skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I spend a lot time inside vim/neovim on daily basis. I do have vscode open as well but it's mostly for referencing or file exploration on repos I'm not familiar with.

Building a mental and muscle memory is tough but it requires grinding. You have to put in the time! It took me months!

My biggest mistake was starting and playing around with configurations and plugins for days/weeks and constantly having a broken environment!

Configuration hell is the worst path to get into neovim! Start with the starter kit but avoid going into installing 10s of plugins, custom key-mappings and themes until you have learned the fundamental of motions, navigations and editing.

Starter kit: https://github.com/nvim-lua/kickstart.nvim
> This isn't evidence, for example, that language determines or enhances your ability to distinguish color.

Right, language just determines which colors you learn to distinguish early in life. And it's a pretty small effect size IIRC.
Money.

The ML/Data Science fields especially break my heart. So many brilliant STEM PhDs who leave impactful research roles in the areas you mentioned for ads and finance.
czkawka is basically a rust port of my python FSlint tool, which I no longer have time to maintain:
https://www.pixelbeat.org/fslint/
With proper high volatage direct current (HVDC) transmission, the transmission losses transporting electricity from Scotland to the south of England are not very relevant. It's like a couple of percent.

A bigger problem is just the UK's inability to complete infrastructure megaprojects on land, so the connectors would likely need to go in the sea and take a perhaps inefficient route.
Just swinging through here to let you know you're a coward. Have a bad day.
Yeah I don't understand it either. There's no dependency between the load and store, so there's no inherent ordering. The entire point of relaxed atomics is to let you reorder them freely - otherwise, why aren't you using acquire/release or such?
Good idea. Maybe I can go with ROT23 and receive email from both tech and history nerds. That should cover most of the people I want emailing me anyway ;-)
Posted many times, with three of the posts having dozens of comments.
I have a rice cooker function on my instapot and never used it. I still don’t get why people buy these one off appliances like rice cookers. Making rice on the stove isn’t a huge inconvenience, pretty foolproof in fact. Once its set up you can walk away and do other things too.
> They exist for a reason. Some people have more to haul than just groceries.

What in daily life is different in the last ~20 years (when SUVs have grown popular), compared to the ~20 years before that (when minivans were a thing), compared to the ~20 years before that (when station wagons were a thing)?

Further, how often is the 'extra' hauling occurring? Why do you need to drive such a thing daily when the haulage is much less often than that? Wouldn't it save people cost (especially in gas, which everyone in the US seems to whinge about) by driving a more efficient vehicle for the most common case of the daily commute and simple weekend errands? (Renting when something 'extra' is needed.)

Further, what percentage of SUVs (and cross-overs/CUVs) actually have towing hitches to haul things? And for carrying things inside, how many SUVs have more internal volume that a minivan?

SUVs, especially the larger varieties, don't seem optimal for anything except vanity. (Speaking as someone who owns a Golf and who borrowed his parents' minivan almost every weekend as a teenager.)
I thought this was a really excellent post. The thing I liked best about it was how it presented the different set of numbers and didn't try to say "one is wrong or one is right", but instead tried to explain where the numbers came from, and what the outcome would be if some assumptions were wrong so the reader can do their own analysis. What I found particularly helpful:

1. Explaining the difference between MacKay's original "technically possible" vs. "practically possible" supply numbers. I agree with the article, the world has changed a ton since 2008 and I do think much more of that technical possibility is now practical due to changes in tech and attitude.

2. One thing I was cautious about is that the lion's share of final 2050 supply in the updated numbers comes from floating offshore wind, which in my understanding is the least technologically "ready" solution. Can someone with more knowledge comment on this? Is floating wind really as "production ready" as would be needed to match these numbers?
If glaciers don’t store water for you, you need to do it yourself for example by building reservoirs
Thank you, this is what I mean. They keep saying renewables are the answer, but we all know that more renewables we create the more energy we use. We’re not stopping energy consumption. So all of you who are saying this has been talked about, yeah it’s been talked about but that’s all it’s been done. What I’m saying it’s time to stop talking and time more doing.
> You actually want [police] to police [law breaking]? Are you joking?

