skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's no reason the tax needs to directly reflect the environmental impact. We figure out an amount that is enough to change corporate behavior without bankrupting them, maybe with some kind of sliding scale to put more responsibility on larger businesses who would otherwise benefit from regulatory capture, throw in some exceptions for the aforementioned medical devices, etc. "Pricing the externalities in" is a nice political justification but in reality this kind of thing happens because we've already decided that plastics are significantly worse than the alternative and we want to incentivize change.

Regarding consumers shouldering the cost - well, yeah, regulation drives prices up; even my liberal self agrees that that's broadly true. Those same consumers will be shouldering the cost of an environment permeated by toxic microplastics, which we are increasingly being driven to believe will be a greater impact than that of more expensive consumer goods.
Interesting, yes that would be nice actually. I just have to display the p-value. Thanks for the feedback!
Or you could just make the cable a little longer, like they did with the V4s.
> The first part left me quite underwhelmed, tbh.

I get that. I felt the same was at first. But after watching it multiple times on HBOMax I have come to really appreciate the film. I think maybe my initial expectations were just too high.
Careful, that was literally the exact same selling point of Electroconvulsive therapy 80 years ago.
No, and that's the main reason safetensors was created.

Pickle was created to store Python objects. Safetensors was designed to store (only) weights.
Interestingly Wikipedia says the Morse version of it is

Morse code "dah-di-di-dah-di, dah-dit" ( –··–· –· )

IMHO more common is to send "ESE" (. ... .) - and the other station replies "EE" (. .)

https://lcwo.net/ext/player?z=MjR%2BfjIwfn42MDB%2BfkVTRSBFRQ...

"ESE" is a popular Amateur radio call-sign suffix among Morse enthusiasts for that reason.
I think Facebook opening up to the general populace in 2006 or the release of the iPhone in 2007 are pretty good places to call the end of the golden age, or at least the beginning of the end. They represent pretty significant milestones in a trend away from "a subset of the population willing to traverse moderate technical challenges in order to communicate with others in mostly anonymous, highly customizable ways" towards "everyone on earth communicating through highly sanitized, advertiser-friendly platforms".

The modern internet undoubtedly started in the mid-00's. Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, Reddit, all were founded between 2005 and 2007.

The start of the Internet's golden age is a little harder to pin down, but the mid-nineties public release of PHP in '95, or the launch of GeoCities in '94, or the release of CSS in '96 is probably a fair estimate. That gives a good decade of prime World Wide Web.
Self-pay gas station pumps break across NZ as software can't handle Leap Day
I asked Gemini this. Pretty unlikely it has seen this exact question before, but it answered it correctly.

Today is February 29 2024. What will tomorrow be?

Since today, February 29, 2024, is a leap day, tomorrow will be March 1, 2024.

This is because leap years, which occur every four years (except for specific exceptions), add an extra day to February to better align the calendar with the Earth's revolution around the sun. As today is the added day, the following day becomes March 1st.
I do believe that. But your choices has diminishing effects over long term. And also, in a meritocracy the "profit" needs to be congruent to the merits.

I think there is a broad consensus that talent won't make you a billionarie in the stock market, otherwise we had seen many more people become billionaires in the stock market.

If you really believe that that the person in question got billionaire on the stock market by their merits that’s just wrong.
I'm no expert here, but I wonder if a linked list of bounded logs would work well.

So, everyone has a pointer to the current one, and there's an atomic pointer to the next.

When the log fills up, you allocate a new one and set the next pointer to it using compare_and_swap. If someone beat you to it, you can walk the list and add yours to the end so that the allocation isn't wasted.

This way, most of the time you're using the efficient bounded log.
Thank you. Perhaps things are different on the East Coast. I will amend my beliefs to Washington and California then.
I bought the starting strength app, no subscription and has a couple of quality of life improvements like a timer, plate calculator, graphs etc and some actually helpful no nonsense videos and book excerpts. very little distractions.

