skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This reminds me of a former employer of mine. It was a small company with an internal team of three developers who worked on the main product. The CEO had a relationship with a design consultant agency that she had been using for years. Every few months, they would sell her on the idea that the company's site needed a new design and she would oblige every time. After all, according to them, the current design is the reason why the site isn't reaching its potential in new traffic, and the web changes all the time, so a new design is always the key to solving that problem. Utter crap. And what's worse, after the design was completed, it would still be handed off to one of the in-house developers to actually implement, so it took time away from actually improving the product, which was what really needed the help. Needless to say, the consultant's relationship was an expensive time-suck (and looking at their site now, apparently it still is)
A lot of these old lifetime shops are already paid off, so they basically cost nothing but taxes to run, and the pension of whoever owns them pays for that, so they have basically no need or incentive to make money.
Nobody eats fruits.
Yup. Two times our car got hit the driver ran and left no note. Its fucked because then we pay the $750 deductible. Cops dont even try to find who did it. Really frustrating.
I didn’t say it began it at all. Just that it clearly intensified since.
Yeah, I was wondering if an external SERDES and some level shifters would be enough.

Also though you could literally generate a VGA signal with an R-2R DAC and feed it to a VGA-to-HDMI adaptor. These apparently cost US$10 and are available in the kind of stores that sell USB hubs and fake SD cards: https://articulo.mercadolibre.com.ar/MLA-897320291-cable-ada...
Can confirm, at a big 4, billed out at 8x
Diffraction Patterns of Apertures Shaped as National Borders
CVE Trends – Crowdsourced CVE Intel
> Of the top reasons people are happy at work, salary is way down on the list.

Absolutely.

But when considering a new role, I don't work there yet. It'll take a lot of research and talking to people to try to figure out if the working conditions are good or not. I don't want to spend that effort if it turns out you'll pay less than half what I make now. So I'll need to talk about comp on the first conversation with a recruiter.
what about randomized O(n) minimum spanning trees?
You took classes to build up your self-esteem, made some friends at work and/or outside of work, then you... felt better?

How did you make the friends at work, if they were at work? Did you just keep talking at them until they felt forced to respond?
Idk. I feel most in control the further away I move from the transit appliance. I’d order it something like this (there are other options here I’m omitting) in order of least to most control:

Airplane > cruise ship > car > train > bike > feet

But I may just think about this stuff more than most people. I never feel as in control when I’m stuck in a traffic jam or behind a slow driver versus riding a bike. Even trains feel like I have more control because I’m on my feet to/from the train and I could get off at a stop and just walk away. It’s very liberating versus a car.
> And the stock is up 10%. I don't understand it at all.

Stock price movement is driven by expectations about the future, not past results. Now, past results can form a foundation for modeling the future, but a stock price is really about future expectations.
For readers looking for used books in Boulder, skip all others and just go to The Bookworm off 28th.

It's huge, dank, bright, easy to get lost in, and deep.

Bring strong shopping bags, you'll need them.

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You hire an agency when you can afford to grossly overpay and because time is more important to you than money.
What are the other hypothesis that would have been explored in the absence of the toxic oligamer papers?
The main reason was indeed vendor lock-in. Databases (like compilers) were hugely expensive back before open source got big.

But also some of the features were a bit flaky back then. I remember views in MySQL always caused problems - if you dumped and restored (ex: staging to dev), the special handling of permissions for views and such ("Access denied; you need the SUPER privilege for this operation") would break stuff. So we just didn't use them.^1

However, I'm still in favor of them, and think it's worth finding workarounds for things like that. They're not as flaky now, and people have found workarounds for the remaining flakiness. Nowadays the fear of using them is just tradition from 30 year old problems.

But now we have one or two generations of developers who were taught "Don't use the database features! 'Best practice' is to use it as a dumb datastore and re-implement them all in your application." But they don't know why, so wouldn't even know that those reasons are no longer applicable.

