skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Presumably going through the attic
Is this incorrect? Can a down-voter comment? I might learn something.
> If I attach something to my car it doesn’t affect your car.

Yes, that was my point.

> For the majority who use Python for single threaded code, no-GIL will make their code slower because a thread-safe interpreter is always going to be slower than one that can assume ST operation.

I'm almost sure the python developers said that they will compensate the slow down with other optimizations, so that you'd never have single-threaded performance degradation version-to-version.

> So no-GIL will only be faster for a minority of a minority who want parallelism but can’t use OS processes or subinterpreters.

One would hope to 1. open new use cases for python thus attracting developers that would have otherwise not given the language consideration and 2. other users could benefit from new optimizations that could be implemented further down the dependency stack.

Of course there's no guarantee that that will materialize, but the idea the adding support to an established, lightweight and well-supported concurrency primitive is so obviously a "stupid idea" shows to me that your (rudely expressed) opinion is entirely self-centered and nearsighted.

I might add that the move from python 2 to 3 was incredibly painful, but I assume most agree (with the benefit of hindsight) that it was entirely correct.
I blame Hollywood, not the hotel staff. They can’t be expected to know what each and every stray circuitboard is/does. Not all circuitboards are bombs, but almost all modern bombs have circuit boards.
Some do see remission with the modern expensive Biologics, but those only treat the underlying inflammatory condition. The damage to a body remains from the inflammatory cycles, short-term steroid treatments, and pain medications.

It is one of my biggest pet peeves seeing folks with "good intentions" spout off about nonsense "cures" for a suite of currently chronic conditions. There are specific gene therapies being researched that _may_ remove the need for heavy medications at _some_point_ in the next decade, but the damage done by the disease will still require joint replacement surgeries etc.

Most competent people I've met have zero sense of humor when it comes to this area of research, and would have also fired anyone that mistakes pain medication for a "cure" (unless I misunderstood the press release gibberish.)

Have a great day, and please consider starting a fact-checking wiki like snopes to document the ignorant new age nonsense people perpetuate. =3
> The valuable result is the extreme opposite of your result- it is a therapy or personal development tool that directs you to explore and understand parts of yourself you reject or disapprove of (your “shadow”).

Look, I too have read Jung and agree with what you're saying here, but this is emphatically NOT how MBTI tends to be used in corporate settings, which is what everyone else in this thread is talking about.
> politically-correct word for ‘tradesman’

There is nothing politically correct or incorrect about it. It is just the standard term. Meanwhile in Australia they use 'Tradie' from what I understand.
What makes it unsellable or unmoragable? I don't know how that works on the UK, but here if there is a defect in a house that requires 3300€ to fix, the house value is just estimated 3300€ less than the price without the defect (or worse case scenario, you account for the value of redoing the roof if there is a risk it's needed)
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> > On servers with 100+ cores I have seen scheduling time take over 10% of the program runtime.

> On Linux, go uses sched_getaffinity …

Since cgroups are a Linux-only feature, OP must be running Linux. I wonder if his experience pre-dates Go’s usage of sched_getaffinity.

edit: I realised that he references cgroups so must be on Linux.
I was wondering indeed, I am insulating with PIR plates, but they are coated with a vapor-closed layer and one is advised to tape all panels together with vaper-closed (aluminum) tape, so no air from inside the living area can get into the insulating layer, cool down and leave condensed water. As an additional precaution, the advice is to not insulate from the inside if a vapor-closed foil is on the outside of the wooden part of the roof (where the tiles are resting on), to ensure any vapor getting into the insulation after all, can vaporize away when temperatures rise.

All that being common knowledge, it does indeed seem weird that people were just spraying foam directly on the inside of their roofs as vapor will be deposited somewhere in the open cell structure of the foam, or against the inside of the wood/roof-tiles (as the air cools down, it can hold less and less water so that condenses).

Given all that knowledge, I'm still unable to close all the vapor bridges in my house, because I can't remove certain structures. So it is still a bit of a gamble here and there, where the moisture will pile up. I just try to get it to pile up in sites that are exposed to outside air.

I can't imaging everyone being as analytical and careful as me though. Indeed I sometime here people just pasting PIR plates or mineral-wool in place and leaving them like that, no vapor screens or anything. Time will tell what happens to these houses. Old houses were made to just have a lot of heat-transport through the structure, which prevents vapor deposition. Insulating any house should come with at least some thought about where the humid inside air will go (preferably outside through ventilation holes.)
It is correct in so far as Trader == tradesmen. But it isn't some "politically correct" thing. Also attributing political correctness to terms is often a political move in and of themselves.
Is it just so much read/write? I'm having hard time understanding why a simulation would need so much read/write to disk? Wouldn't the CPU and RAM be more important for calculations, then write them to disk when done?
You're correct, "cowboy traders" is a British idiom for tradesmen without the appropriate skills, qualifications or experience to fulfil their contract responsibility.

