skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, you can get more efficient up to a point. What does that buy you, maybe another factor of 10?
for locally scoped variables, not for referents
I've tried a few things:

- Docker, but the docker on mac experience has never been great (even if Colima or Orbstack makes that much better)

- A VM running on my mac where I install whatever I need. Tried debian, silverblue, and used the opportunity to properly learn Nix and use NixOS

- My current setup, especially for hairy projects with dependencies I dislike: an intel NUC running in my local network that I set up with NixOS which runs everything I need. Because I install Tailscale everywhere, I can use it even when working from outside my home.
Apache server isn't able to handle it.
I wrote a program to help me make better fantasy football decisions
yeah... and it will probably start with a stupid optimization problem, like producing paper-clips or something
> There’s no such thing as a free phone.

If your choices are:

A) Pay $45/mo. for service.

B) Pay $45/mo. for service and get a new phone.

Then there is a free phone. You don't pay a lower price if you refuse the phone, so it's effectively free.

There are contract terms (usually 2 years), but if you cancel, you pay the remaining value of the phone, so you still got some percentage of that phone subsidized by the carrier.
We have penicillin and much better cancer therapy and jet airplanes. Humans have stepped on the moon.
Wouldnt be able to do this in the UK, interception of any radio signals are illegal.

The UK makes China, North Korea, Russia and [Insert most hated country here] look positively amateur.

I wonder where George Orwell got his inspiration for 1984 from?
> Our collective history is too valuable for us to be breaking stuff just to make engineers’ lives easier.

I'd argue that software standards make it harder for everyone to write a "history". How many people simply gave up on their own websites and outsourced their work to an entity they do not control the actions of?

How much of that fancy web standard is about optional visual? What are we really getting from it? Would you consider a new API for drawing rectangles "progress"?

Your `Array.flat` example may make sense, but only because we are way too deep to even consider alternatives. We have mostly no idea how these standards will evolve and decided to keep on putting band aids to remain afloat.

The best way to keep information accessible is to make it understandable by a human without mandatory automation. Don't you find it horrible that all the information websites can provide you is actually dependent on a thousands pages long spec? Is it really the only solution you can think of?

The resiliency of the web is mostly equivalent to papyrus, if not worse.
I work in the field and I don't want to say this is completely correct, but there are large swaths of the technology and hype for which it's basically true. There are lots of cool tricks and lots of promise but, in particular with generative AI that isn't a generic chat assistant or text to image model, there has not been a demonstrated business case with any traction (I'd invite anyone to give me a concrete example that disproves my assertion). I think there are promising avenues in the tech and I'm working to change this, as are many others. Though I'd say most of the people that are heavily promoting it are trying to sell some generic platform or tool or something that assumes the buyer has their own use case for it.

Anyway, ML has some uses and the latest round will too but most of the hype will be unrealized, as it has been with computer vision, deep learning, etc.
McKinsey: Yes, you can measure software developer productivity
https://web.archive.org/web/20230820203915/http://deat.tk/ja...
Ouch. This hurts, and I amdit to being an NVIDIA fan, but it is very true.

And may your maker help you if you want to do some HW accelerated ML but accidentally upgrade one of the many NVIDIA components (driver, CUDA, CuDNN) to a version not compatible with that one key Python package.
You are quite right that another notable person came along and, to buck the trend, decided it would be entertaining to watch "the help", and then the rest started to follow thinking that must be what is required to become notable.

But it could have gone the other way. The first notable person could have recognized the entertainment, and the later notable person could have decided it was better to keep hidden. We don't know why the first one decided to go with hidden, and likely it was just a random choice.
Yeah, I guess I'm thinking: although we have the internet (neat!), most of western society is still organized around getting educated, getting a job and working for a living. It was not always this way, and if the OP was correct, we might expect that 100 years of explosive growth would have dramatically reshaped the structure of society. Basically, it hasn't. In 1923, you might have supported your family by working in a factory putting buttons on coats. Today, you might work in an office putting buttons on webpages.

We have not descended back into feudalism; technology hasn't eliminated the need to work; socialism never took off. Nothing has fundamentally changed.
Jordan Peterson interviewing Jim Keller. What a time to be alive
> I think the real reason nobody does solar thermal is...

You have a weird definition of nobody. They are not as popular these days but do exist and are very useful. Don't even that much sun to produce warm water
Quite lucky that that ended up on the street where someone could discover it instead of in a dumpster where it'd almost certainly never be seen again.

