skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes to some extent money is exchangeable for time (also if you consider options for maintaining health. Or safety).

But lifetime is finite, and you can't buy more of it no matter how rich you are. And even the super-rich can get hit by a bus.

Article:

"The biggest problem with pursuing monetary wealth over everything else is the opportunity cost associated with it. How many hours will it take to scale your income from $250k to $500k? $1M? $10M? Will any amount of money ever be enough? What other forms of wealth will you have to sacrifice to get there?"

The opportunity cost is NOT those of the person pursuing money. It's the opportunity cost of all those others having less because a few rich people took it all.

Not getting a decent education because one's parents were poor. Missing out on social events because that costs money one doesn't have. Damaging health because doctors bill would be too high. Contributing less to society due to above & related factors.

Multiplied by the # of poor people. That is the cost to society caused by wealth inequality / allowing to have super-rich people at all.

Some wealth inequality is okay. Too much, and basically everyone is worse off.

I regard money as lubrication oil: when you have none, machinery grinds to a halt. With just a little, you can get things running. With a bit more, things run smoothly. Adding tons more, doesn't help much.

What point is there to have a few people whose machinery runs super-smooth, when that causes everybody else's machinery to grind to a halt?
Why is it so difficult for us to switch to hemp plastic? It I said to be non toxic & biodegradable

[0]: https://www.plantswitch.com/hemp-plastic/
Japanese entertainment is one of the last remaining forms of sincere entertainment devoid of political correctness and driving narratives.
I tried to make Haskell work as a product language for a long time - and, until Rust was around, there was really nothing better than Haskell in terms of guarantees.

Haskell is a research language: it's supposed to change and experiment with new things; the permanent in-flux state is by design albeit I wish we crystallised more of the good PRAGMAs as default.
They affect the mouthfeel and experience of the beverage and the brain conflates all those with flavor.
NSA Orders Employees to Spy on the World “With Dignity and Respect”
Any thoughts on Databend? I was really impressed by the minimal time to set it up and the 100x faster inserts with parquet upload. But it doesn't seem to be picking up HN hype.
The default "Postgres" uses:

shared_buffers = 128MB
max_parallel_workers = 8
max_parallel_workers_per_gather = 2
work_mem = 4MB

"Postgres (tuned)" uses:

shared_buffers = 8GB (64x the default)
max_parallel_workers = 16
max_parallel_workers_per_gather = 8
work_mem = 4MB

"Hydra" uses:

shared_buffers = 8GB
max_parallel_workers = 16
max_worker_processes = 32 (default 8)
work_mem = 64MB

The default settings are not realistic when running on a c6a.4xlarge instance, and the "Postgres (tuned)" settings more closely match what "Hydra" is configured to use.

I consider it dishonest because I do not believe a team working this close to Postgres internals wouldn't know this.
Sleeping on the side or front, there is a sweet spot I manage to find with soft pillows where it's not uncomfortable. The most annoying is the loud sound they emit when they're low on battery, though I think they finally added an accessibility setting to turn it down.

I try not getting used falling asleep with them on, but will wear them in the middle of the night as soon as the first noises wake me up.

Before I'd use a Bose QC35 but that was terrible on my neck and ears.
I will share what the changes that I did in my life to have a better sleep:

- 7-8 hours of sleep;

- Try to go to the bed at the same time everyday (for me around 22:00);

- Go to the gym (weightlifting) 4 times a week;

- Not have dinner after 19:30;

- Not drink anything with caffeine;
It's easy to purchase Mexican sodas around here, and these are never in plastic. Also the more upscale or organic soda companies such as Jones or Reed's, always glass.
A lot of articles about Microsoft these days. /s
No New Categories (2020)
Unclear to me. The economics might not be so great as you might need (i) expensive people, (ii) there could be a lot to check for correctness, and (iii) checking could involve expensive things beyond people. Net productivity might not go up much then.

