skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We looked at both and chose Render based on various posts here along with our real world testing and bake off parameters. We use the Pro Ultra config and handle ~20rps on a Node / Express stack w/ 36 workers using clustering. Our bandwidth is around 50Gb / month.

Render has been quite solid and the support has been on point when we have found issues or run into unexpected edge cases. I have been impressed that despite a big raise and subsequent scaling up, they continue to ship a solid product and the platform improvements have been useful as well.
I once had 2 microsoft engineers call me for help with qmail because I was active on the qmail mailing list. They couldn't wrap their heads around how svc and daemontools worked.. the good old days! I never asked why 2 microsoft engineers were working with qmail. I think I was 20 at the time and I was just happy to be on the phone with people from Microsoft even though I was very much a Linux guy.
> I suspect that the government needs to know what to tax, and obfuscated pay, means obfuscated taxes.

You're taxed on what you're paid. The government doesn't do a parallel calculation and tax you on that.
Try it out here: https://us.moshi.chat/
City Design: The principles of city design in words and pictures
I am not sure this is correct - there could be an error not only in the data, but also in instructions - but flip could cause data to be written to an incorrect location of the hard disk.
I used a Powershell-script in a recent project and learned some lessons. It gets some data from an API. It is run dozens of times every minute, can run concurrently with itself, has some writing to a json file cache in a race condition free way. Works mostly ok. Development has been difficult because of low volume of forums talking about Powershell. Wouldn't have bothered to make the script without ChatGPT. One time it failed by inexplicably setting system+hidden+read only flags in a project folder. Quite a head scratcher. The worst experience was a bug I still don't understand: The script failed to get an access token when running in "ordinary powershell" but managed to do so when running in Powershell ISE. I checked every possible environment difference and concluded that there was only one: powershell.exe vs powershell_ise.exe. I am not going to be making any more Powershell scripts.
Mike's Telescope Workshop
I always thought about it like being a permanent infant. The world is huge, full of colorful things you don't understand, and it'll be like that forever. But it's also a poor metaphor because adults have something that toddlers don't: fear. As a kid, you're an ignorant and curious blank slate; as an adult, you've established expectations and anxieties, so you'd probably be having a much worse time. :D
Having learned both at an intermediate level, I use awk for structured data handling, Perl for textual pattern matching.

Perl was inspired by awk, not the other way around. Perl is more general purpose.
If you're a react developer that started in the industry in the last 4 or 5 years, I'm sorry. The web industry did a real disservice to newcomers by pushing people so heavily into learning react from day 1, potentially without ever learning HTML, CSS, or browser APIs.

Do yourself a favor and learn the platform if you jumped right into react. When react inevitably loses favor and the jobs dry up, you'll have a much easier time when you know the underlying platform and better understand why react does what it does.

Don't take the above as some claim that react is already dying, it could still have plenty of time left. It's just inevitable that it will eventually die and web development jobs will move on to something else.
Indeed, the truth often lies somewhere in between.

It sounds like you might not have been studying to become a mathematician but had to take a statistics course as a requirement for your degree.
In such scenarios overcoming vague and complex teachings can indeed feel incredibly cumbersome, often resulting in a negative overall experience. However, when it comes to topics you’re passionate about the situation can be quite different. While exceptions exist in every field passion can make certain teaching styles more tolerable.

For instance, I taught myself programming at the age of 13 and I vividly remember struggling with OOP. It took me 2 months to grasp it, but I persevered.
English is not my native language and I was quite poor at it in school. I began learning English on my own because there were far more programming resources available in English than in my native language. I was terrible at math and finished high school with an E in math. Fast forward a few years I developed an interest in algorithms and theoretical computer science because I wanted to understand how compilers work. I spent months learning to comprehend mathematical symbols and notation, reading numerous resources that assumed a solid mathematical foundation which I did not have. I persevered because I was genuinely interested.

