skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Because the total mass of the universe is constant

It isn't [1]:

> The point is pretty simple: back when you thought energy was conserved, there was a reason why you thought that, namely time-translation invariance. A fancy way of saying “the background on which particles and forces evolve, as well as the dynamical rules governing their motions, are fixed, not changing with time.” But in general relativity that’s simply no longer true. Einstein tells us that space and time are dynamical, and in particular that they can evolve with time. When the space through which particles move is changing, the total energy of those particles is not conserved.

> It’s not that all hell has broken loose; it’s just that we’re considering a more general context than was necessary under Newtonian rules. There is still a single important equation, which is indeed often called “energy-momentum conservation.” It looks like this:

μν
∇ T = 0
μ

> The details aren’t important, but the meaning of this equation is straightforward enough: energy and momentum evolve in a precisely specified way in response to the behavior of spacetime around them. If that spacetime is standing completely still, the total energy is constant; if it’s evolving, the energy changes in a completely unambiguous way.

> In the case of dark energy, that evolution is pretty simple: the density of vacuum energy in empty space is absolute constant, even as the volume of a region of space (comoving along with galaxies and other particles) grows as the universe expands. So the total energy, density times volume, goes up.

[1] https://www.preposterousuniverse.com/blog/2010/02/22/energy-...
Is the Apple password manager available on non-Apple devices?

It could be argued that Google has significantly more resources to invest in security of the password storage than these smaller companies. We've recently seen LastPass implode, but I've never heard of any successful attack on Google password manager.

Still prefer to keep them offline though.
There is a significant difference between "interests" and "best interests".

Unhealthiest. Unhappiest. These are literally studies where WV comes in at the bottom of the list. You just seem to be arguing for the sake of arguing.

https://www.beckershospitalreview.com/rankings-and-ratings/1...

https://worldpopulationreview.com/state-rankings/most-unheal...
What am I suppose to see?
Heh, once there is spring boot as dependency it has like 100 library jars to show hello world on web page. So pretty much sure everything would be broken.
SSDs had vast improvements in cost over the past decade due to (a) the switch from 2-bit MLC planar NAND to 3-bit (TLC) 3D NAND, and probably (b) the growth of the SSD market - 10 years ago most flash went into iPods, phones, etc., so pretty much all flash chips produced were optimized for that use case, and it cost more to make SSDs out of them.

Hard drives spent a decade in the wasteland, with little growth in per-platter capacity (google "superparamagnetic limit" for more info) and gains mostly due to packing more platters by filling the enclosure with helium to reduce aerodynamic drag. (fun fact - cast aluminum is porous to helium, which caused no end of trouble)

With HAMR and other recent energy-based workarounds to those density limits, hard drives have a number of years of major TB/$ gains ahead of them, while flash is in the optimizing stage - going from e.g. 96 to 144 3D layers, and diminishing returns (at the expense of big performance costs) going from 3 bits per cell to 4 bits ("QLC") for a 33% boost in capacity. (QLC to PLC only gains an additional 25%, at an even higher cost)

If you're managing an exabyte of data or more, HDD is probably an important part of your storage mix for a good number of years going forward - devices are currently maybe 5x cheaper than big QLC drives at the moment, the ratio is probably even better when you price out the systems that house them[*], and HDD $/TB is probably going to improve faster than SSD $/TB for a number of years.

I started my career working on Asynchronous Transfer Mode networking; ever since then I'm highly skeptical of anyone saying "our technology will eliminate <entrenched technology X> in five years". Unlike ATM vs Ethernet I think it's quite possible that HDDs will fade to irrelevance in 10-15, but 5 years is ridiculous. If you narrow the statement to "no one will sell 3rd party HDD-based storage systems", it might be true - HDDs will go into AWS, Google, big Ceph deployments, etc.

* it's actually a bit difficult to spec a system that doesn't add close to 100% to the cost of the drives themselves for either HDD or SSD, and it also depends on how CPU- and memory-efficient your storage system needs. (e.g. Ceph can be a pig, and note DRAM prices didn't fall in the 2011-2021 decade) There are a number of competitive capacity HDD systems on the market - typically 4U 60-drive machines - while the EL.1 SSD format has just come on the market and you'll probably pay a big premium for systems optimized to house them.
The brain is really complicated, and all psychiatric medications affect multiple receptors and subsystems. Framing this study as "antipsychotics were off target" is an editorial choice. The title could just as easily have been "Improved understanding of antipsychotic action means we may be able to design better antipsychotics."

Edit: It also ought to be noted that the study was on mice that had been given amphetamines to mimic psychosis. Which is interesting and good science, but seems far from enough evidence for the press to write stories with headlines like "Everyone Was Wrong About Antipsychotics" or "Schizophrenia Drugs May Have Been Off Target For Decades, Study Finds."

