skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Minor nit: from what I understand dot net (core) is not a fork but rather a reimplementation / rewrite as far as I understand

> It was forked out of .NET 4.x and dropped support for a lot of things in the first versions.
Vitamin D (or lack of it) plays a vital and huge factor:

"A prospective study of dietary intake of vitamin D found women with daily intake above 400 IU had a 40% lower risk of MS. [53] In a study among healthy young adults in the US, White men and women with the highest vitamin D serum levels had a 62% lower risk of developing MS than those with the lowest vitamin D levels. [54]"

"Another prospective study in young adults from Sweden also found a 61% lower risk of MS with higher serum vitamin D levels; [55] and a prospective study among young Finnish women found that low serum vitamin D levels were associated with a 43% increased risk of MS. [56] In prospective studies of persons with MS, higher vitamin D levels have been associated with reduced disease activity and progression. [57,58]"

"Collectively, the current evidence suggests that low vitamin D may have a causal role in MS and if so, approximately 40% of cases may be prevented by correcting vitamin D insufficiency. [59] This conclusion has been strengthened substantially by recent evidence that genetically determined low levels of vitamin D predict higher risk of multiple sclerosis."

"While this may largely be due to genetic differences, some studies suggest that T1D rates are lower in sunnier areas. Early evidence suggesting that vitamin D may play a role in T1D comes from a 30-year study that followed more than 10,000 Finnish children from birth: Children who regularly received vitamin D supplements during infancy had a nearly 90% lower risk of developing type 1 diabetes than those who did not receive supplements. [61]"

"A prospective study among healthy young adults in the US found that White individuals with the highest levels of serum vitamin D had a 44% lower risk of developing T1D in adulthood than those with the lowest levels. [63]"

"The Vitamin D and Omega 3 trial (VITAL), a randomized double-blind placebo-controlled trial following more than 25,000 men and women ages 50 and older, found that taking vitamin D supplements (2,000 IU/day) for five years, or vitamin D supplements with marine omega-3 fatty acids (1,000 mg/day), reduced the incidence of autoimmune diseases by about 22%, compared with a placebo. Autoimmune conditions observed included rheumatoid arthritis, psoriasis, polymyalgia rheumatica, and autoimmune thyroid diseases (Hashimoto’s thyroiditis, Graves’ disease). [80]"

Source: https://nutritionsource.hsph.harvard.edu/vitamin-d/
The word ‘news’ appears once in the entire article. Here is the usage:

“Among features of the subscription Alexa, expected in October, are recipe suggestions based on your family’s dietary restrictions and AI summaries of the news. Caroline reported that you’ll still be able to use the current version of Alexa without a subscription fee.”

You went on that entire rant and called an entire product stupid based off of that?
The word "liberal" definitely has the same definition of "libre"--ever hear of the term "liberal democracy"? That's exactly the same kind free they're talking about.

"Gratuitous" also has that definition, though it's far less common in use. See the dictionary definition, e.g., here: https://www.dictionary.com/browse/gratuitous

> 2. given, done, bestowed, or obtained without charge or payment; free; complimentary.

It's more of a stretch there, because the primary definition of gratuitous has a connotation of unnecessary, even undesirable. If you didn't have at least some hint of disapproval of a service, you'd reach for the word "free" long before "gratuitous".
good tip but it's even simpler:
"Hey Siri, 10 minute pasta timer."
This is already done. "When the cellular phone detects that the user is placing an emergency call, it begins to transmit its location to a secure server, from which the PSAP can retrieve it. Cellphone manufacturers may program the phone to enable GPS function automatically (in case it has been turned off) when the user places an emergency call." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enhanced_911
The basic idea of Alexa is great, the problem is, as you point out, it'd under the control of an untrustworthy company.

It's too bad we can't buy Alexa (/-like) devices that run auditable open-source code, and connect them to an open-source program running on our home servers. I'd be happy to have such a device/service, as long as it's under my control.
Jalopnik and their Tesla negativity is getting tiring for me as a reader who is not fond at all of Musk.
I do believe it was the Mar a Lago, yes. Trump's valuation was eye watering, I still can't believe it, but the market players agreed to it.

The banks agreed to the valuation and under no coercion agreed to lend money with it as collateral. Trump pays off that loan and the banks are made whole.

By contrast my school board telling me my house is worth 600 k instead of 400 k scares the shit out of me. I can't agree to it and my only recourse are the courts. The school board has lawyers on staff so it costs them nothing if I sue.
Story time: I went through a dark and stressful period of my life when I was in my teens. After I mostly got over the issues, I went on a vacation with a friend and his family. At one point in the vacation, I ended getting some kind of food poisoning from shellfish that apparently no one else who at the same meal got. Anyway, I eventually recovered in a few days, but it seemed as though I never fully recovered. I had frequent GI issues for literal years.

