skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think it's even more work. (V8 has the dynamic deopt stuff already...) But at this point I guess we're dueling reckons. Python is hard to optimize in a semantics-preserving way, of course, because the semantics are so bonkers. I just don't think it's stuff like subclassing int or inspecting the stack that makes it difficult.
That's not exactly an amazing catch 22, though. It's very much not going to be obvious, especially to non-technical people, that their search on CB.org will be leaked out to TikTok and Facebook, with their IP address, which for plenty of people is already enough information to identify them fairly easily.

Merely hoping for the information to not be collected and abused isn't enough anymore. It needs to not be exposed in the first place.
It's certainly a lesson learned about who to hire and how to wind things down. I wasn't aware there was any issue until I started seeing these charges keep rolling through and had to roll up my sleeves and do my best to resolve it. Just as magazines and other services are not (now) legally allowed to make it difficult to cancel a service - I don't know how AWS can get away with this. If I establish that I am the legal owner of the business entity (who is not technical enough to deal with the problem), which could reasonably be done, it seems perfectly reasonable that there should be some kill switch available. What if I had a rogue employee who setup a run-away process in order to rack up charges? I can appreciate there is a risk management aspect to it for AWS - but this in my view rises to the level of deceptive business practice.
While what you say is true, the point about the JDK versions is mitigated a bit by the fact many things are backwards compatible. Although yes, if you jump from 8 to 17, you're going to run into some problems.

I'm not a huge fan of the gradle toolchain tool (I don't think gradle should be managing my JDKs and I would prefer if it could instead just fail the build if you use the wrong JDK version), but I do understand why it exists.
The difference is most language have global state. See rust for example. It's not common to inject a logger, a "world" object for IO or anything for which you need monads in Haskell at all.

You are arguing from a concrete technical standpoint: "But you need to do the same thing in other language if you want to mirror Haskell monads". Sure, you are right. That also completely glosses over the point I'm making. I simply feel like the way haskell does it is unergonomic, it would also be unergonomic to something equivalent in other languages.

I don't know what a good solution would be, maybe a constrained partial type signature? Let the compiler pick the smallest constraint from a larger space of available constraints that fits with the usage and simply let the type checker bubble it up until you actually care to specify it? GHC doesn't support this but it should be possible in theory.
What stops you from writing data to a spinning disk HDD and then unplugging it and putting it in a safe?
I remember seeing this one and an ocaml versions while back.

https://gist.github.com/ttesmer/948df432cf46ec6db8c1e83ab59b...
Immune, no. Far less prone to bit rot? yeah. My source is running backups for a significant fraction of a large univiersity for ~20 years. We had a routine cadence of tape errors, which were much less frequent than our routine cadence of disk replacement.

I suppose that's anecdote. :) But it's what I've got.
Water softeners are common, but they are regional. In some places the ground water is naturally soft and you don't need one. In others you need them. One house I lived in you needed an iron filter, but most people have never heard of such a thing There are lots of other devices in the water treatment catalog that you might or might not need. Only a real water test can tell.
They do not literally mean that money collected from ratepayers can't be used to pay political expenses.

I'm not an expert in this, but roughly speaking the way utility rate regulation works is that rates are set at a level that gives the utility a certain return on capital. (roc = profit/equity = (revenue - expenses) / equity).

What they probably want is for political spending to be excluded from the expenses section of that formula for the purposes of the rate setting calculation. (They would still appear there in GAAP financial statements.)

So the utility would pay those expenses by accepting reduced profits.
Maybe they could send my test scores to college applications without charging a fee, using a tracking pixel? :)

I seem to remember having to pick and choose where my scores went, maybe with a fee.
Shareholders get paid dividends right?

Have a firm loan the utility the costs and recover them from the dividend payments.
Similarly to how ML vision also a black box, there is no reason why its error handling can’t also be that.

