skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Consider using just a normal database—personally for me that would be Firestore (Google-hosted) or MongoDB (basically self-hotsed), because I strongly prefer scalable NoSQL databases.

And then goes on to say:

> But for most people, it's probably going to literally just be Postgres. You don't need more than Postgres.

Those statements are basically contradictory. Maybe the author only works on applications where NoSQL is a good fit. Otherwise, it's not clear how the author is different from "most people".

This idea that SQL databases are not "scalable" has become a meme and is difficult to eradicate. Sure, sharding/replicating Postgres (if you need to) can be more difficult than just increasing a field in some auto-scaling group. But a well-tuned Postgres can service a ridiculous number of requests. If you are doing microservices, then it's even better, since you'll have multiple smaller databases - some of these can even be NoSQL if it fits the application.

What 'scalable' NoSQL databases usually means is that you can just throw money at the problem and increase the number of instances, without spending time doing silly things like 'optimizing' queries.

Of course, for some applications, NoSQL is a perfect fit. But far too often I see people reaching out to NoSQL based on some future (usually unspecified) "scale" needs. Heck, I've even seen that mindset in internal, corporate network only apps.
Knowing exactly how much nitrogen they can fix is important. It's unlikely to be enough to take care of the nitrogen requirements of high yield corn.
Well, Ruby itself has ML libraries like Rumale [1]. But the amount is not as rich as Pythons pypi for obvious reasons.

[1] https://github.com/yoshoku/rumale

Regarding Rails,
To be honest, if you want to study Rails. I would suggest you nothing more than their official website. It's really good!

https://guides.rubyonrails.org/getting_started.html
Haha, not in San Francisco, no. We've stopped enforcing traffic laws.

https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/bayarea/heatherknight/article...
Some guesses for why there may be hidden selection pressure:

Academics often stereotype “jocks” and high social status seekers as stupid. However, it often requires brains to succeed in sports and social interactions. But it is technically difficult to measure high “intuition”. I know some very very smart people that fail academically (I know they are smart because I see them achieve seemingly impossible outcomes, not because I have their skills). I strongly suspect that selecting for high non-academic skills will select for general intelligence. If one lacks skill X (e.g. the stereotypical nerd[1] with low social skills) then one usually lacks the ability to recognise people that are highly skilled in skill X (and worse often assumes the skill is useless or denigrates those with the skill or thinks they could be highly skilled if they wanted to).

There could be bubbles of selection pressure - subgroups where high IQ leads to having more kids. So long as the subgroup intermingles, then there is a population level pressure for higher intellect.

It is possible that unsmart people remove themselves from the gene pool before reproduction, or unsmart people reproduce less.

One or two outlier smart men that have thousands of children could have a massive selection pressure. Are we not all descended from Ghengis Khan?

Smartness has thousands of factors, and selection pressure on some hidden factors could easily have an outcome on general intelligence.

[1] Counterpoint “Being smart seems to make you unpopular” implies popular people are not smart: http://www.paulgraham.com/nerds.html
So what I got from this is that GPT was trained on a dataset that biased in English contents. Is that right?

I think even human has to spend extra energy to speak a language they were not born with, no matter how fluent they are in this language. I don't know about natural multilinguals.
"everything in existence is discovered rather than manufactured, which feels like a useless distinction to make."

Is it all that fuzzy or useless if you shift your thinking to view things as discoveries made by you rather than manufactured by you?

Manufacturing something could be a process carried out by human intelligence but the knowledge to process stuff into something 'more' is a discovery to be made.

i.e. people make/invent chairs but discovered/experience a universe that lets them sit on chairs.
Thanks for that. I'll give [1] a read. I'm familiar with [2], and cited one of those papers in the blog.

