skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks for you HN.

I may be misunderstanding something: AliceScript is not a scripting language for use at build time, but for adding macro functionality, etc. to .NET applications.
I did not explain it well enough. The following documentation shows how to use it, albeit briefly.

- How to run AliceScript and an example : https://github.com/WSOFT-Project/Losetta/tree/develop/alice/...
- How to call AliceScript from a .NET application : https://github.com/WSOFT-Project/Losetta/tree/develop/Losett...
We definitely need to rethink some things with electric cars. One is taxes for roads. You're gonna have to replace gas tax and possibly even increase taxes overall since the extra weight of electric cars mean more road wear and tear (proportional to the power of 4 as another commenter mentioned). Safety is another one. We've already been seeing an increase in pedestrian deaths with one of the main reasons being increased in vehicle size and weight. Add in the fast acceleration of electric cars and their extra extra weight and the problem is going to continue to get worse. A Toyota 4runner weighs about 4500lbs and a Rivian R1S weights about 7000lbs with a 0-60 time that's 2.5x faster than the 4runner. Letting people drive a 7000lbs car with huge blind spots and the acceleration of a Corvette on a standard passenger car drivers license is pushing irresponsible in my opinion.
It's projection. The people making that accusation are themselves all-but-literally exterminating individuals from society. They are engaging in dangerous levels of othering using a cloak of false kindness.
What happens if the door closes at night and one or more chickens aren't already inside? Is that a thing that happens? Do they pretty much always go inside at the same time every evening? Is it bad if one gets left out alone?

I know nothing about chicken coops.
Extreme longtermism is hard to discern from believing in heaven and hell. E.g. the future is so important that almost anything can be justified in the near term because of the far away ends, which often we won't even life to experience.

As well often the longtermism speculation about possibly "living forever" and where "anything is possible" where "all needs are met" and we will be "traveling among the stars". That sounds very Biblically inspired to me.

The fact unfortunately is the future is really hard to predict with any certainty. So justifying any significant suffering in the near term in service of something that is far in the future is often a fools errand (or worse.)

Some of the black-and-white scenarios posited also are unrealistic. It isn't likely either AGI or humanity that survives -- this is just a sci-fi plot. Usually it isn't an us or them situation in the world, less you want to motivate a populace to war.

What usually happens is that all possible futures are achieved in some fashion and they coexist and there is long-term complex competition and cooperation and evolution between them. For example, there are probably human colonies and probably AGI colonies and hybrid colonies and they trade with each other and do their own things. Some will expand faster than others, etc.

Contrary to most popular sci fi literature that is human centric (StarTrek, Star Wars, The Expanse, Foundation, etc), if you think about it, AGI / robots are infinitely better suited to exploring and exploiting the galaxy compared to us - infinite lifespans, transmissible consciousness, no need for biological life support, repairability, more varied physicality, ability to survive high G/radiation, etc.
Right, my response was more of a hope that continued research in this area would lead to possibly some solutions for earlier diagnosis and treatment. Cancer is such a cancer.
endorphins from exercise perhaps?
I compare Fyodor Dostoevsky's Rodion Raskolnikov (Crime and Punishment) with Ayn Rand's Howard Roark (The Fountainhead). Tools include both the Google Cloud Platform (GCP) Natural Language Application Programming Interface (API) and Keras-NLP Transfer Learning.
On the land value tax, you have to pay more tax specifically because its value increases. If you want to cash out, then sell the property for it's now much higher value. The value didn't increase because something you did personally, rather because the whole area became more popular due to you and your neighbours (or more usually, your tenants) moving in and being productive. It seems fair that this value that everybody added to your property would get distributed to everybody instead of just you, the owner.
How do you decide on whats next? Is this a cost of delay calculation?
But most spending on road maintenance goes to roads that make no sense other than as a massive subsidy to rural communities and the people in them.
It means that users feel there is enough diversity of relevant content that they will find a result that gives them either the information, or the entertainment, they are seeking.

