skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> This is in the Netherlands. It's kind of sad to see all that electricity unused in summer,

This is literally what local and state government is for; talk to others and get policy moving on excess energy being used to generate bulk stored energy at scale for winter months, be that gas, deep thermal storage, tradable goods to offset winter costs, etc.
Ispc is great but I think you’re also saying that:

- it would be better if the intrinsics had sensible names. I couldn’t agree more.

- it would be better if compilers consistently did a good job of implementing them. I wonder which compilers do a bad job? Does clang do a good job or not so much?

I think intrinsics make sense for the case where the language being used is not otherwise simd and that language already has value types (so it’s easy to add a vector type). It would be great if they at least worked consistently well and had decent names in that case.
Cargo (freight) trains have to yield to on time passenger trains. There's a "hole" there in the freight traffic that the passenger train fits into. (It's not simple, because the passenger train is often faster than the freights, so it's a carefully planned, moving hole in the freight.) If the passenger train is late, all that careful orchestration is blown. The hole isn't there any more. The freight trains are not required to create a new hole - the late passenger train becomes just one more train.
> The essence of the result is this. Reminiscent of a “meet in the middle” algorithm

Hm, so something akin to a bidirectional path-finding problem, where one can still call it "brute force" because both known positions (start and goal) are each doing a breadth-first search, as opposed to something fancier than picks a direction.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bidirectional_search
What is insane is not really his specific case, but the last paragraph of the article about the law in UK:

Under Schedule 7 of the Terrorism Act, police are allowed to stop anyone passing through a UK port “to determine whether they may be involved or concerned in the commission, preparation or instigation of acts of terrorism”.

The person who is detained can be held for up to six hours, is legally obliged to answer questions and must provide the password or access number for electronic devices, or be held to have committed a criminal offence if they refuse.

So, basically, just because you pass the border, English citizen or not, you have to provide the password to all your devices on request, without even a probable cause or any justice decision or oversight. And if you don't comply, you will be sentenced as a terrorist...
> This is exactly the question of this lawsuit. Turns out, customers want this reliability and are willing to pay lawyers for a suit to get compensation for lack of said reliability.

And a court should throw it out. If you want X feature then pay for X feature. If somebody sells you Y and tells you it's Y then you shouldn't be able to sue them because you wanted X.

You should be allowed to sue if they promise you X and deliver Y but Crowdstrike (at face value, can't find the lawsuit in courtlistner) has always promised Y and very much delivered Y.

> Would you not sue a car company that claims to drive people around with all safety bells and whistles, but then puts an asterisk that takes away manufacturers liability if the seatbelt stops working suddenly?

I wouldn't buy that car. However, I'm not sure it's been shown Crowdstrike told them to install the software on all their machines. If they had then sure I don't think the asterisk saves them.

I also don't have a problem with USG mandating a certain level of safety for cars. However, it should be forward looking and so past car sales would either be immune or removed in long phases (i.e. 6 years to get off the road).
Shouldn’t that be “sugars and simple carbs” tho?
A particular problem with Wikipedia is the by definition one-sided view of charged issues. In a single language like Vietnamese, where the majority of native speakers locate in a single country with heavy censorship and brainwashed by propaganda, articles about social, political matters and people can be very one-sided and certainly can not be up to the standard of an encyclopedia. Change is extremely difficult due to the long term moderators, who obviously have agendas.

In such situations, an alternative version/server might be a solution. For example, a social.vn.wiki could specialize in alternative views on socio-political issues in Vietnamese and be moderated differently. I can imagine new Wikipedia hubs where content changes are monitored by AI to detect manipulation attempts and obviously false content. I also can imagine a new Wikipedia, where the reader can up vote/down vote an article instead of actively change it. For heavy moderated contents, this could be a better alternative to a edit war.

I'm not sure that federations can solve this problem because of their inherent dynamics. But living in a world where the well of knowledge is poisoned can feel quite suffocating. Federation at least allows alternatives to exist.
>This is not an inherent problem with trains though - it should absolutely be possible to implement a continent wide railway system, which I believe will happen sooner rather than later.

Of course, it's technically possible, and not really all that hard. But is it politically possible? I doubt it. The EU doesn't even look like it's going to hold together long-term. If the various quarreling nations of the EU couldn't come together after all these decades and make a continent-wide railway system by now, I don't think they're ever going to.
I also think he's mostly right but even solved problems can still see much improvement. Take for example algorithmic improvements to improve speed or reduce memory requirements. Then there's also massive power usage improvements to be had by re-implementing existing solutions using more efficient languages [1].

1. https://greenlab.di.uminho.pt/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/sle...
I only knew of them because the top-level comment specifically references the financial updates and some of the numbers from them.
Yes, fat is 'good for you'. Without consuming it, you die.