Making learning too difficult isn’t helpful, but neither is making it too easy. Like most things, it really depends.
im in the same boat as you. i have a roku currently talking to my jellyfin server running on my pi and a few months ago roku decided there needed to be more adds and it really has killed what little speed the roku had to begin with

definitely eyeing an apple 4k tv and getting a lifetime subscription to the infuse player
I’ve deleted my reddit account earlier this year and I have no regret. Reddit has turned into something that’s unusable for me.
Don't forget BLIS itself!
IIRC, that thread was about Trump v United States, (IANAL IMHO) pertaining to unitary executive theory.

Whereas I'm whinging about this court's multiple precedent smashing decisions attacking administrative law, (IANAL IMHO) pertaining to the judicial primacy.

Obviously, I do not think POTUS is the law, nor SCOTUS is outside the law. Stately plainly, I'm certain that > 70% of Americans would agree.

On my more practical terms, I can't abide the Robert's Court eschewing any legal theory. It decides cases peice meal. They selectively use Textualism, Originalism, Historicalism, Major Doctrines, Revanchism, or 4chan memes, to reach predetermined outcomes. With no regard for making each decision mesh with all the others. With no effort to provide guidance to the lower courts. Repeatedly contradicting themselves!

Resulting in chaos.

As we've seen with Dobbs (overturning Roe v Wade). And we'll now see with their push-pull wrt executive power (eg, On the one hand, POTUS' administrative state can't do anything, and on the other, POTUS can do anything as an "official act". OMG! Which izzit?! Make up your minds!)

It's one thing for me (or any one) to disagree with their decisions. That's totally normal. (In a civil society.)

It's another thing entirely when no one knows what the law is any more. This is new. This is not normal.

WTF do we even call this? Calvinball?
When you bring your kids to school, you expect the teacher to have some authority over them: to give them homework, ask them questions and stay quiet for at least part of the past. But you dont expect from the teachers corporal punishment, or religious indoctrination, etc.

I think most reasonable people would accept this line of thinking without problem.
I would try, for 10 minutes, the following solution: you listen to the lecture and repeat every word the lecturer said. Then use the record of your voice for the voice 2 text process.
If it works, do it for the whole talk.
> Workers lose when they can't capture value proportional to the revenue generation they support, only in proportion to their hours of labor.

Time-based contracts are pretty normal. I imagine most people on the planet are on them. There are exceptions - e.g. sales commissions - but to say that workers lose on the thing that most people do requires at least some elaboration.
Never used Fly.io but I have a website running on Render (2.4M unique users per month) and the service is getting quite nice. Occasional hiccups, but they are improving. Not as stable as Heroku used to be 7-8 years ago yet, but it's also waaaaay cheaper.

I really like their Docker support and infra as code, makes it very easy to spin up a whole thing while not being too far conceptually from Kubernetes for example.
Based on their LinkedIn profiles (I found 6, 5 of which are Engineers):

- Nobody went to an Ivy League school.

- Ben and Anthony only joined Google by way of acquisition; they co-founded Kaggle. Otherwise, one Engineer came from F.
Or they’re so unsafe that people do not dare report issues.

Or people being harassed don’t think it will help to report issues.

Or people being harassed think it might help, but statistically not so much that it makes reporting issues worth the added travel delay.

(This list likely isn’t complete)
In my experience React codebases turn into this mess for two reasons:

- front-end devs don't know how to think declaratively and think in terms of state transitions instead of realizing intent

- back-end devs build a classic REST-like API which provides zero affordances to drive a proper reactive front-end.

React-query is a good solution to the wrong problem. It's basically an elaborate and ornate footgun that allows you to stretch guess-based cache invalidation to its limits. Each piece of data has to be tagged with front-end only query keys, and cache invalidation requires you to re-implement and repeat your business logic optimistically in all the individual `onMutate` and `onSettled` handlers.

The actual problem to be solved is how to reliably sync data to a front-end and mutate it safely. Doing this well requires you to architect your data so it is syncable in the first place. You should separate sources of truth from derived data, you should use uniform APIs for CRUD manipulation, you should probably version your records, you should express mutations as universal patches, and so on.