Some people (probably in particular older people) see the internet as the sum of everything (eg: Reddit + Facebook + TikTok + etc). Other people, I think, have less of a concept of the internet as a mass data collective and see it as more silo'd. And within those silos they feel that certain ones will have results/content that is more inline with their viewpoints, desired results, etc. So the result is we see some of these social media sites like Tiktok becoming very much a micro-internet to these users, and they specifically DON'T want google-style results that reflect the internet at large (and they don't want to use search modifiers to say only search tiktok.com).

In some ways we may be trending back towards the days of AOL/Prodigy/Compuserve/The Well, where you virtually hang out with "your people", and content that doesn't exist within your group basically doesn't exist at all.
> No we don't. AMD has working GPUs with working drivers now.

Oh, no, they don't! I'm forced to browse using Windows right now because the radeon driver crashes when I open new pages in Firefox. Most of the time it resets itself and I get the display back, but sometimes it crashes completely and I have to press the reset button.

(Gentoo, 5.15 kernel, Radeon HD 4250 onboard video)
The core problem with the modern environmental movement is the refusal to take a W when one is staring them in the face.

EVs are happening. It's a huge win for the environment and all the environmental orgs that pushed for it. Stop trying to rewrite this revolutionary change as a hidden nefarious L. You're just making yourself sad and the youth jaded.
I think there is an high likelihood that weights will come down as batteries become more energy dense, which is probably necessary for full market penetration.
> US import from China is back to pre-COVID volumes and rising.

Source?
So you have it, but actually you don't?
Somehow Dairy Queen is able to serve ice cream ok
> They are completely unlike user space applications.

Why?

I cannot see any difference from the POV of copyright. There is no difference between the loading of a kernel module that must discover the addresses of the kernel symbols that it must use and the loading of a user-mode executable that must discover the addresses of the symbols that it needs from the libc shared library.

Also the GPL does not allow the bundling of non-GPL kernel modules with the Linux kernel but it cannot restrict in any way the right of any Linux users to use the kernel by loading any kernel modules they want.

These attempts made periodically by some kernel developers to cripple the performance of the non-GPL kernel modules by hiding the useful kernel symbols when such modules are loaded by the end users have nothing to do with the GPL.

They also do not hurt NVDIA or other hardware vendors, but only the Linux end users, whose systems become broken after kernel updates.
I was there, I don't remember anyone ever loving Microsoft. Perhaps that's because I was in the UK.
If the company uses phone numbers to lookup accounts, (Local-Area-Code)-8675-309 almost always works.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/867-5309/Jenny
Why would LNG pay more? If anything the emissions are better than petrol only.

Diesel is a bit dubious too. CO2 emissions are far lower for them.
Very interesting report. I'm not sure I understand what the root cause of the issue is though - is it a Linux bug or a problem with the monitor itself?
*IF* your workload ignores the value of the string. That's the nuance.

From the article:

> We executed a query against all three tables to search for a string within the text value...This time, the results are more consistent with what we would expect. [Large is slower than medium.]

---

I.E. This isn't a "bug" ... this is a performance tradeoff. Transitioning values from inline to a separate table has performance positives and negatives. This article highlights a performance positive from TOAST once the toast_tuple_target boundary is crossed.
Don’t buy a car?

In all seriousness, do you really think that any government system on earth could work if people got to opt out of laws they don’t like?
I have done both sys admin and programming. I currently do programming and have since I graduated from my university. My experience doing sys admin was a lot of fun, and those skills have made me a better and more versatile programmer.

You're not doomed to sys admin forever.
> the discounted OEM pre-installed copy (effectively free to the casual user)

Not free; just hidden. The retail laptop models I looked at last month discounted the price exactly ₹10K (~ 120 USD) when I chose the no pre-installed OS option.
> I’m tired of it too, but I think it’s better than “not use any data points” or “trust the super subjective data points put out by a totalitarian regime so they aren’t comparable to other countries.”

