skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This may be different per city, but at least near me this isn't true, the suburbs have a grocery (or several).

> Presumably if you pick one, you'll start to see the same faces, though

Sure, and you'll likely only see them in the grocery and not elsewhere. Probably the same with the bar; I too know a bunch of regulars at a local bar, but likely not going to run into them outside that bar unless we become friends and make specific plans to do so. Also those people probably aren't my actual neighbors. It's a different kind and frequency of chance meeting when the built-environment is designed to facilitate community. I'm not saying that you'll literally never meet a neighbor in the grocery, it will happen, it's just not going to happen with the same kind of frequency as if we actually designed the built-environment to encourage it.
> your laptop

I kinda like my desktops.
If your life is dominated by an us vs them dynamic small demonstrations of difference become hugely important.

In a similar vein different people in Xinjiang in China observe entirely different timezones - Han Chinese observe Beijing time (because China is insane and uses one timezone despite spanning 5), while Uyghurs observe a local time 2 hours behind.

It’s a small show of resistance, which is sometimes all a people have if they have limited control of their own affairs.
Not sure if true today, but used to be the case in Brazil too. Once almost missed a flight because of that.
$100B is crazy, no one would buy OpenAI for $100B.
Some people do care about their elderly parents and help them out.
You miss the point that being in the frame for an extended period is, surely, incredibly stressful.

How long does it take to get to trial?

Do you think you could have that on your plate for months and suffer no negatives?

Do you prefer to find bail money, or sit in jail?
I've tried using AI(Claude) to do refactors/move code between languages, and in my experience, it has the tendency to go off the rails and just start making up code that does something similar, essentially doing a rewrite that never works.
The average person probably violates jaywalking laws multiple times a day. What other law do most people break constantly as just part of day to day life?
Again, without wanting to get too political, I think it's essentially bikeshedding. The Palestinian National Authority is riven with factional conflicts and has very limited state capacity. That almost inevitably leads to a lot of bickering over largely irrelevant decisions as a symbolic but hollow demonstration of political authority. The ability to make the decision takes on an importance completely out of proportion with the actual significance of the decision.
how would that even work? On the whole spectrum. From the starlink satellite receiving signal to it being remotely justified in economical terms.
Ah, Thanks, that makes sense, but then I don't understand how this isn't just a bug in these Rust runtimes. As in: the drop codepath on the future needs to not only submit the cancellation SQE into io_uring, it also needs to still process CQEs from the original request that pop up before the CQE for the cancellation…

NB: I have only done a little bit of Rust, but am hoping to move there in the future — but I am working on C code interfacing io_uring… I will say doing this correctly does in fact require a bit of brainpower when writing that code.
This is very true, and it's a PITA when the corporate design team doesn't know anything about mobile design and thinks mobile apps are just "Honey, I shrunk the web app" with some Figma plugins to help. It can be an uphill battle to get them to compromise.
Pg_analytics has switched to PostgreSQL license
"Interesting how using ray tracing inherently makes rendering shadows a non issue."

Raytracing simulates real lighting.
Shadows are, where no light is.
Basically updating the law to match what everyone already does.
That's why I do it at the time the query is made. I don't ever store UTC.
Young people today drink less alcohol, smoke less, start sexual life later and get pregnant as teenagers less often then previous generation.

So these parents may be up to something.
> artificial general intelligence, which ChatGPT objectively is

I'm sorry, but that's absolutely delusional.
Retail usually has larger fees unless you mean Robin Hood which is monetizing you in other ways.
that's not true, it will be black (or ambient light) when any two shadows, one from each light, intersect. that's because if it is in shadow from light A and in shadow from light B, where would it get any illumination from? only from the ambient light, or if there is none, it would be black.
Altman did deny it.

https://www.fierceelectronics.com/electronics/openai-ceo-alt...
Well, if you do that, you will also end up alone in room pretty soo too. So, all in one.
The person you are responding to (Matthew) produces great content, not as frequently
Aesthetically it looks like the game has come so far over the past 11 years but I was surprised to see that some rather advanced features like logisitic robots were already in this version of the game. Latest trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OiczN-8QKDA
But what if you breathe it in!!!1! Dihydrogen monoxide is no joke, many people are killed by it every year.
Astral: Next-Gen Python Tooling
It works for presenting or selecting initial language. Even that is debatable because some big players don't even care about that and present language based on location.

Explaining to people they should go and change their browser settings is major hassle.
To the machinist/s here:

For nearly a year, I've been contacting local machinists for a small[*] project which involves 1) an accurate cut on both ends of a 17" billet of T6061, 2) two crescent cuts, 3) up to 8 threaded holes, but probably, 4) a wee bit o end shaping.

