skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I still do this as well. I never understood why the little poem was so popular. At that point it’s just coming down to rote memorization, as pretty much any month can be used in any order and it will still sound right.

The thing one does need to remember with the knuckle method is to count the end twice before going back the other way. July and August are both 31. I suppose this isn’t an issue if 2 fists are used, but I was taught to use one, so I could use my finger to track and feel the peaks and valleys.
For completeness, this is the beginning of the article:

> A feral child (also called wild child) is a young individual who has lived isolated from human contact from a very young age, with little or no experience of human care, social behavior, or language. Such children lack the basics of primary and secondary socialization. The term is used to refer to children who have suffered severe abuse or trauma before being abandoned or running away.

My impression was that it could be written as, "The term is _also_ used to refer to ...", but I'm not sure.
> I don't expect to get the source code for every tool I use in production.

You should.

> With this software you'll typically create one-off installations, no maintenance necessary.

And then just accept that it's lost afterwards? No thanks.
Let me guess: minimum effort implementation combined with heavy accents and people who can't be bothered to enunciate

Sounds like a recipe for a failed project
Official government guidance: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/protected-marine-...

"MMO recommends following diver protocols"
"See the divers’ protocol (available from The Seahorse Trust)"

The Seahorse Trust protocol: https://www.theseahorsetrust.org/divers-page/

"follow Natural England’s guidelines on taking pictures."
"With modern cameras most pictures can be taken without a flash"
"we ask that you do not use flash at all"
"if you have to, restrict your pictures to one or two"
and if we were (Jungian?) psychologists, having a rich inner life and being very unstable would be perfectly compatible.

"Gnoramus et gnorabimus?" is absolutely gusting, btw...
With a LLM. Case closed
I’d say it mainly needs persistence and good execution (library support). NVIDIA has co-developed CUDA with their hardware, and largely stayed compatible with it, since around 2009, and around 2012 it first started taking off in the HPC space. Years later this enabled first their boom in crypto and then an even bigger one in AI. I don’t think this amount of R&D would be out of reach of today’s AMD (as NVIDIA wasn’t any bigger back then), but the backing of it needs to come from the very top.
I share a dislike for std::vector type automatically reallocating arrays -- because of the "reallocating" part. I like preallocated chunks and stable pointers.

To a degree, I agree with the premise of the post, we can preallocate huge chunks, and actual resource consumption will only happen on demand when the memory is first used. But note that there is still a resource whose allocation we can't delay: virtual address space, which must get acquired immediately obviously. When trying to be compatible with 32-bit machines (less than 4GB of virtual address space available), preallocating huge chunks is not practical.

As to using static globals, I'm not sure it's the best idea. One can use mmap() (or Virtual Alloc() on Windows) to the same effect. That might be better from an architectural view, with regards to encapsulation and such, and allows a little more dynamicity, making multiple separate (but still large) allocations and such. It's possible to give debugger-visible names to these allocations as well, for example by way of the memfd_create() API.
Prof. Abelson's original lectures are available on YouTube and WELL worth the time to watch. It's unfortunate that this type of granular understanding of CS is seemingly not taught anymore - might help dampen down the hype cycles of late which equate a computer to a divine being of limitless potential instead of a dumb box full of switches.
> The chapter titled "Advanced reactors may make waste problem worse" mentions nothing about waste.

I think that's just a mistake in placement of headers? The next chapter does talk about waste: "In fact, a recent U.S. National Academy of Science analysis noted that advanced reactors do not solve the problems of nuclear waste and may, in fact, exacerbate the problem."

A simple typo or editing mistake does not make an article a joke.

> "Not likely to help cut emissions" acknowledges that it would help cut emissions.

No it does not. It feels like you must have skimmed the article very fast.

"Certainly, existing nuclear power plants play a significant role in greenhouse gas reductions and will continue to do so."

