skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd be extremely interested to understand what was the bottleneck that made sharding necessary. Storage capacity on a single node? Memory capacity? CPU? Memory bandwidth? I/O bandwidth? Depends on the specific app? Depends on the specific query?
False. They are being updated during the response only.

Edit: false-ish I suppose. You’re not wrong. But it doesn’t persist in a way people would assume and consider meaningful.
> The way to avoid this is to buy items that are “shipped from and sold by” Amazon or the manufacturer.

The way to avoid this is that Amazon steps up their game and verifies the high ticket items before shipping them. It simply has to fit into the profit margin of selling things with upwards of 500 dollar sticker price.

And the other way to avoid this is simply dropping the “you have signed for the package so it is your fault if we scammed you” bullshit.

> They make mistakes, but imo actually do a pretty good job.

Yeah. No. They don’t do a pretty good job handling the non-happy path. I ordered a second hand book from them. It did not arrive even two months later than it was promised. Their database and interfaces correctly reflected of this fact.

What should have happened? They should have noticed that they dropped the ball all the way to china and sent me a refund automatically with an email where they apologise about it.

What would have been also acceptable, but shitty? A big button on the order where they were saying that it is two months late which refunds me instantly. Because of course.

What happened instead? Super hard to get an agent to talk with. I’m quite handy with computers, and I had to use all my web-fu to figure out how to do it. Then after much waiting, the agent scolded me that my order is with a third party. As if I care. I ordered something from amazon’s website, amazon shows up in my bank statement, I clearly have a business relationship here with Amazon. And only after that did they refund me.

None of this is a mistake. It is intentionally designed like this in the hopes that you forgot about your order, or find it too hard to jump through hoops.
The story my dad used to tell us about the 5 day cricket games, is that they stem from the old colonial days where the soldiers where bored senseless and just need something to do.

5 day matches where a solution to that problem.
They should be compared to Laptops, including OS updates.
You know it’s the same plant right? There’s only so many ways you can prepare and handle wine. The real variety comes from using other plants for the fermentation.
My conviction comes from having owned a dog, and realizing after a couple of years that it will never have the life in a pack roaming the lands that it obviously craved (“obvious” after observing its behavior for long enough). I don’t think a healthy co-evolution can be claimed when the animal is not free to act independently, i.e. without being coerced (like being taken on a leash or otherwise physically constrained). I’m more sympathetic to cats as pets, if they can come and go as they please.
Same here! But that hit its EOL a little while ago...
Yeah, NoScript can be kind of a pain but it's less annoying than all of the banners and popups that don't appear because it's effectively blocking them.

Also, Reader mode helps a lot.
Again, not the point. I get that is how the system currently works.

Point is, it shouldn't be.
>“When the government does something good for citizens and you can’t make money, that should not be the basis for the standing to sue,” said Persis Yu, deputy executive director and managing counsel at the Student Borrower Protection Center. “Corporations do not have a right to be profitable.”

Sadly, the predictably insufferable editorial bias of this article prevents the interesting questions from being asked/answered. It's unlikely that SoFi's lawsuit is premised on a "right to be profitable", but instead on actual legal arguments concerning the never-ending moratorium on loan repayment. What are these legal arguments? Guess I'll have to Google it.

[Edit] Looking to other sources, I guess there are actual legal questions regarding who has standing to sue the government for student loan extension. IANAL but having standing to sue and a "right to be profitable" is pretty different..
How threat actors are using AI and other tools to enhance phishing
How did the chess pieces get their names?
There's a "rachet effect" - BigCorp needs a new CEO, the committee looks for a replacement. Are they looking for an "average" CEO or an above average CEO? Compensation gets decided by a separate committee who use consultants who want to get re-hired. Buffett wrote about this in his 2005 letter to shareholders:

"Too often, executive compensation in the U.S. is ridiculously out of line with performance. That won’t change, moreover, because the deck is stacked against investors when it comes to the CEO’s pay. The upshot is that a mediocre-or-worse CEO – aided by his handpicked VP of human relations and a consultant from the ever-accommodating firm of Ratchet, Ratchet and Bingo – all too often receives gobs of money from an ill-designed compensation arrangement.

