skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No need for bundling really. I subscribe to a major American news source for $2/month. Their algorithm figured out that's what i'm willing to pay and got it right. I assume that for most big publishers this could work (possibly through some process of price discovery and segmentation to capture those willing to pay more).

I also subscribe to a patreon for $3/momth - for small publishers this obviously works too (again alongside higher tier plan options).

The problem is the middle sized publishers, they likely need higher revenue per subscriber to survive.
People like playing drums too, but a drum machine means that if you're not any good at it or too busy but you need drum sounds you can have drum sounds.

There are rights issues if the result is it replaces a particular singer, if you made it so that Sneaker Pimps can fire Kelli but still have her voice on subsequent songs that's a problem. But suppose you're a bedroom musician, and you realise you've got a piece that really wants somebody with a different voice than yours to make it work - you can pay someone, but technology like this offers a cheaper, easier option.
I haven't seen any at the Decathlons in Canada. Can't wait for them to be available here as well.
Wayback Machine snapshot for anyone else getting the "exceeded bandwidth" error: https://web.archive.org/web/20230716210954/https://duskos.or...
I fundamentally disagree. If every minor fix needs to be planned, it never gets done. The boyscout rule wins, and if your reviewers are not pragmatic, then that's an issue with their attitude.
Tiffin Tom: Fish, chips and a side of identity theft
Cars nowadays are larger for improved comfort, not because of safety features. Larger cars aren't inherently safer. Modern safety features, such as airbags, crumple zones, etc., have been around for over twenty years now, but cars have gotten larger.

Regardless, the comparison was between Kei trucks and pickup trucks.
I would recommend trying to clean them with some rubbing alcohol first, using abrasives will only work so many times
This. If it is a production issue that needs to be fixed, fix it fast with priority and create another ticket to take care of reviewers comments.
I live adjacent to Austin and commute through it (and Garfield Park, and Humboldt Park) every day, and in 18 years of doing so not a single person has ever approached my car when it was stopped at a light or pulled over at the side of the road. Your car will not in fact get "mobbed" when you stop at lights.
But why would a novice care if it came from python.org, providing the information was accurate? I don't think you've found a good example of what the GP was asking for, at any rate. I've certainly had that experience recently, but it turns out it was something more obscure than I would have expected (relating to ensuring that gulp scripts don't return an error code when warnings occur - I'd searched for `gulp --warnoff` and none of the answers were anything to do with the gulp tool, but it turned out "--warnoff" wasn't a standard flag anyway, though there is a blog post about how to add support for such a flag).
Not in my experience. Premiums only go up when I add more things covered e.g. specifically by zero deductible vs the general deductibles.
That article is wrong. (More generally, phys.org cannot be trusted.) The cold/warm/hot absolutely refers to temperature, specifically whether the typical thermal speed is much less than (cold) or comparable to (hot) the speed of light.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold_dark_matter

https://www.symmetrymagazine.org/article/is-dark-matter-cold...
> buying a domestic full size 90’s truck instead

90s trucks still had poor mileage and were less safe overall than new vehicles, they aren't gonna be many people's top choice.

My current pet theory is that an equally big problem to the "aggressive bro styling super high front grill" issues is an overall decline in relative income/living standards. Less space + money to have a family car + a utility truck, so your truck ALSO has to have a huge cabin, and do everything else the family car should do too, so it gets huge overall even if the bed is no bigger or more useful.
I don't think cases encountered in real work are really that unclear. It can sometimes seem unclear if you're used to language semantics that are inherently riddled with possible error states (like languages that allow null).
Gotcha. Thank you for the detailed response.

I think maybe I'm underestimating the complexity of the technology. It seems like it shouldn't be that hard, I'm kinda imagining something like a weather station or a seismometer. But one thing you've helped me realize is that, at minimum, that comparison fails to account for the complexities of operating in a marine environment.

And the undersea cables operative to passive sonar? Or are they more to prevent the stations from being identified and their signals intercepted, as would be the case of if it were over radio?

