skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, the same point applies: Why would a customer who uses the word processor want that?

To play it another way, imagine we did have a word processor that did this and,

A) Word processor A prioritised features customers wanted and the print authors who made the word processor feature didn't make the cut.

B) Word processor B prioritised the author of word processor feature and customers/users preferred the other word processor, so this one stop being maintained. As a result, questions like this one exist where we ask why doesn't a word processor have this feature

It is quite brutal but survivorship bias could explain it too.

I will also point out that the above is one of the main thing YCombinator tries to teach when making stuff, in a way the irrelevancy of the author in their art and the priority of the customer.
>off by a couple of letter at the end of the word

That’s not how base64 works lol
I think the intent here is to say that decoders' current power consumption is reasonable (i.e., within reason), but widening them could make their power consumption unreasonable (i.e., too high).
I recently had a conversation about joining a startup with a really interesting, but complicated, product mostly actualized in a complex JavaScript spa (react).

They wanted a more senior engineer to join so as to help untangle some of the complications and lead the juniors (that built the thing already? Unclear) out of some kind of rats nest they'd been coded into. I never saw the code so I'm not exactly sure what this meant.

Anyway the founder asked me to look into this xstate platform before our call and asked a lot of questions about my understanding of state machines. The founder had this idea that if the team built out a bunch of state charts using this product and like, diagrammed their entire app, that was their ticket out of whatever sticky situation they were in.

I was pretty skeptical at the time and remain so now. This seems like an interesting analysis method, and implementing SPAs in a state machine way (each component being a state machine) is alright I guess, but, especially for a startup, building out these charts feels like a waste of time. To me it seems like fielding early customer feedback and driving features is more important.

My guess is that the engineers had a pretty good idea what was going on but were struggling to explain it in a way the founder understood, or maybe were slowing down on feature implementation, I don't really know, but I'm always so skeptical of slapping more tools and plugins and diagrams onto the stack of things the engineering team has to worry about.

I'm curious if anyone has been on a team in a situation as I've vaguely described here and found state charts useful in getting them out of a hole?
I think we're going to end up looking back on the last 50 years as a lost half-century for nuclear energy. It's unequivocally the safest, cleanest, most abundant and zero-carbon energy source we have. With seawater extraction, it qualifies as renewable.

Chernobyl was an awful incident no doubt, but the USCEAR report shows that it killed about 4000 people over the full course of time. Meanwhile, the US reliance on coal currently kills 25,000 people per year. The next-worst nuclear accident of all time, Fukushima, killed either 0 or 1 person. The next, Three Mile Island killed exactly zero.

We've surely lost millions of lives globally over the last 50 years thanks to sticking to coal when we could have just moved huge quantities of power generation over to nuclear.

In terms of cost, the reality is that a renewable + storage grid is still more expensive that nuclear power is today, let alone has been for the last 50 years.

[1] https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/death-rates-from-energy-p...

[2] https://www.unscear.org/unscear/en/areas-of-work/chernobyl.h...

[3] https://www.forbes.com/sites/jamesconca/2016/07/01/uranium-s...
Lol, incorrect. Sibling reply has it.
This article from 2008 did not age well. Just 3 years later, in Japan...
I hope it can support importing via xml file.
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FYI, from latest Firefox's JS console:

Cookie “navigator_countries” is invalid because its size is too big. Max size is 4096 B.

Cookie “navigator_cities” is invalid because its size is too big. Max size is 4096 B.
And what happens if your application does not handle the LLM response correctly (buffer overflow anyone)? Yep your own LLM will attack you.

Get your popcorn ready, remember the silly silly exploits of the early 2000s? We are about to experience them all over again! :D
There are also other considerations, like rolling back state in OOO machines, or precise exceptions. All this becomes more complex with an x86-style instruction set.

It's not really more complex, because those are backend concerns and work on the uop level, after the instructions have already been decoded into uops.
x86 is not a very CISCy CISC, compared to VAX or 68020. x86 has relatively simple addressing modes and often limits instructions to one memory operand.

It would be interesting to see how well a modern VAX or 68k could compete with x86 and ARM.
>A licensed existing solution or something custom?

We went with something licensed.

>Do you think this applies to most use cases?

I should have included "time slotting AND channel hopping." Given how congested the 2.4GHz band is, I think it does apply to a lot of battery powered use cases (especially wearables). Some use cases see a far greater benefit than others. The deployment environment also plays a big part.

If you have a lot of traffic on a channel, the radio hops to another channel so there's reduced error rates (reduced transmission reattempts = saved energy).

If you have a quiet radio environment and a lot of devices that communicate infrequently or a very small number of devices on the mesh, you may not see a huge benefit.

