skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Exactly this.

Lets say there were a few transformers that did survive.

The parts to make new transformers are manufactured all over the place.

So you would need to transport the 'working' transformers where they are needed to get power back to each plant that manufactures some singular component that goes into a new transformer.
AND Transport them, when gas stations in-between are all also without power.

The global supply chain is complicated and spread out. There are many places with single failure points.

-> Don't have link, but isn't there an article titles something like "nobody can make a pencil anymore". Which traces out like a dozen connections for even such a simple thing.

And, don't forget, a lot of power plants need power to be re-started. They don't all have backup gas turbines to get going again.
At best housing should roughly keep pace with inflation itself (and this is what it did for decades, perhaps even centuries depending on how you account for things) and therefor should kind of be “money losing” if you count depreciation and repair (and ignore the value of having a place to live).

And until quite recently, in most of the country, this basically help, once you factored out size increase (modern housing stock is much larger on average than housing stock from the 50s or even 70s even as families are smaller) and also factor out mechanical improvements - modern houses are built better in many ways that do cost more.

I wish more of the indicies that track this stuff did more to track the land and the improvements separately.

Because most of the increase in valuation of land comes from the old farmhouse now being inside the city boundaries.
It's so horrible that I can't get a washing machine that's fast. I don't care about the other metrics, just get it done perfectly. That's the most important.
Hot take: Raspberries are outdated, except for maybe a few niche cases.

- Need a micro SoC? Go for a Zero or better, cheaper competitors (some do have decent support).

- Need a low-wattage server? Go for all in one x86 boards (N100, I4105-I6105), the blossoming mini pc scene, or second hand laptop (internals).
From the source, which I read:

As a consequence, the model is no longer deterministic at the sequence-level, but only at the batch-level

They could sell you a version where you shove in a whole batch, pay $batch_size as much, and always get the same result for the same batch.
Whither Neutrality?
> You're unlikely to build anything that's usable by everyone using React/Vue/Angular.

I wonder why so few actually try doing this. I mentioned this in another comment, but PrimeFaces is one of the few (only one?) sets of usable components, that have libraries available for Angular/React/Vue/Java (though using Java is a bit of a mess because of JSF, though some like it): https://www.primefaces.org/

It's immensely cool to be able to use similar components and such across different technologies, as opposed to wanting one of those component libraries and thus being pigeonholed into either using just React (or something else), or third party bindings of questionable quality.

It's probably never going to be truly 1:1, but getting close enough seems like a good thing to me, here's an example of a random component:

https://primeng.org/treetable

https://primereact.org/treetable/

https://primevue.org/treetable/

https://www.primefaces.org/showcase/ui/data/treetable/basic....
And the strategy of your employers implies that your work to improve the product doesn't actually matter, only tricking customers into becoming users does.

There can be no discussion about the relative quality of Edge without this subject in the foreground. The only word-of-mouth is from the tricked users who don't know the difference and just see it as the button for the internet. It doesn't matter if you introduce a regression that makes it slower, they'll just blame it on the 'wifi'.
"Sound Blaster" was the original funny name - these are both derivations in a modern style, given to clones of that ol' sound card .. and yeah, they are hilarious names, and I hope the trend sticks, personally .. the world tires of X3000-style naming conventions, I'd wager, and for fun things like sound cards and video cards, a bit of naming whimsy would be welcome.
Dupe.

Discussed 15 days ago, 53 comments: <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37252095>
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>this isn't how I take him out

It is if you want to make it look like Cuba did it. They (the CIA) needed it to be public.
I think you'd be surprised to see how quickly people adapt - I mean, big parts of the world do just fine without electronics and computers. The biggest risk would be the water supply, followed by infrastructure - think grocery store deliveries.

And these have / are already happening, so contingency plans are already there, or should be made. Water supplies have been failing in a lot of places due to droughts, heatwaves, and dwindling supplies. Infrastructure took a big hit when COVID started, in part because some people started hoarding (toilet paper, for some reason), but the bigger one was "just" because people changed their habits a little - buying a little extra (toilet paper), working from home (lunch options), baking their own bread (flour), etc. And the office real estate issue took a hit as well, but I don't think anyone will really miss that.

Besides that, the biggest risk will be other people. We've seen in recent history that it takes only a small disturbance - a natural disaster, a protest gone violent, a football match - for people to stop following the social contract. It's often depicted in zombie survival themed media, people losing their morals quickly for their and their family's survival. And with Covid, it wasn't even survival, it was toilet paper.
Other browsers have shown this is a false dichotomy. You can disable third party cookies + surveillance AND not have this data still harvested by your browser.

