skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's possible that you are struggling to find evidence because the evidence points in the other direction. For example, from the review article you linked:

"Based on all available scientific knowledge, wheat consumption is safe and healthy for the vast majority of people. There is no scientific evidence to support that the general population would benefit from a wheat-free diet."

Step 1 of fostering "shoshin" was to explain a theory or idea to someone else. Now step 2 is to stay aware of confirmation bias.
Compare, for example, the way that the NYT has handled its incredible, years-long upfuck of 'Caliphate'. They didn't disappear the content; they printed a retraction. https://www.npr.org/2020/12/18/944594193/new-york-times-retr...

It would have cost GQ zero dollars to follow this pattern. But they didn't. For reasons. Think it through.
Reminds me of the early Duke Nukem games that showed your health as an increasingly beat up avatar.
I'm curious how you'll handle lambda concurrency with LiteFS. I think (please correct anything I've got wrong) the way LiteFS works with respect to concurrency is:

- A single host is the primary node and all writes have to go to this node

- It is the application's responsibility to route requests to the current primary host. That is to say, LiteFS does not transparently forward requests to the current primary node

This model makes a lot of sense when you have say a cluster of nodes in an autoscaling group and some way to route write requests to the leader.

It seems like that model is a lot more challenging with Lamdba, where you have one instantiation of the lambda function per request. I'm not sure how you would route to the primary lambda instantiation in this case. DonutDB locks and hopes that it will be able to grab the write lock fast enough to be able to service the request. Maybe that is also what you would do with litefs? If the lambda instantiation isn't not the primary just retry with hopes that you become the primary, and if it is the primary relinquish leadership that after processing a request?

The donutdb approach won't scale up beyond a small amount of concurrency. Its really meant for lightweight workloads (most of my DBs only do a few writes per day).
Fascinating. It’s like a cross between a Teku glass and a white wine glass. Gorgeous.
The way anesthesia costs get offloaded onto (American) patients is nuts enough as it is...

Like, I'll absolutely grant that it's not cheap to knock people out—my friend's father growing up was an anesthesiologist assistant and he made good money doing it, which is fair enough considering it's a job where you literally hold people's lives in your hands. I don't want the guy feeding me propofol to be an underpaid grunt.

But in addition to the already-too-high healthcare costs in this country (specifically the way that those costs get passed onto patients), it sucks getting a separate anesthesiologist bill on top of whatever you paid for the procedure that warranted going under in the first place. Especially when the cost of the initial procedure was insulting to begin with.

And I don't think it's solely a matter of outpatient surgery centers using third-party anesthesia techs. A few years back I was meant to get a bronchoscopy (basically a colonoscopy for your lungs) at a prestigious local hospital, but the anesthesiologist never showed up (and they weren't gonna put a tube down my trachea while I was awake, lol) so they had to send me home. Turns out there was a scheduling snafu and the anesthesiologist who was supposed to be there never got notified that they were on duty.

How does a hospital not have in-house anesthesiologists? Are they really cutting costs by scheduling medical technicians like they're picking up shifts at Taco Bell?
The primary goal is to assemble a working B2B (team-focused) product (copy of Prompts with Friends). Everything else is basically a side effect.
You need to provide >100% installed capacity with gas as you phase out coal and nuclear. Because renewables aren’t reliable and you kind of need a conventional backup today.

We are missing 50% in gas plant capacity.

Your happy collection of “nice happy ideas” isn’t gonna cut it at the scale we need it to happen within 7 years. I’m so tired of this nonsense by people like you.

This isn’t some elementary science fair project. It’s people gambling away the economic foundation of Germany over some “would be nice” ideas.
Technical requirements for a SaaS app have a tendency to become something like a Jenga tower over time. You'll be able to sail through launch and initial customers but then slam hard into difficult architectural challenges as you suddenly onboard larger customers or unique use cases.

For SQLite my guess would be areas of high concurrent write throughput - like a seasonal holiday/rush, a viral influx of users, or the onboarding of a large client.

