skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
First of all: Thank you for taking considerable time to compose your thoughtful in-depth response.

I honestly didn’t think, that my first point had ignored anything in your first post about trust, but I see now that I misinterpreted your intent in that post. And so I happily concede that I inadvertently “ghosted” that intent (I’m glad you appreciated the weird sense of enjoyment I had in appropriating that term into an uncommon context - and that you ran with it in your response!).

Your point about mentioning the less charitable route in my thoughts is valid, yet in my defence, I typed up that post articulating why I had deleted the other post. So I shared what were originally intended to remain private thoughts, not to attack, but to explain the post deletion. In my mind, deleting that post had been the more charitable thing to do. But when you took it upon yourself to resurrect it in some way, I thought it would be more charitable to explain the deletion very honestly - including my up to then private thoughts - rather than to stay silent and making the ghosting permanent.

Sharing those previously private thoughts was intended as an act of charity, much in the sense that spouses or friends explain to each other why they were angry, rather than keeping it to themselves. And since this forum doesn’t have private chatting, our exchange is now ingestible by all of those present and future ML/AI bots for better and worse :-)

Human (and pretty much any) communication is indeed a long and deep topic that much smarter minds than mine have not “solved”. Suffice it to say, that it’s a miracle that it ever works at all.

And in this specific case - somewhat counterintuitively - our disagreement also unearthed underlying common ground in carrying the conversation into philosophical meta-topics far removed from the original RH/IBM and Oracle.

On the old Slashdot we probably would have been buried in off-topic ratings. Here on HN (for unrelated reasons) we’re buried under a long flagged and dead post. Douglas Adams would have been able to spin that fact into an entire chapter, if not into a full book!

Thanks again for your investment of time and emotional energy. I appreciate that very much and also look forward to future exchanges! Warmest regards from this anonymous coward!
Perhaps it’s just the landing page but it looks to be more of a logging and application metrics tool than a monitoring tool?

For monitoring I’d expect to see a horizontal and top down view of each component that makes up and hosts my product. E.g. DNS/API/storage and network latency, kubernetes pod/cluster/controller health, integration / service availability, billing cycle/overruns, alert escalation etc etc
Don't worry, the WSJ is still perfectly happy to run things like https://archive.is/VYsHY, penned by someone who also claims smoking doesn't cause cancer.
I'm just trying to make the point that the vaccines helped at a population level (going from .06% to .0006% or whatever IFR is real numbers when you're talking about the whole world), but I think people overestimate the impact it had on them individually.

And it's easy to see why they would! Given the environment at the time (daily press conferences, scary news articles, demonization of the unvaccinated, mandates) I think it's easy to believe that the vaccine saved you from a death sentence if you get vaccinated and then have an easy case.

It's easy to not notice that in a room of 1667 infected unvaccinated 30 year olds (I don't know how old you are, just using that as an example), maybe over a thousand of them would have had a similar case that you did, and only one of them would have died.
Companies Requiring Full-Time In-Office Are Struggling to Recruit New Employees
They put "open source" in the pitch cause some folk (eg: me) give preference to vendors who allow self-host and have some hippy-license.
This is tersely stated, but it's wise. In general, following the gradient (if you have it) is a very, very good idea.
If you want to try running Llama 2 locally, you can use https://github.com/jmorganca/ollama

To run Llama 2 with it:

ollama run llama2
It wasn't my call on what they did, and they had their reasons (running one of the largest golang monorepos on the planet). My point was to show that this is a build tool issue, not a language issue.
Informing myself by listening to actual scientists lecture on the topic rather than accept whatever I hear in the media and echo chambers. No one is denying anthropomorphic climate change but complex systems like the earths climate is extremely nuanced and geoengineering may be a viable option at some point.
Major difference between a personalized tutor LLM and remote teaching an entire classroom.
> How did the typography guys get a voice so strong?

