skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problem with this line of plausible but non-scientific thought is that you base it solely on 'blood lead levels' as though they would be constant, without explaining the process taken to test. The latter part is critically important with heavy metals.

Heavy metals in general never stay in the blood very long, the body binds them as quickly as it can, and the only way to accurately test involves taking a chelator first (to cause it to release into the blood stream) and then testing for acute poisoning (by causing it). There may be newer methods that have been developed since, but as of 2008 that was true.

Anyone who has suffered mercury or lead poisoning that was diagnosed by a medical professional would be aware of this, which is why there is no safe level, it bioaccumulates, and is a time-bomb for acute poisoning if it ever gets released.

Incidentally cilantro is a powerful chelator, and is used in food. Many people who have suffered poisoning get powerful headaches and other poisoning symptoms which can mimic many symptoms on the ADD/Autism/ADHD spectrum when eating this food, and often themselves don't know why.
There’s nothing stopping you from using this with Hasura. Don’t see the relevance.
You should probably use `break-words` instead of `break-all`.
You've clearly never been to Switzerland. If that worked (which it wouldn't), you would have better luck with bikes.
The developer job market is insane
Voice commands can be inconvenient and unnatural. In the middle of a conversation having to wait for someone to pause and then interrupt a conversation to interact with a vehicle is poor user experience. It goes against our natural ability to multitask. Also not great when you have sleeping passengers.
Casualties wise, it only gave a x3 advantage though, and the British still lost over ~2000 troops
Not wasting my time reading/watching useless stuff on the Internet is great.
Seems like proper error handling is one of those abstractions.
> no one who didn't use dpreview will look unfavourably at Amazon for it

True, but many tech nerds (who make decisions about services like AWS) visited dpreview.

Right now, I won't use GCP or anything related to Google in business settings because of about a dozen similar decisions which impacted me. There's a finite budget of decisions like this which a company can make before people lose trust, and it impact business.
> If the market always knows best then why do I need traders except for market making purposes?

You may not. It doesn't follow that the market doesn't. Long term US stock investment isn't the only reason people use capital markets. And even for passive etfs, your counterpart is likely hedging their exposure with someone who you didn't buy the etf from.
Ironic you say that here
I consider calls private and it makes me uncomfortable
Does "fine tuning the dataset" in this context mean I could point it at my own projects documentation and get conversational & relevant answers or does it mean something else?
It's a fixed number of matrix multiplications. You can't make matrix multiplication crash by feeding it any sort of strange numbers (unless they haven't handled their Infs and NaNs).
Sure, years ago. But today Ethernet is just as scammy as everyone else, we've been stuck at 1 Gbps on consumer grade hardware for more than 15 years. There are claims (unverified ofc) about their executives boasting about their stupid margins. 1 Gb switch is like 10-20 euros meanwhile 2.5 Gbps is like over 100...
CNCF's OpenFunction integrates WasmEdge, enabling support for WASM functions
Def sounds like a PR Emergency Patch. I'm my experience Bard did not hallucinate and accuse users of linking/referring to HN comments where there are none.
> Here’s how you fix the web, protect the children and ruin unhealthy parts of the economy at the same time: make online advertising to children illegal, full stop.

Here, I fixed it for you.
A veritable hero of our times boasts a mere 688 followers on his Twitter account: https://twitter.com/RobertMMetcalfe (as of the dispatch of this message).
Anyone here up on AI training in this sense?

Example, google certainly indexes search fast. I have googled a product posted 10 mins ago in a very low-key specialized audio forum that is really not popular, and bam, google is liking to the post.

