skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If he releases 100 tons, then prevents the release of 10000000000 tons, I'd say he'll have done pretty well, even if he could have release only 50 tons.

He's not just talking about doing things, he's putting people to work doing things. To focus on his individual emissions is a premature optimization
he's clocking people coding his puzzles to each second? sounds terrible, why would you do that to people.
I imagine their lawyers guide them on some of this.
I think short advertisements would be affected most by this, it seems.

But here is the catch, there is the same last mile problem for those AI models. Currently it feels like the model can achieve like 80%-90% what a trained human expert can do, but the last 10-20% would extra extra hard to reach human fidelity. It might take years, or it might never happen.

That being said, I think anyone who doubts AI-assisted creative workflow is a fuzz is deadly wrong, anyone who refuses those shiny new tools, is likely to be eliminated by sheer market dynamics. They can't compete on the efficiency of it.
LMAO welcome to the future!!
Yep, and you can use it seamlessly with several computer at once, I love it :)
Here's what mytherin wrote, ...we are allocating and freeing buffers repeatedly. Despite freeing more buffers than we allocate...

So, I assume, the context is, DuckDB allocates x buffers, frees x - m buffers at some point later, then allocates n buffers where n <<<< m, and yet malloc fails.

In the GitHub thread mytherin linked to above, Alexey Milovidov, ClickHouse CTO, points out that ClickHouse uses jemalloc and makes for a better choice than glibc malloc given the issue with fragmentation. It is likely that DuckDB switches to jemalloc, too.
Your second link is broken
Ask HN: Linux window manager for easy context switching
Hi,
Now, I'm using i3wm for a few years. day-by-day tasks that i do are in different projects and contexts like coding in some project (witch totally not related), researching a topic, recording a podcast and etc. I need switching between them frequently. Like many others, I use workspace feature, few workspace for each context. To give you an idea, three workspace for coding, two others for searching, and ... .
Its fine and works, but I prefer to have totally isolated environment and switching between them. I mean totally isolated suppose that I want open browser separately in each env.
I tried this by running two or more i3 instance in two different TTY; But there are some issues on second tty. For example when i open Firefox in TTY2, it will open a new browser in TTY1 instead TTY2.
Is there any best-practice, window manager, or hack to have this?
Medieval Solutions Don’t Work to Make Modern Meetings Better
he modern meeting is broken, yet we see a 153% increase in meetings over the last two years. We’re piling bad meetings on top of bad meetings, with the hope that things will magically change using medieval solutions like “No Meeting Mondays”.

In the last week, several studies brought light into the disconnect between employees and managers as it relates to productivity and its impact on the number of meetings that we attend:

* 85% of managers worry they can’t tell if employees are getting enough work done, while 87% of employees say they are productive

* The CEO of Microsoft stating that, productivity paranoia results in actions like spying on employees

* The concept of productivity theater, where employees prioritize actions that look like they are working versus actual work

* 1 in 3 employees accepting and sitting in on meetings where they know they should be a participant
Yes, I'm talking about LibSQL. If LibSQL wanted to make a fork and wants a religious plurality of contributors, then of course they would have to change the CoC. Otherwise people seeking to join would ask, "Wait, when you say all current developers make this pledge..."
Accuracy of prediction isn’t important here. CEOs make budgets with allocations for new hires and raises. They also fire people, too. Every CEO could be 100% wrong and we’d still have the trappings of a recession.
Get out of the race to $0.

Develop business relationships.

Good clients are mostly insensitive to price.

That’s what makes them good clients.

Good luck
Speaking of NeRFs, here’s a Google Imagen powered text to NeRF model:

https://dreamfusion3d.github.io/gallery.html
Sure and if you own a BBC Micro/Master you could do the same via something like the Torch Z80 second processor. The whole point of this project was to build CP/M for the 6502, most likely to scratch an itch which many of these comments seem to completely miss.
I'm not trying to debate the rightness or wrongness of Alex Berenson, I'm simply pointing to this as an example of the federal government strong-arming corporations into censoring people. Alex Berenson might be someone you disagree with, but remember, tomorrow there might be someone in power you dislike and they may choose to use the power to silence people you do agree with.

