skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I never knew that, thanks for sharing!
It's a bit gory, but lots about farming is.

We were in the barn at another farm and they had a ton of lambs running around. One looked quite a bit different than others, it looked like he was wearing a white sweater. The farmer explained that this lambs mother had died and so he had no ewe to milk from (ewes won't let random lambs milk from them). So what they do is take a stillborn lamb from a different ewe, remove this 'donor' lambs hide and put it on the orphan lamb. This orphan lamb now smells like the other ewes baby and can now milk from his "adopted" mom. When they don't have a stillborn lamb, they have to bottle feed the lambs which is a lot of work. Using the hide from another lamb allows the lamb to feed normally.
> If a dog misbehaves [...] I'll use a gruff voice and a hard look. If the dog persists in the undesirable behavior and looks for approval, I'll refuse to look at it or face it.

I recently got an older golden retriever (7 years old) that didn't have a lot of training but generally had exceptional manners. His one negative behavior was mouthing. When he got excited and wanted to play he would places his mouth and teeth around my hand. Not biting at all, pretty gentle and more like he was trying to get my attention. But I do not want this behavior and especially did not want him to do this to any guests.

I've never really had my own dog before and I wasn't sure what to do. I knew I had to communicate to him that this was totally unacceptable behavior but I didn't want to use choke collars or any other kind of physical punishment. What worked almost immediately was sternly, firmly and loudly saying "NO", standing up tall and puffing up my chest and crossing my arms and then turning my back to him and walking away from him.

At first he would run around me, trying to get back in front of me and trying to get my attention back. I would generally count to 20 or 30 in my head while maintaining the alert posture, totally ignoring him, not looking at him, continuing to turn away from him and walking away. Pretty much always he would eventually sit still and as soon as he did I would soften my posture and voice and pet him and tell him he was a good boy.

This was so effective, so quickly, that I use a much more attenuated version whenever he displays bad behavior. I just decrease the intensity of the NO! and the severity of my body posture based on the severity of his behavior.

I consider now that I'm not punishing the dog, I'm communicating my boundaries. I'm making it clear that I am not going along with what the dog wants. I've thankfully never had to pin the dog or do any physical punishment at all. I just make it clear that I won't acknowledge him or be his friend if he misbehaves and so far that has worked very well.
I use tape (LTO-8); I'm backing up ~5PB of medical images, growing by ~15%/year.
'Fluxonium’ is the longest lasting superconducting qubit ever
The landing page should probably be more of a marketing page explaining why the course is worth checking out, with low information density and large visuals
Unfortunately, we don't plan on supporting caprover. We do plan on supporting render, and providing a helm chart in the near future.
Twenty-One Proofs of Euler's Formula
This is really just a DSL to make dom:

https://github.com/vanjs-org/van/blob/3f98060971a8ff141179ef...

And a very simple system that replaces the dom from scratch each time any data changes:

https://github.com/vanjs-org/van/blob/3f98060971a8ff141179ef...

That's bad for performance (recomputing the style/layout and repainting even for minor changes), bad for accessibility, breaks focus, etc.

It's unlikely the smaller bundle size compared to preact and friends wins anything once you've abandoned all reuse of the rendering engine computations.
I'm sure there's a rate of concurrent writes where that wouldn't be true anymore, but if so, you're likely not going to be benefiting that much from the approach to caching.
TL&DR: https://mind-video.com/ & https://github.com/jqin4749/MindVideo
I worked for one years ago that had an office in Montreal and one in NYC.
Don't forget Super PACs! /s
How Many Times Have You Spotted Fibonacci in Nature?
I think it's OK to numb yourself from certain types of feedback like insults, general toxicity, passive-aggressiveness, and so on. But I think reacting to those things should come from a place of empathy: for example I don't know what's going on in someone's life that might make them so toxic in their feedback, the toxicity is probably an outlet after many months of pent up frustrations that are the actual root of the issue they're venting about, etc.

I used to work in a customer facing support job, so I learned some strategies to keep cool from that.
Afaik the main reason for the Western world to not sanction Rosatom, the russian nuclear supplier, is France because they frantically need their supplies..
The Juan Deriba killifish jumps out of water to evade threats
I think it's a deeper phenomenon than taste. I find a lot of modern films (the latest Star Wars trilogy for example) nauseatingly fast-paced. I literally get vertigo and motion sickness from the rapidity and relentlessness of the cuts. Lots of people seem to devour these films, however... Then on the bus ride home I peek over someone's shoulder and see why:

They're swiping Tiktok videos even faster than that!

It's incredibly disturbing to me. I'm reminded of drug addicts clawing at the drywall of their dilapidated apartments, fiending for their next fix. We've used all of this wonderful semiconductor technology to turn millions of people into digital junkies. And our culture is deteriorating right along with it!
Now please count how many rockets, bombs and other munitions Israel fired at civilian targets in Palestine.

