skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A garden actually isn't that great, it has limited CO2 storage capacity once it's in balance.

Productive land, specially timber, is a good way of capturing CO2, because it will end up stored in products.

We tend to naively think we should reforest land and leave it there, and it can be good for other reasons, but is a poor strategy for carbon capture. We need to _aggressively_ go back to using timber and vegetable fibers as construction material, instead of concrete and steel that have an enormous carbon footprint.
I think color codes require less manufacturing precision but more colors.
Food delivery won't go away, but is it really a multi-billion business? It's been around since before smart phones, but its always been pretty low volume and very low margin.

It is the easiest discretionary spending to cut during a tighter economy.
When I read jungle music I totally thought about Diddy Kong Racing or the Donkey King games for SNES.
We say shopping at Whole Foods, Walmart, and Kroger.
I'd be happy as long as the right-of-center folks stay at the nazi bar microblog place.

Plus, the bsky blocking mechanisms are AMAZING
Been there. hedger/ledger look tempting, but if you follow the approach of the OP, you need to build your own toolchain around it so that it recompiles your journals on each rule change.

I've found it easier to use a spreadsheet. Sheet 1 contains the csv export to which i constantly append, sheet 2 the hierarchical acoount structure: an account name like "expenses: groceries:walmart" is followed by a regex that matches the expense description on sheet 1 for that account (walmart). On sheet 1 I have an "detected Account" column, into which a formula outputs the detected account based in the regexes.

Sumif formulas sum up the totals per account.
Since no compilation step is necessary, rule changes are picked up much faster
Because comparing these models is way too difficult for a single person to do objectively with just their own brain. So opinions vary. And Claude 3.5 still does pretty dumb things when it comes to coding.

And OpenAI still have better marketing, market share and much more public attention on their products than Anthropic.
Only for the house. Senate is every 6 years.

The point though is that we don't have a good mechanism to remove a government that isn't meeting expectations. Impeachment exists, but it is very difficult and has never succeeded at removing a sitting president.
Superposed crystal could test whether gravity obeys quantum laws
> Their business model may have a slight problem.

Oil is subsidized to a much higher amount by the US government
more examples

https://github.com/salotz/scopes-newbs
Looks pretty cool. Will try it out.
Not a big fan of watching talking heads, personally, but Gwern is likely to have some interesting things to say.

Patel's page for the episode:
https://www.dwarkeshpatel.com/p/gwern-branwen

there's a transcript, and links to Spotify and Apple (the Apple link doesn't work yet, though)
DoorDash and Uber Eats also operate internationally and have a single cohesive brand whereas each country seems to have its own Just Eat-owned service as a result of acquisitions: JustEat in the UK, GrubHub in the US, SkipTheDishes in Canada and Menulog in Australia. All with the same branding and logo but different names and with distinct mobile applications.
I could 100% just be wrong about this!
From https://www.dwarkeshpatel.com/p/gwern-branwen:

"In order to protect Gwern's anonymity, I proposed interviewing him in person, and having my friend Chris Painter voice over his words after. This amused him enough that he agreed."
> just reading the majority decision PDFs in full

The dissenting opinions are also quite enlightening because they point out weaknesses in the majority and concurring opinions that might not be apparent to those of us outside the field.
Strangely enough I'm at the complete opposite end of the author. Docker Compose imo operates exactly at the right abstraction layer and to me the author never really explains what the problems with Docker Compose actually are.

Imo Docker Compose absolutely should not handle databases and web servers. It should orchestrate containers. It's up to the user what kind of containers should be orchestrated.

Also the author somehow never got the idea to run the reverse proxy in a container? You don't need to do any port mapping then.
Porygon Was Innocent: An epileptic perspective on the infamous Pokémon episode
I understood a fair bit of it but only because I've been studying elliptic curves for a while - Quanta does a good job of straddling the line between informing and educating, but they usually err on the side of presenting results rather than proving or explaining them.
And they'll say it's to combat disinformation, but it'll actually be to help themselves filter AI generated content out of new AI training datasets so their models don't get Habsburg'd.
Even better, they have a thing called a "window" which is transparent and you can look out on the platform and see the sign posting the station name.
> Because the Linux kernel coalesces SIGCHLD (and other signals), the only way to reliably determine if a monitored process has exited, is to loop through all PIDs registered by any kqueue when we receive a SIGCHLD. This involves many calls to waitid(2) and may have a negative performance impact.

