skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am going to write this comment with a large preface: I don't think it is ever helpful to be an absolutist. For every best-practice/"right way" to do things, there are circumstances when doing it another way makes sense. That can be a ton of reasons for that, be it technical, money/time, etc. The best engineering teams aren't those that just blindly follow what others say is a best practice but understand the options and make an informed choice. None of the following comment is at all commentary on questDB, as they mention in the article, many databases use similar tools.

With that said, after reading the first paragraph I immediately searched the article for "mmap" and had a good sense of where the rest of this was going. Put simply, it is just really hard to consider what the OS is going to do in all situations when using mmap. Based on my experience, I would guess that a ton of people reading this comment have hit issues that, I would argue, is due to using mmap. (Particularly looking at you prometheus).

All things told, this is a pretty innocuous incident of mmap causing problems, but I would encourage any aspiring DB engineers to read https://db.cs.cmu.edu/mmap-cidr2022 as it gives a great overview of the range of problems that can occur when using mmap

I think some would argue that mmap is "fine" for append only workloads (and is certainly more reasonable compared to a DB with arbitrary updates) but even here, lots of factors like metadata, scaling number of tables, etc will eventually bring you to hit some fundamental problems when using mmap.

The interesting opportunity in my mind, especially with improvements in async IO (both at FS level and in tools like rust), is to build higher level abstractions that bring the "simplicity" of mmap, but with more purpose-built semantics ideal for databases.
1 is anti cheat.
> $17.87 for 24 months.

Yeah I'm too cheap to pay that much.
Seems like a pretty unrealistic bar to set. You can use government ID to empty a bank account and air and tile stocking seems way lower Stakes.
Okay. Note that half of them will be negative. Have fun.
You can’t. The later values depend on the earlier ones, so changing the early tokens invalidates your whole cache.

This is also probably why leading with a question works better in the first place. All later processing conditions on the question in this way.

BTW, in my very limited testing, GPT4 doesn’t care about the order.
Open-Sourcing USearch – Single Header C++11 Vector Search Engine
What about getting ahold of the binary or whatever raw version of Windows you can get (C++, assembly?), and look at the diff from before this change and after. Would that drastically narrow down what you should look at? Moreover, if there is a literal CONSTANT that says "Chrome", is it possible that it's not obfuscated and sitting in the code in plain sight?
>TIL about the CNC song

If you want to see it performed on-stage in all its glory, including live orchestra....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=if60FlQ2FEo
There are other methods you can use to increase performance under memory pressure, but you'd end up handling i/o directly and maintaining your own index of memory and disk accesses, page-aligned reads/writes, etc. It would be easier to just require your users buy more memory, but when there's a hack like this available, that seems preferable to implementing your own VMM and disk i/o subsystem.
The problem is you're proposing, basically to implement a "ASKJEEVES" model for Wikipedia, with a unknown concentration.

That'd cost real money, requires real licensing, and a clear business plan.

Absolutely it'll happen, but almost every sector will need a leader for X subject.
I wanted to try to understand more context behind the "'Why would anyone have one [an Android phone]?' Mayor Adams responded." quote. Here is the relevant video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vuw72THyXsQ&t=949s

So, I get that he's making a joke, but given that everyone just laughs and there is no follow up, it's clear to me it's one of those "The reason this joke is funny is because I actually think it's true" jokes.

I've been an Android user for about a decade now, but I think I'm finally going to have to throw in the towel. Between iMessage (especially iMessage) and things like this, in the US having an Android essentially marks you as a second class citizen. And to be clear, I'm not saying this from an "Androids are uncool" or some silly "green bubbles" perspective, I'm saying from the perspective that owning an Android actually makes it more difficult to interact with friends and, in this case, with government services.

No, I'm not happy about it, and I f'ing hate how Apple has used these walled garden techniques to force people onto their platform. But from a simple utilitarian perspective, owning an Android puts you at a distinct disadvantage in the US.
You used Samsung products, that was your problem. Every Samsung I've had or used has been absolute trash
Love this site, how long did it take to build?

