skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
On one hand I agree with you. It is apples-to-oranges to compare new development platform and old, second-hand, production one.

On other hand... There is NO comparable production RISC-V platforms. You say "It has 64 cores" - well, it is good argument when there is choice. But there is no choice on RISC-V side, there is no such platform with 32 or 8 or any other number of cores. So, I compare what I can buy with "RISC-V" badge and what I can buy with "amd64" badge. When I choose EPYC I could choose from 8 cores up to 64 cores, according to my wallet and needs. For 1000 euro I could have good, proven MoBo which offers more than this "development platform" (i.e. IPMI and VGA exit, which means I don't need any videocard to occupy so precious PCIe slot - and I think, it is good idea for DEVELOPMENT platform to have full remote control & access, IPMI or some other) and 8 core/16 threads first generation EPYC (which will be faster core-to-core, I'm sure), NEW. If I agree to buy second-hand hardware it will be about 550 euros (same mobo, same CPU). For 1400 euros I will get NEW 16 cores / 32 thread EPYC + mobo combo, or about 700 euros second-hand.

Yes, I know, development vs. production, but this situation stays the same for years now.

BTW, situation is the same with ARM platforms too - there is no way to buy "big desktop/small-server class" ARMv8 board with good set of expansion slot.
Simply adding the `-P 10` flag to xargs will make it run 10 (or however many processes you want) in parallel.
if companies are found liable they will (finally, at least start to) pay attention to the problem. (will it solve it overnight? no, of course not.)
I feel like the things you don't like about SQL are explicit design choices that make it well suited for many tasks, but perhaps not whatever you are trying to do.

It's like, "Geez, regular expressions sure do suck. They don't come with a package manager, concurrency, or a way to make system calls." I only feel comfortable embedding regular expressions or SQL in code because they are inherently restricted "DSLs."

If SQL was a general purpose programming language, then we wouldn't need SQL, we would just use existing general purpose programming languages.

Assuming you have some use case for query composition, why is the feature better handled within SQL as opposed to in the general purpose query language managing the DB queries and making the calls?
To extrapolate further on the silliness of 2% growth. Let's convert the entire Earth into pure energy:

Earth's mass is 10^24 kg.

E_earth = mc^2 = 9 * 10^40 J

E_current * 1.02^x = E_earth

474 * 10^18 * 1.02^x = 9 * 10^40

x = 2357.91 years

At a modest 2% growth we would be using up the entire Earth's mass in energy per year in only 2358 years.
> Start passing laws that severely punish STVR activity and prices will come down.

Enforcement, and aligning city incentives with enforcement is also needed.

Airbnb landlords faking residency or other requirements but paying all fees and taxes may not get enough attention.
A very unfortunate, badly run meta analysis as I understand it which fundamentally undermined trust in their governance because it was so easily critiqued. I haven't seen a robust defence of that one.
Just for comparison the LOCs for some other small C or C like compilers.
It's not that far away from Ritchie's

C4x86 | 0.6K (very close)

small C (x86) | 3.1K

Ritchie's earliest struct compiler | 2.3K

v7 Unix C compiler | 10.2K

chibicc | 8.4K

Biederman's romcc | 25.0K
That also breaks search (and more importantly screen reader accessibility), and if you're professionally required to specifically produce PDFs with these security features enabled, you're pretty likely to be working in a context where that would be illegal.
Well, there's always a treatment if you have money to pay for it. And if you don't you still have options like various charities, crowdfunding, etc. That's still a better scenario than the court ruling that the best thing for you is to die.
Hopefully Scenario 3a: corp realized that they don't really need Apple OS and move to Linux instead.
Maitake-sync: async synchronization primitives for no-std Rust
Lenovo’s Legion Go is an iPad mini-sized portable PC with detachable controllers
I didn't know Geoff, but I have used his website a lot in the past. It is a fountain of knowledge around everything about Windows. I hope that the Internet preserves this knowledge and with it his memory.

