skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Whereas if they have two separate $1 charges, that reduces the loss somehow

This is what is being questioned. I've spent several years working in merchant processing, and I've never heard of a billing structured offered by a processor in which it would be advantageous to split charges up. No one understands why Patreon would be losing money by bundling. It could be something with anti-fraud or anti-carding, but I'd have to chew on that a bit more.
Any personal favorites for news and current events?
If you see the alternatives as moderate the thread or ignore it all, I agree with you. But for me the alternatives are moderate the thread or allow them to drag me into a hundred debates about a hundred different things. I was going to participate in the discussion either way.
I recently did a deep dive into woodsmoke as I couldn't understand how ~2 million years of evolution with woodsmoke hadn't rendered us completely immune to its effects.

I couldn't at that time find a paper that showed that it was very harmful to humans, just a lot proving that it was harmful to mice, rats, rabbits, and guinea pigs (and a lot of forwards stating the dangers then linking to another animal research paper)—which bothered me—rodents don't have ~2 millions years of woodsmoke in their evolution history. I found papers about forest fires that some showed bad effects other were inconclusive and wouldn't;t draw conclusions as there were too much smoke from other combustable substances mixed into the smoke. I also found a paper about firefighters exposed to woodsmoke that found no ill effects on them.

So I remained unconvinced.

But this paper is different: not animals, large study, evidence. SO I will read it in-depth.

But I am still baffled. How could over a million years of evolution not have bred this out of us? I'm genuinely curious.
She implies it was all that liberal education used by their capaitalist overlords to oppress them.

Perhaps she should have majored in Marxist studies.
> While violent and property crime rates increased in 2021, both remain relatively low

That's pretty much it. I get so tired of internet discussions where people do not understand this, and I lost my patience to "converse curiously" with people who choose to remain ignorant of this in order to justify fear or anger or dehumanizing hate.

I've had countless discussions, including on HN, where you can cite this and people will sooner say that crime statistics are false, and specifically falsified in a way that destroys their argument, than admit being wrong or not having a complete perspective.
The number of people on planet earth who deeply understand the current state of the art in LLMs, the available information in a format an LLM can "reason about", good ways to condense information so that X v Y decisions can be made across a lot of Xs and Ys, and deeply understand how to do value investing in a practical way and enough about a set of industries to pull it off, is about zero.

Regardless, I'd happily take a bet at even money up to a reasonable sum that we'll wake up in 20 years to find that a system using LLMs has just destroyed the market doing fundamental analysis, for 15 years.
Is it possible to use this for hybrid search in combination with pg_embedding? My understanding is that hybrid search currently requires syncing with Postgres
Is that why byford failed?

Meaning that do you know that byford did not recognize what "anyone needs reminding" knew that nyc "can't build" is the problem?
A number of offshore records don’t allow the use of stored power not generated by a human. It’s common to see electric winches and hydraulic controls on 100 footers, with the diesel running the whole race to power the winches and hydraulics, saves on bodies. However the 100 footers designed to beat ocean records have more people and more winches as they must be entirely human powered.

See Comanche. After she broke a bunch of records her winches and grinding pedestals got pulled and hydraulics installed.
Sounds like you need a cat ladder: https://www.nationalgeographic.co.uk/animals/2019/12/where-c...

Edited to add: or you could just leave your actual ladder in place. All three of my cats have learned to climb a human ladder (albeit only a short one, with 5 steps) - both up and down
Juno Tab 2 – Intro (Linux Tablet) [video]
I agree it’s probably the most reasonable choice for most, but I’m hoping that changes. I want more immutable infrastructure than what Debian can provide
Yeah, the throughput/latency tradeoff is real.

Here’s an unusual motherboard salvaged from Xbox Series X which combines AMD Zen2 CPU cores, GDDR6 memory, where the integrated GPU is disabled due to defects: https://www.tomshardware.com/news/4800s-xbox-chip-shows-us-w... The performance is not great.

