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Method-syntax is more than syntactic sugar.

It is not just about getting a function from an object and then executing that function.

It is executing that function in the context of the object from which you get it, by utilizing the pseudo-variable "this" (or 'self' in Smalltalk) which refers to that object from which you got that function (a.k.a "method" in this case).

But definitely the ability to have editor-support for lookup of argument-types etc. is a great benefit too.
See also: How the brain processes German and Arabic https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36347222
Reminds me of a friend's comment after he went to Greece on his honeymoon: "I've had much better Greek food in NYC."
To quote from their docs: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/instance...

> If your instance root device is an instance store volume, the instance is terminated, and cannot be used again.

See also the aws "Dedicated Hosts" and "Mac Instances". Those also have similar termination behavior.

The majority of my instances lost are from the instance store thing.
A quote from that article "Transport is a small contributor to emissions. For most food products, it accounts for less than 10%, and it’s much smaller for the largest GHG emitters. In beef from beef herds, it’s 0.5%."
This is third on their list of FAQs:

> Will there be a FedNow app for me to use?

> No. There is no FedNow app. The Federal Reserve does not provide payment services directly to consumers and businesses. Banks and credit unions can provide their customers with access to instant payments through new features on their mobile apps, banking websites, or other interfaces such as those used for business payments. Bank and credit union customers will probably not even see the name "FedNow" on their bank's instant payments platform as the FedNow Service is the high-speed highway that helps payments move from one financial institution to another. Banks and credit unions build new products for their customers that connect to the highway.

https://www.federalreserve.gov/paymentsystems/fednow_faq.htm
What OpneAI is lobbying is actually a ban, better world wide, on products better then theirs. Just exactly the level they have, accidentally. It's not for profit or anything other all the humankind good, of course.
Goldman Sachs continues to bleed cash from Apple Card operations
That is true, but the author of Metascala wanted to write it in Scala. Other people are free to write a simple C++ implementation of the JVM themselves.
It shows that the worker's wage is to low if they depend on overtime.
Small farms usually deal with distributors and grocers, and don’t have the leverage to tell Kroger et al to eat all of the increase.
Cars in Europe are really more like appliances. Most people don’t really need them and will inevitably find some other solution if they become too expensive.
Do you think AI is capable of gobbling up "literally all the money" for its owners? If so, doesn't that suggest it's kinda dangerous?

FWIW I don't think these voluntary commitments are sufficient or address all of the important harms. But that's different than saying any government action is just "regulatory capture" and an attempt to keep open source models down. I'm only attempting to argue against the latter here, which I'm not sure is where you're coming from.
> Downvotes are welcome

I won't downvote you, but if I did it wouldn't have anything to do with ideology but the fact that you seem to be presenting an ideological viewpoint yourself without accurate data to back it up.

> whereas cheapest battery replacement costs are north of 25,000 USD

A Bolt battery pack, as I recall, is 16K retail. And that's a previous generation battery that is essentially out of production now, or very close. Given the trajectory in battery prices, that number is just going lower and lower every year.

Comparing it to an engine rebuild is a bit disingenuous, too. Buy a brand new engine and let's talk about what it costs. And then don't forget the ongoing fuel cost difference. In the future, there will be rebuilt battery packs for older EVs too.

> Aren't at this point electric cars mainly "rich boy's toy" unless something disruptive in energy storage comes along?

The TCO on a Bolt is way, way, way below a comparable ICE car right now. And I'm willing to bet the TCO on a RWD Model 3 is also better than competing ICE designs as well. And I have to tell you, I live in an area with mixed incomes and there are lots of regular people in modest neighborhoods with Niro EVs, Bolts, and no small number of Model 3s. The economics are favorable for the type of people who keep a car for at least 5 years.
A reason the right is so against this is because aspects of their lifestyles are targeted by climate activists (who are largely on the left), while the left, especially left politicians, don't see much need to alter their lifestyles. They still fly (rich ones in private jets), use the AC, and get tax breaks on EVs that still run on energy generated by oil and gas, all while screaming that the world is ending, declaring themselves superior, and spewing derision like the above.

