skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That page is showing generation not use. 83% of the power SA generated was renewable, but it wasn't enough to cover their use, so they imported 28% of their power from interstate, renewables cover 45% and the rest was gas. Other states are too big to just import 28% of their power. SA is small enough they can shut down their coal and just import coal-based power from Victoria.

Meanwhile Qld, Vic and NSW each produced more than triple the renewable power SA did today.
How about you read up on the miracle of Wörgl? http://unterguggenberger.org/en/freigeld-woergl-19321933/

I am tired of this nonsense.

Alternative systems have been attempted, they worked, they were subsequently banned because they worked too well.
If the ~$800 billion cleanup costs of a Fukushima event werent fully borne by taxpayers then maybe the safety regulations wouldnt have to be as onerous.

But they are, and Ive never heard of a single pro nuclear advocate ever argue that nuclear power is safe enough that this enormous subsidy should be unwound. They generally pretend it doesnt exist.

Meanwhile solar/wind/storage is a lot cheaper even without taking this subsidy into account.
static_assert is all you need (no leaks, no UB)
With C++20 almost anything can be used in constexpr context (vector, unique_ptr, virtual, function, etc.) and as long as it's in the scope it can be tested at compile time which guarantees memory safatey, no UB, etc. Additionally, since constexpr can be executed at run-time and code has been tested at compile-time already therefore 'static_assert' is (almost) all you need - https://godbolt.org/z/P4cqboGx6.
I believe this class: https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~213/

With this textbook: https://csapp.cs.cmu.edu/

Is the gold standard of education for the question you are asking.

There is probably a class on compilers if you thirst for even more depth.

I suppose it's important to mention that your selection of python matters a lot because the language itself is very meaningful to the behavior you want to understand.

Can you explain what malloc is and why it is needed in C? Do you know what %rip is? If you understand those concepts, then the question you are asking is very different than the question you are asking if you don't.

If you understand those concepts you are asking: "How does python work?"

If you do not understand those concepts you are asking: "How does memory management work?"
I've been enjoying this channel a lot to stay up to date on the topic at least superficially. The information is very condensed and he doesn't just read through whole paragraphs on websites to pad the video.
OK thanks. I imagined the distinction to be that a BIOS functions as an API and abstraction layer over the hardware, without preventing the OS from accessing it directly, whereas a hypervisor functions as an isolation layer, preventing an OS from direct access, and also thereby facilitating simultaneous hosting of multiple OSes on the same hardware.
I see where you included metrics as a starting point like how long an article takes to read. Maybe like a word count approach as a starting point.

Thinking about understanding the content of an article and seeing who's most likely to be referencing that content in their post is more of what I had in mind.
You mentioned the two methods I had in mind. These days there is a third one, but it seems to require cooperation from Windows Update. MSI (for example) uses it. As far I as can see, they simply create a fake ACPI node for which Windows Update will silently download a "driver", which in turn downloads the crapware.
You have it backwards. The only reason for novel compounds is their lack of regulation or that their potency makes smuggling easier. It's definitely not a demand-side thing.
Between 1963 and 1965, I had a good paper route (i.e. a set of customers to which I delivered newspapers each morning before school). I found myself flush with cash. I can’t remember exactly, but I think I was paid around $7 per week.

I bought four things with this fortune: a bike, a tennis racket, swim fins, and a fancy Pickett slide rule. I sill have the slide rule with its belt holster, it sits in my office next to my desk, a memento of my early interest in math and science.

I used the bright yellow slide rule along with my abacus a couple years later as a prop in a public speaking class to explain the difference between analog and digital computers. In high school, we are expected to use slide rules for chemistry and physics classes.

My trusty yellow slip stick also accompanied me to MIT where everyone used them. They were ubiquitous. I even had friends that owned circular slide rules. In that time, when only institutions could afford electronic computer, there were even cylindrical slide rules; their helical scales being long enough to obtain a fourth digit of precision.

I needed the slide rule one more time around 1988: it was for a popular Halloween party regularly hosted by a coworker at IBM. My costume was a taped together pair of heavy framed glasses, a shirt buttoned to the top, high water pants, pocket protector full of colored pens, and my well worn slide rule holster hanging from my belt. I saw L.L., an IBM Fellow, there and he said, “Hi Todd, didn’t you realize this is a costume party.”
they don't pay the grad student $46k a year. they pay them $24k a year (or more likely $20k for 9 months), and then the university makes up a number for "tuition" and takes an extra $15k arbitrarily.
The notion that the meaning is intrinsic is hogwash.

A word without someone ascribing it meaning means nothing.

A word has meaning because we give it to it, and we give it that meaning based on context.

