skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While true that’s a minor distinction when comparing the clusters of bioinformatics workflow systems vs workflow systems aimed at different domains
Reminds me of: "We do these things not because they are easy but because we thought they would be easy."
Did someone invent working LLM-based moderation? Serious question; it'd be interesting.
My granddad (WW2 air vet) used to give his father's (WW1 air vet) toast to the whole family every thanksgiving:

Here's to the sands of the hourglass,

a measure of time as it flies;

Here's to the men who flew West today,

Three cheers for the next man who dies!
It looks like, in the ranks of HN posters, cryptobros have been replaced by AInuts.
The balance point would rarely also be on the north-south, east-west intersection. The only time that would happen is if the distance of each person was also equal on either side of your meridian and your latitude.

In reality, the clumpiness of the populations on either side of your dividing lines are going to be different. You could have a dispersed population on the west side of the meridian, but a concentrated population far away on the east side of the meridian.
If you look at it from 10k feet, it’s a credible investor promising a pre-stated amount of money and a quick yes/no answer, with minimal song and dance. This is practically non-existent elsewhere. The high equity cost is the premium for skipping the traditional process.

Edit: I should also add that YC is trustworthy as well (easy to underestimate this part).
Cars use an absurd amount of energy so I would think regardless of “dirty production” that you are largely incorrect
Actually, just yesterday I had a recruiter call where they remarked "oh we thought you had embedded experience but I guess not" and proceeded to get a rejection email that same day...

I am not that great at C++, but I guess self-teaching C++ is a more fitting path to go down vs. self-teaching backend tech?
Well, in theory it could - if it weren't so terrible and formulaic.
> indeed i just saw a startup demo today show off a feature that they admitted was just Vault in a wrapper (they even called their thing Vault haha) and that was it, but i would not have thought Hashicorp would mind them at all (its a very new startup)

What about all the cloud providers with their own Vault offering, which is likely just Hashicorp's FOSS Vault with lipstick and other bells/whistles?

People are paying good money for Secrets Management, and probably not to HashiCorp (directly or indirectly). If your cloud provider offers a turn-key solution and it's priced right, why would you bother with an external 3rd party?

HashiCorp recently rolled out a "Free Tier" to their HCP service[1]. They're clearly trying to get more people to use their first-party services.

[1] https://www.hashicorp.com/products/vault/pricing
I dunno man, I just started using Scheme (finally!) and now I'm mad all over again at all of us programmers for just not using Lisp. Like, WTF? It's older than I am! It's like, how much time and energy should we waste on syntax and "languages"? Hasn't there been enough suffering and woe?

I know I sound like a ninny, but I'm seriously y'all.

We should just use lisp.

I don't even like lisp. I'm a Python fan. But now that I've seen for myself what it is, what it's been since half a century already, I just see (almost) all the other programming languages as waste.

Maybe it had to be this way, but frankly it just feels like the human mind has an unfortunate tendency to fixate on abstractions and then refuse (likely for valid caloric reasons) to climb out of a local maxima.
> Part of the issue here is posting a LessWrong post

I mean, this whole line of analysis comes from the LessWrong community. You may disagree with them on whether AI is an existential threat, but the fact that people take that threat seriously is what gave us this whole "memorize-or-generalize" analysis, and glitch tokens before that, and RLHF before that.
Spitballing here, but I wonder whether the relatively unsophisticated understanding of aerodynamics meant controlling for clean, laminar air behind the plane was much too difficult?