>^1 There exists a shortcoming with the current implementation of views. If a user is granted the basic privileges necessary to create a view (the CREATE VIEW and SELECT privileges), that user cannot call SHOW CREATE VIEW on that object unless the user is also granted the SHOW VIEW privilege.

>That shortcoming can lead to problems backing up a database with mysqldump, which may fail due to insufficient privileges. This problem is described in Bug #22062.

>The workaround to the problem is for the administrator to manually grant the SHOW VIEW privilege to users who are granted CREATE VIEW, since MySQL doesn't grant it implicitly when views are created.

> -- https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/8.0/en/view-restrictions.ht...
I think this is missing one major difference in the goals of Zig vs. something like rust.

Zig wants to make it possible (and as easy as is practical without ballooning the language) to make a 100% correct program. That is no panics, no UB, no failed allocation, 100% deterministic behavior.

Whereas Rust wants to make 70% or so of bugs that exist elsewhere impossible.
A linear probing hash table is simpler. That’s the trade off they were going for at that time. I don’t think that’s the most efficient solution given the hardware they were using, and I don’t think the blog author would either, but it’s certainly easier to write such a hash table — and it’s well written, but still mostly interview level stuff.

To me the blog post is not about cuckoo or bloom filters or hash tables at all. It’s about profiling and highlighting that a naive reading of the literature can easily lead you astray (worse performance and complexity). In school they don’t teach you that mov is the biggest cycle-eater of them all — at least it’s not the lesson people remember.
This is the way a lot of companies work and have historically worked. Why spend a ton of resources supporting every operating system and hardware combination out there for all of your devices when you have a perfectly good way of doing it in house?
Dude, all philosophies are made up. That’s sort of the point.
What part about the described system is free or a market?
Methylene Blue is in phase 3 trials with Taurx[1] The patented version will be slightly tweaked version of the century old drug so they can make some money on it. Still, it would be one for the ages that an out of patent cheap drug makes decades and billions of research obsolete. They say it clears tau, but it probably works some other way like being an antimicrobial that can cross the blood brain barrier.

A doctor I know takes Kordon methylene blue which is pennies a dose.

[1]https://taurx.com/the-science/clinical-trials
It will continue and get worse until these cities are no longer held captive by this ideology.
You may be interested in the work myself and some coauthors have done on data structures and algorithms for streaming aggregation. GitHub repo for the code, which high level descriptions of their properties and pointers to papers: https://github.com/IBM/sliding-window-aggregators
What Happened to Butterflies? Climate, Deforestation Threaten Monarch Migration
College Humor is alive and well! At least if you enjoy Dungeons and Dragons and silly game shows.
The PCIe link definitely has plenty of bandwidth to stream uncompressed video to the host system—and if that host supports P2P DMA, it's probably even possible to push straight to VRAM without a round-trip through the host CPU's RAM. If there's enough room left on the FPGA, it could implement upscaling and CRT-emulating filters to provide a 4k stream to the host.

The downside is that you'd need custom drivers and software on the host system to redirect input events to the FPGA and handle the video feed it produces.
the smell of old books is just the breath of everyone who has ever read the book stuck between the pages.
The particular compromise attempt in South Africa was reported on lots of Internet forums.

My assumption is that Coinbase or their card provider was breached. That happens and I get it, but the lack of action (the card is still active!) in response to repeated customer inquiry is evidence of a broken process.
patience.
Nearly any actual that would result in fewer deaths is so far outside the Overton window.

Claiming that there are ineffective government agencies that pay attention to a few tiny aspects of safety but ignore the vast majority of them-better city designs-, is not a thug except window dressing to enable the neglect of these deaths.

You might find it risible to suggest that we are ignoring car deaths, but given the rise in car deaths and the lack of effective action against them, I find it far more risible to suggest that "we" are paying attention to them.

