skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I actually quitted a job in 2017 because I was so hyped around my discovery of clojure in 2016 and wanted to write some piece of code that was gonna parse some JS code and spit out some other JS code. (I quitted cuz I never got the project done and my manager was like hey man it's been 5 months do you have any updates and I'm like hey I've been rewriting the same thing over and over again while hopping between 5 different editors and 3 different build tools and to be honest all I've done is learning emacs for the past month).

I don't know if things have improved but back then everything felt either a WIP or obsolete. You wanna use lein to build but apparently that's ancient and you really should be using this other build tool that's not fully integrated with any editor other than emacs and hey while you are at it the Clojure team has released their own dependency management tool and you really should be using that instead. By the way who uses intellij when there is VS Code?

Clojure boasts about it's strong Java interop and ability to use the existing Java ecosystem but it has one of the worst intellij integrations, using a 3rd party plugin that is either broken or not working with your build tooling.

Oh did you say you wanna use Gradle or Maven to build your Clojure stuff? You could actually do it, funny guy.

The language is probably the most practical lisp out there, but it also brings all the artificial lisp superiority syndrome with it (and forces you into submitting the rest of your life to emacs in praise of lisp culture).

You think you'll pick it up quickly and be productive but juggling between learning all the build tooling, the language itself, editing lisp and integrating all those 1-man libraries that are scattered all over github, you end up losing weeks if not months on fixing boilerplate.

I would give it another go but now that I think about debugging a Clojure app in runtime and making sense of a reflection-based, dynamic language on top of JVM, I'm like naaah I already have enough stress-induced grey hairs...

Haskell gives me the pure functional kick that I want, and the rest I can deal with in Kotlin or even Java 11.
It is quite careless and unfair of Microsoft to do this (as if the Ukrainians did not suffer enough due to the invasion).
At what age is this appropriate?
"Really understanding the issues" might just mean "deeper neural networks and more input data" for the AI though. If you are already conceding that AI has the same capabilities as most humans your own intelligence will be reached next with a high amount of probability.
I suspect it will also limit non-certified USB-C charging cables to some hopefully-not-terrible charging speed.

I see this as a general win since mfi seems to be reasonably open and USB-C has a lot of cheap cables floating around.

USB-C is annoying and I don't like having to worry about about my cable frying my device.

https://www.zdnet.com/home-and-office/smart-office/using-the...
How could LLMs have awareness of self if they’re not capable of forming new knowledge or metacognition? How can you be conscious if you only exist for a split second at a time - long enough to read and respond to a prompt - then disappear forever?

Really think Occam’s razor is useful here. If we define this as consciousness, then it’s a very very different kind than ours.
Yea but that doesn't work because that's not where its coming through
IKEA sells a container set with grater lids and then a sealing lid. We get our kids to grate the cheese (and they fight over the opportunity) and excess cheese is stored in the fridge for the next meal. Or as you probably do, just grate straight onto the food.

https://www.ikea.com/au/en/p/uppfylld-grater-with-container-...
Tesla Will Open Some Chargers to All Electric Vehicles
Not really.

If you purchase a cable from somewhere else and it doesn't work with your iPhone, Apple will say "no idea, it's not our cable".

If your Apple custom USB-C cable doesn't work with your Android phone, Apple will say "no idea, it's not our device".

Apple only guarantees that an Apple iPhone can transfer data through an Apple (or Apple certified) USB-C cable. Nothing more, nothing less. They don't have to manufacture their cables to be compliant with USB-IF standards as the EU law is only about charging and not about data transfer.
I guess I don’t really see what your point is then. If you’re going to the point where we are getting into civil disputes, then how isn’t “employee became the center of controversy on social media and caused damage to company X’s reputation” not covered under this rubric? Because that is essentially what “cancel culture” is.
This is a very good point. Thanks for the context on how ORC does it, I was not familiar with how it evolved.

In our case this is not an issue yet. We split up the unwind tables in chunks of up to ~1MB so we typically have in very few L2 cache misses.

This has to be done once per frame so in my 4 year old i7 processor. There are roughly `2 L2 cache misses (+ few other misses from reading ancillary data structures) * frames`.

We have more work to do regarding benchmarks but I collected some numbers the other day and 90 frames can be walked in less than 500ns (slide 50 https://fosdem.org/2023/schedule/event/walking_stack_without...)

There are more optimisations we have in the works to make our unwinder more efficient, mostly related to fitting more data in the CPU cache and reducing cache misses.
Does it? A 20k flight sounds wasteful, but 300k over 3 years involving a lot of international travel sounds reasonable.

If half your job is constantly flying all over the world the least they can do is have you fly business/first. International travel (especially across timezones) is already hard enough without it.

Flying halfway across the world in economy means I need to pad my vacation with at least 3 days each way to sort of recover.

