skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The driver wouldn't take card,

For future visitors to Ireland, note that this has been illegal since last year. The taxis are required to accept card. If this does happen to you, ask what their number is and say you'll call ComReg and this problem will almost certainly disappear.
Not just a US phenomenon - it's gone global
> What about going to a restaurant or business meeting or a museum or an appointment with a professional?

Depends on the restaurant obviously. Client meetings and appointments obviously depends on the location. If they're coming to your office then you would probably have already showered if needed. If you have the kind of job where you need to go to other client locations to meet with them then obviously you want a car because you're going to be driving a lot across clients. I imagine such people have cars in Amsterdam as well. For museums, nobody gives a damn. I've never dressed up for a museum in my life.
Yeah, still gotta enjoy nature without a crick in the neck.
https://archive.ph/Jjbhj
No that part translated, I was just under the impression that one only got to Valhalla by dying in glorious battle.
Isn't that because the ones who aren't healthy die? That sounds like saying we shouldn't bother having modern medicine because it causes us to have a lot more sick people. The problem is we wouldn't have a lot more healthy people that way; we'd have a lot more dead people.
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Is Paris still full of dog poop?
65nm process - https://inc42.com/buzz/tata-seeks-for-taiwanese-collaboratio...

This fab is for memory chips (eg. RAM)
It's probably only displayed to EU users. I saw the cookie banner and it left a bad impression on me with such an blog article.
Huawei's OS may soon overtake iOS in China
> Or are you suggesting something so potent it absorbs into your bloodstream and then prevents bug bites

That’s what the medicated pet collars do.

Part of the advantage of collar-absorption is that you can use a molecule that readily breaks down/inactivates in digestion. And avoid sharp peaks in blood levels.
Seems confusing — how would you know all the things that your avatar said in your absence? My guess is this would lead to a proliferation of meeting invites: "hey can you have your avatar sit in on this marginally-relevant meeting?" Then instead of spending all your time in 8 meetings a day, you instead spend all your time reviewing what was said (including by you) at the 20 meetings your avatar attended.
If we still want to allow software to be patentable you’d submit the code.
Readability is in your own eyes.

What it is readable for you, is not for me.

Just map lower case to uppercase and replace any non alpha-num to a black square. This font is not for general use but just to squeeze text messages on tiny displays.

TBH, I see all this pretty useless. While still interesting enough.
I have yet to see either copilot or gpt4 generate code that I would come close to accepting in a PR from one of my devs, so I struggle to imagine what kind of domain you are in that the code it generates actually makes it through review.
For sure. I guess I’ve never bicycled anywhere where I wasn’t in constant fear for my life with cars whizzing past me at 45-55 miles per hour. The anxiety alone makes ya sweat!
[dupe] please
It would appear that sqrt(2) does not have a meaning now, as sqrt(-1) in R. So it does not seem to matter if you do not convert it in an algebraic setting. There is no such number that you can reach with the enumerative approach, which will only give you the rational numbers. There are lots of proofs that sqrt(2) is not rational.

But in all probability we are discussing the wrong thing here. Our difference it's likely at a deeper conceptual level than this.
Salad considered harmful.

https://archive.is/wip/vqmi5

> Professor Pennington also pointed out that a bean sprout farm in northern Germany was identified as the most likely source of many of the infections in the E. coli outbreak that left 22 people dead in 2011.
Wikipedia as a whole is not 'progressive', it is whatever the editors make of it. Many politically contentious subjects have been - to use a word bandied around quite often in those circles - 'colonised' by 'progressive' editors who allow only their own viewpoint to remain in the articles which has turned those parts of Wikipedia 'progressive'.

If you're looking for the chemical composition of some substance or want to look up something related to physics or mathematics Wikipedia tends to do just fine. Articles on history are a mixed bag, especially recent history and especially anything related to 'the West'. For political subjects Wikipedia is less than useless given the aforementioned 'colonisation' but also because political operatives from 'all sides' do their best to paint as rosy a picture of 'their' side as possible.
I've also been a daily cyclist for over 10 years in Paris and paradoxically, I feel less safe now when I'm riding on shared infrastructure (that is roads without a separated cycling lane). I attribute it to the fact that people driving, and especially people who HAVE to drive (taxis, deliveries, etc...) are facing insane levels of congestion and are lashing out on cyclists because they blame them for being stuck in traffic for hours every day.

Now of course as a cyclist, I applaud all this new infrastructure but I'm wondering if there's a way to appease this growing atmosphere of violence (and I'm not exagerating, I've seen several fights break out between motorists and cyclists). Given the very limited space available in Paris centre, I don't really see an easy way unfortunately...

