skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It may be divorced from political reality, but it aligns perfectly with environmental reality. Sprawl is absolutely terrible for the environment, for a large number of reasons.
The last line is probably only true for oslo. Its a big country with a low population density so I expect most poor rural areas don’t have much to offer. That being said if you are poor you aren’t buying new cars anyhow.
Religion is one of the central reasons that I felt I had no self-worth growing up. It literally taught me that I was inherently bad, and it was one of the core justifications for years of physical abuse.

I recognize that not all practitioners of religion engage in the toxic kind, but I think it's more helpful to look at the ways that some religions help people, and seek that out vs. adopting a belief in some deity.

Seeking forms of self exploration and contemplation that lead to realizations about self and the inherent value of all beings can be useful. Contemplating the vastness of the universe, the improbability of existence, and the fact that we're all made of the same stuff can help chip away at negative self beliefs.

But relying purely on religion can be a form of "spiritual bypass", and has so many pitfalls that it's hard not to push back against it when I see it recommended. I'm not saying there is never value, but there are less risky ways of finding the same kinds of benefits.
North to south in Norway = Norway to Italy
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Are you talking about size? Because if you are, that’s not really accurate. Norway might not be huge when you compare it to an entire continent, but it’s definitely not small. Plus, it’s got way more geographical challenges than your average US state.
When you post something on Reddit, you give Reddit a license to do more or less whatever it wants with the thing posted.

https://www.redditinc.com/policies/user-agreement

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That sounds like a euphemism for the persecution of basic medical care based on backwards religious superstition that anything growing where a baby would is assumed to be a human baby. IMO the Democratic Party has totally screwed up with this extremist "pro choice" framing, when the reality is mainly one of non-viable fetuses and only one medically-prudent choice.
This isn’t really explaining the logic behind your original statement. You said “there are 5.5m people in Norway vs 334m in the USA.” Why does the population difference matter so much? As a counterexample, California has over 40 million people and has the highest EV adoption of any US state.
Population density of the US is ~5 times higher than in Norway. The distance between Lindesnes and Nordkapp is greater than the distance between Minneapolis and Houston.
Yeah but insulation is. 55 F with the furnace and fan at max is unreasonable. That's barely shelter.
It also destroys models ability to follow phonetic or syntactic constraints: https://paperswithcode.com/paper/most-language-models-can-be...

I've been waiting for real innovation to come in tokenization algorithms. I think a truly well trained character level model would be awesome. Far easier to guide, and might even know how to "count" it's own output.
I think https://www.photoroom.com should be closer to what you are looking.
Even then it should be compared to a city in the US as they would sometimes not even be a top 10 by metroplex population
So why even say he died? Maybe just say he is not working for the company anymore and let the team figure it out for themselves if they are that curious.
I mean, zsync? Performing simple hashes of blocks of data isn’t exactly hard for the console. On the CDN side, just add a caching layer for the resulting chunks and it should sort itself out, since there are only so many variants of the source disc. It won’t get you the best compression ratios, but it’s flexible. We were considering this for firmware updates of an IoT product. It’s not like differential updates are unheard of.
What's your point? We've got a lower population density than the US.
I read about economic growth and modernization and brilliant public transport projects in China all the time. I read about how Shenzhen is a Mecca for technology product development. I read about the great success of Chinese software companies — essentially the only country in the world to have a real software industry other than the US.

Your view is distorted, it is worth considering if that distortion is motivated. Is it emotionally important to you to believe this? Would you be unhappy if you entertained the alternative?
Sorry you lost me at "american democracy".
Thank god someone in the thread understands the problem. Everyone saying "just make everything UTC and convert" is both throwing away information and making it impossible to do future calculations.

"Schedule a 1-1 with my boss every two weeks at 1 PM"

If you take my local time zone, convert it to UTC which puts my meeting at say 9AM UTC, schedule every two weeks at 9AM UTC and convert back to my local time zone it will be wrong when I hit change DST.

But if I instead store the (datetime, zone) pair when I say "1PM fourteen calendar days from now in zone" it will always be correct.

The UTC "trick" only works when your problem domain is representing specific moments in time.
I thought Relativity Space pulled back on their use of 3D printing for the major fuselage parts, saving it more for the engine components, etc., which SpaceX was already doing.
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To prevent a tragedy of the commons in street parking spaces, Japan has an excellent system, the shako shomeisho, though looking at how hard it's been to push through a congestion tax in lower Manhattan, I doubt it'd be politically viable anywhere in the US:

"Under the regulation in Japan... all private owned automobile must have a specific parking space. Parking by the roadside is prohibited. The width and length of the space should be sufficient for your vehicle and must be within 2 km from your registered residence address."

https://www.driveinjapan.com/parking/

https://www.parkingreformatlas.org/parking-reform-cases-1/ja...
Scholar’s Stage is an internet treasure.
The average HN user who disses Apple has 0 clue how little the average person gives a crap about their phone.

