skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not sure why you're being defensive.

In my experience, people who are less price sensitive tend to not think about inconsequential sums. So it was surprising to me to read that someone who has made over $10,000,000 would care about whether or not Calendly would charge for no-shows.

Just curious about the thought process. That's all.
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A MUST when building big data sets is to do your inserts BEFORE you create your indexes. It’s much more efficient to do indexing work all at once at the end rather than updating the index tables for each row during each insert.

If you’re using a language with threads, you can often get some additional speed-up by writing to multiple databases concurrently, and then merging the tables at the end of your insert process by ATTACHing them to your main DB and doing INSERT INTO main.… SELECT * FROM shardN.…

The reason for this is to parallelize the serialization process - turning an object/struct in $LANG into bytes in SQLite format. If your data fits in memory this is almost always worth, if you need to write your shards to disk it depends and you should benchmark it - you’ll have a bad time if you shard too much and saturate your disk I/O budget.

If you’re using a language that gives you real pointers to your data like Go/Rust/C, make sure you’re using non-copying options when binding string or blob arguments - as “transient”. SQLite only needs to borrow the bytes until the end of the sqlite3_step(). Avoiding this extra memcopy is FREE performance. Unfortunately many bindings for SQLite only expose the memcopy forms; getting a pathway that avoids this copy often means forking bindings, at least I had to do so with the go bindings.

Combining these techniques I can do about 6x faster in CSV -> SQLite in Go compared to the upstream sqlite3 C CLI.
No, the point is it lasted as long as it did, which is quite a while.
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In my experience as a tenant, landlords don't tend to follow rental law too closely. I understand the incentives and how difficult tenants can be, and I don't envy their position (I've been on the other side too, helping manage an apartment complex). But most tenants don't push back hard enough for landlords to follow the letter.
> It doesn't exist above society.

Yes, it does. Or at least that's the line of reasoning you seem to be disagreeing with.

> We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.

The entire line of enlightenment liberal thought that gave rise to our society fundamentally disagrees with your position. The right to liberty is not bestowed by the good graces of society, but is fundamental and unalienable.

> That's just the breaks.

This isn't a justification, it's a rationalization, and not a particularly good one. I am arguing that liberty, ie. the right to interact with other people on a consensual basis, ought to be the primary determining factor as to whether any particular action is legitimate. You have not replied with an argument on why this ought not to be.

> It isn't and can't be.

Yes, it can. Or at least, it can be more consensual. I hold that charity is a more ethical means of wealth redistribution than taxation, exactly because of charity's voluntary nature. I also hold that before the New Deal, the status quo was much more liberal. Government was a small entity mostly charged with administering the vital institutions that maintained the liberal order. There were of course still overreaches and failures, as with any human system. Do you really think that tearing down much of the New Deal can't be? I think it can, whether it will remains to be seen.

> You'll find a lot of terrible things have justifications that overlap with non-terrible things.

Then the justifications are wrong. The ends do not justify the means. Legitimate action should be possible to justify from first-principles in a manner that precludes illegitimate action. Otherwise how could we possibly come to an agreement on a distinction between the two? I would also note that the ideas I'm articulating do exactly that: provide a concrete, universalizable framework to distinguish the legitimate from the illegitimate.
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I do not have anything to add to this beyond pointing out that it is an incredibly ironic first post for someone who loudly states how much they love capitalism on their about page
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If you use some photography specific words, like f stop and exposure settings, and imitate the language photographers use on their sites to describe their photos, you're more likely to get plausible looking photos.
Intel shifts anyway mask out higher bits of CL, this hurts sometimes e.g. when you need to shift by 1..64 bits
Frankly, this is partially a lack of research.

1. Don't like Gatekeeper? Run `sudo spctl --master-disable`. Afterwards, go to System Settings, Privacy & Security, and you'll have the option to allow applications from "Anywhere." You can now run unsigned code whenever you want. No notarization required. No disabling SIP required. Although, if you don't like SIP, `sudo csrutil disable` from Recovery Mode will do the trick. Don't like needing to "bless" your boot image to ensure a lack of tampering? `sudo authenticated-root disable` from recovery mode, and we're mostly back to the older days of macOS. Don't like code signing anywhere, even for system services? nvram boot-args="amfi_get_out_of_my_way=0x1" from recovery mode is all it takes.

