skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As these are obviously very real issues, and Kubernetes also isn’t going away imminently, how many of these can be fixed/improved with different design on the application front?

Would using direct-Io API’s fix most of the fsync issues? If workloads pin their stuff to specific cores can we incite some of the overhead here? (Assuming we’re only running a single dedicated workload + kubelet on the node).

> You would either have to dedicate a whole NIC or SRI-OV-style virtual NIC to your database server

Tbh I’ve no idea we could do this with commodity cloud servers, nor do I know how, but I’m terribly interested in knowing how, do you know if there’s like a “dummy’s guide to better networking”? Haha

> kubelet is not optimized to get out of your way...Kubernetes sucks at managing memory-intensive processes

Definitely agree on both these issues, I’ve blown up the kubelet by overallocating memory before, which basically borked the node until some watchdog process kicked in. Sounds like the better solution here is a kubelet rebuilt to operate more efficiently and more predictably? Is the solution a db-optimised kubelet/K8s?
From the abstract; "Pushing the Limits of Machine Design: Automated CPU Design with AI" (2023) https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.12456 :

> [...] This approach generates the circuit logic, which is represented by a graph structure called Binary Speculation Diagram (BSD), of the CPU design from only external input-output observations instead of formal program code. During the generation of BSD, Monte Carlo-based expansion and the distance of Boolean functions are used to guarantee accuracy and efficiency, respectively. By efficiently exploring a search space of unprecedented size 10^{10^{540}}, which is the largest one of all machine-designed objects to our best knowledge, and thus pushing the limits of machine design, our approach generates an industrial-scale RISC-V CPU within only 5 hours. The taped-out CPU successfully runs the Linux operating system and performs comparably against the human-designed Intel 80486SX CPU. In addition to learning the world's first CPU only from input-output observations, which may reform the semiconductor industry by significantly reducing the design cycle, our approach even autonomously discovers human knowledge of the von Neumann architecture.

The von Neumann (and Mark) architectures have an instruction pipeline bottleneck maybe by design for serial debuggability; as compared with IDK in-RAM computing with existing RAM geometries? (See also: "Rowhammer for qubits")

(Edit: High-Bandwidth Memory; hbm2e vs gddr6x (2023) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Bandwidth_Memory )

Hopefully part of the fitness function is determined by the presence and severity of hardware side channels and electron tunneling; does it filter out candidate designs with side-channel vulnerabilities (that are presumed undetectable with TLA+)?
Supplying the array length to such a summing function is not a big deal. The compiler is not likely to handle this poorly. Probably gets inlined.

If the syntax is the problem, yeah, if you want first class data structures you might not like C.
I mostly play for the engineering side of it, so in all my bases over the years, I always always play on "peaceful" mode. It makes part of the tech tree useless (no need for better guns if there's nothing to shoot) but I find I enjoy the game much more that way.
"Git stores a copy of the repo" is not an entirely unreasonable inference to draw from "git does not store deltas".
I use Mackup to sync Raycast settings, so I guess the cloud service is only useful if you want the other paid features.

Config is stored at ~/Library/Preferences/com.raycast.macos.plist

Everything else is at ~/Library/Application Support/com.raycast.macos
None of your comments are backed up with data or evidence. Just like Ray Dalio, wishful thinking.
Leo Binkowski (developer for NABU and quoted in the article) gave a nice talk at VCF East earlier this year: https://youtube.com/watch?v=IhPsNQBCKfM
Best teacher I've ever had, hardest exams I've ever taken :( :(
Is that not just selection bias? Makes sense that the most gifted students at the most prestigious school over a span of 30 years went on to have great careers.
Both these statements can be true. Their drivers can be excellent but try to do anything with your Linux machine after the Nvidia drivers are installed and you run into trouble.

Ubuntu release upgrades used to be impossible w/ Nvidia drivers. You'd get into a situation where you'd boot into a text-only console, but because nvidia didn't do kms you'd get 40x25 with the first few characters off the screen.

