skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
tell that to FTX stockholders and clients.

In loose IRS terms an engineered loss every year starts look like a hobby mis-telling the world that it is a business.
Glass doesn't block UV A so that might not be the case, don't know in particular which type of UV rays the mushrooms need to produce vitamin D however.
stupid
adjective
stu· pid ˈstü-pəd
a: slow of mind : obtuse
b: See comments on https://mastodon.matrix.org/@element/110340953550548309
FTX is really no separate phenomenon than the underlying crypto industry itself.

The entire space rests on the metrics generated at the whim of perhaps a hundred or two extremely (crypto-)influential individuals who are all affiliated with one another and whose incentives and behaviors are highly correlated even when that affiliation is weak or antagonistic. I'm referring here to the large established miners, both public and dark (i.e. bot farm based, corrupting gov. officials, etc.) As well as the pools that they pretend not to control, and to a lesser extent the operators of the larger exchanges - although they are not nearly as free to move in recent years as the miners still are. It's no accident in miners are extremely publicity shy.

This group, which behaves like a cartel so it's reasonable to think about it as one, self-generates nearly every metric used to determine the size and depth of the entire industry. The fees and other costs to create fraudulent statistics would be impossible for anyone who is not a miner to swallow, but if you're mining at scale there is an enormous discount - because an inverse scale fraction of those fees are paid to yourselves.

Transaction volume, price, number of nodes, number of accounts, velocity of funds, everything that is used to construct a picture of the real human interest in this market via the lens of virtual numbers that describe it is completely under the control of a few people. Although some of them are more regulated today than they were in the past, for a good part of a decade there was effectively no oversight into how any of these operations worked, and they were free to openly front run the market, buy electricity at substantially corruption-reduced cost or just outright steal it- and again in the early days this paid off extraordinarily well because early large block rewards could be sat on and held until they bubble-appreciate several thousand of percent above acquisition cost.

when you're paying reduced (or nearly zero) cost for your production infrastructure you don't need to sell all of your product right away, and you thereby accumulate a future war chest to create a market 'bottom' anytime liquidity gets a little bit too loose for your liking: simply slow-roll selling new block rewards and voila, price stabilizes. Your carefully managed low public profile lets the media and public fill in their own self-serving explanation, which is that the public must be crazy about this stuff it cant stop buying it.
> As we get more intelligent we care more about these things (biodiversity, etc). Why wouldn’t AI?

Well, we care for various reasons, major one being our own survival and comfort. Given what that means in practice, we'd be better off dead than having an AI care about us like we care about animals and plants.
Encrypted messaging might be good, and giving the matrix devs a financial incentive to stay in the governments good graces might be bad.

If they're paying your paychecks, you're going to think twice about implementing features they won't like.
If they have their mortgage already paid off, yes, very much so.
Ships sulfur emissions kept Europe cooler, until recently
You make too many assumptions about what I've read and what I have not read.
A whole lot of other electricity demands drop massively at night, so while it needs to be planned for, the coldest nighttime period is also the time the electricity grid currently sees the lowest demand.
Be aware that the top of this page links to GDrive for the model weight diffs, but the bottom correctly links to huggingface: https://huggingface.co/young-geng/koala Vicuna also released their diffs earlier this month, too: https://huggingface.co/lmsys

I've had remarkably better experience with Vicuna than Koala via their "Chatbot Arena" but it could, of course, be the kinds of example questions I've been asking it
When I was in London a few weeks ago the taxi prices were 2-3x the uber prices. Also they'd tell you to fuck off if they didn't want to take you to that location.
Thanks. If that's it, it doesn't sound that amazing or accurate:

> A nonspecific test merely indicates that any of several in a category of substances is present. Although a nonspecific test could statistically suggest the identity of the substance, this could lead to false positive identification. However, the high temperatures (300°C) used in the GC-MS injection port (and oven) can result in thermal degradation of injected molecules,[3] thus resulting in the measurement of degradation products instead of the actual molecule(s) of interest.

from the wiki
I'm primarily a software engineer, not a member of "large support teams". I've also worked for many years as an independent consultant, brought in when things go wrong, certainly not when they were first "installed". I'm not "afraid" of anything concerning my knowledge going "out the window". If MySQL suddenly disappeared worldwide, I could happily pivot to some other area of software engineering, or I could simply retire. Please stop make assumptions about other people who you know nothing about.

I'm responding to you because you're repeatedly posting factually incorrect items, for years. For example you and I have directly discussed the "MySQL doesn't use SemVer" thing before on HN, and yet here you are again in this thread, claiming 5.6 to 5.7 should be a "minor" upgrade.

