skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I watched this movie for an art history class and it’s considered an important movie politically due to environmentalist message. At the time environmentalism wasn’t basically movie short-hand for, “this is a black and white moral conflict obviously the environmentalists are the good guys” though obviously that’s how they are portrayed in the Silent Running. There’s was also a popular environmentalist book call Silent Spring, that was incorporated into the movie’s name.

Also shut up Joan Baez is the shit.
> I mean how many Horse Carriage Drivers are still around?

Aren't there just drivers anymore?

> Or blacksmiths?

Metal workers are still a thing.

> Mike Rowe has a very good point, some fields will be losers and some fields will be winners.

He doesn't. For starters, he doesn't have a basic understanding of what AI does or means. In his mind, AI will replace workers because it is seen as autonomous, which definitely is not.

Though I find it ironic that AI could, theoretically, help replace TV show hosts like him pretty much tomorrow. We already have virtual hosts and AI could create both the character and the scripts.
Imagine if the press covered the Supreme Court like Congress
Sometimes thats the only real number you have though? Maybe you can just ask candidates more about that?

I'm on a team that rebuild a sales/onboarding funnel. I was told it resulted in 5 million in additional revenue generated this year. I'll use that number on my resume at some point. But mostly because I don't have a more useful number to use.

If you ask me I can share all about how and why we build it which is probably what you actually care about, right? 5 mill might be a lot at a small company or almost nothing at a large company so $ and % are pretty much irrelevant. It's the process of building that you would actually care about, no?
> Do you honestly believe that Meta's hundreds (possibly thousands) of both full-time and contracted out lawyers would collectively advise them to break the law? Knowing full well the outcome would be $Billions in fines?

Yes, absolutely. Laws are never clear and require human beings to interpret.

Lawyers jobs are about assessing risk. While they might not have explicitly said "you will get fined $B", they will definitely say "here is the likelihood that the EU fines you" and then meta management would make a strategic (e.g. do we want to risk this based on how much money we can profit) decision based on that.
Salvador Dalí is the most faked artist?
> After her departure, Gebru founded Dair, the Distributed AI Research Institute, to which she now devotes her working time. “We have people in the US and the EU, and in Africa,” she says. “We have social scientists, computer scientists, engineers, refugee advocates, labour organisers, activists … it’s a mix of people.”

Virtue signal by donating to my slush fund.
> It showed us a chart of the verified and caught spammers, as well as how much time they were spending manually typing in messages while completing Captchas...that were never delivered. Our worst offender was doing this for 15 hours a day straight.

Great reads! Thank you for sharing.
I recently purchased my first new computer since 2008 — a Mac Mini M2Pro, stock.

It's incredible what this $1300 machine can do, almost out of the box (e.g. DiffusionBee).

From my understanding the device shares RAM/VRAM, and has a total of 16GB (up to 32), 14.5~GB of which can be used for LLM/genAI processess.

I am just a layperson, a non-gamer; and this purchase has been really wild for local generations.
To put a quantity on it, a black toner cartridge might be rated for a few thousand sheets. They come in color options as well. The toner seems to be good for several years. The per-page price is significantly cheaper than ink. The printing speed is significantly higher than ink. The image quality is higher than ink.
My son gave "5" to a channel called annoying orange, he was so proud of himself. Quick look, yup 5 alright, 500, lol. I wasn't even mad, kind of my fault anyways. I reached out to annoying orange, they were super helpful and reversed the charge thankfully.

You would think a company that caters to kids would get it, but Roblox is the same company that allows kids to hang out in strip clubs, or da hood where they can kill each other over gang territory and has blatant racism baked in.
With this system, Elya could continuously infect fruit flies

They might just be flies, but damn, I don't think I could bring myself to do that.
Bye-Bye, New York. Hello, Fayetteville
If you want to do well on this benchmark, rather than calling sleep, the sleeping processes should call erlang:start_timer(10000, self(), []) to schedule a timer and then call erlang:hibernate/3 to wait for the message without having a normal heap. The efficiency guide [1] says a process will start at 326 words of memory, and a word on a 64-bit system is 8 bytes, so rough math says 2.5k per process and 2.5GB for 1M processes, so the observed 4GB isn't that far off, comments on the blog page show someone else got the example to 2.7GB by eliminating extra steps in the program, and reducing initial heap size got it to 1.1GB. Hibernation should make it smaller, but I'm not going to check.

