skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So I work support at a tech startup that uses Twilio on the daily. It's absolutely fundamental for the nature of our service.

About last year, every carrier started pushing for TCR registration for 10DLC A2P. If you aren't registered, even if you already had an account up an running, with hundreds of subaccounts, the deliverability of your messages will be shit, making TCR registration practically mandatory.

Part of this registration is registering your campaign's intended use along with your business and it's EIN. This use-case includes a description of the "campaign" itself, 2 example messages, if it's going to include links and/or media, and description of how users opt-in.

However the crappy thing is that this registration has started to take over 2-3 months b/c it's being handled by a 3rd party and thousands of their clients are flooding them all at once. I should know. I was forced to do this for a way-too-large number of our clients. It says to reach out if you have no update in registration after 7 days, but we were recently told that's been extended to 28 BUSINESS days before we can ask for escalation.

Unfortunately, this will definitely be the case wherever you choose to service your campaigns. It's necessary even if it's for simple authentication stuff.
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In World of Warcraft, there are text-based commands that can be executed in the chat interface, similar to command line tools in a computer terminal. The "/played" command, for example, will give you the total time spent playing on a specific character.

One such command is "/roll". When this command is followed by a number (n), it generates a random number between 1 and n. This is akin to a digital dice roll, with the number specifying the number of sides on the dice.

For instance, you might decide to start a game with another player where you both start with a number of 500 and wager 100 gold. You would initiate the game by typing "/roll 500" into the chat, which would then generate a random number between 1 and 500. Let's imagine it gives you 137.

The other player then uses this number as the argument for their roll. So they would type "/roll 137". This process continues with each player using the result of the previous roll as the new argument for the "/roll" command.

The game ends when a player rolls a 1, and that player is deemed the loser.
> Of note: EV longevity is going in the opposite direction.

> Their average age fell from 3.7 years in 2022 to 3.6 years in 2023, in part due to an upswing in new purchases.
It's a trope, but in this case actually the real truth, that hearing you say that makes me feel better. Thanks for that.

Double edged sword though. I "feel better" because for a moment I don't have that feeling like I've been snookered into wasting my life on pointless garbage spiced with mild fraud. Yay! It's normal! This is just the way it is - that can't be so bad! But in a certain way that's kind of worse, because it means it's everywhere. It leaves me godlessly praying harder-than-usual that the Chinese are even more corrupt and hopeless at making complex things. Then I look at my laptop, and at my phone, and at . . my everything . . ah, crap.

OK, let's just "feel better" for one second before going back to the default. Hell, look at the Mk14 Torpedo, we managed through that! That's what we're doin' now. Thank you again, and may you steer clear of defense contracting[1] forever more.

[1] As it is currently practiced - not in a future "fixed" state, where everyone should be able to pile in.
A new ‘family tree’ traces butterflies 100M-year journey across the globe
> world before markdown and not wanting to embed html in the page

Wdym
Ah, thanks for the links and context!
>a 50 billion parameter model will far outperform a 5 billion one trained on the same data. and a 500b one would far outperform that 50 billion one.

I'm not so sure. I'm pretty sure there are diminishing returns at play after some point.

Plus haven't we already seen models with much less billions of parameters perform the same or very close to ChatGPT with had a much higher count (Llama and its siblings)?
I just want to see the cursed generative AI shows they must be making.
The Effective Engineering Manager
I suspect you've never really been passionate about your work or loved the crew you've worked with.

I recommend it. Love hurts, but sometimes it's a good hurt.
Biden should have a million, $1,000,000 Platinum Coins minted, and make them fully legal tender.

What Billionaire wouldn't want that kind of bling?
> Rowhammer isn't a speculative execution bug. Without getting into how complex Rowhammer is or isn't, speculative execution is an inherently complex and software-involved pattern of vulnerability.

