skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is! Although my test case is probably an unrealistically bad scenario:

It's the classic, why is processing sorted array faster than unsorted one

def f(arr):
r = True
for x in arr:
if x > 128: r = not r
return r

arr = [ random.randint(0, 255) for i in range(0, 1000_000) ]
arr_sorted = list(sorted(arr))

%timeit f(arr)
%timeit f(arr_sorted)

Results are (on my machine): 17.5 ms for unsorted, and 13.5 ms for sorted. For comparison, in a compiled language, the difference is 4x
That's just really fantastic. Well done, indeed.
"portability" probably refers to being able to access messages from multiple devices, which can be easily done on email but not text messages. People port their phone numbers to get a better plan, but that's rarely done for email. At best there's a handful of privacy conscious people switching gmail for protonmail or whatever.
Or you know, crazy idea, just have less roads, use something more efficient less impactful to nature. Can't imagine what that could be.
Water vapor in the atmosphere is complicated. At some altitudes, it causes atmospheric warming, at others, it increases albedo -- reflectivity -- and thus is cooling. Of course wrt to anthropogenic climate change the focus is usually on CO2; but man made water vapor emissions are relevant eg. in the context of air travel.
I don't understand the point of this article.

Was she not working in the US in exchange for accommodation? It certainly seems she was.

Was she not violating US visa rules by doing so? IANAL but it seems plausible she was.

Why did she sign her statement if it was inaccurate? I seem to see a lot of stories of people getting in legal trouble that boil down to 'I signed an inaccurate statement because I thought that would make it all go away.' Is this supposed to be an argument worthy of sympathy?

Is there a reason to see this story as something other than someone was unable to exercise white privilege to avoid consequences for bending (breaking) the rules?
TikTok deal put on hold after China objects over tariffs
Bacteria are not animals.
It’s there. It’s called community, neighbors, friends. The outside.
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The author had the story wrong. Kerosene did save the whales—that’s the reason they there around to be so relentlessly hunted in the mid 1900s. The reality is that whales had to be saved twice.

The problem with this story about solar is that solar might produce low cost electricity but it’s also low value electricity. It’s much more expensive when you try to replace oil with solar. Those are really apples and oranges technologies.
This is nonsense. The “non-reciprocal trade arrangements” mentioned don’t obviously exist at all, and, to the extent they exist, they are certainly not measured in any meaningful respect by the formulas going into the tariffs.

Having spent a whopping ten minutes finding official data (and I have no idea how good this data is as a whole — probably mediocre but far better than whatever nonsense the USTR is doing):

(a) The EU seems to thing that they run a trade surplus with us in goods and a deficit in services, and they’re close to balancing out.

(b) The US’s own data shows a net surplus with some countries and a net deficit with others. See here, page 28:

https://www.census.gov/foreign-trade/Press-Release/current_p...

If the US was trying to negotiate sensibly and to identify anything remotely non-reciprocal, they would be rewarding the countries with positive numbers in that table! The US should be delighted to trade with Australia, Brazil, Belgium, the Netherlands, etc! By all means, we should buy more widgets and sell more fancy services!

As a silly analogy: if your housemate goes on a wild drunken rampage and starts trashing everything in sight while screaming “you need to reciprocate and wash the dishes more often and I will continue trashing things until you wash the dishes reciprocally,” the situation is not a viable negotiation tactic.
Is this a troll comment I don’t understand?

Do you see coyotes running around hunting children often?
> You can take the results with a pinch of salt.

That's a sub-genre I have yet to hear about, do tell more.

Seriously, though, the 'porn addict turned sexual predator' questionnaire in TFA was from anonymous people on the dark webs. Are they also salt-fetishists?
If you want to see what happens with an aging workforce and low fertility rate look at Japan. It's more stagnation than decline.

