skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah see and my 401k account is down like 10% net over its lifetime. My personal investments are up like almost 100% over the same period (3 years) its an incredible time to be investing right now because there are a metric fuckload of small cap stocks that are extremely mispriced. See: shipping sector in the last 3 years (dry bulk and lng)

This is why 401ks are a total shame. You get marginal, if any tax benefits (entirely possible you pay significantly more tax when all is said and done), your money is in jail for your entire fucjing life so if you have an investment opportunity you won't have the capital to maximize your profit, and to top it off, the investment selections are dogshit broad based funds that almost never even match the s&p 500 and you pay like a 1% management fee for the pleasure of all these lovely features. It's a complete sham and it would take an enormous amount of employer matching to make it worth doing. E.g. an amount that no employer would ever be willing to offer.
If the thing they saved hadn’t been saved, it makes me wonder if they would have remade it as written, and then either have to throw that out or release what was by all accounts not a good first pass.

I suspect some character models were reused, and recovering what they did enabled the rewrite that came after.

I think it’s still fair to characterize this as a big save even if it wasn’t used as-is. They arguable needed the first version to decide to move away from it.
If they were using his business contacts, this seems like it would apply, as that data is collected from the business accounts which would fall under this agreement.

But does this apply when using personal account data? Does the business account agreement override the use of PII on a personal account to initiate business solicitations?

Definitely something to talk to a lawyer about.
I'm not telling you what emotions to have, just observing the world around me.
Tamamo-No-Mae
> I've long wanted to do a "startup" that sells decent furniture online ...

This was what they were doing. Their products were fashionable and decent quality, squarely targetting the middle classes with moderate prices.

Double the price of Ikea, but typically made from wood not particle board - half the price of boutiques and designers.

I can only assume, given they raised 100mil just over 12 months ago that their real problem (unless there is fraud / founder enrichment) they were selling sofas for £1,000 that they paid £2,000 for.
It would be if I ran into it regularly -- but after using the language for a variety of professional and personal projects for a couple of years, this is the only time I’ve actually needed to manually-specify lifetimes since the compiler normally figures it out for me :)
Generally speaking, I think this is what testing a backup means.
Hmm your right that the headline says that. But I think to read the article generously, "money" means explicit money, like pay per read, or microtransactions, or pay per app.

To that extent, it is surprising how few explicit payments I make per week on the Internet (Amazon, Instacart, Uber?) yet hundreds of companies get cents of my attention (Google, Facebook, TikTok, the tons of content marketing companies Google sends traffic to, etc).
Sure, but you can pursue the claim in arbitration, and they'll pay the fees as long as you don't claim too much.

> Each party will be responsible for paying any AAA filing, administrative and arbitrator fees in accordance with AAA Rules, except that we will pay for your filing, administrative, and arbitrator fees if your Commercial Claim for damages does not exceed $75,000 and is non-frivolous (as measured by the standards set forth in Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 11(b))
Brave Wallet debuts safer transaction signing
That actually seems like a clever way to generate leads
How do you know their name?
It probably wasn't Meta but some scammers.
The Witcher (2007) in development for remake
In that case, did you also run rust with the equivalent RUSTFLAGS="-C target-cpu=native"? :)

Perhaps benchmarks should be compared on equal footing, say, with the default release flag or all optimizations turned on, otherwise they're improper.
“To the mouse and any smaller animal gravity presents practically no dangers. You can drop a mouse down a thousand-yard mine shaft; and, on arriving at the bottom it gets a slight shock and walks away, provided that the ground is fairly soft. A rat is killed, a man is broken, a horse splashes. For the resistance presented to movement by the air is proportional to the surface of the moving object. Divide an animal’s length, breadth, and height each by ten; its weight is reduced to a thousandth, but its surface only a hundredth. So the resistance to falling in the case of the small animal is relatively ten times greater than the driving force”

https://www.phys.ufl.edu/courses/phy3221/spring10/HaldaneRig...
the competition is a github page with a patched youtube app
I went and looked at the application form for the first job linked and this is absolutely standard in the US at every company I've ever applied to. It's not just some Wikimedia thing. It's voluntary to fill it out and the company is not supposed to use it in deciding who to hire. The purpose is to have retrospective data a company can use to make sure they are not introducing bias into their hiring process.
They are saying rust is painful. Just that they find the other languages even more painful.
I was taught this by a Chinese culture coach. She said it more like:

