skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
in my lifetime western medicine "discovered" a casual link between sun burn during your mid-teens, and real serious skin cancers decades later. Other random factoids - skin varies a lot with genetics.. a lot, a lot.. and your resistance to aggressive cancer has to do with overall health and nutrition at any time in your life. .. no simple "this or that" cause and effect, even with good nutrition, skin care and moderation.
FizzBuzzEnterprise is just "closed to modification" / "open to extension" taken to the extreme on a trivial problem.
Ask HN: How to Hire a Jr Dev
What do you look for when hiring a jr dev and why do you think it works?
Communist tyrants ruined California.
Smart, honest and ethical. The last one is the really rare one in that domain.
Or until your credit card expires and AWS switches your account off.
> My original comment didn’t even mention the word “vote”

exercising interest means voting, when referred to modern democracies (past 200 years more or less).

there is no fetish about votes, it is simply what you talked about.

Of course there were no votes in Greek democracies three thousands years ago, but those days have long gone.
I wouldn't at this point. I was limited to TV when I was a kid (1 hour per day, in bed by 8 pm). I didn't miss it. Part of why it was easy to wean myself off of broadcast radio, tv and cable so easily - haven't watched an MSM TV since 2010 and got off of broadcast radio in the 1990s.

I was also never allowed anything but G movies until I was 13 when my father "escorted" me to my first PG film. I didn't see an R film until my senior year of high school.

My mother also didn't allow comic books so I haven't missed the movies from Marvel or DC either nor have I ever cared about their woke destruction - never was invested and still am not.

Lately I've been considering going back to a "dumb phone" because I really don't use 90% of it - not beyond being a phone and MP3 player. I don't do social media (no FB, Twitter, et al.) because they always seemed as stupid as MSM TV only far worse.

My friend is having his first kid and it will be zero internet, zero smart phones, zero MSM TV or cable he tells me. His wife is 100% in agreement.
I could not get past that fist paragraph:

"Although they are a $30-plus billion market in the United States alone, vitamin A, vitamin C, vitamin E, selenium, beta-carotene, glucosamine, chondroitin, and fish oil have now flopped in study after study."

What? Fish oil flopped? They did every study combination they could on Fish Oil and Omega 3? They even filtered out for genetics? They are just starting, it is no where near finished!

FADS1 and FADS2 Gene Polymorphisms Modulate the Relationship of Omega-3 and Omega-6 Fatty Acid Plasma Concentrations in Gestational Weight Gain: A NISAMI Cohort Study
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8912382/

Give vitamin B6 to someone who is deficient and guess what, it will not flop. But I would bet none of you have had a B6 test, correct?

The studies did not flop. They are still showing casualty but more work needs to be down on who they might help. Yet he talks about vitamin D like it has somehow escaped these problems? Because on guy said something?

That guy suffered from "my supplement is the best supplement and only supplement that effects health" disorder.
That really isn’t how rising productivity works. Your job isn’t replaced by a robot, you can do more, but childcare will never be able to reap the same productivity gains, and hence, people will migrate out of child care into other areas of high productivity where they can simply be paid more. It costs rise so high that it makes sense for one parent to take over childcare duties and not worn anymore.

It is a huge problem and we are seeing the effects in real time. At least education is mostly socialized so the problem reduces after 5 or so (but before and after school care is becoming impossible).
unfortunately I am in the anti-graphql camp
There is an equation governing fatality along the lines of:

D% = A% * F%

A% = Chance of getting into an accident

F% = Chance of a given accident being fatal

D% = Chance of cyclist dying in a given time period

There is a possibility that the increase in A% caused by wearing a helmet is greater than the corresponding decrease in F%, in this case it is indeed safer not to wear helmets.
To justify this there would have to be some VERY conclusive statistical evidence support both sides of the calculation, or the company will open itself up to a massive lawsuit the first time someone has an accident.
up to 10k you could buy:
1. a 3d printer
2. a drone
3. a cnc machine & laser cutting machine
4. a 6 DOF toy/hobbyist robotic arm

and you would probably have some spare to invest.

all practical things question is what kind of things you looking for.
The Focus and Fiesta were good cars, except the interiors were garbage. (Why Ford can't match something like an Elantra in interior quality, I do not understand.) But they drove well.

