skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Who exactly sells Windows machines with good hardware?
As countries begin to decriminalize marijuana I keep having cognitive dissonance that one is more restricted than the other. It makes little sense to have such a destructive substance (alcohol) be permitted whilst a less destructive substance (CBD/THC) is so aggressively punished. Without making a statement of which direction society should change, I comment that it makes little sense for their treatment to be so starkly different.
He means social benefits.

At least for me they absolutely are real and we're valuable to bring me out of my shell in college. Don't need it as much anymore, but drinking a bit in college had a transformatively positive experience for me socially.
Two of today's photos are from OUTSIDE the final "0 miles" radius.
The FTC had no problem running FTX on less notice.
What exactly are you confused about? Plenty of people can learn about constraint propagation and integer programming but LLMs do not have the capability to solve integer programs because LLMs (and neural networks in general) are not generally intelligent.
It’s out of date and probably has less detail than I remember but I got a lot out of “Inside Microsoft SQL Server 7.0” which does deep dives into storage architecture, indices, query planning etc from an MSSQL specific POV. The book was updated for SQL Server 2003 and 2008. Obviously the book also has a ton of stuff about MS specific features and admin functionality that’s not really relevant, and I’m sure there are better resources out there, but I’ve found the background from that book has helped me understand the innards of Oracle, MySQL, and Postgres in the years since.
Apparently 10% of people drink 60% of the booze in the USA.

Other countries will be different I would think.
Site is down for me, maybe the HN hug of death? Anyone else seeing this?
There is no "benefit."

Just like there is no benefit to (table) sugar.

In moderation the harm is only moderate.

Anything else is pure cope from people who need to justify their wine at dinner.
Who said the benefits are biological?
> You can still set up your tiny quiet corner on the web, do your own things, and connect slowly with other people

This is exactly what I've been after with my side projects. Thanks for the encouragement to continue even when things are slow-going, makes me remember it's a feature not a bug.
I would like to introduce feature toggles at my place of work as well, but I'm worried we will get massive amounts of if-statements everywhere. Is there a smart way of implementing (many) feature toggles?
Your version doesn't work.

* all but the first results are not arrays, so the `.map` function doesn't apply

* doesn't handle async operations

* catches ALL exceptions here, whereas my code only handles statically typed and well-defined errors

* doesn't include the GPT-generated message and messages from the first steps in the error

* doesn't include retry functionality

I appreciate this argument and time you've taken to read my code and write this counter-argument. Please don't mistake my direct code for animosity, I clearly see that you're a smart person even though I think you're wrong about this.

Also, the fp-ts doesn't add any runtime performance overhead here. It's a couple of extra function calls for a call that has an async operation that likely takes 30 seconds (GPT-4 is slow). Obviously, if I was writing code that runs thousands of times per second, I would not use FP.
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>I have yet to see a compelling argument for heavily restricting alcohol.

provably better physical health

provably (much) better mental health

BONUS: more saved money than you'd think

alcohol fucks up your sleep, your mood, your liver, your social interactions. it's straight up poison save for extremely moderate quantities that almost nobody settles for when having a drink.

nothing better than waking up monday morning feeling like you got punched in the stomach all night and barely able to hold a straight thought with the impeding stress of having to go to work and perform. so you get painkillers, insane amounts of coffee and maybe some other drug your GP blindly prescribed you and you go on about your day barely holding together the mess that you are
Unless people are far more sensitive than I am, I don't see how >60Hz is needed for a desktop workstation environment. High frame rate is really only noticeable for very fast reaction time gaming.

4K 120Hz may be noticeable if editing ultra high frame rate video on a video editing workstation, but if you are a video production crew with a camera capable of recording at that framerate, you probably already know that.
It might relieve it temporarily, but one common effect is heightened anxiety once you sober up:

https://www.onemedical.com/blog/healthy-living/what-hangxiet...

And even if you don't get an immediate rebound effect, in the medium term it can still worsen your anxiety.
You're right, but it doesn't matter: Modula-2 didn't catch up, Zig has a small chance to succeed thanks to its focus on embedded and on its good tooling for cross-compilation.
I think I'd rather have a bus pass, steam deck, and a house.
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They means social benefits, not health ones. They even say so in their post.
My question to you is what are you currently using as an alternative for the COU/SOC in your personal & work environments?

