skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Curious on what basis you're making this recommendation. It's the kind of thing I would normally read and recall at a later stage as good info, but my doctor prescribed me 20k IU a week recently for a period of a couple of months.
Caveat: In the following, I use "comparison" to mean "check for equality".

Floating point numbers lose precision because binary arithmetic doesn't represent decimal in all cases ( 1/3 is an easy example). It's not hard to get into a situation where you're asking if a number is 0.0 but due to a precision error the number you have is 0.00000000000001 or whatever and it should have been zero.

If you're dealing with anything where precision is paramount (i.e. money or high precision machining) you should consider using something else that matches the real work precision you are trying to model.

You can, of course, use floats and test differences rather than strict equality (i.e. distance is < 0.01) and that's fine too... if you remember to do it, and account for the potential for small precision differences to propagate throughout your calculations and accumulate into larger errors.
floating point math is math like any other, just with a vastly different number system. There are valid arguments on both side if we should hide or expose those differences in the implementation, but there's always going to be pretty big implications (i.e. the compiler behaviour mentioned here)
Yes, but that general sense is not how the word is used there. If it were, it would be redundant. He's talking about a specific subgroup (budding Ivy League entrepreneurs?) that he finds annoying in a specific way. It's a class distinction.
Is there a way to leverage this software and deploy something like a self hosted Google drive that also allows us to generate public links for sharing ?
Yea, geofencing on IP or by AS are often done.

Least you can get the DNS resolver working.
I'm not making an argument though? I'm saying I'd like to have my location history without it being tied to Google.
I don't think "feels right" and "uncomfortable" should be conflated, though. Many things feel right and uncomfortable at the same time. Think of break ups, moving locations or jobs, having children, and to your point, innovating.
> What is more important is what the person who is writing the article doesn't have an idea about what it's about.

> Just like "Anna Denis Vnrhoturkina Kulkov" and "Kommunistrecheskya St"

Not trying to absolve Bryan of making those mistakes, but let's be real, he is a security professional, not a specialist on how telephony works all over the world, and neither he is a linguistics specialist.

As long as the factually relevant info is correct and the reasoning is sound (even with those mistakes), it is ok. I am totally fine with the author not knowing that in russian language, the woman's last name would be "Kulkova" and not "Kulkov". Doubly so, given that a lot of digital systems and pieces indeed would record her last name as "Kulkov". Despite those mistakes, the post still makes perfect sense in its chain of reasoning, and none of it changes the conclusion.

For a specific example - my mother and I (who have that same difference in last names, as I am a man, and she is a woman) occasionally receive emails from businesses that mess the last name up (i.e., i would get emails writing my last name with that women-specific "-a" suffix, and she would get emails without it). It doesn't happen often, but it has been happening occasionally over the years.
Yikes. Nextcloud used to do that to me. I'd love to find an alternative, but I don't want to go back to those dark days.
Wow - apparently a 10 minute cooling break every 4 hours is too much to ask.
It's now like going to Musk's corporate breakroom plastered in sponsors rather than "the internet's town square" as it used to be described.
It's always like that. New space is .. new space. It's unknown, sometimes almost empty, sometimes dense.. you never really know what to expect.

There was a natural aspect to it, that people who wished to spend time would discover wild things, and not organized boring monetized stuff.

Of course people wish for a little bit of help, then someone provide it (Google, later facebook) and the magic starts to fade away.

No more strange shores.. it's urbanized, with robbers and scammers, fluff and administration to "protect".
So, that answers the general mining comparison, but that doesn't answer many of the other points, including things like the impact of refining (which produces chemicals far more toxic than just burning coal), the estimates of global mineral availability, and the sheer number of power generation facilities to produce (at a minimum) comparable levels of power. And that's without including things like empowering oppressive regimes like China's CCP and the Congolese government because we are forced to by minerals from them for many of these solutions.
I don't think I've ever seen it repeated so close before (not that I check every day ... but still: when someone's asking a question that's practically identical the the most-recently-asked Ask HN ... you'd think they wouldn't ask :)
Never fear, you can always be lobotomized into a servitor.
Are we talking about depression or the weather?

For me peak depression occurs right around the solstice and starts improving immediately - yet slowly - right after. I'm definitely in a better place by mid Feb.
There might be unintended consequences resulting from perfect enforcement of the law. Knowing that you are under constant surveillance and one infraction could result in a fine might create a backlash of sorts, to say the least.
The original post only talked about thanking the plants. The reply only talks about apologizing to the plants. Clearly the reply thinks that's the same thing here.
Yes, and the thing you'll notice is that anything that's remotely viable for arable farming is used for just that.

Even large-scale industrial farms still rotate pasture, though, because otherwise the soil gets spectacularly fucked up within about four years.

