skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not Navy, just did some technical diving when I was younger. Most likely the signature of the implosion was picked up by the old fixed hydrophone arrays that form the backbone of submarine surveillance. It would have been like a really loud thunderclap as about 20 cubic meters of interior volume (and 5 people) tried to instantaneously squeeze into 0.05 cubic meters (about the space 2/3rds of 1 human usually occupies)… odds are hydrophones were still picking it up hours later and thousands of miles away.

And yeah, they knew pretty quick that a sound consistent with an implosion was heard at a time consistent with the loss of communication… not entirely sure why there wasn’t more communication of that earlier, though. Probably some fairly rich constituents pushing on the political side for a showy (and costly) rescue attempt that was always going to end up being a salvage and recovery operation.

Now that the engineering choices have become clear it’s no wonder this happened… they really had “disrupted” their way into a time bomb.
I won a Xeon Phi programming manual at an Intel talk; I can assure you that even though it's easy to program, it is absolutely not easy to optimise. The amount of compiler+profiler+cilk+… tooling Intel had to provide was impressive.
> I have lived all over with no car.

You've actually only lived in a couple very small, very homogenous, places at the center of dense mass-transit networks.
> Why you don’t recommend it to anyone?

I don't recommend emacs because the vast majority of packages have "Lisp Incompletion Syndrome"--they get the easy 80% right and leave you to get bitten by the difficult 20%.

lsp-mode and tramp still have bad Heisenbug interactions even after you get the correct incantations to make them not crash. Other packages are similar.

There are a few very core packages that work well. Everything else is in sufficient disrepair that you will have to pick the broken pieces up off the floor at fairly regular intervals.
Huh, kind of weird to think about the holding company still being the same corporation and that it was created from the merger of a bunch of old-timey manufacturing companies. That’s a lot of history!

I wonder if Berkshire Hathaway-the-corporate-entity has all kinds of weird historical liabilities from whatever horrible environmental practices early 20th century textile mills engaged in.
If your goal is become a better programmer, your time is better spent working on challenging programming problems.

If you enjoy math, go do some math. It might help you see problems differently. If you don't enjoy math, don't grind through it.

In general, the best advice for the question "I want to get better at $skill, should I study $subject?" is "just do $skill"
The difference between the world now, and the world in 2050, will have to be much larger than the difference in the world of 1996 and now, in order for this to happen.

Without carbon capture it seems impossible to me. A person burns one plastic bag in their garden, and boom, no net zero.
SpaceX changing Starship stage separation ahead of next launch
I think the best lesson to learn here is that we should never jump to any conclusions about rapidly changing situations in which there is very little verifiable information and a ton of astroturfing and disinformation by a variety of interested parties.
Didn't happen that way. Buffett noticed Berkshire's stock went up every time they sold a mill-- so he started buying it before it planned to sell another mill to make a quick buck.

Then his dad died and Berkshire management slighted him by an 1/8th. So he used other people's money to buy management out in what he admits was an irrational mistake. He closed down his entire partnership at the same time. He actually lost a lot of money keeping Berkshire's mills afloat as opposed to just reinvesting all the money in other ventures, but felt a personal obligation to the workers.
From my preliminary investigation of Lemmy, it does seem to have RSS feeds for communities, but could not find them for individual posts - which is a bit of a shame.
At a certain density, though, power budgets come into consideration.

For 2 or 4 sockets per RU, you could be dealing with hundreds of kW per rack, and the heat that entails.

For certain deployments that could make sense. For others, a lower power, but still high core count solution could be better.
> which has been used for more than 150 years by city officials as a mass burial site for those with no next-of-kin, or families who cannot afford funerals.

Interesting. Good to know and also not the impression I got from just "mass burials".

> Normally, about 25 bodies a week are interred on the island, according to the Associated Press news agency. But burial operations have increased from one day a week to five days a week, with around 24 burials each day

> It is not clear how many of the dead have no next-of-kin or could not afford a funeral.

That's a pretty important question to answer. Any idea?

And that was early enough in understanding COVID that it would make sense to do this kind of small mass burial with hazmat suits even if the death rate was unchanged.
Part of the reason is we underfund infrastructure: for roads and public transport.

E.g., we constantly tax road users to "fund" other schemes and infrastructure (but even those ending needing even more money magically)

Example: https://www.sfchronicle.com/politics/article/bridge-toll-hik...
FTC needs to declare that any company using copyrighted data cannot forbid its users from using its API to develop competing products
I did not say TS is if no value. I said overdoing it is of no value. Perhaps I should have phrased that better.
You: Yet the majority of the normal users (220M+) on Twitter took a look at Mastodon, tried it, left and never looked back again.

Me: Absurdly false.

