skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The most remote, otherwise pristine environments

Microplastic pollution in the Himalayas

I have travelled a fair bit and I think the days of describing the Himalayas as remote | pristine are long past.

The area suffers from blow in micro plastics to be sure .. but as your linked article notes:

Additionally, Himalayan region draws many domestic and international tourists throughout the year, resulting in generation of massive and unmanageable volume of plastics wastes and finally ending up in the open landscapes covering forests, river streams and valley. Fragmentation of these plastic wastes can lead to microplastic formation and accumulation in the Himalayas.

The staging areas for an Everest ascent, for example, look like an open field rubbish dump with literal tonnes of waste that has been walked in and then abandoned.

Southern Ocean coasts and beaches are far more remote in terms of fewer feet on the ground, they, of course, have volumes of washed up micro plastics.

https://www.curtin.edu.au/news/media-release/the-worlds-most...

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-12-08/new-research-disturbi...

https://www.ccwa.org.au/microfibres
That looks way better than most pizzas today to be called a proto-pizza, I'd call Domino's and such degenerate-pizza. I mean, look at that airy crust.
Back in the day the civilisation was not advanced enough to know better. A similar mistake the Romans made by using lead pipes for drinking water.
The Itanium (as the prime example - and I bet the quote from the interview is at least partly based on the lessons learned from Itanium) failed not because there was no will by programmers to adapt their projects, but because there's simply not enough instruction-level parallelism in general-purpose code. That's not a problem one can simply "fix" by rewriting all software, much less by rewriting all compilers from scratch.
We tried that. It was called The Prohibition. It was a massive failure for many reasons but to your point: it created an environment where only the most violent, most criminal gangs end up controlling the entire market. The justifications given were also almost interchangeable with what you just said, mostly relating to scare tactics being perceived as a panacea to “society’s ills”. Most of the time if your solution is “scare people into doing what’s right” it’s been tried before by someone else and failed because it is a fundamentally broken method of solving societal issues in a meaningful way.
I'm sorry my 200 word anecdote-based comment did not account for 100% of possible personal circumstances. Please contact customer service if you'd like to request a refund.
I tested it with hundreds of thousands of concurrent connections running on multiple hosts yes.
This will be a really big deal if they refine it a bit. Right now there doesn't seem to be any good way to add user-loadable "Apps" to an IoT device, and that's a really big problem with IoT.

Apps would free people from a specific cloud provider without requiring a separate server box which in itself is an expensive thing that can become obsolete. With apps, your cloud provider becomes swappable, and devices can connect directly, or you can choose to connect to a self-hosted controller.
They are fighting for storage because funding agencies only pay for new research, not the preservation of old research funded by someone else.
A large H100 cluster (>10k GPUs) could likely train a LLM with 10x compute (FP8) of GPT-4, which was apparently trained on a mix of A100s and V100s.
But it doesn't! I haven't heard anyone label one as a type of the other.
> When I tell them to do it in Excel by themselves, they would say Excel couldn't open a CSV larger than 1M rows...

Sure it can. Just use the "Import from Text/CSV" feature instead of directly opening the CSV. https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/what-to-do-if-a-d...
My wife to me, last night: "Why the hell did they just change Google on computers look like the phone version?". I was confused for a minute, until she pointed her finger at relevant part of the screen - indeed, the "images / videos / news / ..." selectors are now styled as rounded buttons. I rarely use Google search these days, so I didn't notice, but the question is justified - what's the point? It's just more visual noise, and likely more bloat to generate it.
Oh, that surprises me.
I don't get how Lambda makes money with those prices. 2$ per hour seems too cheap for a >30k$ GPU
> I'm not talking about IT or engineering.

What are you talking about then?

> Anyway, it's not as easy as you say and I have the result right in front of me. The company has not mandated return to office but is still struggling a lot with this so what exactly is the choice by management here?

I don't know what you're talking about. What result? What company? Can you give some more detail or did I miss a post?

I have many concrete examples right in front of me, which is the number of companies and government agencies that went to remote extremely rapidly during covid shutdowns.

> Another example is my SO who works for a now-flex remote government agency where they are not authorized to use any of the normal software.

Like I said, that's just a simple choice. Most probably by some self-important bureaucrat who wants to sabotage the remote work scheme. All they would have to do is use normal software like many other places permit, and that would be most of the battle.
I do live under a rock when it comes to Intel I guess, since I haven't really looked into buying anything with their processor in 7 years :)
Now it seems progress has become literally impossible because the chess move + the captcha includes digits that add up to more than 25. I guess having to restart is intended to be part of the game, or is this a bug?
Anyone who eschews an ORM just end up writing their own half-baked badly documented ad-hoc ORM. “Jusr use SQL” is not an alternative since you still need to map the result into a data structure.
Thanks for the courage to express 12. Absolute anthropocentrism can’t continue indefinitely and we already see boomerang effects.
RUM, as in getting samples of timing for the resources requested from your site? What's shady about that? (Or is there some other RUM concept?)
Ruby's range literals and their effect on Rails Active Record queries
Sounds like you've have misused hibernate if you had an 'anaemic domain model'. The only reason to use hibernate is to have a full domain model and then let hibernate map it to the DB. I recently worked for a company that was using hibernate in the way you mention and I was surprised as I had never seen it used in that way in the ~10 years I used it.

