skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Good point. You're right that, in theory, meat production could be carbon neutral. But the real world isn't that simple. Current animal farming emits a lot of methane and nitrous oxide (N2O), both potent greenhouse gases (over 100 year period methane is 28-36 times more potent than CO2, N2O is 265-298 times more potent than CO2).

Also, when we talk about reforestation for carbon capture, it's not just a one-off event. Yes, a new forest can sequester a substantial amount of CO2, especially in its early years when tree growth is fast. But as long as that forest continues to grow and mature, it's going to keep pulling CO2 out of the atmosphere. It's an ongoing process, not just a one-time event. So when we choose to use land for farming instead of allowing it to reforest, we're not just missing out on an initial large absorption of CO2, we're also giving up all the future CO2 that those trees could have continued to sequester throughout their lives.

Plus, we shouldn't forget about the carbon storage potential in the wildlife that would populate these reforested areas and in the soils those forests would help enrich and expand.

Sure, we need to make our energy production carbon neutral. But it may not happen for many decades, and until then, the high energy needed for meat production and distribution is a concern.
The sun's core is actually very hot, it is the outer layers of the sun that are much cooler. We're trying to do this at roughly twice the temperature than the core of the sun, and I realize the difference is millions of degrees but on a relative scale this doesn't add much complexity, it would be almost as difficult if the plasma would be only half the temperature that they are shooting for.

And in a way that higher temp is a result of trying to do this at a smaller scale, if you want to be net-positive it gets easier as you get hotter as far as I understand it.

So what we are doing is in fact to re-create conditions roughly on par with what is happening in the core of the sun. And it turns out that doing that small, for extended periods, net positive and reliable (without the machine suffering damage from the process) is a very hard problem. Even so I'm very much impressed with these projects, the engineering and the physics are way over my head but I do hope that one day they'll get it working. But I'm not going to hold my breath.

Incidentally, the implications for energy storage if TFA turns out to be on the money are possibly more interesting than fusion in the short term.
The problem is that if the operating system allows sequences that are not valid UTF-16, then you cannot just state "it uses UTF-16": anything that is expecting UTF-16 and only UTF-16 is going to break on valid file names.

"That's how unix does it as well" is the exact same thing. Most people these days expect file names in UTF-8, but not all file systems restrict the valid character sequences to be UTF-8 compliant. If you treat everything as if it must be UTF-8, your application may just break when it encounters a name that isn't UTF-8. (This detail gets messy because there are configurations of, eg, ext4 and ZFS that limit valid file names to be valid UTF-8.)
The opposite. Participating benefits your career.

Curious what you think about this: Say there's no company sponsorship or involvement. You get invited to happy hour or a round of golf with the higher-ups completely on your own dime. Its obviously beneficial to pal around with your superiors. Is that a problem?
One presentation format which utterly flips this is to post newest message first.

Random ordering can also work.

(Newest first has its own issues, notably of late-hit low-value comments. But the overall effect on the thread discussion of early low-value comments is reduced.)
Curtailing legacy admissions would push some privileged kids to second tier schools and cause more of this happen, instead of concentrating it at a small handful of top schools.

The event where some kid of humble origin connects with a kid of the Social Register crowd and forms a lifelong bond comes from mostly odd chance, and it tends to recedes after the initial mix of roommates and floormates are assigned. Social circles gel and people start sorting themselves almost right away.
> I created a small Node+Express project, added a few dependencies to handle things like CORS, API Authentication, ORM, and data validation, and my node_modules folder has 300 packages already. Frontend wise, it's worse.

The vast majority of node dependencies are for testing frameworks and other tools that are never shipped to the customer.

For example, if you install any tool that does pretty command line output, odds are it installs some console UI libraries as a dependency, and odds are they also install a lower level curses like library as a dependency.

(Also I've yet to meet a simple ORM system!)

Jest is another common offender, much like every other popular testing framework, it is large and complex, and due to the nature of Javascript, it is also more powerful than a lot of the other testing frameworks I have seen (e.g. Jest can do stuff at runtime that Java frameworks need to do at compile time).

Those Java frameworks that go in and mock classes are complicated, but they are all hidden behind a "single" dependency.

Regarding front end build times, if a frontend website is taking any amount of time to build, something else is wrong (e.g. TypeScript is rebuilding everything one very build). Typical frontend website dev stacks have hot reloading enabled that allows for the site to be refreshed and updated the instant a file is saved. Nicer setups live change the DOM and try to avoid reloading the page unless something touching state management has been altered.

(My experience is with React and Svelte alongside TS, Angular may be a different story, not sure!)
It's basically managed by a TOML file, so should be able to specify something like that. If that's not to your liking, you can extend the CLI using Typescript and make it do whatever you want.

If you have any questions/issues, feel free to shoot me a message. My email should be in my profile!
Why are people so interested in ‘lengths’ of strings?

