skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ignoring the sarcasm, hey there's a fascinating question. It asked what our society's priorities are.

These aren't new questions or unique. Any country on the planet could extend lifespan if it wanted to spend more money. The question is who pays or what services do you cut. Would you cut schools to extend lifespan 5 years? Maybe everyone lives in tiny little boxes but people live to 90.

An American Healthcare System there is low hanging fruit where you could improve outcomes for a low cost. That said, how far do you take it?
It's possible to create parking space that isn't surface lots
Many drownings could have been prevented but it's still a relatively niche cause of death. Unintentional drowning is ten times less frequent than either of falling or motor vehicle crashes, which are about the same frequency. The main way that drownings could be prevented among adults is by enforcing alcohol rules, or having some in the first place, but that goes against the entire theme of American water recreation. Which is sort of the point of the article: dying unnecessarily is part of the culture of America.
> Seven of the [CDC survey] team suffered sore throats, headaches, coughing and nausea in early March

That was a month later.

As the CNN story linked in the article explains: "Because the investigators’ symptoms improved soon after they left the area, the incident was not reported to the public....

“It adds confirmation that the symptoms reported by East Palestine residents are real and are associated with environmental exposures from the derailment and chemical fire,” said David Michaels, an epidemiologist and professor at the George Washington University School of Public Health who ran the Occupational Safety and Health Administration between 2009 and 2017." https://www.cnn.com/2023/03/31/health/ohio-train-derailment-...
> "I don't personally think that there are reasonable use-cases for human users with 5 million files."

A 5 million file limit might be quite reasonable if you're paying for the basic, 100 GB storage tier. But Google Drive offers multiple tiers with up to 30 TB of storage. 30 million MB!

That means if your average file size is less than 6MB - very likely if you're storing JPEGs, audio files, text records, or whatever; you'll never be able to fill your Google Drive storage.

What's the average size of a file on a regular macOS or Windows HDD? It wouldn't surprise me if it's much less than 6MB. Shouldn't the file count limit scale with the storage limit?
who will be entrusted to benefit from this? recall that OpenAI did begin as an open source project. and that they chose to go the capitalist route, despite initially explicitly stating on their site they were a non-profit
Sorry, but you truly need to re-educate yourself on how excellent native compilation supporting infrastructure like GraalVM is. So many HN folks have some decade-old view of old programming language and tools without trying anything out for themselves. And get stuck in a "bias bubble".

It takes ~2minutes TOTAL to download, install and compile Graal VM against Java sources to produce a ~11MB debug build native binary. Utterly painless and even measured. You can reduce that considerably further to ~4MB by seeing what modules contribute to the size using the Graal VM dashboard https://www.graalvm.org/dashboard/ and choosing to omit them with a flag.

Frankly, I found it easier to work with than your Rust+Go standard as I can easily see exactly which modules contribute to binary bloat-up and choose alternatives.

There are also excellent, first-class frameworks built from the ground up for Java native compilation like https://quarkus.io/.
> I didn’t find ethical to invest them in stocks

Please elaborate
Can someone please speak about their experience with the cost of running a heat pump for the same amount of time as a gas furnace or AC?

I’m still confused about why a heat pump is so much more efficient, since the only change from a typical AC and compressor setup is the two-way valve that allows the system to reverse and a different refrigerant. Would it still not use the same power hungry compressors as before? I always thought the most expensive part of running an AC was the compressor.

In terms of Gas, does it actually run cheaper than the per-therm Gas costs?
i was expecting some rant from an entitled high school dropout who can't even cook french fries right and instead saw a rant from a person who never seemed to actually work a full-time job, preferring side hustles over commitment.

And I will say as a former wage slave that is a pretty sweet gig if the wage is right and the co-workers are good.
Is it an April's Fool joke?
I know many females who won't park far and walk somewhere because they don't feel safe. This goes 5x at night.

Do folks realize that walking somewhere in a city is like running a gauntlet to some of the population?
I never tried to generalize this. This was just a report of how I see the problem. In response to the comment that described their personal attitude. I wrote it to illustrate that there are concerns other than those voiced in the top comment. This would offer the author an insight into how others have dealt with the situation they found themselves.

I don't see why based on above I need to reevaluate something about myself? Which part?
what's your point? also interestingly JART is in the thread here, so they might have read your comment :)
That number I had been referencing was incorrectly lithium carbonate. Misquoted on some EV website. My apologies!

Definitely a lot less of a gap, but still a huge increase in the entire supply chain needed, very quickly.
For all the hype, the benchmarks they report don't seem super compelling. Financial questions need to have 100% accurate responses (not 60% or so they report) otherwise they are worse than useless and can cost billions of dollars in losses
In any context the colonized, of course. But in this case rebel gecko is drawing a contrast and even hypothesizing that it more likely have been consensual, but either way the admixture not being by a colonizer.
> We should probably repeal and replace the First Amendment while we're at it, and tie up some loose ends like Citizens United and the inability of U.S. governments to criminally punish hate speech.

