skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I did actually write a second sentence about when you're losing, but removed it because I needed to think about it. I think there's some contextual stuff to consider - I was thinking about this specific situation. It's not going very well for Russia, especially for their soldiers. If people are dying in an unnecessary war then they'd vote to stop it, and one party is likely to capitalise on that in a democracy.

Second is maintaining the propaganda about Ukraine in the face of free information. It's not like the Vietnam war where culture and language was very different and other, especially at that time when people were not so globally connected. It's more like America invading Canada. Similar language, shared culture and history, large numbers of people of each country in each country etc. I think if the war could be talked about in Russia there would be a pressing question: why the f are we there, what will we even gain? The gain is for Putin to maintain power, a democracy wouldn't see any benefit. Maybe there would be another reason, but that's not what we're discussing.
"'If it's worth doing, it's worth doing well' is bunkum."

Doing good enough ... can be enough.
It does have >1 thrust to weight, but aereodinamic control surface aren't efficient enough to keep control at low speed
Nick Lane's 'Transformer - The Deep Chemistry of Life and Death' (2022).

I read it just after reading his 2016 novel 'The Vital Question - Energy, Evolution, and the Origins of Complex Life'.

Can recommend both, and I believe both were suggestions I picked up from HN originally.
Found Kubuntu very disappointing: power events like power supply plug-in being reported minutes late (and unexpectedly and using loud cheesy Windows-y sounds), can't get rid of super-annoying middle click behavior (closing a window when I want to open a link in a new tab), partially strange/buggy scaled rendering of Plasma widgets (when all I wanted was an approximation of Mac OS/Unity with a global window and a vertical dock), Firefox wouldn't support a global menu anyway, Firefox' regressive and annoying snap self-update, Thunderbird attempting to open links in Chrome/FF snap having a bug where it crashes and won't update preferences such as for registering as default browser, opening new windows behind others, ...

KDE Neon supposedly is much better, but after a month of circus I crawled back to Mac OS even though I had been using Ubuntu (with gnome until 3.0) since 2010.
While you're right that this was bipartisan, worldwide inflation could well have been least partly the result of the US government handing out too much money. Here's how: the US actually had the highest inflation in the G7 until earlier this year. In order to get that under control, the Fed has been hiking interest rates more aggressively than the rest of the developed world. This has caused other currencies to lose value against the dollar, increasing the cost of imported goods priced in dollars like oil and gas and driving up inflation elsewhere: https://edition.cnn.com/2022/08/07/investing/strong-dollar/i...

The US dollar's status as the world's reserve currency has strange and counterintuitive effects like this which make their screw-ups everyone else's problem.
The tax code is complex to create loopholes for the wealthy to exploit.
The CTFE interpreter knows what "new" does, and just calls the compiler's "new" function to allocate memory. If the user wrote their own custom allocator, then the CTFE would have to interpret that, which is kind of a big mess.
Very interesting recommendation. Is it a slog to get through? Or readable?
> Motorola never got back in the game

I though POWER was born as a child of IBM and Motorola.
> What a mess DOS programming was with that.

You could always use huge pointers in the general case, and treat 16-bit pointers as an optimization only. This is probably how these platforms might be best supported by something like modern GCC/LLVM.
Updating databases (e.g. views) is a common thing we do using Akka actors. While a DB call is running, you store incoming updates in a local var, and once the DB update is done, you start the next DB update with the whole batch. So you never have more than one concurrent DB call, and there is no race condition. This all fits in quite well into the actor model.
I agrée and it’s a bit of a maxim of mine, but the extreme of this is absurd. There’s lots of life that is worth doing for the pleasure of just doing. Sometimes that might be learning how to do an oil change (to follow the thread!) but sometimes that’s the exact absurd trade off you’re talking about
Twitter does a lot of actual machine learning, but mostly to improve ad clickability.
As I'm sure you are aware Generative AI is absolutely the hot button VC area of interest right now. This should greatly ease your funding process. That said there will be a number of hygiene factors that your company must meet in order to maximise the number of VCs competing the deal and thus create favourable terms for yourself.

I've been raising pre-seed for a no-code platform for about a month now so very much in the trenches, happy to chat and share my learnings. Email me at paul (at) railsrocket.app
If you're using distro packages, their own "packaging policy" should offer some level of assurance via policy about static linking (since as far as I know, all major distros dynamically link, to make this kind of bugfix easier).