Some of that context is remote in time and space (we learned the word ball a long time ago), some is near (that it occurs near "back yard" and "round rubbery thing" makes it more likely it's that thing we use to play games rather than a testicle or a party where people dance), but it is wholly dependent on context.

Put it alongside words in a different language, for example, and it might have a whole other set of potential meanings.
ah famous last words, in the flesh
More than likely a plant will have a lifetime supply of lithium and other blanket materials on site before it is turned on. The fuel costs really do drop to effectively zero on MCF devices.

Cost of cryogens, cost of steel, cost of working nitronic, cost of Beryllium, and cost of superconductors are the dominant sources to track.
I mean you can find the US to be rife with corruption that has been normalized as "freedom." We are free to starve and not receive healthcare and never afford a home. While the rich and corporations can avoid taxes and Congress can legally insider trade. China, which covered its landmass with high speed rail, is landing rovers on Mars and is building a ton of new nuclear reactors. The Chinese really seem to have found a benevolent dictator in Xi. I'd rather have healthcare even if I'm not allowed to criticize the government on the internet.
Doomsday to utopia: Meet AI’s rival factions
I got my wife to upgrade to an M1. I still have a haswell i7 and responsiveness of on a different scale. But to be fair, I had to use a ROG zen machine while my Lenovo was in repair and it felt close in responsiveness.
I think you're right, there is a danger of a revisionist aspect due to the fact that so many people have iPhones in their pockets. We might end up with "Steve Jobs invented the personal computer" as the layman's opinion of computer history. There were dozens of other machines that could have easily been the Apple II and Apple had a great amount of luck. One anecdote I remember reading is the guys that wrote VisiCalc (which was a strong reason Apple became successful) were originally intending to write it for the Commodore PET. When they went to start coding for the first time all the PETs were in use but an Apple II was available. A butterfly flaps it's wings and all that.
When I went from my Intel MBP (was the prior gen) to my first M1 MBA it cut my java test suite times in 1/2. I dug in thinking something was broken, but nope, it was that much faster.

As another poster said, I bought a M1 Max, 64gb when they came out and it still feels new speed wise. Unless something breaks, this computer should last a really long time.
I wonder how long did it take 1 for creating such a big job?
Rules like this already exist.
I've used a Mac in my previous job and it was OK experience. The M1's hardware is truly great (I bought one for myself as well, since I didn't have a laptop at the time) and I like the portability. There are a lot of smaller features that I really like, but the overall experience for development is just not there. I use mostly my desktop setup for dev work. I can attach different machines to my monitor or use picture in picture or side by side (49" ultrawide). Last year I was back on Linux for a few months to see if that was going to be "the year of the Linux desktop" for me. I've done this every year for a few months for the past decade. However, unfortunately yet again I've went back to Windows 10. The same nagging issues with things just randomly stopping working on Linux keep showing up after time. Ten years of the same thing. Windows (with WSL) despite all of its flaws and bullshit seems to be the best OS for development. I find that very sad to be honest.
You can play Doom on your phone as well. That's not an argument that it is a suitable media for FPS.
Mooney is the best! Wasnt he the first westerner to have a legit psychedelic trip? From peyote. Magic mushrooms were only discovered by westerners in 1957.
I'm pretty sure that already exists. Any post that doesn't link or links to sites like GitHub, Substack and Medium are downranked.
It’s a good philosophical exercise to imagine what’s left of the meaning of a word if you strip all context from it.

What is a word if it doesn’t reference anything, if it has no context? Isn’t this like a pointer without referencing an address?

I’ll give you that words can reference tokens of other modalities like hearing and such, but that is still the same problem.
Movie scene generated with text2video, by RunwayML [video]
Big picture is that theyre not just cheaper but 5x cheaper.

In fact it's so much cheaper that it's even more economic to use solar/wind to synthesize natural gas and burn that to generate electricity.

Never mind all of the cheaper short term storage options (pumped storage, batteries).

And this doesnt even account for the storage nuclear power would need (it's even less economic to use it for load following) or the need for taxpayer indemnification against catastrophe cleanup costs.
Would an LLM predicting the next bit rather than the next token have any advantages over GPT? In some ways it seems more general - for example it can predict an image or even executable machine code. I'm guessing that it's more difficult to train however?
Stuff like that makes me wonder who buys device for that? Or is that just a business unit that's delusional enough to think this actually increases sales?
Apples increase in sales in 2020/2021 was also the steepest among computer makers.

Are modern journalists and business people really so dumb to think that spike trends will continue growing?
Both look the same as the US ones when I goggle them.

I think it’s a lot less common for them to be holiday homes in the US but it’s not unheard of. My family owns a vacation condo across from what you would call vaste staaplaats and they actually look very nice. A lot of people may not know they are trailers.

