skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Another hint that it's a deliberately lackluster example is that it violates a rule given in the article: don't use character names.
The sandbox is interpreting RISC-V, just very quickly. It's platform independent. I am actually making a game with a derivative of this repo, and in the server I am building the programs at the same time as the server. Once the server starts, it loads all the programs, and then sends compressed programs to each client, so that everyone who connects has the same scripts. Easy and convenient, but most likely just that because I did it from the start.
Great work, getting Flash back into the browser.
> But if you are perceived as an asshole to the rest of the team

That sounds toxic to be fair, if you are treated like this just because you didn't stick with the business you didn't feel right. On the other hand it's a great pre-emptor if the company you are applying to values opinion of such people. It's really better to not work at such places.
Indeed, our 2002 Jetta TDI has 300K miles on the clock and still does 40-45 MPG highway.
Although excellent for vector databases, unfortunately this does not include postgres with pgvector.
We have had quite a few "unexplained" electric and hybrid bus fires here in Barcelona the last few years.
As someone who's working on a game engine that's designed to be highly data-driven, with only the core game engine itself in a systems programming language and a lot of calls out to scripts, this is very intriguing! C++20 doesn't seem like a good candidate for an actual scripting language, so I'd have to find a suitable scripting language that can compile to RISC-V, though, and of course requiring precompilation is an issue.
Take for example i32.add you have to

1. Check the type at the top of the stack to make sure it's i32 and trap otherwise

2. Pop the top of the stack

3. Check the top of the stack and make sure it's i32 and trap otherwise

4. Pop the top of the stack.

5. Add the two values together

6. Push the result to the top of the stack along with its type.

Compare this to ADD from RISC-V where you can just add the contents of 2 source registers and store it in a destination register. There is not a bunch of type book keeping or alignment that you have to worry about.
But the most recent incident you've cited is 18 years old. I'd hardly say "they keep falling off and they keep flying them" for that.
Set and setting are critical factors in the outcome of any use of psychedelics, particularly for naive users unfamiliar with the effects. Practically speaking, this means LSD could plausibly be used in both cult brainwashing and cult deprogramming activities. That's why the CIA thought it could be used as a mind control / interrogation tool in the early 1950s (e.g. MKULTRA), while others adopted it as a liberating creative tool for artists (indeed, I once met a classically trained flutist who reported that they found it impossible to improvise over a jazz chord progression until they tried LSD).

Personally I think a great many of the problem outcomes with psychedelics is related to consumerism and the desire for quick fixes. A society blanketed with pharmaceutical advertising and indoctrinated with the notion that pills fix health problems will tend to generate individuals who think taking some drug will 'fix' them. A typical outcome for such people is that they try some psychedelic, have a great time, and then run back to the well for another taste, and then have a horrible grim experience, reliving some past personal trauma or consumed with morbid thoughts of death and darkness, etc. - the so-called 'bad trip'. Let alone people who take so much they completely dissociate with sensory reality, a very dangerous situation as they may fall off cliffs, walk into traffic, etc.

More often than not, people indoctrinated into consumerist drug use will instead turn to alcohol, opiates, cocaine, amphetamines, benzos, etc. - all drugs with fairly predictable feel-good effects, a variety of negative health effects, and high addiction potential - but not much risk of a 'bad trip'. In contrast, psychedelics have potential for combatting addiction to such drugs because they lead to introspection, self-reflection, and the realization that the short-term feel-good effects of addictive drugs are not worth the long-term consequences - the degradation of ones' mental and physical capabilities, degraded social relationships, loss of emotional control and so on.
> you are willing to do some manual filtering

What filtering?
Plasma gasification is the cleanest mechanism to convert plastics to energy while rendering byproducts inert, there just isn't much will to implement. Energy output can contribute towards direct air capture of carbon to mineralize, the rest can be from renewables.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plasma_gasification

https://netl.doe.gov/research/Coal/energy-systems/gasificati...

