skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In those times it wasn't really a position of power, though - the crown in practice had considerable control over the parliament, and attending parliament would have often meant a considerable cost in time and money. Imagine jury duty, but it's on the other side of the world and you have to pay for your own flights and hotels.
> But people don't get shamed for spending far more than that replacing/upgrading cars when they've got a perfectly decent one already.

They should, considering the personal and external costs. Car lust keeps people on treadmills of debt. Manufacturing big metal blocks on wheels is not friendly for the physical and social environment either.
(Note the following is a simplified description of the classic forward rendering process; the so-called deferred rendering techniqure is a bit different.)

A GPU turns an abstract vector shape like a triangle, defined by three vertices and data such as a normal associated with each vertex, into a stream of fragments, one (or more if multisampling) for each pixel in the output buffer that’s covered by the shape. This part is all done in hardware.

A fragment is a pixel coordinate plus user-supplied data that’s either constant, called uniform, or the aforementioned vertex data interpolated across the triangle face, called varying. This interpolation business is again done in hardware and not programmable.

The fragment shader takes a fragment as input and based on the data computes a color, which is (after a couple more stages) output on the screen (or offscreen buffer) as the color of the respective pixel. This could be anything from a constant color to complex lighting calculations. In GPU rendering, this is all massively parallel, with countless fragments being processed simultaneously at any moment. Shaders are pure, stateless functions: the only data they can access is the input, and the only effect they can have is to return a color (and a few other things like a depth value).

So in a nutshell, the GPU hardware is responsible for computing which pixels should be filled to draw each triangle, but the fragment shader’s responsibility is to determine the color value of each of those pixels.
>I guess it’s no surprise many of these parasites are taking their ideology to retail. Millions of dollars of goods are stolen yearly, and this is why we can’t have nice things. Why pay when you can take for free?

lol, what a silly comment. We have plenty of nice things.
This sounds like your opinion and doesn’t seem accurate to me at all.
> And somehow the public narrative has shifted so that high interest rates (not even actually high by historic standards) are to blame for the affordability problem, and not the bubble in housing prices that was created by low interest rates (compounded by low supply) in the first place.

This is true, but tends to be overstated also. Here's a FRED graph of US data, showing median home price as a fraction of median household income:

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=1aHX4

The ratio was ~4 through the 90's, jumped up to ~5 over the dot com boom, dropped back to 4.5 over the financial crisis, rose back to 5 through the recovery, and is now a little above 6 in the post-covid world.

A 50% change in affordability over 30 years (or even the 19% rise since 2017) is a real effect. It's worth discussing and probably addressing. But it's not the disaster it's being presented as.

In point of fact things are great right now. The global industrial economy is growing rapidly, inflation has largely halted, unemployment is low and still dropping, wages are rising.

But no one wants to talk about that. Really the Big Story about economics news in the modern world is how shockingly disconnected public perception is from the metrics that we used to think drove it.
> We already have the tools to wipe ourselves out, adding more of them doesn't really change much

We do already have the tools, but they're mostly in the hands of people responsible enough to not use them that way, or bound into larger systems that collectively act like that.

A friendly and helpful assistant that does exactly what you ask for without ever stopping to ask "why" or to comment "that seems immoral" is absolutely going to put those tools in the hands of people who think genocide is big and clever.

The two questions I have are: (1) When does it get to that level? (2) Can we make an AI-based police force to stop that, which isn't a disaster waiting to happen all by itself?
/me also waves from behind a CNC machine, pile of tools, jigs, etc
How Soap Works: The Science Behind Handwashing
Using laziness to avoid generating parts of an expression until it's needed is a really nice idea. The LazySmallCheck package[1] took this approach, but was limited in the types of data it could produce (e.g. it couldn't generate functions). This was extended by LazySmallCheck2012[2], but that seems to be unmaintained and doesn't work with more recent GHC versions.

