skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Honestly, I look at these numbers and I think 'is it really worth it to complain about these private jets?'

This got me thinking about Nest thermostats, and how impactful it would be to simply mandate new constructions (or help retrofit existing ones) to have these programmable units that can decrease indoor temperature at night or when nobody is home.
Interesting, can you explain in more detail on what makes QUIC more inefficient than TLS over TCP on the server side?
This sounds pretty reasonable, is easily readable, and I suppose this should be the main URL.

The idea is to use the browser as the dev environment, all of it: emulate a file system, run non-JS tools compiled to WASM on top of it, and access networking via the browser, too. For Node-based development, this sounds rather doable.
I like Spotify. I like podcasts. What I didn't need was podcasts popping up when I wanted to listen to music. Or vice-versa. Trying to mix together the two in a single app always seemed pretty awkward to me.
> There are documented cases of it spreading through walls

Source?
Waiting for the LLVM rewrite in Julia.
The main reason is that the Republicans are the relatively right wing party in the country and wacky conspiracy theories about COVID have become more popular in right wing media here. So that’s the partisan reason.

But also, since a Republican was in charge when COVID became a problem, it would make more sense to have the then-opposition do the investigation, right? Let’s not ask people who have an incentive to hide uncomfortable failures to investigate!
Not totally unique. The US government used its census for Japanese internment camps.
Was Britain the destination, and if not how did the journey continue?
I remember that era, and Perl CGI scripts were everywhere. Tcl was pretty niche. I used it for some personal projects, but never ran into any web stuff that used it.
> I would love to work in an environment where I felt valued as a person but I have yet to find that.

Start your own business.
One data point for you.

My company (big UK-based tech company) had an “all employees” sort of e-mail saying the use of Copilot, ChatGPT et al was not allowed for anything work-related or using company equipment due to unclear licensing model of the generated code.

I find many of these blanket rules silly, but in this case I find it is sensible to wait before polluting our products with this autogenerated code.
> a clerical error

It was not a clerical error. E.g. nobody typed wrong command or something. That was a decision .NET Foundation heads made and executed. AFAIR https://github.com/clairernovotny

> was instantly reverted

No, it was not instantly reverted. Took us over 1 month to get our repository back under our full and undivided control.
I agree with most of what you said except for flexible working hours (they might not be 5 8-hour shifts, but they'll get it in some other capacity) - they usually want your soul.
A lot of RSS readers have this built in, but I don't use the one from my RSS reader, I use Kill the Newsletter

https://kill-the-newsletter.com/
> The UVC doesn't disrupt their metabolism or mutate their genetics subtly, it shreds their chemical bonds.

But it does -- this only depends on an prompt dose, at which you have exactly one chance. How can you guarantee a lethal dose (for any definition of lethal) for every single microorganism? Even hard gamma was adapted for, compared to that UV is nothing.
I think the broader point is, giving 40+ hours per week to a company is already giving enough of yourself to the company. I think it's great for people to put in extra effort and time, if you're inspired to do it. Of course, you should care about your boss and co-worker as people and become friends with them. But never forget they're co-workers, not family. At the end of the day, labor demands change and if it's in the company's best interest to let people go then that's what's going to happen.
In the FOSDEM presentation about Rust coreutils, they mentioned that security concerns were not a motivating factor for the rewrite - the C implementation has had only 17 CVEs since 2003.

https://fosdem.org/2023/schedule/event/rust_coreutils/
Similar widespread infection happened a few years before with SARS. Many countries even had procedures and emergency medical stock from there, and just discarded it for budget reasons from 2018.

All this “prevent it from recurring” is cute but wont last long if history can tell.
Hello sir, I'm here to resolve your doubts

https://goodmanwen.github.io/Programming-Language-Benchmarks...

compared to what rust has to offer, compared to C and CPP, this is truly awesome.
We will probably never know the real truth behind origin of virus. It carry burden of many deaths, fraud, money, poltics, ruined businesses and relationships...

Worst part is, that it destroyed peoples trust in almost everything. Gonverments, science, dialogue, media, doctors...

Good part is, that it will be harder to manipulate with masses by fear.
It's billing for the SuperChargers.
Ironically unionizing would probably mean many are replaced with actual robots
> There are things which I'm not allowed to take photographs of ...

But photography isn't illegal per se. You don't need a license to have and legally use a camera.

Taking some pictures may constitute a crime, but it won't be simply having the camera and clicking the shutter button.

> There is data I'm not allowed to be given or store, like a random stranger's medical records.

Not really. If I give you my medical PII you've committed no crime. Even if you store it you only may be liable.

> There are communications I am not allowed to make, such as the sequence of bits in copyrighted material]

If you intend to interact with the media it encodes then yes, but if you're a dev and I send you a test vector you can't be expected to know what those bits encode.