It's like roasting Toyota for taking out a manual handbrake. Sure it sucks, but come on, do you really think the average Toyota owner cares their Prius has an electric e-Brake?
Unfortunately the incentive structures of tipping are all over the place anyway.

Of all the people in the restaurant that contribute to my experience eating out, the waiter probably offers the least differentiation (in my humble opinion). It's just a transport layer for the order. The food is made by line staff, the menu is designed by someone else. The overall music, lighting, ambience, decor is someone else. But culturally, the waiter is the one we are expected to tip.
I would like to hear more about your trajectory. I'm in a similar place.
So Apple should be forced to allow Spotify to offer a payment alternative outside of the App Store? Should this allowance be made for just services competing with Apple, or should we be allowed to dictate how Apple does their business across the board?

Slack doesn’t compete with Apple directly, should they be allowed to sue over the 30% fee?
It is simply an echo of “the whole point of american government is […].” Did you lose yourself too while writing your own comment?
Source? Mainstream media. There’s no conspiracy saying “only post negative stuff”
This is the only viable future for space travel. In orbit assembled space ships with nuclear thermal propulsion. Travel time to Mars with conventional chemical propulsion takes just way too long.
Matroftt helped us find out where our sudden stars were coming from. Very thankful to get a flurry of appreciation from the community today for CorsixTH :)
I would probably never visit the restaurant with app only menu. It's weird for me that someone had such an idea and still would call the place a restaurant. I know I am overblowing it but it's just mind-boggling to me.
> I've had this experience with API contract tests between systems. Despite covering a lot of details and preventing deployments that failed these tests, we would occasionally run into problems where passing changes would break stuff in production. There was always an area of uncodified assumptions, and for a case of tens of different clients, whereas public libraries can have millions. So, I believe this is also applicable to your proposed solution.

It's only intended as an improvement to practice. SQLite has a test suite which exhaustively tests every single branch of the code, which D. Richard Hipp wrote on contract to one of his clients. It takes more than a day to run. We might all aspire to such a level of professionalism, but realistically, most programs and libraries will fall short of glory here. And while this exceptional test harness has in fact limited the scope of SQLite bugs a great deal, it hasn't eliminated them entirely.

So with a TestVer system, or whatever we want to call it, there will still be breaking updates, there will still be bugs. But it provides a mechanism for defining the invariant behaviors of a major release number.

It's possible some of the early respondents thought that I considered an appropriate response to a minor change which breaks downstream code to be "lol, too bad". That might happen sometimes, minus the lol we may hope, but more often the response should be more proactive: a revert, adding a test which clarifies the new behavior, something.

The best part of this system is that users of a package can write additional tests of that package and submit them as PRs, if there's some behavior they see the package exhibiting which doesn't appear to be in the test suite. This is easier by far than making changes to the package itself, just add the tests to your own suite, if they pass, make a fork of the repo, add those test to their API suite, submit a PR. Whether they accept the patch or not, you have it in your own test suite, so you'll be informed immediately if a later release breaks it.
Even then its hard to compare to europe because US metros are so much larger in population and size. Oslo has a smaller population than Columbus, Ohio which isn’t even a large or very significant city. It ends up being an apples to oranges comparison unless you subset an area of the US that has a similar population density and demography as a similarly sized area in Europe, and no one does that because that means splitting metros into weird pieces that people find harder to think about than “city x vs city y.”
It is completely fit for purpose. That was an era of millions of rural and lake cabins built for a season or two and not intended for year round habitation. There are many of these in rural areas and now we have problems with people wanting them to be year round when the seasonal infrastructure is from the 50’s.

And as far as FLW was concerned, it was art, and you were just being given the luxury of living in it.
Sharing walls is better than no walls.

I wonder if we need more SROs, single residency occupant, with shared bathrooms, or boarding houses with shared kitchens. Or might be fine with small studio apartments with bathroom and kitchen.

What really need is three bedroom apartments for families or shared housing.
Sure, if that city stretched further than the distance from Minneapolis to Houston!

We're not exactly a densely population country. We've got enormous distances. A city would be rather easy, wouldn't it? Just pop up some big charging stations around the city in addition to home charging, and that wouldn't be a problem any more.

Remember that the population density of Norway is 1/5 of the population density of the US.
The 25% increase in size is true but it's 8 bytes, a small and predictable linear increase per row. Compared to the rest of the data in the row, it's not much to worry about.

