skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
that doesn't make it less carcinogen.

some studies have concluded that

Regular moderate drinkers are less likely to get kidney stones -- 41% less likely for those who drink beer, 33% for wine drinkers

Alcohol consumption is associated with reduced risk of Type 2 diabetes and autoimmune diabetes in adults: results from the Nord-Trøndelag health study (one of the leading causes of death in USA, for example)

It's not black and white, we can't keep going to "war" with stuff, like the "war on drugs", it's not smart.

Absolutism is the enemy of good reasoning.

There are many other factors involved in people drinking or eating things that aren't completely safe long term, it doesn't mean people are suicidal, it means people like to enjoy good things in life even though some of them are not completely risk free.

Going on a hike is not risk free, no amount of hiking has zero risks associated with it.

Hell, the fireplace emits carcinogens similar to those found in tobacco and burnt pizza crust is associated to higher risk of getting cancer!

So let's not be hysterical.
Use a BSD style license for your Open Source Project (2021)
Me too, but threading is botched in Python. Not just the Global Interpreter Lock. Some Python packages are not thread-safe, and it's not documented which ones are not. Years ago I discovered that CPickle was not thread safe, and that wasn't considered a problem.
A little pedantic but HUP concerns the fundamental limits of simultaneously knowing a particle's position and momentum, not about observation impacting outcomes.
I immediately bounce from those Stackoverflow clones that keep appearing up at the top of searches. So, I am wondering how much this is still weighted in the scores.
> So you're saying the improved tracking of criminal proceeds, which started during the peak of the mafia's prominence and improved further as the mafia declined, had nothing to do with that decline?

Very few transactions hit the CTR threshold at the time it was instituted. It was nearly $80000 in today's dollars. Computerization was also very new so doing anything useful at scale with the records was difficult for the government.

I'm not a lawyer but I read RECAP and have read the appeals from a lot of these cases and very rarely were financial records mentioned as investigative leads. They almost always relied on informants who were a part of the scheme and electronic surveillance to figure out how the crime worked. Even now, how many criminal investigations do you think start from SARs? Obviously we'll never know because they don't release that, but I don't think there's any reason to think it is a substantial fraction. Money laundering in most cases nowadays is just tacked on after they discover that someone used money from the crime they already knew about.
Or NaN or Infinity.
I thought blackjack bets were limited to $500. Seems my information is outdated. Nice to hear some better info!
If the hangul emperor married a perisan princess and got Persian goods, it doesn't change the status or the lives of average people. On the Indian subcontinent traders had participation from all walks of life so I'd call it way more culturally international. I'd argue royalty getting preferential treatment isn't culturally relevant for a people.
Please donate to Syrians if you can. They have absolutely no infrastructure and they hardly received any international aid. It's a disaster with unbelievable impact on the already fragile Syrian community.
Fascinating that you keep getting downvoted for stating completely obvious observations. I would have thought your reasonable explanations could convince this supposed 'rational' crowd but apparently not.
CGAL is GPL, while Geogram is BSD. That has a lot of practical consequences in how they can be used. Plus it's nice from an educational standpoint to have independent open-source implementations.
So first Microsoft will embrace this new technology and facilitate its employment, then they will start extending any established standards and provide new ways to use them, and it's anyone's guess what they will be doing next after that!
Because Libre software is included under the umbrella of Open Source. If I'm writing an article about car regulations, I don't need to specifically mention cars with leather interiors unless the regulation treats them differently.
I follow the energy field for mostly financial reasons and its a strange but true story that the first time oil was ever radio dated was by a Canadian team just a few years ago and they were surprised to discover the Alberta oil sands are more like a hundred million years old rather than the previous estimate of fifty mil or so.

People have known about radio dating using different isotopes and it always shocked me that the first time someone radiodated crude oil was in the mid 00s just 15 or so years ago. I don't remember the technology the Canadians used it wasn't C14 as that tops out around 100K or so years.

