skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I would like to see that for a much more complex application than a Twitter clone

I don't think they intended the complexity of the app to be the impressive part, so much as the scalability.
It's just a matter of numbers and timing. There's just so many more eyeballs on the web now, and with so much more bandwidth than ever before.
That’s by design. They used to have a perfectly reasonable system where you could search by category and sort by popularity and rating. They killed that specifically because otherwise no one would watch the buckets of random trash they have on there.
Laptops and NUC style devices usually.
TikTok has an office in Tel-Aviv.
A recent practical example of the former: the fish shell re-wrote incrementally from C++ to Rust, and is almost finished https://github.com/fish-shell/fish-shell/discussions/10123

An example of the latter: c2rust, which is a work in progress but is very impressive https://github.com/immunant/c2rust

It currently translates into unsafe Rust, but the strategy is to separate the "compile C to unsafe Rust" steps and the "compile unsafe Rust to safe Rust" steps. As I see it, as it makes the overall task simpler, allows for more user freedom, and makes the latter potentially useful even for non-transpiled code. https://immunant.com/blog/2023/03/lifting/
The spot ETF approvals are for real this time.

I am still waiting for 100% total collapse and annihilation of crypto that was promised by the absolutist a the most fiercest crypto haters here or elsewhere, endlessly begging for it to all be banned.

This has been tried for 15 years and everyone knows that banning all of them has completely failed, otherwise they all would have been stopped much earlier a long time ago and no talks of ETFs, regulations would have happened in the first place.

It's been a complete waste of time for the critics and after all that effort, screaming and shouting, writing blog posts and selling books about such tales of all cryptocurrencies going to $0 was the longest coping montage I have seen.

Bitcoin, Ethereum and all the other similar cryptocurrencies are here to stay; like it or not.
> spend decades deliberately developing mind-reading computer technology

> mind-reading computer technology finally works

> "oh no, it actually works - wait, isn't this bad? think of all the ethical implications! what have we done?"
Nobody is arguing that it is not possible
> makes it out to be.

made it out to be. That post is over 15 years old at this point, which goes to the very point of the posted article - C++ has (subjective opinion here) improved a lot in that time.

No idea what his current opinion on C++ is. Personally I'd rather there was no C++ or Rust in the Linux kernel. IMHO it would be significantly less of a cognitive burden to convert the entire kernel gradually to C++ than Rust.

But I would necessarily hold a man to opinions he held 15 years ago when the landscape has changed so much in that time. Rust was only born the previous year (2006) and not championed by Mozilla until 2009. Yet here we are and there is support in the official kernel for it anyway, whereas C++? Not so much.
The hope is that it will bring more suckers to the party.
The purple snake should have never cancelled the two-time, back-to-back, 1993, 1994, Blockbuster Videogame Champion.
>So it seems Wirecutter is using “true-HEPA” to mean “H13”.

>Except—what’s the logic here? This difference is core to Wirecutter’s dismissal of the IKEA purifier.

According to this

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/HEPA#Specifications

H13 is HEPA, everything below is EPA. Or simpler, if it starts with an H it's HEPA, if it starts with an E it's EPA.
There’s the issue of not being able to decide what gets burnt. I’ve read that under certain circumstances, the body can actually burn the muscles faster than it burns the fat. Which obviously makes exercise harder.
Right, but that is a lot of what I'm asking. What makes you think those are all better due to this contest? If I recall, a lot of why it was making the news was because Netflix was already popular in the industry. They certainly weren't that new of a name.

The main one I don't think I would have doubts about is the recruitment. But, I don't recall them being a place that needed recruitment help, even at that time.

