skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> looks like 'ranking' to me

With that process (the "Eisenhower") you distribute items into four classes; the classes are in a way ranked (between each other), but the items within each class are not sortable with that method. You obtain buckets full of "equal" things.

(And the problem of the OP was having all items under the same scalar of importance. The decisor using the Eisenhower method will obtain a distribution in two sets - "act" and "schedule" - but will still be at a loss about what to tackle first.)

> The 'cost' does[...] make ... rankable

It does - it makes the "ToDo" set of collection of fully ranked items (more precisely, it contributes to it with the other two parameters - it adds insight and complexity with a new dimension).

Take a set of items, build a function of (urgency, importance, lightness), attribute per each item a scalar to each of (u,i,l) and a scalar ("priority") is returned which allows for fully sorting the set of items.

> If you have some sort of experience or qualification in this field

Yes :)
This comment gives me an excuse to post (again) about one of my favorite books, Sacred and Herbal Healing Beers: The Secrets of Ancient Fermentation by Stephen Harrod Buhner (1998). Chapter 7 is about Psychotropic and Highly Inebriating Beers, including myrica gale, wild rosemary, yarrow, wormwood, clary sage, broom, hanbane, darnel, saffron, and wild lettuce.

https://www.amazon.com/Sacred-Herbal-Healing-Beers-Fermentat...
If you're developing for Linux via Mac or Windows and you're comfortable at the CLI, just forego Docker Desktop, install regular Docker (or podman) in a VM, and work that way.

If you can, avoid using x86 Linux containers on Apple Silicon. Build some aarch64 ones for development and test your x86 images in CI and on the machines of devs using x86.

Similarly, if you can avoid deploying your environment via Linux containers on macOS, do it. Use Nix to get reliable dev envs, and then use Nix to build your production containers. You'll have to take your time and learn something new, but it's insane how much faster it is and you can avoid dealing with all kinds of hassles with filesystem mounting and port forwarding and so on.
What's needed is a better system for approving who is allowed to make withdrawals from your bank account instead of just "anyone in possession of your bank routing information" which makes customers reluctant to provide it.

This would be essentially solved with a standardized system for customers to give each merchant a separate bank account number (or equivalent) which really refers to the same bank account but could be revoked individually if that number is compromised or you want to remove the merchant's access, or could be set to automatically expire for non-recurring payments. But the banks don't have the incentive to provide this when they're the ones getting the credit card fees.
Okay this comment hit a little close to home!
I've generally tried to give Twitter the benefit of the doubt but I would never trust them as an infrastructure provider in their current incarnation. Reliability and consistency have been so far from their focus.
For me, today and almost every day since the beginning of this year. Not sure if that saying applies here.
REST conventions only make sense for externally consumed APIs. Even for those, there's GraphQL.
I wouldn't say it is quite that extreme. Though you do make a fair point.

(I was thinking about businesses, who usually have at least one server, somewhere.)
To be fair this is a problem of the Rust web ecosystem. Include a few de-facto standard Rust web crates and you're up to 200 transitive dependencies
Ostraca sounds like a heavier mix of Saetia and the old stuff from Raein. I dig it!
>Exports only help if new services support imports.

Of course I can understand why a service wouldn't want you to be able to post thousands of posts in a matter of minutes, or to fake timestamps, or...

The whole idea of massively importing stuff is complete nonsense.
I wouldn't even say a lot of people cheat. There are a few, but it is the vast minority.
Thanks for the pointer, yeah the website content has gone stale. I'll try update it by end of day

Khoj is using the Llama 7B, 4bit quantized, GGML by TheBloke.

It's actually the first offline chat model that gives coherent answers to user queries given notes as context.

