skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This reminds me of the introduction of the V-style [0] in ski jumping: it was originally deemed inappropriate by the judges, who scored it lower, but it provided so much more distance that today it's the most widely used technique.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ski_jumping_techniques#V-style
Scientists discover how ultraviolet light degrades coronavirus
> Assume all people in the world die except 2 people...

That's a great argument I had never heard before, thanks!

The way I see it is that any given economy has an amount of real resources (labor, raw materials, know-how...) that are often under-utilized. In such cases targeted government spending can mobilize those resources in a way that increases output without creating the bottlenecks that cause inflation.
Almost one-third of Gen Zers are living with their parents
Carroll is probably one of the better known researchers focusing on the evolution of cis-regulatory elements, non-coding sequences which regulate the expression of nearby genes. I would consider his 2005 book Endless Forms Most Beautiful to be a reasonable introduction. For something more less pop-sci I understand Davidson and Peter's (2015) Genomic Control Process has been fairly well received, as well. Though both are on the older side of things now, and admittedly I'm not too familiar with the current literature, they would probably be my recommendations. There are also non-gene regulatory elements of course.
From what I understand, Gene Regulatory Network [1] works very differently from Biological Neural Circuits [2]. Finally, Perceptron used in computers [3] is based on arithmetic operations and is again different from any of those two biological mechanisms. However, perceptron appears to be a good tool to model functions that depends on a large number of parameters.

What we may infer from that is that after a lot of time of evolution, functions depending on a lot of parameters appear. Yet Biological Neural Circuits seem quite bad at approximating simple continuous functions such as the multiplication between two numbers.

Gene Neural Network and Biological Neural Circuit are quite impressive structures considering their size, materials, and energy constraints. However if you allow bigger size, more energy, and faster conducting materials, it should be possible to do have faster modeling tools.

Moreover, to better take into account non-linear functions, my two cents is that Perceptrons could be further enhanced using piecewise polynomial functions instead of piecewise linear functions [4,5].

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gene_regulatory_network

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neural_circuit

[3]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perceptron

[4]: https://doi.org/10.1109/TPAMI.2021.3058891

[5]: https://doi.org/10.1109/TPAMI.2022.3231971
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I am impressed with this work, especially given our current use of Loki with Prometheus and Grafana.

Few questions come to mind. Firstly, is Quickwit compatible with any S3 compatible object storage, such as Cloudflare's R2? Are there particular considerations to keep in mind for this kind of setup? Secondly, do you see Quicwit being used for analytics, such as tracking daily visits or analyzing user retention?

Your insights on these would be greatly appreciated.
> Post Office Ltd had ordered Second Sight to end its investigation just one day before the report was due to be published, and to destroy all the paperwork that it had not handed over.

Gosh dang it.
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In my time at Samsung, we were tracking most of the authoritative state for the factory in a single monster Oracle DB instance. This made troubleshooting systems integration problems fairly trivial once you had some business keys to look for.

There are so many crazy tricks out there. You would be amazed at how much abuse an old school RDBMS engine can take on modern hardware. In-memory OLTP on servers that can host terabytes of RAM completely changes the game. Disaggregated compute & storage provides seamless OLAP capabilities on the same SQL connection instance for the most modern providers.
A look inside `memcmp` on Intel AVX2 hardware
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
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> "Previous studies found the major chemical composition to be PET, which is expected since the bottle is made of PET," Yan told us. "Therefore, for a long time, we had the impression that the majority of plastic particles inside bottled water would be Polyethylene terephthalate (PET) particles of a few hundred nanometers in size."

> "That was incorrect," Yan said.

> Ironically enough, 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 … a common water purification method shared by all three brands [of water tested]," the team wrote in the paper.

Too different from the title. And the other comments seem to have been written without reading the text.
My last point (there are more of them in the comment) is that historically, authoritarian countries have gone bankrupt from other reasons than democratic countries, but democracies are prone to bankruptcies too. There is nothing about democracy that results in good management of public finances.

The original article uses "Antidemocratic" as a subtly negative value judgment. One of my points was that "Democratic" management of finances has often turned sour, too.
This is a sentence you can say in places with nice water, but often the mineralization content is very different, the taste isn't really good, etc.
Is there anything against glass containers? I'm debating what to use for medium/long term storage (replacing the contents) and indeed I'm wary of metal coatings.
have more information that way I think on each photo.

Plus feels more robust.

Getting from the website might break if layout breaks.
Magic: The Gathering maker admits it used AI-generated art despite standing ban
I think the time has long past when you could rely on wikipedia for a disinterested viewpoint on anything political or subjects that are part of the "culture wars".
She was right, there is a big difference.

