skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Can you comment more on how you use persistent tries with unicity? And what do you mean by "the other way around"?

I can't speak to latency fully as of yet. But in my own incremental implementation of a Prolly Tree, it appears to have the same Big-O bounds as a Btree (as you said). But I can see there are places that it has to do a bit more work.

- Given the nature of merkle tree nodes identified by their hash, you have to go do look ups, rather than just following pointers.

- The tree has to touch a swath of nodes from the bottom up, due to potential rebalancing. Unlike a Btree, where you just change a single node seam from root to leaf, even with splits and merges.

- Prolly Trees are constructed from the bottom up, where you have to traverse across a layer. To find the next sibling, you sometimes have to travel up to the parents and come back down--hence subject to the occasional height traversal in the worse case. This doesn't happen often, especially if the cascading effect on insertion I talked about doesn't happen.

But like you said, maybe there are other factors that dominate the latency equation. It's hard for me to say at this point. Relevant post:

https://motherduck.com/blog/perf-is-not-enough/
That's correct, but let me dig a little deeper. Continuous-eval provides two types of metrics, reference-based and reference-free metrics.

In the case of reference-based metrics, you provide a dataset with the input/expected output pairs of each step of the pipeline and use the metrics to measure the performance of the pipeline. This is the best approach for offline evaluation (e.g., in CI/CD) and is the approach that best captures the alignment between what you expect and the actual behavior of the pipeline.

In the case of reference-free metrics, on the other hand, you don't need to provide the expected output, but you can still use the reference-free metrics to monitor the application and get directional insight into its performance.
Aww Bruno looks like a Very Good Boy.
Infuriating that government site does not even display without JavaScript.
When physicists (I am one) talk about perpetual motion, we're making references to the results of statistical mechanics, not Aristotelian metaphysics.
I've seen conversations like this before, regarding the heavy cost that Big Pharma levies on treatments for major diseases. And US companies frequently come up in these discussions.

But the alternative, without the massive cashflows, is a world where the research never happens, and the diseases haunt us forever.

The Big Pharma treatments will eventually become public domain, and may inspire other cheaper treatments prior to that.

The fact that these conversations come up frequently is a symptom of the fact that Big Pharma is frequently doing fantastic things. Curing diseases that have plagued humanity for millenia and killed millions.

We have a very bright future. But the future is not free of charge, as we'll continue to require a lot of medical research, and medical researchers have families to feed, like the rest of us. Medicine costs money - there's no escaping it.

In the UK, we sometimes mistakenly imagine that our socialised healthcare system is "free." It's not. It's one of the most expensive in the world, and employs over 2 million people. The component of tax that I paid to fund the National Health Service was £8919 last year - the largest single expenditure of my taxes, and vastly more than I'd need to spend to get private healthcare.

So while American medical pricing is scary and sometimes ruthless, I think we need to put things in perspective and recognise their leadership in medical research - without which, we'd all be in a worse situation.
A few things to note:

- it is quite common to sub-let ("andrahandsuthyring"/"renting in second-hand") where you rent from another renter (who in turn has the "first hand" contract with the landlord). This is legal and is quite different from other countries where it is common to see "no sub-letting" on every single rental contract you will ever see. So you do not have to sit in this queue (the queue is for first hand contracts) to live in Stockholm as a renter; but you may end up moving fairly often as second hand contracts are very often time limited.

- the quote "93% of swedes live in municipalities with a housing shortage" sounds bad, but what does this exactly mean - how bad are the shortages in each municipality, why is there a shortage, what is the divide of rural vs city municipality shortages. Also, a sizeable chunk of the population lives in Stockholm/Gothenburg/Malmö that are likely some of the key municipalities in this number, so it's likely that much less than 93% of municipalities suffer from a housing shortage.

