skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was working a defense project last year where the whole UI is a java applet that requires IE. I wonder if they're still charging ahead with the implementation.
Lead pipes are overblown as a risk. The bigger issue is putting criminally incompetent people in charge of water.
The argument is that fewer guns in circulation decreases violence. That is to the point where cops are unarmed in Norway, most of the UK and Ireland, Iceland, New Zealand, Botswana and a dozen smaller countries.
>then you must also accept that this model is possibly conscious ina similar way

no you must not. These models are glorified key-value stores that hand you an output when you hand them an input, with no internal mechanisms whatsoever to relate the contents to the world, as Gary Marcus points out. They're about as conscious as a SQL database, except that the query language for these models is English.
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Windows server, use Linux instead, it is possible to do this with samba for long time, I had this setup with samba for 50+ hosts with AD/GPO/Storage all working, this was more then 6 years ago.
Higher octane fuel has less energy by volume. That's one of the reasons it doesn't pre-detonate as easily. Try it sometime, indeed, and prepare to be disappointed.
Ok so there's an even better trick, hear me out. Don't drink soda. It's sugar, water, and purple. Two of those are not good for you.
Yes, mostly. It was essentially a Transmeta Efficeon with some facilities to run ARM code natively the first time through in case it wasn't going to be re-used.
What self defense tool is as effective as a firearm, especially in hands of a smaller or elderly person? Any gun control measure that restricts firearms makes it harder to defend yourself. I'd like to think you can depend on the police but that's not always the case.
I dunno, then there would only be 2 actively maintained browser engines, Chrome and Firefox.

Webkit is doing pretty good on https://wpt.fyi/interop-2022 so I'm not sure why Safari should be retired.
I love it for sheer we-can-do-it-just-for-the-heck-of-it-ness, though I admit I'm a bit nostalgic for Floppotron 2 as the new one sounds a bit too smooth for my tastes, losing some of that charm.
(For the uninitiated)

PhobGCC is a project to create a teensy based gamecube controller with hall effect sensors, snapback filtering, and notch calibration

https://github.com/PhobGCC
I guess that's possible, but it's not clear to me that that matters. It'll still work right? What do we care?
I have been using an ultrawide for years and find the windows snap window management system quite effective.
When the microservice craze took off a lot of people asked me for opinions on it, and said the same thing then I say now: it more or less boils down to Conway's law. If you have multiple teams that need to iterate and deploy independently the overhead may be worth it. But if you're just a small startup with a single unitary dev team, and that generally just deploys a new version of any changed services all as one lump, it's an insane amount of complexity and overhead.
Russia's advanced new stuff is mostly vaporware. Like the Armata tank, which was accepted into service a couple of years ago, but can't be manufactured. Or MiG-35, which isn't particularly modern, but can't be manufactured either.
Can you please stop breaking the site guidelines? I don't want to ban you but you've been doing it a lot, and this was beyond the pale.

If you'd please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stick to the rules when posting here, we'd appreciate it.
I lost my shit at a redditor for complaining about a $500 overnight bill. $500 for a doctor and three nurses to watch over your animal like a hawk for eight hours, plus IV and medicine, is a damn bargain. I thought HN crowd would be smarter than that.
Quebec's official language is French

Imagine going to Italy and expect government to speak to you exclusively in Chinese
What would be the something else? There are occasional studies that may indicate health risks associated with diet soda, but as best as I can tell they are not really conclusive. The health issues with consuming large amounts of refined sugar on the other hand are concrete and very well documented. Dental caries, increased likelihood of developing diabetes mellitus, etc.
North Carolina wants to ban free EV charging
Makes me wonder why we haven't seen more advancements in this space in the last few decades, especially with the U.S. military overseeing multiple occupations where sublethal weaponry would've been helpful. No startups trying to invent sci-fi stun guns at all?

Years ago I once made a joke that Tesla could pivot into that by inventing a "lightning gun." Given Musk's descent into attention-grabbing memelordom, I'm surprised he hasn't suggested such a possibility yet, to unilaterally solve all these controversies in the news, himself.
How about the number of school shootings per year?
you have to participate in the zeitgiest. Some people I've met don't even know it's an option and feel tormented by the news like in the same way one would feel tormented by a mad flock of birds
I don't follow. Were airline investigations not able to do a proper and thorough investigation of the 737 MAX crashes?

I'm not saying no mistakes were made. Of course mistakes were made. It was my assumption that the typical "post-mortem" process of those crashes did happen.
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Aspartame which is often used for 'diet' drinks is rather crappy chemical stuff you really shouldn't be putting in your body in the first place.

