skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> At AWS, the hierarchy of service priorities is crystal clear: Security, Durability, and Availability. In that order. Durability, the assurance that data will not be lost, is a cornerstone of trust, only surpassed by security. Availability, while important, can vary. Different customers have different needs. But security and durability? They're about trust. Lose that, and it's game over. In this regard, InfluxDB has unfortunately dropped the ball.

Interestingly, this is also how I'd allocate tasks to new admins. Like, sure, I'd rather have my load balancers running, but they are stateless and redeploy in a minute. The amount of damage you can do there in less critical environments is entirely acceptable for teaching experiences. Databases or filestores though? Oh boy. I'd rather have someone shadow for a bit first because those are annoying to fix and will always cause unrecoverable loss, even with everything we do against it. Hourly incremental backups still lose up to 59 minutes of data if things go wrong.

> The InfluxDB incident brings to light the ongoing debate around soft vs. hard deletion. It's unacceptable for a hard delete to be the first step in any deprecation process. A clear escalation process is necessary: notify the customer, wait for explicit acknowledgement, disable their APIs for a short period, extend this period if necessary, soft delete for a certain period, notify again, and only then consider a hard delete.

Agreed. At work, I'm pushing that we have two processes: First, we need a process of deprecating a service and migrating customers to better services. This happens entirely at a product management and development level. Here you need to consider the value provided for the customer, how to provide it differently - better - and how to decide to fire customers if necessary. And afterwards, you need a good controlled process to migrate customers to the new services, ideally supported by customer support or consultants. No one likes change, so at least make their change an improvement and not entirely annoying.

And then, if a system or an environment is not needed anymore, leadership can trigger a second process to actually remove the service. I'm however maintaining that this is a second process which is entirely operational between support, operations and account management. It's their job to validate the system is load-free (I like the electricians term here), or that we're willing to accept dropping that load. And even then, if we just see a bunch of health checks on the systems by customers, you always do a scream test at that point and shut it down for a week, or cut DNS or such. And only then you drop it.

It's very, very careful, I'm aware. But it's happened 3-4 times already that a large customer suddenly was like "Oh no we forgot thingy X and now things are on fire and peeps internally are sharpening knifes for the meeting, do anything!" And you'd be surprised how much goodwill and trust you can get as a vendor by being able to bring back that thing in a few minutes. Even if you have to burn it then to turn up the heat to get them off of that service, since it'll be around forever otherwise.
Reference books are the best candidates for being digitised. Why would you want to physically search a real physical library for hours to find a dusty forgotten book about a forgotten piece of equipment when you could just Ctrl+F and instantly find what you seek?

Any other kind of book I do much rather prefer the paper version though.
> Historical finds like these on private land in the U.S. do not need to be reported to an archaeologist...

If you're going to "cash out" after finding millions of dollars in rare gold coins in your cornfield - and don't enjoy looking over your shoulder for 3-letter agents - then it might be useful to get a professional archaeologist's "stamp of historical authenticity" for your find.
Specifically for Canonical, BYOD seems like a great way to dogfood running Ubuntu on all kinds of machines, rather than everyone having the same model of Dell workstation and a separate testing lab being the only place they encounter diverse hardware.

Not saying this is their reasoning - and if they're not too cheap, it would surely be better for tax purposes to buy your employees computers than pay them the equivalent in cash - but it's a reason at least.
Former Sega president Irimajiri speaks out about the Saturn and the 32X
Good take.

