skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Simply running a DotNET dll. I just tried a basic "Hello World" program compiled to a CIL .dll and to RV64 machine code, on my x86 Linux machine (original ThreadRipper 2990WX) and then running it through different JIT/interpreters. Wall time:

DotNET: 0.061s

qemu-riscv64: 0.006s

Spike: 0.031s

Qemu is JIT with Linux syscall layer built in (in native code).

Spike is a RISC-V interpreter with Linux syscall layer provided by interpreted RISC-V "pk"

So the DotNET JIT has quite a high overhead for startup, or one-time code.

For very compute-intensive code DotNet has an advantage. e.g. on my own primes benchmark (https://hoult.org/primes.txt, https://hoult.org/primes.cs)

DotNET: 3.5s

qemu-riscv64: 10.2s

gcc: 9.7s (i.e. defaulting to -O0)

gcc -O1: 3.2s

DotNET beats emulated RISC-V here, but the RISC-V emulator (with RISC-V code compiled with -O1) is pretty much as fast as a lazy person compiling C to native x86 gets.
Cow bells have been shown to reduce the amount of food the cow eats many years ago [1]; however the mechanism (sound vs weight) isn't clear.

Farmers militantly oppose any attempt to get rid of cow bells though. Some claim that they aren't an issue for the animals, some whine about "traditions" getting endangered (which is even worse IMHO, to torture animals despite knowing better just because it looks good - ffs we managed to ban breeding of dogs and cats that we know to suffer), and others whine that they can't find escaped cows (just as ridiculous, even the 500g of a small cowbell is enough for a year-long battery and RF sender...) [2].

[1] https://www.schweizerbauer.ch/tiere/milchvieh/sind-glocken-f...

[2] https://www.fr.de/panorama/tierschuetzer-fordern-verbot-kuhg...
This is more like, a gross oversimplification of the first chapter of a freshman intro to economics.

This is to economics what "assume the cow is a perfect sphere moving on a frictionless surface without wind resistance" type of problem is to physics.

In the real world, profit absolutely does not correspond to "taking advantage" or "extracting value through arbitrage".
Ask HN: How to add money to my own bootstrapped startup?
Context: Delaware C corp, US resident

Hi there,
I recently incorporated and I want to separate my personal finances from the company. To do that, I want to loan my own money to the company (I know buying stocks is also an option but I am avoiding it as it deemed more complicated to me at this point; feel free to object).
How much interest should I charge the company? Is there any blog post or any resource that you can share?
I have already done some research and I am aware of the Applicable Federal Rates. I just don't know which number to use and I also hope to find some boilerplate documents.

(of course I am not seeking legal advice and all readers including me should take all the responsibilities of all the actions they take)
Congrats on the marketplace, I know your prompts, and you can't defend it
Too many people consider prompts to be secret and money makers. A bold statement for something that leaks faster than an SSN in an Equifax database.
So the biggest problem is to actually render your cv. For this I use https://ohmycv.app. Its a nice (free) editor, and you can write CSS for the styling, works great. I source control the markdown and CSS, i have multiple versions of the same CV, so I can change content while keeping the format the same.
"Any one who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of sin. For, as has been pointed out several times, there is no such thing as a random number — there are only methods to produce random numbers, and a strict arithmetic procedure of course is not such a method." - John von Neumann
> In busy lives hyper focused on always being productive, maximizing for status or money, getting the time to listen to hour plus long symphony in one go is hard. And having a settled mind to do that is even harder.

Ah, I see.
So I have been at risk of diabetes for 8 years ... started tracking actively since I had a cardiac incident. My first 2 years of cardiac recovery were whole food vegetarian with zero added sugar and they were awesome. But then the discipline slipped and it has been one thing after the other with degrading health (mostly A1c, still not diabetic, and weight gained 30 pounds in the past 6 years). Went back to Whole Foods plant based diet since January 1st and have cut down sugar significantly. This time I am prepared by having a fridge stocked with fruits and other alternatives when I get tempted to eat.

