skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Plasmas, and the states of matter, are more of a convenient categorical heuristic than actual things. We categorize matter as so, so we can conveniently convey information about a material's conditional properties, but any material can be a solid/liquid/gas/plasma under the right conditions...

But a solid is not a plasma, as by definition a plasma also has properties of a gas. So a solid metal is not a plasma even if they share some properties. In other words, a plasma is not a solid, and so "solid plasma" is a kind of an oxymoron.

To really drive the point... any metal can be in either the solid or plasma states, so thinking of them as "solid plasmas" isn't really correct.
I worked with vacuum systems in grad school and this sometimes happened if we scraped one metal part a bit too hard on another when positioning a sample inside a characterization chamber. Cue having to vent the system to extricate the sample manually, followed by at least a couple of days of effort to get the chamber back to ultra high vacuum, such as wrapping the chamber with heating pads to force adsorbed water to leave quicker.
> extremely opinionated

I have not seen a single codebase that widely uses uint8_t and does not typedef it to u8. It is the exact opposite of "extremely opinionated".
Yes, everyone at my $WORKPLACE is free to adjust their work schedule to whatever best suits them; we don't care about ass-in-seat or hours of work, we care about output and impact.

This isn't just lip-service, either. May be hard to believe from a US perspective, but for a Norwegian based company, it can be taken at face value. It's the best place I've worked in my 22+ years.

Minor asterisk; we do have a few hours every week where you should be present (check-ins, meetings, all-hands, etc), but it's <5h/week for most people.
Component Programming in D
I read https://tratt.net/laurie/blog/2016/fine_grained_language_com... this week, and now I’m obsessed with how all three of the techniques presented here suck, and we should just be able to mix languages freely.
Short answer: no.

They have similarities such as you mentioned but only at relatively low energies.

There are several sorts of plasmas. An ionized gas is a sort of plasma, also called thin plasma.

Thin plasmas, while physically different from a metal, share a surprisingly large number of properties with it:

They both have two separate charge carriers, cations and electrons.
On both, the cations have a negligible contribution to current and the electrons form a gas.
They have similar dispersion relations (leading to similar "local" Ohm's law in both).
It's because cations don't contribute much that they seem similar, in spite of one being a gas and the other a solid.

You may enjoy this physics stack overflow thread for an expanded answer:

https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/717274/how-is-a-...
would've been nice to see a whole copy of the actual GCC binary in question :(

edit: looks like it dies in this: https://github.com/gcc-mirror/gcc/blob/master/gcc/tree-switc...

edit2: it also would've been nice to see the actual bytes being decoded when it faults, maybe it ends up spuriously writing over .text

edit3: on the LKML https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/D99589F4-BC5D-430B-87B2-72C2037...
I've also spent breaks between classes in primary school, at age 6-7, by writing BASIC programs on graph paper. Within a year or 2 I've transitioned to writing in Forth for XZ Spectrum. I used a Roland DX 80 plotter to "print" my source code. I've even sold plotted images from AutoCAD 1.0 for DOS.

I've also learnt Z80 assembly at the same time, coz the "4th Forth by Fébert Csaba for ZX Spectrum" had built-in assembly too.

I've seen my father designing and building a ZX Spectrum clone from scratch. He did explain the process too, so I got to know how a CPU+ALU+RAM+BUS+IO made up a computer.

So I very much consider those years part of my programming career, because they were very much formative and it was a continuum as programming became my career.

Also, don't forget, that all this was cutting edge shit, because there wasn't anything better available for affordable prices for everyday ppl!

even access to the ZX Spectrum was only possible for me, because my father could bring it home from work for the weekends and I could use it a little bit after school, at the University he worked at.
my classmates never even saw any kind of computer up close, other than LCD wrist watches...
The statistically significant cancer risk occurs when wood-burning occurs for more than 30 days a year. (Table 2).

