skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Reminds me of the fiction of Peter Watts, which basically suggests that consciousness is an evolutionary glitch, and pointless.

https://reasonedeclecticism.substack.com/p/peter-watts-and-c...
What do you expect them to say instead?

I take your word for it that they’re trying to trick you or something - it’s not my story. But it kinda comes off like you’re denigrating people for not knowing something.
Why should house prices in USA be any different than any other country? Adjusting for the current different real estate prices are much more in many other major cities around the world than that of in USA.
What's the meaningful difference though of your conclusion?

"Everything is magic" vs "nothing is magic". Why do you care more to side with "nothing". Just curious, personally my vote is on "everything".

Is it just a preference, or is there more?
ChatGPT Explained: A Normie's Guide to How It Works
I am with netflix on this one.
UW forms medical data sciece institute focused on AI machine learning healthcare
And it happened in November.
Worm Grunting
One of the few places I was able to recapture the early internet magic was on Discord from 2015-2018.

Unfortunately, that is very difficult nowdays with the popularity it's found. When I was using the internet in the late 90's/early 2000's it felt like a safe haven for a geek like me to be myself without being punished for it. A lot of that magic wears off when the people who used to kick my ass for being a nerd became chronically online.
Speaking of ETFs, anyone find themselves temporarily parking money in HISA ETFs?

It's a good way to return close to 5% right now without the time lock in period of a CD.

Theoretically should be very low risk unless a bank collapses, although the amount of money that the ETF fund managers place with each underlying bank savings account is obviously way behind FDIC deposit protection.
> on top of an ORM

My answer would be no.
No offense meant, but your comment already shows your inherent bias.

You are looking for people who have solved specific system design problems. That means you are already being overlay narrow in your selection criteria.

I have a background in quant dev and HFT for example. When I was doing system design for big tech (at L6 level), I found that the kind of system design questions asked had very little overlap with my own experience. Because the fields are different and the problems are different.

I absolutely had to prepare by spending a lot of time familiarizing myself with big data/internet scale type stuff. Like spending months studying the DDIA book. Which is a lot different from low latency systems. And there's no way I would have passed those system design interviews without doing so.

The stark reality is most of the people passing these have prepared heavily and you probably don't pick up on that - because part of the practice (e.g. mock interviews) is to make you sound natural.

Now that I'm in the system, the other stark reality is that little of this system design matters. Most of the challenge is understanding the internal technologies and figuring out who to talk to to get stuff done (like pretty much every big company).

I think ultimately system design, just like LC interviews, are a proxy for "can you study hard and pass exams". Which is supposed to be a loose proxy for what makes you successful on the job. I have mixed feelings on whether it gets the right people for the job or not.
Do you have an idle Nvidia GPU? Can you please help the community test the beta version of the open-source framework for composable benchmarking and design space exploration of ML systems: https://github.com/mlcommons/ck/blob/master/cm-mlops/project... ?

This is a pilot community project to collaboratively run MLPerf BERT inference benchmark across diverse platforms provided by volunteers similar to SETI@home. However, instead of searching for extraterrestrial intelligence, we are searching for optimal software/hardware combinations to run various AI and ML workloads in terms of performance, accuracy, power and costs...

If you submit your results before 1pm PST on Friday 3rd, 2023, they will be accepted for the official MLPerf inference v3.0 submission round and your name acknowledged in the notes! It will take between 2 and 4 hours to run this benchmark depending on your GPU.

Thank you very much!
Linux is also (emphatically) not a microkernel.[0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tanenbaum%E2%80%93Torvalds_deb...
I mean Elon Musk would.
Presented 'like a book'. Its a blog, not a 400 page novel.
dont stop there, can you remember some examples?
I wish I had some clever, non-fraudulent ways to funnel wasteful corporate spending into things like my own salary or perks.
> An important element for real "toxicity" is something _attractive_, something that pulls you in, and keeps pulling you back in even when you are hurt.

