skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A shame those TMS99xx were limited so severely by design of the systems they were in. Seems like a decent CPU family, and with proper 16-bit bus + enough RAM could have made for nice contenders in the home computer market.

But 256 byte scratchpad RAM, 16K accessible only through the videochip (and not from BASIC!?!), in 1983? Too little too late, regardless of price. C64's, ZX Spectrums etc were everywhere by then. Much more capable and not that expensive.
As the article states, domestic oil does less environmental damage than foreign oil. That makes logical sense to me just on the transportation. Seems like a good step on the way to eco-friendly energy– and there will be many if we ever even get there.
I was doing some market research for a penny stock company in 2000 and made my way over to a stock discussion board devoted to the company at one point. The amount of scaminess, cheerleading, and ignorance (feigned or otherwise) was unreal.
That's a rounding error if you really wanted to move the production from the summer to the winter.

Nobody does it because that's not feasible with the current tech.

At best you smooth out the daily production.
And only once delivery.
And only once delivery.
They are at least a generation behind GE and the company is on life support so I don’t see them closing the gap. Pratt now Collin’s has engines too but their commercial engines are 3-4 generations behind.
Completely naïve guess, but maybe it'd make sense to tap into the hip muscles to hint the controller system what you want the tail to do. In zero g, a slight rotation in the pelvis won't cause too much movement, but I think it would feel fairly natural to trigger a tail swing with a hip motion.

I think the tail attached to the back might be physically awkward or impractical. After all, there's probably a good reason that all animals with prehensile tails have it attached to the pelvis. But then again, it may just be an artifact of it being an extended spine.

Unironically, I think this is a fantastic idea that might actually catch on if/when humans start spending extended time in zero g environments. Tails do have a lot of advantages for navigating and manipulating 3D space.

Unfortunately, I don't think we'll be able to actually solve the problems with this design until we're actually in space regularly.
Here's a suggestion for Europe. Keep your promises. Since the Berlin wall fell the west promised to not move their positions beyond it. They did so anyway and went all the way to the point of inviting Ukraine to join. Fast forward to Minsk accords the Germans and French admitted they were never going to abide by those terms. So the Russians have nobody in Europe that they can even deal with, since they never keep their promises. Hollande and Merkel both admitted this publicly.

My suggestiom would be to demilitarize NATO and create a new security architecture that states if you come one step westbound we will nuke you (Russians). That will be enough to appease both sides and you'll save boatloads of money from being pilfered by the west's military industrial complex.

I hate that the Ukrainians have been used as pawns in a western gambit when they could have had literally the best of both worlds. Low energy prices from the east and European culture and influences from the west. But now because of the petulant children in power in Europe they can't have any semblance of a society anymore.
That’s interesting.

I have predictive models that can predict if a headline (w/o the rest of the article and not considering the URL) will (a) get more than 10 votes and (b) if it does get more than 10 votes will the votes/comments ratio be more than 2 (which is roughly average)

The first model gets a ROC-AUC (see https://scikit-learn.org/stable/modules/generated/sklearn.me...) in the low 60’s (not good, the second model gets in the low 70’s (actually pretty good though it is a heat seeking missile for clickbait headlines) and my latest content-based recommender for RSS items gets almost 80. (I saw a paper that one system at TikTok gets about 85)

To do all that you need about 10,000 headlines and don’t get a lot of benefit from having more than 100,000. The ceilings on performance have more to do with the nature of the problem rather than my models: the same article can get submitted twice and get 0 votes one time and 200 the other time so it can never be as accurate as “is this an article about galactic astronomy?”

I had it ingest the HN comments firehose and found the amount of articles was overwhelming, my YOShInOn RSS reader now ingests the “best comments” from

https://hnrss.github.io/

together with 110 other feeds and actually I like the comments it picks out a lot. Now that the system is adding about 3000 items per day it might be able to handle a big feed like the comments firehose since now those comments are diluted with so many quality articles. For a problem like that you might want a two-score system with: (i) is it relevant? (something I like) and (ii) is it popular? (like Google’s PageRank)

I think you could make a model that compares comments in the best comments feed with other comments. I have tried formulating the problems above as regression problems where I try to predict the actual score and it does not work well because of the uncertainty problem but formulated as a classification problem for a score over a threshold it is easy to make a well-calibrated model that tells you “this article has a 20% chance of frontpaging” which is about the best anyone can do.
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C++, the infinite foot-gun factory
I have an unused breadboard. I bought a couple of Radio Shack Science Fair kits a few months ago.

The scale and design of the Radio Shack kits has worked for me and I have actually tinkered after decades of being off put by breadboards.

The Radio Shack kits are not professional tools which is a feature not a bug. If you have always wanted to play with electronics, it might be worth picking one up on eBay.

