skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As I mentioned in another post, we already see vastly different health outcomes for people of different socioeconomic statuses. The wealthy already live longer and are more functional into their old age than are the poor, to the point where you can guess a person's income and education with reasonable accuracy by knowing what illnesses they have. The US is already a society where medical bills are the leading cause of bankruptcy, so I'd say the path to dystopia is already being walked. But preventing strokes and heart failure is vastly different to being able to prevent the aging process itself, because fixing those issues doesn't stop senescence. You can stop as many heart attacks as you like, but the person will inevitably die of old age at some point.

Stopping senescence will not be something that is equitably distributed, because modern medicine already has those same issues. There's a certain comfort and equality in knowing that everyone gets old, and everyone dies, no ifs or buts. This ride only has one exit, and you have a finite amount of time to make the most of it.
They belong in a museum!
The no-communication theorem [1] fairly comprehensively rules out any attempt to send messages faster than light using quantum theory. It essentially says that in order to send any message using quantum mechanics you also have either physically move your system from place to place, or send some classical information (which can be smaller than your quantum message but have non-zero size). This means that in order to use quantum theory to send a message faster than light you either have to already have a way to move you quantum system faster than light, or a way to send classical messages faster than light.

The summary is that you can only send messages ftl using quantum theory if you already know a way to send messages ftl without using quantum theory.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No-communication_theorem
> a feudal practice of wealth transfer

Quite fitting description. But since we are no feudal lords, I would also describe tipping as the daily power trip of the plebes.
> Countless people never smoked. Countless people stopped. Some people act like quitting smoking is some insufferable thing that others will never understand. Everyone has bad stuff they do that’s just as hard to quit.

While smoking is a choice, not all choices are the same. Not all choices are weighted by a chemical addiction, comparing quitting smoking to bad food or exercise choices trivialises it in an unnecessary way.

Breaking an addiction is difficult, but smoking is one of the hardest addictions to break. I would imagine that heroin is more difficult to quit, but I can't think of any other addictions that are as difficult to break as nicotine.

If you have no experience of this (and it seems that you do not so apologies if you do) then a simple way to understand how difficult it is quit is not to think of it as a single choice to make. Imagine making the most difficult choice of your life, against everything that your body and brain is telling you - something that requires an extraordinary act of will and self-faith. The reward for making the correct choice is not an end to the matter - it will push it to one side for about 15-20 seconds. Then another wave of chemical addiction will wash over you, everything in your life will pale into insignificance and you will be faced with exactly the same choice again. This will repeat without end, asleep or awake, until you break the first part of the addiction. It will only take two or three weeks of these constant life changing choices, and you must make the correct choice every single time, but it will feel like an eternity.

If you make it through that initial period then it gets easier, but that sequence of life-changing choices won't really end for about six months, although you will gain more confidence that you are making the right choice through that time.

Several years later you will reach a point where you no longer have to choose and you have genuinely become a non-smoker. It is a long difficult road, but it is possible and many people do it. Believing that is almost impossible while you are still addicted, and find that believe that you personally are mentally strong enough to endure that cycle of choice and longing is the most difficult step of all.

So, yes it is a choice - but that does not make it the same as other things that are a choice. Some choices are more difficult than others, and to put all choices into a single category and assume they are the same is to under-estimate the range of difficulty that exists across different choices.
There are other CM-compatible SoMs.

Like the Pine64 SOQUARTZ
This is a huge overstatement of the problem, which generally refers to the last six verses of the book. Consider the comparison of the KJV with the NIV, which is based on a newer/modern critical Greek text. Eramus made up the missing verses by translating from the Vulgate. Otherwise the Greek variants that exist are defensible.

https://biblehub.com/akjv/revelation/22.htm
https://biblehub.com/niv/revelation/22.htm

As you can see, it says "book" when it should say "tree."

You can compare KJV with the NIV and other editions. To say parts of the book were "invented" in the 16th century is going a few steps too far. It would be better to say that we now have a manuscript which we believe is probably better in that it is likely more faithful to the original...but which is not really substantially any different from the textus receptus. Revelation has very few Greek sources and they do contain variants, but precisely because of the lack of sources it's difficult to make strong claims about what is or isn't correct.

[Ed - and it looks like book vs life is also entirely defensible after googling it - if it is an error, it is a very very old error, dating back at least to the 300s, and book does make theological sense - it would be far from the only reference to the book of life.)
iOS App Store developers cannot issue a pro-rated refund. Apple has not provided any mechanism for them to do that, despite requests.

