skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Further more, banks that were bailed out signed a deal to actively help those smaller banks by transitioning clients to them. I know that because my bank offered me a few times to the point of nagging to switch my business accounts from them to one of the smaller ones. They offered to pay me a sum of a few thousand pounds to do that. I declined at the time due to me liking my bank and appreciating one app for all my business and personal accounts. When I pushed why are they willing to pay me large sums to leave them, the told me the above.
> The three-letter agencies just placed dozens and dozens of people (who decided to quit the CIA, NSA, and FBI in their 30s for some reason and change careers) in the executive suites of every social network.

Where can I find more about this?
https://archive.is/LH9BD
American here... I've never in my life seen one of these. I'm sure they exist, but they're not common.
About 10 years ago, I worked at a place where we had a "big data" project. Some big wig wanted to use Hadoop. Turns out, the "big data" isn't big. It's not even a gigabyte, spread over less than a dozen files. Everything worked great, but the job orchestration took longer than the actual processing.

Despite this misuse of Hadoop, another guy really loves it, and decides to start a project rewriting everything to use MapReduce. A new guy started, got assigned to the "MapReduce project"... he worked on this for over a year. It never made it to production.
To the brain, reading computer code is not the same as reading language (2020)
Some and All fallacy.

I said most real women ...

It's only the shallow women who must have hair on men's heads, but can't stand men who have hair on their bodies. Slaves to 'fashion'. Same as it's the shallow men who must have their women with hairless pubic areas.
Could this strategy work to match products across retailers? If so, any tips on getting started with vector databases? I've heard of them but have yet to try one out.
https://archive.is/SvSPe
We call those architecture astronauts.

The pile of abstractions stacks to the moon but when you chase down what's actually happening a 60 file repo ends up holding like 12 lines of actual programming.
The UK is friendly to money-laundering, presenting the more respectable faces of an international network of questionable banks and financial institutions. API banking will allow a faster cycle of wash, rinse, repeat, an innovation in shady.
The director cared enough to make the dismissal.
Metallic spheres on Pacific floor are interstellar, Harvard professor finds
IIRC NEC requires 20 amp circuits for the kitchen. However the only time I've seen a 5-20R in a residential kitchen is after the electrician got done with mine (he insisted code required the 20 amp receptacles).
Sorry if I'm not using the right terminology here. By layers, I'm talking about the different places from where you're emitting spans - like in your example, the UI, prompt-embedding, vector-store and context-encoding. What I was curious about was two-fold - one whether there are use-cases that make sense to have experimentation of the kind that allows a user to swap out a particular step in that stack - and second about making use of context propagation like baggage enables in OTel.
As best I can tell the Rama-awesomesauce is down in the backend modules, e.g. https://github.com/redplanetlabs/twitter-scale-mastodon/blob...

and the rest of the commentary I'll keep to my damn self
"a pretty girl, white singlet, dark pants, on the stage"

Well, glad they kept the 6 fingers on her right hand.
I’m arguing for it. I’m also literally doing it. So… again. What is your point? Is your point that some people will be upset if something is true? Because that’s generally always true.
I see the flip happening when MIT switched from Lisp to Python for its introductory courses. That happened in the 00s. They had to choose between Java and some other langues and then choose Python. Gradually everyone else followed. New grads came out learning Python. They started developing with it and took over other langues.
https://archive.is/tOOT4
Without a positive reinforcement loop, having a thankless job and no consequences for noncompliance isn’t going to result in adherence to the order

Waffle party anyone?
> And Cloudflare are nearly as well behaved as they could possibly be.

This is not true. There has been at least two high profile cases where Cloudflare dropped their commitment to free speech when under no real legal pressure(kiwifarms and stormfromt). Maybe you think they did the right thing, but it's clear that they are not a neutral party.
Griffin makes it simple and quick to develop and launch financial products
Rimworld is also great on an M1 MBP.
> due to delays in Intel's wafer needs owing to later modifications to the company's CPU platform design plans.

Apple was at 90% before Intel's delay. Which is interesting, and I wonder if the experience working with another foundry will help inform Intel's foundry services.
That catchline makes a lot more sense when you consider that JUXT is the most prominent company specialising in Clojure aside from Nubank itself, and have their logo at the foot of pretty much any conference remotely touching on Clojure topics.

Clojure has a fairly insular community that overlaps with other lisps more than it does something more popular such as Python or PHP, so the cliché (admittedly, one with some truth in it) that Clojure is the most powerful language might be surprising to someone who doesn't use it. We Clojure developers are used to it though, and stating our presumed superiority is almost a greeting at this stage!
Launching Mental Health and Wellness Dev Site for alpha testing
Looking for beta users for my dev site to get some feedback. This is a mental health startup to boost employee productivity and wellness.
I would be interested in the following other types of special flights:

- Flights where no one is a first-time traveller, in fact you must have flown at least 20 times.