For some industries where I understand the cost stacks with lower and higher skilled workers, I'd say it only takes out the "cheap" part and thereby not taking out a large chunk of costs (more like 10% cost out prior to paying for the AI). That is still a lot of cost reduction, but something that also will potentially be relatively quickly be "arbitraged away", i.e., will bleed into lower prices.
Interesting links:

- https://github.com/elixir-nx/nx

- https://github.com/elixir-explorer/explorer
I still play Shadowrun in Mednafen, but a hacked ROM (enhanced one), Shadowrun 2058.

It has all the vibe of cyberpunk except for the magick, but if you mentally replace magick with "quantum futuristic alien tech masked as godly one" it still fits with the lore.
We don't really have suburbs like the one in the US. Having a perfect lawn that requires constant watering and meticulous care is not common.
Of course, that’s called a speed ball. An upper and downer. Also poppers and screamers and small world.

“We buy drugs” whitest kids u know :
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=I2AQ6FwpSrc

Anyways, in all seriousness the idea of taking something and then taking something else later to counteract the effects, not good but popular in black, gray, and white market.

I think this weekend I’ll give up caffeine, I’m a slow metabolizer.
Even if you avoid plastic in the final retail product, there is a pretty good chance the raw materials were transported from the source or within processing facilities in plastic or plastic-lined containers.
Except now the botnets need a lot more computation and thus electrical power to generate the same amount of traffic as before, making DDoS attacks more expensive for the attacker, and less expensive for the service.

I think there is a second cost aspect to this as well; right now, hacking low-powered IoT devices and making them part of your botnet is (relatively) easy and valuable, but as their computing power is quite limited, a PoW defense should make them less viable for DDoS attacks, decreasing the amount of free attack power.
One could argue that the types are there in Javascript implicity, and TypeScript just brings them out.
Hacking Food Labeling Laws
The Complete Guide to Deploying NestJS Application on Render
Whatever it was, I'm pretty sure it wasn't licensing issues - I guess the movies (or VHS tapes, going by the references to "video clubs" on some of the posters) themselves were pirated, so they wouldn't have stopped at the posters. It's probably more lack of access to the original posters, or lack of equipment to reproduce them (except via painting)?
It’s an interesting question. Naively, I would expect it to be about like reverse engineering a CPU from a binary program. Which sounds daunting but maybe not impossible if you understand the fundamentals of registers, memory, opcodes, etc.

But… doing so from first principles without a mental model of how all (human) CPUs work? I guess it comes down to whether the recipients had enough context to know what they’re looking at.
> Big Tech isn’t ready for landmark EU rules that take effect tomorrow

They hoped to buy their way out until the last moment.

The good thing, however, is that they operate from US, so the EU will turn a blind eye to them, just like they did before.
Edible waxes or shellacs have been used for a long time, but PLA is easier to get and work with given the fossil infrastructure that already exists (path dependence).

That being said, PLA is pretty benign. Back when I was in pharma we used it in a variety of formulations and never saw anything in animal histopath (as expected — that’s why we used it). It’s a pretty common excipient. This result is interesting, perhaps minor perhaps not.

And let’s not forget that the discarded cups themselves clog waterways and interact otherwise with the local ecosystem (as housing for some animals, pests or not), change the local pH of standing water etc…
How can parts be “in the wrong hands”? Whose hands are wrong? Why does Apple get to decide?
This statement on "learning world models" lies between overhyping, nitpicking and wishful thinking. There are many different ways we represent world knowledge, and llms are great in problems that relate with some of them, and horrible at others. For example, they are really bad with anything that has to do with spatial relations, and with logical problems where a graphical approach helps. There are problems that grade school children can easily solve with a graphical schema and the most advanced LLMs struggle with.