Anyway, to the topic at hand, as others have also mentioned in this thread: historically the difficulty with Postgres upgrades has been the lack of cross-version replication, due to Postgres WAL replication being a low-level physical replication system. This made it difficult to perform an upgrade while keeping your site fully online. Perhaps the newer logical replication support makes this easier these days. I hope to learn more about it someday. If you can share your process for upgrading a Postgres cluster while keeping it online, that would be helpful and informative.
The poor and middle class don't have investments. Source: all my co-workers and girlfriend's relatives that meet me with blank stares when I ask if they are saving for their retirement or maxing the company match for the 401k.

Not judging that- the reality is somewhere in between they can't afford to do much but stay alive due to inflation and housing costs out of control and that they need to stop getting $7 Dutch Bros. coffee every day, DoorDash every night, and Taylor Swift tickets for $1000.
Interesting. Is this really true, that every person prefers at most one of these?

Also a quotation link would be appreciated.
> The first step is realizing that the risk of quitting your job is much lower than you think.

With a SAHM wife, three kids under ten, a home, an investment property, and several other loans & liabilities, I'd say that the risks are considerable, especially given that neither my wife nor I have any family to fall back on.
> people skills are at least as important as technology and raw intelligence.

They absolutely are, especially in a team environment. In terms of the quality and velocity of the team's output, the competent dev who works well with the rest of the team is nearly always better than the genius dev who doesn't.
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There's a limited number of volunteers with the experience to improve (C)Python, though, so the resources are better spent on improving the CPython implementation to such a point where PyPy is no longer necessary.
> The included charging dock is also a speaker.

I've gotta say, charging docks are a killer feature for me and I don't understand why Apple doesn't do the same.

There used to be the Logitech Base [1] that I still use with the previous-gen (9th) iPad, but the smart connector in the newest iPad (10th gen) is no longer compatible with it, as the angle of the edge changed.

It's been years since I plugged in my phone or AirPods -- I only wirelessly charge. The idea that we should still be plugging in tablets with Lightning or USB-C is bizarre to me. A charging dock is the way to go, and it's so unexpected to me that Google realizes this while Apple doesn't. It's actually the only reason I haven't upgraded my iPad.

[1] https://www.logitech.com/en-us/products/ipad-accessories/bas...
Glass blocks UV-B and UV-C, but not UV-A (unless you have a film). Many mushrooms can be enriched with UV-A, but UV-B is best. So yes, I agree, better to place outside in direct sun (or window open). But building the habit is the harder part for people tbh.
Being from Norway but living in the UK: The average UK house is not built for UK temperatures... Insulation here is a bad joke, at least in older housing.
A "dash board" was originally a part of a carriage that protected passengers from mud thrown up by dashing horses.

https://www.etymonline.com/word/dashboard
The situation is confusing because of a little bit of history.

BBEdit was 30 years old last year because it really was around in 1992, but it wasn’t commercially available. It was basically Rich Siegel and his friends. 1993 is when it became commercially available at version 2.5.
Absolutely, they're positively the opposite of the experience described in the article. Much more chill, casual destination. I enjoy a good 3D, seat shaking multiplex experience perhaps once a year. But the casual drop into to sit on a couch with a beer and some fancy candy Berlin cinema experience is something I indulged in weekly when I lived there.
Come on over to Europe. Don't forget your stabproof vest, your riot gear, and blankets because we have no heating.
Probably, but most sites that use Amazon Affiliate tags usually disclose it somewhere on the page. I didn't see any disclosure on this one.
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My parents gave me the choice between two jackets when I did not want to wear one. I remember that I found it unfair to give me this choice, but I wasn't able to articulate that at this point. It might work for the parent, but it also has side effects, because the child knows it is being tricked.
I did a double take on that claim about outdoor temperatures as I've always assumed people were talking about ground source heat pumps.
> Btw, there's no retrofitting of existing buildings. Most of the laws only apply to new buildings and existing buildings get better as they're renovated. So buildings in NYC comply to the safety standard of whenever they were renovated last.

But that's the thing that's notable about fire escapes: they were a required retrofit. Building code changes are almost never retroactive, but in response to fires "have two paths of egress" was added, and because it was so important it was made retroactive. It being very difficult to add a stairway to an existing building, external stairways were allowed.
I almost feel like we need (Apr 3, 2023) in the title for the ML models because they keep advancing so fast.
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Excel & Google Sheets formulas + VBA & Apps Script code
Relatedly, it's also because of multi-inheritance issues specifically. React built hooks in part to handle cross-cutting concerns that needed some form of multi-inheritance (mixins and "higher-order components" which themselves were often something of a hack around the existence of strong JS mixin libraries/standards/best practices/meta-programming). The best hooks are an improvement over their HOC counterparts (and many of their mixin counterparts): better Typescript types, fewer footguns, fewer composability limits (HOCs had stack problems where stack them in the wrong order and they broke or interfered with each other), easier to reason about (even given the weird learning curve of hooks in general, as black box "units" they have simpler mechanics and APIs than HOCs ever did).

