skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> BTC per anything else is unchanged

I wouldn't be so sure. Demand is denand, doesn't matter if it comes from $ or USDT. Exodus from tether will reduce supply for everybody that wants to buy other crypto even if they pay in hard currency.

Of course this could be offset by reduced interest in buying crypto from everyone else because tether is folding. Only time will tell hiw it plays out.

If I were to bet I think I'd bet on cryptos falling then. But I can't be sure.
I'll take a look into it.

Last year I found ClickHouse did H3 enrichment much faster than PG or BQ so it has become a go-between for larger workloads with simple enrichment requirements.

The dataset in the post is an example anyone can download. I handle 30B+ records at work.
It's never really occurred to me before, but Matz is Mormon, right? I wonder if that informed his decisions differently than if he were heavily influenced by Buddhist or Shintoist thinking, as the larger population does. It would be fascinating to see if there is any correlation between alternative religions and approaches to software in Japan.

Feels like there is a heavy influence of Buddhist thought (mindfulness) on the silicon valley community.

Perhaps people that come from minority spiritual communities have to "think different?"
Crystal 1.7.0 Is Released
Improvements in the REPL, support for PCRE2 and more.
Generally speaking, if the current pilot has ran your plane into a mountain twice, you probably want a new pilot.
Given how little covid testing is happening, is there a chance we're undercounting ongoing covid mortality?
OpenAI’s Embedding Model with Vector Database
There’s a mention of 950 employees in TFA.
> the amazon centric couriers (ours is called intelecom) that focus on hub to home delivery.

This is complex and a slightly unfair comparison.

Amazon packages all come from a few central locations- the fulfillment centers. That network has spokes- Sort Centers and Air Hubs. But Amazon has optimized that in most cities, the item you're ordering is typically in a warehouse near you. The bigger the city, the more likely. From those few locations they can do rapid sorting and send packages to the last mile delivery stations.

UPS and FedEx have to pick up from everywhere. That gives them a "first mile" problem that Amazon doesn't have.
Could covid be the last straw to the NHS that A&E can't serve patients in a timely manner?

I have experience the 48 minutes ambulance wait second hand. A friend of mine was having heartache and called ambulance. He was told to wait for 45 minutes. His wife insisted to drive him straight to A&E instead. The moment he steps out of his car he crashed. That's was about 20 minutes after the emergency call. Had he waited longer he would be gone.

On another occasion, I had simultaneously received a letter from NHS, telling me to return for minor operation, and a phone call from doctor, telling me no further follow up needed. I can't reach the doctor through phone call so I go for the consultation anyway. Turns out the hospital did schedule an appointment for me, a different doctor did prepare to perform a biopsy on me, upon further clarification, the doctors did discharge me. I wonder how much is it due to the system being overwhelmed, how much is just normal error.
If course it will, probably faster than humans, we (both human and AI) don't create new ideas, we take existing ideas and smash them together internally to create something we think is novel..

The size of the data sets is not so different, humans take millions of examples within millions of examples over decades from birth to produce anything of substance.
Author here. Since I wrote this, Arrow seems to be be more and more pervasive. As a data engineer, the adoption of Arrow (and parquet) as a data exchange format has so much value. It's amazing how much time me and colleagues have spent on data type issues that have arisen from the wide range of data tooling (R, Pandas, Excel etc. etc.). So much so that I try to stick to parquet, using SQL where possible to easily preserve data types (pandas is a particularly bad offender for managing data types).

In doing so, I'm implicitly using Arrow - e.g. with Duckdb, AWS Athena and so on. The list of tools using Arrow is long! https://arrow.apache.org/powered_by/

Another interesting development since I wrote this is DuckDB.

DuckDB offers a compute engine with great performance against parquet files and other formats. Probably similar performance to Arrow. It's interesting they opted to write their own compute engine rather than use Arrow's - but I believe this is partly because Arrow was immature when they were starting out. I mention it because, as far as I know, there's not yet an easy SQL interface to Arrow from Python.