Man's horse runs away: aww
Horse returns, brings new wild horse: yay new horse
Son riding wild horse breaks leg: aww
War comes and takes able-bodied men: yay get to live
> Is the performance difference of Python and Javascript due to the language or due to the runtime?

It's almost always the runtime. Unless the language spec makes it particularly difficult to implement a feature in a way that's performant while still respecting the spec.

Which is why the discussion on which languages are "faster" is seldom productive. Languages are not fast or slow by themselves. And, even when they are on average, implementing stuff on Assembly is no guarantee of speed. Quite often, higher level abstractions lead to optimizations that are difficult to replicate if one is operating at a lower level.

As a very trivial example, consider short circuit evaluation. It's something that you explicitly have to code in assembly, but most languages have implemented out of the box. Or garbage collection - allocating and deallocating memory on demand is memory efficient, but it's not necessarily what you want to do for performance. In many cases, deferring garbage collection allows for often-accessed memory to be retained, where as a C implementation would be constantly allocating and freeing. Fixing that requires programmer effort.

What I think matters the most is the ability of a language (+runtime) to access lower layers when needed (ASM blocks in C, FFI in Python).
Common Lisp doesn't have "global variables", it has "special variables", which are subtly different.
The estimate for cats is widely disputed and was a complete WAG with little empirical backing and more like extrapolation from a non-representative sample. There are studies currently in progress to more accurately measure the impact of cats upon bird populations and last I saw the results were showing the prior estimates were grossly overestimated because cats kill many more kinds of animals than just birds like squirrels, lizards, and rodents.

Also, I have a 9kw solar setup and simply can’t add more without sacrificing land or basically tearing my house down to make a new, more optimal roof, at which point all the environmental pros of using solar are more than wiped out by the construction carbon footprint. Old homes really are terrible oftentimes for solar installations, sadly.
I am really excited by the pub/sub primitives.

WebRTC has really been limited by conferencing APIs. Great for people building conference calls, but WebRTC can do so much more.

With WebRTC coming out of OBS (and more soon) thanks to WHIP it feels like an inflection point :)
> No, this is wrong. Wind power is in fact extremely reliable, especially when you remember that things like fuel distribution routinely idles fossil fuel plants too. Nothing is 100% reliable.

According to [0], Germany's wind farms averaged a 36.9% capacity factor over the course of 2019. Further down there's load duration curves, and it looks like a lot of plants have no power generation for >10% of the time.

EDIT I FORGOT TO INCLUDE MY CITE https://energynumbers.info/germanys-offshore-wind-capacity-f...
Work: Macbook Pro M1 Max. Personal: Macbook Air M2
Is emacs no longer the go-to editing lisp?
God sometimes spares some who would surely die due to circumstances, like this pilot through a horrific air crash....or Viktor Frankl and other holocaust survivors.... to show His power and glory to the rest of humanity.

Or maybe it's just all "luck", as many opined.
There is a lot of options:

Large clouds (rather expensive): AWS, GCP, Azure - consider using spot instances that are cheaper