Now I buy AMD.
Is there a shortage of good, free CS material?
There's a few solid free books on algorithms, but I'm not aware of anything comparable to "Concepts, techniques, and models of computer programming" by Peter Van Roy and Seif Haridi available for free, (besides SICP and HtDP) so my advice is to check it out and then buy it.
Robot takes podium as orchestra conductor in Seoul
Why is boomer retirement a negative implication for economic activity? I can only think of good side effects.
I wonder why people from Newfoundland don't go to India?
Testing git, which was a stated goal, could have been done locally.

It's obvious that the author is lying about that part, he only wanted to push GitHub to its limit, but he did say git:

> I decided to see how many commits GitHub (and git) could take before acting kind of wonky. At ~19 million commits (and counting) to master: it’s wonky.
I’ve seen this with other posts in the past. I’m glad somebody else is acknowledging it. I was having a major “Mandela effect” feeling when I noticed it.
the HN mods "re-upped" this submission, which works by pretending that it was submitted later (and hence the ranking calculation treats it as new etc). It also fudges how the timestamps appear on the page. (presumably because otherwise people would be confused why a post from an hour ago has comments made 4 days ago)

On the user pages this doesn't happen and it shows the original time.
Close Air Support is controlled and managed by the guys on the ground. The pilot has to have situational awareness, and capture the nuances of where the dangers are prior to releasing ordinance.

When you 'pop yellow smoke' and need a bomb planted there now, it is not the time to be in satellite comms asking for a drone tasking and then explaining to the operator what you need (being the drone has a soda straw sized view into the situation).
Used textbooks can get pretty cheap when you don't need the exact edition for the problem sets.

Textbooks I still have:

- Operating Systems, Tannenbaum

- MINIX, Tannenbaum

- Computer Networks, Tannenbaum

Not schoolbooks:

- UNIX & Linux System Administrator Handbook

- The Linux Programming Interface

- Time Management for System Administrators, Limoncelli

- The Practice of System and Network Management, Limocelli et al.

NonCS:

- Statistics, Freedman

- MLA Handbook

- Technical Communication, Markel
https://archive.ph/ChUTX
> Why should it produce those designs? Are they in any known sense optimal?

Yes. 6502 was quite cheap for the day so is much more optimal for cost than most designs. The 6809 was done fixing the mistakes of the 6800 and it's implementation is much more orthogonal. The 6800 and 8051 are probably the best documented. All of them have extremely long lived tool chains and support. Pick your optimality.

In addition, then "Why should it produce a RISC-V design?" RISC-V is definitely sub-optimal on quite a few fronts.

If a system is doing actual CPU design, as claimed by the paper, those designs (6502, 6809, 8051) are a simple sanity check. The designs are extensively documented to the point that we have web pages that simulate them down to the transisitor. You should be able to provide a "relatively" small input and get back a compatible design as an output. A 6502 has only 3500 or so transistors. That's on the order of the complexity they claim in the paper.

This would prevent someone like me from saying: "You basically stuffed a RISC-V design into the training set, managed to launder it through ML/AI to get the computer to cough it back up, then deployed a legion of humans to patch the result suffciently that it could be called "Linux compatible", and finally barfed out a publication with 6 pages of link references in a 12 page paper."

Here's the touchstone for whether AI is doing chip design: "When AI can distinguish between control plane and datapath and synthesize and place them differently, AI is doing actual design."
FYI: It doesn't support package-local nicknames :(
> At a minimum, the smash community members who built that data have an expert-level understanding of Gamecube graphics programming, Gamecube assembly language, and Super Smash Bros's internal scripting language to create those posts.

Actually this was possible before Dolphin existed. They did it on raw hardware. The devs left an extensive debug mode in with various displays like hitboxes. So a little Action Replay cheat was enough.
No, I mean personal liability for whoever signed under initiating this suit (and maybe sanctions against the lawyers too). US legal system is, however, maximally removed from this - instead, we have a concept of immunity where it is very hard to prosecute a government officer for something they did while executing their office.