- the rent that a landlord can ask for depends on many things, including the "modernness" of the apartment (both in terms of e.g. putting in a new floor, and in terms of appliances). This has the downside that the landlord may decide to modernise the apartment and now you have to pay (a bit) more rent without having a say in the matter. On the other hand it means that landlords have an incentive to keep the apartments in decent condition and not just let things get old and not bother replacing them. You could see this as a positive or negative, depending on your point of view and financial situation.

The article says that the rental market in "Sweden is a big mess", but this of course is quite a generalisation and simplification; and how to tackle housing supply and demand in many (all?) countries is a complex and difficult issue. Regarding demand for accommodation outstripping supply in Stockholm & Gothenburg, this is pretty common to other major cities, pretty much everywhere around the globe. Does rent control help or hinder? The article doesn't compare to other countries going through similar conditions that tried other methods, so it's hard to tell.

Some ideas for improving housing supply/demand situation:

- Building more (duh!). For individuals with some spare land there is a class of house called an "Attefallshus" you can build up to 30m2 and rent out if you wish.

- Better public transport late into the night out into suburbs and to nearby towns. Bike paths and affordable electric bikes/scooters to make living not in the centre and still enjoying the amenities possible.

- Investment in/encouraging private sector investment in smaller towns and cities, so the spread of demand for housing due to work is more spread across the country.

- Encouraging working remote or hybrid schedules, so employees feel they can live further out.
It's nice, but variable import from OpenAPIv3 needs a bit of work, compared to Postman and Insomina.

Our OpenAPI spec has something like this:

servers:
- url: https://{host}/api/v2
variables:
host:
default: someserver.example

Insomnia and Postman import the collection with the host as a variable, centrally editable, while Bruno imported it resolved with no variable, so I have to edit every one of my endpoints whenever I change the host, which happens often in our setup.
I am fine with this behavior as long as I can disable it. Yes, I also use NixOS and don't like when things download random binaries, but I can understand there is demand for things that just work TM.
Thank you for the words of encouragement.
Reading your comment, I was certain I remembered it - and I see that you've now added a link to its previous home.

So I just wanted to say: it was an impactful piece of writing, enough so that I remembered it quite clearly after a single read these few months ago.
Please give the real Bruno a hug from this Internet stranger? He looks like a very good boy.
Nope it was a critique of how could a person, even a brilliant person, on their own, in their spare time, become the most knowledgeable entity on these very important matters. Matters that have wall to wall coverage on the news, not just in the US but globally. Where there are all types of researcher, lawyers, politicians, think tanks, journalists, academics, and working in organised teams. So many many qualified and organised eyes are on this. The article even says the lawmakers don’t know what powers they have! I kinda think these are things they should know.

For what it’s worth, I think he might be a brilliant mind, but I also think it’s easy to look brilliant if you learn a bit about an arcane area. My main point was have we made a very important part of democracy arcane when it really shouldn’t be.
United Airlines jet rolls off runway. 3rd Boeing mishap in a week
Eh, true. But then both sides of the political spectrum would have been up their asses had they just said, "relax, its no big deal." Not something you want to hear from a prison (even a not-for-profit prison).
I think rsync came first?

In the original formulation of Prolly Trees, it does reference rsync.

https://github.com/attic-labs/noms/blob/master/doc/intro.md#...
The Malay/Indonesian “hati” is the same.
This.
That's why I feel we are all doomed regarding privacy. The only way we could maybe protect ourselves would be to all send manipulated but looking like plausible average data.
I'm certainly the least edgy person in the world. If you were a calm cool nerd, you'd just think less of me and move on. But something made you stop to defend a random stereotype. I can only assume you are one of the people I referred to, or you feel a need to defend them for some strange reason? It's not like they are an oppressed minority if they can afford $100,000 in offroad theater.
From https://gis.stackexchange.com/questions/53918/determining-wh...

