skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
India is probably the worst in the world when it comes to toilet hygiene. The whole country needs potty training.
Is this why "Auto" on YouTube never gives me the highest quality option?
Code Coverage for Rust Projects with GitHub Actions
Starlark is awesome. We studied the language quite a lot, Alan Donovan did awesome work on its golang runtime [1] and there are more implementations in rust [2] and others.

Since the language and the backend allow to write deterministic functions, we found it's really suited well for automations written as durable functions. We implemented exactly that [3] over Temporal [4], though we also support Python as well among other runtimes.

[1] https://github.com/google/starlark-go

[2] https://github.com/facebook/starlark-rust

[3] https://autokitteh.com, https://github.com/autokitteh/autokitteh

[4] https://temporal.io
It's not really a hard and fast rule, but certain classes of deviation from it will certainly sound off. I don't think it's commonly explicitly taught to native speakers (at least I've never heard of it being taught in schools here) but it is, as I understand it, commonly taught to people learning English as a second language. https://icaltefl.com/adjective-order/
Super cool project.

It makes me wonder what the smallest/barest SBC one could get away with for emulating the last 68k Macs or average mid-to-late 90s PPC Mac at full performance might be. Retrofitting a modernish laptop body of some sort with one of those so it would be capable of running System 7.6.1 up through Mac OS 9.x could make for a surprisingly useful "zen mode" laptop.
You can get any amount of examples and explanations of this idea in any buddhist texts
Keep in mind that modern Emacs also has tabs out of the box, but really they're what other software calls 'workspaces'.
Waste of money. Within 5 years the most effective battle aviation will be unmanned and partially AI powered (for when EW takes out the signal). It is plainly obvious that from here on out our investment should go mostly into unmanned systems
Does numpy use GPU?
The parties barely have control over who gets nominated, no one in the Republican Party thought Trump was a good idea in 2016 at the start of the primaries. It only matters who gets votes, and the Republican side skews old enough that a millennial would have problems.
I love the various top-down binary search tree partition/split/join algorithms.

https://github.com/rtheunissen/bst/blob/main/trees%2Fbalance...
I used a friend's when I went to see the eclipse in Texas. Didn't time how long it took to activate service on their end because it takes a few minutes for starlink to connect/boot up in the first place and when you're out camping there's other things going on. Less than 30 mins so all I can say. Also, it was $150 for the month.
Does over a century of empirical evidence not prove that people are more comfortable with keyboards whose top row is laid out "QWERTYUIOP"?
Something I didn't appreciate before working in a very large tech company was just how much of a difference a good configuration language makes. In my previous company, configuration was a mix of YAML, JSON, and hardcoded values in Python. While this worked fine, deficiencies in YAML/JSON meant that we often had additional tooling around those files to generate more config.

At Google, languages like Starlark are used to build entire software stacks that run at configuration-time. Configuration with a base language, libraries, domain-specific languages, team-specific utilities, conventions, linters, and the whole thing gets built into a package that can be run by some much more general server.

That level of complexity is unnecessary in many places, but the one thing I would take on elsewhere is to pick a good, capable, config language early, and then use it for as much config as possible. Starlark is a good option if you like Python-ish stuff, Jsonnet is also pretty nice.
I hope your art installation didnt involve CRT monitors?
> And yet we see countless secular scientists clinging to that perspective when even a cursory glance at the evidence and a basic application of Occam's razor would suggest the opposite.

That's not a reason to distrust scientists, or science in general (although it does display that a fraction of "scientists" had very poor observation skills).

It IS a reason to look for religious dogma, oust it whenever possible, and dismantle it systematically until it no longer exists.
Apps not files. It was a big push back in the 10's most embodied by mobile phone OS's. Instead of designing tools that dumped output to a common site, it all became about passing things around via things like intents.
Thank you for the quick reply.
Would be better if round.
I wonder if the ability diminishes in adults, or if adults are more inhibited and worried about looking foolish. Try the same experiment with adults after drinking alcohol!
well, yes.
https://www.rangevoting.org/ArrowThm

but technically it only applies to social welfare functions, not voting methods.

i had a chance to visit kenneth arrow at his home in palo alto circa 2015 and we had a nice little chat about this.
To measure intelligence, give someone a system (or a description of a system) from the natural world. Ask them to predict what happens next. The correctness, thoroughness, and speed of their answer should be graded.

DUH
> Arrow's theorem also doesn't apply when you allow bargaining, or people compensating each other.

that doesn't make sense. the result you get after bargaining would just _be_ one of the options.
having call/cc would make my life better
The dataset about long COVID cases posted by the American government seems to suggest the opposite: the percentage of people suffering from long COVID at any given moment is mostly stable.

https://catalog.data.gov/dataset/post-covid-conditions-89bb3
Awesome way to give kids their first computer and it can only do what it can do.
> Broadcom sold the chips to the Raspberry Pi organization at a significant loss, not at a low markup or at cost. They were not free, but they were close to free. The TI guys never even gave anything close to "at cost" to the BeagleBoard folks.

