skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They have an advantage in a toxic work environment. They basically become the head honcho of toxicity.
I found the "grounding" explanation provided by human feedback very insightful:

> Why is this significant? At the core the model is still doing language modeling, right? learning to predict the next word, based on text alone? Sure, but here the human annotators inject some level of grounding to the text. Some symbols ("summarize", "translate", "formal") are used in a consistent way together with the concept/task they denote. And they always appear in the beginning of the text. This make these symbols (or the "instructions") in some loose sense external to the rest of the data, making the act of producing a summary grounded to the human concept of "summary". Or in other words, this helps the model learn the communicative intent of the a user who asks for a "summary" in its "instruction". An objection here would be that such cases likely naturally occur already in large text collections, and the model already learned from them, so what is new here? I argue that it might be much easier to learn from direct instructions like these than it is to learn from non-instruction data (think of a direct statement like "this is a dog" vs needing to infer from over-hearing people talk about dogs). And that by shifting the distribution of the training data towards these annotated cases, substantially alter how the model acts, and the amount of "grounding" it has. And that maybe with explicit instructions data, we can use much less training text compared to what was needed without them. (I promised you hand waving didn't I?)
Images and Videos tend, in comaprison to text, consume a lot of data even if compressed. This additional data leads to a stark increase in bandwidth usage when accessing a video compared to, e.g., a (text) blog.
Because cloudflare is the one handling most of the bandwidth usage and routing this amounts to a significant cost for them (more servers, bigger pipes, ...).
Even before r2 they didn't allow sites like image hosting or video hosting.

The point of Cloudflare is that hosting your website for free is a service, and you "pay" for that service in strengthening their network; from their S-1[0]:

> Free customers are an important part of our business. .. Our free customers create scale, serve as efficient brand marketing, and help us attract developers, customers, and potential employees.... In addition, the added scale and diversity of this traffic makes us valuable to a diverse set of global ISPs, improving the breadth and economic terms of our interconnections, bandwidth costs, and co-location expenses.

Your theoretical cost as a free customer is outweighed by the positive effects of protecting over 10% of websites on the internet, largely for free. Now, if you run a free video site proxying all your multimedia stream segments to serve pirated movies, or create a site dedicated to user image uploads and quickly balloon to serving hundreds of terabytes a day at the expense of Cloudflare, your value to the network is trumped by how much you're actively costing them in uplink costs and risk exposure.

0: https://gist.github.com/judge2020/e49138d588950167b736c630aa...
But not all forward fixes are quick to write or even locate. Also, monoliths take much longer to go through CI (build + all the tests), and deployment tends to be much slower.

In cases when a rollback is necessay, you'll often find yourself in a cycle where a breakage goes out, the deployment is rolled back, a patch is applied, a new deployment goes out and a new breakage happens, the deployment is rolled back, and so on. I am exaggerating how often this happens, but it does happen when you have thousands of engineers, and it happened often enough at my workplace that developers were unhappy and management pushed for breaking up the monolith.
If a TV is being used only as a display for external devices such as Apple TV or gaming consoles, it is a reasonable assumption to assume the TV will never need a firmware update.

At least in my 15 years of using flat panel TVs, I have never seen a need for a firmware update.
Are you saying this based on speculation, or based on having worked with or for him at Shopify?
Another way to put it is: Rust is world's best c/c++ teacher. Once you understand and surpass borrow checker, your c++ code will be much less error prone.
Is net return all that matters? Seems like with increasing heat waves, power outages etc, being able to generate and store your own electricity has value from a resiliency standpoint.
> instead you should ask why the wealthy aren't paying their share of the taxes?

And what is the right share that the wealthy should pay, and how wealthy should one be to be paying that amount? I'm assuming it's some level of wealth above yours.

About half of the US doesn't pay any federal income tax, and a little over a quarter pays no net federal taxes at all, including payroll taxes. The labor force participation rate hit its peak in the 90s and has been steadily decreasing since then, with the last reading at 62.1%. Perhaps you should ask why two-fifths of adults aren't doing their share of the labor?
well I spent a few minutes checking its website and could not find that 'speed' keyword, plus I don't have a speed issue with vscode and clion though I don't use them often, as I'm a vim user.
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How are you being oppressed by a SaaS offering that charges you nothing and uses a standard protocol (git)?
The only thing I want is GPG-style interop. If I can sync a cryptographic login keyfile between my devices with something like Syncthing or SFTP, that would make it trivial to integrate it into my workflow.
TIL : the free cloudflare proxies will serve your static HTML files only, and you need to host your images elsewhere.
Their support is really trash. There's a lot of "go to the forums", and you go there and get ignored.