(Note that these are named in reference to SmallCheck[3], which takes the approach of enumerating concrete values in order of "size"; as an alternative to the more widely-used QuickCheck[4], which generates concrete values at random, and tries to "shrink" those which trigger a failure)

[1] https://hackage.haskell.org/package/lazysmallcheck

[2] https://github.com/UoYCS-plasma/LazySmallCheck2012

[3] https://hackage.haskell.org/package/smallcheck

[4] https://hackage.haskell.org/package/QuickCheck
I'm happy the author is finally realizing that twitter is not the world, and endless self-promotion isn't the only way to live.
We know from decades of safety research that threatening to ruin people's lives doesn't prevent accidents. All it does is make people lie about why the accident happened.
https://blog.twitter.com/en_us/topics/product/2022/helpful-b...

And rolled it out broadly a few weeks before Musk took over.

(Yeah yeah, that’s a long time for a feature to be in beta or development or whatever)
Community notes was started a long time before musk bought Twitter, it was rolled out progressively before coincidentally getting at full speed around (but still 3 weeks before) the acquisition.
all interviews are pretty broken.

both sides fundamentally have a reason to lie, and interviewing for deeply technical knowledge fields is hard.

after a few years in IT and Engineering I'm starting to think the Apprenticeship model used by the trades might be a better approach.
Still have mine (and the t-shirt!)
In the early 2000s there was a lot of discussion about a US law that required phone providers to provide for wiretapping, with no mention of the underlying tech. Being P2P, that wouldn't work for Skype, so a journalist asked the Skype CEO whether they would comply with the law and he said "We're not US company. Why would we?"

So I don't think it's all that tinfoily to think that once Skype became a US company, the government might have pressured them into making wiretaps possible, since there was a specific law that arguably required it. Considering all that Snowden revealed later, I'm not sure I'd put any digital surveillance in the tinfoil category.
Multiple processes cannot access the same :memory: sqlite db, which makes it incompatible for our use cases.
> The paper he links to [1] broadly agrees with his statement, eg "An estimated 1 in 270 women who underwent a coronary angiography CT at age 40 will develop cancer from that CT (1 in 600 men), compared with an estimated 1 in 8,100 women who had routine head CT at the same age (1 in 11, 080 men)".

Develop cancer, or die of cancer? Alexander seems to be claiming the latter.
It seems 'Notebooks' fits your requirements: https://www.notebooksapp.com/

I'm currently on the hunt for a notes app and found that. It seems to be a notes app / static site generator wysiwyg that uses HTML.
I'm well aware.

If you read the post you linked:

> This is an extraordinary decision for us to make

> targeted threats have escalated over the last 48 hours to the point that we believe there is an unprecedented emergency and immediate threat to human life unlike we have previously seen from Kiwifarms or any other customer before

> Revolting content alone does not create an emergency situation that necessitates the action we are taking today
Ha! I used to want an Inmos Transputer. Even tho I had zero experience in parallel process development. Saved myself some money by not being able to afford it. "I should buy a boat" meme appears.
Modules isn't any worse than NuGet for privacy. Neither are good, but it's hard to say the outrage was "ignored" - people bring it up constantly.
It was completely dead and buried at least 5 years ago.
Open the root in helix, use the fuzzy file finder (space-f) for looking up by name path, or global search (space-/) for finding by content.
A year or two really isn't a long time for a beta of this nature.
> but my money's on the NSA

Why is your money on the NSA?
What a time saver, thanks for sharing :) SwiftUI is a blast!
The whole point of robot taxis is to eliminate the job “driver”

“Driver” happens to be the most popular job in the United States

What exactly is hard to understand here?
> colonoscopies

the plural makes me curious; for medical reasons?
100% agree. I don't want to rent access to my music or rent access to TV/movies/anime through whatever people use now and have it able to be taken away from me or altered. Motley Crue's music is like 30 year old and was getting taken off and put back up in different compilation albums multiple times in 2019-2021. I want to own and keep forever, and it's extremely difficult to buy a copy of any of that stuff so I just go on rutracker with Firefox's translate tool and get what I want.
> In some countries like Germany with low consumer protections you will get extortion letters from random lawyers when you use popcorn time.

