skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Church building maintenance is a huge portion of most dioceses' expenses, and with dwindling parishes and lack of funds, they simply can't keep all of them open. Some of these beautiful buildings cost more in maintenance each year than it would be to build a newer, more modern one that was sized correctly for the current number of parishioners.

Much of Europe has already gone through this; many (but not all) of the churches you can visit in Europe have significant state support because they're historical and touristic.

Sometimes the diocese gets enough people interested in "saving" an old church that they can cover the maintenance for another year, decade, etc, but we're talking millions of dollars.

Rome supplies some funds, but not much and they're almost always used for missionary work or charity, etc. Peter's Pence is one example: https://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/secretariat_state/obolo_s...

The Catholic Church appears as one big institution run by an absolute monarch, but it is much more like a fiefdom run by local bishops with a king who can if he really works at it, depose one. And the parishes under the bishops are similarly somewhat independent. The canon laws covering it can be seen here: https://canonlaw.ninja/?nums=1254-1310 (note that the bishop "taxes" the parishes to support the diocesan activities, this is usually done as an "annual Catholic appeal" which transfers money from the rich parishes to the poor parishes, usually the ones with schools). A parish financial committee is established by https://canonlaw.ninja/?nums=537 but the pastor has some pretty powerful leeway in executing his duty as he sees fit.

Even many Catholics don't realize that their favorite "old parish church" is often kept afloat by donations from one or two old parishioners. The old couple handing out donuts after Mass may be donating a million a year to keep the parish school running, and you may only ever find out if you dig into the non-profit filings. As an example, a local (well regarded) private Catholic school K-12 has $4m in tuition income, and $2m in donations, with the rest from "other" which includes selling tickets to games, merchandise, etc. Of that $7m, almost $4m goes to salaries, and about $1m to building and maintenance.

Find your local parish and search for "annual report" and you can see more.
They changed from SAP ERP to Oracle ERP. There were no 20 different utilities to begin with.
regular can sugar is almost entirely SUCROSE which your body breaks down into glucose and fructose. its not dumping a bunch of fructose into your body.

furthermore, we have sensors in our body to inhibit sugar craving in the presence of glucose or sucrose. we have no such sensor for fructose. so even if you did have 50% pure fructose in cane sugar, you would drink less real sugar coke because you'd feel satisfied after drinking a much smaller amount than those HFCS abominations.
How does this compare to GTK in terms of features?

Maybe somebody can use it to make the state-ful GUI browser that the "office" industry sorely needs so we don't have to force DOM to act like a real GUI (which it does painfully and poorly). GUI's and mice do most the real work; let's not give all the standards attention to web toys and mobile.
For C++ there's Boost's multi_index[1].

[1]: https://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_82_0/libs/multi_index/doc/i...
I know so little about British politics that I take Yes, (Prime) Minister at face value. I would have thought it war more about the (benefits and) interests of bureaucracy and civil service.
Y'all are 100% right – something wonky was going on! I’ve since made adjustments and updated the piece with a correction.

The visual and accompanying text were using the number of all women plays, not just the back-to-back ones.

It’s more likely that the simulation back-to-back numbers would fall between 7—17 a day NOT the originally stated 30–40. For the particular station in the intro, San Antonio (KCYY-FM), the number of women’s back-to-back plays that they actually played isn’t completely outside of the realm of possibilities if left up to chance, but we would be more likely to see higher numbers. For 17 other stations, the observed numbers do fall outside the simulation distribution. (See the histograms in the methodology section. Note that they are for the full 19 days.)

Thank y'all again for raising this issue! The data is only good as the humans behind it, and I definitely bungled this a bit.
well I personally don't give a flying flamingo about man/woman in the lead role of that film. It's just great.
What I found telling is the reaction of young people today after realising "waitaminute, this isn't 100% like twitter and tiktok tell us it was... Maybe I need to do a little bit of research and <del>listen to the old man<del> (nah!)"