You can very easily give "evidence" of gpt4 being anywhere between emerging super-intelligence and a naked emperor depending what you ask it to solve. They do not learn models of the world, they learn models of some class of our models of the world, which are very specific and already very restricted in how they represent the world.
Cool project. It would be helpful if it was more explicit what this does vs the already existing publicly shareable link that you get for apple photos.
I guess they could coat them in something else, like beeswax.
Cups that are 100% paper don't exist, because you can't hold the liquids people drink in paper. Everyone calls "paper cups lined with some material" just "paper cups".
Yes, the downside being that if you need all the columns of one specific record (row), it will be spread over many column blocks.

As a rule of the thumb, if most of your queries are aggregations over few columns of many records (OLAP), column based would be a better choice - whereas if you need to access every column/field of a small number of records (OLTP), record/row based would be a better choice.
Focused Ultrasound, an Emerging Tool for Atherosclerosis Treatment
Zero chance with regulation. We still don’t let machines final read ECGs and insurance companies pay a physician (typically a cardiologist) to overread them. These have been FDA approved algorithms for over a decade already.
https://github.com/ClickHouse/ClickBench/blob/main/postgresq...

basically larger buffers and more concurrent workers.
> Apple on the other hand wants to prevent parts from falling in the wrong hands

What? Why? Are they like nuclear bombs? What happens if an iPhone screen gets into a wrong hand?

Its shocking to me, that in your mind my right to keep my phone repaired is somehow comparable to Apple's right to prevent me from buying (not stealing) a replacement part.

It means the manufacturer retains ownership and control over an item after they sold it. You are giving them a lot of control over your life, many years in the future - they often refuse repair or impose oneirous terms. This creates insentive for them to consider your phone 'their terf' and to create artificial obstacles to repair by third parties.

This does not stop at Apple, it happens to cars, farm equipment, household appliances, et .

This is a total capitulation of right to private property. You are basically going to become a medieval serf, but with mutiple owners.
Some counter culture movements from the US had some mainstream impact. If having mainstream impact is your criterion for the existence or relevance of counter culture, you're defining it from the point of view of the establishment. It just reinforces my belief that someone defining counter culture by the mainstream cultural narrative built post hoc around some aspects of it wouldn't be aware of the current streams in the counter cultural depths.

There's a full generation of adults who grew up taking the Internet for granted is my point. There are many orders of magnitude of information flowing there than you can even imagine. Yet you claim to _know_ counter culture isn't a thing anymore because you don't see any mainstream cultural narratives describing any aspects of it. Do you see the problem in this logic?

"Rock" is a post hoc narrative packaging something that came organically from counter cultural movements. Same goes for "blues" or "hip hop". These labels and the packaging of counter cultural (i.e. subversive of the values of the establishment) manifestations for mainstream consumption, are where counter culture goes to die. That's why I said they're just a re-packaging of something that came before and appeared organically.

Once it has a widely known name and a section in the nearest media outlet, it's by definition part of the mainstream.

So if you look around and you can't see any grand narratives about new cultural artifacts from "the youths/the minorities", how impactful they are and where you can buy an album, and conclude there's no more counter culture. I guess you're just telling on yourself at this point.
Very convenient to parallelise HTTP queries (and without the need to go “evented”).

One recent example where I assert that API responses match our OpenAPI specifications here, for the curious:

https://github.com/etalab/transport-site/pull/3351/files#dif...
My guess is most people into AI don't even remember that they are paying a $20/month for this.

We do a lot of experiments involving gpt3.5, 4, claude-v2, titan-large, and palm2, and for what it's worth, on our real production workloads gpt4 shines. We can make Palm2 produce decent results with a lot of extra effort, and claude-v2 is passable but gpt4 does not disappoint. This is low-grade knowledge management stuff, and we are not using it as a information-retrieval system - but for basic 'cognitive' tasks where all the information needed is provided in the prompt. I'd not rely on it for info retrieval tasks such as the examples quoted above - its knowledge base is highly compressed, after all.
> And again, where did you got your install media for Windows? Directly from https://www.microsoft.com/software-download/windows10 ? Somewhere else?

Somewhere else: https://www.microsoft.com/fr-fr/software-download/windows11 This was Windows 11, downloaded in June 2023 or something like that. I always create a new USB drive when I reinstall.

