skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Strongly consistent protocols such as a Paxos and Raft always choose consistency over availability and when consistency isn't certain they refuse to answer.

Raft & Paxos: any number of nodes may be down, as soon as the majority is available a replicated system is available and doesn't lie.

Kafka as it's described in the post(): any number of nodes may be down, at most one power outage is allowed (loss of unsynced data), as soon as the majority is available a replicated system is available and doesn't lie.

The counter-example simulates a single power outage

() https://jack-vanlightly.com/blog/2023/4/24/why-apache-kafka-...
Create automation may costs the same as two years for salary of your representative. They always custom of logic, regions, pics. No one start SendGrid without a lot of checks with business team. When it flew out you can not catch it.
17 is legal all over the US - I don't really think you are grasping the issue with Epstein, his island, the victims, and the gentleman he invited there.
If this comment performative comedy? Are these real technologies ?
The only requests that work consistently well for me are:

"Hey Siri, whats the weather?" and "Hey Siri, what the X-day forecast". Everything else is a huge mess.
> reading from cover to cover?

I do, whenever it's possible and I can get away with it. Increasingly, online documentation is organized in a way that there's no really meaningful way to read "all of it" because it's not organized linearly. Back in the days when documentation actually _had_ literal covers, there was a clear order that you were supposed to read it in, and (at least some) care had been taken to ensure that concepts were defined before they used. Most online documentation seems to be written under the assumption that you already know what it's for and why it's useful, and you're just looking for how to accomplish some specific task.

There are still physical printed books from publishers like O'Reilly (although their quality has gone way down) that do try to actually explain the what and the why along with the how, but I run into some sort of reverse snobbery when I try to dedicate time studying them: "why are you reading a _book_? Just search the online documentation or google it".
Love how these big tech companies are using congress fears to basically let them define rules for anyone to compete with them.
Neural networks are great at optimizing when the objectives are agreed upon and well known, and will not abuse power for their own gain (that is one objective).

Why would you want humans instead?
> I work on Bun

Understatement.
Seems a bit dissimilar, demonstrating something is possible right now, out of the realm of fiction, seems like a decent way to incite people do discuss the issue. Especially to a crowd that most likely has no idea of the recent AI advancements and the ease of access to this technology by almost anyone.
Why would it be effective? If it only deals in language, but not an understanding of human issues, economies et al, it would be ineffective and inappropriate.

> it will turn into a contest of which side of an issue can spam the Senator's office harder

An LLM wouldn't even be required for analysing sentiment and recurring topics, this is how a lot of brands have handled millions of inbound tweets all these years.

To imply that a senator is just the political equivalent of a customer service agent is disingenuous when they themselves draft and propose legislation et al, and that legislation hopefully comes from a nuanced understanding of what it is that they're targeting, which an LLM wouldn't have.
As a user, hanging on to a arbitrary and unsupported middle of the road version of Windows 10 is dumb anyway.

Either update to latest or move to Windows 11 or Linux.
point of Apple products is that users don't have to care
I thought we got away from knowledge distribution embargos via 1A during the encryption era.

Even if it passed, I find it hard to believe a bunch of individuals couldn't collaborate via distributed training, which would be almost impossible to prohibit. Anyone could mask their traffic or connect to anon US VPN to circumvent it. The demand will be there to outweigh the risk.
Please enlighten us as to the root cause in this instance, then.
That's neat! Wish there was more gaming themed bars around where I live (South Florida) but for wider amounts of games, not just pinball (which is awesome).

I remember going to arcades growing up in the 90s and early 2000s and would jump at the chance to be able to relive that nostalgia.

Themed bars are making a strong run here (there's a local mini-golf focused bar which is really fun, albeit expensive). Would love a bar with pinball machines, maybe some fighting games or 4-player co-op games, sports games and maybe even some rhythm/music games. Nothing too hardcore, but something easy enough for your average non-gamer to understand and still have fun participating.
It says they stopped after authorization. They mean Emergency Use Authorization. Which can only be given to unapproved modalities.

