skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And like always, we see again that "express my conservative political opinions" is code for "spew unsubstantiated hate speech". It's the standard meme:

"I have been censored for my conservative views!" - OMG, you were censored for wanting lower taxes? - "LOL no, not those views" - Oh, so ... limited government regulation? - "Haha no not those views either" - Then which views, exactly? - "Oh, you know the ones."

> Saying that blacks have a lower average IQ than other races, (although this is not a political opinion but a fact, still)

It is neither political opinion, nor fact. It is debunked, racist, unadulterated hate speech.

My political opinion is that veave never wipes his ass after a bowel movement and picks his nose and eats it. (Actually not an opinion, but a 100% true fact.) This is protected speech and if you disagree with me or try to stop me from saying it then you are censoring and oppressing me.
Aslice, system to compensate producers, added its first performing rights org
That's just like, your opinion man. Worm is a cool word. Maybe we can compromise and call it a wyrm fence.
cuz it happens to be the first spoken language I learned?

does this answer your question? if not, maybe this can help: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BdOtR2A5agc
Agreed. This feels like a page created from enthusiasm, not from a place of promo-seeking performance review.
It is amazing to me that NATS.io is not more popular. It is so much better than Kafka, extremely simple, and extremely light.
Few clicked on the original because most don't know who Esther Crawford is. The title of the article seems much more prudent than a random name and a vague quote.
Exactly, and people are forgetting what's the alternative? Doing absolutely nothing, twiddling your thumbs because you CAN'T find another good market opportunity and earning less?
I was put on a Six Sigma project when I was new to a company. Had run it after the guy leading it got lucky and died. Holy smokes... I can't begin to describe the codswallop that was dished out.
Marriage is a legal institution in the United States. If you call for discriminatory access to a legal asset, you should be ready for the scrutiny.

Had the shoe been on the other foot and we were funding a proposition to limit the recognition of Christian marriage, Christians would call it an opposition to their existence too. And rightfully so! The backlash makes sense on a logical, emotional and authoritative level. I don't see how you could possibly interpret it otherwise.
You say Blade-Runner but I only see late 90's Flash site look. :)
I mean being thorough will obviously take a long time, but if a decent number of research groups decide to drop what they're doing and attempt a replication I don't think it would take that long for one of them to at least partially succeed if the claim is true. That doesn't mean they're publishing a sister paper, but it might mean we see some tweets saying "my group synthesized LK-99 and we have reason to believe it may be a rtp superconductor"
Superconductors may reduce power consumption but they don't do anything to improve transistor density.
> how many browsers you can buy today?

Does buying the whole device counts?
I'm not blaming it on the climate change. I'm blaming overshoot.

Mainly our agriculture (deforestation, biodiversity loss, pollution), misuse of fossil fuels and the structures of our societal and financial systems.
I am honestly shocked by the amount of comments here that mention volume mounts as some gotcha. No it isn't.
It is as trivial as it gets.
Emerging Tick Bite-Associated Meat Allergy Potentially Affects Thousands
A lot of those folks in the developing world are going to die from the new heat normal, and no one is going to do anything about it. Tragic to be sure.

> To ask these countries to reduce their energy requirements is to ask their citizens to live a lower standard of life. Hypocritical of those in the West to make that request.

Without a hint of sarcasm or snark, life isn’t fair. We’re on a trajectory of progress (energy transition) and reduction in quality of life (excess heat deaths) for various geographic cohorts, and not much is going to bend either curve.

https://www.un.org/en/chronicle/article/devastating-worlds-p...
That sounds about where I was thinking. You have to imagine that you're not paying as much for the product as a sign on bonus for the talent that has demonstrated the ability to improve the value of your product quite a bit over the four years of being locked in.
ChatGPT recently suggested a fix for a buggy service worker I have and it worked perfectly. I am eternally grateful.
> "but in the end you need an exit strategy as a company."