Try Evian versus the waters sold by Coca-Cola (that are tap-water equivalent) and you can really feel it.
At the time of the dev of the EP, the tooling is not that good as current. I have imagined a pipeline that HLSL compiles down to DXIL then go through spirv cross and then target wide variety of mobile devices with opencl runtime. But they are more focused on graphics part and is cannot work with the kernel execution model, not to even mention the structural control flow things, it definitely not going to work. The OpenGL does not work with the imagined pipeline, because IIRC it cannot consume SPIRV bytecode. Vulkan is so niche and discarded very early. The final result with opencl runtime and cl language worked but the driver is a mess [palmface]
not sure I'd call it fun.
Can wholeheartedly add my recommendation for the book. In fact I think it should be required reading for anyone in the business of software. While I felt it was a bit over-long it is incredibly thorough and well told and covers multiple different aspects of the scandal while making the human cost obvious in a way that aggregate facts and figures don't.
A country that issues its own currency never has to default. The only question is does the country produce enough goods/services that the rest of the world wants such that the currency (or its debt) stays in sufficient demand.

The above goods and services can simply be “stability” relative to the rest of the world, such that wealth seeking a safe haven continues to choose assets denominated in they nation’s currency.
I spent a lot of time reading this yesterday, and started looking at Rama's docs.

I think the a database that encapsulates denormalization so that derived views (caches, aggregations) are automatic is a killer feature. But far too often awesome products and ideas fail for trivial reasons.

In this case, I just can't understand how Rama fits into an application. For example:

Every example is Java. Is Rama only for Java applications? Or, is there a way to expose my database as a REST API? (That doesn't require me to jump through a million hoops and become an expert in the Java ecosystem?)

Can I run Rama in Azure / AWS / Google cloud / Oracle cloud? Are there pre-built docker images I can use? Or is this a library that I have to suck into a Java application and use some kind of existing runtime? (The docs mention Zookeeper, but I have very little experience with it.)

IE: It's not clear where the boundary between my application (Java or not) and Rama is. Are the examples analogous to sprocs (run in the DB) or business logic (run in the application)?

The documentation is also very hard. It appears the author has every concept in their head, because they know Rama inside and out, yet can't emphasize with the reader and provide simpler bits of information that convey useful concepts. There's both "too much" (mixing of explaining pstates and the depot) and "too little" (where do I host it, what is the boundary between Rama and my application?)

Another thing I didn't see mentioned is tooling: every SQL database has at least one general SQL client. (MSSQL studio, Azure data studio,) that allows interacting with the database. (Viewing the schema, ad-hoc queries, ECT.) Does Rama have this, or is every query a custom application?

Anyway, seems like a cool idea, but it probably needs some well-chosen customers who ask tough questions so the docs become mature.
This sounds like Nordic Folk Racing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Folkrace

This is quite popular in Finland, with racers as young as 14, to stop people spending their way to winning anyone can offer to buy a competitor car for €2,000 and the owner can't refuse.

https://www.autourheilu.fi/lajit/jokamiehenluokka/
GodotOS: A Fake Operating System Interface Made in the Godot Engine
This feels like gotos or hoisting
Also Microsoft DirectX Shader Compiler[1] for HLSL. In fact, effort is ongoing to upstream HLSL support into Clang.[2][3][4]

To answer your other question—why LLVM instead of GCC:

- First-class support for non-Unix/Linux platforms. LLVM can be built on Windows and Visual Studio without ever needing a single GNU tool besides git[5]. Clang even has a MSVC-compatible interface that allows MSVC developers to switch to Clang without needing to change their command-line invocation[6].

- Written in C++ from the ground up, with a modular, first-class SSA IR-based interface.

- Permissive Apache 2.0 licence. As much as this might exasperate the open-source community, it allows for significantly faster iteration; things tend to be upstreamed when private/corporate developers realise it is hard to maintain separate forks.

All this allows LLVM to have a pretty mature infrastructure; some very large companies have contributed to its development.

[1]: https://github.com/microsoft/DirectXShaderCompiler

[2]: https://clang.llvm.org/docs/HLSL/HLSLDocs.html

[3]: https://github.com/microsoft/DirectXShaderCompiler/wiki/Cont...

[4]: https://discourse.llvm.org/t/rfc-adding-hlsl-and-directx-sup...

[5]: https://llvm.org/docs/GettingStartedVS.html

[6]: https://clang.llvm.org/docs/UsersManual.html#clang-cl
As an OpenWRT user, I am very optimistic about this. I'm sure almost all users would fork in money for this instead of going for hostile mainstream companies.