We are questioning if it is even an average investment, especially the truly high-cost and selective private schools where tuition sits at $80,000+ contrasted with $30,000 at our state's well-known and respected flagship university. The extra $200,000 in costs is breathtaking to consider.
AVs will help reduce pedestrian deaths and reduce car ownership. While they are still cars and don't solve all car problems like traffic, most reasonable urbanists seem to support them.
How long until apple blocks this? They are famous for protecting their walled garden and hostility towards cross platform development tools.
What parts of the game would count, though? If Disney creates a Mickey Mouse game and puts out a patch every year with "bug fixes", what is renewed?
Under the proposed system, he probably would never have written anything because the most likely outcome is that he would gain nothing even if his works are successful.
The tuition for my university (state school) is about $7,000 per year which is coincidentally close to the maximum you can receive through the pell grant.
https://www.dataengineeringweekly.com/

I’ve found this one very useful as a Data Engineer. Worth subscribing if you’re working in the data space.
If Earth balances entropy received from the Sun with radiating entropy back, does the greenhouse effect mean that lately we've been a bit overloaded with extra entropy?

Probably not. However, what if that was actually the case? What would the implications be for everyday life?
Why do you think it is? The problem with Nix is not the language, it is mostly the ad hoc, grown over time “standard library” for packaging programs. It is just hard to know what that magic buildXPackage function does, or sometimes even where it is. You basically have to grep through the nixpkgs repo to find these things.

The language is very small and is a great fit for its domain.
It's horrible. Yet somehow they still manage to hire and have a thriving company ¯_(ツ)_/¯. Seems to work for them.
SpaceX Starship's impact is still felt in this Texas community
This is the "anti-nuclear" of urbanism. AVs are safe now and they're only going to get safer.

You can't legitimately say you care about pedestrian and bike safety and then turn around and suddenly try and block AVs because the vibes are wrong.
A lot of the increase was driven by the "arms race" to attract the best students by building ever more facilities to make their ever glossier brochures more attractive. My school when I was leaving in the early 2000s was on a $200 million dollar building spending spree- a new library, a new sciences building, etc. I don't have a citation for this, but I had read somewhere awhile back that the administrative ranks have swelled at these schools and they are making tons more money than they used to in the past as well.
In the spirit of this thread, prove this is true using scientific study.
It was so cool, I want it to happen even though realistically we’ll all be background technician losers that exist to show how great The Major is.
I wonder if these are the failing drives or are fixed:

https://www.tomshardware.com/news/samsung-980-pro-ssd-failur...
Ultimately it doesn’t matter if the cause is administrative bloat, government-backed student loans that can’t be defaulted on, or space aliens. What is not debatable is that higher education is necessary in an advanced economy, and starving the job market of highly skilled workers is a fast track to companies shifting to other places where they are more abundant.

Either the US will figure it out like every other developed nation has seemed to do, or there will be grave geopolitical consequences. Whether the US political/economic machine can figure it out is a question that only time can answer.
Copyright means the copyright owner owns the rights to distribute the work. Which includes not distributing it at all.
Nice usage of watercss
GPT-4 Architecture, Infrastructure, Training Dataset, Costs, Vision, Moe
True but they won’t be removed from torrent sites. You can download every NES, SNES, Genesis etc game ever created in like 5 minutes.
Adequacy Decision on the EU-US Data Privacy Framework
SSR Sparkline SVG in Vanilla JavaScript
Actually, without copyright the publishers will be getting almost nothing as with everyone being able to publish the price will quickly go down to printing and postage.
Probably after launch. It’sa good way for developers to build and test apps for VP so they won’t go after it for now.
Super common though. Everyone from Hetzner to AWS does this, unless you specifically pay for full allocation, which is typically ~2x the price.

Chances are you are using systems that do this and you haven't even noticed.
As someone who got really deep into genealogy during pandemic, this type of thing is all too common.

In the US we lost basically or entire 1890s census due to fire. San Francisco lost most of its historical documents in the 1906 earthquake and fires. The UK lost the 1931 census due to fire (and then didn't do one in 1941 because of the war). Millions of European church records have been thrown out. Often times these are the only record that someone existed at all.

We are now in an age where things can be easily scanned and archived, but they're are still millions of paper records that only exist in paper form in a filling cabinet somewhere.

That being said, genealogy today is 100x earlier than it was even 20 years ago. I have been able to find documents in minutes that took my grandparents years to find because they have been OCRd and are searchable online. However there is still a lot to be learned from old fashioned research, writing letters to and visiting city clerks hoping they may have interesting records about your ancestors.