Then they canceled both, because they could get bigger margins on trucks and hausfrauenpanzers.
I haven't seen the numbers that justify that wind/solar are cheaper than nuclear if you aim to fully de-carbonize (get rid of coal and gas completely). Massive amounts of storage would be needed, which is hard except in areas with a lot of hydro dams available.
He's included in the discussion, is personally acknowledged, and four of the citations are to his works.
It’s useful for testing that you have the langauge tool chain installed and working correctly.
Look at pretty much any elder in today's tribal societies, they look like raisins at age 50. Most people would rather maintain some youthful looks which means protecting yourself from the sun.
The big guys are already using market sentiment analysis, so I think these are their scraps at best. I wouldn't be surprised if there is a secondary or deeper pattern in the data. For example, the highest gainers could be considered too risky for the big players.
> There's no creative control. It's disposable novelty. That's all.

People literally said this about the camera.

I mean, I admit I’m playing just a touch of devil’s advocate here. As an artist on occasion, I’m not going to be wowed by the person who asks DALL-E for a landscape image. OTOH, I’m certain there can be creativity and skill put into the prompt text, based on time spent using DALL-E. And my main point is that the system is the interesting part, not the pictures.

> It’s not just that it’s trivial, it’s condescending in a way that useful art tools aren’t.

This opinion comes down to pure narrative though, right? If you see any given image and don’t know how it was made, there’s no way to judge it as somehow condescending. I’m certain DALL-E could spit out an image that you would not be able to identify as AI generated. If I didn’t have context, I’d have no idea the robot hand thing was DALL-E (and I have no idea if it spit out one of it’s training images, or if it mixed together multiple images.)

You mention utility, and I don’t know what you mean by that. Could you elaborate on why you claim AI art like DALL-E is not “useful”? It’s pretty clear to me that DALL-E could generate clip art or ad art or stock photos quite easily, and would potentially replace humans that also pump out schlock.
Anyone knows a good radio for dub techno? Something like CMYK's uploads on YouTube.
In the abstract, that sounds kind of right, but concretely, how about when that ideology is being actual Nazis? As in WWII and the Axis powers? Is the US wrong for lumping Italy along with Germany?
I was in the theater for the initial release, which I saw packed with people at one of the largest theaters in the Bay Area. When the famous drydock sequence came on, half the audience fell asleep and you could hear the sound of snoring above the soundtrack. To this day, that scene is considered a recommended treatment for insomnia. It goes to show you how much audience expectations changed in such a short period of time, from the original release of the television show (1966) to the film (1979). One reason I like to watch old films is because the pace is so slow and the camera stays almost motionless in one room. Quite a contrast to today’s sequence of cuts every three seconds, and an altogether different experience.
Yes - hypothetically you could allow for some notion of a remote TTL where the server could cache as opposed to the browser, but when you follow this to its logical conclusion you're just reinvented the sort of thing we already have.
Uh …possibly? They are way out of date. I think my email is in my profile if you ping me.
It's always important to know which crc you are using.

Looking at https://developer.arm.com/documentation/ddi0596/2020-12/Base..., based upon the polynomial constant, the CRC32 class of instructions appear to calculate a CCITT 32 reversed polynomial. Are there any ARM developers who can help me out here? Does this apply in the same way to the M1?
Absolutely declare bankruptcy. You'll realize it's different from dying and come through a better, more self-aware person.
At least, with the Maverick, they've started making a small, cheap truck again.

