skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nice graph. But if I understand it correctly, Chloride is about as abundant as Lithium, and less abundant than its neighbours Sulfide, Phospor, Fluoride etc. So why is chloride so abundant in the ocean? Sodium makes sense, but chloride does not.

I'm also surprised to see that Nitrogen is relatively rare compared to its neighbours Carbon and Oxygen, despite making up 80% of the atmosphere. Or maybe that's why? Are we losing nitrogen to space?
Learning engineering video lectures online also promotes self-discipline and digital literacy. Engineering students must develop the ability to manage their time effectively and navigate digital tools, skills that are increasingly valuable in today's technology-driven workforce.
We are blessed to have such competent leadership.
Google Chrome just rolled out a new way to track you and serve ads
I have always heard that but I never understood how that's possible. I filled a rice bowl with water and reuse that same water to wet all the dirty dishes before rubbing, then rinse with cold running water from the tap.

The majority of the energy used in dishwasher is from heating up the water. If you wash with cold water, you are using less energy than the dish washer.
30 years of The X-Files
Does that study cover what their parents were worth before they decided to go into higher education or not? Some families can't afford for their kids to leave home —they might be carers, they might have jobs— even before you consider $100k of debt.

If it's really just richer people in, richer people out, it's hardly surprising the median salaries are split.

I'm not questioning whether or not higher education has value, not even if it presents a good ROI, but I am suspicious of numbers that present nothing but race as the "background", when that is such an important part of who goes into higher ed.
> I'm seriously waiting for competitors to change nVidia's monopoly in this space. Maybe Apple?

I would have thought AMD is the obvious contender. They are #2 in GPU's, they have formidable programming talent (based on their advances with Ryzen vs Intel) and they have targeted AI as their goal.

Am I missing something?
Perhaps there are scenarios where larger buffers are useful; I supppose getting an interrupt every 4 kilobytes transferred could be a decent performance hit with some devices, like a hardware /dev/null accelerator. If these numbers are what I think they are, then in my systems it's not used a lot:

% sudo grep . /sys/kernel/debug/swiotlb/{io_tlb_nslabs,io_tlb_used}
/sys/kernel/debug/swiotlb/io_tlb_nslabs:32768
/sys/kernel/debug/swiotlb/io_tlb_used:4

My other systems used 0-2.
This maybe true, but I'd argue the air con still takes about 5mpg off the range of the fuel, but their existence and heat isnt magically disappearing, it spreads out helping to raise temperatures.

This link [1] suggests traffic jams can increase temperatures by 7 degrees Celcius.

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9678727/
In a cheaper location outside of Canada, $1m is sufficient to never ever have to work in your life - that is one impact of the absolute numbers, because at this level of wealth suddenly there are other options than having to live where the high-paying jobs are.
I see that you are a self facilitating media node.
Enrolling into GitHub education already required a school email which usually contains your name or school documents which most definitely have your name on it.

The change being discussed is not about sharing your name with Microsoft GitHub but about having it on your profile. Your profile is shared to third-party such as apps with the right OAuth scope.
> If your water is hard, rinse aid helps a lot to make the glasses and dishes look good.

Or if you want a decent job, install a reverse-osmosis water filtration system in the central water piping that takes out all the nasty mineral salts responsible for the hardness and limescale. Also makes cleaning way easier.
I recommend all of my friends and family to use this when searching for Android apps https://playsearch.kaki87.net/ and simply tick the 3 checkboxes at the bottom.
This is such a cool detail! I just watched and I can kind of see the mechanics at work (or maybe I imagine it after the fact)
I didn't know there was a Windows version.

The Android version works great.
I don't know of a better alternative.
Do you provide your services to China as well?
If yes, how is the latency from China? Have you setup your servers there as well?
In terms of quantum computations. Most quantum interactions average into classical mechanics. And, no, it's not guaranteed. We are already beyond vague analogies like "two chariots". In the next era we probably will know equivalent (quantum) (noisy) computations for the brain activity.
You get the "Pro" apps from F-Droid, including the "ThankYou" App. I never got any nagging from them (and yes, I donated, but that did not have any technical consequences and is not necessary).
Streaming logging framework
USB, Thunderbolt, Displayport and Docks
CityEngine [1] does that.

