skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Great handle, lagrange77.

You may find "Cracked It!: How to solve big problems and sell solutions like top strategy consultants" useful: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-319-89375-4

I haven't read it but only skimmed the contents and it looks close to the process we converged toward through systematic and continuous refining.

Related reading and concepts: "Design Thinking", "The Complete Problem Solver", Clayton Christensen et al. work, "job to be done", "non-consumption", etc.

What I call "inverse framing": a client asks you to predict something 48h before it happens. 48h sounds arbitrary and you ask "Why 48h? Why not 30h" and get a reply, then you ask "At what point a prediction is useless to you? What is too late?" and they say "Even if you predict it 2 minutes before, there are still things we can do to mitigate damages and we have processes for that", so now you helped your colleagues by going from a 48h prediction to a 2 minute prediction, but even more useful, you have a better understanding of the constraints and the people impacted by that. You also ask "What's the cost/impact of a false positive? What's the cost/impact of a false negative?". Possible answers: human loss, environmental catastrophe, $100MM in loss, a $9B piece of infrastructure blows up, or a combination of these. or you wake up an engineer or attract the attention of someone on duty.
Check out DeepMind RETRO, it's one year old already, but exactly what you say:

https://www.deepmind.com/publications/improving-language-mod...
Our house was built in 1973 and still has aluminum wiring and a 100A fuse box. So I feel your pain.
Most generational wealth dissolves pretty quickly unless the heirs are industrious. It's a problem that solves itself naturally.
This is my favorite quote: "In an unintended twist of irony, the agencies seeking to cover their legal ass are party to creating the most criminal of systems – an
unending flow of aeronautical sewage rendering the critical few pieces of information unfindable."
current value = pre-pandemic value + actual growth + pandemic growth

Just because pandemic growth is now 0 doesn’t mean Amazon didn’t have actual growth too
"The data for steady-state-off measurements were long-tail skewed, with the top 5 stoves (9% of sampled units) emitting half (49%) of all steady-state-off emissions."

So, they have a couple leaky stoves in the equation and they extrapolate the data. But they never bother to determine what was leaking, which is actually a fairly simple thing to do since there are commercial leak detectors that are quite sensitive (https://www.southerncrossinc.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/...) to at home units that detect NG/propane/etc.

Plus there were quite a number of other WTF moments in the document that don't match with my understanding of current install practices around NG heaters/etc.

Not the least of which, is that if 1% of the usage (which is a lot!) is leaking that will easily show up on peoples meters and be something that can be smelled. Which granted most people don't run outside and check their meter in the morning after having turned off all their gas consumers but people do smell gas. I've known at least one person who ended up ripping up a bunch of the piping in their attic because it was leaking, but i'm guessing its more likely someone forgot about an old appliance with an actual pilot light or the data was categorized improperly.

Lets just say, that if you were honestly trying to run this study, don't you think you would want to go investigate some of the outliers to at least note that the top couple cases were broken valves, or rusted piping, or just debris in the gas line damaging/keeping the valve from closing (which is why modern gas codes require sediment traps) fully?
Payment for use of the shared gasses known as the atmosphere may be an important improvement and makes sense as an extension of carbon taxes paid by automakers and other industries. This tax is invisibly passed on to consumers although perhaps intended to encourage improved fuel economy. Consider all classes atmospheric takings (either by consumption of elements like oxygen or dispersal of particulates or other gases), why not make everyone pay to the value found in atmospheric use?

An example of this is already found in Colorado, where cans of supplemental oxygen can be found in gas stations and grocery stores.
> What strikes me is that it actually is easier to write new code than to properly maintain/refactor old, foreign code. Working with large amount of old code requires a lot of hard, real planning and decisionmaking and learning to live with and adjust to decisions made by others in the past.

Right on the money. Everyone loves greenfield because you get to build things up from scratch, try out your own ideas, and there's this feeling of tremendous velocity. You feel like you're just tearing through code, kicking butt, delivering wins. Then the difficult requests start to come in, which usually means feedback from real human users. That's when the rubber hits the road and the grumbling begins.

And like you said, once the project is seen as maintenance it is 'not sexy' despite the fact that all successful software definitionally makes the most money while in the so-called maintenance stage.
-- tc article confusing - https://techcrunch.com/2023/01/10/carta-previously-sued-for-... --
> Yeah, this feels a lot like saying "My god, people, stop using telephones! Facetime has video! And the bitrate! It's a million times higher! It's 2023, why would anyone use a POTS call?!" Sure, nicer technical specs are...nice, but they're a far, far second to solving a problem.