I understand this sentiment when it's applied to shithole countries where statistics cannot be verified in meaningful ways. But China is too big and too integrated into the world economics to fake or dismiss Chinese data. You can independently prove a lot of Chinese data by comparing it with their western trade counterparts.
What you're probably looking for is continuations, combine them with serialisation and you can have stateless (in that the state is in a persistent store and can be picked up by any application server) workflow processing.

You stumbled upon a drawback yourself though:

>And as long as the back-end servers were all running the same version of my code

the continuation could be serialised and then picked up later with business logic that has since changed in your application, whether through changing requirements or bugfixes.

Therefore personally, (I'm not saying there aren't successful business implementations of continuations, just my own observations), in the wild, I've mostly seen long running async workflows being put together by either state machine modelling in whatever language the programmers are using to let workers run through multi-stage processes, or use of workflow engines to hoist the orchestration to a tooling layer and the regular "programming" is in the building blocks.
For a potential USA-only solution, (I don't know if it will fit or be usable for your use case) the USDA provides aerial imagery under the "National Agricultural Imagery Program." [1]

[1]: https://www.fsa.usda.gov/Assets/USDA-FSA-Public/usdafiles/AP...
It isn't just housing, it is also the medical system and education.

These things that basically everyone needs are not getting cheaper over time but are getting more expensive so that they vacuum up as much money as possible.

(And it looks like vehicles/transportation is going to go this way as well, with companies licensing all the software in the vehicles to customers on a yearly subscription basis)
That’s a big claim, sources needed.
The esp32 devboards are magnificent, as it is so easy to replace the need for official Arduino boards

- Arduino compatible

- platformIO supported

- very cheap

- they are usually tiny

- great wifi and Bluetooth

- gpio pins for the different protocols (i2c etc)

- easy to power (tolerance and options in usb and pins)

- lots of exciting new models and active development like the esp32c3, the D1 minis and different models with integrated oleds are cool

- community resources. there are massive amount of blogpost and YouTube videos for esp32 (and Arduino in general)

cons are few;

- 3.3v signal is a hassle quite often in practise

- the amount of different esp32 devboards models can get confusing

- the pins are sometimes shared-purpose and it's not always clear which you can use

- China. Both practical for delivery time, and politically
Looking up comparable ICE cars to a Model Y, google tells me Audi SQ5, BMW X3 M40i, and Mercedes-Benz GLC43.

Their curb weights in lbs are:

Model Y: 4,555

SQ5: 4,288

M40i: 4,392

GLC43: 4,233

So, yes, a model Y is heavier, but only by about 250 lbs. At a 4th power that could be an extra 30% damage compared to an ICE, but even the lightest SUV here is doing something like 3.5x the damage compared to a Honda Civic. So, if you think road damage is a valid concern, electric cars aren't particularly special - SUVs in general should be a bigger worry.
Assuming you do not have a tribe willing and able to fight for you, move to the middle of Siberia, or Somalia, or the Sahara, etc where you will not have to compete for resources like land.
> In any case you will still need some a-priori info about meals and planned activities

Not necessarily, at least not via patient input. In the albeit small Inreda studies manual announcement of exercise and meals wasn't required (or an option). Medtronic also has a meal prediction algorithm on their newest offering that's a step towards a fully automated process and currently more or less obviates carb counting but isn't at the point where you don't have to announce a meal (yet).

Rather than integrating external data sources the algorithms are predicting based on historical glucose levels and/or insulin administration and it seems to be working.

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamasurgery/article-abstrac...
Batteries, mostly. Copper and lithium mining. Sprinkle with rare ears for magnets etc.
Guess: The "with a charger" aspect increases the total physical footprint of a parking space. (Ditto cost, infrastructure, etc.)
what's the rationale for LNG and diesel paying much more? aren't they more efficient than regular petrol?

