skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It’s wild.

I sold my first software internationally at age 10; but I attended my first anti KKK protest on my dad’s shoulders at age 5.

Grateful I had people in my life who exposed me to direct action, freedom of speech and assembly, and I understand that the importance of helping others struggle for freedom.
I understand and grudgingly accept the risk to the drinking water. My concern is the airborne pollutants (carbon from the generators, expelled gases, VOCs) that are a certainty and how proximity relates - how close is too close.
I used to be a scientist back in USSR. Can't talk about it in general but where I've worked and visited I did not encounter anything that fits your description. Sure there was dirt here and there but nothing approaching the level.

Modern corporations however from my experience are quite fitting.
Not worth a read.
This is interesting. I came up with a very similar idea in the late 1990s to JIT a lazy functional language. The idea was to only compile the code that you needed to execute next, so you could run lazy code without needing to compile it (recursing across infinite lists, etc). It had templates with holes (for things like cons etc.)

I stuck my paper on it under Prof Phil Wadler's office door and ran away. I have no idea if he ever read it :D
I vaguely remember one of them being sad after the experiment ended, since it felt like they lost one of their natural senses. Slight ethical concerns were raised, afair.
Headless Chrome with Puppeteer: How consistent is the fingerprint in 2024?
"the talent from post-WW2 Germany" is that a new way of saying "Nazi war criminals" like von Braun?
The thing is, w/ Mac OS X, rather than "Display PostScript" (which was what was originally promised/intended) we ultimately got "Display PDF" (Quartz) which is an improvement in pretty much every metric which matters in the marketplace --- pretty much the only thing which was lost was nxhosting (which I still really miss).

For a hint at the backstory on this sort of thing see:

https://www.folklore.org/Origins_of_Spline-Based_and_Anti-Al...

and for the details look up Mike Paquette's posts on usenet's comp.sys.next.advocacy and similar groups.
Ah, well all JS strings are always immutable and only value-referable (you have no access to the underlying memory location), so that’s not a concern here.
> Note that in recent times, some doubt has been cast on if this technique is as powerful as believed. Additionally, there’s significant debate as to exactly what is going on during inference when Chain-of-Thought is being used...

I love this new era of computing we're in where rumors, second-guessing and something akin to voodoo have entered into working with LLMs.
Oh dear. They really need to change the rules such that losing against blank would postpone the appointment, or something.
I must have hallucinated that I went to an auto dealer for warranty service last week.

Enterprise software companies have consulting and support services.

At the consumer level though, most people aren't willing to pay for the cost of the manufacturer or retailer repairing clothing and other relatively low cost items. As in this article, there are local businesses that do such things but it can be really hard to justify for lower cost items. I have had shoes resoled and otherwise repaired but haven't done it in years and probably most recently a pair of very expensive custom hiking boots that were made to be repairable. (And the repair was probably $200 or so.)
because even hard science faculties are essentially human activities, and this is political. That human showed consistent "leader" attributes, formed a support and collaboration base of other accomplished humans in that context, and convinced everyone (apparently) that this now-obvious computer trick constituted something worth promotion. It is said repeatedly that it was "crude tricks in plain sight" .. where is the mystery?
Why should population density continue to rise?

Have you ever flown over Texas?
Translations matter. There’s rather an important semantic distinction between claiming a ‘landing’ on the moon vs claiming ‘land’ on the moon.

Currently the headline on HN reads “Footage of Chang'e-6's land on far side of the moon”
Show HN: You are probably paying 50% too much for your contact lenses
I built a website to help people save money on contact lenses: lenspricer.com

Most people buy contact lenses from their optician. The opticians often mark them up by 50%+. You can buy the exact same contact lenses you are wearing online, at a much lower cost.

Lenspricer helps you identfiy which online store is currently the cheapest for your exact contact lenses, compared across different package sizes, divided into a monthly cost for a super easy comparison.

