skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yep! With the older CPUs it was released alongside, I believe it was even worse: The data would go through PCIe into the CPU cache, then into DRAM, and then back down PCIe to flash while wasting a few CPU cycles along the way. It looked terrible on benchmarks (literally half the MB/s compared to cheaper flash SSDs that used all 4 lanes) but wasn't too bad in practice since NVME drives can do many requests in parallel.

The real issue was size. I've got 100M CPU cache (5800x3d), 24G VRAM (3090), 64G DRAM, and 2TB flash. I'd need at least 128G of Optane for it to make sense in my cache hierarchy and improve game load times. I could get the $3000 data center Optane SSDs, but that's kinda hard to justify when it's as expensive as my entire PC.
Study is definitely suspect, but if 400-500 kcal allowed for the benefits of fasting that would be really useful information for some. I have to eat some food for medication in the morning, and have always presumed that made fasting not a viable strategy for me.
> It is unfortunate that the cellular companies have allowed their core product (voice calls) to be so devalued that they need to be forced to solve this problem instead of just doing it naturally.

And they did this while loudly complaining that they don't want to become a mere dumb pipe! That is the true twist.
Yea it's tough. As a manager I dealt with this recently.

Had a guy who was an absolute star. Technically very sound. Committed to doing things properly. Managed his time diligently and productively. Tried to help everybody.

Reacted badly to every attempt I made to find somebody to assist him. I wanted to make sure he could take a vacation and not get a phone call. Also wanted to make sure the company had somebody in place who knew the work in case he decided to leave for some reason.
>Says who?

The playground example (https://go.dev/play/p/R9dm6uYZSas?v=goprev) is a great example. All single bytes, 0-255, print as the printable character or if non-printable as \x except 127. There's nothing special about 127 to deserve this.

Inversely, \u denotes multibyte for all code points except 127. Once again, why is 127 special?

There's two possible fixes: note that 127 is special (even without a reason, but at least document it), or change the behavior to align with everything else. UTF-8 itself was a response in part to perceived arbitrary decisions made in other encodings; I'm not surprised that the second fix was preferred.

Our chief concern was how many bytes were used in encoding, and that's when we ran into this issue. If not fixed, our tests in our library had to notate why 127 is special (because Go says so), or hope for a change. Now that it's fixed, there's no need for downstream documentation.

It's a minor change, but now no one else ever has to spend the time we took to look into this issue because now there are no surprises. That makes it worth it.

>That's code point 127

How does that joke go? There's only two hard things in computer science...
https://archive.ph/frkBi
We found some strange radio sources in a distant galaxy cluster
Real men add stride up to 2048 and think in hex:

0x0001 (1,0)
0x0802 (2,1)
0x2803 (3,5)
you can’t really short private companies as a normal person and even if you could you would never outlast the money VCs are willing to pump in to prop it up until they find the greater fool buyers

Your best bet is just to stay away when something smells
> There have been plenty of perfectly functional apps working in China for a long time.

But, for the most part, they've seen little fanfare outside of China. Even the breakouts, like Alibaba and WeChat, have really only succeeded where they are able to bridge connections with China. They hadn't proven they can develop software for a wide audience. TikTok changed the landscape. TikTok is an app that could have come straight out of Silicon Valley and is successfully going head to head with American players on their own turf.
I can't really tell from the website, but maybe? The site seems focused on depression, and at least in my practice I'm not sure that would add much for me.
Communism and socialism concentrate power to a single government/state entity and when it fails there is no industrial competition so the most well connected/wealthy people that are able to take control of the industry are able to pretty much run unabated without any natural market forces you'd find in a system/industry that began in a more free enviroment.
I'm a 'government using funding to improve the world' vs 'govt using funding to control people' libertarian.

Scientific r and d falls strongly into the former category.

DEA, FBI, NSA, CIA, TSA, ATF, DoD, state police, county police, municipal police, neighborhood police, and other organizations used to control people. Plus the literally uncountable number of criminal and regulatory laws on the books that keep growing exponentially without congress taking time to go back and review old laws...
Congrats to the winner!
See a tech stack that seems cool/sexy/interesting? Make something up to build with it over a weekend to try it out. Put your blog on Kubernetes just for fun.
That's a good call - I used to love cottage cheese as a kid. I'm putting that on my list. I've never experimented with egg whites but I love the idea of no cholesterol, I think I'll try that too.
Everyone is hacking everyone. For true matters of intelligence gathering and national security physical location is no serious object. If it's on a server it's accessible to us, the Russians, the Chinese, etc. etc, basically public. But, and this is a thicc but, the US government and its various enforcement arms really like having a domestic data pile because they can trawl through it some veneer of legal legitimacy. Google's data is only a rubber stamp warrant away and that data can then be used in court. The same is not true for offshore providers like Tiktok. Sure they could probably get access if it's in a friendly country but that's a much higher more expensive bar.

