skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How would a soc2 audit uncover that?

They're asking for evidence that your admin accounts are reviewed for permissions needed each quarter, that you are doing your DR tests, that you are following documented change management processes, etc, not asking to look at what your running containers are doing.

There is absolutely no way that any compliance audit I can think of would or would even attempt to uncover that kind of info.
Sorry for misrepresenting your work. Thank you for correcting me and the explanation. Will take a closer look.
Predatory journals entrap unsuspecting scientists
Flash is down to "only" 2x price of regular harddisks for several TB. Sure new HDDs are large, but they're expensive, and it seems unreasonable to me the new HAMR tech will be different.

Simple extrapolation puts the crossover a few years into the future last I checked, though there are other aspects as well.

Will HDDs die next decade? Surely not. But given flash can go 3D surely its just a question of time until HDDs are like tapes now.
Maybe not yet, but eventually?

HDD manufacturers do seem to see trouble brewing. Eg, one interesting thing to me is that hard disks are getting more complex. We now have:

* Helium

* HAMR

* SMR

* Dual actuators

Helium and HAMR improve density, but add cost. SMR improves density but results in drives that need special handling. Dual actuators improve performance, but increase points of failure.

Things like HAMR and SMR seem to be a sign that there's not that much more density to squeeze out without taking special measures.

One problem is that as drives get larger and larger, RAID sync times keep on growing. Even assuming faster RPM drives and multiple actuators it seems we're getting quite closer to where this becomes a serious problem.
In addition to the cost advantage, HDD firmware is simpler and more reliable.
powerful image recognition software has been around longer than the last couple of years though, right?
Gruntwork here. You can find our statement here: The Future of Terraform must be open—our plan and pledge to keep Terraform open source. https://blog.gruntwork.io/the-future-of-terraform-must-be-op...

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You are not a prompt engineer. Prompt engineers are not a thing. Prompt engineering is not a skill.
Seems like there's a lot of easier and more lucrative ways to make money off of being the first folks to create and operate useful jet packs than illegal mining
Understanding the Relationship Between LLMs and Negation
It’s been shown that we can write standards for these things. In fact you would build on an existing baseline like i2c. they almost certainly already do already
That's good to know. I'm feeling it's somewhat analogous to in the US where mentioning something is taboo.
The problem with low-voltage is lengths. I don't know how far USB-C as such can reasonably go.

PoE, of course, can go as far as the ethernet (usually) and so any future low-voltage system in homes will probably be based on it (it's already used in some commercial setups).
Man who runs "Entertainment Storage Alliance" writes white paper claiming that people need lots of storage, so HDDs aren't going anywhere, makes charts to illustrate his feelings, presents no analysis.

Whitepaper store link (I have to assume the description isn't updated for each new issue...?) https://tomcoughlin.com/product/digital-storage-technology-n...

Entertainment Storage Alliance: http://www.entertainmentstorage.org/

I agree that HDDs aren't going anywhere, but this is a nothing article on an apparently nothing whitepaper.
> A blindness towards the realities of the USSR was common amongst the highly educated at that time. There's a reason the west had such huge problems with westerners becoming Soviet double agents

It was even worse than that. Both the British governments under Chamberlain and Churchill and the US government under FDR sympathized with the USSR. There were continuous sub rosa contacts going on (for example, FDR regularly sent emissaries like Harry Hopkins over to Moscow to confer with Stalin) that were, while not publicly known, officially sanctioned. This was why the USSR was able to end up in control of all of Eastern Europe after WWII--which to any objective observer meant that WWII failed to achieve its primary goal in Europe, which was to liberate Eastern Europe from tyranny. But nobody made any such criticism at the time; the USSR was praised as an ally even while they were shipping millions of Germans and Eastern Europeans to labor camps.
An In-Depth Analysis of ChatGPT and Stack Overflow Answers [pdf]
I'm glad I'm not the only one. Apple's top music is always R&B, Rap, etc. I have never seen a song or radio I actually wanted to listen to. Guess its up to me to find all the new music?
> Means there were too few commercial customers. Where they had commercial customers (like the Graphics & Animation business), there was a disruption by other technology, like SGIs (RISC CPUs with powerful graphics accelerators) and also Windows NT. The graphics software was sold to Nichimen and ported to SGIs and Windows NT.

