skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It may surprise you to know that Canada currently has more restrictive gun laws than any European country. It bans handguns, most modern rifles, and magazine size limits are very low, and treats down-converted rifles (from full-auto to semi-auto) as being full-auto. It additionally restricts the sale of pressure-bearing components for certain firearms and magazines, though you don't actually have to own the rifle it's a part of to buy it.

We have a licensing scheme that takes roughly 6 months to issue you a license, and special transport rules for handguns and short rifles. We don't have gangs from the East smuggling in machine guns; and most crime guns come from an intentionally-porous border.

However, guns are a cultural flashpoint in most of the New World in ways they just aren't in most European countries. Part of this is an export of US politics, where sub-polities who want to ban guns are in a constant and bitter culture war with those that do not; Canadians copy a lot of US politics along whatever fault lines they happen to be on (currently, it's largest cities vs. everyone else). It's also a filter bubble problem, where the polities and voters that don't see guns as an issue are several thousand kilometers away from those that do (100km is a daily commute for us, but it can be the other side of the country for you), so you're not going to be exposed to 'normal' people on the other side.

>what in your view was their purpose?

Revenge. The sitting government did not like the fact that people from several thousand kilometers away came and protested certain edicts pertaining to a novel cold virus; those people are most likely to own guns.

This was simply a "fuck you". There are no problems with the crime rate here; other than that which the sitting government has encouraged with their policies, but European countries all have that problem too and for the same reason. Which makes people want guns -> government doesn't like that -> government limits that ability, naturally.
I would be very carefull with saying your are gdpr compliant without having talked to laywer.

Your are basically replacing a unique identifying attribute(ip address) with a unique attribute and a maybe unique attribute, to generate a unique attribute.

The problem is not the ip address, the problem with analytics is that your want to count unique visitors but are not allowed to track any properties of the visitor that are unique and hence a protected property of the visitor per the gdpr.
Just wow. You have to take into account the year these were made and its zeitgeist... It took a different mind to come up with those back then ... nice ... well done ... thats the importance of artists .... they are the ice breakers .. the rest just follows ...
This is pretty amazing. I have so many ideas in what to do with it.
I hear you.

I generally always had good results with my regular wifi, but I had more-predictable results with a Bridge (which just produces a dedicated 801.11 "SonosNet" network), when that device still worked for me.

When I occasionally installed Sonos professionally (a long time ago), we always installed a Bridge into a system or made sure that one Sonos endpoint/speaker was plugged into Ethernet by design. In doing so, this allowed the Sonos-widgets to form their own meshed wifi network that generally behaved just fine.

(And no, none of that is quite ideal.

These days I'm mostly divorced from Sonos. But I sometimes have issues with my various Google Home and Alexa devices that connect with wifi. To combat this, I also plug my old-school tiny-ass Chromecast Audio into an Ethernet adapter, as well as the CCwGTV on my main BFT. I do this just to be sure, because having consistent audio is very important to me, and it does work.

But these devices don't make their own mesh like Sonos can do. [Well, maybe Alexa devices can if combined with an Eero router to steer the whole ship, but I don't want that at all.])
if you like this check out generative plotter art https://old.reddit.com/r/PlotterArt/
This is really a great job!

This is the old style open source community that I love something and that is often shadowed by big commercial open core projects pretending that they need to change their license because others are using they work...

Like in the good old time, such projects are often made by Linux users just desperate to have a good solution to their problems and happy to share it with others.
I get that the name is similar to neovim but for a second I thought it was the nomacs image viewer
Blocks of links aren't an argument.

> Nuclear is plateauing, and renewables are booming

Nobody said otherwise. I literally said "we're deploying solar and wind as quickly as we can because they're the cheapest sources of power." You're arguing against a straw man.

Renewables are booming. So is gas [1]. Your analysis fails on two counts. One, it ignores the substitution effect [2]. If we're talking about grid stability, et cetera, this is fine. If we're looking at emissions, it's not.

Two, you're lumping together fossil fuels. That masks the fact that we've added about as much natural gas capacity as solar. The growth rates are different. But so are the base levels.

I'll say it again: we're building renewables as fast as we can. We can't build them substantially faster. That means there is never a choice between renewables and something else; it's always renewables by default. Where there is a choice, therefore, it must be between the other options.

The convenient lie the gas industry has sold the nuclear nervous is that it's a competition between solar and wind and fossil fuels. It's not. We're investing trillions of dollars in gas infrastructure with 20 to 40-year investment theses despite renewables booming because power demand is booming too, and the difference has to be made up somehow. That gas infrastructure's thesis only works if we exclude nuclear energy. (It also precludes us reaching our 2030 and 2050 emissions commitments, but nobody seems to care about those anyway.)