I believe there was some cases in Sweden or Denmark aswell were users got those extortion letters aswell.

Scary stuff, out of curiosity, how much do you have to torrent in order to be a target by these lawyers? I guess seeding those torrents makes you a bigger target?
I'm not saying Cloudflare is free

I'm saying they don't charge bandwidth
Your comment made me curious: what kinds of insights have you seen BE folks miss due to not working closely with PMs and designers?
"There is a $1 fine if you don't rewind your movies before you return them"
The coin laundry in APA and similar is 600yen...

The main issue is those small dryers take an hour to do what a proper coin laundry dryer can do in 20 minutes.
PEG is not a protein. And you can definitely get antibodies against anything. There's an idiot researcher trying to get people to make antibodies against cocaine.

The bonkers thing about this is that adding PEG is supposed to be a strategy to get things to evade the immune system.
Most of the people I know that pirate movies just watch them on pirate sites.

There's a specific site for watching animation (including anime) that has a better interface and search than Crunchyroll and it's free. There are pop-up ads that are easily blocked with uBlock Origin.
Text contrast is actually one of the most common issues with the Django admin. Just on the screenshot in the article, the white text against the light blue breadcrumb and nav headers background is too low contrast as per WCAG 2.0 calculations.
Tom mentioned these — their engines have very short life span, and need overhaul after every use.

The electric motors can accelerate over and over again, and the whole car is smaller than a dragster engine.
Firefox can't because you can just change the code to remove the block, but the Mozilla compiled versions very well could. CloudFlare could, and they seem like they very well would because as a company they seem as comically evil as Oracle.
It's far more common for foreigners to carry luggage on the trains in my experience. Especially on the subway.
Yes. Not knowing who Terry Tao is,, if you're on HN, makes you an outlier.
Welcome to the start of the 2024 F1 season.

$ python3 compute_probabilities.py

$ Winner: Max Verstappen

Thank you for joining this F1 season, what an exciting year this was for the sport.
Not every open source license is the same. Being open source doesn't mean do whatever you want. Not all pairs of open source license are compatible with each other. BSD license is one of the least restrictive open source licenses, engine depending on libraries that have different licenses means that the developer using the engine will potentially need to comply with more complicated license requirements compared to the case where everything was BSD licensed.

There are also a couple of folders non open source software:

* ATL -> Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation All rights reserved. Nothing said about granting permission to copy,modify or redistribute

* PIX -> Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation. All Rights Reserved. Nothing said about granting permission to copy,modify or redistribute

* reflexStats -> Copyright (c) 2021, NVIDIA CORPORATION Any use, reproduction, disclosure or distribution without an express license agreement from NVIDIA CORPORATION is strictly prohibited.

* PoissonGenerator -> Author Sergey Kosarevsky, no license text mentioning of granting any rights to do anything with it

* A couple more folders with no license information at all.
If the application actually wants to send messages on your behalf (like it will for some users), you can not claim it's a security issue if it ends up doing so.

If you don't trust me or the application, it's another story. But please don't deride my work as malicious or ignorant of actual security practices.
> current publicly available systems, and those systems will always be very, very far away from the cutting edge.

This is not obvious to me. there is heavy competition from megacaps, and money to be made before opensource (and closedest source (the spies)catches up).
Thorium is listed as “necessary for life” because it is Thorium and Uranium inside the Earth that release heat through radioactive decay that drives the geodynamo that makes the magnetic field that keeps hazardous solar radiation at bay.
It's very simple: Lots of people have those jobs, and they either like those jobs or have no confidence that having to find new jobs won't end up as a net loss for them.
I agree that wage theft is a problem but in this particular discussion it’s a “whataboutism”. At best it’s a “two wrongs make a right” argument but I think digital content piracy has an easier justification than that.