This sort of internet story bothers me because I've spent time around schizophrenics who are recovering from a psychotic episode. Schizophrenia can get really, really bad, in a way that I don't think most people who haven't had contact with the psychiatric medical system understand. Antipsychotics have awful side effects, but for many people the alternative is uncontrolled psychosis, which can be vastly worse.

There's a decent chunk of people who inherently and vocally dislike psychiatric medication, and these media stories are in that tradition. But the only people who ought to be involved in the decision about using antipsychotics are the patient, their family, and their medical providers. Writing headlines that are too broad for the evidence that supports them does not help improve the lives of people with schizophrenia.
Sorry, I assumed that most people could understand the pseudocode syntax for a subarray operation. In Javascript, this is:

array.slice(2)
Probably a very unpopular opinion, but it seems any time a business/product reaches the point where they have majority of market share, people say it's a monopoly. At what point are businesses forced to scale down because their products are TOO successful? I still don't understand what the big deal was with Microsoft having IE bundled with Windows. If a competitor has a superior product, then why not just leave it up to the consumers to decide if it lives or dies. Imagine an amateur boxer fighting a pro twice their size and saying "it's no fair, they're stronger and have more experience." Well, the pro put in all the work to get to where they're at.
Is it not able to be specialized like that when the object is a (non-sparse) array? What is preventing engines from making that optimization?
I really like how the post has been aided with the colourful illustrations.

Not many people know this but India has the most arable land in the world despite being a smaller country than Canada, Russia, China, USA, Brazil [1]. India has even more arable land than entirety of EU. [2]

While the article only briefly touches about the potential danger of climate change, I think its even more serious.

Climate change combined with poor education, low blue collar jobs and poor healthcare infrastructure, the Northern India is setting itself up for perpetual poverty when compared to South India [3].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_use_statistics_by_country

[2] https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Indian_states_and_unio...
What makes me nervous about SSDs is related to this -- I've heard many tales of SSDs simply dying, making data recovery impossible. I've rarely had HDDs die, but the couple of times that I did, they gave plenty of warning that it was coming.
Unfortunately their pricing is per socket, so that would be about €500 up front for me just for the ability to access a different repository and no support. (Not really useful)

If I wanted the ability to submit 3 support tickets per year with a one day turnaround time, that price triples. I could easily justify splitting that cost monthly, but not upfront all at once.
My side is Nature medicine should not be publishing political propaganda and pressuring scientists[1] to lie in the name of the CCP.

[1]https://theintercept.com/2023/07/12/covid-documents-house-re...
> Our court system is already constitutionally violatingly too slow

Might be caused by this type of thinking:

> I can't imagine every po-dunk jurisdiction that can barely justify 1 judge having 15.

Perhaps funding the court system to properly meet your first point would ease your concerns there?
OSS Redis 7.2 is now GA
Release is focused on incremental performance and memory improvements to various datastructures, a couple of new commands, and minor features to improve manageability.
iMac at 25: a visual history of Apple’s iconic all-in-one computer
You get an email, SMS (“text message” for non-Europeans), or a paper in your (physical) mailbox informing you that you have a package waiting at such-and-such a place (within walking distance if in a city), or there’s a reference to how you can choose your pickup spot from a handful of options.
rmshit.py
M6 one and only problem with Firefox is its signed add on policy. I want to write my own add ons and istall them on mobile and desktop without creating an account on some random website.

With chrome and kiwi, I can do this.
You have never published, have you? Your last paragraph is all about finding impossible sources whose credibility won’t be apparent to average readers.
That is great news. I hope Mozilla's PR team will use this as a chance to bust the old myth that firefox is slow. We need more firefox users if we don't want to end up in a world where the web is Google's thing.
Tools like HTMx [1] and Turbo [2] have pretty elegant and simple solutions to deal with Websockets.

[1] https://htmx.org/extensions/web-sockets/

[2] https://turbo.hotwired.dev/handbook/streams
What state management does Htmx provide?
Interesting thinking, a plausible reason why someone might want to do this.

Still seems terrible to me, but not everybody is the same. Thanks!
Heck yes. Music pirates have done a whole lot to help preserve hip-hop history by ripping/archiving countless rare/underground 12" and cassettes that are definitely not available on streaming platforms; we're talking alternative versions of songs like clean edits, remixes, acapellas, instrumentals which supported hip-hop producers and DJs in the early days.

