skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Why you, personally, should want a larger human population

Same reasons they had 50 years ago, and since then the population has exceeded some of their expectations numerically.

And proven those reasons false, conclusively over the long term.

Not like there's any question any more.
In Prague or Budapest about '88 - hazy now as we were moving about a
lot - before the wall came down, but the "thaw" had started. McDonalds
just opened a restaurant, first in the city. Anyway there we were
looking at this enormous queue... the biggest damn queue I ever saw,
It went round the block, and the next block... like how people camp
out for black Friday but thousands and thousands of people. Each
burger was the equivalent of a few weeks wages. But nothing could stop
them, all hungry for a bite of "freedom".
Don't forget to invest heavily in Swimming!
I don't think we will discover that. Fructose is pretty benign chemically (though it can be inflammatory as fructans). Instead, I think we'll find some kind of food additive or chemical is causing autoimmune issues that create a whole host of secondary effects like hypothyroidism, CFS, and cravings/obesity that potentially link to T2 diabetes.
Ask HN: How does Cassandra achieve strong consistency if there is no rollback?
Confused on how Cassandra is strongly consistent in the following scenario

Write of key1, value1 is requested with consistency level of QUORUM but only N replica responded success where N < QUORUM

What happen to those N nodes that just updated key1? Do they get rollback?

In cassandra documentation
https://docs.datastax.com/en/cassandra-oss/3.0/cassandra/dml/dmlTransactionsDiffer.html

> if using a write consistency level of QUORUM with a replication factor of 3, Cassandra will replicate the write to all nodes in the cluster and wait for acknowledgement from two nodes. If the write fails on one of the nodes but succeeds on the other, Cassandra reports a failure to replicate the write on that node. However, the replicated write that succeeds on the other node is not automatically rolled back.

It mentions if some write failed and did not satisfied consistency level, coordinator will return failure, but the data will persist on nodes that have write succeeded

But this means strong consistency can never be achieved even if R + W > number of replica as official. documentation suggested

https://docs.datastax.com/en/cassandra-oss/3.0/cassandra/dml/dmlAboutDataConsistency.html

Consider the following situation

replica number = 5
consistency level write = 3
consistency level read = 3

If a write is attempted , but one nodes succeeds , coordinator will return failure, but that one node will not rollback, so you need a consistency level of 5 in order to achieve strong consistency

The documentation has conflicting information

What am I getting wrong here?
Abstract doesn't answer my question.

What is the scientific contribution of the paper?

They trained transformer on pairs of <sokoban_level, A*_optimal_solution>.
I believe Netlify CMS has an actual backend interfacing with the various Git systems they supported. Pages CMS is different in that it's a pure front-end app. I have a couple tiny serverless functions to help authenticate you with GitHub, but then after that there is no backend involved. That means I need some API for the front-end to interact with, at least for now.
https://archive.ph/QKQXc
Git Tips 3: Really Large Repositories
Funny, I look around and see people every day in terrible condition who have been consuming oodles of fructose their whole life.
You’ll love the http://www.unnecessaryquotes.com
I don’t think that’s true. People with normal endocrine response (not diabetic or otherwise impaired) don’t see significant movement in blood glucose. It would very likely be “in the noise” as far as the light based sensors go.
And that’s due to a magically bad meme ingredient rather than the explosion of calorie dense foods and norms in the food supply?
Jehovah's witnesses is another vile scam that hugely spoiled the image of the West in the eyes of the people who just broke free from the Soviet occupation. I don't understand how such evil and disgusting cult is allowed to exist. If a person would hide a list of thousands of child molesters or would endorse killing children by giving fake medical advice to their parents, they would be put straight to jail. How are cults allowed to do the same without any repercussions?
> You make money as an American and you are like a God to these Europeans, their luxuries are trifles.

Actually, you would just be seen as arrogant. At best.
If you have a direct way through the private land, maybe even fenced to both sides if you feel threatened - then this would not be a issue here.

