skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What a strange paper.

It seems to fixate on seemingly irrelevant details, like a lot of ink is devoted to saying "copper" (surely some alloy is more suitable or cost-effective) or particular models of a steam turbine. It presents the price of copper, in $/pound, and states it is abundant on that basis. Doesn't mention annual production as far as I can tell. It asserts, without justification, that water can be demineralized, pumped through copper pipes and returned to a lake with no damage to the environment, again providing vague and comparatively minor details about e.g. mineral buildup in the pipes.

On the other hand, it seems to ignore massive issues. For example, it specifies that the copper elements should be manufactured nearby, be 8m in diameter, made in 10m long segments... But what about how to drill them into the ground? Into hot magma no less?

> The details of the tunneling process, from a geology, volcanology, as well as a mining and drilling standpoint, is beyond the scope of this paper.

Furthermore, volcanoes have complex dynamics. It's not merely a soup of hot magma sitting in one place. It rises and falls, for example, presumably flows around too.

Cooling the upper parts of the magma chamber is not exactly without risk, either. Cooler, thus harder crust on top of the volcano keeps the pressure fro erupting, but also allows it to rise further. It's like bolting on the pan cover instead of letting it rattle in the steam.

It's like reading an experiment design for cooking an egg on Mars, which is all concerned about cooking times and temperatures, and what colour the egg holder should be, and getting to Mars in the first place is an implementation detail.
I worked at an semiconductor foundry that was doing chips with Cisco's Gigabit Switching Group which was the former Granite Systems team. I was 23 and all the guys there were millionaires and all under 30.

All of our chip design software ran on Sun workstations which I had been using since high school in 1991. I wanted a Sun so badly in 1993 when I started college. Then I learned about Linux and got a PC just for Linux.

Andy Bechtolsheim's office was just around the corner from the guys I was working with. I walked by a bunch of times just to see him inside his office talking on the phone.

The first time I went on a business trip to Silicon Valley I literally searched for all the company's headquarters and drove around to see them and the signs out front on the weekend.

It sounds super geeky and it was but I loved it.
Yeah, my Ryzen 3700x is a 3.5 year old CPU now. I might try to move to an AM5 build later this year, but it’s still a very decent PC.
Detonating old and decrepit things is often needed to make way for better things.
Those aren't the co-conspirators. The co-conspirators are the people pushing this false idea for profit and political gain.

The people you're describing are the victims of an ideology that falsely told them they could ignore biology and thereby ruined a lot of lives.[1]

Obviously their families were also wrong to abandon them, and like everyone else on the streets, they deserve help to put their lives back together, but if they are still living on the streets they obviously aren't getting that help from the people who claim to represent them but are actually using them as political props instead of helping them find homes and professions they like.

1: I encourage you to read this other discussion that was on HN today:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34753240
Because the US is already at war with Russia in Ukraine and in Syria. Now they want a war with China too.
I got banned from using my Huawei phone for official business, I got a compliant phone , now I run hacker news reader, TikTok and Instagram on the banned phone.
Why would rust even have this problem? Rust has native "extern "C"" blocks and good FFI.

The issue in Go is that goroutines run on small stack and C code has no way to know of that or increase the stack size - so Go's C calling facility (cgo) has to go through a thread and a proper stack.

There are some wild assembly hacks to go around it ^^
It's still just second-order funding though.

Until we figure out how people actually getting the value from using the software contribute directly, it'll always be a sub-optimal solution.

Of course to many folks the zero-cost idea is the most attractive part. Which makes it a hard circle to square.

Perhaps second-order financing is the best there is. (and as an aside, second order prefers Open Source to Free Software.)
Surely it is worth it minimising every single source identified
If there was ever a time for a winter, now would be it. Not too optimistic on that front, though.
Teaching Kids to Read Went So Wrong [audio]
If you want to bookmark it or TTS read it there is a web copy here:
https://ff-txt.blogspot.com/2023/02/the-loss-of-humanity-thr...
Scott Adams may be as obnoxious as Dogbert in real life, but he is a visionary.
I've been doing web dev since the 90's and my first reaction to Tailwind was the same. Basically, "are we doing <font> tags again? really?"

What the article (and many that are trying to introduce Tailwind) doesn't make clear is that Tailwind is purposely lower level than something like Bootstrap and it really exists to let developers make their own higher level framework.

In particular, the idea is that you use Tailwind's `@apply` to bundle your own components. So you would do:

.card {
@apply md:flex bg-slate-100 rounded-xl p-8 md:p-0 dark:bg-slate-800;
}
.card-img-top {
@apply w-24 h-24 md:w-48 md:h-auto md:rounded-none rounded-full mx-auto;
}
.card-text {
@apply pt-6 md:p-8 text-center md:text-left space-y-4;
}

Then your markup becomes

<figure class="card">
<img class="card-img-top" src="..." ...>
<div class="card-text">
...

