skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You could have run this on a private window of the browser (and in that case, they would surely think you're a closeted gay).
I see police in military uniforms in downtown Chicago all the time.
I particularly like seeing the flow values on the interconnects.
Well done!!!
The real shame is that Nvidia is still doing binary blob drivers 15 years after I started caring about Linux. Are they really that afraid of someone taking their Lucky Charms?
One of the reasons QR codes don't get used much is people simply don't know how to scan them.
> Is there any fundamental issue with using one of these things to share a link to a menu or something?

There is no problem with making a QR code that links to a menu in PDF format and that would be private & secure. The problem is that the majority of those QR codes would link to a page on the restaurant's website where various trackers are embedded and Zuckerberg is not far away, and most people browse without private mode nor ad-blockers so their browser is known by those trackers.
Out of curiosity, how soon do you plan on retiring and and how much longer do you plan on living? Everyone has different allocations, but I rarely see people talk about having 30% in bonds.

Have you been increasing bond allocation over time or just sticking to a 70/30 lazy portfolio?
Yes. Sorry for not being clear.
> Certainly I believe we can agree that if you program am application or service to act as though it were conscious, that doesn't actually make it conscious

I'm not sure we agree upon that, especially without a clear definition of consciousness.
In source code, or in compiled bytes?
I'm proud to say I'm not dead because of people like you clogging up the hospitals allowing me to receive emergency surgery a couple weeks ago.
Would you be so kind to explain to me in what way a HTF can provide "liquidity", especially liquidity that would not be there in the first place?

By the way, since the tremendous inflow of cash into index ETF, some stocks are bascially traded only by ETFs and HTF without many other market participants. I mean, what could possibly go wrong?

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-04-09/horseman-global-un...
I still use CRT, and I own a Radeon R9 380X.

I am worried with the fact that this card is the final one with a RAMDAC, any newer one doesn't have, but any monitor better than mine is ludicrously expensive.

I dunno what to do now.
How about a display that had a large e-ink screen plus a small LCD of maybe 2-4 lines at the bottom?

Go old school for editing. Use something like TECO or ed or Rob Pike, David Tilbrook, Hugh Redelmeier and Tom Duff's Unix version of QED [1].

The small LCD is for seeing the command you are currently typing and a little command history.

With those editors you entered editing commands but did not see the results until you asked for them. You'd tell the editor to show you the current line plus say 10 lines before and after. Then you'd give it commands to edit the current line, such as telling it to change the text "float" to "double", or telling it to insert a new line before the current line, and so on. When you had done enough changes that you needed to refresh your notion of the current state of the file, you'd ask it to show you again.

Even the older generation, slower e-ink screens would be fast enough for that kind of work.

Maybe instead of putting the small LCD display at the bottom of the e-ink screen, make it a separate unit that can attach to the e-ink screen or attach to the top of your keyboard or stand alone somewhere if you prefer.

[1] https://github.com/phonologus/QED
How to scan barcodes from your phone into a database (or HTTP API)
Except that it can. I hardly ever use something other than stdlib’s csv. It’s a perfectly good csv parser for production use.
Julia is very capable general purpose lang and web libs are maturing pretty fast. It does not have to be the focus of core team for it to happen.
Much less, and it was more expensive. The total cost of market making has gone down substantially with HFT, mostly because a small firm replaces a large army of floor traders.
Whenever they ban facial recognition, they should make it broader and also ban license plate tracking, bluetooth tracking, wifi tracking, TPMS tracking, etc... Because they are as bad, if not worst, then facial recognition.
If you already have a yacc/bison in your project’s CLI or compiler parser, you could use `bison —graph=` then feed that graph file into DOT/gv layout for outputting to PNG or SVG.
One of the frustrating things about "the hum" that the article mentions is that, academically, it's been lumped into the lunatic fringe of conspiracy theories, and serious scientists aren't interested. It does seem like the right equipment and expertise should pretty easily be able to determine, conclusively, whether or not any given "hum" is a real physical sound.
And cheaper
FFS. As Saint Jobs taught us "Real artists ship."

