skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think this is the wrong takeaway.

Everything has become organized around measurable things and short-term optimization. "Disparate impact" is just one example of this principle. It's easy to measure demographic representation, and it's easy to tear down the apparent barriers standing in the way of proportionality in one narrow area. Whereas, it's very hard to address every systemic and localized cause leading up to a number of different disparities.

Environmentalism played out a similar way. It's easy to measure a factory's direct pollution. It's easy to require the factory to install scrubbers, or drive it out of business by forcing it to account for externalities. It's hard to address all of the economic, social, and other factors that led to polluting factories in the first place, and that will keep its former employees jobless afterward. Moreover, it's hard to ensure that the restrictions apply globally instead of just within one or some countries' borders, which can undermine the entire purpose of the measures, even though the zoomed-in metrics still look good.

So too do we see with publically traded corporations and other investment-heavy enterprises: everything is about the stock price or other simple valuation, because that makes the investors happy. Running once venerable companies into the ground, turning merges and acquisitions into the core business, spreading systemic risk at alarming levels, and even collapsing the entire economy don't show up on balance sheets or stock reports as such and can't easily get addressed by shareholders.

And yet now and again "data-driven" becomes the organizing principle of yet another sector of society. It's very difficult to attack the idea directly, because it seems to be very "scientific" and "empirical". But anecdote and observation are still empirically useful, and they often tell us early on that optimizing for certain metrics isn't the right thing to do. But once the incentives are aligned that way, even competent people give up and join the bandwagon.

This may sound like I'm against data or even against empiricism, but that's not what I'm trying to say. A lot of high-level decisions are made by cargo-culting empiricism. If I need to choose a material that's corrosion resistant, obviously having a measure of corrosion resistance and finding the material that minimizes it makes sense. But if the part made out of that material undergoes significant shear stress, then I need to consider that as well, which probably won't be optimized by the same material. When you zoom out to the finished product, the intersection of all the concerns involved may even arrive at a point where making the part
easily replaceable is more practical than making it as corrosion-resistant as possible. No piece of data by itself can make that judgment call.
So who gets to point out, if not the Supreme Court, that the First Amendment exists and says "no" here? Armed citizens?
I use it as a Downloads folder.

I always know where my recently downloaded files are, and I have visual feedback of when I should delete them.

I also use it as a temporary launchpad for sorting uploads.
Now is a good time to be thankful for and get involved in the still-active computer history museums:
https://computerhistory.org/
https://m.facebook.com/bloopmuseum/
> "One million checkboxes that anyone can check"

> Why

> I don’t really know. The idea came up in a conversation last Friday and I felt compelled to make it.

The best kind of reason :)
Lambda can scale to 10k in 1 minute https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/aws-lambda-functions-now-sc...

If your response time is 100ms, that's 100k requests in 1 minute.

Lambda runs your code in a VM that's kept hot so repeated invocations aren't launching processes. AWS is eating the cost of keeping the infra idle for you (arguably passing it on).
I am married to a Greek and spend part of my year working from a very rural Greek village in the mountains (more goats than people). I also have travelled a fair bit around Greece, e.g. North South, East and west, from Crete to Thessaloniki, and from Corfu to Skiathos.

My experience is pretty positive overall. Internet speeds are fairly fast, not exceptional and not cheap, but widely available. The interesting thing with the internet is how there can be a certain envy when it comes to internet speed, both with individuals and between countries. But even as someone who has a >1Gb internet connection in the UK, I don't have a big problem changing to slower speeds in Greece. Ultimately, when you have good broadband coverage, there's a certain law of diminishing returns to increasing the speed. I totally don't need 1Gbps speeds, I do fine with Pappous' ~45Mbps VDSL and actually the house we use when we visit has only a 15Mbps link to my father in law's house. My wife and I work from there, and when the internet works, it's just enough. It's too easy for me to say "ah, but you don't need gigabit" but lets also be pragmatic and ask if Greeks all need superfast broadband? Probably not.

I do have problems with the broadband reliability in the mountains of Greece, or rather my father in law does, we know there's a bad line-card but getting OTE to permanently sort it out and not just reboot the line-card when we complain is annoying. One day they'll actually fix the line card and we'll get reliable VDSL, again, in a village with more goats than people.

One thing that annoys me more than anything is that the 5G tariffs could definitely be more competitive. Instead of borrowing my FIL's broadband using a questionable WiFi link, I'd like broadband. Getting a VDSL connection for a holiday home is relatively expensive and for some ridiculous reason, OTE don't want to run the cable anyway. So, 5G? Except I want continuous connectivity through the year, but when we're there I want a lot of data just for a month at a time. Nope, all or nothing. And the PAYG tariffs don't accumulate allowances each month, so I can't get a 5GB tariff, save up the GB allowance to use at Easter/Summer/Christmas/etc). The PAYG tariffs are weirdly now just subscriptions without an annual commitment and flexible payment options.