GPUs are good at hiding the latency due to high degree of parallelism. GPU cores switch to another thread instead of waiting for the data. Each CPU core only runs 2 threads, it can’t quite do the same thing.

GPU memory access patterns are only great for well written compute shaders (or CUDA kernels) when the developer who wrote that shader managed to do fully coalesced loads and stores. Memory access patterns for pixel shaders are not that great, especially when doing trilinear or anisotropic sampling in these shaders.
3 and 4 star generals/admirals. These would be C-suite executives and LoB level VPs in the private sector. Yes, compared to their private sector counter-parts $260,000 is low, and they also can only get compensated in pay; there is no equity , stock, or bonus options.
And what did he do? Did he tell the chatbot, no this is wrong, but the chatbot kept coming back and demanding he do it? Did he alert anyone a conspiratorial murderbot was prowling for associates?
My quick test of running multiple command prompts and running free showed that each one had a full set of memory. It's not multitasking, and I believe it assumes that the tasks are well behaved (not modifying DOS internals), so tasks don't really need to do anything special if they are well behaved.
Four ways to bring 'open' to business
The Stalkers (2014)
I graduated from a state school 10 years ago with $11,000 of debt. I worked two jobs, took 15 hours every semester, and paid that loan off in 8 years.. everyone has a different struggle, but it still boggles me how someone could have so much debt from education.

Maybe there should be a cap on how much you can borrow.
This implies that the diet that gave you T2 was not poisonious and implies that that diet was healthy in the 1st place.

So you cannot say "you're in remission" if you're eating poison.

You were poisoning yourself. So obviously if you poison yourself again you're gonna go out of "remission".
Debian has a user-first philosophy as well as a focus on integration between packages. When required, that means patching upstreams that don't meet that expectation for whatever reason. The ability to do this is precisely the point of Free Software.
That way, not having money would then be considered a virtue! Problem solved.
> that was a ballot initiative passed by will of the voters

that path is easily manipulated and compromised, because majority of voters don't have capacity to carefully review all propositions. And yes, population blindly supporting dems are also accountable for their actions.

Not interested to discuss your other statements, because I see them as low quality.
I find it interesting that LeShuttle (the same tunnel between France and UK, but where you drive your car onto the train) does not. They barely do any security checks on cars, and only seem to glance briefly at passports.
Me too, but I'd do my own projects rather than donate. Much more fun!
This report is basically just advance warning for people who live in NYC to start planning to not have it around.

You don't put stuff like this into a final public report unless you think it's the most likely outcome.

We know for a fact the US has neither the leadership, funding mechanism nor the incentive structures to actually build for BEYOND those 20 years anyway, so even if they were able to shore things up for now until 2043, it would crumble not long after that

As a counter example, the Hoover Dam, (for whatever you think of it's environmental impact) is in fine operation today and with no major engineering issues on the horizon projected until 2067 (which is the furthest they go out on contracts) despite the population growth that it has had to serve.

The kind of socialists that brought us the Hoover Dam don't exist anymore. We shouldn't expect any great social programs or systems in our lifetime.
>Imagine the following scenario: you have two projects each having the same functionality and the same level of test coverage. Project A is 30% longer than project B but project A's test suite runs in 1 second while project B's runs in 2 minutes. Personally, I am taking project A every time.

Project A's tests will usually be sacrificing realism in favor of speed. The practical upshot of that is entire classes of bug won't get caught.

To take some recent practical examples off the top of my head: I have some tests that do 404 checks on all web pages. I have another that checks if sent emails are outlook compliant. These checks necessitate that the tests be slower but somebody still needs to do this.

I know there are plenty of people out there who think like you do. That was kind of my point. Realism in testing is an underappreciated quality.
Eastern Europeans are biased - scars are still there - but fear makes the wolf bigger than it really is.

> These general statements are generally false.

