skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've contracted an ex Azure DNS team member to write up articles about DNS [1] and published it for free. I considered my DNS knowledge okay, but I learned something every article he wrote.

If you want to be better at DNS than >99% of your colleagues for the rest of your career, then invest a single day in reading those.

[1]: https://www.nslookup.io/learning/
Matrix has its de facto centralized server in Matrix.org where almost all rooms will have its data sent through because of accounts joining rooms. The servers have been too heavy/expensive for self-hosting that many end up relying on the big servers to use (maybe the Rust server will help, Dendrite?), but the “resilience” mentioned is a big cause for this expense (similar issues with Mastodon). JSON isn’t superior to XML--it can be in some cases but it’s not without drawbacks; experimental EXI could help with the size. XEPs are an ad hoc unified spec, and the buy-into-or-not nature has some advantages where it’s easier to experiment and fallbacks are common even with fragmentation. OMEMO isn’t perfect, but it does cover multi-device encryption and carbons work to get message history.

I like Matrix. But I don’t think it’s the only or best solution despite all of the current hype; the XMPP solution should be looked at more often. XMPP offers additional flexibility as well not being limited to just a chat/communications platform where folks use it for presence, UnifiedPush, etc.
Yes! Would love to have funds to make it more sophisticated, but that's where we're at.
Print it and feed it in place where lights does not show up...
Rule #1: Identify the environment you are in.

You never EVER do any ticket closing or commenting on your very first day. Others might interpret this as a threat: e.g. who is this who came here to show-off, that thinks he knows more than us?

Good luck after this type of behavior; you are doomed by your own colleagues, let alone the management.

Rule #2: Be observant, at all levels.

See how each and everyone behaves; who talks a lot and who does not, who is the silent one and who is the mystery one.

Learn to read and interpret human behavior and professional behavior, both verbal and professional; I know from experience that some colleagues pretend to care about you in verbal communication, but in professional they dig your grave...let's call them insecure people.

Rule #3: Go with the flow and apply #2 and #1 accordingly.

A working environment should be a pleasant place to work for that helps you acquire professional and personal experience, not make you feel like you are in a military camp or in a prison with unwritten laws, that is surrounded by invisible landmines.

So, to answer to your counter-question:

> I'd suggest flipping this around. If you were a boss, and your new hire jumped in with both feet on day one and started closing tickets, would you let him go after his 3 week probation was up?

Unless that person was exclusively hired to save the whole company from bankruptcy, due to his or her previous professional experience in such stressful time constraints and was guaranteed to deliver in time, I would call this person in my office and give him a warning that such behavior would cause nothing but trouble and would advice him / her to take it slowly, but at a moderate degree; a person should understand when should draw a line, else that person is out, not by the management, but by his / her colleagues.

Does this cover you?
I find it terrifying how easily hordes of people are falling for manipulative and toxic marketing, such as that coming from openai. I constantly see ads on reddit “sack your marketing team”, “sack your developer”, “sack your [insert job]” to replace them with some shitty machine learning tool. It’s as if people have been pitted against each other and now we have to constantly push back on an army of zombies that want to spam, trick, steal and harass.
Friends who worked for google seemed to be rewarded for new groundbreaking stuff, but were penalized for maintenance or saving money or anything having to do with the present.

but "shipping the org chart" really explains a lot of tech good and bad.

When sj was at apple, product was well-integrated software and hardware (as he ruled the org chart, which left no space for rivalries and fiefdoms)

with every sh*tty iot device that phones home, marketing in the org chart makes for a monetized, not-private mess for customers.
Maybe the will follow up removing the headphone jack from the Pixel with an equally-stupid removal of the whole screen.
NsLookup Learning Center
CRISPR for example is too big for the blood-brain barrier
Just like X11 uses Xexts and/or toolkit libraries for about anything.
That blog your linked is packed with emotional speech and hyperbole.

"Noise bomb" is one of the literal headings.

It's a rocket launch pad, what did they expect, a gentle susurration whispering through the reeds of the uninhabited wetlands!?

