skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Typescript on nodejs for many reallofe backend use cases i observed turned out to be far superior than real world java/scala code.
On the other hand, the seven‐continent model is dominant in the Anglosphere. So it seems the sensible thing to do is what in fact is already normally done: in Spanish and other such languages, use “América” to refer to North and South America, and in English, use “America” to refer to the USA and “the Americas” to refer to North and South America.
FWIW:

I just went out to buy gas for my snowblower and generator. The gas station was a mile away. It was 17 minutes round trip.

Granted, some of that time was taken up by opening up the gas can and adding stabilizer, but the point stands that getting gas is a chore.
Only tangentially related, but reminds me of something I ran across recently. I've been maintaining a couple of old blogs my wife used to write for years; I don't want to get rid of them, but it was a bit of a pain having to regularly keep wordpress updated and fix any related issues. Recently found a WP plugin, Simply Static, that will generate a static site from a wordpress blog, maintaining all the URLs and such. So it's perfect for my use case of archiving something that won't be added to in the future. But you can also use it for a live site, just exporting a new static version after each post.

Used it for those couple of blogs with zero issues, and now I can keep the originals around but inaccessible from the internet, so I don't have to worry about keeping them updated, aside from when I update php itself.
Sometimes translation can do an ok job. Eg Rosetta 1/2, the Alpha thing. Still slower than native though.
Software development isn’t just “writing code”. It’s knowing what code to write. It’s knowing how to accomplish a goal using code. It’s knowing how to structure all of your code to work together. It’s knowing how to adapt code to meet new requirements. I don’t foresee rich “idea” guys figuring out how to do that any time soon.
Most of the critique I hear Stephenson get is that he writes an incredible 400 page book in 800 pages.

I agree with you, though. His world building and stories pull me in unlike almost any other author - the more the better IMO.
It's one those "the first taste is free" kind of things. If you're just doing the transition now, you'll have to take my word that there's more pain coming. It also matters a lot what you mean by "bolting on"...is anyone on the team actually using it?

I will freely admit that, depending on the size of the team and the scale of the app, YMMV. For example, if you're the only person working on a legacy app that isn't under high load or lots of regular change, it probably doesn't matter what technology you use. At the extreme other end, the best tech in the world can be an impossible lift for a high-load service with a huge team supporting it.

Most of the parasitic complexity, in my experience, comes not from GQL itself, so much as the downstream burdens that come with maintaining the infrastructure needed to service the GQL. Everything being a POST, for example -- hope you don't like cacheing!
>(link) It doesn’t have AES instructions, so be deliberate in how you compare this benchmark to anything, but here’s openssl speed:

Beware the CPU does not have the scalar or vector cryptographic extensions, but the SoC has a cryptography acceleration module.

It is not supported in the current image's kernel, but the patch to support it is being reviewed upstream for merging.
> subjective meaning is not sufficent - definitions are required

This is the flaw. It isn’t. It is required if we will write rules with respect to it. But there is another way. Forcing everything into an objective definition is the source of our divides, not a solution to anything.

Statesmen, from Cicero to Hamilton to Obama, understood this. But there is an emerging tendency to treat every system as technical, and that is destructive.
You sure do by February or March though, if the last time you spent an afternoon at the park (or the beach) was late August.
A UUID is a bunch of bit fields packed together: the version/variant, and depending on the version, fields for the datetime, MAC address, node ID, etc. You'd use bit ops to both construct and extract the fields.
(Airbyte co-founder here, so you can get first-hand feedback on this)

Here's what we did:

- select the 3 top alternative tools

- look at databases of tech stacks (https://stackshare.io/ is one), the company websites where any logos were mentioned, anywhere we could get an info that this company was using one of the alternative tools

- then did 4. 5. 6. 7. in the steps mentioned in this article

- https://airbyte.com/blog/how-to-create-awareness-with-no-tim...

- in the messaging, saying that you are building an open-source version of that alternative tool they're using helps a ton if you're reaching out to a technical audience. also, don't forget to personalize the message you're sending with the tool they're using name, company, etc. so it doesn't seem too automated, but more authentic.

One other thing that helped in our case was that we built a previous product before and asked to be introduced to their data team, but most of the interviews were scheduled by the methodology above.

Hope that helps!
The term "Ozempic face" mentioned in the article is not unique to Ozempic. It happens to anyone who loses a lot of weight rapidly, especially if they're middle aged.
> if you have health insurance through your job, what does it provide that your insurance does not

I have no idea, but it worked. I went to the One Medical office nearby, and the doctor fixed my problem. All communication after was through the One Medical iPhone app, which was pretty good for medical software but was still complicated for no reason. The relatively few things the doctor wanted to tell me were scattered around different menus, and I missed some. He could've just given me a piece of paper, and it would've been way easier.
There is no good alternative unfortunately, but the belief that electric cars are "better" for the planet is utterly ridiculous and false.
Was this made for the shelved HBO series?
Can't we just get D3 without calcium?
It's licensed Apache 2.0 https://github.com/google/open-location-code
"First thing is voltage, 120/230V is not suitable for LEDs"

Perfectly-fine if you put them in a series chain. In fact you reduce power losses at higher operating voltages.
> There should have been something that made it think the person is dead "by association".

