skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I knew a girl in college that would only drink bottled water. She had convinced herself there was a taste difference. She wouldn't even drink tap water filtered from a brita filter

There almost certainly is a taste difference. The mineral content is likely different, and the plastic from the bottle can have an influence, too.

I can definitely taste a difference between our (Pur-filtered) tap water and the cheap bottled water we get.

When I was a kid, I wouldn't drink Aquafina (or Dasani) because they tasted plasticky. I attributed it to them using the same plastic for Cola bottles, without the overpowering flavors to mask subtle tastes from the plastic. I'm not as picky now, but my taste buds have gotten less sensitive and it's also possible they fixed the issue.
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Long overdue. Please give CUDA some competition. It's always been possible to do general purpose compute in Vulkan, but the API was high-friction due to the shader language, and the glue between shader and CPU. It sounds like Vcc is an attempt to address this.
I misread this for some reason and I am now interested to know if DNS can be made to work dynamically this way instead of being just preconfigured static records?
Oh hey it's me!
How to Replicate Operation Warp Speed
Post author here.

I probably could have made this a bit more clear, but I feel it was a slight tangent to the main point of the post: In any serious app, I wouldn't actually set an HTTP status directly in the db layer. Rather, I would do what others in this thread have suggested: I'd have a set of domain error types/codes, and my DB layer would set _that_.

That domain error value would then implement the `HTTPStatus()` method to return the appropriate status code.

This allows you to have multiple "not found" error codes (as an example) for internal use, which all resolve to an HTTP status of 404.
> who says legality is the arbiter of greatness anyway?

I don't know; who does? I said it was bad at all the things.
You may be interested in this article in Communications of the ACM: Serverless
Computing: What It Is, and What It Is Not?

https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3587249 (pdf)
"Austerity occurs when the cost of government borrowing becomes so high governments are would be functionally unable to operate in the medium term without brining it down."

Given that the 'cost of government borrowing' is a policy setting, there can therefore never be a case for 'austerity'.

See Japan for details.

There is no traditional market in government bonds. The only aggregate alternative to the fixed rate is the expected path of the floating rate and the floating rate is set by the central bank. Which we can easily set permanently to zero once we reject the failed 'twin star' economic hypothesis and accept the 'price anchor' hypothesis.
The Next Front in the U.S.-China Battle over Chips
Creating a Prisma Client Extension
Ask HN: Why was HN down for a few hours?
I mean if you scale to 0, you should expect cold start latency.
Yes, I assume the hardware is not compromised, which is much easier to detect.
Is it not true that some of the confusion stems from the mistaken idea that DNA is computing/computable? One might make logic gates out of plumbing, but the plumbing at my house isn't some 0.1Hz computing device, it's indoor water so I can boil pasta, brush my teeth, and flush away smelly waste.

DNA's primary (though maybe not only) function is to act as a blueprint for constructing proteins. What little logic exists in it naturally has to do with conditionally expressing those only when it is advantageous to the organism. That's not necessarily the same thing as a logical if.
Good luck. I'm looking forward to your release announcement!
http://archive.today/8fZtX
Post author here.

For any non-trivial app, there would ideally be a set of domain error types/codes that the various application layers know about, rather than concerning themselves with HTTP statuses.

I didn't discuss that in the article, because I felt like it was a bit tangential. Perhaps it was a mistake to omit that detail.
could be due to this?

> the most commonly detected plastic was polyamide, a material commonly used in water filtration systems and "the most popular membrane material used in reverse osmosis
Who Dat! Also live in NO. We also filter our water (though my primary contamination motivation is lead w/ a 2 year old over plastic).

The S&WB almost needs it's own discussion thread. Not sure your average American HN reader can even comprehend the level of incompetence we have to deal with from that group.
I don't think GP implied that you cannot simulate cell chemistry on a Turing complete machine to a reasonable accuracy given enough resources. I think the point was that you can't think of genes as logic gates.
Rust-Based JavaScript Linters: Fast, but No Typed Linting
Eh, that didn't work out so well for Greece. Admittedly not borrowing in their own currency, but it's still possible for government bond auctions to fail to clear.

Or Argentina.
So how does your company do it?
I understand such therapy is rather formatted that when the patient asks “why do I strike my children?” the therapy looks not for root causes but immediate ones. “What do you feel leading up to these violent incidents? Once you understand that, it becomes your choice to head them off.”
I used to work for a business that was predominantly used by women.

Like clock work, at 3pm PS most weekdays there was a spike in traffic as our customers became active on our system.

I would love to see the real numbers behind the costs. Is time of day dependency the real price driver here? Are some customers getting more value than others out of this system?
I consider this the greatest technical book ever written.
Yes, this was the longest period in the last 6 months.
X cuts creating 'perfect storm' for online hate, eSafety commissioner warns
There are many such papers. However they need to be understood as extremely speculative, if not outright woo-woo, as there is currently no reason to believe that the brain is capable of maintaining any sort of even modestly-large-scale entanglement properties.

