skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's remarkably honest of him.
https://www.shruggingface.com/

I started this blog a few months ago to explore the emerging world of generative AI. Hoping to write much more soon!

I built it as a next.js app with mdx support, and the microblog posts are rendered from a custom notion CMS setup.
Lots of american high schoolers drive themselves, or walk, or bike, or take the school bus.

Yes many get driven by their parents. I used to drive mine before they were old enough to do it themselves because it was only a short detour off my way to work anyway, and if they had to take the bus they'd have to wake up nearly an hour earlier, and I thought the extra sleep for them was worth it.
But what does that mean? That the training distribution isn't representative of the population distribution, i.e. that it wasn't sampled IID? But the professors look pretty representative of real professors to me, so this doesn't sound very likely.
I am sure most would not.
As of today, Fortran is newest and the oldest programming language with its most recent standard in 2023 and its first draft as the first high level programming language in 1954.
Operational experience would be my first guess.

A lot of folks already know how to backup, replicatie, & stream postgres quite well.
You were not the only one.

Notes and presentations from various HEPiX conferences around 2003/2004 will reveal the reaction to academic licence fees for RHEL, and the birth of Scientific Linux as an EL rebuild.

Remember these were/are publicly funded projects with budget time-lines.
> Compared with deck, no suspend continue.

And for anyone comparing the options… go upthread and read how many people are saying this is _the_ killer feature of the Steam Deck. Because it is.

I’d been kind of on the fence how I felt about the ROG, but that makes it a solid “no” for me.
The preemptrt patchset (now making its way into mainline) has excellent support for realtime scheduling. The problem is (as it has always been) undocumented NMIs in bog-standard COTS board firmwares. See the `hwlatdetect` man page for details.
A lot of people do. Nothing wrong with it.
https://alesruzicka.eu/blog/eng/
Well, writing and consistency is not my strong side.
I don't think we claim we are the only library that uses something like Observables, as you say there are others that do. VegaLite also uses a signal mechanism for interactivity, for example. Makie has been inspired by many libraries that came before (although I can't say that I knew echarts, specifically :) )

Every plotting library has something to offer, there are so many choices to make when building one that you can't cover everything. I envy the pure javascript libraries a little for their easy embedding in websites. But when you already do data work in Julia, especially with custom types and such, it's nice not having to move across a language barrier, and instead make use of Julia's multiple dispatch some more by using a native plotting library.
agentydragon.com

Idk, something like maybe 20 posts. Writing about AI, rationality-adjacent stuff, effective altruism, some philosophy/psychology
I'm a computing generalist who mostly writes code, but has held a broad variety of roles, including k-root operator, network researcher, data engineer, trainer and car counter. Much of my code is on the system or platform level, but I can also build websites, apps, tooling or do data analysis or even a bit of GPU programming. Mostly I learn by doing, picking up skills as needed on the job or when hacking on open-source projects.

I've spent much of my career thinking about how we could build and operate software projects better. I've identified some problems common to most places I've worked and abstractions I think could solve them. This focus helps me be a better engineer and maybe someday I can turn these ideas into a company.

For the past 8 years I've spent half my time freelancing and am open to new gigs.

But I'm now hoping to find a permanent high-level IC position in a team of sharp, dedicated peers where I feel that craftsmanship is valued. I find when you dig into the weeds there is an infinite amount of interesting challenges in almost every domain; ideally we would be working on something with great potential to advance humanity and bring financial independence.

My style is modest, easy to understand architectures, ample docs and extra layers of security. I enjoy giving code reviews, accepting criticism and sharing knowledge. I'd say the most important skill of an engineer is managing the inevitable complexity that arises as systems grow, for example to isolate it by dividing a system into loosely-coupled components

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Location: Amsterdam, Netherlands

Remote: either

Willing to relocate: unlikely

Technologies: Python, Go, C, k8s, bash, SQL, JS, Svelte, Java, React, PHP, Terraform, DNS, Ruby, Linux, ...

XP: 20 years

Motto: 𝕷𝖎𝖛𝖊 𝖋𝖗𝖊𝖊 𝖔𝖗 𝖉𝖎𝖊.

Résumé/CV: https://doubly.so/dev/devin-bayer-cv.pdf

Email: dev@doubly.so
> and it bothers me how much they seem to clearly exaggerate the difficulty of things.