Maybe not. The fast way to find the solution to a question on internet is baiting your fishhook with a false answer to trigger an emotional correcting burst. The more emotional, the better.

I speculate that the algorithms could easily suspect some kind of relationship between somebody asking for an obscure figure, and the name provided. If the bot can't find enough data, the human is its better chance to provide some clues. Going silent is a bad strategy to keep the human engaged. To keep the human interest it must say something. Anything. Applying "social hacking" on the human has a good chance of being feed with the correct answer.

In this case the trick worked like a charm (again). The bot received not only much more feedback, but also recruited more humans as a bonus.
What problem is it solving? curious.

later edit: ahh, oil, fat :)
> Have you been confronted for saying "blind" or "mother"? This sounds very hypothetical.

I brought up blind people and mothers to reference other parts of this thread. Seems like the thread has gotten a lot longer since I read it, and I suppose its context can't be assumed now. Blind people[1], Mothers:

> For example, it seems like we can't say "mother" anymore in medical settings. For my partner's entire pregnancy, our providers only referred to "birthing people" because of some tiny number of trans men that exist and also want to give birth. I support trans people living however they want, but my mother was a mother, goddammit, not a "birthing person", and I don't appreciate anyone implying that this word and identity are somehow offensive. At work, a "women in engineering" group got renamed to something bland like "gender minorities in tech".

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35000800

Imagine what its like as an employee at a hospital with that policy. You might personally disagree with it, but what are you going to do? Have a friendly chat with HR about it? (And risk your career in the process?) Or get in line, but feel torn up inside about it?

> for example, Andy uses an antiquated and offensive term to refer to an ethnic minority without realising it, then Bob corrects them. In your terms Bob has "policed" Andy

Thats not what comes to mind when I think about andy having his words policed. I think about things like, people getting viciously attacked on social media for not being woke enough (like what has apparently happened to knitters on instagram[2], and to the young adult fiction community). Or people being told at your workplace that all mention of the word "mother" is banned, that the word is only spoken by antisocial people and the implication hanging that anyone who uses that term will be fired.

Its this "my way or banishment" attitude that makes people feel afraid and angry. Yes; this also happens in 1-on-1 conversations. But as you say, its rarer there. Its so much worse in larger groups like communities and workplaces.

When Stanford publishes a list of "harmful language", or Google adds an AI-powered "inclusive language detector" to google docs[3], they're not having a one-on-one conversation - with all the subtly that comes along with that. They're a powerful institution enforcing their politics by telling their employees what words and ideas will put your job at risk.

If you disagree with the opinions of people on instagram, or twitter, or your employer, there's no subtly. And usually no room for differences of opinion. People either get in line, or they risk getting ostracized from their community and fired from their job. Google has made their stance on this quite clear. Employees either toe the company line re: politics, or they get fired. The same is happening in the academy, and plenty of other places. The intention might be good, but there's a lot of diversity of opinion that is being suppressed as a result.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35006381

[2] https://unherd.com/2020/01/cast-out-how-knitting-fell-into-a...

[3] https://www.vice.com/en/article/v7dk8m/googles-ai-powered-in...
Alternatively, maybe the project authors decided that the cigarette imagery was (1) bothering somebody, and (2) did not matter to the identity of the project and was easily removed, so they decided to honor the request. It's probably what I would have done.

Conversely, I was the author of a project whose namesake and mascot was an animal considered unclean by several world religions. Nobody ever asked me to change it, but I probably would have refused, because in this case, it was tied too much into the identity of the project.
Barely anyone has an iPhone, it’s not even remotely close to a monopoly.

I would like a practical way to have a single chat app on all my devices, some of which Apple makes.
You seem to miss the forest for the trees
It could turn into a Microsoft Office situation where the integrations couple so strongly that it’s very difficult to compete.
> the answer to bullying is to change and conform yourself

Well, it is an answer. An easy and effective one in this precise situation.

We’re not talking about changing the whole kid’s personality here. He probably didn’t make the choice of an Android phone himself.
Ah I was looking for exactly this the other day. I'm try to build a git based interface to our BI tool so that we can get config for our reports in source control instead of configuration in a db.

Was looking for something to read json files which will house the config via SQL, i.e. a human readable db as an alternative to what the BI tool is using for it's config persistence.

