skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In most cases brute forcing a solution, O(N^2) vs O (N log N) is perfectly fine. Simply, because you dont know if this particular feature is going to survive, and if it doesn't there is really no point in premature optimisation.

And yes, I can practice for leet code interviews, but so can unskilled candidates. Beyond that have my current job, and my own life to deal with. So if I can apply for a job that doesn't require this type of interview, I will apply for those instead.

Leet code interviews also completely misunderstand the role of a software engineer. My job is to translate fuzzy business requirements into code, prioritising the must haves over the nice to haves. This allows me to deliver a solution on time and budget. If the product is a success, I can then prioritise refactoring some of the performance bottlenecks. It is almost never about writing optimally performant code.

Finally, with LLM, once the code has been defined, it is super easy to ask such tools to refactor the code to be more optimal. The hard part is actually writing something that meet the needs of the business.
Facebook makes shadow profiles of you anyway
Dogs could have told us this thousands of years ago.
double double-'L' opportunity: colloquiallisions.
If the vast majority of the robotaxies are owned by normal households that have 1 or 2 of them, then that's the people owning the means of automated production. Ideally it would be the people that already own taxis getting them upgraded, but it's a lot better than corporate fleets for putting the revenue into the pockets of people.
> An AI that is able to replace humans at every currently existing economic activity

Except this isn't close to reality.
How cheap Waymos have to get to actually make a dent on the amount of people who drive or use public transport on a daily basis? It’s definitely an upgrade over hailing an Uber though, hope it ramps up and we eventually see it up here in Canada as well.
It's funny how poorly people understand the huge amount of energy it takes to move a car.
Separately, Firefox has a feature to isolate Facebook activity from other things you do on the web.
That's the closest you get today but it means having to make, merge and delete branches all the time. What i propose is something like git squash but that keeps the history internally. It would present as one commit in gitk and other GUIs but could be expanded to see more detail.
However much was specified in the contract.

If you used a service you pay month-to-month, you explicitly agreed that, just like you can cancel w/ a month's notice, the counterparty can change terms with the same 30d notice.
I have to use ubuntu, and it is getting creepy too.

just off the top of my head:

- whoopsie - uploads crashes to canonical

- motd - telemetry and nags

- forced automatic updates

- snaps and other features lots of people don't want, but can't be disabled

- removing the ubuntu-advantage package disables most of the OS

etc..
Literally a useless word on its own now that the definition evolved this way... many such cases unfortunately.
I thought the second definition came about from continual misunderstanding of the word, like how literally no longer means literally.
This seems like a major point of confusion on the subject.

I agree with your interpretation, but there are those charts which show varying degrees of clarity of mental images (using an apple), I don't understand how to square that with just invoking the sense instead of actually seeing it.
Even more reason to dislike Genshin Impact.
There are two aspects in the difference between NeRF and Gaussian Splatting :

- The first aspect concern how they solve the light rendering equation :

NeRF has more potential for rendering physical quality but is slower.

NeRF use raycasting. Gaussian Splatting project and draw gaussians directly in screen space.

Each have various rendering artefacts. One distinction is in handling light reflections. When you use raycasting, you can bounce your ray on mirror surfaces. Where as gaussian splatting, like alice in wonderland creates a symmetric world on the other side of the mirror (and when the mirror surface is curved, it's hopeless).

Although many NeRF don't implement reflections as a simplification, they can handle them almost natively.

Alternatively, NeRF is a volumetric representation, whereas Gaussian Splatting has surfaces baked in : Gaussian Splats are rendered in order front to back. This mean that when you have two thin objects one behind the other, like the two sides of a book, Gaussian splatting will be able to render the front and hide the back whereas NeRF will merge front and back because volumetric element are transparent. (Though in NeRF with spherical harmonics the Radiance Field direction will allow to cull back from front based on the viewing angle).

