skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've just done a lot of research, and been in a position to know how big data works.

Unfortunately it will be slow. One industry alone does not cause collapse, the corruption and blindness have infected most things by now. The nature of chaos is that you can't predict the outcomes with any degree of precision. You may know it will happen, just not exactly how it will happen. Like the fact that snowpack has built up (in an avalanche prone area), while not knowing what specific trigger (or movement) will cause the avalanche.

There's a better chance than not that by 2030 we will be at a point of no return for the currency due to money printing with no action taken, sooner if more money is printed.

Ponzi's all wind down the same, third stage outflows exceed inflows (debt growth exceeds GDP).

When it happens, the few remaining productive businesses will shut down because they can no longer make profit in terms of purchasing power. The remaining ones are fueled by a money-printer/unbacked debt and cooperate, cooperation lacks a core requirement to perform economic calculation. These are important because when no economic calculation takes place, we are effectively in a de-facto non-market socialist state.

From there we may have as long as 50 years circling the drain, or as little a 2-3. Its chaotic, but it inevitably comes after the point of no return along with the following typically in this order, Shortage, Sustaining short, to Slavery (when crisis realized), to Death (from famine).

Malthus works says more than half globally would die today when the food production which is brittle and dependent on order, breaks. The last working model and tech prior to modern methods only fed 4bn globally.

Acceleration-ism doesn't work. The people who properly prepare will survive this, and at the point that order or the rule of law have fully broken down those people will likely have to have a ruthless streak.
> If people thought this way - internalizing this publishing point idea - it would incentivize sitting on your incremental results, fiercely keeping them secret if and until you can prove the whole bigger result by yourself. However long that might take.

This is exactly what people think, and exactly what happens, especially in winner-takes-all situations. You end up with an interesting tension between how long you can wait to build your story, and how long until someone else publishes the same findings and takes all the credit.

A classic example in physics involves the discovery of the J/ψ particle [0]. Samuel Ting's group at MIT discovered it first (chronologically) but Ting decided he needed time to flesh out the findings, and so sat on the discovery and kept it quiet. Meanwhile, Burton Richter's group at Stanford also happened upon the discovery, but they were less inclined to be quiet. Ting found out, and (in a spirit of collaboration) both groups submitted their papers for publication at the same time, and were published in the same issue of Physical Review Letters.

They both won the Nobel 2 years later.

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J/psi_meson
> Yet conservatives don't go around calling for "Communists" (let alone as broadly constituted as the left casts their opponents as "nazis") to be assaulted, because they understand speech != violence.

This is a very hard assertion to support. A current Republican Congresswoman called for Nancy Pelosi's execution; https://www.cnn.com/2021/01/26/politics/marjorie-taylor-gree....

The former and future Republican president called for demonstrators to be shot, hecklers at his rallies to be beaten up, said "Any guy that can do a body slam, he is my type!" when Montana's governor assaulted a reporter...

A decent chunk of conservatives assaulted Congress when they didn't like the election results, and a lot more supported the action.

> It's not hard to find pedophiles trying to rebrand themselves (e.g., "MAPS") and trying to advocate for decriminalization or reform.

And if they make any significant inroads politically I'll happily add them to the punching list.
I've had the surreal moment of attending a workshop where the main presenter (famous) is talking about their soon to-be-published work where I realize that I'm one of their reviewers (months after I wrote the review, so no impact on my score). In this case, I loved their paper and gave it high marks, and so did the other reviewers. Not surprising when I found out who the author was!!!

I have to not say a word to them as I talk to them or else I could ruin the whole peer review thing!

"Hey honey, I reviewed X work from Y famous person today"
Corps aren't impervious to hype either.
Wow. Scary. Quality is hard to tell but I don't see big indications of the vehicle on fire before it does explode.
Yes - being able to choose to pursue or discourage professional or personal relationships with coworkers allows for healthier interpersonal boundaries, both implicit and explicit.
There was some work a while back on streaming data past queries, but you need a fairly bounded data set for that to work. Having ten years of historical data in a data set would gum that up severely.
Hey, at least Win 2.x allowed overlapping windows. Recall that Win 1.0x only permitted tiled windows.