Would be cool to see clips of behind the scenes showing camera placement and set/crew
Also 2000 years of Mathematicians talking about Prime Numbers before someone came up with the idea of cryptography using prime numbers.

And the laser, which took a few decades to find an application.
Or virus.exe as seen on Office Space.
unless the kindergarten is playfully toying with numbers already, usually with no obligation but as an enrichment for those kids who love such activities.
For anyone interested further in this topic and generally the four horsemen(t2 diabetes, heart disease, cancer, and Alzheimer's disease), the book Outlive by Peter Attia is a very good general overview of factors that affect each, how medicine will need to evolve to a more preventative stance to move the needle on these diseases, what biomarkers are being discovered for these diseases.

His general stance is that by the time someone is diagnosed with any of these, it is far too late to have sustainable, effective treatment for many.

Its not exactly a short read, but is very eye opening.
Having a second adversarial network could absolutely be part of the solution, I wasn't arguing against that. My problem is with in context learning, ie the idea that including background information in the prompt can solve hallucination.
Because they otherwise make bad jokes in poor taste?
> Even if they do the bare minimum, it'll definitely run a lot more than $50...

The bare minimum is taking a report and checking a file, and that'll take about five minutes. How are you calculating "a lot more than $50"?

And why did you pick $50 anyway? Is that a comparison to how much the criminal makes? If the profit is a small fraction of the damage they do, it makes lots of sense for the police to spend more than the profit.
Restricting resales for 3 years would be OK if the company would agree to no layoffs, no facilities closing, and no takeovers of the company or the local
facilities for three years, etc, etc.

Creating neighborhoods according to short-term needs is surely short-sighted. Houses should be built to last at least 50 years, and neighborhoods longer. Whenever things turn bad for the company that has built a neighborhood for its workers, things will likely turn worse for the neighborhood. It would be extraordinary for a firm to create a community in its own image and have that image be long sustained as praiseworthy.
My first job was supporting an in-house system built in UniVerse. My second job was supporting a commercial ERP that ram on top of UniData.

I like the more modern stuff I work with now, but I truly miss the multivalue world some days.

Every once in a while I install the UniVerse personal edition and build something for fun. I will definitely check out scarletdme!
Founder of https://replicate.com/ here, which has been mentioned a few times. Happy to help you get set up. :) ben@replicate.com
This probably isn't at the top of the list of serious concerns, but one problem that's kind of unique to AI is that in general, AI-generated content isn't eligible for copyright protection. Companies might worry about losing copyright on certain things if someone finds out that a lazy employee didn't actually create the content themselves.

Companies generally tend to be wary of cloud services due to data leak concerns. At the very least, they like to be in control of the decision about which services are approved and which are not.
-> Putin completely turned off the gas.

Why would Russia turn off their main source of money?
We have a de-facto two class system: the capitalists and "everybody else class". The capitalist class, those with capital, investments, stake (a la stakeholder), who mobilize lobbying on behalf of and to protect their capital, who will 99.99% of the time have the ultimate impact on legislation; the impact being positive effects on themselves at the cost of everyone else in the general public.

I'm not sure we can even get a vote on the floor that would have detrimental effects on the former class. The legislation is preordained.