We looked at Starlink, but again, as this is a holiday home but one which is connected, I don't want to pay full-rate all the time, but there's not a way of turning the connection down, to say 4Mbps, when you don't want full service. Same as the incumbent broadband providers, they need to recognise that a holiday home is now an IoT home and provide something more than on/off provisions.

One day I might like to work on infrastructure in Greece, perhaps I'll get a job there one day or start a business there one day.
I checked out the comments where some of the original engineers who put this into the ROM commented. Right smack in the middle is a comment from Terry A Davis as well. Damn.
I have lived in my city a very long time and there has been a 20+ year issue of pedestrian deaths, especially in the down town area. It's well above the national average, and have had theories as to what is driving the higher post-pandemic numbers -

- more transients, who often walk in the middle of the street with no regard towards their own safety (and I've anecdotally noticed an uptick in "normal" pedestrians just jay-walking without even looking to see if it is safe to cross, no idea what's driving that)

- rise of e-bikes and e-scooters that go fast enough to be driven in the street

- higher rates of driving while intoxicated

It's a weird problem but one that's definitely been noticed in my city.
The idea here is to get your modules more organized, so you can avoid actually copy pasting, but rather using version controlled modules.
You are right that the quickstart is pretty large, we will think about how we can trim that and show only the essentials.

To do what you are requesting is pretty easy, you can just launch the server and use the client directly. The code would look like this:

```python

from r2r import R2RClient

base_url = "http://localhost:8000" # or other

client = R2RClient(base_url)

# load my_file_paths

...

response = client.ingest_files(file_paths=my_file_paths)

# optionally set metadata, document ids, etc.. [https://r2r-docs.sciphi.ai/api-reference/endpoint/ingest_fil...]

```
"Real-time latin-hypercube-sampling-based Monte Carlo Error Propagation" isn't the most "Hey, beginners! Come on in and try this!" description / synopsis. Ditto "Second Order Error Propagation."

The "free, cross-platform program that transparently handles calculations with numbers with uncertainties" module may not be as strong, but definitely sells and describes itself better.

mcerp might be better rated if it hoisted "easily and transparently track the effects of uncertainty through mathematical calculations" promise to its headline.
> I never signed a contract with any of these advertisers?

You should read all those GDPR web pop ups. Lots of legalese in there saying you are contractually letting the company do XYZ if you accept cookies or continue to use the site.

How many people actually read them or just blindly click them?
Rabbit failed to properly reset keys: emails can be sent from rabbit.tech domain
> But frankly, even if a significant portion (like say 10%) were to start using LTSC version. That still keeps Windows in a dominate position [...]

You are talking about the 2012 version of Microsoft's vision for Windows. In 2024, they no longer go for these install bases. In this particular case, Linux has won any new entry in the embedded market, and they're mostly keeping their current clients happy with the LTSC version. I would be 0% surprised if Microsoft starts tightening the screws on those LTSC user to move them towards their cloud offerings.

Microsoft no longer wants an install base; what it wants in 2024 is logged-in Windows users. Then they can sell them subscriptions and hoover up all their data, mostly for ad purposes, and probably for LLM training sooner rather than later.
We wanted give it a name so that it felt like your companion, a friend you can rely on.
"Hierarchical work culture" is like the go-to blanket excuse to explain anything in East Asia that Americans don't like or think is bad.

If you've ever spent a few years at any decent-sized white collar company in the US (tech, finance, consulting) you know it's the same in the west. Especially FAANGs. All these mid-level engineers are just yes-men trying to suck up to their VPs to get in the next promo cycle. The western companies just have better marketing about "flat hierarchies" but it's all PR talk and lip service. Some PM or SVP drops some mandate and no one ever has the balls to question it, they just grumble and do it.

The saddest part is that these tech bros actually believe the marketing they are fed about their company cultures, and it breeds this shallow superiority complex and so whenever something negative about Asian companies comes up, you get comments like this citing this 'go-to' rationale about hierarchy.

It's actually kind of sad these guys don't have the self-awareness to critically examine what they are told vs. what reality is.
Is banning "sale" the right way to frame this though? What is a "sale"? E.g. I know that zoos aren't supposed to buy or sell animals -- but they do exchange them. And certainly among tech companies, "data partnerships" are already common, where company A gives data to company B and B does something for A distinct from just paying them.

