skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The culture of medicalizing depression perplexes me. There seems to be a staunch commitment to studying it as if it were like a disease of the brain tissue, like Alzheimer's, and staying well clear of simple explanations like "maybe the subject's life is shit?".

Because it turns out, and trust me on this one, that having a shit life causes depression. In particular: a shit life that the subject feels no hope of getting out of.

I suffered really severe, debilitating depression for years. I tried all the usual crap that know-nothings recommend, doing exercise and the like, and working hard to try and do better at life, but none of it budged the needle. Beyond that I was told I of course need to drug myself to feel better (SSRIs).

The depression was permanently solved, not by any of that, but just ditching my old life in full, and doing something else. Once your life stops being shit, you stop feeling depressed.

All the "chemical imbalance" talk is to avoid having to think about this, and instead reduces the problem in the same way a heroin addict does.

The main complexity in fixing it is that the subject often doesn't know their life is shit and just keeps trying to do that life better, or that they fear leaving that life will make things worse.

My non-psychologist tip for anyone suffering from severe depression like I was is simple: you have to make a very big, easy change to your life.

Big means not tweaking this or that, but completely changing everything. What's the most extreme change you could make, in your mind? Is it go and be a monk in Nepal for a couple of years? Then do that.

Easy means it can't be a struggle - if you're depressed you don't have the energy to do that.
If you’re in b2b 5000 customers can be a lot more revenue than that. 10-100x, depending hugely on industry and product.
Now, you have to consider the cost it takes for you whole team to learn how to use AWK instead of SQL. Then you do these TCO calculations and revert back to the BigQuery solution.
But that’s the norm for SaaS products, especially when you don’t have an enterprise contract where termination procedures are more robust.

So nobody is going to live in fear when cloudflare has the exact same TOS policy as everyone else.
I flagged it for him, we'll see if he replies. https://x.com/ArtemR/status/1795074047539068991
I agree in part — a lot of the attribution is extremely weak and based entirely on some correlation of previously weakly attributed tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTP in security parlance). Also, I think the effort in describing all these threats in this way is misplaced, but that's an entirely different rant.

The counter is North Korea in actually capable of pulling off these attacks because of just how bad things are on the internet and how little skill is actually required to pull off a devastating attack. Even in situations where there isn't active exploit development programs in-country, exploits and exploitation frameworks are available on GitHub or for purchase. We have no idea what sort of controls are in place to prevent someone like North Korea from getting access to Pegasus, Core Impact, or Canvas VulnDisco exploits, plus the support and tooling they receive from friendly countries like China.
> The reason to architect for scalability when you have 5 customers is so if that exponential growth cycle hits, you can capitalize on it.

If you have a product gaining that much traction, it’s usually because of some compound effect based on the existence and needs of its userbase. If on the way up you stumble to add new users, the userbase that’s already there is unlikely to go back to the Old Thing or go somewhere else (because these events are actually rare). For a good while using Twitter meant seeing the fail whale every day. Most people didn’t just up and leave, and nothing else popped up that could scale better that people moved to. Making a product that experiences exponential growth in that way is pretty rare, and struggling to scale those cases and having a period of availability degradation is common. What products hit an exponential growth situation failed because they couldn’t scale?
For very wide, I'm thinking of Semidynamic's 2048-bit HW, which with LMUL=8 gives 2048 byte vectors, or the NEC vector machines.

AFAIK it has not been publicly disclosed why Intel did not get AVX-512 into their e-cores, and I heard surprise and anger over this decision. AMD's version of them (Zen4c) are a proof that it is achievable.

I am personally happy with the performance of AMD Genoa e.g. for Gemma.cpp; f32 multipliers are not a bottleneck.

> The thing is that on many real-world SIMD workloads, Apple's 4x128bit either matches or outperforms either Intel's or AMD's implementation

Perhaps, though on VQSort it was more like 50% the performance. And if so, it's more likely due to the astonishingly anemic memory BW on current x86 servers. Bolting on more cores for ever more imbalanced systems does not sound like progress to me, except for poorly optimized, branch-heavy code.
Much of this problem space I've solved with running MTR to the destination when troubleshooting to see each hop's detail.

It's like ping + traceroute in a live running session with each hop broken down.

Quite consistent when I am the first to notice a node down on Xfinity network and in the same mtr see my network at least to my modem is good. Or when there's a hop beyond my ISP with 100s of ms added latency, which I haven't seen other tools do well like MTR can.

Won't solve everything, but might be worth your checking in your case as it breaks down per-hop providing latency for each.
Can I get one at home to "work" for me? I'm willing to pay $100 per week as "salary" until it is paid off. Considering the fact that it likely won't be useful and I'll end up spending all of my time just keeping it moving (like some of my relatives) the "salary" is the only reasonable option.

