skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Rolex Submariner does make more sense if you take James Bond seriously (which you shouldn't). The Royal Navy did use military issue Rolexes.

But OMG seriously? I thought that was about as elegant a way to do a luxury product placement. It even served the scene. Vesper (subtext): "You're not complex. You are like this..." Bond (subtext): "You're not far wrong! But I'm not supposed to be."

Far more ridiculous are the poker scenes in Casino Royale.

Speaking as someone who likes wristwatches, what's even more ridiculous is the idea of a $12K tool watch. Only a soft in the head billionaire would even go swimming with such an expensive watch, let alone diving.
https://www.investor.gov/introduction-investing/investing-ba...

Here's Freddie Mac talking about how the LIBOR scandal forced them to change their benchmark for bonds.

https://freddiemac.gcs-web.com/news-releases/news-release-de...

Ever wonder what FRN stands for? They've issued them every month for the past decade.

https://home.treasury.gov/system/files/221/Tentative-Auction...

Just because you haven't heard of things doesn't mean they are not real.
I'm not sure if Netflix displays the total number of movies anymore. Imagine opening Netflix, selecting the Adventure 2023 tab, only to see 3 third-tier movies there. That's why there's no Adventure tab and there is no 2023 tab. Instead users play a slot machine: they press a button and Netflix dumps a pile of randomly chosen movies. No way I'm paying for this.
Consortium launched to build the largest open LLM
How do you address the substance of a fantasy? You are ideologically opposed to government and have a quasi religious faith in the free market fixing all problems without intervention. If the market cannot be intervened with then it is doing its work as a 'force' and might as well be The Holy Spirit. You state demonstrably false things or split definitions down to a hair (yes -- the only REAL monopolies have been government mandated, because by definition the only way to force all competitors from competing is to make it illegal) but I don't think people care about technically correct when they are working in company towns for scrip and their kids fall into coal crushers while working because their are no laws protecting people, just business.

Fun fact: the first tactical bombing from an airplane was on striking mine workers in the USA.
From the linked article:

"... something as simple as taking fish oils had reduced dementia risk by 9%. This is equivalent to the risk reduction found from quitting smoking. However, the effect is not the same without B vitamins."

So yeah. My summary simply illuminates the pathway/reason why as well as why there are so many confusing comorbidities.
Almost the same for me. The data center is a couple miles from my home and my home has fiber. It’s low latency, I almost never notice a difference from my device. Maybe if I used it for really large files but that’s not my thing. It’s nice keeping my local device crud free and low demand.

Edit to add; cost me about $70/month depending on a few variables on collocation for a 4U. My same apps on AWS would cost 10x more. So that’s plenty of budget for my hardware that I usually get a year or two out of; doing minor repairs/upgrades myself.
Back then the Red Cross would do free antibody tests for anyone who donated blood. There were two. One could not distinguish between antibodies from an infection vs. vaccine, and came back in a day or two. The other did, and took longer.
Why don‘t these benchmarks judge the likelihood of the example answer? Just taking the MAP predictions seems like a waste of information
Your LinkedIn is the most impressive thing I've ever seen. Love the bit from Apple:

> I developed an electronic mail gateway for the Macintosh, featuring scriptability in a FORTH-based language.

(Also How to Lie with Statistics is my favorite book!)
Same having to enter in a CC for a trial is a major deterrent for me as well because I also have to remember to cancel it if I don't like the service.
My experience has been different. While I have myself gone back a bit I really do not see that happening in my circle.

You see, most of the people I knew didn't really want or need specific or high quality content - I reckon they only needed something they could fix their eyes to and spend hours and days. Netlix and the ilk gives them that and probably they are happy just doing that.
Quick question: what does “Unix compliant” mean in this context?

There are shells that are bash compatible, and shells that are sh compatible, and shells that work on posix systems, but I’m not sure what “Unix compliant” means.

