skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Our Market, which art invisible,
hallowed be thy hand;
thy equilibrium come;
thy allocation be done
on earth as it is in theory.
Give us this day our daily goods,
and forgive us our regulations,
as we forgive those who regulate against us.
And lead us not into market failure,
but deliver us from inefficiency.
For thine is the kingdom,
and the power, and the glory of wealth creation,
forever and ever. Amen.
I remember this as well, and it's a real shame it didn't go anywhere.

In terms of user experience, they could sell pre-linked "Yubikey pairs" or offer a user experience of e.g. plugging both into the same computer and resetting them via a long press to "entangle" the pair cryptographically.
> I don't really have much desire to get into maintaining an auth library; there's just not enough time in the day!

Haha, well in some ways I'm glad to hear that. That's why we exist :)

> It's pending publish, actually! I've got a devlog (more like a book at this point) for something I've been working on for years now, but no posts are going to be published until I hit a milestone. I'm almost there... not much further.

Send it over if you want another pair of eyes, and lmk when publishing so we can share with our community too. I'm sam [at] osohq.com
This is super cool! I run DevlRel @ Timescale, and I love seeing our community create well written posts like this!

My initial reaction is that I think one of the reasons you're seeing a hypertable being slower is almost certainly that it creates an index on the timestamp column by default. You don't have an index on your standard table which lets it go faster.

You can use create_hypertable with create_default_indexes=>false to skip creating the index, or you can just drop the index before you ingest data. You'll eventually want that index - but it's best created after ingestion in a one-shot load like this.

I'd also be interested in how the HDD you're reading data from is holding up in some of the highly parallel setups?
>But in 2022, the average cost for first-time college students living in campus was $36,000 – nearly $10,000 higher than a decade prior. It's made college inaccessible for kids who need it most.

College kids do not need to live on campus, most people in this country live within commuting distance of a community college or university. It may not be a top rated university, but it will always be one that teaches skills kids need to build a life. You do not NEED to pay anywhere near $36,000 for college, and stating it as a necessity is misleading. The point that the author misses is that the subject, Alex, would have easily qualified for free tuition at his local community college or university, and most likely a scholarship or grant would have paid his living expenses while attending as well, based solely on his economic and ethnic background and not his grades. The only missing piece was someone to tell him how to do it, or someone to encourage him to do it. This is generally what people mean when they say that poor people lack the knowledge to get themselves out of poverty.

>Over the last few years, his annual income was around $20,000. He has struggled with his weight for much of his adult life, and it affects his overall health.

It is worth noting that the poorest in the USA struggle with eating too much, not too little. This is at least a silver lining that we should not ignore. Many countries in the world, poor people are starving.

>In one year, the US will elect Donald Trump as president – a man who constantly insults poor people and calls them "morons."

As part of this paragraph, the author links to an extremely partisan article which does not even try to hide its bias. It quotes something that Donald Trump said back in a 1999 interview. I don't love Trump and wouldn't vote for him, but I think the author's point about him is stretched quite a bit and was unnecessary for the overall point he's trying to make.

In the end, the main takeaway from this article seems to me to be that you can justify any bad decisions or bad outcomes in your life by blaming your childhood trauma. With such a worldview how can one ever better themselves? It seems such a self-defeating way to look at things, if you never blame yourself for your bad decisions how can you ever learn how to make better decisions?

I know that if I personally lived my life blaming my childhood trauma for problems I've had, that I would still be poor to this day.
I think it's going to be very rare that a database changes enough for a plan to be significantly worse than the optimal plan during the life of a prepared query.

A database engine could easily mitigate against it by re-planning queries every 1000 runs of the query or have the query plan expire after 60 seconds or something. It might be worth trying to re-prepare the query from time to time as part of this kind of bulk insertion benchmarking.

