skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
personally I think discord is shit - I wish it would go away. IRC is a lot more resilient towards takeovers and enshittification. look at what happened to slack.
This isn’t that strange in the context that all medicines, while generally safe in OTC form, can have negative side effects if used for too long or at the wrong dose or in the wrong circumstance.

My wife has one kidney and as such is told to avoid NSAIDs as a class of medicine. She’s realistically fine taking it every so often but her doctors are asking her to avoid using kidney capacity that could hypothetically be needed to filter and excrete something else.

Acetaminophen/Paracetamol is great alternative for her since it’s processed in the liver. However if you’re a frequent drinker, have a liver deficiency, or have to take some other drug straining your liver, it’s contraindicated.

For most of us most of the time you’re completely correct though.

In the case of these nasal spray decongestants I had a case of rebound congestion due to over-reliance on them while surviving some family bringing really bad colds into the house and my son starting daycare. It was really bad. I then managed by switching to an alternating schedule of pseudoephedrine and the nasal spray so I could reduce the physical dependency on the latter and get a good night’s sleep.

My doctor eventually cleared me to take an allergy spray medication (Fluticasone propionate) that is safer for long term use but generally not used for colds because it inhibits immune response and mask the symptoms which can cause new infections and hurt your ability to heal. Yet another case of the mundane medicine that is contraindicated. While seemingly being the wrong thing to be put on while fighting off infections it worked out great.

After four months I had seen enough child germs and no adult has brought their own plague or food poisoning (it was a very bad summer for me) and I finally became healthy again.
> Being jaded and cynical about it doesn't change that reality.

Downvotetards need to understand this harder to break out of their funk. Criminally underrated comment, thank you and I wish I could give you more karma.
Nor with LORAN, a WW2 navigation system: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/LORAN
I emboldened the <code> blocks a little. Looks good on Chrome on iPhone but not Edge nor Safari. :o|

Thanks.
see https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2023/04/18/who-pays-...

income tax is progressive but tends to become regressive at the very top when individuals have control over what counts as "realized income". The ultra wealthy in fact don't pay so much tax (and certainly not their "fair" share).

What you say is true absent any tax optimization, alas there is such a thing, especially at the top. Also, see works of Zucman and Saez.
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When the Access Hollywood tape came out back in 2016 I thought his campaign was over. How can someone who openly boasts about sexually assaulting women, ever be considered for any public office, let alone the most powerful office in the world? In most countries of the world a scandal of that scale would end a politician's career instantly. But not in the US. Not for him at least. I just can't understand how anyone can separate his character flaws from his policy and think he cares for anyone but himself.
The greatest feat ever: let magic disappear before wonder of understanding.
New macOS vulnerability "HM Surf" could lead to unauthorized data access
I use a Mac with an Android phone.

For texting, I use Google Messages for Web.

For browser tabs and history, Chrome syncs them automatically if you're logged in. You can easily reopen tabs on the other device. Not form data though.

For actual user input (forms, etc.) usually the cloud web apps (Gmail, etc.) save your progress to your account anyway. Coding work is synced by git push and git pull.

Logins and 2fa are all synced by 1Password. Photos and documents and files by Google.

There's not much else I need to share between the two.
No need to build anything, it's not a binary or anything like that. Prosody is just a very plugin-oriented project (plugins are written in Lua). For better or worse, we (the Prosody team) have certain standards for inclusion of community modules in the core codebase, and mod_cloud_notify doesn't quite meet them yet.

On Debian and derived systems, you can just 'apt install prosody-modules', and on other systems you can 'prosodyctl install mod_cloud_notify' or otherwise download it directly: https://modules.prosody.im/mod_cloud_notify (no configuration is necessary apart from adding it to the module list in your config).
Thanks for your interest! Let me address your questions:

Querying the data: Yes, you can easily query the Parquet files with DuckDB. The files are stored in a year/month partitioned structure (e.g., year=2024/month=03/iot_data_20240315_143022.parquet), which makes it efficient to query specific time ranges. I personally use DuckDB for ad-hoc analysis since it works great with Parquet. Here's a quick example:

sqlCopySELECT * FROM read_parquet('s3://my-iot-archive/year=/month=/iot_data_*.parquet')
WHERE timestamp BETWEEN '2023-01-01' AND '2023-12-31'

Real-time data on S3: Currently, the tool is batch-focused. Adding real-time sync would require some architectural changes - either using CDC (Change Data Capture) or implementing a dual-write pattern. I kept it simple for now since most IoT visualization use cases I've seen focus on recent data in Postgres. If you need this feature, I'd be happy to take a look at what you want.

