skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
People now read more than anytime in history. In multiple language even. Maybe that changed in the last few years, but millenials read way, way more than baby boomers, and buy more books (and when you compare % of wealth dedicated to books, it's not even a valid comparison, and only GenZ is close).

Also i've talked to my librarian recently about the expansion of the political theory aisle, he said that why my generation (Millennial) lead the reduction in adventure novel and the expention of fantasy and anticipation, GenZ read a lot of really "boring" books, about history and political theory. Maybe it's only my country, but that makes me feel less alone and quite optimist about the future.
Shackleton died on board the Quest; ship's wreckage has just been found
>It differs from eza or lsd in that it has a slightly different feature set, and makes some different choices about various aspects.

Can you elaborate? Eza supports icons and I guess I prefer its color scheme, but difficult to judge without installing Elles
I wonder if this is why people are uncomfortable with autistic people. Some subtle details of behavior are missing and they can't identify what because all the superficial features may be present. They'll tolerate it for a little while but eventually get sick of not being able to relax and accept the person as fitting into any desirable or known type of personality.

Perhaps moving to a foreign country makes it easier because you're obviously different - like a cartoon character or upside-down Thatcher.
I would love to have that discussion, as I agree instinctively, having worked with local and national government bodes in the UK - it does seem as though the current way is very expensive. But what could we chop off without making it much worse?
I always wondered (being a developer myself) how a team at a well financed FAANG could fuck this up so badly. It seemed to me as if they were intentionally trying to ruin the product. Changes for no benefit month to month and this month doesn't work like it did last month, etc. Every night all 6 devices get reset to the same broken configuration I just changed yet again that day. What you describe here would do it easily and I'd absolutely believe you. I envisioned there had to be some reason but I'd have never guessed this was it.
Looking for testers for Trello personal budget/finances tracking board
On a not too outdated and fairly vanilla and permissive ubuntu/FF+ublock setup I can see the page load then everything clears. Not even reader mode fixes it. Probably unrelated, but the very basics not working makes me want to dismiss design suggestions right off the bat.
> however if you heard it on the radio

Which I never listen to. There's no way for AI music to find me unless it creates something extraordinary that I will seek. And in my humble opinion AI is much better at image generation than music, generated images can be really interesting and pleasing, all of the music I've heard is tripe, no matter the genre imitated.
My experience was a bit different. We were forced to use fountain pens, and if your handwriting wasn't good enough, you'd just be punished until it improved. Needless to say, several decades later my handwriting is still awful.
I'm probably going back to iTerm/Warp because the minimal and ultra fast ones don't seem to implement a "Find string in output" command.
> Everything else is just trying to find someone else's pocket to pick to pay for the services one enjoys

That's an argument for taxation, not against it.
Flying cars do exist, you're just not allowed to drive them.
I think you and the author might agree in principle just not on the semantics.

Apprenticeships focus on learning by doing, which you can do without a mentor in a junior role, at a company with no seniors. The apprenticeship is not literal in that sense, the teacher is the projects you're working on and you sink or swim based on your merit. But regardless of how good you are, you need experiences to sharpen your skills, which you can only do over time.

It differs across the industry but programming skill is not most important in a senior anyway. You learn business logic, client relationships, team and project management over time and those soft skills are what sets seniors apart. Or should.
What a confusing rambly article.

I read the entire thing, and I'm still not sure why he bought an encyclopedia. It seems like the stated main reason is so he can talk to his kids about how different sources are written and constructed. A noble goal, but it seems like a paper encyclopedia is pretty incidental to that goal.

Quite frankly, it seems like the real reason is the author has nostalgia for his encyclopedia growing up, and wants his kids to experience what he experienced as a child.
Autoregressive Model Beats Diffusion: Llama for Scalable Image Generation
EU and mobile; it pops up right away and says 1 article. I tried to view another one and that indeed got me to the payments page.
A small note "If a local number starts with a single 0, strip the 0 and prepend the country code" is FALSE for at least Italian numbers.