About the stupid or harmful nature of null hypothesis testing in general, what do you recommend instead for decision making and for summarization of uncertainty? In the scenario of large (yet fast moving) organizations where most people will have little stats background.
The Marketplace Equation – Levers for Growing Marketplaces
They may have already been hacked and the hackers were laying low. Seems more likely that insiders stole it though yea.
I’d like to add Mochi to the list https://mochi.cards/

It’s just a standard flashcard tool like Anki, but with a much better user interface and a simpler (IMO superior) SRS algorithm.
The heritability of IQ is very well established, usually estimated in the 50-80% range. You are fighting an uphill battle here because even if people haven’t seen the scientific evidence this effect is so strong that virtually everybody has seen anecdotal evidence of high IQ parents having high IQ children, but just seem to assert a very heterodox and counter-intuitive position without further elaboration.

It is incredibly arguable if during an obesity crisis if population wide health is actually improving and if population wide health isn’t improving that could certainly contribute to lower IQ. We’re also seeing population wide declines of health in other ways like sperm count. Food is becoming less nutritious as soil depletes. Our fish stocks being about to collapse is going to be another hit against brain health as omega 3s will become rarer in the diet.
Hey, and just like legacy/fiat currencies, it has made a tiny subset of often nefarious actors inexcusably rich while doing nothing for society, but for Good Reasons, right? Such an improvement!
One is a complete solution that lets frontend web and mobile developers easily build, ship, and host full-stack applications and the other is just old-school VPS in a cool wrap that does none of those things
The only thing that's missing is a custom repeated background image like it's myspace
Classics!
I like Mazda and Honda (in that order). Japanese reliability, sporty handling and a turbo engine for a fraction of the german cars.
BatteryBar Pro: Windows Battery Life Tracker
I have made quite a few keyboards (including handwired) and a few other electronics projects with lead-free solder and it has never been an issue. I use lead-free solder with a resin core, set the iron to the recommended temperature, and make sure to tin the tip.
These sorts of "forbidden knowledge" books (also including the Anarchist Cookbook, Poor Man's James Bond, etc.) exist in a sweet spot for bullshitters. The readers who can't understand the professional literature on e.g. making explosives and turn to your book are not competent to evaluate what they're reading. The few who attempt to follow the instructions and find them lacking are also unlikely to post verified reviews about how the explosive boobytrap did not kill the target as advertised. An author can mix together correct but partial information, speculation, and imagination as desired. It won't hurt sales if the instructions for homebrewed potassium cyanide don't work.
A normal pattern is to tier storage into a hot wallet and a cold wallet. Hot wallet is used for daily operations and can have lower security, but has a very low percentage of value, so that if hacked the exchange and eat the loss. The cold wallet can have very very high security measures such as multisig, physical security, geographic distribution, etc, and only needs to be periodically accessed.

Analogy in a old bank with cash or gold is hot wallet = cash that tellers have on hand, cold wallet = vault in the back that has everything else.
3%?

M2 = 100GB/sec
M2 pro = 200GB/sec
M2 max = 400GB/sec
M1 Extreme = 800GB/sec.

Most x86-64 laptops and desktops are in the 60-80GB/sec range. Some desktop or server only chip (threadripper, epyc, Xeons, a few intel workstation chips) have 150 or 300GB/sec.

400GB/sec vs 80GB/sec is quite a bit more than 3%, and is available in the mbp 14" or mbp 16".
Me, many years ago setting up electronic payment.
-OK, it's asking me for my bank account and routing number. These must be pretty secret.
-Oh wow, they're both printed on my checks. Uh...this system works?
Melbourne scientists find enzyme that can make electricity out of hydrogen
Nope, usually feel like I don't get enough air.
Traditional banking is sufficiently slow enough that things can be reversed before permanently settled. The "slow" speed of moving money is a feature. It's designed for humans who make mistakes all the time.
That worked!
I'd suggest "Vulnerability in Breadth", since increasing your attack surface and number of points of failure is a good way to ensure something goes wrong.
Presumably parental involvement in their children to set them up for success inherently makes lives more worth living than, say, excessive work to the neglect of children.

