skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> there are many situations where people just want to ask "what are the options for generating a PDF in python"

You know what I'd love? Framework or language authors publishing a curated set of FAQs and "best practices". It can't be that hard to get a list of the most common tasks people google for, and provide links to the commonly used libraries as well as code examples.

AWS for example puts out very high quality documentation - it's rare to find an AWS help page that has outdated commands these days, although I would love to see them publish some curated Terraform examples as well given how better IaC is compared to manual actions.
Agreed, but that's a very different statement from "it causes physiological effects", or even "it raises the heart rate".
It doesn't have to be trees. Grass can also take CO2 out of the air. Then you burn it off next spring, which leaves behind a layer of sequestered charcoal. Keep doing this for decades and you will have removed a lot of CO2 - all in natural prairie fashion.

If you live in the typical single family house you can make a small difference by mowing your law as little as you can get by with (use an electric power). You can also try to mow paths to make it look like the tall grass is intentional as an end run around demands you mow. Let the wild flower grow (but you do have to to watch for and remove invasive plants that will grow and take over destroying the effect you are trying to do). I don't know how to convert your suburban grass to charcoal in a way that won't get the neighbors after you for pollution though.
You don't need to reach to poverty and isolation to see its effect. I have some friends in their 30s-40s who daily consume 3-7 joints, and it shows. They are in full denial but you can really tell they are slow. In everything. It screws up your cognition.
My worries were mainly in these departments:

* will the cab arrive? When?
* will they overcharge me? How can I make sure it doesn't happen.

With Uber there aren't a problem. I haven't been worried about my safety too much (maybe I should).
X doesn't mark the spot any longer at San Francisco's former Twitter building
For what it’s worth, I actually laughed out loud at the idea of Reddit programming being nice at all, let alone nicer than SO. My wife has plenty of horror stories when she was learning to program.
I wonder why EV owners don't go to campgrounds and use their RV/Shore Power outlets to charge when in a pinch like this. A quick search of Ekalaka shows at least 2 RV campgrounds open for business.
I would say the same for myself. It doesn't interfere with my work performance, and I tell myself it's better than if I were drinking or whatever, but it has definitely become a compulsion and I basically can't regulate my usage if I have it available in the house. Lately I've gotten a little timed lock box to force myself to take breaks which I'm kind of ashamed to have to resort to, but it's helping me keep a better balance.

I will also say - and maybe this is more self-justification - but while I definitely cannot really do focused productive software work while stoned, I really do think that it puts me in a more creative mind-space and helps me see alternatives I wouldn't otherwise. I often go for a long hike after work and get stoned and stumble upon an approach to a work or life problem that's bouncing around in my head that I would not have otherwise.
> empirically compatible with long-term human civilisation

Empirically observed, atmospheric CO2 went from ~320ppm to ~410ppm from 1970 to 2020[0], during which period the human population more than doubled from ~3.7B to ~7.8B and yet deaths caused by climate dropped threefold[1] (not 1/3 the rate; 1/3 in absolute number).

[0]: https://www.climate.gov/news-features/understanding-climate/...

[1]: https://library.wmo.int/doc_num.php?explnum_id=10989
Susceptibility to edibles varies greatly. My wife can take 100mg and just have a nice sleep. I can take 30mg and it will wreck me if I'm not careful.
Much like how "garbage collection" is industry terminology referring to a specific feature of memory management in programming languages, "space junk" is also industry terminology that's specific in its meaning:

> Space debris (also known as space junk, space pollution, space waste, space trash, space garbage, or cosmic debris) are defunct human-made objects in space – principally in Earth orbit – which no longer serve a useful function.

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_debris

If it's no longer in space, it's no longer "space junk".
I like this analogy. Although your example focused on software-centric coordination, I think it's important to also extend it to non-software systems.

An apropos and famous example is the Ariane 5 rocket mishap. The same validated software from the Ariane 4 was used, but the hardware design changed. Specifically, the velocity of the Ariane 5 exceeded that of its predecessor and exceeded the 16-bit variable used.
I would argue that ratepayers would lose significantly more, in the form of

iq decreases, cancer, early death from air pollution, and ongoing, worsening weather damage from climate change

were this plant not constructed and the grid powered from natgas or coal instead.

I hate these discussions about power, because in every case the quoted price of alternatives does not factor in the huge and obvious externalities.
So we don’t bother?
What about the other StackExchange sites, though!
The few times I've tried using ChatGPT or another LLM as a coding assist, the "confidently wrong answer that looks correct" was the entirety of my experience. (Mostly the failure mode was mixing up incompatible instructions from various versions of the framework or toolchain: even if I specify a version number it'll still often want to use syntax or functions that don't exist in that version.) I did not find it to be a time saver.
You...don't have to subtract anything.

Liquidity is liquidity.

