skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If oil is only being used in a product that won't eventually be burned and produce CO2, then that's a big win.
US Treasury unit proposes stepping up scrutiny of crypto mixers
You are fortunate you did not acquire any of the long covid symptoms.

And yes, it turns out that some people have some innate immunity that we were unable to identify early in the pandemic. But nobody knew if they had that or not.

Your rolled some dice and came up lucky.
The Chat GPT Growth Story with OpenAI's Head of Sales, Aliisa Rosenthal
And they're staying committed

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37955902
Mimetic Collapse, Our Destiny
You say that unironically, as though there aren't "strong governments" in the world that behead gay and trans people, or even just women who have been victims of rape.

You can have a meaningful impact on a community. It'll take time and effort, but you can actually have an impact. You can be the one who welcomes the rejected, who opens your house to the down and out, who shows people that love isn't something to fear.

You can't affect your national government. If you get exceptionally lucky, you might be able to get sucked up by some political party as their knighted figurehead, but that only happens because you happen to agree with their agenda, not because you're the individual agent of change.

I will gladly take the community of people who actually know each other and solve their problems together over the "strong government" every single day of the week and twice on Sundays.
That doesn't do anything.
I actually think (hope?) that AI in general will get rather good at picking out SEO spam pages in their current state (think generic cooking recipe sites) and be able to downgrade them in search rankings. Now whether the major search engines will actually do that is another story.
I am on HN basically every day and I don't think I've ever heard of Cosmic before. Looking through search I only see 3 or 4 popular posts in the last three years.

Off the top of my head I'd say Deno was a lot more hyped when it was "in progress".
That's a bit confusing when gigantic.com is "one of the UK's largest independent ticket agencies".
Vegas isn’t a market. You can’t have insider information to win roulette.

It’s not about the possible outcomes but how the game/market actually works.
For all those of you who crib about forced capitalisation of certain keywords and use of BEGIN ... END in Oberon, see for yourself how it improves the usability of reading the code, even without pretty colour formatting - https://raw.githubusercontent.com/rochus-keller/OberonSystem... ... each block of code can be easily identified for analysis.
I think you are right that there is a danger for the left to be biased in this way. Just like there is a strong bias on the right to selectively pick what was part of the "good old times" up to the point where the whole idea becomes complete fiction.

If we engage in a little bit of theological scholarship then it becomes clear why the trust in our own myths can sometimes be low. In the history of Christianity there has been so much political maneuvering and power play involved in the way these myths ought to be told or not told that most people question any truth those myths could hold purely on that fact alone. Then you also have devout Christians who would probably call Jesus if he was reborn today and said precisely what he said in the bible a socialist. So if the long history of the church and its religous wars didn't scare you off, the "Christian Love" of the loudest believers might just do the trick.

With other cultures we don't know all that political bullshit and scheming which mind lurk behind their myth, so we have a different, less negative look at it.
Looks cool, will check it out next time.
> This normally turns out be more expensive and have less quality in the products at the same time.

Hypothesis: software market has near zero barriers to entry, so while other industries are protected from would-be competitors by large up-front expenses, for most purely-software products anyone can rapidly build a half-assed clone of whatever you're doing and start eating into your customer base - making software companies obsess over velocity / feature delivery rate, and/or seeking all kinds of non-software barriers to entry (e.g. network effects, or content deals - like, it wouldn't be hard to make a better Spotify client, but good luck replicating the deals Spotify has with recording labels).
What kind of surgery was each patient going in for? To me, these results speak less about ketamine and more about how solving longstanding health issues with surgery is highly likely to improve depression. Reduce daily suffering noticeably and people are likely to be less depressed.

Also, how long before the general anesthesia were these patients given either the saline or ketamine? Most ketamine therapy I have seen involves taking a dose of ketamine during a special session with a therapist, or given to people as an inhaler for panic attack treatment. I'd wager if they didn't get time to sit with the ketamine, introspect, and dissociate it won't actually help their mental state.
> As a fact, no, I don't. The amount of carnage seen on Palestine photos and videos is not matched.

