skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That reason is called popularity. Librarians discard books that aren’t frequently requested so that they can bring in books that are frequently requested.

Randomly selecting books for rotation would bias by sheer publication volume. I don’t know about you, but I don’t want my local library to be 40% Atkins Diet by volume, regardless of how positive I might feel about it.
At least here there is a lot of conspiracy theorists spouting misleading information about "digital ID". I don't know from where it is coming exactly but seems to be related to this "WEF movement".
Abstract:

A major risk of using language models in practical applications is their tendency to hallucinate incorrect statements. Hallucinations are often attributed to knowledge gaps in LMs, but we hypothesize that in some cases, when justifying previously generated hallucinations, LMs output false claims that they can separately recognize as incorrect. We construct three question-answering datasets where ChatGPT and GPT-4 often state an incorrect answer and offer an explanation with at least one incorrect claim. Crucially, we find that ChatGPT and GPT-4 can identify 67% and 87% of their own mistakes, respectively. We refer to this phenomenon as hallucination snowballing: an LM over-commits to early mistakes, leading to more mistakes that it otherwise would not make.
Was there anyone working on behalf of the casino to state that they threw the dice wrong? That's what seems to be missing.
The act of entering hospice for someone who is terminally ill is electing to die rather than doing all that is medically possible to survive. Typically that isn't much at that point. Given that you are entering "comfort care", and likely stopping all treatment, you are effectively shortening your life.

My heart breaks for anyone that has to watch their loved one wither away. Even more so for those without loved ones to care for them til the end.
Not sure why you're downvoted. DevOps is definitely a place where I see Go used most often. Go has a fast compiler giving it a scripting-like feel, very low memory and disk footprint overhead, it is also easy to learn and easy to deploy which makes it a great language for devops - all those tiny programs that orchestrate components of a bigger system. And in this case the simplicity of the language is an advantage as you can find people being productive very quickly, but weak expressiveness is not a problem because you're not building anything large.

However, I would not recommend it for anything that's concurrent, needs high performance and resides on the critical path (critical not in terms of performance but in terms of reliability) or is large / to be maintained by many teams. Just too easy to run into problems.
Not to refute your n=1, but reviews are a safer way of establishing whether something actually works. Eg here, from 2015:

> There is insufficient information to determine whether initiation of a water fluoridation programme results in a change in disparities in caries across socioeconomic status (SES) levels.

> No studies that aimed to determine the effectiveness of water fluoridation for preventing caries in adults met the review's inclusion criteria.

> Over 97% of the studies were at high risk of bias and there was substantial between‐study variation

From here: https://www.cochranelibrary.com/cdsr/doi/10.1002/14651858.CD...

TLDR: The existing research is low quality.
We are, since I went back to cloud native development, I am back on the early university days using DG/UX, or the commercial UNIX development servers from early 2000's.
Thank you, I appreciate the time you took to write this to me, but I really don't have any interest in the phenomena. I didn't even know who Sue Blackmore was tbh.

In my worldview burden of justification falls on those who would posit non-materialistic, supernatural explanations.
I too am nostalgic for a simpler web, and also an increasingly of the view that the modern web was a severe wrong turn for software engineering and computing generally. I also run my own gopherd and httpd servers. Despite the severe shortcomings of Gopher as a protocol in 2023, I simply cannot understand much of the design rationale behind Gemini.

Markdown is not a well-defined standard and is arguably no easier to parse than basic HTML 1.0. HTML can easily be rendered as text in a style not dissimilar to raw markdown if required.

The decision to enforce the use of TLS means that rolling your own client is less trivial than had it been optional. It also cuts out a big chunk of the hobbyist market who are most likely to be interested in a small, lightweight protocol. Support for Gemini will therefore be limited to systems with maintained TLS libraries. At the end of the day, anyone sniffing your Gemini traffic is going to be able to see the host you’re accessing - whilst TLS will preventable them knowing which specific page you’re reading, they will be aware of the set of pages you could be reading.

