skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> but then you could say that about any volatile investment

Or even about modern fiat currencies. Just look at the Turkish Lira (~343% vs EUR / 5y), Argentinian Peso (~758% vs EUR / 5y) or a dozen other currencies that lost insane amounts of value over the last years [1], mostly because of political misgovernance and resulting economic devastation.

[1] https://www.goldseiten.de/kurse/devisen-topflop.php
Andy Grove on the dynamic dialectic or Why your pet project got killed
I really hope they're just getting to the "embrace" part, and not planning on reaching "extinguish"
Your intuition is on point. It is very much alive in India.
In the past I've also wondered if it wouldn't be too destructive to mine asteroids, but it makes no sense to worry about that while we continue to destroy our planet. This is the only place we can live, with vibrant, complex, diverse ecosystems, and we're causing a massive extinction event here, while making this one habitable planet less habitable for ourselves.

Meanwhile asteroids are completely uninhabited and dead, and there's millions of them. They have all the same minerals the Earth has, and often much closer to the surface. We could even just mine a few and easily replace all the destructive mining on Earth.
The rest of this thread reads like plenty of posters had no trouble figuring out what was intended by the question.
Bogs bones and bodies: the deposition of human remains in bogs (9000 BC–AD 1900)
Probability and Number Theory Collide – In a Moment
this policy seems to be a publicity stunt. most startups will have loopholes to bypass such policies in the name of critical work.
It may be that our definition of life is then too narrow if it requires that life be made of chemical processes.
We have a Rails monolith with a couple internal Sinatra services if that counts.
To be honest, I love working with Sinatra and Sequel (when using an ORM) vs. working with Rails and ActiveRecord. We provide public apis via. Grape, but that's mounted as an engine inside our monolith vs. deploying our own Grape application on Rack just for operational simplicity.
As a fellow owner of a slate roof I recently came across panels made to look like blocks of slate tile[0]. They look to be a bit less efficient than a traditional panel and I've not looked into the costs yet but it's nice to have the option! I imagine there would be similar products in your neck of the woods.

[0] https://www.gb-sol.co.uk/files/PV%20Slate%20brochure%20v2_3....
Orthogonal Instruction Set
I have been using lynx for almost 3 decades. It is still my primary browser. All of my bookmarks are stored in lynx. When necessary, I can spawn my defined x-www-browser from inside lynx, as when typing this comment. The two together are quite functional...
How can locking someone out for 10 days reveal fraud? I don't have any financial institution background, and that doesn't make any sense to me.
In addition to privacy, performance, and portability, also:

* Servers in a datacenter are much more reliable than a network of PCs (power goes off, someone decides to play Crysis, etc)

* People will find ways to scam you (pretend like they’re doing the calculation while not actually doing it)

* Economies of scale means a datacenter will probably be cheaper than what you’d have to pay the PC owners (power consumption, network, wear, etc)

* The PC owners will have to trust this arbitrary code that they’re running (can you assure that there’s never a jailbreak resulting in a huge botnet?)

I’ve pitched this idea more than a decade ago and quickly realized it has many issues.
Here? https://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=44941

In Indoeuropean it's only present in the Germanic and Celtic branches (Protogermanic: marhaz, Protoceltic: markos), but in the Far East, as well as Chinese 馬 (mǎ) there's Mongolian морь, Korean 말 (mal), and Japanese うま (uma).

I can't find any Finno-Ugric or Turkic cognates, so it looks like there are two separate clusters.
> fed, treasury, etc all claimed the inflation was “transitory”

That is precisely what "Core measure rose 0.3% in December" means. The period of high inflation is (apparently) over. The price increases that inflation generated will tend to stick around.
Exactly this - most people here aren't in any way anti-tech, they've just read enough bleak sci-fi novels to know an approaching dystopian hellscape when they see one.
I created a subReddit for this in case enough people want to actually try to make this happen.

https://www.reddit.com/r/AiCrowdFund/
Interesting. At what point do we conclude we have systemic issues with our agriculture?
Been writing code for almost 20 years and never found the get/set paradigm useful. I’m fact it’s introduced a lot of incidental complexity when I tried it. Objects and functions to transform objects immutably to the extent possible are much better imo. I don’t use Classes anymore unless they’re static.
In my opinion, yes if and only if the update does not use a stateful optimiser, and the computation is easy / simple enough that the updated parameter value can be computed immediately.

