skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I spent a fair bit of time trying to move to the podman ecosystem and rootless containers before deciding it wasn't ready for production in RHEL 8. I was used to RHEL being more, well, stable and wasn't expecting them to be pushing premature software (that is Fedora's job), so I was disappointed at the state. I would probably have been more upset if RedHat's misleading marketing had convinced higher-ups like the CTO, and I had to push back against directions from above, but investigating it and rejecting it was solely my decision so it wasn't a big deal.
Yes, it was very much open speculation.

It was widely believed at the time that Sterling had been pegged at an unsustainably high value. Based on this belief Soros and the other speculators put large amounts of money on Sterling depreciating, which happened and they earned massive profits.

There was no "insider information".
After roasting Apple about headphone jacks, Google dumps it from Pixel 6A
"The massive build-out of wind and solar power generation has made energy radically cheaper than it has ever been."

As far as i know nuclear power and to some extent hydro power made the energy cheaper. Solar is expensive and it is not clear what its benefits are. Wind ...
Can the smart people in here confirm if we are getting sucked into this someday or not?
> To reach these extreme speeds, the team made junctions consisting of a graphene wire connecting two gold electrodes. When the graphene was zapped with synchronized pairs of laser pulses, electrons in the material were excited, sending them zipping off towards one of the electrodes, generating an electrical current.

> “It will probably be a very long time before this technique can be used in a computer chip..."

So this is interesting, but largely irrelevant for most HN folks. We'll be retired before it is productized.
W3Schools Online SQL Tutorial: https://www.w3schools.com/sql/default.asp

Dunno how far that will get you; certainly seems to cover the basics of syntax and so on. The harder part is the mindset, thinking in sets and being able to translate what you want to do into SQL. But I guess that's the hardest part of... Well, pretty much everything. And hard to package into lessons; maybe it's something everyone has to grok for themselves, so it can't hurt to try this first -- at least it seems free of charge. (I've looked up stuff, probably including SQL AFAICR, on W3Schools and never paid anything.)

I suppose one of the best things you could do is download some simple SQL client (and possibly server), SQLite or MariaDB or Firebird or something, and an example dataset like Northwind Trading or some such, and just start playing around.

Hope this helps!
https://www.wolframalpha.com/input?i=50+microarcseconds+*+%2...

The answer is ~200 picometers.

Wolfram lists some helpful comparisons:

1/2 the distance between base pairs in DNA

3x the atomic diameter of helium (the smallest atom)

Suffice to say you'd have a hard time seeing it as it would be 3,000x smaller than the wavelength of visible light.
If it were not true, Linux would never have become popular. Linux evolved beyond quickly fixing what Microsoft broke to take over the server space, but that was Linux's first practical reason for existing, to mitigate the problems with Windows slowly dying after about 2 years of being installed and used daily.
Livebook 0.6 Released
You can clearly see that beach erosion is the actual cause.

https://deq.nc.gov/about/divisions/coastal-management/coasta...

Nice interactive map from that page
I'm waiting for the experts to chime in and explain why this is in fact not going to happen, before I even bite on that title.
That's why it's followed by specifics (...that the abuser uses to gain access to a potential victim, coerce them to agree to the abuse, and reduce the risk of being caught.)

Of course taking two words out of the statement without context makes it less specific.
Yeah, this image is quite old, around 27k years or so.
> Being a "defensive pact" does not exclude preventing genocide next to it's borders.

Actually, it does. Kosovo and Iraq are clear evidence that NATO is not a defensive pact. Neither attack was preceded by a judicial ruling that genocide was occurring (and genocide is very difficult to prove).

I'm afraid those attacks seriously undermined NATO's moral authority as a "defensive pact".
There is another downside to G SKUs: many lack PCIe 4.0. For some dedicated GPUs, that is a (minor for now) limitation.

It's why I ended up getting the (surprisingly) cheaper Intel equivalent. It has an iGPU and also PCIe 4.0.
The domestic supply of infants is down too, so perhaps this issue will fix itself.
Shit man. That sucks.
Russell manages to give a laugh at even the most disturbing topics. Here is is his show about the huge industry of blood extraction. https://youtu.be/82pOL361zUk
ah okay, thats a perspective.
I encourage you to do your own research, there is more than enough information out there.

The basic jist is that there are two ways of getting Dai, either

1. buying it from someone else with Dai (no extra $0.66)

2. minting it as a loan collateralized by your holdings in some other crypto (which requires $1 + X% backing) where X varies depending on the crypto. I believe you also get paid some "stability" fees for doing this, but I don't remember the detail. Because your vault gets liquidated if your collateral value goes below $1 + X%, people usually go considerably above $1 + X% in their collateral so there is no chance of that happening.

