skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Typically scale is a matter of math-weighted decisions in the process of architecture planning. Consider the planning process for freeways in your local city. Here in Texas we have a phenomenon call mix-masters and some scale well for future improvements despite their complexity and fixed space in the present. By future improvements I mean things like civil water infrastructure, rail, electrical power routing systems, and so forth.

https://www.google.com/search?q=mix+master+freeway&client=fi...

Likewise in software if you know how to plan, how to architect things (put plans into action and pieces together), and how shape the finite pieces into composable units any application can scale well. Scale is not a matter of cost benefit analysis but just a combination of knowing how to plan and experience with the processes currently available.

Most people get this wrong for a couple of reasons:

* They have not been taught how to plan. This requires quite a bit of experience to really get right. It isn't rocket science, generally the most primitive the better, but it does take a lot of practice. Looking at the freeway example imagine investing billions of dollars into a major freeway system that scales insufficiently because the engineers couldn't be bothered with some planning or modeling.

* They outsource architecture. Frameworks are basically boxed architectures. The problem with frameworks is that they are generic because they try to make everybody happy. Your application is probably not generic. It probably has specific needs serving a specific business. In our freeway example labor can be outsourced, but the architecture and planning are still custom to the given project.

* They are insufficiently trained on their given software platform. For example in front end web development the DOM is the center of everything and everything uses lexical scope. Developers can choose to not accept this reality as ignorance is bliss, but there are consequences and limitations that come from putting your head in the sand. In our freeway example engineers survey and evaluate the composition of the land and make determinations about the movement of rain around the location. They don't ignore the reality of their situation because a given work task is outside their area of experience.
That isn't universally true. At my medium sized company, the people on call are the ones responsible for choosing an on-call system. But we've rotated through most of the main options, because we haven't really been happy with any of them.
...and the federal government can't override California*, unless they want to break a whole lot of eggshells to make their omelette

* completely, of course they can here and there and not vice versa. But this asymmetry doesn't render it illegal IMO.
> I'm familiar with credit cards that do that but not websites. Is it scammy?

If you buy products from a store via a referral link, the referee gets paid a portion of the price. Cashback sites are organised around this principle, with referral agreements with a large number of stores. They share some of the earnings with the buyer. They are commonly used in the UK.
I tried making chirpers, but they aren't chirping. Been waiting for a couple of hours. Am I missing a step?
recently, I started getting videos with less than 500 views from tiny channels. I guess YT is trying to be fair and send traffic to those channels. But I felt those videos were just clickbaits. That's one problem with the algorithm.

Positives of YT, mentioned in other comments also: Algorithm is very good in general. Quality of content is good lately (or at least you can stick to such content). Easily replace Netflix time. Comments section is also good. YT Premium is worth it.

YT almost got beaten by Insta and TikTok but survived. And the YT app on a smart TV is much better than Netflix and others.
Sorry, I meant that the maximum they’re making is $2B. But in reality it’s surely a much smaller number. Which makes it even more unlikely that Apple is optimizing for developer fees.
Aren't the captchas done by google, and they provide tracking information?

Kind of defeats the purpose of anonymity when the first thing you hit is a tracker.
Furnaces are almost 100% efficient because you're literally producing heat. There's very few ways to burn fuel and not get that fuel to produce heat.

This kind of argument works for power stations, but it doesn't work for heat because it's obviously not more efficient to heat 13 miles of piping in addition to your building rather than just burning stuff in your building.
Thanks. That was an interesting read.
against the near-entirety of the internet, our individual contributions to the training is so infinitesimal that if OpenAI were to cut us out a check it would be for a couple of cents.
Amazing new footage of the disaster is uncovered and shared in this documentary
Even as a touch typist, while I don't look at the keyboard I still make typos here and there so I need to look at the computer screen. I think that's what they were going for.
Whoa, I didn't know that! TIL.
Man, I dunno. If you're only looking at hype cycle peak, maybe. But discussions on HN are what become the buzz-worthy products after 5 years or so.
My problem with YouTube is that its recommendation algorithm is too good nowadays. The website is seriously an addiction for me.
On this subject, they recently uncovered new footage of the hindenburg disaster, it's in this Nova:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35682179
I'm so old I can't get the hang of those new-fangled controllers. :)
What you mean to say is you have no shot at correct C, and so the language scares you, and you believe since you can't do it nobody does.