Or not.
Or are the simple rules themselves the "magic dust". These turing complete structures show up everywhere and are in many ways equivalent.

Perhaps this underlying structure is the foundation of our metaphysics and our reality is just one node of it's permutative potentiality. The simple rules of GoL are just an emergent reflection of the fundemental nature of meta-reality. These types of relfections within our neural and semantic structures may be the necessary "magic dust" for consciousness to emerge.
obviously it's not relevant to our interests for probably hundreds of years still, but it's a very conceptually simple proposition:

1. antimatter is incredibly energy dense, so would be an excellent fuel.

2. there's essentially none of it sitting around, so we need to make it, which takes lots of energy, but that's fine - it's an energy transport system, not an energy production system.

3. just set up square kilometers of solar panels in orbit around the sun or Mercury, use them to power particle accelerators which produce antimatter.

the sun emits enormous amounts of energy - we don't need some magic new energy source, just magic new ways to temporarily bundle up energy in a dense form.

edit: someone did the maths[0]:

> Where will we get the energy to run these magic matter factories? Some of the prototype factories will be built on Earth, but for large scale production we certainly don’t want to power these machines by burning fossil fuels on Earth. There is plenty of energy in space. At the distance of the Earth from the Sun, the Sun delivers over a kilowatt of energy for each square meter of collector, or a gigawatt (1,000,000,000 watts) per square kilometer. A collector array of one hundred kilometers on a side would provide a power input of ten terawatts (10,000,000,000,000), enough to run a number of antimatter factories at full power, producing a gram of antimatter a day.

from TFA:

> Preliminary mission analysis:

> - 10 kg instrument payload could be sent to 250 AU in 10 years using 30 mg of anti-H

> - A similar probe could be sent to Alpha Centauri in 40 years using grams of anti-H

[0]: https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/240278/how...
No one puts on a vinyl record to play one song.

Pretty much every DJ out there begs to differ :) I get your point though, and do also like to listen to whole albums (be it on vinyl or cd or PC), sometimes. Other times I prefer to create the playlist on the spot in function of my mood, i.e. select one track after the other. 'DJ' if you will, except I don't usually do proper mixing as that can take away part of the 'just listening' experience.
not sure i understand the utility of this when format strings and string template types already exist.

you can also use typescript-eslint/restrict-template-expressions if you find yourself running into problems with that

https://typescript-eslint.io/rules/restrict-template-express...
Methinks you need a mutex here.
Well, if it makes me self-report as happy, and makes me live longer (on average), I hardly think it is useful to say "no judgement on what's good or bad". If living long while being happy is not good, I don't know what is.

I am very surprised though that people in what is nearly a perpetual war, being attacked or hated from all sides, are both subjectively happier and objectively longer living than most of the rest of the planet.

Either I have really no clue what happiness is, or we are wrong about the idea that war is bad, at least not in all cases.
I found this Twitter account last posted to in 2014.

https://twitter.com/lebedbiz

I checked a good few of the stocks he listed. I figured he would have struck a lucky score at one point but he seemed to have an uncanny ability to always pick losing stocks.

I was hoping for a happy ending like how many of the people I played Runescape with who hosted dicing games, speculated and flipped in-game assets became successful quants irl, but he sure did seem to just pick a gimmick and roll with it, never evolving or changing.
> China and Russia are building the most reactors.

Are there good estimates for the cost of nuclear power in China and Russia? The estimates we see for the US and Europe show it to be relatively expensive, but it seems likely that it might be much more cost competitive in an environment with less regulatory overhead.

This article (https://archive.ph/nhdr2) agrees with that: "China keeps the exact costs a state secret, but analysts including BloombergNEF and the World Nuclear Association estimate China can build plants for about $2,500 to $3,000 per kilowatt, about one-third of the cost of recent projects in the U.S. and France."

It attributes most of the cost difference to differences in interest rates, but I'd think that construction standards, regulation, and cost of labor would offer potential savings too. I guess these can help with other renewables as well, but nuclear seems likely to benefit the most.
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The big killer app for BBM, iMessage, and WhatsApp was the ability to send text messages for cheap/free relative to expensive and limited carrier SMS, especially on prepaid SIMs, and later to make full phone calls over WiFi. Skype was never this integrated to people’s contact lists and missed the boat with smartphones.
Hey fellow hackers, I just published a new blog post with some practical writing advice to help software professionals level up their communication skills.

As engineers and developers, we often focus heavily on technical skills while neglecting the importance of clear, compelling writing. But the reality is, our ability to communicate effectively can have a major impact on our careers.
I didn't think oxide was gonna make sense when they first announced it. What was gonna be their competitive advantage? I thought.

