skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Good question. Today we are incredibly biased into base-2, using it many times where we should be using base-10 instead. So the performance of our current software is not a good example.

But maybe we can get a good example if we just divide our current numbers by instruction types and multiply the FP time by ~100.

I have seen many studies that measure how much time software spends on FP instruction. But unfortunately, we live in a web search dark age, so I don't have references. I remember that FP-heavy code spends 10% to 20% of the time on those, what means that emulation will increase your execution time up to something on the 10x - 20x range. That's perfectly fine for a lot of applications, but does limit several niches.

But as far as I know, the question of how FP-heavy is the FP-heavy software that does daily calculation is unanswered.
That each MR be deployable is a great guideline and should trump any sort of line-number guideline. It's possible that an MR could be deployable but lack context for the bigger change, but it's less likely.
M1 Air w/ 16GB of ram, and don't feel compelled to upgrade. Except, maybe, to an M series model that will allow 2 screens.

I bought an M1 Air 8GB for someone else and they complained it was slow. I asked them to remove their plastic protective cover and the lower temp has appeared to fix their complaint.

Best device I've ever owned.
Lets face it job titles are a lot of bullshit. I was a "programmer". I call myself a "software engineer". I probably do better SQL than many data engineers / scientists, which is getting annoying as I am shoehorned into roles where I plug API's together rather than deal with SQL. But Data engineer roles, always want a load of stuff I have never needed to deal with.
Type-conversions with FFI turned out to be non-trivial, so `{"embedding":[...]}` was a way out at the cost of a small performance hit (when compared to the time spent on inference).

We'll take another look.
You're more than free to do with your own time what you wish. These projects aren't harming you in any way. Who cares what enthusiasts want to do for fun? They're not trying to supplant the OS on your desktop. They're learning something and having fun doing it. I love these sorts of projects.

In contrast, many of us treat computers as a magic black box. The abstraction is great for productively building web apps. But, we've lost sight of how things work and I think that's led to steep decline in performance and, perhaps, security. I don't pine for manual resource management in all things, but knowing how syscalls work can help build context on when and why you should use them. Revisiting how to build an OS that isn't rooted in decades-old Linux or BSD code could be really instructive.
Glossy-magazine journalism.
everything about cell membranes splitting would need to be encoded in the germ plasm of the embryo (because all cells derive from that one). Can you point to the information-encoding information in the germ plasm which is not in the nucleus? Everything we know about cell biology currently suggests that everything required for cell membranes is implemented by proteins controlled by regulated expression of DNA.

For natural selection to operate directly on membranes would be a fantastic discovery but would require some pretty challenging experiments to demonstrate convincingly.
Cannot possibly agree more. It's an absolutely terrible book.

REAMDE was ok, except the sections about the MMO which frequently left me catatonic with cringe. In Fall, the whole book is that cringe.
Cryptonomicon and Anathem were what got me into Stephenson, and I loved both of those. Then I read Quicksilver and it held my attention, but I had a really hard time slogging through The Confusion and never made it to System of a World. On the other hand, Reamde was a fun story along the lines of something a popular spy fic author my write. Not high art, but easy and entertaining and something that could be easily adapted for the screen (like Snow Crash). In the Beginning... is, I believe, his best and most pure writing from a tech POV, but he's always been sort of the information technology version of what Michael Crichton is to biotech.
I don't know about you or your story. I hope you're doing well.

I've learned that the majority of people just don't want to hear anything negative or anything that makes them feel sad. If I want to have social, casual friends, I have to wall off parts of my life story.

Thankfully, I have a couple of close friends and family who know the reality and that is enough for me.
You're correct in predicting that I won't see the relevance. And the attached article is a case of noise disturbance - something that's not inherent to bitcoin mining, and unrelated to electricity usage. Should we ban all loudspeakers because some people turn them up too loud and disturb their neighbours? Of course not. We should seek remedy from the few who do, for unlawfully breaching our peace.