Rowhammer was one of the examples the person I was replying to listed. But the same applies for spectre/meltdown/etc.. They're all issues that can be understood - perhaps not exploited, certainly not fixed, but understood that a bug is there - without any deep architectural knowledge.

> You're letting yourself get dragged into some weird rhetorical places trying to defend this part of Raymond's essay.

If anyone other than you talked like this they'd be quite rightly downvoted to oblivion.
This is great! Thanks for sharing. If you have any more recommendations like this, I’m all ears.
This will sound silly but I don't understand the appeal of expensive watches. I can understand collecting or being interested in unique ones... but to an untrained eye (me) its hard to tell the difference between expensive and "fancy" ones.

At least with cars, you know when one is a sports car or expensive lol
I’d call it above average. Not great but pretty good so far. Rebecca Ferguson is tremendous in it though..
The redcoats couldn't see the travel of every single person. They couldn't stop every person carrying a letter that had met with a certain person. They couldn't arrest everyone that had read a certain article or newspaper.

The tyranny possible today is far worse than the tyranny of a few hundred years ago
Your reply is basically risk averse and too pessimistic to ever run your own business, if any business owner listened to your advice, they would have never started any business. Big portion of starting a business is risk taking, if you are the type of person who can’t quickly adapt, need your typical coffee in the morning while taking the same commute route, then starting a business isn’t for you, and that’s ok, not everyone is meant to anyway.
> Youll see 20 or 30 year old crown vics. I dont think youll see any turbo charged 2023 Tauruses in 20 years.

The Ford Taurus went out of production in 2019, so surely you won’t see any 23 models now or twenty years from now.

Turbo charged cars typically don’t last long because turbo charging is a harsh process. That being said, I don’t think the Taurus was the kind of car that would be turbo charged.
People often complain that modern consumer goods don't last as long as they used to but that's certainly not true for cars. Modern cars last dramatically longer than cars from the 20th century. It's kind of amazing.
Good luck finding dumb people who will buy off your ‘investments’.
Just an observation.

Inflation became significant in EU (namely Sweden) in early 2019 (one year before covid crisis). Transport rose 15% first days after Christmas, coffee 20%, tea 15%, fuel around 5-7%, etc.

Covid logistic crisis did not make much difference for prices until some ship got stuck. Then immediately all main newspapers wrote that, due to that ship, people must brace for the prices going up. And they did go up!

How was it in the US? Any significant change in prices one year before covid?
Really interesting, thanks for replying.

I think controlling the odd device, setting a timer, adding items to a shopping list covers about 90% of my Alexa use. The remaining bits are asking it to play music, or dropping into another room. Seems like a good portion of these could be covered already.
The descent from "The vaccine is 99% effective and prevents transmission" to where we're at now was pretty eye opening. It sounded too good to be true and was.

Nobody has been held accountable for coercing (and worse) the US population based on bad data. I don't see any reason to trust the government going forward.
How did we get from Asimov to "TARS turn down honesty to 90%?"
Having written erotica on the side while working a day job where I write technical content, I truthfully find it much more difficult to write erotica. :P Props to you for doing it skillfully enough to get paid!
The Battle over Tech's Values
Processing: Flexible software sketchbook and a language for learning how to code
That has not been my experience whatsoever. At work we run our own self-hosted Grafana open-source and it's been fantastic. I've also run it on my own Raspberry Pi 4B at home and it's worked very well.
The attackers know the key to begin with, before the user even gets their hands on the device. The compromised device pretends to generate a random key but instead generate one of twenty keys provided by the attackers.
High performance servers and frameworks will always have to think about the underlying sockets
What it proven to be dangerous for people? It caused ecological problems, but direct harm for people was suggested, not proven as far as I know.
Not sure how this works out. I mean, if you were throwing your car into the trash, definitely. But presumably you'd instead be selling it to someone who needs one, right?

I had a similar debate about the 'wastefulness' of upgrading phones each year. As long as previous phone is going to someone else, was any more waste necessarily created?

