skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have M1 (the original) MBP and Ryzen TR2920X desktop (with oddles of RAM, multiple NVMe drives and 10 Gbps networking). The Mac, while significantly better than any Intel laptop I had before, still cannot hold a candle to the desktop, sorry.

The desktop is much more power hungry, though.
> You are not really disagreeing with the GP.

Yes, I am.

GP claims: Both the RoC and the PRC agree that mainland China and the island of Taiwan are "China", and they both agree that one government should be in control. They just disagree on which government that should be. This is false. The PRC believes that, and the RoC, currently, does not.

In more detail, the RoC’s KMT/pan-Blue coalition agrees with the PRC that the two are one China but disagrees on which government should be in charge. But, while they governed the RoC exclusively before free elections and intermittently since, they aren’t the RoC or its currently governing faction.

The DPP/pan-Green coalition, which has been dominant for several years in the RoC disagrees with the KMT and PRC and sees the PRC and RoC as two separate, geographically distinct states.
There's a lot of exaggeration that goes on with certain fans of postfix systems when they talk about infix systems.

For example: I really like HP calculators, so I'm in several facebook groups for fans of RPN/RPL and HP specifically. Sometimes a few of them go way too far out of their way to try to demonstrate how inferior algebraic systems must be.

For the record, my copy of K&R wants to open into either section 7.6 or appendix B. No idea what this says about me, though.
I like to listen to soundscapes by Endel

They have a bunch of free 45 minute long tracks on YouTube.

1 : https://endel.io/
2 : https://www.youtube.com/c/EndelSound
A large percentage of users use the "report spam" button as an unsubscribe/delete button in their email client.
This isn't the scaling law we'd see.

Firstly, Denmark's renewables are largely wind. But wind and solar are negatively correlated. As they add more solar, the variability will cancel out.

Secondly, variability is heterogeneous across geography. You're not building the second wind turbine in the same location as the first. As you connect countries up, or as you build in locations that don't currently have it, the variability cancels out.

Denmark is tiny. If the EU takes it up as a project, significant amounts of variability cancelling will happen, as you mix offshore wind, onshore wind, and solar, across the continent.

So, > 80% of EU's energy, from wind and solar, without any storage, should be achievable.

> running at high overcapacity results in significant less profits

Still better economics than nuclear. Even if you're at 3x overcapacity, it's still cheaper[1]. Not to mention you can sell most of that overcapacity (even to countries outside the EU) and get the money back, or convert it into green hydrogen and sell that.

[1] https://ourworldindata.org/cheap-renewables-growth
Nowhere does it say that they don't intend to comply.
Twitter is making its crowdsourced fact-checks visible to all U.S. users
I don’t use a graphical cloud setup, but I do use a vps for all of my development.

It is nice having a single cloud based machine that is accessible via ssh on any of my physical devices.

I have a dev environment closer to production, ssl and publicly accessible urls for testing services and sharing to compare designs and UI changes, etc.

Fantastic setup for anyone that likes a vim+tmux workflow. Only a single environment to keep up to date and configured. Daily snapshots and backups.

Keeps the cost of other hardware down as well.. I can work effectively on cheap hardware which certainly offsets the server costs. I did a cost rundown before and it was like ~15 years of my vps and cheap hardware equal to a single entry level MacBook Pro.
Paranoia is not science. Skepticism is not the same as paranoia.

Science is full of trust. Science is rarely replicated from first principles. There just isn't time. The further away one gets from one's own field, the more one relies on the experts in that field.

People who mistrust the CDC and WHO, but accept anything about physics, chemistry, or anything else that isn't their specific area of research, aren't being "skeptical". They're just being ideologically biased, affirming their preconceptions without applying that same skepticism to the theories that support their ideologies.

The overwhelming number of virologists, epidemiologists, doctors, and public health experts listen to what the CDC and WHO says because they do know what they're talking about. And they listen as the information changes, because they change their minds when the data available changes. What do you do?
Just to clarify: we're seeking legal counsel and intend to comply with the law.

Many other larger companies have fought these subpoenas (Snap, etc) and, as far as we can tell, still had to hand over items.
With my laptop, I can work before, during, or after touching grass, instead of taking a long wasteful commute.
My guess is he's talking about Lithium and if so that's not concern trolling, Lithium mining is very expensive and if we want to go full renewable we'll need some major storage capacity. There's obviously ways around that, hydro storage being the most obvious, but it is something to think about.
Empirical Failures of the Claim That Autistic People Lack a Theory of Mind(2020)
I have “prior experience” in any many languages. But I know the ecosystem has changed to the point where someone who has recent experience would be more valuable. That would be like me (hypothetically) saying I had prior experience in JavaScript from a decade ago and I can write JQuery with the best of them.
That's a different question than talking about "less accountable hands" but yes that would have to be figured out in any hypothetical utopian system.