For instance Turin, Milan, Rome and Genoa landline prefixes are 011, 02, 06, and 010. Any landline in Italy start with a leading zero BUT you can't strip it.

Let's say a Rome landline 061234567 can't be called like +3961234567 it MUST BE +39061234567. On contrary in France where essentially all numbers (mobile included, witch in Italy start with 3, no leading zero) start with zero you MUST cut the leading zero when you call it with an international prefix.

That's why in some countries the leading 0 is written as (0) meaning "you might or might not need it depending from witch extension of witch country you originate the call".
That pushes towards the most profitable use of the land. Not sure why that would generally be desirable.
Got anY blog or write-up on that?
In the original vi, if you use cw to change it into a longer word, you can't just use <DEL> to remove spaces after the word, but have to use <ESC> and x. So R is often more practical, and it got into my muscle memory before vim existed.
I don't know Simon personally, I do know he has been blogging for a very long time and many of his posts are for his own benefit of recall, not necessarily intended for an external audience. Also He did not post this, a different person did.
Excited to try it this weekend! Do you guys have any plans for a native mobile app?
I’m sure during history class we looked at an analysis of some kind around Japanese who survived the nuclear bombs. At a certain distance from the center being sat down below a window was enough to survive whereas stood up in the same location would be fatal. Said history class was 25 years ago though so might be in accurate or out of date.
We're not yet there, but wearing hijab/niqaab/burqa or whaterver it's called, including by men, seems the only way forward.
The problem with that approach is the cheap stuff is particle board, and repeatedly screwing into particle board isn't a fantastic idea.

The best result (in terms of a strong joint) from particle board furniture would be to add glue when screwing (i.e. in the hole with the screw) but that completely removes the option of disassembling it.
This is intentional, as the podcast is a collaboration between two communities: OpenSustain.tech with a focus on how to sustain the environment with open source and SustainOSS with a focus on how to sustain open source as a movement.
> "In France, state-controlled EDF's nuclear output dropped by 30% in 2022, to 279 TWh, as more than half of its 56 reactors were taken offline for repairs which had been delayed due to the Covid-19 pandemic"

I don't understand the criticism of nuclear power. A pandemic broke out, and with it, there was a shortage of labor to allow for the scheduled maintenance of the reactors.

What fault does nuclear power have in this? If solar panels are not consistently maintained and cleaned, their production also decreases.

Anyway, I would like to point out that France is currently the largest exporter of electricity in the world. I wonder why, considering that according to your view, nuclear power creates so many problems.
https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/net-electricity-imports
I read that part not as "trickle-down", but as "the tax would have to be collected from other sources".
That doesn't sound right. In the limit, where you're forbidden from building anything on the land at all, the price will tend to zero. I'm not certain the relationship is linear, but if it is then it must be the opposite to what you claim.
You answered your own question…
Recent decline in sperm motility among donors
Depends what you mean by 'cycle', I suppose. The current hype-cycle _really_ started with ChatGPT; that was the point where people started getting super-excited and declaring that it would replace all human work by next Thursday.
We aren't the state, though. The state is the governing body and its surrounding entities, funded through taxes, that controls the justice system and the military.

I don't think it's a good idea to conflate "the state" and "the country" or "society". The state is the most powerful entity in the country, but it's not the only one.

And I've probably said this elsewhere, but inequality is not important. We keep hearing about it every day, so it sounds important, but it's not. Unless it's being done deliberately to keep people down, e.g. in a feudal or 20th century socialism country, but even then the fundamental problem is authoritarianism, not inequality. Inequality is a symptom, and not always of something bad.

I don't care that Tesla owners in the early 2010s had Roadsters and I didn't. Roadsters paved the way for Model Ss, which paved the way for Model 3s, which - if the Cybertruck hadn't got in the way - paved the way for Model 2s.