I've been paying attention to them since high school, when 0.5% of my high school died because of cars. Nobody did anything. Nobody suggested we enable life without cars. Nobody changed an intersection. Nobody suggested new technology. It was completely ignored. Sure, the kids were mourned, but we all ignored any action.

There is almost no way for a sober driver to kill a person and be deemed for their death. Police and highway patrol will just escort the driver off the scene. Kill a person crossing in a crosswalk with flashing lights? You'll walk away from the scene.

What other sort of danger do we allow around us? Much less mandate that a person must be exposed to cars if they want to be around other people? It's a preposterous situation that we have chosen and enforce by law. Until we realize what we are doing and acknowledge the car dependency to our legally required city planning, we will continue to ignore the costs that the law imposes on us.
Yeah we need more articles about the minor inconveniences people have in the bay area. Fuck these fly over peasants.
Thank you, so much, for enabling us mortals the power of ethical, modern AI. Your work, and the work of your colleagues, has brought so much good to this world.

It wasn't until the last few years I saw people start freezing the model and just fine tuning the last layers. I've watched presenters from flamingo and imagen talk about their similar approaches. I heard it here first, at fastai.
Correct. The legacy institutions and old money fear becoming even more irrelevant than they already are. But I suspect that most people want to trust bust companies like Facebook, spinning out business units into separate entities to pave the way for fairer competition. I know I want that, as both an investor and entrepreneur.
Users cant take photos.

Photos are constantly transmitted to the mothership, but its ok trust us.

Reminds me of Chrome extension manifest V3 where they only allow "local data", and by "local" they mean data on Google server, not your computer drive.
Exactly. There are 'billable hours' and 'non-billable hours'.

Work outside of a contract scope is not billable.
a lot of this is that other than heaps, most tree based algorithms involve O(logn) random access pointer lookups which make them relatively slow for in memory data structures
>>Sure, but that role could be truncated to "convert between financial system currencies and stablecoins"

Coinbase has already started doing that, by abolishing the distinction between the stablecoin, USDC, and its bank deposit USD.

It's entirely plausible that other financial institutions, beyond commpanies like Coinbase which are heavily involvd in the cryptocurrency market, begin doing that as stablecoins gain wider credibility and adoption.
That’s a good goal! A 100% correct program which cannot guarantee a lack of memory safety bugs is not a 100% correct program, though, right?
Sounds like inflation _and_ climate change. But they only talk about inflation.
Or perhaps the first cities will bear the brunt of the difficulties as we transition?
I think what you’re describing in the last example is the MinHash algorithm

edit: actually I’m not sure, sounds related though
Also use a sheet of cardboard: poke holes, stick in bolts, and write a label or note about what each belongs to.
I tend to optimize for the least amount of perceived effort, most benefit, least actual productive output. I will spend 2 days writing a utility so I never have to do the same repetitive 30 second task twice.

I’m rationally irrational.
They removed the software limitation, but say that the number of books lent never actually exceeded the number of books their partners had.
They put bike lanes on queens blvd by removing an entire car lane. You can stand there for an hour and see no more than 2, maybe 3 people on a bicycle.

What you will see is double parked chaos. A blocked single lane. And an endless stream of parents and elderly trying to carry groceries to whatever hydrant or weird driveway they parked in.

But I guess this is progress so who am I to complain right?
Cobie used to co-ordinate pump and dumps?
It'd cost about $250-300 to ship to Australia, based on the last time I bought a laptop from the US. Then you pay customs & import taxes on the combined purchase+shipping costs, which would be about another $200-250.
My only problem with my Framework Laptop is (apart from the battery being drained to death on sleep in only a few hours) is that when I hold it with one hand from one of the sides, the weight of the rest of the laptop makes the frame bend enough to force a click on the trackpad.

