skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How deep do you take that though? The reason why bison were gone doesn’t change the fact that they were nearly were at the time and that the introduction of hippos were a replacement. If you need to have every side fact explained in detail, then you’re going to have an extremely long, probably book length discussion on any given topic.

I think “bison had become nearly extinct” is accurate enough to show why hippos as a meat source were even a topic of discussion
I don't think who does the benchmark, any benchmark, matters as long as they're open about how it was done, what properties were set, ideally why they were set, and what their results were. The big picture goal is to ostensibly be able to reproduce such benchmarks.

But I've found through industry that most benchmarks, especially for infrastructure software, are performed by the vendors. The burden for standing up the system(s) to pull off the benchmark is usually high enough that independents are rarely going to take up that banner and do it themselves.

Also, notably closed source systems, some vendors don't license their software to allow public benchmarks.

So, transparency is all we can really hope for.

I remember the halcyon days of the database wars with the vendors publishing new benchmarks seemingly ever month. Fun to watch "Lies, damn lies, and statistics" rear up on its hind legs and roar. And some of the monster clusters of hardware these folks put together were legion.

Similarly I enjoyed when Sun was publishing JEE benchmarks on cheap hardware running Glassfish against MySQL. At least they were publishing on these smaller systems more akin to what many companies may run internally in contrast to these million dollar cluster benchmarks BEA and Oracle were publishing.

Finally, just to throw this out, modern hardware is just extraordinary. Hard to appreciate how fast modern machines are if you didn't live with them in the old days.

Were in the glory days where we, most of we, simply don't care. Off the shelf hardware running untuned servers with reasonable algorithms have so much bandwidth and capability, just gets harder and harder to saturate today.
https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/251553/map-vandalism...
> There's a lot of research out there already that the OP doesn't seem to be aware of.

You don't need to undermine someone's position to add more context. I like the additional context you add, but I believe you'd be better off without the judgment. It's unwarranted, and being an avid follower of the OP's blog, I'm pretty sure the author knows these facts about procrastination.
A wheelchair works the same way if your legs work or not.
If you pay taxes with a card the processor charges a fee. You won’t come out ahead
Account created 69 days ago with 1203 karma...

To be frank, considering the use of a pseudonym and comment history, I'm going to assume whoever is behind this account is intentionally writing in a provocative manner, perhaps to earn karma quickly or some other reason.

Breaking the HN rules and guidelines is quite detrimental when your already starting off with lower credibility.
I wish I could ask Netfix/recommendation engines to strike stories matching a certain story profile. In particular I rarely enjoy a story about point 4. I like watching something without spoilers so avoiding 'Weird things happen, but it turns out they're not real' is really difficult.
Yes, we keep a schedule, people can signup with a topic - I just ask for volunteers or suggest stuff for people to take a look at.
There is so much instant dismissal of this entire idea that smartphones are harmful in this thread, most of which is just "correlation is not causation".

The issue is that early ownership of a phone correlating to worse mental health may be a proxy for something else. If you are raising children and trying to make good parenting decisions and someone says "smartphones are the work of the devil and your child will be mentally healthier without them" they need to actually be correct, not guessing to enhance their career or something.

If it's not true, then parents who might have safety reasons for providing a phone who then opt to not provide a phone "because phones are bad for kids" may be harming their kids.

It's a blanket statement without nuance. It doesn't tell me if there are situations where it's okay and, if so, what they are. This usually means a person isn't really that knowledgeable about a topic.

People tend towards confirmation bias. It's a rare individual who says "What would affirmatively disprove my hypothesis? Does that thing exist?"

Without that, it's usually not a solid hypothesis. It's usually one full of holes.
Again, the pills are not the decisive thing here. The Luftwaffe had to counter constant allied bombing of cities and industry both day and night, while also supporting advancing troops on the front. All the while, the allies are running a successful campaign to eliminate Germany's sources of petroleum which eventually all but neuters the operational capacity of the Luftwaffe.

Frankly, it sounds to me like you've let Norman Ohler's pop history book, Blitzed, disproportionately color your perception of the second world war.
The courts ruled that a bakery can deny a gay couple a cake. Trump was denied his gay cake. What is the problem?

All that outrage and righteous indignation, and for what? to do a 180 and claim that "Twitter is just a cold-hearted business, free speech or not"? Really? Any reflecting on THAT?
Curious, does your medium-complexity tax return include investments?
Interesting. Never heard that before
"in a sealed truck like a plague bacillus“ Churchill.

There is a good book on it by Catherine Merridale: Lenin on the Train

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29847081-lenin-on-the-tr...
Funnily enough, just today I’ve decided, or submitted to, running my current non-EV car until the death (it‘s, or mine).

