skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If that's what you'd call the sort of vertical, but mostly lateral launch they do when striking. My point was more that they can only extend themselves so far up a vertical object before they just fall over. A solid 4-foot fence is plenty as far as most snakes trying to get over it. A 6-foot fence will defeat any snake headed in the upwards direction. Your biggest concern, should you be trying to exclude snakes, is that they burrow and it doesn't matter how high you build that fence if you don't sink it into the ground a couple few feet.
The last paragraph of this article sums up a trend I keep seeing in this industry I don't like:

> But while decarbonizing heavy industry is a good thing, the folks behind this project are not my favorites. Lightsource BP is a joint venture between the steel company EVRAZ and the energy giant BP, as well as the utility giant Xcel Energy, which will provide the steel mill with fixed electricity rates through 2041. BP and Xcel wouldn’t exactly be my top choices to control the energy of the future, what with both companies’ histories of spewing out carbon emissions, greenwashing their polluting business plans, and screwing over workers. I personally don’t think these kinds of companies should get to make big profits on solar power or use it to paper over their destructive legacies. But hey, maybe that’s just me!

The alternative to this is what? Complete newcomers to the industry attempting to execute multi-million or -billion dollar projects? Anyone in an existing carbon-intensive industry is going to have a "climate unfriendly" reputation because they operate in a "climate unfriendly" industry. Attempting to block existing players in the industry from decarbonizing seems counterproductive.
I have no idea about a measurable change.

But I know that given the choice I would choose a flavorful tomato with bright color over the pale thing that you get at subway. My stereotype of traditional vegetables is smaller and tastier. Same as chickens, etc. Modern food is optimized for bulking up quickly. Thus my interpretation of the original "bait and switch" comment.
The tricky thing about cutting third party clients is that those users were never counted as a 'mDAU' in their reports anyway. They could have brought other benefits (like 'power users' generating content to attract monetisable users).
(This comment was in response to https://techcrunch.com/2023/05/10/google-makes-its-text-to-m.... We merged https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35919370 into this thread.)
Couple of questions:

1. Can I see list of all executions, their parameters and complete stdout, with handy URL I can refer too?

2. Can I get notifications (email etc) when script fails or certain conditions are met (something appears in the output)?

3. Can you set execution timeout?
The systemic risk exception is no secret. There are plenty of other places to put your money. This cost is not borne by taxpayers.
I'm too lazy to summarize this beyond saying both ext4 and XFS have their advantages and disadvantages, and both are still under active development. ZFS is a funny and problematic one that does lots of cool tricks but isn't properly free and gobbles resources.

Check this: https://linuxhint.com/xfs-vs-ext4-brief-comparison/
Catching “will smith eating spaghetti” vibes.
Does it work with 3.5 or only 4? I'd love to try it out when I get access to plugins.
There will be way too much sewage coming out of the pipe to be fact checked by humans.
For me, it was killing the API access. The native client sucks.
DAW Front End Development Struggles
Sorry to be obtuse here, but does "killed it" mean that she brought in great revenues or did it mean that she sent it headed to oblivion? Slang can be kind of dangerous sometimes.
decarbonizing the industrial supply chains is pretty crucial because a lot of the other green infrastructure that's going to be needed to be built around the world is going to be less effective otherwise. If your green tech needs to run for years to simply claw back what was required to make it that is a huge issue.
Adequate information is never stuff written in transient prompts.

Yes, the solution is giving users adequate information. That means telling them whether it's a link or a file, whether the file will execute, or what program will open it.
Cloudflare’s view of Internet disruptions in Pakistan
Very cool!

Does anybody know something like a translator tool between all the different `yaml`s different CI/CD services use? Or maybe some metalanguage specifically made for that that can run instead of whatever hell dash/bash is.

