skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Imo it's Banks' attempt to portray "as close as you can get to utopia, whilst still having humans". What stops it short of perfection is the Minds (especially Special Circumstances) and their power to direct events. They never directly limit the freedoms of Culture citizens, but they happily use them as unwitting pawns in their galactic power games (e.g. the subtly titled Player of Games). The imbalance of intelligence and strength between humans and Minds means that the Minds are effectively dictators, albeit benevolent ones.
on the other hand, those who die early from heart attacks do not need costly memory care or cancer treatments.

is it better to burn out, or fade away?

https://web.archive.org/web/20170312062150/https://www.nytim...

PS: i love that someone waited a solid decade and a half to wayback that to be used as a trusted citation.
Indeed. And it's not so difficult to make a rule that wherever car parks and parking spaces are built, chargers must also be provided.
Most parks with playgrounds in America are, by area, 90% park and 10% playground. Or something roughly like that; the playgrounds are designated areas tucked away into some corner of the parks.

Except you're probably not allowed to drink beer there anyway, because a law against drinking in the park provides a convenient excuse to keep the park clear of homeless so everybody else can enjoy it.
Is there a chance that these cloud ddos service providers are attacking each other or themselves to create PR opportunities?
One time a woman stole my heart. Luckily I was able to get a transplant in time. Words can sometimes have multiple meanings.
Because in the US, higher education is largely a personal investment against future earnings, and vets have longer and more expensive education requirements that most jobs, so they need to have higher salaries to justify the initial investment and to incentivize people to pursue that career path.
We have pet medical insurance. It’s about $30/month per pet.

If you can’t afford medical costs for your pet then your pet will die if something bad happens.

Likewise if you take some magical fairy “society owes me taking care of my pet” then you’re going to be as disappointed as if you walk into a Chanel store and demand a free purse.

Pets are a luxury, not a fucking right. It’s not anyone’s job to keep it alive if you can’t afford insurance or costs.
I can be flexible on urban planning topics, but empirically folks with the "they don't know what's good for them, but I do" take on the world should be kept as far away from power and influence as possible - regardless of topic :)
This article is profoundly unhelpful for people who's job is to determine what speech is promoted and what speech isn't.
It’s a public company. You can just buy shares if you want a piece of the monopoly.
I think you can set a longer iPhone password instead of a pin. Harder to surf.
> Supply is elastic. Increasing demand should indeed increase supply.

That's some Keynesian bullshit, supply is constrained by a lot of factors, demand alone can't increase it. And even when it does, the intermediate step is, guess what? Raising prices.
There is a reason dairy farmers have to buy fertilizer.

Most dairy farms are very efficient at collecting all the waste the cows produce. They then empty the pits into a tanker truck and spray/inject it onto the fields. It goes a long way and helps complete the cycle, but your intuition is right, it alone is not enough.
This article hit me pretty hard. But I really wish we could find a better term than 'mental health crisis'. I think it's a polite form of victim blaming.

At what point are we just gonna admit that we've built a crap world and we oughta have an honest conversation about fixing it?
Speaking only for myself, but yes I do think all modern typography gets this wrong and looks terrible as a result.
In part I agree, but I want to add that what makes a third place isn't just the kind of place it is (gym, library) but the design and attitude. So these kinds of places may be numerous but that doesn't automatically make them actual third places.
That could also be explained that everyone who wanted to kill themselves (WW2 veterans) had already done so. Suicides being 1/3 lower in the 70s than the 50's and 60's seems expected.
Very cool branding
You'd be surprised! There are plenty of new banks in Asia which only have mobile apps. You can't access your account using a web browser at all. They don't even give you a passbook, all banking activity from signup are done via the mobile app.
The later versions (somewhere after 2005) were also very buggy and sluggish. They produced fast code, but you really needed a powerful workstation.
They're just annual crops and already on a rotation. Nobody would be eating livestock field corn or soy. It'd just get plowed under and replaced with wheat or flour corn or something else. Likely whatever worked with existing equipment and supply chains in the area.
That's so cool! I'd love to have one of these around or open one myself. It says they have no personnel, so there's nobody present at all? Maybe that can only work in Japan.

Can anyone find a Youtube vid on one of these? I'd be really curious.
Minimizing S3 API costs with distributed MMAP
This subthread of people being just anal about a comment that we should all understand the meaning of.

Apple switched to ARM ISA and moved away from an open graphics abstraction layers. Those two things go hand-in-hand. ARM ISA isn't the problem, being a proprietary API on a platform that isn't of value for major game devs - that's the problem.