I’ve only got 20 years left on my driving licence and I can’t imagine affording a comparable EV (I drive a 2013 Audi 3.0 Biturbo A6 with ALL the trimmings) and then having to modify the house to get a place to park and charge - just for a car.
Its always staggering to think people forget we only have a two party system. You'd think that would keep both parties in check from abusing their powers considering at some point the party you went after and did suspect things in order to win a few elections? Well, they're going to be back in power and what do you think they're going to do? The same thing you did.

I feel like we're currently in this death spiral where its just a never ending war to get the other parties people out of power by any means necessary. While the entire time, its the people who have to suffer through it and pick sides.

It appears the centrist moderate has evaporated from American politics - which to me was the last group of voters who kept both sides honest. There is no compromise either, its just a scorched earth approach now where nobody wins.
I'd say it was mostly focused somewhat on the problems at hand or a deeper understanding of what made things work.
> what we can deterministically show is data loss on apache kafka with no fsync() [shouldn't be a surprise to anyone] - stay tuned for an update here.

Confluent themselves can show this, the part I'm curious about is whether you can show data loss outside of the known documented failure modes. Because I, as any can anyone, show data loss by running a cluster without fsync and simultaneously pulling the plug on every server.
Nope. States are all their special snowflakes when it comes to taxes.

Many years ago, over a decade now, Virginia had an incredibly easy and free tax filing system. H&R block got one of their people elected for one term and they quietly killed it off and now we have one of the highest filing fees in the country.
It must be one of those not quite academic -ologies that was probably named by a non scientist author. Maybe they started out researching animals that had tongue horns, but when they didn't find any they branched out and never changed the name of the institute?

Either that, or it's a translation of some kind of German idiom that means "It doesn't belong there, something totally natural that is nonetheless out of place" or "It is so disturbing it makes it uncomfortable to talk about as if there was a horn on your tongue".
If you're referring to a paid account, I never received a notification about my GPT-4 waitlist spot. I waited awhile for one, and then, at the prompting of a colleague, I just found a spot in the web UI to sign up. After one false start, it just worked.
Paul Linebarger wrote science fiction as Cordwainer Smith (2018)
I believe they assemble more of the car interior and components before putting the outside on. One example is putting the seats in place before the external body is put on top. Typically the frame is put together first, then you have to maneuver things into place. The "unboxing" makes assembly easier and you can do several of these in parallel, then bring them together at the end
See also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35849788
It has nothing to do with getting your way but working efficiently and with respect for the autonomy of your colleagues.

That's a bad argument. Sounds like we should not work from the office then. What comes after the "I like making others work in the office, because"? That's the quiet part not being said out loud. I'm interested.

That's not what I'm hearing or what you would read in an announcement for one the partial RTOs that have happened at some tech companies.
He also got away with it by not making it a sudden twist at the end; it was never a surprise - it's the title of the book.
Author say "Redpanda incorrectly claim Kafka is unsafe because it doesn’t fsync - it is not true".

If you don't Fsync the batch, it's possible the server would send response to client saying data was written successfully while the batch is still just in memory and then the server loose power and never write it to disk.

Maybe the author have a different definition of unsafe but to me if it's not ACID it's unsafe!
Woops, sorry, I was actually thinking of the SYSRET vulnerability (CVE-2012-0217) which was a mismatch between Intel and the written spec[0]. POPSS did also have differences between Intel and AMD implementations but both were vulnerable in different ways.

0: https://xenproject.org/2012/06/13/the-intel-sysret-privilege...
I think it maybe needs to have been spoken with the intent to communicate or express a somewhat specific thing.

Like, a couple seconds ago I vocalized the sounds “xzoubadoo”, but I didn’t attach any particular meaning to it, it was just an arbitrary collection of syllables, “spoken” to demonstrate a point, but without the intent that the sounds stand for anything.

I don’t think “xzoubadoo” is really a word. At least, not yet. I suppose one might (likely temporarily/in an ad-hoc way) assign it a meaning as a response to this comment, but I have not done so.
Is that in the US or worldwide? What is the definition of black and white?
> A datacenter can simply be turned off

What if it has escaped the datacenter? What if it has gained control of the "simply turn it off" switch? What if it is just really good at convincing the people who are capable of turning it off not to? It is a super-intelligence after all.

I think one of the pitfalls here is smart people thinking that AI will just be like them, because they are smart. When in reality it will have capabilities far beyond their own.
Personally, I'm not repelled by new car prices as much as I'm repelled by the new cars themselves.
I go with them too.

