skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Actually the dopamine rush isn’t in winning. Slot machines are all flashing lights, overwhelming colors, patterns, and matching patterns designed to provide dopamine rushes purely through stimulation. The point isn’t even in the potential of winning anymore, it’s getting lost in matching patterns and pretty lights where the world disappears for as long as possible. Slot machines are designed to maximize engagement and winning actually interrupts it with rewards (slot machine addicts have actually reported being upset when the slot machine pays out, because it ruins their trance like state!)
No, the jet was only in the commercial (according to the documentary).

They thought they had a case since Pepsi “forgot” to put a fine-print disclaimer at the bottom like most other commercials.
This is the third time an article about this pyramid has made it to the front page in several weeks. It’s almost certainly BS.

The authors used the SHCal20 radiocarbon dating calibration curve but tested volcanic soil samples. C14 depleted CO2 and carbonate minerals dissolved in groundwater coming from Mount Gede a few miles away will make the samples look significantly older than they actually are.

SHCal20 is meant to be used with drilled samples from bulk material like bone and fossilized plants, not soil samples that are exposed to the elements for thousands of years. C14 concentrations in the atmosphere vary significantly, over time, especially around volcanically active regions so they need to make their own calibration curve for that specific area to get any kind of accuracy.
Personally I found serverless incredibly useful for very simple tasks, tasks where even a t2.micro would be overkill. I have a couple of static websites that are mostly static but still occasionally have to do "server stuff" like sending an email or talking to a database. For those instances a Lambda is incredibly useful because it costs you nothing compared to an EC2 and it less maintenance. But for bigger setups I agree it would be easier to just host on a small-medium VM (and I say that as someone whose got an entire API of like 200+ endpoints deployed in lambda)
I’m guessing you’re joking, but some people who can’t help but become addicted to skinner boxes have dependants. Children, families, tenants even.

Those people are harmed.
Not having a credit card if you are able to is, objectively, idiotic. Having it doesn't mean you have to use it, but you are leaving thousands of dollars a year on the table if you don't use it.

Debit cards don't have nearly the chargeback protections credit does. They don't have any of the warranty protections. They don't have any of the card-member services. Look at two people, one who just has a wad of cash and a debit card, and one who has that plus 3 or 4 credit cards. They both travel to a different country and get their debit account frozen erroneously. One is in a world of hurt, the other is mildly inconvenienced.
Mh, we've been looking at e.g. OpenFaaS to implement rare or slow and resource intensive processes as functions so they don't have to run all the time. Think of customer provisioning, larger data exports, model trainings and such things. Here, a slow startup might add a few seconds to a few minute long process.

But our outcome is: Outside of really heavyweight processes like model trainings, it's a lot of infrastructural effort to run something like this on our own systems, opposed to just sticking that code into a rarely called REST endpoint in some application we're already running anyway. We'd need a lot more volume of somewhat rarely executed tasks to make it worth running it.
In my example the table stores the hash codes themselves instead of the keys (because the hash function is invertible)

Oh, I see, right. If determining the home bucket is trivial, then the back-shifting method is great. The issue is just that it’s not as much of a general-purpose solution as it may initially seem. In the bad cases, it's really bad.

With a different algorithm (Robin Hood or bidirectional linear probing), the load factor can be kept well over 90% with good performance, as the benchmarks in the same repo demonstrate.

I’ve seen the 90% claim made several times in literature on Robin Hood hash tables. In my experience, the claim is a bit exaggerated, although I suppose it depends on what our idea of “good performance” is. See these benchmarks, which again go up to a maximum load factor of 0.95 (although boost and Absl forcibly grow/rehash at 0.85-0.9):

https://strong-starlight-4ea0ed.netlify.app/

Tsl, Martinus, and CC are all Robin Hood tables (https://github.com/Tessil/robin-map, https://github.com/martinus/robin-hood-hashing, and https://github.com/JacksonAllan/CC, respectively). Absl (from Google) and Boost are well-known C++ SIMD-based hash tables. Khash (https://github.com/attractivechaos/klib/blob/master/khash.h) is, I think, an ordinary open-addressing table using quadratic probing. Fastmap is a new, yet-to-be-published design that is fundamentally similar to bytell (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M2fKMP47slQ) but also incorporates some aspects of the aforementioned SIMD maps (in particular, it stores a 4-bit fragment of the hash code to avoid most false key comparisons).

As you can see, all the Robin Hood maps spike upwards dramatically as the load factor gets high, becoming as much as 5-6 times slower at 0.95 vs 0.5 in one of the benchmarks (uint64_t key, 256-bit struct value: Total time to erase 1000 existing elements with N elements in map). Only the SIMD maps (with Boost being the clear better performer of the two) and Fastmap appear mostly immune to load factor in all benchmarks, although the SIMD maps do - I believe - use tombstones for deletion in at least some cases.