OK, so if google is training bard in real time, could it not encounter the classic text book example of training on future data? e.g. we talk about it, or what it might or might not do in HN, Twit, (God help us some meta-universe), or elsewhere, and it is training on that as factual input? What then? Tail wagging the dog? What mechanisms are in place to make that be noise and not facts, I wonder.
Grantham is correct that we have an everything bubble

but Grantham has also been declaring an imminent correction as long as I can remember, literally decades

you have to remember that these older analysts hail from another era...and it may be that in that era, our financial system was more "factual"...but you can't contextualize the world of 2023 (bullshit laden as it admittedly may be) by contrasting it with 1982...many of today's investors weren't even born
> that printing so much

Please stop with this. It was not the Fed's actions that caused a high CPI. They did the exact same thing post-GFC and nothing happened despite much tearing of garments:

> We believe the Federal Reserve's large-scale asset purchase plan (so-called "quantitative easing") should be reconsidered and discontinued. We do not believe such a plan is necessary or advisable under current circumstances. The planned asset purchases risk currency debasement and inflation, and we do not think they will achieve the Fed's objective of promoting employment.

* https://economics21.org/html/open-letter-ben-bernanke-287.ht...

The difference this time was a huge geopolitical event which drove up prices (a huge driver of the CPI was energy prices: remember the GOP going on and on about gas prices?), a lot of COVID assistance, post-COVID stimulus, and supply chain issues:

> Inflation has remained at levels well above the Federal Reserve’s inflation goal of 2% for over a year. Separating the underlying data from the personal consumption expenditures price index into supply- versus demand-driven categories reveals that supply factors explain about half of the run-up in current inflation levels. Demand factors are responsible for about one-third, with the remainder resulting from ambiguous factors. While supply disruptions are widely expected to ease this year, this outcome is highly uncertain.

* https://www.frbsf.org/economic-research/publications/economi...

The COVID measure were one-shot deals and were, in fact, predicted to raise inflation for a short (1-2 year) period, analogously to sudden Korean War spending (versus the continued spending for Vietnam):

* https://www.piie.com/blogs/realtime-economic-issues-watch/in...

The main thing they failed to predict was the invasion of Ukraine, which added to the other three conditions. Sure; perhaps the Fed could have started tightening sooner.

But what is the counter-factual of the last 2-3 years? No COVID assistance measure so people have no money when things were on lockdown? No help in getting the economy started post-COVID? What would have the (un)employment rate been? Does anyone remember the long post-GFC slog to get everyone back to work (because the GOP wouldn't give Obama proper stimulus dollars)?
faster now!
A better example would be owner saying “actually, I want a 5-level underground parking below my building”.
Alex Jones has been made to sing anime songs for over a decade: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ODZE5peUfWQ
I can't make heads or tails of your comment. What is scammy about Ethernet and what 'stupid margins' does Ethernet have? It's a networking standard, not a company.
There are no "right abstractions". There are tradeoffs with advantages and disadvantages. Your preferred abstractions are by no means the "right" ones, especially since you don't even define what they are.
Those people were not killed by Karl Marx' ideology. It was perverted by dictatorships using it as a banner but it didn't inspire their atrocities. Just like the German Democratic Republic wasn't really democratic at all.

Karl Marx' ideology never promoted hate unlike Nazi ideology.
Yes, but its economic theory ... so no.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neutral_rate_of_interest (also known as r*)

Naturally I have taken a few liberties with the theory - inflation +/- r* would be the correct rate for the economy. As a quick calculation, it wouldnt be unfair to say interest rate == inflation is a balanced monetary policy.
‘Just because we can, doesn’t mean we should’
Booting off an external drive is not that simple these days.
The Dawn of the Post Search Internet
> Both with rights managed and royalty free they aren't assigning rights to anyone else.

Have you read the contributor agreement? That seems to contradict what you are saying.
Great response from GPT-4. But it's a bit unfair to compare a 7 billion param model with a model that has hundreds of billions...
Those calculations are very tricky in conflict with the obvious huge increase in living standards since the 70s.
So it will spew the latest lies that have been posted online then I guess, if it's using internet comment forums as sources?
> its almost silly to question Google's ability to build useful LLMs.

