skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Notably, most modern text editors such as Visual Studio Code use neither of those. They use "piece tables", which have a number of advantages. For example they allow efficient incremental saves and the list of edit changes can be trivially wound back or replayed for undo/redo.

https://code.visualstudio.com/blogs/2018/03/23/text-buffer-r...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piece_table
It does sound like sour grapes but I also don’t think you need data to believe this.
In my experience most ivy league athletes are nerds.
What's the tax on the individual items in question, also, because it's all variable based on what you're buying, what city you're in etc.

Pretty much everywhere else I've travelled in the world, the price on the shelf is the price you pay, even when tax changes based on what something is classified as (to whit that fun legal case of "is a jaffa cake a cake or a biscuit").

For some absolutely bizarre self-hating reason, the US has decided that, no, your experience should be "Oh wait, now I've got to go and add some seemingly random sales tax that I can't likely predict in advance, and won't know until I've rung everything up".
What kind of mental gymnastics? You think you’re entitled to use a service with an adblocker instead of the service they offer supported by ads/subscription? So you just want to use a service for free?
It's a loan until the customer pays it back, and loans cost money to cover. Except the overdraft fee is usually some insane % interest, to the point where nobody would take that loan unless it were by accident... So in short, it's a scam.
It reminds me of what happened in my hometown of Austin, Texas when Uber was outlawed for a little while; people started a Facebook group where they just would ask for a ride, and someone else would offer to give them one (for a price). It was kind of like Uber, except way less regulated and with fewer protections for anyone involved.

To be honest, though, "Pure Chaos" in the title seems overstated. The article even admits that hotel prices are expected to go up, which would suggest that fewer people will stay in BnB's.
Out of memory: kill process 12345
Killed process 12345 (sshd)

is the funniest and ugliest message to see on the iLO/VM console.
I did not say Oracle was better steward of FOSS, what they did do their other FOSS projects is like what Red Hat is doing to RHEL

Red Hat and Oracle are more or less the same now

But when it comes to Oracle Linux, atleast they are not putting the sources behind the paywall and threatening customers with bans if they follow their GPL Rights
Most of the things in the US people blame on FPTP are caused by primary elections, and California doesn't use the usual primary system because it has jungle primaries.

And IRV for local elections, but you don't see micro-parties in SF.
The US housing crisis is especially acute because the thinking is so local. We don’t have enough housing units in our most economically productive cities so individual actors move to cities with a lower cost of living. Those cities then skyrocket in price and the cycle continues.

We have no coherent strategy for how to increase the number of housing on a national level. To be fair, CA has removed quite a bit of local zoning control because the housing crisis is so acute.
I honestly had a lot of trouble getting through games like Sonic 2. If you were to play Sonic 2 end-to-end its probably 3-4 hours. But the reality is getting through it all was challenging. It wasn't 40 hours of puzzles, nono.

This is not to say that that is the right way to make a game, but it was to say that playing it was a challenge for young me. Today the only games I find challenging is PvP games, but often times I don't want the other parts of the challenge like the actual people part. This is why some games like Demon's Souls (the first time I ever saw a castle in the distance that I could literally walk up to and smash through, was an awe moment) still stick in my mind.
The paper is not about nerds vs. jocks. It's about athletes vs. non-athletes. There are many athletes that are nerds, and many non-athletes that are not nerds.

However, I do give NBER full credit for scoring high on the clickbait metric. If you download the actual paper, the word "nerd" only appears in the title of the pdf.

(curiously, and as evidence that nerds don't really go to Harvard, they list Aerospace Engineering as an offered major, but with a participation rate of 0.00% across male/female, athlete/non.)
and find out
There used to be moderate republicans in California. But the cuckoo puff wing of the party pushed them out. Not the democrats cunning schemes. Democrats implemented a jungle primary in order to try and fix that problem.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nonpartisan_blanket_primary
In Washington State, Gov Inslee imposed the equivalent of a $.50 per gallon tax on the oil companies. The oil companies raised the WA gas prices by $.50 per gallon. Inslee blamed the price rise on the greedy oil companies.

