skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can't extend the concept of "coloring" a function to all possible environment and parameters a function needs to execute. That's not because that's a useless concept; I actually find it a very important concept to be thinking about and I often explicitly think in terms of trying to minimize the size of such things in my code. But you can't extend the "coloring" concept that far because you've stretched it all out of shape at that point, into an entirely different concept. All code in all languages everywhere is going to have state that flows through some combination of function parameters through the program and have certain requirements for that state without which the functions (methods/whatever) will not run.

Coloration is a very particular very strong instance of such things that is so strong it causes its own special effects and imposes very special constraints on the code. Generally if you need to call something that wants a context but you don't have one, you just pass in the trivially-obtained "context.Background()" and move on. Nowhere near the level of blockage as a color issue.

"If goroutines are so cheap then why not let the library spawn them."

It's not about cost, it's about software engineering, and it's a particular antipattern you may not know about if you're not in the community. As I said in another post, many libraries "helpfully" spawn goroutines to do a thing and offer a promise-like interface to the results. This is the core antipattern being referred to, which I've seen quite a lot. The resulting API is complexified relative to simply having a function that takes parameters and returns results. If you write such a complex API, an end-user of that API can't uncomplexify it. However, if you write the simple, normal function, an end-user of your API who does want that additional functionality can trivially add it, and moreover, they can add it in whatever other combination of things they may want, e.g., perhaps your library is part of a three-step pipeline you choose to run in its own goroutine, or some other complex threading setup you need. It is better for a library to provide the simple "synchronous" API than to try to guess and possibly even as a result forstall the real setup you need.

It isn't a hard-and-fast rule that libraries must never spawn goroutines, it's a particular set of antipatterns being referred to.
It's that it's preferable to any alternative. It's not a class tier so much as a gradient of availability and that is good.
I'm from Alabama and having to pay a toll to get to work sounds dystopian.
"People familiar with the matter" gave the story to the WSJ reporter, so likely people that were in some of the meetings. The WSJ story is more comprehensive:

https://archive.is/tyZq2#selection-6231.180-6234.0
Freedom of speech is literally a constitutional amendment. It might also be an American cultural value, but it's absurd to say it's not a constitutional amendment.
He's probably pricing hyperinflation into the synergy NPV calculation.
Yes, within VSE (and elsewhere in Blender) almost (*) everything uses premultiplied alpha, directly or indirectly. 8bit/channel images are stored non-premultiplied, but any math done on them does premultiplication, the math, then reverses back into un-premultiplied form (reason being, that w/ premultiplication 8bit/channel is not enough precision). Float/channel images are always premultiplied.

(*) I have found one or two VSE effects that do not do the correct premultiplication within their calculations. Someone(tm) should fix them at some point. But also a good question, whether there should be an option to keep previous "broken" behavior.

wrt color spaces, VSE by default does not do blending in linear color space. Default is sRGB, and variuous blending operations are done directly on sRGB values, i.e. "what four decades of photoshop has taught us to accept as expected results". VSE can be set to operate in some other color space, optionally.

wrt filtering of images, the pixel values are "just" filtered without color space awareness. So for 8bit/channel images (usually sRGB), they get "slightly incorrectly" filtered. If you want proper linear space filtering, can force images to be to floating point (any floating point images wihtin Blender are in "scene linear").
$7T sounds like a lot of money but reading between the lines seems to be the projected total cost for not just chip design and fab but also infrastructure to support such an industry over a bit of time. That seems reasonable to me. It's not like you can easily spend $7T very quickly, so this total value would likely be spent over many years across many different companies/investments in order to grow the entire AI industry. It's hardware, software, facilities, engineers, scientists, power plants, power distribution networks, silicon fabs, etc.
It's actually a very weird verdict that makes me (far from a climate skeptic) feel very icky. Whether or not you like Steyn, he makes a valid point here:

> “We always said that Mann never suffered any actual injury from the statement at issue,” Steyn said on Thursday through his manager. “And today, after twelve years, the jury awarded him one dollar in compensatory damages.”

The jury essentially acknowledged that there was no actual damage, but then proceeded to levy an enormous punitive fine for... reasons. That feels less like the jury was persuaded by hard evidence that Mann was in the right and more that the jury was persuaded that Steyn was subjectively a bad person who needed punishing, which is a weird outcome.
EDIT: I want to add that man made climate change needs to be addressed and the defendant is objectively opposing this. That said, the great HL Menchin once said “The trouble with fighting for human freedom is that one spends most of one’s time defending scoundrels.”