Both types seem to attract interesting types of people that’s for sure.
It took me almost 11 years to replace my i7 2600k and I only replaced it because I no longer use a desktop computer. Some M1 users will keep their chip for 10+ years.
> The REPL is not on par. You can run an in-editor REPL and build your entire program in a REPL session. Combined with tap you can visualize your output on the fly.

In Python you could just open up a notebook if you wanted that.
Because the 15" Windows laptop screen size is the most popular, by far.

It makes a lot of sense. 13" is a tad bit too small for students and office workers. 15" is more comfortable for productivity.

I assume that laptop buyers will focus on productivity. Otherwise, they'd just use their iPads/tablets for media consumption.
Gradient descent: why it work so well?
Only in countries that will cling to welfare programs.
> I can't understand where people got their idea that M2 had to absolutely be an OMG moment. That's literally what Apple has been doing since forever: release a major upgrade, iterate on it for a few years, repeat.

Maybe not so much that people were expected to get their socks knocked off once again but mostly that M1 Max/Pro are more than enough for years to come for the majority of the people that got them.

Heck, I have a M1Air and a M1Max16. I can't even max it out with my current usage. Hard to justify the slight bump for the M2 given the cost in the EU. Even if M3 would double the performance and battery life would still be a hard sell.
Perhaps non-tech corporations without the means to implement CI/CD would appreciate end-device performance gains?

Regardless, other laptop vendors have mostly caught up in performance anyway. Mobility might have a better case to be made.
Seems like you may appreciate https://vite-plugin-ssr.com/ (I'm its author).
You can put epicycle around epicycle, but there's a lot of computational efficiency in a score which can be calculated from an integer and a timestamp.
What makes you say this? Even if not in totality, I could well imagine that an AI painter might be very well suited to being a copilot for this type of project.

Think dall-e image extender + style transfer + pop culture knowledge of these characters + some human seeded descriptions of the scenes.
It was pointed out to me about a decade ago that is actually the “normies” who need higher-performance computers than seasoned professionals.

Folks who know how computers work tend to subliminally optimize it, knowing when go quit apps, how to manage windows, patience with processes that logically take extra time, etc.

It’s the neophytes and dilettantes that run all their apps at the same time, have dozens of windows with hundreds of tabs open all the time, and are prone to freaking out when their system “beachballs”.

I coaxed my CEO — a business guy who happens to be in tech - into getting the M2 Air, watched a lot of his frustrations melt away. Between all the performance and battery life, it was a slam dunk. Meanwhile, I was running “compile workloads” on a wimpier 8gb M1 Air and sailing!
So it is not related to the textual token next to it but a token of another modality? (Like touch or sight?)

I think so too, but how is that intrinsic? It’s still contextual.

I think constricting it to text only is a mistake. Tokens can represent anything.
Why does this have to be a zero-sum game? Fix the root problems and reduce harm and get out of the pulpit.
You don't need any sort of large toolchain. In short, a UEFI application works like this (from memory so some details may be wrong): The system calls your main function with a parameter for the address of a struct. That struct contains a function pointer which you can call to get other structs known as protocols. Those protocols contain function pointers which you use for everything else (putting images on the screen, setting callbacks for keyboard input, making network requests, etc.).

All you need is the function signatures and the constants to lookup the protocols, it's no more than you need to use any other C library. I can tell you from experience that if all you want to do is textual IO you only need a few hundred lines of header files: https://github.com/liampwll/zig-efi-os
s/power users/OS tinkerers. Not everybody who tinkers with their OS is a power user, and there are power users that (more or less) only care about how well Excel runs.

I also think “feels hostile” is the right expression. Apple isn’t hostile to OS tinkerers, but has different priorities, and doesn’t cater for them as much as they would want.
It's like summoning a demon to make you some mediocre coffee
Have zero cost abstractions gone too far?
I don't understand this blog post. The authors says that HN is great for discussions. Then they go on to suggest a different ranking algorithm? Why? To answer the authors question: I would change absolutely nothing about HN. It's great for discussions as is.

Edit: I suppose there is some insinuation that HN doesn't really use the original algorithm, and this is the author's attempt to reconstruct what's going on. Is that what I was missing?
A search engine for your personal network of high-quality websites
https://habr.com/ru/companies/floor796/articles/673318/ - The process of creating a project is described here. The material is called Rendering a large animation in the browser or how I left mp4 to my own video format
There's a cycle here where once you have a conviction record, you're very unemployable. That didn't used to be the case in the US...back in the 80's and prior, only really big employers could do thorough background checks, more undocumented jobs/work, etc. It's also not the case in other countries where the government just gives employers a yes/no of a candidate/job pairing based on the offense. Chronic unemployment is underrated as a one of the underlying problems.
Indeed, their pricing is way off, the low end models are too pricy for most non tech users.

