skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If there are too many options, pick one at random. If you end up regretting that choice, eliminate it from the options and choose again.
I had one of these in an outside room as a teenager and in the winter it was terrible:

You can only heat water so much for the available wattage and when it was cold the water was so cold that only a thin trickle could be heated to a comfortable showering temperature.
> Firstly, the entire port of insurance is to spread risk. If the the market for insurance is "too efficient" at determining who is high-risk and who is not, then it is no longer fulfilling its social function.

Not necessarily! If you’re a physician, you have liability insurance against malpractice claims. If the insurer can correctly determine that you are a particularly incompetent physician and your premiums should be so high that you’re effectively just pre-paying the future settlements for your inevitable future malpractice cases, you will not be able to afford those premiums and will be forced to stop practicing medicine. In this scenario, the insurance market has satisfied its social function.

In principle, incompetent and unsafe drivers could similarly be identified and priced out of being able to drive, and the act of doing so would serve a purpose of making the roads safer for everyone else.
Besides, lots of badly designed systems spit out the Unix epoch if they can't handle a date string for whatever reason. Then you can't tell whether you're looking at the date you actually selected or the default fallback date.
I maintain my utilities account by email.
This happens all the time in enterprise software too. Everybody is covering their ass at these places and nobody is "brave" enough to say anything directly, hence the wording of these reports/emails/assessments.
It's really mind-boggling that so many people disagree via downvotes that you compare models and choose the best performing one, independent of the hype ...
Is there any resources on how one should go about doing this “make your own index fund” manually?
I live in the EU, and of course, I cannot just use this tool. I’m happy to have a passive tool that tracks my portfolio and spits out the instructions to me for example: “sell 10 AAPL and buy 4 AMD to balance your portfolio”.
I’m more looking for education around operating such a fund, when to rebalance, when to make a stop loss limit etc.

Of course, my money I cannot live without is in High yield savings account and Vanguard ETFs. I will only play with ^ ideas with the money I gamble on stock picking.
Events like this are much more common than you may think, though rarely as severe as this shooting. From fires at retirement homes and even at an ED once, bus crashes, WWII bombs surfacing during construction, floods… it almost becomes routine. I can assure you the plans are not built not academics but are refined through experience. And in a weird way, disaster response almost becomes routine.
That was an interesting blog post, hope we will get more intermediate and advance zig usage blog posts and in the future books about zig.
Seems like I am not alone - I still tried for 4 years to make it work in pharma but realised that spending 3 days to grow primary cells to just get irreproducible results was not going go be satisfying.
I love this idea, I kind of created something similar with skipvids.com subscriptions
I wonder how many people have pet names 'correct horse battery staple'
The gear shop I worked in hade a 50 Horsepower CNC lathe that was controlled by a 1970 GE computer that stored data on punched mylar tape. It ran until 2019 when the shop was acquired, and it wasn't part of the move.
One of Dave Rat’s old Red Hot Chili Peppers tour videos/blogs has him putting the channel cards from a very expensive analogue Midas sound desk in a dishwasher to fix them after somebody spilt beer over the desk during a gig. Worked great!
>Stadia was an great product - afaik it worked with acceptable latency and the hardware was good. Morons could not have executed it that well.

Stadia was early in the game, cloud gaming will maybe take off in the next 10 years....it's still too early.

Google has brilliant programmers but I think product managers and business managers are the problem.
Wow, I built almost the same thing to learn clojure, but without the sheen and professionalism of yours!

Mine can also handle banjos

https://niko.io/projects/scales/out/index.html
When spyware holds your ass, it already has everything on you and doesn't need any vulnerability.
The reason might be that they had their entry lying around and the cost of entering the competition was very low.

This appears to be true of writing anthologies; it's pretty common that Amazon is running a sale on some anthology or other that advertises an incredibly high-powered list of contributing authors. But the quality on these is lower than you might expect.

I understood why when one of Brandon Sanderson's blog posts mentioned that he was solicited to contribute to one of these that was raising money for some charitable purpose, and he sent them a piece of writing he'd done for a different book that hadn't made the cut to be included in that book.
to offer a contrary point of view I flipped to my review of the book and offer this line in return: "a good idea butchered at the hands of an amateur. A barely coherent series of blog posts committed to paper, bookended by real meat"
We do not! The US is a loved destination for training placements and exchanges because you can see so many stabbings and shootings in one shift.

However, a shooting is just one type of mass casualty event.
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There’s not really a clear tension though. Procedures exist with an intent to get results. Airlines have lots of procedures that are carefully followed and the result is “the plane always arrives safely”. If you asked a pilot the question to “make a choice between procedures and results” they’d think you were crazy.

