skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> how come there are so many more 40 year olds in prison than 20 year olds?

You'd want to look at the age at which someone committed the crime for which they are imprisoned, not their current age, to assess the affect of age on crime-related statistics. Also, the juvenile justice system typically lets people out at 18 or 20, unless they were charged as an adult. So you don't have the same buildup of late teenagers being imprisoned at 20 as you do for people who are older.

It is factually the case that brain development continues until around age 25. The impulsive areas of the brain develop/myelinate earlier than than the prefrontal cortex, for example, which exercises executive function and impulse control.
Its the wild west out there - definitely needs help. Its the ultimate tragedy of the commons problem with global implications.
Corn: It was often used to protect against rootworms and other pests.

Soybeans: For controlling various insects such as aphids and beetles.

Fruit trees: Including apples, oranges, and stone fruits to manage pests like codling moth and citrus thrips.

Vegetables: Such as broccoli, Brussels sprouts, cauliflower, and other leafy vegetables to combat caterpillars and other insect larvae.

Almonds and nuts: To protect against a range of insect pests.
Cotton: Used for bollworms, aphids, and other pests affecting cotton crops.
It's an major confounding factor in all productivity studies, and IMO underappreciated because UI researchers generally don't want to get involved in politics. Social status depends more on relative wealth than absolute wealth. When the owning class takes approximately 100% of the generated wealth from improvements, the direct effects of improved productivity only hurt the worker. (They gain indirectly, because improved productivity helps society as a whole, but the marginal gain to the worker from any individual improvement is always small, so there's a tragedy of the commons here and the incentive is always to resist improvements.)
I have no affiliation with the author of the book and stand to gain nothing from helping others. I still stand by my choice of The Daily Stoic. I resented the thought of reading self help books because my pride led me to believe that if I read a self help book, I was admitting I was weak. That said, the reason for the book is simple: the book is intended to take a year to read, one page at a time. I wake up each day and the first thing I do is open the Books app on my iPhone, load up The Daily Stoic and read the days entry. It takes me 2-3 minutes and reminds me why I am chasing self-discipline. I have done this every day faithfully for three years. I hate to admit, but a page was as much as I was personally able to commit myself to, a full book was too much for my pride to handle at first. So if you’re like me and can’t make time for a full book, I ask you to make time for a single page per day.

In fact I will double down on this book so much, that I will personally buy a copy for anyone who sends me an email cory@linux.com. No one will know you asked for a copy and I ask for nothing in return.
Smarter than GPT-4: Claude 3 AI catches researchers testing it
I think in this case it's a bit exaggerative, but this isn't the only example--the mentality is pervasive throughout software engineering: It's OK to sacrifice the user's time (through poor software performance, unnecessary network calls, mutexes and synchronization, and deliberate delays) for developer comfort, or if it means we can go fix something else, or if it's just a really hard problem... Hey, user's time doesn't cost us and they can always wait...

And it adds up: 100ms here, 200ms there, times millions of users, times dozens of times per day the issue happens, and it's no wonder our 2024-era supercomputers still feel about as slow as my 2004 Windows XP machine.
N100 boards are ddr5 compatible which has internal ecc
RAG approaches should work quite well for the examples you mentioned. It's a matter of how you approach the retrieval part - you can opt for a larger recall on retrieval, and leverage the large context window for the LLM to figure out the answer. Even if it's not "as-is", semantically if it's in there, it should be able to find it.

Other things to try out is how you approach the question "expansion" part, for example using Hypothetical Document Embeddings (HyDE); or how you approach the filtering-out part, e.g. using "System 2 Attention", https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.11829.
110% agreed.

There should be a tax applied to excessively large consumer vehicles. They have an outsized affect on the roads, on the safety of others, and cause stupid things like not being able to see past them when they are in front of you.

They should also pay much more for insurance, since they, again, will consume an outsized portion of it, compared to others not driving a penis replacement.

