skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I guess it's a bit hard to change the way of thinking and structuring programs/applications.
We mostly do either blocking procedural things, or web servers.
Maybe actors can help remove the network from web servers where they add unnecessary complexity/overhead.

At the same time Web servers seem a bit better as I don't really want to be figuring out how many actors of each "class of actor" to spawn and to maybe babysit each of them, and for debugging the web stack has more tooling and is better understood than any particular actor system.
The advantages seem mostly out of experience and a lot of time. Maybe some iteration of an Actor framework will render Web servers too quirky/unsafe/slow/complex.
Yes, this is far more accurate. She was clearly aware and complicit.

I don't blame them for wanting this to be vindicating... it's just not though.
Seems to be supported

> Additionally ractor has a companion library, ractor_cluster which is needed for ractor to be deployed in a distributed (cluster-like) scenario. ractor_cluster shouldn’t be considered production ready, but it is relatively stable and we’d love your feedback!
I work in this field and it really is stagnant and dominated by high-priced Ansys/etc. For some reason silicon valley's open sourceness hasn't touched it. For open source, there's CalculiX which is full of bugs and Code Aster which everybody I've heard about it from say it's too confusing to use. CalculiX has Prepomax as a fairly new and popular pre/post.
Indeed. This one reason why when humans describe what they want from their software, developers build something entirely different from what was requested.

Perhaps this shortens the cycle time?
And I guess you didn't sign the paper or in any way had means to ensure it wasn't printed with the opposite candidates vote in the next room.

Neither did you have the opportunity to also vote for the other color of the uniparty and cross check the ballots to see they printed identically and according to selection
That is… literally not how solar works.

Coal runs 24/7 pretty predictably. 1kw of coal means 1kw of power 24/7.

Solar output varies heavily throughout the year, with only limited times where 1kw will be produced by that panel. On average, you’d be lucky to get 2-3 hrs a day at that capacity, and 8 hrs total of any significant output.

Also, the output from that panel needs to be converted/inverted to be used, and those inverters are expensive too.

If you want to produce electricity 24/7 from those panels, you’ll also need batteries.

So figure 5-10x the cost of a single panel to somewhat reliably produce that panels equivalent in energy 24/7 - assuming you have the space.
I really like Zig, and I’ve been thinking about using it for developing servers offering APIs over HTTP, using arenas bound to request lifetime. I think I would be comfortable developing like this myself. But all the devs in my org have only ever used managed-memory languages such as Java, C#, Python or JavaScript, which makes me hesitant, as I’m wondering about the learning curve, and of course the risk of use-after-free. Not something I would do anyway before Zig reaches 1.0.
I don't think it's a good metric, does it get stars because it's cool, or because people are building things with it while taking advantage of the Actor model?
100k 300 dimension float 32s is less than a gigabyte. Just use numpy to do the NN search in memory.
Are building alpinist robots here?

A company might happily have 4 hour shifts to facilitate charging the robot workforce, if that means they dont need to deal with unionizing, smoke-breaking, hung over, late coming, slow working and generally unpleasant humans in their workforce.
This is a good question and the same one, which Archive Team is trying to answer: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41141349
Much higher FPS and resolution than what FLIR even offers consumers.
It was only a few years old with a 1-2 dozen employees. Social networks hadn't been monetized in the way they are today. The market thought Facebook overpaid for Instagram.
How long does the battery last on one?
They're aware of it but importantly, they don't care.
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Wondering the same. The same column lists a bunch of Windows-only CVEs where an unprivileged user can do stuff, so there has to be some difference between those (CVE‑2024‑0117 - CVE‑2024‑0121) and the headliner CVE‑2024‑0126

They mention hypervisor breaches further below, so could the CVE 0126 imply that a local root user on a shared GPU machine of some sort can break out of the virtualization?
And what about the inverter, the mounts, cables, high voltage grid connection, monitoring, land purchase?
"Gem" - how about a lovely little summary of many of the fundamental problems with modern scientific research? I'll assume you've heard of the replication crisis, recent waves of retractions, "authors" who know almost nothing about the papers they've "written", and other signs that modern Big Science has pretty well stamped out all of the nice ideals about trustworthy & truth-seeking science & scientists which are still taught to schoolkids and the general public?

