skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was imagining something like a cassette tape->line in adapter like used to be common go play your ipod through your car stereo. I.e. something that would emulate the actual disk, not the disk drive.
The post is excellent (and I actually got quoted in there from my "Rendering Behavior" article), but the title seems completely over-editorialized? There's not even a mention of the word "fractal" in the post.
Ah interesting approach, thx for the answer.

1. Doesn't that risk introducing accidental breaking changes by adding a new error to the set in the implementation, since the set of errors is inferred from the implementation? Having a compile error in this case in Rust is often the last barrier standing between me and an accidental major semver bump (since callers have to exhaustively match on the error conditions)
2. Can you have data in the variants of the error enumeration?
You’ve also explained why it won’t come back, though: the internet.

I remember taxicab confessions being compelling because it was a rare example of people talking openly about adult things. These days that’s everywhere online.
> * Passing in explicit generic type arguments for a function requires an extra :: for seemingly no reason.

There is a very good reason for this. Behold, the Bastion of the Turbofish.

https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/blob/master/tests/ui/parse...
Both DAG and blockchain are much older than cryptocurrencies.
What is your evidence that the malware reports aren't being actioned?

The malware continuing to appear isn't sufficient evidence. Malware moves hosts and ad accounts all the time.

ETA: from the article itself, in 2021 Google "Removed over 3.4 billion ads, restricted over 5.7 billion ads and suspended over 5.6 million advertiser accounts." That's a ton of action, but AdWords alone also serves 29 billion ad impressions a day. It doesn't take more than a few bad actors slipping through the cracks to get seen (and at these orders of magnitude, "a few" is still "millions." Completely impractical for human hand-review).
You claimed:

> taxing the 40 richest people in France 2% more...

That quote is about a 2% wealth tax.
It helps you find the cheapest one way flights to any destination by searching by departure date range and by airport, city, country or region. It will then show you the cheapest flights first in list format. Then you can filter according to your needs. So it makes it super easy and quick to find the cheapest dates and routes to fly. And was made for digital nomads and remote workers or anyone with flexible departure dates.
There will still be work to be done and I'm not sure if just throwing money at it will make that work go away, if you don't have the people?
Why would they make their own life harder?

If there's a bug in 3p code, they'd need to open up a PR to the open source library and be stalled on 3 weeks for the maintainer to see it. If it's a one-line bug in their own code, it's one glance at a stack trace.
Comparison ofRelationship extraction methods and models for knowledge graphs
Yes, conda and miniconda is FOSS while Anaconda is not. I don't think I said something that is not correct.
Some of the reason we went with EC2 over something like ECS is that we would need to run the container in privileged mode for some of our features to work. We also considered options like gVisor, but ultimately the EC2 route was a simple enough implementation that made it easy to manage the user's cache volumes, etc. We're also hoping to use Firecracker VMs in the near future.
There will be a market clearing price for that work, and these accounting mechanizations are simply sussing out what that price is (in comparison to other broad societal work to be done).

If caring for the elderly is made more valuable than say, slinging JavaScript, that’s where some of the labor will go.
On a macroeconomic scale it is still the workers paying for the retirees. Doesn't matter how many millions you have in the bank if there aren't working people you can trade your money for goods and services with.
> "Do you have some kind of similar study that doesn't come out of the Republican Party? Maybe something a little more non-partisan?"

Not sure what your point is. I'm not sharing the article/infographic and animated budget scenarios as "this is what needs to happen" from some party's perspective. The point is a graphical display of the size of different buckets (which I take as fact) and the sliders that you can play with. The cases being presented are just examples. You can mentally slide the bars / cut line and see how much is required.

> "I also find it funny how the infographic doesn't show a scenario where only defense cuts are made, because it would show us how cutting defense spending is a really simple path toward a balanced budget without changing anything else.

I don't know if you have looked at it, but the defense bar is as big as each of the
Medicaid, other mandatory, and "all other" spending bars each. You would have to cut the entire defense budget and still not solve the problem, and only make a fractional share of what is achieved if you implemented cuts to those other programs.

> "Another example of the flaws of this argument/article is how Social Security is self-funded, and not in any financial jeopardy on its own. [1] Some of the other entitlement programs on the list also work that way."

Maybe you have to redefine your definition of self-funded. Sure it is self-funded, as long as taxes increase a lot, given the demographic wave coming. If taxes don't increase, or one of these other options, it will run out of funds. If we don't agree on that, we have a problem. This is the entire debate about the problem we face.

> "Regardless, my understanding is that a government's budget never has to be balanced. It doesn't operate like a family household...."

