skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>With “sea pay” I assume you are on boats for a time?

Generally, yes. One could expect to spend somewhere between 0 and 65% of his entire 3 year tour out to sea.

>Also all the strict regimentation that comes with the military jobs(the UCMJ is a lot stricter than regular law).

This is basically not a problem, though with notable 2020 exceptions.

>For instance would you have been as willing to walk away from the role if it was paying 500k?

All other things being held constant, I'd have stuck around for that, yeah. But I think the military could fill those jobs much more cheaply if they got other stuff right. Some of it results from byzantine regulation that will never be corrected, but there are lots of changes that could yield huge improvements to quality of life for cheaper than doubling salaries. I'll also say that it's a cool job with a sense of meaning that I perceive to be generally missing from workplaces, based on discussions here and elsewhere. In the end, though, the time away from my kids is too high a cost for all that.
One thing I love to see here, mainly because I was going to make it myself, is the chart on latency.

GPT4 is practically unusable unless you spend $10k+ a month and have an enterprise account.

No real end user wants to wait 20-40 seconds for a response, only to find it was 80% of what they wanted.
> This is similar to saying, 'if I mess up all the tables in one database I wreck the rest'. Just my opinion, but this is not actually a thing in databases.

If you mess up the tables in one database it doesn't affect others, but if you lock up the server where it can't respond to queries, that affects every database running on that server.

> Also, if you run one postgres, you won't have of an issue running another if you have the experience in production.

We're talking about using a different feature that you presumably haven't used before, so you won't necessarily know about the admin side of that.
The most surprising thing I read here was that 'homicide' was a word in 1390, so older than English itself.
> In general, I think exercise for weight loss doesn’t work — it just makes you hungrier.

I believe this is wrong in general. The following research, for example, shows at least one form of exercise likely reduces hunger:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3761859/

I suspect it depends on the kind of exercise.
Queue can clearly mean "work that needs to be completed" not necessarily 'work completed in order'. Your definition is much stricter than it needs to be for most use cases.
Pro tip: this is also how you can quickly solve those "whats different between these images" puzzles.
> Over-engineering is as incorrect as under-engineering.

I know what you mean. The catch is figuring out 'the correctly sized' answer. Uncertainty is a huge factor here.

I think a lot of projects that are called 'over-engineered' have the benefit of hindsight. At least some of such projects were rationally designed based on what people knew at the time. There is often significant uncertainty. When engineering resources are hard to acquire, the powers-that-be often want to 'get it right' the first time. Translated: over-engineer it, because we don't know when we'll get resources for the next iteration.

I suppose my point is this: the next time somebody finds some 'over-engineered' code, it can be insightful to learn about the project history. (Example: some projects have overly optimistic prediction of usage. This perhaps suggests that pessimism is one antidote to over-engineering.)
That's no different than how any piece of infrastructure is paid for. No one is paying cash to repave the roads either. Airports are so expensive they would be impossible without financing.
I would rather have a tumor be cut open and removed than having a band aid put on it and left to fester.

If the housing situation in a place got so bad that a person has to pay nearly 1/3 of their monthly income just to get a closet to sleep in, it is not a livable place. A slum has a big mix of people but would you really consider it a great "metropolis" where you can have a life and raise a family?

Again, this is 1/3 of minimum wage for as much space as a closet. It is basically priced as high as it could to best exploit the poorest among us. Maybe it is a different in value between me and those who grew up in SF but I consider it inhumane to treat someone who is working full time like this. If you don't think so, let me ask you this: would you let your family, your spouse and your children, to live like this? In a box? Or would you do all you could to get them something better? Not everyone can do better than minimum wage, but it doesn't mean they deserve to live like this. That is what I mean.

