skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"When each commit (or each RC etc) has automated regression testing"

This has a lot in common with old IBM batch processing essentially designed to consume rented resources.
I think the numbers are intentionally deceptive. Billionaires aren't generally billionaires because of their salaried jobs. There are trusts and corporations and all manner of entities that "absorb" the majority of their income.

Like Peter Thiel's tax-free $5B Roth IRA account.

If every person in Houston deposited the maximum they were allowed into their account, it wouldn't equal what self-dealing and obfuscation allowed Thiel to deposit (how many people have share portfolios that they control AND control the valuation thereof).

The Tax Foundation knows that the 1% doesn't have all their income captured under "Elon Musk, SSN XYZ" when he files his tax return. But they still like to paint it as such, because it advances their talking points. Like a sibling said, when you look at the wealth controlled and earned, pointing to just the total paid is garbage, because there's no proportion. "Oh, they paid 1.5 times more than [demographic]" means very little when they control 70x the wealth of that other demographic.

Source: https://www.propublica.org/article/lord-of-the-roths-how-tec...
Floppy8 – A Tiny Computer, in a Floppy Drive (2023)
> ...what are my options?
> ...Maybe it is time to go back to Debian, as they seem to release these fixes to their users?

Curious if this would actually be a solution. They state that fixes in Debian are down-streamed regardless of support, so if this fix wasn't down-streamed, then why would it be in Debian ?
To me, the "compared to census tracts that were scheduled to receive a Starbucks but did not do so..." is a weak défense against the correlation argument.

Like you said, without knowing the why of the change in plans, there is no way to judge causality confidently.

Anecdotally, I love these types of cafes (not "Starbucks" but this model), hope we get more, and see huge benefit both for myself and the community.
It means authority and responsibility must be in equal measure.

Most do not actually comprehend what true power is. The power of persons in the political machinery is not the highest form of power. True power is not so obvious and often concealed by layers of abstraction and misdirection.

The great threat to our humanity is by those empowered to affect the lives of others without accountability.
"...Congressional testimony from The Daily Wire's Ben Shapiro..."
Let's go with former, I definitely didn't mean to link https://www.uber.com/en-FI/blog/logging/ :)
I thought the article would be from past years rather than June 2024. Nowadays, we're looking for a Second Place having chosen to lose the workplace and working from home. But I do get that 'Third Place' was the terminology.
Has it ended?? As far as I know we're still in full on hard neoliberalism.
> The build of systemd and firewalld on 18.04 are both categorically broken.

Were they categorically broken back in 2018? What would you have recommended companies do around that time frame, if they wanted to use Ubuntu?

If it was acceptable at the time, then it's not a reason to rush off onto a new release where something else might be categorically broken. Even if it sucks, you already figured out how to deal with it during the first couple years you had it deployed.

If it was completely unacceptable at the time, then what do you do? You can't not have servers.

> something so decrepit

Most server code is not going to get very out of date over the course of several years. It's not significantly more decrepit than the day it was deployed.

Node.js code would be one of the things outside this "most". Though I don't know if those users would have had the distro version of node to begin with.
> in the olden days Microsoft wasn't allowed to add APIs to Windows that could only be used by IE

This is not true.
You can make easy mazes harder with extra distracting visual clutter:

E.g. this:

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+-- -+----+-- -+----+----+
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+-- -+-- -+-- -+----+----+
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Is just this, with extra wall material in each cell, reducing the aperture of the passages:

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Thanks! One of my favorite books of his. I didn't know that it was made into a movie too. Somehow I've missed it for the last 27 years.
I had mixed experience integrating CM6 into a programming language sandbox website.

Basic actions like setting text, reading changes, setting selections and diagnostics took a lot more steps that I anticipated. Instead of setting text with a method, you need to create a transaction with text action and dispatch it to the editor instance.

Some more sophisticated actions like highlight regions require creating custom plugins.

In addition to that, all of these were not trivial and documentation was lacking fundamental concepts you need to understand to use its API.

Footprint, performance and typescript support are great though.
Boiling frog syndrome
None of this even looked to be on the horizon a few years ago
"slams" the recipe to have a click-bite title.
I had to do a double take on this minor detail —

The current date is expressed as:

12:07:2024 AD

I don’t think I’ve ever seen colons used as a date part separator, only as a time part separator (and they tend toward ambiguity even there).

And “AD” is generally superseded by “CE” now, isn’t it?

(I ruin everything by caring about the wrong details! It’s a great game. Try it! You’ll hate it.)
The original title is more clear: The AI-focused COPIED Act would make removing digital watermarks illegal.

