skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I had to take a moment to marvel at your everyday comment on this everyday website, on my everyday computer surfing the everyday web, in the everyday cafe in the middle of an everyday city. I think one of things about the spool of wire is that, despite it being almost unfathomably complicated to think of how it came about, is that it is still _just_ about simple enough marvel at. Then again, maybe that's just a trick of perspective, and a lack of imagination of what is actually involved. I mean, where does it end? My mind starts to fall down holes of evolutionary pressures birthing humans, and interstellar mechanics birthing heavy metals...
Everything online has immediate feedback. not necessarily "reward," but we get some notion of "ok you're done now" even on things that involve a wait.

The real world demands delayed gratification. I planted seeds last week, and then nothing happened for days and days. Now they're beginning to come up. The link between last week's focus on planting and today's seedlings is something that I have to consciously remember, not the immediate feeling of "click muse, see square change color."

That lack of feedback makes the online fantasy worlds so much more tempting than the real.
Where are you getting that ECO mode cause a 15% performance drop?

In my pretty unscientific testing, I saw ECO mode have zero impact on single core workloads and ~4% on multicore with a big drop in cpu temperature.

If I am reading the “Gaming CPU” chart correctly from your link, the AMD 170w performance was 114.8 FPS, but the 105w ECO performance was 111.4 FPS. Effectively nothing for a huge drop in power.
I remember back in the 80s I had friends who enjoyed coding in assembly and felt that using higher-level languages was "cheating" - isn't this just a continuation of that?
Drivers are a lot more common than cyclists in the US.

So yes cars kill ~7,000 pedestrians per year vs ~4 (2013-2020) for bikes, but normalize the numbers and bikes are also very dangerous in the US especially on a per mile basis. https://www.nationalworld.com/news/politics/pedestrians-kill...

https://www.statista.com/chart/17194/pedestrian-fatalities-i...
I seem to remember both those words were put forward in the hints page, too!
> why those improvements can't also be applied to LLVM?

LLVM is a huge and bloated ecosystem (it has tons of tools and millions of LoC), also the code base itself is pretty old or rather the project has his age, so there's a lot of legacy code, other aspect is that is hard to try new/radical things because how big the project itself is.
Also thought that but the article is dated 2000.
Being a developer, I heartily agree with you.

Being a human, I realise that I as a developer have put a lot of people out of a job. Those folks have had to adapt to that change.

I guess now it's our time to adapt to change. At least it keeps me on my feet!
You're not wrong but my point stands.

I'm not saying taking an uber everywhere is an alternative to having a car. It's part of the system. There's public transport (tube, DLR, overground, trams, busses), there's rental bikes, rental scooters, there's uber/taxi, there's walking. You use the "car ownership alternative" (or a combination of them) that works for each given situation.
It's vanishingly rare that individuals have any liability or are punished for software fuckups. Maybe if someone is completely incompetent, they'll get fired, but I'm not sure that's meaningfully different than cancelling a service that doesn't work as advertised.
IMO LLMs are going to be enhancers for experienced programmers.

Although I worry that a lot of junior programming jobs will simply vanish.
Software is facing the same headwinds that a lot of low-level office jobs faced, they were first shipped overseas and then automated away.

A lot of software development which is CRUD applications is going to be disrupted.

Bespoke software that requires specialized skills is not going away anytime soon.
I don't think that can happen. A revolution, and a new thing's concept are not in the same realm. Especially true if the thing has military implications. You just don't put that genie back to the bottle. Whatever do you, and I mean literally what ever, the thing will come to life. If it's socially acceptable, then the science magazines will hype about it, if not, it will be done in a laboratory that's not even on maps.
It's called "induced demand" when people don't like it - but for almost all transportation you need the supply before the demand because there's not really any other way to go about it. You can try to work out where people are currently traveling and build on that, but it's such a feedback loop it may not work.