There are solutions to the housing problem that is not this band aid on a festering wound. But it seems this kind of situation is perfectly fine to SF people. To which I have nothing else to say but amazement at how can a city priding itself on economic abundance and human right progress can also be utterly indifferent to the suffering of its fellows and even justifying it.
I have a similar 'greed for my own time', such that I immediately recognise what you mean by that phrase. All I can say is, by what you've described, it sounds like a good problem to have. Stick with the cheaper hobbies whilst they're still fun and interesting and put aside the others until better aligned to resources available.

Long term / retirement sustainability is what I'm working on. Damn requirements overruling the nice-to-haves.
1. It's nowhere near night time the moment the sun sinks halfway past the horizon. It's around early evening. Only on a planet with no light-scattering atmosphere does night being at the completion of sundown. And even then, since the star is larger than the planet, more than 50% of the planet is illuminated: night is nevertheless shorter.¹

2. Did you consider the poles?

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1. Someone claiming to be a mathematician posted some calculations on quora.com claiming that 50.23% of the Earth is illuminated directly due to the relative size of the Sun and the Earth. https://www.quora.com/What-percentage-of-planet-earth-is-ill...
That might make sense, but I’ve never seen it with FIPS.

I’ve only seen them force changes were ones that weaken or remove defenses against known attacks.

I’ve never seen them require additional standard defenses, or identity and propose fixes against attacks that were not already considered and addressed by the existing system.
The numbers vary a lot by individual. For me it would be closer to ¼ of my daily intake.
Not true. There were fifteen such rings commissioned, in various different sizes. Perhaps not all of them were used on screen, but otherwise they are all functionally the same.

Any such rings that have been made since would be the replicas.
Show HN: Ray Data Snowflake Connector
I have been trying to motivate my team towards using Ray with our snowflake setup. I recently came across this anyscale blog – "Introducing the Anyscale Snowflake Connector" which excited my further. After some searching on github, I could find the code for this connector as well.

I am a complete complete newbie to ray and hence couldn’t get this connector to work consistently. However, I am thoroughly familiar with snowflake and its python connector and I have a complete understanding how a snowflake connector in ray should work, so I went ahead and wrote my connector while seeking motivation from the above codebase as well as from the ray custom datasource documentation.

:drum: GitHub - prabodh1194/ray_snowflake :drum:

Please go through my repo and fire away with questions and PRs and ideas on how can we go about using these.

Thanks a ton.

P.S.: I’ll be spending sometime this week to create an optimal write step which can directly write an arrow table to snowflake instead of taking the Pandas route.
Some engineers do balance inverted pendulums in their careers! https://space.stackexchange.com/questions/15486/how-does-the...
You can do a fair amount better that that on price with a major rental company, but it still might make sense to use the train if you are solo. But if you are a duo or trio, the train pricing starts to lose big.

https://i.imgur.com/uSHiZdS.png

If you are willing to risk using one of the lower tier car rental companies, you can really cut the price.

https://i.imgur.com/iOHxxw3.png
It's also going nowhere. Miami to Orlando... Airport! Not city, not Disney. Orlando Airport. Then what? Rent a car?
I'm still waiting for numbers that back up the claim that thousands of guns were brought on board without being used for hijackings. The 9/11 hijackers did not actually use guns. [0] Checks for guns date back to the early 70s. Presumably they didn't use guns because they were afraid they might be detected.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/September_11_attacks

edit: s/weapons/guns/
Shows it can be done, huh?

Shows that when it’s not done it’s not done by choice.

Shows that when it is done, it’s done to support the most iconic marketing tool of american hegemony and imperialism cosplaying as a symbol of “freedom.”
My friends eat scorpions and spiders. They say it tastes like chicken. Lobsters don't taste like chicken to me. I guess that's how I know.
> it was exceedingly uncommon for PC's in the Pentium 4 era to ship with anything higher than a 200W PSU

I'd say that 250-350 watt PSUs were very common in white-box/home-built PCs in the P4/Athlon XP era.

400W and above, yes, that was much less common. I can recall at that point in time, Enermax made their name selling some of the largest PSUs on the mainstream market, and that line tended to be like 450-600W units.