I think you mean bash/sh compatible, as pretty much all code on the internet assumes that (a big reason why fish never really took off), and if you are putting things in .profile that expect bash (or sh) compatibility, and your shell doesn’t support that, it could do weird stuff.
Probably something to do with warp plasma conduits.
Win2k was where it was at. I miss that OS. Maybe it is rose tinted glasses ... But yeah it was sooooo much better than xp. I remember people using the beta for longhorn and there was perf loss from just using it....
I have a somewhat remote setup - I use a server which sits in my basement. It is helpful since running some things is just easier on a x86 Linux machine vs a M2 MacBook!

Vs code works great but I would really prefer to find a way to get neovim working with less lag. Mosh support is improving but still isn't fast enough not to be annoying!
There's some interesting discussion in this thread about truncated vs winsorized means. For my own part, this is the first time I've come across either of these terms.

I tend to benefit the most from seeing the entire distribution visually, and that helps me decide if I'm looking for a median, a "normal" mean, a "mean minus some weird outliers", or something different entirely.

Does anybody happen to know of a good visual guide for how different measures of central tendency apply to various distributions? Anything that emphasizes pathological cases is helpful.
Retroactive: Run Aperture, iPhoto and iTunes on macOS Ventura, Monterey, Big Sur
> Titled the "law of increasing functional information," it holds that evolving systems, biological and non-biological, always form from numerous interacting building blocks like atoms or cells, and that processes exist - such as cellular mutation - that generate many different configurations. Evolution occurs, it holds, when these various configurations are subject to selection for useful functions.

The paper:

On the roles of function and selection in evolving systems - https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2310223120
While I agree, gRPC is based on protobufs, which are incredibly weakly typed. They specifically include mechanisms for passing through mysterious (not in the schema and of unknown type) data intact.

So, I’d argue the OP is using gRPC correctly, and I’d be using it wrong if I hadn’t given up on it long ago. I appreciate things like static type checking, and services that err on the side of rejecting unparsable requests in order to avoid data corruption. Protobufs/gRPC require heroic effort on the part of the RPC handler implementation if you want those things. In particular, it is easier to implement your own serialization format than typecheck the results returned by the APIs protoc emits.
If we create intelligent digital 'computers' that can replicate themselves can you explain why that is not life?
Is it 30 billion a year expensive?
No, the idea was thelemma = thelema.
> LLaVA-1.5 implies that the pictured person is unhealthy purely based on their appearance

I would personally see this as an upside. It should tell me what is wrong with me and not skirt around the subject. If I’m getting unhealthily overweight, it should tell me so and not continue to encourage me to eat what I want
you gotta know other CEOs from serving on Company Boards, or be extremely good friends with someone who is, AND have all the skills necessary to do the job easily.

about references like this: getting references for this kind of work can be difficult, because to someone of that economic tier, keeping your reputation up and your network connections strong are the most valuable secondary skills you can have. vouching for someone who would not be a good CEO would kill your reputation, so it doesn't really happen among the highest tier of companies. Also, boards usually vote on these things, even for interim positions, so .. ya gotta know other CEOs from serving with them on boards.

good work of you can get it, I'm sure.
They can also still buy it for free if/when it fails
I dunno, one of the slam dunks was the spectrum cliff showing vegetation. What if the energy production system on Planet X wasn't based on Mg-bearing chlorophyll? And plants have only been around for 1/7th to 1/4 of the planet's history, so it's a crap shoot any way you slice it.
Andreas Oloffson was behind the Parallela project as well... https://parallella.org/blog/
It's culture + networking. Whether one knows <language> or not is not correlated w/ salary.
I'm no blockchain expert but I don't think you need a majority. The majority relates with the financial incentives of following the longest chain, but ultimately you can configure your node to "disbelieve" any block breaking the blacklist and carry on with like-minded nodes in a fork.
For example, by my forgetting that the "-j" option of "make" had the number of concurrent tasks as an optional parameter, and without that it simply launches every possible compile simultaneously. Paralysis of course: given its uncanny tendency to pick the wrong target I could just about believe that the OOM killer then sniped the King
Even huami (Xiaomi or amazfit) watches, while terrible for privacy out of the box, can be made super privacy friendly with gadgetbridge. An open source sync app that doesn't even have internet access.