And now even SGI is out of business. It is a little bit unfortunate, but I think there is a history lesson to learn. Symbolics, SGI, Sun, Xerox, IBM, AT&T, they are all gone from the software business, more or less. I mean IBM, AT&T and Xerox are alive, but they are just a shadow of former self they once were, at least on the software front. Seems like all companies that target high-level industry with big profits, and ignores the consumer market are fading away.

Compare that to Microft which exploded in market share after their Dos/Windows and Intel which exploded after their 8086/8088. It just shows how important it is to put the technology out to consumers. Not because mass consumers will create so much value, they will that too of course, but foremost they will learn how to use the technology and once they come to businesses and have to solve problems, they will use it. I think that is a problem Symbolics faced. They run on dedicated hardware that probably was a multum in price and was used for specialized problems, while worse technology was cheaper and more accessible. People used what was accessible and when a generation grew up and went to work of course it is cheaper to let them use what they have learned then to buy specialized hardware and train them in specialized language. I think same thing happened to SGI when big graphics software names released their software for Windows. I think it is a circle, or a rolling stone. It is important to put the technology and knowledge out in the hands of people.

It is a bit sad that LW and Franz are keeping their software behind the locked gates instead of letting them out in the free. I bet some middle-tier manager is sitting at the Boeing as of this writing and trying to figure out how to save $$$ by cutting out that crazy expensive expert-knowledge Lisp thing out of their software stack, just to save some $$$ and get promotion or a bigger bonus.

If LW and Franz are going to survive and not go same way as Symbolics, Sun & Co, they should probably rethink their strategy of licensing their stuff free for GPL/non-commercial use, similar as Qt and some other companies do. Perhaps SBCL is good enough, but Lisp community needs more and better tools. In expert hands Emacs is s superb tool, but it is not the average mass tool.

It is a bit shame. I think Lisp is such a great tool for software engineering and applications development, but it is so underused because the knowledge pool is so small and the best tools are locked away behind the pricey tag seems like. If/when those two guys are gone, LW and Franz, Lisp will be seen even more as an academic exercise rather than a useful practical tool.

I don't know, perhaps I am wrong, just thinking loud.
In general, when ppl say ChatGPT on hn, do they mean 3.5 (free version) or 4.0 (paid version)?

Which is it you are referring to here?
> Webapps don't need to be installed

Was true of what I was doing in 1988 too.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Project
The article links to the benchmarks in https://arewefastyet.com/linux64/benchmarks/overview?numDays...

Some benchmarks evaluate "execution time", so the lower the better.

Some benchmarks have a "score" instead, that the lower the higher in the chart. I'm not familiar with these benchmarks and don't know how to interpret it. Is higher score worse or better?
Region fueled India’s population boom. Now it’s in danger
Yes. Although short options aren’t reported. People are assuming this is a bet against the markets, when it could even be a bull put spread betting the markets go up or sideways.
Nah, that's neither large for me nor a rant. It's a few paragraphs on the ongoing disappointment I have with the lack of honest communication up against the requests for honest communication. It's the "Does this dress make me look fat?" feedback request from HR.

I sometimes wonder what innovations would be required to make HR completely outsourceable.
Both make good arguments. If the total cost of an SSD is indeed cheaper than spinning rust in five years, then sure, I can see them getting phased out for enterprise.

But what about consumers? They don't consider TCO the same way. They don't look at energy or space constraints. They only look at cost per megabyte. As long as SSD is more, they will keep buying spinning rust for backups.

