skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
from purely storage prespective:
right now you can buy 1Tb microSD card (1^12 bytes), which is about 7800x more than first 128Mb microSD card introduced in 2005, so x^15 = 7800 => x = 1.8 i,e 80% improvement a year (I know it's super vogue approximation but helps to get the order of magnitude). Extrapolate that for 17k Petabytes, and we get 1.8^y = 17000 => y = 17, so less than a century for sure.
anothing thing, that likely for AI the topology of the brain wiring is more important than raw organic data
The disconnect here is exactly what I'm referring to in my post. I'm at a loss for words, especially considering I've already addressed your main point. Also, what do you mean by "not just faster"? What are "equivalent parts"?
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`strftime` is not an internationalization API! It's a datetime formatting API! :)

I can see an appeal for it, and I wouldn't mind `Date` or `Temporal` to have such pattern-driven formatting, but it is critical to recognize that it is not internationalization and thus doesn't belong there.

In particular, if you use `strftime` like formatting you're doing the opposite - you're hardcoding the formatting into a single pattern. It may be the right thing for your project, but it definitely is not i18n :)
I believe it's often on HN because there hasn't been a major "jump" in computing/processing power like this in over a decade. I do remember when every year's PC was significantly faster and yearn those years, as probably many here, and see this as a very exciting moment.

I only use a laptop, like many others, and I believe it's very fair to compare M1 vs last generation Intel. Why? Because both are Apple computers (few differences in screen brightness, colors, etc), same OS (few differences in optimization, stability, support, etc) and similar constrains from being a laptop (thermal, power, etc). Intel's year over year improvements are minimal, so "last year" Intel vs "this year" m1 is a fair comparison. It'll not be so when we get to m3+, but even m2 would be fair-ish game and gain more from comparing an Apple Intel computer vs Apple m2 than comparing it with a totally different windows machine.
In social situations people get really turned off when I tell them I don't drink. They always ask why and they look at me disapprovingly when I tell them it's because it's unhealthy.

I googled a whole bunch to try and find a survey that asks why people don't drink. I couldn't find one. I am guessing people's PERCEPTION is that non-drinkers are ex-alcoholics or devoutly mormon or muslim, and that's why I get the disapproving looks.
Yes, what you want to look into if you have existing traditional-IRA dollars is the "Pro-Rata Rule". See: https://www.kitces.com/blog/the-impact-of-the-ira-aggregatio...

Backdoor Roth: Contribute $6,000 in after-tax dollars to IRA, Immediately convert IRA --> Roth IRA. File Form 8606.

Mega Backdoor Roth: Contribute a total of ($56,00 - ($19,500 + Employer Match)) as After Tax contributions to a 401K. Convert those funds to a Roth 401k.

Another detail, you may see discussion about avoiding the "Step Doctrine" for backdoor Roth contributions. This is no longer required as the IRS has blessed Back Door contributions, after an obscure footnote in a 2018 congressional report.

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It's not just Europeans. Getting a taste of less than 1% of a country and becoming a total boor of a know-it-all any time the topic comes up is universal, AFAIK.
Depends if you're more of a trunk or roof guy.

Minivan is great for refrigerators. Wagon roof wins for anything more than 7ft long or that comes in sheets.
“A” versus “an” is all about the next syllable (and its sound), not the next letter—they’re the same word, just with context-dependent pronunciation which happens to be materialised in the spelling.

My favourite way of demonstrating this practically is to observe usage of “a” versus “an” on words that have developed or lost a silent “h”.

For example, in the days of long ago, “herb” had a silent “h”, so it would be spelled “an herb” as a vowel sound followed; and in American English it still is silent, and is consequently still “an herb”: https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=a+herb,an+herb.... But in British English, people started sounding the “h”, so that in the 1870s, “a herb” became more popular than “an herb”, and it has remained so ever since: https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=a+herb,an+herb... (though “an herb” is still much more common there than I’d have expected).

I normally read more recent translations of the Bible, but still sometimes read the KJV aloud, so there are many cases of silent aitches that are no longer silent (a regular expression search for `\ban h` has 711 matches in the KJV, compared with only 11 in the WEBBE, which are for “honour”, “honest”, “hour” and “heir”); I decided it’s better to read “a house” rather than “an house”, given that the original spelling was only chosen because at that time they pronounced it “an ’ouse”—or at least, I think so; the ngrams there aren’t quite so conclusive, I suspect that one might have already been shifting in some parts of England, as is the case with quite a few other such words; the KJV was written in a style that was already overly formal and sometimes slightly archaic when it was new, let alone 400 years later—Tyndale’s translation from the best part of a hundred years earlier reads much more easily once you normalise spelling as was done in the KJV between 1611 and 1769.

