skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am going to agree with others that the actual reading and tone of the article seems, weird. Not fully sure why the AI parts are thrown in (and I say that as someone who is very against this AI push the last couple of years).

But on the topic of being an organ donor, I would be lying if I have not personally struggled with this. I fully understand the struggle and the need for it. But as someone who has a ton of anxiety about death, enough that I take medication to deal with it and it is regular topic with my therapist.

I am also an atheist, so I believe that when this body dies I am dead. So I also recognize that any thoughts about, "how will I feel once dead" or "fears of regrets once dead" don't make any sense whatsoverver logically.

But I say this because, I still have that voice in the back of my head saying. What if we are wrong about death. What if I am still aware of what is going on even at "brain death". I have the same thoughts about cremation. This causes me to spiral about being an organ donor.

I find myself almost every time I need to renew my license debating on switching back and forth, and have even done it a few times with this feeling of shame for even thinking that I wouldn't be one.

This feels like one of those things that logic and emotion really don't match up and I can tell myself all day long about how being an organ donor saves lives.

Even reading this and writing this is causing me to spiral a bit.
The article made it sound like they actually don't turn the other devices off in case of brain death, because it's so much better for the organs that they be kept in as close to a living state as possible. If your lungs can keep moving air (even assisted by a ventilator) and your heart can keep pumping blood, it's better that they do so, right up until they're extracted.

Is that not the case?
EU funding is the kiss of death for technology initiatives. I can confidently predict that this will go nowhere.
No. The entire point of these is to funnel the traffic onto and off the highway with out crossing any oncoming traffic, and to reduce the total number of traffic crossings overall.

Here’s a YouTube video that does a much better job of highlighting these benefits. https://youtu.be/A0sM6xVAY-A?si=qrk2ZFFYPA2-6rAS
So surprised that hacker news is stuck in ipv4 land. Even if you disagree with the method, I do not consider a device not capable of IPv6 to be using the real internet anymore. It's the same with the housing market where people would rather speculate on IPV4 houses instead of building plentiful IPv6 apartments.
Put more energy into this movement: `walk, talk, meditate`[0]

[0]: https://github.com/momentmaker/walk-talk-meditate
Open source projects.

Gardening.
Yes, that's what I'm saying. The idea that you can trade up your starter home without getting lucky and having your starter home appreciate much faster relative to other homes is daft -- especially when home prices appreciate by percentages the gap is always going to get wider over time. I don't think there's ever been a time where this "starter home" pipeline has ever worked in general.
The trickle down was never meant to trickle, and if it actually did, the people who advocate it would not advocate it.
I'm curious if you tried Wizard. A cursory look at some of the benchmarks looks like at least some have dependencies other than WASI. How did you run on them on the other engines?
As a CTO coach helping others having a better life, probably the same thing :-)
I feel like my answer should be something reliable like "educating the next generation", but instead I think what I'd actually do is some kind of "shoot for the moon" / "hail mary" ultra ambitious project (hopefully with a bunch of similarly motivated and smart people).
Okay, name three examples then. Bonus points if they happen to be pure philosophers, not philosopher-practitioners.
My biggest issue with organ donation is that 'brain death' still isn't terribly well understood. There are sensors that can be used to determine blood flow, fine grained brain activity, etc, but they aren't universally widespread. Reading the accounts of patients with 'locked in' syndrome really spooked me. I wouldn't want to live like that, but I'd want to be anesthetized the same as any other surgery before organ donation.

Every doctor I've asked about this has dismissed my concern out of hand as if I'd just said vaccines cause autism. I simply cannot trust that my wishes would be honored, and thus my answer on the 'organ donor' question is no.
Obligatory: https://xkcd.com/378/ :)
That phenomenon isn't specific to physics or deep learning. Academic papers are more and more of a joke these days. Sure there's plenty of good work being done too, but its be buried in a pile of poorly done research and deceiving statistics that are written only to chase funding and/or recognition for the author (promotions, graduation, jobs, etc).
Totally.