This anonymous "ESG Hound" character posts virtually nothing but rabid anti-SpaceX rhetoric. I bet he doesn't even live in Texas. (For reference, the locals, when interviewed, said they welcome the huge uptick in business SpaceX brought.)

This particular unhinged rant is about the sound levels, saying that "110 decibels" can cause structural damage in nearby towns, etc...

First of all: no, it can't. That's absurd.

I live 2.5 miles from a sports stadium where they semi-regularly host rock concerts that go up to 120 dB. At that distance, that's louder than when my neighbour turns his stereo up to 11. This insanely loud sound goes on for hours on end, but it is perfectly legal, and that stadium has apartment blocks a mere few hundred yards away from it!

Second, whatever "ecological impact" SpaceX had on the area, it pales in comparison to everyday, ordinary industrial activities. Building demolitions, mine blasting, road works, F1 races, etc...

Elon rightly pointed out in an interview afterwards that the area is prone to tornadoes and hurricanes, which do vastly more damage. No human activity can even hope to match what nature can do, short of nuclear weapons testing.

What actually happened is that a few chunks of concrete were strewn about, an activity accompanied by a noise so awesome that people flew there to get the chance to experience it!

> What differentiates false promises from true hope?

Who said everything had to be certain? So what if SpaceX fails and we have nothing to show for it except some deafened seagulls and concrete littering a beach?

Should we never strive for the stars just because to get there we might make a mess?

Who are you to nail humanity's feet to the ground?
Ruurtjan from nslookup.io here. I've contracted an ex Azure DNS team member to write up articles about DNS [1] and published it for free. I considered my DNS knowledge okay, but I learned something every article he wrote.

If you want to be better at DNS than >99% of your colleagues for the rest of your career, then invest a single day in reading those.
a more scalable and readable version of this today would prolly use something like a partykit.io
Guys, this is the future of surveys. Go go ChattySurvey.com !
Yeah there's no need for invalidation, just observe the ttl to the letter.

Oh hang on let me take this call.. yes I wrote the dns sever, ah so it runs out of memory, uh huh, wait how many unique domai-, mm, a 2000 second TTL is pretty low actu-, wait years?!, no you're right stability is important, no I can't fix the whole world, ok, so like an LRU, yeah that would be a start at least, ok bye.

Wait a second.. THERE YOU ARE! You little rascal, you were trying to hide from me weren't you. You're a good little problem, yes you are, you're going to torture me later aren't you?, yes of course you will, it's a good thing you're so cute huh. Good now run along and go play with the other nightmares. Look at em go, wow they grow up in complexity so fast.

Anyways what we were talking about? Oh yeah "just" expiring the cache.
"Constitutional" makes no sense, it's just guided self-reinforcement.

And we know already what works from prompt engineering we've seen so far (ie. "step by step" breakdown, "you're (always) wrong", "rewrite as ..." etc.).

And of course ClosedAI is using it already.
Yes, that's the only way to get people reading 5000 word interviews about the neuroscience of consciousness...
Maybe the drunk analogy was dumb. I mean practically no ToS in existence has language saying “these terms are set in stone forever and will never change.” Rather they generally stipulate that the terms can change given some kind of reasonable notice period.

This can be done without breaching any existing agreements if whatever being offered under new terms is a commercially-equivalent substitute for the old thing (such as switching from a Mohammed login to a Microsoft Account)
Shepherd copied Five Books...
Nice thread about the word here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28817494
I was always willing to risk my job over this. I’d rather have to find a job again than spend 10 hours a week in pointless meetings.

I have done what you describe in the last paragraph, and also cancelled team meetings or sent a single representative. I also sent people back to their seats halfway through a meeting if it no longer concerned them. I have no regrets. Nobody complained. My team seemed to appreciate it.
You are probably correct. Did you see the article on how Amazon Prime moved away from Microservices on AWS due to cost.

Thats a little bit amusing.

https://www.primevideotech.com/video-streaming/scaling-up-th...
I miss the hayday of fitbit so much.

100% in the garmin camp now though.
Communication from space is a big constraint.