One downside of a time slot channel hopping protocol is that you need a more expensive crystal in your hardware for accurate time keeping/scheduling. Upside is that you have a reduced total cost of ownership as you need to buy fewer replaceable batteries.
I’m pretty sure all citizens are able to get government issued ID
He's still active on e.g. his GitLab: https://gitlab.com/esr

I guess he just got bored of writing blog posts.
Yes but it didn't go there because one the the government announced that every clerk got that much money. The economy grew and wages went up over time.

You can just say 'everybody gets a billion $ an hour' by law and have a great economy.
That part of China along the river Yangtze was unusually stripped of trees going from Chungking to Shanghai but there was grass growing. I've seen twin hills where one was left alone and the other stripped mined for metal to feed ww1, there no trees or grass grew. It may as well have been on Mar
You can easily sell a few Lyft shares. You cannot easily sell a billion dollars worth of Lyft shares because the market is not liquid enough for that. If you seriously think there's somebody out there with that kind of money just waiting to buy at current market price, please say who you think they are, because I believe they don't exist.

The major shareholders of Lyft are absolutely known, and that's because federal law requires disclosure from everybody over 5%. And I promise you that people who have or who are thinking about taking a serious position in Lyft pay attention to what they're doing.

An obvious example here is Musk's shenanigans with the Twitter acquisition. He was required to declare his stake publicly, which bumped the stock price. When things weren't going his way, he threatened to dump his whole stake at once, the implication being that the stock price would drop precipitously as he burned through the order book, causing much sadness among remaining investors.
Just 3 years later in Japan, an incident occurred where zero people died attributable to the fact the plant was nuclear. As of last year, they're back on the nuclear train. [1]

[1] https://www.nationalobserver.com/2022/12/22/news/japan-goes-...
There's a brand in Brazil, called Kuba[1], selling a self-repairable, upgradable headphones called Disco for a while now. Originally wired, they're releasing a Bluetooth version and old models are upgradable to the new wireless protocol (owners just need to buy the new Bluetooth arc).

[1] https://kuba.audio/
In a nutshell, one rover planner (that's what drivers / arm operators are called) writes the sequence of commands, a second rover planner checks it and then walks through it line-by-line out loud with another ~2 rover planners watching. Then the second rover planner walks through the whole thing again with many other teams listening in and asking questions.

The first rover planner also consults with a surface properties scientist during development of the drive command sequence.

So, if things go wrong it's never really any single person's fault. But still, that first rover planner drafting the initial version of the command sequence bears a fair amount of responsibility.
Apple sells its products to its markets, and is mostly uninterested in the data center and embedded market. The support costs are large, and the margins are small-ish.

Which is too bad for the industry, but also lucky for the industry.

I mean, they were the first 64-bit ARM chip, period. In fact, everyone mocked it, but they also trembled in fear because 64-bit.
> If cell phones posed a danger to flight safety,

... the demand to have them be switched off or put on airplane mode would've been stringently controlled. It's mostly an FCC issue where a mobile device flying above would try to connect to many base stations.

If the airlines really care, they can tell passengers that leaving the phone radio on will drain their batteries hard as the devices will be desperately trying to regain connectivity, that would get many people to turn these things off/onto airplane mode.
I thought that’s what AI was for?

/s maybe
(Capitalization matters folks)
Most companies are anonymous, it's even in the name: SA - Société anonyme
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Oh yeah when thy rich can mostly openly, or at least legally, buy politicians nothing will change.

I hope the US can pull themselves out, but everyone seems stuck quibbling over the extremes of minor issues, rather than important difficult topics.
Japan proved that despite all our best precautions and designs this fundamentally unsafe.
>Why dont we call leather what it is - chemically treated skin

Because that's literally the definition of leather: "a material made from the skin of an animal by tanning or a similar process."

You may as well argue we should call headphones "a pair of earphones joined by a band placed over the head, for listening to audio signals such as music or speech."
I don't see what the Irish famine has to do with the mao's "mistakes". Trying to distract from the conversation by talking about other atrocities doesn't prove any point.

It was an economic protest by students? Did thousands die by the hands of tanks and rifles? Or was it peacefully disbanded? Why aren't you allowed to even mention it China if it was so benign? I'm guessing you aren't living there right now or else you would be too scared to mentioned it for fear of being disappeared.

Why no response about those massive schools with armed guards in Xinjiang? The government has admitted they are "reeducating" them. The buildings are obviously there and in huge numbers.
… very few people were harmed in a worst-case scenario for nuclear? I don’t see your point.
Par for the course in most countries it seems. Including the US
Wouldn't this feature result in happier and more motivated programmers though? And maybe you would end up with a better word processor overall?
> Yes, I know that does not include the US. But shall we go on being intimidated by that hamburger-munching bunch of arrogant s*ckers?

