skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Can't tell your post is sarcastic or not. Good reads is a valuable resource, especially for avid readers - without it I wouldn't have read as many good books as I did.
Well, the owners win. That's usually who they're referring to when they say "our", "us", etc.
My mind is blown how useful ChatGPT is. There are certain types of questions it nails where Google search is useless. You’re just an early adopter. Broader adoption is coming, it will just take time.
Oh I agree. I suppose I should read https://www.webkit.org/debugging-webkit/.
It's a problem I cant trivially reproduce on command, so (reading your comment above) I wonder how you would approach it.
Absolutely, here's a config from one of my aristas(with bits snipped)

interface Ethernet1
switchport trunk native vlan 899
switchport trunk allowed vlan 801
switchport mode trunk
interface Ethernet13
switchport access vlan 311

And on a Juniper

set interfaces xe-0/2/1 unit 0 family ethernet-switching interface-mode trunk
set interfaces xe-0/2/1 unit 0 family ethernet-switching vlan members Mgmt_B
set interfaces xe-0/2/1 unit 0 family ethernet-switching vlan members Audio_2
....
set interfaces ge-0/0/19 unit 0 family ethernet-switching interface-mode access
set interfaces ge-0/0/19 unit 0 family ethernet-switching vlan members Audio_2

When Cisco, Arista, Juniper all use access vs trunk it's hardly a vendor specific term
> the key here is a lot of these theoretical models need evolution to really apply to individuals and situations.

Yes, I think the mistake some people make when seeing there are multiple possible frameworks for something that has to do with human behavior is that instead testing and seeing which model fits and works best to explain the existing system, they apply their own biases as to what they want to work or how they assume people work and then try to alter the existing system to match the model rather than alter the model to match how the system is actually working.

We use models because they're easier to reason about and use as approximations, not because they're necessarily 100% correct. When they fit well they allow us to come close to the correct answer quickly most the time. Theory X and theory Y are never going to match a work environment perfectly, and even if it appears one matches well at one point based on the people and type of work being done, there's not guarantee is can't shift to the other over time either through concerted effort or through myriad small changes in the work done or the workforce doing it.

Anyone in management should not only try to determine how the people the manage function and respond both individually and as a group, but continually check their knowledge against reality for change. I've seen workplaces change from fairly happy to extremely unhappy and toxic over time, and while sometimes it seemed like outside factors had an effect (budget and how well the company was doing), other times it felt quite a bit like the management was just completely oblivious to how people felt and how their decisions affected people. I find that people are fairly understanding of the former, and can forgive some or all of it when the problem is gone, but they're much less forgiving of the latter since it destroys trust.
Nothing about this would succeed. Do only monopolies perform mergers?
I disagree with that framing.

A killswitch that GM puts on your car without telling you because some marketer thought the value-add was a good strategy is not much different than a killswitch that GM puts on your car without telling you because someone else told them to do it.

In both scenarios, a third party can control your car without any real affirmative consent.
Devils advocate; Is it not possible that Nintendo just makes good games?

They spend a lot of time on development, don't rush things, the trailers are honest about gameplay and what to expect.

I can understand it's not your cup of tea or arguments that their online service is shit (it is) but reviewing a video game in isolation, many of them seem to be good games objectively. Games that don't appeal to the average CoD fan sure, but that doesn't mean they are bad games.
I am in nearly the same boat as you. I'm 38, and 1 year ago, I had my testosterone levels checked. The results came back at 273ng/dL, which is considered deficient. When I asked about TRT, My doctor refused to prescribe it, but, couldn't provide any valid reasons or research to backup his one justification that "it makes your blood thicker, and increases the risk of heart attack" (see below).

After doing tons of reading, I decided TRT is something I want. I went to a very questionable "doctor" who will prescribe effectively anything you ask for—(Just Google 'Mens Health Clinic <your area>').
Below, I've listed some of the more compelling videos and articles I went through [0]

The main reason I wanted to try TRT is that I've suffered from severe depression for a long-time; literally, suicide was a daily thought. I tried all the other things people say to do; I ate right, and I religiously tracked my diet. I got sleep-tracking apps and devices and fixed my sleep to get 8+ hours of sleep. After all that didn't help, I went to my normal family doctor, who prescribed escitalopram which "fixed" my depression by making me unable to feel anything, which was a terrible way to live. So I stopped taking that.

I started TRT back in July of 2022.

After being on TRT for about five months, the depression just disappeared. I've had other benefits, too, such as significantly improved musical tone (though this isn't why I started TRT, but it's a nice side-effect).

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QBhfP3MBYLU
[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3j232kdcnSQ
[0] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32081788/
[0] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3897047/
[0] https://www.eu-focus.europeanurology.com/article/S2405-4569(...
What if a library API needs to include this new header because it wants to use the new typedefs in its API declarations but your own code (which needs to include the library header) also has its own 'u8' typedefs?