(our family's diesel VW certainly was)
> We need a high quality head mounted AR display attached to a laptop without the screen part

What would that look like? Is there an existing product that is similar? If it is something I have to wear, it seems like anything much bulkier / heavier than a pair of glasses is going to be a hard sell as a replacement for monitors.
Yes, this has been a puzzlement for many of us here. It makes no sense.
International Fuel Tax Association will be a good search term for you. Wait until you hear about Tennessee.
Tell that to the Amazon engineers that conspired to shutdown Parlor during the height of its popularity.
Yeah. There are already strong economic incentives to use rail for long-haul land transportation of lower value/less time-critical goods in the US. I don't know the numbers but I suspect you see relatively few goods transported coast to coast by truck in the US.
Wish we had palm sized nuclear reactors that could go into cars.

Get 10-15 years out of it before need more fuel.
I have learned over the past 5 years that it is impossible to convince people who have chosen to die on the 3.5mm jack hill that it isn't a big deal.

I don't think it's even about the jack anymore, complaining about it is just a shibboleth for a subgroup of Stallman types who dislike the state of modern computing.
You can't just turn an existing model into MoE, they need to be trained from scratch unfortunately. I'm not aware of any open source MoE models, they are complicated and probably not that useful if you want to run them on your own hardware.
While this is a good step, I'd also like to see more action taken about commuter vehicles that represent a greater threat to other people on the road for non-weight based reasons. Like, a Tesla X weighs more than an F-150 but based on the fact that one has a low bumper and hood and the other is a brick wall on jacked-up wheels I know I'd rather be hit by the Tesla X, regardless of whether I'm on foot or in my car.

Like some kind of "higher-risk vehicle" thing, either in the form of a tax or different speed-limits or a different class of fines and penalties for traffic violations.
There is no good rationale as far as I know. And yes, diesels can be crazy efficient. I had a 1.9 Citroen Xantia that on an ordinary sized tank had a 1300 km range.
Flavors was used on the Lisp Machine to implement much of the OS since around 1980: https://apps.dtic.mil/sti/tr/pdf/ADA095523.pdf
> Only the first user needs to be authenticated

Is it the first user to join the meeting (so it could be the host or a guest)? Or is it the person who created the room (and may likely be the first person to join the room)? I’m glad to get this answer here, but it’d be useful to document this on your help or support pages and share the link as well.
For that specific example: a model y weighs ~4450 lbs and a cx5 weighs ~3800, leaving a delta of ~3-4 grown adults in terms of weight.
Not really because the difference in road wear between ICE and EV SUVs is marginal precisely because road wear is proportional to axle weight to the fourth power. The axle weight of an SUV (whether EV or ICE) is a fraction of that of an 18 wheeler. The road wear of an 18 wheeler is going to be 2 or 3 orders of magnitude greater than that of an EV or ICE SUV (both of which are in the same order of magnitude).
Found the CEO of TetraVaal.
There is also speculative sampling - you decode a few tokens with a smaller model, then use the big model to validate them simultaneously. The big model might trim the prediction up to a point and add an extra token. Then cycle again with the small model -> 2-2.5x speedup
Being the IT guy for the elderly people in my family, these days 90% of the issues they are having is with the scummy shit that Microsoft is pulling constantly.

E.g. my mother even has Office 365 and still constantly gets offers to upgrade to Office 365 shoved in her face. With the pathetic shit that MS is pulling these days I wouldn't put it beyond them to somehow be able to sign up & pay twice for Office.

Can the people working at Microsoft chime in whether they feel any shame? I'm sure it's great for their metrics but it's shows 0% respect for users and also themselves. Some journalist should ask Satya how he feels about being the CEO of the largest panhandler organization in the history of mankind.
youve never used youtube as a search engine?
In this case it’s pretty simple - stop using the government built and maintained road system
> Free version with ads and paid version without any ads ...

The paid version you talk about does exist: LTSC Edition. It's just ridiculously overpriced out of retail viability.
Most famous in Silicon Valley, maybe?

Kotlin is similar to Swift but arguably compiles much faster despite a suboptimal initial architecture, and avoids weird language/compiler specific problems never before seen, like expressions that time out whilst compiling.

