skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not really. Depends on your use case but most of the time you’re trading off disk space for a specialized efficient library.

Pandas and Arrow are dependencies like any other. Pandas is like a DSL for working with tabular data, much like numpy is a DSL for working with arrays and numerical algebra. No one working with linear algebra will insist on using the Python standard library built ins.

If you’re distributing a smallish Python app that only needs to read and manipulate smallish amounts of data, then I agree there are easier solves like SQLite.

But if you’re doing consulting work and dealing with large tabular datasets and need to do SQL type window functions and aggregations then Parquet is a better fit and the disk space required for adding a Pandas dependency is trivial. If one is using Anaconda, Pandas is batteries included. It really depends on what is being optimized for.
It doesn't really matter under what setting it's placed in the OS, but "emergency alerts" or CB is clearly network setting/service, so it's not surprising carrier can control status of this setting/service and override what you set in the phone.
>Maybe besides COD, everything else is too complex and requires to much prerequisite knowledge to really get into.

I think the FGC would strongly object. It's not always easy to know what options a player has at a particular position, but it's always pretty obvious whether someone is doing well. And it's not like the theory of football is that simple either.
Are you sure? You might have replaced it with a smaller, lighter, more-powerful laptop that you could more easily use on the train or a flight, and a Blackberry phone that had a lot of Palm features built into it (minus the screen and stylus of course).
Maybe I'm too conservative but I don't think Counter-strike or fps in general could make on a wide broadcast. (It still people killing other people)
We would have more chance on politically acceptable game like (Trackmania, Rocket League, ...) but they have smaller audience in general.
I personally have not, but I've seen many posts on here over the years of people leaving for woodworking specifically. In general, I find being able to make something physical that you can touch is very satisfying. I imagine that's part of it.
If we're trading anecdotes, I certainly replaced my Palm with a smartphone. In fact, my first smartphone was a Palm.

Anyway, I don't think the Palm Pilot was a dead end. It's hard to see it not influencing Blackberries and smartphones.
As far as "rivals" go I don't see much from Meta/Google/Microsoft/Apple.

Tumblr is probably the closest "rival" but clearly not the same thing. Mastodon/Hive/Post and T2 are tiny and not "rivals".
Hello friends! For more details, here's a blog post that sin-ack wrote about the porting work: https://sin-ack.github.io/posts/sycl-talk-20221007/

He also gave an in-person talk about Zig on SerenityOS at Software You Can Love 2022, there's a video of the talk here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ug3p8vELJqQ
> even the most diehard gas-car fans won't be able to resist

They just won't have a choice; if we can provide a real alternative, we can just forbid gas car altogether. Just like we banned CFC to save the ozone when better alternatives were developed.

The main issue is that our electricity grids and production facilities aren't ready yet to sustain a mass shift to electric, so we need to ease in the transition. But the moment they are, there is no reason to delay any further.
I hope things keep going with esports and that the hype doesn't fade too fast. It's interesting to compare with the rise of American football like the NFL here in the US, since everybody is saying we are repeating the early 1900s in general.

Some 10+ years ago I helped a friend's son get a full ride esports scholarship, and it really stood out as a huge new benefit for kids like him (with a certain set of skills!) at the time. Totally launched his career in software too.

My own boys randomly announced recently that they are part of their school's esports club, and I feel the same way...they enjoy gaming and no matter how this goes, they have a new option, a group activity to belong to. Whether they really get into it as a career or not, it has been a clear pro for them.
> 10x price difference ... Why would it be any different for thumb drives?

I'm more concerned with the reliability (in my experience). The middle-priced ones are not necessarily better than the cheapest ones.

> Higher speeds are more difficult to achieve

I'm not asking for 1000 MB/s write speed. Why do I still sometimes get 10MB/s in 2023? Is it much to expect around 100 MB/s write (HDD-level speeds) in most "average" thumb-drive?
I worked for a healthcare startup that interfaced with a lot of large insurance companies. They had no API access for their patient information and would just give us credentials to ancient web portals instead.

I wrote my own browser automation scripts to create our own internal patient API. Ended up reducing claim billing errors by a ton and resulted in 6 figures a month in additional revenue.
I used to work for a carrier and yes, there are some settings that can be changed. If your phone is locked to a carrier it can even hot-replace applications without you noticing (useful for embedded carrier applications that donwload a full APK when you open the one installed in the device by default)

I believe these varies by country, since this was done for a limited set of countries my Company sas operating on
There are three "dialects" of rust: borrow-checked, unsafe, and copy-everything.