One of the most common examples I know of is building a metro line to "nowhere" (e.g. a few stops past where it ends) - in 5-10 years that will be a bustling area because now it's connected.
Software engineering as an occupation grew because of static analysis and GCs (literally why the labor market is the size that it is as we speak); the opposite appears to be the outcome of AI advances.
the aspirational future of AI-traffic is kei cars and vans puttering around. Hope to see it in my lifetime still.
Spot Instance Availability Map
It's easier and more plausible than a rat poison that doesn't hurt people; harder and less plausible than an antibiotic that doesn't hurt people; ultimately the proof is in the pudding.

Personally I would not try this in a long lasting formulation, only something oral that washes out completely in a few hours, unless it had been on the market for quite a long time
https://mabanque.bnpparibas/, a major French bank.

Used to work fine on Firefox. But since a few months, behavior has been pretty wonky with blank pages. Works fine on Chromium.
I think you should come live for a year in DC and see what you think about the winters. Notice that the comparison also shows it snows quite a bit more, ~~and is on average colder during core winter months~~! Weather is just more of a "thing" for the average US city. And when you start by subtracting half the year for heat, at least a month for snow, more days for harsh freezing conditions (not uncommon to have some weeks in winter that dip to -10C) etc etc... (edit: forgot you lived in stockholm where it's quite cold, I admit)

The point is not that cycling is impossible but that it's attractiveness is highly variable depending on local/daily conditions, since you are exposed to the elements. Less consistency in conditions means the entire form of transportatin is percieved as unreliable.
Using AI to spot edible mushrooms could kill you
I too think about this all the time. Even as a post-doctoral graduate, I still could not make a spoon. Even given a piece of sheet metal, how would I cut, bend and form it into the right shape? And that's a static object made out of one material.

The problem is that you cannot live off of making one spoon a day. Mass-producing everything has diminished the value of one-offs to near nothing. Worse, it has diminished the value of knowing how to make objects. That's why machinists are grossly underpaid.

The closer you get to raw materials, the more price deflation. If you are planning on making something for a living, you'll have to be the most efficient at making a lot of that one object to keep the price down. I met a business owner in Colombia who made "aluminum rods." I don't speak Spanish, and I was confused and asked, "Your company makes rods?" He replied, "Yes, of all shapes and sizes, via extrusion." He is an expert at extrusion. To me, making a rod is harder than making a spoon. Yet, the process is so well understood that there's too many such companies worldwide. There's push by U.S. steelworkers to enact antidumping laws on aluminum extruders from multiple countries (see: https://www.internationaltradeinsights.com/2023/10/petition-...).
Gitlab's kanban board is very nice, integrated with its ticketing and, if you are on Gitlab, it is there already !
Yeah this is absolutely not accurate, some people just sweat more and it’s not correlated with fitness.

I’ve noticed that I sweat a “lot” more than people who are much less fit than I am.
https://wapo.st/3wQniBt
Quanto: A PyTorch Quantization Toolkit
I'm glad other people recognize the problem. What can we do? Apparently, we are a minority in the car market who are looking for simplicity, reliability, drivability.

I've been holding onto an old vehicle now for some time and the car market has only worsened. When the 2016 Miata was released, I had hoped for a resurgence in simple sportiness. Recently Toyota released a light truck IMV-0 . I can't think of too many elegant vehicles out there otherwise.
the US government seems serious about developing a lunar economy
That was enough to prevent rickets and the goal in the old days. Perhaps why not revisited for a long time.
I should clarify by what I obviously meant that doctors would not recommend that as a DAILY dose - daily implying long-term use is okay.
And he only painted about 35 works it seems, which basically means all are rare.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_paintings_by_Johanne...
Bean sprouts are well known to be dangerous when eaten raw.

'Such infections, which are so frequent in the United States that investigators call them "sproutbreaks", may be a result of contaminated seeds or of unhygienic production with high microbial counts.'

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sprouting#Health_concerns
As a nonnative speaker it's first time ever I've heard word "bole" being used
Been trying to figure out what to do with my liter of ivermectin. Thanks!