But irresponsible people are a general problem. Often it is just mere ignorance, though. Many people simply do not know for example how to .. go to the toilet in a forest. Even when you do not have a shovel with you, with a wooden stick or stone, one can make a hole deep enough to cover all of your buisness. And suddenly all the trees next to the major walking paths would not be covered in shit and toilet paper anymore. And that you do not drop your garbage wherever you stand, is a deep rooted sociological problem. One for me starting with the stupid smoking ad campaigns, where the cool cowboy flicks away his cigarette. And where it lands, the plastic will remain.
Except it’s more like a buyers agent or a doula. Someone that’s navigated the process many times to assist on behalf of a buyer. Upfront payment no commission or kickback could even put that in the contract.

I do think these people exist I’ve seen them advertise services in specialty car forums but it’s very niche.
> Have low-end UPS units gone lithium iron phosphate yet?

no, and afaik it's a cost thing. the unit you link is "request for quote" and being a rackmount unit it's probably not what consumers would think of as inexpensive.

I have three of the classic fire-hazard cyberpower 1500PFCLCD and each of them has a pair of small sealed lead-acid (SLA) batteries that cost maybe $30-40 each to replace. If you assume that the OEM gets them for $20 apiece, how much LiFePO4 battery does that buy? I know the big industrial cells are cheaper than what you can get as small individual cells, but I'm positive it's still going to be 4-10x more expensive.

now remember that's a unit that retails for $135-150, and there are like 3-4 tiers of units below that... how much LiFePO4 can you buy for $10 to put into that $50 UPS?

(fake edit I looked one of them up from the datasheet and it's $700 for the lowest-tier 1000VA unit lol)
Cats like boxes.
Whether a bank deposit or an unsecured creditor, you don't get screwed if you're a foreigner (unless there's a foreign subsidiary, then figuring out who gets what gets complicated and can drag on for years).

Canada's Nortel went bankrupt in 2009, and they only got a ruling on the apportionments between the creditors of the different subsidiaries in 2015:

https://financialpost.com/legal-post/nortel-bankruptcy-judge...

Along with more fights between them over other funds in 2016 and 2017

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-04-05/nortel-ba...

https://www.hugheshubbard.com/news/firm-assists-nortel-in-se...

The accountants/lawyers end up doing well and can suck a lot dry.
While I would agree in general, I once slipped on one of those overly steep carved-out kerbs in SF and broke my elbow... I guess if you hit a bad spot you might need a wheelchair afterwards (ok, but it really did hurt!)

So you have to do it right to keep the potential harm as low as possible and not forget about security in the face of rewarding improvements. And watch your step, of course.

Might also be applicable in the context of self-learning household robots and their potential to burn down that house :)
Great, now we can teach robots to wander around rooms looking for things, saying "keys, keys, keys... where would I put keys?"
Facial recognition error message on vending machine sparks concern at university - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39476304 - Feb 2024 (133 comments)
> Maybe it's because there is an assumption priced in that interest rates will go down again?

Yes, exactly this. The 1-year treasury pays 5%, so it's appropriate to look at that instead.

Normally the 10-year pays more than the 1-year, so it's safe to look at that; we're currently in an unusual state (an "inverted yield curve") where it doesn't, and people tell you this is a surefire sign of a coming recession.
The 2D Vector fields one crashed on me
>Wait, why are people not allowed to change their mind on something

I don't think parent comment is suggesting that people aren't allowed to change their mind.