Of course existing nuclear power plays a role. We should absolutely not shut them down if it can be avoided. Whether NEW SMR reactors will help more than just investing the same amount in renewables is an open question.

> HALEU fuel is needed to offset the smaller size of the reactor core, which results in increased neutron leakage: nope.

What a helpful comment /s

Care to elaborate?

> "Factory construction is a risk": compared to traditional, behemoth reactor construction? Really?

Uh yeah.. really.

I really don't get how SMR proponents just take it for granted that the huge cost downsides of going small can be fully offset by mass production. Especially considering that we're not really talking about all that huge volumes of production any time soon anyway.

Imagine if you tried to claim that you could make the MWh cost of wind power go down by building smaller wind turbines in larger volumes. You'd have a really hard time defending that position. The trend is clearly favoring going bigger and bigger, even if the challenges related to construction and transportation is huge.

The "behemoth reactor" construction model is well proven, and physical factors dictate that it's the solution with the lowest potential construction costs. So yeah, going for an unproven model that MIGHT make up for higher costs with efficiencies associated with factor construction is absolutely a huge risk.
My favorite demo of motorized faders, also in the context of audio (M4 Motor fader controller for eurorack):

https://youtu.be/VOcJ3yufxtU?t=357
This is cost efficiency and it seems pretty realistic currently to me.

Cost is a major factor and when the petroleum crisis was triggered in the 1970's the economic devastation was front & center without nearly as much consideration for climate.

Regardless, the urgency was greater and I thought they had equations that converged on this approximate outcome at about this point into the wondrous, unknowable, far-future-if-it-was-going-to-get-here 21st century.

Without much attention to the climate, there might have been more awareness of the environment in a more locally-focused way though.

Before long they had bumper stickers that said "No Nukes".

Now I really do like the data presentation with the relative bar graph on a linear scale starting at zero on the left.

Realistic efficiency improvements are shown but conservation is not on the chart.

Under ideal conditions theoretically it would be "so cool" if total usage were to be cut in half, and the right-hand half of each bar would simply be lopped off with no further worry about the highest-cost options for each mitigation.

But even if the lowest-cost half was lopped off instead, the scope of needed mitigation is so dramatically lower that still nothing else even comes close.

I guess you would have to say that conservation is "off the chart" in it's effectiveness.
I always thought it would be a good idea to have a suggest spelling improvements on social media & forums. Gives a low-key way of improving things without wasting comment space and potentially saving embarrassment. But I’m sure it needs a good ux or otherwise will be abused
> This C program doesn’t use any C standard library functions.

This is only half true. While the code doesn't call any stdlib functions, it still relies on the the c stdlib and runtime in order to get called and properly exit.

I'm somewhat perplexed why the author did do it with the runtime, given that he doesn't really depend on features of it (except maybe the automatic exit code handling) instead of building with -ffreestanding.
Well, while they desperately try to keep shareholders happy instead of developers, Nvidia racks in trillions in market cap. But I agree in the sense that thinking ahead further than the next quarter is not a great strength of most publicly traded companies.
If you cannot afford to pay your staff a living wage, your business was never viable to start with.
Almost 50% would refuse job offer with no remote work option – survey
this book is at the top of the list of near every list of best programming books of all time. its worth reading. is it an easy read? no. its sort of like the Illiad. Not an easy read. But worth it for anyone who wants to be considered well read.
Climate models probably take global energy use into about, so yes.
Backdoor in D-Link routers enables telnet access
The problem is people keep trying to stamp the diversity out.

The model in the US is nominally to have few regulations limited to things like enforcing contracts and antitrust laws and pricing major externalities, then leave the rest of it to free market competition. That isn't compatible with a model where regulators are trying to run the economy, because then the regulators get captured by industry and thwart rather than protect competition, and competition can't save you from needing complicated rules if it is not present. And those kinds of complex competition-destroying regulations are showing up everywhere, including in the US.