Ancient Athenians had it simpler - if you bring a lawsuit and less than 1/5 of jurors vote in your favor, you get a heavy fine for wasting everybody's time. Unfortunately, wouldn't work in the US - about 1/3 would vote for anything if it helps their tribal interest and hurts the opposite tribe, even if it's ruinous for the society in general.
With Ubuntu and RHEL clones out, what's in these days? Debian?
First reaction as a Canadian: ... Newfoundland and Labrador has a tech industry??!?!
Okay, but I explicitly declined to quibble with the term. But I’ll go one further: I’ll concede the action qualifies as abuse. If there’s any quibbling worth quibbling, it’s between whether the author’s figurative abuse-hat was white or grey.
There's a rough rule of thumb that you should expect to redesign your system to handle each order of magnitude increase in scale, and I figure it applies here too—gracefully handling that size of repo would require substantial engineering work, and they have plenty of time to handle it before human-oriented open source repos get even close to the current limit.
lack of availability of cod fish and screech

but much more seriously, consistent really warm weather might be too much for newfoundlanders until they take many months to acclimatize to it.
Good point, perhaps (age_in_years+1)×1M would be a better limit. Anyone wanting to import more than 1M commits could get a paid tier or beg support. At any rate, not that hard to implement is what I would expect
As someone else said, Kahneman is OK. He certainly has some brain-tickling research. I’ve read some papers by him about how people use poor logic in decision-making that were truly fascinating.

There are countless bad papers. If you lean left, I could show you papers that declare no racial bias in police use of lethal force. If you lean right, I could show you papers that declare no correlation between conservative policy and economic growth.
The problem is that on a given specific subject you can never be sure whether he’s exaggerating or misrepresenting things. Just this makes watching him a waste of time, because then you need to spend at least twice the time to fact check him. A bit like asking a question to ChatGPT. At least Wikipedia provides you links to proper sources.
You're not being rude at all! I didn't have a "problem" with the blacked-out areas, I was concerned about the ones that were clearly exposed without any redaction.
That's a boilerplate disclaimer. There's nothing in the image other than a screenshot of a webpage showing only text.
> It also fudges how the timestamps appear on the page.

Oh that's interesting, thanks for the explanation! (and a bit weird too but not in a bad way)
Why is it ridiculous? An alternative explanation is opportunity plus randomness.

You already admitted that there's a large element of randomness to life: "Plenty of people survive accidents when not wearing seatbelts." And by the way, is there any evidence that the seatbelt wearing rate varies across economic classes?

People of economic means have a lot more opportunities than other people. And that's certainly no guarantee of success, but a certain % of opportunities will randomly work out, whether they involved "good" or "bad" decisions. This means it's much easier to succeed if you grow up with economic advantages, even if the level of talent is evenly distributed among all economic classes.

Let me put it this way: the reason to go to Harvard or Stanford isn't the "education". Calculus for example is the same anywhere. The actual classes at a state university are comparable to the classes at an "elite" university. The reason people desperately want to go to the elite universities is to meet the elite. It's about social networking. You get more opportunities if you know the right people. That should be obvious.
> Less acid => less reflux?

Weirdly, I've also heard from people in that situation that more acid => less reflux because the sphincter only closes in high-pH environments. So one of the things prescribed can be hydrochloric acid supplements. Some people swear by them.
Keeping the repository, even as a public archive, would still require a lot of resources on GitHub's side. The only fair thing to do here would be to apologize and ask for the repo to be deleted.
> Nvidia is what allowed many Linux users to enjoy high quality 3D graphics on Linux for more than 20 years.