The only thing anyone should actually care about is either the number of bytes it takes to store the string, or the number of pixels wide it is when rendered. Both of which are only loosely related to how many ‘characters’ or ‘grapheme clusters’ they contain, and which are themselves only vaguely correlated.

𒈙 (CUNEIFORM SIGN LUGAL OPPOSING LUGAL) is four bytes of UTF8 and as wide as about 9 Latin characters. 󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 (an England flag emoji) is about a character wide, but takes 28 bytes to store in UTF8.
Are you really arguing that this hasn't happened many, many times in the past and yet people still take professorships at public universities and schools?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demers_v._Austin

This case wouldn't have happened if it wasn't for a prof getting attacked by the state for stating something in a classroom. It's happened many times in the past too. Note this was the first time any court said there was a constitutional protection, and doesn't apply across the whole US currently.
$0.084/kWh in Colorado (in summer, lower in winter)
> You can easily plug this classifier into the end of a generative network trying to fool it, and even backpropagate all the way from the yes/no output to the input layer of the generative network. Now you can easily generate text that fools that classifier

could you contextualize your use of the word "easily" here?

I feel like "easily" might mean "with infinite funds and frictionless spherical developers."
As a former military officer, does it concern you at all that in this case if the time comes that we must mobilize, like yesterday, instead of issuing orders and having them followed, we may have a 4 to 12 year lag as the orders filter through our "democracy", which is composed largely of a bunch of children arguing over their respective fantasy land realities (as illustrated among our best and brightest here every time the topic comes up)?

I feel like "a chain is only as strong as its weakest link" is in play here in a very big way.
TPM chips. They became a hard requirement for Windows recently, and I don't believe this is a coincidence.
> it sounds as if you're willing to make other adults' decisions for them, which deeply bothers me

I'm not Logan, but I can't really see how you came to that conclusion - I'll try to explain.

We do think that people who choose not to take the risk of psychedelics are justified in their decision. Even for individuals where psychedelic use could be beneficial, we think it's better for them to wait until the risk is acceptable to them - which may or may not happen.

In other words, we think the Venn diagram of "people who are justified in their decision not to take psychedelics right now" and "people who could benefit from psychedelic use" has some overlap, we just don't know how much. We also think that a lot of the people who already use psychedelics or intend to use them can benefit, just like we also recognize that plenty of other users may not benefit for one reason or another.

I apologize on Logan's behalf if the original comment was unclear.

-Emily (see HN profile for details)
I've forgotten how many times one of the most important thresholds in our times has been bumped up a bit. Now we seem to be offered heaven on a plate.

If superconductance can be reliably demonstrated at RTP (you wear a light cotton shirt, instead of 1cm thick fancy weaves involving an awful lot of rubber) then we are laughing all the way to ameliorating climate change.

Even if this result is confirmed then I think it will take at least 20 years to dig in to reversing climate change.

We live in unpleasant times.
Or Tech Ingredients.
if you see URLs which project the microsoft editors choice of "single quote mark" into a triad of %xx; values, you've seen how people wind up in unexpected unicode/utf land, because of the text editor swapping ASCII for an uplift into either distorted iso-latin1, or unicode/utf8 depending.
Not these guys again. This is a marketing campaign, and has nothing to do with tech news.
You listed multiple companies. That's the difference.

We debate Android vs. iOS (vs. awesome Linux shenanigans), or Microsoft vs. Apple vs. Linux. Those are choices. Most of the market is essentially duopolies, but that's a different issue than a pure monopoly.
My personal machine is Win10 with a local arch linux VM for all things dev. I was nearly set up with the ability to boot Arch as a VM as well as 'natively' but I got distracted and the VM is good enough, so I never got there. My current employer is OTT WRT security so I can't even install reputable tools, which pains me, so I definitely agree with your closing sentence.
>Generally cell wall first hypothesis over RNA/peptides first.

I've always felt that RNA was probably a very late addition to the game of life.
As a non-user, I think such variety is a good thing.

Not using the same thing everyone uses forces developers to care about standards rather than to assume compatibility just because it is how the favorite implementation works. Same reason why it is a good thing that a popular browser that is not Chromium-based exists.
Another advantage of this, at last for the backend, is that Node itself has a small footprint. Compared to the JVM, Node is tiny. It does some IO stuff and some eventing stuff and not much else.

For the front end, ideally tree shaking is used, and even fancier build systems create code that doesn't pull down dependencies until they are actually needed at runtime.
Normalize writing your own code. If you’re in an environment where importing GetFirstChar from an essentially random person is the norm, this is bound to happen. It seems like some developers write code only if the functionality isn’t provided by some package, when really they should be reaching for the imports only if writing the package is too much effort.
While true, standardized testing is still more fair than qualitatively judging extracurriculars or applying arbitrary GPA normalization across high schools.
Addictions can end. Make the experience unpleasant and people stop seeking it.
I often use treemaps for quick datavis on hierarchical data, like this (ancient) analysis of Chrome binary size: https://neugierig.org/software/chromium/bloat/.