In EU, many of the big optician chains sell their contact lenses as private labels, but in reality the contact lenses are well-known brands. On Lenspricer, I've created a big database showing which contact lenses correspond to which, making it easy to compare prices, even for private labels. These private labels are often sold at an even higher mark-up, and I've seen many cases where the savings are 80%+ by buying the original brand online instead.

I started Lenspricer because I discovered that the contact lenses I had been paying $68 per month for, for many years, was being sold online for $32 per month. The exact same contact lenses. When talking to my network, I realized many are paying this and didn't know buying them online was an option. So I set out to make buying them online much easier.

Lenspricer exists for 30 countries, and collects prices from 5-10+ stores in each country. You can select your country in the top right corner.

The monetization plan is to get affiliate deals with the contact lens stores. In the US I don't currently have with the majority of stores, but in the EU I'm getting more and more deals.

Let me know what you think! Any and all feedback is super helpful. Thanks :-).
They did block white folks from using the facilities, and they’d often fill an entire diner, try to order and not leave until they were served.

Of course, they weren’t served and were often drug out and beaten or had dogs turned loose on them or sprayed down with water hoses.

I hope you enjoy Kings reading, it really should be required before anyone posts MLK quotes or memes.
flat tax sounds nice but weighs heaviest on lower income for given revenue, but their progressive tax changes still seem pretty low
The best way to overclock the lower clocked durons was simply to change the fsb in the bios settings. You didn’t really need the pencil trick as they had 100mhz fsbs in an era where 133 was more common.
So what was the second crime?
There aren't significant differences between a V-2, AIM-120 AMRAAM, Minuteman, Patriot, Tomahawk, Saturn V, Delta IV, Falcon 9, et al..

They are all metal pipes filled with boom powder that can be used to throw things up.
Emoji

Looks like a wingding to me, let’s just have it maybe.
> and am usually the person being approached for advice and mentoring. I never found the efficiency of the process to be lacking

That's a good exmple for GP's point: deliberate, premeditated interaction works just fine remotely. But everything else falls away. That talk amongst the almost random subset of meeting A that happens to be also in meeting B and walks from A to B together, things like that. Occasional random peerings are powerful and a company chatroulette would be an awkward substitute.
Just Dropped Dropbox this month after many years. Their quest to grow and offer more and more unwanted services has finally made their core advantage of easy sync, share, and backup not worth the cost, complexity, and user-unfriendliness.

Google Drive is now Fine.
> For every person who d[i]es, 7,000 live a more comfortable and convenient life.

That you see this tragedy as a benefit reveals the grotesquerie of your world view. You also do not address the downstream effects of that lost life in terms of grief, material loss, and reduced capacity. (You’re not even a good capitalist.)

May you never experience the losing end of a “more comfortable and convenient life”.
I don't know why HN has the idea that IKEA is cheap trash - yes some of the things in their catalog are not very high quality, but they seem to be very consistent.

But more importantly (for me), because they have such a huge catalog, and a propensity to optimise, they ended up with a supremely hackable furniture - everything fits together with everything else, whenever you want to build something - there are tons of parts available - and you can buy just the parts its kinda like lego.

Also a lot of Ikea stuff is made of honeycomb paper - so it's trivial to put cables and electronics inside. I've hacked multiple tables and sofas by putting charging ports / wireless chargers and other doo-dads inside, vastly decreasing my cable management issues.

And again if anything breaks, its kinda trivial to fix it yourself, as you've probably assembled it and know where each bold and nail go.
The C++ Actor Framework
The only kind of diets I know of that people stay on long-term are less strict diets. The stricter the diet, the lower long-term adherence is, which seems logical. Keto is very strict, very measurable.

My pediatrician brother goes off and on keto very successfully. Whenever they need doctors for a test of the keto diet, he goes back on it. Despite being low body fat, he tends to lose more body fat than others on the diet, because he's a home chef and marathoner and very much in control of his diet.

