skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> A process that takes X amount of time can't really take Y >> X amount of time to get going.

A fully laden iron ore carrier 1 km in length with 100's of thousands of tonnes of mass can drift slowly toward your ore wharf and take an hour to first touch it.

The destruction of that jetty can be over in 20 minutes.

There's a lag time of 60 minutes on an event that lasts 20 minutes.

> I thought it's being widely reported - this year - that we seem ahead of the warming trend, breaking all sorts of records, etc.

Right now the global average tempreture is higher than it's been in recorded history.

This is caused by greater insulation in the atmosphere trapping heat that is normally reflected outwards in the thermal band - that insulation is greater CO2.

Here's the thing; were we to magically stop ALL CO2 emissions right now today and hold steady .. the global average tempreture would still continue to rise for many many years (smoothed over thhe usual decadal oscillations) until an equilibrium was reached .. that's the lag time.

You may be familiar with a similar lag on a cold night when you throw an extra blanket or six on the bed and you're not instantly warm .. it takes some time for your body heat to warm up the area under the blanket.

A good starting palce for all this is the heat equations - heat flows like a fluid, it takes time to travel through mediums such as metal bars, it takes to to radiate heat away, etc.
xneko was better, replaced by oneko.
I'd rather not be unable to work and be poor by "investing in people" and "local economy". They sure as hell don't come to my aid when I need it.

You for shit have no idea how bad elder care is in America
Not sure if it's mainstream enough for Netflix, but some enterprising Youtuber could?
This is good to know. I refuse to click on a geeks4geeks result even if it looks like it has exactly the answer I want.
Read the T&C. The answers are all licenced under creative commons with attribution so anyone can copy them. They are not owned by SO. This is why sites can copy all of SO to get better Google SEO also this is why ChatGPT etc can build their answers based on SO.

So remember it was never your property.
as an alternative to pdb I like to use

`import code; code.interact(local=locals())`

Drops you into the interpreter and is sufficient for a lot of debugging problems.
For those like me unaware of the context here: https://www.theregister.com/2023/07/25/google_web_environmen...
usenet needs a hosting provider. And providers would usually mirror a subset of feeds so yeah you could think of it as distributed but it is a much simpler protocol. Freenet is more complicated, p2p, encrypted, anonymous medium and also the main difference is in the way the data is distributed on all participants computers instead of one central server.
I see a lot of comments about replacing the OS with Debian/Ubuntu.

I've been wondering, what's the best practice here? Let's say I have 100 Chromebooks. I imagine there's something better than walking with an USB stick to each of them, one by one. Can I push Ubuntu onto each machine, unattended, and then provision it with students accounts?
You wouldn’t really write it as you have in the second example though. The Pythonic way of writing something like this is to use list comprehensions or generator expressions, for example:

min(some_op(item) for item in bar.baz() if some_filter(item)).foo()

Or decomposed a little for clarity:

processed_items = (some_op(item) for item in bar.baz() if some_filter(item))
min(processed_items).foo()

This is pretty readable – a natural language description of the first line is “do some_op for each item in bar.baz that matches some_filter”, which corresponds 1:1 with the code.
Incidentally, here's a new crowdsourced scheme for TF2 that even in prototype form has been addressing the issue far better than Valve's efforts:

I Pissed Off Every Cheater in TF2 (Data Breach Gone Wrong) | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LVgk5t64cRs

Creating a Third-party Client to Auto-kick Cheaters and Bots from TF2 (Part 1/3) | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EPsWjdkyoPo

Basically cheaters don't seem to want just a one off high like a classic troll out for havoc, they want a reputation of being better than they are for an extended ego trip. Their choice will soon be either restraining themselves to becoming very subtle, or keep having to make new accounts.
Ok, now write the same list for Google. And then we can compare.
They do hold a lot of US debt, and currency. It's very probably win-win.
The answers will stay they are licensed through Creative Commons Attribution licences so anyone can copy them.
Elon Musk also did own x.com in the 1990s. [1] It was sold, but he repurchased it several years ago and left the page to resolve to a simple "x" index. [2] This usage was before Microsoft's 2003 registration.

