skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The article is mainly about an interesting chapter in the history of the metre <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_metre#Meridiona...> which effectively won versus the second/metre pendulum approach (which was fiddly to calibrate and keep true for any given environment at a given point on Earth). The author is a well-known historian of science in the English enlightenment, and notably Newton, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patricia_Fara . I would not expect the article to even touch on 21st century geodesy.

A good theory for the solid earth tide only arrived in first dozen years of the 20th century and was only practically measured with the arrival decades later of very long baseline interferometry (up to extragalactic radio sources), satellite (and lunar) laser ranging, geodetic GNSS, and other tools in modern geodesy.

The solid earth tide has a maximum of a few tens of centimetres, not metres. So even in the 21st century, solid Earth tides, being small and difficult to measure without specialist equipment, are for most practical purposes completely negligible.

Your astrophysicist relative may be interested in some details.

At <https://geodesyworld.github.io/SOFTS/solid.htm> there is a calculator (and notes) giving more information than a lay person is ever likely to want to know ("Fine print: This section is not for the faint of heart."); there is a reimplementation and modification of solid in R at <https://rdrr.io/cran/solidearthtide/>; there is the ESA page with useful simplified formulae and graphs at <https://gssc.esa.int/navipedia/index.php/Solid_Tides> since solid earth tides can be relevant for astronomy; or alternatively the wikipedia page for https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth_tide is decent and more accessible, and has a link to tidal Love numbers at the bottom.

Your relative can look up the fluid and tidal Love numbers for main sequence stars (and how dynamics and dissipation works with fast rotation), and there is literature for relativistic Love numbers for white dwarfs and neutron stars and so forth (although nonspinning black holes have none: Binnington & Poisson "Relativistic theory of tidal Love numbers", <https://arxiv.org/abs/0906.1366>), and should have little trouble following methods for arriving at tidal Love numbers given different equations of state for visecoelastically differentiated bodies.

Earth has https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planetary_differentiation and when you dig into solid Earth tides in detail you get to confront all sorts of unknowns. In practice, it is easier to start with the precise measurement of rotation of a real body e.g. Earth, Saturn, Io, super-Earth exoplanets (a nice example is at <https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201731775>) and work backwards to the interior structure. This is perhaps less true for the Earth since we can use time-of-travel seismology and gravimetry and have ready access to rock samples.

ETA: (in part so that I don't lose the reference), this astronomy stackexchange summary of the tidal Love numbers is extremely well written: https://astronomy.stackexchange.com/posts/46889/revisions (and I'm sure your astrophysicist relative would appreciate it too).
He gave one of my favourite GDC talks of all time [1]! I recommend this talk to anyone who is interested in the details and history of working on limited colour palette games!

[1] https://youtu.be/aMcJ1Jvtef0
Deliberate is a much better word.

There are problems that legitimately must be sat with for months if not years.

Furiously responding to potential ways to solve a problem might just use a lot of energy.
Making video communication feel more like real life
At that point, just send DP signal over HDMI cable...
Also https://yasuyukiuesugi.bandcamp.com :)
This is great information. Especially the libuv internals.

The article uses longjmp to explain coroutines. The native stack is doing a lot of heavy lifting there... What would the implementation look like if you reified the stack?

This aside also left me wanting more:

> Rust's async transforms a block of code into a state machine that is not run until you await it.

Would be interesting to read about the internals of that!

I recently asked a question related to all this on the new language implementation stack exchange.

https://langdev.stackexchange.com/q/3547
Is there a rule against duplicate posts?
What Is Alternative Data, and Why Does It Matter?
Not true. Probably 10 years ago my kid and two friends played in each other’s yards mostly unsupervised. Only led to one ER visit with a scratched cornea (my kid). But yeah, mostly there are always parent(s) around. 40 years ago I’d disappear for hours with my friends every day in the summer. That doesn’t happen much today.
Good point. I have tiny hands and they're perfectly supportive for me, contouring perfectly in my palm. I did turn off all the gestures aside from scrolling, though.