In linear layers, it is possible. Once you have computed the gradient of the output of the vector ith vector, so a scalar, you scale the input by that value and add it to the parameters.

This is a simple FMA op: a=fma(eta*z, x, a), with z the gradient of the vector, x the input, a the parameters, and eta the learning rate. This computes a = a + eta*z*x in place.
If they become involved in mastodon it's going to be riddled with banners and impossible to browse without logging in. Can't wait.
I think the concern is scalability. A very high performance per watt is a signal that it the processor design will be difficult to scale practically.

Beyond that, at scale, is it good to have high-consumption computers all over the world before we have widespread renewable energy? Probably not ideal.
Do you mean the media remote is poor or do you mean the controller? https://www.playstation.com/en-us/accessories/media-remote/
Well, you see, there are two types of inflation, monetary and price.

Monetary inflation is when you increase the money supply through the printing press or digging up new gold or whatever. The converse for monetary deflation.

Price inflation != monetary inflation though “they” want you to believe it is.
Hey, I am the maintainer of sql.js. I was in contact with them, and I do not think they are working on a npm module, but I offered them to work on the existing "official" sql.js module.
I just want to echo the recommendation for Alice in Borderland. If you liked Squid Game, this is just as good in its own way (I think I actually liked it better and find it a bit more rewatchable, even though I think Squid Game has a bit more visual style to it).

Season 2 just dropped as well so it's a good time to get into it. The full manga was told in those 2 seasons as well, apparently (haven't read it yet, just based on reading discussions on the show), so unlike a lot of Netflix shows, it tells a full story if it doesn't get renewed for another season.

I haven't seen any of the others you recommended yet, although Train to Busan was on my radar already.
The contracting company receives usually 2-3x what the actual developer makes- so if the gov't pays $300K for a developer, they get a $100K developer. Some of that overhead is justified, but a lot of it is the company's profit.

The old answer used to be for the government to hire directly, but that's been hamstrung for like 40 years by now.
Or an alternative read of the result today: A simple implementation of filesystem access, on top of which any number of database (SQL or not) can be implemented, thus allowing for more innovation in the database space.
The difference is that self-documenting code is bad. Code isn't documentation for humans. Documentation is documentation for humans.

One comment right above this that gives a direct example of what x "is", is easier to understand. And then the structure of this line is also easier to understand more quickly than the second example.

Is this bad?

// A tuple defining an item with a status. (item-name (status-key status-value))
val x: Pair<String, Pair<String, String>>

But even knowing what x "is" either with documentation or with verbose "self-documenting code" it still doesn't answer your question of "how this code should be used in the context of the application"

Do we save x somewhere? Do we fetch something from somewhere else based on status-key? None of this is known. You get that from description, you get that from surrounding context. Except if we write all of our code like the second example then when we start reading the surrounding context it's going to be more painful.

We're hiding the structure with extra verbosity in the pursuit of not having to write documentation or use the best tool we have for communicating with other humans... natural language.
One thing I'd find very interesting is if you report somewhere any apps that send telemetry even though the telemetry option is disabled. As you say, little snitch can't completely help with this since we're still often forced to let the app verify it's registration information.