Cache invalidation should only require substituting one globally addressable record with another one, and/or telling the front-end to refetch it from the source. If you are doing complex data surgery or traversals, you're doing it wrong, because that's what the reactive rendering is supposed to do for you. Anything else is a trap for juniors.
> Either way, the point stands... the improvement in using a full linear model (that predicts 0.45 or 0.55, depending on state) is marginal compared to the baseline model that always predicts 0.50

Yes, I think we don't disagree. I was just puzzled by the "little variance left to explain" remark.

> note: I meant "sum", but it's the same, since the ratio between sums of squares is equivalent to the ratio between mean squares

You're right, sum of squares made sense if it was just for the ratio.
Philosophy Was Once Alive
It's going to happen biologically before it happens in silicon, anyway. And the biological venue could very well be humans (genetically modified). So I quite literally agree. :)
So... they've turned it from "we provide a good quality service at a fair price" to "over time you will have a chance to pick favorites, but not consistently".

That's enshittification for your use of the service, and enshittification for the workers, too.
If I had to guess, I'd say they meant they'd prefer a solution where all the location data is stored exclusively on-device, with means to export it to another machine so you can analyze it. I understand the rationale.
Omnipotence is provably impossible: "Could Jesus microwave a burrito so hot that he himself could not eat it?" etc.

Super-intelligence, not so much — there's plenty of examples of above-average humans in many areas, and no reason to think that putting the top expert in each field into one room is impossible, and no reason to think that this configuration cannot be implemented in software with a sufficiently powerful computer.

And that's without the things that machines already beat us at, because super-human chess playing software is easily available, and computers that do arithmetic better than the entire human species even if we were all trained to the level of the current world record holder are cheap enough to be given away free glued to the front of a magazine, so there's no single person who has a particular advantage with those things.

What chess does do, is give an example: if I was playing a game with Kasparov, I would have no idea which move he might make at any given moment, but despite that I'd still expect him to win.

With an AI, I don't even necessarily know what "game" it's playing even if I'm the one who wrote the utility function it's trying to maximise.
Says the blog of a company selling "An open-source observability platform built for simplicity."

The tension of expertise and self-interest is a tough one (I live this every day). If you know enough to have a good opinion, you are probably either:

* a hobbyist fitting learning into the edges of the day
* an experienced person who is too busy to write up your opinions
* someone with a vested interest, selling something

So hard as an outsider to determine who to trust and how far to trust them.
you can add the sailing frenchman -- great mix of caribean sailing, singlehanded racing, pretty down to earth:

https://www.youtube.com/@TheSailingFrenchman
Show HN: The World's Fastest regex library for Python. Wrapper of regex (Rust)
OUTPUT BENCHMARK
PS D:\dev\flpc> python .\benchmark\bench.py
Operation | flpc (ms) | re (ms) | Used Regex | Faster
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Compile | 2.05564 | 4.63557 | Yes | flpc
Search | 0.00000 | 2039.91699 | Yes | flpc
Find Match | 0.00000 | 5.39398 | Yes | flpc
Full Match | 0.00000 | 2.04468 | Yes | flpc
Split | 0.00000 | 2074.37086 | Yes | flpc
Find All | 0.00000 | 2077.27766 | Yes | flpc
Find Iter | 0.00000 | 1981.39310 | Yes | flpc
Sub | 0.00000 | 2020.39599 | Yes | flpc
Subn | 0.00000 | 1988.51180 | Yes | flpc
Escape | 0.00000 | 1.55473 | No | flpc

The flpc is 5932.69x faster than re module on average (cached, on a randomized string)
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I didn't make the benchmark script (AI generates the benchmark script, it was too lazy to write that bench.py)
why? the bureaucrats understand the domain and the context. have you seen the US Congress? this is just a way for the moneyed people and their lackies to gum up the works and make life worse for the majority while siphoning even more money to the moneyed.
> You will be rewarded one day for being a honest and productive worker.

22.5 years later I can confidently say you are living in a comfortable bubble and have no idea what do most programmers go through every day.
Sportbike mode: route with least likelihood of speed traps, plus 1-minute warning ahead of known trap locations.

