skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It seems like a hard needle to thread: mainstream enough that billions of users will use it with a set of features unique enough that Chrome and Edge won’t just copy.

Tabs was such an obviously good idea all the browsers copied it in short order. Anything arc builds on top of chromium seems destined for the same fate once millions are using it.

If you want to change behavior you have to start with a clear mainstream user need, not building features for power users and hoping they trickle down.
Do you need to trust your own eyes? You can validate claims made yourself can't you
Unfortunately single tickets spanning multiple countries get increasingly rare. Still not too long ago you could by a ticket from any German station to London or Stockholm (or the other direction). In case you miss a connection you still have a ticket and you'll get some compensation (which could be more or less than the extra costs you had). But no longer, those are just not sold anymore.

So if you don't like the reverse gambling (no extra costs if you win, potentially several 100% extra if you lose) you should buy an Interrail pass (Eurail for those not living in Europe). It's often not cheaper than a single advance tickets, but it gives peace of mind that you still have a ticket if connections fail. (You should not try to heavily optimize pass days against schedules though, otherwise you have the same problem, your pass might run out before you are back where you need to be.)
It's a technical solution to a technical problem, that problem being the client-server architecture which inherently centralizes control and disempowers users.

The Internet started out peer-to-peer, but client-server became dominant during the 90s when the Internet became mainstream - because at the time it was the only option for building services that scaled.

Freenet provides an alternative to the client-server architecture that doesn't require compromising on user experience or scalability.
Real question: why?
I suspect this can be bypassed with knowledge about the size of the target system.

Intuitively, there are a finite number of passwords that can be stored on earth, so a large enough system should be able to enumerate them? Whilst also existing in the observable universe.
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The ones Ive seen succeed without going to university seems all to have a chip on their shoulder and is still angry, and what I suspect worry, about it even decades later. They mention it out of the blue and seem angry thinking about it.

Seems kind of sad to me that, that is the price to pay...

I should mention that I such an experience myself with the driving licence. I did not need a driving license, because I live in a city with a great subway, but I was thinking about it. Took some mental energy on the regular. So I took it when I was around 27 years old and haven't driven our thought about it since.

Anyone else with similar experience?
Joe is a very curious person, so it goes in that direction sometimes just because it's interesting to think about.

He's had biologists, virologists, bio-hackers, engineers, doctors, regenerative farmers, psychologists, wild life experts, physicists, etc.
You read "the specific contributory role of psychedelic drugs is unknown" from Wikipedia as "the relation to psychedelics is pretty murky"? Did you follow any of the links before you posted your comment?

Most hallucinogen users will experience some long-lasting effects, especially to their vision. The nature of it can vary. This can happen in only one use.
I found the article lacking the context of the total electricity generation. Is this 1%, 10%?
The speed of research in this area is fast enough that I don't think it's worth reading a review from ten years ago. My understanding is that interest in rapamycin has faded a bit since then, can anyone confirm this?
I'm just responding to the premise of the parent comment; I don't have any strong sense one way or another whether it's accurate or not.
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I disagree. Apps barely use Binder directly, but mostly call framework jar (which yes will do binder, but since they are reimplementing framework jar that's fine). Intents and permissions can be implemented without binder as the API is quite semantic.
It may happen that the app uses Binder for same-app IPC, but since app does ser-des itself, you can easily replace Android.os.binder by whatever IPC you want,
The only "real" issue I can see , and you're right there, is Play Services. I think that handling that case specifically later (once floss apps/apps that don't require play services work properly), is not too horrific (it basically needs to compile the aidl into not calling binder, but redirecting it to a custom lib)
Before this gets decomissioned Christopher Nolan should get his hands on it
I know you're making a pun, but I will say one big benefit of deadlifting is a lot of things that would cause back-pain no longer do so. You don't have to lift a whole lot either, just enough to start building back muscles, and all of a sudden I can do things that would normally produce endless lower back pain.
I have a handful of Realistic Chronomatic clock radios scattered about the house, including one at my bedside. The LED digits are large, and the alarms are loud - basically, exactly what I want in an alarm clock.
https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/species

"set of animals or plants in which the members have similar characteristics to each other and can breed with each other"

Breeding is a criteria for differentiating species and also there is a lot of difference between theory and practice.
But why not just download the mp3 then?
Loving reading this but.. 'TLDR - at the bottom' is wicked
I don't think so as epub renderers target the spec which is pretty entrenched at this point.
for ipv4 you can do with with just a single lookup, so real O(1)

store the entire thing in one big array, indexed by the uint24 value of the /24

so ASN for 0.0.0.0 stored in position 0, ASN for 0.0.1.0 stored in position 1, etc

and you can drop 0.0.0.0/8, 10.0.0.0/8, 127.0.0.0/8, 224.0.0.0/4, 240.0.0.0/24 to save 35 /8s

(256-16-16-3)256256*4 bytes needed -> 55mb

mmap it if necessary
I had no idea that digital clocks time themselves by by measuring the mains frequency. And that this is an intended, albeit very minor, function of the power grid! It's amazing how things that provide only a tiny benefit to any individual but has an effect on such a massive scale that people actually sit down and spend time making it work.
So they've brought back the Star Chamber then.

