skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We're pretty close. Obamacare covers a lot of people and employers are required to provide it if they have over 50 employees. Any hospital is required to treat anyone who comes in, regardless of ability to pay. It's sloppy and it's expensive if you don't qualify for ACA subsidies, but if you want healthcare/health insurance in the US, you can most likely get it if you try.
The trope is the "but that" portion - that is, Western Europe and the US didn't have such concerns.
I was born in a tiny village in a poor country where local politicians literally banned wifi in schools because apparently "radiowaves cause autism and homosexuality". I'm not joking. This was the official governmental position. In 2017. You can imagine technical literacy of anyone I had contact with as a child, years before that.

Today I work as an engineer at a known American corporation, slowly but surely moving up the ladder. Not everything goes smoothly, but I earn more than the rest of my elementary school peers combined and my prospects are bright.

I do not wish upon anyone the amount I work I had to put into achieving this position. Looking back, I'm in awe how this was possible. I basically dedicated 100% of my life to one goal. It's not just about studying all day all night. It's about tuning your core emotional responses to motivate you to keep reaching higher and higher at all costs. I can confidently say that I was right on the edge of going insane, and the entire experience caused irreparable damage to my mental health. It's only now that I'm learning to slow down.

It's strange. On one hand I don't think I'd change anything. I'm proud of the path I took. On the other hand, if I had a child, I just couldn't send it the same route, knowing how much it hurts.
What do you mean "we", kemosabe?
Would you make the switch from physical to digital cards?
I am sure it has a browser built in - probably a chrome derivative.
I read the whole thing and I'm not sure I understand what IS the point except that things are too complex? A whole lot of words for not a lot of content.
Since the sleeve is a stretchy rubber as long as the inner diameter of it is a bit smaller than the outer diameter of the fiber it holds just fine. For more dynamic applications, though, a silicone adhesive, or even super glue for more permanent strands, helps!
I was once standing outside a night club in Brooklyn, next to a construction site, when a rat came charging around the corner being chased by a cat. The rat smacked straight into my ankle and bounced off, briefly stunned. The cat also froze, trying to take in the situation. A split second later they charged down the sidewalk into the gloom.

The rat was so big my ankle hurt the rest of the night.
Ottawa to allow 30-year amortization for first-time mortgages on new homes
It sounds like you’re probably using Clickhouse Cloud? If so, I was not impressed. Overly pushy sales people, pricing isn’t competitive, and they’re trying to cater to the snowflake/databricks crowd without smoothing any rough edges (like the default timeout being enabled on a GUI).

Overall I’d say CH isn’t as tolerant or forgiving as BigQuery, Snowflake, or Databricks. You can write the worst SQL possible and BQ will happily charge you $5/TB for that cartesian self-join. CH meanwhile will error with memory limit or even crash.
> Perhaps: Am I incorrect in assuming that randomized 2-approximation is somehow transformable to 'correctness in the decision problem 2/3 of the time'?

Yes, that's the issue. For another example, Max-Cut is NP-hard. We can easily get a randomized 2-approximation by taking a cut in the graph uniformly at random (don't even look at the graph structure). But it doesn't look possible to go from this totally random 2-approximation to a correct guess about the size of the true max cut.
This is a very nice website! I would love some Baye Area graphs.
So there are three parameters; watts, conductor_path_length, and watt_meters?
This seems like a rather extraordinary claim given that linguists have not even come to a consensus about American languages other than that there are dozens of language families.

Seems odd to publish an extraordinary linguistic claim in the "Journal of Biological Anthropology." Is that a normal place for linguists to publish papers?
> The runtime part is what I dislike. If I have a fruit which is an apple or a banana, I can't pass that to a method expecting an apple or banana. It can only be passed as a fruit.

Heh? An apple is a fruit, you can pass it to any place expecting the former. Like, this is Liskov’s substitution’s one half.

With generics, you can be even more specific (co/in/contra-variance).
One would hope so. Rather than the Python bootcamps
Having just read the piece for the first time after you added the "bent rope" explanation: YOU NAILED IT. I literally had the reaction of thinking, "Wow, there's a super simple explanation early on! I trust this writer much more now."
I don't agree exactly. The standardization in Kubernetes has brought calm to the chaos. Having controllers which act as the public interfaces for additional capability in ways that can integrate with other controllers cleanly is transformational. I have vendors supporting the interfaces that Kubernetes has defined which commoditizes the vendor, which is exactly what I want in a platform. I am not locked into a vendor because they are using these generic, interchangeable interfaces.
(Not who you asked, but) one important point here is definitely that BPP is about yes/no decision problems, and approximation algorithms are generally a different beast.
It's almost like there's repercussions for laying off most of your engineering talent.
I didn't read the entire paper, but I don't see lowered stress and lack of sleep mentioned anywhere. These would be the most obvious answers and should be addressed.