Well, correct, but the question is how deep do we go into the hole. If you read the story, and the charts, you can see the projections of debt going to 200% GDP. At that point we will be paying enough interest on our debt to have funded several large programs themselves.

> "You're saying our only options are for taxes to rise, benefits decreasing, increasing retirement age, or snowballing debt. But why are those our only options?"

And the other options are?

> "The other part would be looking at government inefficiencies and flawed policies that aren't on your list. For example, should we not talk about how suburban development and the interstate highway system is a monetary drain on wealth for the majority of the country?"

Sure, talk about it, but can you change the bulk of the US to capture whatever benefit you can from that change, within 50 years to save the programs needing the money?

> "I know I've spent a lot of time on this one issue as a specific example, but it's really just one of many ways in which being smart and efficient about the use of the vast wealth generated by the US would go a long way...."

The talking is all good, but the bottom line is will your proposals come up with the money in time?
Yeah, this strikes me similarly to the all-electric Hummer SUV. What on earth are we doing here.
Can you make a list here of all the groundbreaking applications you've seen?
The problem with throwing everything in a database is you end up with brittle stored procedures all over the place, which are painful to debug. There is no good support for version control or testing, which means you end up creating a dozen copies of each function named (sp_v1, sp_v2,.., etc.). It much more harder to practice iterative development which the rest of software development seems implements effectively.

Also traditional relational databases have a way to go before they can support parallelized machine learning workloads. You do not have control or the ability to spin up threads or processes to boost your performance. You rely on the query processor to make those decisions, and depending on your platform the results will be mixed.
Japan startup to convert gasoline vans into battery-swap EVs
Great advice.

Yes I keep forgetting I might not be around forever. :) A dedicated is overkill for the start so I'll look for something managed.

This project will introduce many new things to me, but no rush, I can add them one by one.
Just how loud is a rocket launch?
I love it when the ruling class campaigns to make the serfs pay more tax so that they can retire in nicer castles
Looks pretty useful, wish it had a preview feature though
> It's the programmers equal sign.

That doesn’t seem to make any sense.
ACH2.0 in most of the upper part of the country is pretty aggressive. The 2015 ICC isn't a slouch either -- say you're in Chicagoland building a new home, this would mandate R49 in the attic, R20 in the walls (or R13 in the bays + R5 exterior), R15 on basement walls, R30 in the floors.

It could of course be much more aggressive, and likely will be eventually, but if you had a ACH2 house with those insulation values, minimum U-0.3 windows, >0.94 efficient gas furnace / high quality heat pumps, it would be a very efficient house.

Table R402.1.2 here: https://codes.iccsafe.org/content/IECC2015/chapter-4-re-resi...
PAYGO vs investment earnings is purely a financial construct.

The central issue is that physical goods and services need to be produced around the time that they're consumed, and at a given point in time, an economy has a fixed capacity to generate these goods and services.

If you have a non-producing population, and a producing population, then the only way for the non-producing population to consume a given quantity of goods and services is for the producing population to not consume those goods and services. Whether you call the reduction in consumption ability of the working population "taxes" or "investments" doesn't change this fundamental fact, except insofar as it alters certain behavioral incentives around deferring consumption and legal frameworks around property rights.

(This isn't 100% of the story, since you can "lay claim" to production of working people overseas via international investment, but is accurate in broad strokes.)
Thank you so much for this! It's very generous of you to have taken the time.
In my state, more than two thirds of the electricity is produced by natural gas fired power plants. Does this claim hold up in that case?
> ads are a failed monetization approach

If it's worth paying for a giant un-targeted poster next to a highway, it's worth paying for embedded (i.e. unblockable, equivalent to other site content) ads based solely on website content, not viewer tracking.

It's just that most sites/ad vendors don't want to, and are trying to gaslight us into thinking surveillance advertising is the only option.
The world needs basic income, with guaranteed housing, internet and food.

We have the means to do it.

Upto 75% of population is employed in bullshit jobs anyway (= not producing anything, or even being harmful to the society).

Only 2% of population working in agriculture already produces food for 10+ billion people, just 8% works in manufacturing (IIRC).

Give the basic income population plant-based food (== use just 25% of agriculture land) and automate transport (trains) and distribution (like amazon with its warehouses).

Everybody can choose to work on anything they want, and be compensated for doing so, of course.

We'd save the environment, stop biodiversity loss and store more carbon than produced since 1750 (reforesting grazing lands), solve the world hunger, save the environment (no need to own so much cars, burn so much fuel and time going to meaningless jobs, to pay for a roof over a head with 40 years of life, no need for so much pesticides/herbicides, deforestation etc.) ...