> The wreck was ultimately found far away from its assigned patrol area

Maybe I'm just naive to submarine stuff, I know very little, but this doesn't seem that weird to me. If everyone died onboard from, say, a fire, the vessel might keep steaming for a long time. Presumably, the CIA has a good idea if that's the case, for all the good that does us.
> last year for some time >80% of the power generation was down in France due to maintenance

Oh, so low? I heard it was 102%, and we had to activate the hamster wheels in order to make up for the deficit?

Hint: Nuclear isn't even 80% of France's nuclear production when every reactor is up.
Schottky solar cells are pretty simple to couple with thermoelectrics.
Actually it is probably easier to punch through the walls bypassing the door completely as opposed to breaking the glass. Though glass does break and so that is what someone will try.
I have no idea if it’s accurate, but would suggest that if it isn’t, then neither is the number of birds they supposedly kill a year
https://web.archive.org/web/20230716210954/https://duskos.or...
Solar panels will work a lot longer than 3[edit: 0] years. I've got a batch here of 16 of them that are from the early 00's and that are still producing ~80% of their rated power. They're not even particularly good cells.

Lithium batteries will indeed likely not last for a decade but that has nothing to do with solar installations, though you could combine them (but you'd have a choice of chemistries and for stationary installations where weight and size are not usually the limiting factors you can do better than Lithium).
Germany pumped a lot into solar a decade or so ago in order to drive solar down its experience curve. This was expensive, but it was a tremendous gift to the world. You can thank much of the game-changing decline in renewable prices on this sacrifice. If they wanted to buy that same capacity again it would be much cheaper now.

The good experience effects of renewables and storage implies we should go full speed ahead installing them. The side effect of pushing down their prices makes this the most cost effective approach overall. Nuclear, which doesn't have good experience effects, is a different story entirely.
When I'm done with the 8086, I might look at the 68000 but I don't have any specific plans.
I'm not sure what you're saying?

Say you use an encryption method to encipher the first page of A Tale of Two Cities. Someone else is tasked with determining what the plaintext was.

If their methodology is to (1) choose some method by which the ciphertext is transformed into a candidate plaintext, and then (2) apply that method, they will not be able to produce a candidate plaintext which (a) makes sense but (b) is not the actual original plaintext.

The exception is one-time-pad encryption, which isn't really worth noting. It's an exception because the decryption method for one-time-pad encryption is isomorphic to "choose what you want the plaintext to say, and then write down the key that will produce that plaintext". If the key is shorter than the ciphertext, this can't happen.

But "a property of all encryption methods other than OTP" is a less convenient way to say "a property of all encryption methods".
At least there will be no throttling due to cloud costs after the collapse.
Sure. To your point above: do you think that trucks are the best-selling car in the US because Americans are routinely hauling loose gravel, or could it be something else? I suspect it's something else.
Gitea 1.20
For most bikes and mopeds two guys and a truck is all you need to steal it. If you can lean it up after laying it out, theres probably a way for someone to leverage it onto a truck bed. Maybe just knocking it over onto a furniture dolly and pushing it up a ramp.
I am a dirty guy!
Usually followed by someone saying "I'd like to see that thing in a crash test against <giant pickup model>".
The list of supported devices includes Apple IIe and Sega Master System, which are positively rare artifacts today compared to the glut of smartphones, laptops, smartwatches and TVs. The simple old stuff is hard to come by compared to the integrated modern stuff.

To put it in perspective, a rough estimate is that there were 20 million Sega Master Systems ever sold worldwide, compared to 20 billion (and counting) smartphones.
As I understand it they plan to release their files on UFOs and other anomalies.

TBH it sounds to me like wishful thinking that those files will contain evidence of alien intelligence.
A computer architecture book such as Hennessy and Patterson will describe microcode in detail.

It's a bit confusing because microcode has changed meaning a bit over time. "Classical" microcode, such as the 8086, replaces hard-wired control logic with micro-instructions. The processor steps through the appropriate micro-instructions, which are decoded to generate control signals.