Its not that SQLite can't handle these situations with careful architectural decisions. Its that out-of-the-box solutions, like the kind people depend on to solve business-issues in short time frames, won't support it as readily as more mainstream options.
Don McMillan – Greatest Charts [video]
People who want to recover old coins such as encrusted roman coins will soak them in distilled water to dissolve the minerals in a pretty short time. The metal usually is not affected.
> it started because JS can't do parallel any other way

There are two different subcultures pushing for asynchronous. You are correct, one is based on people learning to program in JS and suffering from either Stockholm syndrome or some other problem that blocks them from thinking in sequential IO.

The other grew mostly out of the 10k problem at the late 00's, and is very correct on their assessment in that asynchronous code allows for some high-performing architectures that are much better than anything you can get synchronously.

Those two groups are trying to solve different problems, with different architectures, in different parts of the software stack. Rust's async supports both of them, so the discourse is really confusing.
The repo I linked to has an example of shared files between Deno and Vite. I'm using import maps to have a consistent `@shared/types` module between both (as well as consistent names for the requisite imports)
We are building micro-bioreactors on the Raspberry Pi. Yes, hardware is _hard_ (and fun!)

https://pioreactor.com/
I still follow a few planets. For example:

https://planet.lisp.org/

https://planet.emacslife.com/
The changing regulations over time add to the complexity.
9front’s got a couple of recommendations: http://fqa.9front.org/fqa3.html#3.2.0.1

But there aren’t many mice like these. Personally I picked up the N700 and it’s a fine enough mouse but I wouldn’t use it with any other system except some form of Plan 9 with Acme. Not my favorite.
New Camera Can Detect a Single Photon with 400x Better Resolution
> there are many devices as young as 5 years that cannot access some websites due to TLS incompatibilities. I have a very nice device that's 10 years old which I use daily that experiences this on a regular basis.

Can you name the specific models?

> Automation breaks, and certificates expire. I encounter websites with broken certificates almost daily.

How many times have you seen that where the expired certificate came from Let's Encrypt? I'm guessing never, and that when you've seen it, it's always been from legacy ones without any automation in use.

> It is not trivial at all. It requires a lot of administrative work, and many people around the world do not have access to this process at all.

It only takes a few minutes to set up. Who has the required resources to own a domain but not to use Let's Encrypt?
> Is it there fault if you don't read? or it your fault?

I guess I need to read every line of the source code, too. After all, they publish the code, so that's fair warning.

> Likewise... who's to blame if a rogue addon isn't responded too?

The person who chose to install it.
Clap clap clap. This is excellent public service @deathbypenguim. Yesterday I was scrolling through that enormous thread and using control+F to look for keywords of interest on the posted blog descriptions. Now it will be much easier to follow fellow bloggers. Thanks for having my blog on your list too.
> Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg were at Harvard. And they decided the value still wasn't there.

No, they realized that they had a limited time-window opportunity on their hands that has a potential for a lot more value than the degree, as long as they executed on that opportunity well and had a bit of luck.

Neither Gates nor Zuck just dropped out with nothing going on for them, and only then started their respective companies. IIRC Zuck quit because he was busy running Facebook during its explosive growth phase, and he had to make a choice between allocating his time to running FB and school.

Most people who decide to drop out don't have an explosively-growing business on their hands that they have a limited time-window to execute on. And while this is a pure guess, but I don't think Zuck would drop out just because, without something like FB fighting for his time and attention.
Show don't sell: the power of non-coercive marketing
This is really cool. Can you talk about some interesting challenges/problems you encountered?
> Here, there's a whole lot of creative decisions in labelling and guiding of training that produces the weights

Often, labelling is part of large public datasets that are chosen for use for that exact reason, and/or is otherwise not the work of the party claiming copyright in the model.
Not if the "secret sauce" is actually a natural limit to what levels of intelligence can be reached with the current architectures we're exploring.

