skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This was a nice read! There are a few issues on both sides, some that others have mentioned and some that I have not seen yet:

For Redpanda:

1. I don't like that they did not include full disk performance, not sure if that was intentional but it feels like it... Seems like and obvious gap in their testing. Perhaps most of their workloads have records time out rather than get pushed out by bytes first, not sure.

2. Their benchmark was def selective, sure, but they sell via proof of performance for tested workloads IIUC, no via their posted benchmarks. The posted benchmarks just get them into the proof stage in a sales pipeline.

For Kafka (and Confluent, and this test):

1. Don't turn off fsync for Kafka if you leave it on with Redpanda, that's certainly not a fair test.

Batching should be done on the client side anyway, as most packages already do by default. If you are worried about too many fsyncs degrading performance, batch harder on your clients. It's the better way to batch anyway.

2. If confluent cloud is using java 11, then I don't like that java 17 is used for this either. It's not a fair comparison seeing that most people will want it managed anyways, so it gives unrealistic expectations of what they can get

3. Confluent charges a stupid amount of money

4. The author works for Confluent, so I'm not convinced that this test would have been posted if they saw Redpanda greatly outperform Kafka

With Both:

1. Exactly once delivery is total marketing BS. At least Redpanda mentions you need idempotency, but you get exactly once behavior with full idempotency anyway. What you build should be prepared for this, not the infra you use IMO as all you need is one external system to break this promise for the whole system to lose it

I prefer Redpanda as I find it easier to run, and Redpanda actually cares about their users whether they are paid or not. Confluent wont talk to you unless you have a monthly budget of at least $10k, Redpanda has extremely helpful people in their slack just waiting to talk to you.

Ultimately you don't just buy into the software, you buy into the team backing it, and I'd pick Redpanda easily, knowing that they can actually help me and care without needing to give them $10k.
Literally canceled. Perhaps having an eternal memory of everything bad human beings ever do in their entire lives to be summoned up to destroy people is not such a good idea.
US may default on debt as soon as June 1, Yellen reaffirms
"For every problem there is a solution that is simple, neat—and wrong."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Stallman#Controversies probably covers it I'm guessing.
Video: Intro to progress studies at Learning Night Boston
Hasselblad is reportedly latest camera maker to bail on DSLRs
Opponents of progressive taxes lobby hard against auto-filing. They want the Americans to conflate the complexities of the US tax code with the complexities of filing and so they fight to keep the filing process complex and they tell us it's the tax code that's the problem.
Shameless copied: https://easylang.dev/ide/#run=textsize%203%0Afor%20i%20%3D%2...
I wonder if it runs on top of Android.

Hopefully would make it easy to exploit and flash new software onto it.

Maybe get one of those prepaid credit cards and put it on the Telly account so if they see you haven't turned your TV on or flashed the firmware they can't really do anything about it. Are they really going to hunt you down and ding your credit over a $200 television? Seems very post-capitalism economy.

Looks like a very anti-consumer business model, or maybe it is a very friendly consumer model?
We're using Ant Design

https://ant.design/
We live in a new age, where we can know a lot more about the personal lives of famous people. Decades ago, the problematic personalities of famous people were hidden by the gate keepers. JKF benefited from this. It would be nice if there was a more uniform way to handle situations like this. RMS isn't alone, in being accused of unsavory things. Should we shun Bill Gates because of his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein? It's a thorny issue, because it's so hard to know much about the details of these problematic relationships.
I know I came off very cheeky but your statement "forced to behave", indicates that some people in your life do not behave well around you. I think it'd behoove you to consider whether those "friends" are using you, in a nefarious manner, or whether they perhaps do not deserve your attention.
Cremieux is the pen name of reddit user u/TrannyPornO just read some of his comments.
Even better idea: How about if you pressed the comma, it would temporarily cause all subsequent keystrokes to be interpreted as if with the Ctrl modifier? Then you could press another key to go back to inserting text. In fact, the editor could even start in the “comma” state because usually after opening a file, you want to first navigate around before inserting text. And to allow typing commas easily, we could just use the escape key instead. I'm sure no one has ever thought of this before.
Oh, I had read about Centralia being the inspiration for the movie and assumed (or perhaps saw someone incorrectly claim) that it was also the inspiration for the game. Thanks for the correction!
Are you sure performance would be acceptable if you just turned on fsync on every message?
We ll never know what "the situation" is and whatever "statements that do not correspond to any of our values" are.