However, I'd love to be on the beta list (axiomcas@gmail.com). I've been working in robotics since I worked for Unimation back in 1976.
CCP does what they want, the “regulations” are meaningless.
The old vote, and the young don’t. The Tories are the natural party of seniors in any case.
PCB design is a science unto itself. Nice write-up.
One must also ask in addition to your pertinent questions, can the market bear putting the same price on a tiny house as it can with a large house? It's about perceived value. It's the same as anything "wedding". The price will go up just because the word "wedding" is there: wedding photography, wedding invitations, wedding catering.

With tiny houses, you're going to get the opposite effect of the price being lower because if of the "tiny" aspect.
There’d still have to be some further questions, right? I guess if you store it on the interview group’s cellphones you’ll have to plan on what to do if somebody leaves or the interview room is hit by a meteor, if you plan to store it in ram on a server you’ll need some plan for power outages.
clickhouse-local had been astonishingly fast for operating on many GB of local CSVs.

I had a heck of a time running the server locally before I discovered the CLI.
To play devil’s advocate, he lists “truthful” as a goal, which is emphatically missing from openai, google, microsoft, facebook. Google even removed don’t be evil. Elon is greedy and truthful (although obviously with plenty of self deceipt when conflict of interest…). But how far can you really go with truth, when no one wants the truth: not the west, not the east, and not the Middle East. And your allies and investors are in it for the greed part, but not the truth part so much. Trump tried the same thing with truth social… problem is all the greed and shadiness loses credibility with truth also.
The Cosmological Principle has been suspect for a long time. It just adds so little value and costs so much to our understanding of the universe. Best to stick to provable things.
> X += Vx % 0x0003

Oops! That should be & not %.
Managing extreme AI risks amid rapid progress – Science
It's time to stop mental health discrimination at work Essays
What kind of business just has a static set of 6TiB data that people are loading on their laptops.

You tricked candidates with your nonsensical scenario. Hate smartass interviewers like this that are trying some gotcha to feel smug about themselves.

Most candidates don't feel comfortable telling ppl 'just load on your laptops' even if they think thats sensible. They want to present a 'professional solution', esp when you tricked them with the word 'stack'. which is how most of them prbly perceived your trick question.

This comment is so infuriating to me. Why be assholes to each other when world is already full of them.
> “Seriously, screw urbanization and gentrification. We absolutely need to revitalize rural areas again.”

Covid-19 was effectively a massive experiment to test whether people want that, and turns out they didn’t.
Twelve Expectations for Developer Platforms
I'm not American, I'm just vaguely familiar with American law, and was curious how that wouldn't be the case.
I think the “latest fad” you’re using as outrage bait here is from ~8 years ago.
There's SXML, which is equivalent to XML but in S-expression form. Seems to have only caught on in the Scheme community, though.

There are a couple standard ways to do dictionaries (a-lists and p-lists). Object systems like CLOS and GOOPS have standard text representations, but they're tied to their respective Lisps.
For 10 years he sold companies on Big Data they didn't need and he only just realised most people don't have big data. Now he's switched to small data tools we should use/buy that.
Is it harsh to say either a) 10 Years = He isn't good at his job b) Jordan would sell whatever he get's paid to.
I never copied their website, I didn't even know them, I used a Next and ReactJS template and modified the components! :)
The ELF format is shared between different platforms. There are identifiers for the target OS and CPU in the ELF header.
While this is sensible advice in some scenarios. It isn't really useful for automated screening scenarios. Since you will often get screened out of things that you are suitable for because you didn't game the system.

Somehow or another you need to get your CV to top 10 out of the 1500 hundred applications for the position. If your skills are really that much in demand, and the field so esoteric that there are only 10 of you applying anyway, then this sort of gaming isn't going to help, but that is often not the case.
Fast, Simple and Metered Concurrency in Ruby with Concurrent:Semaphore
“How would six terabytes fit into memory?”

A better question would be:

Why would anyone stream 6 terabytes of data over the internet?

In 2010 the answer was: because we can’t fit that much data in a single computer, and we can’t get accounting or security to approve a $10k purchase order to build a local cluster, so we need to pay
Amazon the same amount every month to give our ever expanding DevOps team something to do with all their billable hours.

That may not be the case anymore, but our devops team is bigger than ever, and they still need something to do with their time.
I have always just dealt with a second device because I have no interest in doing anything on my work system that isn’t work.

That includes basic stuff like checking personal email on a large screen.

Activity monitoring software is far too common for me to be personally comfortable with doing something as basic as watch Netflix on a work system. All it takes is one screenshot of a romance scene for my company to accuse me of watching porn on my work system.

An iPad added to your bag won’t break your back or your bank.
Conflation of arrays and pointers is only the tip of the iceberg. A big problem lies in the many varieties of undefined behavior and the relative ease one can invoke it, even when trying to avoid it.
No no, I didn't mean that at all. I meant a script using well-known CLI programs.