Obviously there can be misguided procedures, but any decision made or operation done can be misguided.
I agree that using fused multiply-add in almost all cases improves the accuracy of the results.

Nevertheless, I consider that a compiler option that gives you good FMA, but only together with bad behavior at underflows, is something exceedingly stupid.

FMA is a standard operation, while ignoring underflows is rightly prohibited by the floating-point standard. There should never have been a compiler option that mixes standard operations with non-standard operations.

In C or C++, you can use the "fma" function to get FMA where desired.

This is more awkward, but it is safe.

Any better solution requires a change in the programming language. For instance, it could be required that adjacent * and + must always be contracted into an FMA, unless separated by parentheses. This would allow the programmer to select between FMA and FMUL+FADD, as desired.

FMA has appeared in 1990 (in IBM POWER) and it has been the greatest advance in floating-point computation after the introduction of Intel 8087 in 1980 (which has resulted in the IEEE standard a few years later). It is weird that 34 years later, most, if not all, programming languages do not handle well the generation of FMA operations.
Suggestion: If you can adapt your monitoring servers to push data out though a data diode, you might be able to make some unique security guarantees with respect to ingress of control.
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> You don't want to be using WD-40 on the chain as it will strip it of any existing lubricant and dry it out, which as you can imagine, is bad. However, it's actually really useful for cleaning parts of the bike that have been covered in gunk and grease.

If you asked me to name the part of a bike most likely to be covered in gunk and grease, I'd say the chain. ;p
It is now bad even as a typed language
I totally agree, in fact feature number one is already planned. It'll probably be in the form of a chord schema generator and player that also shows you which scales and roots/thirds... you can use in a given chord.

For 2, it's possible to flip the fretboard to a lefty guitar. Is that what you are looking for? You can find the option under settings. Or do you mean flipping it vertically?
Thanks a lot for sharing!

Yeah, I love the tuning option myself!
Super cool. I did some reading about Secure Enclaves with I was dreaming up ways to democratize compute; very cool to see a project like this making it a reality.
Also, the rhyme scheme is just plain wrong.
I would argue that Amazon's UI could garner more sales and reconstruct more of its slowly fading popularity if it simply stopped being such a dumpster fire of bad design, confusion, chaos, searches that barely work and of course, rampant links to attempts at sales fraud.

The confusion, coupled with Amazon's reputation inertia, does probably drive some bulk sales metrics, but it's a poison pill of scrounging what you can from existing users while potential new ones trickle away to sites that are simply better, easier to navigate and just less likely to sell you falsely packaged shit.
I've moved to Europe in 2022 and back to NZ in 2023. During that time we visited Fiji, Singapore, Frankfurt, Tenerife, Barcelona, Japan, New Caledonia and lived on a boat for a total of ~month. All with 1 and 3 yo and that time.
> what you mean by association here then.

Mutual information

> but in the "True DAG"

I'm unconvinced there is a "true" DAG and at best I think there's "the most reasonable DAG given our observations." For all practical purposes I think this won't be meaningfully differentiable in most cases, so I'm fine to work with that. Just want to make sure we're on the same page.

> But my point is, at least, that we dont have access to this True model.

Then we're in agreement, but it's turtles all the way down. Everything is a model and all models are wrong, right? We definitely have more useful models, but there is always a "truer" model.

Why I was pushing against your example is because I think it is important to distinguish lack of association because the data to form the association is missing or unavailable to us (which may be impossibly unavailable; and if we go deep enough, we will always hit this point) vs a lack of association because the two things are actually independent[0]. One can be found via better sampling where the other will never be found (unfortunately indistinguishable from impossibly unavailable information).

> as-if you have the true model

Which is exactly why I'm making the point. We never have (or even have access to!) the "true" model. Just better models. That's why I say it isn't about being right, but less wrong. Because one is something that's achievable. If you're going to point to one turtle, for this, I think you might as well point to the rest. But there's still things that aren't turtles.

[0] I'll concede the to an argument of "at some point" everything is associated tracing back in time. Though I'm not entirely convinced of this argument because meta information.
Why do people build video players with no volume control, it has to be one of the worst UX choices in common practice.
> way harder to control

How about ICE cars that start to burn DUE to water?

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/gdgWcw0d4J8
I never said it's a rigorous thing; I'm highlighting that there's too many flaws to take seriously (i.e. evidence of absence in this case tells us nothing).