I see flaming was already a thing back then.
I would be stunned if Vore couldn't ingest OPML.
Yes I have one that has one fried chip. Once I gave another a Bykski water block with backplate it's been no issue for a year
I read up more and it's actually many many non-leguminous plants it attacks too. Seems like basically anything. There are native pests like that for pretty much every plant that grows in large populations so I highly doubt it found a new niche. It's success specifically seems to be due to just how much of a generalist it actually is

A more likely, though surely still incomplete, explanation may be due to the fact that the insecticides you need to repel it are broad spectrum and would kill beneficial insects just as well. Most other bugs that fulfill this ecological role have very targeted insecticidal sprays. So they end up at a comparative disadvantage to this generalist

A more likely explanation for their sudden decline imo is that there was probably some virus or other disease that evolved to pray on this now-ubiquitous bug. The bug also has a very particular relationship with its symbiotic gut microbes that seems really important. Such a virus/disease could also have targeted this symbiote. Either way I think the more likely explanation is that this generalist was countered with something that learned to specialize in it
Twitter is often used to distribute messages from the political opposition and to organize protests. Banning one account means a single voice is silenced before the election. Banning Twitter means it is harder for the opposition to organize an effective protest.
If that was the intended meaning of "shallow", why does the number of eyeballs matter? I think the more obvious interpretation is "quickly discovered".
For years (decade? decades?) this has been the promise of distributed solar and storage, and been analogized to how developing countries leapfrogged to wireless telecom without the expensive wired last-mile telecom stage.

The grid is very valuable, but it's also very expensive, and as storage and solar get really cheap, while grid costs stay stagnant, we may arrive at a future for which decentralized, disconnected microgrids are the cheapest energy solution for large chunks of the world.
There's been amazing hype/crash cycles about the next thing that will drive pharma forward every 5-10 years since the 60's. Hopefully, AI (representing more complex statistics with more data on more hardware) will do better than the last few. The non-linear modeling isn't new (look up Gasteiger's and similar groups) but the sheer amount of data and CPU power is impressive.

Hopefully, the models are stable and predictive. And that the dog doesn't up and die during development.
...an old, deprecated design which had been mismanaged was struck by both an earthquake and a tidal wave, and no one died from the power plant failing.

Meanwhile, coal kills tens of thousands every year from pollution, windmills kill engineers and maintenance workers, and shoddy solar installs and battery banks set fire to buildings.

Nuclear is far from perfect, but Fukushima is a terrible example of the dangers of nuclear power.
> renewable + storage grid is still more expensive that nuclear power is today

This isn't true.

Leveled, unsubsidized cost ($/MWh) of:

Utility scale solar + storage: $46 - $102

Onshore wind + storage: $42 - $114

Nuclear: $141 - $221

Source: https://www.lazard.com/research-insights/2023-levelized-cost... (have to download the linked PDF: https://www.lazard.com/media/ruwg1jol/lazards-lcoeplus-april...)
> supporters cited difficulty navigating seating at restaurants and theatres, getting turned away by landlords, and butting up against weight limits on the city's bike sharing programme

Sort of implies that they want special treatment for fat people as opposed to equality. Does this mean that seats all have to be designed for the biggest person possible?

In this fantasy world, as someone well above average height, I'm also discriminated against. With more basis in an immutable characteristic. Shouldn't I also get special tall person seating and whatever with extra space? Can I get a suv for the price of a compact car because I don't fit in one?
Not as unsafe as using coal instead of nuclear, and pushing the world towards a climate disaster.

Climate change has already done much more damage to Europe than Chernobyl.
All I know is, the parts of my app that I implemented with state machines are by far the most stable, least buggy.

fwiw, if xstate feels like too much for whatever reason, https://thisrobot.life has seemed like a decent alternative to me.
150 square kilometers was made uninhabitable.
I look forward to the day when ISA doesn't matter.

Picking an ARM laptop because right now the technology is better suited to mobile applications while having an x86 desktop because that's the best technology for that right now seems sensible.

Translation layers are constantly improving - maybe soon we will be able to play games and run software with the same level of performance/reliability regardless of the CPU architecture.
it isn't a "personal boogeyman" because it's literally in the text of the bill. you seem intent on pretending that this is related solely to "procedures" which apply to everyone when that is plainly not what the bill states.

(g) “Health care service” means medical research, medical
98 procedures, or medical services, including, but not limited to,
99 testing; diagnosis; referral; dispensing or administering any
100 drug, medication, or device; psychological therapy or
101 counseling; research; therapy; recordmaking procedures; set up
102 or performance of a surgery or procedure; or any other care or
103 services performed or provided by any health care provider.
104 (h) “Participate” or “participation” means to pay for or
105 take part in any way in providing or facilitating any health
106 care service or any part of such service.

furthermore:

(5) IMMUNITY FROM LIABILITY.—A health care provider or
195 health care payor may not be held civilly liable solely for
196 declining to participate in or pay for a health care service on
197 the basis of a conscience-based objection.

meaning, a secretary in a doctor's office can prevent a gay person from making an appointment for any "procedure" at all because doing so would be facilitating a health care service that they personally object to.

here's the bill text: https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2023/1580/BillText/er/.... it's quite short, you should read it.
If you follow a proper state machine design then it should be exportable as a diagram, I’d assume.

