skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As someone already mentioned, you would have to account for all the interactions with light -> everywhere at once.

With a effective speed limit to space-time, you can "localize" the computation to the spaces where light has reached. And who knows, maybe light can't travel forever, it might just disappear after crossing some distance we still haven't measured (how we'd do that, who knows).

Giving yet another evidence to the "grand simulation" theory. "The universe" is just a group of simulated worlds connected by interacting photon particles (light).
She helped me get my current job. Thank you Kris for helping me and please rest in peace.
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Yeah there's no issue there, most codecs support variable bitrates and variable iframe-pacing, and ffmpeg will happily concat such files. Also, there's no need to render into an "uncompressed format" the i-frames are still compressed, and even in the naive case you'd only need small number of i-frames because you only need to replace any orphans in the cut GOP after which you can just go back to normal decoding.
Half of parents have no idea how to raise their kids without a smartphone
What makes Python native and JS not?

n.b. just because CPython exists doesn't mean Python is native.

n.b. native vs. web is colloquially a discussion from 00s macOS and 10s mobile about fidelity to the platform's standard UI toolkit.

n.b. when people shit on Electron its because of RAM use and lack of fidelity to the platform toolkit, and the waste of have a full JS engine compiled into an app, ideally they'd all use some base WebView from the system instead of Chromium
solar farms are land intensive not just capital
GDPR is an absolute novelty for EU laws as they are extra-territorial, they assume every website in the world that is accessible to EU citizens must protect EU citizen‘s data privacy rights.

Websites (eg their owners) can get slapped with an uncapped penalty fee that is ambiguously oriented around a company’s sales volume - disregarding that this could even bankrupt companies (as sales don’t mean net earnings).

Both artifacts (extra territoriality and severity) are extremely bold, something completely unique and unheard of from the EU, especially when fiddling around with American Businesses.

Which makes one wonder how a nobody like Jan Philipp Albrecht [1] came into a position to single handedly ruin browsing UX for the whole world.

Did he actually benefit US interests? Or that of the American cookie oligarchy (Meta, Google, Amazon, …)? After all he is a member of the Greens, which sort of have a history of being bought off from Washington [2].

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Philipp_Albrecht

[2] https://www.telepolis.de/features/Cem-Oezdemir-Der-gruene-US...
That wasn't much of a refutation. In the cloud you can move up the food chain to get durability and availability without thinking about it. It is much more efficient (and way, way easier to manage) to just chuck your data into Cloud Spanner than it would be to operate a geographically diverse triplet of Postgresql instances.
> Sex and sexuality are oriented toward procreation of children.

I strongly disagree. The vast majority of sex is entirely unrelated to procreation.

> They are also oriented toward forming bonds of love and trust between the people having sex.

This is a value judgement that I don't believe is universally true. A lot of people have casual relations, sometimes for their entire lives without building bonds of love and trust.

> Also with the above in mind, sex is traditionally an act shared between a man and a wife hoping to have children.

So once a man and wife have all the children they are going to have, they abstain from sex for the rest of their lives?

While I appreciate that you attempted to take a secular view of this, I don't think you were successful. You've taken things that are very traditional christian centric viewpoints and proscribed them as something that transcends religion

Frankly, I don't actually believe porn is any worse than any other modern media consumption. Media addiction is a real problem regardless of the genre that caused it.

I also firmly believe that what consenting adults legally do is entirely up to them and I have no right to make moral judgments. If two people want to get down and nasty and record it for other consenting adults, who am I to tell them it's wrong?
https://liliputing.com/sipeed-lichee-pi-4a-is-a-modular-risc...
There are a few things you can do here.

SQLite is great at JSON - so I often dump JSON structures in a TEXT column and query them using https://www.sqlite.org/json1.html

I also have plugins for running jq() functions directly in SQL queries - https://datasette.io/plugins/datasette-jq and https://github.com/simonw/sqlite-utils-jq

SQLite's FTS search is surprisingly decent, and I have tools for quickly turning that on both from a CLI: https://sqlite-utils.datasette.io/en/stable/cli.html#configu... and as a Datasette Plugin (available in Datasette Cloud): https://datasette.io/plugins/datasette-configure-fts

I've been trying to drive the cost of turning semi-structured data into structured SQL queries down as much as possible with https://sqlite-utils.datasette.io - see this tutorial for more: https://datasette.io/tutorials/clean-data

This is also an area that I'm starting to explore with LLMs. I love the idea that you could take a bunch of messy data, tell Datasette Cloud "I want this imported into a table with this schema"... and it does that.