You are proposing that bank management and equity holders get wiped out, not the general public checking account-holder; how would that even be possible, since they write the rules, pull the strings, lobby, etc. magnitudes more than you? They are the rulebook. They do so to such an extent that the entire system is predicated on everybody agreeing to do the same thing lest the system collapse.
Negative externalities Co.
The whole thing about the mayor and NYPD telling everyone who watches or listens to the news to buy a 30 dollar gps patch that someone can put under some car carpeting anywhere in said car should be enough to discourage most car thieves with 2 or more active brain cells, but hey, I'm an idealist.
> and your company name isn't "McDonalds"

Seems inappropriate; McDonalds beats minimum wage and has significant opportunities for career growth that many other "fancier" restaurants don't offer.
Then you represent a trivially small fraction of users. My desktop doesn't have wifi either, but most modern motherboards come with a wifi card built in. Not to mention the majority of visitors to mainstream sites are on mobile and a good chunk of the rest are on a laptop. Also Firefox has 3% market share so we're talking about a tiny fraction of a tiny fraction of a tiny fraction.
The article distinguishes "readaround" from a linear predicted "readahead", but then says the output of blktrace indicates a "potential readahead", which is where I got confused.

Does MADV_RANDOM disable both "readahead" and "readaround"?
Bible Errata
That's such a strange system if common routine things aren't counted towards your score. Is this a ploy to get you to buy things you don't need just to prove you can pay it back?

Personally I've never owned a credit card, I always pay with a debit card or cash. 20 years ago I refused to participate in the credit scoring system and still stand by it.
They don't even have to be compelled, they can simply be asked to share users' private data.
At least with the company featured in the story, it's your house to keep regardless of your employment status. The company does say it's keeping an option/first right of refusal to buy it back from you for the first three years at the same price you paid (to prevent flipping). Once that period is over, you are free to sell it on the open market.
That's a lot of words to say "we feed it up to date SERP results"
The gets into some really interesting corporate governance issues.

The cloud is a terrible bet for many large companies. The benefits are minimal while the risks are huge, however what’s in the best interest for the company is only tangentially related to what happens.

It’s really difficult to ensure companies actually take low probability risks seriously. A 1% chance to lose 10 billion dollars is an easy bet for upper management to make when their personal risks and rewards don’t line up with the company’s risks and rewards.
Looks great. It appears aimed at the inference use case rather than training, yes?
Can confirm that the 'urgent'-sounding music and shouting on most cable news channels definitely affects my thoughts for the worse. I also have tinnitus and having the noise on constantly without any discernible source, even after all these years, is not conducive to peace.
> The new icon is scheduled to launch in Chrome 117, which releases in early September 2023, as part of a general design refresh for desktop platforms.

I downloaded Chrome Canary to take a look at this "general design refresh" and... sigh.

The new browser UI is now 10 pixels taller than the old one.

I realize 10 pixels isn't a lot. But it's also not noting—it's half the height of the top bar on Hacker News. And this is after Google already made their UI much taller in their last refresh. If you make the UI take up more and more space with each redesign, it adds up.

Yes, I have a bigger monitor today than I once did. But I bought that monitor so I'd have more space for actual content, not the browser UI.

Remember how Google chose the name "Google Chrome" because it was designed to have a minimal UI that gets out of your way and lets you focus on page content?
Since cars are being located even with automatic notification to iPhones the higher barrier is likely to have some impact.
SPD does much the same for me. I had my laptop tracked using Prey software (prior to Airtags) and they refused to send cops to a location I personally scouted out, took pictures of, and identified my equipment.

When I told them I might confront the thief on my own, they strongly cautioned against it.

Basically they aren't interested in doing their job, or anyone taking action themselves.
One example is Medi-Share (https://www.medishare.com). I'm sure plenty people will find some reason to hate it due to the explicitly Christian theme and I'm sure there are some downsides I am not aware of. I do not use it myself, but I know several people who do, and they have used it to cover their bills. To a person, they are quite pleased with the cost and idea behind it. I haven't dug into it, but I find no issue on the surface. Maybe they refuse to cover sex change surgery or something and that makes them Literally The Worst, I don't know. The idea of "everyone puts in a bit and when someone needs help they take some out" is the basis of insurance as a concept, and it seems to work if there's just a little bit of gatekeeping. ACA and coverage of preexisting conditions under the insurance model really fucked things up imo. Not that preexisting conditions shouldn't be cared for, but as an entirely separate model.
Exactly. Preservation of obscure knowledge is important, but it does not take priority over peoples' privacy, security, and personal choice.
Webamp and WebTorrent
Use a magnet link shared by any WebTorrent client containing audio files and enjoy

