skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am very sure I am not paying for that data, and no-one else is.

The patent is absolutely trivial and would be thrown out in 5 minutes on the first objection. It does not even specify an implementation. Yes, patent language makes it sound important, but basically your "invention" can be summarized in one sentence. That's not an invention.

It's all bullshit. The company website now reads "50 patents on this!". It's a single patent, and yes, in the EU every copy of a patent is registered for each country and therefore you get 50 patent numbers.

Sorry to hurt your feelings, but as you are still insisting to be an inventor. You are not. You may be a great marketer if someone really paid you for this, but that's all.

(I also have "50" patents. But I would not brag about it, and my invention at least consists of a complex idea and 15 pages describing the implementation.)

And finally: The idea is illegal in the EU, where an IP is regarded as personal data, and you would need a written approval by every single user. And I have seen GDPR cookie popups, but never a sanjay popup.

Please just stop trying to impress tech people with a trivial sales person idea. You are abusing the patent system as a troll, and exactly this makes everyone in the industry hate it.
Yes if you support 40,000 units and your demand is much higher you're going to have problems. That tells you the system is underfunded. Central planning hasn't universally failed in every aspect and every application. Central planning tends to do poorly at solving problems that market mechanisms solve effectively, but it's sometimes useful at solving problems that market mechanisms solve poorly.

Centrally planned universal healthcare is generally effective and much cheaper than other systems. The US has out of control healthcare costs with its free market system. The next most expensive country to the US has less than 50% of the administration costs so the free market has actually come up with a bureaucracy that is more expensive to administer than what the government creates.

In general, central planning fails when market mechanisms are replaced by using force to allocate something. That doesn't mean opt-in programs with voluntary registration are going to experience the same type of failure. We know replacing salaries with a gun and telling people what they have to work on is a bad idea. That doesn't mean all central planning ever is a bad idea. I don't think anyone seriously argues we should abolish federal, state, city governments and let my local neighborhood manage it's own policy but that's the logical extreme of all central planning failing.
It's the assholes who say "I am being me, deal with it" as an excuse to get away with bad/rude behaviour without actually knowing what their true self is
The houses are getting swept out to sea. The pace may have increased in recent years but this has been a fact of life on the sandy beaches of MA for centuries.
> Similarly, one often hears "Where are we at?" It is common enough to be seen as a regionalism.

I’m a native English speaker who says “Where are we at”. I think it’s informal, but I never considered it to be wrong or awkward like the first example. Perhaps I’m in the region where it’s common.
> I don't think that means there is anything wrong with me shopping there, and I don't think there is anything wrong in eating grassfed free range beef either.

Why? The first example is absurd and the logic that someone would rely on in making an argument against you shopping somewhere would also be absurd. But the second point is not absurd, as enough people are already eating meat to the point that ecosystems are severely strained.
Just last week my btrfs filesystem got irrecoverably corrupted. This is like the fourth time it has happened to me in the last 10 years. Do not use it in consumer grade hardware. Compared to this, ext4 is rock solid. It was even able to survive me accidentally passing the currently running host's hard disk to a VM guest, which booted from it.
Going to skip the "fundamental logic, mathematical physics, etc" angle and go with:

"That AI isn't all that that and won't make much money" seems to be by far the biggest one. So far the applications are impressive and a little scary, but not actually something that anyone is going to pay for. Apple makes a zillion dollars because people want its phones. Google makes a zillion dollars because people want to sell junk to folks on the internet.