I don't care that at some point in history only rich people had (terrible) glasses. Basically everyone (outside of impoverished countries whose government officials absorb the cash from overseas to help) now has access to high quality lenses - far better than those the rich people of the past could access.

Temporary inequality leads to - over time - an uplift of the fundamental things for everyone. That's the only thing that matters - the baseline now vs what it used to be. Not the difference between baseline and the rich. The rich will spend on a thousand trivial things that won't matter, but also on things that will eventually be accessible to everyone.
1% is my guess, and I'd call it a maximum. There is also a trade-off: when you use numbers, most people won't look up the reference at all. This means they simply don't know who deserves the credit. Or they may think a reference is more solid or accurate than it is.
Rust Release Notes Version 1.79.0
> It is OWNED by the French state. The French government rescued its nuclear industry from bankruptcy.

Okok, your statement wasn't clear to me. Sure, it's definitely true what you say, but what exactly is your point? What are you trying to prove or say with "French nuclear is mostly used for gov industries"?
The Cleantech Revolution: It's exponential, disruptive, and now [pdf]
Title should read "Microsoft kills off consumer version of Copilot GPT Builder after just 3 months"

It will probably kill off the commercial version in due time as well
"Anxiety Is the Dizziness of Freedom" is one of the best stories I have read about quantum physics. I highly recommend it. I can't wait for it to become a movie.
There's also this:

> A fourth-grade teacher in Chelyabinsk, Yulia Karbysheva, was hailed as a hero after saving 44 children from imploding window glass cuts. Despite not knowing the origin of the intense flash of light, Karbysheva thought it prudent to take precautionary measures by ordering her students to stay away from the room's windows and to perform a duck and cover maneuver and then to leave the building. Karbysheva, who remained standing, was seriously lacerated when the blast arrived and window glass severed a tendon in one of her arms and left thigh; none of her students, whom she ordered to hide under their desks, suffered cuts. The teacher was taken to a hospital which received 112 people that day. The majority of the patients were suffering from cuts.

From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chelyabinsk_meteor
I will never buy a car that can connect to the Internet. I will make any sacrifice and go to any length.
He covers exactly this point you are making.
Potentially dumb comment, but how long until AI replaces - or at least complements - ATC personnel?
Linguists e.g. Chomsky: No you can't. Proof is left as an exercise.
I disagree. He posts on his blog all the time, and he has a whole section to just things he found interesting and thus reposted.
I know because when adding his RSS feed it was at first a bit overwhelming (multiple updates daily).

It's his own website – but it's not him who posted it here. Let the guy post on his website what he likes.
I genuinely doubt 14 year olds are being killed on any mass scale by sawmills in the United States. That seems incredibly hyperbolic.

The closest thing I could find was a single 16 year old killed in Wisconsin last year. Very sad, but n=1, and the attribution to 'rolling back' child labour regulations seems spurious (did the previous regulations prevent 16 year olds from working?).

Edit: I'm noting the downvotes, but I stand by this. Just because something plays into your political preconceptions doesn't mean it's true. (We should all be doubly sceptical of spurious factoids that just so happen to perfectly align with our political views!)
I found Axiomatic by Greg Egan to have a similar vibe.
We've received this feedback a few times, so we might make them a bit shorter. This is just the initial MVP, so some features aren't fully live yet, including the tags. It generates them, but you can't edit or sort notes through them yet. We will work on this next week :)
PNPM isn't exactly new; it's been in development since 2016[0] (which makes it 9 years old).

I've been using it for quite a while now. It has excellent mono-repo features, pnpmfile.js hooks, and it's just downright faster than NPM. Way, way faster.

I switched to it a couple of years ago, and it was definitely a breath of fresh air: no more waiting for 5 minutes for dependencies to install! I still find this to be the case when the odd create-XXX-app script finds itself using NPM.

