skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That graph basically makes me think there is no "normal" and no trend, it appears to just jump all over the place, widely, continuously. i don't know if that's right, but that's my reaction to that graph!
in fairness, of the cryptocurrency black market, 99.999% of that is scams too...

I don't think it's recovered from the silk road and alphabay era?
the oxygen levels in airplanes are not high because they only pressurize the cabin to be about a 7000' pressurization. that's roughly equivalent to a lot of mountain town altitudes... think flagstaff.
Soviet Union never claimed to actually be communist - it was the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, after all. Communism was supposed to be that thing that'll eventually happen after you had socialism for long enough for the "new type" of people to emerge. The Soviet joke about it went, "communism is like the horizon: an imaginary line that is always the same distance away as you walk towards it".
We still don’t have Rosie the Robot. When it comes to learning and adapting to new environments, we don’t even have AI as smart as a mouse. LeCun is right, there is still a long way to go.
This is a link to a thesis. Can you recommend some implementations for linux and talk about your experience?
"It must be trained extensively for each person who uses it"
Flipping this the other direction, I'm intrigued by the idea of a perpetual purpose company, even a charity, that could be set up and endowed to keep to it goal even after the founders have departed (maintaining open source libraries, providing grants, etc.)
Happened to me quite few times, try rebooting
The dangers of over-simplifying your error messages to cater to the average user.
The actual lawsuit is here: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.254... (grr, journalists who don't link to court documents).

The plaintiffs are:

* Center for Biological Diversity (nationwide nonprofit)

* American Bird Conservancy (nationwide nonprofit)

* Surfrider Nonprofit (nationwide nonprofit, has a chapter based on the barrier island in the area)

* Save RGV (nonprofit apparently focusing on the Rio Grande)

* Carrizo/Comecrudo Nation of Texas (representing indigenous groups in the immediate vicinity)

So, there's at least a few groups in there who are actively based in the local area.
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I mean, malware and ransomware is already a thing. A hospital already needs to have a plan for how to turn off all of its computers and reset everything and restore from off backups, because that's a thing that happens to hospitals today.
I agree. The frustrating thing with a lot of this is that microbiota seem to follow the Anna Karenina principle: every healthy microbiota is alike, but every dysfunctional one is dysfunctional in its own way. FWIW, I have a friend whose SIBO spontaneously went into remission almost immediately after travelling to a tropical country. Of course, that probably wouldn't work for you.
"The modern era has dramatically reduced civilian casualties compared previous generations." Or perhaps put a temporary dampen, at the cost of increased probability of increased magnitude apocalyptic scenarios. We are flirting with nuclear war as we speak, at risk levels higher than the most nightmarish Cold War scenario. Time will tell.
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>We seem to have got into a phase where there was an assumption that near 0% rates were here to stay.

We have and that was caused by the Fed as well. After the 08 crisis the Fed kept the rate at 0% during what was basically the biggest 10 year bull run in history. It was insane and even many bankers I spoke with mentioned the causes of the original 08 scare/crash werent fixed, they were just band-aided heavily.
I'm not sure if the variety is greater than what an Australian might experience, but the variety is greater than what many people outside the US think it is.

* The US has 63 national parks. Some of these have cultural and historical significance. Many have biological or geographic significance. We also have over 6,000 state parks, many of which are significant. The variety and sheer amount of public land we have is truly a national treasure. It's really common for people travel for activities such as hiking, camping, hunting/fishing, skiing, mountain climbing, snorkeling, kayaking, etc etc.

* The US exports a lot of culture. It's very common to travel for culture. Concerts, festivals, broadway plays, museums, world class theme parks, mardi gras, fashion week, hollywood tours...

* The US has some of the top international travel destinations. Maimai, Las Vegas, Disney, NYC. D.C. attracts tourist and is very dense in monuments and museums.

* Due to the large amount of worldwide immigration, the US is pretty diverse.
> That's false

In what way?

> Just read my comment, it tells you exactly how to make it user friendly.

I’ve reread all of your comments in this thread and find no such thing.
Are there apps using the Safari libraries running in the background? Sounds like something only user-facing applications would be using.

Also, isn't one of the arguments for Apple's stronghold on all the software running on their machines that they know 100% what everything is doing? Should be trivial to look up which processes are using specific parts and restart those.
> It is per-core so there is not going to be a whole lot of contention going on.

That's only true if nothing else happens between requests to the hash table. That might be the case, or it might not. Depending on your workload that might make no difference or totally ruin your performance characteristics.

