skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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Also, I believe this is irrelevant.
Almost every breakthrough in distributed systems is more recent. LZW is 1980s. Most data storage systems used today had their guts invented in the last 40 years, with only the top layer being older than that.

If you look at "Computer science" as the narrowly-defined field of data structure and algorithm design in a vacuum, maybe things slowed down after 1980, but that's because problems with different constraints just became more interesting.
The problem with a lot of hiking shoes is that they are still rather tall like tennis shoes, when hiking I'm not "pounding the pavement", I want something puncture resistant with a low center of balance and grip or tread around the edges for gravel and loose rock and decent tox box protection (since I have the bad habit of shuffling at the end of a long day and don't want to stub my toe.)
>"this is no endorsement of the Soviet-style systems."

You do not have to apologize for confirming that not everything about USSR (late USSR in particular) was mothers eating their kids for breakfast. People with more than 2 brain cells should understand that the world is not binary. And those who do not should go back to school as the education in their country (whatever that be) had definitely failed them.
Twitter is randomly logging out users
In most cases, an email server is provided by the ISP or by Google. And once provided, the service is pretty standardized.

Not so with Mastodon where the first step is to go server shopping without any real basis for making a decision.
I've been a proponent of fuzzing - having systems that do noisy inauthentic engagement that is statistically indistinguishable.

Essentially it's to give an intolerable SNR to this scraping where they have to discard their metrics as useless
F.D.I.C. Proposes Broadening Bank Insurance for Businesses
> FWIU we already have enough abandoned mines in the world to do all of our energy storage needs?

Here's a prompt for this one, for the AI:

"Let's think step-by-step: how much depth or volume of empty mines are needed to solve for US energy storage demand with gravitational potential energy storage drones on or off tracks in abandoned mines? Please respond with constants and code as Python SymPy code with a pytest test_main and Hypothesis @given decorator tests"
Environmental groups sue U.S. over SpaceX launch license for Texas
https://archive.is/wpEV7
> the general sentiment I get from reading a lot of these threads is that "If you have nothing to fear, you have nothing to hide".

> Why do you think that is?

I think it's because a lot of people think that there's nothing that can be done to change the situation, and so they adopt that mental stance in order to be OK with it. Whether or not that stance is correct isn't important. It's an emotional "safe space".
Any recommendations on similar materials? I.e. advice on how to manage research.
The main effort is separating drinking water and waste water. Keeping them as far away as possible and preventing contamination. There is no way to do that with air. The air we breath in and the air we breath out will always mix. The best we can hope for is some amount of dilution with fresh air/filters, bit at the end of the you are never going to be able to achieve the same thing with airborne viruses that we did with waterborne illnesses. The flu, covid, etc are with us for the long haul.
> If there were no fountain, then many people would get water bottles and that's too big of a hassle.

Right, and if there was no public transit, then many more people would need to buy and drive cars, and that's not great for the public's interest either.
FYI Apple Card / Apple Savings are run by Goldman Sachs & Apple. So I'm guessing they found some value in this operation.

I agree its offering is very mid (just like Apple Card) so I don't use it but for some opening a new account elsewhere is challenging.
Ding Liren is the new world chess champion
This is not a function of "could." They're already asking users to do it. If they "could," why didn't they? To make something easy, you first have to actually make it easy. Not let forum users argue about how easy it "could" be.
Teachers will just leave. They have options due to what will be a decade long labor shortage (structural demographics inflicted). It’s why many school districts are starting to offer 4 day weeks to teachers; it’s one of the few retention mechanisms available for a terribly undercompensated role.

https://news.ucr.edu/articles/2022/08/03/demographic-dilemma...

https://www.weareteachers.com/4-day-school-weeks/

https://www.ncsl.org/education/four-day-school-week-overview

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/education/2023/03/06/mor...
Absolutely not. The person who told you that has no sound data or argument behind that view. It's just a gut feeling they have. Which says, basically: "The best people to hire are those who spent their formative years just like I did."

It's also discriminatory. As another commenter put it, you might as well ask how much money their parents earned.
I was laid off in retaliation for anti-discrimination whistleblowing
I don't quite follow, but I totally believe that solutions to these problems can be made and maybe your solution really does work well. The issue is that solutions here are not standard yet and thus there will not be much collective knowledge to draw upon. I'd much rather ask engineers to fix age-old RDBMS issues than novel ones that are unsearchable with solutions whose repercussions are not yet known.