Because it's also > 0, then by this logic we must ban all Israeli from accessing financial services.
Another fun thing is that claims about no computers being used for A-12/SR-71 are mostly boasting possibly to avoid mentioning then black project details, like CIA buying a custom computer (PDP-2) to do calculations on A-12 shape.
There is a good deal of misinformation, astro turfing, and I think also nerdy love for fancy toys. And there is also the problematic trend of the right wing to demonize environment- and green politics. It seems it has reached a level of conspiracy theories now.
Being able to make stable software isn't just a matter of wanting it though. It's possible to be both bothered about something and still fail.
You never see the stuff they write that nobody funds. Blame the people writing the checks for what gets produced, not the writers.
11 years ago today SpaceX's Dragon docked with the ISS for the first time
A little example: I’ve used the site for a little over 4 years but don’t usually post or comment. If I do comment, it’s something really specific or to try and help clear a misunderstanding so usually low karma amounts. I regularly participate through flagging and upvotes but only have ~50 karma so I still can’t downvote and will likely never be able to.

Not saying it shouldn’t be this way, but downvotes are heavily biased toward people who regularly post or comment.
The fact that you think this is something you should be concerned about when sending your kid to school shows that you lack critical thinking and base your idea of the US on agenda pushing media instead of rationality.
It simply shows growing political instability of the US. We see this all over the place: the inability to successfully tackle major issues (shown by yearly fights over debts), bizarre socio-political ideas on the rise, and the last two holders of highest political office being a former gameshow host and an 80 year old who's main qualification was being second in command to a former leader. If you're a major CEO of a French finical firm, all these factors will start to influence your internal model of how stable the nation state will be in the coming decades
This looks pretty cool. Arc right now is the only company doing anything interesting in the browser space. I'm not saying it's all that good. but I like that they're experimenting in a way that makes the experiments accessible to a wider audience.
Hopefully, soon we can start treating all the cattle in the US with low doses of this drug, and dumping failed manufacturing batches in the Ganges river.

Think of the poor superbugs!
Well, I support neither Islamists, nor Israel. And I can see how Palestinians look like terrorist to someone from Israel. But I can understand that IDF looks like a terrorist organization when they drop bombs on your head. Point is, both sides take extremely violent actions which affect non-combatants, at least from time to time.

It’s hypocritical to take a side. They all suck, but the UN is too dysfunctional to change anything.
They want you to not commit fraud, they also want to catch you if you do
Cheap 30y fixed rate home loans are an American thing. The federal government subsidizes them.
Bunch of interesting loosenings ups on logical replication. Allowing standbys to also have subscribers; great for fan out! Bunch of perf improvements (honestly a bunch of it is removing rather onerous limitations I didn't know about!) At the end there seems to be a developer flag for allowing seeming bidirectional replication too.
Because pgbouncer's transaction-based pooling, which is what the previous poster was referring to, breaks a few postgres features. This is fine for most applications, but not all. See the table on https://www.pgbouncer.org/features.html
> I don't know what you mean by "law of optimality," so I can't answer that question.

It is regarding (the italicized part): "But there's been more than enough money spent on teaching me critical thinking that if I'm not somewhere past the median, we're not capable of teaching it."

> Not unlike the Internet, It's better than airtight: it's decentralized and distributed.

This depends on what variable(s) one is optimizing for - if optimizing for correctness (which is what I'm interested in, [in part] because that is what has been claime3d by The Experts), your argument seems to be doing the opposite of supporting that aspect.

> The coordination necessary to attack such a decentralized and adversarial system...is preposterous to assume, especially as a secret conspiracy.

Representing a strawman characterization of concerns and then knocking it down is an excellent way to persuade the public, but it is terrible when it comes to logic & epistemology (something The Experts tend to be not very good at (on an absolute scale), but do not seem to realize). To me, this is a very big deal, "pedantry" aside.

> Any such conspiracy would be at a scale that would be obvious.

"Obvious" is mostly related to belief, not knowledge....but then belief is what matters most, so credit where credit is due I guess?

> but (a) as previously noted: lawsuit, settled, wouldn't have settled if the truth was on the side of those accused of defamation

Incorrect - this requires that there is zero discovered misjudgments by courts in the past, which is not the case. Legal scripture covers the epistemic issues of this problem extensively, and is why we use "presumed innocent", "beyond reasonable doubt", etc.

> is an absurdly improbable scenario

Again: belief (derived from prediction, possibly sub-perceptual), not knowledge.

> That's more than enough time for the accusations levied by one party to materialize into something concrete and legally-actionable, something other than ghosts and innuendo.

It's also adequate for it to not to have happened.