For data processing the tool works like this:

It identifies records older than 90 days (configurable retention period)

Processes these records in batches of 100 (also configurable) to manage memory usage

Creates Parquet files partitioned by year/month in S3

Deletes the archived records from Postgres

The key is that you always have your recent 90 days in Postgres for fast querying, while maintaining older data in a cost-effective S3 storage that you can still query when needed. You can adjust both the retention period and batch size based on your specific needs.

Let me know if you'd like me to clarify anything or if you have other questions!
See also selegiline, which partially metabolizes to levoamphetamine and levomethamphetamine. Not OTC though (antidepressant).
As your Dentist I would recommend Viceroys.
I still want one. Can’t find any.
The UN puts the number of civilians killed in Ukraine since 2022 at just over 10,000 (on both sides). That is 4 times LESS than the number of Palestinian civilians killed by Israelis in just 12 months. But for some reason we are not talking about this anywhere near as much. This is but a small example of hypocrisy that created the monster that is Putin. You might say you blame Putin for popularity of Azov (you actually like them but ran back into the closet), but then you might as well blame the hypocrisy of US and its double standards for popularity of Putin, who is obviously a much bigger problem for you. In the same way the hypocrisy of the elitist Democratic Party in the US created the monster that is the popularity of Trump
This is really well done. I know from making https://ambiph.one that web audio can be really tricky. Lots of fiddly little inconsistencies and gotchas (mainly on iOS, in my experience). So building something that's this customisable, fun to use and runs solidly is a real achievement.

I've got vague plans to add generative music to Ambiphone and I've been using Ableton so far but I think this will be a really useful sketchpad for experimenting with sounds and patterns
@dang, can you add surge.sh to the domains that get the subdomain displayed?
Wayback cache url: http://web.archive.org/web/20241108095721/https://www.juggle...

And the paper Shannon wrote (pdf): https://www.jonglage.net/theorie/notation/siteswap-avancee/r...
By the way Bryan Johnson recently mentioned a novel technique of using ultrasound to de-calcify pineal gland for improving sleep as it gets worse with aging - this sounds really intriguing to me.
Black people are receiving racist text messages about picking cotton
I wonder if civil servants are covering their asses and trying to mass erase stuff before the new administration comes in, maybe?
Surprised to see a reddit like question being asked here on hackernews.

Water, soap, oil, compressed air etc will not work. Ask your friend to gently tap around the edges of the container that is stuck with either a wooden spatula or the back of a wooden ladle. Gentle taps in the direction of getting unstuck all around the edge of the stuck container. May require few minutes of tapping.

Source: This has happened to me many times.
> The doctors rarely tell you to eat your salads. "Here is a pill, thank you for your business".

I'm guessing you are in the US? There is a lot of medical advice here (UK, and Europe more widely) which is essentially “eat better and move around more”. A great many don't listen to that, but it is definitely said.

> When I stop compulsively eating and drinking [and do some] exercise

This is a key issue: not what doctors are prescribing but what people do to self-medicate. The harmful side of self-care when “a bit of what you like does you good” becomes overconsumption and underactivity. It can be even worse for those of us with significant mental issues over the norm (bit of a bipolar pillock myself, got a piece of paper saying so & everything, and like you describe with depression I find the right exercise, while not at all a panacea, helps regulate my mind quite a lot as well as stopping my body falling apart).
> cheeky authors like Marquis de Sade

I think that might be the first time de Sade has ever been described as 'cheeky'. Some of his stuff would horrify 4chan.
I always assumed that voice was one of those fake UI they do in the movies, in the movie "You've got mail".
Hey everyone, if you're looking for a more approachable guide on bitmap compression, I wrote a blog post on it this year: https://pncnmnp.github.io/blogs/roaring-bitmaps.html. It covers run-length encoding, BBC, WAH, Concise, and even Roaring Bitmaps.
> This is your original comment, which as stated is simply incorrect

I apologize if I can't make you understand what I said. But I still believe I said it clearly and it is simply correct.

Anyway, let me try to mansplain it again, "numpy isn't written in Python" - and numpy releases GIL. So as long as a Python code calls into numpy, the thread on which the numpy call runs can go without GIL. The GIL could be taken by another thread to run Python code. I have easily have 100 threads running in numpy without any GIL issue. BUT, they eventually needs to return to Python and retake GIL. Say, for each such thread and for every 1 second there is 0.1 seconds they need to run pure Python code (and must hold GIL). Please tell me how to scale this to >10 threads.

> Now you have concocted this arbitrary example of why you can't use multithreading that has nothing to do with your original comment or my response.

