skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
tl;dr

- mold usually only significantly affects people prone to respiratory infections or allergies. it's a lung irritant for most people but once the mold is removed, the lungs typically recover. when remediating mold, it's a good idea to have a respirator and eye mask, mostly just to prevent irritation or from breathing cleaning chemicals

- you can never stop mold from being in your house, but you can prevent it from growing. mold grows faster the hotter it is, and typically grows at 55% humidity or higher. reduce humidity and stop any dripping or standing water to prevent mold growth. to reduce humidity you can use a dehumidifier or desiccants (better for closets/drawers). increased air flow also helps prevent mold (mold likes dark places without air flow and high humidity)

- mold can be found in most central air systems/vents, it's not surprising. but it will grow and cause health issues if the air conditioning system is prone to water or high humidity.

- the reason you need to remove mold even if you don't smell it/it's not visible is mold breaks down organic matter, so it will stain and/or destroy clothes, wood, leather, etc.

- different molds have different behaviors. some can be killed with just vinegar, but some need a more severe treatment. bleach, other household products don't tend to work, because it doesn't kill the root.

- once a mold root gains hold in a permeable material, it's pretty hard to kill the root, so you can kill the outer version of it but it'll often just grow back. so if flooring/sheathing like OSB gets mold, you'll probably need to scrap it. hard wood can take longer for mold to grow on but once the roots are in the wood, you'd need to remove the wood down to the root or it'll grow back.

- concrobium mold control is the best overall product for mold control, as it can kill the mold and root and prevent mold from regrowing on surfaces. if you find mold in hard to reach areas, a dry fogger with concrobium is often the easiest solution

- if it's not practical for you to reduce humidity or increase airflow in a given space, keep your stuff in airtight plastic bins.
Ask HN: How do you acquire customers without network or social media?
I am curious to learn about sales and user acquisition for first time founders in B2B software business. I don't have network or social media following for acquiring users.

What are ways that worked for nascent startup for acquiring B2B customers? I read the book called Traction and focusing on channel that convert. However, I feel at this point, LinkedIn members are spammed incessantly with messages. We rarely receive email reply. A few people have vouched for our idea and will consider paying.

I would love to learn B2B customer acquisition for new startups and how to go about acquiring customers. Please share your wisdom.
I should have mentioned I was only looking for loose dates, and am also to the point where I don't trust the information Google offers in its cards, as it frequently doesn't relate to what I'm searching for.
Whoa, great idea, explained nicely!

Elixir looks ridiculously powerful. How's the job market for Elixir -- could one expect to have a chance at making money writing Elixir?
That's even worse: what it says is that you are getting beat at product even where you create the tech.

Which is definitely where Google is in the generative AI space.
I don't use them for auto-complete that may be the difference. I use them for various other things. Tests, etc. I don't find them 100% accurate. But it beats writing it from scratch.
Thanks for this info. This is the sort of response I was hoping for as the media reports don't talk about the undying situation. And it's Musk not Musky. ;)
If I as a game dev have to list my games on steam due to their overwhelming market dominance, they have a monopoly. Whether people like to use a platform or not is not even relevant for the question of monopolies.

I use the term monopolistic to describe companies that have such a overwhelming market dominance that free market effects barely apply anymore. That is not the legal definition but a more useful definition that is popular in more progressive circles as it can be used to actually describe actual real world companies in the 21st century.
Is there any best practices around jsonb?
Why use the Copilot name? It's confusing because you seem to have an agnostic product.
> It's weird that they protected their tweets

The alternative is having a random selection of highly liked (and, often, very old) posts show up on their profile for logged-out users. Setting their account to protected is an easy and effective way of making that go away -- and it also prevents users from following an account that's no longer in use.
Yeah I think this comment basically sums up my cynicism about that video.

It's that, you know some of this happened and you don't know how much. So when it says "what the quack!" presumably the model was prompted "give me answers in a more fun conversational style" (since that's not the style in any of the other clips) and, like, was it able to do that with just a little hint or did it take a large amount of wrangling "hey can you say that again in a more conversational way, what if you said something funny at the beginning like 'what the quack'" and then it's totally unimpressive. I'm not saying that's what happened, I'm saying "because we know we're only seeing a very fragmentary transcript I have no way to distinguish between the really impressive version and the really unimpressive one."

It'll be interesting to use it more as it gets more generally available though.
Does the Wikimedia account need to belong to the person who owns the Flickr photos?
Perhaps raw education is not the point, or the whole point, of college but if you just want become educated in specific fields then you have to question the value proposition of college.
Serious question, are there open source designs available for RISC today that do “good enough” matrix multiplication?

I have no doubt that Nvidia has extensive optimizations to get SOTA performance, but I am curious what is attainable off the shelf. If you could design a 5nm chip, would it be possible to hit 15% of a NVidia chip? Significantly more?