What about Trump or even Merkel? Biden and Von Der Leyen are a clear downgrade that may bring us a stupid war.
I have been using RPIs for multimedia art projects where I am running heavy audio and/or video processing, sometimes maxing out all available cores. So I am pretty excited about the new specs :)
> Also WRT the pandemic it was pretty clear that there was going to be panic selling, as soon as a pandemic was announced.

If you were this sure, did you take a short position when pandemic was announced? Hindsight is 20/20.

Also not sure what you meant by when pandemic was "announced" but I guess you are referring to March 2020 broadly
The chatbot on the home page has quite a broad knowledge base?

can putin win in ukraine?

2:57 PM
The situation in Ukraine is highly complex, and as a travel assistant, I don't have the ability to predict political outcomes. However, I can tell you that there is an ongoing conflict between Ukraine and Russia. It's always a good idea to stay informed about the current situation through reliable news sources if you are planning to travel to any destination. If you have any other travel-related questions, feel free to ask!
Maybe we just devolved.

Most of the people have been living close to nature up to like a 100 years ago. And today? I have like 8 allergies, and I have no idea about the root cause of 6 of them. I would die in 2 days on a field of random weed, by sneezing myself to death. And I suspect I am far from the record holder in this site.
But you shouldn't! Could you log your DB creds to your error logs for debugging? Sure! But they shouldn't go there! If you need to check them, use the mechanism for accessing creds.
Hey the API key on your page is down.
It's still amazing, considering that there was no networking at the time. Today, a conferencing program would be able to take advantage of phenomenal networking infrastructure, yet instead of multi-thousand, it would be multi-million lines, and still an absolute nightmare. Some sort of Parkinson's law applies: The code expands until it becomes unmanageable.

When AI can write code for itself, it will be trillions of lines.
it's only statistically improbable to get 7 sons (in a row) if you have all couples that create 7 children have a 50/50 chance of son/daughter. If you have a reason why a couple will only produce sons (genetics) then it becomes much less surprising.
For what it's worth, the single biggest selling point to a better search, for me, would be not having to deal with additional infrastructure and all the hassle that comes with keeping data in sync. I would be very reluctant to move off of RDS/Aurora, and therefore have my principal motivation to use something like this is greatly negated.

I understand that it becomes very hard to monetize if you're not able to offer your own hosted service, and I don't have a solution for that, but not supporting RDS is going to really diminish the product for many people.
Wall Street Isn't Sure It Can Handle All of Washington's Bonds
Reminds me of a doctor saying that his french peers were much more reluctant than USA ones to give mental medication to children, due to the unknown long term effects on these young and developing minds.
“Raspberry Pies 4” is arguably correct, if you consider 4 to be a postnominal adjective. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postpositive_adjective

But it’s weird enough that I would only use it when being jokey.
Ah, fair enough!

On my team we use pre-commit[0] a lot. I guess I would define the history to be something like "has this commit ever been run through our pre-commit hooks?". If you rewrite history, you'll (usually) produce commits that have not been through pre-commit (and they've therefore dodged a lot of static checks that might catch code that wasn't working, at that point in time). That gives some manner of objectivity to the "history", although it does depend on each user having their pre-commit hooks activated in their local workspace.

[0]: https://pre-commit.com/
>You now need to be more realistic about what is a lifestyle business or something that can be bootstrapped into a solid medium sized business through slow methodical growth

I sort of dislike the term "lifestyle business" as to me the term implies something you can do without working too hard at it--which is not necessarily the case. That said, I agree that putting a bunch of the background tech and supporting services together is easier than ever. Yes, it's easier for the competition too and maybe no one involved will make a ton of money but the basic approach is more viable than ever. You don't need to hire large supporting teams.
I agree and would add that in my esperience people in richer countries work less than those in poorer. In the Netherlands people work less than in Italy, in Italy people work less than in Morocco. This happens because in richer countries they are relatively more efficient.
Aside from what others have said about greater bit width only being useful for large fetches, there's also circuitry necessary to allow more parallel fetches from the L1 to other parts of the memory subsystem (for Intel, these are called line fill buffer) and they're the real limiting factor for single threaded memory bandwidth (at least on that platform). For whole chip bandwidth this isn't as much of an issue, but the things others have said are true there still.
If I may stand on your soapbox for a moment, changing economics is the whole point of computers and software.