This is basically a clone of a project I wrote in the past implementing IPFS + Captbaritone's Webamp, where I replaced IPFS with WebTorrent.
I think this discussion is a bit better if you read the docs:

>We utilize CPython to run all existing Python3 code “out of the box” without modification
the history of Chinese songs only goes back 10 years?
Few what?
In Dutch we have a saying "when two dogs fight over a bone, a third runs off with it". I support the fight if it will weaken both Microsoft and Google.
Back in Egyptian times, they’d call it slavery. I thought that was banned
> But there will never be any solidarity between say US and African workers

Why not? If post-covid economics has a theme, it's that things are more interconnected and more fragile than we expected. That fragility is also opportunity.

I can imagine scenarios where overpaid tech workers in the US--rather than striking themselves--instead pay underpaid miners (in Africa, say) to strike, which cascades to hold up manufacturing, which cascades to harm their eventual target.
Isn't

>We utilize CPython to run all existing Python3 code “out of the box” without modification

from the docs the direct opposite of what the commentator claimed?
Is it just me or does this page sync up nicely with any music?
It's definitely possible, IrfanView lets you customize the icons for each file or at least at the icon 'pack' level and have all the images open with IrfanView. For instance PNG files can have the IrfanView logo with PNG written across it.
But people don't really understand the nuance between "let First Republic fail and let the FDIC step in to protect the depositors" versus "let's sell First Republic to Wells Fargo under orders of USGov to protect the depositors." Why not the former?

I agree that in both of the above cases, First Republic shareholders and staffing suffer. But the latter introduces the conspiratorial angle and the unjust-ness.
Y2K was at it's core an infrastructure maintenance problem. A one time investment needed to "reinforce" code to be resilient to a disaster we knew would be coming. For the Y2K bug, we had a pretty good grasp of what we knew, what we didn't know, and what we didn't know we didn't know.

AI is a black box that we can potentially defer extremely significant society altering decisions to. The number of people who can explain how it works is relatively low, and even the leaders in the field agree that there is so much we don't know we don't know about it, it's properties, and its capabilities.

They are extremely different problems.

The Y2K bug was adding shock absorbers to skyscrapers, if AI performs as promised then it can alter the very fabric of our society and not just suggest, but require a redefinition of the relationship between labor class and ownership class people.

AI makes dystopian cyberpunk a very real potential reality. Y2k wasn't much different than an earthquake or a hurricane, particularly one we knew would be coming.
yeah, we're optimizing the infra for realtime inference, though people definitely still do run training on us, with a weights upload implemented at the end of your handler.
From what I can tell:
1. They have a REPL and Jupyter integration
2. They're planning to do C and C++ interop. This is achievable in Nim but it is a pain, i.e. there is not easy way to import/include a C header in Nim, e.g. nothing as straight-forward as @cImport("cheader.h") in Zig or #include "cheader.h" in C++; one must go through c2nim or a third-party library

(1) cannot be achieved without a custom linker or using a JIT such as LLVM or compiling to WASM and embedding a WASM runtime into the binary

I really hope Nim gets some language/compiler upgrades due to this.
> However, anyone who has done respectable doses of psychedelics probably agrees with me that there’s a bit more to dreams, NDE and afterlife than “random” neurological firings.

On what is this reasoning based? Do you have any idea of what “random neurological firings” can actually do? Particularly considering that you are not in a situation to understand what is happening when your own brain does its thing, so how can you get any certainty out of this?

It sounds a lot like the “complex behaviour cannot emerge from an assembly of simple systems” we see regularly, an updated version of the watchmaker fallacy. The truth is, you have no clue. More than that, you cannot have a clue because you are trying to observe something through itself, and the thing in question is behaving in such a peculiar way.