People feel they are doing something for their health when its really not the case since they still remain well within the junkfood category (something akin to using denser filter in cigarettes - less big particles may well mean finer stuff is kept in lungs for longer, and travels deeper)
I can't wait. Just like skeet shooting but with prizes.
Things might have changed since I was forced to unsub due not being able to comment because I refused to prove to a few subreddit mods that i am indeed a person of color.

Around that time, many if not all of the threads ended up being closed due to the the dramatic arguments that formed when users posted political/racial commentary to the sub; which is to be expected. I believe the real problem was when comments from users who portrayed themselves as POC felt their voices were less pronounced due to the downvotes and negative replies. Understandable

So they decided to lock the sub down for anyone except those who accepts a segregated bubble and willingness to prove their "blackness" in order to post an opinion
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It's funny to me to see how many people say Next is copying something about remix when the entire remix thing is a copy of Next.

Heck, I've heard in a podcadt they're even working on a hosting platform copying vercel.
Not a fan of the term "Nostalgia", often used to discredit why older systems were well engineered, minimal, functional and purposeful. But hey, you're deluded because you're being Nostalgic.
I'd talk to your doctor about this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caffeine_dependence
Having a large number of police doesn't decrease the risk to the first person to jump through the door. And most police body armor is only effective against handgun rounds, across part of the body.

Police militarization helps the police protect themselves when a situation gets out of control. I don't think there's much evidence to show that it ever helps police protect others. Although, there's a lot of reasons why people might be misled to believe so.
The old format was basically "concatenate all mail together in one giant file". I believe newer versions support Maildir ("pretend you're an IMAP server"), partly to support antivirus better (i.e. when things get quarantined under you, hope only the bad message gets moved instead of all your mail).

They do have a weird database format ("mork"), but that is for state tracking, address books, etc. and not the actual messages, I believe.
Are you aware?

You really have something new to tell to person, who lived in the Soviet Union, where capitalism considered mortal sin?
But Canada is bilingual so I would expect the government to speak to me exclusively English, right after, of course, speaking to me in French
If inflation's so bad, why are gold and Bitcoin not posting massive gains?
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The inflation/bubble scenario we're in has been a long time coming. I knew it would end this way- lots of people did- keep on propping up the whole economy with printed money long enough and eventually it'll stop working. This time there's no stimulus to save us, because everything is already tapped out. Honestly though, I really thought they would come to their senses back in 2015 or 2016 when they should have closed the taps. Instead they blew everything to magnificent proportions, and the crash will be equally magnificent.
Farmers have to let fields lie fallow every N seasons, gardens must be weeded.

You could easily argue that if a CTO or VP Eng doesn't already understand and agree with this, they aren't qualified for the job.
As a Fed watcher I can dispel a few of these notions. The Fed was never going to tell people inflation was taking hold. The Fed tells people what they would like the market to be… not what it is. They set the “framing” used by many market participants, this framing is one of its key tools.

The Fed can’t control government spending. Massive government spending, funded by new money, caused inflation. The Fed can’t do much about that. If anything Powell consistently advocated for a more balanced federal budget precovid.
So gas prices went up because a pipeline that didn’t exist still doesn’t exist? How does that make any sense?
We all know that they were weak... the question is if they will be held accountable, somehow.
The human brain has many limits. It is limited in volume by the needs of birth, and it is limited in power consumption.

An AGI doesn't have those limits, so it could plausibly be better in some ways to the human brain, even if it uses up orders of magnitude more energy and volume.

The scaling limits are fundamentally different. That's why it can be worthwile.
This sounds like the 1970s version of telling millennials to stop buying avocado toast.
The issue was rather about the fact that changing that single .py file can have impact on a service A and service B which depend on service C where the file was changed.

In microservice world, you have to run e2e tests because thats the only place where you can really guarantee the system will work as you expect.

Pacts wont solve that, integration test - the same, units w/e.

Running a monolith test is overall faster than spinning 20 microservices, beinging every db to specific atate and running tests.
From what I gather, and certainly someone may come in with a much better explanation or refutation is that Bitcoin is in a sense a finite resource (let's just look at the mechanics right now) and if appetite for Bitcoins increases you can't make more of them.

If a central bank is inflating a currency, it means each year that more of that currency exists than it did previously, so people can effectively bid for resources with more currency which increases the relative price. A pack of gum used to cost $.05. Now it's like $2.99 (or whatever). This is primarily due to inflation as far as I can tell.

Likewise the same is true for Bitcoin, except that it has an additional feature in that it's transmutable into a pack of gum, or a share of JPMorgan stock, or a house, or a car, or some service. It's also transferrable - you can move it (again let's ignore how well it works right now) from place to place without having to actually ship it anywhere.