We had issues with ZeroTrust and could get literally ZeroHelp. We were told the ZeroTrust team doesn't monitor the forums (which were where we were told by support to go for help, lol).
I have two book-selection processes:

1. When I want to learn a specific skill or solve a specific problem, I read books for information. For example, I recently picked up a bunch of books on minimalist farming to learn how to take care of my property. I also recently read a bunch of parenting books because I recently had my first child. I think the thing to avoid here is reading "interesting" books without having a concrete application. With nothing to apply, I immediately forget everything I read.

2. When I want to learn and grow and explore, I reach for the classics! People have been reading a long time, and have collectively listed lots of life-changing books. To learn about humanity, go for Brothers Karamazov. To learn about computers, consider Godel Escher Bach or SICP. To learn about history, read Guns Germs Steel and Sapiens. And so on. Pick pretty much anything off of "best of all time" lists and it won't disappoint.

[0] https://taylor.town/eschew-the-new

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_top_book_lists

[2] https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/127723.The_Greatest_Book...

[3] https://4chanlit.fandom.com/wiki//lit/_Top_100_Lists
If there’s no net-zero metering, aren’t they incentivizing people to be completely disconnected from the grid, or at least not incentivizing them to be connected? (Which is bad for the grid.) Why would I fuck around with the utility at all if I’m installing enough solar/battery to power my needs?
Uh, can't cloudflare just choose not to cache images beyond a certain bandwidth limit if they want to? Why throw the customer off the service completely?
Hmm, my parents also looked into micro inverters and while they were more expensive it still was far from this price.
Jews are a minority in Israel?
Just a guess, but I'm wondering if it's more about their system detecting someone serving almost entirely image requests, versus someone serving 20-40 images per web page, a pattern more consistent with images served alongside a web page.
I was working at Amazon when they started transitioning from monolith to microservices, and the big win there was locality of data and caching.

All of the catalog data was moved to a service which only served catalog data so its cache was optimized for catalog data and the load balancers in front of it could optimize across that cache with consistent hashing.

This was different from the front end web tier which used consistent hashing to pin customers to individual webservers.

For stuff like order history or customer data, those services sat in front of their respective databases and provided consistent hashing along with availability (providing a consistent write-through cache in front of the SQL databases used at the time).

I wouldn't call those areas where it makes things more efficient rare, but actually common, and it comes from letting your data dictate your microservices rather than letting your organiation dictate your microservices (although if teams own data, then they should line up).
I don't fully know, but I am guessing because Cloudflare doesn't charge for bandwidth, only requests... non-html content is going to be more data per request, which might not fit into their cost model.
Whether you're using the right start point and picking the right optional pieces are definitely important. But for most kinds of agreements I see and advise on, there's nothing lawyers know that nobody else could know. What you need doesn't have to come from a lawyer, though it often does.

Meanwhile, specifics of the deal and the broader context can also matter, sometime more than the abstractions legal forms tend to deal in. A lawyer may or may not notice those and reason through them.

Paving an AI path over ill-fitting or over-standardized legal terms isn't great for the industry. Neither is reinforcing lawyer monopoly over business knowledge.
Wonderful insight. Thanks for your comment
Doctor prescribed Ketamine is legal, whereas marijuana/hemp and psilocybin do not enjoy the same legal status. Though hopefully strong at-home 5HT2A agonists will see more at-home encouragement and legalization along with good spiritual guidelines for spiritual journeywork in the future. It's a promising avenue.

Additionally, Ketamine works along different modalities so it can cover avenues that the previous two cannot. I find the pain relief avenue of action in contrast to the two mentioned above to personally be quite fascinating and I believe underutilized within the current field of research.
Helps to have a language that natively uses more CPU cores and/or training for the devs.

Ruby, Python, PHP and Node.js startups have to figure out how to use the cores while C++, Rust, Erlang and Go have no issues running a single process that maxes out all 64 CPU cores.
Maybe not even the largest proxy by volume. Akamai and Google Cloud load balancers serve bigger customers with comparable, if not more overall bandwidth. Cloudflare only puts out stats for "percentage of websites"[0], which includes all of the random blogs that get less than 1k views a day.

0: https://community.cloudflare.com/t/statistically-speaking-wh...
One procedural dungeon crawl and one RTS.
This line of reasoning is poor.

Taken to horrible extremes: Slavery has large benefits.

Even if not taken to extremes, we're talking about the same argument that erodes privacy; "We need to take away your freedom so that the terrorists can't groom your children and bomb your daycare centers!".

I can't even begin to steelman an argument like this, it's just poorly reasoned out.
> Is the buyer at fault or the seller?

It’s Putin’s, and a small group around him.
> I don't see how monoliths can keep up with developer velocity when an organization reaches thousands of developers.