Nonetheless, DuckDB are still Arrow for some of its other features: https://duckdb.org/2021/12/03/duck-arrow.html

Arrow also has a SQL query engine: https://arrow.apache.org/blog/2019/02/04/datafusion-donation...

I might be wrong about this - but in my experience, it feels like there's more consensus around the Arrow format, as opposed to the compute side.

Going forward, I see parquet continuing on its path to becoming a de facto standard for storing and sharing bulk data. I'm particularly excited about new tools that allow you to process it in the browser. I've written more about this just yesterday: https://www.robinlinacre.com/parquet_api/, discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34310695.
This is one of the most egregiously bad headlines I’ve seen.
> I think we're past believing that our top .1% is bringing value that's worth billions of times more than the rest of the population.

Fortunately, we do not have to rely on our beliefs here, we have an objective measure, which we call "money".

If someone starts a company in their garage, and a decade later that company is worth few billions of dollars then that's the value this person brought to society - because people willingly paid them those billions of dollars for their product/service.

Of course the whole logic breaks down with purely speculative financial assets such as crypto.
What is Django Meinheld? They mention it in their benchmarks.
Could be, but I hesitate to say that suggests he's deeply mentally ill. It seems pretty natural that one would develop a relationship with the warden. His position is somewhat paternalistic, if you think about it. Long-time wardens may not be a thing so much any more but they used to be a trope in American mythology. Death row inmates don't tend to be as violent as gen pop in prisons; that would obviate reasons for the wardens to be severe with them.
Not my job. If they make a big deal out of it they can find a new engineer that really needs to be active on social networks.

Anything I'm active on gainfully is as a psuedoanon; it's none of their business what I do there. Separation of business and pleasure. If asked any accounts that do happen to exist do not exist.

Only real name thing I have is a LinkedIn for old coworkers to find me on / networking.
a lot of tech stocks jumped yesterday, and crypto stocks are extremely volatile.
> keep in mind that breakfast is your most important meal for the day.

Yes and eating fat make you fat too !!!

Can we stope with 1960s era food lobby rhetoric now ?
> A good lawyer is not just knowledgeable of law, but of people. He needs to get 12 people in front of him to agree with him.

While I agree with you that AI powered lawyer can have many downsides and drawbacks here you are building on a falsehood.

There is this illusions that computers are "book smart" but not "street smart". It is very deeply ingrained into our culture. Just think about Data from Star Trek. Very analytical, but struggles to understand emotions. Therefore also struggles to manipulate people's emotions, aka being emotionally persuasive.

This is a sci-fi trope, but is false as it comes to these generative models. (or can be false depending on training data) If you train the system with mock juries it can learn how to twist them around its finger. Text written by such a model can be as emotionally persuasive as one written by the best lawyer.

In fact in reality, as the tech is today, it would be easier to reliably implement the "reading reactions, and understanding what each of those 12 people needs to hear to have them act like he wants" part than the "follows flawless logic, legal technicalities to a T" part.

It is of course still a very perilous path to make an AI-powered lawyer. It is just important to not base our reasoning on sci-fi tropes
Title of last paragraph:

"No evidence of vaccine effect"
How about making them descriptively memorable:

- shifting-priorities-routing-service
- indiscrete-secrets-vault
- gdrp-user-immolator
- knock-knock-whos-this-authn
- canihaz-authz

I don't buy the "can't rename services" arguments though. It's also hard to rename variables, modules and stuff. We do it. I'll tell the PM I need to rename this function if they want to know what I'm up to. How often does a service morph so much that it needs to fundamentally change its vaguely-descriptive-name? Realistically I don't think I've even seen this happen once.
It's not very surprising. The computers are relatively basic by desktop standards and the time taken to develop a system securely means that many "obvious" things as seen from the armchair don't exist irl.

