skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ha, you bring back old memories. We had the largest compute footprint in India at that time in Ambattur (Chennai industrial suburb). This particular DC in question was as multi-story building and the ground-floor itself was several ft above road level and there was the huge natural lake in front. Luckily heavy rains only caused havoc to the road-side storm-drains and road traffic. And we had more than 250K liters of diesel to last us more than 24 hours and we had several tankers on standby. So we didn't have to shutdown anything. Funny thing is we had selected this site less than a year ago and had discussed the 100 year flood lines and worst case probabilities of heavy rains and flooding etc. Being well-prepared really paid off.
Looks interesting. Can you share more documentation around how a developer can use it on a regular basis? Also how different is it from a regular session recording product like hotjar.
I mean, that is exactly my point.

I’m not saying HBO or Apple TV+ (what a name..) couldn’t do it, just that they seem much less poised to.

Funny how saying Bandersnatch was innovative gets HN absolutely livid.
Building such a thing would be extremely difficult. When you start getting to the local level with banks, networks, and governments, there are all kinds of different things you have to deal with.

You have all the different forms of payment that exist (credit card, banks, prepaid, ewallets, and even cash (reference number flows where the user takes a QR code into a store or kiosk, scans it, then pays in cash)). Then the details within those flows vary greatly by country/region. Credit cards have 3DS flows, plus CIT/MIT information. Banks want to do all kinds of 2FA, regularly they want the user to be redirected to their website to complete it. And on mobile, you could redirect to a bank or ewallet's app to confirm the payment. Then beyond that, you have various risk signals that different countries want to fight fraud. Some are lax, some are extremely invasive.

Once a payment has been initiated, knowing that it is Completed/Accepted can be really complicated. Credit cards, once you have an auth, a capture is all but guaranteed, but you still have chargebacks to deal with. ACH has a fuzzy window about when it can be reversed. Various other forms of payment have anti-fraud mechanisms that allow payments to be reversed with various windows about when that can happen.

You will always have various governments come in and force new rules that don't play nicely with whatever uniform API you create. For example, the Royal Bank of India forcing all storage of credit card numbers to happen within their country's boundries (data localization). This all of a sudden may force a flow that was using credit cards just fine to now require you to use tokens in their place.

It feels like the payments space should be easier than it is, but various regulations and security/privacy measures that change by region regularly will mess with such an API.

Edit: to add some more fun examples: it's also good to understand that some payment systems in the world are still very manual. There are people with spreadsheets that generate reports. So as a processor, you can get a response from a bank where 2 numbers are transposed in a report. Or you get reports where you aren't given a transaction_id, just a date and amount and you have to figure it out (see the UK's BACS DDICA reports).
This was interesting in 1995. By 2005-2010, SoCs included sophisticated cache architecture, memory controller, internal and external bus controller, transceivers, and maybe iGPU. All of which play a role in performance per watt. ISA was no longer preeminent. Plus, if you emulate multicore x86-64 with superscalar vliw scheduling you're still constrained by the memory model, too. There is only so much you can do.
There are a number of myths around the idea of interstate highways serving as emergency runways in wartime, these all appear to be false.

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/landing-of-hope-and-glory/

The two biggest arguments against using highways as runways are:

1. Airports are not at all rare, even in rural areas. If an enemy could succeed in making all airports (even in just a single region) unusable, they could do the same to major cities, and have pretty much already won the war.

2. Sacrificing a lot of ground mobility for a little bit of air power is extremely unlikely to ever be a worthwhile trade-off.
The title is click bait. It doesn't say that.

Is it an oversight? Well, I once used a title that was different from the title of the URL, and it got Flagged. Dang upheld the flagging. Now I know better.
That doesn't mean it happens.
I taught in a system that tried to implement "equitable grading" with unlimited attempts until the end of the term. In practice, this idea was untenable for instructors.

Many students would turn in low-quality work to get feedback, then make very minor incremental changes. This process would be repeated many times. The result was a higher than typical grading load for the instructor (sometimes it felt like I was spending more time on the assignment than the student).

Students would wait until the end to complete the work. The result was students spread out through the content. As an instructor, you could not expect students to know the fundamentals necessary for more advanced material later in the term. The procrastinating students then would expect a lot of rapid feedback at the end of the term. Again, increasing the grading load.
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slightly more recent (and famous) highway landing:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gimli_Glider

Not in the US but in Canada, and technically not an highway but a racetrack.
Ever since we started moving to Docker it's been a massive pain. I'm on a maintenance team doing both legacy (non-Docker) and the occasional Docker-based system that gets handed to us (and then a few months later taken back, it's kind of annoying), and not a single member of my team has gotten the Docker-based systems to work. We all end up with different issues getting Docker to run, or for the different containers to communicate, or being able to browse to the app running in the container. Different systems from different teams also have a tendency to interfere with each other. Two years after this started I finally got an admission from the main development team that every new dev on their team has had similar problems.

