skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Do Discord next.

Disboard is the big search engine for publicly available and promoted (by the servers themselves, on the public Internet! There is not even an attempt at hiding some of this).

Search for things like BDSM. You’ll get results for servers targeting minors (that have a BDSM theme, not even poor algorithms).

You’ll get results for servers that are open to minors and adults with sexual themes (similar themes, “open to 14-28 year olds”).

You’ll even get sites where minors “sell content”.

Is a fucking cesspool and somewhat surprising it’s flown under the radar so long.
Review: Haskell in Depth
Yes, in terms of their video game history, Nintendo has been blue ocean (2004-2024+) longer than they were red (1983-2003).
Algorand’s solution as originally stated is predicated on a non-colluding majority. At IACR when this algorithm was proposed, Silvio famously said as a counterpoint to the very apt criticisms that a colluding majority could defraud the protocol “my proof is that society exists!”

In the end I believe Algorand changed their algorithms to a more centralized approach for the sake of performance as fully distributed validation did not perform adequately. Please correct me if I’m wrong.
> The insinuated "but it's useful and does real work" shtick is over

> The bubble popped

NVIDIA has a 3.12 trillion market cap. AI investments are reportedly surging:

> Despite a decline in overall AI private investment last year, funding for generative AI surged, nearly octupling from 2022 to reach $25.2 billion. Major players in the generative AI space, including OpenAI, Anthropic, Hugging Face, and Inflection, reported substantial fundraising rounds.

https://aiindex.stanford.edu/report/
That's right, here log(k) - H(p) is really the relative entropy (or KL divergence) between p and the uniform distribution, and all the same stuff is true for a different "reference distribution" of the probabilities of balls landing in each bin.

For discrete distributions the "absolute entropy" (just sum of -p log(p) as it shows up in Shannon entropy or statistical mechanics) is in this way really a special case of relative entropy. For continuous distributions, say over real numbers, the analogous quantity (integral of -p log(p)) isn't a relative entropy since there's no "uniform distribution over all real numbers". This still plays an important role in various situations and calculations...but, at least to my mind, it's a formally similar but conceptually separate object.
But if they want to drive mass adoption for their brand at scale (i.e. comparable to ICE Porsche levels) they really need to provide a competitive offering for the Model 3 and not the Model S. Remember, their target was 80% of sales from EVs.
Some previous discussions with its various titles:

I Got Milk.com (2020)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23591357

Not for Sale (2013)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5181284
What you are referencing is an edge case (and an old one at that).

A more recent one is the OJ trial.

But those are perfect examples of bad jurors.

It's up to you and your peers to be good jurors.

What system do you suggest?
our workaround on this is to use a fetch wrapper that resolves all similar requests to the same inflight requests.

awful but works.
Edit: Model 3, not Model S
Kaze, who did that 60FPS optimization, has commented on other videos about how the CPU isn't fully utilized anyways, so -O2 doesn't make too much a difference in most scenarios.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9_gdOKSTaxM&lc=UgyhTG4Ol46Rr...

His comment, not the video.
Could you do the same with TSV?
A lot of datasets can either prohibit tabs in data, or convert it to spaces in early ingestion.
Cap is different because cap is about network planning constraints and doesn’t take into account things like security per se.

I think parts of Vitalik’s points are kinda moot and break down when you examine them through the lens of “any sufficiently complicated system can and will break.”

In the case of bitcoin, the breaks are few now because it is basically static. I’m sure there’s some bugs in that codebase though… (and they’re worth a very pretty penny if you can find them!!).
There's a mindset that I often run into with IRL discussions that revolves around the premise that if a person has some minimal essentials met by doing nothing, then they will have no motivation to ever improve their situation at all.

That if a person can afford to accomplish nothing but still have enough money to smoke weed and play video games, then all anyone will ever do is smoke weed and play video games.

I don't subscribe to that mindset: I want a nice place to live, with room for all of my hobbies and for guests to comfortably visit overnight. I want a good car and a nice place to park it and to work on it. I want to be able to afford a glorious steak dinner out or an amazing gyro without having to sacrifice. I want the best tools to create my own food in my own kitchen. I want the fastest internet and an ample homelab to do stuff with it. I want to make an annual thousand-mile pilgrimage to hang out with some friends for a week doing cool shit together (which requires real money), and I want to be able to take an actual-vacation some other time in the year where I can afford to go camping or something. I want to be able to provide thoughtful and useful gifts to my people, even if they happen to be expensive. (And if I were allowed to smoke weed [my job doesn't permit it and testing is both thorough and regular], I'd want the best weed.)

I wouldn't be able to accomplish these things with UBI, so even in a hypothetical future where UBI is a thing: I won't want to sit around and do nothing: So far in life, I want quite a lot more more than the basic essentials and I'm willing to work for those things.

