skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's because the prion protein is in the brain. As in, there is basically only one protein in mammals which actually has this problem (that we know of), it's not a general issue with proteins. The variants which exist are essentially because of the small variations in this protein across species, or specific inheritable mutations which make sponteneous formation of the misfolded form more likely.

(this protein, by the way, is not essential for life, but lacking it seems to slow brain development in mice)
There's a lot of small towns where buying Main Street wouldn't be an outrageous cost. It's got some appeal. Go in and make it work again.

But when you get down to the "How?" it quickly becomes apparent that the inertia is strong and the odds of success are extremely low.

Still, it's a fun daydream.
Could it because of decreased mortality from other factors like infectious disease or malnutrition, which would allow for cancer to rise to the top for cause of death?
A friend had a vinyl copy of The 1812 Overture. At the point where the cannons started firing, they increased the groove spacing to allow the full dynamic range. Unfortunately, you could see where my friend's needle had taken shortcuts across the biggest transients.
DEI the goal is great. Basically every approach to achieve it has been straight up racism and sexism in an attempt to “balance things”.
This plus a reencode with handbrake is what I use. I reencode to get size down and make it more compatible with what I have.
> No one is price gouging. You can easily survive without watching ANY media. You can also easily only pay for the exact media that you want at the exact time you want.

It's 2024, we shouldn't be content with only what's needed for "survival" and we shouldn't accept being exploited in order to have access to art and culture. With modern technology and nearly free and instant global distribution art and culture should be increasingly made more accessible to everyone, but instead the paywalls grow ever higher and arbitrary restrictions are put in place.

Sadly we can't always pay for the exact media that want. The amount of lost works is increasing. Streaming services are pulling content and refusing to release it on physical media making it unavailable, and they are censoring content making unedited works unavailable at any price (at least legally). Expect the problem to get worse.
I can make just about anything I want faster, cheaper and with far less drama than food delivery or a drive-through trip (and a hell of a lot cheaper). I find your comment confusing.
My thinking is that they switched to a more westernized diet full of sugars, instead of their local food. But then again it could be a thousand factors together.
This is not at all how it works. Prion diseases are not at all to do with synthesising proteins 'backwards'. It's entirely because of one protein found in the brain which has a very stable misfolded form which will induce other copies of it to misfold as well (and this misfolds all stick together into something the body struggles to break down, which is what eventually causes the damage). It's not something that can happen to just any protein (lots of other proteins do misfold or are otherwise not made correctly, all the time. But they don't induce other proteins to misfold and the body can easily break them down or otherwise get rid of them)

(in fact, the misfolded form is so stable it can survive cooking, autoclaving(!), sitting in soil for years, and digestion. The main reason it's not a big threat is that it needs to somehow get from the environment into the brain, generally via the gut, which is not a particularly easy process for an inert clump of amino acids: a significant percentage of UK residents actually have detectable levels of this prion in their gut already, but only a very small fraction will develop the disease)
> If the purpose of half of economics study was to justify political decisions

I mean, let’s be honest, is it _not_ actually this? Maybe economics should just give up the charade and accept its role as a political tool and not something with a scientific base so comically bad, even the softest of other sciences look positively mathematical in comparison.
Yeah, it would be a major revision.
The eat mindlessly, leaping from one lump of refined carb and saturated fat to another.
Looks to me like you, and perhaps others, could benefit from a set of timing tests.

You know, setup a test harness. With timers and such, then walk through the cases.

