skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The salt goes back out into the ocean, which is rather large.

Yes, but that’s like saying it doesn’t matter if you get shot because the volume of the room is still less than 1ppb lead. You need to plan for how to avoid massive ecological disruption in the local area, which is possible but adds to the expense and gives NIMBYs another opportunity to delay or block things. These are classic economic problems: when something else is subsidized low, it’s hard for a competitor which doesn’t share those benefits to get established even if everyone would be better off in the long-term.

Nuclear is a distraction - you don’t need such expensive power for this, or even the near-free solar California’s renewable focus will produce at many times. Researchers have been developing passive solar systems which use solar power directly and are suitable for deployment in places which don’t have enormous supplies of cheap electricity.
How do you do this without stifling innovation? The government will always be slow to respond and if they're the ones setting standards they would first have to know what is currently the optimal component interface for every major component on an EV.

At that point you end up with the government asking the industry to tell them what the standards should be and how to regulate it, likely they ask the industry to regulate itself then as well. Why have the government involved at all?
> That shared_ptr<bar> instance is held either on the stack (with address FP + offset or SP + offset) or inside another object (typically 'this' + offset.) To call foo(const shared_ptr<bar> &), the compiler adds the base pointer and offset together, then passes the result of that addition - without dereferencing it.

You're overthinking it. Think in cache lines. No matter what the instructions say, with all their fancy addressing modes, foo has to load two cache lines: one holding the shared_ptr and another holding the pointee data. If we instead passed bar* in a register, we'd need to grab only one cache line: the pointee's.

Sure. Maybe the caller already has a fully formed shared_ptr around somewhere but not in cache. Maybe foo often doesn't access the pointee. But how often does this situation arise?
This getting spammed but developers .. they are afraid to change from git .
Mercurial was much better than git in workflow and architecture wise and nobody care enough due to GitHub popularity.
This will go the same , as well as sapling.
The manufacturer recommends it, the airlines will do it.

When you buy an airplane, it is a 30 year relationship. The airlines listen.
Nice enhancement to EDebug.

If anyone is wondering about Nyan Cat in the "after" screen capture: https://github.com/TeMPOraL/nyan-mode
The whole point is simply that the notion of computability is not related to coming up with proofs or to any mechanical process for arriving at a result based on a set of axioms. "Computable" and "Provable in ZFC (or whatever)" are just two different things and pertain to different mathematical objects. Functions are computable (or not). Theorems are provable (or not).
I believe that consensus is that we have all the economic capacity we need. If we can get by without helping those people, why would we?

Obviously I do not share this worldview and me myself border on homelessness for past years, but the world is a world of financial incentives and there is none big enough to do that.
I really have to install an old system with the Infinality patches again, I remember them to be quite excellent, but that was a few years, monitors and contact lense upgrades ago…

Maybe I'll put RiscOS on a Raspberry Pi at the same time, which (IIRC) had one of the first antialiased font rendering engines ever.

(I do have some old Macs running currently, and weirdly enough still prefer some of the old "blurry" font renderings to a lot of modern ones, at least on regular displays)
Estonian forests are not that old as you would guess.

The main land use changes in Estonia during the 20th century have been the
decrease in agricultural land from 65% in 1918 to 30% in 1994 and the
increase in forests from 21% to 43%, respectively.
AIUI -- correct me if I am wrong -- this is intended for building UKI images to boot a conventional distro from a root partition, so it's not the planned usage to construct a standalone distro from it?
Not really unhappy with corporate vanity killing their own AI products. They are in a position that they need to ensure their AI never does anything slightly controversial which makes sure their product will always be useless or at least severely impaired compared to more accessible alternatives.
This is one place containers can save a lot of pain
But only for 30 aliases for 4$/month.
And the fines shouldn't be limited in the same way other debt is by limited company status.
New robots can crank out nearly 200 burrito bowls an hour (2023)
Seconded. By far the single biggest problem in tech is the brain-to-brain transmission of technical information. It's hard, slow, and lossy. Nobody is perfect at it, but you can get better.
OpenAI pleads it can't make money with o using copyrighted material for free
like, when i search for that phrase i get a lot of pages like https://www.marctech2.com/news/e-paper-faq-and-applications which is obviously llm-generated bullshit, some pages like https://goodereader.com/blog/e-paper/swedish-startup-rdot-is... with a conflicting number of 4 millijoules per square centimeter, and no links to actual sources who took measurements
When I started my PhD, they were clear: four publications is a degree. That's the goal. Understanding is a bonus but doesn't get the title!
Man that's cool. Not for me personally as I need a display and not glasses, but it's cool we have so much computer power in such portable formats now.

