skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I personally do not believe they have a shot in hell at making it through 6.I think there is going to be some serious chaos in markets well before then. We haven't seen chaos in markets without immediate fed support for decades. It's going to get bad IMO.

It will be surprising if Powell doesn't do a second pivot and go Dovish well before 6.

Obviously I'm not a fortune teller and many people disagree.
entropy does not increase. The universe has organized itself into people, brains, cities, iPhones
Plastic-Eating Enzyme Could Eliminate Billions of Tons of Landfill Waste
>Systemd has this problem and the solution is to use a feature in systemd, right?

More like systems with an immutable /usr have this problem, and systemd now has a way to circumvent those restrictions when developing. Fedora has been prototyping such systems for quite some time, not exactly with brilliant success so far, but it's good that they're trying.
> They will get the license they want if they believe it is needed.

They will also use more tax-payers money to do so. I agree that the code should be public, but I can see why that isn't the case.
Math behind piano key placement
I haven't dig enough to them. But it seems that they are mostly shitty code moving numbers around or creating new variables and doing stuff with them... So pretty standard, but scary part is that those numbers are "money"...
> Since SQLite files are single, continuous files on your file system, they have to be stored on one, physical hard drive.

But you can use things like RAID or LVM to have a filesystem bigger than any of the physical hard drives that it's spread across.

> File systems have been built with reasonable file sizes in mind. That means: The limit for the files are even smaller than the limits for hard drive sizes.

Btrfs and exFAT both support files of up to 16 EiB (16,777,216 TiB). No hard drives even come close to this size. For comparison, the total capacity of an AWS Snowmobile (a shipping container full of hard drives) is only about 0.1 EiB.
I mean, it's not really a burst, we're just hearing the hissing noise of the obvious leak.

The true demand from people with the intend to actually live in the estates has been constantly decreasing since around 2000; the real salarys dropped since then, so did the buying power.

The only reasons people found buyers at x3-x10 (!) prices were

a) that there is a class of people wealthy enough to still afford the purchase, even at those completely-out-of-touch prices, and

b) that people were given loans they should either never have gotten (2008) or that they shouldn't have asked for (because it's dumb to buy estates where the price is set by people and institutions that have n times your own income/net worth)

When 90 (?) percent of people simply lack the buying power to participate in the real estate market, but the other 10% happily sell each other estates, that's not a bubble, the real estate market just stopped interfacing with the vast majority of the population.
This author should try the same search on teeth cleaning.

He will discover there is no evidence for any benefit to doing routine teeth cleaning.

It's only necessary if there is some sort of disease.
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> Kia and Hyundai are putting out some of the more exciting products right now in the car industry

The most exciting news out of Hyundai is that they are winding down ICE development to maintenance only. There will be no next generation ICE out of that company. I think that they are the first major automobile manufacturer to make such an announcement. Not since WW II have we seen a major automobile manufacturer make such a pivot.

https://electrek.co/2021/12/28/hyundai-shuts-down-engine-dev...
Is this because individuals aren't as interested in buying houses, or because investors are buying more of them (and don't need financing)?
If I'm not mistaken, the "official" names are just "t" and "b", so top and bottom, just like truth and beauty, are more mnemonics. So referring to them as truth and beauty would be just as correct.
One or two, anyway. Eventually, if not cancelled.
I've felt for a while that this is one of the most amazing advancements in my field in my lifetime. What's missing for me is an updated standard curriculum on building compilers; we shouldn't be teaching students how to just build batch compilers anymore. We need a standard set of algorithms that we use to create interactive compilers and IDE support, including refactoring.
> There's no need to be politic about this from the POV of systemd

I don't think anybody is. It's their technical approach to develop stuff. But sure, their approach has a huge impact on the ecosystem.

> we don't allow to run it on legacy systems because it doesn't make sense

If I'm to design some piece of software that requires something, that this something is still relatively commonly not there and that I know it won't work without, yes, I'll go ahead, make a check and prevent the program to run in this configuration.

Think ./configure which will not write the Makefile if some critical dependency is missing. It's the same thing for me.

Anyway, the author did say "it won't work", he didn't say "We went out of our way to prevent the users from trying to do this if we detect an unmerged /usr". I think you read too much into the whole thing.
Success in mass production technology for ultra-high-purity 2-inch diamond wafer
That's not really true. With bad search results people will do it less, that doesn't help them.
“[…] of making many books there is no end; and much study is a weariness of the flesh. ”

— Ecclesiastes 12:12
I don’t have a good way to reconcile the current hot job market...

The world is bigger than tech.
It's because interest rates are high (5%) and house prices are also high (millions).