> something other than ghosts and innuendo

You have no way of knowing if this is all that exists.

> the critical thinker asks why a concrete story of fraud with numbers and responsible parties hasn't manifested.

A "critical thinker" on a relative scale may be satisfied by only this, but on an absolute scale the competition is much higher.
Walking is rarer in the U.S. compared to similar nations
Exactly, it's fine to have the option, but for it to completely (or mostly) replace the meat industry? That's a no from me. If you want less carbon emissions there are other, better ways than replacing the way humans fed themselves for millennia. Granted, industrial/processed food is not exactly the same, but still much closer to "real" meat than lab meat.
> I guess you could argue that Evil Dead 2 is much more of a "comedy slapstick remake" of the first one than a sequel.

I really can't imagine what else one might argue.
>The more delusional you are as in the less ability you have to take and accept criticism the more likely you are to be successful. There is a positive correlation for this verified by science.

Perhaps you could share this verifiable science?
> - Subqueries in the FROM clause can omit aliases

This is great. It never made any sense to me that this was required. For people who are unaware, say you want to understand a table a natural way of doing it might be

select *
from the_table
order by some_metric desc
limit 10

so you'd think you can do the same for queries like

select *
from (
select blah blah blah the rest of the query
) a
order by some_metric desc
limit 10

you need to put the alias 'a' to placate existing postgres even though it's never actually used, which never made any sense to me.
This isn’t really a new problem. You could engine brake your manual transmission car without touching the brakes and there’s such a thing as going uphill. I think the bolt solution of an accelerometer gives the best indication that a car is slowing down quickly.
I think it doesn't because it wants to control what is polices, rather than relying on third parties like human rights groups to decide that.
Direct this complaint at producers, not writers.
thanks!

It uses docker under the hood, you don’t have to work with docker locally. But your app needs to respect environment variables and have a Procfile in the root with a list of commands to run your app.

Example: https://gitlab.com/speedpycom/speedpycom-backend/-/blob/main...
I'm just dead inside so I don't care unless it is going to result in a late night. I really don't like software development; haven't my entire 20+ year career. It pays a dumb amount of money though and I'm a tech lead so not really any other options except a minimum 50% payout to change. Which I've done before when I took a 4 year break from software.

So I just do the best I can which is apparently pretty good and just trudge on without caring.
> Self-acceptance and compassion can only develop when you have a place where you feel physically, socially and emotionally safe as a base you can return to when you need to re-center.

This is something many teams misunderstand or are completely unaware of. Demonstrating understanding and compassion to one's colleague's will increase their abilities to communicate and work collaboratively.
I have this senior teammate that has been in a field for 11 years. The mistakes he makes are such a beginner level, like, commenting-out 20 lines of code without 'why', over-complicating block of code/not seeing easier solution, premature abstraction, not writing tests etc. I know he feels embarrassed sometimes when I write a lot of comments in PR, but also it feels like he's appreciative. Such a weird mix.
Mistakes should be viewed as a systemic issue.

There is a quality assurance approach or theory from W Edwards Deming that needs to be absorbed by institutions, and it’s that everyone is trying to do their best job and it's the machinery that is getting in the way or creating barriers. Most errors arise from processes but anything in an organization could potentially get in the way. One role of a manager is to work to remove these barriers.

You should demand any negative feedback provided is specific and try and see it as someone taking the time to try and help. Given that someone is trying to help, ask questions you can use to improve things and see the feedback giver as a person who has knowledge you lack and can gain.

You also have to be prepared that you will get unskilled feedback and that is a different opportunity for you to stretch leadership muscles.
then you're stuck with a CDN you don't control. The runtime (Deno) being able to work directly with most packages on npm is a huge win because I don't have to trust a 3rd party for this anymore, and that to me is a big win.
The distance allows risks.

If failing at a project means your a failure then you’re too close.

Failure and mistakes are how you learn.

If failure and criticism are about you then you will always be defensive about and flaws, perceived or real.

So yes be proud or disappointed, but have the distance and self confidence to believe it is expected and normal to make mistakes/fail at things on the path.

As the other commenter said care about the trends and 1st derivative not the individual data points.
If it's not a fail with Oracle, it's SAP or dynamics or some other "ERP". Do these implementations ever work, and why do these big organisations keep going for them?surely they've seen the string of failures preceding them? I suspect it's ego, and the need to pad CVs that does it. And the unwillingness of the people who should know better to say no.
Well the plan was created >20 years ago but depended on the lifeline to actually develop enough renewables which got almost completely blocked by conservative governments in the last decade who still phased out nuclear. Don’t blame the Greens for that.
Considering the last list of bugs: https://tug.org/texmfbug/tuneup21bugs.html

I think he's getting pretty close to perfection - his report on it https://tug.org/TUGboat/tb42-1/tb130knuth-tuneup21.pdf and hopefully he'll live to do the next one in 2029.