For example, check the posts in the early 2010's of sites like this, https://hiphop-thegoldenera.blogspot.com/, of course all the links are broken now.
It's a good candidate load for excess renewables that would otherwise be curtailed. Similar to how direct air carbon capture is sited where grid carbon intensity is low (Orca in Iceland, for example). Might need some Megapacks or other battery storage to arbitrage, but that can be built into the cost (capturing various incentives in the process). From a quick glance, everything can be shipped to processing sites in containers. Conveniently, brownfields are also ideal for redevelopment with renewables. Get enough solar and batteries on site to startup, and then continue deploying as you remediate and possibly build transmission to the closest substation.
But that’s exactly the point here. Sure, having a nice back garden and a fully detached house is nice. But the price we pay when we build 2 million of those in a metro area is the 2 hour commute, and car culture, and unaffordable housing in city centers. If you have the ability to work from home, then it doesn’t matter that you are 40km from the city center for the rare time you need to attend a meeting or other event. And that’s exactly why folks in the US are so dead set on keeping WFH, their cities are just not designed to allow everyone to reach any arbitrary point in 30 minutes or less.
Nope! It’s all synthesized knowledge from other sources. I’m simply reading, doing, and thinking a bunch to work out what makes sense.

If you ask about automated testing for game dev you quickly learn there is very very little desire to entertain the subject. I’m unclear why.

At some point I’d love to share my insights as videos and/or a blog series.
It doesn’t look like bragging to me. The only comment Phronix has from a Firefox person is:

> We’re now apparently beating Chrome on the SunSpider JavaScript benchmark!

“Apparently” seems to indicate that it isn’t something they are putting a ton of stock in.
Using continued fractions in Mathematica. Maybe there's enough information in the article to say that this is enough to have answered the question. I don't know enough about all of the methods to say, personally. Also, I never outlined what was the best metric to evaluate how well accuracy compares to the number of digits needed.
Why did they have to use the term misleading? Why not be charitable?
One problem is who defines hot spot. The speed camera companies will gin up data showing that one road section at the bottom of a hill with a with speed limit of 30 is definetly a hot spot. Also politicians will get involved and speed cameras will be put in an area for consituent placation instead of for traffic safety.

Dont let the camels nose under the tent.
> but I wonder if the v8 team is chasing benchmarks at the expense of real-world code that might not be so perfectly written.

They aren't. V8's benchmark performance for this benchmark has been stagnant because they haven't cared about it for a long time. Firefox has an incentive to care about it (unfortunately) because even when a benchmark doesn't matter it still looks bad to be behind on it.
CausalLM is not optimal for in-context learning
> A computer program is not about expressing an idea;

I firmly believe anyone holding this view needs to get out more.

Start here: www.shadertoy.com

> it's about doing a thing.

That's just one kind.
What's the cleanest way to pledge support as an individual, but without pledging as part of my company?
I think now with the sponsorships he’s hired one of the contributors full time, and I think Linus Groh was also going full time so that makes three people dedicated to working on it as well as the other contributors.

Better than nothing, and just incredible what they’ve achieved so far!
In general with ball milling, how do you separate out the balls when you're done? Magnets? Sifting?
Well, that and as other commenters have pointed out, HDDs have benefits in terms of longevity.
There is a strong assumption here that those striving for an anarchist society will be able to subdue local collaborations of a different persuasion. This majority would need to be very well armed and at all times willing to risk their life to defend the non-order. This seems unlikely.

Also, this does not explain how that significant majority is supposed to come into existence. Some sympathy for those ideas in intellectual circles more than 100 years ago are not exactly a good indicator for current trends.
I expect that number to be biased since more tech-savvy users tend to disable/block telemetry, and they're also the sort of people who install add-ons. I have no idea if it's biased by 1%, 10%, or 50% though.
The link you posted promotes Speedometer, where Firefox reportedly already surpassed Chrome.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36770883
Ah yes, so Firefox is faster than chrome, allows you more latitude for adblockers, and isn't pushing garbage hostile web standards, but clearly, mozilla just isn't doing enough

Can we stop pretending that this is mozilla's fault that the GIANT corp sitting in front of the internet, being the homepage of 90% of computers, that nags users to install chrome "for a better experience" on every single web site it can, is able to get onto more systems than firefox?

How many average users even KNOW about firefox anymore?
Us two probably?
> Prior to the initial Edge introduction IE seemed to have 20-25% of the desktop browser marketshare.

It had been on the decline for years. Statscounter shows 26% in January 2013, 17% January 2014, 13% in January 2015, then Edge was introduced in July of that year.

If anything Edge was a recognition of that reality: the investment in maintaining their own browser engine wasn't worth it when compared to the resulting market share. IMO the failure of Windows Phone was the death knell of Trident (the IE engine): desktop share overall is smaller and they have no footprint in the mobile OS space.

https://gs.statcounter.com/browser-market-share/all/worldwid...

https://gs.statcounter.com/browser-market-share/all/worldwid...

https://gs.statcounter.com/browser-market-share/all/worldwid...
The difference is that there was never any widespread taboo against criticizing the west's transgressions.
Apparently I can't download the form without giving them my e-mail address.