Is this better than third-party cookies? Yes, probably. Does Firefox and Safari go better without surveilling your browsing history to serve you ads? Also yes!
hi, i try to fine tune refact model using evolve code alpaca, but the loss is always bigger than 2, i try some different params but it doesn't work, can you give me some advice?
Just for a little and silly laugh

https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@aeva/111027233991200762

"ars technica: we don't know how they did it but google chrome now extracts a pint of blood every time you log on

chrome user, dizzy from blood loss: I swear to god I am like this close to switching to firefox

another chrome user, on the verge of fainting from severe blood loss: no need to resort to that, just switch to [insert today's trendy chrome fork here] and be smart like meeee"
> People care about the US Dollar because of the backing of the United States and its military

Corrected that for you.
it's not the things that were removed, it's the things you have to add to the source now to make it work within the limits of the borrow checker.

in the simplest case, you'd add Arc<..> everywhere @ used to be.
Thanks, that was the context I was missing from the parent post. Makes total sense.
On the bright side, if something's gonna get your aunt to care about online privacy, it will be creepy and disgusting behaviour like an online advertiser based on the other side of the world keeping track of your mouth hygiene for your own convenience
> Tesla is the largest EV manufacturing the world.

It isn't. See BYD Auto.
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If you're interested in the background, and th importance of technology in both the motivation for and the execution of the coup, this (opinionated, polemical) podcast might be good for you: https://the-santiago-boys.com/
My daughter and I made a little game (mostly to teach her programming) and it turned out not too bad. I thought it could be a good motivation for her to get it into the Apple App Store too, where her friends can see and download it.

We don't want any money, so no monetizing. The app will not be popular as we don't intend to do any marketing.

I realize that this is quite the opposite of what Apple wants.

Suppose the quality of the app is not worse than that of its paid and ad infested competitors, my question is: Does it have a chance to get past the review? Does it have a chance to stay in the App Store in the long run, assuming we do all the necessary updates for new iOS versions and critical bug fixes but nothing more?

Basically my question is: Will this be an uphill battle, because Apple doesn't earn anything from us?

If anyone has experience with a completely free iOS app, I would love to hear from you.
That's some low class rogue behavior though, not the standard in sales ("they can't process my card, let me take the stuff for free anyway").
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"The proposals called for CIA operatives to both stage and commit acts of terrorism against American military and civilian targets, blaming them on the Cuban government, and using it to justify a war against Cuba."

"The plan was drafted by the Joint Chiefs of Staff, signed by Chairman Lyman Lemnitzer and sent to the Secretary of Defense. [...]; it was authorized by the Joint Chiefs of Staff, but then rejected by President Kennedy."
> It's "ugly" though.

Just like the whole Android ecosystem.
The only thing "pretty" in Android were some buttons in some games.

There is also this UI religion that everything must be black with gray or white with gray.
> ... and having to clean out the sink drain filter multiple times per day is a disgusting waste of time.

What are you doing to your sink?
If they are many times larger it sounds like they could be more like an EMP from a thermonuclear bomb.

Looks like they happen on average every few thousand years. We really should be looking at how we recover from such an event, and whether we can do things in the design of power grids to minimize damage.

If there were humans living on the Moon or Mars these seem like they could be even more fatal unless they were living underground.

Given how profoundly useful and powerful electronics are, perhaps events like this are why electricity and electronics are not used at large scale by organic life. Have you ever wondered why humans and other life forms are so unaffected by EM that we can subject ourselves to things like MRI scans without even noticeable effects? Maybe there has been selection against anything that is vulnerable to EM because every few thousand years anything else is culled.
These are the settings you're looking for:

* PrivacySandboxAdMeasurementEnabled

* PrivacySandboxAdTopicsEnabled

* PrivacySandboxPromptEnabled

* PrivacySandboxSiteEnabledAdsEnabled
It's not an unfair assessment, marred by an identity-related political snark coming out of nowhere at about 80%. Spain really did squander its wealth. There are also differences, of course.

Spain was a real monarchy, although much of the power actually lay in the hands of one royal adviser. In case of Spain's 17th century decline, that was Olivares. But the downfall was not only overspending on warfare, but also personal ambitions (leading to infighting), rebellion (Portugal and Catalonia internally, but in colonies as well), and the ad-hoc structure of financing. The monarch was paying the army out of his own pocket. Lending, tax evasion and consequently renewed taxation formed a death spiral, certainly when the imports from South America faltered (a direct consequence of the war).