https://bfi.uchicago.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/Lives-vs...
If this is sarcasm, I love it. If you're serious then I don't.
Let me add: you never need to be in awe of someone who treats anyone else like garbage - whether they are 20 or 60. I’m just out an experience with a 49 year old founder/CEO. Will be looking for all signs of garbage in future opportunities.
There are no consequences any more. If Trump wins, expect this guy to be Secretary of Transportation, or some other maximum-influence post.
Sounds like endlessh
That's actually reassuring to hear, thank you. I'll take a look on recent changes in sorbet, I don't even remember where I've seen that "feature complete" remark, maybe I'm just imagined it.

I'd love and use sorbet if it'd be truly an optional typing, I'd happily supply signatures to public interfaces of my classes, but only to them, as a documentation and a somewhat verifiable helper to LSP. Basically, what RBS should be doing. In my experience I rarely if ever make type-like errors in the code I produce, so sorbet just added a lot of chore and forced to dumb down my code significantly, just to be ingestable by sorbet. And worse of all, it added some false sense of security, because absense of sorbet errors didn't mean absense of type mismatches in many cases. But maybe some of those concerns are gone already.
Except now it says

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# Don't Allow everyone
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Which means he's changing it. The default for all other bots is to allow crawling.
How dare you ruin a good headline and "think piece" with critical thinking!

/s
The matebook needs a bigger battery for the same reason that it isn’t actively cooled; the processor turns a lot of electricity into heat.

I don’t particularly care about 300 grams, but some people might. If I had to guess based on past matebooks though, the Apple build quality will explain that 300 grams.
We imported it by sea (Portugal), and call it Chá.
Dictionary compression isn't really applicable to floating-point data, because it isn't made up of commonly repeated "words" like text is.
Or rather, the article is the explanation of typeid?
> Polymorphism is the real benefit of oop imho

It's pretty much the definition of OOP.

The core feature of OOP is just bundling functions with the state it processes.

When you bundle state and functions together, you can't predict what calling the function will do without knowing both the code and state.

You can say its 'the real benefit', I guess, but that feels like circular reasoning. Its pretty much the definition of what OOP is, so calling it a benefit feels weird.

Unfortunately, designing systems as a collection of distributed state machines tends to become maintenance nightmare. Functions and data being separated tends to make code better, even when working in so-called 'OOP' languages.
For me the Jack plug from the headphone would always break. Could repair it a couple of times with my own clunky soldering work, but eventually would just wear out too much and I would buy a new headphone. Since wireless I haven't looked back.
This describes every American law school of which I am aware, where students learn a generalized version of the law through Restatements and study of salient appeals courts decisions, both state and federal.

Barring concerted effort, a U.S. law student will not leave school with detailed knowledge of any particular jurisdiction.

Then graduates take the bar, where they are more or less quizzed on 18th century English common law, because most states use a bar exam that is not specific to each state’s law.
Doxxing in individual, with proof of intent to harass, should be a federal crime.
current LLMs can only summarize, digest, and restate. There is no non-transient value add.

Though, at a stretch, Wikipedia itself could be considered based around summarization, digesting, and restating/citing things said elsewhere, given its policy of verifiability: "Even if you are sure something is true, it must have been previously published in a reliable source before you can add it." Now, LLMs aren't well known for their citation skills, to be fair.. :-)
It really wasn't about the silicon, that was just a playful turn of phrase. There is no logical argument that really justifies the belief that humans contain some sort of magic that can't be duplicated by other technologies.

Assuming humans get their capabilities by physics and their bodies... those same elements are available to be assembled elsewhere, in non-human form. Many of us have a very strong psychological need to feel like we're somehow special, but I have never been convinced that we are. Just like we built machines that could best human physical abilities, we'll eventually build machines that best our intellectual abilities, too.

As a child, when I used to talk about how great machines were to my parents, they used to laugh at me and say that robots would never be able to walk like humans, as robots back then, couldn't navigate stairs. My parents thought that human ambulation was unique, and impossible to replicate in non-human form, there was no technology they could imagine being able to duplicate such dexterity. They were wrong, as we see that technology developing just fine today.