(I do know some people who don't seem to be capable of more than nothing, due to mental and/or physical conditions, and it's likely that all of us know someone like this -- and these folks will have a rough time with life with or without UBI. But I firmly believe that most people would prefer staying in the rat race, because most people who are capable of work also have some fondness for whatever they consider to be *nice* things.

But I might fall down in the future; it's happened to me before for a variety of reasons. And it'd be nice to be able to afford to fall down without becoming homeless when my income drops from something useful to near-zero.)
Did a quick search and found this one: https://evidence.nihr.ac.uk/alert/risk-of-breast-cancer-with...

Could be worth a look? I didn't dive into the study itself, but it seems decent at a glance.
We've come a long way to get buttplug.io today.
[dupe]

Some more discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41036526
I don't care; as far as I'm concerned, that argument is isomorphic to "would $1MM literal dollars be enough for what they saw, or should the number be higher". Maybe. But the right to buy shares is not really a meaningful distinction to the simple issuance of shares in this historical context. That's all I'm arguing.
Neural network learns to build maps using Minecraft
Switch in no way predated USB-C, even talking widespread support... Nintendo rolled their own protocol because they could and USB allows for it.
I know a bunch of Sheikhs who personally chose the Taycan over the Tesla as their first EV. Even fitted their garages with custom chargers for them because at the time, Taycans did not have suitable charging stations in the UAE and Saudi Arabia.
[dupe] Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41038586
Windows' Volume Shadow Copy Service[1] allows applications like databases to be informed[2] when a snapshot is about to be taken, so they can ensure their files are in a safe state. They also participate in the restore.

While Linux is great at many things, backups is one area I find lacking compared to what I'm used to from Windows. There I take frequent incremental whole-disk backups. The backup program uses the Volume Shadow Copy Service to provide a consistent state (as much as possible). Being incremental they don't take much space.

If my disk crashes I can be back up and running like (almost) nothing happened in less than an hour. Just swap out the disk and restore. I know, as I've had to do that twice.

[1]: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/vss/the-vss-...

[2]: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/vss/overview...
unfortunately this page is based on mackenzie's book. mackenzie is the ibm guy who spent decades trying to kill ascii, promoting its brain-damaged ebcdic as a superior replacement (because it was more compatible, at least if you were already an ibm customer). he spends most of his fucking book trumpeting the virtues of ebcdic actually

bob bemer more or less invented ascii. he was also an ibm guy before mackenzie's crowd pushed him out of ibm for promoting it. he wrote a much better book about the history of ascii which is also freely available online, really more a pamphlet than a book, called "a story of ascii": https://archive.org/details/ascii-bemer/page/n1/mode/2up

tom jennings, who invented fido, also wrote a history of ascii, called 'an annotated history of some character codes or ascii: american standard code for information infiltration'; it's no longer online at his own site, but for the time being the archive has preserved it: https://web.archive.org/web/20100414012008/http://wps.com/pr...

jennings's history is animated by a palpable rage at mackenzie's self-serving account of the history of ascii, partly because bemer hadn't really told his own story publicly. so jennings goes so far as to write punchcard codes (and mackenzie) out of ascii's history entirely, deriving it purely from teletypewriter codes—from which it does undeniably draw many features, but after all, bemer was a punchcard guy, and ascii's many excellent virtues for collation show it

as dwheeler points out, the accomplished informatics archivist eric fischer has also written an excellent history of the evolution of ascii. though, unlike bemer, fischer wasn't actually at the standardization meetings that created ascii, he is more careful and digs deeper than either bemer or jennings, so it might be better to read him first: https://archive.org/details/enf-ascii/

it would be a mistake to credit ascii entirely to bemer; aside from the relatively minor changes in 01967 (including making lowercase official), the draft was extensively revised by the standards committees in the years leading up to 01963, including dramatic improvements in the control-character set

for the historical relationship between ascii character codes and keyboard layouts, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bit-paired_keyboard
What makes you think there was a "defective batch"? What makes you think all the CPUs affected by that production issue will fail from it?

That description sounds to me like it affected the entire production line for months. It's only worth a recall if a sufficient percent of those CPUs will fail. (I don't want to argue about what particular percent that should be.)
Do people IRL know you have a blog?
yeah wendell put out a video a few weeks ago exploring a bunch of problems with asrock rack-branded server-market B650 motherboards and basically the ECC situation was exactly what everyone warns about: the various BIOS versions wandered between "works, but doesn't forward the errors", "doesn't work, and doesn't forward the errors", and (excitingly) "doesn't work and doesn't even post". We are a year and a half after zen4 launched and there barely are any server-branded boards to begin with, and even those boards don't work right.

https://youtu.be/RdYToqy05pI?t=503

I don't know how many times it has to be said but "doesn't explicitly disable" is not the same thing as "support". There are lots of other enablement steps that are required to get ECC to work properly, and they really need to be explicitly tested with each release (which if it is "not explicitly disabled", it's not getting tested). Support means you can complain to someone when it doesn't work right.