But I would say that in general, 'x is good/bad for you' is a harmful oversimplification. Sugar is also not 'bad for you'. It's not that simple. Glucose is important and sometimes extremely beneficial to consume (in any form).

As for saturated fat: it's complicated. Correlation != causation. For transfats we have a pretty good idea via which causal mechanism problems arise. For saturated fat we only have correlations. Given how hard nutritional research is and especially how hard it is to draw conclusions from it, I would say it's better to refrain from feigning confidence on substances where the jury really is still out.
Macs Boot Securely, or Can't
> Most leaf veggies like spinach, kale, greens don’t have hardly any carbs at all.

yes, because they consists of 90%-95% of water, then if you cook them, water evaporates and you get some amount of carbs.

But leaf veggies is one side of spectrum, with refined carbs on another, there are bunch of stuff in between.
So your solution for a prejudiced law is the hypothetical possibility that some other state passes some other law, for which you have absolutely no evidence. Also, even if it did - your solution takes absolutely no account of how federalism works. You're proposing that RfMA requires a state to recognise a marriage undertaken in their own jurisdiction, done with the express purpose of sidestepping local law. Is that really how RfMA will shake out? Was that the intent of RfMA? Is that how Mississippi will interpret it? Is that how SCOTUS - now or future - will interpret it? And when they don't? What about a state extending civil or criminal penalties to participating in what it considers a sham marriage, much as states now do for abortion?

> But we should give thanks that it exists, because the worst states can do now is insult same-sex couples.

No, they can prevent same-sex marriages from taking place. That's identical to abortion. Even more effective, as you can be mailed an abortifacient, but you can't be mailed a wedding. Same-sex marriage, post-RfMA, is in the same position as abortion post-Dobbs. I'm meant to be upset about one but 'give thanks' for the other?

Even setting all of the above aside, you're acting like being insulted is just fine. That a person can go through their lives having their own government - a government of the people, supposedly - insult and denigrate their family. And that they should be thankful it's not worse.

That is one helluva take.
Spoiler, most dead comments are usually just flame bait and utter drivel. HN does groupthink down vote opinions that are different from what's generally accepted here, but for a comment to be actually dead, it's almost always just complete trash.
I would put forward that mdx is not a great choice of name, given that it already has a standard meaning in the markdown ecosystem: markdown with inline react components.
So what are these 'whites' supposed to do in your opinion, quit denying their wealth and just go live in a nice suburb, big house, big car? You propose no solution, it's only bitterness.
Are you just pricing this out on the Amtrak website?
The problem with wikipedia is capture. How does this solve issues like with the recent scandal involving the article on grooming gangs in the UK?

Wikipedia and anything that replaced it will simply be a target for aggressive activists.
I started a game company and now working on our first game after leaving my FAANG job on a sabbatical: https://www.galantrix.com/blog/
Ithink the problem here is eating Oreos at all, normal or low fat, it’s garbage food.
>Blamed late takeoff on bad weather, but weather was gorgeous that day in SW USA.

That's irrelevant: the weather was probably bad somewhere else, and that caused cascading delays that affected your flight.
The chains of reasoning are only long and intricate if you trace each result back to axiomatics. Most meaningful results are made up of a handful of higher-level building blocks -- similar to how software is crafted out of modules rather than implementing low-level functionality from scratch each time (yes, similar but also quite different)
Yes, but they can't control the deals artists made with their label.
> i'd also like to thank you for patiently answering all the questions

It's nice of you to say so. Thank you.

> can you see what i am getting at here?

I mostly can, but I'm not sure we're clear what we're talking about yet.

I see a lot of people who repeat something about "WebAssembly isn't usable because it can't manipulate the DOM". Ok, so I show an example of WebAssembly manipulating the DOM. That should put that to rest, right? If not, I'm curious what they meant.

> building up some kind of API that allows me to access and manipulate any DOM object via a set of functions that i can import into WASM to work around the fact that i can't access document and other objects directly,

This is a shortcoming in the language implementation, or the library for the language. The machinery is already there at the WebAssembly level. If your language is low level (Rust, C, or C++), and doesn't have what you want, you could roll your own. If your language is high level (Python or Lua), you're at the mercy of the person who built your version of Python.

The core of WebAssembly is a lot like a CPU. It's analogous to AMD64 or AArch64. It'd be weird to say you need changes to your CPU just to use a function called `getElementByName()` or `setAttribute()`. Some WebAssembly extensions have added features to make that "CPU" more like a Java style virtual machine. There are (or will be) garbage collected references to strings, arrays, and structs. This might make it better for implementing Go and Java style languages, and it could help with a fresh implementation of Python or Pike too. And maybe some of those changes will give controlled access to JavaScript style objects.

