skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> the US spends much more energy heating buildings compared to cooling them

I was curious about the stats here:

The latest numbers I can find indicate that the annual US 50-state heating-to-comfort requirement is about 2.5x the cooling-to-comfort requirement. Measured in BTUs.

However:
a) These numbers do not account for HVAC energy efficiency (much higher for heating than cooling -- maybe ~90% heat, ~50% cool, so that 2.5x would be closer to 1.5x today)
b) Due to warming trends, these numbers have been changing. Was ~3x in 1990, trendlines look like they might converge by the end of the century. With efficiency considered, convergence in about 25 years.

Some obvious unaccounted factors:
a) Changes in HVAC fuel or efficiency mix, e.g. heat pumps
b) Changes in climate trends
c) Migration patterns (more people headed to TX/AZ than AK)
I mostly use C++ and C#, and I’m not a fan of Rust.
It would help if there weren't all these employees and ex-employees stepping forward to talk about how Microsoft is performative and naive about security. I won't go as far as to say that, but I will say I don't think my incentives as an IC lined up with the security-focused mindset that company execs tout publicly.
What is illegal?
That seems like a solution for a problem that shouldn't exist in the first place.

> a product is renamed, or the logic used to generate the URL changes.

In that case you should store both urls and have a redirect_to_id or something similar to give search engines and users a proper 301. I don't see a use case for this fuzzy matching which will just make things not very explicit and unpredictable.
Shameless plug: i worked on the same concept but for snippets and recurrent texts you are copying pasting all the time

You can check here (osx only): https://shortexts.com/
With markup. That slows down the economy and makes everything more expansive. Whcih makes the economy not competetive on the international market. Keep it that way for a few decades and you get North Korea.
You could even make your 404 page embed your search, knowledge base and FAQs.
It's also a place where people can't easily take what you say out of context to make you look particularly bad. A safe space, in a way.
In-browser LLM inference engine with WebGPU and OpenAI API
Can't edit anymore, but this little factoid:

> More importantly, even GDP per Capita wise:
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> https://data.oecd.org/gdp/gross-domestic-product-gdp.htm
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> EU per Capita GDP in 2022 is the same as USA 2016. Was the USA in 2016 struggling but now isn't?
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> This is all bullshit. Economic output is more than high enough and rising steadily. The problem remains solely in the distribution of the ouptut.

The conclusion that economic output has been rising steadily, even in the last couple of years, is true. But the 2016 vs 2022 numbers are nominal, thus useless. There is a much more significant difference over time when working in PPP/Inflation adjusted numbers:

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/gdp-per-capita-worldbank?...

The overall point holds though: The economic output of the EU is at 45K per capita today, the level of the US in 1997. The US was not a poor country in 1997. Germany is at the economic output per capita of 2009.

Did the US in 1997 suffer from the problem that it didn't produce enough economic output? Of course not.

And given that, adjusting for inflation, GDP per capita is at an all-time high, the conclusion that you're poorer because economic production is distributed to others is necessarily true. And it tracks, too. Corporate profits and the Dow Jones are not down. The already extremely wealthy have accumulated nearly two thirds of the new wealth being created since 2020:

https://www.oxfam.org/en/press-releases/richest-1-bag-nearly...

> Billionaire wealth surged in 2022 with rapidly rising food and energy profits. The report shows that 95 food and energy corporations have more than doubled their profits in 2022. They made $306 billion in windfall profits, and paid out $257 billion (84 percent) of that to rich shareholders. The Walton dynasty, which owns half of Walmart, received $8.5 billion over the last year. Indian billionaire Gautam Adani, owner of major energy corporations, has seen this wealth soar by $42 billion (46 percent) in 2022 alone.

Given these facts, if we have to accept lower economic production in the name of a fairer distribution of economic production, that seems more than acceptable to me.
Frederik Pohl said "A good science fiction story should be able to predict not the automobile but the traffic jam."