E: perhaps reading your linked thread before making this comment would’ve been wise of me :)
(Obligatory)

"I'll believe corporations are people when Texas executes one" -Bill Moyers?
Cloud providers build a proprietary control plane to deploy copies of the program and it could be argued that such code is a modification of the program itself and thus has to be released. That's why they won't touch AGPL code.
Unfortunately the real price is what someone is willing to pay. The same people that pay 2x as much for the same McDonald's via Uber Eats are the ones probably paying 2x as much for soap on Amazon for the "convenience" (laziness) factor.
Usually the badge-in spots were grouped at entryways? So, not one attendant per badge reader, but not uncommon to have a choke point that had one. If only for security reasons. Even without an attendant, there would be a camera. And this would present an obvious cluster of badge ins that can be easily inspected.
Nudes leak at the plasitc surgery, Mali mail mix-up and WormGPT
> Bigger cmake builds are doing dependency resolution,

find_package(foo)

#...

target_link_libraries(myapp foo::Static)

> configuration tests,

I don't know what you mean by configuration tests. I don't think I ever added any test resembling that description other than sanity checks in cmake find modules and sanity checks on projects just for convenience.

> and configuration for development or release builds

Those are not handled by cmake other than setting a flag that's used in the code.

> /installs.

You don't need to do anything other than setting the install target.

https://cmake.org/cmake/help/latest/command/install.html

I think you're either wildly exaggerating or you've been creating your own problems.
> And now even Oracle is looking like the reasonable player?

A broken clock and so on. Oracle has absolutely no reason to misbehave here, and everything to gain by being ethical. At this point, they would only do something wrong if the compulsion was too strong.
Curious why you didn't stack them like...

1. 24p Patch Panel (Odd ports of switch)
2. 48p Switch
3. 24p Patch Panel (Even ports of switch)
4. 1u Cable Mgmt

Then you could have bought 4-6" Cat 5e/6a pre-made patch cables to connect in the majority of your patch panel ports. The only cables that would traverse through the cable mgmt panel would be longer cables to the servers in your rack.

I have a similar Cisco switch as your 24 port. I am not fan of how they arranged all the ports at the right side of the enclosure. Why not make the 24p one row along the top (or bottom), like the 48p with the 2nd row removed? It would be a lot easier for cable mgmt.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shingled_magnetic_recording ?

With borg I'm doing incremental backups and while slow, borg seems fairly slow anyway so I haven't noticed.

I wonder if it will get much slower once more of the disk has been written to.
I think this is where you're wrong. I can't remember the last time I watched any non-Netflix content on Netflix.

They're also adept at funding international content at a fraction of the price of US content. Assuming AI doesn't take over filmmaking I can see a future fairly soon were Netflix are making a ton of English language content in Africa/India/Eastern Europe. Or they are making international content and using AI to generate English vocals and lip sync.
This is such a seemingly simple notion, it borders on the obvious when stated, but I think folks who put forth an honest effort to apply it in practice tend to discover that it’s far more powerful than its surface level reading. It was surprising to me how little I actually engaged with what others were contributing until I made a genuine effort to do so. It generally requires several other deceptively simple traits that can/should be cultivated—traits such as humility, an understanding of how to make/receive constructive criticism, how to apply that feedback productively, and an overall willingness to allow others to reshape your own endeavors.

In my own experience I learned that in almost every case where I sought the participation of others and relinquished some of my control my work was objectively improved across the board—the final product seemed much more mature, robust, and I was introduced to a lot of blind spots that allowed me to learn and grow, which in turn helps improve future efforts. My personal philosophy now simply asserts that in most scenarios I only stand to gain with the involvement of more (and more diverse) voices.

More to the OP’s original point, I believe that accepting one’s own limits, and freely admitting when a task or project may test/exceed them, is one of the components to this same general humility. It’s empowering to be able to nourish your curiosity and push your limits. Involving others who can support that effort expands your possibilities and while providing additional protection against failures. All of this is healthy, just generally, but such collaboration can also help define where you stand among your peers, identify potential gaps in your knowledge/abilities, reassure yourself that your contributions are meaningful, and shape the path to further growth. The same is true for everyone involved, and you can lend your own strengths to their development in-kind. Concerns for how you’re perceived by others should center around how you engaged with the process and helped foster progress, the results of which should speak for themselves in the long run.