Agree with you though, pen and paper is hard to beat and cheaper.
Putin uses this term to refer an amalgamation of history concerning Russian territory, with an axis roughly going through a 1654 peace treaty, and capped by the 1939 Molotov-Ribbentrop pact. The latter was signed only a week before Nazi Germany invaded Poland. Russians harbor their own type of bitterness about the 1920s-1940s National Socialists which is not well-reflected in the Western/American/Jewish perspective. If you move past the embarassment of Tucker Carlson's "Why is history relevant?", Putin makes a certain case, if propagandized, from a long-term Russian perspective. It is worthwhile to look up all the events he cites.

https://www.rev.com/blog/transcripts/tucker-carlson-intervie...
I couldn’t get thru the first one. Absolute snooze fest.
New is a better/watchable movie for sure, but I do think the David Lynch one really nailed the "this is 10000 years in the future" aesthetic and vibe, especially given the special effects capabilities of 1984. New one does not feel that way to me.
>That's more or less how you sound. Also speaking of "companies" and "billionaires" while not understanding that car ownership is one of the biggest propaganda win of capitalism in the last 100 years is interesting... it's like a morbidly obese and diabetic person telling you mcdonald's and refined sugar are Freedom

That's my point though. It's clearly not a "propaganda win" if the car itself inspires a feeling. I haven't been "sold" anything as I build my own old cheap cars, I like the act of riding something I can control be it a horse or a vehicle. It's chromebook vs thinkpad. I'll take the thinkpad. I'm not against public transportation at all - but to suggest we get rid of cars entirely is insane. Cars are a feat of engineering not capitalism. I want to see 100x more trains and better public transport and to think that they can't coexist is one of the biggest propaganda wins of progressivism :)

>it's like a morbidly obese and diabetic person telling you mcdonald's and refined sugar are Freedom

What diseases does my car give me? Fun and community? Sign me up.
Saw it on the 25th, what I love is how I didn't doubt the world for a single second.

I never thought to myself they're in some desert on earth, but truly that this is some far away planet far in the future.
Apologies — what I meant by economic hub was in the sense that a city is a central point for business, trade and finance. Not that cities are necessarily more economical.

Though I would argue that while costs can be higher, the ROI is also realised faster, whereas the costs to service rural areas will take longer to achieve its benefit-cost ratio — and in fact it may never.

And that's not to say rural areas aren't important. They are! But we need to think more cleverly and collectively for how we can service them better for the social and economic benefit of all within a given region. No one needs to lose out at the expense of someone else, I don't believe it's a zero sum game.

And I hear you re cost of housing. The thing is at some stage there can be critical mass in that there's enough housing on the market that it negates huge inflation due to supply outpacing (not outstripping) demand. The thing is, this is one lever, and if we keep the emigration (domestic and foreign) faucet turned on and we don't mitigate it with other measures, housing costs go up. And we've got to ask, who is winning in that situation? It's not the people, but it is the speculators and investors...
I’m fairly quick but the first thing out of my mouth is rarely correct.

I’ve learned to tone that down by not responding immediately with an answer. My immediate response is almost always a set of considerations, and then I walk through my internal thought process with whoever I’m answering.

This does a few things, it respects the other person who you are talking to, as they have likely thought about it too and for longer, so might have some deeper insight. Secondly it prevents you from saying one thing out of nowhere and backtracking, preventing confusion/frustration where you contradict yourself. People have a lot more confidence in the person who is very clear and has fewer instances of jumping from one solution to a different one.

I would say change nothing but do learn to express your inner monologue clearly. I often do that by making notes as one would in debate (on paper or mentally).
> People are making way to big a deal out of a minor issue, basically. Standard Tesla discussion form.

Yeah, I've seen way too much stress about this issue. I'm sure there will be a few stations that have issues for short periods of time, but the overall picture just doesn't change that much.