The other thing that would be good to try is closing the transaction every 1000 inserts or some other number. Doing several inserts in a single transaction is certainly better than 1 insert per transaction, but there may come a point where the transaction being too big starts to slow things down.
I do not think it is a test of nostalgia, rather a test of time - I have been playing many of these games (and new games, too) for the first time recently.

It is amazing what some games managed to do with the limited graphics capabilities of the time. Metal Gear Solid 1 used a colour palette so well to hide the graphics limitations. Many games shined with clever use of pre-rendered backgrounds (FF7 is one of them, but also the Resident Evil series come to mind).

Even from an earlier time, Monkey Island is all the funnier for the pixelatedness. System Shock 1 is still amazingly immersive and atmospheric (and was way ahead of its time!).

I think part of what makes games from late 90s so special is that the tech was good enough to allow plenty of creative freedom, but still simple enough to allow for relatively small teams with relatively small budgets to make the games and add their personal touch to them. That is why Deus Ex 1 is much more personal than the later more polished installations etc.
We know this and yet we don't consider it a national security issue
"The creation of a deepfake image will be an offence regardless of whether the creator intended to share it"

Surely the basis of a lucrative new extortion model. The most dangerous computer virus will be one that creates an image on your PC and alerts the extortionist.
What do you mean? The parts are all made in China.
> We stripped schools of anything that was vocational, or practical. What happened to shop and home economics... and the computer labs that got many of us started are long gone. Meanwhile we're short on plumbers, welders and all sorts of middle skill jobs...

I completely agree. The hollowing out of the education system in response to NCLB and the relentless drive for "data" and "standards" is why a lot of people no longer graduate from high school with any life skills.
> For example, I get better local news coverage in my local city subreddit than I do in any professional publication.

Agreed. And the "professional" local news is more and more just regurgitating photos, videos, and descriptions they've lifted from Instagram, Tiktok, X, and Reddit anyway.
They are powerful, but I agree with you, it's nice to be able to run Goliath locally, but it's a lot slower than my 4070.
You can't even define toxicity in an objective and verifiable way, because it's inherently subjective.

Trying to make rules for a machine to behave in a decidedly nontoxic way is a fool's errand, then.

You're also assuming that AI is going to be used to heavily influence people's lives, but there's a good chance that all it's good for is ripping off copyrighted material and generating clipart that's good enough for powerpoint presentations.

AI is probably going to change the world in the way that NFTs did. And self driving cars. And the Alexa.
Edited for extra citations

Only downside is that RNAi (and mRNA) are uncorrectable once introduced.[9] I fear for the brave volunteers of such a drug trial, or worse those manufacturers who skip the FDA trial through Emergency Use Authorization. [1]

ICYMI: The COVID19 inoculant efficacy rating is 54% [2] and still falling, yet still remains unapproved by FDA. Most pediatric and adult vaccines boast 85+%.[4][5][6][7]

Of course, not everyone understands what efficacy rate is. [3]

1. https://www.fda.gov/vaccines-blood-biologics/vaccines/emerge...

2. https://www.statnews.com/2024/02/01/updated-covid-vaccine-ef...

3. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8314794/

4. https://vaccineknowledge.ox.ac.uk/mmr-vaccine#:~:text=The%20....

5. https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/vpd/dtap-tdap-td/hcp/about-vacc...

6. https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/vpd/hpv/hcp/vaccines.html

7. https://shingrixhcp.com/efficacy-safety/efficacy-data/

EDITED: added extra citation on RNAi.

9. https://www.synthego.com/blog/rnai-vs-crispr-guide#:~:text=C....
We had a similar project at Block. Backend and iOS bit the bullet and moved to Bazel, Android development did not. Now the iOS teams are building tooling on top of Bazel and the public tools around it to have build servers, automatically remove unused dependencies, and all sorts of nifty stuff. The Android team is hacking around with Gradle, struggling just to keep the lights on and writing custom tools to work with the Gradle project structure.

I wish we had gone all-in on Gradle also.
Yeah there's definitely all the usual problems of having to fight an unlawful arrest. Its expensive, or you likely get poor representation from a court appointed lawyer, and it can take a ton of time that most people don't have to spare.