- The second aspect of NeRF vs Gaussian Splatting, is the choice of representation :

NeRF usually use a neural network to store the scene in a compressed form. Whereas Gaussian Splatting is more explicit and uncompressed, the scene is represented in a sort of "point cloud" fashion. This mean that if your scene has potential for compression, like repetitive textures or objects, then the NeRF will make use of it and hallucinate what's missing. Whereas gaussian splat will show holes.

Of course like this article is about, you can hybridize them.
humor is lacking on HN.
Yes color me unsurprised. I've said it before - the real market that is being decimated is the gig economy. The quality of generative AI may not be top-notch, but it presents an easy drop-in replacement for one-off tasks that people previously outsourced to platforms like Fiverr (voiceovers, logo design, clip art, copy editing, translation, etc).
I would need to check if it’s the DE or which, but I’ve played a good bit of AoE2 on Linux through proton about two years ago without any issues. It was whatever version was recommended by the AoE2 YouTubers, not sure if that was DE.

The only problems I’ve had are that the intro video and menu for supreme commander forged alliance runs at very low frame rate (but the actual game runs without problems), and that Gothic 3 was very glitchy on steam deck. Everything else I’ve tried ran without issue.
Tangentenly related, I thought my Google personal storage for photos and emails was unlimited for free but I've been getting nagging stuff about their 15gb limit now and shutting off my Gmail. Frustrating and feels like I'm being forced into it where the other option is to set up and manage my own photo back ups and hard drives...
A reasonable amount which they did. There was nothing bad faith about this. Google did offer unlimited space, people abused the crap out of it, they changed it. This is literally just childish behavior.

Unlimited offers have always implicit limits which every adult understands. When you go to the all you can eat buffet there's a common sense understanding that you can't literally fill your pockets with a thousand bucks worth of food.
How I should read the metor lines? What end of the line is impact point? It is really an impact point or last point where the light was observered. How I can search for a metheor using this map?
We weren't talking about reality we were talking about a hypothetical future after this slope has been slipped

If it comes to pass it sounds very grim

And it does seem like the direction we are heading in, with less and less likelihood of slowing or reversing course
Even purely instinct based animals, like chimps amd lions, engage in war between groups. A human child is still a primate, and no ammount of cultural bs will make your assumption of purity at birth a reality. Life is, in all it's forms, a war between organisms to see who can get more resources. Life is war, unfortunately.
I'm holding up 8 fingers right now to avoid the wrath of the Van Buren Boys
In order to replace the world's current energy mix with nuclear, we'd have to switch on a new nuclear plant every day for the next several decades. All of that new infrastructure would also require massive amounts of fossil fuels to build (which you've magically made illegal) and would only last a few decades before having to be replaced (presumably without requiring any fossil fuels by then).

There isn't even enough copper on earth to electrify everything.

Your scenario isn't a miracle; it's a pipe-dream.
How fast do you read? I can visualize just about anything I've ever seen. I can dream of new visual experiences I've never had. I can even rotate shapes in my head. But I dislike words and I read very slowly (only for English though, with programming I'm a speed reader of code). If you're the opposite of me, then I bet you're able to absorb intelligent high-quality information independent of experience very very quickly. I've heard that people like you make great scholars for that reason.
This was 250 - 400 years before the earliest Sanskrit inscription (found in Northern Syria linked to the Mittani).

So this would predate that by quite a bit.
You can rebase, but you're still:

- Creating a false history that will be harder for you to understand in the future

- Creating a history that tools will have a harder time dealing with in the future

- Doing so for no actual benefit (in 99% of cases)
Show HN: Python lib to run evals across providers: OpenAI, Anthropic, etc.
Library makes requests asynchronously across models, so you can spend a lot of $$ quickly if you want XD. But seriously I hope this enables folks to create and run evals (especially safety ones) a lot easier than before.
This is something that should be under the purview of an agency like the FTC. If you are affected by this you could file a complaint with them.
I'm not OP; I received ~100 thousand requests being on the front page once.
It was an AI app and I quickly got rate limited to GCP Vertex AI lol.
I really do miss my RCA mm36100. 190 pounds. 2 VGA inputs. It could do 800x600 progressive scan. The Dreamcast with a VGA adapter really did look incredible on it!

