skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This trend in the comments of so many to say “awareness causes depression/hopelessness” is an annoying leap and probably just a salve (“I’m so sad cuz I’m so wise”). The depression is a result of how an individual may respond to an awareness (from the small to the massive), and depression/hopelessness is certainly not a foregone conclusion for others.

The lack of depression should not imply a lack of awareness.

Those telling themselves that their depression is a result of their super big brains or high empathy may want to explore other possibilities to resolve the issue in a healthy manner. You may be highly empathetic with the chickens at Foster Farms, but the issue is an inability to incorporate that knowledge/feeling/sensation into a worldview where it doesn’t have outsized influence. I know the justifications, reasoning, excuses, and remedies are a deep discussion not to be had here, but empathy/knowledge is not the enemy.
It’s a shame this, like Retool, pretends Azure doesn’t exist. They both support NoSQL so long as it’s AWS dynamo or Google cloud storage.
Interplanetary space is significantly different environment, compared to low earth orbit, for spacecraft and crews. The only knowledge we have of humans beyond the Van Allen Belts is from Apollo, for relatively short durations.
FDA warns: Please don't cook chicken in Nyquil
Cultural knowledge vs individual knowledge is an interesting dichotomy to explore. Cultural knowledge has a way of distilling information into very parsimonious and digestible forms for individuals then to propagate. The knowledge is in some sense only stored in the hyper-individual, ie, the society, while the individuals are following their own rules (and using their own models) to interact with and make use of it. One metaphor could be the ant colony: the colony's interest is to collect food and feed its young to perpetuate itself, while the ants only know they are following pheromone trails, exploring new regions, and reacting to nutritional signals when they arrive at a source.

Traditional medicine systems (Chinese, Indian/Ayurveda, etc.) work in much the same way: the mental models of its participants and practitioners do not necessarily sync up with the precise methods of action that actually "do the work" as we understand it in the Western scientific context. But the system as a whole, enacted through the collection of people who implement it, does demonstrate effective outcomes re: community health.
Pedantic and wrong, good fucking luck saturating whole SSD from single thread on anything else than pure benchmark code
This reminds me of serialized novels (new content every month?). Maybe that'll be the way, in the future!
Very reasonable, made me consider my takes on your points:

- For me, adult responsibilities are mostly fine with a drink or two in the evening, but become orders of magnitude more difficult the next day. Being close to 40, the burden that a hangover puts on my mental capacity is just too much.

- I actually don't mind my kids seeing me drink a bit and being slightly tipsy. I kind of want them not to think of alcohol as anything forbidden or secret, just something that you do a bit sometimes to enjoy food and company. Looking forward to having a few with them when they reach the proper age!

- Fully agree on the last point. I hate having a hangover when my wife takes the kids out and I'd have a good few hours of getting something meaningful done ... only to lose the opportunity because I can't think straight.

When I was younger, I pretty much wanted to just get drunk despite the taste of the beer I was drinking. Nowdays I wish I could get the taste without the effect..
Yes, that's true though "blocks" is an overloaded term (e.g., people will talk about what "block size" they are reading at at the application layer).

In any case I'm mostly disputing your characterization of SSDs as behaving like hard drives: having long setup time then faster reading of subsequent blocks. Unless you are talking about command latency, they don't really work like that.

To a first order approximation you can think of SSDs a ideal page-wise parallel random access devices, with a certain read latency and the ability to be processing up to N reads at once. As long as the queue depth can keep up to N reads in progress at once, the maximum bandwidth or a substantial fraction, can be achieved.
Bigger problem with the article of course is that it attempts to treat sociology as a science.
Why do you think the author of the comment is not applying the same principle to themselves? I assume that they either have a job where they don't need the government to restrict other peoples rights of freedom of speech in order to get paid, or that they do apply it to themselves.

I don't think anyone is arguing that everyone must make all digital information freely available to everyone else. Nobody is saying that books must be provided for free. The argument is that nobody should be restricted from sharing their data if that's what they want to do. That will naturally result in most widely shared digital files being made available for free, but it's because those with them exercised a right to share rather than because anyone was compelled to do anything.
Should your 'white', be capitalised?
And just a bit further on, is there a comma missing?
Makes bollocks sense, otherwise.
And also, tbh.
We are not asking for foreign countries to "replace the Ayatollahs" for us.
What we are asking, is ending their diplomatic relations with this government, or at least severing it, instead of trying to strengthen their diplomatic relations.

A deal between this dictatorship and the west will only strengthen them, leading to more oppression. A weakened dictatorship due to foreign pressure will make it easier for the people of Iran to replace them.
Your second paragraph describes what I see with Python ML guys.
> Pirate Bay does that at scale—millions of “friends”, and all at the same quality. It’s unsustainable to authors. Don’t tell the authors to find “a new framework”.