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S03783... ("Plasma gasification versus incineration of plastic waste: Energy, economic and environmental analysis")

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38722984 (u/CptFribble: "I am once again asking you to consider plasma gasification. Here is my standard comment, copied again")

https://news.mit.edu/2021/inentec-turning-trash-into-valuabl... (Control-F "Recycling plastic")

HN Discussion stream on the topic: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...

(the art project is fine though)
Interesting article about whether WAFs are actually useful or not in modern times. Thanks!
If I had unlimited time I would love to. Unfortunately I can’t see it expanding beyond Canada anytime soon though.
It doesn't, I use a standard laptop keyboard and my weird-ass custom keyboard very interchangeably with zero trouble. Hell, I'm typing on a MacBook right now.
It sounds like pretty standard constructions with OpenAI's API. I have a couple of such iterative scripts myself for bash commands, SQL etc.

But sure, why not!
data lags tremendously.
Please read in context with the rest of the post! The idea is that it's very hard to raise the entropy of the brain without psychomometic effects as best as I understand, due to some fundamental informational qualities of those processes.

It's like looking for a flu medicine and judging it by if makes a fever go down because a fever is an arbitrary human-measurable metric. Has some quality of life impacts but is second player to the actual health impacts of conditions including fever (especially ones with long term impacts) and is extremely superficial.

I think that's the idea, maybe you can avoid visual cortex stuff but you can't magically get no psychomometic effects unless somehow the medication is perfectly shooting some kind of entropic gap.

I'm sure it's possible but I feel like it's much better as an accidentally discovered thing or a second or third generation medication thing, not a first priority, if that makes sense.
I don’t drive at all when it snows as a human. Our whole city basically shuts down then, and we are pretty far north as far as cities go.

Even in places that expect snow, cars are moving much more slowly and cautiously than normal. It almost seems like self driving cars would do much better in those situations given the speeds and caution involved.
Nice to know there might have been some ambiguity! I was sure you’d be describing my grammar school teacher Mrs Hedgecock.

I shall continue envisioning Kate in this role.
And instead we should continue to burn gasoline?

Your premise implies that he wouldn't have burned anything if he didn't burn plastic. This is largely false for most of the population. You're going to burn _something_ somewhere, whether coal or natural gas at the power plant or most likely gasoline in your car. You might as well burn things that need to be cleaned up anyway.
Does anyone have any advice on how to become an auteur software engineer? I've tried visual programming, functional programming, and several others, and they are just so much more enjoyable and powerful (in a specific sense akin to productive) than mainstream languages like Python, C++, etc. But I'm relatively exhausted by having platforms dictated to me by the middle of the bell curve and, frankly, people not experienced. Even as something as simple.and pragmatic as F# or Elixir seems to make people step back from you, as if you're cursed, much less something like Smalltalk. At this point in my career, I have given up and am just going to use Python and C++ like everyone wants you to. It's been a big enough hurdle yo probe that Incan write in Python and C++ despite having used a plethora of languages.

So, how do you use these powerful platforms banished to personal projects? How does one get into a position such that you can dictate the platforms used? Is there anyone who has done this?

It's an unfortunate case of people having the interesting applications having a very tunnel visioned view of what could be with software.
> Railroad companies operate fairly close to capacity, and they have no desire to reduce their massive profit margins building new rails en masse and handling the maintenance burden.

I'm talking from a "looking at the wide, societal picture" viewpoint. And from that, it makes so much more sense to shift as much long haul traffic to railways as possible. I'm aware that the mechanics of modern day capitalism are not aligned with what's best for society at large, long-term - mostly that railway infrastructure is orders of magnitude better regarding emissions and energy consumptions, but that it takes many more years for investments to pay off, which is why there is so few railway capacity in the US and what is there, is often enough in shabby condition.
A couple years ago I switched from Google Docs to Obsidian.