:-)
VAT is the largest tax most software companies pay and the one most difficult to avoid. EU VAT rates are some of the highest in the world.

Corporation tax may be avoided but that's true of every geography so doesn't affect the comparison of EU vs non-EU.

About compliance costs - the majority of >$1B tech fines come out of the EU.
The problem is that you can't reverse 40 years of industrial change with an import tax.

But you are right, a global alliance to have consistent CO2 tax on import goods and CO2 tax in the country would fundamentally realign economic supply chains.

There are of course a whole host of practical issue with the idea but it is right in concept.
Now, the really scary option would be to automatically correlate HN accounts with other accounts and pieces of text based on the previous work done in this area to find alternative HN accounts (that was already awkward enough).
It sounds like you kinda don't want to go to university but you feel like you should.

Depending on how old you are, you could:

* Assume you won't go, and work on whatever you want to work on in the meantime

* Apply anyway, and consider going to the best one you get into for 1-3 semesters/quarters, to meet people for friends, spouses, cofounders, then drop out
Don't overthink that part. Just rely on EXPLAIN. It will tell you if the query had an index to use or if it scanned. You'd be surprised when a DB does/doesn't use an index if you try to figure it out yourself.

A run book for any org when writing queries should be

1) Write the query

2) Before shipping the query run the query through EXPLAIN. Did it scan or did it use an index?

3) If it scanned can you re-write it to use an existing index (the usual answer honestly).

4) Create the index.
Not a bad list!

https://commitfest.postgresql.org/19/1741/ (index skip scan/loose index scans) would be very welcomed... I think. Not sure how many people run into it in the wild.

It says "target version: 16" but "returned with feedback" and hasn't been bumped in 14 months. :( First opened in 2018.

https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Loose_indexscan
Yeah, since fine tuning seems to be so much more cheaper than training why haven't OpenAI fine tuned ChatGPT on data past 2021?
Because your self worth shouldn’t be tied to how successful you are, but how willing you are to learn and grow. Nobody’s perfect nor can they be, so it’s a bad target. But everyone can be better.
Are there examples to use it for SGD using this?
Like "Here is a tutorial on how to do a nanoGPT using DiffEqGPU.jl"?
There are explicit supersonic-permitted areas used by military, but you can actually do supersonic flight as civilian too if you arrange their use (mainly a thing of scheduling so you don't collide with military/state aircraft).

The big rarity of that is that there are very low numbers of supersonic planes in civilian hands, and outside of Concorde and some Tu-144 models (not all of them), all are ridiculous fuel guzzlers in supersonic flight. I know there's one near Palo Alto, a civilian owned MiG-21.
> well then you could just not do it next time.

Isn't that what they want?
Just want to point out that being "numb" is NOT THE SAME as just not taking something personally.

As I mentioned in my other post - I make things that I find enjoyable, and while I am not 'numb' to criticism, I just dont let criticism to affect my personal Mortar in the foundations of who I feel I am.
> overall US inflation figures would lead one to guess.

I think part of the problem is that people see rates of inflation in the news, but their mind thinks in terms of cumulative inflation. They think, "housing has gone up 30% since before the pandemic but the government says inflation is only 9%." Even though, 9% inflation per year over 3 years is 30% total.

Then there's the fact that inflation stats are an average of a "basket of goods". So housing might go up 15%, but that's offset by other items going up 2%. Then there is regional factors, and how inflation is mentally sticky (i.e., people making jokes about the price of eggs, even though wholes prices are down 80% over the past 4 months).
Amazing and very helpful package!!!
> but would also require scanning the tape to reconstruct the catalog.

If the index consists of a b+-tree/b*-tree interleaved with the data (with the root of the index the last record in the archive), a single backward pass across the tape (including rapid seeks to skip irrelevant data) is sufficient to efficiently restore everything. This should be very close in throughput and latency to restoring with an index on random-access storage. (Though, if you're restoring to a filesystem that doesn't support sparse files, writing the data back in reverse order is going to involve twice as much write traffic. On a side note, I've heard HFS+ supports efficient prepending of data to files.)