Scotty Engineering principle at work. I'm no stranger to that, it's often enough the only strategy keeping higher management from completely swamping you with work.
Any unique identifier assigned to an "identifiable" person is PII. It doesn't matter if it is an IRC or Instagram handler, or a twitter username. It is PII if it can be associated to a person.

Euro/GDPR:
https://gdpr-info.eu/art-4-gdpr/

‘personal data’ means any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person (‘data subject’); an identifiable natural person is one who can be identified, directly or indirectly.

The keyword here is indirectly.

Australia: https://www.legislation.gov.au/Details/C2019C00025

personal information means information or an opinion about an identified individual, or an individual who is reasonably identifiable.

(a) whether the information or opinion is true or not; and
(b) whether the information or opinion is recorded in a material form or not.

The keyword here "reasonably identifiable".
https://krishadi.com/ : most of the stuff here are a knowledge base. I am starting to write more thoughts and observations now.
Yeah, I just ask the waiter what's good here?
https://pehrlich.substack.com/

Various climate / energy / policy topics. A focus towards slightly more in depth research than typically seen
> On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.

> And of those product announcements that made the FP, a good deal of them are (a) from established companies and products like Apple,

I've often observed this and found these two at odds. HN often turns into a promotional mouthpiece with pieces that are distinctly incurious.
If anyone blogs about design, UX, media theory, data/information science, privacy and/or geopolitics, please respond here.
Do you think everyone who lives in a house with a billboard on it are asked to OK the ads?
Not sure why so many different articles attributing the rate limiting to anything other than the impact of large web scraping going on, which was already reported as the cause.

Twitter isn't the only site thats being used to for training data, lots of companies and coders are trying to gather the data now. Myself, I already grabbed the torrents of reddit/twitter data for training, much easier that way.
Of course Device Manager and the registry are still a thing. They're part of the operating system. You never need to interact with them unless you try to install some atrocious software or hardware onto your computer, but they're there.

I personally find that Linux asks me to reboot more often than Windows does these days. You do need to reboot once or twice a month to apply some kernel updates, but that's really about all you need to do.

The shortcuts to install apps like Tiktok are annoying for sure, but they're really not as intrusive as techies like to pretend they are. I have plenty of gripes with Windows (Edge, MS accounts, that kind of thing) but calling it "not a system for human users" is ridiculous.
Federal Judge Limits Biden Officials’ Contacts with Social Media Sites
How AI is making laser-based Iron Dome more cost-effective?
Can you give an example of good art and of valid artistic social commentary?

You have said what you think isn’t valid or good and seeing something you value would be interesting.
Hey that's a very cool blog!
How to build a website without frameworks and tons of libraries
It’s free for open source.

For large private organizations they are paying already so more likely to use built in search than buying a new product.
https://pehrlich.substack.com

Mostly discussing climate / energy / policy. Focus on having slightly more research than common
Having a good hiring process is one of the most important aspects of a great organization.

It’s crucial to hire people that are a good fit and will ultimately contribute to achieving the goals of a company.
We do, but they only contribute a small portion of the world's energy. It will take a long time to get to a point where most energy generated is renewable, and by that point, the climate is going to be a much much bigger problem.
On one hand I hate it, but on the other hand since I use the presence of even a single buzzword as a snake-oil alarm, I'm willing to ignore a few false positives in exchange for remarkably less technological bullshit in my life.

Compare that to astroturfing. Bill Hick's opinion is very relevant for them especially.
I can't think of a better metric than individual count.
I certainly considered that.

However, whenever I started searching for solutions to the various problems I was encountering, I pretty much always found numerous other bug reports, mailing list threads, blog posts, Stack Overflow questions, forum posts, and so on, from other people running into the same troubles, along with other problems that I thankfully hadn't been experiencing.

It was clear to me that I wasn't alone.
> It assumes the premise that art cannot be bad

The difference is that pieces of art can be bad, but you’re going to have to do a lot more work to dismiss an entire set of categories of art. Even the examples of Warhol, Dali, etc. are individual artists, not an entire medium.

Imagine arguing that there are exactly zero good pieces of software written in JavaScript bc JavaScript is a bad language.
> I personally went through this conundrum with Discord, and had to delete the apps.