Will give DuckDB a go, thanks for posting!
The first point in that link trying to show that it supports different languages has a screenshot with broken Arabic rendering...
A slightly related question: There's been a few articles in the recent years about ways to reduce the size of NNs. Does anyone know how efficiently packed are the new models like GPT? Essentially, what percentage of weights could be thrown out post-training without much impact on the quality?
> opt-175B doesn't exist;

https://ai.facebook.com/blog/democratizing-access-to-large-s...
Thank you for the thoughtful advice. It makes sense that building relationships and possibly hiring is where we should be focusing right now.
I have to applaud this post for many reasons, but I also agree with the approach entirely, and I worry it will scare people off.

Fedora is solid, and eschews the issues that make Arch hard to maintain and Ubuntu hard to stomach. The release cycle is very sane. IMHO It’s the first choice now for daily driving in the RPM world since CentOS was… insert your favorite word.

If I were OP, I wouldn’t have gone straight from Arch to Silverblue on my laptop. I would have done vanilla Fedora, and used one of its several Spins which ship with Gnome alternatives. Then I would have tried Silverblue on my desktop on a separate partition. Not in a VM because I would want to be a using the hardware unmediated, for science. It’s pretty exciting to have a NixOS-style immutability with a mainstream distro. It’s still very much Beta, and I’m not sure I have the energy to give to its edges. And that’s on desktop. Laptop driver support isn’t a guarantee, and it’s not clear to me about how a reboot-to-update workflow would look for me and I worry that a lot of software makes assumptions that aren’t true with Silverblue’s paradigms. What about hibernation!?

So I applaud the author, for jumping in with both feet. The amount of useful detail in that blog post will be saving people time for years to come.

And like a lot of people in this thread, getting off of Arch has been kind of liberating. I only recently switched over, but have had nothing but good experiences so far.
Our bodies can store enough to make it through the winter if you are replete at the beginning.
This is pretty cool. One minor gripe is that there were a lot of useless type asserts cluttering things up. every usage of ::BigFloat here wasn't needed.
>In a very competitive market...

Yes, that was exactly the point that vasco was worrying about earlier in the thread since we don't yet know if it will be competitive market. I was refuting the point that price is dictated by marginal cost. It is dictated by the level of competition. If there is competition, we generally wouldn't have to worry about it only being available to billionaires.
> I'm not sure there's anything left to comment that hasn't already been commented

I would have agreed with you a year ago. But now, with AI, the entire web model may become less of a thing.

I thought the web would endure forever, despite the attacks from platforms and browser monopolizers.

Now it looks like social will soon be overrun by robots (maybe creepy ID verification will save it?), and the need to publish information will diminish as you can generate it and probably share the results on some future AI platform.
Roald Dahl ebooks remotely updated to censored versions after purchase
Unpaywalled: https://archive.fo/OSLQN

Excerpt: Readers who bought electronic versions of the writer’s books, such as Matilda and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, before the controversial updates have discovered their copies have now been changed.
The UK’s “democracy” is a joke. Between an unelected head of state, first past the post and the most corrupt financial system on earth, almost any country does better.
The picture is stupid. IP networks were not designed with the seven-layer OSI model in mind, and, generally speaking, whenever someone talks about layers five and six in the context of a IP-based protocol they don’t understand what they are talking about.

In the OSI reference model, it was opined that people would build common session and presentation management protocols on top of the transport layer. That, by and large, didn’t happen with IP.
I've found Julia to be an excellent language for Project Euler [1]. Besides the speed, you can use Unicode identifiers, so the solution can closer follow the math.

1. https://projecteuler.net/
Having to tie a schedule to public transit would indicate to me that the transit is not properly set up. It should be traveling frequently enough that this is not an issue. One of my biggest reasons for enjoying flexible working hours is that I can go out during the day when transit is most frequent and I don't have to think about the timing since it is much much more frequent then. And another major plus is not having to deal with traffic. I get delayed far more by people in cars than I ever have with transit.

This is a big problem with a lot of systems, especially the north American ones, but it isn't an inherent flaw in public transit. The more it is used and the more it makes itself available and frequent the better it works overall.
The reason we have fewer manufacturing jobs isn't because of automation. It's due to moving manufacturing overseas to exploit cheap labor. Also there are still many parts of this country that have factory jobs (I live in one of them, 10 different factories within half an hour drive.) and the majority have minimal automation.
The power incoming to a home is 220/240 in the USA. You just split the phase at the mains box. I have several 220V-native light fixtures in my kitchen.
I'm also confused by this. If everything was done properly, test results on the holdout set would've been shown. Wasnt that the case?
A couple of years ago i tried to get some clay from a nearby creek, but i found it extremely difficult to replicate his way of making things from clay. Apparently the region he is doing his stuff got some perfect clay everywhere.
That is an ephemeral change. It takes very little time for the biosphere to make a full recovery. You're talking about a small, brief, suppression of the biosphere. And you're calling it "destruction of the biosphere".
Fond memories of OpenLinux because (iirc) the installer had off-brand Tetris you could play while it laboriously copied files from CD to HDD. Always thought that was a little funny given the antics they got up to later.
Ahhh. I did not make myself clear. Apologies. The nested numbers refer to house numbers.