Instead, I am focussing my attention on building small, light web-pages that have completely optional CSS, are pure HTML without cookies or JavaScript and work in browsers modern or ancient. There’s a plethora of great browsers that can access it, from Lynx and Netscape running on a Solaris 8 machine to Chrome on my work PC. Servers are ample and well-tested.

And a good chunk of my website is text (rendered in Groff) to boot.

It’s 95% of the Gemini experience with 5% of the effort and 1000% more reach.
I think it's a difficult balance to strike.

On one side you usually don't want to hurt a fantasy novel author who put all their soul into their book and actually care about how it's received.

On the other side some authors will have a very strong message to convey, and use their work as a platform to expose more people to their ideas, good or bad.

Not engaging with the message and/or ignoring it when you see it as either damaging to the readers or an abuse of people's good faith would feel wrong to me. Not that readers have a duty to engage with a book, but if you were ready to pan a horrible propaganda piece on reddit but stopped because it could hurt the author's feelings, I'd have fully encouraged you into speaking your mind in reasonable terms.
> The C runtime is privileged because it is already present on all 3 desktop OSes.

Yes, Ubuntu, Debian and Fedora.

On Windows, you don't get a C run time; you ship a MS Visual Studio run-time DLL if you're using Microsoft's tools (and not static linking), or something else with someone else's tools; maybe a CYGWIN1.DLL or whatever.

You get platform libraries like kernel32.dll and user32.dll; but those are not a C run-time. They are easy to call from C, but other than that, they are the OS run time.

Recently Microsoft has made an effort to create a "Universal C Run Time" for Windows; but I think you still have to download and ship that, and there may be reasons for someone to choose a different run-time. (E.g. needing a pretty detailed POSIX implementation.)
This is one of those book reviews where I'm certain that person who wrote it had a deadline, started with the title of the book, read WP article and few reviews. Maybe, maybe he flipped trough few pages, read the chapter 1. or remembers reading it in his teens and writes using that memory.

And the rest is just creative writing.

He missises the content of the book that describes the changes in democracy, life, , power structures and culture. All more or less correct in retrospect. Every time very interesting.
Let's take a deep dive into some of the most frequent contract approval difficulties and how contract management software may help you overcome them.
So.. make the requests serial. Just dump all the requests coming in over IPv6 into a queue, service that queue at a rate that's higher than the non-bot traffic requires but still low enough to be a problem for bots that can't self-limit to a reasonable rate. And of course, manage that queue intelligently so that you start dropping requests before you run out of RAM.
Congrats for your launch!

No major issues regarding your pitch if you ask me. One thing I’d suggest for you to add is a definition of ASO on first use. It’s kinda clear from the context, and I can imagine your target audience may know it, but I feel I had to think harder than necessary. Perhaps add a link to a definition on first use of the ASO abbreviation (not counting the AsoGenie brand)?

With that out of the way, I’d say I was able to grasp the idea of your pitch within a couple of seconds.
I’ve gone down bit of a rabbit hole the past week looking at low power x86 boxes.

I woke up last Saturday morning with my home router, a PC Engines APU2 that had been fault free for the past four years not booting making a clicking noise. In the end it turned out to be a fault with the powers supply but I didn’t know that at the time and needed internet so purchased a Protectli Intel J6412 from Amazon as it had next day delivery and I didn’t have time to wait a few days for PC Engines support who recently announced they where closing down to get back to me or shipping a new unit from overseas. As it happens PC Engines replied very quickly on a Sunday!

Anyway the Protectli J6412 turns out to be old gen hardware, however I’ve been extremely impressed. It’s idling away running Proxmox with an Opnsense a VM, Unifi, PiHole and NGINX reverse proxy in LXC containers.