To be fair, the same thing is true in business, but at least the experience is somewhat bearable.
None of which means this for-profit company gets access to utility infrastructure. Even if they did... it would still be cost prohibitive to split, splice, run and terminate fiber into a residential unit - all in the name of saving $200 a year.

It simply does not make economic sense. Like I said before - I strongly suspect the entire truth is not being told about this arrangement.
It's not an exaggeration. My city government has funded a "Black Excellence Center" which will use public funds to build a racially-exclusive art gallery/business incubator/cultural space for black people, who represent ~6% of my city's population and are not excluded from any of the similar places which already exist:

https://www.theblackcenter.org/

This is blatantly unconstitutional, but no one has challenged it in court and no one will. Other examples abound, such as racial discrimination in Ivy League admissions (now challenged in court, but for its impact on Asians mainly) and observed differences across race in admitted med students' MCAT scores.

Teddy Roosevelt once said that, "There is no room in this country for hyphenated Americanism" and, "The one absolutely certain way of bringing this nation to ruin, of preventing all possibility of its continuing to be a nation at all, would be to permit it to become a tangle of squabbling nationalities." Well, here we are. Separate schools, separate standards, separate funding, separate public investment, except for the one largest demographic group... all driving my country into further conflict and disunity.
It certainly was. It might not be anymore but it worked fairly well so I'm not sure why they would change it.
I think it would be really funny what Carl Sagan would think of it

After the robot apocalipsis happens, and all of human history ends, the way robots as the apex of earthly existence use to amuse themselves is just counting into infinity
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When you see someone walking towards you with a knife and he says "I am going to stab you", you don't wait for him for to make physical contact before you decide to draw your gun.

The Nazi party was in power for over a decade before the first gas chamber was built. If they had been stopped at the broadcasting hate propaganda stage millions of lives would have been saved, and a war requiring the collective military capacity of the rest of the hemisphere wouldn't have been necessary.

Perhaps the most important lesson of the 20th century is that the broadcasting of the right words for long enough and to enough people can cause destruction and death orders of magnitude greater than any single weapon of war.
This sentiment pops up regularly on HN, and I've seen at least one article per month for the past few months, but the trouble is, none of them seem to help you actually deploy it. They assume you're comfortable spinning up public web servers.

If you want to use a PaaS to deploy an app, because you don't want to spend your time learning to be a sysadmin, then all the tutorials are going to put you on the Postgres path, because that's what's supported. (Of course, you'll then end up paying $15+/mo for Postgres, which is hilarious for most hobby projects storing 50MB of data.) But in reality, you could just scale vertically on one machine and be completely fine. No need for "distributed" anything, in theory.

I took a shot at productionizing SQLite here as an experiment: https://cheapo.onrender.com/
But I'm not sure I did it right, because I don't have much experience working below the level of a PaaS. I'm an application developer and I do not want to become a release engineer. I resent even having to learn Docker. :-)

Anyway, if somebody wants to nitpick my Flask+SQLite deployment, I'd really appreciate it, because it seems really silly that people have to keep writing this stuff from scratch when 90% of hobby sites have the exact same needs. And the Fly.io/Render configs would apply just as well to Node, Ruby, etc. https://github.com/irskep/cheapo_website

Edit: Somebody got mad at the Docker bit. I tossed it in for effect, but I promise you I don't hate learning new skills. I wish people would recognize that weekend coding projects should be fun, and sometimes that means avoiding certain kinds of things that a person experiences as difficult or frustrating. Arguing on the internet sucks, who knew?
Scientists find first observational evidence linking black holes to dark energy
I think that is a pretty balanced take and falls short of "he shouldn't be so provactive".

It simply says he shouldn't be applauded for being provacative. Being a victim of injustice is not itself a virtue.
Michael, is that you?
Silt is basically naturally milled sand. There isn't anything exotic about it.
From author Larry Correia

Rule number 1 of internet arguing, never argue to convince your opponent, argue for the benefit of the audience.
What's even more scary to me is that there are several groups out there openly advertising the fact that they have exploits that can compromise all major cell phone brands, undetectably.

These groups, some commercial and some governmental inside the US, Israel, Italy, and elsewhere, can hack the phones and mobile devices of Presidents/Prime Ministers, member of Congress/Parliament, Supreme Court justices, and the military. This presents the risk of blackmail/extortion being used to control critical decisions and actions made by these people every day. They are not shy about advertising these capabilities and the rules they put in place to limit damage mostly concern damage to the hacking groups, not to countries or people.
Isn't that what this product is doing though?
That's irrelevant.

The fact is that we don't have neutral institutions. Even theoretically it would be extremely unlikely, and in practice it won't happen, chiefly because it would involve people in the in-group making comittiments to deplorable people in the out-group.