Intel? AMD Ryzen?

Apple has taken their ARM approach and scaled it to all their platforms.

Amazon now is on what, Gen 2 or 3 for their graviton platform in AWS.

And what OS are you using if you don’t trust Microsoft, Linux or Apple?
Is Prohibitionism cyclical on a multi-generational scale? I can’t get over how often nowadays I see takes like this when Americans tried this route a century ago and learned the results the hard way.
You've framed this like having a party on the weekend equates to being universally unproductive.
Increased ease of social bonding and libido would be two very important ones
Don't taxes on things like cigarettes and sodas disproportionally affect lower-income folks? Intended or not, it comes off as a bit classist. I don't have a better solution, tbh.
First time I hear of VC_EXTRALEAN, always used WIN32_EXTRA_LEAN.
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The yeast out-competes other microbes that would make the water deadly? Not really relevant in 2023.

It can preserve calories of carbohydrates that would otherwise go bad?

Or the physical pleasure I previously mentioned?
I'm afraid that until the Chinese government stops their influence campaigns in foreign countries, Chinese nationals living elsewhere will be justifiably suspect.

https://wisconsinwatch.org/2023/02/does-china-operate-police...
If it's CapCut, I'm going with my guess in my previous comment: scalpel allows the app to carve out a portion of a video file cleanly.

Somewhat related link: https://www.dhs.gov/sites/default/files/publications/508_Tes...
I'd guess gaming is at least partially responsible. For anything more than 2k you need a high end/expensive video card, which just aren't that common. Just look at the steam stats right now.. 62% of users have 1080p.
The problem is caring about productivity too much.There's more to life than your work output. A minmaxed, micro-optimized life is a horribly miserable one.
So it can generate lots of random numbers very fast... cool. /s
Same boat, but lucky me I got 55 miles on the 4th photo. 5th one was 2200 miles off though.
That's partially mitigated in regions which still have ongoing precipitation, so that the soot doesn't remain on top of the snow/ice for years on end.

There are, however, "cold deserts" which see very little precipitation, and for which this does occur, notably in Antarctica. What snow is on the ground accumulates slowly over millennia, and there are places where all precipitation has sublimated or blown away, the "cold valleys" of Antarctica, with bare scoured rock.

And of course, even with seasonal precip, dust and soot will speed melting of snowcap and glaciers between precipitation events.
Just to throw a little more hair-splitting, we're not talking about raw data, either, raw being a term of art for unprocessed or minimally processed data read from a device (like an image sensor). It usually can't be displayed without some interpreting.

HDMI video signal is uncompressed but not raw.
I often think about what a "public access" web would look like (similar to "public access" TV that exists in some US cable markets).
Is there a single work that attempts to, for example, answer the emotional affects that come from recreational drug use?

You claim that "there aren't based on the biological research" you've read. I do believe you here.

However, have you ever stopped to think that that perhaps the benefits that one derives from consuming alcohol, or other recreational drugs, are outside the realm of what biological sciences can answer? Maybe another field is better positioned to provide you with an illuminating alternative perspective.
Yeah they should not be using a Mercator projection if a key part of the game is triangulation AND there is a ruler shown on screen.
Can you go 7 days without drinking? If you can't and you relapse you might definitely be an alcoholic
<sarcasm> I can spend my days doing opium if I want. You can't tell me not to live on the street. </sarcasm>

All societies struggle with drugs that become a drag on the entire group. Opium in China, opium dens, crack, heroin, etc...

I think there is a rate of decay. Alcohol kills you just slow enough for people not to care.

Alcohol has just flown under the radar because it is bad, but not quite bad enough to kill people off early and reach the threshold where the majority of people realize it is bad. Alcohol drags on, and kills body just slowly enough that you can be productive and hit 50 before dying off. Then since you are 50+, everybody can chime in with explanatory excuses to cover their own drinking and say "he should have ran more", "should have eaten better".

