skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It depends on the jurisdiction. A half dozen states now permit assisted suicide in the case of terminal illness.

There's also an interesting bit of case law and state statutes that deals with "drug cocktails", which when combined, will lead to death. A physician can prescribe these in certain places without getting in trouble if certain criteria have been met.

Either way, where this is legal, it requires that the person be of the capacity to consent, which someone with dementia cannot do.
I get that, but what I would like to know is how these topics end up end up selected, and not something else. What were the magic combinations of factors led everyone to project onto these topics specifically.

There is lasting resentment over Brexit (in the US), but nobody cared about Croatian ascension. Ukraine is a US political battleground, but the loss of Crimea was greeted with indifference.

I think there must be something about the political and cultural moments that cause these issues to gain traction over other topics, or none at all.
Congratulations, you've created an unfalsifiable worldview for yourself where Musk's outrageous success with Tesla and SpaceX has turned into evidence of his unhinged incompetence as a CEO.
By brutalist standards, they do look pretty awesome.
This seems a bit like saying "JavaScript supports types!" because of typescript.
Thanks, taking a look. We just moved it to new infrastructure and we're still working out the kinks.

Edit: should be fixed, let me know if there are more issues.
In this case it appears to be for SEO spam to gain backlinks
Intel Makes Continuous Profiler Open-Source to Help Improve CPU Performance
I think what made these good design is that they were pioneers. Consider the eames chair. Plenty of people lust after one, they are worth more than a used car. I have sat in one but there wasn’t any magic or anything. Any recliner feels the same. But that being said my perspective is from a world post eames chair. Before this chair maybe there wasn’t a comparable experience at all among what people were usually buying for chairs.
Thanks for the perspective. Indeed, this is an area with real demand. I haven't evaluated YC's recent startups but I trust they do know a bit about what has a better chance in the market. Best of luck :)

ps.: As someone with very minimal PDF needs personally and at work, I'd say the beautiful templates are what caught my attention the most.
Why do people use python for anything beyond glue code? Because it took off, and machine learning and data science now rely on it.

I think Python is a terrible language that exemplifies the maxim "worse is better".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worse_is_better
And meanwhile the actual cleaners are rarely paid even $15/hr in many places. I always hire one or two person companies if I just can find them since then it's at least honest business and not yet another hustle to get rich by using slave labour. Not just for cleaning which I only rarely outsource but for everything.
Horror Vacui
This may be a dumb question, but what do the scores even mean? Is this explained anywhere? Neither https://browserbench.org/Speedometer3.0/about.html nor https://browserbench.org/Speedometer3.0/instructions.html appear to explain it. Are lower scores better, or higher scores?
All Python iterators raise StopIteration at the end of iteration. For-loops always use the iterator protocol. Neither generators nor lists are special in this regard.

>>> next(iter([]))
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
StopIteration
>>> next(iter((lambda: (yield 5) if False else None)()))
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
StopIteration
Engineering Language as a Vehicle of Innovation
This sounds like the worst version of SOC controls.
Is it the Internet that has ruined society, or various factors that use the Internet to accelerate their effects?
weasyprint isn't terrible
Higher is better. The analogy is speed. You want more speed.

It's not a physical speed, just a benchmark number. Think of it as arbitrary units, which allows you to compare different version of browsers on the same machine.
Photonic and quantum … and humanity is toast! It was a great run!
First I read the news of tranched bread, and now this?! What a time!

I was a bit disheartened when the Unladen Swallow project [1] fizzled out. Great to see Python back on the core optimization track.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CPython#Unladen_Swallow
Some of these would be tiny items. But yeah, on larger items, sometimes the shipping price changed dramatically once you add the 8th item to your cart.

I wish users could order stuff by sea for a discount. Sometimes I’m buying camping or sports stuff for another season and don’t need it coming airmail. Arriving months later can actually be beneficial. But I understand, too many people will lose their minds.
> as the `multiprocessing` module works just fine.