> > You can't make any law you want, and keep a free society. You can't tell people they can't train neural nets on public data

You can't tell people they can't add public numbers. Training an AI is all math and in theory could be done on paper.

Having laws that would proactively make training an AI on public data illegal would make our society not free.

Public data wouldn't mean anything, because the public wouldn't be able to read it. Training an AI is so vague that making notes about a text could qualify. If the courts tried to enforce such a law non-selectively it would criminalize everyone.

> You're allowed to be an anarchist and say those things should be legal

Anarchists don't believe more things should be legal, they think there should be less or no laws. It's quite different.

Laws are supposed to recognize and punish damages, not to broadly prohibit new technologies that sound scary when they were invented.
I'd almost split it out slightly differently, but I work indirectly with a lot of peoples code problems and this is just my own observations.

People that are formally educated tend to end up in large organizations based because HR like the idea of college degrees. Large organizations are process oriented. Somewhere above the dev the specification of the application is created. The dev typically does not get to choose their tools, instead particular versions of the tools are provided, the versions of the libraries they need to target and so forth. Also after the code is written it needs to pass any number of tools and gates and QA systems and UAT systems before it's ever used in production. In general the last thing the dev is thinking of is 'is this fast' and instead they are thinking "I have 400 things on my to do and I hope this doesn't get bounced back to me"
The domain is real, you can whois it if you're too shy to send an email.
By that logic vaccines can't work
For games, they should probably be wrapped in some kind of emulation layer like dosbox. For still supported software, there is really no reason to continue supporting 32 bit binaries at the OS level.
> That’s why even languages that are nominally utf16/32 as the native type will frequently auto detect and special cases latin1 strings (python, js, etc).

I feel that this is worth a blog post in itself. I remember years ago comparing Go and C# when processing some large mostly-ascii files. The C# program was faster, much to my surprise, despite storing strings natively in UTF-16. (I don't remember the implementation details, so it may have been an artifact of my implementations).
I'm certainly not a physical chemist, but at that sort of energy levels wouldn't it rather be liable to drive the gas mix towards some sort of equilibrium?

I'd imagine it breaks down molecular oxygen (some of which goes on to form ozone), and it breaks down ozone (some of which goes on to re-form ozone).

At any rate, that seems like altogether too radical to be desirable near living creatures whose well-being one cares for.
> Sincere question, because to me it feels like my brain is improvising word by word when typing out this sentence. I often delete and retype it until it feels right, but in the process of typing a single sentence, I'm just chaining words one after another the way they feel right.

That’s your conscious experience, but it doesn’t necessarily match what your subconscious mind has actually been doing. I’d hazard a guess that it’s thinking several moves ahead, like a good chess player. What you end up being consciously aware of is probably just the end product of multiple competing models - including ones that want to stop writing altogether and go do something else.
Seems to me that the power of government or lack thereof is far less a factor than the nature of that government (eg corruption or other self serving tendencies) when it comes to man made disasters.

There are enough examples of man made disasters in countries with weak governments, and powerful governments without a history of these kinds of disasters.
here is a quick sketch: https://peel.fm/b02789c variation https://peel.fm/e854bbc

Super clean and fun, thanks for sharing!

One request would be to raise the max tempo so half time could be programmed allowing 32 steps per bar.

oh, and maybe a "song" playlist which allowed you to paste multiple links in a list?
Reminds me of that giant pager outage ~ 20 years back. I remember one of the stories mentioned a woman who was going to leave her husband because he wasn't answering her page.
> This isn't a mystery chemical; we've been working with the stuff since 1835, we've spilled it into the environment numerous times

It has never been burned at anywhere near this quantity. There are other chemicals that can react with it. Your strawmanning isn't winning you any points here.

> What is your goal...

I would like for these coverups to lose their effectiveness. I'd like for executives that gamble with human lives and the environment to be held responsible. I would like politicians and media organizations that repeatedly enable them to lose credibility. I would like the concerns of railroad workers to be taken seriously. I'd like for journalists to not be wrongfully arrested for doing their jobs. I'd like for the safety precautions for carrying hazardous materials to be enforced. I'd like to have institutions that I can more or less trust to tell me the truth.
You'll see plenty of college to FAANG/whatever coveted startup paths on LikedIn profiles.
I'm just curious if you're using SwiftKey. I just did a similar experiment with my autocomplete and the second phrase was "I am not sure what to do with my life". Ostensibly it's trained against my dictionary inputs, but I question how much it truly pulls from that.
A more powerful AI model and better code suggestions
Most people in the 21st century want to believe we have forever conquered such things. Even after COVID-19, many believe that if we had just tried a little harder we could've turned back the tide.

