skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> if you prompt it with enough specificity you might be able to just recreate the image you had

At some point the input must be considered part of the work. At the limit you could just describe every pixel, but that certainly wouldn’t mean the model contained the work.
Customers got an email from Circle immediately after they were able to "resolve" the issue. The full post-mortem was released recently. We got the email on Jan 4 or Jan 5.
This

> The money tracks the value in the economy,

Does not imply this

> so the inflation is zero.

I do agree that the assertion holds true in most cases, but it break down during extreme environments - widespread bank collapses or when the productive ability of the economy is sharply reduced. Loans that cannot be repaid break the equation at some point.

As for government spending, it greatly depends on what it does with the money, and also on taxation. The government promises to pay back money based on future taxation, and if the taxation grow faster than the debt then there won't be any inflation.
> It's doubtful invoking Sweden will be persuasive to those who firmly believe they had worse outcomes during the pandemic due to their policies.

Apparently countries that enacted far more draconian policies than Sweden actually fared worse in incidence of COVID-19 deaths per 100,000 population[0], like Italy (307.07), Austria (239.5), France (241.38), and Spain (246.46) (vs. 206.86 for Sweden).

[0] https://www.statista.com/statistics/1111779/coronavirus-deat...
For us non-americans: is that a lot?
I asked ChatGPT to summarize how to remove chatgpt from the comments of every single technical story on hacker news.

Didn't give me an answer.
A: You have 2 buckets.

It's reasonably good with that type of question.
If someone said something similar about married women, would that be misoandrist?
https://web.archive.org/web/20150803225629/http://robrhineha...
This is not unlike integrated automatically GC'd and non-GC'd code.

The gap can be bridged for granular reactive systems as it can be for React, provided the reactive system is well designed.
I think the answer would be "what birds do is quiet and efficeent, we should do that!"

But really it's probably just like robotic hands - we just don't have small powerful/precise robotic muscles and we won't do a good job. So I think we're not going to completely emulate a bird soon.
It failed at around day 3 in advent of code, and could only pass those as they likely had seen the exact solutions to the same, but differently asked questions.

It really can’t do any novel thought though, which is necessary for mathematics. Language models are fundamentally limited here (even a 3 years old can easily follow some easy rules “ad infinitum”, like counting. Language models have a limited window for inference)
I never get memory usage errors in my C++ code. Many others, likewise.

It is probably true that Google staff, with their existing education and background, cannot achieve this, but other organizations do.

There is of course no possibility of Google recoding all of Chromium in modern C++ or Rust, so they will live with the bugs they have already coded. A new browser, such as Ladybird, could avoid Google's failings.
The article says that multiple wheels can be stacked in the same installation, to increase capacity.
Thankfully that effect has been temporary. Yes I remember 5 htp. I used to take it
It explicitly said in the wikipedia article "The following weekend, Trump ordered flags to be flown at half-staff at all federal buildings, grounds, and vessels for three days".
Biden didn't assume office until the 20th.
That's comforting. In the year 2505, ChatGPT will be way smarter than any human.
What did the horses eat?
Securing your supply chain should be one of the first steps to trying to secure your company.
Is the number from direct killings or just like, you turn up with a big army and raid food stores or interrupt agriculture in some way and then people starve because most are just scraping by as-is?
> but also presents as a true filesystem.

As does:

https://github.com/guardianproject/libsqlfs

https://github.com/narumatt/sqlitefs

(I know nothing about these, just got them from a quick search)
Azure Pipelines + GitHub Actions
Ahh, I see what you mean now. Per-household residential electricity consumption, vs per-household total electricity consumption. Correct, I've been using the latter.

I can see arguments for both numbers, depending on your goal. Total electricity gives you a "household size slice" of the total economy, which may be more relevant. On the other hand, conceptually the residential number gives you the actual consumption of an actual average single-family house (with the hitch that they're mixed in with 'units' in multi-unit dwellings).
I think the who question is not so much about determining exactly who might attack you.

