skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am truly sorry for what you had to endure, it sounds completely uncalled for. After Bernie Madoff stole billions on Wall Street, the FBI came to his home and asked him "is there an innocent explanation for this?" before allowing him to get dressed and prepared for custody. If you were not showing any signs of resistance, there is no reason you or your wife should have been treated that way - if you have evidence of this, bring it up.

I would also concede that you may have a point with the warrant spacing, signature discrepancies, etc - at the very least, there is indication of a "guilty until proven innocent" mindset against you. However, you should also consider there is substantial hard evidence against you, provided by reputable third parties (Google, eBay, etc) - getting all of it declared inadmissible would be an uphill battle unless you have a highly motivated legal team.

Aside from obvious advice (don't do crime) I would say that the #1 most important thing to keep in mind if you are accused of a crime is to say nothing - no hello, no pleasantries, not even obvious answers - just "I would like a lawyer" and only speak when your lawyer is present. Innocent people have been convicted for not following this principle in dealing with the authorities.
> Now if you find some 20 char expression which approximates another 20 char expression up to 100000 digits and THEN suddenly takes a different turn, that would be really curious.

Not necessarily. For example:

0
10^-100000
Yes, I am aware of this. Your points are valid, but I am trying to gather some proper research on actual projects about this and not just anecdotal evidence (which is fine, I have many too, but should be supported by something else ideally)
As with most things, it will start with 100% custom generated porn, and then transition that tech to be used for advertising.
Now somebody should make a Perfect Square game so you can draw a nice circle with the same result!
I'm specifically looking for a payment provider handling SaaS subscriptions (monthly/annually).

Any recommendations?
I made a square and got 80% heh.
Standing desk with memory, not the ones with just the up-down buttons. I can just slap number 2 on the desk, push back and stand up. The table will stop exactly at my standing work position.

Walking mat for said standing desk. A coworker of mine swears by this, I'm still considering one. They even walk while watching movies on the TV :D

A proper working chair, your ass is going to be on it for 8+ hours. Don't skimp on it.

Steam Deck. Seriously. It made gaming fun again. My gaming PC hasn't been booted since September when I got the deck. I can only do one thing with it, play games. It's always suspended on exactly where I left with the game I'm currently playing through. I can use it on the couch, toilet, train, vacation or even when there is downtime at work =)
> For example, looking at some drawn art, I can pinpoint exactly what emotions the artist was trying to transmit

You can't test that ability and if you can't test it how are you so sure of it? You're guessing, you're making a narrative in your head, you cannot know if it matches reality.

You care about the author, great. Some don't give a rat's ass about the author. Are those people unable to appreciate art? If they are capable why do you insist on knowing intent being necessary for art?

> Not all people are blinded by the awesomeness of a new technology

Ah, well we are lucky that you, the one that sees, is here to tell us the TRUTH.

> Regarding legislation, I see I have struck some chords here

Yes, of course, it is violence. If you support legislation you support violence. There is no effectual legislation without violence. So if you think AI should be legislated get up and go punch some researchers yourself. Don't send others do the dirty work for you.
Or, if many-worlds is true, our entangled parallel selves!
Thanks, I will check it out better later, but it seems about runtime failures of complex systems, for instance because of stress or emergent behaviours. My goal is to find that fragility that is somewhat static, for instance: I have a bug in a complex codebase. I fix it in the best possible way. I end up with more bugs because of hidden dependencies and interconnections. This has happened to me multiple times. I need to study the problem of fragility to fixes in a way, not to other external conditions. But maybe the same reasoning as for other problematics apply
Most adults are tied to an employer unfortunately
> the peak of promises based on an abundance economy

What an odd thing to write in 1934, at the very bottom of a terrible depression. Is it an equivalent of a starving person fantasizing of a huge dinner some day?
Opening a YouTube live stream also works to keep my screen from sleeping.
Relevant xkcd: https://m.xkcd.com/1982/
Expert uses tools effectively. Beginner misuses tools to bodge the same job.