You: Exactly.

This is truly an insane "discussion".

> I already said that in my first comment, but perhaps you finally decided to read what the actual problem is.

> You can be opposed to it, but that won't stop the further centralization and Instagram's dominance in the 'Fediverse', already being compromised in the process especially when they are already winning.

I already read this in the linked article: "if Meta joins the Fediverse, Meta will be the only one winning. In fact, reactions show that they are already winning". You've added absolutely nothing new or enlightening.

> Seems to me that this other commenter is interested in how many users are regular, i.e 'non-technical' and also signed up to Mastodon.

You have no idea either way.

> For 'normal users', it is seen as the 'alternative' to Twitter. During the #TwitterMigration of 2022 and even before Elon acquired the company.

I suspect that most weren't even aware of its existence.

> 'Significant' is 1.2 million MAU

Yes.

> when compared to 450M MAUs still sitting on Twitter?

I don't feel the need to compare.

> especially when you are still unable to show verifiable data around Mastodon daily active users.

I don't know whether that data is even collected. I'm not responsible for Mastodon data collection.

> Henceforth, the majority of Twitter's users don't care

I don't care.

> I do not need to cite, since you already know you were part of the 'everyone' camp who was talking about Twitter's collapse on HN.

I don't know any such thing, because it's false. I do know that your accusation against me here is in gross violation of the HN guidelines, and I also know that this discussion is becoming extremely tedious and futile, so let's just end it now.

One more thing though: Nobody is trapped on Twitter. They don't need Mastodon or any Twitter alternative to "rescue" them. Mastodon didn't "fail" them. If they want to leave, they can simply stop using Twitter and spend their free time in another way. I'm old enough that the majority of my life predated the existence of Twitter, and it was fine.
Does this hold true for liability only insurance?
Exactly. Makes it all the more ridiculous when people take Zelenskyy’s look at face value.
You seem like the kind of person who believes that all countries are equally corrupt.

That's right, in the west people on government tend to be more ideologically driven than in Russia.
The earth absorbs carbon through different mechanisms, although a lot of them are getting close to saturation.
I don’t really understand what this is trying to prove:

- you don’t seem to specify the size of the input. This is the most important omission

- you are constructing an optimised representation (in this case, strict with fields in the right places) instead of a generic ‘dumb’ representation that is more like a tree of python dicts

- rust is not a ‘moderately fast language’ imo (though this is not a very important point. It’s more about how optimised the parser is, and I suspect that serde_json is written in an optimised way, but I didn’t look very hard).

I found[1], which gives serde_json to a dom 300-400MB/s on a somewhat old laptop cpu. A simpler implementation runs at 100-200, a very optimised implementation gets 400-800. But I don’t think this does that much to confirm what I said in the comment you replied to. The numbers for simd json are a bit lower than I expected (maybe due to the ‘dom’ part). I think my 50MB/a number was probably a bit off but maybe the python implementation converts json to some C object and then converts that C object to python objects. That might half your throughput (my guess is that this is what the ‘strict parse’ case for rustc_serialise is roughly doing).

[1] https://github.com/serde-rs/json-benchmark
Fun one I read recently... In the U.S. an average of 11 our of 100 drivers having a car in their name have an at-fault accident on their record. Do you know what's the brand where, on average, the owners that have an at-fault accident is at the lowest for any brand, with only 8.62 out of 100 drivers having an at-fault accident?

It's... Drumroll... Porsche.
Why Do Introverts Love Being Alone? Here's the Science
Even just for spell checking, having a ton of general knowledge helps. Knowing the correct spelling of product names, British vs American English, context-specific alternate spellings, etc…

Even GPT 3.5 has trouble following instructions, but I’ve found that GPT 4 is almost flawless. I can tell it the document uses Australian English but to preserve US spelling for product names and it’ll do it!

One quirk is that it’s almost too good at following instructions. You have to tell it to preserve product names, vendors names, place names, etc… otherwise it’ll “correct” the spelling of anything you forgot to list.
So you're looking to confirm your bias? Nah. Never mind.
Back in the end of 80s - 90s in the USSR/Russia were were lots of ZX Spectrum variants, and none of them had the ULA. They all were engineered to use the most popular and easy to obtain components.

So i believe you still can build one for cheap.

This one was one of the most popular variants https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentagon_(computer)
Yeah. Here's the review I wrote when I read it: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3687038034

Haven't read any of his other stuff, thanks for the recommendation.
It goes the other way too. Cities/states now tax cars to fund trains/trams.

https://www.sfchronicle.com/politics/article/bridge-toll-hik...
You have the option to disregard your insurance company's recommendation: https://wilshirelawfirm.com/blog/personal-injury-law/can-i-c...
I see a lot of "just add more specifics to the rule" in here, but that's fighting a losing battle. There will always be another edge case, and the rule will end up being so long and complicated that no one will properly follow it anyway.