It's almost silly to presume anything without proofs. People are judging Google based on what Google has shown.
RAMs on M1 are in separate die in the same package. This let's Apple make fewer die SKUs, as well as use differently optimize die processes.

https://www.macrumors.com/2021/04/06/m1-mac-ram-and-ssd-upgr...
this would be our preference. we'll try to support this for the next commitfest, and if it gets merged then we will deprecate our extension in favour of the native solution.
China is supporting Russia with drones and other equipment such as radios.

https://www.bbc.com/news/60571253
In fairness, she had to know it was coming at least somewhat. It's probably the reason she was there. If she didn't want to talk about it, she didn't have to go on a late night talk show, but she wanted to promote her business. Not everybody even gets the opportunity to make that tradeoff in support of businesses they work just as hard on.
Adults aren't immune to inluencers either. Look how many fall for crypto scams or QAnon.
Instead of meta-analysis of what you think I'm doing, please kindly respond to the content of my argument. "None of that is happening" is neither specific or substantive.
I strongly disagree. The anti-Ukraine messaging recently adopted by the right didn’t come from the individuals thoughtful consideration of geopolitics, but a careful influence campaign by Russia. China will do the same in their attempt to retake Taiwan, and TikTok will be their mechanism. Anyone speaking up against Chinese aggression will be silenced and any pro-Chinese voices will be amplified. This isn’t about silencing Charli DAmelio’s first amendment rights to wiggle, but China’s attempt to sway foreign policy while they crush yet another democracy.
> All existing vaccines have risk, however they're at least a factor off 100 safer

mRNA vaccines are qualitatively different, though, not just slightly further on a sliding scale. The only risks AFAIK are from the delivery mechanism and the immune response; the payload itself is, well, mRNA molecules, which can't produce pathogens at all.
If it's a railway project they have likely booked several trucks already, doing several deliveries, so one of them having an accident is not likely to matter.
Fantastic Beliefs and how to spot them
I think what they mean is that methods like add_header and add_text actually take raw HTML as an argument, which means that if you want to add arbitrary text, you actually need to do

import html

...

card.add_text(html.escape(my_text))
Just search for "Digital Adoption Platform" and you will see lots of tools out there.
What ingredients from this list are you specifically trying to avoid?

Do you eat pepperoni pizza? Seems to have a lot of same ingredients

ENRICHED WHEAT FLOUR (WHEAT FLOUR, NIACIN, REDUCED IRON, THIAMINE MONONITRATE, RIBOFLAVIN, AND FOLIC ACID), WATER, LOW-MOISTURE PART-SKIM MOZZARELLA CHEESE (PART-SKIM MILK, CHEESE CULTURE, SALT, ENZYMES), PEPPERONI MADE WITH PORK, CHICKEN AND BEEF (PORK, MECHANICALLY SEPARATED CHICKEN, BEEF, SALT, CONTAINS 2% OR LESS OF SPICES, DEXTROSE, PORK STOCK, LACTIC ACID STARTER CULTURE, OLEORESIN OF PAPRIKA, FLAVORING, SODIUM NITRITE, SODIUM ASCORBATE, PAPRIKA, PROCESSED WITH NATURAL SMOKE FLAVOR, BHA, BHT, CITRIC ACID TO HELP PROTECT FLAVOR), TOMATO PASTE, 2% OR LESS OF VEGETABLE OIL (CORN OIL AND/OR SOYBEAN OIL AND/OR CANOLA OIL), SALT, YEAST, SUGAR, MALTED BARLEY FLOUR, SPICES, DRIED GARLIC.
Good point. I did not consider that when writing the comment.
...or we're witnessing the beginning of the end of the "Information" age.

I can really foresee a situation coming in the not too distant future where scarce amounts of high quality, properly verified information are very highly regarded and shared amongst experts in fairly closed loops.

Remember captcha ? Which is a huge source of training material for self driving cars ? Yeah that’s gone.