I tend to not make enough effort to balance my diet on keto, which causes issues that take me off of it, for example, I don't respond well to having too much cheese.
Yea, I use a cheapie voice recorder that only saves .wav files for ~10 memos per day, and Whisper transcripts are good. "Tiny" model, 4GB ram laptop. "Base" model runs too, but slower, and produces different inaccuracies.

But overall, if I were suggest an ideal process: 1) transcribe notes w/ Whisper, 2) play back the media in VLC with the transcripts and correct the errors. T = 16 hours of proofing/correction + ~8 hours of headless transcription of *.wav before hand.
Deal! I’m at a graduation right now but I’m responding to keep this in my threads. let’s set up a long bet. If your email isn’t in profile mail me
> In the end, we decided the non-ECC RAM risk was acceptable for every tier of service except our databases.

Jeff recognizes that using ECC is critical where criticality matters.

> we burn in every server we build with a complete run of memtestx86 and overnight prime95/mprime

I'm unable to grok whether Jeff said to do this in a response to not using ECC, or if he's just stating this is good practice regardless of the type of memory, which it is. It's like fixing all compile-time errors only to ignore run-time errors.

> I find it very, very suspicious that ECC – if it is so critical to preventing these random

Jeff decided ECC was critical enough for his RDBMS. This statement seems to be at odds with the previous paragraph.

> memory corrupting bit flips – has not already been built into every type of RAM that we ship in the ubiquitous computing devices all around the world as a cost of doing business.

We can't see "ECC everywhere" because Intel prevented ECC from being everywhere via their market muscle.

As for the studies he's quoted, great, I have no reason to doubt them from a 10,000' view. If ECC is only good for 5%, 10%, 20%, or 25% corrections (or uncorrected but reported errors), that's better than non-ECC RAM which may have let the bitflip silently persist into your Active Directory database, nuking the CEO's account while IT runs around for hours or days struggling to figure out what happened, why, and how to prevent it from happening again.

It's an easy choice to make when the cost of ECC today is low.
This feels a little like named social media influencers.

I wonder if things like LLM's and/or knowledge graphs could research what the rest can't.
These guys were stupid enough to put it in writing, but this happens in lots of places where you either get quid pro quo citations or just get put on an article as an author even though you contributed nothing. Unless folks start getting hit with jail time for this stuff, it's unlikely to change.
> And how would you implement that?I keep asking because often these threads go into something like "Oh you just stop making homes an investment and problem solved.", but that word "just" is moving some pretty big mountains there. If you drill down on what that really might mean, it never comes out to something realistic to implement.

Only humans can buy residential property, and only one residential property for one human.

>Demand does not go down. Your scheme just favors owners living in their home as opposed to corporations buying them to rent them out (which I fully and enthusiastically support!). But actual number of homes and actual number of families wanting to live in them didn't change, so demand didn't change.

Number of entities that want to purchase residential property has now gone WAY down. No corporations, nobody owning multiples. There are not more homes total, and there are not less people needing a place to live, but there are less entities trying to buy homes.

The price WILL go down.
The ones in charge are usually more concerned about shielding themselves from fraud accusations than actually preventing fraud. Relying on widely accepted yet flawed rankings allows them to redirect any fingers pointing at them. Nobody was ever fired for following JCR impact factor.
I had a 300A@450MHz running for years. Those were great!
High quality piracy, especially for music, can convey a lot of social status. Many of the “pirate clubs” online are gated behind presenting your own vault of gems: lots of lossless FLAC files and maybe some rare foreign cd rips.
You gave us only eight words.

I did my best to parse them into something meaningful and relevant, expending much more thought and effort than a few random words from an internet stranger are usually worth.

If I failed and you meant something else with those eight words, my biggest failure won't have been misinterpreting you, it will have been in responding at all to someone who writes like they're on Twitter when they're not.

