skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The principle of end weight is a special case of a more general principle: sentences are usually easier to understand when syntactically related words are close to each other, all else being equal. A more precise version of Strunk and White's "keep related words together".

The interesting thing is that in English this generally pushes you to put short phrases before long phrases, as described in the article, but in languages with other word orders you can get the opposite effect. For example in Japanese the verb is always the last thing in a sentence, and so the way to keep related words together is actually to put long phrases before short phrases. So you'll often get sentences with structures like [[very long object] [short subject] verb].
It is unlikely that Trump will be able to change the Constitution, but he will remain a significant figure in the political landscape until his death. Although he may not be president, he will still serve as the de facto leader of the Republicans, giving him considerable influence regardless of his official position. The next Republican president will likely be prepared to follow his lead.
> I think it's especially bad advice with the "copy paste once is okay". You absolutely do not want multiple (even just two) copies of what's meant to be exactly the same functionality, since now they can accidentally evolve separately.

Hard disagree. Your type of misconception is the root cause of most broken and unmaintainable projects, and the root of most technical debt and accidental complexity.

People who follow that simplistic logic of "code can accidentally evolve separately" are completely oblivious to the fact that there is seemingly duplicate code which is only incidentally duplicate, but at its core should clearly be and remain completely decoupled.

More to the point, refactoring two member functions that are mostly the same is far simpler than refactoring N classes and interfaces registered in dependency injection systems required to DRY up code.

I lost count I had to stop shortsighted junior developers who completely lost track of what they were doing and with a straight face were citing DRY to justify adding three classes and a interface to implement a strategy pattern because by that they would avoid adding a duplicate method. Absurd.

People would far better if instead of mindlessly parrot DRY they looked at what they are doing and understood that premature abstractions cause far more problems than the ones they solve (if any).

Newbie, inexperienced developers write complex code. Experienced, seasoned developers write simple code. Knowing the importance of having duplicate code is a key factor.
So, anyone who can get your face on camera can access faceId?
> For renewables it is already baked into the price because the risks are near zero.

Remind me how much each eagle is worth?
How about power cuts caused by wind farms tripping incorrectly? https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-49309691 How about disruption caused by failure to provide power in low wind conditions, or is that just a societal risk rather than investor risk?
> Thank you. The whole read indeed feels like not understanding IPv6.

He's posting his learning and realizations as he goes.

He often has posts of style "I thought X, but then I noticed certain things (in the logs), and after more digging it's actually Y." Or "Last time I checked things were A, but at some point things changed and now they're B, and going into the release notes it appears to be about at about C."
"Let them eat Credit Default Swaps."
I was surprised you chose http for your IPC - I was expecting there to be a more handy tool that Python could expose and Go could leverage without needing to keep a second process constantly running.
That's probably in part because mid-level management (like me) didn't get promoted to that role because we are great coaches. I spend the vast majority of my time putting out fires, protecting the team from bullshit, making offerings to the audit monster and running the corporate HR playbook. I probably spend an hour a month for each of my 15 directs really trying to think how to help them improve their skills and advance their career.
banks aren't particularly well known for tech security, they rely more on law to ensure nothing goes wrong...
“Only 5/509 participants solved P6”
Virtually all of Elon's children and mothers hate him with a passion. I'm much more inclined to trust them on the topic of fatherhood as opposed to random people on the internet who treat Elon like Jesus Christ.
> United Arab Emirates 25.8 t

> Saudi Arabia 18.2 t

> Australia 15.0 t

These are all pretty low population though so net CO2 from these countries is not the largest.

In terms of per capita, what drives this? These places are hot, is it the 24/7 Air conditioning running?
I just haven’t seen anything concrete as to why SICP’s materials are useful in either the real world or academia. Sometimes these discussions talk about how it is useful for computer science and for theory but even that seems like a claim without evidence. Is this just people reminiscing about their first introduction to programming or a favorite professor?
totally agree that local llms would make this a lot better privacy wise. I actually started working on this with local llms, when some models got small enough that you can run them in the browser. I used Candle + WASM to test smolLM, and phi and also tested with gemini nano on chrome. Unfortunately, their performance was abysmal for this task. I couldn't even get them to consistently output structured JSON to parse their response.

one thing I haven't tested so far is on setups like ollama where the llm is running outside the browser but accessible via localhost. Some larger LLMs like llama would be good enough to actually parse the webpages. That requires some setup from the user side though and some minimum hardware requirements.
So far, my experience with passkeys has been disappointing:

- Many major websites implement passkeys in a hybrid way that you can keep logging in using your password (Amazon comes to mind). That actually kills the greatest security feature of passkeys: resistance against phishing. As a counterexample, Microsoft has implemented it as "passwordless", and kills password login fully when you opt-in, but that seems to be the minority of the platforms right now.

