skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Life as a door-to-door salesman
Understanding why Microsoft ploughs money into VS Code

https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2002/06/12/strategy-letter-v/
Everyone here is mentioning coppicing, so I suspect there will be some interest in the Low Tech Magazine articles on the subject:

https://www.lowtechmagazine.com/coppicing/

And since we're talking about doing cool things with trees, I just wanted to mention that LTM has more interesting articles slightly "adjacent" to this topic, like this one about a half-forgotten technique for growing citrus trees in climates with freezing temperatures:

https://www.lowtechmagazine.com/2020/04/fruit-trenches-culti...
That one was later so we merged it hither.
UK competition watchdog investigates Apple and Google 'stranglehold' over mobile
I actually measured it. It was around 65-85ns for Lua and 55ns for LuaJIT (on a 7950X). It adds up every time you make a call, despite looking like a small value. Of course, you can multiply it by 2-5x when you put it in production.A decent emulator these days should have < 20ns time to first instruction. The worst emulators are the ones that require you to host them in another thread for the purpose of execution timeout using some kind of timed-wait (eg. futex op), adding a massive 10-20 micros overhead just to communicate tasks.

Ultimately the script in a game engine either makes a bunch of API calls, so we want the "system call overhead" to be that of an opaque function call (4ns), and sometimes you share memory in order to read out properties and put abstractions on them (probably not relevant to Lua). So, it's important to get going fast, and to be able to make hundreds of engine API calls without unnecessary costs.

Benchmarks: https://gist.github.com/fwsGonzo/2f4518b66b147ee657d64496811...
I dunno, it's a bit fuzzy, I don't recall general layout issues when it came to rad stuff.
If you are in an environment where you are that worried about an upset, you're likely using a rad tolerant fpga.
Parent comment mentions 3-core voting which is a good callout. Ime a lot (most?) rad hard fpgas have a sort of voting logic baked into the flip-flops, its sort of transparent to the synthesizer. They usually have an upset immunity to a certain energy particle.
Transients are a different story, and RAM or clock resources you can find require some consideration.
Massively Parallel Simulation for Reinforcement Learning
I'm sure people "molded" tree into squarer outer shape in the past.
I think that share quantity and value are very separated concepts. At some point Elon loses control of Tesla and that's it: Tesla's price has been tanking, and it's still on its way down to a sane valuation.
This is something which is quite common in teaching (especially in international schools with higher turnover) and I'd wager other professions as well. I've suffered through three heads of school and another leader who have used schoolwide initiatives to build up data for their masters or PhD thesis. Wasting my time and the students time with so much useless paperwork.
The website is a branch of an American newspaper so not surprisingly has a US focus. I think some of the challenges to get the tests in the US are uniquely American. In some cases the FDA has a tendency to drag its feet (case in point, the gray market of imported sunscreens that are approved in Europe or Asia but not the US)
In broad terms, I see basically four options:

1. Try to fix yourself, with medication or otherwise.

2. Find a coding job at a badly managed company (something like a large bank etc.) where they won't notice your performance is minimal. This is suboptimal, because it will be stressful for you and you'll probably end up being fired in 5-10 years anyway.

3. Find a different line of work - one without monotony and which doesn't require constant focus. Perhaps some varied, strongly stimulating physical work, like firefighting or police? I imagine people with ADHD might do well there.

4. Apply for disability, if it's an option where you live.
Not saying this is not true, but… the rewards being on “interesting” rather than a faithful depiction of reality has given us things like the the Murdochs, Sinclair, and Fox News.
Yeah. And I also edit my VB in nano.

Jokes aside. This is a thoughtful and interesting article. I was wavering on going down the Rust path for my SaaS start-up. Glad I didn't in the end for exactly the same kind of reasons.
As a European who often reads material targeted at Americans, I would just assume that is what the author is doing here.

