skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
C++ strongly depends on the actual implementation quality by leaving a lot of things to implementations. For example, the person leading the coroutine implementation in clang is very inconsistent on minimizing allocations than the GCC implementations. As an example they implemented a generator system using C++ coroutines that eventually compile down to a single instruction (https://godbolt.org/z/nsTjjGbn4).

As a counter argument though, clang's support for coroutines is still buggy and not ready for production use.
I got the sense from the article the software was already done, the $400k seemed to be just for the devices. I could be wrong, the article was difficult to follow in places.
I, conversely, lack the knowledge to quite get the allusion to a Hallmark card or a Thomas Kincaid painting.

I guess that Kincaid paintings are considered subpar by connoisseurs. That wouldnʼt be the thing with Morgenstern. He is popular, but not that popular, and was sufficiently unconventional at his time to be seen as a genuine creative artist.

That is a comparison in terms of connoisseurship (or snobbery). If I had to make a comparison in terms of how the workʼs nature, Iʼd say that the shorter poems are like Roger Price droodles.
https://archive.ph/GxPx
I just want to point out this is only aimed at coal power plants. This has nothing to do with other uses of coal which is used for steel making. According to the EIA, a little over 90% of coal is used for power[1]. But there is close to 10% of that used for Steel.

[1] https://www.eia.gov/energyexplained/coal/use-of-coal.php#:~:....
Not just ASL but a total of nine signing options (click the Languages button in the top right).
It's pretty simple. You cannot infer casualty from observational data. No matter how sophisticated your statistical tools are.

You need to perform a properly controlled experiments to infer casualty. And even then it's hard.

Inferring casualty from observational data is cargo cult science.
So, that link answers "Why do you think Paul Graham compares it to communism?"

Communism seems to be his favorite example of something that can work initially from a good starting point, but fails over time, and he also believes that's true of Work From Home.

He might "hate the leverage and mobility it gives employees", but his limited comparison of it to Communism isn't strong evidence in either direction.
> the federal [US] government has as much responsibility for their welfare as yours [any other US citizen's].

You could argue that is colonialist though. It's a sailed ship obviously, but it is essentially the same as my (British) ancestors going to India and 'improving' her with tea plantations and railways, 'civilising' her, etc., isn't it?
> The DoubleML method is founded on machine learning modeling and consists of two key steps. First, we build a model that predicts the treatment variable based on the input variables . Then, we create a separate model that predicts the outcome variable using the same set of input variables . Subsequently, we calculate the residuals from the former model and regress them against the residuals from the latter model. An important feature of this method is its flexibility in accommodating non-linear models, which allows us to capture non-linear relationships — a distinctive advantage of this approach.

Just... don't do this. You're not going to be able to math your way to better conclusions. Make your model, make your plots, and use critical thinking to evaluate your results.
> On the other hand, if you try to change the system, it is highly likely to destroy your life.

What that implies is that being especially smart isn't sufficient. If being smart was a powerful differentiator, then there would be an opportunity for smart people to enter politics. They would excel because they would have a competitive advantage over the less intelligent people who are currently in politics. They would have the smarts to avoid pitfalls, and profit from their powerful status and accomplishments.

But apparently they don't do this because every single person who is smart enough, has a better opportunity elsewhere. Every single one? I think the more likely reality, is this theory about insufficient compensation being the primary issue, is bunk.
North America is largely self sufficient in crude oil. If there was another supply shock due to a war in the Middle East or whatever then the US federal government would reimpose the export ban to hold down domestic prices. Retail prices would rise a little but doubling isn't realistic.
It can certainly swing both ways but I don't follow the logic that if I block ads that people follow me block ads. It varies largely from audience to audience. If my followers are mostly young, tech-savvy individuals then sure many of them are also likely blocking ads. If I'm a big Minecraft content creator and most of my audience is 9-13 year old though? It becomes much less likely.
If GP's numbers are correct I don't think I even need a napkin to say solar + battery is more cost effective.
The Opera Mini browser was amazing. Did any of the people that worked on it end up working on anything open source making use of the same ideas?

I’m dreaming of having an open source backend that I could run myself on my server, and that would similarly download and compress pages and then send a representation of the page that can be displayed on my iPhone without the app running any JS or anything.

Greater security, and also it would make me able to browse even in bad coverage areas where currently all that happens is I wait an eternity for things to try to load and they just time out.

Basically, I wish there was an open source backend and app that behaved like Opera Mini used to.
I would say this was partially true in my case. While I ate badly, I didn't eat huge portions regularly. I also didn't eat breakfast regularly then (and often don't now either). In college we got fish and chips takeaway once it twice a week,and while it was definitely the worst kind of junk, I would be full quicker than others. That said, I regularly put away a quarter pointer, portion of chips, fizzy drink and a cheese and onion pie (deep fried cheese basically, and amazing). And not an ounce of fat on my body.
I've had lithotripsy to destroy kidney stones. If the patches of cancer are smaller than that, then I can imagine it might be more difficult.