I'm not trying to defend Hibernate, but if used correctly it can be a good tool for a good number of scenarios.
As a young person, I can afford to live alone. I'm definitely privileged in this regard (and don't live in NYC or SF) though.

Even living with one roommate I felt the isolation, since my office was still my bedroom. Placing my work desk in my bedroom was probably one of the worst moves I've made for my mental health; if my apartment had space to make a shared office I may have had a difference experience and therefore a different opinion.

I think a 15 minute walk to a low-commitment workspace was a good fit for me, but obviously I can't speak for everyone.
probably because advertisers did not care

google is in the business of dashboards. as long as they can show that their spending does "something", advertisers are good
Ah, the wonders of sysv scripts in commercial UNIX systems doing all kinds of interesting stuff from corporate IT.
Hi, I'm Lennart, the author of the FPGA paper.

You can't really compare them on a FLOPS basis. Firstly because our and Jäkel's algorithms are completely different. In fact within the FPGA accelerator itself we don't even use a single multiply, all our operations are boolean logic and counting. Whereas Jäkel was able to exploit the GPU's strong preference for matrix multiplication. All his operations were integer multiplications.

In fact, in terms of raw operation count, Jäkel actually did more. There appears to be this tradeoff within the Jumping Formulas, where any jump you pick keeps the same fundamental complexity, with even a slight preference towards smaller jumps. It is just that GPU development is several decades ahead of FPGA development, thanks to ML and Rendering hype, which more than compensates for the slightly worse fundamental complexity.

As a sidenote, raw FLOP counts from FPGA vendors are wildly inflated. The issue with FPGA designs is that getting this theorethical FLOP count is nigh-impossible, because getting all components running at the theorethical clock frequency limit is incredibly difficult, compare that with GPUs, where at least your processing frequency is a given.
I didn’t say you had to be magic about it in the way of git gut, no.

One can for example hook up a static analyzer to your GitHub and configure it to complain if there are any sql calls that can’t be automatically verified as free from interpolation of potentially unsafe data unless those dynamic calls are marked with a comment annotation as having been individually verified by a human as definitely not interpolating potentially unsafe data. I suspect such an analyzer may already exist as a SaaS offering.

If nobody lies about those annotations, a static analyzer can handle the common cases. If you have a human faking such annotations, whichever motivation causes them to do that would create other security issues even with the ORM.

And the analyzer could even handle some kinds of dynamic sql depending on how aware it is of your programming language and type system and what markings you’re willing to apply to functions and/or data with potentially unsafe and/or safe origins. Being vague only in the service of generality here since the specifics vary so much by company.

If there is no SaaS service for this, maybe one ought to exist.
Exactly. When you do async comms and have a question, skip the chit chat and just send the question and an appropriate infodump.

As a matter of fact, even when you chit chat do it in self contained units. You don't know how much time passes till your co workers read your joke in #general.
Freedom Ship: The Floating City That Never Set Sail (2021)
> puppet cluster pushing a bad release causing every host to check in,

It was probably chef, but yeah I totally can see that happening.

in terms of scaling, nowadays everything either shards or can sit behind a load balancer, so partitioning is much more simple nowadays.

for network layout though, having hosts that can get access to a large number of machines is something I really don't like. Traditional monitoring, where you have an agent running as root and can execute a bunch of functions is also a massive security risk, and has largely moved to other forms of monitoring.
Of course everyone is free to have their own opinion, but for good reasons the opinions of the people who create new ORMs, frameworks, languages, OSs, lead big complex projects at big corp are generally valued more that the opinions of those who see dev work as nothing more than a way to make a buck.

And yes ORMs and other tools used in software industry often look over engineered if one doesn't want to understand in depth the problems they are solving, but wants to quickly solve a business problem.
I'll just say that uber is breaking even this year and is expectes to be profitable next year:

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/uber-technologies-inc-nyse-ub...

Although they might keep choosing to re-invest or get more capital/debt.
To be picky, the general rule is that q goes before u only if u is followed by another vowel (qui, quo, qua), c is used in the other cases, but - of course - there are a few exceptions, the most common being "cui".
Re-upload until you get a good ID
> All we have to do to get a year 0 is decide that there was one.

