skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While simple scripts can produce binaries as small as simple C programs, you are forgetting that dynamically loading libraries has its own cost. e.g. a "hello world" on my machine is a 50 kb binary, which sounds awesome, but running otool on the binary shows a different story.

hello:
@rpath/libecl.21.2.dylib (compatibility version 21.2.1, current version 0.0.0)
/opt/local/lib/libgmp.10.dylib (compatibility version 15.0.0, current version 15.1.0)
/opt/local/lib/libgc.1.dylib (compatibility version 7.0.0, current version 7.2.0)
/opt/local/lib/libffi.8.dylib (compatibility version 10.0.0, current version 10.2.0)
/usr/lib/libSystem.B.dylib (compatibility version 1.0.0, current version 1281.100.1)

Depending on how many dynamically linked libraries you have to load, this can result in lower runtime performance than simply using e.g. Clozure CL, which has pretty fast startup time (approx. 13 ms on my machine) but much larger binaries since the binary is essentially self-contained and contains a whole CL implementation, runtime, kernel, etc. inside.
There is a company called Niron Magnetics based out of Minnesota that looks promising. They are making an Iron Nitride magnet that supposedly is better than neodymium. Since it's made out of iron and nitrogen it should also be a lot cheaper to produce.
> Lithium isn't 'renewable'

Neither are photons [1] nor individual gusts of wind. Lithium has a theoretically closeable cycle in batteries in a way fossil fuels do not.

[1] If you want to be pedantic, the useful energy in a particular photon.
We use the same design for a product at $dayjob and have had no difficulty in designing for it. There is a lot of benefit from being able to use Rc and RefCell instead of having to go for Arc and Mutex. (Of course it's best if it can be written to not have any RefCell / Mutex at all.)
has someone wrote yet a good, brief comparison of this to the other Python web libs?
If you’re talking about honeybees, they are livestock. And they travel something like 2 or 3 miles from their homes, not more. if i decided to move next year, everyone in my neighborhood would see and alarming 75% drop in bee visits. And im just a hobbyist, keeping about 3 colonies.
Can you point to a single death from spicy chips?
There are more locations in Europe then that. Britain used to get Lithium from Cornwall and there are companies trying to revive that. But Europe simply hasn't put much effort into finding them.

If need be plenty more could found in Europe.
One useful way to think of the halting problem is that the future is not computable. There is no shortcut to finding out what will happen other than actually running the computer. I think all computational theories sweep this issue under the rug. Even if the universe is a computer (quantum or otherwise) it makes no difference to how people should approach their decisions. There are no royal roads so regardless of how much a situation is analyzed by symbolic simulations at the end if the day you still have to act of your own volition to actually find out what will happen.
I feel like this spanned at least a decade, but still got me right in the feels. Nobody had a Barton Athlon XP 2500+ while BNC was still running around.
> In the United States, short of direct threats, you can always say whatever you want.

This isn't the case. There are many exceptions to the 1st Amendment's protection of speech, beyond just true threats.
Correct. Eric Hartford's blog post delves into the alignment of open-source LLMs[1]. In essence, models like LLaMA and GPT-Neo-X adopt alignment behaviors from ChatGPT-sourced instruction datasets. To achieve more transparent model responses, one can refine the dataset by removing biases and refusals, then retrain.

[1] https://erichartford.com/uncensored-models#heading-ok-so-if-...
You can lever yourself in the stock market too.
> That provides a bad experience to visitors and reduces the amount of money websites can make.