Good job smearing mud without saying anything i guess. Did stallman say something since he was invited that was particularly noticeable? if not then these organizers don't know what they 're doing and this reflects bad on them
It's only Cancel Culture if it comes from the Cancél region of France.

Otherwise it's just sparkling consequences.
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The main one, amoung many smaller things, were his comments around Jeffrey Epstein in 2019.
https://stallmansupport.org/richard-stallman-commitment-to-s...
Neil Fiore's book The Now Habit helped me quite a bit with procrastination (I saw a recommendation on HN years ago, but haven't heard it mentioned much since). One key point to remember is that procrastination is first and foremost an emotional problem, not a time-management problem.
Also https://jepsen.io/analyses/redpanda-21.10.1
Bizarre turn of events. Who cares about his persona, people can decide for themselves if they want to hear him speak.
I think the sequence tends toward the edge at exp(-n), not 2^-n. The distance from the edge is a product of n I.I.D. variables, so the logarithm is a sum of n I.I.D. variables, and the central limit theorem gives us the result.

You can confirm in a python terminal (or anything else) that the product of n `random()`s decreases more rapidly than 2^-n.

So maybe there's some value in it after all :)
This is an example of ageism. I'm pushing 50, let's see how I stack up:

> cost more in salary

If the salaries that show up in HN posts are true, this is a no.

> cost more in health care

My only health care needs in the past 30 years have been a couple of dental cleanings per year.

> have been known to push back [...] and to not get swept up in current fads.

Ok, you've got me on this one. I do keep up with new languages, libraries, etc. I've also lived through enough hype cycles to separate the good stuff from the fluff.
He objected to the word "assault" being used to describe Marvin Minsky (allegedly) having sex with one of Jeffrey Epstein's underage victims.
Is the email on your site still good?
Likewise, Why is 'Peggy' short for Margaret?
What would more hoops possibly accomplish other than denying care to real patients through attrition and exhaustion? It's trivial for a person to lie in an interview as easily as on a questionaire.
My read of the French is TLDR:

[starts out by mentioning some people are complaining about RMS being schedule to talk], then:

"We have considered the decisions of certain organizations that serve as examples for us and have made certain choices in the past" ("avons considéré les décisions de certaines organisations qui nous servent d’exemple et qui ont fait certains choix avant nous").

then they go on to say they've decided to cancel the talk.

So - sounds like they're getting blowback and don't want to deal with all the politics / bad press around it? But also don't way to say they're just ducking out, and so have phrased it really weirdly.
> the IRS will get mad about that.

In my experience, the IRS won't get mad about that. They'll ask you to correct it, of course. What makes the IRS mad is if it looks like you're actively trying to illegally avoid taxes.

Also, in my experience, the IRS are generally decent to work with. My state revenue department, however, is the opposite of the IRS in every way. They're just mean and vindictive.
> so why does Rolex exist?

So rich people can show off their wealth.
If you have an infinite amount of money, you already own the casino.
Meh, universal healthcare for PC's can easily be avoided by denying maintenance until they die and a new crop is purchased. At least at scale. For any individual user the friction of switching hardware may still incentivize some minimal checkups, i.e., keep windows update & defender services running and let them reboot the system no more than once every two two months.

Figure the local router port-forwarding will protect against the most obvious threats and otherwise hope your personal BS filter doesn't trojan in some ransomware. If it does & it's a person pc then wipe (more likely buy) a new machine, lose some stuff, and move on. If it's a corporate pc, CYA & get your resume together.