In my opinion the "typography guys" don't have an especially stronger "voice" than anyone else. They just do a job once, get paid some (relatively small) amount for it, and then move on to the next project. At the biggest these projects involve a few people working for a year or two. Their entire job is about communication, sales, and sweating small design details, so it's no wonder they do a relatively good job at those.

The amount of work those "20 year old SQL schemas" take, once you include every bit of other comparable detail across a whole organization, is (at least) thousands of times bigger and more complicated. Overall the "code guys" have much more resources spent, spend a lot more time, and everyone ultimately cares a lot more about their output. They are large teams of either long-term employees or long-term contractors, whose work never really ends.

In short: Code is a sprawling mess rather than a cutely packaged self-contained thing. Unsurprisingly it's harder to make sense of at a glance.
Thanks! Do you recall if the other one was just a readout or what exactly the format was?
Go 1.21 will bring a new slices package with Contains and ContainsFunc https://pkg.go.dev/slices@master#Contains
A good MQ impl allows you to make the MQ checks different than in PR. And you choose for MQ builds only a subset of tests which are known to be non-flaky.

Merge queue builds should be fast and rock stable, following the 80/20 rule.
They're super annoying if you have flaky tests. If the tests are such that you can automate retrying and get to a reasonably low false-positive rate, it can be usable.
Are you saying that we should be less distrustful of medical biology than of physics? I don’t see why that should be so
Unfortunately for a lot of people work is probably a lot more like high school than we might wish. But, yeah, in college I mostly attended class, some I genuinely enjoyed more than others, spent a lot of time on extracurricular activities/sports which is where I generally formed lifelong friendships (and developed a lot of the skills I use day to day)--and squeaked through. And, as the alumni donations person I've been a friend of for almost 40 years who works for $SCHOOL likes to remind me, I've done well and $SCHOOL taught me a lot in general. And I've had a good career. Luck has played a role.
It is now apparent that you are an actual child. Have a good one
I would think you'd pick LP if your problem's decision space is modeled in a way that is compatible with it. And if all you have is effectively a simulator and a cost function, then RL is the way to go?
GitHut: Discover GitHub metrics by programming language
I saw a cardboard lid in a coffee shop for the first time earlier today, it was good to see.

In the UK, we have a plastic bag tax, and I'm hopeful we can go further by adding a single use plastic tax to encourage more sustainable alternatives or for people to bring their own reusable coffee mugs.

For me personally, the plastic bag tax changed my behaviour, even though it's a small cost, it's still a cost so instead of just overspilling to plastic bags when my backpack is full, I just carry a couple of lightweight reusable canvas bags.

I have been doing this for several years now, and probably this has saved a hundred or more single use plastic bags just for me alone, and I hope that others can report a similar experience.
Because visual people accomplish work by showing people the work.

Backend people accomplish work by making systems work.

For that reason you’ve seen many fonts and many working websites, but not as many people showing how they created a font or made their website work.
It knows that GPT-4 was released on March 14th 2023 so the knowledge cutoff has to be after that.
> And Go has succeeded despite these condescending diatribes on how a language needs to have a Hindley-Milner type system with ADTs and type classes to be useful.

And nothing says that go wouldn't have been more successful had they added those features. In the final analysis, the relationship between the success of a language and any intrinsic qualities is very hard to qualify. But IMO, the success is not a good measure of wether or not the criticism of go were/are valid.

> Go made me truly realize how insufferable the PLT community is

Agree PLT folks can be a passionate bunch, i am not sure they are any worst to any other online community.

> and why they are so absolutely lost when it comes to creating successful languages.

Depends on who you include in the PLT group :

- C# and typescript were design by Anders Hejlsberg , arguably the most successful language designer
- Scala is also pretty successful and really tied to the PLT community
- Kotlin by JetBrain, Dart started with Gilan Bracha

Not to mentioned the wide range of features seen in most recent language (async-await, reactive programming for msft research) etc... etc...