The standards for "ancient" are simply relative to your own cultural history. A 200 year old building in the US is ancient - a 800 year old building in Germany is also ancient.
https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-peabody-dispatch...
I don't play those games much, because they tend to spill out into the next game/real world. It's not that someone will feel betrayed and have hurt feelings, it's that it's a perfectly sensible strategy to have the next game in mind, or to involve existing real-world relationships. I prefer games that are over when they're over.

That said, when I have played such games, because my group wanted to play them, I've had a policy of just not lying or making promises. I may say things like "that doesn't seem like it would benefit me does it, because then B will surely just toss me out of the lifeboat next turn", and of course NOT speak up when someone makes a wrong assumption to my benefit. It feels like I've won more than my fair share of those games still.
It’s worth remembering that adoption is much different to how we’d conceive of it in Europe. If a business wasn’t going to be continued by the offspring then a new business owner could be adopted, as an adult. That’s why there seems to be so many Japanese concerns with incredibly long lineage, but like so much else in Japan to a westerner’s eyes, it’s appearance only.

https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-19505088
When I got kicked out by my cofounder, I kept my shares instead of taking the payout. But we still hadn’t made product market fit and if I had taken the money I would have ended up making the most off of the startup.

The two questions to ask yourself are:
1. What’s the chance this startup fails? Most startups fail, even those with big contracts.
2. Is this the last idea you’ll have? If yes fight hard to stay involved. If no, have the lawyer negotiate a sale for more than 140k and use that plus all the lessons learned to do a new idea better.
COVID in China: Angry protests at giant iPhone factory in Zhengzhou
Personal site with ads, seriously?
Diátaxis: A systematic framework for technical documentation authoring
Free Illustrations for your next project
This website was dying already, ie. not being updated since Julian was imprisoned, but still a massive treasure trove for journalists and investigators.
It is a very worrying sign of the times that it is vanishing, as the state powers seem to be fighting back against democracy and independent journalism.
The idea is that they do that if you manipulate them into printing a lie. Think Weapons of Mass Destruction here. Or "Putin is paying bounties to kill Americans in Afghanistan." Something that is clearly both false and fabricated for the effect it will have on the public to smooth the way for something (maybe something noble even, doesn't matter) politically by heading off public opinion.

You should be terrified of doing that if that's what you're doing. Seems like right now those pushing such lies have nothing whatsoever at stake. There is no reckoning at all when it comes out.

Is that the way it should be?
Diplomacy has a very simple world model and this work does not advance world modeling aspect at all. So I don't think this work is an evidence in either ways.
The interesting bit for me was that executing the moderately nontrivial wasm fn took <1ms. That makes it more practical than I'd have expected.
Frustrating to read that, because while I've seen enough to generally believe that, there's always a few counter-examples to prove that "no, see, they're listening and really want to change. how can they change/improve if you won't even voice your concerns?" And yet I've seen it happen relatively rarely that trying to find that needle-in-a-haystack is often not worth it, as you say. Just take note and make plans to move on.
>Elon did quite a bit more than that.

He also unbanned american conservatives that had been banned for not agreeing with American progressive ideology, and allowed the majority of workers to take a severance packet. The absolute evil of it make Qatar World championship look like a childs play!
If you explode a nuclear bomb in the eye of a hurricane does it make the hurricane stop?
A Better Way to Borrow in Rust: Stack Tokens
Working offline could be done on a centralised VCS... it's just a bad idea? You'd need separate mechanisms to work offline vs online.

Tbh I'm not sure why git is called "distributed", it's a local system with remote sync capabilities.
Antirez, the creator of Redis, has a few great ones in his blog. One that comes to mind is "Writing system software: code comments." [0]. Previously discussed on HN [1].

[0] http://antirez.com/news/124

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18157047
ZFS Training in Essen, Germany – Linuxhotel
Many popular Japanese things are actually Norwegian. Like salmon sushi and Kirin beer. I wonder how well known that's in Japan.

Norway was looking for new salmon markets in the 90s and came up with the idea of salmon sushi

https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/501693/how-norwegian-sal...

