skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, similar here. It seems to make some people angry, it's like if I have money, it is my moral duty to spend it all immediately. But the things I want are surprisingly cheap. Even computers, were crazy expensive 30 years ago, but now they cost almost as little as books.

The expensive food, I think is not about the taste, but about getting dozen tiny pieces of food, each of them has a French name, and you always wait 10 minutes until they bring you the next bite. You pay for the feeling that many people have spent a lot of time and work preparing your food, even if the result is not really better. Probably other people enjoy that feeling; I don't.
All I know is that sleep eventually fails to work on every Wintel laptop I've ever touched, from the mid-1990s until today. Dell, IBM, Lenovo, HP, you name it.

I think it goes back to the unity of control Apple enjoys. Doesn't mean it CAN'T work for Windows, but the vendors would have to work harder to cooperate, and they clearly can't be arsed to do so.
it is, but doesn't give me the hardware affordance I want: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34405604
https://www.techpowerup.com/download/techpowerup-throttlesto...
Momento Mori
Am I crazy, or are those two sentences completely contradictory?
> We are all human. That's the main reason.

Surely you see that those who have come to the opposite conclusion can be equally convinced that it is you who has made what seems to them an obvious mistake for the very same reason.

If we're honest, we should acknowledge that since there is no actual empirical evidence showing one way is superior to the other here, and since experts have come down on both sides, then there's probably a strong aesthetic component, in which case it makes for a language to remain true to the aesthetic principles that have proven successful for that particular language.

> Because something something "conservative language" and "less successful languages".

You keep missing the point about the "less successful languages." All of Java's features come from less successful languages. I was merely saying that the fact that some languages have a feature is not a reason to adopt it. It's just that if that language was doing better than Java, then there would at least be some social merit to the argument "you should do it because they do", but otherwise it's not an argument at all because other languages don't do it, so there's simply no guidance there.

"You should do it because some people really want it" is similarly unhelpful because whatever "it" is, there's usually a similar number of people who want the exact opposite, and just as insistently. That is why different languages end up making different choices.

Neither of these is an argument at all. All they mean is that other options exist, but they don't help choosing among them. That some languages do one thing and others do another, that some programmers want one thing and others want the opposite is a given.

Now, from my personal perspective, the uniformity and power you want are better served by ADTs than by properties, it's just that you haven't appreciated the extent of the power that ADTs bring when used as intended (it's not really a distinctly separate construct), nor appreciated the significant downsides that properties bring along with their benefits, that are quite measly in comparison to ADTs. Then again, there clearly is no consensus on this, just as there is no consensus on just about anything, and whatever choice is made, some will be unhappy.

Some other things you want may well end up being features in Java, it's just that we believe other things take priority. As for those that won't, our desire to minimise language features if we can help it may be a purely aesthetic choice, but it's one that's worked well for us (just as the opposite may work well for other languages). Without any good evidence that we should abandon it, the fact that some languages don't share our aesthetics is surely not a sufficient reason to abandon it.
That latency is in my code, not in some Windows component. I’m accumulating several seconds of the audio before running the model to transcribe the buffer with these audio samples.

The logic is in that method: https://github.com/Const-me/Whisper/blob/15aea5bc/Whisper/Wh...

How long is “several seconds” controlled by these user-adjustable parameters: https://github.com/Const-me/Whisper/blob/8648d1d5/Whisper/AP...
To be fair, you have to say 'hey' before any of those. There aren't many times in normal conversation when one would say 'Hey serious', or 'Hey series'.
Rational Polarization
Except many of these groups do have specific and actionable demands. For example, here are Insulate Britain's demands:

1) That the UK government immediately promises to fully fund and take responsibility for the insulation of all social housing in Britain by 2025.

2) That the UK government immediately promises to produce within four months a legally binding national plan to fully fund and take responsibility for the full low-energy and low-carbon whole-house retrofit , with no externalised costs, of all homes in Britain by 2030 as part of a just transition to full decarbonisation of all parts of society and the economy.
> There are also heat pump cycles that can be driven directly with heat. Refrigerators based on that are relatively common here in Canada in areas without reliable grid electricity. Usually a propane or natural gas flame.