Toxic means poisonous.

I think you're talking about addiction.
I can’t see how you he needs a VPN to watch the Super Bowl.

West coast cities like Palo Alto are very well served with OTA TV (dramatically better than most East Coast cities which can sometimes have both ‘too close’ and ‘too far away’ excuses for poor TV coverage). Also I think SBF can afford cable and in recent years there has always been a stream that doesn’t require special methods to tune in.
ChatGPT API: Cheaper, Faster, Wordier
That's just the final fine-tuning output.

I'd say it would be easy to add the layer required to improve it by yourself. It's open source after all.

Hassan has been doing great stuff so I'd at least give him the benefit of the doubt
In some cases, sure. In SBF's case, no.

The only parts of his situation that I consider requiring intellectual energy is actually creating and growing the company, which he did. That's not fraud, however.

The fraud he commited, on the other hand, was pretty poorly thought through and, if anything, indicates lack of smarts. I don't believe it takes a genius to decide to gamble clients' funds (that you aren't allowed to touch at all) on risky shitcoins, and then attempt to cover it up and lie about it. Which is the fraud that SBF committed. In fact, I think it is one of the dumbest things one could commit. There is virtually no scenario in which it all wouldn't end up crashing down and getting exposed, unless shitcoins kept going up forever.

It is especially dumb, considering that the only thing he had to do was not commit the fraud, and FTX would have been alive and well.

Note: when I say "shitcoins", I am not referring to all cryptocurrency or any major ones like BTC/ETH. I am talking about coins like MATIC.
As a fully self-directed engineer, what I'm looking for from a manager is benign neglect.
its kinetic energy. literally the wiggling and jiggling of molecules that gets faster and more intense as you heat things up. When somethign has no heat, it's perfectly frozen at absolute zero.
One more disgusting show of corporations doing the wrong thing in the name of profits.
They usually want it, or at least it's neutral. Just make sure you have enough time to actually solve the problem and don't ask for ridiculous hints, and nobody is going to fault you for talking.
https://archive.is/Mv4ON
here we go again, OLAP vs OLTP debates as far as the eye can see
No it’s not. Most forms of wealth are transferable without requiring the owner to be alive, let alone present.
Thank you for this detailed response! I'll get started on those books. Steve Blank's The Startup Owner's Manual was actually already on my reading list - would you recommend The Four Steps to the Epiphany over that one?

I appreciate the idea on contacting ex-employees - will give that a try!

The focus on research and honesty makes sense to me. Honestly, researching companies is one of my favorite parts of the job, so no issue there.
You likely made the same incorrect assumption from the title that I did. Replace “backup server” with “backup appliance” and it will be more clear.
Fast-Loading Python Dev Containers
Given GPT's tendency to "hallucinate information"/lie, how much "hallucinated" material should we expect to hear in such a podcast?
> "Paradoxically, it is hard work that explains hunter-gatherer laziness. In humans, a species hard-wired for work, laziness is not a luxury, it’s a necessity: we must relax and save energy when we can."

Sprint, relax, repeat?
Location: NJ

Remote: Yes (Anywhere)

Visa sponsorship: I will need an H1-B visa transfer if the position is in the US

Willing to relocate: Yes, within the US. Maybe Canada and Europe as well.

Technologies: Python, Django, Django REST Framework, FastAPI, PostgreSQL, Docker, Kubernetes, AWS, JavaScript, HTML/CSS...

Resumé: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1DjfVknJG9Knaslsv1CLqeD77...

Email: fer.de.macedo at gmail.com

Linkedin: https://linkedin.com/in/ferdemacedo

I have just under 2 years of experience as a Software Engineer working mostly on the backend. I've had exposure to REST APIs, Microservices, and a little bit of System Design/Architecture, as well as infra.