I used a fretsaw once long ago, and thread cutters. Amazing devices which look like "how hard could it be" and turn out to be incredibly easy to use badly. I completely failed at both tasks. I was shown how to use a woodlathe and like to think given 10 years could succeed.

This expert uses ChatGPT to inform decisions they make. They don't just apply the output, they reflect on it.

Several of the jobs are "make conform to a specified pattern" which a statistical model is going to be good at.

Give the same tool to a neophyte who doesn't understand how to introspect on what it produces. Bad outcome likely.
I have used the UTK brand for years.
After years of burnout and depression, I've just finished 6 months sabbatical and in retrospect, I think mental improvement started at ~4 months in. After 6 months I felt like I went back 5 years.
Great. Growing cannabis indoors in heated greenhouses in cold climates (like we do here in Canada) has always seemed inefficient in my opinion.

Compared to nearly any other psychoactive substance, cannabis is actually incredibly cheap to produce and store. In an ideal world, I could see it being grown as cheaply as possible abroad and then shipped legally north, just like other tropical thriving crops.

At this point it’s a commodity which should realistically go for $2-3/g, anything more is a largely government induced sin tax IMO.
So why didn't the researchers just ask one of the people who knows how it's made, instead of wasting all this time conducting tests and doing spectroscopy?
In some ways, we did. 0 hour contracts have been on the rise for a while [0] and these can result in drastically varied shifts. One day you could be working for seven hours, another for only four. You could be set to work from 9-5 and get sent home at 3 because you weren't needed. It probably happens more than most expect...

[0] https://www.statista.com/statistics/414896/employees-with-ze...
Its ironic that many companies with interesting work (startups mostly) will have inexperienced managers, mostly of the engineer-turned-manager kind

It's at the bigger or more dinosaur companies that you'll have a better chance of reporting to someone with some actual managerial experience
The initial version, released in 2010, was based on Apache Thrift and it predated Finagle, their building block for RPC services at Twitter. The Snowflake they're using internally is a full rewrite and heavily relies on existing infrastructure at Twitter to run.
Got any evidence for this? Because it sounds like a mad conspiracy theory.

I've been to small events in my local area where fracking has been damages water catchment areas. A professor from a nearby university came to give a talk on the damage it's going, why and how on earth would he be sponsored by Russians?

He showed us evidence, photo, statistical evidence which we could verify ourselves just by going for a short hike on the damage it was doing.

So honestly, I think you're wrong.
visual example : https://www.w3resource.com/sql-exercises/sql-retrieve-exerci...

verbal examples : discussion on various ways to reorder columns : https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1605144/how-to-change-co...
>Basically GNOME is living in and pushing a world where there's only GNOME.

No, that's false. I can't see why you'd even think that. GNOME wouldn't be using Wayland at all if that were true. GNOME uses standards where they make sense, this one optional non-standard part of Wayland just happens to not make any sense for GNOME. They don't have any issue with the rest of Wayland.
They do, and that grooming cost is indirectly covered by the lift ticket prices or the event sponsors.

But the run will still be closed for a while, because it doesn't make sense to continually groom the run leading up to and during competition or practice. Generally it's not closed to just snowboarders, but to anybody who isn't involved with the event. At least that's how they do it here in CO.
Right. Romans experimented with the formula for concrete for centuries, and learned a lot about how centuries-old concrete structures deteriorated. They didn't have modern chemistry, but they had observational skills and were serious about their work.

It would not be surprising to find that most structures weren't built to last any longer than ours, but that some were meant for the ages. An important difference today is we don't build the latter sort, excepting maybe the Sydney Opera House. Many people act personally offended that it doesn't have steel inside.
> Using ChatGPT to generate something that you can't independently verify is a terrible idea

It depends. A calculator can calculate things I'd struggle to independently verify with a pen and paper.