I feel like I must be missing something, because of how prevalent such arguments are.
GPT-4 is decent [1] at generating SQL queries from a short text description.

[1] assuming you write raw SQL rarely if ever by hand
Depends. My nearsightness is so bad that even the insanely expensive ultra thin lenses are too heavy to wear for more than a few hours at a time and give me a raging headache from the weight. It's no exaggeration to say that contact lenses have had the single greatest positive effect on my life out of anything.
It isn't resolved, but there is a clue... a lot of the users had keys stored in LastPass.
Inflation is caused by increases in the money supply or decreases in the amount of stuff you can buy with those little pieces of paper.

Printing more little squares of paper, or adding numbers to a bank account, does not, and cannot, make more goods or services available for purchase.

If you hold your prices the same, foolishly, all that happens is that people buy out your stock and you can't afford the cost to produce more goods, either in wages or raw materials or anything else.

You have to help enable more productivity in order to get more stuff to buy. When businesses are shut down, even justifiably as they were with Covid, less stuff gets done, fewer raw materials are produced, etc.

> In other words, during a period in which consumer demand largely cratered because people were staying home, businesses jacked up prices so far and so fast that they more than compensated for the decline in overall sales.

And all costs were higher because nobody is producing stuff due to lots of shutdowns, shipping was disrupted so goods were simply not available, etc.

This isn't even hard to understand, but articles like this exist because people want to allocate blame instead of looking at how to do better.
What would have prevented this attack is the following:

Use a little bit of python (there are libraries for this or you can do it yourself) to make sure that the addresses generated in the HW wallet by the 12 word mnemonic are indeed the correct addresses. For example the first segwit address using your private key and the derivation path 49h/0h/0h/0/0 should be deterministic. This way you know your 12 words are the ones used and the wallet is using known standards and not some homebrew crypto.

In fact you should always do that anyway in case the HW stops working and/or the company goes under. This way you can be sure that you can recreate your private keys from your mnemonic and access your funds no matter what.
My guess is the allure of FAANG is the same as that of Ivy Leagues - people who haven't gone to either think there's something special about those institutions or the people who went there. Part of it is certainly media coverage and status in their peer group and general society as well.

But once you've gone to one of those, you realize that they are really no different from any other college or work experience. There are some things they do a lot better due to scale and ranking, but day-to-day is much the same.
It's an automatic update. All you have to do is watch the progress bar fill up. Even you could manage it.
> Speaking of toll booths vs electronic debit, when I lived in the Bay Area, I had to commute from east bay to west bay every day. For the first 4-5 months, I was paying cash, because in my scant spare time, I hadn't had time to get transponder and direct debit set up. I was paying $35/week. I didn't become less aware of that cost when I switched to the transponder, because the actual cost was time. Time is something I have very little of, so adding friction just wastes my most limited resource.

You just proved my point without even realizing it.

When you were forced to pay cash, they were forced to show you the price. You even remember the amount now, presumably years later. If they could have you pay cash without seeing the price I’m sure they would. If the price had changed from week to week, you’d immediately realize it because the amounts you’d interact with would change.

But that’s only possible with a purely digital system. As all the numbers happen behind the scenes.

Ask yourself this, why don’t any of those automated toll booths show the amount you “auto paid” rather than just “Ok!” Or “Paid!”? It’s because they explicitly do not want people to know what they are paying so they can raise the rates with minimal flak.
That's going to be a hard NOPE for me dawg; UEFI is an atrocity, go look at the tianocore source if you want to think otherwise. Just because it replaces traditional boot loaders does not make it better or easier. Hopefully the chinese risc-v offerings are less subserviant to the wintel agenda than this.
Epstein was very evil, but he was not an idiot. The null hypothesis should be that he ran his sex trafficking operation the way pretty much everyone else who has successfully gotten away with running a sex trafficking operation as long as he did has run theirs.