The fact that Costco always has backup disks on the shelves tells me that it's a pretty popular item amongst consumers.
Thanks for the heads up, I shall update the landing page. The tool tries to detect the interpreter (currently just node and python), but you can provide a custom one with `--interpreter deno`.
There are still a lot of workloads that perform mostly sequential writes and reads that aren't a huge win for SSD. Even if you look at random write workloads many of those start by journaling to a WAL now, so it is possible for the WAL to be on a separate HDD.

I assume a lot of this comes down to "object storage": S3 and similar services. As I understand it, these would do actual data storage in HDD (or other cheaper medium for glacier and slower access storage). Metadata caching could use SSD.
> There's even a famous political cartoon

For anyone searching, it's from 1931, titled Das Firmenschild ("The Company Sign") by Jacobus Belsen.

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jacobus_Belsen_-_Das...
>Imagine if the creators of Linux [] suddenly switched to a non-open-source license that only permitted non-competitive usage.

Linux cannot even successfully switch from GPL2 to GPL3 because of the sheer number of contributors and the fact that not all of them have transferred their copyright ownership to any given organization. This patchwork of different copyright owners has historically been seen as a potential weakness for Linux, but it seems like perhaps license inflexibility is a strength for open source.
> There's an ever-decreasing but nonzero probability that you will keep getting heads.

But with enough flips, the odds getting heads on all of them comes close enough to zero that they are effectively zero.
They can also be left unpowered "forever" without data loss, while SSD lose bits after a few weeks.
Thanks! that's good to keep in mind for sure. I use this mainly for running something out of cron where i want to make sure it gets placed into that directory since many of the scripts i have are written to expect that.
Speaking of porch pirates, what are you going to do when a porch pirate strikes your house? Take down their license plate? Call the police?

I'm cynical, but I imagine it goes like this:

"Hello, this is 911, how can we help you?"

"I'd like to report a 39.99 board game stolen off my porch, license plate ZXX-1234"

"Sir, this line is for emergencies. Have you filed a claim with Amazon?"

Porch cameras drive mass paranoia. If you're not prepared to act on the information yourself, you're just feeding your own fear.
There's a reason why you want higher voltages: to minimize losses in conduits; i.e. you can move more effectively 12W in 120V/0.1A rather than 12V/1A -- the lower current, the lower resistance.

There are no 12V standards for wiring buildings, because effectivity-wise, it make no sense. Even the above-mentioned PoE is 48-56V (56V, so it can be 48V at the other end of up to the 100m long cable). The 5-12-20V USB PD is for relatively short cables, not for something that goes around your house.
>> Wouldn't that generate an entirely random but valid output?

No. Grammars don't generate entirely random output. Even Probabilistic Context Free Grammars can generate deterministic output, depending on how they are sampled. The output can be related to some input, if desired, for example one can give a string with "holes" (variables) as input and have the holes filled-in by the grammar.

>> So that you can parse unstructured text from a person and return structured data for a machine.

If you are willing to spend the effort to write a grammar, you can do that without an LLM.
Yeah, Zigbee works well.

The real killer is when you want to "do something physical" in the real world on batteries, like unlock a door, etc.

That nobody has come up with a powered doorjamb instead of powered deadbolts is annoying; I'll have to build one myself using something like https://www.americanlocksets.com/hes-1006cdb-electric-smart-...
No, because this never happened.
The same reason everyone uses Excel as a database: it's all they know, and it comes in every tier of the Office suite.
> Does freedom of the press give the government an obligation to prosecute, or nah?

Yes.
That's very not true
The narcotic effects of inhaled gasses don't seem to have anything to do with chemical bonds. There's something else going on. Even some noble gasses like argon are highly narcotic.
"in fact", that was not the very start of quantum mechanics. Einstein's work was preceded by 5-10 years by investigation into the cause of quantized black body radiation. that's why we have Planck's constant and the notion of quantized oscillators. why are you going around talking with such authority? QM and nature is more amazing than you realize. particles are not waves "and vice versa". particles don't exist nor do any classical waves of energy in the way you keep saying as if they're facts. only the wavefunction travels. please be more careful about posting so authoritatively. comments such as yours are why it takes people so long to stumble onto the reality of nature, if they ever are so lucky.
I think the problem is that if hashicorp thinks you are a competitor you and your clients now have legal/operational issues. Ie you are now a competitor because we are releasing a product just like yours, here is a letter from a lawyer telling you to stop using terraform.
Google Authenticator didn't support backups until very recently which was surprising and caused some problems for friends of mine.
See reply to IanCal's comment then.