Everytime this comes up though I post this https://apps.irs.gov/app/freeFile/browse-all-offers/

There's many nice and cheap options out there. Please, if you value basic democracy, don't give money to Intuit or TurboTax - not a dollar, not a penny. But do click on their paid ads whenever you see them and just close out after the page load. That company needs to be dismantled brick by brick, byte by byte, and deposited in the dustbin of history.
More mental health resources for the moments you need them
You can make tax-deductible donations to certain organizations. This results in them getting more funding than they otherwise would. Sure, redirections may not modify the budget of the US government programs directly, but it does have meaningful impact on the world.
If you are open to Nix, you can try https://github.com/mirrexagon/nixpkgs-esp-dev. I used it for a small project a while ago and the experience was pretty good.
Gutted there's no emulator, even for a 32-bit OS.

There are emulators for DEC Alpha, but they only support Unix ‘PALcode’ firmware. Windows NT required different PALcode, for which there is no working emulator AFAICT.
Yeah, this is a huge difference in, for example, 2 of Ayn Rand's books. The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged. The first is a simpler story with fewer characters, and though their dialogue obviously matters, much of the message happens through their actions. The same is true for Atlas Shrugged, but it contains many more monologues that are really the author expressing her philosophy explicitly in words, and the story around them is much more just providing context. Both great (or terrible, if you hate her) books, but The Fountainhead is much more poetic for this reason.
American legislators seem to loooove "means testing" every government-provided service. Maybe it's a misguided version of that?
The credit card fee is around 1.9% (e.g. Pay1040), most credit cards will fall somewhere between 1-2% cash back which will make up for the fee alone without even considering the sign up bonus.

Example: Chase Ink Unlimited[0] has a 75K points ($750 at minimum, more if you have a Preferred or Reserve to transfer to; was a 90K/$900 offer up until tax time this year) bonus and 1.5% cash back. It's free (untaxed!) money to pay your taxes.

https://creditcards.chase.com/business-credit-cards/ink/unli...
Okay.

Why is the solution trusting those very institutions with unilateral control over “alignment” compared to democratizing AI, to match the human case?

If your premise is that those institutions are already unaligned with human interests then discussions about AI “alignment” when mediated by those very institutions is a dangerous distraction — which is likely to enable the very abuses you object to.
I'll give a slightly different take. I work on large financial systems at $MegaCorp. Even though requirements change all the time (often because "the government said so"), are ephemeral at best, and frequently contradictory due crossing entire teams, orgs, and charters.... Stealing every possible tool that can move the needle towards "correctness" has been crazy valuable in my experience.

I've gotten on board the TLA+ train. Just the act of formally specifying what you do know makes everything you don't painfully obvious. Formal models also make dealing with that constant change easier, because The Rules live in one concrete place, in a formal modeling language, and free from the ambiguities that requirements expressed in English prose are subject to. It's not a perfect solution, but it can help cut through the noise.
This doesn't feel like any news to me, I thought this was well known?
"...do the right thing, after exhausting all possible alternatives"
I can't wait for the next big AAA title with DRM, subscription, dozens of DLC (without which, of course, the game sucks), and a ton of microtransactions for the real pay-to-win experience! What's the point of being rich if you can't use your money to buy superiority over other players?
I am not Pakistani but I was always surprised at the lack of attention too. Pakistan is a giant country with a ton of people and some pretty insane geography (mountains I mean) and yet there is not much media made in general about it.
You mean: how can I be sure they aren't lying? The packaging lists ingredients, I guess you are asking if they are leaving any ingredients out and are not being called out on it by anyone?
A word only exists when other people start using the word. Language is social.
You can't eliminate the risk of data loss, only control for it. fsync is one such control. Empirically, having separate power failure domains strongly controls for the power loss risk.

In the tail there are all kinds of things that will lose you data. I've actually seen systems lose data with the fsync every message strategy on simultaneous power loss. There was latent corruption of the filesystem due to a kernel bug. After power cycling a majority of nodes had unrecoverable filesystems.

In my experience, even on modern flash the cost of fsync is non trivial. It pessimizes io. You can try to account for this with group commit / batching but but generally the batch window needs to be large relative to network rtt to be effective.

fsync is much more necessary on single primary systems.
Unlocking the Future of AI: Vicuna’s Unrivaled Performance and Versatility for Local Computer Installations
This looks like something I've been wanting to see for a while.

I currently have a google home and I'm getting increasingly fed up with it. Besides the privacy concerns, it seems like it's getting worse at being an assistant. I'll want my light turned on by saying "light 100" (for light to 100 percent) and it works about 80% of the time, but the others it starts playing a song with a similar name.

I'd be great if this allows limiting / customizing what words and actions you want.
Hey thanks for the question! The issue wasn't that it was impossible to capture the information securely, it was that there was a decent amount of user friction to do so. I envisioned forms to be the simplest way to capture structured data and built security around it.

By contrast, NextCloud's drop would entail emailing the user a set of attributes, asking them to create a document locally, then uploading. Adding to that not every business would know how to, or want to go through the process of setting up their own web server for this use case.