That’s a nice fantasy, but the number of ad-blocking users and ratio of advertising revenue on mobile (where adblocking is harder) vs PC suggests to me that the content of ads doesn’t affect user experience nearly as much as the quantity and intrusiveness of ads. I think the second part of your sentence is the real problem being addressed, nothing about advertising is actually designed to directly benefit consumers. I think you would be hard-pressed to find people who actually factor ad relevance into their enjoyment of an ad-supported product.
Thankfully there are "adapters". Essentially just suitably shaped funnels, and thankfully there are materials that shed the droplets so one won't need to clean much before stowing.
Lego is $10/lb and easy to sell because of its durability and quality. It'll very often get passed down multiple times. When you don't make your stuff out of the cheapest bottom-of-the-barrel shit you can get away with, people notice and act accordingly.
This is so incredibly wrong: Once you have put a page on the Web, you need to keep it there indefinitely

https://www.nngroup.com/articles/web-pages-must-live-forever...

We need a curated web, not a swamp of every web page that ever existed.
Yes, that's true but experts costs money and time and GPT-4 is basically peanuts compared to that. Specially in cases where verification is easy like writing test cases or a formal email. And that is the reason enough for the hype.

I see similar comments everywhere where AI is praised, and I don't get why you need to comment this. Literally no one ever said LLM surpassed experts in their field, so basically you aren't arguing against anyone.
It’s possible that LLMs don’t get a whole lot better than they are now. I don’t expect this line of research to progress all the way to smarter-than-us AGI.

Just think about a dog. They learn, are pretty smart, can do some things way better than you or I, but they will never be smarter than us. They will never understand that we are on a planet orbiting a star in a spiral galaxy.

Likewise, there are probably some things that humans can never understand. Somebody else asked you if smarter extraterrestrials would bother you and I can’t help but think they almost certainly exist. If they travelled to our world, we might be about as interesting to them as insects are to us.
In a lot of states it’s illegal to charge money for the use of a restroom due to lobbying by the Committee to End Pay Toilets in America in the 1970s. (Of course, the unintended but entirely predictable consequence is that in a lot of places it became very hard to find a restroom of any sort, for the reasons discussed in this thread.)
A much better term is "speculators" since a second mortgage is purely a leveraged investment.
I've heard these guidelines pushed in Buddhist forums too. Assumed it was a Buddhist thing. Probably invented several times by several people. Seems pretty simple and straightforward.

But ya, all the fine writing LeGuin did seems substantial enough.
Isn't it what plants do?
So all of that Australian lithium being shipped off to China, is it being mostly processed in Australia first, or is most of the processing done in China, or something half half?

The main reason America develops great oil tech and not lithium tech vs China is that the USA has lots of oil, while China doesn’t.
“Nerdstench”?
I wrote a string type
I am of the same impression — Rust as a language forces you to come at terms with your own ideas of how code should look.

That being said I still have a deep dislike of having to read through nested Arc Mutexes or whatever to figure out what the code does in principle before I figure out what is going on in detail with the ownership.

I know there are no perfect solutions and there are trade-offs to be made, but I wish there was a way to have it more readable.

So instead of this:

let s = Arc::new(Mutex::new(Something::new("foo")));

something a bit like this:

let s = Something::new("bar").arc()
.mutex();
Why did you write something that the bot can't comprehend?
Requiring a google account to fill in the form is annoying and weird…
It would have been false dichotomy if I said AI could replace humans. I never claimed it anywhere. I just said AI has its usecases now that makes it worth the hype.
There are various different compound of lithium at different qualities that count as 'battery grade'. That is what makes the market so complex.

But generally speaking yes, there are 100s of junior lithium miners and all the big miners as well engaged in lithium extraction.

Clay is as of yet untouched in mass production of lithium with many companies wanting to exploit it.

Maybe most common is research on DLE, lithium extraction from brine where the brine is simply pumped back. This also exists in a deep brine variant where you pump water from super deep reservoirs.

The problem is the ev market is going gang busters and even established companies spend decades on getting new plants up and running.
It was pretty confusing that you switched to a second example and second sport mid-paragraph without saying so or switching pronouns. It sounded like the team had four options for its final point total until the end makes you ask, what kind of sport has both field goals and shoot a 3?
> Or have 900,000 concertgoers each emitted 7kg of CO2, equivalent to driving 2 miles?