I love that we have pretty powerful laptops with 20 hours of battery that only weigh a pound or so. I remember 20 years ago lugging around a 2kh brick with only 2 hours of battery.
The adhesive would be specified on an engineering drawing. The drawing would be used to assemble the plane.

You change the adhesive by issuing an Engineering Change Order. This is an engineering approval step.

In this situation, the specific adhesive probably was no longer available. Happens all the time.
Author here. I'm actually sitting in a cafe in a town close to the village this is about right now.

I've visited many of the spots mentioned in this article. I haven't checked all of them, but all the ones I have checked have _no_ manual replanting to date, that I can see. (I'd expect a grid, with trees with those little fences protecting them, etc.)

What I do see is just natural growth of various plant species taking advantage of open ground, a mix of grasses, shrubs, birches, and others. There is no sign, that I have personally seen, of the ground being restored, or of systematic replanting. I write this noting I have not been to every site, so I can't definitely state there's been zero replanting. Some places were so lovely I just don't want to revisit :(

I picked a lot of wild strawberries on one of these plots of land just a couple of weeks ago. It used to be damp soil even in summer, lots of moss, mist commonly held between the trees (there's a photo.) Now it was baking hot with deep trenches from the machines. But hey. Hiding among the undergrowth there were strawberry plants.

_Something_ will grow back. Often in these things the replacement ecosystem is very different.
why does Git need to be replaced?
Monopoly is the keyword here. Ticketmaster and Boeing and all the other nefarious companies here use PATENTS to prevent competitors from eating their lunch. Patents need to be done away with to allow free competition, don't believe the propaganda about patents helping creators
This angers me a bit. I use O365 connectors all the time. They've been very useful.

What is workflows? Why is that REPLACING these instead of just, you know, being available as a totally separate product that I don't want to migrate to? Why can't I have the software grandfathered in?

I hate obvious resume-driven development and products.
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You still have the potential to fuck up marine and littoral ecosystems if you're discharging concentrated brine back into the ocean willy-nilly, though.
Someone somewhere is going to do a study on the effectiveness of this propaganda. I think it must be cognitive dissonance. Animal agriculture uses almost ten times the amount of water and land usage than plant agriculture on average. No, almonds aren't the problem. Cows are. They use more land. They use more water. The emit more green house gases.

This is a coordinated effort by the beef/dairy industry to blame anyone but themselves and the people who consume their products are happy to pass the blame. If you actually care about water usage, go after the people who are using the most water, not physiologically convenient scapegoats.
This is a mistake, but forgivable, as Windows executable launch behavior blurs this distinction.

Just like UNIX shells, cmd and PowerShell are ordinary console programs.

The Windows equivalent to xterm and friends — i.e., the mechanism responsible for displaying console I/O in a window — is a bit complicated, has changed over time, and only recently (Windows 10 1809 / Server 2019) adopted a UNIX-like pseudo tty / terminal emulator model.

For a good overview of Windows console architecture, past and present, see

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/commandline/windows-command-l...
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So your reasoning is based on facts that no longer apply and the moral heft of colonialism?
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> If you're skeptical or unsure of any of these frameworks

I am not unsure. I'm quite certain it's all complete and utter garbage protected with circular ex post facto justifications (and I'm surprised the author of the post is an assistant professor in a University).
Can I snort it for my hayfever?
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Related "Why fear of crime more than crime itself is holding back America’s downtowns"

* https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/23663437/crime-violence-m...
Air regulators usually coordinate, and trust each other with regards to their respective planes (e.g. if EASA says something needs to happen because they oversee Airbus, FAA will just repeat that; if EASA certify a new Airbus jet, FAA trusts that).

That trust was severely damaged when the FAA showed themselves to be incompetently incapable of controlling Boeing, and incapable of realising that by refusing to ground the planes after the crashes. This resulted in 300+ hundred deaths. Since then EASA and the Civil Aviation Administration of China have stopped blindly trusting the FAA, and have their own extra checks and processes applied. As an example, the EASA was involved in 737 Max recertification (unprecedented), and is involved in the 777X certification. CAAC also didn't recertify the 737 Maxes until months after the FAA did.

It will take the FAA and American aerospace decades to build back any semblance of trust.
Where does the money come from? They can’t easily raise taxes to pay for it, and farmers are going to charge a lot even if they’re willing to sell because paying market rates for water places them at a significant disadvantage compared to other farmers who are not paying market rates. There are a lot of efficiency issues in agriculture – drive through the Central Valley in the summer and see how much runoff there is - but the solutions tend to increase labor costs.