That sent me researching some more as I have an old Ryzen 2600 running as a dev server but as idling away most of the time using a good bit more power than the Protectli. That rabbit hole has lead me to Intel N100 boxes such as the CWWK n100 on Amazon/AliExpress. They look like great low powered machines if you can live with a single SSD/16GB memory. They’ll do virtualisation/proxmox, run k3s, 6w max tbp, fanless, multiple nics. Not a cheap option but also not an expensive option all things considered. They even do a N305 which looks to be on par cpu wise to my current Ryzen 2600

It seems the market for small nuc type devices is getting very good right now.
In a comment down below, i made it clear i was not referring to BTC. In the internet there is no centralized registry of naming projects. There are currently three projects in which the communities call themselves bitcoin. Any one of the other two bitcoins support much smaller microtransactions than BTC.

Very true, that micropayments could vary on their relative cheapness across the global population. Let's put a number, is 0.01 cent affordable by most people on the planet, for every http request?
I don’t think history supports this thesis. Most children went away to the cities or other countries or even other continents. Maybe if you where one of the fewer and fewer people who still had a farm you might have one child taking it over, but if you were born in a city then that’s obviously not possible.

I guess it might be possible you moved to where one of your children lived, if you even knew where they ended up.
I ended up blocking keyboard events from a userscript to deal with the keyboard hijacking. This combined with opting out of all the "feature previews" has made it more or less usable again for now. But the writing is on the wall, I am not using GH for any new projects.
Understandable. I've seen services that offer residential IP address proxies for as low as $1/GB. FWIW the particular service in mind actually pays the IP owners who opt into it.

I guess your tool is asking the registries if domains are registered.
Municipal water fluoridation is problematic for a range of reasons but as a toothpaste and mouthwash it has merit and it actually does demonstrate direct bacterial growth arrest effects in addition to indirect substrate permissiveness inhibition via mineralisation.

“Fluoride acts to enhance membrane permeabilities to protons and compromises the functioning of F-ATPases in exporting protons, thereby inducing cytoplasmic acidification and acid inhibition of glycolytic enzymes.Basically, fluoride acts to reduce the acid tolerance of the bacteria. It is most effective at acid pH values. In the acidic conditions of cariogenic plaque, fluoride at levels as low as 0.1 mM can cause complete arrest of glycolysis by intact cells ofStreptococcus mutans.Overall, the anticaries actions of fluoride appear to be complex, involving effects both on bacteria and on mineral phases. The antibacterial actions of fluoride appear themselves to be complex but to be dominated by weak-acid effects.”
https://cdnsciencepub.com/doi/10.1139/m95-133#:~:text=Basica....
I don’t think a lawyer is required.
> Avoid C++

Seems offhand
That depends on how it gets managed by IT.

With my SecDevOps hat on, it would be as locked down as it needs for project delivery.
It‘s rather per public IP, such that e.g. behind a corporate proxy you may experience rate limiting even for regular use, just because you’re sharing a few IP addresses with a large number of users. Better hope that you get an increased quota for your external IPs in that case.
Nintendo explains Dolphin emulator DMCA, says the project 'stifles innovation'
but since most editors are also just electron apps, it's not much of a difference
Homepage accessible here
Social mobility requires a society that allows you to fail but stil pick you up afterwards. America doesn’t.
The difference being that Web shell and browser are somehow better than orange and green phosphor terminals.
The law accounts for roommates by defining the nature of the relationship. Cohabitation for a certain period isn't the full definition. The definition does not allow for more than 2 people in the relationship.
First line for elder care was, and still is, spouses. Usually one needs care before the other.
On tech, the EU doesn’t speak for Europe
More blatant lobbying from Washington through CEPA.

"Privately, officials from these countries say the Commission’s strategy will hamper innovation by imposing complex compliance rules on smaller companies that can’t afford to implement them."

"While these concerns are rarely aired publicly, simply put, Central and Northern Europe know that when it comes to tech, the EU doesn’t speak for Europe."

Speak for yourself and your anonymous "sources".

"And as the Commission shows no sign of slowing down on its regulatory agenda, it’s these smaller countries that will then bear the greatest economic risk."