Everything in that paragraph is “citation needed,” unfortunately, but I certainly don’t mean that in a negative way. I wasn’t aware that Broadcom lost money on the early Pi parts and I feel a little skepticism about that. You seem to know something about what TI charged the Beaglebone people, I’m curious about that as well.

It’s not that dumping parts to establish a competitive advantage is beneath Broadcom - what’s beneath Broadcom? It just seems rather… prescient of them? Unless you were talking about the Pi 3 generation or something. I’d be more inclined to believe that.

On the point of PR, I don’t remember Beagleboard having anything comparable to Pi’s seemingly organic enthusiasm twelve or thirteen years ago. But I guess I’m not sure I would remember.

That’s not all meant to be some kind of RPi love letter. They were great at all that community building stuff, and in my view the best at it, but in light of the IPO it’s quite a joke.
I hope it did
The Blood of Exceptionally Long-Lived People Reveals Crucial Differences
> didn't require an inordinate amount of futzing … scared away nontechnical users

You write that as if past tense.
No, because there are no good tools for this format. It's a classic "worse is better" problem - a programming language cannot succeed unless its source code format is unix text files.
Yep, on my boat, I converted the original square dish to run off my 12v lithium batteries.

I have plenty of solar and batteries to run starlink 24/7.

Even if you don’t have a lot of amp hours, starlink allows you to set a sleep schedule where it would use way less power.

But ditching the starlink router and converting to run off 12v isn’t that hard
We used Starlark for all of its properties and built a tool[0] that allows you to spin up containers in an imperative programming way on Docker and Kubernetes through Starlark!

It can be pretty cool as you can pass in arguments and get a different set of services based on what you pass in. I like to think of it is an "exe" for a distributed system.

[0]https://github.com/kurtosis-tech/kurtosis
And it'll get worse in the near term. The minipcs are making rapid progress
It shows the ebook by itself as more expensive than the paperback, which is a first for me.
AI Agents: too early, too expensive, too unreliable
> Arrow's theorem also doesn't guarantee that you will have problems. It just says that for some votings systems you can construct voting populations with preference that can't be captured well.

no, it has nothing to do with capturing preferences. it simply says that no ordinal social welfare function can simultaneously satisfy these criteria:

There is no dictator.
If every voter prefers A to B then so does the group.
The relative positions of A and B in the group ranking depend on their relative positions in the individual rankings, but do not depend on the individual rankings of any irrelevant alternative C.
it depends on how you're defining "safe" and it's hard to get comparisons in 2024 since SUVs have almost completely wiped out station wagons in a product in the US.

Generally speaking though, there are a couple ways in which SUVs are less safe in certain conditions:

* SUVs sit higher and have a taller center of gravity than station wagons and are more susceptible to rollovers: https://www.avrek.com/blog/how-does-a-rollover-happen-and-wh...

* SUVs are more dangerous to other road users because of how tall they are. If you are a pedestrian, cyclist, or sitting in a lower car, then the main part of an SUV is aimed higher at your torso or head. This also creates a self-fulfilling cycle where the only way to be safe against an SUV is to be in an SUV yourself.

Road fatality rates have stalled in the US while in other countries they are decreasing, and a big portion of that is that pedestrian fatalities have increased by 68% since 2011. https://smartgrowthamerica.org/pedestrian-fatalities-at-hist...

SUVs represent a oversized proportion of the vehicles striking and killing pedestrians. https://www.codot.gov/safety/shift-into-safe-news/2022/augus...
A Vision for Roadway Infrastructure
Lot of people keep/store old cables. I personally have several hundred cables of various types collected over the years put away in couple of plastic crates. Sometimes I find them at work that are just sitting in boxes waiting to be thrown away or just extra cables that come with monitors or other devices. They come in handy for projects or when I’m tinkering with old hardware.
> Even first-past-the-post seems to be doing a reasonable job of that.

utterly false.
https://www.rangevoting.org/PConsumer.html
I’m not sure if is really is the font, but I suspect the font in Quake started as some conventional font and then was modified to fit the aesthetic of the game. Specifically, to make it look more threatening, because the 90’s ruled and even the fonts were edgy. The O is, I think, looming, and the T is a dagger.
> The question is about "intelligence" and your argument is regarding memory and access to information.

