skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It seems like this uses native Postgres security/roles which I think would prevent a connection pooler from working (unless you held open 1 connection per user)

Ultimately it'd be nice if Postgres could keep a hot worker pool for connections instead of forking processes but afaik there's been plenty of debate over the years and no consensus

I think high connection thrashing also eats up CPU and there's the issue of increasing load eats more RAM which reduces Postgres memory cache. We had a connection leak problem and clearing ~2600 PG connections saved something like 80-100GB of RAM
The myth that any ancient human or mammal did live permanently inside caves need to be stopped because it's just not feasible.

People throughout history just use caves as temporary shelter and dwellings enroute to a permanent destination.

EDIT: Bat is an exception to this but bat is the only mammal that fly
Unix: /ˈjuːnɪks/

Eunuch: /ˈjuː.nək/

Presumably the plural form retains the vowel, hence they are just a bit different.
Define 'hacking'? It's a broad term and could mean many things. But if you mean programming, then I used Visual Basic in the early years to write port scanners and such. Then progressed to C++ and finally Rust.
Scientists create 'slits in time' in mind-bending physics experiment
It's hella amazing to see how Linux has been used in so many different industries and applications, from chip design to web servers to personal computers and moree. It's a testament to the flexibility and power of the open-source model, and the ingenuity of the community that has built and maintained it over the years
Yep, peanut allergies used to be 1 in 10,000, then the advice changed to "introduce peanuts after age 3" and allergies skyrocketed to nearly 1 in 100. The advice has since been reversed and they say to introduce trace amounts of allergens as early as children start solid foods (usually age 5-7 months, 6 months being most common). There are no children at our daycare with peanut allergies and in fact they get snacks with peanut butter on the regular. Seems to be working.

Note to any future parents out there, Trader Joes sells an excellent "multi nut butter" which has all the various allergen heavy nuts and quasi-nuts out there, and they also sell "Bambas" which are like cheetos but they're made of peanut... puff stuff, and really hard to choke on since they just kind of dissolve in your mouth.

Obviously, consult your doctor, but we've seen a huge reversal in kids allergies in the last 3-4 years as the suggested advice has done a 180 and parents are following it.
Open source GPS tracking platform - Traccar (https://www.traccar.org/). I think picking a small B2B niche is the best way to become successful. You're not going to be super rich, but you can have a good stable lifestyle business.
Look into models reviewed in project tinymicromini from ServeTheHome on YouTube.

Is there credible evidence that products from China are not safe?

If anything, they are under scrutiny at this point.
The extra steps are the ones between them being a free person and an inmate.
Once I saw prop 65 warnings on balsamic vinegar and coffee, I stopped paying attention.
Go to market?
You can invoke Zig without build.zig:

zig build-obj file.zig

And then include the object file along with your other sources. How you do this will of course depend on your build system.
This is such a vague comment to be useless for GP.

Do you have some issue with carbs? High calorie foods? Something against processed foods? Gluten? Plastic sensitivity? Why was it a blessing? What made you start appreciating it? etc. etc.
I think they are supposed to delete them by law, but they could ignore that. Assuming they do delete them, it seems to me they miss a few that show up as the DBs around the world sync up
> If somebody has a rare and possibly fatal condition, you'd expect they'd consider cross contamination and be very careful what they ate.

They are.

But without accurate labelling, what can they do?
The article says that manufacturers are not allowed to list sesame as an ingredient unless it actually is an ingredient.

The law says they can't warn about potential sesame contamination. Instead it must either be an actual ingredient or manufacturers must clean the equipment.

Seems like this fiasco could have been avoided if someone had gone and talked to manufacturers about how big a deal it would be to clean stuff. I'm guessing this isn't a question of a small amount of profit loss; it's probably a big expensive deal to comply with this law.
Sorry, replied to wrong thread. :|
Training via CPU isn’t that bad if fully optimized with AVX512 extensions.
I see, thanks for the explanation. Good luck.
I was watching an interesting video of a young woman who had just gotten a DUI. She didn't understand why it was a "thing" because she hadn't hit anyone. She managed to argue herself into two months in the county jail because she didn't understand and did not want to understand. She also tried, briefly, to make a case that she was too attractive for prison. Upon questioning, it was fairly clear that she would go on to reoffend.