Free GPU platforms: Colab, Kaggle

ML platforms (cheap GPU): Jarvis Labs, Lambda Labs, TensorDoc, Genesis Cloud

In case you decide to go with AWS, check out dstack.ai, an open-source CLI to run anything on AWS GPU
When the Internet was fast enough, image forums were such a novelty it was common to hoard images/memes/wallpapers for later use. I've always wondered what kind of stenographic messages I unknowingly saved in my old files.
The declining quality we notice is likely because Google is getting better at serving everyone else. It's only going to get worse for handling off-mainstream queries, and it won't matter for most people who aren't looking for an obscure forum post from 1997.
I too read the HN title and the contents of two comments as meatballs and was confused. I open the article and immediately "meta" jumped out from the heading (likely the larger font made it more clear), go back to check comments and they now read metaballs. My brain then crapped itself.
Google doesn't provide forward guidance. Any EPS estimates are done by financial firms.
It's not the mere fact of their existence that would drive people away, necessarily. It's that as other high-activity users leave, your recommendations are either gonna end up being NSFW... or empty. At that point, if NSFW isn't what you want, you'll find it distasteful and leave.

It's probably a mild effect right now, maybe not even observable if your Twitter account is already well-established. But as Twitter continues to lose members, it will become more pronounced.
Even if it does, you can usually boot from an external volume anyway.
Rewards mechanism are set at the repo/organization level, only maintainers know what to merge and how to reward contributors. Many solutions can be explored to find common patterns.
The military doesn’t optimize for fuel burn though, which limits practicality in the cutthroat commercial sector.
Opensource developers don't get paid. You're saying that paying them money demotivates them because they can earn money by not doing opensource work? The reality is that people paying a bounty sends a message that they really want this problem to be resolved or feature implemented. Maintainer burnout is minimized because people don't spam bounties on things they don't care about.
Let's be real, Stanford could fill it's entire freshman class with kids who got perfect GPAs and perfect SAT scores. That's not the deciding factor. You mentioned doing well in State level competitions but the elite schools of the US, Ivy+ etc, are the best schools on the planet. It's not surprising that you didn't get in given that fact. Their freshman classes are full of State Champions, National Champions, Olympiad Winners, Intel Science Fair winners, Published Authors, kids that have given concerts at Carnegie Hall, etc. I think you may have misjudged the level of competition. It's not 1940 when a perfect SAT got you into any school you wanted.

>This was the only piece I felt differently on. There's a significant advantage to attending a top school - the alumni network and a generally stronger and more well-connected student body for starters. Going to a state school didn't necessarily prevent me from finding success later in life, but I definitely took the long way around.

People have studied this and found that students that were accepted into elite colleges but ended up going to lower ranked schools had equivalent levels of achievement after graduation. So it turns out graduating from Harvard isn't as important as you think. Unless you want to go into IB or Big4 Consulting.
I was warned off them three years ago for their pish-poor quality, so this is probably related.
Explained: The Profanity Address Generator Hack (September 2022)
> "If there is a liberty to expose innocent people to potentially deadly diseases I don't want it for myself or others."

But you don't get to make that decision for OTHERS. If you are worried about COVID, stay home and wrap yourself in a bubble. There's a certain amount of risk that comes with living with people.
How do I run the latest diffusion model in Go or Rust?
Project metrics & usage / design doumentation should be able to help with selecting relevant database grouping(s).

aka post data collection doing timeseries analystics; at home book library database so, no need for remote web access; doing local gis map database;
database for motion sensor to record time / date motion detected.

starter ideas from searching on "database selection metrics" after:2019-12-31

short reads:

https://medium.com/wix-engineering/how-to-choose-the-right-database-for-your-service-97b1670c5632

https://www.pingcap.com/blog/how-to-efficiently-choose-the-right-database-for-your-applications/

https://dzone.com/articles/introducing-database-selection

full discussion:

https://sunnykichloo.wordpress.com/2020/09/21/database-selection-criteria/

https://www.mongodb.com/blog/post/introducing-database-selection-matrix
The phrase "objectively better" is an oxymoron.
PHP 5 was kind of slow, to a point it threatened the future of Facebook (now Meta). They eventually went to transform it to CPP for speed improvement hiphop-cpp then went to build a VM with jit compilation. You could then deploy your app by transfering a sqlite file containing the compiled byte code.

At Wikimedia we adopted it which has cut our CPU usage by half and has saved a few hundred of servers. We had some Facebook engineers helping which involved patching the Linux kernel while at it. Those were good times.

