skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not making a point, just sharing my opinion.

But one thing that I think is better across multiple products is my ability to request that my identifying information be removed from a service within a reasonable time frame. Or the ability to minimize storing/sharing of my personal information when using a service. Or being able to obtain a copy of the data a company has on me.
Article: OMG negative energy prices!!1

Reality: 72 Euro/MWh https://euenergy.live/country.php?a2=DE
A lot of people aren't "chronically dehydrated". If you're not thirsty when you wake up, you're most likely not dehydrated.
Three New Supercomputers Reach Top of Green500 List
focusing on technical trivialities is a symptom of what type of experience the developers have and how the current workplace is organized

It comes from development echo chambers (including this one, sorry HN), where people tend to discuss The Right Way even if they see it not working at their own job, cause right ways feel good. New/young developers absorb it and bring it to their workplace. I did that too. It took decades to beat this shit out of myself. Now when I hear someone talking about true ways of a qualified professional developer I just remember that the business will probably pivot a couple of times before they deliver an mvp that is neither v or p.
They're talking about open-source firmware, I would guess.
(2018), but still worth reading.
This resonates a lot. When MSN become the norm was a big hit, then Windows Live and many people scattered around, left was Facebook but now only with IRL friends. Most alternatives since ICQ have been worse.
I do not trust the corrupt courts of the United States to decide on anything. Or, more charitably even if the blatant exploitation of artists can't be proven to breach any existing statute -- and the law is always behind -- even then I will shorten this obvious truism as "all AI art is stolen art".
The staged rollouts are extremely common, so unless it's mentioned explicitly, I wouldn't put it on GDPR. Online services were doing that for ages.
Cmon Kevin, its just one door bolt.
LMAO I have no idea how much money it cost but I do remember my parents yelling at me for it. I'm pretty sure they charged by the minute. I wonder how many 8 year olds like me called them and how they talked about that in the break room. Super funny to think about as an adult.
>For lack of a better word, .NES is a "transpiler" that takes MSIL and transforms it directly into a working 6502 microprocessor binary that can run in your favorite NES emulator.

>Building a project should produce a *.nes binary, that is byte-for-byte identical to a program written in C.

What about memory management? Is the garbage collector included in the generated code? If not, any idea on how memory management is done?
"But if you dump the toxic waste into the river, there will be no river left," said the citizen.

"lol" said the factory, "lmao".
I work with a man in the Ecuadorian Amazon who is a member of an ethnic group that reached a low of possibly only 400 individuals before a cultural change that made them more open to marriage with outsiders and healed some internal fighting that lead to many deaths.

He claims that his multiple wives and 10 children are all about bringing the numbers back up and a service to his people. I don't think anyone is fooled by this claim, least of all him. If a couple has a nice relationship, like kids and have no love of birth control, have at it, but don't pretend it is a public service.

It is a strange world we live in when there are so many big families with smart kids that would love to have a job and not mind paying taxes when they're the right age, but no one wants to let them near the places where a younger population is needed.
Always use V0. 192 is not good enough for many things, 320 is a waste of space.
If we caught had imaginary panels of 100% efficiency, it would take a perpetually sunny area the size of Delaware to match the United States current needs.

With the move to electric cars, and the average American family owning 1.88 cars according to the Department of Transportation, we're going to expect the demand on the power grid to roughly triple in the next decade or so. It will quickly become more akin to the area of Connecticut.

Then considering solar panels are only roughly twenty percent efficient, that area becomes closer to the size of Maryland.

Solar just isn't practical in actuality, the energy density is too low. They're promoted by woo peddlers who failed basic math classes.

All this suggests that nuclear power is the better option. The environmental impact and industrial costs of manufacturing, transporting, maintaining and replacing the insanely vast number of solar panels needed to meet our energy demands exceeds the long-term negative impacts associated with nuclear power plants, even considering waste management and potential risks.
Most farms have more than enough space to generate all of the power they need. A few solar panels go a long way. Even in winter, these things still generate power. Add some wind mills (which some farms already have) and they'd be pretty much self sufficient. The rest can come from the grid. Though most farmers would probably end up being net producers.