I think we need to expand regulations around consent of data subjects. Today we sometimes argue over whether a data subject has meaningfully given consent for a specific use of their data for something other than the core product that generated it. Once that consent is given, maybe the data subject has some right to be forgotten in principle, but understanding how their data is actually being used in order to withdraw consent is really hard and messy.

What if every use of a customer's data which is presented back to them (e.g. from a marketing email from a firm you've never directly interacted with to targeted ad you see in an app or on web page) has to give you a link a report showing what data sources contributed to it, and which parties controlled it, along with "revoke consent" links?
> You need analogies for people who are less technically savvy, like most legislators.

You don't need to have a PhD in computer science to understand what data is and what can be done by aggregating and reselling it. You just need some intelligence, curiosity and honest interest in the issue. If you pass laws on technology, maybe spend 30 hours and learn basic Python.

When people are treated as not able to understand a complex argument, you'll get a population that can't even digest most basic arguments.
The APL game of life video is another awesome thing worth reposting :)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1041500
Benchmarking Ourselves over Time at DuckDB
60% of Denmark is farmed. 80% of that (ie. 50% of the surface area of the country) is used to grow feed for pigs that get exported. That has absolutely nothing to do with food security.
Being an "actual app on your Mac" is probably not going to be a great target for a revival of Hypercard. I would imagine a website, HTML5 "app" or some other portable technology would make way more sense and have much greater reach.

The whole point should be to make the environment operable on the "cheapest computer" a person may have access to - an old Android mobile.
> isn't it deceitful to be allowed to advertise an online masters as a regular one?

You may think so. Luckily the validity of a degree isn't for you to decide!

> Doesn't that do disservice to those who went ahead and got a regular one?

Is it a master's degree? If yes, why is it a disservice? But also to be clear I believe you're a troll on a troll account so don't respond, I don't care.

> I myself don't have a masters from NYU.

Sounds like you have an in-person masters and are upset other people got a better deal. Which goes back to my original point, stop being upset and don't count other people's money.
I agree, they should either raise the price of the exported meat, or leave other countries to cultivate their own meat industries. That said, you'd probably need to come up with a good way of employing the extra farmland to justify the move.
One advantage of Telegram over WhatsApp is that you don't have to display your phone number to your contacts and random people in group chats and blogs.
I think this is the real one:

https://www.youtube.com/@tesla
If there were no ads and tracking, then there would be paywalls and credit card entry forms everywhere. The web is free for the commercial stuff, because your data is the payment.
Scientists find another way we're exposed to forever chemicals: Through our skin
> Look at any C program. What are integers used for? Counting things, loop indexing, etc.

Both of those should use unsigned integers, and they are limited by the size of the machine, so no, they don't need a mathematical model of integers. A good machine will have a size_t size that can hold any size of object, and by extension, any number of elements of any size, including char.

So for counting things and loop indices, size_t should be used, not any signed types.

In my code, I essentially use just size_t and unsigned char (because the standard did not specify the signedness of char up to at least C11). If I use something else, I am checking bounds.

> Most people could not calculate with higher number in their head, are you saying their mental model of integers is a small integer model different from mathematical model?

Are you seriously trying to accuse me of this? I am the one saying that hardware integers are not a sufficient abstraction for mathematical integers, yet you say that I assume that people have a small integer mental model?

No, I am not. I am the one telling you that using hardware integers in place of big ints is not good.

> Models for true mathematical integers do not exist in the physical world, so that "int" isn't one, is meaningless pedantry.

True, every abstraction is leaky, but big integers and rationals can get so large that it doesn't matter.

And yes, big ints are a leaky abstraction, but they leak so much less than hardware integers because they don't wrap and because they are not subject to 00UB when unsigned types are used.
>>given a constant population of cows

>in a frictionless vacuum...

This is a factual matter. Why be snarky when you can instead lookup the answer? The population of cows in the EU has been relatively constant with a slight downward trend. [1]

[1] https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/products-eurostat-news/-/d...
There are a wide range of “patterns” that derive from compilers that are the higher teachings behind functional programming and OO patterns. People don’t usually call them patterns. (Scheme isn’t special because it has closures, it is special because you can write functions that write functions.)

Reminds me of a thread a few days back when someone was talking about state machines as if they were obscure. At a systems programming level they aren’t obscure at all (how do you write non-blocking network code without async/await? how does regex and lexers work?). Application programmers are usually “parsing” with regex.match() or index() or split() and frequently run into brick walls when it gets complex (say parsing email headers that can span several lines) but state machines make it easy.
You need to multiple that out by request servicing time.