Of course, there is more to a GPU than just the matrix multiplication, but I am wondering how much effort it would take to get something off the ground for the well financed organization. Presumably China is actively finding such efforts.
> Why? Databases should never, ever, ever, be used to perform logic, they are datastores, that is it. Your logic goes elsewhere. Stored procedures are the worst "feature" of any database, you are just asking for a hard time debugging, troubleshooting, and increasing the chance that you will fuck up the most valuable part of your system, your data.

You cannot sanely use a database with multiple heterogenous clients without putting logic at least about what valid data should be in it. This is gonna include some “business logic” in practically any real-world system.

Otherwise you have to elevate the same functionality to some gatekeeper-daemon that’ll almost certainly perform far worse, lack features, and be an eternal source of dumb bugs, including, I can just about guarantee, data corruption bugs.
They’ve used this scheme since the launch of gmail
This does highlight the gap between SOTA and business production. Google search is very often a low quality, even user hostile experience. If Google has all this fantastic technology, but when the rubber hits the road they have no constructive (business supporting) use cases for their search interface, we are a ways away from getting something broadly useful.

It will be interesting to see how this percolates through the existing systems.
Now do,

"declining to hire, insure, or loan to you" and "declining to admit your kids into school|sports program|internship"
Assuming you are right, how is it beneficial to the child?
The stat I find most fascinating is the price of a bushel (60 pounds) of wheat over the last 750 years. In 1260 the price of wheat was 6-8 British shillings, aka 0.3 - 0.4 British pounds, which back then was actually worth 0.3 - 0.4 pounds of silver.

The price then bounced around 1 pound per bushel for the next 650 years or so.

And then I make the arbitrary but defensible switch to US dollars. Back then a British pound was worth about $5, and the price of a bushel of wheat has bounced around the $5/bushel mark for the last 100 years.

Today, the price of wheat is $6.50/bushel.

In other words, the price of wheat has tripled in 750 years in dollar terms. Inflation has tripled in my lifetime, but the price of wheat took 750 years to triple.
You absolutely should use the unsubscribe link if it is solicited mail. It is very rude to ask for mail then harm the senders reputation because you don't want to unsubscribe.

But if the mail is unsolicited or the unsubscribe link doesn't work then absolutely yes, mash that spam button.
Thanks, I'll take a look! It didn't come up in my research a few months ago, which surprises me. How would you compare it with a product like Equals?
Because it's actually not. The issue isn't the record keeping, they license because they can.
The vast majority of it. By definition. Unstable equilibria are unstable to perturbations. By definition.
Check out Conjure for nvim: https://github.com/Olical/conjure/
Oh, I've worked with all the major engines. To which we can add: trying to remember which seemingly basic features are supported by which engines, and which aren't (e.g. percentiles are great in Postgres, but you're SOL in MySQL). That there's virtually nothing "standard" about SQL syntax or functionality at all, except for the simplest of queries and the general basic concepts.
I kinda think adding some logical/semantic level on top of it (like datalog) will make it even more robust.
As an ex-game developer and software architecture nerd, I'm very excited about data-oriented design and ECS. It really is a cool pattern, and it's a very common one in shipping games today. It's not just architecture astronaut stuff.

At the same time, the level of hype about ECS today reminds me an awful lot of the amount of hype surrounding OOP in the 90s. Can ECS be a better way to structure your game entities and make your game loop faster? Yes. Will it make your teeth whiter and your partner love you more? No.

(There are ECS frameworks in JavaScript, which gives you absolutely no control over memory layout and thus completely defeats one of the primary purposes of the pattern.)

Like any pattern, it exists to solve concrete problems. It shouldn't be the One True Way To Think About All Programming Henceforth and Forever.

When the author says things like:

> For example, how would you model chat messages in your game? I suppose you’d have to represent that as an entity in your game. How would you represent a constraint that would prevent a health component from being added to your chat message erroneously? In ECS it’s straightforward to create a system which operates on chat messages individually, but how would you query your chat messages so that you can display them in order?

To me, that just means "Don't use ECS for those." I have a really nice coffee mug that is just perfect for holding coffee. It does its job very well. That does not mean I feel any need to use that coffee mug for digging holes in my garden.

Databases and the relational model are great. ECS is great. Object-oriented programming is great. Functional programming is great. But treat them all as tools that should be used for the right job.
One challenge is that specific APIs are already being made that aren’t compatible between models. Right now, I’m referring to function calling and tools. I suspect that these are likely to create lock in as vendors move away from general completion APIs.
Did the manufacturer really think they would get away with such blatant shenanigans? I imagine the lawsuit for this is going to be open and shut.
> Image parsers in UEFIs from all three major IBVs are riddled with roughly a dozen critical vulnerabilities that have gone unnoticed until now.

