skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't see why it was necessary to say that the machine is "expensive" twice. There isn't another machine on EC2 that has these resources at a lower price, so in that sense it's the cheapest one of its class. The m6a class is 15% cheaper for the same memory and core count, but that instance family is slower.
In motion. Yes it is perpetual motion. The same thing can be observed in superfluids.
You greatly exaggerated how rational leftists or religious people are. (DAE do "cancelling"?).

I've attended classes as a listener where the professor was lecturing about how attempts to go to space are just modern equivalents of racist White Colonialism. I don't think there's a limit to how stupid people in supposedly high positions in society can be.
Sometimes you do indeed just want them to go quiet, at least in one or more particular contexts.

And yes, many humiliations are unjustified and counter-productive. But so is a refusal to engage with an actual argument and/or a refusal to engage in falsification.
In-office work isn't the same as supervised work. If you have managers/cameras hovering over your shoulder at all times in an office, that's a toxic work environment.

People have always found ways to be unproductive even in the in-office era: going to the bathroom while on the clock, constantly hanging out in the break room under the guise of getting coffee, office small talk, or just old fashioned web browsing on their computers/phones. Pretending like every white collar job was at 100% efficiency in the pre-pandemic era was just pure delusion on management's part.
Beginner's Guide to Llama Models
Ultimately, the key learning was the CDC and other federal agencies will propagate misinformation knowingly and intentionally for their perceived public health reasons. I'm no stranger to massive state restrictions of individual rights when fighting infectious diseases. DOTS and friends are an effective means of fighting TB. But intentionally misinforming crosses a line since it makes the organization untrustworthy.

Irrespective of whether masks work or not, the state apparatus chose to go with the message that they don't for the reason that they wanted to preserve supply for healthcare workers.

I had a supply of N95 masks from earlier preparation for forest fires that I gave to healthcare workers here in SF. In future, I shall not donate like this. It is clear that every man is an island and the agencies set up to inform us believe they must control us through deceit instead.
This is addressed in the article. The cuticle does nothing to protect against foodborne illness, and will likely degrade before you get the eggs home.
Tbh I’m (loosely) following commit message best practices in all of my projects out of irrational fear of being viewed as unprofessional. But never needed that effing prose in my workflow. Maybe a keyword from time to time. I’m using code, not messages to navigate history, and in a rare occasion. If all my messages turned into “i” I’d lose nothing, because all rationales and essentials are in code comments. I’d better seen dates (and related grouping) in a log by default and looked for a commit by some grepping patch contents rather than messages.
As a frontend developer, this reads to me as technobabble you'd find in entertainment media. In general, I learn about things not directly related to my sphere of interests by osmosis, but this is on another level. Reminds me of the time when I started my computing journey. I wonder if I'll be able to understand this eventually just by reading a relevant comment or blog here and there.
https://daisyui.com/ looks decent too.
They don't. As a result, they have to be much larger, so that the difference in the field strength is low enough.
I love looking at other people's setups, especially if they have done a clean-job on it.

Currently I have four small racks:

Rack #1 & Rack #2 dual side-by-side (custom built)
Rack #1
NAS x1 4U
NAS x2 4U
Patch panel 1U
Rack #2
PDU 1U
UPS 4U
UDM Pro 2U
24 Port switch 1U
Rackmount cable modem 1U

Rack #3 (it's an arcade cabinet)
Workstation 4U
Rackmount Mac Minis (Intel & ARM) 2U
UPS 4U

Rack #4 (custom built)
Supermicro 4U server (330TB) that doubles as the VR computer
Supermicro 4U storage box (700TB)
PDU 1U
UPS 2U

I like tinkering, but I don't rely on my racks for anything other than compute and storage. Technically I have a partial rack in a data center that I have never physically seen, where I self-host all the usual services, but as I only rent that rack, I don't consider it "mine." Tinkering with a homelab is a useful IT skill to have, even if you don't work directly in an IT only area, but you shouldn't burden yourself with an overly complicated setup. Keep life simple (and organized).
If you actually have more information, especially empirical evidence supporting your assertions, please post it. Your assertion -- that "the Marion County paper blatantly omits and twists facts and has shut down several businesses in Marion by posting stories about the owner's personal lives" -- warrants substantiating evidence. Where is it? You provided none.