Of course, that is exactly what the manufacturer should have done! I always wondered at the high errata metrics associated with some catalog parts. It is just not enough to work through the circuit and hope for the best!
I won’t go into detail, but my experience was not the same, not even close.
Earth will itself become inhospitable, assuming that we can survive on this planet as a species for so long.
Because the market isn’t as lucrative as you think? They are motivated by money just like every other corporation.
No doubt there’s some gems in there, but also some horrendously bad calls. They have an episode deriding the ridiculous lab leak theory for COVID… which is now one of the official explanations according to a US Senate report.
No need for JSON and JS, you can use pure HTML streaming: https://lamplightdev.com/blog/2024/01/10/streaming-html-out-... and pure CSS interactions like tabs, accordions, dropdown menus.
GraalVM Native Image Sucks; I Rewrite It in Rust
I have multiple air sensors and I don’t notice a high pollutant count (voc, co2, pm1/2.5/10) due to toys.

Gas stoves however.. they spike voc and co2 around the house when used.
People propose lots of changes, most get shot down and rejected by society because they’re bad ideas. Go look at all the dead-end ideas from the 1960s. Most of what falls within the umbrella of “woke” today will meet the same fate.

For example, I’m pretty sure that 10 years from now the racial affinity groups in my 5th grader’s school are going to be an embarrassing idea liberals will pretend never happened, rather than being the future of race relations in America.
Marxists regularly use doublespeak in their cult ideology. DEI is a great example, where each letter means the opposite of what it implies.
The idea is fine, the execution is not.
Those will be interesting patch notes for google maps

"we removed most of the gulf islands, part of BC, Washington, Oregon, and California" ...
I always wonder just how much like this gets thrown away through the generations.
What's very cool about it?
Sounds like the AOL walled garden was way ahead of it's time. I can't wait for iInternet from the fruit company.
LLM PLZ Cast to JSON
`marvin` was ok, but suddenly it stopped working, so this clunky version covers the task pretty gucci, prolly need to deprectate google models, did not test those
For those curious, the Sky Couch option seems to start at around $1000 each way, on top of the normal ticket fare.
I've just skimmed it now but certainly interesting and yes, that namespace and the parent seem just the same. I'm interested in seeing how all they use this. Thank you!
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If you guys could join my discord and give feedback it would be greatly appreciated: https://discord.gg/s9GtVNx7hf
> If there's two things the universe teaches us, it's that (1) our little corner is cosmologically not very special, and (2) extremely terrible and instantly fatal disasters are not rare on long enough timescales — rogue planets, asteroid impacts, gamma ray bursts, and so on.

I hope you re-read this and see the contradiction. If instantly-fatal disasters are not rare, then our little corner isn't just special, it's incredibly, mind-blowing improbability special.

There may be a lot of stars with planets, but how many planets have such large satellites formed as a result of an immense planetary collision? What about ones with such an abundance of water? And a strong magnetic field? And ones that somehow dodged instantly fatal disasters for almost 3.5 billion years - and have such a mind-blowing variety of conditions to lead to increasingly complex life forms?

> Mars is a laboratory for us to see if we can thrive outside our home world.

Survive? Yes. Thrive. Never. Even on a geological scale. We don't even thrive on Earth outside of very narrow temperate bands and massive technological adaptations.
Makes me wonder whether people lamented the end of party lines.

But I absolutely agree. Growing up, I occasionally had conversations with my parents’ friends when they’d call the house. I no longer have those.
Social bonding gets people on the same wavelength: neural synchronization study
Name your pick. Most of the competitors of WP back in the late mid-2000s went the way of 'better coding', busying themselves with MVC implementations, migrating everything to OOP because it was 'the way' and so on. WP went for ease of use, ease of modification and easy extensibility etc. At one point the disparage between it and its competitors was so high that in some wp competitors, you had to code an entire module just to add some text to a web form. With WP you just edited a file.

> An earlier post here on hn by dan about web bloat seemed to show wordpress was actually the best option in that category?

Yep, that's the irony. All the competitors kept adopting 'better coding paradigms' as their respective fads hit their maximum, ending up in bloated stuff. They occasionally had to break backward compatibility to get rid of the code that was adopted in that fashion too - doing much harm to their ecosystems.