For pedestrians, I suspect it's no different. Whether you're hit by a Kia Soul or one of these Canyoneros, you're still quite likely to die, assuming the vehicle is going faster than 5mph.
Thank God!

As a deaf person, having 1950-style push/pull buttons, sliders, and rocker switches are all welcome in helping me keep the eyes on the road.
Organic isn't exactly a marketing gimmick.

If you read the Organic Standards (linked on this page https://www.ams.usda.gov/services/organic-certification/orga...) you'll see it's an earnest attempt to deal with a really complicated subject.
Is it not possible to enter through Turkey? Turkish Airlines has a pretty expansive network.
LightGBM: Gradient Boosting Framework
From what I've seen on reddit's /r/homelab, the neat thing about racked systems is you can buy very cheap used hardware that are discards from enterprise uses. There's very little market for an old server or rackmount network switch so you can get very good bargains.

Personally I buy new cheap mini PCs and consumer networking stuff. That's another way to get bargains, since consumer hardware is so cheap. But I'm a bit jealous of the enterprise capabilities like proper managed switches or remote managed servers.
What high-performance language to learn [for bioinformatics]?
Here in America, bigger is better. We love big, whether it's cars, CPU core counts, burgers, or tits and ass.
You go to the bank and tell them you want to open a joint account. Simple process. The main advantage is not having to constantly transfer from one account to another.

If you meant to ask how a couple should manage joint finances, that's a larger question with no single answer. Disagreements or differences of opinion about how to handle finances cause a lot of conflict in marriages. A joint bank account is merely a convenience, not a solution if the couple doesn't agree on how to handle money. What works depends on the individuals, so probably best to discuss the expectations and how to handle finances and money together.

If you meant to ask how to keep your assets separate, with some joint assets, that depends on state law. If you have that concern you should consult an attorney.
The Mitten Project: where tech founders come to launch and scale their startups
Discussed a month ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39215662

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39219371
In modern capitalism your life only has meaning if you produce products.
It's a motorcycle. Almost any crash on a motorcycle is going to cause serious injuries/death. Guardrails contribute, but let's be real. Lay down a bike while driving at a good clip, or hit anything, guardrail or not, and you're going to have a bad time.
You actually are much less likely to die if a small car hits you. If a big car hits you, you're kind of screwed.
If by "strong consistency" you mean "linearizability" then no, you can build a distributed atomic register without locking (ABD algorithm[0][1]). The trick is to force readers to complete a possibly-incomplete write returned from a read quorum by writing it to a write quorum before they can return their result (in practice you can elide the write-on-read in the common case where the result from the read quorum already is written to a write quorum). Similarly, writers must find the latest possibly-written version from a read quorum to obtain the version number for their write.

If you need stronger primitives than atomic read/write (e.g. CAS), then ABD is insufficient and you need consensus in the asynchronous model (although synchronized clocks can allow even CAS to be implemented with ABD + leader election with leases[2]).

[0] https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/200836.200869

[1] https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/teaching/2223/ConcDisSys/dist-sys-n...

[2] https://arxiv.org/pdf/1702.04242.pdf
> Safety, noise, cost all have to be proofen, right now those are just claims.

True, air taxis don't have decades of real-world use, but the claims are not without basis. Quieter operation has already been verified. Better safety and operating costs are highly likely due to the dramatic reduction in complexity/moving parts (similar to electric cars) and redundancy.
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Why not simply legislate weight? A vehicle must be 5000 lbs or less to qualify as a passenger vehicle. Anything more is commercial.
Sounds like it's going the same way as movies. Don't make anything new. Just an endless cycle of reboots.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship_by_TikTok
It's so big, even 100 years ago it probably seemed impossible for human activity to affect it. But human activity scales while ocean size remains constant.

Better maritime regulation is a must.
> less prone to get "bullied" by other managers into doing work for them and you can stand up more for your team

This is the real key. Management is about controlling others and not letting others control you without compensation.