Simple. Reach out to the platform and ask to be acquired. You might not get top dollar, but it beats having the plug pulled. While he acknowledges he didn't expect the gravy to be pouring forever, he also didn't have an exit mapped. Exit is one of those things that is in the text book definition of what is an entrepreneur.
Has anyone published a similar run of benchmarks with llama2 70B but at different quantization levels? I assume this benchmark is evaluated on the base model run at FP16. How much does it lose quantizing to INT8?
Apple uses their internal apps (Mail, Calendar, Pages, Numbers, Keynote), Slack, and of course the dreaded Webex.
You can get licenses to the MS suite of products but most dogfood internal releases of the apps.
(source: worked at Apple in 2020).
> Why is a household spending more money a good thing and not caused by rampant inflation?

Because it's being driven by "current-dollar personal income increas[ing] $236.1 billion in the second quarter" [1]. Also, the "personal saving rate—personal saving as a percentage of disposable personal income—was 4.4 percent in the second quarter, compared with 4.3 percent in the first quarter.”

Together, these data provide evidence for consumers spending from a position of strength, rather than being forced to.

[1] https://www.bea.gov/news/2023/gross-domestic-product-second-...
That's easy enough for the salesman to tell the customer when they're looking at the car. Still need a button to open the trunk tho.
GDP not outpacing inflation (2.97% last quarter) with such abysmal velocity (1.37%) is not great. It means money is moving slowly through the system because there is far more in the supply than in the past and the economic activity its generating is heavily influenced by price increases instead of confidence and surplus spending.

How much of that spending is fueled by debt? How much of that is high interest debt? How much of the pullback is because of student-loan repayment looming?

If the yield curve wasn't inverted I'd be more optimistic.

Edit: This is an inaccurate assessment.
Quarto is used to convert from code (script or notebook) to formatted output. You can annotate a Jupiter notebook and have Quarto compile that into a PDF. If you are looking for something that changes the look of the notebook itself I don’t think that exists. But you can still include some interactivity when exporting to html.
The Canadian Shield[1] is hard rock with a very thin layer of dirt. There's nothing remotely "agriculturally ideal" going on here. South and west of the Shield are peatlands[2] -- those are dessicating and deflagrating. As hot winds continue to blow across increasingly treeless land, thin topsoils will be stripped from the land. Saskatchewan is already facing a collapse due to farm practices, and a second "dust bowl" seems nigh inevitable. Do not look to Canada, we cannot feed billions in the decades to come.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_Shield

[2] https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/wildfires-peat-chall...
What your describe is monopolistic behavior to a T
Why a xylophone and not a bell? Seems like an odd choice for an instrument other than it's name also starts with an x...
Wind, solar, and geo haven't really made up a significant enough portion of overall energy generation. Also they don't seem to be scaling up quickly enough. We're still seeing many coal plants operating and new ones coming online in the West.
Congratulations on the launch. Does PostgreSQL to PostgreSQL streaming using PeerDB have any benefit over just using Streaming Replication?

Could this be used as a sort of "live backup" of your data? (i.e. just making sure that data isn't lost if the server dies down completely, not thinking of HA)

Sorry if it's a bit of a stupid question, I realize it's not the main focus of PeerDB.
There's the Payment Request API[1] which in theory allows you to use a single JS interface to declare a payment intent and your providers (so far only Apple Pay, Samsung Pay, and Google Pay are compatible). Though it is a single way of declaring your payment for multiple providers, you still need to subscribe to each provider individually and implement each specific post-authorization logic.

[1] https://developer.mozilla.org/docs/Web/API/Payment_Request_A...
When I was a kid, analog/developed x-rays used more energy. With the advent of FPDs, the energy needed to deliver similar contrast ratios has been reduced.