As my own CYA: These are not my own recommended best practices and I don't advocate them to anyone else as either computer, legal, or financial advice.
Did Stallman do anything new that offended certain political persuasions, or is this cancellation only due to previous controversies/peculiarities?

Edit: the level of downvotes/flag-kills of comments just asking "why" and "what happened" is pretty depressing.
Nope, not so fast. Do your research before making claims, please.

For example, if you have to pay $15K in taxes, you can sign up for a Chase Ink Business Preferred card, pay the $15K+1.85% = $15277, get the 100K bonus + 1X points on the $15277, which puts you at 115277 points, which is worth 1.25x in travel, which puts you at $1440 worth of air tickets or $1152 worth of cashback.

Subtract the $277 extra you paid, subtract the $95 annual fee for one year (before which you'll cancel the card of course), and that leaves you with a net return of $1068 in air tickets or $780 in cash.

There are quite a few other cards that you can come out ahead in as well, depending on how much tax you owe.

And yes, I did this.
It seems there's some conflation on NSS and satiety vs. full sugar sweeteners. If you have the choice between diet soda and regular soda, drinking regular soda WILL make you gain more weight. The extra calories are the mechanism.

What diet soda doesn't do, though, is provide any satiety benefit. Although regular soda provides very little satiety, I suspect it provides some small satiety, since it is still calories. If people don't get their 'cravings' in check, then you get overeating in other places, likely with other low satiety foods/drinks. In the end, it might be mostly a net neutral behavior if the other foods replacing the calories in soda are just as bad. This is mostly speculation, though.

At the end of the day, dieting is hard work, so if you get to a weight that needs to be corrected, the fix is not easy...
That's the towers. All the handsets still support 2G, and will happily let themselves be downgrade-attacked to it.

2G lacks even the most rudimentary authentication, so you don't even have to try to look like a tower once you've done this. Just say you're a tower.
To those asking, last I heard from Stallman were his comments in the MIT CSAIL mailing list after the Epstein fallout basically of the theme: “some of them surely liked it”.

As far as I’m aware he was ousted from MIT soon after, though the folks who actually signed the checks to/from Epstein faced no such consequences. This is America.

https://www.theverge.com/2019/9/17/20870050/richard-stallman...
StarCoder and StarCoderBase: 15.5B parameter models with 8K context length
> Should we shun Bill Gates because of his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein?

In my opinion, yes, absolutely.
This was my take as well. Kahn signed an arms deal with Russia just days before the Ukrainian conflict happened. Less than two weeks after the invasion happened he was ousted from office. Pretty unusual, Imran Kahn has been wildly popular in Pakistan for decades, since at least the mid-1980s where he was a Cricket (sport) superstar
just experienced that yesterday after years of not having used a gamepad with analog sticks; why is inverted not the default for analog sticks? Yet with my mouse I prefer non-inverted.. the brain is weird.
if this is referring to his past controversies, i fail to see how this is 'cancel culture'. if he says controversial shit that other organizations dont want to be associated with, its up to him to deal with the consequences of that. he has the right to express his views just like anyone else has the right to not want to be associated with him and those views.
You could, but if it's in the app store for the masses to do, most of them won't be, and that's sort of the point of the suggestion here in my mind. Easy self-hosting for the masses with the device they already have.
Using LLMs with 100GB VRAM to convert PDFs to CSVs is truly depressing, but I am sure many companies will love it.

2023 office software already uses 1000x more ressources than 1990s'. I bet we are ready to do that again.
> Astronomers reveal

The scientism runs strong on HN.

Astronomers and other scientists are not a priestly class. They revealed nothing.
Q4: What is it plotting? `random()` returns a float, right? Is it plotting... r*cis(theta), where r is the random invocation and theta varies uniformly across the circle, normalized so that all the circles are the same size (where cis(theta) = (cos(theta), sin(theta))?
That really depends on the UX you want.
I think the intent of folks in this situation is not to look for targets for career destruction, but help prevent new people from being exposed to harm. In that context, a more accessible record of public figures' harmful acts seems like a net positive
Intelligence _is_ a superpower.