If this is what you meant to ask, the answer is obviously yes.

Do you actually want homeowners to police law breaking? Are you joking? It's not even their job, and enforcing the law is literally what we pay police to do, that's why their job is called "policing" and their employer is the "police".

You want to talk about hiring budgets, what's the government-provided officer hiring budget for homeowners? Or do you expect homeowners to solve the problem with $0 while the police receive significantly more than $0 to ignore the problem? I mean, if the police abdicate their responsibilities and burden private citizens with them instead, obviously those citizens should receive the money the police were receiving.

Meanwhile, I see a lot of police sitting around in cars, at speed traps, etc. Are we sure they're doing as much as they can with the resources they have? Are we sure they're directing resources to where we want them to (in terms of both geographical areas and types of crimes)? I think it's fair for them to be able to present a request for more staffing budget, along with reports on their progress using existing resources, on current deployment of resources, on progress towards having public disciplinary hearings and publicly closing out IA complaints, etc.
The ballpark number for EVs is that they are 4x more efficient than ICE cars AIUI.

Harder to ball park heat pumps because it depends on the climate, but 4x is probably a reasonable guesstimate. At worse it's equal to burning things for heating (when it's too cold outside to use heat pumps, not sure that really happens in Britain), at best it's... some ridiculous factor better (when it's practically the same temperature outside and inside).
Suborbital (WASM startup) acquired by F5
icymi "Telling GPT-4 you're scared or under pressure improves performance" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38136863
Electrification doesn't cause such a decrease. Fixing your projection so it's not anymore a "we can't do anything, we must keep investing in BP" piece into a realistic one is what reduces it.

Honestly, anybody claiming in 2008 that PVs are too expensive so we should not invest on them is safe to ignore.
There are hundreds of components in a computer and the TPM would be one of the hardest to backdoor. Bear in mind where this stuff is manufactured. The manufacturer would want nothing to do with funny business like this because it could harm their sales, so it would have to be done under their nose, or they would have to be compelled by the government.

US intelligence agencies don't generally go around mass backdooring things. It's too risky. They carefully target their attacks.
Talking is not an action that changes the effects of climate change.

For example. I don’t have to say a word, or do anything to not buy consumer products.
It also happens to be aligned with how other similar words are written (S-Bahn, U-Boot, …), so I think it was likely to become that anyway.
Tweaks definitely needed. Perhaps I leaned toward what would be fine for my familiar non-location/time dependent work, already very flexy. Not true for most people, of course, but things change.

How’s this? 72 primes plus 50 fillers:

(1), 2, 3, 5, 7, (10), 11, 13, 17, 19, (20), 23, 29, (30), 31, 37, (40), 41, 43, 47, (50), 53, 59, (60), 61, 67, (70), 71, 73, 79, (80), 83, 89, (90), 97, (100), 101, (102), 103, 107, 109, (110), 113, (120), 127, (130), 131, 137, (138), 139, (140), 149, (150), 151, 157, (160), 163, 167, (170), 173, 179, (180), 181, (190), 191, 193, 197, 199, (200), (201), (202), (210), 211, (220), 223, 227, 229, (230), 233, 239, (240), 241, (250), 251, 257, (260), 263, 269, (270), 271, 277, (280), 281, 283, (290), 293, (300), (301), (302), (303), 307, (310), 311, 313, 317, (320), (330), 331, (332), (333), 337, (340), 347, 349, (350), (351), (352), 353, 359, (360), (361), (364), (365)

UK has 252 working days in 2023. Above is 243. The 41 single “off” days could be treated specially to give people more chance to set appointments or do certain kinds of business, like a more business-y Saturday.
But not at webscale. It's fine if you want to summarize something for personal use. The size model you're talking about is still way too large if you're trying to harvest millions of e-mail addresses from billions of webpages.
halloween was last week
It doesn't seem to mention storage, which for something so wind driven is surprising.
The problem with nuclear is that their is so much FUD around it that it becomes not just expensive but very difficult to build.

