skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It won't at all, of course, but personal websites are a vanishing breed.
With so many recorded errors of conversion, you’d assume we would just make it intergalactic law that everybody use metrics. Why is the imperial system still used, especially when it’s by such a small minority?
There isn't much difference between a blog and a whitepaper, in that people tend to write blogs more casually and whitepaper more seriously (and some academics event only accept things that look more serious).

But a good writer can write great articles in whatever format they wish.
I'd guess the majority are ex-navy/airforce and they have trainer planes, but no gliders, afaik.
Pretty good list. Two corrections:

The `first, *middle, last` trick doesn't work if your list only has one element:

first, *middle, last = [1]
ValueError: not enough values to unpack (expected at least 2, got 1)

And the last title has a typo:

> Separater for Large Numbers
Trello went from 0 to 50k users on launch day
> Solar is so much more useful close to where it's consumed

I'm not really worried about this. Humanity has already invented the greatest utility-scale battery. Pump water uphill when it's sunny. Let it flow back down, through a turbine, when it's dark out. No lithium needed!

People often talk about the space required for pumped hydro, but it's probably a lot less than all the shopping mall parking lots in America.
We know that truth extends beyond what can be empirically proven. Meaning that just because something cannot be proven empirically, does not mean that it is not true. Furthermore, truth is not limited to what can only be empirically proven. This is what the neo-atheists/scientism followers seem to always fall for, and something that even philisophers know not to be true. I believe Godel's incompleteness theorem has something to say about the matter as well. And Dr. Ameri is an expert, you can read up about his credentials. Unlike say Dawkins who was referred to as a journalist by an academic in his field.
Afaik the thing Zen is missing currently is FP16.
That's a good point but I can't believe that every console doesn't have it's own unique set of keys so that if you compromise one before SW patches land, it won't be much use in the ecosystem.
https://news.mit.edu/2022/solar-panels-dust-magnets-0311
It could have also been about Jesus and his death
Bastila: How to make junior developer lives easier
In this short blog, I make an argument for Bastila and how it solves one of the more common pain points for junior, intermediate, and recently hired developers.
And I hope you find your way in! Shit is weird, dude. Train your eye.
I don't know if a generator can be shared across threads, but in that case ... I have no idea :/

You'll need to search, or try!
A Policy of Deliberate Ambiguity (Strategic Ambiguity, Strategic Uncertainty)
The conclusion is baffling. If I understand the author’s thesis, I think it was something like: “Wouldn’t it be neat if the thermostat had more insight and could have automatically arranged to have itself repaired? But I don’t know how that’s possible. And if it were, I’m not sure I want those privacy trade offs. But we have to figure out how to get there from here!” Uh, do we?

The first thing I think about a self-repairing HVAC (or, rather, an HVAC that summons a technician autonomously) is how quickly can you go from “working A/C” to “ruinously expensive”? Yeah, I think I’m gonna keep a human in the loop on this one.
It's incredible to me that this lie keeps getting repeated. It gets proven wrong every time, and yet people just keep saying it.

It's like they have a personal investment in Elon not having done the things that Elon has very clearly actually done.
We do have applications where batteries don't seem like they can solve fundamental physics issues.

Batteries are too heavy for cargo ships to float, and too heavy for planes to fly. The only other real credible alternative is hydrogen, which has been trying to get off the ground for about three decades now. And of course we have all the extant hydrocarbon infrastructure that would need to be duplicated.
Some of these features lie in the border of the uncanny valley where languages like Ruby and "vanilla Javascript" live, and are not compatible with the principle of least surprise or even the Zen of Python. I don't write too much Python anymore, but when I do I keep it simple and explicit.
I'm Canadian and there are more "ehs" in this article than I've heard in the past 5 years combined
> For 40k you can build quite a large off grid PV system that will have a reasonable ROI on it to serve the same loads, vs. spending 40k one time on construction costs for grid and then $50 to $200 monthly electric bills recurring for a long time after that.

Why would such an off-grid system have any monthly electric bills? Are you just pre-amortizing the cost of replacement batteries?