Less people are buying right now compared to this time last year which was a genuine frenzy at 2.8% rates.
This is a great write-up, but I'll quibble with one small part of it:

> It’s important to understand, however, that GitHub’s hands are tied in many ways here. If they do not follow the notice and counter notice procedures exactly as outlined in the DMCA law, they risk losing their safe harbor status with the US Copyright Office. Were this to happen, it would be completely disastrous to GitHub as a business.

I believe this is a bit of an exaggeration, because there is no such thing as "safe harbor status with the US Copyright Office". (The author might be thinking of the fact that providers have to register a designated agent with the Copyright Office, for service of infringement reports, in order to benefit from the law.)

The DMCA safe harbor is a legal defense against copyright infringement, and it operates on a case-by-case basis. If GitHub fails to respond to a particular takedown request as it's required to, it loses the ability to assert the safe harbor defense for the allegedly infringing material identified in that request. It does not mean it somehow loses the DMCA protections for any other material that it hosts.

In practice, this means that GitHub employees can make mistakes, or the company can deliberately choose to stand up to superficially-valid DMCA takedowns that it thinks are frivolous, without necessarily posing an existential risk to the entire company.
For a school-leaving person, sure. The social aspect and (for me) the iron-sharpens-iron part are valuable. For some the network connections are very valuable.

But I belive the author was returning to school to get an official qualification after some years of work-experience. (or did I read that wrong?) in that context the ancillaries are less valuable.

Certainly I think a place that tests knowledge for the purpose of recognizing levels achieved already through work experience is a really valuable part of the education chain.
This would be a perfect motto for property tax assessments. It is ridiculous that no one has any idea if the value of their home is inflated/deflated by software or reflects a consistent correlation with a measurable value.
By negotiating do you mean taking points? I can’t imagine many lenders are willing to go below prime for a 30 year conforming loan.
Is it really "center part"? I'll admit there is some unnecessary clutter here and there, but it's easy enough to ignore.

What I don't understand is who these features are for, and who uses them. We use the CI/CD parts, but other than that manage everything through k8s, and I wouldn't dare let GitLab a handle it. And, the whole "one click devops", or what it was called, is even more puzzling.
It's because the refi boom is done. Every time rates hit a new cycle low, people rush to refi and lock in that rate. On the way out of one of those cycles everyone's already locked into low rates. There's nothing left to refi.

The last 3 years have been a gold rush for the refi business.

That and we are probably in a general housing slowdown off the highs which is related to the first point anyway via rates rising.
I'm quite intrigued by his system of writing. It's nothing magical, he works on it hard and the process is roughly connecting various ideas together. He finds interesting ideas and write them down and then when the time is to go for a book, he tries to find ideas and concepts that work together. He then writes a rough outline of a book and then goes and fills in chapters after which he gets multiple reviews/revisions before it goes out.

Sounds almost like getting a rough requirements or ideas, then writing a more detailed specification and finally fully developed software that goes through rigorous testing and refinement.

It's quite different to how I thought most writers write. My assumption it's more straightforward with little preparation.
Doing with images makes symbols (1987) [video]
It is also because “the system” is intrinsic to the notion: as you say, any configuration of bits is equally likely; this only takes into account the “system of the bits “. The moment your system is “the bits and their mean value” everything changes, as there are systems with a single possible configuration.

That is what happens when he starts the first example: “a system of particles INSIDE A VOLUME. The volume is what makes the entropy larger or smaller. The particles in a different volume (or just by themselves) have a different entropy.
So instead of a centralized escrow, you want a decentralized contract to run on a centralized API? Either way, you're still trusting some 3rd party
> But here’s a question — if Boeing is taking heavy losses on the project, and writes them off on its taxes, is the general public really any better for the supposed savings?

Yes, it is much better than having the American people paying the full amount rather than just whatever tax deductible Boeing gets.

No journalist can be that naive.
The value here is automated trading of crypto? What’s new about this?

It doesn’t seem to have anything to do with Web3.
How to Migrate from BoostedTrees Estimators to TensorFlow Decision Forests
yes -- but the (positive) value is to only certain parties.

you're not missing anything.

both bombs and blockchain tech are destructive for most people -- not positive/additive.

but bombs and blockchain tech can also make megafortunes for the people that own, control, and use them.

there are some edge cases where bombs and blockchain tech could theoretically be more useful than the alternatives, but a sane/decent world would save those experiments for the philosophy lecture room.
Same. I just got back to Emacs, tried both, but the shoddy support for TRAMP in lsp-mode is what pushed me away from it. I also felt lsp-mode did everything but the kitchen sink, while eglot works best with my handrolled minimal configuration.
Machine learning, harnessed to extreme computing, aids fusion energy development
For b) most people do not read a paper linearly, you look at maybe the intro, skim around a bit, and then maybe go to an appropriate section. If you are really invested then maybe you go through the whole thing. A graph would be a much better format. A bespoke expert with time pressure is not going to comb over the whole thing, they will pick out the bits they care about.
Hah. Yes, of course I wasn’t saying that quality isn’t applicable to the books they choose, but the quality is measured by genre expectations (and artful deviations therefrom) just like for all genres.