(PS: it's probably ok because C compilers seem to accept redundant typedefs)
> Ahh yes the no historical precedent of gay people existing, forming life long partnerships, and raising children (sometimes their own, sometimes not).

There is little to no historical precedent for the community sanctioning those relationships as “marriage.”

> Also whose definition of marriage?

All the world’s major religions. Christianity and Islam, obviously. But also Hinduism: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marriage_in_Hinduism. And Buddhism: https://academic.oup.com/book/28469/chapter/229097470.

Religions and cultures around the world disagree on many things. But “marriage” being a social structure for having and raising children is an idea that virtually all of them embrace. Prohibitions on interracial marriage, by contrast, exist in virtually no cultures or religions.

And you don’t even need to get into religion. Procreative sex is necessary for the survival of the human species. It has biological significance. Race by contrast is a social construct. Saying that interracial marriage is the same thing as same-sex marriage is flippant.

> Civil marriage in the US is a joining of assets and has nothing to do with love or sex.

Civil marriage recognizes and gives legal effect to something that exists outside of civil law. Why do we have this legal construct for joining assets anyway? For the same reason the law imposes child support obligations or OSHA requires employers to provide restroom facilities. It’s a nod to certain biological realities that underpin human society.

Of course, much of western society has adopted a radically different view of marriage. Most in the west think of marriage as being about commitment between people who love and are attracted to each other. Same-sex marriage is a natural consequence of those beliefs.

But remember the question before Justice Thomas isn’t whether the government can give legal effect to relationships based on this modern reconceptualization. The question he’s dealing with is whether a document written by Christians in the 1700s requires legislatures to embrace that modern conception of marriage.
The US military has researched on using it for vehicle mechanical repairs. This way a soldier without such knowledge would be able to perform on field repairs.

For 3D artists it presents as a more intuitive way to sculpt models. For automotive designers, it allows a cheaper and faster means of iteration, given that such a task requires a much better sense of scale than the one given off of a monitor. Same goes for architecture, which when coupled with a game engine, also allows the customer to preview their future house.

(props for being open to ideas btw)
FWIW, I believe read transactions are unlimited in duration now that the Redwood engine has been available. But I haven't tested Redwood myself. Write transactions are still definitely limited to 5 seconds, though.
And how do you get said promotions, bonuses and recognition? By introducing change. And what change is easiest? One that relies on established ground of buzzwords.
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Many features of C do not directly correspond with most modern assembly languages. You cannot predict the exact assembly it will generate without knowing a lot of details about your compiler and platform, and even then it's often iffy. It seems like a bit of a leap to call something "a minimal abstraction" if you can't even correctly describe how an operation in the abstraction corresponds to operations in the lower level.
Could you provide an example of the sort of thing you’re talking about? Because I’m the type of person the other commenter was talking about (I’ve been in the Apple ecosystem for a very long time), and I feel I’m too close to it to have a reasonably objective viewpoint on it one way or the other.
If it's a "fake" review for values of fake that don't include dishonesty, you can easily choose not to read it.

This is not that. The big example cited is a bunch of people registering their objection to a light book being written about Soviet Ukraine while there's a war on. This is a real objection that a lot of (silly, annoying) people have. The reason the book was not published is because they thought that this objection would go viral and affect the sales of the book.

That has nothing to with fake or false. That has to do with suppressing financially threatening speech.
Technically even a perfect engine can not be 100% efficient, so is all good!
Databases are another common cause.
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This is my bet too. I think we're going to get some fantastic new tools for doing specific tasks that work like magic, and that we could never have imagined ten years ago. I don't think we're going to get Yud hijacking a B-52.
This is something weird happening around Rationalism/X-Risk/AGI prognostications.

The "Great Minds And Great Leaders" types are rushing to warn about the risks, as are a large number of people who spend a lot of time philosophizing.

But the actual scientists on the ground -- the PhDs and engineers I work with every day and who have been in this field, at the bench, doing to work on the latest generation of generative models, and previous generations, in some cases for decades? They almost all roll their eyes aggressively at these sorts of prognostications. I'd say 90+% either laugh or roll their eyes.

Why is that?

Personally, I'm much more on the side of the silent majority here. I agree with Altman's criticisms of criticisms about regulatory capture, that they are probably unfair or at least inaccurate.

What I actually think is going on here is something more about Egos than Greatness or Nefarious Agendas.

Ego, not intelligence or experience, is often the largest differentiator between the bench scientist or mid-level manager/professor persona and the CEO/famous professor persona. (The other important thing, of course, is that the former is the group doing the actual work.)

I think that most of our Great Minds and Great Leaders -- in all fields, really -- are not actually our best minds and best leaders. They are, instead, simply our Biggest Egos. And that those people need to puff themselves up by making their areas of ownership/responsibility/expertise sound Existentially Important.
> In any case, I think the underlying principles of DOD apply to all programs.