It's a procedural city generation engine first presented at SIGGRAPH 2001, by Procedural Inc., an ETH Zürich spinoff that was later acquired by ESRI (ArcGIS).

At its core is a shape grammar based on L-Systems [2] that is used to define how a road network is subvided into lots, then buildings etc.. with increasing level of detail and contextual constraints.

You give it a vector road network and the grammar rules, and it subdivides it spacially into e.g.

Lots
> Buildings
> Roofs
> Stories
> Facades
> Windows
> Frame
> Glass pane
> Ledge

etc., according to the desired level of detail. Context dependent rules control that e.g. doors may only be placed on the ground floor, or the the roof goes on top of the top floor.

The original paper and presentation at SIGGRAPH described the simplicity of the core idea quite beautifully, but I'm having a hard time finding them now. This old tech demo video [3] should give an idea of how it works though.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CityEngine

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L-system

[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SxyOTUzm2qw
I was particularly fond of grand strategy.
> they started to reduce functionality to nudge people to the paid versions

You get the "Pro" apps from F-Droid as well.
In case what i wrote wasnt clear: Java's streams are (or can be) parallel, and can saturate as many cores as you like.

But parallelism is not compatible with early stopping at any stage - early stopping is inherently serial! - and transducers choose allowing any stage to stop early over being parallel.
Interesting quotes, considering that our latest and greatest achievemnets in the AI field are based on "attention is all you need" transformers. Yet it seems that in a way we're so close, yet so far from replicating the full human attention in a machine. Maybe precisely because it can't be transformed into a a purely objective/measurable/scientific category.
Without kids, we have no need to wash several loads on the same day. We separate colors, whites (mostly bed sheets) and towels, but they don't amount to a full load at the same time and get washed on their own periodic schedule, which never overlap.
Like we didn't know for sure if the atmosphere gona burn in self sustaining nuclear fire.

I know it's not the same because AI research is closer to social sciences than to physics but still, there are parallels.
My point was the chartered banks and federal interest rates do not control the speculation boom/bust cycle to the degree people assume. Nor do internal crown debts like student loans.

I do agree interest rates help push low-income/high-risk asset holders out of the market, but it does not mitigate the underlying issue.

Folks may delay all they want. but by my estimate the interest rates will need to hit 9.4% for 2 years to bring the circus under control... its politically awful for anyone at the top, and a tragedy for those at the bottom.
> Where you are in the house and what needs to turn on, at least, is an API query job, not a fine-tuning job.

And that API magically comes form where?

> I just asked ChatGPT 3.5 the question 'Acting as an AI home assistant, if you hear me say "I'm finding it hard to read", what actions would you take?'

So, basically:

- you had to pre-program Chat GPT to act as a home assistant

- you had to provide it with specific context and specific phrasing for it

- it still failed, asked for clarification, and only then responded

And now you have to this song and dance every time you want to coax GPT into doing what you need (and that's what RestGPT does).
The only thing that Temu subsidizes is shipping, the pricing itself is normal. Temu is essentially a window for US consumers to see what the average Chinese consumer is used to. You can directly compare products and prices between Taobao and Temu; the pricing is similar, with Temu typically being a bit more expensive even with discounts.

Even with shipping, it’s unclear exactly how much Temu would actually be losing per order depending on how efficient their distribution network is.
These are actually banned in most countries of Europe by laws and regulations because fatty foods lead to the buildup of fatbergs in pipes and anything that's not water and feces is prime rat food.

I don't get why the USA don't ban these, but then complain about rat infestations at the same time. JFC.
I hate Siri as much as anyone, but Chat GPT has no context in the "common sense" either.