Remember - it's a million to do a straight shot across the universe at quite a large portion of the speed of light. In terms of colonization we're talking billions of years for an unknown fraction of the galaxy, but definitely not the entire thing. And much of the galaxy may not even be suited for colonization (e.g. presumably you still need some raw resources & have to be careful about where you go to to expand)

As for "hiding" I never said they want to hide. But you only need to look at the modern world to realize that digital communication and encryption are standard fare and "hiding" is a natural evolution of that. And the longer distances you are transmitting and the more signals you need to monitor, the more energy efficient you want to be (i.e. point to point + relays instead of broadspectrum broadcasts). And if advanced civilizations use neutrino comms or quantum entaglement somehow, then they'd naturally be hidden just because that's how more advanced tech would work.

As for territory, I never said they wouldn't be territorial. But a lion isn't going to bother being territorial with a mouse. No reason to believe they're going to try to broadcast ownership in a way that a "stone age" species like ours could detect. Additionally, it's not impossible that communication barriers are real and therefore there's not really much to communicate out vs "show up in our heavily fortified star system & see disappear" kind of behavior.

The counter argument is that you may actually want to hide unless you're the apex civilization because otherwise the apex civilization may choose to conquer and murder yours (e.g. Europeans vs Native Americans) to prevent competition.

My point is that there's so many reasons that we're not finding anything (nonexistent priors, searching in the wrong spot, search for the wrong signals, not having enough people searching, having the wrong equipment, not even having the physics required to start searching, etc etc) that the Fermi paradox provides no insight & can't even be called a paradox yet.

If faster than light travel is possible, this changes a lot of calculus of course. But similarly, is there any reason to believe our solar system would be interesting enough for the species to come to us? Or maybe there's even political things like Star Trek's first contact rule that put us in a bubble & intentionally mask the existence of the aliens in the first place.
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I was immediately reminded of the stern warnings to keep out of flooded basements until you've made sure the electricity to the house is cut off. I found[1] at least one person who died this year because of this lesser-known risk of flash-flooding (the more intuitive concern is drowning because you can't open the door due to water pressure). It's possible that it was more voltage at play, though, there are 400V lines in most German homes (electrical heating and stoves, mostly).

[1] https://www.rnd.de/panorama/67-jaehriger-will-keller-leer-pu...
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I have a similar experience from waaaaay back (now near 30 years). We had a water leak in the basement of the institute of physics. Nothing terribly major, ran for a few hours shorted power downstairs eventually (that's how it was found). Once fixed, pumped out, all that remained was a musty smell for a few days.

Except four days later network connection failed in the building. Tracing the cabling eventually lead us to the basement; some under-stairs / slightly below floor level comms cabinet, empty other than the building's outbound router. 48V Telco, no mains connect, had sat under"water" (well some rather murky stuff) for almost a week and done well. Once we got it washed (with clear water) and dried, it continued fine (till replacement a few weeks after). We were a little amazed, to be honest, physicists or no. Brave device, that.
I've been using tirzepatide since the end of february, since then I've lost 52lbs in about 25 weeks, if my fat skin was stretched and it's since relaxed at a rate of 2lbs per week then maybe right now it is like an old rubber band that's been unstretched, but in a few months time once the rate of loss reduces it will be ok. I'm almost 50 so tbh I expected it to be much worse, I've virtually no loose skin compared to the 6 inches I've lost around my waist.
Why not use proxy email addresses to prevent scripts that strip everything from + to @?
Zapping!
(Author) For specific keywords, yes, technically you could, but it would require making a separate glyph for each word, which would inflate the file size and require a lot of manual effort for no apparent upside. The substituting logic is as rigid as with calts. Unless you had some other idea how to use ligatures?
Surely that's reason enough to avoid Google from now on? They are simply not a trustworthy company for personal data.
Can't play. No player icon, random movement, death within seconds.
> When spyware holds your ass, it already has everything on you and doesn't need any vulnerability.

..because it uses one of the available local escalation tricks, where sending RA to ::1 could be one of those if that is a thing.
What's your take on the Estonian version?

And, secure regions on phones and government ID is already an established ISO standard. Cats out of the bag years ago.
Really? I haven’t seen any.
HN denizens don't like when AI experiments are run on them ;)
Channel Surfing a.k.a. Hopping a.k.a. Zapping
Wasn't it a joke?
- Where are you getting the data to train the model? You need initial historic data of different products including pricing information and inventory. I am assuming you are buying scraped data. Don't have an opinion just curious. The words data and AI feels to be lacking context.

- Will you also be looking into real time competitor pricing to make discounts more competitive?
This exercise seems like highlighting the need for a cheap (under use), all-purpose framework for an efficient function approximator (as bare ML is too costly).