To be clear, I found the thing fun to consider. I certainly am not upset that they did it. I do harbor a gut feeling that its ROI is greatly overstated.
Well spotted. I’ve always found ODBC drivers to be some ancient artefact that we lost the source code for.
> single biggest AWS

I think that has always been Amazon.com since it runs on AWS.
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Fantastic quote:

Though we’re merit neutral, I’d note that the underlying assets in the metals ETPs have consumer and industrial uses, while in contrast bitcoin is primarily a speculative, volatile asset that’s also used for illicit activity including ransomware,[4] money laundering,[5] sanction evasion,[6] and terrorist financing.[7]

To poke a nest, which other assets are used for the aforementioned activities
TBH the benefits of a watch face with arms is that you read it via geometry without parsing. You don’t even need the numbers in the first place.

If you absolutely must know that it's precisely 14:22:04 it's not the device for you. But typically you only need to know that it's around 9, or it's not that close to 9 so you have some time to finish up before you leave.
They were in a different country, but yes. Being able to make the economy more global bit by bit is necessary to rid people of extreme poverty.
Its the least they can do after making crypto into securities
Cities have learned this the hard way over and over again. You can't just concentrate your homeless population in a single camp or shelter. You need to put them up in normal homes and apartments. It's almost a fundamental law of community policing. You need to surround your vulnerable and dangerous persons with communities that will help police themselves.
I spend much much less what I make (maximum 35%). So every month I save at least 2 more months of living. Over the past 3 years doing it regularly I have enough saved for some 10 years.
I've used these in the past and they are really well done.

Also the developer now works at Microsoft and they are using it so at least it has a major backer.
They want to present to you what they want to serve you. To save money, they want to serve everyone as much of the same content as possible. Their algorithm isn't optimizing for you, it's optimizing for them.
Whatever happened to Hertz? There was fretting on HN and the like when financially unsophisticated people were talking about buying Hertz stock, after they had declared bankruptcy (in a GameStop-type play). Apparently Hertz didn't completely disappear.
I always hear people say this about the Netflix catalog, but I never understand what metric or criteria people are using. I find there is a ton of great content on Netflix, and I have way more things I want to watch on there than time to watch it.

I always wonder if people who say this either have very particular interests, or are trying to find specific tv shows/movies and not finding them on Netflix. If you are not set on a particular thing, it seems to me that there is a ton of great content.
That’s exactly me. Filling up at Whole Foods into glass bottles that are 1 gallon each. Bottles have handles, so I’m also pouring from them. But yes, the news about RO polyamide are concerning.
Ironically, Netflix's recommendation algorithm is now notoriously bad. In my experience, it seems to heavily push whatever "original" they just dumped $100 million into as well as what's most popular on the platform at the time. But it makes sense, since people increasingly rely on social media for deciding what to watch. A dollar Netflix spends improving their recommendation algorithm simply won't stack up to the dollar TikTok/Instagram/etc. spends improving theirs, because social media apps have so much more data to work with. It's probably more economical from their POV to let broad social media trends dictate what people watch.
Unfortunately, if they didn't go heavily into content creation, they'd be dead as a business, as all the rights holders are no longer selling them streaming rights for a song.
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Cool, thanks, will take a look
My experience is that it’s a drop in the bucket.

But, there’s a power law distribution for virality, so removing the top 1000 most viral posts might still be impactful.
> when it is dark and calm.

When is that in Hawaii?
For real this time?
Oh nice, this will remove an annoyance in my dotfiles repo by letting me share my gitconfig between 3 different configurations (home linux amd64 box, work macOS arm64, client macOS arm64)

Thank you for sharing it!
I would love to give you some good examples, but if you could wait till tomorrow that would be great.

Sorry for sneaky edit :-)
Impressive and frightening. Trying to patch an ecological horror with an ecological horror.
Useful when you want to have multiple git accounts changing based on the path. Thanks for the share! In my case it was changing the ssh key based on the project folder.
Ah ni-63.

It’s a pure low energy beta emitter. Can’t detect with a Geiger counter, best detected with liquid scintillation swabs. Makes it annoying to detect.

As long as it’s outside the body it’s harmless. Ingesting or inhaling is not recommended, will harm you once inside.