> I would personally trust others who have self-control more than those who don't for time-sensitive and critical tasks because I can rely on them to regulate their emotions and give honest answers, as well as hold themselves accountable.

Of course you would, and if they wanted to be in your shoes they would do well to learn mastery over others as well as you have.

Learning the language of self-control may be a path to that, especially if you have not heard it before. However, it can also be a path to being controlled, as in your example. I grew up in a conservative environment, so that was my problem: I was heavily indoctrinated in the language of self-control, responsibility, and accountability, and these made me easy to exploit. My own "red pill" moment involved understanding these as tools of power rather than facts of the world, thereby freeing myself to better represent my own interests.
Partially to practice things you do (or want to do) at work, partially because it’s just fun.

I set up a Mellanox mesh network between my three compute nodes a couple of weeks ago. 56 Gbps Infiniband is pretty sweet, although my CPU is too slow to fully take advantage of it (I don’t have RoCE working yet, so it’s IPoIB). Still, a ~20x speed up for my Ceph cluster on NVMe is lovely, and makes it actually viable for use.
I see this a lot with certain home labs. A ton of ram for vms. Why not just run on the metal?
> Forgive (Cooperate): David forgives Samantha, giving her another chance, and tries to rebuild trust.

giving her another chance
> Lastly, the approach I never explored but was curious about is the idea of the client being responsible for pushing all values to all nodes rather than replication happening in the background.

You can client replication at industrial scale by having clients push writes to Kafka and then have multiple, independent systems read and apply them. You still have a SPOF on Kafka of course. Another practical issue is that if you take this approach you'll likely need a utility to detect and correct data drift. That's been a feature of the systems I've seen that use this approach successfully.
Being concerned about China is not xenophobia.

We're talking about a nation who at worst is our enemy and at best a geopolitical foe who is harvesting massive amounts of data to use for purposes which are much worse than targeted ads.
It's an easily justifiable tax as well. Road wear scales to the 4th power of axle weight! Incentivise smaller cars, it means less road wear, higher fuel efficiency, and it's safer for pedestrians.
A bit of a tangent but I want to sing the praises of Proxmox for home servers. I've run some sort of Linux server in my home for 25 years now, always hand-managing a single Ubuntu (or whatever) system. It's a huge pain.

Proxmox makes it very easy to have multiple containers and VMs on a single hardware device. I started by just virtualizing the one big Ubuntu system. Even that has advantages: backups, high availability, etc. But now I'm starting to split off services into their own containers and it's just so tidy!
which lemmy instance / community do you recommend?
Event driven architecture lost its way
Capable Leaders Navigate Uncertainty and Ambiguity
Shout out to the folks at Global Fishing Watch doing amazing work tracking unregulated fishing activity. Just need policy to catch up with reality now.

https://globalfishingwatch.org/map/index
> When will we shift towards long-term, extensive trials before introducing another chemical in our life cycle?

It's a curious question, how many eff-ups humanity needs to learn what's the optimal way to do something that's fairly new.

Do we need to introduce and be forced to withdraw tens of substances? Hundreds? Thousands? How many failures until we can learn from them how to do this properly?

How long did it take for aerospace industry?
Based on my experience in writing JS tooling (https://github.com/steelbrain/pundle / https://aneesiqbal.ai/2020-05-17-what-i-dont-like-about-node... ), even if rollup stayed in js and continued to use magic string, but somehow gained multi-core capabilities and cheaper memory operations, it may be able to somewhat compete with the rust tooling.

JS tooling is mostly single threaded. It is expensive to stringify a large AST and then parse it again over IPC vs just transferring an object (which is not allowed by runtime). This cost incentives more things happening in the same process, so there’s a limit to how fast you can be with JS
AARO: Report on U.S. Govt. Involvement with UAP [pdf]
tl;dr (conclusion, no evidence of aliens or conspiracy)

To date, AARO has not discovered any empirical evidence that any sighting of a UAP
represented off-world technology or the existence a classified program that had not been
properly reported to Congress. Investigative efforts determined that most sightings were the
result of misidentification of ordinary objects and phenomena. Although many UAP reports
remain unsolved, AARO assesses that if additional, quality data were available, most of these
cases also could be identified and resolved as ordinary objects or phenomena.