They are pointing out that many people yell "hypocrite!" when someone does change their mind. It's already a phenomenon on social media where people will dig through someone's post history and drag them through the coals, using previous stances on a topic in an attempt to discredit the current stance. Parent is suggesting that this problem would be exacerbated.
Do you not like the program?

func main() {
fmt.Println("rex ")
}
Those gordian knots also keep the government from just steamrolling over your house and land in the time period of a few hours. Pros and Cons
I basically agree but I also think one should be careful with this line of reasoning. The vast majority of nonsense in these cases stem from environmental law and a small minority of those cases are actually legitimate.
I would think you could add a cookie with JS. Then you know JS is being used. So, that does seem viable.
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

> Eschew flamebait

lets not get ruffled feathers over capitalization of a word that is common practice in most professional published writing.
Compressed data is like a backup. It's not valid until it's tested.
https://archive.md/l80A2
I applied for a credit card recently and got denied, which was weird since I have a good credit score. Applied for a different one, they eventually emailed and asked if I still wanted the card. When I said I did, they told me they needed me to unfreeze one of my credit reports. I had forgotten I did it years ago. Oops. I eventually got a snail mail from the first credit card company telling me that was why it was denied and to unfreeze it if I still wanted the card.
I use Joplin/Typora and text only and I play detective few hours before I even have a clue what on earth is even going on. We run like 7 or so docker containers and the code is undocumented. So it's basically like descending into those maze like underground tunnels.

Keep in mind I'm juniorish so others may have much better ideas about this.
EDIT: Deleted for copyright violation
Some revered novelists spend all day to write a single page and others are able to get in a flow and produce a chapter in that same time.

Without getting into touchy questions of quality and talent and the whole 10x trope, there are a lot of working engineers out there that produce code a lot more slowly than others and that work on more common problems than others. My sense is copilot-like products provide the biggest boon to those people and are a lot harder for people who are more naturally prolific or who work on more esoteric things.
Quantum superposition
Tina CMS is not only for React websites. It runs well with SSGs such as Hugo, Astro, Gatsby, Jekyll, Remix, 11ty: https://tina.io/docs/frameworks/other/
Moving money in/out of places which are hostile to USA. Paying assets in hostile locales.
It was still way better than Soviet occupation. But I get it, it was hugely disappointing.
There's a persistent rather large minority that has a nuanced take: it can't write code they like (don't want to edit), but it's great for weekend projects (where they're trying new things without established personal preferences).

Forest for the trees if you ask me, but, to each their own.
Works on my machine.
Alternative link: https://github.com/duxiaodan/intrinsic-lora
A former Gizmodo writer changed name to 'Slackbot', stayed undetected for months
Don’t put heavy metals in roads. Roads are continuously broken down by traffic and freeze/thaw cycles. The dust from this process then gets carried into rivers and streams by rain as stormwater runoff.

People previously had the idea of using ground up post-consumer plastic pellets as filler in roads. Now that stuff is finding its way into the waterways by the above process.
> You're not just saying that because the word happens to end in "butt" are you?

They're saying precisely that and they're 100% right, and it seems you're missing a lot of things.

It's a social network. Its only value is in it having people using it and coming back.

Just try and imagine any person in your IRL circles (who's not on HN) actually using a social network with butt in its name. I seriously can't believe you see no issue there whatsoever. A teenager. A young artist. A YouTuber. "Follow me on TikTok, Instagram, Scuttlebutt and Poopypants". I dare you to find a creator willing to say these words.

Or if you just hang out with smart, like-minded tech-savvy middle-ages people who see past these things, then great, we have a new "social network" for smart, like-minded tech-savvy middle-aged people.
s/thinks/decides/
I have an Eaton 5P1150i that was about half that. It has plenty of capacity to run my NAS, webserver, router, switch and one access point for about half an hour. IIRC I paid around €450 for it.
FYI, 20 NZD is 12 USD.
Who is “introducing urban security issues to rural communities“?
Also try Tina CMS or ProcessWire.
This looks really cool, but I immediately think of the possibility of it starting a fire, and thinking everything's fine
Intuitive Machines: Odysseus Moon lander 'tipped over on touchdown'
Yeah and really for most people that risk with those FDIC insured banks is effectively zero so backstopped by the fed anyway.
100% agree on the incentives

Similar to why cookie accept/deny interfaces are atrocious. They're intended to be!

I think a solution will require more creativity than "have the government do it", but the current system is clearly broken.
> But the premise is too far fetched for adult me to allow for....

