skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
my dad was in commercial construction, and 20 story buildings was the bread-n-butter for the companies he worked at. these were quite explicitly described as NOT skyscrapers.
My home is 3300 sq ft/306 sqm on 2.5 acres or 10,000 sqm.

My kids each have their own space. My wife has her own space. I have an office/space for myself. We have a guest bedroom (well 2, if we pick up the playroom).

It keeps the kids clutter out of the common areas. Gives us each a place to escape to.

For example I play music a lot. That would be obnoxious in the living room all the time. Though I do play in common areas here and there.

Utilities cost about 200-300 USD month. Repairs we keep stashed away as they can cost more. For example our well pump died and it was 3k. Our ac died before that and it was 8k to replace. We live well below our means though and pay cash for stuff like that.
The alternative is to have the poor and middle class continue to subsidize the rich in the form of everyone paying higher insurance rates so insecure rich people can drive around in over-priced status symbols.

A limit of liability on property damage of $20K per vehicle would be much fairer. Want an expensive car, or a car with excessive repair costs? Go for it, but you will shoulder the extra insurance premium costs too instead of forcing e.g., minimum wage workers to help pay for your ego car.
What happened with ASUS routers this morning?
Sweet, now I can open it up and sell the parts on eBay!
I thought Amazon sends a decreasing proportion through USPS every year as they build out their own delivery network, and just leaves the scraps for USPS.

Cheap USPS means Amazon's competition, without access to its own mass delivery network, is weakened.
Looking at computers in a CompUSA (2000) [video]
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Ease of use and connecting devices behind a nat without maintaining server. Commercial VPNs let you access the internet not other devices in your account like tailscale.
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Lack of order-preserving parallel parquet writing was my biggest gripe with DuckDB. Glad to see they implemented it! Between this duckdb release, DataFusion and Apache Arrow (yes, I know that helps power the other projects I listed), I’m hoping I won’t have to touch a spark cluster for a long time.
Graphical Unix has always had desktop environments
First 10 year of my career(am now close to my 25 years into my career). Yup searching and hustling. After that during good economic times I get pinged/called with job offers. During down turns the only jobs came through my own network.
Having metrics for something attracts your attention to it
Threaten to sue. Then, sue.
I don't know how they even measure such a minute change. I mean they must need reference to compare against a stable point in space. What is that reference and what point of city you compare against that stable reference?
We don't but that is something we should soon build. If anyone here wants to build something like this using our API, do reach out faizank@slashml.com, and we can give you the resources to build it.
Tribes was so amazing it’s sad that all future releases failed. That being said the core game was pre meh but with mods it was so much fun
Postal service is incredibly important. It is the “last resort” means of communication.

I’ve been in business situations where electronic communication wasn’t an option, and we had to use mail for everything.

It saved our asses.

Please respect postal service. It isn’t legacy technology. It’s the most resilient and most accessible means of communication we have.

When all else fails, the postal system is there.
There is no possible way for anyone buying 1M worth of compute to get list pricing.
These are probably different kind of "errors" than what the author of this article is talking about. The kind of errors you'll see are dropped network connections, malformed data, and stuff like that which is basically impossible to prevent because it's an imperfect universe.

Even at a fairly small scale you will see "errors" of this kind regardless – you don't need to be a huge CDN for that.

But what the author is talking about – in my reading anyway – is programming errors: exceptions, out of bounds access, explicit report_error() calls, things like that which will result in 5xx errors for the client. You've got a lot more control over that. Sometimes random failures beyond your control will cause a 5xx error, and IMHO that's a bug and this usually should be a 4xx or something else (e.g. if the client sends wrong or junk data you shouldn't respond with a 5xx).

I suppose that's the corollary to this article: not all "errors" are the same, and you should distinguish between different types of errors.
Networks huh! Railway or Motorway? Radio or TV? Recurrent or convolutional?
Damn, I've been doing this for awhile and now I bet someone at Google is going to read this and limit showing stats until some threshold is met.
When I see these errors I assume they've outsourced content creation to non-native speakers. Perhaps this is unfair, but it is my immediate assumption. It could just as easily happen when someone heavily edits their text.
Samsung has been crap for years now. No wonder. Buy a better quality Android device.
It's going to be interesting to see what happens when someone quickly figures out how to block the ads - other than at the network level. Seems like it will be very hard to enforce their TOS.

I can imagine a market for businesses with waiting rooms like doctors and dentists that could be quite valuable for targeted advertising. I wouldn't be surprised to see one on the wall of a local takeaway, garage or hair dresser perhaps if they come to this country.
Tik tok videos are speech, therefore banning tiktok is a violation of free speech
This was interesting and thought-provoking, but has a sort of strawman quality to it to me, or obfuscates a debate in a way that seems unproductive. I might even go so far as to say it seems like it's arguing in bad faith, but I'm not sure I entirely believe that.