Also, like most engineers, you don't necessarily add systems for every conceivable thing that could go wrong. If you think about how many times this has happened against the millions of plane-miles travelled, you can see why it wouldn't necessarily have been high on the list.
The only reasons I can see are for exotic locales (treehouse suspended over the rainforest etc) or if you have a large family.

If you have 3-4 kids, many hotels will require that you rent a second room. That usually makes the AirBNB cheaper.
That's a protocol, not a hardware thing so no waste in the physical realm. Also, backbones are nowhere close to exhausting their capacity.

One could even argue that the change in topology to a more distributed network could actually reduce deployment/maintenance costs.

Source: Worked at an ISP for 2 years.
To a degree yes it does, since they will almost certainly have to work in a team with other people.

Being involved in crypto related things is a huge red flag that the person is most likely deeply immoral, greedy and opportunistic, which are traits that will most likely make the person hard to work with for the other team members.

I think throwing them out entirely might be a bit extreme, but stamping them with a big fat red-flag and moving them to the bottom of the pile seems totally reasonable to me.
Chiplet-based products were never competitive for idle/low load power usage and while Zen 4 improves quite a bit over Zen 2/3, monolithic CPUs will be way superior, regardless of AMD (APU) or Intel. We're seeing the first generation of chiplet-based GPUs and the same thing seems to go for them as well.
Most humans are honest enough to admit they don't know something, or at least are very bad at lying. ChatGPT is an excellent liar. It can present complete gibberish with absolute confidence.
I read a paper in 2016 that was attempting to understand if there was a human cost to Austerity.

They succeeded in finding a causal link between austerity measures and increased mortality.

At the end of the paper they estimated that 120,000+ people have died as a result. Additionally: that the the rate of excess deaths was increasing year on year.

There is an issue with highlighting this;

For starters, many people are very likely to bury their heads in the sand:

* "How do you know that it's related to Austerity" (not reading the paper)

* "They would have died anyway"

* "The world is different from the time period it is modelled from" (it corrects for this by comparing also to other roughly equivalent economies)

* "The UK is different than other advanced economies!"

The other issue is that it sounds so insane and conspiratorial.

120,000 is a large number. It's approximately the size of Stratford upon Avon.

A follow up study puts the number now closer to 330,000, around the population of Coventry.

Somehow people will blame the NHS for not being efficient, though evidence to the contrary exists throughout its history, often being one of the most cost effective healthcare systems in operation; or that COVID is a contributing cause to these figures.

People are unwilling to hear this: This was a problem well before the pandemic.

Source (2017): https://bmjopen.bmj.com/content/7/11/e017722

Source (2022): https://www.gla.ac.uk/news/headline_885099_en.html
Are you suggesting that Canada should renege on its defense spending obligations as a member of NATO, and simply benefit from NATO’s security umbrella as a freeloader? Or are you suggesting that Canada should drop out of NATO? I can’t really tell from your comment.
Lol, some of the most skeptical people about crypto work in the space.

The comp and bennies tend to be extremely good, and the technical challenges are fascinating enough to make the work engaging.
And yet, there are many times over more people using exchanges than holding their own wallets. I don't really care about crypto-in-principle, when crypto-in-practice is anything but safe.
> anything left on the earlier plates would be dry as cement by then.

Water makes it soft again in a minute. Postponing dishwashing is not worse than doing it right after eating.
So do humans.
Sure, but then again I wouldn't work for a company whose CEO thinks "irl_chad" is a cool name, and talks about being seen in Kyiv in "designer and an iced out Rolex"
Thomas Edison interviewed candidates for research assistant positions, he offered them a bowl of soup. Why? He wanted to see whether they would add salt or pepper to the soup before they tasted it.

