skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're making a lot of assertions I am not sure I agree with:

> Data lakes are better for ML / AI workloads, cheaper, more flexible, and separate compute from storage. With a data warehouse, you need to share compute with other users. With data lakes you can attach an arbitrary number of computational clusters to the data.

- I am not sure it's any cheaper than BQ or Snowflake storage.

- Modern CDW separates compute from storage.

- I am not sure what you mean by "you need to share compute with others". Why?

- You can attach an arbitrary number of "clusters" in BQ and Snowflake as well.

Additionally, modern CDW provides a very high level of abstraction and a very high level of manageability. Their time travel and compaction actually work, and their storage systems are continuously optimized for optimal performance.
U in UBI is Universal.

Everyone gets it, those that make money pay extra in taxes such that it nets out to $0 beyond a certain income level.

Is that difficult to conceptualize?
Whenever I get off of my iPad, I find myself trying to touch my Mac’s screen. I used to own a SurfaceBook and for the longest time I had muscle memory to just touch the screen.

I agree with Steve Jobs that your arm gets tired if you’re using it to just scroll webpages. But if you have the odd thing on the side on the screen that you can just hit with your thumb, touch screens are perfect.

Do I think this is where Apple should focus its time? Probably not. My iPad has a Magic Keyboard which I use all of the time. It’s perfect having a touchscreen. It’s small and has apps made specifically for touchscreen. Adding a touchscreen to the Mac feels like busy work for employees or the company doesn’t know what to spend money on. Which is unfortunate, because there are many things that Apple could be spending money on that are much more worth their time.
> I'm curious what the problems are with web components that you see?

Bitesized explanation from Rich Harris, the author of Svelte: https://twitter.com/Rich_Harris/status/1198332398561353728 It's from 2019, but all the issues are still there. When/If they are going to be solved, it will be by increasingly complex standards that require more and more Javascript for them to just barely function (like they couldn't even participate in form events without additional Javascript).

See also a larger discussion by the author of Solid: https://youtu.be/BEWkLXU1Wlc?t=5837 (if the link doesn't open at the timestamp, skip to "Failed Promise of Web Components" at 1:37:17). It's a bit rambling because it was unrehearsed and on stream, but still good. He also shows and discusses other articles like Rich Harris' https://dev.to/richharris/why-i-don-t-use-web-components-2ci... and his own https://dev.to/ryansolid/maybe-web-components-are-not-the-fu... You can read them directly, but Ryan gives excellent additional context.
Digirig is GNU GPL 3
https://github.com/softcomplex/digirig
> If you specifically mean a general LLM trained on a general language corpus with instruction finetuning this is correct.

Yes, thanks, that's what I meant.

> If you are training a LLM on a domain specific corpus or finetuning on specific downstream tasks even relatively tiny models at 330m params are definitely useful and not “toys” and can be used to accurately perform tasks such as semantic text search, document summarization and named entity recognition.

Agree, BERT family is a good example here.
I have etched into my brain the one where our president showed his seeming contempt for his countrymen by insinuating that we could believe such a boldface lie about inflation.

“Talk of inflation,... the overwhelming consensus is that it’s going to pop up a little bit then go back down.”

https://twitter.com/RNCResearch/status/1485791682532675590?s...

Edit: also, there are quite a few Twitter accounts that focus on content like this, though I wouldn't recommend spending much time on it.
Looking at the numbers since 2020, their cost of revenue has gone up inline with the revenue gains so I guess that means they aren't getting enough productivity.
Basically they have to hire to X% to get that X% increase in revenue.
It's been this way since 2020 apparently at about X between 25-30%.

My guess is that new revenue has a high support burden and acquisition cost.
So is everyone overworked? Are new hires not getting up to speed quickly enough? It doesn't seem like a new problem though... Can more experienced folks transition to new customers to speed onboarding? Or are they tied up supporting larger accounts?