That is, they stopped blinding half a year before the vaccine was actually approved.
Oh most definitely it would, but you run into trade offs with production / productivity. That's at least what most of my local farmer friends argue.
We proactively add some good bacteria to our ponds monthly to reduce waste by products and things as well, so it's possible that they could fix some of the biome issues.
Besides, there's a lot of streetlighting going on. People don't go out of their ways to survey the possible tools. They use what they know.
They must hate lisp so much that they opt to use {{}} instead.
Here's hoping they'll let us sit out Windows 11 until 12 comes out.
Apparently, you are not an actual user of Siri, because I get jack shit out of her. speech to text is infinitely worse than the first week Siri was released.
Exactly... there's no real apparent reason this can't be done
i noticed it too, that popular and engaging post can be downranked very fast especially when it's bad for yc companies, last example being post about kagi price update.
> Protocol Aware Recovery is really needed if you want Raft to tolerate disk corruption

I believe OP does not make any claims about arbitrary log corruption. Neither raft nor Kafka protocol can handle it. It is about losing tail of the log due to fsync failures or rather lack of fsyncs.
As it becomes easier to create a startup without technical skills, the more those better at networking will be admitted to a networking based event. Eventually when AI can fulfill all technical needs of a company, entrepreneurs will just be charming attractive people trading notes and watching their stock go up.
One of the blogs that gets posted here a lot (I don't recall which) is someone who teaches some sort of history of video games. One of the things he has to convince his students of is just how impossible it is to figure out certain old PC games without reading the instructions (IIRC Ultima IV is one where students would just be 100% confused).
Do the diseased get to loose their voice when they are gone?
Probably better to ask what good things our dad's did, I can tell you my kids love it when I make them help put the laundry away, I suspect their opinions might differ :)
While yes, these black boxes that are created with unknown methods and biases is worrisome, letting a CEO of a major company provide regulations to prevent competition in the space never seems to workout well.
This feels intentionally confusing/clickbaity. It sounds like they'll only force people to upgrade to a security-patched version of Windows 10, not to Windows 11, but it's framed in such a way to make you assume the latter (and get upset about it)

I've started mentally filtering the theregister.com links I see on here, because they often seem to be this way.
"The problem is that every layer in the stack lies. "

Not enterprise gear. Reliable storage does exist. I have tested many vendors myself, and gone through spec sheets under NDA (as mentioned above).

"They say "yes it is definitely written to durable storage" when it is just in some cache layer and about to be written."

Enterprise hardware contains batteries specifically designed so that caches can still be written out to durable storage in the event of power loss. Have you ever dealt with managing battery learning cycles on a Dell PERC?
Right, that's the point. Whatever he tells them now will be useless by the time they understand it.
You can auto-forward g-mail?

I have one (not Google) account that I never log into, but a robot pulls all the mail off it, it will show activity.
Like all things I worry about it being a fad. It’s big now but what’s to say these trends last? It can hard to maximize the investment it takes to make a great repeat experience.

I know that’s always the risk for sure, but I’d bet in a longer run of the barcade market than dog bars, but I’ve been wrong before
The faq returns a 502 as well
There is post-facto judgment of those who have done harm, and then there are heuristics we can use to help us avoid people who would do harm before it's been done.
On a bit of a tangent, pinball was banned in NYC until 1976 - ostensibly because it was viewed more as a form of gambling then skill. A movie - "Pinball: The Man Who Saved the Game" was released last year and is based on the efforts of Roger Sharpe, a GQ editor, to overturn that ban. [0][1][2]

[0] https://gothamist.com/arts-entertainment/did-you-know-pinbal...

