skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That was a wonderful read, thanks for sharing.

I moved from the UK to Finland and fell in love with saunas on first contact. As is well-known there is basically a sauna for everyone in the country here.

When I first arrived we lived in a building that contained about 20 flats/apartments, and there was an external building on the grounds which contained the communal sauna. Every Monday evening any man living in the building could go use it, and similarly every Tuesday there was a ladies night. On top of that you could pay a small monthly fee to book the sauna for your exclusive use for 1-2 hours on a regular schedule (e.g. "7-8pm, every Saturday").

Those communal saunas were awesome. Meeting, relaxing, and talking to your neighbours whilst drinking beer for 60-120 minutes. With breaks outside in the cold air, and regular showers.

These days I live alone and I have a sauna inside my flat. I gain from being able to turn it on whenever I want, but lose because it is smaller than the communal ones - I can have three people in mine at a time, and I do invite friends, partners, and other random people over. But the communal ones had space for 8-16 people. (Maybe 10 people inside at a time, and a bit of regular rotation where some people would leave, and some new folk enter).

Anyway I'm rambling, but I'd never really paused to consider the "science" or planning behind different design choices. I've seen a bunch of saunas here, from the small one I currently have, to one built by a friend's grandfather on their private island, just outside Helsinki.

Wooden saunas are amazing, and definitely going from being in one of those to jumping naked in a lake is one of the best experiences I've been able to have regularly. But even my small and basic on makes me content and happy.
It's a meme sorry
You don't need asymmetric crypto for satellites because you can set up a pre-shared symmetric key on the ground before it launches.
There is a bunch of examples of extremely influential theories that were dismisses because of authority figures, I don't know if you count math as science, but for example set theory was extremely controversial.
Do people still use this terminology?
Keeping complexity out of the language does not remove the complexity. It moves it into the programs. MIPS assembly is a very simple language with specs fitting on 10 pages. Yet you probably wouldn't want to write a web application in it. Brainfuck is even simpler as a language, but the programs are even harder to understand.
How long before HashiCorp integrate Gruntwork’s “solution” into their own Terraform codebase I wonder?
For languages that have strong IDE refactoring support and userbases that use it a (future) solution would be for the ide to autocommit along the way with metadata to explain what happen "removed unused function based on suggestion", "extracted duplicate", "renamed public method taxed to isTaxed and updated usages across files x, y and z, developer comment: every other of these methods follow the pattern isSomething ".

The last example also add a new feature, and option for a developer to add a comment on an automated refactor.

Ordinary commits could exist on top of this as milestones.

I wouldn't be totally surprised if sooner or later Jetbrains does this. They are creating their own, often better versions of everything I feel and version control could be an obvious next step.

As someone who often prefers other solutions to theirs, I'd prefer if someone else does it first so I end up with something I can use across NetBeans, VS Code, eclipse etc and not something like Kotlin which forces me to use IntelliJ. (Don't get me wrong, IntelliJ is great, I just have NetBeans as my personal favorite.)
Not all leas, just the three-operand version described in the post. The less complex ones are heavily used for address construction and (less commonly) just normal arithmetic since they can help with port usage.
For a step back moving away from text into ASTs there's a bunch of interesting projects.

* https://unisonweb.org: Unison, a programming language that abstracts names and builds a store of canonical functions
* https://lamdu.org: Lamdu, a programming language that's meant to be edited as a tree and it's accompanying editor.

There's many more akin projects listed in https://github.com/yairchu/awesome-structure-editors/blob/ma...

I can't wait fast enough for these ideas to reshape how we deal with programs and build stuff.

Also, I wouldn't take too much credit away from projects like Pijul that, maybe more practically, slowly steer us where we want to go. I find it hard to believe that something new will suddenly replace everything given the sheer amount of things that would be left behind and can't rapidly be ported into new shiny technology for various reasons.
> Nobody is even trying. They all have business strategies that prioritize other things.