But it’s not one, it’s 0
refer to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HNEm8zmkjBU
Recently, you also have free software LARPing big companies by adding telemetry to FLOSS, because asking users for feedback (or reading the damn issue tracker) isn't professional enough anymore - everyone in the big leagues is Data Driven™.

Er, did I say issue tracker? That's quickly becoming a thing of the past - the newest trend seems to be, "we can't help you here, join our community Discord instead".
I absolutely hated having to deal with SQLAlchemy. It took me days to get through the ugly documentation to a level where I could more or less competently use it, and for what? The code is harder to understand than just writing SQL and the performance is worse. I have yet to learn of a single advantage of ORMs that don't boil down to developers not wanting to deal with SQL.
at the point it's an effective monopoly things should be treated differently
Welcome to any blog really, except that Substack, and before that Medium, somehow gained a reputation of being more worthwhile reads than someone's random wordpress blog.
Yes, I'm in a similar situation- small kid at home, easy walking commute to a nice office with friendly coworkers, a gym, and free lunch
It’s truly arrogant to think you know better and than people living in these markets.

Whatsapp has over 100% market penetration in Singapore (aka more WA accounts than people). There is not alternative because network effects.

The US is an anomaly in messaging, the rest of the world has one dominating app and it’s often either WA or Messenger with the occasional line or Naver.
I upgraded from a decent smartphone back to an old Nokia dummy phone with a black-and-white display, and have been using that for 3-4 years now. To each their own.
But why did you feel like you had to? Now you've drawn the attention to it and I'm replying and aaaaaaa.
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100% this! After using sqlc for a project, I don't think I can ever go back. Having a single source of truth for the SQL queries being utilised also makes it easy to optimize queries (e.g. create new indexes) since the queries themselves are the thing you end up writing and maintaining.
Because that's what we need as a society. Paper that needs rare metals to produce, consumes energy to "work", and spies on us.
Yes we have written about 8621 in our blogs, we help in the documentation that individuals require to be compliant for FBAR and PFIC.

Post the zero interest rate regime, it's unlikely US will give that much return as it has in the last decade. AT the same time, India is in a better position vs last decade because foreign reserves are stronger, so depreciation probability is lower as well as fundamentals are better - RBI revised its growth forecasts upwards from 6% to 6.8%, capex to GDP has doubled in the last 7 years etc.

Overall, these factors make India a good diversification for X% of your capital, X can be higher if you choose to move to India, and lower if not, but it can be non-zero, provided the friction of investing is removed
What kind of storage are you using behind of scenes?
Organizing Data by Key in Swift Dictionaries
Checked exceptions are indeed similar to Result, but as such they also have the same issue of “coloring” the call stack, so I don't really see what's the argument you're making here…
Lennart here,

While Noctua 2 is certainly not one of the larger clusters out there, it does stand out as one of the only FPGA superclusters in Europe. This is the unique capability that made our project possible there.

And yes, assigning unique credit in this case isn't trivial. I think that the only good answer here is: "It was discovered Simultaneously, independently"
Ok but the Republican ones aren't going to help him get a pardon from Biden.
I still wonder if flashing elements and the constant nudging is worth it. I sometimes think I'm the only one but apparently there are about 15 % that are heavily annoyed by this. And those are users that you either lose completely or that block every unnecessary item on your website with ad blockers or reader mode.

I can't stand using Reddit on a mobile browser constantly asking if I want to install their app. Fortunately, there are alternative frontends such as Libreddit or teddit [2]. I hope they survive the API war.

[1] https://github.com/libreddit/libreddit
[2] https://codeberg.org/teddit/teddit
I am living here for a few years and I usually feel people here don't like to talk with someone they don't know. Which is totally understandable and thats how it is in most of the world except maybe America or England. There is something good about not getting disturbed by strangers when you just want to have a quiet day. But having said that, I do feel for lonely people(including me) here. So, after living here for few years I discovered this culture doesn't suit me, but I totally understand why it is the way it is.
I highly recommend the book “FreeBSD Mastery: Jails” by Michael W Lucas, in printed form https://bookshop.org/p/books/freebsd-mastery-specialty-files...

It had everything I needed to start manually setting up jails to my liking.

I eventually had to get some additional help online but you come a long, long, long way with that book in your hand.
Really done with this take. Show some solidarity for your peers. So you like working from the office -- good for you! Do that! But also stand up for your colleagues who don't want that. When your colleagues have fewer choices, when things like this are imposed on them, well, your preferences are not far behind from being managed themselves.
FWIW, they have no reliable way of measuring what "vast majority of users" "want from the tool", or when they get it. Users navigating to one of the search results and abandoning the search may mean they found what they want - or it may just mean they gave up.
On the contrary, Sony didn't had an "AMD" to pull their carpet off, and many game devs actually see GPU compute adoption for graphics engines as revalidating PS3's design.
They are planning to switch to a new dhcp client, don’t remember which ones. This was as of two months ago.
I mean there's Minecraft-in-Minecraft, not quite the same but... getting very meta: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-BP7DhHTU-I
He seems really angry at some weird idea he has about Pixar fans looking down on stuff that's also simultaneously half their output and that he looks down on.