A two order nest is easy enough. Its when it reaches five that things get weird.
I know all countries have the expensive city/cheap countryside dynamic but I would guess very few places are as polarized as the US with a few super expensive cities vs very cheap rural areas.
It really depends on how much you were planning to lard up that Mac with expensive Apple memory and storage. The more of that you want or need, the better the PC is going to look. Ballparking:

ATX case $100
650W ATX PSU apparently these are the smallest now? $100
Z690 motherboard you can spend a lot here but say $250
Reputable DDR5 DIMMs: $70 per 16GB, $120 for 32GB, $220 for 64GB
Reputable 1TB SSD $100
Excellent and quiet air cooler: $100
CPU similar in single-thread perf to M2: $400

You'll note the absence of GPU. I personally don't use them so I see no value in Apple's supposedly quite good ones. And we don't have 4x Thunderbolt ports that will set you back another $100. But we're up to $1200 which is noticeably less than any Mac Studio model.
You just made an SEO expert die of a heart attack. They're paranoid about dateable content.
As long as their reasoning capabilities for the general case (system 2 thinking) remains limited, trial and error will only get them so far.
> The more emotional, the better.

You’ve got to calibrate it if you want the right answer not to be drowned in a sea of abuse, if it is presented at all. You can easily have the bait be too emotional.
Vitamin D is fat soluble like you said. Vitamin D dissolved in fatty oils from fish should be more easily absorbed, which means you could take it without a meal.

Also, the omega-3 fatty acids in fish oil are good for you, and it provides vitamin A and E.

It's a win-win-win-win!
Managed care organizations (health insurance companies) earn 2% to 5% profit margins. Not sure what was in it for JPMorgan, Amazon, and Berkshire, who already earn better profit margins.

If they want to go vertical the whole way, then retail pharmacies are also not a money maker (see Walgreens’ figures, and CVS pre Caremark and Aetna merger). Then there is getting into the provider side, such as employing doctors and owning and operating hospitals. This side has more margin, but is very liability heavy and very risky to get into.

And Kaiser Permanente already does the entire healthcare vertical, but even they are not able to offer measurably lower premiums.

The biggest margins are in pharmaceuticals, but that requires billions of dollars in investment and many years to develop, all for what? At the end, you might as well sell your own medicines at a high margin.

I feel like a lot of the costs in medicine have to do with liability, and without tort reform, there is not much any business can do about costs.
State of the Bat 2023
That doesn't seem to be a particularly distinguishing feature. I know that C#, python, and javascript can all use non-ascii identifiers. I believe most widely used languages can also, but I'm less certain of the details.
Tony Stark is an exception, though. He was once a slave who escaped after he fooled his captor into letting him create a minature arc reactor that he embedded into his own chest in order to fly to freedom and safety - as well as to magnetically keep shrapnel from invading his heart and killing him. He isn't the normal billionaire owner of a software company (outside of comic books).
YUP! Came here looking to see if anyone called this out and you did. If you didn't I was going to.

I don't love working in tech the way I used to but I do still love cashing those paychecks! You can do what you love sure... or you can make the money you want. Almost nobody can do both.

As for me - I know theres bullshit every where you go and all jobs have sucky parts and I prefer this devil because I in fact do get paid enough to put up with this shit.

How about compartmentalizing your job and being happy after putting in 8h of work? Also, reading HN kinda bums me out on tech too at times. The Instagram Effect where you feel like everyone besides you is doing something cooler than fixing bugs in the CRUD application your company sells.
As the need for cog-in-the-machine factory workers declined over the years, the labor force moved to industries like service, construction, transportation, and technology. My understanding is that if you could take a 2023 UPS driver or WalMart employee back in time and give them a day working at a factory in 1930 or 1970, they would eagerly return to the present. And those modern jobs exist today at such great scale in large part due to automation eliminating the old factory jobs (i.e., allowing goods to be produced much more cheaply).
You what? Sun gives you Parkinson's now?
> Not "crimes" in quotes, crimes without quotes. Generally people think law enforcement is important, especially regarding crimes against children. "A slippery slope" which leads criminals being punished is not the argument winning logical fallacy you think it is.

You're missing my point. Content scanning will start with the Four Horsemen of the Infopocalypse[0]. Then it'll move on to "crimes" like blogging about a public figure[1].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Horsemen_of_the_Infocalyp...
[1] https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2023/1316/BillText/Fil...