I wonder how many bad actors there are or if the vast majority of apps are trustworthy.
You always need a backup heat source in cold climates. Even if you have typical heating like baseboards of central gas furnace, they can and do fail and for that reason you need backup. Heat pumps are no different, but their efficiency drop off isn't a "failure", it's just a limitation. Being a predictable limitation you can plan for it, and be sure your backup source does not rely on electricity because that always goes out in a storm.
IMO my 2yo can't really distinguish between new and used. Saves serious cash.
Actually, we _do_ see this in Europe too. They don't have castes in Europe, by that name, but they did have the feudal system, with a clear division between commoners and aristocrats. One big difference was that it was possible for a commoner to be given a title and hence promoted, so there was some fresh blood coming in, but you still saw things like the serious genetic diseases of the Habsburgs.
Ways humanists are using computers to understand text
I think the point here is caste is something different than the other categories. Caste doesn't discriminate gender, religon etc. In the indian caste system you can be a woman, a Christian, etc and still not escape it. It is a layer on top of all the other forms of discrimination and traditionally passed through generations.

Most of the people I know that came from India to America, when I have asked, have told me that they forgot about caste within a few years of living in the US. Everyone's
lived experience is different though and I can imagine these traditions die harder in pockets of the US where South Asian communities live.
True, but price fluctuations are still "individual" things, when we consider the cost. The CPI is at best a very vague/inaccurate number for personal financial planning. Looking at one's bills are far more useful.
Like also the Celsius and Fahrenheit degrees, all such traditional units can be useful, but only as long as their use does not involve computations more complex than comparisons, subtractions and additions.
No political party in India wants to abolish reservation policies. Beneficiaries, along with political parties, make a big deal, if the reservation system is abolished. The whole government bureaucracy is corrupt to the core, where incompetence is prized. One contribution to this incompetence is the reservation system.
There are a number of entities working on this problem. Plenty of papers in Arvix on it as well.
But that’s also the problem. When you need the vacation the most because your work performance is suffering and you’re stressed out because of it, you’re least likely to take the vacation due to social pressure.

“Unlimited vacation” is a bad deal because of that. I basically burned out at my first job and didn’t take vacation once because I always felt behind on a team of three devs that never was caught up.

I can see unlimited vacation working in less dysfunctional jobs though, but everything works better in those. The more dysfunctional a job is, the more you need to be able to reach for the vacation lever.
Discussion from last month on the related article:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34057699
Today I learned Neocities uses Sinatra, thanks for sharing your point of view and for the work you're doing on Neocities!
See here: https://sqlite.org/wasm/doc/trunk/persistence.md#vfs-locking

It's mostly works with OPFS but with a few edge cases. They are working with the browser vendors on improving this in OPFS.

Alternatively run it in a SharedWorker (https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/SharedWorke...), which seems to have made a comeback after being dropped for security concerns. Or do some sort of leader election with browser tabs and use a BroadcastChannel.
Erlang qua Erlang doesn't have any transactions, either, so Erlang qua Erlang can't fail that way.

In general, whatever it was the crashing process was doing can still have failed. This obviously doesn't magically fix database transactions, or make it so files are never half written because it crashed in the meantime, or any other "external" action that you can still have failed to protect properly from crashes. It only means that the runtime can't get stuck due to locks failing to be released.

But hey, that's something!
Looks like this might be the thread - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9039798. Harvard and MIT sued, the Gaga example is mentioned.

As an aside, I did not realize so many universities have been impacted. What a sad state of affairs.
Akash is more about k8s, paid for by tokens.
> Intel recently demoed the chip hitting 6 GHz on two cores with standard off-the-shelf Corsair AIO water cooling

So only 2 cores. They forgot to say for how many microseconds can the chip sustain this speed.

And 400 A ? Per nanosecond or what ?
Thank god it will mainly wait for I/O and has enough time to cool itself. /s
I can't effectively read a screen. When I was in grad school, I got a laser printer and printed out nearly a ream of paper a week.
If language A is a subset of language B it doesn't follow that parsing B is strictly harder.