Chiang's stories are good SF stories in this vein -- even the stories with magic. He considers the consequences of his What-If hypotheticals in depth, whether they are plausible according to known physics or operate on fantasy suppositions.

Consider his story [1] "Liking What You See: A Documentary." It's about a world in which people can have their perceptions of human beauty suppressed as an anti-discrimination measure. In some authors' voices this would be a strident sermon about a dystopian Equality Gone Too Far, or in others, about the new Utopia that arises when people are judged on their actions instead of their appearance. But Chiang doesn't preach to any choir. He plausibly represents how people would react to this hypothetical technological development without putting his thumb on the scale to tell readers how to feel about it.

Most ideas are not as clearly bad as the Torment Nexus [2], nor as clearly beneficial as the polio vaccine. I love that Chiang can write about ideas that might as well be a pitch for a Black Mirror episode but with much more consideration than Black Mirror would treat it. His slow writing pace probably helps too.

[1] https://waldyrious.neocities.org/ted_chiang/liking-what-you-...

[2] https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/torment-nexus
Diving into JTAG – Usage Scenarios (Part 5)
Unfortunately it is very difficult to remain vigilant when the automated system seems to be doing a great job. Eventually you will become distracted.

Even in accident cases, remember that the Teslas involved are not new - they have had dozens or hundreds of successful drives before the accident.
I half like the idea.

I do think that it's ok for several URLs to point to the same content. In his example all three are fine. I also tried the product code (6066) without any of the text and it worked fine as well.

I've also noticed Lego's site does a version of this as well. https://www.lego.com/en-us/product/10334 will take you to the product page for the Retro Radio. However, I think Lego's site is just keying in on the product id as "retro-radio" doesn't work, but "ret-rad-10334" does.

But there are limits.

I put in the URL "https://pillser.com/supplements/go-fuck-yourself" to see what would happen. Now, I chose an offensive phrase to increase my chances of not coming close to any real product. I believe that URL should 404, but it took me to the page for the supplement "On Your Game" instead. If I had tried a real name and got taken to something with only the barest resemblance to the name I tried, I wouldn't be thinking "This must be the closest match". I'd think the site did something messed up or I typed something wrong or something malicious had happened.
About an ad missed. Are I'm the only one who would rewatch an ad on Youtube? There is no easy way to do it
An FT article[1] from today claims that Chinese banks are stopping working with Russia too, to avoid the sanctions.

[1] https://www.ft.com/content/50d6bcd1-f1f6-41a1-bb26-a54826548...
Nobody says the old mainlined driver must support new devices. Mainline a new driver, or don't, either way it's better than nothing.
What is meant by internal comms in this instance? Stripe had probably the most vibrant Slack environment of any place I've ever worked. It'd be very strange indeed if somehow people stopped communicating that way.
To me, this seems like a good sign that maybe the US norm of workaholism is finally on the decline and workers are starting to set boundaries. Work is a financial exchange of labor for money. "Super engagement" is not necessarily part of that exchange. IMO save your super-engagement for your family, your hobbies, your church, service to your community, and so on. Lifetimes are limited, how much of your soul-hours should you be spending on making some shareholders you've never met rich?
> Russians simply get their stuff from others

With less variety, slower and at higher cost [1]. And they’re not getting much of the high-tech kit [2]. (The Germans also had blockade runners. Everyone does. That doesn’t make a blockade less onerous.)

Russian natural gas sales have also cratered; Beijing is leveraging its position as a monopsony to demand price concessions [3].

[1] https://www.csis.org/analysis/out-stock-assessing-impact-san...

[2] https://www.aei.org/research-products/report/the-impact-of-s...