It could be theoretically possible to build an AGI smarter than a human, but is it really plausible if it turns out to need a data center the size of the Hadron Collider and the energy of a small country to maintain itself?

It could be that it turns out the only architecture we can find that is equal to the task (and feasibly produced) is the human brain, and instead the hard part of making super-intelligence is bootstrapping that human brain and training it to be more intel?

Maybe the best way to solve the "alignment problem", and other issues of creating super-intelligence, is to solve the problem of how best to raise and educate intelligent and well-adjusted humans?
I think this is a very reasonable middle ground so long as the setting is readily changeable and exceptions are easy to add.
Thanks for the closer reading!
https://avodonosov.blogspot.com/
I'm presuming that the tanks were a source of low-emissivity steel?
I don't see a comparison to https://github.com/redis/rueidis which is another officially maintained and faster Go redis client.
I had seen the original comment, but people are always telling me things can't be done, even though I can do them. :P
For this alone they will backtrack really fast.
http://www.rockoder.com/ Few tech blogs, some opinions, some suggestions.

Sample:
https://www.rockoder.com/2020/04/26/passformula/ (Passformula: Create Complex, Unique Passwords and Remember Them All)
https://kyrofa.com/

Several dozen posts, mostly stuff about Ubuntu, robotics, or other open source things.
Indeed! But I guess not every blog has a feed, or there's no quick way of letting people add one to the list after the fact.
You asked about why they have that opinion. They provided a link which covers the reasons they have the opinion they have.
Open AI's API is using SSE to stream results?
They have altered the deal.

Pray they do not alter it further.
Meta delays EU launch of Threads amid uncertainty over personal data use
Happily Microsoft has lots of QA working for free nowadays, so this should be fixed rather soonish.
Hi Christian and Lennart - if you are still listening in here...
Did you know the other guy was working on the same problem - have you ever met before?
Lennart through his master thesis has a track record on working on the thing,
Christian I am not sure, haven't seen any previous publication yet.
It is sort of funny that the number was computed practically simultaneously some 450 kms apart
(though it happens in science, as if there is something in the air sometimes ;-)

Also, it has now been stated that D(9) "may be the last in the sequence that is feasible to discover" (The New Scientist)
- is this a view you can share?
(Never say never, I know :-)
Does this RegEx library utilize a JIT, just like the ones in most JavaScript implementations?

If not, then perhaps this is a case where JavaScript beats Rust.
The Effect of Vaccines
Neetdraw – a terminal drawing application with multiplayer support
https://chris.cothrun.com/

Mostly personal and a little bit of photos
Oh, a fellow hacker from my little home town :-) Greetings from the other side of the fjord and best of luck with your business!
Can we do this for HN users' podcasts?
Thats the thing. Brazil alread does that. I dont know what this brings to the table. I will try to read thoug the documentation and see why the hell this exists
There are things in that doc that are completly wrong and ridiculous such as:

https://github.com/karanpratapsingh/system-design#streaming-...

It reminds me a Youtube video on how to create a Netflix clone, for streaming they were creating a Java class for each frame of a video.
Naked self-promotion here, but I was late to the party on the original blogroll -- is there any way to add blogs post-ex-facto? Is there a submission mechanism?
It’s an overly cute trick with poor ergonomics :)
The U.S. Copyright Office requires libraries to lie about fair use rights
Check out your local PickUp Artist

Jokes aside, PUA material has been incredibly helpful in my experience.

Sure, you need to sift about all the canned jokes which work 1%, a few criminals and a bunch of fraudsters - but the community helped me out to find out good resources to become a better salesman (basically a bunch of studying psychology) and improve every aspect of your life (from gym routines, to earning more money, to fashion, etc) ultimately ended up becoming a "sure, you had your fun , now use your PUA skills to conquer the one you love".

15 years later I'm still in touch with some of those people and, while someone is still lost in the number game trying to hit some ridiculous pokemon-like numbers (the pure selfish hedonists who believe the world will end soon and we shouldn't burden the world with more children), most actually moved on and are preaching about having a loving monogamous relationship and kids.