In other words, yes, you need to scan the tape to reconstruct the catalog, but since the tape isn't random access, you need to scan/seek through the entire tape anyway (even if you have a separate index on random-access media). If you're smart about your data structures, it can all be done in a single backward pass over the tape (with no forward pass). Keeping a second b+-tree/b*-tree interleaved with the data (keyed by archive write time) makes point-in-time snapshot backups just as easy, all with a single reverse pass over the tape and efficient seeks across unneeded sections of tape.
Ideally you train a model right to begin with, and no fine tuning is necessary.

However, sometimes you can't do that. For example, perhaps you want your model to always talk like a pirate, but you don't have billions of words spoken like a pirate to train on.

So the next best thing is to train a model on all english text (which you have lots of), and then finetune on your smaller dataset of pirate speech.

Finetuning is simply more training, but with a different dataset and often a different learning rate.

Typically, finetuning uses far far far less data and compute, and can be done by individuals with a home PC, whereas training a large language model from scratch is in the $1M - $1B range.
Has anyone tried to use this?

The guide obv didn't make usable code and the github looks nearly unrelated.

I'm somewhat surprised there isnt a parameter for 'input_data' and 'output_data' and it returns a trained model. I can't figure out why there is so much boilerplate when that stuff could be contained as parameters.
If I recall correctly, the difference between the SAM models is just a parameter number versus accuracy tradeoff. I have the parameter numbers listed under 'Installation', but the relative quality of the models would be task-dependent and subjective.

I would think that part of the motivation for releasing the smaller models in addition to the larger ones would be use in video image segmentation and mobile filters. The smaller models might actually be more fit for purpose with regard with regard to those applications than the biggest one. However, I'd reccommend the biggest model (vit_h) for desktop or laptop image processing.
church politics were not entirely innocent in this either
I have one use case where this functionality would be huge in terms of performance, patiently waiting for it
Big one for tax and customs in Rotterdam also, https://www.bdmuseum.nl/en/
Time Is an Object
Right, it would make more sense to have a plugin that makes your account automatically downvote any of those users' comments as you encounter them. Or even better, periodically pull up their latest comments and downvote them.

Not advocating that, of course, and it feels contrary to what the benevolent mod team would prefer. And I assume that the site has some countermeasure for that, like it does against upvoting a submission that you accessed via direct link instead from from the main site?
Yes. It allows for more control over memory than C, where a lot of things are undefined behavior.
"Old" isn't necessarily bad. If you want productivity over fashion, older styles are often better. They are more mouse-friendly and easier to understand, as buttons actually look like buttons instead of faded flat stickers.
I haven't particularly noticed this. I mean, sure there are times when I've felt a lack of good faith in the other party, but that tends to be individual discussions rather than seeing repeat offenders; its often been noted the quality of discussion here is higher than most other places - but perhaps I don't spend enough time on here to have noticed the really annoying types.
Imagine that someone says Trump hacked the voting computers by writing code on a piece of paper and slotting it into the machines.

The CA thing is the same level of stupid. The targeting would just be senselessly bad based on CA's methodology.
We have a very good idea what constitutes a healthy diet. No one is engorging themselves on fast food every day not understanding that it's unhealthy.
It's only 500 karma, a handful of successful posts will get you there. If you want to farm points, just go to /new, look for threads with 1-2 other comments and post something that is likely to be upvoted. Don't forget to upvote the post.
> If you do have to reply, don’t do so immediately.

I have a cantrip these days: "I'm going to take a minute and process that."