It's not as though private corporate competition isn't at times wasteful and destructive effort anyway.
I've been held up longer by side shows at intersections than driverless cars here. Not that SF is the lawless hellscape the media pretends is the case, but I do think it's a bit rich that city officials are pointing fingers at fairly remarkable services using paid permits that work well 99% of the time while failing to enforce laws that are broken more frequently.
> Even IIS/VB lets you write ES3, and you can pass in functions as arguments. That is really liberating.

Oh man is that still possible? I remember doing both server side and client side rendering with the same set of templates and JS with ASP classic (I think?). That was 2008 or something.. JSON handing was a pain though.
"People far smarter than me often have ideas I can't understand. They must be fucked up somehow. I can't see any other explanation for it."
I understand you. I had to sign in to find that out.
Conscientiousness and having long-term time horizons is dysgenic. People afflicted with those traits tend to reproduce less, and, to the extent that they're heritable, the genes coding them will gradually decrease in prevalence in the gene pool.
> while stealing crypto may be hard or impossible to prosecute in many jurisdictions.

This is one of the inherent contradictions of crypto. If the ultimate goal of crypto is to create a financial system that is free of government control, then that system must also be free of the justice system because that's the government too.

Asking people whose salaries are paid for with tax dollars to help you recover stolen crypto while simultaneously trying to avoid taxes and government oversight is so ironic.
> Dealer: said my car was fine and returned it to me. My car died the next morning.

Least surprising finding
How to Check Your Bios Version on Linux
tl;dr - because it operates on tokens, not words, and the set of tokens it uses is optimized for representing English text.
And I'm not really extrapolating too much from it, as I expect our soon-to-be-in-the-driveway Ioniq 5 to perform much better (as in, outlives me). The Leaf was the first mass-market electric car in, what, 100 years? Yeah, we expected some early-adopter teething pains (including a short-lived battery), and we have no complaints with the OG Leaf, enough so that we swore off ICE vehicles years ago and await our 2nd electric car.

But at the same time, it's a counter to Nissan marketing guy trying to mansplain to me about their battery lifecycle. I own one of your batteries, Marketing Guy, and I'm detecting slight hints of marketing bullshit.
I mean you’re right in that, thinking about this on an abstract level, your suggestions seem like no-brainers.

But the current system works well enough in the vast majority of cases. And the fixes to the problems you list would add considerable complexity. I don’t think it’s actually that clear that fixing these problems would have a net positive effect on the world.
...not until more EVs are available in the $20-30k price range. Most people can't afford new vehicles @ $30k+
Wow, only 30x?
Sort of, a traditional SSD is a combination of flash storage and a flash controller. Apple puts the flash controller inside their apple silicon.
Scientists discover a way Earth’s atmosphere cleans itself
doesn't this bug only manifest itself if one is using microsoft defender as their only security solution, and not a 3rd party AV/IS? if so, then the number of Firefox users in this calculation is much lower.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J3FcbFqSoQY&t=0
I think it goes a lot further back, one semi-serious data point: the "Chamber of commerce runs Atlanta" meme was satirized by the TV show Futurama in the year 2000:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Deep_South_(Futurama)

https://youtu.be/LeYihjMo0Bk
I had a parasitic drain on my Tacoma from my Automatic device (OBD-II reader / GPS tracker). I parked in a garage with no cell service and it drained the battery by constantly trying to connect. It was a non-issue when I commuted daily but started killing the battery when COVID happened and I switched to WFH.

Hard for mechanics to diagnose because they had no idea what that device was and also one of their first steps was to unplug it, put it in a cupholder, and plug their own OBD-II reader in.

Now the Tacoma is parked again most of the time because I got a Tesla and I'm noticing a voltage drop. I need to do more research, I don't know if this is normal for being parked or if there's a drain.
Hmm. That is a valid argument for me. You are right. In practical terms, the main issue lies with risk assessment ( and leadership basically running a scam ), but should a person implementing their ideas know better?