Note also, that BEAM uses several allocation arenas and is slow to release those back to the OS. It's important to measure memory from the OS perspective, but in a real application you'd also measure memory from inside BEAM. There are knobs you can tune if you need to reduce apparent OS memory use at the expense of additional cpu use during allocation. There's tradeoffs everywhere.

Also, yes, 4GB is a lot of memory, but once you start doing real work, you'll probably use even more. Luckily memory is not that expensive and capacities are getting bigger and bigger. We ran some servers with 768GB, but it looks like the current Epycs support 6TB per CPU socket; if everything scales, you could run a billion sleeping BEAM processes on that. :p I recognize this sounds a lot like an argument to accept bloat, but it's different because I'm saying it ;) Also, I think the benefits of BEAM outweigh its memory costs in general; although I've certainly had some fights --- binary:copy/1 before storing binaries into ets/mnesia can be really helpful!

[1] https://www.erlang.org/doc/efficiency_guide/processes.html
One feature request please: add an option to open links immediately in Safari (which has my preferred web extensions installed).
> It’s not like the bank got the money back from Roblox/apple.

You know in a chargeback (what the mother most likely did)...the bank claws the money back from the company right?

Additionally, why would their fraud algo not detect "hundreds of transactions" back to back. That is instantly a red flag to almost every bank I've known.
Mum's??? Good it wasn't mom's money!
It was just an example, I saw some stupid MSNBC video a month ago about some organization specifically using ChatGPT to translate whale song. So again, you misunderstand my point. The model "fits the data." Much like you train for segmentation tasks on images, the models do not just work on the images they're trained on, ideally, it's an approximated function. But that doesn't mean that the segmentation can magically work on a concept it's never seen (let alone the failure cases it already has.) These are just approximated functions. They're biased towards what we deem as "intelligent language" pulled from the web, have a few nuggets of "understanding" if you want to call it that in there to fit the data, but are fundamentally stateless and not really capable of understanding anything outside of its corpus, if that, it it doesn't help it minimize the loss during training.

It's a human language calculator. You're imparting magical qualities of general understanding to regression based function approximation. They "fit" the data. It's not generalizable, nor adaptable. But that's why they're powerful, the ability to bias them towards that subset of language. No one said it's not an amazing technology, and no one said it was a stochastic parrot. I'm saying that it's fitting the data, and is not, and cannot, be a general or adaptable intelligence.
The Autofiction Writer and the Torturer
now make it SVG instead of CSS :)
I categorize "society breaking down" into other genres, not SciFi (unless fictional technology has an important place).

Soylent Green - not SciFi, distopian.

Brave New World, Logan's Run - maybe SciFi, also distopian.

The Time Machine, Bladerunner - definitely SciFi.

Aeon Flux - Science Fantasy (there's no even halfway plausible scientific mechanism for the key element).
Even if it were testable, and the test failed to validate string theory, I don't think that would convince string theorists one way or another. Strings are a de facto religion within physics.
The bank could be liable because they’re supposed to authenticate the customer making the transaction. Either they did the authentication and the kid passed it (banks fault for bad auth) or they didn’t do authentication for a better UX and it’s still their fault.
And the United States can't? Facebook is part of PRISM, and they are incorporated in America. They are arguably in a more compromised state when operating domestically than abroad.
I highly recommend it if you enjoy video of ants.
Oh, that's exactly what I was looking for. Thanks!
>For most people running to the mall/office store when they need to print is a better deal.