[3] https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/russia-china-gas-pip...
Does this fool tools like 1Password?
More than that, in developing countries, such as my own, Meta has peering agreements with telephony companies which allow said companies to offer basic plans where traffic to Meta applications (mostly whatsapp) is not billed. This would certainly reduce their costs immensely, considering that people use whatsapp as THE communications service.
When there's headlines like "Investors own 77 per cent of new condos in Waterloo region" going around, there's something deeply wrong and people are going to be pissed about it.
U.S.-Saudi petrodollar pact ends after 50 years
John Oliver still has a million dollars and a brand new luxury RV for Judge Thomas should he so choose to do the honorable thing.

Also, Judge Alito should resign given his inability to remain impartial and desire for a Christian theocracy in violation the 1st. a. What a disgrace.
all my problems with risk analysis tools are false positives. adding AI just sounds like there will have more of them and harder to figure out when it happen.
Maybe it's because money doesn't buy as much as it did 4 years ago. Since most employees have limited control over their mostly-static salaries, they've scaled down output accordingly.
Don't disagree with that, but I disagree that the conclusion to be made from it is that there's no significant competition.

Put another way, if Nintendo had a Sega-like market failure, then Sony and Microsoft would be the heirs apparent to the kingdom of cute. I'm sure they'd savor the opportunity. Do you think they wouldn't take these customers right now if they could?

And again, there's going to be a class of customers that could go either way but won't buy into two or more consoles, because they're expensive. They are directly competing for them.
I don’t argue with your main points except to question if it is worth the money now. I was in the defense industry for 25 years, and my comments above are just my opinions on what is in the best interests of the US taxpayer today in 2024.

I am questioning the value of having 800 military bases in foreign countries in 2024. What was once a good idea may not be worth the money and resources now. What does the US give up not protecting the rest of the world? I think these topics are worthy of serious dialogue.
As someone with aphantasia, who typically reads non-fiction and watches fiction, Ted Chiang’s work really stands out for me. Most visual descriptions are in service to technical details, and therefore they are enjoyable conceptually.
You can do that with many websites that have ids in their SEO slugs, this is usually not an issue as it's still standardized in a way that the string is just split into the id and the rest and you can look it up with both parts.

Popular libraries like https://github.com/norman/friendly_id implement it like that too.
I wonder whether they considered using a metallic heat shield with heat resistant alloys. The cancelled VentureStar space plane was planned to use this approach:

https://ntrs.nasa.gov/api/citations/20040095922/downloads/20...
I have to admit I find it a little hard to understand what you're trying to say. It seems to me like you're mixing up a few things. In everyday English, the word 'person' primarily refers to an individual human. This is distinct from and (at least in my view of semantics) comes before philosophical and religious discussions about what it might mean to be human; and also distinct from discussions of the legal rights and duties that persons are given which might also be conferred upon non-humans. Even if these give rise to derived (polysemous) usages of the word person.
A car without a complex internal electronic system.
> 9 inches or more

Ah, we are talking of internet inches I guess? The vast vast vast majority of men don't have 9" inches or more.
I blame the enshittification of the Internet. So many of us work with the Internet. And seeing it turning into a pile of garbage is soulcrushing.
I've heard Covid referred to in some quarters as "aerosolised HIV", which should be at least taken seriously, even if it is (possibly) overly alarmist. It's certainly easier to catch than HIV.

While it's useful to have a distinct name for the virus/disease, it really should have been called what it is: It's SARS-CoV-2 not Covid. SARS: severe acute respiratory syndrome.