Unfortunately, as other have mentioned, Google Docs omits some seriously impactful features.

All it would've taken, at the time, was collapsible/foldable headings for me to stick with Docs.

But since then, I've grown to appreciate the millions other things Obsidian has to offer, like the ease of developing plugins which, to me, make Obsidian feel like it's an OS within my OS.
>>>diesel-like liquid

What, _specifically_ is that liquid and how toxic is that stuff vs diesel/petrol...?

If you spill a liter of that stuff into a canal/ditch/stream, What consequences?
Just adding a few small details here:
1. When the canal was built, it was deemed to hard and expensive to dig at the level of the two oceans so they imagined the locks system as a solution for that. Back then, the canal was built with US money in a time of conflict between Panama(which was part of Colombia) and Colombia. Today Panama is an independent country, but they don't have the finances to upgrade the canal.
2. They don't want to bring water from the ocean up the canal is because the canal gets its water from a series of fresh water lakes. Bringing salty water would kill the life in the lakes are around the lakes and cause a lot more problems long term.
ERCOT seems to be well-prepared (pun intended) for this cold snap.
Because I already use it for everything else such as contacts (CardDAV), calendar events and tasks (CalDAV) which syncs nicely with my android phone. It's not that hard to host if not many people use the instance, has always worked well for me.
Rob Pike was after C++ programmers initially, turns out that naturally the language isn't appealing to that community.

> Although we expected C++ programmers to see Go as an alternative, instead most Go programmers come from languages like Python and Ruby. Very few come from C++.

https://commandcenter.blogspot.com/2012/06/less-is-exponenti...
I just get hung up on being an airplane company that doesn't manufacture the plane. How is that possibly not a core competency for the design and manufacture of airplanes?
Yes I think this is it right here. Like, at a micro dose (or slightly above) level it maybe makes sense, but the raw characteristics of how psychedelics work will still be there. Maybe there's some way, who knows, but I don't think we're likely to find out up front, somewhat similar to trying to turn lead into gold just because, as it were (at least as best as I understand. :,(((( )
No, but I’ll admit that is my biggest hesitation in promoting it beyond what I already do. Walmart has the most aggressive blocking (in general, I don’t think specifically directed at my site) and I haven’t been able to get new data from them since October I think. Otherwise haven’t had any issues.
> like, we wouldn't allow someone to be an Uber or Lyft or truck driver if they were candid and said "I'm going to text on my phone, and be drunk driving and sleepy and distracted as often as the average motorist".

But we do allow it. Sure its illegal but we don't put in the effort to actually prevent it. Just because we don't like it and would want it to be better doesn't mean we aren't allowing it.
The Renton and Everett plants are almost equidistant from my actually-Seattle house. The trip to Everett is estimated to be a couple of minutes shorter, but both are currently less than 40 minutes.

The airport at the Everett facility, Paine field (PAE), was recently renamed "Seattle Paine Field International Airport"
Do what humans do and drive without lines while trying to stay to one side of the road. This doesn’t seem like a major problem to self driving snow cars. More like, how do you deal with other drivers who are RWD with summer tires and are fish tailing all over the place.
I think intuitively the desk calculator analogy makes sense, but from a technology perspective it does not. A calculator has a limited number of operations and operating modes, and you can feasibly test all of them, quickly, easily, and in an automated fashion.

An autonomous vehicle has an uncountable number of operating modes, and it is not feasible (perhaps not even possible) to test it in all possible conditions and states. Even if you could, doing so for (say) every single software change would take years each time.

Maybe that does mean that this is a fool's errand, and we just shouldn't be building autonomous cars, at least not until we have AGI that can think and act faster and with better judgment than a human.