Also, referring to AATIP, Lue Elizondo and Skinwalker Ranch[0,1]:

AARO researched and interviewed numerous people, programs, and leads. It has
determined that modern allegations that the USG is hiding off-world technology and beings
largely originate from the same group of individuals who have ties to the cancelled
AAWSAP/AATIP program and a private sector organization’s paranormal research efforts.
These individuals have worked with each other consistently in various UAP-related efforts.

[0] https://www.military.com/daily-news/2022/03/07/how-believers...

[1] https://nypost.com/2023/03/21/ufo-believing-pentagon-bosses-...
> meat that can exist anywhere with deforesting the amazon for meat alternatives ingredients.

Is this the case? A major problem with beef is that so much of it comes from the cleared Amazon. Also, meat intrinsically takes more space than vegetables because we still have to clear land to grow feed for the meat, so a 1:1 replacement of Amazonian beef with soy and chickpeas or whatever would be a massive increase in yield.
Bash and Zsh are both just about as old as one another. Zsh came out less than a year after Bash.

Both derive most of their improvements from ksh, which is why they look superficially similar and many scripts are cross-compatible. Zsh arguably took the language improvements much further than Bash, ie look at [1] and [2] in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39642678.

Bash made the understandable but very regrettable decision of being only a superset of POSIX sh, which means it carries along all the footguns, like word splitting by default.

Zsh is also eminently flexible and scriptable, with many core features (like most line editor functionality) exposed as hooks that custom scripts can extend or change.

Zsh is also notably faster than Bash.

It's one of the great disappointments of open source history that Bash largely took off as the default shell everywhere and the default shell scripting language, despite Zsh being superior in just about every way.
Could the gut give rise to alcohol addiction?
Does it though? With the current file system, you can only reasonably see a couple functions. You have a project directory and tabs for navigation.

Imagine you had features like zooming, being able to click on nodes to expand them, tabs, ctrl+f/keyboard navigation, etc.
How exactly does running a VM in proxmox give you high availability?
If someone made a UPC in the form factor of a laptop battery, we could be off to the races. I thought a laptop battery would be good for this, but they do bad things if you leave them plugged in all the time.

No reason to go crazy with your home server if it is only you using it. You can get away with a crappy laptop that your roommate is done with.
7k cars are a problem, but we have much worse problems with guardrails that are much simpler to fix, and they are not fixed

Guardrail Guy goes into it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XrR81g1ZkRQ
CSS is not a "real" programming language in that it is not Turing complete but boy is there a lot to know about it. If you believe, as I do, that the best way to master a complex technology (when there is good documentation) is to master the official documentation, CSS makes you work pretty hard as

https://www.w3.org/TR/css-2023/

references roughly 50 documents with a bit of the mind-numbing structure that "Document Y overrides Document X".
"Publish or perish" takes yet another victim.
There was an XKCD on this:

https://what-if.xkcd.com/33/

My grandfather lived in a time when commercial hunting ceased to be viable and was outlawed --- I worry my children will live in a world where fishing goes the same way, which given the percentage of the world's population which depends on seafood is existential.
It wasn't lost though. Collective defense commitments are much stronger in NATO, which UK is still a part of, than they are in EU.
simple.. other geo-fenced functions are not related to laws and apple does not care about it, but third-party stores are both.

Apple stance is that they are against third-party stores and that they will not have it available unless they are forced to.

only place where they are forced to make third-party stores available is EU, so that is the only place where they will be available.
Who Still Works from Home?
Sometimes I worry I'm doing imposter syndrome wrong.
A weak gov. that can't piss off farmer interests might benefit a lot from external bans though.
This is just evil.
The modern electric multirotor drones (e.g., quad-, hexa-, octo-copters) are the result of computer controls allowing a configuration that is so unstable that no human could fly it to be actually implemented as aircraft that are much more agile, reliable, robust, and easier to fly (onboard or remotely) than helicopters. They also have a smaller footprint than a helicopter.

