skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> A concrete example would be a users shopping cart, as they build it. You don’t need the niceties of a fully ACID compliant DB, you need write performance, and extremely high availability.

Using a key-value store for shopping carts can work for awhile, especially for the use-case you describe, but fails when system functionality grows beyond retrieving only by a cart ID.

And when using a persistent store which does not provide ACID capabilities, the system will ultimately have to enforce at least atomicity and consistency via server logic.
The project was "released" 2-3 days ago and is being endlessly made fun of on public policy twitter because 1. it's a shade that doesn't provide shade 2. they went on junkets to several different countries that don't do this to "study" them 3. they are incredibly proud of it, to the point of having a press conference with podium on the sidewalk next to it 4. their reaction to complaints is to talk about how it was made "by and for women".

The closest thing to a good reason for this instead of a bus shelter is that ADA rules make it difficult to install bus shelters - they might make the sidewalk too narrow for a wheelchair to move around them. Essentially everything else going on here is bad though; basically, if you wanted to design LA government bureaucracy to maximize people dying in car accidents, you'd come up with what it has now.
Indeed, anything that has a "gamer" vibe to it has become suspect for me. I'm not interested in eking out that last smidgen of speed if it comes at the cost of reliability. With Asus, I'd go for the corporate stable motherboards rather than the gamer models.
And if you look a few years into the future: What will happen in five years from now? Isn't it plausible that we will have another revolution like LLMs? What will they be able to do? Or rather, what won't they be able to do?

What happens if we get strongly superhuman intelligence in just a few years? Is that really so implausible?
Is there any evidence that game streaming is an effective way to promote games? Game publishers often ask YouTubers, VTubers, and Twitch streamers to promote their games, but it is rare for these efforts to actually increase the popularity of a game. It is not that the games become more popular because they are streamed, but rather that the streamers are streaming popular games in order to attract viewers.
Just thinking of that. I keep a copy of Hitch's "Love, Poverty, and War" as a bathroom reader, and although I don't recall the specific section, it was through their friendship that I was introduced to Martin's father's works.

The glue binding my copy of Lucky Jim dissolved in the back windshield of my car one summer, and I remember chasing the pages at the Indian mounds where I'd go after school to read.

I'll have to give Time's Arrow another read.
This is just a limited selection (not even covering all the false claims of Kennedy, through the anti-vax organization he runs, identified in the cited source articles), because there have been so many lies, about so many vaccines (including using lies about one vaccine to discourage use of a completely different vaccine.)

His organization misrepresented the findings of a Lancet study to claim that vaccine-derived COVID-19 immunity “becomes negative”. [0]

His organization has circulated false claims about tetanus vaccines being part of a conspiracy to render women infertile. [1]

His organization spread debunked claims about MMR vaccines and autism in the black community as part of an effort to discourage COVID-19 vaccine use in the black community. [2]

His organization misrepresented a government study to spread the false claims that the flu vaccine made COVID-19 infection more likely, as propaganda against the flu vaccine. [3]

[0] https://www.factcheck.org/2023/03/scicheck-posts-make-false-...

[1] https://www.factcheck.org/2022/07/video-revives-old-debunked...

[2] https://www.factcheck.org/2021/03/scicheck-rfk-jr-video-push...

[3] https://www.factcheck.org/2020/04/no-evidence-that-flu-shot-...
If I’m being honest, any time I read that something is a gender equity this or that it is fraud. It’s quite clear that this is the modern smoke screen. Interestingly I wonder what would happen if someone guerrilla infrastructured the place. Would the city tear it down in the way it tried to fine the mini library lady in SF?
Depends on the threat. If you may have a keylogger than copying may bypass that. KeePass 2 can even spilt its auto typing between the keyboard and clipboard so neither has the whole secret.
MAGES. is also not even the only Japanese company to go bankrupt because the CEO decided to spend the money on producing a J-pop idol group instead of releasing products.

Also, Steins;Gate, which does not contain sexual content, was briefly banned on Steam because Valve is run by the kind of people who think everything from Japan is child porn. (And then the only product they've ever unbanned from people complaining about this.) This is /after/ they changed policies to supposedly allow absolutely anything on the store, which is why it's full of trashy 3D rendered porn now; turns out "anything" means "anything Western".
The data sucks and so did that blog. As if West Virginia and Mississippi are good comparisons! They don’t have as many homeless because their urban centers are minuscule, can’t support large homeless populations with limited social services, and with populations/laws less tolerant of vagrancy.

And yea, I’m grounded in reality - you are not. I don’t care about your silly data which captures multiple cohorts of homeless populations and tries to foist them into and analyze them as 1 population. Before you try doing “anything else” for me why don’t you try going outside and seeing for yourself. Or better yet, go work in the county Emergency room in a big city! Why don’t you try that? Maybe talk to a social worker there or case manager? That might be scary for you. Better put on your big boy pants if you have any.
This kind of thing is really why unions came to be in the late 19th - early 20th century.