If you're talking non distro packages (proprietary, or anything built manually from PPA or equivalent, or binaries dumped inside containers), this won't help.
> Right now, all the natural gas power plants in the US produce about 12% of the total (gross) emissions. If we use these plants only when there's not enough electricity from solar, wind, hydro and nuclear, we'll reduce their emissions by a factor of 10.

Concluding that we'd only need 2% of the current emissions from this is a bit misleading. The overwhelming majority of emissions currently don't come from electricity and the only way to replace many of them is via electrifying them.

Some can be turned into opportunistic loads, but there will still be a major need for 4-100 hour storage in addition to the seasonal storage (which will be largely achieved via hydrogen or ammonia).

Off river PHES seems to currently be cheaper than other storage, but chemical batteries have a lot of other advantages and may become cheaper.

It also has at least one advantage over conventional hydro in that sites can have a lot more head. This allows the power room to be a lot smaller, and there are many brown field sites where one or both reservoirs are mostly complete (which may make it cheaper in spite of needing two reservoirs).

It's hardly 'the only game in town' though, and it's unclear whether the gap between 'batteries have much lower cost per watt' and 'ammonia has much lower cost per joule in storage' is big eough that 'a hole has zero long run cost' the marginal efficiency gain over electrolysis is worth it.
> Trained Stable Diffusion can, but training it costed 600 000$ and took 150 000 GPU hours.

So? The iphone as it is today took EVEN more man hours and billions of dollars to create. Yet every single person on the face the earth has one in their pocket. The effort to create stable diffusion is trivial when compared with many marvels of modern technology that we take for granted today. Stable diffusion in my pocket? It's already reality.

>There's been a lot of innovation in how you can best apply DNNs to problems, and that's where CLIP and stable diffusion innovate,

So? you talk as if this is a minor thing. It's very possible that enough innovations in this area and we'll find out that the entire human brain is layers and layers of complex "applications of DNNs". DNNs in theory can compute anything, so this path is forward is possible.

> but also a lot of the advancements has been purely due to sheer brute force from funding more compute resources to train deeper networks using larger datasets.

The training was trivial. Nobody expects AI technology to be able to be built by a single man. Like your iphone which lives in your pocket many lifetime hours of blood sweat and tears will need to be put into it. The half a million and 150,000 GPU hours is nothing. I expect more hours of training, larger datasets and eventually I expect all of tech to be encapsulated into some product that lives in the cloud or aka effectively in my pocket.

>I'm optimistic, but I'm also trying to contextualize to have the right expectations.

You don't realize it but this sentence is a declaration equivalent of saying "I'm a biased person." Optimism and pessimism is a form of bias. You state that you are optimistic, thus you stated you are biased. True logic has no leaning in either direction. This sentence here reveals what you are and that your "contextualization's" are inherently flawed.

Additionally, research finds that pessimistic people tend to be right. Yes logic dictates that neither pessimism or optimism is the way to go, but the data driven conclusion is that people who are pessimistic tend to be more realistic. The data shows that most humans are biased with an optimistic delusional bent.

This behavior is so pervasive that you even called yourself optimistic without realizing that it was a declaration of your own bias. Most reading your sentences miss it as well unconsciously thinking "optimism" of any form is more rational "pessimism" even though BOTH the logical and data driven conclusion show that this is not the case.

Contextualize yourself first before you contextualize the external world.
You seem to be responding to points not made by the article (or the person you’re responding to).
Just because a physical contract wasn't signed does nor mean there isn't a legally binding agreement, see promisory estoppel.
This kind of thing is why people don't update software and why it's important for users to always have that as an option.
I guess the fact that it's rarer than other languages, but I have no idea.
> Musk discussed the possibility of placing Twitter on the blockchain, though he later appeared to decide such a move would not work.

What does that even mean?
> But with with Swift, Rust and modern C++ the argument can be made that GC doesn't bring anything to the table.

GC will always be needed to solve problems dealing with general graphs containing possible cycles. Not coincidentally, this describes many of the GOFAI problems for which GC (in the context of LISP) was first developed.
While I broadly agree with this, you have to be careful you don't slide too far into this mindset. Vacations become hard to justify if you view them as both the price of the vacation+lost income opportunity. It's easy to find yourself in a place where it's hard to justify doing anything but working.
I think in the RC flying community there's a saying like "Anything can fly, with enough thrust".