Hm ... time to stop dreaming. Back to work.
Full Screen Triangle Optimization
Facebook Messenger on the web looks (or looked? My last encounter with it was in 2017) the closest to a native iOS/macOS client even to this day: https://i1.wp.com/ensegundos.do/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/m...
It's not super intuitive at first, but its cold climates were this is actually a big issue. Water vapor "wants" to equalize from a more humid to less humid environment. So when it's cold out - the humidity can drop rather low. Then you take a shower and create water vapor - which flows into the walls, through the insulation, and condenses against the colder exterior. Open a wall in any stick frame house in the rocky mountain region and mildew will be present. I am building a highly insulated house in a cold climate area and have blasted all the wood with copious amount of a silver based coating to inhibit mold growth.
Do you have anything constructive to say? I worked at faang for 3 years, donated 90% of what I made to charity before changing my life to work at a place with half the salary.

Don't assume things and don't comment here with bland reddit one liners. Only say something if it's constructive.
couldn't agree more, but we are "stuck" in managed ansible + k8s

although i think kustomize wouldn't make a nicer picture than ansible, but push vs pull .. i prefer pull
Study finds the stronger the side effects, the longer lasting the vaccination
65% of startups fail when the cofounders have a fight and one of them absconds with the money; the remaining 6% run out of money organically.
No worries, glad you wrote a version of your own way back when, cheers. The scrolling in bd was impressive.
They have the data so they would certainly know better than me, but my anecdotal experience was just so wildly different. I bought it, and nearly everyone I know did. It was a great game, and did not of the scummy things that so many games did! The always online and the "won't run on rooted device" checks were very annoying to me, but it didn't exceed my tolerance threshold. I and many others praised them for just charging a one time payment for the whole game. My anecdotal experience made me very optimistic that Nintendo was going to prove that you didn't have to be scummy! Apparently not.
Jinja2 in Python, Freemarker in Java
> agreed to structure the buyout of his firm as income for tax reasons

I expect most people will infer the wrong thing here. To be clear, those "tax reasons" were that he wanted to maximize the amount of tax he would pay.

> an agreement between him and Twitter, most of the purchase price was paid as salary to maximize the tax he would pay for the sale in Iceland, he chose to pay for tax out of respect to Iceland for the disability benefits he received. Per the agreement, he paid the second highest tax of an individual in Iceland in 2021.
The existence of such programs merely says there are enough users willing to install such programs that it's worth making them available (and that macs have the affordances -- APIs -- to make these kinds of changes, which ios does not have). There are so many macs in use that a tiny percentage is enough.

I suspect the same is true in the general case in the ios app store: that there is a long tail of apps used by a tiny %age of users, but with an enormous user base that's enough to make a free or even paid app.

And after about 35 years of mousing and about four years of iphoning I expected to want to revert apple's change to mouse-gesture-scrolling with Lion, but after only a few seconds I was sold. YMMV, of course, but I agree with the "99%" hypothesis.
Utilities are generally paid for by the users regardless of their cost. Investors are typically insulated in so far as the project completes, which is completely normal. It’s not like there’s some sort of call provision on a bond that asks for more money from the bond holder if the project costs more. Typically you would simply issue more bonds. Instead of issuing bonds and paying interest on those out of utility bills, they decided to just pay up front (which was likely a bad deal given how low interest rates have been). But in the end the utility users pay everything in every situation. Where else would the money come from? The charity investors who give money to mega projects out of benevolence? There aren’t many of those. It generally comes out of a mixture of taxes and utility users. Even investors are just loaning capital and their primary risk is the project outright fails.

I feel like in reading these comments people feel like there’s some other third party that foots the bill
I've found the RPi4B to be somewhat awful for low-latency audio usage.

My particular use case is simply playing MP3s read from mmc through an MBox1 on USB.

No matter how much irqbalance, isolcpus, taskset magic, it never gets absolutely perfect. It gets better, but there's always spurious delays exhibited as occasional pops and clicks in the audio output.

I'm hopeful that [0] will improve the situation, but haven't had time to really dig into it let alone build a custom bleeding-edge mainline kernel - which I'm not even sure supports all the Pi4B hardware.

It's asinine that an otherwise idle 4Cx1.8Ghz machine can't even play MP3s on a USB MBox1 flawlessly with zero special effort...

[0] https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/lin...
I think there's one more deep, interesting (!) question hidden, adjacent to the post and your reply: what exactly makes something interesting? I feel it's a real question, because the things we find interesting aren't all that arbitrary.

I have only a handwavy notion of it, based on some on-line articles (IIRC one of them might have been a blogpost or a paper by Scott Aaronson), but the general idea is that the things we find interesting exist in the middle between low and high-entropy states.