This has been stated again and again but you’re choosing to ignore it in your attempt to make the app developers the bad guys in this situation.
That is rather incredible. "Let us put a tray for an intensely hot object on this security-crucial hardware, because people are so addicted to it".
Part of the problem is that an expectation of tipping is cropping up in many places where it didn't exist before, and prices certainly haven't dropped 20% to compensate. In these circumstances I would rather just pay 100% of the price and be done.
There are literally millions of people who choose to quit smoking and fail, every single day.
Normal as in, anything that may reasonably happen in a consumer kitchen.

I'm sure plenty of people sear steak in a non-stick pan.
While I sincerely appreciate your diligence, might be wrong, nothing you signed likely prevents your employer from changing their policies, nor was their accounting of what is currently shared by them likely legally binding. More importantly, inaccurate disclosures by the employer of their information sharing practices likely are not regulated.
In The Netherlands it's embarrassing. They basically had to beg supermarkets to stop selling cigarettes and then give them a years long transition period.

It could be very easy. Ban the sales of tobacco to everyone born after "YYYY", make cigarettes cost €50 per pack, make smoking when not allowed a €100 fine, deposit all tax from tobacco sales into a national program where people get free "exercise credits" to be redeemed at fitness studios etc.
Is anyone aware of a 'modern wget'? Something that has a more modern spider (wget misses a lot of deeplinks because the are not standard conform or js) with a smart switch to a browser based headless spider if it detects a frontend js framework? I tried quite a lot of them (including colly) and there seems to be nothing that's just apt install nextwget; nextwget -r https://site.com and then see the results appear? The ones I tried needed a lot of tweaking or would miss as much as wget/httrack and in that case, wget/httrack are really quite good.
Superdense coding specifically is unlikely to ever be practically relevant. Even for people quite optimistic about the future of quantum computing it is hard to imagine a scenario where a single qubit will be cheaper than two classical bits.

Other quantum protocols are much more likely to be useful, perhaps particularly for cryptography.
Earth's inner core may have started spinning other way
Thanks for the feedback. We chose Elasticsearch as in our experience it is still the default tool for people to get started with logs. But do understand that may be opensearch is also catching up now.

>The author should also mention how much ES was faster against SigNoz with trace_id fetches (137x) and fetching first 100 logs (14x).

We didn't mention this in the summary as for the scale we tested at the difference would not have been perceived by a user.
e.g. For getting logs corresponding to a trace_id (log corresponding to high cardinality field), SigNoz tool 0.137s, and Elastic took 0.001s

I think we read somewhere (will try to find source) that anything below 200ms in server response is not perceived by user
Tech is power, but how that power is distributed is not a given.

We should not assume the power that tech creates just magically diffuses among the plebes.

It's a interesting paradox that consumer surpluses are quite enormous: we live with enormous material wealth: electricity, telephone/mobile device, TV, internet, IoT.

(A poor person lives better than any Absolute Monarch from 100 years ago)

... and yet the same time power imbalances are still problematic and captial concentration is once again a problem.

Russia and China have vastly improved quality of life vis-a-vis 15 years ago and yet they have more limited power and freedoms.
Maybe it's me getting old, but most of the hotels I've been to, slightly higher end ones, had really weird bathrooms. From no doors, to imperfectly closing doors on purpose ( think rough barn door ) , to saloon doors (???). Who designs these and where are they going with it ? Can't one enjoy some privacy in the bathroom anymore ?
Still, I'm not sure why someone would bother with the risks of smoking when edibles exist.
This doesn’t make sense. There are other browsers on the App Store and, although they have to use Safari’s browser engine, they’re free to prioritise search engine preferences as they see fit.
Benchmarks are always "It depends".

And what it depends on are your data volume, how you want to query, whether you value ingestion greater than query speed and timeliness and so forth.

Elastic sweet spot is that it indexes everything, and you can query fast as a result. But it does this at the cost of ingest as it's doing the work to build indexes during ingestion and so ingest is more CPU intensive and can hit limits here. As a general purpose workhorse, Elastic shines.

Loki sweet spot is that it has very few indexes, so ingestion is cheap and extremely capable for huge data volumes. It does this at the cost of query performance over very large data sets - without indexes queries brute force via mapreduce, which means you really want to specify where to look (which log streams) and when to look (a time window) and in that it excels. For logs, Loki is heaven.

ClickHouse sweet spot is the indexes (columns) are very explicitly configured by engineers who know what the data looks like and how they want to query it. Now the ingest cost is balanced, and the query performance is great - but it did this at the cost of you knowing your data and how you're going to query it most of the time - it's not so good for esoteric questions that you'd never anticipated (though you can get very far through some of their column data types allowing you to be reasonably flexible on this). For BI data, ClickHouse is incredible.