My thinking is that this private forms approach would be a better default compared to email or text, which is how many businesses are handling this data today.
Context for the website creation: https://www.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/comments/13hi5y6/i_fed_gptz...
Oh ya, that makes more sense. The south of the USA doesn't, although supposedly they have similarities with accents in England somewhere.
In a heartbeat, I would if I could.

There’s something endearing to me about working class and regional accents.
https://www.cherokeeacq.com/
CEO of ChatGPT Maker OpenAI to Testify to Congress
But I have plus :(
I wasn't referring to casual games either.

I'm sure my friend Melanie has more hours in the disgaea series than you do in your little shooter games.

My wife's sister makes a pretty penny buying and selling items in some MMO. She doesn't interact with the community on voice chat though, for reasons you make very clear in this interaction.

Your conceptions of gendered behaviour are built upon your personal definitions of gender. It's silly to assume otherwise.
Certainly, you are. And you can adapt and generalize. Let's stop selling ourselves short, we're not a graph that looks vaguely like a neural network, yet isn't. We are the neural network.
Here it is visualized/explained:

https://www.core77.com/posts/120223/Teslas-Radical-Unboxed-M...

Though while it seems to me at first sight more efficient (in the sense that it may be faster) I cannot see where the 50% savings could be.
Ask HN: Is .NET good for web development now?
I haven't done Windows development in almost 10 years and it has pretty much just been a joke to me since then. Recently I started working on a Unity project as a hobby which basically forced me to work on Windows.

Also, Unity is in C#, with some reluctance I figured "may as well try writing the supporting API server using C# too." Partly to see what it would be like, and partly to keep it all consistent.

So far the entire process has been very pleasant?
Visual Studio is working pretty well. NuGet comes with all kinds of packages natively / professionally supported by Microsoft. All this MVC scaffolding is done automagically. You can stand up a full REST API with database integration in minutes. It also supports Docker / Linux natively apparently.

Has anyone had this experience, or is there some nightmare beyond this garden path? Is it possible that Windows / C# / ASP.NET stuff could be becoming more viable for web?
Wait what? Here in EU I've been filling out taxes for years electronically. Form and automatic guide is provided by our country.

Btw should I mention this is mandatory only for self-employed. If you're an employee, it's required by law that your employer must provided you a free service of filling the taxes and everything for you.
> safety reasons for providing a phone

Isn’t this a red herring? Do you need to provide a smart phone or just a phone? If it’s a smart phone do you need to enable unfettered access or just the safety related apps you need?
Exactly I will never ever try MongoDB because of that.
A database that do not fsync should not be called a database.
> That's obviously not true, because most industries do not need special subsidies just to exist.

What you're talking about -- requiring insurance for outsized losses -- is not something we require of most industries. A chemical plant (say, making feedstocks for solar panels) can contaminate a water table and cause tens of billions of dollars in losses, but we attempt to address this risk with front-end regulation rather than requiring insurance for uninsurable losses.
Do they? I read the website regularly and I feel like I never see culture war bullshit?
> Calling that out as being specia attention for accessibility is false in my opinion.

I didn't. I said that accessibility is no more of a problem for js-fueled pages than HTML pages, which was not always true.

> Dont even bother telling me that this use case is no longer supported

Then don't say people are making websites wrong when by common practice you're using the wrong tools to interact with them.

> I know that. That doesn't change my technical opinion that JS is way too much of a gun for documents.

Like I said, feel free to opt out of the modern internet. It's your life. It's just flatly absurd to be in your position and accuse developers of having poor practices when they provide an objectively better experience for probably 9999 out of 10000 other users by using widely accepted, standard, reliable practices that often require less development time.
Normally decltype(E) returns the type of the expression E. The type of the expressions *&value and value are both int& for instance. However they also wanted a way to query the type an identifier was declared with, eg int x would be int. For some reason they chose to expose this by overriding decltype(E) when E is a plain identifier. decltype((value)) avoids this special case and returns the type of the expression (value), which is obviously the same as the expression value.
nullptr is since c++11

https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/language/nullptr

sorry - thought the post was re c++ - my bad
I wish that recommendation engines had a "rational fiction score" for their content. Things like Expanse, Sanderson's Mistborn series (were it to be filmed as a show, ah, one can dream) or 2001 Odyssey would rate highly, things like "From..." not so much.
> I’ve only got 20 years left on my driving licence

What does this mean?
There you have it. The EU donkeys falling for the carrot on the stick and unbeknownst to them, they have approved a horizontally integrated merger that is a bad deal for gamers and competition.

The EU has done may silly decisions like their recent AI act legislation, but this one is their biggest error yet which they have failed to stop the further consolidation of large existing multi-billion dollar games companies.

The EU is know to give in to bribes so easily and €5M in bribes is just beyond pathetic to approve this.