And they're a lot cheaper, thinner and lighter than Garmin has to offer, and run weeks on battery <3
An article about the gut and Alzheimer’s was posted here earlier today:

Scientists discover links between Alzheimer’s disease and gut microbiota
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37931424
Yet multiple times I’ve seen people on this site defend Apples approval process as a good thing since they get such a great curated experience as a consumer. But here’s the thing - you don’t know what you’re missing because you never see it. If this persons idea was for iPhone instead of macOS it would never benefit those thousands of users that it did.

And - I’m going to put this bluntly while trying not to be too rude - Apple does not assign the best of the best to their App Store approval process. The experience is rife with reviewers who seem to have never looked at your app and are incapable of communicating in English outside the scope of auto form responses. Imagine the worst call center experience you’ve ever had as a customer - now you get that experience after having put hundreds or thousands of hours into a project and in some cases , a business of yours. And your concerns are a speck of dust to this trillion dollar company.

And let’s be real - you can’t seriously make a mobile app and ignore iPhones. It’s not a pure monopoly but they effectively have the leverage of one.

It’s unimaginable to me that on a site called hacker news I would see support for such incredibly antagonistic behavior towards developers that Apple exhibits but unfortunately I have multiple times so I hope this persons brilliant keyboard app that has helped so many people serves as one of the many many examples as to how Apples broken App Store process hurts developers and hurts consumers and benefits absolutely nobody.

I haven’t even touched upon the fact that you have to pay $99/year and THIRTY percent of revenue for the privilege of this experience.

The simple solution is a legal mandate to allow third party app stores. It’s fine if Apple wants the official rails to be highly curated but there simply must be an off-ramp.

We are so lucky that European regulators have some sense here.
Writing dumb little programs to automate some trivially annoying task is one of my favorite things to do. I get to play around with UI design, or build some hideous monstrosity out of reflection and polymorphic generic classes. I get to play with parts of the language I don't normally use. Who cares if it's ugly or slow? It runs once a week, it doesn't matter so long as it works.

I wouldn't really call these programs useless, but I could definitely live without them. The way I like to think about it is making little programs that make my computer suck less.
> This statement cannot occur in a well formed standard C or C++ program

Not true. It's illegal to execute that statement because of undefined behavior. But it's legal to have: if (false) { *(char*)0 = 0; }

(And of course it's legal to #ifdef it out or comment it out, but that's too much cheating.)
Ever wonder what FRN stands for? They've issued them every month for the past decade. Freddie and Fannie have issued them way longer.

https://home.treasury.gov/system/files/221/Tentative-Auction...

Just because you haven't heard of things doesn't mean they are not real.

Like here's Freddie talking about their floating rate debt. I sort of feel like I'm taking crazy pills, or maybe its the classic Hacker News Dunning-Kruger thing.

>Freddie Mac issues a variety of fixed and floating rate medium term notes (MTNs) of various sizes and maturities.

https://capitalmarkets.freddiemac.com/debt/products
Not logging those trees is neither conservation or sequestration. But you seem to be stuck on that.

And those crops not only would sequester carbon faster most likely (if you buried them anyway), but be far more scalable and efficient in doing so.

I love trees, but square peg round hole.
I mean off the top of my head, google chrome isn’t on the App Store for macOS. It also overwhelmingly dominates the browser market. There are just too many products like that that are not on the App Store that I don’t think Apple can afford to lock people off from.