"Higher patient doses through X-ray imaging procedures", Physica Medica 2020

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S112017972...
With your standards, people are allowed to claim that others think "they shouldn't be allowed to exist", and people wanting to distinguish it from actual totalitarian/genocidal policy are left doing the linguistic precision thing. There's a simple, clear way to describe what he did and thought and maybe thinks still, which is just that gay marriage shouldn't be legal. Very clear, no hyperbole.
Not a government-run regular e-mail system, but in Germany there's "De-Mail": https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/De-Mail

It's not interoperable with the regular email system (can't communicate with GMail addresses etc), and it's not fully run by the government but by accredited partners. It's meant for sending legal documents across De-Mail users like government agencies and businesses.

But it's barely used.
> GDP not outpacing inflation (2.97% last quarter)

This is real GDP [1]. The 2.4% is inflation adjusted.

[1] https://www.bea.gov/news/2023/gross-domestic-product-second-...
I care more about methodology than specific methods. I would like applications that handle I/O, especially network I/O, to be designed and built with security in mind. I asked my question because that doesn't appear to be the case here, and I think that is dissapointing and concerning from a security perspective.
Create a “HTTP 402 Payment Required” error when scraping your servers. Hers how
> otherwise your company has no real future

That's not necessarily as bad as it sounds, though.

If the future where your company can exist is long enough for you to learn some valuable things and make decent money, it's obviously worth it.
This conversation has probably been the biggest waste of time I've ever had on HN. "Moving the goalposts"??? This whole thread is on an article titles "Smart Contract Security Field Guide". To be clear, what you are talking about has absolutely nothing to do with the concept of smart contracts as discussed in that article, and honestly I have never heard someone in the past 10 years or so discuss smart contracts in a way that doesn't include distributed consensus. It has very little to do with ethereum specifics, but if you want "smart contract" to mean any automated behavior, then sure.

Feel free to call a giraffe a dog and then get upset when people point out that nobody else calls that thing a dog.
Without any knowledge of this subject, I’m going to wager that there’s some additives being added to reduce corrosion or other stuff to maximize utility or heat transfer from hot things to water.

Again, I’m just an idiot on a forum.
Perhaps the HN moderators could merge the comments.
Like-minded sources on Facebook are prevalent but not polarizing
Better is automated vehicles in a car share program.

Mass transit has too many pain points and the 'last mile' problem to be the single solution.

We need to have a "mixed" solution.
Agreed. At that point, he should have turned around and offer to be bought out by Shopify. Instead, he was greedy and figured running it into the ground was the only way out. Maybe that was true. Maybe not.
>A high performance culture pulls everyone up, but the opposite weighs everyone down.

I doubt that.
Not the opposite part but the high performance one. Sounds like a road to burn out and depression.
I used to poke around ruined castles (just a few walls left) in the UK and they were typically a sea of stinging nettles.

Also, stinging nettles make wonderful soup.
You literally stated that your “alternate political opinion” is transphobia dude.

Efficacy on Covid vaccines is long demonstrated and you’re still calling it fake news dude.

It is exceptionally clear who is brainwashed here.

Not only that, but your position changes depending on the context of the conversation. Was fast tracking Covid vaccines good or bad? Depends. Are we talking about the fact that Trump was fast tracking them, or are we talking about whether vaccines work or not?

Additionally, you guys don’t even regard what fast-tracking actually means anyway. It doesn’t mean “ignore evidence. Push it through”. It means “if you get a task related to this, you drop everything else and focus on this instead”.
I read about a meat allergy due to tick bites on NPR [0], and thought the the link between tick bites and a food allergy was interesting. I posted the CDC press release instead of the NPR article.