Burning 1-29 days looks statistically insignificant unless I’m reading Table 2 wrong - HR of .88-1.12 with CIs including 1. Suggesting no statistically significant effect observed from incidental or short-term exposure…roasting chestnuts for Christmas in your fireplace seems a fairly safe bet for most.

As a point of public health calibration, women smokers are 13 times more likely to be a lung cancer victim than non-smokers, according to the American Lung Association.

https://www.lung.org/lung-health-diseases/lung-disease-looku...

“Men who smoke are 23 times more likely to develop lung cancer. Women are 13 times more likely, compared to never smokers.” 2004 US HHS Surgeon General report

Wood smoke use for more than 30 days/year is a ~50% increase in lung cancer, according to this one study. Maybe focusing on the order of magnitude greater causal agent would be the wiser public policy choice, in the US at any rate.
Imagine a world where FPGAs had better performance then CPU/GPU. And we all had one as our main processor. Lots of possibilities! You could possibly "install" a program in the true sense of the word, like installing a kitchen cabinet. It could have totally isolated resources. Containers would really be contained. Neural network architectures themselves could learn (not just the weights).
Turning right on a red light is permitted everywhere in Québec, except on the island of Montréal and in places where a sign prohibits it.
Garbage article. Never actually presents the easily available profit margins of “big health” which is low single digits, and proceeds to make it seem like pharmaceutical companies and big tech are somehow lower on the totem pole, even though they have double digit profit margins and market capitalizations multiples more (20x more) in some cases.

Uses revenue numbers as clickbait even though surely people employed at “the economics” should know better and quote profit margins for an article titled “who profits most”.
This thread is making it very difficult for me not to pick up a Minidisc player on eBay.

Relatedly, it makes me wonder if there is space for a Minidisc equivalent to https://www.wearerewind.com/
In my experience this just encourages the team to build an application that's a glorified power point presentation, because the set of things that's useful for demoing stuff is a pretty small subset of what's actually needed for usable software.

This approach only works if your team has the discipline to not output bullshit that just improves the demo, and if the team does not have incentives/pressure from those above them (i.e. whoever decides their salary/career progress) that only revolve around these demos.

Otherwise at some point the software is "ready" from a "we have demoed all the features" perspective, but you still need to spend another 6 months building out all the invisible things that make it actually releasable.
I created more complex programs with a much smaller size (without special optimizations) - up to date windows though
https://saaq.gouv.qc.ca/en/road-safety/behaviours/turning-ri...
>I can't think you'd get much enjoyment out of the horrifying low quality of anime YouTubers. They certainly don't seem to like it much.

I love game reviews and they give me very different lenses on how to view video games. Even the ones that absolutely hate a game.

I have yet to really find a useful anime reviewer. There are a few videos from a few youtubers that offer some interesting insight, but seasonal anime reviewers are either poor writers/critics or are simply trying to appeal to an audience who wants to hear their opinions regurgitated. So they focus less on insightful interesting anime and more on hating [current anime trend].

>the previous trend was "incest romance"

it's still around in manga/light novels. I think the "issue" is that these days most anime use it as a small trope instead of the entire premise. Heck, even in most of the infamous examples the element wasnt omnipresent.

- 75% of OreImo is not focused at all about the romance of the siblings. In fact, the male lead dates someone else entirely in the 2nd season.

- Kiss X Sis opens up to a more general harem in the middle of the anime and that MC dates the teacher for a while (SPOILERS I guess, for anime only. But that anime is a decade+ out and the manga ended 2 years ago. You're not getting that arc animated).

- Domestic girlfriend is the most recent and probably tamest example. Yes, I guess it's technically incest to date your new 17YO stepsister that you had sex with before you even knew your parents were getting married. We're well past Westermarck effect though.
California governor vetoes bill that would have set a $35 cap for insulin
KOSA: A Nationwide Anti-Trans/LGBTQ+ Bill in All but Name
What resolutions do you use for the digital copy?
For what it’s worth, draconian penalties against drug use, possession and trafficking actually do work. Countries like Singapore and many middle eastern countries have death penalties for drug smuggling and life sentences for simple possession and these places genuinely have very low drug usage in society. As a civilized society it’s really not worth killing people over this though.
Your comment made me laugh.
It doesn't mess with a core language feature to alias 'u8' to 'uint8_t'. It's a reasonable use for the name and one used in other languages (e.g., Rust). There's nothing in the C standard that defines or uses the 'u8' name.
The buses are better, trains only if no bus is available. Stay away from Rejio Jet and Flix buses are great. Anyone says different is a tourist.
Usbc is the greatest thing to happen to humanity the last 20 years.