https://lowendmac.com/2019/rca-mm36100-amazing-under-the-rad...

https://archive.org/details/manualsbase-id-145505
It’s so weird. The Super NT is as accurate as anything and has an HDMI out. I love CRTs and Trinitrons but I’d never want to game on one (again).
Someone should honestly script this. Assuming this is not already that
After Interpol's surveillance determined that someone was illegally making firearms, what would happen next? Presumably some sort of enforcement to stop them? How would that enforcement be conducted?
> abused

used

> Unlimited offers have always implicit limits which every adult understands.

No, you're defending straightforward lying. Why should people have to figure out there's an "implicit limit" when they see the word "unlimited" with no asterisk/qualifier?

Companies have the option to not lie about this. There is no need for them to use the word unlimited. If it's truly impossible them to offer anything as truly unlimited, then OK, in that case the word "unlimited" should not appear on anyone's advertising (at least not without an asterisk). What's the problem with that?
Of course I would. It's Google! They can do it! And obviously they did.

How else do we explain people with petabytes of data on Google's drives when the term "unlimited" meant "30GB"?
Wow, this paper is ... mystifyingly awful. It reads like some crank's blog, but it's actually written by two harvard lawyers, including a pretty famous one [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cass_Sunstein
The rich have to spend their money somewhere...
Not to mention that they can make back $65M in just a few weeks from one of their two mobile games and they are about to launch a new one. This is basically pennies to them.
Do you get the feeling that something major and/or unfixable has happened?

I predict that the Starliner will be cast off abandoned to burn up on descent.

Meanwhile the astronauts will have to wait for a lift home on some other spacecraft.
Nuclear really isn't anywhere close to 'on demand' at least if you consider unit economics. It really wants to be just 'on' instead.
IMO it is close. ~40% of the world’s electricity is from low carbon sources like solar, and that number is already increasing by over 1.5% per year and accelerating.

People get concerned about 100% carbon free, but really once you hit 90+% the specific year you hit zero becomes less relevant. Spending 1 more year at 50% is worse than 5 years under 10% or 50 years under 1%.

If anything it’s EV’s we should be worried about not electricity. Cars last a long time so every ICE sold today is ~26 years of pollution locked in.
There was an excellent Netflix documentary several years ago about this: The Social Dilemma

I highly recommend it!
Feedback are always helpful, thank you.
lambda blocking on calling other lambdas is a bit of an antipattern.

If it can be avoided and use something like sqs to call the other lambda, die and then resume on a notification from the other lambda.

That can tricky, but if costs are getting bad it’s the way.
Skyrim runs fine on my steam deck.
Is this true? What are the costs per km for HVDC?

Perhaps you're just talking about the Eurasian continent? What do the people of Western Europe do? Connect to the US?

Even then, we've seen with the recent Russia-Ukraine war that control of energy is a useful geopolitical tool with Europe being softer on Russia because of their reliance on their gas.
I'll need to see a whole 12 months of output before I can be sure. I suspect winter production will be well down, especially on heavy snow weeks (we get a lot here).

Roughly, it looks like it will make about $1000 worth of power per year, and the price of power here is already locked in to go up between 5% and 12% per year, basically forever.

I'm right on $8k out of pocket, which is on a 10 year interest free loan. So if I just put the savings from my old electricity bill into the loan, in 10 years it will be gone, and I'll just free power for 20 or so years after that.

One day I'll build a garage, cover that in solar too, then get an EV so I don't have to ever buy gas again.
It's metaphysical. Like learning a foreign language widen your perspective. It's a particular insight you gain about the act of programming that makes you realize that you've been boxing yourself to a very small imperative/oop space.