I find genealogy pretty satisfying as a hobby and I recommend it to anyone who likes dipping their toes into multiple disciplines. You can go deep in document recognition, archiving, photo restoration, face identification, genetics/DNA, data models (GEDCOM), writing, community service (lots of archiving roles are volunteers at small governments or libraries). It is great way to connect with relatives, known or unknown, and scratches the problem solving itch for me.

It is a hobby/industry where the tools are mostly ancient and there is lots of room for "disruption".
Only like 1.5% of the human genome is protein coding.
No, it's not fine. Children are important, and worthy of getting new stories that address their needs.

In general, judging which categories don't need the protection of copyright amounts to deciding which categories of readers don't matter. It's elitist and unhelpful.
> The world doesn't need any more media created.

Art is a reflection of society and culture. We absolutely NEED more art created. It drives humanity forward.

> If copyright, and the creative industry, and all of its production of new works disappeared tomorrow, it would have no meaningful impact on my life.

In relation to my previous point, no new art being created would have a massive negative affect on all of society. Everyone, including you, would be impacted. It also comes off as shortsighted and unsympathetic to the starving artist to say that their lively-hoods being impacted/eliminated would have no impact on your life.

> I mean, I'm highly sympathetic to the situation of the starving artist, but I'm not at all sympathetic to the situation of his publisher.

A publisher offers an artist many benefits, ranging from distribution reach, legal protections, and other benefits that a single artist would have a hard time managing on their own.

Reforming the copyright system and the relationships between artists and publishers requires a very nuanced look at all of the issues to allow art, artists, and society as a whole to flourish.
maximally disruptive would be to douse the cars in gasoline and light them on fire. This is just some lulz.
My list:

Aliexpress
alternativeto.net
Amazon
Apple AppStore
ArXiv
Bing Video
BookFinder
ISBN
DHL Tracking Number
DOI Resolver
duckduckgo.com
ebay.com
Facebook
HackerNews (Angolia search)
ISBN Search
Library Genesis
MathOverflow
Physics.StackExchange
Scholarpedia
Sci-Hub (DOI)
SciRate (arXiv)
Scite.ai
Dictionary.com
Thesaurus.com
Tripadvisor.com
Twitter
Urban Dictionary
Walmart
Wayback Machine
Wikipedia
Wolfram Alpha
Weather Underground
Yelp
YouTube Video Search
images.google.com
scholar.google.com
maps.google.com
news.google.com
scholar.google.com
video.google.com

I have about half of these memorized enough to use regularly.
Article is 404 right now, for me at least.
It is proof of yet another climate claim being wildly inaccurate.

I upvote simply in the hope that people will see that the current alarmist Chicken Little “the sky is falling” approach to climate change does more harm than good.
Yeah, I was thinking about it and also lasers wouldn't work if it was 100% mini-Shapiro delays. I was thinking that maybe there's a small GR component to refraction, but the experiment would be tricky. You'd need to pin the electrons in the refractor down in a strong magentic field and then shoot some high energy photons at it, probably at least X-rays, and see if they still refract. (The high energy photons would be necessary to bring their wavelength closer to the diameter of the nucleus).
On Logical Implication as a Morphism in Category Theory
Couldn’t the implication sign “→” in A→B be viewed as a morphism between A and B? Also, could mathematical operators like plus, minus, AND, OR, etc. be viewed as morphisms?
A piece of tape over the cameras is probably enough to immobilize most SDVs. Works on humans too.