It can also refer to those who will take on contracts (plumbing / landscaping / roofing / building work / etc) without any intention of fulfilling them, or charge exorbitant, inappropriate and unagreed prices.

It's in such common British use that a TV show named "Cowboy Traders" was aired in 2012.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3364380/
That looks so much more menacing, almost supernatural, a stellar ghost.
In the UK all people who do these kinds of jobs(builder, plumbers, electricians etc) are called traders, I've never heard anyone use the word "tradesman".
I believe the actual issue the article implied was it prevents inspection of the roof lumber in addition to moisture trapping. Since a mortgage company can’t see the lumber and framing they won’t mortgage it. Thus you can’t sell the home to someone mortgaging it.
It's always frustrating when a headline says exactly the opposite of what the article itself does:

Headline:

> American IQ Scores Have Rapidly Dropped

Article:

> Dworak, a research assistant professor at Northwestern University and one of the authors on the study, is very clear that these results don't necessarily mean Americans are getting less intelligent. "It doesn't mean their mental ability is lower or higher; it's just a difference in scores that are favoring older or newer samples," she said in a press release. "It could just be that they’re getting worse at taking tests or specifically worse at taking these kinds of tests."
That's a bit of a don't shoot the messenger imo. If the construction of a house may be compromised and cannot be verified, it is prudent to not mortgages the house. Don't blame the lenders for that, blame the vendors.

I can sympathize with these people, they are not really to blame imo. Shoddy work needs to be claimed with those that did the work and choose the materials.
And the infinite book case is a shout out to Borges, right?
Hosting maps of the entire planet in a single file doesn't seem practical. How do you keep it updated? PMTiles is good for small local maps, but I don't think they're meant for this scale.
That was a really nice read; thanks for the link.
The government knew it was dodgy and just wanted to steal public funds and give a massive handout to these cowboys, as done previously.

The homeowners should band together and take the government to court
In the worst case, it should be possible to install a moisture barrier on the inside, to prevent condensation.
Spray foam sounds good at first but it's almost always complete trash. Nasty chemicals, 0 ventilation, poor humidity management, pain in the ass to remove. It's one of these things poor people get because it's cheap upfront but in the end it'll cost you twice as much as a proper insulation system

It's easy to apply and looks cool so that's good for instagram builders/remodelers, plus they'll probably be out of business before you notice the damage.

https://vtdigger.org/2023/05/22/i-wanted-to-cry-devastating-...
Copilot could easily scan and auto generate the read me.
I use Tidal free-trials for few months every time my debit changes. I then rip the FLACs off to 2TB SD-cards with tidal-dl. Even the metadata is high-quality!
I personally know someone with a similar story (small pedestrian path that existed in real life but missing from Google maps). He made the effort to flag it, provide proof etc etc.

What I told him was you guys be nuts to be spending your time to improve Google's product.
Yes. I have bare minimum s/w on the windows 11 that came with it.
Why not just use a markup (markdown adoc djot) + CSS?

The documents are already out there

You can probably carve out a subset of CSS that's relevant - greatly simplifying your life
There's often discussions in the default OSM map renderer project[1] about what the goal of the project should be.

A lot of people have niche interests that they want implemented in the map, but that just looks busy to everybody else.

[1] https://github.com/gravitystorm/openstreetmap-carto
If a family farm couldn't produce it themselves I try to avoid it. I think this works pretty well as a rule of thumb (and justifies me stilling having beer and wine lol)
We don’t allow pedestrians to run around in traffic, which is what the golf cart would be doing.
7th paragraph explains it.
> , it looks like slices/maps have reference semantics

No, they don't. Pointers and references are fundamentally different concepts. A reference is a name, handled by the runtime, that is bound to an entity. A pointer is just a value of type `uintptr`.

When I "copy" a reference, I simply instruct the runtime to bind another name to the entity.

When I copy a struct containing a pointer, I actually allocate new memory to contain a new copy of that `uintptr`. And since that copy is a true copy of a pointer-value, I can change it.

That's why this:

func main() {
s1 := []int{1, 2}
s2 := s1
s2 = append(s2, 3)
s1[0] = 42
fmt.Println(s1)
fmt.Println(s2)
}

Will give you

[42 2]
[1 2 3]

as an output. s2 is not a "Reference" to the same entity as s1, it is a struct holding a pointer, and when we grow the slice this struct represents beyond the capacity of the backing array that pointer points to, by appending to it, we replace that pointer in s2.