Instead, you wrote, "And perhaps those of us that live nearby have more information and perspective than random commenters on HN?" That statement is nearly an appeal to authority, like a cable news-watching boomer saying, "Trust me, kid, I know what I'm talking about."
> Service manuals being free was the norm?

Yes. I had a manual for a scooter (which was more similar to a motorbike than to a skateboard) complete with 3D exploded-views of every part.
You should have put a proper disclosure in the post to avoid speculation.

Also it seems off to do all this research, and then instead of summarizing it properly, throw evewrything away and finish it with your own sentiment.

I remeber there was a paper where the reserches asked students to implement the same API using either REST/HTTP, or GraphQL, and the conclusion were in favor of GraphQL.

I would've added reviews of the research papers on this subject, in addition to the social media posts. The former adding more rigor than the latter.
It would be nice if the proposal defined the semantics of getting single item from the iterator (or detecting that it is out of items) and exposed an api for this, then defined the behavior of range as equivalent to some pattern using these primitives.

As is the proposal says "there should be some coro.Pull type thing" which is a bit terse and says nothing about whether the implementation of coro.Pull will be fast or whether it will be built on range + channels
> And perhaps those of us that live nearby have more information and perspective than random commenters on HN?

Doesn't seem likely, given what you've posted so far. Do you have anything of substance to contribute aside from the completely unsurprising information that the paper has enemies? Perhaps you could link to any of the unethical hit pieces you say the paper makes a habit of publishing. Or provide a plausible hypothesis for how identity theft and computer hacking could be crimes the paper's involved in committing. Because so far, it's pretty hard to construe this affair as the journalists being the bad guys and the cops being in the right, even if we account for the journalists in question being muckrakers.
that narrative was literally made up to get revenge on Trump for saying China virus
It's not the contents of a belief that makes it ridiculous.

It's the behavior of the person espousing the belief.

I can imagine an entirely rational and quite deep argument regarding whether or not attempts to go to space are just modern equivalents of White Colonialism. And I might not agree with one or all sides of such an argument, but they are not prima facie ridiculous.

What makes them ridiculous is a failure to engage with counter-points, a failure to grapple with reasonably established facts that conflict with the stated position, and a failure to engage in falsification (i.e. "well, if X and Y, then clearly my position would be wrong").

Someone who can do those things on behalf of their stated position deserves respect, but someone who cannot deserves much less.
> Higher Education Administration

Not to make an obvious boring comment, but: someone was offering a college degree in this? Yeesh. Bloat begets bloat, I guess.

I guess maybe that's overly cynical. Post-secondary education is important, and it follows that we would want people to figure out how to best deliver it. But hard not to judge that, just a little bit.
Ha! I very much doubt it delivered what they wanted, but they're prepared to pretend it's what they wanted because the alternative is to cry over how much money they wasted.
I recommend this documentary on the origins of hip-hop:

The Hip Hop Years

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=aCbcbKZjjdA
SCM as Save Button.
There's an interesting comment from a moderator(?) in the comment section:

> However, part of your comment can not be shown as you had used a character opening a HTML tag rendering a whole sentence like an invalid HTML instruction.

It appears this article reveals _two_ bugs.
It was a low/nocode environment; anyone (with enough rights) could knock up a simple app with rules/workflows and share it with the company. It made collecting, distributing and organising information easy if you knew what you were doing. It also created complex monsters as it was both too easy and too hard to use. I liked it a lot; we moved from Notes to Exchange and Sharepoint back in the day and it was awful for effiency. We required so much more people to do the same things. Luckily I left shortly after.
Needs a [2020]
Agreed. It’s really astounding how much maintenance “modern” software needs. A lot of the maintenance is to do with the dependencies, and/or with the discovery of vulnerabilities, but also with obsolescence in the tool chain used for building the software, or the APIs that the software depends upon, or simply the continual replacement of tokens/certificate and so on that have built in expiry.