I'm not telling authors to find a new framework. Such a thing doesn't exist. I'm not even sure it could exist.

And that sucks, because authors need a new framework.

> What do you expect them to do?

I don't. I have zero expectations.

> Unless you can actually propose a good idea with the mechanics of why it works for both parties in economic terms, don’t go around shaming the authors.

I'm not here shaming anyone. I'm just being honest. This system is broken. We're all looking at the same shattered pieces. It's wild that I'm the only one here who isn't pretending everything is OK.
Progress itself is a tradition, but a relatively recent one, and not one deserving reverence. At least, not any more.
And it has happened to others that almost certainly weren't trying to kill each other: In 2009, a French and a UK ballistic missile sub collided

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Vanguard_and_Le_Triomphant...

not to mention quite a few more incidents of subs ramming surface vessels, which should be even easier to avoid.
Why does Hacker News like to support some industries, like Electric Cars, and Rust, and Nuclear Fusion, and wants to destroy others like the ability for people to make money writing books?
If someone steals your food, you no longer have it. If someone “steals” your book, you still have it.
Your threat model isn't universal to the billion users of Chrome.
It does explain how you would have people living side by side, if you look at how people tend to work.

Take cigarettes for instance. We know they’re unhealthy. There are also still millions (hundreds?) smoking them every day.

People give up and fall into habits unless there is strong reinforcement. If you get a parasite and have no way to get rid of it (because of lack of modern medicine) because you ate pork, not like you’re going to stop eating pork necessarily any more. Especially if it’s cheap in your area.

If there is another group of people who manages to not have those issues because they don’t eat pork - they’re going to keep not eating it after seeing that too!
> ... when the brain starts responding to its environment and begins evolving as a result of the input it receives from various senses

In the womb.

Why do you ask?
The problem is that this circumstantial evidence contradicts actual hard evidence on the wreckage.
And that gets even more interesting as many Deuter backpacks are hybrids, with a rigid frame that leaves a cooling air pocket between your back and the pack, while looking like a non-frame backpack.
The Curious Design of Skateboard Trucks
> Libraries are part of a balancing act between spreading knowledge and keeping incentives for writing books high enough that people actually do it.

Not by design. Libraries are a way of keeping and organizing books for the interested to read them. Any function they provide to the publishing industry is incidental, in that readers are more likely to become writers. But no part of the mission of most libraries is to support the publishing industry. The history of libraries has been to defend themselves from the publishing industry, which historically has always fought to have them shut down.
shit like this is too good and entertaining to be on twitter
The volatile parameters deprecation is one of the stranger decisions, though, since there are plenty of constructions that don’t do anything but are still allowed by the language. I see this as a matter of style that might be useful to warn about, but shouldn’t be policed as an error by the compiler.
Our calendar and timekeeping is what you get when you keep a system continuously operational and backwards capable over tens of thousands of years.
My experience says, if you want to do one project. By all means, it's easier to have a standard where you drop features. -- But beware: you need either good engineers or you have to educate them, anyway.

If you have constant new projects, each one with very different requirements and needs, it will not be so easy to make a standard "one size fits all".

Also, again, you will not be doing "just one" standard, I would not subestimate the effort of such rulesets. You will have to the modify and modify it constantly (I know it from the company I'm, there are whole teams working on that, doing meetings constantly with stakeholders, and replying to exception requirements).
In the long run, I would prefer to have good engineers, that do not need to be lead in each little step. --and having to check if they adhere to the rules!

I like the phrase: "If you think education is expensive, try with ignorance"
Or:
- I'm afraid to waste money educating our employees, and then they leave us
- What if we do not educate them, and they stay?!
Highlights of what's new in this release:

- Decode/encode api for metadata (Exif, XMP etc)

- Decode api for getting separate layers and spot colors (by default, the decoder blends layers and spot colors automatically and only returns the merged image)

- Improved api for progressive decoding

- Improved api for HDR and color management

- Command line tools cjxl and djxl were reimplemented and are now using the library api (they predated the library api so before they were directly calling internal functions; using the library reduces their binary size dramatically)

Some aspects of the api were improved, changed or deprecated; this release mostly serves as a preparation step towards 1.0 - the (non-deprecated parts of the) 0.7 api are expected to remain in the 1.0 api.
SSDs read at page granularity. SSDs don't really have an equivalent to a HD seek: there is latency but this can over overlapped with the latency of dozens of other commands.