Being able to left click by pushing the entire top down (two fingers) is what really saved me. No other mouse I know does that.
As someone blind, I really hate the word "switch" because it is both a verb and a noun. So, I go to a page, reach an element with the text "something switch on" and I'm in the woods. Is this a switch in the on position or it is telling me that it is off and I can press to switch it on?
The last bit is the most important. Not your keys, not your coin. There are just so many risk in Cryptotokens that it's not worth it to add another one by giving your assets to a third party.

Hope you get your money back, but for other people, use DeFi, get your crypto in your own wallet. It's like rollerblading: you must have some basic skills, otherwise you can hurt yourself a lot. If you can't handle the private-wallet/signing stuff, maybe crypto is not for you at this time.
I'm currently listening to Vandana Shiva's book Terra Viva, which underscores the Indian government's many, many missteps on environmental policy, so perhaps because I have been literally listening to four hours of this today, I would not be surprised if that turned out to be another big mistake that puts some notion of economic production over the environment.
Great points. So not only is the tech iffy, but the application is misguided.
IIRC, the diesel Chevy Cruze hasn't been made for a couple of years. I was somewhat interested in buying one for a while but I already have a 03 VW Jetta diesel which satisfies my desire for a manual diesel car.
Ayn Rand Reviews Children's Movies (2014)
https://archive.ph/kxWPz
that sounds like government work
this is a great article! I love how you explained it. here are my takeaways from it:
- Bloom filter is a space-efficient data structure
- You're trading off some accuracy (possibility of false positives) for the significantly smaller memory footprint and faster membership checks
When Did Popular Music Become Standardized? A Statistical Analysis
The “switch versus checkbox” advice in this post is not very clear, IMO.

The essential difference is that a switch commits its state immediately, while a checkbox is part of a form that has a separate submit/apply action.

The real-world metaphors for these elements help remember the distinction. A light switch acts immediately. A checkbox printed on paper only takes effect when that form is processed somehow.

Another standard UI element that usually follows the same rule is radio buttons. They are form elements, and their immediate-effect counterpart is the multi-part button (which Apple calls “segmented control”).
It sounds like there's some room for nuance here, and of course I'm somewhat sensitive to the history of government use of force against organised labour in South Korea, but it's difficult to see this as anything other than these doctors holding patients hostage to artificially suppress competition, and thereby inflate their pay packets, and it seems like everybody is losing, even in some ways the doctors themselves. It's hard to read the article and not be left with at least some feeling that you'd be about ready to see some of them start going to jail if you lived there.
Hi Tobi; Hi Archie, we all know each other from Twitter.

Check out what Postico does; it just highlights the current statement under the cursor by default and that's what gets run by default. Can't resist imposing this subtle SQL UX on everyone because it's my favorite (for like 10 years now).
Mounting research shows that Covid-19 significantly lowers IQ
What's the competitive advantage compared to DDG? Why will this continue existing?
After a lifetime of car dependence, I have had such joy living in Oakland now and biking or walking to destinations near and far. I had to go to the airport so I walked 10 minutes to BART and enjoyed the train ride while watching all the people in cars stuck in traffic.

I lived at my apartment for over a year before realizing the grocery store was close enough to walk. It's a 15 minute walk so it doesn't feel close if you are in a rush, but also a 15 minute walk through tree-lined streets is really nice for my body and soul and I am trying to rush less and experience each moment as it comes. It's funny that it took me so long to realize I could walk there, but that's car brain for you!
There is a 1:1 correspondence between a generator/coroutine and an iterator with internal state. I suggest looking at the PHP generator RFC[1] and Concurrency from the Ground Up[2] talk.

[1] https://wiki.php.net/rfc/generators

[2] https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=MCs5OvhV9S4
How do you stop adults from going swimming alone?
> and blowing up parameter count to make up for it

based on (an admittedly rapid and indulgent reading of the paper), it seems like they're not increasing the parameter size. Do you mind pointing out where the blowup is occurring?
maybe the car industry was just a strategy to hire talented people. Now, they use them on useful tasks. Just a theory.
Not sure they encouraged him.