It’s not glamorous work, but it is absolutely relentless, endless, tedious stuff.
Makes you wonder how people read long novels before they had enough RAM!
I couldn't agree more. Widespread belief in 'the science' is no different to any other cargo cult.

One should either know whatever-it-is because one has verified it, or one should be able to express one's assumptions re one's hypothesis. Social beliefs ought to have no part of it. Objective truth is not uncovered by consensus.
Another related article from August 3rd, 2023 covering the M7i / Xeon Platinum 8488 / 8480 / 848x:

https://www.theregister.com/2023/08/03/aws_custom_xeon_m7i_i...

I wonder what's really brewing at Intel.. it isn't often we get to read about customer-specific silicon.
I was just reading about the Air France flight that was lost over the Atlantic due to pilot panic, and a near-collision caused by confused pilots almost landing on a crowded taxiway, and a near-crash caused by pilot miscommunication about a flap setting just after takeoff that happened even more recently...

In light of this, I'm practically relieved to read about incidents caused by software bugs where the pilots were able to handle it calmly and with ease.

I don't know if that's a bad thing or a good thing.
> What law is that?

That citation and the quoted bit limiting the law to interstate commerce is already in the first comment you replied to. I think you have misconstrued something.
IMO don’t try to be the one stop shop to host models. There are too many players with all sorts of advancements (eg: stopping grammar, continuous batching, novel quantization etc.) and you won’t be able to keep up.

There is a ton of boilerplate around the actual model server that’s just busy work , but if done wrong can be a huge performance suck. Solve that.

Build the proxy that works with the most model servers out there. Do it in a way that once you have mindshare, the model server makers will be find it easy to put up a PR so that they can claim your proxy supports their server.

Don’t take a hard dependency on non-OSS stuff - being able to build an “on-prem” solution (read “deployed into customer’s VPC”) is table stakes for anyone to use your offering for a lot of enterprise use cases.

Edit: another unsolved problem - different models need slightly different prompts to solve the same problem well…
all they need now, is that some other computer buys it and consumes it.
About security and privacy:

> Amazon says this is secure in two ways. First, the company transmits only an encoded abstraction of your hand scan, in a proprietary format, which can’t be used to reproduce an image of your hand that could be stolen, even if attackers could get at it. Second, the company says it protects this data with the same systems that protect user data and credit-card information on Amazon.com itself.
Trust isn't only about credentials (or competence which credentials are supposedly meant to be a proxy for), but also honesty.

Get caught lying (or being generally sus, like say trying to hide conflicts of interest) enough times, and it doesn't matter if you're actually competent (or credentialed).
>remember, this album is from a time when people bought CDs and probably stuck them into a one-disc player

You just describe the first time I every danced with Lucy. I went back and forth with this disc and The Orb's A Huge Ever Growing Pulsating Brain That Rules from the Centre of the Ultraworld.
I wonder how much more of this "middle class" of colleges we will see hollowed out over the next few years/decades.

So many of these places are in really serious financial straits. Families are more and more unwilling to pay, and students are taking the possibility of trade/vocational school seriously.

Harvard will be fine. Stanford will be fine. Prestigious schools could last for quite a long while on their endowments alone, and besides, the Ivies have no shortage of eager customers. The brand value is too strong.

And I actually think 1) biiiiig state schools 2) small community colleges will mostly be fine. The government support is there, and the bang-for-your-buck is there.

But the middle-tier private university might be a dying breed.
They should have thought about XSS mitigation...
It’s one of those rare government offices that pretty much every American adult has to deal with at one time or another. I agree that it really isn’t a big deal.

