skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The other day I was at a Target parking lot plugging in the EV at an island of about 6 superchargers. I looked over the rest of the parking lot at hundreds of ICE cars and it just struck me that getting the whole fleet electrified has got to be a substantial power demand increase, but maybe not. Which raises the question, what the heck is all the power being used for? :-)
This argument is, and always has been, utter bullshit.

All humans have the capacity to genuinely learn, create, and think, regardless of how their output appears to you in some subset of interactions with them.

"Some humans sometimes have trouble with critical thinking, or just regurgitate previously-memorized facts" is not in any way equivalent to "LLMs, by their fundamental nature, only have the capacity to produce various recombinations of their training data."
72% isn't some[0].

Civilians aren't targeted just collateral damage.

0:https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/poll-shows-palesti....
I agree.
Have you also read "JavaScript: The Good Parts" ?
Embarrassing? It's an accomplishment for them! They're saving the company a huge amount of money. Employees are expensive, even the ones in the third-world you can pay $2/hr.
Twitch Plans for 2024
If you believe Russians are somehow to blame for this war, you are completely deluded.

Some (many) tens of thousands of people were arrested for complaining... But don't bother, their punishment was only half a year or so in prision... And in unrelated news, some (many) tens of thousands of Russian prisoners were sent to die at the Ukraine winter, on the frontline, without guns or even socks.

But no, all Russians are in full support of this war. You can read all about this on the news.
Wow, thanks for the detailed and informative comments!

Did you write up the mmap results as a paper? Sounds like it would be quite useful. (Is this the paper you're referring to? https://db.cs.cmu.edu/papers/2022/cidr2022-p13-crotty.pdf)
The Xorg team is now developing Wayland, there's no future for Xorg.

For independent, smaller compositors the Sway team has developed wlroots, a library that brings most of the requirements of a compositor: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/wlroots/wlroots/
Give me Josie kirkman Instagram
Um, yes? Universities are, essentially, very feudal institutions.

And the ever-more-expensive-and-prestigious-and-diamond-encrusted competition between the "top" universities looks very much like the history of the House of Bourbon.

Which proved unsustainable - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Revolution
Bitcoin already reduces incentives to continue producing it over its lifetime by design.
Because TypeScript is the de facto standard way of writing JavaScript for most of the industry and it has killed all of the other compile-to-js languages.

The chances of it going out of favour are very slim, there's a giant ecosystem built on it and the language is very well loved by devs (should be second only to Rust).

Microsoft has 50 people on payroll working only on TS. Any competitor needs a gargantuan investment.
Stem-cell milestone for woolly mammoth restoration
Nice! I definitely will try it :)
Tell me, what is this?
Iranian Hacktivist claims responsibility for Israel academic institute hack
[dupe]

More discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39628842

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39622842
Data as the fourth element in Application Observability
Another problem with visual programming is it forces your program to be planar, or at least nearly planar with some crossovers.

In my experience real code can't be represented legibly on a 2D plane. "Generate code map" features of IDEs usually produce incomprehensible graphs, when you try them on actual codebases.

I never tried CodeSee before it shut down, was it any better?
I doubt Google is publishing these stats publicly for engineering.

I’ve worked at similar public companies and I can safely say the stat they’re quoting is accurate. It really is 75%+ Asian and overwhelmingly foreign born.

These stats are internal only, for obvious reasons.
10% of China’s capacity being exported is more than N% of any of those countries listed, absolute numbers do matter in this case. At much smaller Germany’s 50% there will be really huge push back from other countries, I don’t see it unless Chinese companies build factories abroad, which is what China essentially forced the western players to do in China anyways.

The USA exports $50b of cars but imports $150b of cars, you can’t call it a net exporter.
Self Sourced with the best parts and components on the market I spent around $2400+ for my Voron 2.4
>then we're going to have to do all 4-8 years of post-undergrad pain and suffering all at once, during the interview, so grab a whiteboard and buckle up!

Even in academia, I think this view is counterproductive. We shouldn't be imposing suffering on folks just because that's how it's always been done. I prefer to take a different approach: give people every chance to make themselves look good, and see if they're able to capitalize on the opportunity.

I think "job talks" could have a useful place in industry hiring. Ask interviewees to prepare a 5-minute lightning talk about any technical (or technical-adjacent) topic they want, and open it up for Q&A from the panel afterwards. This is a way both for the interviewee to set the stage on a topic they're confident in, and for the interviewers to gauge the applicant's communication skills and technical knowledge.
https://www.sustainabilitybynumbers.com/p/nuclear-constructi...

> It takes around 6 to 8 years to build a nuclear reactor.

(Note: There is no data on planning part though; not so easy to methodically measure probably)

Point still valid, but 20 years seems excessively pessimistic.
>and it was always my assertion that Harvard is full of Well-Educated Idiots.