The Pentium Pro introduced a new model, where machine instructions are broken down into independent micro-ops, which are handed off to the core processor engine and processed independently, in parallel. At the end, the micro-ops are "retired" in a sequential order, so your program appears sequential.

Most micro-ops are generated by decoders that convert a machine instruction into a small number of micro-ops. However, complicated machine instructions are converted into micro-ops by microcode. This is similar to classical microcode, except it's not executing micro-instructions but generating micro-ops that then get run by the underlying processor.
Show HN: StackOverflow for Research Papers
Hi there,
Rafael here, creator of gotit.pub, a project that I've been working on for the last six months.

Gotit.pub is an online platform where anyone can discuss research papers, as a layer directly on top of the paper itself. I built it in large part to scratch my own itch and I couldn't find any other place on the web that's doing this.

As part of my regular job I read plenty of research papers (Vision, Graphics, NeRFs, ML etc..) and often I find myself puzzled after studying. I'm sure the authors or community could answer questions easily but where to start? Open a ticket on Github? Write an email to the authors? Ask on SO? None of these are great because the context of the paper is lost and it's (ab)using the platforms for tasks they were not designed to do.

I should mention that I have no PhD or ever worked in a research lab. Maybe (likely?) there's already an obvious solution to the discussion/feedback problem that I am not seeing. In that case I'm still happy to have built it because I know it'll be useful for me, personally :)

I hope though that many of you will find it useful too (let me have your feedback in the comments!).

Cheers!

PS: You can actually discuss any research paper, not just ones on arXiv.org!

PPS: For those interested, the whole site is built with Svelte / SvelteKit and a lot of PDF.js hackery. More bells and whistles to come, it's just MVP stage at this point. The quirky name is from another unrelated side-project of mine which builds on top of git but so far hasn't seen the light of day. I couldn't think of a good name for this one so I just adopted the name. Still fits, I think!
the categorizing shows how different newspaper signal a certain world view. They can also signal wealth, class and a political view. so i think they are very much status symbols
> Nuclear has a useful role to play. But it is in decline. And that decline is cost driven.

This does not appear to be correct. The 2018 chart shows a total energy generation of 101.2 quads. The 2021 chart shows only 97.3 quads, a reduction.

The nuclear fraction of total energy generation in 2018 was 0.0834; in 2021 this became 0.0836, a slight increase in its proportion of US energy generation!

Moreover, it's astonishing that in 2021 the US while operating only 55 nuclear power plants generated more energy with those plants than all the energy from solar, wind, hydroelectric, and geothermal combined. Given the sheer number of solar and wind farms I see almost everywhere I go these days, it's really not great that they generate such a small portion of our energy needs.

My understanding is that this situation will just get worse as we try to scale up wind and solar, as well, since it's much more difficult to supply base load with unpredictable power sources.
> but the stack manipulation quickly gets tedious

it might just be that you (and i) are not chuck moore. his code generally has very little stack shuffling. e.g.

http://www.merlintec.com/download/color.html
This cartoon always comes to mind. People have been saying this since before civilizations probably. Eventually they are right.

https://dustoffthebible.com/Blog-archive/2012/05/25/the-end-...
Agreed! I only mentioned it because "curmudgeon" chose an ad-hominem argument in lieu of a concrete criticism of the methodology.
What other model do you propose? Government funded news? No news at all? Volunteer news?
Twitter is now spamming a pop-up banner demanding I get verified in order to DM a certain user because only verified accounts can DM users that don't follow you. The user follows me. That user is my wife. Either Twitter is broken or my wife really didn't like the 20-year anniversary gift I got her. RIP
BSD, not UNIX. Or do I misremember?
Haha, I hadn’t really thought of it in those terms before. “ I really hope we are alone because if we’re not, it’s gonna be so embarrassing for us.” :D
Do you have any further notes on the design and required accessories?
Code by Petzold may be of interest.
The Innovators by Isaacson
Hackers by Steven Levy, if you can find it.
An Arduino starter set might be an alternative. Not much history but lots of hands on with an introduction to programming.
After TempleOS and SerenityOS and UnityOS, I am going to name my attempt SchismOS.