Not sure they could stop an adult, either, especially considering that he greatly limited their access to him, at least according to Michael Lewis.
> Please don't support making switches be an alternative to checkboxes, since it isn't clear what the current state means.

That's why their main application is opting out of tracking, where user confusion is a desired feature.
I don't have a comprehensive test suite for seeing how search engines perform but I use some random programming terms to see how well it avoids SEO/AdWords boosted content.

Searched for radix sort -

Mojeek:

1. Wikipedia (as it should be)

2,3. Stackexchange implementation specific questions

rest: quality blogs, pure text tutorials

Google:

1. GeeksForGeeks

2. Wikipedia (seriously?)

3-10. all "blogs" that churn out the same content as geeksforgeeks (progamiz, javatpoint, tutorialspoint, etc)

DDG: Nearly an identical copy to Google's result

Personally, I'd prefer Mojeek to the Google/DDG results any day.

Will keep trying with complex queries, errors to have a better idea of how it performs, but still great work!
This would probably work well with LoFi black metal.
Some short term pain to avoid long term total collapse. Not every doctor is going to take the hit. Not only would it mean a massive reduction in income, and massive sunk costs, but it would be a distressing blow to their identities. These people "are doctors", that is the core of their very self-image. In a society like South Korea, it would also be a massive, life-altering change in social prestige.
You are correct (aside from the s/ME/M/ typo), but the snark isn't needed.
StableLM 1.6B Technical Report – includes all data, training, strategy
StableLM 1.6B is a strong multilingual LM trained for 2T tokens of multilingual dataset. It offers strong performance compared to other models of the same size range including Google’s Gemma, Microsoft’s Phi2 and ByteDance’s Qwen. The technical report discloses all of the necessary details to reproduce the training procedure including the data mix.
Training details:
RoPE, LayerNorm, No MLP bias terms, but retains for QKV terms.
Global Batch Size - 8M tokens
MFU during training - 54.5%
Tokenizer - based out of OpenAI's tiktoken's CL100k_base with vocab size ~ 100k.
Paper shows a new hybrid LR scheduler used while training the model.
report: https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.17834
base model: https://huggingface.co/stabilityai/stablelm-2-1_6b
zephyr - https://huggingface.co/stabilityai/stablelm-2-zephyr-1_6b
Ollama - `ollama run stablelm2`
I do most of my non-work development on a non internet connected computer purely because I do it on a train. It isn't strictly airgapped, but I did develop an iOS game nearly entirely this way (with the very final steps needing to be done online, and also on an apple machine)

Things that I find:

- I develop primarily in C, so I have man pages for the stdlib accessible

- I try to rely on header files for documentation of other things, and find them to be far better than things like auto generated documentation or even manually written guides

- For algorithmic style things, I don't like to implement things without understanding, and to me that means being able to have them in my head to a good enough standard that they can be implemented without needing to be online. e.g. one of the sounds in my game is made by a physical model of a string, and while it is not the best synth that has ever been made (in fact, it is pretty bad), I definitely understood it enough to get something plausible without needing references

- There are things that I suspect would be quite difficult to do offline. Maybe they are just the things I am unfamiliar with, but I suspect that some project types are just harder to do offline

- You tend to accumulate useful documents on your Dev machine. Keep these organised as it turns out to be very nice to have on other machines. Language specs, file format specs, protocol specs etc
If the author doesn't read this thread, maybe you can open an issue with this topic. I think other people would be interested in this, so maybe the author prioritises it.
Even just baby steps of getting rid of oversized everything would help immensely. Less weight is less tire wear, less road wear, and less fuel used.

Currently though everyone is in some weird arms race to make larger and larger vehicles. And if you try to buy a tiny one or even a motorbike, you'll just get creamed by some land yacht driver looking through their phone.
Alone getting the nessesary permission would be horrible, because it would be most likely involving gouvernment work with one of the highest security clearances.
"sports" does not imply "organization, with adults."

