skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It can be stated as follows:

The number of documents (denoted as N) to search over consumes resources and increases the overall latency of the search infrastructure. However, the amount of traffic ebbs and flows. Under periods of lower traffic, we likely can increase N to provide good search results without violating latency constraints. Conversely, high traffic periods likely requires lower values of N.

Let's then approximate system strain by p99 (or p99.XXX) latency.

Solution:

Use a PID controller to set N as a function of latency (p99, p99.5, etc.) of the cluster. This leads to the outcome where N reduces when p99 latency starts to spike (resource starvation), and increases when p99 is low.
Woods? If wood can survive so can plastic in this hypothetical world. Just keep water away from the plastic.
Which is then immediately contradicted by the following FAQ:

> I REPRESENT, OR KNOW OF, A COMPANY THAT COULD DO YOUR T-SHIRT FULFILLMENT REALLY INEXPENSIVELY. ... We have made the move away from using t-shirts as a reward in the interests of making global delivery of rewards simpler and to ensure Hacktoberfest continues supporting and raising awareness for open-source projects worldwide for years to come.

Disappointing really. Always looked forward to the cool designs and having a complete set for each year back-to-back. Not sure why they can't let people just opt-in purchase the shirt if they qualify.
> "what happens if you get hit by a bus?" or b) create a product for customers to whom that doesn't matter.

I simply read this as "what guarantee do I (the customer) have that you'll be around tomorrow?" I don't see where investors come in to this piece of advice.

If a big company takes a risk in locking in to your product, they want some assurances (I've seen them ask for stuff like business continuity plans, code escrow, etc.)
Sorry - I don't see how this relates to Google paying Apple to be the default search engine.
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full disclosure: I work for YosysHQ, who have an alternative open-source place-and-route program - [nextpnr](https://github.com/YosysHQ/nextpnr/) - and YosysHQ presently has [a grant](https://activities.esa.int/4000141380) from ESA on improving nextpnr.

to be blunt: nextpnr is what happens when you look at VPR as prior art and base every design decision around doing the opposite of VPR.

VPR is flexible, true: you can define an architecture description inside an XML file, but I view the VPR XML format to be poorly considered.

- commonly in an FPGA you will have "legality constraints" - for example, a block of LUTs cannot simultaneously be in carry-chain mode and act as LUT RAM. to produce a legal solution, all these constraints must be satisfied. to nextpnr this is [two basic](https://github.com/YosysHQ/nextpnr/blob/master/docs/archapi....) [API calls](https://github.com/YosysHQ/nextpnr/blob/master/docs/archapi....). to vpr, you must [walk the architecture](https://github.com/verilog-to-routing/vtr-verilog-to-routing...) to discover and cache legal placement positions.
- VPR often requires significantly more detail about an FPGA than is easy to provide; for example, [how switchboxes are laid out](https://docs.verilogtorouting.org/en/latest/arch/reference/#...), or [routing metal resistance/capacitance](https://docs.verilogtorouting.org/en/latest/arch/reference/#...). to nextpnr, routing is just nodes and edges on a graph.

Further, VPR's algorithms tend not to be designed with performance in mind; simulated annealing as a placement method does not scale well past the tens of thousands of LUTs, which is why nextpnr moved from full simulated annealing to [heterogenous analytic placement](https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/6339278), and recently we have been working on a [multi-electrostatic placer](https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3489517.3530568); both significantly more scalable methods based on using mathematical optimisation methods to place things nearby.
That's why I don't pay attention to any new Google products, which always come out to be a wasteful investment.
They care about own safety, not about the service segmentation here. If the packets themselves could be dangerous for some reason (for example exploits for the core routing hardware), of course net neutral ISPs would drop them too.
I thought that this had been the conventional view for a while now. Certainly it is what i have believed for many years, that the Luddites were reacting to iniquitous working practices and market forces.
> I'm assuming that the falling popularity of monogamy means it's headed in the same direction again

How would the falling popularity of monogamy cause this?
One important mechanism for changing habits is to join a community of people who are practicing the habits you wish to practice. A thoughtful, intentional choice of whom to associate with is one of the most powerful forms of agency we possess.