And I believe that people who desperately hope that our intelligence will never be matched in "artificial" form, are just as short-sighted and wrong as my parents were back then.
There will never be a shortage of people who read dystopia and think "That would be awful, I should oppress the entire world as it's rightful, righteous god king and make sure things go well (specifically how my extremely small perspective understands right and wrong)"

We see on this very board a huge segment of people who believe "tech" for "tech's sake" is a good thing, or that any "tech" is inherently an advancement of society, and that advancement === good
We are using Altinity. I believe it's a 3-server cluster and we have 2 clusters (our prod one and another one we are trying to promote to production once our data integrity checks pass, at which point we will spin the other down).
Gemini is just as good if not better than GPT-4?
As a caveat, I'd probably say 'at large volumes.'

For a lot of what people may want to do, they'd probably notice very little difference between the three.
I built cybertoken [1] for API keys and passwords, not (only) IDs. It is basically the format that GitHub uses for their api keys. Underscores, a prefix, so we can get a better debugging experience and automated secret scanning. It also has a CRC32, so you can check offline if the token candidate is a cybertoken while doing secret scanning.

[1]: https://github.com/nikeee/cybertoken
Yeah, there's nothing wrong with Java the language. Java the community is what sucks. You had a few bloggers get popular and then a bunch of devs trying to make names for themselves would ape what they said, compound a few years and you have the mess people like to complain about.

Happens with a lot of language communities. C#, good grief, not much better than Java. Go(lang) community's favorite two words are "idiomatic Go". You can't read any post without seeing those two words. Go has like what, seven keywords. Let it go, man.
FWIW Mozilla updated their position on Web Serial API to "neutral" and clarified that they might be okay with enabling the API with an add-on.

https://mozilla.github.io/standards-positions/#webserial

Allowing serial but not HID would be really strange. With HID you get standard identifiers that let you filter out devices that are too dangerous for the web. With serial you get nothing. Even if you know a device is dangerous, there's no way to protect users from it.
All the lines related to GPTBot are commented out. That robots.txt isn't trying to block it. Either it has been changed recently or most of this comment thread is mistaken.
I'm not sure that's a very fair comparison, as this algorithm does point-wise streaming compression/decompression. I could see myself using something like this in a FPGA context or within a tight acquisition inner loop for example.
Marketing content to sell unscientific books.
yep, two week sprints with no break in between (I can't think of any sporting event where you sprint non stop!), and then we always say we'll "celebrate" when the project is done, but we never do

just on to the next project :/
They use ArkWeb for the native browser [0]

[0] - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ArkWeb
I proposed[1] the portmanteau "hallucofabulation" as a compromise, but it hasn't caught on yet. I'm totally shocked and dismayed by this, of course.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36977935
> There are many types of large scale systems where I would only code it using the JVM, everything else is a nightmare.

I’ve seen more than one lifetime’s worth of nightmare code written in Java. I agree with the GP commenter - I don’t think the problem is Java (the language) so much as the culture surrounding it. The Java programmers I’ve worked with (all smart people) seem addicted to solving all problems my writing more Java. More interfaces (most of which just have a single implementor). More classes. More files. More abstractions. You pay a massive tax for that any time you edit your software - since inevitably you're going to end up unpicking hundreds of lines of code that could have been two if statements.

I’ve never seen this abstraction vomit disease be quite this bad in software written in other languages. You can find a bit of it in C#, C++, go and Python. But not as bad as Java. In typescript and rust, most of the code I work with focuses a lot more on directly solving the actual problem at hand.

I don’t think the problem is the language itself. Java is a fine language. But for some reason, it’s become a magnet for a certain kind of developer that I frankly never want to work with. Developers who would never use 5 lines of code when 100 would do. Developers who abstract first and understand the problem they’re solving later. It’s disgusting.
Okay, yeah. But even from a pretty hardcore moral relativist POV...

> "mercenary spyware", AI war targeting, and death drones

Are not super easy to justify. Like, sure some people obviously think those ought to be a thing, but those people are dicks.
But what if deadbeef becomes a swear?

/s… but only halfway
Is ClickHouse a suitable engine for analyzing events? Absolutely, as long as you're analyzing a large table, its speed is definitely fast enough. However, you might want to consider the cost of maintaining an OSS ClickHouse cluster, especially when you need to scale up, as the operational costs can be quite high.

If your analysis in Postgres was based on multiple tables and required a lot of JOIN operations, I don't think ClickHouse is a good choice. In such cases, you often need to denormalize multiple data tables into one large table in advance, which means complex ETL and maintenance costs.