I have a prototype of this working now, I hope to turn it into an open source plugin (and Datasette Cloud feature) pretty soon. It's using this trick: https://til.simonwillison.net/gpt3/openai-python-functions-d...
I’m surprised (I shouldn’t be at this point) that this is the only comment here critiquing the energy usage of data centers. When I see this headline I don’t think about steaming from Netflix, I think about the troves of data Google, Mega, Microsoft, Netflix, NSA etc have gathered about us, arguably against our will.

I shouldn’t be surprised that HN users would applaud this energy use in the name of value, when these same users are stockholders of the companies creating this so-called value.
It will be impossible to learn physics from this book, even in the unlikely event that you already have all the requisite mathematical background (partial differential equations, vector calculus, tensors, etc.). Degree of “ambition” doesn’t come into it; you just can’t start out with special and general relativity and spacetime and quantum fields; you need to solve a lot of problems in newtonian mechanics and electromagnetism and thermodynamics and get a solid foundation in classical physics first. There is no royal road to this stuff: Susan’s list lays out the standard curriculum and it’s really the only way we know to produce physicists.

That said, this book does look like a great text for someone with a graduate level physics knowledge who wants to refresh their memory.
Those people should also be aware of all the motivations behind creating, providing and maintaining a free encyclopedia.
Lack of ability to have pets. Lack of ability to drink or do drugs. Lack of safe storage options for property. Restrictions on visitors.

If you don't let people treat their home as a home, it's not.
This and the article strike me initially as completely wrong, which makes it very interesting. I still want a clear separation between the "model" and the "view", and I guess I tend to assume that this corresponds to the front-end and back-end. Maybe that's a poor assumption.

What I see here is that the "view" is split across the front-end and the back-end. Or in other words, the back-end contains both the model and the JSON API as a view. I think this is what is meant by "I suggest you stop treating your frontend as some generic API client, and start treating it as a half of your app."

I still want a clean separation between the model, e.g. companyName, and the view, e.g. pageTitle. Somewhere, there needs to be the explicit logic (in the back-end part of the view) that says that the the pageTitle for page A is the companyName. It's okay for many different views to "reuse" fields from the model, but each view should have its own front-end and back-end components. That the view is split across a front-end/back-end divide through the nature of the web-stack doesn't change the fact that each view should remain distinct from the other views.

So I can agree in the sense that the alternative where you create a general-purpose JSON API as a model and view in the back-end, and then essentially code up an additional model and view for each front-end page/element with logic to convert the API data into the necessary content is a waste of time.
Wild to correlate biological organisms to planet scale economies. They are different beasts.
Raw numbers don't mean much unless you normalize to the number of participants in some way and, really, to the level of the activity. Not a lot of people are killed flying in wing suits but that's not because it's such a safe activity.

To be clear, I think mountaineering is a perfectly rational activity for people to pursue so long as they're going into it with their eyes wide open. I've certainly done activities in that vein that some reasonable percentage of people would probably consider excessively dangerous for various reasons.

I wouldn't personally do many of them but I'd hesitate to criticize people in general for pursuing activities that have greater than typical day-to-day danger associated with them.
As it happens this has been in the news quite a bit, and we've been told that the Finnish trunk lines are built for this [1]. Finland isn't split up into multiple electricity price areas unlike its neighbors.

[1] https://www.fingrid.fi/en/pages/company/information-for-cons...
Keep in mind that electricity generation itself is only responsible for ~35% of our greenhouse gas emissions (power generation was responsible for 13 Gt CO2 in 2019, globally 37 Gt)

So if we wanted to estimate the global impact of data centers on CO2 emissions, that's about 0.6%. And that's not a perfect calculation as much of the new power capacity is in renewables, thus lower relative emissions. <0.5% would be a better estimate.

So 1/200th of our greenhouse gas problem is caused by data centers. I'll echo some of the other comments in this thread but - damn, that's a pretty good deal considering how much value we get out of it.

[1] https://www.iea.org/reports/global-energy-co2-status-report-...
This number alone is pretty much meaningless.

How large part of GDP produced world wide is using these data centers in one way or another (My bet is 80%+).

There isn't a single Fortune 500 company that does not have its data on computers and thus in some data center somewhere (if they are sane). Most also have moved a huge chunk of their processing there too.

Personally I can't even come up with a "serious" business that does not use data centers in one way or another. Even basic mom&pop store that does all of their inventory on a laptop locally and makes all of their products by hand uses data centers if they accept credit/debit card payments or they have a phone number.
Do you think we need a national number?

In the past the virus seemed to come and go depending on localities smaller than the entire country, i.e. Florida in the summer, NY in the winter, etc. Also much of the mitigations were applied at the state level, not the national level.
> I have previously expressed my belief that Bigelow's involvement in DoD UAP programs, facilitated by Sen. Reid, was primarily an effort to obtain government funding

I also think something a lot of people do not understand is that the military routinely runs false flag operations. This is one reason I've been so highly skeptical of the recent congressional hearings. As far as I'm aware, every encounter is at best testified via second hand. Has anyone that has testified claimed to see "biologicals" themselves, or just that they heard or read about it? In the latter, we can't trust in that setting (though it would warrant more investigation).