I thought the headline was indicating it would be illegal to remove watermarks from content generated by LLMs.
My grandparents picked up their lives and cut all ties to go somewhere else. It was hard but they were better off for it. I have little sympathy for those who are unwilling to take similar steps to improve their own lives.
MI300x is 1300 TFLOPs at FP16 (without sparsity). Looking forward to seeing the results.

https://www.amd.com/en/products/accelerators/instinct/mi300/...
With some discreet scratches on the plywood, a "mostly just follow the right-hand wall" rule works.*

Think of each free-standing section of wall as a node in a graph. The graph's edges connect free-standing wall sections which are adjacent. The task is to find (and circumnavigate) all the graph's nodes.

Yes, it could be very tedious to search this alternative representation of the maze for the exit node. Far more likely not - the description was "maybe 150 foot square", not "multi-acre corn maze".

*Assuming a two-dimensional maze, a finite number of free-standing wall sections, flat spacetime, and non-zero lower bound on the width of the maze's paths.
In North America (which is the only area I'm even remotely qualified to speak on so will limit to that) it's entirely possible, and often healthier, to not have meat in your diet. The justification I'm talking about is about choosing personal enjoyment over animal welfare. It's easy to couch it in "you need to eat meat" like you've just done but vegetarians show that that's categorically not true in a many cases
Hmm why so many? With the limited features that FreeBSD brings to new releases (which I'm totally happy with - it runs my daily driver desktop) there isn't really much need for it.

But the upgrade process is fast and smooth now so there is no harm either.
It seems like everyone's experience is highly localised. Even within 3km of my place I have 4 starbucks. 1 is amazing, 2 are not great, and 1 is the takeaway variant. Which one is the true measure of "Starbucks"? It's the same for local cafes too.

Also what's with the "they just want to make a profit" argument going round here? Why wouldn't they? They literally have a legal duty to do so. Should we instead incentivise cafes to not make a profit?
Scientists slam years of shoddy research, and you won't believe what happened next!
So people don't build this out themselves?

Regardless, there's some computer somewhere serving this. How do they service 1.6 PB per day? Are we talking tape backup? Disks? I've seen these mechanical arms that can pick tapes from a stack on a shelf, is that what is used? (example: https://www.osc.edu/sites/default/files/press/images/tapelib...)

For disks that's like ~60/day without redundancy, do they have people just constantly building out and onlining machines in some giant warehouse?

I assume there's built in redundancy and someone's job to go through and replace failed units?

This all sounds like it's absurdly expensive.

And I'd have to assume they deal with at least 100x that scale because they have many other customers.

Like what is that? 6,000 disks a day? Really?

I hear these numbers of petabyte storage frequently. I think Facebook is around 5PB/daily. I've never had to deal with anything that large. Back in the colo days I saw a bunch of places but nothing like that.

I'm imagining forklifts moving around pallets of shrink wrapped drives that get constantly delivered

Am I missing something here?

Places like AWS should run tours. It'd be like going to the mint.
That’s “appendix team” being their super alignment team responsible for the core of the safety efforts?
Ask HN: Is there any point teaching kids to code?
Back in the 90s, I had to teach myself to code solely using books. It wasn't easy, because I never had access to an actual adult coder. So in 2018 I setup a group to teach coding to kids in my neighborhood, giving them an opportunity I never had. It was popular and I enjoyed teaching.

We had to shutdown due to the pandemic. I am now considering re-opening, but I am struggling to find motivation.

For most kids, coding is no longer a viable career option. Those few who still want to pursue it can get more immediate personalized instruction from ChatGPT than they can from me. I have literally offered free mentoring - something I would have bitten off an arm to get myself - and been told they don't see any value in it compared to what they learn from ChatGPT and Youtube.

So, in 2024, is there any point in teaching kids to code?
Thanks, that fixed it. I was one version behind.
Yes, it depends on what you do.

If you want to do financial pricing of lots of instruments, performance is important.

If you want to do the accounting for one company (that is not trading in millions of financial instruments but, say, is building and selling widgets), you have far fewer numbers on your books.
Me! Twice! :D

Both times I saw job openings that greatly matched my experience (although very different one from the other), got in touch and got it working.
I'm all about keyboard shortcuts (Autohotkey, MS powertoys, tab navigation etc.) This looks like it's worth a look.

Fun fact: Shortcut keys are not the same as acceleration keys. Shortcut keys belong to windows and work across many programs (think Ctrl-C, Ctrl-V)

Acceleration Keys only work when a particular program is running and go away when that program closes (Think alt-keys, usually signified by a line under a letter in a menu)
Sorry you had to learn about that from me. :( It almost certainly can't happen in your shelter, rest assured.
> Yes. That's exactly how people build generational wealth.

Remind me how we got from "individual responsibility" and "personal success" to "inheriting wealth from parents by luck of birth" again?

Generational wealth transfer can only ever increase the divide between upper and lower classes over time. There's no way around it.

