skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you're just larping why do you need a cannon?

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ZXtswMYlBd0&pp=ygUPQ2l2aWwgd2F...
By "people" you mean humans? You're a human, at least I suppose you are, my apologies if you're a ChatGPT bot. But assuming you are human, why did you people think killing all sparrows would save the grain?

Seems arbitrary to equate all Chinese and not just equate all humans. There is no evidence to suggest stupidity is geographically constrained by concepts of nationality.
TB?
Well, you might not know the answer, even if you know some properties the answer must have and some processes that might lead to the answer.
> The US has a legal system that permits a defendant to say many things, like "My buddies and I were participating in a fantasy scenario where we plotted in detail and collected supplies to kidnap the governor of our state... but it was just a game. Like those other people who play games!"

You can even get acquitted for it because it turned out that the FBI was the dungeon master all along:
https://chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2022/4/13/23023950/m...
The people who installed my counters used no safety equipment. They used consumer grade power tools while spraying them down with water and took no safety precautions. I was actually worried about what would happen if they injured themselves and if my insurance would get sued. They were all Asian and did not speak English it seemed like a super shady operation.
PrivacyTests.org
ITT: cope. Even if you still believe there are benefits to TRF that aren't just due to losing weight (and note that TRF causes a disproportionate amount of muscle-loss, not fat-loss, when used as a weight-loss tool: https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamainternalmedicine/fullar...), Satchin Panda, arguably the foremost researcher in this field, has been unequivocal that early TRF is much worse than late TRF (i.e., skipping breakfast instead of skipping dinner) for metabolic health, probably due to circadian misalignment, so I don't see why you all find this result so surprising.

Apparently none of you have heard of Dr. Panda, which means you've done barely any research into any of this, and yet you're still smugly confident that TRF/IF are safe and healthy? Enough to nit-pick the studies saying otherwise, and downvote and flag those posting them?
Another way to phrase that first sentence is "assumption of innocence". And while random commentators on the internet are not obligated to honor it, law enforcement is supposed to.
wha-a-a-a-at?

For the first time in a lot of time, they used the term mind-boggling accurately. I had never ever seen something like this before in a digenean.
That's a weird way of looking at the Fifth Amendment.

You have the right to say nothing.
> Can people really tell the difference

No, and neither can the audiophiles. Well, except those using oxygen free gold plated Ethernet cables.
Intrisive thoughts are fairly common, and not related to a specific community or exclusive to any identifiable subgroup:

> These thoughts are part of being human, and need not ruin the quality of life. Treatment is available when the thoughts are associated with OCD and become persistent, severe, or distressing.

> One example of an aggressive intrusive thought is the high place phenomenon, the sudden urge to jump from a high place. A 2011 study assessed the prevalence of this phenomenon among US college students; it found that even among those participants with no history of suicidal ideation, over 50% had experienced an urge to jump or imagined themselves jumping from a high place at least once. A 2020 study carried out in Germany reported similar results.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intrusive_thought#Aggressive_t...
To add a counterpoint, that specific example is really a poor choice to get the point across. It’s been established (https://www.insider.com/kidnapping-conspiracy-whitmer-fbi-in...) that the Whitmer plot was run by the FBI itself, in a way having agents LARPing as terrorists.

Also, I would hope the real LARPing community can feel safe enough to share tips on what to do if they run into police while running around the woods with foam swords.
This is an allowed practice, just not idiomatic, mostly following on Erlang convention I think. If you do the coding gnome elixir course, he quite explicitly has a section on this and proceeds with separating API from server. At the end of the day, it is equivalent and all it takes is getting used to one or the other. I would argue spending the time to get used to the idiomatic way a community establishes is to your benefit in the end.
The United States of Bed Bath and Beyond
https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/issues/7616 might interest you. Bevy plans to migrate to cosmic-text (mentioned in the article) because of their current implementation's (ab_glyph maybe?) issues.
Is there a better solution for the performance of atomic swaps between antagonistic traders each operating in a different legal jurisdiction?
Even if the factory is operated safely these countertops often require adjustment on-site to fit properly… typically done dry with an angle grinder or similar.
surprised they cut it dry. i just had to add 2 holes to my granite countertop. used a “well” guide that also has water in it. it’s meant to keep the cutting edge cool but also there was no dust to speak of
The whole point is to tell the difference between "find larpers" and "find crime", so the rest of those points doesn't say anything. They found some people who did something suspicious, that is point 1, the next step is this document to help tell the difference.
there's an important dimension of scalability that I think gets overlooked in a lot of these discussions about database-as-a-queue vs queue-system-as-a-queue:

are you queuing jobs, or are you queuing messages?

that's a fuzzy distinction, so somewhat equivalently, what's the expected time it takes for a worker to process a given queue item?

