skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> cyclists are less annoying than drivers

I had to laugh out loud at this, please define "less annoying".

As a daily cyclist in Paris my very own statistics say that about 95% of them (yes, that's NINETY FIVE percent) are either color blind, suicidal or willfully ignore the most basic rule, aka red lights. And yes that include M12 signs which have arrows indicating directions in which running the red light is authorized, that is ignored as well. Breaking these 95% down into categories, the vast majority would be delivery guys - you can easily imagine their "excuse" - and (usually young) idiotic morons on bikeshares (Vélib, Dott, Lime, etc) who therefore do not own the bikes and therefore care even less. I'm especially angry at parents on cargo bikes who run red lights with kids with them, this is not only suicidal, it's borderline criminal. But, you know, they are saving the planet, or something.

So I kinda disagree with the "less annoying", cyclists in Paris are the reason why everybody in Paris hates cyclists.
Simply compiling it with -O3 produces something which completes in half the time of the JavaScript version (350ms for C, 750ms for JS), so perhaps that.

Edit for Twirrim: on this system (Ryzen 7, gcc 11): "-O3": 350ms; "-O3 -march=native": 208ms; "-O2": 998ms; "-O2 -march=native": 1040ms.

Edit 2: Interestingly, changing the C from float to double produces a 3.5x speedup, taking the time elapsed (with "-O3 -march=native") to 58ms, or about 12x faster than JS. This also makes what it's computing closer to the JavaScript version.
Nothing of note. I still see plenty of turkeys, frogs and possums. I spray the beneficials so that it does not harm other beneficial insects and I assume if there is a healthy population of insects in general, there is still enough food source for wildlife. I can’t think of anything that prefers ticks as their main diet.
I have had to replace mine before.

I was sitting in the family room. Big slam sound. I go out and check the garage and one of the springs had broke.

It is really not a big deal to switch them out.
Have you seen devin the ai developer demo?

Business already doesn't know what security is, they will jump head first into everything which allows them to get rid of those weird developer dudes which they have to cater to and give a lot of money.

I personally would also assume that there might be a new programming language AI will invent. Something faster, more optimized for AI.
The Degas sketches were very nice and extremely accessible. I mean, I'd have left with them. They're the sort of things you could hang around the house and enjoy and folks wouldn't immediately finger you for an art heist. Perfect, really.
It stands to reason, then, that a low interest rate now would potentially drive an even bigger bubble in the future. A high interest rate now might not solve housing affordability today, but it could perhaps stabilize things farther down the road.
Author mentions they didn't use optimization flags but doesn't include the compilation details. You can sort of guess that (relatively) unoptimized C might perform worse than V8's JIT on short, straight computational code - you're more or less testing two native code generators doing a simple thing except one has more optimizations enabled and wins.
Its widely known as one of the most dangerous DIYs you can do. I think typically people working on them will get pushed off their ladder suddenly from the tension in the spring releasing.
While those are "dedicated bike lanes", it wasn't infrastructure built for bikes. Typically those are existing road safety shoulders converted to a bike lane.

I dont count that as dedicated bike infrastructure.
You'd have to also specify a normalization procedure to make sure that email addresses are provided in the same format each time.
Honestly, I like it. I'll happily build this into Known.
You sound a lot like me.

I think macOS has the worst window management of any major OS especially for power users. It's so bad that buying a half dozen third party apps to "fix" the UX disaster that is macOS has basically been normalized.

I don't like any touchpad so even if a MacBook touchpad is better it's still just the best worst method for mouse input.

I think Apple makes nice hardware though. But I also work docked basically 99% of the time and use it as a desktop replacement so many of the Apple hardware advantages are moot for me. I'm kind of shocked when I see people voluntarily working on a laptop undocked. Working with a crappy keyboard, a crappy touchpad, and a small screen is torture to me even if it's the best crappy keyboard, the best crappy touchpad, and the best small screen.
Bacterium from Canadian lake shines new light on ancient photosynthesis
iirc Zig want to replace LLVM for similar reasons, also hard to debug.
The difference is that your friend has a negative view of others than the OP is not presenting. They’re just stating their subjective enjoyment of an activity.
How do you breathe when you sleep on your stomach? My back and hips feel amazing when I try it, but my neck starts to hate me from the way I have to twist around to get air.
Does anyone know how well does DuckDB's persistent mode compare to SQLite for example?

Does it write synchronously on COMMIT and never lose data? Is it reliable enough to use instead of SQLite?
I do realize this is getting into "is Gene Roddenberry's post-scarcity society even possible starting from capitalism?"