Later edit: you have a nice way to generate unstructured text, and now you want to go and bolt a structured representation on top. So now you have to do all the hard work by hand, again, to write the structured representation. That sounds like a regression.

I'll have to make time to read your paper, thanks for linking it.
* July 2023 set a record for the highest monthly sea surface temperature anomaly (+1.78°F or +0.99°C) of any month in NOAA’s 174-year record.

1850 - 2023

https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/access/monitoring/climate-at-a-gla...

1936 was below the long term average, 1937 was above ... but still much cooler than 2023.
Why not publish the list? Users would know what not to submit in that case. Except maybe you’re worried about the list being heavily curated a certain way…
> Lately I've been finding Bourbon to be enjoyable. Woodford Reserve and Bulleit are well-priced and good introductions in my opinion.

Also try Buffalo Trace, it's one of my three favorite including the two you mentioned.
People who do data storage/archiving for a living, do SSDs have predictable durability? I know that with magnetic media you can plan to copy them every so often to prevent loss, but is that information well known for TLC/QLC flash? I also know that SanDisk made an archival worm SD card that was supposed to be durable for 100 years, but haven't heard of rates like that for SSDs.
"longshot" means something unlikely because it refers to long range naval gun shots being inaccurate and unlikely to hit their target. These long range shots were known for not only missing their targets but missing them by a wide margin. In US English the common idiom "by a longshot" meaning by a wide margin developed based upon this.
It would be nice if more communications protocols achieved feature parity with Ethernet. Or even USB. Give me a hard drive with a connector I can plug into a hub or switch and just keep daisy chaining the oldest hardware deeper and deeper, instead of needing a robot to physically move them around. It’s not like adding a couple microseconds to response time will even be noticed on a crappy old hard drive.

Add a deep sleep mode and bam, you got a stew goin’.
>Automation is an attempt to "freeze a process"

Law is not significantly different in this case, though I would say its impacts are even more sweeping than any automation would be. No competition in law unless you're comparing different countries.
> same power source as the doorbell coils

Beautiful thinking. I wonder what other obscure sources for voltage in a house could be used? The HVAC head unit, analog telephone, ...

The POTS [(Plain Old Telephone Service)] phone line, with all phones on-hook, should measure around 48 volts DC. This drops down to the 3 to 9 volt range when a telephone on the line goes off-hook. An off-hook telephone typically draws about 20 milliamps of DC current to operate, at a DC resistance around 180 ohms. The remaining voltage drop occurs over the copper wire path and over the telephone company circuits where there is usually 200 to 400 ohms of series resistance to protect from short circuits and decouple the audiocircuits.

https://www.jkaudio.com/article_03.htm
Judge sides with youth in Montana climate change trial
We aggregate/organize content from the Java team here: https://inside.java/tag/loom
“Cereal box” is not an insult, and criminal is a fact as far as I can tell.
Freddie Mercury's Chinoiserie Grand Piano to Be Sold at Sotheby's Auction Sept 8
> The correct way to frame the issue

Thank you for sharing the approved language and allowing us to avoid cognitive dissonance
Nice share, thanks.

I was never more productive than when using Access (and dBase II before that). Why can't we have that?

My theory: Something was lost in the jump from workgroup computing to client/server.

Imagine if Access was rebuilt on top of a client/server stack. That's kind of what Riffle is trying to do.

I've been (slowly) working on the persistence stuff. It (mostly) moots the SQL vs ORM vs query builder slap-fight.