> It was these conditions that fueled a raft of organizing efforts in Amazon facilities across the U.S., including the nation’s first successful union drive at a company warehouse in New York last year.

The question not answered here is: why don't the Minnesota workers form a union? State legislation is fine as far as it goes, but the Legislature is not going to have a place for workers to file a grievance, or a strike fund (probably) to support them if they do go on strike.
There's very little to control -- nothing, in many visual novels -- so "watching" is the same as "playing". These are like animé, only you click "next" to read/watch the next scene. You don't "play" a visual novel in any meaningful sense.

Some have minor decisions to make, some none at all.

I'm not a fan of the genre, but that's neither here nor there.
The real reason is that it makes it easier for courts to decide custody issues.

Should the child go to a poor parent with no criminal record, or a rich parent with a criminal record?

That’s also why courts don’t care too much that divorce usually causes a drop in the standard of living of both parents. It doesn’t make th decision any harder.

As long as the drop in living standard results in equalized poverty, it’s not an issue.

Which is pretty messed up, but that’s divorce.

It can seem pretty crappy when you’re watching a court destroy your standard of living to feed your ex-wife’s drug habit.

I’m happily married, and never divorced. But I’ve seen some things.
NHK is an amazing channel if you got it. like 817 on comcast in the bay. but just the fact they dont have ads. and have so many great programs. If I need dead air background during the day its on NHK

* Railway Journey
* Cycle Japan
* Somewhere Street
* Lunch Expo
* Bento Express
* pythagoras switch (theres a new one thats like programing focused)

* I really miss Supreme Skills tho
I never heard of Steins;Gate but I suddenly want to pirate it.
Ask HN: Search engine for a small number of sites?
Is there an open source search engine that I could use to index a small number of websites (think few thousands) and have the results be of quality similar to that on Yandex/Google?
Temperature is a measure of capriciousness. How likely is the model to choose a token that is not “the most likely” next token.

It’s not a big ask to look this up. But even if you don’t, making a point to show that you don’t know it seems bad.
You seem pretty confused.

> From a quick google, the reason Alt mode is "dead" is because most devices natively support HDMI and you don't need alt-mode.

If you do video over USB-C, you need alt-mode. Everything uses DisplayPort alt-mode and converts it to HDMI if needed. These days most devices have no other form of video connectivity than USB-C.

You link to an article that literally states "DisplayPort has won".

> The real-world use case is USB-C to HDMI, to connect to a TV.

The real world use case is to connect a PC or phone to an external display. Usually that's going to be a PC monitor, where physical DisplayPort actually is ubiquitous these days. Personally, I don't even have a TV - I'm not exactly a gamer so I don't see why would I need one.

(I actually connect my laptop to a screen using HDMI connector on the screen side, but that's only because it's about 10 years old :P)
Then you have to type the whole password again or your auto-type and plugins don't work. If you keep it open all day for random login needs then this can be a hassle.

Full disclosure, I sell a paid KP2 plugin to soft lock the UI. (It won't protect memory or dumps but does prevent naive snooping.)
Honestly, you're the first person I've encountered to have such a narrow interpretation of "drop-in". We can agree to disagree.
At the time of my writing this comment (3 hrs after post; 14 comments), no recognition that the founding team is now doing crypto. Specifically, https://n.xyz for which they raised $40m in a Series A financing.
People will pay creators to make content they want.
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Arguably one of the central issues with CGPT is that it often fails to do common sense reasoning about the world.
Things like keeping track of causality etc.
The data it has been trained on doesn't contain that information. Text doesn't convey those relationships correctly.
It's possible to write event A was the cause of event B, and event B happened before event A.

It seems likely that humans gain that understanding by interacting with the world. Such data isn't available to train LLMs. Just including just basic sensory inputs like image and sound would easily increase training data by many orders of magnitude.
> Japan has a nearly 99% conviction rate, which tells you a lot about their justice process.

That's about the same as US federal prosecutors, but it mainly means they don't even bother prosecuting unless they think it's a sure thing.
You're never going to convince people to pay 2x-3x more than they have to.
> What are the use cases of Key-value stores?

The ideal use-case is when there is one, and only one, property used for retrieval which is guaranteed unique by the system. Less ideal, but often very performant, is when retrieval always uses one property which may not be unique.

Once retrieval requires anything other than a single predefined property, querying key-value persistent stores degrade into linear searches.
If the ask is at $8.03 and you are first in queue at $8.01 all the orders in $8.03 and $8.02 have to be filled before you get filled so you have plenty of time to cancel your order.
On the contrary, equities markets need the liquidity HFTs provide to function well. Before HFTs there were human market makers who played a similar role in equities markets, but charged far more to do it. HFT is a story of efficient technology bringing prices down a lot and shrinking the profitability of an existing industry.