Some DAI is also minted by corporations that the DAO has voted to form a relationship with (so it's secured by actual loans into real-estate), but I believe that as of now this is a very small percentage of the whole.

All dai that you would buy from someone else is minted by #2 . You can see the backing here: https://daistats.com/#/
Have your tried Gramps or other dedicated software?

https://gramps-project.org/blog/

Good luck with your visualization. I do like the wiki style being able to add more information and being editable by a larger group.
If I'm following correctly, they trained a single model with multiple training paradigms and then the single model could perform token predictions for multiple dissimilar token sequences for specific tasks. Seems like it is a straightforward result.
The thing is, I've used .NET a lot, and C# and F# I can code in my sleep. The same object system, integrated in PowerShell, makes it really hard to use.
This is shocking. To rewrite somebody's work should be immediately regarded as a fraud. I fear for those who died and cannot contrast such insanities.
Snowflake Outage– 5/12/2022
Yeah child trafficking is almost as bad as villainous targeted advertising /s
"The same network with the same weights can play Atari, caption images, chat, stack blocks with a real robot arm and much more, deciding based on its context whether to output text, joint torques, button presses, or other tokens."

This is rather mind blowing. Does it also mean that the generalist network is smaller than the sum of all specialist networks that are equivalent? Even if not, I find the idea that a single network can be used for such diverse tasks at all highly fascinating.
This is just word play, I never implied anything close to the notion that anyone working a job will be either overworked or depressed.
That seems pretty darn straighforward to me. (I am a heroku user, and not a render user).

For comparison, here's the heroku instructions -- still requires some downtime.

https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/upgrading-heroku-postg...

I guess you have to manually enter a few more commands for render... if that's really a big deal to people, I would think render should notice and replace it with one command that does those few for you, cause that doesn't seem so hard, does it?
My kid has spent a bunch of time with Scratch, mainly at school, and more tweaking sprites and parameters than actual programming. I loaded this up on his computer right before school and he was impressed with the examples. I wish the colors and fonts were nicer but it looks fun to play with. I'm intrigued to see what sets it apart from Scratch.
They can't. They just want to make it illegal for you not to scan them if they decide you are a communication provider and they serve you with what they call a "detection order". If you receive such an order, you have to follow the scanning rules they have laid out.
That's a problem with select * in general, not a problem with using EXCLUDE with select *. So that still doesn't explain why it's not in SQL to begin with.
The mice boomers will never relinquish their power now.
I’m not sure how to word my excitement about the progress we see in AI research in the last years. If you haven’t read it, give Tim Urbans classic piece a slice of your attention: https://waitbutwhy.com/2015/01/artificial-intelligence-revol...

It’s a very entertaining read from a couple of years ago (I think I’ve read it in 2017), and man, have things happened in the field since then. If feels like things truly start coming together. Transformers and then some incremental progress look like a very, very promising avenue. I deeply wonder in which areas this will shape the future more than we are able to anticipate beforehand.
I mean Madoffs ponzi scheme at least survived the dot com crash.
>there will be some sacrifices to privacy

I think what you're hearing is that your preference for these sacrifices in furtherance of the end is not shared by some other people.

As for specific faults, that's not really necessary, plenty of general ones have been shared (like the lack of transparency, potential for abuse) which do not need specifics to be understood.

As for evaluating one vs. the other, I feel that your opinion as to the result of that evaluation might not necessarily be mine, and neither of us will convince each other, as a result of the fundamental difference in the amount of privacy each of us is willing to give up, and in exchange for what.
> Preventing genocide next door is defense, not offense.

If the way you choose to prevent genocide is by marching an army into a foreign country, that's called "offense". Your argument is sophistical.
Load Balancing the Demands on Data Engineering
"Takes 6 months" seems optimistic, given that they haven't done anything yet.
Agree about the built-in sounds, but I solved that pretty quickly by adding things like mellotron samples to it.
Great, so soon it will take less time resolve the dependencies between our 5 billion obsolete, backdoored and crypto-stealing node dependencies! Perhaps we can use that power to create a new build tool because there aren't enough! /s
In America, moving back with family is usually seen as admitting defeat or failure.

> And that's not even getting into the tax benefits.

If you own a house, you pay property taxes. That's not a benefit!

If you're referring to the federal income tax mortgage deduction, you get about $1 back on taxes for every $3 paid on mortgage interest. If I had $3, I'd rather pay $1 of taxes and keep the rest, instead of paying it all to a bank and getting $1 back.
I love these updates. It would be great to see some of the major data warehouse vendors (Snowflake, BigQuery, Redshift) follow suit.
Testing something like this is dangerously close to the brink. It's highly unlikely that the losing side would agree to lose without using their most powerful weapon, and it's highly unlikely that NATO would wait for a Russian first strike, which they would likely believe very possible, especially given all the demonization of Putin and Russia.

