skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In the case of flushing subnormals to zero, it's easy to end up with divides by zero when it wouldn't otherwise. `0/0.0` is `NaN` but `0/subnormal` is `Inf`.

In other cases, `-ffast-math` just introduces arbitrary and strange behaviors. Sometimes you end up with higher precision than you expected. Other times you end up with less. Other times it'll helpfully just re-arrange things such that it's a zero. For example, the classical Kahan summation does the following:

t = sum + y
c = (t - sum) - y

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

A -ffast-math compiler will see that — algebraically — you can just substitute `sum + y` into the equation for `c` and get 0. It's `sum + y - sum - y`. And that's true for real maths. But it's not true for floating point numbers.

It explicitly destroys any attempt at _working with_ floating point numbers.
It was brutal, but the mentality was - it's brutal now but you have the power to fix it, so engineering hours went into fixing broken windows.

That adopted mentality pays off tech debt fast.
This is a subjective statement. If you disagree with it, counter it. Asking for a citation doesn't make sense here.
Did you compare average jobs across time and place?

Ie, does your statement apply to everyone in the country? Some places have much lower cost of living but similar earning power.

Similarly, did you compare to the past? Average people used to be much worse off 20, 40, 60, etcetera years ago.

Also, should running research projects that matter little to the average person get large financial rewards?
This seems like a tough build vs buy sell. For a lot (most?) companies, the search/recommendation system isn't necessarily optimized for the customer's search. Instead, it's a way to maximize revenue via preferred placement or inject ads. This almost always leads to a gigantic if/else chain of bespoke business analyst driven decisions for the marketplace.

How are you going to allow folks to influence the system? Or do you see your system integrated behind their pseudo-recommendation engine?
> I don't think there is such a thing as truth; at least not for anything that matters to human meaning.

1+1 = 2, the earth is ~80% water, water freezes at 0degC.

What to you mean there aren't truths?

Do you mean people form opinions that are wrong? Sure. After sitting back at looking at it, it seems like the big problem is: there are small circles of power that make decisions for the rest of their population under the guise of "best interest of the people" when in reality we all know this isn't true.

So these small groups make the little people distracted with things that are very hot-button topics that affect a very small majority of people, by making appeals to emotion on both sides.

The small folks eat this up, rip a huge divide, and the small circle people sit back and laugh.
Part of the issue is the aborted attempt to turn journalism into a profession. Professionals, by and large, carry personal liability for errors, negligence, and deliberate bad behavior that harms their clients. Journalists are supposed to serve the public interest, but they generally only have narrow personal liability for torts like defamation. Recent precedent further limits that personal liability.

Despite this, journalists in the later part of the 20th century successfully created an aura of professionalism borrowed. Cronkite, Rather, the 60 Minutes crew, etc. projected a sense of seriousness and professional care. In some instances, the newspapers really did and to some extent still do engage in fact checking and other professional activities to increase reliability. However, because all of these measures are self-enforcing, they became over time even more corrupted than they were before.

They increasingly relied on anonymous sourcing for important matters, which is inherently open to abuse (it's why the Constitution requires that a defendant be able to confront their accusers and witnesses against them). They could no longer maintain this false aura because they were repeatedly confronted by bloggers and other small creators with evidence of their unreliability.

The standard proposed solution to the problems created by powerful universal publishing technology tends to be a licensing regime of some kind as a preventative measure, or otherwise that publishing technology providers submit to close supervision by the state (as they did during the cough cough era).

I think the better way that comports better with the Constitution is to just to enforce the criminal laws and facilitate civil suits against individuals retroactively for the harms that they cause through illegal speech. There are lots of kinds of illegal speech, e.g. you cannot engage in the unauthorized practice of law, you cannot provide medical advice without a license, you cannot defame people, you cannot incite riots, you cannot procure criminal acts, you cannot defraud, you cannot infringe on copyright, and so on and so forth. More lawsuits and prosecutions for illegal speech -- a reactive way of addressing the issues -- is less harmful and better comports with the Constitution than proactive means such as requiring that every social media user have a license that can be revoked or that the platforms submit to close management by the Article II government.
There is also https://github.com/hashicorp/go-set which includes HashSet and TreeSet implementations for types with custom hashing functions, and orderable data respectively.
Click the link and find out? :)
Where is the fun in that?
Batteries included but there’s not even a Set[T] in the standard library..
The Windows-based build instructions are...interesting.
Me too, HTTP/1.1 for life.

The performance of these binary protocols does not scale on most server implementations.

The protocol is not the bottleneck, the parallelism and memory latency is.
alright thank you i'll try it out!
Wouldn't you want to have certificates and other crypto data as an input to a reproducible build harness?