Guarding against vandalism isn’t really the car makers job. Tires have always been easy to slash. That’s why we have laws and penalties for breaking them.
Call for Vote (CfV) to create newsgroup de.soc.biblio in German Usenet hierarchy
See news posting with Message-ID: <CfV1-Einrichtung-dsb-2023-06-19@dana.de>

Thanks to an active moderation team German Usenet saw removal of two dozens of stale groups last year. Is the GLAM (Galleries, Libraries, Archives, Museums) community active enough in Usenet to justify this new group?
No, true, but that's separate to the issue of PFAS in my drinking water making my house worthless. Presumably if there are PFAS is bottled water then everyone's water is contaminated as I'm not aware of anywhere people don't drink bottled water.
I'd rather see them deflating the tires on any trucks beyond a certain size parked in cities
https://archive.is/VHXOg
> As an illustrative example of this efficiency, I would like to cite https://github.com/rochus-keller/LisaPascal, where I was able to implement a parser and code browser within a week as a side project. With any other technology (including Smalltalk or Delphi) this would have taken months.

As a former Smalltalk developer, what do you think about it would actually slow you down (despite popular claims re productivity in Smalltalk)? Is it tooling for C++ static types? If so, then what about Delphi?

And is it one goal of yours, then, to mold Oberon+ so that it would eventually be at parity, productivity-wise, with C++?
Very sorry to hear that! As I pointed in my earlier comment, we're using an open-source project to render the globe and will report it back to them.

I must add that we're not launched yet and the website is more like a placeholder done in less than a week.

Deploying containers in the microsoft edge browser sounds like a fun idea though!
Would love to see RISC-V chips that compete for offering 4 - 32x lanes of PCIe.

Hifive Unmatched has 16x PCIe 3.0, and is $665. It's 1.5 years old, and still one of the few sub $1000 systems with more than 4x lanes. https://www.sifive.com/boards/hifive-unmatched
> Apparently oop as envisioned by Alan Kay was supposed to work like cells in the body that pass messages between each other and take actions independently.

> Why? Who knows! It was never really explained…

Perhaps "Design Principles Behind Smalltalk" ?

https://www.cs.virginia.edu/~evans/cs655/readings/smalltalk....
This particularly protest is elegant because it's effective exactly to the extent that self-driving cars are not adaptable—it highlights the brittleness of the system by getting a substantial effect from a small nudge.
"Only protest if you have a clear majority or your protest isn't disruptive." Denies both the reason and mechanism for protests. Which I realize is probably exactly the point and I don't accept it.
I can recommend:

https://blog.bytebytego.com/

https://bigtechdigest.substack.com/

https://www.oreilly.com/emails/newsletters/

https://ardalis.com/tips
LlamaIndex is a very generic framework to ingest data (from anywhere, with no specific context in mind). Developers then build on top of this framework in order to simplify the process of creating LLM-powered on apps. Developers need to handle automatically syncing, building a UI to manage connections, build out the actual features/functionality they desire, etc.

Danswer is:

(1) itself an end-to-end application which allows you to connect to all your workplace tools via a UI, and then ask questions and get answers based on these documents. The goal is to be a permissively licensed, open source solution to the enterprise knowledge retrieval problem.

(2) an ingestion framework specifically targeted for enterprise applications. We provide a UI for admins to manage connections to other common workplace apps, automatically sync them into a vector DB + a keyword search engine, and expose APIs that allow access to these underlying data stores (more to come in this direction). We take care of access control (more in the pipeline here as well), only grabbing updates so we don't have to pull thousands (or millions) of documents every X minutes, etc. TL;DR: we're focused on a specific ingestion use case.
Having an error rate means a small chance of gaining an edge that makes up for having it.
It doesn't.

Just like the evangelicals see God in every leaf and water drop, the neoclassicalists will read any evidence and always see the same conclusion.

The article doesn't blame government at all. It's way more nuanced but ideologues will only see what they want to see.
>What you are experiencing is altered and is not at all what people are talking about when it comes to preservation.

People are making cycle-accurate emulators for exactly this purpose! Not all emulation is focused on "enhancements"
The "popular science" takes on QM have generally been an enormous failure, focused on irrelevant fluff like this. I mean, I get it, it's a subject that you can't seriously understand without a degree in physics or chemistry. I had plenty of trouble with the math even at the undergrad level.