- We have control over most non-human species because of intelligence.

- We have control over our children because of intelligence. When the kid is more intelligent, it has more of an impact on what happens in the family.

- It is easier to lie, steal, cheat, and get away with it, even when caught, when you have more intelligence than the victim or prosecutor.

- it is easier to survive with very limited resources when you have more intelligence.

The above is true for marginal amounts of difference in intelligence. When there is a big difference (fox vs human), the chance is big that one will look down on, or even kill the other without feeling guilt and while getting away with it. Forvan AI without feelings, guilt isn't even a hurdle.

The real question is... will AI in the foreseeable future obtain general intelligence (in a broad spectrum) that is different in big amounts with our intelligence.

Whether it runs in a datacenter that can be powered off by humans is irrelevant. There are enough workarounds to prevent that the AI dies out (copies itself, impersonating people, blackmail, bribery,...)
If you fancy some petty revenge, Mont Blanc refills fit a variety of cheap pens beautifully. I don't see them "NDA"ing that away anytime soon.
Stallman made some remarks defending Marvin Minsky (very poorly) from victims' allegations that he abused young girls on Epstein's island.

Meanwhile, Reid Hoffman is now known to have visited the island and has not seen any firestorm of cancellations, as far as I'm aware.
you can easily remap it??
This is how it works in New Zealand; you get a tax statement. You can file if you think that IRD got it wrong, and you have to file if you have income from (for example) dividends, overseas incomes, or similar sources.

But for the great majority of people whose income comes from working for a living, you don't need to do anything to be 100% legally compliant.
> Is there an example or anecdote you have in mind of a platform meddling with mixing?

Sure,
Android resamples everything to 48kHz, uses software mixing. No workaround.
GNU/Linux by default does the same with PipeWire, PulseAudio and ALSA (dmix). One can configure it for bitperfect playback though.
I can’t say about modern Windows, the last one I used was Windows 7, and by default it resampled everything to 48kHz too.

> USB Audio that is special

The last time I saw a non USB audio class device was some 15 years ago. I frankly do not understand, why are you stressing this so much.
No. This is not premature optimization. I have all the money to pay the taxes, it's just that I can actually come out ahead by paying with a credit card, paying it off right away, and then taking the points and sign up bonuses on multiple credit cards.

If you owe $20K in taxes, you can totally sign up for 3 or 4 cards and reap all the bonuses in one fell swoop. 2 payments per processor, PayUsaTax is 1.85%, Pay1040 is 1.87%, as long as your sign-up bonuses can beat those numbers (they easily do on many cards, see my other comment below), you can get 4 sign-up bonuses easily.

I already am doing everything I can possibly do within legal bounds to reduce my tax bill. 401K, IRA, credits, you name it, I have it. The credit card thing is just at least getting my cherry back after the government took my cake.
... do you think the redcoats couldn't intercept and read your post?
This is me as well. I don't naturally 'see' that a task is actually a bunch of smaller, easier tasks. It's easier not to start when you're not sure where to start.
True, but those advertisers still don't expect to pay much per ad impression. The ballpark of what I've heard is that type of ad impression is worth only between 1% and 10% of what a typical ad impression is worth.
We will have to agree to disagree.

I have no intention of changing reality, it will be whatever its meant to, and I've a fairly firm grasp of it, and the underlying problems.

The way things are going people will end up killing themselves slowly through insanity because you and others don't see the fundamental problems barreling your way. By the time you notice; if you even notice, you won't be able to do anything about it. Most likely you won't notice since you've got psychological consistency working against you and you are closed to the problem.

God help's those that help themselves first, and then others when they can.