# build initial images
# add semi-static inputs (mostly static config data, crypto data, signed inputs)
# add final watermarks

So each step can be verified
The 2012 link very specifically doesn't conclude what you assert:

> The big question of course is what to do. Cartels that form by collusion are illegal and clearly not in the interests of the general population. But this work muddies the waters somewhat. If cartel-like behaviour is an emergent property of an ordinary market, how should it be controlled, regulated and punished?

They're not saying "it's impossible to regulate". They're saying it presents some sticky questions on how you do so.
Depends what you mean with "dealing with finance". If you're talking about core back office 'plumbing' the yes. Other parts are far more adventurous. Poke around any huge financial institution and you'll probably find everything from COBOL to some experimental in-house variant of Haskell.
I wonder if this is partially caused by the internet spreading accurate knowledge for the first decade or so of its existence, which went against people’s existing sets of beliefs. After which they’re primed that the beliefs they held for decades (pre-internet) could easily be wrong.

How many times have you believed and old wives tale, but then found out it’s not true at all? Now apply that less to specific beliefs but more generally, and scale it across all your beliefs.
Typically if you want to DIY something you first start with the smallest prototype possible and work your way up from there.

This demo cell isn't super interesting on its own but to validate the chemistry it's super helpful. Once you got that done you'd then work on a stack of cells, say 10 or 20 or 40 to get up to normal system voltages.

Once you have that working it's just a matter of making the tank as big as you want for your storage. Provided the initial chemistry is reasonable you could probably use a pair of IBC totes and really go somewhere.
And like all of Parrot's code, it's terrible.

Source: I worked on Parrot's code. And you can make your mind by looking at the other projects in Parrot dev group...
so the night mode i added is not good ?
Looks like they're back!
An English README would have been nice
You are right. And I am mostly a "T" guy so I guess the answer was mostly about the transform.

For extracting the data, go is probably a very good choice. But for transforming, pretty often not, although your use case may be suitable.

In the end, the question was very open ended.
My thoughts exactly. Price fixing should be illegal, but that's not the primary mover of insanely high rental prices in San Francisco.
https://www.un.org/en/climatechange/science/climate-issues/d...

> "Exceeding 1.5°C could also trigger multiple climate tipping points — such as breakdowns of major ocean circulation systems, abrupt thawing of boreal permafrost, and collapse of tropical coral reef systems — with abrupt, irreversible, and dangerous impacts for humanity"

It helpfully comes with a citation of a paper in Science which has the exact same title, "Exceeding 1.5°C global warming could trigger multiple climate tipping points":

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abn7950

> "Six CTPs become likely (with a further four possible) within the Paris Agreement range of 1.5 to <2°C warming, including collapse of the Greenland and West Antarctic ice sheets, die-off of low-latitude coral reefs, and widespread abrupt permafrost thaw."
Data Liberation Project Dispatch #17
The blame should honestly go to Congress, because they keep interfering in the process to force NASA to stick with SLS. NASA has tried several times to ditch this albatross around their necks only to be scolded by influential senators determined to keep money flowing into their states despite the overall project failing wildly.

https://arstechnica.com/science/2021/02/so-long-senator-shel...
Audiologist creates app to help people find acoustically-friendly restaurants
> It’s a highly potent psychoactive and bioactive substance.

I'm not ignoring that, I'm just asking the question of why it's differentiating for this discussion.

Neither "psychoactive" nor "bioactive" are inherently bad. We spend billions of dollars creating substances for those exact effects.

You'll have to make the argument that cannabis causes psychological or physiological harm. The evidence for that argument is nonexistent, for the vast majority of peoples' usage patterns.

And in those usage patterns, both the psychoactivity and bioactivity are considered, by those who enjoy them, to be net beneficial. You may disagree, and you are invited to make your own decision, for your self.

By the time you get to the levels of usage where harm is objectively measurable, you're working with people who have lost control of their self-regulation mechanisms for an extended period of time. This can be due to an underlying issue, chronic or acute, that should be addressed. That's when the comparison to video games, sex, and HN become relevant.

You can lose jobs and relationships and economic security due to a psychological overdependence on any of the above. This is not a particularly controversial or interesting fact, and there are support mechanisms (therapy, drugs, etc) for them. I'm arguing that, in this way, cannabis is not different.
>Focusing not on what happened, but on why it happened

You might want to check out Karl Popper's The Poverty of Historicism, and just Popper's other works in general.
Ask HN: Would you watch the statistically significant Olympic Games?
Events would be repeated enough times for the results to be statistically significant.
If you really want to overload your mind thinking about this, imagine this universe is only a bubble crowded into a group of other bubbles, like a kid blowing soap bubbles.

So the pressure around our bubble is not uniform, there are more bubbles on one side than another, other bubbles are much larger and some are very tiny causing tiny "lumps" of pressure in various places on our bubble.