Tech stack isn't at all important as I can learn new technologies on the go. I love Python, but I am super open to working with Java, JavaScript, Go, or some functional languages like Elixir, Clojure etc.

I am looking mostly for a more hands-on role and a good culture.

If you have something you think might be a good fit, feel free to send me an email or message on Linkedin. :)
Looking forward to the eventual zero-day presentation at DEFCON :)
1. Of course I would export to the DAW in uncompressed format, the mp3 would be handy for quick listening and sharing among players.

2. Yes, that is odd (although I seem to recall Dr. T's did something like that ages ago). It doesn't bring money apparently, so they concentrate on much bigger overcomplicated software that does everything except simple things but shines when showed in ads. It seems to me this one could become the right niche in which FOSS can surpass commercial software: do 3 things and do them well.
Universal Music Group CEO calls for new streaming model
Wait, so Ubisoft spent $1M on a company wide backup system that apparently worked great, it's just that this sysadmin wanted incremental backups and the $1M system wasn't built to support that (blazingly fast ingest, slow online reads). So the sysadmin had to fight a lot to get dedicated hardware to do incremental backups, and eventually got it. I'm not sure Ubisoft is in the wrong at any point here?

Everything else mentioned wants me to not work at Ubisoft, and roughly matches what I would have expected, just worse. The disregard for developers, the absurd NIH syndrome, etc. But I don't get the headline of the article
If you want a fun read, "Delta V" by Daniel Suarez is a fantastic near-future hard scifi novel on the topic.
Which part is unclear?
I disagree with the author that a common characteristic of future wars will be a ground based "slugfest" like the one happening in Ukraine.
If the Russians wanted to annilalate Ukraine they wouldnt be even be using ground forces and fighting the war the way that they are. They would use airpower and launch missiles from within Russia.
Step 2 is more token efficient, I suspect we'll not get rid of it.
I don't think you understand the meaning of the word "communist".
I only have anecdotes and it’s from Chicago (not SF where indeed a lot of drivers commute an hour to get to a high demand area) but here it’s not that uncommon for people to be able to quickly hop on or off driving on short notice. It probably rarely moves the supply needle more than 10-15% at most but that’s not completely insignificant in comparing vs a less dynamic fleet like taxis.
“get grandma away from the tv!”

That’s always a good idea, not only because of the ads, and not only grandma.
you vill own nothing...
My wife’s uncle brought much of his family from Italy over to the US but I sometimes see him watching Fox News on the horror of ‘chain migration’.
>Seems like a footgun if you happen to use ‘null’ as a possible value for your schema.

To be fair, using "null" as a value in your schema without handling the cases where a given key is missing (and therefore the value is null) is also a footgun.
The reason why DRM has failed in the past is that it only takes one person to crack the DRM on their own device, and then they have an unencumbered digital file which can be copied and distributed freely.

Applying DRM to kernels and applications rather than to media files is completely different. If someone wants to have an E2E encrypted conversation, not only do they have to have jailbroken their own device by extracting the secret keys from inside its processor (using an electron microscope, perhaps) but their conversation partner has to have done the same to their own device.

Even if a few brave and well-resourced journalists/lawyers/activists managed to do this among themselves, they would quickly be exposed by traffic analysis, allowing the government to simultaneously arrest all of them and use their devices as evidence.
Holy shit I’ve been dreaming of something like this. Might order one. Thanks!!
Polyamory vs. Monogamy Statistics
The people vote in the Parliament. The Parliament decides to build a road. The Parliament appoints Jim to build the road.

Is Jim democratically elected? Or does he have some democratic mandate?

In most countries this would be corruption. Government projects like that have to go through an open bidding process and even after that Jim would not be considered to have any democratic mandate.

The difference between Jim and an EU commissioner is which job he is appointed to.