I do sort of agree, it's almost completely about GPUs these days. The spinning rust is now low-power flash. A top Ryzen 9 or Core i9 might top out at 150-250W, but that's not that much higher than Prescott on a bad day, and plenty of people are picking models in the <100 watt power classes. However, the idea of a 400W-by-itself GPU was completely off the field in the early 2000s.
In China, you need to pass through similar security checks to get on high-speed rail between cities too.
I’ve noticed that some of my friends are in better shape, but most are fatter and are in worse shape.

I think lockdowns + wfh pushed most people to one extreme or the other.
> You're effectively asking it to invent a rationale for what you are telling it was the thing it told you last time round.

There’s lots of evidence that this is what people do, too. Asked about their reasoning, people will do things like include information they didn’t have at the time. The part of the mind that moves the fastest doesn’t encode the process to memory[0] but we’re really uncomfortable saying “I don’t know” about our own decisions. So, we rationalize.

If you want to be more accurate, you need to do the same thing of “thinking out loud”, either subvocalization, voice or paper. Even then it’s not perfect. Easy to make up your mind and justify it after.

[0] Which, of course it wouldn’t. You don’t log every line of your fastest piece of code. Then it’s not fast.
It is not 4% per month, that is the yearly rate, as a current value. And it didn't "jump", it went up a tiny bit.

Target inflation for the Bank of Canada is around 2% yearly. The bank did not increase rates the last round, and inflation is dramatically down from a year ago.

It wants to ensure it doesn't over correct.
i'm not sure whether i should be more confused at your implication that three negations of what i said would be what i meant, or that "i don't think anyone can disagree" is a difficult thing to parse
Sure, but the thing you have to understand is that there's no hidden state from the previous answer that can be revealed through extra questions. It's lost all of that state the moment it spits out the reply tokens.
This is legit the first time I've ever heard someone being in favour of going to an airport outside a city by train rather than going to the city centre. If I am ending at the airport anyway I might as well fly there.
mruby is making ruby more lua-like (embeddable, etc.). If this project does AOT compilation well, we might be able to shave lots of interpreter overhead from Ruby for some applications.

I say some applications because there are still people using Ruby to write non-web things, and I doubt if this project will ever support Rails in the short term
Well fuck the feds for snooping on all our conversations honestly. When we don't have privacy, people collectively engaging in edgy irony to the point you can't distinguish the signal from the noise provides people with a level of free speech.
> damages islet cells in the pancreas

That’s behind Type 1 diabetes. The headline suggests Type 2 is the topic?
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For type 2 I can see the risk factors of limited physical activity, but type 1? Type 1 is generally something attacking the pancreas. I've been a long time T1 diabetic, and was diagnosed after I had a long term persistent lung infection.

https://www.niddk.nih.gov/health-information/diabetes/overvi...

>Type 1 diabetes occurs when your immune system, the body’s system for fighting infection, attacks and destroys the insulin-producing beta cells of the pancreas. Scientists think type 1 diabetes is caused by genes and environmental factors, such as viruses, that might trigger the disease.

While covid may not have caused this T1 discrepency, it does need investigated.
COVID directly gave me pre-diabetic symptoms that gradually improved over about 12-18 months. It was really a binary healthy, not healthy switch after the most intense day of sickness.
Unfortunately it doesn't look like the bus and train stations are that close together. Local buses stop at Terminal A, while the train pulls in to the new intermodal station off Terminal C [1], almost a mile away. At least there's an automated people mover connecting them, but it hardly seems like a convenient interchange.

Buses are not even marked on the airport terminal map, which is split into separate maps for terminals A & B [2] and C [3]. That's going to make things more challenging for people to figure out.

1: https://www.orlandoairports.net/getting-around-mco/train-sta...

2: https://www.orlandoairports.net/getting-around-mco/#map-wayf...