And it's interestingly more conversational than GPT3.5+, which is much more formal
I like the readable version better than my bit twiddling:

int is_this_a_branch(int v, int w) {
int t;

t = !(v < 10);
return (v + ((w ^ -t) + t)) << t;
}

cc -O3 -c branch.c
objdump -drwC -Mintel -S branch.o
Is there any reasonable way to make this work that doesn't involve the company keeping plaintext copies of Iris scans and/or retaining the ability to arbitrarily reset account keys on the ledger (such that users have to trust them to behave honestly)? What happens if a modified Orb is used to dumo the scans and then later trigger a fake reset?
Of course not, it's driven by ability to pay.

And while I'm not a professional economist it does seem that you are correct in that demand-pull based inflation (cost of goods) tends to only happen in periods of economic expansion, while cost-push inflation (size of money supply) tends to be the driver in slower times.
I did some math, because 18 is a big number, and I had to wrap my head around it.

So, Coors Light has an ABV of 4.2%. When people talk about "drinks", one beer is 12 fl oz at 5% [1]. A can of Coors Light has 12 fl oz, but at 4.2%, so 18 such cans correspond to only 15 "drinks". Also, equal to 3 full bottles (750 ml each) of Prosecco at 12% ABV.

[1] https://www.abc.ca.gov/education/licensee-education/alcohol-...
Seeing "kill off" and "cartoons" reminds me of a skull and crossbones as the symbol of pirates - pillage and kill. Crossbones make an X symbol.
I'm sure there are more reasons, but modified herpes and HIV have both been used as experimental cancer treatments.

Edit: It appears they made a variety of in-vitro tests during their peak operating period. For diseases, pregnancy, drugs, etc. So probably more about "criminally sloppy lab" than any more movie-worthy motive.

An old wayback grab of their product page: https://web.archive.org/web/20190731163304/http://universal-...
I mean, do I though? I'm aware of it's source from urban dictionary under "emo", but I can't help but feel that rant is weirdly steeped in misogyny and twisted notions of the masculine ideal.
You go to your bank's website and input the other person's bank routing information to make a transfer.

But with the same information someone can also make a withdrawal, which is problematic.
Yeah there's not nearly enough information for me to consider signing up, not even the privacy policy link in the footer works.
Weirdly this is like the best compliment I ever heard to AI Art.
Feynman was involved, but not particularly instrumental in the Manhattan Project. I was glad they included his anecdote about watching through the truck windshield.
> So, the exercise conducted by the journalist appears to not qualify for a reward, even though in at least one of the cases it produced a collection.

The journalist (Jeff Ernsthausen) was able to bargain their way into non-public tours, that provided evidence of tax evasion.

Basic sleuthing (photos of premises from the street, phone inquiries about hours, etc) seems like it'd qualify as first-hand information.
See this post above: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36935032

Price and market depth are very different things
Yes this is a good observation. They would also be the first to be on the lookout for good deals on IPv4 space, furthering their acquisitions early on before the IP address market took off. Most notably though they would also be the companies working or providing suggestions on needs based policies for their respective RIR.
I agree. There is actually quite a lot of fundamental work that could be done at the intersection of Physics and Philosophy, that is not getting done. Mainly because researchers are not given the space to engage in moonshot work.

But even if that space was available. It will take truly great minds to learn centuries worth of physics, without fundamentally biasing themselves by the orthodox philosophy, so they can actually rewrite the philosophy of physics.

Realistically, I think what can happen is that we find some new field (not even in physics), which acts as a fertile ground for new philosophy. And once it is developed there, someone imports it to fundamental Physics.
I think the buildup in Crime and Punishment is what makes the resolution so good. I distinctly remember a point where the book delivered the most intense literature derived frisson I had ever experienced.

It was a bit of a slog and I’ve never been tempted to pick it back up, but it was worth it.
"In this kind of case, programmers tend to start building abstractions based on their imagined needs, with an We-will-add-the-business-stuff-later attitude"

I wish I could publish examples from my current codebase, because that's exactly what happened. Difficult and verbose abstractions, with sometimes 50 classes being involved in displaying a simple table (one class per column display, one class per filterable column), and that's just the "R" part of CRUD.