The employees work for a paycheck of course, but I suppose there needs to be sufficient incentive to start a company. It probably doesn't need to be multi-billion-dollar payout possible to incentivize though. And talking about an already existing company like facebook, I think founders and early investors have already received quite enough reward to incentivize, being able to make as much money as they've made off meta up to this point is plenty of incentive to start a company.

(There are also other incentives than money to start a company).

Anyway, I was mostly responding to the suggestion that the government is "less accountable hands" than Meta -- I really don't think so, if we're talking about accountability to society at large. I think it's actually a problem that an entity with so much power over society isn't accountable to it; the first step is admitting we have a problem.
Xidel for XPath on JSON, XML, and HTML: https://github.com/benibela/xidel
See also

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33101717

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33101358

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33102049
My System76 laptop with Nvidia graphics is faster than the M1 Pro I have for work, has more cores, and 64G of ram means I can run all my communications stuff and an ide and a compiler and a local k3s and the machine won't break a sweat. However, the battery will drain in an hour and a half doing all that. Performance is definitely not an issue on non-arm machines. Battery life is.
What are options for the fuse mounted remote storage?
The Harvard university president has stated many times that admissions are weighted and if you are Asian, will have a much harder time getting accepted.

It seems racism is accepted in academia, when it affects a demographic you deem 'problematic'
I'd be in favor of trust-busting them into smaller entities before nationalization .. While nationalization might work for smaller western European countries, it isn't going to work in a political machine the size of the united states
Unless I'm being obtuse, wouldn't it be right for Twitter to state that it's disabled an account to protect the user and others rather than because it violates their rules?
Nord Stream Leaks Caused by Detonations in Sign of Sabotage
Huh? If your corporate resources are synced to your laptop, you have no security.
Unless I'm being obtuse, wouldn't it be right for Twitter to state that it’s disabled an account in order to protect the user and others rather than because it violates their rules?
I'm referring, in part, to FOIA requests that have proven there has been direct collusion between the Biden administration and Twitter taking action to ban users who they claim "spread misinformation". The first amendment implications of not stopping this behavior are extreme.
The subpoena is issued by a judge for a pending case, you can either fight it by submitting an opposing motion or be held in contempt of court which in this case is pretty much a loss.
It not only isn’t technically feasible, it also isn’t rational, or even ethical to be portraying a warped version of the world.

What they want is for results of “software engineer” to be equally likely to show black females. This is not fair to Eskimos and Aboriginals. And what about the mentally handicapped? Is it not unfair that people with Downs Syndrome are not Wall Street stock brokers? How are you going to find all of these “affluent” categories and claim to be able to balance them?

And are you going to claim racism again when to ask for prison inmates and you don’t find any Asians? Should you start putting latent space Asians in latent space prisons?

Because this is a main harp of the social justice “ethicists” - that if you ask these models for “gang member” you get “People Of Color!!” … as if they simply don’t understand the statistics of situation. How would you even “solve” that? Should you decide when and where certain ethnic groups should be taken down a peg?

Latent space affirmative action is technically absurd, an completely ironic as “ethical” behavior.
> Yes portability is great, but most of us park our behinds at the same desk everyday.

Got to take exception to that. I'm a developer developer an I'm still required to get up from my desk to attend meetings etc, and I need my laptop in them. Or pair programming. It is usually a different kind of work so there's probably a world where I could have a desktop and a laptop but inevitably I'd end up needing to do something the iPad can't do and get frustrated.
Gambling is like alcohol you get a high and then a hangover. The effects of gambling however last longer. What is lost is lost forever, it doesn't increase your odds of winning in the future.
Do companies hide outages so that they would seem like error ones?
tilt.dev looks very promising and addresses some of these issues
I’ve grown that mainly over the last year due to the job I currently have (6 figures, stock grants, bonuses) at the expense of my time (logging about 10 hour days regularly).
Ideally, I’d like to take 6 months to a year. I don’t mind working during this time, freelancing or what not, just don’t want it to be the majority of time.
Did an NYU professor get fired because students hate organic chem?
Well that is unfortunate. I would not want to be in Simula's position, I'm sure they've got enough on their plate without having to deal with stuff like this that they barely have an impact on in the first place.

I understand that Meta needs to prove they're not a monopoly, and apparently the way to do that is through other companies laying their cards on the table, but my goodness would I feel uncomfortable giving core business plans, outlooks, and associated data to a huge (and arguably unethical) company like Meta.

It's unreal that this is just a thing that can be done, but I'd expect those documents to never reach the eyes of anyone who guides business decisions at Meta. Or so I hope. Or maybe this kind of information isn't as sensitive as I think, I don't run a business and have no plans to currently, so I'm not savvy in that department.
It's not that YOU have any issues with it -- because you're perfect.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fKHaNIEa6kA

It's about the poor people who read your code that relies on both you and them having perfectly memorized every single little detail of operator precedence and associativity, instead of simply and consistently using parenthesis.