Basically the discussion we're having about Tiktok is the discussion we'd be having about all these data haystacks if it weren't for the fact that there are powerful government interests that like the domestic haystacks.
Tesla has increased prices a lot. What’s the difference to the consumer if the increase comes from the manufacturer or a dealership? Tesla also is known for delaying vehicle deliveries if you don’t pay extra for FSD. Tesla just appears to be better than a dealership but they engage in the same shenanigans.
Semi-pornographic soundtrack to the demo makes it feel rather non-professional to me (“penitrate my face” is not what I want to hear at work).
It still boosts investor interest 100x. Whether it should or not is a different story.
I don't mind that MIT has a great reputation and a great PR team. It's okay to put out new ideas and inventions that may not pan out. But the breathless coverage of their work by news organizations, little more than rephrasing press releases, that's what irks me. They also suck the oxygen out of the space for other science coverage, as if there's not good work being done at dozens of other institutions around the world.
When I was in grad school (University of Rochester), we had a new associate professor recruit who freshly graduated from MIT. The first thing he shared with us was how to promote/advocate your work. The slides (the materials he used) are obviously created at MIT (meaning, they are not his creation) and it seems like (again, I'm not sure) it (how to promote your work) was taught in MIT grad school (at least in their PhD programs). I wish I saved those slides. I'm not saying that promoting your work in this day and age of academia is inherently wrong (although I'd like to think if your work is really good and essential, it'll surface without needing to promote), but I am just surprised that it was taught.
Which law will be used to reveal the encrypted traffic between the app and server was sending personal data to be used in influence campaigns by the CCP?
The major problem would be that you could be stuck in a single platform for reading, and everyone needs to be on that platform unless another platform also supports that NFT. It will be a lockin like buying games today on particular platforms but cannot play on others, epic, steam, ps4 etc, but a bit more pain in the ass to use.
Have you ever purchased art or collectibles? It does not entitle you to IP rights or transfer any IP rights to you.

Loans and DeFi - see Uniswap issuing ERC721 Liquidity Pool tokens.

User accounts - exact same mechanism as ENS, but different namespace specific to a protocol. See Lens protocol for example.
“It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances." - Oscar Wilde

https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/2868-it-is-only-shallow-peo...

> The fact that we argue so much about cosmetics is a strong argument in favor of its importance, even if it has a large subjective component.

No. It's a sign that the issue can't be clearly decided. And it's simple enough that everyone can have an opinion.
Works from a headless server.

Cool, but I’m surprised at VC money to be honest.
Uh, what's the point? You can make a massively more efficient survival desalination device using less materials by making a solar distiller. Maybe $2 for a piece of plastic and 2 buckets.

Edit: I don't know if this would be the most useful way to provide water at scale. Dumping small water contraptions on a poor country may not be as sustainable or as efficient as investing in long term water systems.
> This right here is the first and most important reason to be skeptical of any study on weight loss. None of these things ever turn out to do anything useful on a time horizon that matters.

It's (always) worth skimming the article, or at least the headline. From the subheadline:

> *Given the same energy intake and expenditure*, intermittent fasting two days versus one day per week increases weight loss in overweight men and women

This study isn't saying "2 day IF is a miracle weight-loss cure and you should just do it bada bing bada boom weight loss solved". It's holding everything constant except the number of fasting days, and finding that it's (quite dramatically) more effective in the short-term.

This is a data point, not a weight-loss plan. It doesn't call for "skepticism", just careful reading and limited application (or for a start, reading the article/headline at all).

Nutrition is intensely complicated and devilishly difficult to study. But for scientifically-literate people who take it seriously, data points like this shed light on limited portions of the "solution space". This is crucial to mapping out the space enough to understand how to improve your own diet; it's not amenable to an impatient approach that expects every study to be a magic bullet.

Even ignoring the signal that this provides, the absolute minimum value of this study is that somebody who's already doing a time-limited IF-1 diet can switch to a time-limited IF-2 diet. That's valuable in and of itself.

> If you want to know how to lose weight for a few weeks you don't need a peer reviewed journal, just go get a "women's health" magazine and read about several ways that really do probably work to lose weight in that timespan.

With the same improvement in hunger levels, hormone profile, and cardiometabolic health (all mentioned in the for both the control and treatment)? I highly doubt it. Even assuming that IF isn't sustainable[1], people do have short-term weight loss goals sometimes, and IF provides a path to do so that keeps metabolic and hormonal health in mind relative to traditional crash dieting.