The simple fact that we can finally share charging cables across phones is a god send, not having a single cable for all phones was the stupidest thing people had ever done.
It's not even that, the way markets work is inherently unpredictable, in a self fixing way.

If someone finds a way to actually predict the market, then in taking advantage of that they will add unpredictability into it again. This is part of the entire basis of how markets work!
GM Shaders Mini: Vector Spaces
What's Inside the New Framework Laptop AMD Edition
Microsoft actually takes accessibility quite seriously.
Do they just patch the package in Debian or do they submit them upstream?
Really lovely. A lot here reminds me of design in Odin lang. Short integral types, no const, composite returns over out params. Big fan of the approach of designing for a single translation unit and exploiting the optimisations that provides from RVO etc.
I like to imagine a world where this is not only possible, but common. Not many people need to do this, but there's incredible power in being able to identify a specific date and time in cvs or git history and recreate literally everything, precisely and reproducibly, from that date and time.
I thought it was temporary and only happened when they are first launched?
It strikes me as similar to allergies, where we suffer our bodies response rather than the stimuli itself. Or the fact that our bodies heating up helps kill the invasion. Etc.
> #define assert(c) while (!(c)) __builtin_unreachable()

This seems like a bad idea, because the whole point of an assert is that something shouldn't happen, but might due to a (future?) bug.
Each of the fallout issues you identify stem from atmospheric testing.

Again, we've known how to prevent fallout via underground tests and carefully constructed tunnel layouts for ~70 years now. No one of influence in the West is proposing a return to atmospheric testing.
A lot of these mitigations are joint efforts between the kernel and CPU, and the mitigations kernel parameter isn't a binary on/off, you can configure individual mitigations. It's not a single flag that does signals the microcode to do spooky proprietary things.
> Finally, they were the engineers of their plane - they probably knew the risks well. Maybe that describes these watercraft pilots too.

I think that is the key here. Don’t compare these to a reliable production airplanes, they are more akin to a prototype plane.

With prototype airplanes we call the pilots a special name: “test pilots”. But that is just because with most airplane designs there is an expectation that they once will graduate out of testing and will be piloted by regular pilots. But some airplanes never do that. They were only ever meant to demonstrate some principle or explore some new frontier. Same with these sailboats, their crew are “test pilots”, and they perform a test program to gradually validate the performance and safety of the craft. And most likely they will be only ever crewed by the crew who did that program.

So what does it mean that they are “test pilots”. They all probably have a lot of experience with all kind of sailboats and especially fast ones, and then they have a proven track record of having a good intuitive understanding of the physics involved. If all you ever did is to capsize a dingy on a local lake you are probably not getting this job.

And then test pilots get access to the engineers designing the craft and they talk a lot about expected performance. There are all kind of curves and diagrams one can inspect to understand how the craft is likely going to handle.

And then they don’t just leave the pier for the first time and run a world record speed. They first go relatively slow, and only when they are certain they understand how the craft behaves do they try to go faster and faster. This might also mean that they are initially very picky about the conditions they launch into, and as they gain more experience they can “expand the envelope” and try gnarlier weather.

Then of course they prepare for adverse events. They wear appropriate personal protective equipment, have a plan what they do if they are thrown overboard or capsize, and they also most likely have rescue boats at the ready to save them if something goes wrong.