RIP Geoff

https://www.geoffchappell.com
Not quite a C compiler but arguably better:

http://cwerg.org
We could fix this by making it a human right to have access to any healthcare you can afford. That would include the ability to import, buy, own, and use anything considered healthcare (including prescriptions, durable medical equipment, consumables, and training to use it) in any of the world's 20 largest nations.

This would end the war on drugs as well.

If I could import Novopen 6 insulin pens from overseas, it would change my wife's life. She is disabled after strokes and can not remember when she gave herself insulin. She also can not write it down. Insulin pens that tracked the times and amounts and kinds of insulin would be amazing. Novo Nordisk refuses to sell them in the USA.

Access to generic drugs from overseas would save many American lives, but greed prevents them from being available here.
It's an interesting comparison.

I got some numbers form a random result in google: http://www.ejolt.org/2012/12/human-energy-use-endosomatic-ex...

Endosomatic energy (i.e. food): 3.5GJ/year/person

Exosomatically energy (i.e. firewood, electricity, solar, fossil fuel, whatever):

hunter-gatherers: 20 GJ/year/person (i.e. x6)

agriculturalists using animals: 60 GJ/year/person (i.e. x17)

industrial society: 200–300 GJ/year/person (i.e. x57-x86)
Change your mind to make it enjoyable. Emotional intelligence, be helpful to all. Play the game using intuition and any opportunity. The team/company situation also must be condusive to it.

Schmoozing is not the way.
Part of the problem is reacting in real-time. The part I'm talking about: Is you can "tell" the car what to expect at this interchange, and still react in real-time to present conditions. You hear all the time about Teslas driving off a ramp or not changing lanes quick enough due to odd paint stripes on the road, and I keep thinking you can see this from space. Why isn't there a database of known "this is a road, this is not a road" that it looks at first before looking at surrounding cameras outside the car? You can see how traffic moves -> from space. Part of these conditions are known well ahead of time on any present day regardless of the weather.
It’s not true (at least not for the past 20 years nationwide). New housing has grown faster than population growth. In 2000 there were 113 units per capita vs 145 per capita today.[0] The average number of people per household hasn’t changed significantly since then, so there is technically 30% more housing available in the US than 20 years ago.

Not all of that housing is where people want it, investors are collecting properties like Pokémon, the vast majority of people can only afford a house half the price they could before interests rates rose, and those with mortgages are stuck with their low rates and little incentive to move (or at least sell).

So it’s not the lack of units that’s the issue, but a market that (surprise!) favors the wealthy and entrenched. If you had cash, houses could be found at absurdly low prices 12 years ago. But as always, the climate favored the wealthy whose credit score wasn’t wrecked, who had excess capital to deploy, and were willing to tie it up in real estate for 5-10 years as the market recovered.

0 - https://twitter.com/Econimica/status/1686999658483314688
Here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OCBHdgbickE
It’s a IMHO reasonable first guess in a market without functioning price discovery. Can ask the same question from 2x to 200x easily.
Was just about to say the same thing, and wondering if that site was the same guy. Thanks and RIP to Geoff.
This is the case for all financial doomsayers - they predict 100 of the last 5 crashes.
I assume there are various variants of bladder cancer depending on what mutations caused the cancer. Is it more likely that she could smell some particular common variant?
> The single most important assumption in this paper is that energy consumption will increase by 2% per year. […] How much energy will we consume in 1,000 years

I keep posting this link here on HN but, once again, it seems very appropriate:

> The upshot is that at a 2.3% growth rate (conveniently chosen to represent a 10× increase every century), we would reach boiling temperature in about 400 years.

https://dothemath.ucsd.edu/2012/04/economist-meets-physicist...
As I've said above it was subject to pretty hefty critique and I've never seen a robust defence. They meta combined papers which were not well grounded and it was unlike its RCT normal approach.
I'm not against selling developer tools either, but I do have a problem with EEE as a strategy. As far as I know, JetBrains has never engaged with this behavior and they have coexisted in a healthy way with fully open source alternatives. The point of Microsoft's strategy isn't to only produce a better product, but to actively hurt open alternatives by driving down their adoption through insidious and disingenuous means. They're not just trying to compete in the market, they're trying to monopolize it.