> I am no expert in math but the algorithm is claimed to be better than another one because it is in a class that is better than the class the other is in. It’s not because a run of 100 shows some distribution.

The problem with this is that while it may well have better characteristics than multiply and shift on average, the quality of the distribution of multiply and shift based hashes can vary by many orders of magnitude depending on the choice of multiplication factors. Put another way: Multiplying by 1 and shifting is a perfectly valid multiply and shift hash function. It's a very stupid one. The performance characteristics for a hash table doing that is nothing like the performance characteristics of what is proposed in the original article. I have no doubt that the table based approach will beat a large proportion of the multiply and shift hashes. But so does other multiply and shift hashes, by large factors. As such, without actually comparing against a known set of some of the best multiply-shift hashes we learn very little about whether or not it'll do well against good multiply-shift hashes.

To me, the fact that they chose random factors is very suspicious. Nobody uses random factors. The effort spent on choosing good factors over the years has been very extensive, and even hacky, ad hoc attempts will tend to use large prime numbers.

> You have a lot of demands for exhaustive testing but when you are asked to provide the same, it’s all too much to ask. ‘I wouldn’t mind someone plotting graphs’ yeah thanks, I wouldn’t mind someone else doing the work.

I've not made demands for anything. I've pointed out that making a blanket claim that multiplication is bad when the performance characteristics has changed as much as they have is unreasonable, and a paper like this tells us pretty much nothing more. It's absolutely reasonable to consider table based approaches; it's quite possible, even likely they'll have desirable properties for various sets of inputs - there is no such thing as a perfect hash function for all inputs, and sometimes you care most about pathological worst case scenarios, some times you care about averages, some times you know what data you will or won't see. That it performs as well as they've shown it to means there is almost certainly situations where it will be a good choice. But because of the choices they made in that paper we can't really tell when and where that would be, and that's a shame.

What is not reasonable is just writing off the use of multiplication on the basis of hardware characteristics that are decades out of date. That doesn't mean you should blindly use that either.

If there's one thing people should know about working with hash tables it's that you should test and measure for the actual type of data you expect to see.
From the info page on apple (linked elsewhere here but https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201224 and (no discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35776738))

>They deliver important security improvements between software updates — for example, improvements to the Safari web browser, the WebKit framework stack, or other critical system libraries. They may also be used to mitigate some security issues more quickly, such as issues that might have been exploited or reported to exist "in the wild."

I believe they are vague on purpose (and because they're Apple) but it does not strike me as something strictly limited to affecting just Safari, especially given the libraries may be used elsewhere.

ETA: To further quote from https://support.apple.com/guide/deployment/manage-rapid-secu...:

>Rapid Security Responses that involve the operating system require the device to restart. On macOS, the updated operating system content may be made available to Safari and its associated processes with just a relaunch of those processes, though a restart is required to make this content broadly available to the rest of the operating system.
I have the strong feeling I would never do this regardless of the DB engine for performance and storage reasons. I would try to hash the blob into a bigint and use that as the PK/FK.

Out of curiosity, is there a scenario you can share in which using a binary blob as a PK/FK would be the best solution?
Please edit out swipes. This is in the site guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.

Your comment would be fine without that last bit.
There are a number of studies that have found that CO2 levels lower than the OSHA limit of 5,000 ppm can still cause issues like slight cognitive impairment and worse sleep (however there's also a few studies that have found no or minimal impact of levels below 5,000ppm)
Please edit out swipes. This is in the site guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.
I would expect they're referring to UUIDs or something
I skipped an entire year of middle school (8th grade), spent a few weeks studying a bit, and it was fine.
Yet many merchants are the victims of chargeback fraud, and many others have had funds frozen with no recourse. A paypal glitch left me unable to access my funds despite spending far too much time and energy trying to resolve it.

How many employees does trust wallet have? How funded are they? I am completely unsurprised that this happened to web3 trash. This is more of an indictment of the vc funded 'move fast and break things' attitude that pervades this site and 'web3' than it is of the greater cryptocurrency community.
From the "I remember" I assume you lived through it. Were you per chance from "proper" soviet union, aka Moscow / Petrograd area? Because allegiance to the state and nothing else was the ideal in the "less correct" regions such as Baltics. It "got better" as time wore on, but especially after the occupation, every attempt was made to erode anything and everything else people might gather around. Forced ethnic mixing with deportations to faraway regions to dillute national identity. Pioneer movement and schoolwork that taught you to think of the union first, family second. Heck, even open encouragement to rat out your parents for "un-soviet" behavior.