Inside the community of contemporary authors, editors, and MFA programs, there’e no real controversy to the idea that the writing suitable for NYRB, The New Yorker, etc is just a genre with specific, evolving expectations.

There are countless amazing works that those same authors and editors hold in extremely high regard, but that would not suit those publications on account of being too “something else”.

Really, it’s mostly the lay public that still carries a special sense of deference and esteem for this genre, thinking of that work as the inheritor of the Western Canon, itself being something that they were taught to see as the epitome of “Good Writing” rather than “Powerful Examples of a Certain Style”
Which occur after the code is in git and pushed.
I understood this to be a game dev procrastinating joke, you'll be waiting for the Godot engine to be mature forever, instead just start making the game.

It turns out that Waiting for Godot is a play by Samuel Beckett in which two characters engage in a variety of discussions and encounters while awaiting the titular Godot, who never arrives..
Craig (the poster I jumped in to reply to) would know the specifics better than I ever did. My recollection is:

- restore from the latest snapshot (there was one whether you’d configured a custom backup schedule or not)

- replay the write ahead log over the top to catch the restore up to the point in time you asked for/when you ran the command. At least some part of this process leveraged WAL-E, which was a tool largely developed by Heroku employees and open sourced.

This was a decade or more ago though. The state of the art of postgres has moved on and I assume the team would tackle it differently if they were doing it today.
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Yes it is.

Creating a new car produces massive amounts of carbon pollution.

For a mid-sized average sedan the pollution created from finding and smelting ore to the massive amounts of energy and water required during production it takes around 45/50k miles just to offset production alone, and that's assuming the new car does not use any energy.

Add to this that producing batteries is even much more taxing on the planet both in terms of resources and toxicity.

Add to this yet another thing: unless the energy that's produced wherever you recharge your car isn't coming from renewables the gains in pollution are further limited.

So, to conclude: unless you commute a lot, plan to keep your car for a long time and you live in an area where there is a huge % of renewables the, by far greenest solution is to buy a used car or keep your one, even if it has an old polluting engine, it's gonna pollute much less than producing a new car and using gas and coal to power it
Search for files on computers was always clumsy and time consuming (it still is for reasons that escape me TBH). No wonder people preferred navigation. Nowadays most people that need a personal archive surely have a note-taking system that link files into a folder/tag structure with much better search capabilities than operating systems ever had (including free-text search).

The results of this research would have been much in favor of search over navigation these days I suspect.
What can you personally do about it? Like it or not we are on a ship we can't steer. Might as well look inwardly and enjoy yourself, friends, and family most of all.
Relative entropy? KL? Ah, found it – Kullback–Leibler divergence, it’s called. Thanks, I’ll put that on my list of stuff to learn about.
Taking 0.15kg/km he's already at 100 tonnes of CO2 just for flights over the past 7 years. (https://howisfelix.today/graphs/screens/jetlovers-stats.png)
How is that passive?
The Old Start Problem
India is a land of followers. I would term it the colonial hangover which might subside and then before another century or half soaking in proverbial chaos. However having said that it isn't a bad idea to follow a great leader who inspires and instills confidence in the diaspora. When it comes to product management like any other field, there is a certain knack to follow product leaders who have had illustrious careers in building ground breaking products. But before one takes that leap, one has to face the old start problem. Believe me it has nothing to do with Andrew Chen's Cold Start Problem. Want to know more- go read my blog on the same

https://saurabhsaha.substack.com/p/the-old-start-problem
Wow, thanks for the recommendation! I share the frustration with lsp-mode's jankiness (although it has been working better in the last months) and also gave up on the whole thing a few times, even though LSP itself is great. I had no idea that there was a viable alternative to lsp-mode. Even eglot's setup instructions look less complex than lsp-mode's.
The example "story" from Cassie is a delight. So absurd and yet so plausible:

"you packed the wrong go gurt again"

<wait 5 seconds>

"you fucking idiot"

<wait 30 seconds>

"but its ok I still love you"
Yes, refinancing has been a majority of mortgages for quite a while now, and that is not going to continue in a world of rising interest rates.
That's probably because Canadian mortgages are essentially all adjustable rate.
Yeah, but no requirement that he spend his life repeating it.