When you give someone a gun, especially someone powerful, especially the federal government, you can not predict who will be holding it in the future and where they will aim it.
And this is why you should avoid using SMS for 2FA at all costs... Backup email, authenticator app, actually save the recovery codes, etc...
Interesting post, thanks. It certainly seems like llvm-mos' codegen is improving markedly modulo some concerns brought up over bloat. But I also note that a number of the performance recommendations (prefer using more globals, avoid passing structures presumably due to the limited hardware stack) aren't exactly current programming convention - and for that matter, they're exactly what you would do writing assembly by hand. These recommendations would be true for cc65 too of course, but it still makes the point that using C to develop on 6502 is just making the dog walk, not the dog walking well.
That was a bit of a blip in the data. It has been warming in general in recent times.
It makes sense though. The biggest threat to Google right now isn't some scrappy startup eating their lunch. It's the looming regulatory action over antitrust and privacy that could weaken or destroy their core business. As this is a political problem (not a technical one), they don't want to do anything that could upset politicians or turn public opinion against them. Personally, I doubt they have serious ethical concerns over releasing the model. I do believe they have serious "AI ethics 'thought leaders' and politicians will use this against us" concerns.
You can read about logfmt at https://brandur.org/logfmt

It's quite nice at first glance. My main qualm with it is that there is no formal spec and I got bitten a few times by incompatibilities between emitters and parsers especially around quoted values.

(In particular we had a rust binary emitting badly escaped values such that fluentbit emitted structured logs with thousands of fields which in turn caused graylog to explode which was particularly gnarly because at the same time we had a production incident we had to troubleshoot without historical logs)
I agree, but I also think that the ethics is just an excuse not to release the source code & models. The AI community clearly disapproves of papers without code. This is a way to skirt around that disapproval. You get to keep the code and models private and (they hope) not be criticised for it.

With Stable Diffusion I think they just didn't expect someone to produce a truly open version. There are plenty of AI models that Google have made where they've maintained a competitive advantage for many years by not releasing the code/models, e.g. speech recognition.
A Rust Implementation Of The Context Tree Weighting Algorithm
Renewables are a solved problem, but storage of energy to combat the unreliability of renewables isn't.

NPP's take about 7 years to build. The latest EPR builds are taking more due to an over complicated design.
Money is fungible. A billion dollars spent chasing fusion is exactly a billion not spent displacing CO2 production.
> Might have been true back in the JDK 6 or JDK 7 age but from JDK 8 to JDK 19 it has become a better functional programming language than most functional programming languages.

uhh, let me know when they add the ability to define a standalone function that exists outside of a class.

> If the author likes he can keep coding in C++ where strcpy is Turing complete.

c++ certainly has its warts. but having worked with both professionally, I find java to be by far the more frustrating of the two.

some random gripes off the top of my head:

I can't invoke a no-args constructor like this: `MyType var;`

I can't do something like `public MyType() = delete` to make my class nonconstructable (which would at least partially help with the "no standalone functions" issue).

there is no notion of tuple in the standard library. I have to define a new class (or abuse Map.Entry) every time I want to return more than one value from a method.

I can't construct a collection (or POD) type like this: `MyCollection c = { a, b, c };`. Yes, I can do stuff like `List<T> list = Arrays.asList(a, b, c)`, but then I have an immutable array enclosed by a mutable list, where any attempt to modify it is a runtime error?!

in my experience, java somehow manages to be more verbose and less ergonomic than c++, which is really saying something.

disclaimer: I have not worked much with JDK versions >11, so maybe they've addressed some of above.
I'm trying to get Nix to compile software against host-system provided cuda libraries (and the libc those libraries are dependent on), for a Jetson ARM-based system. So I'm trying to create overrides for these basic libraries based on tar'ed system libraries. Has anyone tried to use Nix this way?
Cloudflare Stream now supports AV1
It clearly does fit the rule because the year doesn't start in February. There's no need to change reality so you were right.

It's just a rule of thumb, not some profound maxim of economics.
SMS 2FA is not secure. Lots of HN posts about it:

https://hn.algolia.com/?q=sms+2fa
Perhaps Google hasn't found the right balance in this case, but as a general rule, less ethics === more market. This isn't unique in that way.
> If the US lost China as a trade partner

Let's not forget what happened to the world's supply chains when the Port of Shanghai slowed down due to China's zero-Covid policy.

"Shanghai lockdown exposes global supply chain strains"

https://www.ft.com/content/9318db50-e0c3-4a27-9230-55ff59bcc...

If it just stopped... Yipe.
It's limited by the RAM on the GPU, with most consumer-grade cards having closer to 8 GiB VRAM than the 80 GiB VRAM datacenter cards have.
Cyber-snoops broke into US military contractor, stole data, hid for months
It does in near IR, but yeah, it’s as much a visible light telescope as an IR one.
Why exactly do you think fusion offers "nearly unlimited" power? In any design conceived today, it is in no way impressive in terms of power/plant, and fusion power plants will be the most expensive power plants ever designed (since they are at the extreme limits of materials science and several other branches of engineering).
Apple suppliers already have infrastructure in place to assemble iPhones in India (and Brazil?) so it makes sense to boost that capacity. Lower hanging fruit.
It is, but at least CVS stopped selling them years back. Now if only they could have a second stroke of rationality this would all be moot.
I think people advocating for increased funding for mental health services have started to define all social problems in terms of their impact on mental health, e.g. prejudice as a traumatic experience, the stresses of poverty, etc.