Kirin beer was started by a Norwegian brewer in 1869.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Copeland_(brewer)
I feel bad that I can't get over the fact that a Mastodon message is called a "toot".

It just keeps reminding me of the old rhyme about beans, beans, the magical fruit, the more you eat, the more you toot. (Although in the English of most former colonies that didn't violently rebel, it's pronounced "fart").

I suppose that's the point, it's a nice meta joke punning on tweet, but implying it's all just farting in the wind.
Would be great if this would run on one of the commercial offerings such as Alexa hardware.
I just get a message complaining that I'm using a web blocker even though I'm not.
This looks interesting too, thanks. Not exactly what I was after but still worthwhile. Can't help but wonder if there ids something on my doorstep worth visiting!

I have asked for it as a Christmas present.

I found a slightly later edition in hardback: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/142987831794?epid=88241470&hash=i...
Oh, MIRI. I didn’t know about the Harry Potter aspect. Everything I have seen out of MIRI, however, is completely ridiculous. So that makes sense.
Nick Johnson's blog about damn cool algorithms

http://blog.notdot.net/tag/damn-cool-algorithms
Ask HN: Do you use Apple’s file tagging feature
Since HN loves note taking and organizing information.
Does any one here use Apple’s file tagging feature - if so - how?
I haven't seen one of the main arguments against UV efficiency in the context of an HVAC system.

Most common UV solutions simply cannot clean at the speed the air goes through the systems in most buildings. When you have to maintain 6 air changes per hour, the UV solutions are simply not manageable.

There are other limitations but that's the main issue as far as I can tell talking to facility managers.
Just to be clear, you're criticizing a movement that has, as one of its cornerstones, the idea that most people in the developed world should be donating more money to the developing world, because they can do more good there. And your criticism is that actually they want to save lives in the developed world more? That seems weird to me.

I feel like there's either a disconnect between your perception of the EA movement, or mine. It could totally be mine! I know that a lot of the EA movement has been slowly shifting focus to long termism and X-risk. Is this your main criticism of the EA movement today? Is it your sense that it's no longer about actually supporting charities ala Givewell, but rather this other stuff, and that's what you dislike about it?

(Genuinely curious here, since you seem to be super anti EA and I don't understand why.)
I record meetings (phone and irl), put them through a transcribe service, save the text in Joplin and fix it up/annotate/clean it up it a bit and then throw the recording away.
I thought ‘dead as a door nail’ was a reference to dead nailing. Dead nailing being the bending over of the nail to lock it in place.
Is this practice somehow related to poor quality nails?

https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/dead_as_a_doornail
> No more money, the empire shrinks and other countries take what's American now.

What would that be?
Do half a back flip and land on your head.
My first thought after reading the problem was "WASM?" and I was glad to see a detailed writeup in the same.

Have a question:
Isn't the wasm file compiled by rust already a binary? Why do we need to compile it first and then run it in the Go code?

Thanks!
In CPUs they call this speculative execution. It's a good idea if you can detect side effect free code (and don't have the sandboxing issues that caused problems on CPUs).
Class, Identity Politics and Transgender Ideology
> Move safely around objects in your house without hitting or walking into them

Especially important benefit
I felt happy unblocking ads for their site, I've often enjoyed reading their content.
I am not exceptionally smart and I am certainly able to write (and debug) multi-threaded C code, but it is painful :-) I try to use C++ instead whenever I can.

BTW, "multiprocessing" is not a drop-in replacement for multithreading. In fact, there are many domains where "multiprocessing" just isn't possible or practical. So the real solution is to use another language.
TBF what Java does was pretty standard back in the 90s when it was released. Though obviously it would be nice if this had been fixed since. Not that there were no grumblings and better alternative but it was very much the little (if at all) questioned norm for procedural langages.

It’s even excusable for C# in the early aughts.
They are easier to create and remove. They advertise their presence, reminding you to come back and read them better. They can load faster since. They save your scroll position. They save the state of the site and input fields.