You’re not looking very hard then.

The carnage is identical the Russians have literally leveled entire cities in Ukraine, I dare say the Russians have leveled an area that is overall larger then Gaza in its entirety.

This is before we get to the especially brutal parts of Russias war like when they launched an anti ship missile at a shopping centre.
Why did you comment on a post about novel nanotechnology engines if you are uninterested in discussing design space that hasn’t already been realized?

I’ve explained twice now the difference between machine-phase and solution-phase, and you still don’t get it, instead resorting to ad hominem attacks.

I don’t think continuing this discussion would be useful for either of us.
I submitted the Reuters article as a summary, but here are some primary sources as well:

FinCEN's press release: https://www.fincen.gov/news/news-releases/fincen-proposes-ne...

The actual proposed rule: https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2023/10/23/2023-23...
Imagine you received a wage that was 1/10 of what it should have been, you notified the appropriate department in the company, and they wondered why is your pedanticism so strong when it is just one order of magnitude.
> You don't get to be angry

I am not.

> when the readme isn't directly linked on the website

It is.
2024 Acura Integra Type S Review: Stuck Between Sport Compact and Luxury
Every time I see a conflation between "executives at giant companies in the tech industry" and "actual tech/engineering workers", somehow it always seem to be to protect the former.

It's weird, imagine if the actions of McDonalds was supposed to reflect "the fast food people", or the action of Disney was supposed to reflect "animators", etc.
The greatest missed opportunity of organic content ranking is a robust mechanism for human feedback. Google has attempted to rank the trustworthiness/quality of content with almost no feedback from search users. About the only crude feedback that a search user can provide to Google is to return to search results and click on another result. Even that signal is largely ambiguous in meaning. Google has a team of trusted raters, but their work has not been sufficient to match the scale of bad actors manipulating content. With the advent of LLMs, there's another chance to get human-feedback right. This is being done now with RLHF, but that human-feedback system will need to be more aggressively designed against adversarial input as that feedback signal becomes more significant (and therefore profitable) to those who would distort it. TikTok is a good example of how effective a system with simple ranking rules can be when there is a tremendous volume of active and passive feedback from users (likes, subscribes, shares, total watch time, blocks/reports, etc.)
Its a cool challenge, but the code is just a mess to read
It's not that having a working population is necessarily a bad thing, it's that student visas are a known immigration loophole which result in hundreds of thousands of "students" (economic migrants) that wouldn't have qualified otherwise. Many of them are also willing to work and live in terrible conditions[0][1], which affects jobs and housing.

Anecdotally, I know of several people that started working full time (30+ hours) doing things like driving trucks within their first year.

[0] https://toronto.ctvnews.ca/international-student-in-toronto-...

[1] https://globalnews.ca/news/3970935/lethbridge-burger-king-sl...
AKA an Space Age retelling of the ending of the Roman Empire and the beginning of the Middle Age.
The funny thing, I am on HN every day and never heard of Cosmic until today. Never heard of Deno until I talked with a company that was leveraging it for some isolated trusted compute stuff (I shake my head at JS and trusted compute, but that's where I heard about it).
IDK, isn't this just "writing 101" you learn in primary school, that repeating the same regular word multiple times in close proximity (within couple sentences) is ugly and indicates bad writing?
NGO Monitor (Non-governmental Organization Monitor) is a right-wing non-governmental organization based in Jerusalem that reports on international NGO activity from a pro-Israel perspective.[4][5][6][7]

NGO Monitor has been criticized by academic figures, diplomats, and journalists for allowing its research and conclusions to be driven by politics,[8][9][10] for not examining right-wing NGOs,[10] and for putting out misleading information.[11] NGO Monitor's stated mission is to "end the practice used by certain self-declared 'humanitarian NGOs' of exploiting the label 'universal human rights values' to promote politically and ideologically motivated agendas".[1] A number of academics have written that NGO Monitor's aims and activities are political in nature.[10][12][9]

The organization's leader, Gerald M. Steinberg, has reportedly worked for the Israeli Foreign Ministry and the Office of the Prime Minister while heading NGO Monitor.[13]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/NGO_Monitor
As far as I know the economics don't really change, just the $$ amounts.