Take, for instance, ten year, fixed-price options (and who wouldn’t?). If Fred Futile, CEO of Stagnant, Inc., receives a bundle of these – let’s say enough to give him an option on 1% of the company – his self-interest is clear: He should skip dividends entirely and instead use all of the company’s earnings to repurchase stock.

Let’s assume that under Fred’s leadership Stagnant lives up to its name. In each of the ten years after the option grant, it earns $1 billion on $10 billion of net worth, which initially comes to $10 per share on the 100 million shares then outstanding. Fred eschews dividends and regularly uses all earnings to repurchase shares. If the stock constantly sells at ten times earnings per share, it will have appreciated 158% by the end of the option period. That’s because repurchases would reduce the number of shares to 38.7 million by that time, and earnings per share would thereby increase to $25.80. Simply by withholding earnings from owners, Fred gets very rich, making a cool $158 million, despite the business itself improving not at all. Astonishingly, Fred could have made more than $100 million if Stagnant’s earnings had declined by 20% during the ten-year period.

Fred can also get a splendid result for himself by paying no dividends and deploying the earnings he withholds from shareholders into a variety of disappointing projects and acquisitions. Even if these initiatives deliver a paltry 5% return, Fred will still make a bundle. Specifically – with Stagnant’s p/e ratio remaining unchanged at ten – Fred’s option will deliver him $63 million. Meanwhile, his shareholders will wonder what happened to the “alignment of interests"

http://www.berkshirehathaway.com/letters/2005ltr.pdf
I believe slog is also intended to sit above existing loggers.
It is quite new.
100% agree, No Code (and possibly All Code, unfortunately, ha) was just a clunky, slow way to do what search-capable chatbots can now or will soon do.
Thorough corporate welfare and regulatory capture across all industries, including the government routinely giving away trillions of dollars to banks, is not what I'd call libertarian at all. I'm open to the possibility that centralized capital accretion is inevitable, it's just not my null hypothesis and it's not the experiment we're running.

Overall I identify with libertarianism because individual freedom is a powerful perspective. It's most certainly not the only perspective, but it seems to be one of the easiest to lose sight of. And notice how I left the 'l' lower case - I'd say that the US "Libertarian" party is set up to be the exact same type of corporatist bait and switch as the other parties.
Brain scans hint that lonely individuals process the world differently
Yet you have undeniable proof that your own consciousness is as real as it gets, and that you experience life in a way that isn’t just an abstract concept. It’s absolutely there (at least, from your own point of view).

I’m not a religious person and I don’t believe in a soul or anything magical like that, but it’s just impossible for me to accept that I’m just a bunch of atoms following rules. I know that there’s something there, I see the evidence right before me, even if I can’t explain it or prove it to you.
WebAssembly Text Code Samples
Yep and Linux usually runs perfectly well on Chromebooks since chrome OS is based on it so you rarely get weird bleeding edge opaque binary driver peripherals. My Acer Chromebook runs Arch too and everything works out of the box--wifi, sound, media buttons, etc. It's way better than getting Linux on a super cheap Windows laptop IMHO.
I think the emotional charge this has for you is a good piece of evidence. You obviously oppose the Great Man myth with a vengeance. To me it seems very plausible that you will (subconsciously of course) use any influence or power you come into to make sure no “Great Man” gets a chance to outshine your “social dynamics”.

I’m curious, how do you account for progress in fields like mathematics where the mediocre seldom make any contributions at all?
I know the VPN where I work forces all traffic through it, which means no traffic is allowed to the container networks.

It causes problems on Windows with WSL2 as well.
The original laptop for kids in a school environment was the Intel Classmate and that was a serious piece of crap.

Then came the iPad, less said about that the better.

