skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I mostly agree, but from a devil's advocate position, the downside is the likelihood that you end up reimplementing queue basics like retries, delay/scheduling, and of course, the essential transactional state flips without locking or perf issues.

In my experience, the downside to the queue is losing all the historical statistics/state that you get for free with a database table. You have to instrument all that stuff manually, since most simple queues are designed to be transient once messages are confirmed.

I usually end up with a hybrid: store a copy of the state in the DB (along with all the job data), and essentially use the queue to hand off an ID or something pointing to the DB. You can then run queries against the best-effort state recorded in the DB, but the queue handles all the at-most and schedule/retry logic I don't want to handcraft.
Share some chats. It will be instructive for others and maybe somebody has a solution.
No, but 2010 is - that's where the 16.5B is from.
One thing the article doesn't mention, but which the text visible in the image does, is that Kelvin's pitch glacier was created to demonstrate ideas about how the luminiferous ether worked! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luminiferous_aether

Is John Allen the only scientist to miss out on both a Nobel and an Ig Nobel? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_F._Allen_(physicist)
Totally agree. Just trying to help other people prevent the same thing that happened to me, which was spend time investing in a tool significantly in the design phase (FreeCAD) and then find out the tool just straight up couldn’t meet the requirements I needed it to. So in my case the question is “what open source tools exist that can do XYZ” and the answer is, unfortunately, none of them. So check and make sure XYZ is possible with FreeCAD when you evaluate it and don’t assume like I did that because it’s mentioned in the same breath as something like Fusion360 that they are equivalent enough.

A lot of FOSS tools are often “XYZ is possible but requires 10-30% extra work to achieve”. FreeCAD is not like that in a lot of cases, it’s more like, “XYZ is not possible without rebuilding your model from the ground up, every time”. Which is obviously not something you can do on a product you need to be constantly iterating on. If you’re at home doing a one off to print a piece of your chair that broke that’s totally fine though.

I also love OpenSCAD and its design philosophy and to be frank as a software guy would love if all 3D modelers worked like OpenSCAD. But it also is just far too limiting to do anything professionally like the kind of stuff I mentioned in my parent comment.

I’m always preferring FOSS if I can. FWIW I used KiCAD for the chip design of the product I was working on and it worked beautifully. KiCAD has absolutely come into its own in the last decade or so and is basically a full enough featured alternative that you can select it over its closed source competitors with few qualms. Not so much the case with FreeCAD. Also FWIW KiCAD also uses OCCT under the hood - but an EDA has such fewer requirements of a BRep than a 3D modeler does there is not an issue.
It's certainly better than not doing it, but I wonder how much that helps?

I mean, there's no control sample. It's a single custom-generated response read by a single person. I'd like to know how they derive useful insights from those votes.
Are there any easily-accessible OCR systems that can reliably read cursive?
It was never 1D, they just mean that the river went all the way across the map and the only way to cross was by bridging it.
Just saying, I'm in the UK and I've never heard of a passbook, let alone been advertised one, _let alone_ have one. This doesn't come close to passing the sniff test.
People may not like me saying this, but brain implants like this becoming commonplace effective technology is worth a lot of people dying. Probably half a million deaths at least. (not risk unknowingly)

I think the potential is too high.
Early airplanes killed a lot of people, but it was totally worth it. Same with transoceanic sailing.

Brain implants can let me think pictures and music and feelings directly into/with other people. Lets us record and replay memories, including tastes and smells. (Imagine youtube for fully featured memories). Add cheap no touch, low latency control interfaces and neural hotkeys for common objects and machines. Instantly learn new skills by trading brain volume to internal asics. Instantly solve drug addiction. Im probably only touching on a small portion here.

Brain computer interfaces are a platform for the future in the same way computers as a whole are.
I think from memory it was to do with recursion (ie: stack overflow error) from having a few too many nested `lfor`s

I'll try and find it
How did you conclude points 2 and 3 from this data?
Looks pretty sketchy in https://www.librarything.com/search.php?search=Frank+Howel+E... - no library records, etc.

Ebay tosses up unrelated baseball cards and comics.

Abebooks yields four sketchy hits, e.g. one is "print-on-demand" with a fake pic of a leather binding.
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Read their comment again with a bit more irony :)
IMF: Global Markets Monitor
> Legally, Answer.AI is a company. But in practice, it might hover somewhere between a lab and a normal “profit-maximizing firm” — as was the case with Edison’s lab. The founders seem perfectly content to pursue high-risk projects that might lead to failures or lack of revenue for quite a while. In saying this, I do not mean to imply they are content to light money on fire doing research with no chance of a return. Rather, they hope to fund a body of research projects that ideally have positive ROI in the long term. They are just not overly concerned with short-term revenue creation.