I'm seriously impressed at how much they improved the on prem experience
That’s the thing! Even if the city had plans of their own, I’d be willing to bet if this guy came in with any sort of backing beyond “well I’ve got my own ideas!” in the way of actual (architectural/engineering) drawings, (time/financial) budgets, etc, he’d have a lot better luck.

Also—like other people have said, if the city are assholes, that sucks, but he’s still going to be fighting a steeper uphill battle on his plans and investments without them behind him—suck it up and learn to work with them or it’s going to be that much harder to not only get started on his current plans, but also his longer term plans of revitalization.

Maybe a great piece of software can be built as a single person working alone, fighting the odds and pissing people off, but I can’t see that approach working for building a town full of people.
I'm happy with DVDs from the public library. I find higher-resolution videos disturbing. Like, it's already fake, just really sharply so. Fuzz it a bit and I have an easier time suspending disbelief.
I think that so far sponsored content didn’t have comments. This new do really look more like user generated content.
Absolutely. I've had an instrument failure (invalid attitude indication) cause an autopilot issue that put the aircraft in an upset state in seconds. From there you're manually recovering based on limited data. Fortunately this is a key part of training and unlike the autopilot a human pilot knows to look at the backup instruments and make a judgement on what data is correct.

But that judgement is very hard to code into an automated system. Because there is also a bit of trial and error involved. If indications don't follow your inputs, you're going to assume those indications are wrong and put more weight on the others.
Alright, fess up, this is a post from a bot!
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I know this is the internet but you have no idea what are you talking about. Nuclear power has nothing to do with nuclear arsenal as the spent fuel from modern reactor is not viable weapons material. There are many countires that have peacefull nuclear power programmes and no nuclear weapons and there are also countries that heave nuclear weapons or even their own nuclear weapon program, but no nuclear power.

France has nuclear because oil was expensive and they didn't have many other alternatives like the Germans.
Its kind of interesting how differently managed the power is in the state depending on if your provider is public or private. No brownouts and cheap power under the public ladwp.
Those "news" (commercials in disguise) about d2 consistently fail to make it clear that even though the language itself is opensource, the primary backend for it isn't, and is actually quite expensive. There're free backends, but those have inferior capabilities.
The issue is the cost. But the trope is "Well if we could manage the cost, 1/1 will actually get us places."

As opposed to more conventional solutions, which require 1e5 / 1, or more, or more magical ones, that make no sense.
What I meant was, the case will be decided by applying the law to the situation, so in order to discuss from the sidelines what could, should, or might happen, we need to look at what it says and how it might be interpreted.
You’re correct. The limits are:

• M3: 1 × fully hardware-accelerated external display

• M3 Pro: 2 × fully hardware-accelerated external displays

• M3 Max: 4 × fully hardware-accelerated external displays
The path from 12 seconds to below 6 seconds has to cross through the 6-second mark first.
You are correct. You can do mask edits or short runs in some cases beam.

Even more interesting is mask level overlay and CD correction using ultrafast absorption based stress fields. There are some heat technologies out there
The entire trading industry is a zero-sum game bro. For someone to win someone else has to lose. As is the advertising industry and surveillance capitalism industry that powers the “free web”. (Only at the edges is new value created. Most of it exists to have large institutionals take money from the small newbs, you’re the fish at the poker table.)

And more broadly, capitalism exploits people.

This is like blaming Andrew Tate for exploiting women but throwing up your hands when Amazon Nike and Apple were running sweatshops and warehouses at scale, exploiting people in general.

Technology just made it easier to extract the rents (eg tax the uber drivers and passengers to pay the shareholder class of Uber).

And generative AI just automates that further. Thanks for all your creativity, judgment and input, humans. You can be fired now thanks!

Hey, if you look at the man behind the curtain, you’ll see all your favorite stuff needs it to even function. For example for Sam Altman’s ventures we have:

Kenya’s cheap brains: https://time.com/6247678/openai-chatgpt-kenya-workers/

Kenya’s cheap eyeballs: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-66383325.amp

Don’t shoot the messenger
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> Babylon and its fired clay is a bit of an exception

It wasn’t just Babylon but dozens of other civilizations in the region. IIRC we have a lot more Assyrian tablets because Babylon and their allies sacked and burned the Assyrian capital which preserved their library.
Solar and wind still have no path to stability.

The point is that we already had proven technology back then. Even now after massive coordinated effort on wind and solar, we have to burn gas/coal all over the place to handle generation sags at night and when the wind slows.
And promoting an unscientific commercial product is forbidden on the nerdy Hacker News platform too, for your information.

