skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This feels very push poll-y and unscientific.

Their intro to it is not exactly objective:

> "Defund the police” was the rallying cry of liberals in the Summer of 2020, motivating “mostly peaceful” protests that led to property damage in excess of two billion dollars across at least 20 US states (Johansmeyer, 2021).

Weirdly the report seems to switch randomly between "shot" and "killed" as a description, but I would assume the number shot is necessarily higher than shot and killed. Very sloppy.
Only assuming y is also less than x.
The Infinite Monkey of Unappealing Noise
See, after the cars crash into each other, they create new cars, which go flying off. Some of these cars then turn into different cars. In some experiments, the cars create a sort of car soup, mimicking the time before the universe cooled enough to allow individual cars.
In the license add a section that prohibits people from the EU using it.
What's the point of a new name? Isn't it just having a website with RSS & co?
Is this a satirical comment? One of the big issues is how incredibly loosely defined 'hate' has come to be by a significant number of people. This is not without precedent in other areas, look at the differences in what is considered obscene in say, Sweden, vs the US to see how loosely defined such concepts can be and how dangerous it is to say things like 'as long as you stay away from [loosely defined and extremely political topic] you'll be fine'.
And yet it is much more pleasant to usenet on an iPhone than reddit.com... maybe "adapted for mobile" is overrated?
Which language models can run on a RPI: Zero?
Hi! I want to run some LM's on my pi zero for a personal project[0]. AFAIK the pi zero is 32-bit, so I don't imagine most Large LM's would work.

My use-case isn't very complex, something like BERT-base or even smaller could conceivably work.

Any model recommendations / links / advice would be appreciated.

Thanks!
Extasia

[0]. The program listens to your speech and emits funny quotations at you if it thinks you're feeling sad / blue / lost.
Reminds me of the George Costanza line from Seinfeld,

Jerry (on Keith Hernandez): Yeah, he's a real smart guy too. He's a Civil War buff.
George: I'd love to be a Civil War buff. What do you have to do to be a buff?
Right this is why GPTIndex renamed to LlamaIndex
King Charles’s private fortune estimated at £1.8B
There is a restaurant that makes Indian spiced chicken cheese steaks in Philly that’s gotten very popular. Try this recipe with your choice of meat, it’s not a tikka version but it’s delicious!

https://thechutneylife.com/recipes/dinner/spicy-chicken-chee...
Clinical Validation of Wearable Piezoelectric BP Sensor W Continuous Monitoring
There already are 'telescopes' on the moon .. in the form of the Hasselblad [1] cameras that were left on the rover passenger seats, pointed up into the cosmos, for future retrieval ..

No doubt some physicists of the future are going to be very interested in the contents of those lenses. Kind of the "pitch drop experiment" of astrophysics, I suppose.

[1] - https://www.hasselblad.com/about/history/hasselblad-in-space...
A Very Simple Rule (2018)
I'll prefer debugging Makefiles any day than cmake. But I yield to the de-facto standard.
Journalist Banned from Twitter After Reporting on Hack
Systematic reviews are rarely used to contextualise new results
accurate summary, but that 'vision for sustainable and thriving civilization' involves some rather poetic language which gets overlooked by a 'facts-first' engine like chatgpt. He's the only person I've encountered who seems both realistic and optimistic - albeit that optimism involves some amount of faith in an emergent intelligence greater than any single human is capable of. But he also touches on how individuals can relate to that kind of intelligence, which I find helpful. Hard to paraphrase though - if you're interested I'd recommend you bing his 'butterfly metaphor'.
You seem to be assuming that if one says "they know well what they are doing" that's a defense of their actions, but I'd think it is much more often a denigration of them...
Best AI aggregator I have come across so far. Will use it until I find something better. Thanks.
At that point gravity will act slower though, so it might be enough to take up a small liquid fuel craft too.

Rockets will have abandoned solid fuel boosters long before then.
The part that seems problematic is "each real number" the reals exist across bounds, I'm not sure there can be an "each".