I know what the real answer is, but I am curious of the response.
Still not significant:

https://mchankins.wordpress.com/2013/04/21/still-not-signifi...

Nothing like spending 10 minutes reading a paper to see results which are likely nonsense. However, it pales in comparison to spending 3 weeks trying to replicate popular works... only to find it doesn't generalize... you know that ROC was likely from cooked data-sets confounded with systematic compression artifact errors... likely not harmful, but certainly irritating. lol =)
what kind of shielding would be required to keep all of that radiation from killing you? i still don't trust the shielding on my microwave, so i can't imagine trying to shield the effects of a black hole
The units don't make sense. You might mean megawatt-hours?
not only it's theoretically possible, it happens and it can already be observed on clean lab experiments

with normally used parameters the probability that LLMs produce copyrighted information is no proof that it was trained with it exactly, esp. when parameters are set so they don't repeat outputs
Streaming parsers may be the exception, but are likely the correct tool to use when handling large inputs becomes a problem. Similarly, XML parsers evolved the SAX model (as opposed to DOM, where the document had to fit in memory.) It is often sufficient to rip through the file in an event-based fashion to extract what you want, and throw the rest away.

For cases where a single string is truly massive, I would lean towards defining a maximum size to prevent denial of service attacks.
Teaching ChatGPT to speak my son’s invented language
That's circular reasoning. We get it, you don't want to be poor, nobody wants that, but it's not entirely clear why society should humor your desire to concentrate crime in areas other than where you reside. If anything, crime in rich areas should be more tolerable since rich people have higher capacity to defend themselves, higher economic tolerance to property crime (are insured, have savings etc.), and higher political influence to have something done about it, leading to less crime overall.

I.e crime is not a characteristic of poverty or the poor, but a specific policy failure in dealing with it.
That's not obvious at all. Source?
> How is ending a life fun?

Couldn't the same said about eating meat with every meal in the west or going to a steakhouse for 'fun'.
> why would you bother with the overhead to make it Palm-compatible though

Not having to design and explain API is a plus
You assume all Firefox users are on Windows (they're not) and that all Firefox users on Windows are affected (I and my SO were not).

Who knows what edge case triggered that bug to manifest but I for one haven't seen it in the wild in the years we've been using FF.

Probably difficult in such a large org to allocate dev resources to chase down and fix a bug few people were impacted by.
There's a difference between something not surprising you and a wild, totally baseless accusation. Ill happily eat my words if there is a shred of proof, but right now it's "company fixes old bug when it was reported to them"
I believe they actually do have that kind of mode. When you are riding in one of these cars commercially they have an “end ride” button that cancels the route and gets the vehicle to pull over.

I think most clogs are when cars are mapping so I’m not sure if they either don’t have enough data to offer that when they get stuck (depends on how much they depend on mapping to implement the feature). It could also just be that they figure a stuck car is too messed up to reliably pull over without causing more problems, so to err on the side of caution they don’t use that feature.
Imagine if you were an employee at this company with access to these keys. They're so disorganized, you could have stolen tens or millions of dollars in crypto and even right now after auditors have gone through everything, still no one would know you had done it. That anyone had done it.

How ethical are you really? Could you actually resist that temptation? Do you think all your co-workers could too?

What a fiasco.
I don't know if that's the case. I'm a Firefox user but consider all the 3rd party apps nearly as much malware as the things they are trying to solve. I run strictly defender and try to make good choices when downloading and browsing.
You're both right, but you're talking about different things.

If you use the same values at run time as you use in the tests, the tests predict the behavior as desired.

If you use different values at run time as you use in the tests, the tests do not predict the behavior as desired.
Would this fall under "fake it till you make it" or "move fast and break things"?
If it isn't on the Sprint board it doesn't exist.
> Because you'd be imposing weird anachronistic restrictions on yourself for no good reason.

