skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, you can use raw block devices in Linux. LMDB works on raw block devices as well. You get write-through cache behavior; writes are immediate but everything still goes into the page cache.

I've not yet bothered to check how things work with raw devices in Windows. I believe only Admins can even operate on them so it would be kind of limited usefulness.
That's true now, but AMD has been making x86 compatible CPUs since the original 8086.
I recall having a conversation with one of the most brilliant people I ever knew in high school. This was the college he wanted to attend. I hadn't heard of it before and later in the conversation referred to it as Palm Springs and could see the frustration on his face. Not the same vibe. He wasn't long for this world, died jogging in Japan and his parents didn't find out a week later until he was already cremated. As they say in Blade Runner: "the light that burns twice as bright burns half as long."
Right, or use a 3D look or colour or backlight effect to indicate when a toggle is active.
I see. Yeah I probably mixed them up. Unfortunately I don't know the panels Wp value or have their specifications on hand at the moment.
I attended Deep Springs 1996/97. The school goes through semi-regular cultural oscillations between "mean" and "nice"; between what we'd now call toxic masculinity, and sort of a peace-and-love hippie friendliness. Students play a large role in admitting the incoming class, and tend to admit people like them, until the culture swings too far in one direction and they start correcting.

It sounds like this guy visited during a "mean" period, which is too bad. I attended during an upswing into a "nice" period, and it felt well balanced. My application interview was one of the most memorable experiences of my life -- I'd never had anyone pay that kind of close attention to anything I'd written, or what I thought. It woke me all the way up, in a sense where I'd gone through most of my teenage years asleep, and was enormously bracing. When they finally let me out, I emerged into the main room, where some guy reading on a sofa looked up and asked, "How was it?" I don't remember exactly what I said, but it communicated something along the lines of "holy shit that was a thrill!". I still suspect he communicated my attitude back to the applications committee and that played a part in getting accepted.

So far as I know, no one during my two years visited the Cottontail Ranch :)
I use basswood, I have family who use it for firewood, so I can get big already dry pieces for free and then I cut them down to workable size with a hand saw.

It's cheaper at my local lumber store than online as well.

I haven't been very adventurous with other woods because of that.

Basswood is light and easy to carve, but it doesn't finish as well as other woods.
I'm afraid I don't know offhand who Hindenburg is, nor even what country he was running in, but:

In the US, due to the winner-take-all, first-past-the-post voting system, if Hindenburg was running against a candidate in the general election who was even one step worse than he was, then yes, I would have voted for him. Even if his platform included kicking puppies and stealing candy from babies. (Because, remember, in this hypothetical, his opponent's platform includes, say, setting fire to puppies and kicking babies.) Any other choice, under the system we have here, is mathematically certain to increase the chance of the candidate I like least winning.

Voting is not saying "I like this person and agree with everything they say." It is saying "I think that, of the two choices on offer, this person is the most likely to move the county/state/country toward the situation I prefer."

It's not about whether the vote makes me happy. It's about whether it makes the world a marginally better place than the realistic alternatives.
Universities, unlike building firms, have actual assets and are unlikely to claim bankruptcy. That means you could easily take the above issues to small claims court as long as you had them in writing (and remember, even a agreement to pay you via email usually suffices - no formal documents or signatures required)
$25K on mine. Lasted four years, although that was mostly my fault.
Software is just fancy math being executed. Math can't or at least shouldn't be patentable e.g. imagine the absurdity that would ensue if you could patent a number not that that hasn't happened (HD DVD encryption). I'm aware every piece of IP or Copyright can be represented with a really big number (a mp4 file is really just a big number) but it's not the number that's the patentable aspect.
It all depends on what do you mean by "fast enough" - the self-correction mechanisms would trigger after the population has shrunk, not when it starts shrinking; and it would apply to the generation after that. Also, we might consider the pressure from housing and jobs as a correction mechanism for overpopulation, so it would likely stabilize somewhere much lower than the peak.

While "everybody knows that they're losing population", South Korea and China haven't even started shrinking (they've stopped growing, and have been at approximately 0 population change for the last few years, it's technically negative but the change is insignificantly tiny) so obviously any self-correction mechanisms wouldn't apply at all yet.