I’ve only read briefly about bi-directional linear probing – never experimented with it.
These things can be easily automated, and many Linux LTS distros come with a preconfigured system auto-update.

> Just from a security standpoint, having an ephemeral system means persistence is not possible.

You still have to persist something somewhere, and there is a higher chance someone will figure out SQL injection or unfiltered POST request through your app than hack SSH access to the box. If someone wants to do any real damage, they'd just continuously DDoS that serverless setup, and the cloud provider will kill the company with the bill.
TL;DR various variants of the same technique are covered by different patents, and Apple doing this on application processor avoids some of those patents.

A good example of different approach is laptops branded with "Harman Kardon" speakers - Harman-Kardon has a patent on exactly this but involving separate DSP running transparently to the OS. Similarly there are various other solutions to improve sound quality of small speakers being done, and for some of that modern SoCs are bringing in dedicated DSPs onboard.
CCP member nervous they will get dragged out into the street by angry, unemployed, unmarried 20-30 year old men
> Globalisation keeps the world at peace - as long as world leaders see the scales of the choice between maintaining trade and starting a war tilted toward trade, the world is a better place.

Kinda. It also means certain in-countries can do whatever they want to certain out-countries.
Not every explanation is justification.
The ability to improvise or produce locally (and in limited quantities) is not as poor as often made out (in particular because you throw away the rule book).

Doesn't mean some specific things would not be difficult to get.

Also, even in wars with heavy and broad destruction there wasn't a collapse of civilization.
Nooo I can't run that, I need to pay for Bezos 3rd yacht!
There has to be labor protections for us employees and us companies or companies that do business here must adhere to it. After all, I cannot just get a visa to go live in India, even though I might be able to have more material wealth there just based on the power of the dollar. The U.S. citizen is at an inherit disadvantage due to other countries not being as friendly with the visa.
US government should also be careful about increasing the wealth of countries not in the us sphere of influence.
The result is the same, but the path differs. I doubt addiction appears out of nowhere. First some kind of reason for an activity is needed. Real casino - chance to win, big fish casino - social status within the club. In both cases the addiction seems to be self-reinforcing: A chance to win all the lost money back vs. not wanting to lose the status that was so expensive to reach.

Individuals are intelligent, but groups of people create peer pressure, and individuals become capable of the most stupid behavior imaginable. Just wasting money isn't even the most extreme form.
You can’t really kill someone else with casino chips, unless you tried really hard. Not everything is black and white, need to consider the context as well.
> Nah, it’s the kind of experiences you expect in a low-regulation market.

Nah, it's not. The market for Android devices has been there for years and it works.

Sure, you can be screwed over, like in everything in life, but it's not such a common thing that it would make it an equally relevant argument against liberalization.

I agree, though: people who can afford premium won't bother. Neither with alternative ways nor with people who can't afford premium. Maybe it's even intended to keep the brand somehow exclusive and special...sad world.
My corollary axiom: “always be documentin’”, or, “document or it didn’t happen”.

I’d say easily 3/4 of the best stuff I’ve ever done was never bounced from the DAW/NLE, turned into a non-realtime/static artifact from code, or otherwise made archival, and far fewer projects / prototypes / physical experiments got the respect of any capture of any kind.

On a certain level I like the wabi-sabi nature of that. On another I wonder how many opportunities to converse or collaborate about mutual interests or future opportunities went by the wayside because I ‘labored in obscurity’ for so much of my life.

I’ve been doing some coaching for folks coming up in my industry recently and this has been an idea I’ve tried to convey early and often - “always be documentin’”.
In my experience it's often the _developer of the PoC_ that goes "oh, this will just need a little bit of cleanup" rather than clearly communicating "this PoC has validated risks X and Y, but we still need to mitigate risks A and B and the current implementation has taken shortcuts which introduces risks D and E".
So, it sounds like "Fedora Silverblue layered on top of Fedora CoreOS" is incoherent.
What’s interesting is they offer no chance to make money. Instead once you start paying they give you access to special clubs where you compete against each other, have conversations, etc. but of course if you stop paying you lose access to all of these.
> These things can be easily automated,

Is this something people are out there believing? That patching is something that's easy to automate? I find that kind of nuts, I thought everyone understood that this is, in fact, the opposite of easily automated...

> You still have to persist something somewhere, and there is a higher chance someone will figure out SQL injection or unfiltered POST request through your app than hack SSH access to the box.

"This entirely separate attack exists therefor completely removing an entire attack primitive haves no value" - how I read this comment.
No not to zero, I believe Australian exports to China went from 45% to 37% in 1 year. I have the article link posted in one of my comments below. In retro my use of the word ban makes it seem expansive and absolute but really it just resulted in billions and billions of dollars redirected or lost.