TLDR; I diverged a bit from the parent comment. Lots of people are smart, and skilled people are interchangeable with other skilled people. Being generous, sincere, and supportive however can make you indispensable. However, all of these traits require cultivating and training, whether it’s technical knowledge or listening with empathy.
Lucky you, my stakeholders would run screaming for the hills whenever they caught a whiff of written code on PLCs. All ladder, all the time.
Depends on the conditions of the BSL and whether your legal department is OK with them.
Hashicorp adopts BSL, Armon Dadgar, https://archive.is/wi0AJ
An urgent care clinic is flooding the internet with nonsensical posts
I am a paying Pulumi user. Their tool integrates with a cloud platform and we pay per resource managed by Pulumi.

Pulumi is one of several products where I like that it’s open source in case I need to move off their cloud, but hope that I don’t have to (Plausible is another).
That page includes the sentence “A word that ends in a vowel is more likely to attracting this mistake.”

I wouldn’t bring it up but… glass houses.
Personally with visual studio and vcpkg, I never have an issues with setting up the environment. Vcpkg in particular makes it easy to note have to do manual linking, and it handles x86 vs x64 automatically as well.
Literally just don't sign CLAs. I made the mistake of signing a CLA for a piece of software which shortly after switched to a non-Free license, and will never ever sign a CLA again.
Completely agreed. I'd be happy to pay even more to have a Spotify-like video streaming service. One price for everything, without commercials, would be worth the same or more than what I used to pay for cable. "Without Commercials" being the key point. I won't pay to be advertised at.
How can you be so sure they wouldn’t buy a Hummer-style bicycle?
Just overwriting once with all zeroes (or anything else) is enough; for modern drives (where “modern” means “last 25 years”). It’s basically impossible to recover data after that.
Classic! My favorite “anyone can do it hack” was ping flooding people during a lan-party

Good old memories
I mean, “need” is a pretty strong word. No one needs a MacBook Pro, you can do everything on a Raspberry Pi just slower (exaggerating but you get the point). Personally, having reliable internet has been a significant increase in quality of life but admittedly, mesh routers are getting closer and closer. The biggest draw are VLANs. When even the FBI recommends separate networks, it shows how prevalent these issues are. I know a bunch of people that got affected by cryptolocker. While having good practice is probably what helps me a lot, a hardened network helps tremendously.
more detail requested.
SharePoint stores files as binaries in a SQL database (or a reference to an Azure Blob Store). The filesystem doesn’t come into play.
If you have the patience you can try setting up your own CI/CD pipelines.

IMO API dev isn't THAT different from what you already do, just a different mindset. Take this with a grain of salt from me though because I only dabble in API dev.

There's an O'Reilly book "Cloud Native DevOps with Kubernetes" that have me a solid grasp on Kubernetes but the biggest lesson from that section was "don't manage k8s yourself" and that was the BEST advice about K8s I've ever seen. Create a free account with the cloud service providers and play around with k8s (ideally after you've run through some guides on CI/CD). This is 100% your "real world experience".

If you're looking to try a new career field I think you'd likely excel in infosec with your background. Take a look at application security and see if that interests you.

I know your pain as I'm on the tail end of what you're going through, but as an outsider looking in it seems you're in a much stronger spot than I am! They're is light at the end of the tunnel!