Writing C code feels like writing a rule book, writing java feels like designing a lego set, writing lisp feels like writing proof, writing prolog feels like writing puzzles. Writing forth feels like writing a dictionary, then after that you write a few sentences. They're different feeling, but forth is one of the most flexible as you can go up and down from the most basic units to the high level ones. As another comment has mentioned, you can program forth where the basic units are elements from another language, and construct a dsl/dictionary out of it. Then switch the basic units while retaining your business logic for a faster implementation without a full rewrite.
Then facebook gets to track my shadow self.
Alert: if you were happy to learn about aphantasia, you might also be happy to learn about SDAM (severely deficient autobiographical memory), which I think is correlated with aphantasia.

SDAM is when you know facts about your life, but can’t walk through any or almost any episodes.

Apparently normal people can actually re-live episodes from their past, step by step or.. idk. Somehow. And I don’t know what I had for breakfast today ಠ_ಠ
I've done an internal website using lambdas. It works fine, I just use jinja2 templates and load html files that are part of the deployed file system.

Any other logic is just normal SPA stuff.

If you set the min concurrency to 1 it's pretty snappy as well.
A sane architecture would be running your application on something that has at least the resources of a phone (e.g. 8+ GB RAM), in which case it should just buffer 100k connections without issue if that's what you need/want it to do. A sane application framework has connection pooling to the database built in, so the 100k requests would share ~16-32 connections and your developers never have to think about such things.
Really don't.

If that crate becomes successful, it will basically greenlight a lot of functionality that was just there because it happened to be made by the same author. And all that extra functionality will only reduce the chances of the really useful function to get into the spotlight. Both are bad for the ecosystem.

If the GP has related useful little functions, yes, pack them together. Otherwise, I'd say a crate for a small little function isn't a problem at all.
The oil companies all rebranded themselves as energy companies over a decade ago, my presumption is it was a convenient part of a long term promotional plan to mix up the definitions to get the environmental movement to fight itself. Same as how the idea of a "carbon footprint" was sponsored out into the world by the same people.

The trick to good propaganda is to create something that makes you say "well I know it's propaganda, but this doesn't seem so wrong..."
In order for a bus to actually be an efficient mass transit option, it has to be used.

Buses on regular roads create a "shadow" that affects other vehicles behind it and reduces 2 lanes in one direction to an efficiency of much less than 2 lanes, due to stops and starts. And except for peak usage times outside of a few major US cities, I would argue it is a net congestion creator rather than congestion reducer. A bus has the same effect as 10 or 15 cars, from my observation; so if there are less than 15 people on a bus, it's worse.

Part of the reason that buses have wraps or tinted windows is so you can't see how few people are riding on it.

At least the Waymo is not moving and not on the road when not in use.
The book I have at hand is called "成语故事 Geschichten von chinesischen Sprichwörtern". It's parallel German and Chinese.
ISBN 978-7-119-06018-7
Published by CBT China Book Trading GmbH www.cbt-chinabook.de
The space race has shown that America hates losing more than it hates science. We're kind of early but e.g. the race back to the Moon is on. If there's a credible threat of losing a race to fusion power I'm pretty sure US politicians would be able to sell that threat to the public in a single afternoon.
> No value I could not do without

You're quibbling. If you aren't doing without it, then it has value.

> Art is a luxury, it's not strictly necessary for living.

Neither is the conversation we're having now, nor the medium in which we are having it. Yet I don't think anyone would say the Internet, or even this website, has no value.

The vast majority of the wealth currently on this planet is "not strictly necessary for living". But "living" is more than just bare subsistence. People value quality of life, and art is a major contribution to many people's quality of life. That's why people are willing to pay significant amounts of money for it.
Weirdly, as much as I hate internet ads in general, I actually find the FB ones better. I've even bought some stuff from a few and been happy.
So, your battery is good for 9 hours of compute time. What happens if you have a couple of cloudy days in a row? And what's the insolation during the winter (in many places, it's 1/10th of the amount of summer sunlight)
1) even if it was, over producing electricity isn't really the problem

2) it isn't. Modern reactors are designed to do load following. The French do that nationwide on a daily basis.
I wonder if hn (or wherever else this was posted) is big enough to register on the ads-vs-adblocker war.