Learning to count every byte has value today too, and this is practice in that skill
400,000 over 12 year period
Hardware security modules.
It doesn't have to. How much do our freeways cost us? esp with externalities?
That's exactly why I added "reasonable" to my comment.
Recycling batteries involves shredding them into black mass [1] and then extracting lithium carbonate from it. This is the same stuff lithium from mines and brine fields is processed into [2]. (Carbonate is processed into lithium hydroxide [3], the stuff we trade [4] and mix in batteries.)

In summary, they all start with pulverized stuff from which lithium carbonate is extracted and turned into lithium hydroxide. The fact that it's batteries versus rock just changes the front end; nothing downstream could care less.

[1] https://catalysts.basf.com/blog/lets-talk-recycling-what-is-...

[2] https://samcotech.com/what-is-lithium-extraction-and-how-doe...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lithium_hydroxide

[4] https://www.cmegroup.com/markets/metals/battery-metals/lithi...
> Every bank check lists the bank account number, which serves as the only information needed for a party to issue a request to withdraw money from that account.

The same principle (i.e. knowing an account number means being able to debit it) works surprisingly well in many European countries for direct debits, and the account number is considered even less of a secret than it is in the US. For example, many freelances routinely print it on their invoices sent out to clients, have it as part of their e-mail signature, or even prominently feature it on their website.

What makes it work is that, under the SEPA Direct Debit framework, the risk of fraud and insufficient funds is 100% on the party initiating the direct debit. An accountholder can literally click a button on their bank's app or website and they get the funds back immediately, no questions asked, within 8 weeks of the original debit date.

This, in turn, means that it is in the initiating party's self-interest to only accept this form of payment in high-trust situations, and not just like a low-fee replacement for credit and debit cards that shifts some amount of fraud risk to the accountholder or their bank.
Passing the Reins on Panfrost
I have mixed feelings about the text-search thing. it's true that relying mainly on hashtags for tracking topics isn't great because usage is highly variable, but on the other hand, I appreciate the reasons for deliberately leaving some friction in the system. Mastodon isn't asshole-free, but it remains less toxic than other places because the garbage can't spread quite as virally.
Basically yeah. Medical doctors will not do some thing for fear of losing their license to practice. One could argue storing data like this in plain text is malpractice.
Initially, I was completely unphased. In fact, I was a little relieved. I didn’t particularly care for my last job, it was just something I took because it paid enough to fund my future pipe dreams. I was also, not aware of just how bad the market was going to be for me. I figured even if the tech companies didn’t want me, I could go back to non tech companies with ease, but it didn’t turn out that way.

From about December, till just last month, recruiters basically disappeared. It was so strange to me, I thought I had been shadowbanned from LinkedIn. Even when I was 18/19 trying to get a job in the field with no degree and no “real” experience I was at least getting some low quality recruiter spam.

First couple months were nice and felt like the vacation I didn’t manage to take last year. Around 3-4 months in is when I started to worry. I’ve always had some concern about the future of the industry (and my place in it), but whenever I talked about it years ago it was dismissed and impossible because demand was just too insane. Things have since picked up a bit, and I at least am getting interviews lined up, but I’m just don’t care for most of the jobs and just feel like I’m going to be stuck permanently.

Right now I’m just kinda jaded and burnt out and unfortunately I think that’s bleeding into interviews. There are some other problems as well. I’ve admittedly stagnated a good bit, and have trouble caring or finding any enthusiasm in programming or technology anymore, though I’m not sure why, this has been an issue long before the layoff.
"Yes-clean" flux has absolutely been the cause of controller malfunctions due to its conductivity for makers of my controller project. It needs to be removed.

But yes, no-clean flux is best left where it is.
15 years ago, GitHub officially launched
For credit cards, mobile wallet transactions are tokenized, and EMV chip transactions function similarly.
You can buy old Tesla modules (typically from wrecked cars) on eBay. Once in a while I see people on the RV forums use them instead of LFP, though honestly I'd much rather have LFP for RV or home energy storage than regular lithium ion.
Here's the source they spent on MacBooks: "Apple (+111.5%)"