They are trying LLMs for this purpose, but maybe the structure of an optimal architecture should be studied.
Vertically as well as 90 degrees.

https://www.google.com/search?output=search&q=Chords

See how most images are showing chords. The fret is laid out vertically. I've been using those and can thereby read that more naturally.
I don't really think the public demands it, it's just the newscasters that race with each other to arrive at a statistically strong enough projection to "call it" eg "Dewey Defeats Truman"
Because laws exist to protect the wealthy, sadly.
Sorry, I'll do better.
Yes they are against all immigrants.
The lab is not incredibly low throughput but also most of the experiments look at a single modality.
Take a cell viability or FACS assay - while some additional measurements could be taken or analysed - most of the time the scientist will look at a single parameter. In a separate assay the cell (other passage/day) will be undertaken another assay resulting in nearly incomparable data.

The solution: Multimodal data and getting more info on experiments setup (often a bit of voodoo and not written down properly).
I agree up to a point. It is a kind of tug-o-war, and yes, the weight of each side plays an important role there.

Nevertheless, even in projects where my services are talking to something that's bigger, I will, at the very least ask "why cant it be RFC compliant? is there a reason?". And without blowing my own horn overly much, but quite a few systems larger than mine have changed because someone asked that question.
Can't wait to the day, when I finally can get a RP2350 for $0.78 instead of the current $0.80. Think of the possibilities of what to do with those savings! I gladly forget everything I ever learned about ARM for such.
Ahhhh... my mistake it was "bit.io"

Bit.io was a serverless postgres platform similiar to neon. They got acquired by databricks and their service was shutdown extremely fast.
I'm diagnosed with both and I like using the term. I find it much more palatable than "neurospicy"
Thank god it's just a UN resolution then. It's not as if anyone pays the least attention to them, much less actually applying one firmly.
Sorry. I meant to say "bit.io"
> I suspect one possible outcome is many people wouldn't want to take the risk to become an executive
We will run our it if executives? Oh no, what will we ever do? It’s not like people compete for that job and salary
Ask HN: What are good language detecting services?
We are currently searching for a service/tool that detects language from an audio file, we don't need transcription or diarization, just for the language to be detected.

Are you using any such services that you can recommend?

Only thing that we found that detects a lot of languages is Whisper.

Also forgot to mention a business requirement is that we can't supply what we expect the language to be which is the case with most such providers.
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It is only impressive coming from the consumer grade electronics.

Microchips, capacitors, PCB's and other stuff like manufactured for defence have much wider and higher tolerances. One won't find the cutting edge 2 nm processes (depending on the specific area of defence, 200-300 µm would still be cutting edge today for them), materials used are different, plus all sorts of chemical and physical hardening is employed. Most of the time, the chips can't use the consumer grade cutting edge designs and processes as they have to withstand not just abuse but also stronger EM fields (in radar equipment) or EM pulses (e.g. a nuclear explosion).

After electronics have been manufactured, they proceed onto the QA phase where chips are literally baked in ovens for a day or a few, then retrieved and tested. They may get irradiated, soaked for periods of time etc. Most people would call it abuse – from a civilian perspective. The surviving ones are deemed to have passed the QA and are used to make the actual equipment.
TimescaleDB has not so good performance and on-disk data compression rate comparing to ClickHouse [1]. TimescaleDB is good for cases with relatively small amounts of time series data (e.g. up to a few tens of billions rows) when you already use Postgresql and don't want introducing new database for time series data.

[1] https://benchmark.clickhouse.com/#eyJzeXN0ZW0iOnsiQWxsb3lEQi...
Why not?

Whether through analogy or an actual underlying isomorphism between the mechanisms underpinning language and other domains, I don’t see a reason LLMs can’t occasionally have insights into non-language problems

Is it better than other methods? No. Is it efficient? Absolutely not.

I don’t work with LLMs but I think a lot of the HN’s users are prematurely skeptical of the potential low-hanging fruit across many domains that can be explored with these new, convenient but invariably suboptimal tools
(Author) Sure, it depends on your requirements, what you want your syntax highlighter to do. I wouldn't use it as my coding font (in its current form at least). But just because a few words inside regular text could be highlighted, doesn't make the code that much less readable — in the context of code snippets on websites.
That would be ludicrously expensive - again, they had that idea at the Boring Company, and it hinged on finding cheaper ways of building tunnels (beyond just making them too small to fit emergency egress). As we've already seen, that never came to be, tunnelling is pretty optimised as it is.

With your 100 tunnels you could probably just reach the capacity of the Elizabeth Line (again, just one example) but at 75x the cost...
Some people, when confronted with a complex system, think "I know, I'll use a large language model." Now they have two complex systems interacting.