That's not true. Everyone tried and gave up. The bully here isn't Apple. It's Qualcomm. They hold the modem patents and the modem market. A phone needs a modem. So when Qualcomm offers you a phone SoC that includes a modem do you take it? It's cheaper than you doing your own SoC + external Qualcomm modem and if you try to do your own modem they'll sue you.

Back in the days nVidia tried to Tegra but was ultimately forced out by Qualcomm and their shady deals and price fixing. Even Apple tried / is trying with the whole Intel modem fiasco. Samsung tried with Exynos. Ultimately you're still stuck with Qualcomm and its modem so people give up.
Did a little research to try and understand this better.

The most precise term to describe the "twisted ribbon" flux tube in W7-X is "toroidal helix". The toroidal quality comes from the general torus shape of the stellarator, and the helix quality comes from the twisting of the magnetic field by magnets. (The torus shape is required only topologically; look up the knotatron to see what I mean.)

The "ribbon" we're talking about is properly called the flux tube. The flux tube is the volume created by the flux surface, which is where the magnetic field lines lie. A given volume of plasma contained within a flux tube should remain inside it, causing magnetic confinement of the plasma.

The optimality of the confinement of the flux tube is expressed with the term "omnigeneity". Conceptually, a flux tube has onmigeneity if ideally all of the non-colliding plasma inside the tube stays in the tube. W7-X's flux tube appears to be approaching omnigenity. (Another experiment which approaches omnigenity is HSX. Interestingly, HSX has one set of primary magnets, whereas W7-X has two. That's likely because HSX achieves omnigenity via quasisymmetry, whereas W7-X uses various stellarator optimization techniques.)

With these points, we can call the W7-X "ribbon" a near-omnigenous toroidal helix flux tube, which sounds way cooler. So, all that said, why is a helical property desired? From what I've read, the twist in the flux surface reduces plasma drift inside the flux tube.

I think it makes sense to analogize this stuff as a circular semi-permeable pipe filled with a high-pressure "magic fluid" flowing around-and-around inside. By semi-permeable, it means fluid will leak from the pipe if the internal pressure is too high (remember that this is magic fluid). Trying to understand the helical twist along this analogy, I think the effect is evening of internal pressure across the pipe surface to reduce fluid turbulence and permeation while maximizing laminar flow. At least, that's my best analogous interpretation of "why" the twist helps.

The divertors are useful for long-term reactor operation but have no direct relevance to the magnetic field geometry. I'm guessing there's two divertors for engineering reasons (performance, redundancy, etc.) and not for reasons of basic physics.
They’re missing the whole point of free speech. The purpose of it is to protect the type of speech people despise and don’t want to hear. This is important because the most evil form of censorship comes from examples like those quoted in the article above. The “limit reach” people effectively are explicitly targeting the very types of ideas that free speech was designed to protect. You can’t have your cake and eat it too. This is basic free speech 101 that is, or at least used to be, taught in high school.
I’ll never understand why people think an office is important for any reason other than monitoring time at desk.

The office is a sea of noise cancelling headphones. Globalised workforces mean any meeting ends up on Zoom anyway. Random chit chat is usually frowned upon by management so “water cooler inspiration” is a unicorn - usually it’s just a distraction.
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Thanks. I would love to see a list to see if it’s like “this book is really bad” or “my feelings are hurt so I don’t want this book”

Because it’s mind boggling that adults can get so upset to react in such a way they need to ruin things for everyone else just cos there’s something they don’t like.
Yes, there are scientific computing problems that are significantly easier if you can store the entire dataset together.
The author is a SRE of HashiCorp (from LinkedIn), so I guess (yeah just guess) what he mentioned in the article is Terraform Cloud, based on the growing business.
> Right now there is no reasonable way to have a 100% renewable and reliable grid [...] and it needs about a MONTH of storage to compensate for a once-in-a-century Dunkelflaute

If you accept slightly less than 100% renewables, you could use diesel or gas backup for these once-in-a-century events.
You’re right. I completely forgot about the left allowing genital mutation but walking out of the committee when one of the politicians wants to play a video of a doctor claiming they don’t know what they don’t know when it comes to gender reassignment because there’s no studies.
Language eradication was and still is one of the major methods of genocide. Of the remaining 8000 or so human languages still extent, one or another dies every few weeks... and those are just the ones we know about.

