skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I tried to post an homage to reading text that had LF without CR but the input filter helpfully corrected it. You will just have to imagine text moving down like a set of stairs descending from left to right.

Kermit was the file transfer protocol of last resort for sorting out weird translation issues. It was slow but super effective.

HN is +10 proof against ascii art.
The world once had very little to no tourism and it worked just fine. It’s not essential to civilisation, and conceivably you could ban it with no major effects.

I’m not saying it’s a good idea to ban it. But tourism is anything but essential.

Sure the Spanish economy benefits from it right now but over reliance on it, as I explained above, can be a bad thing.
What is hilarious is that you obviously lack any knowledge or understanding of factors influencing elite athletic performance. They are competing at the absolute edge of capability and 1/100s of seconds or millimeters of position make a difference between winning and middle-of-the-pack performance. Both body and mind must be in absolute top tune.

It is NOT about "handling 26°C".

It is about the established fact that top athletes can improve their performance by optimizing their environment around the competition, which includes their sleeping conditions. Tour De France teams travel with their own motor homes and don't sleep in the assigned hotels, and when they were forced to do so (race sponsorship requirements, etc.), would bring in their own bedding. There are many other examples.

It is NOT about "Americans doing American things".
This is a Dupe but I'll repeat most of the rich world is doing this, it's the the poorer blacker countries that have the handicap.

They fly in 15,000 people (and 9000 for the Paralympics), watched by billions. What joke to then not do AC. This is of course 100% virtue signaling for the climate cult since the air-conditioners won't actually use any power if the temperature is correct using other methods.

Top athletes from rich countries literally use hyperbaric chambers in training and the Paris Olympics won't supply African countries many who are ex-colonies the ability to set a temperature.

“We don’t have deep pockets,” said Donald Rukare, who is president of the Uganda Olympic Committee. Rukare mentioned a sweltering international sports competition in Turkey a few years ago, where athletes stayed in rooms without air-conditioning. Some federations shipped in portable units; Uganda did not. “Because we didn’t have the money,” he said.

> The objective is to keep the rooms between 23-26 degrees

This is outside the optimal sleeping temperature FYI as a normal human being going to work. This really surprised me actually, but some say it should be as low as 18C.

Athletes will have added pressures, jet lag, and be sleeping odd hours to get to spec to perform for a few minutes for the millions of $ in training.
$5k isn’t going to get Google to stop lying. A class action settlement might.
This is a beautiful explanation, thanks so much!
Changing money to decimal seems like a mistake - it must’ve been money in the first place for a reason
A big part of sudo is that you should be running individual commands using sudo to increase auditability rather than simply running sudo bash or whatever.
Their list:

delves
crucial
potential
these
significant
important

They're not the first to make this observation. Others have picked up that LLM's like the word "delves".

LLMs are trained on texts which contain much marketing material.
So they tend to use some marketing words when generating pseudo-academic content.
No surprise there. I'm surprised it's not worse.

What happens if you use a prompt containing "Write in a style that maximizes marketing impact"?"

('You can't always use "Free", but you can always use "New"' - from a book on copywriting.)
Related discussion about impending settlement (75 points, 9 days ago, 27 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40676634
I've got a background in philosophy and I'm constantly asking myself these questions too. There seems to be a two way failure - first, the ML folks failing to engage with the extant literature, and second, academic philosophy's failure to produce anything remotely resembling concrete, practical, or really even relevant philosophical work. The former is pretty much par for the course (in academic philosophy you get used to being ignored early on), but it's the latter I find egregious. Especially given (as others here have pointed out) the almost universally lazy and magical thinking in the ML space.
For example, there's much hand-wringing about the benefits and perils of "AGI" with barely any attempt to establish that "AGI" is even a coherent concept. I'm skeptical that it is, but I'd be happy to entertain arguments to the contrary---if there were any!
"AI" has become a marketing term for increasingly sophisticated statistical methods for approximating functions. I think some sober discussion about whether such brute-force induction is the right sort of thing to warrant the term "AI" would be a welcome addition.
IIRC, Sony CRTs also love blowing up their flyback transformer boards.
This is so disappointing.
"delving"
> I doubt this is the case or it has any side effects on their performance.