On the flipside, LXD containers have "just worked" for everyone who has tried it so far. We've been able to use them on a whim for testing stuff, no problems at all.

So I've been wondering for a while if we could use LXD containers to provide a clean slate to run the Docker containers inside of, maybe then we'd at least all have the same problems, if not be able to solve them entirely.
All AI’s Are Psychopaths[(2020)]
It seems like video game consoles aren't competing based on practicality (hardware) anymore and are mostly just rent seeking with ways to abuse the legal/IP system.

There used to be a much bigger moat to assemble a platform that could play cutting edge games. Now PC game engines/graphics drivers are getting so good the console SDKs aren't such a big boon and the hardware is basically just CotS.
There is no such thing as private property in America. The government owns everything regardless of what you think is yours, because you paid for it and were given a paper that states you payed for it.
> For this pilot study, we enrolled 20 adults to follow this protocol

Is that even a large enough of a sample size to draw a conclusion from? Probably a big enough sample size to get funding for a larger study, but not big enough to draw general conclusions from.
I don't think prompt engineering is temporary as long as we are using LLMs. Prompt engineering is about creating workflows that squeeze the most impact out of these tools. I don't see how that will go away.
Rockets fall under some pretty big restrictions government wise. You know, guided missiles and all that. While SpaceX is a private company, the people allowed to work on their rockets are very much restricted. I believe they can employ Americans and Canadians, but anyone else is not allowed to work there.
Finding a Pin in a Docker Stack
Step one of almost all diets should be "Don't drink calories".

Become a HydroHomie today.
because once Jeff Dean had solved Google's maslow problems (scaling web search, making ads profitable, developing high performance machine learning systems) he wanted to return to doing academic-style research, but with the benefit of Google's technical and monetary resources, and not part of X, which never produces anything of long-term value. I know for sure he wanted to make an impact in medical AI and felt that being part of a research org would make that easier/more possible than if he was on a product team.
> showing ID to a phone store clerk is sufficient for iCloud recovery

Can you walk me through how that works? I don't know how Verizon, for instance, could get me that access. Or did you mean at an Apple store or something?
To be clear, I'm not being critical here, it was an impression from my visit. Lots of people I know (like gumby) and others have gone to MIT as undergraduates and really felt it was worthwhile. I really wanted to go to Caltech but only landed on the wait list and settled for USC (who offered better financial aid so there was that)

My kids all ended up at various small private colleges depending on what they found as a fit for their interests and I got to see through them the difference between going to a school with 20,000 students (USC) vs one with 1,500 students (Reed). In hindsight I suspect I would have done better at a more intimate school (harder to have one's slacking off ignored by the administration right?)
I recently discovered that flowers didn't exist in most of the Jurassic era. Mind-blowing really.
Accreditation (and funding) in the United States often times requires grades.
The United States already has a lot of semiconductor fabs. It was only in recent years that AMD processors fabricated by TSMC overtook the performance of Intel processors fabricated by Intel. Is there something about newer process nodes that makes the employment conditions worse? Otherwise, I'd point to Intel fabs in the United States as an existence proof that the USA can get qualified workers for domestic semiconductor fabrication. (Plus US fabs operated by Texas Instruments, Samsung, GlobalFoundries, and others.)
To be clear, I'm not referring to the concepts as they exist in the universe. But rather the actual material taught in the courses. For example, there's a lot topology that we use in the real world, but the material in the class is only of use to a small percentage of people in the world.

I spent a chunk of my career optimizing FDMs and FEMs, but above and beyond that I haven't had a great need for Calculus until I started doing some deep learning. Again, very particular subfields.

And I suspect the work that you're talking about is exactly what I was thinking about when I wrote that even if Calculus is needed, it's the stuff taught in the first semester.
On GitHub: https://github.com/schoolpost/CinePI
With public funding, no less!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canada_Media_Fund

> The fund is composed of contributions made by Canadian broadcasting distribution undertakings (BDUs)—as mandated by the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC)—and the federal government. It funds roughly $750 million annually ... On November 17 and 18, 2022, official platforms announced that after more than five years of availability, the service (now considered a pilot project) was to shut down on November 30th. All media was wiped from both YouTube channels on that date, and the Twitter account and Facebook page with lists of content and discussion were made unavailable.

It does not appear to have been archived elsewhere, https://www.reddit.com/r/TwoBestFriendsPlay/comments/z9di8u/...

