skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think you need to articulate why you think the govt. is forced into this insurer role. They are no different to any large private buyer.

Any insurance would be expensive, and would be a cost passed to the government, as any other project related costs are. The insurance provider spreads risks across policies but since all these policies would probably be for government contracts, the costs would all be passed on to government. The government would end up paying for all the policies plus the insurance company profit margin.

The only winner here is the insurance company, maybe the contractors. The government will be slightly worse off.
It's so insane how they figured out all of this. The self winding one way gears are even like a mechanical full bridge rectifier.

How was any of this even manufactured at such miniscule scales...
why cant you have:

type Message {
contentA?: ContentAStructure,
contentB?: ContentBStructure,
}

on read, you are already accessing the property data as typed right?
They would have to be very convinced that someone was going to flip. And even then there's a good chance that the wavering Justice would see this as a ploy the same as you do, and take offense.
Theoretical arguments sound great and all, but where are the results? If OOP is such a dumpster fire and FP is so productive, where is all the FP code? Why are there so many OOP projects? It's not like FP is something we've just discovered. It's been around for decades.

Why does nobody appear to be having runaway success with it, if it is the superior paradigm?
170+ million for a BUILDING?! That doesn't make sense to me at all - as someone who spends his waking hours in research laboratories in a newish building of comparable size to the Chen building, I can't see where the money would go.
So on a more frequent basis, what would you hope to be doing in nature, assuming you also work?
The infrastructure is similar, that was my point.
> The issue is that the decision was not final

Wasn't it?

From the descriptions I've seen of the process, the decision draft starts circulating once the decision has been taken. The language can be softened or hardened, but from what I understand here Roe would be dead regardless.

I'd think the possible changes would have been with respect to the "blast radius" aka the references to (and explicit targeting of) Obergefell, Lawrence, Eisenstadt.
Fortunately there's an easy way to work out if the punishment is sufficent - Fiduciary duty will cause the replacement of the CEO and board if they made the wrong decision in fucking the population over and assuming their vast profits wouldn't easily cover any fine.
POSIX, C, and OpenGL.
I've never heard of Pulumi until now. How does it map against what Terraform provides?

I'm trying to understand why anyone would choose this over TF.
At this point this is equivalent to Scott's Tots. There is not much time left and those who have been already educated need to take action now.
Same as lots of other people writing that it's definitely, 100% a liberal clerk, and even linking to their supposed suspects LinkedIn with 0 evidence?
I may be weird but I do it like this:

{
"type": "a",
"version": "1",
"payloadJson": "{\"a\": 10}"
}
I have an open issue for that here: https://github.com/simonw/datasette-lite/issues/28

My initial hunch is that this will be really difficult - probably require a fork of something like https://github.com/coleifer/pysqlite3 then compiled for WebAssembly.

I'm confident it's feasible, but I don't have the skills to figure it out myself.
Based on my Google manger time and prior experience, the problem isn't necessarily the promo orientation - it was the emphasis on tech heroics to justify the promotion.

Rumor I heard was that pre-IPO the only was to get a stock option/grant boost was to be prompted. I believe the first actual annual refresh was in '06. For several years after that it was 100% managed at the SVP level, so you needed to be known at the top of your management chain to get a refresh beyond the algorithmic minimum.

Also there was top level compression because Google didn't have L8, 9, or 10s for a long time - if Jeff Dean is a L8, a new hire previous "Director level" engineer lands at 7 if they are lucky.

Given that Google frequently hired at one or two job grades below typical Si Valley, promo was a MAJOR motivator, and you needed to seem as though you fit in at the next level up. Google's approach to the Peter Principle was that if you got promoted and then didn't meet expectations, they would manage you out.

The question was always "Is that project really L6, L7, L8, L9 work?" I saw someone who changed the way a longstanding internet protocol was seen and replaced it based on their research stuck in the "only L6 level work" category.

And of course the promo committees were filled with people who got promoted under these regimes.