As the old saying goes, "one man's trash is another man's treasure." The problem seems to be uniting those two people.
For every instance of bad robotaxi driving given, I feel like I see humans do the same kinds of things almost every time I go out in my car.
You know you don't need to use the gaps, right?
This video should be called "How Lithium, Cobalt, Nickel, Aluminum & Copper (and plastic) can be extracted from consumer rechargeable Lithium Battery waste and recycled, on an industrial scale, via mostly automated processes..."

But that being said -- it's a very educational video to watch (at least, if you're someone who's into the technical understanding of various recycling processes...)

In summation: I like what this company does, a lot...

An excellent video!

Related: https://li-cycle.com/
Huh yeah that's kinda what I thought, my IQ isn't high enough to understand you.
> seals

Are they also required bellow boiling temp ? You probably don’t need much more than 55C at home. Increase the temp to store more energy and use a thermal expending socket to stop heat production before boiling temp.

> ohmic resistors

Isn’t it similar to the eddy current generator he talk about ? http://www.bulipi-eee.tuiasi.ro/archive/2013/fasc.4/p12_f4_2...
Storm Hilary: Flash Flood Warning for LA, Heavy Rain Threatens Death Valley
This is one of the good reasons to use Qubes OS.
The weird world of 'headless' MacBooks
Huh, isn't struct B literally what an implementation of std::box would look like? You would need a nullptr check in the copy ctor and copy assignment operator to make it complete, but other than that, that is exactly how I would implement box. Anything that would be in std, you can implement yourself, so I would encourage people to try implementing box themselves and see how it works for them.
2% of what you originally had according to what some people say.

However I can understand because even slowly the body replaces cells our body disposes of it through various means. Bone also gets replaced too over time, which is weird to think about.
the verifier in the MIP* setup/definition is assumed to be limited to a polynomial amount of computation.
Was this written by an AI or something?
Tropical Storm Hilary is battering California
The drug-smuggling brothers that won at Le Mans
Well, Spotify serves lossy compressed audio anyway. I don't know much about audio compression, but presumably it's first bandpass-filtered, and then filtered to remove psycho-acoutically unwanted audio components, and then compressed as a bitstream.
Apologies for my enthusiastic interruption. I am deeply intrigued by this ctDNA work using electrical signal detection. However, I see two challenges with current early detection liquid biopsy methods. Firstly, they target signals that are inherently rare in blood (less than 1% of any blood volume). Secondly, they focus on either cfDNA or ctDNA, indicating that cancer has already progressed significantly or spread to other areas.

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We are eager to share some of our methodologies and eagerly seek collaboration with professionals from diverse backgrounds, including genomics, wet lab scientists, bioinformatics experts, as well as AI and full stack engineers. Although we are currently in stealth mode and cannot divulge extensive details, we would be thrilled to engage with inquisitive and enthusiastic scientists. In some ways, we believe that our approach may also enable us to validate the efforts of the prominent players in the field of multi-cancer early detection.

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In 1923 they'd say "we have modern medicine and air travel" and feel just as smug. Jets and the moon landing are cool, but they happened closer to 1923 than 2023.
Rates don’t matter. Only absolute numbers matter, or in this case a single number. CO2 emissions, measured by mass. Divide by the atmosphere’s mass if you want a rate. Any other one is meaningless. Less per capita but more capita is still… more.
It's a good start. Now let's start on some of the excess TVA dams.
It sounds like to me that the complaint is why Poland hasn’t switched to green power already. A comment like that demonstrates a lack of understanding about the levels of effort to make such a change, as if the change to green power is as instantaneous and painless as flicking a switch (pun half intended).
> On one side, we are born, maybe reproduce, then we die

I think you could probably back that one up earlier than "100 years ago".
The world will be dominated by populations either poor or religious.[1]

Note that below 2.1 on that chart, the human population shrinks.

[1] https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/children-per-woman-fertil...
Personally, I've never needed to copy something that was both not trivially copiable and the component parts of which were individually trivially copiable. If thing just gets initialized immediately, why do you put it in a pointer? Usually you would put it in a pointer because you need to initialize it in a specific order in the constructor relative to the other members (so presumably also in the copy constructor), or because it's a polymorphic object (so you can't just use the copy constructor of the static type). If neither of those is true, why use a pointer at all? Just make the member a simple object.
Virtual Formicidae Emporium (Ant Farm)
Just started getting into Lisp.

I realized that when I call a bunch of functions one after the other, I want to be able to reference them. I would have to put them in an array.

Then I thought why do I have to make this choice case by case. If only everything was a list…

I now want to see how I can shoehorn this into TypeScript. Maybe with macros or transpilation or something.

Then I want to see what cool things I can now do.

The only thing that gives me pause is that the language is insane to read and when you look at the implementation of Lisp defun and defmacro the code gets pretty wacky.