It can mean a lot of things, under the hood, and I've had to repeat it a few times in some conversations, but overall, tremendously successful statement.
Any mechE discourse which can justify the line "At this point it's probably time for a shar pei" is worth a read in my book.
For example:

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2014/02/misunders...
GPU makers really lucked out in the last few years. First from the crypto craze and now the AI craze.
Been there! https://www.doc.ic.ac.uk/~phjk/BoundsChecking.html (adding gcc -fbounds-checking, in 1995). We didn't need special annotations.
Is that actually possible now? I remember a few years ago, some moderators removed downvoting for people who aren't subscribed to their sub using custom css, but of course it was easy to circumvent and didn't affect mobile users.
I don't know how healthy this is but: I haven't run into many people who are harder on my work than I am.

I have an attitude that there's absolutely nothing I do that can't be improved. This may sound miserable on the surface, but for me it's actually quite freeing. It has the effect of making it easier to accept that things aren't actually going to be perfect (so it can help avoid the trap of over-engineering) and at the same time, it makes it much easier to have productive conversations with co-workers about what to improve/delete/rework because the existing product is something that could be better.

The other thing to think about, IMO, is that that PR comment, snarky or not, was something someone put the time in to come up with. For you. It's a gift. I've worked in places where getting any kind of PR comment beyond "approved" or "Fix your indenting" was an uphill battle. So getting a comment from a colleague that is meant to a) help make you better at what you do and b) help you both create something you can be proud of, is massively positive. It took time and effort for them to read what you did and think of a way to make it better.
I think you’re dead on. I smaller scales, it’s cheaper just to keep more disks running. But once you get to scale, tape is great for archival work.

The trick I’ve always found is to figure out where you are on that inflection point. And it’s hard. Is 1PB enough to justify tape? (Which seems like a crazy question to me - I remember having megabyte sized tapes).
I feel like there are plenty of decent movies being made in modern times, and plenty of bad movies from the 70's. We only remember the good stuff from the 70's and forget most of the bad.

For example, in regards to sci-fi, it's not super recent but I thought Arrival [1] was actually really good. It told a solid story in a somewhat unique way.

I also think a few episodes of Black Mirror have done a pretty decent job with some of their stories.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arrival_%28film%29
US microreactor prototype prepares for testing
Well that depends on what their TOS is?
Since the the author presumably copied and pasted the original title, assuming the remove of the "-" was intentional to make more click baity since then reads as if someone is using AI to create superbugs that can kill anti biotics rather than of course what the actual article said which was an antibiotic that is superbug-killing.
It's kind of a variant of https://quoteinvestigator.com/2011/04/18/groucho-resigns/
This math is out of touch with how good static websites are actually made these days, imho.

1. $100 per hour min for anyone good. Possibly more if in a high-cost labor market and/or working with certain agencies (mostly boutique). So that’s 130 hours right there.

2. No discussion of interaction with customer. That could be many, many hours depending on the customer and project specs.

3. The 130 hours for design and coding are way, way over actual time required unless the specs are highly stylized. My guess for each would be 4-20 hours, depending on complexity.

4. Depending on the site, copywriting and SEO might be a bigger labor/money sink than the design and coding.

All that said, there are many agencies who can make good, basic static websites for $5-7k plus hosting. The catch is knowing which ones are good.

Another possible issue, depending on the agency, is what is the smallest account that they will do business with. $13k may have been the agency’s minimum.
From the wiki:

"The first operational EMACS system existed in late 1976."[0]

[0] http://dspace.mit.edu/bitstream/handle/1721.1/5736/AIM-519A....
This is great self awareness that can lead to invincibility. This is how I approach (so it is not an advice for "you" personally).

Be a Stoic. First, start with the understanding that you can only control your thoughts and emotions. You need to seek "truth" in those situations. If it was mistake by you, the comment is justified (and you shouldn't worry about snarkiness because it is due to their ignorance). People who take cheapshots don't know how world works and likely, they will face bigger issues - but try to treat them as being ignorant. Secondly, your issue may be tied to your sense of self or ego. This will take time and the hardest to master. But by being aware you will find your own way. What worked for me was to pick something totally outside my day job that gives satisfaction (It could be still be related. For example, building some open source projects or just fun projects whose quality is under my control). So I am not seeing any "approval" from anyone
The difference is the certainty. Zeihan says something will happen. Real experts say something might happen.
To add to this.

