skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Actually, next generation concrete is one of the more promising carbon sinks.

Also, trains also have most of the issues you mentioned, and they have accessibility issues that cars solve.

We should be working toward minimizing total ecological impact, and simultaneously maximizing the number of workers our cities can accommodate each day. That means more cars, more bike lanes, high density housing near offices, higher throughput public transportation, and more telecommuting.

All of those are equally important. In most parts of the US, cars are extremely overfunded compared to the other stuff in that list.
People who are averse to uncertainty exhibit expanded semantic representations
Thanks a lot! We will...
VirtuaGirl wasn’t nearly as bad as that quiet extension mining bitcoins and syphoning your dad’s passwords in the background.

Flashy != dangerous.

Heck today viruses don’t even limit themselves to restarting your computer, they encrypt your files and blackmail entire hospitals.

So yeah no, things did not get better at all.
Note, compute is going up in price, but storage should be cheaper[1]. So it depends on your workload if and by how much this will impact you

[1]https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/data-analytics/introd...
Well analog synths were all dominating.
They were a more maintenance.
Tuning and such.

Then over time digital synths became all dominating
for a long time.

The main problem with a vast majority of digital synths
was the lack of button and knobs to create new patches.
Scrolling though a tiny 16x2 screen was a pain in the ass.

Then someone created UIs that ran on the computer and
that was cool

Some digital synths got hardware extensions with knobs.

Then we started to get digital synths with lots of buttons.

The analog or hybrid analog synths started coming out
again.

I personally would not wish to tour with some of those fun
analog monsters. Well perhaps if I had one for each patch
I needed and a tech who changed them out between songs.

Creating sound and sampling it is always an option with
a steep price.
It wasn't their building, it was clearly a building they rented a suite in. And, at a guess, the tech was let in because the landlord called and asked them to let the tech in.
>Your tiny house costs £1 million and we want to pay you £50k.

This is no coincidence. The entire point is to increase the wealth of the wealthiest fraction of a percent without disincentivizing the working class to keep showing up to work every day. Also note this is not a conspiracy but a structural tendency.
I personally think svg had so much potential for the web, only if they had flexbox kind of dom model.
the gap between UX design and final product would have been significantly reduced. one would simply design apps in inkscape and add funtionality later to it.
We hope so, remote pair programming is/was hard. Let us know if you see ways how to make it even better!
Beyond the meme, I don't see how Google could kill GCP without looking like an extremely weak company. They have to make it work to show that they can still deliver results.
Hey, remember them? They were right on the verge of production allegedly while the shorters were "outing" them?

I've heard nothing about them for a solid 16 months, so I'm guessing the shorters were right.

Solid State batteries appear pretty easy to crank out a demonstration cell with lots of density advantages over the production cells, and handwave away the scaling of production as a detail resolved in investment. There are a solid dozen companies I've seen with that basic approach.

None of the solid state companies appear close to scaling production.

Likely the sulfur chemistries will beat them to market with far superior material cost and density and scalability. Solid state still has a good opportunity in cell phones / laptops / etc, which is a big market, but the real play in batteries is grid storange and tranportation, which will dwarf phones/laptops by several orders of magnitude in volume.
They measure comparable things. The ratio is how many times you would have to discharge the battery to output enough energy to manufacture the battery. It's the capacity independent measure of embodied energy. An important metric.
I have the same issue with my Steam Deck but didn't have the time to Google it. Thank you for saving me these few minutes!
It also seems like it would come to light as soon as one of the trucks was involved in an accident. Checking the logs against who was operating the vehicle has to be one of the first things done during an investigation, if not by the regulator then by one of the involved insurance companies.
More likely the person telling the story isn't the person who authorised their access, and just happened to witness it / have a conversation about it.
>Crucially, those have context around them

Often incorrect context, incredibly biased context (no you don't know what you want, here's a complete misdirection), or just plain outdated. So basically the same thing as ChatGPT.

People who blindly copy and paste and ship are always going to do that. Everyone else isn't. It's really that simple.
You should care when elite people that directly influence policy are okay with it.
Robots that learn from videos of human activities and simulated interactions
Just wanted to second this experience.

I'm one of those people that has perpetually wanted to use linux as my main desktop, but inevitably find myself dual booting Windows for gaming, and then just making my desktop a Windows gaming box and then using a Macbook for dev work. I think I've had about 3 major runs of trying to be Linux desktop only, and that typically lasts just a month or two.

For the past year I've been using exclusively Linux (Pop!_os) as my desktop for everything I do, and that has involved quite a bit of gaming. It's really insane how giant a leap forward Proton (driven by the need for Steam Deck compatibility) is as far as Linux gaming goes. It does occasionally take a bit of tweaking to get things to work just right, but nothing too crazy.