> your media is older than the drivers

No it's not, see below.

> Because Intel does not give a fuck.

Fair enough. Then how come windows magically knows to install all those drivers, Wi-Fi and touchpad, if I plug in a USB network adapter, and it only connects to Windows update? This has worked ever since I bought the PC three years ago. So no, the devices "aren't brand new", intel didn't "just send them to MS yesterday" or "not at all". And if I manually install the drivers out of band by downloading them from intel's website, windows will still install its own over them, even when they are older.
Correlates with what I’ve seen. My Garmin is laughably bad but does give a rough idea of when I fell asleep and when I awoke (usually). Everything else in middle is trash.

Apple Watch was more precise with how I “feel.” Haven’t done an actual sleep test with either but I know Garmin is generally wrong and apple might be nearing an accurate approximation based on how I feel.
There is absolutely a difference in perception, especially noticeable with metal/non-metal.

Drink a soda from a can and then the same kind from a glass? Night and day. Try experimenting with spoons to eat: wooden, plastic, different metals. You really notice that, or you should: the spoon goes right on your tongue to introduce the food.
for real "fun", have a look at continuations :-)
>Because you alter things outside of your perimeter.

Indeed, but you need a permit for a lot of things contained within your property too. Technically, I need a permit to change my front door. Kinda silly, mostly ignored by people, which is probably a worse outcome.
Am I the only one that feels like the WEF gives off SPECTRE from James Bond vibes?

It's very creepy how a large group of rich and powerful elites get together to decide how they're going to run the world despite not being elected officials and pushing authoritarian solutions to the world's problems.

They have literally stated that they want us to "own nothing and be happy" because these entitled pricks feel that they are the only ones that deserve to own anything. They would have us renting everything for the rest of our lives and eating bugs, while they enjoy steak dinners in one of their 12 houses with a garage full of Lamborghinis.

https://www.newsweek.com/global-elites-no-money-no-problems-...
The psychology behind buying digital assets
For more information regarding a Dutch initiative, in collaboration with Schneider Electric visit: https://www.dc.systems/

(I'm not affiliated, just know of the project due to my work in DC grids in offices)
> If only there was a short-acting stimulant and antidote available as a combo..

I know that energy drinks use taurine to combat some of the effects of caffeine, but I don't think it will work for sleep.
I believe that for a species, longer generations means slower evolutionary adaptation to environmental changes.

(at least for our bodies, our hardware. Ideas/technology can iterate somewhat independently.)
(longer lifespan and short generations would probably have caused resource shortages at various points in the past)
I think if Discord thinks your IP is suspicious, they'll force you to enter in a mobile number when registering an account (this is obviously before joining any server).

I'm guessing the captcha is the same - your device/IP is probably considered 'safe' by Discord.
Why the sarcasm, isn't that exactly what they do?
What sounds off is that the world will fill increasingly with new people if everyone became immortal...that sounds like a world that would be horrible to live on.
You can add your recursive island to Wikipedia when you finish building it :)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recursive_islands_and_lakes
I find that carbonated beverages behave very differently in plastic cups.
The perception article in Wikipedia[1] is part of the psychology series.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perception
That is not the way of the Tao. :)
"This is the right solution "

Right to me implies the best. Its not the best. Shooting it to the sun seems like a better alternative.
I think it was a little late in the game to be “foundational”
Reminds me of this, what boomers needed vs what I need: https://ifunny.co/picture/an-258534577-82-258535541-258535-1...
> over-credentialized jobs now require bachelor’s degrees for things which used to require high school diplomas

High schools do not maintain any sort of reasonable standards for granting a degree anymore, so it's no wonder businesses require a college degree. We decided everyone needed a HS degree, so we started lowering the standards for it, "teaching to the test", and only focusing on improving the worst quartile students to minimum tested standards. Now the same thing is happening with colleges.
I feel strangely compelled to build/use one of these, and yet at the same time I can't think of an actual use case.
Those are just reactionary wackos. They want their old abusive status back. They'd love to lynch back the blacks, put women 'back' in the kitchen, beat up homosexuals, exclude Atheists...