I wish I could just jump ships altering a `script` tag in whatever `yaml` from whichever service.
> It's an awkward structure to have the executive chairman and/or majority shareholder take a position (usually CTO or CPO) elsewhere in the org chart, because it means that that person is simultaneously the boss and subordinate of the CEO.

That's a good description and it is the de facto structure of a great many companies I've worked in/with. I would say it's relatively normal to be honest
What type of person would accept this CEO role? Surely the problems are known, so whoever accepts would be happy with them?
You don’t need the whole truth and nothing but the truth from it when you are the domain expert. You only need it to highlight areas it thinks are wrong.

Also, GPT-4 is not 100% accurate, but very good in my experience. GPT-3.5 not good at fact checking at all, it will also hallucinate a lot of incorrect facts. It generates closer to plausible than accurate facts.
LeMUR can turn 10 Hours of Speech (150K Tokens) into an LLM Context
> When government understands these issues at all, they only want more control and restriction

So what solution do you have that doesn’t involve regulation?
1. yes (that's exactly what the run page of each execution is)

2. yes (our flows have optional error handlers)

3. yes (TIMEOUT is an env variable of the workers)
http://web.archive.org/web/20230512214044/https://www.econom...

https://archive.ph/tzEcD
You have to use GPT4, and specifically click the browsing beta option.
Because human nature is a bit more complex than "car thief or not."
Seinfeld Transcripts
> You-know-who

Can the title be changed to list the source? ChatGPT?
What are these obvious problems?
What are some professional alternatives to KiCad? I've seen Altium (which already appears leagues ahead of KiCad, but the license fee is really high...) but none others.
XFS was the first time I felt i had a “real” file system on Linux, ext2 being long in the fsck and reiserfs doing strange things with tail packing.
Thanks for the reference. I have a number of issues with that essay, but fundamentally, once we have people on Mars we'll have exactly this issue. There's no easy way around it and we'll always have to negotiate hours that work for both parties (which is what I basically have to do with my family who are about 90º phase shifted from me).
I’ve been a happy customer of https://33mail.com/ for years. It’s a different style of offering with a similar purpose and apparently a sustainable business model.
> short paragraphs stringed together is a wall of text.

"White space is your friend" is another rule I preach to my students. Some 40 years of dealing with contracts has persuaded me that short paragraphs with white space in between them are FAR easier to review and negotiate — which means they get signed sooner, and clients vastly prefer that.

> as opposed to diagrams, spreadsheets, or conversations

For several years there have been people banging the drum for contracts to include more icons, flow charts, etc., for improved readability. So far, that idea hasn't gotten a lot of traction — IMHO that's because most lawyers barely even know how to use Microsoft Word competently and would have no idea how to create a flow chart or meaningful icon, so they default to writing pure text (which is also the quickest and thus cheapest path to getting a draft onto someone else's desk).

About the best I've been able to come up with in this regard, as something that can be done with Word, is to create tables of, e.g., action items, with columns such as "Event | Action | Who | When" — basically, an Intel-style "AR list" [0], or in software, a CASE statement.

[0] http://www.nathanzeldes.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/Effec...
But the logical question is, could any of that been possible without the government subsidies he received? I think without that prior optimization for subsidies, he's not given the creditability or ever actual credit to do any of the other shenanigans.
I cant speak to 'correctness' but ureq has been great to work with. Simple and small. https://crates.io/crates/ureq
I am relatively young (32) and I feel the same way, as an avid fiction reader, and consumer of movies/tv; I don't think this observation is merely a symptom of getting old.

I suspect it has something to do with a few factors (just speculation):

1. Publishers / writers taking the safe route to content creation: using formulaic storytelling to generate "likely" successes (the pop music effect). They're treating writing more as a product than art.

2. Creative writing as a medium no longer attracts the best and brightest, who instead go into other expressive forms that are more on trend / current (movies, tv, video games, digital art, music, programming, etc).