Zooming out a bit, local communities of people who practice virtuous habits are an indispensable cornerstone of society, for by them we gain agency to desire and do what is virtuous.
This is the HN comment thread on a well-written skeptical article with this zinger:

“You can imagine my disappointment when, out-of-the-box, Prophet was beaten soundly by a ‘take the last value’ forecast.”
I've been re-watching the course taught by Gilbert Strang!

I cannot overstate how good of a teacher he is. Things click into place while watching him teach.
Do you think I'm the only user here who bought an iPhone?
At least the Luddites eventually had other work to go to. This time around I'm not so sure of that.
Have you seen Uber's turnover rate? Most people do quit.
The plugin code itself is outputted on page it just sounds like it’s not being written to your file system? Okay so when you go to the plugins page is the generated plugin there? If not this sounds like a file permissions error preventing the plugin files from being uploaded. Do you have any Security plugins active by any chance or manual rules to prevent writing to file system with a plugin?
Here's a fundamental truth that HNers can't or won't accept: Consumers don't care about privacy, at all. Maybe conceptually, they might object to Big Tech knowing as much as they do, but it doesn't affect their decisions in any way. They simply don't care that Google Maps is always tracking their location, that an Echo Show has a camera and mic that can be remotely activated, that TikTok is logging their viewing habits down to the millisecond, nor that their Smart TVs are logging their media choices. They just don't care. It doesn't affect their willingness to use or buy technology in the slightest. The comment you quoted and your agreement shows this quite plainly.

This actually bodes well for AI services, as they will be more useful the more they know about you. Your age, gender, sexual preferences, religion, work, family, possessions, money, tax records, account logins, schedule, habits, health records, etc. will help AIs to help you. This is the inevitable end game for AI services, so the fact that your average joe has no real conviction about privacy will hasten that future.

Side note: If your business or product plan includes "privacy" as one of its core features, expect limited success as you're targeting a very niche part of the market. No one cares.
It's interesting to read about thomas gold's theories about hydrocarbons.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abiogenic_petroleum_origin

To me it makes sense that some or all hydrocarbons are or at least started like the hydrocarbons found on other planets in our solar system.
The personal aspect would be connections to your contacts, apps and devices (if you have that kind of thing). If it was smart/reliable enough it could book appointments, order dinner, plan your weekend based on events people pinged you about.. that kind of thing.

That is, if you trust it enough to plug into your personal ecosystem and spend your money..
The worst is when people complain about "unlikable" characters or not being able to "identify" with them. Who cares? The book wasn't written so you could make imaginary friends and has zero to do with its literary merits.
Anthropomorphic Cues on Human Perception of Non-Human Robots: The Role of Gender
What do you mean by "row column in Postgres"? It's confusing. Could you please clarify that?
I believe there was a RadioLab episode that discussed schizophrenia and reduced thermoregulation. Very interesting; it explained why some schizophrenic people wear lots a clothes (a phenomenon one might notice out on the city streets). Could also be used as an early diagnostic tool.
See Angela Duckworth's "Grit"-based cottage industry ("A 2013 MacArthur Fellow, Angela has advised the World Bank, NBA and NFL teams, and Fortune 500 CEOs.") The grandmaster of the form is Yuval Noah Harari, who, among other things, has parlayed his pop histories into children's books and graphic novels.
Do you have evidence of the Washington Post doing that?

I know evidence the contrary: The Post is clearly on the Democrat side, and it's Democrats that seek more regulation and who are suing Amazon.
Hits two of the 3 Rs of recycling -- reduce and resuse!
Historically, surveillance has always been used in the context of detective work, police, spying, security, crime prevention, supervision, etc. No one thought of data collection for the purpose of improving services and serving ads as "surveillance" until a few years ago when critics of Google started abusing that term.
Looks pretty neat. Having not fully investigated it yet, I will say the one thing I usually run into with this and other BI tools is a lack of flexibility in the UI for forming queries. It's sometimes limited to one table or view at a time. I wonder why more of them don't use more flexible querying techniques, perhaps just due to the risk of a bad query being formed?