Counterculture existes in libre gaming, distros, hackers, underground games such as Nethack, IF games from IF archive, niche electronica/rock/metal/blues from Jamendo (Revolution Void, Proleter, Helfervescent, Nanowar (ok, now is half-mainstream, but still...) and now saved back in archive.org thanks to James Scott...
This is just completely untrue (definitely in the US): https://support.apple.com/self-service-repair

I’ll accept that this doesn’t cover all devices in the last seven years, but it does cover recent devices.
True, but that man isn't experiencing them now - at least not to the extent that would make him change anything.

Most of my friends with health issues associated with lifestyle got their first wakeup call right before their 30s. Plenty of time to develop habits which take over a decade to drop - or more if they started during childhood.

And here's the kicker: not all of them made the necessary changes. Also some others did, but are unhappy with this new lifestyle and would like to go back but external factors like the threat of divorce keep them from doing so.

What I'm getting at is that it's the people who consciously choose effort who are the weirdos. Healthy, longer living weirdos, but weirdos nonetheless.

People drive cars, eat trash and lay on the couch because they like to. You'll only get other outcomes in an environment where it's too hard to do any of those things.
It is not, and nobody said it was.
> Japan releases nuclear wastewater into the Pacific

Godzilla is coming. /s
Where do you live that the labour is that cheap?

I live in Switzerland and I get why repairs are expensive. Because the labour is really expensive. I did multiple repairs (not on phones) where the labour was more expensive than just buying a new device (cheap printers).
> I want full disclosure of whats happened to a phone when buying used, but I don't want Apple to be able to make parts not work.

Sounds like you want to have a master give the master the whip but their good concience should prevent them from whipping you.

> If I want to buy a franken-phone full of knock off or mix and match parts

Its a phone for christ sake, they only last a few years, where have you seen this issue even come up
As a young man I tried polyphasic sleep. Basically it’s having a very small “core” sleep period with scheduled naps. Based on the idea of military and sailors having compressed sleep schedules. I did it for the wrong reasons (wanted to be awake to play games… yikes younger me) but it did work after initial difficulty. Also, it solved my insomnia for a good while after I quit it. Insomnia later came back a number of years later but I still have positive effects from it, like less anxiety regarding attempting to sleep.
This was added on my "Todo" list when I saw the paper's demo. Well done on finishing it and making it so quickly!
I don't know if it is the same issue but AC lines longer than a certain distance will approach the wave length of an antena and start to radiate energy (like a radio broadcast antena). In that case you use DC. When I studied this back in school I was told there was such a line in South Africa (if I recall correctly).
Very interesting. Do you by any chance have some supporting resources that you would be willing to share?
One time I was grabbing Mexican food after an arduous night of clubbing with my friend Rachel, who wore green dreads, smelled of patchouli, and was a member of Food Not Bombs.

We went to the taco stand which was known as the "drive-by shooting" place, and got carne asada quesadillas or something, and she told me to insist that they not use any packaging on them, but just put them in our hands. We "single-handedly" saved the planet that night!
Arm IPO Faces Serious Difficulties, Observers Say
If it is a myth, it is a very widespread stubbornly persistent myth. If you have links to scientific sources debunking it as a myth that would much appreciated.

I came across it most recently in Tom Brady's athletic health book [0]. If I remember correctly, he states that you should drink double the amount of coffee consumed to offset the dehydration effects of coffee. This is simply to emphasize the ubiquitous nature of the myth, as he is someone who has presumably been surrounded by medical professionals for most of his athletic career, and who should have known better if what you say is correct. He singles out proper hydration as a major factor in his peak performance, something he claims younger athletes ignore.

[0] https://www.amazon.com/TB12-Method-Lifetime-Sustained-Perfor...
“Recency trolls”? What are they?