The taxes should be a separate line item on all purchases, so people can see what the taxes are.
If I look at the times I’ve implemented dark mode — I see that the effect will be:

1. Less lines of code (seems like a good thing)

2. I will still need to use prefers-dark-mode for some of my changes.

Thus — the concept count is ratcheted up by 1 more thing, and no concept is taken away.

The “concept count” is ridiculously high already.

They’re spending money from an overdrawn account.

If you want to permanently increase the number of things that a bunch of people must learn, it has to have more value or power than this.
Yeah, athletes and business degrees are a stereotypical combo and an Ivy League business degree means good earnings unless you’re a total fuck-up (and if you were a total fuck-up, you were probably weeded out way before becoming and Ivy athlete). No surprises here. Major determines earning range, and athletes tend to pick one of the better majors for that.
cached disk pages are not going to be swapped out, they're just freed (because these pages are already "out" in the same place swapland is)

if your cached disk pages keep getting hit and are "recent", they're going to stay in, and your old untouched working pages are going to be swapped out, to make room either for new working pages because you've just loaded new programs or data, or to make room for more disk pages to be cached because your page cache accesses are "busier" than some of your working pages.

you will swap out pages to make room for disk cache, but your cached disk pages will never be swapped out, they are just tossed (of course, after any dirty pages are written)
When I grew up, "nerd" effectively meant "weird loser". The dictonomy was not between the athletic and the intelligent but between the popular and the unpopular. The bullies and the bullied. The normal and the abnormal. Those with common interests and those with weird ones. Popular kids seemed more athletic, because it was socially acceptable to be interested in sports. Unpopular kids seemed more intelligent, because taking your studies seriously was often socially unacceptable.
Now they just need to apply this to doctors.
You are right. I was wrong.
Time Machine backs up files in iCloud Drive. (which is what Desktop/Documents is)
This:

> There are shoddy houses in my area that were sold in 2021 for $100k that are now on the market for $250k in 2023.

Does not imply this:

> We're in a bubble.
Except that they didn’t solve the issue. “Please wait 12 hours” is not a solution to “I can’t access my email”.
Somewhat related, Tim Cope took arguably one of the best jollies ever; from Mongolia to the Danube, a three and a half year, 10,000 km journey on horseback:

https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/17286667

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2027949/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0NCDPQhSz_E

It's a surprisingly good tale if you can find the book or DVD about the place, he learnt how to ride on the go and met quite a few people on the way.
> ”Unfortunately, when the AMD Ryzen 7000 ‘Raphael’ CPUs were launched along with the brand new Socket AM5, all mention of ECC support was gone.”

Had no idea that 7000s series doesn’t official state support
of ECC.
A lot of restaurants in the UK will add a "service charge" which is supposed to be a suggested tip, and you can ask for it to be removed from the bill (and then tip separately, or not).
Cool story. How does that help the hundreds of thousands of very poor people who are trying very hard to pinch pennies in dire straights?
Playing Bach's toccata and fugue in D minor in Rome
We published this paper "TMO: Transparent Memory Offloading in Datacenters" last year which covers some Linux memory management mechanisms that may be quite useful for providing reasonable estimations to application memory usage.

We observed that the real memory footprint for applications depends on many factors: file access pattern, disk IO speed (especially if swap is enabled), ssd vs hdd, application latency sensitivity, etc. Instead of coming up with some overly complicated heuristic, we use the Linux kernel provided memory.pressure [0] metric via cgroup v2. It measures the amount of time spent waiting for memory (page fault etc). Then by slowly reclaiming memory from the application until its memory pressure hits some target (say 0.1%), we can claim that the steady state usage is the actual memory footprint.

This may not be useful for PC but could be very useful for data center to track memory regression, and also to harvest disk swap without concerning too much about the cliff effect when the host runs out of memory and suddenly kernel pushes everything to swap space.