The other use case for bookmarks is creating a new tab and navigating to some website like a blank google doc, twitter, hacker news, etc. This is better handled by history. The most frequently used sites can show up on the new tab screen and show up in the results when you start typing in the URL bar.

I don't see any advantage to regular bookmarks for 99% of use cases. They seem to be a feature that exists due to limitations of hardware and browsers from the early days of the web. It's similar to YouTube. In the old days you had to subscribe to channels. Now YouTube is advanced enough to not require you to subscribe to anyone for it to give you content that you want.
So, cycling became popular in the Netherlands later. And the Netherlands also was busy building roads for cars only, especially post WWII.

And yet, "US is unique, everything about the US is unique, we are unique, and the wind blows because the trees move".

> Dutch people cycling was very high compared to other European nations.

And yet even other European nations have decent-to-great cycling infrastructure.
Eh, it does learn from self play via RL. One section of the paper is literally titled "Self-play reinforcement learning for improved value estimation". Yes, that's only a small part of the entire system.
Democracy is the State. Democracy however does not equal freedom

EDIT: i mean individual freedom.
Where I live we also call it “trump”. Which is why many of us never understood why people would claim that Donald Trump has a “powerful name”.

However it did amuse use that a man full of hot air would be named after the expelling of warm but noxious air.
It's always politics (see also https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/07/30/meditations-on-moloch/).

Even the first example from the blog - the busy work for the time when he needed to wait instead of resting. From the perspective of the manager it is not that clear cut - if he allowed him to rest on the job it would be demotivating for the rest of the crew, who might get jealous. The manager would have to do something with that - maybe he would have to make sure that everybody was getting the same amount of that special job, or make there are also other jobs that are considered special and they could be traded or some other arrangements. In general it would add complexity to the management of the kitchen, maybe not much - just one additional thing to make sure that everything is fair, but there are countless of such cases.
> connected to a machine for life support

I am pretty sure all current ICUs have backup power generators (both for equipment and Oxygen line pressure infrastructure). In addition most critical equipment used in hospitals has an independent UPS (ventilators, Infusion pumps etc.) that would extend it a few hours without power.

You would have to both have a formidable blackout and several days of lack of diesel supply for this scenario to materialize. Not saying it is impossible but definitely unlikely.
A Civilised Guide to JavaScript Array Methods
Help seed Z-Library on IPFS
The discussion of Vim visual mode selections being separate from VSCode selections is concerning. What kind of selection is produced if you make a selection using the mouse? Are there any actions where you can end up with the wrong type of selection?
My experience is that no matter how much training one has taken into that regard, any IT slowness to provide credentials on time for critical project activities, will eventually end up on that behaviour.
I use a Boogie Board with the smart pen for that. It's probably one of the most extravagant luxury items I've ever bought($160 or so) for something that only gets occasional use, but it's amazing for mostly write only notes that I might theoretically consult again.

It really does seem to have benefits for any activity that's primarily about actual thinking or creativity, as opposed to busywork or digging through documentation.

I'm guessing a lot of the benefit is that screens are associated really strongly with the habit of procrastinating or scrolling rather than focusing.
> Wouldn't it just be better to play a sport or do an activity that required turning?

I would suggest Tag. Maybe is not good for learning, but if you survive, you're definitively good.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f-YwTh7ZWgE&ab_channel=Vocat...
I'm kinda surprised efforts like this aren't more heavily sponsored by other countries.

Like if you were Russia or Iran right now, paying a bit of money to keep wikileaks' servers running would seem like money well invested.
> Yet no at-home flu tests are available for purchase in the U.S.

What about the LifeSign Status Flu A & B Test? That at least sounds good on their website...

https://www.lifesignmed.com/product-catalog/infectious-disea...

The FDA seems to at least know it exists... (and, so, hopefully it is legitimate).

https://www.fda.gov/media/145697/download

And it also seems I can buy it in the USA! (Hell: "USA" is literally in the name of the company selling it to me! ;P lol)

https://drugtestkitusa.com/products/lifesign-status-flu-a-b-...