I hope we remember the utter failure of "Zero COVID", especially in places like China, for a very long time. Humility is a virtue.
You can, you just can't do billing on SuperChargers. Home charging works... cars work, but it's like credit cards didn't work at the gas station and there was nobody there to take cash.
I'm of course no art historian of any sort, don't even play one online. However, yes, perspective, proportionality and light were being paid more attention to in art at that juncture in art. Often, in current and historical naive and current and historical primitive art, we see the same issues with bad perspectives and bad shadow treatment. That said, in many cases the artists knew but did not care and had a different focus. Still I agree that in many cases the artists didn't want this "interference". Just as today your roadside artists may not include all the municipal electric wires or all the trash or cloud shadows and so on in one of their paintings when capturing an atmosphere or panorama.
Maybe so, but it’s also naive to think we’ll ever get to certainty or near-certainty about the lab leak hypothesis without China’s participation (which, if culpable, we obviously will not get and cannot force).

So the argument should take the form of, “jeez, this was awful and even if this was natural or artificial, we are purposely producing stuff like this on a daily basis in labs that regularly make mistakes.”
Actually, rural Europe is the place that will benefit from it: EU has been subsidizing photovoltaic installations on single family homes for like a decade now, and switching to EV makes most sense to people that can easily produce their own electricity. It's people in cities that will be forced to compete for limited charging stations that will suffer.
It was kinda long so I uhh fed it into chatgpt for a summary :

The author, Stephen Wolfram, describes the process of training ChatGPT using large amounts of text data, which allows the model to learn patterns and associations between words and phrases. He explains that ChatGPT uses a multi-layered approach to generate responses, starting with analyzing the input text and then generating a response based on the learned patterns.

Wolfram notes that ChatGPT's ability to generate human-like responses is due to the model's ability to capture context and incorporate knowledge from a wide range of sources. He also discusses the potential uses of ChatGPT, including as a tool for language translation, customer service, and educational purposes.

The article goes on to discuss some of the challenges and limitations of ChatGPT, such as its tendency to generate responses that are repetitive or irrelevant to the input text. Wolfram also acknowledges ethical concerns related to the use of AI for generating text, such as the potential for misinformation and the need for transparency in how the technology is used.

Overall, the article provides a detailed and informative overview of ChatGPT and its underlying technology, as well as the potential applications and challenges associated with AI-generated text.
> It seems pretty ridiculous for a government official to say "I am giving you permission to bypass these rules" and then arrest them for breaking those rules.

You seem surprised that an autocratic government would act illogically or immorally, and play according to rules that benefit them. They're just covering their asses so it can look like they're acting on behalf of the people. As soon as this blows over, it will be business as usual.

The only thing they need to worry about is to not screw over someone powerful, which might backfire, but otherwise this is not unexpected.
> Who do you want flying when things go bad? People who have spent many hours with things about to go bad (military, emergency/fire, sail plane pilots) who have experience dealing with it. Those people can also be fun/terrifying to fly with, because they will take risks.

Maybe. Or maybe you're better off with freshly trained people who still remember exactly what to do in all the failure scenarios. Certainly I've generally felt safer with drivers who'd just passed their test than with people who've been driving for years, for example.
“ China is never goiing to allow an actual investigation to happen.”

- any reasonable person should be now asking “Why?”
For those that want a tl;dr, this reddit comment is the best simple-language explanation I've come across:

https://www.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/comments/10q0l92/comment/j6...
I would make the argument that top talent wasn’t the contingent that was laid off.
ban on "new sales", not on "existing cars"

so people will still be able to use their current one, and replace them with Electric or Hydrogen when it's time to replace their car

they'll probably then ban petrol/diesel from big cities, so they encourage people to upgrade
because Republicans started too and Democrats are obligated to take an opposing position.
The "Double buffering + Spiral" in the chart example bothered me. Indeed, it does look like the double buffering was the source of the speedup. Spiral's solution used a different memory layout to avoid NUMA overhead: https://www.spiral.net/doc/papers/ipdps2018_dtp.pdf

If Spiral spotted the problem automatically that's very cool, but that's elimination of a specific bottleneck, and that is possible to do manually too. The article made it sound like a 2x superoptimizer for arbitrary algorithms, but that's likely too good to be true.
A Research Codebase Manifesto
I want to point out the currently known composition of the universe, because I think that the whole aliens thing wraps up with it:

~5% matter. Most of this is H and He though, bit of Li in there too. And it's all mostly burning in a star's gravity well. Like, 99.99999% of it. The stuff you and I are made of (C, N, P, Fe, etc), that we would wish aliens would be made of too, is really rare.

~25% dark matter. We know a little about it. We know that it falls down and doesn't like to touch just about anything. But that's really kinda it.

~70% dark energy. It falls ... up (?!). We know pretty much nothing about it. And it's the large majority of 'stuff' in the universe.

