skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The people making the videos are much more aware of who their audience is and how to communicate to them. They make the assumption their audience is intelligent, but unfamiliar with the subject material. So they avoid industry terms and jargon, and instead work on establishing understanding of basic principles in familiar terms then elaborate on them gradually. I've seen similar approaches in teaching people with no technical background how to write code, to great effect.

It's by no means easy to write such curricula though. What you're doing is taking a very complicated topic with expert-level information and translating it to non-expert language and ideas. It requires a sophisticated understanding of the topic, and good communication skills. By "good communication skills" I don't just mean being good at talking or writing, I mean the ability to empathize with and understand your audience's point of view, to anticipate their confusion as well as their understanding, and to handle both gracefully. It is important when writing these kind of explainers to not come off as condescending, and that can be especially hard to do when simplifying a complex topic.

I also love these videos, because they're a master class in how to communicate effectively.
When people say "not a good fit" they mean "cultural fit" ie, not related to technical skill, which is what the context of the parent post was implying. Maybe that's not so ubiquitous, but I've come across a technical person not be able to point out exactly what they don't like about another technical person's skills.
Agreed.

At the end of the article I also described a bit how I would see the evolution of such a tool, and it looks like we're thinking very similarly.

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Though I think the real breakthrough will come when Dall-e gets 10-100x cheaper (and faster). I would then envision the following process of working with it (which is really just an optimization on top of what I’ve been doing now):

1. You write a phrase.

2. You are shown a hundred pictures for that phrase, preferably from very different regions of the latent space.

3. You select the ones best matching what you want.

4. Go back to 2, 4-5 times, getting better results every time.

5. Now you can write a phrase for what you would like to change (edit) and the original image would be used as the baseline. Go back to 2 until happy.
With the collapse of the SSRI hypothesis, I feel like there was a missed opportunity to interrogate what it is about the affluent, technological society that makes such a staggering number of people so depressed.
It seems that we will instead (characteristically) plow forward with even more powerful drugs.
I would argue that linux and macos are the most popular.

And its really not my problem if you think a unix has to be mono..thats just wrong and you know it.
Because it allows you to compose anything from only functions and category theory.
Capitalists love the solution. Corporatists under the guise of capitalism hate it.

But those systems and beliefs are orthogonal. Corporatists just picks the parts of capitalism they like and ignores the rest.
The phrase "Your product asks will consistently " can be de-abbreviated to "product owners/product managers you work with will consistently request".
What for? The Livebook interface is built with Phoenix Liveview.
> Then they can explain why they're so happy with these not-vaccines that don't prevent transmission or infection.

Is this even a question? They prevent massive amounts of death.
Just got out of a project failed on both the organizational and technical side. Opportunity loss for everyone.

Keep my hope up though, there are smart kids out there, it is also human nature.
To be fair US was also messing with Poland internal affairs in the 80s.

https://www.nytimes.com/1992/02/18/world/reagan-and-pope-rep...

>President Ronald Reagan signed a secret order in May 1982 that authorized an array of economic, diplomatic and covert measures to _destabilize the Government of Poland_ and begin to break the Soviet Union's dominance of Eastern Europe, Time magazine reported this week.

>The secret order, National Security Decision Directive 32, set in motion aid to the Solidarity movement, more vigorous promotion of human rights, economic pressure and diplomatic isolation of the Communist Government, the article said.

>The report in Time adds many new details, particularly the role of the Central Intelligence Agency and the Roman Catholic Church in opening networks across which telephones, fax machines, printing presses, photocopiers, computers and intelligence information moved to Solidarity.

Thanks to this I can buy bread, washing machine or a car without waiting in a queue, signing up on a list or waiting for a government grand. Meanwhile in a shithole russia: https://www.businessinsider.com/russia-tv-segment-family-who... https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2022/07/18/7358790/
Yes, absolutely. I'm not a fan, to put it mildly, but on that day he did the United States a great service.
Or Moonbeam? Replica? WBTC? acceptableRoot()? I don’t get any of this. If I get it correctly, Web3 would use crypto technology to let you buy a digital costume that get to wear both while playing fortnite and on Facebook when chilling online with your real friends, that is unless fb switches to building a tiktok clone because it is easier money than the “metaverse”.
I think actual numbers aren't at all hard to come by, this is extremely well-studied and easily available to anyone by Googling. But I see that now we're going to go, "Well, the anecdotes of my friends trump actual data."
And all that means drastically lowering our standards of living and forwarding much of our economic output towards it. Not very palatable choice.
shorter than how long it took me to not read this article due to paywall?
Some comments wrongly equate bare-metal with on-premise. Bare-metal servers can be rented out, collocated, or installed on-premise.