The idea behind LSP and Microsoft's initial open source work on LSP were both excellent. That launched seven years ago, and I don't think that we would have seen the near universal adoption of LSP among open source editors nor the dominance of VS Code among developers if they had been paid products from the start. Now that they have a large enough market share, they can make the LSP engines proprietary without most developers even noticing. The gap between the proprietary and open source solutions can now be widened both by the open source community shrinking and by Microsoft pumping money into improving their LSP engines. The more that gap widens, the more people migrate to VS Code from open alternatives. That becomes a self-reinforcing loop.

Once VS Code is significantly better than open source alternatives and they have a huge market share, Microsoft is in a very strong position to start collecting rent. Switching costs on an editor are nontrivial to begin with, and are enhanced by the induced atrophy of open source alternatives. Despite the fact that this strategy takes more than a decade to execute, I would guess that it ends better for Microsoft overall than if they were to start charging for VS Code back in 2016.
from this episode if i’m not mistaken: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darmok

i watched that series so many times…
Your fed link says it is an estimate.

I don't know where this guy gets data but I don't think the availability is that far off from the peak. https://twitter.com/Econimica/status/1698596620022186428

You're talking less than 2 percentage points with the fed estimate anyway right?
> trees are basically irrelevant as a carbon sink.

Some quick googling shows me that all flora on earth hold about 1000 gigatons of carbon, whereas we are releasing about 40 gigatons per year. Doesn’t seem irrelevant.
Eh, checks and chargebacks are a thing. People are already used to the idea that money has to clear to be real.
Literally everything in science is some form of model. From the simplest linear regression to the most sophisticated climate models.
Someone here that is sceptical to climate change maybe can shed some light.

To me the fact that insurers aren’t insuring natural disasters due to climate change is a good argument that it’s real.

Otherwise they would just sell the insurance to a premium and collect free money?

Or do you guys think that it’s just some companies being dumb and are likely to go out of business?
> I have to wonder: who on earth thought those price-restriction laws were a good idea?

Your mistake is assuming the intention of the people who passed the law was to actually create cheaper insurance.

The laws WERE a good idea for the people who got them passed, for their actual purpose; getting the representatives re-elected.
Exactly my point. They can’t reduce their risk at current prices so either raise prices or stop offering products. If can’t raise prices, only the other option remains.
I am fine with Google ads and (to some extent) tracking, but their results are polluted by SEO spam. I think Google could fix it by letting me filter out pages with affiliate links from the results. Sadly, it will probably not happen because these links point to their largest advertisers like Amazon.
You could probably automate a tool to take screenshot for you.
If I would ever find myself in that situation (chance is slim but has increased to non-zero for me), I'd be tempted to pull out a skippy ball & see if they're up for a game of water polo.
Related:

VSCodium – Free/Libre Open Source Software Binaries of VS Code - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31604932 - June 2022 (430 comments)

VS Code without Microsoft branding/telemetry/licensing - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23447413 - June 2020 (200 comments)

VSCodium – An Open Source Visual Studio Code Without Trackers - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19650109 - April 2019 (253 comments)

VSCodium: 100% Open Source Version of vs. Code - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19619956 - April 2019 (8 comments)

VSCodium: Binary releases of VSCode without MS branding, telemetry and licensing - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17850960 - Aug 2018 (113 comments)
My brother has lived in all three of the US, UK and Australia, doing non-professional jobs (construction, agriculture, gardening, cellar hand in the wine industry).

He didn't last long in London – he was working as an unskilled labourer in the construction industry, the pay was terrible, and the basic necessities of life were so expensive, he could hardly afford to eat. He'd worked similar jobs in Australia and got paid a lot more, and found life more bearable.