Talk of "individual responsibility" and "personal success" is diametrically opposed to inheritance. You cannot have both. The person inheriting has done absolutely nothing to deserve it.
Appendix is a perfect description for that team.
It depends on the location and competition from other local businesses.

The Starbucks where my parents live is nice to sit down and have a conversation with someone - it's bigger and has more space. Why? It's a small town and there isn't much competition from other local coffee shops.

Compare that with the Starbucks's of Manhattan - usually very cramped, little seating, and meant to be more of a "to go" place than a place to sit down.
Have you tried Ruffle? It's also capable of running Flash in the browser.
One could say the same thing about TVs where in 2023 the average price was $400. While the screen on a $4,000 TV is not "10x better" any more than the screen on the Vision Pro is "10x better" manufacturers don't have any trouble at pushing 100k units of TVs in the latter price range because whether the screen is 10x better isn't the whole story on premium purchases.

Again I'm not saying the high price was the optimal value, I'm saying the high price is far from the whole story on why the device didn't sell well and that a downmarket version still would not have sold well, even compared to existing peers in the lower cost space.
This will be necessary as prions have been proven to persist in the environment (plants that grow over the soil where deer with CWD decompose can transmit the disease to animals that eat them).

Prions are both 100% fatal and virtually indestructible. It's like some sort of glitch universal kill-switch biology happened upon encoded by hell itself.
Everyone may be wanting cozy shops, large apartments, free ice cream, and a pony.

Cozy shops bring in much less profit per $ invested. They cannot seriously compete with kiosks, when the majority of customers just want some competently brewed joe on the way to work (or even half-competently, since we mention Starbucks). Maybe a bagel with it. Next customer!

A cozy shop with seating for customers who want to sit there and talk for an hour over a $3 cup of coffee each, cannot compete. It can maybe run as a lifestyle business by somebody who loves the craft and does not need much money. But not as an efficient business chain.
Thanks. Now I'll have nightmares of the time I spent trying to help a friend get the 32" TV they won in a contest (back when an LCD of that size was still both unusual and expensive) to work at proper native resolution in Windows.

Windows really wanted it to be 1080p, and the TV supported this input, but it was a blurry mess.

It was advertised as 720p, and the TV supported this input as well, but that was also a blurry mess.

It actually had a physical vertical resolution of something like 760 lines, which was not one of the modes that it offered up over DDC as an option for whatever was driving it to use.

Fun times.

(I did eventually get 1:1 pixel mapping, but IIRC I had to give him a different video card for this to happen.)
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The claim sounds fake, but there's a $30 paywall to access the study they base their claim on, so I guess we'll never know. Anyone with access want to post the actual data? What graphs there are in the article don't seem to match the claim.
"Superalignment" is vaporware.
How so? You believe AI alignment research is unimportant? Or do you mean from the perspective of the OpenAI board
Where are the retirees going to get medical services? Some tiny town isn't going to have a hospital or any other medical services, and retired people need that more than anyone else.
> Unfortunately, Starbucks is opening “kiosk only” locations with no seating that, obviously, fail to function as a third place.

And when they convert an existing location to kiosk only, the prices do not go down.

There are two Starbucks locations in downtown Redwood City, about 250m apart. The one on the right side of the tracks has comfortable seating and tables. The one on the wrong side of the tracks, in the dying mall near the homeless camp, is kiosk only. Same prices.
That's historically the least-persuasive argument for vegetarianism. The far greater threats are anthropogenic climate change, antibiotic resistance, accelerated pandemic evolution, land/water/air pollution, higher food prices, and less total available food.
The cognitive dissonance is very strong because people get violently defensive with their somatic lifestyle choices and will believe and do almost anything to extend them indefinitely. The only way out is leadership to tax, reform, and regulate excessively-subsidized meat agriculture that isn't good for public health.
Wiki disagrees about B12 in nori:

> A 2014 study reported that dried purple laver ("nori") contains vitamin B12 in sufficient quantities to meet the RDA requirement (Vitamin B12 content: 77.6 μg /100 g dry weight).[19] By contrast, however, a 2017 review concluded that vitamin B12 may be destroyed during metabolism or is converted into inactive B12 analogs during drying and storage.[20] The Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics stated in 2016 that nori is not an adequate source of vitamin B12 for humans.[21]

Ref: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nori#Nutrition
tantivy has two dictionaries FST and SSTable. We added SSTable in tantivy because it works great with object storage, while FST does not. With some metadata we can download only the required parts and not the whole dictionary.

SStable does not support Regex queries, it would require a full load and scan, which would be very expensive.