Decades ago I really liked the "big collapse" theory that has now been abandoned, it was so "simple" in comparison to a universe that keeps expanding and not uniformly at that.
In the OP Patreon leads with a pretty strong assertion that they would not be making these changes to their subscription model on merit alone. “Do this or you’ll lose X% of your users” is not Patreon making a value judgement on 30% margin, it’s post facto extortion.

Nothing is answering the question, “would Patreon itself take a 30% hit to margin just to operate natively iOS”? I am pretty dubious.

My point still stands that none of this is fair first principles representation of the value the platform provides. I’m sure the product conversation and user research inside Patreon HQ is much more along the lines of “fuck you Apple you’re making me choose my 10% iOS user base over the 7% of global users that happily use per-creation billing”. Not “oh Apple was right subscriptions are a more consistent payment model for users why didn't we realize that before thanks Apple here’s your 30% rev share for the idea let’s just pass that cost on to our iOS users they won’t mind”. LOL
Musings on shared databases in a microservice architecture
Highlights:

* New Dataset: Recreational Boating Accidents

* New Documents: Oil Spill Response Costs

* New Resource: Federal Inmate Complaint Data, De-Coded

* New Resource: Semantic Search for Animal Welfare Act Citations

Project homepage: https://www.data-liberation-project.org/
Attacking Firecracker – AWS' MicroVM (2022)
Show HN: SlimSaaS.com – A SaaS starter kit without the extra bloat
Can You Do Both: Fast Scans and Fast Writes in a Single System?
> I think the answer is to not have a flavour du jour. Pick one, crown it the winner, document it well and give it some time.

It has been done with distutils: it has been around for more than a decade. The result is the ecosystem that you are complaining about.
In the end tensor fields are sections of a bundle.

I insist that calling them "just functions" is simplistic. In fact, I'd say that the complexity of your elaborations kind of proves my point.

Note that I deliberately use "simplistic" and not "wrong", since a section is a function of sorts.
I used that chat bot to try and find the dimensions of a product and it couldn't even fetch them from the information table that was right above it in the page.

What's the point of working your developers to the bone (as Amazon is famous for doing) if the result is going to be this bad?
I get a javascript only captcha with my noscript/basic (x)html browser.
Here's a nice list: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_physical_constants

G (the gravitational constant) is an interesting one: the value is only known to about 5 significant figures, but GM (the gravitational constant multiplied by the mass of the Earth) is known a lot more accurately, unsurprisingly, considering how well GPS works. Some of those constants seem to be known to about 12 significant figures.
Animating Figma's SVG Exports
The real bosses are not really, not completely, those we think they are.
Even I said that in an earlier comment (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41229845).

Still, this is a step forward. The step might be to forbid the government bypassing legal protections by buying the data.
Yes, that exactly!
Are self driving cars more like vaccines, which are expected to harm some people but because of how important they are, there is finality and fixed structure to justice against them? Maybe.

Or are they more like regular cars, which kill people all the time, including occupants who weren’t driving like the children of the driver, and everything about justice regarding them depends on random shit and vibes?

Rodney Brooks is a great businessman. MIT, and Stanford and Harvard for that matter, missed the boat on autonomous vehicles - along with the other groundbreaking tech at the top of the S&P500, large language models and GLP-1 agonists. What has come of the last Ivy League breakthrough, CRISPR? When I was there, there was an energy that autonomous vehicles were 50 years away, not the 5 they turned out to be in reality. The pessimism was pervasive.
> Boeing, Lockheed etc. were still engineering oriented companies full of projects and management opportunities for innovative and risk-taking people. Starting with the Reagan era, they are now emptied out rent seekers full of car salesmen who look up to Jack Welch as a role model.

To be fair, Boeing, Lockheed etc won't be the decisive players putting humans back on the moon from the US. It'll be smaller and scrappier players more akin to startups.
I've been talking about this with a friend/colleague of mine. Some of the greatest sources of data are "recorders" that are running in the background. Oura or any other activity tracker, Google Maps with location history turned on, browser history. Data privacy concerns aside, those sources can really help tie things together.

Personally, I stopped using my Oura ring and don't have location history collected anywhere (that I control or know of). One of my big ideas for this is a native application for your phone and laptop that collects everything it can in the background and surfaces it somewhere you control (synced via a service you choose, lands on a machine you own). Maybe overkill for many people but being able to access that without giving it to another service would be something I'd use.
China is building more solar/wind than the rest of the world put together.

https://globalenergymonitor.org/report/china-continues-to-le...

Europe is rapidly replacing its existing fossil fuel energy supply with solar/wind.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/chart-solar-wind-overtake-fossil-...