at one end, an item on the queue may take several seconds to a minute or longer to process. at the other end, an item might take only a few milliseconds to process. in that latter case, it's often useful to do micro-batching, where a single worker pulls 100 or 1000 items off the queue at once, and processes them as a batch (such as by writing them to a separate datastore)

the "larger" the items are (in terms of wall-clock processing time, not necessarily in terms of size in bytes of the serialized item payload) the more effective the database-as-a-queue solution is, in my experience.

as queue items get smaller / shorter to process, and start to feel more like "messages" rather than discrete "jobs", that's when I tend to reach for a queue system over a database.

for example, there's a RabbitMQ blog post [0] on cluster sizing where their recommendations start at 1000 messages/second. that same message volume on a database-as-a-queue would require, generally speaking, 3000 write transactions per second (if we assume one transaction to enqueue the message, one for a worker to claim it, and one for a worker to mark it as complete / delete it).

can Postgres and other relational databases be scaled & tuned to handle that write volume? yes, absolutely. however, how much write volume are you expecting from your queue workload, compared to the write volume from its "normal database" workload? [1]

I think that ends up being a useful heuristic when deciding whether or not to use a database-as-a-queue - will you have a relational database with a "side gig" of acting like a queue, or will you have a relational database that in terms of data volume is primarily acting like a queue, with "normal database" work relegated to "side gig" status?

0: https://blog.rabbitmq.com/posts/2020/06/cluster-sizing-and-o...

1: there's also a Postgres-specific consideration here where a lot of very short-lived "queue item" database rows can put excessive pressure on the autovacuum system.
As I understand it, any search engine whose SEO you care about will be loading web pages in a headless browser running JS these days, so depending on JS doesn't make something invisible. In any case, there is not much reason to use 'JS generated sidenotes', and I'm not sure any of the scores of examples I link do so. The sidenotes are part of the document, and get served with the rest of the document. (The ones which rely on JS are only doing so for presentation; the actual sidenotes continue to live in various span or div or aside elements that a search engine should have no problem understanding.)

Unless you have some major counterexample, sidenotes/SEO seems like a non-issue to me which really is that simple: "no".
And you are still fighting basic Ruby language idioms from the perspective of a newcomer rather than dealing with actual problems?
I maintain QueueClassic (https://github.com/QueueClassic/queue_classic) for Rails/Ruby folks; which is basically what you're talking about - a queuing system for Postgres. A bonus reason, and why I originally wanted this was the ability to use transactions fully - i.e. I can start one, do some stuff, add a job in to the queue (to send an email), .....and either commit, or roll back - avoiding sending the email. If you use resque, I found sometimes either you can't see the record (still doing other stuff and it's not committed), or it's not there (rollback) - so either way you had to deal with it.

QC (and equivs) use the same db, and same connection, so same transaction. Saves quite a bit of cruft.
Well, that's settled then! On to demolishing people's homes.
Although the history of LARP as a legal defense is narrow, the authors share the concern that it may soon become commonplace.

This is a reasonable concern.

I will note anecdotally not all role players are playing with a full deck -- though I am more familiar with role playing gamers, not LARPers (granted: not entirely separate groups). Some are mildly cracked, sometimes harmlessly -- the guy who exclusively played female characters and might have identified as trans had he been born later -- and some not so harmlessly -- the gal who forged her own sword which she took with her everywhere, even the mall, by concealing it under a cape, and genuinely believed she was the last special warrior of some sort from a fictional series.* She believed she was female to signify she was the last.

So that may complicate sorting out who is just playing games from who is a genuine threat of planned violence.

* https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elric_of_Melnibon%C3%A9
Agreed, I've had my own rabbit nightmares. But setting up a more robust queue on postgresql is easy, so you can easily gain a lot more guarantees without more complexity.
Curious what year this would have been? Cool to learn that satellite backhaul was viable.

What did Telstra have/use as offshore transit before that first big cable?
Yes, but I would prefer not to exercise that in court, it would be better if the government behaved itself towards its citizens. You also have the constitutional right to a speedy trial, but in practice that doesn't look hot either.
The information can be collected anyway under legitimate interest provisions, which is (a) already listed and discussed, and (b) the relevant cookies have their own opt-outs.

The GA add-on is purely about that same data being passed to GA - and the very same cookie pop-up literally tells you what information is sent, why, and tells you how you can opt out (by either blocking the JavaScript, or installing the add-on) -- it literally meets the requirements for informed consent, as you put it, "legally or otherwise."

Might want to go check that out before trying to make baseless claims, "legally or otherwise."
the difference is Rust has a GNU option for Windows, D does not.
He's saying the miners wouldn't accept it either, but any organized attempt to change it was broken up by a private army.
I hear you and I have the same job as when I identified with what you're saying about not starting the day on your terms. However now I just start every day on my own terms and I am measurably getting more done overall. They just have to wait for me to get my morning routine done before they get replies to their slack beeps.