You basically can quickly build up your own replacement for Bootstrap out of components that fit well together, handle a lot of the messy implementation/compatibility details for you, and results in a bespoke framework with only exactly what you need and easy to change when you need to.

I think most of the articles and documentation that don't make it clear that Tailwind isn't a direct replacement for Bootstrap, but something that you use to build a better Bootstrap do it a real disservice.

Anyway, I think `@apply` should be one of the first things mentioned when introducing Tailwind. That made it click for me.

I wish it didn't require building/compiling with JS, but I guess we lost that battle way back with SASS/LESS.
People with a mentality like this don't stay poor.

Also taking a shower directly after using the restroom does wonders.
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They forgot a comma between Likely and Shot.
For a price...
The US has not defined any specific altitude limit for our airspace.

https://youtu.be/P43wVDiZs8k
Makes me think of the Ford Nucleon. Either people at the time didn't care about radiation poisoning or there was enough optimism and hope that nuclear fission was not automatically conflated with war.

The zeitgeist of our time is one where faith in pure capitalism is declining and I don't blame people for being leery of how AI might be used against them.
post the WFH investments, plus major tech companies laying off pushing a glut of used hw onto the market would seem to put a dent it cpu shipments.
A plane with it's ID as "blocked" took off on a steep climb from near Sudbury ON and is headed in that direction as well. I'd imagine it's a CF-18 jet or something similar...

https://www.flightradar24.com/BLOCKED/2f2cec50

Edit, Nope, just a guy flying to Sault St. Marie with his transponder misconfigured ;)
Scientists, could, should. Only in this case, scientists/developers/entrepreneurs.
So, what method do you propose? Harsh language?
Leonardo's full name at birth was simply Leonardo. As an illegitimate child, he was fortunate that his father, Ser Piero, acknowledged him and let him be known as Leonardo di ser Piero.

Leonardo was born in Anchiano, a tiny hamlet near the slightly-larger hamlet of Vinci. Ser Piero's family, however, were big fish in the little Vinci pond, and so tagged "da Vinci" ("of" or "from Vinci") after their names.

When he became an apprentice, in order to distinguish himself from other various Tuscan Leonardos in 15th-century Florence, and because he had his father's blessing to do so, Leonardo was known as "Leonardo da Vinci."

When he traveled beyond the Republic of Florence to Milan, he often referred to himself as "Leonardo the Florentine."

Eventually, Leonardo became very famous. He became so famous, in fact, that for the past 500 years he has had no need of a last name (as with "Cher" or "Madonna"), let alone any indication of his father's home town.

In art historic circles he is simply, as he started out in this world, Leonardo.

"Da Vinci" as in "The Da Vinci Code" is kind of cringeworthy for anyone who traffics in Leonardo.
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> An auto mechanic may or may not agree to fix my car, but he never gets any say over where I may drive.

True, but irrelevant.

> Why should a worker have control over a corporation that belongs to other people?

Why should those other people be rewarded if they aren't contributing anything? I thought capitalism was about rewarding contributions?

To be clear, buying up all the means of production and withholding it from society unless they pay you rent isn't a contribution to society. It's creating artificial scarcity.
How do e.g. firefox or rust handle this?
This is where I always end up. You can have queues which give you certain benefits, but there’a a lot of stuff to be built on top to make it as operationally simple as http.
Still doesn’t align with the original assertion that dark matter “deniers” assert that interaction with gravity requires interaction with EM.

Currently I would group the “dark matter” into 3 camps, dark matter as a new form particles, dark matter as a combination of any sort of existing particles and matter e.g. wimps, primordial blackholes, brown dwarfs, cold baryonic matter etc. and dark matter as modified gravity this is MOND and TEVES et al.

None of which as far as I know make a statement around having to have interaction with EM if you are interacting with gravity.
"If the US did blow the pipeline I would be impressed and fully supportive of the decision."

Then you are also fully supportive of starting (more like escalating, at this point) a WWIII. I hope you never find about the true cost of such a decision, and of war in general.

But seeing how you support this act of war, don't be surprised when one day it comes knocking at your door.
Well yeah of course, it's a direct contradiction of the rising tide lifts all boats principle. Do you think Kubernetes would have any traction at all if it had a clause that it couldn't be used on AWS?