[1] https://www.imdb.com/title/tt13365876/

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Sharpe_(pinball)
Ledger seed can be exfiltrated by firmware update
Your drank from the fountain? I haven't removed the cyanide from the reservoir!
Because human beings understand the way the world works, but an LLM only deals in language, whereas societies, economies et al are incredibly complex and nuanced, and also not defined by language.

Whilst a hypothetical application of a neural network politically may not abuse power for its own gain, that doesn't preclude it from making uninformed decisions, just like being a human being doesn't preclude someone from making poor decisions.

How would constituents hold a neural network accountable?

All kinds of shitty things could be done "because the neural net says so", and that lack of accountability is in and of itself a fundamental problem, especially the lack of human-readable data set as it is stored as tokens, it's only the output that is human-readable, so we wouldn't even be able to tell in what ways it had been manipulated. The ultimate patsy and scapegoat for real human beings to take advantage of.
How ironic

If anyone else is a fan of the original Deus Ex, one of the writers for it, Sheldon Pacotti, has been writing science fiction for years:

http://sheldonpacotti.com/
It's entirely possible you're right, but isn't that also very cynical? Does the guy have an established track record of being questionable or evasive, or are you arguing for healthy cynicism as a safety stance?
It's just the Microsoftese equivalent of the last entry in each Wine update's change notes -- "Various bug fixes" (originally: "Lots of bug fixes").
I think the important thing is to be there and spend time with them and listen to them tell you about the things they want to tell you about.
If true, that doesn’t matter for an update. But I think it only changed in Windows 11 where you can’t run the oobe wizard without internet to skip past the account.
Thanks. Is there an aggregate number CA somewhere?

"CA" == amount of precipitation remaining in California, in one form or another.

i.e. CA = total - ocean - NV - AZ - OR - evaporation - other
> However for physics reasons the atmosphere does not hold much water vapor.

The atmosphere is currently ~422 ppm of CO2, and an average of ~5,000 ppm of H2O, with humid tropical areas having up to ~50,000 ppm of H2O.

Water vapour makes up ~half of the greenhouse effect. It's not a 'good' greenhouse gas, it's just that it's very unevenly distributed, with a strong bias towards having a lot of it in the parts of the world that get a lot of sun - the tropics.
Yeah like I said, I don't know what the answer is. I just know what's getting destroyed.
Good observations and I've observed more than a few in computerland, especially in startups.

However, it's not true that cult leaders are always grandiose. They can be strategically vulnerable too!

When confronted -- especially by someone too smart to be fooled by their facade -- they can take that critic aside, in a private setting, and suddenly express vulnerability, maybe even fragility. The critic is taken aback, maybe even worries that they've gone too far, but also feels honored to have become a confidant of the leader. The critic may now even feel compelled to help cover for the leader's failings!

But this, too, is an act. Remember, as Sasha said, such people are always being strategic, and strategic vulnerability is part of how they operate.
Internal differences do not necessary translate to conceptual differences.
Combustion engine and electric engine do the same job despite operating on completely different internal principles. (Yes, it might not be a perfect an analogy, but it illustrates the point.)
> There are plenty of examples from streamers to serious programmers but the most common is probably the benevolent dictator for life personalities for numerous software projects

Can you provide any examples from either of these?

I feel like you may be confusing "people with strong opinions" with "narcissistic cult leader."
> It does actually sound like you do have this a-priori goal

I don't wake up in the morning and say to myself "I sure hope I continue to believe that the Earth is round by the end of the day!" That's crazy: I have no vested interest in that belief. I believe the Earth is round because the evidence is overwhelming and the contra-evidence is unconvincing. I'm not worried that someone is going to come along and erroneously convince me the world is actually flat -- I trust my own judgement more than that. Unless, of course, the world actually is flat, in which case I'd want someone to convince me of it! It's the truth I have a vested interest in, whatever that truth actually is.