You need to posit a product built out of compute that does more. Maybe replaces a bunch of existing workers in an existing industry, something like that. So far the market is still looking.
It only became a problem when emulator performance overtook their current-gen hardware

(Especially if enhanced versions of big titles like the Zelda games are intended to be a significant selling point for their next console)
Even with this news, several in this thread are repeating that it's nothing special compared with influenza. People have turned off their minds to listen to culture war nonsense
I recently tried (for the first time) Btrfs on my low-end laptop (no snapshots), and I was surprised to see that the laptop ran even worse than it usually does! Turns out there was something like a "btrfs-cleaner" (or similar) running in the background, eating up almost all the CPU at all time. After about 2 days I jumped over to ext4 and everything ran just fine.
His homepage has this interesting snippet:

> If you are desperate to get my books and your library can't afford them, try to type the words "library genesis" in a search engine. I disagree with piracy, but this site saved me many trips to the library, which unfortunately does not carry electronic versions of older books.
It's the same story on the land. It's healthier and better for the environment eat lower down the food chain.

A science-based book on the topic is How Not to Die by Dr. Michael Greger, which review nutrition studies related to a range of terminal diseases. Primarily plant-based diets come out as being best for longevity.

Folks who study longevity specifically reached the same conclusion that a 95% to 100% plant-based diet was good for longevity.

https://www.bluezones.com/recipes/food-guidelines/
> And yet, an inordinate amount of time isn't forever

If it's only guaranteed to terminate after the heat death of the universe, it won't terminate, so I would call that "forever."

> unlike a program written in an actually Turing complete language, you can use static analysis to detect that kind of thing if only primitive recursion is supported.

And this is exactly why I said that break was necessary.

Sure your static analysis may detect that the loop goes 2^256 times, which would be "forever," and so it returns the answer, "Does not halt."

Ah, but with the break keyword, it still could. In fact, it might always halt rather quickly.

Rule of thumb is that if static analysis can be wrong, it is Turing-complete.
Because ~90% of the population was farming
I'll add two notes to this:

* Finite automata based regex engines don't necessarily have to be slower than backtracking engines like PCRE. Go's regexp is in practice slower in a lot of cases, but this is more a property of its implementation than its concept. See: https://github.com/BurntSushi/rebar?tab=readme-ov-file#summa... --- Given "sufficient" implementation effort (~several person years of development work), backtrackers and finite automata engines can both perform very well, with one beating the other in some cases but not in others. It depends.

* Fun fact is that if you're iterating over all matches in a haystack (e.g., Go's `FindAll` routines), then you're susceptible to O(m * n^2) search time. This applies to all regex engines that implement some kind of leftmost match priority. See https://github.com/BurntSushi/rebar?tab=readme-ov-file#quadr... for a more detailed elaboration on this point.
Rive Renderer for real-time vector graphics is now open source
Off the top of my head, I imagine blood bag sizes are standardized, so they're easy to deal with during an emergency transfusion.

It would be a nightmare to deal with containers with mixed volumes of blood. "This patient needs 3 litres of O-, let me figure out which combination of blood bags do I need now"
When comparing two developed countries only using GDP/per capita, make sure that the person you are debating with is way less educated than you are.
Simply avoid all protein sources?
I've always wondered why sqlite came along, but adoption of msql (Matt Dillons' similar database stack) didn't catch on .. did you have any opportunity to review the existing database tools that were available at the time, and if so - what did you find?

I realize this question is a bit archaic so if there's not really any good answers, no worries - but as I was using Matt's msql in the 2000's in the same way that I now use sqlite, its something I often wonder whenever I set up a new sqlite.db ...
Fair - I guess these will be relegated to 'Evil Lair Under Ground Bunker'(TM) types - like Zucks Hawaii compound's internal datacenter on-prem.

EDIT: the 10-year is just a random number.

And while these chips will obviously eventually be obsoleted as far as their cutting-edge - that doesnt remove the usefulness of such a chip for as long it can logic electrons.

So even by any future standard - as few of these thrown in more a consumer space will be adding of value for a long time, one would think. I'd be really interested in knowing about fab re-tooling.

I recall one night at Intel in 1997 or so - I stepped onto the balcony to have a smoke at about 1am.