There's a last discussion to be had about performance. Maybe the bridge between WebAssembly imports and exports is too slow for intensive use. That's a debate that should be backed up with benchmarks of creative solutions. Maybe accessing JavaScript strings is so common, so important, and so slow that it really does require an enhancement to the standard.
The Noetic Field Equations
Fiber is carbs, but unlike most of the carbs in the human diet, people cannot convert them into simple sugars.
I feel similarly about NotebookLM, but have noticed one odd thing - occasionally Host A will be speaking, and suddenly Host B will complete their sentence. And usually when this happens, it's in a way that doesn't make sense, because Host A was just explaining something to or answering a question of Host B.

I'm actually not sure what to make of that, but it's interesting to note
I'm going to try and get android_translation_layer building on Arch and then we can have a third distro to add to the list!
So you can.

This argument is a different one compared to the one before.
Please see the recent grooming gangs article on the UK scandal of the same name. This is a good recent example of bad behaviour on wikipedia by activists looking to subvert the truth.
What’s wrong with surge pricing food, a substance known to be inelastic because people need it to survive, from a grocery store?

Is that what you’re asking?
The sample output is very poor. Cool demo, but really just emphasizes how much of a hit product the NotebookLM team has managed to come up with, ostensibly with more or less the same foundation models already available.
'Greenfield' as in the programmer terminology. Essentially a new location, untouched virgin land. Sorry to mix terminologies, that would have been ambiguous.

Nitrogen pollution is from the nitrogen that blows and runs off of farms. It is a staggering amount: "globally farmers apply around 115 million tonnes of nitrogen to our crops every year. Only around 35% of this is used by them, meaning 75 million tonnes of nitrogen runs off into our rivers, lakes and natural environments. This is our “excess nitrogen”. It is quite staggering that almost two-thirds of our applied nitrogen becomes an environmental pollutant." [1]

I talked to a compost expert recently. He claimed if the nitrogen were fermented first to be bio available, it would require less and no longer be a pollutant. There are solutions, but until then farmers just accept that one third of nitrogen applied actually makes it into the farm soil

[1] https://ourworldindata.org/excess-fertilizer
Pay the sheriff in crypto then ;)

If there's an outflow from Company X back to Brother back to Sheriff then there's some clear kickbacks!
Hmm no, I imagine they would stay on an instance (similar to the Usenet provider) and join groups or whatever they're called on mastodon, similar to the Usenet newsgroups.

And then the moderators would come from the management of each group, independently from which instance they're on. There would be no central authentication necessary. Just some way for moderators to prove their ownership, perhaps some kind of public key.

This way each group can do their own moderation. Of course some instances could decide not to carry some groups that go totally counter to them, but it should be a rare phenomenon. Similar to the old Usenet providers blocking binary groups (before that was the only thing Usenet was being used for anymore :) )
If you run a business or consult, there's a ton of opportunity.

The amount of grey area advice I received from my ex-CPA taught me that there is ample opportunity there. This is also why she's my ex-CPA.
Discussion (73 points, 1 day ago, 42 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41955307
Firefox also has a "Copy without URL tracking" option in the URL bar context menu. It's not one-keypress, but clearly a tracker stripper is not Arc-exclusive.

Also no idea what you are talking about with Zen's "Mozilla underpinning sabotaging the experience".
Just because something is based on technology does not mean that any problem is has is solvable with different technology. This is a lesson that it seems we need to learn over and over. The hard part of a system designed to squish together the brains of millions of humans and somehow wring truth out of the chaos is a fundamentally messy human system whose issues aren't solved by putting all those messy humans on a new platform.
Someone who's literate in Chinese would only be able to infer the meaning of an unfamiliar character if they already knew all of the surrounding characters. Then, you can guess the meaning of the character based on context, and possibly hints from the character itself about pronunciation and/or meaning (though this is very hit-or-miss, because many characters don't contain obvious hints). In order to reliably know all of the context surrounding a character, you need to know about 3000 characters total (that's the point at which you can recognize 99% of characters on a page). This is still a very tall order, which takes years of study to achieve.

The Chinese characters do indeed contain semantic information that Pinyin (the standard Romanization) does not, but in practice, you don't need that extra semantic information. If you write down a single word in Pinyin, it may have a few homophones, whereas the same word, written in Chinese characters, would be unambiguous. However, in written Pinyin texts, you would almost always be able to figure out which word is meant from context. In the few cases in which that would not be possible, the author could slightly rephrase the text to make it unambiguous.