As a person who doesn't drive I'm getting pretty sick of the expectation that I pay for parking spots every drivers may want to go, and find the exasperated and demanding attitude that drivers display when they can't find convenient parking to be utterly childlike behavior. God forbid you have to walk a block. You know how many blocks I walked to get here?

Also we need to have a discussion about the hoarding going on in suburban garages. People buy these tacky box houses and then cram all kinds of dumb shit in their garage where their vehicles are supposed to go and then park on the street and bitch about their neighbours friends stealing 'their spot.'

This is all so insane.
Not necessarily.

Roundabouts lock up if the major flow of traffic has to go 270 degrees. (A left turn in an RHD country)

Diverging diamonds do their best at handling large left turn flows since that is the type of movement that has the most reduced number of conflicts. To get any lower you would need to start building flyover ramps.
yeah, sure he did say those words.
TFA isn't about product development.

Things that you hope will be used in widely different contexts need to be created using tools that can easily be "glued" into those widely different contexts.

Right now, C remains the best glue language we have. If you want to write things that can be used from dozens of other languages (or even just 2 other languages), you are likely to write it in C.

In 5-10 years time? We'll see (no pun intended)
Do you want to expand on that? Because having a single point of failure certainly seems like a horrible practice when that single point goes down.
At this point the access points and the global data and surveillance system is too complicated and interconnected to dis-intermediate the access point and the network itself

That is to say you cannot even connect to IP addresses unless you’re already part of the global whitelist for APs

Try yourself. Get a VPN and then connect from certain regions and to won’t get very far and you’ll be slooooow

You’ll say, oh, that’s because bad actors and are therefore blacklisted - and now you’re back to the same problem: their resource is being limited by some social structure that is by definition constrained

You cannot differentiate the broader system from the access point, so long as the system controls which access point access then it doesn’t matter what you do

The only solution is to build an entirely new Internet from scratch, not controlled by the people currently google, amazon, cloud flare, respective ISPs, Netflix, etc…

The Internet is 99% controlled by a small set of corporations that most people haven’t heard of

Just try launching a competitive DNS service and see how far you get
T-Mobile is almost twice the size of AT&T.
In my experience of living and travelling in East and Southeast Asia, it seems like Rinnai frequently has a close relationship with the monopoly/dominant natual gas utlity. This makes sense to me.
IR as well.
It’s bullshit. A majority of high volume systems can do this just fine. This is just engineering wank.

Standard solution is query a session table on from a single location, and once you actually start to need to trim request time, it’s not even the first place you look.
This is the most realistic answer provided in this post thus far, and I feel the downvotes are just proving the point. _Not needing money doesn't make you an expert on the world_, please repeat that to yourself and everyone else on that path.
Yes, exactly. But sometimes a vast increase in supply actually induces additional demand by itself. Demand would not have increased by itself if you did not increase the supply, potentially even if the price increases.

Traffic lanes work this way, notoriously. It’s also fundamentally one of the mechanisms underlying Jevons Paradox.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Induced_demand

Again, the practical example in real estate is Colorado mountain towns. Demand, supply, and prices all accelerate together, and this is particularly amplified because of the customer base in question not having any real price sensitivity etc, and then driving out the portions of the market which do have price sensitivity.

Like it or not, induced demand is a very real phenomenon, and in real estate and similar markets it observably does not always occur at a lesser price due to other positive feedback loops being induced. And you cannot “peel away” those effects separately - the price increase will not necessarily occur exogenously without the demand induction and vice versa.

Again, you’re trying to pick apart the “but that’s separate from the supply increase!” and unfortunately that’s not really severable. The demand increase wouldn’t have occurred without the supply increase. Jevons Paradox being real doesn’t mean gas prices will never go up, so to speak.
We have one of these and it's extremely confusing. I don't drive the area much, but based on a few data points before and after, it might just have improved things.