The example is not arbitrary at all. This is exactly the problem people are facing TODAY in ANY DL training written in PyTorch.

I have a Python thread, driving GPUs in an async way, it barely runs any Python code, all good. No problem.

Then, I need to load and preprocess data [1] for the GPUs to consume. I need very high velocity changing this code, so it looks like a stupid script, reads data from storage, and then does some transformation using numpy / again whatever shit I decided to call. Unfortunately, as dealing with the data is largely where magic happens in today's DL, the code spend non-trivial time (say, 10%) in pure Python code manipulating bullshit dicts in between all numpy calls.

Compared to what happens on GPUs this is pretty lightweight, this is not latency sensitive and I just need good enough throughput, there's always enough CPU cores alongside GPUs, so, ideally, I just dial up the concurrency. And then I hit the GIL wall.

> I don't think you understood my comment - or maybe you don't understand Python multithreading. If a C extension is single threaded but releases the GIL, you can use multithreading to parallelize it in Python. e.g. `ThreadPool(processes=100)` will create 100 threads within the current Python process and it will soak all the CPUs you have -- without additional Python processes. I have done this many times with numpy, numba, vector indexes, etc.

I don't think you understood what you did before and you already wasted a lot of CPUs.

I never talked about doing any SINGLE computation. Maybe you are one of those HPC gurus who care and only care about solving single very big problem instances? Otherwise I have no idea why you are even talking about hierarchical parallelization after I already said that a lot of problem is embarrassingly parallel and they are important.

[1] Why don't I simply do it once and store the result? Because that's where actual research is happening and is what a lot of experiments are about. Yeah, not model architectures, not hyper-parameters. Just how you massage your data.
I asked you if they should be allowed to do something like classify gore. If your answer is no, then you are dictating that they can't do something beneficial to their business.
Ironic that the article said:

> A wrong lesson is to take the parable literally and to conclude that C is the right vehicle for AI software. The 50%

Now we use Python to glue C code to train the best AIs of this time.
Probably just disappointed at the wasted bandwidth:

24fps * 52 facial 3D marker * 16bit packed delta planar projected offsets (x,y) = 19.968 kbps

And this is done in Unreal games on a potato graphics card all the time:

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/live-link-face/id1495370836

I am sure calling modern heuristics "AI" gets people excited, but it doesn't seem "Magical" when trivial implementations are functionally equivalent. =3
Although not exactly the same, this is very reminiscent of Spolsky's "Big Macs vs. The Naked Chef" (2001) [0] where he explained:

> What’s the moral of the story? Beware of Methodologies. They are a great way to bring everyone up to a dismal, but passable, level of performance, but at the same time, they are aggravating to more talented people who chafe at the restrictions that are placed on them. It’s pretty obvious to me that a talented chef is not going to be happy making burgers at McDonald’s, precisely because of McDonald’s rules. So why do IT consultants brag so much about their methodologies? (Beats me.)

https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2001/01/18/big-macs-vs-the-na...*
> These sources also pointed to Apple’s new iPad Pro models, which feature OLED screens, as evidence that an OLED screen alone isn’t enough to guarantee more sales. Several analyst forecasts have downgraded new iPad Pro shipments from 10 million units to six or seven million units.

Apple OLED iPad Pro sales shortfall of 30% - 40% cannot be blamed on the unmatched screen.

iPad Pro sales will underperform until Apple restores the virtualization API that was removed from iPadOS 16.

Invest in iPad software instead of niche headsets.

https://forums.developer.apple.com/forums/thread/748130

iPad has a powerful chip, but iPadOS limit the power for it.

https://github.com/utmapp/UTM/discussions/3230

iPads do launch the kernel in EL2, but they don’t enable the hypervisor.
> The uncertainty is crazy, on the one hand I can't imagine that they'll actually want to cause people that much pain, especially with midterms only 2 years away, on the other hand, are they really just going to run a normal boring republican administration?

Right now, the markets seem to largely think that he won't do this. Which, to me, honestly, is a bit weird; no-one ever went bust betting on Trump doing bloody stupid things that he said he'd do. I'd be somewhat surprised if he doesn't at least try.
The most common ways to remove flesh from the skeleton avoiding bone degradation as much as possible are maceration (bacterial, enzymatic), or flesh-decomposing bacteria (edit: and beetles). There's not much left for cremation. Mechanically defleshing the bones would be a bit more destructive, still not leave clean bones, and at the very least would be gruesome for the cleanup crew.
Schneider Electric ransomware crew demands $125k paid in baguettes
"coarsely". They also seen to identify folls that sign contracts without actually reading them.
Presumably.