They all have sweet spots, and a benchmark is not going to answer the real questions - what data volume do you have, what do you value (ingest and preserve everything vs fastest query speed for ad-hoc queries vs a balanced approach), do you know how you want to query the data, etc?

Other thoughts:

Loki has recently moved to TSDB for the backend storage, these benchmarks don't go there.

Elastic can use less disk if you configure for synthetic source (https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/issues/86603) which discards the raw byte copy of the ingested data and only retains knowledge in the indexes, and uses the indexes to reconstruct the source should you request it. Enabling this is only supported by ES for metric type data (according to docs) but it is possible to enable it for other types of data.

Nothing to add about ClickHouse, I've used all three databases and worked against all three for huge volumes of data - if I want a more OLAP style querying than OLTP and I know my data then today ClickHouse absolutely shines here with the others playing catch up. Elastic and Loki shine far more for OLTP workloads, so it's a trade-off again (though Elastic does a good job at doing pretty well for more OLAP cases than Loki does today due to it having column storage - and Loki wins on being able to ingest more cheaply - meaning being able to ingest more at the same or lower cost).

What you value and what you want to do is up to you.
And you'd think with all the inane things they've finances in the name of trying to stimulate economic activity they'd be putting more into subsidizing childcare and other birthrate stimulators. Surely that would be more stimulative in the face of multi-decade deflation than building parks absolutely everywhere.

It is interesting how birth rate ties into their whole economic picture -- after multi-decade deflation, they're still sitting at well under 3% unemployment, and a poverty rate only slightly higher than the United States. Prices may be falling, but apparently, when your population is simultaneously shrinking at such a rapid pace, it's less painful than you'd expect on the average household economically speaking.
America's tipping obsession was such a huge culture shock to me when I visited last year.

With the poor USD/GBP exchange rate, a $20 item on the menu would often cost me £25 or even more after tipping

From what I can see, tipping exists to subsidise awful wages so someone's ability to make a living and pay their bills exists solely on how well someone else perceives their customer service skills. As a brit, that's just wild to me.
I overall think people tend to underestimate the overhead of clustering. It's always significantly faster to run a computation on one machine than spread over N machines with hardware of (1/N) power.

That's not always a viable option because of hardware costs, and sometimes you want redundancy, but those concerns are on an orthogonal axis to performance.
Calling Go Code from Rust: A Google Trillian Story
Can you imagine a beowulf cluster of these? Oh, wait...
> Too many times I have had people go out of their way to inhale my second hand smoke, and then complain about it.

Too many times I have had people go out of their way to walk in front of my 3 ton truck driving 100 mph in a pedestrian zone to almost get hit, and then complain about it.
PBKDF2 iterations is the last in what should be a chain of defence in depth best practices.

It gives limited protection against a database breach.

Your password service should have as a minimum the following extra defences.

- Hardware encryption of the master password hashes.

- Breach detection such as poison records.

- Database access controls that limit the blast radius of an attack.

- All admins should require a hardware key to access the database.

I'm sure there are many more.

You can defend yourself with the following...

- by having a very random master password.

- 2fa everywhere

- password horcruxing - see https://kaizoku.dev/double-blind-passwords-aka-horcruxing
You do wonder how much further it will continue. Will everything just hit a wall soon?
Neither wine nor xterm have virtualized cpu or memory, they both imitate (= emulate) some system via their interfaces, yet one is primarily an emulator and the other is not one. That does not make sense.

The wine project changed name to avoid the bad reputation emulators had back then due to their poor performance. "Wine is not an emulator" is not factually accurate, its a social workaround.
It means that the person making the comment is a bigot and has bought into the “coastal elite” and/or “tech elite” that conservatives use to dehumanize and delegitimize people who aren’t similarly bigoted.
Back in the early 2010s, EA and Ubisoft were considered the worst gaming studios because they pushed "loot crate" mechanics. Now, Activision-Blizzard has not only developed some of the most expensive stores in any game, but they almost always deliver half-finished games and abuse their employees in the process, while EA and Ubisoft are considered some of the best places to work in the gaming industry. I think this company needs a boycott really bad to put it back on the good path.
Ah, do you feel it too? That need to own some of these, even though you have zero actual use for them.
When I booked people to move my belongings to my new house, I picked a company where all of the employees were full-time salaried employees making a decent wage and had relative security in their jobs along with PTO, pensions, etc.

When they finished, they still asked for a tip. I said no because I paid a premium them for the very reason that I didn't expect that they'd ask for a tip.
> - New Unity wallpaper honors Black history and culture in celebration of Black History Month

Weird to push this internationally when it's really just a US thing. When I read the official release notes of the update I found them a bit racist sounding, from my country's perspective.
thanks. Yeah, ClickHouse does have quite a good perf esp. for observability user cases where aggregate queries tend to dominate.