EDIT: I'm an idiot. The bills are for the grid-tied option.
> Those few who care will turn to more esoteric, incomplete, user-unfriendly but open systems.

A lot of that has been happening for a long time now.
They'll have more dumped on their plates, and paid less, with the threat of redundancy.
New Anti-Aging Research Holds Promise for Reversing Cellular Aging
(define lol
(let ((a 0))
(lambda ()
(set! a (+ a 1))
a)))

Scheme is a functional programming language in the same way python is. The only difference is that it has tail call optimisation and the stack doesn't have an arbitrary limit on the number of function calls it can hold.
The point he's making is that the fallacious argument can apply both ways, so it is not something that can be used to argue for either side.
Neural Networks: from zero to hero, - a course by Andrej Karpaty (available as a YouTube playlist)
It’s still socially acceptable to wear a face mask in public
This seemed really cool. I'm used to a lot of new instructions & boosts, but Intel adding new conditional load/store is a smart interesting coupling that could help increase execution unit efficiency in a significant way.

> As out-of-order CPUs continue to become deeper and wider, the cost of mispredictions increasingly dominates performance of such workloads. Branch predictor improvements can mitigate this to a limited extent only as data-dependent branches are fundamentally hard to predict.

> To address this growing performance issue, we significantly expand the conditional instruction set of x86, which was first introduced with the Intel® Pentium® Pro in the form of CMOV/SET instructions. These instructions are used quite extensively by today’s compilers, but they are too limited for broader use of if-conversion (a compiler optimization that replaces branches with conditional instructions).

> Intel® APX adds conditional forms of load, store, and compare/test instructions, and it also adds an option for the compiler to suppress the status flags writes of common instructions.

https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/developer/articles/t...

I didn't understand everything about the "caller-saved volatile" new general purpose register interface & legacy compatibility. But some potentially really interesting optimizations where load/store being dual register capable, and being capable of staying on the AVX unit & not having to go further out to "memory" (caches?):

> Generally, more register state will need to be managed at function boundaries. In order to reduce the associated overhead, we are adding PUSH2/POP2 instructions that transfer two register values within a single memory operation. The processor tracks these new instructions internally and fast-forwards register data between matching PUSH2 and POP2 instructions without going through memory.

Neat stuff. Very superficially reminds me of Semantic Streaming Registers on the very novel standalone-ish FPU on PULP's RISC-V based Occamy many-core chip. In that the unit is acting in a more standalone fashion. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kMhdq7A3d3I#t=10m https://pulp-platform.org/docs/BeniniSC11-22.pdf
This guy has clearly never tried to drive In New York or Boston.
The complaint about research papers is that almost all of them omit the ELI5 and provide only the formalism.

You can have both and weave them together into a digestible narrative. I see Physics textbooks sometimes written this way.
> it's because they don't have to pay for the maintenance of the entire distribution network

How is that going to be paid for?
>> Seems like this is going to get a lot of pushback.

It is:

https://github.com/RupertBenWiser/Web-Environment-Integrity/...
I wonder if Google's Med-PaLM2 use those for training.

Best content + quality LLM + quality verifications => Useful health advice.
> genetic programming

There is no magic in GP. It is just another form of searching the space of programs, i.e. program synthesis. The search mechanism is a local, stochastic search, known to be especially inefficient (for example you may hit the same program multiple times). What's good about GP is how simple it is, so it's a good starting point.
> Installation and management for large scale commercial companies is _much_ cheaper.

Even when you need to transport it thousands of miles? Thats where most people are in relation to the deserts in the US.
It probably won't be 100 ns accurate in motion, but still quite accurate. Practically speaking you won't get better than ~1 s unless you connect the PPS pin to an interrupt or PLL.