We have Turing's Universal Machine, we have transistors. Science and capitalism have delivered technology and wealth. We won history.

The obvious thing to do is apply our technology and resources to provide a basic level of quality of life to everyone (i.e. knockout the lower levels of Maslow's hierarchy.) Build a simple and efficient regenerative machine to provide food, shelter, clothing, some medicines, building material, etc. It would look like a neighborhood.

Then people like Evan Czaplicki could just do whatever they wanted to without having to worry about making money. Also everybody else.

We do this because: A) We can. B) Not to do so is cruel.
It's also just quicker turning up 1h30 early for a Eurostar is very early, turning up 1h30 early for a plane can be a bit tight.
Arthur Whitney had a whole operating system, kOS, in a few hundred lines iirc (including bare metal storage drivers, screen drivers, file system and more), with a more-than-sql database in 200 lines and an editor in a few tens.

The magic — other than Arthur’s genius - was the programming language K (also designed and implemented by Arthur).

And from another direction, the STEPS project from Alan Kay did a metal-to-everything in 20K lines, including IIRC a paint program and word processor. They only counted lines you need to understand - e.g., it parses the TCP spec RFC to get all the structures and constants; the spec parser is included in the 20K count, but the TCP docs and the generated TCP code is not.
Woof. Man, I really don't think you understand what goes into a DB if you think you can do D in 500 or even 5000 lines, unless maybe, maybe, you're aiming for something so simple it's merely a toy.
For the record I use about 1.5 L/100km in my Prius Prime. I used to get about 5 L/100km on my Prius. For my Corolla before that, I'd guess it was about 8 L/100km.

That said, it is clear to me that the fuel economy one will get with the Prius Prime will depend heavily on the relative frequency of the various trips one takes.
Yes, you can do a ton with a small team. It’s a new era!
"Self-contained" and "No bundled libraries" are two very important concepts that a subset of our ecosystem decided was too much work. Then they re-discovered all the problems that result, and have now coined terms like "software supply chain" to describe them.

Meanwhile Debian doesn't suffer from any of this because it's been doing things so as to avoid these issues all along.
related: https://highassurance.rs/
For $1-$10 per record. Considering the amount of drama made over the protection of personal medical data, perhaps this should give people pause.

The market value of your combined PII and genome is about a cup of coffee. There's not really any market confidence that this can turbocharge advertising, let insurers fleece you, etc etc etc. It's basically as valuable as your email spammers use to send Viagra ads.
We care about the environment, human life, and workers rights. That comes at substantially greater cost to build.
Which way would that be?
The A17 is already on the TSMC 3nm process, while the 7950X is on TSMC 4nm. If anything, the A17 has the advantage here and the real question is, where the AMD chip would land if it was produced with the same technology.
Eh… that’s an invitation for lobbyists and politicians to buggar the whole thing up for every self-serving interest imaginable. The simpler the better.
I suppose it’s more of a Victorian thing but it’s also primarily the domain of the white collar class.

Someone who does carpentry as their day job is probably not going to do woodshop in the garage at home even today, but they just pick other things, like grilling.
Are you referring to WSL/2? The msys2 / Git Bash integration is more integrated with Windows then how I interpret your description.
Maybe but Apple, Google, and Microsoft are improbable anomalies.
Seconded. I previously bought some that I thought were supported, before finding out that they are not. It'd be great to know whether anyone has had success with particular hardware.
Cheers for that.
Yes, typically, when people are depressed, they write things like "I ate my neighbours for breakfast" or "I massacred everyone in the mall". I get that too. My desk is covered with those notes.
That is very interesting. Seems to be the case for all the nordic countries. Sweden stands out a bit more than Norway though, they actually have a higher lung cancer rate for women than for men.
Yeah, that's a common opinion of Newsom that I hear all the time. I'd say it's pretty close to my opinion too.