If it can't be adopted by the industry as a whole, then it can't be considered an industry standard. It wouldn't fly at my organization anyway, not even looking up what PolyForm is.
It's muddy/unknown enough that no one in a commercial enterprise can entertain shipping a service using your project.
Use Visual Studio to make UIs for Windows-based software.
You're speaking about a very narrow type of person, atypical of any scenario. Homeless can go to churches if they behave. Most recipients are not homeless people with no transportation.

I'd ask how meager? How much money did they get per month? My ex and I were eating better than we'd get for ourselves normally and we had money left over, with one link card. In California you can use link for restaurants too.
Behavior Cloned Transformers Are Neurosymbolic Reasoners (2022)[pdf]
I find that explaining virtualenvs alone quickly becomes a morass. You can skip the discussion entirely, but it is such a necessary step in good practices that it feels negligent to omit.

Not sure about what platform or level of experience you are accustomed, but I am frequently working with Windows-only users who have never even heard of PATH. Inevitably, someone needs assistance becomes something got stuck on configuring the tooling and python cannot be found. Especially fun when it is the person's N attempt at learning Python and I discover that there is a historical half-working interpreter already present.

Conda is also a huge hurdle which I try to avoid, but if I know the ultimate aim is for machine learning, gotta deal with that on-boarding.
What exactly is the difference between it being in their general interests to maximize profit besides where that interest conflicts with the law, and it being their legal duty to do so instead? Does it not result in the same thing? Companies break the law all the time in the interest of the profit motive.
They're great but take up space and now we have software options too. Plus $$$$
It doesn't put you on the road to holocaust denial. Did I say the holocaust didn't happen? No, I said the ability to not question things is fishy. You seem to equate that with full on denial. Why would you be so worried about people asking questions? If people deny something that have been proven then that is just them outing themselves as ignorant. Arresting people and making laws that make questioning things illegal is full on censorship and authoritarianism. It isn't even real history when you go down that path, it is a forced narrative.
People first need safety, and only after that working factories, and there's tremendous suspicion in Europe that here we have a replay of sad events some 80 years ago. Politicians can shit all day, and people can be gullible as worms, yet sometime they add two with two and figure out that spending more today and changing the energy sources for tomorrow may save them from having to spend all and above to maintain the defense after the previous guy separating them from problems will fail.

Talking about jobs and factories one shouldn't forget about safety.
I find that backlog items get reframed into other stuff too. I like having a history of them is an itemized list of things that lead to decisions. Is the only point to have a list of your absolute decisions and context that lead to the things included current product? Like some sort of psychotic performative minimalism?

A lot of times a decision is to not do something at that time. In my experience, the most important things involved in building a software product is what you decide not to do. The backlog is a knowledge base of how those decisions are made. They can be archived as needed. Decision points can be made referencing them. A year or three later when the same problem crops up, sometimes under a different name, you've got information about it. Maybe it's time. So now you have that knowledge sitting there to help new decisions.
Linux was most of it but it needed hardware to run on.

I wrote in another comment in this thread that our semiconductor design software was all on Solaris. We started shifting to Linux around 2002. We still needed some Suns for the large jobs that required over 4GB RAM. When AMD64 came out that was the end of Sun for us. The chip design software vendors quickly ported to it.
My work PC is a i7-6700 and it's....7 years old?
You can only flood desert for a moment.

BTC hasn't been viable on GPUs for a while, either. It's the Ethereum Proof-of-Stake change that was the most exciting, but it doesn't seem to have had a significant effect, especially with newer (3-4yr old) cards.
It boils down to your dentist, too. Some will leap to drilling and filling every little speck they can find (and charge you for it), while others will monitor them and see if they progress.

Having been to both types, I’d say I strongly prefer the latter.
I am not qualified to say what is best, but glass ionomer cements (the ones without resin) do not contain plasticisers.
So many theories floating around (pun intended?)

Which is correct?

* The balloons/objects are well known by intelligence agencies and generally tolerated for strategic reasons, but then one becomes visible to the naked eye by the general public, and the agencies must suddenly respond and pretend it's a brand new threat, because the news cycle operates on simplistic headlines. OR

* This is an entirely new and surprising development, and now intelligence agencies are aggressively scanning airspace for more of these objects and taking them down.

* These balloons/objects can't actually provide useful intelligence for China, but by sending them as sacrificial lambs and eliciting a military response, it sets the precedent for China to do the same for any US intrusion on their airspace. (This one could be combined with either of the above two)

* The timing of these balloons corresponds to other intelligence happenings that the general public doesn't know about - i.e., there is something happening in the intelligence space between the US and China, and these balloons signal some message that the intelligence agencies of the US understand, but which the public does not know about. But, again, the news cycle and the voting public demands a response to what they understand, and they do not accept "Trust us, we're handling it behind the scenes" as an answer. End result, you get an F-22 shooting down a balloon, in a highly visible operation. It's unclear if this demonstration was directed more at China or for the voting public.