When deciding whether competition is the best governance should take into account system scope or level for that competition. Are you competing at the level of hotel rooms and restaurants within a hotel, at the level of hotels, at the neighborhoods clusters of hotels are in, at sectors of ecosystems like hotels versus transportation versus other people uses of land and resources.
Sure, lots of people want to sell my data. That's a choice. You don't need to do that for advertising - it's a pretty recent invention having fully personalised adverts.
Source: https://git.sr.ht/~lioploum/ploum.net/blob/6fd54472047de8c2e...
4M particles is not the question. what's the framerate?
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Tech has already learned there’s not enough real frontier left to reap the bounty of(removing zero interest rates that incentivize mere flow of capital). This stuff is being invested in to yield the most productivity at the least cost. There will either be a permanent net decrease in demand or, being so high level, most openings will pay no more than 60-70K in an America (likely with reduced benefits) where wages are already largely stagnant.
These pig butchering scams play the long game with their victims. It's crazy. The payoffs are huge as well. These are just some of the stories I have heard through various mediums (ie, podcasts, news stories, media segments)

- Kansas bank CEO charged with $50M embezzlement as a result of being a victim to "pig butchery". The bank itself was forced into bankruptcy due to this debacle [1]

- Woman lost $450K in pig butchering scam [2]

- US government often the subject of cybersecurity fraud as well. Pandemic relief programs paid out billions to scammers [3]

- halfway decent segment on pig butchering on "Last Week Tonight" with John Oliver [4]

Researching potential victims is so easy now with the proliferation of online dating apps. Then given how many breaches there are amongst the many services we use, it's even easier to gather more data points that can be used against a victim to drop their defenses (ie, social engineering tactics).

The Nigerian scammers of yesteryear have learned the errors of their ways. Notes taken from the "cat fishers" of the 2010s. The Indian scam call centers have graduated from script based tech support scammers to these romance scams as well since it has a larger audience beyond the elderly. Even preying on their own countrymen.

At this point, I think any relationship that continues online for more than a month and refuses to meet IRL. The relationship should be sus. I wouldn't even trust Zoom/Facetime/Webex /Meets with the accessibility of AI to generate passable entities (this combined with typical low quality streams of these services).

[1] https://foxkansas.com/news/local/kansas-bank-ceo-may-face-ja...

[2] https://www.goodmorningamerica.com/living/video/woman-lost-4...

[3] https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/covi...

[4] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pLPpl2ISKTg
> If you've researched this subject at all, you will no doubt have heard that you shouldn't be attempting torsion spring replacement as a do-it-yourselfer.
One day, a long time ago, I walked into a small machine shop after hours and asked the owner what the words "Screw Machine" in the business' name meant. There were lots of small shops around called "x Screw Machine Co." and I was curious.

He took me on a short tour of his shop and showed me what a screw machine was. Most of the equipment was 40+ years old and many of them still had the stencil, "Property of War Department."

In short, it's a bar-fed high-speed automatic lathe with all the automation done with cams and gears. I watched it make some kind of specialized spacer, each piece taking about 40 seconds, and as a software engineer familiar with CNC, I was amazed that this could be done so fast without a single computer in sight.

And yes, there are now CNC versions that can do even more mind-blowingly complex operations, but I'm still impressed by cams and gears.
Indian scam centers costs American billions more per year and they operate with impunity and support of local governments. This is a much bigger issue affecting Americans. Has John Oliver delivered any outrage over this? Nope, because he is a hypocrite and a coward.

https://www.techjuice.pk/indian-scam-call-centers-made-over-...
Still too much design. The centering is unnecessary.
People put dog tick/flea stuff on cats all the time by accident containing it (I've personally seen it twice now), it usually doesn't kill them but it's absolutely horrible to witness, cats will get seizures and treatment is only supportive, either they live or they don't. Both the cases I saw were brought to the vet and the cats were messed up pretty bad for a few days.
Plausibly "yes" on the model I owned. And the timing belt (from memory, mine was at 80k miles) would have been okay BY ITSELF. (Multiple dealerships and independent repair places agreed on the mileage for doing that, I do recall. And none of those ever suggested that any work done by their competitors was incompetent. Nor that I'd failed to have all the required maintenance done in good time.)

That timing belt replacement was well-known and widely advertised. The coking of the manifold (effectively strangulating the engine) was NOT. Ditto the car's growing appetite for various one-off repairs, some of them very pricey.

Yes, I'd probably view things quite differently if I'd had the tools & time to do my own repairs at the "remove manifold from the engine, clean, replace" level. And wanted to adjust my ERG to non-factory (and plausibly non-legal) spec's. And etc. And I'm sure that owning a horse is great, if you love horses, and don't mind caring for horses daily, and have a horse barn and feed budget and good veterinarian and etc.