Curious if that's also something you noticed / experienced ?
Making recent value queries 100x faster in InfluxDB 3.0 via query optimization
In Defense of Shell Scripts – By Amin Astaneh – Certo Modo
Seriously, spam at HN? That is pretty unusual to see.
More than a few middle-aged westerners would find it impossible to sleep with bent knees owing to a high prevalance of artherosclerosis (I think).

Also one of the great pleasures of life is turning over in bed repeatedly during a lie-in. Don't know whether it's to do with lymph circulation and/or detoxifying the brain. More investigation needed!
"However, LLMs aren't capable of writing proofs."

LLMs != AI.

I'm not worried about LLM's impact on my career. In their current form they're nothing more than a trap, who will suck in anyone foolish enough to grow a dependence on them, then destroy them, both personally and corporately. (Note difference between "using them" and "grow a dependence on them".) Code that no human can understand is bad enough, code that no human has ever understood is going to be even worse as it starts piling up. There are many characteristic failures of software programming that LLMs are going to suffer from worse than humans. They're not going to be immune to ever-growing piles of code. They're not going to be immune to exponentially increasing complexity. They'll just ensure that on the day you say "OK, now, please add this new feature to my system" and they fail at it, nobody else will be able to fix it either.

If progress froze, over the next few years the programming community would come to an understanding of the rather large amounts of hidden technical, organizational, and even legal and liability debt that depending on LLMs creates.

But LLMs != AI. I don't guarantee what's going to happen after LLMs. Is it possible to build an AI that can have an actual comprehension of architecture at a symbolic level, and have some realistic chance of being told "Take this code base based on Mac OS and translate it to be a Windows-native program", and even if it has to chew on it for a couple of weeks, succeed? And succeed like a skilled and dedicated human would have, that is, an actual, skillful translation, where the code base is still comprehensible to a human at the end? LLMs are not the end state of AI.
Paying taxes is literally contributing to society. Owning land is not.
Phoenix is not your application (unlike Rails)
I have only seen a full display of the Northern Lights once, but I encourage everyone to try to do so sometime in their lives. Mind blowing.
Filipino police free slaves toiling in romance scam operation
It uses E-graphs, as explained in the article. That’s a completely different approach to compilation, and to use it in LLVM you’d have to rewrite LLVM.

It’s also unlikely that the resulting code will ever be as fast as a traditional compiler’s output. It’s great for development, but I wouldn’t use it in a release build.
And yet, I take a 5000 IU over the counter gel of Vitamin D, which is in my medical record, and no medical provider has ever raised an eyebrow.

(I started taking a number of years back when I had low Vitamin D based on bloodwork.)
How to run an LLM on your PC, not in the cloud, in less than 10 minutes
That's pretty incredible! I did the same with a paragraph from another article I was starting to read on HN. (here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39740654) I put it into this and cranked the slidey thing all the way up then gave this to GPT4:

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and while the resulting text wasn't perfect, it did get 90% of it and it stayed true to form.

"When I moved upstairs at the height of the pandemic, I finally recycled a banker's box of user guides for things I no longer owned: a toaster oven, a Palm Pilot, a VCR. That box had moved with me from Chelsea to West Philly to Park Slope, then to Gramercy and Crown Heights, and even though I hadn't added or retrieved anything from the collection in years, the oldest manuals were from the mid-90s, when I last moved. I started building a menagerie of appliances and gadgets for which I was solely responsible. Instructions weren't online then, so it was through these cheaply printed booklets that I understood the operating logics of my devices. Some guides had sections on cleaning, maintenance, troubleshooting, and repairs. Others just diagrams that could help me navigate fixing anything that broke. Every manual deposited in that discard was a sign of my interaction with caring for these thingamajigs it came with."

I'm kind of shocked honestly. I can make out some of it but a lot of it is too jarbled but it's interesting that it manages to pull the text back out, even thingamajigs!
Vitamin D is reheated and presented as revolution every few years.

Yes, everyone should take vitamin D supplements, but too much vitamin D is very dangerous.

Everyone should regularly get tested for their vitamin D level as well. It's cheap. It's easy. It's quick.
For a quick skim through the docs, it wasn’t clear to me: can I run a stateless Quickwit instance or even a library to run queries, such that the only data accessed is in the underlying object store? Or do I need a long-running search instance or cluster?
How far outside central Paris does the cycle infra reach? Are the suburbs still very car-centric and/or hostile bicycles?
This is no more circular than the observation that an RC circuit has a settling time. If you want a reliable instant reproduction of S&D, they exist. In college I had a lecture where the students were given a role (producer or consumer) and a budget, and the price indeed converged as predicted (despite my best efforts to set up a cartel of producers). Just don't expect the US economy to cooperate and provide a controlled lab setting.
Yes, I have always had the same problem with ESPP lots with TaxAct, importing data from Fidelity. Fidelity reports a non-zero but incorrect cost basis, but for some reason the importer doesn't like those line items and imports them as zero.