But seeing him debate Hannity had something click for me. He is pretty sharp, and has some qualities that national democrats have seemed to lack. I started to think he may have a better chance at the presidency than people give him credit for. I start to think a lot of people haven't really gotten to know him, self included.

Time will tell how that plays out.
Of course there's no way to know, but you may be a little too naive to think that he wasn't considering the fact that people would read this. And then his wife published it. If it's even real, it reminds me of Bill Gates buying himself a Netflix special to clean up his public persona. At least Bill saved some people from malaria.
I'm really just using it because it's a known term, I've never been a giant fan of it either. It has a sort of implication of being lesser in certain circles, and I don't really think that's the case.
Stop Writing Classes (2012) [video]
Cats can be both solid and liquid, that is for sure close to perfection.

https://youtu.be/yNwLfRpNHhI?feature=shared&t=844
I would love it if it became standard practice for projects to list their dependencies.

I was going to try this but it wanted to pull in Catch2 (some unit testing framework) and apparently has a dependency on Qt.

It is good and nice if your project has unit tests, and by all means use a framework if you think you need one. But don't make me install your framework just so I can do a standard release build. Only require it for building and performing the unit tests.

If the home page mentioned the Qt dependency, I wouldn't have downloaded the source code.
> Not surprising for a product/library that far down on the "magic" scale. [...]

Using MongoDb with AWS Lambda and join it with 10 another services to serve a GraphQL endpoint just sounds much better than any PHP/Python REST API backed by MySQL. No wonder you'll end up from time to time with things you'll deeply regret.
One cynical side of me things you can, and on cynical side of me thinks you cannot.

Anecdata: During my banking days, any time I received an outsized bonus it did seem to occur at a local market maxima. I had noticed this, and I was like I should have worked in entertainment as their earnings and thus investment opportunities were largely uncorrelated to the price of the stock market. Of course, this did change a bit when the stock market fueled streamers started spending money like drunken sailors on "content".
There's the RaspiKey, an eMMC module on a microSD card breakout board.

Or the Compute Module which can be even more compact than the standard Pi format.
A few of my gripes:

* creating Debian packages is a difficult process to learn. There’s a bunch of tools and wrappers around those tools to handle inadequacies and it’s not clear how to do it “right”. For example, if I just have a binary and want to put it into a Debian package without pulling in some random shell scripts that aren’t part of Debian proper, it’s not immediately clear how to do that.

* Non-atomic and imperative install/remove/etc. hooks make it difficult to robustly handle failures. Since there is no file system manifest or sandboxing, there’s no real guarantees that removing a package will actually remove it.

* there’s no spec for a .deb package. This means the only way to correctly generate a Debian package is through the difficult tooling. I understand why this choice is made, and it has a lot of benefits for the continued evolution of the debian project. However, it makes it difficult to build better tooling around deb packages.
Biologist improves carp growth with lactic acid
Really nice write up.

This reminds me of my time building a similar platform back in 2015-ish. It was also a free tier for back then 40k apps. Built on top of cloud foundry. Before k8s was GA.

We also suffered from scalability issues which required creative solutions.

Good times.
I'm not using head, because I know Haskell well. But someone new to the language is never, ever, ever going to intuit that you get the head of a list with `listToMaybe` and `head` actually means `unsafeHead` and should almost never be used.

> Changing head so that it returns a Maybe breaks code

Of course. So did `Applicative`. So did `Foldable` and `Traversable`. So will removing (/=) from Eq, whenever that actually gets merged - and that was imo a far, far less problematic wart than having partial functions in Prelude.
Breaking changes need to be made very carefully and very slowly: simplified subsumption was terribly handled, if not an outright mistake. But refusing to make them at all is how you get C++.