But based on what I am reading in the interview, and the other comments on this post, am I chasing a fool's errand?

My personal experience says that any diet works as long as you are disciplined, and although in my social circles (work and family), it is hard to be sugar free, it is still possible (along with vegetarianism) as compared to low carb. However, I do not see any advocates for that here, are there?

Btw I am planning for a modified version of something called LMK diet, LMK is not a doctor and is probably at the extreme edges of selling veganism, and I am definitely not going that far, but going as close as I can. Mentioning it just in case someone wants to counter or support it.
One added benefit of RAG is that it's more "pluggable." It's a lot easier to plug into newer LLMs that come out. If and when GPT-5 comes out, it'll be a one character change in your code to start using it and still maintain the same reference corpus.
Maybe you could utilize views to make your EAV schema more friendly for the LLM? Whether that's realistic depends on the specifics of your situation of course.
If one needs to run Squeak in a very minimum VM . Is it possible? Any help with that?

I tried to make vm in Squeak turning off graphics/sound and compiled vm but it just didn’t work when I was trying to run it.

Is there a relatively simple way to remove all fancy objects and keep only bare minimum that would at least run it so I can learn it further?

It has to be VM that gives repl through terminal and ability to modify image further, vm need to run without breaking if graphics/sound not available when even linux drivers aren’t available, on pi zero w let’s say.

With my current limitations I cannot dive into learning the language deeply in any other different setup.

Is it possible? I am sure someone have already done that somewhere. I am really trying to avoid dealing with c++ but the way vm is done it seems that instead of learning Squeak I have to dive into all the ‘beauty’ of compiling c with cmake instead.
> Another interesting tidbit is that spinach and other similar foods once consumed in high enough quantities (as little as 1/2 a cup a week) causes little needle (Oxalates) like structures to form in our bodies, this is really bad when its in our joints. And another tidbit is that if you do over consume spinach you can be killed from it.

There is so much pseudoscience in here to unpack. You're picking and choosing anecdotes from different things (oxalate intolerance is a thing but not very common, 1/2 cup of spinach for most people is very healthy) to create a fear inducing narrative.

Yes, folks should watch what they eat, but spewing this garbage just muddies the waters on what could be the root cause for certain ailments.
Same experience here, seems like a bit of Conway's Law. Their website is set up to mirror their own internal structure instead of a way that is actually customer friendly. My first thought of shopping on FedEx is how awful it would be.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conway%27s_law
Have you considered a semantic layer instead, or does it have to be a natural language interface?
I guess it must be a combination of getting both the frequency response and phase response just right. It won't be any where near as good but you might be interested in Room Eq Wizard too
And Pi 5s are still hard to find. But it's getting better. I wanted (and got) one for myself and one for my grandson.

Edit: Too bad they didn't credit what I suspect was the original source for this information https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lky4FSfbc1E. (Hopefully that's the right URL, An ad was still playing.)
> leaks faster than an SSN in an Equifax database

:)

I like it.

How about

"My two-year-old fell asleep in the car---with no diaper!

And, wouldn't you know it, within 30 minutes, Equifax leaked another 25,000 SSNs.

Oh, the kid woke up dry."
A Mountain of Used Clothes Appeared in Chile's Desert. Then It Went Up in Flames
Many states have those. If not barriers, then large trees.
You could always do it with instructions itd just be slow no?.
Is it opensource? I'm willing to contribute.
Off topic, but is that a piece of metal in your Champ?
In going to hell for saying this... But I never had this with my Android phones.

Galaxy S2,S3,S4,S5 One Plus 6 and more
So far it's a grand decade for billionaires, new report. As for the masses...
shameless plug: there are ways to run custom sized runner without risks associated with self hosted runners. fasterci.com ephemeral runners is one of them.
There's no polite way of saying this, but I'll say it anyway: most of your comment reads like pseudoscience to me.
Because SQL is a good query language, if you bother to really learn it.
I was very excited about this when it launched (in alpha). How has the product matured? Also, does it now have an API for easy import/export of data into the database?
Boeing has ~25b cash on hand and Spirit's market cap is ~3b.
> When we don't follow a natural cycle of fasting

What does a natural cycle look like? 12 hours? 16 hours? More?
There are a few things going on that I’m aware of. It’s usually related to disk.