If your code has a dozen vulnerabilities, it has more than that.

Also, every time I see a 2D image library, I assume it almost certainly has vulnerabilities. There's something magical about the task of coding 2D image libraries, such that it really calls out how bad we are at writing correct code (especially in C).
[I'm on the Wing team]
We currently support AWS, Azure and GCP with varying degrees of maturity.
Since it's an open platform one can add any other cloud.
More info here: https://www.winglang.io/docs/faq/supported-clouds-services-a...
More so than just compressing the data, I feel like the biggest gains for splats will come from a chunked LOD system, and streaming data into memory. Regardless of how efficient you make the representation, you are still going to run into fundamental limitations without this.

On the low hanging fruit side of things, tools should really start integrating a Spherical Harmonics skybox into the training steps to better handle large scale distant details.
Why?

It's like opting out of the genepool. Twitter/X is still where everything happens and where you get closest to the source.

https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=twitter.com

Even the most vocal Spaceman haters come back whenever something big is happening. This was reaffirmed again recently with the entire OpenAI CEO saga.

Add to that community notes, the single best social media innovation.
Could you elaborate why? You open the project, it is scanned and indexed. Seems logical and obvious if the IDE can sugges a relevant completion based on the whole project structure. Thanks!
SQLite developers aren't in the habit of making poor technical choices. This choice certainly has precedent: Oracle, MySQL, MongoDB, Postgres and others have implemented some form of binary encoding for JSON. Perhaps they know something you don't and deserve the benefit of the doubt.
Oh it's good they working on important problems with their ai. Its just openai was working on my/our problems (or providing tools to do so) and that's why people are more excited about them.
Not because of cultural differences. If you are more into weather forecasting, yeah it sure may be reasonable to prefer google more.
> Note that Unions work very differently across different parts of the world. So your local union might be very different from ones that I've experienced.

You are right on this one. My experience with unions is that they want people to have a job even if that job is more efficiently done by a machine or to get salary increases even if the company is doing poorly because of outside market factors (like not enough sales due to poor economy and so on).

And while the goal might be ideal, the reality is quite different.
No. That's the magic of Creative Commons.
Still pointless when the key can be sniffed in cleartext by intercepting the communication between the TPM and the CPU [1]. You should always combine it with something only known to the user (i.e. a passphrase).

The only attack TPM-backed disk encryption prevents is someone imaging the disk.

[1] https://blog.scrt.ch/2021/11/15/tpm-sniffing/
He was a great guest on Rogan. I take Lion’s Mane supplement based on research he pointed to that turned out to be pretty interesting.
Yeah I just came back here to say that was the culprit. It's because it's a newly registered domain.
Adam Curtis: Social Media Is a Scam (2018)
It is sad to see more tech stuff get political.

I make this assumption because there are plenty of services that can post to multiple social media accounts, and even cross-posting really wouldn't take that much effort- maybe an additional minute per post if you have to log in each time.

They're purposely limiting their reach, and I see no reasoning listed so I assume not everyone there is proud of their "why".
Ross Droplet Technique
>> This dude needs a new speech writer.

If only there was some technology that could help "generate" such text.
I'd be happy if we started with forcing them to allow the PC version run on any PC. It's bullshit that only some games run on the NVidia cloud (forgot the name) cause the publishers sued them. I bought the game. I can run the game wherever I want.

(Same for other digital products)
The Most Important Problem in the World
Theory: Byrne Hobart's newsletter "caused" SVB bank run?
What distinction are you trying to make? That’s “advertising.”
I'm currently a Conjure (and vim-sexp) user, but was wondering if there was something Clojure specific that didn't also have annoying tabbing defaults
> (especially in C).

I thought iMessage was written in ObjectiveC. /s
Jetbrains took the #1 spot from Eclipse many years ago. The free community edition is fully capable.
i.e. artifice-ial
The Swiss SBB has a public API for all trains across the European continent. Multiple websites making use of it have been featured on this very website.

There is little excuse. There is, though, quite some lack of curiosity from young American males to anything outside their own little lives
I think the general lesson is that 2% annual growth - of anything - is not sustainable for long.
Would be nice to have an even more compact csv-esque version of jsonb that knew how to store arrays of objects with the same keys in compressible column-major format, omitting the repeated keys (and even value types if possible), like a transposed csv file with a first column of headers + type info. And the ability to embed arrays of object encoded that way into arbitrary jsonb structures, as long as all the objects have the same keys and (simple enough) value types. Or is that what the (different?) Postgres jsonb format does?
[I'm on the Wing team]
Thanks for the feedback.
We call it new because it is only a year old, and for programming languages its pretty young. It is just now getting mature enough to be able to build real world applications with. Hope it makes sense
It's really sad that they own the assets of DEC, Compaq and Tandem.
This demo is blowing my mind! It's really incredible. Can't wait to play around with them.
This would be heavily tied to the JVM you’re using, no? Do you have to keep updating this as it evolves?
God damn. ArsTechnica really lays it on thick with the ads. A full first page being a wine ad, followed by little ads peppered throughout the page, with every other paragraph being followed by yet even more text-separating ad. God damn!
LMAO

Thank you riverflows. I needed that.