If you can't recognize a signal from noise (i.e. communication), you become isolated, isolation breaks our psychology, you become apathetic and complacent, or violent, and then that's it. This is true of every single human on the planet subjected to ongoing isolation. Once systems break down because we can't organize or communicate the systems that allow us to feed ourselves fail. Half the global population dies off from starvation, and that's just one of the more common problems coming our way as we approach the limits to growth (MIT study). Simple predator prey dynamics, when there are more mouths than food it returns to equilibrium.

I learned long ago to not stress over what I have no control over. Hopefully me and mine will survive this as we'll be preparing.

You can't say I didn't try to clue you into an important problem. Your glass is clearly full.
Great tutorial and design
> Stallman made some remarks defending Marvin Minsky from victims' allegations that he abused young girls on Epstein's Island.

Recently, or years ago? Because I'm pretty sure those remarks happened years ago.
I haven't read the books but felt the series sort of floundered a bit in the later epsiodes, and in particular found myself not that interested in any scenes not containing Empire (can thank Lee Pace for that!) but excited to see where it goes.
Not just shun, but regard with the utmost suspicion!
The fact that every job on the planet requires a bachelors degree now has done a real dis-service to the entire education system. It spawned a whole host of new institutions that only want to pump out degrees that cross the absolute minimum threshold for accreditation.

The consequence of these diploma mills are that they are now competitors to normal universities and have caused other universities to dilute their requirements and courses in order to compete against the diploma mills. In the end, we have regressed to the lowest common denominator, making the Bachelor Degree barely more respected than a high school diploma.
I stopped reading and assumed you’re wrong at “chatgpt says”, btw.

“Chatgpt says” is the 2020 version of “I don't beloeve or consult doctors, i get my medical information from the twitter/tiktok”
Those kinds of systems are a real joy if designed correctly. You can usually pretty safely assume that the object does not mutate (much), and you can very easily find out what you need to do to pass that object forward into a function that requires RequestWithId.

Look up the concept of "make illegal states unrepresentable."

EDIT: RequestWithoutId is not the best example of this, but the point remains
It converts the timezone automatically, which I do not want
space being saved for what though? space saved is a false economy.
It's zen meditation stuff.

You have to accept, but detach from, the feeling of desire. You're not trying to fight it; you accept but cease to identify with it.

The monk feels the flames consuming his flesh, but he ceases to identify with the sensation, allowing him to sit there, motionless, before dying. (Granted, that's some hardcore non-identification.)
The arguments in the character assassination campaign were found baseless[0][1][2].

But the cancelation crowd's witch hunt continues even today.

[0] https://stallmansupport.org/debunking-false-accusations-agai...

[1] https://geoff.greer.fm/2019/09/30/in-defense-of-richard-stal...

[2] https://itsfoss.com/richard-stallman-controversy/
> Do you not have a network of people you can ask for work?

This always used to be my lifeline. 2022 was the fourth layoff of my career, and each of the three previous times, someone I'd worked with previously got me in the door at their new place, and I had a job again within a month.

This time, I've had at least half a dozen direct referrals from former coworkers, and only one has even gotten me to a hiring manager interview. Brutal doesn't even begin to describe it.

As a consolation, I've gotten a bit of freelance work through my network, but since that reduces unemployment benefits, it doesn't really help pay the bills so much as it helps support my mental health.
Durham report finds FBI probe into Trump-Russia ties was flawed
SIMs from my two different Canadian operator doesn't allow downgrade to 2G for the home networks.
I'm trying to be curious. Please, can someone answer in a way that doesn't get them downvoted/flagged?
Writing a dissertation is a completely different kind of thing to graded homework assignments. A dissertation isn't graded, or even if it is, noone cares about the grade.

The work in writing a good dissertation is done prior to writing, the writing is just wrapping up. If you can write a good dissertation with AI, so much for the better.

Meanwhile, the work in writing a bad dissertation is never done at all and the dissertation is a more-or-less-undedectably plagiarized document read by at most two people (and perhaps noone, including the writer). This process is a waste of time and accelerating it with AI will change nothing other than saving a few hours for people who wanted a degree (and definitely would have gotten it without AI) without doing any research.