In the past decade, I’ve had to visit the DMV office twice for a combined total of about two and a half hours. I’ve also had to get my two cars emissions tested about three times taking about 30 minutes each time. 4 hours of my time over a decade isn’t worth getting worked up about. It’s annoying but so are about 1,000 other things in life.
This sounds plausible. He probably haven't suffered any serious consequences of his actions ever before, and his bail agreement, which is pretty mild, only reinforced him in the illusion that this is nothing, it'll all be ok, consequences happen to other people.
Colleges of the humanities may need to completely separate themselves from universities. The bloat of college tuition simply makes those fields of study uneconomical on a fundamental level, and it is only getting worse.

Choose, be in debt for most of the cost of a new house on graduation with no employment prospects, or major in something more focused? Yeah.

The professors of these programs are generally all old and simply riding out tenure to retirement, just like all boomers. And what will happen when they retire? I predict there won't be tenured professors in huge swathes of humanities, just adjuncts ... everywhere. Basically, TAs for whatever classes the revenue majors demand for at least SOME depth.

You may need to have entirely new institutions form around humanities without labs, housing, football stadiums, etc. Maybe they are adjacent/satellite to the main institutions. A throwback to basically what higher education used to be without the Oxford look. Basically, small cloister of students. And good lord, eliminate ALL the goddamn vampire management. Really, the professors will need it for getting any decent salary. Get rid of all those useless middle managers. Contract out teaching humanities to the big-fish university they are nearby.

And is this the hallmark of the breaking point of universities? I roll my eyes at humanities as much as another science guy, but they are still a living core of real higher education. Hollowing out humanities means the soul of a college is dead. It's just a bunch of grade-seeking premeds, MBAs, etc.

What does humanities need? A classroom, a blackboard, chalk. Even a big library isn't that necessary with internet resources.
I think that's not true actually, freedom of speech absolutely implies a requirement for broadcast. Speech is in itself a broadcast, the intent is that you're supposed to be able to be heard - otherwise it would be called freedom of thought and everyone would naturally agree that that is not good enough.

We can quickly end up in a world where your ruler tells you that you have full freedom of speech just as long as this speech remains firmly inside your cranium and never leaves it.

The problem here is that the philosophical position is a bit more complex: Issues of decorum and harassment and spam exist, requiring limits on broadcast and so someone always has to judge what the true intent of your speech is. We now live in a world where people readily judge that the other side never has good intentions, therefore their speech can be forbidden. It's an intellecutal and moral problem, some people are simply incapable or unwilling to understand the other side's position or moral values to such a high degree that they reject any allowance for speech.
Not only will Harvard/Stanford/MIT/Caltech/Berkeley/Princeton be fine, they will continue to thrive as ever before.
Beating the experts? They knowingly lied about medical science in a matter of life and death with a straight face to millions of people. And you line up and kiss the ring and say thank you for the nudging, may I have another?
As someone that has build huge nation wide networks and data centers I can tell you this is far from what I want at home (now)! When I was a young network engineer I had a Sun SPARC5 running OpenBSD as a firewall. Ultra10 for my desktop. I ran my own DNS and a rack of servers. Wifi was new and of course I ran cutting edge OSS firmware on whatever was the latest HW. Too much work!

Today, Ubiquity HW.
Enterprise 48 PoE, 1/2.5/10G core, small PoE powered 5 port switch behind TV, etc. for fan out where needed (I did rewire house with Cat6A). 3 of the latest APs that support 6E. NVR for the cameras. TrueNAS MiniXL+ for NAS that I can run K8s on if needed (cheaper to pay IXsysten for the setup then build myself, including time). AppleTV for media. Leviton Wifi switches for remote control power/lights. 5 gig symmetric fiber internet with a Comcast backup that auto fails over (UDMP-SE for firewall). It all just works and I spend zero time on it.

