skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We mostly chose to travel by car to cover more ground. Some places were very peaceful (Dire Dawa, Bale…), but it only took us one day out of Addis before deciding to play "spot an AK-47" (a franchise based on our "spot a bunker" game in Albania). The only place outside the capital were we counted only one total was Lalibela, despite staying two and half days. We would easily see a dozen AK-47s every single day, plus an uncountable number of rifles from the 1930s and 1940s. Afar was not an outlier in that regard, despite pretty chill overall. Tigray I also liked and we had only positive interactions there, especially in and around Axum. I also wanted to mention that I hold nothing against Tigrayan militias, especially given what unfolded a few months later. Militias did not marginal by any means in Tigray, though we may simply have chanced upon some kind of operation to see as many as we did. They didn't seem particularly hateful or prejudiced against us in any case and we never got to talk with any due to the language barrier. Even the Oromo militias that arrested us were okay to be honest. Bigotry and supremacist thinking was something that I found mostly among Amharas from the capital capable of expressing themselves in English and the profound spite and mob-like violence was mostly an Oromia thing. We got our cheap and battered 4x4 stoned four times in Oromia villages for instance. It was so weird going from a place where we would get thrown rocks at to the very next where kids would be curious and nice, play football with them or letting them play with our camera, drinking tella or sharing qat with adults, etc.

Returning to the Afar, the story about tourists being gunned down was told to me by an embassy source, but it may have been unrelated, older than stated, or even plain false (the seeds of doubt are now sown in my mind!). The whole thing being at least in part a mafia protection racket was something I was told by the folk who set it up for us, however, and something that felt realistic at the time given that we were targeted for random things like trying to cross a government bridge without also paying for the barge that it replaced. I actually tend to believe that there would be more attacks if insecurity were the cause. Clearly, few travellers would go up to Dallol and then cheap out by refusing to pay 50 or 100 bucks for protection, especially seeing all those weapons around them.
Unless it doesn't.

There is a fairly large gas station near me that doesn't have a silence button. It's a big-name, corpo-owned station (Speedway, now owned by 7-11).

No amount of button-mashing will cause it to cease.

It belts out loud advertising noise 24/7, from both sides of each pump (whether in-use or not). And because they're all apparently IP-connected, and no real attempt was made at synchronizing them, they're all free-running and slightly out-of-sync with eachother.

The result is an overwhelming cacophony that resembles a PA system that sounds like it was designed by an inebriated squirrel, and with system-tuning performed by a sadist with a grudge against humanity.

Previously (for decades), I went there frequently because it was convenient.

Today, they don't get any more of my money regardless of convenience.
The photos are gorgeous. The first one, of the motor disassembly area, has a bridge crane (labeled M-23) with a 1-ton capacity?? I didn't realize bridge cranes that size went that low.
How to be a good listener
Since some time I was noticing that my Olive oil for cooking was "sticky" and when frying stuff sticks more to my pans.

I switched to this: https://theflowerfarm.nl/ (oh, it's Dutch only apparently.) Anyway, it's good stuff, palm oil free, plant based, and fries very will in my metal pans, much less sticky.

I was wondering, I noticed that my Olive oil is "processed oil" now, I swear it was just pure olive oil in the past. Could this be it, fake low quality oil?
I feel it would be difficult to make guitars with bamboo. Love to see one if they do thought.
Saved You A Click: The Apple Sports app primarily focuses on displaying scores and betting odds, lacking features like news, highlights, and schedules, leading to speculation that it might be transitioning into a betting app.
Just a few snippets that use language typically used by those on the further left with a bit of an agenda. I am kind of center-left myself, so I agree with some of the sentiment, but I tend to think that a lot of the issues they ascribe to purposeful, scheming evil actors are often just defects in how our society works on a macro scale.

- "AI is used to disproportionately benefit the privileged while worsening inequality"

- "the goal is to increase corporate and government revenues by denying poor people resources"

- “It is a pattern throughout history that surveillance is used against those considered ‘less than’, against the poor man, the person of color, the immigrant, the heretic. It is used to try to stop marginalized people from achieving power.”

- The same pattern is found in the role of technology in decision systems.

- "The goal of many automated decision systems is to increase revenues for governments and private companies"

- "here is already a clear pattern in which AI is used to centralize power and harm the marginalized."
> Implied volatility is really the standard deviation of the price over time.

Maybe you mean that “implied volatility is really the implied standard deviation of the price over time”.
Thank you for the post. One question: do you think that ClickHouse is a good database for solving this problem? ClickHouse does not guarantee ACID properties like isolation or consistency at levels above input blocks. It also uses eventually consistent replication between table replicas. So it's quite possible the same query may return different results depending on which server it runs.