That was very welcome at the time, but the bar has been raised. I now have the option of a GPU that plays games and integrates well with all my other OS features, so I switched. It's great to be free from the endless annoyances that came with Nvidia's drivers.
I think it’s a rate issue, not the number of commits.
Is Join a Luxury in Real-Time Analytics?
I'm not sure redesigns were necessary between going 1 to 10, from 10 to 100, from 100 to 1000, from 1000 to 10'000, from 10'000 to 100'000, or from 100'000 to 1000'000 which we're now at. It sounds like a sensible engineering rule, but I'm not sure it translates to software, or at least not in this case. I don't know of any design changes made to Git since it was first created, there's no v1 and v2 repositories for example.
Use Google Forms and have the result sent to a Google Sheet. Generate the invoice as a Google Doc using Google Apps Script pulling from the Google Sheet. I believe GAS will let you turn that Google Doc into a PDF and attach it to an email draft in the office person’s inbox.

If somebody needs to edit something, let them edit the Google Doc and build a Google Docs extension that gives them a little button that lets them regenerate the PDF. Or they can just save it from the Google Doc themselves.

https://www.google.com/script/start/

The documentation is quite good.
If you’re in the enviable position of having successfully monetized an OSS project to the extent that its revenue can support an entire company, this is the unambiguously best way to technically assess your candidates.

The rest of us are sadly not so lucky.
I highly recommend using local solutions to this local issue: Zeal[1] (aka Dash[2] on MacOS)

Load up the "docsets" of your languages (lightly edited HTML docs for indexing purposes) and use a global keyboard shortcut (F8 for me) to pull up Python/Postgres/Terraform docs, searching for the right function without internet query.

This isn't straight up applicable to all questions of course, but "How do I search regular expressions in Python again?" is now as easy as <F8> "re" <ENTER>

Note that the docsets can be converted from normal HTML ones via doc2dash[3], especially useful to load up custom docs like private providers.

[1]: https://zealdocs.org/
[2]: https://kapeli.com/dash
[3]: https://doc2dash.readthedocs.io/en/stable/usage/
Roleplaying with LLMs
I buy most industrial-related things on Zoro (owned by Grainger).
The Americans in exchange for information obtained by the Japanese over the course of their human experimentation let a bunch of war criminals go free.

I don't understand why this person's comment has been flagged.

This flagging business seems to be getting out of control.

Who moderates the moderators?
Illegal Life Pro Tip: Want to ruin your competitor's business?
> largely the result of almost a quarter century of craven governments neglecting essential law and order.

Sorry, but no telegraph.
I think I was one of the last to score it at $100 a few days ago. It's been relisted at $120 and $180 and is now gone again. I assume this article will result in the full stock being sold shortly
JavaScript is the gigantic man-eating worm that we all rely on for our spice.
The Xerox Smalltalk-80 GUI Was Weird
I guess you would be relieved to learn that this civilization died decades ago, and the destroyed Buran orbiter is its tombstone.
This discussion is in the context of the open worm project. It has successfully modeled the neurons of a nematode such that the organism model functions inside a physics engine as would the real organism.

Extending this to humans, the neuron models are good enough. I’ve done enough biomedical engineering research in the neuroscience domain to tell you: the problem is imaging the connections, not modeling the neurons.
https://www.mail-archive.com/devl@freenetproject.org/msg5527...

Trouble does seem to be brewing.
It's easier to make a teacher than to make a GPU though.
The claim was made about the applicant pool, not the general population. The white population skews considerably older than other groups.
> GitHub would be just as likely to benefit from hiring the author as they would from banning

For what purpose?

Creating an infinite loop that updates a file and commits it is hardly worthy of a job offer.
Oh, and one book I rather enjoyed was Ideas That Created the Future, which is not exactly a textbook (but is probably used by the author as such) so much as a survey on the history of computer science via primary sources. Each source has a 1-2 page summary providing context, but the meat is reading the original papers on computer design, Complexity Theory, various papers on logic and proofs and proofs of software properties, theorem provers, NP completeness, neural networks, etc.

One thing I learned is that the idea of a computational neural network predates actual working general purpose computers by a few years, and is actually cited in the construction of computers as an inspiration.

https://direct.mit.edu/books/edited-volume/5003/Ideas-That-C...
I understand where you’re coming from, but I think if you read what I wrote charitably you’ll find there’s no essential conflict.