It seems to conflate different forms of degrowth, and assumes whatever is happening in the UK recently is the same sort of thing that's always being discussed when degrowth is discussed.

Increasing trade barriers and regulation while holding population constant might result in economic degrowth, but it doesn't necessarily track population degrowth in a healthy or productive way.

I do think that it's interesting to think about some of the questions being raised, but the arguments seem to do a disservice to rigorous discussion of degrowth and the development of solutions to population dilemmas.
> that's a pretty intense reaction

The biggest problem is notifications. On Android, you use the volume rockers and "do not disturb" mode. That's it. If you press the volume rockers down, the notifications will become quieter until they get to "vibrate only" and then finally "silent". The screen shows you this is happening, and there's always an indicator on the phone.

In iOS, there are three different things that affect notifications: 1) Focus, 2) volume settings (if you have that setting turned on), and 3) the physical DnD switch.

The physical switch is dangerous to use because it's easy to forget you used it.

A lot of the rest of my issues are with Siri. Speech recognition is worse than Microsoft's was in the year 2005. It just doesn't work most of the time.

The rest is the UI. Apple's ethos is to hide everything from the user, which they think is "simple" but is incredibly complex.

There are a million hidden, inconsistent gestures that you absolutely need to know to use the phone. You just have to mess around until you find them, and then they're impossible to remember because they differ between apps.

Then there are things you can only do with Siri! For example, I can delete all my alarms with Siri, but there's no way to do it using the UI.
There was a book written in 1936 and it is the only one you need to read.

https://www.amazon.com/How-Win-Friends-Influence-People/dp/0...

Here us a synopsis: https://fs.blog/how-to-win-friends-and-influence-people/

All the information is timeless. Most people just re-hash stuff from it and make it sound like it is new.
I'd understood at least the first three books - and I tend to follow the consensus around Markan Priority - were penned in Koine rather than classical? I suspect the distinction is of marginal relevance, in the current context.
Big note:

/usr doesn't mean "user". It means "User Software Resources". I learned this from a good friend whose 70+ years old, and worked with Ritchie. My friend is also cited in K&R C.

/usr/bin and /usr/sbin should have always been the place to put "user software resources". And we're finally getting back to what it was originally.
> It's not swindling to be paid for by ads. Broadcast radio and TV have worked that way for half a century.

And I'm free to turn the volume down on my TV or radio when the ads come on. They don't attempt to block me from doing this.

> Creators and hosts are paying for the resources to serve to the public. They can block the blockers if they wish.

You seem to have forgotten what we're discussing, so I'll quote it again

> Respect user's taking without giving anything in return?

This is what a free site suggests, and is not immoral. I am allowed to control the content on my machine, so I'll block the content that makes it to my screen as I see fit. If a website doesn't like this, they're welcome to make their content paid and I'll simply not look at it.

> Making things only paywall-ed or entirely free will just lead to more 'native' ads disguised as content and less content available to the unbanked and less affluent.

If you're saying "You must look at ads or advertising will get worse", I categorically reject both sides of your argument.
I look at these tools to see how they communicate these data processing/security details to their users.

There appears to be a lot of apathy/total disregard to giving users any clear clue.

It might not matter to me or this audience - we probably know the direction our data is heading - but it matters to less techie people, to ordinary employees and to civil servants and government people at the bottom and the top, who have no notion where their data is processed and who they are trusting with it.
Both of planetside and tribes were amazing. This was really before the age of competitive gaming so it was actually fun to play and not just another day job
this is cool, playing with it now.
It's prolific because banking clients want to work with someone in a position of authority.
I've been thinking about rebuilding the website analytics service I have, to be around sharded duckdb and just giving people raw SQL access.

ClickHouse is the alternative, but this approach has some interesting advantages, like simplicity.
Still a major work in progress, feel free to send us any feedback stefan@hellointerview.com . Lots of work happening now.
With compilers we do have -Werror. This is a godsend, because it forbids crawling up junk like this.

Runtime errors are even worse, for this we do have a CI with a 90% test coverage, or better a model checker like cbmc with 100% coverage. Every single error counts. Esp. on hard Realtime, where we reboot on a single error
A little breathless, but presents good facts
Did you notice my use of the word "ultimately"?
I recently pulled DuckDB out of a project after hitting a memory corruption issue in regular usage. Upon investigating, they had an extremely long list of fuzzer-found issues. I just don't understand why someone would start something in a memory unsafe language these days. I cannot in good conscience put that on a customer's machine.