We're building gas instead of nuclear in the West for the same reason China and India are building coal plants: it's cheaper than nuclear. Nobody is acting on emissions.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primary_energy#/media/File:Glo...

[2] https://ourworldindata.org/energy-substitution-method
Yup. Silicon Valley would not exist without large government spending.

You can bet this spending is going to be among the fist things slashed by DOGE-lile efforts ("Scientists ? They're just liberal elites wasting our hard earned money researching vaccines that will change your dog's gender in order to feed it to communist immigrants.")

I suppose I could be cheered up by the irony, but, not today.
Right there myself.

One conversion I want to attempt, but am unfortunately unlikely to, is an electric rear wheel drive.

Front wheel can remain gas with transmission. Add more generating current capacity, and have that dumped into the rear drive system batteries.

With my current car, the V6 gets very good economy at speed, and poor economy in town or in traffic.

An assist from the rear can tackle the poor economy cases nicely, leaving the rest to the gas engine.

Depending on battery capacity, I suppose it could do most in town driving at say 40 and below.
>These ambitions were only substantially revived thanks to Putin's invasion of Ukraine in 2014.

No, these ambitions were revived as the result of the American-backed coup that preceded Russian actions. That coup deposed a democratically elected president who opposed Ukraine's NATO membership.

>At which point Russia's objections became instantly and irrevocably moot.

Yes, it was the turning moment when Russia from objections turned to actions.
i would love the dark mode and listen to summaries in audio features, while in background on mobile.
And they were right. The generics in Go have turned out dogshite... I try to avoid them at all costs because besides simple data structures like Trees and so on, they're just more trouble. Go was not meant to have generics.
Safe relational database queries using the Rust type system
If sunlight improves your mood, add more lights to your place? Around my desk where I spend a lot of my time I have lights with a combined power of 150 watts and it's noticeable
It's definitely not gdpr compliant, because the identifier is still unique. Any data collected per session identifier for user interaction with the website are bound to user consent and not covered under gdpr legitimate interest.
It adds another layer of analysis. For example:

If the user solves the CAPTCHA in 0.0001 seconds, they're definitely a bot.

If the user keeps solving every CAPTCHA in exactly 2.0000 seconds, each time makes it increasingly likely that they're a bot.

If the user sets the CAPTCHA entry's input.value property directly instead of firing individual key press events with keycodes, they're probably either a bot, copy-pasting the solution, or using some kind of non-standard keyboard (maybe accessibility software?).

Basically, even if the CAPTCHA service already has a decent idea of whether the user is a bot, forcing them to solve a CAPTCHA gives the service more data to work with and increases the barrier of entry for bot makers.
Doesn't that mean each car has its own subscription? Why would they keep paying for it after the car has been sold?
.gitignore doesn't prevent you from committing unwanted files if a pattern is missing. This is a real example: .gitignore had ".sqlite3" extension ignored, but this coworker created a test database as ".dbsq3" or something like that for some reason. He forgot to add the pattern to .gitignore and the file was commited.

Also you can have .env in the .gitignore, yet someone create their file as .env.local and escape the .gitignore pattern. It's easy to come after and lecturing about creating a better .gitignore pattern, but it's even easier to at the very least take a little care of your commits even if it means slower speeds.
Not sure why SIMT would help, it requires more compiler transforms than if the code is written for packets/vectors or whatever we want to call them. As you note, cross-lane is a key part of a good SIMD abstraction. Vulkan calls it "subgroups", but from where I sit it's still SIMD.
Man, is there anything computers won't be able to break!

crazy
> Are you comfortable prognosticating that it always will?

Much more than accepting the deadly status quo!

> Are there no lessons to be learned from previous tragedies

Sure there are. Never take any risks ever isn't one of them.

> how _small_ radioactive sources are _way_ more dangerous due to peoples inability to identify them and tendency to pick them up?

You're describing MRIs more than nuclear power plants, which also produce lots of small nuclear waste.
The difference is in intent. People dislike intended tracking by a third party, that’s it. You cellphone company, your google, your govt can have it. Others can not. Even when they can, people actively don’t want that. What’s wrong with it?
I hope some day there will be a car brand that is privacy-friendly. As "dumb" as possible.
Starship can be used to release a probe with gigantic fuel reserve and a bigger than usual energy source (solar or nuclear).
Then the probe can use a VASMIR or other electric propulsion to gradually accumulate a vast amount of delta-v
We are increasingly moving to ID checks. Australia law just now. For all its faults it solves spam as side effect.
That's not true. Most of the world (by land area) exists outside cities, and outside a city you will usually need to own a car.
As someone who has been working in ML for years, I can only recommend to stay away from anything recent. Grab an old bayesian statistics textbook and learn the fundamentals, then progress to learning the major frameworks like Pytorch. Try to write every part of a CNN, RNN and Transformer architecture and training pipeline yourself the first time (including data loaders, but maybe leave out CUDA matrix kernels). Stay the hell away from wrappers for other people's wrappers like Langchain. Their documentation is often not just outdated, but flat out wrong regarding the fundamentals. Huggingface is great if you know the basics and thus how to fix things if their standard wrappers break.
When I think "Cisco" I think error-free. /s