I would never use a broken signed system volume on a work machine. However, good news, macOS lets you have completely isolated secure boot practices for each volume. As a result, you could have a fully-secure stock macOS with Apple Pay and all the features; and a macOS with no SSV, apps from Anywhere, and a homebuilt XNU kernel side-by-side without any loss in functionality.

2. "useless BS, parlor tricks, and gizmos" is equally applicable to Windows; and frankly many Linux distributions at this point. Only KDE was shameless enough to ship a rubber ball for my desktop (https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2017/03/kde-bouncing-ball-plasma...). I actually do appreciate some of macOS's "parlor tricks" and use them regularly (such as "desk view" with my iPhone), so YMMV.

3. Don't like the in-box apps? Put them all in a folder, disable notifications, never think about them again. At least they won't nag you to turn them back on, like Windows begging you for a Game Pass trial. Or, if you're really hardcore, disable SIP, mount the root disk, delete them all, "bless" your disk image (unless you killed authenticated root), and reboot.

https://www.reddit.com/r/MacOS/comments/zhl71h/a_very_silly_...

https://gist.github.com/macshome/15f995a4e849acd75caf14f2e50...
> The white supremacy stuff is just trash though. That's not "tribes", it's unacceptable.

Are you really branding Elon Musk a "white supremacist?" Based on what? Some ill-advised retweet of a crank on Twitter?
I assume this data is still in OpenStreetMap and imagery remains available via PlanetLabs and similar commercial remote sensing companies?
It is still a lie.

I think the limit in Portugal for cash transactions is around €3k. You can buy a pretty great laptop with that
It's really unintuitive!

A lot of photo sync apps also have to use this workaround to be able to sync your photos in the background, it's been a long-standing issue with Apple's platform.

And App Store rules means they have to justify the location permissions so they add a totally unrelated "make a log of your location throughout the day!" feature in the app just to get App Review to approve it, even though everyone knows that's not actually why they need it.
I once saw an article about apartments that NYC libraries used to have in the library for caretakers. My skipped a beat and I realized I'd never wanted anything more in the world than to just be able to 'pop down to the stacks' at 10pm to select my next read.

What amazes me is that between audible, kindle, libby, and a few other places, we live in a world where books are that available from the comfort of a cozy recliner. Truly the greatest wonder of the modern age.
Arguably COBOL has it with its data division, as does Ada.
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Yes, excellent point! I originally omitted this detail for simplicity, but on reflection I don't think it actually achieved much in the way of simplifying the rule so I changed it to reflect reality. Thanks for pointing that out.

EDIT: the rush of people offering up sieve optimizations is pushing me back towards formulating the rule of thumb on a consecutive block of numbers, since it makes it very clear that these are not included, rather than implicitly or explicitly including some subset of them (implicit is bad because opacity, explicit is bad because complexity).
No - I’m specifically saying they cannot do that.

Like I said - their internet service cannot block or slow down any site or app.

If they want to create their own streaming service and give you fast access to it, they can - but they cannot slow down anything else.

That’s why my rule works.
I think people working for DOGE are unpaid so far, don't they?
The author isn't advocating for creationism from my read. They're using the story as a metaphor for humanity's role in understanding and categorizing new phenomena. It's a literary device, not a theological statement. The fact that labels can blind us to deeper details is actually quite good, and I would say not necessarily in conflict with the article's point.... doesn't this aligns with the article's argument about how different frameworks can either reveal or obscure different aspects of realitis?
Good perspective. No-GIL should make things better (shared memory parallelism), but it's not bulletproof.
An alternative approach we're working on is Daytona (https://github.com/daytonaio/daytona) - it orchestrates dev environments on your infrastructure or even on your local machine. Oh, and it is Apache 2.0. The interesting bit is how it handles any IDE integration and various providers for running your dev envs on.

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That didn’t just happen in the Amazon. The Pacific Northwest had something like that. My understanding is that the Eastern American forests were curated like that too, before it was cut down.

I have heard of an oasis in North Africa that was curated this way, and it still survived despite being abandoned by humans.