There was another guy there who was in finance and we had a similar smoke schedule - and we would chat. He was lamenting about the difficulty in his work was to re-work a lot of DB schemas because some of the numbers he had to entire as far as finances, were too large for the fields.

I never forgot that - or a common trope that was thrown around intel at the time - I was in my early 20s and was focused on video games when at Intel - so I didnt get to follow along with this: "Its cheaper to just build a new fab than to retool one for the next iteration of processor"

-- so I wonder just how much ancillary waste happens these days with each new chip iteration/evolution. Meaning - all the amounts of resources that went into the fab to make such a chip - and where these wind up in their lifecycle.

The newest machines to make the ultra EUV chips are ~$380 million a piece (which is nothing these days on a scale - but on a unit basis, thats a Fton.

https://www.cnbc.com/2022/03/23/inside-asml-the-company-adva...

https://i.imgur.com/say0bnv.png
Not sure about your definition of bearish, but concerned about the geopolitical risk of relying on this one company and their one supplier. In addition to everything else.

Also bearish on programmers keeping up on their fundamental algorithms, rather than trying to throw NNs at every problem.
"When we were selling shovels to coal miners, we always secretly knew there was gold in those hills."

Yeah, sure.
I think it speaks to the generalizability of linear algebra.
Zig certainly needs more work. That part is more on familiarity with Zig and how intuitive it is or isn't.

In any case I would recommend anyone investigating things like that to run things through strace. It is often my first step in trying to understand what happens with anything - like a cryptic error "No such file or directory" without telling me what a thing tried to access. You would run:

$ strace -f sh -c 'your | pipeline | here' -o strace.log

You could then track things easily and see what is really happening.

Cheers!
The beginning? It’s been fifteen years. Hundreds of billions have been invested. We’ve been through several massive hype cycles.

If there is any potential for mainstream adoption of crypto, what exactly is holding it back at this point? It’s not new; it’s not obscure; and it’s certainly not underinvested.

Of course the crypto promoters will never admit that because the only reason to invest in crypto is this narrative — “it’s something brand new, very few people understand it, you can get in on the ground floor and be part of a revolution, etc.”
That would have been economically damaging: where's the profit in doing that, and how would that help people get back into offices and kids into schools so the adults can stay focused at work

If we wanted billions spent on public health we can't leave it to politicians and business leaders
It's not just as simple as "probably just meat". Of course meat is important but i'd say in light of recent research fermentation and gut flora related concepts would be a better guess.

Cutting edge research into the Gut Biome shows its overlooked significance, connected to pre and probiotics and food, but also mental health, even going as far as questioning how much of "us" are really the gut biome.

People can heal various ailments even mental disease by getting transplants, it's a completely new and wild field of study, and holds much more weight than say eating or not eating meat.
Glad to see so many people pissed off. Nothing will change but it's good to see so much information and callouts of corporate welfare.
Very cool. Reminders is one of those Apple Apps that has proper API.
So anyone can integrate with it.

I've build two apps on top of it:
1. macOS habits tracker https://apps.apple.com/us/app/alto-computer/id6478018751?mt=...
2. small web app to publish my daily habits online https://public.me/anton/daily
If you bomb a cow pasture with napalm, you aren't going to be left with napalm resistant cows. Just lucky ones. And luck isn't genetic.
> do they unify electromagnetism and gravity in the sense that electromagnetism also "works by changing the geometry of spacetime" ?

Yes, somehow actually. KK theories introduce an extra spatial dimension beyond our usual (3+1) which is postulated to be "compactified". This just means that it's curled up on itself at such a tiny scale that we don't directly perceive it. The way this extra dimension is curled and shaped affects the geometry of the overall 5-D spacetime. How it is connected to EM is that now these geometrical variations in the 5-D spacetime, when viewed from our 4-D perspective, manifest as the EM force and its associated field.

So you can say like in GR which have gravity arises as consequence of geometry, it is in KK that EM is consequence of geometry. However, the geometry and details are different.

