skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I know nothing about Jackson, but municipalities all around the country are reliant on money flowing federal>state>local, urban>rural, etc.

There can be good reasons to subsidize infrastructure - for example, urban residents help maintain a rural farming community because they desire the agricultural products.

It’s not even clear the entire state of Mississippi is “capable of taking care of themselves” as over 40 percent of their general operating revenue is supplied by the federal government (2017 numbers) which is consistently in the top five states for receiving federal aid.

I’m not an expert, but the defensiveness seems unwarranted.
Your post comes off as sealioning/strawmanning. If this was not what you intended it might benefit from more focus.
I think it's a pretty natural mindset to have for many people who work as software engineers. If you see something useful or interesting, the first reaction is often to notice what needs to be fixed or improved. It's also a field prone to nitpicking
Didn't they just ship Lockdown Mode?

And BlastDoor last year?
Fossil uses SQL and is very Git-like in many ways (but with an opinionated, merge-hap-hap-happy UI), and definitely is graph-like in its schema. That tends to prove that, indeed, there's nothing that special about Git that makes it not like other databases.

Commit metadata is decidedly relational (or, rather, can be modeled as such). Commits have zero, one, or two parent commits (thinking of root commits as parentless), they have an author, a date, a commit synopsis and a commit message, a root object, and maybe some other metadata (e.g., who pushed, who signed off, etc.). That's all perfectly appropriate for a relational DB.

The main issue that has come up over time with Fossil-style DVCSes is the size of the metadata you must keep and examine to do things like `git log -- some-file`. The metadata size issue is always going to be an issue, but maybe an ad-hoc DB can wring more compression out than a general purpose DB. Git itself had the second problem, and it had to get solved by using a Bloom filter to reduce the set of commits that need to be examined.
Because end users use multiple operating systems these days.

Also, no. The operating system integration code is tiny in the grand scheme of things. Consider Fabrice Bellard's JavaScript interpreter. If I build it for six operating systems, then it's 782kB:

master jart@nightmare:~/cosmo2$ ls -hal o/tiny/third_party/quickjs/qjs.com
-rwxr-xr-x 1 jart jart 782K Aug 30 10:53 o/tiny/third_party/quickjs/qjs.com

If I build it for just Linux, then it's 710kB:

master jart@nightmare:~/cosmo2$ ls -hal o/tinylinux/third_party/quickjs/qjs.com
-rwxr-xr-x 1 jart jart 710K Aug 30 10:52 o/tinylinux/third_party/quickjs/qjs.com

That's a 72kB difference, which includes all those Windows NT hacks and bare metal support. Why not just stuff it in there and be done with it? That way you only have to list one file on your download site.
Most users are complaining about their visibility and difficulty in promoting their business on Twitter, not about being able to limit audiences from what I can tell.

The announcement of this relatively weak feature seems tone deaf to me... Especially because prior to this they Launched Twitter Blue, which does a similar thing changing certain posts to subscription only controlled by accounts.

It's really strange that an app that has regularly show that it isn't secure is now trying to launch "secure" features.. Not exactly trust worthy at this point.

If I were leading at Twitter, I'd prioritize individual account and content discovery/visibility over these underwhelming post-limiting features, and also fix issues with trend spam, but Twitter hasn't really addressed those things firmly at all for years.
Yup for zoomed out views. It’s handy when visualizing large websites.
They're requesting volunteers and only a $40 gift card to cover what might be an increase in the utility fees? Ignoring the slight minor cost incurred to charge/discharge their Powerwall at Tesla's will, I feel like Tesla should at least be making them whole by covering their bill.
The interviewee says:

Machine-learning experts say that there is a greater than 50 percent chance of human-level artificial intelligence in 37 years and that the chance of catastrophe as bad as extinction would be like 5 percent conditional on that

I'm curious which experts say this, as it sounds like the sort of prediction that has damaged the reputation of expert forecasting so much. I suspect that maybe there actually aren't any. If there are then where did these numbers come from, why are they so bizarrely precise yet also so vague, why doesn't the unfalsifiable nature of the prediction bother them, what does "human level" even mean etc.