Chromebooks are many times better than this and have the added benefit of being cheap and, dare I say it, disposable.
Plenty of other ones will gladly sell compatible ones.
This is neat. How does it compare to Cloudflare Workers?

I’ve been thinking about building a tool like this for fun. Does the code run inside a Docker container? I’ve been looking at Firecracker VMs for sandboxing which seems pretty cool
> Only in a very anthropocentric sense.

yes, that is the sense in which we are discussing intelligence in order to debate whether the human brain and LLMs operate on similar phenomena
The way to avoid this is for Amazon to hold itself accountable, or, if it is unable to do so, a government. You're telling me the trillion-dollar logistics company can't figure out how to make sure people get the correct items?
just gobsmacked at how the US managed to cobble together a teetering racket of 1.6 trillion dollars of undischargeable student loan debt saddling their youth into the grave and still somehow manage to have the unmitigated gall to try and fight any effort whatsoever to reform it.

Joe Biden was the driving force behind student loans being a debtors prison, and i guarantee in a recession this kind of market debt haunts the man nightly. privatizing and profiteering from higher education doesnt somehow enrich or advance your society or its people. it literally discourages the higher education necessary to maintain your position as a driving force of innovation and market leadership. it decays your position as a superpower faster than nearly anything else you could do.
Excuse me, but I don't understand what the actual usage can be (in real world/by final users).

Or is it intended as a tool for security analists only?
They should've dug a trench, like NASA does.
> there was a high-level decision to offer refunds / small compensation payments by default.

Doesn’t that make the support way better?
22.10 was pretty bogus on recent Intel machines, even the 12th generation Core but especially 13th. It was so bad I upgraded to development Lunar as soon as they landed a 6.x kernel. Have been very happy since then. 6.2 is a giant leap beyond 5.19.
Cheap street "saturday night special" .25 autos frequently have a safety catch made as a plastic wheel type part; which means that (with some effort the first time), you can fire through the safety. Subsequent trigger pulls wear the plastic bit off further and the safety switch becomes completely cosmetic.

In that case not having the switch at all is probably slightly better, at least it's not lying to you.
I’m not even remotely worried about tea-borne salmonella, just pointing out that per your link for higher-grade green teas the brewing temperature x brewing time is well below what’d be needed to destroy it.
Latest tweet from Elon about the launch mount:

"3 months ago, we started building a massive water-cooled, steel plate to go under the launch mount.

Wasn’t ready in time & we wrongly thought, based on static fire data, that Fondag would make it through 1 launch.

Looks like we can be ready to launch again in 1 to 2 months."

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1649523985837686784
Do you have like any sources to back up you magical claims ?

The more I look into the more I see a cult/religion more than a science
This is a made up explanation because:

1) All RnD fabs move wafers 24/7

2) Intel has consistently been the leader in process technology for 20+ years.

Why did this “3x shift advantage” deliver gains only in the past 5 years?
Wow. Let millions of students suffer just so that I can make more money. Capitalism at its finest.
If I understand correctly, you want to help people get an objective baseline of information about the world, they then can compare their individual bias against. Only thing is, I don't think most people care about that.

Humans provide their sentiment about developments to further their individual interests. Other people want to be informed about those motivations. Taking that away makes news subjectively meaningless for most.

There is a minority of truth-seekers who essentially individually engage in OSINT activity (if only by consuming more than one source).

An AI "doing the thinking for them" isn't the right way though (trust is an issue, remember). You want to teach people, how to be an intelligence analyst and give them the tools to avoid the drudgery.
> Am I missing something?

