skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For sure. Now that dual income is expected to maintain the cost of living, no one is left to do housework and child care. Which means either outsourcing that to someone who makes less than your lowest earner, or taking time off to care for the kids and housework.

But honestly as an employer, I'd rather people take a few hours off to tend to their family's needs then stick around being unproductive and then having a stressful family life too. But most corporations don't think that way. Especially since the ones in charge are usually single income earners with staff to take care of the house.
Yeah, the tiny wheels on the old kids Razors are terrible. But the electric kick scooters are a bit better. I wouldn’t want to go 20mph on any of them, but that speed is unsafe on sidewalks regardless.

I’d love an electric motor scooter. But that’s not really comparable to e-bikes, e-scooters, or e-unicycles.
One of the proceedings had a table with "serious/humorous presentation" on one axis and "serious/humorous idea" on the other. Normal conferences take the niche of "serious ideas presented seriously". For everything else, there's SIGBOVIK.
There is also "The Algorithmic Beauty of Seaweeds, Sponges and Corals" (https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-662-04339-4), and, my personal favorite in the series, "The Algorithmic Beauty of Sea shells" (https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-540-92142-4).

I really enjoyed reading the latter last year, because it does a great job slowly building up. By the end, I felt like I didn't just understand the models, but also how the author found them. I can recognize these patterns in nature, and figure out how they were generated.

I spent some time last year implementing all the models described in the book in JS: https://kaesve.nl/projects/shells .
Transmission losses are tiny. Think single digit percent.

Meanwhile urbal solar is many times more expensive, and vastly less efficient per panel.

The total us grid transmission losses are 5%

https://www.nrdc.org/bio/jennifer-chen/lost-transmission-wor....
That state profile page doesn't highlight consumption statistics because that's not part of the standard short-form description produced by the Energy Information Administration. You have to visit other EIA pages to find out about a state's import-export electricity balance, like this one:

https://www.eia.gov/state/analysis.php?sid=WA

Overall, Washington's electricity net generation exceeds electricity demand in the state, and the excess power generated is sent to the Western Interconnection, a regional grid that stretches from British Columbia and Alberta in Canada, to the northern part of Baja California, Mexico, and across all or parts of 14 western states.

Washington is a net exporter of electricity. It produces more electricity than it consumes.
This is nand2tetris.
One thing from the blink-dev discussion caught my eye:

> Anything we might decide would ultimately be influenced by the larger societal debate around privacy (regulations etc.) since perfect privacy means perfect immunity for criminals.

Ensuring that your devices don't spy on you on behalf of a government or company does not imply "perfect immunity for criminals".

Putting aside attestation for the moment, consider this: Modern enclave driven device encryption (and the self-destructive passcode limitations that often accompany it), for example, could be likened to designing a very good safe that can automatically destroy its contents if it is breached. Do we require governments to have their own keys to all such safes sold?
Plenty of children are given less interesting names.

Or, in the US, phonetically-mispelled names.
That is a big block of text which reports a rather obvious fact: public transit in the US sucks. I fully agree with this fact. I think that this is a fact because of our car fetishism. I think we need to have less car fetishism and more public transit. I think our current car-centric infra is costing us way too much money, and isn't going to scale in the way we want. I agree with the Strong Towns position that most (or at least many) suburbs are going to become insolvent because of their car-enabled low density. I have no opinions in either direction about remote work generally, but personally I enjoy having an office to work in that isn't my home. I hope the rising cost of gasoline isn't negatively impacting your truck-driving experience too adversely.
The Machine That Hires Me
I think people forget how much query played a role in peeling the fingers of IE’s death grip away as well.

Better alternatives plus compatibility layers.

There are lots of antiquated techs that deserve to be relegated to the dustbin of history, but I feel like some people have done jquery dirty by pretending that we never needed it in the first place.
Not the same scenario but recently GoDaddy conveniently "forgot" to extract auto-payment for the only domain I still had with them (somewhat exotic .es TLD) and also forgot to warn me about it, letting the domain registration lapse.

I noticed it via the automatic monitoring once the domain stopped resolving and escalated it, at which point GoDaddy graciously offered me to reinstate the domain for $55 lapsed registration fee. After a brief (10 sec) consideration I've made a counteroffer by telling GoDaddy to go fuck themselves and registering a "normal" .com domain with my default registrar. I am very lucky it was a tiny hobby website with no critical audience. Thank you for the lesson, GoDaddy!
Archive: https://archive.is/KvR5N
The new logo is tacky and foolish. This guy is trying really hard to kill Twitter.
Not OP but I suspect some comes from what I would view as the ability to first add solar to where there is existing infrastructure like parking lots, roofs, telephone poles etc. These areas are already built out and adding solar on top of it doesn’t take over an untouched eco system. Deserts are not voids of nothing ness and there is already a vast impact on the environment already.
Very cool. Is there an easy way to easily toggle on/off various scenarios like "pay for private school for my children" to see how that affects wealth? I didn't see a way to do this without copying a whole plan.