Perhaps you should consider your own arrogance, that you think you should be able to stop me using electricity for something that doesn't cause any harm, but which you ignorantly believe doesn't provide me enough benefit. It's none of your business.

Show me the evidence of the harm the act of hashing data causes. All you can present is some claim that using electricity causes harm. Well that applies to everything you plug into the wall, including electric vehicles, clothes dryers and Christmas lights.

Again, what right does anyone have to enforce that I should not be supplied electricity because they deem that I use it inefficiently? I pay for the electricity I use, just as everyone else does.

In any case, if my use of electricity is inefficient then whatever I'm using it for will ultimately be succeeded by a more efficient alternative that provides the same benefits (I wouldn't advise holding your breath).
Far, far more usable. You’ve got a much wider FOV and much better head tracking (6DoF vs 3DoF) and that’s before the basic improvements you get from having more resolution to play with.
Doesn't look like it.

4. Toyota RAV4 (434,943 units sold)

5. Tesla Model Y (385,900 units sold, estimated)

https://www.caranddriver.com/news/g43553191/bestselling-cars...

This source says the Model Y sold 403,897 (still behind the RAV4)
https://www.visualcapitalist.com/best-selling-vehicles-in-am...

This source says Model Y sales were 394,497: https://www.cnbc.com/2024/01/06/top-10-best-selling-cars-in-...
Sell your miner as a heater. It will still be 100% efficient just also contribute to mining.
They would not have been able to change it, since the podcast client was reliant on the standard of distribution which was open. I wouldn't attribute this to Apple "letting" it happen. They would've had to invest millions to get the content onboarded and monetized.
The site clearly states it's explicitly designed to be accessed with ancient browsers on Win 3.1.

Translation: it's not for you.

So please knock it off with the phony alarmist infosec nonsense.
What do you think Chinese news and blogs are full of?
> Electric cars are not that popular, period.

That is a matter of opinion. As a brand new technology, I think a market share approaching 10% is incredible. Only fans thought this was possible even 5 years ago.
Issue is that you can look around with your eyes at any part of the display, so the whole display needs to be able to show very high PPI/PPD, if you look at it. They can save on compute by detecting where your eyes are looking and reducing render resolution on the edges of your eye's FOV though.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foveated_imaging
A crypto miner in Alberta tried that and got smacked for it: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/green-block-mining-s...
They're long but it's not like they're not just spewing random ideas out the whole length like a Nostradamus where you shoot enough shots you'll eventually get something that can be interpreted to be prescient.
Someone just noticed Apple’s decades old SOP. Watch the aggregate fumble about, fail over and over, then take the few ideas that survive rapid, aimless iteration attempts and add the last mile of polish.

A decade of crappy Palm, WinCE, and easily forgotten Java based mobile devices came and went before iPhone.

They know what software people refuse to accept; it’s the hardware experience that matters and they’ll wait until the hardware is there.

Modern hardware is responsible for AI, more reliable networks, and the rest of modern compute. Has little to do with the bloated software stacks we git pull into the data center

Edit: Also consider that Intel and Apple don’t just make a consumer device. They design an advanced manufacturing pipeline. The difference between print(“hello world”) and for index in array: print(contents of index)

That’s the basis of their value and why they are propped up by government and why software focused startups will always just be pump and dump schemes.
I am diagnosed and I think it is
Oddly enough, other people find enjoyment in things you might find pointless. Maybe just let them be? Not every waking second needs to be spent on "pushing computing forward" or whatever. Sometimes we just want to do something cool, even if it's useless.
Could it also have been the type of weed you were using changed between your teems and 30s... transitioning from higher CBD contents to low or no CBD contents could easily explain part of that transition.
I wish never, definitely have been burned by a thinko in a supposed "typo fix". But I'll give you "rarely".
One of Europe's deepest mines is being turned into a gravity battery
Life is mostly carbon, hydrogen, oxygen and nitrogen. The arrangement and the bits of other elements turns it into much more than the isolated components.
I believe it is Shinzen Young
Sounds like they're preventing a larger societal problem.