The real answer for this situation is that it doesn't matter. For the 70 (not 700) tons, flip a coin between assigning Swift an extra $14000 on her already expensive flight, or assigning each concertgoer a pence. Either way it's a trivial amount.
Have you ever dealt with automotive regulation? There are standards, sure, but most of the actual verification in the US basically amounts to "trust me bro" until there's overwhelming evidence of an active, fatal safety flaw. It's retroactive and increasingly inadequate to how modern vehicles are designed.
I must say that only the ill-informed could claim that the Sicilian Mafia of today is as strong and profitable as that of the 1970s and 1980s.

Matteo Messina Denaro, the last head of the Mafia, recently arrested and about to die of cancer, led a life that, were it not for the nefarious consequences of his actions and role, would be considered quite ridiculous, certainly not comparable to that of the Mexican or Colombian drug lords: he had little "disposable income", lived in a small apartment, and frequented a few prostitutes, energized by Viagra.

Bernardo Provenzano, who before Messina Denaro was the head of the Mafia, lived for at least a decade in a farmhouse, largely alone, communicating with his "picciotti" with "pizzini," small pieces of paper with something barely comprehensible written on them: when they arrested him, he looked like an elderly man in rough shape.

The Camorra has followed a similar decline, mostly due to internal fighting in the 90s and early 2000s, while the 'Ndrangheta, the Calabrian mafia, is unfortunately still strong, in Italy, Spain, Central Europe, Canada, Australia and South America. The books of Gratteri on 'Ndrangheta are an interesting read.

I hate organized crime as much as one can hate organized crime and "mafiosi", and I would still to this day favor and support the iron fist of Mori, the police chief sent to Sicily a hundred years ago, who used rather, let's say, energetic methods to eradicate the mafia. I would give life imprisonment to mobsters, like one gives candy to kids on Halloween. Generously.
But the Mafia and Camorra are no longer as powerful as they once were. And I hope they will be even less so in the future.
We must both remove existing carbon from the air as well as not emit more carbon. They are different goals, one does not replace the other.
I'd probably agree with the "useful" but I find higher resolution more aesthetically pleasing, especially text.
I'll stick to my conspiracy theory if you take a second to look at the data for daily Covid cases, and admit to yourself that it shows no significant spike: https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/
I doubt you'll have anyone take you up on this offer. Goal posts for "good example" get moved every time anyone tries. Anything using Arc is a good place to start though.
What is the logic behind this carbon capture process? They repeatedly go through the lime cycle - calcium carbonate, calcium oxyd, calcium hydroxyd and back to calcium carbonate. We are producing millions of tons of calcium oxide per year anyway, would it not make more sense to just capture the carbon dioxide from that instead of going around in a loop?

Each cycle requires heating the calcium carbonate to almost 1000 °C in order to release the carbon dioxide and then you have a gas again, which you have to compress consuming even more energy and store somewhere. The calcium oxide that ends up in concrete would even permanently fixate the same amount of carbon dioxide as released during its production.

And that for 35 billion tons per year just to keep the carbon dioxide concentration constant before we can even start to actually take any carbon out of the atmosphere. Would it not make much more sense to use all that energy, which has to come from renewable sources, to replace some fossil energy?

And who will pay for this? Instead of burning X dollars of carbon and then paying probably roughly the same amount again to get the carbon pulled out of the atmosphere, would it not make more sense to just replace the fossil fuel with renewable energy. And sure, there are complications, availability, storage, and not all fossil fuels are easily replaceable with electricity.

And for scale, if you turn 35 billion tons of carbon dioxide into dry ice, then you haven to safety get rid of 22 cubic kilometers of that stuff each year. Global oil production was 5 cubic kilometers in 2022.
Only southern Italy still has strong mafia roots. Northern Italy is much less corrupt. Southern Italy has the better food though, so it seems the mafiosi at least have good taste in cuisine.
LAN parties were a very big part of my high school experience.
To point out the obvious, all but the "lack of biographies" have only gotten worse. Maybe the biographies have too, but it doesn't seem as relevant as how the back button is now completely broken and links open new tabs all over the place, despite having a mouse button for doing just that.
What is the purpose of your [3] link? Genuinely curious.