You can also look at the trend in computing power over time, where the largest machine-learning models at the moment have the computing power of about an insect brain. Given what we know from neuroscience, it seems like in about ten years AI models will have computing power on the order of a human brain.

Deep neural nets are somewhat inspired by brains, but it seems like a stretch to try and make direct comparisons between the "computing power" of machines designed for matrix multiplication vs the brain.

If we just say, “Oh, there’s a fair chance of this happening” or “a significant chance,” that’s extremely vague. Whereas if I say, “Look, I give it 5 percent credence,” then at least I’m making my beliefs about the world clear.

In this context saying "I give it a 5% chance" seems pretty similar to saying "a slim chance". Assigning predicted probabilities to events that are almost by definition one-offs sounds scientific but you can't do an experiment to determine how likely it actually is, so a prediction about it with a number in isn't any more testable than using English words.
If you think 30TB fake hard drives are bad, the Amazon marketplace is now selling Taliban flags printed by 3rd party sellers in China. At least there's no ISIS flags yet.

I assume whatever flag factory in china is cranking out $10 flags doesn't care about the content of what's printed on them.
Yep. I've seen this model many times in my industry(cannabis). You can coast for a long time in this position. Consider asking to go remote, sit on payroll, and getting another job as well. No harm no foul.
This is perhaps a tangent too far, but your association between the perception of randomness and Victorian thought struck a chord. Would it be safe to say that there was an establishment of a connection between randomness, chaos, nature, and usefulness that was framed in opposition to order, structure, rationality, and usefulness during this time? I suppose I'm interested in the phylogeny of this dichotomy if it exists at all and its repercussions today. Directly, it would seem to affect the gendered practice of mysticism today where we can pretty clearly see in who and how modern divination is practiced.
Hair act as mechanical lubricant.
There is also TRSE:

https://lemonspawn.com/turbo-rascal-syntax-error-expected-bu...
Despite your parenthetical attempt to sidestep this fact, being barely on the left side of the US political spectrum doesn't make one a "leftist". Meaning that people who consider themselves leftists don't agree with Tulsi Gabbard.

It's hard to point to a voting record as evidence of one being a leftist or not, when actual leftist policies are not typically put up for a vote in America. Her ideological score puts her in line with Tim Ryan, who is currently running for Senate in right-leaning Ohio, and is competitive because of the very fact he isn't a leftist. Despite what you may hear, not all Democrats are socialists. Far from it.
AMD Demonstrates Working 5nm RDNA 3 Chiplet GPU
They're considering replacing it with at 69 euro ticket, which seems pretty reasonable:

https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/germany-9-euro-ticket-end...

It's still pretty hard to defend them though; for some reason the bureaucracy is incapable of adding the new ticket in time to address this winter's energy crisis.
An aside.

> It will literally turn a "sum of i from 0 to N" into "n(n+1)/2", among others[1]

Yeah, seen that on a godbolt youtube vid. Question is, should it do this? Or should it force you to use a library, by reporting what you're trying to do and telling you there's an easier way ( "sum of 1 to n is <formula>, instead of a loop use library function 'sum1toN()" )

I think getting too clever risks hurting the user by not letting them know there's a better way.

[1] actually it seems to do a slightly different version of this to prevent risk of overflow, but same result.
If you're on Windows this is by far the easiest way: https://softology.pro/tutorials/tensorflow/tensorflow.htm

Mostly-automated installer.
Fear not, GPT-4 will soon be out ;)
Based on the title I thought this article was going to be a much more straightforward argument for "basic" income:

That toothpaste (or broadly preventative dental care) is a collective benefit (combining thr basic principles of "an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure" and Bastiat's broken window parable) and that because we should optimize opportunity costs around creation not repairing destruction we should all happily provide "universal basic toothpaste" to whoever wants it.

And if you extend this accordingly up the first 2 or 3 steps of Maslow's hierarchy of needs you can find some equilibrium of "universal" "basic" income to satisfy those needs.