Edit: https://www.wsj.com/world/asia/china-says-australias-exporte...
my lifelong friend who developed schizophrenia as an adult (tick bite while jogging -> lymes disease -> schizophrenia, yes that's a thing) is going through bankruptcy due to these apps. IIUC what happened is after years of use she hit a jackpot (which they allow or cause to happen every now and then), cashed out a big win which generated an IRS Form W-2G, deposited somewhere else across the fiscal year boundary, immediately lost it but now owes a pile of tax. Her net worth is now less than 0; she is currently living in a state funded halfway house after her latest stint in rehab -- having otherwise now reached the point of homelessness for the first time. Historically she has had the apps block her (over a decade of this addiction) but there are always new apps and they obviously target her with advertising. If I have it wrong it's because it's impossible to extract coherent information from a schizophrenic. The only reason to believe this is even real is, how does a schizophrenic know what is a Form W-2G?
Wouldn't that be WFH?
No. Some of those geopolitics folks believe they're kind of screwed population-wise as China has mostly focused on low-value manufacturing which requires a LOT of workers, but due to various policies like one-child, they have a population that is rapidly aging and retiring. One of the CCP's lead data scientists said something to the tune that they over-counted by 100M young people. Also, Chinese labor is no longer cheap...Mexico and many other Asian and African countries are now more affordable.

America is slowly entering an era of reshoring our factories to control low value manufacturing and high value products.
Surely it's even worse, because it's available 24/7 wherever you are, instead of being somewhere you have to physically visit.
Honestly I would just replace those flimsy arms with magnetic measurement stands/articulated holders as they are used in precision manufacturing: https://www.noga.com/Products/hold/Holding%20System

But at that point you could also just put your own pogo pins on somewhere.
It's called "just deserts". Wyoming has been sending people to congress and making my life measurably worse with their votes. Only by drinking the slurry will they have a chance to wake up (but they still probably won't).
> Speaking for myself I think through childhood I have just been too damn busy all the time with school and my own projects

Me too, but I remember playing with my neighbor. The details are gone but I remember about some specific moments and experience too.

> And by not continually remembering myself the recent past, I eventually forgot about it when it became a distant past.

Why is it important to remember the past from such a long time ago?

I remember what happened last week more clearly than what happen last year.

I remember my final months in university a bit more clearly that the first year, which itself is clearer than my childhood.

Actually I had to count how long ago were my final months, it's been 6 years.

However, some key points and formula from the first year are still extremely clear in my head, because I've been using them frequently.

Forgetting about the distant path may be a feature, not a bug: it's like a garbage collector running in the background taking care of memories that haven't been retrieved in a long time, to make room for new ones that may be more useful. Old but useful memories aren't touched by the GC.

I'd say that's good: I care way more about the board game I played last week that some obscure details about childhood toys that have 0 utility in the present.

Nostalgia is just a preference for the well know, causing desire to revive the past masquerading as utility, making us wrongly discount present day innovations by lack of familiarity with them.
That sounds like micro services in general rather than lambda the Aws service selectively. I've seen the same unsustainable mess with k8s crazy teams.

The lesson I've learned instead is to start boring and traditional, then use serverless tech when you hit a problem the current setup cannot solve
I might believe this if AWS allowed customers to specify their own self-imposed billing limit. Do they have that feature yet?
Pardon my tone, but what could possibly be of value to RCE in a mass-market mobile-gaming app?
So yeah, in this case Equifax would go bankrupt and other companies would get very valuable lesson to spend more money at security side of things. I see no issue here.
So originally, lifetimes were lexical only. And when the move towards non-lexical lifetimes was being considered, this aspect was discussed heavily.

It turns out that programmers seem to think about scope in a cfg style, and don’t really think in lexical scope, even though it’s “easier.” Tons of people, even new ones, would look at some code Rust rejects and be like “but obviously this is safe because:” and then state the non-lexical reasoning. People generally find the non-lexical borrow checker to be far easier to use.

I think it is actually one of the larger things Rust has discovered, that doesn’t get talked about very much. And it’s also a great demonstration that simpler doesn’t always mean easier.
Headline is wrong. Market paid $1K for the iPhone experience.

Look at ads: specs versus "life goals" enablement. This is not a hardware product or parts bin price.

If you pay $1,000 for a meal, you damn sure expect the restaurant to control the experience since the price isn't the cost of ingredients. And if you want to cook, that's great, but you're not getting to bring your own parsley, you hack together your own meal elsewhere.

. . .

Even if food became free, people would pay -- and pay well -- for the curated Michelin star experience.

So how to learn to think more about the diner's experience than the kitchen experience or the "right" to monkey with some other chef's prix fixe menu, to better build that kind of user appreciation for one's own product?