With a bare minimum implementation you should be able to get the GPS time from the NMEA strings. You just need to guarantee you'll have GPS lock at least intermittently, which is probably true for a fleet of monitored cars in nearly all situations.
On a related note, Hungary's state-owned gambling company sold soccer bets in 1998 that could guarantee 25% returns. Unlike the lottery tickets in OP's story, the Hungarian arbitrage required buying only a couple of tickets and hence needed much less capital. Alas, there was no math-savvy enterpreneur to game the system, so the Hungarian gambling company made record profits. [1]

[1] https://math.bme.hu/~matolcsi/szjrt8.pdf
> hypothesize that only computable and decidable (in Godel's sense) structures exist

The arithmetic hierarchy is a study of non-computable/decidable sets.

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

> Or, more accurately, Gödel forbids the existence (in both logical and Tegmarkian senses) mathematical structures that are (a) powerful enough, (b) complete, and (c) self-consistent. But Tegmark here seems to make a much stronger claim, namely that, in his ontology, structures that are (a) do not exist and thus everything ontologically real is both (b) and (c) – finite in the sense that neither undecidable nor semidecidable problems exist.

Ys, but is different from claiming that "only computable and decidable exist"
I've heard and met many - its just hearsay to me. Fools believe hearsay. Until there's some advanced blood test or biological marker, the diagnosis is complex social engineering or at best, pseudoscience.
"the staff had to generate extra editorial material to wrap around all the ads."

If you get newspapers.com and look at the LA Times in the 70's, this is evident: many pages with one inch of article text at the top of a page full of ads, and the article goes on for 10-20 pages or more.

I picture the city editor making the "pulling taffy" gesture at his staff to get more words out of them :)
The compiler is free and open source, not proprietary. It is built on LLVM, which is also FOSS.

And Julia code is not Fortran/C/C++, not sure what you are asking.
- SelfControl to block whole websites for up to a day. It's very effective and I have no idea of how to disable it once started

- uBlock Origin rules to block feeds and other distractions.

- Some redirect extension that takes me to the notifications page, skipping the feed

- Unhook to hide anything I don't want on YouTube: sidebar, comments, recommendations in search etc. Now I just have the videos from channels I'm subscribed to.

I list a few more things I've done to reduce distractions and make technology calmer: https://nicolasbouliane.com/blog/silence
as if arby and lee were there. that seriously sounds like a spook at work.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utopia_(British_TV_series)
This proposal only impacts "the web", which has already been going downhill for years now due to unsustainable ad-reliant business models. The internet is fine.
In theory the carbon would be sequestrated from the atmosphere. In practice that is very energy intensive.
Personal sites likely wouldn't be affected directly. What this will affect is the ecosystem of browsers that people are willing to use. My prediction is that it will slowly strangle independent browser development, which will turn the web into something akin to the Android/iPhone duopoly. This is kind of already the case with browser engines, but because this is DRM, it would extend that same effect to the actual distributed binary (e.g. you can't visit your bank with Chromium on a Debian box, since that wasn't compiled and signed by Google).

> Same thing for a lot of sites, probably the vast majority of them.

Once Google gets this in place, it can then perform these checks through their ads SDK and demonetize traffic from visitors that don't pass the check. This will create an incentive for any site owner that wants to make money through ads to enforce that visitors must use an approved browser. Basically the DRM equivalent of 'Please disable your ad blocker'.
Great callouts. It's about ergonomics, making default actions more safe, and reducing unsafe surface area even if it can't be fully removed.
Yes, sort of.

While I can utilize speed-reading techniques for some content somewhat faster than I can listen, it is an all-hands-on-deck situation attention wise and extremely sensitive to interruption.

On the other hand I can push 3x or faster depending on the narrator for audio content in most situations and 2x while doing nearly anything (the only exceptions being literally trying to carry on a conversation with a person or driving fast on a mountain switchback road).