The article I imagined would certainly make a lot more sense than this one, which is just dorm room economic philosophy.
That is at least an indication, but unfortunately not a proof. They could run modified versions on their servers, if they wanted.
There are many suggested treatments for inflammation, OP mentions “ginger”, my guess is that like everything else with the body certain treatments work for some people and not others. Like how CGM’s are used now not just for diabetes but for a tighter feedback loop on which foods, etc spike insulin, which allows a person to iterate their lifestyle faster. It’s the same with inflammation- If you have chronic inflammation and are trying to reduce it with diet, exercise, medication, naturopathic treatments, a tighter feedback loop would be a game changer, assuming it was possible. Perhaps CRP does not respond as quick to changes in the body as glucose, and measuring it all the time isn’t gaining much.
Maybe you can paint adversarial patterns on the bottom of your pool, like those shirts that fool people detectors (https://arxiv.org/abs/1910.11099)

This probably wouldn't actually work in practice to avoid the tax - it sounds like the detection might not even be that complicated: "by looking for blue rectangles, for instance", but it would make for a nifty demo!
> unused land

In reality, there is no 'unused' land on Earth, because we share the planet with other living beings. Earth has a biosphere that is already severely degraded by humanity's destruction of natural habitats
When will the pumps be fixed and service be restored?
Oh, an unknown or unstated length of time? There must be a word for that...
I have become an AliExpress enthusiast and agree. It works best when you are willing to wait a variable amount of time for your items. Often, it will only take 2-3 weeks for them to arrive at my home in California. But every 6th package (or so) will slip through the cracks, often at their warehouses in LA County.

It's still the best for pricing, and is pretty close to the sources (unless you're hardcore enough to translate Taobao listings and get your own mail forwarding). For example, I got a new smartwatch and wanted some bands in specific colors, and a screen protector. Listings with the exact same images on Amazon were $9-12 instead of $3-4. (And when you compared reviews and pictures, they were probably from the same factory.)

Some small notes about AliExpress:

- Although most of AliExpress's lower prices come from lower cost warehouses and less middlemen, some of it comes from exploiting discounted postage. [That has been improved since 2019](https://www.parcelandpostaltechnologyinternational.com/opini...) but I still get a ton of Kyrgyzstani-labeled parcels that originated from Guangdong or Shanghai/Hangzhou. I don't know if that's above-board or not.

- Sellers can sometimes be deceptive. When I was shopping for LED interior lights for an old car, some lumen ratings seemed accurate and even had videos of it being tested. Others had obviously inflated brightnesses despite having a similar number of LEDs are power consumption. In addition, some sellers will sneak an unrelated cheap item into variants of another item, so the listing has a lower price in search results.

- Packages now take a few days to be consolidated. This is great for efficiency and often means you get slightly faster delivery in your home country. But these packages can still get lost, so you may have to dispute up to a dozen items at a time. I might have to do this soon with all my smartwatch accessories, and in the meantime, pray my screen doesn't get scratched (or eat the inflated Amazon/eBay price).

- Compared to Amazon, they have fewer customer reviews, and don't stack listings for the same item. In disputes, customer service won't always favor you or offer a complete refund for bad items.

- Compared to eBay, they have much worse search filtering. You may wish to consider eBay for a balance of cheap prices and faster shipping, especially when you filter for sellers within 100 miles. Sometimes Chinese eBay sellers are cheaper than AliExpress sellers.
How much of it is it `painting` though? It looks like your typical startup, combine two ideas into one. (Image) Search engine + Photoshop. You enter some prompts, it searches it's database for matches, and meshes all found results into a single visually pleasing image. Can it draw something that is not a mesh or a variation of it's database? Can you?
Angry Miao’s wild keyboard and headphone designs
I've been shouting "nuclear now" and "climate change" for about 30 years. I not the only one.
This happens in more than just Walmart - there are arbitrage experts that list product on eBay, Walmart, etc and just order it for you from Amazon.