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/19991114130555/http://x.com/mana...

[2] https://web.archive.org/web/20230401142845/http://x.com/
AFD.sys – Primitives in the Pocket – Integer Shenanigans
Wow! This is depressing.
Maybe the X could be the prize in the Zuckerberg/Musk fight. Unless they called that off already.
> it's pocket money

It’s not.
Ya. All I want is to throw moneydollars at the fucking browser, not at whatever feel-good initiative of the month the Mozilla Foundation is coming up with. I don't understand the problem.
The new prioritization algorithm tends to shift the lowest quality posts to the top in comments and the algorithmic feed. They also broke old (good) Tweetdeck, and have announced that new (bad) Tweetdeck will cost money. The quality of ads on the service has also declined tremendously. They've begun restricting other functionality as well like rate-limiting tweet viewing and direct messages.
> These scam sites load megabytes of junk, load slowly, have text interpersed with ads and modals that render right on top of them

Only if you're not googlebot. The crawler sees a much nicer site.
Cheers, this is vastly more interesting and informative than Gruber's post.
Note that despite this being a python-specific slide deck, generators and iterators are also present in many other languages, including but not limited to Rust and JS.

The concepts matter more than the chosen language in this deck.

I learned a lot! Looks like I can apply this to a PHP trace/profile parser project, especially the pipelined parsing and the query language idea.
Now I'm curious where the original Apple logo came from…

(And now I know: designed by Ron Wayne, so not public domain at all; and I'd forgotten about the ribbons with the text)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marketing_of_Apple_Inc.#/media...
Stack Overflow was the
"what is wrong with the api?"
"What api to use?"
"How to improve api usage/syntax?"
place.

"Whats is wrong with the api?": moved to github, because its the source.
"What api to use?": stackoverflow is still the place to go (or chatgpt).
"How to improve api usage/syntax?" stackoverflow / chatpgt.

Github could really dominate with its own LLM in the web and Stackoverflow could regain some shares with an integrated LLM.

PS: I don't like Github Copilot because of UX and code upload.
Interior courtyards were also much more important (regardless of climate) in the days before artificial illumination.
I agree with you even the saudi investors are also stupid just look at to that line city project
This is odd as my view is that documentation was much better pre 2000 and SO was needed because official documentation got so bad.
VR games are immersive and exhausting, you kinda have to be “in the mood” for one, and it kinda works mostly if you’re living alone, as its just very socially awkward to do your vr thing while someone else is in the room.

I think that’s mostly because you are doing something physical (interesting) but nobody else is allowed to participate. Which can feel kinda rude.

Compare that to normal games which you can “relax to” at the end of your work day.

I love playing beat saber myself, one of the more “casual” games, but its always been weird with people around.

Its not a coincidence that the apple vision pitch was mostly “this is the best HD screen that you’ve seen you just put it on your head” with a lot less movement emphasis, and I think it has a bigger chance of “taking off” than the current gen of vr, hopefully.
I can't work one solid block.

Divide my day in two blocks with a large gap in between them for household chores - general life stuff and alo taking a nap.

9am-12pm
8pm-12am
Textual Paint – MS Paint in your terminal
> usenet was already distributed

From my limited understanding, it's not "distributed" as you think

It's "distributed" among ISPs. It's like one of the yourname@isp.com free emails,

To run a usenet server, you need a server with public IP with TCP port 119 open. It's like running your own email service.
Here's a recent study employing modern imaging methods to observe and chart the activities in the brains of octopuses. It's quite surprising to find a high level of similarity with more advanced visual species.

Functional organization of visual responses in the octopus optic lobe
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S096098222...
I find it really confusing that people call games 2D just because they're displayed in monoscopic instead of stereoscopic 3D.
For me, the value proposition is spending less on hardware for similar benefits.

