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>EU must demand US pay for its pollution. Carbon credits, but not for goods, but individuals. Tax the carbon of imports, too.

I get the justification for a carbon border tax is to equalize the cost difference between a country that has a carbon tax vs one that doesn't, so manufacturers from the country with carbon tax isn't disadvantaged, but what's the justification for enacting taxes just because the country's citizens are polluting? Is it just a "we don't like what you're doing" tax?
> Or can copyright say something about how I consume my books?

It cannot.

This whole kerfuffle isn't about OpenAI buying a bunch of books and disposing of them in a non-copyright friendly way though.
I've been a Nim respecter for many years, it's slept on in general as a language.

The difference here is that Nim compiles to C and you can turn the garbage collector off: Zig compiles C and there's no garbage collector. That means the entire standard library is available when generating object code. It's also trivial to opt-in to the C ABI on a fine-grained basis, by defining a function or struct with the extern keyword.

I believe this is still fairly current about the difficulties of building Nim dylibs for C programs: https://peterme.net/dynamic-libraries-in-nim.html

I expect Nim will stabilize about where D has: it will have a dialect of the language which, with relatively painless accommodations, is able to produce object code which speaks C ABI. Zig is different. The language is relentlessly focused on providing a better alternative to C while occupying the same niche, and a lot of design time has been spent on making it practical to take an existing C program and start writing the new parts of it in Zig.

It's a good language, Nim, and getting better. I'd recommend it for someone who is considering Go, for example.
The easiest solution is to set up shop in a cooled volcano tube
is there an extension or something that will let me automatically block links to substack sites?
Is the override set in the system, or does the app somehow know about it? I can imagine some developer misinterpreting how DND detection works and not sending a notification if it's enabled, though I can also imagine android's implementation being bugged in some specific way.
Please no they don’t need more bombs
But are you filtering for realistic performance, or for performance under time & observer pressure?

I did a .. bit more complex than fizzbuzz but similar toy problem sort of thing recently, and it's nothing I can't do, it passed the visible test cases (HackerRank if you're familiar, I haven't used it before but I assume it's generally similar) etc. but it was clumsy and far from representative of what I'd actually write on the job I think. Even if I still only spent an hour on it, just not having that pressure. Plus I suppose I would likely have seen the problem before in planning, and realistically it would be something within the context I was familiar with from working on it every day, not the toy problem. (This wasn't it, but imagine something like calculating the possible states of a chess board after each player makes another move. Bit simpler though.)
Definitely!

For me. Mountain sports
Most of the materials could surely be found on Mars. A shelter built out of sandbags would be a low tech solution that would get you a large part of the way there.

Further, Mars itself shields you from half the radiation (at night), the Martian atmosphere shields you from a little more, and Mars is further away from the Sun on average than an Earth-Mars spaceship.

Radiation during transit really does seem like a bigger issue.
ACEEE has a methodology where they assign a $$ value to different kinds of pollution (NOx, CO2, PM2.5, etc. etc.), and then estimate the lifetime of pollution for various cars.

https://www.aceee.org/greener-cars

EVs *do* have pollution associated with their creation. And its largely upon that battery pack. But with a small enough battery pack and clean enough chemistry, you'll see cars like the Nissan Leaf reach the top of these lists.

But some battery packs, such as NCA-cells found in Tesla, get penalized.

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ACEEE seems to have used an Argonne National Labs program to estimate the pollution of various raw materials. You can read about it here: https://greenercars.org/greenercars-ratings/how-we-determine...

Everyone's methodology is different, which means everyone will reach different conclusions. We *SHOULD* figure out the lifetime pollution of various EVs, mostly because different EVs will be better (or worse) than others. Its not sufficient enough to just be an EV fanboy anymore, there's a huge difference from an EV Hummer (which has more lifetime pollutions than a typical car) and a Nissan Leaf.

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ACEEE shows that many Hybrids and PHEVs are competitive vs many EVs on a lifetime scale of pollution. Case in point: Toyota's Prius Prime is the greenest car according to ACEEE. The combination of very small battery pack (13kW-hr) and very efficient driving (130MPGe when in electric mode, 50+ MPG in gasoline mode) means very little emissions in practice.

The bigger 70kW-hr battery packs emit more pollution upon creation and never catch up to the Prius or Prius Prime.
Yes, i agree with that. Kolmogorov-Arnold theorems most work has stuck with the original depth-2 width-(2n + 1) representation, and did not have the chance to leverage more modern techniques (Like.. back propagation techinque) to train the networks.