That said, I've seen folks end up driving on the wrong side of the road there in one of my few drive-throughs. I think ours has been executed poorly with not nearly as drastic curves in the road, and really bad painted lines due to layers and layers of other roadwork on top of it.

I'd love to see the data. The photos in this article represent what seems to be a great example: obvious curves in the road, clear lines, plenty of space, etc.
I'm a programmer. I've reached this stage. I still write code.
Robot dog and machine gun [video]
To me, "parasocial" is the very defintion of popular _after_ high school
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

> Omit internet tropes.
My first thought was that it is listening to the scratches rather than the music, but I guess they speed up as the record gets played and the arm moves inwards. So, my second guess is that it's listening to the pitch of the notes being played. Of course, old albums (especially punk albums) are probably tuned to whatever worked on the day—maybe a tuning fork, possibly a piano, maybe just to one of the instruments.
Work on problems that interest me.
Making walking illegal is how you create the car-first culture that we now know the downsides of.
It’s just extremely unpleasant as a pedestrian to be in the middle of 55MPH (88km/h) traffic, even if you are separated by concrete barriers, due to all the noise and particulates.

Each individual crossing is also wider if you are staying on the same side of the road. In a traditional diamond you’d be crossing one-lane on and off ramps, not half of one of the major roads each time.
Rosa Parks, Henry David Thoreau and MLK disagree.
Yes, it's called "Defrosting the Penguin." Slowly thawing out that Linux potential!
I would work on improving HaikuOS.
They were illegitimate instances of Shor according to [1]:

> Of course this should not be considered a serious demonstration of Shor’s algorithm. It does, however, illustrate the danger in “compiled” demonstrations of Shor’s algorithm. To varying degrees, all previous factorization experiments have benefited from this artifice. While there is no objection to having a classical compiler help design a quantum circuit (indeed, probably all quantum
computers will function in this way), it is not legitimate for a compiler to know the answer to the problem being solved. To even call such a procedure compilation is an abuse of language.

[1] https://arxiv.org/pdf/1301.7007
It's not that complicated. You should not be implementing OAuth from scratch.

I don't roll my own auth. I use things like Firebase Auth for free sites or Auth0 for paid sites. Adding extra auth mechanisms is trivial using those tools.

If I was rolling my own auth, I would implement email and Google using something like passport.js. It's really not that difficult.
So here's another method that doesn't rely on the song being detected or even a song at all:

The gyroscope on your phone is accurate enough to measure RPM to about the first decimal place at 33 1/3 - 45 rpm's just by placing your phone on the turntable flat and letting it spin.
Nice try. Oh The Urbanity! - "What Happened When This City Banned Housing Investors": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BRqZBuu_Ers
Very cool. Great aesthetic and copy. No notes.
Teaching kids computers. Old computers, not new ones. Giving them the tools they need to be really, really good hackers.
Not a silly question, worth revisiting periodically.

I'd spend part of the time doing some sort of weight-lifting or low-stress cardio, part of the time working on independent B2B/B2C software ventures, and part of the time training as a musician.

Eventually I'd like to add some component of service to others there, but I haven't really felt a pull to that yet.
A free, open-source, federated platform for scientific/technical collaboration & publishing.
A single word is insufficient evidence to conclude that an LLM was used. "Delve" may be low frequency in naturalistic text but there are many words in an article and the chance that some of them will be low-frequency is high. I also checked in my bibliography and found that "delve" is actually not super rare in academic papers including those written before LLMs.
I'd ask the same question, but with a sinister twist:

What would you do if you don't worry about money AND law enforcement?
The Minecraft Code No One Has Solved [video]
It doesn't dehumidify, which is important. In hot and humid weather, dehumidifying improves comfort. It also prevents mold.

So that's a real disadvantage compared to a normal AC, which does dehumidify.

However, you could combine them. Install a smaller AC system that uses less energy. It will probably still dehumidify enough. You'd still save a lot of energy this way.