I think the solution is to put the goal of the rule right next to the rule. Maybe vehicles are banned to improve air quality, to improve pedestrian safety, to reduce noise, or some combination. Or maybe there really is no good reason, and the writer of the rule just enjoys power.

Reminds me of writing security policies. There will always be exceptions, but if you include the goals of each rule, your users are empowered to recognize when an exception is a good idea. Otherwise, you get either blind compliance or secret non-compliance.
My understand has always been that ice crystal damage was the main limitation of cryopreservation. Successful vitrification exists in nature, but only in a few small animals. In many years of peripheral interest in the subject, I had never seen a clear explanation of why vitrified mammalian organs haven’t been reanimated.

This seems like a very big deal. Has it been getting coverage?
I’m not sure what your professor writing some book with a vague title is meant to show. Am I supposed to google this to find the thesis?

Yes, there is a sub area called philosophy of science, and many people in that area are trained in philosophy and science. But I’m unsure why you think philosophers are supposed to be getting empirical facts about physics right ahead of the physicists. That’s not their job.
Doesn't that rely on assuming that prigozhin is an idiot? I don't think that's the case.
This makes sense because Porsches aren't daily drivers for disproportionately large percentage of their owners. This needs to be normalized by miles driven to be meaningful.
If you're comfortable lying about your experience and references, you're probably comfortable with cheating on a take-home assessment.
There are boundaries that can be defined, but I'm unclear on what those should be. I'm thinking breaking it down by semantic domains, but not at the exclusion of others altogether-- just heavily weigh certain domains in favor of others. Kinda like how StackOverflow is broken down by domain-- each subdomain could be a LORA or something.

General purpose models containing significant overlap between Project Gutenberg and Github are unnecessary and don't scale. Moby Dick has little to do with C++ unless you're creating art for novelty's sake. This is entirely speculative, but I'm convinced ChatGPT is faking the appearance of a single oracle while delegating requests to specialized models under the hood. It scales better and makes sense than trying to serve a 1T model to address everybody's banal questions.

Like, at its core, for people who only want to write literature, give them a model with underweighed programming-related corpora. Writers don't need it, will never use it, and that space could be filled with training content relevant to literature. Anything else results in expensive, unscalable solutions or jack-of-all-trades, master-of-none outcomes.

In recent usage, GPT3.5 helped me hack my way through writing Pester tests for Powershell scripts for the first time, and I mean hack-- there were a lot of assumptions it made and things it got wrong. GPT4 did a much better job, but I couldn't help but think 3.5 probably has a ton of other training data in it that detracts from the specialization I needed from it in that context. For coding help, you don't want to ask some random librarian who occasionally recommends resources that don't exist; you ask someone who specializes in coding and trust they have familiarity with that domain.
Europe has a much more fleshed out freight rail system and the vast majority of European countries have ocean access, so long range haul can be done by the cheapest form of transport of all, boat.
Right, what we trade in regulating the score, we lose in data privacy since all credit scoring systems have no problem fucking around with your data giving it to whoever asks even though there is a tremendous amount of information attached.
Removing the monopoly requirement for building.
Yeah, the IQI measurements are aggregated, but much lower than the continent map, which is only to Cloudflare. So the high bandwidth figure noted by parent is only for Cloudflare.
We would also have to account for profit (let’s say 3%) and all overheads (let’s say 15%). Average car insurance charge is c$2000 so we can say $380 of that is probably overhead and profit.

That leaves $1,640 left. $340B then divided by the number insured (230m) would be c$1,500 so with these very rough numbers there isn’t too much of a gap.
Looks cool! Curious how you envision the difference between using something like Obsidian (+ github for sync) or LogSeq vs Writedown? Do you plan on supporting networked thought features like concept graphs via hashtags & [[keyword links]] ?
So Prigozhin just forgot about his family before starting the fight? Or didn't think anyone would think to threaten his family? Seems very unlikely to me.
If we had data on the median insurance cost per person - I know I pay a lot more than $1035/year - we could hypothetically have a rough estimate of how much the uninsured cost everyone else.
I wonder if there's a world where we run nearly all user programs in isolated (containerized) environments, with minimal access to persistent storage, etc. In many ways it seems weird that we let every program access everything that your user has access to, by default.
People have different thresholds and capabilities. IME even if they could grind through the learning curves most don't have the desire or logical reasoning skills to be even mediocre programmers. Keep in mind too that it's still culturally uncool, despite a few bubbles of nerd hype.
Random thought:

> But, 5x the traffic accident and fatality rate of other comparable developed countries

Are there actually other comparable countries in terms of the quantity of roads and the car & driving culture of the US?