The trick with lithotripsy is that the stones have to be visible on a regular x-ray machine in order to be able to steer the beams of sound to the correct target. I don't know how you would detect the correct targets with cancer cells, at least not in an immediate feedback system that could be used by the doctors while the patient was on the table.
Deadline based scheduling actually lets you do super clever things like "time-shifting" -- you have 10 jobs, that each take 10 seconds, and the deadline is 300 seconds out -- you can fit them in between other jobs. In addition, if you know the requirement of the job in terms of computational needs, you can determine really efficient collocation patterns.

IMHO, the problem is that it's really hard for people to think in terms of "I want my job that takes 10 CPU seconds to be done in 300 wall clock seconds". In turn, what batch processing frameworks do, is they can estimate these things, and figure out where to place work. You can also do stuff like deny requests if there isn't capacity (because you know all the scheduled work for the next quanta).
> you get basically identical popups for a website wanting to send you notification

Last I saw, that's not really true - you get asked for BT access in general, but then you have to directly select the device you want the site to connect to once scanning happens (site can specify basic filters to limit devices shown, but little else). Sites can't see what devices are available until you actively select the device from the browser UI, and can't just show you a 'click to give full access to BT with everything'.
I suspect the wording is deliberately confusing.
An introvert is not some passive person following the trends, extroverts are more likely of that behavior and it is part of what makes extroverts extroverted, the social aspects of life have greater importance to them.
Is there any connection between introversion and conflict avoidance?
Literally anyone who studied impact of changing climate on food security. And we will not see a warming of 2 degrees, we are on track for 4 - 6 degrees. The 3 degrees scenario is only projects due to fictitious 'negative emissions' from carbon capture, which will cost many times more than the current revenues of the oil industry. It's pure fantasy.
Backdoored or paranoid?
> Say I have a simple table of outdoor temperatures and ice cream sales. What can the machinery of causal inference do for me in this situation?

Not much. Causal inference works over networks of variables, specifically a DAG. But usually you know more than one variable association, so this is more an issue of pedagogy than the tool itself.

Probably the shortest, most persuasive example I can give you is a logical resolution to Simpson's Paradox: when the correlation between two variables can change depending on whether you consider a third variable or not.

The classic example is gender discrimination in college admissions. When looking at admissions rates across the entire university, women are less likely to be accepted than men. But when (in this example) you break that down into departments, every department favors women over men. This is a paradoxical contradiction, and worrying in that your science is only as good as the dimensions your data captures. Worse, the data offers no clean way to say which is the correct answer: the aggregate or the total. Statisticians stumbled for a long while on this, and it's kind of wild that we were able to declare smoking causes cancer without a resolution to this.

Pearl wrote a paper on how bayesian approaches resolve the paradox[1], but it does presume familiarity with terms like "colliders," "backdoor criterion" and "do-calculus." His main point is that causal inference techniques give us the language and tools to resolve the paradox that frequentist approaches do not.

[1]: https://ftp.cs.ucla.edu/pub/stat_ser/r414.pdf
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> ...I'd give anything to hear...silence again...

SILENCE!!!
> For smaller entities it's a PITA to have to manage a separate additinal contract, and it costs a lot more for the merchant, when virtually nobody only owns an Amex.

I completely agree on the cost part for AMEX, but how do you mean it's a PITA to accept those cards? It's usually as simple as enabling an option with your card payment service, not very complicated at all.
> However, the words have lost their meaning, and who today would willingly call themselves these things

I agree the words have lost meaning. But it's because the words are used too much and usually inappropriately. For example, politicians are consistently called leaders. Nah. They are usually, at best, elected officials. Leadership is a verb, not a noun (i.e., title).

I'll leave another theorem:

"There's no such thing as bad leadership."

For example, you'll see a meme-y type thing on LinkedIn "Bad leaders don't listen to their people." Nah. If you're not listening to your people...you're not leading. Full stop. And now we're back to the words having no meaning.
Without equality and justice no future can be imagined
I would still have to switch back to it from whatever other tab I was looking at. I don't want to do that.

I will continue installing a specific app just for that, even if it didn't have other benefits (which it does: no browser frame, systray icon, native notifications, ...)
You are very much missing the point. If you read the one thousand page postmortem on the invasion of Iraq - lots of blame to be placed on civilian leadership and intelligence.

A few:
The core reasoning (WMD) was the CIA misinterpreting Saddam grandstanding to his generals as a serious WMD program. This was due to the CIA having an insufficient grasp of the local situation, largely due to the fact that we had only infiltrated isolated parts of the regime and couldn't corroborate.