We needed nuclear. And everything else. Two decades ago.

Now must do anything and everything to get to zero carbon as fast as possible. Not tomorrow. Not a decade from now. Today. Now.

If we went all in for nukes, ignoring all the financial and technical and policy downsides, what's the soonest it'd go live? A decade?

Too late.

So while we build out wind, solar, storage... And while we rebuild our grid... We should also triple down on nukes. Dump money into every feasible and semifeasible and farfetched variation. And hope that in a decade some of those bets pay off. (I especially wish traveling wave reactors can work.)

Meanwhile, per disagree and then commit, get with the program. All this narcissism of small differences makes the concern trolls part of the problem. If nukes are your thing, knock yourself out. And praise all the complimentary efforts. Because we need all of it, as soon as possible.

Source: Saul Griffith
I'm skeptical of these UBI experiments in general, because they don't take into account that widespread, permanent UBI will change people's behaviour in very different ways from a small, temporary experiment. How do populations respond when they are guaranteed $2k / month forever no matter what they do? Do they simply start asking for $3k / month after that? Does the median individual stop working and watch TV all day, or do they do amazing creative things?

One crazy experiment we could try: Give Finland (they've run a small-scale UBI exp before) $1.2 trillion to run a nationwide, long-term UBI experiment on their whole population(5M (pop. Finland) * $24k / year (UBI payments) * 10 years = $1.2 trillion).

Make the decision about UBI based on what happens in Finland after 10 years. Not perfect, and it will never happen, but certainly would be a more trustworthy indicator of UBIs real effects on a society :)
This is the latest NiLang tutorial notebook: https://github.com/JuliaReverse/NiLangTutorial
Ask HN: What are your thoughts on serverless function composition?
The serverless ecosystem is rapidly growing. There are several FaaS providers, such as Amazon Lambda, Azure Functions. But these are stateless. But our applications need state to function. So there are services like Step functions and Azure durable functions. What is your thoughts on them? Do you find them fulfilling or do they lack features? In a nutshell, what is that you expect from such services?
My god this issue has been around for too long. In the '80s testing folk learned to shotgun the argument space to test functions, and they've not gone an inch forward since! Or so it seems.

A version of the Pentium was released that couldn't divide by 10. And even back then, testing all the mantissas on a simulator would have taken only hours. Instead, they masked, marketed and released a tragically flawed processor.

Just test the input space exhaustively, folks! It's a computer; it feels no pain. Work it hard until it fails or works perfectly.
Are downvotes on both of my comments warranted? Such a theory is worth exploring, yes?

Edit: this comment was downvoted almost instantly as well.
I was being sarcastic!
Lack of composability? What? Of course you can use one parser for everything, what’s stopping you from doing that. Separating IO from business logic and composing the two is a pretty standard practice. Not sure I follow the argument here.
What if we discover that consciousness is no more real than luminiferous ether, and that both humans and machines are just patterns for processing and acting upon the environment and not fundamentally different.
According to the first line of the second paragraph, it is source code
I highly recommend this film (available on Netflix)... it shows that there can be friendship between two such utterly alien minds and thus that higher sentience has some common principles even when the "infrastructure" on which it is implemented is so completely different.
You don't need HFT, but those market makers lost to HFT on price. HFT is far far cheaper than the old market makers.
“Two terawatts of photovoltaic would require installing 100 square meters of 15- percent- efficient solar cells every second, second after second, for the next 25 years. (That’s about 1,200 square miles of solar cells a year, times 25 equals 30,000 square miles of photovoltaic cells.) Two terawatts of solar thermal? If it’s 30 percent efficient all told, we’ll need 50 square meters of highly reflective mirrors every second. (Some 600 square miles a year, times 25.) Two terawatts of biofuels? Something like 4 Olympic swimming pools of genetically engineered algae, installed every second. (About 61,000 square miles a year, times 25.) Two terawatts of wind? That’s a 300- foot- diameter wind turbine every 5 minutes. (Install 105,000 turbines a year in good wind locations, times 25.) Two terawatts of geothermal? Build three 100- megawatt steam turbines every day— 1,095 a year, times 25. Three terawatts of new nuclear? That’s a 3- reactor, 3- gigawatt plant every week— 52 a year, times 25.” Add it up, and when you’re done, you’ve got an area about the size of America—“ Call it Renewistan,” says Griffith— covered with stuff dedicated to generating humanity’s energy.[1]