But WP went for ease of use, simplicity, and from another angle, having to protect backward compatibility that WP project gave so much importance helped it keep itself lean, mean and simple. So now WP is something you can just launch in a total of 2 second from zero to production-ready thanks to one-click installs, hosts and all the infra providers that offer it, with ridiculously low initial and ongoing costs. Also because it didn't buy into the recent frontend fads and stayed server-side rendered, it still remains very lightweight and renders in an average of ~1.5 seconds in any device/browser. Of course, some of the framework craze made its way to wp in the form of React and full site editing, but still, the general landscape remains lightweight especially if you use hybrid themes. (they allow all the fse and page builder functionalities by trading off only not being able to edit header & footer by dragging & dropping, so its a good trade-off).

In a way, WP having to deal directly with the actual users whose priorities were always on the practical side helped it a LOT in getting the market share it has and the reliability, extensibility and ease of use it still excels in.
From the article: He was scholar's mated a few days earlier, then played with 99% accuracy. What a little man with such a frail ego afraid to look "weak" against one of the best chess players in the world.
Sounds like it's time to create a crisis-essential package group a la build-essential.
> could probably have been made smaller

A lot of reserved ranges could've been made smaller, 127.0.0.0/8 is JUST loopback, that's over 16 million ips just for loopback! 0.0.0.0/8 is also just absurd

224.0.0.0/4 and 240.0.0.0/4 are also crazy... over 500 million ips.

I probably wouldn't care about it if we didn't have ipv4 exhaustion (which is in my opinion is at least partially the US govt's fault, because they're hoarding 200+ million ips)
Well not if you cut it with an appropriate amount of chloride and sodium.
RPGs would also often come with world maps, sometimes on cloth. Some games also came with amazing reference guides. Red Baron (1990) iirc had a spiral bound guide with information on ww1 fighter tactics and schematics of all the planes in the game.
The day after the asteroid impact that killed the dinosaurs, when everything was on fire, Earth was way more habitable than Mars. Earth has the advantage that can live on it without support, after apocalypse some survivors can continue with rocks.

Mars has the problem of being self-sufficient without Earth. In the near-term, if Earth dies, Mars dies because there is something like chips or biologics that they can’t make. If we have technology to survive on Mars or make them self-sufficient with only millions, then that can be used on Earth to maintain civilization on Earth for any disaster. The money spent on Mars colony pays for a lot of bunkers.
Hardly, land on earth has huge value. Wind and waves let you cheaply transport vast amounts of goods to and from remote locations etc.

I’m all for learning to mine asteroids and actually live in space, but Mars is a literal and figurative dead end.
Based on a quick check, it’s runs about US$1000 per couch, in addition to the normal fare(s).
... what's the origin, when the entire surface of the Earth is sliding around?
Brendan Gregg as always with down to earth approach. Love the warroom example
We have this thing called a "society" which is empowered to make rules collectively. One way it is empowered to make rules.is through "laws" and "regulations". Amazingly, these things can and do work, often much better than free market capitalism.
I think a SAD puts upward pressure on this number, and modern healthcare puts downward pressure on it.
This is a handy list.

> 4:07pm The package install has failed as it can't resolve the repositories. Something is wrong with the /etc/apt configuration…

Cloud definitely has downsides, and isn’t a fit for all scenarios but in my experience it’s great for situations like this. Instead of messing around trying to repair it, simply kill the machine, or take it out of the pool. Get a new one. New machine and app likely comes up clean. Incident resolves. Dig into machine off the hot path.
Your first example should be more like

return source(criteria).results

In your SQL, `results` isn't the variable you're assigning to, it's the column you're reading from source.
Yeah I would support public investment in nuclear. I think it would be good to at least explore the options, build smaller nuclear facilities if possible, learning along the way. Renewables are still great for smaller use cases, and it can continue improving.

I think either way it has to be a collab. between private and public sectors because of the magnitude of the risk, which in theory is largely understood but in practice people can make mistakes and those will be costly. Ultimately this would only be done because of climate change, otherwise we could just take our time switching to renewables.
If you have access to the kind of energy that enables interstellar travel, you also by definition have enough energy to terraform your own planet and keep recycling resources indefinitely.