3. People's attention spans are shorter, and novelty is not perceived as being rewarded (this is related to the first point)

4. A culture that is increasingly trending toward narcissism due to the effects of social media, pop culture, and more broken homes. People aren't writing for the sake of expression or art so much as to get attention and win prizes.

5. (Ties in with 1 and 3) An increasingly garbage information landscape full of click-bait and vapid content optimized for algorithms and views. This information landscape creeps into the culture at every level, I believe (to varying degrees)

It is ironic, and a poignant observation, that AI writing is nearly indistinguishable from much of the existing user-written content. I tend to agree, and blame that on the fact that in the past ten years, people have become intellectually lazy (perhaps for the above reasons?) and are really just parrots and synthesizers themselves.
Water is a much more efficient heat exchanger than air.
We are seeing it too, Stripe support told me
"just following up here. We're aware of this issue and actively working on a solution. We'll get back to you as soon as we have more to share here"
my beliefs are antifragile, when they meet resistance they only strengthen
WGA Launches Scab Reporting Web Site Where Members Are Required to Report Names
> has surprised even researchers who have been generally skeptical about the hype over LLMs

I too am surprised by my singing laptop.
https://maud.lambda.xyz/

Maybe this?
Netflix still has a strong app and a great interface. But quietly other streaming services are starting to have much better overall content than Netflix. You just wouldn't realize it because the apps themselves aren't quite as good yet.
It has less to do with just emotion and more to do with politics. Maybe something is a marginal idea but you approve it because X is a good VP you want to reward.
In EE terms, betting against batteries is like betting against CMOS. Progress will go where the industry's money goes, not where any one company's money goes. If I could say just one thing to Toyota's management, it would be, "Stop trying to make hydrogen happen. It's not going to happen. There are just too many technical and economic drawbacks."

But any of their engineers could tell them the same thing, so what'd be the point?
Go for it.

If there are mental health issues - find help - not everyone even professionals can necessarily help - you may have to try different people, but it can get better.
Yes, I actually found that painful to listen to. Interesting to see where it goes, but for this erstwhile musician it’s like fingers in a chalk board.
> or disclose identifiable Geolocation Information with third parties (except our service providers) without your consent.

There's also that little qualifier "identifiable" in there. Companies usually take a very different stance on what constitutes "identifiable" than people think.

What that's really saying is that they will share the geolocation information with third parties without your consent, but they'll probably do a little handwavy "anonymization" thing on it first.
> Software Engineering as a regulated profession is going to be a necessity as much as civil engineering or electrical engineering has been

Wouldn’t it be easier to regulate the quality of software used in critical products?

AFAIK similar regulatory standards and certifications exist for aerospace software.
ESR mentioned in a comment [1] that he hadn't profiled the Python code in years, which would have been a sensible first step if he's concerned with performance. I suspect there were parts that could have been improved.

Maybe all those debug logging statements in the last Python version [2] that, unlike the built-in logging framework, use the string formatting operator to construct the log message regardless of whether debug logging is enabled.

I can't imagine that encoding everything to latin-1 as a workaround for Unicode support is very good for performance either, unless he was only using the Python 2 version.

And maybe, for example, the empty_comment function doesn't need to call the str.strip method twice on the same string? Maybe that could be more efficient?

[1] http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=8161&cpage=1#comment-2065946

[2] https://gitlab.com/esr/reposurgeon/-/blob/911d5c1168f7839855...
It's definitely because GPT-4 is better - I've seen this kind of improvement across all kinds of prompts I've tried myself as well.
For me it was the cloud.

Cloud services certainly have uses, but I used to be "all in" on cloud, now I'm "use cloud, but only if there's no alternative".

I don't believe that the core premise of the cloud - that "your company cannot afford to run its own computers" and "running your own computers requires massive in house technical expertise, whereas cloud does not".

Cost, complexity and vendor lock-in are huge factors. Anyone who has tried to build cloud infrastructure knows the pain of configuration/authorisation. Any accounting department knows the cost of running cloud has the potential to simply run out of control.