It's true that the community at large writes lots of bugs. But that doesn't mean some people aren't productive with the language and write a relatively low number of bugs. There are some projects with better track records at this than others.
I don't have a family with history in that either.
Suggest changing the link to link the actual paper which suggests a method to reduce estimation error of the leading eigenvector
I had to reread it a few times but I think it's just poor phrasing, in the first sentence they are referring to the limited number of recharge cycles of most rechargeable batteries (which is generally much less applicable capacitors). And in the second sentence they are referring to the limited capacity of capacitors.
I would say, if you're not happy with your site being scraped, use tools like captchas, rate limiting and quotas per IP address range or whatever.
I was in the field briefly, but long enough to realise that graphene is a solution looking for a problem.

At least for a while, the approach was a blind search - with huge funding available to anyone claiming to be researching graphene applications, people were doing all kind of daft things with it. I don’t doubt that we’d be printing the stuff in metre-wide sheets by now if we hadn’t thrown so much money at trying to use it for everything from tuneable transistors (with the slight issue that mobility is inversely proportional to the bandgap) to throwing it into every conceivable medical application to see what sticks (with the slight caveat that every such paper I read at the time was actually talking about 50+ layer graphene, or as I’d call it “an actual pencil”).

I hope it’s in a better state now.
YouTube Premium and F1TV are my two subscriptions. I watch more YouTube than anything else. By far. My algorithm is filled with creators I admire.
$4.7 million for a data validation library is hard to understand. Pydantic as it stands will hard to make a business model around. All the examples mentioned in the article are services, not libraries. And pydantic is not so extraordinary that it is very hard to imagine overcoming the inertia of paying for a library for it.

Also pydantic itself doesn't lead to any cloud service capability, so they will effectively start from scratch.
I have my own anecdotal evidence, which is that a large quantity of people use this because they really do think they can use it and only it to learn a language, and don't really grasp how much of it is just a game.

But I'm not disputing that Duolingo has uses and that its helped a lot of people.
I am currently watching a lot of videos on race relations (Douglas Murray vs Robin DiAngelo). What Youtube is doing well compared to other platforms is to give all sides a voice and let the (hopefully better) educated mass make the choice for themselves. That laissez-faire approach to content moderation is what makes YT great in my opinion. And as of now (April 2023) there is a lot of interesting content off the beaten path that can be found.
I'm not sure it's so simple. You're assuming the same random distribution of victims in each place. But crimes are rarely random, and to the degree that they are crimes of opportunity (mugging, robbing a store, senseless violence) vs. premeditated targeting (revenge, passion, etc), it's possible that urban crimes are "more random" than rural crimes. I don't know that they are, of course, but you'd need to be a bit more careful than simply assuming normally distributed randomness of being victim to a homicide.
This and Astral (ruff) are similar. “hot”
python frameworks, but unclear how they’ll monetize.
My thoughts about this are that youtube is great if you have a specific learning task/interest, but if you don’t then it will lead you astray.

There is no doubt however that it has pulled off the magic trick of incentivizing thoughtful and knowledgeable people to produce good videos. This seems as close as we’ll get to a mutually beneficial arrangement in the attention economy.
I don't buy the deception theory at all, that it was used to make it hard to determine the year it was made. Everybody has always known which movies are new this year! Or which movie is from 10 years ago. To me, this falls into the common fallacy of "oh people from back then were so dumb/unobservant..." Like the busted myth that Europeans used spices to mask rotten meat.

It seems nobody knows why it started, but it seems pretty intuitive why it's continued -- it looks fancy and formal and important. You went to the Cinema and you had an Experience and at the end it was capped off with a fancy set of Roman Numerals. It's silly like a hundred other aspects of the movies, but it's kind of lovable.

And I can't help but assume that fanciness derives from years being carved in stone as roman numerals for Important Things. On buildings (date of construction), memorials (for wars and important people), and of course gravestones.

I mean, it also wasn't Star Trek 3, it was Star Trek III. Because fancy.
> If you can grab it by something you should be able to lift it.

I disagree with this completely. I can pick a reasonable sized mirror up by the edge, and it has a chance of breaking. I can pick a table up by one of four legs, but it puts stress on the connections. I can pick lots of things up in ways that would do damage to them. And the people that made them _could_ make them stronger to avoid that, at the cost of a higher price. Or they could not spend the money and just say "don't pick it up in a way that puts unreasonable stress on it". It is a compromise and, for many items, there is a point beyond which it's not worth spending more money on it.
A geopolitical example of the dangers of focusing on blame for negative events.
If you did that you might feel bad and be dehydrated the next day but you won't be suffering from psychosis or have permanent brain damage.