I personally do think that "better record than a human driver" should be sufficient (perhaps with some significant, TBD margin; 0.1% better is probably not enough), but I accept and agree with your toplevel comment that sort of thing won't fly in the real world. The bar is really more like the self-driving car has to avoid making the specific kinds of mistakes and illegal/unsafe acts that a human driver would do (all while not creating new classes of mistakes that a human driver would not make), and, on top of that, be better than a human driver in situations where crash would not be deemed that human driver's fault.
Agreed on the stores. Cities/locations should be sorted by distance from your location.
In the US, yes. Elsewhere, not so much. Tap water is not safe in much of the world.
People are buying cheap, abandoned homes in Japan
So no index or other listing of articles. No RSS.

I‘ve been tempted a few times, as well, but it‘s a little bit too sparse for me.
What's the immutability aspect of this? I'm trying to find that on the site, no luck yet tho (ctrl-f'ing at least).

Given that i'm on NixOS atm i'm quite interested in this aspect.
That was actually the inspiration for the journal view but I like obsidian more. One thing I do miss from logseq is also its PDF annotation feature. Although that also comes with quite a bit of complexity.
Incredible achievements. First time I used Open Collective: https://opencollective.com/ruffle
Those are bad for my mental health and bowel. Also, they are really expansive.

When you are at home, there is no reason to stock stuff whose main advantage is being lightweight.
Marx is the poster child for equality of outcome. Would be very interested to know where you heard he stood for equal opportunity.

For example he is famous for saying "from each according to their ability, to each according to their need" i.e. everyone works as hard as they can yet gets the same pay, because everyone's "need" is the same. Maybe adjusted by a few exceptions like family size and medical conditions, but the point of this is to separate how hard you work from what you get.
I have fond memories of playing conkers in Dublin in the late 70s/early 80s, thanks to a number of horse chestnut trees at the end of our street. We'd "borrow" a knitting needle to piece them.
And following the design guidelines! Ahh, it makes the user experience SO much better.
It’s all about doing. Next time you need to prototype something do it in your ideal language (this is the crux as you need to knock it out of the park). The next phase is showing how much more work it would have been in blub. The final phase is being prepared and capable enough to teach your co-workers!
One cool application of dynamic programming is the pairwise alignment of nucleotide/protein sequences:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sequence_alignment

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Needleman%E2%80%93Wunsch_algor...

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smith%E2%80%93Waterman_algorit...
Sure, here it is: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1746632215164035199.html
Definitely, it's always better to go with a reputed company. This case is just bizarre tho. Like life threats, jail threats, fake cyber crime threats what the hell was that?!
I was writing a response to the paper (which compares with rev.ng), but never managed to complete it.
I wanted to make a thread on Twitter about it, but it was getting longer and longer, more like a blog post.

If you're really interested, drop me an e-mail and I'll forward it to you.

The bottom line is more or less summarized in my other response in this thread.
I have dabbled with Pharo smalltalk a bit and got a similar feeling.

The core "thing" (pharo it self) works well enough, other stuff you'll likely have to write on your own (batteries are not included).

Also, multi-threading seems to be non-existant? No FOSS implementation does that AFAIK (proprietary implementations are irrelevant).

I see the nicety of the language, but I'm not convinced (at all) by the implementation. Oh and Pharo seems to be the most advanced implementation of Smalltalk?

It really doesn't look practical at all.

But then again, the video starts and the guy is kinda deriding some Java or C++ code but then you move forward (eg: 8:31) and the speaker has a whole display filled with unrelated things and has to write code in a small text area, viewing like 4 lines at the time? Thanks, i'll pass...
It's _much_ better to burning trash in special facilities, where it is burnt down to CO2, rather to some kind of soot that will pollute the atmosphere. It will also be more efficient in terms of energy production.
This is covered in the fine article:

> On the other hand, the CO2 emissions from fuel production and combustion are not praiseworthy. First, there is the burning of plastic on the roof. Making 1 liter of diesel requires burning 1 kg of plastic, which results in 2-2.7 kg of carbon emissions. Second, there is the combustion of diesel fuel while driving, which emits 2.7 kg of carbon dioxide per liter. Together, that becomes 4.7 to 5.4 kg CO2 per liter. Consequently, with a fuel economy of 7.14 liters per 100 km, the Volvo emits 33.6 to 38.6 kg of greenhouse gases per 100 km.