Figuring out what is a primative and what is just lists is very difficult.

I wonder if there is a less purist Lisp out there that looks nicer.
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I worked on solar thermal for a while. It was even mandatory to install in new buildings in my country for a while (before all solar was forbidden for personal use until recently, don't ask, I hated it too. Forced me to become a sysadmin though, which was a good move).

You can get pretty good efficiency with solar thermal panels and indeed they are more near the 70% mark. Just a "black paint" panel can get "decent" results and it's relatively cheap. I remember back in the training days, our teacher just held a metal pane, painted black, into the sun for a demonstration. And got to 80ºC in a few minutes. In January.

They are not so useless in summer depending on where you live. In my region, despite being tropical-tier hot, water comes out really cold from the urban lines, so you always need to use some gas for a heater (butane or city gas). Having a solar thermal setup completely nullifies that (admittedly not large, but existing) expense during summer and reduces it during winter. Since many buildings here already have it as a feature, it's a little expense reduction which is always welcomed.

I miss working on that field.
Oh, right. Tell me how well that would work for Figma, Photoshop, or VS Code?
Do you have text/other sources suggestions for this? I agree with you, would like to learn more.
Oh wow, thanks for the compliment! You're the first person to ask haha.

The first step in this process is making sure I'm even writing something that's useful to my target audience. So for now, I'm laser-focused on getting reader feedback via that HelpThisBook.com site.

That said, I'm continuing to add more free content to that site on a weekly basis. I recommend watching that space for more updates.

Thanks for reaching out!
"People are most isolated when they are close to home, and the tendency to go to nearby locations explains about one-third of isolation. Using our uniquely detailed data, we show that brands, combined with distance, explain about half the isolation of the rich. Casual restaurant chains, like Olive Garden and Applebee's, have the largest positive impact on cross-class encounters through both scale and their diversity of visitors. Dollar stores and local pharmacies like CVS deepen isolation. Among publicly-funded spaces, libraries and parks are more redistributive than museums and historical sites. And, despite prominent restrictions on chain stores in some large US cities, chains are more class diverse than independent stores. The mix of establishments in a neighborhood is strongly associated with cross-class Facebook friendships (Chetty et al., 2022). The results uncover how policies that support certain public and private spaces might impact the connections that form across class divides." -- Thought this was super insightful
Well it’s not AP, and the red one isn’t portraying rain.

Here’s their note about the broadcast the red one is from:

> The report later includes green maps, but they are focused on general forecasts and rainfall -- not temperatures.

But honestly, you don’t even need any of this context to know why the implication of the original viral post is nonsense, just a tiny bit of logic: one of these is topographical, and one of these shows heat indicated by color. They both have temperatures listed because the weather report is more useful to the people watching it that way.

If you watch weather on like any news they’re going to show you a number of different maps, all within probably 90 seconds. Temperature, precipitation, cloud cover, wind speeds & direction, topography, storm tracking maps, maybe more.

This is why countering misinformation is such an uphill battle: someone goes to substantial lengths to track down exactly the context that completely obliterates the initial implication. But the context doesn’t go viral, and people fooled by the viral post in the first place who actually see the context instantly reject or misunderstand it.
more on this topic

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_Ocean_slave_trade
I think the claims in the piece are fairly robust to changes in the definition of economic growth. That is: for any reasonable definition of terms like "economy", "wealth", etc., it seems (1) fairly clear that "the economy", meaning in some sense the total amount of actual "wealth", has been growing at a few percent per year on average for quite a while, and (2) monstrously unlikely that "the economy", meaning in some sense the total amount of actual "wealth", can continue to grow at a few percent per year on average for, say, the next 10k years.

(Because, as the author says, that would mean having as much of whatever-it-is-that-economies-are-made-of per atom in the galaxy as we currently have in total.)

So for that sort of growth to continue for that long, something very radical would have to change. (We discover how to teleport arbitrary distances, or to move to entirely different universes, so we are no longer limited by the size of this galaxy. It turns out that humans really are immaterial souls that just live in material bodies, and we find a way to break free of the physical world altogether. At least that sort of level of radical-ness.)

Hence, either the growth we are all used to will have to slow dramatically, or some other radical change will have to happen, or both.

None of this depends on the details of how you define "the size of the economy" -- though, as you say, some particular choices you can make (but that no one ever actually does) would invalidate the argument.

(When people talk about economic growth, they never mean growth in nominal dollars or whatever. That would be silly. They never mean mere population increase, independent of the wealth of that population. That would be silly.)
So, they got a crash because one part of their system made a distinction that another didn't. OK.

