skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If by now you don’t know enough about this topic to form any kind of opinion on whether humans are responsible for climate change, you have chosen to intentionally ignore the scientific community.

Building more nuclear power is good, but it can’t be the only solution because it’s very expensive and takes so long to ramp up. Projects in the West have been decades behind schedule. And it’s far from given Republicans would support it.

Why don’t Republicans take the initiative and get Democrats behind a national plan for more nuclear? Because their voters don’t care. So why would they support such a Democratic initiative?

It’s a weird assumption that Republicans are somehow just waiting to do the right thing, if only Democrats would come to them with a plan. It’s never worked like that.
Languagy type things tend to be more stable than the myriad of random npm packages out there. Hopefully Bun remains pretty stable.

I'm currently fighting PHP + Laravel. I want to upgrade PHP but I can't because the version of Laravel I'm using depends on an older version of PHP. So I have to upgrade them both in lockstep anyway.
I would have said adhesive tape. And then maybe magnetic tape.

Followed shortly by "industrial chemicals".
I’m gonna cry survivorship bias here. How do we know how many similar attempts succeeded?
The tweet is ffmpeg saying they offered Microsoft a support contract. I'm not sure you could have a better source contradicting that. Still a nothing burger tweet.
The metric work done per clock is not a useful one. Efficiency, i.e. energy spent per work done is a lot better. The latter, however, is heavy influenced by the process node - so comparing different processes when it comes to efficiency is rather futile.

Higher IPC may mean inability to clock higher. In applications where work done per time matters (say games, HFT) it also doesn't provide much.
Microsoft Requested Urgent support on a bug from FFmpeg.
I don’t think the end state is everyone with an EV has home charging, that’s not practical.

The next generations of BEVs are getting faster and faster charging with longer ranges such that I don’t think this will be an issue.
Show HN: Goralim - a rate limiting pkg for Go to handle distributed workloads
a minimal rate limiting package for Golang microservice. small weekend project. feedback and stars will be appreciated.
> To win at chess, blunder less.

How to win: don't lose.

C'mon it's not like people actively choose to make mistakes.
U.S., U.K. Announce Partnership to Safety Test AI Models
I've never really understood the pessimism of the dying sun trope in SF. If humans are still around in billions of years then our descendants will either have spread throughout the galaxy, or will have the technology to either tweak the Sun to not go nova, or to move the Earth out of harm's way. Seems like a major failure of the imagination.

(Also: the idea that we need to find other planets to live on if the Sun goes nova or if we screw up the Earth is another one. We'll probably be living in millions of large space colonies, not on planets.)
They also didn't commit to any timeline for responding in their own ticket tracker and certainly didn't let randos from the Internet set the priorities of the tickets. So IDK, but it sounds to me like there's some reasonable space for an agreement between the parties to be negotiated.
https://github.com/tisonkun/dacapo/pull/5

Added at /rss.xml, fully https://tisonkun.io/rss.xml.

Please check if it's desired and raise any issue if it can be improved further.
Yes, along with whimsy.
It's one of the few tuned mass dampers the public can go see.
For a group of smart solution driven folks, this comment section reads overly negative. I am curious if any one here is in the autos sector. My extended family works in motorcity and some work in machining around the Midwest. I hear excitement for new growth opportunities and hesitancy as the US autos lag behind China in rapid development. I have an EV and an ICE motorcycle. Admittedly I would be sad if all ICE vehicles were banned but I am open to change. I hope American auto groups can take the reigns and become global leaders again. There is a large sector of people itching for more manufacturing jobs.
The good news is that electricity from nuclear, as well as other sources, can power EVs.
Right...but if you're going to fork it and create fragmentation, then we might as well go back to Node which has at least been stable for the past few years.
I'm also living in central Taipei, this one woke me up, we felt really strong shaking in our flat on the 4th floor. Some tiles fell off the buildings on my street but otherwise everyone is fine.