- Windows update can take a lot of blame for this. Basically the longer the Windows release has been out, the more windows updates there are. After every boot one of the first things windows does is check for updates. It then scans the local folder where the updates are saved and does some sort of check to make sure everything is good. Processing this folder can take hours on an older machine with a spinning disk.

- The Windows registry, where almost all windows settings and quite often app settings are stored, has terrible performance and can become bloated over the years at as more and more stuff is written to it.

- An SSD can suffer bad write performance if you are dealing with a somewhat full disk and it can’t trim space quick enough to deal with new writes coming in.

- In Linux you’re not supposed to mount with discard any more but instead rely on a cron job that runs in the background once a day. I think various manufacturers are supposed to handle the trim in firmware too but then it’s a black box.

- Filesystems generally perform worse as they fill up. In my experience NTFS seems to have a lower threshold than ext4 or XFS.

- Your disk might be failing. Look at the SMART stats to see if you are hitting unacceptable error thresholds.

- In Linux anything that uses snaps will take forever to start the first time.
Yes, 100%! Can you turn this comment into a blog post so that I can send it to people who make this claim?
And they aren't even really that great. The OrangePi line for example is a lot better for the price.
It proxies it through their servers. You are connecting to Nitter, not Twitter. They are serving the content to you (the user), not Twitter.
No, you're the lucky one who can get through the regulatory hurdles to get uppers, middle managers are dying to get you on staff.
Costco is too busy killing it selling gold bars to take notice probably lol

https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2023/12/16/business/costco-gold-bars...

https://www.costco.com/1-oz-gold-bar-pamp-suisse-lady-fortun...
> Still fail to see the advantage over Electron, NWJS or tauri.

not sure either, but presumably the intention is to alleviate the platform specific build processes, apis and modules for developers so that they are "unified" under this framework.
FedEx Dataworks has been hiring quite a bit
Why not? Attempts at socialism haven't worked out so far. They have invariable devolved into 'not real socialism', despite best efforts and noble intentions.
See also PlayStation Network and Discovery.
I had an MRI, which really only showed a mild L5 disc bulge. The public health system denied surgery because it didn't seem to be a bad enough issue as to require surgery. Even the private surgeon I went to said he was 50/50 and so it was up to me to decide whether to go ahead with the surgery because, again, the MRI didn't show anything particularly extreme. I chose surgery because within myself I knew there was something more extreme that was wrong, and the surgery, even if unsuccessful, would have been a path towards an overall cause / diagnosis.

I'm sure my case is fairly exceptional, though. The surgeon specifically came to discuss it with me while I was in recovery.

I don't want to sway you either way, I've heard more bad stories about back surgery than good ones. Having said that, outside of some kind of disastrous surgery incident, being the age I was, I'm more likely to heal faster, better, stronger, than if I waited until later in life to have the surgery. I thought long and hard weighing the risks.

One thing the MRI showed was that my lower back muscles were noticeably lacking in size - which I think is fairly normal for someone who sits at a desk most of the day. As part of my months-long recovery process I was told to see a physio to work on core strength exercises in order to build the muscles around the abdomen that can help to support the spine and take (some) pressure off the discs. I was also told to do dead lifts to build back strength, but to start very light - I started at only 5Kg at about 10 weeks after surgery. Make sure you've got the correct stance, otherwise you risk making things worse. I've continued with dead lifts over a few years, much moreso than pilates or core exercises. I aim to keep slightly increasing the weight every couple of months for as long as I can - I'm up to 50Kg (I lost about 9 months of progress when I broke my wrist a year ago - the risks of an active lifestyle :)).