[0]: https://github.com/pnpm/pnpm/commits/main/?after=5d1ed94e6c4...
REM reunite at 2024 Songwriters Hall of Fame [video]
Stop worrying about 'allowPrivilegeEscalation'
“Value 10x less now”

Sounds good as non-native.
Are there many 2024ish models with this option? Or are you limited to older cars
They will never be street legal in the USA (non DOT-approved), emissions controls or no.

When people buy these things they normally never leave the farm.
Discovering Optimization Algorithms With And For Large Language Models
Thanks! A mobile app is definitely in our roadmap, but we're first validating the overall concept and getting feedback from users.
> It’s one thing to invade other countries’ sovereignty to materially benefit your own citizens. But to do so without such benefits is irrational. It’s religious nutjobbery, like the crusades.

Short-term vs. long-term analysis. Analogously, if I understand your argument correctly: It's entirely rational for citizens to support costly- and occasionally-violent enforcement of the law against others — e.g., arrest and (upon conviction) imprisonment of murderers, robbers, tax cheaters, etc., and then publicizing that action — even though few if any citizens get any near-term material benefit from doing so. Likewise with the rules-based international order supported by Pax Americana.

Taking (what I think is) your argument to an extreme: The U.S. didn't get involved in WWII to stop Germany from exterminating European Jewry; nor did we invade Rwanda to try to stop the Hutu slaughter of Tutsis and others. But in either case, had we done so, I don't think it would have been "religious nut[-]jobbery."

(You and I are in agreement about the Crusades.)
> That equivalent would be ndarray

It seems ndarray is conceptually similar to C libraries, it doesn’t have expression templates.

When you write r = a * b * c with ndarray, you allocate, store and then load a temporary array with a * b. When you write r = a * b * c with Eigen, depending on the types it sometimes skips the temporary, and instead computes the complete expression in one shot. For some use cases, the tactic causes substantial performance win.

> Box (or Rc/Arc)

An array of boxes will cause another pointer chase: first to load the pointer, another one to reach the payload.
> it did end up in the ocean

How would you feel if you didn’t have breakfast this morning?
There are, and we do use them, more and more every day (from my simple consumer point of view), but it's much more difficult to dictate that "everyone" must switch to non-microplastic solutions, like it seems to have been possible with gasoline.

What would that kind of legislation look like? It would be bound be huge, have negative non-intended consequences, and loopholes.

Maybe a global plastic tax could function as a guiding force, but even that has the negative consequence increasing the costs of stuff that just doesn't have alternatives. It would funnel money towards developing plastic-free products.

But getting everyone onboard with that is difficult—and I presume it's difficult to put a fair plastic tax for imported products.
Enter the era of next generation SuperCPUs
Yeah but that's not just a React issue.
It's even worse for Angular, but Vue's transition from v2 to v3 was pretty smooth because of backward compatibility.
Svelte has no supported way to create a SPA anymore, you'd have to use Vite for that. It's SSR like next.js. Terrible.

But Angular is the worst in terms of backward compatibility and it has the worst state management too.
It's like they took everything bad from React and made it a standard.
Just use ZZ. It performs :wq<enter> for you, saving 2 keystrokes, and it’s fast because shift and z are adjacent.
Do you have a parenting book you would recommend. As an alternative to this?
The question I have is - what is the alternative currency to hold?

Yuan which is held to a fixed exchange rate that could change at any time? Not to mention the capital controls.

Euro? Yen? Australian dollar?

USD doesn’t have to have some special agreements to make it the safest currency to hold.
Visualize the image of a single, perfect point.

The waves emanating from from that point would be spherically symmetrical (think a 360deg "field of view"[0], whereas most lenses are <<90deg).

Now, since optical paths are two-way, this also implies that forming a perfect point image requires perfectlu spherically symmetric wavefronts[1] converging to that point, causing all the waves to perfectly cancel out each other everywhere except at the image point.