These papers, and people commenting on them, also often appear to believe that just finding that entanglement is happening would itself mean something; it's not hard to read them as basically saying "and we found the 'Here There Be Magic' in the brain!" They don't even seem to speculate as to what the entanglement and "quantum" would be doing. What visible difference would it make versus a non-"quantum" brain? How could we determine that the brain is using "quantum" to do something that could not otherwise be explained or is somehow irreducible to some otherwise-classical phenomenon? Not only do I not see answers, not only do I not even really see theories, I don't even see much recognition that the question exists.

We have quantum computers right now. They are small, but they are fully quantum. They don't do anything by virtue of their quantumness. They aren't sitting there being ambiently quantum. They have to be set up, then executed, then answers read out, and the way in which they deviate from non-quantum computers is actually perfectly mathematically characterizable. And it is not clear to me exactly how those differences are supposed to be useful to describing how a brain works even if functioning quantum computers can be found. Basically, the problem of how a brain works is so vast that the question of whether or not it has some sort of quantum computer in it sinks without a trace, and certainly without providing any sort of explanation at the present time.
Height stopped increasing around the mid-1970s and has been flat or falling since

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/average-height-by-year-of...

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-12868421/american...

Worse for city kids:

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/rural-children-no...
"Shares of the company were down 0.5% in afternoon trading on Tuesday." --> If that was their goal, it seems like in this case it was not successful.
And its wrong! Its not difficult to find whole paragraphs that were entirely made up. LLMs are not fit for this sort of thing.
> Haidt's claims about a teen mental health epidemic have been pretty convincingly debunked [...] It's quite probable that there is no teen mental health crisis.

I don't see how you can reach this conclusion when it's very clear in the data that hospitalizations for teens due to self-harm has gone up significantly. Are you suggesting that hospitals are not now or were not previously correctly reporting this data?
"Maximum database size 2 GB (Workers Paid) beta"
(but you can have up to 50.000 databases)

https://developers.cloudflare.com/d1/platform/limits/
Yeah, I might have highlighted their later patent war antics at the beginning of this thread, but I also recall reading that the research done by the early Wright Brothers was really impressive. IIRC they were more rigorous in their measurements than other people around the same time, which was part of what lead to their success.
I do Lemons with a few friends . I've done 3 races, and don't plan on ever stopping; probably building a second car in the next year or two. It is an incredible amount of fun, and easily the "cheapest" way to get a considerable amount of seat time doing real wheel to wheel racing.

Like others said, "$500 car" is not indicative of your costs. The "$500 car" rule is to control the type and quality of cars being entered, the spirit of the event is "cheap cars that aren't all that fast in the grand scheme of things". you'll easily spend $5k building a car, probably more like 8 or 10. Lemons is real racing, and requires a complete safety setup in every car (full cage, fire suppression, full fireproof race gear for every driver, etc...)

We run in the middle of group B in a very non -cheaty car. When we have 3 drivers cost per driver per event is in the $700 range includ ing entry fees and brakes/tires/gas. Thats an amazing vakue for ~5 hours of seat time per driver, if you are on track the whole time.
Large Legal Fictions: Profiling Legal Hallucinations in Large Language Models
Ask HN: Is HN Fronted by Cloudflare?
I just noticed after having connectivity problems through my VPN that the certificate for new.ycombinator.com is a Cloudflare certificate. For some reason I didn't think that was the case a couple months ago. Are they/have they always being fronted by Cloudflare?
I'm bored of equal sided shapes for buildings; most are rectangular.

Why not a heptagons, or a Icosikaihenagons?
People care what other people think, it's how humans work. If this is missing, it usually shows up in behavior where one routinely hurts themselves or others.

Another thing to consider is that when people casually leave someone out. For example, they regularly share their experience on a platform, because most of their friends is on that platform. If someone is not on that platform, they get left out of that experience sharing, if someone doesn't proactively reaching out to them, which I'd say is rare. This leads to the non-majority getting more and more isolated from the rest of the society.

Another angle is when people in power, businesses, or other significant figures like teachers exclusively use such platform. If the kindergarten instructions are on Whatsapp, the young parent better install that, fast.

This is all related to the network effect, whereby the value of a good or service comes not from the intrinsic value of the thing itself, but rather of its users.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_effect
Honda announces a new line of electric cars, the Honda 0 Series
Had to visit twitter to be sure I wasn't the only one

I hope dang will take sometime to explain why it was down

We might learn a few things :)
Also forcing people to click on opaque links in random emails cannot end good.
Scala Community Advent of Code Recap 2023
Show HN: A Chrome Extension to Track Your ChatGPT Carbon Emissions
Your approach is intriguing. I appreciate the inclusion of descriptions that elucidate what's happening in the code; this is often lacking in professional and scientific programming. This is particularly relevant in quantitative finance, where many bugs stem from misunderstandings related to the timing associated with variables.