Perhaps if we both sides had some self control and didn't make everything left vs. right we could solve problems.
Broadcom's $69B VMware deal wins provisional UK clearance
It's like those heatmaps that geographically display prevalence of human-contagious diseases, and they exactly maatch heatmaps of population density.
The AI Showdown: Google vs. OpenAI
I assume titanium is better than stainless as far as leaching goes? With a quick search I could find titanium pots (actual titanium, not coated) up to 5L. I have a few on hand for backpacking, but I've never thought of using them for routine cooking... but this thread has got me thinking. I use cast iron for most purposes, but not for sauces or soups.

I can't imagine a stock pot size would be cheap.
> I wouldn't lose sleep over this

Good, because poor sleep habits earlier in life have been strongly correlated with development of dementia later in life.
Derailing the defund: Manipulating the media narrative
You could do much more by cutting out meat than by eating local
Graph databases don't solve that. All databases, document, graph, rel ALL implement indexes to find specific things in the exactly the same way. Very well known tree, hash and other techniques.

The representation (outside of indexing) has properties that make your USE CASE better or worse. EGreg would not be someone to hire to architect a solution. He'll just put your 1Trillion row per month use-case in a graph DB like Neo4J and you'll just watch it fall over when you run billing.
It remains to be seen in court whether weights are even copyrightable potentially making all the various licenses and their restrictions moot.
Updated archive link with questions and answers: https://archive.is/wPEXV
the difference is that academic research is several degrees of abstraction removed from real world applications.

the economist might not specialize in theories about why, when, or how much specific assets go up or down. even if he did, he might not have the skills to make actionable predictions from messy input data. doesn't mean his theories are wrong, just that someone else needs to bridge the gap between theory and application.

evolutionary biology has almost nothing to do with being a good parent. I don't think this even requires an explanation.

the financial advisor is the exact opposite. managing personal finances is the exact problem they are supposed to help you solve. if they can't do it for themselves, that's a pretty strong reason to doubt they can do it for you.
last mile delivery is necessary for local food too and local food is typically more emission heavy per unit
High mileage is high cycles. If the complaint is that batteries die at high cycles, high mileage is a greatly corresponded metric.
Pervert system where workers need it to be exploited to make a living.
The Psychopathic Path to Success
They make 30 dollars an hour.

Given you got that far into the article, what are your suggestions for the farmers pain points? How would you price asparagus that needed twice the labor costs to harvest than a box next week that didn't?
Sure, Data is data. It is the extrapolation and conclusion that are suspect and dishonest
> In English, it is typical to give an “agentive” description, such as “Sofia broke the glass,” even if it was an accident. But in Spanish, the particle se is typically used, and this changes the focus of the sentence; the description of the same event in Spanish would often be formed as: “The glass broke itself.”

Meh. It depends. I don't think I would say "Se rompio el vaso" ("The glass broke itself") if I saw that Sofia broke it (I would say instead "Sofia rompio el vaso", just like in English). But if I don't know who broke the glass, then yeah I probably would say "Se rompio el vaso" (or just "The glass is broken", "El vaso está roto").

Edit: But, if I don't really want to point at Sofia while still saying that the glass is now broken, then I may use the "se" to lighten the matter. But I guess in English one can do the same thing ("Things get broken, people. Nothing to see here")
Exactly right. The "workaround" would never have worked with a strong labour union.
If it's hot enough outside, at some point the phone will start using your body as a heat sink. So I guess it'd be warmer, until it's cooler, haha.
Which generators are you referring to?
Ah, the traditional start to the UK summer holidays We'll miss it when France has turned into the Sahara desert.
This mentality drives me crazy. I mean i agree that most comments are bad, but some high level description what a function/object/library does or how it is supposed to be used is something different.