Also as a side note, battery is a bit of a misnomer for nuclear batteries, they’re more of a constant current source. Use it or lose it.
It's a silly that you list "please" as fluff. That critical word changes a demand into a request, which is very powerful.

"Hand me that." An order, a directive, as one might issue to a servant.

"Hand me that, please?" A question, a request, a favor, as you might ask of someone you respect.
8.64 joules = 2.4 mW hours. Dividing by 5v gives 0.48 mA*hrs, so you can run a 5v load for 1 hr if it takes 0.48 mA.
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> ionization smoke detectors

It would be unpatriotic to ban americium.
What are the numbers? In terms of likelihood of me jumping to my death or doing murder, per 1000 nights on it, say? LSD vs Alcohol.
It gets downvoted because it's stupid and unhelpful.

If your body has the wrong idea of how much fat it should store, it'll do its best to force you to eat more to get that fat, even if it makes you unhealthily overweight. Medication can fix the body's idea of how much fat it should have.

Taking that medication doesn't mean you can keep stuffing yourself, it means you can finally _stop_ stuffing yourself, without your body incorrectly reporting that it's starving. The point of the medication is to make it possible to do the right thing.
Using a recommendation algorithm doesn't make any sense for Netflix' new business model where they produce their own content. It should be easy. They greenlight or buy the rights certain content for different demographics to maximize the coverage of their user base that has their needs satisfied enough to stay subscribed. If you're a 18-35 male, they've surely got people there working daily to make sure there's a content pipeline coming just for you. They shouldn't need AI to tell me that, they just need to identify when I'm in the demographic of one of their shows coming, and tell me about it. Maybe like a list. Still, they seem like they're doing a bad job at it, as I never really know what new shows Netflix is making for me. Sometimes I find out about them years later.

For example, compare this to Disney+. I vaguely know about every Marvel and Star Wars thing 2 years in advance, and usually vaguely know what order they're coming out, and I don't even know how I know this, somehow I just know. Okay, that's easy because it's basically 2 IPs. But ultimately Netflix is doing something similar behind the scenes, why haven't they succeeded at making me aware of what content I'm supposed to be hyped for?
They are not banned because it's very old tech from the times where the regulation was much more lax.
Netflix's technology is incredibly advanced. The term 'revolutionary' is somewhat subjective, but what isn't subjective are achievements like streaming video at 400GB/s with a single server[1], no, make that 800GB/s[2], and writing a FUSE-based filesystem that runs at gigabit speeds despite storing data on AWS[3].

[1]: https://papers.freebsd.org/2021/eurobsdcon/gallatin-netflix-...

[2]: https://papers.freebsd.org/2022/eurobsdcon/gallatin-the_othe...

[3]: https://netflixtechblog.com/mezzfs-mounting-object-storage-i...
for real this time (https://www.sec.gov/news/statement/gensler-statement-spot-bi...)
For me it's the missing quality markers. Netflix provides no way at all to see whether a show or movie is good. So when one starts scrolling and does not find immediately something one likes, there is no reason to ever find anything good - because nothing seems good, and all alike.

Since I added a userscript to see IMDB ratings directly next to the netflix shows it's way easier to find something promising.
Actual document: https://www.sec.gov/files/rules/sro/nysearca/2024/34-99306.p... and archived one, just in case you receive 404: https://twitter.com/coinfabrik/status/1745192170942800341
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In many languages, last names are Gendered.

Polish does this for some local last names, mostly the ones ending with "ski" (they end with "ska" for a female)[1]. This makes grammatical sense, Polish adjectives change their form depending on the gender of the noun they apply to, and those names are kind of sort of adjective like.

Czech goes even further and applies grammatical rules to all names, even foreign ones. Czech news broadcasters will literally say "Melania Trumpova" or "Michelle Obamova".

Incidentally, those gendered forms are a pain in the ass to deal with in user interfaces, particularly if you don't have gender information for your users and/or want to support nonbinary, something slavic languages are really not designed to do.