Increased funding for mental health services seems like a poor solution.
This is a very binary view of "peace" (and "violence").

There's a meaningful difference between a society that allows and supports a government that has a law enforcement body of some sort, and an active armed conflict.
Agreed, we're still decades away from solid results. I compare this to automated driving: Truck drivers and cab drivers are still in business.

Another example is the uncanny valley of CGI people: at what point was it acceptable to audiences, and at what point was it excellent?
It's been done by firing lasers at a HB pellet, so I assume you mean not possible to be done commercially? And why would you have to reflect gamma rays?
Show HN: Dataprofiler v0.8.1 Release
bug fixes and adding static typing to the library too
There's a whole lot of unapologetic artistic theft of others’ work that has contributed to the creation of new art.
There is an opinionated vision of logs, for a particular use case and available resources.

For simple enough logs (like the nginx/apache example shown) having so simple format enables a quick and dirty search and information extraction with common unix command line tools (like grep, cut, sort, uniq, tail and sometimes rev or awk). It is not an approach that works for all logs and all situations, but sometimes is enough. And simplicity is a good thing to have.
A 3D nanoprinted, fully customizable high-density microelectrode array platform
No, I don’t. But when you order phone services for your business, they’re more than capable of acting on your behalf.
When you have months to scoot between them, they might as well be a hundred feet apart.
This really resonates with me. I used to enjoy working as a 35mm film projectionist. Now that everything is digital the opportunities for making money doing it have basically disappeared. Am I supposed to be excited that now I can just push a button and focus more of my attention on selling popcorn?

Fortunately I enjoy writing code.
this reads a lot like what some painters said when photography hit, and they weren't interested in "painting with the light" as so many photographer would love calling it nowadays. Technology disrupts and it is neutral to taste. Seems like those who knew the way should probably try and instil better taste for the future generation; otherwise we'd be reinventing wheels with different tools for the foreseeable future.
It's really more about production than integration. We simply don't have the supply volume or production capacity on hand to rapidly replace existing ICE cars. Things are improving, but overall cost is going to stay high until lithium battery and other costs come down.

Then, you have the issue of rolling out updates to grids. There's a variety of options, all well technically understood, and little movement in many areas. California, for example, ought to have buried a lot of its electrical lines. Construction work during droughts seem like a good way to start a wildfire, as is installing new overhead lines.
I'm calling you kid, kid. So what if I edited my comment, to emphasize you still haven't acknowledged your incoherence: So which is it, do you want to consider the group of people occupying the land 80 years ago same as the present people, or different? Russia beat Nazis in the 1940's = so Russia is hero. USSR was a brutal regime = USSR collapsed, Russia today doesn't have anything to do with USSR. But Russia today should still get credit for USSR beating the Nazis!

BTW I don't hate Russia the country, I have friends who are stuck there and don't know what tomorrow may bring (including a couple who might both be called to war (apparently being a woman might not save you from mobilization if you're a doctor), and they have 2 young kids), but I hate the corrupt idiot currently holding it hostage...

Yeah, your style of argument is familiar to me, the style of the feeble-minded and people who are emotional and whose knowledge aren't full knowledge but just gathered from random blogs, tweets, and whatever propaganda crap you're reading. Incoherent, and when people point it out, bring out other topics in hopes that they get distracted and engage the new topic instead. When challenged, you'd rather not discover to see whether the opponent is right, but you'd rather protect your own ego and convince yourself that they're the deluded ones, and you're the one who knows the truth. "I can't acknowledge that, to acknowledge that would mean admitting I was an idiot yesterday, and I'm not an diot!"

Sorry dang, and HN, for engaging the trolls...
Ask HN: How do small personal website/blog owners comply with GDPR?
I think some of the crowd here run their own servers with a small and personal website or blog hosted on it. So I think this is the right audience to ask this. How do you ensure that your server and website complies with GDPR?

Do you stop keeping web server access logs? Do you disable comment forms? If you do keep web server logs or comment forms what do you do to make it comply with GDPR?

The comment form aspect is especially a tricky one. Many comment forms require only a name and comment. What if a commenter later asks you to delete all their data (that is to say, all their comments) from your website? How would you satisfy such a request when you can't even validate that the person who is requesting the deletion is really the person who authored the comments?

I am planning to create my own website on a small Digital Ocean server but these GDPR concerns are giving me headache. Hoping to get some wisdom from this thread?

Edit: If it helps, I am based in EU and UK. I live in both places at different times based on work availability. But for the good of the community, answers for other locations and regulations are welcome!
Peak uranium isn’t a thing even using today’s inefficient reactors.