Is or can salesforce be self-service and to what extent? I have no experience with it but I know salesforce developer is a role most companies have.
> simply be an out of bounds access

If you have any care for quality at all, there's nothing "simple" about your invariants being violated.
I just make the pizza on parchment paper on the counter, and then pick up the whole thing and transfer it, with the paper, to the pizza stone in the oven
Eh, brands are internally consistent but rarely consistent with each other to the point where that would be less trouble than it’s worth. If you tell a client they’re not compatible with you, they’ll just find someone else to hire.
> Russian requires knowing the gender of $PERSON

But this is exactly what I'm asking -- does it actually require knowing the gender of the person, or does it just need the pronoun to line up with other word variants? Because those are two different things. I keep asking this, and people keep on replying with language examples where knowing the pronoun would be completely sufficient to translate the sentence.

Does the Russian language allow you to mismatch pronouns and gendered variants of words with each other when referring to the same subject? Because if it doesn't, you don't need to know the gender, just the pronoun, and then you need to match the gendered variants of words to the pronoun.

What is an example of a sentence where if I knew someone's pronouns in a given language but not their explicit gender identity, I would not have enough information about them to be able to translate that sentence?

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> Point being, no you can't translate simply and naively.

This is also not what I'm asking. I'm not auto-translating games, I'm attempting to build systems where the options and information I'm collecting from players would allow a professional translator to translate that game.

I'm told up above that this requires not just knowing someone's pronouns but also their explicit gender identity. I can't find a language example where that's true.
What is that called? Occam's Blindfold?

We don't know it's a rock. We don't really know what it is, other than it's the first thing we've picked up from an interstellar trajectory, is bizarrely shaped, didn't reflect the pull from the sun, swung by the Earth and then accelerated away.
I don't know what it is now, but Cici used to have $1.99 all you can eat pizza buffets on certain days of the week. This would have been in the mid 90s. Unbelievably (suspiciously?) cheap even for then.
You make it sound like I compared DNS-based security to snake oil. That's just futuristic thinking on your part (:
The card der8auer had which failed was very clearly a VRM failure.
> I would guess that less than 1% of the population has multiple encrypted backups, included password protected versions of the encryption key.

A quick search concludes that while the consumer-focused cloud backup market in the US is only seeing incremental growth (17% CAGR), it currently represents around $15B/yr. [1]

If you just do some back of napkin math based on the yearly cost of a Backblaze subscription ($70)[2] you can pretty easily come out with a rough estimate of the amount of devices/users utilizing "encrypted backups" which roughly applies to all major players in the consumer/device cloud backup space.

$15B / $70 = 200M devices. The population of the US is ~350M, so roughly 60% of Americans have an "encrypted cloud backup", and I'd say that is actually a /very/ conservative estimate, considering that iOS accounts for 55% of the mobile market share in the US currently and by default enables automated backups to iCloud for connected devices. It also doesn't capture variance in pricing structure, devices that are managed by businesses and have enforced backup policies, and non-cloud based backups (Time Machine, et al). Conservatively though, 2 out of every 3 computing devices (inclusive of tablets and smartphones) you interact with in the wild in the US have "encrypted backups" in addition to whatever default disk encryption is enabled.

There's a lot of stuff being slung around in this subthread that makes me think people's mental models are still set in 2008, not in 2023. My 70s parents have full disk encrypted devices which are backed up via encrypted cloud backups and use a password manager, and I've done little to no coaching, because it's the DEFAULT state of many of their devices and heavily encouraged for enablement during onboarding for devices where it is not default. Have you gone through the OOBE on a new Macbook lately? You are encouraged to connect it to your iCloud account, then enable FileVault 2 with a recovery key stored in iCloud, and then to enable iCloud backups. Of course, there's some dark patterns associated due to the revenue model of iCloud for Apple, but it's also something directly beneficial to the end user.

[1]: https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/cloud-backup-and-re...

[2]: https://www.backblaze.com/backup-pricing.html
Paywalled.

If the answer doesn't include "can't be bullied over a zoom call", and that includes teachers, the article is incomplete.
> ASCII text would be transmitted character-by-character over the wire as the user typed.