I still believe in:

* using bare metal/dedicated hosted instances

* cloud DNS services

* cloud storage

But building sophisticated applications using cloud application services like databases/serverless functions/queues/messaging I think you should really question whether it makes sense to use these.

Also the data egress fees are simply nuts. And most companies underestimate the impact of this, and fail to take into account how clouds charge for data movement within the cloud in a whole range of complex and expensive ways.
What are the chances that he actually will listen to her and take her advice? I kind of think he's not accustomed to doing that.
There are short-term solutions and there are long-term solutions. What is your long-term solution?
Just a data point: I've got access to plugins as of the last hour, but no access to web browsing yet.
What are some good plugins to check out?

What is the extent of the capability of these kind of plugins?
Fun way to look at it, you at the north give us a lot of planned obsolence goods in exchange for our monies. North even gets into politics pushing developing countries infrastructure towards oil economies. and then, we consume what you led us to, and suddenly we're the bad guys.
At the most basic level a system call is: loading the arguments into the ABI-specified registers then triggering an interrupt. Some architectures have a specific syscall or syscall-like instruction that is more optimized than a generic software interrupt but conceptually it is similar.

The syscall/interrupt instruction transitions to supervisor/kernel mode and moves the execution pointer to the configured location in the kernel.

If this sounds kinda like switching threads or processes you would be right. But if you had to pay that context switching cost 2x on every syscall it would kill performance. Most OSes use a split address space as an optimization here: every userspace process has the kernel's memory mapped in the upper half, but with protection bits that make it inaccessible to userspace. That is so when a syscall is issued there is no need to change the active page table entries or flush the TLB: the kernel is already mapped only now in supervisor mode those kernel pages are accessible.

The CPU decided what code got control by the interrupt table which itself can only be configured in supervisor mode. That is what prevents a userspace process from hijacking the CPU. User mode code doesn't have permission to modify the register that points at or the memory containing the interrupt handler tables. Thus by definition any syscall/interrupt will jump to kernel code.

The kernel entrypoint then often has a COPYIN/COPYOUT process that will treat certain register values as pointers and copy the data into the kernel's address space when required (or copy it out to a caller provided buffer).

For reference pre-emptive multitasking is related. The kernel's scheduler configures a hardware timer interrupt. The configuration of this timer can only be done in supervisor mode. So once the current thread's timeslice is up the timer fires and the CPU changes the instruction pointer to the kernel's configured timer interrupt handler. User mode code can't prevent the timer from firing nor change what code the CPU will jump to. The scheduler routine saves the current context to memory, loads the next thread's context (registers, instruction pointer, page tables, etc), updates the timer's next deadline, then "returns" from the interrupt... only the instruction pointer is now in a different thread (or different process with different memory entirely) so the CPU "returns" to a different piece of code. If all goes correctly it "returns" to the next instruction beyond the one that completed when that thread last got pre-empted so from that thread's POV execution was continuous.
i remember evangelising yahoo pipes in college :)
If it's ok in neither case then you agree in the purpose of regulation of speech/censorship.
Confirmed from stripe
https://twitter.com/stripestatus/status/1657137172368199680
I feel like that becomes sort of shovelware. There are some games with some truly amazing scores and the above stuff doesn't approach. Is it better than no music, or stock/open license music? I'm not sure. What happens if you've built the next hollow knight but rather than the amazing score from Christopher Larkin that elevates the game you get the garbled terrible music in the above post? It actually makes it worse.

I fear the path into "low/no effort" versions of music scores, art, etc is a dilution of great works that actually makes a worse product than if you went to the trouble of finding someone to do it properly. It leads to shovelware and I don't think we need more shovelware. We need more high quality high intention music and games and images, and personally I think thats going to come from gifted individuals who put in the effort to learn it, not a neural network that can't experience what you want the music to make you feel.