There's also issues with complexity even if the solutions get figured out. What are you getting in return? Serverless is great IMO when it's the simplest solution to a problem, ex: "I only have a front end but I really need a simple API action that daisy-chains a few API calls".
Multiple superbugs have broken out and are killing thousands every year. The irresponsible overuse of antibiotics in places like Mexico is certainly part of the problem.

https://www.cdc.gov/drugresistance/about.html
"And they were made, in the case of schools specifically, with teachers unions weighing heavily on the scales."

Hard to teach school without teachers.
Exactly! If the government starts doing things to you there are legal recourses. If your bank decides you can’t have an account anymore, there’s not much you can do.
That’s not actually true at all. The basic hardware required to run even a copy of GPT-3 is outside of the budgets of all but the wealthiest companies and individuals. The engineering talent required to wire it all up is also extremely scarce.

Training an original GPT-4 sized model would also cost on the order of hundreds of millions of dollars.
U.S. Could Run Out of Cash by June 1, Yellen Warns
It uses the Lightning network, which is a separate network using off-chain transactions. The Lightning network crams upwards of infinite transactions into a single on-chain transaction, called a payment channel.
"Socialism is about how workers organise their workplace (owning, managing and sharing the produce and profit of their labour)."

That is a nice simplification, but it makes it sound like something that can just emerge gracefully within a market economy. There are employee-owned companies, for instance, and if that's all that's needed for socialism to work, then it would spread and show us all the benefits of socialism.

But the benefits are either not there or not amazing enough to spread. I'm left feeling like you left out the controversial parts, and I suspect that when you get into the details, there's lots of room for complicated power dynamics and ownership rules, perhaps much worse than non-socialist alternatives.
Hence the need for specially trained people who can do the back-and-forth with humans to understand exactly what is required, then enter it (into the brittle prompt in this case) in a way that the computer would understand.
>Do you own and drive a car?

No and no.
This website fills me with nostalgia! I used it many years ago to make a tiny 8ft yurt, which was a fun little project. Putting up a yurt is really satisfying- the way the lattice walls flex is very cool, and seeing the way tension works across the structure is fun.
The higher the top, the less debris ends up falling into the shoe, though. Of course, you could just strap on a gaiter instead as most thru-hikers do.
140 chars, he means.

*280 chars, he means.

*4000 chars, he means.

*10000 chars, he means.
The extra heating due to climate change is about 1.6 W/m^2. That's about 800 Terawatts.

The average nuclear power plant is .001 Terawatts.

So you'd need close to a million power plants to combat global warming. A lot more than a dozen.
They do, but these maps are either incomplete, or they don't always follow them.

The Los Angeles-class nuclear submarine USS San Francisco (SSN-711) nearly sank on January 8, 2005, when it hit an uncharted undersea mountain about 364 nautical miles (675 km) southeast of Guam while operating at flank (maximum) speed at a depth of 525 feet (160 m). [1]

The Seawolf-class nuclear powered fast attack submarine USS Connecticut (SSN-22) suffered damage on October 2, 2021, after it collided with an undersea mountain while maneuvering in the South China Sea. [2]

And the Swiftsure-class nuclear powered fast attack submarine HMS Superb (S109) had to be decommissioned ahead of schedule due to the damage it suffered during a collision with an underwater pinnacle in the Red Sea, 80 miles (130 km) south of the Suez Canal. [3]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_San_Francisco_(SSN-711)?us...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Connecticut_(SSN-22)?usesk...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Superb_(S109)?useskin=vect...
a $10M portfolio with 10% annual gains (tweak the numbers as you’d like, it’s still fairly reasonable for the “wealthy”, I think)
Yes, sure. But you know what makes most of human history's output of art, music, literature et al great? Intent, attention to detail and self-expression.

Broad strokes are broad strokes. I can procedurally generate levels all day long in a video game, but for me, they're never going to be as compelling or interesting as a lower-resolution and low quality textured game from the '90s or '00s where every single tree and rock is placed with intent.

I already think modern cartoons are fairly sterile and soulless versus their hand drawn or hybrid counterparts. It isn't even elitism, they just don't hold my attention or interest me artistically, stylistically, or in terms of content.