We ended up rewriting a component to drop support for Parquet and to just use SQLite instead. I love the idea of being able to query Parquet files locally and then just ship them up to S3 and continue to use them with something like Athena.

The other thing that rubbed me the wrong way was that rather than fix the issue, they just removed functionality. DuckDB (unironically) needs a rewrite in Rust or a lot more fuzzing hours before I come back to it. While SQLite is not written in a memory safe language, it is probably one of the most fuzzed targets in the world.
But TA also argues that people reach for these aggregation tools way too early. I'd say the author is honest enough to refrain from statement about Google scale because they haven't experienced it. There is value in keeping error rates down even at that level.
It explicitly says in that link that systemd doesn’t need it and it’s beneficial to non-systemd distros.
Yep, these folks would have us think a nuke is equivalent to a rock since they’re both used to kill people.
Start over?

People believe that renters are throwing their money away, and home owners are building equity when they make their mortgage payments. This belief is definitely wrong in Toronto. If you do the math, you stand a better chance building equity as a renter. Homeowners are the ones throwing their money away. The only thing that tips the scales is the fact that a future buyer may pay more money. Basically, you need a bigger sucker to buy the house.

The government in Canada has set up policies to make sure that the prices keep going up. Eventually it will become infeasible—the prices get too high and you run out of suckers.
The case was not absurd. Even if you think they should be fine to serve it at such a high temperature, she just wanted them to pay $20,000 for her medical bills, but McDonald's used it as a way to cast absurdity onto supposed tort abuse and it worked with most of the population still saying things like "you can even sue someone if you spill your own coffee".
From Wikipedia:

Modern sources currently define skyscrapers as being at least 100 meters (330 ft)[1] or 150 meters (490 ft)[2] in height, though there is no universally accepted definition, other than being very tall high-rise buildings. Historically, the term first referred to buildings with between 10 and 20 stories when these types of buildings began to be constructed in the 1880s.[3] Skyscrapers may host offices, hotels, residential spaces, and retail spaces.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skyscraper
ChatDOC can also support doc/docx files. Nice!
I don’t understand why anyone needs 3000sf unless they have 3+ kids. That’s a lot of maintenance on space you don’t use
Sure - but the important part in such conversations is the contrast of what different networks give access to.
This article comes off as "holy than thou". While maintaining what seems like ignorance in the "haute culture" that they mock.

Their primary point of "read every error" is one that almost no one would truly debate (within reason). Most companies do try to read every error as is reasonable. Being aware of an error is different than immediately fixing it (since that can usually be impractical). Where companies tend to differ is in their ability to triage and correct errors. That is the secret sauce that people want to hear.

One of their secondaries points is mocking companies that use error system aggregators. Why is this so bad? They claim it prevents you from reading every error, but I'd beg to differ.

Let's say your system gets 5,000 errors today. It is highly likely that many of those errors are replicate instances of the same error. Out of 5,000 errors you probably have 5 errors that are 800-1,000 instances each, which consumes 4,800 or so of the error instances. Then you probably have a long tail of errors that only show up once or twice a day. So why is an error aggregator bad? Is there any point in reading the same error 1,000 times? Wouldn't it make more sense to read the error once, have the system show you that it shows up 1,000 which is the highest in your system. Then you can spend less time reading more duplicate errors and spend that time fixing them. You can look at a graph and see that the error increases over time, which tells you to prioritize resolution of this error.

If you have 2 hours a day to fix bugs, would you rather fix the bug that causes 2 errors per day or the one that fixes 1,000?

They seem proud of their error burndown chart that shows errors decreasing over time, but this is likely not the result of "reading every error" as much as actually putting time and attention into error resolution. My company for example put a team together at the end of last year who is a cross-functional team who's sole job is fixing prominent errors. We use an error aggregator and our error burndown chart looks the same as Pulumi's. Why? Because we are dedicating resources and attention to fixing it.

Where most companies go wrong is not that they don't read errors. It is that they are so busy pumping out features that they don't dedicate time and resources to fixing things or they don't provide enough time to build less error-prone code before it hits production in the first place.

Lastly, the "haute culture" of error budgets are funny to me. Yes I get that this is the SRE mantra. But what Pulumi describes here is basically an error budget by a different name. You have just set a lower threshold (ie 'budget') for acceptable errors. Just because a team has an error budget doesn't mean that they don't read the errors until they go over. They are reading and fixing errors to stay within the budget.
Old habits die hard.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Azorian
Hospitals have budgets too, not all of them will spring for the 5th 9
How do places without something like Prop 13 constrain the rapid growth of local government expenses?