And there are 6 or 7 different teams working on it, and each one uses different methodologies to do their work. In some cases it's abstractions on top of GraphQL.

Everyone involved had the best intentions possible, but the end result doesn't reflect it.
From reading the thread on HN the other day, it sounds like removing the GIL isn't really of much value. Maybe for somewhat obscure multithreading cases.

Is that right?
I’m not saying it’s a scam, just that it seems their system isn’t really Sybil resistant due to the issue of account selling. And if that’s the case they either didn’t think this would be an issue, or they expected it but don’t really care, and the claim of Sybil resistance is just marketing. Is this wrong in some way you’d like to explain?
Ooh, database views! What would be next?? Permissions? Triggers?? Stored procedures??

Go shove your views up yours, you maniac!

/s, except for way many more ORM lovers than you think.
You can't really use ACH or Zelle for retail payments. It's not worth doing the setup for a one-time payment.
And even if it did, in an ancient data center that only uses gigabit ethernet, that's only a .5s longer download. And even a $4 DigitalOcean server comes with 10GB of storage, so that 50MB is only 1/200th of the instance's store. (I'd also bet that nearly no one uses instances that tiny for durable production work where 50MB is going to make a difference.)
Indeed, had Francis been accused of heresy, he would have been prosecuted. A better term might be "reformer."

Excommunication is a finding that someone is not eligible for communion.

Now, being a "reformer" runs you the risk of falling afoul of the authorities, and a finding of heresy could result from that.
Interesting. I'm in New Zealand and hadn't come across this. Being a commonwealth country makes me suspect it's not common knowledge in England either. Or has perhaps as you mention the reasons have been lost over time.

Thank you for your reply.
Someone who knows what information to expect doesn't even need a label. Once you're past that hurdle, it's redundant.

For instance, you look at the dash of your car every time you drive, and what little is labeled is abbreviated. The expectation is that when you understand how the vehicle operates, the gauges and lights will make sense. The information is encoded behind your knowledge. dig isn't really different.

Some people want the tools to teach them everything, but that's just not appropriate or necessary, whether you're talking about a hammer, a firearm, or a computer.
For consumer-grade cards, that's already here.

Make money off your GPU with vast.AI

https://cloud.vast.ai/host/setup
It's not just a privacy frontend. You're accessing content and services without helping the freely provided stuff be monetized. I get that you want to protect your identity. Then don't use these services or data. It's not public and not free - nor should it be.

Privacy is not piracy. This is piracy.
I love the bizarre class biases you get on forums like these. I hate to break it to you, but the majority of jobs still require physical presence -- over 70%, in fact. And business travel is already way down -- it now represents only 12% of US air travel. And people still move far from family for various reasons. Are they supposed to maintain all of their relationships via Zoom?

Sorry, the solution is not going to be "everybody stay home".
> Age is one of the worst proxies for human intelligence

Whoever suggested it was a good one?
I would never support any attempt to block older voters from participating in democracy, but it can be an issue if a particular demographic, particularly one that might have the least direct motivation to vote for policies aimed at long-term system wide improvements, has outsized representation. Interestingly we allow that governments are determined currently by the number of seats (representing a particular area) they can win, maybe it's not so crazy to consider the number of age brackets they can win...that way the fact that there might be many more 65-70yos vs 20-25yos wouldn't affect the outcome.
I think this is an excellent summary and I agree with all of it.

> Go has chosen a dualistic perspective, like with the particle/wave dualism in physics.

This summarizes my complaint. It's not consistent. It forces me to switch between perspectives and keep two contradictory models in my head. As I said, it's not the worst thing -- I can deal with it. But I consider it a kind of conceptual wart in the design, or at least of the naming conventions and idioms.

A final pedantic point. I find your interpretation of "ebook reader" interesting, and grant that it is a valid one, and fits with the Go "thing as tool" perspective. However, I don't believe it is the perspective most people use in everyday life, and I think the dictionary definition makes this clear:

e-reader (noun) -- a portable electronic device used for reading books and other text materials that are in digital form.