[0] https://facebookmicrosites.github.io/cgroup2/docs/pressure-m...
Yeah, what lusus said. Stop vagueposting. If you want to say something, say it.
Much of the article just describes that fighting in a stairwell would be dangerous and inconvenient (what fighting is not?), completely ignoring the question wether one winding might be more or less so.
How is Haxe in 2023? I tried to get into it a few years back but somehow I couldnt quite break the barrier to entry where it was fun to use
What's a Sandwich?
If people envisioned that web would become an application platform, maybe we wouldn't have CSS and HTML but instead some sort of lower level bytecode (ala WASM) and the actual higher level document and styling tools would be separate and compile to this bytecode. It makes me shutter every time I imagine how much you have to cover from CSS and HTML alone for a function web browser.

This method is pretty much ternary operator and it requires a browser support to be used, insanity.
> I don't think so, there are more apparent reasons listed in this thread already. I am just pointing that rolling a sales tax into price is not as simple as some imagine. I imagine VAT is accounted differently so it could be rolled into the price without this kind of error but I've never dealt with VAT so I can only speculate.

Nope. VAT has complicated rounding rules too. Turns out it actually is still easy to roll it into the price.

> as somebody else noticed, the retailers are free to roll the tax into the price, the fact that they don't do this might be a pretty solid indication that it's not better?

It's a lemon market. It's better for the customer if the actual price is displayed up front, but the customer has no way of knowing which shops are advertising real prices and which aren't.
> From an accuracy perspective, any tools you have found useful in helping validate retrieval accuracy?

You’ll probably want to start with the standard rank-based metrics like MRR, nDCG, and precision/recall@K.

Plus if you’re going to spend $$$ embedding tons of docs you’ll want to compare to a “dumb” baseline like bm25.
> It's certainly faster and easier to deploy, but now it's apparently also cheaper per produced Wh than nuclear even accounting for a mere 30% efficiency from the storage "detour".

The cost of storage isn't just the conversion losses. You also need the storage hardware, and for it to have enough capacity for an extended period of low generation.

Once you convert heating systems to electric to stop burning fossil fuels, what do you do during winter when it's cold, the days are short and it's cloudy and calm for a week?

No one seems to be able to answer this, and the closest I've seen is something like "keep all of the existing natural gas plants operational and use them to burn hydrogen instead, but only when renewable generation is low." Which is just preposterously expensive -- you'd have to maintain an entire redundant set of generating plants that you hardly ever use and that themselves cost almost as much as nuclear power plants do.

But that is still less expensive than trying to build a week's worth of storage capacity using something like lithium batteries. And both of them have the problem that you have to choose in advance how much storage capacity to build, but if you build too much you've doubled your costs and if you build too little then people freeze to death.
Katsuhiro Otomo's "One-Take" Animation
So now these fees will be presumably less hidden, but does it really change things ? The junk fees appear as a fixed line item on the bill. Instead, much like the side-effects disclaimers, they will appear somewhere on the first screen. Something like, "Uber adds $5 + 25% to your order" in tiny text somewhere.
Have a look at SuperDuper![0] (The exclamation mark is part of the software name, as there are some other things with the same name, but the spelling above is correct.)

It’s shareware, and there’s a free trial. It’s fairly priced imo, and I’ve only used the shareware version. The paid version has some decent QoL features including ACL fixup, but I’m not sure how important that is? I usually run Disk Utility to try to fix those myself but I don’t claim to know the specifics of the paid features.

It seems to work fine with NAS volumes that are configured to play nice with Time Machine, but I forget what the specifics entail on that part. The .dmg backup should be more compatible with varied NAS setups; iirc it has something to do with ACLs being writable by macOS and associated software.

I like that it can make bootable clones of disks to other disks. It can also make .dmg backups of folders or disks.

No affiliation, just a happy user. If anyone knows of other software in the space, I’d love to hear about them, especially FOSS options.