If you take away a slice of the wavefronts (i.e. block light with an aperture), the cancellations is no longer balanced, producing stray excitations at places that should be silent. (Think of it like squeezing a beer can with your hand causing it to spurt out of the sides)

The large the slice of wavefronts you are missing, the greater the imbalance. The resulting artifact are oscillations on the size order relative to the waves' frequency.

Basically, high NA means trying to capture as complete of the total wavefronts as possible to minimize the imbalance, and short wavelength means trying to keep the size of whatever artifact you do end up getting to be as small as possible.

[0] In air quotes because FOV != NA. The main distinction is that FOV refers to the span of principal directions (i.e. how many points can you see), whereas NA means, given a point object, how complete of its total wavefronts are you capturing it, (i.e. how bright is any given one point)

[1] Up to 2pi phase differential. If your signal is CW then multiples of 2pi is indistinguishable from being in phase, think Shannon Limit. This is why lenses work despite having path differential, because all that's important is that it's back in phase for the given wavelength even if shifted by multiple cycles.
Tesla shareholders sue Musk for starting competing AI company
> gets incinerated and provides heat over communal heating – ideally.

How is it ideal to increase the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere even further?
Must be due to the GDPR then.
> It's hard to get precise positioning moving your foot.

How long did you do your experiment? Obviously most of us are not typically used to point and move precisely with our feet. So to be efficient we would need to train for months but that doesn't mean we can't be precise with our feet if we were to dedicate enough time for it.

I once saw a documentary about a german woman who was born without arms. She would do everything with her feet, writing, drawing, smoking a cigarette or mounting a horse and holding the reins with one foot. We are much more adaptive than we think we are but we don't realize it when we have the luxury to not needing it.
Good to see. Formal verification tools need to happen, and I hope they will be generalized to user-space, kernel, and embedded purposes. If FOSS, this would be amazing, but I suspect most of it will remain extremely expensive and shut out individual developers from the space.
More rural areas yes, but England has been shaped by human activities for a very long time. Rural areas are not more "natural" (as in free from human influence) than cities.
> If you're going to perform oversight of such a group

"Oversight"[0] is something that the government only does to itself in a free country like the United States of America.

Why is the federal government performing "oversight" of Stanford, a private organization and university?

As a child, my family brought me to the USA from an authoritarian communist country to escape things like government "oversight" of private universities.

I understand that their findings were very uncomfortable for one political party, but that's how this type of thing works. One party is always going to be more uncomfortable.

My mind is melting right now. How is this not setting of all of the alarm bells against government overreach, for every liberty-minded person?

[0] https://oversight.house.gov/
aren't you just a mitochondria wrapper?
We don’t need simulations for this there are plenty of countries where housing is not a speculative asset
You likely won't be doing anything on it that requires 16 GB. The cores are comparible to Cortex-A53 cores, but with more vector performance.
I've always wondered why they've never done a basic pass of fixing stuff like this.
Consumption tax screws the working and middle classes the absolute most because they consume the most as a % of their income.

There's a reason it was pushed mostly by billionaires.

LVT is the most egalitarian tax. It's completely unavoidable for land owners, renters pay nothing at all, it skews highest on the biggest landowers and it doesnt disincentivize productive investment or productive work.
> I guess with a 160 countries there will some with the right area for a launch pad with way laxer requirements.

Good luck with that.

Exploding rockets are a very serious public safety risk since they're >90% propellant. Even Russia grounded Soyuz until they root caused its launch failure. From what I can gather China has the same policy, although they're very quiet about any launch failures that happen, so it harder to tell.
> https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8529939/

Sure, but only as long as "quite often" means "almost never".
Right, I see your point, it makes sense.
It’s annoying when it’s Google only though.

If you’re going to offer SSO, at least take the lowly amount of time to add some other providers. I genuinely don’t believe anyone is launching so quickly that they don’t have time to add a second or third option.