I sometimes wonder if the intense stress and whatnot that I had experienced prior some how made me more susceptible to whatever illness I happened to succumb to? No way to truly know, I suppose.

After various specialists and unhelpful treatments for what was later deemed to be "IBS", I was recommended to try something by my GP. He gave me some antibiotic (this was 15 years or so ago) it may have been that one -- Rifaximin -- I know it started with an "R." Anyway, my GP warned me that he came across it in some research, and would be willing to give a try, but I was not to get my hopes up.

I took the antibiotics for 14 days. Towards the end of the regiment, I was starting to have symptoms far worse than normal, but I pushed through. 15 years or so later, I basically have no issues at all. Whatever the drug was it was like a freaking miracle cure.
> At the end of the day we’re just a weighted neural net making seat of the pants confidence predictions too.

We might be. Or we might be something else entirely. Who knows?
such an awful format, I wish people would stop using it
Chinese would never agree with you. The best rice comes from the South. (I dont necessarily agree but it’s a strong stereotype that I often heard in my 6 years there).

There is an old Chinese saying that goes Live in Hangzhou, marry in Suzhou, dine in Guangzhou, and die in Luzhou.
Wow. I didn't see this one coming

Over 20 years ago I needed to do some engraving for a school band project, and went online looking for a solution. At the time there was SCORE, which produced beautiful pages but was a massive dog to get running on XP (dos emulators were rare and difficult to use), finale, Sibelieus, and LilyPond.

Finale was nice but far too expensive, and Sibelieus was nicer for slightly cheaper. Both rather hard amounts of money to come up with in middle and high school. So that left LilyPond.

My father is a scientist, and therefore quite handy with TeX, so he pushed me rather hard in the direction of LilyPond, running in cygwin. Took me about a week to pick it up, and another week to get my engraving looking the way I wanted. Turned it in after that and got a B from the band teacher, because apparently the school had finale on the library computers, and my output was subtly different (not wrong, different stylistic approaches to auxillary notation such as crescendos) than that of finale.

I still use lilypond to this day. I've played a bit with Sibelieus in the interim, and then dorico when Sibelieus went to hell and dorico was created. Still prefer lilypond.

But all through that period, finale basically felt like the Microsoft office of music engraving. The big juggernaut that no one can topple. Sure, the output of a finale engraving looked like it was a finale engraving, and others might have more aesthetically pleasing output, but finale was the standard. Seeing an upstart like dorico kill them is akin to something like Pages or Zoho office killing word.
It isn't as homogenous a society as an outsider would think but I can assure it’s quite stable as a country.

Quebec exiting anytime soon would be annoying for the country but a tragic mistake for quebec especially in seeing how poorly it has workout for the UK which had been an economic engine. Quebec has been sputtering since the 80s after their last referendum vote and since montreal lost its status as a city of import to Toronto. They would go from a poor economic performer to exceptionally poor.
Not having a free public API for this site is a bit of a joke.
The full op-log plus deterministic merging is a great fit for immutable block storage, which can have other security, performance, and cost benefits. I'm building Fireproof[1] to take advantage of recent research in this area. An additional benefit to content addressing the immutable data is that each operation resolves to a cryptographically guaranteed proof (or diff), enforcing causal consistency and allowing stable references to be made to snapshots. This means your interactive, offline-capable, losslessly-merging database can run on the edge or in the browser, but still have the integrity you'd have looked to a centralized database or the blockchain for in the past. (Eg you can drop a snapshot CID into a PDF for signature, or a smart contract, and remove all ambiguity about the referenced state.

[1] https://github.com/fireproof-storage/fireproof
This sort of thing that makes me miss the classified world.

Counterintelligence people definitely view employees as risks. But they're not your boss. They work for a different organization entirely. They're watching your boss, and your boss's boss, too. They only care about threats to national security. If they find other things, they log them, but don't tell your management. They have nothing to do with performance evaluation.
The three-letter agencies worked out the rules on this stuff decades ago.
By that logic, cigarettes should be regulated as medical products too, since they deliver mind-altering drugs to their users' bodies. But cigarettes have absolutely no valid medical use, and the same is true for tattoos: you're much better off without them in both cases.
Ask HN: How to make a globally fast search engine without using AWS?
Forgive me as I'm sort of a novice but after looking at how sluggish some of the small search engines like Kagi are compared to Google or DDG I've been thinking about what the best most cost effective way for a single person/small team to build an app that is low latency across the world without breaking the bank and without relying heavily on the big cloud providers.

If we only have one database in one location then that wouldn't work, right? We'd need a distributed solution so what could we use? For serverless functions to start maybe we use Cloudflare workers? Maybe we'd then have a strategy for moving off cloud and towards buying/renting more datacenter space as we scale?