Don't forget that there have already been numerous close calls in terms of nuclear war, without anything close to a conventional war as background.
I bought a second-hand pixel 2. For that, and many other phones, ifixit.com sells battery replacement packs.
This seems analogous to the yearly battery breakthrough clickbait story promising 1 second charge times and 999 years of battery life if only a theoretical process is ever viable at a reasonable price.
I lived in San Juan county, New Mexico, which had (has?) one of the worst records in the nation for drunk driving fatalities. Like it or not, that statistic was due to the presence of and proximity to the dry Navajo reservation.

Checkpoints were rampant, but it was both easy to discover their locations as well as avoid them. In practice, I found them to be opportunities to shakedown the population and issue any possible citation that they thought could stick, with drunk driving prevention being the ostensible reasoning to defend what would otherwise be an indefensible violation of the 4th Amendment.

The net result for me personally was a near total loss of respect for law enforcement and our government in general. It demonstrated that the majority conform to our system of laws out of abject terror, or risk being arbitrarily targeted and persecuted under fundamentally unjust laws. No one in their right mind would claim to obey the government out of respect for the system’s righteousness.

That’s not a sustainable way to run a government, so here we are: in the midst of a civil war (being waged in the courts… for now) and on the brink of outright revolution. The current assault on reproductive rights offers yet another glimpse into this now-endemic ongoing conflict, with actual violence occurring almost daily.
I personally know someone who spent 13 years in prison because at 18 his 16 year old girlfriend sent him a nude selfie. Her Mom was in her phone and saw that she had sent the photos, so she called the police on her daughter's boyfriend. They arrested him, seized his phone and found the photo.
Becky Chambers’ name gets tossed about, but I can’t recommend anything in particular.
Yeah I imagine that is nearly impossible without capturing data at scale. Awesome tool! I'm super grateful :-)
Kubernetes, GitOps and Odd Jobs
Attorney General of NY looked at their books and found most of the collateral was there, although in the form of commercial paper. The risk is really in which companies debt they hold. If we see a perfect storm of something like 2008 where correlations go to 1 resulting in massive defaults AND a significant number of redemptions then I'd be worried.
For time formats, use ISO 8601, and be sure to append a Z to the end to denote UTC (zulu time), and consider rejecting timestamps without it:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_8601

The only real problem with that format is the distasteful "T" in the middle (but, hey, at least it is whitespace-free!)
Many networks just predict the next integer in a sequence of integers. It sounds like this model identifies what category of problem a sequence of integers falls into and then makes an accurate prediction for that sequence, as you would expect given what it was trained on.
Same, 4.5 years with an iPhone X, still feels very snappy like on day one.

Only now has my battery health flagged up as needing a service.
>unexpected

I had a habit of collecting unusual merit badges that few had seen before: Animal Science (hey, it's got a cow on the badge, and besides I had cows), Atomic Energy, etc. I got my Entomology merit badge at the National Scout Jamboree from a team of highly motivated active duty Soldiers who had the job of eradicating potential disease vectors from areas where our troops would live and work, even during wartime. They were so happy I stopped at their little booth — I'm guessing the majority of Soldiers treated them like the bulk fuel folks (or other unsung jobs) rather than the people who keep you from contracting some horrific tropical disease.

The head of the team was a full bird colonel with a PhD from IIRC Cornell who revelled in the fact that .mil is exempt from EPA regs. They got to use the heavy artillery of insect control means. He flatly stated, with no small amount of pride, that not a single Scout at the National Jamboree that year would get Lyme unless they went into the (untreated) woods. My father was a staff physician for the Jamboree, and as best as he could tell the colonel was right — now, they did have Lyme infections from kids going decidedly "off piste", this being Fort AP Hill, VA, in the summer.
> we refer to as Gato

First, humanity built enormous statues worshiping cats.

Then, we let cats populate the largest amount of "image-bits" on the Internet.

Now, we name the next closest thing to general AI after them.

These damn felines sure are mysterious.
Thanks.

Not too long ago I was like “we’ve been paying heroku $59/mo for years (open source, non-commercial, funded by patreon) and while I don’t have any issues I can’t tell if it’s kind of in maintenance mode or what.” So I checked the blog and saw posts like “Faster Dynos for All” and their email newsletter which regularly mentions improvements to service. From those I felt reassured that they’re still improving it. But then came a wave of “heroku alternatives” and posts lamenting how heroku is blowing it. I’m grateful to hear reports from the other side (though again, my personal experience with heroku is still totally fine - and we don’t do the github integration)!
Headline in in 20 years:

Javascript UI library that is compiled into another javascript UI library and used in almost all desktop applications now for some reason now TWO million times slower than native desktop widgets. Here's why you should convert your native application to it anyway!
For the record, the actual title is too long for HN and had to be trimmed down. I didn't want to re-word anything, so I simply cut it down to the next-shortest sentence. Even leaving in, "unlike Chinese workers," exceeded the limit.
This isn't my area of expertise at all.