Unlike Japan, China also still has a massive rural population that can get educated and move to the cities. This internal migration has been and will continue to offset their declining population for many more years.
The Rise of Fractional Leadership
A government is not a person who “feels” anything. Anyone who is in the USA for work/study has agreed to a contract, and there is nothing in that contract that requires intelectual subservience. If the USA government finds that the person is not doing their part according to the contract, which would mean being taken advantage of, they are more than welcome to act on that. This has nothing to do with what’s happening.

You’re applying social norms that exist between humans, based on feelings, to a completely different relationship that includes no feelings at all. Would you like another government, with another political direction opposed to yours, to start asking you for appreciation?
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I'm drawing a narrow but crucial distinction between telling true stories and journalism.

Journalism sets a higher bar. It has to not only tell the truth, but to tell it in a way that informs rather than entertains. That can be messy and dull. It doesn't let you connect things with speculation, even if you identify it as speculation. You can't even quite somebody's speculation unless you've ascertained their sincerity.

That's a very high bar that genuine journalists still hold to. It's unfortunate that this is usually boring and nobody wants to pay for it, and so much of what passes for "news" doesn't even try, but journalists do exist.

TAL tells stories. They are supposed to be truthful and never just outright lie the way Daisey did. But they don't have to double confirm every fact. They have a lot more leeway to shape a story by omission, speculation, opinion, etc. They don't practice journalism, though they do not explicitly say so. And by appearing in a medium best known for its journalism (genuine journalism), by stepping over the line they obliterated it.

So I'm trying to draw some careful distinctions. They did screw up, but not just in the obvious fashion. It's a story they should never have fun, not because of the lies (the second mistake) but because it's not their wheelhouse (the first mistake). They should have handed that story off to an actual journalist. Then later Daisey could have reported it his way, though he'd still be required not to simply fabricate. He would, however, have well attested sources.
The earth has dimmed 1 Watt/Meter. The loss of cloud coverage is due to Carbon Dioxide energy. It doesn’t allow cloud formation as the freezing point is increased. This CO2 effect on clouds was first published in 2017. The weather models of the 80s, 90s and oughts did not account for this. A 2019 Model showed high global temperatures by 2028-2032 in the high improbable range; however, those temperatures were experienced with a very close precision in 2024. You all can look this up.
For the longest time I've been using vims built-in `compiler` feature with tartansandal/vim-compiler-pytest combined tpope/vim-dispatch
Don't give in to zero sum thinking.

https://www.opb.org/article/2022/08/31/animal-crossings-over...

> Sugiarto found a favorable cost-benefit analysis. The study estimated each crossing structure could save society between $235,000 and $443,000 annually through collision reductions. The savings varied based on structure size, design and location.
> we can’t even predict with certainty whether it will rain tomorrow

It is very similar to the birthday paradox - it is an order of magnitude easier to predict average weather, than the exact weather at a specific time.

Despite that, we care about the former for our long term survival, and for the latter on whether to put on a rain coat today.
I've been using it for atleast five years on every single device. This does not happen.

What did happen was that Google banned it from the Chrome store and this sounds like the exact kind of rumor they would spread if it actually does work to help poison your ad profile.
> TikTok only succeed because it came from a large country then?

And USA is going to buy TikTok, just like they did almost every European tech company. You don't see what is happening here, do you? Bigger tech companies eat smaller ones because software is much more prone to networking effects than other industries.

> Fuck I'm sick and tired of hearing the poor EU complain about technology

You are the one complaining, I just explained why it happened like it happened.

> Lets face it, the EU cannot create d) global tech infrastructure (i.e. GPU chips).

AMSL is European, you are just wrong here, the whole worlds tech industry depends on AMSL. Europe is very strong in many industries, just not software. It is USA that can't do tech hardware, its all made in Europe and Asia now.
Surprising link between mindset and vaccine outcomes
If you go to NPM the first thing it says in bold is "no longer maintained" and it links to the Google Chrome labs GitHub as well.

https://www.npmjs.com/package/@squoosh/cli#project-no-longer...