Slightly before Obama's election, the US forces were effectively ordered to stop patrolling and attempting to take and hold territory in order to reduce the American bodycount for political reasons - this allowed forces outside the green zone to maintain continuity of operations and simply wait for us to get bored and leave.

Similarly, lack of a clear set of objectives, and lack of frank expectations setting with the US population lowered the ability of the DoD to prosecute the war in a winnable fashion.

These aren't small nitpicks, these are core reasons why the GWOT didn't go so well - and almost none of them have anything to do with defense procurement or military mismanagement.
Ask HN: Why hasn't an IMDB/Goodreads for podcasts emerged?
A few people have tried to build this (e.g., Podchaser). But nothing has come close to being really successful. What's the hold up? Is this one of those seemingly "good ideas" that's just not that good?
'Launch as many times as necessary' seems to be basic advice from YC
For posterity: because it's not reflected in any way that passers-by would be able to see, I would note that this post has been going up and down in points all day. It is reflective of the tension surrounding GP's thesis. Americans tend to beg the question on the matter because accepting that we don't have a fair meritocracy, and that even a culture valuing education and economic and professional savvy does not guarantee affluence, is frightening. That best intentions and efforts can be derailed by the assumptions people make about you because of your identity.

The NY Times published data that showed that black boys whose parents are in the top income quintile have an equal chance of ending up in each income quintile, while white boys in similar situations overwhelmingly stay in the top two quintiles. Black women remain among the lowest earning demographics despite having one of the highest rates of degree attainment. Twice the work for half the recognition, and I will say explicitly this time that the GP is wrong.
There's a difference between accepting a country's (inane) laws restricting your own speech, and breaking a fundamental feature of your service.
I thought a big reason for the removal of Cover Flow from iTunes was troubles with patent troll companies in 2008:

https://www.macobserver.com/news/apple-settles-coverflow-pat...
Great, now we will need to rename the Milky Way to the Machiatto Way... Damned scientists.
Or features removed a decade ago are now back, but this time they're much more locked down (widgets)
You mean they are too small compared to their customer base to attend to every discrepancy?
You claim the PRC's imposed language changes are "to your private despair" as you publicly extol the supposed practical virtue of what they did and hold it up as a model for what you'd like done to English. You offer up token criticism of what the PRC did then lead immediately into "Nevertheless..." praise for the supposed benefits of what they did. I have seen this manner of duplicitous authoritarian apologia many times before, you aren't half as clever as you think.

Far from making things easier for children, you aim to make it far harder for them to access their cultural heritage by deliberately neglecting to teach them the language skills needed to access all extant English literature. I don't believe for an instant that this has escaped your consideration. You wish to deface the past so you can rewrite history; it's a form of book burning.

And structural racism? I guarantee you that any English speaking family with the means to do so would have their children privately taught to read traditional modern English, even if they had to do it themselves personally. You would create an underclass of quasi-literate English speakers, how is that supposed to address structural inequality? What you propose is not intended to promote equality, drop the bullshit.
One of many reasons to keep using Pathfinder. Has it built in still
As a student, I used a bus to get to school. As an adult, I walk by foot, more than an hour a day. Also, I didn't exercise in my youth, and I do now. Yet, it is now that I am fat.
>You could create the most walkable neighbourhood in the world and not achieve much in this regard.

As always, giving into hysteria only leads to more hysteria.

The massive expansion of the rights of angry Karens to summon State guns on command that occurred somewhere in the 1980s is why the current homebuying generation doesn't care about "walkability" in the first place: the generations that grew up under those conditions have simply adapted with mansion-sized homes because if you don't have a private version of what used to be a third space free from Karen's prying eyes, you don't get a space at all.

It shouldn't be lost on anyone that the people who most want walkable neighborhoods "for the children" are also the people who are going to destroy those benefits once they see the results of the other things they vote for on the street outside "for the children's safety". So no, I see no reason to build things the way they want and agree that tendency towards isolation is mainly because by and large we remain rich enough to avoid addressing the elephant in the room.
Amenities include a Western Town with a saloon, jail, post office, general store
After reading the end of this, I have the feeling I should read some classroom chatGPT's version of 'childrens stories in the style of H.P.Lovecraft'. Halloween is near anyway.
As far as I know Omnivore is not a note app like Evernotes is. You could link Omnivore to your notes app to export highlights and such. I believe they maintain a plugin for Obsidian and Notion.
At least felling trees to build things serves a purpose. Are those things worth the cost? Debatable, but at least there’s some attempt at justification.