The more you learn the more you find stuff everyone thinks they know, but they don't actually know it, or we just figured it out shockingly recently. Like we've been pumping oil how long, and doing radiodating how long, but nobody never put two and two together until just 15 years ago? That's just wild. You'd assume every field has a birthdate but reality is nobody knows for sure. Except that one field in Alberta as of 15 years ago. Maybe more data available now, donno.

Its just funny that journalist types will cite each other as if they're primary sources for decades until a number like "a quarter billion yrs" is culturally engrained into our civilization, then someone does some actual real world test tube work ONE time in ONE place and get different results.

For a multi trillion dollar business, its not as completely scientifically researched as people would assume. If it doesn't result in more flow at the pump, it doesn't get researched, mostly.
Personal website except for the fact that "about me" doesn't work because it keeps moving away from my mouse
Alexander the great, china, Rome, all abrahamic religions.
The Chrome dev rel blog post [1] describes limitations of structuredClone:

* Prototypes: structuredClone discards the object’s prototype chain.

* Functions: structuredClone quietly discards functions.

* Non-cloneables: structuredClone throws for some common values, e.g. Node, Error.

[1] https://web.dev/structured-clone/
Interesting - how do you get the data?

Digest is cool, would also be great to have some sort of analysis added to it
It is not reducing freedoms any more than a toll booth does. They are not road blocks. This is related to 15 minute cities exactly as much as it’s related to pedestrian crossings. It is making you uneasy because you are reading conspiracies and lies and believing them.
Another personal "observation" of banal bollocks trying to pass as wisdom. How long before the TED talk audience has to suffer through 15 minutes of this?
:-D

At risk of personally identifying information... I guess I did volunteer this one.

I knew not many people pick a day in mid December to go sailing. I didn't know I'd be the only one out, the day they were doing a massive drugs bust. They clearly thought no real pleasure sailor would be there. Fortunately I am obviously a harmless WAFI* and the appearance of my kid's cheery grin in the companionway was enough to convince them. (Bringing them up hardy, you see)

They probably also realised that with their hundreds of horsepower it's not like my beloved 4KSB* is a credible getaway vehicle.

*Wind Assisted Fucking Idiot

**Four Knot S... Box
> it has taken much time to resolve

This is quite typical of state owned companies in Europe.
I thought that temporary dismantling the bridge was the plan from the beginning, it’s the political push back that was unexpected.
pgbouncer supports session and transaction pooling. With session pooling a connection will be associated with the same session throughout its use. With transaction pooling each transaction on the connection could potentially get a different session.
If you dont give the wealthy an unfair seat then they will not be in that university.

Instead they will be forced to go to another private school which will receive their endowments, and soon grow to the point they can compete with elite schools. Harvard, et all will still be good schools but not the "best" schools that people die to get into.
Pay is determined by supply and demand, not just how difficult it is to provide the supply. And what determines the good pay of tech workers & CEOs is their BATNAs. To hire a CEO of a top tech company, you essentially have to be a better offer than the EV of them starting their own firm with copious amounts of venture capital out there and them out competing you with the efficiencies that come from startups. That is what big-corp tech CEO pay has essentially stabilized on.
That’s how blockchain was a few years back. Now everyone and their uncle has a “how blockchains work” article or video
Cool, looks like a more polished version of datagrab.io
A shipping error 100 years ago launched the $30B chicken industry
Right, this is what I'm saying. The situation is anything but clear and I don't think Biden's comments that day tell us anything concrete about this one way or another, and I think it's a mistake that some people think it does.

If the USA didn't commit this, then through their various covert actions over the last half-century they only have themselves to blame for the suspicion that it was down to them.
https://archivebox.io/ & https://raindrop.io/
I'm not impressed by it. It's got 264 kilobytes of RAM. That's so low, that you can't run Linux or BSD on it. I guess you'd need some DOS-like OS for it.

This chip sells for $8.45 which is ridiculously high for what it offers[1].