Yes there are exceptions to this rule but in general 'no' being my default until I'm up and running has basically only brought benefits. Hope things improve!
Ask HN: Anyone notice an increase in unsecure email unsubscribe links?
Lately I have noticed that when I scroll to the bottom of an email and click unsubscribe, I pass through an "unsecure" (non HTTPS) server first and my browser prompts me to continue because it's potentially dangerous. Once I go through the one to two clicks to "proceed" I am rerouted to something that has a branded domain name and a valid cert.

Other links on the emails I have tested do not go through this insecure route first, just the unsubscribe links.
For some reason, the Tracestrack Topo layer doesn't load for me in firefox.
Maybe it's changed in the last year or so, but from benchmarking and writing / running queue software for Postgres - SKIP LOCKED was/is significantly faster. Is that different for MySQL?
5 guilty convictions, 4 guilty pleas, and 5 not guilty verdicts seems like a balanced justice system? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gretchen_Whitmer_kidnapping_...

Conspiracy plots are hard to prosecute, because who-did-what-when-with-what-intent is complex.
I would have to be rewritten in JavaScript or TypeScript
> The invasion was a follow-up of events going back to 2014 and earlier.

The large scale invasion from leased bases in Crimea occurred in 2014.
You don't even need a database to make a message queue. The Linux file system makes a perfectly good basis for a message queue since file moves are atomic.

My guess is that many people are implementing queuing mechanisms just for sending email.

You can see how this works in Arnie SMTP buffer server, a super simple queue just for emails, no database at all, just the file system.

https://github.com/bootrino/arniesmtpbufferserver
Your example just proves that this document doesn't hold water, he did that in public and didn't care about people seeing what he did, so the document would suggest he was LARPing for real.

I don't see how this document would help find criminals and help free innocents. It seems to give way too rigid guidelines that will be misused by many officers.
Dang that was a long read
Parasites are always the weirdest.

Parasitic crustaceans: https://bogleech.com/bio-paracrust

Parasitic jellyfish: https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/artful-amoeba/when-jell...

Another parasitic jellyfish (its larva develops inside-out, then turns itself outside-in when it bursts out of its host!): https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polypodium_hydriforme
When i was young we didn't know for sure that planets outside the solar system even existed. There were even some theories that planets could be extremely rare and our solar system was special. I think life is in the same category as extra solar planets once were. So yes.
Wouldn't it be easier to have it transpile to Crystal? The languages are already extremely similar
Ford's Theatre tickets for night of Lincoln's murder sell for $262500
The rules are flexible but not the consequences. The only reason such ideas are even on the table is because of the bailouts of 2008 and 2020 (consequences).

You do realise this will bankrupt the US right? Not because America can't afford a $200 billion dollar check but because it sets a new precedent just like the previous bailouts did.

America will be de-facto guaranteeing all major public companies (TRILLIONS). This will be like dropping a nuclear bomb on the liability side of the US dollar. There will be a massive flight.

And thats only the beginning of America's worries, this action will open a massive can of worms. You will be essentially giving the management of these companies a blank check. You will be giving all the unions a blank check.

P.S.

Shareholders are rows in a database just like how employees are a line item. In reality both are crucial parts of the equation. You do realise these "public" companies are not owned by "robber barons" (hate this term) anymore. They are usually majority held by institutions (index funds) which are mostly made up of pension funds, 401Ks, sovereign funds, college endowments etc.

If you're gonna counter with "bailouts", all I'll say is who bails out the entity bailing out. If your gonna say tax the rich™, even you steal all the money from all billionaires™ in America, it will just be a rounding error for the liabilities here, then as you start going down the ladder of the rich™ it will be like a snake eating its own tail (Ouroboros).

Btw what you say will play out soon (decade or two around when social security runs out) and I wonder whether if the children of the next empire will be talking about how real communism wasn't tried and it was just because they had bad leaders.
> “Other people in other locations don't know that. They will absolutely think, ‘Well, I hope it gets better in the morning,’ and in the morning, their hand is black.”

Jesus christ!, losing your hand in one night?!
The question of how to fine-tune to teach LLMs facts/knowledge is definitely something we're interested in exploring more in future work. The common opinion seems to me at least to be that fine-tuning is more to teach the model how to use the knowledge it already has to complete a specific task rather than to instill new knowledge, and that RAG should be sued to provide more specific context. However, I personally believe there is potential in fine-tuning for "memorization" or learning, and am excited to see new developments in the field.
It's not a gibe. I used scare quotes around free because it's obvious that a socialized system is funded by taxes, what's not obvious a bill is always generated during healthcare delivery in the Canadian system.

You yourself seem to not understand this distinction with your comment: "no charge at the point of service".