His dedication to the unchanging format is important, I can compile ancient TeX documents that are almost older than I am with no changes, and I can compile LaTeX documents almost as easily.
I'm not sure how much is actually known to write about, but what I'd like to see explained is how transformer-based LLMs/AI really work - not at the mechanistic level of the architecture, but in terms of what they learn (some type of world model ? details, not hand waving!) and how do they utilize this when processing various types of input ?

What type of representations are being used internally in these models ? We've got token embeddings going in, and it seems like some type of semantic embeddings internally perhaps, but exactly what ? OTOH it's outputting words (tokens) with only a linear layer between the last transformer block and the softmax, so what does that say about the representations at that last transformer block ?
I believe there has been talk and perhaps progress towards building it into PG, but i cant find the dev thread right now, and i dont know what the status of that is.

interestingly enough this is what Oracle does AFAIK. They are also process-per-conn & have an optional sidecar proxy thingy that you can run on your oracle host to do the pooling. I would rather it be built more tightly into the rdbms but thats not a terrible solution.
You seem to have a long history here of outright making up claims and pushing bad logic to downplay the effects of climate change [1], in case people were wondering where this is coming from.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35978553
If you are using tapes, you aren't going to use it for a use case where you need to recover specific parts of the backup.

Tapes are for archival storage, not for 'accidentally deleted a single file and need it back' type backups.
> Why are these prices so much lower than the competition?

> Their margin is our opportunity.

A bit off topic but is that quote originally from Jeff Bezos, or did he just make it more famous?

Anytime I hear it, I immediately presume the person saying it worked at Amazon. Because I say it, and I did too.
These NanoGPT based models are great, thank you for contributing to OS. Would love to see this ported to CPUs ala llama.cpp. Any plans in that direction?
Anti money laundering checks are typically very primitive. Things like "Made at least 3 payments in a week to accounts recently created".

If they told you what the checks were, you could easily come up with a scheme to not be flagged.

What they miss is that all serious criminals know someone who works for a bank and can just tell the criminals what the checks are at that bank.
> But in the general case, it's a hard, never-ending cat-and-mouse game

One point of view is that in the general case this problem is solvable, has been solved, and the solution isn't well known.
Noticed this the other day when behind an Ioniq, I knew immediately it was because of regen braking. I love Technology Connections for taking it a layer deeper and going into the regulations and industry experts.
There is a difference between Node compatibility and NPM compatibility though. NPM may have started with Node, but it has become part of the core development process for front-end web development. One of the main purposes of Deno is to decrease the gap between frontend JS development and backend JS development, and adding NPM support furthers that goal.

What doesn't make sense is adding a compatibility layer for all the Node specific functionality that has since become redundant with new Web standards.
Newark is unquestionably one of the worst airports in the country. It seems to be carefully designed to make people feel unwelcome. It reminds me of the Terry Pratchett book where a building had been constructed in the shape of a demonic rune so that people moving around would activate it as if it were an evil prayer wheel.
This is just random, but reading this and the backup discussion made me think about SGI IRIX and how it could do incremental backups.

One option was to specify a set of files, and that spec could just be a directory. Once done, the system built a mini filesystem and would write that to tape.

XFS was the filesystem in use at the time I was doing systems level archival.

On restores, each tape, each record was a complete filesystem.

One could do it in place and literally see the whole filesystem build up and change as each record was added. Or, restore to an empty directory and you get whatever was in that record.

That decision was not as information dense as others could be, but it was nice and as easy as it was robust.

What our team did to back up some data managed engineering software was perform a full system backup every week, maybe two. Then incrementals every day, written twice to the tape.

Over time, full backups were made and sent off site. One made on a fresh tape, another made on a tape that needed to be cycled out of the system before it aged out. New, fresh tapes entered the cycle every time one aged out.

Restores were done to temp storage and rather than try and get a specific file, it was almost always easier to just restore the whole filesystem and then copy the desired file from there into its home location. The incrementals were not huge usually. Once in a while they got really big due to some maintenance type operation touching a ton of files.

The nifty thing was no real need for a catalog. All one needed was the date to know which tapes were needed.

Given the date, grab the tapes, run a script and go get coffee and then talk to the user needing data recovery to better understand what might be needed. Most of the time the tapes were read and the partial filesystem was sitting there ready to go right about the time those processes completed.

Having each archive, even if it were a single file, contain a filesystem data set was really easy to use and manage. Loved it.
ISC Keynote: To Reinvent HPC After Moore's Law, Follow the Money
I think the more interesting question is why this symptom mostly happens to "engineers".

I've seen enough engineers presume they can easily become experts in law; I haven't seen many lawyers presume they can easily become experts in engineering.

Why?