Also, when renting, the company takes care of hardware failures. Furthermore, as hard disk failures are the most common issue, you can have hot spares and opt to let damaged disks rot, instead of replacing them.

For example, in ZFS, you can mirror disks 1 and 2, while having 3 and 4 as hot spares, with the following command:

zpool create pool mirror $d1 $d2 spare $d3 $d4

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The 400Gbps are now 700Gbps

https://twitter.com/DanRayburn/status/1519077127575855104

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About the break even point:

Disregarding the security risks of multi-tenant cloud instances, bare-metal is more cost-effective once your cloud bill exceeds $3,000 per year, which is the cost of renting two bare-metal servers.

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Here's how you can create a two-server infrastructure:

https://blog.uidrafter.com/freebsd-jails-network-setup
I think software engineering is actually quite difficult. If it feels easy it’s probably because you’ve been at it for a while. This severely constrains supply but demand is huge because even at high cost, software automation can deliver big returns for a company.
ACM has pretty much nothing to do with computer science. They are a mundane paper-pushing organization that is completely irrelevant to people in the field.

More accurate headline: "Academia accuses itself of being racist again." Or maybe "Assistant professor has a woke break down."
> Mainland China is not a dictatorship. There are democratic processes

Get this propaganda out of here. When there is only a single political party allowed and all candidates for that party have to be approved by the party leadership, you don't have a democracy.

From the wiki article you yourself cited: "the CCP tightly controls the nomination and election processes at every level in the people's congress system... the tiered, indirect electoral mechanism in the People's Congress system ensures that deputies at the highest levels face no semblance of electoral accountability to the Chinese citizenry."
The 2022 Real Estate Collapse is going to be worse than 2008
Because the motion of the train would alleviate the need for large power consuming fans.
To start with, there are many different ethical frameworks, so you can always pick the one that makes you feel better about your actions.

You could adopt ethics that elevates a global marketplace where goods available anywhere should be available anywhere at a price approaching the current price plus cost of transport. In such a system, it is likely ethical to circumvent any attempt to enforce regional pricing or availability.

You could adopt ethics that elevate people's ability to enter contracts, and finds it unethical to induce someone to violate the terms of a freely entered contract (perhaps only if the contract is unethical). In such a system, assuming you find the distribution contract ethical, it would be unethical to stream media in a country that was not allowed by contract.

You could adopt universalism, and consider the results if everyone cirumvented the restrictions. IMHO, if everyone did it, Netflix would be limited to getting global distribution deals (and then nobody would do it), and that may shape the market, but in the short term would limit the catalog to only those items where global distribution is feasible, which excludes a lot of content.

You may want to consider the specific case of your content. Is it available in your country through other means? Is it likely to be available on Netflix in your country at a later date?

To me, it makes a difference if it's in an exclusive distribution in your country (maybe in theaters, or pay per view, or premium tv, on disc, or even just a different streaming service) than if it's simply not available.
Sure but with the various transaction fees, exchange fees and waiting time for confirmation, and price instability, isn't it easier to just use existing financial services to buy things?
thanks a lot for this comment. I will borrow this as an interview question :)
Making the HN homepage with a post describing how you made the HN homepage. How very meta.
Ask HN: Does someone know a good SIMD programming tutorial?
I'm looking for a good tutorial about SIMD programming. The target CPU architectures which I prefer are x86 and ARM, but some more exotic ones are also welcomed if they have a good tutorial. Also, a list of exercise problems will be very useful.
College Affirmative Action Policies Backed by Major Companies
> The institution where you're a guest knows your identity (often email address),

The identity in the outer EAP does not have to be your real identity, just the realm (@domain.dom) must be correct so the radius proxying can be routed appropriately. E.g., anonymous@example.edu in the outer EAP will work fine for the user, jdoe@example.edu.
To clarify the advice, at least how I believe it should be done…

Use One Big Database Server…

… and on it, use one software database per application.

For example, one Postgres server can host many databases that are mostly* independent from each other. Each application or service should have its own database and be unaware of the others, communicating with them via the services if necessary. This makes splitting up into multiple database servers fairly straightforward if needed later. In reality most businesses will have a long tail of tiny databases that can all be on the same server, with only bigger databases needing dedicated resources.

*you can have interdependencies when you’re using deep features sometimes, but in an application-first development model I’d advise against this.
https://go.dev/LICENSE where are you looking?
Having read through the thread, I don't think many in highly developed countries can ever grasp why crypto is huge in Africa.

I'm from Nigeria. The Central Bank makes all sorts of policies around inflows and outflows.

E.g. DigitalOcean just has warned me that they will block my account. I checked and realised that the MasterCard issued by my bank has stopped honouring any payment denominated in dollars.