Quick without looking: can you tell me what the precedence and associativity of the ternary ?: operator is?

The designer of PHP got it wrong (which isn't surprising given his proudly self proclaimed contempt towards computer science and incompetence at parser writing), but then millions of PHP programmers also learned it the wrong way.

https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Rasmus_Lerdorf

Do you really want any of those people who were corrupted by PHP messing around with your code, if you relied on it being one way, and they assume it works the other way?

It's not that you can't tell what it actually does, it's that you can't tell what the person who wrote it actually meant, which is more important than what it actually does, especially when it has bugs.

Don't do many operations on one line, AND do use parenthesis, AND do use indentation, with no exceptions except for very simple expressions. Take every opportunity to use line breaks and vertical alignment to make symmetry and repetition and nesting visually obvious, like:

float distance =
sqrt(
(x * x) +
(y * y))

Redundant parens, plus breaking expressions into multiple lines and indenting according to depth, unambiguously express programmer INTENT, so the reader doesn't need to wonder if the person who wrote it had a clue or was just showboating.

Just use parenthesis, and put a comment on it, sailor.

https://wellcomecollection.org/works/m33njwx3/items

My copy of The Little Schemer won't open to page 13 because of the jelly stains.

https://vpb.smallyu.net/[Type]%20books/The%20Little%20Scheme...
This is incredible. Not only the final result is breathtaking, but the intermediate projects you created to support it are awesome too! The duckyPad looks very nice too!
Where was the USS Jimmy Carter around the time of this incident?
It’s rather extreme case of passive-aggressive — someone, who knows who, will do the salutary job of uprooting and destroying.
Everything you need to know about Deceptive Design
It's a wonderful article, I'm glad someone is finally quantifying what has been evident to many people for a long time. Namely that Twitter is a harmful tool that encourages extremism and widens the political divide in America.

One can only hope it will finally be regulated, and not with attacks on free-speech like "misinformation boards" but through transparency and fairness in the way the algorithmic feeds are implemented.
>People hate him for who he is. He feels bad, and then continues doing the things that make us hate him,

You truly hate Mark Zuckerberg huh, you must live a great life
Can someone explain why is meta entitled to see a 3rd party's business plans, financials and statistics?
People early in their career are the last ones that should do anything in obscure languages. Most of the time the biggest leap in salary comes in your first few years. Once you break the can’t get a job <-> don’t have experience cycle, you need to be able to jump ship.

When I first started in my career over two and a half decades ago, my focus was on being able to be aligned with the market and being able to support myself. I was young, single, had no responsibilities and just moved to a major city. The last thing I considered “fun” was programming.
The politician was Margaret Thatcher and the Department Of Trade And Industry (the website calls it Transport and Industry which looks like a typo as transport was the Ministry of Transport) paid 50% of the cost for schools purchasing computers from the Research Machines 380Z, the BBC Micro plus (I didn't know this) the Spectrum.

https://briansmithonline.com/computing/national-curriculum/c...

Placing this under the DTI, instead of Ministry of Education, suggests the intention was to encourage success stories precisely like yours; build skills for future employment in industry and building IT literate professionals to enable future UK trade. Surprisingly forward looking for any government department!

We were lucky enough to have both the 380Z and the BBC Micro (plus some Acorn Atom's as budget alternatives and a number of Apple ][ that pre-dated the whole computers in schools program) plus ECONET ! Our Computing Department head was involved in setting up the program, so we lucky and got a bit of almost everything except the Spectrum. We also had a few different languages available, Comal, Pascal plus the obvious BBC BASIC. I also got to play with a BASIC Compiler (Apple ][ Expediter if I recall the name correctly). I was incredibly lucky as a result of the teacher being involved in setting up the program and the early Computing courses and examinations.
That’s a good point and something I didn’t think about. Thanks!
If your definition of zero trust includes the endpoint devices because they are in an area that the general public can access.

If you want access to your desktop from multiple locations. Ex, at my local hospital the staff can tap their badge to any computer and instantly reconnect to their desktop exactly where they left off.

If you are in a multi-site scenario but your big LOB app hates the internet so you need all your clients to be in the same building as the server. This is actually the reason I deploy vmware horizon... im not sure what jack henry and Fiserv are doing to make their overblown CRUD apps so network heavy and inefficient to operate, but I'm happy they are finally rolling out their own cloud-first apps so they can deal with their own garbage instead of outsourcing their support to their customeres IT guys.

If you literally just can't acquire hardware because of a pandemic and need more compute than you have on hand.
> NATO violated agreements with Russia not to expand towards Russia's borders over the past 20 years, and Russia's paranoia and aggression made this outcome predictable.