Comparing that to a language that actually does have reference semantics (python):

s1 = [1, 2]
s2 = s1
s2.append(3)
s1[0] = 42
print(s1)
print(s2)

Gives me

[42, 2, 3]
[42, 2, 3]
> Instead of just criticizing, maybe we should focus on how to bring some of those benefits here

That starts with a realistic appraisal.

I was surprised to learn, recently, that New York’s Metro-North and LIRR have 95%+ on-time rates [1]. (On time is defined as less than 6 minutes late [2].) This is vastly superior to the DB’s 65% system average.

This is partly because it’s a well-built system. But it’s partly because it has to be to compete. European-style passenger rail is simply too expensive and inconvenient to work in America, given how spread out we are and our legacy investments into roads and rural airports. Instead, regional rail offers a proven success model for getting people out of their cars. (Drive-on / drive-off is also worth exploring.)

[1] https://www.metro-magazine.com/10217862/metro-north-lirr-exp...

[2] https://www.osc.ny.gov/files/reports/pdf/report-9-2025.pdf
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Good idea. I was originally supposed to support transcription in the podcast RSS specification, but since there are not many podcasts implementing this field, I have not yet added this support.
Which is where the foam is.

And the roof timbers are covered by the foam, hidden from easy visual examination.
It's always frustrating when a headline says exactly the opposite of what the article itself does:

Headline:

> American IQs Are Dropping

Article:

> Dworak stressed that the decline in scores doesn't necessarily mean Americans aren't as intelligent as their grandparents or great-grandparents were. "It doesn’t mean their mental ability is lower or higher; it's just a difference in scores that are favoring older or newer samples," she said in a press release. "It could just be that they're getting worse at taking tests or specifically worse at taking these kinds of tests."
http://archive.is/oJ9yL
'Cowboy' insert trade here. The ride into town, take on the job and your money, then ride off into the sunset never to be seen again and leave you to clean up the mess...

It's a really old, and well known, UK expression, and not an affectionate one.

Although 'Tradesman' (or tradeswoman) is the overwhelmingly correct term in the UK for those kind of jobs, whether the work they produce is good or bad.
> At the root of the problem are cowboy traders who apply the foam without a full survey or appropriate expertise – but because of lenders’ caution, this is affecting other homeowners who had similar work.

A good example of negative externality.

(If you are a good libertarian, you believe they don't exist, or everything is fine).

You hire someone to do spray foaming properly, have no problems with it, but suffer negative externality because others fuck it up and you are treated the same.

Regulation would fix that problem. Spray foam works just fine in Finland, although, we usually use mineral or glass wool already in construction phase. You must know how and where the dew point will be when you build or fix a wall.
> The render nodes used for Interstellar had 156GB of RAM, and a decade later the biggest GPUs still don't have that much memory

NVIDIA H200 GPU has 141 GB of memory, and the AMD Instinct MI300X GPU has 192 GB of HBM3 memory.
Collins and Merriam-Webster dictionaries agree with him. Down-voters may have considered that the sentence was clear enough anyway.
Indeed the status of working for yourself and running a business is known as being a "sole trader":

https://www.gov.uk/become-sole-trader
Incredibly, one of the study's authors chooses to single out STEM as a possible cause. STEM -- when there are so many other issues that could be contributing. For example:

- Less physical activity, more obesity. Both have known effects on memory and cognition.

- Childhood screen time, which has been linked to poor sleep, worse communication skills, and developmental delays.

- Easy, anonymous access to infinite novel pornography, which may affect the development of gray matter and the functioning of the prefrontal cortex.

- The decline of community and communal spaces and the detrimental mental effects of
isolation.

Getting people suspicious that more science education will decrease IQ is about the last thing we need. (And I wasn't a STEM major, for the record.)
Adding to the list of related games at the end of the article, I recently played "Poetry for Neanderthals" and thought it was quite fun, although really once you've figured out how to trick your brain into thinking with grunts, it becomes easy quite quickly because then you tap into the primal part of your brain that prefers single syllables. But bashing people with the rubber hammer kept it amusing for longer than it probably should.
Humans are naturally curious about the world about them. But I think there is a difference between going and finding out, versus having it spoon fed. The latter increases knowledge but I don't think it exercises the brain.
Kagi is solid
Go is my hammer, and everything is a nail
Ask HN: Should foreign language education include warnings about their use?
In particular, some countries use their language as an obstacle to discourage foreigners.

Why isn't this fact part of foreign language education in schools?
All the emails are still in other people's inbox/sent. Completely discoverable.
Interesting the difference between UK and USA here. Spray foam applied directly underneath the roof deck is very common here and is a recommended assembly by building scientists, e.g. https://buildingscience.com/documents/digests/bsd-149-unvent...