That being the case, I'm betting I don't actually need to read it.
And Practical Common Lisp, another popular one on HN. The domain name took me by surprised and I struggled to remember why it seemed so familiar; it turns out that PCL can be found in its entirety here, and I had used it years ago to learn CL:

https://gigamonkeys.com/book
I remember when CSS was brand new. When IE5 had the first DOM. When jQuery took over the world. That's all like 20 years of time.
100%. A lot of new programmers who didn't program back in the day have been used to this idea with abstractions and "clean code" and that causes so much issues these days. Instead the mental model should be how does the computer achieve the thing that I am trying and how can I make that happen with the fewest lines of instructions as possible. A computer program is an instruction set as you rightly said. It is not a long winded story with many "nouns" (objects).
> If anything, causation is likely to work the other way around, in that larger galaxies have larger central black holes because they have denser central regions.

That contradicts the recent observations which show supermassive black holes were present as early as 700 million years after the Big Bang. That's just impossibly little time for supermassive black holes to have formed if they were just the result of matter in the central part of a galaxy to have "fallen" into the presumably smaller black hole you had in the beginning (presumably, because if you assume the black hole was already big to start with, then you must accept that the amount of matter in the center of the galaxy is a consequence of that black hole being there, not the other way around), which I believe is the theory you're proposing as more likely.
s/Unfortunately/Thankfully/ but a great point!
if you think it's a statistical inevitability that every single website will eventually be screwed over by google, well, that's just weird given how much you've been defending google

even if that were true, it simply isn't a defense for google choosing to actively harm people: "google was going to screw over this site sooner or later, so you can't get mad at them for doing it now."

like, is that supposed to make google look better? It really doesn't.
You can even do this with 'systemctl edit <unit>' and it'll create a file in the right place for the override and show you the original contents for reference
fwiw, https://arewefastyet.com/win10/benchmarks/overview?numDays=6... tracks a number of benchmarks.
> Look at StackOverflow's survey

Part of the problem with this methodology is SO is useful among the most junior devs. For example, I haven't been to SO in several years but it was my go-to site in 2010.
OK it's a branch.
This paradox is famously a case where the expected value of the game is infinite.
No don't you see, it's their preferred language so its maintenance and churn don't count.
Not an "interesting coincidence".

It's a coincidence, and the "interesting coincidence" framing is the dumbest of the rhetoric (aka propaganda) tools out there. It's the basest of the rhetorical tricks, put together this way. Relying on psychology to produce inference from implication, and biology to produce the dopamine hit subconsciously underlying a sense of achievement that helps slide the BS in YOUR head (or the heads of your "paymasters") past the psychological defenses of others.

It's too bad we don't fortify more heads as standard practice, maybe the internet wouldn't spread stupidity like the drinking water from a 19th-century pump spread cholera.*

See:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apophenia

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post_hoc_ergo_propter_hoc

Etc.

* https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ghost_Map
> ~/Desktop

Oh no.
People don't want a peace treaty. They want a moral precept, a rule by which they can distinguish good behavior from bad.

At first blush, "tolerance" seems like a decent precept. You don't bug me, I don't bug you. But it takes only a moment's thought to realize that it doesn't work.

And that effectively makes it pointless. The peace treaty is routinely broken, and might as well not exist. The precept works perfectly well for the situations where it's not needed -- most of the time tolerance is also in your own immediate best interests. But as soon as you try to extend it to cover anything else, it fails.

Too bad. Back to the moral drawing board. Meantime, we can describe ourselves as "tolerant", if it makes us happy, and pretend it's the reason we're doing what we do. But it won't help us make any hard choices.
There is nothing subtle about Animal Farm's critique of Soviet Communism. From Wikipedia:

>The Guardian on 24 August 1945 called Animal Farm "a delightfully humorous and caustic satire on the rule of the many by the few". Tosco Fyvel, writing in Tribune on the same day, called the book "a gentle satire on a certain State and on the illusions of an age which may already be behind us". Julian Symons responded, on 7 September, "Should we not expect, in Tribune at least, acknowledgement of the fact that it is a satire not at all gentle upon a particular State – Soviet Russia? It seems to me that a reviewer should have the courage to identify Napoleon with Stalin, and Snowball with Trotsky, and express an opinion favourable or unfavourable to the author, upon a political ground. In a hundred years perhaps, Animal Farm may be simply a fairy story; today it is a political satire with a good deal of point".

Symons's point is that The Guardian and Fyvel called Animal Farm "delightfully humorous" and "gentle satire" because that was the only way they could blunt the sharp attack aimed directly at the USSR, by insinuating that it was not actually serious.
Social media’s addictive loop compels users to share mindlessly
I wouldn't think so. It's not like Rust in FF replaces slow Python or Java code, it replaces heavily-optimized C++. If anything, Rust would likely impede speedup efforts (even if it might improve overall code quality and safety).

Also, I believe the project to rewrite the entirety of Gecko in Rust has long been abandoned.