That's the problem with drugs. They're just not safe in the same way. No matter how hard the addicts cope.
A result that can only be surprising in places where monolingualism is the norm, like the US, and knowledge of other languages (outside of those acquired from one’s family) is taken as a sign of erudition. If you’ve ever spent time in countries like Switzerland, you’d know their are plenty of people who speak 2 or more languages but are otherwise of average intelligence.
I assume this was a logic error, that is, the code as written was a valid C program that didn't do what you meant.

In that case this could have been caught with more careful unit tests, which would have exercised the erroneous condition, and potentially with fuzzing to excite corner cases. C is... not great for either of these.
The people who want locked down phones aren't even rational at this point. They aren't more secure. They just want to "feel" like they are more secure even when they aren't. They just wanna be coddled into a false sense of security. It's just constant pointless circular arguments. No amount of reassurance or claims of proof will help them out of the Stockholm syndrome.

For example I've never encountered someone personally or professionally that has ever had their android phone hacked. But if you talk to an iPhone fan you'd think that you'd get hacked within 5 minutes. It would be funny if it wasn't actually just sad.
Corn syrup is/was more used as a cheaper alternative for maple syrup and sugar. The relative unpopularity of honey probably has more to do with sugar plantations making sugar somewhat affordable.
You do not have to be 55 to join AARP. You have to be 18+. There are some benefits only 50+ are eligible for though.
The answer is clear from this sentance:

> Due to the ongoing economic sanctions in Afghanistan, AFGNIC, the .AF Registry, has informed us that they are currently unable to accept payments from non-Afghani registrars.

You need to contract with an Afghani registrar. But that may be difficult due to ongoing economic sanctions (which I'm not familiar with the details of).

If you can figure how to pay, it seems like it would be worthwhile to pay for as many years as possible, since it may be difficult to pay in the future. However, you should also be aware that there's likely no guarantee of future service, and you probably don't have a good chance of legal process.

In other words, sketchy.af. Good luck, and have a backup domain.
Always remember: as a manager you are still an employee, and you are still required to observe the law.

Being a manager does not mean you are correct by default. It does not mean you cannot receive feedback from your managees.

Also, a brief refresher: lying about someone is defamation. If you defame people's performance and cause them to lose money you are personally liable for damages.

We should sue managers more, when they indulge in bad habits such as lying about performance and making false accusations.

Some managers realize that their opinion is authoritative truth and abuse this to fork reality, creating a psychopathic fiction where everything they say is true.

We should sue each and every of these entitled tyrants.
It's really nothing like your terrible analogy. Bad analogies are bad.

Ownership of software is clear-cut under the law: unless you hold the copyright, it's not yours. You have been granted permission to use the software under the restricted terms of a license. In practice though, the legal perspective isn't a useful one. It's another bad analogy, useful only because it's the one backed by law. What actually matters is what you can do.

It doesn't matter who "owns" it, you don't have the code needed to recompile the OS from source. Much less than sideloading apps, there are thousands of nominally trivial aspects of the OS which you cannot change without source code and a working build environment. Without this you don't have any ownership over the software in any useful sense.

You do own your piece of physical iPhone hardware, and it's yours to muck about with as much as you wish. But don't expect schematics or the ability to manufacture your own parts, or the ability to sideload more processing cores into the A14 chip, or replace the camera with a different module.
Companies who are ignorant of how to build in the cloud shouldn't build in the cloud based off of peer pressure alone. It's not just moving on-prem VMs into cloud VMs. You really need to change how you think about solving problems and leverage tools in the cloud built for solving those problems rather than just moving your on-prem knowledge to a cloud environment. The last thing you should be doing in the cloud is heavily relying on VMs.
A study looking at the wrong variables, again...
Is there any proof of any significant number of people justifying violence towards the Chinese because of the lab leak theory?

It takes many logical leaps. First, one has to believe the lab leak happened, which we can’t say with certainty — there is a lot of circumstantial and weak evidence on both sides, it is very speculative. Secondly, one would need to believe there is culpability (it was not an accident). Thirdly, one would have to believe that all Chinese are collectively culpable, which alone is pretty ridiculous. And one more logical leap is necessary to agree that random violence would constitute appropriate justice (people generally feel that even when criminals are unduly murdered, this does not make things equitable for the harmed party).

These leaps already require a very radicalized audience. I don’t believe this will work to radicalize a substantial number of people.

And even putting all of that aside, calls for violence are outside social norms and considered hate speech. The problem is not discussing the lab leak theory, it’s doing so outside the social norms. If we say that lab leak discussion is hate speech, that is simply incorrect.
Yeah, there's literally no actual information in that article pertinent to the method. It's not even like this is a particularly arcane thing.
TikTok is eating the world. It's already completely consumed instagram.
> Calico

ColecoVision

I don’t know if you remember, but before the cartridge consoles, we had a shit ton of black and white PONG consoles… all with the same 5 games. I think they all used the same chip but changed the packaging and controllers.
Hosted by good ol' Dirk!