It's also worth mentioning that, at least for me, System 76 has really solved the problem of "just open the box and turn it on" support for Linux. Extremely high build quality and most important, seamless support for Nvidia drivers. It is a blast to spend the day building deep learning models and then make use of that nice GPU to play AAA titles at max settings.

Any gamer who has been wanting to go full Linux Desktop for a while, it's really quite possible now.
Does debugging work? I think the dap support was experimental.

Can somebody share his/her experience?
Decimal floating point is pretty easy to impliment in hardware.
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I was attempting to install PyGame. Hardly an unusual package. But the dependencies were somehow broken on Windows. After 20 minutes of trying, I gave up.
That will never happen if Stellantis is writing the software.

Their software team can’t even reliably control an automatic transmission!
The analysis is full of bad assumptions. For example, the section titled "Top Impacted Countries" is completely off: the article was written in Feb 2023 and in most countries the layoffs hadn't even begun back then (in a bunch of countries, including a couple "analysed" in the article, the layoffs are still to take place as I'm writing this).
To me that highlights how important it is for UI frameworks of all types to have accessibility affordances not only built in, but as one of the pillars of their designs. That makes it so even apps developed without any regard to accessibility are reasonably accessible by default.

This doesn't gel well with the bring-your-own-everything nature of the web, unfortunately. Even if you look just at React there's 50 ways to build the same thing, which I'm sure makes rolling in accessibility that "just works" across all React apps without additional effort from the developer extremely difficult. It's much more practical with UI frameworks that are strongly opinionated with only a single well-supported "happy path" for most things.
Looks cool, but how is this better / different from just doing this on Zoom? I'm already using zoom daily for meetings and occasionally use screen sharing and once in a while use their "request screen control" feature, and it works great. No complaints, and no new tool needed in addition to my regular video meeting tool.

Not at all hating on this tool. It really looks nice, but I'm just trying to understand if there is a reason to use it instead of / in addition to zoom.
I too am a "not usually joystick-friendly gaming" kinda person, but the fact that "it's just a PC" really helped alleviate that worry.

That being said, I'm surprised how well I can use the joysticks, trackpads, and tocuhscreens to comfortably navigate most games. I still wouldn't play Crusader Kings III w/o a mouse and keyboard, but man it's shocking to me how little I need to break them out.
“Tubes just distort things in a very pleasant way,”

This is probably the best description of tube sound. Not that they don't distort, just that humans seem to like it when they do. If you A/B tube and solidstate amps at a level where neither is driven into distortion, they're hard to differentiate.
I find it very amusing that the "A Threat to our Democracy™" card gets pulled out, even when the context is repealing unilateral decisions and bringing the choice to a more local level. People should just be honest and start saying "A threat to ideas I like." At least then I wouldn't have to eyeroll so hard.
I can assure you, as a former quality engineer at a medical device development facility, that there is absolutely, positively zero chance that anyone there will use any AI-powered coding tools to write code that goes onto any device that is ISO-13485, CE, or otherwise compliant to some existing medical device regulations (I speak in the USA and European markets; I cannot speak for other markets). There is literally a defined waterfall development cycle for FDA-regulated devices that requires software features to be very precisely specified, implemented, validated, tested, and manufactured. Anyone suggesting using AI at such a facility would be laughed out of the room, and perhaps even re-trained on the procedures. Anyone caught using such tools would probably be fired immediately and all their code patches would be put under intense scrutiny and possibly even rewritten; of course the device software they were working on would remain in development and not released until that was fixed.
The audit logs can never show who was actually behind the wheel.

It will always be possible for someone to claim to be driving, while someone else was actually driving.

The only fix is to have police on the highway randomly pulling over trucks, and checking that the driving license of the actual driver matches who the computer thinks is the driver.

Anyone who is 'accidentally logged in as someone else' gets a warning... And if they are caught again, a lifetime commercial trucking ban.
year of linux on the gaming console (playstation doesnt count)
He didn't assume that, though, just reported his situation.

From Poland: I have two numbers - one I use for various services, and it's constantly bombarded with spam (multiple calls a day), one I only use to contact family members, sometimes some small companies like when ordering firewood - got two phonecalls from an unknown number within a couple days (and I didn't care to answer), and that's it for almost a year now.
A trivial example is like I mentioned above. In Massachusetts, since there are no voter ID laws, I can walk into my local voting precinct and cast a vote on behalf of anyone whose address and name I know. I could do that as many times as I wanted to, for as many people as I know. I could vote a dozen times as a dozen people with ease. Someone who isn't a registered voter could do the same.