If I logged into a video game and I got the music in the above post it would detract from the game. You'd be better off finding open license or cheap music that a human has made. its way better, and would reflect better on your game and design process.
> Twitter no longer censors and bans their opponents

Unfortunately, Twitter still censors and bans their opponents.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/dec/15/twitter-s...

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2023/04/elon-musk-twitter-st...
If you look at database benchmarks on TPC.org, you will find that many of them are on XFS (as a consequence of using RHEL/CentOS), which was designed with database performance in mind.

It used to be necessary for Oracle to use raw partitions to get the very best database performance. I haven't heard of anyone doing that for many years.

"The default implementation in most kernels is simply a file-global lock placed at the in-memory inode, making sure there can be only one writer per inode. Implementers of databases hate that because it limits the write concurrency on any single file to One. This is, for example, why Oracle recommends that you make tablespaces from multiple files, each no larger than one GB.

"XFS, in O_DIRECT mode, removes this lock and allows atomic, concurrent writes, making database people very happy."

Developers at Oracle have posted a number of blog posts on their code changes for Linux XFS.

https://blogs.oracle.com/linux/post/introduction-to-xfs-tran...

https://blogs.oracle.com/linux/post/xfs-online-filesystem-ch...

https://blogs.oracle.com/linux/post/xfs-2019-development-ret...

https://blogs.oracle.com/linux/post/xfs-whats-new-and-whats-...

There can be a strong bias against Oracle at HN (and I understand why) but credit must be given where it's due.
Well if you'd read what I've said, you'll know that's not really my style.

Unfortunately, I assumed you knew a slight more about the topic you're discussing than you evidently do.

My reply's intended to suggest that the privacy coins you are referring to - unknowingly, or otherwise - are simply another form of money. Bracketing them with regular crypto, something I did only in keeping with how you initiated, isn't the best.

In practice, privacy coins are a small subset of crypto, some of the least-used of all types available. And again there are also legitimate use-cases with them that reduces this further to the point it's a bit silly.
A subset, of a subset, of a...

But, you're welcome to succumb to the endless brainwash of BS and biased media reporting for crypto and think whatever will make you happy. Reality lay in waiting, for whenever you wish to join it and the complicated world that doesn't get clicks.
And the quiet, zero-point style propulsion on the carrier ship. No rocket boosters! That always sticks with me.
a model 2 has been announced?
Last one is much better than I expected this thing could do!
I wonder were he was looking for investment advice.

https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2022/04/21/14/56879553-10739213...
There's also TelegramRSS: https://github.com/xtrime-ru/TelegramRSS
From your link:

> The exact numbers of people executed in China is classified as a state secret;

In addition to executions, China has been clamping down on entire populations, therefore, preventing future incarceration.

> Uyghur birthrate fell by almost half between 2017-2019, research finds, adding to evidence of coercive fertility policies

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/may/12/chinese-uyghur...
Yup. Their prices are just too high for occasional content. It's simpler and cheap to just pay directly through Amazon Video. Unless Netflix has three or four shows that you can't miss, it's just too expensive.
There was a release just a couple of months ago - that doesn't seem to be "barely maintained"
> It very hard for me to see how meeting someone an hour a week will be enough to make any noticeable change to the course of my life at this point.

https://youtu.be/-KriRCtS4rs
I have a feeling that the intellect gap at a lot of universities isn't as profound as one would expect and that one of the reasons that the students of the best unis do so well is because their educators can actually explain the course material. You can do more when you've got to spend less cognitive energy on trying to piece together the hieroglyphic puzzle that lesser professors throw at you because they believe they're too important to teach.
Putting a period at the end seems like a very ineffective way to disambiguate a name. How do you do this at the end of a sentence?
Every person that I've ever met who calls themselves a "prepper" has been what most would call an extremist. (I'm not calling you an extremist -- I've never met you.)

That's a different crowd from someone who is just prepared for emergencies and disasters.