Japan's population reached its peak in 2010 and as of 2016 the shrinking was quite low - so we're talking about just like 7 years of actual shrinking and that's not that much time to cause any socioeconomic changes triggered by population reduction, it would seem reasonable to look at the generation which grows up in a shrinking-population regime to see how it affects them, when they actually have real estate that gets significantly cheaper due to lack of population and scarcity of workers pushing up the bargaining position of labor; Japan's demographics is "leading the world" in this regard, but even they aren't there yet. And they have time to see how it works out - Japan's population is still far above its e.g. 1950 population, and continuing the current population trends it would be as long as 2075 to reach the 1950 level (which isn't bad!) again.
AMD fail to realize software toolchain is what makes nvidia great. AMD thinks the hardware is all that’s needed
This is a tragic comment because 1) TikTok never holds you hostage, you can flip through all videos (including ads) instantly. 2) TikTok content is an order of magnitude better than what makes its way to reels. 3) TikTok's algorithm customizes itself to your interests based on what you watch so effortlessly and quickly.
The story behind the NeuralRad organ and tumor segmentation cloud service
Here is a follow-up media news story on my project of organ and tumor segmentation platform for radiation therapy. The original article is in Chinese at https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/vDzyKIKxuP7jCfmx6FPE4w.

I hope more doctors and physicists learn about NeuralRad, allowing the most advanced radiotherapy AI to benefit more patients and extend the lives of many.

I have decided to open user registration for use. Now, after signing up, you can start using this AI service immediately.

If you don't have the corresponding Dicom data for testing, you can click the Demo button on the platform, which will automatically open a case of a brain tumor MRI.
Dear Hacker News Readers, this is the continuation of my radiology/radiotherapy project which was posted here about two years ago. Thank you!
OK. Do you have any reason to suspect that the people making their calculation didn't take that into account? Of all the things that will vary over time, including the distance between the Earth and Moon, do you really think they'd have missed the fact that the Earth's gravity varies with distance?

If you've got what you think is a more accurate number, and can show your working, I'm sure the wikipedia editors would be willing to take a look at it.
Exactly. How many hand wringing articles have we seen in the past few years about roving bands of shoplifters vs how many about wage theft?
Being a good parent is a hard job and yet if you want to be one, you're expected to pay for it with both your money and your time.

No wonder the middle class people don't want to have kids. The poorest think differently - they treat kids as an investment because that's the only investment they can have at all. The richest also treat kids as investment, for different reasons. The middle class is childless - can't afford to have the best standard of raising children, so they think they shouldn't have any - and they don't.
Not just cousins also, uncles and aunts. With a lot of single child families of today, a lot of children's eventual children will have no uncles and aunts. Alas, such is life.
The value of a destroyed movie is zero.

How is that a lie?
Another silly reason is that unlike ZHA, Z2M doesn't restart everytime you restart HA.
They are trying to compete in the segment of data center market where the shots are called by bean counters calculating FLOPS per dollar.
compiled a quick list of terms to help understand this piece:

MDS - modern data stack

BI - business intelligence

Redshift - amazon redshift data warehouse service product
handles large scale data sets and database migrations
can handle analytic workoads on big data sets with column oriented approach
built on top of massive parallel processing (MPP)
from data warehouse company ParAccel (later acquired by Actian)

ETL - extract, transform, load

ELT - extract, load, transform -- an alternative to ETL that stores raw data

Looker - does BI, started with looker data sciences, acquired by google

Tableau - data visualization focused on business intelligence

clickstream data - user website navigation records

snowflake - an MDS data platform solution

mongo - nosql database

datadog - monitoring, analytics for devops

confluent - real time data streams

databricks - web based cluster management and data lakes for machine learning

meme-ification - reduction of an idea to cartoons

peak - highest point preceeding drop off

fivetran - data ingestion

dbt - dbt labs, data transformation

CDO - chief data officer

co-marketing - integrated marketing such as linked brands

co-sponsored - cooperative sponsorship

co-selling - shared sales assets including data records

ARR - annual recurring revenue

ZIRP - zero interest rate policy

private multiples - private company valuation calculations, metrics

forward revenue - revenue expected in the future

PowerBI - microsoft business analytics
Early blood test to predict dementia is step closer as markers identified
How is life post YC?
In my experience, telnet and FTP were used when accessing external resources; when wandering around the local menagerie of machinery, rsh, rlogin and rcp were predominant.
No. Mitochondrial dysfunction is the root of all diseases.
They do have a "legal" and ethical right federally in the USA (some smaller jurisdictions have stronger rules but that's not typical). But perhaps you mean to argue they shouldn't have a legal right, or don't have a "moral" right. I have worked restaurants and believe that minimum wage should be meted out on a per-hour basis because of the way the current system mis-aligns incentives.

The restaurant owner is encouraged to keep the restaurant open much later than "profitable" hours because the cost of the additional late-night hours is only $2.13/hour per employee. So if even one table comes in during the 11PM to 1AM hours, that breaks even for the business. The business owner benefits from externalizing the true cost of staying open for those hours onto the employees. The workers end up working a lot of no-profit hours.

If they were making $7.25/hr then the incentives would be (more) aligned for them to keep working those hours.

But currently this is NOT a legal requirement. So your statement "they have no legal right to slave wages to survive" drips with hyperbole.
One of the things I was most curious about during our batch was how life was going to be after Demo Day.