This might be approximately possible in a united cohesive high-trust society... but that bond of kinship simply doesn't exist anywhere in the West today
wasn't 'Russia meddling' a planted story by US domestic intelligence, as has come to light in the Twitter files?
> I'm a jew, I see the neo nazi groups with banners or Kanye ranting and just laugh. Who cares? Now if they want to come at me with physical violence then that's something else. I'll respond in kind

You're acting as though the likely outcome of neo-nazi groups is some skinhead trying to fight you. What actually happens is neo-nazi groups radicalize angry young men who then go out a gun down a whole bunch of people at a synagogue.

>Trans people are for some reason the only large visible group yelling that speech is violence and saying mean things about them should be illegal.

This is simply nonsense. Pretty much every group in the country has a contingent that wants speech against them regulated
I’m just trying to “prove” that it isn’t just randomly statistically choosing the next logical word. It has to know context and have some level of “understanding” of other contexts.

But you ... aren't. The statistically most likely words coming after problem X may well be solution X. Because it's following the pattern of humans using rules. And context is also part of a prediction.

The only this is different from something just using rules is that it will also put in other random things from it's training - but only at the rate they occur, which for some things can be quite low. But only some things.
Feels like if you added a STT and TTS setup to it, while having it cache conversations as long as possible without going off topic it would be the weirdest conversational experience anyone's ever had.
What risks have all those studies found in COVID vaccines?
Isn't 5g around 60 cups of coffee? Over what span of time would those need to be ingested?
This is a huge misunderstanding of what happened. You gave it prompts, and it found examples of similar text in its database and extrapolated what was likely to follow. No ICMP packets were sent to Google.
Not supporting the original comment, but poking at your train of thought here: Wouldn’t the same be true if we passed all of your HN posts through a cipher?
Judges: people who are famously experts in pharmacology
TIL PDP-11 UNIX had an eight-character file/directory name limit https://retrocomputing.stackexchange.com/questions/23917/ori...
I’m confused. Are you saying he straight up subtracted the larger number from the smaller?
The answer here is non-trivial. I have since long stopped developing with PHP, but PHP has several run modes (And multiple runtimes like HHVM), that may bring different performance and concurrency characteristics.

Last I remember, PHP still runs all inside of a single process, so it still all share the same memory space, and it no longer has the overhead of starting a new process with every request.

The piece of engineering that made node.js so fast back in the day was Libuv, which allowed for non-blocking IO, greatly reducing the number of system calls/context switches.

But I am also going to guess that PHP developers have since caught on to the performance optimizations of non-blocking IO, and integrated the improvements into the runtime. Doing a quick search for "php vs nodejs benchmark" on Google [1], it seems like the performance of Nodejs is comparable to that of HHVM.

So as usual, use the right tool for the job. This is more of a problem of using your tooling correctly, more than choosing the correct language.

[1] https://yuiltripathee.medium.com/node-js-vs-php-comparison-g...
I think the disdain for her was less misogyny (the ghost of Margaret Thatcher still excites the conservatives in a way only directly comparable to the Republican worship of Regan) and more her utter unlikability.

A politician can be unlikable and effective, or likeable and ineffective. Once in a very great while they combine efficacy and electability. But to combine such utter ineffectuality with a total lack of charisma is to ensure destain.

But I agree, she didn't create the environment that led to Brexit like Cameron, nor did she help push it through like Johnson. Whatever her legacy, it's as nothing next to theirs.
Back in the 80s, a friend of mine had an Atari ST computer. I remember that the button text for closing an error dialog said "Sorry."
I’m not arguing one way or another, but presumably the market is “iPhone users”, for which Apple has a monopoly on the App Store.
My understanding is that it provides asynchronous replication, so you'd still lose some data if you lose a machine. This is documented here https://litestream.io/tips/#data-loss-window
Oceans are like very deep markets - lots of participants but harder to outcompete the others. SPY is like the pacific - interacting with many other markets, constant yet chaotic.

Mountains are like smaller caps - there is a lot more alpha, higher volatility but opportunity size is only a fraction.

Would be cool to make a procedural rendering of the financial markets as a landscape/globe map. "Got a cold front blowing across the tech sector today"
This makes me think of the wpost story I just read "States love jokes on road safety signs. The feds aren’t laughing."[1] I imagine any effective humor will have an audience that is smaller than the audience you are trying to reach with universal messages.

Just as traffic signs probably shouldn't try to be cute to a specific demographic at the expense of confusing or even worrying others, an good error message should serve two purposes. Give some type of next steps for the users, and second provide something specific enough to be useful if the user is able to contact customer support.