All the aesthetic contours, shaping and weight reduction I'd do manually - I hand machine bronze, aluminum and wood archer's thumb-rings, so can wangle that part.

This project would result in the world's first ILF asiatic (no shelf), ambidextrous aluminum 17" riser.

Though... Every machinist I've spoken to is either friendly at first, implying willingness and ready capabilities, or they simply say no thanks. But all of them ultimately reject the task, typically saying they're too busy.

I also have a design for a bow stringer that can handle longbows, recurves and short Asiatic bows safely and efficiently. No one will fabricate it around here.

Any suggestions as to why this is such a pariah project? Any suggestions on how I might achieve this?

* Not necessarily a good reason/excuse
In addition, everyone is stupid sometimes, especially me.
I truly wonder how long it would’ve taken for something like ChatGPT to exist and takeoff if Sam hadn’t had such crazy ambitions.
If Rust would be as good as advertised we would have at least 5 Rust kernels 10x faster then Linux or BSD and 100% safe and all servers in the world would run those kernels. Is there at least one kernel with a big tech behind it or with a big army or Rust evangelists giving 5$ a month to finance it?
i believe you can enable “power on with space bar”?
I know a couple folks who seem to fit his personality and humor, but don’t write
Ethiopian time keeping is peculiar all over.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethiopian_calendar

The Ethiopian calendar has twelve months, all thirty days long, and five or six epagomenal days, which form a thirteenth month.
It would be entirely reasonable to wonder if fission-pumped fusion could be scaled down and pulsed.

It would be a Lovecraftian nightmare of unmentionable proportions to actually operate, but you could imagine it breaking even.
The sibling comment to yours points out cancelling Futures is dropping Futures, what's your experience / do you think that would work to prevent needing the out-of-band mechanism?
True, but vw’s kicking and screaming against electrification has only doomed them. I’m sure typewriter companies would welcome tariffs on computers too.
> Well as long as you have vast amount of storage capacity + overprovision

Why would that need to be? The full needs need to be taken into account. But that's a TCO calculation, not something to add to the solar cost.

Nuclear energy in Europe tends to be way more expensive than initially budgeted. Resulting in a crazy difference in the kWh cost vs solar/wind. And there's more ways to store "electricity" than just batteries.
HyperRogue: The Non-Euclidean Roguelike
> Of the 50 billionaires studied, around 40 percent of their investments were in high-polluting industries like oil, mining, and shipping, with few having significant renewable energy investments. That means the average billionaire's investment portfolio is responsible for 340 times the emissions of private jets and yachts - combined.

It doesn't make sense to tally someone's investments as them polluting. If they sell half their investment, the pollution emissions on earth don't go down.

Oxfam just lost its credibility with me.
Every thread about AI coding turns into a therapy session for those devs among us who apparently derive a lot of their self worth from being able to write code.

Every time I mention using AI at work the same people put on their nitpicking glasses and start squinting.

It's getting to be embarrassing. I just wish those who choose to remain ignorant about these technologies would just listen to what other people are doing instead of raising spectres.
Does anyone understand what was meant by "This is because almost every standard (except ISO8601, whatever) is just a file, and you can read it." Initially I thought it was because the PDF of ISO-8601 is not a file commonly distributed with operating system. But that's not unique to ISO8601, you won't find IEEE 1588-2019 or NMEA 0183 v4.11 on your computer either. For ~20$ I think I can buy a PDF of the standard from ISO. Is there something special about ISO8601 that is not contained in the standard?
> First of all, we are fortunate that the I/O safety problem can be addressed now, which safe Rust aims to ensure this in the future. Rust provides the Drop trait to define custom behavior when a value is cleaned up. Thus, we can do something like this...

> We just need to encourage async runtimes to implement this fix.

This likely needs async drop if you need to perform a follow up call to cancel the outstanding tasks or closing the open sockets. Async Drop is currently experimental:

https://github.com/rust-lang/compiler-team/issues/727
I've only looked at the execution plan in SQL server, but they're the same. Because of the way they're set up you'll get an index seek and an index scan when using the ANSI syntax or the older style. The WHERE clause join does not apply a bunch of filtering on an intermediate state.
Leaking file descriptors is safe, at least as far as the IO-safety RFC defines it. It's just a regular bug.
Anti-miscegenation laws were a common place one for some time .. arguably some alive today are still a living crime.

Trevor Noah titled a book Born a Crime in reference to his birth in South Africa, similar laws remained in force in many US states until 1967 which means a number of people walking about the US today have an existence that was a crime.
In isolation, yes, but combined with divestment or investment via etf’s like VOTE it may be meaningful at some point.
I don't think it's possible to get away with fundamentally no cancellation support, there are enough edge cases that need it even if most applications don't have such edge cases.