I compiled some of the learnings from my own experience (W23) and asked other YC friends from various batches, so you can get a feel of what happens after YC.
I'm not trying to impress jack all. I literally just block quoted the text of the review article most relevant to the point.

I spot checked starting from newer to older the too much copper citations and the third one I checked, "Brewer, 2014", though it itself cites animal studies, was about copper in humans (specifically inorganic copper as a hypothesized problem, versus organic copper which he says is fine). The Brewer paper references "Squitti et al., 2005" which was a study of humans showing elevated copper (of inorganic origin? I didn't read further than the abstract) and a couple of other things in Alzheimer's patients.

So copper from food? Good. Copper from water pipes? Bad. Chelated copper from supplements? I don't know. Maybe further reading would show other results. Again, I just skimmed this.
Last I checked, Lotus did themselves by not innovating, and betting on the wrong horse (OS/2) then not doing well on a pivot to Windows.

Meanwhile Excel was gaining features and winning users with them even before Windows was in play.
@CloduFlare Sell Movie rights to this story to cover legal fees please! That would be so funny.
List is confusing terminology. It's a tree. Sure, any node of a Lisp tree is implemented as a list of branches, but fundamentally we are talking about trees, still.
Wait until it's automated:

https://marshallbrain.com/manna
"Apple holds app providers ransom like the Mafia," claims Matthias Pfau, CEO and cofounder of Tuta, an encrypted email provider. The tech giant treats iPhones as its territory, Pfau complains, tightly controlling developers’ access before taking a chunk of their profits. "Anyone wanting to provide an iOS app must pay a ransom to Apple; there’s no way around it."

What can developers do other than agree to Apple's demands if they want to publish iOS apps?
So, I get that beer samplers are "for tourists," but it is also hard to try a wide variety of beers when on a relatively short trip without them. Also, as someone who also lives in a tourist town, it is much better to herd them all together. Ironically, they end up having more fun because the locals are there to interact with each other, and the tourists are much more likely to inter-mingle.

This is counter to their stated preference, but the actions end up revealing themselves.
Also known as OS/2: Redux strategy.
One thing I didn't see mentioned anywhere apart from the repos readme:

> PyTorch received very little testing. ZLUDA's coverage of cuDNN APIs is very minimal (just enough to run ResNet-50) and realistically you won't get much running.
another reason, namely the reason that I specifically do not use wireless headphones:

due to the nature of wireless communications, real time audio is effectively impossible and as such there is almost always some amount of noticeable latency when performing tasks that rely on real time audio (eg music production). a little of latency is okay sometimes but the amount that wireless devices introduce is typically on the offer of maybe 100-200ms and when you're trying to play a section or some such it makes it damn near impossible to hit a note on the mark you're aiming for.
>Oral contracts are legally enforceable.

I once heard a judge say "An oral contract is worth the paper it is printed on".

It may be enforceable if there is a bunch of corroborating evidence that multiple people were told this and are willing to testify in court to that case. But you'll find, especially in right to work states, getting people to speak against the company is difficult.
> Issuing a license is a form of "using it" in a use it or lose it scenario.

Patent trolls will point to their prior victims as current licensees, proving successful commercialization.
Man Behind Defunct BTC-E Exchange Once Popular with Criminals Faces U.S. Charges
I'm surprised we are still iterating on ideas like this, to be honest. Seems flight decks have been rather successful on complicated dashboards for a long time. Same with boats. Why can we take approximately no lessons from them?
Yeah it's completely invisible if you use a background that's very dark near the top, I haven't thought about the notch in months.
Thanks for the info. I never actually used it and didn't know the details. Its just the only "real" attempt at direct web monetization as an alternative to ads that I've seen. Sad to hear its a crypto thing.
Really interesting read. Thanks for posting. Pretty sad how many people seem to not have enough close friends, but it is understandable the more self isolated and individualistic our culture gets.
Also, the problem with buttons like this is that the shade of grey depends on the angle you're looking at the screen, so you end up moving your head around trying to figure out if it is actually on or off.
Doesn't "mother" work just fine to cover these cases as well? It just sounds like an unnecessary awkward neologism.
Unions are cartels of sellers of labor.

If they're good or bad is another matter.
I think there’s one way this might work. To get hired at the next place they might want you to have experience. So you put your prior employer on the application, the new restaurant checks your references and mysteriously decides to pass on you.
This is what I like to use. Two states with a clear selection of one, all visible at all times.
The investor class makes the most money when there is a new growth area. Ergo, getting more of new growth areas is in their interest, and it makes sense to be putting new echoes into the chamber, maybe some will escape to the wider world. Perhaps AI will be as impactful as splitting the atom, who can tell.
Nah, the main thing is the dependency resolution. So you make pipelines like:

- employees

- tall_employees

- tall_employees_by_salary

These tables (dbt would call them models because they can also be views depending on how they're configured) depend on each other, so you have to build them in a specific order. Without something like this, you're manually running SQL to build your pipelines, and that's very error prone. With something like this you can run tests (they're also SQL in dbt, which is pretty common in data engineering teams), run your pipeline in CI, etc.