I work on ClickHouse and am a big fan. That said, this consistency issue has arisen from time to time in customer cases when dealing with financial data. I'm curious if you have seen it in this case.
The second book is actually actionable, according to coauthors.
What do you mean? Even when those were created there were better ideas. Rust, Java, Javascript, Windows, Android, etc all are better ideas than C and UNIX.
This is the first time I've seen the correction go the other way.
Thanks, good to have for emergencies although it looks like they're all flavors and don't have it plain.
AI ownership most likely. Preventing LLMs from using it’s code in an output and not putting it in the ‘safe to spew’ bucket.
If you are looking at the .Net ecosystem, I can't recommend this book enough. The chapter on Garbage Collection itself was worth the price of the book to me:
https://www.writinghighperf.net/
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I think the problem is the carts. An entire cart filled with bottles and cups and liquids. In first class, you get individual service. They bring you one glass, they bring you a snack. They're not carrying a tray full. I can see how use of carts and trays during turbulence is a problem.

That said, maybe switch to handing out water bottles instead of forgoing the service altogether.
Some things AI will probably just do better, even if there aren't any paradigm-shifting breakthroughs with cures and medicines.

For example, reading an MRI or other medical scan correctly goes a long way toward curing cancer. Reading it incorrectly wastes precious time as problems are ignored or mistreated with the wrong methods. I knew someone whose bone cancer was mistreated as a rotator cuff injury for a little over a year due to the fact that an inexperienced and probably overworked doctor did not correctly identify it in the slew of tests and scans the patient had taken.

In the future, it is likely that AI will always read these scans and test results more accurately than a human physician, leading to higher remission success rates. This will happen fairly quietly and behind the scenes, even if AI doesn't invent the magic cancer pill.
oof. That's certainly what the reps and suits are pushing, continual surveillance plus unaccountable black box "AI" for a "discount" instead of doing the work to make their models accurately price risk [0]. And I'm sure it'll be inescapable as surveillance culture marches ever on. Eventually the financial pain of opting out of surveillance will be untenable for most. But at this point in time, unequivocally, fuck that noise.

It also suffers from the same misguided metric problem inherent to all surveillance based behavior conditioning. Speed in curves and acceleration are more like evidence of someone driving actively rather than driving poorly - ie paying attention and not texting/phoning/spacing out/etc as if they're in some living room on wheels. But those things are easy to measure and scare the typical middling slushbox SUV driver, so here we are.

There's a point to be made for speed (kinetic energy), but I'd still say that someone driving the usual prevailing speed on the highway is being much safer than driving slow and being a moving hazard. In fact now that I'm thinking about it I'm left wondering if part of the reason for so many terrible drivers these days is this surveillance based insurance. Because I doubt the nanny watchers are knocking people for things like camping in the middle lanes of highways while going below the speed limit.

[0] I've got a second car that I had been leaving insured while meaning to get it back on the road some day, but even dropping the miles driven on that to near zero affected its rates very little. I ended up just giving in and dropping the coverage.
That’s awesome. I’m not suggesting that older folks not get care.

But because of way our system works, we’ll happily pay $300k to hospitalize an otherwise healthy 70 year old who is dehydrated and develops serious problems that could be solved by an aide or helper that would cost $20-30k.
Even today 17,000 lines of Lisp can be dauntingly complex ;-).
Ha damn, I didn't know that. Thanks for the correction.
Sigma 15mm F/1.4 DG DN Art Review: Wide, Weird, and Wonderful
Related to this, I've often thought that the popularity of Karaoke in Japan and Korea is somehow related - it may provide a 'safe' environment to escape from the relatively strict social hierarchy and roles that are pervasive in these cultures.
I exclusively use EVOO. Never had a problem, never had a complaint. But then again I don't exactly deep fry food so maybe that's where the issue is.
One of the most annoying limitations of JSON is that it does not allow for comments.
I've found nothing better than zim-wiki. The only issue is no mobile client. For brainstorming I like treesheets though.
So if I live in the west I can protect myself from being spied on by my own gov by using Chinese CPUs? Sounds like a selling point to me. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
30 upvotes and 10 comments is borderline, yes, but that thread only spent 8 minutes on HN's front page. If it had spent more time there I'd agree. And

Btw you can check this kind of thing (more or less) using https://hnrankings.info/39556041/ - it didn't catch the 8 minutes but the approximation is good enough.

I suppose I could've merged the current comments thither and re-upped that one, but I didn't think of it!
> The real stuff is extremely hard to find

I buy stuff like this

https://barianioliveoil.com/

and this

https://shop.sekahills.com/Products/Olive-Oil

These are both California olive oils, available at my local Whole Foods, and indicate clearly the harvest date. They taste far better than the mass produced brands. Are they not the real thing? Please enlighten me. If price isn't an issue which olive oil should I get if I like bold flavor?
Iraq is a big place; lots of locations to hide things. And we know that Saddam had and deployed WMDs before. The accusation wasn't completely out of the air. And Saddam was being less than cooperative (putting it mildly).