- UX is worse. On almost all login forms, you have to click on "Sign in with a passkey" button to go through an extra step in the authentication flow, making passkey signing option more work than a password login with a password manager. That also means you must know if you had enabled passkeys on that website. There is no familiar UI design for that either, you have to explore every login form to find out its passkey mode. Password managers like 1Password can detect passkey sign-in options and show up a popup to log you in, but that's mostly a case-by-case hack, as I understand.

- Despite that the authentication mechanism is very well-defined, the account recovery flow isn't. I don't know how much risk I'm putting myself into by signing into passkey flow. If I login to everything using a passkey, including my email, how much risk am I getting myself into if I lose my passkey provider account? How do I recover my account then? Is that flow also phishing/scam resistant?

- The story of 2FA is bleak. Now that I have a strong authentication scheme, can I safely do away with 2FA? I can't really tell anymore because the risk model has more dependencies now. If 2FA isn't eliminated, and password login is still allowed, what do passkeys gain us by any metric?
Coding interviews should be using AI
Distributed Systems by Van Steen and Tanenbaum is very good and freely bailable:

https://www.distributed-systems.net/
Ah, yes - The Jupiter Effect:
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3400930-the-jupiter-effe...
> that means the average person can emit about 5.4tCO2/person/year from here on out. This is what emissions look like currently

Using a world average target number and then presenting a list that leads with world outliers is misleading. This is the kind of statistical sleight of hand that climate skeptics seize upon to dismiss arguments.

The world average is currently under the target number:

> World average 4.7t

I think you meant to imply that the CO2 emissions of poor countries were going to catch up to other countries, but I don’t think it’s that simple. The global rollout of solar power, battery storage, and cheap EVs is exceeding expectations, for example.

I don’t want to downplay the severity of the situation, but I don’t think this type of fatalistic doomerism is helping. In my experience with people from different walks of life, it’s this type of doomerism that turns them off of the topic entirely.
AI-generated poetry is indistinguishable from human-written and more favorably
Chalcogenides? Like Ovonics?[1] That led decades ago to fast-read, slow-write memory devices. It was a dead end in electronics, but it did work. Makes sense for something that is slowly reconfigurable, like an FPGA.

"This advancement could shift information processing from data centers to local devices, providing real-time responses and extending battery life for applications like robotic motion control and autonomous vehicles."

Now that's a big stretch.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_Conversion_Devices
> I was surprised how little it costs to stop climate change.

Is that the cost for the duct tape needed to plug the airvents of data centers all over the world? The whole AI hype is driving energy consumption through the roof and when you see the companies behind the hype eye having their own nuclear power plants you know they are going to outscale cities housing millions in waste heat production.
Play Kerbal Space Program (the original, not the sequel). You’ll become an orbital mechanics pro in a couple days.
> Nobody is tracking 48 bits out of 128 bits and tying that to a specific user.

You'd be surprised.

I allow cookies from Youtube for better preference recommendations, but am not logged in. You'd think that that would give me useful ads.

However, I am with an ISP that services both the provinces of Ontario (English) and Quebec (French), and when my IP cycles if I reboot I sometimes I get an IP that is geo-located to Quebec and so I suddenly I get French-only ads until the new router reboot.
Full Talk from Gwynne Shotwell (SpaceX COO) at the Baron Capitol Conference
Rewind and Recall are 2 separate projects and 2 separate installers. I use Rewind and I have several outbound network monitoring apps as well as local disk monitoring apps. Rewind does not send data offsite.

Rewind does glitch sometimes specifically with audio recording which is extremely annoying. You go back to an area where you thought you had audio notes only to find you didn’t - even though you had audio recording turned on the whole time. It has something to do with meeting detection. Which is silly bc disk space is cheap just auto record. I do like the concept of an open source version and I will look into this.
We have to way to know it it's actually the fastest and farthest object: A 1957 nuclear test was conducted underground, but the scientists decided to cap the borehole with a sizable concrete and metal plug.

The nuclear explosion may or may not have caused said plug to reach space - the data from the cameras indicate it had at least 6 times the needed escape velocity, but it is difficult to estimate whether it would completely disintegrate or if enough of it would survive the atmosphere and whether it would "count"

https://nuclearweaponarchive.org/Usa/Tests/Plumbob.html (look for Pascal-B)
It does a 3d scan of the face, so you can't crack it with an image or video.
Last I read, because it bit me with AWS console two factor, FF on macOS didn’t support pass keys. When did this get fixed?
It's a performant publishing tool and perhaps even high performance publishing tool - in terms of user effort. What it's not is performant displaying the thing it published.
Unless all your features actually fit in one small commit, this doesn't work. Much more common is that you merge a chain of dependent commits, which means you cannot just rollback a single commit, since that will leave your codebase hopelessly broken. Much cleaner to commit the entire feature as one large commit.
They store passwords, and now also passkeys. How are they not password managers?