If you have infinite energy, your planet never "dies out", because you can terraform it at will.
Your arguments would work just as well against going to the moon. For being nerds it sounds like your friend circle was more on the finance side thinking in terms of projected returns rather than exploratory adventures.
It can’t be that expensive to keep these servers up for the remaining 1000 people that use them right?
Yep, the moment money changes hands, things become messy. It is relatively easy to argue 'personal use, fuck off', but it is much harder to defend 'I am only getting $x for this'.
The way to have a better healthcare system would be to use insurance for its intended purpose of dealing with catastrophic contingencies, and restore a direct-pay market for routine services.
Agreed! SAD = Standard American Diet for who doesn't know
Decoding the plant world's complex biochemical communication networks
Gas and electric charge for “delivery” as a flat fee, then actual usage on top of that.

If streaming services did similar, you likely wouldn’t be that much better off

Plus, but not unsubscribing, you’re reinforcing their current business model.
They didn't get rid of it, they dropped development and released it as open source.
You can start off with a start input to unpause the game, for instance.
Only 47%. lol OK. Let’s check back in five years from now and see where CA is at.
Amusingly I have requested and received over a hundred dvds and some books from my library, but am still on the waiting list for an ebook of one book that I already got in hardcover and read.
Examples such as?
A report from senate Republicans, who are in the minority.
> If flying is not profitable enough, then we need to plaster the country in passenger rail.

These solutions are targeted at 15+ hour flights - I don't think anyone's building high-speed rail from London to Sydney anytime soon.
Would these tools still be useful in a cloud environment, such as EC2?

Most dev teams I work with are actively reducing their actual managed server and replace it with either Lambda, or docker images running in K8. I wonder if these tools are still useful for containers and serverless?
Would love to know what the minimum buy in is on one of these
Just this morning I made a mental note of Power BIs 1 million row limit in certain circumstances. I don't have any immediate plans to pull a million rows right now but I could see it happening. 65k would be easy to pull off, a year of some poorly formatted data blew through that recently.

(I did push 10 million rows but that was by accident, some Power Query code got a little greedy)
Pascal was my first programming language, but I appreciate the link ;)
Until the next bean counter at a different game company entirely decides an online product burns too much to be profitable. Or maybe the store for all those digital goods isn’t quite making its quarterly targets.

Right now, I can head down to my basement, jack two AAs into my Game Boy, and play Pokémon Red, a 28 year-old game. I have zero confidence that will be possible with any of today’s games in 28 years.
That one was more of a nitpick, so maybe I shouldn't have included that. What I had in mind was that I would like a bit more symbols instead of words, for example value IN [1, 10] instead of value BETWEEN 10 AND 10.

Some operations on groups are also too verbose, like getting top 5 items in each group.
We really wanted to actually visit other stars. Fusion, asteroid mining, and zero g manufacturing were all major components of that. Planting a flag on Mars just isn’t.

Figuring out how to live on Mars mostly involves solving Mars specific problems. It’s close enough to the sun you can just use solar panels, enough gravity to avoid most zero g problems, there’s an actual atmosphere to extract oxygen and carbon from, minimal need for deltaV, etc etc.
Almost all of the proposals in your comment seem authoritarian to me. I think at this point we should have learned that deploying totalitarianism to fight a regime the West doesn't like both doesn't work and, to use your words, is "self-evidently categorically bad".

Dreaming of some mind-controlling bioweapon to change the minds of politicians we don't like seems particularly dystopian to me.