I’m not exactly sure how they make money as the prices are often nearly identical.
Dunno if I'd call it a product really.

It is an open source project though so feel free to fork it and make the change you're suggesting! Pretty sure doing so would just involve removing the call to .animate() that starts on line 238 in https://github.com/hatnote/rcmap/blob/master/static/main.js#...
Only if we engage in our political processes enough to ensure democracy survives this transition
I may still cause human extinction, even if life as a whole survives
I tried to find this in the switch plan and cancel plan processes to no avail.

Their cheapest plan in the cancelation flow is "Switch to a credit every other month for $8.50/mo" which doesn't show a title in the UI but sounds like the "silver plan" from [1].

[1]: https://audiobookaddicts.com/audible-silver-plan/
Filen: Cloud Storage Based on Zero Knowledge Principle
Why we would want to subsidize more expensive lifestyles?

College graduates in HCOL areas are very far down on my list of people who need government assistance.
> This year we saw that the flood waters are not receding, it's not
> flowing. People are criticizing government that they have allowed
> developers to make the buildings and the residential plaza just on the
> waterways so the water is not going anywhere so this is increasing the
> severity of this flooding in across the pakistan and it's become every
> year it's become very very means a serious problem for pakistan

- Amar Auriro, Environment Journalist in Karachi [0]

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gdVgaOdV5xM&t=220s
> The Zuckerberg interview he did was probably the most important interview of the last few years, and to go 3hrs with anyone with a calm and consistent interest and disposition is a direct result of his level of physical fitness and world class expertise as both a comedian and martial artist.

You should think about the tens of thousands of journalists who have done the same thing for a hundred years without being fit, comedians or kickboxers or whatever.

The whole comment reads like idolatry.
Yup. I use many paid, local tools. And because there’s no network service nonsense it’s not a problem at work.
This! x100! Thank you for sharing your journey
Laundry isn't always cash. Sometimes you've stolen funds from a government or through a banking scam. That money needs to travel through other businesses to be effectively cleaned.

For example, say you were in charge of a private equity fund with a close overlap of executives with a government bank. When investments go well you put them on the PE funds books. When they go poorly you put them on the bank's books. The bank gets a few government bailouts in the process. You now have billions in dirty funds in your PE fund that need to be laundered through investments. A few additional degrees of separation here can be very useful. I've seen this exact situation play out and met some of these guys while trying to do business in Africa.
Decentralized .bacon Domains
> For the time being, the feature is only provided for user space; it is not yet used within the kernel itself

Does anyone know if that is still the case?
> Depending on where you live those rodents won't do any harm though. Or simply leave again because the cannot find food, which is like the #1 thing to deal with in case of rodents.

> All in all, this type of claim should be backed by research :) Curious if there is any.

Yes, any evidence for your claims would be appreciated. Are there places where mice/rats aren't considered a disease vector?
I understand people comparing this to some human written content but let's not forget how far this has come and at least in my estimation, how far it could, and probably will, go.
> It is dead simple to build a useful Telegram bot; good luck doing this on Signal.

Well, obviously because Telegram officially allows and supports bots and WhatsApp doesn't and actively tries to ban them.

Thats more of a policy difference than a technical or conceptual difference IMO.
The trick I do is “pickup today or ship to store” as that gets Walmart only items as far as I can tell.
I feel like a lot of the discussion is around using these things to directly create new artwork, but these technologies (and GPT-3) feel like a method of digital divination to me. It's basically a more sophisticated form of casting an I Ching or reading tea leaves for artistic inspiration. I personally think that divination is underrated in modern society, so these developments are an interesting trend to me.
If you're planning to use Render's free plans as an alternative to Heroku, then you should know about this: "Render’s free database plan allows you to run a PostgreSQL database that automatically expires 90 days after creation. Free databases are suspended after 90 days (unless they are upgraded to a paid plan), and are no longer reachable at this point." so as a workaround, you should keep creating free databases after every 90 days.
That’s more likely HN reformatting titles.