EDIT: IT needs specialists AND generalists. From one generalist to another, don't be too upset about not being an expert in your domain. I'm a CISSP that struggles with security analysis but can do security management, privacy, and GRC off a fresh bong rip and a four loko+rip it cocktail. THERE IS NOTHING WRONG WITH NOT KNOWING EVERYTHING BECAUSE A GOOD TEAM WILL ALWAYS LOOK OUT FOR EACH OTHER
But are you going to block the US/Europe on your national network so that your citizens live in a silo. Are you afraid of free flow of information or of your citizens seeing it? That's what Russia, China, and North Korea do, is that what you want in your country?
That reads almost like a disparagement of GCC/Clang; the reality is you can just build on pretty much any host system directly and it will work. Having clean and repeatable builds is extremely useful, and Docker is a reasonable way to do that, but that shouldn't mask the importance of understanding the native runtime dependencies of the program once used outside of that one container. A concrete example of that: don't compile a C program in an Alpine Linux Docker image with dynamic linking, or it you won't be able to run the resultant binary on a RHEL machine. This is contrast to languages which run atop a virtual machine or interpreter, where the details of the build environment rarely matter on the runtime machine.
There is a difference between there being a record of it in some county's database and a team of Treasury department and federal law enforcement members scrutinizing the sale (and being given additional records on it from the intermediaries involved).
Welcome to Sligoville: The Story of the Irish in Jamaica
The big difference when comparing bioinformatics systems with non are what the typical payload of a DAG node is and what optimizations that indicates. Most other domains don’t have DAG nodes that assume the payload is a crappy command line call and expecting inputs/outputs to magically be in specific places on a POSIX file system.

You can do this on other systems but it’s nice to have the headache abstracted away for you.

The other major difference is assumption of lifecycle. In most biz domains you don’t have researchers iterating on these things the way you do in bioinf. The newer ML/DS systems do solve this problem than say Aorflow
Much nicer than my setup. I have three small form factor PCs running OpenBSD tied together with a small Netgear gigabit switch. Each has an external drive for backups using rsync and dump. Copies of the backups are made to another drive for offsite storage. One computer is a workstation, the other two are servers. One server is for internal use, the other is for external services. WireGuard is used to tie the outward-facing server to an Internet hosted server so services can be passed between them. There's no UPS though. I didn't want to deal with battery maintenance... Power outages are taken when they occur. One thing about that, the computers bios are set to leave the computers off if the power blips. The whole thing sits on a single shelf of the bookcase.
Oh man! Memories.

Back in 1999, Quake II was the game I played (like, literally the only one). I sunk so much time in QII and I wrote my very first code building a Mod.

I think it's fair to say, Quake II turned me from a computer user into a computer programmer. And set the course for my entire adult life and career.

From my original mod, I learned how to calculate vectors, learn an existing code base, integrate autobuilds for rapid testing.

I also dabbeled in making maps, learning 3rd art, but, quickly realized I am no artist or designer.

Sadly, my version control and backup policies at the time were non-existant and I've lost all my original code.

The next game that really got my attention in the same way was Tribes 2, the scriptings and modding you could do there was truly amazing.
"Perhaps you don't understand what faith is, or its relation to reason, or how "science" was understood by scientists of the 13th century."

Well, that is pretty damning! How on earth can you pontificate on the nature of my understanding of faith?

I may take a peek at ... (I studied Latin 40 odd years ago) ... Faith and rationality (Reason is probably a better translation) about wings. However, I'm pretty sure it isn't going to involve solving special cases of Bernoulli equations or Finite Element Analysis.

You have your notion of faith and I have mine. I would never dream of describing your notions of faith as false or misled or misguided or anything else. I respect your faith and your right to have as such. I'd be grateful if you would extend the same courtesy to me and anyone else who has a difference of opinion to yourself.

Your elements of engineering, science etc list seems to have missed out rather a lot of the world. For starters: algorithms are named after an Arab bloke. Our "alphabet" is named after the first two letters of Hebrew, our numbers are famously Arabic. Nought/nowt/null/zero/nothing as a mathematics concept largely comes from Islamic scholars. What we now call India and China also have a massive input to the basics - too much for this comment 8)
There are tens of thousands of bootstrapped companies that have had 10M "exits" when the founder ultimately decided to sell...after years of profits.