> The success of the Encore+ pilot project was made possible through a collaborative effort between CMF teams and the industry (Telefilm, unions and guilds, producers, creators, distributors, etc). In total, the project helped preserve our cultural heritage by digitizing and restoring over 3,000 pieces of content that directly contributed to Canada’s audiovisual legacy. In addition, the project resulted in some global sales of the newly digitized Canadian content, new opportunities for fans to see older works that had not been available online, and renewed interest in the content and creators that the CMF (and former CTF) proudly funded.

No indication where the content can be purchased. Can't even find a list of the shows that were digitized.
"A role of government should be setting up and ensuring as close to perfectly competitive markets as piasible.[sic]"

Your argument is not that different from people who say things like "we don't have perfect competition, that is a market failure, the government must fix it". As I said before, perfect competition is a model. It isn't some utopian ideal. The argument as I phrase it is basically the Nirvana fallacy, and I don't think I'm mischaracterizing your views.

I would be more sympathetic to arguments like: "anti-competitive corporate behavior, like the formation of monopolies or cartels or other means that reduce output and raises prices, is not socially optimal. The government should prevent such behavior"

In other words, I think you adopt a position that tries to prove too much. This merger may be bad (or it may be good, I don't really know), but you don't have to rely on the argument that if competition isn't perfect then the government should step in in order to oppose it. That's not a good argument.
Seems rather dystopian to argue that it is good for society that poor people don't get opportunities because they can't weather failure as well as rich people.
Honestly sounds like when a junior doesn't make any pull requests until their 3 month project is feature-complete and then expects the seniors to drop everything to code review their 10k line change, rather than doing incremental releases with incremental code review.

AKA one of the biggest adjustments I've had to overcome in working with teams.
People really underestimate the importance of creativity to advanced technical problem solving. That has been the key human ingredient pushing the frontiers of STEM forward, especially in the most recent decades with better computational tools.

The best mathematicians aren't the ones just proving theorems anymore, they're discovering interesting conjectures through exploration and then handing the grunt work off to a computer. Engineers aren't calculating anything remotely complex by hand anymore, nor should they. The best scientists also tend not to be people who were problem set whizzes in school.
Do you like hummus?
I don't come across many opinions which can legitimately be labeled as 'anti-social', but this definitely qualifies.
This source says 15%:
https://companiesmarketcap.com/tesla/operating-margin/
Der Struwwelpeter
I tested it out, and it's pretty slick.

I noticed two issues:

1. The background image on the landing page doesn't load at all for me. I'm using Brave, with script-blocking disabled. If I manually inspect the page, and open one of the links behind the light/dark theme code, they load, but they don't seem to load on the page.

2. When I uploaded an image in a slide and went to full-screen mode, the image's borders are cut off (it's as if the image is zoomed in and the edges of the image are cropped). I believe it's the background-size: cover, and the aspect ratio of the image. Perhaps using background-size: contain would work?
I'd like to see something to back that claim. The amounts of data we're talking about are quite significantly more than any I've seen people experience in real life. As far as I can tell, customer cars run inference only, collect very little data unless something prompts them to (and even then, store it locally), and contribute almost zero to the training set.
Ehich was the case for almost all, and especially the Swedish, figher aircraft of the Cold War. Heck, the Tornado engines could run on Diesel for short hops to get them out of harms way. A loy of sections on tye German Autobahm was built as well to serve as bavk up runways. Most of thise have been rebuilt in more traditional ways so since.
I think Netflix sees 3 people sharing 1 account and thinks that 2 of the 3 would maybe pay for accounts if they block sharing.

But in reality they end up losing the 1 account instead because none of the 3 people are willing to pay full price individually. They were all willing to pay 1/3 of the price when sharing.
> Why does Disney need to invest resources into Disney+ when they can just sell the rights to their content to one or two Streaming platforms and make more money?

I think they assume they can make more money doing it themselves. They can probably generate more revenue, but the question is whether they end up ahead after accounting for the cost of creating and maintaining the platform.
It shouldn't happen. A web browser is a completely separate tool from a proprietary search engine. It is not intuitive that the default web browser in an OS would share browsing data with a search engine.
Hopefully in the future we will have two beautiful worlds full of life. Doesn't that dream seem great?
Seems like a great way to supercharge suburban swarm by increasing density. And to think so many suburban areas had former lives as farmland.
I straddle a unique perspective of North American education. I am the descendant of uneducated farmers, but the son of an engineer. My nerdy father left the small town life to get educated and become an engineer.

Now I live in a family of nerds amidst a sea of extended family who are all rather poorly educated. I watched as my cousins cared more about ski-doos and video games than they did about their math homework. Unsurprisingly, they didn't get far academically and now as they are approaching their adult life, are struggling to be employed and do not like their job prospects, the same as their parents did before them.