I wear a n95 mask at work (medical practice) and I consistently wear one in shops, especially shopping centres. It's kept me safe so far.
Usually people think that when the AI helps you plan your trip, you have to do what the AI says... but thats not the case... I have been working on aicotravel.com and it is based on AI - but the main point is that the AI helps you get a starting point to plan your trip. When you have your itinerary you have a chat that will help you interact with your itinerary based on your interest (it has context of your plans), so in the end is not that you have to do what the AI says, is that the AI helps you plan your trip with all the insights you need to have the best of it. Also, if you're just figuring out where to travel and how your route should be, no worries, visit aicotravel.com/planning - set your route and ask the chat its thoughts if you should add days, remove, and so on. In the end, you make the final decision about your trip, but you do not have to spend a lot of time trying to get the same info or less.
Therac-25 is more like a stuck accelerator pedal. The operator did not command the machine to deliver too much radiation, that happened outside their control.
Haven't heard of it. Internal communication was not a strong suit at LANL... You also had a ton of different teams who all got access to the hardware at roughly the same time and were shotgunning different approaches and coalescing on the better libraries wasn't really a priority at the beginning of roadrunner when I was there. LANL didn't really have project management at the code base level to direct people to upgrade stuff like that, its mostly independent researchers pulling the code bases in different directions. Most of those researchers were physicists in my world and didn't really care about the "engineering" of software, just that their code ran fast and correct enough to get to the next deadline. Then there is a small core of more computer science researchers who did projects like this. If they were successful enough they'd attempt to integrate it into the mainline codes. But their incentives generally were to publish papers about super computer code like this, not necessarily to integrate it into the mainline codes. So often getting something like this in the codes was giving a talk and hoping a physicist would see it and need the extra performance for their needs.

I was not running codes that would utilize even a small fraction of roadrunner so my projects quickly moved to the GPU based test beds for the next gen computer so I didn't get to see these research coalesce. My understanding from people who stayed on roadrunner is that for the most part people didn't adopt too much fanciness for roadrunner as the rewrites were too deep and GPUs were on the horizon. There was a lot of vision about making generic heterogeneous compute frameworks but too my knowledge they didn't pan out and just writing against CUDA, OpenMP, and MPI won the day.
Doesn't the notebook store outputs locally? Wouldn't it get out of sync when changing device?

Also cells can be out of order and overwritten and such. Seems like a questionable fit.
There's a surprising amount of things that are possible to parse in a parallel fashion if one tries hard enough, though keeping significant or any gains is more tricky. The operation in the article though is only a rather tiny part of parsing HTML though.
IMO it’s the reality of technology being a business, not a value-set, settling in.

1999-2020 was 20+ years.

That’s about the length of a long-term industry cycle.

It’s also 20 yrs of selling a narrative about tech that recruited ambitious, value-driven people who also wanted to make money.

Don’t want 18 hr days at Goldman or 10 years of medical school, but want the pay? Come work 8 at <tech co> and make the same pay without the intern and first years hazing by an alcoholic 45 y/o MD who hates their spouse and never goes home.

And then if I was to get pretty negative: Then, ~2020 hits, the cracks in the ideology show, no way to hide the data revenue models behind every nice Change the World pitch, turns out tech also shredded social discourse and now looks like it might unemploy Mom and friends, and maybe undue democracy (who saw that coming haha), and so on. VCs always win and you’re tired of reading their same think piece blog posts, layoffs always win, a lot of places that seemed the polar opposite still became IBM accidentally. Work, don’t work, it’ll be several quarters before that catches up to you. If you’re really introspective - why did I make $200k+ in my pajamas during COVID while someone made $15/hr at Whole Foods getting exposed to a pandemic all day long? Pretty sure people in that position actually got very sick… but HelloFresh kept getting delivered so I didn’t realize.

The shine has worn off. That is all imo. Place that are both really changing the world, actually understand the second order effects and plan for those, and you can get hired at are few and far between. It’s still/just an industry where you can make a ton of money and keep your brain curious.
go make a cost analysis of crawling the entire internet once or twice a day on http vs https and report back
Vladivostok was recently required to be called 符拉迪沃斯托克 on Chinese maps. China claiming that territory back one way or another does seem to be likely.
Even if Covid-19 was similar in terms of causing damage, its high transmissibility and mutability means that it's worse on a population level.
The Program Optimization course I followed did something similar with regular CPUs / GPUs. It started out as "don't do stupid things", but it quickly went into SoA vs AoS, via hand-writing AVX intrinsics, into eventually running OpenCL code on the GPU.

