skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Isaac Asmiov's short story "The Last Question" isn't super inline with your suggestion but is a short discourse on humanity's struggle against entropy.
SIMD is stable in rust, it just requires unsafe.

Here's an article I wrote about using SIMD in rust, with a real-world example: https://neosmart.net/blog/using-simd-acceleration-in-rust-to...
> Yes there's much more to it than NNs/transformers/'Attention is all you need' paper/whatever else is trendy right now. No, don't expect to do important, as in employable, work if you won't be spending some time truly understanding the mathematical foundations.

People only seem to want the former.
Do you think the yield inversion was also a coordinated effort?
The only interesting and unique concept in this list is “lunzi”. Everything else is Sapir-Whorfian bullshit.
My mute button is getting a lot of use lately.
But now we're changing climates over the course of hundreds of years, not tens of thousands. We're not giving nature time to adapt (nor ourselves, for that matter)

Climate change is "normal" on our planet, yes. But it's not normal at the speed at which we are causing it now.
More proof the dollar is worth less than ever.
If you're so confident that it will reverse, why not put your money where your mouth is?
A bitmapped GUI is a different beast. You can use WordPerfect with a mouse but it's not a GUI. Borland's Turbo Vision, which had a TUI windowing system, didn't come out until 1990. GEM was 1984, after the Lisa and during the lead-up to the first Mac sales. (And, honestly, how many Atari ST's ever sold?)
Googling for answers costs time (2020)
> There are some tricks I learned on HN to use uBlock origin to filter these spam sites but Google really needs to fix this.

Oh I did use ublacklist which mixes blocking in both of the google search and the google image search. But curious what is the filter you have in your uBlock origin?
While I welcome optimism, it’s premature to declare strong top line S&P 500 performance as the end of economic uncertainty. Tech is the only sector with significant YTD gains: Brent Crude Oil, Regional Banks, Transportation, and Retail are all down YTD.

In the S&P 500, the “Magnificent 7” stocks (NVIDIA, Apple, Google, Microsoft, Meta, Tesla, and Amazon) are responsible for *85%* of YTD gains.

Coatue’s East Meets West macro view from June 30 is the source for the above, and it contains a number of great insights: https://www.coatue.com/blog/company-update/coatues-2023-emw-...
Both should gain something through the relation. Enough to make the relation worthwhile. It could be many things. Or just better then being alone.
Dropping acid is maybe not the same thing as therapy sessions with a well qualified professional who is board certified, licensed and so on.

If you just mean "try random things to see how it helps", I suppose you could start by finding Jesus or licking a cattle prod. Why limit yourself to just a few methods of magic insight?
In every country
From the article:

"Economic data released in the past week showed a revised estimate for U.S. growth in the first quarter was higher than anticipated; new orders for manufactured durable goods were stronger than expected in May; sales of newly built homes that same month beat economists’ forecasts; consumer confidence jumped in June to a 17-month high based on a Conference Board survey; and that initial jobless claims in the week ending June 24 fell... U.S. inflation measured by the personal-consumption-expenditures price index softened to 3.8% in May on a 12-month basis, the slowest increase since April 2021, based on a government report Friday."

Also, the "recession canceled" remark wasn't based on the S&P. It's from the chief global economist at Economic Outlook Group LLC -- a quote from the analysis he sent to investors Thursday. (He followed his "recession canceled" remark by citing the larger economy's "impressive performance the first three months," and drops in "virtually every inflation metric.")
> Who moderates the list of channels?

Like I said, groups of people create lists the way adblock lists are currently created.

> Who decides which curated lists of channels are available?

Viewers will come with default popular lists (like adblockers do), but anyone can add any list or channels directly.

> Who decides the moderation policies? Who enforces that

The owner(s) of each channel.

> it's just you're trying to describe a federated system while avoiding storing data on federated servers.

Exactly, since there are a lot of problems we know are associated with that.

> What you're describing is a federated system, with power being put in the hands of the people who maintain the lists of channels and the people who decide which lists to publish to their users (assuming they're different people)

Exactly. That's really the most crucial part here.

> the social and political problems with running them are well known.

Are they? Because I'm not aware of any federated system set up in this particular way. Subreddit moderation works pretty well, and adblock lists that adblockers use work pretty well, so I'd love to know if there's an obvious social/political gotcha I'm missing here.
Sad he didn't talk about Shannon Entropy
It's not easy to sincerely empathize with the problems of other people, especially when you think these problems are very distant to your day to day life.

In the current world, permeated by negative information, it is often hard to feel emotionally connected to everything that's happening. This situation becomes particularly problematic for highly focused, technically-inclined individuals who are engulfed by their work, mostly devoid (even if it's just their perception) of social component. To them, the amount of general attention paid to some specific societal issues might seem insincere. Unfortunately, they can often also find the supportive evidence for their point of view, as there are enough people whose public persona is obviously crafted with a focus on virtue signaling. Moreover, this often gets exacerbated further if one highly values critical thinking, as maintaining a balance between being critical of the status quo and simply being contrarian or edgy requires a great deal of wisdom.