They’re probably the most-used password managers, since people use them without necessarily realizing that they’re using a password manager.

The thing about passkeys is that they make everyone use a password manager whether they want to or not. It’s a protocol that requires a password manager - there is no manual way to do it.
The rate of temperature change happening currently is much greater than anything in the geologic record.

What use it is to ponder about what has triggered an ice age in the past, when that mechanism can’t possibly counteract what’s happening now?

It’s like thinking about starting blood pressure medication when you’re having a heart attack right now.
When I was a child I had a mild case of synesthesia. I would often see colors or feel textures when hearing sounds. Touching different textures would trigger memories associated with the sound-texture pair... A wild trip for an adult, but at that time I thought everybody perceived the world that way.

I have also had a feeling for Magic. An unmistakable tingling, in my brain, when I learned/discovered something new. It was the best feeling in the world - it kept me exploring and learning the unknown.

All of that started getting weaker somewhere in my teens. Then it completely disappeared when I was around 20. I still hold the memories, the codex of sound/color/textures, but nothing triggers it. Nothing triggers the Magic sense. It all just faded away.

I would do anything to feel it again.
Sadly, I'm skeptical about that. Covid killed a million Americans and half of America thinks the real enemy was the government telling people to stay home and wear masks. Drive down I-5 of CA's central valley, and you'll see signs saying "Congress created dust bowl."

In coming decades, I fully expect to see people blaming renewable energy and carbon tax for whatever new climate disaster we end up with. Hopefully we could ignore them, in the same way adults stop entertaining toddlers when shit happens.
Nah the oil and gas companies will just say these web bulb events are acts of God and there's nothing we can do about them. And plenty of people would believe them.
What if he was a retired farmer, the 50 year old tattoo was to commemorate the year he led his high school football team to the state championship, and it was Medicare denying coverage for a facial skin cancer because of that old buttocks tattoo?
Which will put a pressure on evolution of human race. Time for another post-Black death golden age.
Communism is just one example, and is multi-faceted (e.g., internal Soviet/Communist economies), which is why I also mentioned People Power. Chenoweth's book has a myriad of peer-reviewed references and a list of ~600 movements since 1900.

There are a lot of folks in this discussion—many of whom I suspect are Americans and may have a particular (historical) view of how to gain "freedom"—who seem to jump to the 'violent struggle' path. I'm simply pointing out references that support the possibility that is not the only path, and other ones may actually be better, especially in more recent decades (as opposed to what happened hundred-plus years ago).
The game of fascism is you always blame some group for all your problems, typically a minority. If the particular target of a fascist ideology is removed and issues still persist, you just pivot to another minority.
You don't have to literally revert the commit, but it will make it easier to write commit to undoy plus aiming for this means your commits will be well-contained and reviewable, which is also good.
- 70 to 90% of coral reefs dying, devastation of maritime ecosystems

- potential collapse of maritime currents that lead to relatively mild climates in Britain

- triggering of multiple irreversible climate tipping points (arctic ice sheet)

- more common and much more devastating extreme weather events (warmer air can carry more water)

- the aforementioned weather results in infrastructure damage and lack of food within big parts of the world. Waves of migration

- median sea level rise of more than a meter means extremes will be much higher, a big part of the human population lives next to the sea

And much more — this was the absolute minimum and we surpassed it faster than expected.
It's not misleading at all, they are delivering 15TB of video for $2.18.

It doesn't say they're storing 15TB for $2.18, it says they're delivering it.
>it’s this type of doomerism that turns them off of the topic entirely.

In my experience, it’s the prospect of having to give up expected or dreamed about large homes, large vehicles, non seasonal/local fruits and vegetables, cheap electronics, and vacations involving flights.
That is balanced by not having to heat.

The more likely explanation for the first two is that plenty of fossil fuels are available so they are used inefficiently.
Yeah, I've been very disappointed that bitwarden haven't implemented passkey and OTP storage using a KMS.

Sure, I'd have to be online then to use a passkey stored in bitwarden. But it wouldn't something that could be stolen off bitwarden.

And I could reasonably protect bitwarden with a physical passkey.
Oh a lot of those citizens care - it’s that they travel to Japan for vacation anyway.
Most of those not alive in 2050 will have children and grandchildren whom they expect to be alive by then.
The entire modern ML and most of the HPC grew out of very simple programmable shaders in GeForce 3.
Most Dangerous Cars on the Road
>not only can we observe the system and tune appropriately, we can also observe the effect of that tuning and re-tune if necessary. //

Does sound like a potential way to implement literal chaos.