So to clarify, is the GitHub maintained but the npm distribution is not? Or is none of it maintained unless you use the website/app?
Mammoth de-extinction is bad conservation
Yes, but I'm not convinced that that's actually (the majority of) what this is.

How many large models are realistically being trained on all of Wikimedia, compared to the number of people using AI search, possibly fetching sites very inefficiently (e.g. using a headless browser spun up from scratch, i.e. with a cold cache, every single time).
Fullwidth Latin characters exist so that you can arrange your text into a grid without the occasional word in Latin script messing up your alignment.

Most people don't really care about this, or, if they do, simply use a font that renders regular Latin at full width (or half width to be more space-efficient) but very occasionally the Fullwidth Latin codepoints get some use. It's more common in Japanese (though still rare) than Chinese in my experience, but e.g. the Project Gutenberg ebook of 阿Ｑ正傳 https://gutenberg.org/cache/epub/25332/pg25332-images.html uses fullwidth Qs.
It isn't a prediction as much as it is a simple fact. Runaway greenhouse is inevitable, if we continue doing things to increase the greenhouse effect while simultaneously dropping the planet's albedo then the runaway greenhouse will happen much sooner.

Pretty much every 'breakthrough' in climate research in the last few decades has been finding new data showing we are dropping the planet's albedo much faster than expected. The biggest climate shock we have experienced in the last 20 years has been reduction in use of bunker oil fuel in ships which was masking the albedo loss from ice melt by flooding the upper atmosphere with reflective particulate pollution.

I am not worried about the increase in severe weather as much as I am worried about runaway greenhouse pretty much instantly destroying all multicellular life on the planet.
So, not knowing any better, I read it as meaning 170k TW/day, so 85k TW/12 hours made sense to me, but you’re right… [1]. The earth receives 14.9 ZettaWatts of solar radiation per day…

[1]: https://gosolarquotes.com.au/amount-of-solar-energy-hitting-...
I just read Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky. It's a nice bit of science fiction about the evolution of hyper intelligent jumping spiders on a terraformed planet.
No we are not, and a brief look at the history of the planet will show that. We're driving most of the changes today, but the planet itself also changes on it's own (tectonic shifts, for one), as do extra-planetary factors (solar cycles), and both of these impact our upper atmosphere.

From the article, there's significant uncertainty what's driving the currently measured effect:

> Climate scientists now need to figure out what’s causing these cloud changes.

> The team also found that 80% of the overall reflectivity changes in these regions resulted from shrinking clouds, rather than darker, less reflective ones, which could be caused by a drop in pollution. For Tselioudis, this clearly indicates that changes in atmospheric circulation patterns, not pollution reductions, are driving the trend.

> But Loeb, who leads work on the set of NASA satellite instruments called Clouds and the Earth’s Radiant Energy System, which tracks the energy imbalance, thinks pollution declines may be playing an important role in the cloud changes, especially in the Northern Hemisphere. “The observations are telling us something is definitely changing,” he says. “But it’s a complicated soup of processes.”

To your point, however, we do appear to be the only ones capable of intentionally modifying the environment, so if anybody's going to understand and address this, it'll be us.
You've clearly never have been on the London Underground - none of the deep level lines currenlty have air conditioning and yet they are getting hotter every year.
Only during open season.
If you read it like "Earth gets over 170,000 terawatts of solar energy- all day, every day" then it works.
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Personal anecdata: while approaching 40, I wouldn't say anywhere near half of 20 somethings are beautiful.
That makes it sound like the world being in America's pocket would have been a better outcome.

America in the 21st century has been running on the fumes of its achievements post-WWII. China has been building entire cities' worth of infrastructure domestically and internationally, deepening trade links and political influence. America wasn't even willing to rebuild New Orleans, let alone Afghanistan and Iraq. That hasn't escaped the attention of the rest of the world.