You could pay for this few months ago. But now nothing. I don't even know how to go about it. My friend had run around just to pay for Figma.
Sometimes you have to even call friends in diaspora to make payments for you on International sites and just pay them back via crypto.

Inflow here is such a hustle.

I've used wise.com a lot and do like their services but they no longer support Nigeria.
Off topic, but I refuse to read stuff like this in tweet format. It's nice that threadreader exists, but this short format shit has to go.
And this is the case for basically everyone.

In fact, given that ownership is fundamentally a mutually agreed upon social norm, and not any sort of real truth - Even if you trust the central authority of your locality less, they are likely a much better resource regardless.

I really think crypto advocates just don't actually understand how power works. Power is not the number in the ledger, it's the number of people who will step up to enforce it for you.

It turns out that number is very, very tiny for crypto. Much, much larger for your local currency - even if it's not as large as you'd like it to be, or "fair" as you think it should be.
It is an understandable situation, but there are more people in the comic than the main characters. There are often consultants, designers, dates, and other characters introduced all the time. I'm not someone who believes you need to shoehorn in diversity, it's just something to consider in this day and age. When introducing a new primary, secondary or background character, why wouldn't they be X? If the answer is, "because they contemporaneously are more likely to be Y", sometimes that's because of systematic problems that don't self correct without active social awareness.

I had forgotten about Asok, of course race and ethnicity get even more charged when you get into Indian culture and American corporate culture.
I'm also a literal greybeard (early 60s) on the east coast, and I haven't found this ageism to be a problem. Young companies are about "what can you do for me" and 40 years of experience gives me the intuition about architecture and implementation that you don't get without having lived through lots of failed projects!

Also, with a long career, you probably have a number of significant successes under your belt, and, while past success does not guarantee future success, it appears that past failure is a strong indicator of future failure. New teams want people with a track record of success.
I think most of us are desperate to see ourselves from a different perspective (whether we realize it or not), but that's really hard to do when success in our day-to-day lives depends on us having a stable vision of ourselves and our place in the world. I think a lot of experiences, including a lot of drugs, can help either provide a temporary new perspective, or even shift our everyday view of ourselves and our lives more permanently. LSD seems to be one of the most effective.
That's certainly important, but again, there's just so many pieces to cooking that experienced cooks don't even think about anymore, but are still uncertain & awkward to noobs.

Btw, your response implies that you deny this point, but I don't understand why that would be. Most activities are this way. People aren't born knowing how to play sports or use computers or make art, whatever. Cooking is no exception.

Anyway, thanks for the rec, I'll definitely check out Adam's recipe vids (I'm more familiar with his non-recipe vids)
> unfortunately can’t do stuff like “give me the same entity as on the picture, but doing xyz”

That's my main gripe with DALL·E as well. This missing feature makes it impossible to use for stories where the same character goes through an adventure and is present in different settings, doing different things.

Although I don't know much about how DALL·E works, I have the feeling it shouldn't be too hard to add this possibility. That would make it so much better / more useful.
Or is it one of the most senior politicians in the dominant global power deliberately demonstrating that they recognize and support Taiwan and is willing to do so in spite of Chinese military threats and they need to back the fuck up?
You should probably disclose when commenting on this thread that you are an Oracle employee.
Back when S3 and EC2 were brand spanking new services, and EC2 didn't have persistent disks, I got to see a quite well designed analytics pipeline. The inbound tracking http requests went into a pool that aggregated them locally in mysql, then wrote out the database files to S3. A separate pool would pull down these files and merge them into a local mysql databases for the web app UI. So kindof like a very simplistic map reduce atop s3 using mysql ISAM files.

It was impressively simple to keep running, and they easily scaled it to handle massive spikes related to sports events and such. The only real downside is the delay in new data hitting the UI layer, but this was built out while a lot of people still had webtrends installs kicking around, so it was perfectly acceptable for their customers.
It varies wildly within states too.
Looks good for ideation. Could potentially be more useful for an agency or creative professional building logos. They can make vector art off of promising mock-ups. Also most of the generated images need to be simplified for sake of a logo, but a professional can do this better.
The window it runs in.
People are losing their life savings and families are being set back a decade or more, but the aesthetic sure is cool!
Why not hire completely international then?
They need to start at the top. The current phase of complacency, organizational lethargy, repeated pr disasters, people wondering wtf people are doing at Google, and general tone deafness started with the current CEO. Time for him to go. His vision is speaking in corporate cliches almost exclusively and just looking after things. If there is a grander plan other than "get people clicking ads", I have yet to learn of it. The current CEO is just riding the success of his predecessors, who for all their failings actually built a great few products and company.