I saw another video of five teens who liked throwing heavy rocks over a busy overpass. They had done this more than once. Of course, they ended up killing someone, after which text messages were exchanged with much LOL and LFMOA and HAHAHA. Apparently, they had pre-planned some kind of defense where everyone would agree that the eldest of the bunch was the only one throwing the rocks, as well. The four youngest got a year of probation. The eldest got three and a quarter years in prison. He's out and the rest are long clear of their probation.

I am unsure what could be done to rehabilitate these individuals rather than merely coercing lip service from them.
PR reviewers stopped me from writing raw SQL.
I grew up drinking water from a peaty spring a few hundred metres above my house.

Unless it's a bit chewy it just doesn't taste right to me.
Connection poolers like PgBouncer [1] (traditional) and Supabase's Supavisor [2] (new) come to mind.

[1] https://www.pgbouncer.org/
[2] https://github.com/supabase/supavisor
Is there some pdf publication on arxiv.org on how it was developed and trained? I'm not trying to speculate or spread rumors but I guess maybe it's a fine-tuned OpenAI GPT? Like you sent them so much training data on things specific to India through their fine-tuning API interface giving a model that you are interfacing to on their servers with an API when users give queries? Is that accurate? Sorry if it's not I'm just guessing. I'm so curious how these really smart models work!
Okay then.

So what's the risk?
That's interesting you bring up this point, because it opens up a whole can of worms:

- Why is suicide bad?

- Why is there a presumption that this is your one and only life?

- Why is there a presumption that life is made to be enjoyed?

- Why is there a presumption that consciousness ends after life ends?

- If death is inevitable, then couldn't suicide be broadly construed to pretty much ... just living?

Believe it or not, these are thoroughly explored by monks and philosophers. Ironically, I think perhaps, you should take a step back and examine some of your own frame in looking at this.

I'll start with this: there are more than one kind of motivation for ending one's own life. The most common one, which we call suicide, is usually done after giving up on life because there is overwhelming pain. There is a lively debate about this going on with regards to assisted suicide, including certain countries having passed legislation with state-funded assisted suicide. It's not that I agree with this kind of suicide, but rather, I think you are construing suicide far too broadly, conflating what the monks are doing with suicidal people overwhelmed with pain.

What these monks are doing are not an attempt to kill themselves, because things are more difficult. If that were so, there would be no tradition of self-immolation.

To give you a contrast, look at say, a modern -- still living -- teacher named Adyashanti. In the past year or so, he took a sabbatical from teaching due to his health condition, where he silently attends and lets his partner lead the teaching. And it may not seem like it when you hear him speak over the years, but he has been experiencing significant pain for years due to his ongoing health condition.

It's the same realizations he has that allows him to carry on with his teaching despite experiencing that pain, as it does with the monks going through mummification or self-immolation.
I agree, I did a double take upon seeing it here.

And the missing Messiah book that is presumedly lost.
It's good to use a variety of sentence length, as the case requires.
Okay. Confirmed live now. That was quite the boneheaded move on my part lol.
Here in the US, I see the label "Has been processed on machinery used to process <X>". So apparently that's allowed, and I think would be adequate.
This has to be the funniest tech article I have ever read. I was literally laughing out loud. I don't even remember the last time I had such an emotional response to a tech article. Probably it was something by whytheluckystiff back in my teenage.
> doing unwarranted nmap scans is considered network abuse

After almost being physically ejected from a secure data centre because a member of my group used nmap to see if a port was open, I recommend starting with telnet. :)

A wide nmap is probably going to trigger an IDS, and then you get to meet interesting people and answer interesting questions.
Perhaps they have moles in certain discord servers too.
after what he did to twitter... who would want to work for him exactly?
If I understand you correctly, it seems the fundamental difference is what percentage of their finances come from the state.