I grew up surrounded by Ivy leaguers. You could tell who came from money, and who made it on their own merit. Some of the wealthiest people I've ever met growing up were lower/middle class kids with tremendous academic intelligence AND street-smarts who made it to the ivies on their own merit and excelled from there. Some of the dumbest of that Ivy cohort were kids of exorbitantly wealthy, and due to their social class and connections, were pretty much promised a spot at one of the top schools. They aren't dumb in the sense that they are truly brainless...quite the opposite - they were good academically and often quite book-smart, but lacked every real-world marker of human intelligence; and would be the last person you'd want to hire or work with.

Harvard, Penn, Yale, etc... are places where the smart poor or smart middle class go to rub elbows with (and get jobs working for the parents of) wealthy idiots.
There are legitimate technical/logistical issues. Nuke plants require alot of water for cooling, have to be sited at a river or lake or something, and the ambient temperature of that water determines whether or not it is sufficient for cooling needs. Even when this is the case, the plant can often raise temperatures enough with its discharge to murder native species living in it downstream of discharge. Like with hydro, there's only so many places nukes can go. Even without nimbyism and politics, nukes may not scale. Depends on how power hungry the next few generations become.
Probably 0x for everyone except the last round investors who would get basically all the cash in the bank due to liquidation preferences, which is probably 0.66-0.84x return IMO.
Ah, Nvidia drivers

There's a bunch of settings that need tweaking and that aren't on by default. It's very annoying.

Here's the document to resolve them.

https://download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86_64/460.67/READ...
It's ambiguous. Vague, even. But not arbitrary. For example, it pretty much universally relates to speech that discriminates on the basis of identity factors such as race, religion or sexual orientation. A country cannot categorise "1989 Tiananmen Square" as hatespeech and expect to be taken seriously. What identity group is being hated?
Every problem is easy and cheap until you think about how to do it.
I hope it’s not too controversial of an opinion, but the audience for written long form software engineering content is very small.

In the 70s through the mid 90s, before the WWW v1.0 bubble taught the world you could get rich quick in software, there was a greater appetite to, say, take your time working your way through an article on a new technique in C. Now the vast majority of people just want copy/paste Python code examples from Stack Overflow. At most they may suffer through a brief video tutorial.

Part of this is not some “kids these days” sort of reason, but the reality that most code is much more short lived than ever before.
[dupe]

Some more discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39628842

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39622842
I am by no means an expert at all, however my very basic understanding is that ITAR is primarily concerned with important/export controls? Even if AI was added but the specific staffing was to a project was totally unrelated to something that would be imported or exported (this guy was an infra guy it looks like?), would that apply?
Yes, I've added the license.

Thanks for sharing your work Deepak, you have some pretty extensive documentation!
Funnily enough, the Golang framework is almost a clone of https://github.com/flipkart-incubator/databuilderframework (another orchestration engine in Java).

This is another HN post that extensively covers almost every major orchestrator in the market: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24216317

As for multi version workflows, I suppose that will have to be a tradeoff between maintaining somewhat redundant code or adding workflows as WorkflowV1 and WorkflowV2 and stitching together relevant steps in respective versions (reduces redundancy to some extent but won't eliminate)
GP asked a clarifying question. You're desire to read into the question and make assumptions about what you think must have been their intent, rather than just taking the question at face value does not mean GP is "the one who brought it up."
Do you mean runtime type checking? Coming from compiled type safe languages, it was difficult to wrap my head around full type erasure too. Your name would have definitely helped.
Canon's 5Dmk2 "moment" brought large sensor/shallow depth of field, interchangeable lenses, and very affordable pricing to a market that was dominated 2/3"-1" sensors, wide depth of field (ENG look), and high price tags.

It also brought the high contrast and saturated look baked in as a very unfriendly in post MP4 format. It also tried to sell a photo camera to a video world where the body form factor and external device connectivity was a joke. Professionals HATE all of that. Canon instead released the 100 - 700 series "cine" style bodies that were all primarily still shooting some form of MP4. It was all again a slap in the face with the added bonus of much higher price tags.

Canon has consistently told the market it doesn't understand it, and will just do what it wants
Ah yes. VTune. I had forgotton that one, pretty good stuff indeed.
They use regular CFexpress cards now (CFast on Komodo)
Great idea! We need a lot more visibility into what extensions are doing. I made little-rat [1] last year, to detect network calls coming from other extensions. Love to see more tools like yours!

[1] https://github.com/dnakov/little-rat
Quote: The letter notes that, while the officials cannot be “certain of any connection,” the drastic increase in complaints occurred “around the same time” as layoffs at Meta affecting roughly 11,000 employees in November 2022, around 13 percent of its staff at the time.

Interesting.
> Is it easier to reason about a 10,000-line-long math proof, or a 10,000-line-long program? I'm not sure that the math is actually easier.