Conversely, the model in the EU is to not care a lot about small businesses and just regulate the large ones. But that model isn't really compatible with free trade. You can't impose expensive regulations on domestic companies and then put them into competition with countries that don't do that and expect them to succeed. But people want to have their cake and eat it too. They want the expensive regulations but not the correspondingly higher prices, and then the stuff they buy gets made in China where the rules don't exist (or exist on paper but the government waives them in order to capture the market). If you want to have the rules without destroying domestic industry then you have to impose them on the manufacturers of imported products too. Which would actually help the US increase competition, because the regulations would then shackle global megacorps that want to sell into the EU but not smaller domestic US companies that don't. But then foreign-produced stuff sold in the EU would cost as much as domestically-produced stuff -- a boon to local industry but higher prices on local consumers, and apparently they're not willing to suffer the latter.
High efficiency: $0.19
Mainstream: $0.13
Junk tier: $0.08

Trending flat as of late with single digit percentage reductions in price to be expected year over year.

At these prices the actual panels for most houses would be below $1,000 wholesale. The vast majority of the cost is elsewhere.

It is great that it keeps getting cheaper but at this point the returns are diminishing. If you're thinking of buying something there is no new tech or anything on the horizon worth waiting for just go ahead.
> Given a biased corpus, de-biasing is the process of ensuring a less biased outcome.

The point is that people who evaluate what is considered bias are, in and of themselves, introducing bias.
Government agencies like DARPA literally invented the internet, so it was definitely more than solving the tragedy of the commons, although that was important too.
Cats are credited with domesticating humans.
In UK a 410w panel is £50 retail plus sales tax but including delivery and retailers margin. So about 16c US a watt. So I dread to think how cheap it must be at the Chinese factory gate. (Sadly plus wiring, inverters, brackets and installation which is where they get you, but still).
> Do you have any data regarding uranium?

https://www.lemonde.fr/en/les-decodeurs/article/2023/08/04/h...

> https://www.dw.com/en/are-nigers-uranium-supplies-to-france-...

"He added that some 90% of Niger's population has no electricity, and price exploitation means Niger today also receives too little income for its exports."

https://reliefweb.int/report/niger/niger-uranium-blessing-or...

"Instead, say local and international organisations, uranium mining by foreign-dominated companies has caused environmental damage and health problems in the far north of the country."

"Niger is the world's third to fifth-ranking producer of uranium, producing over 3,000 tonnes of uranium a year. However, the UN Development Programme's 2006 Human Development Index considers Niger the poorest country in the world, where life expectancy is 45 years old, 71 percent of adults cannot read, and 60 percent of the population lives on less than $1 a day."

These things don't look good, I would say.

> > If this thing blows up, then what happens?
> Ahahaha you have to study nuclear energy more.

You have to do that. The Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant is a nuclear power plant, which is in the war zone in the Ukraine. Russia is attacking for months the electricity production and distribution in the Ukraine. If the cooling of the nuclear powerplant gets destroyed, then we have a possible meltdown or other scenarios. We already have a million refugees from the Ukraine in Germany. If a nuclear powerplant in the Ukraine gets destroyed (for example because Russia decides to bomb it), then we potentially will see millions more refugees.

So much for safe energy. There are nuclear powerplants in a warzone in Europe, and this affects us all. Direct or indirectly.

> Which catastrophes?

You really can use Google? Just recently in the news: https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2024/04/22/russias-record-flo...

We have here former uranium mines, which were exploited by and for Russia. Google for "Wismut". It costs us many billions to clean up the russian legacy.

> Its cheap and clean, its a fact.