Obviously organically grown Frankenstein programs are a huge liability, I think every reasonable techie agrees on that.
No, the other others.
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No need to change the system clock for a millisecond. The operating system has an API for changing allt the timestamps of a file.
Yes, it's called XML.:-)
Of course they are. They just aren't always structured nicely.
According to scientific evolutionary dogma, all mutations are birth defects.
Bigquery and snowflake are software. They come with a sql engine, data governance, integration with your ldap, auditing.
Loading data into snowflake isn't overegineering.
What you described is over-engineering.

No business is passing 6tb data around on their laptops.
MST3K Cancellation and Its Aftermath
Lab power supplies have always been a staple project but most just aren't very good (which is fine). This one certainly has many of the staple ingredients: TL072 op amps, slow current limit, large output capacitance (look at C3||R22 x hFe(Q4) x hFe(Q5), there's probably additional capacitance directly on the outputs that I'm overlooking in the schematic), CC/CV cross-over saturates the other regulator and thermal design. Besides poor response, these are usually unstable with various loads, there's often a loss of regulation when switching on or off, they don't survive a dead short or a sustained load (especially the "not quite dead short" case is problematic for designs like this without current fold-back [1]). Most blow up when you do the file test.

Those are all good things though. You're going to find these issues when using the PSU and try to fix them. A really good lab PSU is, like you say, a surprisingly tricky thing to engineer. Some major compromises as well. There's a reason why a great many of them have used the circuit invented at HP some time in the late 60s (which in itself makes a number of compromises).

[1] f.e. the suggested TIP35C: Ptot = 125 W, which is already less than the >150 W you need to dissipate when the supply is shorted. But also heed the conditions: Ptot is at Tcase = 25°C. Does a small heatsink keep Tcase at 25 °C while dissipating 125 W?
Analyzing Web Logs
*The Three-Body Problem intensifies*
It depends on what you want to do with the data. It can be easier to just stick nicely-compressed columnar Parquets in S3 (and run arbitrarily complex SQL on them using Athena or Presto) than to try to achieve the same with shell-scripting on CSVs.
Lost Media Account
I remember there was an Instagram account name friendly.fox2 that made a post one time saying that they want MartianBattleplan to do labor pain simulation challenge to see his reaction, but now I don't know how to find their Insta pictures that's lost.
A Starbucks with 100 Robots
>but which take a lot of maths to explain that I'm not going in to here

Yeah, bs.

Provide sources to support you argument, that's entry level discourse.
I think you are closer to the mark. People don't seem to realise they didn't eat meat as much back then. Like not even 10% what people eat now. To sustain the amount of meat consumption today they would have been killing every single day! In fact, it was common for families to have one pig which they'd kill around Christmas time. The pig was fed waste food (leftovers, vegetable peelings etc). They ate the entire pig, including the blood. Not a scrap would be wasted.

But I think you are also forgetting that agriculture has improved since and people aren't hungry any more. We don't need to keep a pig and feed it swill. There's so much to go around that many people are fat. It's 100% a choice to eat meat today and if that choice involved doing the killing I don't think many would make it.
Elon Musk's XAI Raises $6B in Latest Fundraising Round
We've Just Seen the First Galaxies in the Universe Being Born
I agree with the theme of the article. My reply was to parent comment which has a 6 TB working set.
It absolutely would. You can't build a useful model off of occasionally looking outside.
Former UK scientific adviser – Another pandemic is 'absolutely inevitable'
How many ways do they have to transmit to Western networks? Proxies, tunnels, rooted machines, sending balloons with 5G modems that dwell in our airspace for days? I would much rather see a 100:1 defensive effort in operating system security. Lockdown mode in macOS is like Spinal Tap's amplifier that goes to 11. Why not just have 10 be the most secure, and make it go up to 10?
Lufthansa brings the inflight experience to life with mixed reality
If it is "a banger", there is reasonnable change it goes to you through shared posts.

Also there is a page with Trending Posts, Trending Hashtags, Trending News and Trending Accounts.
I see the case for it, but what wouldn't be natural once you allow this? Gene editing? Why not?

A consequence is that 'natural' will lose all meaning. If everything is natural, then nothing is, really.
I think some of my old Amos MaxsBBS Doors are still on Aminet archives. Used to love the ASCII art and the cRAZY cASING used in DIZ files.
What the US needs is some expectation adjustment. If you make all your houses and lots 2x smaller suddenly you can fit four times as many people in the same space.
Google automatically opting more users into Find My Device
Email received from Google today (last time around I gather it was just Pixel owners):

Find My Device network is coming soon

You can use Find My Device today to locate devices when they’re connected to the internet. With the new Find My Device network, you’ll be able to locate your devices even if they’re offline. You can also find any compatible Fast Pair accessories when they’re disconnected from your device. This includes compatible earbuds and headphones, and trackers that you can attach to your wallet, keys, or bike.

