skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Everybody you talk to online is not in the United States or from the United States. Maybe in the beginning of the 90s. Open your mind.
I thought the same thing.

The lack of Moon atmosphere is a real problem though.
JavaScripter?
A placebo has no physical or physiological effect at all, it can only affect what the test subjects think or pretend they feel.
> In Norway we have the exact same jokes about the Swedes

This is a fairly recent development. When I moved to Sweden in the 1970s, it was so bad I learned Swedish at accelerated rate in order to avoid the kneejerk compulsion of many (if not most) Swedes to tell their favorite jokes about how dumb Norwegians seemed to be. No doubt a consequence of century-old rivalry and the fact that Sweden during the early part of the last century was the larger, richer, most industrialized and organized society in comparison. And they believed much of it to be actually true, in the way that derogatory humor always evokes some degree of "no smoke without fire." To this day, I meet swedes who are surprised at hearing that bananas are not actually called "gulebøj" in Norway (bended yellow) - a reference to how Norwegian is not as anglicized as Swedish, as there has been a pushback against this trend in Norway historically. As Norway has become progressively richer these jokes in Sweden about Norwgians have more or less disappeared however.

The notion that Norwegians nowadays have the same jokes about Swedes is something I hear repeated, but it saddens me nonetheless because it doesn't rhyme with the spirit I remember from my childhood. If true, then it means that a fair number of my present (Swedish) countrymen are being denigrated, perhaps because Norway can now pride themselves on being the richest (real) country in the world per capita, so rich that a lot of swedes migrate here to take the worst paid jobs in restaurants and in hospitals. They are popular as employees because they understand the language and are hard working. And probably because they can take denigrating jokes, maybe because well, they used to do it too. But it's not all that funny, really.
I think it’s worth noting that when this post was written, the reddit/HN style of threaded conversations was really new, and other contemporary implementations of threading were truly awful.
has someone tried to do binary Hopfield networks like this? in an LLM like massive scale way?
It's barely noticeable except when I come back from abroad and expect train doors to open on the wrong side, it happens maybe a couple of times until I get used to it again.
Jokes aside I hope you salvage your school stuff! Best of luck if you have exams.
Na, this isn’t it, you one of them that talks let’s solve poverty before spending money on xyz
At some point you're extrapolating new information, not unpacking encoded existing information.
Over the top in terms of implications (we aren’t getting a city on mars or asteroid mining, let alone exportable to earth, any time soon), but on point in terms of magnitude of revolutionary potential.

I’m now increasingly convinced (say, 50/50) we’ll see Starship demonstrate in-orbit refuelling before Artemis II [1], delayed on account of Orion [2], does its manned lunar flyby.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artemis_2

[2] https://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2024/04/resolving-artemis-ii...
How about the wars the US is fighting directly in 13 different sovereign countries presently? That’s gotta be slightly costly.
it would really help if all the austerity measures required to avoid that certain doom weren't preached upon us by the oligarchs and their eunuch servitors, who will obviously get to keep their current lifestyle while the rest of us own nothing, eat the bugs and live in the pods.
Some DMV would be a part of the government, it wouldn't be _the_ government. To not build up a straw man, you'd have to compare it to, say, Apple's battery quality control department or Amazon's warehouse maintenance team.
Hi @hliyan, I will update the words.
So why not just reuse the known design that works. No one said this proposed $3k car had to look different?

This whole argument is bunk. Just settle on a design (perhaps borne out of your higher end model) let it trickle down your product line (unchanged) other than stripping useless gadgets, etc.

Why do people assume those in the market for a $3k car care that it have a brand new body style?
As soon as I heard "unbox new laptops" I thought "tech problem and un-shaken-out game platform". I understand why a player might think it's a good idea...but it's extra risk for little benefit.
It's taboo in Western medicine.

I doubt the whole world will respect that.
I switched to a unihertz jelly phone. I configured the screen to display in grayscale.