Streaming services pay peanuts and nobody outright buys albums anymore.
> I would strongly doubt that count() without a where clause isn’t already highly optimized

It's actually not well optimized in PostgreSQL because of MVCC. See https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Slow_Counting

TL;DR:

The fact that multiple transactions can see different
states of the data means that there can be no
straightforward way for "COUNT(*)" to summarize data across
the whole table. PostgreSQL must walk through all rows to
determine visibility.
If we are all giving out advice let me join in.

It’s not wise to dismiss the technical decisions made by developers as “playing with the latest toys”. Because you are ignorant. You have no understanding of the business requirements, NFRs etc that have led to the decision. So I prefer to give developers the benefit of the doubt.

Lambda architectures have trade-offs like every architecture and they are useful in certain situations. Building everything in one service and scaling it when the components have different scaling behaviours usually isn’t ideal.
> However, the issue is that exhibit B is whole rows of apartment blocks hollowed out, visibly mangled or even levelled out by Israeli air strikes.

It’s like your exactly describing what the Russians did to Bakhmut.

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2023/may/18/stark-b...
It is laughable that a country with as much land as Canada or Australia have housing issues.

Essentially it is the class that owns houses which restrict new supply under the guise of environmentalism or whatever they can find to enforce NIMBYism. The rents extracted from new immigrants are crazy high.
What do you think are some specific gaps around distributed functions/lambdas?
How many stars are there in the Universe?
Yes, via https://docs.godotengine.org/en/4.1/contributing/development...:

> Since Godot 4.0, the C++ standard used throughout the codebase is a subset of C++17.

> [...]

> Prior to Godot 4.0, the C++ standard used throughout the codebase was C++03, with a handful of C++14 extensions.
Triton – Into the Shadows (1995) [60fps] [video]
This represents an alternative history timeline - instead of shooters, we'got sword-fighting games.
Yeah, and maybe he owes a fortune to a crime boss who's very large and disgusting, maybe shaped like a big floating orb. That pulsates, or something. Just as long as it's not a slug-like being, because then we'd be recycling old material.
This is one of the better explanations I've seen of how GPU programming works. I'll be using this for my mentees in the future. Well done!
I disagree. The questions are posed as challenges but are not charged, subjective, or overly pedantic. I also don't see where he's trying to show he knows more than they do in a self-serving way.

Some people choose to interpret any challenge as a personal attack. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
If you dehumanize people as "zombies" -- 45% of the population of Gaza, one of the most densely populated areas on Earth, are under the age of 15! -- then yes, you are at best a racist, and my civility towards people who deserve is to not further interact with someone who does not.
The demographics suggest that they need young people to work many minimum wage jobs. Indeed these holes are filled by Indian and other immigrants like myself who live well below median Canadian lifestyles (e.g. 5 people sharing a 2 bedroom house). The tricky question is whether this is a net positive for Canada or not. My guess is the answer is not that simple or straightforward.
Corporations don’t want anyone to actually own anything anymore. And Ferrari has nothing on John Deere.
I wish there was a place for high quality discussion on any topic. By "high-quality" I don't mean super serious and polite, just intellectually stimulating.

Early Quora was a bit like that. I also used to visit a non-English website with a blog section that was amazing - wide variety of mostly smart people with memorable personalities and diverse set of opinions. There were heated debates on various topics, humor, technical posts about some niche field and a specific atmosphere, it felt a bit like a small-town pub. It was not an echo-chamber like most places today, probably because there was no comment voting. Little to no moderation. I still remember a lot of the people, which I can't say about HN or Reddit.
There’s an interesting point to dig out of this I think: the average of any one cultural identity is pretty inauthentic and because ML is pitched to the public as a massive efficiency boost, we’re going to see a lot of output from simple prompts. Not needing to “program” a prompt or over-think your query is the selling point. “Just type what you want”.