Corporate culture gets set and maintained in strange and interesting ways.
Sarah Isgur and David French of The Dispatch ran through basically all of the possibilities and basically came to the conclusion it could be anyone but most likely it was just a stupid young clerk that never had a real job (University to Law School to probably at least two clerkships before a SCOTUS clerkship) trying to play politics and not having a strategy, or at least a good strategy for what they might accomplish here. Theoretically this benefits Republicans, conservatives and the religious right more by dropping this bomb early, but that’s just speculation about future possibilities and we’re talking about judicial clerks, not political operatives. Given that applies to mostly if not all of the clerks under any of the Justices, all you’re really doing is reading soggy tea leaves.

Sarah also pointed out that the Chief Justice has, technically, firing power over all of the clerks under any of the Justices, and there’s maybe a case to be made for him exercising that power here to fire all of them if they cannot definitively prove who it was after investigation in order to defend the integrity of the Court’s deliberation process. If they can at least narrow down that it was in fact a clerk and not some other staffer and definitely not a Justice (probably wasn’t, but still better to go through the investigation), then I can’t say I would disagree with that outcome.
https://www.hetzner.com/webhosting
no doubt

datacenter in DE, FI and Usa
Cool! Great way to not have to deal with all those csv escape rules :-)
Cool, go live on an island and stopping using the infrastructure we all pay for or grow up and accept that we have shared infrastructure that needs to be maintained and paid for by everyone collectively.
Shady Economics of Proxy Services
Yes, this new naming scheme was announced with the roadmap back in July.
Why? Should you be penalized if the project fails?
I can't really think of anyone who has done it well but I don't think Apple has either. They have released plenty of half baked products. The original apple watch is a good example, it was retroactively made the Gen0 and quickly killed. They had similar problem with the first Intel macs too and the original M1s weren't 100% either. I think sometimes they over estimate how ready a product is. The iPhone was amazing at launch but in retrospect it was missing almost everything.
I'm somewhat skeptical of attempts to play out the game theory of what the leaker's motivations would have been. While I generally agree that the author has identified the correct incentives, I'm not so convinced that we can sure the leaker would have arrived at the same conclusions.

I'd still count this sort of reasoning as evidence, but I'd give it significantly lower weight than the author seems to.
If you want to propose a book to O'Reilly, who do you contact?
gov.uk is a breath of fresh air compared to the commercial swamp of the surface web. It’s a great example of design-is-how-it-works elevated above design-is-how-it-looks.
Look up breakthrough energy. He's investing a lot into climate.
Interesting. I'm much less sympathetic, then. I would imagine that kind of situation would be far more formal, with lawyers from both sides present, and, to be frank, this kind of information gathering an expectation. It would be pure naivety for it not to be - these are multibillion dollar companies talking to each other!

On the other hand, if I, a random hypothetical engineer, were interviewing someone for a team, in a 1-1 situation, and they asked about what I worked I'm, I'm naturally going to be less guarded nor really prepared to sufficiently redact my answers.
I should say I agree and that is useful. But it is only useful to the extent that it scaled down the promises by many orders of magnitude.

This is not a criticism; this is good! It means something useful can be made. Other small, useful things exist too. But the whole glorious utopia definitely doesn't exist.
Where can I find pintry the pinterest clone?

I've searched for 5 minutes now.
That would be career suicide for a justice and almost certainly result in impeachment. Furthermore there's almost no reason for any justice to do such a thing.
We have to solve the research paywall problem legally. We need some sort of disruption but pirating is not the way.
I tend to agree. While I think the sample size is fine, the way perceived positivity and perceived pleasure were measured seems pretty subjective in a way I find hard to generalize.

The paper does seem awfully suggestive, though. Worthy of more exploration for sure.
>The alternative to cost plus is?

Contracts where the contracting party agrees to a % of responsibility. When the project runs over the profit is reduced by the overrun * the percent responsibility.