It can do everything I need, but it's uncomfortable to use. The screen is tiny, it's a pain to type, etc. But if I really need to reply to an email it's entirely possible.

Which is exactly what I wanted.
In my country, you wouldn’t need an in person ‘appointment’ to merely change an address on a driving license.

Seems rather inefficient to have offices all over the state, appointments, inefficiencies like missed appointments, and the waste of citizens’ time, for a process that can be done by mail.
Those at the top of the chain, who benefit from the "strong" economy, have an intrinsic motivation to suggest that things are going just great. Many in Washington are either suckling the teats of the wealthy through campaign finance / lobbying, or hyper-rich from investments (and other forms of economic parasitism)—providing a great deal of motivation for decision makers in US government to not give a shit.
With PHP, 1-line (no new tools):

sftp user@host remoteFile localFile

Joking aside, I’m a bit surprised such a tool would be developed in Python given its dependency’s and runtime (which is not easy on the user).
I couldn't find the Safari extensions I needed, so I coded them myself
I remember reading somewhere that one the greenest thing you can do is have less children. I cannot find it now but iirc, if every one on the planet had one less child, climate crisis would be averted in so many years/decades. It makes sense that intuitive level but would love to verify details.

Your comment makes me wonder if it is indeed about “save the planet” without scarifying “growth” is what most people care about.
>> I'll add one of my biggest stressors - opaque pricing.

Economic "models" make assumptions like markets being efficient. Meanwhile in the business classes next door they teach how to avoid competition because it's a race to the bottom. They all learn the prisoners dilemma as an example because it's how you need to think to avoid overt collusion.

I'd like an economic model as powerful as the laws of thermodynamics, where everything is included if not explicitly. But I haven't seen one.
If you read the article it actually says why Streatham High Road is not included.
says right there. scan the qr code and download the app.
I think in many areas the name of the game is to move the entire market to a place where no real competition is possible. Housing in most parts of the world is a good example, there’s no reason prices for housing should’ve gone up 300-400 % above inflation as we really haven’t run out of space in most places, yet here we are. I have a hard time believing this is just the outcome of unfortunate market conditions, it seems quite engineered to me.
dg explains in the article
>Today, Verisign is the single most profitable company in the stock market, a great example of an economic termite

This is just blatantly false. VeriSign is in fact the 1215th most profitable company in the stock market [1]. By operating margin, it's 155th [2]. I find it hard to give an article much credit when I can't even get past the introduction without having to comb through citationless false/misleading statements.

[1] https://companiesmarketcap.com/most-profitable-companies/pag...

[2] https://companiesmarketcap.com/top-companies-by-operating-ma...
You're acting like a child. And you're completely unable to address any of my points, or any of the points other people have raised, you just rant and fume and call people names, while trying to defend reprehensible behavior, as immature as your own. You can dish it out, but you can't take it, just like all of the abusive racist bullies you're trying so hard to defend. So I've made my point, by drawing you out and making you illustrate my point by your own behavior.

You claimed it makes you laugh when you trick people into thinking you're a racist asshole. Well you've convinced me of that quite well with lots of evidence of your own words, so why are you angrily fuming instead of laughing? Now that you've convinced everyone that you're a racist asshole, you should declare victory, laugh, and shut up. Mission accomplished!

Again, you may be yourself, but Roger Stone is not a teenage boy, and neither are the Proud Boys he's sitting with in that photograph, flashing their White Supremacist signs. That destroys your argument. And you are still unable to respond to that, and you just get angrier and angrier and more incoherent every time I point that out. Why aren't you laughing like you said you would?
Ah, so what you actually mean is more performant (for a subset of uses), not simpler?

So if I have a TSV and a CSV containing either pure numbers or complex data (say the contents of each file in a codebase where each row likely contains both commas and tabs), they would be equivalent in both performance, right?

If I have a TSV and a CSV containing natural written language TSV might be more performant since there are likely much more commas than tabs (I'm guessing this is your point?).