The PC graphics ecosystem was crap at the time (VGA was introduced around the time of Win 2.x shipping).

from the OldNewThing blog, https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20100625-00/?p=13... :

the Color Graphics Adapter, better known by the abbreviation CGA...
...320×200 color mode ...or 1:2.4 in 640×200 monochrome mode. Windows used the monochrome mode because the colors available in color mode were pretty useless. You could have black, white, hot pink, and aqua; or you could have black, brown, orange-red and green (no white!).

...next major advancement in display adapter technology was the Enhanced Graphics Adapter (EGA), which brought you a stunning 16 colors in a 640×350 grid with an aspect ratio of 1.83:1. But for the step forward in terms of color, you also took a step backwards into the insanity of planar video modes. EGA memory was arranged in planes, and what’s worse, each plane had the same memory address! You had to use other registers to program the video card to tell it which plane you wanted to talk to when you accessed a specific memory address.

For many of the Mac developers, like Bill Atkinson, Mac OS was their second version of GUI OS, after working on the Lisa.

And the Intel 8088's segmented memory architecture is more mental work than the flat address space of the Motorola 68K (all those data and address registers on the 68K are nice too).

The pre-Win 3.0 fonts were ugly. That's why I ignored Windows and developed for the Mac.
A real acid test is to use numbers that confuse LLMs such as:

“Which is heavier: a bag with 9.9 pounds of fluff or a bag with 9.11 pounds of steel block?”

Try swapping the numbers and the materials, run each test at least 10x times.
Thanks 1a527dd5.
So Deepseek V3 did nothing to show you how wrong this take is?
This is a serious blow for Putin allies on Transnistria for example. The pro-Russian separatist movement and Russian army could be chased off the area finally by the lack of electricity and heating
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Happy 10 + 9 - 8 + 7! / 6 / 5 * 4 * 3 - 2 * 1!
Eh, enough of those guys will go down shooting that I wouldn't want to sign up for kicking in the doors. They know it's either jail for life or death.

The difference is that the Dale Gribbles don't go out of their way to harm anyone whereas the uncle Teds do.
If you had a full backup, why would you worry about your data?

My important documents are synced with cloud storage, my photos and videos are synced with iCloud, Google Photos and OneDrive.

My code is pushed to a remote git repository.

I can add more external storage. I would be more concerned about RAM.
I'm still on OS/2 Warp.
/r/cyberstuck has a longer video. My non-professional eye can't see any smoke prior to the explosion. A Reddit Investigator in the thread provided the first frame of the explosion and it does appear to be coming from underneath the vehicle.

https://www.reddit.com/r/CyberStuck/comments/1hrafib/cybertr...
There's no way that wasn't satire
Happy 20¼!
Same experiences. Technically capable folks with an ego are the most insidious folks I meet.
No. More like a Rorschach for whatever the reader wants to believe.
ClickUp runs on Angular though.
> You can buy this knife, but you can't carry it home.

How can otherwise reasonable people come to believe nonsense like this just because it fits their worldviews will always remain a mystery for me.
Chess Tutoring in the Age of ChatGPT
Unless it's a Mac ofc
There's legal and then there's needing 5 certifications, yearly renewals etc etc in order to avoid destroying your tractor for handling common nuisance on the farm.
It depends on state laws, but there are a LOT of folks doing it on youtube - zero prosecutions i’m aware of. [https://www.atf.gov/explosives/binary-explosives], halfway through the ‘License and or permit requirements’. It’s not actually specific to binary explosives, but those are the ones where it most clearly applies to random members of the public.