A personal experience that comes to mind is when my childhood cat developed kidney disease.

She drank plenty of water, urinated excessively, and her blood still became toxic without regular (~daily) intervention in the form of adding saline to her blood intravenously. Like a light switch she'd resume normal life after the saline bag emptied into her blood, then slowly become ill again in the next 24-48hrs.
Yes, I regret putting those last two sentences in there. Please ignore them and just respond to the first two:

> The technical limitations are that you can post 250 characters and up to four images. There are no technical limitations being violated by posting an image containing more than 250 characters.
As long as the use cases one cares about are covered, the amount of additional packages are needless noise.

JavaScript, Java, .NET, C and C++ are where to look for, if you want to count package numbers, for AOT/JIT languages.
Tether itself is shady and I have my doubts about them, but the concept is simple.

You mint some coins and sell them for $1 each.

Then watch the exchanges and any time the price is above $1 you mint some coins and sell them. Any time the price is below $1 you buy some coins and burn them. Doing this and only this you should always have more dollars in hand than the amount of coins in circulation.
"Substantial reserves" meaning that UST / Luna was able to keep the peg for 1.5 years.

That's a reserve for sure. Is it enough for this current storm that the cryptocoin community is having? Obviously not, it all collapsed. But it was substantial enough to perpetuate its own myth for over a year.

That's the thing. You have to admit that these things can last months, or years even if you want to be honest about discussing the nature of these cryptocoins.
Every Bug Is Shallow If One of Your Readers Is an Entomologist
Bon Iver, 2015 interview:

> the thing I’m working with the most is the OP-1. It’s a sampler-based synthesizer, and I honestly think it’s the most important instrument that’s come into my life since I first picked up a guitar when I was 12 years old. I’m not exaggerating at all. I never leave the house without it. I don’t travel with the guitar anymore. I travel with just my OP-1. It’s been a big deal living with this thing. I love making music with it. I love traveling with it. I like using it as a writing extension. It’s a really special technology, essentially what a guitar is to me.

https://grantland.com/hollywood-prospectus/lost-in-the-world...
It loses a lot of connotation, too. Philosopher's implies abstract, referring to the stone's elusive, impossible nature: having never been discovered, only theorized.

In a story where everyone is a sorcerer, it dumbs that down a lot. It could be one of their kidney stones for all it matters.
I don't think Salesforce is probably planning on sunseting Heroku anytime soon.

But they seem to be totally starving it, allocating it the minimum of resources they think they can to keep it going pretty much as it is without any new features.

Based on how they handled the recent security update, I won't be surprised if it... just kind of crumbles into the sea at some point.

We all know that software doesn't just "keep working" at all without continual maintenance. For several different reasons, security being one of them. Heroku's ability to keep "just working" with the languages/platforms it does, as new versions of such come out, seems to be dependent on an increasingly smaller workforce that goes above and beyond.
This sounds exciting, but the example outputs look quite bad. E.g. from the interactive conversation sample:

> What is the capital of France?
> Marseille

And many of the generated image captions are inaccurate.
Then why did we build the JWST! /s
Doesn't wsdl just expose the schema on the server?
I don't find it surprising that a single network can do all those things with appropriate formatting of the data. In itself it just means the network has a large enough capacity to learn all the different tasks.

The interesting questions imo, which they studied, is what kind of added generalization takes place by learning across the different tasks. For example, does learning multiple tasks make it better at a given task than a model that is just trained for one task, and can it generalize to new tasks (out of distribution).

They looked at how it performed on held out tasks (see fig 9 in the paper). I'm still getting my head around the result though so couldn't summarize their finding yet.

Edit: the paper is here https://storage.googleapis.com/deepmind-media/A%20Generalist...

There is currently another submission on the front page that links to it directly.
So you prefer your perceived absolute privacy (how sure are you that the NSA doesnt have a backdoor in the baseband?) over the enslavement of over 10,000’s of people world wide each year?
That thing died long ago and is completely unrelated.
Deafblind communities may be creating a new language of touch
Those batteries do exist but they can only be charged with 99% efficient solar panels.
They are not that different. The "exit plan" for the American dream is retirement and trying to save a lot of money for retirement is perfectly normal. It's very sound, conventional, boring financial advice to save and invest for retirement.

The "get rich quick" folks are doing basically the same thing but faster and sometimes with less sense. But hopefully with only a small portion of their savings.