> Additionally, it seems that you might have bad taste in literature

It sounds like it's important to you that you make sure to not like mainstream things, so that you can look down on people who do. I encourage you to get over this. The more things you let yourself enjoy, the more fun you have in life. And you'll like yourself more too, knowing you're not being as much of a condescending prick. Trust me; I've been there.
What is the false positive rate of these heuristics?
recursing issue since forever,
"separator" v.s. "terminator" both can work.
For data rows, I prefer termination as makes missing columns explicit.
But being optional here, it means nothing.

I guess it facilitates low effort scripting that doesn't have to treat the last element differently.
IIRC, if you take long enough to figure it out, you can call your "support team" in-game and they'll give you hints about trying the second controller port.

(Also I love that this and the comment chain immediately above it are both Kojima games. Can't wait to see what kind of mechanics he throws at us in DS2.)
They do this. Because without doing this to anyone except who is capable to opt out this by jumping through all the traps they setup. There will be countless of vulnerable devices for ddos network to use.(or countless of victims of ransonware)
There are shit tons of "optimized" windows install disk in the past with disabled security measures for "performance". And Microsoft is intentionally make these harder to make.
Because transporting any large company from location A to location B involves a lot more than just shipping the machinery. TSMC is the tip of the iceberg, the thing you can see jutting out of the waters. We don't see the invisible - but implicit - support structure that makes the company possible.

Freakonomics podcast had a couple of episodes on Taiwan some time ago, and one of the points brought forward was that TSMC is a spearhead. In Taiwan, there is more semiconductor industry, and an established education structure able to produce the ongoing stream of skilled workers at every level. These feed into each other, and TSMC is at the apex of the pyramid. To produce an environment where you could transport TSMC to and have it continue to thrive, you'd likely need to first maintain a strategic focus for something like 15 years to build the necessary support structure.

I suspect that China is looking at this, but looks at it from another angle. If they invade Taiwan, they will end up disturbing the support structure that makes TSMC, well, TSMC. The edge of Taiwan's semiconductor industry is not that they have TSMC. Their edge is the entire environment that makes TSMC possible in the first place.

Or to be really blunt about it: once the CCP believes they can do without Taiwan's semiconductor industry, they'll send in the troops.
The USD is the cleanest shirt in a pile of dirty laundry. Until another one emerges that is backed by both a significant military as well as a political and economic system that respects private property and rule of law, it will remain as such.
There's prior art for pythonic DSLs that aren't actual python code.
I've been seeing a number of blog posts and things like this that query ChatGPT as way to appeal to authority.

I really don't like it.
Really impressed to see that bun is now faster than esbuild, that was in my mind one of the fastest bundler/minifier in town.

How did you achieve that? Are there some shortcuts you took, or some feature you deemed not in scope (yet)?
I had two relatives die from ALS.

When my grandfather lost his ability to speak, it was frustrating for him because he was such an intelligent, articulate person. Having a disease that renders your voice useless and then having to communicate via a small whiteboard for him was not fun. He couldn't write fast enough and often times felt like a burden because we would all be waiting to see what he wanted to say.

the Live Speech features for people with ALS will be a game changer. It saddens me this wasn't around when my grandfather passed, but am optimistic others who have this horrendous disease can utilize it to continue to communicate with their families even when ALS has taken their voice.
Its a pointless endeavor. Software is protected under the First Amendment: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/04/remembering-case-estab...
Video games have had a format like that, intended specifically for bars and restaurants, since pretty close to the beginning. They're called "cocktail cabinets".
It was 98% humidity and 70 degrees at 7:30 this morning. I broke into sweat watering plants with athletic clothes on. It’s now 86 degrees and 65% humidity. Spring has only started.