The sibling comment literally says "I had to provide a long-ish sentence as a context/programming instructions before it could do anything". https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37464563
You can get their apps off f-droid, and their Gallery is the best one I've tried on Android.
This sounds similar to the "sound barrier", except at a different speed due to the different value of rho?
they have to get those bing numbers up somehow!
Ask HN: Turning off the programming mind during non-work hours
I have this habit which I'm sure many other dev have of thinking through programming problems during routine moments throughout the day.

At times this is an amazing blessing because some of the more out-of-the-box solutions get formed in these moments but more recently it's been veering into unhealthy obsessive territory (e.g. out for dinner or exercising).

Please share your experiences + any tips around striking a balance?
Yes - cutting out games resolves my apathy and lack of energy. I probably do have stress and tiredness caused by high cortisol from work, but concentrating on physical exercise as a remedy seems to be the most effective way of coping. Gaming compounds it, as does consumption of social media, particularly long-form video like YouTube.
Where is that input coming from?
How's the NO2 emissions managed?
Material files, MiXplorer
A Month in Ada
First problem was repurposing flags used in the past for different functionality. Just dont do that.
Source? that's a pretty big claim.

And besides, this feels like a cause and effect issue. Are they addicted to drugs because they became homeless and it was the most humane way to cope outside of suicide? The alternative scenario where perfectly normal Seattle citizens get baked to the point where they can't keep a job seems fantastical.
a while ago, I created this https://appswithcode.org/?q=android to search apps with code.
A: "Edge conversations are up 4%! What else can we do to increase them?"

B: "Users that already have Edge as their default browser also see these, shouldn't we first fix that?"

A: "That wouldn't increase Edge conversions, would it?"

B: "No, but..."

A: "Then we don't have time for that. What can we do to increase them?"

Been there - not at Microsoft, but it's not particularly unique to them.
This does sound quite scary and impact of such a even would cross the impact what COVID-19 had on all of us.
The State of WebAssembly 2023
In a way it became the complete opposite of how it started. At first one OS for many users, ea with many processes. Now, with containers, micro services etc. we have an OS per service/process. Still the original abstractions work surprisingly well though makes it me wonder how a complete redesign of would look like aimed at modern usage.
I had a 20y fixed at 1.2% last year
How do you?
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It's not opensouce, even though it's something I would like to be able to do soon. We offer enterprise plans, which use LLAMA2 instead of openai and can run on your own cloud (or even locally if you have enough RAM). If you are interested send me an email at c@unfetch.com
Yes there's ACPI & UEFI. Sunil V L from Ventana has been gradually pushing ECRs through the ACPI organization to add features and getting the corresponding stuff into the Linux kernel, eg: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20230216182043.1946553-4-sunilv...
It's a reasonable question, especially when you ask it about nuclear propulsion, but as you say the overall fuel saving hugely dominates.

(I could counter argue that for the ecological damage caused by fishing, in both species depletion and nets lost to sea, the better solution might not to be allow small boat fishing at all for a few decades)
I have the mx 3s along with the mechanic keyboard, one set each for work and one for home... Extremely stable connection with the bolt receiver, also works with well if I take the laptop home or with my phone if I connect it to my monitor (Dex)
I already have USB-C charging cables due to the phone on either desk, so I just connect it to whichever runs low every few weeks (or months) and keep on using them.
Prompt2Model – Generate Deployable Models from Instructions
An awful lot of cities have a "digital twin"

I work in the field, and the truth is that an awful lot of cities _claim_ to have a digital twin. When what they actually have us a big pile of random GIS data and some 10 year old 3D models someone made once and never updated.
MiXplorer, Material Files
There are different levels of argument depending on the precision of the definition of the concepts in play, which is unhelpful in general but also unavoidable.

I think that the folk definition of computation is so wide and vague that almost any physical process can be characterized as a computation in that sense. So brains (being physical) must be (folk) computers. The problem is that this doesn't get us anywhere because there are lots of equivalences and for practical purposes in there and what we really need is a characterization of the brain as it operates rather than what that operation might be modeled as.