Something that tripped me up when I last did `multiprocessing` was that communication between the processes requires marshaling all the data into a binary format to be unmarshaled on the other side; if you're dealing with 100s of MB of data or more, that can be quite some significant expense.
Impressive features, simplicity, and scalability make it a standout solution!
> Unless the machine specifically handles this scenario, this can artificially wear the battery. Newer MacBooks handle this better with "intelligent" charging (I couldn't say for sure whether a 2012 MBA would have had this feature), but I don't know about other brands.

Yes... this is why I did use to take it out in old laptops while not moving from the desk.

With my thinkpad, I used to do:

sudo tlp setcharge 60 95 BAT0

This means: "start charging when level is 60% and stop charging when it reaches 90%"

> But the real answer here is that batteries are essentially consumable parts. They won't last forever, and once it drops below holding ~80% of the original charge, it's worthwhile replacing it.

Indeed, probably for the extensive use I do, it's normal to do not pass the 3 or 4 years of good conditions.
Making the tool easy to deploy has been one of our main goals since day one, so thank you for saying that!!
We felt the same, and that's precisely why we built this tool! The key, as you mentioned, is fidelity, especially for designing complex layouts. We hope to bring something new and valuable to the table. And yes, documents are central to many industries including government, legal, banking etc.
Ah, I was thinking more about 'Now, let's decide the direction of the company, which if it were something fully known by our competitors would likely ruin everything'.

But yes, it's not an approach that can help journalists at all.
Diminutive Deep Sea Drone Dives for Wrecks and Reefs
Kotlin has basically replaced java for many spring shops. It's really common in backend nowadays.
How async/await works in the Lwan web server
very curious about the intel xe drivers; weirdly, they seem like a good bet for graphics on alternative cpu architectures
Not well supplied at all. None of the three sub-sects are well provided:

a) high-quality video monitors like Sony PMW, great for gaming and old-school video

b) slow amber screens like mentioned above

c) large TV sets with good colors (and no semi-digital stuff messing with quality like 100Hz)

None of those can be easily found, especially not in working condition.

Oh, forgot about the substantial

d) Gaming CRT with insane refresh-rate and true blacks!

Of these, I think only monochrome sets and maaaaaaybe PMW-style sets have any inkling of a chance of new manufacture. Probably only monochrome monitors, they are much simpler to get right.
Cf. IKEA
https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antoni_Gaud%C3%AD

Gaudi is a famous name for a reason.. the flowing lines and frankly, nonsense and silliness, in the art and architecture of Gaudi stands for generations as a contrast to the relentless severity of formal classical arts (and especially a contrast to Intel electronic parts).
The "But wait, there's more!" device predates infomercials. It goes at least as far back as the "Atlantic city boardwalk pitch" from the early 20th century:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K-tel

> K-tel was founded by Philip Kives,[4] a demonstration salesman from Oungre, Saskatchewan.[5][6] Kives had worked at a number of jobs as a young man, including selling cookware door-to-door and in a department store, and as a pitch-man on the Boardwalk in Atlantic City.
> Also, EDI is really only good for things like PO's, shipping notices, invoices, sales orders, etc.

Don't forget health insurance claims, eligibility & benefits, and prior auth requests!
Unfortunately I can’t say too much publicly on HN. But one of the big shortcomings is dealing with hundreds of files. It doesn’t even matter if those are big or small files (I’ve had experience with both).

Services like DataSync show that the underlying infra can be performant. But it feels almost impossible to replicate that on EFS via standard POSIX APIs. And unfortunately one of our use cases depend upon that.