My preferred approach is implemented in Zillion, which I use for BI at my company:
https://github.com/totalhack/zillion
Hi, fyi I am working on a from-scratch implementation (currently llama2 on linux focused) in Fortran, CPU only but in my initial test about as fast as llama.cpp. Currently has fp16 and 4-bit quantization and I hope this week to finish support for ggml files - I based it off of Karpathy's llama2.c and so it uses that format now which is not great. Llama.cpp is the leader and has more diverse hardware support, for CPU inference and simplicity (complexity of llama.cpp had exploded) there is still room for competition I believe.
https://github.com/rbitr/llama2.f90
Once I make it a bit easier to use I want to promote it more.
Okay so take the FTC out of it. Let’s say we’re writing the laws from scratch today. Why would store brand generics be outlawed?
I'm not saying you're wrong (I've never tried to raise a round!) but I meant that in the context in which I've encountered it, which is in sales to enterprise/larger users who absolutely do expect that if I am hit by a bus there is someone else who can ensure continuity of service.
I hope that's sarcasm.

https://support.apple.com/en-us/102149
https://support.apple.com/guide/security/system-integrity-pr...
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Superconductor Paper Hailed as Breakthrough Misrepresented Data, Co-Authors Say
Table salt has sodium in it. You’re proving my point. Sodium is in both table salt and chemical weapons. Different things but if you consume sodium chloride you’re still getting the sodium before you kick the bucket.

MDMA has meth in it along with the other stuff. When you consume it, you’re in part consuming meth. This isn’t complex. Alloys have different types of metals in them. They form a new end result, but the different metals are still there. I’m confused why folks are saying what they are

> 3,4-Methyl enedioxy methamphetamine (MDMA), commonly known as ecstasy (tablet form); and molly or mandy (crystal form),[15][16] is a potent empathogen–entactogen with stimulant and minor psychedelic properties primarily used for recreational purposes

It’s literally in the name. It’s listed as an effect of the drug (stimulant)

> MDMA is structurally similar to mescaline (a hallucinogen), methamphetamine (a stimulant), as well as endogenous monoamine neurotransmitters such as serotonin, norepinephrine, and dopamine

> MDMA is a substituted amphetamine structurally, and a monoamine-releasing agent mechanistically
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I just tested with MS Edge and it 100% opened in Safari.

And most frustrating is when you had Safari in private browsing mode, then shortcut (not pwa app) is also opened in private mode as new tab...
> The simplest pro-Amazon case is that they do not have monopoly power, because they are not a monopoly.

It's also odd that their retail business doesn't make any money if they're supposed to have market power.
I gave up my smartphone and swtiched to a burner. Mostly an accident -- I bought the burner for travel, but then dropped my Pixel.

Biggest struggle was texting -- hard to do when you're pressing number keys -- and no Maps.

Everything else I could get around by bringing my laptop with me, or by moving / planning / scheduling better. Before I could just kinda go and figure it out on the way, get planted and read reddit on my phone, maybe see what was open near my in terms of coffee or food and roll with it. Couldn't do that with a burner.

2FA for personal stuff wasn't too bad, I had a tablet at home and that worked. Most 2FA stuff I didn't do anywhere except at home (disclaimer: also work remotely).

I could make it work, but after a while decided I didn't want to. Easier to scale down smartphone use or try to touch it less, than try to make the burner phone hacks work.
Here's some other similar Python packages for forecasting:

- https://nixtla.github.io/neuralforecast/

- https://github.com/ourownstory/neural_prophet
I think they mean to archive it via archive.org
The hospital my mom is a nurse for is currently building an apartment building next door for the workers that can't afford the rent in a small Ohio city.

I'm a little concerned about these developments.
The n-grams aren't wrong, but it is a real problem that the underlying corpus distribution changes massively over time (in this case, proportion of academic vs. non-academic works).

This is a really devilish problem with no easy answer.