When it misses then I have to read the ** code to use the ** thing. And I am not interesed in that at all. Maybe they do this so someone has to read their "good" code.
and for say, chemistry or astronomy, that's less of problem. It's like if all computer science research had been done exclusively with, say, ruby, which doesn't allow functions to be passed as arguments. For lots of things that doesn't matter, but some of the limitations of the grammar constrain or deter certain questions.
> Putin started war because he was pressured by the west ?

You would be surprised by the number of people believing that.
That's about preventing water to come in via gaps in ports etc.

Condensation is a different beast - unless your phone has literal vacuum, 0% humidity air or some other inert gas inside of it, in some thermal shock condensation gradient would form through it.

Electronic circuits themselves would have to be protected somehow, pins of processors etc. We are not there yet, not with cheap disposable electronics like iphones or androids (compared to say military or deep diving or space-grade electronics where everything is built for massive redundancy and abuse from scratch)
The American point of view is that anyone who adopts America as their home is American. I don’t care what a piece of paper says. You move here and make your home here, you’re one of us.
IBM PC was released in 1981, GPL 2.0 (which was the first version in wide use) in 1991.
That's a bummer -- I guess I never noticed that, when I played with it before it was on an M1 Mac, but compiled into an x86 Julia executable & running through Rosetta (which surprisingly did not suck).

Haven't read, but I bet it's likely related to expectations around the x86_64 memory model & atomics. In the long run I see no reason why it couldn't be made portable, but I imagine the authors efforts are elsewhere for now.
I do not trust OpenAI or Altman to do the right thing here.

Is the ACLU or EFF doing anything in this space?
Ask HN: Post Modernism and Atomic Bombs
Was just listening to something that brought out a concept I hadn't been made aware of :

Talking very broadly, Modernism can be summarised as Truth and value through work (as long as you work hard and be honest, you'll do good - conversely, if you do well, it's automatically because you worked hard and are honest). This idea came about during the american civil war, and was the prevalent mode of thought in North America until - and here's the part I wasn't aware - the atomic bomb.

The reasoning is that if in an instant a city like Hiroshima can be wiped, and an empire put to their knees (it's debatable how much the bomb had to do with this or if it was real, but it was what was believed at the time.), what's the point of working hard?

Thsi brought around post-modernism and this idea that truth and value has to be whatever is right there, and nothing has intrisic value over any other thing.

I assume - if all this is not blatantly wrong, which it might be - that we're stuck in this weird hole since, and have not yet found a way out.

I find this very interesting - is this somewhat right? Anywhere I can look more into it?

(Heard in - yeah I know - Regular Car Reviews on the PT Cruiser ; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hoxqtnI4I4c&t=0)
Beauty isn't only shaped by evolution. It is shaped by culture as well. Evolution has given leeway to the human interpretation of attraction through imprinting. This leaves a lot of variety among cultures on "what is beautiful". As stated before, outside of this variety, there are several characteristics and attributes of beauty that are universal and do not vary drastically across cultures. It is a combination of these two things that defines what is beautiful for a person.

One thing that you're wrong about is that it's a choice or a truth. A human cannot reinterpret or redefine what he or she thinks to be beautiful. Much of this definition is created by genetics and cultural imprinting.
I always wonder: how does that work? Is it a subscriber legally sharing paywall content with their share privileges, which i have done, but not aware of archive.is, or is it like copyright violation?
Coinbase Borrow requiring loan customers to pay early if due after November 20
No major distro installs java put of the box that I'm aware of
i am pretty sure this one has been confirmed, as i heard it from the western side, hadn’t heard Purim’s statement until right now
> Who fully sets up a significant project locally?

Who doesn't? I couldn't imagine having to push to some cloud agent and wait a random amount of time every time I want to test something. With it local I can just save, maybe rebuild or have it auto-rebuild if necessary, and test, then repeat. On a fast machine this can be a few seconds or instantaneous.

Maybe the niche I'm missing here is very "green" developers who don't know how to do any sysadmin work or deploy things.