> What would be more interesting...

True. Mostly because, compared to the pharma industry and research foundations, the total funding available to those folks is on the very close order of $zero.
Everything you mentioned is a contribution to the local economy, though?

Tourism is €215 billion of Italy's income, about 1/10th of its GDP. Rich tourists coming off cruise ships doing impulse buys at huge profit margins sounds like a good thing to me, from a purely capitalist perspective.
I see it more like having a discussion, of some things the topic triggers and are very adjacent, crticism of cruise ships fit very well with articles about cruise ships.

You may very well add more thoughts about the specific one, about saving historic cruise ships to improve the balance.
It's even sillier than that because "energy costs to produce energy" is a cycle.

Suppose it emits 80 tons of CO2 to produce a given amount of solar when 80% of the power to build the solar farm comes from coal. Okay, but now you have solar farms generating 15% of your energy, so the next one only takes 65 tons of CO2 for the same amount of solar. Pretty obvious what happens when you stop burning fossil fuels entirely.
Rust's Most Subtle Syntax
Dorms and hostels have multiple beds in a room, and guests share bathrooms & kitchens. This is similar.
Hopefully. Then we can start to develop solid software on top of it.
If everyone got a unique prime number and a running total vote product was available, I always thought this would be a neat solution. Still susceptible to the goon-with-a-wrench technique I think
The post shows a “favorite C trigraph” thing, not that they were going out of their way to use trigraphs in actual code or that you should. Using trigraphs is the whole premise so no, your question makes no sense in that context.

FWIW the ??!??! double trigraph as error processing is funny because of the meaning of ?! and various combinations of ? and !. It is funny and it has trigraphs. That’s the whole point.
>Because it doesn't matter, every data team is a cost-centre that unscrupulous managers use to launch their careers by saying they're big on AI.

If you have lots of data flowing and have full teams "working" 24/7 on it, does it really matter if that data is junk and that is not processed in a meaningful way? You can still ask AI to generate some nice looking charts with big numbers to show to investors. Investors like nice charts and big numbers. Or so, some businesses people think.

But in all reality the investors will ask questions like: how will this solve problems for customers, how do you intend to sell this to customers, how much does it cost, how will this generate me money. Unless those investors plan an early exit by finding other, more gullible investors than them, kind of like knowingly investing early in a Ponzi scheme.
This is why Qubes OS, which runs everything in isolated VMs, doesn't allow them to use the GPU. My daily driver, can't recommend it enough if you care about security.
Fasting and OMAD. Eating only once a day fixed many issues I had (physically) but also helped me continuing eating the way I like: until I'm almost exploding. It turns out doing it only once a day is quite healthy.
Odin looks fascinating, but it's like I can't keep up anymore with C replacements. Nim, zig, rust, odin, bunch of others that are good candidates even for the embedded space.

Will people just be returning to C at some point? If C could just evolve a bit and make some operations much more convenient.
I'd dispute that I know nothing. I'm not an expert but have worked with both, mostly WebGL. Anyways, sorry, it was a bad analogy and you're right, I don't know enough, particularly to say that WebGPU has any unique flaws or exposes any problems not in WebGL. I'm merely suspicious that it could, and maybe that is just from ignorance in this case.
There’s also actix: https://github.com/actix/actix
I would also find developers who could take the slightest vague term, misunderstand it in a 'technically correct' but to everyone else, outrageous way.

To counter this I used to hold short meetings with them every single morning to pull them back into line! We also shortened every build into bite sized chunks so the humans could check they didn't go off-piste. We called this Agile.