I’d say 60% of my apps on my Mac are not from the App Store. Sure I am probably not representative of the average user, or maybe I am, I don’t know, but assuming I am not it’s such a large number that I can’t help but think most people have at least a couple of key things they don’t get through the App Store.
Both the context and message metadata are already part of gRPC. The gRPC system also allows for server [2] and client message interceptors. Essentially this konig-kontext library provides a interceptor implementations, e.g., [3], that uses their hard-coded key for your serializable context that gets read/written from a gRPC header. The context provided by konig-kontext within your code is a wrapper around the existing gRPC Context [1].

The library is convenient for sure, but I feel that if you had a need to propagate context within gRPC, you'd probably already discovered the API and implemented propagation with your own header keys.

[1] https://grpc.github.io/grpc-java/javadoc/io/grpc/Context.htm...

[2] https://grpc.github.io/grpc-java/javadoc/io/grpc/ServerInter...

[3] https://github.com/konigsoftware/konig-kontext/blob/84faa627...
It sounds like you are starting to get it. No free will means there's no choice. You will do what you're going to do. What you do will change what other people do. What other people do will change what you do.

There is no choice only doing.
I can imagine google sending their lawyers after such a request. Not that it makes any of this better, but, at least the cynical take here (google covering their own ass so it doesn’t blow up in public) is enough to rely on.
No, and there's no moral ambiguity about it. Separate human, separate decisions.
If you spend all your time building a limited, temporary buffer - that catches on fire in high heat no less! - instead of a more scalable solution, then you’ll end up burning while people who actually did the math go ‘wtf’.
I don’t know if holding a grudge against the naive parents of the world is productive, although I can understand the frustration.

Anger is better directed at legislators for not regulating these sorts of businesses under HIPPA and similar laws. Your mom’s medical records also contain a bunch of sensitive information about you and yet you probably don’t get mad each time she visits the doctor despite the privacy risk this incurs.

Treating 23andme like a lighthearted way to enhance your genealogy hobby or whatever is actually so fucking wild. This shit is not a game, only a SMALL fraction of the victims are 23andme’s customers. 23andme’s responses to me are proof enough the entire company should be shuttered because they are grossly negligent and don’t understand what business they are in or what they just did or how they fucked up.
Here is something I just found: https://www.gameworkersunite.org/

Please do let me know if those six unions would not be considered technical. And I'll try to keep looking. Perhaps we can find a good example of failing and a winning union (according to your definition) or get as close as possible, take the best of each, and build something better.
Blink by Malcolm Gladwell. It taught me to pay attention to nonverbal language in decision making
Canadian banks are kind of bloated. The amount they spend on branch design is insane.
It was a great OS, NT 4.0 with the rough edges smoothed off.

I stayed with it as long as I could.
I am all for people to join a union, but I am personally against it, I don't want to be part of something like this, it's contrary to my personal beliefs.

Also, no, I don't think you will get red flagged everywhere for such a question.
Lawrence Krauss and Robert Sapolsky: The Illusion of Free Will
This is a direct consequence of Hyrum's Law
Society is the first thing to break down in a disaster situation though.
It's surprisingly fun to focus on the how, rather than the what, with the safety net of knowing the what will still be something worthwhile.
Visual Basic was the greatest visual development environment I have ever used. Modern Visual Studio tooling is also pretty awesome if you're targeting Windows. I am less these days so do not have much use for this tool.
As a kid? I'd probably name "Goedel, Escher, Bach" and "The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Language" as the two that had the biggest impact on me while I was in high school.
"Mace your boyfriend's dad" wasn't the medical advice I was expecting to see here, but I guess I can't blame anyone for being willing to try it. Not being able to taste anything for years would be terrible. I'm not confident that it works, but either way I look forward to seeing the videos if this 'one weird trick' catches on.
85% of the variance in LLM performance is explained by a single factor, g
Were you guys habitually late to work?
> The worst case of not buying them is that the company goes out of business and Amazon now has a fleet of trucks that will go obsolete once their parts need replacing.

They could buy them a whole lot cheaper then as just an in-house van manufacturer.
I love this article for its critical perspective. We need more of that if we want to move past the rather unimpressive status quo.