Specifically, “Persons manufacturing explosives for their own personal, non-business use only (e.g., personal target practice) are not required to have a federal explosives license or permit under 27 CFR, Part 555”

The issue is the law is clearly written to regulate commercial activites, and the fed gov’t (at least in theory) only has jurisdiction over commercial activities (those involving trade). There is a lot of court precedent on this, some of it confusing. So while the law doesn’t explicitly exempt personal, non-business use, the courts (and constitution), and the law, doesn’t cover personal, non-business use either. So, legal.

also, there is zero chance they could stop it.
Oof, just loading this page caused my browser to download 170 MB of content. I hope she has a good CDN.
How about a real-world example of the harm you're clutching your pearls over?

Besides, most devs doing web development on Macs are also using Docker, which is always Linux.
Yes, old and new games for outdated systems will easily outlast modern games. I can still play a game from 1985 on an emulator today but how many contemporary games can I play in 2065 ?
Doom doesn't even have a (variable) random seed, it's deterministic like an NES game and has built-in record/playback that's just a frame by frame list of player moves.
The fact that nobody knows what skibidi means implies it has more life left in it
They do the same in the US but it just makes the synthesis a bit more complicated. Friction may be the point. Plenty of people synthesize the precursors. It is precursors all the way down, each one more ubiquitous and innocuous than the previous. Bootstrapping chemistry is 19th century technology.
"Ground breaking", "Delve", "Kaleidoscope", "Symphony", Testament To"

Pretty much everything from here: https://github.com/sam-paech/antislop-sampler/blob/main/slop...
Looks like fireworks were stacked inside the car.
One of the other bidders, like when Yahoo won the bidding in the early 2010s.
Rails for everything
Rizz?
Micro nutrients as immunomodulators in the ageing population
When I learned that the youngest were keeping source engine animations alive in the most hilarious way possible I appreciated it.

Not my kind of humor, but I remember the 420 MLG era. Brainrot is universal.
sadly, i'd prefer a size in the middle, a bit larger than 13.5 inch. also, i really need a trackpoint and dedicated mouse buttons, as i keep triggering the touchpad accidentally, so i have to disable at least the tap options, if not the whole touchpad alltogether. if framework would add some options there i'd consider it.
> You answered your own question :)

So "do not do the hard parts"?

That is very unprofessional
In the eyes of the ATF, this is considered a pistol, which has no restrictions on barrel length.

https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-lpuqsi1cy6/images/stencil/12...

Additionally, this is _also_ considered a pistol with a "stabilizing brace" (which are subject of much contention and confusion)

https://www.sb-tactical.com/wp-content/uploads/sbpdw-install...

The GP's complaint is that the linked photo contains insufficient context (for us, at least) to determine if the firearm in question is, from a legal standpoint, an SBR.
I understand that. And I fully support the artistic vision. However, many creations take on secondary functions within a complex system that goes beyond the intention of the inventor or even the people who USE the product.

For example, the INTENTION of antidepressants may have been at one time to treat severe depression, but as society (hypothetically) gets worse and more depressing, they may be used to help people cope with systemic problems and therefore ameliorate people's reaction to them.

Or phones: they initially were created to help people communicate but they are subverted (co-opted) by the system to make people more dependent on technology for the sake of technological growth.

Any number of products or ideas can start as one thing and become co-opted to serve a more insidious function beyond their initial purpose.
i agree, which is why it’s harder to run across now. Notably, it’s about the same amount of paperwork or less than owning guns in most European countries.
Oh thank you. That's a very clear distinction.
I got through almost 50 books last year, which is about what I got through in the previous three.

The first trick was giving myself permission to stop a book I started in 2023. I’m about to start trying to finish it again later this week. The biggest was finding myself with too much free time which I don’t recommend. But all the physical books I read were strictly for pleasure and not self improvement. The half dozen books I consumed in the latter category were as audiobooks, and half of those were Goldratt, who cheats anyway by making his entire book into a fictional story about the moral of the book. Essentially a parable.