I am not looking for users, only people willing to commit.
Nice to look at but I can hear voices, conversions and footsteps echoing everywhere...
This whole thread is about breeder reactors. The worst case (for a fast reactor) is the reactor rearranging in a meltdown and going prompt fast supercritical, resulting in a honest-to-god nuclear explosion. And remember a fast breeder is going to have tonnes of plutonium in that core, not the kilograms of a fission weapon.
Glad it uses “almost C” instead of “almost C++”. There is zero chance I could debug compiler errors for modern C++ without the web. With C and K&R, I have a fighting chance.
Ok, well. Sorry my preferences disturb you so.
He may have gotten this from real story from a distant relative or family friend as this is a real hobby and the humidity is a key factor. At almost $16 for a small bottle of XO sauce[1] with the main ingredient being dried scallops, it's a highly profitable home hobby.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/XO_sauce
We are that far gone.

https://philosophybear.substack.com/p/a-short-comment-on-sel...
Solar towers have lifespans longer than our own https://clearspanenergy.com/renewable-energy/solar-tower/#:~....
Parent comment said solar panels would last 3 decades, not 3 years.
To be fair to those people, they also don’t think you need your plywood and mulch because you should live in a nice little apartment with a surely altruistic landlord who takes care of every need that the plywood and mulch could satisfy.
Companies losing money from processing certain renewal doing espionage.
came here to say this. i went all over looking for a replacement... just pay for it. its exactly what you want. i built https://2020isasong.com/ on kirby and tries to rebuild with grav and ended up deciding kirby was just too good.
As opposed to fossil fuel infrastructure? I am not seeing your point.
It’s more a result of being old enough to have seen countless histrionic doomsday predictions not come true.
Out of curiosity, I decided to do some napkin math on this.

The Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Plant produced 4.7GWe when it was operational, and its current exclusion zone covers an area of 230 square miles - or 0.0204 GW/mi^2.

The US has (according to https://elements.visualcapitalist.com/how-much-land-power-us...) 102.9GWe of solar capacity covering an area of 965 square miles - or 0.1GW/mi^2.

Judging by that, a nuclear disaster's exclusion zone is worse than that of a "solar disaster" (so to speak).

However, the Fukushima plant itself occupies 1.34375 square miles - putting its normal-operation figure at 3.498 GW/mi^2. That's considerably better than the land area occupied by a Fukushima-equivalent solar installation. The question, therefore, is whether a better worst-case figure for land destruction justifies a substantially-worse best-case figure; I don't think it does, but I understand that not everyone would agree.
Having a large collection of offline reference books, maps, and music/movies for entertainment would still be desirable for those who can find a way to power/charge a device.

Rather than building a 'collapse OS', maybe just hoard some reference material, and have a plan (and multiple backup plans) for powering/charging devices in the absense of a power grid or fuel for generators/vehicles.

I don't think anyone's going to be doing much coding in a post-collapse world, let alone tinkering with the internals of an OS
> The core issue here is reviewer saying “if you change this, you also have to fix other pending issues in codebase”.

I don't agree. IMO, the worst issue being displayed here is that of the "6 days to change 1 line of code," almost half of them elapsed before an engineer ever looked at the issue. If this is such a high priority issue that the company would "need" (scare quotes intentional) to do a layoff if it's not implemented soon, those 2-3 days before anyone looked at it should never have happened. And that is apparently what passes for "the fast track" in this development process.

And then there's the 2 days at the end of this 6 day period where it looks like nothing happened, because the test plan was deemed insufficient.

"If you change this, you also have to fix other pending issues" only took up 2 hours here. There are at least 2 or 3 other things I could fill in here that I'd flag as core issues with this process before I'd even think about dealing with this part of the process.
> We can get to working semiconductors in our garages relatively easily.