Why is limiting government expenditure a goal in and of itself? If the government is able to raise enough tax money to support that spending, and voters agree with it, why shouldn't the government spend more?
ChatGPT Plugins: Indirect prompt injection leading to data exfiltration (POC)
Why would anyone use non-native English speakers? There are plenty of low wage countries where English is the dominant language (e.g. India, Philippines, Kenya, South Africa, Malaysia, Belize, Puerto Rico) or at least very popular (Central Europe).

IMO it's far more likely that they laid off their copy editors in the way that tech companies are so fond of laying off their QA staff.
This is extremely important to know. That the relationships between words in the sentence are actually trained by human evaluation.
While the criteria in their dataset for determining accuracy seem reasonable, I am again puzzled by the eagerness for trying to label a political "bias". Maybe it's a US thing.
The article is a little bit breathless about this work as though evidence of solar system instability is completely novel and unexpected, but investigation in the area using simulation isn't exactly unprecedented.

Gerry Sussman and Jack Wisdom were working on the question of solar system instability in the late 1980s and Sussman and his students built a specialized computer called the Digital Orrery at MIT. They ran some very long simulations and found strong numerical evidence that the orbit of Pluto is chaotic.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stability_of_the_Solar_System#...

These weren't obscure results; further work was published in Science. See "Chaotic Evolution of the Solar System," in

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.257.5066.56
Yes, I think your understanding of this field exceeds mine - not even sure where I pulled out “classical” Greek from, since in hindsight, the author of Matthew far post dated classical Greece!
IonQ Aria Now Available on Amazon Braket
So, a billboard in your home that you also pay for?
The in-kernel loader can't defer loading if, say, a module is loaded before the firmware is available. Instead it can be handled in userland - the kernel generates a request when it wants firmware, and the userland hotplug agent can satisfy that later
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Montana Governor Bans TikTok in the State
Not as fast as Jakarta.

Why Indonesia is abandoning its capital city to save it: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/11/9/hldwhyindonesia-is-...
Azure OpenAI’s GPT APIs I would imagine is likely more secure, and now is HIPAA compliant as well.
A more up-to-date version can be accessed here:

https://people.mpi-inf.mpg.de/~mehlhorn/ToolboxNew.html
The authors essentially concur with this view. But comparatively few services have both such high traffic and reliability levels. For everything below, people reach for aggregation way too early.
I agree with you, but the article specifically mocks error aggregators and says that there is more value in relishing each error.

This is counter-intuitive, but seems to be what the article is suggesting.
Meanwhile, I've had 9 since I was 11 years old (am in my 40s) and I only ever got that first job via networking, which subsequently paid me under the table at less than minimum wage (but nothing that an early-morning-while-nobody-is-around fibbing on the timesheet couldn't fix). I make it a point to NOT go to places I know that I have friends and colleagues at, because I don't want the dynamic to be weird.
This is the first time I heard about DuckDB. Why someone would use that instead of a mature engine like SQLite?
What was this public service?

The best interpretation of this that I can come up with is that somehow, HCA would shame some number of at risk people into getting the vaccine and saving their lives. I wonder, are you familiar with any estimates on number needed to treat to prevent a death? In other words, how many people would need to be shamed into taking tbe vaccine to save one life?

Realistically, it was a schadenfreude circle jerk. I obviously can't know this for sure, but I'm willing to wager that the number of people saved this way was negligible. It was just yet another place for the in crowd to shit on the out group and cheer each other on while they did it.
DEI for thee, not for me
Columnar database not row based. More appropriate for analytical workloads, and not as a transactional backend.
Bangkok has similar issues, but talks of moving the capital over a couple provinces have seemed mostly just talks at this point.
Eight out of 100 senators signed this letter, and at least some of the ones I recognize have consistently opposed stingrays, CBP abuse, and mass surveillance. So this is business as usual, unless they can convince 43 others do something about it.
A stupid question but...what about a 16x model in 1bit?
This is why people need psuedonyns online & in their emails to avoid such BS or being further more easily targeted by scammers from any leak
"our data indicates overt typographical and/or grammatical errors increase engagement" /s
Yeah this has been going on for 20 years..makes me wonder, why now?
> Can simulated hospital simulate efforts by staff to quickly add into many charts a medication Rx - by taking one patient note and copying 1 note, then pasting that into several?

What CPOE system involves notes? None of the handful I've used in the US.

No modern EMR here involves any copy pasting for orders.
>The other thing that rubbed me the wrong way was that rather than fix the issue, they just removed functionality.

It is a limited team size. If they feel a feature is causing too much grief, I would rather they drop it than post a, "Here be dragons" sign and let users pick up the pieces.

Edit: missed an obvious opportunity to take a shot at MySQL