To address this, we implemented a similar concept in ThetaML for defining stochastic processes, financial instrument payoffs, and trading strategies. We introduced the

theta t

operator, which represents the passage of time t. Here's how a stochastic process might be represented:

S = 1
loop inf
theta @dt
S = S * exp( (r - 0.5 * sigma^2) * @dt
end

We also introduced stochastic expressions like expected value E(V!) given the current state of all simulated values where V! is a reference to the future value of V.

Example:

1: model EuropeanPut
2: % This model returns a simulated European put option price
3: import S “Stock prices”
4: import CUR “Discount factor”
5: import K “Strike price for the European put option”
6: import T “Time to maturity in years”
7: export P “European put option price”
8:
9: P = E(V_CUR!)
10: % T years pass
11: theta T
12: % at maturity T, the option payoff is discounted to time 0
13: V_CUR = max(K - S, 0) * CUR
14:
15: end

This system enables the evaluation of the models using Monte Carlo Simulations and the computation of expected values E(x!) using regression techniques.

For those interested, you can find more information in the ThetaML Handbook:
Here is the ThetaML Handbook: https://www.thetaris.com/doc/book-2012-thetaml-Handbook.pdf
It's usually the opposite. In a crash or time of hardship you want to spend more. Austerity in a downturn creates a virtuous cycle. That's the insight of Keynes and what got the world out of the Great Depression.

The austerity policy you're suggesting has been overwhelmingly found to have failed almost everywhere it's been tried. Cutting spending in a downturn creates slower growth, which makes it even harder to recover. The book in OP argues that austerity is not about recovery, it's about disciplining workers.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/jul/07/imf-au...
Isn't Aurora similar to Googles Spanner in this regard, giving pretty much same characteristics?

https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/databases/inside-clou...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15923507
Converting the Kernel to C++
Using Negotiating Agents to Evaluate LLMs
Not where I live, but my local water supply has been tapped by Deer Park [1].

I still filter the drinking water, but my tap quality is fantastic.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deer_Park_Spring_Water
> Naturally, this catty culture will affect females more and teen girls in particular.

Why naturally? Can you describe this without leaning on a vague and misogynist adjective. There might be something here but as stated it's no more nuanced and has no more explanatory power than "women are like that."
For those interested in taking dissociative drugs, or any recreational drugs in general, please take a look at this disorder called Depersonalization-derealization disorder (DPDR).

I'm not trying to scare you, but it can be a potential side effect, so it's good to know if you're curious.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Depersonalization-derealizatio...
>And our sewer and water board is incompetent and corrupt

Karl Marx showed us 150 years ago that a government under capitalism is a capitalist government.
So, you see migrants as a threat to national security. On par with a Russian invasion? Just asking, because shooting at unarmed people at the border is something people are discussing at the moment, something I cannot put my disgust for in words.
Libraries are one of the few non-statutory services of councils. Not all council services can legally be cut.
Amazon to Lay Off 'Several Hundred' Across Prime Video, Amazon MGM Studios
Yeah, the only systems likely to see real benefits from serverless are those with infrequent and intermittent traffic.
You're the one that claimed authority, you can't blame someone for asking you to back it up.
This grew out of the comment I left at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38934087

I've got some unfinished posts on e.g. import-from-derivation, but wanted to get this done so I can link-to/reference it in the future :)
DynamoDB is _fantastic_ for certain scenarios. But, you also need to know your access patterns upfront and more or less end up hardcoding your indexes into the "table design". It's not a 1:1 replacement for a typical relational DB's use cases.
Copy protection (DRM) on e-books harms our freedom and what to do about it
RO water is kind of tasteless, though, since it lacks all mineral content.
I think the big takeaway is that scale-to-zero customers aren't where they're making their money.
You were talking Mac.

> Setapp is a subscription service, not an app marketplace

That's a really weird way to draw that line. I go there, goods are marketed to me, I pay money to use them. That's the definition of a market and the site and its desktop app are a marketplace.

Unless you're arguing that if Apple finished transitioning the iOS app marketplace to purely subscription, it's no longer a marketplace. That would be a really unusual stance.
> All of which will affect their lives way worse than particles of plastic.

Okay, are you saying we shouldn’t care whatsoever if we ingest PLASTIC (!!!) because beer and McDonalds exist? People shouldn’t care?