Such a shame to see that country go from what it was to what it is now.

It's like they've all decided "ok so we've done being strong and great, now let's try be the biggest pieces of shit we can be".
There are a lot of bits available on the earth.
(SF is 150 years old and 7x7 miles in size, we do not compare to London on any dimension. My whole city could be a borough of London!)

(This one time I was at a party (it was a long time ago) and these Italian dudes were there, and when I mentioned that I was from SF one of them said, "Nice town." ... I was a little miffed, but they were from Rome, so... *shrug* )
Sadly, with commercial air travel the time a passenger spends on the plane between say SF and LA represents only a small portion of their total travel time. This is commonly overlooked or not understood by people unfamiliar with traveling by train.
DWARF does contain turing-complete VM for doing unwinding, so theoretically it should already be possible to make a compiler that gives precise debug info everywhere, no new protocol necessary.

But completely-reversible-anywhere optimizations are rather limiting, disallowing a bunch of things; including, but not limited to, dead code elimination (more generally, forgetting some fraction of state from somewhere), identical code merging, and instruction reordering (esp. vectorization, which essentially reorders across multiple loop iterations), severely limiting what your optimizer can even do.
I think it can still be both; Lack of outside life and internal protest.

>Hossam Nasr, said the purpose of the vigil was both “to honor the victims of the Palestinian genocide in Gaza and to call attention to Microsoft’s complicity in the genocide” because of the use of its technology by the Israeli military.
Is retraining the staff really that big a deal?

IIUC, they valued it at 1M per plane [1] and I guess list price of the Max is ~100M [2] so while 1% of the aircrafts value isn't nothing I think it gets completely dwarfed by operational costs.

Not sure how expensive their fuel but I have to imagine over the course of the plane's lifespan that fuel is going to be the primary cost (maybe maintenance / parts would be higher). So if you have to retrain your pilots to fly a plane that requires less fuel per passenger I think you'd come out ahead.

[1]: https://airinsight.com/southwest-and-boeing-the-cost-of-loya...

[2]: http://www.axonaviation.com/commercial-aircraft/aircraft-dat...
I don’t have a fiduciary obligation to you, so this analogy falls apart pretty quickly.
That's the annoying part about NLM. It ruins the illusion of having one person explaining it to the other person.
There’s also this page:

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Alternative_parsers
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There is nothing new about this. Do you think you could call your boss an active participant in genocide and keep working 20 years ago? You would be shown the do them too.
Not all railway companies participate in AJC. E.g. neither Snälltåget operating the Stockholm - Berlin night train and nor Flixtrain offering budget tickets between Berlin and some German cities are participating.
Previously (on the source article) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41955258

Please submit the original source https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
> What NotebookLM does at an LLM level is not particularly novel, it's the packaging as a product...

Disagreed. NLM is novel in how the two hosts interrupt and overlap each other. No other OSS solution does that, they just take turns talking.
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Hi all, I was recently going through pg_upgrade of my project and came up with this tiny utility. Sharing here in case anybody would find it useful too.
IEA: Energy system of China

https://www.iea.org/countries/china (2022)

There's total energy : https://www.iea.org/countries/china/energy-mix

and there's just electricity : https://www.iea.org/countries/china/electricity

Total 2022 electricity production in China: 8 950 643 GWh (Global #1)

Total 2022 electricity production in USofA: 4 495 368 GWh (Global #2)

Currently coal is the source of 62% of China's total electricity generation.
It's speaker diarisation, and depending on the quality of the resulting labelling and speaker end marker tokens, what influences the rhythm of a conversation (Or the input data just has many podcast hosts completing each other's..sandwiches?)
I've never looked into this. How often do they sail? I can't imagine more than weekly or even monthly. I would definitely consider it though.
The parent's criticism was of the American government. Also, Israel is certainly not acting more restrained in Gaza; civilian deaths are well over 100K at this point.
The relevant EU regulation says the trough-tickets should be offered. That's of course useless for the passenger as long as there are no sanctions if they are not offered.
Very true - and every demonstration of “English is hard to spell/pronounce” focuses directly on the exceptions which exaggerates the problem. One analysis I’ve seen puts it that with a single set of rules, 59% of a sample corpus of 5000 English words can be pronounced perfectly from the spelling (of course, there will be regional accent and dialect differences so that percentage will be a bit different for each one) and up to 85% can be pretty close with only slight errors.