If you hear a sound but see nothing, you do become much more aware of the generic area afterwards, something like that should also be possible.
These are deeply foolish objections. Space is already chock full of ionizing radiation, and is so enormously sparse that waste ejected into interstellar space (for example) is not going to hit anything of value, even for many orders of magnitude of time beyond the half life of anything in there. This is clearly much preferable to putting the stuff a few kilometers away from an active biosphere.
And the PacBio system they used in this paper is already old news and has been replaced by PacBio Revio system. Higher throughput, cheaper per base and somewhat more accurate.
It's worth remembering, by definition the majority of people are. Our civilization (and if you're American, your nation) just happens to fetishize successful rebels. It's probably a very unusual attitude, historically speaking.
IMO, your post should be one of the canned responses to AI doomers. No, LLMs won't replace fiction writers and diffusion models won't replace artists because the people who are too cheap to pay writers and artists are also too stingy to pay AI hosting companies.
While I understand what you're saying, the "XY doesn't work for mac users on M1/M2" is a really pervasive problem across all technologies.
Most dictionaries list only the standard form PROPRIETARY, so it is arguable whether a word list should contain "PROPRIETORY": although Merriam-Webster and Wiktionary (unlike most dictionaries) list it as an alternative spelling, and it does occur a few times in the wild (e.g. see https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=proprietory%2C... for a comparison), it is not surprising that most word lists leave it out. (Or, even if it occurs in a word list, Stephens may have excluded it, and there is sufficient justification for doing so.)
I use it at home for offline backup. You can get LTO-6 pretty cheap and big chunk of my backup is just things I want to keep indefinitely. You can put tapes in multiple locations easily and not worry for 20 years.

If you just want to store lots of data in a single place I think MAID still beats the tape at any scale (especially if you want automated retrieval)
In-situ leaching contaminates aquifiers, and remediations have not been shown to be effective [1]. Meanwhile, this still leaves all of the mining which is not ISL.

[1] https://www.nrdc.org/bio/nrdc/epa-tries-sign-away-authority-...
Not much, just that someone who is active is more likely to benefit from promotion and appreciate it, versus someone who, more likely, has gone on to other things.
>What is abnormal is the zero copy cost of Software, as a product, and the scalability of Software services in an online world with a _world_ of customers.

Not really, abnormal also in the low barrier of regulations in terms of privacy and use of data, compared to traditional engineering jobs, but that is slowly changing, at least in Europe.

>his means that for golden geese like AdWords paying 500k to a SWE is just a rounding error.

Not every SWE in the world works or can work for golden geese. Most SW jobs in the world aren't for global titans but average jobs like any other paid average. The US skews this because it's full of golden geese with global dominance. Europe and other places not so much.

>a lot of Engineers from other fields won't rightfully jump on that opportunity and profit from the current imbalance in terms arbitrage of Engineering time

Won't? I'm currently in the process of trying to jump but aren't' allowed to. 100% rejection rate. The market is brutal for side entrants.
Captchas require human intervention. This method is transparent for the legitimate user.
There is an array library which creates a MapArray type but with list semantics and conforms to Enum and Collectable protocols -https://hexdocs.pm/arrays/Arrays.html. I've found it useful for when I need an array. Then there's NX for vectors - needing extra deps, granted.
Once you fill shelves with them.

The tape itself is quite cheap (LTO-9 is 18TB for $100), but the drives are expensive ($5000+ for an LTO-9 drive), so you need quite a bit of volume to make it worth it.

You can get an earlier breakeven point by buying used equipment for older generations. But no matter what you do, at small scale hard drives will be cheaper (and can be put on a shelf or in a safe too)
In other words, they are sending your scores.
On the flip side, AI tools allow someone to get a prototype going without first grinding for years or coming up with the funding to pay for someone else's time spent on the grind.
Obviously society thinks it is OK. If we didn't, we wouldn't let retirement funds be dependent on how well stocks do - and we only did that after plundering other people's pensions and screwing them over.

They might indirectly own it, but it is other folks getting rich off of their money.