(FFS - Blizzard left MacOS, the one that released their titles on OSX one of the first.)

Arguing over what ARM ISA includes or not, is besides the point.
> So only a small fraction of people were given a basic income in this study. That is what makes it invalid as a study of universal basic income.

You're arguing with a strawman. It isn't a study of Universal Basic Income. This is a study of Basic Income and it's effects on homelessness, so the results of this study should reasonably apply to other situations where Basic Income is provided to homeless individuals (as it would with UBI). To be clear, "the results" are the effect of basic income on homelessness, and only the effect of basic income on homelessness. This is not a blanket endorsement of UBI.

I've been very deliberate with my wording to avoid absolutes. You seem to be suggesting that we cannot model anything at all. Yeah, I think that's insane.
Well, history has not shown that. There are countless situations where large houses have been surrounded by legions of the working poor unable to afford living spaces. Or where vacation homes sit empty, owned by people living far away, while cities struggle to find local accommodation for working people.
I don’t think that was the intended audience.
i found my depression abated and i lost weight when i stopped smoking at bars, which after my wild 20s became pretty much the only time i smoked -- if you replace those moments you'd want a "fag" with an espresso shot, you'll have less respiratory issues, get better sleep, and then it'll be easier to walk, to run, to parkour.
The window into da Vinci's creativity? His sketchbooks
> Maybe it's because I don't use bind.

Windows AD is the worst culprit here. Most times when something breaks that can not possibly be linked to DNS, the AD is bridging the failure in some way.

That said, yeah, I'd bet the large majority of bind installations are broken too. It's just that DNS really resists failure, and the GP isn't exactly about when it fails.
Its usually not literally just a playground. Its usually a whole park which happens to have a playground or two. For instance, this last weekend I went to a park with some adult friends which had playgrounds, but we were there for the disc golf. There were other adults having some kind of cookout at the grills and picnic tables. There were adults playing soccer in one of the fields. Then yes, there were kids and parents at the playgrounds.

The vast majority of parks I see around me aren't just a playground. Those mostly seem pretty rare.
I’m not sure what to think about this yet. This is me thinking out loud:

How does this differ from cover bands that try to sounds as much like the originals as possible? If I clone Eminem and present it as Eminem, I think that would be morally and legally wrong, but what if I marketed it as “Clone Eminem” or “Not Eminem”?

I’ve heard covers of Stairway to Heaven that you’d swear are the original. If that’s ok, what’s inherently different about this?
Every major city I’ve ever been to in the US, Germany, Portugal, Spain, etc. all had smaller grocery stores that sold real produce. It’s very common, not a big deal. And it doesn’t require women to be homemakers, good lord.
It might be time sunk but the ROI is huge.
It’s possible that some trees might help that.
What is definitely something they do? Asking for higher prices in high demand low supply scenarios? That is something (effectively) everyone does.

It is how the world works. It is the mechanism which the markets use to signal more supply of something is needed (or less demand).

If you want me to study advanced biology for 10+ years and then have me work at odd hours of the day and night to be ready to perform surgery, you need to pay up, or reduce the other options I have for earning money which give me a higher quality of life.
I think your prompt was written well enough to not need GPT-4. Don't undersell yourself :)
Making "Dallas/Fort Worth" walkable would be a multi-decade, multi trillion dollar project. But if it were legal for small scale, local changes to be made, then the market would 1) experiment, 2) pay for it, and 3) more closely match what people desire and what's feasible.
Imo using "good variable names" in cases where that variable is effectively functioning as nothing more than a syntactically necessary placeholder for a point-free phrase is a clear (if well-intentioned) mistake. It makes the code noisy and verbose for no benefit.

To take the exact example you gave, `users.map{ |u| do_something(u) }` is unambiguously better than `users.map{ |user| do_something(user) }`.

What we really want is `users.map{ do_something }`. It is only happenstance that ruby allows this form for methods only via `users.map(&:some_method)`, and we are stuck with forced variable names when calling other functions. Still, we can reduce the boilerplate as much as possible, and this is the basic argument of the article.

Also fine: `users.map{ |x| do_something(x) }` (the "x" as a conventional placeholder for the meaningless but syntactically necessary placeholder) and `users.map{ do_something(_1) }` (the _1 accomplishing the same thing). In either case, the "meaningful variable" is already there in the name "users" -- repeating it is mere stutter and detracts from, rather than enhancing, clarity.