Some SSDs may support reading an entire block in a faster way than page-by-page commands, but because of the FTL a read of a logical block worth of data may be split across many physical blocks, so you cannot necessarily take advantage of this.
Since when do we assume everyone uses the same calendar?
I literally said:
> I don't think the difference is enough to justify the price difference

PC components are definitely too expensive right now, for several reasons, including Nvidia's pricing choices
That’s already been happening for decades. Has it made any difference?
Unfortunate (for your case) that you cited the NBER. Their definition of a recession begins as follows:

> Q: What is a recession? What is an expansion?

A: The NBER's traditional definition of a recession is that it is a significant decline in economic activity that is spread across the economy and that lasts more than a few months. The committee's view is that while each of the three criteria—depth, diffusion, and duration—needs to be met individually to some degree, extreme conditions revealed by one criterion may partially offset weaker indications from another.

https://www.nber.org/research/business-cycle-dating/business...

By that definition, even Forbes agrees that we are not yet in a recession.

https://www.forbes.com/advisor/investing/are-we-in-a-recessi...
> One copy in memory can serve millions on your website.

But they have to download it, and you might not have the bandwidth to service millions of downloads in less than a few hours ….
> Of all the things one might accidentally turn on or off I think the flashlight is one of the most easy to subsequently detect

You’d be surprised.

> and we're here talking about it because one HN (thus probably somewhat technical) user and iDevice owner did not know how it works.

The information is out there. When you first run, when you upgrade, there are numerous prompts to show you “what’s new”. Many ‘power users’ (I really dislike that name) arrogantly dismiss these. Then there are the online guides, the offline guides (book in the books app, Tips app). If the user pays attention, there are affordances everywhere — the safari tabs example in the article being a perfect example.

> and roughly everybody I know with an iPhone uses a mix of luck and barely explainable superstitious rituals to get where they're going in the UI.

This is testament to the point I’m making. Sure some of it isn’t completely obvious, but this ain't one of them, and discoverability isn’t about obviousness. If that were the case, we’d still be hunter-gatherers.
Reminds me of Sononym sound librarian

https://www.sononym.net
It’s true, though. Water causes roughly 30°C of global warming. We can’t get much if any more from water vapor, but there are several positive and negative feedbacks from clouds that are quite interesting. High clouds are ice, which allow transmission of visible light, but absorb in the infrared.

Water is to rain as CO2 is to glucose.
>would require a foreign sponsored coup

Won't be the first time
The way that monopolies make everything cheaper.
Except the test didn't happen at sea. It happened on land at a testing site. See 64+ of the lawsuit [0]

[0] https://www.docketalarm.com/cases/Massachusetts_District_Cou...
> keeping incentives for writing books high enough that people actually do it

Nobody that writes books worth reading becomes a writer out of financial motivation.

It's entirely possible that the above can be expanded to every pursuit (that quality typically isn't motivated by profit), but whether that's true or not, it certainly tracks for the craft of writing.
Anyone giving money to Iran already gets sanctioned by the US, no? And the gov’t is already pretty isolated, except for ‘persona non grata’ countries like North Korea or Russia anyway.

And I doubt those folks are going to change their mind over what’s going on.
> but my use case is in creating an offline-first local document storage system (data never reaches a cloud).

Makes sense -- this is why we OSS'd DocQuery :)

> The templates sound very cool - are they essentially just using a preset list of (natural language) queries tied to a particular document class? It seems like you're using a version of donut for your document classification?

Yes that's the plan. We've done extensive testing with other approaches (e.g. NER) and realized that the benefits of using use-case specific queries (customizability, accuracy, flexibility for many use cases) outweigh the tradeoffs (NER only needs one execution for all fields).

Currently, we support pre-trained Donut models for both querying and classification. You can play with it by adding the --classify flag to `docquery scan`. We're releasing some new stuff soon that should be faster and more accurate.
> It is both unethical and pointless to exploit inelastic demand

WELL PUT.. the logic on this debate is astonishly bad..

"Charge more for essential services" just sounds terrible and you are correct, inelastic demand needs to be affordable, and subsidized if it is NOT affordable.

i dont understand how someone would advocate that "essential services has higher value to me and should cost more".

Essential services like heating my home does not have a higher value, it is an absolutely essential service to prevent death from cold temperatures..

This person should try living in -24C without heat and see if it changes their views.
On the other end of the spectrum we have the Nordic people, who will uncomfortably sit in silence until the fourth beer kicks in and everyone finally open up and laugh non-awkwardly. Must be the weather..
Paraphrasing your closing paragraph:
“you may not use this software if you have not already contributed to it” (because enforcing a future is hard).

Seems a bit contradictory to the license terms. Gonna be a trick to get legislation to enforce something that isn’t in established contractual language.