This isn't the place for that.
> If you allow a person to buy a $800 sofa which looks great on the outside and is made in China albeit with extremely low quality materials vs. a sofa which looks almost exactly the same but is priced at $1500 but is of much higher quality - most consumers will obviously choose the $800 dollar sofa vs the $1500 since that's how the free-market functions. Is this rational though?

This is rarely the choice though. In my experience, the choices tend to be the $800 low quality sofa, the $3000 low quality but with a name brand sofa, and the $6000 low quality but with an even fancier name brand sofa.

Presumably there are some manufacturers that still produce furniture that's actually made of massive wood rather than cardboard and veneer, but it's becoming increasingly rare.
> all the work is done by the grad students and assistant profs - and the professor's name gets added to the list of authors as a sign of respect (in the best case) or because they were told to do that (in the worst one). This is an extremely common practice.

Just recently, Yann LeCun bragged on Twitter about publishing over 80 papers in two years.

I wondered who he thought he was impressing. Anyone who knows anything about science knows that at least the majority of those weren't his own work.

(No disrespect intended; YLC has done important work. But that tweet was not his best idea.)
Please expand on the tension between the competing passages of “We have the technology to pause the worst effects..” and “It’s far from a complete solution”.
Is this a wealth transfer from stupid to smart, or is it actually possible to scam people with and above normal intelligence?
This is once again a perfect use case for cyanoacrylate. There's FDA approved, food-safe brands that will simply allow you to rebuild every fragment into the cup. It will also cure into ceramic in under a minute. I say this because I've done it. You're wasting time and energy using any other method.
Yes, that's true. What isn't true is that "some tables are sequences" which have "special operators" whose results are "undetermined for other tables".

A table has an array portion, it has contents or it doesn't, you can check this as I illustrated (I didn't intend it to check if the table is entirely empty, the sibling comment to yours shows how to do that). `#` works on any table.

It is in fact the case that if you start sticking `nil` into the contiguous array portion of the table, you'll have problems: `#` and `ipairs` won't work correctly. That's part of why `false` (and therefore `true`) were added to the language.

It's a quirk you have to know to use Lua effectively, that's all. In years of programming Lua, I've never had a bug which originated from adding `nil` within the array portion.

As the only composite data structure in the entire language, it's reasonable to expect people to learn how they work if they're using Lua. The one correct observation in the post I was replying is that there's no obvious or cheap way to find the number of entries in a table (other than the array portion). Luajit has `table.nkeys`, and that should have been imported into stock Lua.

There are a lot of anecdotes in this thread which amount to "my experience with Lua was as a means to an end: I was using it as a scripting language for something else, and it subverted my expectations in some way or another (mostly by not being Python)". Understandable in a way, but it should take half a day at most to read the entire manual and the online edition of Programming in Lua, and there's no sense in blaming the language because a user wanted to get something done and figured they would skip that part.
> Where do you propose the future AI influencers of the world are going to get their inputs?

AB testing on how humans respond to it.

> It will be entirely disconnected from culture and therefore not be compelling to viewers in the first place.

1. Not disconnected: at such a point, the AI is the culture.

2. Your use of "therefore" does not work even absent #1, for the same reason that drugs are compelling irregardless of any connection to the culture in which they are consumed.

> Creators become popular because they are relatable, are charismatic, etc. not because they have a formula that can be replaced by a machine.

Virtual bands predate me by a generation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alvin_and_the_Chipmunks

And the music itself has been following a formula for about as long: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5pidokakU4I

And charisma is… well, an LLM is going to be better at the personal touch when you've got too many fans to keep track of as a mere human, which is what, a few hundred? After that point, you're going to be giving vague non-specific platitudes no matter what. Things like this (the response to "As charismatically as possible, respond to a star-struck fan email"): https://chatgpt.com/share/41bf083f-7a37-444f-84f3-ab99a9caf9...