HN auto-title cases submissions titles and removes any numbers prefixing the title string. So “7 KB” would be changed to “Kb”.
> The 12-tet values still has strict mathematical properties, it's not just some random off collection of pitches - and it could be that, which is perceived as "perfection" by the imaginary alien race (that it is equally spaced values on a logarithmic scale).

This is an analysis you can't even apply to two notes. Every pair of notes is "equally spaced along a logarithmic scale", for the same reason that every pair of geographic locations is "equally spaced" along a linear scale, and of course also equally spaced along a scale with sinusoidal spacing. You have a single data point, and it's equal to itself. The claim has no meaning unless you're simultaneously evaluating more than two things.

In reality, of course, we perceive sounds as being related to each other when they have frequencies that are related to each other. This removes the need to evaluate them against imaginary background standards.

And two notes drawn from a 12-tet scale cannot have related frequencies unless they are separated by an integer number of octaves. The period of the combination of a note with its own fifth is double the period of the base note. The combination of a note with its 12-tet fifth is aperiodic.

> Nothing has in 12-tet has been "chosen to be as unmatched as possible".

Think before you speak.
Death in Navy Seal Training Exposes a Culture of Brutality, Cheating and Drugs
Technical skills, shared values, collective memory. If you were wondering.
And in Walmart's case, it's particularly egregious - the value proposition "Here's a website where you can buy anything that's sold at Walmart, for cheap-ass Walmart prices and we'll ship it to you, and you don't have to go into some crappy Walmart to do it" is appealing and seems like it would generate billions in revenue. But the reality is terrible; lots of stuff is 'in-store purchase only', some of it they won't ship but will only deliver from the local store for a fee, some of it is garbage only sold by third parties for wildly unpredictable prices. And the site is full of dark patterns to make it difficult to tell which is which until you try to check out. And on top of all that, which products are in which category change constantly. So you can try to re-order something that you got before, but now it's in-store only, or the price has gone up 50x and it's shipped by a 3rd party with a 6-8 week arrival time.

For a while, I used Walmart.com to stock up on name-brand staples cheaply and conveniently, but it got to be such a pain in the ass that I went back to Costco.
I do not have that problem; it works OK for me.
Yeah I would have expected more getting the Germans as well.
Okay thanks. Just wondering how it compares to YC. I know YC says mfn safe too but they say 7% (and it’s 500k and obvious differences in experience, mentoring, process etc)
It took me some time to get the OpenVivo distribution running on my Windows box. It turns out that it wasn't compatible with Python 3.10, I had to go back to 3.9. Maybe that'll help you?
Take a moment to appreciate the fact that in 4,2Gb (less than that actually) you have the English language somehow encoded.

This is mind blowing.
I did not test but I assume the Go compiler is "much" faster than the "semi"old GCC implementation.
We are well past the point of trying to get 'the other side' to believe it. There is no way to do that.

They will never believe it. Their motivation for not believing in it is not based on facts, it is purely political / indoctrinated.

They will continually pick one thing or another to not believe it, and then when the evidence of change is insurmountable, they will claim humans aren't causing it. I've seen it time and time again here in Florida, it always goes back to 'well humans can't cause this'.
> So like 1 experienced researcher or 2 college grads for 1 year's worth of salary. Putting it through that perspective, it does not seem like much.

Well, I think the point is that you would be the one doing the work at first and you wouldn't have to pay yourself market rates because you also get to own the vast majority of the company.

> Wondering now how much hours of compute this would buy.

It also comes with $250k in Azure compute credits, which would buy
~70,000 hours on a machine with an A100 GPU, for instance.
This is pure anecdote and not apples and oranges, but I've found the ad-blocking experience with Safari/Adguard comparable to Firefox/uBO.
Mental-health content creators are defining their own ethics
Counting equations is dubious. Is dx^2/dt^2 = c one or two equations?

The fact that this paper is written in Word doesn't help it.

I have never heard of applying Pearson-Coefficients for system identification like that.

This paper smells like someone applying insufficient math to a problem. The world is not linear. In fact the human body also requires Algebraic constraints.

This is just a bad paper.