I'm interested in hearing thoughts about this. If you were to build a fast search engine that could scale to millions of users today, how would you do it?
That’s part of the plan though. With high risk nascent industries, the govt is often the only customer who can bear that risk. It was the same dynamic that ushered in aerospace; it was mainly just a hobby industry until the Army offered a lucrative contract.
No one is going to pay unless its part of the prime membership. Put a decent CPU and memory into new devices and run it AI locally.
I mean it was a smart move for the brits to retain control of language and culture whether you agree with them or not.

I don't know how that still is a problem?
Just italicize it every time you use it.
This is not the first time Pavel being not very truthful. I rememeber when he was the CEO of Vkontakte, in 2012 he published a post claiming that he is living a modest life: "I don't own planes, cars or homes. My world is walking or riding the subway and sleeping in a 215 sq ft rental apartment. Those who want to be me would also have to give up meat, alcohol and expensive clothes". And just a year later there were the news that he broke the traffic rules while driving a Mercedes, hit a traffic cop, showed an indecent sign to him and ran away into Vkontakte office located nearby while his guard blocked the cop trying to chase him.

There also was a story when he claimed that Telegram is developed abroad but it turned out that many of Telegram employees actually worked at the same beautiful historical office building where Vkontakte was located at that time.

Also, a fun fact, when he was a CEO of Vkontakte, one day he was throwing banknotes into the crowd from a window in that notable historical building. Maybe he was conducting an experiment with universal basic income, who knows.
Just use whatever stack you like tbh. I personally like Vue for very reactive web apps.
https://www.reddit.com/r/DIYbio/ and other places focused on this sort of thing are full of ideas. In my limited experience the ratio of problems/ideas to people working on them is very high.
Has someone tried to get ChatGPT working with Alexa?
It’s not that they’re willing to do it for free. It’s that they’re doing it for fun. It’s a hobby, not work.

Part of the fun is planning, researching, putting together the pieces and power it on.
we're excited to drop the paper & code and let you run the code for yourself to see otherwise !! coming in the next couple months :)
OK, but in that case people shouldn't be allowed to put up securities they own as collateral for loans ( a popular kind of financial engineering among very wealthy people).
Wow that was… such an amazing ride. Thank you for sharing!
It was formerly known as twitter.
easypost and taxjar
I never understood this sentiment given your relatives' smartphones also have microphones.
So I used to think that as well, but recently some old hat ML engineers explained that it was the opposite, until recently.

The term “AI” didn’t encompass methods like linear regression until AI became a buzzword.

What I’m trying to ask is, was it a deep learning method or a classic statistical prediction method.
Computers used to be absolutely magical to me until I studied and worked with embedded systems and compilers - much of it is well-defined and not magical at all. One of my biggest regrets is studying computer science, because the magic was stripped from me once I learned or intuited even a little bit of how the black box worked.

I'm not sure I understand the premise at all - to me, the more I pay attention to the world and my senses, the less magical it becomes. Maybe that's why I'm miserable.
Those assets are always productively invested in some form or another.

This is a rather large assumption. One's assets might be invested inefficiently, as those who financed Elon Musk's takeover of Twitter have learned to their cost.
Seems as good a place as any to ask: how do I get back to this state?

I used to feel exactly this way, but after 3 years now slinging code for money I’ve become very disillusioned. Anyone have any tips for finding the magic again?
I agree with what you’re saying, ultimately I dislike the label. I don’t see where the “economic” part of “socio-economic label” comes in. Race as a social label makes perfect sense to me, because race is used in social contexts mostly as a way to discuss individuals in our daily life. “That [race] man” is expected vernacular, as our social groups tend to be made up of those that are like us, and “race” is a typical exclusion from that. However, it as an “economic” label is far too cultural to for me to accept as a general statement. In certain cultures, say 18th century USA, races such as “Irish” or “African” were seen generally as low-rung groups. However, that’s different nowadays, and was different across cultural borders, so while I would posit everyone understands the social aspects of race, the economic predispositions aren’t something we should be focusing on, as ultimately they are just another social aspect and thus redundant.
Couldn't this be caused by a competitor spamming the report button rather than an automated alarm?
This has the vague feel of GPT writing. It makes sense, it seems somewhat profound, but doesn't really say much. Was it written by ChatGPT, or just by someone who writes that way?
Cool maybe I'll take a look at that too
it is in the sense that those are programmer conveniences only for assembly programmers and Riscv's view is that to the extent possible the assembly programmer interface should largely be handled by psuedo-instructions that disappear when your go to machine code rather than making the chip deal with them
Yes best practices were followed, compared to objectively bad practices that you seem to be suggesting.

> And I'll happily go along with a consensus that I feel was freely obtained, which is not what we are talking about. I do it all the time.