For sure, a Michelin star is hard to achieve.
Good bluetooth speakers also use similar DSP to sound way better and louder than they would without it so I am not sure this is a counterpoint. The unique thing here is Apple does it on the main CPU, presumably because "why not", so you couldn't safely power the speakers of your mac while running linux until the related features were added.
No level of capability is enough to convince some people it's not just a stochastic parrot. You're completely right on the Turing test. At this point it's just a matter of how long it could fool us. You have to remember it's not specifically trained to fool us either, it's trained through RLHF to be verbose and "helpful". If you train it right and add in some RAG (vector databases) I think you could fool most people for a pretty long time, some gullible people forever.
Purpose of casino chips is more practical and less nefarious than you imagine. Try playing a poker game with banknotes and coins and you'll see what I mean.
off shoring isn't new but it also isn't easy to do well depending on the position
It’s addicting but not gambling. Agree this should be regulated somehow
Hear, hear. You know where I’d like to offshore my job? Literally anywhere other than Missouri, where I live. WFH means I can participate in companies that do important work without having to move my family away from their family.

If that means I get replaced by a talented hacker from India someday, the tradeoff is still far north of worth it.
I don’t ascribe becoming addicted to thinking critically. Anyone can fall into addiction.

I also don’t ascribe the inability to save money to be by stupidity. A substantial minority of the population in general is disabled, and society really isn’t good at supporting disabled people with complex medical needs— work is rarely adaptable to regular medical treatments for example.
I think this does a decent job of talking about the tech without hyping up or shitting on it, just speaking matter-of-factly. They seem to have found a decent fit for the tech, and are able to recognize where it works and doesn't work, and are still able to 'diversify' to other things. Good post thanks for sharing.
Are you saying there is no objective wrong?
You cannot "feel" that 2×2 != 4.
WFH?

Besides the Capitalists have already made things terrible for people. “Give up more or they might make it more terrible” isn’t really convincing.

Like affording a house is impossible, kids are seen as a status symbol (like owning a BMW 20 years ago, or having a pet tiger or something). The retirement age goes up and up.

I say we call their bluff already.
What a strange, nonsensical comment.
I genuinely don't see how that's relevant here.

Are you saying that if a president of a university is caught doing something bad and fired/resigns for it then every piece of output from that university related to that field should be disregarded?
It's funny because in the mid 90s when online gambling was illegal (U.S.), I joined and played a service located in the Caribbean so I could place sports bets. I won a couple of times and they mailed me an actual check.

I lost way more than I won of money I didn't really have, but now that online gambling is legal and I have more disposable cash, there's zero interest in these
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Imagine if Apple sold OEM parts at a reasonable price. Imagine if they weren't pairing OEM parts to prevent repair shops from parting out broken devices. Imagine if they weren't making deals with manufacturers to prevent the sale of standard parts to third parties - even parts with no Apple IP like the ISL9240 [0]. Imagine if they weren't abusing Customs and Border Patrol powers to prevent distribution of legitimate parts via false acusations of counterfeiting [1]. Maybe then you could get a good screen from a small repair shop.

It's not about margin. It's about parts availability.

Apple stores are few and far between, but Apple products are ubiquitous. Official Apple repairs have them ship the device across the country to repair shops, which takes a lot of time. And they don't do things like component-level repair (i.e. specific chips, resistors, and other board components). They just replace the entire board and charge you for the new one.

An independent repair shop doesn't have to compete on price. They can compete with fast turnaround, minimal travel, and component-level repairs. Or at least they could if they could get the parts.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lTpHa70DDX0&t=200

[1] https://blog.giovanh.com/blog/2023/10/26/apples-trademark-ex...
> it's too easy to forget an error check.

How? What exactly makes this "too easy"?

In regards to a functions error returns, there are exactly two things a caller can do

func foo() (int, error) {
// foo code
}

// explicitely ignore the error
foo()
val, _ := foo()

// handling the error
val, err := foo()
_, err := foo()

If I do the latter, I cannot ignore `err`. If I do, the compiler yells at me because there is now an unused value in my code.

If I do the former, then I made the conscious choice that the error doesn't matter to me. Yes, this goes for `foo()` as well, because Go makes it exceedingly clear that errors are just return values, and that call ignores all returns.
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It is definitely surprising the amount of time/money wasted on people like this that could help people who are in distress through no fault of their own. I said something about the gene pool in an earlier comment. We can't help everyone, and we should maybe stop trying to make it so that incredibly dumb people can reproduce even after putting themselves in situations where they couldn't normally.
That's a good example of why you want to define clear tasks for each role, to identify things that you are missing (planning how to promote your product after launch), and new responsibilities (feature configuration), but also not to hire people that won't be a good fit for the job.

There will always be people who make product decisions based on user feedback, mock-ups, and A/B test results. That might even be the last job LLMs don't take over.