02861 Massachusetts
02861 Rhode Island

42223 Kentucky
42223 Tennessee

59221 Montana
59221 North Dakota

63673 Illinois
63673 Missouri

71749 Arkansas
71749 Louisiana

73949 Oklahoma
73949 Texas

81137 Colorado
81137 New Mexico

84536 Arizona
84536 Utah

86044 Arizona
86044 Utah

86515 Arizona
86515 New Mexico

88063 New Mexico
88063 Texas

89439 California
89439 Nevada

97635 California
97635 Oregon
>Line 2 and 3 for example make it impossible to override certain behavior you’ve set.

This is intentional.

It's not possible (unfortunately) to allow users to simultaneously be able to override a variable OR add to a variable in make. In the case of the FLAGS variables I usually prefer to append to allow users to add to the variables. As a compromise, in my own makefiles I explicitly ensure that these variables _only_ contain flags which are mandatory for the project to build correctly. In this case this was deviated from (with the warning flags, -fsanitize=address, -ggdb) because of the request of the project author.

Would you rather an end user be able to quickly add LDFLAGS and CXXFLAGS or rather have the end-user have to copy the entire list of flags out of the makefile just so they can add one?

I would say it's more common for someone to want to add a flag than to replace all the mandatory ones. If someone is using a sufficiently different compiler such that those flags are no longer relevant, they would likely need to modify the rest of the makefile.

>I refer to this authoritative sounding comment while you miss out on the very basics like that.

It's uncharitable to assume that just because you don't understand a decision someone made in something they wrote, that they must be ignorant about the tool they are using.
100%

It's just nice that we can unite around our shared passion for correcting people who are wrong on the Internet.
An Oral History of the Epic 'Titanic' Oscars at 25 (2023)
I also have CF, and my diagnosis was different than most: I grew up dirt poor and wasn't diagnosed until I was almost 14. Even after diagnosis, it pretty much became incumbent on me to manage my care. I feel that not being put in a bubble and not being told I was going to die kept CF from shaping my perspective (today I'm 47 and have all the boring problems people my age have. My health is tolerable, sitting at about 50-60% lung capacity)
I wish they'd allow copyleft licenses instead of requiring MIT.
History goes in circles.
New API client appears, adds features, userbase grows.
Forced login is added, users are angry and look for alternative.
New API client appears...
Your problem is you think you have the moral high ground on social safety net and you don't. I'm a fan of the social safety net, it just has to be way less idiotic than it is today. To have any interest in paying for it, it needs to have far greater returns to me while costing less. That means refocusing spending on metrics that more directly benefit the tax payer (more effectively keep my employees healthy, more effectively fire shite teachers and raise education standards, keep my streets safe, provide effective transportation for both my workers and my goods to market, remove stupid nimby BS actively making all these services cost more and be less effective, etc)

Also, your vote is utterly ineffective other than annoying one time relocation penalties if the burden of dealing with this country becomes too high (not to mention, if you are in the usa both your options are coopted by people not good for me or for you). It would be far better if instead of thinking legacy social contract thoughts you started thinking in marginal cost and benefit terms.
Many have reported severe anxiety due to Trikafta. As I mentioned in another comment, I believe I experienced the same, but I also started Lexapro around the same time for other non-CF reasons, so independent test variables and all that.
Some of Diana de Avila's art: https://dianadeavila.art/, https://www.dianadeavila.com/defineexclusives
mRNA vaccines: let's eradicate herpes, cure cancer, and be sick a whole lot less
That’s a gimmick. I’m talking about how given chip is supposed to be used in a real products, whether vendor supplies Linux builds in one way or another, etc.
Not sure what the protocol is. Delete the post entirely? Let the mods take care of it?
I’m not familiar with the theoretical aspects, but what you’re describing reminds me of Tcl: arguments to procedures can be passed unevaluated (quoted, using Tcl terms) and the procedure itself can alter the caller’s environment via uplevel.
IP is a pretty good ID...
Then the US wouldn't be involved in the smartphone market either, the EU and the US would both be trying to counter the overwhelming dominance of Asian smartphones.

