skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The process thing is irrelevant if you're using a decent database library with connection pooling. Mysql also performs/scales better when keeping connection count proportional to the hardware. I'm personally not a fan of golang (scala has similar performance while being much easier to maintain IMO), but at least pooling is normal/relatively transparent there.

As with using many connections, a UUIDv4 PK is a case of "don't do that".
Would be great to tape the whole picture inside the passport. I’m sure the passport officials could use a good chuckle. … or you’ll go to jail.
> people _should_ understand that a president getting shot at live on television is not a hoax.

I am not seeing how this tangent is connected to the rest of the conversation. Can you please explain why you thought it related to discussions regarding interviews of random individuals on the street?

> Do you really think farming plebs for political gain on social media is going to break for democrats? Really? That feels a bit out of touch to me.

Are you saying I'm farming plebs for political gain on social media for the democrats? That's weird. I've no association to any political party nor do I care for their political gain. I think political parties are unfortunate and strongly prefer ranked choice voting explicitly to weaken their grip. That said, I do analysis for policy and strategy, so perhaps I should have been more explicit in my recommendation that actual outcomes-focused policy is better for people than vibes-focused word salads (which Trump often espouses as well as most Republicans and Democrats as they attempt to make soundbites) regardless of political affiliation. Please forgive my clear lack of clarity.
I don't think the OP was referring to servants, but the relatively common practice of letting your friends garden on your property in return for a share of the output.
So, WWE more than war-like fighting
Is this an LLM response?

Yes. It shows how easily an LLM can misinterpret subtlety and ambiguity in human language.
States used to have per-axle weight taxes for trucks for this very reason. It was part of how this country paid for the interstates in the first place. You can still pass many of the old weight stations on the interstates. It's still a surprise more states aren't turning the lights back on them and/or building new ones.

I feel like the same could be applied to EV registration taxes attempting to make up for gas taxes: I think they should be charged on a scale by per-axle vehicle weight. It might help incentivize smaller cars again.
In terms of generative AI, for general use cases, Open AI reported having 11 million paid subscribers last quarter. People clearing paying for Adobe Firefly and Midjourney access. That's already a ton more people finding it useful in day to day life than Crypto ever had.

It is certainly reasonable to suspect that the scale of investments (in trillions of dollars) don't match the scale of the opportunity. But it's a bit silly to pretend that no one is getting any value out of this.

At the end of the day, data centers are 2% of energy use, according to the IEA. That's trending up, but even in couple of years, data center stuff is mostly going to be typical cloud stuff, then crypto, and then a fraction for AI.
My premise was more that success is in the eye of the beholder.

For example, if the transformed government were to fail to reasonably protect the Great Lakes from contamination with industrial byproducts, I would consider the transformation a failure and a bad outcome.
The article doesn't mention US citizens specifically, just US adults. But yes, the context and link make it clear it wasn't talking about South America, but even if it were, there's a table in the article that has a list of countries literacy rates. A cursory glance shows Mexico, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador as having higher literacy rates than the US.

I don't know how accurate these stats are, but it's interesting nonetheless.
A quantum internet is absolutely necessary for creating a useful quantum computer, the same way the internet (LAN) is needed to create a supercomputer. A supercomputer is essentially many computers connected together. A quantum computer that solves problems we care about will be similar: https://arxiv.org/abs/2212.10609.
I haven't given the article the dedicated read that I intend to yet but my impression is that he does not expect to address all 133 items and it does not matter.

As someone who has compulsively accumulated lengthy to-do lists and buckled beneath the phantom of hopes and intentions of varying importance and ambition I find it enlightening that the possibility of completing a task other than those that are important enough to not have to write down to begin with can be measured by their meaningfulness and address according to this measure.

I gather that the .0050% of information that I consume daily is what is of the greatest priority and the remaining 99.995% is synthesized and iterated over the next day until it reemerges as something important. I suspect that Wiegley completes on average about 5 important things each day. This sounds like a solid baseline.
A hundred years ago on irc someone from Russia was describing their internet connection, which was ethernet, while I had only ever heard of dial up outside of large companies.

It was just people had set up their own hubs and switches in their appartment buildings and strung cables between buildings.

This blew my mind. They just ran themselves ethernet and everyone got a drop from a switch in their building.

It wasn't clear how it got from a neighborgood level upstream.

But just the idea that they could all just decide to give themselves internet, and ethernet no less, string ethernet outside the walls of their own appartments to other appartments, and outside the building from one building to another? Unimaginable in the US. I was boggled and jealous.
Dumb terminals, like the 60's.
Deep Atomic launches data center specific SMR
>A scrappy startup can copy the vast majority of chatgpt features with another foundation model.