Realistically, no one should have risk when paying into pensions/retirement for later and it should be somewhat promised. The entire system is reprehensible as it stands.
There’s people that think “ohh I saw that ad on a website right after talking about the same product with my friend, they must be listening on my phone’s mic”.

We’re so heavily profiled they don’t even need to listen on the mic. And the feds don’t even need to spy on you, they can just buy the data of where you are and what you’re doing.
> It was always mods that crashed.

I wish modding APIs in general did more sanity checking before loading a mod. A low hanging fruit is APIs to be statically typed, and also to not use nulls on such APIs and things like that. A more comprehensive check is to verify whether two mods are guaranteed to be compatible (but this sounds a bit hard).

But more importantly (not sure if that's the case with Factorio) not break the damn APIs all the time. Lots of games that are actively developed don't bother keeping stable APIs (a bit like like Gnome and its disregard for extension APIs), breaking mods at every new release. An egregious example is Europa Universalis IV and other Paradox games. This ensures that there is a tail end of mods (which is by far the majority) that just will never work anymore, and the mods being kept up to date become rarer and rarer.
I just checked out your site. It's a pretty cool idea and now I'm convinced I'm losing my hair!

But back to your question.

While I don't know your traffic numbers, $100 in revenue is something you could easily achieve in a couple of months.

Affiliate marketing is one way to go - that is, emailing companies that work in the hairloss industry to see whether they'd want to pay you to advertise on your site. Obviously, you don't want to ruin the simplicity of your website with too many ads, but one could work.

You can choose who you affiliate with, and so you could just reach out to companies that you like, and think that folliclly challenged people would want to know about. That would be great - there's so many snake oil salesmen in the hairloss world, it's good to give some help to the more genuine out there.

The hard thing is that there are more good ideas than successful websites. It's a shame, but I guess creating and profiting represent different sides of the brain. There's probably blogs out there where people talk about this very issue - taking a great bit of software and making enough money from it to keep it going. Best of luck to you!

I think you'd really help yourself by adding an analytics platform to your site. These tools will tell you everything about your website visitors, and you can then use this information to decide where you'll be best able to make your $100 back a month. Visitor Analytics is a good 'un, and I'll share the link at the bottom here if you fancy it.

https://www.visitor-analytics.io/
It's federalizing censorship laws by hiding them under a guise of "protecting you from the bad thing". It's just like how the EU now has a stricter DMCA than the DMCA, pushed by claiming it would protect small artists from infringement.
Yes Big Gov does. And all those ways are 100% legal because it can buy the data on the legal market. There's a legal market for your personal info because...first and foremost it makes Big Gov's job 1000x easier *and* 100% legal. The point is simple. Big Gov has no interest in plugging this hole (i.e., protecting your privacy and personal info) because Big Gov is the Number 1 beneficiary of that hole.

The worry of everyone else is an off-shoot of Big Gov's needs, not the other way around. We can worry about the symptoms or we can worry about the root problem. I favor the latter.
it has a steady liturgical use and children are raised to understand it in church, along with small spoken revival groups here in the states so, while not exactly living, I would say it’s in a far better state in its community than Latin post vatican 2. But note, I never said it was alive. Just that it’s not as dead as, say, Sumerian (in fact it’s about as alive amongst the coptic community I know as Sumerian was at the time Akkadian was spoken, as a language of identity and education)
AI art seems great if you want to generate an 80% there stream of generic waifus, but turns out nobody wants to see that. It's like buying a coffee mug from the store and wanting praise as if you fired it yourself.
That future generation can dig it out if they need it.
I wasn't a huge fan when I read it a year or two ago. It's fine, but I think that there are a lot of things that just aren't that clean (which is a subjective take). Uncle Bob in general though is a favorite of mine. Highly recommend Clean Architecture, Clean Agile, and The Clean Coder.
.. the person responding merged the thoughts ("the company spokesperson said A" + "screenshots show company doing B" ) + (the reason the company did that is $SYSTEM + the reason the spokesporson said that is $SYSTEM)

this is actually a known problem in cognitive psych; the person writing did not sufficiently break up the parts. An incomplete thought chain or lazy thinking results in this kind of merged result all the time.