[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/transportation/2023/02/13/hig...
Is it the William Gibson book where future cars are described as having a cardboard exterior?
There are mini nuc like computers that use mobile chips and those tend to go down to 15w.
Ok JSON maybe wasn't the best example. I wasn't aware that SQLite had those json features though, thanks for the advice.
Yes and no. Very few people get started with a legitimate prescription. The typical opioid OD happens to someone who had other substance abuse and mental health problems and at some point started taking resold/stolen prescription opioids. Until fentanyl flooded the market most ODs were multi-substance and often(some 85%+ in places where coroners checked if memory serves) involved a LOT of alcohol. Now, its often just fentanyl, which is hard to dose correctly especially if you've recently tried to quit.
This is a good one, too: low-stakes, usually, and plays well to its audience.

https://www.diopitt.org/hackernews
You bastard, what a wonderful response.
especially because if you half the tdp of the CPU, you can cut the cooling a bunch which reduces the cost and noise.
Do you eat or breathe a lot of silt? If you did, you'd probably get sick. Silicosis is a terrible and terribly common occupational ailment.

It's the size of the particle that matters more than what it's made of
> Most Chromebook run x86 processors.

Objectively true.

> You would be hard pressed to find one that didn't

Eh, that's less true; I own 2 ARM Chromebooks, because I wanted some non-x86 in my life, and neither was hard to find, it just took me actually looking for it.
> The people pushing the idea of trans people as "groomers" is violence.

I never heard that one before, but it sounds awful similar to the idea that men are all at risk of being pedophiles and should not be allowed to work in places near children.

The idea that all men are inherently dangerous and need to be removed in certain areas and contexts is a fairly common held viewed. Is it that any less of violence than people who view trans people as inherently dangerous? Personally I view both believes to be intolerant and discriminating, but I doubt I will live long enough to see a society where we can move beyond such views.
The wall was pure political theatre. Near as I can tell, it didn’t even slow down people on foot, and drugs are coming in via freight anyway.
It would encourage terrible levels of self-indulgence. Imagine:

* "It costs nothing so I air-condition the entire town."

* "It costs nothing so I have my smart car follow me around 24x7, in case I want it."
http://archive.today/jbMxb

https://www.vox.com/2020/4/15/21214734/deaths-of-despair-cor...

(First link fixed)
This privileges the government as one of many organizations with outsized power.

Should we also restrict private, yet powerful, organizations from similar actions?

Clearly the article was considering various non-governmental institutions as places where liberal intellectualism are traditionally important and whether or not they should continue to have those values.
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Extremely low instances of complications. The same complications exist in far higher rates with COVID itself.
Incident Travel Time
Read up on a twitter thread where someone had an anecdote where one of their family members was ODing, the ER first responders didn't have narcan, and a homeless person came up, asked if the person was OD, administered narcan and disappeared before anyone could thank them.

So all of it.
Fentanyl makes a mockery of something like border control. You can fit an absurd number of doeses into a package the size of a standard letter envelope. The demand for Fentanyl is directly related to the vice grip of the DEA on prescription opioids.
That's why the quote specifically mentions "intellectual liberalism" not Biblical laws nor the US legal system.
Exactly. At least they could've played dumb with his extradition for a few months, let him get accustomed to Fox Hill while they prepare the case against him ... but the jet was waiting for him the very next day. No shame.
Exactly. COVID vaccines are the most studied medical treatment in the world. No one is asking you to blindly trust anyone, but if you are going to question something, be aware of the amount of work being done to either prove or disprove claims.
Then I would ask, where does it end?

Consider a function that isn't doing IO, but it takes a long, potentially variable amount of time (i.e. it "blocks" as long as a file system request might block)

Is it even possible for that function to be "async-safe"? If you have it spin off a separate async task and yield to the original one, that's still filling up your thread pool. The only full solution then would be to manually create a separate thread outside of the async workers (until the OS hits the thread limit, of course)

This too is a little contrived, but I don't see a hard distinction between this and the IO case

At some point: the computer has finite resources, and those can get overloaded. There's something here around how async runtimes might not be making full use of the machine, which is an interesting thread (no pun intended) to pull on. But I don't think we can expect the language (at least as currently designed) to fully prevent this class of problem. And I also don't think the standard library should orient itself around async use-cases, which are still a minority of Rust uses, especially for the sake of an edge-case like this one
If Bing had a car, the rear window would be covered with way too many bumper stickers.
If electricity was actually free and unlimited - all that energy goes into heat. We're worried about warming from CO2, imagine the energy output from everybodies every whim!
My interpretation is it's speaking to former bastions of "intellectual liberalism" (e.g. universities).
i know that

i'm correcting their terminology

'durability' already has a well-established, rigorously-defined meaning in this context, which is confusingly similar to pitr but definitely not the same thing

the downside of sync replication, as i understand it, is that although your data will survive any one of your machines being instantly nuked from orbit, your entire service will go down; semi-sync avoids this problem
Any cloud expense they pay for for a free user is nothing but a marketing expense.
It’s French. ;)
Because cocaine is easily available?