Surely it's like anything else, you do pre-release testing and balance the benefits for you against the risks?
So you’re saying the investors are happy to see their money set on fire?

Surely they expect at a minimum that their capital investment would make them dividends (increased revenue), and also that the money wasn’t simply set on fire with nothing to show for it and no way to repay it.

If I’m wrong then Twitter - and similar companies - are little better than Ponzi schemes, with investors relying on the money of the greater fool to recover their money.
Not a fan of everything-is-a-function because it's oversimplistic and often unhelpful. Some of the issues:

- functions that don't fit in cache, RAM, disk, etc.

- functions that have explosive big-O, including N way JOINs, search/matching, etc.

- functions with side effects, including non-idempotent. Nobody thinks about side channel attacks on functions.

- non-deterministic functions, including ones that depend on date, time, duration, etc.

- functions don't fail midway, let alone gracefully.

- functions don't consume resources that affect other (cough) functions that happen to be sharing a pool of resources

- function arguments can be arbitrarily large or complex - IRL, there are limits and then you need pointers and then you need remote references to the web, disk, etc.

(tell me when to stop - I can keep going!)
yeah, and it doesn't help anything in 18 years of experience.
There's no immediate bottleneck for reducing fossil fuel consumption. More money will translate into more effect, at most delayed by some half of a decade for any foreseeable effort.

At some point we will find a series of bottlenecks. But up to a 30% reduction (with ~100% clean electricity) it's obviously clear, and it looks doable up to ~90% (electricity, transportation, heating, and some industry converted).
I’m trying to figure out why the alignment was so important.

Wouldn’t it be possible to get a gravity assist in any alignment - albeit just taking a little longer to ping-pong across the system?
HEDT as a consumer product segment distinct from the workstation segment is pretty close to dead. Intel hasn't introduced a new HEDT socket since 2017 and hasn't launched any new CPUs for that platform since 2019.

AMD's Threadripper line has been inconsistent; the 5000 series was all Threadripper PRO parts, then last year's 7000 series brought back the non-PRO Threadripper options. But even the entry-level Threadripper CPUs and TRX50 motherboards available today are less affordable than HEDT systems were eg. 15 years ago. The high core counts available in mainstream desktop sockets have shifted the boundary between that segment and HEDT, and as a result there aren't good options to step up to a platform with more IO capability without also stepping up to really high CPU core counts.
Things have improved considerably over the last 3 months. Claude with cursor.ai is certainly over 50%
Sounds like you have your answer of “don’t use it” then.
Thank you!

My maternal grandmother lived with kidney disease and my mother and (maternal) aunt both had kidney disease too and have both had kidney transplants (ironically each from their partner).

A good friend had a kidney transplant too from her twin sister which means that she has negligible anti-rejection medications.

My mother's transplant was more than 10 years ago. She's had issues including, as a consequence of being immuno-supressed, cancer from Epstein-Barr virus (she recovered) but she's otherwise enjoying her 80s with her several grands and a great.

My father (her donor) continues to thrive and has had no obvious negative consequences to his life-saving gift.

They still bicker!!

My sister, cousins and I have our creatinine and potassium levels monitored.

I had an elevated potassium test recently and it's depressing to be reminded how fragile life is. In my case, a follow up test appears to indicate that the prior test was exceptional (and I think can be explained).

We have 2 kidneys but only one heart, liver etc. and so, while there's an evolutionary benefit, experience suggests that people do just fine with one kidney.

To every brave and selfless person who's donated an organ, you have my utmost respect and gratitude.

Fun fact: kidney transplant recipients generally have 3 kidneys: the OGs and the donated kidney
All that suggests is that patents produced by academia have a really crappy ROI. Not surprised at all, given how little incentive academia has to produce marketable products.

Also, you directly contradict yourself when you state that (1) patents unfairly enrich their holders and (2) patents provide a poor ROI. Which way is it?

Example of what you said earlier -- you keep commenting under two different accounts.

>> [ME] Do patent protections provide them an incentive to do that research?

> [YOU] The main incentive is money, patents are seen as a moat to that
In that scenario you could run it on a couple servers, compare and contrast, and then apply globally via whatever management tool you use.
No, I 100% blame politicians and the media. If this climate thing is such an issue as the "doomsayers" say it is, then we should be outright and immediately banning/dismantling and destroying infrastructure that causes it. But instead, we faff about with "carbon credits" and "media campaigns", and cause all sorts of divisive misinformation and "cover" for the worst offenders.

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

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/bd/Annual_C...

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c8/Annual_C...
This! Coming up with meaningfull names helps you undrestand the problem and define the solution. I advise junior devs: if you don't know how to name a variable give it simple 1-letter name: a, b, x, y. When you look at the code it is immediately clear how well they understands the problem. One should be careful to avoid the naming paralasys though.