By compare, the Honda that I bought to replace the VW (from the same dealer), has been a different world. 14-ish years old now, and repairs vastly fewer and nicely cheaper.
Extortion is the word you're looking for, imo.
Weird self promo but we[1] provide Github actions runners that are much faster than stock. You can get started with just a one-line change to your workflow file. It may help.
[1] https://www.warpbuild.com
Where on Earth did you get that idea? Every library I've ever been to has offered all kinds of events geared to "socializing," from Group Crochet, to Book discussions, to AA. Not to mention how common it is for libraries to offer "teen spaces" where kids are free to hang out, work on homework together, etc.
Maybe Le Guine meant (plastic) bottles and Polyethylene Terephthalate (PET) Yarn?

That is also super complex for something that we take for granted
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Everyone should dislike Elon Musk. He's a horrible person and needlessly rich. The man has sociopathic tendencies. We just have to listen to his ethos to determine that.

With that said, yes Ketamine is effective for depression. But it is not designed for "depression-like symptoms". It is designed for acute depressive mood disorders and suicide ideation which cannot be treated by other means, similar to electroshock therapy or TMS. Ketamine is not a "first line" treatment for depression.

Simply based on his own words from this article, this sounds like abuse of Ketamine.

My question would be if he's getting IV treatments or using compound medication. They are wildly different in their usage, effects, and monitoring.
They're aware of it, at least. They mention this is how Gravatar works.
“Now if I don’t get elected, it’s going to be a bloodbath for the whole — that’s gonna be the least of it, it’s going to be a bloodbath for the country. That’ll be the least of it. But they’re not going to sell those cars.”

It’s clear he introduced his bloodbath metaphor in the context of talking about the auto industry. But it seems as he was saying it he had this thought - that the bloodbath wouldn’t just be confined to the auto industry. “… it’s going to be a bloodbath for the country. That’ll be the least of it.” The ‘bloodbath’ he expects in the auto industry is in his mind an example of a more widespread threat. A ‘bloodbath for the country’.

Pretending his use of this language isn’t connected to a larger apocalyptic narrative he’s selling is disingenuous.
Curious as to which apps if there are any you can point to?
Hi! Just reading the docs, this looks really slick. I had a few questions:

- When you create tables, are they always connected to a source? How does that work for the cloud version (ie, source = filesystem? would we just use s3, it seems.)
- Does arroyo poll an s3 bucket for new files and automatically ingest?
- Are you able to do ALTER TABLE? (What if data, or data types, are mismatched?)
- Similarly, am I able to change the primary key (ie, clickhouse's ORDER BY or projections?) or change indexes?

Any plans for HTTP as a source? (This is what we build and I'd be happy to prototype an integration!)
I did one on the "do it with the spring relaxed and the door up" plan. The door isn't that heavy, you can just lift it with your hand to help the opener lift it up, and done. But cramped!! Getting the lift cable nicely wound on the lift pulley, giving it a bit of preload (pull) and getting it attached to the bottom of the door, all with the raised door in the way, and doing both sides, let's just say my supply of swear words was severely depleted by the end. But I did get it done, and no dangerous forces were involved.

Whereas I saw a professional do it in about 5 minutes flat on the "wind the spring and block it and then hook everything up with the door down" plan. But that can kill you if you do it wrong.
It would be like opening an independent video store when the entire market has moved to streaming. Yeah you could try it, but there are good reasons not to.
Clang Shows Off Great Performance Advantage on Nvidia GH200's Neoverse-V2 Cores
Have you worked at IBM? How much did you like checkpoint/reflections?
This is really cool, I love the idea of combining partitioning with foreign data wrappers to get sharded Postgres. I have tried it before and hit the same issue from the article:

> However, on closer inspection, we can see that we didn’t perform an async foreign scan, but executed each statement serially. Currently (based on my read of the PostgreSQL docs and code), PostgreSQL does not support async foreign scans with a “Merge Append” node (e.g., running multiple operations that require merging sort results, such as a K-NN sort).

It feels like Postgres is quite close to do that in an optimal way.
I guess I'm no user!

Gemini is the best all-around AI tool I've used. It falls a bit on programming tasks, but I don't use it for that.
Yeah, I'm a DIY'er and I noped-out of this one too.
Did you add output of the results to the C code?
Isn't most of his collection completely analog?
Thank you, but I don't really understand the point you are making here. This is probably my misunderstanding, but can I push you to explain what you mean a bit more fully?
Boiler plate being eliminated by syntactic sugar or runtime is not the same thing. Sure that made diving in easier but it didn't abstract away the logic design part - the actual programming part. Now the AI spits out code for you without thinking about the logic.
Hah. Australian ex-pat living in Seattle. Took my girlfriend and her daughter to Australia to catch up with my family, etc. We did Sydney, Cairns and Melbourne. Hell, even with Uber... multiple pretty openly racist drivers in Cairns (I am extremely left wing, but my partner and friends like to tease that I could pass for a 'good old boy', so too many people feel comfortable just erupting in tirades and assuming I'll be in agreement).