Poor communication between humans is seemingly insoluble. Perhaps a computer misunderstanding you in real time so you can correct is the best solution?
Their presentation [1] contains a few slides with the motivation for this framework (they have existing Thrift services in C++ and Python, and want to start using Rust too) and why actors (answer: they scale better than a naive solution?). Also a slide "why a new framework" when so many already exist for Rust. (Answer: many are dead/unsupported, are too far from Erlang principles, not flexible enough, or use custom runtimes while ractor builds on Tokio.)

[1] https://slawlor.github.io/ractor/assets/rustconf2024_present...
I'd think so too, but a top comment mentions hundred dollar offers for the author's extensions. I guess some devs will take that over earning nothing from an extension.
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I always use a ratio of water to rice (by weight) of 4 to 1 (e.g. 500 g of water for 125 g of rice).

I cook the rice in a microwave oven in a covered glass vessel (preventing the escape of water) and it is very good with this ratio.

For most other cereals that are either coarsely ground or whole grains, e.g. cornflour, semolina or wheat grains, the same 4 to 1 by weight ratio works fine when boiled in a closed vessel.

Most other kinds of starchy seeds absorb less water when boiled, so the ratio must be lower.

I assume that a dedicated rice cooker is useful only for those with numerous family members, who might want to cook large quantities of rice at the same time.

For smaller quantities, e.g. suitable for a couple of people, a microwave oven is very fast and reproducible, so there is no need for dedicated equipment.
exclusive zoning is banning certain types of housing. Not slaughterhouses.

And no. I do not believe it is moral to ban certain types of housing, other than unsafe. If you want to build safe housing on your land and your neighbors stop you they are saying poor people are not allowed to exist in their neighborhood.
> I've been wondering why it uses the async `async_trait` rather than native async traits

From their crate documentation[0]:

> The minimum supported Rust version (MSRV) is 1.64. However if you disable the `async-trait` feature, then you need Rust >= 1.75 due to the native use of `async fn` in traits.

[0]: https://docs.rs/ractor/0.13.0/ractor/index.html
Yeah the title is a bit deceptive; nobody in their right mind tries to "save" an old cruise ship. A home rental company here (idk what they're called) invested in buying an old ocean liner (the SS Rotterdam) to convert it to housing or an event center, it was a flop that cost them over a hundred million euros and led to a parlimentary investigation - since they're a housing company, that >100 million should have been spent on building and maintaining their properties, including social housing, instead of risky investments in asbestos-ridden old ships.
That's the bill that would have facilitated illegal immigration, not stopped it. It sounds decent at first, providing a mechanism to lock down the border, but the "average of 4000 encounters" are 4000 who apply for asylum with a hearing at some future date and are released into the country in the meantime.
That's just the same distribution laid out along a line instead of a circle
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Yes. Before the article got to that revelation, I was wondering where this guy got all his money to save entire ships.
Works great indeed. Another useful trick is to use a microwave. Simply put rice and the water in an open container in the microwave. Let it go at full blast for 14-15 minutes. Keep going until the water is gone. Let it sit for a few minutes and done. You get perfectly fluffy rice every time. Works great for small portions and it won't boil over.

I learned about this trick only a few years ago and when I tried it, I basically got a perfect result. Which was not what I was expecting.
You would assume that, but in many commercial digital multiplayer games matchmaking serves the purpode of maximizing agregate revenue. You can start from a neutral outcome objective, but then skew it in favor of likelihood of continuing to play after win/loss and increased chance of spending currency in the cash shop.

This is nudged so as to not be in your face obvious, but the skew is definetly applied.
of course, we're serverless, because how can you hurt yourself without a cutting-edge?

Brilliant
> That said, some people just really like actors as a mental model

This is me, for sure. "little box does one thing, processes one thing at a time, maintains the state of one thing, talks to different pieces of the system through this predefined method", etc, that actors give me is very easy for me to reason about and work with, so I use it and love it.
It’s a big difference, but the battery of a new 2019 MacBook also got close to a work day. The M series should last a bit longer, but after 5 years it’s a gamble with batteries…
> I'd been ok with

(But it wouldn't have been needed at all, there. I guess that's related to why it would have been ok.)
As you are not an American, let me educate on what that bill did.