AMD churns AGESA really, really hard and it breaks all the time. Partners have to try and chase the upstream and sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't. Elmor (Asus's Bios Guy) talked about this on Overclock.net back around 2017-2018 when AMD was launching X399 and talked about some of the troubles there and with AM4.

That said, the current situation has seemingly lit a fire under the board partners, with Intel out of commission and all these customers desperate for an alternative to their W680/raptor lake systems (which do support ecc officially, btw) in these performance-sensitive niches or power-limited datacenter layouts, they are finally cleaning up the mess like, within the last 3 weeks or so. They've very quickly gone from not caring about these boards to seeing a big market opportunity.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n1tXJ8HZcj4

can't believe how many times I've explained in the last month that yes, people do actually run 13700Ks in the datacenter... with ECC... and actually it's probably some pretty big names in fact. A previous video dropped the tidbit that one of the major affected customers is Citadel Capital - and yeah, those are the guys who used to get special EVEREST and BLACK OPS skus from intel for the same thing. Client platform is better at that, the very best sapphire rapids or epyc -F or -X3D sku is going to be like 75% of the performance at best. It's also the fastest thing available for serving NVMe flash storage (and Intel specifically targeted this, the Xeon E-2400 series with the C266 chipset can talk NVMe SAS natively on its chipset with up to 4 slimsas ports...)

it's somewhere in this one I think: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5KHCLBqRrnY
From Linux to NetBSD, with SSH Only
The fixed missile silos out in the middle of nowhere (sorry Montana!) serve a lot of useful purposes. If you do not intend to be the one who pushes the button and destroys the entire world, it is nice having weapons like that precisely because the adversary can see whether or not you've fired them. If the enemy can see that your ICBMs haven't launched and your bombers aren't in range to fire their cruise missiles, they know you haven't gone all the way. Additionally, silos like that are something the adversary must target if they have any hope to survive, which is one less warhead they can drop somewhere else (an air base, fleet, city, or whatever).

A submarine is inherently less predictable, yes, and in terms of ratcheting down tensions that is not always great.
A response to this:

Re: Do people IRL know you have a blog? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41041537
Not really. Information theory applies to anything probability applies to, including many situations that aren't "physics" per se. For instance it has a lot to do with algorithms and data as well. I think of it as being at the level of geometry and calculus.
I Tried to Train My Dog to Be Remote Controlled [video]
Do you have any examples of some "cool" sites that you designed, even prototypes? You piqued my interest.
I have been using fish for a long time and I didn't know about this. Thanks.
Wiz turns down $23B Google deal
A later discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41033209
> AMD supports [ECC RAM] on all chips

There was a strange happening with AMD laptop CPUs (“APUs”): the non-soldered DDR5 variants of the 7x40’s were advertised to support ECC RAM on AMD’s website up until a couple months before any actual laptops were sold, then that was silently changed and ECC is only on the PRO models now. I still don’t know if this is a straightforward manufacturing or chipset issue of some kind or a sign of market segmentation to come.

(I’m quite salty I couldn’t get my Framework 13 with ECC RAM because of this.)
Don't expect to get money from the open source project. It's possible, but it's very hard. Some people has tried with source available licences.

Choose the licence carefully. Are you happy if everyone use it even in closed source programs? Are you happy if Amazon decides to host it and charge people?
But when Airbnb created airflow, you could have said the same. It’s just later in its lifecycle.
She ain't wrong in this kind of a job market - beggars can't be choosers.
I pay for search- Kagi- but I would not pay for what you described. Not because it does not sound valuable, but because it would require trust that they are doing what I’m paying them for. Alphabet is morally bankrupt and not to be trusted.
Of those, the quantum superposition is the only one that has a chance at being considered objective, and it's still only "objective" in the sense that (as far as we know) your description provided as much information as anyone can possibly have about it, so nobody can have a more-informed opinion and all subjects agree.