I urge you to reconsider and continue this discussion so we both can learn what exactly is that threshold to be regarded as state-sponsored in your view. Is it 0.0001%, 10%, 51%?
Doesn't have to be actually difficult to comply for them to do this. It just has to be more expensive to comply compared to the cost of adding the allergen and the lost revenue from people who avoid due to the allergen.

It's like an auto maker evaluating the cost of a recall compared with just paying out settlements. There's no morality or logic involved, it's just numbers.
Thank you! They have been a huge source of inspiration.
Show HN: Don't Hold Your Breath – Breathing Analysis with Polar H10 HR Monitor
A person's heart rate fluctuates based on factors such as activity, environment, and mental state. Additionally, heart rate variations occur on a much shorter timescale, with changes happening every few seconds. During inhalation, heart rate slightly increases, and it decreases again during exhalation, a phenomenon known as respiratory sinus arrhythmia. There are several reasons for this. Firstly, an increase in volume within the thoracic cavity (the space between the ribs) leads to a corresponding drop in pressure, which is counteracted by a rise in heart rate to regulate blood pressure. Secondly, breathing is deeply intertwined with the autonomic nervous system, which involves the opposing activation of the parasympathetic ("rest and digest") and sympathetic ("fight or flight") responses. By measuring heart rate variability and regulating our breath, we can gain insight into our stress response and learn to control it.

The Polar H10 heart rate monitor provides basic heart rate measurements from a chest strap ECG, compatible with a number of fitness tracking apps that monitor heart rate zones wirelessly using bluetooth. The device also provides raw sensor data including an accurate measure of the timing between heartbeats (interbeat interval, with millisecond resolution) and 200 Hz accelerometer data. In this project this information is used to measure breathing rate and heart rate variability, and explore the relationship between the two.
Meconvictical ? (I like this one because it sounds really dumb)

Meconvictal ?
I wish the article would just summarize the content in the title, so I don’t have to read the entire article. Tldr: restaurant cannot say “the product may contain traces of sesame”, they must include it on the ingredient list, but if it’s on the ingredients list they must add it to the product.
>Flying on a 737 MAX—even including the fatal crashes due to MCAS—remains quite literally the safest way to travel by both time and distance.

Are you claiming there are no safer planes than the badly designed ones that killed a bunch of passengers recently?
Sure, but this stuff is pushed from on high not down below. Sade is promoted and held up as something (not sure precisely what) important.

So the simple rebut is that the pseudo intellectual classes always poo poo what appeals to the common man. But they love this stuff, and, the common people do not like it. That’s really the only thing that is interesting about de Sade and his fan club: the curious inversion.

& p.s. my personal sense is that de Sade legitimizes oppression as natural pleasure and that’s what makes him the court philosopher of the modern elite.
https://www.forth.news

The vast majority of Americans get at least some of their news from social media, even though they don't trust it.

Forth is a news feed for news; not quite social media. Everything comes from vetted journalists who adhere to our editorial policy, so you can trust what you read. No spam, no misinfo, no hate speech.

Have a little over 60 journalists in all sorts of beats/locations, and growing.
But how do you know the tiktok you're watching of your favorite opinion affirmer hasn't been AI generated to impersonate them?
Show HN: A curated list of remote jobs
Safari on iPhone does not :(
Yes by all means - I have a gmail account, with the same username as here and github.
Making an open source CMD epub reader in Rust. I don't want to share the code as I feel a bit self conscious about where it is ATM, but when its done I really hope it will be a solid reader for people using the terminal. Its non-profit because I just want to make a neat tool
In other words, the whole "we have to add sesame because the law forces us to" is a bald-faced lie.
Google Chrome emergency update fixes first zero-day of 2023
That this movie ever got the funding it did really shows you how much leverage Travolta had back then in Hollywood.
A day after graduating in 1947, she married Lawrence Norwood, a graduate student who had been her calculus instructor during her third semester.