I understand that this is supposed to feel like a clearly ridiculous example but my gut reaction is "well yeah, I hate the telephone and I'd be quite happy if I never have to give my phone number to anyone or answer a phone call again."
At the end of the day, for a salaried employee, it's not a vacation day if you do any work -- and checking email IS work -- no matter how it's accounted for, most Microsoft FTEs never truly take a vacation day. So it's all just a matter of accounting anyway.
You could take a look a swift-nio (https://github.com/apple/swift-nio) which is a pretty high-throughput system. swift-nio does this using some reference-counted GC where it simplifies the code and doesn't affect performance. Otherwise, value-types are used which incur no GC overhead (unless they are copy-on-write, and backed by something that requires reference counting).
They raised two gillion??
"Managed Spot Training..."

"...Spot instances can be interrupted, causing jobs to take longer to start or finish. You can configure your managed spot training job to use checkpoints. SageMaker copies checkpoint data from a local path to Amazon S3. When the job is restarted, SageMaker copies the data from Amazon S3 back into the local path. The training job can then resume from the last checkpoint instead of restarting...."

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/sagemaker/latest/dg/model-manage...
I think this is a cop out.

Simple grammar does not mean easily understood syntax - particularly given that make is essentially dependent on the entire shell it's operating in (at a minimum, usually GNU tooling).

Plus - At least in my experience it tends to deteriorate into many developers playing "code golf" with the commands: using obscure flags and inscrutable commands to save a few lines in the file.

Worse, while splitting into several makefiles is possible - a lot of the tooling stops working particularly well (ex: autocomplete no longer works on tasks that are "included")

Basically - I find that the only consistent way to use makefiles on a moderately sized team is a rather strict "one script per task" rule, with the script ideally written in the same language as the project. But at that point I might as well just use a native task runner in that language anyways.
I'm not a boomer, but fuck you very much for saying so.

I say that not to be mean, but "boomer" has become a slur and I prefer not to be insulted unless it's actually accurate.

I have been in Hipster doofus land[0] in the past few years and most of what I experienced reinforced my stance.

I will continue to try to avoid it.

[0] I'd love to say I made that nickname up, but I didn't. Works for me though.

Edit: Touched on the source of a wonderful moniker.
exactly how it works with Los Angeles taco trucks

if you're lucky you have 3-5 in a few block radius, and the "best taco truck in LA" is your favorite out of those
> GPT and human brain have nothing in common

Here we go again. They must have something in common, because for about 90% of the tasks the language model agrees with humans, even on novel tasks.

> We, as humans, do not use language in a generative way

Oh, do you want to say we are only doing classification from a short list of classes and don't generate open ended language? Weird, I speak novel word combinations all the time.
How about 8 weeks per year? Or 10 weeks? Would that be fine?
The cover of the 1st edition of the "dragon book" -- Compilers: Principles, Techniques, and Tools, by Aho, Sethi and Ullman

https://www.amazon.com/Compilers-Principles-Techniques-Alfre...
The thing with email is it's only encrypted (even in transit) sometimes. So it kinda has the same issue as iMessage. If you're a Gmail user using Gmail's web app to email another Gmail user, you get encryption in transit (and it sounds like you might be able to implement E2EE as well). But if you email dave@somerandomemailserver.com, you won't know until you send the message whether it's encrypted.

As for envelopes and wax seals--it's an interesting question. It requires a lot less technical knowledge for someone to open that envelope than to spy on messaging traffic. On the other hand, a lot more people have access to the messaging traffic and can bring scripts to bear on it at scale.
The trick is to learn to enjoy all coffees for what they are. I'll take gas station murk in a pinch, and I'll drink it black when no options are available. But I also love coffees that are $10-15 per pound. But I usually buy in the $7 range. It's about being content, not being snobby, no matter how much you spend.

Edit: Agreeing with another commenter in this thread that some coffees at gas stations are truly awful and are immediately thrown away. Those aren't legit coffee though, and don't count toward what I said above.
Inigo Montoya would like a word, speaking of the cry wolf effect.
Eh it used to be very cost competitive to slap up LTE mobile devices in remote areas for internet. Now we have starlink and 5G has reduced range/doesn't handle trees and valleys as well as 4g/3g it's not so much the case. I got like 3x of these 4G lte modems sitting about doing naught since starlink activated here.
I have preferred spaces to tabs since the mid nineties because everyone sees it the same. With tabs people use 2 4 and 8, which can make my tendency to over indent code cause more trouble.

I will say I have been doing go recently and have been forced into tabs and camelCase, and have found consistency really is better than The Right Way.