Those who did were automatically ruled out. Edison wanted people who didn't make assumptions, since assumptions tend to be innovation killers.
Regarding hunger, it only takes a week or two of changing your eating pattern to have your brain realize that your old mealtime is no longer mealtime. After that you won't get a spike in hunger from "skipping" what used to be your mealtime, because it isn't any more. But if you are happy then don't change anything (or maybe eat more total?), unless you just want to experiment.
> I've made the difficult decision to reduce our operating expense(1) by about 25% Q/Q, which includes letting go of about 950 people

read that again

you're not an individual to corporations, just an expendable

can only imagine the joy shareholders get out of "cutting expenses", they get richer and you peasants lose jobs
I see, but like i said any performance focused Python framework are native (C/C++), so i will never be able to compare any Python framework with Golang framework ever.
Indie Web Stack of the Future
There is a definite case for distributed ledgers/databases and decentralization. It works. Its mass use case may not have been found yet, but that does not mean that it wont be found.

Dismissing crypto/blockchain is like dismissing user-generated content that lived in the forums on the fringes of the internet or in the comment sections of blogs. They were looked down and despised by the established mentality 20 years ago. In 10 years, user-generated content became the king.

...

Just like how others said - your behavior does not say 'big boy company'.
Not in any way associated with Fyrox or Bevy, but tried both and read their docs. So, I could answer some of these:

> Would love to hear from others who develop games on how they feel about writing one purely in Rust.

I've only made a few toys/concepts in Bevy and loved it, but there's been a few (two, I think?) Bevy jams with games hosted on itch.io (you can play most of them in the Browser thanks to WASM). I think the consensus in general is that people love the experience, even though it's fairly more lower level than any of the popular alternatives.

> Maybe Rust game engines need to expose their API using a scripting language rather than Rust.

I think this is the plan eventually, just not a priority, since more fundamentals need to be taken care of. Bevy already added some foundational work for scripting, but Bevy has a BYO Scripting Language plugin philosophy. So, you won't be locked into a scripting language of choice when using Bevy
I only use prepaid cards on rare occasion when I encounter a bar or a parking meter that does not take cash. Regardless my name is not associated with any of those transactions.

In general cash raises the least eyebrows and is reasonably anonymous.
Intellectually weak stuff. The vaccines were far safer than the alternative (remaining unvaxxed), especially at a societal level, but like all medicines they carried adverse effect risks. If you want zero risk in your life - rather than tolerable risk for wider benefits - I wish you luck. Even eating food (which sometimes causes food poisoning!) must be causing you mental anguish.
"Data indicates pandemic effects on health and NHS pressures are among the leading explanations."

Relevant charts from the BBC and FT (Financial Times) reveal the pressure on the UK's health service:

- Annual changes in health spending in the UK (BBC): https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/16A6D/production...

- Deep lasting cuts to UK health spending (FT): https://twitter.com/jburnmurdoch/status/1606223936848629760/...

- Waiting hospital lists (FT): https://twitter.com/jburnmurdoch/status/1606223967903260673/...

This twitter thread from FT journalist John Burn-Mordoch is an damning and eye-opening look at NHS statistics (Dec 2022):

https://twitter.com/jburnmurdoch/status/1606223922474627073
Nowhere does this article suggest it is linked to vaccines. In fact there is a subsection in the article titled:

> No evidence of vaccine effect

The increase in excess deaths is a symptom of healthcare system that is being increasingly starved of resources and which is having to make up for cutbacks across various parts of local and national government.

It's about austerity, not covid vaccinations - let's not bring misinformation and conspiracy theories into this.

edit: would the downvoters care to explain?
I remember for a while they were trying to make Robert Piche into a scapegoat. What I see here is:

1) Design error. Ok I am a total nobody in this area but still fuel leak detection not being included seems like a major design fault. I mean something that measures difference between whatever fuel injectors deliver into the engine and whatever leaves the tank is quite possible I think.

2) How many times have we read when a fucking management pushed for event happen / to be on time no matter what and the following disaster. Challenger, Columbia etc. etc.

3) Service procedures, manuals etc. I guess those are combinations of (1) and (2)

4) Errors by service and flight crews. I can imagine that the person who bent the line had enough reason to raise concern. The rest can't really be blamed.