There's a good synopsis of what's new in this release here:

https://www.howtogeek.com/883728/whats-new-in-ubuntu-23-04-l...
Google also shoves the google business suite into the cloud service numbers to inflate them.
Google was working on a way to ship Chrome updates to older versions of Chrome OS, is that still not out yet?

https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/main/docs/l....
> these companies can waste hours or even days of your time while automating everything on their end

Amazon itself, as the seller, is one of "these companies". Shipped me a damaged, obviously repackaged monitor as "new", then misdirected me to (well, semi-automated) chat as "quickest way to return". This was a flat-out lie, what it actually led to was a series of three progressively higher discount offers. After refusing all, half a day later I was told to follow the standard online instructions for a return.
I recall looking at the various charts and from what I recall the "discolored water" notation was sourced from a chart several decades before and was offset by a few miles (incorrectly charted in the first place).
This is pretty awesome, nice job!
Just install Gentoo
Reader Mode on Chrome does the same thing
The behavior is the same on Android.
This comment section is nuts. Obviously don’t jeopardize an offer by trying to push your exit back. Duh.

But if you are already quitting, and you’re not immediately starting another job, why not extend your departure date? Best case they send you home day 1 but respect your effective date. Worst case they send you home day 1 and stop paying you immediately. So if you push it out maybe you get a few extra paychecks. And if not, hey, you were already quitting. Who cares?
> trivial to self host a server

Trivial for who? Someone on HN or everyone else?
Looks nice!

Edit: hey vermilingua! I wish I could configure the width in ch and have the submission title left-aligned. Is this open sourced?
"Move fast and break things" has never been cool outside the startup bubble.
> Obviously they didn't anticipate the booster eating through the entire concrete pad and boosting the beach into the atmosphere.

I'm pretty sure there were voices at SpaceX who predicted this outcome. We've been launching orbital rockets for over 65 years now, and every single launch facility for heavy lift vehicles uses flame diverters and water deluge systems.

It baffles me how anyone could even think that the most powerful rocket in history could do without these systems in place.
No alcohol, more rest, more coffee with cinnamon, more sugar to help relaxation of muscles, more magnesium, b12,

extra water and salt, temporarily, to accommodate more fluid capacity of relaxed body and it's vessels

Eye movement. Eyeballs have a little opening at the back that acts as a drain for eyeball fluid, but it's only able to drain in "wall eyed" position for me, so looking at something very far away

Eyeball massage. Gently pressing down on your eyeballs with palm of hand or squeezing one's eyelids tight shut for few seconds repeatedly
> I refuse to believe that anyone would lie to become a judge.

Then you don’t know people at all. American or not, people will lie for far lesser things if they think they can get away with it.
> To be sure, what the technology does is unmistakably a form intelligence.
> Computers playing chess is AI.

Computers doing anything are following the programming of their programmers. Without feeling and free will, there is no AI.
Ya, for example `select * from crew` where I typed that all out. At the end crew would try to autocomplete to staff_id
Weren't Wayland and flatpak first?

And GNOME 3 as well? Unity was a reaction to GNOME 3's big changes.

Either way, I agree that competition is better.
You definitely notice body language subconsciously, our scleras being visible is well known to play a role in determining where the other is looking for example.

Not sure about pupils though.
Snaps are BS.

I did couple of months ago clean ubuntu 22.10 install. Somehow curl was installed from snap - of course I had problem saving curled files due sandboxing. Installed mosquitto2 (MQTT server) - of course it did not read my custom confs from /etc/... anymore - due sandboxing. Installed Libreoffice from snap - it Calc (excel alternative) was exctremely slow somehow - switched to Libreoffice from APT repo - it was fast as it should be.

and to not start with the autoupdate nonesense that you can not disable.

I have been ususing Kubuntu since 2010 and thinking of switching to some other distro with KDE and all because of SNAPs
Wait. The whole reason that ChromeOS works correctly is because they are not doctrinaire about binary drivers. ChromeOS has working touchpads and working wifi and working webcams due to their acceptance of the need for vendor blobs.
> Just look at those dividends!

I mean, META/FB doesn’t even pay dividends - which only strengthens your point.
You can see huge chunks of debris flying into the air on launch, and half a dozen engines were out by the time they were visible. The discolourations and asymmetry in the plume indicates damaged engines. The term of art is engine rich exhaust.

It looks like debris tore up the engines, which progressively lost more thrust and control authority as more engines failed, leading to the loss of the vehicle.
The interview that I posted above discusses copper interconnects that IBM research introduced.