For me it’s not an option. I have to dry clean. It is easier to find alternative materials to cotton for the office but they don’t replace button downs and jeans. They can’t replace a suit, linen is still much too casual.
big brain moves over here
Siri has felt like abandonware for years. My hope is something like a ChatGPT model is its replacement soon.
Tangential, but, this has to be one of the fastest websites I've used recently. How is it possible they get such fast loading of static content? It's basically instantaneous, specially with JavaScript disabled.

edit: Oh well, after navigating to some pages on the blog I see that everything was already on browser cache, so that's why it was so fast. Reminds me I need to overwrite Netlify's cache-control on my website, even though it's already very fast to load (Netlify sets max-age=0, must-revalidate by default).
In the case of a school bus, it is both the vehicle rating and the use case. For personal use, no CDL is required for driving a school bus (if also owned for personal use).
Yeah I think you're right there, at least to a degree. So many American towns have really crappy zoning laws that limit the amount of high density construction, even though it's awesome for a tax base (especially if you allow for mixed use areas (which has the double benefit of helping mitigate food deserts)).
"all the world's information" so long as the author is still alive
When I hear the phrase "wage theft" I think of all the money stolen from workers not the alleged hours workers are not perfectly productive. People have continued to become more productive over the last 40+ years but have not reaped the rewards of that.
Nobody knows tbh.
Do you know a good place to shop for new-in-box pinball machines?

A few weeks ago I poked around on eBay and Google. And mostly found cheap digital ones or other cabinets similar to the arcades you can get at Walmart.
I mean with the flight prices increasing they might as well offer 1 mill. They can sure as hell afford it. lol
"he's just doing this to hinder competition"

It's true that AI regulation would, in fact, hinder OpenAI's competition.

But... isn't lobbying for regulation also what Sam would do if he genuinely thought that LLMs were powerful, dangerous technology that should be regulated?

If you don't think LLMs/AI research should be regulated, just say that. I don't see how Sam's motives are relevant to that question.
Have I got a thrill for you!

https://www.mutopiaproject.org

https://lilypond.org

https://www.hacklily.org

...it really helped me understand why "$SCORE = ( $MELODY + $BASS )" was sometimes superior to viewing sheet music as a "wall of notes and chords". You have to "play the wall" as it comes at you, but mentally, thinking of it as "melody goes la la la, bass goes boom bang boom" helps to provide context to what are the roles of the two notes you're playing.
> Standalone executables. You can now create standalone executables with bun build.

> bun build --compile ./foo.ts

> This lets you distribute your app as a single executable file, without requiring users to install Bun.

> ./foo

This is big! Part of Go's popularity is due to how easy it is to produce self-contained executables.

And it seems to support amd64 and arm according too: https://twitter.com/jarredsumner/status/1657964313888575489
I have a Pixel 4xl with the common battery ribbon connector problem.
Google replaced the battery once within the first year, and then again a year later. Then, a year later the problem came back. I went to the same store, and was told Google would not fix the battery again.. that after 2 times it's a motherboard problem and that isn't under extended warranty like the battery.

So I went on Amazon, bought a new battery for $18 including tools, and installed it as a first timer in 20 minutes. Works great.

Not every consumer is able to do that. So Google just burns them.
That's not interesting at all, because it was written partially to target Yudkowsky, with the goal that you won't "Pascal's mug"* yourself eg https://twitter.com/sashachapin/status/1657063187655843841

Keep in mind that a lot of tech-adjacent writing these days is just AI debates (and this is why he is not engaging with the actual cult literature or providing examples); this is not the place to debate the object-level arguments, but I will say I disapprove of Chapin writing like this, and not owning up to the real purpose of this essay and the Bay Area dynamics he's criticizing. It is deceptive in precisely the way you inadvertently illustrate.

* His use is wrong, incidentally, both in the original abstruse decision-theory sense of the phrase as coined by Yudkowsky, ironically enough, and in the vulgarized sense of 'you should ignore small probabilities of very bad things' (because we are now far beyond some 'small' probability of AI, and AI risk is now considered so probable people like Geoff Hinton are quitting their jobs so they can speak out about it https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/bLvc7XkSSnoqSukgy/a-brief-co... )