"Show me the data!"
Depends several factors though.

My buddy, 59 deg N, has solar panels on his roof. During winter the sun is so low in the sky that a treeline quite away shadows most of the panels. He doesn't run microinverters so often zero output for an entire day.

During summer through he's often self-reliant, including charging his EV. If he had a power-wall type battery he'd be fully self-reliant most of the summer.
OP was storing 400TB of data. I think Google charges like $100 / 2 TB so that's $20,000 /yr. Wondering if that would go outside small claims since small claims is up to €5000
Every section has little (i) icons and all of them are useless.

For my site it shows under "Site Features" a "root authority". Okay that's new to me, let's see what that means. The full explanation is: "Checks which core features are present on a site." That's like answering "water" when someone asks "what's water?"

The use cases section of the info is similarly useless and additionally hyperbolic in most instances, such as: "DNSSEC information provides insight into an organization's level of cybersecurity maturity and potential vulnerabilities". If DNSSEC for one domain can tell me about the overall security maturity of an organisation as well as reveal potential vulnerabilities, please enlighten me because that'd be very useful for redteaming assignments

The thing detects January 1st 2008 as the page's content type, which makes no sense (checked with curl, that's indeed incorrect)

Server location is undefined at the top of the page (first impression; the section with the map) but later in the server info section it guesses a random city in the right country

It reports page energy consumption in KWg. Kelvin×Watt×grams, is this a typo for kWh? One kWh is about as much energy as 50 smartphone batteries can hold, as if a page (as measured by its size in bytes) would ever use that amount of energy. You can download many 4k movies on one smartphone charge (also when considering the power consumption of routers), surely that's not the unit being used to judge html weight?

The raw json results, where I was hoping fields might have clearer (technical) labels than the page, remains blank when trying to open it

Overall, I'm not sure what the intended use of this site is. It presents random pieces of information with misleading contextualisation and no technical explanation, some of which show incorrect values and many of which don't work (failing to load or showing error values like undefined). Maybe tackle it in sections, rethinking what the actual goal is here and, once you've identified one, writing that goal into the "use cases" section and implementing it, finally writing in the "what is this" section what it is the site is checking for, then repeat for the next useful piece of information you can come up with, etc.
Yes I mean we know this for a while. Facebook is like pumping drugs into kids.

Anyone who works there knows this and is OK with this.
If that thread is so definitive, perhaps you’ll be able to reproduce some choice arguments from it?
I can’t blame you. Sometimes we know our individual choice is suboptimal but the system in place gives us no option.

I would keep looking. If you feel like it’s an ethically compromised decision, perhaps you’ll have a hard time to live with it in the end.
Huh I thought go was supposed to make concurrency easier. That seems very tricky to get right
I wonder if salting the earth would be the ultimate form of malicious compliance.
Pre-Scheme can be run in a Scheme system, then when it is found to be correct there, compiled VERY straightforwardly to C. This is a huge win in terms of productivity. Plus, at the top level, at compile time, you have all of Scheme available.
Ah, makes sense. As you mentioned though, easy enough to fit some thermal heating foil on the backside unless you're using bifacials.
Might sound weird but does the look of the operator matter? Say × vs x vs • vs *, I would assume it doesn't but I'm curious if there's a visual change, for lack of a better term.
Are you familiar with working trees[1]? It may be a nice thing to utilize if you’re frequently jumping around on different branches.

[1] https://www.git-scm.com/docs/git-worktree
What does DPA stand for? Guessing it's not Drug Policy Alliance, the first hit on Google.
Right, so you are claiming you are entitled to the productivity of land worked by the labor of someone else, managed by someone else. What are you contributing to the process?
The x86 tax ALREADY matters. Intel was only able to increase the number of decoders by adding entirely independent decoder complexes while reducing the number of decoders per branch.