Supposedly essential oils also kill ticks. I bought some yard sprays in addition to getting some tick hunting birds.
Yeah. But the whole discussion here was about the dilemma the optimizer faces if it only has the two indexes on (created_at) and (organization_id), and why the assumption of independence/uniformity does not work for the skewed case.

Of course, adding a composite or partial index may help, but people are confused why the optimizer is not smart enough to just switch to the other index, which on my machine does this:

QUERY PLAN
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Limit (cost=182766.62..182766.65 rows=10 width=16) (actual time=441.647..441.650 rows=10 loops=1)
-> Sort (cost=182766.62..182988.83 rows=88881 width=16) (actual time=441.642..441.644 rows=10 loops=1)
Sort Key: created_at
Sort Method: top-N heapsort Memory: 25kB
-> Seq Scan on foo (cost=0.00..180845.94 rows=88881 width=16) (actual time=210.901..437.292 rows=100000 loops=1)
Filter: (organization_id = 10)
Rows Removed by Filter: 10000000
Planning Time: 0.327 ms
Execution Time: 441.696 ms
(9 rows)

That's ~2 orders of magnitude faster, but the optimizer has no way to predict this.

Sure, the composite/partial indexes will do much better, but my intent was to explain why LIMIT queries have this problem.
seems like your entire argument hinges on misusing words the words: exactly, symptoms, art, science, and trust
It is not that simple. In "Opinion 04/2012 on Cookie Consent Exemption" [1] the the EU Parliament's Working Party On The Protection Of Individuals With Regard To The Processing Of Personal Data said:

> A cookie that is exempted from consent should have a lifespan that is in direct relation to the purpose it is used for, and must be set to expire once it is not needed, taking into account the reasonable expectations of the average user or subscriber. This suggests that cookies that match CRITERION A and B will likely be cookies that are set to expire when the browser session ends or even earlier. However, this is not always the case. For example, in the shopping basket scenario presented in the following section, a merchant could set the cookie either to persist past the end of the browser session or for a couple of hours in the future to take into account the fact that the user may accidentally close his browser and could have a reasonable expectation to recover the contents of his shopping basket when he returns to the merchant’s website in the following minutes. In other cases, the user may explicitly ask the service to remember some information from one session to another, which requires the use of persistent cookies to fulfil that purpose.

(Criterion A is cookies that are user “for the sole purpose of carrying out the transmission of a communication over an electronic communications network” and criterion B is cookies that are “strictly necessary in order for the provider of an information
society service explicitly requested by the subscriber or user to provide the service”).

If your shopping cart cookie has a lifetime longer than the "reasonable expectations of the average user or subscriber" you may need to obtain consent. That a sufficiently vague criteria that it may not be clear if your particular shopping cart cookie requires consent or not.

[1] https://ec.europa.eu/justice/article-29/documentation/opinio...
I thought i remembered something about the difficulty levels in some versions of Battle Chess being backwards:

> They fixed the "Novice and Level 1 difficulties are functionally swapped" bug.

https://www.speedrun.com/battle_chess/forums/43ks5
Windows 10 IoT Enterprise LTSC doesn't have this problem.
sounds like ... the "stupidity and arrogance of a rando who posted a GNOME 'fix'"
Since you seem to be an expert: What about different forms of vit D? I vaguely remember discussions about pills not being absorbed well. Also I remember people talking that vit D intervention fails to do anything besides raising the blood levels, indicating that things might be more complex. I'm interested in the topic, but never really dived into it.
Do you have a citation for that? Is car ownership and usage for city residents really the same?
Distributed Queries for Pgvector
> "It is amazing how these dump rich capitalists keep making very stupid decisions, while I'm very smart but poor and have to work them".

The bootlicker comment really sums up how I feel about this, but I'll comment anyway:

To glorify the rich is buying into a lie that you'll also become rich. And calling anyone on HN poor is a misnomer. Granted, I continued posting here when I was unable to find a job and had to take family loans to save me from ruin, but this audience is mostly educated and mostly white-collar. There are people on this board making far more than you who also don't want to return to the office. What a silly, trivial, small-minded comment.
You mean like Planet Nine?