If feels, to me at least, like EFS isn’t where AWSs priorities lie. At least if you compare EFS to FSx Lustre and recent developments to S3. Both of which has been the direction our AWS SAs have pushed us.
If the analogy isn't working for you, you can see the actual durations when you click on "Details".
Lisp is eldritch by programming language standards; we are still wrestling with the ramifications of McCarthy's half-page of code.
Speed. Admittedly not quite as much so the way this patch is implemented, since it just short circuits the extra function calls, doesn’t omit them entirely.
He wrote that deep learning is “hitting a wall” 6 months before ChatGPT was released. Definitely needs to save face somehow.
I've been very happy with GrapheneOS on my Pixel 7, for the year that I've had it.

The only inconveniences if you may call them that have been in alerting me of things naughty apps were doing.

Actually, no. One problem I've had is that external audio input via USB has not worked for me. Anyone else figure that out?
I tried running Solaris SPARC on my phone, but it was dog slow. Very secure though!
Take # parameters and divide by 2 and then add like 1 to estimate it for 4bit quantization. A 13B model will need ~7GB of memory at 4bit.

Most quantization models start falling apart rapidly after 4bit, but you can go lower...

If you can fit it in GPU memory it'll likely be usable, if you can't fit it in memory be prepared for single digit t/s or less, the only exception is for people with M1/M2/M3 cpus.
Plausible assumption: He is far less interested in the local church architecture than in the health and welfare of the local Christian community.

Kinda like a good father's attitude toward the decor in his daughter's bedroom.
If only there were a dynamic language which performs comparably to C and Fortran, and was specifically designed to have excellent array processing facilities.

Unfortunately, the closest thing we have to that is Julia, which fails to meet none of the requirements. Alas.
Thanks! It's like an extended Feynman. It also reminds me of this: https://jvns.ca/blog/2022/12/08/a-debugging-manifesto

You're right to emphasize the looping it takes to solve bugs. Many students are not prepared for this.
It's all for "PCI Compliance" lol
Is AI company rediscovering how HTTPS and other SSL protocol works?
Sure they can. They simply 'forget' that there was a camera there but when a dispute comes up then they suddenly realize that actually there was one and surprisingly there is relevant footage, too.
Old, established design does not equal good. You should know that from the software world. It seems obvious now that a door plug design that has the same failsafe at pressure of the actual doors would be a good improvement.
It’s like many other institutional problems. People are afraid of suddenly doing the right thing because of the huge backlog they’ll be forced to address.
Presto hasn't been used for years
This is why I can't use AliExpress. Ordering by price+shipping is truly an awful experience. The people in charge of that feature take incompetence to a new level.
You don't have to like him.

But he's right more often than he's wrong, which is unusual for a political scientist.

Sometimes he comes across as gloating when he notes the stupidity and failure of the foreign policy establishment. But that's fine, the way he's attacked.
https://www.gozerog.com/
Creative prosthetics and a VR headset and I'm less confident
Google NYC Tech Talk on Bringing Back the Model F Keyboard [video]
Well there is no matter in an struct vacuum obviously, so they are hard to see.
A want a P2P social networking construct where I can pick my friends and input sources, design or choose my own filtering and boosting algorithms, and leave the rest of the web/platforms to rot.

We should have gone P2P in 200X, but Facebook and Google took us down a different path. Bittorrent was good. Semantic Web kind of understood the task, but it was academic and not leveraged. Now we understand the assignment and have all the experience necessary to build the thing.

Mastodon and ActivityPub are not the solution. Bittorrent was.
I think there's a point to both styles.

The church buildings are in the end both for people, and as a kind of monument and historical reminder. Just as there are austere denominations and churches, old and new, all sorts of variety, it's not strange that there's also variety in church buildings.

Look also how warm and pleasant some of these 'brutalist' churches are on the inside. Space for people to sing in, and for the organ pipes to resound in, austere yes, but not only austere.
Or, someone who would thoroughly test such a system and formally verify it long before use, as it would literally be a life or death thing...
> None of the people that spent hours of their lives lovingly contributing to Subreddits ... will make a profit off of Reddit's public listing

They'll not make money because they're stupid. I have never participated in this kind of scam (this is what I call getting free labor to prop up a private company). But several people seem to love donating free work for private companies.
You can't normally open a regular door in flight as the air pressure prevents it. This is a good feature!
That is way better
US interest rates, inflation definitions and targets, unemployement definitions and rates - are key levers for trying to regulate and control the US economy (and with much influence still on the rest of the world).