The bigger issue is insert rate. Your insert rate is limited by the amount of available RAM in the case of UUIDs. That's not the case for auto-incrementing integers! Integers are correlated with time while UUID4s are random - so they have fundamentally different performance characteristics at scale.

The author cites 25% but I'd caution every reader to take this with a giant grain of salt. At the beginning, for small tables < a few million rows, the insert penalty is almost negligible. If you did benchmarks here, you might conclude there's no practical difference.

As your table grows, specifically as the size of the btree index starts reaching the limits of available memory, postgres can no longer handle the UUID btree entirely in memory and has to resort to swapping pages to disk. An auto-integer type won't have this problem since rows close in time will use the same index page thus doesn't need to hit disk at all under the same load.

Once you reach this scale, The difference in speed is orders of magnitude. It's NOT a steady 25% performance penalty, it's a 25x performance cliff. And the only solution (aside from a schema migration) is to buy more RAM.
Doesen't that just reinforce their point? Small population and large area (with a lot of mountains) allows them to generate most of their electricity supply from cheap/clean hydro.

Also they have very high revenue per person from oil sales.
Yeah but person I responded to argued about "Europe". Unless they meant "in UK" when they wrote "Europe" then they implied other languages.

The article seems to be focused on finding long term relationship. It considers "not single" status to be a success. When you have one night stands, you are considered single.
Yes. It's unwanted in some situations. A fun debate turned into a tiresome recital of Wikipedia. Thanks internet.
If there is no risk of war (economically and militarily), I don't think you "need" technology. Of course, it is good to have technology, but it is not a necessity for survival.
While Norway is a very long country, the actual areas amenable to settlement and population density are relatively small. Population is overwhelmingly concentrated in a few metro areas in the southern third of the country, and the long northern section is much more sparsely populated.
I honestly thought this was going to be a discussion of the Washington Monument.
I’m confused why there is so much focus on text to images and models. If you spent five minutes talking to anyone with artistic ability, they would tell you that this is not how they generate their work. Making images involves entirely different parts of reasoning than that for speech and language. We seem to be building an entirely faulty model of image generation (outside of things like ControlNet) on the premise that text and images are equivalent, solely because that’s the training data we have.
Please try to look at it this way:

Just because I demand to be in control of my hardware and data instead of a corporation or oligarch does not limit YOUR rights to have a corporation or oligarch to be in control of your hardware and data in any way.

So what do you have to lose? What fight are your fighting here? What's wrong with EU people wishing to keep some of their basic human rights and a free market? It does not limit you. Just because Apple is forced to play by the rules in the EU does not limit them to play by the the-winner-takes-it-all concept that now appears to be common in the US now over there.
«14. I have consistently risen to the level of disorganisation that any new technology allows
At the time of writing, I have 77 tabs open on my browser”

Huh, before computers I can remember 77 open notebooks scattered across my bedroom. Nothing changes.
I believe the menu of options is undesirable until you actually know you have requirements you can evaluate them against. As much as possible even if I do have a choice, there should be a default and I needn't be asked. When I make a Rust project, cargo notices I have git and, since I didn't say otherwise, it mints a Git repo for the new project automatically. It doesn't insist on asking if I want one, and then asking if it should have the obvious name, and then asking if it should use my default local git settings, the defaults for all of these are IMNSHO obvious and my tacit approval via not having explicitly turned this off is enough.

Do you want a Doodad, a Gooba or a Wumsy? No idea? Me either. So until I care, I'd rather not be asked to choose. But once I discover that I need something with at least 40% Flounce, I can see that Doodads and Goobas both are rated at 50% Flounce, whereas Wumsy has only 10% Flounce, now we're making an informed choice, it should be easy enough to insist on a Doodad to meet my requirement.

If I measure that Monomorphization is out of hand in my codebase I can use dyn to get that back under control for a fair price, but I think the default here is sound.
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I had a similar experience while trying to use Zed with Python. I expected there to be a setup or at least to be told what to install like VSCode does. Since neither of those things happened I left it for now and returned to vim.
No worries you’re fine. I guess downtime was much more widespread than I could even imagine.

I do remember one time all of us at work joking that we should get the day off when GitHub was done. :D
> If their pointer subtraction uses similar semantics, there might be issues if they want to compare pointers from different allocation objects, are worried about 32-bit or 16-bit platforms, or maybe even consider the performance concerns too worrisome.

Any of these type of issue would equally invalidate using unsafe{} to cast the pointer to a reference, which is what non_null! does.
Germany: Number of school dropouts is rising
Thank you. That would make sense. Perhaps Yann's target audience are supposed to know this already, but your explanation actually cleared up a misunderstanding for me.
> Significant areas of Greenland’s melted ice sheet are now producing vegetation, risking increased greenhouse gas emissions

Can someone explain this to me? I was under the impression that plants absorb greenhouse gases. Is this not the case?