Concluding that scientific research is fraudulent because you have you own reasons to believe its conclusions are false can’t be defamation without compromising free scientific inquiry. Even if your reason for concluding its fraudulent is because you believe in a flat Earth, courts are not the venue to resolve questions of scientific debate. That is a can of worms that should never be opened lest we find ourselves in a new Lysenkoism.
Even if the gulf states had the money, they still wouldn't do it. The main thing they care about is decreasing their risk of having their assets frozen by the U.S., which is why they are happy to make money-losing investments. Whereas investing this much into a single venture would massively increase their exposure.
Same!
Also, Swizec's an awesome writer. (Long-time email subscriber, and fan of his posts and Serverless Handbook book, etc).
no, it sounds to me that it requires 3 tons of basalt to capture 1 ton of CO2. it does not read like it is making any claims beyond that. it reads to me as if you're putting words into it on your own.
how does this compare to primatejs?
“According to [one person of] people familiar with the matter” the amount sought “could be” $7 trillion.

This is journalistic malpractice.
Let me share several books that brought me a similar level of awe, due to the scope and creativity of the world-building:

1. Accelerando by Charles Stross - for THE Scope.

2. Quantum Thief by Hanny Rajaniemi - for the similarly high entry threshold and rewarding experience when you cross it.

3. Revelation Space by Alastair Reynolds - for a fascinating vision of future human societies.

I'd be happy to find more books like these.
I think Jonathan Blow's programming language, Jai, has an implicit context available to any function. However in Jai the context has a lot of implicit functionality, on the top of my head at least logging plumbing, and allocator plumbing.
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> There are 15 year lead times at foundries and the equipment makers.

This is a wild claim, can you explain? You are suggesting that a chip who's design is manufacturing ready today cant be built until 2039?
Public figures have to prove "actual malice" (a technical legal term- don't use the casual conversation definition for those words) in order to get libel, which is a much higher bar than us regular schmoe's have to clear. But it still exists.
Not going to lie, getting a comment from THE AUTHOR of a book I greatly enjoyed is now one of the highlights of my 10+ years of being on HN!

I should add:
every time I hear the phrase "state vector" I think of Accelerando.
Reminds me of Adam Nuemann's ambition to be the world's first trillionaire.
> immutable is the future of Linux

Or indeed, the past. Happy nixos user since ~2016 here.
It would just be disincorporsted, like a defunct company.
Doesnt an air gap have an even lower thermal conductivity? Conductive heat transfer is usually much higher than convective.
It's just words. If the President marched the army into the court, the judiciary would capitulate. Books won't protect them.
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> Other than higher cost for the heat pump unit, are there any other issues with having one that's oversized for heating?

- Short cycling leading to lower equipment life (also true for gas furnaces, although heat pumps have more moving parts)

- Greater discomfort as the house heats up rapidly then cools down rapidly (especially if it has a leaky building envelope).

- Higher peak electric loads, possibly during hours of high electricity prices, leading to higher electricity costs.

> My understanding is that for cooling, having one that is oversized can be a problem because of humidity issues,

Yes, because moisture will build up when it isn't running.

> makes me wonder what can be done if a space has an imbalance between the size needed for cooling versus what it needs for heating.

Many heat pumps have different output ratings for heating and cooling modes to deal with this. Often however, this has as much to do with the distribution of the heated/cooled air and placement of supply registers, which is often an afterthought when the system is purposely oversized (which is presumed to make up for lack of air distribution design).
"We're sorry, but this video is no longer available."

Why bother posting the link?
Looks fully closed and properitary unfortunately.

I've decided I wanna self host LLMs for personal assistant, even if this means ec2 on AWS. jan.ai works locally for now, which is my first jump in this direction.

These are intimate data and I don't wanna be around when any of these guys becomes big tech and has years of my data.
Thanks! You can click on nodes to add them to the canvas or drag. Both work
So I was nodding in approval ... up until getting to the "merch" section. O tempora o mores!

My favourite work on this theme: https://barykin-pin-up.ru/#/i/kniga-luchshaya-podruga (the apple is obvious; she is reading "Mode", a soviet-era fashion mag that seems to still be in print to this day; he is reading a science fiction collection. My russian is weak, but AIUI the caption most likely claims "a book [is the] best friend", and because books are grammatically feminine in russian, it's ambiguous and could also be read as "best girlfriend")
I am also curious how much carbon is released to extract and spread that 3 tons. I'm guessing it's still a net carbon-negative, but that's still a lot of material to be moving around.
The legal situation notwithstanding I actually kinda agree with this. You have to pay $1e6 in punitive damages because you were actively trying to defame him and we want you to be sufficiently disincentivized from trying it again. But since you failed so spectacularly and didn't do any actual harm to him personally or his career here's $1 actual of damages.