-Very few Canadians can currently qualify for a mortgage for an average home in most markets. The housing market has lost all rational basis.

-Canada has approximately 2 million apartment units across all of Canada [1]. The vacancy rate is currently at less than 1% across Canada, and in many areas is hovering around zero. Just as some context, the vacancy rate in California pushes above 5%. NYC is an especially tight market at 3.1%. In both cases the apartments per capita is dramatically higher than Canada.

-Landlords of apartments that do come to market have become spectacularly picky, because they can be. Perfect credit. Perfect history. No debts. People have been in situations where they've offered tens of thousands in deposits and a seemingly perfect application, to be denied.

It is fascinating how often data is shown that betrays that Canada is in a particularly terrible situation -- like this very submission -- yet people still retort with "oh well it's bad everywhere". No, it is nothing like Canada.

Canada is a fully saturated market like nowhere else on the planet. And this government is squeezing a hundred thousand more a month into an already full container, with zero indication of a letup.

[1] - As some fun context relative to the 2 million apartments across the entire country, Canada currently has >900,000 international students in Canada, a number that is growing by leaps and bounds.
> The 2008 agenda report states "NATO welcomes Ukraine’s and Georgia’s Euro-Atlantic aspirations for membership in NATO. We agreed today that these countries will become members of NATO", emphasis mine.

Both countries were hoping for a formal onramp to membership via a MAP at that summit, Russia demanded that they not be given MAPs, saying that doing so would be a provoication and destabilizing, NATO acceded to the Russian demands and papered over the denial of a concrete onramp with the no-process, no-timeline language you quote, and Russia immediately invaded Georgia.

Yes, Russia’s demands 8 years into its subsequent war on Ukraine were somewhat greater (including permanently ruling out all further NATO expansion—not just for Ukraine—and withdrawing all alliance troops from Eastern flank members of the alliance), but the 2008 experience weighed heavily against consideration of acquiescence, even in part, to Russia’s demands of this kind.
>nothing about advertising is actually designed to directly benefit consumers.

Allowing customers to be connected with businesses that are able to offer something of value to them is a direct benefit.
All you have to do is ask anybody who dared to question the narrative. I had several accounts banned for stating "misinformation" on what would later become fact.

It is easy to dismiss everything you hear from folks like me if you went right along with the government / media narrative. The actual truth is they lied their fucking heads off and worked tirelessly to suppress valid dissent by painting people who went against as alt-right grandma killing conspiracy kooks.

It will happen to you someday too. And you will never be able to let go of the deep sense of betrayal.
Well, we're commenting on an article where the Whitehouse, the President of the United States, has been told to stop abusing their authority to censor speech.

I would point out those book bans are not banned from reading or publication.. they are banned from school libraries because they have graphic descriptions of sex. If you feel it's important for your kid to be exposed to a storybook primer on gay oral sex... I suppose you should write your congressperson.

And in banning drag shows, the prohibition is on drag shows with underage attendees, usually without parental permission. Again, if you feel your kid needs to see someone in drag hip thrust in yoga pants on a stage without your consent.. you're welcome to lobby for that as you see fit.

I will spend my time fighting and continuing to fight for the freedom of expression.
Maybe some of the themes on https://jamstackthemes.dev/ might work for you?
> If someone has shared their installation of Warcraft III over SMB it will run much faster if you copy it to your local machine first rather than execute it directly from the network folder.

This one made me laugh. I'm really surprised it started that way at all.

I think my LAN party time was a little later than most of what the author is describing (mostly Windows XP era), but I also remember the networking problems I had at the start of _every_ LAN party.

Once I also accidentally turned off a handful of PCs when I had to leave a party early, because I didn't notice my multiple socket outlet was powering several other PCs.