Unfortunately its up to jurors in these situations. If we fundamentally disagree with a law as written and can't get representatives to throw it out, just toss out the case. Jurors aren't legally bound to decide whether the facts as presented meet the law as written. Jurors are empowered with deciding whether a peer should be punished. In the case of a law that you disagree with for whatever reason, you are well within your rights to go not guilty and avoid punishing a peer for something you don't think is worth punishment.
So you blew the disinformation whistle, find out that it happened, but then argue from statute of limitations that it doesn't matter. But if NPR agreed with the type of argument you're making, then I don't think they would make a point of covering stuff like reparations-related grievances constantly.

Trust comes more easily for individuals / news organizations / political groups when we're all more focused on the framing of arguments on their own merits, with less focus on the in-groups/out-groups of who those arguments are against or who they are supporting.
https://github.com/daisylb/bridgekeeper
That's a reasonable assumption. I'm curious to know how that turns out if you ever feel like posting it. :)

Thanks
But every single digital artifact is questionable. It's inconvenient but it's also true.
> whatever you call a bar, split into segments, each segment representing a % of a whole

A percentage stacked bar chart
But your position starts from the basis that we were race-neutral to begin with. I think part of the reason that there is an emphasis on "positive black voices" is the belief that the default narrative is implicitly negative toward blacks. So without intention you'll simply perpetuate the negative voices.

For example, would the same people who say "we focus too much on race" view Desantis's policies and opinions as "race neutral"?
I am of the opinion that far more than safety critical systems should use ECC. You should use ECC anytime bit flips might cost you more money then the ECC does, which is why I insist on ECC for my desktop computers.
I think it is beyond something we can know definitively. We know that our species interacted because we share DNA. The nature of that interaction is largely guesswork.
What would an automated lab look like?
I don't understand who writes the story. Do your team write it and the community should try to crowsourse an investigation? Can the game be played alone or with a small group of friends?

> NOTE: This is just an illustration of the game's idea, we'll work on the app with the full features very soon if people likes it!

Is it an empty app? Does Apple aprove that?

Anyway, from the "Show HN" rules https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html

> If your work isn't ready for users to try out, please don't do a Show HN. Once it's ready, come back and do it then. Don't post landing pages or fundraisers.

Also, if it can be played alone, I guess you may get more traction here if there is one or two stories that can be played for free in the browser.
I like the argument that our time coexisting with neanderthals is the reason the uncanny valley exists: we have in the deep past had very good reason to be made uncomfortable by entities that almost, but not quite, seem like humans.
To me personally that sounds like the setting for a horror flick. Actually it almost reminds me of M3GAN. [1] Fun movie, but I do not want to experience that. That is even before treading into the possibilities of remote hacking, monitoring, manipulation, stalking, etc...

[1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3mqPSTJMjCA [video][2m]
> deepfakes in this instance are probably not between consenting adults.

Deepfakes in this instance are not /between/ anyone. Only one person even knows of it.
I think social and individual expectations are a big part of this. Why is Alex depressed? If they had 20k more a year, would they be happier, or just 2 steps ahead on and empty hedonistic treadmill. Alex now has a new mustang, but is still depressed and fails as a parent.

I think it would be interesting to see the relative impact of a 2 parent + low risk home vs income, and I think there is a lot lost when people assume every variable reduces to income.