That is, and e-reader is the thing, the object, the book-substitute that you read.

From: https://www.dictionary.com/browse/ebook%20reader

EDIT: on 2nd thought, maybe that definition does back up your interpretation. "device used for reading books..." I still feel like in practice it is modeled in people's minds just like a "different kind of book" but maybe that is just me, or just some people....

EDIT 2:

> In other experiments, it is an object which can read data from the OS and return it to you (e.g. file.Read()...)

My other objection here (as I pointed out elsewhere) is that if I am supposed to take the "interface as tool" perspective when interpreting the "Reader.Read()" method, then the variable "file" is misnamed. I read a file, I don't use a file as a reader to read a file.

Since I can only name a variable according to one perspective, the name will always feel wrong when I switch to the other.
> What's needed is a low- or no-fee system for requesting payments from someone without collecting any secrets from them.

Supposedly FedNow is the solution to this, but it will be a while before this functionality is exposed to end users.
+1 for hot mulligan!
Would add
- Tiny moving parts
- Bouquet
- I feel fine
- Hail the sun
- Everything Anthony Green has been involved in
- Body thief
a shrug and an upvote from me
Prince Daddy & the Hyena, The Hotelier, State Lines, Home is Where, Sincere Engineer, Spanish Love Songs, Anxious, Joyce Manor, Worst Party Ever, Michael Cera Palin, Macseal, Fiddlehead, Charmer, Dogleg, Knucklepuck, Pity Sex, Tigers Jaw and Title Fight are all good options too.
The “Promise” of “Easier” Programming
> The init.el file is just a stub meant to load the configuration from the org-mode file. Even better - the init.el itself is written within the org-mode file. The org-mode file can be executed like a shell script (actually elisp script) to extract the init.el file.

Can I see (an example)? Wondering how much goes into that init.el.
> I doubt there is any way this business could be sustainable at $29/year/user

And especially considering he runs 4 other services
Well, a lot of that half live in places that have been massively impacted by drought, flooding, hurricanes, tornadoes, and other things that are made much worse by climate change.

This year is the first year I’ve personally been impacted by wildfires (4000+ hectare fire on the edge of my town), and it made climate change 10x more real for me than it was before, and I was fully on board before! How long can the right stay on the wrong side of history with respect to climate change when they are losing their homes and farms and dealing with one thing after another?
Wouldn't it be easier to use OpenBSD?
A mid sized company doesn’t have experience directly hiring, but plenty of firms make it easy to employ a remote workforce as contractors.
>Or at least models that don’t hog so much RAM

The RAM usage is kind of the point though; we're trading space for time. It's not a problem that the model is using it, it's just that with the default choice for UI being web based now, the unnecessary memory usage of browsers is actually starting to be a real pain point.
I won't doxx myself but I found one here with a 30% figure with data from 2021 about Texas.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36304142
While the spatial decomposition matches what is done in Barnes-Hut, the details of the underlying algorithm are somewhat different (they outline this in the introduction).

In particular, their scheme using exact bounds on energy differences (evaluated using a hierarchical tree as in BH) but in such a way that no approximation is being made. The tree is evaluated to whatever depth is needed to decide whether to accept/reject the MC move (which in worse case could be a brute-force sum over the whole lattice/system) -- this is different I think than BH or other multipole inspired methods (which have a kind of "truncation" or "tolerance" parameter).

[This also works well with systems where update are local and not global, which I think is a difference from some other spatial partitioning schemes -- but I'm less conversant with that aspect].
No, you're right, it's not that extreme. I wrote the comparison before going back and actually finding the quote, and the quote was much worse (better?) than I remembered!
This article advocates for a traditional REST API design. At Seam, we use an API design that is like a RESTful RPC API, inspired by the API at Slack. I think that HTTP RPC and Slack-like APIs are much better than traditional REST because most consumers of an API use an SDK, and RPC-style HTTP APIs optimize for the SDK usage.