Software is expensive to build, adoption is more expensive. If you ever try to convince someone to migrate in a B2B setting - you'll learn that its not enough to be cheaper, or better - you need to either be 10x cheaper or provide a next level experience that makes the existing product seem like a liability.

If you could copy ChatGPT's functionality (getting more expensive by the day), and offer it for $2/month - then folks might migrate. Otherwise the switching cost is too high for most.
It’s disappointing that this isn’t just a system wide functionality for text boxes like it is on macOS, and that it requires signing in at all.

Having it be just inside notepad or specific apps means you also need to train people to change their workflows or context switch to use it.
I think I am much happier to redo my personal scripts to stay at bleeding edge than to rewrite old code at work to stay in supported versions. For corporations wanton breaking changes means code that is working and has some non-zero risk to change has to have budget spent on it just to stay in place.

Just this week I failed to convince a team to migrate their ten year old maintenance mode demon to Python 3.
Soon there won't be any safe place on Windows to copy and paste some random text/password/key that I don't want to get uploaded to some cloud service, or screenshotted and "analysed".
this is the one that I ended up watching a few days ago after the one above came into my feed : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wmat8xK9raM
Why Amazon, Disney, and others are pushing employees back to the office
Democratic persuasion techniques like this are also part of the problem...

People buy shirts that say “I’d rather be Russian than a liberal.” The demonization of the opposing ideology goes both ways. Everything you wrote applies to conservatives as well.

Trump lusts after his own daughter and if that alone doesn’t qualify him as a shitty person to his supporters then they clearly value ideology over the truth and morality.
Opus is today in every smartphone. MP3's died. No one cares about AAC.

You are using Opus on most VoIP/call providers.

Meanwhile, AAC, MP3, OGG... are history today.
Genuinely agree! Can't my computer just refrain from sending everything I do to the Internet??
If you enjoy growing your own food, go ahead and have fun.

If you think it can replace industrial farming, we need to have a serious talk.

Growing your own food is also called "subsistence farming". It's how many of the poorest of the poor survive. It's back breaking work to get just enough to survive, and in bad years you get to watch your kids starve to death.

One of the greatest and least appreciated miracles of the modern age is industrial farming, which produces huge amounts of food in small areas. Without it most of us 8 billion humans would die quickly.
>not by much

You are deluded, then. Or deaf. Most MP3 podcasts at 128 KBPS sound worse than an OPUS file @64.
>How do you want to enforce it? Everyone who grew up as Internet started knows that everyone is over 18 on the Internet. Or did you, as a kid, ever put your real birth date on a form asking for it for purposes of age-walling you?

Easy

1 make it illegal for children to buy smarthpones, tablets.

2 make the OS vendors to add a parent mode/child control API, when the phone starts first time the parent enters the details

3 inform the buyer that if he is a parent he is responsible for the child not the government, the parent must set the correct birthdate on the device and set the device in child mode , they can decide to trust the child but then the government is not responsible.

4 the browssers on this locked devices will report to the websites if the user is adult or not, they will not report he brithdate just a true /false

5 if a website fails to read the age from the browser and still offers oillegal content to a browser that is marked as minor then the website is repossible and it is fined.

At no point the child is asked to enter his age so there is not similar to current place where you click I am over 18.

If you have children you might have made an account for them to use a smartphone, Did you lied bout their birthdate ? Did you gave them the new phone in a box and let them set it up because you were to busy ?
And this is his sofa, is it?
Maybe the author is more comfortable with Python than the alternatives.
In my experience, urban parks do a much better job of this than backyards do. Urban density means more neighbors, and parks with other kids are much more appealing than backyards without.
> How could I persuade them to use this platform as well?

Without funds to pay them directly, you'll most likely need to offer them equity or some sort of commission/affiliate model.
Multiscale Geometry in Protein Flexibility
I don't understand that, at some point don't you just forfeit what you haven't done in a month or two and get back onto a manageable list? I mean keeping track of everything is a philosophy, but to the point where the vast majority of your system is just noise, what's the point?
Oh! Yes, “Communities getting together and making their own broadband” does sound like a decentralized approach and I agree that it's worth doing and certainly shouldn't be outlawed. I didn't see allergic reactions to that - but maybe I didn't look enough yet.

This sub-thread seems to be about using StarLink, which I don't see as any sort of "decentralized" given it is literally global and in effect controlled by one billionaire so hence my question.
I forgot to add "Charismatic". Heh.
Oh absolutely. Most launch providers have wild algorithms that allow you to simulate every possible launch option. From the wind on earth at launch, to predicted solar activity, and of course planetary location, etc. All of this gives the ability to get the most efficient path to the target, and select other options based on the trade offs provided.