This is not guaranteed. Consider two languages:

1. Some number of "a" followed by the same number of "b". For example, aaabbb but not aabbb.

2. Any number of "a" followed by any number of "b". For example, aabbb but not aba.

In this case (1) is a subset of (2), but parsing (2) is easier than parsing (1) since in (1) you have to verify that the numbers match (which, in technical terms, means its not regular).
Bummer seems HN has hugged the script link to death. The script is easily found if you search for it.
For me it seems to almost exactly fit my model of how things ought to work, and of course the diagnostics are so much better than most languages.

We saw the other day where C and C++ just let you write what seems reasonable but then they do something insane, D says no, that's a syntax error, but Rust's diagnostic gives a name to what you intended, says you can't do that, and suggests how to write it instead.

if (a < b < c)

C and C++ think that's doing a comparison, coercing the boolean result to whatever type to compare it with the remaining variable, and then acting on the new boolean result. D says that's a syntax error because there should be a closing parenthesis after the variable "b". Rust says "comparison operators cannot be chained" and suggests a < b && b < c

Edited to add:

Swift says: adjacent operators are in non-associative precedence group 'ComparisonPrecedence' -- which is definitely better than D, but it doesn't offer the helpful suggestion.
Price and dependency on a single entity.
I clearly use too many emojis if removing renders my text structure to that mess. The only thing I want to fix is the missing word doing from *as not DOING a fucking thing. Just sit down. Stop. Don't make payments - when they threaten your credit say, "fantastic, I'm done buying things" - when they mention morals and ethics, say your doing for this the planet and our survival as a species. Seriously. This is what I say to student loan collectors and I've had my loans returned to the university the very next day in one instance (typically over a year)
Er, they are aware that the inch, foot etc were not invented in the US right?
The FAA's website has the updated nomenclature:

https://www.faa.gov/about/initiatives/notam/what_is_a_notam
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9039798

Is about Harvard and MIT being sued in 2015.
Sam Bankman-Fried denies stealing user funds and claims FTX solvency in new post
A single lawsuit isn't proof — that would come out as the case is evaluated — but they're being brought on a regular basis it suggests that there is some kind of problem.

I appreciate that this is a subject you care deeply about but I think you might need to start looking for some supporting evidence for your claims. There are a number of people who say discrimination is a problem and it seems unlikely that they're all making it up.
How many variants is that? I have 331 variants which is more than 99% of other customers but less than 2% of my DNA.
After owning an i9 for a while... I care about power usage because all the power gets turned into heat. i9s like to run HOT, even under fairly mild loads.
Is this conjecture or based on documented shortcomings of their approach though? Much of this paperwork, especially if created in response to NTSB crash post-mortems, could very well be examples of https://fs.blog/chestertons-fence/ - is there reason to believe otherwise?
Puts my little monthly newsletter to shame - https://makernews.substack.com/
I hope so. News and governmental organizations should consider it, as it pretty effectively solves the "verification" issues.
This is spot on. Some mini split heat pumps effectively become base board heaters with a fan when their efficiency falls off. You'll be uncomfortable, but you won't freeze to death.
> It uses this figure, but the figure itself is already accounted for in what you were trying to model, that is what double counting is.

No, let’s use some numbers to derive the average power per day from natural gas:

“In 2020, total electricity production stood at 312 TWh (down from a peak of 385 TWh in 2005), generated from the following sources:[45]

Gas: 35.7% (0.05% in 1990), Nuclear: 16.1% (19% in 1990 …”https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_in_the_United_Kingdom

So in 2020 the UK produced 312 TWh * 35.7% = 111.384 TWh (Natural gas) / 365 = 305 GWh per day from Natural Gas.

Ignoring domestic production when the war started they where going to need to make up ~7% of that or 21 GWh per day or ~7.7 TWh across the entire year from missing Russian natural gas supply.
Yeah, that's why I don't think we should use individual cases when discussing CPI, as shown by many comments here. Instead let's focus on macroeconomic discussion.
What I learned over time is that the business side is more important than the technical side. We are making these things to better peoples lives after all.

