skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Currently pcz is building applications with the `compiling-runtime` option, so variables implicitly escaped from the stack will cause compile error.

For variables you are sure living on the stack, you can use `mark.NoEscape(&v)` to obtain its pointer (a hack to cheat escape analysis found in the official runtime & reflect package), and the variable will be freed on function return.

For variables you want to control lifecycle, call `alloc.New` or `alloc.Make` with a explicit allocator, which can be an allocator whose storage is on the previous call stack (and there is a default goroutine local allocator thread.G().G().DefaultAlloc()) to allocate a non-stack-local variable, and call `alloc.Free` with the same allocator to free that variable.

The use of `make` is discouraged as go compiler does mid-stack inlining and escape analysis, so the return value of a `make` can be either on stack or on heap, thus to free it, the allocator needs to compare the address to thread.G().Stack.Lo and thread.G().Stack.Hi.
No such thing as colo for most crypto exchanges, at least not officially. But your general point still stands. This is a cute project that's likely useless for anything serious. People go to great lengths to shave a bunch of ms off these feeds.
Another 'floxie' here.

While mine was 'mild' it was still scary as I was prescribed Cipro along with an NSAID which is contradicted in the Cipro literature.

My issues were the joint and tendon pain to an extent, but mostly neuropathy related like tingling, feeling 'static' all over, twitching muscles/spasms, etc. I also had the anxiety, derealization and digestive issues.

Eventually I started feeling better (reading recovery stories online helped) and today only have minor issues such as occasional joint pain, inability to tolerate NSAIDs, on/off digestive issues, and rarely the nerve issues. I can walk long distances, but do find exercising to be a struggle still.

Like you, I tried with a doctor once and just gave up. I have a little warning note in my wallet not to administer any FQs outside of life saving requirements.

It's sad that to this date, they are still handed out like candy for the slightest suspected infection when there are plenty of better tolerated and less dangerous alternatives.
My son was also in this class and there is a video of when they applaud her and she tries to continue with the lesson.
Looks good, will check it out. There is also BookWyrm, which works with decentralized, ActivityPub-servers: https://joinbookwyrm.com/
Ordinals and references, like this:

① Draw some circles

② Draw the rest of the owl

Commentary: ① is simple but ② is masking many complex steps that are necessary to draw an owl.
Me too. It’s just a fantastic product.

Spend 30 seconds interacting with the inept criminal organization that is Regus/Spaces and you’ll appreciate WeWork even more.
I wonder where they've set the bar in terms of security. Are the phones 99% manufactured in China, but ship two pieces, screw them together and call it 'Made in EU'. Are the phones shipped in some tamper evident bags or have anti-interdiction like Librem 5[0]? Have they build any advanced security features for the phone, or is it mainly for ticking a box in some compliance 'yes yes, a local made phone'.

[0]: https://puri.sm/posts/anti-interdiction-on-the-librem-5-usa/
That's not a real question. Pulp isn't juice. Might as well leave the seeds in and maybe a few leaves for good measure.
+1 for Onno!
Interestingly, the UK Post Office injustice scandal seems to have occurred because they (and their contractors) couldn't get to the bottom of errors in a local-store distributed system, and ended up blaming (and prosecuting!) Users. And that was just a distributed append only message store, not something as complex as CRDTs
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stop hacking me bro

(ended up on this comment after clicking "reply" on a different comment on a completely different post. just a random glitch or is something up?)

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As far as I can tell, fraudulent ads are legal in the US, but this is not true of all jurisdictions; UK viewers can report fraudulent ads to the Advertising Standards Agency.

https://www.asa.org.uk/news/like-comment-and-comply-youtube-...

(not that this does very much, since the outcome is very rarely actual fines, just a requirement to stop running the ad)
> I really think return to office is finally a thing after the summer.

Ancedatally, companies are gradually increasing the number of days people need to be in the office.
I feel the same way. The first time years ago Mint asked for my login and promised to keep it safe, although providing no accountability if they were breached, I noped out and thought their product was doomed.

Now tons of places use it.

The privacy policy I read for plaid is interesting in that it would allow for things like monitoring my balances and velocity of cash flow and then selling that data, at least to plaid partners, which is pretty much everyone.

I cynically think the push to “authenticate” with these financial deep inspection tools is to be able to identify more lucrative customers.

I do have a zero dollar checking account that I give out and just push cash into to pay bills that I can use. The biggest risk of losing those account credentials is to mess up bill pay or to have them apply for credit or something.
> I dislike this "negotiate by brinkmanship" approach intensely

It's because you have ethics.
For the most part lenders can’t really negotiate until a payment is missed.
Go ahead and try to load a billion embeddings into Mongo or Elastic. The author says this will be "faster, cheaper, and simpler..." Will it?