The internet certainly creates an illusion of a global culture, which is only partially true. There's still a lot of cultural rifts between different people that can only be overcome through tolerance, openness and the willingness to take an extra step in connecting with each other.

Don't rush to label people as toxic unless they are obviously being dicks to others. Some are naturally grumpy or may simply be having a bad day (or a couple of years).
Mainstream American culture conceives of amorous relationships as fundamentally a fantasy of fortunate spontaneity, "the stars and planets coming into alignment", rather than something explicitly worked at formally; formalism, explicit terms, these are antagonistic and disrupt this fantasy of things 'just happening', and so have to be carefully approached, if at all.

This is not exhaustive, America is a big place, but in the major cities and on social media you will more often than not come upon this. Hence why you'll hear terms like 'chemistry', 'rizz', 'ick', etc amongst Millennials and Gen Z at least, as these terms describe positive and negative attenuations of the fantasy of spontaneity.

The majority of my co-workers are Tamil and Kaneda folk from India, many of whom are women, who're all in arranged marriages. I learned a lot talking to them about this experience as its mere existence is anathema in mainstream American culture.
Dont know. Few years back there was even talk about growing new fingers by preventing the growth of scarring tissue. What ever happened to that project?
No, I really think you're mistaking this. Some of the easiest ways to become wealthy - or let's say "financially independent", because it's a more clear-cut term - are doing useful and well-compensated work, that is definitely not "great work" in the essay's sense. Think dentists and most doctors and lawyers, and also lots of different kinds of "businesspeople", including software engineers at big successful companies. Think about the people you see on a private golf course that they have a house next to; those people are all wealthy, some of them inherited it, sure, but many of them just plugged away at lucrative jobs and saved and invested well. That's not what the essay is talking about. It is a much easier way to achieve financial success than attempting to do "great work" in the essay's sense.

Personally I have had a tendency to waffle back and forth between the ambition to "great work" and the ambition (and at times, necessity) to do lucrative work. And for me, thus far, the two things have been almost entirely negatively correlated; I have given up the lucrative path to seek something I hope will be "great", or given up the "great work" path to seek something I know will be lucrative.

To bring this back into the lens of the article, I do think that for people who are not already financially independent, this can / should / is just one more constraint in the search through this space of "what should I work on". Some "great work" is lucrative while a lot is not. Financially independent people have the privilege to choose freely among the two kinds, while the rest of us have to focus on the lucrative kind to at least some degree.
My point was that when commenting correctness by technicalities people often leave themselves open to dismissal in favour of more emotive arguments.

A "How dare you be technically correct!" variation is both an expression of mob-correctness trumping technical correctness _and_ an acknowledgement of being technically correct.

A sort of, you're right, I support you, but the crowd might not.

Read shit how you like tho
> There’s left-pad, the legendary tiny package that broke all internet, collectively causing the amount of pain and drama comparable to the destruction of Alderaan.

Mind blown. Awesome.

It's like a stand-up comedy routine delivery.
RE: radix economy https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radix_economy
This is why we can’t have good things!
Where do you store your data, on your own hard drives, or on google drive ?
Right, because the market has never behaved irrationally.

We've got student loan payments resuming soon, a steady stream of commercial real estate mortgages that are refinancing at higher rates for the next year or two, a population who's wages are still on average lower than they were pre-pandemic after adjusting for inflation, supply chain whip-saws as supply/demand continues to over/undershoot in some sectors, the federal reserve saying another couple of hikes are in order this year, and the boomers continuing to age into mass-retirement.

You want to dollar cost average into the market fine, but I wouldn't take out any margin loans for at least the next year.
Wikipedia has assets north of 100MM last I read about it. They don’t need donations to run the core wiki media products for a real long time. Their appeal for donations is absolutely distasteful and misleading. All the money they get they use for projects a lot of folks might not necessarily agree with. Such disingenuous behavior from supposedly the “best of us” is why public loose trust in all of modern progressive movement.
A half cow fits comfortably in a medium sized upright freezer. I'm considering trying to also fit in half a lamb, but it would be close. As infrequently as I go into it, the upright is as efficient as a chest freezer, but saves more space in the garage. It has a smaller footprint and I can store things on top. There's a loud high temperature alarm on it. If the power goes out for more than a couple of days I can hook up a generator.
I’ll assume the worst case:

- lots of containers running on a single host

- containers are each isolated in a VM (aka virtualized)

- workloads are not homogenous and change often (your neighbor today may not be your neighbor tomorrow)

I believe these are fair assumptions if you’re running on generic infrastructure with kubernetes.