Lets say the agreement has 25 million in profit and 40% responsibility. If the project runs over by $2m, the contractor eats $2m * .4 = $800k reduction in profit so now it's $24.2m.

Then they're actually incentivized to not have overruns.
Our experiences are different.

Once, on a job where I was full-time, not an intern, I proposed something new and my boss said, "That's a great idea. Please don't tell anyone. They'll want us to do it."

This was not the best boss I ever had but also not the worst.
I read the GPS one a few months back, he absolutely amazingly explained the whole thing to a depth I never would've expected.
Fixed price allows less flexibility if "gotchas" are found during development, which they almost always are.

But you can get to a middle ground: A large project where I work did fixed price but built in $X hours of additional work to the price, to be used on a discretionary basis when unexpected issues arise. More flexible than pure fixed-price and not as open-ended as costs plus.

Still not perfect: the vendor has every incentive to utilize every last $X hour in the pool, but strong oversight kept the worst of that in check.
The argument I heard elsewhere is that the draft was circulated a few months ago and therefore if they were against the decision, they likely would have leaked it then. However, that argument collapses when you consider that it circulated in ~Feb but doesn't mean the leaker had it then.
If you check the ingredients of the dark kisses they are actual chocolate with cocoa butter and not PGPR.
Zach has responded to a Stripe product manager on Twitter.

https://twitter.com/zachperret/status/1521898404061716480

I think Zach knows his product very well & this could be espionage on Stripe's part, but I'm not dissatisfied with Stripe's product nonetheless.

Disclaimer: I've never used Plaid.
And a rebuttal from Jay Shah (the accused) claiming that this isn't true: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FR8FjJ9VsAAMY_k?format=jpg&name=...

> Zach, sorry you feel this way, but this isn’t true and I think you know that. You reached out to me repeatedly—I never reached out to you for information. Stripe did an RFP because we work with partners for this product, and we had hoped to include Plaid.
It seems highly unlikely anyone who leaked this was part of the core of the institution of the Supreme Court. Selection bias kind of leads to an assumption that those who work for the court support the neutrality and processes of the court, and have much to lose from this action vs possibly marginal potential upside. Much more likely is this was either a low level or external actor imo.
I keep considering a mechanical watch, but I think I'd find the accuracy a bit tedious - having to continually adjust it every week so that I didn't arrive late to appointments.

I like a watch that gets out of the way - it just works. I've got a Citizen watch a little like this: https://www.citizenwatch.co.uk/stiletto-ar1130-81a.html

It's a quartz watch, powered by solar power through the face. It has 'just worked' for as long as I've had it. From an accuracy point of view, it loses negligible amounts over the several month interval between me being forced to adjust it anyway (daylight savings, international travel).
For enterprise, sure, using a separate IDM provider works, but last I checked, neither Okta nor OneLogin cater to individuals and their personal accounts. So as far as threat models go, I understand why people view this requirement from Tailscale as utter garbage for personal accounts.
I should probably have been clearer. I understand you can insure all kinds of risks, and that you can ask an underwriter to insure against most anything. My question is more whether this is a well-formed insurance market where coverage is available under economically realistic terms.
Fair enough. My perspective is that PC is a destructive act to culture, whether it be American, European, Spanish, etc. I can hardly expect everyone to agree with me on that point.

I suppose my concern with that perspective would be something close to, "Can you extrapolate the difference between common courtesy and political correctness?" I don't know if that sounds insulting somehow - it's not meant to be, but sometimes when I ask those sorts of questions, it badly received.

Anyway, to my mind, there is a difference between a need for politeness & civil discourse, and a perspective which intends to enforce those ideals through destructive language and cultural upheaval.

One is self-imposed, the other an imposition.
There is nothing limiting crev manual code review is there?