Notably, the propane fridges used in RVs (which AFAIK usually use ammonia for the refrigerant) are extremely inefficient. They have the huge upside of requiring very little electrical power to operate, but would never be my choice if I wasn't tightly limited on electrical power.
Meta Fined $414M After Ad Practices Ruled Illegal Under EU Law
Back in high school, I fulfilled my community service requirement at a local nursing home. Several of the residents there had no local friends or family, and as a result, no visitors. I was tasked just with giving them someone to talk to.

What surprised me is that most of the residents did not want to talk to someone - they wanted to be left alone. Many assumed they'd be going home, and didn't want to build any friendships. The one exception who stood out was a man in what I believe was his late 70s, functionally deaf but still able to speak. I'd communicate with him by writing on a whiteboard, and letting him speak in response.

This man over the course of several weeks gave me his life's story - if I recall, he'd worked most of his life as a Boston firefighter. He had quite a bit to say, and I could tell that given the nature of interacting with him, no one else had really spent time talking with him since he'd become deaf. I don't know how long he had been deaf for, but I imagine this wasn't terribly different from being "locked in".

My second to last week at the nursing home, he told me that he'd said everything there was to say - he didn't have any more stories, but was happy to have seen me come back.

My last week there, I went to go see him anyway, only to find the bed clean and his things moved out. It turned out that he had passed away earlier in the week.

I'm happy that I was able to give him those few hours.
They're obviously no replacement for exhaust fans in bathrooms and kitchens, but there's a number of ductless energy recovery ventilators that can give you fresh air in your bedroom(s).

https://www.buildwithrise.com/stories/ductless-heat-recovery
The Four Types of Luck
I previously tried to use Docker `docker/setup-qemu-action@v2` and `docker/setup-buildx-action@v2` for this purpose (see that example https://github.com/docker/build-push-action#git-context). Thanks to buildkit, platform switching works transparently. However, building on ARM via QEMU on GitHub Actions is terribly slow (something like 5 times more), which is hard to accept. Therefore, full of hope, I am waiting for GitHub Actions to make cloud runners available on ARM, because it is a blocker for the implementation of Graviton on the AWS environment for us.

For a while, the blocker in GitHub Actions for providing ARM support was that Azure doesn't have ARM support. In this way, the Azure cloud offering may determine the habits of AWS consumers.
Organelles such as flagellum are used for moving to find more resources. A large benefit of cell membranes is to provide a safe place for resources. I'd argue the entire lifecycle of parasites is to find (scout) suitable resource rich environments and to consume them all (gather), often in a way that wrestles territory control from it's host. Here are some articles describing bacteria doing the exact behaviors (search for resource, gather them, and territory control).

* A good summary of group compeitive behavior of bacteria, including several territory control strategies. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2879262/

* "Distinct foraging strategies generated by single-action behavioural flexibility" https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.03.09.434602v2....

* Marine bacteria changing behavior around resource rich locations to improve resource gathering. https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/09/200925113346.h...

* Description of bacteria predators, and complex hunting behavior (scout and gather) https://www.llnl.gov/news/predatory-bacteria-bite-their-own

* Description of properties of bacteria colonies and territory expansion https://nbi.ku.dk/english/news/news20/bacteria-colonies-of-b...

EDIT: I wanted to respond to the point "Importing resources from other planets or other extraterrestrial bodies can and would better be done by robots than humans."

