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That depends on the specific implementation. glibc does unmap memory[1]. Not in every free() call, but still. There are also implementations which unmap in every free(), which are used to quickly detect bugs. Honestly, I wouldn't want to use an implementation which never unmaps memory. I've already been irritated by Go's reluctance to return memory to the OS in the past. I'm certainly glad it's less of a problem in C. (Although I've read some reports of glibc being a bit suboptimal here in multithreaded programs, compared to allocators like tcmalloc or jemalloc.)

[1]: <https://github.com/bminor/glibc/blob/a364a3a7090b82ddd30e920...>
Stable Diffusion literally just copy-pastes existing art, madlibs-style.

If anything, it greatly increases the value of human art. (Because it now has more leverage and reach.)
> Even if you read something that you know is wrong you still believe it.

That seems like bullshit to me. I read your words (you even posted links!) so how come I don't just instantly believe you? If it were true, wouldn't it make all fiction inherently dangerous?

Let's see how it holds up in real life... here's a lie: "My uncle works at Nintendo and he told me that Mario (Jumpman at the time) was originally intended to only have one testicle, but the NES (famicom) didn't have powerful enough graphics to show that so they scraped that part of his official character design and have left the number of testicles unspecified ever since."

Somewhere, secretly deep inside you, do you believe that now?

Nah. I think we don't have to worry about people believing everything just because they read it. Reading things can put ideas into your head (have you ever even considered Mario's testicles before today?) but at this point we're straining the hell out of "belief" and going into philosophical arguments. In real life though, we are capable as a species of separating fact from fiction some of the time.
> it's just what it takes to do this in C++

False.
It is a nice catch. I read and re-read the quote and the argument is oddly worded. If I were to try to make sense of it and try to defend it, I think I would say that the author is trying to say that how you got where you are matters. It is still a bad and poorly worded argument. Than again, 'everything is racism' clearly sells clicks today so even non-sequitur works.
"There are other models that can satisfy both OLTP and OLAP use cases satisfactorily in a single coherent system with modern internals"

ok, which are these.
Sometimes when benchmarks are posted on HN that compares your own product (A) with a competitor's product (B), someone working for the competitor refutes the claims made in the blog and states that B were not given the same requirements as A. This particular thread comes to mind [1]. Maybe this is due to the blog writers misunderstanding B or maybe the competitor misunderstands A, or maybe there is a better way to do what was benchmarked using B. I think a better way would be to use some standard benchmark, and publish the code used for benchmarking them.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31767858
It's not about the options, but the reward.

What's the reward for creating good documentation? That's now describes the upper bound of time and effort people are willing to put in.

Since there is no reward, people will put in the absolute minimum they need to and that's rational behavior.
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yes. and the hard part is keeping the three levels in sync.
next he 'll discover that radio shows are better than podcasts
Japanese economists are at least hopeful it will help: https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2022/09/18/business/japane...
As an example of the opposite of this...

We had a pond put in a number of years back. The guys that did the work laid out what they would be building, showed us everything, and we agreed on it. While digging out the earth for the pond, they ran into a boulder not too far underground. They spend about half a day fighting with the boulder, seeing if they could break it up, etc; whatever they could do to get it out of the way.

When we went out to chat with them and see how the work was going, they told us about the rock and how it's being difficult. We told them we'd be fine with them changing the shape of the pond to just work around the boulder. They were happy about this because it made their lives much easier.

The cost of the creation of the pond was set before they started work on it. They gained nothing by trying really hard to create what they said they would; other than the fact that they did a good job and had happy clients. But they spend the time trying to deal with the problem without any real complaints (the talk about it being difficult was a casual chat, not them coming to us to complain).
Why adults still dream about school
Broadcast TV is HLG because it's backwards compatible with non-HDR TVs. And yes used by UK (BBC is the one that came up with HLG even)
It’s simple but not easy.
That's what the Ivy League is for. It's difficult to flunk out of Harvard. 98% of those admitted graduate.
I agree. I heard a researcher put it like "we often think of the conscious mind as being the guy in the driver's seat, making decisions, and guiding behavior; but really *most of our decision making and behavior is guided by subconscious processes and the conscious mind is more like the PR person who comes up with stories that justify our behavior."
"When disagreeing, please reply to the argument instead of calling names. 'That is idiotic; 1 + 1 is 2, not 3' can be shortened to '1 + 1 is 2, not 3."

Your comment would be fine without the first bit.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Thank god. Do you know how much of a pain in the ass it is to cleanly sample most modern movies because of this proprietary codec bullshit?

The best results come from ripping voiceovers out of the center channel... but busting through encryption and figuring out the right proprietary codec to open the audio is a pain.
I thought the question was how many kilograms of dirt would you have to physically carry into outer space (eg. up a really tall ladder) in order to burn 20 lbs (70,000 calories).