3: https://www.orlandoairports.net/getting-around-mco/#map-wayf...
I remember being struck by this when Microsoft Research first started releasing their photosynth technology, some of the demos showed raw flickr dumps for certain large cities, and there were massive clusters of photos around the most famous tourist bits. In fact, the technology somewhat relied on this overlap.
I agree here. An 18% increase in T1D is alarming as that is triggered by an immune system reaction.
> Cash already does that and so does my chip n pin card.

Does the merchant who accepts your chip n pin payment receive the funds in their account immediately after they accept your payment? In the US, merchants have to pay fees and/or interest to get same-day access to that money—because such access effectively functions as an advance on receivables. In most countries, same-day settlement is completely unavailable.

Cash isn't much better. Can a store owner pay for inventory with cash? Maybe some inventory, but most things need to be paid for electronically. Can a retailer process payroll using cash? Turning cash into electronic money is a hassle and a security nightmare. Armored cars exist for a reason, and they aren't free.

Crypto payments can be spent immediately upon receipt. No settlement delay, no need for armored cars.

> There's an advertisement showing in the UK that lampoons crypto. A bloke buys some onions from a stall (ie direct sale from field to consumer) and he is asked which crypto he will use to pay with. The putative buyer says he has a fiver (cash).

Funny. What is the advertisement selling?

> Blockchain transactions require time to work. The ledger has to be updated correctly by agreement with the rest of the network to work and that takes time. I can do a tap to pay and my phone beeps within a very few seconds to note a transaction.

This comment reminds me of the Kodak executives who thought there would never be a market for the digital camera the company had invented, because its resolution was so much lower than that of film.

Your information is out-of-date. Bitcoin is slow. Next-gen crypto is fast. Personally, I'm partial to the lightning network, which finalizes payments in seconds.
I don’t understand what the expense of los gatos has to do with anything

did you go work for Netflix? was it enough to live on in los gatos?

what a random selection of non sequiturs
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Which should push average A1C levels up...
It's worth keeping in mind that Tony's current monthly figure ($45k/mo) is a a single snapshot in time. Past performance is no guarantee of future success. Certainly, a talented engineer consistently making ballpark $100-200/k a year over the same period and saving a reasonable percentage of that is going to be more financially successful and basically guaranteed lifetime of employment at a high tech salary.

Long story short, it's a worthwhile achievement but it only happens to a lucky few. Focusing on building a long term career and becoming quietly rich is probably a better play.
There's truth in grief too. But it's more fun, IF both grief and cynicism are dead.

I'd going to put my foot forward and work in removing every concept in my life that causes grief or cynicism.

The truth is seeing grief and cynicism for what they are, and stepping away from them.

The 'other way' is a step backwards.
"Fringe" in this case means "outside the Overton window", not "only implemented for a short fraction of the history of the human species". Otherwise we'd have to call suburban living and freedom of speech fringe ideas, because the 1st Amendment is only slightly younger than copyright itself and the formation of suburbs is still in living memory for a handful of 100-year-olds.

>>Partially because fringe people who want to change the law make terrible legal arguments

>No one has ever changed the law to benefit the rich, no sirree.

You followed this up with a link to America's mind-numbingly long copyright terms, so I would instead point out that none of those were extended by judicial fiat. Generally a "legal argument" means something argued in front of a judge about how the law is, rather than something argued to Congress about how the law ought to be. The reason why reformers make bad legal arguments is because they're trying to use the legal system to do an end-run around Congress, because the rich people already own Congress.

That being said, they also own the legal system indirectly. It's staffed by professionals who have a vested interest in a set of rich people paying them money. If SCOTUS said tomorrow that, say, 1A overturns the Copyright Clause, half the legal profession would be homeless by the day after.

Also, trademark as copyright is already precluded by the federal preemption clause of US copyright law; you specifically cannot cobble together other rights into something that looks and quacks like a copyright.
When I first heard an American on the internet talk about Netflix mailing DVDs, I thought it was a joke.

