skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't like these unnecessarily-fuzzy dates either, but:

> No human uses “less that 24 hours” as the definition of “yesterday”. Computers, unfortunately, do.

Is that right? I've never noticed anything using that definition of "yesterday". Plus, if anything within the last 24 hours were "yesterday", what would be "today"?
This is my biggest complaint when i reflexively type `git log` to get some context on a branch.
I'm looking for something similar for PID controllers, or control systems in general. Specifically for a teenager. Most sources I can find are either college textbooks or overly simple summaries for FIRST Lego League.
Ohhh got it, thanks!
Especially because it becomes so imprecise.
On YouTube, "1 year ago" can mean anywhere from 365 to 729 days. Anything between 1 and 2 years ago becomes "1 year ago".

So if I see two videos that were both uploaded "a year ago", it's impossible to know which is more recent without actually opening the videos, going to the description, and looking at the date.
The problem is that on Monday morning "posted last week" could mean it was posted less than 12 hours ago, or almost an entire week ago.
Prisma is great for schema management, but it's migration stuff broke for us and their updateMany implementation is just plain dumb.

We just use db push because prisma migrate fucked up in some unknown way that is impossible to recover from. The process in the docs for re-baselining doesn't work, and we're not about to reset our database.

The problem with ORMs is always that if something goes wrong you need to understand why, but then you need to also understand what the orm is doing. So it doesn't really abstract the database away, it just makes it easier to use. Or if you don't understand your database you're SOL. I mean, there was a big transaction isolation bug that you now have to deal with...which if you knew anything about databases you would have dealt with anyway.

Also, they pack a bunch of prebuilt binary handlers with their stuff, which makes using it awkward in serverless code.
https://archive.ph/oDueg
I disagree. Delta time requires less computational load on the brain.

You rarely need to process the precise dates. If the article or item is old, "years" is the perfect measure. You very rarely need to consider the precise day the thing was created on.

Most tools should simply show the date as a tooltip. I was just sharing this video [1] on another thread, and YouTube does it perfectly. Date shows up on hover.

If you're presenting records in a tabular format, then dates win. But consumer products are enhanced by relative time.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WqZLkzdNYuI
There are two main issues in my mind.

First is that the straightforward way to implement any changes to the data structure requires full retraining of the model from scratch, which is very expensive for the large models (I recall reading that GPT-4 training compute cost was sixty million or so) - so it's not something someone would or could do 'for fun' just to test a hypothesis, there needs to be a will to explicitly make the next large model in this manner, because you don't want to make two models at twice the cost.

The second almost all of the training is based on self-supervised data from generic text where there are neither "instructions" or "data", the concepts don't even make sense while you're training on a book or wikipedia article. So all the pretraining would learn to ignore that out-of-band marker, and then you'd have only the RLHF instruction data to try and make some use of it, and you'd need expensive manual review to make this training data - the current RLHF data is much less intensive to annotate because it effectively has just "good"/"bad" signal, and even that can be gathered for free from users; however, this training data would need someone to explicitly annotate what is the prompt and what is data when a user submits a text "please rewrite the grammar for the following paragraph: [... some data copied from internet ..]", you can't magically get that metadata, and it's expensive to annotate a lot of that.

TL;DR; - IMHO it's not difficult, but it is resource consuming, and that fully explains why it's not done.
I have suspicions that there is middleware somewhere for the ChatGPT interface to the chat models underneath; something to enclose the normal prompt, to update weights, or to manipulate logits.

Just last night I began seeing a behavior that I could formerly reproduce 100% of the time: asking it to critically evaluate my instructions, explaining why it didn’t follow them, and suggest rewrites. Since the beginning of ChatGPT itself, it would reliably answer that every time. As of last night, it flat out refused to, assuring me of its sincere apologies and confidently stating it’ll follow my instructions better from now on.
I would argue they are not "gaining" fat, rather they are "balancing" the amount of fat the body considers normative. Of course you can easily acquire more fat with an inappropriate diet consisting of too much sugar, but a healthy diet will see your body maintain the ratios that are optimal for your current requirements.

It never ceases to amaze me that we think that we know better, and yet the human body, as with other animals etc, have been around for quite some time now. Even if we had all the data from the past that we think is important now, we still wouldn't know better.

There was a post the other day regarding "The prosecutors fallacy" that might fit well with this sort of subject matter.
The mechanism isn't additional information; it's enabling the collusion the individual participants would already prefer to participate in. With simple inventories (like gasoline), computers aren't essential for collusion. In more complicated markets it's helpful to let the machines do the "heavy" lifting.