For make, since using protobufs and code gen and being allergic to checking generated code in, have found make to be nicer than I remember it.
I keep tuning into A16Z's media to see what the crypto partners are saying
G => SI prefix for 10^9
Saudi Narrative Control Efforts Now Include Jailing Wikipedia Administrators
But for now, let’s just treat each piece of data as having a single copy that’s encrypted with a single text key

No. Let's not. That's not how encryption works. It's barely how encryption worked in the 1990s. The author of this piece has built a disproportionately strong connection in their mental model between ciphertext and some singular key. But we don't need advanced techniques and horcruxes and whatnot to break that link: you can just encrypt the key with another key, or several different keys.
This is an interesting paper and Oumuamua will remain fascinating for a long time.

Maybe the answer to the Fermi Paradox (or 'Where the hell are they?') is that they're around and doing interstellar drive-bys and we're just starting to notice.
Straight up an advertisement piece for the company.
Mick West put together what I found to be a pretty enlightening and convincing analysis:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qsEjV8DdSbs

Ultimately, it remains an unidentified flying object, but between West’s conclusion and a physics defying anomaly, I’d lean squarely towards the former.
I don't think there is anything sustainable that will work this fast.

Good habits and lifestyle changes take time.

The only other option that has worked for me would be drugs like Adderall.
I've seen this argument before. Back then we called it the Strawman Argument. Not much has changed.
The Main Goal: Secure the Application Workload
Circuit breaker versus GFCI outlets (which also have breakers). I find the former far more convenient—I know they don't serve the same purpose, but the way one interacts with them is similar, except that the GFCIs are scattered all over the place and may require moving things to find.

> If it's even possible, such a wiring configuration seems like an obvious building code safety violation.

Norm in every house I've lived in in the US (except one so old it had knob-and-tube wiring... hahaha) is one GFCI for a set of outlets. Like, if you have a long vanity in a largish bathroom, you might end up with two or three outlets, one GFCI, the others following after it so they trip it, too. The only times I've seen a single one used with nothing hanging off it is when it's the only outlet in the room, or for under-sink outlets for dishwashers and disposals to plug into. This can turn into a real mess if anyone got "creative" with wiring at any point. We've had a garage GFCI kill a couple outlets in the house proper (in a nearby laundry room, not super distant), plus an outdoor outlet probably 30 feet away, all of which were evidently attached to it.
Oddities in nuclear reactor measurements not due to a new particle
Because I wanted the title of my blog posts to match the file name, so I didn't have to remember which markdown file was which post.
"Oh just err on the site of extremely cautious and sensitive. More safety can't be a bad thing."
indeed, there is a lot of useful work that people could do that is currently not paid well. for example education, science, healthcare.... imagine what we can achieve, when all those who are not needed to sustain our life study science and research or medicine.
parents need not work but can focus their entire energy on raising their children.

or a different model, if 1% need to work 40 years to sustain us, then 10% can do the same while working only 4 years, or everyone only works one year. (ok, it doesn't scale like that because it takes more time to get experience for certain tasks, but even then, with such an abundance of available labor, every worker can spend half of their work time to teach others about their work)

all it takes is an understanding that the best thing to do with those not needed for work is to educate them to do something else that is useful for us.
> The electrician also needed to replace my existing ground wires because they are supposed to be cables sheathed in green.

Where was that? In my (medium-aged) American house and in some newish romex cable I bought last year, the ground wires are all bare copper cables, no green sheathing at all. I've had electrical work done in the last couple weeks, and no one even mentioned them.

IIRC (not an electricial) bare copper and green-sheathed wires are both acceptable for ground wires.
Windows stores the keys inside the cloud by default. This is not optimal, but reduces the lost key scenario a lot. But it also protects the data on a lost laptop, as long as the attacker doesn’t get access to your Microsoft account.
> If a breaker pops, it's easy. You have a box, maybe two if you live in a really huge house. Go there, look for the switch that's not quite lined up, toggle switch, done.

FWIW, you can have the same thing with GFCIs. I recently wired my garage for woodworking and installed all GFCI breakers in the breaker box, so a GFCI trip is just like a regular breaker trip (not that either of those has happened with the new circuits). The GFCI breakers cost about $50/ea [1] and protect the whole circuit.

> GFCI, you gotta figure out which one popped. If the wiring's not great, it may well be in a totally different room from the outlet that stopped working.

I once couldn't operate my garage door for a few days. There were no tripped breakers in the box. Eventually, it dawned on me that the circuit was labeled "GFCI" so maybe I should go check the GFCIs in the house, and I found that the GFCI in the upstairs bathroom had tripped. The upstairs GFCI is nowhere near the garage (and in the opposite direction from the breaker box). Since then, I've talked to several people in the area whose houses are wired the same way. I guess GFCIs must have been really expensive in the 80s, when these houses were built.