In short: you’ve got an NVIDIA card.
No doubt, but the reason people do or don't get it vary widely be region. In Portland I expect it's more likely to be a novelty or cultural experience, and therefore the clientele to be less price sensitive than Texas.
I could make a rule-utilitarian argument for why authorial control is a good principle, but honestly my position is more deontological. Reason is the slave of the passions, all ethics discussion must bottom out in human instincts, so my only real argument is that most people seem to think this is a good rule: it's widely accepted that the author of a creative work should have a lot of control over how that work is reused. Most countries have copyright laws that let a creator control the production of derivative works; many go beyond that and have non-transferrable "moral rights" that let the author control derivative works more strictly than intact copies of their original work. Even the FSF, largely anti-copyright, gives the author options to strictly control how their work is presented in the GFDL (e.g. invariant sections).
I'm not basing my purchasing decisions based on the kinds of crashes that only a minority of people will get into within a lifetime.
Not OP, but I drink quite a bit too. I discovered ZBiotics and it's made a very large difference in my experience with hangovers. I was also starting to feel worse hangovers as I aged (from being practically immune in my late teens / early twenties), but using ZB has taken me back to those levels. They're a YC startup, and the product is a GMO probiotic that produces the enzyme to break down acetaldehyde in your digestive system helping you cope with a much larger amount of alcohol than your body would naturally be able to do.

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I don't know if storage is the right metric, perhaps something closer to RAM is, or particularly VRAM. If that's the case then we have a bit farther than 17 years to go.
Yea... I think that's just life, unfortunately. It could be long hair, it could be a mask, or it could be your skin color. Unfortunately there are a lot of morons in this world.
Mostly as a connection between sin and disease- physical sickness was seen as a reflection of spiritual sickness.
Joplin to take notes, and if I need a diagram it supports mermaid-js.
I've not had a standalone camera* in years, but contemplating the cheapest way to get back in so I can shoot some of the kids' sports.

All I want, like I think you're alluding to here, is a micro 4/3rds interchangeable lens camera that has good integration with my phone. Apple would absolutely kill it if they had one with their camera ISP (even with an older CPU*), and just instantly dumped the photos into your library on the phone.

* except for a few action/waterproof ones

* say the A12, it's being used in the new AppleTV, so why not.
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Statistics as detailed as "alcohol consumption by percentile" are hard to come by, but the data doesn't point to armchair just-so psychology like this.

Using some proxies for level of extreme drinking: The US isn't in the top 15 for binge drinking and is below the OECD average[1], and is ranked 50th globally for alcohol deaths (with far fewer than all 3 of OP's mentioned countries). This is despite a healthcare system with more gaps _and_ much higher risks from drunk driving due to being sparse and more car-oriented.

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Quite right - you can't judge a place you've never been to. That's what they do in Russia. :)
The beef industry has adopted crypto!

/s
Yeah, it still feels like "soda", which is what I'm trying to get away from. I've been speaking to a friend about creating something new.

My requirements are:
- not trying to be alcohol/imitation alcohol
- not soda/juice/kombucha
- has the "occasion" attitude of alcohol

I admit this is probably 90% branding and 10% the drink itself. As I was mentioning to my friend, you probably wouldn't feel strange ordering a redbull at a bar without the vodka, because of the marketing and how it isn't considered a soft-drink. I don't know anybody that drinks redbull every day (though I'm sure there are people that do).

Something more mature than a soft drink in flavor profile, something that I hopefully don't chug, so it lasts like a cocktail or beer.

Keen to hear others thoughts on that.

There's Lyres https://lyres.com/ - which pretends to be gin/wisky/etc
And Non (https://non.world) - which is very juice, but at the price of wine.
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> We should be getting rid of locales,

You are welcome to try to convince everyone to use the same language and conventions, go ahead.

In the meantime, the rest of us need tools to deal with the world as it is.
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But the basic way you navigate the web doesn't change much either; there's still the address bar, back button, and html and JavaScript.

And you're underrepresenting how much change can happen for a given model: over decades the Honda Civic has gone from manual to continuously variable transmission, and entirely different chassis, etc. as technology and safety expectations evolve, and it's no exception.
No. I’m saying our vaccination rate is far from herd-immunity levels and low enough that experts have pushed back the projected herd immunity date considerably.

The other things are two large infection surges. Perhaps prevalence and/or power of natural immunity are higher than thought?
That's so cool. The few minutes later is weird. Maybe it was something invisible nearby, or maybe the sound traveled to you, but a few minutes 180s*330m/s would be around 59Km away. If it was that far in the atmosphere it would have been huge, and maybe not even made a sound because the air would have been pretty thin that far away.