I’ve wondered whether the angle might be some kind of tax: don’t argue with the guy who has a 4 century-old claim, just charge a waste tax on usage over a certain amount per unit of food and apply it state wide so nobody can benefit by holding out.
Z-library was literally pay for download site.
Why is the choice always "capitalism" or "not capitalism"?

It seems to me that the real problem with it all is the false dichotomy that so many people seem to have bought into. It wasn't too long ago that we understood that we need to balance out both sides for a society to flourish. Capitalism is useful, yes, but unfettered capitalism slowly eats itself and everything adjacent to it.
AI firms don’t hire that many people.

They’re burning billions mostly in datacenter runs. AI researchers could be doing 1M+ total comp per year but there aren’t that many to fill vacant office space.
I don't think it fits the bill. If I tell you I have a cookie with ID jeeg274642, how are you going to identify me? That's different to thing like a Twitter handle that can be traced straight to a person, as some can.
Except most ESP partitions I have seen are in the 200MB range.

So now you're asking your users not only to bless the EFI loader, but also to resize their ESP, and most likely system partition.
Brilliant! I love stories like this. This is real hacking :)

Am disappointed though to have reached the end of the article only to find no mention of stats regarding max speed, efficiency etc vs the paid-for wifi.

Also, not sure why you wouldn’t just use Base64 encoding for which optimised versions already exist instead of rolling your own conversion to/from base 26 (or 52).
> I think what "is" has nothing to do with human culture - you drop a rock from head height, it's going to hit your foot, and this is "true" (observable maybe a better word) regardless of who you are (and more importantly, regardless of what you claim!). This is what I meant by the stories matching over time in some domains.

Right....but:

- what is that has nothing to do with human culture (or consciousness, or the machines we build) is only a subset of the larger set of what is

- quite often, humans drop rocks and other things onto the heads of other humans - religion has always got a lot of blame for this phenomenon, but a lesser known fact is that science plays a massive role in it as well: giving us the technology to do it in ever more powerful and affordable ways

> This is what I meant by the stories matching over time in some domains.

Some stories match, some do not. Religion also has plenty of each.

> But I don't think reality (the "territory") does, in the same way that the ocean doesn't manifest dragons if I draw one on a seafaring chart.

Dragons may not exist in The Universe, but that doesn't mean they can't can exist in reality.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Popper%27s_three_worlds

If you don't believe me, go do a survey of the general public about things that "don't exist" and see what kind of results you get. For bonus results, try disagreeing with some people and see how that goes over.

> Completely agree that science may not be the best epistemic theory possible.

You and I are members of an exclusive group!

> that the scientific habit of reductionism seems to be floundering for things like complex biological systems (brains/ecologies/controversially even consciousness?) and maybe even understanding machine learning models.

Also: Reality.

> Perhaps we'll see some interesting developments in the next few decades =)

Yes...perhaps we will!
https://archive.ph/NbtsE
What digital assets are you referring to? During the NFT frenzy, the NFTs in question did not convey any assets that I'm aware of -- they transferred no unique physical artifacts, nor ownership of any copyrights or trademarks.

The NFTs just included public URLs pointing to files, so pepole were effectively buying and selling certificates of authenticity for artwork without owning the actual artwork itself!
That's the problem with side effects: you don't know if they make a difference until you evaluate them. And "God" is about the biggest imaginable side effect.
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Yeah. They took all the hard work Library Genesis did. And started selling access to the files.
Love the comments under the post :)
For me it means no more notifications in Teams, as our organisation policy blocks all the useful workflow features.
Yep, it's been in the development code base since 2021, and is in our Release Candidate builds for the next upcoming release:

https://github.com/sqlitebrowser/sqlitebrowser/releases/tag/...
Can I ask - what is anti-blocking?
For 4 (and sometimes 3), you need a mini-project for exploration. "After 2 months of work, then I'll be able to give you an estimate." Management never wants to hear that, but sometimes it's the truth.
There are more industries that are basically parasites who don't contribute to society and instead insert themselves as middlement to extract value from others' work, yes. But no, you cannot apply this to any form of businesses. Many businesses fulfill real needs. If you'd take all agriculture away, everyone would starve. If you'd take all advertisement away then the world would not collapse. These things are not the same.
You can get a complete web server with a domain for less than SimpleLogin charges for that service.
There is no way that behavioral psychologists aren't on staff at all of the major US airlines. Everything in the airlines is a massive study in consumer and employee psychology - from cockpit resource management between captains and first officers to how people board an airplane, to how they queue up in the terminals.