In the era following the Great Recession, it has been mired in comical levels of political disunity, where investing in public infrastructure like housing, healthcare and education is seen as a 'handout' to the 'undeserving'. In no other nation-state on earth would somebody like Musk be provided with taxpayer funds to derail plans for high-speed trains by pursuing a non-working vanity project that appeared to be inspired by a Simpsons episode about a charismatic charlatan.
To each his own, but I'm going into very decreased spending because EVERYTHING is going to go up. I'm probably particularly sensitive to how much the increases may impact "emergency funds" right now as we just had >$10K fly out the door this month (sick cat, dog dental cleaning, new tires and control arms).
Sorry, but did you read the question or the article at all?
Maybe this has something to do with the wiz acquisition.
Pay attention to the bond yields.

For all the hue and cry about the Dow-Jones &c, there are more strategic dimensions to the economic questions of our day than just the tactical concerns of the stock market.
Friendlyjordies on YouTube made a great video [1] about ground.news about a month ago, worth a watch. I share the view that the left / right classification for news is useless. There always was some kind of bias / agenda to news, even before the days of the internet and social media. Also, the Democrat party in the US is for the most part, a center or center right party, so the classification of left / right for US news is kind of pointless.

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bfHx4CfKFqQ&t=914s
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Be careful what you wish for. At least at the moment it is easy to use tools like uBlock to avoid ads but it gets more difficult if they are served as an integral part of the page from the same domain.
> Is it about the 7±2 chunk limit on short-term memory?

Yes.
Snowden showed that they were willing to compromise allies, but there was still some idea that it was at least plausibly legitimate targets.

Now people are worried that economic espionage or even sabotage are possible. For example, if you are the government of Canada, Snowden annoyed you but you weren’t asking whether Microsoft Update would brick every computer in your government right before a military assault. You probably aren’t thinking that’s highly likely now, either, but you have some intelligence officers analyzing it seriously in a way which would have seemed paranoid a decade ago.
The Biden carrot was more successful in getting foreign countries to do what he wanted than the Trump stick.

Biden had successfully instigated a trade war between Canada & China, by getting
Canada to join the US in putting a 100% tax on Chinese EV's. This exasperated an already tense relationship due to the extradition of Meng Wanzhou and resulted in nasty tariffs on Canadian oilseeds, legumes, seafood and pork.

I'm relatively confident Canada will settle with China to avoid a two front war.
Right, that's the amount issued in short term bonds and whatnot. It cycles all the time. But again: it's maturing. You don't need to "refinance it", for the same reason you don't refinance a mortgage with only $6k principle left. There's no point, just pay it off and work on a new loan.

So the question becomes "can we get better rates for bonds?". And clearly the answer is hell no, because nothing in this mess makes US debt look more attractive to foreign investors. We're moving in the opposite direction from the way the cult expects things to go.
“It can’t happen here”
Yes. You should listen to apocalyptic omens only from scientists.

If one particular ideology happens to be consistently agreeing or disagreeing with the scientists, then you should take that pattern into account when it comes to choosing who should deal with the consequences. Those are matters of opinion, albeit informed by the facts. The fact remain independent of ideology, and any claim that they are the result of an epically vast conspiracy of scientists should require an extremely high standard of evidence.
Well, that’s what Apple get for shutting down all their US iPhone factories, laying off all their American iPhone production workers and moving manufacturing overseas.
What’s the middle ground good design here?
> windows is the most open operating system
Well he brought down his entire storage system. Twice.

I believe one time he had to bring in Wendell Wilson from Wendell Wilson Consulting, but more likely know to the Internet-at-large as the primary figure on Level1Techs YouTube channel.

I have no desire, nor inclination to dig through the thousands of videos LMG has produced on YouTube, but it's still up to my knowledge, and watching him fumble about with absolutely no clue is not only painful, but pathetic. Linus suffers from the same affliction many of my Ph.D.-holding friends have, which is that he believes because he knows a lot about putting together computers and electronics that he could handle building a large-scale data storage system.