It's a lot easier to work with 8GB of RAM when your IDE uses 1GB to be a thin client instead of 4GB (this was roughly my experience using Jetbrains Gateway vs native PHPStorm).
There is no nuance in Israel anymore, and the writing reflects just that.
> Maybe it is now more about not facing antitrust scrutiny, just like when Microsoft "invested" in Apple?

Maybe, but what does that change? It might even be a stronger lever to pull than "we will stop sending you traffic". My point is that Google isn't donating money to Mozilla because it's nice, it pays for something (traffic / legal protection / whatever). I just don't see how the parent idea that Mozilla most comply with Google because Google "pays their bills" holds.
I think this is the legislative way forward. Mandate that all devices should be unlocked and allow installing alternate operating systems, with the requisite documentation to build such operating systems published.

This address two problems: device obsolescence and control over ones own device. I’m not particularly sympathetic to the idea of forcing Apple to drastically change iOS via legislation. However, it should be possible to install Android on iDevices for those who want a different privacy/control tradeoff than what Apple provides with iOS
Declarative Programming is a business model
Strap in for some truth: Declarative programming isn't a programming language paradigm, but a crafty business model. Marketed as a solution, it's as declarative as a mute parrot.

Let's be clear: the order of SQL statements matters. Duplication matters. The illusion that you can cook up a random program and it will work is pure fantasy.

However, if you're a big-time enterprise customer with rented SQL software from a cloud provider, you're in luck. You can create subpar programs and point the finger at the provider when things go south.

The unsung hero? A tech maestro at the provider's end who manipulates the database internals to transform your blundering query into something palatable. Yet, they call this 'declarative'?

What's truly declarative is the farcical agreement between customer and provider, not the code. The next time you hear 'declarative programming', remember: it's less about the code and more about the customer's audacious demands.
When a user is describing exactly how they're aiming at their foot and pulling the trigger but nothing happens, I'd assume they actually want to shoot themselves in the foot...

Thus, the first response is the correct one.

On preventing people from doing what they intend to do...I think the main issue is the world is a large place, people face many situations, and most advices given in good faith only have an extremely limited view of what people might need to do. And it's kinda awkward to ask for someone's whole life to decide if they are right in wanting to straight rename a table column on their live production DB.

Something could be a bad idea 99% of the time. But that leaves millions of people in the 1% for whom it's the best course of action.
During the Napster days there were all kinds of gimmicks for copy protection, none of which worked but that at least only were suckering RIAA and MPAA members into wasting money one them.

I wonder if now we'll see another round of useless technology aimed at bilking "creators" directly.
Kylian Mbappe transfer to Al-Hilal would wreck football as we know it
Signal could easily become a mass utility if governements would encourage their citizens to use it. Same with all the fediverse type platforms.

The reason these efforts struggle with unfathomly limited resources while surveillance capitalism doesnt know what to do with their adtech trillions is that governments have sold their citizens short.

The fate of Signal is tied to the fate of democracy.
The equivalent of sportswashing.
The site pressure at a bottom of a well is irrelevant. You do realize air pressure is not what matters, but pressure as a whole? That includes water pressure.
The bottom of the straw is not in a well; it’s more akin to a cassion, so you need to factor in the water pressure as well.

What you’re saying would imply that the Titan submersible would be at the same pressure whether under an ocean of water, or in a well the same depth. No. The former is 375atm, the latter is a bit more than 1atm.

You only need to lift the top layer of water a little bit. The rest of the water column would come up after it. Of course, you cannot lift the top of the siphon more than 10m above sea level.
I had it write an ansible job to enable a service with a specific name, and I got what I expected: something that looks correct a first glance, but with some subtle errors.
The answer can only ever be accepted by the asker, not even mods can change that. It's actually not that rare that the accepted answer is not the one with most votes in which case the accepted answer is somewhere further down, not the first one on top.
Been then many times.
Depends a lot of you go on business days or public days. Public days will mean long queues and not much time on anything during the day.