This would be a Cancellation moment in the modern world...

A good article about a great scientist. RIP Virginia Norwood...
https://gotem.live

A party game my friend and I built over peak COVID, still play with family & friends frequently. People stumble across it on the Apple TV App Store and occasionally purchase some content which is great!
Mars has sunlight and a more inspiring mission
PSP is a trusted execution environment not a remote management platform. There is no reason anyone should want to remove this from a privacy perspective. In fact, privacy and security software may be hindered without something like PSP or SGX.
The claim that we're reaching the limits of storage technology (SSDs, spinning rust and tape) is false. The amount of storage produced each year is determined by demand, and there isn't a demand signal asking for 10X or more. Even if DNA storage is created, it will be more expensive and less reliable than existing tech for decades- likely more, due to the innovator's dilemma. If you want to store lots of data for a long time (like deep time) use lithography on quartz.
I'm talking about working in a lab as a staff programmer. Most PIs I know, myself included, would absolutely kill to be able to hire experienced people from industry to write high-quality scientific code for them. The problem is that a) traditionally, it has been hard to get funding for this, though that's slowly starting to change, and b) even when the money is there, it's always going to be a fraction (1/2, often less) of what that person could make in industry.
LlamaIndex – data interface to foundation models
That doesn't mean anything. If COVID gives you a heart problem and you die from that heart problem, you died from the heart problem. That COVID gave you. Why are we still discussing this 3 years on? We have excess deaths stats available now.
Around 1985, I bought a used paperback copy of Battlefield Earth, and it had a tear-out form to "Order the soundtrack of a book!" as it was "Soon to be a major motion picture!"

Loved the book, but never ordered the soundtrack, and the wait for the eventual movie was about as long as the wait for more Star Wars after Return of the Jedi.

And maybe even more disappointing.

*Looks like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Jazz and there are a couple of songs on Spotify https://open.spotify.com/album/7jbIrqG028aV3uxNy56ZZg?si=CD7... Oh, wow. Umm. I'm so glad my teenage-self didn't spend money on that. :-D
Substack CEO Chris Best Doesn’t Realize He’s Just Become the Nazi Bar
I like RetroBit's Sega Genesis bluetooth controllers. They feel substantially similar enough to the originals.
Sadly, in the 11 years since the article was published, the Battlefield Earth official movie website has gone dark. This little section of the book's website seems to be all that's left:

https://battlefieldearth.com/battlefield-earth/#movie
If you want to see a fun example of this build system in action, have a look at my ffmpeg fork which has the build system ported to zig build:

https://github.com/andrewrk/ffmpeg

Particularly interesting is the use of nasm as a package dependency, which is executed to compile many assembly files into object files, which are then linked into the ffmpeg static library.

I'm using this package in a work-in-progress reboot of Groove Basin (a music player server) in Zig:

https://github.com/andrewrk/groovebasin/tree/zig-pkg

Point being that if you want to collaborate on the music player project, you don't need to screw around with a million system dependencies, it's just `zig build` and you're off to the races - no matter whether you are using Windows, macOS, or Linux.

The zig build system is under heavy construction during this release cycle of Zig. I recommend to check it out at the end of May when Zig 0.11.0 is released, and a few more issues will be smoothed over. Of course, if you want to get your hands dirty and help work on a bleeding-edge build system & package manager, come on over and give master branch a try.
Diabetes 2, morbid obesity, gastroparesis, i.e. usual effects of Metabolic Syndrome. These have become shockingly common in children in recent years. Several years ago the gastroparesis got very bad and I was forced onto a low residue, low carb diet. The result was a 90% resolution of the gastroparesis, a 75% resolution of the obesity and complete remission of the diabetes. And a much higher quality of life.