If liquidity goes away when big boys start selling, then, well, someone would have picked up on that, shown that, with data.

Otherwise, the (very real!) accusations of wash trading and other price fixing don't have tons to do with available liquidity, which as a term, refers to an investors ability to sell in a timely fashion.
This seems to be a special form of article: "Mostly Mute Monday tells an astronomical story in images, visuals, and no more than 200 words." (from the end of the article)
Here's a study:

The size and frequency of the largest explosive eruptions on Earth, Mason 2004

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/227000709_The_size_...
Unless you are living on technologies edges, ChatGPT gets it right plenty of times and isn't a rude brick about it.

If it gets it wrong it usually is pretty apparent quickly and normally gives enough hints for avenues to explore.

At least my SO use (and programming related googling) has fallen dramatically...
I understand you don't have a free trial, is there any chance you have a demo somewhere of what it actually looks like though? Like a tiny sample lesson or something along those lines? It looks interesting but I'm just uncertain as to what it actually "feels" like in practice vs lets say Brilliant, etc.

I only see pictures, I'm curious the extent of the interaction in the linear algebra/matrix calc specifically
The laws of thermodynamics disagree with you on this. There are inherent inefficiencies with hydrogen that you can't get rid off without basically inventing a perpetuum mobile machine.
$30B is more than half of $44B.
> so we have at least three possible answers here

For a question of who pays for a service, in an undefined market, at an undefined place, not specifying what participant it's about, and not determining at what history period exactly it's about (yeah, near future, but how near?). Do you think that's too many?
> They paid $60 for the charge — which included the cost of power for a musician who used the same port for a street dance event as part of the town’s dinosaur festival.

It oughtta be illegal to just casually mention the existence of, and I quote, "the town's dinosaur festival" and provide no elaboration whatsoever: https://cartercountymuseum.org/dino-shindig
Right, it's only because of fear that blockchains aren't used for this use case, there are no other differences whatsoever.
Incorrect, demand peaks right as night starts and the sun goes down. See that peak [1] at 9pm? Battery backed solar is not even remotely feasible. To put this in perspective, the USA alone uses ~11.5 TWh of electricty each day. A battery to last through the night is over 5,000 GWh.

1. https://b698061.smushcdn.com/698061/wp-content/uploads/2023/...
https://www.ewg.org/news-insights/news-release/2023/01/2024-... (By 2024, one-fourth of U.S. electricity will come from renewables: EIA)

https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/us-power-regulator-we... (US moves to link more wind and solar projects to electric grid) ("Today there is more than 2,000 gigawatts of renewable power waiting to be connected to the grid -- nearly double the amount of current U.S. generation capacity, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission Acting (FERC) Chairman Willie Phillips said at a press conference following the unanimous vote.")

https://www.energy-storage.news/us-utility-scale-battery-sto... (US utility-scale battery storage industry deployed 4GW/12GWh in record-breaking 2022)

https://cleantechnica.com/2023/03/31/turning-america-into-a-... (Turning America Into A Solar Manufacturing Powerhouse)

Low carbon power from Vogtle is welcome, because it's here and what is done is done, but there is no point in throwing good money after bad on commercial fission.
> My #1 excuse was always sleep. Weed is the best sleep aid I've ever found. Quitting usually went fine until I wanted to go to bed. Several hours into a sleepless night, desperation sets in.

Weed and alcohol destroy your sleep. Taking marijuana to sleep is like hitting your toenail with a hammer so that when you stop you feel better, it does not make sense.
you are right, oil extraction is literally producing carbon (which is then processed and burned at later stage somewhere else)

so we need to separate: carbon production and carbon emissions.

a lot of so called decarbonized industries are decarbonized simply because they outsourced carbon intensive parts to third world, but carbon is still being produced and emitted.

I think this is why some people are supporting De-Growth movement, that just by reducing consumption of nonessential stuff, we would decrease carbon production and emissions globally
used mturk survey with college students to validate the ideas.
If they lock their internet streams to their app, that'd kick themselves off of internet radio appliances, so it may not be feasible.

(they did shut down their MP3 streams this year though, which probably did that to some older ones)
I take edibles / smoke a few times a week. Never during work hours. I think if I started consuming during work I would label myself an addict. I generally find I am a much better parent / husband when on a low dose of thc. My patience for my kids is infinite. I spend time with them just teaching them chess or showing them how to do pushups, or just talking. When not high, my mind wants to do a lot of other things that are generally unimportant and future focused. THC grounds me in the now. My wife prefers it as I am pretty much agreeable to whatever she wants [I mean this in a good way, not in a "I drug him so I get what I want way"]. I am generally an argumentative person, and sweat the small stuff. Not when I am high. I never drive or do anything risky while high. I'm also not taking so high a dose that I am making bad decisions [besides the next sentence].