This is all 1970s SciFi viewing. Silent Running was closer. Logan's Run wasn't. And then there's Ark III...
>This is a pre-primed anger toward the customer.

It is just supply and demand. The price for evening/weekend/overnight labor was only low due to do high supply of labor relative to demand.
5g is way more than a few joints.

I smoke weed frequently (daily user).

I go through 5g in maybe two weeks.
It's more achievable in a small single-story apartment, or better yet, a car. I can really feel the difference without looking at the number. There's also what you said about the trigger points, but it's still a good reason to have precision on a thermostat. I felt like it was slightly too cold yesterday, so I moved the thermostat up 1˚F and it felt warm enough.

And I'm not a scientist, but in science classes we were only using Kelvin, not Celsius. C and F aren't useful for proportions because 0 isn't 0. Even Rankine would be fine, just use different constants.
> The ones who do not embrace AI assistants in the near future will have a hard time in the future.

The exact opposite will be true and the funny (sad?) part is that they will lack the skills necessary (because they got lazy and over-trusted the AI) to fix mistakes/incompatible solutions.
Ask HN: What cool projects did you build with serverless workers?
I finally managed to learn how to use Cloudflare's workers but still not sure what to use them for.

I have this feeling that this is a really cool tech that has a great potential automating stuff, but I can't figure out.

What are some cool projects did you build on top of them?
It's a diffusion transformer architecture, so no it doesn't piece together pieces of video. If you're familiar with denoising algorithms, the diffusion algorithm is essentially a semantically guided denoising algorithm. If you feed it pure noise so the only information it has is the semantic guiding, it will generate a video from that noise directly. I'm not sure exactly how the transformer part of the algorithm contributes, but my guess is that it's giving the denoiser the ability to not just look at adjacent pixels in 2D space, but across time through the attention mechanism. That's just a guess, though.
I thought you were thinking about getting into the music industry, so I was going to offer up the quote from Hunter S Thompson :/

Might still be pertinent.

“The music business is a cruel and shallow money trench, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free, and good men die like dogs. There's also a negative side.”

― Hunter S. Thompson
That is more consistent with RTFM: read the f-ing manual, which I assume came before RTFA.
This is pretty remarkable. So these really do learn humanly interpretable representations and not only doing some magic in the billion dimensional hyperplane that we can't hope of deciphering.
And then if your identifiers somehow get in the hands of bad actors and the bank gets fooled by them to open a bank account in your name, you are the one on the hook. It's utter insanity!
That's a heuristic that's usually true. You can definitely understand convolution or attention better with a "big scary math symbols are just for-loops" explanation, but there are also things like dopri45 or elliptic curve crypto where we just have to accept that Weird Math Shit is happening and the symbols are inevitable. It looks to me like mamba has dragged a part of llm research into the latter camp.
Sure, I took Econ 101 too. But the problem is that that's 101. Once you get to a more advanced level you find more complexity. It is completely possible to generate demand. In some sense this should be obvious as there was no demand for smartphones 50 years ago. You might say some of the ideas were there and thus that's demand, so that could be fair. But certainly not if we go back 500 where even many of these concepts did not exist and the demand would be for easier communication, a much more abstract idea. I mean in Econ 101 you learn about the Efficient Market Hypothesis too, but no economist actually believes it to be true.

With drugs I think this is a bit more apparent because there is addiction. It is well known that a common strategy is getting users hooked. Either by offering some initially for free or at a reduced price, or by increasing the addictive qualities of the product. In fact, we even see similar phenomena in the white market. Starbucks coffee has about twice as much caffeine as a standard cup[0] and this certainly creates a higher demand for their coffee. But I don't think many are aware of this.