About the only tech head thing I still have is a stand alone 4 generation old CPU (i7) running ... gentoo targeted at that CPU for speed, as a Minecraft server. And honestly that is going to be replaced with a 2 year old SFF box soon with a less complex version of Linux :)
What's the difference between shipping AST with formatting stripped and shipping code that's been automatically formatted? I feel like the only difference is the configuration required to enforce the latter and different modes of failure. Adopting Prettier in my team was the best decision ever, so liberating. More languages should have a single, mandatory way to format code, without any ways to opt out.
binary search is essentially an algorithm to find zeros, which is just algebra/analysis.
> Depending on your budget, you can block out anything short of jackhammers with either IEMs or earbuds+noise reduction earmuffs.

Perhaps more a personal thing but it induces a dizziness/ drowsiness with extended use. It’s fine when watching say a movie but I could never work for long periods with my ears blocked. Wonder if I’m the only 1 but I have heard of similar cases.
I rather enjoy the "cutesy" language! I view seamlessly weaving complex topics with fun and relevant asides as a mark of talent not immaturity.

PS for archmaster: here is an excellent Operating Systems textbook & resource (that also has fun references throughout): https://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~remzi/OSTEP/

Keep it up :)
> or being generally sus, like say trying to hide conflicts of interest

Good point.

It's worth reminding all that the vast overwhelming bulk of vaccine and COVID disinformation trafficking on twitter and social media could all be traced back to about 12 individual sources who were SEO'ing madly to sow distrust and sell their own brands of snake oil.
Yeah the pricing on their is only for the hosted service.
Commit comments are how you find code diffs.

Focus on what/why in your commit messages.

If you can’t articulate that in your commit messages, I can almost guarantee you’re thinking deeply enough about your code changes.
Because the concerns around vaccines are rarely proportional to the risks. For example, the likelihood of getting myocarditis from the vaccine is 1 in 15,000. That is roughly the same as the likelihood of being struck by lightning at least once during your life. You also have a 1 in 10,000 chance of dying in a car crash in any given year. I doubt the people who are so worried about the vaccine are going around worrying about driving a car or being struck by lightning, and even if they were, it wouldn't be rational to do so.
Downside of this is when you get a panicked pilot and a software bug, which is actually sort of inevitable since the one rides on top of the other.

Having worked both in aviation incident investigation and for Big Mama B at various times, every time I see a Boeing story my whole body involuntarily clenches for a moment.

In . . delight! Of course! Delightful clenching.
A few self driving cars would beg to differ. Software absolutely can kill in the meatspace world.
Before the development of LLMs, I think it would be a lot easier for people to accept that Data or Eva were intelligent -- they'd never seen a machine respond seemingly meaningfully to arbitrary statements before and would immediately assume that this meant there was intelligence going on. These days it would be harder -- the assumption would be that they were driven by just a better language model that they'd seen before.
> isn't the consensus still that the virus has a zoonotic origin? That is mostly a rhetorical question, because unless I have missed something, it is. Why do so many folks want to pretend that this has been proven incorrect?

There is no such consensus. That is one hypothesis. The other hypothesis is that SARS-CoV-2 was the product of gain-of-function research carried out at the Wuhan Institute of Virology. There have been a number of papers published arguing for either hypothesis. Interestingly, it was recently discovered that the authors of one of the papers arguing against the lab leak hypothesis had privately expressed the opinion that the lab leak hypothesis was almost certainly correct.

> Perhaps I have a selective memory but I seem to remember that most of the pushback against the lab origin theory from people like Fauci was primarily intended to combat racial and ethnic tensions that were growing at the time. Especially when it came to the notion that the virus was purposely released.

That doesn’t really make any sense if you think about it. The uptick in violent crime against Asian-Americans started in the summer months alongside the more general uptick in violent crime. Furthermore, the official narrative essentially blamed the pandemic on Chinese people buying unsanitary exotic meat from wet markets. To me, that seems far more likely to incite ethnic hatred than simply pinning the blame on the Wuhan Institute of Virology.

> I do not recall any reputable scientist completely discounting the lab origin theory

At one point, the lab leak theory was considered “misinformation” and censored by social media companies, supposedly based on the guidance they received from public health authorities.