The exception (as you noted) would be a longer multiline block where repeating `user` can aid short term memory, especially if the block contains other local variables.
Machine learning itself used to be called "data mining" which is perhaps a more honest description of what it's all about. It amounts to a non-rigorous application of methods derived from statistics, e.g. 'deep' neural networks can be understood as a hierarchical (hence 'deep') version of regression models.
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Google had the same issue pre-monopoly. Since its early history it’s been trying to show users what other users like. “Correctness” was never part of the equation because search engines that paid deference to authority all sucked.

You can easily start a search engine using a different model. You’re going to struggle to compete with anything that prioritizes what users find popular.
Their employer should be providing them guidance on the matter. This article is for the rest of us.
The report is trademarked so you need a license to use it in your marketing. Plus, if you piss them off by challenging their rights, you may just not win an award in following years. The amount you have to pay (hundreds of thousands of dollars) is small potatoes to companies of this size so it is really not worth it to try and weasel out of any payment.
You should not try to game the HN feed by creating a bunch of accounts, or telling people to, whichever it is you did here

This is obvious fake engagement
Agreed. I keep my iPhone in my right pocket and my Ricoh GRIIIx in my left pocket whenever I go out. It’s such a fantastic camera given its size, especially with the APSC sensor in such a compact body.

I also have a Sony A7C but I haven’t used it since getting the Ricoh. Being pocketable is a massive factor in how much I use a camera.
Composting toilets have been a thing for a very long time: https://www.motherearthnews.com/diy/compost-toilet-zm0z19jjz...

But yeah, scaling it up massively is the trick: https://www.oursoil.org/food-tank-soil-transform-human-waste...
I mean it almost sounds like a compromise solution proposed by a Committee of Indentation composed of both advocates of tabs and spaces. (:
This might work in the short term, but I don't recommend it as a general technique.

This sort of an approach often causes there to be hidden bugs, which do not generate errors now, but will cause some problem down the line.

It also has a tendency to lead to cargo cult programming (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cargo_cult_programming), which is less immediately problematic, but is still not great, especially for whoever needs to maintain that code.
I’m really not sure what’s a good outcome here.

In a way, all these sellers even got this opportunity because of Amazon. We have a pure marketplace, eBay, but that rarely moves the needle. Without Amazon these sellers would not even have started, or sold in eBay at a fraction of the volume. So, I doubt Amazon becoming a pure marketplace is a solution.

My personal preference would be for Amazon to go be the single source and close the marketplace, but doubt that’s the solution these folks want. Getting rid of all the scammy products and sellers will really clean it up, for me, and increase my satisfaction as a consumer.

Amazon will always compete better against smaller sellers due to volume.
Yes, though the rotation in most of the midwest etc is mainly just corn -> soy -> corn -> soy with the exception of some places that might toss in sorghum or wheat in there, too, depending on climate.
I will never not upvote this. It’s such a good resource for people starting to learn networking.
E.g., Sylvia Plath.
The quote "history is written by the victors" seems relevant. If Lewis had released the book a year earlier the voices saying "look crypto!" would have been much louder and overwhelming. But, history moves so fast right now that SBF is no longer a victor but the villain. I'm also sad that Lewis can't back away from his work, but after all, he is writing books to sell them. I bet he made a good decision financially to release the book now rather than waiting a few years and write up what he recently learned. Another good quote my dad stole is "why ruin a good story with the truth."
https://archive.ph/2T8UT
I'm surprised that you draw a sharp distinction between C and Pascal syntax. They have a shared lineage and are really very close to each other. Yeah, curly braces won over "begin" and "end", but that's not a matter of some huge conceptual rift, just convenience.

There are numerous languages today, including Haskell and Ocaml, that are far more removed from the Algol lineage than these two. Heck, the differences between Rust and C are probably more pronounced than between C and Pascal.
On iPhone, it is an emissive yellow-orange on black. Very hard to read.

Edit: not just hard to read, but physically painful. I noped out of reading TFA because it’s not worth using my limited eye strain budget for the day.
"Kes" ?
Can this tool help to simplify self hosting implems? K3s was recommended to me to replace my personal pile of systemd units starting docker compose configs and manual reverse proxy configs.

Im am completely oblivious to how k8s works.
Using an Uber once a week on the way back grocery shopping is still a lot cheaper than owning a car.
Just a head's up, there's an easy way to remember Dijkstra's spelling: D ijk stra. You know, ijk as the common loop indices.
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That’s the point I’m trying to make though, you’re not using it wrong in the sense like your application is wrong or you’re doing something dumb. By “wrong” I mean the structure you’re sending it is off. Like some local LLM use <INST></INST>, some use USER, Some use HUMAN. Miss a \n for a context and your results is garbage. That’s why I recommend using ollama instead of llama cpp directly because I have not been able to find a reliable way to define this. When you use llama cpp and just send a prompt, by default it directly sends what you send to llama cpp. Ollama has a layer that abstracts this away.