Mainly due to new regulations meaning projects have to re-engineer themselves before they are even complete. Leading to delays and cost overruns.
The VS Code vim bindings are too slow, incomplete, and they conflict with VS Code's other keybindings. I had to disable VS Code vim mode.
I want to be clear, it's a small difference in initial ability to distinguish certain colors. If you've spent your whole life dividing colors a certain way, it's a little easier for you to distinguish colors that are on different sides of that boundary.
Thanks for the suggestion!

The problem with threejs is that (I believe) the 2d support isn't that great. A lot of custom code is necessary, and often the results don't look great. See here for example:

https://observablehq.com/@grantcuster/using-three-js-for-2d-...
Sure, at least with regards to fission, but it plausibly extends the timeline out so that the moonshots are no longer quite so difficult.
Steve Jobs did the opposite of a keto / low carb diet.

https://www.reddit.com/r/exvegans/comments/10wromx/veganism_...

Cancer as a metabolic disease is catching on, but we branded those scientists as heretics for years
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8835572/

It just proves how corrupt the food industry is
Now imagine how much more carbon we would emit without the renewable terawatt hours. Btw in most countries where the renewables are being built carbon emissions do go down. They’re just being outpaced by China and India ramping up coal consumption.
I cut my grass myself using an electric mower and use it to make compost. We would use a leaf blower on our property even without grass for what it's worth. We have an electric blower too, which is a lot quieter than our neighbor's petrol one.
So you can replicate the performance by... piggybacking on the current leader's infrastructure and APIs?

That really isn't impressive at all compared to replicating said infrastructure. Why would you even mention it?
I've gone through three cheap rice cookers in recent years and am back to doing it in a pot on the stove. None of them have been consistent in their temperature control. I replaced #1 (cheap from amazon) when it burned the rice. #2 (cheap from local walmart) came was "non-stick" but was actually just bushed aluminum. I used it once and needed a scouring pad to clean the thing. #3 is just too messy, spraying rice water all over the counter within a foot of the thing.

After reading comments here I find myself hovering over the "buy now" button for a 300$ rice cooker but I have been burned too many time. Pots. Steel pots. They work. They are cheap. They last. They aren't e-waste.
I've never heard of this. It seems nature is quite creative in having so many ways to kill you off.

There are a lot of different prion diseases, too. A colleague of mine had one that led to his death. He didn't lose mental acuity, but he could barely walk, very unstable even just standing, and he shook a lot. Over time, he had to have parts of his lungs removed. Apparently fluid buildup from not breathing properly can cause additional damage.
Way question is presented, falls under the category of "NP vs P"[2][3]

Historically, Sneakernet / Physical/limited access personal library / "not for distribution outside company" was the way.

Simplest way would be to have private / internal network with no outside internet access. This doesn't prevent sneakernet ports to machines with outside access. Nor does this prevent an LLM on usb stick from 'scanning' and/or unintentional 'picture uploads'.

How would one identify LLM scanning from non-LLM scanning (beyond 10,000,000 requests per second from single source)? Checking a sites robot.txt is on honor system. And similar related things where there is a specific way to idenify valid/invalid access, such as fail-to-ban, are a never ending battle of being updated/revised to remain current.

License or no license, sort of a different take on turning test of can an ai fool a human into believing ai is a human[0]. capture system[1] to verify not a bot example of this.

[0] : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turing_test

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

[2] : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P_versus_NP_problem

[3] : https://news.mit.edu/2009/explainer-pnp
At least we'll know soon if Yann LeCun's good AIs will beat the evil ones :)
Which toxins? How are they pushed out?

While some toxins are carcinogens, cancer cells don't necessarily contain more toxins than healthy cells.
Even if the answer were "we'll still need 50% from fossil fuels" it still cuts CO2 in half. If the answer were "we still need 10% for unusual cases", it still means that fossil fuels stop being the problem, at least for that one country.

This isn't insurmountable. It doesn't have to be perfect. Even a real but incomplete effort makes a genuine difference.