My financial advisor does this with emaplan or blackmountain (or something) and I don't have access to this feature. It's very annoying and an incredibly important part of financial planning.
That is because without https, there is no guarantee that the site requested is bring delivered as the site intends. For example, an ISP could insert data or scripts into the page.
It’s not the falling that kills you, it’s the sudden stop at the bottom.
Being both a craftsman and having worked luxury handbag retail, I can tell you right now that I could spot the difference in construction quality and after a couple months of wear, the disatrous difference. I also highly doubt that the 800$ price tag reflects the overhead , advertising, packaging, retail store markup required to run the store and the salary + commission it takes a dedicated salesperson to go through the special order process it takes to sell one of these bags.
no web attestation for them then

youtube, prime video, netflix, banking, github

none of that for firefox users
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For the commentary....
One of the reasons to use Intel is that their L1 cache is sized to 512-bit operations.

AMD Zen4 has 256-bit load/store to L1 cache, which means it'd take a load/store unit 2-clock ticks to execute any 512-bit load or store. (Though Zen4 has multiple load/store units, so maybe its not that big of a deal in practice).

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GPUs are 32-wide with 32-bits each, or 1024-wide operations in practice. GCN was 64-wide with 32-bits each or 2048 wide in practice.

The reason why AVX512 was a big deal isn't the width btw. But instead the design of the instruction set. AVX512 is the most advanced CPU vector instruction set ever made, with huge inspirations from NVidia's PTX or AMD's GCN.

Of course, GPU-assembly remains superior. I don't think that RISC-V (or whoever) should be copying AVX512 or even AVX10, they should be looking at NVidia PTX or NVidia SASS as inspiration.
> like a parody of proper upbringing

It was a Johnny Cash song -- he wasn't known for writing ballads of utopian suburbia.
Again, compute is surprisingly cheap these days.

Work out what it would cost to compile - say - a terabyte of C code at typical cloud spot prices.

A large VM with 128 cores can compile the 100 MB Linux kernel source tree in about 30 seconds. So… 200 MB/minute or 12 GB/hour. This would take 80 hours for a terabyte.

A 120 core AMD server is about 50c per hour on Azure (Linux spot pricing).

So… about $40 to compile an entire distro. Not exactly breaking the bank.
I'd argue that your original approach is actually better than your new approach.

Using a list comprehension, such as your original approach, is pretty easily understood by anyone writing python and is easy to follow, it is also quite terse.

Your recursive unpacking zip thing is much harder to understand and read. This reminds me of the type of stuff you find in the codebase years later when the person who wrote it is long gone and you find a comment next to it that says:

# No idea why this works, but don't touch it

One of the problems I have with python is that there are a million super creative ways to do stuff, especially using less known parts of the language. People love to get super creative with it, but usually the simplest solution is actually the best one, especially when working on a team.

In your example above, you aren't even saving any real space. Both approaches can be done inline, the list comprehension is maybe a few extra characters. You're not really saving anything, just making it harder to read and maintain by others.

When I moved from a company that wrote in Python to one that wrote in Golang, I found that the restrictions that Golang offers is a huge benefit in a team. Because you don't have access to all these crazy language components that python has, the code written in Go would be almost identical regardless of who wrote it. Of course everything in Golang is far far more verbose than Python, but I actually found it 100x more maintainable.

In the python codebase it was very easy to tell who wrote different parts of a codebase without looking at the git blame, because there was almost a "voice" with the style of writing python. But in Golang it was more restrictive which meant that the entire codebase was more cohesive and easily to jump around.
I think I'd prefer Lezer in a javascript-only setting. The results are compact and you don't have to deal with WASM.

I've written a small tree-sitter grammar, with off-side rule even, and had a bunch of issues with the javascript bits not being the same version as the WASM bits. I ended up having to get just the right version of emscripten installed (and maybe a few other tools). The process felt a bit fragile to me.
I'd wondered when "English understatement" and the similar "British understatement" came into being. Seems strongly correlated with the outbreak of WWII, :

<https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=English+unders...>

Though the behaviour predates that specific terminology:

<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_understatement>

Adding in "stiff upper lip", a similar notion, brings the date back to the 1830s:

<https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=English+unders...>
In 2050, There May Still Be 1B Combustion Vehicles on the Road
I’ve been in this space and can appreciate your design decisions. They are meaningful, but a couple of comments on the differentiating factors. DML is tackled in traditional pipelines very similarly, I.e. execution of the log at the target, whether that is materialised or as a view. DDL, it is a nice to have from a technical achievement perspective, but changes to a data schema are not live. They have to be deployed, approved etc. so the flexibility of accommodating them on the pipeline is a benefit from an ease of deployment perspective but could also be alarming for data officers who may feel like they are losing a control lever by not getting the pipeline to block when a schema changes outside normal deployment processes. Finally, the biggest issue with CDC always ends up being the seed loads, recoveries and the incremental snapshot strategies.
>the front is 23% efficient and the back side is 20% efficient (see also: "an efficiency of about 91-93% of the front") so overall you collect 43%

That doesn't seem quite realistic, since the back side isn't getting full sunlight like the front unless the surface behind the panel is a perfect mirror. Depending on what's reflecting onto it, it could still end up worthwhile.
From the name I thought that they extended registers to 1024 bits, but it looks like instead they made 512-bit width support optional.
I really don't... Hey, what's that...?
This is what modern long distance transmission looks like.[1] This is a 12 gigawatt line running at 1.2 million volts.

China does a lot of this, because the good power sources are in northwest China, and the big loads are in the Southeast.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VZ2KfrP_R3s
I have never understood why Google has remained the esteemed vendor for a subset of technical users.

They lost me more than a decade ago when they hoovered clear text passwords from their wifi scanning and blamed it on a single engineer.
Every other day I hear a reactionary takes on behaviors that would have been called "sexual bolshevism" at the time. Scary times.
It’s less efficient than normal electric batteries and will take up far more space.

Gravitational storage only works in the very particular case of water, where moving it is downhill nearly perfectly efficient and free, and where you can also get free energy from things like rivers feeding in.
This is a new low in the world of social media. A legacy brand being wiped off the map.

Contrary to popular belief, Twitter used to feel like a superior platform with its (relative) minimalism, text-emphasis, quality user base, and stable leadership.

Gone are the good days, along with the little blue bird.
Pinning doesn’t help either, since there will always be more threads than cores. Scheduling all those threads and even blocking on IO will cause context switches.
To be fair, #c89 was posted in Q4 2021, almost 2 years after the last post from the devs in Q1 2020 which said the bug would be fixed in Q1, and there was no response on an earlier request for a status update.
In the text they say you need to cram all information needed to predict the next token into a single 6KB word embedding, but isn’t that wrong?

Rather, isn’t the autoregressively predicted single next token a combination (based on attention) of all 6KB word tokens in the attention window.

So the size of memory where all information for next token prediction needs to be ”crammed into” is more like window_size*6KB, right?
> Google's plan is that, during a webpage transaction, the web server could require you to pass an "environment attestation" test before you get any data. At this point your browser would contact a "third-party" attestation server, and you would need to pass some kind of test. If you passed, you would get a signed "IntegrityToken" that verifies your environment is unmodified and points to the content you wanted unlocked.

Because of this. If we're at the point where you need to get permisssion and approval to verify that the platform you're using is acceptable, then the gates are up and the free web is no longer free at all.
That can also be largely automated.
If you’re a parent, you might end up getting real shit done when your kids are asleep.
At Startup That Says Its AI Writes Medical Records, Humans Do a Lot of the Work
RNA editing is common in behaviorally sophisticated coleoid cephalopods (2017)
> This may be true

So you are admitting its not a corporate boondoggle?

> but a residential install does eventually pay for itself in 5-10 years, and after that, effectively free power.

LCOE amortizes over the life of the system so that its an apples to apples comparison.

> So it's cheaper and better for consumers.

Its cheaper for the homeowner. Its likely more expensive for the other ratepayers, especially if there is net metering or RPS. They have to spend more on storage or flexible generation to combat the duck curve and have to make up for the fixed costs that net metering is not covering plus buy solar generation at the retail rate instead of wholesale. And its not a good deal for the taxpayer who is paying for a third of the system price since they are getting less carbon reduction per dollar than they would with utility scale.

That last one combined with RPS has really gotten on my nerves lately. My city I've seen several panel installations done on the north side of a gabled roof. That's such a horrible deal for tax payers.
Or... people like saying things that make them appear witty.

No need to ascribe political malice where typical internet popularity-seeking will suffice.

"Elon didn't have anything to do with his companies' technical successes" and "Elon had everything to do with his companies' technical successes" are both low-energy, groupthink-supported replies at this point.
What point are you making here exactly?
Sociopaths going to path
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_fuel
Math and logic are fundamentally some kind of game, you make up some rules and axioms and then you figure out the consequences. So the interesting question is which rules and axioms you pick and I would guess aliens in our universe would pick similar rules and axioms as we did because they will want to describe the same universe. And they would probably discover the Pythagorean theorem.

But in a different universe without space dimensions or multiple time dimensions or discrete space dimensions or something completely incomprehensible to us for which we do not even have concepts and words, there I am not sure that they would certainly come up with the axioms of Euclidean space and discover the Pythagorean theorem, or it might be a very esoteric mathematical structure to them at best.