I am not a gun nut, and have little interest in owning/shooting guns. I've done it, and found it boring. But my defense of the 2nd Amendment is based on the domino theory that if the 2nd can be ignored, there goes the First and every other "inconvenient" right enshrined in the Constitution. The First is the most important of all those Rights.

Thanks for illustrating I am right that the First would be put on the chopping block right after the Second.
Another brilliant application of the ever-impressive FFT algorithm.

Makes me wonder though, I can't imagine it would be too hard for a tech-savvy threat actor to strip any existing AC hum from a recording, and then apply the hum frequencies corresponding to their date/time of interest. If this frequency database is used to perform verifications that can make life/death differences in a court of law, I assume it is secured and kept private. But then again, a truly dedicated rogue could maintain their own database, as the same hum is available to everyone...
Will FEX ever leverage the hardware that Apple design for Rosetta 2 trickery? It seems like a heavy lift for a general purpose emulator, but at the same time there's probably a bunch of performance wins to be had.
Youth suicide in the US has been in the press a lot lately but it's not really one of those things that's really bad or getting worse. It's less frequent than it was years ago, and less frequent than in many OECD countries. That sets it apart from the overall picture which shows the US to be worse than all other advanced countries and rapidly getting worse.
From the theconversation.com article linked in a sibling comment:

> Our team generated data from more than 80 people, mostly elite individuals buried in the rich centers of the stone towns. We will need to wait for future work to understand whether their genetic inheritance differed from people without their high status.

Considering that the ruling class in a society often genetically differs from the population in general, it seems that these findings may not have as surprising implications as it seems initially.
That trade goes back thousands of years. For example the early writing on the subcontinent appears to have spread from the Middle East.
Because it's a terrible, unsustainable way to do society? Should we be dumping our trash on the streets too? I mean who cares?
> Our best guess is that Persian men allied with and married into elite families and adopted local customs to enable them to be more successful traders.

It's well known Persians had been trading along the Horn of African for millennia. What makes the perfunctory woke preamble in TFA even more insufferable than usual is that a significant aspect of this trade was in slaves. Peoples along the Horn of Africa trafficked slaves from Central Africa, constituting what's known as the Indian Ocean Slave Trade, which IIRC even preexisted the Arab Slave Trade. Moreover, the Persians had been sailing between the Horn of Africa and India for perhaps nearly as long as they had been sailing to East Africa, so there are traces of Persian trade and cultural links all along the coastline from Africa to as far away as Indonesia and perhaps even the Philippines, and long before the NW Europeans took to sail.

And if you go back far enough, it's also well known that the Bantu peoples were colonizers in their own right, and there still exist tensions between ethnic Bantus and indigenous peoples--e.g. pygmies.
A perfect example of why sanctions work short term but not long term. It is economically cheaper to simply import what you need. But if that is no longer possible, because of sanctions, then you are forced to create a local industry instead. It will take time, but with enough effort most countries (with highly skilled engineers) will get there. And the end result will be a massive long term economic loss to the country that introduced the sanctions in the first place. The sanctions introduced by the US will pretty much guarantee that China will become a world class competitor to US chip manufacturing, making the US chip industry even less competitive.
Nope, 30 march.
You're quite correct regarding the culture of handling postmortems. I had the privilege of attending a NASA talk one year where we discussed the blameless postmortem culture in software engineering and the approach of logging reports and making them open company-wide.

A kind NASA engineer thanked us for our time, but noted that there's a lot of what we do in software that can't be applied to the NASA approach because, ultimately, their bosses are Congress and Congress is... somewhere between "dumb" and "an actively hostile agent." Words must be carefully chosen and information can't be widely-shared internally until the message is crafted because about half of Congress is incentivized to look for the worst possible interpretation of data collected and weaponize it.
It’s there’s a market, there will likely be a way. That’s one of capitalism’s strengths.
The speculation has been that he is being charged with a state crime of falsifying documents. Usually this is just a misdemeanor and the statue of limitations has long since expired, however if combined with violating federal election laws then it becomes state felony.

The question asked is: can the President pardon Trump for the federal part of the crime, thus reducing the charge to a misdemeanor. The answer is “No”, because he has not been convicted in federal court, there is nothing to pardon him of.

However it does raise the question: Is it proper to convict someone of a state crime based on “criminality” where the criminality is a federal crime that they have not been convicted of in federal court? It seems unlikely.

In any case, I believe all of this is just media speculation and presumably there will be more clear-cut charges in the real indictment.
What surfing says about the importance of serendipity in life
Another line:
"In one contract he got me to assign to him several hundred thousand dollars’ worth of property ... said valuable consideration being the regiving to me of another piece of property which ... already belonged to me! I quite understand that I am confessing myself a fool; but that is no matter, the reader would find it out anyway as I go along."
Wait that means I'm combusting, right now! Oh no.