I’m sympathetic to the view that a lot of resources have been poured into making trades happen in 1 nanosecond when 100 or 1000 nanoseconds would probably be fine for all practical purposes. The issue is that people keep finding that letting the fastest system get the trade actually does work better than alternative approaches.
I've had equally bad luck with SanDisk's MicroSD cards. Samsung cards rarely ever go out to lunch in my Raspberry Pi systems, but I've never had a SanDisk card last more than six months.

As (sometimes six-year-old) Samsung cards get retired, I've gone to... Samsung. This time, I'm getting their cards intended for surveillance cameras and other write-intensive duty.
> Bu itself upi has been a revolution. We need not think of farfetched conspiracies

Again. You are missing the forest for the trees.

I already substantiated the fact that a central bank has already banned the use of ATMs for the purpose of its users to be forced to adopt their CBDC. That is a fact, not a conspiracy, and there is no reason why this cannot happen in other countries that have finalized and are already deployed their own CBDCs, especially very authoritarian governments such as India or China.

The e-rupee is already being developed on UPI as E-RUPI which that IS a CBDC, controlled by the Reserve Bank of India. That isn't a conspiracy and you cannot convert it to cash either [0] as the point of it is to be totally cashless.

The end game of this 'revolution' is more about "control" than the technology and who really owns your money and what you can spend it on and how much you can save. More mass surveillance on top of savings limits isn't something to be celebrated.

[0] https://indianexpress.com/article/explained/what-is-e-rupi-d...
This is such a tired trope. Scheme, CL and clojure all have people building incredible things with them. Not to mention things like Cisco buying the company behind chez scheme. Ask yourself why. Ask yourself why nubank bought cognitect. Consider spritely goblins being built in scheme. lisp is a weapon.
Fitting question from a Lojbanist.
IIRC, on top of that, crimes in Japan aren't prosecuted unless a guilty verdict is assured.
I tend to think that the nukes designed and made by the Putin regime do work because we know (because the Soviets successfully test 100s of nukes) that the ones designed and made by the Soviets worked, and no one is claiming that the Putin regime is much more corrupt than the Soviet regime was.

(Since the fall of the Soviet Union, the Russian arsenal has been replaced: the only parts that survive from Soviet times, I think, is the fissionable material.)
Microsoft could DMCA a let's play of one of their games, but Western publishers generally don't care about like Japanese publishers do, so they don't bother.

But the US also has fair use and Japan doesn't, so it'd be easier to fight. Instead, Japanese publishers who do want to encourage streaming put up rules promising not to take you down as long as you don't show X content, or especially lenient IPs like Touhou will have copyright grants for fanart, and you can't do anything outside of that in public.
Have you checked out ToastStunt at all? C++ fork of Stunr which is itself a fork of LambdaMOO.
I used Neeva for a while as my primary search engine. They had good ideas but seemed to want to do everything (poorly) instead of committing to anything in particular.

They had "spaces". They had an ability to demote (but not actually block) sites from results. They had the ability to filter results type (documentation, blog etc.), but that ability was poorly implemented. They had a half-assed browser to filter out cookies. They finally launched a Chat AI response that was slow and laughably inaccurate - searching for their CTO's name returned a nonsensical mishmash of several people's bios.

As with so many startups before them, it wasn't competition that killed them, it was the lack of focus.
> Temperature is a measure of capriciousness.

Yes, that’s what “temperature” means, what does a temperature of 0.7 mean?

> It’s not a big ask to look this up. But even if you don’t, making a point to show that you don’t know it seems bad.

Well, no, making a point of highlighting the points of your ignorance when discussing something is good. Especially when you are a notable expert in the broad field being discussed.
Intellectual property rights are fundamentally not "good ol' property rights". Property rights exist because when you steal someone's car, you're depriving them of the usage of that car. If you steal the words from somebody's book, you're not preventing them from still reading it. In fact enforcement of intellectual property laws actually violates traditional property rights, as it interferes with people using their hardware property freely.
Isnt this just Usenet?
I could have included a citation, but in general Crunchbase has the details you need on most startups. It's a great go to.
> It gives an answer with complete confidence, and I sort of believe it. And half the time, it’s completely wrong.

Nowhere near half in my experience. This is why we have benchmarks and metrics - so we don't need to rely on the author's opinion or on mine.

> I think it’s going to be another thing that’s useful.

Good.
This is another reason why you shouldn't tie your offline identity to your online one(s).
The explanation I had always heard for the very non-linear frame buffer layout was that it let Woz save a pair of gates. Which made sense, in the context of the time.