I wish I had started younger, but nothing short of that kind of compulsion would have made me. Few kids need to go to such extremes, but most would benefit from the absence of flours.
Conjecture: myths about the prevalence of unreasonable civil actions have done more societal damage than will ever be subverted by people who revel in casting aspersions about the threat they pose.
> this is a side-affect of new technology, even something as old as email, still has this problem

Bitcoin isn't perfect. For one, it's not anonymous, and was never designed for privacy / anonymity. Monero on the other hand is anonymous and more like paying in cash. Of course even that has issues, in that at some point you need to interact with an exchange to cash out your Monero to fiat, and that leaves paper trails.

You could, in theory only transact in Monero and not use fiat at any point. But good luck buying a house in anonymous cryptocurrency where the transaction is set in stone and can't be reversed.
Some books we're able to partner with and they give us an API to access the data through. Other we do need to scrape, given that there is no explicit "you can't do that" in their Terms & Conditions. Some books do have such a statement, so we aren't able to offer those.
> We decided to release version 1.0 and arranged a release event. The Finnish computer press was invited, and a TV station even sent a crew.

Was this ever aired? Was it recorded?
If so, is there a public archive of it somewhere?
I confess to the same mirror image issue. I cannot understand why people insist that regressing in a latent space, derived from the mere associative structure of a dataset, ought be given some Noble status.

It is not a model of our intelligence. It's a stupid thing. You can go and learn about animal intelligence -- and merging template cases of what's gone before, as recorded by human social detritus -- doesn't even bare mentioning.

The latent space of all the text tokens on the internet is not a model of the world; and finding a midpoint is just a trick. It's a merging between "stuff we find meaningful over here", and "stuff we find meaningful over there" to produce "stuff we find meaningful" -- without ever having to know what any of it meant.

The trick is that we're the audience, so we'll find the output meaningful regardless. Image generators don't "struggle with hands" they "struggle" with everything -- is we, the observer, who care more about the fidelity of hands. The process of generating pixels is uniformly dumb.

I don't see anything more here than "this is the thing that I know!" therefore "this is a model of intelligence!11.11!01!!" .

It's a very very bad model of intelligence. The datasets involved are egregious proxy measures of the world whose distribution has little to do with it: novels, books, pdfs, etc.

This is very far away from the toddler who learns to walk, learns to write, and writes what they are thinking about. They write about their day, say -- not because they "interpolate" between all books ever written... but because they have an interior representational life which is directly caused by their environment and can be communicated.

Patterns in our communication are not models of this process. They're a dumb light show.
Why would you want to do away with AMD PSP? It's a trusted execution environment that privacy and security software (e.g. Signal) makes use of for it's confidentiality and integrity guarantees.
I can’t downvote things, but maybe every topic doesn’t need to be dominated by conversation threads about ChatGPT
Batch size can be used for regularisation, but using it for that will limit training performance. From the Google Research Tuning Playbook:

> The batch size governs the training speed and shouldn't be used to directly tune the validation set performance. Often, the ideal batch size will be the largest batch size supported by the available hardware.

> […]

> As long as all hyperparameters are well-tuned (especially the learning rate and regularization hyperparameters) and the number of training steps is sufficient, the same final performance should be attainable using any batch size (see Shallue et al. 2018).

https://github.com/google-research/tuning_playbook#choosing-...

The ideal case is full-batch with tuneable regularisation, just the hardware gets expensive.
> assess whether what you are doing in life genuinely appears to be good or bad at a very surface, kindergarten level

Tell me you’re vegetarian without telling me.
Some companies exist that will send you a packet of food weekly with various allergens mixed in. The advice in the last 3-7 years has been reversed.

20 years ago they started telling parents not to give their kids any allergens until age 3. Allergies like peanuts which in the 1980s which were so low as to be questionable, skyrocketed in the early 2000s to almost 1% of all kids and peanut butter was banned from a lot of schools. The messaging has done a 180 now and they recommend introducing allergens as early as 5 months, and usually before 1 year.

My personal experience is that no children in our daycare have any allergies so from my very small sample, seems to be working. Other parents I've talked to seem to be having similar experiences.