You know damn well what happened - it was well known what was going to happen but the bean counters drowned it out and won out by enshittifying the process and "generating revenue"
In this particular case the "we" seems to be: people who want to sell cheap mass produced timber but pretend it is sustainably source wood.
That depends if you think flushing toilets and watering their lawns is more important than growing nuts an alfalfa.

I'm sympathetic to your views but neither thing seems great. What about compulsory water tanks for the flushing toilets and lawn mowing?
NFTs are a great solution for demonstrating provenance. They can function as digital certificates of authenticity for an asset. Treating them as assets themselves, though, is pretty ridiculous.
I guess from a hardware cryptography module or OPTEE[1]

[1] https://optee.readthedocs.io/en/latest/general/about.html
Do you have any plans to monetize this? How are you supporting development?
CP just teaches some familiarity with DSA/algorithms, and there's much more to perf than DSA. Even assessing algorithmic performance requires real benchmarks and profiling, while the complexity analysis people do in CP disregards other factors like hardware, architecture, format, and other abstractions. Squeezing perf via DSA is much more easier/straightforward, people don't need to grind CP to learn that
Other problems that only arise on families of objects can be similarly difficult to grok for beginners. E.g.: any given finite-dimensional vector space is isomorphic to its dual and to its double dual in many ways, but for the latter you can choose a (“natural”) isomorphism consistently over all such spaces, while for the former you can’t. “Why isn’t it naturally isomorphic? The bases are of the same length! What do we care if it depends on the basis or no? Why do we not care all those other proofs choose bases then?”
Non transferable.

Water rights for that farm. Not for a place 250 miles away. We sometimes forget how big California is. It’s not a regular state geographically speaking.

Even if it were legal, how do you move the water 250 miles? Oftentimes uphill?
(A and X) or (A and (not X))

simplifies to A in classic logic.

I guess there's an ambiguity whether "God exists" is a propositional variable.
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> (I'd expect a grid, with trees with those little fences protecting them, etc.)

That says a lot. You have zero experience in forestry :)
I think HP is unique among the shitty printer makers.

First off, their printing, copying, and scanning products used to be outstanding. They made some of the only devices that just worked, straight out of the box, with no hassle. They were so good that other companies adopted their proprietary tech as a quasi-standard. Remember hearing the phrase "HP ScanJet compatible?"

Second, they're just about the very worst among major brands today. These e-series printers were heinous enough to get discontinued, but their other products are hardly any better. My Envy was a doorstop until I installed an app on my phone, created an HP account, and paired to the damn thing over bluetooth. It won't print black-and-white unless there's a color cartridge installed. It constantly just stops printing, and I have to go unplug it and plug it back in, wait an hour, and try printing again. I can't be alone in these frustrations.

HP had to fall further than anyone else to reach where they are today.
Why is this downvoted, is this not possible?
I did that when I lived out west. It was Utah, not CA, but I did sell my water rights to the city. There were a few catches to the process: I had to not want the water anymore, and the city had to have the funding available to make the purchase. While simple, those two things can certainly be large blockers to cities buying rights.
The absence of scientific proof is not a scientific proof of a negative result.

> They don't have a foothold in objective reality.

Even when some scientists have made a claim about objective reality, we have to remember that they make their claims in the face of social pressures. It's only after enough scientists seem to believe a fact that parts of the general population starts to accept it as "science." And if even science boils down to "many people are saying it," we probably shouldn't make any bold claims about "objective reality" with condescension and closed minds.
This seems like a common misconception. The mention of the staging area in the README points to https://martinvonz.github.io/jj/latest/git-comparison/#the-i.... I'm guessing you didn't click that link. I suppose we need to inline part of the text where we link to it to reduce the number of confused readers.

At this point, I wonder if maybe we should not even mention the staging area. It seems to confuse a lot of people, so maybe it hurts more than it helps to mention it.
What kind of things could he do?
We built the highway system for national defense, there is no issue with thinking big when it comes to the military.

Why don't we encourage people to move to where the water already is? There is plenty of room for people in Great Lakes/Rust Belt cities of Detroit, Milwaukee, Cleveland, Buffalo, Toledo, Erie, Gary, etc.
Neat, definitely aligned with this philosophy. If you like this, you'd appreciate Substrate - an even lighter weight, Pulumi-inspired API for modeling these workflows: https://x.com/vprtwn/status/1810363923750646032?s=46&t=HBHv3...