Edit: Why am I downvoted for asking a question?
In what way is what ChatGPT outputs when asked about this code relevant? There are more than 20 LLMs, do we expect to see a comment from each LLM about code submissions?
dup: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39382472
I'm talking about the whole sequence; you're talking about the number of heads (or) tails in the sequence.

The number of heads is a sufficient statistic, so we'll get the same likelihood ratios out, but the likelihood values themselves will be larger.

You could make a similar point about the original CrossValidated Normal(0, 1)^N example by summarizing the data with the mean and sum of squares.

This doesn't work if the data were Cauchy(0, 1)^N instead.
It’s also difficult if you’re aware that “worth” is not an objective measure but a subjective construct. Any choice of “worth” is neither objectively correct nor incorrect. The only thing you can say is that having a higher self-worth (but maybe not too high) is psychologically healthier.
Not sure why they'd name a car after a bird that shits everywhere. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Normally I go about „there are almost as many people living in metro Berlin than in Norway”. 5.2m vs 5.5m.

Small population with tons of free money to subsidise the transition to ev.

> Norway Number of Registered Vehicles was reported at 5,410,000 Unit in Dec 2022.

with 110k to 190k new cars registered annually sounds doable, no?
One negative thing to point out is that Norway’s policies on the EV are increasing the number of cars on the road (this is stated in the video). People are opting to drive more often than they did before to places that they otherwise would have taking public transit.

It makes me wonder if reducing the guilt around car usage has an effect of increasing its usage. People may think of EV car usage as nearly zero cost (hidden in your electric bill), and zero impact on the environment (ignoring the other pollutants that EV cars have, mainly microplastics from tires). It’s an interesting side effect of Norway’s policies.
Would be good to have some examples of when you need it, given that PostgreSQL lets you do many migrations without downtime.
I would just walk out and find a different restaurant. Restaurants are a dime a dozen, and we rarely go out specifically to a particular one. Fortunately I have run into just one restaurant in my life that did not have paper menus and there was a different one that looked great across the street. Problem solved.
Could this interact with something like Alembic?
> My understanding of FLW is that his houses are beautiful but impractical to live in.

That's the problem. These are art pieces that barely attempt to fit the role of suitable human living spaces.

A number of these houses flood, have structural issues, or develop mold problems. Some have been demolished due to their disuse and impracticality.
Yes. You've got Nebraska, Idaho, Nevada and Kansas! THey all have a lower population density than Norway! Therefore the other states don't need to bother..

EDIT: Ugh, thinking, typing and using a search engine. The above is wrong. They all have a higher population density than Norway. The following states have a lower population density:

Alaska, Wyoming, Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota

The argument stands, but the list of states was wrong. ;)
I googled that for you [1] and the answer is probably not what you assumed, so I'm not sure that your question makes the point that you imagine it does.

N.B. I've quoted the first hit, but multiple sources seem to concur.

[1] https://visitgreenland.com/articles/10-facts-nellie-huang/
Huh. If someone had asked me whether Stratego is even trying to be any amount of war simulation, even a bad one, I’d have said “no”. I’d class it as the kind of game where the flavor is just there to look at, and maybe as a mnemonic tool, and has little meaningful connection to the mechanics.

Basically chess without all the information being public.
I think it was a false equivalence between node_modules and Rust. Like any language where developers rely on a package manager to pull in libraries will necessarily be 3GB in size.
It's nothing to do with violence and everything to do with the charade they put on. They didn't forget the plant exists. They allocate for it in appropriations every year, and they accept federal funds every year because the aforementioned contamination has made it an EPA superfund site. They know it would be a political impasse, and they could push Pantex out of the state to avoid the problem - but they don't. The idea of secession was and is, to the majority of the legislature, a tool for agitation. That is why it is hilarious, it's an elaborate exercise in "hear what I say, see not what I do". To think my comment was about "using violence to force other people to be chained to a political union" is to play right into their trick.
The Steam version is on GeForce Now too, so you can play it from any browser. There are native apps available for most platforms too.
Often, other people's opinion of you, is more reliable than your own. You should at least consider how likely it is that everyone else is wrong, and you are right. There are of course times when the world is wrong -- in which case you should think highly of yourself regardless of negative feedback. But there is also a chance that you should actually change your own poor behavior, rather than finding a way to accept yourself as-is.
> "James, eyes up here please. This is important." James looked back at the E100 Meet tab.

Bit too tryhard for my taste.
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