No-selfies mode: route with least cellphone coverage.

Horsebox mode: route with fewest intersections and the most sportbikes.
Authy doesn't implement SMS 2FA (how could it). A phone number is part of your user profile for registered mobile devices hosting the app.
... Eh? Is this the new line now? Brexit was a disaster not because it was an extremely silly idea, but rather due to saboteurs? I mean, I suppose you can tell yourself that if you want, but...
But what you don’t get paid, the company keeps, and it may come under different tax rules.

My experience is that governments are quite interested in where the money goes.
Kafka [1] on which types of book to read:

"I believe one should only read those books which bite and sting.
If the book we are reading does not wake us up with a blow to the head, then why read the book?
To make us happy, as you write?
My God, we would be just as happy if we had no books, and those books that make us happy, we could write ourselves if necessary.
But we need the books that affect us like a disaster, that hurts us deeply, like the death of someone we loved more than ourselves, like if we were being driven into forests, away from all people, like a suicide, a book must be the axe for the frozen sea inside us." [2]

[1] Brief an Oskar Pollak, 27. Januar 1904. , https://homepage.univie.ac.at/werner.haas/1904/br04-003.htm

[2] Literal translation by ChatGPT. Original:

"Ich glaube, man sollte überhaupt nur solche Bücher lesen, die einen beißen und stechen. Wenn das Buch, das wir lesen, uns nicht mit einem Faustschlag auf den Schädel weckt, wozu lesen wir dann das Buch? Damit es uns glücklich macht, wie Du schreibst? Mein Gott, glücklich wären wir eben auch, wenn wir keine Bücher hätten, und solche Bücher, die uns glücklich machen, könnten wir zur Not selber schreiben. Wir brauchen aber die Bücher, die auf uns wirken wie ein Unglück, das uns sehr schmerzt, wie der Tod eines, den wir lieber hatten als uns, wie wenn wir in Wälder vorstoßen würden, von allen Menschen weg, wie ein Selbstmord, ein Buch muß die Axt sein für das gefrorene Meer in uns."
I've implemented a minhash-like system in Bigquery, and was able to calculate cosine similarities (within a certain similarity threshold) between all Stack Overflow in reasonable time. To give you a broad idea of the procedure:

1. Concatenate and split all text fields into an array of ngrams (2...n chars)

2. Declare two global arrays A & B of length-n and fill them with random 32-64 bit integers

3. Hash each ngram to a 32-64 bit integer, multiply the resulting hash by each random value in array A, and modulo the resulting output with each random value in array B. Take the minimum value. Per row, your aim is to end up with an array of 'minhashed' integers of equal length to the arrays in step 2. If you declare the global arrays to be length of 64, the minhashed array for each row will also be of length 64.

4. Bucketise the resulting hash arrays by summing N consecutive minhash values using a window function (e.g. sum each 4 consecutive rows)

If all went well, you can now unnest these arrays (call them 'source rows') and self join the dataset on each bucketed minhash value (resulting in an additional column of 'target rows'). Group by source, target columns and count the occurances to get an indication of how likely two rows are similar.

In essence, the more often two items hash to a similar bucket, the more similar they are, and it's up to you to define the cut-off from where to calculate actual pairwise Jaccard (or cosine) similarities between items.
> which is a nice change of pace

That’s about every early stage company, though.
I set up my samba config to veto .DS_Store files, which also seems to work (although not sure if it creates more overhead as MacOS tries to recreate it each time...)
Uber doesn't do that because the drivers wouldn't take ones they don't like.

Remember, consumers are using platform apps like Uber because they don't trust the drivers on the other side.
Don’t host anything important on Hetzner, as they’re cheap they get a lot of questionable users, and their systems are tuned to null route anything that looks remotely suspicious or high-volume to their hair-trigger network monitoring and DDoS protection.

And then you’re at the mercy of whatever support agent decides to look at your ticket and that can take days.