Without cows, everyone would starve.
Are there even any applications where one needs a) decimal precision and b) fast computation? Financial calculations don't need to be fast.
> "Do the weirdest thing that feels right."

I prefer another version of the same idea: "If it's worth doing, it's worth doing badly."

Cuts through any perfectionism, analysis paralysis and overthinking. Go be shit at whatever you love. It'll feel better than trying your best at something you don't really believe in.
The agricultural system doesn't need to break down in order for us to realize it's deeply damaging and unsustainable. Ideally we'd realize this and change our ways before breaks down — that's why permaculture exists.

You're confusing permaculture with prepping.
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I'd argue ChatGPT is closer to restating copyrighted materials in a different way. And that is legally questionable. Whether that actually matters depends on how much money is at stake and how much each party cares to spend to enforce or protect their viewpoint.

Allowing these systems to utilize copyrighted materials without compensating the copyright holder is a legal loophole the size of the sun. Then it becomes a perfectly legal defense to write "an AI" that slurps up copyrighted material and produces results that are "based on" that material.

My issue is that the copyrighted work is fundamentally integrated into the algorithm. Say you wrote a program that would input a copyrighted work, then prints out the contents, but with some words replaced with synonyms. Would the output of that be okay? What about if phrases were replaced? How about if entire sections are added, rearranged, and/or removed? At some point, the results become so mangled as to not be recognizable, but the fact that a copyrighted work serves as an input to the program is still an issue, IMHO.

A major difference between humans and computers is that a human can't (generally) recall hundreds of pages of text and regurgitate it on demand. So a human who has read a book only retains a fraction of the contents, and even then, generally they don't retain all of the information accurately.
> And the reason for that is that it would wreck their battery life.

Not really. ECC is fine for energy consumption and most BLE chips now have crypto accelerators.
I meant, VSCode is pretty successful if it can get Google to switch over to using it.
Is there any similar work to change 127/8 to be something more reasonable like 127/16 or 24?
Which are almost as harmful as the sugar that most of those drinks use to addict their consumers.
Respectfully, is this a joke?
Half of the western world is overweight/obese (75%+ in the US), the vast majority of people are massively malnourished and under exercise

The market for that is very small, most of the things that kill are known, the solutions are known, there is nothing cost effective, no magic pill

Optimize for the basics, you have a long way to go before individual tests bring anything to the table. If you don't exercise vigorously 5+ times a week, walk 20k steps a day, skip alcohol, stop eating processed food, &c. no amount of vitamins will extend your life. It's like changing your tires every 5000km while skipping oil changes until the engine dies
I do not know your language, but at least in Polish the translation makes some sense.

They have the word "czarny" which means "black". "czarny kot" is "black cat", "on jest czarny" is "he is black". The latter is purely descriptive.

There is also the word "czarnuch" which is the VERY offensive word for Blacks, best translated by "negro".

Now, the last name "Czarnuch" is a normal last name, without any connotations to the color black (except probably in its etymology) and does not sound weird/offensive.

The translation of this capitalized word would naturally yield "Negro".
(I mentioned them already :P)
How ‘open’ should your open source be?
UI is hard and subtle and a touch interface for sighted people might be radically different from a touch interface for people with impaired vision.
I hope you're right. Personally I prefer being asked what kind of camping equipment I'd be. I think we're a long way from dropping this nonsense though. Its given way too much power to people for them to just let go.
For the overcautious theoretic thinkers here, I recommend reading about Coimbra protocol, where 50,000 IU daily is not rare. It can go up to 300,000 IU per day.

At levels above 10,000 IU per day you should take precautions to prevent calcification of the soft tissues: Take Vitamin K (100-200ug), Boron (10-20mg) to prevent calcification. Vitamin A should be dosaged at a ration 1:1 - 1:4 compared to Vit D (same amount or 4 times more of vitamin A) because A and D are anthagonists.

Below 10,000 IU there's only benefits of better health and no risk or precautions needed.
The goal isn't to have one person produce all that for themselves, or about back-breaking labor.

Permaculture encourages community, not hyper-individualism. It's about working with nature rather than against it, and directing the benefits of it to everyone.
Would've absolutely done it if it included actually getting the book.
Secessionist threats can be a useful strategy to get what you want. Spain and the UK are examples of countries whose increased decentralisation (greater power for regional governments) is largely an attempt to subdue secessionist demands, if those secessionist demands had never existed that decentralisation may well never have happened-certainly not to the same degree. Similarly, the Canadian political establishment invested immense resources in constitutional reforms to try to satisfy Quebec nationalists (the Meech Lake Accord and Charlottetown Accord), although those reforms failed - without the threat of Quebec secession they likely never would have put so much time into it.

Whether that strategy works as well in the very different political context of the US remains to be seen, but it isn’t impossible that it might
> That doesn't make sense from a physics perspective.