I hear that the crashes were shoot-downs or Trojan horse style gifts designed to lure us into co-operation with ETs who sly gave us tech far too advanced for us to figure out, then promised to slowly teach us how some of it works in exchange for whatever cooperation. There's lots of narrative and can be argued both ways, but without people seeing some hard data they believe, probably we'll have zero consensus.
Cannabis is in no way healthier than alcohol. It's hard to quantify the damages done by one vs. the other; but there are very serious social and psychological downsides to regular cannabis use.
I was born in the year zero; if that breaks your database, good.
I agree with the spirit of this but precedent doesn’t really agree with you because well… ads, analytics, telemetry, drm, etc.. These are all things that use your computing resources for someone else’s benefit.

This is the culture we’ve created in tech. There is a presumption that access implies blanket authorization — it’s the core of the hacker spirit, perpetuated through ToS’s, and protected at every legal challenge because restrictions to this idea are seen as overbearing regulation and stifling innovation.

I’ve always wished for regulation that required companies to have to request permission to access data and computing resources for a specific purpose and require that be opt-out by default. Like apps can request contacts for the purpose of looking up friends who use your service and be legally barred for using it for anything else.
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the chip can do some video, but low res:

- https://excamera.com/sphinx/store.html#gameduino-3x-dazzler-...
- https://www.adafruit.com/product/4984
Was it graceful? TMTOWDI, after all.
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As an American I absolutely hate the van-formatted filth your godforsaken continent has vomited upon our automotive market.

The Transit is practically made out of cardboard compared to the E-series it's replacing.

The Fiat Ducato is a POS in every way but it's too cheap for fleets who only loot at initial buy-in to pass up.

The Sprinter is a nightmare in terms of TCO. I didn't think anything could be worse than the Ram van it replaced but it's trying very hard.

Then there's the Transit connect. Those twats bent over backward to re-use a bunch of Focus parts bin stuff and neutered a perfectly good vehicle. There's plenty of room for a real van-worthy suspension and live axle under there but nope, you're stuck with <1000lb cargo because Focus.

And the City Promaster and NV200 are the same damn story with their respective brand's own drivetrain issues.

Give me back my motherf*king Astro and Aerostar.
Color me unconvinced. I'd wager Matt's customers differ strongly, whether measured by income, self-identified culture, voting pattern, or ethnicity.
I’m not sure I agree with that. In the 21st century, at least in the US, most adults have access to firearms for self defense. There is no such thing as “survival of the strongest” when everyone is on an equal playing field and has the capability to defend themselves.

Personally, I view the opposite as closer to Law of the Jungle, that is our current system of policing that gives a small fraction of society access to self defense but denying it to the rest of the group.
I challenge your hazy memory with a "false." Late spring was when we started seeing infections. Summer being hot was what we were told would help. The data showed otherwise. As you've provided none of your own, I'll go ahead and do the same.
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Mermaid-js looks awesome!
The moment you participate in voting, you become a participant , even if your participation is really small, instead of being a pure consumer. When the internet came along, so much content has been made available without requiring accounts. Then services appeared that began auth-walling their content. Nowadays you can't even visit someone's linked in page without logging in, and there are major restrictions for places like facebook or instagram. This "must have an account with us" internet isn't the internet the world deserves. And again, requiring accounts for participation is fine. Talking about consumption only.
I think it’s more that it’s done largely without asking. I think HN would love for mesh networks to catch on but only if people choose to participate.
Ok, I stand corrected. I interpreted as inability to opt-out after that date.
It need not have been this way. All three major providers do work with third party vendors all the time. They could have been the Databricks. Or even better a fully managed solution on the cloud as well (like Snowflake).
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It’s much worse than expected, so they have already pushed back herd immunity dates: https://www.dallasnews.com/opinion/commentary/2021/05/08/dal...
Why do we perpetuate these myths about European drinkers? If you’re not drinking to get intoxicated why are you drinking? I’ve seen addiction papered over with this nonsense on more occasions than not.
Databricks as well. Azure sells both their own version and “Azure Databricks”
I agree with you but it seems that most people outside HN don’t agree. As long as it’s done for good
(organ donation) people support the same manipulation.
Homeless man who was arrested multiple times last year charged in NYC attack
I struggle to see how considering these terrorist acts or acts of war is a "bright side."
All the station wagons are cross-dressing as SUVs to please the marketing departments.

Ford Flex, Subaru Outback, Volvo V90, can you really look at that and call it an SUV with a straight face?
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