I never played any organized football, but I played a ton of informal touch football, and very occasionally tackle.

Same with most baseball: a bunch of us kids got together and played. In most of the world, it's football ("soccer" as Americans call it).
These numbers are broadly lies now. Many chips regularly exceed their TDP. Here's Tomshardware's review showing an 81W power consumption for the chip for a cpu only load. https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/cpus/amd-ryzen-7-...

And that only begins to dig in. I was asking about overclocking, which is going beyond the base TDPs. Here's the 8700G's 780M gpu hitting 156 watts on overclock, for the same die: https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/gpus/amds-radeon-...

I highly highly highly encourage blowing away any thinking that a chip says it's TDP is X watts so that's what we'd get. This chip has been seen in the wild drinking vastly vastly more power if given the chance & settings to. I think my question still stands, is there any binning or real difference that would keep a Z1 Extreme from doing similarly? Or are we just bound by how much power we can put in and how much heat we can take away from the Z1 Extremes out there?
February 29
Just going to add on to this motivation; yes, we would all be super interested in this! It would be truly valuable to people and society at large.
Eff them... I might support strikes in other cases, but to purely limit number of qualified workers, just no... Be better than those doctors and you keep the job.
Ohh, that's funny. I just realized, I always read it the wrong way around in my brain up until now! Corrected the typo.
Have you ever driven an older sporty manual car? I was like you once right up until I got my E30 M3. Prying that from my cold dead hands.

When billionaires and companies step up I might do the same, until then I'm going to keep loving petrol and I have zero reason to feel guilty.
Wonder if it has anything to do with the lack of Satanic Panic in the late 20th century. Also, the oversized number of well-known serial killers from around that time in the US.
Was Lizardking a pioneer in that regard? I had quite a collection of musicdisks back in the day but never wondered about their origin. It just made sense that musicians got to strut their stuff the same way the coders and 'graphicians' did.
Why Does 'is-number' Package Have 59M Weekly Downloads?
They are extra useful to precalculate other visual effects. In the past, following a magazine tutorial, I coded a very cheap raytraced "lens effect" on a 286. I recently (5 years ago!) ported it to js [0].

That magazine got me into fractals and raytracing, BTW.

[0] https://github.com/luismedel/jslens
The reply by @throwaway201606 is on point, though I would add what it was extremely popular in Eastern Europe too, till the broadband/4G became ubiquitous.

I think the last time I saw a 9-in-1 DVD on sale there is somewhere around... 2018 probably?
This makes no sense. Getting up in altitude is the cheapest part of getting in orbit: the goal of the rocket is to bring you to orbital speed, which is what's hard. So the small rocket would still need to be almost as big (a bit smaller due to lower air friction at high altitude and the higher potential energy at launch, but only marginally so)
the biggest problem I have with it that with custom styling and bad choices in those that it will be hard to see when it's on or off. A checkbox is very clear in that regard.
Why would you use an aerospace for this when conventional turbojets use an articulating nozzle? In fact, they'd be better off trying to develop and sell an articulating nozzle for a conventional rocket than a whole engine such as this
> Corporations have perfected consumer value extraction, allowing them to pay themselves more and bid higher against the competition, further increasing prices to consumers in an endless loop.

This flies in the face of most economic theory, and also flies in the face of reality. How many corporations are out there with 90% profit margins? Very few, if any.

> If my movie budget is 300m but 200m of that went to high priced actors (think JD, RDJ getting paid 50m~) did that movie produce that amount of value?

I'm not sure what the high-priced actors have to do with it, but the amount of value produced has nothing to do with the budget - it has to do with the tickets you sell. If your $300m movie tanks and no one ever goes to see it, you've in some sense created 0 value. If everyone in the world goes to see it and you make billions of dollars, you've created billions in value, as decided by actual people choosing to vote with their wallets to giving you money for your art.