There's nothing romantic about this. The proper genre is horror or maybe post-apocalyptic dystopia.

There's something of a control freak thing going on when one who would never want to speak to the people who use these minority languages still insists that they speak the same language as he does.
Apache Software Foundation?
No thanks. I'll Justs stick to .tk and .ga .. those are actually FREE DOMAINS.
LOL, lots of the arguments against gift cards could just as easily be levied against cash - easy to lose? not necessarily accepted everywhere? not always enough to buy what you want?

Josephine didn’t want to get bogged down into a rant about Big Plastic, and just wanted to pick out the damn gift.
I will still be extremely surprised if the dude gets more than a 2-year open door no prison better than budget hotel prison sentence.
One can re-align when accessing; this is how SBCL e.g. handles tagging. e.g. the first slot would be accessed by MOV RAX, [RBX - 1].
There is! While not easy to use yet, there's a sort-of-hidden way models can be listed with:

curl https://ollama.ai/v2/_catalog | jq

Then to list "tags" for a given model (e.g. llama2):

curl https://ollama.ai/v2/library/llama2/tags/list | jq
For substackers that don’t have a podcast, only have a written format, this tool has given them great leverage as they can easily provide more value to their audience by giving them an audio version. There’s over 100 of those on the platform currently.

For substackers that already have a podcast, that’s a separate question. Ultimately it depends on if they think that they can use the time the put in for the recording and editing process to some other creative process and use Wondercraft for generating the audio. Haven’t seen that many existing Substack podcasts for this use case to become that prevalent.
Likewise, though my thinkcentres live on.

Hard to argue with hetzner prices and bandwidth.
Exactly.. And perhaps the more important question. Will this still be around, supported and maintained in say.. 8 years? What if Tailwind itself fades away?
Then there is the sunk cost fallacy fallacy. Where you throw away investments since making another investment would have been better in hindsight.
I wonder if a non commercial Terraform Cloud "offering" like https://github.com/leg100/otf is "competing" with Hashicorp...
Who says that? I understand a pretty face, or an attractive face, but an "ideal" face? That's pretty weird. It's like a goal that can be optimized.
Most current CPUs support word loads with byte offsets, so instead of masking the implementation could just load with an odd byte offset. Probably you'd want offset 255 (or whatever matches the maximum negative offset that can be encoded directly in a load instruction) because it enables direct access to more fields.
Creating a Self-Aware Lara Croft That Plays Tomb Raider [video]
Every cells have to hold roughly same charge for the concept of battery pack to work. Else the weaker cell becomes overcharged as others take in the charge, and (in the absolute worst case) the entire thing goes kaboom. Not worth doing.
Nice pictures. Anyone knows which software the author used to measure and draw them?
> and work actually improved

Not just work but also profits (except of course where profits depend on people’s physical custom, such as restaurants, but that is no longer an issue). So basically a lot of these digital product and service companies are shooting themselves in the foot. Also not commuting meant fewer expenses meaning more disposable income. Essentially a free economic boost.
I've wheeled a VAX about so it's not unheard of. Likely a generational distinction.
Yeah that’s write, we highlight that the content should come from human creativity.

Wrote some stuff here about comparison to Descript:

https://news.ycombinator.com/reply?id=37089928&goto=item%3Fi...
In my jurisdiction at least it was hijacked for business purposes. I believe that all the lockdown stuff was necessary but after a while certain actors started to take advantage of it, for instance supermarkets selling a broad range of stuff while all regular stores had to stay shut. Hurdur supply chain.