America needs things that are cheap and cheerful. Not all this bloated garbage. That applies to everything.
If you haven't done it you can try one of those Seasonal Affective Disorder lights that is supposed to simulate sunlight.
That's a fair point. AFAIK SQLite uses a queue (in WAL mode) in order to handle concurrent writes. I imagine it basically couldn't handle 10K concurrent writes to begin with in a practical application since newly read data would be out of date pretty quickly.
To me, the much bigger problem with SIMD is that it is really hard to program for since vector sizes keep getting bigger, and it really doesn't look good at all for big-little designs which seem to be the future. Most compilers still aren't good at generating AVX-512 code, and very few applications use it because it requires optimization for a very small portion of the market. With a variable length vector, everyone gets good code.

Also, I'm not clear why you think riscv style vector instructions will perform worse on 2-4 length vectors.
Can you put that second sentence into simple english for those imposters such as myself?
> distributed, cryptographically secure, permissionless ledger
> is fraud

wat
I own a number of acres. One neighbor has an orchard and a horse pasture. Another has a Christmas tree farm. We're adjacent to a fairly large conservation property. We're urban according to the US Census. And we certainly have no practical way to shop by either walking or public transportation.
Text, math, 2d graphics, sorting, files, color are simple as long as you don’t care about the most optimal version. Everything the author mentions in the article can also be done “simply”, if you use monospace, ASCII, ignore mobile, etc.

For example, text is just a null-terminated char array if you only support ASCII, or short or int array to support other languages and more symbols. To render the text, just loop over each char and index into an array to get a bitmap of a monospace font. Your text may look a bit ugly and take up more memory than necessary, but it’s passable, and 40 years ago it’s what we did.

There are some problems like TSP and Chess where there is a simple brute-force solution, but its not “passable” because it takes impossibly long, so you need a more optimal complex solution. And then there’s the iconic “seems simple but actually really hard” problems like generalized image recognition or walking; they are “simple” to humans and animals, but a remotely half-decent solution took a long time even with giant super-computers, and it’s still only half-decent.
Technically speaking the Dow would not be a passive investment (by the definitions above), as it’s not market cap weighted.
Yes, this.

The reason I’m asking you, in this code review, “what if it changes?” is not because I’m infected with enterprisitis and must overcomplicate every system. It’s because I fear the answer to “what if it changes” is “this software, and everything that gets built to rely upon it over the next year, will need to be rewritten from scratch”.

And I would rather that we not take that bet without thinking through the odds.
> Rich people are paying for all those negative taxes and taking it out of YOUR paycheck.

If somebody is able to get richer by lowering your pay they will eventually do so, taxes or not.
> The people effected by the decisions should be the ones making them, basic autonomy.

that's not how democracy work.

> Two systems having problems in common doesn't mean they have all problems in common.

at all.

in fact I am saying to you that what you propose have all the problems of the current system, plus some on its own.

> You can donate and undate your vote as much as you want...

It doesn't matter.

People spoke, and they said we don't want it.

Anyway, it would not be possible in Italy where the Constitution at art. 84 says

"...
Vote is *personal* and equal, free and secret. Exercising it is a civic duty"

Case closed.

> You turst someone elese for the things you can and you don't for the things you don't. You've created a false dichotomy.

That's not why we vote. we vote because democracy needs to engage us personally.

You still don't get that technicalities are the tools of tyrannies.
“may become”? It already is the backbone of so much software.
> These regulations are only cost effective if you have a value of human life at a billion dollars!

If other energy souces were regulated to the same degree of safety, I would expect nuclear to become the cheapest one again.

The main reason nuclear is expensive, is because people consider it to be worse if a person dies from radiation than from air polution, construction accidents, etc.
Bloomberg [1] uses SQLite in a custom distributed RDBMS engine of theirs in a way I lack the knowledge to completely understand its design.

I remember Richard Hipp mentioning Bloomberg in one of his interviews (don't ask me which one, I don't remember), that they use SQLite to serve billions of bank transaction on a daily basis without a problem.

[1] https://github.com/bloomberg/comdb2

Update: I have found the following paper that describes the engine in greater detail: http://www.vldb.org/pvldb/vol9/p1377-scotti.pdf
Obviously not. But are you implying that crypto has as much chance of turning into something as finding a way to violate the law of conservation of energy? That's ridiculous.
My personal bugaboo is worrying about if the size of `int` changes. It's not going to change. It's 32 bits. 25 years ago was the end of 16 bits. 25 years ago.