When all else is equal, the preference for sellers is to charge the same price a monopolist would choose (assume temporary price excursions don't have long-term ramifications like brand loyalty, and assume that "all else equal" extends far enough that competitors would also drop prices to match to avoid greatly reduced sales).

Realish-time updates, apparently with very simplistic rules, seem to converge near that price point, and the inequalities of various sellers seem to not matter much (because there aren't many, because they average out, because they don't impact price preferences much, ....)
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See also: https://github.com/rlabbe/Kalman-and-Bayesian-Filters-in-Pyt...
It should be, now that pg runs fine there. If it’s not, please file an issue!

It also works with @neondatabase/serverless on platforms without TCP connections (though it’s on my TODO list to make this less fiddly): https://github.com/neondatabase/neon-vercel-zapatos
Which groups are affected? Any modem related? Maybe, Apple can scoop them.
You realize that the authors think that the ascorbate molecule is their active ingredient, right?
If you find it beautiful, who cares what I think?

You aren't writing this for public opinions, presumably.

I've also written a Postgres wire protocol implementation and a blog post on how to do so, which people are welcome to say "It's terrible" about if they wish.
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> Nobody tests, CI automation is unheard of.

This seems like a very dangerous attitude from a plane maker, a drug maker, and a healthcare data provider.
This is not rhetorical at all - I am genuinely confused by the statement. Unless you run a lot of red lights, or read the mail of your neighbors, how would you know about enforcement from these cameras? What outward sign would appear?
One comment that made me think on HN a while back is something akin to "The average IQ is between 85 and 115, therefore AI will be akin to friends with IQ's between 85 and 115 giving you advice". So not that useful?
EU is a shit show of corruption and oppression. If people would riot for every atrocious thing EU does there would not be time for anything else.
Automated cameras can only fine you in the US, since they would have to prove who was driving the car to add points to your license.
They had these speed cameras in Phoenix (which is pretty high on the "people would just shoot them out" scale) on the AZ-51 and people resorted to merely voting them out -- after a few high-profile incidents like this one guy who would put on a gorilla mask and intentionally get tickets while the police couldn't do anything until they actually caught them wearing the mask while speeding through a camera. Oh, and another case I remember from when the warning period just ended, this lady got tickets every day on her way to/from work until the first violation hit her mailbox, 46 speeding tickets in total IIRC.

Red light camera, OTOH, are all over the place and people don't seem to mind them as red light running (especially for left turns) is quite common.
> From a recent bus ride, sitting high up and looking down into people’s cars, I’d say 80-90% were scrolling social media or texts while driving

Are you talking about drivers sat stopped at red lights or drivers actually driving along. I'd struggle to believe either.

An AI powered operation a few months ago in the UK showed that those not wearing seatbelts outnumbered phones 4:1, which would suggest a maximum of 25% on social media.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-humber-65139997
The title should be shortened from "Undermining Democracy: The European Commission's Controversial Push for Digital Surveillance" simply to:

"Undermining Democracy: The European Commission".

The EC is sheer horror. The thousands of years old saying: "The more numerous the laws, the more corrupt the state" has never been truer.

I've done a short consulting gig at the European Parliament, which at least tries to be the good guys. But the EP is tiny compared to the EC and the EC is pulling the strings: the EP is supposed to bring some kind of democracy but there's none.

All these rules are benefitting people in power and they're all ever more intrusive.

For example the MiCA one (Markets in Digital Assets), which is not at all only about cryptocurrencies/crypto-tokens (it's also about upcoming centralized "euro coin" emitted by EU central banks), is sheer horror too. I've read it all and it's madness. Insanity.

It's all about control. Complete, total and utter control over every single aspect of EU citizens' lives.

They want to know everything about everyone: nowhere to run, nowhere to hide.

Those who believe it's "for our own good" are out of their minds.
That bit of the article seems incorrect... Alpha radiation dumps most of its energy in one region, according to the Bragg curve [1]

[1] - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stopping_power_(particle_rad...
Even worse is when a product has a bad barcode and the employee at the self checkout tells you to go across the store and find a different one instead of just fucking doing their job.

… no, I don’t hold a grudge, why do you ask?
It does now support multiple schemas: https://jawj.github.io/zapatos/#60
I think the unlimited refers to number of addresses/domains.
...who exist because of people who pursue litigation.
IT student has to pay fine of 1500€ for calling Germany "dirty state" on Twitter
The reddit thread makes it pretty clear that KDE Connect installed through third party sources are what's getting uninstalled.

Nobody with it installed from the play store mention it being removed, and though some users that got it from F-Droud mention it still being installed, there are several possible explanations for that. Like me, it wasn't removed on my phone but it turns out I disabled PlayProtect at some point.
Casual factor. Higher base metabolic rate means less energy available to build body mass.
D5W is common, sure. My post makes no complaint about D5W being uncommon.