Buddhist psychology for one, has a lot to say about the nature of this kind of lack of clarity in general.
Typical reliable offline HDD storage is 2-3 years. For tape it's 20-30 years.
Surely how well it compresses depends on the material you're backing up

It seems they went all in on the "compressed" value after missing the doubling of the real space in LTO6.
VulcanSQL and LLMs
A brand new experience to share data through building RESTful APIs using templated SQL!
You could just disable cliffs during world generation. That's what I do. They're slightly helpful for biter defense, but otherwise they're just annoying.

There are also many mods that let you pump water from anywhere.
1. AI has not been "around the corner since the 1950s," and 2. if you think there hasn't been forward progress in AI since the 1950s, you have no valid opinions on this subject.
Do you have links to scientific sources acknowledging it?
I don't heavily incorporate them, but I more and more ask for solutions and routines and compare them to mine. Manually, I haven't tried AI supported autocompletion or anything in that direction. I try to get them to do some busy work, but the results are mixed and if there is something domain specific it usually doesn't work. Just like you said, it would require context. Explicitly stating everything here is often more complex than the programming itself. Just uttered in a more imprecise language where you hope that your expression does make sense, statistically.

I imagine I want them to do some scaffolding on a keypress with certain query templates, but for many problems there already is a good implementation that I can just use.

Anyone tried to let AI do some codegolf? Someone graveyarded this good question:

https://codegolf.stackexchange.com/questions/107050/primes-w...
I would hazard a guess that storing tapes takes up significantly less physical space than hard drives.

I don't think hard drive based storage and tape bases storage have quite the same use case.
Bing market share is stagnant despite multi-billion-dollar investment by MSFT
Bing has about a 3% market share today, just as it did before adding ChatGPT to its search more than six months ago. It has since disabled ChatGPT “out of an abundance of caution” in July, while Bing Chat still uses GPT-4.
> "The purpose of ClinicalTrials.gov was to have a way for the non-scientific community to access the trials and their results, in a way that people can understand."

This is a real problem. So many trials don't post their results nor provide updates to the trial status. They just register the trial as that is what is required by the FDA. You still have the challenges of drug trial scandals, funding concerns, etc.

The whole point is that trials are registered, report findings from the trials, and are immutable. Many of these trials however are mutable with post-hoc findings.

Someone at the end of the day has to enforce the rules and articles like this seem to show there is not much enforcement going on and even less trials are published because of it.

https://www.bmj.com/content/352/bmj.i637
It takes advantage of shallow purchasing decisions.

If all your competitors report 30 TB*, and you report 15 TB, you may have a better product, but what the people with purchasing power want is bigger numbers, and you advertise a lower number

*with 3:1 compression
welcome to read the blog post for further details: https://vulcansql.com/blog/querying-your-data-easily-and-sma...
I don't think this was a secret. I remember reading an article (IIRC in Readers Digest) nearly ~20 years ago which specifically referred to it as a "shotgun method". I wasn't (and still am not) enough of an expert to have known that was a less authentic/accurate method, but at least at the time the tone was not that they were doing anything illicit.
> Over a couple of generations, the pidgin evolves into a full language.

Yes, and full creole languages, ones with relatively little of the grammar of their parent languages, have a number of similarities in their grammar. These similarities persist whatever the parent languages. Different continents, different parent languages, grammatical similarities.

For example, plurals are often formed by reduplication (dog -> dog-dog = dogs), word order is subject-verb-object or subject-object-verb, suffixes follow the morpheme they're attached to. The grammars are extremely regular, almost no exceptions, no complex sound-fusion rules. It's generally thought that creole languages, immediately after formation, are actually simpler than most other languages grammatically. Which may have been like creoles at one point but then picked up a bunch of useless nonsense you just have to memorize. (This view is sometimes challenged, and it must be admitted, it is hard to define and measure complexity in language.)