Eventually PHP 7 followed up with a similar approach and had more or less the same performance as HHVM. Facebook went then to focus on the Hack language (a dialect of PHP with strong typing) and eventually phased out back compat with Zend.

From what I remember, Sara Golemon at Facebook has done a lot of outreaching to Open Source project and gave us a lot of assistance (as well as others at Facebook).
Clickable links:

https://github.com/second-state/microservice-rust-mysql

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https://github.com/KWasm/podman-wasm

https://github.com/WasmEdge/wasmedge_hyper_demo

https://github.com/WasmEdge/wasmedge-db-examples
Can't make the Nov dates but definitely interested in future climbing/co-working. Made an account and sent a friend request + pinged on LinkedIn.
Not every platform has an ad blocker or patched app solution.
>Python is a higher level language than C++ so it requires less effort but newer compiled/typed languages offer more of what Python is good at

I see Nim as clearly better if you write a larger software. It's a shame it's usage is low and thus there aren't many Nim resources.
Ads done well -- relevant, not intrusive to what I'm trying to accomplish -- are welcome IMO. It's usually the piece of crap that they shove in your face with pop-ups or obstruct my task in the moment that drive me up the wall.

UX matters there too and so hopefully it's done well.
I tried. That actually made the rust slower for me (i7-6700k, gcc-12.2, rustc-1.64). 1180 frames/s. And without the -march=native the Nim was at 1620. And it also did not help the C++ branch (but helped Nim about 1.2x).

But really the original author/poster should do some set on his box. I cannot even compile/run all his things. The point of my comment was just to give a reference for how far off impressions can be from build flags. PGO (available to Nim, c++, but maybe not to Rust yet?) is a whole other set of maybe nothing burgers or maybe big improvements.

(But, btw, I could not agree more that all experiments in this entire general space should have various big, bold disclaimers. Over-concluding from these things is rampant.)
Rather, it's both.

The government folk want it gone from theirs, but they want the rest of us to have it. Thus the claim "Our users want it" is true, in a tongue in cheek way.
I wonder if Google would reconsider their approach to banning so many people from various programs like AdSense at some point. So many people have been screwed over that they should be making money from. And bad actors in many locations have a much easier time just creating a new company to circumvent the ban anyway.
On the contrary, recently I went to a networking event hosted by a founder of an AI startup in Bay Area. That was just after I started an unofficial sabbatical, ostensibly to travel the world and focus on my hobby. Granted, it is a hobby marred with controversial monetization circumstances, but such an expectation, to turn it into a day job, never came up in the discussions there.
Ask HN: Going back to school to study non-CS or for non-MBA degree?
Has anyone on HN returned to university to study something that wasn’t computer science or software engineering, that also wasn’t an MBA program? Curious if any hackers went to study a pure science for the sake of research, or the arts and humanities, or a different discipline entirely.
What syntax does it use? For example `|` doesn't seem to do anything.
Podman Release v4.3.0
Finance watchdog warns of long-term risk Big Tech poses to competition
I too would like a captain to step in please
I know a good blog post about it.

https://jack-clark.net/2022/10/11/import-ai-305-gpt3-can-sim...
That's a very complex statement because I think what a reasonable person, when asked in the proper setting, would say is that those things aren't hobbies. But if you were to ask some Joe or Jane in sunglasses and shorts whether they're hobbies, they'll probably respond "sure, why not?" Both groups are aspects of the broader culture, so it's really difficult to truly say what the broader culture believes about this and whose position is actually valid.

> Add to the fact, you can't reliably determine the threshold at which something is active enough.

Yeah, it's ultimately up to the individual to determine whether something is a hobby. There are some standards we can have around the shared utility of that word, though. Pretty much anything can have a capacity for being a hobby, though some can be more dubious than others.
> Almost everyone will have a personal Web site.