Especially since his act of dissent in 2013 was something few others could or would do. His opposing the invasion of Ukraine would have a small impact compared to the leaking of NSA docs.
If that's enough cause for a downfall, when do you expect the tobacco and alcohol industries to collapse?
> Click here for Code and Models

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> MIT research scientists... have just completed one of the most demanding calculations in fusion science — predicting the temperature and density profiles of a magnetically confined plasma via first-principles simulation of plasma turbulence. Solving this problem by brute force is beyond the capabilities of even the most advanced supercomputers. Instead, the researchers used an optimization methodology developed for machine learning to dramatically reduce the CPU time [... T]he calculation required... over 8 million CPU-hours [...] the technique reduced the number of run... by a factor of four

> Rodriguez-Fernandez and Howard have focused on predicting the performance expected in the SPARC device, a compact, high-magnetic-field fusion experiment [...] Turbulence,... the mechanism for most of the heat loss in a confined plasma, is one of the science's grand challenges [...] One of the fundamental problems for researchers is reliably predicting plasma temperature and density given only the magnetic field configuration and the externally applied input power

The above stub of an abridgement can only be an appetizer: the divulgative article article is well written, dense in content (difficult to select). But the ML techniques in question do not appear clearly there; the abstract mentions «a nonlinear optimizer using Gaussian Process regression techniques».

Original research article: Pablo Rodriguez-Fernandez et al, Nonlinear gyrokinetic predictions of SPARC burning plasma profiles enabled by surrogate modeling https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1741-4326/ac64b2
And the colleague that just came out of it looks at you with a big grin saying "Good luck!" (true story.. x_x)
There are no sources with actual knowledge about the situation that can speak freely.
And a median sale price that has hit ~$800,000, which is double the US.
It's not only tech! The labour market is very tight across North America in general.
Once you want some macros for "obvious abstractions," use a macro assembler;

then once you want a more consistent macro language reinvent Forth on your macro assembler;

then once you want a complete stdlib reinvent Lisp on Forth
Isn’t that fraud?
In benchmarks, Cap’n Proto is INFINITY TIMES faster than Protocol Buffers
Apple launches self-service repair program for iPhone users in the US
Japan’s plan to dump nuclear waste into the pacific ocean may not be safe
He is free to leave Russia any time he likes.
The point about media and intelligence services is that intelligence services leak on purpose and intelligence services don't mind lying and manipulating; in fact it is at the heart of what they do.
How to Design the Most Powerful Graph Neural Network
Put in work once, get paid over a long span of time in a way that is not proportional to the effort you put in at the start. Like any other passive income.
Five Eyes nations reveal 2021's fifteen most-exploited flaws
What industry was this - if you don't mind me asking? Always interested in situations where internet may not be assured
My phone isn't larger than an iPhone and I can change the battery myself. A bad excuse remains a bad excuse.
It is a mistake to assume both sides in this war are equal. There is no "equality of opinion" here, there is no "equal amounts of propaganda" on both sides. Only one side in this war has invaded the other side's country, blocked their own citizens' access to information, persecutes domestic calls for peace, and promotes violence toward the other side publicly on national television. This is not propaganda, these are facts.
Also, tourists are the absolute worst to have as neighbors.

Warnings for noise complaints and rubbish don't really work if the person is just going to be gone by the time a third strike happens.
> The problem with seafile I had was if I tried to sync down files and the sync client stopped, it would have no problem uploading the incomplete downloads as changes to the server, as well as pushing missing as deletes to the server.

this surely does not seem like a 'corner case' and would be absolutely terrifying if true.

could you be more specific in regards to the circumstances?
This is actually a good thing. House cycles exist and it's better to have smaller, more frequent ones than massive ones like 2008.

Canada never had a 2008 housing crash. Housing has been on a tear since the early 2000's and the average sale price of a home (nationally) is 2x that of the US despite lower salaries, higher taxes and a lack of 30-year fixed rates.

That is a bubble. My opinion is the US market is hot, but not a bubble. It could turn into one, but if this is a real correction, the fear of a bubble is much less.
I don't have a US-context, so excuse my naivety but to me it'd appear as if government can't pay well for _some_ jobs.

If the politician themselves make too much, then voters might not like that. If all government jobs pay "too well" then that too would meet opposition. But, as a colorful example: suppose that being a politician was tied to the median wage of the nation, then would anyone object to paying this type of oversight position adequately?

Also, I'm not necessarily convinced a decent enough paycheck is enough to dissuade from corruption. Sure, it helps but it isn't enough on its own. If a person is getting money under the table, then they are making even more money even if they are already making a pretty sum. It's just that the size of the bribe would have to increase proportionally to their salary.
Ironically the state is a single consumer and they ever sell only one copy of the program, so business case for proprietary software doesn't exist at all.
JAMStack is the fancy term netlify introduced.
Most of the time its just a static site generator like gohugo.io with a bit js and apis sprinkled into. So instead of rendering the page at request time, its rendered before deployment, deployed as static html with the js part managing the dynamic parts like stripe, apis, etc.
How is this different from mint.com for transaction tracking?