If the US adopted the same regulations, they'd get the same outcome.
Disabling it would be weird and therefore make you more identifiable.
> Learn anything effectively with Bloon AI

OK, I'll bite. How does this "AI" whiteboard help me learn say to ride a bicycle?
vim-rest-console[0] has been my Postman alternative for years. It basically wraps curl and makes it super easy to make different requests from a single text file. Can even write YAML and have it converted to JSON before being sent in the body. Really great tool

0: https://github.com/diepm/vim-rest-console
https://www.dianadeavila.art/
How is that not a problem when it is?

I want completely silent laptop that doesn’t get dust inside of it.
Google Apps Script: Automate and Extend Google Workspace with Simple Code
I expected this article to be published by some hackers or defenders of privacy like EFF, not by a company whose goal is to fingerprint people. Such dystopian times.
I have CF. My lung capacity is around 55% (many have lower, and around 20-30% is when they tend to start talking lung transplant)

I wouldn't use that analogy. It's more like breathing in a deep swimming pool or a very humid sauna. Slight physical exertion (like stairs or hills) can be like most people doing strenuous exercise. Laziness tends to be a way of life :-)
“Please don't use HN primarily for promotion. It's ok to post your own stuff part of the time, but the primary use of the site should be for curiosity.”

This is the 7th submission in 16 days you’ve made about this…
Clickbait trash. Here is the entire article: Enable verbatim search.

Which doesn't mean much recently anyway. At least in my experience, Google is still shit no matter which method I tried.
Does anyone know of any good guides to getting the most out of these kind of tools? I’m mostly interested in Postman since that’s what we have to use a work.

I make requests with it, have things organized in collections, and use a variable for JWT handling but that’s as fancy as I’ve gotten and I know these tools have a lot more depth than I’m using.
It is capable of addressing and describing itself from the outside, of talking to itself while knowing that that is what it is doing, and of intentionally doing things that involve other entities being aware of it.
Wait, is that _real_? That’s ridiculous.
Bruno is great. I'm in the process of moving my team to it. Cli, gui, human readable files. They are hitting all the right points. And it's open source so I don't care if they close up later down the line. It can always be forked like insomnium.
I do admit it is rough around the edges (bugs and a bunch of missing features) but there is a lot of momentum right now and devs are working hard. Not long before postman parity.
The Hollywood system is corporate slop and many of the writers who work in it are probably motivated more by career than any creative impulse. It’s come around full circle to the exact same thing that the auteur filmmakers of the 70’s were rebelling against. The thing is, those auteur filmmakers weren’t just criticizing the shit that Hollywood was producing; they actually put in the work and made better films. That’s what it takes. Criticism is cheap; doing a better job is what makes a difference.
Watch out for tetrachromatic colors, they can bleed.
Navigating the future of frontend
i'm happy this kind of hackaton still consistenly held. long live deb.and.ian.
To be pedantic, this would be violet. (Purple is a mix of red and blue light.)
Yeah.

In all seriousness, you can buy the APIs directly from China/India and compound them yourself. It's easy and dirt cheap, in most cases. This is typically how underground steroid labs and other illicit pharmacies work. It's in some cases how legitimate compounding pharmacies work.

So how do you know what you're getting is pure, or even real? Simple, before shipping it to the US, you send it over to an analytical lab in China and have them run GC/MS or LC/MS on the chemical raw material. Since it's supposedly a pure compound, that should be easy, and there's very rarely any ambiguity as to the results. This also ensures that you're not inadvertently importing anything on the DEA's scheduled list.
Would have been better had they gotten machinists or rural people that otherwise work with their hands to do this. A bunch of scientists playing make believe chopping wood and scraping bone doesn’t convince me much. We would have been just as specialized back then as we are now. And don’t we have 30,000 year old jewelry with intricate carvings? Why the amazement at “wow, this pointy stone chops wood, man?”
Thank you. My aim isn't to wax poetic or elicit sympathy, but to provide insight for others.
I think web browsers should implement already an API that allows developers to track any user in a "private" way, by generating a unique hash using your computer specs or something, and make it different for each website.