[1] The US doesn't enforce this rule of course, and therefore it's not unusual to meet a female American with Polish roots with the surname "Kaminski" (or sometimes even "Cumminskey").
5V amp-hours is watt-hours, which is joules, which is energy.
I would push back on this specific case, though. What makes this an obvious winner? Netflix was already clearly on the upward swing. At the time of this contest, I'm not even sure I remember who their competition was.

Now, I think it is fully fair to say that this was very cheap for them to do. In which case, why not do it? But I think you would be hard pressed to give me a counter factual world that is believable where not doing this had a meaningful impact on Netflix's future.
Fun fact - the exhaust cooling tubes at that old plant dump out into the ocean and create a really warm environment that is rich in sea life and a very popular diving/snorkeling spot. It's even called Electric Beach. https://www.snorkeling-report.com/spot/snorkeling-electric-b...

I lived there for a few years and tried to snorkel there - but my submechanophobia prevented me from getting more than a few feet into the water. Seeing those big spooky tubes scared the ever living shit out of me.

https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fi.redd.it%2Fe...
Charge from Day One
> It's a cancer on society.

The cancer on society is the US public debt which went from $33 trillion to $34 trillion in 100 days. It's similar in the EU.

Nothing good is going to come out of this and it's has nothing to do with Bitcoin.
Good news - the volcanoes are already moving!

Bad news - they're moving at a geological pace, and away from most of the state's population and power demand.
Bear in mind, and with no disrespect intended to the band, but there might be no modern rock act I like less than RHCP. Having said that: Rick Rubin kind of makes my point for me, right? He's literally the most famous producer in the world. Nobody engaged him for cost-cutting purposes. :)

Here's Rubin and Paul McCartney mixing Cannibal Corpse:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I3M9iYfdDzo
I don't know where that linked dataset is from, but almost every claim I've seen for the LCoE of wind/solar being lower than any fossil fuel source excludes the cost of energy storage. Latest estimates[0] put solar and wind roughly at par with combined-cycle gas plants, but without the cost of addressing intermittency.

Plus, it would be probably unwise to extrapolate the current downward trend in costs for the relatively new technology (meaning early in its marginal cost curve) of utility-scale solar and wind that it would continue to get much cheaper.

The two factors combined would suggest that current energy policy in Hawaii is likely to result in increased costs for the consumer down the line.

[0]: https://www.eia.gov/outlooks/aeo/pdf/electricity_generation....
I've been thinking about the same concept, and trying to find a way to introduce analog computing as something that goes together with the story in the game. Analog computing was historically used to solve differential equations, and differential equations can describe most of physics, so one idea was to make a "history of scientific modelling" as a game, where you take the role of say, Newton, and try to find an equation of some orbital motion, given a table of observations.

I'm also building a circuit simulator (stuck on that for a while, tbh), although not necessarily simulating electronic analog computers, but rather the computational principles that could also be applied to mechanical circuits, or just numerical computation.

As for abstraction, I really like the approach of Pure Data, you can group some nodes into more abstract ones.
Given that that device only has 1gig ethernet, I highly doubt you are seeing 1.2gbps data transfer speeds
How would you know if a higher dimensional being was directing it? We can't easily detect something outside our current physical dimensions.

We know that for our math to work there have to be a number of higher dimensions. I think it's more logical to believe this came from something instead of from nothing.
I think many people want to watch what their friends are watching (so they can talk about it at work/school tomorrow).

That means if their friends are watching stuff on Amazon Prime, then netflix can never meet their needs.
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This is great. I also think Hawaii should explore the new enhanced geothermal systems (i.e. Fervo Energy) that can apparently generate baseload electricity even in places as geothermally inactive as the Midwestern US. Fervo was in fact part of the Hawaii-based Elemental Accelerator's cohort back in 2020, so this must be on their radar.