I’d never heard about the relationship between that layout and refreshing the DRAM. After 40 years since my Apple //e, this is kind of a revelation!
I'm fairly sure Eurosport used to broadcast Sumo back in the late 90s and early 00s, with commentary in either Dutch or English (I forgot). I don't know if they still do.

Being practiced by almost exclusively Japanese probably doesn't help either; you can't root for your "home team", so to speak. No one watched darts in the Netherlands, then a Dutch candidate won the world title 25 years ago and everyone in the Netherlands was watching it.
Don't think of key-value stores as an alternative to relational databases. Think of them as really big hashtables.
You are proving the point that google is just an ad company
Then why is there an exodus of people immigrating to Canada uk Australia. Increase in purchases of homes in other parts of Asia. Increase in visa applications for America well over pre pandemic levels?
I do have another theory. Ok may be a paranoid, jaded conspiracy theory after seeing everything in large sociopathic bureaucracies. What if the hiring of so called "high profile" folks was just symbolic and with golden parachutes and secret handshakes in place. I am not talking about the tenure and level based severance amounts. But like their firing was more of a "request" with some promise to hire back once the dust settles. Use this to claim lack of discrimination in the layoff process. Look. We also laid off these X awesome folks so it could not have been targeted. Those on mat/pat/sick leaves was also just coincidental. For all we know these high profilers may just have wanted to use a sabbatical so why not help the company out in the process.
The GQP‘s ongoing downplaying of the COVID-19 pandemic, which has already killed more than 1 million Americans, has proven that a large part of the US electorate disagrees with you.
The problem is that the Indian government has already essentially full control. Americans enjoy more freedoms so maybe the conspiracies are justified. But the Indian government already has near total control in the financial sense. From an Indian perspective this is just pure convenience, since the control aspect is present regardless
They're e-books, not games. I think calling them games is a mistake since it causes people to say things like "they're not a fan of the genre", which is a weird thing to say about the concept of books.

Japan calls them a variety of different things. Sometimes they're called "adventure games", like Monkey Island or Phoenix Wright, or "kinetic novel" or "sound novel". They don't actually use the term "visual novel" though. (complicating this a bit, it's common in Japanese game marketing to make up a new genre for every game series instead of just saying it's "an FPS" or whatever.)
Regarding what lisp is used for, to quote Kent Pitman:
But please don't assume this is an exhaustive list, and please don't assume Lisp is only useful for Animation and Graphics, AI, Bioinformatics, B2B and Ecommerce, Data Mining, EDA/Semiconductor applications, Expert Systems, Finance, Intelligent Agents, Knowledge Management, Mechanical CAD, Modeling and Simulation, Natural Language, Optimization, Research, Risk Analysis, Scheduling, Telecom, and Web Authoring just because these are the only things they happened to list. Common Lisp really is a general language capable of a lot more than these few incidental application areas, even if this web page doesn't totally bring that out.

And I am certainly not broken.
For reasons I do not understand, I find actually playing a visual novel more immersive than just seeing video of one. Visual novels may seem like a passive experience, but the tiny bit of interaction (literally just pressing a button to continue dialogue) makes a huge difference to me.

So yes, it's piracy, but it also isn't a perfect reproduction.

One might think that the fact that choices are flattened into a purely linear story would ruin the experience, but most choices are so vestigial that removing them is an improvement in my book.
Anytime I ask these things something (bard, gpt etc),
33% of the answer is genius,
33% misleading garbage,
33% filler stuff that’s neither here or there

The problem is distinguishing between these parts requires me to be be an expert in the area I’m inquiring about - and then why the heck do I need to ask some idiot bot for answers to questions that I already know an answer to?

I don’t know who finds these things useful and more importantly blowing smoke up everyone’s collective rear, especially medias.
both are decisions to honor/build a society around and the police will defend both. it’s historically and today continues to be their essential purpose

the property i'm talking about is more specifically 'means of production' type property, not someone's left shoe
This is a spoof, but I think a real system would offer an immense value, as long as its use is limited to outbreaks.
Some have minor decisions to make, some none at all.

...and some are highly branchy, the Western equivalent being CYOA.
I personally only buy games after I watch them played on stream
They improve the bid-ask spread so they save customers money
it's a common misconception that modern non-relational stores (such as DynamoDB) aren't ACID compliant. DynamoDB offers ACID transactions, even across tables, as of several years ago.

not that you're saying they don't, but some people might interpret your comment that way.
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> Being practiced by almost exclusively Japanese probably doesn't help either; you can't root for your "home team", so to speak.

That depends what you mean by "Japanese". Naturalized Japanese, probably, but a fair number of the wrestlers are originally from Mongolia or Eastern Europe now.

Though I don't follow it myself so don't know how interesting it is. Always wanted to try the food though.