Not sure if there is a significant climate difference in the UK that makes this construction more problematic, the article mentions moisture but the U.S. building scientists say 2 inches closed cell spray foam will block air and vapors from reaching the wood of the roof. Perhaps the issue is the open cell foam mentioned in the article - it seems that closed cell foam is the recommended type in the USA.
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My solution is own less stuff. I own maybe 30ish items total.

I also have a fantastic memory, so I remember where other people leave things but if people had less things it’s easier to remember.
We're all deceiving and manipulating everyone else all the time to some degree. It's one in a million the person that behaves 100% in accordance with their internal beliefs and values, and they're quickly ostracized or marked as eccentric and to be avoided.
You can just use rye and retain your sanity like everyone else.
as far as I understand it, ad blocking on podcast doesn't cost the creators anything The way it does for blogs and newspapers. Podcasts are downloaded and apps generally don't report back on which seconds you listen to and which seconds you skipped. ad revenue is largely based on the number of downloads in a particular region.
Not if most of them are to other CDC employees.
Didn't vote; In AUS I've heard "tradey" for trades-person.
I would love to learn more about Grounded-Segment Anything in an article similar to this one along with the speed implications.
If you've memorized all the layouts, you don't need any kind of clue, so you don't need a kind of clue that's banned. You could for example clue "Sausage" every time and your team would play as well as the bot in the article. To play better than the bot, you might want to clue about words for 1 turn or so.
The problem is that it requires a 3300€ removal just to inspect for further damage of unknown and possibly large size. If it is large and the homeowner is unable to cope, the lender is at risk.

Because tbe lenders are at risk here, they won't lend unless you do the removal so that the lender can inspect.
Could you please offer a link to an online dictionary offering this definition? Thanks in advance!
I frankly don't care about Comma at all, I care about language. When most people reading a bit of writing interpret it one way, they're right and the author is wrong. That's all.
I love my old iPhone 11, I don’t use a protective case and it looks sleek and elegant - an old Billy Crystal line: “it is better to look good than to feel good.”

I am not buying a new iPhone until a new model supports very good local execution of LLM models. Maybe that will be an iPhone 16, but probably not.
> Even if the SEO is done with mostly Google in mind, Kagi still picks up enough of this junk to be a nuisance

It seems to be responsive to which sites you want ranked higher/lower. For instance I have wikipedia pinned which resolves a longstanding issue google has had where seo is prioritized over relevancy.
Flag Football and 6-player Lacrosse are next up in 2028.
> lean and kiss

da fuq
Yea trivially
It is possible to add more immutability in Go. There are many proposals for this: https://github.com/go101/go101/wiki/Go-immutable-value-propo....

The main reason nothing happened in this direction is the core team think it is not important enough.
It depends on what type of spray foam you use. Closed cell foam is rated to be a moisture barrier. It tends to be more expensive but is worth it to get a moisture barrier and insulation in one. In some scenarios where you need much thicker insulation to hit your desired R value they might start with closed cell for the moisture barrier and then switch to open cell since it is cheaper.
> The poster child for self-harming corporate behaviour in the UK is still Gerald Ratner, the former head of a jewellery empire that tanked after he joked in 1991 that some of its products were cheap because they were “total crap”.

Worth a read if you haven't heard of this guy. [1]

I do wonder how Musk will fare in the coming years. I don't see him imploding like Ratner, but I don't think he's getting any more stable or predictable, either.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerald_Ratner
I think the meaning of trader is pretty obvious from context.

Where the downvoted is wrong is saying it is somehow a PC term.
> You nearly never want to install insulation without a vapor barrier. And especially not with spray foam

Closed cell foam insulation is a vapor barrier, which is where the problem comes from. You must never have two vapor barriers as any moisture that is between them cannot get out and this will cause mold and rot.

Punching a small hole in a wall and putting foam is fine so long as the foam and the existing vapor barrier are touching each other and thus form one barrier. However if there is something between the vapor barrier and the foam you have two barriers and problems.
Doping.
That’s kinda also the case for every summary you’re reading - or news article. In theory you can never be sure that the author understood everything from the paper and summarised it correctly.
Still better than what Ad Astra! :D

Liked the killer space monkeys though. ;-)
Noting that:

> LiteCluster is not currently available to public, and the source code is not available.
Oh you're right, there is a forEach method.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/NodeList/fo...

entries()
forEach()
item()
keys()
values()

And maybe values().map() will work too.
Okay, I Like WezTerm
I think its just how "regular" fractal robots work in general ? :)
Architecture event: provide a site in the host city and make it a design competition, and then build the winner. The hall of submitted 3D models would be a great attraction.
If I'm taking a course to learn a language, we can dispense with wasting my time discussing why I'm taking the course. After all, 99% of the time the course was mandated in order to graduate.
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