So, if you visit Google, your hash would be something like "h38kflak". If you're visiting twitter, the API would generate something different, so you won't be tracked across websites.

That way, even if you clean your cookies, you can still be identified as the same user.

The use case? Fraud detection and that kinda stuff. For example, you may create a web game where you allow users to play instantly without "creating" an account. So, an anonymous account would be created in the background, in order to log in. Any bad actor can just clear their cookies/storage to bypass a ban. IP banning isn't reliable, as multiple users may share an adress.

It's a shame that we have to rely on web api hacks in order to fingerprint users for legitimate reasons, and that ends up in an eternal cat and mouse game, because anything you try today may be broken tomorrow.
fwiw, i got it.
Care to share any scripts? Automatic token refresh is a feature I am waiting for in Bruno.
It only creates a shortage in a world where you have the x-shaped supply and demand curve from econ 101, which doesn’t apply here because the shortage already exists because of zoning/planning laws limiting the construction of new housing. If there wasn’t an existing shortage then no-one would be calling for rent controls. Rent controls just change who the winners and losers are as a result of a given shortage, in Stockholm’s case, existing residents are the winners and new residents are the losers. Existing residents who benefit get to vote to maintain the status quo in municipal elections whereas the people that can’t move there because of rent controls don’t, hence the system is self-sustaining.
Take away the money and watch the development go away ;)
Is their work similar to Rain.ai then?
Never had a problem drinking. (So much so that I had to quit a few years ago)
I wasn't thinking of Nex, I didn't realize Hatchet includes compute and doesn't just store tasks.

Still, it seems like NATS + any lambda implementation + a dumb service that wakes lambdas when they need to process something, would be simple to set up and in combination do the same thing.
I think you're assuming more about my policy preferences than I've let on. This conversation isn't likely to be productive as a result.
If you are using an android phone, there are ways to allow you to use mobile Slack on a computer.
This is pretty cool and I appreciate the comparison to par2. I have a (personal) backup workflow using par2 now, and this looks like an interesting replacement.

The dependency for doing erasure codes is itself pretty interesting[1]. It has a number of backends. I've used one of those, ISA-L, in the past at a major storage vendor for Reed Solomon parity blocks.

[1]: https://github.com/openstack/liberasurecode
Is it worth it though when the base model isn't even smart enough?
I’m wondering what’s gained over writing your thunks as zero-argument functions (etc) in an eager language.
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Because users do not want to be tracked or fingerprinted. I don't care about fraud detection and I am not a fraudster so why do I have to be tracked? There is no way that a feature like that would not get abused in one way or the other.
Imagine this in a hypothetical setting such as Science Fiction. Where instead of an optical delay loop it's a fold in space or some other mechanism. Photonics and some sort of 'subspace' or toggled shift in reality? Maybe.

I agree though, I've never seen anything explain how to make this work well as a general computer with contemporary tech.
The US is not trying to prolong the war; quite the opposite, actually.

The US has consistently advocated for a different strategy than what Zelensky is doing. If anything, it is Zelensky who is still trying to figure out how to fight this war.

[0]https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/08/us/politics/ukraine-war-u...

[1]https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/22/us/politics/ukraine-count...

[2]https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/22/us/politics/zelensky-bide...

[3]https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/11/us/politics/us-ukraine-wa...

[4]https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/07/us/politics/ukraine-us-mi...
Century-old tuberculosis vaccine protects against the most prevalent flu strain
I use my american amex card almost on a weekly basis to make payments for websites in India (Amazon, Flipkart, Blinkit etc) and have had zero issues.

It just defaults to use Safekey instead of billing verificaion: https://www.americanexpress.com/us/security-center/safekey/

I think you do have a point though because I've had a ton of issues using my apple card on websites internationally.
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