That is one of those small hints that language may be physiologically innate, or an emergent phenomenon that recreates itself in similar ways each time it is invented by people who need to communicate -- i.e., universal grammar, that ever-so-tempting yet ever-so-unprovable idea that got everyone tangled up last century.
I have 50+ hours of playtime in Factorio.. I had it installed for less than a week. I'm not allowed to install Factorio anymore.
>Now is a bad time.

Unfortunately for me, now's the best and only time, as I was laid off. I have to do what I can. Looks like it's time to overinflate the resume to stand out. Wish me luck.

>Two years ago

Two years ago was a temporary anomaly in many markets, not just employment, that we may never see in the near future.
Agreed. I was pleasantly surprised by how general and practical it was. I assume it was an over hyped shallow book but I was the one being shallow... Definitely worth a read.
> A laser can damage eyes and blind people.

A <1mw pointer is fairly safe all around. Some $15 ebay lasers have real risk of temp retina damage at arms length. Lasers in the $150-$400 dollar range can do real damage fast under 30'.

Much more powerful Chinese military dazzlers are intended to incapacitate (not blind) at hundreds of yards.

>If shined into a heli it is VERY dangerous.

True. Aircraft are very vulnerable. Fifteen dollar ebay lasers are an absolute menace to night vision at hundreds of yards.
> Not to go Les Mis, but it is an easy choice for me if my wife was hungry, to go out and steal some bread.

It’s nice you have such certainty. If you were actually starving and wanted to get food for your wife, there are more efficient methods than stealing.

It’s funny that you assume that people don’t know starving or stealing. If it’s obvious to you then you need to rethink your reasoning as while you may find it obvious, you’re wrong as I certainly know both these things.

It’s not idealism to say “stealing is wrong.” That’s the law of the land.

Of course, this article isn’t about starving people stealing food. It’s about jerks stealing from the dollar store. Maybe they are all starving. Probably they aren’t.

If you want to say that it’s ok to steal if you’re starving, then say it.

I’m not sure where you live, but I’m fortunate enough that in my city, state, and country we help people who are hungry so they don’t need to steal. If anyone here steals food, I don’t think it’s due to starvation. Other areas may be different, but I’d like to hear people’s basis for thinking starvation is a significant factor for stealing.

I feel like you’re taking a hypothetical edge situation “starving people just steal and it’s ok for that” and applying it to a situation where criminals are stealing from the dollar store and increasing prices for people who shop there, who happen to be vulnerable populations including people who are hungry and perhaps even starving.
Eterm used to have a support pack with some nice backgrounds for tiling, which sadly appears to be more difficult to find than it would've been a decade ago. I did find a mirror¹, but that is purely because I remembered the filename for some strange reason. Some of the textures in tile/ are still quite nice, but not all of them work so well with our modern higher resolution displays from a quick play.

¹ https://distfiles.macports.org/Eterm/Eterm-bg-0.9.6.tar.gz
Let me be just a bit provocative here: If you have violent gangs, usually heavily involved in crime and drugs, social media is the least of the issues.

The US has a serious, nearly unsolvable problem with inner city culture. Broken families, zero interest in schooling (by parents or kids), shoplifting and looting, drugs, violence. You don't need to regulate social media. You need to round up the delinquents, get them out of normal schools (where they do nothing but disrupt), and put them into military-style institutions, where their behavior can be controlled.

Stop handling criminal teenagers with kid-gloves. If you don't break the cycle, this generation will just go on to create the next generation of teenage gangsters.
You want to read the code? here you are!
https://github.com/Canner/vulcan-sql-examples/tree/main/hugg...
Uh oh there goes 500 more hours.
The Smurfs: Dance Party – Anti-Piracy vs. Dolphin
Bitrot.
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