To help you find your items when they’re offline, Find My Device will use the network of over a billion devices in the Android community and store your devices’ recent locations.

How it works

Devices in the network use Bluetooth to scan for nearby items. If other devices detect your items, they’ll securely send the locations where the items were detected to Find My Device. Your Android devices will do the same to help others find their offline items when detected nearby.

Your devices’ locations will be encrypted using the PIN, pattern, or password for your Android devices. They can only be seen by you and those you share your devices with in Find My Device. They will not be visible to Google or used for other purposes.

You’ll get a notification on your Android devices when this feature is turned on in 3 days. Until then, you can opt out of the network through Find My Device on the web. Your choice will apply to all Android devices linked to <email@domain.com>. After the feature is on, you can manage device participation anytime through Find My Device settings on the device.

Learn more

https://support.google.com/android/?p=find_offline_devices
Within 2 trillion galaxies and 10^24 stars, it would be statistically rare not to find any arrangement following a shape that's familiar to us.
About $20/month for chatgpt or similar copilot, which really they should reach for independently anyhow.
Do you still have to stir to keep the milk from sticking to the bottom of the pot?
> How does the ABI end up being “All rights reserved” by SCO?

Text of the spec is copyrighted by the SCO, they did not put it in public domain. That's what "All rights reserved" was intended to mean even though this phrase has not been meaning anything since 2000.
What’s the issue? Utilities benefit from density; it’s much chapter to run pipes when they’re shorter per house.
I think I've written about it here before, but I imported ≈1 TB of logs into DuckDB (which compressed it to fit in RAM of my laptop) and was done with my analysis before the data science team had even ingested everything into their spark cluster.

(On the other hand, I wouldn't really want the average business analyst walking around with all our customer data on their laptops all the time. And by the time you have a proper ACL system with audit logs and some nice way to share analyses that updates in real time as new data is ingested, the Big Data Solution™ probably have a lower TCO...)
Big Data is not dead - it has been reborn as AI, which is essentially Big Data 2.0.

And just in the same fashion, there was massive hype around Big Data 1.0. From 2013: https://hbr.org/2013/12/you-may-not-need-big-data-after-all

Everyone has so much data that they must use AI in order to tame it. The reality is, however, is that most of their data is crap and all over the place, and no amount of Big Data 1.0 or 2.0 is ever going to fix it.
Arms races tend to bankrupt everyone except the winner. good luck to all participants.
Good point. Omitted details also matter, this is why we need free press - to find them.
Most companies don't implement good security practices because of the inconvenience, not the cost.
Site note: As a grade A certified computer nerd I come here for tech discussions.

However the article comments I enjoy the most are always these threads regarding sociology or psychology. I don't know other places where readers can psychoanalyze each other respectfully. Kudos.
I work for an acquired startup that tried to solve this problem.

It’s been around 8 years and we’re up to 50 or so people. I’d say we are okay at it.

We haven’t gotten fundamentally better over time recently, it’s more like there is some asymptote of how much you can really tell with a certain amount of insight into the systems between source and destination.

The only real progress we’ve made has been integrating with more and more sources of information about the state of the network.
I would say it has now been supplanted by TikTok.

French gov just banned TikTok a few days ago in Kanaky (called New Caledonia under french imperial colonialism) to try to limit communication between insurgents in its colony.
I have a very well documented implementation of rete, that also produces nice looking SVGs of the state of the rete algorithm here: https://github.com/bollu/rete

It's a really interesting algorithm, and allows one to get O(1) incremental pattern matching (ie, when one adds a pattern, one is told of a matching pattern in O(1) time) at the cost of O(npattern * nitems) memory usage. I was trying to use it in the context of pattern matching within a compiler, but I never went anywhere since I had COVID, then a PhD to get to :)
> Seems like the only way to win is not to play.

No, the only way to win is to organize. The "not to play" is intended for a special case of a war - obviously, you cannot organize with dead people.
TBH I think he just confused the freq emited by the Hydrogen Line with the idea that every element has it's own frequency. Which you could actually calculate but is not something analog to the material but also to the conditions it is in.

Now when he speaks of tones in terms of frequencies he isn't crazy at all. You could find out the tone of say the Hydrogen Line by diving it until you are capable of finding out which tone it could match (if you could) - it's funny cause I was kind of thinking of this discovering electromagnetic astronomy when this video came out

Now I had some fun laughing of the b* he could throw, but I'm not entirely sure everybody is as smart at they think they are when they make fun of him.
Gambling is shady to begin with. It’s easy to say that all businesses only care about money, but gambling is pure greed, from both the customer’s and proprietor’s perspectives. Sure, there is greed in medical but gambling is ONLY greed.