The key insight is that if you’re using fission to power DAC, then you don’t even need to worry about proliferation. Countries can continue to use coal and oil while nuclear fission is used for DAC. An international agreement that they pay a tax to the countries that do have the capability to do DAC powered by fission. China and USA make up the vast majority of emissions, make up a good chunk of global GDP and both have nuclear power plant capabilities & they're not the only two countries who have that. Yes, there’s an imbalance there to think through but it can be remediated a bit (and mostly it’ll be Brazil and India that we would need to worry about assuming we can get China on board). Certainly better than doing nothing for decades or even a century.
Yes, this is good clarification, thank you!
You could say it for 800 A.D. or 1200 A.D. too, and yet 880 A.D or 1280 A.D. wouldn't look too different. In fact, you could say it for 300 B.C. and 1300 A.D. - a whole millenium away - would still be quite similar technologically.

Not all periods have 1942-2022 amount of innovation. In fact 1942-2022 is itself bimodal and front-loaded. By 1980 already most major innovation had already happened. The rest is mostly efficiency improvements and diminishing returns, but much much much less major inventions.
Try this:

https://github.com/Gabriella439/haskell-nix

and for nix in general this recent tutorial:

https://nix.dev/tutorials/nix-language
I hate Java as much as the next person, but claiming that programs written in Python are easier to distribute is bizarre. Literally the one thing Java does well is make things easy to distribute.
I am guessing that "SQLite does not accept contributions" and "the industry is going in a new direction" are what most find objectionable.

SQLite cannot accept random contributions. It's on A350 flight systems, where failure is not an option. The maintainers are able to uphold this quality, but random contributors are not.

It appears that the true desire is log shipping (archived logs, transaction logs, etc.) - the ability to move transaction data between databases, perhaps in multimaster.

The only way such functionality is getting into SQLite is if the project agrees to write it, likely for major funding.

A fork implementing these features will be regarded with interest, but will not be accepted without substantial rework.
I imagine they love the sqlite codebase but are not ecstatic about having to maintain a fork and would like to have sqlite upstream their changes such that they don't have to import patches in perpetuity. This is a valid frustration that most commonly happens with OSS that's built by a corporation and thrown over the wall. I think in this case the dig at the end of the README is a way to be like "look at those religious cult members, closed off from accepting contributions" which is a cheap shot but all's fair in politics. A lot of companies build on top Linux, PG and others and are able to reach consensus with the community.
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Some vertical experience in ETL/data integration and e-commerce.

Can exist in big company too, but prefer smaller, fast-moving companies generally.
It was 10 years ago, as was Backbone and many others.

IMHO X is an alternative to React if you can build a web app with X.

Sometimes less is more. Some people prefer vanilla JS or a lightweight library to a huge framework with an "ecosystem" of baggage.
Save Mars; Quit Twitter
GTC 2022
Re-imagining Robot Autonomy with Neural Environment Representations, with Q&A from EMEA region [A41181b]
https://register.nvidia.com/flow/nvidia/gtcfall2022/attendee...
Money is not fungible when it’s never in the hands of a person or organization who is going to make the binary decision of investing in fusion vs. investing in renewables. You are creating a false dilemma that does not actually exist in real life. Furthermore, if you really cared about advancing the cause of solar and wind, you would take that tenor and energy towards attacking fossil fuels, rather than a completely marginal segment of the power generation pie.
> I went to a restaurant on University Ave in Palo Alto and was unpleasantly surprised to find that they tack on a credit card fee

I'm somewhat certain that this is against Visa's rules in US.
What kind of tech would be used for storage?
Do they? California produces half of the produce in the entire US.
As a matter of fact I do think unit tests generally cause more harm than good.

They are great for libraries with well defined and slowly evolving interfaces. But unless you're doing open-source, you will rarely work on those.

Write tests. Not too many. Mostly integration.

https://kentcdodds.com/blog/write-tests
I also found that advisory locking has a lot of gotchas, especially when used in multithread contexts (apparently you can lose the lock because a different thread closed a different file descriptor on the same file).
What would happen if those people on Android tried to convince you to let's say telegram?
Should work for portable apps, or anything else that's distributed as an archive that can be directly extracted and work

(So AIUI a tiny fraction of the available software. Still, it's not nothing.)
The struggles of building a feed reader
Exploit Disclosure: Turning Thunderbird into a Decryption Oracle
Here you go: https://github.com/akrymski/espresso.js/tree/master/examples...
You’re telling a highly creative person to pursue an unstimulating job that they’re not passionate about.
I found that co-pilot really helps with Rust, it saves me many minutes trying to get small 3-4 line functions right.
No one's saying they won't. ASEAN and South Asia are both credible destinations. What works in India's favour, I'd reckon, is the abundance of human capital.