Also the USB-C UART and recovery read-only bootloader is a nice touch. Really looking forward to it.

One concern is just misplaced anger because some users misunderstand what this means for OpenWRT going forward, but I hope they'll be in the minority.

> The OpenWrt project does not pay its developers,

This is actually surprising to me, but I guess the donation money isn't enough to pay developers. Would the surplus if infrastructure costs are covered go to developers or is it all going to a rainy day fund?
>"Democratic control over economics" looks like people voting for more services and lower taxes.

contra - Denmark, Germany, Sweden...

there are countries that vote for the taxes that allow for supporting the services they want.

And I say this as someone who feels totally screwed over by the Danish tax system, but really your intro blanket statement was just not true.
Even there they try to downplay it, to be honest:

> ... when we wrote about the concerns of Wakefield

This really undersells the situation, it suggests he was just a concerned doctor who innocently pursued a theory that turned out to be wrong. You're likely aware of how it went down but for everyone else: Wakefield completely fabricated some evidence to raise fears that a combined measles/mumps/rubella vaccine was causing autism via some hitherto unknown gastro-intestinal disease (giving some pretty invasive and unnecessary procedures on kids in the process) with the intent of profiting from a vaccine of his own. He was struck off and prevented from practicing medicine in the UK (still active in the USA) but the damage had been done and he basically laid the groundwork for modern day antivax movement.

This doesn't discredit Private Eye altogether, of course. It's just a bit annoying that they have this. A reminder, perhaps, that nobody's perfect?
I always think of DNA a lot like programming over the course of millions of years. A strung together series of hackish, barely functioning, uncommented code with no documentation whatsoever. Any reason for why a snippet of code ended up being the way it is has been completely lost to time. All we know is that changing it is bad, certain chunks of code lead to certain behavior, and that the more we look at the code the code spaghetti like it appears.
> independent performance conformations.

Groq has just been added to the LLMPerf Leaderboard:

https://github.com/ray-project/llmperf-leaderboard#output-to...

(Disclosure: I work for Groq)
Decreasing the purchasing power of the currency is also taxation. For example, a country might want to increase its money supply to nominally satisfy obligations to old people, while the supply of labor and goods does not keep up with the demand. Manifests as higher prices and longer wait times.

Or the country can experience a reduction in the quality of goods and services being delivered, for example instead of being able to see a doctor, some portion of the population is now expected to consult with someone less qualified.
I much much prefer the European football model of professional sports clubs that run programs reaching all the way down to 5-year-olds. These clubs use profits from their pro teams to build their programs and are in no way associated with schools.

Mixing sports with education beyond basic PE is a recipe for disaster, as you can pretty clearly see by the underperformance of American high school education.

I grew up in deep football land in Texas, and my experience as a non-athlete was that football consumed nearly the entire budget for non-academics in the district. Everything else was subsisting on peanuts while the football program hired dozens of coaches and built a new $30m stadium. Probably 50% of my high school teachers were coaches who were just doing double duty as teachers for some extra cash.
And a lot of the projects, at least in this thread are not passive or even side projects. They're being reported as full-time projects.
> Should the stability of a bridge be considered remarkable?

From a purely engineering perspective, most certainly.
So the last time they released a non integrated GPU prior to 2022 was back in 1998? That seems hardly relevant..
I use Computer Networking: A Top Down Approach for my classes on computer networks and distributed systems and on a theoretical level its a good read. My students appreciate the visual presentations. Modern networking setups depend a lot on the area of scope. Do you want to understand IP networks, tier-1 internet backbone, mobile networks, private networks, data center architecture, distributed web applications, etc.
"Austerity is antidemocratic", indeed because a democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largesse from the public treasury.
Advertisements is a global phenomena. Advertisements are often made to make you depressed about your situation, so the more effective they are the more depressed people get.
The glass itself is inert. The seal for the lid often has plastic. Usually not too much of a concern unless you're dealing with acidic foods afaik
> you don't think engineers who build web crawlers cannot build email classifiers?

Nope, I don't. So many things get constantly marked as spam in my inbox, even server notifications, from the same domain, same daily emails, marked repeatedly as "not spam", and added to address book.

Then there's the second problem of google support... your 2fa passwords, email-authentications, password reset links, etc. will be sent out, gmail will send them to spam, your users won't see/find the email, and there's nothing you can do... noone to call at google that would actually listen and try to do anything, no penalties if they don't do anything, only hope that your service is large enough that it gets some traction on twitter or here and some random googler sees it.
It was also what all three parties proposed. I remember an IFS report showing actual cuts were less than both Tory and labour plans and slightly more than Lib Dem plans, but if you go back to 2010 you had a labour chancellor promising to cut more than thatcher.

