skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I mean, it's outperforming C as well in that particular benchmark.

Lies, damn lies, and benchmarks?

I can at least say, the performance difference between C, C++, and Rust, is splitting hairs.

If you want to write something performant, low level, with predictable timing, all three will work.

I'm spending a lot of time building projects with Rust & C++ these days. The issue/tradoff isn't performance with C++, but that C++ is better for writing unsafe code than Rust.

https://www.p99conf.io/2022/09/07/uninitialized-memory-unsaf...
Regardless of the UI, I really don't like the video trends that are popular these days, including:

- Heavily edited to remove pauses so that the whole video sounds like one long sentence.

- Always shot vertically.

- Every. Word. Appearing. In. The. Middle. Of. The. Screen. As. Its. Spoken.

Sorry for the tangential rant.
"basically free" is very different then actually "free". Adding a ton of extra branches comes at a cost. Even though it is cheap it still takes an instructions that could be used for something else. You fill your branch prediction target cache must faster, ejecting branches you actually care about. It also makes it harder for the compiler to move code around and harder for the prefetcher to break data dependencies. This all adds up to non-trival overhead. You can tell your C compiler to always check arithmetic, but most don't because of the cost.
I say negative because that's what this study is suggesting -- the slope of the curve is higher at lower dose than at higher doses.
Muting is insufficient -- even counterproductive sometimes -- because it doesn't stop people from harassing your followers, but it does stop you from seeing when that's happening.

I think blocking is essential. Muting is nice to have.
If we’re using “determined person” as the bar, then someone who commits 4-6 years paying tuition to get a BA or MS CS certainly seems more determined than a self taught person who spent maybe 3 months at a boot camp?

Not saying that it’s fair, college costs too much in the US, and employers overindex on good schools. but I don’t get the argument that a self taught person should be treated equally hiring-wise
It reminds of joke around that time: The air is so clear nowadays that one can even see their dark future clearly
Your words make me realize how damaging the left / right paradigm are to our progress. There are so many things that people agree on from both sides and perhaps the work never gets done because people focus on the differences more these days.

My personal side business niche is in transportation (DIY eBike) and solar. I've made a few bikes that are cool enough to get the "motorcycle wave" from the local moto-bikers.

I've also found oversizing the battery makes it so I only throw away on average x5 18650s cells per year for 50% of my transportation needs.

In 2020 we started an electric lawn care business that used a single (1/16) 25.2V tesla model S battery as the "big tank" in a bicycle trailer and it propelled the rig and charged the 40/60V implement batteries via boost converter.

My incentives back in 2007 were high gas prices and a disdain for relying on those in control of energy. Being able to teach others about the tech is a big source of satisfaction for me. Surprisingly most of my customers for these products I would guess were right/libertarian leaning.

I feel sometime like the loudest voices (on both sides) help turn people off from considering opposing thoughts and here we are twiddling our thumbs. Thanks again for chatting with me.
Even renewable power isn't magical. When they switch buses or trains over to electric, they have to build a new vehicle... the processes of manufacturing them aren't 100% renewable. No one's exactly making renewable steel. When they have to repair a road for the buses to ride around on, that concrete puts CO2 in the air as well.

If they need fewer because of WFH, they build fewer.

WFH is a net win, if you care about this stuff. And, it turns out, it's a net win even if you don't. Might want to pull your money out of commercial real estate if you have any of that though.
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Heck yeah, directly giving people money has always fixed all the underlying problems in our systems.
Every apartment I've ever rented has had a barebones, one-temperature, set it and forget it thermostat.

I would fully support legislation requiring a minimally-programmable thermostat in rental housing.
I'm sorry but I hate this type of argument. There are different people saying different things but you conflate them all together and say "they" are telling you contradictory things. It makes no sense.
>That's what I'm curious about. What's in those laws they're lobbying for?

See[0] for yourself. You keep "asking questions" about stuff that's decades old. It makes me wonder if you're not asking in good faith. Please prove me wrong.

[0] https://broadbandnow.com/report/municipal-broadband-roadbloc...
Well yeah nobody is saying that nature is fucked.

It's just that we're living right now and not before the last ice age. Sucks for us.
Right here, a free, public, and professionally-designed report: https://wikimediafoundation.org/about/annualreport/2022-annu...

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The price of failing the not bright kids is we end up with a mob of undereducated people who are unable to function as contributing healthy adults in today's modern society.

It's a hard problem, but I can't fault people who believe public schools should focus on not failing the bottom section rather than accelerating the top achievers.
Definitely Orwell.