That includes instructing the people you have enslaved to not act like they are enslaved when they are around people who don't know you are a sex trafficker. You provide them with plausible cover stories that explain why they are around and why they are offering services to your guests.

Also, note that Minsky was not accused of having sex with the girl. His name came up in a deposition where she was asked to list some of the famous people she was told to offer sex to. The deposition did not cover which of those people accepted the offer. Greg Benford was there when she approached Minsky and says that Minsky declined.
Yeah masking was definitely not the reason. It was people staying home.
> Among the CEOs of Wall Street’s key firms, Zhao has kept an unusually low profile.

those glossy photos taken by none other than Bloomberg (for the “article” perhaps?) just screams “unusually low profile.”
And no pianos.
No silver platter! You can even apply the same arguments for the Linux kernel. Where's the double blind peer review for linux 6.3.2????
I disagree. The "ChatGPT: " signifies the potential for inaccuracy and I would have appreciated someone answering so I don't have to. I wonder how many repeat lookups happen because of a perceived societal issue with providing AI answers that leads to groups shadow banning them. Imagine if I didn't put "ChatGPT :" how many people here would have upvoted me instead of flagging me. Interesting lessons all around.
I'd say more complexity has been added for the sake of perceived safety and convenience. Sure a lot of complexity was added for efficiency but there no reason the entire car down to the turn signals needs to operate on a databus with a single point of failure who's replacement averages 10% of the price of the car.
> "we" in the OECD countries simply moved our polluting industry to poor countries

Carbon intensity of GDP, worldwide, fell almost 40% between 1980 and 2021 [1]. (-1.3% CAGR.)

We do offshore toxic industries. But we're also getting better at being less toxic. Environmentalism isn't all a shell game.

[1] https://www.iea.org/data-and-statistics/charts/co2-emissions...
There is definitely some case where this isn't true. An indestructible 8 mpg truck will definitely be more polluting than an EV using solar electricity that lasts 30 years.

But mostly, I agree, and think the cutoff is somewhere around 25 mpg. Our first priorities should not junking 13 year old 30 mpg ICE, but instead greatly reducing the number of 17 mpg vehicles that are still being sold today, especially with no commercial utility like a 4runner.
I always found it hilarious that sci-fi movies set in the late 21st and later centuries would have late models 90s-2000s era automobiles in them. Scene: The year is 2080, the protagonist pulls up in a 2013 Camry, with "sci-fi bits" bolted on. Obviously this is due to production budget constraints. But it did snap you out of the distance of this future world.

But I guess if the article is correct a car built in 2020 may still be drivable in 2050+.
Can vouch for Havana. We use fathom for video recording but the AI summaries are unusable. Havana has filled that gap
And there are also a lot of fat people due to ease of access to forks and spoons.
Nit, but the 6TB version includes a lot of forks and duplicated code so I assume StarCoder was trained on the deduped version, which is 2.9TB.
Not really, thrust vectoring is separate from what they're doing here. Thrust vectoring allows you to literally use thrust from the engine to push the plane in different directions, this is a bit more subtle. Basically you can use little puffs of air to control the flow of air over the wings and other lifting surfaces and this can be used to increase or decrease lift in certain places. The actual force produced by these little air jets it totally negligible but by changing the way air travels over the lifting surfaces it can change the lift generated, allowing you to get rid of moving mechanical control surfaces. This requires very careful engineering and a very detailed computer modeling to get right which is why it's only really happening now.
I agree, sounds like a good approach.

Can the instance do 2 GB/s to disk at the same time it is doing 3.1GB/s across the network? Is that bidirectional capacity or on a single direction? How many threads does it take to achieve those numbers?

That is kind of a nice property, that the network has 50% more bandwidth than the disk. 2x would be even nicer, but that turns out to be 1.5 and 3, so a slight reduction in disk throughput.

Are you able to run a single RP Kafka node and blast data into it over loopback? That could isolate the network and see how much of the available disk bandwidth a single node is able to achieve over different payload configurations before moving on to a distributed disk+network test. If it can only hit 1GB/s on a single node, you know there is room to improve in the write path to disk.