(Disclaimer: I work for Pinecone, so obvious bias ahead but also perspective of 3 years since launching the Vector DB category and actually seeing billion-scale vector search deployments.)

> Basically, having separate vector DBs can add to cost and complexity. Imagine you were a MongoDB shop, with over 500m documents stored cross-region. If you are using a separate vector DB, say Pinecone, that may require moving potentially billions of embeddings between two databases, cross regions. This costs a lot, not to mention complex, since you are responsible for generating the embeddings... It’s faster, cheaper, and simpler if one database (Mongo, Elastic) just supported vector search.

If you want, say, 100ms search latency on just 100M vector embeddings in Elastic that'll already cost you $12,600 per month at minimum. And if you regularly write new or updated data to the index then your latencies will creep up until eventually you have to run a "force merge" which will grind your vector search to a halt for several hours (so much for easy and simple). I don't know how much it is on Mongo but given that it's bolting on the same vector index I would guess it's in the same ballpark. The cost grows sublinearly with more embeddings. (Pinecone is around 60% less than that, and will be even less soon.) The suggestion that having "billions" of embeddings in a traditional DB is easier and less costly shows you exactly why you should run your own tests and see for yourself.

When traditional database companies bolt-on vector indexing libraries such as HNSW[0] on top of their existing architecture, it's to meet demand from their existing users that have a relatively basic need for vector search.

For very basic and small-scale use cases, like <10M vectors with a relaxed data freshness requirement, you should just use whatever is the most convenient. Sometimes that's Pinecone, and sometimes that's the database you already have. (And if your current DB doesn't offer basic vector search, just wait two days).

When it comes to larger scale, like 100M+ vectors, if you want any hope of meeting performance, cost, and data freshness requirements then you should look at a purpose-built vector database. As GenAI workloads start to enter production and scale, a lot of people will see find this out the hard way.

This has been true for every unique data structure and querying pattern for the past 40 years and it’s true for vector embeddings and vector-based retrieval. You can't blame the proliferation of different database types on hype and VC funding alone.

But don't take my word for it either. Go and run some tests that resemble your production workloads, then do what makes sense for your use case!

[0] https://www.pinecone.io/learn/series/faiss/hnsw/
I lost 15kgs in the pandemic as I was turning 50 and decided I didn't want to be fat and 50.

The only way I did it was to log all my food and keep to a calorie limit every day. I get people that ask me how I did it all the time and I tell them I ate less food and they all look disappointed like I was going to tell them some magic trick. I've managed to keep the weight off by really only eating one meal per day, in the evening.

Exercise is good and important in itself but it won't help you lose weight, outside of extreme levels of activity.
iirc often also with lots of fake comments claiming it's legit
In-person, same-air is objectively different experience from a video or audio call—higher bandwidth, unmediated, spontaneous, visceral… not something one can “get out of” as if it was just a habit.

Perhaps some find IRL distracting, so they suffer less and have easier time compensating for the difference between in-person and remote. Meanwhile, some others are good communicators who thrive with and make the most out in-person, and for them it’s more of a challenge to WFH. I personally suspect many of those who want to WFH are naturally not that great at remote communication without realizing so.

I personally had insightful office conversations that started as tangents from semi-idle chance chats and would be impossible remotely, since in an online meeting you must be mindful of others’ time because you don’t know how busy they are (IRL you can sense if a person would rather be doing something else, but you know it can be perfectly faked remotely—so you will never have a chance convo; meetings must have agendas—culture!—and once the agenda is over, everyone gets to be free). Such random conversations can easily alter the course of whole projects.

I don’t see WFH vs. RTO as a black-and-white, high culture vs. lack of culture, good vs. evil sort of battle; more like people have different natural tendencies, life circumstances, desires, and everyone wants it to work best for them.
There is nothing in here actionable to anyone.

Reuters says they conducted an 'exhaustive review' which amounts to:

- In a government adverse event database there are 256 reports of suicidal thoughts or actions among people who took Wegovy

- these cover the period 2010-2023

- some of the reports may be duplicates

- No analysis or even discussion of base rates

- many paragraphs of irrelevancies.
Wonder if drinking something like Yakult while eating the heavy meal would work?

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

Am kind of thinking that the "rotting in your stomach" would be countered by the probiotic bacteria doing their thing.
The amount of resources and other stuff that the LF provides to the Linux kernel community has increased over the years, including last year. Just because new people are brought in with new projects (that the LF member companies want to host) does not mean that somehow less is being given to the kernel community at all. It is not a zero-sum game here at all, that's not how the LF works in any way.

Again, this would have been easy to verify if someone just asked us.