Maybe if you don't value your time, or have perfect foresight/planning (eg. it's 10pm and you needed something printed for 9am tomorrow). The cheapest plan is $0.99/month, or $12/year. That seems like a pretty good deal to avoid having to do a 30 minute errand every time you need something printed.
What is the current status of Asahi? Seems to be still in Alpha
I know what "plain text" is and even so, it can contain identifiable markers, if you want to track down a leak let's say.

"Something 𝗌omething will launched on Novemᖯer 3rd"

This "plain text" string has two markers that aren't actually ascii, `𝗌` and `ᖯ`. By changing the markers for each person you send it, you might be able to track down who is leaking things, if they're careless and just copy-paste stuff that look like plaintext but actually isn't.

Anything that is a homoglyph (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homoglyph) can be used in this manner
I don't think you've ever lived in the south. Texas in particular is absolutely full of people who equally dislike the democrats and the republicans.

There's a third situation: being directly affected by the stupid policies of both parties all the time.
I tried pretty much everything except the Framework and I have no hope.

Personally I'd go for a MacBook and run Linux in a VM because I'm afraid the battery life on Linux won't be good enough.

If you can stand the look of Thinkpads they're quite durable.
I'd give Framework a chance, albeit I've heard conflicting reviews.

Dell, Surface, Lenovo, HP: utter garbage.

My current setup is an old MacBook running Mac for travelling and a Linux desktop PC.

I used to have a MacBook 2015 running Linux and it was pretty neat, but Linux support is just not there with my current MacBook.
>You're saying that by giving a large severance to people no longer affiliated with the company, it's a form of saving money?

No, I'm saying having a large amount of cash on hand is a hedge against drought periods. I suspect they have a certain monetary goal during donation drives, so meeting those goals is part of their funding strategy. Some drives exceed goals, some don't. They need to account for runway or future lack thereof.

Replying specifically to this:

>They will have messages like "If everyone reading this right now gave a buck then this donation drive would be finished in five minutes". In hindsight, it feels a bit deceptive even if it's not an outright lie.

FWIW, 1.5x severance doesn't seem excessive to me, I wish that would be the industry norm for everyone. If it were, there'd be a lot fewer stressed out people right now.
I am slightly embarrassed I didn’t know overallocate was the term for that. TIL!
It would be cool if https://www.photopea.com supported those types of AI manipulation plugins.
First, there are other things to optimise for other than financial profitability - like travel time, emissions, comfort, land use efficiency, capacity, etc. (on all of those trains beat any alternatives in the "more than walking or short bike/car trip" to "less than where a plane makes sense (it varies a bit on geography, but I'd say ~4-5 hours by train)" category).

Second, there are profitable passenger railways - a very famous example is Japan's high speed rail system.
That's my stance on HP products as a whole. One of the weirder stories I ever heard was from our DCops at one place that said they found trash/debris in HP servers that came in a factory-sealed box (the example I was told was small plastic bags). And essentially every HP product has caused me pain somehow or another, so they will never get any dollars that I have a say over.
Solaris is undoubtedly omitted due to not being underrated. It is one of the most critically acclaimed and influential science fiction films of all time.
As far as I understand from the article, the parent had some approvals/restrictions in place, but the kid circumvented by changing the password? The article is rather vague in describing what actually happened exactly.
Stop signs are blank on the back. Could you hide the text instead?
Does Asahi maintain the crazy battery life these have? The battery life on my work Macbook Pro has me interested in switch to an Air for personal use.
Yes they are. Materials used for safer, less painful suicide methods (such as helium) are made purposely hard to get. Plus the authorities will lock you in a psych ward if they find out about your intent.
This is it - nothing beats my asahi m1 air on anything:
price, battery life, desktop cpu grunt, no throttling either thermally or on battery. I can't believe the best arm machine is made by Apple, 3 years on.

Eventually we'll have arm machines made by other PC manufacturers, I'm most excited by Lenovo, but till then. $600 gets you a powerhouse of a machine.
They are not destroying any resources, you are free to cut the cartridge open and use the ink or electronic components as you like.
I've still had trivial domestic purchases flagged though fairly infrequently in recent years. I've had $200 in groceries in the US declined. I'd still advise anyone to carry two credit cards from two separate banks. It also helps if you leave a card at a restaurant or otherwise lose.
> is perceived as micro aggressions but the recipient feels and infers an intent.