If I could just avoid being hungry while high it would be perfect but eating a cake after spending an hour and a half at the gym is pretty dumb.
Senators Warren and Graham Want to Create New Online Speech Police Commission
Ask HN: Would you load balance traffic without CDN
I have an average traffic of 5 Gbps to the service. Currently, I'm using managed Kubernetes in GCE and paying $20,000 for traffic. I'm planning to move to another provider, but the question is how to handle load balancing. My idea is to create several A DNS records and let the client choose a random IP, but this is incompatible with Cloudflare, as it uses round-robin under the hood. After testing, it seems like Cloudflare sends all the requests to the first record. So, the second solution is to create several sub-domains and choose randomly from them. All managed load balancers will cost a ton, so that's not the way. Is there any better solution? Ideally I'd like to have one ip without any client load balancing
I mean I don’t know how serious you are, but I am when I say I have a list in my notes of “appliances I might eventually need someday and should buy when I have spare cash before they won’t be available without a computer anymore”.
Make models usable is really valuable, for Stability AI I discussed business models with Sam Lessin here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mOOYJONenWU but basically the edge is data and distribution given how widely used this technology will be.

Open is its own area, proprietary general models are a race to zero vs OpenAI and Google who are non-economic actors.

Most AI right now is just features tho, very basic without the real thinking needed.

Next year we go enterprise.
I'm guessing they're doing some aggressive caching since it's read-heavy?
agree! and notably - there's a difference between pre- and post-filtering -- left as an exercise to the reader :)
I quickly rose to the a top contributor role of a non-programming stack exchange site. I had more technical subject matter expertise (including formal training) than seemingly anyone else there, was friendly, thorough, empathic, upbeat, technically competent, and prolific. Not too long after getting involved, I just got too sick of unhelpful, pedantic, self-important moderators nitpicking at my posts and making passive-aggressive edits, so I just left. That was years ago and I still regularly collect points in upvotes and get positive comments from people.

Many people in those roles claim they're uptight because they want to maintain the quality of the posts. Well, I assure you that particular SE, at least, is much worse off for it.
You might like Typst. It is a new language, new tooling that actually learned its lessons, and while its community won’t magically replace all the cruft that came from the LaTeX world overnight, I think it might have already managed to get a critical mass and it can be the next chapter of scientific papers (among other use cases)
Can you give an example? I'm struggling to think of historical comparisons. I suppose I can think of a couple of "unlikely" achievers:

- Ramanujan: if he lived today, I could imagine him tweeting some awesome infinite series, which could be verified easily by other mathematicians.

- ...maybe Tesla? But he had a solid track record of invention before becoming a nut job.

But who else?
> You own your account, but not the infra. I'm sure that BBC can manage to run Mastodon by throwing resources at it, but still...not needing to do that at all is appealing.

Mastodon imho desperately needs proper multi-tenancy, i.e. bring your own domain, separate handles, some settings customization, without needing to run whole another instance of the server. We already found out in the 90s that vhosting is useful for stuff like web and email. This would open the door for people to better offer Mastodon-as-a-service.
The rudeness stems not from moderation but drive-by insults in comments and rapid dupe marking. That's covered in one of the several answers to the topics.
> I don't know if you mean, like, <extensions> and similar (actual substantive changes), but the vast majority of "learning how to program" <computers> (accounting for the majority of startup pitches as well) is "<punchcard> engineering" - which, as the meme goes, isn't a moat. There's a skill to it, yes, but if your singular advantage boils down to a few lines of <clever pointer dereferences>, your product isn't able to control a market - and VCs are (rightly) not interested unless you have the possibility to be a near-monopoly.
We dont want the core samples intact (we want to kill microbiologics on the way down to the goal, which is the crust and determination for other vacuous caverns under the ice, via both vertical and horiz boring. and cameras in crytal lenses to withstand the heat or polarize against the lightwaves of the lasers such that they are clear and a good image can be seen.

/Sci-fi..

My original comment is my idea based on the 1960s patents for nuclear tunnel boring machines which use the reactor heat to exchange the tunnel walls to molten glass... (And I am really into DUMBS - as are many)

https://patents.google.com/patent/US3885832A/en

There are a lot of patents like this - so dont think this line of thought was abandoned, Hello Musk's Boring company... Good thing hes connecting State on a Deep level.
Similar story, getting ArchiveBox setup and running was a breeze, but everything after that was kinda rough. For one, ArchiveBox doesn't have a proper API, so I had to rig one up with Puppeteer. And then there's YaCY. On paper, it seemed like the dream tool for indexing and making a searchable bookmark collection. But in reality, it was a whole lot of work followed by a whole lot of disappointment.
StackOverflow set out to be a place for Q&A without "debate", to varying success. It's a fundamental part of its mission that questions that are really prompts for debate ("what is your favorite...?", "what do you recommend for...?") are not accepted.