Business days you can do a lot more and there is a large indie section where you can meet with indies just like at the Bitsummit.
Xitter is clogged.. Scribbles on a bathroom stall
I can see this ok, but in case a paywall affects you:

https://archive.li/Ao6Uf
Puma: Secure Inference of LLaMA-7B in Five Minutes
How do you add new features to a distributed system? Anti spam was the most needed tool, and it never arrived.

Even if you just offer the ability to have 3rd party clients to your closed system you still have the problem of distributing new features, that's why there's only 1.2 browsers now
As a linux user: I don't mind this? Sure ideally games would be properly supporting linux, but as-is all this stuff means linux is even running most of these games at all.

In an ideal dream world this keeps going until most of gaming is on linux, at which point supporting linux proper might get to be more attractive again.
I tried "x com" in google and it worked fine. The first result was actually quite interesting

>X.com was an online bank co-founded by Elon Musk, Harris Fricker, Christopher Payne, and Ed Ho in 1999 in Palo Alto, California

So he's returning to his roots more than arbitrarily changing to something random
I think it’s pretty important to point out that Signal allows you to import this number with a QR code, so it’s not very arduous to do to verification.
You’re missing a prime minister who is hell bent on staying out of prison.
Related: Darcy’s talk from Refactor Conference a couple of weeks ago.

https://youtu.be/_O1nkYCN2io

Disclaimer: I used to work with Darcy at npm. Love the dude.
I generally don't play games with someone else in the room because it feels a bit rude. I don't tend to hang out with people that want to watch someone else play a game. Is that an age thing?

I might use VR when someone else is in the house however. That's different.
I don't mean mmx through avx2 when I said extensions. I mean the "vector length" extensions/flag for avx512 that lets you know you can use those instructions with xmm and ymm sized operands. Since it is a flag it means it is a theoretical optional feature whereas it should have just been part of the avx512 base. With the hindsight of what Intel want for avx10 there should have been flags for xmm, ymm, and zmm operands. That would be excellent for the "E" cores.
It's just too messy with the cable twisting around, all the room space you need etc. I have a 1st generation Vive where one of the cables keeps falling out of its socket. It's all just such a bother and I keep getting motion sick. Not getting another headset until it's cable free, and I don't want an Oculus b/c of FB affiliation.
Google offered to uplift the groups, and somewhat choked the model to death. I think Brad Templeton and others gave them tapes. (A good thing at the time) or maybe an early crate of disc drives got shared.

A bunch of pre 90s data caches got uplifted and then silently seemed to vanish. I was a box admin in the UK in the early 80s and my honey-danber database records were online for a while in the maps Usenet group. They're not responding to search any more.
If I was an evil but incredibly smart person and part of the gas industry, if I wanted to create a campaign to discredit the pro-environment side, Just Stop Oil is exactly what I would have hoped to create in my dreams.

What an awfully dumb organization. They’ve achieved absolutely nothing other than turning the public against pro environment policy. As an upshot, they’ve made it easy for the intellectually bankrupt Tory leaders to now turn away from one of the handful decent things Boris Johnson had done, which is to have some sort of environment policy.
It's also pretty close to the logo for x.org.
> shouldn't have to pay for the IP that they use

They don't want actual ARM IP. They only want the ISA. Its questionable if ISA design should be protected.

To get an architectural license its millions, do you think its reasonable to pay millions just for an ISA specification?

And even with that specification, there would be lots of restrictions still.

Listen to Jim Keller on the topic, there are also other issues with how slow developments are. Lots of companies are already out with accelerators that don't even have an official ARM spec yet.

> Sure RISC-V is great in many, many ways but having the 64-bit Arm ISA ready for Apple to use in (checks notes) 2013 has been fundamental to them building their multi-trillion dollar business. Getting that ISA ready cost real money.

That's nice and all for ARM and Apple.