I think in practice the EU commission isn't that bad (so far) - almost all of the people on it are/were big name politicians in their respective countries. I might disagree with a lot of what they have to say, but they did/do represent a sizeable portion of the voters in their country.
Typescript has made me stop loving Python. I wish Python typing was powerful enough to be as complete as TS.
Drop incoming SYNs when the CPU hits thresholds. More specifically, every second the cpu is at or above the 'bad times' threshold, increase the probability that you'll drop a SYN; every second the cpu is at or below the 'good times' threshold, decrease the probability that you'll drop a SYN.
This is fascinating to me. People are often surprised that I don't listen to music when I drive. I'll do road-trips of 3 and 4 days in length where I won't listen to anything at all; just me and my thoughts and emotions. I call it "asphalt therapy".

I wonder if this has to do with the avoidant nature of the human mind? Most folks I know don't tend to want to deal with their emotions. They'd rather cover their emotional condition with something. Sometimes that is music. (I'm not saying this is the only reason people will listen to music, just that it is a pet theory of mine.)
Just take it easy, man
The topic is your comment, and my reply is quite on topic.

> Let's remain using the OED from circa 2006

You literally said the English language, which has been evolving for over a thousand years, should stop changing as of 2006. That's what you said. You don't like these new words because you don't want the world to change from how it was in your own personal golden years. It's fine, it happens to everyone; I'm just pointing out that that's the person you've become now. You're happy with all the "social justice movements" that happened from 100,000 BCE up to 2006 because those were either history, or your generation's causes. Now you're unhappy with "social justice" (your scare quotes) because it's all those liberal youths who are doing it. Since that covers the large majority of all backlash against "wokeism", I'd say it's quite on topic.
Short-term existence still has real harm, despite long-term irrelevance. I don't consider that a reasonable stance.
Calling it a spreadsheet and making it look and work like a spreadsheet is a bad idea, because now you're competing against Excel.
+1 Sometimes just because you can does not mean you should.
in a way, he's genius. that probably boosted your overall productivity by 5% for a fraction of the cost.
Replace “younger people” with “a few younger people from a particular socioeconomic class” to be more accurate.

The eternal outraged youth will always find a few hobby horses to ride. Sometimes they lead to good things. This is a particularly smelly one, unfortunately.

It’s not bad to say “this whole thing is just stupid”. It’s just incomplete to say…it’s also musically ugly (language is a song of sorts) and culturally insulting. The intent is understandable, the linguistic implementation ridiculous. How about actual younger people developing another, more beautiful, culturally acceptable, word to achieve the same objective? Why continue to ride this malodorous hobby horse their elders forced between their legs? (I think that image is acceptably gender-nonconforming, and oddly appropriate.)

Anyway, according to la Asociación de Academias de la Lengua Española

https://www.asale.org/la-asociacion

the body responsible for the preservation of the Spanish language across the Spanish-speaking world, it isn’t a Spanish word (not acknowledged in the official dictionary)

https://dle.rae.es/Latinx

Santiago!

BTW your phrase “mildly confused” is demeaning and insulting to readers who would genuinely struggle with incorporating this in their normal Spanish speech after decades of surviving without it. Bit ironic for someone concerned with “sensitivity” to write.
Hi, I’m the author of the article and I’m horrified by how many spelling mistakes I made. I must have written this in a rage.

To answer your question, since we had control of the clients (since its a game) we used a proof of work challenge on TLS handshake which increased in complexity the more failed attempts you gave us.

Very cheap on the server, very expensive on the client, which effectively rate limited connection attempts.
Really cool and would love to try it out. Curious why don’t also launch a web interface. No reason it has to be in the IDE only.

I use IntelliJ products so I can’t use this yet
Coward!
No, I'd just stop saying it's utterly impossible.
Ahh, the ever-elusive ``free will.'' Do you happen to have a rigorous definition of it you'd like to bring up for discussion?
If they bring up graphql, I expect them to say something like "none of the advantages of graphql are applicable in this case, so it may make sense to use if it's already well supported. All else being equal it's probably not a good fit"

The key is that the response should reflect the actual design we're discussing, it should be more specific than something that could be said in any interview.
This doesn't add up. CSS grid, flex box, etc all do the "holy grail" layout with a couple lines. The tables mess that was early www was and remains an absolute mess of markdown to maintain for layout. Semantics and accessibility are practically out the window with table.