I'm assuming there's some kind of culture war thing happening in the background I'm not aware of which gives this some kind of warped logic but without that context it's just weird.
A good martini takes skill and good ingredients to make. The gin and the vermouth choice make a difference, as does the way they are mixed and how they are garnished.

One thing I've not seen mentioned in other comments is the importance of the lemon twist. It's not just a visual garnish, when the oils are expressed onto the finished drink it adds a big layer of aroma which is an important part of the drink.
are they actually? The generic companies are making biologics now? Biologic generics, or technically biosimilars, are supposedly much harder to make, which is why a lot of them remain expensive even when the patents expired for a long time (e.g. insulin)
Cannot get past rule 5, tried a bunch of different solutions from this thread but nothing works. Maybe a browser quirk ( I'm on Brave IOS)

Anybody else have the same problem?
Last I checked radio controllers like wifi,nfc and bluetooth were not on SoC. Has that changed? Because I used to desolder those chips to reduce phones' functionality.
I once got some used wood for free from Craigslist…somebody gave away his fathers old scraps.

One piece was a 2x4 from 1982, from RONA (a Canadian store) and it a very beautiful piece of pine. It was exactly 2” by 4”, and straight grain. Obviously it was air-dried by then :)

Now it might have been from the select pine section of the store, not SPF construction lumber.

Pine ought to be treasured, not tested as a garbage wood like we do nowadays. If it were scarce it would be priceless.
Lennart here,

Both fundamental techniques were known beforehand, and in both cases the major innovation was adapting the algorithm for the specific compute platform. For us it was exploiting FPGAs to compute these P-Coëfficients, for Jäkel, his major contribution was restructuring the summation as large matrix multiplications, which could then be executed very efficiently on GPU.
The German legal system isn't a common law system - there is no case law.
The article says pomegranate.
Lisp Machines, alongside Smalltalk, are the genesis of IDEs.

Maybe LispWorks and Allegro Common Lisp should be less ignored, or have more FOSS friendly licenses, but that is all.
I'm a big fan of jOOQ. I've been able to implement the most complicated SQL expressions in jOOQ. Though there is one particular use case that it cannot do, but my memory fails me. There is an open issue in Github for it that's been open for years. Luke, the creator of jOOQ, is not able to figure out the solution to implement it. But no worries, it's still my favorite way to access my DB.
Thanks for the clarification.

But I still don't get it; have you ever _seen_ a complete init script? These things are hundreds of lines long if you want to account for stuff like PID management and restart capability and isolation.

And you have to do that for every service on your system. And they are not even really portable.
My frustration now is I can't find non-DIY stuff. Like, I don't care about random appliances or furniture. Just getting a guy to install stuff along with the purchase is frustratingly hard.
Pre drill your screw holes.
My main issue with ORM's is it tends to treat the persistence of data as an after thought rather than being the really important thing.

The data is often much more significant that the app - in two ways - the value of the data outlives the life time of the app, and often the data has connections or uses beyond the app.

ORM's tend to result in an app centric, rather than data-centric view of data persistence.

Now you don't have to use it like that - but even if you design the schema and mappings yourself, you still have the problem of the ORM assuming it soley owns the access to the data - and if you turn off that assumption performance is often terrible.

If I had an app with modest performance requirements, where the data and the app where one - then that's probably the ORM sweet spot.

But if the data is important, has multiple uses ( and so you might want multiple views in terms of objects ), and will likely outlast the application then I'd stay well clear.

SQL is already a powerful abstraction - learn it instead.
I’m younger (18) and I prefer the new flat design, it could be my age or maybe it’s just different people having different tastes
Google maps is an awesome mapping platform, with some directions bolted on.

Waze is a driving app, and is very apparent when you use it to try and report a speed trap, or blockage on the road. Google maps does not make it easy, but I can add that hot new restaurant in two clicks.
Is it hard to skip MCU and output to raspberry?
I normally do a 3:2:1[1] for a sidecar and get good feedback on it.

[1] my recipe is
2 x VSOP Brandy +
1 x Cointreau +
0.5 x Lemon juice /
Shake & strain.
Something's still missing though. If there really were a shortage, absent any irregularities, prices go up, someone else steps in to make it to earn more money, albeit maybe after sometime.

Seems to me just something wrong / slowing down the price adjustment mechanism? e.g. layers of regulation / bureaucracy or whatever it is the US runs on these days?