How does that work exactly on a lower level, say the current? ASCII text would be decoded to the binary and 1s would be high voltage and 0s would be low? And if there's no data transmitted it would be all low voltage?
The deep-dish is really a cheese pie and has nothing to do with pizza. The thin crust has the texture of the local newspapers. Square cut is only found in taverns and has been cooking all day in such.

The good NYC pizzas are heaven compared to anything Chicago offers.
Waiting for things to settle down on the server side and will gladly use Swift for web APIs once dust settles as the lang is really nice for the most part.
Yeah that will never happen. Overhead is already a few percentage points above the industry average. Self service is the industry trend as I see it in this business. Whatever vendor facilitates that will win our business.
> I have a feeling there's a lot of suppositions or beliefs one must have prior to making statements like these that I don't share.

Do you agree that you can choose to not follow the law? Would you also agree that if enough people chose to not follow the law, government would cease to exist?

> Is it? I've watched a few episodes of "Alone" on Netflix and it sure doesn't look easy to me. Some seasons seem to devolve into "fattest man wins" because he starves last.

Natural law doesn't really preclude you from cooperating, unlike reality shows. Also, in the natural world you generally migrate to places where resources are not scarce.

> Why is that true? Could I not ask others to help me protect these resources? I don't need a government to do that.

Why would they protect these resources rather than take them? Perhaps if you knew them personally and rewarded them generously, they'd do it, but then I'd say you're personally involved in protecting them. That doesn't scale to the extremes we have right now. There are no billionaire equivalents without government violence.
Hah, yes, I think I meant "catch".
What the Twitter Files Reveal About Free Speech and Social Media
Only Buffalonians are proud of Duff's and Mighty Taco. Everyone else thinks they suck. Jim's Steak Out I will give you though.

Buffalo HAS GOOD PIZZA! It's called Santora's.

P.S. As far as sandwich shops go though, Reykjavik's Nonnabiti (RIP) was the G.O.A.T.
That's only relevant if you're leaving Google before the 4yr period is over and also if you don't know roughly what subset you'll stay for (where you'd just take a smaller loan to represent the first N years of vesting).

Also, the cost of options to completely mitigate the incremental risk beyond that of an ordinary Googler is small (cumulatively a little less than the cumulative cost of interest for the loan). It's a small point that matters if you go out to actually implement the idea, but in the context of comparing Google (X total cash equivalents in their normal structure) to some other company (X salary), the investment opportunities in GOOG are sufficiently comparable that it might be reasonable to upweight Google's TC to 1.1X or so (or downweight it because you're restricted to GOOG itself and don't have more options), but I still think it's unreasonable to call it anything like 3.5X. Those aren't million dollar contracts; they're $X contracts paired with a forced investment that anyone else could choose to make without a huge downside (ignoring the much rarer actual $X contracts).
Speaking from nearly a decade working on BigQuery, and a year working at Firebolt.

- Stability. It OOMS, your CTO mentioned that last week.

- It is not correct. I believe your team is aware of cases in which your very own benchmarks revealed Clickhouse to be incorrect.

- Scale. The distributed plan is broken and I'm not sure Clickhouse even has shuffle.

- SQL. It is very non-standard.

- Knobs. Lots of knobs that are poorly documented. It's unclear which are mandatory. You have to restart for most.

Don't get me wrong, I love open source, and I love what Clickhouse has done. I am not a fan of overselling. There are problems with Clickhouse. Trying to sell it as a superset of the modern CDW is not doing users any favors.
Could it have been a nuclear option used by a federal agency to hold someone's possible escape? Perhaps they were not sure which plane, so they had to hold all. Or it was just the most immediate route
Designing a Automotive Assembly Production Line with ChatGPT: Project Commission
You know you're not required to understand and use every piece of tech ever made, right? Who cares if someone published a hobby project?

No one is suggesting the industry immediately adopt some random new library, except for Rails fans who constantly demand everyone abandon a de facto standard like React and use their new toy.
> Also, your questions at this point are extremely vague.