Snake oil comment. You feel you get to be the judge of what is valid not actual consensus of experts. Nope. No thanks.

> Do you believe that the amount you can be heard should depend on how much money you have?

That's how it is currently. I'm not sure how you change that without going to something like communism, which surly you are not suggesting.

> Do you believe that an Administration should be allowed make secret decisions on what's shown to people?

100% yes. State secrets exist for a reason. If you mean decisions on what information people are allowed to disseminate then still yes. There are lots of classes of information that are rightly restricted. Excluding state secrets, things like child porn and other people's personal information are good examples. If you are advocating for some sort of anarchy then go find yourself your own island to ruin please.

> Maybe it wouldn't be fringe if millions of posts about it hadn't been suppressed.

Said like every crank with a pet theory. If you want your idea to be taken seriously it's on YOU to convince people and demonstrate evidence of them. It's not others obligation to listen to your crap, let alone fund you to "research" and spread your ideas.
God help me where in NOLA is this, Treme?
Thanks for the rec, just ordered it.
Its part of a series on complex systems, pretty cool
Old media was better because they had profits to hire highly skilled people.

Now that tech took all the advertising cash, there is no army of highly trained/skilled journalists any more. Those folks went to other industries.
Obsolete Command-Line Tools of Linux
https://archive.is/BOvj1
You're quite free to voluntarily send all your money to the Treasury.
What if not writing code is an error in and of itself?
No its a consequence of earning potential after going to school. If you go to the US you get special student visa which allows you to earn USD and if you are goijg into medicine your lifetime earnings are considerably higher in the US.

Canada has great schools but you don't have brand recognition/massive alumni networks/endowments like the US nor do you get visa access.
There's a loaded grenade of a question.

Here's the thing though, a "white person" from Australia is a blandly generic European, they look like they could of come from Scotland, or Germany .. then of course you can start looking at European Australians and picking out people with deep ancestral roots to Spain, Italy, Serbia | Croatia, etc.

Modern Germany is a greater melting pot of origin stories than it once was - although to be frankly honest much of the population of Neukölln in Berlin look as though they might be from Melbourne, Australia - and they don't look at all like the 'Aryan Race' archetypes certain Germans of the 1920s were so fond of.

Forget "race" - it's a question of whether any family traits and features that started out strongly eveident are still present or not.

The greater truth is that outside of any obvious strong features, Australians come from all over; 25% of the current population was born outside of Australia, and with the exception of indigenous Australians and first settler, early convicts, soldiers that stayed on for land, servant families of the rich, very early gold rush adventurers, etc very few people in Australia are descended from anybody here prior to 1850.

Following 1850 the Australian population quadrupled rapidly from under half a million outsiders as prospecters poured in.

Conversely, the population of Japan largely looks Japanese in origin and it's generally not hard to pick those who don't have several generations there behind them.
I wish windows fixed it's registry. Documented where different settings are in the registry. And also streamlined the registry to be a lot more intuitive.

UIs will build themselves around a simplified registry.
With commercial applications that want to just take their existing code and have it run on Linux with only a couple lines changed, Avalonia XPF will do that
The courts found it excessive (and it might be) and proposed a valuation so ridiculously low it alone gives Trump grounds to appeal

This is just wrong. The very low valuation was not proposed by the NY court, but by the Palm Beach County tax appraiser. This is because the property is deeded for use as a social club rather than a private residence (a condition of sale when Trump purchased it iirc, and one which affects future disposal of the property) and as a commercial entity the value is appraised as a multiple of business income.
Yeah I think the paper could be better, too. Thank you for your suggestions — and for the information, it’s very interesting!

Although, the padding requirement for integers with bits ending in 10 can actually be dismissed: you join on only 101, then to decode you just split on 10101 first, re-attach the removed 10 to the left, then split the resulting parts on 101, removing the padding.

I guess you can consider that a spec bug in the draft? Hahahaha ! :)

I don’t know what complete means, and I don’t know if this becomes complete, but anyway it’s really interesting.

Sounds like it would be a good idea to add these codings to the bench mark!

There’s another potential criticism I was thinking about: what if we encode the lengths with VByte then concat the bits, just like we do with irradix to make the L1 variant? It’s not really fair to compare L1 with VByte when they’re operating in different modes like that. It’s possible that any advantage with our current scheme disappears if you do that, I don’t know.

I picked VByte tho because it’s so simple and very common, so just a question for you: why aren’t the codings you mentioned used as frequently as VByte? Are they more complex or slower?
So you are essentially saying "ignorance is bliss"?
I've been using a pocket notebook for a while now: https://fieldnotesbrand.com
SEO brought us bland, vapid content farms over a decade ago, and sadly I feel like that's what most of the LLMs got trained on, so here we are. Garbage in, garbage out.