An ecosystem of useful bots would seem like a natural addition to it.
A promo packet is a document explaining why you should be promoted. Includes link to the evidence, your design docs, your check-ins, and anything else you think might help.
The Fed raises interest rates by the most in over 20 years to fight inflation
Antihistamines like Benadryl are anticholinergics. They are harmful to the brain and everyone should avoid them. In contrast acetaminophen is universally considered to be safe for people with a normal liver.
> I write interactive articles about physics, math, and engineering. It's a weekend hobby of mine, so I only end up making a few articles per year.

Superman it is!
> Visited [Marquette] on a break from SF during lockdown

Do you happen to be in this All Gas No Brakes video?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EbxwGi8bTO8
Unless I'm mistaken, Stripe has a history of behaving this way.

It's cheap, dirty, and rather nasty.

They've have a great core product since the beginning, no doubt. Despite this, I can't get onboard with the philosophy or tactics employed, leaves a bad taste in my mouth.

This sort of culture is very difficult or even impossible to change, it's part of the corporate identity instilled by the founding team. For examples, consider Microsoft, Google, Uber. The core identity of the founders doesn't really change. Maybe a bandaid here and there, but hoping for more is a waste of time.
You do realize the types of organizations that originally created the internet, right?

Hint: It wasn’t private companies.
The majority has internet access, the super majority has social media account of some sort (at least by one survey) [0], and there are 1.5x as many mobile lines as PERSONS in El Salvador (with global market share of smartphones yearly increasing), and yet you use an acrid tone when discussing the notion of El Salvadorans having the ability to learn how to use crypto.

You paint a picture of people in El Salvador that simply isn't the case. The supermajority CAN get access to internet if they like. I have lived in the third world, including places poorer than even El Salvador, and for less than
a common days wage even in war-torn syria you can pay a shop-keep for internet access at a cafe. Those of us who have spent time in the third world understand that people often share resources there, including computers and smartphones, so seeing the proportion of people who say have a smartphone is only a slice of the picture of who can actually get access to one (as an example, if only the wife of every household had a smartphone then the whole nuclear family would still effectively have access despite a much smaller number reflected on the statistics). Even having a cousin / uncle / whatever can be enough to be good for the extended family, as that person can serve as a nexus to internet based utilities to the family. These types of relationships often aren't reflected on the statistics, but people in the first world often don't understand this.

[0] https://datareportal.com/reports/digital-2022-el-salvador#:~...).
That's pretty much what it's doing!

It runs everything in a web worker at the moment, not sure if there are optimizations I could make by running more of them in parallel?

It doesn't exactly run a localhost server. It uses a mechanism from Datasette's internals that lets you simulate an HTTP request through the Datasette application and get back the result. Then it sends that result back as a message from the worker to the parent page.

It's using this API here for that: https://docs.datasette.io/en/stable/internals.html#datasette...
Beware of leaked PDF's. It is very easy to distribute documents with small modifications among workers of a company. If any of these is leaked, it is easy to track down who leaked it.
Great, another product to warn everyone non-technical against. Never give your bank login to anyone. Ever. Seriously! Do not do it! By definition they must be stored reversibly-encrypted. They will leak, they will be decrypted! Do not do it!
So even if it had 150,000 humans on board, the humans might consume less liquids than the engine...

Those humans would also only use 1/6th as much energy (when assuming around 9.2m Calorie per liter of diesel). So the energy used by that engine could also "run" a million humans. Whatever that ship is carrying, it might be more energy efficient to let people carry it...

Burning through four liters of diesel a second/a bathtub a minute is insane.

I'm a bit tired, but I hope I got that math about right.
Wow, they hot-swapped activation functions (GELU -> RELU) during training. They are indeed very similar activation functions, but it's kinda crazy to me that you can make that kind of a change to a model while it's training, preserving all weights and other state, and just keep going. They changed weight clipping thresholds on the fly too.

They also swapped out the optimizer several times from what I can tell, switching between Adam, "Fake SGD", and "Vanilla SGD" multiple times.