Can you imagine if firing a gun into a crowd was only illegal if you actually hit someone? I think you have to take intent into account and here it's so blatantly purposeful.
These people literally talk about "creating God" and "replacing humans" when they talk about this stuff.
Gulf states sovereign wealth funds have about $3.7T in total assets. They would have to sell 50% of the assets to get 25% share in Sam Altman's new project.
> I suspect that when the histories are written that the name Lamport will appear right up there with Knuth, Dijkstra, and other such seminal contributors to the field of computing science.

I would be shocked were that not to be the case. Absolutely a giant.
Sometimes people want pricing transparency, and sometimes they don't.

Teslas in a sense have become a commodity.

A large, homogenous inventory of vehicles, with minimal option package variations, minimal model year changes, and very, very transparent pricing..
Why don't more sites ask for the username/password and the TOTP code on the same form? Is there a downside to that approach? I've only seen it done that way rarely.
However, at least some ORDER BY queries will have a final sorting step before the client sees the first row. (If you're sorting on a column with an index, it may be able to produce the data in sorted order; if not, though, the final sort seems unavoidable.)

Which means that the capacity to buffer up data until it's all produced is present. But it might still be awkward to make it the default.
Wow. Never knew about CNN Lite. It loads instantly like good websites should and the content is readable because ads are not flying in from all over the place. Does this work for all CNN articles?
I appreciate your work however not allowing the owner of the book to own the audio generated through your product does everyone a disservice. Everything seems to be locked into the app or the web interface. If that's a misunderstanding on my part I apologize.

So if we pay for your product we should own what it produces for the sake of long-term use and accessibility. Please allow the end user to download in a standard format the audio like MP3 / MP4.
bro, i have a question. lisp addon for autocad is the second piece of lisp on automotive software. the first one was mathcad's addon. what's with lisp and automotive software? where and when did lisp slip into it? thanks xoxo
No, the school system is heavily funded. Are TEACHERS heavily funded? Last I checked they still get paid peanuts and need to buy their own material out of that meager income.

Maybe, just maybe, the problem won't be solved by throwing more money at administration, but the administratorial class in the US hates hearing that they aren't god's gift to the world.
Happens for few years now not only with "best interests" at higher corporate levels but also with trivial things like UI/UX within services and applications - users are treated like kids and they're given virtual balloons with confetti and "you've done it" patronizing messages
Although I do know this is ridiculous for now, I love that we're entering the age of talking in terms of trillions for innovation and investments. Onwards to climbing the Kardashev Scale as a species!

Type 1 civilization in the next 200 years?
I used this advice for decades. It works well...
This is the state enforcing a penalty against a citizen - so yes, still relevant.
The result is that no one else can tolerate your nuclear ability after that. You don't become just an enemy of the guys you nuked, but everyone else as well. And nuclear weapons are far more capable than conventional weapons but you can survive being nuked. It's not the end of the world.

The problem follows after, when India can no longer convince America, Russia, or China that they can be trusted with nuclear weapons.

Economic sanctions would be devastating. India has limited fossil fuels and as of now a not yet fully indigenous defence industry. Being irresponsible nuclear users means all major powers will cut them off because they're a danger to all.

It isn't even clear that other world powers will settle for isolation. They may well require disarmament.
Yes, a lot of this seems interesting to go into. I really hope that at some point, someone would find the resources to just try a lot of dumb stuff and see what works in practice. I mean, what we have right now (multiply selectivities together as if they were independent) is also pretty dumb, and there's no good reason why it should be preferred over everything else.

Another avenue is of course trying to avoid the issue to begin with, e.g. through the recent “translation grids” of Müller and Moerkotte for better join selectivities. But I doubt anyone is going to be finding a silver bullet for this anytime soon, so reducing plan risk somehow seems very worthwhile.
> Incidentally, if someone gets mad about you running this sort of thing, you probably don't want to work there anyway. On the other hand, if you're able to build such tools without IT or similar getting "threatened" by it, then you might be somewhere that actually enjoys creating interesting and useful stuff. Treasure such places. They don't tend to last.

too true
It's a joke website. Sure it's a fully closed and proprietary joke website, but it's still a joke website.
Well, Larry King asked pretty tough questions when he interviewed Putin.
It’s just an unfortunate fact pattern. Compensatory damages are by design supposed to be a quantifiable number that you can directly point to on a ledger somewhere. Mann claims to have lost grants, and indisputably lost reputation, but has remained employed at a seemingly proper level throughout his career. Scientists don’t get kickbacks from grants, so no quantifiable losses _to Mann_ there. Loss of reputation is hard to quantify, though it is sometimes done by having a PR expert testify “this is how much it would cost to restore a person’s reputation to its previous state”, but considering Mann’s previous state was “unknown to the public”, that’s also tough to do. IIRC, Mann has had to have private security at various points, but that was paid for by his employer, so Mann can’t be compensated for it. It seems like in the absence of hard numbers like that, the jury decided to compensate using punitive rather than trying to make up a number, and no party is allowed to tell the jury that that will get struck down.
Google and a UK mobile operator cannot fix phone calls on Pixel devices
With 2G/3G being disabled in the UK, phones need to use VoLTE or VoWIFi to call. While Pixel phones from 4 to 7 support VoLTE it needs to be provisioned by the provider/Google. One of the UK providers Lebara cannot do that, pointing fingers at Google, while Google points fingers at the mobile operator. The result is that the users of Google Pixel phones lose the ability of using their phone.
Just 137 crypto miners use 2.3% of total U.S. power
The AI Deepfakes Problem Is Going to Get Unstoppably Worse
'Stoop' is also a Dutch loaner, so, maybe :)
Thanks a lot for this effort! As someone wanting to learn physics from a math background, this seems to be at the right level for discussing critical high-level ideas mathematically. The article format is great as I get distracted reading book-length treatments whether they are written by physicists or mathematicians.