Profits are indeed unprofitable
Where? Quote me. I'm telling you, this is the only part of the thread I've replied to. Maybe you should take a good hard look at yourself before accusing others.
Some worthy causes you can donate to instead:

- https://archive.org/donate/

- https://supporters.eff.org/donate/

- or some open source project you use maybe
We're in the kind of climate crisis that requires you to stop flying back home to see your family at thanksgiving and using your air conditioner, but also requires you to spend a couple of hours a day driving in stop and go traffic.
Ask HN: Anyone else finding it impossible to find a lead investor?
Hey HN!
This might be somewhat EU-specific, but I feel like I'm going insane here. Currently fundraising for a seed round in an "attractive" sector (defence and AI) and we're finding it very hard to get any VCs to commit to being lead investors. VCs are super excited/optimistic about our company and willing to immediately jump on board as soon as a term sheet is signed by a lead investor.

Trouble is that absolutely everyone is taking that position - leaving us in quite a pickle. I've gone through fundraising cycles before and never encountered something like this before, hearing the same from a bunch of other companies as well. I understand that the macroeconomic situation has made many more cautions, but this is just odd.

Would really appreciate insight from both VCs and/or other founders currently raising.
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I donate $1,000/yr and I’m stopping due to this
"The study’s authors suggested that there might be at least two potential sources of the bias, including the training data as well as the algorithm itself.

“The most likely scenario is that both sources of bias influence ChatGPT’s output to some degree, and disentangling these two components (training data versus algorithm), although not trivial, surely is a relevant topic for future research,” the researchers concluded.
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> I'm not seeing conclusions, let alone confident conclusions.

You may want to check the other comments created that by person, for example this one.

> This shows that the idea that there is no safe level of radiation on principle is wrong.
Pointer arithmetic optimization based on undefined behavior is a problem regardless.

Life is always better after minimizing the total number of types of undefined behavior.
Odd how common this notion is. It would be like leaving your oven running all day because you make food in it occasionally.
Fake nicety - I pretend to be your friend or thankful or praise you while not thinking much of you.

Passive aggression - I am intentionally trying to insult you or be condescending to you or stanf in your way while keeping plausible deniality.

Intention matters. The above sentence does nit sound like someone pretending to be nice or think well of you. It sounds like someone telling you they don't think much of you, while trying to make it harder for you to address the disagreement.
No, what the hormesis idea suggests is that radiation induces an increase in repair mechanisms. So, add radiation, you boost defense mechanisms, and more radiation then has less effect. The curve is bent downward, the second derivative is negative.
The high-tech, super-secure government warehouse where old cash dies
From reading the article. Both crashes seemed to be the Cruise robo-taxi being hit by other cars running red lights. One of the red-light running cars was an emergency vehicle, the other wasn't.

It's not clear who would be considered at-fault were these human drivers.
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It's most commonly used in NZ. It means to scavenge for collectable objects. But yeah that's the start but later we realised it was also something else.
The cake could also be asking for a raise, or a discount, really any other any opportunity that’s not as low-stakes as an item of food
Looking at new camera bags, I stumbled across the WANDRD (sure, okay) PRVKE (what? Pruke? Took me far longer than it should to realize it was meant to be 'provoke')...
most tech stocks have tanked compared to 2021 all time highs.
This is a very difficult problem. How do you deal with losing data fidelity? If one service's entity has X field, but all the others don't, do you include it or not?

How do you deal with subtle differences in usage of terminology? If one service uses the word "ticket" slightly differently than others, how do you deal with that?
> Heating/cooling office buildings might be more efficient than everyone doing this to their homes

That might be true but doesn’t this assume that people stop heating/cooling their homes whilst they are at work?
> Again I ask, when do we accuse the government of betraying us and the social contract?

"Ah, it's simple. It's the fault of this government, but when my party gets finally voted in, things will change."

And so the circle of the naivety perpetuates. We might hope for a better future only when citizens will realise that both sides are exactly the same, and that they've been lied to since we invented the career politician. Apparently 4 years is how long it takes people to forget whatever bullshit they were sold last time.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anarchism

But seeing how everybody is politicised and ultra-partisan today, I can only shake my head and despair. People get the government they deserve.
Rust is not a GC language. It can and does achieve the same perf as any modem C++ with the latest flavor of the C++ safety guardrails.

The set of reasons to start a new project in C/C++ are few and the list is shrinking by the day.
> Geez, TikTok (basically) content on HN...

The aggression, quick cuts, single word subtitles...