The fight between pragmatic and simple language vs complex and expressive language is not happening outside the PLT, we have proponent of both ways of thinking inside the community. Not everyone in the PLT is pushing for overly complex theoretical approaches.

But more importantly, let's not forget the 1000's of engineer quietly implementing the compiler, libraries etc... that make go, or any other language possible.

Back to go, my personal gripe with go wasn't the decisions they made, but the rational given for those decisions.

Take the most famous example of not including generics. Designing a good generic type system is a very complicated task, and if the team had come out and say they didn't want generics because they didn't have the bandwidth or the know-how to do so, i wouldn't have care. But the rational given, describing generics as border line useless, or somehow too hard for the average programmer to grasp not only fly against basically 25 years of programming language history, but were just plain rediculous.
Your definition of "actual price" is different than what it should be. The CPI should show an average of what the populace is currently paying for rent. That is to say some people are locked into a low rate from years ago. Some people are locked into a slightly higher rate from a year to just a few months ago. Still others are paying market rates if they just negotiated their prices recently. CPI does not and should not show only what those paying the current rates are paying. It should show an average of what the entire population is paying.
Being an early adopter sucks.

In the early 16th century, Spanish explorer Vasco Núñez de Balboa crossed the Isthmus of Panama in 1513 and sighted the great "Southern Sea" which he named Mar del Sur (in Spanish). Afterwards, the ocean's current name was coined by Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan during the Spanish circumnavigation of the world in 1521, as he encountered favorable winds on reaching the ocean. He called it Mar Pacífico, which in Spanish, Portuguese and Italian means 'peaceful sea'.

(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacific_Ocean#Etymology)
Highly doubtful. The CEO is probably out on a golf course or pretending to look at a slide show.
It's extremely normal https://www.virtua.org/articles/turn-your-head-and-cough-the...

You clearly didn't play any sports, or you're female, I suppose.
https://madaidans-insecurities.github.io/linux.html

https://privsec.dev/posts/linux/linux-insecurities/

https://bjornpagen.com/en_US/desktop%20linux%20is%20insecure
As for sites that don't work in FireFox, here's a huge one: Office365 does not support FireFox on MacOS[0]. Mostly it works, but some things unfortunately don't. For instance, my employer's Teams site just doesn't render at all in FF.

[0]: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/which-browsers-wo...
In this particular case it's a question of putting a lot of concentrated heat into one area, compared to thinking about the overall energy budget.

Part of the problem with heat is that above a certain threshold you basically just die without recourse. Whereas with the right survival equipment, humans can tolerate a surprising amount of cold for a surprising duration, with a wide range of sophistication from "a blanket because you're shivering" to "full-body survival suit because the wind will instantly freeze your skin". That is, you can survive fairly cold temperatures without "burning" anything other than calories, if you have the right clothing. But above a certain heat and humidity threshold, there's no recourse and you automatically die without external energy input.

It would be pretty interesting to do some kind of analysis on the total energy expenditure on maintaining human homeostasis in a hot climate compared to an equivalently cold climate. But you have to take that threshold effect into account, that people can tolerate being cold for a while, but cooling becomes a strict requirement sooner than heating becomes a strict requirement, so you actually might need to pump around more total energy in the hot climate case compared to the cold climate case, even though cooling is more efficient than heating.
Can someone explain how DEI programs got so embeded despite being flagrantly regressive?
Utilizing fancy gTLDs can still prevent you from receiving mail. Not due to a decision to explicitly block it but because it doesn’t match whatever regular expression they use to validate. Notably, .email fails consistently due to it being >3 characters. I tried to convert to using first@last.email and there is a significant minority of sites that didn’t allow it.
The Digital Yeoman's Plight
Corporations go where money is, individuals have the money.
Medium's new Partner Program incentives focus on high-quality human writing
> Ya know the worst part? After explaining all this, my chips were cold. Oh, the humanity.