I think I wasn't clear enough and you might be taking what I said to it's extreme. I'm not suggesting there is zero value in knowing SQL, I'm saying the value of learning it is now much lower than when I learnt it. While it might be helpful to have a good understanding of SQL to verify a query yourself (especially where performance is a concern), in most cases this likely isn't necessary. For your average select query with a couple of joins and a where clause ChatGPT can generate that and you can verify it at least works by running it.

But maybe SQL isn't the best example. It just came to my mind because I was writing a spatial query for MariaDb recently and I couldn't get the results I wanted after a few Google searches, but ChatGPT got it right first time. It seems to me that query languages have a lot of properties which make ChatGPT very good at writing them, but there are probably other skills which ChatGPT more clearly erodes the value of.
Throw away your smartphone, go outside two hours a day and exercise for 60 minutes at a time
Is that not the same situation as with every other service out there?
> Another issue is the desire to appear dignified... tough to do on a skateboard.

You won't look like a kook though.
As a former aircraft owner, I immediately began to calculate the costs of doing on overhaul on those props. My three bladed props would need an overhaul at least every 2000 hours. There is also a time minimum as well if you don't reach the hours before the time interval. It seemed like the engines and the props would hit overhaul hours around the same time, usually hitting me with a bill well over $10,000.

I wonder what the cost will be on dual, 11-blade adjustable pitch props? It makes my eyes water and feel thankful I am not the owner/operator of such an aircraft.

Perhaps it all makes sense given the fuel consumption and speed improvements?
Most of our customers want to pay by credit card, so no.
Wages were $3300 -- or about $40.8k inflation adjusted-- in 1950.

It's about $54k now.

So, it's not 5x, but hours went about .8x and wages went about 1.32x, so we're about 1.65x better off per hour. The overwhelming quantity of the benefit from productivity went to capital, though... which perhaps in unsurprising because a lot of the benefit to productivity has come from capital expenditure.
Im willing to agree jerrymandering occurs, but there is simply no mathematical way to jerrymander 90% of voters into a minority position, only pick off a seat or two.

Imagine trying to fill 10 cups to 51% with one cup of water.
Related: https://lmax-exchange.github.io/disruptor/

I've been using the .NET port of Disruptor to good success. Once you understand the underlying pattern, you can apply it everywhere without pulling in a dependency.

You would be astonished at what will actually fit on 1 x86 thread in 2023. Instruction-level parallelism can give you unbelievable throughput, assuming your batches are reasonably-sized and everything fits neatly into the various caches.

Other related links:

https://martinfowler.com/articles/lmax.html

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qDhTjE0XmkE [Evolution of Financial Exchange Architectures]
That's how my teacher did it too. Our arms can be loosely described as multiply pin jointed levers after all.

Then we use a "mouse"!
Yeah. I was not advocating that people would rather work than spending time with kids. I asked the question simply because people in the tech circle, or at least my circles, half jokingly complain how weekends are more exhausting than weekdays for taking care of kids or how they wish they would have more time reading and writing programs for fun without being interrupted
I got gmail during beta (earlyish 2004) and couldn't register anything under 6 characters (AFAIR). Got my last name though.
I really like microORM call Dapper when using C#.You still write native sql but it's typed.
In what manner is what I am proposing unfair compensation?

The Fifth Amendment very clearly allows the seizure of private property in exchange for just compensation - which does not have to be market value.
Well, do you really think humanity as its whole acted "smart" during the pandemic?

And cherrypicking, well climate change is the current problem, affecting the whole earth, so a smart species by my definition would act globally and coordinated and not only talk about it. But sure, by comparison we still seem to be the smartest around.
Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33933892
How do you host your edgedb server? I’ve entertained it but didn’t like the idea of having to host 3 servers just to have my app, edgedb, and a database. Strictly speaking toy projects here. Db can be a managed free tier. I guess I can make edgedb run on the same server as my app but in another process.
If you want to work for a couple of years, do it!

College doesn't go away, it can wait.
>> Having local forces isn't a good answer, because one of the easier paths to rebellion is for the leader(s) those forces to declare independence and make themselves kings.