Part of your grade depended on the performance of your code, with a bonus for the fastest submission. It led to a very nice semi-competitive semi-collaborative atmosphere.
If you’re in that kind of environment, press the lock button five times in a row (iPhone) to require a password to unlock on the next interaction.
I think that last bit is the key- before US workers swallowed the myth that working harder would translate to better outcomes for the company, and then them overall. But now it’s more clear than ever corporations hoard wealth and do not let improvements trickle down to employees.
While hobnobbing with billionaires and saying the unspeakable thing aloud: their secret desires to turn America into Gilead.
Comes with ability to do full structured generation with json schema

also a in-browser demo https://chat.webllm.ai/
> HD Voice (g.722.2 AMR-Wide Band) has a much larger frequency pass band, and sounds much better than GSM or OPUS or most of these other low bandwidth codecs.

At what bitrate, for the comparison to Opus?

And is this Opus using LACE/NoLACE as introduced in version 1.5?

...and is Meta using it in their comparison? It makes a huge difference.
If you haven't had the chance, I highly recommend his short story called Understand. It'll resonate with a lot of people who are on the spectrum and like to think very meta.
Cheap geothermal seems like tremendously easier problem to solve than cold fusion, I wish that more effort was put into it.
I'm just waiting for someone to create a simple app (like notes perhaps?) that has the name "Japan sucks" or "overthrow Japan".

The problem lawmakers have (all lawmakers, not just in Japan), is that they don't understand second order effects. [0]

[0] - https://fs.blog/second-order-thinking/
Are you really worried about the dollar being threatened? What is the alternative? There isn’t any at the moment is there? Some countries may try to move away from the dollar to some degree but it’s not like the Yuan or Ruble is remotely close to replacing it. It’s not even clear that China or Russia would even want them to. China would have to give up capital control which doesn’t seem likely. They’re too afraid of capital flight.

All these ideas of some kind of blockchain based common alternative is still just a pipe dream. You can’t base a real currency on crypto. If you think you can you don’t understand what currency actually is (hint: currency has never been a successor to metal/coin based transactions… it’s an abstraction over debt and debt has and will always be the main way value is exchanged. crypto cant replace debt based currency because debt is based on trust in humans, something that trust in an algorithm can’t replace)
For now at least half of the US is pretending there aren't 40-50 million illegal immigrants in the US, even though the country is overflowing with undocumented persons and it has become an enormous problem. Every mid-size town and above has a lot of illegal immigrants today, whereas 20 years ago there were few. So if you start switching public school systems over to Spanish because entire schools are now filled with illegal immigrants, or children of illegal immigrants, it's going to get a lot of unwanted attention. Plus it reveals that the US is fracturing rapidly. Whereas English is drastically more valuable than Spanish economically, the US is developing a large population base that does not speak English and it's quite bad for the country's cohesion and economic outcomes.

I'm seeing this firsthand. Where I live in a mid-size university town, 20-30 years ago there was practically zero illegal immigration, undocumented persons. It was fairly unheard of. Now there are a vast number of Spanish-only speaking illegal immigrants. My apartment complex in the span of a few years has become 3/4 illegal immigrants that only speak Spanish, almost entirely young adult males. They harrass anyone that isn't Hispanic and have tried to push all other tenants out of the complex. The police are called frequently for violence issues, and being uneducated young adult males they drink heavily and trash the place constantly.

It can't be fixed either. If you just remove the gigantic base of illegal immigrants GDP will plunge by at least 10%. Nobody will do that. There is no path forward other than chaos. No serious immigration reform will get passed near-term.
People have gotten the message that capitalism is a cancer that will exploit workers of every bit of value for a pittance. People are fighting back by quiet quitting and doing the absolute bare minimum to collect a paycheck. There's literally no point in working hard for your higher ups to make bank off of you while you get an "attaboy." They're going to learn the hard way now.
It's not illegal[1] and is the number one reason I don't use biometrics to unlock my phone.

[1] https://www.phonearena.com/news/court-ruling-cops-can-force-...