Are those thousands of developers working on a single product? If so, then I'd argue that you have way too many developers. At that point, you'd need so many layers of management that the overall vision of what the product is gets lost.
Yeah, I think this is a sign that while, as the post notes, it's not clear that this is a 100% airtight paper/algorithm, there are major advancements happening in this space.
The lack of public transportation doesn't bother me in the slightest, and compared to northern states, the roads here are vastly superior. All in all neither are issues for me and my quality of living is exponentially higher here than it was up north. Glad you found a spot that works for you, got to love the ability to do so.
because very likely you won't have enough solar/battery to power your needs...
This is a problem of CloudFlare's own making. They provided a lot of services for "free" to gain scale and market share. Now they are a public company, and things are changing. A pro plan does not give you unlimited CDN data transfer, but I've heard from people enough times, "Just do it on Cloudflare for free", and that perception is CloudFlare's making. When you get to the Enterprise tier, CloudFlare works just like a traditional CDN in terms of metered usage and billing.

* I've been using various CDN's since the 90's, and I'm currently a Cloudflare Enterprise customer. However, Cloudflare, not without its faults, is still the best option out there.
> I’m always a bit confused if seemingly otherwise smart people simply don’t understand something so basic

Are you surprised, truly? All right, I’ll play along.

We have a progressive tax system. So the majority of the costs are born by the wealthy and the well-off, rather than the working class. Some of the well-to-do got that way by grit and hard work; others by luck; and at least a few by fraud and worse. They’re the winners of a somewhat-arbitrary game, and I don’t see anything wrong with tweaking the rules in pursuit of a collective good, like wider solar panel deployment.

Meanwhile! We know that most industries have quite dramatic learning-by-doing and returns to scale. And yet in this fallen world transaction costs and imperfect information can prevent new technologies from getting enough scale practice to become economically viable. So temporary subsidies in the early stage have a good chance of bringing costs down for everyone.

I’m very glad to be the first to introduce you to these arguments, if I am. You don’t have to agree: I left my mind-control goggles in my other coat. But please, don’t play dumb.
When a company does this, it's generally a knee jerk reaction to engineering telling product that development pace is slow because of "all the meetings."
Setting a specific limit is going to result in people pushing up as close to the line as possible, instead of holding to the spirit of the policy.
Russia has the most nuclear weapons of any country, the largest airborne assault force in the world, the best missile defense system in the world, the second most nuclear submarines (and second best), the third most fighter aircraft, the most tanks.

Russia has a great domestic arms industry/natural resources and can resupply itself in isolation.

People need to realize that Russia's defense is primarily setup to defend its borders.

Any country other than the US would not fare well in a nuclear war with Russia, including China.

China hasn't been at war since the 70s. No one knows how well they would do in a conflict.

You simply cannot ignore nuclear weapons. Nuclear weapons are a great equalizer, that is why North Korea cannot be invaded from South Korea, despite South Korea having a much better "conventional" military.
Net metering just doesn't make sense though. Everyone who wants to rely on the grid for power availability ought to pay for grid upkeep costs. Net metering would make sense if it came on top of a baseline "connectivity fee" that covered grid maintenance, but that's not the current policy, would likely be politically infeasible, and would hurt rooftop solar customers financially anyway.

Subsidizing solar is a perfectly good policy choice, but net metering is ultimately an unsustainable way to implement it.
An entirely FOSS way to use them and back them up, with no attestation that I'm using a stack that's been officially blessed by one of the megacorps.
Class action filed against LastPass
Yikes. No.

For one, calls don’t result in a searchable log. If I remember I talked to someone about Foo, I can search for that in my Slack history.
If someone else asks me the same question about Foo, I can just send them a screenshot from our earlier conversation and we’re done. I can also talk to 4 different people about four different issues at the same time in chat, but I can only be in a single call at a time.
If you liked the article, you might enjoy reading "Gesture and the nature of language" (Armstrong/Stokoe/Wilcox), suggesting that language developed both signed and spoken and that grammar in particular relates to these signed origins .
No of course not, nor did I claim they are.
I think that's a great approach. If possible, you can add another step: Teaching it to someone else.

>There's pretty much no better way to ensure you'll produce students that dislike and suck at math for the rest of their lives than proceeding by mind-numbing rote memorization.

I couldn't agree more.
Over the last 8 quarters their average profit margin is a whopping 3.25%. If you think that’s just too high I’m not sure what to tell you.