There have only been a few VC backed companies that had billion dollar exits...only a few dozen that have even had profitable exits...which is about the same number of VC backed companies that have actually achieved profitability (but there is little overlap between these two groups)

Bootstrapped companies are more likely to survive, and thrive, than VC-backed companies. You just don't here about them much because they've got realistic business plans, and that's not sexy to read about.
My guess is that Oracle Linux will use OpenELA source code repositories to create a distribution that has the usual Oracle-specific quirks, whereas RockyLinux and SUSE will use these repositories to create a distribution that has Red Hat-specific quirks. Sounds like members will have the freedom to do whatever they want with their distribution, they probably won't let any one member exclude specific packaging repositories that are desired by other members.
https://archive.is/X1E1t
I think that sounds like an issue of not converting something properly? The problem with converting is that it can be expensive... that's true.
America (Not So Much) on the Move
I don't know of any IDE that provides even half of what i want TBH.

On Linux (which is my main OS these days) pretty much all options involve a text editor with some plugin/addon to somehow understand C plus the ability to call a makefile or some other command. Of all those Kate (KDE's "advanced" text editor) with an LSP plugin and a Clang-based LSP seems to be good enough.

Though it is really more of a "least bad" than "actually good" situation.
AgentBench – Evaluating LLMs as Agents
I didn't realize the problem this solves was a problem.
TVM is all of this. It even has compilation support for exotic devices like FPGAs, phone ASICs and such. MLIR frameworks are heading this direction too.

> its trivial to quantize to your liking

...Except its not implemented in the demo. Also, quantization is far from simple.

All this sounds good, but I have seen cool sounding ONNX demos for years, and (outside of some fairly quick one off TensorRT demos) I havent really seen the pavement hit the road.
It's Germany only at the moment. They intend to expand worldwide in 2024.
Have you used TVM much? Is it only good for inference?
You, humanitec, and env0 should start a community fork of pre-BSL Terraform and donate it to the CNCF.
I'm way more fine with AGPL (without CLA). That's perfectly within the spirit of open source, as it doesn't privilege one group of users over another.

BPL, EPL, SSPL are all "not open source", and AGPL+CLA is "we're setting up for a bait and switch with not open source versions".
A Real-Imaginative Guide to Complex Numbers
Just going by what's available. There are only so many companies doing OS work and they typically are the FAANG-size places that can afford such an endeavor. And they aren't hiring.
My son is just about to turn 3 and my daughter is mearly 1. Please be aware that the second child isn't the same amount of work. It more than double - quadruple? It's as hard to explain how much harder a second child is as it is to explain how tough the first would be to someone with none.

People tell you that having a kid will take all your free time but it's not really true because one parent can relax while the other foes something with one. When you have a second, the wife be fully occupied with the second and you will become primary care for the first. You're both suddenly single parents. The internal fortitude required to single handedly entertain a toddler exceeds anything I've ever had to do before.
> OK, then maybe dont watch all the shows? Or do a rolling subscription?

Rolling subscriptions are the best way to handle the current streaming fragmentation. We frequently cancel services to see if anyone in the household notices. If someone does, it is easy enough to resub and cancel again.

That said, I fully expect the step after "No more ad-free streaming" to be "12 month contracts minimum" or $120/mo for month by month or just $600 per year, charged monthly at $49.99.
It could probably be replaced by a Raspberry Pi with an Amiga emulator.
100 O'clock
and I responded to your "exists to change things". Vim also exists to change things, otherwise it wouldn't exist if Vi was enough. but it is compatible and from my experience nvim is compatible with vim.

Having to rely on them for that is a downside, but I guess you are free to fork nvim if they abandon that promise...
There are many projects that are managed by foundations, like the Apache Foundation, FSF, Linux Foundation, etc. Those projects aren't backed by any one corporate entity.

Aside from that, there's still value in contributing to a product you're consuming at your day job: not having to maintain forks. If you can get your feature into the upstream project, less work for you in the long run, it's a win win.

Should you contribute to corporate owned projects in your free time for the fun of it? Probably not, unless you think it will earn you some kind of recognition (resume fodder).
You are absolutely right. AGI is already here anyways.
Yep.I don't actually know how hard-core they are at enforcing the requirements for someone who adamantly refuses but reasonable exemptions or at least taking the swim class seem to be the norm. (And if you have some cert which includes a swim requirement that qualifies as well.)