> It said the pause ordered by the government was in response to "the very real prospect that devoting such a large proportion of the available electrical power supply to one industry would leave less energy for other uses which might result in increased costs to all other residential and industry customers in B.C."
Wanting 2.5 million megawatt hours per year (an average of almost 300 megawatts) goes a bit beyond providing a basic utility. Doing that while not impacting other customers would almost certainly require big infrastructure investments. The fact that crypto mining is a useless dead-weight loss compared to supplying power to homes and productive businesses just makes the decision all that easier.
Interesting points. But I would add that sexual selection can select for some trait that is actually counterproductive, a famous example being peacock tails. Female peacocks use them to evaluate the health of potential partners, so it is an indirect measure of fitness to the environment. But at the same time, it is clear that healthy peacocks would still be better off without carrying around such big tails. If tails weren't so important for reproduction, they would have likely shrunk by now. I wonder how a comparison with the methods you mentioned would capture this.
When WinFS was canceled, I started my own pet project to build a new kind of file system that totally changed the way file metadata was stored and managed. I built an object based system that could easily handle hundreds of millions of files within a single container (what I called a pod) and do searches much like how you would search a large database table.

The 'file table' contains a 64 byte record for each object and has some very unique characteristics that make searches incredibly fast (e.g. it can find all the photos in under a second, even if there are 20 million of them among 200 million files). You can also attach various metadata 'tags' to each object and find matching objects based on them.

The project is in open beta and anyone can download it and try it out on their own computer.

https://www.didgets.com
Is that because you mismanaged their security features and locked yourself out but they were working as designed, or because they failed?

If the latter, I think we can expect a higher quality bar from an integrated solution. If the former, well, I guess that’s just a security trade off.
"Mother Earth, Mother Board" is one of my favourite pieces of non-fiction writing.
> The new IBM LinuxONE 4 Express, starting at $135,000, will be generally available from IBM and certified business partners on February 20, 2024
I would have a UX processor that handles video, sound, and keyboard/mouse inputs. That system would be very fast so the user would never again click only to see the click register on something else.
All the medical information sites(WebMD,Drugs.com) are filled with ad beacons.
Ask HN: How can a junior dev stand out in this market?
Let's assume that:

- You're a junior dev with 1.5 years of exp and you got laid off.

- Cold applying used to yield interviews but not anymore without having changed the contents of the resume.

- You're still unemployed after 6-9 months.

- Your work experience is centered around React, Next.js, JavaScript/TypeScript.

- You have a CS degree.

- You're not afraid to pivot and learn new skills. (New programming languages, tech stack, etc...)

- You don't have to worry about paying bills. (You didn't move out of your parents' home yet)

What would you invest your time in?
Funny how crypto folk constantly talk about libertarian ideals, except when other people exercise their right not to do business with planet destroying scam artists.
Speaking as a VR enthusiast who has virtually no interest in it: The Vision Pro is an entirely new product relative to any other VR headset I know of. It offers a comprehensive set of computing features (discounting an App Store which has only really just started) that puts it roughly on par with something like iPad OS. I would say it dominates currently for VR headsets if that is what you're after, because it's basically your only option. Desktop computing in VR is possible with things like a Vive or an Index but the experience is entirely different, worse on every front, and is basically done as a workaround in case you need to operate your PC while in VR without taking off the headset. And of course, all of those headsets are (quite intelligent, but remain merely) displays: they require a fairly powerful computer to attach to. There are headsets that operate independently too, like Meta's offerings, but those are much, much, much more restrictive in terms of capability than the Vision Pro.