A modern "variable speed" AC system should be a good match because radiative cooling doesn't work as well on cloudy days. A variable speed system can scale up (provide more cooling power and use more energy) on those days, and on other days when radiative cooling works well, it can scale down but still run a large percentage of the time to keep humidity under control.

=-----=

Above I assumed when you said "fresh air" that you mean air that is dry enough to be comfortable.

But you might have meant literal fresh air, i.e. outside air to replace inside air with chemicals, smells, etc. For that, there's heat recovery ventilation (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heat_recovery_ventilation). It can transfer heat and humidity from one stream of air to another. So you can pump your cool and dry but stale air outside, and bring in hot and humid by fresh air, but you can transfer the heat and humidity from the incoming air to the outgoing air as they pass each other.
Even pop albums aren't all 440hz. Def Leopard's Pyromania is about a 1/4 step off standard tuning, and there are many other examples of similar.
> Dwelling units in Detroit don't satisfy demand in San Francisco.

They do help though. Individuals need to realize they can’t afford to live in a place like California and have to give up that luxury if they want more affordable housing arrangements.
I used to be a data scientist, I'm now a grad student researching personality development. There are easier ways to make a lot more money, but I feel like I'm doing the deepest possible work, given my interests and skillset.
What a perfectly simple app! Going to try this out with my Technics SL1200 mk2 tonight. Thanks for sharing.

P.S. Reading comments from a bunch of tech folks trying to wrap their heads around an app for calibrating analogue music playback device is very amusing. :-)
> Note that compact/compress are not actually the key enablers: also with AVX-512 we use table lookups for u64 keys, because this allows us to actually partition a vector and write it both to the left and write sides, as opposed to compressing twice and writing those individually.

That is interesting! So do I understand you correctly that the 512b vectors allow you to implement the algorithm more efficiently? That would indeed be a nice argument for longer SIMD

> Isn't the L1d bandwidth tied to the SIMD width, i.e., it would be unachievable on Skylake if also only using 128-bit vectors there?

It's a hardware detail. Intel does tie it to SIMD width, but it doesn't have to be the case. For example, Apple has 4x128b units but can only load up to 48 bytes (I am not sure about the granularity of the loads) per cycle.
Hopefully this doesn’t surprise anyone..if Google actually told us correct information about how the search algorithm works it would be abused immediately
I’m not aware of this scoreboard

Please provide a link or otherwise reference to this scoreboard

Unless you were writing metaphorically in which case you’ll need to write a lot more to describe it
Regarding your anecdote. I definitely notice the same thing, walk through the wealthiest parts of any bigger city and you will see many/most of the houses completely shuttered for >90% of the year. That also explains why the vacancy rates are low, the wealthiest 0.1% (whom ended up with much of the relief funding during the GFC and Covid) park most of their money in assets, but they are not interested in renting out these houses, so when they buy houses they reduce vacancy rates even when they don't live in them.

Growing housing costs and wealth inequality have been extremely correlated, anyone looking for other reasons for the housing inequality really needs to have a very good explanation why they are not related.
> yet get interchangeably used as "authn".

maybe a nitpick but no, they're not. everyone I know distinguishes between "auth-N" and "auth-Z". i agree that they sound similar but actually its kinda nice that they all group into "auth" and then subdivide to authN and authZ. i guess this is me disagreeing with TFA.
Even with a working NAT64/DNS64 setup the PlayStation 5 doesn’t fully support IPv6 only connections. It will mostly work. Until it doesn’t. Xbox is in the same spot with some games. Don’t even get me started with my TVs or numerous IoT devices.

I ran IPv6 on xfinity. It works. My devices don’t. I like my devices. Easier to just not use it.
You’re already talking to stateful systems to do anything meaningful. A in-memory cache on top of session retrieval is so trivial and adds so few microseconds that it’s imperceptible even at large volumes of traffic.