Safely landing, otoh, now that's a feat!
I think the Tesla's are cool, SpaceX is immpressive, I enjoy his online trolling but I don't think he is a genius. The rocket scientist he employs at SpaceX is a genius. I got caught up on the way you phrased your response-- I felt that it was written in bad faith with "he's just an engineer who had a very rich father, Did he invent something that I'm not aware of? ". However seing as you were responding to someone who elevated him to Genius I can see why.
That's true, I should have mentioned that I use this extension. It is supported by clang as well, however.
In this case, the size might not give better security. OpenSSL is one the most tested products on the planet.
> we have the problem that language designers are against moving the GC forward

This is incorrect. There even was a concurrent collector written for D, but it failed for technical reasons, not anyone blocking it.

The idea that I would block any improved GC implementation for D is just silly. D is free and open source and Boost licensed. I couldn't possibly stop anyone from doing a better one.

You're free to prove me wrong about what can be done, I would welcome your implementation!
A 1% slowdown is a ridiculous low number IMHO. I would argue that almost no program is within 1% of the optimal speed (however you define it). Therefore practically it does not matter. If you think it matters then the consequence would be that you write everything in Assembler.
I've watched the numbers in Turkey over the past year, and it's mind-boggling. What I don't understand is: how do people get by?

Lots of Germans have little savings, don't own their home, and have relatively small margins with their income. The ~10% (or maybe 15, if you exclude some of the wonky things that keep them down) are being felt. I cannot imagine how lots of people would get by with 80% or 100% inflation in a year.

How do Turks do it? Are young people moving back in with their parents or getting more room mates? Are they taking on debt, or selling valuables to pay for rent and food? From afar, it looks surprisingly stable. Germans are said (and correctly so, imo) to submit to authority, but I'd expect a lot more action here with the level of inflation Turkey is seeing. Am I just not hearing about the instability it causes, or are Turks just weathering it but aren't rising up yet?
That's just trading a fragmented heap for fragmented page tables, though. Modern OS's even support "huge" pages to specifically avoid that page table overhead.
"Take care of your body in your 20s"

It's easier to build muscle mass before the age of 30 and the muscle you gain during that time will never go away (with a minimum of training).

The earlier you start exercising, the less difficult it will be to maintain your body as you get older. Someone who has never exercised but wants to lose weight by their 40s will have a much harder time than someone who started exercising early.

More than that, working out has a significant impact on my productivity, mood and psychological health. It changed my life.
That you would have to pay gas to tweet
Amazon only isn’t that useful. Some people seem to think that its the only place to buy anything.
OP may want to take a look at "Shell script best practices" (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33354286) submitted two days ago. :)
50k€ = 75k€ total cost for the employer, and it used to mean 100k$ before the devaluation of the euro. But on this spreadsheet, he wrote 52k TCO, to that’s 35k gross or 26k€ net, ie 2200 per month, it’s very low for an entrepreneur.

I personally can’t find developers for 40 (junior) - 65k€ (decently senior), so, even though recruiters tell me I’m offering 8-10k too much, the actual market may be much, much higher.
The big inflation spikes are always extremely multi-variate and difficult to turn into simple stories. Whereas ordinary inflation tends to be a somewhat simple story of demand running excess of supply, both of the big inflation spikes had large elements of supply side limitations. Indeed, possibly great inflation becomes "great" because it is the supply side problems riding on top of the normal demand pressures, and the two sometimes multiply each other in complex ways.

The Great Inflation of 1965 to 1982 came in the second half of the era when the great European empires were coming to an end (1947-1986). The most obvious event of the Great Inflation is the OPEC crisis, which obviously would not have been possible if the MidEast had still been owned by Britain. The independence of the Third World was a necessary pre-condition for the Great Inflation. One possible angle to explore is the extent to which independence allowed the nations of the Third World to demand better prices for their goods -- obviously in the case of oil, but possibly in the case of many other commodities -- and then possibly the way to break the power of the Third World nations wanting better prices for their commodities was for the developed nations to inflict a brutal period of austerity on themselves, cheating themselves so as to cheat the commodity-supplying nations.

This was an era in which the number of nations increased, dramatically, as the world transformed from a few big empires to 212 independent nations. Therefore, there was also a dramatic increase in the number of currencies that existed in the world. And so, there is another avenue of research that needs more exploration: whether the increase in the number of currencies that existed in the world lead to a kind of chaotic interference in the markets for currencies -- a world with just 11 currencies is a world where one can almost model the interactions in one's head, whereas a world with 212 currencies is far too complex for anyone to model it in their head. Did the sudden increase in the total number of independent currencies make it difficult, even temporarily, for the markets to send a rational signal about the value of those currencies?