So because Bitcoin is transmutable like a Euro or Dollar it can do similar things, except the difference is that more Euros and Dollars are effectively "mined" and created, whereas there's a limit to how many Bitcoins can ever exist. So as more and more Euros and Dollars are created, you can spend more of those to buy the same Bitcoin.

Granted, this is very much at face value and some of the mechanics aren't quite there - it's actually very expensive right now to move Bitcoin around and it appears to make for a pretty bad currency, but I think this should at least touch on the mechanics or logic.

tl;dr it's like gold.
Sorting out EIA's data presentation is difficult, but my understanding is that given the fracking boom, a large fraction of US extraction is distillate and NGL --- very light components of petroleum which are highly volatile and not suited to vehicle fuel --- they have very low octane ratings, in the 60s or lower. (These were used as fuels early in automotive history, but higher octane and resulting higher compression ratios are more efficient).

Those NGLs are sold for other uses, and in particular, for mixing with heavy tar crudes (as from Venezuela) or tar-sands oil (Canada) to improve flow qualities and lower the net weight of those fuels.
Those are just vehicles for speculation like everything else.
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The fed worrying that regular workers are getting too large a pay increase was a secondary concern for them. I think it was much more important to consider the overall economy than to worry about salary changes for the little people. Five, no eight, now 10% inflation is a bigger thing than paying dishwashers $15 an hour and you still can't hire enough.
That you need to consume a lot of protein. Excess protein is a silent killer and cause of many diseases. Good place to start going down this rabbit hole: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2R07FL1wVo4
My current career (VDI/DaaS stuff) depends on Windows Server still being a thing. Maybe I should switch to make it depend on Linux instead?
What evidence is there that anything Chrome specific was used? Safari’s WebGL support has come later than others, and there are reports of WebGL being slower on Safari than Chrome, for example https://developer.apple.com/forums/thread/696821 It’s possible your incredulity maybe should be directed towards Safari and not someone trying to do their best?
video game demo --> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x8tEdwll_CY
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> so we're just going to write an article about feeling good about where we're at.

I've been doing rails for years now, I have yet to work for a rails shop that is living in denial about the state their app. The batteries-included nature of rails is easily worth the cost of no type validation in most companies I've worked for, and the teams I've worked with that lean into JS more tend to be much, much bigger with a lower developer throughput.

IMO it's a much more sane world to be in than JS and React where best practices change every year or two but the company repos can't keep up. So you wind up digging for solutions to problems that React no longer considers to be a best practice and is therefore buried underneath a pile of Medium articles discussing the new right way to do things.

There's no such thing as a free lunch.
i'm pleasantly surprised and amazed. I've seen these through the years but the sound quality on this is absolutely amazing!
>So the assertion is, that you can achieve identical computational power to a neuron with a much simpler model.

I use the word "Must" as in "highly likely" if my words didn't convey the probability then my bad, but I assure you now that my intent is conveying a probability.

> There is insufficient evidence to conclude this.

There is enough evidence to show it is sufficiently high probability for consideration.

>If you said "I believe there might be" or "it's possible that" I would not have taken issue with it,

I did say this MULTIPLE times in subsequent responses. I am telling you now that is 100% what I meant. Now that we're clear, we are in agreement. This conversation is over.
That's not the only factor. Sometimes it's weight or power or a fixed system like embedded, console or a particular product that's not easily upgradable.
You’re probably replying to the wrong person. I’m just saying that everyone can fall for fake stuff.
Because people are selling investments to buy food and fuel.

If you want short-term inflation protection, add some commodities to your portfolio.
I'm pretty sure that wouldn't work. HN is the product of a rare set of initial conditions, and the funding aspect is a critical aspect of that. The symbiosis, if you like, between HN and YC is part of the DNA of both entities. No doubt it has some downsides (such as job ads on the front page), but I'd say the downsides are small enough that it wouldn't be worth the risk to try to minimize them further. Of course that's just my opinion.

I've written about this intermittently and most of those comments can be found amongst https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so..., if anyone wants more.
Great, speaking of basic functionality, how do I sort?

I don't believe gmail supports this.
Don't soldiers have to undertake such dangerous actions? What's the point of militarizing all of these police departments with actual War on Terror surplus if they're not going to make use of it? So that weaponry can be misused in disproportionate responses in less dangerous situations?
Well said. In addition to what you've listed, it's also why we give them a monopoly on the use of force. The belief that they will protect is why we don't have vigilantes and mercenaries roaming the streets (for the most part). These cops were worse than useless. If they weren't present, there's no way the parents and the rest of the community would have let the shooter stay in that school with their children for so long.
> LineageOS with no Google services

this is probably the better way in the long run, but freeOTP might do the trick for now!
Of course, it doesn't help when you have politicians constantly making open threats against raising interest rates.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/trump-complains-about-rising-in...