I've never had a problem with cost bases for RSUs, they get imported just fine.
How far outside central Paris does the cycle infra reach? Are the suburbs still very car-centric?
Thanks; I added citations for both of those.
A Society That Lost Focus
I'm a software engineer; I'm aligned with automation in my bones and my very soul. I want workers to reap the benefits of it though, and that's plainly not the pitch of these companies. Every response in this thread is "progress gonna progress", which takes exactly zero responsibility for their own actions in bringing about that progress, or accepting any agency at all about how that progress takes shape.

EDIT:

> first, second and third industrial revolutions

These killed and maimed millions of people
The only people I encounter using ORMs are junior devs or folks who who keep moving project to project before they get a chance to support something in production. The first time you get an issue and go "wtf" at an ORM you switch real fast.
What was the expiration date of that yogurt?
As I said, just cycle in winter. Your chart says that it does not get muggy from November to April, i.e half of the year. And yes, I do not mind the cold, and do not need it flat, I live in Stockholm and not in Amsterdam.
And there are faster linkers than the default.

…why is it still the default?
5-year study finds no brain abnormalities in 'Havana Syndrome' patients
I think she likes flora.
What their name?
> The knowledge about toxicity from hypervitaminosis D in terms of dosage and duration is limited. Because of the high heterogeneity in reported amounts of vitamin D intoxication cases, it is not possible to calculate a reliable mean value that will invariably induce toxic effects. The highest daily dose hitherto reported in the literature is about 2,000,000 UI/day that has led to intoxication in a couple of months

> Moreover, the highest cumulative dose (657,000,000 UI) leading to toxicity was obtained after 36 months of treatment with cholecalciferol 600,000 UI/day
https://progressivegrocer.com/shrink-self-checkout-lanes-wor....

> That analysis showed that self-checkout led to a shrink rate more than 16 times higher than traditional cashier lines. Nearly 7% of self-checkout transactions had at least some amount of partial shrink, compared to 0.32% with cashiers. The analysis also suggested a shrink rate of 3.5% for self-checkout machines, while conventional cashiers only saw a 0.21% shrink rate.
I really look forward to all programs now having new strange bugs every release. They already do, but I expect AI to do that more at first.
This is similar to my thoughts, “code” is for humans. AI does need a game engine or massive software, some future video game just needs to output the next frame and respond to input. Little to no code required.
The awesome selfhosted* list is a pretty good resource. While it does mention if there's a Docker container, I've found a few of the services without one listed do actually offer one, just have to search for it.

* https://github.com/awesome-selfhosted/awesome-selfhosted
Acute and chronic physical activity improves spatial memory (2023) [pdf]
Is that desirable? To take valuable land and profit from not using it? This seems like exactly what a land-value tax attempts to address.
What's super interesting about Lyme disease is that the cycle is larval and nymphal ticks get infected from (typically) a rodent, then if they feed on a deer, not only does the deer not get infected, it appears to cure the tick. Also female ticks do not pass this on to their offspring.
there's a vaccine for Lyme. I'd like that. not a pill that is literally poison, putting deet on our skin is bad enough.
I had vitamin d deficiency and they prescribed a 50,000 IU pill to take once a week for 3 months, then said 5000 IU daily after that would be fine.

What qualified as deficient also changed during this time too. The recommendation doesn’t surprise me and the vitamin stuff has always seemed like they didn’t really know what they were talking about imo.
In case one wants to switch from Hashicorp to alternatives that are similar enough or forks, what would that stack be?

Hashiternative stack:

- vault -> openbao (fork)

- terraform -> opentofu (fork)

- consul -> ?

- nomad -> slurm + something that runs/orchestrates windows jobs?

- hcl -> dhall + nix?
Raining fire – How Twitter's first Data Center went all wrong
For reference... in this neck of Europe we measure D in mcg (micrograms).

1000 IU is 25 mcg.

FWIW my kid's daily dose is 10 mcg (400 IU), mine is winter 50 mcg (2000 IU) summer 25 mcg (1000 IU).
> I have noticed that my website is currently down with a timeout - sorry for that. I hope this is going to be resolved asap.

HN hug of death strikes again
I thought Wind, Wings and Waves to be a pretty interesting description of how species made it to Hawaii. Basically it either gets picked up in storms or large clumps of land make it across the ocean. Life only has to make the journey seldom or almost never and then take hold once to get to a new place.
The stupidity and arrogance of GNOME developers
Where have you seen this?