If you’re having trouble with that, you’ve got bigger issues. Any regular work queries will take longer, and so it’s not even a meaningful area of concern if you broke down a request from end to end on a flame graph.
In the US, it's a combination of lack of building, increased materials costs, and (in places like California) government policies that block new construction.

Note that Trump's tariffs on Canadian lumber increased the cost of new construction by 20% over a period of a few months (the article mentions the cost of materials, but not the root cause, which was this tariff, and some climate disasters, like when the Texas storms took out 20% of global PVC production for a year or so). Biden has been aggressively increasing tariffs, so they are both directly to blame.

The interest rate spike and high inflation were predicted by pretty much all economists when Trump decided to needlessly keep rates low during his first term, so blaming Biden never made much sense to me

Anyway, lots of studies have been done looking for root causes for homelessness and unaffordable housing. Every theory I've heard (drugs, mental health, nice weather for tent encampments, joblessness, etc, etc) has been shot down by such studies except the idea that if you have fewer houses per capita, then you will have more homeless people and more expensive houses.

Assuming global financial stuff changed radically but we didn't build more houses, where would these people with lots of money in the bank live, exactly? Also, wouldn't that cause the price of housing to increase (increased demand, constrained supply, and inflation from the increased money supply)?

The graph you cite says the US has 0.4 houses per person. That means that, on average, we don't have enough houses for people that are single, couples without a live-in kid, or single parents.

It goes on to say that 7% of US houses are vacant, but that wouldn't make up the gap. Also, many houses in the US are vacant because there are in places where the economy has dried up, and there aren't adequate utilities, schools, groceries, etc. Even if those houses were somehow renovated, many people would still be better off financially if they chose to live on the street instead of in those places.
I just commented about this. We have one of these, and it's new, but the layers and layers of recent roadwork make it extremely confusing. I've seen people driving in the wrong lanes around the intersection. Thankfully there are plenty of businesses nearby (it's not a highway) so I'm sure those errors are corrected quickly, but it's dangerous.

That said, the intersection on average seems to be more efficient than it was before.
Here's a partial list of civilization ending events:

- Nearby supernovae

- Gamma ray bursts (eg from a neutron star that happens to be pointing directly at us and is sufficiently close)

- Large icy or rocky bodies hitting the planet

- Coronal mass ejections

- In about 1.6 billion years the increasing Solar output will make Earth uninhabitable

- In about 4 billion years the dying Sun will expand and essentially swallow the Earth, which will be long dead anyway

And here's a list of terretstial civilization killers:

- Supervolcanoes

- Climate change

- Global war

- Disease

- Ice ages

There are also others that we don't know how disruptive they will be other than probably super disruptive like the magnetic poles flipping (yes, this has happened at least 30 times).

My point here is that living on Earth is living on borrowed time. To survive in the really long term, we are going to have do something pretty drastic. Whatever we do (eg interstellar travel, moving the EArth--yes, this is possible) will require such massive energy expenditure that IMHO the only path forward will be to build a Dyson Swarm.

I'm also not yet convinced we can think of the time scales required to avoid our own destruction but at least, for a brief period of time, we will have created an awful lot of shareholder value.
Over sufficiently long time periods, all of these turn from an "if" into a "when".
FlowStorm really looks like it delivers on "execution is data", per https://www.scattered-thoughts.net/writing/the-shape-of-data
Officials tend to focus on internet services because they are a potent way to influence public opinion and consequently election outcomes.
A framework to adopt generative AI assistants for builders
hmm, yeah I never thought about that (the second part)

but slow to compress is always relative to fast to compress, and fast is related to user expectations of speed which is calibrated to your competitor's speed, thus if something is slow to compress it will probably stay slow to compress even as its speed increases.
Oh they'll come back together, sooner or later, because of gravity. They'll form a gas cloud at first, which condenses into a new star and its planetary system.

We're all made from star dust, and will become star dust again.
It’s a quote, and you are gonna laugh when you find out who said it.