And the solution is the same anyway. Just keep building.
Correct me if I am wrong. there are already treatments discovered for removing plaques, but it turned out that plaques aren't the real cause of cognitive decline. That's what I read before.
This seems like a good place to ask. What is the use-case for these scripting language "notebooks"? This isn't the only one for Python, and I know MATLAB has something similar. From the outside in, it just seems like one form of literate programming just got really popular, but surely there's more to it than that.
Low citation on the original paper, none of the paper that cite Rezai's paper have citations.
Because SQL isn't properly composable. You can do simple stuff like parameters to avoid blatant injection attacks. But for any remotely complex branching logic, you're back to string concatenation. This is historically an area ripe for security flaws and bugs. Many devs rightfully seek out tools that provide a layer for composing logic with slightly more sanity.

That said, if you're using a generic SQL abstraction layer, you're not really using Postgres per se. You're using a small subset of it. JSONB documents, full text search, powerful aggregates, materialized views, derived columns, geospatial data operations, time series analytics, statistical inference engines... so much power available with a few SQL statements. It is a shame to see most of it lost behind an ORM.

I think the best we can do is use ORM-ish tools for the basic stuff but always have an escape hatch where you can (safely) drop down to raw SQL when necessary. We shouldn't be scared to use it, but it is a sharp weapon. Wield wisely.
Linux desktop UI environments always felt laggy compared to Windows. Is it the same nowadays?
I think the hard part of it is that x86 only has one atomic ordering and none of the other modes do anything. As such, it’s really hard to build intuition about it unless you spend a lot of time writing such code on ARM which wasn’t that common in the industry and today most people use higher level abstractions.

By databases, do you mean those running on DEC Alphas? Cause that was a niche system that few would have had experience with. If you meant to compare in terms if consistency semantically, sure but there’s meaningful differences between database consistency semantics of concurrent transactions and atomic ordering in a multithreaded concept.

Java’s memory model “wrestling” was about defining it formally in an era of multithreading and it’s largely sequentially consistent - no weakly consistent ordering allowed.

The c++ memory model was definitely the first large scale adoption of weaker consistency models I’m aware of and was done so that ARM CPUs could be properly optimized for since this was c++11 when mobile CPUs were very much front of mind. Weak consistency remains really difficult to reason about and even harder to play around with if you primarily work with x86 and there’s very little tooling around to validate that can help you get confidence about whether your code is correct. Of course, you can follow common “patterns” (eg loads are always acquire and stores are release), but fully grokking correctness and being able to play with the model in interesting ways is no small task no matter how many learning resources are out there.
Do you support the equivalent of Excel's Iterative calculations?
From Rails to Node.js: My Journey
Relevant: https://www.theguardian.com/news/2024/feb/29/taxation-worlds... ("‘A historic step’: G20 discusses plans for global minimum tax on billionaires
")
I will discuss my transition from Rails to Node.js, a decision that not only influenced my career but also presented new opportunities.
HDMI Forum to AMD: No, you can't make an open source HDMI 2.1 driver
Of course , when a religion creates a Houri why would actual life be precious?
Didn't they meet, Paul fought Jamis, then that was basically the end? I thought that was maybe the last fifth of the movie, not half.
I wonder how many children are born and grow up there? My guess would be, not many. A lot of the formation of new languages occurs via pidgin languages when children naturally incorporate a multitude of vocabulary and accents from disparate origins.
I think it's okay to mention that as a possibility, but odds are you're reading way too far into that common wording.
> My home's presence does not "threaten the natural world" as evidenced by the moose, the birds, the bobcat, the ermine, and countless other wildlife that we share the environment with.

If your settlement isn't dense enough to disturb nature, then it's not dense enough to make a dent in the national supply. That said, I cannot find the research right now, but I did read that human presence on a hiking trail in a national park effects wolf behaviour for a month as they are weary of the scent, so I definitely bet you are having a bigger impact than you know.

