skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Whilst I moderately agree that it does sound like it could be stalkerish there is some evidence of her active involvement, eg:

> I was living at my parents’ home in Rockville Centre and feared that asking Zervos to reply to Ed Epstein c/o Betty & Lou Epstein might cast my credibility as a producer into question. Susan’s sorority house at Cornell, Alpha Epsilon Phi, had a similar problem, but Susan found the solution: her father.

> David Brockman, a successful financier, had an impressive address, which I used as my return address.

and:

> I returned to Greece with Susan. She would supervise the design of the costumes, chariots, and other artwork. She took the costume design from vases she found in museums.
Given Nature's treatment of truth, I'd say the explanation is right about here:

"The conservative mainstream population often collides with and rejects the value of certain scientific fields. I also face underestimation by some other academics, who say that I’m wasting my time on meaningless bones. Also, many citizens have never heard about palaeontological digs before.

Local misunderstandings have been exacerbated by Sudan’s gold rush, which began about 11 years ago — community suspicions that we are searching for gold make it difficult for us to move around and dig. There are large amounts of gold deposits to the northeast of Khartoum, where we do most of our outdoor work."
Everything Everywhere All at Once: could the multiverse be real?
> Pro tip: if you're CEO of a bank that's facing a bank run, don't tell the press that you'll be in trouble if everybody takes their money out.

I don't think this is damning in any capacity. It's well known that all banks in the world keep part of their reserves in other vehicles. If a bank run happens, they'll have liquidity issues.
Rspack: The Rust-Based Web Bundler That Combines High Performance with Interop
Right, my mistake, I meant radar.
it is interesting. i believe they may be hitting a wall as well
Could you share what troubles you had with namecheap, in vague terms at least if you don't want to be specific?
Also VCs should start shorting the stock
I wouldn't say the lesson was expensive for France, we've enjoyed cheap energy for decades due to this buildup.

The conclusion of this study isn't that France made a costly mistake, it is that it is extremely delusional to forecast ever-increasing efficiency gains when deploying a new technology.

I wouldn't be surprised if the very same lesson was learned by countries planning to go full-renewable.
Except that's not it.

The problem will get bigger and bigger, requiring more and more compute power. You see, whatever system you design to autonomously control a car will never be "enough", or perfectly safe. There are simply too many variables in the environment, too many possibilities. So a certain design, taking a certain amount of compute power, will give you a certain level of safety. But it won't be perfect. People will want more safety and better systems. That'll take more power (probably exponentially more, as we've already seen with other simulations). The cycle will never end.
They're not common, but here's one:

I wanted six axis control over the position/angle of either half of my split keyboard, because I'm that kind of nerd. I was using 80/20 rail on a lazy Susan hinge for x-translation and x-rotation. Standing desk covered z-translation and y-translation I was considering using VESA pole mounts for y and z rotation, but 80/20 and VESA are different universes, and I've never seen a picture of VESA poles being used horizontally. Nor, so far as I'm aware, has the web contained text (until now) which indicates that they can be joined in the way that I wanted to join them: with the pole perpendicular to the rail.

A little fiddling with things in my garage and I discovered that the holes in the 80/20 rail line up with the U-bolt of the correct diameter for wrapping a VESA pole mount. So I used four U-bolts for the job:

https://imgur.com/a/vXLX4RA

I think that the only prompts that would lead ChatGPT to that conclusion are ones supplied by a human who already knew it. But now that I've published text that puts the concept into language, a future LLM might be able to suggest it.
You're wrong about whether fractional reserve banking is broadly good for people living in developed economies - it is - but you're unlikely to be talked out of this conspiracy kick you're on, so :shrug:. All the best to you!
You just don’t scale nuclear power up and down. You run at full capacity all of the time outside of maintenance shutdowns.

If you shut down or reduce power at all, you essentially have to wait two days to turn back on.

There’s a decay chain of isotopes that only stick around a couple of days which are normally burned off by neutrons when the reactor is running which build up when you turn the reactor off. They eat up neutrons making the rector much harder to control until they decay naturally. In order to restart the reactor you essentially have to double the output for a while and slowly very carefully reduce it at just the right rate… and if you make mistakes the reactor melts down.

This xenon poisoning was part of the Chernobyl disaster where operator actions and mistakes causing it and then their responses and mechanical failures led to the meltdown.

Rectors are just not designed to do this because it’s too risky and complicated to be worth it. So when you stop the reactor it just stays stopped for a couple of days. Similar for any throttling down which I understand is done carefully in some circumstances but absolutely not continually to respond to demand.
I believe the recent No Suprises Act no longer allows balance billing for emergency care or when an out-of-network provider is working at an in-network facility.

https://www.consumerfinance.gov/ask-cfpb/what-is-a-surprise-...
Agreed. These could be rotated and arranged in different patterns, maybe. But I'd need to see that case built.