The biggest bottleneck of KANs lies in its slow training.from the research paper they had observed that KANs are usually 10x slower than MLPs, given the same number of parameters. So, KANs’ slow training is more of a engineering problem to be improved in the future rather than a fundamental limitation.

It's more practical for ML Infrastructure industry leaders to take charge of solving this engineering problem.

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Apple's "Let Loose" iPad Event Was Shot on iPhone with Panavision Lenses
FWIW, doctors usually specify brands over generics when it actually matters if you have the same supplier every time. Bioavailability of generics is +/- 20% compared to the original branded drug by law in the US. So if you have a legal, generic drug here, it might be a 120% one, and your next refill might be an 80% one - you just got a 1/3 reduction in dose without warning. And if you have seizures? That’s a bad thing.

My wife is a neurologist. She deals with this. I’m an anesthesiologist; I just give more as needed because my patients don’t take their own drugs. Almost everything I give is generic, and the exceptions are when those fail.

You can make a very good living as a physician in the US without being a whore. Not worth my moral sense to make a few more dollars that won’t go to me directly anyway. Sure as hell not worth it to her; she’s a hospital employee.
The article provides citations to studies with hard data backing up the statements so I’m not sure what you’re looking for.
Yeah, but then even open source models optimize for popular languages; I recall one explicitly mentioning being trained for ~top 16 or so languages in Stack Overflow developer survey. Good for my C++ dayjob, if I could use one of them; bad for my occasional after-work Lisping.
I'm not attempting to speculate, I'm just saying I wonder what the subjective experience would be like. I stopped trying to think what it would like to be a bat a while ago.
Welllllllll they wouuuld but i mean, where they gonna get that dollar green??
It's not an intractable problem, just send a robot bulldozer and excavator a few years beforehand. The real problem with a Mars colony is the economics for making it anything more than a small scientific outpost / political stunt. Forget the upfront cost of the habitat/etc, how do you actually create a self sustaining Martian economy? I've never heard a realistic answer for this.
I haven’t worked there in 8+ years, but when I was there we all understood the object lesson and took it seriously.

Palantir is the Quenya word for far-seeing, it has many uses beyond the seeing stones. Moreover the seeing stones (palantiri) were tools that always told you the truth but were still able to be bent to Sauron’s will.

You may disagree with their moral calculus on Gaza and Israel, but Karp has been very clear about what he thinks about defending Israel and why. He’s not casually entering the conflict for profit.
Surely that problem is best solved by pushing for support in base Postgres?
Thank you for the detailed answer! It makes sense that the vegetal flavors are the raw flavors from the beans themselves. And that temperature is much more complicated than it appears. I also appreciate the Scott Rao pointer, perhaps that will be interesting future reading.
Where are the numbers? It just says batteries are an upfront cost, gas is ongoing. Well, yeah, duh...but how many gallons of gas (or how many miles) does an ICE car need to cover before it overtakes the carbon cost of the same car with a battery pack?

And are we adjusting for energy generation and loss in transit? There's a carbon cost to produce/deliver gas, and there's energy loss in transmission lines. So what's the carbon cost of the oil rig, refining, delivery and what's the carbon cost of the solar plant (including all of its batteries) amortized over its lifetime and the coversion of that cost into Kw adjusted for loss in transmission?

I'm not necessarily against EVs at all, but so far I've yet to see a good, deep analysis as to how much of an improvement they are. This article is running away from that anlysis as fast as it can.
Counterpoint - I pay for my whole team to have access, shared tools, etc. we also spend a decent amount on their APIs across a number of client projects.

OpenAI has a strong revenue model based on paid use
I think most people misunderstand color blindness in that most red-green colorblind can see red, it's just muted. I know what red looks like, but it needs to be plain old bright red.
> The system ABI of Linux really isn't the syscall interface, its the system libc.

You might have reasons to prefer to use libc; some software has reason to not use libc. Those preferences are in conflict, but one of them is not automatically right and the other wrong in all circumstances.

Many UNIX systems did follow the premise that you must use libc and the syscall interface is unstable. Linux pointedly did not, and decided to have a stable syscall ABI instead. This means it's possible to have multiple C libraries, as well as other libraries, which have different needs or goals and interface with the system differently. That's a useful property of Linux.