It's a pity that kids these days grow up without LAN parties.
When some people can afford a place to live and others can’t, I’d say that inequality is a problem. Calling it envy doesn’t address that at all.
I don't have a degree in CS so I always feel out of my element in these discussions...

Is the runtime something the compiler adds to the binary to make sure it is able to correctly interact with the system it is built for?

It seems like people argue that green threads require a runtime as if async doesn't? I don't understand the arguments on either side. In terms of what code looks like I far prefer being able to just declare green threads like golang does.

Honestly I wish I understood on a deep level, but I've been programming for 17+ years and the fact that I still don't implies to me that I never will.
Australia (where most lithium is being mined ATM) isn’t so far behind on the cleanup side. They are a liberal democracy after all. It isn’t clear to me if they are just getting off easy because they are shipping unrefined lithium ore to China, however.
Like the Tofino.
> None will "run out" as in there is no more available, only that the remaining ones are too expensive to extract at the moment.

Right, the issue is cost of extraction (in materials, energy, and externalities, the only real currencies), not exhaustion of the reserves. I think Simon would argue 1) that the degree to which the current economy depends on fossil resources (e.g. for metal-working; how do we reach the required temperatures without melting an electrically-powered heating element?) has not been grasped by policy-makers or the public, and 2) that we are already in energy decline, exacerbated by ongoing failure of ecosystem services. In other words, he thinks we have bled too much momentum and triggered too many blowbacks to "level off" at current living standards, if that were even a viable path forward (given the rate at which we are destroying the biological basis for human life, it is not).
Houses burn cash monthly - utilities, maintenance, taxes etc. Absent of misguided government interventions (nyc rent control etc), it makes no economic sense to leave a property vacant versus renting it.

Even in your hypothetical, you're still strictly better off renting it while capturing the gains. The mostly-empty cities in China is about the only place that I know of where vacant properties are being held as investment, but even there the problem is lack of demand rather than anything to do with who owns it.

This whole topic seems like a specialization of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modigliani%E2%80%93Miller_theo...
You need to ~2 grams a minute. So, about an hour.
Sounds like Vaadin for Java, I think.
This doesn’t really make sense for a number of reasons. This investigation began after reports of suspicious betting. Those reports must have come from bookmakers who felt they were being ripped off. And the bookmakers only stand to lose from this behavior because they’re the ones who have to pay out.

And yes, you can launder money through a casino. But you lose a lot.
> COVID matters as we generally agree that during public health crisises it is reasonable for the government to overstep bounds a little to reduce loss of life.

Don't agree at all. Especially when the very same public health "experts" proved themselves entirely incompetent fools who don't understand their own data.

What these "experts" did was absolutely insane. It blows my mind so many people went along with it with nary a hint of intellectual curiosity and still to this day defend it.
Why hello there. I am building a digital jukebox with physical controls and was looking for a few different knob like controls to use to shuffle through tracks. Definitely going to be using this in the project. Thanks for a well documented and Open Source piece of hardware.
You almost convinced me to try it again but then i remember about:

* php.ini
* php extensions
* hardish deploy needing a specially configured web server
* huge number of terribly named builtins
* functions returning int|bool|null|whoknows
* $, ->
* cant trivially dockerize
* laravel wants me to install even more crap other than Apache phpfpm php composer artisan sail larathis larathat so he can buy the second lambo by copying rails and django
* xdebug

And i just go on my merry way. Php devs forgot the mountain of quirk and bullshit they internalized. That’s the same reason I’m starting to hate python
I've had to weld some async and sync Python together with queues and callbacks, it's not pretty.
The biggest cause of homelessness is the cost of housing.
Interesting. I've been considering toying around with something similar using i3 and Nix. I hadn't considered binding certain applications to various workspaces, but I like that idea as well.

I'm curious if there are any particular guides/examples you would recommend, or whether your Nix config is open source somewhere?
Likely more subsidized housing for the poor, along with much less expensive medical care.