The modern version of this is called a perennial food forest.
It is better if they don't fly a freak flag and rather try to "pass" the Turing Test or better yet be part of a "cyborg". Also if it has a mission (business value), see https://www.ghostchatters.com/

In that case the chatter could not get the interest of the customer on their own, but the performer can also not do enough chatting to scale their business to the extent that it could. It might be evil but it pays for itself and so far customers seem to like it.
> Peter the Great waged the Great Northern War for 21 years. On the face of it, he was at war with Sweden taking something away from it… He was not taking away anything, he was returning. This is how it was. The areas around Lake Ladoga, where St Petersburg was founded. When he founded the new capital, none of the European countries recognised this territory as part of Russia; everyone recognised it as part of Sweden. However, from time immemorial, the Slavs lived there along with the Finno-Ugric peoples, and this territory was under Russia’s control. The same is true of the western direction, Narva and his first campaigns. Why would he go there? He was returning and reinforcing, that is what he was doing.

> Clearly, it fell to our lot to return and reinforce as well. And if we operate on the premise that these basic values constitute the basis of our existence, we will certainly succeed in achieving our goals.

Returning and reinforcing means restoring the USSR or Russian Empire's territory to Russia.
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Because you cite is about:

> in-context learning

LLMs have no concept of the symantic meaning of what they do, they just are dealing with next token prediction.

"in-context learning" is the problem, not the solution to general programming tasks.

Memoryless, ergodic, sub Turing complete problems are a very tiny class.

Think about how the Entscheidungsproblem relates to halting or the frame problem and the specification problem may be a path.

But that paper isn't solving the problem at hand.
> I didn’t feel like I could work on them with her. So I broke things off after almost 2 years of unconditional love.

So really there were conditions as well as no commitment. The hidden condition was "If I don't feel like I can work on myself I will break it off". This is why I don't take people seriously who refuse to enter into a marriage covenant that actually means unconditional love regardless of sickness or health.
This post deserves more attention, I think. It's occurred to me as well.

Over the holidays, my father gave my children a book that he had written. It was a photo essay that was 50 pages, and it was titled 'Sharks'. It's an unpublished labor of love that he spent about 500 hours on.

It's a true story centered on Captain Frank Mundus, who operated the Cricket II. He was a renowned shark fisherman and would take people out to fish for enormous sharks. He did this for 40 or 50 years.

An author by the name of Peter Benchley wrote a novel that was heavily inspired by many of Frank's traits, his mannerisms, his approach to shark fishing, the kind of boat he had, the kind of charters he ran. The novel was titled 'Jaws' and received little attention when it was first released. A while after, a director by the name of Steven Spielberg took notice of it and turned it into a multi-million dollar blockbuster movie.

My father was a lawyer that Frank Mundus consulted with and asked, is there any way that he could get a payout for being the inspiration for this character?

My family read the book over the holidays, and it was clearly my father's position that Steven Spielberg and Peter Benchley were maybe the sharks that the title of the book was talking about. The idea that they could make $100 million based on the work and life of this captain and give him literally nothing in return, not even attribution, seemed wrong to him.

I was the lone detractor in the room. My take is that Captain Frank Mundus was just living his life. He was doing what he did to make money chartering fishing trips for sharks. He would have done this regardless of whether or not a writer had come along or a movie had come along. What Peter Benchley and Steven Spielberg did is they found value in his work that he didn't know existed and that he wasn't capable of extracting. I think this is generally true of artists. They wander the world and they create art that gives the viewer a new insight into the experiences the artist had. If artists had to give money back to every real-life inspiration, I think the whole system wouldn't work.

I see parallels with the current attitudes toward AI. I think writers are a lot like Captain Mundus. They're living their life, they're writing their stories, or doing their research and publishing, and having people read their works. And copyright is helping them do all this.

AI companies have come along and found value in their work that they didn't know existed and they were never capable of extracting. And that's OK: that's what innovation is, taking the work that others have done and building on it to create something new.

I'm not unequivocally in favor of all applications of AI, but I do think there are tons of places that can be super helpful and we should allow it to be helpful. One example: I'm drafting this on my phone using Futo keyboard entirely with my voice. Extremely useful, but no doubt trained on copyrighted content.
This exactly my thinking.

I'm still wearing a mask when I have a cold though, especially in public transportation.
I subscribe to that too!