> In contrast, the emissions of the average fossil fuel-powered car in Europe amount to 25.8 kg/100 km, including crude oil production, fuel refining, and vehicle manufacturing The emissions of a small electric car like the Nissan Leaf amount to 10.9 kg/100km in Europe, including the emissions of electricity production.

The article make some other interesting points:

> Much of the plastic waste that the Volvo 240 burns burns anyway. Not in cars but in incinerators. That is the case for 44% of plastic waste in Europe.

> The carbon emissions are the same. So is the air pollution, although it’s easier to put a flue gas scrubber on thousands of incinerators than on millions of cars. The main difference is that burning plastic waste in incinerators to power electric cars allows many of us to externalize the side effects of car driving. An incinerator can be (and always is) located in a poor neighborhood, where it causes high incidences of cancer and other health problems despite air pollution control.

And moreover, this isn't really meant to be for widespread adoption:

> In contrast, Schalkx’s Volvo internalizes all the side effects of driving automobiles. The car is not a pleasure to drive, at least not regularly. It is dirty. Its interior stinks of plastic, which cannot be healthy – Gijs keeps the car windows open no matter the weather. Furthermore, he needs to spend a lot of time collecting plastic and making fuel, and all these disadvantages make him think twice before he gets behind the wheel.

There's plenty more interesting points, and the article is relatively short and worth the read.
It has already panned out: birth rates have cratered. And instead of looking at the obvious causes: economy and cliamter change are in the shitter, crap stressful jobs with long commutes that work you too hard and don't pay you enough to afford even a crappy overpriced property, people blame the youngsters for endulging in avocado toast, tinder, videogames and porn.
Really? That’s not my experience. I’m not denying companies are out there basically selling a rubber stamp like you say, but I’ve worked with sharp folks from Matasano and NCC Group who would go deep, learn from eng about system but also do blind red teaming, do physical pen tests etc. I think you’ll probably get what you pay for and get good results if you put in good effort working with them.

I can’t speak to Cure53 but I feel like I’ve seen that name on a few failed cryptocurrency thingies.
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What is the product here? Do you need a licence to commercialise applications built with the framework or is your business plan taking a percentage of store sales?
My perfectly serviceable Barnes and Noble Nook uses Android 4.4 and I use the device almost every single day. Mostly I study with Ankidroid but I would love a web browser for the thing. Being an e-ink device, it is perfect for reading.
It would be so nice to get a brief description of what this is, and why it is useful, without a bunch of project names and buzzwords. Can it be boiled down to a few simple concepts that are delivered by this project?
Simple. Good. Simple is good enough.
Ask HN: Help me find a topic on HN about the most value for your money things
There used to be a relatively popular post here on HN a few years ago with links to multiple similar blog posts where authors collected list of the best value (in their opinion) things and activities. For example, I remember an author argued that hiring a tutor on any new activity is money well spent. Or buying certain items like Aeropress, etc

Thank you
Freetards? Do you make money from an OS, compiler or similar infrastructure? If not, then your employer would in my opinion be making a mistake to send $$$ to a vendor of same unless they're in a very special niche.

One of the only enduring lessons from IT history is that there's always going to come a time to move on from some technology or vendor. And IBM isn't doing wrong by trying to capture some cash but it's very late in this game and its a losing battle.

I'm guessing that it's going to be the 'legacy' cloud vendor's time soon. The markup is way out of whack.
Part of optimizing for the design choices of browser engines is to make it easy to emit machine code. The browsers have multiple compilers in them, and one of the compilers has the task of emitting simple machine code quickly, so the code can run immediately (reducing start-up time). In V8, this initial compiler is called Ignition.
Negligence is not murder but people still die.