At first it seems like the author got this prediction horribly wrong, except almost everyone does have one or more social media accounts which is the modern equivalent.
Rust gives you so much more for the same compilation speed though.
In large parts of the US it rarely gets much below freezing. I'm not even _that_ far south (35 degrees N lat), and the coldest month of the year has an average daily low of 0.5C. Coldest temp ever recorded here was -20.
Looks like investors/backers lost confidence seeing how far behind they are off the leaders (Waymo/Cruise)
> It also means you get some absurd results: the same invention would be patentable if you made a mechanical implementation, a purely electronic one, probably an ASIC, but probably not if it was an ASIC executing instructions from a builtin ROM. Because suddenly it becomes "math".

Why is that absurd? Here's my attempt to describe a maximalist position: If the machine actually does something then you get a valid patent for the real world. But the patent won't apply to simulations of the real world. So it doesn't really matter whether it's "patentable" or not. We could give patents to both variants, but if someone is only interested in the data the machine outputs, they can run a simulated version without violating either patent.

> it is an explicit statement that if you ever come up with anything idea, no matter how much it cost you to invent it, or develop it, it has zero value - because apparently the hard part of complex and new technology is writing code, not developing the technology in the first place

Math takes tons of effort too! Deep complicated proofs are no more "just a fact" than compression schemes are "just a fact".

> The core problem with software (and worse, process) patents is that they let you patent an idea, rather than an actual implementation of an idea

I worry that there's no good way to make a thorough guideline for what counts as idea and what counts as implementation for things that are code-based.

Though in the strictest sense you could just rely on copyright for implementations and toss out patents entirely.
Literate Programming in Go
Our 'code-as-wiki' approach falls far short of the standard set by Donald Knuth, but we hope he might see it as a step in the right direction.
EFI, anyone? MBR works perfectly ok for me.
> inferior to standard utility-scale turbines

But isn't this supposed to be a rooftop wind turbine? I'm curious how it compares to other small turbines that I could conceivably put on my own property.
I self-studied the entire book and did all the problems around the beginning of Covid.

The biggest roadblock I found was the "picture language" problems in chapter 2 didn't have an obvious implementation of "painters" in MIT scheme. There was some libraries I found in 25-year old 6.001 course webpages, but they were not functional.

Fortunately, there was a recent Racket library that was specifically designed for that chapter of SICP.
Got it, it looks like sed-ish syntax. In the end it's a typing speed test.
Check out the link posted. It's a pretty clever solution that wouldn't require any more maintenance than a typical drain. It would be not nearly as efficient as a typical heat exchange, but would also be low maintenance.

http://www.heatsnagger.com/product/hxdrain-dwhr-for-shower/
Part 1: antisoftware action – anti software software club
Unemployment numbers at extreme lows as the Baby Boomers retire and millions of Americans are either dead or sick/disabled with Long-COVID19, hampering our economy with a lack of workers?

I don't think today's economy is anything like the frothy housing bubble was in 2007/2008 timeframe.

I think there's a possibility of a tech bubble akin to 2001, but that actually wasn't very disruptive for our economy. I see today more similar to 2001, aside from the weird supply chain issues due to a greatly diminished workforce (the Baby Boomer's retirement is the biggest challenge for this year IMO). (Of course, people have been calling a bubble in tech for decades now, but _eventually_ that damn tech bubble will pop again, lol)
Also see the Racoon Mountain Pumped Storage Plant (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raccoon_Mountain_Pumped-Storag...): 1652 MW.
Even the front page of Reddit is a pretty specific audience. There are definitely types of ads that I would not want to run on reddit
Yes, increasing employment expense faster than profit growth ex employment will lead to declining profitability… which is exactly my point.

What’s your point?
Apple believes less and less in making great products for users.

They’ve fallen into the growth-at-all-costs mentality that ruins everything. If they can do almost nothing and make money they’re doing it.

I don’t see why gambling apps are on the store at all. Isn’t there a rule against them anyway?

So in the end, surprise surprise, the ads exist. And since crypto scams and gambling apps take in tons of money, they have the most to buy ads.

I miss Steve.