[Edit]
Know we aren't supposed to talk about downvotes. But I am surprised that any post that is against alcohol, even on the basis of health, gets a negative reaction. When I post about alcohol being bad, I get a lot of responses from 'functional alcoholics' making pro-alcohol arguments.
The downvotes encourage you to stop wasting society's time unproductively posting on Hacker News.
"what matters are the numbers in aggregate" is the opposite of cherrypicking. One of those numbers would be the level of danger around children.

The unitless number for driving into oncoming traffic wasn't supposed to be a real stat.
With respect: *Have you been living under a rock?*
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>The Amazon site I used all the time that sucks now is IMDb.

Did you try enabling "Show reference view" setting? (Account Settings -> Content Settings)
Huge phosphate rock deposit discovered in Norway
In the end there is still jus the singular Jailer or Executioner, right?
> Maybe someone can help me understand why people are investing into this.

Buying a Mac for running LLMs is kinda like buying a Mac for gaming. Its thoeretically interesting, but I don't think thats a serious driver of Mac sales.

But:

- Finetuned local LLMs are good for specific niches, like roleplaying, text games, and helper bots for your own pile of data. And they are getting better at other niches like code completion for specific languages, or summarization.

- Remember that a huge selling point for Macs is iPhone/iPad development. The market for AI App Store apps is not small.This is also a reason to believe there will be some stability with the ML support.
> it's straight up poison save for extremely moderate quantities that almost nobody settles for when having a drink.

Prove that. I would bet you $100 right now that there is a "silent majority" (even though I dislike the term) that has no problem whatsoever with keeping their drinking under control and to reasonable levels. I am among them - I keep it to a single drink and can go weeks with them in my fridge without taking a swig.

You assume that alcohol is the problem; whereas often, even though I could be wrong; excess drinking is more often a symptom of other problems (stress, anxiety, depression, social pressure, etc.) Getting rid of symptoms does not heal the problem.

Edit for @AtlasLion ("posting too fast - please slow down"): I'm at the point where, at my levels, I feel that it is alarmism. I get that drinking alcohol is never risk-free, but by the same logic, standing outside under a tree is never risk-free. A car ride is never risk-free. Using a cell phone in public is never risk-free. Meeting a stranger is not risk-free. Taking a vaccine is not risk-free. Getting married is certainly not risk-free. It's that kind of risk in my mind.
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Seconding GnuCash - it ain't pretty but once you figure it out it's a simple and very powerful tool. I often toy with the idea of moving to plain text accounting tools but it would be yet another learning curve to climb for questionable benefit.

Unfortunately I've had a couple of segfaults when importing transactions since moving to 5.x. Hopefully those bugs are ironed out by now
Authoritarian paternalism at its best.
Productivity is just one of several things the article identifies as a problem. They don't even spend that much time on it relative to others like violence and healthcare costs, which are obviously all of our problem.

Also, I don't see anywhere in the article where the author says "these restrictions should do the trick". They talk about a few attempts to restrict alcohol, but mostly their conclusion is "we don't know yet if this is working" or "we don't know this would work here." They're not shying away from the complexity.

They end by just advocating that individuals stop contributing to alcohol's position as a "normal" thing.
> If that were true, they’d long have an iPhone with a foldable screen, and would have shipped AR/VR glasses years ago.

I think you’re really confusing my point here.

There were plenty of touch screen devices before the iPhone, but only a few niche devices had capacitive touch screens.

Apple doesn’t throw too-early technologies against the wall (folding phones still have visible creases when opened, for example).
Totally valid. But at least with the Microsoft engineers that I know well enough to have frank conversations with, half of them are the the opposite of content. They are unhappy, but feel trapped by their careers at Microsoft.

I get it, change is scary, but I do remind them that there is a larger world outside of Microsoft and there is very likely a better situation out there for them if they look for it.
These are arguments for individuals to stop drinking. Not arguments for the government getting involved.
It's the same origin, just different base language. It's about computation, not data, in both English and German.

It's interesting that Norwegian and Swedish are putting the emphasis on data instead.
The 14th way is “multi way joins” also called “worst case optimal joins” which is a terrible name.

It means instead of joining tables two at a time and dealing with the temporary results along the way (eating memory), you join 3 or more tables together without the temporary results.