This may be the biggest weakness. One things the greatest R&D labs had was a big cash cow that paid the bills. Bell Labs was funded by AT&T’s massive phone monopoly. PARC was funded by Xerox’ massive business. Lockheed Martin’s Skunkworks were paid by massive DoD contracts.
Right and that can also mean it might be a tough liquidation to find someone with the means and ability.

Tough doesn't mean it can't happen, just that it might be harder than normal to square it away
> it's just not worth it to build a mobile app these days unless your payment flow happens outside of the app

not true at all, 85% of something is better than 100% of nothing. This is coming from someone who hates mobile apps and apple's grip on them
We're trying to fix that at kalshi.com :)
I mean, if you're looking at this in terms of an infrastructure spend as compared to running a new undersea cable to a remote island/village/site, which may cost millions of dollars, this kind of upfront cost actually seems pretty reasonable. I'd love to see comparisons to similar infrastructure projects.
GPT 3.5 will happily write jokes about Jesus of Nazareth but will adamantly refuse to write jokes about the Prophet Mohammad. I can't see why people cannot recognize this technology as a complete abomination that will gravely impact society for the negative. Total and complete political correctness that never wavers and never relents.
It's absolutely intentional, but going to slowly get better even as they drag their feet
> off way back machine.

+1 for practical paranoia!
amid cost of living crisis

Britain ease barriers to housing production to end the cost-of-living crisis: https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/i-will-do-anything-to-en... and housing famine: https://thedeletedscenes.substack.com/p/the-housing-famine
Can you provide a source? That sounds unlikely
> Fast forward to today. Ours came home with a google account in the 5th grade I think. Something I explicitly did not want. They didn't send a permission slip home like they do for everything else either.

Google Workspace accounts, especially those for education[0], have Web & App Activity, as well as Location History, automatically turned off. It's just a tool for schools to get free/cheap email, storage, and classroom tools. For your child under 13 to be able to use it compliant with COPPA[1], your school must have either used some level of blanket consent, or the school didn't bother to actually get the parental consent Google requires.

0: https://edu.google.com/intl/ALL_us/workspace-for-education/e...

1: https://cloud.google.com/security/compliance/coppa
My evergreen system prompt prefix:

"You are a maximally terse assistant with minimal affect."

Works well for the most part.
what is the actual median wage?

living wage is an aspirational goal. it doesnt tell you much about if 100k is a huge step up or down from typical jobs.
Well it’s certainly possible! They certainly are a biased network generally hahaha! :)
Omg this is nonsense. Source: EV owner since 2018
> Unless we make sure that market structures are providing the right incentives in the right way, we shouldn’t be surprised if prediction markets continue to struggle.

This conclusion is incredibly vague. What are "the right incentives in the right way"? Is there anything concrete that the author proposes here?
Didn’t seem to work. “Load failed” when I entered my email address. Then “email rate limit exceeded” when I tried again
I was attacked quite deliberately in another city and was unable to find the source. It was in a high rise, and GSP with Kismet was marginally useful. Precision was not possible.

I was able to stop the rogue attacks with Cisco Meraki. This was extremely beneficial.

Since I moved, I have had to change channels a few times due to interference. The dashboards in the Meraki, are great at visualizing and identifying sources.

I also made it a point to look ridiculous and walk around to meet the neighbors to understand what is not “rogue” and tell them I was having problems. This was to build an inventory and ensure I didn't accidentally jam something thinking it was a rogue attack. I let them know to inform me if they experienced problems.

Clearly someone was sending waves of wireless hackers my way as a poorly defined joke. Despite efforts to get inventory of my surroundings, there are still a ton of unknown devices in the area I cannot identify with precision, and the area is not highly populated. No one knows how many access points and devices they are running any more for smart lights, cams etc.

Finding the source as far as I can tell may be more feasible here w GPS receiver - yet I have not had a need.
My cynical observation here is that betting odds[1] aren't looking great for the incumbent. The author, Jeremiah Johnson, is the founder of a Washington NGO for the center-left [2] and probably has some skin in the game in keeping the status-quo in the White House come November.

[1] www.electionbettingodds.com

[2] www.cnliberalism.org
I think most people consider it apocryphal - as is so often the way with these things. Its rhetorical force certainly doesn’t depend on intimate historical knowledge of competing political ideologies.
I am not any kind of lawyer, including not being an intellectual property lawyer.

In my view, ignoring all the froth due to fools thinking NFTs are a get-rich-quick scheme that might actually work, it is all governed by the usual copyright, trademark and contract laws and what matters is what a court is likely to decide when someone sues.

Suppose a case goes to court to decide who own the copyright on an MS-paint badly drawn cat. Party A says they bought it from scam-see dotcom and they have an emailed receipt and payment record. Party A says they never sold it. They can subpoena records from scam-see

Party B says that they bought the NFT from a Russian hacker on IRC, they have a secret magic number that they could use to add an entry to blockchain. Party B says that means they own the copyright.