Fun side fact, solar flares and solar wind have to be taken into account during satellite orbit calculations. During one of the large flares earlier this year, the solar pressure pushed many satellites at least a few km off their orbits. Sats facing the sun lost altitude from the increased drag pressure
Nutrition: The Emporer has no clothes
> Apple warns investors future products may never be as profitable as iPhone

https://www.ft.com/content/e30eb646-a7ad-496e-8fa4-ff1b4445e...

https://archive.is/RamqY

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42053841
Soon it is not safe to boot Windows unless you are prepared to exterminate all the used hardware.
While that might be true and the industry has evolved and learned about "better" ways, the old systems still exist. I don't see any reason to complain about it.

Yes, we can do better. Yes, we probably should do better. But in some cases you really have to think through every edge case and in the end someone has to do it. So just be grateful for what we have.
Refusal to do a flag day to implement ACK ultimately resulted in board dissolution, shitty unreliable protocol with zombie presences and lost messages.

Eventually, the community just walked away, to IM systems that actually work somewhat reliably.

This is how XMPP fell into irrelevance.
Blame HN users for upvoting the story, not this chrome page...
Ha! Slightly more complex than that ;-)

https://gist.github.com/erinok/4399bbb1ea535deac051781eb9177...
how do you get certified to be a passport photographer?
My company would pay for 2.8. And a lot of internal teams that used Python 2 now use go for that. Not ML but devops/infra orchestration.

Python 3 made no sense from a cost/risk perspective for teams with a lot working and mostly finished Python 2 code.
This is philosophically intriguing.
To support a business (as employees or patrons), there needs to be a certain amount of people visiting. This number doesn’t evenly fit into a 1mi radius if everyone is on a 0.25-acre lot. So the radius expands, which means you can no longer walk; but public transit follows similar rules to businesses, there needs to be a certain ridership to make it make sense, which means we’re now primarily using personal transportation. Which is fine, bikes are fine, but we both know it’s going to be cars. Which means parking at both ends, inflating the distances further… so it’s a 15-minute-drive instead of a 5-minute walk to the nearest grocery store because the density just is not there.

You can’t make something that’s far away from other people and yet close to the things that need people to continue existing.
Just remembered that Good Time does this as well, and it's heartbreaking.
Hacking companies around the world with $10
> This is why everyone hates economists. They have zero insight into how lives are for ordinary people. I applied for a job at grocery stores and fast food restaurants. I did not get ONE call back from any of these places.

I understand your frustration with your personal situation, but at least regarding unemployment, how else would you propose we measure it? Unless there's some flaw with the methodology or the data that was collected, your situation is very clearly not the norm. Until we identify any possible problems with the measuring process, the number that's released is the best view we have of the employment situation nationwide. Are you saying that "ordinary people" are somehow excluded from the data? Or what?

> Also another thing -- they keep saying rate of inflation is now under control. Well guess what, the prices went up and have not come down. Wages did not keep pace with the high rate of inflation so unless you can have negative inflation somehow, there is still constant pain every day, every month. I mean it is so obvious and yet economists chase spherical cows...

The rate of inflation is under control, and I realize you might know better and are just speaking for "the average person," but comments like this reflect a gross misunderstanding of the concept of inflation. This is a perfect reason why education is so important to an informed and effective electorate.

BTW, you can, in fact, have negative inflation, and it is widely considered to be bad, for a multitude of reasons. [0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deflation
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I suspect that the primary challenge social networks face going forward is adversarial AIs. This can take the form of spam bots: astroturfing, trolling, abuse. And of AI spies: bots that programmatically analyze and extract information from users.

I don't know what the next big social network will look like but I think the one key thing you need to solve for is authenticity.
What's at Stake with the Fed, Now That Trump Has Won?
eBPF

I think the question becomes: how do you all creation of safe kernel code when that code becomes more functional. historically, BPF was just performing some filtering (near reception -> efficient). eBPF originally added more metrics and aggregation. But it's also been extended to change, drop, direct packets, and hook into all sorts of parts of the kernel. All based on the premise of compiling to safe code (which mainly means that you prove it does only what you intend).

So the Synthesis question is really: suppose a kernel only comes with eBPF, and you synthesize all the other interfaces you need?

I think this leads to some metaphysical navel-gazing - what is an kernel+OS, really? Practically, it's about providing stable interfaces (both upwards to user-space and downwards to hardware) so you can run things. Philosophically it's really just resource management, isolation.
I can't watch every one of these interviews
I actually replied to someone else, not you. I'm not aware of any point you have because I haven't read anything you've posted. Given your attitude here, it seems like that's for the best. Perhaps you meant to reply to someone else, too?
> One of the biggest takeaways from this election is that the populace largely doesn't trust the media.