The main factor slowing down the transition to battery electric is the cost of batteries. As this comes down, more equipment is going to be electrified. But especially heavy equipment needs a lot of power and therefor relatively large batteries. What's prohibitively expensive this year might be totally doable just a few years down the line.
You might wanna double check that 4/20 point my friend
Methane derived from co2 and h2o with solar energy is not a fossil fuel. Methane from the ground is a fossil fuel. Casey is going after industry that has a lot of inertia behind methane with a non fossil derived methane.
Yeah, but are there any official docs on that?

Another example: For years the database for the desktop app was unencrypted, because "you can just use FDE" (according to GitHub commenes). Last time I checked, they switched to SqlCipher as well, but with the password in an unencrypted file right next to the database file.

What's the threat model of such an odd design choice? Are there any docs on that?
Why does he keep using learning rate in his charts? Is that what we used to call just gradient? Or is he trying to imply some kind of machine learning/AI is behind the trends he is pointing to?
I interpret the text in the Act and the Directive that "opt-in" is still the default.

The "opt-out" clause applies only to research and preservation. Researchers and archivists don't have to ask the rightsholder unless the content is flagged. Commercial users always have to.
I was responding to

> code they released ages ago
Ask HN: What are Google Software Engineer levels, expectations and salaries?
Can people that work in Google as software engineers shed some light here on level, expectations and salary ranges?
Puter says 404.
How hard would be to add a 6502 backend to the C# AOT compiler?
Also, non-testable code is often faster (as in cpu time).
But there’s no vendor lock-in with open standards…
> winter solstice

This is a real problem for solar in some places. But on the other hand two a few other things are (marginally) positives:

These places often have snow which contributes to better energy capture via scattering of light hitting the ground onto the panels.

Lower temperatures can often give better efficiency for the panels.

And most importantly: These places can have 20+ hours of daily sunlight in the summer.
What makes a country "good"? (2019)
> If I wanted to know how the database is encrypted in their apps, do I find an overview on that?

They use sqlcipher (sqlite with encryption extensions) and did not roll their own encryption for this. If an adversary is able to unlock and decrypt the device (like has physical possession of it) they will have access to all messages stored on the device. Docs here: https://www.zetetic.net/sqlcipher/design/
> ...someone talking about "human flourishing" and "cheap energy" that wasn't actually just a shill for fossil fuels...

But the vast majority of the solar panels are coming from China, which is a great example of human flourishing and cheap energy, powered by fossil fuels. Anyone who cares about cheap power would have been disingenuous to promote solar. The Chinese strategy of building what is actually cheap has outperformed the rest of us by a substantial margin.

The Western strategy for the last few decades of blocking people from using cheap power just means that the next revolution is more likely to be made in China. I agree with Casey that the investment opportunities here are huge, I just wish they weren't mainly in China by policy. There is a good chance they're about to have a nuclear renaissance too given that most of the plants being built right are Chinese.
So K&R C wasn't proper C?
one of my top ones is "slumming with basic programmers", which would fit well into that list

https://prog21.dadgum.com/21.html
It's not always easy to tell artificial bundling from genuine synergies. E.g. due to yet another EU regulation we don't have a proper integration between Google search and Google maps any more, and it definitely feels like a worse product from user's perspective
Most of us are hopefully also improving at what they do. Our config management has a bunch of stuff written by me that's perfectly functional and works overall. But after a year or two working with the tool, I would call it pretty bad quality for various reasons.