As part of that made a little web-based treemap widget called "webtreemap" and published a version that I use in unix pipelines. It accepts data on stdin and dumps self-contained HTML on stdout.

# install program:
$ npm install --global webtreemap

# pipe any utility that outputs size+hierarchy data into it:
$ du | webtreemap > demo.html

# interact in browser:
$ open demo.html
If you use this your invoice is getting BLOCKED from by my email rules!!!
In case someone else wants to know what LoRAs are https://softwarekeep.com/help-center/how-to-use-stable-diffu...
Those mid 80s high temperature superconductors are now mass produced for NMRs and fusion startups.

I don't think it's given that all superconductor breakthroughs will require 40 years to get to that point and there's good reason to believe they won't (startup penalty, industry bootstrapping, market finding, etc. have all been completed).
> The data presented in the article shows how, after controlling for test scores, the wealthiest children get enormous preference on all the non-standardized factors that people want to replace standardized tests with.

No, it shows that they get higher ratings (“preference” would be ratings for the same objective facts) on the existing aggregate of the other factors used in admissions, which is not:

(1) Showing preference,
(2) Showing the advantage on each of the factors, or the particular ones which would actually replace standardized testing in any particular evaluation.

The usual concrete recommendation I’ve heard when anyone discusses it is to replace the role of standardized testing by filling its weight by expanding the weight of the existing other objective academic criteria with which it is highly but not perfectly correlated, largely removing the test prep issue and the cost factors it involves, but not upweighting other non-academic factors (which have cost, access, and network factors much stronger than standardized testing does.)
So you're just defining the difference between who defines the tech. As placed like Twitter absolutely can act like a typical townsquare.

The only real difference is if the tech has the necessary tools.
Is it perhaps interoperability?

If you're not that serious about it, it's a way to get a bit more for free?

Contrast Redux, which is quite a serious (not in the 'we compete with Windows' sense, but still) project I gather, which... I don't know how they describe it, but it's sort of Unix-ish, Unix-rethought? I've never actually played with it, but loved the idea of 'everything is a url' (not file) when I heard it described & explained on The Bike Shed podcast I think.
omg, I just went through that thread in its entirety, it makes it very clear that Roth has a very cozy relationship with the FBI and his only issue was not wanting to change their stance wrt to mass surveillance, which was already compromised due to fisa warrants anyway.
Last week, Apple added about $50 billion in market cap after Bloomberg reported that it was working on its own ChatGPT gizmo. Every ad on Marketplace is for stuff like AI-powered recruiting by Robert Half. If it's only brewing so far, I don't think I'm ready for what comes next. An AI beverage company[1] or something?

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_Blockchain_Corp
> Don't really like this framing of the problem - he owns a majority of voting shares, and he paid (or, rather, overpaid) mightily for that right. You can't really be "fired" from being an owner.

This is basically what people mean by "too rich to fire". I don't think anyone is suggesting that if he wasn't a stakeholder, he'd keep his job solely because he had a lot of money. I think it fair to say that, if Twitter was a publicly traded company with a board of directors, Elon likely would have been fired by now. Or, at the very least, significantly reigned in.
Why not just strip out unused code? This has existed in other toolchains for years.
Yes, I do agree if this continues on it could be an interesting court case to watch as it makes it up the courts. Will the 5th circuit agree with Demers? Will we have a circuit split? Who knows.
The Dijkstra quote was.

"The question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than the question of whether a submarine can swim."
That's kind of cool and fun (though I'm awful at drawing)
And for literal decades the 3rd party library ecosystem around .NET was anemic. Importing 3rd party libraries was an afterthought in the language, typically it involved downloading a .dll from some server, dropping it in the same folder as your project, and then manually editing some XML.

Things are better now, but for all its (many!) positives, .NET is not an example of how to create a good ecosystem.

Of course back then Microsoft considered an ecosystem to be 3rd party partners selling libraries, of which quite a few successful companies did.
Here is a separate argument I wish to pick with city governments + planners, especially if you are claiming to be liberal, pro-living-wage, etc. all these kinds of things (and by no means is this a new criticism, I acknowledge)

More than just the slowness of development or lack of housing that results -- the amount of red tape, approvals, and permits (for honestly ridiculous aspects of aesthetic considerations) that a city imposes, the more it discriminates against middle income / low income people.

What you find in our most liberal cities is that the more that entrenched old populations who got there first want to keep the city to be a certain character by making the permitting process difficult, the more it is that only rich people can afford to get through those processes.