Right after the quake saw police and fire dept patrolling around.
Nearly a decade ago they partially ported their database to Linux?

I guess that completely invalidates everything else they've done since
New Sun by Gene Wolfe is a great example of that genre.
Also of the unreliable narrator, as the protagonist is writing his autobiography, is not well educated and suffers from rather interesting neurological divergence (he forgets nothing).

All in all, it makes for a very good series. Especially once you realize that you are reading about sci-fi world, as written about by a person living in essentially ancient society.
Great point, I’m from Canada and lived in Japan for a decade, in those two places I would say it’s a downgrade. Especially Canada where there is usually a scale.
AFAIU, you can get very similar efficiency by setting power limits on non-X3D models. The X3D are just more power limited at stock.
> ...pouring vast sums of money into warships is essential to projecting power, preserving peace and so on (or, from a mirror image viewpoint, that the US Navy is central US global hegemony)

As long as the majority of potentially blockade-running trade is seaborne (air freight is expensive; railways are easy to target), I'd argue navies have a large role in "preserving peace", but obviously intra-eurasian trade would have different constraints to intercontinental.

EDIT: come to think of it, this would easily explain why russia is currently sitting in eastern ukraine: Novorossiysk (or Mariupol?) is much better placed than Murmansk.
Definition nitpicking: They are only popular among a specific crowd. When less than 5% of all users use the software, I wouldn't call it popular globally.
The Car Wars board game originally published in 1981 already imagined a post-apocalyptic world using mostly electric cars: "There are two kinds of engine available in 2040: gas and electric. With gasoline unavailable in many areas of the world, multiple-fuel-cell electric power plants are far more common than the old-style internal-combustion engines". That is from the 1990 rulebook. The original rulebook had the year 2031 instead of 2040 (because "Car Wars is set 50 years in the future").

https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgamefamily/2829/game-car-wars
From wikipedia:

In the USA in April 2023 a Gallup poll had nuclear support at 54%, the highest level since 2012.[54]
In August 2023 Pew Research Center conducted a survey which found that 57% of Americans favor more nuclear power plants. This is up from 43% in 2020. Support for nuclear power has increased among both Democrats and Republicans. However, Americans are still more likely to favor solar and wind power than nuclear power.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_opinion_on_nuclear_issu...
I immediately think of their products I use on a regular basis. There are so many.

- micropore tape for mycelium and tissue cultures
- reusable respirators and cartridges
- net sanding disks
- double sided tape for so many things
- foam ear plugs and earmuffs
- scouring pads for shop/kitchen/aquarium
- HEPA air filters for work and home
- command strips for all kinds of hanging and affixing needs
- adhesive spray, mostly for wood working or working with templates
- stripping pads

The list goes on. There are alternatives from other brands, but a few of these are hard to compromise on and 3M does an incredible job. Their cubitron mesh/net sanding discs for example. I also like their respirator equipment too much to switch out another brand. Then finally it might seem insignificant but their double sided tapes are really good. When you find a bad one you never forget it, and similarly, you remember the good ones. 3M has been my favourite so far.
He draws the line at 2D.
This is an example of why Twitter links are terrible for figuring out what’s going on. At first glance, Microsoft is donating a few thousand dollars, cool, better than nothing, why not? You have to scroll up (and you have to be logged in to do that) to read the previous tweet to realize they’re demanding “high priority” fix because FFmpeg is used in a “highly visible” Microsoft product (Teams) and an FFmpeg issue is causing issue for their customers.
I'm not sure I ever actually bought a box of blank floppy disks. Instead I would call up software companies and ask for free demos instead. I did it so often the postal service warned may parents they would stop delivering mail to the house.
I think the bans are due to externalities.
For comments yes, but can anyone actually downvote stories?
pretty sure it's only comments you get the ability to downvote once reaching a certain threshold. Stories you can flag or upvote, but I've never seen a downvote for them.
compare "A Person Paper on Purity in Language" (1985): https://www.cs.virginia.edu/~evans/cs655/readings/purity.htm...
Also https://www.scienceos.ai/
>"Some people are going to get fucked in some ways, but those same people will be fucked in different ways if we don’t do anything or move too slowly."