Yes there are many other things linked partially or related to these. - such as election year statistics, real estate and the banks that hold the corresponding loans, service of US debt, the value of the US dollar, etc, etc. That makes these definitions and targets more important and interesting, not less!

They are also a part of the economy that's rather understandable to engineers.

And this one is a very decent article.
>We frequently battle issues with the Python GIL at DeepMind. In many of our applications, we would like to run on the order of 50-100 threads per process. However, we often see that even with fewer than 10 threads the GIL becomes the bottleneck. To work around this problem, we sometimes use subprocesses, but in many cases the inter-process communication becomes too big of an overhead. To deal with the GIL, we usually end up translating large parts of our Python codebase into C++. This is undesirable because it makes the code less accessible to researchers.
I never installed it because of who the founder is... but maybe I'm wrong and it takes someone like this to start such a project.
> code reviews also take months

Wow. I don't think I would have lasted even the first month there.

Sounds not healthy.
James Webb Space Telescope captures the end of planet formation
Speak for yourself! I can't even afford 1/10th of an H100.
> but a return to the dark ages of the internet where most traffic ran through a series of heavily-curated portals operated by a few select companies

This statement confuses me. I see how the fact that most people tend to cluster around a small number of platforms effectively at least trends this toward being more and more true, but what are the older "dark ages" referred to here? AOL? In the 90's you could take the easy route and sign up with AOL, but there were numerous dial-up ISPs you could choose from. Even then, you didn't have to use the AOL portal (though I'm sure non-tech savvy people who only used AOL for email never bothered to understand).
"small threaded programs had been run successfully"

I have ran a lot of programs containing race conditions successfully many times until I ran into an issue.
Dialect predicts AI decisions about character, employability, and criminality
I turned on a crt recently and it was so noisy I could hear it outside, through the walls. My cat ran and hid. Did we really all collectively just tolerate that noise back then, or do these things decay over time somehow and get louder?
Being able to remove the engine from my car with the push of a button would be a pretty amazing feature!
I dont follow. What are "actual" objects? Everything we conceptualize is some abstraction of data. We the see the world in trained concepts.

A "door" for example isn't a fundamental object of the universe. Its a collection of atoms or quarks or whatever you consider fundamental objects of reality, (or even a completely abstract object having some resemblance in space/time), but each part in itself means nothing. It is the collection of them in a certain configuration which we recognize as being a "door".

It is precisely the "compression" of of bunch of data points into a simpler concept.

The same goes for concepts like shapes, diagonal, alternating, etc. There are endless infinite patterns from which we learn to distinguish
I am genuinely curious what is different about us posting here?
Can't you have normal peer review with the rest of the team in lower level branches? Have everything work out as "normal" with PRs and whatnot, then when you want to merge develop into master or whatever, then do the CRF and CTO review?

Everybody then gets what they want.
What have you been using in place of AirBnB?
Google's self-designed office swallows Wi-Fi
NATO is one-sided alliance in favor of US. It literally makes so that American weapons manufacturers are preferenced over domestic military industry, which now is more or less dead. Europe used to have lots of successful weapons manufacturers. Now NATO is standardized against American industry.
I used to have a 1948 Hallicrafters TV and it had yet another type of high voltage supply. There was a 100 kHz oscillator driving an air-core transformer in normal (not flyback) mode. The potting had gone bad on the transformer, and I couldn't find a suitable replacement, but I did find one that had the right secondary winding. Since it was air-core I just cut the secondary off that and the primary off the original and glued them together. Worked great.
> For example, muons should decay before they hit the ground, but they don't due to time dilation.