If you choose to express yourself in broad strokes, that's fine, whatever floats your boat. I'll continue to chase things that have intent and artistry behind every aspect of them. Generic and formulaic is generic and formulaic all day long. It's also why I don't like most modern anime, it's sterile visually and isn't why I enjoyed the medium.
put 100k at 4% vs what a savings account at a bank gives you thats a grocery bill a month in profit.
You may wanna take a look on DB engine benchmarks from Percona. Those from phoronix.com doesn't try compare DBs, but environments where those DB/applications run.
One of my systems has that confirmation dialogue enabled, it is pretty annoying IMO, I don’t want to have to reach for my mouse just to close a terminal. (I’ll disable it at some point, it is a system that I mostly just remote in to anyway, so it isn’t a daily annoyance).

There’s a shortcut in Vim that my tmux config gets in the way of. Ctrl-a, increment a number. This is a weird shortcut to me, though, actually I’m happy tmux over-writes it!
"most immediate concern" was in regard USA spying foreign citizens vs china doing so. I was saying that FOR ME, a citizen of "the west", USA is more dangerous.

You might write all the long comments you like, and suggest me to vote (lol, i see that's working very well in USA as well), but the fact remains.
where they didn't create positive revenue products yet despite billions of investments, while putting main cash cow (search) into risk by neglecting that area.
How simulations work (2016)
> Anything that involves system services

This is not true. NixOS, as one example, is able to figure out which services (including system) need to be restarted.

> god forbid the kernel

This is not true either. Live kernel updates are possible (but are usually a paid addition, e.g. https://ubuntu.com/security/livepatch).
Yes shifting the goal posts and finding edge cases not well suited to LLMs, and also ignoring the chain of thought prompting.

It can solve math word puzzles that are not in its training set.

Yes you can find these edge cases. We know about these edge cases and that's just missing the point.

There are countless examples of emergent properties in these LLMs which by definition are solving tasks outside of its training set.

Its reasoning has been demonstrated on examples outside of its training set.
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https://nitter.net gives a certificate error
Unfortunately some people still don’t care for these particular cartoon images for whatever reason as evidenced by multiple requests to disable the splash screen, here and elsewhere on the internet. If you believe strongly that these images are neutral and appropriate for work, by all means, show them!
Again, same notification I got with Big Sur. Complete with "menacing" countdown.
But that is caused by existing economic inequality, not the free market itself. If the rest of your society is organized in ways that e.g. prevent massive unlimited accumulation of wealth, the disparity between what people can afford is much smaller - and then the market can easily be more optimal than any centralized scheme.

Indeed, one could argue that capitalism (which explicitly allows for unlimited accumulation of capital) is detrimental to genuinely free markets for this exact reason: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free-market%20anti-capitalism
The clipper chip idea flopped, right? So have a few other stupid, draconian, privacy-defeating bills since.

But yeah, it may not be realistic to think that we can stop the expansion of surveillance powers for TPTB and erosion of rights for the average citizen, given the consistency and persistence of the proponents of such crap. When I look at trends of the past 20 years, it seems like wherever the law has fallen short of placing everyone under a microscope, private industry has conveniently stepped in to become the 1984-telescreen service providers instead of the government.
Winter foot gear has changed a lot. When I started it was double layer end of story/end of discussion so you basically has either Sorels or plastics (or mouse boots for really old school).

These days I mostly use fairly cheap single layer insulated boots with some variant of microspikes. Still have plastics with step-ins. Have never bought into the newer generation of high-end single layer which seem to be the non-expedition norm these days.
the problem isn't in VR per se. the problem is the current iterations of VR hw/sw.

while quest 2 has solved some problems, there are still hurdles to usability. but these hurdles aren't inherent to VR.
I agree that this issue has never been talked enough. I am doing PhD now and recently went through a breakup which mostly happened because I could not give enough time for the relationship.
If you have access to bing someone figured out you can enable a longer token length by editing the HTML as the limit was set browser side rather than server side. Not sure if this has been patched yet
I understand that bu Vercel KV is almost 2x more expensive than Upstash. Even the vercel/kv package is just a wrapper for upstash/redis - I mean what is the benefit of using Vercel KV instead of Upstash? What DX is improved?
Upstash offers a nice UI and easy integration with edge functions and lambas functions. It's the same with neon database and cloudflare r2. The only plus value I see is the centralised dashboard. Paying 2x for a single dashboard?
Poison wheels: a Klaviyo continuous integration fire-fighting story
Perhaps Russia, as a society, is too corrupt to actually develop AGI. Build some Potemkin facade, let the Big-Guy-in-Charge believe he controls AI superpowers, then discreetly dissipate to warmer climates. If Big-Guy-in-Charge decides to use AI superpowers to take over the world, and starts noticing that reality doesn't quite match his understanding, quietly dispose of respective Big-Guy-in-Charge. Lather, rinse, repeat.
Black Mirror got it right in their "Metalhead" episode, which is probably my favorite.
Linear Diffusion Model
I wouldn't call any of those high tops.