[0] https://www.shirt-pocket.com/SuperDuper/SuperDuperDescriptio...
It seems to me that RAG is really search, and search is generally a hard problem without an easy one size fits all solution. E.g., as people push retrieval further and further in the context of LLM generation, they're going to go further down the rabbit hole of how to build a good search system.

Is everyone currently reinventing search from first principles?
Is there something preventing them from visiting the bank manager?

Or are you implying that being poor means the bank should cover the overdraft?
I’d love a mixed model where I pay to watch the top 3 creators that I follow using my own money in exchange for not viewing ads on their channel. Then all the other random channels can serve me ads.
No such thing. People are just lying to you and you're willing to believe any lie that sounds cynical enough. That's no way to live.
I think its a pretty good indicator. Like the anti-tip labels for shipping delicate things.
Not only is this possible, there's actually a bunch!

Unity has a WebGL player, but I guess Unity is dead now.

Other WebGL projects are the Quake 1 and Quake 3 Arena games ported to the web:
https://www.netquake.io/
https://openarena.live/

PlayCanvas is a commercial offering: https://playcanvas.com/explore

There's also a bunch of open-source Javascript game engines: https://github.com/collections/javascript-game-engines

Of those, BabylonJS seems pretty powerful for 3D: https://www.babylonjs.com/games/

Or PixiJS for 2D: https://pixijs.com/

Lastly, there's also my personal preference... game streaming via GeForce Now (https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce-now/) or Luna (https://www.amazon.com/luna/landing-page) or Boosteroid (https://boosteroid.com/). They're like Stadia, but actually alive, and GFN in particular works really, really well. Way better than trying to render graphics locally on my Mac (the RTX 4080 is way more powerful than even the M2 Ultra, and cloud streaming means no heat or noise or battery consumption locally). I hope that, not clientside WebGL/JS, becomes the future of web gaming.
That happened briefly for a couple of years, then it was made illegal, because we have governments that actually care about making things better for their people.
I thought these crystals are 3D printed at first judging by the layered look.
This one is confusing because it’s on the odd side of the street - 00 is clearly acting as minus 1.
It should be, yes. But consider the approach from the capitalist mindset. If, instead of charging your customers more (which disincentivizes their patronage) you can arbitrarily leave that portion of your employee’s wage on the customer’s shoulders. Someone else will pay the expense. And the government says it’s totally okay. And the restaurant industry is already razor thin margins.

This doesn’t make it right, of course.
It’d be surprising if that stopped being true in college, in fact. It’s definitely still true from about 6th grade(!) on, at least in lots of schools. Ask some teachers (who aren’t also coaches) what that dynamic looks like—all the stuff about star athletes getting away with bad behavior, coach-teachers letting them get away with doing almost nothing in their classes, and other teachers being pressured to give them higher grades than they earned is still there, straight out of an 80s movie.
Wealth and athletic success aren't unrelated [0]. A direct quote that apllies to a lot of things really:
"A privileged background helps students succeed in sports just as it does in other parts of life"

You still need talent, but at least there won't be roadblocks stopping you from expressing your talent (same reasons top musicians, actors etc. also tend to come from at least upper middle class)

[0] https://feed.georgetown.edu/access-affordability/what-impact...
What nonsense. kitty's graphics protocol is literally infinitely faster than sixels for local transmission and the same speed as sixels for remote transmission, taking into account that kitty's graphics protocol supports 32bit colors, unlike sixel.
"Landlords pissed they can't continue to exploit housing market for rampant personal profits at the expense of the livability of their very city, begin to openly flaunt the law on the black market and blame the existence of this black market on legislators" makes for a bad article headline by modern social media clickbait standards, but a much more honest one for this article.
That's an awesome anecdote, thank you for your amazing contributions!
Cisco Posts Rust-Written PuzzleFS File-System Driver for Linux
Wouldn’t that be a road that’s perpendicular to El Camino Real?
I concede that my other comment saying "there's no reason for it not to be [included in the price]" is inaccurate, cause this is a reason. But also, how often does sales tax change that this is a real issue?
Do you know of any assessment of performance characteristics for said ‘piece tables’? The thrust of TFA is essentially a performance comparison, so I can’t help but wonder why this implementation wasn’t addressed if it is present in one of the most widely used code editors. Also, VS Code is not known for its responsiveness for text editing, is this due to the ‘piece table’, or more likely, due to architectural decisions in the application more generally?