These systems are complex, and to be well-built and maintained, they require domain-specific knowledge - no different than an OS programmer needs deep knowledge of C and C++, and increasing now, Rust.

It's a series of videos of someone way in over his head who should have brought in an actual expert - like Wendell from Level1Techs, or Patrick from ServeTheHome, from the get-go, instead of trying to do it himself.
I can't even count how many movies I've seen where this is a comedic plot point -- the conservative soccer mom likes to get a little freaky and someone walks in.
I get the problem with spending too much time configuring things like Vim or Tmux. But I'm just getting started with NeoVim today to see if I want to go with it full time and get off of Vim.

Why is NeoVim dead to you?
Any addiction is bad, including porn. Why normalise it? Addictions can be greatly advanced by an algorithm, you can't deny that either. Are porn sites trying to advance porn addiction in their users? Well, the number of views is their money, so it's reasonable to assume they are.

I could agree with only one thing, that porn addiction is not the worst one out there, but blamed the most. For some reason, it's ok for mobile games to make gambling addicts from kids, but no one seems to care about that.
Social media alt text for journalists, and why it matters
To be fair, lawyers will hem and haw about everything. Getting them to give a straight direct answer is like pulling teeth.
Oxy – a framework for building SQL bots and automations, built in Rust
Design a DSL. But instead of implementing it, implement the same abstractions in the functions (or classes or whatever) of your code. Effectively, you are implementing the DSL without the parser and AST.

When you chain these functions together into business logic they will be just as readable as the DSL would have been. But you still get an IDE with code completion, debugging, etc.
,,Some hosts may give a paid allowance to ensure they are offering at least the minimum wage in their country''

It's sad, but workaway is similarly to airbnb (hotel service) and uber (taxi service) uses ,,work'' and ,,help'' interchangebly on its website on purpose.

I am a tourist in USA (not working), and I haven't experienced any problem at the border control.
Not really. The decline in whaling starts before the introduction of kerosene. And the increase starts after it. Making a case for causality either way is basically impossible from this time series.
You could find the link to the Coca-Cola page at some other page, for example, "Dangerous chemicals".
Hobby forums? I've been blocking ads for 20 years so it's difficult for me to imagine someone using an ad to learn about anything they want to be even slightly informed about. The main thing "sponsored" links or information tells you is that the thing you're looking at is trying to scam or manipulate you. If you want to actually learn about something and find good products, you look for people who are interested and knowledgeable in that area.
No. Any file that runs MCP Server is fine anywhere. I am intending a workspace separate from the rails app. The MCP server should be run in a separate process from the rails app. At least until the streamable http transport is ready.

https://github.com/modelcontextprotocol/specification/pull/2...
https://spec.modelcontextprotocol.io/specification/2025-03-2...
TIL spiders ‘molt’ wow.
"New" roff [0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nroff
Perhaps we agree that sustaining fair societies is a continual march of institutional and cultural building - not something imposed by a document or stamped by 1800's England. I would never argue that US-Iraq style nation building would succeed, for example. In fact, it is a counter example of violence being sufficient to get from 0 to 1. The US applied extreme violence over a population and failed to establish a persistent democratic order. The basis of civilization, as I read history, is more a consequence of surplus than violence.

I see, in the chaos of Somalia, Yemen, Iraq, as examples, the results of institutions and cultures effectively destroyed by outside violence, in many cases regressing from 1 to 0.

Thank you for sharing your point of view - certainly thought provoking for me.
And yet screwing around is exactly what is going to happen. We've just guaranteed four years of exacerbating the problem from one of the major greenhouse gas producers.

I'm not a fan of geoengineering, which I see as "screwing around" because we don't know nearly enough to predict its effects. Nonetheless, we may well reach a point where it cannot make things worse, and that point just became even more likely.
Thanks for looking in-depth in our post. The Hitachi RTU500 mention is not an hallucination, we did check for those. It is mentioned in the Mandiant threat intelligence data.
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