Then there was the stockpiling of PPE, hand sanitizer. The dismissal of masks unless they were “very good” (totally ignoring collective benefit vs individual) and self testing (again ignoring aggregate benefit vs individual). As soon as particular commercial interests got their positions covered these things all of a sudden became “okay”.

Again, like I say the Covid outbreak was real. We did need to do what we could not least to safeguard medical services.

But boy did the schemers go to town once they figured out a way to get rich from it.

Still waiting for that windfall tax on the supermarkets.
Veilid: 'It’s like Tor and IPFS had sex and produced this thing'
This is the way how Java iterators work. And having worked with them for many years I must say - please don't go that route. Having separate hasNext/next methods is terrible for implementers of the iterator. The problem arises when you need to actually compute the next item to learn if it exists. So then your hasNext is actually effectful and needs to cache the result internally. There are so many ways to get it wrong, I've even seen some terrible implementations which required the caller to call hasNext or otherwise they would not advance the iterator.

Iterator design is another area where sum types would help simplify things a lot. Just one method returning Some/None would be so much better.
> directly caused three people to kill themselves

this lie gets repeated so often and it's disappointing how willing people are to lap it up without an ounce of critical thought.
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I somewhat agree with you, but, you can depending on graph size and time test for planarity. There are also some physical ish cases where graphs are guaranteed planar. And like most things, maybe empirically one of these methods works.
For me, personally, I can read a sentence in my English more easily than code. Code takes more effort for me to read, especially if it's not mine.

Don't tell me what the code is doing, tell me what you're trying to achieve. The goal you're trying to achieve. Tell me the problem and the outcome you want. Then I should read the code with a target understanding in mind rather than starting from nothing.

My mental model of how things work might be different to yours and you need to transfer that mental model to me so I can understand your code.

Context is everything when reading a line of code. Context of the business, context of state of the program, context of variables. Context of microservice state. Context context context.
Simply understanding how to read explain output can be quite a task in itself though, databases are a whole other thing, especially if you barely do any SQL yourself.

Tools like https://explainmysql.com that make it clearer what you actually need to optimise are an easier system for Devs with enough database knowledge to set stuff up, but not enough to understand how it's used.

I assume someone's already working on an AI system that takes schema and logs and returns the SQL needed to magically improve things. Not sure I'd trust that, but I'd bet many companies would rather use that then get a full DBA.
When I was younger lightning struck our apartment building and it killed my consumer router. I replaced it and put it on the surge protector.

A few months later we got struck again. The router survived but the building caught fire.

Now that I'm older I just accept the risk that "sometimes nature hates you". Instead of jumping through hoops to protect my gear from nature I just set aside money to replace anything I can't afford to lose.

Life's too short to play tug of war with the planet and I'd rather set aside $50/month to pay for replacements when I need them.
While I agree that there is an excess of evidence available to jail SBF with ease - and he should be jailed without question - I am bit unsure about your VPN comment.

Specifically, if Sam uses a VPN after having communication restrictions put in place around what he can say, is that inherently suspicious to a court? I would have assumed it is insufficient on its own but could be presented as the means for breaking court order if shown with other supporting evidence.

I'm not a lawyer mind you, so this is just me trying to understand it for myself.
In fairness, this is a US site, that does promote a particular kind of political ideology. It’s run by VC firm after all.

The trick with HN is to skip past the top comments.
Not in West Virginia…
Just one example: Empty lines are used to visually structure blocks of code within a function. Those can't be recovered from an AST. (Unless, of course, you make such formatting choices part of the abstract syntax.)
They was some debate and research over mechanical pulses in axons a few years ago. Not sure what's the status of it.

I would like to find the bounds on the "bits" communicated between neurons, so I could then calculate the throughput of the eye for example. Helps to put bounds/identify the algorithms/processing for CV. However, I kept running into increasing complexity/unknowns over the general (and increasingly simplistic) theory of neuro communication and just general unknowns about the dendrite to axon terminal process and all the post signaling cascades.