I don't understand the appeal of this style. I wonder how people will look back at this era of video editing in 10 years.
Of course, it's part of why I'm a big proponent of WFH. There will always be some number of people who can't do that though, and so I think it's also important to shrink public transit footprints as much as practically possible.
Note: that is about chances of getting cancer, not dying from cancer. Many people beat cancer. Many cancer types have good survival rates. Thyroid cancer (Chernobyl had much of these) sucks, but many people who got it had their thyroid removed and had to rely on drugs for the rest of their life ... this is obviously not ideal but much better than dying I guess?
Literally your first link:

> As of 2018, overall prevalence is estimated to range from 0.8% to 6.2%.[68][69] In 2008 under the DSM-IV, lifetime prevalence of NPD was estimated to be 6.2%, with 7.7% for men and 4.8% for women
This makes no sense. You can absolutely be high end and superficial. Nothing about the two is mutually exclusive.
Are these bad actors actually that big of a threat, though? And are they really that smart/sophisticated that they can elude more standard, "old school" investigative methods?

The problem is that we just don't know, and law enforcement agencies aren't giving us a detailed breakdown of which plots were foiled (or at least successfully prosecuted after the fact) via privacy-invading means vs. old-fashioned police work. Of course they'll never give us this data; we probably don't even hear about most investigations, even after the fact.

Just trust them? No thanks. They are very publicly incompetent in many ways (e.g. all airline "security" procedures developed post-9/11 -- except for locking and armoring cockpit doors -- seems pointless, and don't catch people during sanctioned penetration testing), and I don't see why they deserve any blind trust here.

We don't know if this sort of dragnet genetic database trawling will broadly close cases. Sure, it worked with the Golden State Killer, when no other methods seem to have worked. But that's just a single data point. And I'd rather that the occasional -- very occasional, as it turns out -- serial killer goes free, rather than live in a police state with no privacy.

This is a meandering way for me to say: we on the outside cannot propose alternatives, because we have scant data and little understanding of what works and what doesn't. And the people in power consider it a feature that we don't have access to this information.
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As I have pointed out, the radioactivity in uranium ore is higher than the radioactivity in coal, when comparing the amount of ore and the amount of coal that needs to be mined to produce a given amount of energy in today's power plants.
Bucha was a SBU psyop, sure ...
Ah, now I see that the CRA of 1886 is mentioned because this is a "section 1981 claim" — one of the few types of lawsuits that rewards a successful plaintiff with attorney's fees. These are brought under the 1886 CRA, section 1981.

This could turn into quite a cottage industry, since attorney's fees are a strong incentive when the odds of winning are good — or when it doesn't take much effort to file the complaint.
The California market is so large it's often more cost effective for companies to just adopt CA standards instead of creating split markets. We've seen ripples throughout the auto industry due to CA laws. Complaints from farmers about how they treat their pigs was also due to a CA law.

https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/money/agriculture/20...

> "California is the nation's most-populous state, and the producers say that the way the pork market works, with cuts of meat from various sources being combined before sale, it is likely all pork will have to meet California standards, regardless of where it is sold."
What laws did they violate? And if they violated laws or the constitution, wouldn't people get out of criminal prosecution. Here's an example of US citizen who got their emails sweeped up by the PRISM because he was emailing addresses that were being 702ed. Court system found this was lawful.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/in-a-first-...
They don't approve of those kinds of things unless you bring them in on the take.
> able to see the Himalayas for the first time in 30 years due to the lack of traffic pollution

One though regarding this. I think complicated and expensive emission controls on cars became grudgingly acceptable because it reduced smog - which people can see.

I wonder if anything would have happened if smog wasn't visible. For example, I wonder if particulates might be worse than smog.
I find that people are much more friendly in London (they are certainly a lot less racist in general, which is lovely). It's the premier city in Europe, and very international which is lovely.

It has such a great mix of things – you are constantly surrounded by history and there is always something going on.
We could likewise list off plenty of stereotypes about the French too, but I thought we're above that here.

Oh those dumb stupid Americans, like Willis Carrier.
And a polite way to do this is to suggest the thing you want, rather than directly asking for it. You could complement the cake - oh, that looks delicious; what's the occasion? Or, "I'm moving next weekend - looking forward to the new place, but it's going to be a big job!" It is uncomfortable being asked something that you have to say no to, but that doesn't mean we have to just hope people will guess our needs unassisted.
I'm sure linguists are smart enough to recognize handwriting by two different people.
While I'm not skeptical about the reality of anthropogenic climate change, I _am_ skeptical of viewing the climate like a fundamentally unstable / delicate system, like that all life on Earth will perish and the planet will become like Venus on a runaway path if we hit +2C.

Earth _has_ had periods both much warmer than that and with more CO2! There are checks and balances to any system - like Life - that has been around a billion years. So Life will go on. And so I'm skeptical of a claim that "the environment seems to have a negative effect on itself" generally given its longevity. Life will go on -- though...that might be with or without Sapiens.
i thought the exact same thing. I've had the the watch history disabled for tiiiime and today i saw that i have no homepage and i went from 'this is strange' to 'wow i feel much better navigating youtube and i'm not feeling very angered or disappointed or distracted'
The source code is available on github: https://github.com/aerotoad/nebra
There was a long-held idea that rongorongo was an extreme outlier of Indus Script, itself undeciphered, but a distant ancestor to the Dravidian languages. That notion has been pretty thoroughly trashed, and it's honestly pretty surprising that it's got any life in it because if you even just casually look at the source materials, the likenesses are extremely few and far between.