Edit: on the positive incentive approach, getting double-funded with discretionary budget for every FOSS developer they hire might be a viable strategy.
That's the federal government which owns money printing presses. State governments do not and are often required by their state constitution to balance their budget.
That's not how that works. Writing is about practice, repetition and feedback. Improvement is gradual and lifelong to say that only certain kinds of people get better is a pretty bad take. Anyone can become competent at writing. It's just many do not have the prerequisite requirements to begin improving on certain parts and never learn of their deficencies or how to fix them.
No, I will not. Why would I?

Freedom to copy != obligation to copy.

Your arguments are erroneous, at best.
I mean, I was the only nerd in possibly the whole school with a link cable. So he didn't sell anything. :)

But I get your point. If everyone was that generous we'd all be better off. And what better way to spread that message than by walking the walk?
I share your worries and believe that Russia will use nukes in Ukraine, safe in the knowledge that like for like retaliation by the west is impossible. Comments advising you to not worry, or use your phone less, or stating that someone in Russia will do something to stop it are condescending at the least and falsehoods at the worst. Current nuclear doctrine does not allow for retaliation by a western power unless that power is directly facing annihilation because the costs are too great and this is well known by all including Putin.
> Why do they rely on intrinsic motivations?

The biggest problem is merit pay is politically impossible. Imagine paying a hotshot developer $300k to introduce a new LMS for a school district. That very well might be cheaper than hiring a consulting firm and paying a team of developers $85k.

But there would be howls about taxpayer money being wasted on such a highly paid individual. The public only tolerates raises based on seniority because absent some tragedy everyone gets old, so everyone can imagine themselves in the public workers' shoes.

This in turn attracts workers who bank on seniority rather than merit for pay increases, creating a culture of mediocrity and tall poppy attitudes.

The private sector is shielded from such criticism by the magical "just don't patronize them" argument (when in fact many businesses are monopolistic and essential), and frankly because the public is ignorant of how well-paid certain individuals are within firms.

Not arguing against high merit pay, as it can lead to the most efficient outcome, but boy oh boy is it unpopular with a lot of people who never fall into the highly paid bucket.
There was, in fact, a plan in the Apollo Applications Program for a crewed Venus flyby, using the SIVB as a wet workshop for habitation. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manned_Venus_flyby
Autonomous driving, including, for example, computer vision. No NLP or speech.
About the "need" or neural networks, there is a lot of discussion going on.
As you may know, the "black box" nature of NNs make them a little more difficult than other means, when you have to validate them for safety critical systems.
> The question isn't if we've reached a global maximum

On the contrary; top level comment said "rules that would more than likely produce the best outcome for your life". I disagreed.
Used this for online quizzes for one of my courses. It was pretty good, but using the terminal for stuff like this still sucks since you can't just click into the PDF.

I wish PDFs had a Ctrl-Shift-F search like VS Code that could search for text in multiple pdfs in a directory.
First recorded instance of spaghetti code?
And yet it was Germany which through this summer increased the power generation and exports to replace the missing French nuclear power in the European grid and keep it stable.
>Because you can’t break the law and try to justify it. No matter what.

Unless you can pay the fine it seems. So essentially, laws only apply to poor people. This whole article was naive and empty. What was the author even trying to say? Be a good boy, complete your JIRA cases and follow the law (which is always right and fair)?
Every nuclear proponent in this page conveniently glossing over a significant issue: Nuclear waste disposal..

To quote a german article from 2020:

"If nuclear waste can actually be disposed at the new facility starting 2050, that would still put Germany in the international vanguard: 70 years after humankind began using nuclear energy, not a single permanent waste storage site has been officially opened anywhere in the world."

Source:https://dw.com/en/germany-launches-new-search-for-permanent-...
Protonmail. I don’t see why people use fastmail (the privacy laws in Australia are among the worst in the world), when they can get the encrypted version from proton.

Recently proton has offered a combo package, bundling email, vpn and storage. With client apps for proton drive, and higher storage space, it would be a great option.
It also makes a huge difference how close to that 33% body weight max you carry. What kind of backpack carrying people do affects what kind of advice they've heard.

The weight of a military pack will absolutely send you toppling over if you lose your balance, and you need to start packing it a bit lower just to deal with uneven terrain. So you pack it a bit lower than what would be otherwise ideal, to stay on your feet.

If you're carrying closer to 10-15% of your body weight, you can put it much higher without stumbling, and you get the benefits of the more upright posture.
Even the 12-hour system (vs 24-) is used by a relatively small minority of Earth's population.
Due to a last minute change (and a rarity, we really try hard not to do this), the URL for cppfront changed: https://godbolt.org/z/jEqEqWsbW works now (as does manually selecting cpp2-cppfront as a language)
I think point 3 is this, no?

>I am worried this tyrannical government succeeds in putting down this movement and then the western governments sign another nuclear treaty which means sanction relief and more money for the regime