The existence of these three "dialects" goes to my point that the borrow checker isnt The Ideal solution to the problem of high-perf. safe static computing.
I remember years ago there was a way to DDoS a server by opening the connection and sending data REALLY slow, like 1 byte a second. I wonder if there is a way to do the opposite of that, where ever request is handed off to a worker which slow enough to keep the connection alive. I doubt this can scale well, but just a thought.
> But if I stop playing the games, I stop watching the streams.

Definitely true for me as well. I can sit down and watch a basketball game, which I haven't played in years, but if I'm not playing a video game regularly I have no interest in watching a pro game for more than a few minutes.
Well, Brood Wars had a huge esports following too. It still does have a niche following.

SC is such a perfect game for esports but it's probably just too complex for many people. You really have to understand the nuance of the game for it to be enjoyable to watch. But if you do, it's dramatic.
my concern is about the fake sense of security in the face of DPI
At the risk of being pedantic, if this is the LLNL NIF, then it's ICF, not MCF, though putting a graphite rod at the heart of a laser-driven thermonuclear event probably looks about the same either way.
Please don't use this: it more than doubles CPU usage of Firefox.
Donate the technology to the world after X number of years.
Great if that works for you, absolutely didn't work for me. We had one, and it was a soul destroyingly mind-numbing activity, second only to swimming laps. Rather than helping the mental state, it just left me angry at wasting time without any "letting your mind wander" external stimuli every single time.
It depends on how the media wants to spin it.

My point was, even if the whole crypto ecosystem went to zero right now, the effects on the economy at large would be negligible. However, it would be the perfect scapegoat to finally crash the economy with no survivors. The media would not have a problem with just blaming it all on crypto: as you can see here, people are already very eager to do so! No other explanation needed to convince the masses!
The ability to just buy replacements for things instead of repairing them might be coming to an end. A focus on reparability and reusability for physical goods could be making a comeback.
I'm not super excited about current SMR projects either, sadly. The economies of scale that they explicitly turn away from are very real. The economies of mass production that they rely on can't be achieved unless a lot of people are willing to buy the first N for high cost. But who will buy after the first few boondoggle a bit?

I am excited about standardized large light-water reactors at the moment, like the US/Japanese ABWR or Korean's APR-1400 designs. I wish there was more hype around them rather than SMRs and advanced reactors.

My favorite idea in nuclear to rapidly deeply decarbonize is to use a shipyard to mass-product large floating reactors. This gives you economies of scale and economies of mass production. Amazingly, this was seriously attempted in the 1970 and 80s in Jacksonville, Fl on Blount Island, where Offshore Power Systems installed the world's largest gantry crane and got an honest-to-goodness manufacturing license from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to build 8 of these. [1]

Sadly, my concern above with SMRs happened to OPS and they couldn't break through. Such a good idea though.

[1] https://whatisnuclear.com/offshore-nuclear-plants.html
Pessimists were saying solar panels and batteries were too expensive too, not so long ago. If we discover fusion power to be viable in our lifetime, it will be a breathtaking accomplishment to witness. It's a fork in the timeline with repercussions that will reverberate for millenia, across trillions of human lives.
Mechanical, flow, heat, compressed air, pumped hydro are all types of batteries. All capable of storing MW to GW of power. It is not all lithium and cobalt.
One of the problems in the eSports scene is that there's not a lot of room left for grassroots events to grow. Too much of eSports is propped up by deep pockets hoping to become the next money printing giant. Then when the return isn't happening, they just kill everything off. Why would anyone invest in something so volatile? Looking at you ActiBlizz, with the suddenly cancelled HGC.

I'll continue to watch Brood War and StarCraft 2. The prize pools might not be as large as they once were, but the games are still amazing.
I'll buy a new one whenever I'm at Microcenter because they are so cheap. I don't keep any important data on them, they are really just for making boot disks or transferring data between non-networked machines. I've got this one USB 3.0 flashdrive that I've have for years that for some reason I've yet to lose. The 3.0 interface is busted but the 2.0 interface works fine. If I'm using a 3.0 port, I have to very gently insert it so that the 3.0 pins don't make contact. I hate that flashdrive but it's the only one I can seem to find when I need one asap.
German Shepherds are good for this too, and as a bonus are pretty amazing herders.
It’s unnecessary greenwashing hyperbole. Of course there will still be carbon emissions from the production of the reactor parts and the sourcing of fuel ingredients. The potential benefits of working fusion are far greater than carbon worries, and the media sells it short with narrow-minded labeling.
And why that should not be in the docs or comments but in some random commit that people will only read when it shows up in git blame ?
That is one of the weirdest blind spots here.

It has an immutable transaction log showing everything that ever happened. It’s a fundamental part of the currency/protocol.

That means if your wallet gets seized or compromised, someone can see every transaction you ever did, every counterparty, and every transaction each of those counter parties every did.

That’s a big yikes if you’re in a criminal enterprise!