If fucking up people starts with those at the top I am all for it. Otherwise GFY
We had two tourists just get killed last week during storms. Both swept off harbor walls wanting to look at the waves. There are literally warning signs everywhere.
I just put 14.4 kW of solar up, one of the largest installs in my community. I put 25 or so kWh of battery capacity, also respectable.

Problem is, there are plenty of days where my system only generates 10-20 kWh of energy. Which is not even enough to run my house, much less my cars. And this is sunny California.

Obviously I like the tech which is why I invested but I'm not sure it is going to help alleviate this issue completely (enough generation that's centralized).
Git does pretty well on large repos, when you use sparse checkout and Git LFS. It makes Git behave like a centralized VC system.
https://www.anchorpoint.app/blog/scaling-git-to-1tb-of-files...
The grid capacity isn’t really a monolithic topic either. Here in the Northeast we have easily enough generating capacity with already planned additions. Coal generation is also virtually extinct.
No thank you. One of the things I love about SQL is that it doesn't throw. Adding another unit test or two to pgTAP would be my preference over assertions firing unexpectedly.

The relations and constraints should establish a contract between application and data. If you are making assumptions on the structure of the data, that goes in a unit test to be run when testing DB schema migrations. Not writing good tests? Well that's a root problem that needs to be dealt with. If you can't expect proper unit tests of your DB structure, why would you expect proper assertion usage to be better?

Then there's the issue of app code. Far too many apps have two states: all good and "something bad happened" where bad is one of "database/network path went down", "database schema updated", or "bad data". Most software isn't written to determine what kind of error, only "something bad happened with the query". Adding failed assertions to the "something bad happened" list doesn't seem to change the equation much to me.

If someone changed code to use a multiset instead of a set, would you expect that to be caught by an assertion at runtime or with a test suite during development and integration?
Very cool write up. I'm curious about any challenges you had using Grafana? Also, do you think this sort of system would work as an alternative to Splunk as well?
Indian government's cloud spilled citizens' personal data online for years
I do that, too (scan, pay then bag), but it's a tradeoff - you get smoother checkout experience in exchange for some speed. If everyone was throwing all their scanned stuff in a bag immediately, the checkout would be a lot faster.
That’s a very valid question.

Having been part of the product team at an established monitoring company, I witnessed firsthand how services can spiral into complexity following investments or acquisitions, with a new focus on appealing to investors or shareholders rather than meeting user needs. This shift often leads to bloated features, unnecessary upsells, and an overarching emphasis on business metrics at the expense of user experience. With Proberix, my goal is to cut through that noise, offering human-centric approach that prioritizes simplicity.
Render the motion vector of objects to another render texture. (ie calculate the velocity of each object and render that as a color) Use that to define the amplitude and direction of your blur effect in a post pass.

And you might want it to be the motion relevant to the camera. For Mario, probably not, but for an FPS you want to edges of the screen to blur as the camera moves forward.
I consider the date when the existence of the atoms has been confirmed to be 1865, when Johann Josef Loschmidt has determined for the first time the mass of some atoms.

(i.e. he has determined the value of what is now called the constant of Avogadro, which is proportional to the inverse of the mass of an atom; there are various related quantities where knowing one determines all the others, including the constant of Avogadro and the concentration of molecules in a gas at standard pressure and temperature; knowing the mass of any molecule or atom allows the computation of the masses of all other atoms and molecules, using the chemical formulas)

Using the mass of an atom, various other atomic quantities could be computed immediately, e.g. George Johnstone Stoney has computed in 1874 the value of the elementary electric charge, based on the results of Loschmidt. The work of Loschmidt has also allowed James Clerk Maxwell to propose in 1873 a system of fundamental units for the physical quantities which was based only on reproducible atomic properties, instead of unique artifacts like the platinum standard meter and the platinum standard kilogram. (However Maxwell's system was not yet practical at that time, because the accuracy with which the atomic masses were known was too low in comparison with the precision of the weight scales.)