Here's a blog from Uber where they has 70-80% aggregate queries in production env, as saw 50% improvement in resource required.

From their blog
`We reduced the hardware cost of the platform by more than half compared to the ELK stack`

[1]https://www.uber.com/en-IN/blog/logging/
They've actually never had a second mouse button. They started letting you fake having a right mouse button with touch but they never put the second switch in.
I feel like recently promoted -> sudden dismissal would have a case, if a bunch of people in CA hadn’t bought into “right to work” BS that only guarantees the right to causelsss dismissal.
Yes, actually. If you know you've got the flu or some other mild-but-still-serious illness, you don't go outside your home unless it's absolutely necessary (eg: going to the hospital, buying essential groceries).

And before you say "I don't care if I pass my flu around.": Stay home /for your own sake/. What the fuck do you think is going to happen if your mild illness takes a turn for the worst right when you're overseas? I hope you have good traveller's insurance, or otherwise sufficient savings to afford medical and emergency care out of pocket.
I made some tweaks to sound like a slightly ticked off typical HN poster

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It irks me to see the frequent misconceptions surrounding GPT-based models like ChatGPT being touted as true general intelligences. While they are certainly advanced in their text generation capabilities, their output is primarily derived from identifying patterns and associations within the training data. These models lack the capacity for introspection, learning, and true understanding that characterizes human cognition.

Let's not forget the limitations of these models, specifically in regards to problem-solving, decision-making and creativity. The output may appear novel, but it is more likely a recombination of previously encountered information.

In short, GPT-based models are a remarkable achievement in natural language processing, but let's not mistake them for true AI.

--

and then I asked it to make it sound like Steve Ballmer.

"Look, I'm gonna be real with you here. ChatGPT and these other GPT-based models, they're not true AIs. They're just really good at pattern matching, right? They can generate text that looks like it's intelligent, but it's not really thinking or learning or understanding like a human does.

Now, don't get me wrong, these models are still incredibly powerful and useful for certain tasks, especially in natural language processing. But let's not pretend they're something they're not. They can't solve problems or make decisions or be creative like a human can.

So let's call a spade a spade here. These GPT models are impressive, but they're not true AIs. And that's just the way it is."
Well, you would have to break your code into a lot of functions to keep indentation reasonable.

Actually, this is what it is expected in the linux kernel (but some parts did fail that by A LOT).

Most of the time, it is all about complex expressions with explicit(long) variable names.
You can look at benchmarks for the rpi cm4 for that
I ate out at a restaurant in Australia, there was a tip section that as an American I instinctively filled out. The waiter didn't even know how to accept the check with the tip section filled out. Felt like a fool.
I think you don't know people them.

There are lots of people who would love to just get their salary and date people online + do their private stuff all the time, and I think it's totally fine that not everybody wants to work hard.

The problem here is of course that it's not good for people who are working hard.

Sama is super proud that there are only 250 people in OpenAI, he understands that slackers destroy companies.
> EA and Ubisoft are considered some of the best places to work in the gaming industry

Oh, really? I haven't followed this kind of stuff in a while. So they're good now?

How would they rank for software development, in general? Game studios are notoriously subpar when you start comparing them to FAANG, big enterprise sotware development shops, etc.
I get you! Sounds like me. The busyness of family life makes me
not need to regularly see friends: to the point I might see an old friend once a year. (Nomadic world we live in doesn’t help too)

I might make more friends when kids
grow up and time frees up though.
I don't know about France but it definitely is not the case in Germany.
read about "radio milles collines" for something relatively recent
> overestimating the unique complexity of their particular situation. Then we prove it by forcing solutions on them that artificially reduce that complexity.

As an electrical engineer I have the habit of asking people to explain to me the function of the part they want to remove. Just because it worked briefly without that part does not mean that part did not serve some vital function. How you can tell experts from beginners is that beginners will be pleased with the thing working. Experts will think about weirder edge conditions, thermal cycles, maintainability, safety, security, testability, sustainability, you name it.

Don't get me wrong, I love simple, elegant solutions with little (or no) moving parts — they often win out on all of the above. But sometimes the people with the complexity of the domain in mind are right, when they insist that certain elements of a system are needed.
The real versions of Firefox, Chrome and Edge etc have been banned. Instead Apple forces them to create new browsers which use their controlled, locked and unmodifiable WebView removing the majority of the ways that these browsers can differentiate themselves while providing features exclusive to Safari (like the ability to install Web Apps).

This ensures that none of the "browsers" can compete on iOS and this obvious by comparing browser market share of the same browser between iOS and Android.
Geerling covers this in the accompanying video for this post. He couldn't get it running due to no working OS images being obtainable.