Not everything the CIA does is bad, and it wasn't only "the CIA" in the first place – that's hugely reductionist. British Intelligence claimed they had evidence, and politicians claimed the evidence was good, etc.

There have been protests to stop musicians from inserting subliminal Satanic messages in music, and protests to "stop the steal", and against some basic COVID measures. I'm just saying ... because there are protests doesn't mean anyone is correct there.

At the time I was opposed to the war our of principle (who isn't a optimistic pacifist in their youth?), but it was a lot less clear to me whether Saddam did or didn't have WMDs.

I think that it wasn't all that clear at the time is evidenced by the fact that many other well-intentioned reasonably informed people felt the time. Of course, you can do the smug "they were idiots and/or malicious" thing, but I don't think that's the case, and ultimately not hugely helpful.
Different poses? I don't think so, at least not with the current setup.

For example, I tried this with a dog (walking around the seated dog, taking photos as I did so). The dog turned her head while I was taking photos. The portion of the head that moved was not represented in the final output.
GCC and clang produce far from optimal code when vectorizing. Anyone doing serious work is unlikely to rely on the autovectorizer without consulting the output religiously.
I'm not sure if you mean this for real, or if you're just doin' it for the joke, but if you _are_ being serious, perhaps you're just reading the wrong things? There are some truly excellent books, articles, blog posts, and more being written by actual humans out there today, probably more than ever before.
Fine, but it's useless then.
On the RISC-V IRC channel, it was shown that there was some bug with the Milk-V Pioneer processor, which is a C920 core. I'm not sure if the C910 has the same issue. The super slow benchmark was:

stress-ng --verbose --metrics --aggressive --atomic 64 --timeout 600

If you try this, adjust the number (64) to match the number of cores on your system.
Another interpretation, this is possibly more evidence that TSVF doesn't hold.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S03759...
From a certain point of view repairing is fixing things that are literally broken, which involves glueing, welding, screwing, ...

Replacing parts is not repairing from that point of view, even if at a macroscopic level it returns something back to working condition.
I doubt the Brexit fallout will trigger a reunification vote, however changing demographics may with time. If it got to the state where there was a clear majority in the north for rejoining it could lead to a vote.
NO, it's not! the forum's name says it all.
Is that a bug in the equation that one could take advantage of?
I'm not sure if I understand correctly.

For me, it is mostly about "sharing the code" as in: I put it somewhere and anyone who wants can use it. But if they adapt or remix it, they should also use a free license (ideally contribute back to my project).

> in the sense that it does not prevent tivoization?

I'm not sure, but I guess it does not protect against tivoization because if I were to distribute an executable or library, that could be used on a blackbox with proprietary code without them requiring to open their own code.
No, there are widespread problems with olive oil fraud.
They certainly do! In the ‘single varietal’ section:

https://folivers.com/product-category/single-varietal-evoo/

I usually get the Hojiblanca but seems that variety is unavailable online.

Also to be clear, I have no affiliation.
Perhaps, but not the article.

The article uses words like “meticulous” and “tactful” to describe the dictator. He was “slowing down.” He “didn’t think the US was serious.”

I imagine that the book brings out nuance that the article skips, but I reread the article and I stand by my characterization of it. It sounds like you have read the book, so would you be up for explaining where I’m being reductive?

I have personal connections to many Iraqi’s, and having a full understanding of what led to that war is genuinely important to me.
Show HN: Pydantic-based RPC with autogenerated TypeScript client
It is an attempt to simplify development of a service with Python backend & TypeScript frontend
Women equality destroyed marriage. Before women could work in attractive jobs, a marriage was often only way for a woman to a middle class lifestyle. The husband was a neccessity. Now, women can just get a job that provides such lifestyle, so they marry for love and not for money.
Photographer's book "Made in America": https://www.amazon.com/-/en/Christopher-Payne/dp/1419747398/
Fisher black has written some interesting books. For anyone who is interested, check out his Wikipedia page.
The Networked Enterprise – Netscape enterprise vision and product roadmap (1997)
Worth being aware that deeply nested trees are quite inefficient on modern hardware, where CPUs can execute many instructions in the time it takes for a single cache miss. There are techniques to ameliorate this somewhat, e.g. B-trees, but from a quick skim of pygtree it looks like it doesn't use them. You may get a spaghetti of nodes and pointers spread unpredictably over the heap.

It's easy to end up writing code that's got good algorithmic time complexity, but where the CPU spends its time sitting cold and waiting on RAM.
In a way, Observable Framework is the Avengers: Endgame of the Mike Bostock Cinematic Universe.

It brings together d3, Observable, Observable Plot, HTL and layers on a bunch of new ideas as well.
I think what we saw there was a (hilarious) bug/glitch that was caused by an attempt to restrict the text generation about certain topics for certain targets.