This one is particularly heartbreaking because you can’t even apply that cynical utilitarian logic to it. It seems like a completely wanton act of vandalism.
That criticism reminds me articles/videos where professional musicians critise some famous hit songs. Musicians sometimes can comment that guitar is ahead of drums or vocal doesn't hit notes quite well. The things that I as not musician doesn't hear at all. And this is also common topic in their reviews, that one should write music for audience, not for other musicians.

I'm not native speaker and many weirdnesses of the text may go past me, but I can say that for me the commented texts (especially the 2nd one, about post apocalyptic Canada) are completely passable and much better that what I will be able ever to write.

Yes, it may be not a threat (yet) to professional, especially established author. But they will be good helpers for people like me, who can get suggestions, improvements and illustrations just for the price of my 4090 and time to tinker with models.

No gpt was used for writing this though.
Sounds like electricity is going to get more expensive, and salmon cheaper. I'm glad California is pro solar, that helps a lot.
> The only thing I think I know is not to blindly trust powerful voices advocating for a return to traditional values;

Stop being disingenuous, they're trying to save a river ecosystem, not legalize wife beating.
I once decided it would be a cool idea to walk in straight line across England and began wondering how I would plan it.

For some reason I noticed and realised my half way mark was a few meters away from this tree. As in if you look at a map the tree sits in the center of England where its diameter is at its narrowest - check it out. An odd thing.

Looking at the topography from google maps and I remember thinking what an oddly beautiful tree in the middle of nowhere.

I even noticed it had a Wikipedia entry.

It was a few years ago and I never got round to trying to walk it.

Now a couple years later I hear it’s been destroyed and I grow more concerned for the future of man.
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This is really neat. I see you use a single GPU in the paper. Would it be possible to parallelize this across many GPUs to increase the speed?
There was a local project here on the railway lines.

As part of the project they had to cut down a long row of giant pine trees in the park next to the train line.

So when the railway project was complete I took my 8 year old son to the native nursery about bought ten mountain ash seedlings.

Together we planted them in a long line in the park.

Here's pictures of how big mountain ash gets:

https://wilderlands.earth/stories/mountain-ash-the-giants-of...

https://www.australiangeographic.com.au/topics/science-envir...

https://weareexplorers.co/australias-tallest-tree-joins-100m...

My theory is if you are angry about trees being cut down then take revenge by planting giant trees everywhere.

Sadly I think only one or two of the seedlings have survived - I'll have to replant them.

The point being: where the Sycamore Gap Tree was - go there and plant a forest of the same type of tree. Plant 1,000 of them.
What part of the world would take English-speaking Americans?
But if that ML tool is trained on modern video, depending on its capabilities it may subtly modernize aspects of the video in ways that lessen the "past is a foreign country" effect, leading us to believe that the past was more like the present than it in truth was. It's a trade-off between removing technological barriers between us and the person, so we can connect to their recorded legacy, and removing sociological barriers, which we probably want to preserve.
COVID-19 vaccines. Important clarification.
While archive.org still exists.
thank you Hacker News police!
I do not disagree with that. No reasons to have old, deteriorating, ecologically questionable dams around.
What if your choice, politically, is fuel economy mandates or nothing at all?

Also, fuel taxes, like all sales taxes are regressive.
You can disable autoplay of videos on hovering in your YouTube settings. I disabled it and hovered videos stopped being added to my watch history.

https://support.google.com/youtube/thread/130441859/how-to-d...

Edit: not sure if the above page is up-to-date. On my side the setting is in "Settings - Playback and performance - Integrated playback" (setting name could be different, my interface is not in English so I translated the entry names)
Here is my forecast - MS will settle for about 1/10th of bill, if not less.
I agree with this article. All my extrovert friends didn't get jabbed. None of them got sick though, shockingly, and were outside throughout the lockdowns.
Thats like saying If you don’t have kids your property taxes shouldn’t go to the schools in the town. Almost everyone in America needs a car to survive and make a living. Have some realism
(Not that I'm aware of.)

Web pages don't really work without in-page/dynamic javascript any longer.

On the other hand it's now cheaper than ever to just have a full-blown webkit instance in the cloud and just sync/stream the dom tree paints to the client. A bunch of products do that, I think.

Back then we had a moat because

a) Opera's Presto used so much less memory than Webkit - after having gone through so many painful memory optimization efforts, particularly with Japanese mobile browser deliveries, but also with Symbian.

b) We figured out a way of making 90% of the web javascript work be keeping "tabs" around on the server for a few minutes and then just replaying carefully selected input events and capturing the output, with some kinda clever heuristics. That combined with the low memory usage did it.

Webkit used like 10x more memory per tab/window back then, iirc. And RAM was expensive.
> How many MW did those panels make at night when the river was still flowing?

Probably similar to the dam’s output during some of California’s multi-year severe drought.

Hydro can be variable too.
Good points, especially the last one.
Mark Twain, for all his qualities, was a humorist.