> How does this relate to QFT?

Not much in the sense that they can provide useful information to each other. QFT describes forces in terms of interactions mediated by particles (e.g., photons for EM). KK, while primarily geometrical, give hints that perhaps these force-carrying particles can be associated with specific vibrational modes of the extra dimension. Of course KK theory only include EM and gravity. So we know for sure that we need to go beyond KK. This was the actual motivation for people to think about string theory to expand the original KK work.
Semantic Web is dead, because we've suddenly achieved its goal without it.

We no longer need everyone to publish their information in a machine-readable form, because through LLMs we can make machines read the human-readable versions now.

LLMs are not quite reliable, but the machine-readable data was never reliable either. The Web as a whole is messy, and invisible metadata is systematically less well maintained than the primary human-centric information.
Nvidia has been peddling compute for decades. They've long been selling enterprise tier cards for industrial purposes that are ill-suited to games. In many ways CUDA has been their long running attempt to break out of gaming.

I'm not surprised here. They invested and invested and invested and now everyone is playing catch up while they nearly corner the market. In industry circles we've been lamenting their dominance in this area for well over a decade.

Google and Apple are the only companies I see that have a shot at disrupting their market but they tend to end up navel gazing instead of burning bridges. And Nvidia has bridges with everyone.

It's absolutely an industrial geopolitics mastercraft scenario. We'll be studying them for a century.

Everyone has long known that the secret to unlocking the next tier of performance is solving concurrency. Look at all the advances that have made it into production in the last twenty years. But threading models only get you so far on a CPU, and programming GPUs is comparatively very difficult. Nvidia has always aimed to displace the CPU's prominence, since day one.

It's horizontal scaling 101.
It can be a resume piece. Having been in these communities (server emulation instead of console) you find some insanely bright developers in them. A lot of them don't have a formal education background, but are willing to build out well thought out pieces of software. You just have to do the research on them if they tell you this is who they are, a lot of the times you can find out plenty about how they code and design things out in the open. I'd probably almost always hire such a dev if their code seemed good, and I knew they cared about the quality of their code. Having been involved in those communities though I do know there are awful devs who don't care about what anyone says "my code aint broken" types who never give credit when you help them either (reputation / respect matters more when you're coding for free in some of these communities).
One of my favorite papers, and it guided my build system design.
For ~200k years, humans got food from hunting and gathering. You went out in nature and caught the food you could find growing wild there. That supported a global population of ~50M.

10k years ago we started figuring out how top make food ourselves (farming), and now we can comfortably feed 7000M.

But we still harvest the oceans like hunters and gatherers. I don't think this can or should go on. We need to farm the oceans!
People with hypermobility may be more prone to long Covid, study suggests
Not all fish are overfished. Even salmon isn't overfished in all regions.
If they harvest massive amounts of copyrighted and suspect data and send the worst parts of it to strangers over the Internet, everyone calls it "ML" and "training" and investors give them billions in funding but when I do it they call me a pirate and a pervert and throw me in jail.
It's been a while since I read "The Perfect Protein" by Andy Sharpless, but IIRC their argument is that it's not just fish, but particular populations of fish. Some wild fish are fine to eat - others are either at risk or are keystone species that shouldn't be wiped out. Also the method of fishing makes a difference as well. Hence the contrasting advice.
Microsoft 2011: https://web.archive.org/web/20110330160247/http://www.micros...

Microsoft 2024: One single almost full screen advert for one of their devices, followed by more adverts.

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SendGrid. An example of a good homepage with a description of what services it provides:

> Send transactional and marketing emails at scale with the platform that offers a 99% deliverability rate. Brands large and small use SendGrid’s world-class email tools to deliver 148+ billion emails monthly.

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Twilio, who owns SendGrid. An example of another shitty homepage. It has three big standout headings, all of which are much like GitHub's word salad but worse.