If there are buddies out there, then we may want to look at stuff that is a bit more common.
The WHO has shown itself to be completely and absolutely useless. It was wrong at the beginning and continuously was behind the curve. It was as if they wanted COVID to spread as quickly as possible. I think that it should be shut down at this point, there's nothing they can say that can ever regain their trust.
Do I mention going on a trip with my husband, or my spouse? That's what I mean about being open about my sexuality. Most people don't give that sort of thing a second thought.
So they can combine the known geolocation of every charging station with the acceleration+steering data stored in the car to re-create any Tesla's exact journey if need be:

https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/dutch-...

“The NFI said the decrypted data showed Tesla vehicles store information about the operation of its driver assistance system, known as Autopilot. The vehicles also record speed, accelerator pedal position, steering wheel angle and brake usage, and depending on how the vehicle is used, that data can be stored for over a year.”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_reckoning

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inertial_navigation_system
It was originally broadcast in the USA in the 70s, and my coworker from the Maritimes watched the show when she was younger. Also my older coworkers have gotten the reference, so perhaps it's a generational thing. It should be brought back, it's a pretty funny term.
I mean you're right. It's weird that people are fixated on the specific way this outbreak occurred. Any plausible and proven way an outbreak of roughly this type could occur is equally significant, and I think is pretty well understood. If there was a strong will to reduce those risks it could happen without us knowing any specifics.
Any billing system will have problems when there is an outage. Gas pump credit card processing goes down too. This is a minor hiccup in the electric transition.

If you were charging at a non Supercharger with its own auth and billing mechanism, you most likely didn’t notice. I noticed in the US, but only because I emit my Tesla API call logs from teslamate into a monitoring tool catching the non 200s.

If you don’t want to enable data sharing, you can disable it. If you don’t want to enable mobile app functionality or OTA updates, you can remove the cellular module (Tesla specific, I can’t speak to other brands).

By 2035 (the new EU combustion vehicle ban agreed upon you mention), an entire generation will have grown up with EVs as the new normal. Right to repair should still be a thing, but that is a distinct issue, not something that should slow the electrification transition until perfect (passenger vehicles are responsible for 61% of CO2 (EDIT: transport) emissions in Europe).
There's some good ones in central London. The C2, C3, C6, etc. Wide segregated routes, fully signalised at intersections so turning traffic doesn't cross the cycle lane, etc. I'm not so familiar with South London but some boroughs are better at doing cycling than others. eg: Hackney and Camden very good. Kensington & Chelsea very bad.
The latest Firefox 110 for Android supports 5.0+.

The latest Chromium 110 for Android supports 7.0+.

Any device sold with the Android branding running 7.0+ will even have the latest Google/Chrome WebView updated out of band via Play. 5/6 will be stuck on version 105(?).

You should consider switching from IceCat to Fennec F-Droid, see my comparison table here: https://divestos.org/pages/browsers
Once again the world gets bullied into silence by the autocrats and “strong man” leaders.

China buys too much from distinct European countries for them to coalesce as one trading partner and fight Chinese foreign trade bullying.

France, Germany, Italy, etc know that if they voice concerns their exports will be subjected to “additional inspections” by the shameless CCP who acts with international impunity.

They’re so shameless they’re lodging complaints about how their spy balloons have been shot down!
Ah yes, but Python nearly killed itself in the Python2 -> Python3 transition.
You give your kids half the random swag you get. You involve them by letting them see your job, etc. My older kid has eaten in Google cafeterias, comes to my office at cmu after school to hang out and do her homework there, etc. You _want_ them involved at some level. It's part of modeling being an adult.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spontaneous_symmetry_breaking
There is a lot of stiff (and free) competition when it comes to podcast players. I'm pretty happy with the now open source Pocket Casts. Previously I used the paid Dogg Catcher.

I can't imagine what features would need to exist for me to be willing to pay a recurring fee.
WG21 can, and has in the past[0], broken platforms' ABIs. It tends to be painful enough that platform vendors (who are represented on the committees) aren't interested in doing it again.

[0]https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/libstdc++/manual/using_dual_a...
The garbage collection is an optional feature you can disable though

There's a lot of "@nogc" D code out there. Audio FX plugins that do realtime DSP and game/graphics stuff come to mind.

I'd rather have the language give me a choice because it's very convenient to have. You'd be surprised how performant even GC'ed code in D's can be.
I actually think reddit is pretty good. Just need to pick the right ones.
I've had the exact opposite experience. Referring to hand over notes that I'd taken years earlier when something unexpected came up to a system that still ran but no one actively was working on.
The virus didn't do that, the dishonest people involved in the response did that. They're not victims, they had choices to make and they made the ones that benefited themselves instead of the public they were entrusted to serve.