The worst part for me is that the blog reads like a short story instead of a technical analysis. And, given that it's published via ghost.org, makes me think there's just a bunch of scams and meta-scams going on... one layered on top of the other.
Paula Vennells was chief executive officer of Post Office Limited from 2012 to 2019. She was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) "for services to the Post Office and to charity" in 2019.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paula_Vennells

Staggering
Luckily the original data from that day is available, so you can see [1] that the actual temperatures recorded in Zaragoza and several other cities nearby were far from that extreme temperature.

Other Spanish newspapers reported the extreme temperature as taken in the sun [2], and also included the temperature in the shade with a more reasonable value.

1: https://repositorio.aemet.es/handle/20.500.11765/6290

2: http://hemeroteca.lavanguardia.com/preview/1935/06/23/pagina...
no, the other way around (obviously?)
Why should all talents be treated equally? Surely a university might care more about some talents than others, and I don’t think that’s necessarily a problem.

Money in sports distorts things, to be sure, but that doesn’t mean that everyone must treat football and bassoon talents equally.
I just saw Jimmy Lin’s Twitter post a little while ago and have been looking at this. His work in the past has been hyper-useful to me (e.g., his book with Chris Dyer on map reduce algorithms) so this automatically gets looked at.

He is comparing to text embedding vector data stores, like people use with LangChain and LlamaIndex for LLM applications. I have been basing my work for 7 or 8 months almost exclusively on text embedding vector data stores - to be honest I am in the mood to dig into something else for a while.
No replies with the downvotes, as impressive as usual.

Looking back at this thread it seems every post disagreeing with the ridiculous statement that there were no lockdowns has been downvoted. Amazing.
This comment has a point: there are much fewer developers than there are users, and our moral weight is proportionally tiny.
I'm not sure I agree completely. When I was learning Terraform, trying to figure out what the options a resource had and some of the possible values, I'd make the change in the AWS UI, then re-run Terraform to see what it wanted to change back. There weren't a whole lot of things in aWS that didn't have a UI to configure somewhere.
I wonder, why he has refused to do the last test it looks pretty easy... It is an addition test with loops directed inside are negative numbers and loops directed outside the positive numbers. Or I'm totally wrong and something different is expected ...
Cloudberry jam and vanilla ice cream!
But you don't receive a receipt until after you pay, so you'd already given them the money before you realize if you're getting a receipt or not. That means you have to then escalate the issue, cause a scene, take up your time, deal with the whole your word vs theirs, etc.
Part of the concern with climate change is that you could start seeing literally uninhabitable hot temperatures in more and more parts of the world, which passive cooling are unable to save you from. You can get pretty far with warm gloves and weak fire in Vermont winter, but if the summer heat conditions are right, you just die no matter how tough you are and no matter how much air flow you have. That's not exactly a problem in Vermont yet, but people already die of heat stroke in the summer in the Northeast, and that's going to get worse as the climate gets warmer, with the disparity of course being along socioeconomic lines.
If an article is posted to a blog, and nobody is there to read it, does it even matter if it lies?

What they want is to optimise the ranking Google gives them. If Google's ranking filters out falsehoods then lies can be optimised away automatically.
Is this the same driver as their integrated gpus? Or is it just Arc?
I completely agree. Everyone that wants to go back to the office are people who either:

1) Depend on others to get their work done (through manipulation, etc.)
2) Play great theatrical performances
Go straight to college.