About a dozen years ago someone made the case for their being only one cloud icon, I think a lot cleaner

https://www.hanselman.com/blog/there-is-only-one-cloud-icon-...

I've noticed this to hold over the years, almost always. I actually end up laughing a bit when I see cloud depictions in design specs these days because it's the same damn cloud every time.

I actually wrote something about 12 years ago where I caught the Debian swirl on this music label https://www.discogs.com/label/144485-Balance-Alliance

And someone pointed out that it's a Photoshop brush pattern. Although I'm not so sure that's the connection. It was sometimes just straight up Debian red https://www.discogs.com/release/1841959-Various-Balance-Esse...

Here's the old post with link rots and everything https://kristopolous.blogspot.com/2011/11/what-nice-logo.htm...
Developmental trajectory of transmission speed in the human brain
Its kinda funny reading these. Kotlin and Groovy exist, which fixed a lot of the issues with core java (like for example requiring a class around a main function), but yet Java developers are completely oblivious to this. This kind of stuff should be in the core language.

Im convinced that Java exists solely to create positions within Software Engineering industry. It requires you to write more code than necessary by design.
> Detroit has been one of the top cities for murder rate for over 50 years straight

How does that relate statistically to urban vs rural crime rates? You didn’t make an argument about Detroit. You made one about rural vs city generally.

> where would you rather be caught

When I was 13 years old I witnessed 2 teenagers being assaulted by a crowd of adults with firearms in a rural location while working on a farm for the summer. I’ve never experienced anything scarier since. I don’t extrapolate that experience out to all rural locations though so I’m not sure. I think urban just for the transportation options.

> you used a predominantly black rural area

I didn’t. Tptacek did. I just looked up their stats to see if it was an obvious anomaly. It wasn’t.

You also didn’t make a point about race. Your point was about rural vs urban. Perhaps you’d like to make a further point?
The backups were indeed WhatsApp's Achilles heel. However recently they've finally given users the option to store the key on their side and only there.
2009 Chevy Malibu vs. 1959 Bel Air Crash Test [video]
No, but they are our most similar competitor.
Really impressive tool though, I will try it.
Can it reason about the code it generates?
Wouldn’t that just be a storage facility?
What’s hard for tech people to understand is that for people who aren’t geeks, they might be seeing a lot of downsides to the use of the technology without the inherit nerd fetish and excitement of having digital brains shared by many HN readers and geeks in general.

I find it funny that on hacker news I frequently see dismissive, anti-human comments all the time like, “oh brains are nothing special or magic, they’re just atoms”, “we’re just meat bags etc”, but then fail to understand why regular people might be unimpressed by something which acts somewhat like a synthetic brain.

It is what it is I guess…if people aren’t immediately impressed with the results. If it’s not really what the majority of people want. Who cares?
Triton is clearly a popular name for GPU access and inference[0].

[0] https://developer.nvidia.com/nvidia-triton-inference-server
FWIW, Mercury and Brex are not banks.

Mercury provides services and a frontend, but their banking services are provided by Choice Financial and Evolve.

Brex is also not bank. The Brex business account is an FDIC Sweep account, which constantly moves your balances across multiple banks to keep you within the FDIC limits.
The capture itself could be lossless but would be ridiculously huge, re-encoding that to a usable file size will introduce some loss.
Your "countries with Sharia law are good" argument might not be as compelling to me as you seem to think it is... Are there any good examples of non-authoritarian non-dictatorships in this space?

Edit to add: You're right, I guess, that our government would probably take over everything and narrowly dodge mass starvation with mere mass poverty, but that doesn't sound great to me either. And mass starvation isn't so far fetched either, there have been multiple such occurrences globally within the last century.
aight i've fixed it. And yes, im actively looking for contributors.
All we know for sure is that the pricing is going to go down from here on out. I doubt there are any big players in big tech that are going to sit this out. Properly tuned LLMs have the potential to disrupt more than anything we've seen so far. The ground is shifting for sure for the smaller companies, but the big guys are just getting started.
I think I'm being fair – he published this in the New York Times for gosh golly sake.
I’m talking about code organization, not types. In Julia, methods are grouped together by type dispatch, mostly. There are times when code reuse comes into play where it’s helpful, but mostly it just confuses the issue and introduces ambiguity into the structure of the program in the big picture sense.

My mistake, I saw your name was xiaodai and assumed.

My point is, Julia is not suited for general software, and it’s questionable as a tool for technical computing as well.

For running simulations and models where the code can be written and never looked at again, maybe it’s okay to use. But for anything else, Python is a lot nicer, and a lot more practical to write proper software in.
They're not all the same. They're just trying to pad their list.

This story about finding assets in common across various forms of media is so old and it's always the same examples despite there being way more out there.