If you have a Patreon or similar account, let us know!

PS: The Rieman zeta function page seems to be missing a few enclosing tags leading to non-typeset latex formulae after "This gives us a nice way to pick out terms from a Dirichlet series..." and also after the Von Mangoldt function.
Higher up front equipment costs , discomfort, potential humidity issues, higher energy costs, shortened equipment life, increased noise.
Legally, “personhood” just means the right to own property.

Companies, charities, and governments are all legal persons.

I could form an LLC and that would be a person.

There’s nothing about legal personhood that implies a right to continues existence.

It might make sense for certain natural entities to posses legal personhood.

It would probably make for sense for there to be some kind of public interest real-estate trust.
some subplot to this mystery could be that a collector buys them all up to artificially create the scarcity to inflate the value of the collection. kind of like the housing inventory after the '08 collapse
For me the "no longer available" message only flashes briefly, replaced with a login UI to log into a service called OPT Passport so I could (ostensibly) watch it.
> There’s no reason to get a MRI for a basic headache, but if it’s free, why not?

Because an MRI is an exhausting, irritating experience.
None of those links say that React is faster than using no framework, just that it is fast, presumably compared to other frameworks or techniques before that did DOM replacement.

I guess you could say that not being specific was misleading but we'd have to agree to disagree on that. I _did_ work on the web a decade ago and my recollection is that it wasn't ever unclear that React's performance claims were that it was fast for a framework and not faster than equivalent manual DOM mutations.
Thank you for sharing this. It's interesting to see this perspective.
I have a hard time finding out if this is also some wordplay, like my own. But yes, it's running Linux at home and probably also at the webhost.
Yeah, I have sonarr and radar and stuff, but still, I have missing episodes quite often. Even with usenet and torrents :(
OTOH, how many children got Kinder Eggs ~without~ knowing that there was a small plastic toy inside? That was kind of the whole gimmick.

Also, there have been 9 reported deaths worldwide that have been linked to choking on the toy inside a Kinder Egg. 7 Children in the US die ~every day~ from being shot. It seems pretty clear to me which one is a bigger issue.
Tectonic Plate Under the Pacific Ocean Is Being Torn Apart, Scientists Reveal
Sitting in a meeting and then forgetting most of it when you walk out. That's why I always take notes.
There's a difference between concluding that scientific research is wrong and concluding that it is fraudulent. The latter is a claim about the character of the scientist involved, alleging them to have taken unethical if not illegal action. If that is provably false then it can certainly rise to the level of defamation.
This is why conventional corporate persons all have a specific governance charter. It labels which human beings are accountable.
It's not out of spite. That'd be childish.

I'm aware of things I was ignorant of before, like how much crime is commited by people of color.

Now I also have to consider if someone earned their position through merit or if it was the result of DEI. Before it was never a question in my mind.
Fusion record generating 69 megajoules for 2-secs using 0.2 milligrams of fuel
London Underground is testing real-time AI surveillance tools to spot crime
This also assumes a resilient grid, which may not be the case for large areas of the rural US.
And the Constitution is immutable, right? What would you even call a ratified change to the Constitution?
Big Tech Disrupted Disruption
People make same kind of mistakes all the time, instead of judging the contents, we look down to things that are "mostly repackaging" what already exist. Brand new things are extremely rare, mostly just remix of things we've seen everyday.
Drop in volcanic CO₂ emissions may have once encased Earth in ice
Yeah, I occasionally have that problem -- I don't want to be the custodian of these items with minor collect-ability, they aren't particularly valuable (to have an easy market to get them into the hands of someone who does), but I also don't want to be the person to just discard little bits of history.
Mother horrified council camera captured real-time images of kids in backyard
250M-plus reserved IPv4 addresses could be released
> Nobody really wants to sit at a beach sipping drinks the rest of their life, accomplishing nothing.

Speak for yourself.