As Searle says, you can simulate the processes of digestion but that doesn't mean that you have an artificial stomach that can turn food to energy.
Ryzen 6000 (Rembrandt) USB4 support was generally underwhelming. Some of it may have been FP7 limitations, but some of it may have been lack of AMD board support (eg, the ZenBooks were supposed to have USB4 support, don't have a dGPU so not a board layout issue, but was held up by BIOS issues as well). Supply chain may have played a part as well - a lot of ODM/OEMs skipped it due to parts shortages (retimers or power delivery components?). These issues are still a problem for Ryzen 7000 mobile (Phoenix). For some more color, see this Framework update for example: https://community.frame.work/t/responded-amd-batch-1-guild/2...

I did a lot of research on the G14, but actually I ended up not getting one and going for a 12th-gen Intel Framework instead: https://github.com/lhl/linuxlaptops/wiki/2022-Framework-Lapt...

I had a Batch 1 AMD motherboard pre-order but ended up cancelling for reasons, although I did end up deciding to get a 7940HS mini PC, which I'm running as my main desktop computer now and that I've documented here: https://github.com/lhl/linuxlaptops/wiki/Minisforum-UM790-Pr...

I have it connected w/ a LINKUP Thunderbolt 3 dock now and it seems fine, but I don't have auto-suspend on and don't suspend the device.

Overall, I really like the UM790 device, the main issue w/ it (that thankfully has workarounds) is that OOTB it suffers from crashes/reboots - I was able to fix it by either disabling PSS in the BIOS or disabling C6 in runtime via MSR (after which it's stable). This is likely an AMD AGESA issue (this seems to be a recurring forever bug w/ Zen processors) and an upcoming BIOS update is promised to fix it.
Why you should test private methods: To make sure they work correctly. This may be significantly easier than testing the public methods that use them.

Why you shouldn't test private methods: Because the implementation might change, obsoleting the tests. But everything might change (except the end-user requirements, haha), so by this argument you shouldn't test anything except what is in the spec/what the user will see.

The only benefit of not testing private methods, is the same benefit that not testing anything else brings.
Yeah, people keep complaining that apps are hiding the concept of a hierarchical FS from the user, but honestly I can understand why they do it. The hierarchical model just isn't a very good model for almost any nontrivial (i.e. 1-dimensional) logical model of data. For all we rightly complain about how much time is spent reinventing CRUD programs that simply list your files in a relational interface, few people seem to ask why we keep feeling the need to do that

Proper use of file attributes could help a lot, but while almost all modern OSes and FSes support them, AFAIK only MacOS makes much non-system use of them, and they have poor portability across systems. Even copying a file can lose them if the utility is not aware of them
Young people are more attuned to where the wind is blowing, in part because they are part of the force that drives it, but generally because they're still learning how to navigate the world and don't have the privilege of not paying attention.

You can get any book online for free. Any research paper. Any textbook. Any information you like that is known to more than a couple of people. You can even get almost all MIT coursework free, they give it to you. You. can get a full education watching videos and reading books online, for free. Illegal or no, if you are in it for the education and not for the credential you don't have to pay anyone for it anymore. As long as the internet exists this is a fact of life. Another fact of life is that only middling people get paid for credentials, the big bucks are earned by people that know what they're talking about and have some expertise. You need a credential to be mediocre, you need to excel at something to be excellent, and anybody that recognizes excellence doesn't need a piece of paper to confirm it.