Yes, if you rely on a bunch of hard to obtain tech, a stable energy supply, relatively pure starting chemicals and a whole pile of tooling. I'm aware of Jeri Ellsworth and Sam Zeloof, both are off the charts smart and capable and put the lie to the 'relatively easily' for anything approaching usable devices in quantity.

You'd be better off to learn how to wire relays, assuming you're going to find enough power. It's much easier to get to reliable logic circuitry via that route than it is by homebrew semiconductors, that's an optimization that you can do without if you have nothing. Even tubes would be simpler. And much, much easier to make. Nothing that you couldn't do with early 1900's technology.

Nuclear power in such a situation will likely only kill the operators. Wind power could be relied on for many decades, the Jacobs Wind Electric powerplant that was installed in the arctic still worked decades later under some of the most harsh conditions on the planet. Keeping it simple is key to anything that needs to work in such a setting.
I assume they meant three decades.
I'm currently using equipment that's working perfectly well running on NiCads and solar panels that are only a little younger than I am. I expect in another 50 years they'll be a bit on the tired side, but it won't be my problem.
This, 100,000x this. There's a piece to this whole puzzle I can't figure out exactly, but it has something to do with this.

There's two aspects at play here:

1) attention economy
2) network radius

I can't quite get them disentangled in my head, but I'm confident it goes something like this:

Attention economy is zero sum. Huge network size (i.e. the firehose of Youtube et al) means there's infinite competitors. Economically, it's a race to the bottom, every competitor is trying to get whatever fraction of your attention they can (not to mention monetize it). So they wind up competing over smaller and smaller fractions.

There's an additional problem on top of this, which is that you can't vet that many people, as the consumer. This amplifies a lot of negative things in its own right.

It's like we just weren't built to be exposed to networks this large. I think it's OK to not be completely informed on all topics, and typically this used to be outsourced to communities and specialists within your communities, each of whom you knew and trusted in their own domain. But small communities are gone, and the current communities are too large for you to get to know who to trust. So you need to be an expert on all.
Time Path of Racial Differences in GPA and Major Choice (2012) [pdf]
This is exactly right. I hear a lot more people yearning to get the fuck out of the industry today than I ever heard in the late 1990s.
"You are allowed to protest the status quo as long as you do not interfere with it in any way."

Which leaves airing grievances, to which you'll say

"Quit complaining and make it better if you feel that strongly about it."

Must be nice.
Some people use Slack for things that should be an email. 50+ line messages, unnecessary notifications, scheduled messages.
I think majority of software development productivity problems come down to communication. Either you both can say whats wrong or theres a weird little dance everytime something needs to be delivered.

Having a bunch of go-to guidelines is nice but really, you all just have to be on the same page whats the current state and to be able to say honestly whats going wrong when it happens.

Treating developers as monkeys who'll do as dictated doesnt really sit well for many of them.
Do you have evidence it helps? What course?

Obviously more training can help. For example it would be useful to practice riding in the rain, ice, and wet leaves. But at what point does more training not help? When will you be safe?

Riding a bike next to cars is inherently unsafe. When a car hits you, you are ducked. There's a limit to how vigilant you can be and most riders accept it's a when and not an if.

Note motorcycles have mandatory training but still have 10x the death rate.
If we have detected aliens, I'll be so incredibly disappointed if they're biological. That would violate my assumptions about the universe, and probably my hopes for it too. Biology seems as though it's a stepping stone to pure compute.

Detecting alien "techno signatures" should imagine industrialization in support of compute and nothing more. A lot of the stuff we currently manufacture and need would go away if we didn't have to support metabolisms, agriculture, and the long-distance transportation of bodies.
I don't have anything intelligent to say about this but it's ALOT of fun making all the samples play at the same time - sort of like the HTML version of Ableton Live.
The debt doesn't come from unit costs, EDF has been profitable for decades with the current rates.