What's really left unexplained here is where the need came about for precision to be represented in this way. Like -- at first the article made it seem like they were using (presumably IEEE) floating-point decimals, and then merely serializing them as strings. But floating-point decimals don't include precision; the precision can't vary from one to another in the way described here.

This means that the decimal strings described here are not merely serializations of the decimal floats, rather they're prior to the decimal floats. That leaves the question, then, of where they're coming from. So where, then?
Some movements actually have an enemy.
Chadview – GPT real-time meetings assistant for job interviews
His biggest sin is scaring away advertisers so they are hugely in the red despite shedding most of their employees. No matter how useful twitter is to you personally if it doesn't make money eventually it will have to make a change or go away.
this comes up alot. Dylan did this. I guess the curse and the salvation is that you get used to it pretty quickly. I really don't think syntax is all that fundamental - its all fine up to a point (lookin at you perl)
Seems to me that the critical problem with this idea is "deep copy."

There is no builtin deep copy facility. Without the facility then a box pointer would be dangerous leading to weird effects when the copy is too shallow.

You could solve deep copy with a template that relies on each class providing a deep copy function if one is needed. But again, this will make bugs if someone forgets to provide the function.

Rather than make an error-prone feature in the standard library, I think it would be better to just explicitly roll this yourself. A sensible constructor copy should already do a deep copy -- or ensure copy-on-write to simulate a deep copy. So copying is as easy a calling make_shared (original) or make_unique (original).
Goldmark (Hugo) and many Markdown extensions do support description lists. Hugo also supports render hooks which make adding support for attributes, picture elements, etc trivial. And the vast majority of advanced markdown engines support a front matter, typically YAML although Hugo supports TOML and JSON as well.
There are cheap services and free DIY tools that make it easier to aggregate and grep text logs. Bigger, growing or more complex operations would like more and would rather pay for something tested that has more features. New Relic is one of those. You don’t have to be a good customer for every service provider if enough meet your needs.
Ultimately, economic growth is driven by population growth.[0] And also, there is a feedback loop where population growth is encouraged by economic growth. Since people require material and energy input, and there is a limit to both on this planet,[1] economic growth is expected to flatten once the population outstrips the Earth's resources.

[0] There is also the growth that comes in spurts from technological innovations. Those spurts should be amortized across the entire ranges of years that follow them when assessing the resultant growth. IMO, such technological innovations are akin to data compression, increasing entropy. Over the loooong haul, I'd expect such spurts to have diminishing returns (just like compressing a compressed file has diminishing returns.)

[1] I guess expanding our reach beyond Earth would be one of those 'spurts'.

EDIT: fixed a word
But why self-roast when you can put your stuff in someone else's data centre?
People rush to ATMs after windfall from Bank of Ireland app glitch
If there isn't a list of past In Memoriam posts then that would be good to add too.
They're suing them for sometimes being more expensive than booking directly with the airline. How in the world is that a valid lawsuit? Could I start a business and start suing people when they make a better product and charge more?
Unrelated to the content of this post... this looks to be hosted on Notion. Is that a reasonable option for a personal blog? I do a lot of writing in Notion for work and I would love to transition into something more public. I don't really want to mess around with Jekyll, Medium, or Substack. Public Notion feels sort of compelling.
New York Governor bans radioactive dumping in Hudson River
Utility? Imagine all we could achieve with the time wasted daily on social media globally.
Using pointers to the stack?
It's a straight up ad. No thanks.
> but startups that pay founders a salary from the start (like OCV companies) have much higher initial operating costs.

How is supposed to work to founders to get some money for personal expenses?

…

Regarding of the article: I am quite surprised that several late stage scale ups are not having the hard conversation that their options are underwater.
How the Wittington Brothers story hasn't been made into a movie I do not know. There's never even been a book that I know about. They're all out of prison now. The youngest brother, who raced in the Indy 500 five times, was recently killed in a plane crash.
That is in Microsoft's managed C++ called C++/CLI that is compiled for the CLR. It uses the ^ (hat) sigil, i.e. "int^" vs "int*".
I wish Jazz had been more popular. I loved Jazz Jackrabbit 1 and 2, and I believe there were plans to make a third, but they decided it wouldn’t sell enough copies. If anyone here can recommend platformers similar to Jazz that run on a Mac, I’d love to play them. I never got into shooters or 3D games, but always enjoyed platformers like Mario and Contra, and Jazz felt perfect for me.
My path was vm -> containers -> nix. With nix flakes and the direnv extension in vscode you can get a clean per-project dev environment with zero docker overhead and without dev tools cluttering up your global environment and causing issues.