The green new deal is just political theater in order for the democratic party to get more money. You're deluding yourself if you think a political party is single handedly capable of solving climate change. As much as I want something like the green new deal to work, it probably won't even make a dent in the grand scheme of things unless they go full nuclear.

[1] Stewart brand whole earth discipline
Graph embedding example is not missing, it in the appendix of the paper's master branch: https://github.com/GiggleLiu/nilangpaper/blob/master/invc.pd...

The source code is available here: https://github.com/JuliaReverse/NiGraphEmbedding.jl
it's sad for me to look at maps like this, because my country could be greener if Austria didn't force us into closing our oldest nuclear plant. Now more than half of our electricity emissions are imported.
The overhead in all Python JSON parsers isn't parsing the JSON, it's building the Python objects that represent each element. If Julia has lower overhead objects, or JITs with basic optimizations, it would be trivial to be faster than pysimdjson.
> for caching purposes, not for security purposes

Whether it's for caching or security purposes, a hash of the contents is a hash of the contents.

The link you shared is about tracking whether a given document is already cached. That's the same problem as with normal caching. At least the top N libraries could be downloaded with a browser update and be equal for everyone.
> (recursive CTEs and window functions respectively).

The ABL language supported functionality like that in the language for ages.

> Doesn't that place architecture-based restrictions on performance though - how well does concurrency and transactions work in their OLTP model?

By what metric?
It’s absolutely untrue to say that cyclists are ‘difficult to avoid safely’.

Every time I drive I encounter cyclists. Sometimes I have to drive more slowly than I might want to for a short time, while I’m waiting for a safe opportunity to overtake. Not once, ever, have I found it difficult to avoid the cyclist safely. Anyone who finds this difficult would not be fit to operate a motor vehicle.
As far as I know these apps can still export from Apple Music and I haven’t heard of any threats to remove support.

Apple has also been a good steward of podcasts and keeping the open standard.
I have had the same feeling about early cfl lamps. Turning those on seemed to make the rooms darker and more dingy instantly
Or just the huge output from cloc that is showing the count of lines of code.
I don't get it. Reminds me of a blog post were the guy discussed a Portuguese stock, construction industry if my memory does not fail me, that has a "very low" trading volume.

When I looked up the stock, (I think the stock was very expensive), trading volume was like 1 Share every 6 months or so. Yes, I guess you could call this "very low" trading volume. So where would HTF come in here?
How so? Nuclear requires certain types of expertise and I'd hope, certain certifications for construction.

Also, historically, they've each been multi-year ventures.

These are likely different humans and different companies than people doing urban gardening projects and rooftop solar.

I honestly don't see the conflict here. I don't know too much about nuclear construction and maintenance but I'd imagine it takes years of specialized training and experience to be competent. If that's true, I can't imagine someone sliding from say, retrofitting insulation to older apartment buildings to nuclear in any reasonable time. I think we have to conclude they're as different as any other sophisticated skills; you're still starting at zero if you want to switch.

The GNDs problem has been the same since Jill Stein was talking about it in 2012 - it's too grandiose for a society and time that has rejected grand visions.

We would need to fix our systemic cultural inability to be able to subscribe to a collective imaginary before a GND is broadly entertained.

However, you crack and divide GND as separate goals, such as increasing the usefulness and efficiency of mass urban transit, most people are on board. And each of these concrete goals doesn't preclude Exelon and GE from building nuclear power plants.

Once you reframe the GND as simply a basketcase of low hanging fruit of city and neighborhood level projects, then we get into nuclear's real issue in this conversation - It is the biggest project of the bunch.