In practice, this means that decode increases for branchy code, but non-branchy code will be limited to just 3 decoders. In contrast, an ARM X4 or Apple M4 can decode 10 instructions under all conditions.

This also play into ideas like Larabee/Knights processors where you basically want the tiniest core possible attached to a massive SIMD engine. x86 decode eats up a lot of real estate. Even worse, x86 decode adds a bunch of extra stages which in turn increase the size of the branch predictor.

That's not the biggest issue though. Dealing with all of this and all the x86 footguns threaded throughout the pipeline slows down development. It takes more designers and more QAs more time to make and test everything. ARM can develop a similar CPU design for a fraction of the cost compared to AMD/Intel and in less time too because there's simply fewer edge cases they have to work with. This ultimately means the ARM chips can be sold for significantly less money or higher margins.
Gerbil is based on Gambit, right? Have you tried Gambit itself? I'm curious how they compare.
Absolutely. I just don’t think that it should be more than 10% or so of an economy.

Any time I’ve visited a place where tourism was a larger industry, it felt the place had became a parody, a Disneyland type version of what once was there.
> That's kind of the point though: being reasonably sure that a commit contains a tree that the committer had seen at some point, instead of making up history with commits that contain trees that the committer never saw at any point at all.

I don't see how this follows. Merge-heavy histories in my experience tend to be far less bisectable. They have all sorts of "oops, fixup" nonsense going on, precisely because the author did not take the time to get things right the first time.

Any workflow that happens on a number of patches greater than 1 accepts poor bisectability as a risk. But the only real solution there is Giant Monolithic Commits, which we all agree is even worse, right?
... or, they may not have.
Nit, it is spelled Mitanni when referring to the peoples. When spelled Mittani it refers to the former Eve Online space tyrant.
Huh, interesting! I somehow assumed that that fact would be obvious enough to implementers for there to be prior art. Do you have any more details?
As someone who has read tons of books, articles, etc, on the addictive qualities of Facebook and the personal harm it can do - and personally observed the effects it was having on me - I STILL only deleted the Facebook app from my phone a few weeks ago.

The dissonance between what we know is good for us and our actual behaviour in the face of addiction is truly incredible.
"A study from Australia and the United Kingdom by Lorraine Sheridan and David James[13] compared 128 self-defined victims of 'gang stalking' with a randomly selected group of 128 self-declared victims of stalking by an individual. All 128 'victims' of gang stalking were judged to be delusional, compared with only 5 victims of individual stalking."
I would imagine some rooms will be double-wide.

more seriously, it seems mobile homes nowadays come in 14, 16 and 18' widths and 66 to 80' lengths.

It seems shipping containers are 8' wide and usually 20, 40 and 45' long.

I suspect there are ways to make multiples of these dimensions.

I also wonder why you couldn't just take a truck and load it up with a stack of walls that are laid out with a crane.
I can agree with that, though admit to being guilty of using sudo bash far more often than I should.

I honestly thought they’d be using ssh that way (single command at a time), though I’m still not sure to what security end.
ST40 does not use HTS magnets. The magnets are made from copper and LN2 cooled. The company is demoing HTS magnets but has not used them in a working tokamak.
It does happen occasionally, but it's rare that my panels are covered for more than a day or so. Heavy snows almost always slide off within 36 hours - sometimes a light snow (~3" or so) can cover it for a while because it's not heavy enough to slide off from gravity. The panels are very low friction compared to a normal roof.
What you suggest and what I have are not mutually exclusive, friend :3
https://thetaoofwealth.wordpress.com/2013/02/17/harry-browne...