Oahu seems like an ideal place to do this due to its seemingly higher geothermal activity (at least compared to other places that Fervo can operate), its limited land area, and its astronomical electricity prices.

1. https://www.higp.hawaii.edu/hggrc/fervo-energy-aims-to-incre...
> I believe OP would agree that the Plan should be low quality, at least at the beginning.

OP emphatically agrees. Overplanning is arrogance in a world with so many unknown unknowns.
Sure, if you are doing unoriginal low quality work.
Bitcoin exists == its network exists.

Gold's price relies on what people think of gold.
Easy, yes, but not exactly correct and certainly not helpful in the slightest.
1,000 posts is absolutely nothing. If that's all they removed then I don't get why this article even exists.
Those concepts are relevant to databases like RDBMS's where you have multiple writes happening concurrently to the same index. Rama doesn't work like that – you get parallelism by having multiple partitions, writes on a single partition are strictly ordered, and Rama gets performance by batching the flushing of writes.

For a foreign query in Rama, you only ever get back committed data. So that would be analogous to "read committed". For ETL code, an event has atomic access to all indexes on its task thread. Any data written to those indexes before the event would have "repeatable read" consistency. Any writes done by the event before it finishes have read-after-write consistency, which would be analogous to "read uncommitted". This is correct during ETL execution because no acknowledgement of completion has been given back to clients yet, and uncommitted writes are never visible to client queries.
for those confused, 1 meter is approximately 0.66 Ariana Grandes

https://twitter.com/GatorsDaily/status/1524768862465576962?l...
The scientific name for this is “baumols cost disease”, namely the proposition that as productivity increases over time, the only things that will stay expensive (and even become relatively more expensive) are the things that consist primarily of labor and can’t be automated away. And childcare is the textbook example of that.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baumol_effect

As you mention, regulations say you can’t have more than 6 children per caretaker, and tbh that’s probably not too far off the practical maximum either. Once they’re in school you can increase the ratio (a bit, ideally not to 30 either) but having a dozen infants or toddlers per caretaker means they’re getting neglected.

That’s the bind - it’s not even that it’s regulations, it’s that one person can’t keep track of a dozen mini-humans with no programming burned in yet. If you want child-rearing in a society there has to be a fairly significant fraction of the labor devoted to that, regardless of whether it’s a stay-at-home partner or grandma or a daycare center.

In turn, unless they’re slaves or massively underpaid (au pairs lol), that person needs to eat and pay for their kids’ care too. So, naively, you would expect the cost to trend towards roughly 1/6th of a typical household income (2.5 kids for 2 partners etc). Right on target.
Eh, language is complex. Maybe some people read too much into the absence of a please, but in English, imperatives are in fact intrinsically rude most of the time. If I say, "open the window", that's rude in 9 out of 10 contexts, as opposed to "could you open the window?"

That said, I have absolutely seen people be excessively polite in a way that comes off as non-genuine, but they are always ESLs. I assume they just have a hard time seeing the line, so they try to play it safe.
I have really broad interests in film—it blows my mind when people complain that not enough good or original films come out in a given year, I can't even make it through half the probably-good ones each year, I don't know what they're looking at or what their tastes must be like to come to that conclusion—but definitely find Netflix's catalog to be notably weak compared to Hulu or (HBO)Max, and it's been that way for years. I'd class it with second-tier services like Paramount, but from what I've seen on there lately, even that may be better.

It's got Apple TV beat, I guess, but I wouldn't call that a major streaming service.

[EDIT] Oh and I'd say it's overall worse than D+, for that matter, even though that's basically an umbrella for a few niche services. Like if I could only have one of those two, I'd take D+. And D+ kinda sucks.
Personally, I never thought they would have in the first place. I was thinking this was more for recruiting.
How good is to tape a hepa filter to a box fan? I think I recall a marketplace episode where a scientific or whatever said that it was better than some shitty products and good enough for the small price.
What sorts of risks to users were you seeing?
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