Its about thinking what types of threat actor you might be exposed to. They all have different motivations and capabilities and resources. This can help you determine if it's worth trying to mitigate certain kinds of attack path, and how likely it is you may be exposed to them.

You can do threat modelling without considering threat actors and just focus on attack paths and asset values to prioritise or rule out any mitigations as well.

At the end of the day, there is no one true way to do threat modelling. Everyone has a slightly different approach. I'd say do what works for you, but be open to other approaches.
One very troublesome aspect of that stats is that changes to sense of smell are tracked as long COVID.

It quite invalidates the figures
As others have pointed out, that benchmark is from 2017. However, the "SQLite: Past, Present, and Future" paper[0] has an updated version of this benchmark (see section 4.3 Blob manipulation), and also compares it with DuckDB.

Edit:

Another thing that is sometimes forgotten when comparing SQLite to the filesystem is that files are hard[1]. It's not only about performance, but also about all the guarantees that you get "for free", and all the complexity you can remove from your codebase if you need ACID interactions with your files.

[0]: https://www.vldb.org/pvldb/vol15/p3535-gaffney.pdf

[1]: https://danluu.com/file-consistency/
My brother bought a flapping drone/remote controlled bird for my son's birthday many years ago. AirHogs Firewing it was called. I had no idea such things existed. I think they weren't a great success.

Not a precision instrument by any means - it had a bias to fly to one side, and the box included weighted stickers to address this issue. And also, it's a miracle that we didn't break it. But the technology to do this as a toy has clearly been around for a while.
GDPR requires a full disclosure of which data and users are affected and when it happened, which I think is fair for the average user.
Have you read any of it?
>You can't rip something and compress it badly enough to not violate copyright when you sell it.

While I doubt that specific case has been tested in court, arguably you could. If you created glitch art (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glitch_art) via compression artifacts, and your work was sufficiently distinct from the original work, I think you would have a reasonable case for transformative use (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transformative_use).
It also seems that some “do one thing well” tools want to implement their logic using files. For example: each entry in a password database is a file (pass(1)).

Whatever overhead of such small files might not matter though if the problem space is kept “human sized” (whatever one human can be bothered to manage).

I used to have tens of thousands of file in git annex. I had to tarball (chunk) some of the things that I never really use in order to speed up `git annex fsck`.
The results appear promising, but to validate its value they will want to get it to work on other related mammals. From a commercial and ethical perspective, I suspect that there will be customers who would want to their aging pet's life with 50% probability, even if it carries a 50% chance of immediate death.
> This is a low-quality comment section.

This happens frequently on weekends.

There's even patterns to it. I've learned to avoid posting to (or even reading) comment sections touching certain topics, and to postpone submissions of certain stories until Monday, when the quality of discussion gets back to normal.
That money is much much less than an otherwise following monopoly lawsuit would cost them. It is more like a symbiotic relationship on this account.
Is it adequate to use this method for heating?
gravity (notably pumped hydro) is cheap for even more capacity but has limited opportunities, and it’s not nearly as fast to trigger as the other, so it’s better used to store capacity over one week. Evaporation is a problem, but cheaply fixable.

I wonder whatever happened to the earth piston idea I saw floated a bunch of years ago. It involved cutting a cylindrical piston in the earth and drilling beneath it at an angle. You then pump water down into the space beneath the piston, causing it to lift. To extract the stored energy you simply let the pressure provided by the piston force the water back out through a turbine.

The main trick to getting it all to work is with the surfaces. You want the piston to be able to slide up and down smoothly without water infiltrating the earth or going around the side of the bore, so the whole thing needs to be sealed and smooth like an engine cylinder. The other trick is for your pumps, valves, and turbines to be able to operate reliably with huge water pressures.