If my calculations are correct: 1 (kilo)calorie is 4184 joules. So you need to burn 70,000 * 4184 = 292,880,000 joules. It takes 9.8 joules to lift 1kg by 1m. Using an "outer space" definition of 100km (100,000) meters, it takes 980,000 joules to lift 1kg of dirt to space.

Dividing 292,888,000 joules (the amount of energy we want to burn) by 980,000 (the energy it takes to carry 1kg to space), we get about 299 kilos. You'd have to carry about 300 kg up a ladder to outer space to lose 20 lbs. (Subtract your body weight, of course!)

(Accounting for the fat burned along the way is left as an exercise to the reader ;)
Yes. As much as desired can exist at any moment. When I say 'exist' I mean like 'exists with its current abilities via its value'.
I had a debate in a computational intelligence course in grad school that veered off from the topic of embodied cognition somehow into the advance of human culture. (During class; no mind-altering substances included.)

The crux of the debate was, on one side, two of us saying there is no such thing as advancement in culture (art, music, taste, etc), only in science (knowledge) and technology (application); while the other side insisted that culture does indeed progress. It was an interesting debate. I still think that no culture is significantly more advanced culturally than any other probably going back many tens of thousands of years (or maybe ever? I don't know). Art or music or cuisine, etc, that invokes the intended emotional, cognitive, etc response is doing what it is supposed to do. Any preference to modern over ancient is purely subjective and nullified by any preference to ancient over modern.

I would therefore agree that modern humans are not more artistic.

However, as someone who studies intelligence, I would say that because of modern nutrition, medicine, evolution, and adaptation, modern humans are probably a tiny bit more intelligent than ancient humans. I would guess that someone alive 50,000 years ago who was transported to today and raised as a modern human would have little trouble, but that the average ancient human would probably be slightly less intelligent than the average modern human.

Hell, if the Flynn effect proves to be real, then the average grandparent may be slightly less intelligent than the average grandchild. Just in a couple generations. Over the course of dozens or hundreds of human generations, the difference would not be zero.
This looks brilliant. I like that it’s kept light as a concept - feels like you can just sprinkle it over your existing tasks without getting bogged down in complex configuration.

We have a couple of hand rolled variants of this that run into all the issues this solves. Will definitely look at taking this for a spin.
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If you want to be pedantic, why didn't you mention the article title "Says" instead of "Said"?

This is the kind of false-correction that kills instead of invites discussion, as it has really nothing to do with the article, nor what the comment was adding to it. They were maintaining the article's tense. Just like the author did when they wrote the title with "says" even though it was past tense by then, too.

A non-cynical person would easily understand "He would know Vladimir Putin is/was a bigger threat than Isis, at the time he said so" without fear of being completely derailed from all semblance of meaning and intent.
Even physics is nowhere close to “100% accurate.” Most fields of physics approximate many body problems that are infeasible to compute, let alone fully specify. E.g. Astrophysics, solid state physics, nuclear physics, etc. Practitioners regularly use empirically measured parameters like cross-sectional scattering areas, and those parameters are updated and narrowed over time.
Define "across" Japan. North/South or East/West?

I did Kanazawa to Tokyo some years ago, fun trip.
Even if you scroll past the wall of ads it's almost all a nonsequitar press release.
I am really convinced by this explanation on how... wait
PLEASE UPDATE YOUR DRAM FIRMWARE TO REMAIN SECURE.
Does that include Palantir?
I built a very, very basic one of these a month ago to shorten a couple of unruly domains I had. Supports static and dynamic endpoints that you define.

https://thesom.au/gh/shorturl

Intended to self host for free/minimal cost on CloudFlare, thus comes with built in analytics, BYO domain, etc.
The trick with the soleus is that its underneath the gastroc. And in many people's musculoskeletal structures, its entirely underneath the gastroc - meaning your trick won't help. Combine that with some compensatory activation of the gastroc during this movement and people won't be able to effectively train themselves to get the full effect of what the researchers are going for here - prolonged duration soleus activation.

I'm not saying they couldn't have done a better job explaining how to do this at home, but its a surprisingly difficult thing to explain to someone face-to-face when you're a personal trainer. Let alone when as a scientist when you only get a short blurb to convey information about your latest research study.
Wher I live, the supermarket has been doing deliveries for over five years. Up to 40 miles away.

Closer deliveries could easily be made by low-speed autonomous electric golf cart sized vehicles.
> This is amazing.