> Have assassins embedded in their chain of command, so poison or dagger is always just few metres away. And they know how short their rein as a king will be.

I don't think that would be as effective as you think it would be. Why would your assassin be any more loyal than the other garrison forces? Especially when he's ten years away from any help or evacuation.
Stripe is the only processor I’m aware of that is self-service and you can be accepting payments within minutes.

But that comes with a major downside, you don’t actually get a merchant account.

If having a merchant account is important to you, Adyen is pretty great.
> Is it any wonder that "you're dumb, building more will lower prices" hasn't been a persuasive argument to people who've seen construction push up prices around them for decades without the promised lowering of prices yet?

You're making an assertion about causality that often gets thrown out, but typically without being backed up.

Certainly construction often correlates with prices rising. However, the arrow of causation could run in either direction. It's possible that construction itself increases demand in the area enough to raise prices. However, it's also possible that increased demand (due to agglomeration effects, etc) raises prices and results in construction to meet that demand, which lowers prices in the area relative to what they would have been without the construction.

Most research I'm aware of that has attempted to determine the causality of that relationship has determined that it's the latter. For example: https://www.fanniemae.com/research-and-insights/do-new-housi...

This doesn't necessarily mean that construction will lower housing prices, but it does mean that without it prices will be even higher, because the construction is attempting to meet new demand that's already there regardless.
That's interesting. Where can I follow your work, if I may ask?
An explanation why AMDs 144MB 3D cache makes games run significantly faster
Just thinking of recent events.. what happens to such structures in a flood or heavy rainfall? Could be problematic.
Yes although it is true what the grandparent comment said about sealing - that keeping things dry, using coatings or topper materials, dewatering, etc. will all help extend the longevity and reduce maintenance requirements a bit.
Also, wheat generally has a little bit more protein than rice. Whole wheat spaghetti is my carbs of choice nowadays.
On the plus side it makes for some wicked post-apocalyptic ruins. Remove maintenance, add 20 years, and you get the most photogenic wasteland you could ask for.
I can only second that. Sounds exactly what OP is looking for.
You might consider making torrents of those reference videos. It will help other people find and use them, and provide robustness to your collection.
lol yeah, like most digital things have a lifespan, that doesn't make them worthless just like a car isn't worthless even though it's not indestructible.

I factored in the usefulness, uniqueness, and possible untimely-deathness and found the lifetime license worth it. It's nice to support stuff like this.
Adobe Scan is great but make sure to backup scanned documents. I kept storage on the app and lost a lot of documents.
I've been convicted of money laundering in an European country for far less than using a mixer, so probably yes.

I merely sold 5000 euros worth of bitcoin to a Chinese OTC exchanger. There wasn't any real legal theory behind the charges. The court and prosecutor just assumed without any evidence that 1) the money must have been from criminal source and 2) I was using the Chinese exchanger specifically to obscure the source of those funds and not because he was someone I'd been working with since before cryptocurrencies existed.

I received a suspended sentence, wasn't worth appealing to
recover the 5000 euros. Wasn't gonna get rid of the suspended sentence, there were counts I was totally guilty of.
Where do you think the Dwarf Fortress guys got all this extra hypothetical money to pay themselves in excess of receipts?
Absolutely incredible if they're right. This would rewrite the entire history of writing. Is there reason to believe this writing was widespread among paleolithic humans, or just in Europe? Is there a lineage of descent between this and our earliest known historical writing systems or did those systems arise from something else? Just the idea that writing arose not to keep track of trade and inventories would be revolutionary in the field.
I was perusing YouTube last night and found a video of city life in 1945. It looked basically like today, except the cars looked nicer, there were more public transportation vehicles milling about, and people had great hats.