Ads are 509 pixels wide coming in 3 ... 2 ... 1 ...
Definitely confusing for me. I just went to two winter solstice parties.
I heard that sites like Facebook run A/B tests all the time, and the version you get served at a given time may not be the same others see. I also suppose the version you see may be slightly different on different territories somehow.

Also, these scripts break often as they depend on observable behaviors that are not contracts. It's Hyrum's law again.
The article estimates that the vehicles cost $200k based on Cruise's reported numbers in 2023 for vehicles produced in previous years.

Reporting often misses just how quickly vehicle costs have dropped. When I started in the industry, vehicle costs often exceeded $500k. Almost everyone I'm aware of today is targeting sub-$100k.
Err, what?

If I'm trying to fix the PR, the distinction is often a critical starting point for finding the root problem.
The issue with both is what happens when someone screws up the cleaning and sterilization (or flat out skips it).

New material has never been exposed to anything dangerous, so dangerous contamination never needs to be removed.

It’s a big reason why plastic is so rarely recycled anywhere that it touches food or goes into someone’s body.
> get stuffed into lockers

great way to make bug-controlling supervillains, wouldn't recommend it
In a cloud environment, I turn a few knobs and I can command an absurd amount of compute power, have it autoconfigured with all kinds of service discovery and whatnot. Things that would have taken weeks to months to build in a physical datacenter. Some people take that spare time to train as architecture astronauts I guess, and overcomplicate everything with all kinds of fiddly layers and microservices. I get it, it's fun to play with new toys. Doesn't mean the toys are bad, they're just not necessarily ready for production on day 1.
> Or collective bargaining.

The problem with collective bargaining is that it either involves unmanageable transaction costs, or an unmanageable principal-agent problem. Either every single creator has to be directly involved in the bargaining, which can't realistically be done, or the creators have to empower some small subset of them as bargaining agents, which means the rest of the creators get screwed by those agents.
This is easy to refute. Take the commercial price of power for the location of manufacture and divide your retail price by that amount. The result will be the upper bound in MWh that could have possibly gone into the creation of that panel.

Chinese solar panels cost less than 15 cents a watt. In the NW with residential prices at 10 cents per KWh, it takes 1500 hrs to break even. With 4hrs of "full sun" per day on average at PNW latitudes, about a year. This is just the panel not the system. The BS that panels take more energy to produce than they generate is disproven.

https://www.alibaba.com/product-detail/In-Stock-TRINA-Vertex...

The tariffs on solar are stupider than the Iraq war. If China can produce panels at 10 cents a watt wholesale, we should give them billions of dollars to make as many as they can. Train everyone in the military to install them.
For some reason the Quality check was always failing with an error 403, even though I had followed the link to create a Google API key and passed it as an env var to the Docker container.

Ended up cloning the project to see by myself what URL it uses... turns out that the Google API was returning a JSON document with instructions to enable the PageSpeed Insights API! I'd never used Google Cloud before, so I had been a bit clueless until that point :-)

My suggestion is that the "Show Error" button showed the actual output of the API calls, because otherwise this very useful JSON from Google was being lost in translation.

Now that I checked the code it's clear that there are actually 2 things to enable that are accessed with the API key:

* PageSpeed Insights API: https://console.cloud.google.com/apis/library/pagespeedonlin...

* Safe Browsing API: https://console.cloud.google.com/apis/api/safebrowsing.googl...

So I'd suggest adding this info to either or both of the README and the app itself.

Otherwise, a very very cool project! I've been checking several of my sites for the last hour.
Wouldn't surprise me if all ten remaining units were in the hands of Smash community members or something.
The current trend is somewhat exponential, though, and solar is now finally cheap enough to compete even without subsidies. That will hopefully lead to an even stronger boost.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Growth_of_photovoltaics#/media...