I don’t have to convince myself that piracy is okay: I do not see what is wrong with it. Others do. It’s on them to make the case against it and nobody makes a compelling case -- not one that I’ve read or heard. The talk of but it’s theft fails to see that piracy is markedly different from theft. It’s going to a different store where it’s on offer for free.
All those fucking freeloaders using a DVR and fast-forwarding over the ads!

I think they should get the death penalty for violating the terms of service./s
It allows you to specify reserved words as parameter names which you would otherwise be unable to use.

Ruby has this problem with keyword parameters and you need to use `binding.local_variable_get(:NAME)` to get such a reserved word.
There was a big kerfuffle in the D&D community the other day about an artist using AI art tools to augment his drawing in one of the new books. Guy had his whole process documented and just used AI as a final postprocess step. I can’t help but notice how bland the art in D&D books looks vs what I’m seeing daily on AI art groups.

I’ll be glad when the dust settles as it’s really limiting what’s possible since Steam is also outright banning AI art tooling.
2. Grid level storage has many forms, it does not need to be batteries. For example, hydro can be used as medium term storage. And even short term the rate at which water is passed through the damns can be varied to balance out the solar.

3. Yes, but if you look at their production mix, coal has come down from 75% to 60% over the past 10 years, the large majority of that has been taken up by renewables [0].

[0]: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/share-elec-by-source?coun...
But... transition from modals to pop-ups was a part of "going web 2.0" design switch. Now we're going back to modals and hail it as "modern"?
> The levelized cost of solar in the US is comparable to combined-cycle gas plants (at around ~$37/MWh) without taking into account the cost of storage[0].

Comparable yes. But this comes back to the framing of the discussion. The US price does not include a price on the carbon (and CO2e) polution from those sources. And given that the majority of gas/coal's LCOE is made up of variable costs (i.e. fuel) it will be sensitive to such pricing.

> Add battery storage to the mix and the cost more than quadruples. The grid as it exists currently does not handle intermittency very well at all. Wind and solar cannot provide base load and need to be paired with some other source, which at the moment is most often gas combustion.

That is also changing. Batteries are not the only option. Other vaiable options are wider more interconnected grids, as you mention below, as well as pairing with options such as hydro power. Another consideration, many places currently have time of use pricing, with the evening/night being cheaper. With the intermittency of solar, for example, time of use pricing during the day may decrease, incentivizing a shifting of loads to during the day rather than at night.

> You can very well argue that we need to modernize the grid so that it can handle intermittent sources better, and I agree, but that ends up being a lot more expensive than your simple LCOE comparison would suggest.

The US grid in particular needs modernization before even considering the intermittency of renewables, so a some portion of that modernization cost is going to be paid anyway.

> So either renewables don't make as much sense as you claim, or there's something else going on. How do you explain the discrepancy?

Part of the explanation for that discrepancy is that while the levelized cost is currently on par or lower than fossil fuels, this was absolutely not true ten years ago [0]. The price for solar dropped ~6x over the last 14 years, and there is reason to believe that it will drop further still.

> Of course they have a strategic interest in reducing dependency on foreign oil imports. But 60% of their electric grid is still from coal, and they've added almost as much coal generation capacity as they did all forms of renewables over the past 10 years[1]. And if you look at their total energy consumption (including thermal needs, not just electricity generation), 85% of all energy consumed in China comes from coal, oil, and natural gas.

And given their large coal supply it will, unfortunately, be the last to be dropped. My argument for this is the same thing I mentioned for Africa; until recently they were simply not cost competitive, but that has been changing very drastically. You are correct that their mix is 60% coal, but compare it to 10 years ago and you'll see that it fell 15 percentage points (from 75% to 60%) [1]. So while they're building coal, they're building everything else faster (and that everything else is majority renewables).