Your best bet currently would be to make it work with tokenizing, which is way more efficient anyways.

prefix queries are supported btw
I think there's several exceptions. The Shawshank Redemption was fantastic for instance.
Nice idea. I wouldn't fly with eurowings (formerly Germanwings) though.
As I wrote above, you cannot get significant quantities of methanol from fermented grains or fruits.

You cannot "screw up" and poison yourself by "missing a step" during distillation. You are correct in that you can screw up and get a subpar, less enjoyable product by e.g. not discarding the foreshot, but that's very different from the dangers GP asked about above.

There are no recorded incidents of accidental methanol poisoning resulting from improperly distilled fruit or grain mash ever. If people get methanol poisoning from moonshine, it is because of laced moonshine, not an accident or mistake.
Damn I’m just playing devils advocate for your point of “WASM won’t replace JS because there is a build process”.

I don’t think everybody needs to be building big web apps, I just think that most full time developers writing JS (or TS) are probably on a team working on a web app, so the introduction of a build process isn’t really an issue.

Of course it’s valid to write good ol’ javascript. I do it all the time. I’m always happy to avoid dealing with webpack
That $200k purchaser is sitting on $760k in equity and paying 1/4th in housing that their peers are, which is its own form of wealth.
Anecdotally, one of the first things that helped me with autoimmune inflammation was cutting out red meat. This is very common.

Inflammation is going to turn out to be driving a majority of internal pathologies in the coming years.
installing emacs in my web browser?
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adn3856

"combines in vitro transcription-translation (TX-TL) with a carbon fixation cycle called CETCH (Crotonyl-CoA/Ethylmalonyl-CoA/Hydroxybutyryl-CoA)"

They linked a metabolic pathway that converts CO2 into organic molecules ie CETCH with a TX-TL system that can synthesize proteins. The system can partially self-regenerate by producing missing enzymes needed for the CETCH cycle.
Animal welfare, while laudable and under-appreciated, isn't the biggest problem with meat ag. It's fucking killing us slowly and may kill us quickly.
I'm not sure you're wrong about "apple watch as fashion" (my gut is to disagree), but it's worth noting that apple greatly increased the size of the watch market.

That is to say: while they converted some existing watch wearers, they greatly expanded the market.

What I'm not certain of is "why". Fitness is an easy answer (that's something an apple watch does and my Seiko doesn't), but fashion is also a reasonable answer (apple is a premium brand)

I think the true answer might be "defaults are powerful"

Airpods are generally not the best sound quality you can buy, but they're well-integrated with the apple ecosystem. You can assume they'll just work. I would be surprised if they are a fashion piece, but I suspect their dominance looks similar to apple watch dominance
Show HN: Meet: Combining LinkedIn and Tinder, swipe to build connections
Yeah that's what I'd feared--I hate that soap opera effect. It makes fictional escapes into film look like every day life or a TV newscast.

I suspect that the mode was originally made for large screen TVs that mostly sold well for watching sports.
<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40734207>
Perhaps not the best match for some patients but I would not begrudge a seriously ill cancer patient a medicaid cheeseburger.

In fact, when my mother in law was dying of liver failure, her doctor told her to eat mcdonalds to keep her appetite stimulated and her caloric intake up.

She was always going to die but ultimately from liver failure not malnutrition.
> they just want to make a profit

I think the “just” is the key word here. No one is going to get up in arms over modest profits. It’s the chasing growth at all costs even when it means sacrificing what should be the core value(s) of the business.

A lot of franchises just end up as soulless real-estate/marketing plays that siphon money out of local economies and compete on axis other than actual value/quality.
Loved it so much, I spent a month getting it off bittorrent.
Somehow, no matter how bad things get in North America, Europe manages to give worse
Average travel time to an acute care facility for someone in rural America furthest from a facility (a quarter of rural population) is about 34 minutes. Assuming ~55mph country roads, that gives you a ~30 mile radius from rural hospitals where you can site. Closer is better but your constraint is price per acre, broadly speaking.

https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2018/12/12/how-far-a...
The Phoebus cartel lowered the average life of bulbs from 2500hrs to 1000hrs. In 1949 a US court found that GE violated the Sherman Antitrust Act in part due to it's actions as part of that cartel. And from the article on the topic on Wikipedia:

The cartel tested their bulbs and fined manufacturers for bulbs that lasted more than 1,000 hours. A 1929 table listed the amount of Swiss francs paid that depended on the exceeding hours of lifetime.[11] Anton Philips, head of Philips, said to another cartel executive, "After the very strenuous efforts we made to emerge from a period of long life lamps, it is of the greatest importance that we do not sink back into the same mire by paying no attention to voltages and supplying lamps that will have a very prolonged life."[6]

So, yeah that looks exactly like the evil actions of a cartel unless maybe you're claiming this isn't factual. If so, I'd be very interested in your source of information.

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoebus_cartel