There's also a posture aspect to spinal disc pressures - accentuate the natural of your spine to 'feel' what correct posture feels like (ie the opposite of slumping down in your chair - shoulders back, bum out).

A relative of mine swears by pilates for helping with back pain, after having tried both yoga and pilates.

Try pilates, try dead lifts. Get someone who knows what they're doing (a physiotherapist ) to guide you on proper posture and technique (for both pilates and dead lifts), and once you've got that down you can probably do the rest yourself at home. The heardest part is the self-discipline (a physio won't solve your problems, but they can show you what you need to do to solve them).
Everyone fucking off & writing frameworks that oh just so happen to be server side is incredibly bold self dealing. Now front and back end are deeply conflated, and instead of finding consistent controlled paradigms to tackle async on the front end we've just made an even bigger soup of what-renders-where-when.

We have been deeply mislead these past couple years. React ecosystem should have been working on better faster front end systems that integrate data better. Redux should just have been a start. Instead, managing data has gotten more complex and worse.
Do you mean the non-PoE version? I have the PoE version sitting in a box somewhere and I'm a ESP32 enthusiast so I'm wondering if that's what I'll be doing today. Surely they're using it just as a WiFi coprocessor? Or...?
According to Raymond Hill (the creator of uBlock Origin) the slow down is being caused by the extension itself, not by youtube:

> It's an incorrect diagnosis: In the current instance, the issue is specifically Adblock Plus 3.22 and AdBlock 5.17.

(https://twitter.com/gorhill/status/1746543686932947074)
I don't really think 1-2 day delivery matters. I live in a major metropolitan area with 3 amazon distribution centers within 25 miles of me, yet with Amazon prime my orders took 3-4 days to be delivered. I canceled prime a year ago, and now my orders take 5-6 days.

Products from Amazon can no longer be trusted, So I only order things from Amazon for a few reasons...

1. I can't find it locally, or purchase it from a trusted online seller.
2. It is something I might need to return (Amazon's returns are easy).
3. I want something cheap because I'm only going to use the product once.
I use the similar kind of structure in Developer Diary. I do it completely offline, no sync.
Hrm.. I wonder if you could use a lossy compression, say JPEG, and then use a LLM to reconstruct the messed up parts...
Do you figure it's easier to become a shipping company or an ecommerce platform? I don't suspect they'll pull it off, but it's not the worst idea I've heard.

Walmart always makes me think similar but not in the same way. Ultimately, the in-person retail experience still offers its own conveniences so that's a good feature.
Welcome to the Quiet Skies (2018)
Only with a lot more regulation, and the competition is very sharp.
Comments here show me that useEffect() is apparently incredibly hammer-shaped. And all things related to state and network look like nails in the eyes of frustrated React users.

I think those people would be better served by frameworks that hold fine grained reactivity as a virtue. If you have appetite for spaghetti at least use real pasta instead of trying to roll steak into thin stripes to tangle it.
Thanks for taking the time to make a suggestion! I just bought "The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet" as I don't like to read series out of sequence and Kindle noted it as the first of that series.
So, what happened after they implemented it? Did CS tickets actually go down a lot? Did it save them a ton of money and hassle? You left off the best part of the story :-)

As for mandating it, I could see not requiring people who'd already set up accounts to jump through this extra hoop to play the game. I'm sure even a small percentage might not be able to jump through that hoop. I doubt it's a significant percentage, but I could see it becoming a PR hassle, and those are the worst kinds of hassle from the POV of a technical employee lol...

But for a new game? If the CS metrics reflected a big drop relative to the number of people using 2FA, then I'd be sold on requiring it.
"Every ship traversing the canal between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans requires 50 million gallons of fresh water"[1]. And it can transit 40 ships per day[2]. So, lifting 2 billion gallons of water, just over 9 billion litres, up to the 26 metres altitude of Gatun Lake.

Wondering how plausible that is, the numbers match very closely to the Dinorwig pumped-storage hydroelectric power plant in the UK[3], which stores ~9.2GWh of energy by pumping 9.2 million cubic metres of water, 9.2 billion litres, up 536 metres to Marchlyn Mawr reservoir. And it takes 7 hours to do that[4].