But that's fine. If I have a reason to change it, I'll clean it up. Until then, it stays around as an example to show some bad practices and why other approaches are better.
Most of this law actually sounds very reasonable. It explicitly bans a bunch of ways companies and states have been looking into using AI to abuse people, and categorizes a bunch more as high-risk to ensure greater scrutiny. I'm not quite sure how to interpret the mention of copyright compliance. Is it imlying the EU has decided that training on protected works constitutes a copyright violation, or is it merely affirming that if copyright law is ruled to apply then it will apply? Besides that it's the "general intelligence existential risk" rules that are concerning to me. They set a hard arbitrary cutoff on how much compute can be used to train a model before it is subject to a bunch of extra requirements, and reserve the right to declare any general AI a risk and demand changes. Note that the definition of a "general AI" is incredibly broad, and by my reading covers all LLMs.
Yes, it would allow the following lowering strategy:

// As written
HandleMultiple(1, 2, 3, 4)

// As compiled
var buffer = new InlineArrayInt4().AsSpan();
buffer[0] = 1;
buffer[1] = 2;
buffer[2] = 3;
buffer[3] = 4;
HandleMultiple(buffer);

And if the argument buffer is not mutable aka ReadOnlySpan<T>, C# can simply emit a static RVA array embedded into assembly, a constant (provided all arguments are constants too).

Today, you can already do so without the feature with collection expressions e.g. HandleMultiple([1, 2, 3, 4]) but C# 13 will automatically switch existing callsites to the new params span overloads, reducing allocations and improving performance for free.
What about “the tunnel”? Does anyone experience that when looking at the sky? I’ll notice it maybe 1-in-20 times I look at a blue sky. It isn’t always there. It looks like moving through a tunnel — it’s a set of dark and light blobs moving outward from the center of my visual field
Lies are everywhere.

There some linguists and philosophers who even think the Human mind is not capable of grasping absolute "truth".

Yes. I believe customers should be allowed to buy what ever they want if they are adults.

If consumers who are human can't decide what's good for them. How will regulators who are also human decide what's good for them?

If someone wants to smoke cigarettes they should do it provided it doesn't interfere directly with other people's lives.
Note the actual title of the graph is "Wind and Solar have scaled faster ...", which is a big part of the answer. The two techs (and now batteries) are very complementary.

Also, an underrated factor in cost/benefit of renewables (and nuclear) is interest rates and risk, as you borrow money up front and pay it off over decades.

This is a big factor in why Solar is deployed further north than you'd think it should if the earth was being managed by a benelovent dictator.

So as costs decrease solar deployment spreads both north and south.
Your comment does read like 'My grandma has smoked 20 a day all her life and she's still alive at 90'. statistics do not preclude people from being luckier or unluckier than the average.
> What's the threat model of such an odd design choice?

Don't lose your device while it has data on it or hope the OS has good enough security to stand up to an adversary with local access to the device. The sql encryption on the database is mostly useful for backups which wouldn't send the key along with it.
It's a little unfortunate that the web was the real winner in the last 15 years.

RMS's position of "I won't install your software unless you provide the (libre) source code" was met with the industry not releasing software to consumers at all, and letting them interact and upload their personal data via a web browser instead.

I don't really see AGPL taking off anytime soon, and I don't even know whether I like it.
You're going about this the wrong way. While in many ways it's more efficient to build out large scale solar farms in the way you describe there are alternatives.

What if we covered the roofs and parkings lots of every big box store with solar panels? And residential roofs? There are projects in California to cover canals with panels. The panels also double as cover to minimize water evaporation from the canal.

What if we cover above ground LRT tracks with solar panels?

There's so much space in our urban environments that we can put panels on, and by putting the panels closer to where the energy that they generate is used there are massive savings in distribution infrastructure costs as well as wasted electricity.
It's a long-used term for improvements in manufacturing due to increased scale.
Singles Atlas
This screams of "if all you have is a hammer..."

You just want/need a way to keep your CV in a source code format. Why not TeX/LaTeX?
If I'm not mistaken what you describe is pretty much exactly the approach in .NET app development (WPF, MAUI, ...) with C# for the logic and XAML for declarative UI including Binding and it works well and performantly so.
I find YouTube Musics Discover Mix good for music discovery, I guess with the downside that you need to actively use YT Music a bit to feed the algorithm. Spotify has a tendency to suggest stuff that is overwhelmingly popular but YT Music isn't afraid to throw in something a lot more obscure that the overlaps with the artists or genres you listen to.
Thanks for sharing your params... This is nice, maybe that's something I should consider. I need to test wether my car supports aac. My ipod does and kitchen radio is not that important.