Meanwhile, me and my siblings were eagerly pushed to pursue education. Curiosity was ignited at every opportunity to encourage us to think hard and explore big ideas. This has paid off in spades for our family. Innovation, thinking, and exploration are often pre-cursors to success.

Seeing my extended family (and their friends) justify their uneducated views of the world, hearing their bigotry, listening to their hatred against "smart people". It hurts my soul. Knowing that my extended family out numbers my close family 5 to 1 by family size makes me worry about the future of our society.

These ignorant folks are voting with their wallets, ballots, and social media voices. What does that say about the future of North America? What does it say about the changes we need to make to enlighten our people for the future?
Highly recommend Mr. Sunshine on Netflix. IMHO, the best TV show I've ever seen.

Full of characters pursuing romantic values ("romantic" here meaning values that earnest individuals should pursue) and understandable conflicts.

And unbelievably beautiful to look at too.
Again, CMA is not investigating what matters for gamers or not, but investing what market hold the entity has, if they are likely to abuse it and if the acquisition would make the market hold stronger.

In the case of consoles, their own argument is that no, the market hold would not grow stronger.

In the case of cloud gaming, their argument is that Microsoft already have a strong hold on the market (in the UK) and the acquisition would likely lead to a stronger hold.

Xbox as a console and Windows as a OS and nothing to do with the case they're making.

> This honestly reeks of an analysis done by outsiders that don't actually understand the industry. On the other hand, this consolidation also sucks to see.

Yes, because they are not experts in the gaming industry, they are experts in the industry of businesses in general, and monopolies.

Same could be said about your own argument, it reeks of an analysis done by someone who have no grasp on wider markets and monopolies, but happens to have knowledge about gaming to some degree.
That might be the one fact that most people know about Transmeta. Among other things, he wrote the original x86 interpreter that was the first to touch cold code. Before he joined, x86 code was immediately translated (which was not ideal for many reasons).
I wonder what happens in other states. It's unfortunate that they can't just cremate the bodies and be done with it, and bodies get dragged around public agencies instead.
I learned to read German by working through "German for Reading" by Karl Sandberg. It's a great book. Work through it a couple times until the grammar is second nature, use the Anki deck "4000 German words by frequency" to increase your vocabulary, and start reading children's books (Emil und die Detektive, Max und Moritz, u.s.w) then move onto slightly harder books like Kafka's Die Verwandlung and Zweig's Schachnovelle.

Max und Moritz is hilarious btw, so don't skip it!
You have 86 billions of neurons with orders of magnitudes more connections between them — the motor cortex does its thing without conscious thought, but your brain still continuously processes the world using all of your senses, using its n years of experience/knowledge.

From a few anecdotal experiences in this thread, you would be able to tell subconsciously that that Burger King sign is not a stop sign, not even for a brief second, that floating plastic bag is not an object that one has to avoid collision with and there are just millions of edge cases humans properly handle.

Of course I might be wrong and it might not require GAI, but there is still no human construction that can even close on a human brain.
You are mixing up a few things here, but they are all missing the point. At normal body temperatures, their thermal energy distribution prevents most protons in a human from aligning parallel or antiparallel with the static field, even at MRI field level strengths of several Tesla. The excitation by the varying field, which only affects another one-in-a-million of those aligend protons, is indeed another step, meaning that even fewer protons actually get to experience the precession effect. So about one in a million protons gets aligned with the static field and less than one in a trillion gets to produce a measurable signal. But since there are so many of them, (~10^20 per mm^3 for water), you still get enough (about 1000 protons or so per voxel) to measure a signal at 2 Tesla. With higher field strengths you can get a bit more and thus more resolution but even at 10 Tesla you won't align all of your protons - not even close.
User-made tribute To VRChat as the true Metaverse ideal
Gotcha, I don't feel so floundering now!

I plan to spend more time with it, I see a lot of merit

The amount of control is great, but the docs could use some work. For my simple goals (install Sway, Ansible, some other things) it was a broadsword when I need a butter knife
> use my mouse as little as possible

LMAO, even the GTK file picker is not fully accessible without a mouse.
An even better one might be "Card Payments 101" as I don't think anything here is specific to software or developers, even at a high level.
It seems that you didn’t watch the episode, which is exactly about losing your home due to code violations like the ones described in the article.

HOA or not, chipped paint or garden gnomes should never lead to foreclosure.
Perhaps parents with PhDs pass on genetic traits that support their offspring in the competition for PhDs and faculty positions. Unless the analysis controls for that dynamic, the research cannot correctly measure "socioeconomic" effects. As far as I can tell, the study does not attempt to do so.