So to repeat, no "abandonment" is happening here at all, the opposite is happening, just like it has for the entirety of the LF's existence, support has grown every year.
> The 'do something else' is the community caring. Perhaps it's incorrect

If the community cared, wouldn’t they answer the question instead of ignoring the question that was asked?
Are you sure? They’ve always been 24 hours 365 days a year for building members, and typical office hours for day pass visitors (9-6 Monday to Friday) — that hasn’t changed (here in London at least).

Edit: https://help.wework.com/s/article/en-us-articles-11500388166...
Assuming 6% (3% * 2) and assuming you bought again at $3M, the agent made $180,000 off you, saving you only $20k.

Now you may have been able to do this with a discount broker or not, nobody will know. But they didn't net you $200k.
It still matters for life and disability insurance.
I am finding myself often fighting an overly naive code formatter that is "opinionated" and has not much of a way of configuring it, except for maybe line length.

It is so naive, that I cannot make it keep long log lines but break other long line. It has no way of distinguishing those. So I might have 5 lines of log over 2 lines of code, just because of that. So logs get more screen real estate than the actual code and that is so silly.

Then it will undo my own line breaking of procedure calls, if the call could theoretically fit onto the max line length. Only when I add a trailing comma after the last argument I can prevent it from doing its silly changes, that only serve to reduce readability.

It will also complain about long comment lines. So when I have a long line starting with "# TODO:" I would like to keep in 1 line, because when I search for TODO, I will see all of it in the search result.

Most formatters are annoyingly naive and format code so that it becomes less readable than what a capable developer, who cares about readability will output.
Google makes money, so they are happy to look away. The scams (e.g. Mr Beast fake video) are identical so it would be trivial to automatically kick them from the platform. The crypto bro's ads are also pretty much identical.

The crypto bro ads are hilarious and it looks like they all use the same platform. I wonder if all of them are part of a ponzi scheme in which someone sells a course to sell crypto courses.

Something I do, which is a bit silly, is to click the ad just to burn money from the scammers.
Do we need even social science?
Does social SCIENCE even exists?
Isn't behavioural biology 'nuff to describe the pathetic monkey horde?
Elastic does a great job with it. My one-person company builds software that mirrors emails from IMAP accounts to ElasticSearch, and adding a vector search on top of that data to "chat" with emails was fairly simple. I was expecting there to be an untold number of hurdles, but the only requirement was to have at least v8.8.0 of ElasticSearch (this was when they increased the supported vector sizes so that OpenAI embeddings would fit into it), and that's it. https://docs.emailengine.app/chat-with-emails-using-emaileng...
Yes, I should have caveated that: 128kbit mp3 from a decent encoder is transparent to average listeners.

To a “trained” ear that is listening out for the differences? Sure, those are perceptible. But those aren’t normal people.
Well said. I too was looking at IPFS few times, but hardly could find a place to use it. Im a big fan of distributed storage or self hosting, but IPFS is far too static for anything usefull, except maybe archives of import static blobs.
It is difficult to get Google to fix something when their income depends on it remaining broken.
That’s what OWE is supposed to fix https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opportunistic_Wireless_Encrypt...
I like WeWork but I’m not sure I’m rooting for them. They pioneered the model, they got in over their skis and expanded too fast and took their eye of the ball with a million distractions.

They deserve failure. I believe the model does work and that some other company content to work on a smaller scale will find plenty of success with it. Here in NYC there are already a number of them.
Road damage is proportional to the fourth power of axle weight, so this might be a good idea; most of the damage is from a small fraction of heavy vehicles, mostly lorries.
Good luck!

I think these new drugs might be very effective intervention for a lot of people, and I really hope it helps you.
> Furthermore, I think journalists doing statistics must be destroyed.

Because you think there are no journalists out there that can do statistics, or because you think they will always use it to make their own point?
A duopoly in search that throws some crumbs to the former big-tech monopoly would be a definite improvement over the current monopoly /s.

IANAL and don't particularly care about the minutiae and merits and politics of individual cases in the context of antiquated anti-trust laws. A lucrative monopoly allowed to operate over long periods can and will identify its own weak points and the abilities and competitive threats of the market. It will have more than ample resources to mitigate them. Whether that monopoly dominance is secured in legal, border-line legal or illegal ways is a mute point.

In a healthy economy there should not be any monopolies unless they are very heavily regulated. We should celebrate commercial success up to a point but be deeply suspicious of winner-takes-all degeneration that is justified on the basis of bogus arguments (network effects, superior quality etc).

This rationale is even more important in the context of digital technology where the foundations of the current and future digital economy are being laid. And no, a Google Web [1] is not a good blueprint for the digital economy. Neither is a cozily arranged Google-Microsoft Web for that matter. For this new type of economy to flourish the "web" should be really neutral, not the fiefdom of this or that oligopoly extracting rents and holding everything back.