There are a couple of established mechanism on Linux for intercepting syscalls: ptrace, and BPF. If you want to intercept all uses of a syscall, intercept the syscall. If you want to intercept a particular glibc function in programs using glibc, or for that matter a musl function in a program using musl, go ahead and use LD_PRELOAD. But the Linux syscall interface is a valid and stable interface to the system, and that's why LD_PRELOAD is not a complete solution.
> “The real challenge for all image tools in this space is battling Midjourney,”

I have a MidJourney subscription. I do not use it as much as I had hoped. Once in a while I can get it to generate something useful, but I still feel like it is hit or miss.

Today I was trying to get it to create a sort of cartoon vector art of a line of people waiting on a single bank teller. No matter what I did, I could not get it to keep a single line. It kept putting random people on the other side of the teller.
I've fixed multiple latency issues due to nagle's multiple times in my career. It's the first thing I jump to. I feel like the logic behind it is sound, but it just doesn't work for some workloads. It should be something that an engineer needs to be forced to set while creating a socket, instead of letting the OS choose a default. I think that's the main issue. Not that it's a good / bad option but that there is a setting that people might not know about that manipulates how data is sent over the wire so aggressively.
There’s a lot of sociological problems with a car dominated society. Reducing the green house gas impact of cars fixes none of those.
There are tunnels that appear to have been created by volcano lava. Lava tubes.
This article proved to be right - now all mainstream languages have some kind of lambda functionality.

What’s next? My predictions are:

- expression orientated

- algebraic effects
My dad has an habit of making an innocent remark that other party percives as offensive. He blurts out things in his enthusiasm. I used to feel second hand embarssement from it when i was younger.

Now i see catch myself doing the same thing. I even got into trouble at work for it.
It's a feedback loop; manufacturing couldn't scale without clocks, and neither transportation - think e.g. train time tables. Once it became possible to keep people in sync down to minutes, it immediately became popular, and those who avoided it were increasingly left behind.

FWIW, I'm not saying it's a good development. I'm torn on this. Outside of direct progress, we seem to be running in Red Queen's races quite a lot, as improvements turn into baseline.
Pattern matching on the "top level branch" of the ADT, whatever you call it, is pretty darned useful.

Pattern matching on the next level down is a power tool to be used with care.

Having used some pattern matching languages for quite some time, I find anything much deeper than that is a code smell at best and pathological at worst. Pattern matching creates coupling proportional to the depth/complexity/precision of the pattern match. The top-level coupling is often unavoidable; if you're pattern matching at all, you certainly care which "branch" you are on and there is likely no refactoring that away. But the danger rises rapidly the deeper in you go. It's just so easy to pattern match on a third-level part of the complex object when you really ought to be wrapping that behind a function somewhere, possibly itself emitting a sum type value.

... but if all you really need is that "top level" match, a lot of pattern matching syntax and features are not really necessary (if not positively dangerous).
> it covers even just the act of practicing

Imagine that a gene modification is discovered that allows a significant breakthrough in human memory. First, people with Alzheimer would undergo that treatment, to the cheers and applauds of virtually everyone (including me and you). Then the people with a risk of Alzheimer would undergo it, then it would be cheap enough that anybody rich enough could do it. Then imagine that e.g. I undergo that treatment and am now able to memorize all of Wikipedia, GitHub, and Stack Overflow. Then imagine competing against me for a job opening. You can practice all you want but never able to reach that level, because you're limited by genes while I've got rid of that limitation.

The Google guys are extremely well-invested in the bio-tech startups, and Larry the Oracle Guy puts all his money into an "institute for prolonging of human life". No bonus points will be awarded for the correct answer to the question "whose life exactly that institute is working to prolong?"
What I'm saying is whether consciousness is a fundamental force or not is orthogonal to whether it has free will.
Developmental PBDE Exposure and IQ/ADHD in Childhood: A Systematic Review
If it so, that's copyright infringement. The pending litigations are, in part, to resolve the dispute about whether or not they are "selling derivates." I'm not sure why you conflate your own personal lack of knowledge about these matters with a good argument against the copyright holders.
> We used to call them "packlets."

setsockopt(fd, IPPROTO_TCP, TCP_MAKE_IT_GO, &go, sizeof(go));
No, at least not without active electronics.
You forgot one more that play out between the two CEOs

> The CEO of United Launch Alliance, which is launching the craft into orbit, pushed back strongly on X-formerly-Twitter. "Not sure what to say about this one," he wrote. "Close to none of it is correct: Not urgent. Not leaking. Etc. Remarkable that the particular person quoted doesn't seem to know how this type of valve works."
I do wish that TCP_NODELAY was the default, and there was a TCP_DELAY option instead. That'd be a world in which people who want the batch-style behavior (optimizing for throughput and fewer packets at the expense of latency) could still opt into it.
You will instead need to pay and see ads at the same time!
Have you tried having those word-of-mouth people at the gyms write a google review telling their story of the gym with some nice pictures that include your drinks?