I'm sure robotic mining will occur first. However, we have a limit on the amount of resources we can bring to Earth. An estimated 10% of the mass of the astroid belt is water (on Ceres). Saturn's rings contains about half of Earth's glacier's mass as water. There's likely a dozen more large water deposits in our solar system, although we know less about their total mass. Titan, Ganymede, Callisto, twenty more likely candidates. Imagine tripling the amount of water on Earth. Where would sea level be? This is just gathering all "nearby" water, our most basic resource. We also have to consider the demand for metals like gold, platinum and lithium. Our demand for nitrogen to fertilize soil. Our demand for fuel sources such as hydrogen/oxygen, helium-3, or uranium. There's simply more stuff in our solar system than we can possibly fit on Earth or LEO.
I disagree. I think it's framed as an undisputable fact - you'll notice that this is my opinion since I preface it with "I think", rather than simply stating: "Your post is an undisputable fact.". Compare it with: "The game is... bad.".

Perhaps you misjudge your ability to frame posts, and that's okay! We all have things in life that we can improve on :>
I learned about your library because the harmopark.app site uses and credits it. I plan to use it in a music app I'm developing.

I saw someone forked it and removed the lodash dependency / minor refactoring
https://github.com/ananthakumaran/u/compare/master...j-te:u:...
I don't have a bunch of posters on my wall either.
Isn't the point that the volatility makes it undesirable for any use other than speculation?
I worried about this as well (after I had set it up and started relying on it) but in practice I've only gotten spam to a handful of addresses that I didn't make up myself. Into a filter they go.
Unfortunately, I suspect engaging with the article is likely to engender the same feelings (emphasis mine):

> A total of $42 trillion in new wealth has been created since 2020, with $26 trillion, or 63%, of that being amassed by the top 1% of the ultra-rich, according to the report.

Regardless, it is refreshing to see OP's explanation in these comments.
> Next, at best SSE-S3 adds a defense in depth protection against a physical loss, theft or confiscation of an AWS hard drive storing your data. Think crazy scenarios like a tornado or fire, followed by more chaos and somehow the AWS hard drive landing at Goodwill. If the data on it is unencrypted, game over. As you can imagine, the likelihood of this happening is about the same as that of the United States winning a cricket world cup.

It's incredibly easy to dumpster dive old hardware from datacenters (or waste management facilities). Even if their policy is to demagnetize and shred every hard-drive out of every dead machine, that's assuming they always follow their policy correctly. Humans are flawed (and subject to bribes).

I have friends who run K8s clusters on hardware they took from the dumpsters behind datacenters. (Not Amazon datacenters, but ones where the government has an entire floor dedicated to them)
Hope these people never send any emails, I hear they can be searched for a long time too.
I've been vaxxed and boosted but have accepted that we won't really know the true efficacy of any of the stuff that went on during the pandemic for decades. Any dissent from the official line was treated as heresy. Can't do any real science in that kind of environment.
So useful; thanks to the author.

But a number of things are still Chrome-only, and even with that, only available in the latest version. Will have to wait before I can apply them.
printf() was often used for logging in eg. web servers. If there's no way of strictly checking the size/type of what's being printed (HTTP headers, say) then there are lots of tricky ways you can use it to write arbitrary memory and pwn the server.

Type-unsafeness in general also just allows for hard-to-find bugs, since only certain data at runtime will introduce undefined behavior.
Depends the circle you run in. I got some aggressive remarks just mentioning I had the shot.
It's somewhat important, although the title makes it clear the article is not about a current event.

What's up with the comments in the article, though? 1 real comment, 41 spam. Is that a Blogger thing?
Ancient DNA reveals admixture history and endogamy in the prehistoric Aegean
Libmixed can be compiled and installed with make from the repo(https://github.com/shirakumo/libmixed)
Makes sense. T series chips generally aren't as widely available as individual components as their mainstream higher power counterparts. To your point, they are available from OEMs as complete systems, who seem to get priority.

There is advice to just buy the non-T series and limit power. Interesting to see that, at least in this example, they aren't quite equal.
While we're talking about old tech books, I have to give a shout to Forrest M. Mims III.
Real life has the E3 series: 1, 2.2, 4.7, and then 10, 22, 47, 100, 220, 470, 1000, etc. Etc.