And business requires things to be sustainable. Profit and costs are ever present things we must all be thinking of. There is definitely a tradeoff between business and user experience many times. And the business requires code be maintainable by average developers.

One argument I found effective for the kinds of people that you are talking about is to get past the “academic” correctness of the argument and move it towards the business side. They are technically correct, after all. But they may not correct be from a business perspective.

It is important to frame it in a way that spares their egos. Most (but not all) very smart people know they are smart and it is a large part of their identity. If you challenge that in any way, they will push back aggressively.

How I have learned to frame it is that, from a business perspective, we must make the software both performative AND maintainable. And by maintainable I mean, maintainable by the average human, which they clearly are not. They are smarter than most, but for the business to live beyond them, they need to write the software in a way that an “average” person can maintain it. It can become a new challenge. How to squeak out the best performance while also writing it in a way that someone dumber than them can understand and maintain it. Another way to put it is, there are quite a few brilliant people that can write brilliant code, but only the best of the best can write brilliant code that is also understandable by normal people.

Good luck!
power = heat = noise.

I don't like noise.
> But that team had kind of an "unfair" advantage in that were able to program in assembly code on bare metal with no real software stack

The Space Shuttle’s avionics software was not written in assembly, rather HAL/S, a high-level language invented for the project. Assembly was mainly used for the custom real-time OS kernel. They also maintained their HAL/S toolchain, which was written in XPL-a PL/I dialect which was popular for compiler development in the 1970s. The development environment ran on IBM mainframes, and the main CPUs on the Shuttles were the aerospace derivatives of the IBM S/360 mainframe architecture, System/4pi, model AP-101. The same CPUs were used by USAF (e.g. the B-1 bomber), but USAF mainly used JOVIAL to program theirs. Another big user of JOVIAL was the FAA, who used it to write a lot of their original mainframe-based air traffic control software (FAA HOST).

The Space Shuttle team inventing their own programming language was a byproduct of the time the project started (1970s). If they’d started a decade later, they probably would have used Ada instead. But Ada didn’t exist yet, and they thought inventing their own language was a better choice than JOVIAL
Classified files found at Biden's Delaware home
I'd trade all the Friends and Seinfeld in the world for more stuff like Breaking Bad, the first 4 seasons of Game of Thrones, etc. I have no interest in generic settings with laugh track based cheesy one liners, and that was the bulk of early 90s television.
Those are beautiful; thanks for the reference! At the price of labor in New England, I kind of doubt those will have an economic payback either, but I'll do a little more poking around.
It certainly depends on the industrial process as a whole. But it's worth pointing out that nobody ever had a complaint about gold, silver, platinum or diamond mining, nor about the unimaginable volumes of ore processed to acquire iron and copper. But somehow these days everyone likes to think that they know that rare earth metals are "the devil".
> The real struggle is the government - fed, treasury, etc all claimed the inflation was “transitory”. A lot of people have been caught off guard. Aka people expected a deflation.

The prediction that inflation spike was transitory (which was universally abandoned anyway) was not a prediction of a rapid return to past prices, but of a rapid return without significant policy intervention to normal rates of inflation.

> At least locally, it’s higher based on my tracking.

Local inflation tends to differ from the national average one way or the other, and I doubt your tracking is anywhere close tonas comprehensive and systematic as any of the major federal government inflation measures.

OTOH, the PCE—which is what the Fed uses to guide police decisions—during the spike has jumped higher than the CPI and came down slower, so “the CPI has understated recent inflation” is part of the premise of recent monetary policy.
Hey, but isn't part of the fun going on the young-university line and having the exciting supprise that you have to take buses to the next station due to maitnance?

:)
The Lightning Network may be used for invoices, identity and payment of use of model. It can also likely be used to handle prompts. Regarding privacy, not all things need to be private and if they do they should be run on a single tenant infrastructure. OpenAI is a multi-tenant cloud model, so guarantee of privacy there may be protected only by license and use agreement.