But surely there's more interesting stories to tell of eg particle accelerator research, rather than fantasies.
> People from low or mid-income families have access to scholarships and funding

It might be relatively common for low income to get full rides or near full rides, but anyone in mid-income is getting saddled with tons of debt.

I applied to college in 2011 with a household income of like 95k, with an older sibling already in college, and most "financial aid" packages from state universities added up to between $60k-$160k total debt for four years.
Going out of state to places like Ohio State, Maryland, etc. was already $50k/year back then.

This was inclusive of significant amounts of merit-based scholarships. Most (all?) schools do not allow you to stack merit scholarships with need-based grants. If you earn a merit-based scholarship, they reduce your need-based aid by that exact amount.
Disruptive != Destrucive.

But when you screw around with transport infrastructure, you may be putting lives at risk if emergency vehicles are held up in completely unnecessary traffic jams.
My gf is in academia (in economics) and she told me that to get a tenure you sign contracts demanding you’ll publish 4-5 relevant research papers in 5 years. A geologist friend of mine told me something similar, just with different numbers.
Depending on the contract, Shkreli may have those rights. I’m talking about if I managed to record a copy of the record would there be anything wrong with me distributing it?
Lol...

% wc -l `find . -name \*.org`
...
361427 total
This is all true, and if you read the KEPs they were thinking about this. One camp was advocating for solving the problem of specifying the full dependency graph spec (of which sidecars are one case), another advocating for just solving the most needed case with a sidecar-specific solution to get a solution shipped. The latter was complicated by a desire to at least leave the door open for the former.

Pragmatism won out, thankfully IMO.

Edit to add: see this better description from one of the senior k8s maintainers: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36666359
Unless you are elderly or disabled in some kind of way, if you can't survive putting a bar on your back and squatting, you are a weak (physically) human. I'm not joking.

I'm a man and know more about mens standards, but if you can't back squat at least 1x your bodyweight you are probably pretty weak. Similar for deadlift. And these are just bare minimums. Most humans are FAR more capable than this. Maybe just multiply these by 0.5 for a women just based on genetic strength differences.

You can start with the bar if you want, you will eventually learn through experience based on your body your form for squatting. And the internet as well as being able to record yourself are readily available for practically everyone. Given that you can definitely learn the basics of form without necessary needing a trainer.
Conversely, I'm a novely-a-holic and love trying out new, different, and obscure things. I also don't always go to the same gyms (there's about 3 ymca's equidistant to me, and they have different weight rooms with different machines and popularity). I also know some exercises but not a ton of variety. So it's hugely beneficial for me to see the different options available.
this ignores just how competitive these services have become and how much competition there is in this marketplace. Anything that allows a company to balance user experience with cost of hardware will be evaluated. The fact is this is super common because even though RAM is super cheap, at scale, these things add up. If you as a provider don't have to spend 120K on RAM and can use that on more CPUs or something else, it can mean having a competitive edge over the provider that does have to spend that 120K.
I am actually using amdgpu myself but i mentioned the modesetting driver since that is new development to show that people actually still work on that stuff.
At my job where we can only use MS Edge, the Vertical Tabs feature helps me immensely with ~1000 tab sessions. I'm not sure about Google Chrome, but Brave also adopted the feature this past year.

My browser windows are like literal trains of thought where each tab is a station. I only close them when the journey is finished, so to speak. If possible, I like to preserve the tab structure if I ever must save them for another time. The problems with doing so are 1) no browsers support this natively, and 2) the add-ons/extensions/plugins which do this are either clunky or closed-source software.
Countless movies and shows are out of print and only available on VHS
Literally all they have to do is limit the maximum loan size. Max $50k per year. Anything beyond that is not subsidized or requires proof of academic performance or ability to repay.
Trust. OpenAI's ignored everyone's copyright and legal usage terms for the rest of their training data, what lawyer is going to trust them to follow their contractual terms?