I don't do "ordinary" reading particularly well due to my own brand of vision issues + ADHD/neurodivergence/whatever label is in vogue. This is a bit sad for me, but I've obviously got workarounds.
I'm looking into client-side syntax highlighting as well at the moment and lezer popped up: https://lezer.codemirror.net/. It's directly based on tree-sitter but tailored to be more web friendly (and written by the same author as codemirror) - https://marijnhaverbeke.nl/blog/lezer.html
> when the last red dwarfs are burning out and all the black holes have evaporated

An odd timeline to consider, given the speed with which this chapter in existence seems to be unfolding.
Turning off appliances is a very small savings. Average fridge uses $0.50/day. Modern fridges have gotten much more efficient and have automatic defrosters. Throwing out any food wipes out any savings.
> Domestically, checked baggage can fly even if you don't. It depends on the situation.

I could be wrong about it being illegal, I was just repeating what an (other) airline employee told me. But they did take my luggage off the plane after telling me that they weren't going to.
> reading books

This rhetoric is partly why reading gets such a bad rap. So many people put "reading books" on a pedestal, and cite random educational studies on how the mere act of reading stimulates the brain and is beneficial in itself.

But 90% of the books in this world are fucking boring to downright garbage and not worth reading for most people. Telling people to read "books" is as helpful as advising suburban kids to go "places" and see them stay home after the fifth trip to Wallmart.

Would a random kid be better off reading "Rich dad Poor dad" than try to fix the brake cable of his bike ? Should they read "The Boys from Biloxi" or go to a theater with their friends and have an actual social exchange with a real human ? Are the dozens of self help books pusblished every week better than their Substack equivalent ?
> ...to believe in falsifiable things that we fully understand and have no causual relationship.

Not to give astrology or any particular belief system any credit, but how can one ever truly say that we "fully" understand anything in this reality?

This is a highly fallible trait that allows "science" to become a belief system in and of itself.
That is one hell of a false equivalence after we just saw what came out of the Dominion lawsuit / settlement.
for example use journalctl -k -g microcode to see log messages related to this: (intel cpu, so revision does not relate to anything AMD)

> microcode: microcode updated early to revision 0xa6, date = 2022-06-28
That notification you got about the "20 minutes worth of fuel left" meant before they were forced to divert to the alternate.

There are numerous FAA requirements about this depending on if you are IFR/VFR, the airport, the expected weather, etc. but the bottom line is sufficient fuel to:

1) Fly to your intended destination.

2) Fly from the destination to the alternate (if required).

3) Fly for an additional 45 minutes at normal cruise speed (minimum).

What the pilot was saying was that they had 20 more minutes until they had to go to Pittsburgh. If it took 45 minutes instead of 20, it was because the computer calculated that was exactly how much more time they could hold.

There was no gliding on your flight. It may have felt that way during a descent at flight idle.

The flight may have been scary to the passengers, and people may not have wanted to get back on, but I'm sure it was quite routine to the people up front.

Source: US certified commercial pilot, Aero. Sci. degree. Certified ATC.
I'll stick with my Crocs, 10 year old hiking backpacks and Timex iron man watch that I got when I was about 12.
> use excess energy for carbon fuels synthesis

Is that a thing? I know you can turn water and electricity into hydrogen, but that's not a carbon fuel.
Amazon is announcing the new Pneumail Prime Cannon, it fires your orders directly from the van mounted turret, across your fence and into your living room through your window.
The logo of X, formerly Twitter, wasn’t stolen
Yea the benefit is not going to come in terms of performance for a given model, but in terms of ability to be efficiently quantized.
well, it depends on how you look at it, no matter how much you deceive yourself (or your partner), in the end it only matters if you spend above or below your means. if you spent to much it doesn't really matter where the money went in the past, you need to fix the spending in the future. finding who or what to blame is only half the problem. either you both agree to manage finances or you don't. if you can, put some money aside in a locked savings account that noone can touch. (i had a special savings account that would only generate interest as long as i didn't touch it, but kept paying into it regularly). that's a good way to prevent money from disappearing.
> I do focus on stuff for extended periods of time like watching a movie, reading a book, working on something, etc.