> I don't compliment coworkers cars any longer.

I'm starting to think these "micro aggressions" are just a way to keep a culture war going, because some groups need a cause to fight for (for political reasons).

It reminds me of the whole master vs main debate.

A (black) engineer colleague of mine told me about his team's effort to change master to main. The whole initiative was started by a rainbow colored hair (white) PM and since it was what they believed to be a highly visible and easy fix, grew to a team of 5. All non-technical PMs of course.
They ended up producing a "manifesto of inclusive software" where they listed every word they considered offensive and what it should be replaced with and made a very public announcement regarding the change.

The only response to their email was my (black) colleague asking if the branch renaming could be postponed to after a release because he didn't know what it could break in the build and release automation in case "master" is hard-coded somewhere.

This apparently started a lengthy thread between him and the 5 PMs where they explained to him that the reason he wasn't supportive of the change was because of the "systemic and cultural racism" he apparently internalized.
I don’t know, you’re talking about a surveillance-crazy culture, I don’t see them shying away from facial recognition.
This made me chuckle, as part of the cohort described above. I read your comment, thought to myself "what on earth is he talking about? there's nobody on my radar who might fit that bill", checked the name, and immediately thought "oh yeah, that guy." :-) I'm not on Facebook, so I haven't seen any of those stories though.
Look for a discounted Lenovo ThinkPad that you can test out in store to make sure it has a sturdy keyboard and can handle key presses without a hollow feeling.

I'd recommend trying to install Alpine Linux as a challenge and it ends up teaching you a lot about the simplicity of the OS and beauty of OpenRC.

Otherwise, Debian is a very reliable and easy to use/install OS and well tested on Lenovo hardware. Failing that, install Ubuntu which has invested much in compatibility with ThinkPads, specifically X1's but those are expensive and cheaper models are often just as compatible.

If you have problems running wireless, the easiest solution is sometimes to figure out if your wifi card is officially supported and swap out the one in the PC with an older and more compatible wifi card.

Sleep and hibernate are often problematic. Find a workaround that works well enough.
Ask HN: What do I need to start learning DevOps?
I'd like to learn about devops. I think that hands-on is the best way to learn. I can run Docker and VirtualBox on my desktop, but what about VPS? I guess that there is difference if I'm doing something on localhost and on real server that is on Internet.

I couldn't find any free VPS server providers. Cheapest are about 10 USD per month. What do I need to look for at VPS server that I would like to use for learning?

I know that I'll have to learn AWS, GCP or Azure. I guess that they all have some free tier. Is this correct assumption?

Are there some security practices that I should follow for the very start? I don't want to end up with someone using my test servers for something malicious.

I've read a bunch of horror stories about AWS costs that go through the roof. Can I somehow limit the monthly cap and spending on AWS and other cloud providers?
It does not work by default and it does require input from the developer. The UIKit API allows you to detect that you have it enabled but it doesn't magically redefine all the colors for you.
MRR and ARR are gross, not net revenue. It might be misleading but that's how all other SAAS companies use the metrics, too.
> Why not fine GSK out of existence any time someone dies from a mislabelled allergen?

Funny, this is essentially what happens with tobacco taxes. Cigarettes are prohibitively expensive and thus have caused that industry to falter in the US.
Ha, I managed to block my credit card after three premium purchases from war gaming. Took me three days to reach someone at the bank to get it activated again. So yes, I think the bank could have caught those transactions. Hard to tell so without details. Still, those transactions should fall under the easy to cancel category.
Defect means imperfection, shortcoming, flaw. This implies reality has a design, a plan, that it was executed according to, which execution can have defects in it, compared to the plan. Design & plan means designer & planner.

So yeah, we should be careful what words we use.
In summary:
https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/002/111/759/fe2...
It says HP+ is optional in a lot of places too.