Then there’s a percentage where they’re just direct borrowings from other languages and you need to have an idea of how that language pronounces words (especially French), so really only 10-15% or so of English words end up being true exceptions.

1. https://www.zompist.com/spell.html
By "target system" you mean "system from which the password originated", right? But unless you think true randomness is impossible, and also that all possible sources of pseudo-random input on Earth come from terrestrial sources and not, say, incoming cosmic radiation, then knowing the size of the "Earth" system is no constraint at all. A heuristic for focusing your search, maybe, if you think the password is likely to be something easily memorable for a human, but that's nothing to do with the size of the system, just commonly-transmitted information there.

The phrase "stored on Earth" is a red herring. You don't need to store all possible passwords for those passwords to be possible to generate here. And really, a consequence of the article is that if enumerating even a couple hundred bits is prohibitive, then enumerating all possible information that could be generated by and stored in an earth-size system, as you seem to be suggesting, is no better.
For context, the parser I'm talking about in my first post is Parsoid on that list.
Hi! Entropy unfortunately much more complicated than that in practice, mainly as actually finding the real underlying entropy of a variable is quite difficult in practice!

However, we can define it as a quantity with respect to different values. But the entropy of a variable as estimated by the model is generally not the actual entropy of the variable, and this gets worse for sequences -- we can maybe upper bound the entropy of a sequence when measuring it, but this is not always a useful or important quantity for us to have.

For more info, please see https://people.math.harvard.edu/~ctm/home/text/others/shanno...
https://www.landsburg.com/grothendieck/mclarty1.pdf
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True hacker would use web scraping to get the rates and a bash script to turn the switch on and off based on rates
Which players only accept mp3? Maybe this was true in the early 2000s
At my company the CEO sent out a long email after October 7 lamenting how horrible and unjustified it was. Did the same occur at any of these BigTech MIC puppet companies?
I had a similar thought, along the lines of https://xkcd.com/538/
Nowhere on their site (that I can find) do they mention that. There's lots of sales talk about it does all the work and adapts, etc., but nothing about what it actually does.

I can't see a reason to change browsers. What are the features that Arc has that other browsers don't have?

Their sales pitch is the problem they need to solve.
I love the idea and thought I'd do a rough check on the math:

Assuming the goal is to match the power delivery of a high power UK kettle, looks like the batteries will need to step in and produce about 1kW of power for the duration of the boil, something like 50% on top of the standard 15A US circuit. I know on paper the circuit ratings are nearly 2x, but in practice it sounds like it's closer to 1.5x for the average kettle comparison.

80% efficiency for the heating coil, 1.6L of water, you need about ~750kJ (200Wh) get to a boil from 10C tap water.

So you'll need at least 70Wh output from your battery, and it needs to provide 1kW continuously. Accounting for conversion losses and some buffer to avoid deep discharge I'll target 80Wh. At 1kW that's a continuous 13C discharge rate, which is pretty high. Hobby-oriented LiPo packs will do it, but I'm not sure how they would hold up for consumer product safety and longevity. LiFePO cells could be a good choice since density is _less_ of a concern, and are readily available with 20+C continuous discharge.

I don't know my power electronics very well, so I'm not sure the best way to merge the outputs. Any conversions are going to eat into total power and thus boil time, just rectifying the AC will take 20%. Maybe it makes the most sense to have two separate coils, one direct from AC and a second from the battery? With smaller cells in series, say 10+, to get a decent voltage it could end up with a manageable current to use directly with the 1kW boost. In that case the only expensive power electronics needed would be to charge the batteries.

Also have to figure out how much recharge time matters to people, since by default it would be an hour or so.

It's going to have a chunky, heavy base, and guessing it will have to be pretty expensive for what it does, but I like it.
Traveling on tight schedules is always risky, whether you go by car, plane or train.
Yes, it isn't. But they did a lot to eradicate entropy in the builds and I believe they are able to reproduce base system images bit by bit.

Another attempt in that area is stal/ix, which is much more reproducible than nix, its store is content-addressable: https://stal-ix.github.io/
I'm stuck on the title.

What's this article about? Why should I read it?

(I read it)

This post's title does not echo some of the points in the article. Good human-sourced writing will be hard to do/find?

Well, don't perpetuate the problem with a title that doesn't tell me why to pay attention.
And? What’s the point of comparing? Is there a prize to being the most disabled?

There’s always someone who has it worse by some metric than you, there’s no benefit to setting up a disability podium and awarding prizes.

BTW, your “pinky vs quad” comparison is a huge straw man.

That’s all I’m going to say, you’ve obviously not going to benefit from any further conversation.
Do you think lions and tigers are the same species, then? Wolves and coyotes? Horses and donkeys? Camels and llamas?