Note that watching a movie requires far less attention than reading a book. Movies, first, are compressed stories (movie scripts are less than a hundred pages) where, second, nothing is left to the imagination. I'd bet that people read much fewer books today than before video streaming became popular, or before TV went mainstream. (I do rarely watch movies, but I mostly stopped reading books since I bought a smartphone.)
https://archive.is/PS6BX
> but that'd pay for 100,000 - 200,000 residential solar panel installs that would primarily benefit...residential homeowners. That'd be a ton of jobs, too. And there'd be no power-company profits.

If those homes are not grid-tied, good luck with electrically-powered heat pumps as a winter heat source during the winter anywhere that has a winter. Not everyone has (and for the foreseeable, can have) a Passivhaus.

So that means the local grid has to be able to accept the overflow in summer and deliver in winter, which means ... power-company involvement and likely profits.
It's an ugly, confusing, and nonsensical logo that harms Twitter as a brand.

Unless it's going to be the x.com micromessaging service, I don't see the point except massaging Herr Leader's ego.
> the BBC is for the most part absolutely fine

Anything non-political, sure, they're pretty good. Unfortunately, on politics, they're (currently and for the last 10-ish years) far too lenient on, chummy with, and subservient to the Tories to justify the licence fee.
I'm not sure that serious economists do?
In certain cases isolation and simplicity overlap, I suspect for example that the dangers of SMT implementation complexity are part of why Apple didn't implement it for their respective CPUs. Likely we'll see this elsewhere too, for example Amazon may not ever push to have SMT in their Graviton chips (the early generations are off the shelf cores from ARM where they didn't have a readily available choice).
The speedup for most code is really small and things like codecs that really benefit from AVX will detect and use it at runtime.
So like… grow switch grass, harvest it and burn it to harvest the flu gas co2?
You spent an entire argument misdirecting, so if it helps, I'm certain you're human.
Ben Eater's 8-bit and 6502 based computer series: https://eater.net/
We're All Winging It
That 3000 number is 0 - 100 - 0 cycles. You can get almost an order of magnitude more by using the sweet spot of the battery: 20 - 80 - 20 for standard nickel Li-ion batteries, and 30-100-30 for LiFePO4 batteries.
> How many cycles is a thread/process given before it context switches to the next one?

Depends on a lot of things. If it's a compute heavy task, and there's no I/O interrupts, the task gets one "timeslice", timeslices vary, but typical times are somewhere in the neighborhood of 1 ms to 100 ms. If it's an I/O heavy task, chances are the task returns from a syscall with new data to read (or because a write finished), does a little bit of work, then does another syscall with I/O. Lots of context switches in network heavy code (io_uring seems promising).

> How is it managing all of the pushfd/popfd, etc. between them?

The basic plan is when the kernel takes an interrupt (or gets a syscall, which is an interrupt on some systems and other mechanisms on others), the kernel (or the cpu) loads the kernel stack pointer for the current thread, then it pushes all the (relevant) cpu registers onto the stack, then the kernel business it taken care of, the scheduler decides which userspace thread to return to (which might be the same one that was interrupted or not), the destination thread's kernel stack is switched to, registers are popped, then the thread's userspace stack is switched to, then userspace execution resumes.
As a casual Inkscape user, I'm always infuriated by the outdated open/export file dialogs on Windows, that don't remember the last location and won't let me enter the file path.
I've resorted to copying files I want to edit to the Downloads folder for easier access.

Other than that, it's been really handy on many occasions.
It's the GOP mantra: "rules for thee, not for me" - makes complete sense since he's been "unshackled".
They’re saying that it’s 40k once for PV or 40k once for a grid connection, but then you need to pay the grid operators monthly.
anyone has specifics on how monetization works on twitter, sorry x? how many followers or views does one need to have?
Good point, I should have clarified that I was talking about on-prem VMs e.g. VMWare.
Never heard of Astro[1] until today. I was looking for something better than Hugo and ended up using Nuxt content. How is this better than nuxt content :D ?

[1]: https://astro.build/
Wikipedia is incredibly biased when it comes to certain topics, especially anything pertaining to Jesus. The irony is, the section you have quoted doesn’t even have a source attached!
More reading:
https://larrysanger.org/2020/05/wikipedia-is-badly-biased/