I think his iterator is generating infinitesimals of rational and not continuous nature.
It's not 4-dimensional chess, it is simple strategy and two things can be true at the same time. The same applies to the defense industry's bloat -- keeping defense contractors capable to meet war time demand and eating up that cost now so it won't take 10 years to rebuild later on. At the same time, politicians make job programs out of these things to get reelected but these are "swing vote" politicians, every other politician would have to vote based on policy so that a nyc congressperson doesn't have to answer to voting for farm subsidies and military waste without some justification (even if his vote is in exchange for support for somee other vote).
The Strange History of the Oreo and Hydrox Cookie Rivalry
> No one is buying a $1700 chair for their home office.

I bought a $1200 Steelcase chair for my home office. Well, "bought." I expensed it back to my employer, who gave me a budget for this.

Perhaps that's where Herman Miller should be focusing -- show companies that reinvesting some of their office furniture budget into employees' home offices has a significant benefit to employee productivity (because employees will actually be able to sit at their desks for a reasonable amount of time).

It's one thought amongst many.
also, alignment package with reward and punishment.
“bad model, bad model! oh come here, my good model!”
20 Years Ago, AMD x86-64'd the world [video]
A banh mi roll would work pretty well.
I did the math: if the monarchy were dissolved and its holdings evenly distributed amongst the UK's 66M people, each person would get about $25. Same with Trident, which costs about £1.5B/year.
Why is he toxic? reminds me of those media influencers calling for others to lose their jobs, freedoms and lives because they wouldn't take the vaccine.

I'll never forgive them for their toxicity and I don't think that makes me toxic.
I could never get my head around Make except for very simple commands.

Was very recently looking for an alternative for automating frequently used commands for our Elixir app – especially for local dev (without using docker) and came across Taskfile (https://taskfile.dev/) and have been liking it quite a bit.
Welcome to generate your embeddings with Towhee
Hey Will! Joran from TigerBeetle here.

Partitioning data across files (or LSM trees) can be a remarkable win. For data retention policies, as well as for exploiting immutability in different workloads to reduce write amplification.

For example, in TigerBeetle, a DB that provides double-entry financial accounting primitives, our secondary indexes mutate, but half of our ingest volume, all the transactions themselves are immutable, and inserted in chronological order.

We therefore designed our local storage engine as an LSM-forest, putting different key/value types in their own tree, so that mutable data wouldn't compact immutable data. This turns our object tree for primary keys into essentially an append-only log.

I did a lightning talk on this, and a few of our other LSM optimizations, at Jamie Brandon's HYTRADBOI conference last year: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yBBpUMR8dHw

RocksDB also allows you to do this, with its concept of column families, if I am not mistaken. However, we wanted more memory efficiency with static memory allocation, deterministic execution and deterministic on disk storage for faster testing (think FoundationDB's simulator but with storage fault injection) and faster recovery (thanks to smaller diffs, with less randomness in the data files being recovered), and also an engine that could solve our storage fault model.

All details in the talk. Or ping me if you have questions.
Capitol Drops AI Rapper FN Meka Following Backlash
Show HN:The Gorilla in the Room:Exploring RedisTimeSeries Optimizations
I am guessing this was written by ChatGPT. As far as I know, No one likes make. Imagine having a choice between make and cargo and still picking make. ridiculous.
Then you're one of the lucky few.

The truth is that a dream isn't meant to be reached or achieved, it's meant to inspire people to do more than just sit around under trees smoking pot all day. It's a nice lie they tell themselves as to why they're trading time with their families for time at the office.
Factory PoMo (90s tech boom aesthetic)
I honestly think you might just be "holding it wrong"... instead of zooming in on the text, can you try just moving your phone closer to your head and see if that helps? I honestly use old.reddit.com on mobile because the font size is better: I am not zooming in and out, and I appreciate being able to see more of the thread at once. The "mobile optimized" version of the site feels like I am being forced to have tunnel vision and it makes it really difficult to read anything.
I'm really starting to resent the dumping of responsibility on the average guy. We can't even enjoy a steak sandwich any more without having guilt shoved down our throat even though we are responsible for minimal environmental impact.

https://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/2017/jul/10...

https://www.industrytap.com/worlds-15-biggest-ships-create-m...

https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-56723560

The media keeps picking on my stakes, ICE engines, decently warm home, etc, because they get paid to divert attention. And then the naive do gooders pick it up and hammer their fellow working class citizens. For what? If everybody on my level makes his life 50% less comfortable we won't even make a single digit percent dent on the environment impact.