Some countries pay high because everything is expensive. Some countries pay low because everything is cheap. The UK seems to be a place where people get paid low because everything is expensive.
FYI you can use many "emacs" shortcuts in shells like bash or zsh but also many CLI programs using the GNU readline lib.

In a text editor you should favour vim mode, obviously.

Then you will very rarely feel the need to press a key and wait.
> Unpopular decisions end business careers too.

True, but business leaders are not elected, and can therefore make broadly unpopular decisions with the backing of their boards and shareholders. In fact I believe its required. For example: redundancies are unpopular, but can benefit the share value.
I was basing my opinion on both their historical bread and butter and a quick peek at their all films list. But, yes, looking at the browse page it looks broader.
That's not really an option for almost anyone with a mortgage on a home -- the lender will require home insurance with themselves listed as the primary payee.

Same with an auto loan for most lenders (Lightspeed being one of the abnormal ones that doesn't hold the title to the vehicle as collateral).
C--23

(Respect to the author for doing this, I just couldn’t resist the obvious joke)
Oh, C4 is neat—technically it has me beat since it also implements the VM to run the code—though their formatting definitely takes advantage of long lines :-)
SARS-CoV-2 reservoir in post-acute sequelae of Covid-19 (PASC)
Ask HN: Why hasn't Threat modeling picked up like DevOps/DevSecOps has?
Why hasn't the industry embraced threat modeling development inspite of many frameworks available? While DevOps (and DevSecOps) has gained traction? Even within companies that claim to practice DevSecOps, threat modeling is often ignored.

What is HN's opinion on this?

This CMU post lists 12 different Threat Modeling approaches:
https://insights.sei.cmu.edu/blog/threat-modeling-12-available-methods/
Try it, it works really well! But it was the difference between untouched and a handled book. It’s really obvious when you smell closely.
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Absolutely. Everyone in my office is pretty considerate, but all it takes is one pair of people in the bullpen and the quiet is gone. We all get to listen to the discussion. When I first joined, I learned a ton by eavesdropping. Now it just stops my workflow by distracting me. I'm easily 10 times more productive at home.
> there doesn't appear to be any strong clinical evidence for its effectiveness unless you're severely deficient and on the road to rickets.

> So long as your serum 25OHD concentration is >50nmol/L according to this meta analysis, there's no clear effects.

I mostly agree. Above 50nmol/L it's not so important, but most evidence would still point towards it being slightly healthier to be on the higher end of the reference range for Vit D, so therefore if you wanted to optimise your health you probably should be targeting around ~150nmol/L. We know our ancestors would have had Vit D concentrations around these levels so there's no good reason to think it would be unhealthy either.

Additionally, and what you missed here is that a lot of people in the northern hemisphere get close or fall below that 50nmol/L clinically deficient level during winter months. This is why I think in general it's probably better for people to take a low dose of Vit D than not (especially during the winter).

But to your point, if you're spending time outside and getting a bit of sun exposure every day then it's probably not needed.
For software engineers, yeah.

I should've been more specific with regards to it being average salary for an engineer.

It's not at all a bad salary, it's actually a great salary but because of how many places do pay this well, places shouldn't have sky-high expectations of working six day weeks or constant crunch.
My understanding is that the cutoff is determined by the component manufacturers refusing to provide firmware updates. Microsoft does not directly support all hardware configurations, and manufacturers have more incentive to support Windows/general purpose hardware long-term. ChromeOS has much lower market share so manufacturers have no incentive beyond what Google can incentivize monetarily (i.e., pay them to do it at a loss).
One interesting experiment in this area is the Canadian Province of Saskatchewan, where the government has run a break even auto and property insurance organization since 1945. It does not receive money from the tax payers and is completely self sustaining:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saskatchewan_Government_Insura...
Decoding the Economics of a Soft Landing
Slower != better

There are times to go fast and take on a little debt vs going slow and getting it right.