(For those not in the know, this is an in-joke originating at least from the Hello Internet podcast, with CGP Grey and Brady Haran. "Veritasium" is, indeed, the correct spelling.)
Yeah, kinda weird to point it out as if there is some conflict of incentives between costs and benefits. It's a pretty darn good language to pick even if you just wanted your child to learn another language regardless of costs.
No, because they all have significant upsides that far outweigh the tail risks
I've added a benchmark of ClickHouse and Athena to ClickBench:

https://pastila.nl/?0198061e/f2e0e7b2d61d0fe322607b58fc7200b...

Where ClickHouse operates in a "data lake" mode - simply by processing a bunch of parquet files on S3. Obviously it is faster than Athena. But I also want to add Presto, Trino, Spark, Databricks, Redshift Spectrum, and Boilingdata, that are currently missing from the benchmark.

Please help me adding them: https://github.com/ClickHouse/ClickBench

Also, it includes another mode of ClickHouse, named "web" - MergeTree tables hosted on a HTTP server (which is more efficient than parquet). See https://github.com/ClickHouse/web-tables-demo

About R2 - it is currently slow, and also incompatible with S3 (e.g., no multipart uploads).
Why isn't there an xkcd where a Lego engineer is trying to describe how he wants components to integrate, and cannot find the words.
If the dance involved slamming your head off the pavement repeatedly until you start smelling colour then yes we would stop that form of dancing.

That's why we have things like alcohol and don't have things like heroin. It's all about risk vs reward. Heroin makes you feel much nicer than alcohol but it's almost certain to fuck your life up so we don't do it.

The head slam may be cooler than interpretive dance, but we don't do it because it gives you brain damage.
Generally the social platforms can offer one or more of these three things better than AOL ever did.

1. Recommendation engines, and other clever ways to drive up engagements.

2. Marketing. AOL's marketing was generally ahead of other tech companies at the time. Modern platforms have marketing on par with any other consumer brand. They are specifically great at FOMO, user acquisition, and feeling like a basic utility for modern life.

3. Network effect. Meta reports almost 3B monthly active users. What did AOL max out at? 20M?
> We should sue managers more.

I'm very curious what you think the outcome of this would be.
> benefits of an EV but can fall back to your gasoline car for trips.

Why not just get a pehv
It usually moves it for good reason, and most bad reasons were eventually weeded out of the scheduler.

For example if task previously running on core is waiting for something, the choice is to allow something else to run there (and hope it finished before that other thread comes back from waiting), or not use it at all and waste CPU capacity.

Obviously scheduler will choose to use that now-idle core, but that might cause the previous process (which scheduler have no idea when it will come back) to be resheduled somewhere else, usually on its sibling (as in closest in memory hierarchy) core.

Or power saving. If say core was idle (thread was waiting on something), it might actually be quicker to run it on other core (especially one close in cache hierarchy) than to wake up the core and then ramp up the clock speed of it.

Here is some interesting if a bit outdated info about the nitty gritty: https://www.usenix.org/system/files/login/articles/login_win...
It's more "gravitas" than "fancy."
If 'bilingualism' is expanded to include math and programming languages I would say it does effect intelligence directly.

But then again I haven't met many super-geniuses to compare against.
I've never knocked a computer off the edge of a table because it was left with part of it extending beyond the edge. But leaving it like that does make increase the risk of that happening. The same idea is true of picking it up by the edge; it increases stress on the hardware, which can cause damage. The fact that it hasn't happened to you just means it's isn't _sure_ to cause a problem.
I have to imagine there are parallel benefits as well. Just as a Java developer will become a better Java developer by learning programming languages with other paradigms, I have to believe knowing multiple spoken languages has tangible benefits outside of understanding the language itself.
Wikipedia these days... Imagine putting an article there about the "Woke pipeline" or similar.
Officially OpenAI uses CommonCrawl, or at least used to do so.
James–Stein for the Leading Eigenvector
I don't think it's a really standard term, but I guess from context it's referring to partial-evaluation-style approaches to compiling.

(In the Forth world it means a special Forth vocabulary the Forth system can use to bootstrap itself.)
> It's de facto legal for someone to smoke a joint at Venice Beach

Well it's completely* legal to smoke it at home.

https://sonomacounty.ca.gov/health-and-human-services/health....

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