Steve Fisher - the "decoder" of the Phaistos Disc - also claimed to decode the script, but, eh, well. Maybe? Fisher's whole schtick is to break things into metaphorical levels that make the notion of "coding" sort of nonsensical. He's a neat guy, and maybe I'm just too much of a computationalist to see this form of decoding as anything more rigorous than, say, folklore. And a lot of the patterns Fisher said he found don't hold up.

For my two cents, I think these are related to polynesian petroglyphs (see also the Waianae petroglyphs on Oahu) but employed in a new manner, one that the rapanui were exposed to either with mesoamerican admixture or with the arrival of the Spanish. So they took these glyphs with ritual meaning, but they saw this new way of employing glyphs adjacent in space to derive new meanings, and then they combined their glyphs with this new "writing" method. Doesn't much help with deciphering, I guess, but it does explain where the symbology might come from. Also, the notion of a Polynesian syllabary is just ridiculously fascinating. Every civilization has, like, one thing they're just amazing at, and the Polynesians knew how to boat.
This could be caused by "refarming" where the carrier reallocates some of their spectrum from 4G to 5G, although it may be too early for that to be happening.
I'm not convinced a society can arrive at a universal ethical standard, period.

I was about to say, "we can at least agree that murder is bad", but I'm not sure that's even the case, given that it seems like some people would think it's ok to murder their political opponents if given the chance.
Replacing undefined behavior at the program-level with undefined behavior written and tested as part of the standard library, usually vendored and distributed in concert with the compiler, seems like an obvious net-positive to me.
Not a successful self-funded entrepreneur but Im working on it and I’ve studied a lot of the greats.

DHH and Jason Fried blog and books like Rework

Arvid Kahl is a successful software bootstrapper and has a few great books and a bootstrapper newsletter

Everything by Rob Walling is focused on software bootstrappers, and his associates brands / YouTube channel, Microconf community etc

Indie Hackers podcast , interviews, and website

Founders at Work is written by a YC founder but ironically had lots of bootstrapped interviews like Craigslist and Joel Spolsky (Trello)

Patio11 blog is classic

MJ Demarco is non tech and writes more “motivational” style books about bootstrapped entrepreneurship

Once you go down this rabbit hole you’ll discover many more . Especially since bootstrappers love making content about their experiences as it’s marketing and potentially more revenue (what DHH calls “selling your byproducts”)
As a Python enjoyer, why do we want to shove so much into lambdas rather than just doing an inline function `def`?

Is it the fact that you have to give it a name? If so I'd say just using some generic name like `{f,fn,func(tion),callback,etc}` is fine (at least as much as an anonymous function is), and to me would usually be more readable than an inline definition of a multi-statement lambda would be.

Or maybe it's the fact that lambdas are allowed in the first place, so people are going to use them, and then when you want to debug a lambda you'll probably have to go to the trouble of changing it to a function? That is a fair complaint if so.

In any case I can see how it could be annoying if you're more used to a language full of complex inline lambdas.
Asking isn’t necessarily transactional.

If I go to your house and ask for a glass of water, it’s because I’m thirsty and I know it’s NBD for you to get a glass and put water in it. I’m not expecting to give or get anything else in return, nor am I trying to be rude by insinuating you should have given me a glass of water. The thought process goes:

1. I am thirsty.

2. I don’t think it’s rude to ask for water since it’s effectively free and only requires you to have a clean glass to serve it in.

3. I ask for water.

Community and trust is all well and good, but most of my social circle are transplants from all over the country/world which all have different social mores. There is no common or universal social dance about how to behave when you want something from someone else or how you should be polite when you go hang out with someone in this kind of setting. And if someone does try to fit their specific background culture into such a setting in a way that makes it so they’re offended when I ask for water or a favor, it’s on them.

That’s not say I think Asking is “superior” but just that it’s not transactional so much as it is pragmatic (but potentially impolite) especially in certain situations, like socialization within a highly diverse-background group.
Hunh, I thought smoking introduced nitrates to meat on it's own.
I'm not spending game night constantly asking all my guests all the possible things (water, caffeine, booze, food, bathroom, chair, cushion, warmer, colder, more light, less light, music, different music, louder music, quieter music, pet my dog, etc, etc, fucking etc). If you want something, YOU ask for it, which is polite.
Yeah, but nobody reported on this issue before.
Also picked up by engadget:

https://www.engadget.com/spotify-almost-removed-white-noise-...