Selective data does not make it "cheap" and "clean". It also does not make it a fact. Consumer prices are also not "facts" about the complete cost structure of nuclear power. Consumer prices are designed by energy policy. Much of the costs of nuclear power are not payed by consumers, but by tax payers (Nuclear Power Plants can't be insured, unlike solar panels -> the tax payer will pay for these events -> for example a single Earth Quake in Japan causes costs the tax payer of several hundred billion dollars -> TEPCO, the owner of several damaged powerplants lacks the money to pay for that...
CVE-2024-6045 - https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-6045

> Certain models of D-Link wireless routers contain an undisclosed factory testing backdoor. Unauthenticated attackers on the local area network can force the device to enable Telnet service by accessing a specific URL and can log in by using the administrator credentials obtained from analyzing the firmware.
The answer is torque and more km per liter.
At least 13 communicable diseases are surging past pre-pandemic levels
This is why I use Librewolf. Firefox makes a good browser but keeps putting shit in it. (E.g. Pocket)
It's definitely not "relatively safe" in what I as a European would consider a safe place - although I was told it got a lot better in the last decade. If you look like a rich tourist than you need to be careful, like pretty much anywhere in S. America. However if you present yourself as a nomad hippie looser with nothing worth the trouble of messing with you, you can go around and probably you'll have no big problems, but still requires a bit of common sense in interaction with people. And speaking at least some Spanish. It's not that people are not friendly, they're just poor, and the line between being friendly and hustling you is very thin.
Well, without the cartel there could have presumably been bright white, 1000 hour bulbs on the shelf next to dim yellow 2500 hour bulbs, and people could have chosen accordingly.

Additionally, the companies set up a whole compliance regime with bulb testing and fines, not for bulbs being too dim, but for bulbs that lasted too long, which I think clarifies the intent more than anything else.
The “blue” in blue blood does not refer to Democrat, rather to patrician upbringing.
English may not be their first language. I found the post to be perfectly understandable.
Consider reporting it to the host, ISP and/or FTC next time - GDPR "compliance" doesn't let US businesses ignore the CAN SPAM act.

https://consumer.ftc.gov/articles/how-get-less-spam-your-ema...
> Drug war continues to be an enormous amount of waste and human suffering for no clear public benefit

I know this has been the line for years, but now that we've taken our foot off the gas we have grocery stores, maternity wards, and highways that smell like pot and we have a astronomical number of fentanyl poisonings.
That is because of the focus on writing itself. Its easier to make sharper letters on clay tablets, making such letters on palm leaves ( popularly used by some cultures for writing) would tear the leaf, so the writing became more rounded in these regions.
Apologies for the flippancy.

Perhaps have the cron reboot disable service for a couple of hours?
It’s trivial for companies to avoid complying.

Meta don’t, for instance. They sell their quest headsets throughout Europe, but offer no warranty or support in many European countries in which they sell them, which is illegal under the EU CRD.

I foolishly bought one, knowing the risk - and it stopped working after a week, and that’s the end of the story - they refused to do a return or exchange, said I could ship it at my own expense, which I tried, only for them to “lose” the inbound package. They received it from the courier, mislaid it - my problem. They then kindly offered to ship a replacement controller at my expense (€150), but only to a different country, not to where I live. They then “lost” that too, forcing me to do a chargeback to get my money back, as despite having no proof of delivery to me, they insisted it had been.

As to “take them to court” - they know damned well that it’s not worth it to spend €10,000+ on legal fees over a €500 piece of electronics, which is why they knowingly and willingly act illegally.

The EU needs a simple, pan-European way to deal with bad actors, or it’s just meaningless legislation that provides no protection to consumers.
I can see your concern with GPL-family being like a virus. Indeed, it is very restrictive and contributors may not want to get involved due to the logistical overhead of trying to add features to/improve it.

Addressing your concern about not being paid for your work, this is an age-old problem with open source. It's hard to make money off a product that is freely available to download. A good rule of thumb is to make users feel like they _want_ to give you money, instead of making them feel like they _have_ to give you money.