Don't shit on the environment. Don't leave the lights and heating on for no reason, don't throw trash in nature, don't get a 7 liter engine for in town driving and so on. Those are the only kind of things an average guy can realistically do. And most of it he can't afford to do anyway. But when you come after my steak sandwich this is where I draw the line.
I thought they were doing clawbacks, no?
I wonder if this is actually cost effective.

In my data hoarding days (as a consumer, not FB scale), I found burning media an archive tool to be much more costly (and less reliable and more physical space) than simply using multiple hard drives.

Now, it could very well be that FB is able to buy burnable media at a much cheaper rate than consumers (i.e. perhaps there is more margin in media that massively bulk purchasing can reduce and the type of HDs that FB would buy would be more expensive than consumer drives, it could also be that actively used burnable media would be more reliable than actively used hard drives. while it's cold storage, its not frozen storage that is rarely used, with that said, the jukeboxes are probably expensive and suffer more reliablity issues than the hard drives), but on the consumer level, it just didn't seem to be a doable thing.

Ex: 8TB HD could cost $120. That's ~ 400 25GB single layer blurays. Now, 400 disks of optical media no matter how efficient one can store them will take up a lot more room than a single 8TB HD. For the 400 bluray blanks to be cheaper than the HD, they would have to be less than 30cents a disk. Glancing at amazon today, the cheapest I see for 25GB BDR blanks (and dual/triple/quad layer blanks are more expensive per GB, i.e. a 50GB blank would be $1.6 a disc) is about 40cents a disk. At that price level, you are better off just buying/copying to multiple disks for even better disaster recovery and it wont really cost you more than to store everything once on optical media.

anyways, if anyone could point out flaws in my assumptions (or why at FB scale the answers are different) I'd be interested.
An AI Hit of Fake ‘Drake’ and ‘The Weeknd’ Rattles the Music World
There's also the problems of mounting on a structure, let alone on an apartment building with limited exterior access (as with this case).

Turbines vibrate, and over time can cause joints to weaken as nails are loosened.

That's even without considering the disruption to laminar flow (e.g., full wind efficiency) caused by diverting wind-flow over a structure.

Upshot is that if you do want a wind turbine and have a viable use-case, you'll still want a free-standing tower well clear of structures, trees, etc.
as opposed to PESOS: Publish Elsewhere, Syndicate (to your) Own Site
They haven't yet killed ALL humans.
Ah, lovely to see Murderbot mentioned, I've just been re-reading it.

I think it's fine to take scifi tech with a grain of salt; most authors skip the absolute technical details so we just have to assume that things work in some way we don't currently understand. Someone did the calculation for the Epstein and it doesn't look great: http://toughsf.blogspot.com/2019/10/the-expanses-epstein-dri... but only based on the vague technical details provided in the books.

The Jean Le Flambeur trilogy is one of my favourites, it does a LOT of quantum hand-waving but the price is worth it for all of the amazing things in that universe. "This sounds so fucking cool" > "That wouldn't work irl" for good sci-fi imo. As long as they don't mess with thoroughly understood concepts and rely on "things we don't know yet".
Apparently there is 1 Subway restaurant in Vietnam. You can go there to get an idea of what a hoagie roll is. Also make sure the steak is in strips. I ordered a cheesesteak in Helsinki recently and they used cubes of steak. It was weird.
Smarter Ways to Manufacture Chips
Duplicate of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35635435
For a ring with a density of 10kg/m, that kinetic energy is about 5 megatons… spread over 40,000km.