It's often hard to know the right time to apply the right strategy. I would like to believe that's what experience gives us.
/r/3dprinting dropped substantially in quality when /u/billierubencamgirl left the mod team. They had fought hard against meme posts, "look at my new printer/1st print" posts, and fad print spam. They had also tried very hard to maintain useful documentation for people.

It seems that keeping a subreddit high quality is a difficult and thankless job. You will be seen as the fun police and all your efforts downplayed as unnecessary.
I agree, at least statistically. The last paragraph of the article has this line:

> It’s very rare for Y Combinator, which selects a few hundred startups from tens of thousands of applications, to remove a firm from its coveted batch.

I would love to see actual numbers, if they are published anywhere.
Because DL is 90% Matrix multiplication?
I have such nostalgia for that particular moment in time, and for me it was the Renderman Companion and Advanced Animation and Rendering Techniques. The web was still small, and the information density contained in Borders Books or Barnes & Nobel was just completely immersive. Lots of snowy Saturday trips to the mall with my parents and negotiating the purchase of another hefty computer book.
I understand your point, but I have a little different perspective.

Pilots are not engineers. Airline pilots are not test pilots. They drill the procedures, and they follow them. We'd all like to have Neil Armstrong flying our plane, instinctually solving unexpected problems in seconds, but there aren't enough Neil Armstrongs out there to meet the demand for air travel. The solution that we've come up with is standardized procedures, and to have a procedure for every critical failure mode.

Boeing, for commercial reasons, did not want there to be a procedure for this failure mode. 737 pilots run the trim runaway scenario in the simulator, and they could easily have added a scenario for MCAS failure, but that would have cost Boeing considerable cash and they decided not to do it.

The simple fact is that you had two crews that were trained to Boeing standards crash, and as far as we know, only one survive.

If it had been just one crash and many successful recoveries, you'd be on a much stronger footing to argue that "oh, it's just those developing world airlines with their substandard pilots." When it's a 67% fatality rate though, you can't just blame the crew.
> Depends on how you define "normal"

I think the housing market has been too variable over the timespan when it has really existed (~100 years) for there to even be a "normal". I do think your guess of 5% for the short-term future is probably not too crazy though.
I'm not sure, haven't looked at the codebases of old compilers in a long time. Definitely a lot of the language is pretty amenable to it, especially if you have unstructured jumps for e.g. the for advancement statement. I had a distinct feeling while writing the compiler every time I added a new feature that "wow, the semantics work exactly how I'd like them to for ease of implementation."

Compare that to, say, Rust, which would be pretty painful to single-pass compile with all the non-local behavior around traits.
What’s the point of making a more portable (I guess you mean lighter?) laptop if the cost is that you make it less portable (because it only works while you’re at home)?

I have trouble believing that cost of hypothetical laptop + cost of Mac mini < cost of existing apple laptop. I guess maybe it makes sense if you already have a mac mini?
Yes, 7B is perfectly usable on low-end hardware if you're using it for instruction tuning/chat.

But for code completion in an IDE where it has to react as you type, every 100 millisecond delay in response time is noticable.

Even with a 24GB GPU, a 7B model doesn't feel snappy enough for code-completion in an IDE.
I just checked it’s so much worse than I remember

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My first productive use for ChatGPT was writing a filebeat configuration (to extract tokens out of loglines to push into the ELK-stack)... "Given a log line of $MY_LOG_LINE, can you generate a filebeat configuration to get the timestamp, source and destination IPs", and I'm amazed it did it -- well almost, it didn't notice the timestamp in $MY_LOG_LINE wasn't ISO8601, so that was a fun troubleshooting.

And I could refine the generated configuration with 2 or 3 other types of loglines... I'm now a convert.
Personally I'll go with Merriam-Webster which has the broader definition above the species extinction one. But what do they know?
Ooh, this is cool! Using WASM let me avoid writing a register allocator (though I probably would have just used the stack if I had targeted x86/ARM since I wasn't going for speed).
Hence my username.