The problem here, again, is that this choice led to both sodium and ascorbate administration being different between the two arms. They think they are testing the ascorbate, but they can’t exclude the possibility that they are getting results due to sodium.

Since you used this as an opportunity to plug your company, I will say that the company’s claims about reducing mortality from glucose management seem very poorly supported. Your site only lists retrospective studies, but you will need multicenter prospective RCTs to have any credibility with such claims. Saying that “mortality decreases” is easily read as causal language, but there is no data supporting such language. If the effect size is anywhere near as large as you claim, these trials will be very easy to run and won’t need a large sample size.
Kids don't seem to happy about all the pollution or unsustainable choices that have gotten us here. Of course there are plenty of apathetic and ignorant young people too.

I think we should listen to the canaries before we all suffocate.
“In a 52-48 referendum this would be unfinished business by a long way.”

— Nigel Farage

How quickly we forget.
So, the combination of the research and my anecdotes - and your response seems to be

That by our early 20s our metabolism has already slowed (sugary food, alcohol, precipitous drop in activity)
It relies on pg (node-postgres) to talk to Postgres, so it should work with anything pg can talk to.
I'm not saying metabolism doesn't vary among individuals, I'm saying for a given individual, their overall metabolism could decrease as they age due to having less muscle mass even if their rate per kg muscle didn't change.
I like the way target does it. No scale, no obnoxious cameras, they just have a limited amount of self checkouts and usually have security visibly posted near them.

I have yet to witness somebody not scanning things and stealing them from there, the only “success” I’ve seen is sprinting out a fire door.
Is the Bike Industry in Trouble?
Anybody know if this supports group email, where messages to one address go to multiple recipients?
Can you share some examples?

It's very interesting because 1/4 of Pixel 6a would be around 80 EUR... so I wonder about your environment and what workarounds you have for these problems.
It's still allowed.

Abuse is not common.
> He also wrote a lot about Solaris, but I won't hold that against him /s

Looks like the second edition of his book almost addresses that :P

"The second edition adds content on BPF, BCC, bpftrace, perf, and Ftrace, mostly removes Solaris" https://www.brendangregg.com/systems-performance-2nd-edition...
Where have you seen a service describing something posted less than 12 hours ago as being "posted last week" rather than "posted yesterday"/"posted today"?
For most people the actual fine is peanuts but the insurance premium hike is debilitating (you'll be paying 4-5 digits extra from T0 to Tinfinity depending on circumstances)
Right, this is a common tactic once the conspiracy's effects are set in concrete and the opportunity for agitation or reaction has long since passed.
Adding concurrency control to HTTP APIs
I'd like to see cameras for work zones. Those are places where it's very challenging to set up a speed trap, and in California, people completely ignore the reduced speed signs.
I like the big Thoreau energy happening in this article. That said, vim was the vision of one (even that’s debatable) with the support of many and it’s far better than apple writer. The idea that the best software is the product of one or two is often touted and in my experience, never the case.
you sure? they are in use in Fremont but not in any other city.
Interesting that you say that, because this lines up exactly with my mental models of LLM image processing and LLM functioning in general. One of the defining features of LLMs is that, unlike in regular programming, there's no separation between data and instructions -- they're one and the same -- and that's what we're seeing here. Also, LLMs tend to focus more heavily on the instructions they see last (because of limitations in the attention mechanism, I think? But IIRC nobody has come up with a full explanation yet), and that's what we're seeing here too.
We're talking billions of tons of ice. A single tree won't hold that back. Plus, it's Antarctica! The tree will die in that cold!
It’s terrible that they feel the need to put this sort of language in such an official document. What is striking is that there is precious little trust on either side and not a lot of goodwill.
Microsoft the Dawn of LMMs: Preliminary Explorations with GPT-4V(ision)
Haha, sure, it’s real invigilation terror over here in Europe. We all just want to escape this tyrannical dictatorship.

But, the European Parliament is against this legislation, and for the moment it’s not passing.
Muscle tissue burns 7-10 calories per pound per day. This means someone who gains 100 pounds of muscle (e.g. from 150 lbs untrained to a 250 lbs bodybuilder) would increase their metabolism by 700-1000 calories, almost a 50% increase in the average daily male calorie requirements of around 2000 calories.
In addition to the sister comment (that I 100% agree with) that publicly funded research ought to be in the public domain, if the technique is broadly useful I’m sure that companies can find patentable optimizations to the equipment or protocol.
What labor can learn from the rise and fall of the typesetters union
These bureaucrats overwhelm citizens with enormous amounts of text. Expression of opinion is regulated here. A few principles should be enough.