1. Your career provides your wealth
2. Don't assume you can replace your wealth
3. Recognize the difference between investing and speculating
4. No one can predict the future
5. No one can move you in and out of investments consistently with precise and profitable timing
6. No trading system will work as well in the future as it did in the past
7. Don't use leverage
8. Don't let anyone make your decisions
9. Don't ever do anything you don't understand
10. Don’t depend on any one investment, institution, or person for your safety
11. Create a bulletproof portfolio for protection
12. Speculate only with money you can afford to lose
13. Keep some assets outside the country in which you live
14. Beware of tax-avoidance schemes
15. Ask the right questions
16. Enjoy yourself with a budget for pleasure
17. Whenever you’re in doubt about a course of action, it is always better to err on the side of safety
Most people, and most politicians, don’t realize it yet. But by the 2030s solar will be the largest source of electricity in the world. By the 2040s it will be the largest source of energy in the world. It’s going to change the world in ways we don’t yet understand. And nothing can stop this change. The price of solar and batteries will be lower than every other alternative.
Thanks! N++ appears to only be available through Steam :-(
> he was the person behind electoral-vote.com

electoral-vote.com is still going strong: https://www.electoral-vote.com/

I'm sure you know this, but I want to emphasize it for anyone who is not aware.

Prof Tanenbaum has a co-writer now (Prof Bates, history at UCLA/Cal Poly), and the site is published every day (used to be weekdays only and only during election cycles).
I would argue that's nearly always the goal of the loudest voices in the "movement." It's just the latest authoritarian mask worn by those who would control every aspect of our lives.
It’s possible this is caused by the editors rather than the authors.

An old partner edited papers for a large publisher - largely written by non-native speakers and already heavily machine translated - and would almost always use ChatGPT for the first pass when extensive changes were needed.

She was paid by the word and also had a pretty intense daily minimum quota so it was practically required to get enough done to earn a liveable wage and avoid being replaced by another remote “contractor”.
> Node's way of handling modules isn't the same as the way the browser works

That's a Node problem. 100% foreseeable (and avoidable).*

There's a reason why I compared NodeJS to Internet Explorer in my first comment—because it's extremely apt. Too bad most NPM programmers have blinders such that their entire worldview consists of NPM+NodeJS (not unlike the way programmers who were used to exclusively targeting Microsoft tech 20 years ago lived in their own parochial world) and an expectation that everyone else should bend over backwards to accommodate their way of life.

If you as a programmer want not to be burned by IE-/NodeJS-like shenanigans, then don't run arms outstretched into those flames.

* And, no, it's not an anachronism to say that. There's a reason why the notion of "forward compatibility" exists—at least among the wise. For an example of how to approach things sensibly (read: avoid getting burned exactly like one should otherwise expect to), have a look at the position/approach to forward compatibility that the TypeScript team (initially a Microsoft undertaking, funnily enough) has taken. There's no reason anyone should expect to be able to throw caution to the wind, YOLO their way forward with their hands covering their ears while shouting "la-la-la" and for everything to turn out okay. That is profoundly unwise.

> an incredibly fucked way to run an ecosystem

Right. Which makes it doubly crazy the way that folks underneath the NodeJS carnival tent have taken to approaching things for the last 15 years—and the last 10 years in particular. (Again, to emphasize: 10 years!)

But of course I'm being facetious, because when you said "an ecosystem" you didn't narrowly mean "the NodeJS ecosystem". You meant "the JS ecosystem"—leaning heavily on the very same merger doctrine of the-NodeJS-ecosystem-is-the-JS-ecosystem-which-is-the-NodeJS-ecosystem that I mentioned NPMers believing in before.

> See: Python 3.

Sure, and Python is proprietary—with a BDFL, a community rallying for the most part behind a single implementation (where you get what you pay for if you go astray), and no strong commitment to standards/compatibility for most of its existence; the Python project can do whatever the Python project wants to do. Likewise Perl. Likewise, you know... Dart. That's how those things go.

JS is fundamentally different, and that's what you and countless other NPM programmers seem not to be getting. See also my earlier comment:

The difference is the language/standard in question neither originated with NodeJS nor is NodeJS now nor has it ever been led by the people behind the language/standard

<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40744081>

The node_modules ecosystem is, in fact, not the whole world, nor is it synonymous with "JS". (Heck, it's not even synonymous with CommonJS[1].) NPMers can ignore this fact at their peril, or they can wise up and accept that they can't simply will things to go the way they apparently think they should be able to make them go despite mountains of evidence and wisdom to the contrary.