An alternate way to look at the CA rule change is that CA needs more installed storage to shore up the shitty grid, and incentivizing people to install solar alone via net metering isn’t a great idea anymore. Remember that peak power demand is right around and just after sunset.
Er, so do you run around and dive in pools when the rule boards posted everywhere explicitly list those as forbidden, then get mad when you get kicked out?
Reef Kitchens retreats from Portland after parking lot contracts expire (2022)
Multiple passkeys support by default. Many websites only support one hardware token and hardware is not infallible.
Is js considered as non-html?
Please remain polite.
If one provider's expenses went up, they generally can't raise prices, but if every provider's (even potential ones) expenses go up, then they can.
It's not an absurdly high dose taken orally. I'm not sure how that compares to subcutaneous though
A fortune? I'll be paying a little more than $100k over the life of my 30y mortgage. I think that is very fair for the amount I borrowed (3x that...)
Arizona inducing the labor of pregnant prisoners against their will
The Fediverse has some big problems coming
I'd question if that would hold up in court. Can the court order also be violated if I burn a contract and use the ashes to grow vegetables? Presumably about as much information in the contract is extractable from the vegetable as from a NN weight.
"The top 1 percent paid a greater share of individual income taxes (38.8 percent) than the bottom 90 percent combined (29.2 percent)."[1]

How is that not paying their share?

[1] https://taxfoundation.org/publications/latest-federal-income...
Majority of the bytes? Yes.
Majority of the requests? Usually not.
Majority of the caches miss bytes? Probably not.

There are probably exceptions, but even the most graphically heavy sites have a decent amount of HTML, CSS, and JS content. This is probably due to Google bot not appreciating excessive image use. Marketing folk typically listen very closely to whatever Google dictates.
It does. Not in Texas but Australia and one of he rooms that got solar became slightly cooler after it was installed on those very hot days.
I had the pleasure of having dinner around 1990, with my team of 6 from Apple, at Steve’s Woodside residence with Steve trying to recruit us into coming to NeXT. One of the team alerted Apple lawyers and Steve started the evening reading a non-poaching letter from Apple’s lawyers to Steve.

That out of the way the dinner was mainly an evening of Steve asking a lot about Apple as it became obvious he still was emotionally invested in the company.

None of us went to NeXT.
The difference between DeFi and traditional finance is that traditional finance is actually useful, while DeFi has absolutely no societal value. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34210334

If society deems that level of transparency beneficial, it can be implemented on centralized databases much more cheaply.
The thing that scary me most is that his business get shut down without any notice period (at least the author not mentioning any previous communications from Cloudflare team about the issue).

This is really a shitty thing from Cloudflare, you cannot shut down an already running business without any notice/grace period.
but they did install it in the 7th month, and we see no real hardship applied to the author, perhaps save for $200 per month lost opportunity for savings (less interest applied, would have to think that through more) ...
Perhaps actually come up with a tangible argument before trying to paint yourself as the superior gentleman?
This was true because of the all time high natural gas prices (€350/MWh) and high oil prices, both of which have now dropped to pre-war levels (~€70/MWh).
See also https://www.wweek.com/news/business/2023/01/02/portland-ghos... about Homage Industrial Kitchen, a 75-brand ghost kitchen in Portland that reports it's filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy.
I think you're right yea -

A lot of the stuff UBI would pay for is (imo) not that scarce or shouldn't be. Food, water, most medicine, etc. we can absolutely just provide to everyone. We have the resources to give everyone a decent life (ie. not struggling to stay alive, not made artificially awful etc.).

I am quite sure of this for America given the current level of offshore exploitation not changing. I think but am not entirely convinced this is possible globally. Certainly there is some amount of population that is simply too much for the earth to sustainably handle but I have no real idea what exactly that number is.

Stuff that is inherently not scalable then .. yea .. ubi cant fix that. Not everyone can get a mansion, or 1918 wines, or even maybe suburban houses really. Not sure exactly where the lines are but there ARE unique things and it's wrong to discount that.

But the current system is set up so that you have to grind hours doing miserable things largely unrelated to survival to get enough money to _not die_. I feel like UBI is just the simplest most reasonable safety net for that. Certainly there are other options but they add bureaucracy and complications that don't seem worth it to me. It's like everyone has a house they can crash at indefinitely if they need or want to.

But it's not the only option ofc. Just seems to me like a decent combination of simple + politically viable + solves many problems of exploitative work. Healthcare-for-all would be huge step forwards even without UBI so it's not the only goal either.

& as for "right to happiness" - I really believe that most people will still want to be useful and make cool things people like, even if given the option to not. Open Source software etc. is already run this way on weekends. Making something useful for other people will still be an achievement people strive for, and would be rewarded on top of UBI.
this is surprisingly simple to countermeasure, just pull the SMA antennae leads from the board, and cap the connectors with a few drops of metallic fingernail polish.

for surface-mount antennae (which cant be used for 5g or 5ghz wifi) you would just brush the same metallic fingernail polish on the trace :)