I agree with this decision. It's not as if there's any shortage of other places to ask for opinions and debate.

StackOverflow tries to be the site where "the answer to X is Y". Again, with varying success and not always consistently, but it'd be even harder to accomplish if it accepted "what are the best things about X?".

edit: example, from the article:

> If you try to post a comment.. wait, you can’t! Because you don’t have enough karma.

This is by design. Comments in SO are meant for correcting minor details or asking for clarification. They are not a form of "engagement" or debate; extended discussions are a symptom of impending flamewars and usually get promptly moved to the chat section of SO, where they belong. If you lack karma to comment, focus on asking & answering questions instead -- the primary active use of SO (other than just looking for answers, that is).
Serving static web content via kTLS. We (at Netflix) have worked for a decade to make this as efficient as possible.
This is beautiful. Bravo!
Apple isn't a democracy. They set rules that work for most people and are in their full right to choose differently for select vendors, including themselves.

In the case of Twitter, I'm sure they're themselves annoyed by Elon Musk's behavior, but they'd rather make small concessions, and make him shut up. For now.
There’s a certain level of arrogance that comes from the people who don’t work on safety critical stuff, that we could all do without
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The simplest way with USearch - concatenate 10 embeddings, define a custom metric with Numba, that takes the average of 10 dot-products. Done :)
What if climage change is a big hoax and we create a better world for nothing?[1]

[1]: 2009 - https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/1/1e/What_if_it%27...
re #2

As I understand it, normal marijuana contains 1-2% TCH and the rest being THCA. So the new "high TCHA flower" is not higher TCHA than normal, simply lower pure THC than normal.

Craziest part is you can buy the high TCHA flower and the D9 Edibles online, shipped through USPS, and you just pay standard sales tax (not a sin tax like you would in a legal state).
> I always feel the "toxicity" claimed of SO is way overblown.

It's toxic enough that neither I nor any of the programmers that I personally know would ever dare to ask a question there. We see how other questioners get treated.
Not the GP, but for me it can be both. Depends a lot on your overall usage pattern.

Right now I only really smoke once a month at most, when the opportunity presents itself. In these cases, I'm obviously completely non-functional under the influence. But I also smoke a lot less because I have no tolerance, I feel pretty much completely fine the next day, possibly even better than usual, because the resulting night of REM suppressed sleep gives me a jolt of antidepressant effect without the downsides of sleep deprivation.

If I'm in a binging mode, it means I have a huge tolerance, smoke a ton more, and honestly it takes at 2-3 weeks of abstinence before I'm back to baseline for working memory, possibly longer.

But paradoxically, if I'm in such a binge, I'm probably more functional if I've had my morning smoke compared to skipping it for the day, because abstaining would then cause me to be highly irritable and unable to focus on anything in addition to the state of temporary dementia I'd be in. And since there's a massive tolerance, one dose won't have acute deleterious effects to the same degree.
>... but it has definitely become a compulsion and I basically can't regulate my usage if I have it available in the house.

I just replied to the OP myself, but I can definitely agree with this. When I first quit earlier in the year, I noticed that I'd be sitting on the couch watching TV or chatting with my wife in the evening, and I'd have this innate urge to get up, go to the garage and go smoke. It didn't even feel like I was consciously thinking I needed to get high, it had just become such a habit to do that in those moments. I had to re-train myself to ask, "Okay, why?" before actually doing it, and more often than not I couldn't justify the actual act of getting stoned in that moment beyond, "Well... to just be stoned," and that didn't seem like a good enough excuse to me, making it quite easy to fight the urge.

But YMMV, of course.
WH: Losing Section 702 spy power among 'worst intelligence failures of our time'
They won't win in the end. They're trading against their own customers.
It's not that you will die but your body will react adversely. Like with alcohol if you quit cold turkey you can get tremors and seizures. Even with caffeine you get brain fog and hardcore headaches.

Basically with hard chemical dependence there will be some kind of adverse body reaction. With marijuana that doesn't exist or is so vanishingly small that you don't feel anything.
It wasn't removed. These days, the setting is still exposed in GNOME Tweaks.
For anything more complex, world utterly fails when you inadvertently edit a column of that table, that will break page 533 beyond recognition.
> The vast majority of projects aim to avoid additional greenhouse gas emissions, for instance by replacing an existing or proposed coal-fired power plant with wind power. Strictly speaking, such avoidance projects don't offset actual emissions. We should instead focus more on projects that remove CO2 from the atmosphere. But this is much more expensive: the Swiss company Climeworks charges between 600 to 1,000 dollars to remove a ton of CO2 from the atmosphere. In contrast, the average avoidance project based on installations of renewable energies costs just 2 dollars per ton of CO2.

So we've reached the point where rolling out renewable energy to replace coal is seen as "cheating" because it's too easy and cheap?