When you start getting up to the models with 16gb ram/512gb disks, which I consider an absolute minimum, their price is jut too insane for many tech users.
I have the maxed out 2020 16" Macbook Pro, the last of the Intel ones. I really wanted to buy M1 and M2 one, and I have the means, but the existing one just works too well still for me to justify the expense to myself.

Also, when I go and finally buy one, I think I'll just won't need the maxed out version anymore, and will prioritise portability over power, so I'll pay less. Simply because of reports about how powerful M1/2 is.
"benevolent"

"not allowed to criticize"
This is a demo for the new GBA 16-step sequencer STEPPER. It features an intuitive workflow inspired by Elektron instruments with per-trigger parametrization that allows access to the 4 DMG sound channels in the console (2 square waves channels, 1 custom wave channel and 1 noise channel). Supports 4 banks of 8 patterns that can be queued for live performance.
https://www.nand2tetris.org/

Might also interest you.
I really don't think it works that way. You can for sure write code that will leak and otherwise be UB but run compile-time just fine.
Pretty much the same in the US. Even those doing webdev. Non-Windows is still very outlier.
Those are all just normal imaginary numbers. The question is why, when we can't answer a question, we don't just invent a symbol, say it's the answer to the question, and call it a day.

It's a stupid question, but it's not related to your response.
> Sure, that's an option. It's also an option to only write for loops.

I gave you a solution that solves readability and costs you nothing in performance, and you reject it without saying why. *shrug*

> Reduce is a superset of map/filter

Edit: you're saying that reduce can be abused into a map and a filter. Yes, okay I take your point.

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> I meant the actual map, filter, and reduce functions that are part of python

I think you meant "not part of python", I guess I'd agree on that, but then again it's irrelevant. I don't care what mechanism you use to iterate over a list and apply a function to every item, whether it be a comprehension or a map function. The end result is the same, and I'd argue that comprehensions are, or can be, a little cleaner syntactically.
> if someone wants to maintain their PR score, they need to actively engage

Wouldn't that encourage people to "actively engage" even when they have nothing to say just to keep their score?

Goodhart's law comes into mind here. People who want to stay relevant on this site will take your measure as their target. There's no system that can't be gamed if you know the rules. But the more "rock solid" you try to make those rules, the more you embed intrinsic discrimination between participants. You put "Proof of Work" in the rules and you alienate newcomers while all the rest do "busywork".

Your own comments and submissions would sink like a stone because you didn't engage enough, regardless of how interesting your points are.
Throw the PDFs in some of the available askGPTs and ask away.
> Also, to confirm a C-execs "vision". He can always say "<big firm> agrees with this too".

This is the crux of it. GP described the process but not the reasoning. Consultancy come in to help management push a vision. One or two VPs may not be able to get their vision but if one of the big 4 supports them it will likely be easier to get buy in.
How Vladimir Putin Saved NATO
I've been using a Mac M1 for over a year at work because my company likes Mac. I particularly would love to have Windows as an option.

I feel that everything is just a little harder and slower in MacOS vs Windows - one very obvious and memorable problem is the massive installation times for OS updates. Overall, as a result of a number of annoyances here and there, I'm less productive with a Mac despite its great hardware.
What human wasn't trained?

Even a child raised by wolves gets training.
I got it to extrude a cylinder into a sinusoidal, guiding it by feeding it back screenshots of the scene converted to ascii.
It's worse than at the places where I rented before. I might've been lucky with friendly neighbors and it's a small sample size, but I've heard similar experiences from friends. You could still get a bad experience with a commercial land lord of course (like you seem to have, you have my sympathies, problems at home suck).

What I did understand is that higher rent works as a filter. People with signification socialization problems usually aren't making a lot of money and can't afford high rent, so a building with high rent will filter them out. That's not to say that you'll have great neighbors there, but they probably won't throw trash out of the window or be overwhelmed by concepts like airflow or sound propagation, and they'll have at least some amount of impulse control. I'd avoid properties with government-subsidized apartments if I ever looked for an apartment again.
The argument seems fairly straight-forward:

Twitter has a definition for what they consider state-affiliated media. NPR doesn't fit this definition. Thus, if they brand them as state-affiliated, they are not going from their own definition, and they must have other reasons.

Why is it acceptable for Twitter to have a definition of state-affiliated media, and then apply the branding to a media organisation that doesn't fit this definition?

Or are you just saying that there isn't a difference between state-affiliated media, and state-funded media?