The other thing that people might be looking for when using RP over AK is less jitter due to GC activity. For latency sensitive applications this can be way more important than raw throughput. I'd use or borrow some techniques from wrk2 that makes sure to account for coordinated omission.

https://github.com/giltene/wrk2

https://github.com/fede1024/kafka-benchmark

https://github.com/fede1024/rust-rdkafka
They are occupying the space left behind by human activity. Chemicals will only create more resistant strains just like it did with Amaranth. The reason these plants are successful is the horrendous landscaping traditions especially in new developments. The use of chemicals only reinforces these plants. Basically what's happening is these strains are put under so much pressure in the urban environment that they becomes "super-weeds" and then invade the rest of the landscape. It might be too late to do anything about it now.
I mean, is there anyone at all that even pretends that in a deal involving 69 THOUSANDS OF MILIONS (with tens or hundreds of people standing to benefit hundreds of millions to billions from it) there aren’t bribes going on?
> The Harrier uses fairly conventional bending nozzles to vector trust, and uses fairly conventional control surfaces at speed.

On the Harrier, those are the big rotating lift nozzles. There are also small attitude control nozzles ("puffers") at the nose, tail, and wingtips. The puffers are used in hover and at very low speed.

This new drone is pumping out supersonic air through control jets and bending the jets with a fluidic amplifier. That's new. May or may not be useful.

[1] https://i.imgur.com/78bVjbC.png
I guess the flight was Gates by himself. But weird he would be flying Epstein's plane and not his own. They did do "plenty discuss foundation", including making charitable fund that would make Epstein money.

The issue is that hanging out or doing business with someone as unsavory as Epstein is gia
> i never have to remember how to make a chrome extension again, AMA

Why?
I would say 50m sounds unlikely.

https://www.brookings.edu/research/u-s-population-growth-has...
The problem is that some people decide to steal cars and face no consequences. What’s the car theft levels in Seoul compared to Baltimore? Should we expect them to be different? Why?
This was posted 4 days ago. Unfortunately, people didn’t have much to say then either.

The idea that math can effectively be used to “beat the market” seems like a fascinating subject where few want to divulge the secrets. Math has been used for decades:

https://www.amazon.com/Beat-Market-Scientific-Stock-System/d...

https://www.amazon.com/Man-Who-Solved-Market-Revolution/dp/0...

One idea that does come up is reversion toward the mean, but few details are offered.
Nothing wrong with this question. I do not have any experience with Spark, but I guess Capillaries belongs to the same or similar ecosystem. My understanding is that Spark is way more generic framework that revolves around DAG-defined workflow and map/reduce-style functionality.

Capillaries is about:

- taking a very structured, stage-by-stage, approach to batch data processing with the possibility to control the results of a specific stage (although some kind of workflow DAG is there as well);
- executing a SQL-style aggregation and denormalization on data in Cassandra;
- executing workflows without actually writing code (besides one-liner Go expressions and Python math formulas when needed).

Sorry if I am missing the point with Spark, as I said - I never worked with it.
The antibodies produced by any vaccination series wane, it isn't a surprise that it happened with the COVID vaccines. The mRNA vaccines do induce memory T cells, which is exactly persistent immunity, so the immunity doesn't 'just' wane.

Repeated doses of the vaccine broaden and increase the antibody response, so of course it makes sense to encourage them when infections are raging, and an annual booster will induce an antibody response, providing increased protection for a period of time, so of course it makes sense to encourage them, especially for more vulnerable people.

This inability to look at things in a sort of probabilistic sense, where things can be good without being perfect, is incredibly damaging.
It doesn't just pick the top result though. I was given an answer from SO that wasn't the top voted and not the "approved" answer, either. But it was, imo, the best answer it could've given me. I was pleasantly surprised.
This is so dumb. Not in part, but primarily / solely.