The only people lazier than those who used these assets are the ones parroting stories about them almost word for word.
Can anybody confirm or refute this?
I wish it would simulate the heavy cabling/tubing that is attached to the welder. Can have someone simulate that by randomly tugging on the back of the welder to simulate the cable getting caught on things.
Pretty interesting.

548,000 connections seems pretty low to me thinking of the complex behaviour these animals are capable of. And this shows that there's a lot of elements that we are lacking in our approach to artificial intelligence; I guess for one, although we say 548k connections each of these connections is modulated in many ways. Two neurons can communicate through different chemicals which in turn will result in different reactions.

When one neuron fires a signal to the next neuron there is a lot that goes on in the receiver to either trigger or not trigger the response. Type of neurotransmitter, amount of neurotransmitter, previous signals that the neuron has received, amount of times the neuron has fired in the past; as well as other environmental factors. This means just one synapse between two neurons is actually an extremely complex model of interaction in itself... it's a very non linear process that's modulated by countless complex relationships.

This is really great work because it gives a light on distributions of neurons (despite all the complexity, it's still possible to group and classify neurons) and this could be used to generate new artificial neural networks that might share some of this complexity. Though, I haven't really been following artificial neural network research so I imagine they already are doing similar things. Great stuff, thanks for sharing.
He could be attempting to create a problem so he can take advantage of it.
Even human written outsourced translations are pretty unreliable as the translators don't understand the software and end up translating key terms differently across the app while the English version is careful to always refer to the same thing with the same terminology.
The Science of Skin
Yyvette's Bridal
I still don't see anyone else talking about "green activists" or famines. Your comment reads like a non sequitur.
Current Ryzen CPUs do not work with either 24GB or 48GB DDR5.
Not the person you’re replying to, but a little common sense would imply warnings along the line of “if you don’t do this properly, a crew of innocent people fall out of the sky and fucking die whilst screaming all the way down”
Rust, which is the greatest new hotness in the backend world is from 2015.

Other major languages in the backend world are at least 2 decades old (C#, Java, Python, C++, Ruby, etc).

C# with the .Net framework is an interesting example. Microsoft realized their original windows only approach was a dead end. They created .Net Core. But someone moving from .Net framework to .Net core didn’t have to relearn much at all, beyond initial config/bootstrapping, and which subset of the APIs had been implemented, because MS completed the implementation in stages.

On the flip side you have React, where you’re ostensibly using the same library for a decade, except halfway in between they made a change which completely flipped how developers weee supposed to use the library.
Yea, back in ~2004 it was I think $16 the first year, and if you were good, $18 bucks after the second year. If you did it for > 5 years you became something like a supervisor.
> Do you have observed anything like this in increasing numbers yourself or do you have any reliable data on it? I don't tend to count reading someone's story online as reliable data in a political surrounding where some actors describe themselves unironically using the term "culture warriors".

Fair enough; I'm not a "culture warrior" or affiliated with academics. My opinions and speculations are borne from US-based domestic and private-sector situations I've personally had to deal with.

I didn't mean to imply this is a problem at universities specifically (nor at all), or that there is a statistically-significant "trend" at play-- I've just seen more of this in the last two years than I have in the last decade myself (it used to be people would just make false accusations!). Think I'm at 5 cases now.

> I have witnessed one comparable case and that person was basically ignored by everybody a month later because there were obviously psychological no problems involved

This has been my experience as well-- until recently.

I think this is some sort of distinctly-American social media influenced-or-reinforced behavior that started manifesting in public spaces after the end of quarantine, since each of my cases seems to follow a very similar playbook-- both parties behind closed doors, no police report, no way to verify the claims, no evidence, and then a lot of dancing around what specific offense the "aggressor" is alleged to have done-- they will just refuse to provide details when pressed. Sometimes they get aggressively defensive about it ("you can't ask me about that! It's personal!").

This sort of behavior seems to have been popular on Tumblr years ago, with teenagers "role-playing" (ugh) sharing of rape and other abuse stories, and the act itself called "vagueing" [sic? Thanks, Kiwi Farms]. I'd guess that those kids are now in college or entering the workforce for the first time, and older adults like me are starting to catch on to the concept.

I don't know if it's all the same but every time it comes up for me, the whole thing stinks of someone trying to get out of some sort of trouble by dog-whistling to some sympathetic authority-- the "victim" always has some drama going on that started right before the abuse claim. In a recent sextortion case, the "victim" wanted divorce but was averse to initiating it herself, and hadn't been married long enough to be able to walk away with much in shared assets. Then we hear a vague rape story that somehow is articulated without ever using the word "rape" and can only be made right with an off-the-books payout higher than the statutory limit. Go figure.
We’ll that’s assuming adding in layers of complexity yields fruitful. I can think of a lot of systems that don’t necessarily benefit from being more complex.
So?