Regardless of the input data the encoding/decoding code would be equally simple (since they need to account for the same edge cases), right?
The Era of the Autodidact Is Here (2018)
The answer is simple. Some consumers are feeling terrible and they are vocal about it. People mostly are ok and not talking about it.
> It's true that the buyer has negative expected value money wise and the seller positive one...

This is obviously the insurer's goal, but in practice competition and relaxing underwriting standards to win business means that many insurance companies do not turn an underwriting profit (the buyer winds up with a positive expected value). But premiums are paid up front and payouts to policy holders do not occur until later, and the insurer can invest the "float" in the meantime, so they still make money.

Obviously the customer could have taken the premiums and invested them themselves, but that also takes time and effort, and may come with risk itself. It is not obvious that insurance is a bad deal even ignoring arguments about the concave nature of the utility of money.
This is also my story of purchasing the house with solar panels already installed and not working https://x.com/outcoldman/status/1791494866041545139?s=46

TLDR. Takes years to fix it, and only if you push pretty hard.
Aha, thanks.

This seems a bit unfortunate — the training process will end up using a whole lot more memory than inference. I wonder whether one could get away with storing the high precision weights in slow host memory and using the quantized weights for the backward pass, thus keeping them out of GPU memory.
I know a former executive of the company that was developing this drug for cardiovascular problems. He told me that they sold it because it had this "side-effect" that they couldn't get rid of. ;-)

Marketing is the key to business success.
(Talking to you, tech people)
Foil Wing Skateboarding
The runtimes are part of the Linux distribution and get upgraded along with it (and receive continuous security updates along with it), while maintaining backwards compatibility for the application code (Perl scripts or Java bytecode). Tools like needrestart will notify when a process needs to be restarted to take advantage of the update.
Not that economics is a credible science, but you’re conflating talking heads with economists. Talking heads exist to peddle the agenda of the elites who own them.
Speeding up crash recovery and VACUUM in PostgreSQL 14
As I remember the 1970s joke wars, they were driven by tabloid newspapers on both sides, and all in good fun between friendly nations.

I learned later that many of the jokes were translated American "Polish jokes".
You're right that you wouldn't want to use any non-cryptographic PRNG for gambling games of any significant stake. Many low-stakes games will use them, relying on having many different players connected to one result source to protect themselves.

However, "624 consecutive outputs" is not the way to think about it, because those outputs are truncated to narrow integers. A single shuffled deck leaks about 230 bits of information, and backing out the state of a Mersenne twister needs several thousand bits of information.
The Inuit example is a common misconstrual [0]. The ancestor language has three root words that they might modify with a suffix in the way we might use a phrase 'snow on the ground'.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eskimo_words_for_snow
2$ per week for a few years is a day off work or a few stake dinners.
You could definitely notice it if you wanted.
Blockchain is useful in very limited circumstances. Namely, when:

1) The central party running the website accumulates value from its growing network but doesn’t want liability for their database being hacked and corrupted (eg having someone give themselves a lot of votes or internal credits), or prevent the fear that they won’t pay out (eg when PayPal froze accounts for the tiniest reasons, or Lebanese banks, or Canada, etc.). In the past this was partially solved with reuquiring middlemen to post surety bonds in every state and registering as a money transmitter. But many marketplaces (eg Etsy, Ebay, Kickstarter, Uber Eats) today operate in a gray area when they do payouts.

2) When a community (whether local or global) are engaging in some ongoing collective action and want to make sure everyone can verify the rules were followed, without relying on fallible middlemen. The Factory Pattern allows them to easily verify that the publicly audited software was indeed not tampered with. Examples include: contests, elections, roles and permissions, escrow transactions, memberships with recurring subscriptions, disbursements to approved entities etc. In the past we just had bank accounts be a block box for most investors etc.