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/11/business/economy/bonehead...

Not that the Fed doesn't deserve criticism, because they do, but the public would be pissed about many of the measures that combat inflation as well, and the politicians would make sure they know who to blame (hint: not themselves).
> That'd be a clever attempt at damage control, but in today's world the truth would probably would get leaked. Then the company would have to deal with the fallout from that.

The mob is loud, but it has a short attention span. The truth probably would get leaked, but (depending on the issue) the mob would likely have moved on to the next thing by then.

> I'd rather have the people who run companies grow a spine and stand up to the mob. They should put out a message like "We will investigate this incident. We take the decision to fire people seriously and will make a decision that is best for this company."

That's probably an all around better response, too. Just "investigate" and give no updates until the controversy is old news.
Presumably LaMDA already learns from its input/knows what it's already talked about, and to satisfy #1 you could trivially just run it on some sort of null input. #1 doesn't really make much sense, it already is constantly "on", it just doesn't do anything while there's no input for it to receive.
Not really. This is the nuance that some people miss: you could only use the IE11 engine inside Edge when an administrator explicitly enabled your website to be there. This has two consequences:

a) All ActiveX extensions are dead. This is problematic if the reason why IE is still being used is because it required an ActiveX content to work (so you couldn't just flip the switch to IE11 compat mode in Edge, you need to rewrite it since three years ago)

b) if you're developing a public-facing website, you can stop worrying IE11, but if you're developing enterprise software you're still in hell for around seven years (give or take if Microsoft offers an ESU à la Windows 7).
Probably why he had the next paragraph:

> But for code that’s on the critical path of a service back-end running on a big sharded fleet with lots of zeroes in the “per second” numbers, it makes sense to think hard about performance at design time.

Your scenario falls under that category.
Depends. In the first it will depend on the branch predictor which will depend on the relative expected magnitudes of num and x

In the 2nd, which I assume should be

{ return num*num > x * x; }

then it depends on the micro-arch, as it's one basic block so no branches and assuming a deep pipeline on x64, one multiplier (pipelined), probably this is faster for 'random-ish' num and x.
very happy about that, would much rather have an open source implementation to recommend to people!
Not only could it be, it definitely is.
I think the more interesting (if highly unethical) thing would be to have a bot that is purposefully built to be a cult leader. Maybe train it on all sorts of scripture and see if you can get people to follow it...
The light duty truck drama continues. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicken_tax
What are some of the better fed news aggregators?
Awesome, the 2.0 decommissioning last week had scared. There's a spectacular variety of ways that music has been made in unconventional electromechanical ways--on the head motors of floppy drives 3.5", 5.25", and 8", on hard drive voice coils, scanner carriage motors, steppers wherever the're found in CNC devices, dot-matrix printheads, pulsed laser cutters, tesla coils, all the way back to radio interference generated by the IBM 1401 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EPk8MVEmiTI).

The 1401 video I actually saw in an older related HN submission; lots of comments linking out to different examples in these threads. Here are a couple, someone might be able to aggregate a bunch more:

"Eye of the Tiger" played on a dot-matrix printer: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9286555 (2015, 62 comments)

"Imperial March" on a single floppy drive: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2230849 (2011, 27 comments)

Both the news site and original video of the second submission are lost to time, but luckily our saviour (of web content) Brewster Kahle has graced us with a copy in the Internet Archive.[1] The Wayback Machine also remembers a time when YouTube recommendations bore greater relevance--those on the archived video page from 2011[2] are entirely of videos of computer hardware music. Some might even still be up today.

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/0id_/wayback-fakeurl.archive.org...

[2] https://web.archive.org/web/0/http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...

"Imperial March" was also what was played on the first incarnation of the Floppotron, with an impressively full sound from only two floppy drives (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yHJOz_y9rZE).

And perhaps related are those videos of the pleasingly periodic percussion of uncontrolled devices like (broken) washing machines, electronic typewriters, and air conditioners.
The market doesn't that in the US, it is too costly

Intel is begging all over the world for subsidies

If they keep listen to the "market", they'll disappear overnight

0 coordination in the west, South Korea invested massively more than the US in both plants and education
Playing with 0 interest rates as if that were in the least rational was the greatest mistake.

Nobody should have the power to subvert the meaning of time.

We take the ministry of truth seriously (“the past can be changed”) and get scared by that. Saying thay time is worthless is more or less as grave.
Agreed. The Fed is racing to raise rates so they have something to cut when the economy turns south.

We can also blame the politicians who cut taxes in the longest, largest bull market for financial assets in history.
As long as microservices don't share database, then all is fine.
Sparkling water on its own is fine.