One final note - we're talking about intelligence warfare between massively powerful nation states, which makes it tempting to theorize and hypothesis like I just did above. But possibly there is nothing much to think about, and the truth is exactly as it seems: China sent some balloons in a spy program of unknown scope, possibly to elicit this response or possibly not, and it became a political mishap for the current administration so it was forced to respond in a public display. And now the event has more implications for US political pundits and news cycles than it ever did for intelligence warfare between these two countries.
There is, but historical context matters: it's very hard to have your works typeset in LaTeX if you lived before LaTeX was been invented; in the exact same way it's impossible to write out the theory when the notation for writing out theories hasn't been invented yet.

Instead, as modern day investigators, we need to go through the material and figure out whether the writing was "just notes" or whether it was an "actual attempt at some kind of formal description using whatever system of formalization was available to the author at the time".

You can't frame historical science in terms of modern science practices. Or even science practices from a mere 100 years after an author's death.
Interestingly it’s easy to do this with just standard library on Windows: syscall.NewLazyDLL plus NewProc are enough. (Of course in practice you should probably use golang.org/x/sys instead.) I’ve never thought about why dlopen isn’t offered in syscall on *nix until now.
Mine is that this is coverup for what’s happened in Ohio.
I looked it up, and an AIM 9X is just shy of a half a million dollars a unit.
How is it different from NATS.io that solves most of the problems listed? (except the transactional aspect but I’m not convinced it’s a good thing to have the same tool do everything)
Honestly I'm pretty annoyed by the "how dare you give the source away under other terms than the ones I would prefer"-type reactions that crop up from time to time. It's an incredibly entitled attitude and is not a good look for the open source community in general.

Like by all means, share code with GPL or Apache or MIT or whatever, but don't get mad when someone selects another license, including non-free ones with weird incompatibilities.
"Chemistry is accepted as a science: we hate it for its pollution and our dependency on its products, but we no longer blame it for not trying to make gold. Medicine has been accepted as a science: we hate it for the overpopulation and the soaring medical bill but no longer blame it for not producing the Elixir that gives eternal youth. Astronomy has been accepted as a science; we hate it for removing the earth from the center of the universe but no longer blame it for not realizing the astrologer’s dream of accurate prediction of the future. They are accepted as sciences; at the same time, the flourishing business in Healing Gems and Crystals, the horoscopes in otherwise respectable magazines, and governments relying on astrologers are a healthy reminder that Science as such remains rejected and that the old dreams linger on. Finally, one general remark about how sciences emerge: sciences become respectable by confining themselves to the feasible and successful by allowing themselves to be opportunity-driven rather than mission-oriented. (This, by the way, is why managers hate successful science: because it is not mission-oriented, they cannot manage it.)"

Dijkstra was not always right and incontestably he had a taste for polemic, but damn the old man was wise.
As a taxpayer and software engineer, I think it’s a good thing that the irs built or bought an e-filing system that doesn’t handle every scenario. Because I know if they spec’ed out such a system it would have cost a lot more money, have taken longer to build, and been buggier.

We should all be on the lookout for cases when a system can be developed to handle >99% of cases and kick the hard remaining ones out to a manual process.
Maybe if you weigh 70 pounds or something.
Complex systems can have multiple different 'steady' states (many valleys in a complex mountain range of energy minima and maxima, in that sense), so while there may be local restoring forces, climbing out of one steady state and into another is extremely common.
Web cam is also mic and the ability to know it’s completely removed is good because you often see physical mic switches that only disable via software. Also there are facilities that don’t allow any hardware with either
We don’t hold them responsible for the actions of the corporation. We hold them responsible for their actions. For example the VW exec jailed over the diesel emissions scandal, and the former CEO has been charged with giving false testimony.
The volume has certainly been going down for a while, I'm not sure who's responsible for that. Like I would actually need to research that part. Russia can stop the pump while Europe can suspend payments. Both actions have the same effect on volume sold.
What other uses does mineralized enamel have, aside from resisting attack by plaques? Honest question.
An additional, 4d chess theory, is that the US now has something they wish to hide (for the time being) and intentionally leaked the first balloon to the media to cause uproar and “have to shoot them down,” establishing a new boundary with other nations over the use of high-altitude balloons.

The counter position is the idea that these have negligible benefit over satellites, so it is irrelevant. However, why send them if they don’t add new capabilities beyond satellites?