One possible source of confusion is mistaking “heritable” for genetic. But a heritable trait can be cultural too. For example a child with Spanish speaking parents is considerably more likely to have the speaks Spanish trait. Similarly, Asian immigrants to the USA have an admirable cultural bias toward studying hard and their average test scores have skyrocketed over the past couple decades, far too quickly for it to be a genetic effect.
Or Captain of Industry (disclaimer: I am one of the devs)
You beat me to this comment!

Skepticism aside, I would like to see other cities and provinces playing larger roles in Canada’s economic future. I myself immigrated to Atlantic Canada, but it was frustrating finding a fulfilling opportunity in the local tech scene (this was before remote work was seen as mainstream), and eventually moved to a bigger province / city.
I love a text editor app and I’m always happy to try out new ones, especially one that looks like it might be useful in extracting meaning from text or linking ideas and relationships between documents.

I also like the cleanness of the design and the illustrations are fun - definitely a cut above the usual Corporate Memphis.

However, and this was the deal-breaker for me, there was no mention of the cost or licensing model.

A one point a subscription was mentioned, but there was no link to find out more. I’m not going to download or try an app without knowing the pricing up-front.
I had never heard of Framework.

Here's a link with examples of a later version: https://winworldpc.com/product/framework/xe

I had only ever seen "embedded" TUIs like on word processors, but even then, I only saw them after the Mac came out, and they were being dumped at thrift stores and flea markets. ...one time in '96, I came across someone selling a complete Xerox Daybreak at a flea market.
That has a fascinating answer but requires R, no TL;DR from me :)
I know the grass seems always greener on the other side and this culture has its own set of problems but I still think I would prefer this over what the west has to offer in the dating market.
I absolutely hate the ambiguity of the relationship in the west, “Dating? I’m not sure, we have only started sleeping together a month ago. They might still be seeing other people.” And yes, not everywhere is like this but around my parts, seeking a serious relationship is a recipe for disaster and not something worth spending any sort of asset for.
I disagree, you're preaching to the converted.
the dream of every ticket seller is to extract as much money as each ticket user is willing to pay. knowing who's getting tickets means more opportunities for differential pricing.
Uniforms? Check. Motto? Check. Now the Space Force Needs an Identity
Not so different a question than asking where “synapses and neurotransmitters” end and the experience of consciousness begins.
And could be seen as a reward or an encouragement for other people to abuse the service.
To be clear, the problem is in how the power budget is being spent (most enterprise DCs don't even have 15 kW going to the rack). The question on density is: how can you get the most compute elements into the space/power that you've got, and cramming towards highest possible density (i.e., 1U) actually decreases density because you spend so much of that power budget cranking fans and ramming air. And the challenge with OCP is: those systems aren't for sale (we tried to buy one!) and even if you got one, it has no software.
Shooting from the hip:

entropy of a single signal, say a sequence of letters, "ababababab" is the scaled "average" surprise per letter. So if they are uniformly distributed, each letter is equally likely/unlikely to come next in the sequence, where if instead one letter only 1/1000th of the time (aaa....aaa...aa..a.z.aaaa), then when the rare beast shows up, it is a big surprise, so the total amount of surprise available in the sequence is high.

That's entropy.

The same thing would be true for a sequence of numbers.

But what if there is some relationship? if
aaabaa occurs frequently with 111211, if you line up the sequences by timestamp?

In this simple case, if you know the letters and you can spot the relationship, then there is zero surprise in the number sequence. The cross entropy "letters plus numbers" has the same entropy as "letters" or "numbers" in isolation.

And as you move away from the 1:1 correspondence, you'll see the cross entropy increase until it reaches its max at "entropy(letters) + entropy(numbers)" -- no information shared between the two systems.

To bring it home, I think of cross entropy as the amount of information shared between two signals.

Others might think of it slightly differently.
DOD has no issue securing funds no matter what they are squawking about in congress. For example, they ran a secret war in Cambodia during the Vietnam war that only came to light after a leak. I imagine there are probably hundreds or thousands of such campaigns we will never learn of.