Yeah, that means we’re going to see a lot of the same averaged-out caricatures. Your local Italian restaurant will select one of the first 3 options for “Italian pizza chef” for their menu.

IMO, I think the author is trying to communicate that, but attributed blame to the AI tools because there’s other very clear cases of biased training data. (They even mentioned issues with facial recognition and black skin tones)

Human laziness (or actually, using a technology as it’s pitched) is the main factor here I think. The AI dutifully turns your non specific query into a non specific result. Messing around with prompts about Nigerian tribes myself returns pretty diverse results.
I live in Victoria, and while our situation is special (we’re on the tip of an island and can’t build in many directions because it’s ocean), a few developers I’ve spoken to are very confident that the housing issue’s greatest barrier is labour.

I asked if immigration could address this, and they each pointed out that a. Immigrants can’t afford to work in this industry in places where we need housing the most, b. While building requires unskilled labour, it also requires highly skilled labour that is at an unprecedented shortage which isn’t easily or rapidly corrected with immigration, c. Cities and neighborhoods are deeply attached to their reasons for resisting various densification projects, and breaking through arbitrary red tape here is an immense and intractably expensive undertaking.

They painted a very bleak picture of the housing situation, making it seem as though huge changes need to occur in order for meaningful progress to be made.

This might be less of an issue in other cities. I’m not sure.
I think I am missing something.

Comment A (original): 'stereotypes have a reason.'

Comment B (me): example of a stereotype without reason, which happens to originate from the US

Comment C (you): 'You're generalizing the US to the entire world.'

Maybe I should have included a warning to ease the shock: 'You're about to read an example from the United States.'
Humanoid robots face a major test with Amazon's Digit pilots
To really press on the analogy some more:

- Knowing how to change strings is comparable to knowing how to use the browser console

- Knowing music theory is comparable to understanding programming language theory

- Being competent on the fretboard is comparable to being competent in one programming language. Strumming/fingerpicking could be considered another language.

---

And then for the controversial one...

- Only knowing how to use music-making software is like only knowing how to use low-code applications for development.

dodges tomatoes
I wonder if we're going to hit a wall on cycle-accurate software emulation; Higan is pretty cool, but even that requires a fairly beefy CPU considering it's emulating something reasonably primitive like the SNES.

I know nothing about electronics, but the recent uptick in FPGA game systems like the MiSTer getting Playstation and N64 support, I am hoping that FPGAs can pick up where Higan left off; it would be great to get cycle-accurate emulation of the Xbox 360 some day since I never fixed mine after getting a red ring.
My bad, I failed to read the correct units!! The throughput figures in the desktop cards was actually in GB/s, not Gbps!!!

So any of these would be more than fine. That makes a lot more sense, considering what it takes to make a complex 3d scene.
Yikes. Even as an amateur I can see the problems with the approach taken in the Science Open paper. They tried to do statistical analysis on VAERS entries? The system of self-reporting? And did nothing that I can observe to try to control for the memetic passage of the "covid vaccination causes myocardititis" belief ripping through the international community? That's like claiming that October causes people to be more scared of the dark and completely ignoring the fact that the horror movie marathons run around Halloween.
I learned it both in my degree and the Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs course (which I recommend to anyone interested in low level computing)
Fungi will start feeding on plastic in the environment relatively soon. Digesting plastic in an animal digestive tract is a tougher nut to crack, similar in principle to digesting celulose.
Thanks! Glad you like it. The sibling comment by majewsky is spot on. There is not much parsing going on. Every character is read one at a time and the turtle's state is changed. Indeed the "[" and "]" commands are implemented with a stack.