I had a somewhat similar issue in high school and 1 summer class got me more advanced than anyone else, I was able to duel enroll after that.
None of the comments here seem to address desktop OS in enterprise/government environment, which is what this article about. Linux desktop OS your personal computer? Sure. In an organization where most users are not technical, and where vendors do not release their software? Good luck.
Am I meant to believe that all students are equally capable? That's a tough sell.
We would expect them to tolerate background radiation, but evolutionarily I don't see any reason why higher radiation tolerance would be selected for. Certain around the time of things like the Permian/Triassic extinction event, organisms with a higher tolerance for UV would tend to be selected for, but otherwise I would expect other pressures to be more influential.
Are you using Cloudflare's 1.1.1.1 DNS by any chance?
On that, I think I'm in violent agreement with you. In particular, I actually was annoyed with how much stress folks put pre-teens through regarding vaccination. I had friends that were terrified of doing anything with their toddlers before they got vaccinated, despite the odds still being higher for the parents with a vaccine than the kids without. It was truly baffling.

For my part, I suspect it helped me. Childhood asthma and general obesity being what they are. I was almost certainly in elevated risks for my age group. To your point, my age group was still moderate risks, all told.
I do it similarly, except passwords are stored in an offline VM on Qubes OS and copied every time using Qubes' secure copy/paste.

Much more convenient and quick and still reasonably secure.
Also see Unicorn (https://www.unicorn-engine.org/), a QEMU-based emulator-as-a-library that handles a wide range of processors (ARM, AArch64, x86, x64, PowerPC, MIPS, SPARC, …) and comes with bindings for many popular languages (C, Python, Rust, Java, …).

Unicorn is used quite widely for reverse engineering and malware analysis; the Qiling project (https://qiling.io/) extends it to OS-level emulation.
Glad you found your place. High school wasn’t quite as bad for me but I was constantly sick and battled migraines that stopped as soon as I left. Now I work hard, work long hours, but I’m happy and feel healthy and strong. It’s very different.
The content and curriculum that has been excised from public education in past decades should draw the attention of anyone wanting to learn the mechanics of power. When control of childrens' upbringing (for 7 hours a day) is up for grabs, what is and isn't taught is critically important to understanding motive and intent.
Microsoft’s New Corporate AI Products Will Come with a Hefty Price Tag
Had a similar thing with my ISP. Upgraded to a faster speed and they tried to slap a $100 "installation fee" on it. Just said "I don't pay installation fees", and it worked out better than I thought it would.
If you need robustness you can explicitly model an uncertainty set for your problem coefficients, and solve to optimality the robust optimization problem. That way you know exactly your degree of “insurance” to uncertainty. You also know that this is the absolute best you can do in view of this uncertainty set.
Ironically traffic speeds in New York are measured using yellow cabs since they drive around constantly and are required to have GPS.

I think one of the biggest impacts has been on the sustainability of the transit services. For all road users, slower speeds require you to maintain more labor and vehicles out to maintain SLAs/frequencies, or to increase waits. For bus users in particular, it starts a vicious cycle because of several additional factors

* some baseline amount of people will just switch to rideshare instead of buses, reducing revenues and decreasing traffic speeds since buses are more space-efficient than cars

* with less revenues and less ridership, there is pressure to cut service to be more "efficient" at spending money

* with poorer services, more people switch to rideshare, further reducing revenues and decreasing traffic speeds

Manhattan bus ridership entered this negative spiral and fell 23% https://nyc.streetsblog.org/2017/02/21/decline-in-nyc-bus-ri...

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Now what level of congestion is 'acceptable' is mostly based on comparing to other cities, and how the electorate is feeling. That being said, the political pressure was so strong that NYC had already implemented congestion charges on rideshare and taxis, and is currently implementing tolling in Manhattan to try and reduce car numbers. Uber actually came out in support of it. https://www.uber.com/blog/new-york/uber-supports-congestion-...
It makes sense to throw a syntax error but I wasn't sure what the actual behavior would be. Made me wonder if jquery did some magic to understand what is being queried.
Assuming this is human-written, it only makes sense to me as something cooked up by someone who understands a bit of JS but sincerely has no clue how browsers work. A smart and ambitious, if somewhat incurious, junior engineer at work.
Pretty soon, SteamOS will be separated out. Then Linux will makeup an even smaller portion of the "desktop Linux market."
Headline might as well be: "Water is wet".