If you want to read a lot, then do it to have a good time.
My experience is that for certain tasks LLMs are great, for certain tasks LLMS are basically useless.

The best prompts though are always written in a separate text file for me and pasted in. Follow up questions are never as good as a detailed initial prompt.

I would imagine well formulated questions to solve the problem at hand is a skill but beyond that I don't think there is anything special about how to ask LLMs a question.

In areas the LLM is rather useless, no amount of variation in prompting can solve that problem IMO. Just like if the tasks is something the LLM is good at, the prompt can be pretty sloppy and seem like magic with how it can understand what you want.
Longer papers with more claims have more to prove, not less. I imagine they would be harder to pass peer review.
More specifically, DBOS Inc. raised a $8.5 million seed round [0] and is backed by Michael Stonebraker (the creator of Postgres). I initially assumed Andy was alluding to this when he wrote "the most famous database octogenarian splashing cash" :)

[0] https://techcrunch.com/2024/03/12/new-startup-from-postgres-...
It's not that kind of banished-word list.
The limiting factor isn’t journal space, but attention among the audience. (In theory) the journals publishing restrictions help to filter and condense information so the audience is maximally informed given that they will only read a fixed amount
There’s other boring databases that also reliably fill that job, and they also cost far less.

It can also be a bit of a pain outside the C# ecosystem, whereas every language ever has nice postgres drivers that don’t require us to download arms setup ODBC. It runs on Linux as of a few years ago, but I also wouldn’t be surprised if many people didn’t realise that.
Scandinavians came to Britain long before Vikings and Anglo-Saxons, finds study
Do you work 14 hours in a row?
The real evil is the people who give the power to the people who create this perversion of rule of law, saw that they did this and decided they were ok with it.

I don't care what the subject is, the law should NEVER be like this.
Every Solution Architect should have at least seven Framework Framers and two Data Plumbers supporting them, to give the title its proper gravitas.
Congrats on starting Martha Wells but how did you stop at one?

I think I read or consumed almost 25 of her books last year.
https://archive.is/S9a64
The list isn’t about politically correct speech but more about the perception of what words have fallen out of fashion and/or become cliches.
I used to use MongoDB for all my projects because it was what I'd first used, when I learnt "proper" programming through an MMO group, and I liked the ability to format things heirarchally.

My current project (https://nuenki.app) uses Postgres. There isn't much complexity to the data it stores, but there is quite a lot of it (I use Postgres to cache hundreds of thousands of translations). I'm happy with it - I've had fewer deployment issues (zero) than I used to have with mongo (irritatingly many, often around ARM problems), SQL is nicer to use, and Rust's SQLx library works really well.

If your data is difficult to model because the source you're getting it from is in an awkward format, surely you should be transforming it into something nicer to work with at ingress?

Honestly, Postgres with some sensible keys and optimisation (just Google it and apply what's relevant to your use case) should be more than fast enough.
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I'm looking forward to the day when a group of trolls, ahem, I mean concerned netizens, manages to find the right words and hype to declare 'main' an extremely harmful and hurtful word we should all avoid™.

Fortunately, for the primary git branch (which seems to be called 'main' occasionally) a good neutral alternative already exists: 'master' (like a master copy or a master key). Crisis averted.

(U+1F37F)
A similar story.

I actively blogged about my thesis and it somehow came up in one of those older-model plagarism detectors (this was years and years ago, it might have been just some hamfisted google search).

The (boomer) profs convened a 'panel' without my knowledge and decided I had in fact plagiarized, and informed me I was in deep doo doo. I was pretty much ready to lose my mind, my career was over, years wasted, etc.

Luckily I was buddy with a Princeton prof. who had dealt with this sort of thing and he guided me through the minefield. I came out fine, but my school never apologized.

Failure is often just temporary and might not even be real failure.
Most if not all of those were met with complaints that we were on the slippery slope towards being a police state where the government forced its way into private matters.