Company with online video and advertising monopoly wants to use that monopoly to destroy competitors isn't "amazing", it's "business as usual".
Speaking of Stereo Audio vs Encoding Schemes, there was a great article posted here a while back about diving into audio formats on 35mm movie film [0]. There's a photo showing the analog stereo wave-form alongside two digital tracks: Dolby and Sony [1]. So the audio is physically printed onto the film in 3 different formats (1 analog, 2 digital) and it's up to the projector to decide which one is needs/has-the-hardware-for.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30919904
you'd probably need to either use a sidecar injection mechanism like mutagen, or you would have to pass thru the filesystem to the underlying vm at a high enough level such that docker could access all the directories.
What about a law prohibiting unions from doing so?
Had this idea a few years ago. Great to see it getting legs.
It is also true that there is nothing in capitalism that precludes this rentseeking scheme. Everything about it is quintessentially capitalist: a top-down organization employs people (job creation) and pays them money which it gets by restricts other people and organizations from using something (private ownership) unless they pay (rentseeking) and to take down its rivals (competition) to take over an entire industry. The only aspect that’s missing is to abuse publicly available resources (extraction) and dump its waste (pollution).

It is actually fine for trailblazers to charge large amounts for new tech. But open source gift economies can eventually break their stranglehold.

Unless they use the power of government to enforce their rentseeking, which can be especially egregious with “intellectual property”.

(Yes it is possible to be a libertarian who criticizes capitalism as using government force.)

https://twitter.com/mozilla/status/1549775652123033601
>The consequence of breaching the social contract is a complete loss of credibility for the state

This is a weak version of "uphold the social contract at all costs" mentality. Rather than uphold it because of the people that enacted the contract, we will uphold it because the people put in charge of upholding it want to stay in charge. Its a much more reasonable idea and if this is really the case then it's an unfortunate situation. That said I don't think its likely that the Swedish elderly are either contributing much to taxes or capable of revolting. The younger generations would actually react positively to it. For example I already have no trust that I will see a meaningful return on my social security "investment." I'd rather see it shut down than wait for the off chance that anything is left in 30 years.

I think democracies move too slowly to make changes like this, however. I don't think there is really any plan at all. I think that is ultimately the issue here. And unfortunately if the article is to be believed the "solution" of voting in what the article has called an extremist party may become reality. I think that's the real issue here. We can debate social contracts all we want but if an extremist party is voted in it shows that Sweden's plan was flawed from the outset.
> Does killing a first term president not disrupt the smooth transition of power?

It's not good, but so far no presidential assassination has led to a crisis of authority in the US: the VP has always successfully assumed power, and has yielded it if and when they've lost the subsequent election. The closest thing among assassinations would probably be Lincoln's, but that's not exactly a contemporary precedent.

It's hard to say how "close" it was. What's easy to say is that it was a naked attempt to subvert the smooth and peaceful transition of power, one that's unprecedented in the modern history of the US.
Why go to space at all? Just stretch your arms until they form a great circle around the Earth. Where your hands meet, hold a dumbell the mass of your bodice. Once your hands interlock, you can safely lift your feet from Earth's tyrannical force and you will gracefully float like a ring of pure joy.
> Going from 2 to 3+ in a digital format does not add complexity.

What adds complexity is determining how many channels to use and what to put through them.

That is the important part now.
Then we probably need to stop immigration until we can get a handle on it.
The article contains a link to a more scholarly article: https://reader.elsevier.com/reader/sd/pii/S2589004222011415?...
Probably ten years ago Google chat added a slightly secret feature that let you send a quick doodle directly in the app. They never really publicized it and then they decided to run in circles with their communication tools until everyone gave up.
Lithium is not viable long-term. In the short term it is, and the great fallacy of our time is that it is renewable. There are even memes on TikTok of people charging their Teslas with a petrol generator if you care to look.

The only real way to solve this is mining space asteroids which contain much more (rare) precious metals than our earth can provide.
You have not been paying attention to the ACLU.
Every law is politically motivated. "Freedom of Speech" is a politically motivated.
For the non-video explanation

>A mechanical valve in the pump handle detects a change of pressure and closes, preventing the flow of fuel

[Wikipedia]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gasoline_pump#Automatic_cut-of...
How is one of the richest monopolistic companies in the world deciding to destroy a market segment "competition" that is "good for the consumer"?
I believe that the journal article is freely downloadable[0].

[0] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S258900422... (pdf)

What is this diy calorimeter?
People have been predicting this for centuries. It hasn't gotten any more correct.

We know what happen when countries modernize--they invariably fall below replacement rate. So, the "solution" is to modernize the places that immigrants flee from.

The real issue "modern" societies are starting to have is that everything is based on a pyramid scheme (more young people than old people) that is beginning to unravel everywhere. That is something nobody is ready for.
CICO is true, of course, but it doesn't do justice to how interesting the whole topic of weight loss is. Why do some people need more food to reach satiety, why do some people move more, for example.
I don't? I do most of my reading at home where I have multiple computers in easy reach. I'm also not sure how I'm "easily" copy/pasting between my phone/computer. Is this an iOS/OS X thing? Not everyone is in that eco-system.
I hear this ethical concern raised a lot, usually as some variation of AI being used to distribute “fake news.”