So it seems there is still something universal in there, the idea of inventing rules and axioms and figuring out the consequences, which could maybe essentially boil down to computations or something like that. But even there I am not so sure that it is truly universal, the original idea of a Turing machine is an abstraction of repeatedly modifying some state over time, and can we not imagine a universe where updating state over time makes no sense?
Definitely needs changed. The actual title "Does Sam Altman Know What He’s Creating?" is excellent as is.
Remember they already added DRM to browsers once. There was a big outcry at the time, and they still went ahead and implemented it. Now even Firefox supports Widevine.

If they believe that it's in their best interest, I'm not really sure what we can do against this...
Namecheap did this to me in January. It's infuriating.
It’s somewhat hard for me to decide how unnatural a translation this is as I’m used to seeing it in ocaml. My concise dictionary doesn’t have a definition that fits this use well. My non-concise dictionary describes the history of the senses of the word as “exceedingly complex”.

It has been used as a translation of the French de since the 11th century and I think it gets some senses (eg derivation) from that. With a verb meaning create, this ocaml construction is fine in modern English (eg ‘make a string of an int’) and dates back a long way (OED offers a source from 893; this is sense I. [VII.] 20. a. in the second edition). So I think partly the question is whether omitting make in make_string_of_int (or String.make_of_int) is an acceptable abbreviation in programming.
Indeed i haven't ( although i've heard about it).

However i have yet to see any swift codebase of comparable complexity. So, the jury is still out on which language enable the largest scale.
No, the idea behind TBC was to build a tunnel between Elon Musk's house (at the time) and the SpaceX factory for his private use, to shorten his commute from going around a mountain to going through it. That's why the "proof of concept" is where it is.

Also, they did not do any real innovation, as you seem to be claiming. Combining those steps is 50-year-old technology, at least, and has been done at scale (ie not on tiny tunnels) many times.
“Permaculture” is just a meme among hobby farmers with an environmental knack, it’s simply not possible to feed the people this way (whatever permaculture actually is in practice, as it seems to mean something different every time I hear about it), and even then it still destroys the preexisting ecosystems.

> The problem is that permaculture outputs don't fit neatly into the existing industrialized food supply chain.

No, that’s not a problem, “food supply chain” will buy produce from you with not a lot of concern of how you have grown it, as long as it meats the specs. The problem with “permaculture” kind of stuff is that it simply doesn’t produce adequate amounts of food, relative to required investment of labor. That’s the problem with it, not “industrial supply chain”.

> In theory we could produce more food and fuel while preserving diverse ecosystems, but it would require refactoring our entire conception of what we eat, how it is produced & preserved, distributed, etc...

I hear this kind of vague stuff often, but rarely any concrete proposals. Whenever I do, these almost always involve reducing the human population to a fraction of existing population, and have the remaining ones consume only a fraction of what people consume today, with higher labor investment required from each. This is, obviously, a non-starter, which is why actual, concrete proposals are not forthcoming.
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Gaming PCs are not 7x more than consoles. $3,500 is just too much to get any widespread appeal and without that the game developers won't come.
> Exactly how the rest of the world feels about this is not necessarily relevant, though. Google owns the world's most popular web browser, the world's largest advertising network, the world's biggest search engine, the world's most popular operating system, and some of the world's most popular websites. So really, Google can do whatever it wants.

On one hand, I think this is wrong, because the world is full of tech companies who thought they could do whatever they want because they're big enough. "Nobody would dare switch away from Facebook! Err, I mean Twitter. No wait, I meant Chrome!" But that's a bet, not a fact. Sometimes it works out, and sometimes everyone leaves and goes somewhere else. You think you have a moat, and you do, it's just you don't always realize it's ankle deep.

On the other hand, Google can do what it wants with Chrome, because it's their product. I use Firefox, and it won't affect me. All the people who don't care about this are free to use Chrome. Likewise, anyone who wants to listen to a man in his forties tell them about why some browsers are better than others can ask me about my thoughts. Nobody has done that yet, but the offer is on the table.
Might be (significantly) easier to run idiomatic Julia on GPU(s)? (Unsure of current Fortran here).
This is a titillating combination of remote (don’t know the person) and in-person (you can see them right there across the room. Something that’s impossible to recreate with Tender, etc.

There are two fatal flaws to the system that’s described in the article and the more recent examples mentioned the comments, though: (1) first call takes all, you wouldn’t know how many people would be interested in you; and (2) denial of date, where your first caller can keep you on the call indefinitely, ruining your chances with others.

And what if you receive no calls in a reasonable amount of time, e.g., 10 minutes? In a modern implementation one of these call-less people can be chosen at random and displayed on a big screen, to increase their chances.

I would totally go to a club like this, both the 20s Charleston version or a 80s version.