What about Alex when they have low income, but a healthy home life? What about Alex when they have higher income, but a shit home life?
No, I used to just python.h, as per https://docs.python.org/3/extending/extending.html

I currently don't do that anymore.
The take-home for me was that as parents, or future parents, here are some things we can do to make the child have a greater chance at success. None of these are doorways to success, but they make it easier for success to happen with those conditions present, as well as the inverse.
This is wonderful in a lot of ways but also seems to be designed to annoy HN specifically. With its somewhat, um, adventurous choices in data visualization combined with an overall conceit that poverty is harmful and kids are not the ones to blame... It's like a dangerous cocktail. I could read this thread in my head probably!
I do not disagree. But it will take years, if not decades, for labor rights and organizing to improve the situation you mention. Preventing unwanted children takes less time and effort, tragic as it is to type out.
I wonder if this unfortunate naming choice will cause a stir similar to: https://kawaiola.news/cover/aloha-not-for-sale-cultural-in-a...
UK: being dystopian IRL

Also UK: make above real enough that it has a term

that's some admirable British consistency. Unironically. Honestly.
> unified memory model (by having the memory on-package with CPU)

That's not what "unified memory model" means.

It means that the CPU and GPU (and ANE!) have access to the same banks of memory, unlike PC GPUs that have their own memory, separated from the CPU's by the PCIe bottleneck (as fast as that is, it's still smaller than direct shared DRAM access).

It allows the hardware more flexibility in how the single pool of memory is allocated across devices, and faster sharing of data across devices. (throughput/latency depends on the internal system bus ports and how many each device have access to)

The Apple M-Series chips also has the memory on-package with the CPU (technically SoC, "System-on-Chip"), but that provides different benefits.
I think we should just be proud of her for acknowledging the existence of business cycles.
> abusing browser tabs as bookmarks

This is not really abuse, it's very natural.

Tabs, bookmarks and browser history should be one and the same thing.
Well, in many safety-critical industries (e.g. manufacturing of medicinal products) you actually need to maintain objective evidence of its validation.
I have tried add-ons, but for me, the native workflow of selecting tabs with ctrl, right click to bookmark them to a folder and then close them all, and then later opening them from the bookmark manager is good enough. They added multi-select around Firefox 63 and it has improved this workflow to be pretty enjoyable.
This data appears to disagree, with revenue peaking in 2000:

https://www.riaa.com/u-s-sales-database/

Do you have a source for your numbers?
What's even more amazing to me is that:

- we can send a beam of EM radiation, of little power (like a cellular signal),

- to communicate with an object billions of miles away,

- through the vastness of space,

- and the destination object is able to pick up the signal,

- and vice versa.
Mathematically it's aliasing. And it's fixed by antialiasing. I'll bet everything on the screen you're looking at right now is antialiased. Would be nice if audio waveform visualisations were too.
Yes I saw this on a few "screens" and it really confused me at first. They flashy visuals detract from the message in a variety of ways.
Well in theory yes, but legally no
Totally forgot about HQ2 - is it even anywhere close to the size of Seattle HQ at this point?
Unless you’re CPU-bound (unlikely), the r-family is usually a better fit for RDBMS, IME. 8x RAM:vCPU ratio, compared to 4x for m-family.

Then there’s the x-family, which can go up to bonkers levels, like 4 TiB of RAM (and local NVMe).

As a sibling comment mentioned, though, if you can fit the data into local storage, that’s the way to do it. EBS latency, even with io2.blockexpress, simply cannot compete.

That said, if I did the math correctly based on the 71 GB/31 days footnote, you’re looking at about 2.15 PB to load the entire thing, so, uh, good luck.
Most of those systems tax property increase when infrastructure is built and operate in dense cities with extremely anti-car regulation that gives them a guaranteed consumer base. Do the same in the US and it will magically become profitable, because there will be no alternative.
How many decades of central planning organ-management failure would you like before concluding the experiment has failed?
The reason is because 6dof games tend to have really difficult skill expression around movement and positioning.

With any 3d game it becomes a bit of a circle-strafe fight. With space and 6dof games, it becomes a flight simulator fight, which is an intense genre.

Additionally it removes some verticality from levels. IF EVERYTHING is accessible, it removes choices around taking the high ground / sneaking through the low ground.

I agree they are cool games, but they have some quirks that are not everyone's cup of tea.
I agree entirely - these sorts of subsidies can be extremely effective at uplifting job markets by, as an example, attracting a large company to build a manufacturing plant in a specific rural area that recently lost their main employer... To NYC even something as large as HQ2 is just a drop in the employment bucket.
Great to know!