It might be sovietophobic in the sense we would rather not have it repeat, to put mildly. But for the occupied regions, it was far from fiction.
Leading theory is that COVID was made in a lab. Not sure what to fear more AI robots, or AI engineered viruses.
debian and ubuntu ship an implementation of tetris in the bsdgames package (and bsd has included it since the 80s), gnu emacs has included tetris.el for 25 years (despite removing yow lines), and debian also includes bastet, blocks of the undead, crack-attack, gtkboard, kblocks (which is part of kde), ltris, netris, petris, stax, termtris, tetrinet, tint, vdr-plugin-games, vitetris, /usr/share/vim-scripts/plugin/tetris.vim, and quadrapassel (which is part of the official gnome release)

you've been able to buy cheap '9999 in 1 block game' hardware with 200 nematic pixels, preprogrammed with tetris, for at least 15 years at any import port in the world

i've written two tetris clones myself, http://canonical.org/~kragen/sw/inexorable-misc/tetris and https://gitlab.com/kragen/bubbleos/blob/master/yeso/tetris.c, and no lawsuits have yet arrived

also, minecraft is just an infiniminer clone, and there are fifty zillion clones of each of pacman, space invaders, breakout, snake, doom, and super mario

so these novel legal precedents you mention, though indeed menacing, are at least still being very narrowly applied in practice; conflicting precedents include data east v. epyx, capcom v. data east, and atari v. amusement world

even in tetris v. xio, the judge held that tetris's gameplay is not copyrightable, and the case was not appealed, so it isn't binding precedent outside that one district

also your mention of patent suggests that maybe you're not very well informed about the area; tetris came out in 01985, so any patents on inventions disclosed by the game would have had to have an application date no later than 01986 (01985 outside the usa) and, barring lemelson-style submarine patent tricks to delay issuance until 02006 or later, be expired for over a decade now
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>Ribbon is to LinkedIn as BlueSky is to Twitter

Might wanna rethink this part, because I bet I'm not the only one who's never heard of BlueSky. This sentence was completely devoid of meaning for me. Figuring out what Ribbon does now requires me to read about BlueSky and figure out its relationship with Twitter first.
Indeed, here's the crucial quote:

>Rapid Security Responses that involve the operating system require the device to restart. On macOS, the updated operating system content may be made available to Safari and its associated processes with just a relaunch of those processes, though a restart is required to make this content broadly available to the rest of the operating system.
Seriously. I feel like we’re weeks away from “This is the ONE Vegetable that Hegel is BEGGING you to Cut Out Of Your Diet!” being published in The Atlantic or whatever
Makes sense, thanks. If they're sticking to a pattern, then I'm satisfied.
> "In the Soviet Union, the government regulated almost every aspect of life. Censors decided which books could be published. Comedians had to submit material for approval before they could step behind a mic. Failing to applaud a speech by Joseph Stalin could get a person arrested. So could listening to bootlegged copy of the Beatles."

Its amazing how the author feels the need to parrot these hysterics in order to write an article about how Soviet workers generally had far more leisure time and opportunity compared to western contemporaries.

Imagine starting an article about sockhops in the 50's with:

>"In the United States, the government regulated racial boundaries with strict enforcement. Slavery was over but vagrancy charges were regularly used to traffic southern blacks to northern coal mines to work for no pay in dangerous conditions. Entertainers were getting called in front of the Anti-American Activities Committees for donating to civil rights bail funds. Failing to support the war in Korea could have you black listed from any real career.

> But you had dance halls"

Absolutely insane.
This lasted well into the 90s. Nowadays there's no cheap vacation for anyone, not just the working class.
And the kicker is, as other commenters here have pointed out, it now also depends on the card you're using to pay with, straight up pulling a bait and switch after you try to pay: they don't go through with the charge if they see you're using an American card and then ask for more money.
What's wrong with capsule networks?
The big propaganda win has always been “it’s either no holds barred free market capitalism or its central planning.”

Of those two, free markets lead to better outcomes, but rarely optimal outcomes. There are middle grounds.