The most important one should be: Every citizen is free to express his opinion.

https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/HTML/?uri=CEL...
Ah you read [this nonsense](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37874174).
Just have both:

- An hour ago (15:47)
- Last week (MON 12 SEP 9:20)
- Two years ago (WED 14 APR 2021 11:47)

Date format to taste, of course.
It’s the giant nested ternaries that kill me. In nearly all circumstances I can think of (Terraform being a notable exception), ternaries could be replaced with an if/else if block and be far more readable.

In my head I’m having to cast these to an if to figure it out anyway - why not just write it like that to begin with?
The only criticism I see is some nitpicking saying that the claim “was based on statistical means, ignoring the known intense drops in the energy expenditure that some individuals show during their life. For example, a clear decrease in metabolic rate is observed in humans that consume calorie-restricted diets (Fothergill et al. 2016), an adaptation named ‘metabolic slowing’ (Johannsen et al. 2012). Therefore, the statement is innacurate and possibly wrong.”

These critics don’t seem to disagree with the core claim about average metabolism across the lifespan.
Because this nonsense has no chance at being implemented.
I could see some small organizations being able to get by on even the cheapest plan if only legit emails were counted. But if any spam or unsolicited emails are counted against the limits, it becomes much harder to plan against.
Can you be specific about the “sort of language” are you referring to? That seems to be quite diplomatic and fair, so is it perhaps less about the language than that you wish the facts were otherwise?
Mazda do this kind of thing too, particularly charging during engine braking and using that power to start the engine during stop start.
The EU and the West are over-playing their hands with this in my opinion. They'll get burned by this at some point, at which point it'll be too late; and maybe then they'll recognize that the reason they have had such control was just the fact they were first. Not some universal physics law that such companies can only exist in the Western sphere.

The recent Middle-East events had some troubling intervention (in Twitter/Meta). The "other side" wanting to voice its opinion is now being pushed more to other platforms. There aren't many (mainly Telegram and Tiktok) but nothing creates a market than sequestration. China did this to create a local market. The EU is forcing this on the global south.

What's next? De-platform such sites/apps from the major PaaS (AWS/Azure/etc...)? This might slow things down but it'll create a market for alternative hosting platforms. Then what's next? Ban hardware? This will boil down to chips. Maybe the US is ahead on this and realizes this is the only frontier that's left.
Yes, it's different. For one thing, OpenAI is treating paying customers and malicious hackers identically.
The exaggeration is undermining your point. What actually happened according to the linked article:

> The vote to approve the proposal came after months of public scrutiny and changes to the plan that ultimately shrunk the proposed list of banned stops from 18 different types of offenses to nine, among them driving with an expired registration and driving with a broken taillight.
Arguably their best and most succesfull games were produced by hard grinding devs that loved the game they were wotking on and the gamers that played them.

You can feel about ESG/DEI however you wamt, but it has nothing to do with producing great games.
I thought ultrasonic ablation was already a thing. Here's a paper from 2010: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/21358073/
The splats are pretty easy to manipulate. At least as easy as triangles. It’s just that there has not been much attention paid to them historically. So, there are no content pipelines yet.
It’s clear that the criminal justice system and related financial penalties associated with traffic citations disproportionately harm people of color and people living on low incomes.

No validation, no proof, no "why", just "it's clear".

Low incomes makes some sense, in that, fines take up income! So $10 is not the same to one, as another. Yet most fines have points, and that means money is most assuredly not the only factor.

But I really dislike the idea that "people of colour" are apparently all miscreants, and therefore always doing wrong things, and thus are always being charged.

It's not true.

And... here's a shocker... I'm white, and I've had speeding tickets, red light tickets, parking tickets and so on. How is this even possible?! Apparently all those white cops that write me tickets, are just doing so to hide their true goal.

Getting that minority!

I know tje US has some problems with policing, but turning streets into death zones, due to non-policing isn't the solution.

Put another way, you're living in a poor, or minority neighbourhood. Recently, people are screeching up and down the street, driving drunk and mega-high, injuries are up, and some asshole almost killed your kid.

You call, and the cops say that for your own good, they won't go after the guy. Wow! A great win for minority rights!
Interesting, can I still use the Play Store with mircoG?

I already run LineageOS, but with Play services. I would like to be able to ditch Play services, but still need the Play store for things like my banking app, and an app to log in to government services.
Dangerous polarization is happening in the EU right now. You'd think after WW II there will be safeguards against a repeat. But that's clearly not case.
They are more documentation driven. Every line of code and every change is meticulously documented and reviewed. This is the pre-agile, pre-automation way of doing things.
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