Given that, your argument seems to be that since we are on the slippery slope, we might as well go further.

For what it's worth, I don't have to show ID to get into an adult bookstore, or enter a bar, or purchase alcohol, because I live in a place which doesn't require ids for people who are obviously old enough.

I've also stopped flying in part because I think airport security is oppressive and a facade, and I don't drive because I managed to find a place where I'm not forced to have a car to live. I hate the pseudoephedrine id law because I think the state should have no business in that matter, and like airport security it's a case of the government seeming to Doing Something even though it does nothing.

Last time I needed pseudoephedrine, I got a friend to buy it for me.

> Are you saying there is absolutely no way to perform this action online in a way that respects privacy just the same as all of those operations?

Correct. I can buy wine without an id because the store clerk can physically verify that I am of age without checking a piece of plastic or otherwise establishing my identity.

Once purchased I could of course give it to a local 16 year old, which would be illegal, but an id check wouldn't change things.

You'll have to have a camera check the user before each porn site visit, or at random checks, and deal with the false positives of a 16-year-old which looks 19 (or false negatives of a 21 year old who looks 17), and strict laws preventing any recording of that information, and somehow assure people that the laws will never change to collect more information - which is hard to believe given the slippery slope shown at airports and elsewhere.

> maybe things that require age verification shouldn't be allowed to operate on the internet.

How do you propose we do that? Block off all IP addresses at the national level for porn site servers hosted in other countries? Block DNS lookups for them? Prevent VPN use? Nix their ability to charge via Visa and MasterCard, or take payments via SWIFT?
Journal space is not a limited resource. Premium journal space is.

That's because every researcher has a hierarchy of journals that they monitor. Prestigious journals are read by many researchers. So you're essentially competing for access to the limited attention of many researchers.

Conversely, publishing in a premium journal has more value than a regular journal. And the big scientific publishers are therefore in competition to make sure that they own the premium journals. Which they have multiple tricks to ensure.

Interestingly, their tricks only really work in science. That's because in the humanities, it is harder to establish objective opinions about quality. By contrast everyone can agree in science that Nature generally has the best papers. So attempting to raise the price on a prestigious science journal, works. Attempting to raise the price on a prestigious humanities journal, results in its circulation going down. Which makes it less prestigious.
The author should have just come up front and said they're for gender separation to go back to the "Good Ole Days". Instead they hide that in a footnote.

Coward.
I wish there was more context around that statement in his post.

Redis while not having some of the features he mentions in [1] (i.e. SQL), when used for what it excels at is usually not considered "slow".

As an in-memory data structure server, a common use case is to use it for where some operations in a typical RDBMS are slow.

[1] https://youtu.be/fZbwD1gzjLk?t=2018
Here in NL we first went from non profits owned by the members to gov housing. They just took everything without payment. Then they privatized everything and the corporation got the houses for free. All was fine for a few years then profit became the only agenda point while they were already swimming in free money and didn't want to build. Building was not attractive compared to getting houses for free. All rents are now maximized to the legal limit of course. They also run various inspection teams to force people to make their neighborhood look more expensive so the value goes up so that the rent can be increased further. For maintenance one can call 1 hour per week. They pretty much have lavish offices full of overpaid paperclip maximizers who don't do anything anyone needs, on the contrary, things would be better if they did nothing.

To add to the irony there are also self-made landlords who do similar work on similar scale on their own! They are usually available for defects and damages day and night.

Back when the people owned the non profits they build and fixed everything asap on the cheap. It might even be better than owning the home directly.
To clarify, we're talking about the idea that colonial subjugation might not have been any worse than the power structures that were displaced in terms of excess deaths. This is not the same as saying the British built railways, and also demonstrably untrue, both statistically and philosophically. A passing knowledge on the horrors of colonialism would qualify one to identify this idea as colonial apologism.
Very slow to load. Also, I find these about written in third person very weird.