I think the OP acknowledged that when they said more advanced topics whatever they might be.l and asked for suggestions for resources to learn from. Otherwise how should they know what they don’t know?
Researchers take key step toward new treatment for hereditary blindness
The elevation of haute cuisine as “good” and common folk food as “mediocre” is strange to me.

Sometimes a cheap-ass $5 meal really does satisfy people far more than a Michelin star restaurant. Humble bragging about only being able to enjoy non-normie food sounds silly and unrefined, really.
You will love the new proce then…
For me it needs to be more like Zwift to justify paying for it.
Even Zwift is a mediocre game and if you compare it to other non sport games, the subscription price isn’t justified in any way.
Since the Go 1.14 optimizations I don't believe I've found a single case where `X(); defer Unx()` has been worse.

Unfortunately this was not the case before 1.14, so there's a lot of "middle-aged" code floating around setting a bad example.
You might not have as many personal qualms with the work itself, but the social failures will keep happening around you and punishing you for pointing them out.

I used to be optimistic about stuff but now i just go online and tell people the pessimist view of their problems lol
That's not very re-assuring when the cooler is not working as expected. VRM gets killed by heat (I don't actually think it's likely that this is what happens here, but I do think AMD is making a mistake by letting customers run into this issue and by giving me reason to speculate like this).
I think the theory is when you want to change the dep you can do it in a config file instead of in the code. But I totally agree, I don't think the value is worth the cost.
Time space diagrams in distributed systems. Very obvious once you see but never before saw some critical problems in distributed systems like fifo ordering, causal ordering and other things explained with such diagrams.

did not have formal education on distributed systems in my country but learned many things in this topic on job.

So then me took course by lindsey kuper on youtube. it is amazing course, super clear instructor even for me with not good english.

i think professor in this class say these diagrams came from leslie lamport who did lot essential thinking in distributed system space
I saw this behavior at a bank I used to work for. There was a Chinese team, an Indian team, a Korean team, a Russian team, etc.

Many western European ethnic groups are largely unwilling to act like this, i.e. to act on strong in-group preference when hiring. So the most interesting aspect of the status quo is about second-order effects. Will it be stopped somehow? Will it lead other groups to start behaving similarly? Will it lead to an Ottoman-style millet system but adapted to corporate culture and needs in the 21st century west?
I've often found that diagrams as code is fine for simple things, but once the complexities start adding up, it becomes as much work maintaining the diagrams as it is to main the actual codebase. I honestly think there is little difference in effort required to maintain a diagram in something like draw.io over PlanetUML or ilograph. Time is just spent in different places

Automatically laying out diagrams in a away that makes contextual sense is one of those problems that seems easy, but is actually really hard. If it was easy, everyone would have used dot files and graphviz to generate their diagrams since the 90s

Disclosure: I'm the CTO at hava.io, where we automate cloud environment diagrams, so I'm biased towards automation
Well the bankruptcy practitioners will be presumably wanting at least 10% for their work finding all this stuff ...
The uncommon deal between OpenAI and Microsoft
More transfer medium than you think you should need. Experiment with the amount.

If you don't know what I mean, I'm talking about coarse-ground cornmeal or farina, the latter of which is a very coarse-ground wheat flour sometimes used to make a kind of cereal-mush kinda like oatmeal or cream-of-wheat—but it's also outstanding for this job; coarse durham-wheat can do in a pinch, but it's too fine to really be good at it, plus it tends to be expensive while farina's usually cheap (and so's cornmeal, but avoid the fine stuff, you want the coarsest you can get).

You put this on the peel before placing the stretched dough on it and adding toppings. Just spread it in a layer over the top of it. It helps keep it from sticking, which makes the transfer easier.