I'm reminded of what a physicist once told me: if a physicist says something is impossible, give up all hope. If a physicist says something is uneconomical/impractical/infeasible, then there is still hope because economics change over time.

> To make this accessible to the hobbyist, you need a revolution in physics, not informatics or engineering.

The big stumbling block in terms of doing this on an (advanced) hobbyist level is the need for liquid helium and rare metals. That's an economic problem, not a physics problem. The helium is a really big deal -- but it's also the one that is most likely to have the economics change in, because the helium shortage is a serious issue and there are lots of people looking into ways to manufacture it efficiently. If they succeed, helium may end up becoming cheap enough to be within the realm of possibility for advanced hobbyists.

Also, the only reason that helium is needed at all is because MRI machines require superconductivity to work. It's not impossible that an advance in that field could happen such that you don't need to make things as cold as liquid helium in order to achieve it.

> we're going to be talking about a lot more exciting things than handheld MRI machines.

Hand-held? Why do they have to be hand-held? I'm just talking about ordinary people being able to build one at all, not how portable it would be.
> rice is found to have too much arsenic

BTW, I read of a better way to cook brown rice that reduces arsenic. Instead of 1 part rice, 2 parts water, simmer for 45 minutes, one does this:

1. Cook brown 1 part brown rice in 6 parts water for 30 minutes.
2. Strain to remove the water. Put rice in a steamer basket.
3. Steam for 10 minutes.

Much of the arsenic is carried away in the water in step 2. The rice also comes out much fluffier.
> I mean, your choice of picking Columbus's first voyage just reeks of bias too, so it's getting pretty stinky here.

But isn't that literally what Columbus day celebrates? His first voyage to the New World, not the man himself in particular, all the bad stuff he did, not even his later voyages necessarily. At least that's how I understood it.

> But since your idea of "explorer" is closely tied to some pretty horrid behavior, I don't think you'll get much support.

I very explicitly say the exact opposite (to quote myself: exploration and brutality are orthogonal), and at this point it's becoming obvious you're just arguing in bad faith.
Phone rack on teacher's desk arranged by seating chart.
Not really. I know this is anecdata, but : I always test my stuff, and I've never gotten anything but LSD.
Definitely more than 10 years behind Google and probably going to stay shit for foreseeable future based on their hiring patterns and pay.

Apple routinely claims they can underpay new hires compared to Google and Facebook and they have to accept it because "it is a privilege to work at Apple." Probably you can hire a bunch of cultists with that message to work closer to iPhone and UI but I doubt the hardcore infrastructure folks particularly count "working as Apple" as a special privilege compared to Google and Facebook.
I will say this, even if I am aware that I will be crucified for saying it; because we all have heroes and villains and try to think the world is black and white -- and we especially don't like to think poorly of the people who's political opinions we agree with.

However: I have gone really sour on the CCC since 2019.

I agree with a lot of the political opinions they express but the method in which they express them really makes me feel as if they're trying to bring the movement down.

For example: I have been tangially related to a degree of bullying behaviour in the under the guise of "everyone who disagrees with me is a right wing troll".

I might go back to the events, it's still the best computer conference in Europe in my opinion.

I must express to them how skittish on the events I have become though (and this is my way of making them know that, even if I'm quite certain people will loudly disagree with me on the basis that "if you disagree with them then you are probably also a right wing troll"). Which, anyone who knows me will certainly disagree with and it's not like I'm hiding behind a throwaway. I will gladly take the downvotes to express this, it proves nothing.
https://www.sqlite.org/howtocorrupt.html

If not careful, I think you'll hit, particularly 1.2, 1.4.
I remember reading something somewhere about a guy doing tests on "3D" NAND and other TLC/MLC NAND SSDs and finding that data was lost well before the "10 years or so" that we have come to assume unpowered SSDs can retain data for. I can't locate that article at the moment but it isn't unreasonable to expect faster degradation on denser NAND.
Airlines eliminated change fees during COVID because otherwise people wouldn't have been willing to commit to travel during the period of pandemic restrictions and conference uncertainty. Conferences would have remained remote/hybrid for longer, and people would have had more zoom calls instead of meetings.
High-frequency trading, perhaps.

Physics simulations too.
Fully informed people doing unhealthy things to themselves by choice is fine. That’s not how the kratom industry operates though. Instead, they cover up the dangers of the drug with “it’s in the coffee family”, straight up hiding it in “herbal teas”, and even covering up entire operations behind “kava bars”. It’s all slow sleazy, with the goal of creating addicts before they even realize what they’re addicted to.
I wonder if regulation is partly to blame:

"Due to 27 different regulations in the EU alone (and more in other non-EU-countries), the administrative burden for international e-commerce is huge. Other than packaging regulations in many countries, WEEE regulations do typically not have any minimum thresholds or exceptions for SMEs. Therefore, WEEE registration and recycling fees are required in every country (separately – even within the EU) when shipping internationally. This also goes for startups and small stores which have just started selling electronics in Europe. (The laws even apply before the first sale is made.)"

https://www.ecosistant.eu/en/weee-directive/
I'd argue that people having to leave their house every day is better for society as a whole, even if it feels a bit inconvenient.