Even without the huge amounts of hardware/driver issues they seemed to be having with the GPUs in their big training cluster(s), this puts into perspective how hard it is to train enormous models like this. Many of the failures don't have an immediately obvious cause. Plus, there aren't all that many places out there doing training at this scale so I imagine many of these things need to get figured out on their own.
It's a precis of what an IC has achieved over the last performance cycle. Can't speak for Google, but where I am it's focussed on the impact you've achieved in various axes.
Pay 141M and change nothing hmm
CGI.pm is a port of Perl 4 cgi-lib.pl. Credit: http://cgi-lib.berkeley.edu/#credit
I tried building this with a Service Worker first and it didn't work, because Pyodide needs XMLHttpRequest.

I opened an issue about that here: https://github.com/pyodide/pyodide/issues/2432
It really depends on packet loss. If you’re on a reliable connection with constant latency & bandwidth, TCP-in-TCP isn’t that bad.

However when you have high-packet-loss connections it becomes absolutely terrible.
What is it you don't like about GraphQL? It seems to do what it was designed to do pretty well. I take it the issue is more with the pseudo-databases it's used as a front-end for?
Tacking onto another comment, companies aren't just leaving GCP for AWS - the NSA recently left Microsoft to award Amazon a $10 billion contract [1].

Mindshare is definitely key, but there's also the fact that AWS has been around longer and has a more robust services offering. And as the first mover, AWS has been able to set the market standard for pricing.

That's a double-edged sword though, and many businesses are dramatically overpaying for AWS services [2].

On a related note, I built Usage.AI [3] to automatically buy and sell Reserved Instances on AWS to cut costs.

[1] https://www.engadget.com/amazon-web-services-re-awarded-nsa-...
[2] https://www.forbes.com/sites/forbestechcouncil/2022/04/19/cl...
[3] https://usage.ai
We invented this thing a long time ago that we call warehouses. We store stuff in them, and when needed, we ship from them to stores. Warehouses are no fun anymore, everyone wants things shipped overnight etc. So they outsource their distribution.

Oh and greed? Yup. Look at the profit margins for the Exxon this year. For any of the Fortune 500. Last year and this year will be banner years for big corporations that have raised prices either directly or through "shrinkflation." They're loving it, while consumers get the shaft, and the Fed gets the blame.
Great minds think alike! git-privacy already supports someting like that with the privacy.limit option.
The idea with the linear redistribution is nice and we already thought about such a feature, but it is complicated by the problem that you would have to know that the definitely last commit of the day is and that you do not push during the day. Otherwise you would have to re-redistribute published commit dates, which leads to diverging Git histories.
I am very open to suggestions how to handle that.
Most people pursuing a degree in physics would be more interested in core physics problems (quantum computing, particle physics, cosmology, etc.) than in climate change. Perhaps it is more difficult to motivate physics majors to turn to climate science than to teach climate scientists physics (since only a subset of physics is needed, mostly fluid dynamics). Otherwise, universities would have climate science in a physics department.
The internet was literally started as a government research project paid for with taxes...
A cursory search indicates that he's a game developer in the UK which explains the WebGL chops.
Are you saying that you think people who want relief from their own pain are people who have reduced empathy toward others?
Hmm, incompetent folks exist and need to be let go. However, I think it is a slightly different category than RDD.
> It is superior to a Mac Mini in every conceivable way

Based on the dimensions you feel are important and are visible to you. That is only one perspective on the elephant.

If you built that machine, and you made decisions that were not necessary tradeoffs AND these decisions went against your values, you would need an excuse. Apple is not you, and they do not need any excuses - they have a different set of values and built to those values.

Those values are what the market, aka other people, care about.
SCOTUS rules require submissions use the Century family (Century Schoolbook, etc) font, and it seems reasonable that's what their opinions use (as opposed to CMR which would imply LaTeX).
Yeah getting a license with bafin is tough but a VC backed fintech can do it or partner or use the api of a fintech that already has a license and build off of that.