The price of $0.80 per chip non-W is impressively low however, I'll admit. [2] But once you throw shipping and other costs in, how much will it actually cost?

The Pi Zero 2 W at $15 is far far better than this chip. [3]

[1] https://www.pishop.ca/product/raspberry-pi-pico-w/

[2] https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/raspberry-pi-direct-buy-rp2...

[3] https://www.microcenter.com/product/486575/raspberry-pi-zero...
I don't understand how the socio-political stance to which I have ostensibly been subscribed my entire adult life has become so religious. It seems like there has been a bedrock shift from encouraging good behavior to witch-hunting bad behavior. In just a few short years, every topic of discourse has taken a similar path. From "do this good thing" to "don't do this bad thing" to "punish anyone who does this bad thing" to "punish anyone who doesn't punish people enough for doing this bad thing".
Only seen it on YouTube. Yes This is still generation, but I like the level of control. If Emergent Drums have this degree of parametric adjustment (I did not test it) it could be useful (to me).
I miss the days when systemic racism was known more specifically as poverty. Poverty, combined with the war on drugs that incentivized violence, dads in jail, and a hostile learning environment. That was actually actionable...maybe a little too actionable. The institutional racism thing is just amorphous enough to pit the lower class against itself and preserve status quo. Alas I'm not sure students today appreciate the role of the war on drugs or comprehend the concept of class and so they just role play.
This appears in a publication that also earnestly argues that Pfizer and the FDA literally rigged the election, by skipping a testing step that would have shown the vaccine was extremely effective (subtle!) and thus depriving Trump of a press cycle just before the election that would have enabled him to take credit for ending the pandemic. In other words: Pfizer apparently deliberately tanked their own vaccine marketing, in collusion with Deep State Democrats, to hurt the Republicans.

Seems like a legit source.
Also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proto-Indo-European_mythology
.... I devoted a footnote to clarifying this
Its not just microsoft, its the developer free loading culture.. once we start paying with our instead of free loading then things will change
I tend to find repetitive sound effects in games when repeating an action immersion-breaking (a known concept, I think) -- I've wondered why procedural generation (even as rudimentary as a few dozen random envelopes/pitch shifts/crossfades applied ahead-of-time to recorded samples) isn't used more often to mitigate that.
Ugh. What's the point of "quick saves" if they get deleted when the character dies?

That being said, thanks for confirming it's a permadeath game. :)

It's bizarre they don't mention that anywhere.
If you're at all interested in digging through the Zork code yourself, you no longer need to know Z-machine assembly: the source code for most Infocom games was released/leaked a few years back, and is available here: https://github.com/historicalsource/

It's written in ZIL, which has a somewhat Lispy feel (for a bit of background, see another post by Plotkin here: http://blog.zarfhome.com/2019/04/what-is-zil-anyway.html). Infocom's own internal documentation for ZIL is here: https://archive.org/details/Learning_ZIL_Steven_Eric_Meretzk....
Investing in the individual – Why sell your company when you can sell yourself
I have bad news.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=efPrtcLdcdM
Already been done. Google 'Seychelles anon'
If there was nothing to add then there wouldn’t be loads of projects on GitHub making exactly this mistake.
I wholly agree. From what I see OP also agrees since they will now be using a stricter criteria to enable them to close more incidents earlier and only reopen when it's proven that there are other issues.
Hacking: DForce suffers $3.65M loss Through Price Manipulation
The DeFi aggregation platform dForce was attacked in Arbitrum and Optimism, and the attackers made a profit of about 3.65 million US dollars.
What's the point of a DI framework? I never got the point of even thinking about DI explicitly like it's something special. It's so obvious that it hardly deserves to have a name, let alone a framework.
In the vast majority of cases you cannot turn a PDF into spatial data, except for georeferencing it as an image. There are some exceptions, such as when the PDF already includes georeferenced vector data, but its very unlikely you had that sort of file given the issue you described.