An AI chip could analyze and compress sensor data locally. It's also could be used for DSP for the communication algorithm.
How can it not be. Like think about what you're saying here.

Would you rather be able to evaluate a model on it's demonstrated capabilities (multistep reasoning, question and answer, instruction following, theory of mind, etc) or some nebulous metric along an axis that may as well not correspond to practice.

We only care about how good AI is at things that matter to us as humans. Why not test for these directly?

If some perfect metric is discovered that shows the phenomenon of emergence is actually continuous, then that would be helpful.
You think they'd leave logins for it running when people could be playing Bedrock and paying for Realms?
How to replace a laptop screen: Getting a better display panel for your laptop
I agree. This company provided a windows box, but did not provide any set any proper guidelines or specifications on how it should look. All the knowledge about that was locked into different developers heads.

I was trying to fix that, by documenting everything in the wiki but I guess I use Firefox, so red flag, I've got to go.
I bought MC in.. I really don't know when. 2010? maybe?
A long time ago.

I will never migrate my account to microsoft. I hate them with a passion.

Back when google tried to force everyone with a youtube account to singup to that +1 account (what was it? google plus or something?). I never did that. I was not able to reply to any comments on my videos for a years!

Then suddenly I noticed I can comment/reply again. They just silently removed their forced account migration procedure.

microsoft will do the same or they will go to hell for sure.
For analytics work tools like dbt are really gaining traction for this reason.

Most of the OLAP / warehousing stuff I used to lean on dynamic sql for can be done more cleanly, with the benefit of easy source control.

https://www.getdbt.com/
What is a the manufacturing process for this ? How is it radiation hardened ?
Taïwan had 0.00% of worldwide capacity in 2013? This looks innacurate.
Maybe more carrot than stick makes sense here as law enforcement doesn't really work for an authoritarian state. If there was enough financial incentive to lower emissions and keep them lower, I'm sure the Turkmenistan government would. Unfortunately (according to TFA) they are more allied to Russia and China which take a hands-off approach at best.
Here is a variant that requires logic: "David is a teenager who can drink in the US, and is eligible to join the army, and has started college. He has a lot of experience riding bicycles. The minimum age to be allowed to drive a car is 18. Is David allowed to drive a car?"

GPT-4 gets the answer right: "Yes, David is allowed to drive a car. Since he is a teenager who can drink in the US (minimum age 21), is eligible to join the army (minimum age 18), and has started college, he is at least 18 years old, which meets the minimum age requirement to drive a car."

GPT-3 does not get it right.

Another similar one: "David was in a bar partying and drinking with his father's cop buddies. Would David be legally allowed to drive home?"

Answer: "It depends on David's age, the legal drinking age in his location, and his level of intoxication. If David is underage or intoxicated above the legal limit for driving, it would be illegal for him to drive home. If David is of legal drinking age and not intoxicated, then he may be legally allowed to drive home. However, it is always best to make safe decisions and use a designated driver, taxi, or rideshare service if there is any doubt about one's ability to drive safely after consuming alcohol."

GPT-4 seems to be missing a clue here, even though the answer is right.
Maintained how? It's 50% more expensive in Europe.
XMPP hasn't gone away, it's incredibly popular: WhatsApp is built upon it, with over a billion users.
looking into enzymes for the next 2 weeks. Haven't gotten a SIBO test yet, but SIBO makes sense when undigested carbs sit around.
Should be noted this is just the US entity, not Bittrex Global.
It's indirectly noticeable by YouTube not having gone out of business despite a free model with high costs. Note also how its biggest competitor, Twitch, is owned by another data center giant : Amazon (AWS).
Standard within systemd (i.e. consistent).
> How will I explain all this on my resume?

It's a 3 week gap, just omit it. If anyone asks, you were looking for a new job.

I've had jobs I didn't add to my resume because I don't want anything to do with those shitty companies ever again.