But, the reason for the described situation is no mystery, and may not have that much to do with the bazaar. Programmers like to reinvent stuff, as well as use what they’re familiar with. Those two facts alone explain a lot of the criticisms.

I suppose, in a properly managed cathedral, these tendencies might be somewhat mitigated. But how many cathedrals are properly managed, or have the luxury to “do things right”?

The whole “worse is better” debate is relevant here. Worse may not be better because it’s actually better, but because it’s more easily achievable, particularly by people without infinite time, expertise, and money.
Harrison Ford has a similar story -- he moved props until someone decided he could act.

It shows what a risk it is to specialize in acting. Studying it doesn't convey a lot of skills transferable to other areas.
You think a lot of people can figure out how to build their own guns and ammunition from raw materials? The shooter in this case used some metal pipes from a hardware store, a piece of wood, some duct tape, and an electrical igniter he made himself. He had to make his own ammunition and gunpowder from raw materials too. Moreover, the guy wasn't some random idiot; he was in the army before and had some kind of technical job there.

As for "moving around Japan", in case you've never looked at a map, Japan is an island (or more properly, an archipelago). You can't just import guns there. And buying a gun is very difficult and will put you on a first-name basis with the local cops, and even here all you can buy is a hunting rifle or shotgun, and you better have a good reason to own it. Handguns are completely prohibited. The idea that some criminal could just show up in town, heavily armed, is utter fantasy.
It still exists. Modern C# and C++ have Windows Form Builder tooling built in and it's still very good.
That’s what executive recruiters do. And it’s not that uncommon to have an interim CEO. Sometimes a company needs an outsider and the board may even demand the current management is not involved in the search.

Strangely enough, sometimes small companies will have part-time CEOs and CFOs, often recruited through an agency. Obviously doesn’t apply to a company of this scale or a person at Jim’s level.
My understanding is that you need a balance between omega 6 and omega 3 and omega 6 is not necessarily bad if its the right ratio between 6 and 3
> n-bit posits need equivalent-sized hardware to 2n-bit floats

Not in general. Every 8 bit posit with es=1 can be decoded to a 10 bit E5M4 float. Every 8 bit posit with es=2 can be decoded to E6M3, and almost all fit into E5M3.

Though overall I'm not sure if posits are particularly useful here. Posits give you more precision near 1.0, and they give you better range for outliers. The latter almost certainly helps, but I don't know about the former.

Saving 1 bit wouldn't hurt though.
Haha I tossed together that sentance before running to a meeting. I simply know the topic to such detail and intimately that I didn't think to make it simpler. If I had known it was going to be tossed at ChatGPT I would have fleshed it out more. The key thing that ChatGPT missed in its summary was that the entire PVN is often downregulated in Alzheimer's. This is where you get all of the other comorbidities that don't make sense and are red herrings such as thyroid issues and leads to a direct pathway to the reduction of myelin sheaths which is a crucial requirement before dementia.

Once you see the pathway you can't unsee it.
I guess it is institutionalized, but I mean it's not formally enshrined anywhere as a policy or intended outcome, eg at the FEC. Like if you arrived on earth in a UFO or as an LLM and read all the official election documents, you might be able to infer that two parties were the most likely outcome but it's never explicitly stated.
> Could not even run npm ci with the resources available.
I kept having to resize the VM. First up to the $6 then I was running into different stuff. I ended up going up to the $24 / mo option just to get the image building.

This makes very little sense to me. I’ve been using $4 droplets to host a variety of projects (much of the time on the same server) and have rarely hit such issues.

How inefficient is the code for it to need the $24 droplet?

You probably shouldn’t be building the image on the droplet though, maybe build locally, release to docker registry, and only pull the image from the server.
Please help me understand what negative consequence I am likely to experience because of this. Not something conceptual like "you don't have privacy!" - be specific.
It's the kind words from people like you that give us rocket fuel!