Every one I've seen requires login, and usually university membership for the good stuff.
My attention has lately turned to the possibilities offered by ‘new’ materials, especially ceramics. I have a hunch that 40% of everything the industry produces with metals could be built with oxides and rare earths [not so rare, actually]. New materials force redefinitions in shapes and textures. A completely new world of shapes and textures will appear in the coming years/decades.

The deterioration of the online environment in recent years has made me turn my eyes to the world of tangible things. Reality has a reassuring character. In the last few years I have become a maker of real things[0] and I have been happy that way. I am also enchanted by the beauty of certain forms created by human industry.

(!)This links to my blog, so I’m breaking the url so as not to be accused of spamming the board.

[0]h\ps://voxleone.com/2024/03/05/3d-printing-im-making-a-500c-ceramic-hot-end/
There is one by me that lets you pay wirelessly with an app. They have an unlimited wash subscription plan you can only get with that. I am not really sure how it works (bluetooth?) but I guess it would speed things up.

I would try it to puzzle it out, but its one of those spinnybrush antenna destroyers and I'm not gonna risk it.
I was not aware of that. That's a fun fact that I did not expect to learn today.
> The only lingering effects appeared to be a wariness of physicians and distrust of vitamins, both understandable

I am not a doctor, by any stretch of the imagination. But I do work on cars, and computers. As far as I can tell, a doctor works exactly the same way as a mechanic or a computer technician. They listen to symptoms, make an educated guess at a root cause based on limited information, make an educated guess at what might resolve the situation, and then wait to hear back if that fixed it; if it didn't, the loop continues.

Medicine might be scientific, but the practice of medicine is clearly an art, not a science. I don't trust my mechanic; why the hell would I trust my doctor?
They've been talking about this for the last 20 years - will see when it really happens.
Lack of water, stable electricity and not to say inept Indian bureaucracy and corruption are to blame.
I've been on 5000 IU daily for years and my vitamin D levels came back last month as just barely within the normal range. Seems to be some people don't absorb it very well.
So, I get your point. I can see how (1) can be aggravating. Can't really say anything to defend it, that's the Brussels effect for you. From the point of view of your own sovereignty, it's a bad thing, period. From the point of view of an effect on the lives of average people, I'm not so sure, it's so cut and dry.

Now, point (2) is, unfortunately, in the same vein as smoking, pollution, seat belts etc. Uninformed people (uninformed because they have better things to do) are not protected from their lack of knowledge. They suffer the consequences just the same.

And while I agree that and informed person, making a self-destructive choice has (in most cases) the right to do so, there is something to be said about the very, very powerful exploiting the uninformed. And this is where GDPR comes into play. It's protecting normal people, from a very, very big threat, that is not that obvious and is being wielded by the powerful.

GDPR is one of those laws restraining western corporations from going full dystopian future on us all. I said restraining, to be honest, I think it's just slowing them down.

And as far as surveys go - it used to be the same here. Europeans didn't care and said exactly the same things (i.e. the famous "i didn't do anything wrong, so I have nothing to hide") and then activists worked for years to educate them that, at the very least, it's leading them to buy things at higher prices. Now most people are extremely sensitive to their data.
Looks like you can change that with THREADED_EXECUTION to make it act like it does on Windows with a single process and threads:

>On UNIX, starting with Oracle Database 12c Release 2 (12.2), Oracle Database can use an operating system process or an operating system thread to implement each background task such as database writer (DBW0), log writer (LGWR), shared server process dispatchers, and shared servers.

The use of operating system threads instead of processes allow resource sharing and reduce resource consumption.

On Windows, each background process is implemented as a thread inside a single, large process.

https://docs.oracle.com/en/database/oracle/oracle-database/1...

Processes in Windows are much more expensive than Unix typically so using threads has always been preferred to multi process, perhaps thats why MSSQL only has that option with an almost fully recreated internal process model that you can list and kill etc.

Even Oracle says it helps with resource usage, even on Unix/Linux. Also looks like Oracle has had some kind shared mode for a long time where it basically has a built in pooler to keep actual OS process count down, not 1:1 like PG.

Sharing plans can obviously be done using shared memory but it's not a simple as just creating some C++ object model (which I believe is what PG has internally) for the plan it must have a process agnostic data format that is then executed probably by deserializing into a executable model from shared memory. Fully jitted code is even trickier vs just a set of logical plan operations. With threads you just share executable code.
And just to further agree: there is no attempt here from the OxidOS folks to confuse folks or to otherwise conflate their work with ours. So certainly no C&D coming from us -- it's good to see more Rust-based systems in the world! (Though I do wish it were entirely open source!)
Playdate game sales overview and "What I learned" by Ollie Coe