If Dark Matter exists it can be measured by it's effects on its surroundings
While marvelous... I hate those caps with a vengeance.
> So if they wanted something to be 100px wide, using the 62.5% trick, they would set it to 10em.

I never ever heard of anyone using the 62.5% trick for sizing elements. I only ever heard it being used for text.
The gui is no different than windows in this regard. If you do it on command line its just mv and cd like its been for 40 years.
https://github.com/makeplane/plane, AGPL
> Many are using bicycles not by choice but because they're broke. And it shows when you see the kind of bicycle they ride.

Maybe in your place.

In my place (a big city in Belgium) people just use whatever bike they have that works and fix it up from time to time, but as long as it rides few people care how it looks. Especially since less shiny bikes don't attract thieves as much (although this isn't a big problem here).

I use my bike because driving in traffic is longer and the trip to school with the kids and back home would take 20-30 minutes depending on traffic, while it takes almost exactly 15 minutes by bike (with the kids in a trailer).

I use one of two bikes depending on where I parked my car (which I use once or twice a week to go to places with bad public transit. Otherwise it's parked somewhere within a 10 minutes walk radius, wherever I found space) and one of them looks like I fished it out of the river, the paint is gone in many places, but it's lighter. The other looks nice but it's quite old and heavy steel so I tend to use it less.

I also use my bike (the heavy one, I figure if I want to do exercise, the whole point is to do some actual efforts) for 50 to 100 kilometre round-trips, although less so these days, it was nicer when I lived closer to the countryside between France and Belgium.

But the most important thing is I hate the noise of cars in the city. I want to be able to walk with someone and talk in the street without having to shout or stop while a loud vehicle passes. I don't care about cars themselves, after all they're on their streets doing their things, if they take twice as long as I do to get somewhere it's not my problem. I just want their noise to be gone.
I hope they taste like dog shit.
I'm aware of iTunes Match vs Apple Music Sync Library. Incorporating legacy services into new ones is always a product management tap dance of tradeoffs.

My point is that bring your own library of pre-ripped music into a subscription service for syncing is rare these days unless you're over a certain age or are an audiophile (at which point there are better alternatives like Roon). If you're going to do rare things, then there will always be nuances to understanding the tradeoffs Apple took to support you.
Every ORM I've encountered always has issues when you want to write custom SQL outside of the ORM. It turns into a real mess real fast.

Our production code is mostly stored procedures called by code.
I immediately searched for this quote when I read the OP. Thanks!
I'm now wondering how large a ~7-22nm detail-sized chip at 12" would be :)

I'm guessing relativistic restrictions would hamper its clock speed, but presumably still quicker than 'chips in Minecraft'!
> I don’t get your tone or why you seem shocked that binary data can be stored in a database. Postgres and MySQL both have column sizes for binary data that can hold gigabytes.

My tone is shocked, because what you're describing seems totally removed from any system I've seen, and I've implemented a ton of systems. For performance reasons, you want to stream large uploads to storage (web servers, like nginx, are typically configured to do this even before the request is sent to any application logic). You invariably want to store UGC data that conforms to your schema, even if you're going to reject it for content. There's a whole process for contesting, reviewing and reversing decisions that requires the data be in persistent storage.

I think you misunderstood what I said. Yes, Postgres, MySQL and a variety of other databases have column sizes for binary data that can hold gigabytes. What I wouldn't agree with is that most database records can hold gigabytes, binary or otherwise. Heck, most database records aren't populated from UGC sources and not UGC sources where child porn is a risk.

But okay, let's assume, for arguments sake, most database records are happily accepting 4TB large objects, and you're accepting up to 4TB uploads (where Postgres' large objects max out). Do all your web & application servers have 4TB of memory? What if you're processing more than one request at once, do you have N*4TB of memory?