The others are both partial-information problems which are very sensitive to knowing certain hidden-state information. Your random number generator gives you a number that you didn't expect, and for which a formula describes your best guess based on available incomplete information, but the computer program that generated knew which one to choose and it would not have picked any other. Anyone who knew the hidden state of the RNG would also have assigned a different probability to that number being chosen.
In shock move, California Forever pulls measure to build Bay Area city
I was saying Denver air quality is one of the few Pros in this comparison. Denver typically has a pretty low AQI and ranks in the top 10 cleanest air for Ozone levels. You're simply wrong. As an asthmatic who runs daily I will check the AQI before any outdoor exercise, we have great air quality on most days. Today is an exception.
How vast and how many of these friends would take a bullet or sacrifice a finger if it meant you getting to keep your arm? You only know who your friends really are in these circumstances, otherwise they are tourists.
I don’t think so. SaaS is probably off the table on cost. You could maybe do it in hardware with a bunch of old school office voip systems routing to modems or something? But that only scales to a point.
How does someone verify the authenticity of a unknown coin based solely on API requests to an endpoint that the 2nd party provides?

Also, if we hold the Trilemma to be true then presumably some point in the network will have weaker security to improve the other 2. Thereby compromising the entire network.

You don't beat CAP/Trilemma by gluing 2 databases together.
I have exactly one IRL friend that cares about my technology stuff, but he lives far away and we don't see each other in person too often. My ex tolerates me talking about it a little bit before he tells me to shut up, but that's it. It kind of sucks. I've just re-internalized to that nothing I do really matters, and therefore neither do I.
Every hobby seems to have a version of this on the web. In electronic musician and producer circles it's GAS (gear acquisition syndrome) though I've seen it used in many other hobby communities as well. In video games, people have endless backlogs. I think it's just a consequence of the attention economy preying on our craving for instant gratification.
My theory is that this is the first year that the AIs have tried to stuff the ballot for their favourite author, they're just not very good at it yet (and that Finalist A is likely Martha Wells)
That’s long winded nihilism.
Ask HN: Competing as a Solo Founder Against a Superior B2B SaaS
I'm feeling overwhelmed and discouraged as I try to compete against well-funded companies that are pouring millions into their technology, staff, and marketing. In this challenging situation, how can I make my offering stand out and deliver superior value despite my limited resources?
The thing is that that kind of design isn't an unambiguous good; there are tradeoffs involved. Writing code in that manner means every single possibly-falliable operation must return an Option/Result/etc, said result checked, and the error bubbled up or the result used as appropriate. This can be quite noisy, especially before Rust 1.13.0, where users had to make do with the try!() macro instead of the ? operator. That can have negative impacts on readability/maintainability/clarity/etc. which may arguably outweigh benefits from allowing callers to handle errors, especially if callers usually don't.

This is also "viral", in that the use of any possibly-falliable operation in the implementation would require the corresponding public API to return a Result/Option/etc., even if the intent is that a correct implementation could never fail. This makes the public API clunkier, especially if/when all possible bugs are shaken out or their absence proved one way or another.

I'm guessing this kind of tradeoff is why (most?) indexing operations in Rust return the value instead of an Option/Result/etc - perhaps the team judged that most of the time users have some other way of guaranteeing success (e.g., checking indices) so panicking on failure better fits/streamlines the needs/use cases of most users rather than forcing them to constantly deal with an Option/Result/etc., especially since get()/etc. exists for those users who do want an infalliable option.

Presumably the author(s) of the library/libraries you're using made a similar judgement - while it's possible to write code in the way you desire, perhaps it just wasn't worth the bother for them and/or most of their users.
A truck also comes with a maintenance liability if you want to continue getting value out of it, just like code.
This doesn't work since you can't really prove that your opponent doesn't know the secret or changing locations - either out of sabotage or technical advancement.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41032420
“I’m turning down 65x ARR so that I can do an IPO”

briefcase breaks open spilling out several pounds of scratcher tickets
Exactly, it says that their publishers did a bad job of marketing in North America.
you keep going on about the rich, as if the rich are having kids: they are having even less.
Oh, I forgot another aspect of FHIR, SMART on FHIR EHR integrations so the clinical research folks can optionally go straight in from the EHR.

I can’t say I disagree with your assessment of REDCap’s base tech except that it works sufficiently well to have pretty broad adoption, which can be approximated by the number of local endpoints exposed in their EHR-internal client record. A single institution project is certainly not a competitor and I wish y’all good fortune in ever getting beyond your patrons.
That’s some excessive price gouging.
Google-Wiz deal fizzles out, company will pursue IPO
It's really not.

In base-2 machines, the letters are mixed with punctuation, which is pretty horrible design which makes simple things complex, and does not actually bring anything new to the table.

In BCD machines it is slightly better, except letters aren't contiguous either - row 0 is bad, but it's the extra space between R and S which is really ugly. And it's unusable with BCD operations anyway, as high nibble values are used extensively.

Naive sorting simply does not work... lowercase before uppercase, punctuation in the middle of the alphabet, numbers after letters.

I see no elegance there, it's like the worst example of legacy code.