You likely either:
- needed to export an image of the data (raster);
- needed to digitise the data within;
- needed to extract the vector data first from the pdf and work out how to deal with it.

Opening a pdf without appropriate data structures into a gis software package is akin to taking a picture of a billboard that has a printed image of a map on it and then expecting to be able to do anything with that picture. The pdf is a bit better, but not by much unless it began life as a georeferenced pdf with vector data maintained.
The real "nonsense" is their claim that they want to join the NATO. It's just posturing and they do not want to join NATO and give up their "neutrality". If Sweden was serious about it, the Swedish government wouldn't have allowed the Quran burning incident to happen knowing it would cause genuine outrage among the Turkish (who have a large population of muslims). Finland is also trying to weasel itself out by saying that it will join NATO only if Sweden joins it.
Instead of waiting for the future maybe you could look to the past? That's how graphics cards used to work back a couple decades ago.
I’ve heard about the watermelons, but it seems to be debunked. See this HN comment from awhile ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23643871

(But I love Ryan North)
There's a scientist that thinks they found some live silphium:

https://allthatsinteresting.com/silphium
Isn't it the control circuits surrounding the magnetron that do a lot of this work? If you clip off some transistors and wire on a new one, how much can you change the frequency?
> Is there working stack you can deploy to your own VM and deploy Wildebeest to?

I don't think anyone has tried it yet. There are probably some missing pieces that need to be filled in. In principle, it should be possible to fill in those pieces without changing any of the Wildebeest code itself.

As a simple example, Workers KV provides a simple key/value storage API, basically just the methods get(key) and put(key, value). In workerd, you can use this API, but you have to configure it to point at your own back-end that does the actual storage. It translates into a basic HTTP API (mostly just GET/PUT). You could pretty easily write a Worker (running as another nanoservice on top of the same workerd instance) that uses local disk storage to back this API, or sends the data to some other back-end of your choice.

Eventually we should have ready-made shims like this to handle a lot of situations, but it's still somewhat early days of workerd and at present some of this is still missing.
Absolutely. One of those things that many of us take for granted, but shouldn't.
Maybe

...
if answers.get('I exist'):
print('a')

Which is why you should always explicitly check for None if that is your intent.
China Withdraws from International Undersea Cable Project
Thanks for the clarification. I don't use Tcl for normal work anymore (though I still use it for small things), but it still has a very special place in my heart. It's one of my favorite languages to program in.
"The goverment" is composed of many different people. I assure you that some people cares a lot about what is better for children, and fight to get this kind of policies implemented. Others vote in favor just because it looks good on them. Some does not care and may vote against just because they can profit from it.

So any cynical view will be true for a few politicians, but never for all.
> Fundamentally, I have never understood why a conventional neural network cannot learn self-attention.

Here's how I think about it: Yes, you can learn everything with an MLP, since universal approximation and so on, but it is not efficient. And (modern) ML is all about scale.

Here's one way to see the difference: Self-attention takes as input N channels of dimension D. It maps to N keys and Queries with a DxD matrix, time = O(ND^2). Next it computes all pair-wise Key-Query inner products: time = O(N^2D). Finally
softmax takes time = O(N^2) and computing "probability times values" takes O(DN^2).

All in all self-attention takes O(DN^2+ND^2) time to map ND values to ND values.
How long would an MLP take to do the same thing? O((ND)^2).