In this setup, my concerns are pretty much noisy neighbors + throttling. You may get latency spikes out of nowhere and the cause could be any of:

- your neighbor is hogging IO (disk or network)

- your database spawned too many threads and got throttled by CFS

- CFS scheduled your DBs threads on a different CPU and you lost your cache lines

In short, the DB does not have stable, predictable performance, which are exactly the characteristics you want it to have. If you ran the DB on a dedicated host you avoid this whole suite of issues.

You can alleviate most of this if you make sure the DB’s container gets the entire host’s resources and doesn’t have neighbors.
The yield curve inversion has predicted the last 9 out of the 5 recessions.

Could it also be that the two-year yield is higher (than the 10-year yield) because people expect the fed to lower the FFR after a couple of years after inflation has reached their target?
I remember trying to read the first tome of Landau and Lifshitz in my first year of studying at the physics department and instantly bouncing off. The textbooks of Irodov, Savelyev, and Sivukhin were much more approachable.
Yes, though with caveats. The driver and parts of the extended API we used to lower CUDA calls are in upstream LLVM. The wrapper headers are not.
We will continue the process of getting it all to work in upstream/vanilla LLVM soon though. Help is always appreciated.

FWIW, we have some alternative ideas on how to get out of the vendor trap, as well as some existing prototypes to deal with things like CUBLAS and Thrust.
Feel free to reach out, or just keep an eye out.
Tim Maudlin was recently on Mindscape [0] talking about renewed interest in pilot wave theory, updated to allow non-locality to account for entanglement. It’s a good interview.

[0] https://www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2023/06/26/241-...
Mods are pretty clearly the nobles who landhold and collect taxes/etc. Not really a member of the court or the royal institution, but entitled (literally - Baron, Duke, etc are literal titles) and commissioned by the royal institution to rule over a small fief in the day-to-day matters.

The king wants the kingdom to run smoothly, and the baron makes that happen. If they do a shitty job they can be removed. On the other hand most barons won't want to let things get to that point, because it's still way better than being an actual serf (assuming they're not punished/executed).

And yes, many mods do derive personal satisfaction and power and influence (banning people they find particularly disagreeable, or particularly skilled at calling out a particular bit of bullshit the mod wants to push) in their work.

I've experienced the "you're banned on a random comment for no explanation, and if you modmail and ask why you're modmuted for a month instantly with no reply" personally as well, in a large discussion sub, over something completely innocuous.
I didn't say it will reverse quickly, I said it can reverse quickly. There is a difference.
When you say "how much entropy is left?" you make it sound like a quantity that is decreasing, not increasing. That seems incorrect, no?
Skype was one of the many programs that just got worse and worse every time there was an update. Microsoft could have simply bought the company and no longer made any changes, and it would still be great. Classic textbook example of enshittification.
I'm guessing the PhD wasn't in English.
Where can you buy said pastes or products in the USA?
Apologies for the slang: https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=TFA
Right it's not tech - it's their product that people enjoy using that is what drew a lot of people to Reddit. Especially in its growth years. Subreddits as a concept are a really great product idea and one thing that struck me as innovative and cool when I joined. And the subreddit product feature is why I've gotten to be in multiple niche interest-based forums hosted on Reddit that probably wouldn't have existed otherwise.

To act like Reddit-the-product is valueless and did nothing right to get to where it is today is just silly.
Tech rebounding? Coatue East Meets West 2023 macroeconomic outlook
It should be pretty close. Google Maps has robust support for new routes on blocked roads assuming the underlying map data is updated to properly mark the roads as closed.

Traffic can usually fit into 3 main categories.

1. Commuters/Locals - in NL, these people might go into the office once or twice a week, so after a week or two, they will find a new route and update their mental model (assuming they don't use GPS). Locals largely don't need GPS either, but will update their mental model too.

2. Delivery - Largely driven by GPS but some corporate drivers may need a few weeks to update their routes or custom enterprise phone apps.

3. Visitors - Also largely GPS driven but not using any weird apps. Google and Apple Maps will update soon.

As of today, the experiment is halfway over. Looking at Google Maps, the current route to go from Amsterdam Noord to Zuid, suggests taking the highway first with the option to try and cut through the city if you really want to. Taking the highway is shown as the fastest option, but to be fair, it doesn't seem that the route planning tool is taking into account the through closure yet. Choosing to navigate from your phone may or may not give you a heads up about the road closure if you override the recommended route and try to drive through the city center.

https://www.google.com/maps/dir/Spanje+-+Monument+Amsterdam+...
English is my first language and I have exactly the same confusion as you. It is not well expressed.
One of those things is not like the other - crude oil is a commodity, and it going down is a good thing (In addition to the Fed's current policy being "raise interest rates until prices stop rising," high energy prices are VERY bad.) That is not really an objection to your point overall, though.
I've used uBlocklist to filter these things since Google removed that feature
Just as difficult? AMD GPUs are plug-and-play on linux (if you have latest gen you should run a recent enough kernel but that's basically it), whereas Nvidia GPUs need their proprietary drivers which adds much more complexity for beginner users.
I don't think that's very relevant when we're talking about AMD CPU usage, although it does mean that Phoronix may very well be technically wrong when talking about "Linux" gaming statistics. That said it's quite clear they mean GNU/Linux desktop gaming using x86_64-based systems.
I imagine if you trademarked it you’d mention it, that was probably your recourse. Some trademark protections may still be available, reach out to an IP attorney or 3 and see what they say.