Thing is, that actually works: we know it does, because a performer can come on stage and say "Hello Wolverhampton!" without giving any of the audiences' names and be cheered rather than booed off (assuming they're in Wolverhampton, obviously); and also from the example of horoscopes being a thing that people enjoy despite dividing the world up into 12 boxes and then having to make a vague platitude that could fit anyone.
One thing that the latest generation of languages has taught me (or that I have learned in the process?) is that “languages” aren’t “really a real thing” in and of themselves as much as they are merely composable APIs over compilers / interpreters (which are basically just dynamic compilers, or compilers are interpreters?), and compilers are an insane, fragmented dumpster fire with no or barely usable APIs. Only LLVM, GCC, TinyCC, and Terra admit this reality, neither LLVM nor GCC’s APIs are really user-oriented, and Terra isn’t really a realistic option for most people. I also personally don’t really feel that LLVM has accomplished (or can accomplish) its potential for a variety of reasons — most LLVM projects are forks or patches, although Zig has done well at this — and GCC has limitations as well although I’m very pleased with gccjit in Emacs. I’m very curious to see what the future holds especially if we can get an optionally-verifiable yet usable compiler API.
Sure you didn’t just flip the 100->133mhz fsb setting in the motherboard? The low end durons didn’t really need the multiplier changed as they had a 100mhz fsb when the athlon 1000 had a 133mhz fsb and used the same motherboards. You could just flip the bios setting and get that exact stated overlock without the pencil trick.
It is about hardware stuff. Just in case anyone as dumb as me is expecting something about triangular matrix multiplication, given the url. Haha.
That’s not quite true, because many people don’t have good custom sofa makers near them. Moreover, because they are small businesses, they don’t have the same capacity for marketing as big brands; most of their business is word of mouth.

Also, custom sofas take time to build - not much, but 2-4 weeks or so.

So there are a lot of reasons big brands are convenient. But you pay for that convenience in quality.
Yes, let’s try to explain technical things to non technical people without using technical words and pretend we're getting somewhere and that it's useful for them.
I was surprised a few month ago that one of the toothpastes I tried has sorbitol in it and wondered if that is contributing to my cavities.

Googling this seems as hard as finding good dietary info that's not diet propaganda. This dentist says sorbitol may enable tooth decaying bacteria and only xylitol is ok https://michaelsinkindds.com/sugar-substitutes-can-cause-too... but other sources say sorbitol is fine. The one thing all seem to agree on is that sorbitol is better than sugar but why is it so hard to find a toothpaste that has no sweetener in it... and that doesn't taste of mint, which is the only alternative.

I'm told I have good genes / strong teeth and I brush after every meal but somehow every year my cavities add up to my entire dental insurance budget plus a crown I never get around to fund, regardless which dentist I go to.

So yes, bring on the tooth regrowing drug! I'll give that a try.
Scaling, accuracy and search quickness is very important for vector dbs. Do other general purpose databases scale as well as specialized ones?

Because ideally they hold massive, well optimised indexes in their memory to be able to search quickly and not miss any vectors.
> These are great and I fully support such rules. They will not make houses depreciate though. They'll make more of them owned by regular people instead of rental conglomerates, which is a wonderful outcome. But it won't make them depreciate.

So there are cities in the US where 40% of all residential properties are owned by investment firms. Now they can't own them. So they sell them. Now you have a LOT of residential properties on the market, and a lot less entities that are legally allowed to purchase them than before. Of course prices will come down.
Why? They answer to people outside of academia, who doesn't care and don't understand, and will be happy with seeing a notice in the press about 'another 5 million to Alzheimer's research' regardless of whether it goes into a dead end or something worthwhile.

This turned into a huge setback for Alzheimer's research specifically. Politicians and their ilk poured money into 'amyloid research' so to get money that's what you had to do, even though it was rather early on pretty well known among researchers that it wasn't a fruitful way forward.
Sunnyvale and Mountainview both score lower
Sure but from looking at the patches, it seems like theirs is tied into the CPython build and infrastructure. I am talking about a dedicated library which can be dropped into a variety of superprojects to help them implement a JIT.