Like you say, they're more like a sock lining that sticks out. High tops are when the main shoe material extends upwards for "ankle support", like you described in your last sentence.
The organizations were not centrally planned by government officials.
Unfortunately on HN you do, the majority of the people here live in coastal American echo-chambers.

If you mention anything here that could portray any aspect at all of the Russians (any era) as positive (or even just neutral but factual), you'll be eaten alive with down-voters.

Including this very (my) comment.
Huh? How is the idea that public transit should be publicly owned Americentric? A stereotypical/caricatured Americentric take on that would be to privatize everything.
Today, we have a lot more bandwidth at home. I always wondered if having a "social network" device at home would make sense in the future.

I imagine a device like a router or an Apple TV, that you connect at home. Then, you own it, everything you post is on your little device. Maybe you pay a few bucks a months so you can upload an encrypted backup in the cloud somewhere.

There's obviously downsides to it, but I think I would buy such a device.
Right, because people who violate human rights are going to adhere to a software license term. I can see it now, while beating the crap out of someone the panic that they'll experience when they realize the software they are trying to use has an ethical license.
Let's put the eggs aside. The government determines an inflation target and tries to control the inflation (e.g. by changing interest rates, buying or selling securities etc). So why not set the target to 0%?

For example, this site [1] states that in recent years the inflation in Japan was about 0% on average. This proves that it is possible to keep inflation around zero. Maybe it is because Japanese government unlike Western ones has respect for hard-earned money of its citizens. It seems that Japanese government doesn't put its hands into citizens' pockets.

I have also read this article [2] but it offers no explanation for outstanding stability of Japanese economy.

[1] https://www.worlddata.info/asia/japan/inflation-rates.php

[2] https://hbr.org/2022/12/what-causes-inflation
I am curious now - at what depths is it considered human origin? Is it because we know how much the sea level has risen in the last x years?
This is conflating cause and effect.

Socialism is just a word, you can define it however you like. In theory it can be some sort of vague co-op of co-ops. In practice it always leads to a centrally planned economy. There's a good reason for that. The ultimate root cause that generates socialist ideals is not the plight of the workers or anything so surface-level, it's the intuition that intellectuals should run society. Thomas Sowell has done a lot of excellent work elucidating this and explaining why it happens.

To try and summarize, socialism appeals to people who like the sound of the abstract ideas of intellectuals. If an intellectual posits a clever-sounding reorganization of society justified by high minded ideals, then this feels right to the socialist mind. The sort of people who most aggressively promote socialism are the sort of people who think society is ultimately pretty simple - after all, the way to cure all social ills is so simple it can be summed up in a single book or set of pamphlets. It can be understood and reorganized by a single mind. Marx was famously averse to detail about how communist societies would actually work in practice, as were all other socialists, but this didn't bother them because it didn't seem like you needed a lot of detail. Hence the "calculation debate" the article discusses, which kicked off only after communists gained power.

If you intuit that society is simple and the best minds can understand and reorganize it for the greater good, then a planned economy is the obvious next step. Why would you not plan it? The only possible justification would be if the planning process was too hard, but that would imply that society was too complex for any one mind or even a committee of minds to fully understand, and if you believed that, you wouldn't be a communist to begin with.

So socialism or communism invariably always leads to top-down authoritarianism in practice. Revealed preferences > stated preferences.
To be fair, even the most remote Carrefour in rural France would be considered an opulent food palace for the top 5% in the United States. Some forms of capitalism seem to produce more aesthetically pleasing results than others.
what is it that you do
> And when was the last time you saw a high-top soccer cleat?

Interestingly (?) early football boots were very much ankle-length [1], and this style continued well into the 1950's [2].

[1] https://www.footy-boots.com/football-boots-history/

[2] https://www.kraveantiques.co.uk/products/Nailed-Stud-Footbal...
Do you have any sources? Or did you mean that ironically, because as a smoker you die earlier than the average gets Parkinson's?