I'm being a little tongue in cheek but my thought was that daily life isn't that different now vs 80 years ago. Having a good cup of coffee provides the same level of stimulation. You go to work, chat with people, make something, and go home. These days you have access to more reading material during your commute, and can die from less diseases, so I mean the present isn't bad or anything, but people were probably enjoying existence as far back as 1945 ;)
We need some food which requires some water. It isn’t obvious (to me at least) how it should be prioritized. For example I guess if we were trying to optimize water usage, we’d prefer kale to iceberg lettuce, right? And we could probably get by without a lot of herbs. And we’ll have to pick which fruit is best.

Of course this would be kind of unfortunate. We like our diverse diets. But, that’s really more for the enjoyment of flavor rather than necessity. And people also enjoy their lawns…

IMO it would be best to slowly increase water costs over time, to induce people to consider the trade offs.
haha yoink! Sorry fellow Spencer, looks like I'm king now.
> Hell, if you demolished Manhattan and everyone there moved to other cities in the US, I wonder if the average rent and/or mortgage payments of the displaced people would go down...

Is that a rhetorical question?

You've asked the wrong question. It should be whether the sum that everyone in the world spends on housing will increase or decrease, not only the displaced Manhattanites.
In a similar vein, people claim it's impossible to draw a heptagon with a straight edge and ruler.

Sure, but good luck pulling of a perfect octagon either, given the limitations of pen and paper.

And there's a perfectly good approximation that'll very quickly produce a theoretical heptagon with error margins less than the thickness of a pencil.

1/7 ~= 1/8 + 1/64 + 1/512 + 1/4096

(1/n = sum(1...infinity) of 1/((n + 1) ^ i)

(A perfect heptagon requires infinitely many steps.)
Vulkan video shenanigans – FFmpeg and RADV integration experiments
There are many, many, types of cement. Another common type of cement that people are probably familiar with is asphalt (a.k.a bitumen).
A lot of distributed systems’ clocks can’t tell you within 1 ms when an event happened, leading to assumptions that aren’t true. I don’t think we should commit to IDs being even partially ordered unless we have a set of monotonic clocks with sequence number generators, and record a timestamp, a sequence number, and which clock they came from.
Not in the places they left.
Oh interesting, yeah I was asking about the USB switcher, thanks
Do you have gas ovens or none at all? Seems crazy to imagine a giant McMansion that doesn't even have an oven in it!
Alternatively, Farms would use 100% of the water, the lake would go dry, and the population would largely accept it as a necessity to maintain their agricultural usage.
> it shouldn’t go unchallenged.

Well, you should talk to the homeless people then. I live in SF and am on first-name terms with close to 20 homeless people. All but one of them came from outside SF.

You'll often hear of "point in time" surveys which claim that 70% of homeless people lived in SF when the became homeless. But this is a self-reported survey, without any proof, and the definition of "lived" is very loose: even if you were living in a homeless shelter and got evicted, you'd be classified as having "lived in SF when you became homeless".

I read an interview of a homeless woman from Minnesota, who explicitly said: I had a choice: would I rather be homeless in Minnesota, or homeless in San Francisco; so I hopped on a bus and came to SF.

SF has a very permissive culture, and an open drug scene, so it is attractive to anybody who's homeless.
> You can hypothetically keep 120 military ships en route to the colony at all times so that a forceful response is always at most one month away.

One problem with that idea is that either the king's forces would be spread very thin or they would be massively (and expensively) oversized.
Steel gives concrete tensile strength. Unfortunately, defects in the epoxy coating become a focal point of oxidation, often pitting that single point more than otherwise uncoated steel. The result is, the pitted area fails quickly and the integrity of the entire member is compromised.
The French Revolutionary Calendar did attempt to move to 10 day weeks.
Press-dry tofu, cube, toss in a teaspoon-ish of tasteless oil (enough to make the cornstarch stick), cornstarch and spices.

Put in airfryer so that they're not clumped together. 180C for 10-ish minutes and you should have some tasty crispy cubes of goodness.

If you want to be extra fancy, you can toss them in a sticky sauce of your choosing at this point.

Serve on rice and enjoy.