If your enjoy your time that's more than enough to continue doing what you do :D
Do you really want to do it? As the op said you are unlikely to make any meaningful amount from it. What is your motivation?
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Weird, every time I try, I just get "A suffusion of yellow"
Maybe the ICO could talk to the competition regulators who said no to Privacy Sandbox.
Half a gig of RAM would sure be great for ninja builds.
I read that as "unconditional love [from her]."
It could at least be housed in a Spectrum 2 housing. Or, better, a QL one.
A lot of people consider Elon to be highly compassionate (in the balanced sense of taking into consideration second-order effects) and educated (in the non-credentialled sense of being informed).

So comments like your are little more than flamebait.
Good stuff, I like how individual tokens have colours in the tree view. it seems like a visual syntax tree.
Once again someone lucky enough to reach 90 taking credit for it. Do these people not understand statistics?
NASA set it up for education purpose. This is the official paper about this project: https://ntrs.nasa.gov/citations/20130013825
If anyone is interested in hearing from some of the members of the Stargate program (mainly remote viewers) themselves, the Shawn Ryan Show podcast has several of them.

The interviews are fairly well done in my opinion.
Yeah it's really sad. There's only a few slivers left.

One time we found an amazing spot with a little cove, only to return and find it logged a few years later. It was so sad.

Ireland should be as vigilant as new zealand in protecting its natural heritage. Especially considering how little there is left.
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Ask HN: When did we decide that off-black backgrounds were cool?
It seems like the number of themes with a truly black background are extremely rare. I like the contrast of a true black background, but most "dark" themes seem to have a grey or slightly blue tinted background.

I'm really curious, how did we, collectively, seem to decide that a dark theme should have a off-black background? Why do people like it over a true black background?
Could generalise it to 'data is the basic tool of software design', then the article would have to muddle shape, structure and type into a single type concept.
I wonder if "build it and they will come" is just flat out wrong, or only correct for certain products? Is there anything one can "just build" now and expect some market adoption?
The Joy of Under-Engineering
See also: you wouldn’t download a pizza.
> How would you have liked to have received information about this feature?

This is not a difficult question. Obviously, from an Apple announcement directed to all Apple users, for example in a keynote event, a press release, or an in-app announcement of the new feature, giving the user an explicit option.

> no one probably read the legal notice for Photos & privacy

I did read the legal notice, which is how I became concerned in the first place, but the notice was at the bottom of the Photos Settings, alongside the toggle to turn off Enhanced Visual Search, neither of which I discovered except by chance last week.
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This has been part of LLM usage since day 1, and I say that as an ardent fan of the tech. Let's not forget how much ink has been spilled over that fact that "think through this step by step" measurably improved/improves performance.
It's so humbling to read how complex such calculations can get. I took a crack at making a JS client side zooming app a while back and it was miserably slow and would run out of memory as the number precision was limited by JS's max float size...

Here it is nonetheless if anyone's curious :

App : https://yzdbg.github.io/mandelbrotExplorer/

Repo : https://github.com/yzdbg/mandelbrotExplorer
You forgot:

> So I broke things off after almost 2 years of unconditional love.
The low adoption rate is another big plus of the Gemini protocol and similar solutions for a Javascript-free and open internet.
You made me think of an interesting aspect of Meta’s plans.

If Meta allows their own bots but blocks 3rd party bots, could that be an antitrust concern?

IANAL, so I’m just asking a question here.
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That study is from CIS. CIS' founder was

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

then you should look up "Jared Taylor". Then look up "American Renaissance"
Composable Caching with Next.js
I go a little back and forth on this with my experience in F#, which relies heavily on inferred types. You can write a lot of F# before you need to add type annotations, but eventually, things become a spiderweb. The key issue is when you make a 'small' change to some method/value, the changes ripple through the program creating confusing errors sometimes where the compiler is trying to knit things together.

After a while, I found myself adding back types in a decent number of places to "anchor" the type inference, indicating that a certain type/signature is fixed and a change should be carefully considered.

I still don't know how folks deal with these kinds of changes in weakly typed languages without always allowing bugs to pour into their code over time. But I do love the "move fast" and low boiler-plate aspects of "typeless" coding.