Most languages on Earth (that have a writing system) are written using alphabets. Chinese is not so special that it could not be written using an alphabet as well. The reason why China hasn't switched to an alphabetic script is because of cultural attachment to the script, not because the Pinyin doesn't work just as well in a practical sense.
> they didn't save all their receipts and so on

This analogy explains well but it's missing the important bit: private citizens don't have any requirement to save receipts. Charities and businesses do have that requirement.
It's one of those things that's technically true based on using statistics selectively. If you count all their investments, given that the top 1% control 43% of all wealth, they produce a large percentage of global emissions (but at 16%, not as large as their share of the wealth would suggest).

But it's irrelevant to climate change because there's nothing that you can do to them that would substantially decrease those emissions. It's not like they're causing a huge amount of pollution from their private jets and golf courses. If you redistribute their shares to someone poorer then the same amount of pollution will be produced, because a factory that produces five million tons of CO₂ does so regardless of the makeup of the owners.
China is building new coal plants about 40 gigawatts new net capacity per year.

The new plants that are designed to run only intermittently as a peaker plants to smooth out differences in solar supply and demand.
> One thing I learned about optimizers is some optimizations undo earlier optimizations. The state of the optimized program will sometimes flip-flop back and forth and never converge on a solution. Then you have to rely on a heuristic to guess at the better form, and live with it. The optimizer has a counter in it so it will "pull the plug" if it fails to converge, and will just go with the last state.

The way every optimizer I've worked on (and written) deals with this is canonical forms. Like, you decree that the canonical form of "multiply integer by 2" is "x << 1", and then you make sure that no optimization ever turns "x << 1" into anything else (though the instruction selector may then turn "x << 1" into "x + x" since that's the best thing on most CPUs).

But that doesn't necessarily make this problem any easier. Just gives you a principled story for how to fix the problem if you find it. I think that usually the canonical forms aren't even that well documented, and if you get it wrong, then you'll still have valid IR so it's not like the IR verifier will tell you that you made a mistake - you'll just find out because of some infinite loop.

And yeah, lots of compiler optimization fixpoints have a counter to kill them after some limit. The LLVM inliner fixpoint is one example of such a thing.

> I was really angry about that, as the journalist never bothered to call us and ask about DLC's behavior. Our sales tanked after that article.

Whoa! That's a crazy story! Thanks for sharing!
LLM experiments.
You might chuckle, but the first time I even heard the name was when I looked up original PEN story and then her profile so all you heard from me was a genuine reaction to what I believe is being presented to me without additional pre-conceived notions.

Some issues are more interesting than others ( to me anyway ), but I will start by saying something else. In a sense, she is not really saying anything new. The subject has been relatively well studied thanks partially to US focus on WW2 and its role in it. So a lot of her stuff[1][2] is not much to complain about as it is very, very generic fluff that most college students should be able to regurgitate if they read anything beyond "The Prince".

That is not to say that there is nothing in those interviews[1. 7:54 ] that is not objectionable. For one thing, and it is interesting that this particular -- lets call it -- perspective comes from academics ( almost too common once you start hearing the refrain often enough ).

Said perspective is summarized by phrase "the myth of national greatness'. You can say a lot about US and likely not be wrong, but calling world superpower national greatness a myth may be a little.. lets say.. inaccurate; skewed if I felt charitable. And she is not talking about now. If this is the opening, I have some problem accepting her analysis as 'acceptable' if I can't even trust her basic grasp of historical fact as solid. And she is a highly credentialed historian, which puts into question more than just her, but people who decided she can present her ideas as solid gold ( and that happens to include academia and media ). But the issue is not even that.. the issue is whether this the kind of demoralization ( "US was never great. It is a myth." ) the Naval Academy needs.

'Criminal mismanagement of the pandemic' [1. 9:34] suggesting heavy political bent that may go a little beyond her 'fascism expert' title assigned by MSNBC. Say what you want about Trump, but criminality of the pandemic management is arguably about the least criminal thing he could be reasonably accused of. Frankly, just by saying this she kinda limits her credibility and marks herself as a partisan. And here again I argue that Naval Academy being drawn into political wars is a bad, bad idea.

So that is my opening monologue. I would be curious to see if we can turn it into dialogue.

[1]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HVj_M-IgE7c
[2]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7vO6DolG6vE
Are all experiments done on bacteria directly applicable to multi celled organism?, that's something new :)
> the more I am convinced that Google has trained a two-speaker “podcast discussion” model that directly generates the podcast off the back of an existing multimodal backbone.

I have good and bad news for you - they did not! We were the first podcast to interview the audio engineer who led the audio model:

https://www.latent.space/p/notebooklm

TLDR they did confirm that the transcript and the audio are generated separately, but yes the TTS model is trained far beyond anything we have in OSS or commercially available
For tables, Pollen supports both the Markdown table syntax, and straight-up HTML, which should fit the need easily enough.
You'd never have a `compare(std::string a, std::string b)` function in your code base. It would make copies of the strings (and destroy them). So it seems to me the article is comparing their new thing to a straw man.