It is marked as HP+ eligible.
It states that HP+ is chosen or not at setup (https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/71OZXjots2S._AC_SX679_.j...)

In the requirements it says:
"The optional cloud - connected HP+ printing system requires an HP account, ongoing internet connection, and use of Original HP Ink Cartridges for the life of the printer."

etc

I don't buy inkjets anyway because they aren't worth it over color laser printers, but i will say trying to understand any of this seems hard at a glance.
What I've found surprising is that there's a whole genre of memes based around the demon core. (e.g. https://imgur.com/t/demon_core)

There's something uniquely terrifying about a substance that is safe to handle in one orientation, but utterly deadly in another.
This pretty much hits the nail on the head. (3) is necessary for companies with engineering orgs that are most than a 50 or so people, but if you join when it's smaller then it takes less than 3 years. Especially since (1) is kind of a necessity at a smaller company to be successful in general and you most likely won't even have a team lead type manager if the company is smaller so you need to kind of take on that kind of role anyway.
>You can, you tell your bank that you're about to travel so they can relax whatever system flags it.

I do this every time I travel and yet I regularly get my card locked anyway.
And here is the traditional reminder that Vim comes with an extensive manual that is very easy to follow and pretty much guaranteed to take you further than any of those silly online tools:

:help user-manual
No idea what you mean?
Let me see if I'm understanding this correctly...

You're saying that a cable and connector designed in the 1950s to send VHF NTSC signals a few hundred feet to houses in suburbia as a replacement for rabbit ear antennas isn't sufficient for broadband internet in the year 2023?
Time magazine was the first to introduce the name “World War II”
> Since we know that infinite densities cannot actually happen in the universe, we take this as a sign that Einstein's theory is incomplete. But after nearly a century of searching for extensions, we have not yet confirmed a better theory of gravity.

Is it really true that infinite densities are impossible? Consider a function that measures the volume of an object with respect to time, say V(t). If the force of gravity is strong enough to overcome every other force, wouldn't V(t) approach 0 as t goes to infinity? Isn't that essentially having infinite density?
Those are two different things. HMRC may have numbers, but you're not required to get them tattooed on your arm. Which is the ID card scheme in fact is.
L.A. watchmaker crafts $70k timepiece that may revolutionize U.S. watch industry
Yep, or at least until we find something else that is explaining things better and testing better and looks like a better path forward. As much as I dislike ST because of the ambiguity/vagueness that means it's so hard to nail down as a single concrete theory, the alternatives so far still also have a lot of those same issues (e.g. too many parameters, effectively impossible to test, etc.) so there's no reason to drop ST just yet as useless or an invalid theory.
Whether something is a 'cost of doing business' is based on whether the cost is expected or unexpected, not its magnitude.
I'll agree til the end of times regarding the asinine craziness of putting facts and journalism behind a financial barrier. That the most in need of correct information don't have the means to stay informed.

It's the worst of all angles. It's like junk food, the cheap and the easy wins to the detriment of all.
I daily drive asahi on a mac mini m1 - everything I need to build my music, podcasts, code, and yt videos[1] works great.

The raspberry pi has given us 10 years of warm-up for ARM compatibility.

[1] eg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oY0XwMOSzq4
For those not in the know, this is from the movie Life of Brian (1979) which takes place in Roman Judea. A potential rebel tries to rile up his comrades with the rhetorical question “what have the Romans ever done for us?!” Apparently, quite a lot.

https://youtu.be/Qc7HmhrgTuQ
The goal post you're debating is a low bar for reasonable business practices.
Sounds like you need to shop around for a new bank then if they frequently ignore requests of yours :)
At any lower volume a print shop might be a suitable alternative.
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So, a child stole and it's the business's fault?
Still needs some optimisation, but my m1 air oh asahi still has crazy battery life. Gets better every month!
These links will not resolve if you are using Cloudflare DNS (1.1.1.1, etc.).

https://webapps.stackexchange.com/questions/135222/why-does-...