The game is very well made, and as far as I know they delivered everything they promised to their backers (it was on Kickstarter). I bought the game (on PC AND on XBox) and left positive review on Steam. Hopefully they're working on something else that's just as awesome!
> Firefox is, on-average, 25% quicker with page loads than it was last year – and it was pretty fast then, too

Is the copy I saw on update. Suggests incremental wins over the year rather than all in this release.
A single-semicolon comment is intended to be very terse and to-the-point. Longer inline comments are supposed to be double-semicolon dedicated to their own lines.

(let* ((head (cons nil nil))
(tail head))
;; This is a longer expository comment on the following
;; segment of code. Here, we efficiently append to a list by
;; keeping track of the tail node at all times.
(dotimes (i 10) ; RPLACD+SETF is an O(1) append
(rplacd tail (cons i nil))
(setf tail (cdr tail)))
(cdr head)) ; discard dummy cons

I don't think this style of commenting is acceptable because of my editor, but just that an editor like Emacs keeps it very easy to edit, organize, and reflow them. I have no shame in saying that I use my editor as an integral part to my programming workflow. :)
These videos are all autonomous. They didn't have that in the 1950s.
HAMAS has retaken Northern Gaza. The area is depopulated but not safe for IDF. Mission Failed (unless the mission was to ethnically cleanse in the first place).
To me the most impressive thing is the arms servicing each other. When they can self replicate it could potentially have big consequences.

I have a dream that we put self-replicating robots on Mars and let them build a mostly by-robots for-robots civilization that can potentially export stuff to earth, do various science projects and build spacecraft.
by mapping `:` to `;` you actually can save by just typing rather than using those pesky modifier keys :-) That's invaluable to my wrists.
Not in a million years, no. Cash is king for this sort of thing.

My aversion comes from the risk of disclosure that I'm the sort of person who gives money to charity. I learned firsthand that getting on that sort of list is hell, and I won't take the chance again.
GraphQL Client: A simple GraphQL client for React
Forget about POSIX under 9front. Also, Hurd does things differently.
The problem with Adam Savage's favorite pencil [video]
The color scheme is terrible. Salmon, plum, light purple, medium purple, dark purple, and grey?
I'm reminded of Ron Garrett's writing/talks on remote debugging the Remote Agent for the New Millennium Deep Space 1 (DS1).[0], [1]

[0]: The Remote Agent Experiment: Debugging Code from 60 Million Miles Away - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_gZK0tW8EhQ

[1]: NASA Programmer Remembers Debugging Lisp in Deep Space - https://thenewstack.io/nasa-programmer-remembers-debugging-l...
The Chinese government warns companies about US investigations and helps them avoid US enforcement.
>> Which if office space was at a premium, then that means there was way more demand then there was supply. Meaning more people want it than the amount available. Meaning there is no reason to be paying people to get this premium high in demand product. All the more reason that her and others saying the same thing were correct.

The argument was the subsidies were going to be to build new office space in Long Island City in Queens, where there weren't many jobs. As a former Brooklyner, this seemed like a huge positive to me. Imagine not having to move to the West Coast for FAANG jobs! (Obviously this has substantially changed with the pandemic and FAANG jobs distributing across the coasts post pandemic)
Yup. It's crazy that you can be a business operating in a certain jurisdiction and following all the rules and the government can just decide (based on backroom deals) that your biggest competitor now needs to pay no taxes. Literally legalized corruption. At minimum all such policies need to apply uniformly across the board.
(as others have said countless times)

Poverty fucks people up like no other thing, sometimes for life.
I think you'd be so hard-pressed in finding a court that would convict someone of "stealing" for having been in the path of trash that was jettisoned through two stories of your home as for the prospect to be infinitesimal
There was usually a 700mb version available of films and one which was made for two disks. The quality difference was crazy!