The moral of this story is that GFCI breakers can save a lot of headache. (Plus, those GFCI outlets are kinda ugly IMO).

[1]: I see they're about $60/ea now: https://www.homedepot.com/p/Square-D-Homeline-20-Amp-Single-...
How can you compare a subway to other organizations?
If single phase you'll notice sometimes it has a little extra ground wire connected (now mostly obsolete), for 3 phase it doesn't, in both cases it will say so on the outside (typically: the test current, and usually there is a test button which makes them easy to identify, this test button forces a small leak causing the circuit to become unbalanced resulting in a trip (if it doesn't trip when the test button is pressed the breaker is considered faulty and should be replaced).

For instance, here is an 'Eaton' 3 phase breaker with integrated ground fault protection circuitry:

https://www.omnical.co/products/eaton/1742431/2259595

Note the little yellow 'test' button. That's a 30 mA fault current device, you can have higher permissible fault currents for certain gear that tends to be a bit more leaky which would otherwise cause nuisance trips. These little things are quite the work of art inside, if you ever have a faulty one I would encourage you to pick it apart to see what makes it tick.
There was a Papa John's in Bay Ridge that sold $1 slices in 2009. It was just a cheese slice but I enjoyed it.

I do not enjoy Costco pizza and I enjoy more pizzas than I probably should.
There is very little real liquidity in cryptocurrency, there was never $2T of it to begin with. I’d be surprised if people put more than 1-2% of $2T of actual USD into cryptocurrency.

The answer to your question is “No.”

As a contrast, around $500B of US Treasury bonds trade every. single. day, and they’re all made with real currency
I worked at several companies that had this poster hanging on the wall back in the day and spent a lot of time staring at it while on the phone. It comes immediately to mind.

https://www.scribd.com/doc/223671868/Poster-Protocolos-1
It's not wrong. You no longer have to be physically present to have your money stolen. It's safer for everyone.
The poster child groups self identify as white nationalists. How is that not a far right thing?

Parler is not moderate conservatives.
My friend is on the site, saw this article, and he sent it to me. I made an account when I noticed one of the comments was asking if any descendants were on here and thought I could help answer questions.
Youtube user Musicombo has plenty of videos showing different sorting algorithms in action and their runtime behavior under different (pathological) cases:

e.g.: https://youtu.be/vr5dCRHAgb0
Normal interest on savings accounts and short term investment gains are taxed as income. Long term investment income is taxed less than that, biasing in favor of investment.
Using S3 to store and serve documents, RDBMS and Datadog for monitoring+logs - doesn't make a microservice architecture.

That's quite typical "monolith", as the term monolith never means that literally everything is in the codebase.
terraform, ansible
> it's easy to see where the basics could be so easily provided that it would seem (to me) morally repugnant not to provide them to everyone.

Whilst I agree, the definition of basics keeps expanding in scope. Once it was food and water, then it was nutritious food and clean water, then we tack on shelter and medical care and electricity and internet and education and clothing and transport. So this point where we can easily provide the basics to everyone seems somewhat mythical. Our poorest people live in comparative luxury compared to the people of 500 years ago but we still call it poverty.
Yep.

Another thing the author seems to have missed: You can distribute a key to multiple places in order to trade security for durability.
That is great and should be in every textbook!
No - the whole point of running your own blog is that it is your own. Once you are part of a platform you are tied to their roadmap. As a blog author, it is not my goal for someone to build another Medium/Substack even if they are going to do a better job of it.
My understanding is that Parler is a Mastodon instance... I know that every time headlines are posted about the number of employees at X company, people ask why there are so many people working there. But in this case I think it's justified. They're just running a Mastodon instance, why so many people?
I've done everything I can to signal that I am speaking of how things have gone in the US.
Log-structured merge trees have some good diagrams.

If you know a little bit about the problem space, the 3 main diagrams (2.1, 2.2, 3.1) in the whitepaper basically tell you how to implement it.

https://www.cs.umb.edu/~poneil/lsmtree.pdf
Obsessing about the best of any food item is annoying. Food is far too subjective. It's also generally dumb to think one city has a monopoly on a particular food item. I get that there's some obvious regional varieties like gulf shrimp and NYC water.
> This is a great idea, so long as the same body has the power to decide how the NHS is structured and managed too, free from central government interference.

That's the idea. Not sure how the the board would be chosen mind, elections along the lines of PFCC? If ministers were involved it would probably devolve into the status-quo.