Self-acceptance and compassion can only develop when you have a place where you feel physically, socially and emotionally safe as a base you can return to when you need to re-center.

Safety gives you permission to take risks (financially, emotionally, physically, socially) by having a place to regroup.
apropo username, having taken a crack at pulling relevant information out of scanned documents I agree that scan quality is very important (while often lengthy and expensive) especially if someone is trying to derive meaningful information from a digital copy without the physical copy to do a comparison with.

And from the look of the picture those books are massive and probably very delicate.

EDIT: to add a bit to the expensive part of this, it's expensive even with the willingness and resources to get it done, it's hard but unfortunately to even convince someone to dedicate these resources is a hurdle.
"Orthodox Jews by vast margins support Israel, you've been a victim of disinformation. "

Possible, there is lots of disinformation going on. My wording also might have been bad, but by my definition and understanding orthodox jews aim for a 100% jewish state. And Israel is not 100% jewish, but tries a mixture as they also have arab and beduin population with voting rights. So orthodox jews surely mostly support Israel as being mostly jewish, but they rather would support a 100% jewish Israel state.
They are paraphrasing " I don’t want to belong to any club that would have me as a member!"
I didn't say any means. I'm not at the point where I'm willing to degrade democracy like that.

But its sort of like asking if it would have been okay to assassinate Hitler (he was elected remember) before the holocaust took place, but the writing was on the wall.

What does a politians life, your life, or my life mean in the face of untold suffering of millions of people for countless generations?

What about you? Where would you draw the line? Would you say that George W's life outweighs the trillian dollars in national debt and 150K-1M civilian casualties? If you knew you could have averted all that from just killing him, did it, turned yourself in, when you were executed would you be a villain or a hero?
It's a regular part of waitstaff sidework to go through the menus and clean the laminated kind or discard messy, crumpled, or otherwise unpresentable paper. Many servers will even notice as they're collecting them from a table and toss the bad ones immediately. Apart from basic pride, messiness reflects badly on the whole restaurant and affects their tips!
Show HN: Autoportrait.ai – The cheapest AI portrait generator
GP was being sardonic
C23 did not get around to introducing this kind of forward declaration (and, although GCC has had them for a long time, Clang has not implemented that extension either). I think I remember Gustedt (the chair for C11 and C17) openly advocating against the ages-old practice[1] of putting lengths after pointers, I suspect in part because of this problem, and Meneide (the current one) also puts lengths first in his proposed encoding APIs. In any case, the proposal[2] (ETA: by Martin Uecker, who’s also spoken up both in the linked thread and here) is still under consideration, it just didn’t get into C23.

[1] With main() being the exception.

[2] Latest version being https://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg14/www/docs/n3121.pdf.
Astrobotic
The sad reality is that Paypal doesn't serve these territories because they are "high risk" and also low income which means the amount of compliance officers they would have to employ to watch people in these territories and the regulatory penalties for accidentally letting a Hamas transaction slip through (these aren't easy to detect either as the government emphasizes that "terrorist financing" can be as little as a few hundred dollars at a time, in fact most terrorist financing prosecutions involve amounts < $10000) probably does not exceed the amount of fees they would earn.
Making it harder for bad actors to create malware would seem like one legitimate case.
It's perfectly acceptable to take a phone out at a table everywhere I've traveled.

It's rude to be glued to your phone everywhere I've traveled; or to talk on a phone during a meal.

Which is also why I said TFA missed the reason by a mile. "Everyone knows it’s rude to take a phone out at a table" isn't true at all; and demonstrates that the author is out of touch with the general public's relationship with tech.
For years we’ve replaced fats with sugars and advocated it as healthy. That alone should disprove the thesis we’ve got this figured out.
It is most definitely optional