A lot of us think chasing women for status was a waste of energy (even if it was a chance to get better psychological knowledge and self improve) and we would have been better off as virgin until marriage.
Waku and Decentralized Messaging Podcast
Franck Royer of Waku and EthStatus joins Hashing it Out podcast for a deep dive on the importance of decentralized messaging and the dangers of incumbent systems
That's awesome and so much more practical than scrolling through HN.
It would also be possible to integrate semantic search so people don't necessarily need to know the keywords. If you're interested, feel free to ping me or take a look at https://github.com/do-me/SemanticFinder. In case I could just create a pre-indexed version based on your data dump which would be quite convenient to use.
1. Safety (* see below)

2. Ease of Installation (* see below)

3. Bauhaus Design

4. 1-Hand Operation

5. Ease of Cleaning

6. Built in Rocker (a full one)

7. Quiet (* see below)

* Safety > The US regs are pass/fail so lots of seats on the market have mediocre test scores that don't reflect the real danger of severe concussions. For those of you interested in digging into the obscure world of Head Injury Criterion: greater than 390 HIC is linked with severe concussions (Source: Proposed limits for HIC From Kleinberger et al., 1998, and Eppinger et al., 2000.) Kioma seats do a number of things (crumple zones, etc) to create a lower (better) HIC score. By comparison some of the top sellers in the industry are at 600+ HIC.

* Installation > The regs don't have standards that really address this, but the incredible complexity of legacy car seats has led to a lot of installation errors by parents and caregivers. This can lead to some really unpleasant outcomes and injuries. We designed KIOMA to minimize use and installation errors by making things as simple and intuitive as possible. This seat is optimized for lap belt use only (no base required). The companion base has a number of innovations too that make it intuitive and easier to use.

* Quiet > There are no clicking or snapping or button parts that wake a sleeping child (with the exception of the harness buckle). This is the quietest baby car seat made.
Don't listen to Marc Andreessen about AI
I believe in the game Marathon, some of the AIs were described as "rampant", and I feel that applies here.
This is clearly ChatGPT generated. Who the fuck is using `nice` on a `wget` command?

What a terrible example.
Can’t wait till the expedia plugin ”accidentally” books my flights. But on a more serious note, does anyone know if the chatgpt plugin model forces it to confirm with the user before it hits a certain endpoint?
Like isofix? I think even Teslas have that. Or do I misunderstand?
https://ericonotes.blogspot.com/

I write seldomly but my interests vary around game development and random software things I make or accomplish.
As someone who has worked at meta in privacy, I don't think this would be hard to figure out for a small startup. The issue is that you can't share data between different apps, which is not a problem a small company would have since they wouldn't have multiple apps to begin with.

Meta, on the other hand, has data intertwined between Facebook, Messenger, Instagram, and other platforms. Plus, Meta's internal bureaucracy and ownership model is an absolute hellish mess.
You verify it by asking them to walk through their previous experience and why they made the tradeoffs they did.

You can also ask them “knowing what you know now, what would you have done differently?”.

That lets them talk about practical experience and theoretical knowledge.

When I use to interview infrastructure people, I could tell quickly the ones who only knew anything based on cramming with ACloudGuru.

On a related note: when I work with customers consulting in cloud application development, I am quick to distinguish between what I know well where I have practical experience, what I can ramp up on quickly based on related knowledge and what I only know from watching a video.
The headline is false, Ackman has been discussing this on twitter and has an nuanced and thought out take that's too complicated for tabloid outlets to grasp. I'd like to think this kind of idiotic reporting could eventually make people realize that everyone who thinks for themselves isn't automatically an "anti-vaxxer" or whatever these morons like to call people. But I expect it will be lost on most. Sadly, twitter was getting better at breaking down the propaganda wall that the media has put up, I don't know if that will last now.
The claim that twitter spends 2B a year on hosting needs a very good source.
You may have avoided it in your reply to me, but the comment I replied to of yours clearly suggests people disengage from understanding what is going on around them, rather than learn how to extract value from unreliable sources.
React Open Architecture
React Open Architecture is a starter template for developing enterprise-level modern React applications. It is designed with a strong emphasis on clean architecture, functional types and paradigms, lack of side effects, and separation of concerns. This template provides a structured approach to building React applications, promoting maintainability, testability, and scalability.
We need to see what happens in the future with this kind of initiatives. My two cents (beyond the specific technology to use) is that a digital cash should offer some level of anonymity as a "basic human right". The problem with governments , even assuming they are now 100% fine, is that they could be rogue and you never now how the data you give today is used by another government or state actor in the future.