I don’t drink, I don’t eat fast food. I don’t “drive dangerously” and I sure as hell am going to do everything in my power to make sure I am not eating or drinking plastic. Same goes for my wife and kids.
Plastic seems like an odd choice to use to drink/eat from and even stranger to filter your water. The Berkey uses a carbon filter and ceramic filters have been used for centuries. I e filtered my water through either for the last 20 years. It has always boggled my mind that people use plastic to drink out of and filter their water.

Can I ask, why do you choose to use plastic rather than ceramic/carbon filter?
(Neon CEO).

It's possible and here is the recipe: https://twitter.com/nikitabase/status/1725394843285766463
That's like telling people to use S3, those are completely different storage systems.
> Serverless, pay per use sounds only good if you have very few or unusual traffic.

And most of those cases can be handled by a $5 a month instance. Thus, usually, the most serverless can save you is $5 a month.

I suppose the real appeal of serveless is you don't have to worry about maintaining the server, doing updates, etc.
> Naturally, this catty culture will affect females more and teen girls in particular.

How does it follow that this "naturally" affects teen girls more than other demographics?

This strikes me as at best hand-wavey. If you suspect some underlying cause of this, please state it explicitly rather than implying a tautological "teen girls are just like this."
Who do you think are the OnlyFans models and Amouranth-style twitch streamers?
It seems like it would be much, much slower to CNC all the plywood and insulation and assemble the boxes and then put the boxes together than it would be to just frame a wall, sheet it and put insulation batts in. Having access to and operating a CNC also seems harder than learning to use a skill saw and hammer a nail. It feels like they're trying to apply abstraction to construction where you just have one unit that can be adapted to work for everything but they don't realize that already exists and it's called dimensional lumber.
Speaking of holes, I will leave you with this classic: https://youtu.be/-_KLD9opGFg
It depends on the mode. They can choose the time, but then get awful poor ad-revenue. Or they take the juicy contract, and are forced to let twitch decide when ads are rolling. And with gaming content, even choosing the time is not always flowing well with your content.
And yet they often do default. Look up sovereign defaults. Possible reasons why include things like “inflation is out of control because we’re printing money to cover the debt, and we’ll get voted out if we don’t do something”.
While I'm sure some people theorize that Fabrice Bellard is actually a pseudonym of a collective of 10x programmers, he is as far as I know just one person.
What you're saying doesn't make sense to me, and I also don't know what you're referring to by the leaking problem. I don't see how the choice of being explicit or non-explicit about errors is "faulty." Plenty of languages choose to use exceptions and maximize your ability to ignore errors, while others force you to deal with (in some way) the fact that an operation is fallible. Neither of these is "wrong," in my opinion, but they do offer different tradeoffs and ergonomics.

I'm not sure why you say that the values of a sum type must be "dependent," or what you mean by that. Maybe/Option is a sum type of Nothing or Some<T>. There's no dependency there. If my webserver can return JSON or XML, I might represent that with a sum type holding either a JSON object or an XML tree, but there's no dependency between those two things that I can see.
I think the way life is built on earth is the rule throughout the universe. For any type of organic “computation” there needs to be something similar to a neural net. Perhaps a different “implementation” but it should be largely the same.
Also paneer! Paneer is so easy to make and you can go from milk to useable product in literally about 2.5 hours.

It’s honestly so much nicer also, I always find store bought paneer to be somewhat hard and lack the buttery taste of the fluffy homemade stuff
> It's capitalism

We had capitalism for a LONG time before we had the international teen mental illness epidemic.
You can filter out most recruiters by asking 2 questions upfront:

- What is the Salary Range ?

- Who is the employer ?

If they are wishy washy in revealing either one, tell them to pound sand especially if you are a good candidate and not desperate.
Where's the need to store the energy if mining bitcoin is at least as cost effective? It's almost as if you see bitcoin mining as a waste of energy
I've not seem them claim to have broken CAP. AWS is quite an academic organization I think it'd be quite unlikely for them to say something like that.

They do actually provide quite a lot of detail about Aurora storage this works. This 2019 reinvent talk gets pretty deep into the weeds.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uaQEGLKtw54

https://d1.awsstatic.com/events/reinvent/2019/REPEAT_Amazon_...
So long as we're making sweeping claims without any attempt at supporting them, you're wrong, this is all downstream from the Protestant Reformation.
Not fixed where I am.
Do heavy metal water filters not work in Paris for some reason?
Are cans or canned food any better? It's all lined with plastic.
Boeing won a US Air Force program and lost $7B
> The Post Office agreed to settle out of court for £58 million. The subpostmasters' legal costs amounted to £47 million, leaving them with only about £20,000 each.

Something's obscenely wrong here.
Most modern plumbing has plastic parts.
Slow and Steady Waymo Is Winning the Self Driving Race
It was painful, usually, HN is where one goes to find out if a service is down, I also used Twitter to double check it wasn't just me.