My interest in VR is basically solely for gaming, so the Vision Pro for me is a complete miss and I have no plans to purchase one. That being said, in the realm of productivity VR, I'd say they are dominating in that they're the sole entrant to the market that I'm aware of and their offering is extremely compelling.
This was going to be my complaint with the headset as well. I use 2x 49" super ultrawide displays, as well as 2x 27" 4k displays. Lots of real estate.

But then I started to think harder about what I was consuming display space with, and started to peel those things out into their Vision or iPad app equivalents. I'll not get into the obvious trade-offs of using iPad apps, but it largely suits the need.

Once I had Slack, Outlook, a Terminal, and TablePlus floating separately from the Mac display, I started to see a path toward potentially not caring if I even had the Mac display.
I was hiring that way in the previous company I worked for. Before we decided that, we had a few good candidates from UA and several African countries because initially we thought we'd limit only by the time zones.

In the end, we decided for EU/UK because of law compatibility, ease of enforcement (in case we would have to deal with some serious problems) and ease of gathering together from time to time.
Thank you for working with RustPython. I believe kybra made RustPython wasi support a lot more stable.
Indeed. Not helping are all the "get a heat pump installed and receive a $6K rebate"s (which drive up the bid price by around $5K-$6K).
That’s not good.
You are correct, it's a Hearst publication. Thought it was CN. Still, Hearst could be said to be doing the same thing: watering down niche publications in the name of synergy.
I agree... the first (few) time(s) I did this kind of thing I could not for the life of me keep my mind on track, instead it was jitteringly jumping to this or that visual detail, this or that sound, or whatever spark of thought popped up.

Every single time I could not help but hallucinate gigantic infrastructure from the tiniest speck of dust, and I further digressed into blaming my stupid self for being unable to perform such a simple task.

It felt hopeless.

I felt hopeless.

But I kept at it, a day at a time. A moment at a time. I accepted that failure is part of the process. I let go of blame. Oh, here's a thought, oh well, I lost focus; well so be it, let the thought float, a soap bubble drifting wherever it fancies, I could physically feel it wandering around my head while I went back towards the goal, if only for just a little bit, if only for just a little while.

And then, one day, the magic happened. The stray thought vanished, the bubble faded away. I did notice the thought popping up as usual, I did take note of its presence, but I did not notice its later absence. I was there, in the moment, but I did not notice being there in the moment. I only noticed that retrospectively.

I had let go.

I had let go on my mind, but also, and perhaps more critically I had let go of the illness. I am not ill. I am different. This is who I am. This is me. There are others like me.

It does not work at first with ADHD, but long term it does work, and it's a fantastic tool for one to manage ADHD without medication. It's training, like so many other things, one can't reasonably expect to be good at it overnight. And with continued training it gets easier.

Mind you it's not a silver bullet, but now I have one more tool up my sleeve in that endless struggle.
Heat pumps are 4-6X more efficient than resistive heaters, so if your goal is just to generate heat, you'll lose to your competitors.

In 2024 nobody should be advocating for resistive heating.
Indeed. Such a general response can literally be applied to every industry and so shows the judicial response in this case is working on feelings rather than facts.
Each of the novels is the size of an encyclopedia, which is why I gave up after Cryptonomicon.
Yeah, it's a great question to select for good bullshitters.
>I think a while back TSMC finally understood that building a factory in the US is just not feasible

TSMC always understood this. This wasn't a realization as the cost benefit analysis is obvious: US workers don't have the skill involved and they demand higher pay. The combination of the two makes the US plant a net loss.

TSMC did what they did because of political pressure. So the plan was always for the US plant to just satisfy that political pressure as much as possible. There was never a plan for the US plant to do anything profitable, it's more of a forced "technology transfer".
One productive way to think about the question what art is, is to consider the concept of "Family resemblance" [1].

The fun thing with art is that people started making anti-art [2], which is now, of course, also considered art. Possibly the only thing not being art is mediocre art. I am perfectly willing to devote some time to making that into proper art as well.