And then on top of all of that they all probably have a psychological makeup where they value going fast, and being the first more than being safe. Even with all the safety precautions and mitigations and good design activities like these are risky. People who all above wish for a long and peaceful and slow life are probably not going to gravitate towards these jobs.
> kitty
I hate to be the sour consumer, but the kitty dev’s attitude I’d the main thing that turned me off kitty. Wanted to like it, couldn’t do it.
They don't really have to compete against SpaceX, just against ViaSat, HughesNet and others.

The US gov will use Starlink first, and as with all other private space company initiatives they buy services from will want a 2nd independent supplier to create 'competition' just like e.g. the Boeing starliner.

If Kuiper is 2nd place, they'll get basically the same govt contracts as SpaceX, & will be able to use those funds for basically whatever - including R&D of Blue Origin rockets I imagine.
Wonder if this is what verda space can really accelerate at?
Computer architecture is optimized for 32+ bit aligned access to most things. The gain is (usually, but not always!) performance.
really? then how do you #define things like types like `int` and `char`?
> but the result is blurry unless the scaling factor is exactly 1 or exactly 2

I can’t relate. I’ve been using a scaling factor of 1.5 for about a decade now (4K monitor scaled to 2560x1440) and it’s never blurry.
I hope they encrypt passwords and are unable to do this.
Tissue culture is also used without genetic engineering. Orchid flasking is the classic example, since the seedlings require an external source of energy. A symbiotic fungus provides that in nature, but it's easier to replace that with the usual agar medium.

Many other species can be propagated conventionally, but will grow faster in tissue culture. That's typically referred to as micropropagation, and widely used for aroids (like here), flytraps, cactus, etc. It's also common for aquarium plants, I think because that eliminates the risk of introducing pests.
I wish minidisc had survived. I like physical media and think that was the perfect size.
What's an example of a function where a boolean variable spills to the stack and the 3 bytes are important?
Or significantly cheaper. And Amazon already proved that it is quite good in copying its rivals and offering a cheaper version.
And to add to that, if you use an actual bool type, sanitizers will warn you if they are ever any value other than false (0) or true (1).
If you want the author's recommendation on reading order, http://www.dendarii.com/reading_order.html . The whole series is pretty good.
I don't know, I feel like this is a fish vs fishes situation. ie fish is already plural, but fishes is still, like, superplural - different varieties of fish is fishes.

Social media is a collective noun, I feel like if you want to talk about plural distinct kinds of media there's nothing wrong with saying "mediums"
IT is happening in rents.
A lot of rental properties have started using a tool to determine what the 'market can bear'. And have started raising rent.

Their is no collusion.

But they are all using the same technology, which is telling them to raise rent.
Since they are all raising rent, everyone is trapped and must pay, thus the 'market' can bear the price, since the software can tell everyone else is increasing rent, then it must be possible.

Kind of self fulfilling prophecy.
Trust me this is not the cross continent train that you have in Australia, this is a dumpy Euro train and Austria is a dirty old hole.
Falling Free is a great place to start, as it has a stand-alone plot and introduces the setting very well. If you like it then I'd also recommend the Vorkosigan saga.
Do you find GitLab and its Runners to be heavy at all in your home lab? I'm curious if anyone's been using Gitea/Forgejo with Actions or Woodpecker (Drone).
Well you might ask. I've got a copy, somewhere. SOAS paid to digitize it so they'd have it available. I'd suggest searching their library catalog for 'Yunnan' in the film category, it should pop up.
Supposedly, yes:

https://www.anandtech.com/show/21069/modular-lpddr-becomes-a...

Honestly I hope they come to desktops and servers too. The performance of full size ddr5 dimms seems OK for now, but it must be close to its limit if SODIMMs are already past their limit.
Nausea? Or disorientated?

I personally don’t really care, but I think how AI recreate’s humans hand’s is disturbing.
Why is this application being distributed from a custom F-Droid repository rather than the official repository?