HCI dictates how humans use interfaces and with that comes many defacto reasons why a plain text page does not solve the problems users want to solve. Do you not think websites test into the optimal performing layouts and content distribution? If it worked better, we'd all be using it (it doesn't).
I dunno Bennett's work at all so I can't speak one way or the other but that quote is not a quote from Bennett, it doesn't even appear to be a paraphrase. The article as a whole feels more like a puff profile of Bennett rather than an real attempt at a popular audience explanation of her academic work.
Depends on whether the law of excluded middle holds in your jurisdiction.
lol they just cant help themselves
The example has so many bizarre artifacts it makes me think this does not work very well at all
I think the main point here is that key present with a null value and key not present are two distinct states and squashing them down into one loses that information.
I know this is going to be an unpopular take, but why should a person be allowed to maintain use of an item they don’t own and are delinquent on? The unpopular part is that this just removes some friction from an already existing process.

This is assuming there are the appropriate regulations in place to notify and give a reasonable option to rectify the payment issue, but isn’t this exactly how we deal with stuff from homes to furniture? You agree to pay a certain amount and if you are sufficiently delinquent, you lose access to that item because you don’t actually own it yet.
… were such a story ever publicly _proven_ to be true. The bar for that is much higher than for the question whether or not it _is_ true. Now just to prevent any misunderstanding: I'm not saying it _is_ actually true. It was just a humorous exercise in conspiration theory building. But technically, we don't know it isn't true. And as long as we don't, there are no consequences for them… even if it happens to be true.
People gets cancelled/fired/sued/whatever, for expressing opinions, even misunderstood /out of context ones, and legislators throw this kind of things to try to become laws without any consequence?
I hereby declare myself a neverfordian.
How does that work within the context of an office place? Not all corporations have internal cultures that encourage competition between coworkers. And at some point it's no longer productivity that causes one to get ahead, but politics.
Now that I think of it, that's maybe not a terribly bad idea for some open source projects in which I want a little friction to submitting patches. (Because, for those projects, I actually dislike patches. It's usually more work for me to review for design and code quality than to make the changes myself, if they were good changes at all).

And there's the mess when people are driven by email notifications for Git repo changes/events that they then access in a Web UI. It's great for wasting people's time, and people also end up with piles of Git repo emails that they casually archive/delete, potentially missing things, due to DRY violation and because there's more steps between looking at the email and going to the Web UI to handle things.

But when you just want random people to be able to log into a Web site and interact with whatever computer-mediated workflow there, telling people to use old-school email is maybe counterproductive.
It does funny things though, if you feed it a webcam as png encoded and give it a text based api for a simple robotic gripper on wheels.

Give it a marker and ask it to label the world in handwriting.
The environment that the datadomain was hosted in was not allowed to host source code or raw assets, but the bank vault thing was because of lost source code.

The issue is that most games just fire off into the void if they need to backup and restores are never tested.
Added to the reading list! I don't love it when media takes a Machiavellian approach to human interactions and that's the initial impression I got when I looked at the blurb for book, but I should and will give this a chance and absorb the content before passing judgement. I appreciate the recommendation, thank you!
Did you read the title up to the word "lease"?
So when they say they're running without a server it means they are running on Google servers? I thought serverless meant.. no servers
In my observation, the game industry and tech industry are like humans and apes: they have the same ancestor, but at some point in our ancient past we diverged. You rarely see crossover between the two these days, and I doubt we'll see any in another decade.

What I think that means is there's probably a huge opportunity selling five year old tech ideas to the gaming industry
https://github.com/emasaka/shails