I've found different peels require different amounts. I had a shitty looking peel that was somewhat-rough, unfinished wood and it didn't require much. It got ruined (I'll spare you the details, but, kids) and I replaced it with a cheap but fancier-looking one I found on amazon, that's dark-stained, smooth acacia or some shit. It's awful. I need so much more medium on it to keep the pizza from sticking. I've thought about roughing it up with sandpaper, see if that helps, but haven't tried it yet—if yours is smooth-finished and you want to be a pioneer, maybe try that. First pie I tried to cook with that thing was the first I'd ruined in years. Still mad about it :-)

You probably don't need so much that you can't see any of the peel under it, though, even on one that bad. My better peel only required a light dusting, once I got my technique down.

Point is, definitely use that stuff, and experiment with the amount of that you put on. The more you have to use, the more waste and the more mess, so there's good reason to dial in what you actually need and not just pile a ton on every time, but you need some amount.

As far as technique: shake it loose over the sink (so any cornmeal or flour that falls off goes there instead of the floor or whatever) right before transferring to the oven. Just hold it level and shake horizontally, forward and back or side to side, until the whole pie's loose and moves freely. If you have spots that stick really badly, uh, try to lift it up and put more medium under it? This has never worked well for me, I've just gotten good at making sure that doesn't happen, but sometimes you can save it that way.

Then, when transferring into the oven, you need to hold it at an angle shallow enough that gravity alone will not do the work—too steep an angle, and it'll pile up when it comes off. You'll need the same sort of shaking action here, but because it's tilted a little it'll also slide off as it goes. Start with the edge of the peel way at the back of your stone, maybe just an inch or so from the back edge of it, and move it forward as the pie comes off, else your placement will suck and, in the worst case, some of it won't be on the stone.
That's a horrible idea.

The problem is that people are munging architecture, data flow, and process into one diagram.

"Marketplace" isn't part of an architecture. "Commerce" isn't an architecture part. It's a functional piece.

Revamping how architecture diagrams are made won't fix incorrect ways of describing architecture.
An orm takes a selector (typically an sql query) and maps it onto an object.

What you're describing takes a selector, and maps it onto an object. Is it just that you want type hints or something?
Why not ask GPT itself what it wants to be called?
Can you explain what makes them good at it?

I’m guessing be a grade A yes-man has a lot to do with it.
> Amazon's headcount literally doubled from 2019 to 2021.

What you're leaving out is that Amazon's net sales literally doubled between 2019 and 2021, from $280MM to $470MM. The doubling of headcount over that period was perfectly rational and in-line with its business model.

There was definitely irrational exuberance in hiring during 2021-2022. But Amazon's exuberance was far more rational than most of tech. Ironically, Amazon both hired far more than everyone else and also over-hired less than everyone else. Unlike all of the other FAANG++ companies, Amazon is and always has been a low margin and labor intensive business.
I doubt the entire kernel would - there are low-level, memory-unsafe operations that an operating system performs that Swift _could_ do, but it would be fighting the design of the language and likely not a great trade-off for the kernel developers.

But pieces absolutely could be. The benefit would be compile-time checking for memory safety issues (reducing crashes) and language-level concurrency (fewer race conditions and a much easier path to parallelize single-threaded code for performance).
Carta, previously sued for gender discrimination, is now suing its former CTO
Centralized, Decentralized and Distributed Networking https://www.rand.org/content/rand/pubs/research_memoranda/RM...
I have been using Excalidraw for both use cases 1 and 2 with (subjectively) great results. A few points to use it for live sketching:

* Having a consistent whiteboard orientation. In my area of work I deal with data pipelines. Sources are always on the left, consumers - always to the right
* Only one or two types shapes should be used - to me, rectangle covers pretty much anything. A blackbox system? It's a square. Some logical domain? Rectangle. A specific interface? Maybe use a diamond or a circle. Excalidraw uses numbers for shortcuts, so those are always at the fingertips.
* Colors should be kept to a minimum. 3-4 is plenty. Select a shape, "s" for the line color/"g" for fill color.
* At the end of the day all systems exist to help humans. A human figure(stick one, from Excalidraw most downloaded libraries) should pretty much always be on the diagram.
We made an animation of the Moon orbiting the Earth with C++ and SFML, we also made a "merge" in the particle system.