn't be covered by this dataset anyway).
This is based on the work from Aalto University / NeuralDSP (which the latter has later commercialised neuraldsp.com) - https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3417/10/3/766/htm

https://github.com/damskaggep/WaveNetVA

IK multimedia has a similar app coming - https://www.ikmultimedia.com/products/aimachinemodeling/

Love to see this as an open source project though
Nice example, note to do autocomplete with something neural based these days like https://text-generator.io or huggingface or spelling with neuspell etc

Peter did done great ground work here and as things transitioned to neural nets, also peter appears randomly in my Chromecast with some nice photos he took lol
Most people want homelessness solved in their city.

But if the number of visible rough sleepers falls, most people won't look too closely into whether the city provided treatment+housing+employment; or whether the city gave them a bus ticket to another city and send the cops to hassle them.
DeepPicarMicro: Applying TinyML to Autonomous Physical Systems
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