> Gartner names Twilio a Leader in CPaaS

I have no idea what Gartner or CPaaS is, and a homepage should get to the point immediately.

> The 2023 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for CPaaS recognizes Twilio based on its completeness of vision and ability to execute.

Hmm yes more word salad this time with a few copyright symbols thrown in for good measure. Plus, we get to feel like wizards because they said the word magic.

> Connect the dots across your customer journey with better data + AI

> Twilio is the industry-leading and trusted platform that efficiently powers your customer engagement innovation.

Ah, there! There we go, it's more AI nonsense! I have to scroll down *to the middle of the page to see what Twilio even does*!
The difference is that the extraneous junk is in one long block on modern websites, whereas it previously would've been freely mixed throughout the actual content in the old web.
Are you saying influenza and common cold also break down the blood brain barrier? Because that is what the new news is that the OP is about.
> but it decreases social segregation. That alone is critical to keep a city alive.

I agree that is a net boon to society. I think the cross drift of ideas is a net positive, the human interaction can create more opportunities for those that have less, I don't think it reduces inequality meaningfully and I'm not suggesting that was a goal only that my prior statements might lead one to believe it does, but I've seen far more segregated cities be without many services during an infrastructure failure, because the people doing those services didn't live there.
The only school of those I’ve heard about is Santa Cruz. But it can be difficult to get housing there as an undergrad and classes can be large.

Don’t optimize 100% for your degree and job. College is an opportunity to learn new things and have new experiences. I hire a lot of software engineers- being well rounded is a rare trait.

Find a school that you enjoy and suits your personality. You will be there for 4 years and you won’t just be studying the whole time.
There is not enough resources for everyone to eat sustainable beef. Some people need to eat unsustainably, so others can eat the sustainable stuff. Which is, obviously, unsustainable.
The paper: "Prior to 1999, prostitution was not regulated in Sweden."

Reality: "The earliest law to explicitly ban prostitution was in the Civil Code of 1734."
I'm pretty sure wild fish restock themselves by reproducing, it's more about finding the equilibrium it converges to and not overfishing.
Why SQLite?
Why not provide a generic SQL interface?
I never understood that.
Why do people build this around SQLite?
He says did not ask for $7T

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39747415
They're giving advice based on that's good for the individual, which can be at odds with what's good for the collective.
Or the other way around, perhaps if it stayed within Google it would have stayed in the dark and take xx years to discover again
The title may imply this but the article really doesn't. Go to an actual "car-less" area of a city like Brussels and there are delivery vehicles at least in the morning, work vehicles of various kinds, street sweepers, etc. Even at the relatively extreme end of pedestrianized malls, there are still a fair number of vehicles around.
Can you point to some evidence that increased saturated fat consumption does not increase LDL? Or that there is no link between serum LDL levels and plaque build up? Or are you making a different claim?
We can't. The fishing fleets are on a path to totally wiping out Herring in the Baltic Sea for example. So the article misses the point on that front too. The government of Sweden is doing nothing while the population collapses.
>Grass fed beef does not add to Climate change, as all bio-emissions are bound in a circle. Unlike typical mass production which is importing feed from far abroad, often burning a good chunk of rainforest in the process on doing so.

There are many studies that show that beef, grass fed or not, add to Climate change.

The grass fed meme crowd thinks they are saving the rainforest by not eating beef fed with soy from monocultures in Latin America but conveniently forget that in order to feed the whole world with grass fed animals you would need more land than the world can provide. Much of the amazon is being cut down to create pastures for cattle. It's a complete tragedy.

>Beef cattle use nearly 60% of the world’s agricultural land but account for less than 2% of global calories and 5% of global protein consumed.

https://grazingfacts.com/land-use
When can we expect debian to ship Bcachefs?
Is Nvidia using AI to help design new GPUs? When that happens we're actually off to the singularity. Until then, I can't tell if we're in a bit of hype mode.