It's negligible when it's that diffuse. Even if it didn't burn up, it's mostly lost to air resistance, with everything over a few hundred meters being limited to about terminal velocity.

And that size ring, is pretty useful.
> To find a specific key, we could use binary search on the SST file blocks.

I don't think it's possible except when both key and value are fixed size (which is not the case in the example shown).
I would imagine rather than hauling up a big counterweight, you might be better served capturing a near-earth asteroid and hauling it in.
The trick is that "hate" can be defined to be whatever opinions one desires to censor.
You’re not making an apples to apples comparison. You can run k8 on a single server or run 1,000 bare metal servers. Number of servers and how you deploy to them are tangential things and not mutually exclusive.

You seem to also be implying that by running a single bare metal server you have eliminated any chance of downtime which isn’t true

For example if your process crashes on bare metal, you go down, unless you have some kind of supervisor that watched and restarts the process, if youre not using kubernetes as a supervisor then you need to set one up using some other tool. At the end of the day you can’t eliminate all tooling/downtime.
> We can't even enjoy a steak sandwich any more without having guilt shoved down our throat even though we are responsible for minimal environmental impact.

You can enjoy it all you want if you take responsibility for its consequences. Right now the externalities of a lot of our actions are not taken into account for many things, and so the people who suffer the consequences are not the ones that are enjoying the benefits.
> Operating system standardization have killed this kind of creative interface

It's coming back with Electron and other frameworks for apps in the browser. Of course these must also be responsive to multiple window sizes and input styles, whereas on home computers you could always rely on a fixed-size screen and standard mouse/keyboard/gamepad as inputs.
How many steak sandwiches are you eating?!
Maybe look into Journalism.

Journalism looks like Education/Pedagogy but its not. Its info compression. People are busy, attention is finite and you are giving them just enough to stay relevant in whatever game they are involved in.

Education is not about compressing info. Its about delivering all the tricks in the book relevant to the subject from one mind into another. Sometimes metaphors required to aid the transfer. But the success of the teacher lies in how much info is transferred over.
Please describe what you mean by "an online processing model of any kind"

... not that I don't disagree with the rest of what you think you've said here, but I think that this part of your claim is egregiously paucious.
Space Buttplug!
Reminds me the irony that the leading state propaganda newspaper in the former Soviet Union was called "Truth".
> They are not expecting the xkcd “Dependency” comic situation to be possible

Rightfully so if you assume certain engineering standards. "Made by a nameless guy in a shack in oregon" is something you never want your auditor to hear.
That's the bottleneck though. It's not on the students end. It's on the professor/instructor/grad student end. It's not uncommon at big universities to have classes with hundreds or even thousands of students. Even if the oral exam can be completed in half an hour and there's 10 professor/instructors/grad students that can evaluate them that's STILL 50 hours each in a class of 1000 students. With a written exam it's one two or three hour writing period, then marking. Some of the huge classes will do multiple choice only on Scantron sheets so marking is literally done in minutes. With the courses I've marked it usually takes much less than half an hour to mark an exam on average even if it took the student 3 hours to write.
Vintage Computer Festival East was a retro madhouse
Isn't it also what misallocated those resources in the first place? Wouldn't it be better to never encourage people to just throw money away on subsidized BS business models that seem to mostly empower monopolies whose main barrier to entry is "has so much cash they can put any business that is wasting time trying to have revenue out of its misery"?
Developers should be force fed nothing, because they "chose" to not follow a formal education. Almost everything I see in these blog posts is stuff I was already taught at college (or very adjacent).

If you want developers to know about this stuff stop encouraging people to go to code bootcamps and start making SWE curricula more palatable and end this idea that college is a scam that teaches you nothing
Say m contains the prime factor p^i and n contains the prime factor p^j, then m^n will contain p^in and n^m will contain p^jm. For them to be equal we need in = jm or i/j = m/n but for a given solution m/n is constant and the prime factor multiplicity ratio must be equal to that. And that applies to all prime factors, their multiplicities must all have the same constant ratio, therefore the smaller of the two numbers must have smaller multiplicity for all prime factors and therefore divide the larger number. There is probably a simpler way to say this, this feels too complicated.
If you never get in a collision with a tank, no. If you do, yes.
What's most depressing:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporate_Memphis
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Arguably, pointing to t/2 (in the second case) is the correct behaviour, because (if concepts are being used), then it is the function (double_it) that is mis-specifying it’s requirements. Even better would be to point at the function definition as well and say that there is nothing in the concept that allows this function.