[1] I've been doing it for....five years now? Not only did I lose a reasonable amount of weight early on, it's been helpful for maintaining during a life phase of suddenly-expanding waistlines among my peers. Plus it's trivial to dial it up slightly when I do feel the need to tighten up a little.
Yeah, the one silver lining of the crunch. When I just bought a new car, I traded in a 2011 Toyota 4Runner with 75K miles and a caved in rear hatch and some non-obvious mechanical problems. Got $15K for it. Was really shocked. Sort of made up for the fact that I pretty much paid sticker plus a couple add-ons.
The latest version of Sublime Text works kind of like that. It know the tokens that most commonly appear together in the folders you currently have open in the sidebar and prioritizes the suggestions popup based on that. Seems to work pretty well for me.

It's a relatively new feature - within the last year I think.
Right now, YT doesn't have competition, but they will have to improve once TikTok has the content.

According to his parallel discussion [1], suggestions on YT were much better.

[1]

Ask HN: Why has quality of YouTube reduced drastically?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32328207
A lot of non-technical organizations deem it safer (and cheaper) to just block EU users than to study the law, become domain experts, and implement lawyer-approved mechanisms to become compliant.

The reality is, however, unless you have a major presence in the EU, or are the size of Google or Facebook... you can freely ignore the GDPR without consequence. EU laws do not apply across the ocean.
This is exciting technology. Something I want but that does not exist is being able to test your blood with your own personal device without sending any of the data or blood over to private corporations. The corporations only sell the software.

You'd be able to download different programs that analyze your current health state from blood, or any other marker. The device would be able to tell if you are at risk for any disease just from a common set of samples.

I know this is kind of unrealistic, because to make better programs you need data from people. But who knows. Maybe one day we'll get there.
Sure, more powerful/common command line usage is one reason why the default file managers are sufficient. So in a way, Norton Commander lost while NDOS won.

And of course I can't speak for "old" Mac users (I started in the 00s). Back in the Norton/DOpus days, I didn't know that many, so maybe they always were satisfied with the Finder?
Working on a similar idea, very neat!
I don't know. If your role is that important, they'll make you an offer to make you stay, which, unless you really, really, really want to leave, you'll take, because it'll be very good. Then they either work on making you not the single point of failure, or they'll accept you being that important and just go on paying you appropriately for it.

I see "wanting to leave" as either absolute ("I hate this company, no amount of money can make me stay") or relative ("I could make more money / have less work / do more interesting stuff elsewhere"). The latter can totally be shifted by adding significantly more money, at least for most people.
I dunno how successful this is, but when I get spam called, I do what I can to reach a person and then say, "Put me on the do not call list, please!" and (possibly) as a result, I really don't get as many of these spam calls as it sounds like folks here are getting.
It's pretty clear to me that YouTube wants to steer you towards content they want you to watch and not content that you want to watch. Watching intellectual long-form content does not equal ad revenue, user "engagement", and whatever else bullshit addictive metrics they only care about.

None of these systems are for the people. It's either about YouTube's bottom dollar or some influencer's ego. It is really amazing to me when I come across old YouTube videos that are just people filming or discussing something interesting without fanfare. You can find newer people doing this these days as well, but it's hard. These types of videos are so refreshing because it's what YouTube should be about: people being creative in honest ways, people talking about or showing something they're interested in, etc.
Thank you for the clarification. As neonate mentioned I should have figured that out from further down the post. I get a little excited when I see these posts because I have been waiting for smaller and less expensive diagnostic devices in this field.
They can't. It'd undermine the very existence of the ruling elite class that doesn't know how to do anything, besides 'managing' by following a magic formula taught at Harvard, Stanford, etc.

The problem is the existence of a business management layer as an idea - it's an attempt to get back to the good old days of feudalism, whose chief characteristics are nepotism, stagnation, corruption and nihilism, now that we've gotten rid of the mental pacifier of 'heaven' for the oppressed and hell for the ruling elites (religion).
This is the same volcano that erupted last summer and moved slowly enough that you could actually hike it. It was stunning.
Great place to work! :)
What does “accessible to all” mean in this context?

Why do I in Europe get almost zero spam calls or text while in the US it seems like a plague?
Being held responsible means the government hands them a huge check and nothing changes.
What if your young 'uns just do not... participate?

I am in a position where I am doing TL-level decisions, and try quite hard to demo, discuss, share the details and rationale. I write design proposals, documentation, do demo sessions, etc

But the information is just not flowing, and I notice how little the juniors participate in anything. And I don't exactly know what to put my finger on. It's probably some soft-skill I'm lacking, and that I do not know how to improve

But a part of me still feels that that perhaps the young 'uns are just... too fresh. Or that the approach is just too optimistic
Yeah, and having a single number makes no sense because on average men and woman have different requirements. I live a well above average active lifestyle and my maintenance is in the ballpark of 1400/day.
Show any scientific evidence stating this.
Agreed. Feature flags can be complicated to implement both client side and server side.