I haven’t heard about the idea in years so I have no idea how it went, though I would guess it didn’t pan out for some reason.
> According to secret documents [...] released by The Guardian, "the Casio F-91W digital watch was declared to be 'the sign of al-Qaeda' and a contributing factor to continued detention of prisoners by the analysts stationed at Guantanamo Bay

Where does homeland security find these security analysts? UFO conspiracy conventions? Guilde of unemployed fortune tellers?
Then they should get a different job.
There is a strong, well-understood connection between deep-latent variable models (e.g. VAEs, diffusion models), and compression.

Many state-of-the-art compression algorithms are in fact based on generative models. But the thing is, the model weights themselves are not the compressed representation.

The trained model is the compression algorithm (or more technically, a component of it... as it needs to be combined with some kind of entropy coding).

You could use Stable Diffusion to compress and store the training data if you wanted, but nobody is doing that.
“Most cited” is a very poor way of measuring quality and is massively subject to gaming. When it comes to review it’s not uncommon to get comments like “you didn’t cite this paper” where said paper is only marginally related so it’s clear that the reviewer has some interest in you citing it.
What answer are you suggesting? Is it that banks will finance a jeonse deposit, but they won't finance a purchase?

> Chonsei deposits are often very large, at around 70% of house prices

> Chonsei arrangements are popular partly due to the fact that the residential mortgage market in Korea is unusually underdeveloped: mortgages have very short terms, and loan-to-value ratios generally below 40%.

> It is common for tenants to fund Chonsei deposits by borrowing from banks
1. A diesel and a levis leather jackets I got for around $350 each. Been wearing them for 9 years now. The Levis one has become amazingly beautiful over the years

2. A citizen eco-drive titanium watch I got for around $120. Working great for 8 years now

3. Nike Air jordan, for around $110. Had to replace the sole once. Going strong for 8 years now, i wear them almost everyday
I understand this much. But, the world is pretty weird at the moment. It seems more complex now than just moving interest rate levers around to manipulate the economy.
Facebook had a published paper on their storage system for pictures, haystack, which iirc is something like a slab allocation.

S3 is similar, in the sense that it has completely different usage than a file system (no hierarchy, direct access, no need for efficient listing etc) so I'm pretty sure they use something similar.
With current browsers Java applets are not supported anymore. Some older HPE systems the didn't update the firmware to provide alternatives.

I've seen multiple vendors with problematic code that didn't work with newer Java versions.

This is by no means meant to bash Java. Some non-Java BMCs can be horrible as well (e.g. require many TCP ports in a firewall/tunnel unfriendly way or require SSH with old algorithms that are no longer enabled by default, or telnet..)
In 1974?
you mean simulated or pretend profits
They used to use dichloromethane to decaffeinate coffee beans. Now it's super critical CO2.
Where can one find Forth work?
> definitely not securities.

Well, the obligation to pay back the loan itself may not be a security, but the receivership of the money that is paid back is usually packaged into a security, so that the entity that give out the loan may not be the one that is eventually paid back for it. Banks package and sell the rights to get the money back.
Most flywheels in use are on gensets and only last a few seconds, keeping the generator spinning until the genset has ramped up to speed.

There are standalone flywheel systems but they're not nearly as common now that genset flywheels are around, in part because they have atrocious recovery time, they're far more complex and expensive (they tend to spin at significantly higher speeds, do so in a low-viscocity gas or vacuum, etc..and don't utilize a power unit that already exists) and they cannot help start a generator whose starter has failed.

Their main advantage, like you said, is that they don't degrade with age or use, but they're also compact and far less hazardous than large battery rooms.

Their major downside is that their recovery time is atrocious. There was a huge outage at an SF datacenter many years ago that was caused by multiple short outages. The flywheels didn't have time to spool back up between outages and eventually didn't have enough kinetic energy to carry things until the generators came back on.