Actually, in CNS, the most common problem was cancelations with Uber. Of maybe a dozen or more Uber trips I took in 4 days there, only one or two didn't have any cancelations. Usually it required one or even more cancelations before a driver would actually "commit".
Indeed, can't wait for the day when technical people can stop relishing in the moments of intimate problem solving between stamping out widgets, and instead spend all day constantly stamping out widgets while thinking about the incredible bullshit they'll be producing for pennies. Thanks boss!
I’ve taken many taxis in Montreal and London and other European cities, and in Taiwan, and have never had anything like this happen to me.

Instead I get Uber drivers who refuse to come to my pickup spot and drive around in circles hoping I’ll cancel the trip first so they can still get paid something.
> To maximize neural efficiency

That's a fascinating premise, I need to chew on it.
> I don't know what you mean by this.

Sure, after more curve fitting [1]. It's just more inconvenient history that's been forgotten to favour LCDM.

> You will find no paper out there that can reach the same level of predictions as DM.

That's just wrong. LCDM's curve fitting has become great due to all of the adjustments, it's a priori predictions have not been great:

https://arxiv.org/abs/2110.06936

> some form of DM will still be required

This was always the case as I already pointed out in my previous reply, going back to at least the 90s [2]. The point is that cold dark matter has seemingly been adding epicycles in order to reduce all explanations to its one underlying cause.

[1] see section 5.3, https://arxiv.org/abs/1404.7525

[2] http://astroweb.case.edu/ssm/mond/moti_bullet.html
This is pretty neat...

Having an interest in the space for many years (on-and-off; life gets busy sometimes) - I've often lamented the lack of good pixel-level performance optimizations in graphics cards. Everything seems hell-bent on polygons.

Some years ago, DirectDraw on Windows was an excellent way to optimize the graphics portion of these types of things, but that all went away as "3D Is The Way" mentality took over.

My explorations of Processing.* were neat, but lacked the IDE and library support I like as a developer.
A reasonable, albeit lossy, gloss on "bright" is "someone who earns their living through intellectual labor". Clearly there are mathematicians who become potato farmers, but what we don't see is movement in the other direction: call it sufficient but not necessary.

The corollary being that those people are already earning their bread doing things which an artificial intelligence can't replicate. I've seen many vast overestimates of how many of these jobs could even be replaced with a Jetsons robot, and we're nowhere close to deploying anything vaguely resembling one of those.
I'm not sure "fall back on the existing method" is really an explanation though. It's like saying, "stick shift is easy to explain, whenever you're confused just switch back to standard."

Passkeys are meant to be a password replacement. "Use your password" can't be the answer to "how do I do X with passkeys"? We're talking about onboarding people onto a separate system, they're going to want to know why they're being asked to use two systems simultaneously.
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i had a prof many moons ago who liked to start each semester with the observation that computers do two things: add bits and move them around. everything else is an elaboration on that.

i’m not enough of a circuit of electrical engineer to know if that’s still essentially true, but it definitely made an impression.
> I've seen nothing from AI, either in production or on the horizon, that suggests that it will meaningfully lower the barrier to entry for practicing the profession, let alone enable non developers to do the work developers do.

Good observation. Come to think of it, all examples of AI coding require a competent human to hold the other end, or else it makes subtle errors.
Thank you,

I was more looking for use-case as opposed to a barf of all dockers....

"I want to do TASK so here are all the dependencises for you to do TASK and how they will link"

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And yeah; how do you tink a 3-year old in 2050 is going to be able to setup his dev env? Do you want him to learn binary.
Not that I've read of, but Vanessa Freudenberg created SqueakJS; a javascript system that can run (pretty much) any Squeak based image in your browser.
See https://squeak.js.org/run/
You can take a prophylactic dose of doxycycline for 1-2 days I believe. If you have a lot of ticks in your area a general physician should be familiar with that protocol.
I hear you, but let's not "blame Agile"

Also the key problem is not iterated development but remote access
(AKA backdoors) baked into designs as a way to hedge bets.

There's some cases where remote field maintenance is absolutely the
right thing to do.

You would not send a space probe to Mars without the ability to
radically change its software while in service.

When facing unknown future conditions the concept of deferred
functionality is essential.

In situations of consumer electronics, which are designed, purchased
and deployed within a rigid set of operational expectations, deferred
functionality is a MASSIVE security risk and a subversion of
expected trust models.

Convergence means that these days I can literally turn any of your
devices into anything else... your wall clock into a radio, your
fridge into a web-server, your television into spy camera.

It's not Agile as a development philosophy that is somehow "to blame"
but its corruption by the devious into an excuse for reserving the
ability to change functionality while hiding behind the plausible
deniability of "necessary maintenance".
yes, Cubase used a parallel port dongle in the 90s and then in the 2000s a not-iLok USB dongle called eLicenser. They have switched to software activation for their products since 2022.