Ignoring possible futures and going with historical pasts, nuclear plants are what are called "megaprojects" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megaproject) and that's their main Achilles heel for our times. Americans at least, have stopped believing in them. They think "big = broken disaster". Some american may even feel obligated to respond to this, "But it's true" and then my point will be made.

The GND proponents could finally understand marketing and branding and successfully reposition their project to our collective appetites as a collection of small bite-sized community projects but nuclear cannot do this.
Podcast: Are You Making the Right Thing?
(Edit: we probably mean the same, but you’re only talking of relatively low-speed streets in Madrid, not roads, where car speed is higher) “Bike lanes are built to kick cyclists off the roads that motorist believe belong to them”

No, they’re built to make cycling safer and more comfortable.

We have motorways for cars (or are you suggesting those should be used by cyclists, too? How do people cycle from Barcelona to Toledo, for example?), sidewalks for pedestrians (at least in many parts of the world), why not have dedicated infrastructure for cyclists?

If what you say is true, the Netherlands is doing it wrong with their “Separate where needed, mix where possible” policy (https://bicycledutch.wordpress.com/2012/08/09/separate-where...)

That may be true, but (IMO) requires more proof than a comment on HN.
I see where you're coming from. However that fallacy assumes that someone or something was injured and that there's a perverse incentive at play to incentivize destructive behavior. In this situation I'm not sure it applies. Who or what was injured by installing this tunnel? Were the tunneling companies now selling high-speed tunnels to other companies?
Naturally, conditions and attitudes vary from one country and locale to another. I live in the US, which has a fairly high rate of motor vehicle crashes. My view is that our streets are hardly safe enough for cars, and if a car can crash into a car, then it can crash into a bike. In addition to a higher rate of crashes, our cars are bigger, meaning that they can do more damage.

Long before we started adding bike lanes in my locale, cyclists and motorists tended to choose different routes through town. Motorists chose the main streets, which have higher speed limits but also more congestion. Cyclists usually preferred threading our way along residential streets and isolated bike paths. Bike lanes in areas where there are no ways to avoid the high traffic streets seems to simply accommodate how most cyclists prefer to ride anyway.

In practical terms, avoiding cars means that cars are not part of the safety equation. It's also more pleasant. I'm an experienced urban cyclist, yet I still prefer riding in the absence of cars.

Drivers have always been taught to share the road with cyclists, and there are always a few who don't believe it. I don't think construction of bike lanes changes this very much. I have noticed that during the 20 years I've lived in this town, cycling has gotten more popular, there are more bike lanes, but also, drivers have become more aware and friendly towards cyclists on the regular roads.

There are cyclists on both sides of the debate about bike lanes. And surely, if roads can be designed badly, bike lanes can be too. I've seen pictures of some pretty ridiculous examples.
Ask HN: Healthy, cheap, easy meals to make, like this recipe?
The "ramen" in "ramen profitable" refers to instant ramen, which is just about the cheapest food available.

Please do not take the term literally. Living on instant ramen would be very unhealthy. Rice and beans are a better source of food. Start by investing in a rice cooker, if you don't have one.

Rice and Beans for 2n
olive oil or butter
n yellow onions
other fresh vegetables; experiment
3n cloves garlic
n 12-oz cans white, kidney, or black beans
n cubes Knorr beef or vegetable bouillon
n teaspoons freshly ground black pepper
3n teaspoons ground cumin
n cups dry rice, preferably brown
Put rice in rice cooker. Add water as specified on rice package. (Default: 2 cups water per cup of rice.) Turn on rice cooker and forget about it.

Chop onions and other vegetables and fry in oil, over fairly low heat, till onions are glassy. Put in chopped garlic, pepper, cumin, and a little more fat, and stir. Keep heat low. Cook another 2 or 3 minutes, then add beans (don't drain the beans), and stir. Throw in the bouillon cube(s), cover, and cook on lowish heat for at least 10 minutes more. Stir vigilantly to avoid sticking.