Before Loschmidt, the atoms were indeed just a hypothetical construct that could explain some properties of the chemical reactions and of the gases, but nothing could be said about them quantitatively.

After Loschmidt, the atoms became physical objects with precisely known properties, e.g. you could count how many atoms are in a pebble that you hold in your hand.

By the start of the 20th century, more than a human generation had passed since the last time when scientists wondered whether atoms really exist. At that time already atom beams were routinely manipulated with electric and magnetic fields and unexpected atomic properties like radioactivity and transmutation were already known.
It's a technology company with over 200,000 employees, that's in just about every industry, sometimes with bad software, sometimes with good. Are you actually going to double down on your 2024 comment equivalent of "Herr derr, Micro$hit is bad" when there's much more interesting and nuanced takes to be had, which would be much more useful to and entertaining to everyone involved in the discussion?
Any data on survivability of occupants of upper floors in cases where the bottom floor is destroyed and the rest of the building settles on top of the rubble instead of pancaking? This is exactly what happened with some apartment blocks in Japan earlier this year, too.

I guess it depends a lot on whether the building stays upright or falls over, as there are plenty of objects that can crush a person in any space that suddenly turns sideways.
Yes, the userland side presented such as with POSIX like ssize_t read(int fd, void* buf, size_t count). Calling that with count = 1 each time would be wasteful, but certainly libc's have been buffering this since at least the 1980's. I remember this was the case with Borland C/C++.

> Our comments are part of a thread discussing this prompt [2] that specifically requests Rust and this snippet in response [3]. Not portable C code. You can use those C stdio functions from Rust, but you really shouldn't without a very good reason. Rust has its own IO library that is safe and well integrated with other Rust things like `#![derive(Debug)]`.

Duh. It doesn't really matter what Rust has have went it comes to enabling the use of specific edge-case performance improvements for specific purposes. Inefficient AI-generated code without a clue of other approaches doesn't move the needle. Religious purity doesn't matter, only results matter.
You use SfM to find the first point cloud. However SfM is based on the hypothesis that the same point 'moves' linearly in between any two views. This hypothesis is important because it allows you to match a point in two pictures, and given the distance between the two images, you can triangulate the point in space. Therefore find it's depth.

However, non-Lambertian points move non linearly in viewing space (eg a specular point depends on the viewer pose).

So, automatically, their positions in space will be false, and you'll have floating points.

Gaussian 'splats' may have the potential to render non-Lambertian stuff using for example the spherical harmonics (even if I don't think the viewer use them if I'm not mistaken). But, capturing non-Lambertian points is very difficult and an open research problem.
i mean, labor cost (as in in-store labor) is the target for this cost optimization. unfortunately for the time being labor cost is not as significant as the other costs associated with annotation and dataset curation. technology costs are not really significant if this can be pulled off at scale.

in-store employees know where things are supposed to be and why, if at all, items are "misplaced" according to the modular design
Very strange stuff, considering that ECHR has ruled against this sort of thing.

I don't see how it could possibly be legal.
Sure, but you can choose your play style. I find I’m way more likely to win a chess game if I play a few moves of a really safe, boring opening, and then just focus on keeping everything protected and never extend myself too much until the opponent hangs their queen (I’m about 400, so that’s actually very likely).

If I get creative and come out all aggressive, I hang my queen. But the former is boring as hell, which is why I don’t play chess.
Yes you are, when talking about the poisoned cake. Poisoning it is a crime.

> because you do something for free doesn't mean your actions don't have consequences.