Would you rather:

A. This person work on a job, earn money, and pay their own expenses, or

B. Be cancelled (which will not change their opinion... in fact, it will probably strengthen it!) and have them rely on government handouts (i.e., your and my tax dollars) because they can't get a job since you cancelled them.

As long as she wasn't injecting her philosophical beliefs into the website, then who cares? I truly don't care who makes any website or what their politics are. I care about what they put on the website, and I doubt she put anything controversial on the website that she designed.

I really don't get the cancel culture going on right now. You don't like their message? Fine. Ignore them. Don't give them additional spotlight by highlighting them like this. In fact, I never would have heard of them if it weren't for this post! The Streisand Effect in action...
Or use https://archive.ph/cossN
https://archive.ph/cossN
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Not really.

You can add a polyfill to check if `Array.at()` exists, and if it doesn't, create a function that does the same thing and add it to the `Array` object, so now all `Array.at()` code works as expected.

Then once every environment you target supports `Array.at()` by default, you can remove the polyfill to reduce the size of your code.
This is nonsense. We're rich. Broadly.
That would be great, but Americans simply won't stand for it. They all want to drive 3-ton SUVs everywhere. And people in many other countries aren't that much better.
I think those kind of models are nowhere near optimized in terms of resources they use, getting the cost of running them by a factor of ten in a year or two seems very possible.
> Some inconsistency of choices also kinda baffles me. First they added support for skipping necessity of mentioning generic type inside <> during instantiation, only to introduce local vars later that require you to mention generic types within the same <>.

I just came across this as a potential footgun the other day. I had a var list = new ArrayList<>(), then later added a bunch of Foo's into the list, and then when I called an overloaded method with the signatures log(Object obj) and log(List<Foo> fooList), it was calling the Object version. I would think some better type inference should be possible there, but if not, making programmers declare the type(s) at least once is a necessary constraint.
While this is true, that's also exactly how stalkers present themselves.
It’s not. It’s enough to deter casual piracy. There is some value in that.

If you could just right click and choose “download” for any Netflix original don’t you think that would be a problem for them?
Agreed. The Fed is the backstop to the banking system.

But I think the Fed has been over-accommodative since 2008. Their reaction function to crises has been to lower rates/print money and then wait. They should've tightened much faster post 2008.

Did Silicon Valley Bank really screw up in 2021 by buying Treasuries if the Fed itself was doing the same? The Fed was doing QE and buying Treasuries in March-22 well into inflation.

I think the error was trusting the Fed to be a good steward of inflation. It is not. We're all learning the hard way.
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There was a guy at where I worked that would pump it from the deicing truck into the fluid recycling truck when no one was looking. He owned the recycling truck and also worked in the deicing operation (this was jersey...)

Eventually he got busted.
Awesome and scary time. AI revolution 1.0 like one day we had Web 1.0?
Is making trans jokes a bannable offense on Twitch or do they have a loose policy where they can just ban you for whatever like YouTube and Twitter?
> So far I have tried to quantify what income level you need to be rich. I’ve tried to give you numbers that you could use to compare yourself to other people. However, in my many years of writing about money, I’ve come to realize something—being rich is more than a number. Being rich is a feeling.

> Because even if the numbers say that you are doing well, if you don’t feel rich, then it doesn’t matter. You could be making $10M a year, but if you feel like you need to make $20M, then you will feel poorer than someone making $100,000 who only feels like they need to make $50,000.

* https://ofdollarsanddata.com/what-is-considered-rich/

> This is why when I ask, “Who feels rich really?” the answer is—no one.

> Because you can always point to someone else who is doing better.

* https://ofdollarsanddata.com/who-feels-rich-really/

Morgan Housel: "The highest form of wealth is the ability to wake up every morning and say, 'I can do whatever I want today.'"
Could you explain the censorship on apparently controversial topics? The person that claimed a block on Acinetobacter baumannii for example? Wikipedia tells me it is a hospital infection, and also something that IEDs are known to be associated with infections.
Serious answer? Yes. Brooms and mounting panels a foot off the ground works fine. Heat reduces efficiently but by a very, very small amount. Not long ago there was a company posted to HN which puts panels basically flat on the ground, and has a little robot run up and down sweeping them off in Texas.

Much simpler and cheaper and less error prone than a floating array of panels exposed to salt water and waves.
Those are for a different purpose. Many car aficionados have historically changed their exhaust system to achieve better performance. The fake exhaust pipes are to make the car appear performant and powerful.
Just because piracy is possible doesn’t mean they should make it as easy as it can be for users.

There’s value in even minor hurdles.

They clear think it’s worth it.
And if you run it on a number bigger than 2^64, does it error because taichi automatically assumes python's BigInts are Int64s?
SVB has billions of dollars in client funds. Once you start having cash in the millions it isn’t practical to have all of it FDIC insured.