The rent seeking information brokers are all very mad about this of course. From news media to education to publishing, they're all clamoring something be done about it. But nothing can be done about it. They'll sell you the "college experience", the "need to stay informed", they'll guilt you, they'll try to scare you, but at best it buys them a little time. Nothing holds back the tide and their days are numbered as powerful institutions in our society.
Electrifying heavy-duty vehicles could reduce environmental inequalities
I wonder more about heating than cooling. Luddite paranoia perhaps but hot air rises up into space and away. Cold air sinks, where does it go? Outside air is a big heat sink but if entire urban areasn start pumping out MW of cold air in the future will the bottom of hills turn into ice rinks?
On my work machine (approx 4 years old, Win10) and home machine (mostly 2 years old, graphics card, a 1060/6GB is more elderly, Win10) both take most of a second to bring up a fresh Explorer window, timing by eye from Win+E to the whole UI being present. It seems far more variable (sometimes feeling quicker, sometimes taking a couple of seconds) on my laptop (<1 year old, i5 CPU 16G RAM, Win11). All are using decently speedy SSD drives.

Several seconds sounds like an exaggeration, but it never seems anything but sluggish to me.

One UX delay that irritates me is the time it often takes between hitting Win+R and the run dialogue finally being ready for input. Regularly the first few characters of what I type after that ends up going to the app that originally had focus. That used to be instant, on much older kit.
In France, the "lower-end" pods are wrapped in plastic, but it doesn't dissolve, you have to remove it manually. The more expensive ones use that as an argument: "no need to unwrap! just stick in the machine!". I'm not convinced that for the cheaper ones the wrapping is necessary, but at least it doesn't go (directly?) in the water.
I solve my toughest programming problems during my cool down walk after a long run. This is a blessing, because the time is spent regardless.
This incident highlights a problem that is often overlooked in the debate about feature branches versus feature toggles.

I've worked with both feature branches and feature toggles, and while long lived feature branches can be painful to work with what with all the conflicts, they do have the advantage that problems tend to be uncovered and resolved in development before they hit production.

When feature toggles go wrong, on the other hand, they go wrong in production -- sometimes, as was the case here, with catastrophic results. I've always been nervous about the fact that feature toggles and trunk based development means merging code into main that you know for a fact to be buggy, immature, insufficiently tested and in some cases knowingly broken. If the feature toggles themselves are buggy and don't cleanly separate out your production code from your development code, you're asking for trouble.

This particular case had an additional problem: they were repurposing an existing feature toggle for something else. That's just asking for trouble.
I dont think this is a problem. The computer nrural networks are closer to a single biological neuron than to a biological neural network. That provides tighter coupling. Long distance generalized "connections" can materialize as weight chains, recurence can provide timing.
Where do we get the ammonia?
There are multiple real root issues here. Missing manual kill switch is also one of them.
Careful; there's the MX Keys keyboard, which is not a mechanical keyboard, and the MX keys mechanical keyboard, which IS a mechanical keyboard...
I have the latter, and as far as I know, it only works wirelessly via receiver or BT.
Reminded of the other sort of "battery", and USS Texas counter-flooding to induce a list so that she could elevate her guns beyond the design limit and achieve greater ranges while covering the Normandy landings.
It might be less than 1% globally, but moving from gas cars to electric has the potential to lower the US carbon emissions by more than 16%, according to your numbers.
I remember i2c support was added to the Linux kernel. I never understood what it is.

Next in line is BPF, which is also unclear.
I think the puzzle essentially boils down to: what does it mean by "natively run application code"?
Isn’t “John Smith” a real name? There’s even people who use it on a daily basis
It sounds as if you're actually using the apps installed from the playstore. If they're from F-Droid you shouldn't get any nagging or ads.

I use gallery, contacts, and file manager from F-Droid, up to date, and no ads or nags at all, ever.
I think you overestimate how much knowledge there will be left.
How to (not) invent concurrent algorithms
/dev/null maps the same zeroed page over and over
There is no international treaty giving you mining rights for landing on the moon.
I have to use a lot more soap, for example, if I wash my hands, I have to wet them, then soap them up without them being near the water, then after they are very agitated, put them under the water. The soap instantly disappears.

I have a cooler with delivered water. I probably could drink the well water, how much calcium and such does milk have? But I'd have to test it more often.
Depends if you're some rural city somewhere or some exception, or the average built for cars US mega-city.