What were you using Discord for? Were you using it for more than personal voice chat with friends?
I wanted to express thanks for your post on ramping up on large projects. It's concise, links to further reading, and echoes a lot of the advice I have had to give to junior engineers. You've saved me time from having to write these tips out myself. :)

(As an aside I kind of disagree with the common quote of:

> "Show me your flowcharts and conceal your tables, and I shall continue to be mystified. Show me your tables, and I won't usually need your flowcharts; they'll be obvious"

I find that most software I've worked on is muddy, confusing, and contradictory. Perhaps I will get better with time.)
The UK.

Where else did inspiration for Pink Floyds The Wall come from?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wall#Plot

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Happiest_Days_of_Our_Lives...
""The Happiest Days of Our Lives" concerns Pink's youth, attending a school run by strict and often violent teachers who treat the pupils with contempt."

You dont run an Empire by being nice!
>Gauche might be an antonym?

IIRC it is a reference to this (Gauche author is Japanese)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gauche_the_Cellist
I don't use it personally, but RCall.jl[1] is the main R interop package in Julia. You could call libraries that have no equivalent in Julia using that and write your own analyses in Julia instead.

[1] https://github.com/JuliaInterop/RCall.jl
The Story of the Wogies
Sometimes you don't need to make your entire infra distributed, just parts of it. I'm comfortable having my cluster's database be something like RDS while I benefit from the distributed nature of the compute I get from k8s.

I've stood up multiple k8s cluster, and so far the most fickle component is ETCD. My last cluster is k3s on Postgres, and has been running in production for a very long time with very little babysitting.

Next I'll experiment with SQLite.
You're making me blush.. But, to set the record straight: I actually know very little about ZFS, beyond basic user/admin knowledge (from having run it for ~15 years). I've never spoken about it, and other members of the team I work for at Netflix are far more knowledgeable about ZFS, and are the ones who have managed the conversion of our fleet to ZFS for non-content partitions.
Thanks! I recently just got a new lens for my camera after all of the income from last month came in. It's a very used 35mm lens for my D3300 and the autofocus is a bit broken, meaning that I'm forced to do the focus manually (which is something I want to get better at anyways).
https://tr3y.io/articles.html

This isn't a blog per se, more of a collection of writeups about stuff I have on my mind. There's a few topics listed there that I have planned to write about that I haven't finished yet.
You're not talking about gifts, you're talking about a gift economy. If we lived in a pre-monetary society, we could use loose accounting to keep track of debts. I get fish from the fisherman, and in exchange I help fix his boat when needed. The village doctor heals everyone, and in exchange he gets stuff he needs from everyone. Someone can slack for a bit, but they do it for too long they'll accrue too high a debt and people will no longer give them things.

Well, we don't live in a pre-monetary society and we don't use loose accounting, except with people we're close with and who we can trust.
> A computer to use in the school as a means of education is not the same of letting kids use a cellphone in class

It is the same thing if the computers are uncensored as they should be. Kids are supposed to be taught responsibility since early age. If it can be done for computers, it can be surely done for smartphones.

> Because they are adults not kids

As someone else detailed in comments, this is aimed at secondary education and up, i.e. young adults (teens and tweens) rather than children.

> Totalitarian policies? This has to be a joke

Think again what would happen if your government tried to enforce this against adults. Wouldn't you call it totalitarian?

> it's a about kids not using a cell phone while in the classroom

It's about kids not using any computing device in the classroom. 19th century education. As I have said, this is technophobia all the way through.
Note that the case here was of free-tier usage.

Multi-provider setup may incur additional effort, though the payoff is in liberating yourself from lock-in to any one vendor. Note that those costs are being incurred here regardless, with both the costs of having to develop those on the fly and with downtime. Effectively, multi-provider set-up was a deferred cost for yewtu.be, now being realised.

One trick for using hosted services to to avoid the service-specific tooling of the hosts in question. Yes, that decreases the value-add of such services, but again, the trade-off is reduced lock-in.

There are also multi-platform solutions which stand as middleware between your own application and/or services and that of the host platform.
Svix (YC W21) Is Hiring a Founding Account Executive (US Remote)
https://nsirap.com/
Lots of DevOps stuffs. This blog is about 3-4 years old. BUt my first blog was around 2008.
I don't like this reasoning because I've seen the inside of google. Their bandwidth is very cheap.