I think my answer concerns intelligence. Intelligence is the ability to solve problems.
Related, a long time ago:

Are You An Expert? (2009)

https://blog.codinghorror.com/are-you-an-expert/
Yes! That's exactly how I meant. And it doesn't matter too much if the taxes are high or low, what's important is that they are collected on every activity. I think the prime example is sales taxes in the different states in the US. They are so low (0%-7%) as to be marginal, and collecting them surely costs the consumer economy much more than the gains the state governments have from them.

The rational policy would be to abolish sales taxes and transfer that tax burden by increasing other taxes – but the purpose of the sales tax is primarily to make sure business is always conducted in the government currency, and thereby giving the US Dollar a value. Try to use a foreign currency, bullion, or whatnot to purchase consumer goods in any big box store and you'll be shown the door. The same in most of Europe. Then try to use your foreign dollars or euros to buy consumer goods in the third world, and your money will be more than welcome.
Hi, I’m the author of this: https://github.com/meoker/pagger
How do you figure? As I read the actuarial tables, I do not see any way of interpreting the data that makes your statement true.
Roger Linn is such a down to earth, genuine guy. I was one of the first to buy a linnstrument and he has also been so nice every time I've interacted with him.
This survey suffers from the nothing at stake problem of assessing severity. You can't just ask it in a vacuum because it doesn't actually reveal any preference. I would bet my hat that if you asked teachers to rank the problems in their field cellphones would be consistently near the bottom. And "I would rather you fix these 18 things first" is not what anyone would call major.

Forty years ago I bet you could get "passing notes distraction" is a major problem. There was a whole generation that could text one handed in their pockets and they turned out fine. They're adults with real jobs now.

re: but smartphones are different, in this essay...
A friend of mine made a fun (upcoming) cooperative party game based on this:

- BGG: https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/408945/boubakiki

- Kickstarter (Funded): https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/grandgamersguild/bouba-...

The cards in the game have nonsense words and illustrations. Players work through various scenarios where they try to agree about which nonsense words should go with which illustrations.
Even if this scale is massive and second-to-none, it’s funny how some issues are the same for all of us. In particular “Bad hosts are very bad” aka “a chain is only as strong as its weakest link” can happen with as little as a few (4) machines, and then ruin your day.
The Engineering Manager Role
Oh of course, if you want to run it on a Pi go for it, makes no difference to me. I just had a feeling there was a way to do it without Linux.

I'm generally a fan of make it small, and Linux is kind of the opposite of that. Everyone is entitled to their own opinions on the topic as always!
Come on man, you need to lead with a bit more of a README than that.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Vowel_Shift
What would be better to take on a work vacation? The original or the mini?
This is simply not correct like this. The Green faction and the SPD had decided on the shutdown in 2002 when the "progressive" parties had the majority and conservatives where in the minorty. https://www.bundestag.de/webarchiv/textarchiv/2012/38640342_... More then 20 years ago the conservatives could already see that this would end in disaster and they resisted the change. Then fukushima happend and the media and public pressure was too big and the conservatives stopped resisting in 2011. The "progressive" shutdown was planned by the SPD and the Green faction and they pushed it through in 2002. The conservative did neither plan not decide the shutdown.
I was on a savings goal to get a deposit to buy a house to be able to raise my family. I worked hard for the past few years. Then the house prices went out of reach, I got hit with a massive tax bill, school and daycare fees skyrocketing, power prices going higher, rent increasing 10%-15% until now there's barely anything left. I've given up. I don't work with any motivation now I just do the bare minimum. What's the point in working hard when government and landlords take all your money?
Over the last 30 years, South Africa's generation capacity has crumbled from 37GW to 28GW. So yes, sure, electrifying anything there is not going to work. But I'd say that's a completely different category of problems.
Pi 5 is also no match against your old iPhone you no longer use, and you would get approx the same credit value towards a new phone (as the cost of a new Pi).
> same elemenopy

Why? The song actually works with French names of letters!

a b c d e f g /
h i j k l m n /
o p q r s t u /
v www x y-y z

with doublé-vey sung with a swing rhythm (♪. 𝅘𝅥𝅯 ♩)
Frankly, it sounds like you know what is needed but don't like it. If you could blast through coding and system design rounds, would you have already found a next role? It seems clear that you think so, and I personally agree.