Integrating multirotor technology into a fixed-wing aircraft in a VTOL configuration allows for the small takeoff/landing footprint of a helicopter with the flight efficiency of a fixed-wing aircraft.

Does that help?
How amazing is it to read all this on nature itself, the journal whose peer-review method failed again and again.
Use MinUnit.h

https://jera.com/techinfo/jtns/jtn002

Consider using Clang-Tidy with

`-*,cert-*`

(Which disables all default options, and checks your code according to the Secure coding standard (CERT) ruleset.)

Use Clang-Format as well.
If you use Clang, consider `-Weverything -fsanitize=address,undefined` and disable options that you do not need.
Consider using NMake or Make (or just write a simple script to automate building the stuff).

Here's a Google-esque style guide for C:

https://gist.github.com/davidzchen/9187878

At least, this is my approach.
Hmm, which came first, the p-System or ZIL?

-checks-

Add ZIL to that list as well, as the p-System dates to 1977 and ZIL to 1979.
you just abandon banking websites?
Regardless of whether or not it's actually true, I think there are enough people who believe it to be true that it will stick around; and people believe it to be true because they think they see examples in real life - that's why I believe it to be a useful concept and believe it is a real thing. Obviously I could be as blind, or just wrong, as anyone.
Forgiveness is part taking control and part letting go and part accepting reality. It's not about the other person. It also doesn't mean you don't make any changes in your thoughts or behavior or adjust to the reality of whatever it is that the person did to need forgiveness for. If you were mistreated as a child, you can forgive the person who did it. But you'd be irresponsible to then just send your own kids over to that person's house or let them be a primary caretaker of your children.
Yeah, correct, because it makes more economic sense to herd than farm, for reasons you and I have both given. It doesn’t make sense nor help anything for foreigners to waltz in and proclaim Mongolians aren’t interested, right?
Node/JS (really any scripting language) is fast enough in scenarios where the productivity gains are worth the performance trade off (example: many web backends). Tooling is not one of those use cases.
Deel acquires Africa's PaySpace, says it's crossed $500M in ARR
Don't you find it interesting that node-fetch is slightly less-dead otherwise has exactly the same "aliveness" as typescript [0] from your source (click 5 years)?

[0] https://npmtrends.com/node-fetch-vs-typescript
Using the zipfile/tarfile/etc. modules' functionality, it's easy to write a script that would take an input file of any format you want (such as the one in the example) and create an output file the same way it works in the article.

It also allows for you to create archives compressed with gz, bz2, lzma, xz (via lzma), or potentially any other option that Python can provide.
Dunning-Kruger has been thoroughly debunked.
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/how-do-you-know/2020...
https://scitechdaily.com/math-professor-debunks-the-dunning-...
Conditioned attics are the new rage. Once it's conditioned, you can move other mechanical devices up there like HVAC etc to reduce the amount of ducting your home needs (especially if it's single-story).

It's nice because that loose, shredded insulation is garbage and so easy to mess up (walking on it can change it from R40 to R20, for example). With a conditioned attic you use standard batting in between the roof members -- impossible to mess up.
> We may criticise our society in this forum and not be arrested by thugs.

Sure, but try doing in person and it can be a very different story.
My favorite home lab setup was when I had an old (originally XP, switched it to Ubuntu) laptop and a couple of USB drives in the top drawer of a scavenged file cabinet. I cut a hole in the back for the wires and it never generated enough heat for airflow to be an issue. I hosted my personal website on it, including a webcam of my aquarium, hooked it up to my doorbell, XMPP, used it for document storage... anything I needed a server for. I switched to an old Mac Mini for NAS after I moved and haven't had much time to mess with it since.