It's strange to explain, but yeah, the aluminum frame is too soft and bends easily, causing this issue.
Good hosting companies don't really like anonymous clients. They know who you are, or they know the name of the person paying the hosting bill.
trending post mortems on HN are a great way to recoup losses
I agree that oh-my-zsh can have performance issues, but I recommend using prezto instead, which is much faster. I also recommend the theme powerlevel10k although that is more subjective. You can further customize it on .zshrc local
Fraud and fabrication of results are abhorrent, but this is too simplistic a take. These fraudulent results didn't single-handedly spawn 16 years of fruitless research. Instead blame the incentives that create a system where nobody validates a result for 16 years.

If academic science were in a healthy state, novel results would be validated 100s of times. The current system is setup such that only novel results are rewarded. There is no reward for validation. During my PhD I was actively discouraged from performing experiments/studies that weren't "new". Everything ultimately comes back to the funding model. Scientists are only funded for groundbreaking work, measured by the number of publications. In turn, journals will only accept previously unpublished work.
> I will close with a belated defense of the rational-actor model.

> Evolution is ruthlessly rational.

Yes, but that doesn't mean its products or their behaviour are mostly or even partly rational, just that whatever strategy they adopted has worked to ensure survival.

If this is your definition of what's 'rational', that seems a very low bar to set.

That said I enjoyed the article. Frankly it's long seemed to me that economic models based around the idea of the human as a rational actor are fundamentally wrong, because people are not rational (and I include myself in this, more's the pity). Look out at the world, see all the self-sabotage, the unfounded hatred, the violence, the retribution, the temporarily embarrassed millionaires who vote to keep themselves in the gutter.

Can we stretch the idea of "rational" behaviour by looking at evolutionary impulses and saying "well, at X point in the past, this impulse may have helped tribal cohesion and increased the chances of group survival, even at the cost of blah blah blah". Sure we can, sure. But that behaviour is not then "rational" in the society we live in today.

So yeah, modelling of populations based on rational self interest really does look like it has a foundational error. An economics based around a much more chaotic model of human behaviour, with some rationalities built in, is probably needed.
That's a horrible prior.

This isn't about the SEC at all. Arresting on a subset of eventual charges is something that nearly all prosecutors do, and for a large set of very good strategic reasons.

I think you'd be hard-pressed to find many examples of high-profile cases where the original arrest was based on all possible charges.
> I got the sense that it was a movement for college kids to cut class and get high all day,

Were you there? When the system collapsed and millions of people lost their homes and their jobs? These were the people that were there. Your revisionist account is precisely what the ruling class would like to perceive it to be. And now cast them off as populist weirdo losers. Is it a coincidence we have since entered an opium epidemic, reduced lifespan, and elected Trump?

Honestly I think they were there to see a head roll and no head did. But to cast them as stoned idiots is completely wrong. I’m happy your professor who uncritically slurp on made you feel good though, as you wiped your mouth.
Xilinx/AMD basically provide their toolchain for free for most devices. You only have to pay when you are trying to design using the largest highest performance devices.
> Craigslist still thrives despite having no features and looking prehistoric, because it's so fast. Google.com homepage looks almost empty.

Yes, you were talking about site design and you were wrong.

Craigslist doesn’t thrive because it’s a fast site. It thrives because it has great content and is also fast. Craigslist with awful content would not thrive.
Transition to…what?
> Why spend a ton of resources supporting every operating system and hardware combination...

Making it so Android users can update their bluetooth headphones is not supporting every hardware combination. Adding a OSD to your monitor so people don't need OS X specific software to change their monitor settings is not supporting every operating system or hardware combination.
Haha yes - it's been wonderful to see how (eventually) the deep learning world has taken to transfer learning!
Generally, this really sucks for the restaurant and the town but,

"the price of food, particularly meat, has risen more than the over-all consumer-price index"

Unpopular opinion: But maybe this is fine? In fact after inflation is under control, maybe real meat needs a heavy carbon tax to keep the prices high. We can rebuild the supply chain around fake meats as we slowly switch away. I know this all seems implausible, because the cow/meat lobby will have a field day with any congressman suggesting this, but one can dream.
> The money stops being enough after a surprisingly short time. It would be interesting to see how long people could stomach terrible work for great pay.