Here are actual useful applications of blockchain: https://intercoin.org/applications

Bookmarking software isnt one of them.
It would be good to clarify that it is a generally unknown issue or an unknown event that might have happened in the past, but discovery of this still happens in the future.
Personally, I’m much happier living my life according to my own values and not getting too wrapped around the hypocrisy of others. That said, I’d be quite alright with massively progressive taxes on the rich and quite high capital gains taxes to boot.
Maybe there are too many bureaucrats that all the expenses are bloated and funding payroll of unproductive gov workers.

Personally ive found that to be more true in most countries.

Civil service/Gov workers get tons of new unnecessary roles with bloated titles for departments that barely do anything, just to maintain a cycle of promotion, to keep the gov workforce “motivated”.

Not that i disagree that United Health is price gouging that there are way too many corrupt unnatural monopolistic companies preventing america from growing fast and allowing innovation to take place.

I think both things are true at the same time.

Talk to any gov department and they’ll often tell you, the budgeting is structured in a horrible way that it encourages them to do wasteful spending, they must keep spending entirety of their “budget” to retain a similar sized budget next year, “use it or lose it”, to avoid going through hassle of convincing politicians to re-boost budget later, departments resort to wasting money with meaningless expenses just to retain their budgets…

Extrapolate that to a gov that spends more than a trillion dollars annually at times and this is a disastrous level of wasteful spending.
I don't get why. Can't you just run the trams in the opposite direction?
> the competent individuals ... disappear. ... Simple things start to break. Less value is provided and at the same time everything is more expensive. That sounds much like the world we begin to find ourselves in today

How painfully so.
Deep Dive into HDMI Resolution Troubleshooting
and then get shown in the second map.

Seeing may of the comments here leads me to the conclusion that some are not reading the whole article (but then again I have read dg's blog for 15+ years and realise that he usually deals with all exceptions in the article and you have to read it all)
Termites or some kind of blood-sucking parasite? Something bigger than fleas, maybe ticks? The effect is different, and ones are meant for i.e. buildings and the other for living thing.

I see that as taxes, imposed by some private entity instead of the government, and without potential benefits for you as some taxes may be.

And if is that role, there are more direct imposed players that somewhat suck money to let the system work, starting with some banking and insurance.
CBC also had a wonderful show call ZeD -- early 2000s, it was user generated content before anyone knew what that was. Short films, music by unknown artists, oddball animation.

They had an 'interactive website' years before YouTube existed, and the format intentionally had a lot of internet crossover. They clearly had no idea what they were doing half the time, and it was wonderful.

Whenever people reminisce about the early internet, I think of this show as a pioneer in 'new media'.
Erasing someone's dysphoria would also fundamentally change their identity and personality. If I were to suffer a head injury today that so altered my personality, the result would be very unpredictable. I could become a better person, or a worse one. I could lose my wife, my career, everything. But even if the outcome were positive, I wouldn't be me anymore. This me would cease to exist, replaced by a new one.

On the other hand, a bodily alteration is much more predictable, and, importantly, I'd still be me. I wouldn't become some other person.

This me has an instinct for self-preservation. Thus, if both options were available, I would absolutely choose transition over erasure.
Re LinkedIn as an example of an economic termite:

It's certainly true that LinkedIn is the go to for white collar professionals seeking to make their resumes visible passively to recruiters. But isn't life still easier with LinkedIn than in the before times, when recruiters would dig deep to get folks' phone numbers and then have to call each of those people individually? (I think the modern equivalent would be email addresses.)

It's true that LinkedIn makes recruiting much easier to scale to a mass market. And it's also true that it has a monopoly on that scaling for professional employees. But is it fair to call them an economic termite when it's still possible to do sourcing in an admittedly clunky and old fashioned way? Just because they have a monopoly on scaled recruiting doesn't mean that they hold all the cards the way Linde (also in the profile) would in the gas market. This is particularly borne out by the existence of Indeed or Stack Overflow as options for posting your resume for recruiting.
Actually c++ later seems to evolve a similar way : see part 2 of 4 of this series : https://deque.blog/2017/05/09/lisp-meta-programming-for-c-de...
> Where? In US?