There's a bunch of other features, but they all hang off this basic idea.
I question the aesthetic sensibilities of many content creators on those platforms, but the site content itself was sometimes whimsical and entertaining.
Our bookmarks are now the list of open tabs in our browsers. I have over 100 tabs open on my phone. They are saved in storage somewhere, so even if I reboot my phone, the tabs will be there when I pull up the app again.

They're actually better than bookmarks IMO because they save a snapshot of the page, which helps jog the memory better than the Favicon that browser bookmarks usually save.
To be fair, there were patent claims in Oracle vs. Google too. That's why the appeals went through the CAFC rather than the 9th circuit. Those claims were simply thrown out pretty early. Whether that says something about more generally or was simply a set of weak claims intended for venue shopping is a legitimate discussion to be had though.
> economy is basically a fancy word for the system that distributes each human's limited time into the various tasks society needs

That's a bit too idealist a view for me. The economy isn't strictly or even mostly about fulfilling needs of society, but the aggregated demands of those with economic power, both wants and needs. A lot of what we spend effort on is not useful to society and a lot of needs go unmet. Certainly not every wasteful activity can be waved away as investing in our mental health. Some leisure is a net negative there, too. Some spending is destructive, with no upside. We humans are only somewhat-rational actors.
Yet another example where it is tempting to retrofit a modern understanding onto a historical debate. We're tempted to do this because when you're embedded to the modern worldview, it is hard to remember that others were once possible. And it is tempting to believe that history was a straight arrow to modern truths. In fact it was seldom such a straight path.

Kuhn complained about this in The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. When trying to teach the history of science to scientists, you have to work to get them to stop trying to think the "correct" way, so that they can understand the actual historical debate.
Refusing to pay your bills is treated the same for private persons, you just don't call that rent theft. Calling being late with a payment theft doesn't make it theft.

I am very happy that I don't get treated like a criminal just because I forgot to pay a bill, I don't see why companies should be treated differently.
State of the World's Migratory Species
Show HN: Stop building "Agents" and ship LLM-powered chatbots that work
If there's any effect (like frame stuttering) then it will impact the max and 99th percentile latencies. Given that LMDB's latencies are always the tightest of any DB, it still boils down to "even if the effect is real, it's unmeasurable and therefore negligible." http://www.lmdb.tech/bench/memcache/

And of course, none of this is working in a realtime environment, so a couple nanoseconds here or there just doesn't matter.
This is not the same thing as Windows.
MacOS users choose to have those things in the menu bar.

On Windows the notification bar was a dumping ground that you couldn't prevent apps from using.
There is some big logical fallacy going on here... there is a very, very vast space in between, as you are implying, staying 24/7 with your children and letting someone else raise your children for you (grandparents, nanny or whatever).
Only for patents used in standards - where the standard enforces FRAND/RAND/other licensing schemes to insure that 'standards-required' patents are available to all. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reasonable_and_non-discriminat...

This is Qualcomm's big business (and others), getting their patents into standards like 5G and then charging people a fair amount to use it - and they have to license it to everyone, even their arch nemesis. Or you just buy their chips.

For a patent of something you invented, but did not submit to become part of a standards-body, you absolutely can choose not to license it for any amount of money.
> It is somewhat sad, that an immoral, authoritarian, freedom, hating, asshole, such as yourself might have children. I

Already have two. My daughter tells me she wants to have six. That seems ambitious, I'd be happy if she has three.

I guess from your perspective this really is sad. That makes me happier than I already was. If you weren't so sad, maybe you could do something about it. My descendants will tell each other stories and legends of the sad childless people who couldn't be bothered to shape society and create the next generation of people, and how they'd just throw barbless insults at those who did.
It’s more useful for many purposes. You have oddball cities like St Louis where the city is really made up of a ton of small cities and towns—but treating them as separate would be misleading in many contexts.

In our midwestern city, we do live in the city limits proper. But if you drive straight from here to the city center, you’ll pass through at least two other towns before reaching it! There are probably seven or eight tiny to large towns in the same general direction as us, but which are closer to downtown than we are (some are just 5 minutes to downtown by car). And our school district is separate from the rest of the city (and shared by parts of some of those other towns)

Like 30% of the population of our metro area and probably 40% of the money is in another state! And many of them closer to downtown than us.
Slapping a price tag of over $300 on OS/2 didn’t do IBM any favors either.
Do you have an accurate model of what TikTok is though? Does anyone?
De-Risk Software Development the MVP Way
I guess the question is, how much of the world will burn because of it.