Say your application uses 25ms real CPU time per request. That's 40 reqs/sec/cpu core. On a 4 core server, that's 160reqs/sec. That's 625 seconds to clear that backlog assuming a linear rate (it's probably sub linear unless you have good load shedding).

So that's 10 minutes to service 100k requests in your example. I'm ignoring any persistent storage (DB) since that would exist with our without Lambda so that would need its own design/architecture.
Deaths of despair are up by similar numbers. Correlation or causation? In this case, I'd argue it's partly causation...

> More than 35,000 pedestrians have died in the past five years, according to the group, and the number of deaths rose nearly 77% between 2010 and 2022.

Between 2007 and 2021, drug overdose deaths have risen 155%, alcohol deaths 87%, suicide 23% [1].

[1]: https://www.statista.com/statistics/1085334/alcohol-drug-sui...
> Every model is wrong, some are useful.

Yes, and I'm saying this one isn't useful, it's worse than no model at all. I can still be correct in pointing out that something is bad even if I don't have something better.
>“Functional programmers ruining cities as well as codebases.”

The information [and communication] technology {I.[C.]T.} boom at the beginning of the millenium & especially at the beginning of the 2010s – where you've had banks, investment firms, and angel investors just throwing away their money to anything relating to computing, communications, hardware, and software – had two aims that are publicly known: quantum computing and machine-learning technology (later known as artificial intelligence).

They figured out quantum computing sometime in the ±2015.
Machine-learning, A.I., took a bit longer but it's here – confirmed at the beginning of the 2020s.

Now, I.T. has served its original mission and it's relegated to maintenance & routine work for the [already] existing infrastructure.

Self-serving, self-important, self-fulfilling prophecy; who knew!?
Somebody who can show that they were banned or censored specifically because of government pressure on social media companies.

Being reprimanded by the social media companies before you alleged the government started pressuring them to reprimand people like you rather weakens your case a whole lot, it turns out.
> has absolutely nothing to do with

sounds like it has 20% possibly to do with food security, so "absolutely nothing" is hyperbole
Didn't Gnome had this feature too at some point in the past? I have a clear memory of this working in Gnome and then not...
The Banach-Tarski paradox is really a deep critique of measure theory and specifically the axiom of choice. This is fun to study to get a feel for the places where formalism without connection to feasibility gets you.

In an intuitionist framework none of this applies.

It relies on the fact that not only does it not provide a constructive framework to produce such a division, but also that no such constructive framework is even theoretically possible! So this theorem tells us nothing about the nature of three dimensional objects or our ability to "measure" objects.
No, but maybe don't start with one of the smaller sources of overall greenhouse gasses (it's like <3% in the U.S. for example, not sure about Denmark), especially when it affects nutrition and well being of your people.
There's a storm of these right now:

https://imgur.com/a/YHSuh54
You forgot the last step: Get banned because the video surveillance shows the trash being thrown in after you've unlocked the car.
They can filter out politically sensitive contents. When Github is blocked GitCode users won't notice.
The analogy is not about technical or theoretical understanding of data. It's about how (personally identifiable) data should or should not be allowed to be used societally.

Analogically its the same as not being allowed to sell your vote.
Oh wow, $4,000 more for the one you bought. Not everybody can afford to drop money on an item like that, especially when there are serviceable but cheaper alternatives.

It's almost like you have to have a certain something to buy it...
Who's violating the First Amendment here?

If you can't show that the government is pressuring private companies to suppress speech, then there's literally no First Amendment violation. The plaintiffs in this case have failed to demonstrate that the government pressured the companies to suppress their speech... which means they've failed to point out a First Amendment violation.
> I personally would just do git push / pull

So would I, but I have also have pull set to rebase.
All your Calendly workflows and reminders that you've set up will work as usual in addition to this.

Calendly Stripe integration can be used for collecting payments but this app
makes it easy for you to refund anyone with just one click and keep track easily.

With Calendly, you have to do the manual work of logging into your Stripe, finding the client and so on.

Additionally, you can track your booking links here and know if a lead has opened the link, entered information, and check payment status etc..
Nobody's barbecue is going to be cancelled because of this. Meat and animal products are some of the cheapest and most easily available calories you can get here.
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Even FF is crazy, would that force a choice between FF and GM wavetable for example?
> Does Congress still think it is a good idea to treat personal data as raw materials?

I don't think Congress in the USA governs as much anymore, they are too busy trying to stay in office. That is why the Supreme Court and the President have become more important to win. Why have legislators work and make laws, when you can have unelected judges and the president do it all?
I'll give it a shot - how useful are the Pro features?