Please give Ollama a go! Would love to hear if it works out! Feel free to contact my email in my profile if you need some help.
Why use this over kubernetes, if it's the same but less memory why not only use k3s ans drop k8s
Blast Radius and Certificate Constraints
Coal gas purportedly has much higher levels of carbon monoxide than natural gas, which would be sufficient.
I would say that tech companies sell technology. If you develop tech to sell, you are a tech company. If you buy and resell tech, you are still a tech company. But if you develop tech to use internally, you aren't a tech company.

Unrelated, when did you post this comment? The display text says "1 hour ago", but the tooltip says "2023-10-10T15:00:00" which was much more than an hour ago in any timezone that makes sense for HN to be using.
This is almost Jack Handey material.
There is also a huge distinction to be made between being arrested for something and being convicted of it.

Any cop can arrest you for DUI, with or without evidence. You get a mugshot, a public record, and a booking charge of "DUI".

Whether you get immediately released with charges dropped, or have to fight it in court and are later declared innocent or have the charges dropped, that initial public record and mugshot next to the words "DUI" now lives forever in various public archives.
There are some clever folks on gig sites (Fiverr, Upwork, etc) who are feeding stock video into AI just for the "artificialization" of each frame, while visually retaining the same actors' features, clothing and background scenes -- which also allows cuts that are longer than 4s. The results are surprisingly good, as long as you can find stock footage of the scenes you need.
I'm just over half way through the Lewis book. I like it so far although I came in expecting the overly forgiving narrative. Its obvious the book was supposed to be a hero's journey. Just a scrappy team of misfits that changed the world.

The weird thing about it is how ftx was such a success almost immediately. The book doesn't go into it too much, but everything was amateur hour and not in a good way. Everyone they hired had no experience in their role. And it wasn't about doing things differently, it was just "why not"?

But can someone explain the success? They didn't have an edge or any new insight. Sbf didn't even really code or care much about it. And is the downturn just from the association with Alameda? In an alternate universe in which Alameda was seen as the albatros as it was and discarded, does ftx succeed?

There were some benefits from Alameda like holding ftx tokens and propping up the value. But the value wasn't just in the token. The team was the second largest exchange after Binance with a fraction of the employees (~300)

I'm past the part of the book where ftx gets crazy growth, which is stated as a given, so I won't get any answers there. But how did it happen?
I think your guess here is pretty much spot on.

TFA links another article explaining the $10,000 bill is a combination of $3,000 of completed tests the original owner had already paid, the surgical procedure, and aftercare costs.
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I was lucky enough to own a house next to the vet clinic that ended up being my first dogs final veterinarian. Her sickness was very gradual; a boil grew on her neck and started aspirating blood, she became anemic, and somewhat lethargic. I supplemented her diet as the vet walked me through everything I could possibly do and was willing to afford. She gave me her number to text when weird things happened with the caveat that "the time" was when she wouldn't eat for three days. That day came after her 10th birthday, around Christmas time. I laid there in a room they had prepared and cried a lot with her. When the vet came in she cried as they delivered Euthasol. It was over in seconds and everyone in the room just cried for a while, people slowly left and they told me I could have as much time as I needed.

I cannot imagine doing that six times a day. You're not only having to watch a creature die, a creature whose personality you've observed, one that you've fostered good health in, but you often have to walk the human through delivering something out of this world. Being there with someone or something as they exit this plane is one of the most arduous journeys you can take, imo. I can understand the toll this must take after some time, when you relate to and see yourself in your patients - whether animal or human.
That doesn't seem to be accurate, do you have a source?

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S016517812... shows in 3.3 that not only is the veterinarian rate more than 2x that of physicians, but the upper end of the 95% CI for physicians is below the lower end of the 95% CI for veterinarians. It doesn't appear to be anywhere close.
Individuals can do more to pick a better place to shelter than they can do to get everyone to stop making the problem worse, no?
> Is a million dollars a reasonable price?

If you can’t find someone else to sell to you for less, then yes. Barring broken markets such as due to regulatory capture, etc.

> The point I make is that you might not be able to tell a reasonable price, per se.

>But you can generally tell an unreasonable price.

These strike me as conflicting statements, otherwise I don’t know what per se means.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37846041

> And the reason I think that's particularly relevant is that it's not like the underlying costs really change.

>So developing world costs tend to give you a 'raw materials' cost, where all that's left is labor + profit.

Why are labor costs not underlying costs? How about liability insurance? Real estate?