Sigh, it's a fascinating area.
Oh wow.

I am not sure what I would have expected upon reading this comment, but I was not prepared.
I'm certainly not saying linear algebra is useless with planar graphs.

It really depends on what is meant by graph theory vs. linear algebra here. If GT means we can fix an embedding to the space, then we have additional information such as number of crossings. However, it seems like a bit arbitrary restriction.
Hey, if you're somewhere near Chicago, we should meet up sometime. Long shot, but I'm down in Lake Saint Louis. (Rather far from Chicago, but I've been looking for an excuse to visit anyway.)
Sorry, I missed that in your description.
4xhdd on a nas deserves pro level equipment. Not secondhand knock offs. Either do it well, or do it simple. I choose simple.
Not only; it's demonstrable behaviour regardless of mechanism.
Brilliant, now consider the context of TFA. Is it any good as a platform for self-hosting applications for personal use?

From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solana_(blockchain_platform)

> Solana was launched in 2020 by Solana Labs [...].

It was founded by a single, corporate entity, that continues to govern the project's direction...

> The blockchain has experienced several major outages, was subjected to a hack, and a class action lawsuit was filed against the platform.

...was subject to major disturbances...

> Solana's total market cap was US$55 billion in January 2022. However, by the end of 2022, this had fallen to around $3 billion following the bankruptcy of FTX.

...and meanwhile lost 95% of its value following the bankruptcy of an unrelated party.

Read the entire comment thread under the original article. Try to comprehend the actual issues that people are struggling with. Explain how is Solana going to make self-hosting less painful. Why do we choose to self-host? Privacy, simplicity, ownership/sovereignty, cost? What issues are we struggling with, that better technology could ease? Maintenance burden, proper backups? So what value does it bring to self-hosters?

Can I run my calendar and contacts sync on top of Solana? What happens if my private key gets leaked - everyone gets to know when exactly I went to the cinema with my partner? Privacy - bust.

What about email? I need to point the MX records at something the rest of the Internet knows how to connect to - what's the point of a decentralised datastore if I still have to mess around with hosting a publicly reachable node? Simplicity - bust.

What happens when the network experiences another outage, lawsuit, or market crash? Ownership and sovereignty - bust.

What about storage - I currently need ca 6TB for personal backups - am I going to upload it all to the blockchain? What's the cost of storing 6TB on-chain, just once? Cost - bust.

What's the story with maintenance? Assuming there's some magical fairy dust that makes most of the fundamental problems go away, is running your personal infra on top of a cryptocurrency-backed blockchain going to make you sleep better at night? What's stopping someone from mounting a 50%+1 attack the next time the coin loses 95% of its value overnight?

Is there a single thing that I use a home server / VPS for today, that Solana can do better?
“Acting” is both in “These degrees are not impacted” and “These degrees are being eliminated entirely”.

Looks like the former is about BFA Acting and the one recommended to be discontinued is MFA Acting, source: https://provost.wvu.edu/files/d/28d9f865-8d36-4e55-a4d0-475c...
> Covid debunks all your claims.

No it doesn't.

Maybe something on social media but not a single one of my wife's colleagues at the hospital nor any other scientist would have turned down ivermectin (as an example, there were many other theories besides that one drug) if it had shown any sign of doing good for their patients.

There were routine talking about alternate therapies among the scientists/doctors/researchers about these topics. You can search for the UCSF Covid Grand Rounds on youtube and watch the history of their open discussions as research was routinely presented from all over the globe on the various items.

I code for a living and have no idea about this stuff, but my wife's goal is to make patients better and she would watch the grand rounds (or similar) every time and I'd listen from another room. Not a single alternate treatment wasn't discussed and evaluated.
And yet set theory is now regularly employed. It used to take humans hundreds of years to adjust major ideas. Now dummies complain if an idea takes a decade to gain acceptance. Science is still probably the most flexible and adaptive social milieu in the history of the human race.