There are ways now to make it less obvious/transparent who is who, but it still exposes a massive treasure trove of info to law enforcement once they start looking, that just doesn’t exist with cash unless someone goes through a ton of effort to create it.

Hell, if I was some 3 letter agency, I’d want as many criminals as possible to use Bitcoin!
> The job was to find possible explosives and ammunition that may have been dumped in the lake by an ammunition factory which is said to have done so between the 1940s and up until the 70s.

I know the operative word here is "possible," but what kind of discussion decides this is the best option for disposing of ordinance over a period of thirty years?
Good write-up to temper expectations at https://twitter.com/wilson_ricks/status/1602088153577246721

My TLDR (from a layman):

* The output is greater than the energy *in the lasers*, but the lasers deliver 1% of the energy required to power them. Need 100x improvement to break even.
* Converting the generated energy into electricity would cut the output in half. We need a further 2x improvement here, so it's ~200x to break even end-to-end.
* The scientific equipment requires immense & expensive maintenance.
* Plus the $3B facility around the equipment, that theoretically could deliver just 2.5 MW.

So we might be as close as 10-20 years away, as always!
This is an awesome guide, thank you! I do have one question though.

> Our firmware will be copied to the flash region at offset 0x8000000, but our data section should reside in RAM

> therefore our _reset() function should copy the contents of the .data section to RAM.

> Also it has to write zeroes to the whole .bss section.

I'm confused by this. The linker places these sections on flash memory. How does the compiler know to use section we copied to RAM for the variables in the code?
"Places where sun availability makes solar inefficient" is still a niche so massive that "niche" seems like a bad descriptor.
I usuall call this "meta-programming" or "meta-work". The work you need to do in order to make way for actual work.
I’m assuming by ‘racing’ you mean motor racing.

‘Nobody’ cares about racing teams?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tifosi
> It's where nuclear was in the 60s basically.

Plants built in the 70s are still operating. It is nowhere near a decade away.
Would love to talk about adding the API to a new cross-platform AI art tool I'm building: diffused.app

Also, your support email is bouncing back.
The first Starcraft was already huge at least in Korea, and Doom / Quake were pretty big online in the 90s including some professional events:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esports#Growth_and_online_vide...
Why would you want to work longer hours with low pay?

There are a ton of different "tech" jobs, even when just staying within software development.

You can go from writing code for the ICs in industrial machinery to controlling said machinery with OPC-UA to doing different kinds of process software for industrial use. They're all mostly 9-5 jobs with mediocre pay, but looooong careers.

I myself spent a bit over half a decade developing software for smart metering, both the meters themselves and the software that reads them. No matter how old a meter was, the person who did the software was still working there and I could just walk to their office for the inside scoop on how to wrangle it.

The pace is completely different from startups and (mobile) gaming "tech" jobs.

I'm pretty sure your current employer will love it if you go to them and say "I want to work longer hours and be paid less" if the cushiness is what's bothering you specifically =)
> This problem is already essentially solved:

"Essentially solved" is at best a euphemism for "we speculate that this will solve it". Hardly conclusive.

> I think we've talked about this elsewhere on HN before, and I pointed out that the paper you're linking to gets a lot of things wrong and is published in an obscure journal (presumably because it wouldn't survive peer review at any of the major journals).

A random HN comment claiming that a paper "gets a lot of things wrong" is not more convincing than the published paper itself. If you have an actual published paper or other review that addresses those points, then please point that out.

Speculating as to why they published in an "obscure journal" can be explained by poor quality of the work, but it can also be explained by rampant disinterest in challenging orthodoxy, which also has a documented history of happening.

Edit: to be clear, I'm not agreeing with the authors that MOND should be favoured given the evidence, but I disagree with your apparent position that MOND should be disfavoured and that LCDM is largely unproblematic.
Wasn't referring to Fauci - was trying to show what the language you offered sounded like to me.

And to be fair he has a bully pulpit similar to POTUS - he can force a large group of his followers upon someone who disagrees with him.
Are solar + batteries feasible to heat every house in Minnesota with electricity when it's below -20F (-30C) for a week, we have <9 hours of daylight per day, and failing power literally means death? I genuinely don't know. Like I said, having a variety of solutions is the best outcome so we can choose the right one & have backups.

> just show your math.

I admit I can't. It's mostly gut-feeling from various science news sources I keep up with (e.g. Ars Technica; Skeptic's Guide to the Universe).
I hexedited an old Devart DLL that refused to pick up our valid license with the Mono License Compiler to just... not check for a license. I had to find the exact right byte pattern manually then flip the flip 2 of them to a brfalse.0
> If one is trying to prove a Hilbert space identity or inequality which is invariant under a unitary group action, one can often reduce "for free" to the irreducible components of that group action.