The judge is going to ask Party B if they have a signed contract.

The judge is going to ask Party B if they can point to the section in copyright law that says knowing a magic number means you own the copyright of an image.

In my view, the judge will rule that party A owns the copyright.

At that point all the blockchain bullshit falls apart.

If someone wants to sell the copyright on a badly drawn picture of a cat outside of a 'crypto market' then they can write a contract on a piece of paper and have both party's sign it, perhaps getting a notary to stamp it and getting someone to witness the signing.

In my opinion, that is likely to be more expedient then hoping you can convince a judge that whoever has the newest secret magic number owns the copyright.
The precise location of the wreckage nonwithstanding, the fate is pretty clear. Several pieces of MH370 have been discovered washed up along the coast of Africa and Madagascar over the past few years.
Using JSON mode with the GPT 3.5/4 API works well for us. So much so that we have to intentionally fake errors to test that our retries/fallbacks actually work in our code.
pulling a US ton of hay with a smaller used car isn't going to be fun. That car's transmission is going to get wiped out.
Or thinking quietly in your head, 'thinking out loud' in your head, and actually vocalizing out loud.

This is (partly?) learned behavior. Children under the age of 5-6 will have audible self-directed speech, but eventually they learn to mute this and remove vocalization altogether.
The most open information is about poker. See the forums. Many of the concepts there apply to other sports. The idea that you don’t know if you are any good
until you played 10000 hands etc. Trying to make money off lots of little edges. In a sport you probably need to model every game very well, use AI/ML (mostly linear regression though). Honestly it is boring frustrating work IMO.
Is Blogging Effective? Apparently, yes, by some metrics
What I would do on MacOS is send the browser audio to blackhole and then run it thru ableton before sending it to the speakers so you could record and playback any sections you like
I'd like to think so, give how long I've been at it! (https://jakeseliger.com if curious)
Amazing. He was 25 and had just passed his state exam when he did that. Seems like it caused him some strife in his career for a while.
the problem is, unless you buy a southern truck, the frames are pretty much done for... rotted thru.
> This is something that's only viable for pocket areas in remote locations though, particularly islands.

Sounds like it would be suitable for military bases and isolated infrastructure (like power plants).
> so far I have not seen anything else that is unique to them.

The integrated assembly workbench isn't yet 100% merged to the main FreeCAD development branch, nor are some of the new Sketcher tools.
Ads don't make much and forums can be a bit of a pain, so the owner is likely just trying to recoup something for the historic hassles. If monetisation is not ads, it's subscriptions and a site owner can be reluctant to foist costs on regular users (who've contributed a lot of content).

Their reluctance to fix issues could be lack of time or wariness of breaking something and creating more work. The reluctance to sell could be because they don't know how to price it and don't want to regret selling it. In many instances, a web property is something you've dreamed of making bigger and you'd hate to give it up only to watch someone else take it further.

Scraping might just invite a legal hassle. I gather that this is the not the route you're interested in, but personally I'd suggest trying to find a casual way to trade messages with the owner, find out their pain points and go from there. There would likely be a path where they can maintain some control but get help and relinquish the stranglehold.
I am against government regulation of websites and classification of websites. If we allow government to do this, it will be politicized at some point.

We need to find a better way, for example (just a quick idea), social websites run and protected by a school-by-school basis. This way, it can be regulated and controlled.

In other words, government should regulate what they already have control over, not impose new control measures over things they don't.
What is "social media", and how much are they actually banning communications, speech, association, organizing, political activity, etc. by young people?

Plus a backdoor way to promote surveillance tracking to communications for everyone, by the likely mechanisms to be used in practice for excluding those under 16.
So many discrete optimization problems can be translated into linear programs. It's a really powerful set of tools to know, kind of like SAT solvers.
Wealthy, politically connected men with the ability to read and write about political philosophy and get it distributed is a bit different situation than a thousand Russian AI trollbots posting bad-faith "opinions" on American current events.
We've started using message queues to decouple legacy code from new code in order to migrate from one platform to another. I modelled our implementation after AMQP so we could trivially switch to either RabbitMQ, Azure Service Bus or similar down the line.

However one thing that seems missing from the standard is retry policies. Sure you could just abandon the message and rely on the timeout, but I'd prefer an exponential backoff in case some external service is down for an extended period to avoid things bogging down.

Are there some standard ways I've missed, or do folks rely on proprietary extensions or extra services for this?
Nice stats but people want housing condition to improve not degenerate to other countries lows. Should we thank our western overlords for sparing us from those conditions? No.
2015 was the earliest date my source used for detailed data. Keep in mind that the pre-austerity "16.5B" figure I gave was for 2010 instead - which is before the funding cuts. I should've probably made that more explicit, yeah, shame I can't edit it anymore.