That’s why we have things like double blind studies and the scientific method: to try to tease some objective observations out of a complex mess. We don’t understand everything in the brain, far from it. But it’s not magical either. We do understand neurotransmitters, we can look in real time how some patterns change when we eat various substances or do various things.
Because I'm just a straight nerd for BASIC here are some links!

A quick guide to getting started with scarletdme:
https://nivethan.dev/devlog/scarletdme.html

Unfortunately I never ported my editor and shell to scarletdme so this will be UniVerse/UD/D3 specific:

An editor like vim:
https://github.com/Krowemoh/eva

A fish like shell:
https://github.com/Krowemoh/nsh

scarletdme in the browser(this will be a 500mb download as it runs debian under v86.js):
https://nivethan.dev/projects/v86/scarlet.html
Maybe if all the people in their 20s and 30s stopped watching the toktok and star comic and buying furbobbles and being too fat or too frail to work just got their act together and went to work we wouldn't have to hire 14 year olds!

/s but only kinda sorta
Depends on whether the real goal is "kill those people" or "make a better life for the rest of us". The first is easy; the second is harder.
You know you can get an Iphone SE for 150 dollars, right?
>We utilize CPython to run all existing Python3 code “out of the box” without modification

>Further, we decided that the right long-term goal for Mojo is to provide a superset of Python
> They said "by the runtime", perhaps they mean that the python interpreter should throw errors at compilation time, since its not a classic compiled language.

Why waste time doing static analysis each time you run the code? If you don't change the code, its not going to change.
I have long thought they missed their moment, but not because of this.

the whole point of Mastodon is to be a federated social network where the first choice is to choose their instance

Yes, but only nerds care about federation. consumers just want a simple straightforward onboarding experience that makes it super-easy to find, follow, and chat with their friends. If you are an inexperienced consumer just looking for a nice social media experience, how are you supposed to know what instance to choose? In a few cases it might be very obvious, eg if you love sportsball then sportsball.social is probably for you and so on. But in many cases it's not obvious, and it's even less obvious how to figure out which instances federate with which other ones and what that means for your ability to link up with other people.

Nerds need to understand that 99.995% of people do not give a shit about protocols or architectures - they just want to know does it cost money, is there an app for their phone, is it easy to use. I have 30 years of experience with distributed online communities and even I don't give a shit about federation on an emotional level.

It's clever, it's a great idea, but emotionally I don't care, in much the same way that I don't care about the fact that HN runs on ARC and so on. Where and how people hang out socially is primarily an emotional decision, both online and off. Nobody is invested in the mechanics of the social media platform unless they harbor a desire to run their own instance, which most people don't. You don't pick a bar or social club because you like their business model, you pick it because you like the atmosphere and/or because your friends already hang out there.
I wish more would take inspiration from Python syntax.
They never did. Since we’ve had banks, we’ve had banking crises. Either people need to accept that there’s risk or we need to scrap the model.
Ouch. They must've wished that they kept that stock for a few more years.
If you are interested in the translations, another copy of the video [0] on YouTube has baked-in English translations.

Disclaimer: I don't speak Korean, so cannot vouch for their accuracy!

[0] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sPPlTX2a974
I have to agree. I use non-copyleft licenses because I don't expect people using the code to give me anything in return. Removing your the header and attribution is wrong, but not collaborating? As was said in other comments, if that's what you want, dictate it in your license because there are plenty of -- and dare I so most -- people that use the MIT license that don't care.
No kidding! I had no idea.
How is this not literally just a threat to rob people if they don't give up their stuff, and why would anyone take it as anything less?
"African Workers for ChatGPT"

this reveal is easily worth more than the union itself. If you were a futurist, a FAANG thought leader or an evangelist for AI, this should be all you need to know to realize ChatGPT isnt the future.

if youre using chatgpt in a call center, then this is just H1B or other labor fraud with more steps.