Newspapers with verification chips built in so you know it’s from a trusted printing press.
Why have we collectively decided that Big Banks and Big Pharma can keep getting away with awful behavior?
Hasura is open core. Given the massive price increase they just did for their hosted version, I’d expect more and more future features will not land in core at all, to push people to pay.
Haha :D Honestly though, if creative writing and absurd humour was the goal, they absolutely nailed it. I was particularly impressed with the onomatopoeia of the first “spoink” definition
Risk management is not that difficult. Interest Rate exposure is a first order risk that even juniors should be able hedge out properly - it's not some exotic event where correlations went out of whack or something. These guys were either clueless / had no visibility into their balance sheet or outright criminal.
https://archive.is/kjezF
314 minutes is not three hours.
Incorrect! What I learned is that they like their money.
When it comes to Google, I believe there are no limitations or concerns. They for some reason, just... don't care? There's a myriad of Google's services that are not available globally without a good reason for it. For example, Google Pay wasn't available in Georgia till last year. Local banks have been going back and forth with Google, asking for a launch for more than a decade, they would assist Google with anything they'd ask, but Google didn't care. Same with YouTube Premium, Music, Maps editor, to name a few.
The argument with the kids is really bullshit. I‘ve heard it again and again in different contexts. As if anyone could know how the short term economy will affect the kids. As if the kids would only start living in their 30s and the experience of poverty in childhood would be nothing. As if the economy would be a fixed thing that could be predicted for a few decades in advance.
> I often wonder if that really works.

Ask Volcker:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Early_1980s_recession_in_the_U...

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Volcker#Chairman_of_the_F...
> LLMs are just a window to the collective sentiment/knowledge of the internet (or rather the training corpus).

We are not so dumb to not understand that LLMs are glorified stochastic parrots, but we appreciate the irony.
We have a much greater proportion of couples where both members work than before. This means higher bids, and higher prices. The people that did well out of this were the people who already owned property; they've had a lovely transfer of money from those workers.
Not even that extreme. Some of our development tools are *really bad*.

I have yet to be anywhere that used Jenkins and didn't make me want to throw the computer out the window with the amount of delays it introduced.
Answer: “”

Oh you didn’t hear that? You must not be able to hear the high frequency.
What half is Rider missing? And of course you should use VS if you're getting it for free while having to pay for Rider.

I find Rider a much more smooth experience than VS. It's faster in almost every way (loading solutions, searching, etc).
It was not a tech debt issue. He used it to commit suicide.
Curious to see if it can take my entire site content: https://taoofmac.com/static/graph

Might be a fun weekend experiment.
Yeah, USD is pretty badly managed, but still better than most other currencies.
A couple recent related podcasts on Pytest with co-authors:

- https://testandcode.com/195

- https://talkpython.fm/episodes/show/407/pytest-tips-and-tric...
Codex (and GPT-4) can’t beat humans on smart contract audits
A little crazy that more wasn't done towards this end in summer 2020 when there was massive amounts of cash available to the hospital system, comparatively very low occupancy such that retrofitting would be less disruptive (lower respiratory disease burden generally inclusive both of COVID and non-COVID due to lockdown measures), and the social will to solve it wasn't politicized in the US or attached to other hot button stuff. I don't really know enough about HVAC to know what it would take to improve the modal old hospital's ventilation so maybe this is an orders of magnitude tougher problem than I expect or something.
It's way too early to add these bots to search engines. Non-techy people are going to use them and trust them, and never click the linked sources. Treating internet forum comments as sources for answers is wild.

It's not such a problem with normal search results, since you can clearly see it's a post from a rando on a forum when you click the result. I'd wager that 90+% of people using Bard, or Bing's version, will not click through to the sources.
Badger tunnels halt traffic on Dutch railways
> If I'm using headphones, it will just pinch the audio from them.

Man the bluetooth protocol really is something. Never connects when you want it to, won't pair or unpair, but when you don't want to use it it'll force a connect.

And the thing is practically wifi, I am always at a loss as to how did they manage to mess it up so badly.
META: analogies are double-edged swords.
> It's widely used in commercial units.