If this is you, learn it. It pays off huge, not just during development but in being able to have a lot more choice about where you deploy and a lot more control over your own stuff.
The bathtub curves favor electric cars, slightly.

I'm so tired of this electric car bashing. It is so exhausting. How long is this nonsense going to keep going?

Electric cars last somewhere between 150k-300,000 miles - that's about the same as a gas car - slightly more. Yes, the number of cars we go through is wasteful, but these latest attacks pretend like it's never happened before and is brand new with electric cars.

It's not like we're all driving around 1970s Oldsmobile Cutlasses and Buick Rivieras while someone is advocating for disposable cars.

It's talking points from right wing propaganda machines funded by the gas and coal industry - the same ones that have been attacking climate change science for 40 years.
Government prohibitions, and the threat of them, being applied to software development, requires that criteria being met
> little benefit to anybody other than the "independent experts" and the established companies.

That's exactly the point, and the Administration hasn’t even bothered to make a show of listening to anyone without that interest, despite the plethora of available, prominent voices.
Because it's speech.
Yeah I have been collecting these stats on my own devices about their operating temperatures and I'm often surprised how much smaller the range is than I was expecting. For example:

Kobo eReader: 0 - 45C

Pixel 6: 0 - 35C

Macbook Pro: 10C - 35C

Pixel Buds: 0 - 35C

Garmin heart rate strap: 0 - 40C

Garmin bike computer: -20 - 60C

From talking to manufacturers I often hear "it will probably work outside this, but you'll have worse battery performance and eventually issues will arise". Another thing I hear is that, below zero, for wearable devices they will often stay at an OK temperature if they are in a pocket or beside your body.
The power requirements for charging stations are massive! A Tesla can draw 250kW. If you have 10 chargers, that is 2.5MW. You won't get that everywhere...

If you can install a 2.5MW diesel generator to cover those areas, encouraging adoption, that is a good thing.
I am not talking about 4 lane motorways, where access to megawatt power lines might not be that challenging, but more remote areas.
You never know haha some HN comments that should be jokes are actually dead serious.
If they manage to create one with almost no velocity, it would keep falling through the Earth, down, up and down again, for either something between atoseconds or centuries, until it either explodes or hits enough matter to get big enough to matter.

Or, more realistically (as realistic as we can be talking about the LHC creating black holes, AKA, not realistic at all), it will be launched into space in some random direction.
// Customers tends not to be experts. So after a certain level of skill has been achieved, any improvements that are made through experience are invisible to the people you’re selling to.

The relevant question is - does it matter? The Formula 1 pit crew is more expert than the mechanics at the Toyota dealership in ways I can't appreciate - but does it matter for my Highlander's oil change?

The answer might be "Yes, the F1 crew will do it in a way that prolongs the life of your engine" (I care about that!) or "Yes, the F1 crew will change your oil in 20% of the time" (I may or may not care about saving a few minutes every 6 months) or "No, you won't notice a difference but they are just more expert" (in which case I totally don't care!)

Part of expertise is ability to articulate its relevance to a given situation. Your customer may need help in validating your expertise, but at least start with the claim of what you can do.
I don't want to argue about Ukraine in this thread but I guess I do respect the consistency of anyone who says both "eh risking nuclear war is no biggie if the first mechanism for it that occurs to me seems unlikely" and "eh risking losing control of the planet to AI shoggoths is no biggie if..."
I was a little bastard in the late 90s, a script kiddie who executed anything I could find. Ran very obnoxious port scans against everything online.

Eventually I got a letter from my ISP and it was a thick binder with "netiquette". How to behave online. And a letter saying basically "we see everything you're doing, cut it out". They probably had complaints on the abuse address of my home IP, since I was a total moron.
Yea. This is an easy one. We use both.

For our “session” records, it’s a UUIDv7. This sorts beautifully, and if I wanted to, I could look at a log and easily see all the entries in a particular session.