You wouldn't need to because if the pay is so great you can soon retire.
You can't even get the budget to pay the salaries of good developers at these kinds of companies, for starters.
- Similar performance to AMD and Nvidia in optimized games (tier 1 games)

- Similar performance to AMD and Nvidia in Vulkan and DX12 games (tier 2 games)

- Inferior performance to AMD and Nvidia in DX11 and below games (tier 3 games)

- Positioning and pricing will be based on tier 3 games

Intel GPUs can be a real bang for the buck for Linux gamers due to DXVK being used with most games. It will also be interesting to see if DXVK can also improve Intel's performance on Windows games.
Large vs. Medium eggs - also a chance for a shrinkflation serving without removing 50% of the serving.
> Also though you could literally generate a VGA signal with an R-2R DAC and feed it to a VGA-to-HDMI adaptor.

The breakout I linked is only $20, and uses virtually the same electrical interface as a VGA DAC. (The only difference is that it also takes a clock signal.) You'd hardly be saving any money with the janky VGA-to-HDMI setup, and the image quality would be worse.
In my house at least I have a UV light in my central HVAC that is supposed to be replaced every five years. Maybe it is different for commercial buildings, but commercial buildings also tend to have professional maintenance.
The aho-corasick Rust crate[1] also provides a way to build the automaton in a slightly different way to provide leftmost first or "preference first" match semantics. This matches how popular backtracking regex engines implement alternations of literals, for example. (It also provides leftmost longest semantics, which matches how POSIX regexes implement alternations.)

[1]: https://docs.rs/aho-corasick
It sounds like aggitation excerpted so, but the write up does a wonderful job setting up for it, making this stunner of a line not seem so bad:

> For many C developers looking to upgrade their language, Rust looks a lot like a better C++, not a better C.

What a line!

The whats-included/what's-not takes me back to one of our legendary/epic (and at 9000 words, epic in length) posts, one I love to cite, Larry Wall's Perl, the first postmoderm computimg language[1]. A cut up early & favorite section:

> When I started designing Perl, I explicitly set out to deconstruct all the computer languages I knew and recombine or reconstruct them in a different way, because there were many things I liked about other languages, and many things I disliked. I lovingly reused features from many languages... To the extent that Perl rules rather than sucks, it's because the various features of these languages ruled rather than sucked.

> But note something important here. I left behind more than I took. A lot more. In modern terms, there was a lot of stuff that sucked. Now, on the feature set issue, Perl is always getting a lot of bad press... I think people who give bad press to Perl's feature set should have more angst about their reporting.

> I picked the feature set of Perl because I thought they were cool features. I left the other ones behind because I thought they sucked.

It's silly & basic plainly said like this, but the post goes on & on about finding creative use & also at length about deciding to leave things behind. Walls postmodernism is infectious. And this element of pruning, pairing down, is one that seems like an axis where elegance & grace can often take root & grow in todays busy, complicated world where so very much has accrued & accreted.

[1] http://www.wall.org/~larry/pm.html
It's then one of these moments: «Not every quote you read on the Internet is true.» – Abraham Lincoln
Most of that difference is because advertised prices in the EU include VAT whereas sales tax in the US is added on top of the advertised price.
My phone costs way more than that.
This is a great point, but I’ll also note: neglect of our automotive infrastructure is a matter of when, not if. A consistent theme among suburbs in the Strong Towns surveys is unsustainable financing of municipal and county roads. Even at the state and federal levels, our road funding doesn’t accurately reflect the biggest sources of wear (trailer and other shipping traffic).

It’s not like we’re ever going to regress into a nation without interstates. But there will be a significant reckoning over the next 50 years over the increasing burden of our overdeveloped road network.