There is always a charge at the point of service and a bill is generated. The difference with the US is that the Canadian healthcare system, which also functions mostly privatized, uses a single payer model so the government is the only one legally permitted to pay for insured services. In other words, each province runs a large insurance company and there is a law that states that no one is allowed to charge any person or company other than the government insurance plan for anything the government has deemed reimbursable for any person covered by the plan.

(So you don't misinterpret my statements again: while government run hospitals, but not the physicians working in them, do get capitation payments they also bill for some services. What is billed vs paid through capitation varies by province. Services rendered to uninsured patients are never from capitation funds and are always charged directly to the patient).

If the services rendered or you are uninsured, like the patients in the article study, it functions the same as the US and you will personally receive a bill in the mail with similarly obscene rates much higher than what the government insurance company would have paid.

This distinction has everything to do with the article and GP's point which asserts that the Canadian government will bear some cost for the care of the patients in the California study which is flatly incorrect. If there was no charge at the point of service none of this would matter.
Yeah I would love to put any paywall site on such a list.
Yes, and I’ve known plumbers who have to make cuts in stone countertops to install taps etc to create a ‘dam’ out of putty to flow water in to the cutting site while doing it.

The solutions exist, the problem is making people invest in them and stick to it.
How Shopify’s anti-meeting, anti-mandatory-office experiment is going
Great insightful comment. It should be a pinned article at the top of HN for anyone wanting to start their own business. Unfortunately a lot of people will think: ok, I just need to come up with a new way to swim, I’m smart (maybe smarter than most), I got this

I know I drowned a couple of times before accepting reality, and I still struggle with it
Any truth to early Australian usenet access just being a 10mb tape drive being mailed around (either internally, or internationally?)
For those using simple SELECTs, what kind of WHERE clause are you using that works well with lots of qualified pending messages and (somewhat) guarantees the most appropriate (oldest?) message?
Yeah, the operators of company towns were violent pricks who didn't much like it that workers increasingly had better options than to die in a mine. That didn't change the economics though. Neither did committing violence against them, which was not only already illegal even then but also wildly unpopular.

There's nothing better for workers than a competitive market. What's the boss going to do when the workers have the option to quit and get a better job somewhere else?
Calling All Developers – Let's Build the Future of Interview Prep
Hey developers!

I'm Ved, just a guy working on a side project called AceAi. It's an app that uses AI to help people prep for interviews.

I built a basic version myself since I have some dev experience. But I'm just one person and could really use help taking AceAi to the next level.

This isn't some startup (yet!) - it's just a fun learn-as-you-go project. If you're a developer looking to gain experience and work on something meaningful, maybe we can collaborate.

No long-term commitments required! I'm open to any help, even if it's just feedback on the idea or code. Many hands make light work.

If you're intrigued by using tech like AI to help job seekers, drop me a line at vedgupta@protonmail.com. Let's chat and see how we can build AceAi together.

Who knows, maybe one day this passion project can turn into something big. But for now, it's all about learning and creating something useful.

Look forward to hearing from you!
Ved Gupta

Github : https://github.com/innovatorved

Project: https://aceai.vedgupta.in
This excatly the kind of work Universities love.

I personally know three different group trying to excatly that.
Reading the title, I thought it would be this photo, which memed around Japan internet recently: https://cloudfront-us-east-2.images.arcpublishing.com/reuter...

These two exposures surely overlapped, with the known photo probably exposing for tens of milliseconds on either side of the flash, but the lighthouse exposures might not have overlapped at all, yet captured a far more exact slice of time regardless.
The should be a first comma after “crashes” IMHO.
We use exactly this for windmill (OSS Retool alternative + modern airflow) and run benchmarks everyday. On a modest github CI instance where one windmill worker and postgres run as containers, our benchmarks run at 1200jobs/s. Workers can be added and it will scale gracefully up to 5000jobs/s. We are exploring using Citus to cross the barrier of 5000j/s on our multi-tenant instance.

https://github.com/windmill-labs/windmill/tree/benchmarks
Discussed two days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37616281
> I really don't think that the police are going to be a problem for people in fantasy gear, cosplaying, or re-enacting a historical battle. I have never heard of it.

But now with these guidelines police has a reason to go after them. Something like: "I just followed these guidelines, it says you are showing terrorist signs and aren't real LARPers".

They didn't do that before, but guidelines like these changes behavior and can easily make things worse.
Yes, but there are also the inverse who confuse thoughtfulness for cynicism! And this is just one facet of a more general cognitive behavior, where abstraction fails. I like to think of it as metaphor collapsing into simile.

Call me cynical, but I think the original topic is almost inevitable in a long-running and/or large venue. The feeling that a venue lacks this part of the human experience is itself fleeting and illusory. I think it's something vaguely like the birthday paradox in a population.
That seems like it wouldn't work if you had a government capable of anything so basic as enforcing the preexisting laws against acts of violence.