“Can interbreed” is a fuzzy line too, the probability decreases as genetic distance increases but it doesn’t just suddenly stop. Sometimes very different species can interbreed, and sometimes a small change is enough to make it stop working. Of course, often breeding can be accomplished with human intervention, but never in nature, for simple mechanical or behavioral reasons.
The DC metro isn’t great? Blasphemy! You can get most of the interesting places (including Union Station and both airports) without a car.

(unless you’re in one of the dead zones, I suppose. No metro in Georgetown.)
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Value types still require allocation for types larger than 128 bits if the value is either nullable or atomic — that seems like a reasonable trade-off to me.
He's not opposed to JS entirely (he specifically praises a handful of JS-based tech like ServiceWorkers), more so the all-JS single page type of app. To be fair he definitely could have been more clear about what he's talking about and what lines he's drawing.
Prosecute Post Office for man slaughter?
When there's too much energy available for the grid, and the price goes negative, producers are paying for someone to use that energy or paying another potential producer to reduce their output.

Some industrial users have variable demand, and a lower (or negative) price could encourage them to use more. A multi-region internet service might send more traffic to a datacenter with negative electricity prices, even if in increases latency for users.

Some producers need time to modulate output, and stopping and restarting can be expensive. Solar and Wind are at least technically easy to start/stop, but subsidies may make it economic to pay the grid to deliver electricity; either because of contracts/subsidies, or because the expense to deliver unwanted electricity is less than the expense to monitor pricing and reduce production.
Maybe, but if you really don’t want to carry stuff around then it’s optimal to just type the code in (…which is why it makes zero sense that the keypads suck. except that they were being cheap.)
With that tight of a schedule, international flights will screw you fairly often too. That's just not enough slack for robustness.
Most cars now can easily last 15 years/200,000 miles with maintenance. Obviously a few will fail, but I’ve done it a few times now (miles wise), 200k seems like a cut off, transmission can fail, various chassis parts worn out, etc. Some people even get 300-400k miles out of some of the more reliable brands like Toyota/Honda/Subaru
> Yes, it isn't.

It took me some time to get used to the way native speakers of English express agreement or disagreement with a negative statement.

Agree: “No, it isn’t.”

Disagree: “Yes, it is.”
Thank you swyx. How did I miss this episode?
Carmack is probably the only one who sticks out as he wasn't rich, connected or have early access.

Gates had super-early access to computers via his prep school. By the time he left high-school, he probably had more computer experience than almost all college graduates.

Jonathan Blow spent almost 5 years at Berkeley and hooked up with the Tcl guys (Adam Sah sticks out). That's practially a graduate degree. see: http://number-none.com/blow/papers/rush_tcl94.pdf

Markus Persson--(By 1994, Persson knew he wanted to become a video game developer, but his teachers advised him to study graphic design, which he did from ages 15 to 18. ... He never finished high school, but was reportedly a good student.) That's hardly a high school dropout. And, IIRC, studying something like graphic design in the system in Sweden is akin to an apprenticeship, no?
Anything like this should be compared to Love2D which is the gold standard. LuaJIT and lots of great libraries wrapped into extremely simple lua functions.
It sounds like the Chinese version of 1337speak.
How would this model handle code that needs to be as fast as possible, at the cost of debugging? E.g. all hot-loop code, all high performance numerical code, all latency sensitive and instruction sensitive code?

> If your optimization is that situation specific, it should stay stuck in "experimental".

Yeah, I have a feeling that there’s low-key lots of applications for whom many compiler optimisations that you’re branding “experimental” are in fact run-of-the-mill and would just enable “experimental” mode so frequently it’d just be synonymous with “actually release mode”.

> And through all of this, the compiler should also eject files that carry enough information to allow debuggers to make sense of the compiled code, unwind the optimizations when the users asks, and present a coherent version of what is going on.

This is a pretty cool idea, semi-related, you should check out some of the work around E-Graphs, which attempt to enable the same level of optimisations but also preserve more original context.
It’d be neat to have the equivalent of source-maps for highly optimised code, but I’m not sure how we’d manage them without them becoming enormous. After things like inlining, constant-folding, desugaring, rearrangement operations, etc all take place I suspect you’d be left with code that bears only the merest passing resemblance to its original form.
I think one of the biggest drivers here is the opportunity cost of taking pilots out of flying schedules to provide training on a new platform, and I imagine this is exacerbated by the ongoing pilot shortage.

Also there are operational efficiencies captured on the maintenance side of things, more streamlined parts inventory management, etc.

Then you also have to rework all your routes and contingencies. If you now fly more than one type of plane you have to make sure you always have a pilot available for right type of plain in a specific location if you ever need to restaff a route.

That’s all to say that adding a new plane platform to an airline is probably akin to a full replatforming of a production app. Sounds simple but there are tons of nuances with the actual execution.