They run these operations for several reasons. One is simply stupidity. Someone in the military might just believe remote viewing is possible and give funding. Another is to generate noise. When spies steal data, how do they know if those data and reports are genuine? It wouldn't be the first time a military got an adversary to waste countless time and money on futile pursuits. Another is simply to create a black op. You can't pour money into nothing, so you pour it into something else. These again usually use noise because when someone comes looking for that money you want to take them on a wild goose chase. The US Military has had access to the Alien story for 75+ years now and lots of people have built "evidence" around that story and many __want__ to believe in that story. I mean it is the conspiracy theory person's wet dream, that what appears complicated is actually very simple because ̶o̶m̶n̶i̶p̶o̶t̶e̶n̶t̶ ̶a̶n̶d̶ ̶o̶m̶n̶i̶s̶c̶i̶e̶n̶t̶ ̶w̶i̶z̶a̶r̶d̶s̶ "the government" did it and the world is simple again and all is right. Spooks also love this kind of simplification, as we all do. Our monkey brains are satisfied when we have no more to dig into and "just know" (it's also why we confidently talk out our asses on places like this site about things we have no remote qualification to discuss). But it doesn't require stupidity to create all this noise, nor does it require 4D chess. It just requires time, chaos, and many different actors with many different unknown agendas (which would still requisite digging into to learn more, not stopping at this explanation).

So idk if the government is recklessly spending money or they understand that this is a useful false flag, or if they just don't care in even determining the difference anymore because either way it seems useful to the end goals.
I was hired recently to author a set of DVDs (yes, I know!), discovered there's almost no commercial software still available outside of Scenarist and TMPGEnc, and tried a dozen modern projects while putting together a FOSS workflow, just in case I couldn't the conjure CDs, licenses, and keys for software I hadn't needed in a decade+.

vidcutter ultimately didn't help in this process. I built it from source and then tried the flatpak, but for all of its beauty, it hung or crashed when importing common but dated formats and containers, handling more than a few clips, and didn't allow precise jogging for splitting (when it didn't hang or crash). It's good for trimming up a smartphone video, but it's not on par with an NLE.

I ended up giving up and scripting out most of the project in ffmpeg and dvdauthor. If you know how to use core utilities, it's such an exercise in tedium struggling against underdeveloped front ends.
It is always "horses for courses" and there may be times when the five concurrent cores with the shell pipeline will beat the single core awk script.
This kind of authoritarian bullshit is why a lot of homeless are wary of seeking help.
Works with RTTI?
> Classical Electrodynamics by Jackson (essential). This is the bible of classical electrodynamics, and everyone who works through either loves it or hates it (I loved it).

I agree that there is a division between who loves that book (like the author) and the majority of the graduate students who had nightmares (and sometimes still gets). I like this goodreads review of the book [1]

> A soul crushing technical manual written by a sadist that has served as the right of passage for physics PhDs since the dawn of time. Every single one of my professors studied this book, and every single one of them hates it with a passion. While I've no intention of becoming a professor, I still wonder, will my colleagues also inflict this torture on their students? Will the cycle be perpetuated ad infinitum? How many more aspiring physicists will we leave battered and bruised at the gates of insanity before switching to a textbook that seeks to make electrodynamics clear and intuitive rather than a mind-numbing trip through the seventh circle of hell?

[1] https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1266180525

* personal note: If this book is really the bible of classical mechanics, then I'm atheist.
Why does everything have to boil down to making money? This is exactly what I mean.

The free market is meaningless when minds are corrupted by people who profit from them
Congrats!! How does it compare to the ELT space and the modern data stack where you have ingestion/storage/visualization layers decoupled?

Asking as the founder of CloudQuery (https://github.com/cloudquery/cloudquery), Saw Datasette quite a few times around data exploration but curious to hear about the most popular use-cases of Datasette!
Thank you. The "how much" is too small to stretch it out visually. Need a much larger spiral galaxy to see the effect I am thinking of.
Some die young, some don’t. Hendrix, Joplin, Lennon, etc didn’t make it. Not entirely unexpected.

When you have a chance to see these folks in concert, take it. I was too lazy to see Petty one night and he passed a week later. :-/
Yeah, you can absolutely reencode just the GOP where the cut happens and IIRC quite a few tools support that.
There is no population crisis that's 100% propaganda. We have so much arable land yet to be developed, oceans yet to be fully utilized. The Earth can easily hold 1 trillion people. The only ones promoting population control are the people who make money off of labor scarcity and fear.
Real world industry already relies heavily on hallucinated outputs. They are called humans.