- Flights with no overhead bins at all.
I practised picking locks on your house and broke the lock because of a poor lock design. Yeah okay the lock sucks. But I probably shouldn't have been doing it on your house in the first place and now you've got a broken lock. Who are you mad at?

A researcher could have bought their own copy of the lock and picked it there. Or even borrowed yours with some notice, or let you know so you could have them use an interior door instead, or any number of other things that didn't break your actual house.
https://archive.is/gUt0q
Considering the (il)legality of what they did just by running the uninstaller without authority, and the obvious implications and attention this would have, I highly doubt they did any such thing in this particular instance.
They're typically passwords that are only for testing accounts anyway, and that are known to the team members I'm sharing with.
But...it's easy to slip up now and then and forget you're actually putting in a password while screen sharing that it's probably best not to have your co-workers know! Obviously the worst is your actual O/S password, as knowing that could potentially allow a co-worker access to other passwords that are quite sensitive, but I'm not sure it's even possible to screen share your O/S login screen - probably shouldn't be! It is a good argument for not re-using that password for any browser-based logins, but SSO policies tend to make that impossible unfortunately. Mind you I use a pin for my O/S login screen, whereas for browser-based logins you can't.
Hurricane Electric operates tunnelbroker.net, a free SIT tunnel to provide IPv6 connectivity. All those clients (like me) will be using a HE-owned IPv6 address.

They also offer dedicated servers and colocation services: http://he.net/colocation.html

They are not only a transit provider, in fact they wouldn't need to own IPs at all if they were.
High intensity: lots of things.
High energy: the things punch hard.
Lots of other people have commented on why Python won in general. I can say why Python was a better choice for me personally, in 1997 or so...

I was using Perl a lot to manage an multi-thousand page external site, and a much larger internal site for a major division of a large aerospace/engineering company. These ware all scripts to run on the filesystem to do things like change the company name across thousands of pages, where the historical would be kept for past events, but the new company name would be used for current projects.

I sort of semi-nepotisticaly lucked into the job-- I was doing desktop publishing previously, and one of the managers at the division was a relative of my girlfriend. There also were very few webmasters around, and I had a lot of experience with graphics and the software around it.So I taught myself HTML, some basic programming, and was off to the races. But I was basically a just "computer person", but not much of a programmer.

Doing anything by hand on a site that big was just not going to happen, and Perl had a bunch of great pre-made scripts available for doing lots of stuff, but it was murder trying to modify any of them. It was clear that Perl just was too much work to learn, and the "one way" philosophy of early Python made the documentation easier, examples more consistent, etc...

But Python was much more approachable. It was also pretty clear that it had a better future, and had a pretty good (not great) set of libraries available, pretty good regular expressions, and really good integration with just about anything on Windows 95 (via an external COM library). When I started I didn't realize how the ability to script I.E., or Excel, or whatever was a really powerful tool that saved me countless hours. For example, of of the Marketing execs wanted to review every web page, but didn't want to use a browser, so via Python's COM tools, I could script IE to open, log, and print every page. When something failed (e.g. printer ran out of paper) I could use the log to restart wherever I needed. I could also grab a bunch of data from an Excel workflow some engineer had cooked up and dump all the data into a database, so they could use the tools that were comfortable for them, and still centralize it enough to generate dashboards or reports or whatever for management.

The performance wasn't that great, but computers were getting better, faster, all the time, and programmer productivity was starting to become much more of a concern.
Oh it's Avi Loeb, head of the astronomy department at Harvard. Here's a youtube about what his deal is, by an astronomer who studied astronomy through postdoc level and then left for industry and doing some youtubes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aY985qzn7oI
fad - an intense and widely shared enthusiasm for something, especially one that is short-lived and without basis in the object's qualities; a craze.

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I don't think Ruby is a fad. The drop off Ruby had since early 2010s is dramatic, but it stabilized around 5% of all PRs on GH in the last few years:

https://madnight.github.io/githut/#/pull_requests/2023/2

It's still one of the most popular languages for web development.
Which other ThinkPads models use this?
All the people that fought against Net Neutrality, this is what you were fighting for, the ISPs have no requirement to be neutral.
The story of Homer giving Akio Morita one more chance, and that chance becoming Sony Inc. is a wonderful tale…
I run into this problem as well I'll often come across something I wrote a few years ago and struggle to remember why I wrote it that way.