Because on the one hand, it's certainly easy enough to normalize by genre -- e.g. fix academic works at 20%, popular magazines at 20%, fiction books at 40%, and so forth.

But the problem is that the popularity of genres changes over time separately in terms of supply and demand, as well as consumption of printed material overall. Fiction written might increase while fiction consumed might decrease. Or the consumption of books might decrease as television consumption increases.

So there isn't any objectively "right" answer at all.

But it would be nice if Google allowed you to plot popularity by genre -- I think that would help a lot in terms of determining where and how words become more or less common.
I can't help but think that Amazon should be replaced with a non-profit or regulated public utility that provides a single unified online marketplace, part of internet infrastructure like ICANN. Sellers would select among competing fulfillment services (warehouse+shipping). Platform referral fees would go toward customer remediation, anti-counterfeiting, and review integrity.

I don't merely say this as a "fuck Amazon" reflex or a "fuck capitalism" reflex. I say it because it obviously would allow so much of the dying segment of mom and pop small business to become viable again. Just from a policy perspective it's a home run because it's a way to juice GDP, improve consumer purchasing power, AND reduce income inequality.

As a matter of fact I would suggest that Amazon as it exists is anti-capitalist. It is feudal. Capitalism is the deployment of capital and assumption of risk in pursuit of new value creating activity. Amazon is not marshalling new capital to innovate or improve its digital marketplace. Rather, Amazon simply owns digital real estate and extracts rent, like some kind of futuristic dystopian corpo-baron.

The best part of all this is that Amazon doesn't have to be forcibly nationalized or broken up or anything like that. The government just needs to support and endorse a good alternative, because Amazon seriously sucks.
They are physical causes but they are abstracted from matter. The underlying cause originates from the math/logic, not the material instantiation. Physicalism is often conflated with materialism, but the world is physically constituted by more than matter!

A lot of this world is obviously caused by the inherent formal influence of math and logic. There are ongoing mysteries in this, to be sure, but these forms are beyond matter. I’m speaking from the Pythagorean-Platonic-Tegmark school of thought. I’m trying to address the typical atheist layperson scientist who hasn’t thought through immaterial reality (rejecting it as supernatural, thinking it involves ghosts or spirits or something). I know there are reasonable counter positions to argue why math isn’t real, but I don’t subscribe.
UK pubs to ban “same again?” or “is that a double?” to “not enocourage drinking”
Doesn't the suggested alternative "what would you like this time?" also encourage drinking? How about "are you all set?"
You ever give OrbStack a go?
I used Docker Desktop before it but find OrbStack to be a lot faster and native feeling.
Can it only visualize matmul operations? It would be great if it could visualize other operations as well, such as the dot product.
Model development on Prophet stopped this year: https://medium.com/@cuongduong_35162/facebook-prophet-in-202...

They recommend checking out these for cutting-edge time series forecasting:

https://neuralprophet.com/

https://nixtla.github.io/statsforecast/
I'm more or less with you, except for ...

> We'd 100% still be using Flash

Oh no? I remember that whole thing, and being thoroughly confused. I was able to watch videos on websites on my Android phone that iPhone users couldn't, and it had no noticeable effect on my battery life.

I'm not saying we should all go to defend Flash, but I strongly suspect Apple killing Flash had a lot more to do with the fact that using Flash got around App Store policies (you could do _a lot_ using Flash), than battery life.
I should point out that even the F4PGA page [admits](https://f4pga.readthedocs.io/en/latest/how.html) that ECP5 and iCE40 support is done through nextpnr, rather than VPR.