You should See my audio books workflow with m4b-tool and audiobookshelf, which is probably even better ;)

Did you know ffmpeg has a non free Encoder (libfdk_AAC) thats sounds slightly better?
Or a tenth of the area of Arizona, the first desert-y state I checked (not a USAian so maybe there are even better options?)

Pretty sure the USA easily has the land area for sufficient solar
Not working at Google myself but tgese are the main levels for engineers at Google:

- Software Engineer II (L3 | 0-1 year of experience)

- Software Engineer III (L4 | 2+ years of experience)

- Senior Software Engineer (L5 | Manager I equivalent)

- Staff Software Engineer (L6 | Manager II equivalent)

- Senior Staff Software Engineer (L7 | Senior Manager)

- Principal Engineer (L8 | Director)

- Distinguished Engineer (L9 | Senior Director)

- Google Fellow (L10 | Vice President)

- Senior Google Fellow (L11 | Senior Vice President)

Source: https://engineeringbolt.com/tech/google-software-engineer-le...
Disclaimer: never was a game dev

You're conflating unit tests and functional/integration tests there. A unit test should test that a single function/method/class does what it's expected to do. The game design changes should change how they are put together, but not often what they do. If your setThingOnFire() method suddenly also flips things upside down, you're going to have a bad day. Instead your callers should add calls to flipThingUpsideDown().
Is not the phenom in itself, is the fact that someone can predict/call upon it that was surprising. The fact that they had already given esoteric meanings to the phenom previously is just the icing of the cake.

And I for one am grateful for the Enlightenment illustrating the deification of Knowledge
> how much compute can be used to train a model

I mean is there even a way to verify this? Even if you monitor someone's GPU usage anyone could just lie about the number of times they had to revert to previous checkpoints. From the raw physical perspective any model you look at could just be a series of randomly initialized weights.
I agree that unintended consequences should always be a concern. The author seems open to discussion about this (I want to start a conversation about the need for dedicated investment in error detection and correction. There are alternatives to bug bounties — for instance, making error detection its own viable career path and hiring full-time scientific staff to check each institute’s papers.).
Been using

https://fyne.io/

https://github.com/fyne-io/fyne

for years but will check this out

(
terminal but still great go guis:

https://github.com/gizak/termui

https://github.com/charmbracelet/bubbletea
)

Never used but should be in this list:

https://gioui.org/

https://mattn.github.io/go-gtk/

https://github.com/lxn/walk
Not a programmer, but I see it can use COM objects :

https://luart.org/doc/sys/COM-constructor.html

does that mean we can use it to manipulate Office files just as in VB or PowerShell ?
That’s very domain specific.

I’ve got loads of power in choosing my own AI girlfriend but relatively little in choosing what AI credit scoring I’m subject to.
Please note:

1. surgical masks are pretty ineffective, but N95 and better masks are very effective, subject to proper use and quality control

2. Mask research and experience pre-COVID in the West was not widely understood by non-experts even in the medical field. Which led to all sorts of doctors with huge egos getting onto Youtube and misinforming people with their poor grasp of science and studies. (Most doctors are not medical sceientists, but artisans).

3. Then look at the huge number of studies since 2020 and you will find that indeed when a study looks at the correct masks ued properly, they work as intended. the biggest problem is the meatsack using the masks, because most of them are not diligent or kind enough to use them.

4. We should allow scientists and medical practitioners to make a mistake, and own up to it to make 180 degree u-turns. This means ghey are using data and experience to update their beliefs, which is good science.
What's New on PHP 8.4
Thank you for the warning, not going to risk checking this rabbit hole
Nothing happens when I tap the buttons. iOS Safari.
Is finetuning still worth it as models advance so fast? Any real-world use cases?