If an IP attorney tells you there’s no case you should consider trying to use this opportunity to grow your brand at their brand’s expense through writing and calling them out through social media. Probably feels bad but this is what you signed up for, plus they did you dirty here by ripping off the name you came up with and built up for the last decade.
Or maybe English isn't their first language.
I'm 40, and I think the push for it was pretty silly.

Unlike Andreas, I just don't care about it enough to get upset, though. I'm perfectly happy with something seeming silly to me and just moving on with my life.

I suspect that Andreas has legitimate concerns about a foundation limiting his ability to set the technical and community direction. Unfortunately, he just didn't communicate that very well in this case.
Is it a bug in a client that accidentally spawns sub-clients?
PhD is in math, not grammar, and there is a possibility English isn't his first language.

As an aside, I looked at the author's thesis because I thought normally (at least at my school) they include a "Vita" that gives the candidates educational experience. This thesis didn't have that, I'm wondering now if it's not a common thing.
Knepp Rewilding Project
I have thought about this in regards to combining stannous fluoride with hydroxapatite due to the synergy between fluoride and hydroxyapatite (Although I believe most studies which have found this synergy used sodium fluoride, not the traditionally superior stannous fluoride, so not sure if the synergy will uphold). I think there are only a few toothpastes on the market with a proper concentration of both sodium fluoride and hydroxyapatite, have not seen any mouth rinses with both. The problem with mixing mouthrinses or toothpastes is that you will inevitably reduce the concentrations of both active ingredients, in absolute quantity they will be the same, but I wonder if they will become overwhelmed and nullified by the relatively larger quantity of non active ingredients. IIRC hydroxyapatite in toothpaste is rated 10% max in EU, and it's also most effective at that amount, for mouth rinses it is 0.465 %. It would actually be easier to find some high fluoride toothpaste that would suffer less from dilution, I've heard recommendations of around 1500ppm, so if I am not mistaken getting a 3000ppm toothpaste would allow for ok dilution if only you had another with 20% hydroxyapatite in a 1:1 ratio. Overall the solution I am settling on is fluoride rinses when waking up and going to bed, and hydroxyapatite toothpaste twice a day, no clue about the synergy there, but seems reasonable as most hydroxyapatite pastes are filling the no fluoride market niche, which comes with the nice benefit that they aren't filled with a bunch of other trash inactive ingredients, meanwhile fluoride mouth rinse less affected by such things compared to fluoride toothpastes.
> For decades, we have been absolutely deluged by prophecies of doom and dystopia. From the nuclear threat of the Cold War, to the “Population Bomb” of the 1970s, to claims that “Peak Oil” and climate change will render the future a living hell, to the latest worries about artificial intelligence, there has been a constant drumbeat of pessimistic visions of the future. These forecasts regarding material disaster are typically exaggerated, understate the system’s ability for an adaptive response, and have been consistently proven wrong in retrospect.

The famous "impending disaster was averted, therefore the threat was never real in the first place and all warnings were overblown" school of thought.

I don't know about the particulars of peak oil or the population bomb (too young), but to my knowledge, the threat of nuclear disaster was definitely real, and so is climate change.

Earth Overshoot Day [1] 2023 will be in August, it used to be in October. It should be on Dec 31. Currently, even though humanity may reproduce below replacement rate, we're still managing to overwhelm the planet.

Maybe the first step to saving the author's beloved "industrial civilization" is to make it actually sustainable instead of bullying everyone into having children.

(The singular focus on "cultural decay" as the root cause is also quite telling from which political direction the author is coming from. At least I don't see how the observation that some countries with social welfare also have below-replacement reproduction "proves" that economic factors play no role in the decision to have children)

> Great dreams seem possible again. Expansion through the solar system, orbital colonies, cities on Mars, and the population growing to tens and even hundreds of billions off-world.

I still don't quite understand his weird obsession with population size, but this paragraph also makes clear that he (or the movement he stands for) sees population growth not as a means to avert civilisatiorial collapse but as an end to itself, ideally humanity spreading throughout and populating the entire universe. I find that vaguely creepy.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth_Overshoot_Day