1. <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31528800>
> grid-scale power storage (has never been done so ? on cost to build and upkeep)

This is out of date. Grid scale battery storage has recently become economic in lots of cases and is ramping up quickly.
ope! You could extract them to files and just use a regular templating library, there are plenty of options that are pretty high performance.
When i deploy a webapp on azure, it expects me to put env variables in a file or their own tool (key value fields) where you can add env variables one by one.

Is there a way to use envelope in places like those?
Massive improvements to battery technology.
Both things can be true. Back in the days when I respected their perspective, many US "small government" advocates advanced arguments about efficiency, and some of them made well-intentioned attempts to implement procedural and administrative reforms. No longer! Their agenda has long since devolved towards deliberate sabotage.

That said, I'm also suspicious of public employee unions. Unions, in general, are a necessary counterweight to capital - but that incentive structure doesn't exist within the public sector. The best argument one might advance is that a public-employee union can resist sabotage (as above) of their department's work, but that's poor governmental practice (I would, quite frankly, prefer that those impairing administrative function have the consequences of their actions quickly discovered), and not what usually seems to happen in the real world.
Calling Costco a grocery store is perhaps a bit of a stretch, but yeah the outcome seems fine to me.
Especially here in Australia, where we happen to (still) be the world's largest coal exporter.
The folks who hadn't invented good enough storage yet. If we didn't have that, we'd still need other sources for night and winter and bad weather.
Safer bet: 5000ms.
Out of curiosity, which was the recommended book?
I use this regularly. Mostly to answer one question. What was the name of that branch I was working on yesterday?

Or maybe you're suggesting it as a way to unravel a screwed up rebase. I don't know how to do that. But luckily I do know to abort, reset, and merge.
Larabee was launched as the first generation Knight-series chip (it even had the GPU-specific stuff still in there disabled IIRC).

I believe the Knight-series chips were killed because they ran into a bunch of issues and politics with Knight's Mill then killed it in favor of their upcoming GPU architecture only for that to have issues and be delayed too.

I suspect that a RISC-V version of Larabee would work better as the ratio of SIMD to the rest of the core would be a lot better.
I'm surprised people make such a big deal out of "delving", it doesn't seem rare. Maybe it was less common in the US than elsewhere?

(and do I have to deliberately avoid it now, to avoid sounding like AI?)
What's the legality of a script like this? Could this be construed as a violation of the CFAA if you were a motivated/evil enough lawyer?

I recall some surprising legal outcomes in recent years, for example jail for posting fake Yelp reviews. Anyone know of any case law for this sort of scripting?
Ruby: A great language for shell scripts
I propose the Olympic committee to be the one not using AC, as well as not traveling by airplane or car, until they offset the equivalent amount of CO2 production.

That’s a win-win! The athletes get to sleep well and we _also_ help the environment!

We all know how that proposal would fare.
The v8 gelatin salad?
I can't sleep if the temperature is a few degrees warmer than normal. Imagine training for 4+ years and then not sleeping before the biggest event of your life, because of poor planning. Consistency is key for these atheletes.

If emissions were a big enough issue for the hosts, then they shouldn't be flying tens of thousands of tourists & atheletes to come watch some sports. AC units are a drop in the bucket.
in this context, DPA usually means Data Processing Agreement.

I’m assuming GP meant DPO, for Data Protection Officer, the person responsible for enforcing GDPR (or similar laws) in a company.
i get it. i really do. social media is not for the faint of conformant heart.

but devil's advocate and all—is there really a "crisis" afoot? is it really not just the modern version of teen angst?
I truly, deeply, and honestly hope Facebook gets litigious over this

My settlement conditions are already prepared

And they are non-monetary and super simple