For example, Bloomberg trained a GPT-3.5 class LLM on their financial data last year and soon after GPT-4-8k outperformed it on nearly all finance tasks.

We ended up focusing on having high-quality eval data and an architecture that makes switching to new models easy.
It predates the first standardized C versions:

* ANSI C by 11 years (C89)
* ISO C by 12 years (C90)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C_(programming_language)#K&R_C
> Delete the posts, then delete the account

I recommend keeping the account to make sure the comments are really gone. Deleted mine in the height of last year's outrage with the most popular open source app I could find and it took several attempts. Looked like they were deleted. Checked a week later and they were all back. Just logged in now and I still have a few comments. Think I'm going with glue and gasoline recipes this time.
Those are a step up from matter assemblers and better than matter interpreters
You can't just equate Microsoft and Azure like that.
Yes. Yes you can do all that with neovim (with under 20 plugins).

Can you do it easily? If you're starting from 0 then no, probably not.

Look, I am not knocking this IDE. I use these products too for certain tasks. Maybe my comparison wasn't fair because setting up neovim is basically programming lua and it is usually heavily personalized/individualized. What I really meant is, so far I don't see a killer feature yet that would get me to move from either neovim or also other editors with rust-analyzer to this.
Yes, and many of those markets are not good fits for methane of any kind as electricity becomes cheaper e.g heating.

It is disappointing, but understandable, that he feels the need to make methane in general seem more irreplaceable and vital to human happiness than it really is.
I do not believe that most of these `perfectionists` are trolls. Some have just very bad experiences either in their career or childhood that make them feel that making mistakes is not normal.

I was a `perfectionist` for a while due to certain bad experiences at work, and it was only through the help of really good teammates that I was able to slowly get rid of it. And that required pointing out things like what the author has done in their blog post and once someone sees that mistakes are things that anyone could make, they get more comfortable the concept.

The harder part is understanding why a perfectionist is so, and then not getting frustrated while you try to help them improve.
According to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40465451 they have not switched to armv9. So I am curious what they were confirming?
> But we're quite far away from that

How do you know? I'm an optimist and I think this is true, but what makes you certain this is true and we're not gonna hit a wall soon?
That suno song is not only not an earworm, I can't recall what it even sounds like after 15 minutes...
Executive summary?
Look at that, even I am stupid!
As a pragmatic programmer, one of the rules is Know thy tools. You don't really drop in. You learn the tools, and adapt them. The first commit of my dotfiles is more than 3 years ago. And I think the actual files are older. And that was me starting from scratch after years of Linux.

Even with JetBrains IDEs, I usually spend an hour configuring stuff (never bothered to save the config, as I seldom use them). I tune my setup as I go. If I'm spending hours everyday with a software, I want it suited to my workflows.
I can only make you sad then, sorry
And it shouldn't be understated that PopOS has a tiling window manager mode with sensible default keyboard shortcuts. Great no fuss UX for PopOS overall and it's hard not to keep expectations low for Cosmic Epoch
Perhaps orthogonal problem - imagine you join a new company that has an enterprise product with hundreds of tables. Is there a way to connect Dataherald to my DB, and ask basic questions about the DB? E.g. "where are stored records related to X".
And what does arm reference design has to do with completely custom core?
I'm gonna consider this for the future, thank you
try neosities mb. but i think you already was
It's not a move from the ecosystem, it's an attack against the ecosystem.

Contrary to BTC, ETH is not deflationary if it's not traded on chain.
The deflation comes from the burn mechanism.

So concentrating ETH in ETFs would decrease the price over time due to inflation since the ETH is traded without transferring it.
It is always nice to have measurements; the CO, CO2 volatiles are expected and predicted by models at these distances (for somewhat large enough bodies so that molecules do not simply fly away into space after sublimation). By the way, the sublimation temperature of CO ice is 25 K!