Use literally anyone but Hetzner is my advice.
We could save even more space if we hooked up seating arrangements to TSA body scanners. Using body outlines, seating could be dynamically adjusted before boarding to ensure each passenger can optimally interlock legs with their neighbors. Lap sizes can determine the ideal vertical stacking, with overhead bins removed to save space now that the top passenger can hold all the carryon.

This approach might take a bit of getting used to, but just imagine the carbon savings.
I don't understand what you mean. I'll just note that the value of R² in this case is 1% as the blog post explains and the code below confirms.

> data <- data.frame(state = rep(c(0, 1), each=20), pref = c(rep(0, 11), rep(1, 9), rep(0, 9), rep(1, 11)))
> summary(lm(pref ~ state, data = data))$r.squared
0.01
I'm not sure about your particular case, but if your environment really is headless, then it should absolutely be possible to run it a lot faster than realtime. It depends on what the environment is and if you have access to its source code (we do not have that in TrackMania so it's a lot harder). Either the environment is purposely throttling the amount of time it simulates, or it just takes so much time to simulate the environment that it's not possible to speed it up anymore.

We're lucky in case of TrackMania because it internally has systems to both set the relative game speed and also completely disable all rendering and just run physics. Linesight achieves about ~10x speedup where the most time spent now is in rendering game frames and running the inference on the network. They also parallelize training by running more game instances and implementing a training queue. For the "raw" speedup ratios, TM usually achieves about ~60x (one minute is simulated in one second) and I use this speedup to implement bruteforce functionality in the tool (coupled with a custom save states implementation).
That's funny. If I interacted with toxic trash like you more often that could actually be pretty applicable advice. In this case though, you're just being an asshole, and you can take your BS elsewhere.
In particular, there is the possibility (somewhat remote, but it's certainly within the realms of possibility in a way that it has never been before) that the official opposition will be yellow, not blue.
What if the revenue generation is negative? It's not worth it to profit share in every business, because some of them are unprofitable.
I used to go to the Dayton Hamvention years ago, in the 1990's, and vacuum up all the 8-bit machines at the flea market for pennies. Even scored a C64 that is currently still one of the very earliest serials listed on the C64 serial number registry. Last time I went though, it seemed like the well had run dry.
If you're going to stand behind your product, I'm not sure posting with a throwaway sends the strongest message.
It's a social hub to find amazing eats, reserve tables, book bed and breakfast, order delivery, & discover new recipes, and hotels - all in one. Users rave & share, building a foodie community & boosting business for restaurants & hotels.\

This is the future - What do you think?
No Way to Run a Country
Thank you, I will have a look :)
This YT channel is gem I found: https://www.youtube.com/@SailingTipsCa
Doesn't post a lot, not very high production quality but very high quality information.
Yep, optimised for power consumption, and comes with a built in UPS
Contractors VR (a MP FPS game) has Kowloon as one of the stock maps. It'd be fascinating if it'd be modelled after some real location. Maybe it is, I don't know.
Because it was taught that the accents contain the meaning beyond the linguistic meanings of the words. It was sacred and you're not allowed to mispronounce it.

7000 is a bold estimate. But they remained intact for 3000 years in the face of significant religious changes.

Today modern Hindu hardly knows whats there in the Vedas, and religious customs are significantly different. But these verses are letter-to-letter same across India.
That was the narrative only weeks after the vote. In realising nothing could be delivered, the saboteur story was invented to shift blame on to some Others. Scapegoating is a story as old as time.
they is inclusive and can refer to a singular unknown binary gender or to someone who is nonbinary. language is fluid... it changes.
Why I Created Webd: A Simple, Lightweight Solution for Your Storage Needs
My Helios64 has a built in backup battery. I'm not sure they are available anymore (and I wouldn't recommend anyway for other reasons) but I imagine other NASs have similar setups.
Anyone who thought the Brexit dream was going to be anything other than a nightmare was either a fraud, or convinced by one.
So "surfing a weather system" more than really sailing.
> It only takes a little electricity to power this process, which can raise the refrigerant’s temperature by many degrees Celsius.

And the same electricity can raise the temperature by even more degrees Fahrenheit!