Yeah this thread went off the rails lol. Oops.
How to Forgive Yourself
Where do you download the tokenizer.model that is needed to convert the GPT4ALL model to the appropriate format?
Is the 1-year spec after all the rated program/erase cycles have already been used, so the flash cells are worn and much "leakier"?

That's still rather disturbing, since I have datasheets for NAND flash from around 2 decades ago that specify 10 years retention after 100K cycles (although probably at 25C), and some slightly newer ones with 5 years / 1.5K cycles (MLC); and also explains the increasing secrecy surrounding the flash industry. The very few I could find for TLC don't even mention retention and endurance is vaguely specified, and refer you to some, probably super-secret, qualification report for the actual numbers.

Then again, perhaps I shouldn't be surprised ever since they came up with the misnomers that are "TLC" and now "QLC", and nearly drove SLC to extinction. I don't want 3x or 4x more storage for the same price (or 1/3 or 1/4 the price) if it's 1/8th or 1/16th exponentially more unreliable --- that's how the physics works and there's no way around that --- but that's what they seem to be pushing for.

You can get $13 128GB TLC SSDs as mentioned in the article but I don't see any $39 128GB SLC SSDs being made, nor $13 ~40GB SLC SSDs, despite the fact that such a device would have the exact same cost per NAND cell (and as a bonus, be much faster and simpler since SLC needs much less ECC and advanced wear leveling algorithms than TLC/QLC.)
Eh, 1 is sort of why I see implicit negative feedback as more useful here. Namely, tracking the duration a user is probably giving their attention to a given item, weighted in accordance with how long you'd expect someone to give their attention to an item based on how long it is.

For example, I might see a some specific word or pattern of words in a tweet and quickly skip to the next one. That's very low friction but also a powerful signal. There are drawbacks (e.g. the long boring video that looks like something is about to happen but never does), but that's mitigated by combining this with other signals.

With 2, it's an explore/exploit trade-off. You try to explore as far and wide as you can while trying to avoid the things the user may dislike, all while sprinkling in just enough of the stuff that you know they'll like.
Leisure Suit Larry was one of my favorite games when I saw like 5 or 6 years old. Was always fun getting through that gauntlet of questions.
Come on think this through. It’s trivial to tell the difference between a gradual and natural decline and a drastic decline immediately after rolling out a change. Especially when the change is rolled out region by region and only exists in regions running the update. You have to be able to measure the effect of changes and the most popular accounts are the obvious low hanging fruit for doing that.
I've been fascinated with Milliron’s Department Store [1] from the late 1940s and it's use of parking on the roof of the department store. At the time "autotopia" was something developers cater too and seeing how architecture at the time responded is something in itself.

Sadly the rooftop lot was removed with the rear X ramps blocked off, and the store is now a relatively generic Kolhs. In Southern California though a lot of the parking lots are getting retrofitted with solar, which while still taking up space, at least providing energy and shade.

1. https://www.gruenassociates.com/project/millirons-department...
(Just checked, and while there was a slight increase in 2022, road fatalities are still very much trending downward in Aus. Fairly sure we have similar levels of mobile phone usage. We've also seen a surge in average car size, though the sort of massive pickup trucks that seem common in the US are thankfully relatively rare here, despite the popularity of "utes")
How do you back up emails?
That is the part that baffles me. There might be an argument against when this becomes unsustainable (e.g. the number of bytes inside a file is actually smaller than the number of bytes the metadata associated with that file takes) but that can be solved quite intuitively by making user pay for it (essentially they should be counted towards the same usage limits, if they aren't already?).
Not even close.

What is going on in the Python ecosystem is people expect Python to interface to C/C++ modules on Windows. Reliably. And no other ecosystem even really tries.

As an example, Rust interfacing to Skia (C++) used to cause hideous build errors on various Windows installs. I needed to install and upgrade significant chunks of Visual Studio (not VSCode--actual Visual Studio) before the Rust system could compile it correctly. And the next Windows update it all broke again.
For point 2, check out synology. I can say my experience has been great and I wish I’d bought a bigger device (I got a four bay enclosure and wish I’d gotten 8). QNap was also a home storage device I looked into, but don’t have any experience with. Not affiliated with synology, just a satisfied customer.
1. You should not be subjected to TCS if you are not an Indian resident. Perhaps you did not convert your bank account to NRE?

2. You can file tax return and get a refund if your tax liability is nil or lower than tax collected at the end of the financial year.