To be fair, you can build a lot of React components without ever feeling a need for something like an HOC and never deal with some of the inheritance problems that Hooks were built to solve so some of that "classes are a better way to write components" feeling is that one has never quite before had the multi-inheritance itch to scratch that Hooks solves for. It's obviously hard to judge a tool when you don't know if you've had the problem it solves for or not.
I got tired of keeping up the arms race with ad blockers. So now I just pay them. So, it worked on me I guess. I watch youtube more than Netflix and I pay for that every month too.
In other words, YouTube is giving you something you value but you don’t to follow the terms of the agreement. Just be honest and say that rather than trying to invent these weird narratives to try to make it sound more noble than freeloading.
As long as the encrypted communications are logged and available in accordance with public records-retention policies, using a good encryption system sounds like a good thing, no?
Gets pricier as you chat for longer, imagine having to chat a line with a history with 20k token.
> I should have qualified what I said-a car the size of a Dodge Dart in 1970 is now twice as expensive.

I don't understand what information you using to draw that conclusion.

A 2023 Nissan Sentra ($20k) dimensions:

183″ L x 72″ W x 57″ H.

The 1970 Dart ($21k in today's dollars) dimensions:

196" L x 72" W x 54" H.

And a good chunk of that extra length is the huge engine in the Dart and the resulting long hood, so it actually probably had equivalent or less passenger space.

The Nissan also has the full raft of safety/convenience features that you said should make it more expensive than the 1970 Dart: ABS, airbags, TPMS, AndroidAuto/Carplay, cruise control, collision detection, auto-braking for pedestrians, driver alertness monitoring, lane departure warning, etc etc etc. Yet it's still cheaper in real dollars than the Dart was.
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> But the body of canon law would have been impractical to standardize and disseminate without the printed word.

Would it? The Bible, which is much larger, was practical to standardize and disseminate without the printed word, and its not like there was a proximate relationship between the availability of printing (presumably with movable type, in the 15th century) and the codification of canon law in the 20th. The idea that this was waiting on printing is…hard to defend.

> See: how many schisms and papal crises there were in medieval times

The really durable schisms after the 11th Century emerged after or just before (and became crystallized because of) printing, though.
Not much info in the readme yet, the website might be a better link

https://ibramenu.io
How many years did Amazon show losses and were allowed to continue without being called a hobby mis-telling the world?
Easy. Always postgres.

I also use the same logic applied to document databases. Mongo or Postgres? Postgres

Also pub sub. Postgres or redis? Postgres

Use postgres until it’s not technically feasible to use it anymore.
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I don't follow the final lines:

> But if that makes all the difference, it means voters in States with smaller markets are constitutionally entitled to greater authority to regulate in- state sales than voters in States with larger markets. So much for the Constitution’s “fundamental principle of equal sovereignty among the States.
> But they don't want to work with him if he's rude and dismissive

Nobody wants to work with a jerk, regardless of their age.
Wait until you find out how much cars are now when you have to replace your car 10 years earlier.
Thats a really, really bad take. Authoritarianism is not the solution, education and independent action is.
Says it's a woman, not named yet for some reason.
https://web.archive.org/web/20211206040804/https://blog.sess...

From a former MySQL developer:

> let me point out something that I've been saying both internally and externally for the last five years (although never on a stage—which explains why I've been staying away from stages talking about MySQL): MySQL is a pretty poor database, and you should strongly consider using Postgres instead.
“I don’t care how much the animal suffers as long as it’s cheap for me at the end”?
The British seems to like to suffer in the heat. Every summer colleagues laugh at me for having AC units, and every summer they start loudly complaining about how hot it is a week or two later.
They’re not stealing any data. You’re voluntarily giving it to them and if you don’t like the terms of the deal it’s trivially easy to stop by not going to YouTube.
I'd absolutely be interested to hear more about the tool you're referring to!

How do you structure the memory for your chats? Is that a separate feature from the document upload?
just pick MySQL. If you want 100 half-baked non-production-ready features pick Postgres.
Array data type.

This has saved my ass a bunch of times. Not even as a column type, just in complex queries that otherwise became unwieldy monsters. The usual "started out simple but now it's a frankenbase" and you're stuck with a shitty schema. (The one thing worse than refactoring code: refactoring databases!)