I’m not really up-to-date on any text editing implementation details, so if this is basic/common knowledge feel free to just tell me to Google it.
The Git idiom in general is to make a branch for any work you intend to keep.

But I'm also curious what you mean by doing work on a previous commit and then merging with main. Maybe it's a way to solve a problem I hadn't considered before.
> Also, if it's not big enough to monitor it can disappear. Radar makes it hard to track anything that's not huge and actively transmitting.

I don't know about that:

"Since 1990, the Goldstone Orbital Debris Radar has collected orbital debris data for debris as small as about 2 mm in LEO for the NASA ODPO. . . . . The Goldstone Orbital Debris Radar is an extremely sensitive sensor capable of detecting a 3-mm metallic sphere at 1000 km, which makes it an incredibly useful tool in the characterization of the sub-centimeter-sized debris population." - https://orbitaldebris.jsc.nasa.gov/measurements/radar.html
The workers at a grocery store are already spending time setting and changing price labels across the store on a regular basis. (Such as for the many changing sales most stores have.) They often have a digital, hand-held label printer. It would be extremely simple for that printer to just print the local sales tax on the label.

Not to mention the vast amount of online shopping Americans do, where it would be trivial to include a local sales tax. (Every online store I'm aware of already immediately asks for your location and tells you to search for the nearest location anyways.)

I also reject the idea that most Americans wouldn't value this. I would bet money most Americans would prefer it -- they just aren't aware that other countries are capable of doing things better.
I really wish I could throw money at Hadley Wickham (along with a sufficiently inspiring speech) and have him work on Python for a while...
Or, hear me out, we could do the same as the rest of the world and post the final price on the item. There is no reason not to except the retail lobby is more powerful than a divided electorate.
Bitcoin leaked from an alien lab and was created from human tissue they sampled?
> please do not mention any deterministic counting machines like semiconductors - neurons are not deterministic and thought isn’t a deterministic set of calculations

I have to mention it, because it's physics, and related to the current implementation of LLMs: random numbers are possible, and used to break determinism. Intel CPUs use thermal noise to generate random numbers [1]. With silicon, randomness is a free choice, not an impossibility. LLMs front ends, like anything from OpenAI, use random numbers to get non-deterministic output, which is also the input of the next word, and the context of the next response, resulting in output that's not deterministic, with broad divergence [2]. Both systems are somewhat bound by the "sensibility"/logic of the output though, of course.

> as evidenced by how easily we are fooled by optical illusions

This isn't neccesarily unique to humans [3]. Do you have a specific illusion in mind? Many are related to active "baselining", and other time response things, that happens in our eyes, with others being an incorrect resolution of real ambiguity, from a two sensor system, that any sensor system will struggle with.

> Just because we think two things appear the same does not mean they are

I don't think anyone is suggesting they're the same, but I see many people suggesting, with seemingly undue confidence, that they're completely unrelated, which would require an understanding of either system that we don't have.

> To put your argument differently - ...

My argument is, if it's 3d to your eyes, then that understanding, and relation, between 2d and 3d space already exists in the system, to some degree.

[1] https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/developer/articles/g...

[2] https://www.coltsteele.com/tips/understanding-openai-s-tempe...

[3] https://blog.frontiersin.org/2018/04/26/artificial-intellige...
Yes, I do agree that books are superior.

But sometimes at the end of the day when I am tired, I just want to play something mindless and not that challenging.
"Here is a piece regarding EU disinformation laws."

Note that the DSA is not a "disinformation law".

"For anyone familiar with the current state of the EU, is there a real chance of X facing penalties or a ban in the EU?"

Yes, there is a real chance once the DSA is up and running next year.