That right here is the point. With commercial units, you can be relatively sure only trained professionals will touch it, it will be somewhat decently maintained, and installation will be done with decent quality. With anything consumer-retail? As a manufacturer, you'll have to include absolutely ridiculously dumb people into your risk estimation, and you don't want to risk headlines like "Exploding brand XYZ AC unit kills family in house fire" because the father who had installed it caused a leak in the propane circuit - people won't care about that distinction, they'll see your brand as tarnished and unsafe.
> 4. The old treasuries decline 30-40% in present value. Oops, they're not so safe after all if you need your money back before maturity, which is often decades away.

This is not what safety of investment is, by any stretch of imagination. The yield of investment is nominal returns times weighted probability of that nominal return being lower. Government bonds are near zero risk of not being honored.

The risk you talk about is inherent in long assets + short liabilities and has very little to do with issuing body of the bond.
Reminds me of this gem: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32163667
Money market accounts and money market mutual funds are not the same thing and are not protected the same way.
Have any facts to back up that statistic? Ideally objective -- Moore and Reich are notorious anti-Western Leftists.
The Problem with Remote Work
I'm in a parkour club, actually. Centr'Halles Park is pretty much the closest you get to an adult jungle gym!
Never met Don Becker but as it was the Beowulf project that got me interested in GNU/Linux he is synonymous with ethernet drivers
One thing I love about my A7S is the ability to tilt the screen and take candid photos of people while we're having a conversation. Also that thing pretty much shoots in the dark so I find that magic.
Is there a chance it gets committed during the current commitfest? See https://commitfest.postgresql.org/42/4086/

This years feature freeze will be on April 8th (https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/9fbe60ec-fd1b-6ee...), so if it does not get committed within the next two and a half weeks it will miss this years Postgres release in September...
I love it! I've been ranting about touchscreen-mania in cars for years now! Good on ya, Hyundai!
Of course there are right abstractions. And of course what the right abstraction is depends on the context, and takes into account the trade offs you are making. Any programming language is an abstraction, for example, and no programming language I am aware of is the right one out of the box except for very narrow and well-defined domains. That's why it is important that the language lets you build your own context-dependent abstractions.
Thunder Bay went to play with Larabee between the stars.
Ask HN: Are Small Businesses Still at Risk in the Current Recession?
Ask HN - Are Small Businesses Still at Risk in the Current Recession?

I was just a teenager during the peak of the 2008 recession, and I witnessed the devastating impact it had on my dad and uncle, who owned separate and unrelated businesses. They both lost their companies during that time and never fully recovered, both financially and emotionally.

The current recession seems very different. Inflation and high interest rates have significantly increased the cost of living for most people, and we've seen numerous layoffs at some of the largest corporations. However, it appears that small business owners haven't been affected in the same way as they were in 2008. In fact, most small businesses I'm familiar with have been expanding and actively recruiting new employees in recent months.

So, my question is: Are small businesses still in danger from the ongoing recession, and it just hasn't caught up to them yet? Or is this recession fundamentally different from 2008, and small businesses won't face the same level of hardship?
Just fyi colab is way way more expensive now after the “credits” update than it was a year ago. Lamdalabs is about as cheap at this point
Agree, I think that sooner or later brands and advertisers will need to pay to get results included directly in the models output, websites will be completely skipped. This will have a lot of repercussions - giants will probably have offer to put data in the model directly somehow but I doubt it will be free.

I'm wondering if paywalling the content would be right move for someone who has popular website with curated, high quality knowledge and audience - this may work only for some time because discoverability will tank, traffic and current audience dry out..
Or perhaps a progressive summary, where the most recent messages are full fidelity, and older messages get “compressed” into a summary.

You can also fine tune the model to incorporate larger amounts of data, but that may be more expensive (and slower)

This kind of sounds like human short term and long term memory. Maybe “fine tuning” is analogous what happens to our memory when we sleep.
Hacker News is definitely better than scrolling in tiktok for countless hours, or watching the perfect life of an "influencer" on Instagram.
Can you expand why its a leaky abstraction? Is it because virtual threads can only yield when its doing blocking operations?