We also built a framework like trpc but for Next REST APIs[1] to get all the nice benefits of shared types but also the nice benefits of OpenAPI generation that typically come with RESTful frameworks https://github.com/seamapi/nextlove
Can you expand on this Summers / Emmanuel thing?
I just don't buy it about adding a "category" field to a blog. Add the db field to production and make it defualt to null. Did you write your query to SELECT * instead of the fields you wanted? Tisk. Okay, fix that. Add the property to your back and front end. Don't paint the html if it's null. Optionally make a 'categories' table and do a join. 30 minutes of work, max.

If you're writing code where the front or back end data objects will break if you add a new db field, you're doing something wrong.
Chatbot in the sense I think you mean is a horrible application. Millions of people are using large language models daily though.
Sure it is. Nothing in the word "lightweight" implies stellar graphics. If anything, it implies that heavy and nonessential things (like cutting-edge graphics) are totally out of scope.
> Somewhat related, I think the Apple Silicon MacBooks will end up replacing many people's old ThinkPads someday thanks to the work from the Asahi team. (A bit early right now, especially if you have one newer than an M1.)

That sounds a bit weird to me: reading Asahi blog posts, it sounds like Asahi are doing little hardware drivers, rather a lot of RPCs, because most hardware features are behind some other CPU running proprietary firmware. (Loaded by bootloader stages before Asahi if I followed correctly)
Asymmetrical risk/reward profiles breed hyper-conservative behavior. Legacy support and "if it ain't broke don't fix it" attitudes have negative externalities.

A good case study is the NASA Space Shuttle program and how expensive it was especially when compared to SpaceX. Not to downplay the sheer achievements of NASA by any means, plenty of people there are much smarter than I am.

The solution isn't just "ignore the risk", you have to do something fundamentally different (with strong conviction, investment, and leadership) in order to restore symmetry to the risk-reward profile, such as a truly best-in-class testing infrastructure. Operating your business as a meritocracy doesn't hurt either (although I suspect pure meritocracies to be impossible/unfeasible to implement).
Would you really trust a company that doesn't pay its rent to run your infrastructure?
I think you're referring to this one? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36228125

(underlying article: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-06004-9)

Certainly computer-aided proofs have been a thing for a while; I wonder where one draws the line between "the AI made a new proof" and "we build a system that proved X"? Which I guess really gets at the more basic question "what is an AI"?
I've tried 3 times. Haven't made it through yet.

Tolstoy on the other hand, Anna Karenina I binged and had done in like a week (on vacation, reading a good portion of my time)
Why add the additional complexity of multiple connection points? Protocols support both of those operations perfectly well and it seems that adding URLs would just confuse things.
You’re right, but using single use plastic and manufacturing products forever that will end up in landfills won’t work, you’ll eventually end up as the planet in Wall-E. We need to invest in renewable energy and reducing the amount of waste we generate. Making things that last a long time is also a good idea.
Agreed. Your main product is treated as the compliment by companies like domain registrars. They make it easy and nearly free just to sell more domains.
I read Notes from The Underground and his other short stories first in High School, never read more verbose prose with so few insights. I had searing hate for having spent the little money I had on that collection and that probably colored my opinion of Crime and Punishment.

I don't get literature culture in general. I love art. In my view art is aesthetics denouncing intention and information through symbology.

What I don't get is why something like In Search of Lost Time from Proust, which I love, is THAT much better than Diary of a Wimpy Kid, when it sometimes explores a lot of similar ideas except using a different aesthetic.

Is the value in art to be judged by how prestigious the aesthetics imply said art to be? Some SpongeBob SquarePants episodes have the same depth as a great Azimov short story except that's really far from how they're categorized.
How the Emperor Became Human (and MacArthur Became Divine) (2014)
Seeing as how this is hurting usage to the point that monetization is hurt, maybe they should actually just let the privacy-concious users be...
Didn't knew that! Thanks