Graal is similar to LLVM but can compile a far larger range of languages, is actually used for both JIT and AOT compilation (does anyone use llvm jit in prod?), and has many innovations LLVM never could have even tried to have.

So it's not really clear that he's the best compiler person in the world. More like, the people doing the other stuff aren't in California so don't get the same level of attention.
That's interesting, I chose the html because I dislike pdf.

Now I'll have to go and diff them!
Tesla Y: Max curb weight 2003 kg
Mazda CX-5: Max curb weight 1765 kg
(according to Wikipedia)
Or when you use the index, but still have to do a lot of IO.
The issue isn't just targeted ads though. This data, once in the hands of google, is packaged and resold to whomever google pleases, for whatever purposes those parties see fit - not even to mention inevitable breaches. Not google, but see the whole healthcare data fiasco lately with apps using facebook's analytics API's as an example.
'tis why some newer DB storage systems support variable sized pages.

https://db.in.tum.de/~freitag/papers/p29-neumann-cidr20.pdf
In 15 years of experience here and there, only one has had on-call devs. I’ve come to the conclusion that neither dev nor their management care if someone else’s phone rings at 02:00. I’ve also seen open hostility to 1) the very idea of dev going on-call, and 2) technical recommendations for solutions to recurring issues. So I think it’s not quite “the standard fix”, in fact I think it’s pretty unrealistic.
> I guess I'd also add that on Linux or other OSs it's possible to construct and run process completely from memory with no on-disk executable file.

This is rather likely true. But since writing such code is much harder than, say, writing FizzBuzz, I assume that somewhere in the OS code, a "wrong" abstraction is used which makes this task far too complicated.
Yes, you're very close. I apologize for my poor description.

Writeline("What's your first name?");

string First = await Readline();

Writeline($"Hello, {First}, what's your last name?");

string Last = await Readline();

Writing event-driven, database backed code is a definite skill to have.

But I see so much value in the async / await model, where you're writing code that looks very stateful, very synchronous. I think it's just much easier to reason about.

But unfortunately, that requires a long-lived process on a server somewhere.

So I'm imagining the best-of-both worlds.

I'd be willing to compile to WebAssembly, or something, that would make it easy to keep track of the memory. I think it would be awesome if .Net provided some compilation flag that enabled what I'm thinking about. I'd even be willing to switch languages, if this existed somewhere.
Rail [Edit: in the US] generally prioritizes slow freight, and has moved more in that direction over time. Precision scheduled railroading favors fewer, longer, slower trains to increase the ratio of freight to crew and maintenance costs.

It is very well optimized and efficient, but you're not going to order something with standard UPS or Fedex style shipping and see it delivered by rail. Whereas in days past the railroad covered a significant amount of mail and parcel shipping due to higher service speeds and frequencies.

I do wonder if there could be room for better logistics and an expansion of rail to cover faster (ie < 2 weeks) shipping scenarios, but this would require investing in the rail and signaling infrastructure and opening and infrastructure to competing service providers.
We have it, but weight is a concern within a class of fuels. This causes a heavy petrol car to be more expensive than a light petrol car but may well cause it to be cheaper than a lightweight diesel based vehicle.
> For example, the side-bar of the interface doesn't load properly quite often, and you need to click on "reload" button few times to get it to show up... Well, what can you do? - Yes. Nothing.

So... go debug the JupyterLab code. Or open a bug with upstream. Or talk to their support. Or rant on Twitter to try and mobilize upstream to fix their shit. There's not nothing to be done, that's defeatist nonsense. In the meantime, in your codebase, mock the stuff you can't control and move on. That's why mocks exist, so that your test suite can be fast and deterministic even when speed and determinism are otherwise systematically difficult to achieve.

> hardware

Hardware is a totally different ballgame. And not one where you're trying to come up with SLOs for flakiness in a CI system. You don't continuously deploy hardware. You look over the test results, make a manual decision what needs to be retested, and just retest that before deploying. In dev, hopefully you have some kind of emulated device to develop against, in which case, the point is moot.