Ideally you want both but it doesn't always work out that way.
>Do you deny she has the right to do it? Or do I misunderstand your position?

I'm getting thoroughly fed up with analyses of geopolitics that begin and end with talks of rights and justifications. It's just the wrong framework to analyze international relations if your goal is to predict behavior at the scale of nation-states and maximize ones own interests. Of course she has a legal right to travel to Taiwan as a US citizen. The question is whether in doing so she is flouting her responsibility as a representative of the US to not undermine US foreign policy. It seems plainly obvious to me that she is and it carries the potential to damage US interests.

>Additionally I don’t believe you have shown that she is undermining U.S. policy, merely that she disagrees with the executive.

It is US policy to maintain a stalemate over encroachment on Taiwan sovereignty. This policy is maintained by careful adherence to time-tested conventions and behavioral constraints as well as calculated actions to maintain the stability of this equilibrium. As a representative of the US government, her actions abroad can and will be interpreted as a reflection of US policy, therefore she should be bound to not interfere with explicit US policy, except through legislative actions available to her. Willfully undermining US's strategy (of an equilibrium with China over Taiwan) by unilateral action is treasonous (for lack of a better word). You said it yourself, her actions could plausibly kick off world war three.

The fact that people are cheering her on is absolutely insane to me. Signalling has completely overwhelmed our collective ability to think rationally on complicated issues, to the detriment of the world. If WW3 does happen, I expect social media will play a non-trivial role in bringing it about.
It does, as you are not providing useful enough evidence to contradict the Chesterton’s fence situation we are in.

There are real reasons the benefits (right now) do not outweigh the known hazards (right now).

If you have new evidence to add that you believe does, then please do. But so far, not seeing it.
> That's the entire point of these crappy business practices

Exactly. They're trying to find the maximum you'll pay. It's like when you click on "Enterprise" plan on a SAAS company - time for a sales rep to Google your company, see the nice share price and give you a "custom" quote.
When Delhi and London colluded to deny passports to Indians
Simple Google would tell you more than I could and confirm this is common industry knowledge:

https://www.google.com/search?q=advertising+vs+public+relati...
If you’re on iOS, I highly recommend WideProtect [1] which allows you to define filters matching a range of numbers based on prefix. For example, you can block all numbers from a specific area code that you receive a lot of spam calls from. It has been an absolute lifesaver for me.

[1]: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/wideprotect-spam-call-blocker/...
That somewhat overstates it, but sure.

I think the point is, what trade-offs are you paying such that you'd be better off using Modus, but not a Dockerfile or a Nix expression. -- If you want to benefit from nicer programmatic building of Dockerfiles, and can afford the risk of adopting some non-mainstream technology, you're probably better off trying Nix than this.
Right, makes sense.
There are several different kinds of eruptions, some of them you want to be many miles away from, others just far enough not to be too hot.

It depends on the kinds of materials in the volcano, the Iceland volcanoes aren't the ones that do the exploding and pyroclastic flows, IIRC.
The FTC (or congress) should mandate this for everything. The price for something should be the final, out the door price. It's amazing to travel in the UK and buy something at the supermarket. If it says ￡1, then that's the cost at the register.

Right now in the US, there's resort fees, booking fees, regulatory compliance fees, and on and on that all get added during checkout. It's so deceptive.
Show HN: KPI Crunch – instant insights into any competitive landscape
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The MVP offers 2 options:

1° create a list based on 2 reference domains (that's the default option)
2° paste an existing list of up to 25 (+1) domains

Then let the KC engine collect & crunch data.

In this first iteration, you'll get the following data points for each domain:

- global web rank (we're using OPR)
- # of indexed pages on Google (nice to evaluate the online footprint)
- estimated organic traffic
- # of KW indexed in G Top 100 + Keyword Performance (Traffic To Keywords)
- automated identification of social media channels + engagement per channel

You'll also get a high-level summary of the landscape,
incl. a traffic distribution pie.

I invite you to test the app.

The MVP is the first stage of a more ambitious project:

we're building a Competitive Intelligence Open Platform, a productivity tool where you'll be able to consolidate all your Competitive Intelligence research efforts, on a wide range of data points (we'll soon add business data, HR data, UX/UI changes monitoring, pricing & features monitoring, newsletter & advertising monitoring, etc.).

You'll be able to create your own custom lists, add personal notes and tags to filter your lists + collaborate with other team members.

The tool will also become a CI Search Engine, giving you access to the landscapes shared by the community (you can already get a taster via the search engine on the current home page).

Looking forward to your feedback!