1. Unintentional injuries account for 30% of all deaths of teenagers

2. Within that, suicide and homicide are the top two causes

3. Pretty sure its biological not narcissism that makes me want to make sure my progeny are safe esp when in a space that continually seems to be failing children and coming up with such mindbending solutions as more guns in schools
When is hacking and stealing people's personal data a precrime, when is criminal negligence a pre crime, what is your motive in any of this?
If the license expires I would call it a rental.

For me if DRM is involved it is always a rental, license or no, as I am left unable to legally keep an archival copy to retain access to the purchased item beyond the undisclosed access window.
The point isn't that interpreters weren't available. It's that the original source wasn't available. The blog post talks about comments and variable names, that's what is valuable here.
Being a Lisp dialect for the JVM Clojure has readability issues: https://tonsky.me/blog/readable-clojure/
That alone will make sure Clojure will always be a niche programming language and ensure job safety for the few ones who can read it.
But nowadays Clojure brings no advantages anymore over Java. I wouldn't start any new project using Clojure.
Made me think of this:

http://faculty.washington.edu/jcramer/BBSound_2013.html

Hear the sound of the big bang.
> First of all, if you have no free will, then it doesn't matter how you live, or want to live, or try to live, because you aren't in control. Right off the bat we can stop reading. But more than that, this suggests that you can decide how you live, despite not having free will. So what's the point of free will? Practically speaking there must be no point, so there's no point to this book.

I don't get your argument. Of course you can decide how you live, despite there being no free will. It's just the confluence of genetic + environmental factors and life experiences that went into shaping you which determines your decision (and whether or not you ever get to make a decision in the first place).

The point Sapolsky is making is not that we can't make choices. It's that each of us makes choices within constraints we never set ourselves, and those constraints determine our choices. And this is important to realize because society is currently structured in a way that assumes we are mostly free agents who bear the ultimate responsibility (whether that results in punishment or reward) for our actions, when that's actually mostly not the case.
Obviously you have no obligation to fix other people or countries. I wouldn't set foot in any of these countries either. The point is that western organizations shunning these countries is counter-productive. You seemed to disagree upthread that conferences organizers should support conferences in such regions despite their backwards laws. But this only harms the spread of modern ideals in these parts of the world. The only way they change is with more contact with the west, not less.
Yes, the Biden admin created the airline mask mandate via executive order. It was shut down by a court, at which point the Biden admin promptly tried to fight for its reinstatement and thankfully lost. [1]

[1]: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-61145045
I don't know what you think you are proving here. They did not view the contents of the message. An MITM "attack" would allow them decrypt the content of the message. This is just metadata being used. It's no different than all of the other metadata uses that the TLAs have been using. We've known for a long time (for me since Snowden was the first time I ever even considered it) that metadata can tell us a whole hell of lot about people that is just as much evidence that the actual contents of the message are irrelevant. With metadata alone, you can build up an entire network of people to investigate. You can do that investigation without ever decrypting anything. It's no different from the police following a suspect to see who they meet, and then following that person, and continuing until they find the bigBoss. They can then roll up the entire network in one fail swoop if they so choose.
Sure. the question was whether AI will continue to enable mass spying and making the affordability of mass spying a tool humans rely on.

They will. It will. We will see that erosion.
> "The source declined to identify the foreign governments involved in making the requests but described them as democracies allied to the United States"

Oh look! The US end-running constitutional protections again via 5+Eye proxy governments. Who could ever have guessed.
Hence why I added the line "great for grandmas".
It's uncertain when Google discontinues Gemini.
nah this is good not sad.
Show HN: Llama 2 Uncensored 70B as API
Having dealt with the pain and complexity of a 100+ lambda function app for the last 4 years, I must say this post definitely hits the spot wrt. the downsides of FaaS serverless architectures.

When starting out, these downsides are not really that visible. On the contrary, there is a very clear upside, which is that everything is free when you have low usage, and you have little to no maintenance.

It is only later, when you have built a hot mess of lambda workflows, which become more and more rigid due to interdependencies, that you wish you had just gone the monolith route and spent the few extra hundreds on something self-managed. (Or even less now, e.g. on fly.io)

A question for author: what if not using Elixir?
Because W3C should be supporting open platforms like Mastodon.

And community notes is a nice addition but it isn't a replacement for moderation.