EEs would recognize these values to be the Preferred Resistors values for projects (though more commonly the E6 series is used in projects, the E3 and E1 values are preferred)

That's 3 values per decade, which is slightly more dispersed than a FP4 that consists of 1 sign + 3 exponent + 0 (implicit mantissa 1 bit).

Or the values -128, -64, -32, -16, -8, -4, -2, -1, 1, 2, ... 128.

Maybe we can take -128 and call that zero instead, cause zero is useful.

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Given how even E3 is still useful in real world electrical engineering problems, I'm more inclined to allocate more bits to the exponent than the mantissa.
Hmm, as somebody who knew a bit about heat pumps but not much, I did find it added to clarify/distinguish between the main mode of operation of heat pump, used to accomplish the actual heat transfer; and what power / mechanism is used to move the mechanical bits.

I.e. an internal combustion engine implicitly uses some kind of burning fuel; if on the other hand you want to use electricity as energy source, it needs a different kind of engine entirely. But that, as I understand from the post, is not the case here - heat pump as described here can operate on same principle and look broadly similar in its core parts, whether powered by electricity or something else.
What prompts did you use?
It's naive to imagine Yeltsin's mind was really changed by a spontaneous visit. He didn't have intelligence on what a US supermarket was like? The premiere of a superpower just randomly decided to visit a grocery store?

No.

Yeltsin was contemplating reforms and changes and wanted to collect a political tool he could later user if needed. He knew exactly how this visit would go, and it was intended so he could use it as rhetorical device to illustrate the necessity of reforms.
I've been doing this for maybe 10 or 15 years. It has given me evidence of several database breaches (such as Avvo, who still deny it) but as far as selling my data, I think I've only seen that happen with a Kickstarter campaign.
Nothing is free. Some things are just paid for in other ways like taxes, debt, and inflation.

Also, I know zero people personally who've been seeiously affected by COVID. However,I personally know one pro vaccine person who was hospitalized by a heart attack immediately after his third shot.

To date there has only been a single prospective study on post vaccination myocarditis: https://www.mdpi.com/2414-6366/7/8/196

The study estimates that risk of myocarditis is much, much higher than previously reported. We simply don't have the data because reporting has not been stringent and no one is doing the appropriate research: https://youtu.be/2mWZY6vmdBM
I think Jesus Mouse was onto something. I've been to the Vatican. I don't think Jesus would have been impressed.
At half of power usage it only loses 10% performance.

https://videocardz.com/newz/nvidia-geforce-rtx-4090-power-li...
It's not digital gold because you can't copy and paste gold to make new, separate elements with identical properties. You cannot just easily alter the elemental chart the way someone can copy and paste a new shitcoin for their latest pump and dump. Bitcoin is not digital gold because there could always be a hard fork -- it's controlled by an unaccountable cabal of miners and whales and if they wanted to do so, it would happen.
Yes but they are learning and have more reason than most to up their game. After it was shown that Hilary's campaign was trying to spy on Trump's office, I am sure this was a lesson to them and others.
The issue with that is that if it’s outside, you need a hole in the wall somewhere to connect it.

Today fridges are more or less plug and play. Most kitchens don’t have a hole in the wall going outside where the fridge would go. Some kitchens aren’t even on walls facing the exterior (which I dislike, but they exist)
You're right, it's not data. I'm glad that none of those children have had any issues. Unfortunately, we'll probably never have any real data, as long as the signals that these vaccines aren't exactly safe, especially for young men, keep getting ignored. How many anecdotes and coincidences will it take for serious monitoring to take place?
The 'minimal twitter' Firefox addon will keep it set to "Following", among hiding other UI clutter.
> What confuses me is that AMD still has a huge lead for server CPUs. I have not seen massive adoption of AMD in the cloud yet.

This was years ago so the tide may've shifted but: part of it could still be vendor experience and "it works"-experience?

When EPYC gen 1 & 2 came out, we were shopping for a bare metal megaserver spec at work. I got a budget and free rein (except it had to be Dell), and I really wanted to pick EPYC for the better core clocks (which were significant in our build architecture) and more cores and better cost.