There is a blog post and short video of this on https://relational.ai/blog/dovetail-join and the original paper is on https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3180143

I work for RelationalAI, we and about 4 other new database companies are bringing these new join algorithms to market after ten years in academia.
These older packets have transported me to earlier times in my life when times were more free and easy going. Maybe its because I have many fond memories of childhood hanging out with friends at various fast food places. In little ways the quality of everything has degraded so these older designs harkins back to a time when things felt better.
Depends on how niche what you do is relative to the quantity
of information available on it.
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I was just flabbergasted when I watched "Love is Blind". The participants, especially the women, drink all the time (ok the glasses are opaque so maybe they drink less than it appears).

They drink when they think about their relationship, they drink when they go to social events, they drink when they are having couple moments together.

Social pressure is very damaging in this regard.
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Ime Anarchist ideology can be summed up as:

Fuck You Everything is Mine

They use a lot of words and games to deflect from it but in the end that's it in a single short sentence.
> Good UX cost development time that has to be paid by someone

There is a difference between "we would like to make UX better, but we don't have resources at the moment" and "the [obnoxious monstrosity of a] UX we already have is perfect, and if someone is confused by it, then they are an idiot and should just get good".

Just like in that infamous dropbox HN post discussion, people were railing Drew for "who would even want to use this, you can just trivially set up an rsync cron job on your linux server" (which is an argument about UX quality), not for megacorp lock-in or competitors lacking the same resources.
Meaning it wouldn't necessarily be human-like?
This is the kind of exercise can be done in the background while waiting for stuff to compile. It's also not for trivial things like private or local variables and such, so not really a frequently occurring speed bump.

An example would be a set of enum names that I need to share with my teammates, where it might be a lot of hassle to replace them all if we don't decide on proper names now, but any set of names would work.
It's really not. A generalization is not de facto bigotry. I wish Americans could figure this out some day.
Big Alcohol is currently benefiting from the headline-domination of the opioid crisis. At one point, alcohol addiction was a major public health focus, but it’s definitely taken a back seat for the past few years.

It does seem to me that taxing alcohol at higher rates makes sense to offset the social costs of providing healthcare and encourage moderation.
Makes sense. As the social implications of unchecked degeneracy start to play out, people start to look for scapegoats.
Exactly this in my case, I've also quit after watching the video. My biggest doubt was if it actually is beneficial to consume in small amounts for better health (i.e. a well-known myth about having a glass of red wine is good for your heart) which Andrew dismissed completely.

I would like to bring doctor Peter Attia's perspective on this - which he mentioned on another podcast with Tim - is occassionally drinking something he really enjoys to the point that "if that glass of wine is not good enough, I will pour it down the drain".

So I tried a few times between now and then, even though I enjoyed it, the aftermath of not having even the slightest effect next day - which I got used to when not drinking at all - convinced me to give up this idea.

The social pressure, though, is real. It's like a habbit which everyone is so much used to, that the alternative "world" with no alcohol feels like a non-existant to some people. And if you fire up a conversation why, there's rarely a good reason why they are so attached to this belief.
I agree with this, and with Nassim Taleb's point.

Having worked in the medical domain in the past, paramedics and medics that should know better were taking extremely high health-related risks (riding a motor bike => crashing and burning to death, smoking => dying from lung canceer, speeding onto a crossing => dying in an ambulance crash before arriving at the 999 call site etc.).

So risk is indeed its own discipline, separate from the domain where risk applies, even if we are talking about the life-rescuing domain of medicine: a person rescuing another is not automatically an expert at reducing their own (health/life) risk exposure.

While neural network research results are published in NeurIPS, ICLR, ICML, ECML/PKDD, JMLR etc., risk results tend to get published in the risk community at conferences like SRA [1] (Europe: SRA-E) and the likes. I'm not a fan of this academic segregation, merely describing what is going on (in my own teaching, for instance, I include risk/ethics consideration along the way with teaching the technical side, to avoid ignorance caused by over-compartmentalization).

[1] Annual Meeting of the Society of Risk Analysis, https://www.sra.org/events-webinars/annual-meeting/