Instances like above probably don't have a direct impact on the outcome of elections (then again, neither does anyone who voted for the losing candidate, no matter how plentiful), but they undermine trust and faith in the democratic process, lower voter efficacy, reduce turnout, etc.
"not a big deal" and "[Helix] bindings are an improvement" are rather subjective in this case I'm afraid
I'd say that there's two different styles of legislation here. AFAIK in the US (and maybe UK too) a producer can put whatever they want into their products but can be sued to death in case sth goes wrong. Most EU countries have a different flavor such that they try to tightly control products and their ingredients upfront. Imho both styles have their pros and cons.
With what data? There’s very little data available for police accountability
>meta knows that they are far far more popular in the population than politicians, and politicians know that if they were to effectively stop facebook, the blowback would be immediate.

If Facebook doesn't want to operate in a region where they're unable to accept payments from local residents that's their business.
Italy is definitely succeeding at protecting its citizens from entering the 21st century.

Let’s be real here. Italy is a dinosaur and scared shitless of change. ChatGPT, lab grown meat, immigration, the list will only get longer.
That's called the system prompt - it's present at the start of every conversation, just to feed in some hints as to how the underlying model should behave.

If you play with the ChatGPT API in the OpenAI Playground developer tool you can set your own system prompt. I used it to create a sentient cheesecake that could answer questions about SQL using cheesecake-based examples yesterday.
AWS has never increased prices though, like since they started. Atleast I can't find any references to any price increase.
The link showing "price/performance ratio for newer instances is rising" is deceptive. It just shows vcpu/hour, which doesn't really measure real world performance. Like m5.large is a significant performance improvement over m4.large. Newer instances also carry improvements not shown in the link.
>Uncertainty aversion predicts the neural expansion of semantic representations

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-023-01561-5
Discussion underway: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35385075
Snowflake seems most similar, plus you would get to stay on GCP.
How would you write the let macro in Io syntax? I can't think of a good way.

Lisp is just less familiar, not necessarily wrong.
Your examples are two opinion pieces that seem to not actually understand what critical race theory even is. Asians aren't a problem for the people who study critical race theory, it's really only a problem for people who have no clue what they're talking about.
Can you tell me more about how moonbit selects a portfolio?
Civil wars start because an absence of the rule of law. I.e. politicians being able to avoid charges simply by virtual of their office.

And why does it matter if the prosecutor has a political ax to grind with Trump?

The distastefulness of the ad hominem attacks is the seeming thought process behind them: {prosecutor is political} == {no crimes he charges can be true}

Do crimes cease being crimes unless the prosecutor is inhumanly unbiased?

That's what a robust defense team is for.
Can you link to any peer reviewed papers that back this statement up? That website is full of charlatans and has poor editorial controls.
TV news hyping death and violence comes on at child-friendly times. My 8 y.o. was watching sport and an advert for a serial killer movie came on replete with horror scenes and knife murder. Warning? You're kidding.

Chat GPT I can manage the same way I can manage search engine and video site use.
I'm not sure how we ended up discussing dll. You were writing about "interfacing with lots of legacy C,C++ and Fortran Code", which is something else entirely. Does this mean that we agree that "interfacing with lots of legacy C,C++ and Fortran Code" is not the issue and that we have moved to another issue?

Dynamic libraries can definitely be a problem, across languages. I've seen plenty of crates that rely on platform-specific .so/.dylib, so I'm not really nervous about that being supported, but it's absolutely possible that there may be Windows-specific issues that I haven't heard about.

edit Complete rewrite, let's hope nobody has responded yet :)
Our intuition says that our code is full of opportunities like this and a "sufficiently smart compiler" ought to be able to work wonders with our code.

Our intuitions are wrong. In reality it takes a shockingly small problem to break these optimizations and make them do something in violation of the semantics of the language, and as a result, the compiler can't perform the optimization even if it is smart enough to try. Many, many, many compilers have tried. It is not a new idea, it is one that has been tried and failed over and over again.

This is one of the reasons why the functional programming crew advocate so hard for simpler semantics like pervasively immutable variables. The idea is that if the program's semantics promise less, the optimizations ought to be a lot easier. And at least at the surface level this is arguably true; Haskell does quite significant map (rather than "loop") fusion successfully. However, to date, the "sufficiently smart compiler" has not manifested to the extent that we'd like, the one that turns functional code into 2x - 3x faster code than imperative code. Generally the real-world smart compilers are straining just to keep up with C, as long as you write in a particular subset of the language.

I have quoted the term "sufficiently smart compiler" because if you want to dig further in, it is a good search term.