I think the core problem (don’t know if this is still the case, haven’t actually used concepts) is that templates raise errors at the point of expansion, rather than at the point of definition, because of how they are specified/implemented.

I think it’s possible that the compiler could do something smart by auto-creating a temp type that is the minimal possible implementation of the concept and attempting to compile the function. Any errors that result, should be flagged at the concept specified in the function.
My counterargument to this is that there's more throwaway anything in any medium than there is worthwhile stuff.
n^n * n^(m - n) = n ^ m = m ^ n, so n^n divides m^n, so n divides m.
Chockablock is exactly the kind of thing I was hoping for! These days abbreviated to just 'chocka', at least if my mum is anything to go by. Thanks for your reply
The proposal claims to be proportionate, but I don't see any mention of minimum income threshold or even a broad "significant revenue" statement in the proposal. Are hobby developers who make 100€ per year going to be exposed to 15,000,000€ fines?

PS: I am reading through the requirements and these seem unreasonable for projects netting less than 100,000€ annually.
If you can learn this stuff in college it is great, but you can also learn it on your own.
Famous ‘homunculus’ brain map redrawn to include complex movements
I never understood why so many Europeans think the EU exists as some sort of beneficial democratic institution that will "take care of the citizens". It was always a business club of the large European companies with a veneer of democratic institution. I won't cry a tear the day the whole thing crumbles into dust.

Parliament with barely a democratic mandate, executive with handpicked non-elected bureaucrats who strut around the world stage pretending to have some sort of mandate.
This, but unironically. We should’ve built more and done Operation Unthinkable.
I've some remarks regarding the tests and the test data in this survey.

- The data used in the benchmark seems very compressible. However floating point data (also time series) is in general not well losslessly compressible and the Gorilla algorithm is not helping so much.

- TurboPFor Integer Compression [1] has also an improved and faster Gorilla algorithm TurboGorilla (not shown in the benchmark)

- TurboPFor has now a new lz based algorithm "TurboFloat LzX" witch drastically compress time series floating point data (up to 3 times).

- TurboPFor supports lossy compression [2] (TurboRazor) with a point wise relative error bound. The preprocessed data can be further compressed with any floating point compression algorithm.

- TurboPFor supports floating point conversion to integers. The result data can be compressed with any integer compression algorithm.

You can test all this functionality with icapp, a TurboPFor benchmark app. Download the excutable for windows + linux from [3]

See also the time series floating point benchmark [4] "TurboFor: Time Series" showing different szenarios, using 32-bits instead of 64-bits floating point data like in the benchmark above.

[1] https://github.com/powturbo/TurboPFor-Integer-Compression

[2] https://github.com/powturbo/TurboPFor-Integer-Compression/is...

[3] https://github.com/powturbo/TurboPFor-Integer-Compression/re...

[4] https://github.com/powturbo/TurboPFor-Integer-Compression/is...
For some people learning to change the oil on their car could be “a full time job”, but it doesn’t change the fact oil changes are a commodity i can go pay $50 for at a shop.

Similarly, any cloud provider worth it’s salt provides a managed k8 cluster as a commodity these days.
It's a recurring joke in /r/AoE2 (Age of Empires II) to label screenshots of particularly aesthetic base/farming layouts as NSFW.

For context, normally you are placing 3x3 tile farms either around 2x2 tile mills or 4x4 tile Town Centers, so you end up with a "pinwheel" at best. But the Poles can build a 3x3 Folwark (like a mill but makes your food come in faster if the farms are close enough) leading to some very satisfying ways to use building space efficiently and aesthetically.