Pumped hydro operates on a scale orders of magnitude larger than flywheels and batteries and has a response time of seconds, which is plenty sufficient for a grid-scale operator, because the grid has enormous inertia. It's the fastest responding form of large-scale power generation (natural gas takes minutes or more, nuclear takes days.)

One of its major successes has been in the UK, where for decades pumped hydro has helped the grid sustain "TV Pickup" - everyone flipping on their electric kettle between BBC programs.
It seems like a solution looking for a problem. Indexers with file system hooks like APFS + Spotlight and the thing Haiku has seem like a more practical approach for similar results.
I hear you on OWASP in fact. I think the earlier iterations of it were more useful to developers. It focused on very specific vulnerabilities and it was a lot more concrete.

Now it has morphed into a much more abstract taxonomy of vulnerabilities and covers mobile as well as web. I think security people love this stuff, but it's much less directly useful to a normal dev.

It has very good brand recognition though! Even management types have heard of it, which is unusual for a security standard!
Lisp code is written in a simpler notation than ASTs, it's written as nested lists of objects.

Hierarchical data-structure: the s-expressions are based on nested lists of arbitrary data. Like symbols, numbers, strings and many others.

Lisp code is then written as s-expressions, given some syntax rules, which s-expressions are valid Lisp expressions.

S-expressions are no abstract syntax trees, since they capture no syntax information about the meaning of the symbols. That gives an extra degree of freedom: the input to the Lisp evaluator is not an AST (either read or generated by a parser), it's just nested lists of symbols and other objects. That means for example that Lisp macros accept code in an arbitrary syntax.

For example this is valid Lisp code when LOOP is a macro and implements its own syntax.

(loop for i upto n and j in list when (and (= i j) i) sum it)

We could write above as

(loop for for upto n and in in list when (and (= for in) for) sum it)

and it would still work. The s-expression does not encode basic information like what the meaning of the identifier is. That depends on the macro. An AST would encode what the construct is: operator, variable, class, ... Lisp s-expressions don't do that.

So it's important for Lisp that the code is NOT written as an AST. It's just tree-like -> in the Lisp case it's nested lists of symbols and other atoms.
By default, identity is the place in the vDOM tree (taking `null` nodes into account so that you can have conditional nodes in fragments/children lists).

In lists, identity can instead be tracked by a user-provided key: https://reactjs.org/docs/lists-and-keys.html
In a way, this is already happening. Documents are moving to the cloud, where they exist mostly in a database-like structure. End-user computers are becoming more and more a just an interface for documents that are in an online database, or (if the app supports offline) local sqlite databases.

The endgame is a machine with only an OS. The OS is where all the hard edge cases are, which prevented the db-as-fs idea from succeeding in the first place.
Thorium, an alternative nuclear fuel – Kirk Sorensen at TEDx (2011)
Is this a gotcha comment?

Organized does not necessarily mean brimming with marketing material about their organizational structure. Antifa obviously has members and planning. They make great effort to counter who they perceive to be their political rivals. Analyzing from the outside, I imagine they would prefer their structure remain as opaque as possible for pragmatic reasons. I can’t point you to a “starter link” of my local Catholics; yet they exist and are organized.

Your curt inquiry should be directed at journalists, who for whatever reason are delinquent in their duty to investigate this organization.

So was your comment supposed to be cute? An invitation to a purported dead-end investiture? I assume you think yourself adjacent politically to Antifa. I find that most “fellow-travelers” tend to be the most vocal defenders of them online. Would you be this cavalier and flippant if your political rivals were doing the same thing Antifa is doing but for the opposite political “team?”

Just a thought.
The murderous File System.
> if college board is creating "college level courses" with problems that can be easily solved through whats still a fairly new technology, we need to reevaluate what we're teaching in schools.

I don't get it. AP calculus is problems that can be easily solved with what is now very old technology. The point of an AP test isn't that the problems are so difficult.
A few of my recent systems have come with a built-in combo BMC on the motherboard NICs. I haven't seen this before, is it a new trend? I'm imagining they put in a switch in there with the NICs? How does this even work?