Much like the "Inflation Reduction Act" which was a clean energy bill that had nothing to do with inflation, the bill did the exact opposite of what it claimed.

- It funded billions of dollars for the NGOs which were aiding illegal immigration

- It normalized and allowed historically high illegal levels of immigration (10x normal)

- It removed the standard process for adjudicating asylum by judges and made it part of the federal ICE

- Required the US to fund lawyers for all people who were charged with illegal immigration (12 million in the last 4 years)

- It gave $60 billion to Ukraine, 3x more than border security [1]

- It gave $14 billion to Israel, $10B to Gaza, $2B for conflicts in the Red Sea, $4B to Taiwan

During this period where 12 million (3.4% of US population) people have crossed the border for residency illegally, many of which have been flown in by the US federal government, the federal government has sued Texas repeatedly while they are trying to build a border wall. They have flown in percentages of whole populations to US swing states to try to build voters. And illegal immigrants count in the census which determines US electoral votes.

The reason the GOP voted against it is because it was a wishlist for the Democratic party. There is nothing more complicated about it than that. If the GOP was such fear mongers, as you say, they'd vote for a bill that ameliorated their concerns.

[1] https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-senate-unveils-118-billi...
Trademarks are automatic when certain criteria such as usage in commerce are met, at least under the statutory or common law of most/all US states and some other countries with English colonial histories; certain US federal protection under the Lanham Act can also be automatic. You’re probably thinking of registered trademarks which are indeed not automatic. Both kinds are often illegal to infringe, but unregistered trademarks have fewer and weaker remedies in court.

Whenever you see the raised TM symbol, that’s claiming trademark status but not necessarily registered trademark status. The R in a circle is restricted to registered trademarks.

You can see here that Apache’s trademark for Spark is unregistered, but that doesn’t make it invalid (at least in the US and the other countries I alluded to): https://www.apache.org/foundation/marks/list/#unreg_s

Fun fact: it’s also possible to register trademarks with US states, but that’s almost always worse than doing so federally with the USPTO, and federal registration is valid nationwide. State-level trademark registration is mainly a historical artifact predating the federal trademark system, but it’s still technically available.
The curious design of skateboard trucks (2022)
Is anyone familiar with S. Korean cinema, to tell us if they show American style ads & trailers before the film?

'Cause paying anything at all to see 30 minutes of ads, then a 45 minute film, sounds like a poor deal.
Indeed, and the math is the same. If out of 3 million voters, just 1000 double-check the printout, they will detect a 1/100 flip with probability 99.996%.
Exactly.

Putting everything, I mean everything into the browser, and arguing for it, is stupid. It stops becoming a browser then and becomes a native sytem, with the problems of the native systems accessing the open wild all over again. And then? Will be there a sandbox inside the browser/new-OS for the sake of security then? Sanbox into a not so sandbox anymore?
GPU support for Qubes is coming.
I sort expected a reply like this or something about their faulty ECU code and unexpected accelerations. I can't really argue these points effectively, so I'll just say: maybe I'm wrong.
The goal of matching 45% of its purchased power with renewable electricity (in 2035) seems fairly average of what the typical grid user will likely get in 10 years.

The word "matching" is what carries the implications. They could be saying that during optimal weather conditions when solar/wind is flooding the grid and the prices are at the lowest, they will pay an additional to 45% of their purchased power, in order to "compensate" during periods of suboptimal weather when gas, goal and oil is the primary energy (which also mean when the power supply is low and prices are high).
> Modern web browsers serve a radically different purpose than they did in the 90s

And that is a bad thing it was pushed this far! Exactly this is the argument here!
There is a special hell for people that care about their jobs.

Unfortunately we create that hell ourselves.
No idea. You are correct - that's exactly how many rice cookers work.