OK: I've ordered a 25-pack. Let's see if they show up! (It could be that this product exists but I am not supposed to be allowed to buy it... that's happened to me before :/.)

https://mfimedical.com/products/lifesign-status-flu-a-b-test

FWIW, I saw them on this ^ other website that claimed they required a physician's license and are NOT an "at home test", but it seems like DrugTestKitUSA believes they are "CLIA waived"?

https://www.cdc.gov/labquality/waived-tests.html

> Waived tests include test systems cleared by the FDA for home use and those tests approved for waiver under the CLIA criteria.
Cost and consumer hardware. These models take a lot of resource to run inference and most consumers don't have top hardware to run this stuff on.
This lovely presentation of how GPS works: https://ciechanow.ski/gps/
Same website has several other, equally cool, blog posts.
I can't believe people are comparing clumsy western coppicing to superior Nihon daisugi that's been folded a billion times and can cut through timber shortage like butter.
Who ranks better? Memgraph vs. NetworkX PageRank
I continued learning about NetworkX, and when it comes to issues with scaling and the need for persistence when working on applications in production, Memgraph saves the day. You can see the previous discussion at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33463472.
I visited an exhibition [1] of photos by Maurice Broomfield recently at the V&A in London. It was _awesome_!.

There is a book [2]

i would love to own this print [3]. Alas - It is *one thousand pounds".

[1] https://www.vam.ac.uk/exhibitions/maurice-broomfield-industr...

[2] https://blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/product/9781838510206?gC=5...

[3] https://mauricebroomfield.photography/buy-prints/preparing-a...
> In my downperiods I am unable to clean my teeth.

That sounds like a symptom of depression, not ADHD.
Top Google Result for “AWS t2 vs. t3” is AI generated nonsense
In my Google search just now, the very first result for the search term "aws t2 vs t3" was this site [1]. Google search result rankings vary based on localization, cookies, A/B tests, etc., so it might not be at the very top for everybody.

The content of the website looks much like AI generated nonsense that has not been reviewed by anyone even remotely familiar with the subject matter:

> When it comes to thyroid hormones, there is a lot of confusion and debate. Some people swear by the benefits of thyroid hormones T3, while others swear by the benefits of thyroid hormones T2. So, is T3 better than T2 AWS?

[1] https://www.websitebuilderinsider.com/what-is-the-difference...
"DDoSecrets Is the New WikiLeaks" (from https://newrepublic.com/article/163106/ddossecrets-new-wikil... (2021))

UPD Another news story from 2022: https://therecord.media/how-ddosecrets-built-the-go-to-home-...
Instinctively I thought of the Whitechapel Bell Foundry[1] who made Big Ben and America’s Liberty Bell but I'm not sure if they are still trading.

EDIT: They are! (kinda) The London Bell Foundry are fighting to save the original site and keep it running[4].

There's a few old surviving family businesses in the UK though[2].

If you want really old and still operating I would look at the Livery Companies of the City of London. They're not family businesses obviously but the oldest, Worshipful Company of Mercers[3] got its royal charter in 1394 but existed for long before that. How long ago? No body knows for sure but at least 12th century.

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1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitechapel_Bell_Foundry

2. https://realbusiness.co.uk/the-oldest-family-businesses-in-b...

3. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worshipful_Company_of_Mercers

4. https://www.thelondonbellfoundry.co.uk/
I find it interesting that the words "political" and "politicized" really means "partisan". It's quite political obviously.
It is to make sure they will never pass the turning test.
Nope, you misinterpreted. It generates truthful messages from truthful intents. In order to do this, they do imitation learning from human dataset, filtered by lie detector. They filtered 5% of human turns for lying by human.

Edit: This is why they had to create a specific filter to avoid confessing plans to stab, because otherwise it would confess. The resulting system still does not lie to the player it is about to stab, although it may remain silent or talk about other things.
But have they made Emacs multithreaded yet?
China Covid: Angry protests at giant iPhone factory in Zhengzhou
so they released 10m docs and no one actually helped out by downloading them an republishing them