If you want to save money, buy beans in giant cans from discount stores. Spices are also much cheaper when bought in bulk. If there's an Indian grocery store near you, they'll have big bags of cumin for the same price as the little jars in supermarkets.
It doesn't. These kinds of actions are entirely competition between HFT firms (the fastest ones get the biggest share of the pie). But the HFT firms as a whole do provide a service to the market, and at a much lower price than the alternatives, even with the apparently extravagent cost of these efforts (mainly because it requires a lot less people: old-school market making involved a lot of people on trading floors).
I'm guessing it was this paragraph in Section IV.1.H of the API terms of service found here:
https://developer.spotify.com/terms/#iv

> h. Do not transfer Spotify Content to unauthorized third parties, including (i) directly or indirectly transferring any data (including aggregate, anonymous or derivative data) received from Spotify to, or use such data in connection with, any ad network, ad exchange, data broker, or other advertising or monetization-related toolset, even if a user consents to such transfer or use; or (ii) to another music service that competes with Spotify or the Spotify Service.

Interestingly enough it says these were last updated over 2 years ago, so they must have been not clamping down on this paragraph until now, or they added it recently and didn't bother to update the document version to hide it. Either way, this is very disappointing.
This is actually a fine thing for Spotify since you’re still paying for both.

Now that they’ve threatened songshift they’re forcing you to make a choice (or manually sync).

Hopefully you won’t choose Spotify.
I do not follow australian development closely, feel free to give details yourself.

Edit: thanks
They might be able to do it with an Earthworks M30 measurement mic, which claims accuracy down to 3 Hz, and an appropriate digitizer. It's expensive but not as blisteringly expensive as lab mics like Brüel & Kjær's gear.
Yes. Here's another example about hats where the meaning is mostly hidden.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/cZHd4yrC7DV2sdyndn...
Well you can transfer your playlists out with songshift into whatever else, and some of those playlists can be generated by apple music themselves
Should the bike lanes be removed, then?

I think that the solution, as I mentioned in another comment, is to build 'proper' bike lanes instead of painting a 1m wide corridor on the side of the road and calling that a "bike lane". Obviously this usually can only be done when building a new road.
How about the skill to pedal 80km/h?
so does anybody want to take a crack at answering some of the questions posed here? i'd love to know why <picture> uses srcset instead of src, and why the whitespace in media queries is significant.
Most of it is dumb automatic header generation as the article points out, but looking at the source[0], there seems to be a lot of code duplication, e.g. 5 different vcn_*.c files that seem of significant size and largely identical at a glance.

That frankly seems like horrible software design.

[0] https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/lin...
> * First, bit field descriptors is a huge pain - where, in C, you would define an enum for the task, there isn't a real equal in vanilla Rust, other than a litany of constant variables.

With my Rust language team hat on: we'd love to have native support for bitfields. I'd invite folks who are interested in that to propose a language MCP ("major change proposal"), which I'd expect to be approved, and then collaborate on a spec for them.
>> Lets compare to alternatives like dam and flood control infrastructure, better roads, rail, etc.

I'm going to provide a totally contrarian viewpoint as an engineer previously employed by Wall Street -- the difference to the alternatives is simple -- one exists and the other is theoretical.

The difference is is that Wall Street pays actual paychecks to engineers to do these things. Meanwhile, as much as i'd love to work for a better railroad company or what not, I did not find any engineering jobs there (computer science and statistics in my case.) Jobs and paychecks is how I am able to make car payments and pay for my daughter's bicycle.

To continue the thought, if you really do feel dam and flood control infra is a better thing to spend money on (i feel this way), HN isnt really the place:

0. Be like Elon and start your own railroad and dam company

1. Invest your own money into a dam and infra startup

2. Lobby your senator and representative to put money into infra

Speaking down the folks who are actually giving engineers paychecks is not a great thing IMHO when there arent all that many alternatives. Same sentiment from most of my former colleagues with Physics PhDs on Wall St. Yeah, it sucks, but tell me that once you can land me a tenure track teaching position. Until then, let me eat.