"Among all U.S. adults, 43% say they trust Fox News for political and election news"

https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2020/04/08/five-fact...
> Prove That Ghosts Were Simply an Illusion

This is false. The only thing it proves is that ghosts CAN BE an illusion. Failure to recognize the difference between the two is why such books haven't stopped people believing in ghosts.
1) Preliminary election-night results (provided by ballot-counting software) will change drastically as new ballots arrive, and it is harder for voters to understand margins. For example, a 2022 miscount in California for a board of education position (noticed weeks after the election) should have elected the candidate who had previously gotten 3rd place.

https://abc7news.com/amp/ranked-choice-voting-oakland-school...

2) You're saying that a series of graphs is only harder to understand than a single graph due to lack of "familiarity?" This seems disingenuous. With single-graph results, you can show geographical heat maps of voting behavior which is paints a vivid picture of the vote. Heat maps for RCV are misleading and/or require additional context (this shows 1st choices).

3) Hand-counted ballots are a must in my opinion (for audit-ability). And hand counts of RCV are time-consuming so are typically only done once. I guess runaway elections can be called early with RCV, but my point is that it will happen far less often and most election results will be significantly delayed (waiting for all mail-in ballots to start a hand count)

4) I admit I didn't read this paper nor understand it at a cursory glance, but I know this was a drum that approval voting experts beat a while back. Maybe these strategies are new, or have downsides I'm unaware of.

Why do you see proportional representation as the most important thing to aim for? This is the only argument for RCV over approval that holds water, but my mental model for the need for proportional representation is of politics being a 0-sum game where everyone needs to vie for themselves (which I disagree with).
There are Japanese diplomats with nearly flawless English skills though…
Hi, German here as well - there are plenty of political news for us to sit through these days...

I personally don't feel compelled to move away from my Apple devices as of yet, but this'll certainly influence my future purchasing decisions.

Why? - With politicians like Trump you'll always have to draw the line between campaign talk and real politics - When actions start or the relationship between the EU and US starts to deteriorate it makes more sense to jump ship.

From a bureaucratic standpoint I hope that the EU takes this as a wake up call to finally deregulate - to allow more innovation and trade with other parts of the world if it comes down to it.
Yeah, most of the problem: we shape our opinions on how we feel and our environment.

My family for example is certain that crime is going up (or is at an all time high) because Home Depot is locking up more and more of its merchandise.
+1 for the 010 editor. It comes with a number of pre-built binary templates, I use the sqlite one all the time. A recent upgrade got syntax coding by the tree-sitter environment, which is a great upgrade. Highly recommended.https://www.sweetscape.com/010editor/
I do this as well! There is a link that android users can use to view, not sure about upload. My feature wish is that you could associate a shared album with a group message and then it's all I'd ever need. Also not sure you've run into this, but we recently hit the 5K pic shared album limit and had to create a new album.
ah man, this so much. I've had the honor to work with very good freelancers and couldn't imagine they would've stayed as long as they did if I wouldn't have firewalled them off. I hope someone will do the same to me when I venture into the freelance world.

B/c internal politics is where it constantly breaks for me. I can only play along for so long.
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> and b) access to source code isn't really that valuable

This is a very important lesson.

Once you learn that The Moat is more about the customers & trust, you stop worrying so much about every last possible security vector into your text files.

Treating a repository like a SCIF will put a lot of friction on getting things done. If you simply refrain from placing production keys/certs/secrets in your source code, nothing bad will likely occur with a broad access policy.

The chances that your business has source code with any intrinsic market value is close to zero. That is how much money you should spend on defending it.
With Putin at their door for so many years, attacking Georgia, Ukraine, bullying other countries, etc., it's absolutely amazing how nonchalant EU was about it.

> Be careful what you wish for.

A strong EU that Putin will think twice before starting anything at their doorstep is my wish. Let's see if they can make it happen!
> it's not possible to legally exist as a single person household

Why is that the goal? When I was in my late teens / early 20s back in the 90s making low 30s, I did what everyone else my age did: got a roommate.

It's not great most of the time.

It was, however, very motivating for me to improve myself so that I could afford to get my own place.
I just assumed this was already happening despite what they publicly said.
It's Microsoft's computer, not yours.
I think the big issue with XMPP are the clients. Element is so much better that it's hard not to recommend Matrix to people despite its bloat and metadata leakage problems.

JMP/Snikket for tying a normal phone number to your XMPP @ are really convenient, but the clients remain a problem. Plus, SIP dialers are not supported on IOS afaik.

I am really surprised there isn't a venture backed company pushing XMPP forward. Maybe people have tried and realized it's not viable.
No. There are three types of cone cells (S, M, and L) that are most responsive to various wavelengths of light, but as the picture shows, most "colors" are within the high and low ranges of more than one type of cone.

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