The problem, unfortunately, remains the US, who has a large and powerful minority who is convinced it's all a hoax. The solution doesn't have to be complete but it does have to be something. With many millions of people actively making it worse, even 100% in the UK doesn't come anywhere near close.
You need specific hardware for Win 11. A motherboard for a Ryzen 7 I bought in only 2017 doesn't qualify.
Z notation
Correct, a lot of Mackay's estimates fail to account for the difference in delivered efficiency between electric solutions and their gas counterparts. For instance in his car section[1], he estimate you'd need to produce 40kwh to drive 50km. That may be close to the true energetic content of the gas burned, but you could drive that far on just 10kwh in a modern EV, meaning electrification dropped your gross energy needs by 75%.

[1] https://www.withouthotair.com/c3/page_29.shtml
It's... extremely easy for the government to compel mass backdoors in TPMs. Don't you remember Clipper? And the backdoor would be completely invisible until they used it, since TPMs aren't auditable.
I've never heard anybody from a 24h country use 24h unless it's regarding situations where there cannot be any ambiguity. You either live in an exceptional place, or interact with exceptional people. World you really say "At fifteen o'clock" instead of "At three o'clock" or "Three in the afternoon"?
Indeed. The whole of SV has crazy empty commercial space, and it will only get worse.

And SF is in way worse shape.
The contention is that the usage of groundwater removes it from the ground, which has long lasting effects. Long term overuse of groundwater has caused some serious problems. It's of little use to us in the sky anyhow.
I’m not really a big nightclub person, but during a trip to Germany, got a chance to meet up with a former colleague and friend in Berlin who offered to take us out to a nightclub situated in a very old castle. One of the coolest experiences of my life and it’s unfortunate to think that we’ll lose something like that from our culture just because of market forces and the next generation’s unwillingness to carry the torch when it doesn’t align completely with their sensibilities.

But such is life I guess.
DuckDuckGo founder says Google's partnerships thwart competition
A link-clump demands a linkdump (Cory Doctorow on tech monopolies)
Almost sounds too good to be true, with the popularity of dockercontainers and the like id expect this to be much more widely used.
Munich train departures CLI app written in Rust
Hi, it might be true. But we are trying a way to avoid loneliness and be active and happy.
Are you asserting that those billions of people who also aren't getting their way (as all decisions are made by Americans, whom are not at all numerous either offline or online) are a minority?
Yeah, with the largest batteries available (12aH, which is perfectly doable with a decent backpack system since the weight isn't on what you're holding) I've used mine up to 40-50 minutes in terms of continuous run at maximum power, which is extremely solid imo. Another nice aspect about electric is that when you're not actively blowing it's using zero energy, whereas once started a gas one is constantly using some fuel even when you're just walking around. Using a blower on a larger area often involves a fair amount of blowing-then-repositioning in order to herd things where you want them to go. So 30-50min of continuous run time can represent 1-2 hours of actual usage, which is also about as much (or more) as I'd ever want to do without stopping for a break anyway. And then of course can in principle just swap to new batteries anyway, though that increases TCO.
See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Flagged_revisions
What's new with identity in .NET 8
I could believe some reduction if there were massive efficiency increases (e.g. replacing resistive heating with heat pumps) but that seems impossible on that scale unless they’re also forecasting entire industries leaving the country.
why would taxpayers fund them? do they fund them?
I worked with a guy who did this. It was fast, but boy howdy was it not simple.
Imagine you are making rice in this for the first time and you have no idea how long its going to take. That is ridiculous when you think about it. How do you even plan the rest of the meal assuming you won’t just be eating rice? Take the loss the first time and take 90 minutes to make dinner since the manufacturer didn’t have actually cooking with the thing in mind I guess.
The ecosystem of vim package managers and plugins is even more diverse and dynamic and hence confusing than the JS frontend one. The more things get built-in (like LSP in neovim) the better. This is the reason there are distributions of vim (Astro, NVChad, Lunar, Lazy) which are convenient for quickly starting but are extra layers or complexity and a source of issues and time wasted.
It should be a legal requirement for platforms dominant in their industry to provide security updates until the hardware is at least 15yo, or include source with a license allowing for modification.