I own a home on a 100 acre wood. It's the only one, and yeah, it probably doesn't disturb the natural world very much, at least much less than the local ATV trail. But I know what it took to get building 5 miles from the nearest logging road, and I know that it's not feasible to do that for a million immigrants a year looking for a home. Cheap and plentiful homes means easier easy sprawl or dense infill.

PS - Willing the home to a local youth organisation to use for retreats and the rest of land is being stipulated to have no more development on it.
They ask for a government ID in some cases. I was able to provide one with some details masked, and they wanted the name on my account to match the name on the government ID. This is a commercial transaction, not Facebook. So I was kinda ok with that. But it is weird and ridiculous.
I’m right on the millenial/gen Z divide and an inner selfish purpose for me working on AI/ML is just to enable a creation of Jodorowsky’s 10 hour version of Dune with soundtrack by Pink Floyd.
Whoa, you can't attack another user like this and we ban accounts that do. Please don't do it again.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
it's fully legal to state what you are compatible that

titles are mainly protected by trade markes so you can freely mention and speak about them anywhere as long as you are not creating a situation where s judge might find that Nintendo customers might thing Yuzo made by Nintendo or any of the listed games are made by Yuzu or shipped by Yuzo or similar
I hate the "electric cars are all about software" meme. You need a PWM thingy to work as a motor controller / switching converter. And a charge controller with a little bit of ramp up/down logic. And a temperature controller hooked into the heat pump, battery coolant, motor coolant, and cabin radiator(s). You should be able to do the whole thing with a bunch of power FETs, some LM-series chips, and maybe an 8051 microcontroller.
It still exists but at least in the big city where I live, about half of the meetups are online only, which defeats the whole original purpose of the site.

I also notice that a lot of the groups just act as feeders to bring people into the same one or two events.

Sadly Meetup is not what it used to be, even though I feel like it's needed more than ever.
Agreed. In the beginning it’s a bit strange, but by now it’s a cherished Saturday morning ritual. I also police the family if they don’t cut them up nicely.
Sounds more like a cryostasis pod.
Financial systems take a holiday
I also found that I was going back to physical stores more often, which seems weird, but makes some sense too: I stopped feeling like I could trust the quality of things I was getting delivered and there are few substitutes for actually seeing goods on shelves before you buy and buying exactly the item that you looked at.

For me the "drop Prime" realization hit just after 2020 when I realized that even with everything that went on in 2020 I had nothing actually Prime "Next Day" shipped and had visited more physical stores than I had Amazon orders. In 2020. That certainly seemed a sign that I wasn't getting much value from Prime anymore on the shipping side and pushed me to re-evaluate all the other Prime benefits.

It felt interesting canceling Prime because I was an early adopter and it was a key resource for things like text books for me at that time. I realized one of the things I missed from that Amazon was how much better the eBay-like "Marketplace" orders were differentiated back then (I certainly made quite a few intentionally and it was nice knowing it was a choice between options) and it how much Amazon intentionally fuzzied and then wiped that border away and the UI treats almost all sellers the same now whether first/second party, large automated third party drop shipper, or even small "hobbiest" eBay-like shipper. In this world, physical stores seem safest again and I can see the difference between a major retailer, an overstock warehouse, a thrift store, and a flea market so much better that trying to guess based on what few tea leaves are left in the Amazon shopping experience. (Even Walmart and Target's websites aren't safe as both try to keep up with Amazon and both now have weird second and third-party relationships that are kept intentionally blurry on the websites themselves.) It's almost funny because solving that trust problem of who the seller was was one of the reasons of Amazon and Prime's early success to make online shopping feel nearly as safe as physical shopping. I appreciate the irony that I've returned to physical shopping because it is the only thing that feels safe.
Musk also runs Twitter and needs to be punished.
I just released a biology education app very much like the preprint for the Vision Pro launch (and soon for iPad/iPhone). I worked with David Goodsell's group to integrate their whole-cell bacteria model and David wrote the content. It looks like this: https://twitter.com/timd_ca/status/1753250624677007492 Our first bit of content is a tour through a 300 million atom bacteria cell for Apple Vision Pro (>60 fps, stereoscopic, atomic resolution).