I've got some notions (and POCs) about UI, mediated via HTTP & HTML.

I'd love to have some CRDT-like smarts; learning more is on my TODO list.

I'm still thinking about the "reactive" part. I haven't imagined anything past Access VBA style programming. I'm struggling to envision a FRP-meets-CRUD future perfect world.
Meet the new build system, same as the old build system
Correction: That's the first preview, here's the latest JEP on Virtual Threads: https://openjdk.org/jeps/444
Surely they reduce cost. Otherwise they'd not be used. A donkey and cart's cheaper than a haulage truck, but donkeys aren't used much in the haulage business anymore.
On the contrary Micropython is even used in medical devices.

I've used it extensively and it is great. With ESP32 peripherals you can even get extremely tight timings depending on what specifically you need. And of course any specific performance critical code can be written in C and everything else can be micropython.

It's great, definitely worth exploring.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YovngSLXoxw
Speaking from the perspective of a (former) V8 engineer, SunSpider is crappy benchmark, and I can't believe people still track it. It has misdirected JavaScript performance engineering work for going on 15 years now, leading to all kinds of weird contortions in JavaScript engines that do not benefit real world sites.

Years ago, V8 switched away from microbenchmarks for the most part. See:

https://benediktmeurer.de/2016/12/16/the-truth-about-traditi...

edit to add: Don't take the above to mean that Firefox's performance improvements aren't significant, and welcome. It's just that SunSpider is the absolute worst benchmark to look at.
That will only work up to the point when the LLM can't generate a correct answer, whether conforming to a grammar or not. After that point, you'll just get grammatically correct bullshit.

Also, as noted in my reply to a sibling comment, grammars do not generate "any random string". That's the whole point of a grammar, that the generation is not random. For example it is perfectly feasible to write a grammar that completes a sentence with missing words, or continues some text etc.

And to be clear, it is entirely feasible to write a grammar that takes some string as input and generates a string as output that is a transformation of the input string satisfying some constraint. This kind of grammar is known as a transducer.

None of this should come as a surprise. Statistical language models are simply an alternative to knowledge-engineered grammars, used to do the same things that one can do with a grammar (except for the determinism). In a broad sense, a statistical language model is a kind of grammar, or perhaps it makes more sense to say that a grammar is a deterministic language model.
Konobos empowers an industry giant to deploy 50% faster with a composable stack
"There was a time, several years ago, when React was pretty much the only game in town when it came to server-rendered content (mainly via Next JS). People were rightly excited for the idea that React could be rendered on a server as HTML"

Hi - year 2000 calling...
Wikimedia Foundation gives away about 1 million in grants to counter racial bias
There is a non 911 phone number for contacting local police if not in an emergency.
> Edge seems like a blunder in general. Prior to the initial Edge introduction IE seemed to have 20-25% of the desktop browser marketshare.

The only reason IE retained any marketshare was because it was required for legacy enterprise and government applications. For security this was bad all around and Microsoft was right to kill it off even to their own detriment.
Gnome always had this problem of spreading thin instead of focusing. Lots of little tiny irrelevant apps just to have something to stamp a Gnome branding on. But even people who are really hardcore about using a Gnome desktop don't use those apps.

I've never met a single person who uses Gnome Web (Epiphany) instead of Chrome/Firefox/Brave/Vivaldi/whatever. Or Totem (instead of mplayer, mpv and its various frontends, or VLC). Or Boxes instead of virt-manager. Or gedit (instead of the trillion text editors that exist on Linux. The thing the platform lacks the least? Text editors.). Oh wait, it's not gedit anymore, they wrote a new one from scratch called "Text Editor".
> Heading and altitude are NOT independent.

Yes, I know how planes make turns. It is valid to point out that a TCAS instruction that included a heading change would, at least for the plane whose TCAS instruction was to increase altitude, also have to include an engine power increase, which might not be feasible depending on the altitude (cruise power might already be pretty close to max power). Or else make the turn a very slow one, which would decrease its usefulness in collision avoidance.