Yeah, I do agree with that.
Snowflake uses FoundationDB for warehouse metadata in the control plane, IIRC. It is not in the data plane path for log ingestion or other warehousing tech. That said the control plane is, uh, pretty important!
I've heard it described as a new kind of mirror test - one we're not instinctually good at.
I really wanted to use FoundationDB for building a graph database, but was taken aback by the limitations in record (10+100 kB) and somewhat transaction sizes (10 MB) [1]. And the documentation [2] doesn't really give any answers than "build it yourself."

mvsqlite seems to improve the transaction size [3], which is nice. Does it also improve the key/value limitations?

> Transaction size cannot exceed 10,000,000 bytes of affected data. [---] Keys cannot exceed 10,000 bytes in size. Values cannot exceed 100,000 bytes in size.

[1] https://apple.github.io/foundationdb/known-limitations.html

[2] https://apple.github.io/foundationdb/largeval.html
There's also earthquake lights,

> a luminous aerial phenomenon that appears in the sky at or near areas of tectonic stress, seismic activity, or volcanic eruptions

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earthquake_light
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>for example it's true you can write a C-style for loop in C#, but you almost never should, C# has a (not great, but it's something) for-each loop that's idiomatic.

This makes the learning curve way easier. You can start meaningfully using C# while using C-style for loops, and eventually switch to 'foreach' once you realize it's better.

If I wanted to give Zig a try today by using it for some small low-priority task, I would keep stumbling on these minor syntax differences all the time, and would eventually give up and do it in C/C++ because the overhead outweighs my curiosity.

Most pragmatists don't have infinite time to learn a new programming language for fun. They have a very limited amount of attention and tight time constraints, and will move to the next pragmatic solution if it starts looking like the current one is not cutting it.
These systems are on millions of cars today. Has this actually happened?
I'm still confused by the proliferation of bf16. Although it certainly doesn't hurt compared to fp16, in my testing even with A100 GPUs optimized for it, both training speed and inference quality are the same between bf16 and fp16.
> Do only monopolies perform mergers?

companies merge to concentrate market share, i.e. eliminate competition, i.e. increase prices, i.e. monopolize. Let's not ban just monopolies, let's also ban monopolize.
Cool! That's always the best project
I see both peoples' points. Yes, journalism can objectively report the fact that Amazon said something. I think it is also fair to wish for informationally bankrupt statements to be called out by decent institutions. As you say, the headline suggests an opposition to Amazon's position, so maybe that's enough.
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I wonder about that frequently. The universe 'executes' physics in, as far as I can tell, a realtime basis (at least within the local reference frame). What is that called as compared to computing a model of the same.
I still don't get what these nuances ACTUALLY means for someone who might have contributed when the TOU was 3.0 and then suddenly an effectively identical license gets applied "without permissions" (4.0), and now there's a problem? How?
I’m reminded of that panel from “Spider-Man”:

“But I don’t WANT to cure cancer. I want to turn people into dinosaurs.”
Yea, I don't know what I happened in my brain... sorry :-P
> Call me cynical, but from a dollars point of view this seems to be what customers want.

I'm right there with you, except I don't give "customers" that much credit.

Most people left to their own devices (ie, not brainwashed by marketing) will just stick with "good enough." But it's less fun (and less profitable) to fix and maintain old code, so companies induce "demand" by marketing. And if you're a company who decides to do the adult thing and not play that game, you'll be creamed by the ones that do.
A chatbot nearly capable of passing the Chinese Room thought experiment test is pretty damn impressive. But I think people get too hung up on the one golden moement/tech/product/innovation that changes everything. We've been riding a nearly vertical population, wealth and computer capacity curve for nearly two generations now. We are living through the singularity. Things are already like they have never been before. Billions of people can expect some level of social security, justice and opportunity to pursue life changing income now. This is nothing short of amazing. For most of History most people have been hard working, sickly and oppressed farmers.
The number of active users continues to rise year to year, currently up to around 3 BILLION.
80% of reviews being "got the ebook for free before release in exchange for a very honest review" or "here're my 10000 words thoughts on spoiler spoiler spoiler" and overuse of goddamn inline gifs everywhere made the review section unreadable. It's more like a social network with gamification of book reviews.

Looking at a random book: 4.36 stars, 74 ratings, 28 reviews. Release date: 18. July 2023 (in 15 days)

No comment on that required heh.

Goodreads is semi-useful to keep track of upcoming book releases, but don't bother reading the reviews, and the score is at best a vague indicator (and definitely misleading until months after the book is actually available).
>so does starting Emacs complete with its GUI

I'm with you all the way and am a daily emacs user but I'm not sure I'd point to emacs as a good performance comparison, haha.

Emacs has always been a bit of a dog in my experience.