One of the main differences between people who see the astonishing value of LLMs right now and people who are some combo of skeptical, dismissive, and indignant, is the expectation that for something to be a valuable source of information, it has to be factually accurate every time.

The entirety of civilization has been built on the back of inaccurate sources of information.

That will never change and it absolutely can't, because (1) factual accuracy is not something that can be determined by consensus in a variety of significant cases, and (2) factual accuracy as a concept itself does not have a consensus definition, operationally or in the abstract.

Absolutely frustrating to see these topics addressed as if thousands of years of intense thinking around truth and factual accuracy has not taken place.

The results of those inquiries do not support the basic assumptions of these conversations (i.e. that factual accuracy is amenable to exhaustive algorithmic verification).
The difference is there is concrete evidence about the oxycontin epidemic being caused by greedy negligence at best. I don't think we have seen evidence of that w/r/t vaccinations. Pointing at one incentive and using it to label an entire industry is not of the same caliber of insight.
Yeah, this is just a unique_ptr with a copy operation.
But if you clone a struct that contains a Box<T> field then that field is also cloned (at least that's the behavior if the default derived Clone impl)
Because developers need to eat, this should not be hard to understand. It is cheaper and faster to build an Electron app and have it immediately work cross platform, than to build several native apps just to please some random internet purist.
FWIW the article I linked says exactly the same thing as you.

It's essentially impossible to properly normalise across hours of doing the activity.

Those stats, are at best, an estimate but it's exceptionally favourable to mountaineering.
“How much would it cost for me to pay someone to do this?” is pretty close.

So is “how much could I earn in the same amount of time if I did something else?”

It may not be strictly direct but it sets bounds around the value of your time.

You could do cold outreach, or you could put yourself out on Uber or task rabbit and then put that money towards an ad campaign.
And suburban family of 5 probably uses more electricity than a rural African village. So what?

These facilities are run by companies who obsess over reducing opex. If you want to reduce datacenter power consumption, figure out what drives on-prem compute and create financial incentives to drive that workload to cloud. More demand equals more capital invest and more efficiency.
The US department of energy estimates that 10% of the US power grid is devoted to lighting, last I checked. If we extrapolate that out to all nations and power grids, 2% is a sizeable but okay amount of energy for handling large amounts of people's data.
Wow, interesting to see this on Hacker News of all places. I was recently at my niece's college graduation from U of Oregon and the commencement speaker was Amy Cordalis, the general counsel for the Yurok Tribe and woman largely responsible for bringing about this agreement to restore the Klamath River. Her tribe's creation myth involves the Salmon and their entire history and identity is heavily tied into fishing and the health of the river. Her uncle successfully litigated a Supreme Court case in the 70s affirming their tribe's sovereignty and rights to fish that river, which the State of California had tried to deny, arguing their land could not be considered tribal land because it had been opened by the state to homesteading in the 1890s (which violated a treaty from the 1850s declaring it a reservation in the first place). When she was an undergraduate, these dams caused the worst fish kill in US history and served as the inciting event leading to her becoming an attorney. Reclaiming the Klamath River and ensuring the health of the salmon population has been her life's work ever since.

Note they've actually had an agreement in place to remove the dams since 2008, but the first agreement depended on Congressional approval and Congress never voted on it. Then they reached a new agreement that only needed FERC approval, which they got, along with the endorsement of the Department of the Interior under the Obama administration, only to have that endorsement rescinded when Trump appointed a new secretary whose mandate was apparently "shit on everything done by Obama, no matter what it was."

So this is now finally happening after being dicked around for 15 years, with, of course, even that only happening after the US government giving away your land to other people so they can do things that erase your cultural identity and tribal sovereignty for 120 years.
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that is enforced at compile time would be far more valuable for me. That would mean some kind of destructive move where the compiler guarantees that you can not access a moved from object.
I'm not saying that some guy won't try to make a buck, but the incentive for those in power to allow that to happen is small when they depend on the west to maintain current weapons and get new ones. The F-16's won't fly for long without spare parts.

Turkey bought the S400 and got kicked out of the F-35 program (even after paying for the planes)... and they're NATO members.
This is all assuming that Russia doesn't resort to nuclear, biological, or chemical attack.

In a conventional war, its true. NATO, or the US alone, or even some individual NATO members on their own, would cakewalk over Russia faster than the coalition did in the Gulf War.

Unfortunately, its pretty hard to tell what their actual red line is for going nuclear which radically invalidates the preceding paragraph.
Although nothing will explain everything, still it's fine with the first point: increasing the rotation vector of momentum in spacetime increases mass. The rest follows, since you know that the more mass, the more energy required to accelerate still more.

But if you are interested, a significant amount of the basics of quantum mechanics follow directly from Fourier transforms -- which unfortunately are harder to self-study than spacetime rotations.