Those google reviews get a lot more views than people realize if they are written right.
Aerojet and ValveTech are hardly chums, either. Just do a search on "Valvetech, Inc. vs. Aerojet Rocketdyne, Inc."
If something is a legal liability to have, non-use is probably 2 seconds after you finish using it (in their case, finishing training, just keeping the weights)
> Sounds a bit illegal.

Can be fixed by an EULA update that adds a clause stating "Response may contain paid product placement" to be im compliance with laws written for television 20 years ago. Legislation is consistently behind technological advances
The article links to the actual studies. This is an NPR article! not a scientific thesis.. As far as pop articles go it’s far more well referenced than the average.
> The system ABI of Linux really isn't the syscall interface, its the system libc.

Which one? The Linux Kernel doesn't provide a libc. What if you're a static executable?

Even on Operating Systems with a libc provided by the kernel, it's almost always allowed to upgrade the kernel without upgrading the userland (including libc); that works because the interface between userland and kernel is syscalls.

That certainly ties something that makes syscalls to a narrow range of kernel versions, but it's not as if dynamically linking libc means your program will be compatible forever either.
I use Linux for work with the MS apps used in a browser. I use one specific app using a remote desktop .. also using a browser.

So this can be done. I don't expect the IT support to help me with any Linux issues.

My excuse for using Linux? It makes me more effective at developing software.
It is an interesting problem of energy. How would a robot bulldozer or excavator be powered? They require more power than a rower.
10^x developer could be a reality someday, thanks to AI
Deckard does not have superhuman strength or physical resistance to damage, like the rogue replicants. He got his ass kicked multiple times.

IMO the monologue at the end was Roy coming to terms with the end of his life. There was nothing to be gained by killing Deckard. He wanted to be remembered.
I think you nailed it. Europe is, in general, just a lot more family-friendly. Italy in particular is very enthusiastic about children, probably due to a combination of culture and their declining population. But generally speaking, my wife and I never felt out of place bringing our then-three-year-old son around to wineries or restaurants.

I suspect most of this is cultural and not due to Italian child-rearing resulting in better-behaved children or something like that. European governments are generally much more supportive to new parents. In France, my sister got a nanny subsidized by the government for the first couple of years, for example. Here in the Bay Area, my wife and I had to pay through the nose for a full-time nanny. We not only paid her a good rate, but we paid her above board, Nanny Tax and everything. And guess how much of that is tax-deductible? Absolutely none of it. And because we're in a high CoL area, we obviously didn't qualify for the expanded child tax credit. Our one child has cost an astonishing amount of money -- my wife has been agitating for another, and I'm just not sure we can afford it without decimating our savings.

Kids are demanding enough, but when the government basically tells you you're on your own after they're born, society orients itself around that. To anyone who doesn't have kids, they just think, "Well that's your problem", because that's basically the stated position of American society.
If the lifetime cost of the vehicle saves money vs. the alternative, it is better for the environment. Since fossil fuel is an input to all sides of the equation (mining, transportation, and processing of raw materials. fuel for ICE vehicles), it is convenient and approximately correct do use dollar cost as a measure of environmental impact.
> But as a business do you ever question whether you are doing the right thing from a moral standpoint?

Some people obviously do, but Palantir? Lol. Lmao even.
> They are also forced into local optima

The good ol', "under pressure, you don't rise to the occasion, but sink to the level of your training"?
> Surely

I think it would be great if postgres supported parquet out of the box. However I am not sure that this is the "best" solution - it would take years for the data load to finish if we had to wait for that!
> Would Palantir stop doing business with Israel if the ICJ found it was committing genocide

While the United States is not a party to the Rome Statute, many countries Palantir operates in are [1], and coöperating after a conviction would open up individual Palantir employees to conviction under U.S. law [2].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/States_Parties_to_the_Rome_Sta...

[2] https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/1091
I actually did a blog post a few months ago where I analyzed HN commenter sentiment across AI, blockchain, remote work and Rust. The final graph at the very end of the post is the relevant one on this topic!

https://openpipe.ai/blog/hn-ai-crypto
I've tried them, they kind of make reds pop a little more.

But imagine this. You put on a pair of pink tinted glasses to fix your vision. Ok great, but everything is tinted now. I don't find it pleasing at all. My normal is my normal, putting tinted glasses on me doesn't make things look better, it looks wrong.