So if there's a lesson, it's: structural reforms should be made well in advance. But that lesson can be learned elsewhere, too.
Visualizing the CPython Release Process
Rather than those operators and how GC is done, I think the key aspect is how much easier async is in other languages that have easy automatic memory manage without ownership through garbage collection. Go and JavaScript/Dart are good examples.

But such models would also take away everything that makes Rust... Rust.
At least the crypto ads are really easy to turn off.
With GC rust would have been just another slightly different language.
I suspect GP only read the title and not the article. A Java-style GC might make async code easier, but that never existed in Rust.
Just to join the chorus (as I'm listening to Agnus Dei by Barber)

Firefox + uBlock Origin (too lazy to use uMatrix) + privacy badger (because why not) + multi account containers + User agent switcher (for sites which want something else and refuse to load on FF, e.g. bing chat)
Exactly! Can’t wait that it also includes present suggestions based on the browsing history from the person having his/her birthday…
Why is the medical profession obsessed with biomarkers but not the next optimal step in patient treatment plans?

Root cause analysis of dysfunction in complex dynamic systems is a waste of energy.

Someone has the biomarker but they are a heroin addict which confers them a protective mechanism. What then?

If you have 5 heroin addicts with similar symptoms you can just experiment with likely beneficial next treatment steps. Then let machine learning track the treatment response patterns and reccomend next treatment steps.

Grouping health histories and symptons then recording responses to treatment plans then using machine learning to recommend next treatment steps is - surely better than searching for biomarkers so Drs can stick their hands up faster. Rockefeller gave us the Johns Hopkin Medical System , Can’t Bill Gates give us the complex chronic illness extension?

Why don’t Doctors have a 300 question questionaire for patients covering all aspects of the patients health? You could then group the patients into health dopplegangers. No need for biomarkers.

Combine the good part of alternative medicine ( carefully understanding the patients symptons) with machine learning.

There’s 8 billion humans. There are alot of sympton dopplegangers out there to experiment and record the effects of next treatment steps on.

Medical professionals are obsessed with being trivial pursuit champions and seem to lose sight of the fact that they’re often invited to play invisible bridge.

It is fantastic that they are great at trivial pursuit (The Johns Hopkin system is a modern marvel) and they do untold good above and beyond the measure of most citizens and far far more than myself but doing good doesn’t cure complex chronic illnesses. (I admire Doctors).

But it’s frustrating that we have to pretend that because Dr’s are great in one area (acute medicine) that the greatness translates to other areas. The halo effect is really strong.

Look up the research for recovery rates from cfs. Abysmal.
I grew up listening to these guys with my dad on the radio. They called themselves Click and Clack. I never knew when I was a kid that I’d be able to watch these guys live streamed from my internship at the MIT Media Lab years later.
Then you can use D lang.
Earlier today there where an article regarding Microsofts user hostile approach to Edge, and it kinda made me wonder why the reactions towards Chrome seems less extreme. Only reason I can think of it that Chrome is something you inflict upon yourself, and Edge is something Microsoft is attempting to force upon it's users. Still I fail to see that Chrome isn't every bit as awful as Edge.
It was already embarrassing that they had to give up on their own engine and had to adopt Chromium.
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"Where there is rot, there is more"

Bad management.

Or consider that if some obscure school, who's players are going to school for college instead of football is beating a 'football school', their management is performing worse than supposedly lower skilled managers and lower skilled players.
I saw a hypothesis (which is older than I thought) about CFS being related to the vagus nerve. At the time I read it, it made sense to me. Basically, an residual infection close to the vagus nerve signals the brain that the body is fighting a serious infection.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/23790471/
The rental market in the USA for sure is greatly distorted by the people who think there is “guaranteed easy money” to be made. They’re the type who say “mortgage $1500, rent $1600, it’s free real estate.”

Sadly for them, eventually they learn why professional landlords want to see debt service be 50% or less of revenues. And it’s not because they get to pocket 50%.

It’s been covered up because appreciation has been so high as to cover the bad accounting, but a few years of increased rates and near zero appreciation will put the hurt on them - and then watch out!
I was a 10+ year User of Chrome. I loved that Browser and I tried Firefox maybe every 2-3 years for a day and was always unhappy.

Made the switch around 3 months ago to Firefox and it's been great.

I don't miss anything from Chrome and it's a really solid and fast browser.
Mobile iOS could be a bit faster but it's okay.

Desktop Version is the best browser out right now (in my opinion)
The third party tracking was dependent on someone else's processing power and system, this is sinisterly making the user's own software work against his best interest and instead work for a morbid advertiser's interest. Since it is all done in the browser and locally using much more of my data, that data being even more 'relevant' to advertisers, with its results presented as an API to every bloody page I visit, this will only make the tracking problem worse.