Kind of like if someone said TikTok existed in the 90s and they used to mail VHS tapes of people's home recordings.
I’ve always found pressure washing fun and satisfying, but there’s only so much you can do in real life unless you want to make a side hustle of it. Also, lots of things that are fun to do in real life are also fun to do in video games.
> Stressful at the time, better memories now

Yeah - I look back at the crew I worked with and it was stressful, but ultimately we all cared deeply about what we were doing. I wish I could find something like that today.

Access-1 brings back memories. They really had a huge opportunity but from our perspective they blew it.

My memory is weak but IIRC we were desperate for bandwidth and A1 had a copper pair to the local library capable of delivering 2Mbps - which we were told was not actually terminated. We tried to get A1 to talk to us, they said talk to the library, the library refused to meet with us. It all fell apart not long after.

The timeline is hazy now but I think this was a driver for our satellite business, and we ended up outlasting almost everyone - at least until the First Great Consolidation after Comindico hit town.
What I want to know is whether those 2 photographers, Ron Risman & Eric Gendron, became friends from this extreme coincidence.
This would be true if you’re still using Huygens satellite internet lol.
I had a similar issue. I was guessing "is it after <year>", "is it rated <r/pg-13/PG/g>", "is it a comedy", "does it have romance", then tried binary searching for the first letter. I asked if it started with the letter A, and got this:

Congratulations you guessed the movie!

Your score was 500

Congratulations! The movie starts with the letter "A". Keep guessing!

[Restart]
Actually, thinking about it now, the one thing I would prefer is if you could, in a 2-person room, have one participant's messages come up on the left while your own were on the right, or vice versa.

Then it would be more obvious who said what.
Really the changes in type 1 of 18% should be far more alarming...

> Type 1 diabetes rates climbed from 18.5 per 100,000 person-years in 2016 to 2019 to 22.4 per 100,000 person-years from 2020 to 2021.

T1D is an immune system reaction, commonly caused by viral infection or other autoimmune disorder. If the correlation holds in T1D, then there is highly likely some correlation with the even larger increase in T2D, though lack of exercise will be a comorbidity here.
Why do you think it is temporary? You don't seem to understand how much is $700 to a minimum wage worker. Even in SF, that is nearly 1/3 of their income. If we take the common requirement of 3x the rent then this is basically the most a minimum wage worker can afford. Sometimes, people can't do any better than that. Are you saying that even if a person work full time, they don't deserve a better living condition than a box?

This is eye opening to me how the housing situation is viewed by the SF upper class. I have always considered it a dystopian nightmare when the workers have to sleep in a coffin and work full time. It seems not many people in SF share my view.
iOS 17 improves text selection on many fronts, even in edit mode. Try it.
Right. As far as I can tell, MCO doesn't have any real mass transit besides buses. Maybe they're thinking that Brightline will eventually expand into downtown Orlando itself, or will link directly to SunRail[1]?

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SunRail
Or a taxi, car service, friend, family, own cat in a parking lot (already present at an airport), city bus, walking, folding bicycle, transcontinental Starship service (coming soon to MCO) . . .
The tech industry has such bizarre economics. If I told you I had a business with:

- $120M in annual revenue

- 1M fiercely loyal customers who paid every month

- 5 distribution centers spread across the country

- 100 happy employees, each with a tenure of a decade or longer

You'd probably say that I had achieved the definition of success in the business world and should be proud of myself. To Netflix, on the other hand, this business is so irrelevant that they'd rather take it out back and shoot it in the head just to save the bother of continuing to run it.
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Oh, I know. I have self-hosted my main email for something like a couple decades now. I was getting sick of the ISP-provided one changing, either because I switched, or one acquired another and retired the old domain.

I haven't set it up to be a forwarding destination from Gmail, but should.
We do it with two columns, one is an integer identifying which process took the job and the second is the timestamp for when it was taken.