Of course there are consequences - society is a closed system. Though it doesn’t give you ANY right to demand anything from the person who you didn’t pay to, directly or indirectly. Stop juggling the facts and whining, no one owes you anything, as I already said.
Meanwhile, New Jersey (one of the eight states mentioned here) just passed a law that increases the annual registration fee for EVs by $250/year, with automatic increases to this amount each year. And since new car buyers in NJ have to pay 4 years registration upfront, that's an extra upfront payment of $1000+ when buying a new EV.

The governor's budget also proposes eliminating the state's sales tax exemption for EVs (one of the few reliable EV incentives in NJ), which will effectively increase their upfront cost by another several thousand dollars.

I should mention the state does have a $5000 tax credit for new EVs. But it goes in and out of effect completely unpredictably, as funding runs out each year and then is reinstated arbitrarily some time the next year.

And this is all happening while EV sales are not doing well to begin with. There's basically no chance the ICE ban will happen as planned there.

And this is a blue state, with (iirc) ~40% nuclear and 10% renewable energy.
I wanted to see how to use Git for AAA game dev so I made a test with a self-hosted GitLab server on AWS. In short, sparse checkout makes it possible to fluently work on particular parts of the repo.

Why do people still use Perforce then?
>> I do know enough about math and engineering to know that the only realistic way to deal with the disaster they are predicting is an immediate and massive expansion of nuclear power

Would it not be cheaper, whilst also being realistic, to pursue renewables + natural gas?

AIUI renewables LCOE is around 5x cheaper than nuclear and natural gas is often (including right now) sold at negative prices in the US because it is almost a waste product from far more lucrative shale oil operations (accounts for around 80% of gas production). Add to this gas is a near perfect complement to renewables given its fast response times to demand changes unlike nuclear. Natural Gas is also the cleanest of the fossil fuels, modern generation facilities are far more efficient than e.g. petrol or diesel engines.

I’m failing to understand why nuclear would be the only game in town? Those construction costs make it look unviable. Not to mention the NIMBY aspect which means nuclear is simply off the table in terms of options thanks to citizen desires.
also: ask the dutch (or even the yats?) about how to live (and even prosper?) at or below sea level.
I don't buy it. That might be how every tool today works, but there's no reason V8 or whatever can't run TS the same way it runs JS.
A lot of houses used paper records and folders to store them in. The folders would often use ring binds that required the papers to be hole punched.
Just because someone asks you to do something (who you have no obligation to help), doesn’t mean you must help.

And if FFmpeg was so passionate to get a support contract from Microsoft, that should have been a requirement first before they provided the support.

Once again, FFmpeg set their own rules. First with free software and now with free support.

Life lesson: Don’t provide free software and free support, and then complain about your own doing.
They can simply force all users to file bugs with technical details OR get a support contract for general questions and troubleshooting, which would be the best way of forcing companies into contracts.
Honestly it’s hard to fault people for that when even if you are a tech person there are huge parts of how a computer works that you will just accept as magic because it’s too complicated to understand. For example I don’t really understand how my phone is encoding and decoding the data through RF to talk to my router and how the router can handle multiple connections over 1 band, etc. I just know the router works and the very basics of communicating over RF. Same thing with things like speculative execution- I have an idea of what my code does as the author but I have no idea which specific steps the hardware is taking to make it look like my code is being executed to me. Not even getting into things like how the OS works or how the computer draws the display or whatever. There are so many intricacies that you cannot expect even a software technical expert to completely explain what a computer is really doing when it does something at every layer except for maybe like a handful of people who make giant piles of money by being very smart.

I think the more important thing to focus on is targeted education where it matters for important topics and improvement of digital literacy so people understand things more. We should also try to get as many people as possible to properly learn how to use “real” computers, there is a generation of people growing up right now who have only ever had an iPhone as their computer and they are going to be worse than boomers when it comes to understanding technology beyond how to browse TikTok.