[0] https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2023/04/02/1166431...
No education listed? Fine if you don't have any formal training but if you do you should list it. Also at least in North America it's uncommon to list your age on your resume.
There is a balance to Not In House syndrome where you build everything yourself, and the opposite: everything should be vendored in. I am inclined to think that a healthy NIH syndrome is the better place to be. Companies which vendor everything move along at a snails pace, and often getting your outside product to work with internal needs is a huge years long endeavor, to the point just writing a decent version yourself that is exactly what you need is really useful.
Usually it's "C. Because they don't care." It's when you start walking away with millions that they could have had, had they cared, that they will suddenly care.
I'm not sure why did you lost all the sympathy. If company decided to kill your business, thats ok, because company in its rights to do so. But why thats mean that you should not feel sympathy to killed business?

Google is in its rights to kill Google Reader or ad-blockers, Mozilla in its rights to kill complex 3rd party extensions, Nintendo in its rights to kill any emulation but does it mean that we should be happy to oblige?
I spend time on Twitter. It certainly seems less interesting and more annoying than it did before EM took over.
I'm of the opinion that "ignorance of the law is no excuse" should also command the law-makers to keep it simple enough that the average person understands the rules that bind them, and also their own options if someone wrongs them. As such, I would be in favour of getting rid of every law we can.

Thing is though, lots of politicians have shared similar sentiments, and completely failed to achieve this in office. That makes me think it's harder than it sounds to avoid undesirable consequences — figuring out which laws are in the set of "some" that won't increase child (or indeed adult) mortality, for example.
Yeah, that's without question. Overall energy needs will still continue to increase during that time, global population growth will almost certainly continue as well.
Wouldn't a better measure be radioactivity by the origin geography of food sourced? I can't imagine they sampled carrots from around the world and determined there was no stat sig difference. Growing carrots in Bikini Atoll is probably worse than carrots in Amazonian jungle.

"All organic matter (both plant and animal) contains some small amount of radiation from radioactive potassium-40 (40K), radium-226 (226Ra), and other isotopes"

Would this factoid be true pre-1945 Oppenheimer / Los Almost test? Because the world powers have carried out close to ~2056 nuclear detonations since 1945.
They make money because growth. Any strategy that is not based on information asymmetry or unique clever use of information makes less than the market on average.
The difference is people enclosing 100 acres today are either wealthy estates or using non-brick fences for farmers.
Facepalm.

> Irradiation does not make foods radioactive, compromise nutritional quality, or noticeably change the taste, texture, or appearance of food. In fact, any changes made by irradiation are so minimal that it is not easy to tell if a food has been irradiated.

https://www.fda.gov/food/buy-store-serve-safe-food/food-irra...
yep, the authors of "Embracing Modern C++ Safely" [1] are Bloomberg folks

[1] https://vittorioromeo.info/emcpps.html
Who's defining "hate speech"?

Do you want Viktor Orbán to define it? How about Tayyip Erdoğan? Or Donald Trump?

Or how about the Christian church? They prefer to call it blasphemy, but they'll happily call it "hate speech" if they can censor people.
That is with fine-tuning: https://stability.ai/blog/freewilly-large-instruction-fine-t...
This makes sense if we don’t consider the Big Bang as the “creation” of our universe but rather just another event that happens in it.

Thermodynamic laws and how our universe is expanding are both fairly well understood. Is it too much of a stretch to think that our universe has gone through many expansion and contraction cycles?

It expands until heat death, then black holes take over. These black holes slowly swallow all matter and then finally merge with other black holes. Over an unthinkable amount of time I’d imagine all those black holes become one, bringing about the concentration of mass necessary for another big bang.
That duty to protect in custody is also frequently not respected[1].

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abner_Louima
I have had the experience where drafting has happened it is was amazing the efficiency gains(I always watch real time usage).

The set-up is so dangerous but so tempting.
It's been tradition in Algeria to migrate to the coast during the summer-months, since forever. Other locations similarly popular is mountain regions.

That's going to continue to work for many years and degrees to come, so I'm not sure if the problem really is as severe as you think.
> because if effing weed isn't Schedule 2, then Adderall shouldn't be either

I was with you until here. The solution to misclassifying weed as schedule-2 is not declassifying a controlled substance habitual users never take less of.