This is somewhat wrong. To speed things up in the happy case (where we are the only part of the program that is spawning children), you can just do a `WNOHANG` wait for any child first, and check if it's one of the children we care about. Only if it's an unknown child do you have to do the full loop (of course, if you only have a couple of children the loop may be better).
Local grocery stores have basically been extinct for decades- and realistically that isn't that surprising given they mostly sell commodity products. We don't need to let restaurants suffer the same fate.
> We are primarily a Go and Python shop, which means our only real option is VSCode

I’d like to echo the sentiments of Reddit user tikhonjelvis, who commented¹:

“Man, I knew CS programs were skimping on Emacs fundamentals, but I hadn't realized it was this bad.”

1. <https://old.reddit.com/r/ExperiencedDevs/comments/1gqj7qa/my...>
Does that matter very much? How much of DoorDash's revenue can possibly come from international travelers who want to use the same app they always do?
See also the Advisory Opinions podcast if you like to consume your analysis of court arguments and opinions by listening.
Nah. It's more in the direction of whatever this is:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=isiVdlz8bDY

It's educational, reference real events and you may have a laugh at the same time ;)
"Cane Toads: An Unnatural History" is an outstanding documentary film, and is worth watching even if the topic of invasive toads doesn't catch your immediate interest.

This film's approach to presenting the interaction between man and toad inspired Hamilton Morris, who used it as a conceptual guide when producing his own documentary series. Hamilton interviewed director Mark Lewis in podcast #72.

You can find a full copy of "Cane Toads" on YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wkxwrpJg5W0
I should have to cripple by browser, but maybe it will come to that someday.
It's a parlor trick because something like "1, * × 2 ..." is much more sensible. Heck, it isn't even longer, if we're talking about saving keystrokes. It's still more syntax than I'm looking for from a language, but "initial, update rule, continue infinitely" does not give me that immediate "oh wtf, what other magic is going to happen with other values?" reaction I describe from trying to divine update rules from raw numbers.

It is also immediately obvious how to use this for other patterns, immediately obvious how to compose it, and just generally experiences all the benefits things get from not being special cases.
IIRC jetbrains was a russian company, backed by people close to putin. Then they "migrated" away from russia (jetbrains users are 90% westerners) to avoid losing their users, and even made some blog post about it, but from what i have heard the people behind the curtains whose names are in no legal papers are in fact still the same people with close ties to putin and his inner circle.
As a non-drinker I can confirm that it is a real chore to endure most alcohol-centric contexts; having to try function without a social lubricant.
So, this is why the abomination that is Obj-C is/was used for iPhone/Mac apps. I can't overstate how much I hate Obj-C. I'm so sooo happy Swift has pretty much entirely taken over.

Side note... I feel similarly about the Java to Kotlin transition. Sooo much better. Although, I don't hate Java NEARLY as much as Obj-C.
> Personally, I feel like .NET has an identity crisis of sorts - it is being marketed as a regular high-level language for regular applications and web development, where it has plenty of competition.
>
> At the same time it never seems to be marketed for low-level, systems and systems-adjacent scenarios

I think it would be really good if they spun off a "T#" which moved closer to TypeScript and effectively chopped off some of the older syntax and even some of the features in favor of a more streamlined language.

C# and TypeScript are already fairly similar. In my mind, T# would be like a trimmed down C# with a bit more influence from F#.
> One comparison revealed detailed structural parallels between biological materials and Beethoven’s 9th Symphony, highlighting shared patterns of complexity through isomorphic mapping.

This is not serious.
The "Structure" Tool Window (Alt-7 on my install).

I've seen similar in everything from MS Visual Studio to Notepad++, but with PHPStorm it's taken even further and works much better. Really helps with refactoring, since I can do things like get an overview of an API, see what stands out, and "smart rename" methods - which then fixes it throughout the code.
I was going to ask if the math articles from Quanta magazine are a "Matt Levine" situation where only one person can write so well, but I see only six articles by this author there, so maybe it's an editor doing the magic. All I know is this makes math so accessible and that's not easy.
You say as if it was so easy to get a new job in 2024... Have you tried to check how the job market is right now?
I've seen so many editors come and go, and yet I've been using Vim for the past 20 years and have never had a problem. As stupid as it sounds, if I could give one piece of advice to any entry level SWE, it would be to learn Vim or Emacs and just stick with it for your whole career.
Craig Kaplan has also done a lot of really nice work on Islamic tilings: https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/~csk/publications/
That is much smarter than my tactic of yelling "pthread_mutex_unlock" out loud and then running away.
Great question! I'm one of the developers behind this project and your guesses are good.

Other difficult cases include trains stopping between two stations (doesn't happen everywhere, but it's frequent in NYC), or a user walking fast onboard a moving train, which can be mistaken for the user having gotten off the train.