The Cashless Society article in Wikipedia gives good insights [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cashless_society
Strong words. Care to elaborate?
Or is the fact that compiled code enjoys copyright protection, even though it is not human generated, evidence that being generated by a human is not overly important for copyright protection?
Nope. Usually only backtrackers have a JIT (not strictly true, I believe there is a JIT of a Thompson NFA and there is also redgrep). This library is not a backtracker.

I would be interested in experimenting with a JIT in the future, primarily as a way to speed up capture group extraction. But this regex library uses a lazy DFA, which has excellent theoughput characteristics compared to the normal backtracking interpreter (and perhaps even a backtracking JIT).

> If not, then perhaps this is a case where JavaScript beats Rust.

Haha. No. Follow the link to rebar to see performance comparisons. A JIT isn't everything. https://github.com/BurntSushi/rebar
Yeah, there should be a way to approve any requests that are made to plugins.

When writing my toy "chatgpt with tools like the terminal" desktop chat app cuttlefish[0] I had a similar situation where access to the local terminal is very fun, but without the ability to approve each and every command executed its really risky.

(Which is basically what I ended up doing - adding a little popup you need to click every time it wants to use the given tool, if you enable it - details in the readme)

It's not like there's a technical challenge here, while a lot of plugins are unusable without it.

[0]: https://github.com/cube2222/cuttlefish
Would be cool to make an RSS feed that combined all the RSS feeds from all the blogs.
> Is it there fault if you don't read? or it your fault?

Given that Firefox auto-updates, and most of the time doesn't put up a "What's New" type page after the update installs, I don't think it's reasonable to expect that most users would even know that there's a separate release notes page, let alone that they should read it.
Will you sell in Europe and does tha car base have an isofix mounting?
If you use Acme from plan9port, you can use Ctrl/Alt (on PCs) resp. Command/Option (on Macs) to simulate chording. That's what I use when I'm on a laptop without my external mouse anyway. At some point, you get very very used to it and start attempting to use the mouse chords in other text entry boxes (such as the browser).

My solution to _that_ is to just write text in Acme always and copy/paste it into the destination when I'm done :)
Probably because Threads is more suited to the unidirectional follow model
It's worth noting that, while LVM can support snapshots for XFS (or any other filesystem, really), the performance penalty is almost entirely unacceptable (one benchmark[0] shows an up to 60% drop in write throughput), so ideally your process should be something like

1. Snapshot LVM volume

2. Mount the LVM volume and back the snapshot up somewhere else

3. Delete the snapshot as soon as possible

Otherwise you're going to lose a ton of performance.

[0] https://www.percona.com/blog/disaster-lvm-performance-in-sna...
Presumably the arbitration judgement against them can be enforced in plain old ordinary court.
Ever since I first touched Octopart, I've wished there was an Octopart for mechanical components. This looks like it comes very close, and I love the look and feel.
Our US semi-equivalent was John Hinckley, Jr [Reagan], minus the LLM.

See sketch-comedy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tI5_YuCWTMA
;) Point taken.
Nice, but judging from what I have heard about academia, I think I beat you and won in month 1 by rejecting the offer!
Ports, air strips, staging, logistics…

They’re our only friendly in a sea of declared enemies.
I've put mine private. Then nobody can steal the name, and the lack of engagement eliminates the temptation to use it much.