For example, take matches. A box of matches is relatively low-entropy: they all sit there neatly arranged in parallel rows, pointing the same direction. Matches in a box are boring. Now, dump the box onto the table. The matches are now arranged in a random pattern. This is a high-entropy state, and it's even more boring than the low-entropy one. Now, start putting those matches into some pattern - suddenly, things get interesting. One of the particularly interesting configurations would be a self-supporting 3D structure made of those matches - and that's, in terms of entropy, about half-way between matches in a box, and matches on a pile.

Put in information-theoretic terms, it seems that we find both highly predictable and highly unpredictable configurations boring: the former likely because there is just not much new information to pay attention to - but the latter, seemingly because it's too unpredictable, and we round it up to "pure noise".

So my question is, is there any formal description of this concept? A mathematical answer to why we find both order and disorder boring, and are most interested in things in-between? Some kind of natural quantity that tracks -E² (with E being entropy), and which would be fundamentally useful to maximize?
O’Reilly urges world to get ready for a red-hot summer of AI
I think Apple is on the right track. A lot of good shows, a few great ones. Severance is probably the one that might be their Sopranos.
I watched a crew install a blown fiberglass product: they stapled fabric over the walls, poked holes in it, and stuck a hose in each hole so a machine in their truck could flow fiberglass into the cavity. It went very quickly and fully filled the cavities.

John Mansville Spider Plus looks like another interesting product — blown fiberglass that is just sticky enough that it can supposedly be applied to walls and even ceilings without anything to contain it.
A 2-2 split FCC does no good for anyone, it's really frustrating to see 2 years of waiting end with no action.
> if it was so simple, it would have been made

I don't believe this to be true. Maybe the people who make OEIS have been satisfied with having the description and a few examples.

It would only work well for strictly increasing sequences. I don't know of any sequence that increases slowly and is difficult to compute. If it increases quickly, then you'll quickly pass the limit. If it's not increasing, then you'd have to prove which numbers are under the limit and that could be very challenging in some cases.
As a maths PhD student that has seen Hopf algebras before (though I'm no expert, and the context was different), I'm not convinced Adam understands things about Hopf algebras.
Whats driving demand growth for storage these days? Everything seems to be growing much slower than moore's law (by a wide margin).
I've been pleasantly surprised by the impressive recent results that multiple groups have gotten with potassium-based dual-ion batteries. The dual-ion battery stores both positive (in the anode) and negative (in the cathode) ions, which means that both electrodes can be made of carbon rather than metals. Storing negative ions in the cathode also eliminates the major hurdle with sodium-ion: the large Na+ ion doesn't like to be yanked out of the metal-oxide cathode's crystal lattice. I'm not sure why the best stability results I've seen have been with potassium, but anyway:

1500 cycles, 95% capacity retention: https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2017/ee/c7ee0...

2000 cycles, "100%" capacity retention (degradation below measurement limits): https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/adfm.202001...

It's rare that I see a battery that meets the triple criterion of high stability (>>1000 cycles), cheap materials and high current efficiency (which in a large installation is also related to heat dissipation), but these seem to do it. The density is too low for vehicles, but fine for grids.
Nah nothing that refined. Pretty predictably supabase is doing some weird stuff along these lines and I found some abandoned and semi-active repos associated with them and people working for them that were useful examples of some things.

As for posting to HN absolutely no thanks. These people are so fucking hostile there is no accomplishment too small to tear apart for entertainment here. I have no interest in it.
I live on what can be reasonably approximated as a "pile of rocks." It's fairly thin dirt on top of a lot of basalt. I've considered it, but the cost to install such a unit is quite staggering, before I buy a backhoe to install it.

I'll consider one of those if I have to replace my unit at some point, but I'm far more interested in adding simple solar thermal collectors to directly add energy from the sun on the partly cloudy or clear days we have, vs ripping up half an acre of rock to put the loops in, or figuring out where I can punch another well for heat exchange.
> Look to Texas for recent lessons on lack of robustness in power generation capability.

When they had not winterized the grid and an abnormal amount of gas, coal and nuclear power went offline.
That doesn't work because it's not the ads themselves that serve the malware, but the page the ads point to. Changing that after the review is done is trivial, and asking landing pages to never change is simply unreasonable for a vast number of reasons.
set your tab stops to 1 space. problem solved.
Just face it man - nobody cares. There are probably people here who helped build the fake cell towers and indexed all the data.

Either way, Biden’s president now so the good guys are back in control and we shouldn’t worry about the feds doing bad stuff. I’m sure he told ICE to cut all the malarkey.