Have you ever noticed that fancy new condos or rich people's houses are able to be built, while the average homeowner throws up his/her hands at the amount of permits and hearing necessary to get a simple remodeling done? It's really discrimination against anyone but the rich, who have the money to hire people who can navigate this system that's been created. I once randomly sat in a building permit hearing where the committee members seemed to out of obligation, require certain changes to any application that came along just to seem to be doing their jobs. The color of a door, the location of a chimney. Absolutely ridiculous.

Maybe the city has good intentions, but like so many things left on unintended autopilot, it has become a conservative force. The family of 4 who could either get much more out of their house in living space, upgrade their life, or at least sell it for more, are forced to give up those plans when confronted with the ridiculous permitting/approvals process.

So you end up with cities where only the rich can afford to apply for a permit and succeed at it.

We would do well to confront what we've incentivized, and whether they're living up to our claimed values.
I’ve run into way too many issues with musl to consider it for anything serious. For containers I use debian-slim and it’s great (of course, it’s Debian after all).
The userbase is the key to the entire platform. Any minority platform that has been created for small groups like Truth are just echo chambers of a single subculture. The wide range of individuals and subcultures on the Twitter platform is the whole reason people still use it.
The companies that are licensing the tech. Unfortunately that'll be the big names so you're already pretty heavily priced out of a serious buy. There will be small startups around the world to working on smaller, less-sexy applications (medical implants come to mind since the power requirements for batteries would bottom out) that you very well could make a lot of money in, but there won't be an Edison here, the world is too diversified already and this is a new version of existing tech, not something new.

Who knows though, maybe we'll be able to finally launch ships into space without rockets?
> meat production is by itself carbon neutral

Not really true, see above.

> more expensive to better reflect its true cost, true, but it's different from "everyone needs to be vegan forever to save the planet"

Not many people would be able to purchase it if it would reflect all its negative externalities in the price.

> spices are just as "unnecessary" as meat

Spices are plants, efficient, sustainable and necessary. Meat is not sustainable.

And you can't replace spices (what would you use instead?), but you can replace meat (many sustainable options exist).
The iOS app is not a standalone browser, it's a reader for pages saved on your Mac Arc instance.
Chuck Norris settles $30M suit against CBS, Sony: ‘Walker, Texas Ranger’ profits
Railway Mania in 1840s Britain
This screams more of a institutional bureaucracy issue and less a medical science issue.

GP's are part of a system that requires they churn through a lot of people quickly. this dramatically lowers the in depth research and reasoning they can perform.
..which will rapidly be branded as "child porn devices" by politicians, then promptly outlawed after public outcry.
People like to discuss who they think deserves to get into Harvard but almost no one ever tries to model what functions Harvard admissions are attempting to maximize. I really don't know and have never read an explanation. Could easily be they are trying to maximize prestige of graduates and future donations. Also not sure why everyone thinks getting certain people admitted to Harvard will solve society wide problems. Don't some studies show the intuitive point that getting into a top tier school matters more than going to a top tier school, i.e. top tier schools are good at identifying high potential high school students.
> numerous self-serving decisions

And much of the cost of nuclear is hedging against these decisions, whether by profit-seeking or the tyranny of a totalitarian state
Or "smart tags" in IE6 Beta that Microsoft walked back before shipping, fortunately:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smart_tag_(Microsoft)
> By adding the blank token to the classes predictions, we can get the model to predict something like this (post softmax classification)
> y* -> hel~l~~oooo~~~~~~ w~~o~~r~~l~~d

This is a great solution. Though that's a dummy token in the output rather than the input. I guess you could do something inverse to do text to speech, but it might be hard to say where to insert the dummy tokens in that case.
I think it's up-to-date in terms of new projects that get added, but there are definitely some completed ones whose status isn't updated. (But also some recently completed projects are removed, so I'm not sure why it's inconsistent. Potentially an issue with the data source?)
What they're missing is a link graph as given in https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/techreports/UCAM-CL-TR-523.pdf
Wow. There is even one package to not use a JavaScript object: https://www.npmjs.com/package/conf
I hope the true victim gets their criminal record expunged.

It's interesting that the plea deal was on cyber stalking and not false police reports.

As long as we have elements of the police and legal system that favor alleged victims, we need robust controls for individuals that abuse or manipulate the system. I hope this person sees some time
One of the things that keeps me rooted is that I've worked as then employed teams of experienced DBAs to maintain "self healing databases" for last 20 years. Large but non crazy / non special databases with robust reliable technology that just need tender loving care all the time. And I'm increasingly aware as I age that I am not special and everywhere else is not that much better. So I'm with you on the dangers of self running / self improving stuff running away, vs 10k immediate risks and issues (as in, happening, not hypotheticals).
Implementing. I wrote a QnX clone and it has a lot of parallels with plan9.