What’s worse is that America’s markets are already extremely skewed (tax deductible mortgage interest for example), but free market proponents ignore that, since it’s the baseline.
random anecdote, but the first company i worked at, most of the team/org was mormon. and to make things even weirder, the boss was also the local "bishop" so he was everybody's boss in both the secular and spiritual worlds. not sure how common this sort of thing is, but i definitely felt at a disadvantage compared to the mormon people on the team.
Seconding this recommendation. I was surprised how easy and cheap it was to order my own tweaked PCBs. Airgradient has also done a lot of testing to determine which components work well and what their different failure modes are.

Depending on how many you build at a time, you can source all the parts for maybe $40-$60. Assembly is straightforward as long as you're comfortable with through-hole soldering (and if not, this is a great chance to learn). The design is also modular enough that it's easy to skip on things like the thermometer or particulate matter sensor if you're so inclined.
This is the second question in the FAQ: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html. See also "Why is A ranked below B even though A has more points and is newer?" later on that page.

There's no connection between HN and OpenAI.
Yup. Finally switched last year to Krita from GIMP. Was a little awkward with the muscle memory for a bit, but damn, so much slicker. Reminds me of when I went to VSC from NPP and Atom.
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A quantity-driven test would mean that an algorithm that says "sort by number of mentions of ISIS" is safe, but an algorithm that says "sort by a score comprised of newness, number of upvotes, number of comments, and geographical proximity" would fail... It would also doom search engines, whose results pages are generated by multi-variate algorithms.
Maybe you should have gone to China last year or the year before to enjoy the authentic Chinese experience of living in a cage without food because grocery shopping was verboten.
I guess the mass market won't care about whatever you end up caring about. You are missing out if you haven't given a serious try of Apple M-Series hardware.
Warning: if you install this it doesn't give you the option to delay a reboot to apply the update. I got a notification my computer would be restarting in 60 seconds as soon as the install completed.
> I've seen minor releases in Julia break essential packages.

Any specific examples of this happening in Julia 1.0 or later?
> I've been interested in understanding how the Soviet economy worked for a long time.

After the '91 collapse Western scholars briefly got their hands on some Soviet archives and worked to piece this together. The Soviet economy was run by fixers; Party people that answered to Party leadership and mediated the difference between the State's official socialist schemes and reality. The system was opaque and kleptocratic in the extreme and, except for a brief period after the collapse, it appears not much has changed.

A concise survey of the archives can found found in: "Behind the Facade of Stalin's Command Economy: Evidence from the Soviet State and Party Archives" (Paul Gregory, 2001).
I wonder at what point does alingment become an issue for AI systems ? Given sufficiently large distances, assuming no FTL communication, if you're spawning copies with the same goals you're risking misalignment and creating equally powerful adversaries outside of your light cone.
Not many of those show arbitrary web pages.

I guess it depends on what the bug is.
Well the "U" tends to mean "unibody" instead of "utility" in those cases ;)
"You're asking for more than six weeks per year where you can just get paid for not working."

No. PTO (and other benefits) is compensation for work. It's not free money.
All things I don't want, and can't really buy a car without.

But yeah, I think the fact that Americans, at all income levels, have more stuff than they did 40 years ago, is part of understanding the macro picture. More stuff does not always mean more quality of life.
whatever things they do, talking to an AI should not be one of them. this is not vehemence for individuals but (for my part) utter distain against use of AI in its current form as a medical device.

the reason AI companions work is because humans have a strong imagination and we are able to live inside an illusion. like some people deep dive into books or games, or virtual reality worlds. but they remain an illusion, and just as it is considered unhealthy to get too attached to these imagined worlds, it should be unhealthy to get attached to an AI companion, especially for those who have issues with mental health
You're out of luck, if none of the route segments is served by Deutsche Bahn (which is often the case for regional routes), because then you'll be unable to buy your ticket using the most common nation-wide app DB Navigator.
I don't know why but I m pumped for the public internet to be littered with fake photos, so that people no longer lose their jobs over dumb things they did 10 years ago, and so that governments can no longer spy on their people reliably
> It's pretty clear the Brownsville community is completely against them

I visited the area a couple of years ago. Locals were mildly positive towards SpaceX.
Your deposits never get lent out. This myth seems particularly sticky.
> Most of people couldn't even dream about Sochi.

That's not true. Not to idealize anything, there were people, of course, who were poorer than average for one reason or another, but once in a while an average person could actually afford a vacation in Sochi and other areas around Black Sea. (The quality of accommodation is another question, of course.) Also, union members (i.e. pretty much everyone) were occasionally given an opportunity to spend time in spas ("sanatoriums") there. And if you remember, people took vacations that were usually one month-long!