Unless you write a detailed essay like how the software robot you made acquires its sensibility for producing market comparisons for arbitrage discovery and exploitation. Then everyone wins in that case. Nerds get to learn about sensors for robots and you get to market your commercialist product.
Myself I use several kinds of “remote desktop” with my big PC regularly. I use Microsoft’s RDP to log in with a laptop and a iPad. I use Sunshine and amok light to play PC games on my NVIDIA Shield and Xbox One. And I use Immersed to use my computer with a Meta Quest 3. All with just Ethernet and WiFi.
It’s gross, but it also seems to fit exactly with our military industrial complex’s revolving door system.

Also the article did call Andreessen Horowitz “prestigious” so you. Can kinda guess what their views on our system are.
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The static types depicted in typescript are entirely fictitious. Any similarity to runtime types is purely coincidental.
Sorry, I thought this article/thread was all about pyTorch/AI and NVidia's moat in this area vs AMD and other competitors, so my comments are written in that specific context.

If I have lost track of the conversation, please accept my apologies.
Using slave and indentured servitude labor certainly helps UAE contain costs!
Bypass is a nice alternative if the client is what's under test. Often it's not.

> passing in fake adapters to Req, or injecting a dispatch layer at test time with Mimic.

I see, so you buy into DI for the purposes of testing but you prefer a more terse approach than what behaviours offer. The extra module never really bothered me and the contents are mostly what would go into the implementation anyway. LSP provides documentation all the same.

> I’ve been doing this for 20 years, you’re definitely never going to convince me

I certainly appreciate your input, I like to learn new things, but have little interest in trying to convince anyone that makes such a dogmatic statement. An unfortunate thing to hear from a principle developer. I hope your coworkers agree with you.
In the sense that we can currently produce and store some millions of antiprotons at a time, using a proton accelerator "merely" around 200m in diameter. Not in the sense that it would be anywhere near feasible to produce and store even a microgram worth of antimatter.
Tantivity is great!

Here is a postgres extension that uses it to provide full text search

https://blog.paradedb.com/pages/introducing_bm25

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37557127
Experts convene to find AI climate solutions
Yes, I believe the bankers would go for that. This is, unfortunately, the most practical solution.
The difference is merely the essential part of meme stocks that make them meme stocks and not just a pump-and-dump scheme executed by some guy. Other than that, though, totally the same thing.
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In order to get Celebi legitimately in the Japanese version of Crystal, you have to connect your GBC to a phone and use an online service that hasn’t worked for decades. In the VC version they patched the game so that you can get it with a different method but the physical GBC game does not have all of the features it used to once upon a time.
The key lesson here is not the amount of effort to do something, but rather being clear eyed about what your priorities really are.

Want to be an okay programmer because you want to have a rich life outside of work? Great! That is a totally valid life choice, but don't think you can be great without putting in the work.

I've seen several peers become way wealthier than I will ever be. Some of it was luck, to be sure, but a huge part of it was grinding and hard work and focus.
Whether or not that's true, this issue is independent of C++.

Concurrent programming is hard, partly because concurrent anything is hard (even in meatspace).
Both are morally outrageous and are or should be criminal?
> In large energy projects the bank or funder tends to take all the risk.

It’s almost like there should be a public institution that does things like this that are for society, with society taking the risks and getting the rewards. For ease, we could call it “government”.
Only one delivery is easy as long as you don't guarantee delivery
>Probably, but not taking advantage of idle cores on another machine might be more expensive (in terms of time needed to finish the computation).

If there are idle cores on another machine, why not just point the load balancer to schedule new jobs/coroutines on those idle machines? Why reschedule existing coroutines on another machine if they run just fine on the current node? (i.e. the node is at full capacity, and it's fine) I can see that the problem can arise if a coroutine wants to spawn new coroutines, and if we schedule them on the same node which is at full capacity, they can end up waiting for a while before they are run... It makes sense to schedule new jobs on different machines, but why reschedule existing coroutines? You have to serialize/deserialize stuff and send over the wire, and there are several gotchas as explained in the article (pickling arbitrary objects doesn't sound very reliable/safe, and judging from the article, can break in future versions of Python), plus there's a lot of magic involved which will probably make it harder to investigate things in production... I'd personally just stick with local coroutine sheduler + global load balancer which picks nodes for new jobs + coroutines, when created, only receive plain values as arguments (string, int, float and basic structures) to be reliably serializable and so that it was transparent what's going on... (i.e. do NOT store internal coroutine state, assume they are transient). Maybe I don't understand the idea.
Yeah once it becomes clear you’re in the kind of forum I am talking about the satisfaction doesn’t come from the presumed effect on others but the signal that you actually may have said something important.
ah, statecraft
Sounds like comptime from Zig. There are a few others that does something similar, but Zig probably has most mind share right now.