Given such a complex situation, it is almost impossible to develop a properly multi-variate model, unless one is willing to devote one's life to the study of the subject, but as a method of getting traction on such complex subjects, it can be instructive, and even fun, to go through a single-variable account of the history, to see what impact a single variable might have had, for instance, in this case, the currency valuations of the various nations:

https://demodexio.substack.com/p/why-did-the-west-deindustri...

Such single-variable explanations always need to be taken with a grain of salt, but they do provide a way into a subject, without demanding 10 years of study.
I'd expect higher quality code review from OpenBSD folks (who maintain LibreSSL), compared to OpenSSL.

Also, an interesting talk: LibreSSL: The first 30 days, and what the Future Holds from BSDCan: <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oM6S7FEUfkU>
Well not really changed my life, but somethings I frequently think and try to follow.

Try to be nice and helpful to others.

Nothing that you do or say will matter after a couple of hundred years.

It’s better to regret something you’ve done, than something you haven’t.
Rockets are a testament to the truth of that :P
The linked 2013 Notion demos look incredible. I really wonder what made them drop all of those features.
Yes, but the people who raise taxes are not the people who understand economics.
> You could always use huge pointers in the general case, and treat 16-bit pointers as an optimization only

Data flow analysis isn't that good.
This is supposedly the commit which fixes the bug https://github.com/openssl/openssl/commit/3df6aed7826640d944...
> Meanwhile, Wikipedia has been far more resilient to misinformation, politicisation, and such

How could you tell? It's wikipedia (well, the information aggregate that includes wikipedia as a major component) that decides what is or isn't misinformation.
Inflation is mostly caused by two things. The first and most obvious are external commodity supply price shocks which crash demand because essential inputs and their dependent outputs become unaffordable. (The demand is still there of course, but it becomes too expensive to satisfy it.)

The second is misdirected money supply which steers money towards sweatable assets like property and stock ownership, and away from productive investment, original invention and research, and small business creation.

Effectively this causes an internal supply shock which raises the prices of the sweatable assets for the ownership class and impoverishes everyone else, to the point where essentials like housing become unaffordable and demand starts to seize up. Small businesses are forced to close rather than being encouraged to open.

Inflation has very little to do with money velocity, interest rates, unemployment, wage rises, or any of that other supply side nonsense.
You haven't answered the questions.
I don't see a reason to use RDBMS in a browser, if it's not, for example, an SQL tutorial site.
You gave an example of a t-shirt store. A plain array of JS objects is enough to store items in a browser. Why do you need a fully backed RDBMS for it?
As you can see planes can fly with one wing.

Maybe we can cut down some costs and only use one wing in the future?
Amazing initiative!
> actually, ascribed gender—assigned at birth

No, it is actually an observation of sex - often observed prenatally, then confirmed at birth.
Discussed yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33370265

TLDR: It's about using Pantone product names. Using the respective RGB/CMYK values still works fine.
Perhaps advertisers could pay the gas for users?

Could users pay for their own costs and have an ad-free experience?

Could users give gas to publishers in response to content they enjoy?

There’s room for a lot of economic incentives!

Could users sell 70% of their tweet revenue for 7 years to another entity that gives them cash up front? Like existing music publishers?

https://github.com/williamcotton/openpublish
Not to be facetious, but what are serious use cases / uses of IPFS in the wild? I usually use it for downloading books from Libgen… I’d be curious to hear from people who use it for less illicit stuff. I think it’s a wonderful project and good to have more than one implementation.
I wouldn't call it toxic per se. It's a very business oriented approach.

Using ring without a support contract is clearly a terrible decision. It's not a library any open source project or other library should depend on. Doing so will break your builds and the builds of others that use your library.
Making you enjoy it is nature's trick to make sure you do it's bidding.
> Therefore practically it does not matter.

You won't notice it on your desktop. But you will notice it in cases I mentioned. Top shelf games also are not going to give up that 1%, or so the game devs tell me.
Having read Newports work, I feel his books are mostly in the category of books-that-could-have-been-blogposts. What are your thoughts on this?
Sure, but there might also be binaries outside the distro which link things statically, because makes distribution easier.

This is one of the "benefits" of go, where afaik many things are linked statically.

I'm currently playing around with grepping some function-names to find out if something uses libssl, and then check if ldd to see if libssl is loaded dynamically or not.
I always read lichess as female lich. Then I get confused when I click on it and see chess boards. Probably played too many fantasy games.
He feels fine!
I guess the point is that the working 16 hours a day for years on something that might return billions but might also return nothing, is a lot more rational if you have a safety net that means you'll still have somewhere to live if it doesn't work out.