If the same amount of water has to be lifted only ~5% of the height, assume 5% of the energy, that would be ~450MWh/day for the Panama Canal.

I see it wouldn't be good to dump ocean water into Gatun Lake, but could the lowest locks of freshwater be pumped back up, instead of released into the ocean?

[1] https://ctmirror.org/2023/08/27/the-panama-canal-is-running-...

[2] https://www.marineinsight.com/guidelines/10-important-panama...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dinorwig_Power_Station#

[4] https://www.thegreenage.co.uk/cos/dinorwig-hydroelectric-pla...
Author of the package here. Apologies if this wasn't clear in the documentation, but what you're talking about is absolutely possible. Feel free to join our Discord -- we have other users who have this multi-tenant setup.
CG hipsters have been enjoying Keenan Crane's diagrams long before he made a proper tool for it :)
As I interpret the GP, the person is peacocking or gate-keeping by (humble)bragging about using dynamic programming to solve a problem. For all we know, they Googled for an efficient algorithm and copied the result. I have done it before, and I have no shame about it. If a teammate asks me how I knew about that dynamic programming algorithm, I would reply: "Are you joking? I could never program that myself. Thank you Google." Except for a few algorithms, most are solved using iterative or recursive.
> Getting 70% of the way to a goal has 0 value.

Well, apart from the fun of playing the game?
Duet AI for Developers: AI-assisted application development
My understanding is that when people are talking about search, they are talking about outside of the community/client itself.

I can search Reddit with Google. I can’t search Slack with google. So if you are using it as a repository for information or troubleshooting or what have you, it is completely worthless outside of its use for the people in the actual community/on that client, e.g. slack/discord. Whereas a thread on Reddit, HN, etc. that addresses some issue I am having is discoverable to everybody.

Let me put it to you another way: how many tech problems have you solved by searching Google and finding a Reddit thread, and how many times have you solved one by finding something on a Slack or Discord server you weren’t already a part of?
It's hard to ascertain from this write up, but I don't see anything in the way of acoustic treatment in Ken's listening room.

A common shortcoming I see in the setups of many hi-fi enthusiasts is a lack of attention to the acoustic response of their room. Or if they do appreciate the problem their treatment betrays a profound misunderstanding of how to address it. The room we listen in has a profound effect on how we hear the audio coming from our speakers and it is mostly negative interference.

Treatment like absorptive ceiling clouds, absorptive panels at the early reflection points, and a means of neutralizing low-end room modes are severely under-valued relative to their influence on performance and their ROI.

If you want to hear the influence your room has, use a signal generator like this (https://onlinetonegenerator.com/) to play a steady sine wave at 60 Hz. You'll need speakers low enough to produce them. A higher frequency (100Hz) would suffice if your speakers don't go that low. Now, with that steady tone playing, walk around your room and listen to what happens. It will fluctuate wildly in volume, becoming much louder or nearly disappearing entirely, while only moving by a matter of feet.

Now imagine this phenomena happening at every single audible frequency in your room (low to high).

Getting the acoustic treatment right in your listening space is the single biggest thing that you can do to improve the listening experience; on par with your choice of speakers. And I'll argue that it's not worth investing in high-end speakers until your room is sorted, or else the room will distort your perception far too much for to appreciate much difference.

I won't pick on hi-fi enthusiasts who obsess over choices of wiring, de-coupling, and clean electricity (that's beyond the point), but solving those problems is fighting for gains in inches while your choice to address the room modes and time-domain issues is going to gain you yards in how you perceive records. It must be addressed before anything else.

Source: I manage a high-end studio-design consultancy: https://www.unfckprojects.com/
The speed problem imo is completely fabricated and is an angle to sell you their cloud offering. The mobile web is already unusable thanks to cookie banners, various popups, and ads. Loading spinners are the equivalent of Don Quixote's windmills.