The inverse is equally problematic and harder to solve: those in power discrediting real photos/videos/phone-calls as “deep fakes.”

Not releasing AI models doesn’t stop this. The technology being possible is sufficient for its use in discrediting evidence.

Signing real footage isn’t sufficient. You can get G7 to sign an official conference recording, but could you get someone to sign the recording of them taking a bribe?

Generating deep fakes that hold up to intense scrutiny doesn’t appear to be technically feasible with anything available to the public today. But that isn’t necessary to discredit real footage as a deep fake. It being feasible that nation state level funding could have secretly developed this tech is sufficient. It seems we are quickly approaching that point, if not already past it.
Cleaver Doug!

Stupid deltarholamda!

Na. Just kidding I'm sure deltarholamda is fucking smart!
This is utter trash and clearly you're a shill for the CICO industry. The real secret to weight loss is CICU Calories in, Centripetal force Up. This has been suppressed for decades by rocket scientist, the government, Elon Musk and other elites.

The only real thing that will be shrinking under CICO is your bank account as it's drained dry by the subsidies for crust flingers.

Under CICU your weight will go down as energy is expended to increase the rotational speed of the earth. This will not only leave the crust intact but would also allow us to see multiple sunsets/sunrises in a single "day".
ah but does Apple even want to ML on their GPU vs the dedicated neural engine thing they devoted more of their die space to?
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Given that Flipper [0] encountered the same problems of PayPal seizing $1.3M that they earned without any explanation and are holding it for months, it only tells you why it makes zero sense to keep using PayPal as they WILL do it to anyone for no reason and essentially kill you business or suffocate your non-profit.

Before you scream: "PaYpAL iS a pRiVAtE cOmPAny aNd cAn dO THiS", "iF yOu folLoW tHEiR TOS, iT wOnT hApPen tO yOu", etc they gave no reason and locked their funds without any explanation and went silent. PayPal doesn't care about who it is [1] and will do it to whoever and whenever they like, with little to no reason given.

[0] https://twitter.com/flipper_zero/status/1567194641610465281

[1] https://twitter.com/llsceptics/status/1567658400573448192
Yikes it feels like arab spring again.
I wonder if this will be Afghanistan, where things westernize for a decade then goes even more the other way than it was initially.
And not once, but twice!

Even though it's a lot of fun, it's honestly a bit eye opening to see how little some people engage with the substance of the comments they are replying to...
I literally squeezed the data out of a drive once. 40M Connor, one of the first IDE drives. If I squeezed it too much, “Data Error, Abort, Retry, Ignore”. Too little? Same result. Just right? In like Flynn!

I spent 40 minutes copying that drive, got every bit back.

Boss asks, “What are you doing?”

“I’m milking the data out of this drive!” ;)
Through Google Fonts, they can track page views under the guise of beautiful fonts for your site. I wonder if they could do the same with these media formats.
Would that inherently limits the customers/market though? The fps above all crowd would be happy but I would bet there's addressable people who would want 4080 performance in a small case that's relatively silent?
Or wait for the patents to expire. H.264 won’t take to much longer to expire it’s around 12 years I believe and yet Google has released vp8.
Ask HN: Any podcast app recommendations for marking points to return to?
I love to listen to podcasts while on long runs or while driving. As key/interesting points in the conversation come up I’d love to be able to flag them via Apple Watch or iPhone to come back to later. Overcast has an ability to share a link with a time stamp which is close to what I’m looking for, but what I’d really like is something like the highlight functionality of a kindle that stores personal list of highlights associated with a given book. Any recommendations?
What alternative solution do you propose, bud?
How come general developer audiences aren't more acquainted with GPT-3 (and Codex in particular) capabilities? People in the twitter thread all seem completely mind blown over an app that basically just passes your code to an existing API and prints the result.

I don't want to sound negative of course, and I expect many of these apps coming up, until Codex stops being free (if they put it on the same pricing as text DaVinci model, which Codex is a fine-tuned version of, it will cost a ~cent per query). I'm just wondering how come the information about this type of app reaches most people way before the information about "the existence of Codex" reaches them.

For all the publicity around Codex recently (and especially on HN), it still seems like the general IT audience is completely unaware of the (IMHO) most important thing going on in the field.

And to anyone saying "all these examples are cherrypicked, Codex is stupid", I urge you to try Copilot and try to look at its output with the ~2019 perspective. I find it hard to beileve that anything but amazement is a proper reaction. And still, more people are aware of the recent BTC price, than this.

Source: have been playing with Codex API for better part of every day for the last few weeks. Built an app that generates SQL for a custom schema, and have been using it in my daily work to boost ma productivity as a data scientis/engineer/analyst a lot.