As far as app logic, it depends on how much you can get the workers to do in their allotted time (which is short, iirc) so yeah, imo you still need heavier resources in a DC.
For me P1S hits the soft spot: it's not terribly expensive, and it just works out of the box, is closed so the temperature is well-controlled (plus a carbon filter to keep the fumes down), you can add AMS easily. With 0.2 nozzle you can basically print figurines with almost resin quality.
No BS Coroutines in C89 (No asm, no setjmp, no platform/OS code and no other bs)
Oh so that's why the Brits all have this crazy setup with separate cold and hot taps! I was always wondering why - I'm from a country where you can mix water easily.
The Arab expansion was ~1400 years ago, not ~2100 years ago.
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> .I am talking about the dude stuff, dudes are feeling aimless and unimportant because all the dude stuff is being produced elsewhere

I mean, in that case consider investigating in state-funded psychotherapy or something? Like, an LCD factory isn't going to make a difference to anyone's psychological state (and, tbh, wouldn't provide many jobs; it's not particularly labour-intensive).
I think the point here is to make it photorealistic which everything apart from AI still fails at superhard.
Show HN: Real-time GPT-4o photo/video/voice chat
Assuming you've pressed the yellow Start button (on the TR-808; it looks different on other sequencers), check if you're on silent mode. Some web audio is muted in silent mode on iOS
Built a small demo that shows how real-time video/photo/voice chat with GPT-4 vision capabilities could work.

While waiting for OpenAI to release similar functionalities in the app, i wanted to explore what's possible with the current APIs.

During several tests i became really bullish on this technology's potential for blind users. Great times ahead for them!

Demo video: https://youtu.be/Bh5tORytR90
Blame JS all you want but the problem of sustainability is, sadly, not a technical one. Write it in Python or C if what you're doing is endlessly pushing video memes or SEO-optimized "content", that's still wasted energy.

A nuclear and solar grid powered 3 tons vehicle isn't much more sustainable than an ICE one if it's still carrying 1.1 human on average.
Elon weirdly looks more human than usual in the AI version!
A "set" probably refers to 5 or more repetitions per set, so 3 sets are 3*5+ repetitions of squats. A "full" squat probably means to go so low that your butt goes below your knees.
I miss the funny bouncer and eggdrop hostnames from the early IRC days.
The authors define vacuum as absence of air. AFAIK in physics today there are several other definitions of vacuum.
breaking up crystalline structures by force usually severely damages the tissue. but interesting it is.
Saying a the language adds 10-20 mb and go on to say it's almost nothing is avoiding the issue raised.
The footprint always matters and we should use the right tool for the right job.
Has Cabal been fixed yet?
What does IRC Today do that IRCCloud (https://www.irccloud.com) can't?
I’m sure there are a thousand ways that the US could become a dictatorship by technically legal means. I’m not sure why Gödel was so concerned about this one method. After all, all governments are made of people and accountable to people - if the people are fine enough with a dictatorship then it could come into existence regardless of legality, and if they hate the idea then they won’t let it happen even if the method is technically legal.
>This was an election on the US economy.

I wish we could have elected a different economy then :)

The same old fumbling is definitely now extending beyond the horizon for at least a few more years to come.

Nothing that's not familiar, it's going nowhere until there is some financially advanced leadership to fully displace the old tired failure regime that's been seen before. It should be easy for anyone to see when decision-making actions are the complete opposite of advanced.

What's the opposite of advanced anyway?

I thought so ;)
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Oh yes, I agree that there are technical decisions are fuzzy. I'm happy to concede that; just dashed it off too quickly.
> Claiming a country is a dictatorship or not has absolutely nothing to do with it being a dictatorship or not

I don’t understand where you are going with this. Words have meanings and accusations have weight. When enough people claim that thing quacking, and swimming over there is a duck, it does weigh in on the consensus that it is indeed a duck. Especially when duck experts start pretty much all agreeing that it is indeed a duck.

Now this hasn’t happened, but what Trump has described and promised is pretty much a dictatorship. What I’m doing here is predicting that if and when the USA conduct dictatorial behavior on a regular basis, including stripping away equal rights, we should all be prepared for denialism to proliferate.
> The halting problem is thus decidable for non-infinite systems.

That's only true in the most boring way possible, i.e. because every system must eventually halt in a universe where the laws of thermodynamics hold.

If you replace "halts" with "halts in a reasonable amount of time" (for whatever value you consider reasonable), you'll find that the same diagonalisation argument shows that no algorithm can decide in a reasonable amount of time whether some arbitrary program halts in a reasonable amount of time.