The organization is a reflection of its leadership and their vision. Or lack there off. MS and Google are almost polar opposites. Google is MS under Balmer. Just failing, tone deaf, never quite doing anything right. Enter Satya Nadella and suddenly MS is re-engaging with developers, doing all the things that were simply unmentionable before, and generally delivering great share holder value. Google needs somebody like that. The current CEO is not it. He's a caretaker. Not a leader.

I'm not a shareholder; so no stake in this game other than observing what is obvious to me.
> batching multiple transactions into IO blocks where feasible. If your average transaction is substantially smaller than the IO block size, then you are probably leaving a lot of throughput on the table.

Could you expand on this? A quick Google search didn't help. Link to an article or a brief explanation would be nice!
Ah, maybe this is how Snowpiercer drives itself!

(A sci-fi show where the only remaining humans live on a train that circles the world, they never explain how the train has infinite fuel.)
You like unregulated market because you think regulated market is "scammy"?

I can't recall a brokerage such as Schwab or vanguard ever losing my money, compared to Mt.Gox and other trash crypto exchanges.
What you are paying for is not the ability to transfer money but for the ability to do local taxes and local insurance correctly. Just moving to crypto will not solve this.
This headline, all by itself, tells pretty much the whole story of our modern culture.
I've been building a distributed database product for more than 7 years, managing a team of nearly 300 R&D staff and serving hundreds of customers.

Customer Support is hard for us. Not only the number of OnCalls, but also the complexity of the product causing that we can't solve the problem easily and fast. We are under a lot of pressure.

To solve this, I have tried following ways:

- Build an independent team (may name Escalation Engineering or L3 in other companies, here let's name L3) to focus on the customer problem solving.

- Establish the OnCall duty mechanism, some engineers (maybe 10 one time) must join the L3 for two weeks only focusing on OnCall. Why it is so important, because I believe the quick way to learning our product is from OnCall.

- Get to know our customers better. We are a database product, if we can know our customers' business workloads, we can give them more advices to let the business application run more better in our product.

- Build many Diagnostic tool to solve the OnCall easily.

Finally, I would like to say that although customer support is sometimes painful, it allows us to better understand our customers and know the strengths and weaknesses of our products.
Am amused at the baby blue and pink colored suits the two people are wearing.
Try to fly with over $10,000 (Not even a lot of money these days) in cash and see what happens.

Might change your opinion of it.
The first one is really amazing!

Something strange about DALL·E is that if you just type gibberish by pounding randomly on your keyboard, it will still "work", i.e., produce an image.
That too can be solved with "AI".

https://imgur.com/a/m3hDMZq

The software used was Topaz Labs Sharpen AI. How they define "AI" I can't say for certain, but they're apparently using models so I'm assuming there's some kind of machine learning involved. Their software does a really good job on photos and videos well beyond what a standard sharpen filter does. The upscaling features are also pretty awesome. (no I don't work for them)
It's a mindset shift to a more declarative model. The idea has also popped up in other niche orchestrators.

This is an oversimplification but IMO the easiest way of picturing it is instead thinking of defining your graph as a forward moving thing w/ the orchestrator telling things they can be run you shift to defining your graph nodes to know their dependencies and they let the orchestrator know when they're runnable.
> The same hand waves could be made for PoW.

Not really. PoW is orders of magnitude simpler than PoS and is vastly easier to reason about. I can explain the concepts around PoW in 5 minutes to someone who doesn't understand it. PoS is a lot closer to a rube goldberg contraption than PoW is. The proof in all of this is the years it has taken to even get to the point we are at today.

> Articles describing the complexity involved

The whole point of my original comment is that this is A LOT more complex than a bridge contract and therefore will be subject to a larger attack surface. Thanks for validating that point.
No. It is not haunted, because haunting is not real.
Mushrooms are being lightly legalized in some cities and states. And while a lot of that is under the umbrella of mental health or spirituality, it is not being confined to medical environments. The normies appear to be losing that particular battle. And I think they're set to lose a lot more.
Which just makes the train less efficient and need more power? These carbon capture systems only work when the input energy is free (both financially and carbon-wise), but it seems like there's better and more efficient for uses the dynamic breaking energy (electric or hybrid trains).
I think they're referencing the Supreme Court

https://www.npr.org/2022/06/30/1103595898/supreme-court-epa-...
If you learn FP, in a real FP language, it will bring discipline into the way you write code. All code you write, once you "get it", functional or non-functional may become an order of magnitude better.
The problem with airflow is its scalability (or lack thereof) and DAG dependency management.

Airflow successors must figure out how to distribute the cron and all dependencies should be self contained in a Docker image.
There has been renewed focus on expediting chatbot development. Attempts to fast-track conversational AI development has included bootstrapping using LLM’s, QnA, Search, Knowledge Bases, etc. This article looks at how conversational Response Generation can be used to the same end.