I don’t know nor experienced of another country (developed or not) where a majority of people have cars and where road-trips are a thing. Most places live more densely and have fantastic public transit.

Maybe the quantity of accidents reflects what actually happens with car culture at scale.
For this article in particular the author could have cut the entire intro down to two sentences and then each of the 25 tips could be one or two sentences each. Nothing of value would have been lost, indeed, that's all I read of it.

There's good ideas in here, but no one reads shit that isn't in dot points.
I read the paragraph as saying "the market is what you should want to validate you - or not (it might reject you) instead of the 'theater' of seeking publicity." It seems dreadfully sincere about "market validation" still being good while "publicity validation" is "bad." Despite "do something the market values" is basically foundational western capitalistic culture.

Look at the rest of the list too: It's all about being "socially" "counter-cultural" to pursue extremely traditional cultural things (market validated company! classic films! be grounded in the real! go analog! etc).
Postgres by far. The inbuilt json support is great. In addition, Postgres as a whole has decades of bullet proofing behind it. MongoDB doesn't have many advantages, has many bugs and sharp edges, and doesn't have enough advantages to justify it's use. In [an old analysis by Jepsen](https://jepsen.io/analyses/mongodb-4.2.6), MongoDB 4.2.6 exhibited "read skew, cyclic information flow, duplicate writes, and internal consistency violations. Weak defaults meant that transactions could lose writes and allow dirty reads."

Will note that json/text columns are better than jsonb. Lower serialization overheads and surprisingly smaller binary size. Or better yet, just normalize to a columnar format.
I’m so bummed I missed the golden age of text based games. I can describe things but can’t draw them to save my life.
It is estimated that the full electrification of all railway tracks in Germany will be completed not earlier than 2070.

But maybe I am confusing "Deutschlandtakt 2070" and the electrification of the tracks.
What's different from running in Sandboxy?
Yeah, looks like they either copied or took inspiration, either of which I have no complaints about. GOV.UK is one of the few things about the UK I can praise.
The thing that I fundamentally don't understand about free soloing is that it's only skill based to a point.

You will eventually, as in the article, hit a loose hold and fall. When that happens you probably die and it wasn't due to anything you could have prevented.
Axel Oxenstierna (1583–1654) Swedish statesman.
Serious answer? Pests and drafts. We raise beds off floors for good reasons. I only recently learned that even headboards have a reason to exist: drafts flow down to the floor rather than over the sleeper.

Sort of like my friend who feels no need for drapes. One of my stranger conversations. He thinks they're pointless entirely. But besides privacy and the fact that most people can't sleep in full sunlight, they also reduce noise and improve thermal control.

Us nerdy types are often iconoclastic about convention and tradition but sometimes things are done a certain way for reasons that make good sense. And you'll be thought anywhere from odd to clueless if you decide to go against the grain. Or worse, kinda lazy.

No judgement or anything. My mattress was on the floor for most of my 20s.
I grew up overseas, moved to America and I have felt absolutely liberated by the freedom I now have when it comes to following rules. I think it's productive that people can definitely choose to follow their own gut and conscience when it comes to their own lives.
I think this is often, but not always true. I think it's not true (and rational for employers) if they:

* have a set of interview questions that help clarify they have the "right" kind of person

* have a performance review process that ensures that hired individuals continue to engage in ways that are understood to be most useful to the company; i.e. that validate (or invalidate, as the case may be) hiring practices
They periodically advertise for science journalism interns, sometimes with the proviso "Our aim is more to discover writing talent in a science student or scientist than scientific aptitude in a budding journalist." So, I think they're at least trying to hire the qualified.

(Long-time Economist subscriber.)
Without specific measures to reduce carbon emissions in a couple of months --- not just offsets, but actual shutdowns of emission sources --- I will not hold my breath that any EU members will actually meet this goal. That is the same as me saying 'I will quite smoking next year.' Just buying time.
"Whataboutism" is overused, like most other dismissive criticisms. I don't see anyone accusing the GP, or GPs allies, of causing this $340 billion in costs, therefore redirecting from it is not "whataboutism".

The GP was rightfully flagged, but their complaint seems to be that they either don't care about this cost in particular, and would prefer a focus on an analysis of costs due to government corruption, or just that they care about both, and want the government corruption analysis next.
Why do we believe Putin fled? What's the source of that information, and what reason does that source have to lie?
I think the concept is an embargo on trade with the US like sanctions, not a physical blockade. If countries were refusing to do business with the US, the military couldn’t really help short of invading them or engaging in shipping piracy.

I’d think this is unlikely to ever happen since the US is a lucrative market to export to.