US yes.

Also countries like Taiwan, Japan, Korea, Vietnam, Phillipines, India have territorial disputes with China.

If you add EU as well, what's left?

> You are closing the biggest market for yourself (China)

Biggest markets in the world are US and EU.

In china they cannot even compete without joint ventures they do not own. So it's not like they lose much, just 49% of a joint venture
Welath inequality means many companies just dont need the majority of consumers. Big pharma typifies his by increasing prices till they can just get a few whales to buy.

The rental market and the.dojs anti trust is the same: landlorsa making money by limiting units to just the more wealth renters and leaving units empty.

This is just qhat.happens wgen regulatots simply stop enforcing a minimum level of social goods.
Not 35+, think of mid/late 20s as it used to be about 20 years ago. Peak health, some disposable income, educated, but also good age to bear a child. If you start having children at 35-40, it’ll be harder for you to have 3+ children, but now for health reasons.

Up here in Canada, according to statistics, only 20% of couples want to have 3+ children. If I recall it correctly, it’s not that they have it, but plan to, which might not even happen due to socioeconomic reasons.

I don’t think majority of young people want to have 3 children though, as you mentioned. Even if I do an extremely unscientific look around in my circles, the number of couples who want that is 0. I obviously might be in a bubble, but it’s a fairly common sentiment especially for my age group.
This is fantastic.

At the same time, there's an ecosystem beyond just the web framework, where rapid iteration is helping a developer write once but leverage multiple tools.

For instance:

- FastAPI
- Starlette
- pydantic
- sqlmodel
- postgres

Here's an example discussion for building the full stack yourself: https://medium.com/@lawsontaylor/the-ultimate-fastapi-projec...

The value comes from the sort of community-agreed data model:

Why: https://docs.pydantic.dev/latest/why/

Datamodel code gen: https://docs.pydantic.dev/latest/integrations/datamodel_code...

With this at the core, then API contract, doc, DB, test, and SDK generation are at hand, not to mention easier integration with all of these other projects. And now with

Observability: https://pydantic.dev/logfire

I find no hits on the terms `pydantic` or `openapi` in your docs. Given your choice to include Python as one of the three supported languages, do you have a plan to tie into Pydantic or implement a bridge?
Yes, when we didn’t want a build machine, we’d just build in production. Isolating production with no unauthorized binary (like Alpine) was a long path away…
Ah, all your dependencies are in the language you're using? Some of mine use dependencies that are written in compiled languages.
DNSBomb – pulsing DoS attack exploiting DNS queries and responses
Moving states requires validating the information from the previous state too. It's not a matter of the new state just updating an entry in its database. It's an entirely new entry. Given that, in person validation makes sense.

Moving within a state is simpler, and indeed can be done online in most states.

Granted in many countries there's a national ID system. Also a part of the point of government-issued IDs is that there's more validation around its issuance, and many other parts of society take advantage of that.
Good point! I try to avoid making anyone feel like I'm stealing the show, or even criticizing. Given the position of the thing, I can usually make a case for how improving it would be good for everyone.

I don't start actual work until everyone involved is aware/agrees - lest my actions be for naught. Maybe I'm missing important context. Checking in, amicably, is important.

We can do this stuff in the shadows, that's fine. I just want the day to be better for everyone.
Damn I must have missed this news. What countries is the US at war with?
Venice: A Triumph of Architecture and Engineering [video]
Only affects CGI scripts on Windows at that. So yeah, big bug if you’re using XAMPP, but production sites have nothing to worry about here.
This is related to a phenomenon that writer Kyla Scanlon has called the “vibecession” - a disconnect between the economy’s metrics deemed to indicate its health, and the general populace’s perception of it

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vibecession