Are these countries/regions moving as fast as they should be.
No. But they are well ahead of what people would have predicted even a decade ago and let’s not even talk about the 2000s where solar and wind were looked upon as a toy source of energy.

What’s holding further expansion back is the grid, storage, and geopolitics (and of course, massive amounts of money coming from the trillion dollar incumbents).

These are all problems that are resolving themselves.
Wow, that's super cool. Thanks for checking in and valuable feedback. Working on navigation improvements.

Your prosgpt is promising. Would be to learn more.

The most stand out AI agent for me today is PlayAI. My 10 years old daughter and I were impressed and chatted with her on different topics for an hour or so. It was so natural. Supper bullish on the future.
> it just rubbed me the wrong way.

On the other hand, they did implement generics - indicating a willingness to listen to community feedback and change their position. Isn't that what you want in project leadership?
It's going to work there because of the demand inelasticity. If you tried to fix prices in a place that did not have the demand it would be a different story.
performance testing? metrics analysis?
HandBrake 1.8.2 – The open source video transcoder
Thanks for the heads-up. Not aware of any law like that from where I live, but I should file a ticket to remove the veteran status just in case.
> There are lots of kinds of illegal speech, e.g. you cannot engage in the unauthorized practice of law, you cannot provide medical advice without a license, you cannot defame people, you cannot incite riots, you cannot procure criminal acts, you cannot defraud, you cannot infringe on copyright, and so on and so forth.

Is this sentence unauthorized practice of law?

edit: It's a rhetorical question. If I had power over policing and the justice system, and I disagreed with you, and it were actually illegal to give legal or medical advice to people without a license (which it is not), it would absolutely be unauthorized practice of law and the spreading of misinformation. I might also claim that you're doing it to help Russia weaken a potential future law that would force journalists to be licensed. I will claim this with no evidence, but I will claim it everywhere, through dozens of different, soon-to-be-licensed, mouths. The rumor will be used as grounds to investigate you.
I don't disagree. But I'm telling you how I think the judges feel about this, not how you should feel about it.
The broad argument holds, regardless of what Patreon itself does right now.

Facts are simple here: Apps grant easier access your habits and identity as compared to a relatively-sandboxed browser.
Are there not _far_ more players in aerospace today than what you listed? Maybe those of today are not at the scale of the companies you listed at the height of the cold war, but we're really in a new era of space industry.
How crisp are the estimates of cost? I can see how they might depend heavily upon the dataset, especially when the algorithms are supralinear like O(n^2) or O(n^3).
Solutions will be implemented locally. There’s no global agency that can decree everyone use solar.

If even one moderate sized o punter is able to transition successfully that will put tremendous amounts of pressure on every other country.

So while climate change is indeed a global problem, the solutions have to be judged locally since they will have to be local and bottom up.
The point is supply of housing units is moot if there is only 1 seller or cartel of sellers (barring land value taxes or other sufficiently large penalties for vacant housing units).
https://infinitejest.wallacewiki.com/david-foster-wallace/in...

DFW unfortunately got this so right about our future.
Deploy Meta SAM2 on your AWS account
Use JSON to Evaluate and Compare Local Language Model NER Performance
I recently expanded a project that allows for easy benchmarking of local language models, specifically for Named Entity Recognition (NER) tasks. By using a simple JSON configuration, you can now evaluate and compare the performance of different models installed through Ollama without the need for extensive coding.

The idea is to make it easier for developers and data scientists to test various models and see how they perform on specific tasks, all within a streamlined framework.

If you're interested in learning more about the approach and trying it out, you can check out the full details in my blog post: Creating a JSON Framework to Test Local Language Models for NER — https://datasignal.uk/blog/ner-framework.html

The code is open source and available on GitHub: NER-llm-blog Repo — https://github.com/DataSignalOrg/NER-llm-blog/tree/master

I’d love to hear your thoughts or suggestions for improvements!
> what should the expansion rate need the be uniform or constant everywhere?

It doesn't.

"The simplest explanation for dark energy is that it is an intrinsic, fundamental energy of space" [1]. That's the cosmological constant.

Dark energy is a thing because we don't assume that to be the case. Irrespective of your dark energy model, however, there will be a predicted global average.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_energy
Oh, sorry, my bad. Working on improving UX. Will be deploying updates this week.

Thank you for taking time to check and write a feedback. Super appreciate
I believe they mean ACME provisioning and renewal isn't baked into nginx, i.e. you have to install certbot separately and run it daily from a cron job or systemd timer, whereas traefik and caddy handle this for you without additional software or configuration.
I think the primary benefit of ARRL (and the main reason I'm a member) is that they do regulatory and legislative advocacy for amateur radio bands.

https://www.arrl.org/regulatory-advocacy