FWIW, this was also painful to do across threads in our C event loop, but there was no way around the fact that we needed it (cf. https://github.com/FRRouting/frr/blob/56d994aecab08b9462f2c8... )
I only just recently been into BOTW (well technically last christmas but only played a few days in january) and went back to it last month. You can totally play and explore for a long time while avoiding most fights. Just keep some wood and silex to sleep during the night and avoid the random bats and skeleton creatures.
The singularity is a sci-fi end-of-days story. It speculates that at some point we'll invent an AI that's about as smart as a human, and smart enough to design a better version of itself.

Then a week later it'll come up with a version of itself that's twice as smart. A week later that version will come up with a version that's twice as smart again, making it 4x as smart as a human. A week after that, it'll come up with a version that's twice as smart again, 8x as smart as a human. And so on. A year later it'll be a trillion times smarter than a human.

The AI will then either solve all our problems, invent fusion power and faster-than-light travel, and usher in a Star Trek style post-scarcity world of infinite resources and luxury, or it'll take over and create a Terminator style oppressive dystopia where the few surviving humans survive on rats we roast over a barrel in our underground bunker.
I don't see why announcing DST would be a big effort. And it saves on electricity costs.
Move your Photos library to save space on your Mac:

https://support.apple.com/en-us/108345
As foolish as stealing assets of Russians

Either way it is noise used to serve propaganda
You missed the point. There are more OSes out there. If you had to relearn a brand new "full stack experience" for every OS just to ship a cross-platform app, you wouldn't have any time left for business logic. libcurl is great and it runs everywhere.

And now for a personal opinion: I'll take libcurl over .NET's IHttpClientFactory any day.
You raise some good points.

> Inertial confinement fusion like the NIF is not intended to run continuously, so the 2ns duration is irrelevant.

Indeed. I do think ICF has a future. The issue I described applies to machines that attempt to achieve sustained fusion. Pulsed fusion is ok.

> The heat loss is practically limited by the mass of hydrogen fusing in the machine.

Yes, but it goes the other way too. If the heat loss is to high you can't sustain fusion because you can't stay at the required temperature for long enough.
The most interesting timezone I ever encountered is Europe/Moscow on and around January 1, 1900. If you decide to use that date as a zero date in your code (for example, to handle the transition from two digits per year), you will be in a lot of pain: the offset was +02:30:17. Yes, with 17 seconds! Demo: https://go.dev/play/p/lq36Plr1sIL
> if the timezone definition changes

Or if DST kicks in/out. No need to have the definitions change.
Not specific to wasmer, but WASI runtimes are much more lightweight than Docker, especially on Windows or macOS.

For instance on macOS, a wasmer installation is a single 45 MByte executable, the alternative wasmtime is 28 MBytes, and if performance doesn't matter much, the wasm3 WASI interpreter is a 255 KBytes(!) executable - compared to that, a macOS Docker installation is 1.5 GBytes (and that doesn't even include any docker images).

WASI itself can also be used in places where Docker doesn't make sense, for instance in this VSCode extension I'm using a C cmdline tool compiled to a 209 KB WASI blob:

https://github.com/floooh/vscode-kcide
> and I were both comparing what happened before the industrial revolution to what happened in it.

Sure. Just keep in mind that the period 1500-1760 also saw a lot of technological development that was laying the groundwork for the industrial revolution. Things like windmills, ever more advanced metallurgy, proto-chemistry, physics and so on.

In fact, some of this goes back to about 1000AD and the High Middle Ages. It was really mostly in the Dark Ages when land ownership (with subsistence farming and the military to defend it) was the source of most wealth. From 1000AD until now, land was gradually replaced by other economic capabilities as the main differentiating source of wealth. (Cities with cultures that produced skilled artisans, trade routes, naval capabilities, near-factory-level workshops centralizing production, etc.)

I suppose all I write above supports your view that land isn't currently the main source of wealth, but rather the ability to leverage skilled labor.

In the future, though, I do think there is a possibility that natural resources (and the physical power to protect them) may again become the main form of wealth, simply because the value of skilled labor may approach zero.
The EU doesn't care if BYD opens factories in Europe.
Freedom ain't free, as they say
There's a pretty continuous spectrum. Trying to draw a hard line is stupid. The same is true for AWD/4wd and wagon/SUV/crossover.