Based on what exactly?

"Additionally, it’s time for Washington to wake up and realize that tech policy isn’t solely in the EU’s purview, and work to engage with European countries bilaterally as well."

Seems like an attempt to attack the EU's unity. Note that you cannot bypass EU law with bilateral agreements.
Honestly, I don't blame Google or Apple.

Even if the ML model has 99.9999% accuracy at correctly identifying a Gorilla and a human with dark skin, that 0.0001% will still keep PR up at night. There's very little reward compared to the PR risk.
"Most" companies in the USA are on a 5-year laptop replacement cycle because that's what the IRS set the MACRS depreciation schedule to for "consumer electronics" (really, category 00.12 in Table B-1 of Publication 946). Each year following the purchase they can write off the following on their taxes:

Year 1: 20%

Year 2: 32%

Year 3: 19.20%

Year 4: 11.52%

Year 5: 11.52%

Year 6: 5.76%

Why accountants are actually in charge of the rate at which laptops get purchased, instead of just the paperwork for the tax deductions caused by the rate of laptop purchases....I truly do not understand.
Usually you indeed scan this file sequentially, doing some filtration / transformation. As you do this transformation for each record, the speed of the tool used (e.g. jq) really matters.

Databases are not used in this case because it’s a complexity overhead compared to plain-text files. The ability to use unix pipelines and tools (such as grep) is a bonus.
I haven't heard of that abbreviation before. But there is a stub on Wikipedia if anyone cares about improving that article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queries_per_second
You are mistaken in outcome, but you are not wrong that we do have a corruption problem.

Unfortunately, corruption is endemic in any political system. Socialism also isn't a solution. Someone has to pay and be held accountable.

As long as it remained manageable its not necessarily a negative. What we are seeing is the debt fueled rage of two selfish generations piling up unchecked and snowballing; leaving us with the check, or more appropriately bag of flaming poo rolling down on us.
> Do you have a phrase that works for this, but isn't prone to misunderstanding?

Not a single phrase because there's a decision matrix around the reaction:

1. Do I think I understand why the emotional reaction is happening?
2. Do I think the emotional reaction is healthy?
3. Do I think the emotional reaction is reasonable?

And how I respond depends on the answers to these questions. When the answers to the questions are "no" I fall back to building a space of emotional safety things like:

"Thank you for sharing your feelings with me", "it's ok that you're feeling that way", "feeling that way doesn't make you a bad person". These statements tend more conservative if I'm feeling it's important to remove misunderstanding.
Wallabag
To paraphrase xkcd, "On the one hand, every one of my ancestors did it, so how hard could it be? On the other hand, that's the mother of all confirmation biases."
I would not bat an eye at this in a high school library, no. I checked out books that were substantially more adult in nature than this appears to be.
The UK, one of the largest European countries, is led by someone from Indian descent.
What rumors?
this is actually a good read
Thin clients never went away in non software focused industries.

What do you think restaurants, downtown shops, travel agencies, factory floor,doctors,.... are using?
Fluoride is beneficial only when applied externally on the dental enamel, where it converts the hydroxyapatite synthesized by the human cells into fluorapatite, which is less soluble in the acids contained in food or excreted by bacteria.

On the other hand, ingested fluoride has no benefits, because it cannot reach the tooth enamel and when in too large quantities it has bad effects, e.g. it may cause bone damage.

Brushing the teeth or washing the mouth with something containing fluoride is very good, drinking water with fluoride is very stupid.
There are clearly only two options: capitalism or dictatorship. Nothing else is possible. American capitalism is given by God and the best of all possible worlds. Yes sir.
The book covers science based theories that are alternatives to creationism, but talks more about why and how religion formed as a self-propagating meme. People's individual experiences just don't add much to that argument, and he isn't trying to refute individual experiences. It's just out of place.

> An argument about why something doesn't exist, no matter how convincing, becomes invalidated if conclusive evidence emerges demonstrating that it does.