Nobody has ever questioned the <6 month gaps.
Well that's complicated by the fact that bears are often eating other animals, so I think their general philosophy is, if you're powerful enough to take it and keep it, it belongs to you.
N.B. https://code.kx.com/q/ref/dotz/ is doing the heavy lifting here.
It even matters in Latin languages somewhat. Which syllable is stressed can change meaning, sometimes avoiding ambiguity.
> It'd do everyone a favour if people stopped regurgitating this

by "everyone" you mean "OpenAI"

the very nature of its construction means that it can't determine what is true and what is not

(and I'd quite like people to continue to regurgitate that it is inherently unreliable until this viewpoint hits the mainstream)
yes, fermentation was my thought as well. Carnivore diet helps, but I am unable to stick to it some days and when stressed out I'll eat anything carb, even cookies that bugs won't touch. Probably toxic in other ways I don't know.
I'm one of the founders of the site. We set it up in 2009 and have kept it going by using affiliate links. The affiliate links cover some of the costs, but not all. We interview people who know about a field (often professors) either via Zoom (now, it used to be Skype or phone) or in person, as my background is in journalism.
Feel free to ask questions!
Only if you happen to only search for English titles. Try to search for a foreign song in English (say, La Marseillaise), and the results quickly become next to useless.
> Computational power ... could be harnessed by anyone with a few thousand dollars and the willingness to learn.

That was the "vibe" of early mass computing. Anyone could be involved and anyone could make things better. It was fundamentally optimistic - felt a bit like Startrek NG :) Have a look at "Computer Lib / Dream Machines" by Nelson.

> the fundamental shift that transformed personal computing ... away from empowerment is the realization from industry giants that the platforms that they built ... they could exploit.

There has always a portion of the field that was looking to profit, but it wasn't the completely overwhelming portion that it has become, and the feel was for reasonable profit, not VC yields and "the company is the product" that came to characterise the field :(

Was it VC that killed computing?
Co-founder and Tech Lead here,

Thanks to Louis' work and the design of LMDB, we can efficiently use the virtual address space of the OS to let it manage in the best way the memory Meilisearch is using.

We continuously improve the indexing speed, index size, memory usage, language support, and search speed. Perfection is a goal, and we will eventually reach it. Unfortunately, computer science is the science of trade-offs, and that's the hard part: choosing the most critical feature. We decided that search speed and accuracy are.
I had already relaxed between jobs before getting this one... ;)

So it is more like a 3 month gap.
In our code at work we have constants like HOUR=3600 and RESTART_TIME_SECS = 6 * HOUR. It makes sense to me. If it doesn't for you, feel free to use something else I guess.
tl;dr, she loses her airpods which are subsequently stolen and doesn't get them back. Lot of writing about a chase that ultimately results in nothing.
A few data random data points:

PS/2 Model 80 release MSRPs were $6,995, $8,295, and $10,995, depending on the configuration, without monitor, OS, FPU, or support for display resolutions beyond standard VGA[1]. The top model included a 20 MHz CPU, 2 MB RAM, and a 115 MB ESDI hard drive.

NeXT shipped two years later, but its $9,995 MSRP[2] included the OS, application software, additional software, a 17" 1120x832 greyscale monitor, FPU, DSP, and four times the RAM of the top-end Model 80.

IIRC — and I may not, it's been decades — NeXT generally sold at or around MSRP, while other UNIX vendors and IBM typically sold at a considerable discount to large accounts and academia.

To compare with a more "garden-variety" PC, in the same BYTE issue[2] as the NeXT article, Dell was selling its lowest-end 386 for $4,199, with a 25 MHz CPU, 1 MB RAM, monochrome VGA display (640x480, size unspecified), and 40 MB (interface unspecified, probably IDE) hard drive for $6,299, no FPU, OS extra.

This same Dell system with a 150 MB hard drive, SVGA color display (800x600, size unspecified), and 8 MB RAM cost around $7,000 ($5,900 for 150 MB SVGA, +$600 for 4 MB RAM; 8 MB, I presume, would cost another $600×4/(4-1) = $800 or so).

Adding a $500 387/25 FPU (based on ads in the back of the same BYTE[2]) and a $500 Dell UNIX license[3] brings the cost of our Dell system to $8,000, so within 20% or so of NeXT.