For these more common scenarios, I think StarRocks (www.StarRocks.io) is a better choice. It's a Linux Foundation open-source project, with single-table query speeds comparable to ClickHouse (you can check Clickbench), and unmatched multi-table join query speeds, plus it can directly query open data lakes.
Yeah, the way I read it, it boils down to "I worked on Docker. Kubernetes is great but too complex for developers to actually use." Which yes, is something that everyone who isn't fooling themselves has been saying since its inception. I've been managing on prem kubernetes clusters for the better part of a decade, a lot of it makes sense to me now, but was absolutely painful to learn. In my opinion the article would be better if it had a clear goal for the future, but I couldn't find one.
One of the cool facts about Kubrick I've always admired as a testament to his perfectionism is his typical "shooting ratio": The ratio of how much film was shot vs the run time of the final product. For The Shining he exposed 1.3 million feet of film for a movie that runs for 142 minutes, a ratio of over 100:1. The baseball bat scene alone took 127 takes to get right[1].

1: https://www.jimcarrollsblog.com/blog/2019/6/5/yt0trf17bh9ai4...
(admittedly)
Added friction. That is all a website owner can hope to achieve.
Northern Chinese (Mandarin, etc) call it Cha which became chai etc.

Southern Chinese (Min Nan, etc) call it Teh which became tea etc.

You can see that coastal nations got their tea from the seafaring southern regions whereas much of Central Asia, North Africa, and Eastern Europe got it from the northerners via the Silk Road.

https://www.reddit.com/r/etymologymaps/comments/g4bmh3/chai_...
My understanding of Germany's rules is hat a policy about needing notes from day 1 has to be in the contract, otherwise the requirement kicks in on day 3 or 4 (I forget which). And the doctor's note doesn't have to claim that you're "physically" incapable - mental health problems also qualify.
> The only time I’ve used inheritance, has been on toy problems that didn’t need it

See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39999644

It's very useful when a base class provides an incomplete implementation, and the child class completes the implementation.

Sometimes I use it when testing, where the child class alters some behavior in a way that mocking can't do correctly.

In C# / Java, inheritance is used for setting up filters for exceptions
Proprietary enterprise production code
What is HashiCorp's goal here? Don't they realize how bad of a look this is?
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Yes and no, Intel's Meteor lake is a significant step up in efficiency, obviously not quite Apple's M-series level yet, but the performance is better with graphics and CPU.

The weight argument's fair. I carry around a relatively heavy Framework the whole day, and I don't particularly mind. That said, the chassis is high-grade magnesium, not exactly plastic.
How important is full text search for training an LLM, compared to a pile of zip files with a gigabyte of text each?
> My wife, the author, passed away five years ago.

Condolences for your loss
Oh I know that.

But I'm talking about the platform as a whole, and due to the fact that windows home does not support RDP that means that the windows platform as a whole is garbage for remote desktop stuff.
For integer values, just subtracting bytes is enough to allow much better compression ratios. See the table at https://opensource.quarq.com/zfit/zfit.pdf
is the idea to eventually make muscle fibers with lots of these stranded together?
It may be relevant that 'fruit of the poisonous tree' is not a general law principle but rather a doctrine specific to modern U.S. law, established only in early 20th century as a specific interpretation of the 4th amendment to the U.S. constitution - the evidence policy is entirely opposite in most (possibly even all? It's hard to tell) other places worldwide as well as in classic (e.g. Roman) law, prioritizing the role of evidence in demonstrating truth and facts, and if some person or organization performed an offense in obtaining it, they should be prosecuted separately for that offense, but it doesn't by itself disqualify the evidence.
> There is a big difference in labor between confirming sealed bundles of cash are intact, counting the bills, and tracking every serial number of each bill.

There are machines for this. Garda absolutely has them.
Yes, but Portugal had colonies in India!
You're saying that the monarch did all the design work himself?
C++ templates are a form of duck typing as well, and combined with type erasure give you a lot of the benefits of OO without the downsides.
What do you mean by this sort of defensiveness? Can you give an example?
I have no idea what that is supposed to say.
Birds are dinosaurs:

https://www.birdlife.org/news/2021/12/21/its-official-birds-...

A fact I'm reminded of when I spook a stork/heron/crane when I'm walking my dog along the river near me. They make a crazy dinosaur sound, and in flight even resemble somewhat the classic illustrations of Pterosaurs.

Bonus link, the common ancestor of both birds and crocodiles:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archosaur
I'm sure the the 2020+ data is messy (people dying of coronavirus, people not getting treatment for chronic diseases because hospitals are scary, etc.), but I'd be curious to see this same hypothesis tested there.
Ehh... I suspect that the cleaner air is more a correlation than a causation. It seems like fewer accidents due to fewer drivers would be a more direct cause. The cleaner air is just a side effect. I didn't see any mention of accident rates in the article.