You can think whatever you want of leetcode, and algorithm interviews, but that's the front door into tech jobs. If you don't have a back door available to you I think you probably have to bite the bullet and deal with them.
Surely the question is when not if?
> Literally, it does. It's consumption-based energy usage. It's trade adjusted

thank you for the correction; i had misunderstood what the trade adjustment was

> The trend line is at best a flat line

i think that is an excellent description of it, as well as of the expanded and less debatable chart you link here, at least over the last 50 years, since the energy crisis began. before that we were seeing a much different trend

i agree about wealth being the primary driver of energy use. but that's precisely the story jevons tells: you improve your steam engine to use less coal, so now you can build a railroad, which is a form of wealth. previously a tonne of coal cost £100, say, and produced 30 megajoules of work, which had a value of £200 in pumping out a mine or £50 hauling goods on the railroad. with your new engine you improve efficiency to 0.3,% and get 100 megajoules, so pumping out the mine now costs £30 per £200 produced, but now the railroad is viable because it produces £50 - £30 = £20 net. the railroad consumes much more coal than the mine did, so you're using more energy more efficiently at the level of the machine, raising your gdp, but producing less value per tonne of coal

well, i got the numbers a bit wrong, but hopefully you can see what i mean
This is how i feel about medical school texts. Full of names, which the common folk confuse with "knowledge".
> PostgreSQL can be protected against the OOM Killer in a more aggressive way with regard to Linux

Is it? What's "more aggressive" comparing to setting needed OOMScoreAdjust= in unit file, like "OOMScoreAdjust=-1000"

> Therefore, in order to protect the postmaster or any other PostgreSQL process, you need to manually use protect(1) as already shown. I am not sure if this is going to change in the future to allow the rc.d script to honor the oomprotect variable.

When/if FreeBSD one day will get good service manager, like systemd, I guess.
The feeling is mutual, apparently.
Ayo Edebiri has it easier I'm guessing; her last name sounds less ethnically ambiguous I'd say.
For fun, I made an executable hello world with SBCL and it came out weighing 40MB (no compression, of course); this also includes Unicode data and a complete compiler. Something's wrong here.
That happened later, well after January and February had been added. I think the twelve month Roman calendar was from pre-history so we don't know when or why it was done. July and August were Quintilis and Sextilis, five and six.
Never had any problem with screen. Have lost a couple of sessions in tmux
What about European Portuguese and Russian? For some reason they have some very similar sounds, to my ear.
"Grand scheme of things" for an otherwise healthy person?

or...for someone like described in the story, about to have their gut wiped?
the go implementation, at least, allows you to enable while loops among others, which makes it turing complete and not guaranteed to complete. obviously you should never turn this on for configuration, but it is useful for general scripting usage.
During exams? Don't worry about it. Your fingers are a pretty effective L3 cache.

What's more embarrassing: counting on your fingers, or doing worse than you could've because you were worried about what other people think?
https://crates.io/crates/ctor

Patches welcome!

Email in profile as well.
Thanks for the information! This is really helpful, glad to know these resources for improving it.
it feels like the first major release in 18 years which introduces lots of breaking changes should just be a fork rather than a version.

let me do `pip install numpy2` and not have to worry about whether or not some other library in my project requires numpy<2.
I'm a native Greek speaker and to my ears all European languages' vowels are weird with the exception of Spanish, which is completely normal. All those airy sounds: caaat dooog, haaaaouse, taaaaime, etc like a little fish trying to eat a much bigger fish. Let me not start with French, or Italian. Conversely, when I hear myself or another Greek speaker speak English it's like there's a little guillotine in the back of the neck that snaps shut just when a vowel is starting to form: c't, d'g, ta'm, etc.
> producer captures the whole consumer surplus only happens in the absence of competition

Collusion is the norm. Especially with electricity suppliers where they jack up the rates because most people won't be bothered to check for better deals and switch.

> jevons says people will compensate for more efficient tvs by buying more and bigger tvs

Doesn't matter if the efficiency gains outcompete the consumption increase (which is my whole point):

> As shown in the graph below, between 2006 and 2012 the average energy consumption of televisions dropped by 57%, while at the same time average screen size increased by 30% and average price decreased by almost two-thirds.

https://appliance-standards.org/blog/why-recent-progress-tel...

> for more efficient hvac by building bigger houses, living in hotter areas, and installing air conditioning in more spaces. this has been a major trend of the last 25 years you're talking about, in fact

McMansions became a thing leading up to the 2008 financial crisis, and was a feature of cheap finance, not energy cost. Most people want a house that's affordable, close to amenities and doesn't take an army of servants to clean – so a house in the suburbs and within distance of the city. The factors here are land price and construction costs.

> but the amount of energy spent on computers keeps going up and up

Might be true, but it would be nice to see some data to back that claim.
No, the other 28% were paying attention and teaching instead of fucking around with a survey on their phone.
Maybe it turns into spam.
Why couldn't they fix this with a phone call? So much suckage.

Mental note 1: Verify whether I can file a claim over the phone before I give a travel insurance company my money.

Mental note 2: Don't travel without being able to VPN through a U.S. endpoint. Preferably something sitting in my house.
This was an absolutely incredible article with citations to everything. I don't want to think of the time it took to write it, but it answered practically every question that has been vexing me about the Voyagers for the last 30+ years. Thank you :)
No.

You may want to check out cupy

https://cupy.dev/
Um obviously the mini? The original is huge, comes with a big router box too.