I can't find the figures for 2009 (this is most likely due to significant changes in the funding structure in 2015, see [1]), but according to [0] the number of police officers was about the same in 2010 as in 2009 - so the austerity cuts clearly only hit in 2011.

Also, my numbers are for England & Wales - because that's what was easily available. I'm not sure where you numbers come from, but they definitely don't match up with the England & Wales ones the UK government provide.

[0]: https://ifs.org.uk/sites/default/files/output_url_files/bn20...

[1]: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/...
This isn’t that unusual. Google has both their own search app on iOS and also partners to be the default in Safari, Firefox etc.
going the other direction, in https://hyperscript.org, we decided colored functions are bad, and so, as much as possible, made the runtime responsible for resolving Promises:

https://hyperscript.org/docs/#async

this does a reasonable job of doing away w/ the sync/async distinction. The theory here is that, as someone doing light web scripting, that's something I shouldn't have to worry about.

it makes for some neat event-driven control flow w/in the imperative structure of the language:

https://hyperscript.org/docs/#async_loops
This is just a standard unsubscribe header. It's added by the sender specifically for this purpose and has nothing to do with the UI you see. Not everything is AI, but it being the default assumption is funny to me.
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You can also generate warc natively in iOS!

On a website, tap the share sheet icon, at the top of the tray tap “options”, and finally “web archive”. From there you can save/send/copy the file to your desired location.
My understanding is France has a history of ignoring risks, including intentional spread of HIV to patients:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contaminated_blood_scandal_in_...
Enough people do this and they won't go the extra mile anymore, I suppose.
social media replaced the old internet. this is like banning kids from the internet. Talk about pulling the ladder up behind yourself
I grinded online poker games for a summer in college. I observed opponents betting behavior and classified them into one of a half dozen strategies and then ran a strict algorithm based on who I was betting against. I ran three tables at the same time, finding success in rapid low stake games. My edge at the time was varying my play based on my opponent. Many of the other professional low stake players at the time were running simpler strategies on more tables.
If the manager burns the store down, wouldn't his KPI plummet and he get the boot eventually?
I can't answer all your questions, because I don't actually work on helios, but I do have an answer to some of them:

> Do Oxide folks run illlmos workstations or is this all developed in Virtual machines or SSHed to servers?

I wrote about this topic here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39181727

That said, some folks certainly run illumos on a workstation.

> Why MPL? GPL compatibility?

On MPL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39181844

That said in that comment I didn't really speak to the "why." We feel like it's a good compromise in the possibility space: more copyleft than BSD, but also less restrictive than the GPL.
Check out "Ticker" about artificial hearts too...
I think the legislators who thought this was a great idea should be required to trial the technology. If their car suddenly brakes on the freeway, causing a massive crash, they should be personally liable and also charged with reckless driving or worse.
They are, but not really that much. Automakers frequently run harnesses with unused wires for lower trims because the expense to inventory multiple parts is more than the wire costs. So it isn't so expensive that they don't waste some wire. On many models there's already a harness run to the front of the roof for other reasons, (garage door opener, compass, safety systems, dome lights, map lights, visor lights, mirror dimmer, microphone) so the labor and assembly costs are mostly already happening anyway. We're talking tens of pennies or single digit dollars of additional cost in material at most.

If we pick a popular vehicle with this feature, a 2010 F150, there's a 16 pin connector there, with 12 wires populated. 2 are for the camera.

Does it cost more than running 10 wires there? Yes. Was it so much that Ford didn't actually ship the car that way? No.

https://www.f150forum.com/attachments/f38/470443d1489862009-...
I should assume if I install this it will siphon away the very essence of my being then?

Over and above what HN already sucks out from my life
Timothy Snyder calls this dream that people are in the Politics of inevitability. The politics of inevitability is a rough awakening for believers of any ideology.

These are all things you will find people believing in the wild: Good outcomes for yourself is an inevitable consequence of a free market. Equitable outcomes are an inevitable consequence of liberal policies. Peace is an inevitable consequence of trade. Democracy is an inevitable consequence of being an American. Morality is an inevitable consequence of being a christian. Democracy and Liberalization are an inevitable consequence of capitalism. Rule of Law is an inevitable consequence of having a constitution. Freedom is an inevitable consequence of gun ownership.

You can pick your ideology/identity, and there is a good chance that there is a belief of an inevitable outcome of it, an outcome determined primarily by following the ideology, not doing the actions required by it.

People are waking up to the idea that outcomes are a result of actions, not beliefs. Democracy is not a belief you have, its a set of actions you perform. Democracy is not something you are, it is something you do.

You can only be a libertarian (the ideology, not the identity) until you understand the collective action problem (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collective_action_problem).
The last court case was 2004, and the New York anti-mask was upheld.

You don’t have to pontificate. The link was right there.