With one EPYC spec and one Xeon Gold spec built (EPYC was I think $13k vs $15k?), work was a bit uneasy about AMD processors just yet. Our workload was MSVC compilation but they were concerned about architecture differences, since all of our workstations & laptops were Intels. They preferred paying more because "we already have Xeon servers and they're proven".

So, we ended up getting the Xeon Gold spec instead.
Yeah, I guess we all saw the structural battery annoucement.
700W for the gas ducted heater fan. That’s the steady state energy consumption of all 3 units heat pumps running simultaneously. This is a small house of 100 square metres/1100 square feet.
I got a fourth round, bivalent pfizer/BioNTech flavor, a couple weeks before I went to a conference in Boston. Didn’t get Covid there (a bunch of people I was with did), but there’s no way to know how much that was just luck.
I had a minimal reaction compared to the moderna ones I had for the first three moderna doses I had, I think because of the lower dose.
They can dispose of it in the same way that they dispose of the actual core data (ie write over it X times, and ensure when disk is EOL that it's shredded). With cryptographic erasure you can do exactly the same erasure process on fewer bytes and get the same effective results.
I can’t wait to see a Cirrus7 [0] fanless build with that CPU. It just needs a suitable Mini-ITX board.

[0] https://www.cirrus7.com/en/
Not familiar with Godot but that sounds like camera dolly.

Afaiu the reason for two different camera control schemes in DCCs and game engines is that they’re suited to different workflows. On the one hand, object-centric orbit-style controls are great for, eg, modeling, whereas free-fly WASD / mouselook controls are great for level blockout, in-scene camera positioning, etc.

By default you have to hold the right mouse down to enable free-fly controls in Unreal.

Sorry you might know all this. Just if you are expecting one camera control scheme and getting another I know it can be frustrating.
Why is an American company taking down content worldwide at the request of a foreign government?
IMO the issue is as soon as it's paid, there needs to be a "Software Engineering Manager" of some sort or another in the middle of the payers and the workers. That's a very difficult job to hard-code.

Having spent some time maintaining large OSS projects as a first party engineer, these are the options I see:

- pay a fixed donation per month, a la patreon/etc. I would never do this. If I'm buying software for a company I want a real support contract, not a "I'll really try to respond to your issues with higher priority!". If I'm using software in a personal project, I want the monthly burn to be as close to 0 as possible. Also, who takes that money? What do third party PR submitters get? What do people who submit excellent issue reports with crash dumps and full debug traces get? What do first party PR reviewers get? Third party? etc. etc.

- stake money on the closing of a given issue/PR. This is better, but comes with a whole can of worms. The obvious failure mode is a third party contributor submitting a PR, the maintainer saying "eh.... I don't really agree with the way you've done this", then building it themselves. Next step on that train is a fight between the third party and the maintainer about how much influence one's code had on the other. Even if that doesn't happen, the maintainer is almost guaranteed to request changes of some sort, who decides how much the maintainer gets for their work reviewing versus the third party for their work contributing?

Not to mention the dirty little secret behind many third party contributions: if you are new to the repo, the frameworks, oss in general, etc., it is highly likely that the maintainer's work in holding your hand through contributing to the repo will far outweigh the work they'd need to put in to make the change themselves. But few would agree to paying the maintainer to accept their PR, or likely even the maintainer getting more money than them for their own PR.
Well, of course it is a metaphor.

> Through books, [...] methods, [...] perspectives [...], and other means.

People are used to metaphors, and this is an extremely common one!

People also pervasively use the synecdoche of talking about the creative output of human beings as if it were the person themselves. Refer to "Bach", when we mean his music. Say "Einstein tells us" to refer to an implication of one of his equations that Einstein himself might never have addressed directly, etc.

Common figures of speech are unlikely to put us on the precipice of a mass delusion regarding literal communication with the dead or resurrection.