I worked in a team that modeled with state machines and it was useful but I was the most junior member at 7 years experience
The Xserve had Intel Xeon versions, not sure why the termination of that line would have anything to to do with the intel transition, since they got deprecated three years after the transition was complete.
That was in no way the worst case scenario
At the end of the article, it reads like BTS was already about to be dropped by Amazon before the unionization was announced.

It sounds like it could be a Hail Mary by BTS ownership. Why else would an employer immediately concede to union demands? Especially when they know they’re bound to a strict contract with Amazon on pay?

They might be hoping a court rules that Amazon must adhere to the contract. Otherwise, they’re out of business.
No, I like them, I don't know if it would be a good fit but it seems worth trying

Seems like ribbons are quite a divisive issue
I think I use the same generator for my RV.
the key trick is that once you outsource enough of your key competitive advantage - the question arises - what is the company and who creates value - contractors or company management?

why shouldn't these contractors open their own company, do the same work and capture entire value they produce, instead of working for fixed salary?
I visited China before Covid, on Chinese airlines I flew on, the use of powerbanks was prohibited during flight. It seems they're aware that the chances of a dodgy lithium ion battery in their midst is a lot higher.

The airport luggage scanners are also able to detect lithium ion batteries, one time I was sure I didn't have any in my check-in luggage, but the scanner detected an 800mAh camera battery...
And yet, after 30 years of effort from various different, talented people and teams, with historical knowledge of eg, StrongTalk, and Self, and Common Lisp, and Java, and JavaScript, we've yet to see any major leaps in Python performance.

So, in my opinion, it's clearly not as simple as just taking all of that existing knowledge and a good team and just doing it, or one of the many efforts to do so would almost certainly have succeeded by now.
Corinth is famous for its leather!
You are completely wrong, I wish I could put it nicer. Most businesses have anonymous shareholders, either by design or not. For most companies that you do business with, you have no idea who is the owner or beneficiary. For example if you pumped gas or purchased products at a supermarket.
Would you happen to have a list of your blocks?
They are still problems. They can be somewhat neutered when they clearly go against the spirit of the law. Unfortunately, this is not the case here: since the spirit of the law is effectively to move decisive power from patient to doctor on grounds of personal and un-objective opinions, aberrations fit pretty nicely inside it.

Notice how amendments to protect sexual orientation were rejected; that is very much a "worst case" (and statistically significant) that could have been easily avoided, bringing no ill-effects, additional ambiguity or implementation costs. Still, the legislator explicitly decided that case will fit in the law.
I believe the story but I’m having trouble understanding how that would be worth the effort unless you were truly starving (which it seems like she wasn’t, since she called it a “light snack”) - what is there, a half ounce of meat on a sparrow?
But all nuclear power plants get old - it's the only way they can make the huge up front costs work.

And it seems every single technology proposed by nuclear advocates is rapidly deprecated. Notably replacement designs are almost all completely experimental.
> What is the evolutionary reason for the blood brain barrier?

I'm honestly not trying to pick a fight, but could you clarify what that question means?
> I've come to the conclusion that the data model for bookmarking and sharing (all metadata being tightly coupled to the URL) doesn't really work in the age of highlights and comments

could you elaborate on this a bit? it sounds like an interesting idea but i’m afraid i couldn’t grasp it
ARM is a weird beast across the spectrum of RISC designs. The original ISA design is inspired by Berkley RISC (which had only two stage pipeline) and then optimized to what can be reasonably cheaply done in the silicon process used, with the hardware implementation bearing striking similarity to traditional non pipelined "CISC" designs. This design for made cheap implementation of various instructions, like four operand ALU operations or instructions that do multiple memory accesses, which are more or less unthinkable in other RISC designs designed for pipelining and 1 IPC.
Guess which is older, Moldova's .md TLD or markdown? Just because we aren't going to go retroactively revoking TLDs doesn't mean we should actively make the problem worse.

For the same reason we probably shouldn't start using the COM file extension for something again.
If anything’s true about Internet / hacker / open source culture at the time, it’s that the bar was lower for someone to have a following of devoted fetishists willing to spread the Good Word. People can call it 20/20 hindsight all they want, and some of it is, but looking at all these sacred cows for what they are through a modern lens is important. ESR was, and is, a tool. So much of what was written and highly regarded Back Then is just poorly written self-congratulatory nerdy fairytales with an arguable connection to reality.