[1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/willskipworth/2023/10/02/the-in...
I've been flagging some of these scams lately and one did get banned but others have not, they were all some version of the BBC or a US talk show host interviewing Elon Musk stating that he is investing in something. The dubbing is terrible, i don't understand how they say the they are valid ads.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyrotherapy
A very large portion of ads on Indian YouTube is some charlatan inviting to join masterclass/workshop/seminar where they try to brainwash you into buying a "course that will change you life".

Most of these fake gurus have been exposed but YouTube keeps running their ad.
I'm a recent but heavy user of Shorts and have never noticed this since I started. I've also noticed a reduction in the amount of alt-right dog-whistle type content that I was getting. It's possible improvements are being made.
> Almost all of the centrally located ones around the City have been like ghost towns. Sometimes it seems there are only 2-3 people in the whole building, especially Monday and Friday.

Awesome. They just gained a customer. It's probably the best time to work there.
Omg. Yesterday I watched an ad that explained in an AI voice how tinnitus causes memory loss and within three years I’ll be unable to form any new memories. It was absolutely ridiculous, low effort, overseas fraud.

Google has become a toilet of the Internet. The ad quality and quantity have degraded severely this year. I still think that based on how much they’re selling out any remaining trust or brand quality, they must be secretly struggling in a very bad way.
I think it's less a case of it being difficult and more a case of there being little to no incentive (in the short term, anyway) to do a good job of it. Fake/illegal ads pay the same as real ads
It's generally offered by the government through the EB-5 green card program.
oh i believe it. was merely hoping for more.
I am homeless and on disability and I live in a minivan. I drive a lot because I have to. The percent I would have to pay in taxes of my income would be far higher than someone who is rich. That is what a regressive tax means.
DataGrip is heavy. It takes seconds to launch and while it must be quite feature complete, the interface is cluttered.

Currently using TablePlus and while I have a few problems with it, it's snappy and mostly fine. Tried Beekeeper some years ago but might as well try again.
I know of a few companies in London who’ve rented large private spaces in WeWork’s after closing private offices during the pandemic. The WeWork’s were barely used so they’ve forced people back over the last few months. Noise and lack of meeting rooms are big issues. As is sound proofing of meeting rooms, WiFi speed, and general office etiquette (not WeWork’s fault). At times the person in the next room drowns out the person you’re actually video conferencing with. After working in a wide variety of coworking spaces in London over the years I avoid them like the plague. A private office, even if it’s open plan, is 100x better.
Speaking of shitty Web app office suites... I had to use Sharepoint/word the other day. What an absolutely buggy mess that was. Bits of the document would randomly break while someone else was editing elsewhere, every table I inserted was in a supposition of "ok", "messed up", and "completely broken" until I closed the document and returned the next day. Random hot keys would just not work or perform nonsensical unrelated actions. The list goes on...
You might be interested in AdNauseum [0]

> Built atop uBlock Origin, AdNauseam quietly clicks on every blocked ad, registering a visit on ad networks' databases.

[0]: https://adnauseam.io/
CQS is one of those things that make sense on the first glance, but the more you look at them, the less sense they do. I mean, if you send a (synchronous) command, shouldn't you at least get a success/error indication as a return value? I've met someone who argued against even that, insisting that all commands must be void nothrow, and I should use separate queries to figure out the results. And yes, I should generate UUIDs at every interaction and hope that collisions don't arise, and if somebody tries to do a replay attack, well, that's such an unlikely scenario it can be safely disregarded.

There is a reason that procedure/function split has been largely abandoned in the 80s; but at least procedure could have var/out parameters or have pointers for arguments.
Lost in all this: Why haven’t the doctors recanted?
I don’t understand why these ads aren’t considered criminal fraud, why Google and its directors aren’t held criminally responsible for said fraud, and why all the income derived from such fraud is considered proceeds of crime and seized.

Oh, wait, I do understand. It’s because criminal law is only really meant for the little people who sold some marijuana and not the corporations facilitating massive worldwide fraud.

If I help personally defraud one person? Straight to jail. But Google helps defraud millions of people? Here please take some more taxpayer cash.
I can give you an example right now on something I’m working on.

I have an algorithm that either gets something correct or it doesn’t. My measurement system is also not infallible and will sometimes give out the wrong data, such that it is not possible to know whether the algorithm got it wrong, or the original data was wrong.

We still use the combined error as a KPI since it gives an overall health of the system, even though we cannot know the individual error rates. If the KPI tanks it tells us something is wrong and we can investigate. Could be the algorithm, could be the measurement equipment. It’s not perfect, but not having any KPI would mean we would be completely blind to any problems at all.

You will find the world is not perfect and compromises have to be made.
Can't say I'm opposed to police acting with more agency when confronting the Breviks and Tarrants of the world. But a bureaucratic procedure enacted by the state isn't going to deter an individual operating on passion or religious adherence to a faulty belief system.