Technology Connections: https://youtu.be/RSTNhvDGbYI
Is Pyret based on reader macros? I would think it's much easier to use a syntax parser for that.
A (2016) should be added to the title. Larrabee is well in the past now.
North Korea's Smartphone Market Expands as Border Restrictions End
Not odd at all really. Men who are voting Republican aren't going to get interest from people who vote Democrat, so they lie to make themselves look better than they are.
could you elaborate on the multi modal aspect of this model?
Thanks for your interest in the post! Hardham is definitely worth a visit if you're out and about near Arundel, Chichester, the wonderful Roman villas of Fishbourne and Bignor, etc. The Hardham frescos c. 1100 are some of the oldest in Britain. Their whitewashing happened within decades of their creation, so about 400 years before the Tudor reformation. The blog looks at the circumstances that may have caused this obliteration. Do come back for find out more about the murals and their artist.
Location: Valencia (Spain)

Remote: remote or hybrid in Valencia/Castellon (ES)

Willing to relocate: no

Technologies: Python, Linux, Django (or any other Python web framework), AWS, Kubernetes

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> The joke is that if Meta thought that replacing all the Python code they have with something else was worth it, they'd have done it already.

"Worth it" depends on both how much performance improvement you get, and how hard it is to replace. Did you consider maybe the rewriting effort is so humongous that it is not worth doing despite large performance improvements? Thus making the joke not funny at all...
I think they meant Facebook switched their PHP code to Hack and HHVM, their own PHP-like language and implementation.
Cheers. I'll consider how a night mode would work with my current setup. It's great advice.
The GNU project as a whole and Linux kernel. And maybe RISC-V stuff.
>that statement is factually false

Per the study you linked:

>The term non-alcoholic fatty liver disease entered the hepatology lexicon in 1986, introduced by Fenton Schaffner (American physician and pathologist).

As you acknowledge the disease didn’t even have a name until 1986, or 3 years after the first diagnosis in children.

There is nothing in the study you link suggesting kids were being diagnosed and treated for nonalcoholic fatty liver disease pre-1983 under a different name - they weren’t.

This is easy enough to confirm on google independently [1].

>This is not some new phenomenon

Yes it is, in the ~40 years since the first recorded medical diagnosis it’s become an epidemic effecting 5-10% of kids or ~10M kids in the US. There is no way this is not a new phenomenon and 5-10% of kids had nonalcholic fatty liver disease throughout history and we have no record of it.

[1] Title: Steatohepatitis in Obese Children: A Cause of Chronic Liver Dysfunction.
If you measure the right amount of water (not optional with either solution), 12 minutes should do the trick. And you can just let it sit on the keep warm setting for some time and it will continue to absorb whatever water is left in the pot.

I actually got an instant pot recently but I haven't tried the rice cooking setting yet for the simple reason that I use the instant pot for cooking sauces and other things that would go with the rice. Also cooking rice on the stove isn't actually that hard. I don't see how this saves me time or effort. Just measure out the quantities carefully and you should be fine.

Anyway, I need less carbs in my life; not more. One reason I got the Instant Pot is cooking lentils and beans becomes really easy with it. Also am making lots of tasty meat stews. Works great for that.
> Facebook uses its own fork of Python that is heavily optimized.

So likely the 5000% improvement is no longer possible because they already did multiple 10% improvements? I don't know how this counters the original point.

All clues point to FB going this route because they had too much code already in PHP, and not because the performance improvement would be small.

In any case, "facebook does it" is not a good argument that something is the right thing to do. Might be, might not be. FB isn't above wrong decisions. Else we should buy "real estate" in the metaverse.
Believe me, we've been aware that this is a non-bug feature for a long time.

The Tuesday law was passed in 1845. Instead of changing it, many legislators are pushing in the opposite direction: trying to selectively suppress their opponents' votes further. If it hurts them more than us, it's a worthy goal!
That one is probably only an issue for folks who care about the root/kernel distinction, but there’s a bunch of buffer issues with the user mode component (this runs inside your process when you use graphics APIs). Not enough details, but that could be potentially exploitable from e.g. WebGL/WebGPU
Which is why they started charging money to enter the city.