In one case I was able to replace a 15-minute process with thousands of queries with one single query that aggregated all the data into a bunch of arrays. It completed in a few seconds. (Doing it without arrays would have been possible, but duplicated a lot of data in the result set.)
I guess that's what patreon is for.
I mean I think that was the arguement for keeping slavery around in the south....
Go tell that to the single mom working two minimum-wage jobs just to feed and house her kids. Go tell that to the homeless person. To the recent grad barely paying off the interest on his student loan that he took because he "had to go to college". Come off it.
One thing uber did well is it helped break a market distortion in markets where you had to buy a badge, but they were supply limited and could sometimes fetch $1M which IMO makes no sense, if someone can do the job they should be allowed to.

I'm not saying everything Uber did was great or right, but breaking that insanity is IMO a step of progress. Next we need to ensure gig workers make at least minimum wage after legitimate expenses.
Have you seen Spintronics? I'm an EE by training (not professionally) and I've found it super useful to have a fresh mental model for circuits. Not perfect probably, but interesting.

Good discussion from a while ago:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27222457
They are when you have no working car
I've spent some 40 years learning electronics. Started with the hydraulic analogy, but didn't really have any deep understanding. In college they made us do a physics lab with an ocope and RC circuits, and I was miserably. Who cares if you can use discrete components to make a curve when you have a 486?

Years later I landed on a team of makers and started to work on ambitious projects- various high power LEDs, motion control systems, etc. This is where my gap in knowledge- especially wrt high power electronics, diodes, and any chip-based component- became a real problem. So I built ambitious stuff and when it didn't work, or was flaky, I'd show it to somebody who knew electronics deeply and they'd explain whatever the next thing on my list to learn was- pull-up resistors, constant current supplies, MOSFETs to control high power devices, connecting up an SPI bus between a microcontroller and sensor, schmitt triggers, bias, etc.

I got really good at making small repros of larger projects, handing them to somebody, having them solve the basic problem, then taking the learnign from the repo and putting it into the real project.

Eventually, after doing that a lot I was able to to read Art of Electronics and got a lot more out of it. most recently I was building a custom circuit to drive a vacuum tube and had some problems, and somebody mentioned Spice. So i got LTSpice and put my circuit in, and learned just enough to have it spit out what I was seeing in real-life on my oscope. OH MY GOD, it was a revelation. The simulation produced exactly what I saw and I quickly debugged the problems. This has always been true- if I have a simulation, I can learn to intuit how things work faster than if I have to assemble them manually.

My mental model now is all about modularity- building the individual bits of a larger circuit, debugging those, then integrating them together. There are so many details in analog that you have to be aware of; if you're missing a pull-up resistor or a schmitt trigger or have too much EMI, you might get it to work 30% of the time or have to do bounce elimination in software.

Another thing to be aware of is in the past 20-30 years, a lot of discrete components gained alternatives that were chip-based and move a lot of the smarts into the chip. Sure, you can build an H-bridge from components to make a bidirectional motor driver. But that motor driver from Pololu has decades of intelligence about driving motors- and reverse polarity protection (I plug things in backwards all the time) and self-limiting (if you push too much power, it shuts down, instead of frying). I've had problems with components that could have been solved by an EE.

I don't know if I could actually design any non-trivial circuit, but then, what exactly do you need to design today? Most of the work is in identifying what your problem is, then finding the existing solutions.
Missed the mother's day window badly! I would have easily picked this up at Target for my wife. With the dock? No brainer, 100% cop.
A couple years ago, I read Superfudge by Judy Blume, a book originally published in 1980. In it, the protagonist writes a letter to Santa: "Please bring me one or more of the following items. A clock-radio, a remote-controlled model airplane, a laptop computer, an MP3 player and six CD's."

I didn't need to have seen this book before to know this wasn't in the original 1980s text.

Similarly, if I were reading the Great Gatsby for the first time, and it identified a character as a software engineer, I would notice.
Sure. But that isn't end-to-end encryption; that's a weird key escrow thing. It would be a little strange for Matrix to officially support that kind of use case, since it's indistinguishable in the general case from dangerous, privacy-compromising forms of key escrow[1].

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clipper_chip
Interestingly the 286 had a protected mode but very few applications ever used it. There were upgrade kits with then stupid amounts of memory, like 16MB, for then astronomical prices. I wonder how often those were used for anything.
Can't really loose with postgres, I concur
Nice work on the app! Reminds me of a news aggregator I worked on (inshapemind). What's your tech stack like?
I have one of the original Nest Hubs in my bedroom. Just as a dynamic photo frame it has justified its existence. One of the killer features is zero cameras anywhere on the body. I can imagine buying one tablet with several docks throughout the house, but the cameras on the front and back are no-gos for certain rooms. They need to sell attachment that will physically block the cameras in order for the tablet to dock. None of the cases look to have optional camera blockers.
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Sorry to say, you'd be far from the first. This is literally what "IBM Watson" was. (The consulting service, not the computer that played Jeopardy.) A bunch of traditional consultants cosplaying as an AI.