If this technology existed, you can guarantee it will be deployed in your country, wherever that is.
I’m not sure that’s the case for physical items like DVDs, because I’ve never seen anything indicating it’s special and the replacement costs are in line with “buy it on Amazon”.
Even with that, cancers metabolize sugars. The more sugars you put into your body, the faster and larger cancer cells can get. Add to this that sugars are inflammatory, and this heightens cancer risks. Add to both of those factors and increase in pollution and it’s just a perfect storm.
There are lots of good reasons why you can't admit that it's a con, most of which are some variation on "it's good to lie."
That's a glaring red flag that they're overly conventional thinkers. Independent-minded people were generally either proponents of the lab leak theory all along or were not going to ridicule it as "obviously ridiculous". Likewise, I'd be suspicious of somebody who very strongly argued in favor of "masks don't work" in March 2020 when that was the official position of the US CDC.

People whose opinions I'd consider worth listening to are the ones who don't automatically change their position whenever their tribe's party line changes.
You think the undeveloped world has cleaner water and food than the industrialized world?
Depends on the library and its staff.

Most libraries have way more than they can fit on the shelves, but if you talked with the purchasing person you might be able to work something out.
I remember having a hand-held Garmin GPS unit back in the '00s that I used on a trip to Berkeley from Los Angeles (one bonus was that the speedometer in my car didn’t work¹ so I was able to use it as a speedometer for the trip). The location that it showed on the map was consistently off by about 50 feet. I wonder now if this was a tectonic drift or just an inherent inaccuracy of the unit.

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1. When I think back to that car, it’s amazing what a piece of junk it was. On the other hand, it was a convertible, so a lot of fun although my wife considered it a deathtrap.
You could institute a UBI by building a tower that drops a $1 bill every minute.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35585305
> Instead of messing around trying to repair it, simply kill the machine, or take it out of the pool. Get a new one.

"4:10pm the new machine still has the same performance issue"
While network overhead always exists, the goal would be take advantage of the seemingly 10x performance headroom on a GPU as compared to a CPU. Not to mention, GPUs are getting more and more HBM capacity.

Of course, you're right to wonder about how GPUs behave with more complex structures -- I'm not sure. Research papers seem to get pretty good results for stuff like skip lists and b+trees? The general idea, though, is that GPU compute + bandwidth optimized memory is better/more efficient for high-throughput compute, if you can stomach a couple tens of microseconds. Coincidentally, network latencies force you to stomach that anyway.
I am sure you are suggesting this in good faith, but I think that pay per minute would actually make things even worse.
I realize it's probably too soon to know, but what about safety? I think about the fact that hydrogen sulfide and sulfur dioxide are both toxic gases.
“Not good” but still better than the alternative. I for one think it’s great that most children live to become adults, that most adults make it past 50, and that most people aren’t dying of violence. We still have stuff to work on as a species, but we’re doing well.
How do you “rent to own” for $5? That’s usually just the “rent for 48 hours” (which is totally fine, I’ll pay to rent digitally and then buy the Blu-ray if I want to see it again: anything watched twice will probably be watched many times.)
”To first order nobody writes any CUDA and even if you do you are probably bad at it” is such an anti-intellectual stance that is repeated to such a large extent that it irks me. It’s the authors protecting their ego and is said about everything they don’t understand. It is said about compilers, about static typing, about pretty anything the authors do not yet know.

At least say why people wouldn’t be good at it. The documentation is poor, the GPUs are a black box or anything in that vein. Then they can help you learn instead of preemptively dismiss it.
There is some pleasure to be derived from bending matter to one's will.
Cloudflare and Hetzner threatens to takedown Fediverse instance because of yuri
The yuri (Japanese lesbian art) in question is obviously not CSAM as you can see in the Bluesky thread, as both women depicted in the artwork are fully clothed and don't look like children at all.

The fediverse instance being talked about (woem.men) is currently down right now due to a hasty emergency relocation, because Hetzner only gave them 24 hours to respond satisfactorily.
Happy user of Soupault here. What you described here:

> Markdown processors behavior differences can bite you and there's no way out.

is under appreciated. The lack of “surprises” in Soupault is very appreciated.