This is a persistent myth that is not reality, the soviet president at the time even says that no such promise was ever made.

https://www.brookings.edu/blog/up-front/2014/11/06/did-nato-...
You aren't returning the new type there, looks like you just inline that code. Zig lets you create and return new types that way while your example looks like just regular template substitution.

Edit: So the main difference seems to be that types are first class citizens in Zig, you can write a normal comptime function that returns a type and either use it to do more metaprogramming or everywhere you would declare a type for a function or variable. I am not aware of any static typed languages that lets you do this with normal language syntax.

C++ does it with templates, but in Zig you can do what C++ templates can but with if statements and loops.
puts head in the sand
https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1418091/000119312522...

>Upon termination of the Merger Agreement under other specified limited circumstances, Parent will be required to pay Twitter a termination fee of $1.0 billion. ...

(1) the conditions to Parent’s and Acquisition Sub’s obligations to consummate the Merger are satisfied and the Parent fails to consummate the Merger as required pursuant to, and in the circumstances specified in, the Merger Agreement; or (2) Parent or Acquisition Sub’s breaches of its representations, warranties or covenants in a manner that would cause the related closing conditions to not be satisfied. Mr. Musk has provided Twitter with a limited guarantee in favor of Twitter (the “Limited Guarantee”). The Limited Guarantee guarantees, among other things, the payment of the termination fee payable by Parent to Twitter, subject to the conditions set forth in the Limited Guarantee.

I am not contract law knowledgeable, but how is 1 not a get out of it for a billion clause that you say is untrue.
It’s difficult to imagine which applications would find the performance of an outline vector access acceptable. Generally vector::operator[] is represented in built programs by a single x86 mov. A call would wreck the performance. In languages with bounds-checked vectors, they don’t do it with library calls.
I've read anecdotes about genius programmers who just sit around playing videogames or watching movies for a bit while they work out the details of complicated problems in their heads and then just finish up and start typing out the right solution in one shot.
I would love a great cloud desktop. No worries about local backup, ability to use older hardware.
I had to switch back to Pulseaudio and compile the audio plugin for XRDP myself (that was on Fedora 35).
If I was kidnapped, beaten and probably in a mass grave don't you dare take down what I said that put me in that position. (Frankly we may be in that spot sooner than you think in the US) That's exactly what the regime wants, to shut him up. He gave his freedom at a minimum, probably his life to say what he said, the least we can do is listen to him.
The government controlling production is not all there is to socialism, at all. Markets are not an exclusive feature of capitalism.

In very simple terms, the economy from a leftist perspective can be separated into two areas: distribution and ownership. If you have private ownership and markets then you have the current system; capitalism, if you have state ownership and markets then you have the system that China has. If you have worker ownership (co-ops) and markets then you have a system that actually has a name: market socialism.

Of course every economic system has lots of pockets of different things inside it, the economies of walmart and amazon for example work, internally, through planning. So even in our market system we still have pockets of central-planning. But to me at least, the fundamental characteristic of the capitalist system is precisely ownership and the power relationships that come with ownership. So although co-ops exist in capitalism, imo, they're the seeds of new forms to come.
Times are getting tough generating revenue from customers.
This absolutely is a game of strategy ... perhaps you've misunderstood it.
It's easier in some languages than others.

There is a delight in doing it, but don't overdo the anticipation. I've found greater delights in programming.
It's not even a very big matrix! From the article:

The headline result is that AlphaTensor discovered a way to multiply together two four-by-four matrices that is faster than a method devised in 1969 by the German mathematician Volker Strassen, which nobody had been able to improve on since. The basic high school method takes 64 steps; Strassen’s takes 49 steps. AlphaTensor found a way to do it in 47 steps.
Similar experience

I used to run a graduation photography company, we did professional graduation photos half the price of the 'officail' providers (who pay a huge commission to the university, but don't get me started on that).

We promoted our service with facebook events and advertised said events. One year without warning or explination they Facebook just deleted all our events (we would travel from one uni to another over the summer). I frantically tried to get a response from facebook. I never got one.

I sued in small claims court and they settled the case (not before being very threatening through high paid lawyers and trying to dodge the case altogether) they never did explain what had happend or why.

Ultimately it's partly the reason I shut the company down, facebook was our channel, without certainty we could host events and promote them it made no business sense to invest in the company.
You might watch "I am mother". Greater good was always an interesting concept.
Same here. I’m always shocked when I meet someone that doesn’t use WhatsApp
Washed up waste is the tail end, the only "big" difference it makes is to the localized beach until the next tide/current comes from the source of the pollution.

Saving the monitor, releasing the diy reduces a (minor) head end of the problem that is not only leading to long waste in a landfill, but also metals and plastics in water.