Even if you do want to target real mode DOS, good luck getting your modern app to fit in 64K. Heck, just upper-casing a Unicode string takes 640K.
"What if it changes?" is a reasonable question to ask. But every time you do you are walking a tightrope. My rule of thumb is that we look at what is in use TODAY, and then write a decent abstraction around that. If something is used once, ignore any abstractions. If it's used twice, just copy it, it's better. If it's used 3 or more times, look at writing an abstraction that suits us TODAY not for the future. Bonus points if the abstraction allows us to extend easily in the future, but nothing should be justified with a "what if".

The reason a lot of Java or C# code is written with all these abstractions is because it aids unit testing. But I've come to love just doing integration testing. I still use unit testing to test complex logic, but things like "does this struct mapper work correctly" are ignored, we'll find out from our integration tests. If our integration tests work, we've fulfilled our part of the contract, that's all we care about. Focus on writing them and making them fast and easy to run. It's virtually no different to unit tests but just 10x easier to maintain.
This website just reloads in a loop and is impossible to read on iOS.
At 10% rates I think the fair value of the S&P becomes something like 2000 assuming the same earnings. High yield rates would moon and tons of bankruptcies would ensue. Consider how heavily pensions and retirement accounts are concentrated in stocks.

The ramifications of reaching a point like that would be devastating, so yes, I think dead is not alarmist but appropriate.
It's like asking whether it's possible to write an OS kernel module in Python.

No, not really possible, and attempts to do so would be misguided. But it does not prevent Python from being highly successful in other areas.

Same with SQLite: it's a fine tool for a large spectrum of applications, but high-throughput OLTP is not it; SQLite can't reasonably replace Cassandra or even Postgres.

The point of much of the "SQLite hype" is that there are many applications where read load is high and queries complicated, but the write load is low to non-existent. In situations like these, you can make do with a smaller DB than Postgres.
SQLite has been used on top of a lot of things, including FoundationDB (https://apple.github.io/foundationdb/architecture.html).

That's different than using the DB directly though.
> I see Russia winning on all fronts tbh.

I do not, and anyone else not trying to be contrarian and edgy on the back's of a humanitarian catastrophe does not either. Russia's goal was a blitzkrieg surprise win, measured in hours, taking over the capital and the government, before the West could even muster up sanctions. They have failed abysmally at that, and capturing a few towns in Eastern Ukraine (just a little bit more than they already had captured since 2014) is Putin's attempt to have something in his hands to present as a victory and hope not to get couped to death (a fate all warmongers rightfully deserve).

Russia most certainly isn't winning.
Bingo. Well organised single-issue swing-state voting blocks are incredibly powerful. Particularly when they care strongly about an issue most Americans couldn’t give two fucks for.
IMHO, the sun does not cause skin cancer. Oxidative stress causes skin cancer. If you have a functioning oxidative stress pathway you will not get skin cancer.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3613501/
Haskell gets compiled to core (https://hackage.haskell.org/package/ghc-9.2.1/docs/GHC-Core....) which is pretty similar to lambda calculus, but it has some additions like literals, let expressions, and case expressions.
Some hydro plants are actually really dangerous....
Specialized bat tongue is a hemodynamic nectar mop
Amazing no vendor has come out with a X300/Knoll mini ITX board with a PCI x16 along with NVME slot.
Really? Tell that to nearly everyone in Africa.
Some of these CFC are almost eternal compounds. They are so stable that no natural light frequency from the sun can break them apart.

Sulfur hexafluoride, used in high voltage circuit breakers, has a half-life of 3200 years, has a global warming potential 22800 times that of CO2.

So you don't want to vent them, but any accident/leak can be considered a catastrophe.