Having everyone lock themselves inside and exclusively interact via video chat is not a good thing, IMO.
Ah yeah, I see. I was thinking more about the downward assessments on sold buildings. Below $400/sq ft is pre-2010 prices.
IMHO That was poorly worded. What it should have said is "if you find yourself using equals to compare floating point numbers...". With Floating Point your comparisons should always be less than or greater than. Precision artifacts make the equals unreliable, and you should always be mindful of that when dealing with them.
Agree with everything you're saying here, I'll add what might be obvious: it's generally best if the first doses aren't too large.

I first took LSD back in 2014 I believe, after researching everything surrounding the topic for a year. My wife was completely on board and we allocated a three day weekend.

All of the research indicated that it was completely safe from a physical perspective and for a stable and fairly well adjusted person like me, with a very informed and willing helper, fairly psychologically safe.

Me being me, I decided to go big on the first dose. I took well over 600μg.

I won't say this was a mistake for me, but it was a rather rigorous experience that lasted most of three days.

All of the trip was interesting. Most of it was a range between neutral and amazing, but there were definitely some bad trip elements.

About once a year since then I've taken a much smaller dose. At the moment I don't have a desire to repeat the huge experience, but I won't rule it out for the future.

Very briefly: during the worst of the bad trip parts I lost the ability to understand and produce language, which was scary for both my wife and I, though we understood that the impact would be temporary. This happened about 8-12 hours after the trip started.

None of my subsequent trips (all between 50μg and 200μg) had any big bad effects.

And yes, the whole experience was a big win. While I as doing pretty well beforehand, there were some areas of tunnel vision that greatly improved.
I mean yeah it's intentionally transparent. He addresses the fact in the article itself.
Right. I think the "they're fucked" threw me off, because "they" sounds impersonal, as though talking about others without having had the personal experience. However, that very phrase should have alerted me to the fact that anyone who knows as much about the topic and uses strong language is very likely emotionally involved, and therefore it is wiser to tread lightly. This is what I should have known better, and will improve upon for next time.
It's the hard task of trying to figure out the magnitude of the expected errors (which can accumulate), in the simplest case of a single operation you compare within epsilon distance :

https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Floating_Point/Epsilon
A Survey on Integrating (Human) Feedback for Natural Language Generation
This lets you run an existing Java web applet that you already have, from way back when those were supported, in a modern browser with real sandboxing. Even if you don't have the original source. It's for legacy stuff, not new projects.
May you please provide the query you tried searching for? I will try this out and apply necessary changes in my spare time.
What specifically did Tony do that was bad? It was almost universally aspiring to do good, just in a bizarre and clearly mentally ill way.

You’ll note in every biography and article and discussion of the guy they pin his problems on unnamed mental health issues, with specific references to periods of mania and depression. You don’t have to be a genius to identify bipolar from that description. That’s literally the diagnostic definition of bipolar. He was almost certainly Bipolar I, but 100% Bipolar II. The diagnostic criteria isn’t particularly involved and is essentially marked by mania and depression of varying severity:

https://floridabhcenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/Bipol...
Algorithmic trading, of course. High-frequency trading in particular. But any trading, in fact, when you run simulations for thousands of instruments and search among millions of parameters. Or when you implement an exchange, or route orders between exchanges according to their complicated criteria. Or when you do options pricing. Basically, everything in this field.
They have a TON of product people.
The Internet Censorship Bibliography
Kale, rice, and beans are notoriously cheap! When I worked in a restaurant 20 years ago we put kale out as decoration because no one wanted to eat it. Times change, I suppose.
Bill Gates drinks it every day it can't possibly be bad for you. At least that's what I tell myself.
All corporations have things in common, at the very least legally, and more.

Nvidia, for example, meets the requirements too.

Why you would trust a company not to increase prices because they make their own hardware I am not sure.

I remember a bus company undercut by a new train service. The train was very affordable until the private bus service disappeared. Then, the price gouging started.

If we can compare that service with a SaaS I don‘t see why apple would be any different.
This is the issue raised by comments like the one above. We understand that evidence based medicine handles statistical averages very well. But if you fall out of that, all you're left with is snake oil salesmen. There's a need for an intermediate layer of evidence yet "taylored" (and not kidney-costing if possible).
What a great and clear write-up. Thanks to the author.