Edit: I can't even create an account to open an issue. Strange project indeed.
RTX 4080 Super or RTX 4080 Ti May Arrive in 2024 Within RTX 4080 Price Range
Most countries don't allow right on red for safety reasons.
You may not be very good at coming to conclusions based on presented information
We need more languages, not fewer. We need all the experimental languages, the attempts at solving issues at the language level, to get to the next Good Language. We've got plenty of Good Languages right now, but we don't get others without a LOT of little languages getting made and inspiring the next ones.
Wearable soundproof microphone for mouth muffles voice of people who talk loud
Except the article is about 40 years of typing/mouse injuries and how they dealt with them, rather than 40 years of quality engineering output.
No worries, it's very believable as I worked in a role like that as well. However, there were certainly issues like production-related, getting unblocked by teammates, etc that necessitated being on during much of the workday, so most people didn't work weekends on top of that either. It wasn't the US-centricity that caused this outcome but rather technical issues. I assume if your company does not have the same issues then it's much easier.
For example, it would be illegal to do the following:

> #define int long

Because you're replacing the int keyword with something else.

The standard says:

> 17.6.4.3.1 [macro.names] paragraph 2: A translation unit shall not #define or #undef names lexically identical to keywords, to the identifiers listed in Table 3, or to the attribute-tokens described in 7.6.
linked talk

> Accelerating ML Recommendation with over a Thousand RISC-V/Tensor Processors

Why are they running recommendation engines on nets? I thought this has been proven that this is region where Random Forests / XGBoost outperform nets.
And this is one of the big reasons that Raspberry Pis are so popular despite an endless supply of alternatives - it's basically the only well-documented and supported embedded linux. Almost every other dev board that competes with them has limited support and outdated kernels and countless other issues.
I think you just described compiler output.
Welcome to 2015, my friend!
Akihabara
Well that would be terrible.
I'm curious if typing speed is any indicator of problems, or lack of problems. Per previous comment, I've been "typing" for over 40 years, no real problems, and am a really, really fast typer. My hands don't spend a lot of time locked in one particular position, and my fingers are moving all kinds of ways constantly when typing. Just a thought.
Hmm: Does frozen water do the same in space?

Why doesn’t it do it on earth? Is it the air in the way?
> Don't let your AIs control nuclear weapons.

I don't know if you wanna entrust the safety of our country to some silicon diode.
>Russia is in the late stages of a decades-long modernization of its strategic and nonstrategic nuclear forces to replace Soviet-era weapons with newer systems. In December 2022, Russian Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu reported that modern weapons and equipment now make up 91.3 percent of Russia’s nuclear triad.

https://fas.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/Russian-nuclear-w...
Kelvin Kiptum destroys world marathon record in Chicago: Is he the new GOAT?
Fines bring funding.
As someone who has traveled on OBB and non-acela Amtrak, how would you describe Acela journey? Is it a significantly better experience?
It depends entirely on the architectures | CPUs, that said the obvious case from past experience is numeric processsing jobs where (say) you flow data into "per cycle" structs that lead with some conditionals and fill out with (say) 512 | 1024 | 2048 sample points for that cycle (32 or 64 bit ints or floats) .. the 'meat' of the per cycle job.

My specific bug bear here was a junior who insisted "saving space" by packing the structs and using a single 8 bit byte for the conditionals.

Their 'improved' code ground throughput on intel chips by a factor of 10 or so and generated BUS ERRORs on SPARC RISC architectures.

By packing the header of the structs they misaligned the array of data values such that the intel chips were silently fetching two 32 bit words (say) to get half a word from each to splice together to form a 32 bit data value (that was passed straddling a word boundary) to pipe into the ALU and then do something similar to repack on the other end - SPARC's quite sensibly were throwing a fit at non aligned data.

Point being - sometimes it makes sense to fit data to the architecture and not pack data to "save" space (this is all for throughput piped calculations not long term file storage in any case)
very strange website design, font size seems to be a function of the window pixel width. changing the browser zoom level doesn't seem to do anything, so i'm stuck with a very large font size on my widescreen
Your comment and this post are 100% there for a pateron killer.

Platform that charges "per work" AND automatically does the paperwork for taxes that makes it a gift, not income.