Don't compare them on the basis of familiarity. Making your programming language look mathy is not the point.

I'd offer a different comparison:

Reason about a 10,000-line-long math proof, or a 10,000-line-long math proof in which there are instructions to jump back-and-forth with your pencil, crossing out and updating previously-calculated values in-place.
If they can put 50-70 year olds to work sure.
We have benchmarks for react and mount times with a 0.5% relative tolerance
[dupe]

Some more discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39625684
nope, looks like a deep cut and will fill in some knowledge gaps i have. thanks for the rec.

another good one for my learning was "secrets of the javascript ninja"
If it’s giving you true insight into how something works, then how is that not valuable?

Are you suggesting everyone already knows it?
Nice things we can't have
and you have to consider that train-stations are older and have better layout to get people on and off trains than airplanes that have tighter security even on inter EU travel for EU citizens.

One thing that is really annoying with traveling in EU via train is that there is no simple way to book tickets even with InterRail/EuroRail app. I did a vacation where i traveled around between Netherlands, Germany, Denmark Sweden and Poland back and forth and if you want a reserved seat you have to order it in advance for Poland and have your paper tickets sent to you in your home country 2 weeks in advance.

If you are in Poland you can do reservations the same day.

An other problem with reservations is that they are only for the train you have reserved on, and in Germany and Denmark there is a high probability that your train will be delayed to the point of being replaced with a train with fewer cabins, meaning you won't have a seat.

Might not sound like a big deal but on a trip from Copen hagen to Berlin that is 7 hours or a trip from Berlin to Katowice that is 8 hours, not having a seat is fast becomming an issue.

You simply wont get business people to travel with trains like that. EU seems to have made the decision that inter european travel by train is for young people in their early 20s and goods containers.

But within European countries the internal travels are usually not a problem and quite nice. Except in Southern Sweden. The commuter trains are a complete mess and has been ever since it was privatized.
Interesting, do you think illegal immigrants are occupiers? By your definition it would seem so.
imagine sitting in the rocket, hearing the countdown, and realizing you forgot your passport at home...
There are dialects that are associated with wealth and education that are still discouraged in the business world for various practical reasons. It certainly is a penalty to have a dialect and many educated parents will try to school their kids to speak differently. Not as a replacement, but as an alternative.

I doubt you can remove the preference due to the advantages. There is a force for consolidation, just as there is with English as a whole for example.
I started following the RED story before those folks ever released a camera, and I liked their spirit and mission.

Some time passed and ultimately it was Black Magic Design that accomplished what RED said they wanted to do.

If you say you want to make high end cinema technology, or even just high quality imagery, accessible to the average person, a $17,500 price tag for just the camera body shows that you might have strange ideas about what constitutes an average person.
nope! Context Optional
> That this is controversial shows just how naive the average American is and how unsustainable we are as a civilization these days.

IMHO, dismissing any potential opposition as "naive" before you've even heard it, is about as naive as it gets. It also overshadows what otherwise might have been an interesting discussion point by declaring your unwillingness to actually discuss the point.
The EU’s new competition rules are live — here’s how tech giants are responding
Ask HN: What are the best eBook authoring tools today?
I want to make some updates to a [free] ebook I wrote several years ago when Rice University was still running their Connexions service open to the world

I keep the most recent edition of that ebook as a pdf on my blog

What is the current "great ebook creation" toolset that all the Cool Kids™ are running? Is it to refactor it into something like Obsidian notes, connecting them, and exporting to pdf? Is it a 'classic' word processor like Apple Pages or Microsoft Word or Google Docs?

Beyond merely updating/expanding what I wrote previously, I also have a few other ebooks I want to compile - and would like to not learn more than one tool to do this.
I've been daily-driving Plasma Wayland for probably 3 years by now and I have had very few problems overall. Even given the poor state of Wayland with Nvidia (my work machine uses Nvidia graphics), I don't really have a lot of complaints. It generally just works.
> Are you implying “Fortnite” is a legally distinct entity from epic games somehow?

No? I'm saying that there was a single incident, not a "pattern".
And JavaScript has a bigger ecosystem and more entrenchment, not to mention an international standard.
great, so now we're in a "serious" != "more serious" round of pedantic discourse.

nope for me
A company based on doing deploys doesn't seem to understand that the goal should be de-risking the deploys, not de-risking your weekends?

Charity Majors explains it better than I ever could.
https://charity.wtf/2019/10/28/deploys-its-not-actually-abou...
Why the Front End Kingmaker Isn't Full-Stack: A History
I guess the idea is that if you set up a team for something greenfieldish you want some to lead by example in terms of how the stack will be used. You don't want someone generally experienced to go deep discovering their way to use the stack, you want to buy usage patterns. Once the position is out of the trenches, it's not really a tech job anymore and you basically need someone who knows the language (of the field, not a programming language!) and who is good at not running into process traps.