So, in a typical case of D~1000 and N~1000 we save a factor 1000.
For the price of 1 MLP layer, you could afford 1000 self-attention layers.
It's a pretty major difference.
In correcting a triviality, you’ve been more dishonest than GP and even the headline. GP inflated the confidence of the three year limit. You said that the headline is “exactly right”, while in fact it’s objectively false, the “new trains” it refers to do not exist. You’ve also fabricated 2-3 years of repeated work, which is not backed by this source, would be pretty bizarre if truly nothing could be salvaged, and in fact is apparently contradicted by other sources, which state that the firm worked with bad measurements for only about a year.
I love the decemberists, but I’m not going to lie, if you gave me a handful of their songs (not the most popular but fillers from the albums) and injected this as well, then asked me to tell you which one was written by chat gpt I’d fail. I think Colin over estimates intuition here. Intuition is just the ability to ability to know what’s best without completely understanding why. Which is precisely how chat GPT works. It doesn’t know why these patterns are common for humans to love, but neither do humans really.
Where is the third? This was a tow vehicle on a taxiway.
Right because the spec is not IEEE 754. JSON numbers are not floats. They’re numbers with as many decimal points as you want. It’s up to the serializer/deserializer to decide how to handle them.
> If we plot alcohol consumption in a population where x is alcohol consumed and y is health outcomes, and start from a value of ”y=1” at ”x=0” consumption, the curve will have a negative derivative everywhere.

Again.

NO!

Such plot does not exists, or you would show it to us.

A very recent Lancet study show that up to 2 standard units of alcohol a day, there's no measurable difference with non drinking people.

Two standard units is more than a pint of beer.

And above that, the difference is barely noticeable until some serious quantity of alcohol (4 units and above a day)

Do you have some more reliable data than Lancet by any chance?

> but statistically speaking it’s not a) necessary or b) healthy

statistically speaking you don't need hotdogs or coffee and they are not exactly healthy. Am I right?

statistically speaking you don't need opioids and yet

deaths involving opioids increased from an estimated 70,029 in 2020 to 80,816 in 2021

and it's even worse

an average of 44 people died each day from overdoses involving prescription opioids, totaling more than 16,000 deaths

so there's also that.

Maybe in US you have a moderation problem.

Maybe is a social problem, not an health issue.

> I’m not sure why you are equating drug use with physiological necessities but if you feel you need to be defensive of your or someone elses drinking habits that’s a red flag for alcoholism.

because the benefits are higher than the risks associated with them.

Biking is associated with a number of benefits, but biking is also very dangerous.

there is no amount of biking that can be considered risk free!

So, please, stop being Malachia from "The name of the rose"

> Usually alcoholics - typical of addiction- get pretty defensive of their habit

This is getting pathetic.

My family makes their own wine, from our own grapes, for family consumption, we've been doing it for centuries.

We love doing it together and then consume it together, as a family.

It makes our collective life better.

My grandparents, gran-grand parents and grand-grand-grand parents died on average after 90.

I would argue that usually the more pedantic anti-something are former addicts.

My dad was a heavy smoker, he is the most annoying anti-smoke person in the World.

You sound exactly like one of those "sober" people.

I'm a the only one sensing something here?
This particular one is my general purpose desktop. I use it for everything from Emacs, development, web browsing, games (Steam mostly) etc.

Physically there is nothing left of the original hardware as it has gone through many generations of part replacements, Ship of Theseus style. It's the OS image that has survived through all this. My /home which I keep separate is another 10 years older.
Most bombs are found by actively surveying the site, often using old aerial photography. But random finds happen and sometimes with deadly consequences. In 2014 a bomb exploded during earth works, the backhoe operator was killed https://www.deutschlandfunk.de/unfall-baggerfahrer-bei-bombe...
On that last point I have assumed that agriculture was a necessary precursor to any major technological develolment - ie you cannot build a forge and metal working tools if you need to pack them up and follow the herd every few months.
It's open source.

https://github.com/deepmind/alphastar

Same with AlphaFold.

Now people here complain that they don't sell APIs to proprietary models like OpenAI. They are a research lab after all.
The more balanced processing is sharpened because I sharpened it. You can have less sharpening if that’s what you prefer.

The noise levels are perfectly acceptable. If you're finicky about noise (a pointless obsession, IMO), then of course you won't use single shot RAWs from a cellphone camera. For any ordinary photographic purpose the level of noise from a modern phone sensor is perfectly fine – even without any fancy processing or multishot blending.
Not in the GIS world of products they do not. They are thin clients for maps, not analytical tools.