The entire implementation is a single HTML page written in plain HTML + JavaScript. The evaluation of the code happens here: <https://github.com/susam/cfr/blob/0.2.0/cfr.html#L204>.
I'm pretty sure it's actually gonna do the exact opposite thing. Like if you look into what AI is doing to student essays and homework, it's so good that even trained humans cannot tell human and ai generated content apart. It's not a stretch to imagine AI generated SEO spam pages will be indistinguishable from human created personal websites.
Oh btw the go SSH lib being old thing has been fixed for a while now.
Clohe: Moving toys in the classroom (automata construction toolkit)
> If the idea is that the public sector’s wonderful services are supposed to help the private sector flourish, well, that whole idea doesn’t seem to be working.

Are you implying that social programs are here to help to private sector?
I've been using an IKEA Markus chair for -- I believe -- at least 10 years. It's pretty OK. I can sit in it for a whole day (sans brief breaks) and not experience any pain. I'm a bit shorter and a lot lighter than the average adult male in the US.

It's starting to show signs of wear around the headrest -- flakes of the covering are coming off.
Yeah but fecal transplant bacteria isn't comprised of the sort of transient bacteria generally found in probiotic sources. It leads to a kind of hard-reset for gut flora. There are few sources that offer bacteria that will persist in the gut, I think I read kefir is one of them, but to what extent I'm not certain.
I reported it to the DOJ as well, just in case.
It is pretty simple.
5223 port is called "legacy SSL".
So, because it is legacy, clients would, by default, use 5222 + starttls.
I.e. majority of clients connect with 5222.

Also, I've never understood why they've moved 5223 (regular TLS) into deprecated. It was pretty useful to enable SSL on AWS ELB on this port. Which is not possible with 5222, because it does XML stuff before switching to TLS.

I would speculate it is to not keep 2 ports open or something, was a reason to move it to deprecated. + you can do some cleartext communication before switching to TLS (not like it is that useful).
But GUI toolkits work very different; ProgA can link against GTK, ProgB against Qt, ProgC against Tk, and that all just peacefully coexist without problems (short of perhaps some UI inconsistencies). None of these toolkits have to even be aware that the others exist for it all to work; there is no shared protocol (other than the system itself: X11, whatever Windows has, etc. – and look at how long s/X11/Wayland/ is taking, and there is considerable disagreement whether Wayland is even an improvement in the first place).

But in a terminal all code runs in that terminal, and terminal programs don't "link against" a terminal in the same way that you do with a GUI toolkit. You need to implement a shared protocol on both ends.
It seems like Sidebery is what you want. Lets you use regex matching for containers.
Goldman: 15M Americans will be taking weight loss drugs by 2030
> and what is there is the sort of thing that can change your DNA

How? Describe the mechanism.
If you were really capable of acquiring 10m users you wouldn't be clueless about scaling to 10m users.
Not intending to detract from this article or the merits here. Congratulations to her for pushing forward.

Can a man sue on similar grounds? I have a friend who’s been passed up for promotion several times while women were given greater titles. The company actually gave him an equivalent raise to assuage him, but he still doesn’t have a fancy title despite doing equivalent work. It’s basically an open secret they’re doing this for gender parity. This is at a Fortune 500.

Does he have grounds to sue?
Because crypto is still called and considered an investment in many circles, even in news articles, unlike casino gambling.
I upgraded from an iPhone 8 to an iPhone SE 3 but would have loved to have had a Mini as an option. The SE 3 is still small enough for me to use one handed but I know that isn't the case for a lot of people.
If you can't run anything remotely like the code you are actually running how will you ever figure out why it isn't doing what you expect?
Perhaps erlang/OTP might tackle some of these challenges of simpler scaling.

https://www.erlang.org/doc/design_principles/des_princ

WhatsApp famously scaled a lot with relatively few devs:

> WhatsApp scaled to 1B users with only 50 engineers https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28985169
I like the taste but find the amount of added sugar dubious, in products sold.