There are two ways to avoid that bug:

1. Have a more intelligent system that understands context in a way that is more similar to what a human being would.

2.not even attempt to do this kind of filtering in the first place

Option (1) is obviously not on the table.

Option (2) would probably raise some concerns., possibly even legal ones, if for example the model would tell underage users where to buy liquor, or ferment their own beer or explain details about sexuality or whatever our society at this moment in time thinks it's unacceptable to tell underage people (which not only is a moving target, it's also very hard to find agreement within a single country let alone internationally)
Hah! Though I'm still looking for approachable tutorials explaining coroutines (without the help of external libraries, tho).
Used it to do a bike trip across Korea, it worked so well ! Somehow the marker for the user seemed more precise than the ones of the other app I use (precision and direction).
I don't understand the claim that this is more efficient, it's trivial to find a method that's information-theoretically optimal: choose an arbitrary order for the cards, and encode log(52!)/log(2) bits as the lexicographic order of the permutation, doing a binary search each time.

Shouldn't be too hard to do even with pen and paper since the 2-adic eval of 52! is large.
The responses it gives me are of a higher standard than most of the comments on the internet, while being lower than the standard necessary to rely on it.

It is the breadth of skills, that generality, which impresses me the most; the depth is… only impressive in comparison to the previous state of the art. This isn't like AlphaZero being wildly superhuman at a few board games and useless at anything else, which is the kind of thing I'm used to from previous breakthroughs.
I do hope this is seriously considered. Just how and why does it make any sense to not be fully aware of what’s around your car? 12 cones to see what’s ahead of you on the road? Wow.

The adjustment of heights to make the trucks safer (for others) seems very minimal.
What did they flee?
Doe these cpus have any cryptographic hardware acceleration? They list gpus and npus only.

I have an old atom-based kimsufi by ovh, cryptography will eat almost a full core when doing file transfer over ssh or any kind of https…

No cryptographic hardware acceleration could really be the Achilles’ tendon for this platform.
Ask HN: Can My Former Employer Control My MacBook After I Bought It from Them?
Some time ago, I worked for a company that, on my first day, asked me to buy a MacBook. I did, and they reimbursed me, but they requested information like the serial number and other details, which I provided since the MacBook was theirs. After some time, I left the company, and they offered me the option to keep the MacBook for 50% of its price, which I thought was a good deal and accepted.

However, I have a concern. Since they have those details, is there any way they could control (reset/remove the Apple ID) of the MacBook?
I think a real-life example that might illustrate the difference is a car that's been in an accident. A good body shop can do a lot as far as straightening components, doing new spot-welding, etc. in a car that's made with contemporary techniques, but imagine if it had a chassis or unibody components made out of this material. They would need to be replaced, because straightening won't repair the micro-structure, and they probably can't be welded. Replacement is going to be far costlier as well, because you'd have to disassemble the whole car and put it back together. plus the replacement part has to be meticulously 3D printed instead of stamped/forged/welded.

That said, I can imagine it being good for applications like fighter jet components where it's probably considered scrap after the first accident.
It is brave to call out C and Unix as outdated and technically inferior tools/solutions when so many users are excessively dogmatic in framing them as a pinnacle for the computer industry.
Most of the tools I’ve been using when my colleagues were writing the book are either gone, or half-forgotten abandonware. The new tools were built for different processes, system layout and organisational structures.
If someone is interested in all this, I would strongly recommend looking into Ed Thorp, he discovered pretty much the same thing earlier, but instead of publishing, he made money with the knowledge...

Great book about all this, 2017 Autobiography:
"A Man for All Markets: From Las Vegas to Wall Street, How I Beat the Dealer and the Market"
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There can be two main reasons:

1. Their EVOO can reach temps ~200°C

2. They use medium temperatures on the frying pan (so they keep it at 180-200°C, or lower). This is especially true when you use pans with anti-stick coating, which literally break at high temperatures (it's even written in the instructions to avoid using the highest temperatures).
> leftist bias that AI is already being used to [purposely] control and marginalize people

The recent Google Gemini image fiasco seems like a rather solid example of this being real.
https://github.com/1brc/nodejs/tree/main/src/main/nodejs/Edg... has a few
From that, I take it the code was meant to be MIT-licensed?

For example, I found the https://ambient.garden/patches/ wandering through the source code (little worried by the wall of shaders), and was wondering if the audio patch portions were useable. Probably take me quite a while to figure out what it all does. Yet looks like a good starting point for music projects.

Also, like the references to other people's work in the code base. From my own perspective, nice way to acknowledge where you found something. Plus, if someone else is curious, there's at least somewhere to look.

Also, also, kind of neat you bothered to put in quasi-secrets (although, did not sit through the entire walkthrough, so maybe you eventually take the walkthrough path through all the nodes).