This is really, really cool. I love a good unifying principle.

Also this sort of "bag of tricks" comes in very handy. It's a lot like the analogous tricks and idioms in programming. You don't have to rediscover it from first principles, if you remember that exists while solving a problem.
It's important to understand that "tech" is mostly a "horizontal" part of the economy. Meaning it cuts across multiple "vertical" industries. You can do tech for retail, tech for finance, tech for media. Finding a new vertical to be part of can make a big difference. As can finding the right cohort of people to work with. But otherwise, the lack of fulfillment will likely follow you to whatever job you take.
No, that's because the ruling classes can integrate that knowledge in their own way later on, whereas others cannot. This coupled very well with the original aristocratic pretension that "material" subjects should be considered inferior.

So we ended up with Western education systems that produce intellectuals who conceptually despise wealth management, ensuring education remains thoroughly detached from the actual levers of power. That suits rulers just fine.
I am entirely with you, having experienced the "early" years of the internet back in the 90s.

That being said, I think "back to local communities and family" is a regression because the internet, at least at the beginning, promised genuine interactions between people across the world. There's got to be a way to fulfill that promise without falling into 1984.
The good thing is that if any country in the world would have the capabilities of lifting that ship it would be Norway. But then again, maybe that's why they found it in the first place.
> Dead simple concept, intuitive mechanics even to laypeople, and the meta game can be explained in 10 minutes.

Do you feel like this applies to American Football? I don't, but yet it's the most popular sport on TV in America.

What I'm saying is that I don't think your requirements are necessary for a sport to be a popular spectator sport.
What impact did the 6 figures in additional revenue bring to you personally vs. the owners of your startup? How were you acknowledged or compensated for this feat?
It's important to note that Counter-Strike's massive popularity (and funding) comes largely from the skin betting industry, which is entirely built around underage gambling. I'm not sure their viewership would survive a proper reckoning with that.
3D Printers
> Are antisemites racists? Or, put another way, are jews a race?

They're an ethnic group, so yes.

(They're also a religious group. It's confusing. But anti-Semites don't usually care much about the distinction.)

> Words are slippery things. I prefer to judge by actions, not words.

You don't think "I am an anti-Semite" is evidence of anti-Semitism? That seems very naive.

Is it not racism until one physically attacks people?
Maybe you can add bookmarklet option also?
This is so completely random, and not really code related, but it was huge at the time (circa 1990). I was compiling large bibliographies of research documents for NSF that eventually had to be read into Word Perfect 5.1 for DOS for printing. We had written a very complex system of WP macros to search for tags that we programmatically put in the file, but they took forever to run and would often crash. My colleague and I found that we could only use search/replace to send begin/end pairs of tags for any formatting code (e.g. bold, italics). However, if we replaced the closing tags first, then the opening one, WP would notice that there were pairs of empty tags and get rid of the extra closing tag so that the underlying text would be formatted properly.

We were doing this everyday, so it cut the processing time from many hours to seconds. We swore each other to secrecy about this development and marched off to Dunkin’ Donuts with our giant ice coffee belt-loop holsters to celebrate.
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From Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Left-wing_politics and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right-wing_politics respectively:

Left-wing politics describes the range of political ideologies that support and seek to achieve social equality and egalitarianism, often in opposition to social hierarchy. Left-wing politics typically involve a concern for those in society whom its adherents perceive as disadvantaged relative to others as well as a belief that there are unjustified inequalities that need to be reduced or abolished. Left-wing politics are also associated with popular or state control of major political and economic institutions.

Right-wing politics describes the range of political ideologies that view certain social orders and hierarchies as inevitable, natural, normal, or desirable, typically supporting this position on the basis of natural law, economics, authority, property or tradition. Hierarchy and inequality may be seen as natural results of traditional social differences or competition in market economies.
Attempted murder is a crime.
Well the phone part is pushing it a bit here.
I grew up after it but someone gave me one to hack around with as a teenager and iirc it had a mail client but to connect it to the internet you needed a cabled modem so you could only use these features when you were pretty much already at your PC anyways. The local file-transfer feature was cool tho, but again this required your counter-party to also have a palm.
That's one way but it requires a lot of discipline, and even then you'd have to manually go thru them to fish any "commit A introduced something, commit Z reverted that 40 commits after coz reasons" out of it.
Most of these people seem to be the ones who have done their FAANG stint and vested mid-6, low-7 figures so they can just hop off and start dallying in woodwork without a major loss in income.
Slow loris attack https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slowloris_(computer_security)
Eternal strike September /strike December on HN?
Fair, my statement had an implied "if they cleared this hurdle" attached but I probably should have made it explicit.

I do think it'll be a decade or so to go from net gain -> commercial fusion reactors coming online.
We all know this post is going over 95% of our heads.