We developed the tech for iPhone, iPad and AVP mobile GPUs (UE5 doesn't support this on the devices we're targeting). iPad: https://twitter.com/timd_ca/status/1592948101144547328

The linked preprint is beautiful, and I love the pipeline. I wonder if it's possible to export to other tools like Blender? The linked preprint is part of a pretty cool field of research into mesoscale modeling and visualization. For me these are a few of the standout papers, projects and works in the area (and there are many more):

- le Muzic et al. "Multi-Scale Rendering
of Large Biomolecular Datasets" 2015 [1]

- - Ivan Viola's group helped pioneer large scale molecular visualization. This reference should be in the preprint, IMO.

- Maritan et al. "3D Whole Cell Model of a Mycoplasma Bacterium" [2]

- - This is out of David Goodsell's lab and the model I'm using.

- Stevens et al. "Molecular dynamics simulation of an entire cell" [3]

- Brady Johnston's Molecular Nodes addon for Blender [4]

- YASARA PetWorld [5]

[1] : https://www.cg.tuwien.ac.at/research/publications/2015/cellV...

[2] : https://ccsb.scripps.edu/gallery/mycoplasma_model/

[3] : https://twitter.com/JanAdStevens/status/1615693906137473030 and https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fchem.2023.1106...

[4] : https://bradyajohnston.github.io/MolecularNodes/

[5] : http://download.yasara.org/petworld/index.html
That wouldn't be required; His described actions are to invest in them, he didn't say whether he buys their products. Plus the EU presumably still seem to be a vassal to the US however he acted - unless you are suggesting that relationship should dictate his investment choices?
Maybe go help poor people.
Bigger resource consumption of what exactly? Leaf Prometheus instances or the Thanos/Mimir stack compared to VictoriaMetrics? Have you seen a large scale migration between the two, with actual numbers?
Game nights, social running clubs, hobby groups, and community classes.
Please don't post in the flamewar style to HN, regardless of how wrong someone is or you feel they are. It's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for.

Please especially don't cross into name-calling or personal attacks.

If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.
1. Your IT industry is essentially "dead" in a sense a similarly or better skilled software engineer earns probably even more in China than in Europe, particularly consider the living cost. On this forum I constantly see talented engineer in EU working for Amazon/Google etc, for fraction of a salary compared to US ones.

2. You still don't get the reason why Amazon-like global "evil megacorp" exists is exactly because your government regulate your local business so much that you don't have ones to naturally compete with these behemoth. Your government is part of the reason a large portion of your IT talent end up working in these "evil megacorps".

3. If you did not see I am rooting for EU small or mid business, you are just looking for some "nice" words which I couldn't care less. Yes, reality just hurts, but so what.
mid thirties and HATED the David Lynch one. The casting, visuals, aesthetic were all repulsive to me. I like this new one a lot
For many scientists, "recorded history" means the span of time for which evidence of events occurring exists.

Events dated via ice core analyses, the fossil record, dendrochronological study, and many other methods all make up "recorded history".
This title just gave me an existential crisis.
Personally I use the Rails ORM for simple things as it's just a lot quicker and easier than direct SQL. But sometimes when the query is complex, I drop down to SQL.
Yes. It’s a delicate net of social control. I really wish social scientists would study this more. Can’t be genetic after all.
Our government doesn’t do anti-business things like pick winners and losers.

We let the market do a 15 year free-for-all so we can end up with as many incompatible options as possible.

We don’t support communist concepts like sharing and working together.

—-

/s, obviously. They should have picked something before a ton of DC chargers had to be built with multiple connectors, both of which are now dead.