Taking a train in the opposite directions will break the assumptions we make and we won't know until the next GPS location
> what if Putin gets a terminal illness

No, this is a hypothetical.
I wondered why they'd be doing this NOW and this makes perfect sense!!
And a fair amount of people were relocated, Russian and Ukrainian both. I wanted to be mad at JetBrains for joining the “screw the closest Russian we can get our hands on” wave[1], but I’m not really able to because of that.

[1] A contemporary joke went (hope the translation works): “Durex has announced it is leaving Russia. When asked for comment, the company’s representative responded, ‘Not our fucking problem now.’ ”
Being in a position to point out the privilege of another is itself quite a privilege.

There is rarely a suggestion given in modern society that doesn't assume a good amount of privilege, and pointing this out every time isn't helpful.

I welcome suggestions that can help those who cannot simply quit, but you didn't give such a suggestion, which is why I say it wasn't helpful.

Accusing people of privilege is a dead end. A person who has been accused of privilege is left without direction. It is better to say "what about these other people" than to say "you're privileged", because it directs attention to the other people. It avoids accusation and focuses attention on those in need.
> Because the processes that are happening in Ukraine has nothing to do with democracy, human rights, religious freedoms, rights for private property, courts independence etc. And yes, I'm well aware that EU propaganda tells beautiful stories of how all of the above prospers in Ukraine, but reality on the ground is total opposite.

And you know this because your... propaganda told you so?

You're accusing me of being gullible for the EU ascension process, which enrolled 27 countries, many of them thriving. But we should believe you because of anecdotes of someone who apparently doesn't know the institutions and functions of a democracy.

Or you're expecting a country that is being annexed in a genocidal war, with Martial Law in place, to be thriving? +10 million Ukrainian refugees.

> I have a good clue of how life there looks like if you're actually there, not listening to your local propaganda.

Of course, you know - and Russia knows what's best for Ukraine - everyone else, including Ukrainians, doesn't know?
I quit over principles about 9 months and 800 job applications ago. I'd advise not to do it unless you're sitting on a pile of cash.
> you suggest that readability is somehow (?) at odds with cogency and defensibility

All I am saying is that writing can be clearer and more concise when you don't have to include asides and digressions to preemptively defend it from criticism.

This is a technical point on power dynamics and writing style. When the authors are in a position of power, then they can focus more on readability (and cogency) and less on playing defense, because their court seats are secure for life.

By contrast, justices in lower courts are influenced by organizational politics and must focus more on defensibility, which may come at the expense of clarity.

So I do not find it surprising that the supreme court is able to produce more readable decisions than lower courts, because they have unique incentives.

> The primary purpose for their writing of opinions is not to defend the decisions, but to instruct lower courts on how they should reason on similar cases.

Correct. This is different from lower courts, which also explains why they are able to focus on readability.
Indeed, this is at least a decade behind the state of the art for CO2 electroreduction and adding PTFE to gas diffusion electrodes is hardly a novel concept (see: H2 fuel cells which likely pre date it's inclusion in CO2 cells). It might be a good or even the best implementation of the concept, but if so it would be inches, not miles, better.
I'm not finding what you're saying to be simple common sense. I'm sorry, but I think your takes might not age well. Maybe you are mistaken.
BeaconDB Map
Justices deliberately write their dissents in the hope that people will read them, be persuaded, and then those will eventually become established law. Ginsburg and Scalia were masters of this.
A Walk with LuaJIT
> The resulting material integrates an innovative set of concepts that include a balance of chaos and order, adjustable porosity, mechanical strength, and complex patterned chemical functionalization. We uncover other isomorphisms across science, technology and art, revealing a nuanced ontology of immanence that reveal a context-dependent heterarchical interplay of constituents.

The article itself seems generated.
> I imagine that ...

Sure. Lots of people can imagine all kinds of things. It's all wishful thinking though, where they're hoping someone else will solve the problem for them.

We need actual solutions in order for it to be feasible, not wishful thinking.
I use Grubhub regularly, they almost always have their own drivers. For a few pizza places that had existing delivery services, they're just a front end onto the pizza place's delivery service.

May be regional. I'm in the Bay Area.
Is there any open source like this?
That’s not true. It’s a dual intent visa [1].

> Dual Intent: The H-1B visa type carries “dual intent” which means that the holder may intend to return to his/her home country or intend to immigrate to the United States.

However, it does fall under the broad category of temporary work visa, which is possibly why people wrongly assume it’s a “contract” visa.

[1] https://isso.ucsf.edu/immigration-visas/h-1b-scholars
Well, you would read their methodology which they have posted and then decide if it's reliable. Opinion is naturally ranked downward in their methodology, so in a sense it is separated.