Some options you have if you want to keep it open source but still make money:

1. Do the dual licensing approach, and use one open source license of your choice, and one commercial license to allow businesses to use your engine in their proprietary software.
2. Donations link in the open source software
3. Paid technical support/Freemium model
4. Paid training programs to train users to become an expert with your engine
5. Early access subscription model: create a system where users can pay a monthly subscription fee in order to get new features earlier than official release.
Attatch felt to the feet or underside of all your furniture
I have more than a year of cumulative backpacking experience all around the world when its just you, guide book ie Lonely planet and a loose plan for maybe next 2-4 days, mostly India but also other places. I don't know if that makes me one with 'higher risk tolerance', definitely higher than 0 to actually experience anything interesting. But I do some more intense sports like climbing or paragliding where some risk is unavoidable and you do your best to minimize your exposure to it, and this mindset then permeates rest of your persona.

As for Bolivia, what parent described sounds like some extreme case of 'I walk randomly into favela with gold chain around the neck and rolex watches and shit happened' kind of foolish beginner behavior. Backpacking gives you some instincts what not to do. Did I feel safe in Bolivia in those few places we've done? Absolutely. Is the whole country completely safe in any situation? Most probably not, or it wasn't in 2018, no idea about current affairs. Btw neither me nor my fiancee/wife speak spanish, you can get by with 20 words if you have to.

I've gone to Iran in cca 2015 (Mont Damavand, a bit of culture), an amazing experience and one of my best. Wouldn't go there currently, not because common people got bad (no, they were amazing and everybody spoke english well) but politics made it unsafe.
At some point, you have boxes and boxes of stuff that may contain something that might be useful someday on the off-chance that you can actually find that thing when you need it. I'd love to connect everything to the person--including future me--who would find it useful (or thinks they would in the moment) but it's often not practical.
Ohh, this looks nice. I've been wondering for a while why nobody had yet come up with a non-insane alternative to nss (whatever systemd cooked up need not apply), since the fundamental problem is fairly easy, if you're not in the position of the original NSS authors (i.e., "we just invented dynamic library loading and can't come up with a better example usecase").
The only good one
This isn't nearly ready for phones or laptops. Its nominal characteristics are 1.5V, 100µAh capacity, 20µA discharge: https://www.tdk-electronics.tdk.com/download/2427688/a88e3ae...

They market it for use-cases like RTC backup batteries and solar powered BLE beacons.
This behaviour is platform specific unfortunately. For instance I'm pretty sure that Emscripten-compiled WASM running in browsers will fail if the array doesn't fit into the pre-allocated INITIAL_MEMORY size (even when ALLOW_MEMORY_GROWTH is enabled) - not sure about other WASM runtime environments though. Similar problems probably on embedded platforms without MMU.
This, to me, is a red herring.

The free market is designed for this. If the bulb lasts 5000 hours, but burns 1/2 as bright, consumers can easily decide what they prefer.

And further, the cartel did not have exceptions for product enhancements, or improvements, which might have enabled > 1000 hrs without any drawbacks.

Why are people defending this cartel? Market collusion is generally frowned upon.
New wi-fi takeover attack–all Windows users warned to update now
So? I've been in the exact same situation as you, as CTO of my startups.

Just because some things you wrote don't apply to early employees doesn't mean many things don't apply...which is what I said.
FlutterFlow – Visual app builder for Flutter
The Pikachu name is also partly derived from the pika, a small rabbit-like mammal native to Asia and North America.
If doctors are to play a role in this process shouldn’t it be in treating or helping that small group who has a problem?

You’re making the same argument that alcohol and tobacco prohibitionists do. I can also make the same argument to ban this website or tiktok or all social media or all of the internet.
Just because something was said in public to some interviewer doesn't mean they are thinking exactly the same internally.
I'm unimpressed by the researcher saying "I'm sure they'll all find new opportunities" without backing it up with any research.

Also if you build a brand, that's what triggers your replacement. At the point where your style is codified to the point where a human can recognize it, that's the point at which AI does the style the way you do and you are replaced