No, really, I get where you and your parent are coming from. It is a low probability. But occasionally there is also thoroughly verified application code out there. That is when you are asking yourself where the error really is. It could be any layer.
Scientists find way to use diamonds as super-dense and durable storage medium
The challenge with this, and I agree with you, is that I don’t think you’ll find many people capable of creating such a course being in the course creation business. I suspect almost no one would be interested in doing it. The only financial motivation would be to go the consultancy route like Uncle Bob, and I’m not sure who would have any sort of motivation to do it as a hobby project. You’d be more likely to find those people contributing to the actual programming language in some way.

As I see it the programming teaching industry, or whatever you might call it, is similar to other self-help industries where people who are good at marketing sell you empty calories. Even if you created an in dept course on something, you would probably have an issue distributing it in the vast ocean of courses.
Terabit-scale high-fidelity diamond data storage
> produced "a unique" song?

People do get sued for making songs that are too similar to previously made songs. One defence available is that they've never heard it themselves before.

If you want to treat AI like humans then if AI output is similar enough to copyrighted material it should get sued. Then you try to prove that it didn't ingest the original version somehow.
Subscribe to your favorite products with crypto, even if they don't accept it
Duty Time, straight out.
Record-breaking diamond storage can save data for millions of years
My understanding is that there is a lot of hand-writing (not just fine-tuning) going on. AFAIK CuDNN and TensorRT are written directly as SASS, not CUDA. And the presence of FP8 in H100, but not A100, would likely require a complete rewrite.
This is a hard sell:

sudo chown root electron/chrome-sandbox
sudo chmod 4755 electron/chrome-sandbox

Installing a new setuid root binary? I guess that the sandbox process is small, and not really electron, but just hearing "electron" and "setuid" in the same sentence is enough to make me run away!
People who have many cars usually don't do it because of necessity, but because they love tinkering with the old automobiles.
Is this really the case?
It's very uncommon for an IP to resolve to an actual user these days due to widespread use of Carrier-Grade Networks Address Translation (CGNAT).

Assuming you had the public IP of an actual user though, how would you link it to a person without asking the ISP?
You may hate this but I usually put my recommendations in PowerPoint, with my name on it and the options and suggestions. I then share it and discuss it with multiple people. If he tries to claim it, well his boss already knows or other peers of his.

At the end of the day if he does take credit and no one knows… the bright side is you had a good idea, go somewhere else where they will recognise you for it.
In the UK a recent survey of medical staff has 35% of them suffering Long Covid, those are the ones still employed there are many who have been fired as their Long Covid is too severe to work. It's notable only 10% have been diagnosed by their colleagues, a substantially higher percentage the for non medical Long haulers.

We are at about 20% in the countries still bothering to count and the front line roles like teachers and medicine are getting hit faster. Most of this is since 2022 and overwhelming Omicron onwards. In the past year for example the number of kids with Long Covid doubled.

It's not just fatigue either despite what the BBC is presenting, it's completely systemic in every organ including the brain. PEM and the crashes it causes can permently reduce how much energy you have and if you keep doing that you can die as your gastrointestinal system looses the ability to digest food.

There are no treatments, there is no research money now either. You get Long Covid you are on your own there is no medical help to be had and no government acknowledgement there is a problem and your chance of a diagnosis from healthcare is very small.
Ah yes, humans and LLMs are exactly the same, learning the same way, reasoning the same way, they're practically indistinguishable. So that's why it makes sense to equate humans reading books with computer programs ingesting and processing the equivalent of billions of books in literal days or months.
I don’t see it that way. Fuzzy logic is always likely to be a part of input processing and goal seeking, since a neural network won’t ‘learn’ on the fly.
When I was a teenager, I stumbled upon a music forum that required phone interviews for signing up. They had other interesting sign up rules, like you could not have silly user names (judged by the admin). I guess it served as an effective filter for their member base..
What does neomacs offer that emacs + lispy can't?

https://github.com/abo-abo/lispy
Maybe in a decade or two, your assertion will evaluate closer to true.
There are more than 2B+ unbanked people around the world. They are unable to use modern SaaS because of 'no card — no access'
80+% of people live in urban areas.
what if you lasercut it? would it fall apart in two pieces? :)
Legally, you cannot name the llama3 based models like that,
YOu have to use, llama in the name

https://huggingface.co/meta-llama/Llama-3.1-70B-Instruct/blo...
You are totally right: here are Tuesday data from meteo France:
https://www.infoclimat.fr/observations-meteo/archives/29/nov...
I hope people aren't writing directly to AVX2. When using a wrapper such as Highway, you get exactly this kind of update after a recompile, or even just running your code on a CPU that supports newer instructions.