TSMC had previously used a "spin-on" dialectic technique at a previous node, and reverted to CVD because of problems.

They were able to beat all other manufacturers to market with copper interconnects (including IBM), because they avoided spin-on, which worked well in testing, but not in production.

They had great luck in gaining this prior experience.
It's a silly name for a real phenomenon. It's better categorized as a form of rhetoric; instead of persuading people to do what you want, you're persuading LLMs using particular patterns of language. But no one is going to call them "prompt rhetoricians". "Prompt writer" would be better, but "writing" is less of the spirit of the times than engineering.
Off topic. But huge shout out to Udi Manber for one of my favorite CS books: Introduction to Algorithms, A Creative Approach.
lol, the nuclear option. You don't mess around, but really, I think the answer is, never quit Vim.
SEO, Software Engineer, Systems Administrator w/a budget, regex geniuses, obfuscated C challenge, demoscene, etc. - none of it snake oil.

$$ and demand don't change the skills?

I mean, Anakin _WAS_ good with machines.
I’m not aware of any serious attempts to reform the US education (and education financing) system. A one-off debt jubilee isn’t that.
This is either deranged or fundamentally dishonest. Where's the "debunked misinformation"? He responded to a post entirely neutrally, and people who seem to obsess over Twitter every day have taken it as a right wing statement.
Maybe, I’m quitting for a reason more than just money.
If I talk to Alice about my day, and then Bob reads the transcript and I ask him about our conversation, and he has no idea that he wasn’t Alice, Bob does not have internal state. He can continue the conversation. There is a brief moment of constructing some state to construct the answer. But there is literally nothing persisting and Bob wouldn’t flinch at all if we change details in the conversation history on the next response.

This is explicitly a stateless function.
Stack Overflow can do that for me too, and no Bill Gates negative karma is involved.
I know someone who studied ML as black boxes kind of as her PhD (I don't really know the specifics so don't ask me) but I did find it interesting that if we're dealing with a sufficiently opaque and complex black box, we have to resort to our old friends experimentation and empiricism. So maybe it's not engineering but science? :p

A little tongue in cheek but it did get the noodle working
This is something I’m going to be buying for sure. I saw the site also has a “Build your own Redis”.

I’ve always wanted to understand how databases work so I can build my own.

Excited about this!
Turns out some of those things that got broken outside of the company were important and people cared about them. Funny how things that work great in software development don’t work great when applied to the real world, eh?
Naming things is incredibly powerful aspect of human behavior. It can be used for good and evil and I don’t see a point in banning them. Media and politicians can still give unofficial names to bills when talking about them so such a ban would do nothing.
Fedora has flatpak and it works pretty well (using KDE here). However, Slack and a password manager I prefer are snap only.

I really dislike snaps.
Using solar farms to generate fresh desert soil crust
> Around six months later, it was reported some government agency was spying on senators' emails, and she wasn't happy.

Good. I hope they start spying on her just for kicks. People who would deny us our privacy should be leading by example.
> "Suing could force the government to start the repayment machinery again, which might not be a terrible thing. Given the low unemployment rate and the existence of income-driven repayment plans for people who are struggling, few people would be ruined by restoring the February 2020 status quo."

This particularly perturbed me with the implication that "ruining" a few people is fine as long as a few other people are made wealthier.

Greatest country etc.
Yeah but the peripheral has to have a Linux driver or support, and for a cheap laptop a manufacturer is definitely not going to hire someone to custom port a Windows driver to Linux. They're going to pull something off the shelf that already works with Linux.
No one's saying they have exactly the same struggle to deal with. The cleaning lady definitely has more struggles, but this does not change the fundamental point that both the Google Staff engineer and the cleaning lady primarily derive their wealth by selling their labour, as opposed to deriving their wealth from their capital.
We can surely construct a different definition if you want to win a semantic argument. But at the end of the day these LLMs have no clue what you just said and what it just said, after it’s done speaking.