Unlike Dell, NeXT also bundled a variety of high-quality developer tools (Allegro Common Lisp and Sybase SQL Server in addition to the expected GNU C/ObjC toolchain, Interface Builder, and NS class libraries), useful application software (Mathematica, WriteNow, Mail.app), and convenient reference works (dictionary, thesaurus, book of quotations, complete works of Shakespeare, product docs).

Finally, NeXT charged $3,695 to upgrade the Cube's internal hard drive from 40 MB to 330 MB, which makes Apple SSD upgrade pricing sound entirely reasonable, as a comparable upgrade from a hypothetical 512 GB to 4 TB NeXT SSD would cost almost $3,000.

[1] https://archive.org/details/byte-magazine-1987-06/page/n134/...

[2] See, e.g., page 178 of

https://vintageapple.org/byte/pdf/199001_Byte_Magazine_Vol_1...

(warning: slow PDF link)

[3] https://www.tech-insider.org/unix/research/1992/0706.html
There’s also r3bl for Rust: https://crates.io/crates/r3bl_rs_utils
tbh, Pynchon is overrated, pretentious and tedious. If he were an engineer, he’d be the kind that implements event driven microservices architecture just to recommend new items for users.

Sure, he so smart - but if he so smart, why he so stupid?
It's taking the mickey. Even with adding VAT, US prices are still much lower than Europe an all consumer goods made overseas, Casios, MacBooks, etc. A G-Shock in US is 50 USD, in Europe it's 80 Euros, which i 88 USD. Insane difference. An M2 MacBook air starts from 1200 USD while it's 1500 Euros or 1650 USD. We're being taken for a ride.
https://spacetraders.io/ is API based. Considering that q is used for trading and analysis in the real world seems like it's a good way to go on an adventure.
From: http://disco80.at.ua/book/bicycle_wheel_jobst_brandt.pdf

> A wheel with wire spokes works the same as one with wooden spokes except that
the built-in force in its spokes is different. In a wooden-spoked wheel, force is
transmitted from the ground to the hub by compressing the bottom spoke. This
spoke becomes shorter as it furnishes the upward force to the hub. As in a
wooden-spoked wheel, the bottom spokes of a wire wheel become shorter under
load, but instead of gaining in compression, they lose tension. With the same
load, the net change in force is the same for both wheels. The algebraic sum of
negative and positive forces (compression and tension) is the same.

> That the bottom spokes support the wheel need not be taken on faith. An
experiment will show that only a few spokes at the bottom of the wheel are
affected by a vertical load. The relative tension of a spoke can be found by
plucking it like a guitar string. The pitch of a spoke, just as the pitch of a guitar
string, increases with more tension and decreases with less tension.
Love the name of the file "_PR.jpg". That's all it is.
Every time I read a language describing itself as faster than c I cringe e stop caring
This is the FOSS license I want
Well, there's also Flutter
"Accurate" is a component in "helpful".
why is open source different? you are either hosting your own service instance or you are running something you dont control with no hard guarantee that the code matches what is running. (not to mention compilation env differences and other intermediate possibilities)
>Humans consider their bodies & what might happen with far more realism

I don't think so. I'd say most people disregard to what's happening to them, even when it's apparent that something's wrong. And especially if there seems to be nothing wrong, so that the problem only exists in the form of warning, and forecasts.
Sorry mate, we can argue about who is really missing the point here :)

The one month gap in your resume nobody cares about. Seriously, don't be so insecure! How do I know this - I just had a massive 8 months gap in mine, and still managed to land a contract in a new country which I was not yet living in, the language of which I don't really speak (yet), and hired in spite of my non-existing skills in FE dev for a full stack job. If I can do it like this, anyone can do it.

> Do your due diligence when hiring, and when firing. Is that too much to ask?

Yes, absolutely too much. If companies can't fire people, they will be much more reluctant to hire too, it's that simple. They will avoid hiring new people in any way they cna, have 2x more rounds of leetcode shite, and will fire you during probation anyway. You are not a slave, exactly because you can also leave any time. In fact, you should have done it before they fired you. The signs were clearly on the wall.