I'm doing a few timing sensitive projects involving hardware timestamping in the NICs. Does this mess with say timing variability? I've disabled the BMCs out of paranoia but I don't know the topology inside.
Q: Isn’t the filesystem of a system a sort of database? Not in the sense of a query back-and-forth, but in the sense of holding all file records and locations.
I'd love to use a db for a filesystem for many of my directories.

Granted, it might just be sub-optimal in certain scenarios, but I already have to logically partition my data into big blobs that are rarely accessed and stuff that must go into the SSDs already.
Maybe just giving that FS a hatch to deal with the stuff that must be special and odd/weird is ok. I don't really want the DB magic for my swap files anyway.
Flywheels never seem to work out for storing more than a few seconds' power.

The pictures here do not show them mounted underground or surrounded by earthen berms, which seems foolishly hazardous.

The Philippines could store power much more economically by suspending weights from cable reels on a ship, lowering them to the sea floor to extract power. The key to economical operation is to share a big motor-generator and winch, protected from weather, along a single shaft with a long line of reels and weights coupled via clutches.

This is akin to the similar scheme using a mineshaft, but is much more economically viable. Using separate weights, the winch can usefully be of much lower capacity than the mineshaft needs, so available off-the-shelf. The seabed is in many places deeper than common disused mineshafts, and there is plenty of it.
>… indeed don't care what they hit and would likely not be able to target it so precisely anyway.

Well actually…

The opener to that book begins with a mission to steal sensor camouflaging technology (to make the asteroids harder to detect). During the heist mission, the thieves use kinetic bombardment on a much smaller scale to take out the military personnel and eventually destroy the entire base. I believe the location and timing were so precise so as to hit a unit when they crossed over a hill. It was noted that these kinetic bombs had been released months prior.
No GPS is a plus in my book.

And sometimes it's good to be a little lost, gets you out of your comfort zone and out of your bubble :)
To quote Dawkins:

We are going to die, and that makes us the lucky ones.
Most people are never going to die because they are never going to be born.
The potential people who could have been here in my place but who will in fact never see the light of day outnumber the sand grains of Sahara.
Certainly those unborn ghosts include greater poets than Keats, scientists greater than Newton.
We know this because the set of possible people allowed by our DNA so massively exceeds the set of actual people.
In the teeth of these stupefying odds it is you and I, in our ordinariness, that are here.
We privileged few, who won the lottery of birth against all odds.
How dare we whine at our inevitable return to that prior state, from which the vast majority have never stirred?
> Point has always been that people who are less ill, less severely ill, for a shorter duration, with fewer or no symptoms, have lower chances of infecting others.

The most recent research on the types of antibodies the vaccines create vs natural infection are showing the opposite: it causes our bodies to treat the virus more like an allergy, reducing the symptoms while clearing the infection much slower. This gives more chance to infect others, not less.
Show HN: Sysm lets you play custom sounds on specified events
Turns out that just winning an election doesn't help you enact a lasting win against the swamp, when 95% of the people qualified to serve in your cabinet are DC swamp creatures or are at least adjacent to the swamp
The Intel 8086 chip only has 19618 transistors instead of the 29k advertised
Everything you say about the economy can also be said about the civil society as a whole.
The cool part about DBs is interleaving storing/manipulating and querying.
A raw hard drive is already a DB by just allow you to write to them in that sense, but no one would consider them a decent DB.
I doubt it. The energy is stored as rotational kinetic energy, which means you do better by spinning as fast as possible rather than being as massive as possible (just as linear KE = 1/2*m*v^2, rotational KE = 1/2*I*ω^2), which in turn means you care mainly about high tensile strength.
Google is handling Stadia’s death better than its life
I care, and suffer, all the time. It feels like I am doing the right thing but maybe the masses know better. There's safety in keeping your head down