Also consider there are different ways of "legal." Some places have "decriminalized" drugs, which would be in line with this idea. For example, the state of Oregon in the US did this. Many people portray this as legality, but it isn't. If you are found with drugs there they will still be confiscated AND you pay a $100 fine and the court will give you information about addiction treatment centers. So not really legal, but not a major criminal offense. That seems like a fair way to put pressure towards manufacturing and distribution if you don't want to just legalize possession (which would always be limited in quantities).

I also just don't buy your analogy in any way. We reduce things that have demand all the time through market regulations. Anything that is illegal to sell or produce is something that there is demand for somewhere. There's a HUGE demand for slave labor, but we've regulated that away (demand is for cheap labor, and slave labor is towards the cheapest one can get if not THE cheapest). The reason to go after manufacturers and distributors is because network effects. When you cut off a dealer you cut off all the people who got their drugs through them. Of course another dealer can take their place, but the effect is still real and far more disruptive than going after tree nodes. You are cutting off branches and the new dealer is like trying to reorganize those orphaned nodes. It's harder. The manufacturers are nodes much closer to the root and so have much greater disruption downstream. You're right that there are orphaned nodes, but it isn't uncommon for people to get off drugs after their supply runs dry. You've essentially forced them.

TLDR: focus on the choke points in a network.

[0] https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/five-myths-about-caf...
This would also neatly explain why the Satoshi coins have not moved.
The condescension in your post is a good example of why someone might turn to "populism."

A lot of people have lost trust in those experts and people who claim to know what's good for other people. They also don't appreciate being talked down to.
I use frequently as well, you must roll shorties. (Non-infused) pre rolls are typically sold with 1g each for reference.
> Infinitely more apps have been developed in Xcode than Jetbrains IDEs and Visual Studio combined. Now and historically.

Maybe because xcode has been the only sensible choice since forever due to apple's imposed limitations?

That's like saying webkit is the best browser engine since it's the most used one on iPhones.

This line of reasoning, if one can call it that, is laughable.
Every time that I or a friend has ended up in an even mildly not-everyday financial situation there was IMMEDIATELY a scam waiting there.

Trading in a car? Last-minute they discount the trade-in value due to damage and hope you won't realize that's already counted in the KBB value.

Car's making a weird noise? The mechanic wants to replace your struts for 1800$ even though the sound is just from the brakes being worn down.

Inherited money in a trust? The trust manager calls you to "discuss your plans" and get you to let them manage the money without your ever seeing it.

Miss paying taxes in a state because you thought you didn't owe them anything because you didn't actually live there? I'm still getting fake letters that try to scare me into calling them even though the bill was cleared up. years ago.

That's just off the top of my head. I swear sometimes it seems like this whole country is build on scams. It's fucking depressing.
Undefined Behavior in C and C++
Not the first discussion of this topic, by any means. In this case, I've tried to boil it down to the essential points a practical programmer needs to know, but the article still ended up longer than I initially aimed for.
> Some customers. But then this leads to the problem: If you accept credit cards in order to satisfy those customers, other customers will use them in order to get the cash back.

Which is fine, you can offer discounts based on payment method, like at a gas station. I still pay credit.

> It is. They often cut off lawful businesses because they have disfavorable PR associations or political views, and sometimes apparently random people for undisclosed reasons.

That's not AML/KYC/CTF. That's freedom of association. KYC is a legal compliance matter. That's why I suggested a 'payment network neutrality' bill that required these systemically important networks process all lawful payments - or the introduction of a state-run network.

> This is a loan. Naturally the customer is then paying interest. A credit card is nominally a form of credit too, but the fees are still charged to the merchant even when the buyer immediately pays off the card in full.

A credit card is an interest-free loan for 1 billing cycle followed by the regular APR. Part of the interchange pays for the first billing cycle where you are not charged your APR. They don't return any of that 4% BNPL fee if you pay it off early either do they?

> You like that you can issue a chargeback, but so can a scammer in order to rip off the merchant, and then merchants have to cover the cost of getting ripped off.

Still works out better for the merchant than not taking card. That's just the reality. If it weren't then they wouldn't accept cards.
that is incredibly interesting, thank you!