The budget only figures into it in the sense that you need to subtract it from the revenue to decide on the actual profit.
Bitcoin Reaches New All Time High in More Than 30 Countries
Fast mirror: https://web.archive.org/web/20240223192456/https://olegkutko...
This is just two radio buttons in a trench coat.
What target database is that in the examples?

like ("email", 'gmail')
minus (now (), toIntervalDay (1))

are non-standard functions/conditions
I agree with you. My biggest gripe with AI is that they just scrape and use my content without asking. As the license holder I should get a say in this, and the default answer is no.

But once again the tech industry shows a terrifying lack of understanding of consent. I wouldn't let these people anywhere near my drink.
Via ferratas are finally catching on in the United States
May I suggest reader view as a solution if you use Firefox?

But this is a technical topic in a visual concept. I appreciate visualizations and absolutely praise shaders in contexts like these.
Basically, all of the Valve ones.
(Half-life 2, Half-life 2 Episode 1, Half-life 2 Episode 2, Team Fortress 2, Left 4 Dead, Left 4 Dead 2, Half-Life Alyx)

Each one of them is a time capsule of the techniques and game design philosophies at the time of development. Pretty sure there is a walk through on youtube for every single one of them, if you don't want to get the games yourself.
> lectric compressor stages are apparently getting used to reduce input lag on automotive turbo chargers

Yup, E-Turbo [1].

[1] https://www.motortrend.com/how-to/e-turbo-electric-assist-tu...
Aha I did not notice that prompt. By default my brain is trained to ignore things that are commented out in code

I think I would execute the SQL query that the cursor was within.

Ie anything until the next ;
Interestingly most places do not accept PayWave / Contactless which would be more skim-proof and more theft-proof secure when paying by phone.

Also magnetic strip use basically non-existent. Pretty sure local banks would block it immediately.
You can deadlock processes in Erlang/Elixir, but as far as I know, that deadlock will not block all the other processes running.
The fact though is that trucks create several orders of magnitude more wear on the road than even heavy SUVs. Getting rid of trucks should have a higher priority than cars IMO.
> Think back to your favorite childhood play memory. Where were you? What were you doing? Was there an adult supervising you?

I have two memories

1) I was playing in my grandfather’s pipe yard with my cousins. Lots of heavy equipment and stuff that was precariously stacked. Very easily could have ended up in a situation were something fell on me and killed me. Instead, I just ran headlong into a rusty pipe and nearly broke my nose.

2) I was in my early teens riding a 3 wheeled ATV. I was going too fast and went into a wash and flipped the machine over me. I didn’t kill myself. Didn’t even get seriously hurt, but easily could have.

I was incredibly lucky to come out of both of those experiences relatively unscathed. It’s not really a tough calculus thinking “well, my daughter doesn’t have an eye anymore, but at least she was having fun!”

I instead encourage my kids to have fun in activities that _feel_ risky but where the chance of life altering injury is low. Like walking on a high brick fence or jumping from a high point into a big deep body of water.

Anyway, as a parent I’m so fucking tired of people trying to tell me how to raise a kid.
Or you’re just repeating the latest Oprah-like trope that’s plastered all over the tabloids.
Of the three listed missions today, only the Chinese mission is unknown. The Russian launch has Meteor-M No.2-4 doing Earth science, and the Falcon 9 is launching Starlink satellites. Even if the payload is unknown, the trajectory of the satellite can be observed by astronomers, so it's not total anarchy.
Converting IEEE-754 floating point to Color BASIC floating point
>It fell out of favor because OG Xbox was bad at it

It fell out of favor because hardware no longer needed to use palettes as they had enough memory to store the actual color.
People will use the contact page on my website to ask me questions all the time.

In many cases, they will ignore all the content that answers their question, skip the part of the contact page that tells them to use the search first and that I don't offer services, find my email address and ask me to do work for them.

Some people are just unwilling to help themselves. Just thinking of how many times people outsource their Google search to a community.
"track down and harm"? Just speak without weird political euphemisms please.
The Coolidge Effect
Combining schema discovery and data catalog seems like it might be a hard problem requiring a lot of LLM prompt engineering gymnastics but maybe I underestimate the state of the art.
I go with them.
The Bazel linkage will be a bit polarizing.