(actually nextpnr has slowly-maturing support for Lattice MachXO{2,3}, Intel Cyclone V and Gowin parts too)
CalcGPT
I’ve been using spinneret + htmx + lass[1] + parenscript (as needed) + hunchentoot for various interactive applications for a while. I don’t have a ton to show, but it’s a nice quick way to quickly produce one-off apps. And, with htmx’s websocket capabilities, you can use the browser as a sort of repl sidecar for visualizing things (together with something that generates svg)

[1]: https://github.com/Shinmera/LASS
Presumably it's just a coincidence we are pretty close to the middle?
Where in the PNW? I'm in the Spokane area; happy to connect. Maybe I can help you out with the endeavor, or just provide encouragement.
(And #3, no, it doesn't matter.)
> I'm currently running a Journal of Open Source Software x86 container on aarch64 and it's terribly slow

There's your issue. Use an aarch64 image.
Amazon does not have a monopoly on online shopping that’s absurd. Chewy, Wayfair, Target, Walmart, AliExpress all are huge competitors.
>I don't want to download apps from alternative app stores. I want them to be available in App Store and to be submitting to all of the curation rules.

Even if alternative app stores were allowed you'd more than likely never be forced to use them. Alternative stores are available on Android and yet the overwhelming majority of apps are still on the play store. The idea that Facebook, Amazon, Google or whoever would pull their apps and force you to use their store is complete FUD that ignores that the overwhelming majority of users wouldn't tolerate an app not being on Apples store.
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If they aren't great then neither are doctors and the word becomes meaningless.

Context is important. 66% accuracy on cases that stumped doctors and took extensive testing is not trivial. It's not the same as 66% accuracy for everyday diagnosis.
glaring misuse of it's in the title
> The never ending screw turning cost optimization is the problem, but using that example lands really flat.

I worked in logistics (elsewhere) for a decade, and quit when conditions shifted to incentivize smoking meth and pissing in jugs. It's abusive and just fucking gross.

I assume you aren't pissing in jugs to save time for longer lunch breaks. Why not?

Nobody pisses in jugs unless they're forced to. The example only falls flat because Bezos escaped the gravity well in his dick-rocket and it's really fucking hard to hurl bottles of piss into space with a sling.
So you want to make financial transactions more expensive and make the market less liquid? What good can come of this?

Fewer stock market bubbles, less asset inflation.
The numbers I got were more like 9%.

You can also go to specific chains and look up their sourcing; Wendys sources from "steers and heifers", but all much younger than the average dairy cow cull age.

It's not that I have a high opinion of fast food beef. I just think it's unlikely that they could come close to meeting demand by sourcing from culled cows.
Most is not reused, or only reused with limited capacity
> The study sheds light on the links between steroid use and psychopathology. However, it also has limitations that need to be considered. Notably, the study design does not allow any conclusions about causes and effects to be derived.

I like this part in the text.

I lift weights regularly for many years, can pass requirements for 2-3rd class sportsman in powerlifting, weighted pull ups, weighted dips.

( requirements for different sexes and weight categories: https://www.sportscategory.info/powerlifting )

I do not use steroids, but plenty of my friends do.

Some take them to perform well in competitions. Unlike athletes mentioned in the article they work out more than average weight lifter.

Steroids do not give muscles for free, they just allow faster progress, and faster recovery. Natural athlete will not be able to handle training plan that person on steroids can. For example, Arnold Schwarzenegger talks in his book "Total Recall" on how he trained twice a day, every day with heavy weights.

Other people that I talked to were not satisfied with their appearance, I would say they were insecure, lifting weights did not give much results and they use steroids to address the issue. Many of them are ectomorphs. When I ask them - do you want to stop and become natural athlete, they say no.

They also mention is that high testosterone gives them more confidence, less stress, high sex drive. They are not ready to give it away and get back to the insecure, stressful life, much smaller attention from women even if steroids have negative side effects.

I guess they have some mental deviations (I wanted to say issues, but sounds too strong) and insecurities. How they are perceived by others is a big chunk of their identity. Would not be surprised if they were prone to some psychological problems without steroid use.

1)
> The study encompassed 118 previous and current male steroid users and 97 weightlifters who confirmed they had never used steroids.

It is a very small number

2)
Even if results of the study are statistically significant mental issues and steroid use are only correlation and assuming that steroids lead to problems with your head is an overkill, which authors of the paper clearly state, but readers may not see.

P.S. Steroids have so many negative side effects that it is a mystery for me, why one decides to use them. Although I do not feel that have problems with my body and appearance overall.