The chart has been around for a while and is generally believed to be the leader. It's widely used in academia. It's a good tool but not bulletproof, and they admit the bias of their editors freely.
It would be valuable to know that, but that also means knowing the power profile, cooling capability etc.

In general, understanding how much "compute capacity" you still have left is very much an experimental science with modern CPUs.

As an example of what I mean, MacBook Airs had exactly the same cores as MacBook Pros (up to 13" Pros iirc), but while you could max out one or two cores on both (and get "200% usage" that is comparable), going past that would mean entirely different things due to one being passively cooled.

With x64 platforms, TDP discussion is even more relevant even without getting to ARMs big.SMALL or Intel's P/E core distinction.
Or he cares about both, but obviously prioritizes domestic energy security. Masses complained about air quality, hence move to renewables. Otherwise no reason to build out new plants that are more efficient / less poluting if old dirty one's suffices for occasional peaking. Or try to shift to renewables so fast that there were power shortages a couple summers ago due to adverse climate effects on generation . Or stop building 100s of billiions of dollars worth coal plants abroad as part of BRI.

IMO Xi/PRC is a little bit TOO magnanimous about enviroment / eliminating carbon. While US continues to increase (and now lead) in oil/lng exports, PRC is leaving good money on the table not building 1000s of coal plants abroad or exporting their centuries of thermal coal stock. That's the kind of irrational behaviour you expect from someone that cares about enviroment.
I actually used the Apple Dylan environment. IIRC, it required 48MB RAM -- yes, M -- to launch, which was extremely an extremely large amount at the time -- as in, you probably needed to buy more RAM to run it -- and was itself written in Macintosh Common Lisp instead of self-hosting. UI development? Thing could barely run on a contemporary Mac. Every efficiency claim that was made for it was unproven. Maybe it could have been great, but it certainly needed at least a couple of years more bake time. The NeXT runtime existed and its performance characteristics were understood.

Virtual memory was a huge issue for UI development with a retained-mode system like DPS; thrashing window contents is very not fun if you want a responsive UI. Apple spent years optimizing VM for this purpose after the NeXT purchase.
Her audience is full of science deniers, even though she herself isn't one. The thumbnails she uses for her videos are atrocious, even if the content is usually more nuanced. She really seems to have cultivated this audience, which turned me off her videos.
Could anyone here provide me a TLDR of why a real time OS is beneficial and specifically when/where it would be needed or most beneficial?
In the end. Linear Regression.
Which is an empty platitude if restaurants won't meet customers where they are - on their smartphones. I'll use my local restaurants' app/webpage when there is one and get pick-up, but if there isn't one, I'll be real - I just use Doordash. When I've got people over and need to order food, it'll take 45 mins between everything else going on to figure out a restaurant, and then another hour to pick some food. And then someone changes their mind while on the phone with the restaurant. Orrrr (after we pick a restaurant) we just pass the phone around.
This is the video I cam here to see. This guy's a wizard. Here's two of my other favs (the second is more my speed, but the first is more fun):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wqpa418gcKc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xDKpQQ4NoNA
Incremental Linking and Hot Code Reloading for Rust [video]
Well, I got chatgpt (gpt4o) to write me a very basic json parser once (and a gltf parser). Although it was very basic and lacking any error checking, it did what i asked it (although not in one go, i had to refine my questions multiple times).
Wow, huge thanks, that's super helpful :)
Mostly the restaurant, at least in the case of these companies' "free delivery" membership deals. Restaurants pay a higher commission on those orders. (Whether that's enough to outweigh the operating deficit built into their current pricing I have no idea, but some fraction is being passed along to their merchant "partners".)
Just spawn another VPS with your application and connect to load balancer. Even better - use Fedora CoreOS with Butane config and make that VPS immutable.
Where have you heard about these people whose names are in no legal papers? Is the source credible? Is there any proof?
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Wicked! Wicked! Jungle is massive!

https://youtu.be/O7TklQTeuSE
Literally clickbait.
I worked leading the digital product of an education company with a whole methodology, books, teacher coaching program, etc.

The education guru of that company talked a lot about Estonia, Finland, and Singapore as models of the best education in the world (pre college). These countries get consistently good PISA scores. And guess what? Close to zero tech in education in these countries.

Some papers were released that showed fine motor control (eg pen and paper writing) has deep implications in cognitive development.

And then slowly we've started to see all the consequences of phones, tablets, social media etc on gen z and alpha. I don't think it's controversial to say kids should not be using these devices and there's plenty of research to prove it. Obviously schools in many countries are now banning them.