As for Robert Piche - he is a hero in my book
this line of thinking is insane.
I completely understand wanting to be independent, but hostility toward elder's care is just bizarre. a child doesn't just evolve to be a responsible adult on their 18th birthday like a pokemon, especially now that distractions are so easy to access. how many 'adults' have you seen make bad decisions (often ignoring their parents' advice) and later come crawling back to mom's basement? personally, I've seen too many, and the parents aren't gonna shut the door to their face
Coinbase is a weird company, because it's got such an obvious comparable: CME Group. CME Group has about 3500 employees, did 1.2bn in revenue last quarter with 680m net income. Then you have coinbase now trimmming to about the same number 3500, 590m revenue and a net income loss of 550m. That's right, as far as I can see, Coinbase loses $1 for every $1 of revenue.

Firstly, I don't see how Coinbase needs as many people as CME. They're meant to be a disruptive start up they should be lean. Secondly, how the hell do they get those unit economics to work? It should be a trivial job, right. People pay you to trade, so how are they losing so much money!? Well, I guess hiring 4,500 people... I think the idea at this point that Coinbase can get their cost structure down to reasonable numbers making them profitable at lower revenue levels is challenging. It's very hard to put that genie back in the bottle.
wrong:

expenses are on income statements

carry on
You’re getting pushback, but this resonated with me.

So, so, so much of the crypto “industry” is just running scams of various sophistication. Having years of your life dedicated to that industry is signaling something!
Why even use -A? Isn't -J enough?
> type of Covid vaccine has been linked to a small rise in cases of heart inflammation and scarring (pericarditis and myocarditis). But this particular vaccine side-effect was mainly seen in boys and young men, while the excess deaths are highest in older men - aged 50 or more.

Alternative explanation. You only see the heart inflammation in young men because its unusual. In older people you already have it because of age so extra inflammation could go undetected.
I don't care about crypto but I could see myself working at Coinbase because I'm interested in how market making works?
You have a choice if you have a choice. Choice is a luxury.
Coinbase has 4700 employees!?!

Like a team of 5 software engineers, and a customer support team of 10, and 1 boss ought to cover it...
pydandic-core [0] will hopefully solve this issue (written in Rust)

[0] -- https://github.com/pydantic/pydantic-core
Have not found anything definitive, but I think it was fixed starting with Zen 3.

https://wccftech.com/amd-and-intel-cpus-remain-vulnerable-to...

https://www.amd.com/en/corporate/product-security

https://meltdownattack.com/

Likely need to dig into PDFs to get answers.
He could forgoe 75% of his compensation though, and I doubt he will, because not actually accountable.
> seeing crypto on a resume means the engineer is a true believer in viability of crypto,

So if I previously worked on windows apps it means I believe that Microsoft is a fantastic company and Windows is the future of computing? :)
I don't see any difference between ants and humans within the context of eating. Even preparing food is similar.

And i don't see any difference in human and AI within the context of creating art.

If you are trying to conflate those things, you need to do a better job.
Modern generic-ass naming schemes are absolutely infuriating. I hear someone say "oh yeah, it's been easier since we moved our Bluē processes into Laundr containers which we manage through a mix of Bicycle and Parakeet" and my lungs are not big enough for the sigh I want to emit.
By adding noise to the world, perhaps we can all recalibrate our noise floor, so to speak, and lose some of the human-generated nonsense along with ChatGPTs? My hope is that these tools will end content farms and thus (eventually) improve my Google search experience. As the cost of creating low-effort SEO filler tends to zero, Google will have to radically rethink the way they rank sites.

Though maybe I’m too optimistic; they should have done this a long time ago. I’m tired of searching for, for eg. “boiling point of X” and I get a poorly written 1500 word article —- clearly aimed at robots and not humans —- instead of my desired answer.
It’s indicative of a very inexperienced staff or one that is desperate for interviewers, presumably because they are binge hiring. There are places that go out of their way to get very junior people interviewing early on purpose but in those cases there is usually someone more senior also involved.

For most places though it means they were throwing whoever they could find at the interviews.