The cost is that the binary carries around both AVX2 and AVX-512 codepaths, but that is not an issue IMO.
A Novel Idea About `Functor` in Rust?
Copying copyrighted works?
Those coins seem so round and perfectly created to be ancient ones. Are we sure the photo matches the actual find?
No. If something slows down innovation and suffocates the economy, why would you (an economically minded politician) keep it?
Over the years we've gotten more and more technological advances, we have automated more and more labor yet the amount of labor we have to put in increases which makes me wonder, where is all that output going as I'm pretty sure it doesn't go into our pockets or our governments. For years I haven't noticed and even burned-out few times as I'm very passionate about this field and STEM in general but count me out from this, my resolution for the next 3 years is self-sustenance, self-sufficiency and gig work from time to time to pay for things like internet and other raw materials.
And his old Peugeot (107) is also a Citroen (C1) and Toyota (1st gen Aygo).

Thankfully Toyota did most of the engineering, which I think is the main reason ours is still running after minimal maintenance with > 100,000 miles on it.
i know exactly what to do :)
As an indie developer for the last 10 years my key learning is writing apps for “under privileged” communities. Firstly, it’s a niche. Secondly, people really value your effort and appreciate giving. This creates a nice feeling.

I have created my major app, Time Nomad [1], out of pure curiosity. Don’t laugh, scientific minds… I wanted to see how astronomy and astrology coexisted for hundreds of years without all that new age nonsense that corrupted the ancient discipline.

So I made it different. It’s more of a toolkit to calculate and grok movements of celestial bodies and find moments of specific alignments. That is pure fun. I have enjoyed maths and computational challenges, while the users surprised me by liking the app’s ability to give quick answers about what (and equally importantly when) is happening in the sky — from an astronomical standpoint. No voodoo language needed, just pure geometry.

Why am I saying all this? Taking an old idea and giving it a new modern spin can win hearts. There are communities of people who are open to support that.

[1] https://timenomad.app
From my experience, on the server side. Not so suitable if you're hosting a tiny site in a tiny server.
GitHub's terms of service specify the license is granted as necessary to provide the service. Since the service is not provided they don't have a license.
Tell that to the Amish.

Car dependency is something that we've learned, not the natural state of things.
Epstein-Barr infection has also been found as a trigger for multiple sclerosis.

https://med.stanford.edu/news/all-news/2022/01/epstein-barr-...
Free software isn't great either. Stallman is fine with proprietary software as long as it's baked in ROM, which is even worse than making it distributable but without providing source.
I thought you said UEFI.
> I think search in general is becoming a very poor way to discover content as it is slowly getting planted by LLMs and also for years has been gamified by SEO.

Did you mean supplanted here?
> Have a look at https://once.com/

...from the company behind Basecamp and Hey.com, both subscriptions.
Formance – Warehousing Promises: Towards a New Data Model for Fintech, Part I
> It's completely oxymoronic. Post modernism is about rejecting grand narratives, and marxism is _all_ grand narrative

For some straight talk and level-headed mythbusting on this and other common misconceptions, A Postmodernism FAQ[1] is a great listen.

1:

part 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zmYegIGhwtc
part 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U4hS5NSzPxw
part 3: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OsfKrNLIwhM
They're not the same level things. Neomacs has an Emacs-y browser inside it, for example. It is also possible to embed arbitrary content in buffer (multiple modes, real tables, canvas, etc) while Emacs is restricted to plain text plus some display property hack to support image. It's possible to have a much more powerful org-mode in Neomacs, although we definitely need a user base and contributors to make that happen... Currently, the API and the model is there, so is the possibility.
> This is the old style open source community that I love something and that is often shadowed by big commercial open core projects pretending that they need to change their license because others are using they work...

Overshadowed?
You can do it like this:

< foo.txt bar | blah > out.log
Formance – The Color of Money: Towards a New Data Model for Fintech, Part II
Explaining Muon Excess in Cosmic Rays Using the Gluon Condensation Model
Where there were lots of bodies, pits were used. But a lone body would have been burried differently. Even in the wars today, pits are only used when necessary to dispose of large numbers. Single dead soldiers can be put in proper graves as time/manpower is not an issue with a single body.
Max performance is a stretch - recompilation would not utilize tensor cores, right?

"too hard for mainstream programmers" seems overly pessimistic. I've run several workshops where devs have written dot-product kernels using Highway after 30 minutes of introduction.
According to case law it is personal information; Because in realistic scenario's you can use it in combination with some other data, such as from the browser headers, to identity someone with a high degree of accuracy.

Ofcourse this evolves as the landscape changes. And it isn't always the case. But the comment is accurate.