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cost_of_electricity_by_source
[1]: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/share-elec-by-source?coun...
Information is being lost constantly on the internet. Whether it is CNET deleting old articles as an SEO tactic[0], domain names expiring, formerly popular sites like Geocities being erased altogether, Google mismanaging its Usenet archive or once popular blogs getting deleted for TOS or account inactivity issues, the internet is certainly not forever. Archive.org isn't really a solution either because it is not uncommon for domain squatters to use a robots.txt setting to get them to remove the domain from the Wayback Machine. You can't even rely on large social media platforms because people delete their accounts, some people auto-delete their old social media posts and platforms decide to login-wall themselves like what happened with Twitter.

Link rot is a major problem that people don't recognize, especially for information that was only ever online. Most of the obscure web sites I used to read and hang out on are gone and many of the things I remember are now completely unverifiable because I didn't save a copy of every web site that ever influenced me.

My own unfinished game project from my teenage years vanished from the internet without a trace after I lost interest and I lost all of the code along with all of my other data from my teen years in a hard drive crash around the time I finished high school. My mods I made for games and never distributed are sitting on old laptops in my closet I haven't even turned on in years that may or may not even work anymore. I imagine everybody else who's been heavily online in the past has similar stories of just how ephemeral digital information is.

[0]: https://www.theverge.com/2023/8/9/23826342/cnet-content-prun...
I see it the same way.

In the long run imo only two options:

a) finally figure out licensing and platforming ambitions to unify so that the onus is not on customers

b) upgrade your democracies; become Switzerland

Ideally both.
It can certainly raise questions about popularity, however, as long as you also adequately consider their tendency for rent-seeking, monopolistic behavior, etc.

In this specific case it's more that I'm having a hard time picturing serious "cloud"-based web companies that decide "Oh yeah sure we'll just shut our site down if we get too many visitors". That would mean this feature is useful primarily for hobbyists, which are more likely to be put off by (and react like they do to roaming phone charges to) uncapped costs (and also not a reliable source of revenue), weakening the revenue argument for removing the feature.
"we needed a name — and once we hit on Oxide, we knew it was us: oxides form much of the earth’s crust, giving a connotation of foundation; silicon, the element that is the foundation of all of computing, is found in nature in its oxide; and (yes!) iron oxide is also known as Rust, a programming language we see playing a substantial role for us. Were there any doubt, that Oxide can also be pseudo-written in hexadecimal — as 0x1de — pretty much sealed the deal!"

from https://bcantrill.dtrace.org/2019/12/02/the-soul-of-a-new-co...
What Happens to a Werewolf on the Moon?
That sounds a bit short-sighted TBH. I am all for protecting "licensed" taxis from Uber et al, but the (long-shot) goal of robotaxis is providing a level of service that can't be provided with human drivers because it would be too expensive. If using robotaxis becomes cheaper than owning a car, that would get rid of most of the cars parked 95% of the time that are clogging up streets all over the world.
I get a colonoscopy every n years. Where n is some number between 1 and 5, depending on whether they found polyps or something the previous time.

It's not that onerous, except that I assume going under propofol + midazolam comes with cognitive risks each time, and this might be cumulative.

With that in mind, no idea how the risk/reward math of regular endoscopy/colonoscopy checkups works out.
For the HN crowd, explaining who Terrence Tao is would be ike explaining who Obama is
Nile – Serverless Postgres
What if I save a nazi's life is an argument that can be used against anything though.
You can be against piracy, totally understandable, but your not going to convince anyone to not pirate media with this kind of strained comparison and dismissive sarcasm.

There is a pretty obvious difference between copying data (which leaves the original available) and removing a physical item from a store (which does not leave the original available). You can still consider both to be wrong, but they should be differentiated.

It is also worth trying to understand why people pirate, and addressing those issues, rather than just have snarky comment wars.