This still doesn't make this situation better but it is not a charge, just an advance tax automatically deducted which needs to be adjusted or claimed back.
It's not premature when after Katrina, by this point in time, the death toll was over 100. The East Palestine disaster is still clocking a zero (thankfully).
It's not that it's more energy efficient than AC per se, just that running it in reverse to move heat into your house is much more energy efficient than using electricity to generate heat compared to electric resistance heat.

Relative to gas, it's going to be competitive when the ambient outdoor temperature is > 40 degree Fahrenheit, but probably more expensive depending on utility rates where you live.
Late reply but I just remembered: many Agfa products were actually rebranded as Ansco for the US market. I know the Karat series were for example. I wouldn't be surprised if there is an Agfa equivalent of this model too.
From reading the article, there were multiple memes, and there was a co-ordinated effort to distribute them.
> Many drownings could have been prevented but it's still a relatively niche cause of death.

I read somewhere that drownings were the 2nd leading cause of death for children. Cars were #1.

People drown mainly because they underestimate the risk of it.

I know parents who had their toddler drown. The grief and devastation of that never stops, decade after decade. They had camped near a river bank, and the kid wandered off into the water.
Why am I hearing advertisements in my audiobook?
U-net CNN in APL [pdf]
> dragged their feet on EVs.

They are third after BYD and Tesla. Likely to overtake Tesla in a year or two.
Gell-Mann AImnesia?
Both of my diesels are manual transmission, but this thread has gotten downmodded far harder than most of my unpopular inputs.

On blasphemes Gaia at peril.
The language is moving too fast!

Too many features are added and seeing proposal like [0] don't make me confident about its future. Is it a general purpose programming language, or is it a research project?

[0]https://blog.rust-lang.org/inside-rust/2023/02/23/keyword-ge...
The irony is that I prefer Mastodon's sort by time and don't try to be clever approach to this expensive and futile attempt to feed me an endless stream of click bait. I objectively spend more time on Mastodon than on Twitter at this point. It's more engaging for me. It's how Twitter used to work when it was still nice to use.

If Twitter wants to put a stop to the user exodus and save lots of money in the process, here's what they could do:

1) Add an off switch to the for you feed. I'll click it right away and never turn it on again. Stop wasting minutes of CPU time on my behalf. I never asked for it. It doesn't do anything for me that I need or want.

2) Sort by time, filter by hashtag. Twitter used to be about real time information. I don't care about things that happened days or weeks ago. I don't need to see all of it. This is the core feature that made Twitter popular. Mastodon has it and it is absorbing users from Twitter by the millions. It still works. Restore this feature and make it the default.

3) Join the fediverse. That's where a lot of the former hard core users went. They still exist. They still post messages. They still engage with each other. They just don't use Twitter anymore. Allow people to follow mastodon users. Allow mastodon users to follow Twitter users. Not that hard to implement and probably would do wonders for user engagement.
This read like satire, but then I realized he was serious. At the authors claimed skill level, they should be focused on adding value and growing the org vs. putting so much emphasis on a number. A “what can the company do for me” mentality can only get you so far in a C level role.
In my experience this practice isn’t obfuscation or for performance. The whole point of array processing languages is to amortize any fixed operation cost over the span of the array.

The notation-as-a-tool-of-thought camp prefers short identifiers on the principle that the more concise the expression, the easier it is to comprehend in total. This is not at all dissimilar from the general practices of mathematics.
A lot of it depends on whether your governing coalitions are formed before or after the election.

The US parties are just coalitions of disparate interests joining together until they (maybe) represent enough people to have a majority and be able to enact their collective interests.
Possibly a result of overwork, or exposure to something unrelated to the disaster.

I'm feeling the same symptoms described right now. But there's a cold going around.
Well... no. MPI is an attempt to fit a saddle on a cow, when it comes to using it with C++. The whole reason it exists is because C or C++ would really, really suck when it comes to distributed programming. So, it tries to save the day with minimal casualties. It's not "the" solution to the problem. Having to use Slurm / PBS and similar my impression from this toolset is... well, pain. But, at least, if you work through pain, you can probably make it go fast. And this is usually what matters to people in this situation.

A much better distributed platform is Erlang. When comparing it to something like Slurm, the benefit is that the programmer has superior access to sharing information between workers, the programmer has programmatic (and superior) control for choosing the workers.

The problem with people in WLM world (that's where Slurm, MPI, OpenMP and friends come from) is that they have never crossed paths with Erlang. They don't even know what they don't know. A lot of the stuff that has to do with the "distributed" part of their computations is perceived outside of their control, something outsourced to infra people: they just need to put a "machine file" somewhere, or use some HTML dashboard to select the nodes where their program needs to run, and hope for the best.

Also, the WLM world has a very peculiar take on distributed programming: they need it to run batches of jobs. Jobs start, finish, and, hopefully, produce results. They don't need to build interactive systems, or deal with upgrades, or create databases etc. So, it's just not an answer to more general problems associated with distributed programming.