Personal experience would never, ever qualify as conclusive evidence, because there is no way to test or verify any of the claims made.

> Why don't you think personal experience is relevant to a discussion of why God exists?

My claim as that it was not relevant to the scope of the book specifically, but I'll answer that question. You may find it offensive, but since you're asking...

I think every single person that believes in religion does so only due to indoctrination, or because they are seeking to fill some void in their life. That's it. And so I dismiss their accounts entirely. In fact, I feel a degree of pity for them.

Organized religions are nonsense for many reasons, and if we remove them, then all we are left with is an unprovable, untestable claim based on absolutely nothing, which is more complex than the alternative which means Occam is sufficient reason to dismiss until there is reason not to do so.
This a pretty neat idea, but I am wondering whether it could be improved. For instance, if the user’s reply is not satisfactory, the bot should not only explain why, but also let the user to try again. Feel free to share your own, improved prompts.

PS: I am not the author of the Small Talk Simulator.
That’s funny, when we look at Europeans we see the same thing.

Europeans freak out at levels of immigration that are normal in the US.
I believe using the > character to quote text convention is from usenet. It’s also common in text e-mails and many forums, including Reddit or HN.
> This is the fifth or sixth time someone has started a thread with this “gotcha,”

This is not a "gotcha" or loophole of some type. Words have meanings[1]. If your argument relies on changing the meaning of a common word in the dictionary, it's your argument that is wrong, not the damn dictionary!

I mean, where are you going with this?

Are you seriously advocating that school libraries and librarians have free reign to determine which books to hold? Because that's how you get Intelligent Design introduced into schools. It's how you perpetuate stereotypes and bigotry.[2].

We don't want individuals exclusively responsible for determining what ideas may or may not be available to people. By having the ruling authority perform the determination, it becomes a collective determination by the taxpayers.

If the taxpayers are unhappy, they express their unhappiness with their vote.

I want to know, after reading your many emotionally charged arguments for why this must be called a "ban", exactly why you feel that the decision on literature suitability be made by selected individuals, and not by a voted-in government.

[1] https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/ban

[2] I've been atheist for decades, and I argued multiple times against allowing individuals within schools to determine what goes into the minds of children, because I've seen multiple times that the only end-result of allowing this is that the more passionate (engaged? Ideologues? Insane?) people tend to move into those positions that allow them to propagate their ideology.
I'm not sure if you're implying that every single husband and wife pair is comprised of a man with more financial resources or if you're somehow convinced that divorce will always screw over a husband and benefit a wife regardless of their incomes, but either way, it sounds like whoever you think you would have married otherwise is the one who's dodging a bullet.
Depends on how good the alternative are, $75 can easily be justified.

IntelliJ was far more productive than its peer in its first 5 years or so
To all the haters in this thread: Pull requests welcome. Til then, stop spreading fud. WP security is fine.
Release: WasmEdge 0.12 and 0.12.1
The article says:

Cajoling the chatelaines of country piles here isn’t as hard as it once was, he says, thanks to the likes of Downton Abbey and Harry Potter. “Everyone wants to be the next Highclere or Alnwick,” he says.

Well thats true, for the very specific subset of properties who want to milk location income. There's another set, who don't pick up the phone.

Really? They want the income. I don't think anyone does it "for the likes" although the post-film-release tail of tourism must have some imputed value.

I don't have a mouldering pile to flog for visuals, but if I did, I'd be filling the moat if the tour buses started driving up afterward. Get off my (1000 year old) lawn.
Absolutely. The difference I'm referring to is that video poker games must be dealt as if the cards were coming from a fair deck, so the odds of each event happening can be determined relatively easily given a fixed strategy, and consequently so can you exact expected profit/loss per hand, and when a machine can be profitable to play.

That the same is not true in slots is the thing that I missed. That a triple cherry pays 100 to 1 or whatever is meaningless if you have no way of knowing the odds of a triple cherry.
Is this production ready ? How about performance (comparison with Rust)