What costs is having a CDN, a bunch of very fast servers that exist in every point-of-presence, given the load they endure CDN cache servers fail quickly when compared to others. -- along with the upkeep of their networking equipment, which is cheap but not free.

But Google itself has invested wisely in how it connects to the internet, they are dark fibre all the way with many hundreds of gigabits between sites and pops. It's a huge upfront investment (the kind SV startups seem to hate) but the long tail makes bandwidth essentially free.

The only cost they have is hardware and peering, and given their size I can't convince myself if they are or are not being shafted financially by big ISPs for peering - even if they are though, it's marginal compared to what GCP/AWS/etc; charge us, even Colo datacenters will charge significantly more than what it costs Google.
Key words are "would cost _you_". The providers get much better cost per GB at scale, then sell to you at a profit.

For example, transfer out from S3 gets down to $0.05 at just 150TB, including the AWS markup.

(Note that CloudFront data out is not directly comparable to S3 data out!)
> Where the author made a mistake was in trying to make "what the market wants" rather than just making stuff he/she actually wanted to make and trying to see if it was possible to make money from it.

If you want to make a business, you must make what the market wants. Making your own stuff and trying to make money from it is possible, but it's no longer a business.

I'm a professional software developer and a hobbyist software developer and while I could have sold some of my hobby software I explicitly choose not to. The reason is that selling something immediately creates responsibilities that, for my hobby, I just don't want to have. A business is something of it's own beast.
This is HN - the bubble of Silicon Valley and venture capital. I can tell you with great certainty it is incredibly uncommon to encounter people in HR who will tell you the reason why X person left the company. In a region that is happy to do lawsuits - they don't bother. After all - it's no longer their issue. They'll just verify dates of employment and that's it.
Eclipse was available and free long before 2008. C++ had had visual studio, as has c# for longer than that too.
That's ok, you still chose it!
Give every child a library and see what happens. It could be electronic or otherwise.
If they achieve even a 1% conversion rate into subscribers it’ll be a net positive for them. I imagine they’re OK with you leaving the service since you cost more than they make from you.
Great recommendations. I would also add Strange Horticulture and Cultist Simulator to the list.
> In this way, I will be legally able to loosen the license over time if I so wish. Without CLA's for customers, I couldn't do that.

Or you can make it poprietary, which is the exact reason I would not want to sign a CLA with you, because I want a guarantee that my contribution remains foss.
Job interviews are getting longer
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I know there’s a point to be made that they’re adults and not kids, but hear me out.

I’m 37 and discovered around age 32 that I used my phone too much. It had crept into my waking life over around 8 years and became a real problem. Today I use a lot of strategies to prevent this, and it’s still challenging to ensure I don’t use it too much.

Kids are surrounded by adults like me or even worse than I am. They use their phones so much, rarely to any useful effect, and they train kids to do the same thing. Adults reject advice or instruction to use their phone less, always certain that they don’t do it for any bad reasons and that they’re in control.

Yet they aren’t. It’s a widespread, chronic, and tragically influential problem. Kids are using their phones way too much, but they’re only mimicking what so many adults around them are doing.

Phones also help fill agency gaps in their lives by allowing them to entertain themselves and socialize without relying on an adult to make things happen. Taking that away is hard and genuinely removes something positive from their lives — especially from their perspective.

I know some adults are not hypocrites. These days I’d like to think I’m not, but I certainly was. I think we need to have a handle on that problem before we can ban phones for kids without reasonable pushback from them.
It’s about legal copyright exposure. The copyright status of AI art is unclear, it has not been legislated or tried before the courts. In a worst case scenario, Steam could allow “AI generated games” on, after which AI art is regulated perhaps requiring permission or royalties from the original art used to train the model. In such a scenario, Valve themselves may get included in the lawsuit.

With this step, Valve massively reduces their legal exposure. Even if some AI are games slip through and the worst case scenario manifests it is still likely Valve will be fine, as they’ve sufficiently isolated themselves from the risk.

As for whether NMS counts, the answer is no. This isn’t about AI per se, it’s about using models trained on other copyrighted works. NMS doesn’t do that in any of its procedural generation.

As for how much AI generated art counts, this is a ship of Theseus problem. Not saying it’s easy, but hardly the first time regulation has come up against it.