For a larger db, we just need unique entries and at least in Dynamo, it is an advantage to equally distribute them as much as possible. UUIDv4 there.
The practice of using utensils exclusively and not touching food with hands is a relatively recent thing.
To clarify, I'm simply saying lets not accelerate the process of eliminating jobs

The fact that "AI" makes that a shibboleth is correlated, but by no means is AI the only process for which that happens

It just so happens that's the current trajectory and is expected to impact the labor market that to an extent that has been unseen since the industrial revolution - with billions more employees
Innovation enables unprecedented control over every finger of a bionic hand
I'm sure they're working on DALL-E 3 but haven't published anything.

I'm even more sure a price drop wouldn't let them compete with the open models out there.
What about when you delete rows? Do you just leave the space unused now? Or if you update a row to be larger? Rewrite the whole array (so possibly O(n) updates)?

How do you deal with data that gets accessed in different orders based on relationships from multiple other entities? Duplicate the data? If so, updates now get amplified and you can fit less data in RAM so you're more likely to require disk IO. If not, you need a layer of indirection (so you have an array of pointers instead of an array of data).

Even with a layer of indirection, updates that grow a row and require a reallocation will cause you to have to go update all pointers (also, those pointers need to be indexed to find who you need to update). To avoid write amplification, you can use an array of ids instead of an array of pointers. Now you want an id <-> pointer lookup, which could be done with a hash map in O(1), or with a tree in O(logN) if you want to also allow efficient range queries.

I'm not exactly sure on the implementation details, but for ballpark numbers, for an 8 kB page size with 80% fill factor and 16 B entries (8 B key + 8 B pointer), with 10E9 rows, log(N) ought to be ~4 (page IOs). Not ideal, but the point is for a lot of real-world engineering, O(logN) is effectively O(1) (with a small enough constant factor that it's fine for general use).

So if your data is not write-once, trees are a well-rounded default data structure.
This article is from NPR, which is theoretically as left as mainstream american media gets. Now look at the article and count the “facts” that the farm owner’s got into the article, and count the “facts” that the workers got in. This is biased writing. It’s telling mostly the farmers perspective, and fully allowing them to weave a narrative - while only talking to the workers to get a few pull quotes backing up one element of the story: that things have gotten worse.

“Business” journalism, in fact, most journaism, is from the perspective of capital. We read it, and imagine ourselves in the position of the owners and investors, trying to profit. But it’s far far more likely that if we were part of this story, we would be in the position of the workers, trying to survive on the scraps the owners toss our way.
> RDTSC is directly influenced by frequency scaling

Unfortunate wording, RDTSC itself is not influenced by frequency scaling, it has constant frequency on modern CPUs after all. Your video nicely shows that RDTSC delta is influenced by CPU frequency, as expected, but how does it affect using RDTSC as a clock? On my CPU RDTSC seems to tick at 3GHz, for example. I wonder how precise it is though, how much its frequency can drift from spec.
NDST1 is a bifunctional sulfotransferase and de-acetylase. It’s a gatekeeper enzyme (well as much as it can gatekeep with other isoenzymes), that catalyses a sulfation on heparan sulfate (HS) chains. HS makes up a big chunk of the extracellular matrix, and it is this matrix that various signaling molecules travel through to get to the cell. Reducing availability of NDST1 in cells would likely reduce binding of growth factors etc (or increase it, who knows!). It’s likely a bunch of subtle effects, and maybe this is actually pointing to some whole other thing that is happening. It’s difficult to say without digging into the literature.
I think this is legitimately the first time in my life, that I've considered the squared/cubed law as a bonus.
What makes disco.xyz more meritorious than a simple subscription? Regarding bendao.xyz, borrowing against worthless things doesn't seem less worthnless than worthless things.
I was quite amazed at the difference in charging spot availability on French auto-route rest stops between even 2022 and this year.

Last year: 1-2 charging spots, every other stop that had gas.

This year: 6+ charging spots, almost every gas stop.
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