A related reason is my bookmarks are very much a private affair and this method feels much more intrusive. I dread to think of the security implications.

The only upside is that third party cookies will be less of a problem in other browsers, if this new API kills them.
Nginx Unit helped me out of a hole recently - needing to deal with a legacy Python 2.7 web application, while trying to keep it as 'supported' as possible (ignoring the whole python 2.7 thing for the moment!).

Nginx Unit, with their python 2 module, on Debian 11 ended up working petty well.
Sounds like an implementation of a Shape Grammar: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shape_grammar with some geospatial hooks.

Shape Grammars are interesting. Closely related to L-systems but usually with a more approachable syntax.

Also see https://github.com/stefalie/shapeml
That’s not what I’m saying. Florida did not have them administrative capacity to conduct an accurate count. That would have been fine if the margin were thousands of votes, but in a tight election it ended up affecting the outcome.
You can produce energy by disolving salt in fresh-water. That means there has to be a hard phyisical energy limit to desalinating water, otherwise you get a free energy producing machine.

The energy required happents to go into separating the bonds between the salt ions and the water molecules. Those bonds are quite strong, so it takes some energy to break them.

The engineering problem is more one about capital investment. The price of water, vs the price of electricity are not what block desalination. It is the cost (and maintenance) of the machines that you need to earn back. That cost is what tends to make desalination un-economical. And that is an area where engineering has a lot of space to improve.
Here in Singapore those sink garbage macerator are not common, and I haven't seen them elsewhere in Asia so far.

(I'm considering whether it would make sense for us to install one.)

But in no country that I visited without those macerators do people clean their sinks multiple times a day. Are you sure you aren't 'holding it wrong'?
I am against this and think it's pretty unconscionable, but I will say this in defense of Google collecting my data:

Google's entire business model is predicated on the fact that they and only they know who I am. As soon as they sell "me," they lose the value of my (so-far) collected data. They have to sell me in bundles, anonymized, otherwise they make no money in the long run.

That being said, it's been proven over and over and over that behavioral ad sales don't actually result in more clicks or sales for the advertiser.

I've been using FF with some privacy extensions and settings as my personal browser for a few years now, I'm definitely not going to change that now.
You are assuming the function being tested is more trivial than it actually is. Often these are too small (code-wise) to even have private APIs, the internal behavior of the function is simply and necessarily too complex to unit test in the traditional way.

Some function behavior is intentionally and intrinsically tied to temporal access patterns in the API usage. Unless you can simulate a broad cross-section of real-world runtime API access timing patterns with your testing framework, you won't test all of the code paths. You often see this test problem with scheduler-like functions, where the correct function behavior varies based on internal resource pressures that are an interaction between temporal access patterns of the API and the runtime environment. It is a single function, self-contained, and quite simple, maybe not more than 100 LoC, but test environments are so sterile that usually only a single code path is actually used no matter what you throw at the API.

Some functions have critical code paths that dynamically switch strategies to mitigate when certain types of contention or resource starvation conditions are detected internally. These can be extremely rare cases across the set of possible inputs, such that fuzzing is unlikely to trigger them, or the set of inputs that can trigger them is dependent on exogenous environmental details e.g. the machine where the test is run.

As a fun side-effect, sometimes these functions do not have deterministic result. Getting the same result out of the function all the time does not imply correctness, you also have to know why you got the result you did.

All of the above does not apply to writing business logic in Java or similar. But for high-performance and/or high-reliability systems software, these cases come up often enough that it is a well-understood testing problem. Even if you expose all of the internal implementation detail to the unit tests it is not always possible to reliably trigger all the code paths from an arbitrary test absent purpose-built test tooling.
I think it's quite unfortunate that there isn't a language with

1) Rust's type system or something as expressive
2) C#-level performance
3) GC by default
4) Ecosystem that is as big as Rust

The closest thing seems to be TypeScript (weirdly).
> If even a single mimic was found the secret would get out...

I'm imagining these creatures as something we do not have defenses against, so, given that this creature would have evolved alongside our social, language and analytical abilities, these would not be defenses.
Having also found the hyperventilating approach effective, I just want to note for other readers that hyperventilating before breath-holding is extremely dangerous when swimming or diving. This is heavily emphasized in safety trainings for swim coaches. It greatly increases your chances of hypoxic blackout: https://www.socom.mil/POTFF/Pages/Hypoxic%20blackout.aspx
Nominal, though in USD (we are a net importer in any event)

https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NY.GDP.PCAP.CD?location...
The US actually has 220V available in most households.