You can only smoke so much weed before you pass out. The most damage you'll do is to your intestines trying to digest a family-size bag of Doritos.

Adderall abusers (~1000mg+ snorted over 1wk IME) get to that point because they only ever seek more, and end up terrorizing everyone around them with their high-functioning, semi-coherent psychosis. After a week of no sleep people become these weird, babbling troll creatures that mimic human behavior while reacting with violence to imaginary slights, clawing their skin off and otherwise acting like Smeagol-turned-Gollum. It's the sort of characterization I've only ever heard used to describe meth users. (I haven't had the copper ripped out of my walls yet, but I've had my house and car ransacked, safe broken into and my identity stolen!)

It's a godsend for ADHD, but it's a loaded P320 in the hands of anyone else. This stuff is no joke.
The Wrong Feedback Loop
It's cargo cult intellectualism.

Too often people believe that if they write and think in a detached and dispassionate way that their approach is intrinsically superior. Terms like "partisan pitfalls" and "irrational extremism" stake a claim that these things this person disagrees with are inherently bad.

As you say, we don't need a nuanced take on the "difficulty" of tolerance for intolerance. This is a solved problem, and well understood: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance

Musk may be brilliant in engineering (Many claim he doesn't, but I'm willing to give him at least some credit for the clearly revolutionary technical advancements both Tesla and SpaceX have achieved. I think the idea that both companies only thrive in spite of him is patently ludicrous.), but he has a teenager-level emotional maturity when it comes to social and societal issues. And it shows when it comes to his explicit tolerance and encouragement of discrimination on Twitter.

Esther, meanwhile, is an admitted escapee of a genuine cult, that somehow missed all the signals, and dove into the same patterns headfirst when it came to Twitter post-Musk. I'm not going to psychologically diagnose someone from afar, but I suspect she needs help of the type neither Musk nor Twitter nor Hackernews can provide.
You'll notice that chest x-ray is listed twice, the one you are referring to is a single exposure. But the chest x-ray you're thinking of is probably the latter, which is 700mrem.

Fwiw, no, you should not be concerned. An annoying thing about radiation is that the numbers are not straight forward and our measurement devices are REALLY sensitive. Rem, and Sieverts (Sv), are both dosage measurements, which means they vary based on where they interact with the body. It also changes with the type of radiation that you're exposed to. This is probably assuming whole body and gamma.

Finding numbers can also be quite hard because top google hits will be ones like this[0] which show charts for short time exposure (acute exposure). Or you get complicated ones like from the DOE[1] which calls itself "user friendly", but that's because what we discussed above. You'll notice a place in China (Yangjiang) with 600mrem, India (Kerala coast) with 1rem, and a place in Iran (Ramsar) with a bit above 15 rem! But studies consistently show that these people do not have increased rates of cancer[2,3] (if study says "less", read as "no difference"). It is worth noting that radiation safety levels are purposefully set with a high margin of safety, as measurements of an actual dose someone obtained isn't straight forward either. You may also be interested to know that astronauts (~60rem/yr) have no significant rise in cancer rates (less than 1 year life difference)[4] and in Chernobyl 134 workers got doses between 70krem and 1.34Mrem (thousand and million), and only 28 of those died (high rate, but we're talking about 10^5 to 10^7 times higher dosages than our number AND that all this is acute or chronic while our number is "evenly" spread over a year).[5] This should help give you some bounds (considering we're also including 1980's Soviet medicine for suitability rates) to help make some intuition.

For a more fun and visual comparison see here[6].

Hope this helps.

[0] https://www.atomicarchive.com/science/effects/radiation-effe...

[1] https://www.nrc.gov/docs/ML1209/ML120970113.pdf

[2] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S05315...

[3] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4674188/

[4] https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-019-44858-0

[5] https://www.nrc.gov/about-nrc/radiation/health-effects/high-...

[6] https://xkcd.com/radiation/