But now we are in the future where an open standard exists. Once you move to an open standard you don't go back very often.
When I worked in IT at a big company we had a fake screensaver that emulated a blue screen and boot loop situation. Nobody ever thought to press a key or move the mouse which would have cleared it, they would always go for a power cycle followed by lots of hilarious troubleshooting, before it happened again and again. Good times.
Did that and weirdly nothing seems to be excessive... indeed the Macs own performance monitor doesn't suggest anything is particular excessively using cpu or ram but here it is juddering away especially when scrolling pages.

Three year old Mac btw... everything else runs pretty well... if I get a chance I might fire up Firefox in Parallels and see if it's a Mac issue
I certainly have had my panicky days about this, so something inside me is getting at least part of the picture.

Unfortunately the people who can actually do anything about this lack the parts of their brain that could ever hope to understand.
That's why most developers now prefer ChatGPT. It's way faster and more convenient. Like a super smart search engine.

SO will remain as a library for unseen problems, which is what's supposed to be good for.
I’m not a statistician, but I’ve read somewhere the argument that the gaussian is the distribution that assumes the least about its data (just that there’s a mean and non-infinite variance) so it is typically safe to use when you know little about the real distribution.

(I’m just commenting to compel someone to correct me and expand on this subthread really :) )
uBlacklist can help by culling the spam results, while it's mostly a manual thing, it's fast, easy, and a little effort goes a long way I've found.

Unfortunately it still doesn't solve the issue that sometimes the good results are still buried pages away or simply not come up at all due to google's shitty algorithm.

I really need to look into SearXNG or something.
Notice that they did not say the word "cryptocurrency". Despite any robust system that would work for these use cases being such.

I assume this is due to the poor reputation of cryptocurrency, lack of understanding of what it really is, and to a lesser degree a slight preference for trying to build centralized smart money which makes it easier to maintain existing centralized power.
For those who can't see the site right now, here are some videos from the article on youtube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pb9W_cFUWYw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jnt37hu1bRw
Again, it wasn't there first with open 64 bit.

Only 32 bit was open. And the 64 bit was a major change for Sparc.
Where did you see 32 general purpose registers? There are 32 vector registers in avx512 and avx10. Did I miss it?
Can I just say I appreciate the framing of this as an attack? Somehow I hadn't yet mentally filed Google and friends under "Man in the middle" but that's pretty much exactly what's going on.

This Web Integrity API is just a means to cement themselves as obligatory man in the middle, as opposed to an optional one.
Common falsehood that people believe is that rich people are smart.

The biggest early factor to Elon Musk's wealth was lucking into Peter Thiel merging X.com into Confinity/PayPal. Thiel likely anticipated that Musk would have tanked X.com eventually but it would have been much worse for Confinity if it had done so given its market share and the rippling affect that could have caused in the market and user trust. X.com largely operated on hot air, riding the Dot Com bubble. The massive jumps after that directly stem from his Tesla shares, which are massively overvalued.

Basically he bought an EV company right when greenwashing and solar/electric was the new hotness and founded SpaceX mid-way to the tail end of a space optimism/tourism and "nerd-cool" (i.e. rise of super hero movies in mainstream media, widespread enthusiasm for "tech gadgets", etc) trend. He used SpaceX to make grandiose claims about technological developments which in turn fed into a hype cycle of vaporware projects like the Hyperloop, eventually allowing him to position himself as "real-life Tony Stark" further boosting his credibility with no actual qualifications.

I'm not saying his success isn't real, but his success doesn't come down to him being a clever business person but more to being a meme. He turned himself into a brand and that brand carried Tesla stock to absurd heights but with Twitter's failure that brand is becoming increasingly toxic and he's stuck turning dials and checking if people are still cheering while also trying to relive his young adulthood high of X.com, except we're no longer in the Dot-Com bubble and he doesn't understand PayPal did him a favor by kicking him out.
It's fine, the Deck is not really that great of an experience in desktop mode anyway.