I didn't downvote you
This reference at the bottom of article was very interesting to me: https://without.boats/blog/io-uring/

"So I think this is the solution we should all adopt and move forward with: io-uring controls the buffers, the fastest interfaces on io-uring are the buffered interfaces, the unbuffered interfaces make an extra copy. We can stop being mired in trying to force the language to do something impossible. But there are still many many interesting questions ahead."
>It doesn't make sense to tally someone's investments as them polluting. If they sell half their investment, the pollution emissions on earth don't go down.

No but your income depends on pollution happening and you investing in X company enables that company to raise cash to keep on polluting or in worst case start polluting.
Possibly joking about the .iso file-type for optical disc images?

Or maybe that 'most' ISO standards that are encountered by engineers are defining file-types.

I'm also a big fan of ISO-3166 though !
Those were fun times, but torrent fits this use case now. You seed the chunk a single time and it magically gets distributed, like you said, without being slowed down by your home internet...

That's progress I believe.
> but it doesn’t scale up or down quickly.

The newer ones can. Though that's partly my dislike. There's always yet another new technological solution for the various drawbacks. Which often are unproven (e.g. SMRs) and that often results in crazy cost overruns.

Nuclear has a crazy high fixed cost so ideally you still run it continuously.
We are headed towards the future of what "Snowpiercer" depicts if we dont tackle this.
You're setting up a scenario where you'd be in trouble regardless though; controlling the join order would be a local optimization and query would still probably have a table scan, while appropriately indexing would solve any query planner mistakes and give you a more efficient execution in both styles.
"He considered the lack of inner independance not a matter of IQ or innate cleverness, but rather a failure of character"

"For Bonhoeffer, this concept was deeply rooted in his theological beliefs"

I will make a Christian commentary on ignorance. Here by "ignorance" I refer to the deliberate act of not wanting to know (something close to the author's definition of stupidity, but within the Christian perspective the concept I explained is more commonly used).

Spiritually speaking, ignorance is a kind of arrogance. If reason reveals to us the order of reality as created by God, the ignorant person harms themselves and others, dragging them into darkness through their refusal to know. They act as if they have the right to harm others for the sake of their own desires; that is arrogance. As stated above, it is a failure of character.
It's been a very long time since I've seen a query that uses the `table1, table2` cross-join syntax.

I'd be curious to know how many SQL people nowadays know what that does.
Leap seconds are generally trivia, but they become absolutely crucial in applications where multiple parties must be in exact agreement about chronology - the obvious example being financial transactions. A lot of markets were closed for the leap second and many banks still suspend all transactions during any change of local time to mitigate the risk of error.

Even in applications where we don't particularly care, there have been a surprisingly large number of leap second-related bugs. CGPM have decided to abolish the leap second for good reason.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leap_second#Other_reported_sof...
This is better, thank you "not all people are trained" - agree, it is a generalization , we are trained to an extent - I guess a curriculum on stupidity would raise the bar of awareness.

Ha - stupid actions were in the dumb and dumber category which I avoided, but would be fun on a course in Stupidity
Niklaus Wirth on Programming in 1968
BM25 implemented in Postgres as a Postgres extension: https://github.com/paradedb/paradedb (disclaimer: I work for ParadeDB)
because they buy in such vast quantities. if they make a change like this demand will outstrip supply beyond any reasonable slack in the system.
A Zine on Multiset Rewriting
"X follows Turkish laws when operating in Turkey, news at 11"
What a silly take. Of course it wouldnt change things in an instant but i twould long term. So if everyone divested from fossil fuel companies, tanking their stock price, and redirected that cash to renewable energy companies, you are saying no impact would happen in the long term? I beg to differ. It would force these companies to actually change their long term strategies so that investors continue to provide cash to them.

Dont worry, Oxfam doesnt need your simplistic views and support based on your own simplistic analysis.
I’m with you on this, at least in spirit.

I’ve tried AI coding assistance tools multiple times. Notably with Ansible and then with some AWS stuff using Amazon Q. I decided I wanted to be curious and see how it went.

With Ansible, it was an unusable mess. Ansible is a bit of an odd bird of a DSL though. You really need to be on top of versions and modules. It’s not well suited for AI because it requires a lot of nuanced understanding. There’s no one resource that will work (effectively) forever, like C or something.

With AWS’s Amazon Q, I started out simple by having it write an IAM policy that I was having a hard time wrapping my head around. It wasn’t very helpful because the policies it provided used conditional keys that weren’t supported in the service that was addressed by the policy.

I’ve found I can typically work with higher quality and less fixing by just writing it myself. I could babysit and teach an AI, but at that point what’s the point?

I’m also unconvinced it’s worth the environmental impact, especially if I need to tutor it or mark up its output anyway.

In any event, it’s easy enough to outsmart/out-clever oneself it a colleague (and vice versa). Adding AI to that just seems like adding a chaotic junior developer to that equation.