It is crazy that they can just abandon hardware that drove sales of their software after only a few years.
Tractor Beams Are Real, and Could Solve a Major Space Junk Problem
Yeah, since we drove on the right side, a right turn is relatively safe to treat as a yield at a red light. As long as it's safe and clear to go, you're allowed to.
So does oil.

All those guidelines apply to cooking with oil on plain metal as well.

At high temperatures oil is worse than Teflon for birds.
If cost of compute is the only argument you have on this, then we're already in game over mode, LLMs won.

Cost of LLM compute will continue to fall, models will take less CPU time to run, and the hardware will become more powerful.
Mod_perl was really tied into Apache. You could basically script the web server internals at a completely different level then (f)CGI and friends. In contrast, (f)CGI emphasizes a clean interface between different (os) processes. Both has its reasons to exist.
> one off appliances

I have an instant pot as well.
If I have to cook myself,
I put everything I have got
rice, lentils, chicken bullion powder,
frozen chicken breast,
frozen vegetables,
cut pieces of carrot,
red chili powder, ginger powder, garlic powder, black pepper, the works
everything goes in the instant pot
and I go to my MS Teams meetings.
Food cooks and goes into "keep warm" setting.

In fact, that's quite literally what I did almost every morning for a bit last year
when I was by myself.
However, "normal people" in my family refuse to eat this
even though I assure them it is perfectly edible.

It is perfectly rational to want to minimize the amount of time you spend cooking.

Edit: the rice cooker inner pot that I have is non-stick and is scratched up beyond all recognition but still they prefer using that to cook rice over my instant pot (with a superior stainless steel inner lining).
XC90 is one of the less offensive examples for sure. However, it could be lower to the ground and still have the same carrying capacity. People just love that rugged off road look though. Perhaps they haven’t come to terms with the fact that the adventurous stage of their life is over now.
Fine-tuning will never get rid of all biases introduced by the training data, some of which are subtle enough that you won't even know that you should apply fine-tuning techniques to try to mitigate them.

For example, did you know that there is a trend for physics textbooks to be dedicated to Xi Jinping? If you didn't know this, because who has time to sift through millions of books to find undesirable biases, isn't it clear that your LLM will develop subtle but favourable biases towards the CCP?
This.

The truth is that those clubs are more elitist than the opera house.
For those so inclined, Tara Brach had a lovely interview with Roland early this year: https://overcast.fm/+SWwgtYFDM

From the podcast summary:

Meditation, Psychedelics, Mortality: A conversation with Tara and Roland Griffiths - Roland is a long-term meditator, a psychopharmacologist and professor at Johns Hopkins, and a leader in researching the clinical effects of psychedelics, including their impact on those struggling with cancer, depression or addiction. At the end of 2021, he discovered he had incurable stage 4 Colon Cancer. This conversation explores the relationship between meditation and psychedelics, and how they both can serve profound spiritual awakening and deep inner freedom in the face of mortality.

Information about the endowment fund: The Roland R. Griffiths, Ph.D. Professorship Fund in Psychedelic Research on Secular Spirituality and Well-Being.
> memory mapped i/o is orders of magnitude faster than sequential calls to read()

That’s not something I’ve generally seen. Any source for this claim?

> You can have gigabytes of JSON to parse, and the JSON might be available over the network, and your service might be running on a small node with limited memory. Memory mapping here adds quite a lot of latency and cost to the system

Why does mmap add latency? I would think that mmap adds more latency for small documents because the cost of doing the mmap is high (cross CPU TLB shoot down to modify the page table) and there’s no chance to amortize. Relatedly, there’s minimal to no relation between SAX vs DOM style parsing and mmap - you can use either with mmap. If you’re not aware, you do have some knobs with mmap to hint to the OS how it’s going to be used although it’s very unwieldy to configure it to work well.
Fair enough, however it is better to hire few frontend specalists rather than depending on fullstack/backend people to do the frontend.