Would you mind expanding on this?
Fascinating. Here's one article about them: https://www.npr.org/2011/09/12/140402430/japanese-seniors-se...
FreePBX – Open-Source PBX (PHP GUI for Asterisk)
Yikes! How is this tolerated?
Let me see if I can explain it - These "declarative" UI frameworks work very different from any UI frameworks in the past. They (theoretically) rebuild the data structures backing the current view of the UI and do that 60+ frames per second.

Good thing is that there is very little chance of data-out-of-sync-with-UI kind of bugs. But the bad part is that tons and tons of alloc/dealloc and literally the code is executing all the time.

Now in practice, it is not all that bad. They have a magical garbage collector that makes is all better. Every release it just slightly better, but I can't help think that they are solving a problem they created to begin with. But I might be too old and may be the productivity is worth it.

This is in addition to the fact that none of the widgets are truly native. The "code" is native, but the UI is not. Even react-native apps might be this way, but they at least use Safari/webkit widgets, if not truly native iOS/Android widgets.
AI Poses Extinction-Level Risk, State-Funded Report Says
Even Star Trek had a World War 3 that destroyed most of the human population before rationality finally prevailed.
Related:

Intent to approve PEP 703: making the GIL optional - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36913328 - July 2023 (499 comments)
Bittorrent is a great way to download big files. Heck, if Docker used Bittorrent to download files it might even work on my DSL connection but I guess reliability is an "enterprise" feature.

Bittorrent is not a good way to download small bits of data like status updates. What do you think is so bad about ActivityPub? Should we fall back on RSS and just settle for stale data sometimes and excessive polling other times?
Cold!! I’m full of cold, Not confidence.
The printing press and TV did ruin the societies that preceded them. The new societies they produced were better (in the case of the printing press) or arguably better (in the case of TV) - by some subjective metric of goodness.

But there's no guarantee that the past will be like the future, or that all technological developments create better societies, or that it's always better in all ways. The development of the personal automobile improved many things but also created many catastrophes - environmental destruction, automobile fatalities, leaded gasoline, urban "renewal" and sprawl - that we're still grappling with. If we come out on the other side then yay, but even then we're talking about 150 years of some serious growing pains. Maybe the internet looks the same way.
JavaScript: Empowered by Rust
Why would I pay someone to fix miles of hidden plumbing when I can just place a bedpan on top of the robot vacuum cleaner as he goes past who then hands it off to the septic tank bot. If simple object from A to B manipulation is free & fast then we are going back to medieval times with robot serfs. The pipes will be a vestige remnant like landlines are.
Fixing Gemma Bugs
You cannot make this up, generating PDFs is now an enterprise product.
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The sales pitch was that "HD" was all anyone was supposed to care about. What we got in exchange for HD and some extra desk space was terrible color accuracy, worse contrast and grey blacks, low refresh rates, high latency/input lag, motion blur, dead/stuck pixels, poor viewing angles, fixed resolutions, backlight bleed, and DRM. We also lost the degauss button. Kids today will never know how fun that was.

Some of that has gotten better over time, but it'd be nice if in 2024 we had screens at least as capable as what we had several decades ago.
for all the hype around building alien tech, this is a bit underwhelming. the stuff from this startup feels more alien than what extropic is talking about - https://www.emergentia.tech/technology
I'd love to see that link!

The only page I found through kagi is:

http://www.blablameter.com/index.php

but seems broken, because returns:

Your text: 14741 characters, 2454 words
BS Index :0.27
Your text shows some indications of 'BS'-English, but is still within an acceptable range.
It's fairly routine for B&Bs to have a 2-night minimum on weekends but, yes, they typically also just have a nightly charge (which may vary depending on day of week) and don't have a fixed per-stay adder.

AirBnBs have definitely normalized a significant per-stay charge that isn't the norm in the hotel/inn business.
Exponentially more powerful.

But unfortunately, for small N, like the N = 2 bits here, the additional complexity of pure optical + quantum computing just doesn’t pay off!