Many of our intuitions about our code are similarly broken. There was a lot of hope for exploiting "implicit paralellization" in our codebases; surely, our brains thought, there's just a ton of things in every code base that can be automatically turned into parallel code. That turned out to be false. There was a paper that took some representative code bases and extracted out the theoretical maximum parallelization that could even be done by any conceivable compiler optimization by analyzing the data dependencies themselves and it turned out to be shockingly small, thus effectively killing the idea. This story has been repeated a lot; another search term you can play with is "supercompiler", which amounts to "compilers are pretty good at optimizations in the small, surely our code bases are rife with opportunities to optimize at much higher levels across packages or the entire code base?" to which the answer to date has amounted to "No, not really."

In my opinion, the only hope for any of these ideas is someone sitting down and designing a language from the very get-go intended to work with these ideas. However, given the amount of experience necessary to do that and the subtlety of the task, I'm not sure that I'm not specifying a super-human degree of work by saying that.
https://archive.is/CRucv
> Reddit is overwhelmingly male

What isn't?
> Wildlife has thrived due to a lack of humans

...and due to it not being a poisonous wasteland where life cannot thrive. As evidenced by it thriving.

> not because radiation isn't dangerous.

Somehow you slipped in the assumption that the radiation is definitely dangerous. Why? What is the evidence? The fact that wildlife is thriving?

And of course I never claimed the wildlife thrived because of the radiation.

Though of course there is evidence for the therapeutic effects of low-level radiation, for example:

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/14673618/

> A question I'd have for you would be: are you willing to live with your family an extended period of your lives in a place with a radioactive event like the CEZ?

Straw-man.

"This is not my preferred place to live" ≠ "This is place is uninhabitable".

For example, there are tons of places in my city where I wouldn't want to live. And yet tons of people do live there.

And I am sure there are tons of people who wouldn't want to live where I live. Even though I think it's pretty nice.

If the place is cheap, green, slightly hilly but not too much, with water nearby and excellent transportation options but no noise: sign me up! Certainly if the radiation is at levels of some of the stuff they're removing from Fukushima Prefecture (less than the background radiation in Denver and many other places).
EdgeDB is Postgres so the same constraints apply.
This story is difficult to read as an industry outsider. Unless I’ve misread something, it reads like the driver management company is able to edit the logs in the software to alter driver history, allowing them to exceed drive time safety limits.

I can’t see any way this could happen without clear intent to break the laws. It’s also strange that it’s being done in a way that is plainly obvious to the trucker.
an actually talented version of pomplamoose

I did not expect this at all.
> Braess's paradox is the observation that adding one or more roads to a road network can slow down overall traffic flow through it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Braess%27s_paradox

Please make sure you're measuring and optimizing the right thing, eh?

"Happy hacking!"
Dbt-Excel: Build Data Warehouses on Top of Excel
Not necessarily. Combined with the move to compressed storage, really they're shifting the cost from storage to compute. Storage heavy customers may see their cost go down. Probably this just better aligns the pricing with the cost model.

You might also see a bit of savings by using Autoscaling which wasn't available before.

Net/Net it depends on the specific usage pattern whether your cost will go up or down.

The per-GB price for compressed is higher, but more than offset by the fewer GB being measured, depending on your compression ratio. If the per-GB price doubles and your compression ratio is 8:1, that's a 75% reduction on the storage side.
Ask HN: Why don't we have an emoji of a fig sign?
Valve labels Cyberpunk as verified, which by default tries to get you to play the game at an absurdly low framerate (even by handheld standards).

This means that playability standards aren't high, but rather their goals regarding these standards aren't high enough as they're too focused on some usability aspects (having to touch the screen once to use the "mouse" = no verified) and not caring at all in other regards (how a game actually feels to play on it).

Or you can go with the conspiracy theory that Valve is ok offering verified to publishers who want to pay for it.
I pre ordered my deck on mostly a whim and also because i couldn't get my hand on a decent graphic card around 2021/2022. I used to think that the idea of portable gaming PC was kinda dumb : It's like a gaming laptop and worst in every way.

But i have to admit that i was very wrong, and in the now 8 month i have had the device, it been my main vector for playing games and by a long shot.

The interesting thing about this device, at least in my case his that it changed my preferences in term of which game i buy and mostly play. I almost never play big AAA anymore and nowday focus on simple indie/pixel arts/2D games and for that this console really shines. Actually i would love to trade some of that CPU/APU performance for a better AMOLED screen and smaller size.

Now if only MSFT could also launch a portable console tied to a game pass subscription... One can only dream
Bigquery is one of the tools i’ve been most impressed with the last 20 years. It just works so much faster than I assumed it would.

Unfortunately for Google I think this will push some folks to self host some of the OSS alternatives, but maybe not.

When I think of tools I'd want to pay for outside of barebones VMs in a cloud, the things at the top of my mind are Newrelic and BQ.