Give a contrarian artist a definition of art, and they will destroy it.

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

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-art
car, not vehicle. The best selling vehicle in the US in 2023 by a long shot is the Ford F-series truck.

Car and Driver also says the Rav4 outside the Model Y, fwiw.

https://www.caranddriver.com/news/g43553191/bestselling-cars...
Why are you downvoted? This is the solution. You are not alone.

There's probably a copyright abolitionist movement out there. If there isn't, someone should start one.
Nothing healthier than breathing in dusty mining rig fumes.
a surprisingly what
So we’ve entered the dark times where if Elon says something it’s validated as not racist and completely sane.
From TFA:

> Millennials are the most materialistic generation: A new analysis of the European Social Survey shows that across Europe, those aged 21-37 are more likely to agree with a range of materialistic statements. This is especially true in the UK, where 24% say it is important to be rich, compared with 13% of Generation X and 10% of Baby Boomers.
It should be investigated but it seems reasonable considering

1) They estimated an equivalent of half a million apartments worth of electricity. That's a massive allocation for

2) Something that provides no additional benefits to the countries labor force

3) Creates a currency that also doesn't benefit the country

4) Is inherently risky and could collapse at anytime

What they're asking is to greatly increase the demand, potentially leading to higher costs for a service that doesn't benefit the country at all.
True. I have to say I enjoy the 3’s standard strap so far - huge improvement over the 2 - but the elite strap was part of my day one order :)
A sauna in Brookyln would save a lot on their electric bill if they switched to heat pumps.
Direct-to-car billing would be even less acceptable. Chargers should let you use a credit card without having to involve an account anywhere, be it on a phone app or on the car.
43 seconds is the time taken to deploy the exploit, not to develop it. the short time window communicates the severity of the exploit.
And keeping piece count steady even as prices increase - "ten cents a piece" has been a good rule of thumb for twenty years and only really been broken in the last few, but part of that is the average size/weight of pieces has been dropping.

I'm sure someone somewhere has done the math.
This isn't a little rubber-stamp issue. The issue at hand would require adding 2.5TWh/y of capacity. And, you're right, there are countries where you could totally grease the palms of some politicians and get a new coal plant built. I'm glad that Canada isn't so corrupt.
Video: Japan: Death by Work
Karoshi means death by overwork. Due to an excessive work ethic, one in five workers in Japan is at risk from dying or committing suicide due to work pressures
And this source says Model Y was #2 and RAV4 #3.

https://wolfstreet.com/2023/12/07/tesla-model-y-is-2-us-best...

My point stands, Model Y sales are matching RAV4 sales, for all practical purposes. And it happened in the space of a couple years. Toyota sells a lot of cars, but they're not the undisputed king of the hill.

Also, not all RAV4s are hybrids. Model Y definitely outsold RAV4 hybrids. Though hybrids aren't any kind of EV (unless they are plug-in), so that's moot.
I think its entirely reasonable that large users of basic utilities be regulated. Part of being a basic utility is its supposed to be shared fairly. Large industrial usages require advanced planning.
It honestly doesn't seem that bad. Is there something less-obvious going on because it just looks like it's just "tip us with BTC" but better integrated than a QR code?
Seems like the problem there was that they operated a power plant in secret, not because they mined cryptocurrency.
Yeah it’s not cool either though :-/

And I mean from my reference you (and the downvoters) just complained about someone having a different opinion than yours so shrug
So the utility has a certain set of existing infrastructure capable of producing electricity at lets say 10c/kw. Accepting all the crypto miners might force them to introduce new capacity at 16c/kw or buy from another grid at a high rate during peak, raising prices for home consumers.

That decision seems very reasonable.
You're welcome, and good luck with the project.
3x, and only when it's just mildly cold instead of actually cold. When it gets actually cold heat pumps stop working, or work at massively reduced efficiency.
Limitation of HN title lengths probably. Or OP's capability to edit titles.