That's just the physics of it: highly dielectric + stable often makes for a big greenhouse gas offender.
Back in the day PDP-11s had lots of choices - RSTS was sort of the 'commercial' option - RSX was more the uni time sharing option and RT-11 was for the standalone tiny real-time embedded sorts of systems.

Of course the cool kids ran UNIX-V6
Are you sure it wan’t memory allocation related? I don’t know the details and the story didn’t say what the library call was doing that caused the unexpected problem. Are you saying this incident wasn’t part of the motivation for Powers of Ten, which was published a few years after this happened?
Just delete the app?

Try using the web version of some apps when possible.
Which very strongly suggests significant percentages of users are impacted. It is far from a monoculture out there.

Right now, we are seeing a lot of features and the UX in particular, being dumbed down. That is impacting a lot of people and it really is not helping too many people, except the big companies wanting a common experience across mobile, desktop, etc...

Overall, it is a growing net loss, unnecessary.
Yeah, I wish I got it too. I was pretty great to drown out distractions without being distracting itself. I hesitate to confirm or deny whether it actually made me more focused or relaxed.
>> That’s because forfeiture is a civil claim against assets not a criminal procedure against a defendant.

The constitution makes no distinction between criminal or civil here. It makes a blanket statement that the government won't take your stuff.
> The point of much of the "SQLite hype" is that there are many applications where read load is high and queries complicated, but the write load is low to non-existent. In situations like these, you can make do with a smaller DB than Postgres.

Sure, but my point is that unless you know for sure your app will stay the same forever, why not just use Postgres or something more flexible to begin with? With things like Supabase, Hasura, and Managed Postgres why even bother with SQLite? Just seems like you're causing your tech team inevitable pain when you have more writes than expected and have to migrate off of it.

Both Fly.io and Cloudflare's solutions are a good example of this. If you're going to use another service, why even bother with SQLite? I totally get the SQLite use case when you're using it directly like with X-Range-Requests (https://phiresky.github.io/blog/2021/hosting-sqlite-database...) or SQLite.js and a WASM app (https://blog.ouseful.info/2022/02/11/sql-databases-in-the-br...), but idk.

tldr: if you're using a service, why bother with one backed by SQLite instead of Postgres? The underlying data store will be abstracted away anyways. One scales decently, and the other, not so much.
Well the chipset also handles shuttling RAM channels..
The other auto companies carry a combined debt load close to 1T.

The market is pricing future growth and revenues. Tesla is out innovating, building faster, has better margins, and will be much more than a car company.
Full video of the event: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PWX0CJN7UNA
8088 PC XT Compatible Logic Board
Hard disagree. I wish the world worked that way, but it doesn't. So much happens in the time between the product inception and delivery. Initial proposal of value, prototypes, customer feedback and requests, known performance issues to work around, making hooks for non-devs to execute important overrides... the list goes on, and contracts have dates that have to be met. Stuff can't be rewritten to address every turn. This is why Agile (however abused it is) largely beat Waterfall. Software should serve people and yield to their needs. Not the other way around.
I remember discovering this phenomenon in high school and my buddy dubbed it a metalgasm, when you feel the blood draining from your face, the goosebumps and all of those other feelings.

A few years later I launched metalgasm.com (early 2000s), it is offline now, but it was a place to record your metalgasms or frissons (which I never had heard of until now) with timestamps so people could explore new metal and sort by sub-genre tag and know which songs are the most metalgasmic and which parts to look out for. There is so much to discover and sometimes you think you don't like a genre, but you just haven't found the right band or songs to get you started.

I can tell you that Ghost Love Score had the most entries and Dream Theater made up most of the rest of the site. It's fun to look through what's still on the Internet Archive. Maybe I should rebuild and launch the site again for fun.
> if requirements change, let's just change the source code and redeploy

The intractable problem ends up being "fuck, half our code base implicitly depended on the current behavior and now we can't change the it without half our tests failing."

This is why 10,000 ft abstractions can sometimes be nice because now all your business logic exists in a fantasy world of interfaces you control.
Bankers Are Driving the Wheat Price Explosion, Not the War in Ukraine