From the buyer side it makes a lot of sense, the problem is that when you're on the selling side and too old to get accepted in a junior role, you either have the precisely fitting CV (and can prove it through the interview stages), or you're bound for a tech stack consisting of an uber-accepted car.
No, why “everything looks the same” is 100% down to lens, lighting and grading choices.

Part of it is that modern lenses are incredibly accurate and much better technically than they used to be - a lot of the movies that people praise the photography of are now using vintage lenses that are 30-50 years old modified to modern lens mounts, since they have “visual character” instead of being so clean.
Police RAM runaway electric car after brakes fail on M62
If you are guilty of a much more serious crime, saying you're not related to this person or ignoring the email won't add much to your guilt.
I am an investigative reporter, and I take the same approach toward public records. If it ever existed in digital form, there is almost always a stray copy somewhere — regardless of the agency’s records retention schedule. The challenge is figuring out where it is.
There is no wisdom, it's supposed to be a rant. I don't think empathy applies to this kind of wide-ranged broad-stroked text. If he was attacking someone specifically and there was some side to the situation that he was willingly ignoring I might agree with you, but I think in this specific case (i.e. just a brain dump) this is interesting; you either identify with it or you don't, and both reactions are just as valid.

I for example identified completely, and enjoyed the text. You might be thinking now "oh ok, another asshole to go with the first one", but let me try to justify my view. I believe that the stupid people he describes are not "accidentally" stupid, or simply people who don't know better. These are people who are willingly, intentionally stepping on other people's toes as a way of life. Some people are just like that: they don't see it as a fundamental, basic tenet of social life to respect others, solve problems through dialog and --- yes --- have empathy towards them. Some people think that bothering and pushing themselves (and their views) against others is their god-given right; as if manipulating those around you (in all the possible meanings of manipulation) is not only a valid attitude but possibly the only way to achieve anything. I don't feel bad to discriminate against such people. Actually, I think it's unfair and disrespectful to bundle them together with those who are honestly ignorant or dumb, who can't really help but do stupid things because they don't know better. If we can't have honest conversations about this, i.e. about the differentiation between these two groups, all we are doing is validating and reinforcing the behavior of the first group (by not holding them accountable).
Color fringing on dark backgrounds is yet another artifact of anti-aliasing being done with a misconfigured gamma. Regardless you can configure subpixel rendering to minimize these fringing effects.
> It’s crazy to me how tech companies pretend customer support is not a critical business function.

Because at a certain point of size, it isn't. Even at 10k customers you don't care about losing a few dozen out of frustration, it's just normal attrition - much less at the billions of customers that Google, Meta, Apple, Microsoft and the other corporate chunguses have. There will always be enough fresh customers.

All hail the bottom line, because that is all that matters in a society that doesn't give a damn about externalized costs.
We used to have the shareware version of Skyroads on our school computers. They couldn't get rid of it. They'd delete it off most of the computers. But a copy would always survive and get propagated via USB.
A source of the increasing demand are data-centres scaling up for AI (machine learning) workloads... and crypto mining is still happening I guess. They're also sucking up a lot of fresh water for these tasks. I'm curious how significant this portion of the demand is.

If it's big enough, maybe start making those companies pay for these externalities they're forcing on the rest of society.

Though for other industrial uses... does the U.S. have a plan for SMR research and policies for deploying them when the tech is ready? I'm a bit ignorant on that one. I know Canada has been making moves in that direction.
Serious question - has Javascript the language evolved any features for handling integer math correctly so expressions like 2*57 aren't silently rounded? I realize that in most cases Javascriopt is "good enough" for useful work but I've seen even senior engineers get tripped up by Javascript's corner cases when it comes to its handling of integer vs float.
> FBI crime statistics ... are considered factual information but using them in any argument will have you branded a racist

Are you talking about this kind of thing? https://ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the-u.s/2019/crime-in-the-u.s.-...

Depends how you "use" it, surely. Using it to claim that black people are inherently more violent, or to justify police crackdowns on black neighbourhoods is still racist and is not supported by the fact in itself.
TA? teaching assistant?
> your continued obsession

> you are actively harming them by making them think this is some sort of complicated problem

Take a hike, dude.

You can disagree all you want, but there's no good reason for you to to be this rude. So far, you haven't shown the slightest indication that you know enough about the subject to assert that I'm "actively" harming anyone. You really have a nerve to say that when your responses are so devoid of substance. If you can't handle civil conversations that aren't to your liking, you are free to not participate.
Good. While Wayland isn't without issues, there are at least developers working on the core set of protocols and applications/libraries.
> Being inside the industry, I can say this is a very accurate observation:

I would say it’s an inaccurate observation, since a smart person would know that using a couple macroeconomic measures cannot explain short term changes in prices.