It’s common in hindsight to say “if only labour were elected”

Also worth remembering that in 2015 the country said “we want more Tory”. The coalition wasn’t Tory enough.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2010/mar/25/alistair-da...
Tax in the UK is still low relative to European neighbours
https://www.dannydorling.org/?p=9541

It's high in historical perspective because the austerity years of the 2010s and Brexit choked growth. But we could still choose to spend more on services without being unusual in European terms
Not sure why you needed to praise the sexual predator and pimp in your reply
> required support for one-click unsubscribe posts

The article gets it wrong. They imply that emails have to have one-click unsubscribe links, which isn't true. Emails need to include headers (described in your link,) which the mail client can use.
With this err will never equal nil.
I assume the same principle of microplastic contamination applies to some degree, not only to bottled water itself, but also to many other food and drink products where a primary ingredient is that kind of commercial plastic-filtered water. For example, most packaged beverages (soft drinks, alcoholic drinks, etc), and certain packaged or jarred food items.
This is true, but we still tax/spend less than many European competitors. The reason tax is historically high (for the UK) is that we've had no growth and our population is getting older.
Rather than programming languages it sounds like a nature language.
Thank you. I subscribed to your newsletter. Might take up your offer for advice :) Thank you
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Caffeine, CYP1A2 Genotype and Exercise Performance
Being transparent would be a start though. The tories in 2019 were still making Red Bus promises about how Brexit would save us all billions we could spend on the NHS.
Hi all!

I just reverse-engineered Nike's e-commerce site using only my browser!
I find it interesting and cool, and I think that everyone can find something in the blog that he does not know before.

Hope you like it!
I'm disappointed they didn't sample at the (spring) source so there's a baseline; vs what is perhaps added by the bottling (which presumably has plastic pipes, maybe); vs what the bottle then adds.

As it is, maybe it's not the bottle per se but something prior.
> [...] may cause the companies to spend money notifying customers and harm their reputation.

I'm sorry, but I don't quite understand. Are you saying that you feel a company should not notify customers when exposing passwords in plaintext and furthermore, that this fact alone isn't harmful to their reputation? Not notifying customers, in my eyes, would destroy any semblance of reputation further.

> Typically the company would review logs to determine that.

Again, do you believe in the competence of someone storing passwords in plaintext? Logs may be incomplete; even a more competent organization that stores credentials following proper procedures and lost a db due to specific phishing rather than such a major screw-up would be expected to contact every customer and advise them to change their credentials, for very good reasons.
But the degree of autonomy is influenced by size.

For example, if the US and Eurozone decide to increase their interest rates this causes capital to fly from smaller countries with an independent currency, which causes their currency to devalue, which (generally) causes inflation, which forces them to increase their interest rate.

Yeah it should not have an effect on locally produced goods, but unless you're both an industrial and an energy power house you are going to import a lot of stuff so you still get inflation.
Different countries vote for different things.
That’s gonna catch a report spam from me dawg
I can't wait for this to take effect.

It seems that every time I buy something or someone gets ahold of my email address, I get added to a SPAM list.

I can't wait for all of these to be blocked.

For example: I recently elected a benefit, and the company added me to a SPAM list for weekly deals 100% unrelated to the benefit. They even ignored the fact that I unsubscribed.
I have to say that I was very interested in the ideas but found the book barely readable.
FT is hardly a left wing rag

https://www.ft.com/content/1670a3d2-880f-11e2-8e3c-00144feab...

https://archive.is/t1wU0

Hindsight is wonderful, in 2010 the choice was austerity, austerity or austerity, there was no alternate voice, but that doesn’t mean it was the right move
I think there are things in common and others not. For analogies, like models, I guess there is no right or wrong, only useful.

Some of your examples indeed do not work with the analogy. Others might. For instance, that daughter who is 16 might babysit somebody‘s children for a payment and buy some shein clothes with it, instead of getting money from her parents. Or France can definitely sell their used washing machine to Swiss students on floor 4th, who might pay a bit to not rent a van. In some countries living blocks split cleaning common areas between neighbours, and replacing lightbulbs or painting the common areas provokes heated arguments at neighbours meetings, not unlike some EU decisions.

These are just examples. I agree with your point. I just do not agree it is generally wrong unless we talk about a specific example. You provide a few where indeed it is wrong.
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