At least all the systems I've implemented that receive data from users enforce limits on request sizes, and with the exception of file uploads, which are typically directly streamed to the filesystem before processing, those limits tend to be quite small, often less than a kilobyte. Maybe someone could write some really terse child porn prose and compress it down to fit in that space, but pretty much any image would have to be spread across many records. By design, almost any child porn received would be put in persistent storage before being identified as such.

> Second, you generally need to hold the entire image in RAM to create the perceptual hash needed to check that the image is/isn’t child porn.

This is one of many reasons that you generally want to stream file uploads to storage before performing analysis. Otherwise you're incredibly vulnerable to a DoS attack on your active memory resources. Even without a DoS attack, you're harming performance by unnecessarily evicting pages that could be used for caching/buffering for bytes that won't be served at least until you've finished receiving all the file's data.

[Note: Many media encodings tend to store neighbouring pixels together, so you can, conceptually, compute a perceptual hash progressively, without loading the entire file into active memory, which is often desirable, particularly with video content.]
I think Apache Calcite can do this, or something similar.

https://calcite.apache.org/
Apple Publishes Details About New 'MM1' AI Model
You will be able to speak what human needs must be fulfilled. Then the code will appear and you'll be able to meet those human needs.

You, not a boss, will own the code.

And if you have any needs, you will be able to speak the word and those needs will be met.

You will no longer need to work at all. Whatever you want to build, you will be able to build it.

What about that frightens you?
Although I obviously have older accounts, I’ve pretty much lost all of them except GitHub. Have gone through 5 email providers over the span of its life
I notice that all of the sleep positions are either on the stomach or side. I usually go between side and stomach when sleeping, and can't really fall asleep very well on my back. But, my impression is that most people go between side and back, with stomach sleepers being a minority (I've even heard it called weird).

This study backs that up (54% side, 37% back, 7% stomach)

https://www.dovepress.com/sleep-positions-and-nocturnal-body...

I wonder if the difference is cultural, or technological: that is, do we learn to sleep a certain way, or is it that the mattress changes the equation somehow and makes people 5x more likely to sleep on their back than on their stomach?

In the past, I've hypothesized that it's cultural, and my just-so etiology for the phenomenon is that it comes from TV and movies. It's much easier to get a good shot of an actor delivering dialog while lying in bed on their back, compared to their stomach, so we see people sleeping on their back and learn to do it that way.

This is all just uninformed speculation, and of course it assumes the original, linked article is valid at all.
Same here. Perhaps the craziest bit is all the microinteractions that we have. For example, you and I may never interact other than in this one comment thread.
Got it, I think I understand the griping now.

I've been a Mac user for decades but Sonoma is the 1st major release I can remember where everything is going to shit, even 9.x -> OSX wasn't this bad.
In behavioral psych terms what you've identified would technically be referred to as "rate of responding." Its identification as the primary focus of observation in the clinical setting (
and in fact a variable even worth examining!) might be Skinner's greatest contribution to the field.
Why golf carts are a transportation mode of the future. (2022)
I bought property in 2021 with significant tick pressure. I’ve pulled dozens of ticks off me in the first couple years. The past two years I’ve been spraying Heterorhabditis bacteriophora and have seen significant improvement in that time. I have a tractor with a boom sprayer, which helps with large coverage. Obviously this is not a variable you can control in the wild, but for me, it has been super helpful on private land.
The same happened with accountants and spreadsheet software, the number of accounting jobs grew. The actual work they performed became different. I think a similar thing is likely to happen in the software world.
People also believed that pesticides like Roundup only affect insects. However, after a few decades it is becoming clearer that there is a link with Parkinson's.

See e.g.:
https://parkinsonscare.org.uk/pesticides-and-herbicides/
Vermeer made only low dozens of paintings as opposed to, say, Monet, who made thousands, so likely they just mean something like “including one of Vermeer’s paintings, which are rare”
You can also drag and drop and toggle between moving and copying by holding a key