I've learned to add comments to my code - from what I see commenting code is frowned upon by a certain subset of developers but I've taught myself that whenever I am doing something subtle or unintuitive to add a short comment explaining what the code is doing, for every potentially unnecessary comment I've added I've also saved myself time when I've had to come back to something months or years later and been able to refer back to the comment.
https://archive.is/bR7Zn
Hi folks,

My friend Sami and I recently built Vizly, a Mac application that allows anyone to query their databases using plain English.

Vizly is built on Llama 2, llama.cpp, and runs fully on-premise.

We are running two Llama models, one for natural language to SQL translation, and another that uses the results from the SQL to render visualizations. That means there are no external APIs and all the AI models are running locally on your MacBook.

We tried to make Vizly very easy to share as well. Every Vizly instance creates a share link that can be accessed by anyone on the same network as you. Just send the share link to anyone on the same network and they will be immediately able to run AI-powered queries, hosted from your device.

Would love if you could try it out and give us any feedback!
I don’t think HE should be making that decision, especially in an upstream role—and the fact that they’re in that position points at a need for regulation.

However, I would argue that KF is a long-term threat whose imminent dangers were honestly a very narrow lens that barely appeased a company that shouldn’t have been making the call in the first place. Their position in last year’s debate created a very volatile atmosphere for a solid month—a situation which would be volatile once again if brought back.
How to hide all links from a given domain on HN (or even channels at YouTube)
>There is reason Perforce, as crap as it is, is still as popular as it is.

Vendor lock-in? I hated perforce where I used it, but it was mandatory-ware.
It's sort of difficult for me to envision what possibilities would be available to me with this tool.

What user benefits are unlocked with seamless API access to a bank? Is it "just" something like Mint, but implemented in a more technically legit way?
Isn't the flaw that the posted model assumes that you're essentially bolted to the swing by your ass, and only able to move your legs and upper body, excluding the arms?

Whereas an actual person on a swing has two points of contact along the pendulum: where they sit, but also the point at where their arms are grabbing the rope (or "rod", in this model).

I think what the GP is talking about is a technique where you essentially perform a partial pull-up near the top of the arch.
I think that both metric and imperial systems are good for woodworking but I think you need to adapt the way you think of measurements depending on which you choose.

I like that using imperial you have a hierarchy of measures: wholes, halves, quarters, eights, sixteenths. It's clear and precise. You know that if you needing to measure 16ths or 32ths things are getting weird.

With metric you have similar measures but the hierarchy isn't strongly defined: 100s of mm, 10s of mm, then maybe 5s of mm, and 2s of mms.

As far as dividing a meter into equal thirds, you wouldn't use a ruler to do that, or at least I wouldn't.

I like that you can fairly easily use the metric system to measure something that was that was made with imperial measures. You can't really say the same for the opposite without a bunch of estimates and holding unmemorable numbers.

What I do wonder is whether there is beauty in the ratios you naturally get from using imperial measures when furniture making or designing building façades.
Because it’s way easier to tangle stuff than untangle it - typically it just gets bad enough and someone goes “okay rewrite”
My guess is that it's responsible for a significant bump in the rate of growth over the last half-decade, but only for a tiny percentage of the 21M. The reason they mention it is to make conservatives more comfortable with mass DNA collection.

The excuse that was used to start mass DNA collection was a serial rapist and murderer cop who himself was excused from having his DNA collected.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_James_DeAngelo
Another in the north is Gorrie Airfield from WWII; now used as a boondocking/free-camping spot. We camped on it driving south from Katherine last month - great, flat area with lots of room for people to spread out. There would've been 10-20 camping rigs set up.

https://www.google.com.au/maps/place/Gorrie+Airfield+WW2+His...
Even if you are not a believer in liberalism as a philosophy, you should at least understand that the instant we agree let infrastructure businesses start pruning speech they don't like without any accountability is also the instant that the wealthy and powerful start thinking about how to gain influence over or outright control those businesses. One would have to be absolutely bonkers to think that's going to have a good outcome in the long run.
Both the CCP and members of the American government that funded risky gain of function research at Wuhan Institute of Virology indirectly through the EcoHealth Alliance have a strong motive to coverup a lab leak as they would be considered culpable in the pandemic.

The wet market theory wouldn't even be seriously considered if it weren't for the messaging by the CCP early on and people being afraid to be labeled "xenophobic" for blaming the pandemic on the irresponsible poor safety practices that were called out in the article I linked to earlier in this thread.

Given all the evidence and ignoring the official narratives of those with something to hide, the likelihood of an accidental lab leak from WIV is overwhelming in comparison to the wet market theory where it just coincidentally appeared out of thin air in the city of Wuhan with no prior animal reservoir ever found.
Hmm, I experienced the opposite - HDFS was one of the main reasons that one of the large companies where I worked was able to work at all.
I actually failed a technical interview relatively recently because of this.

It was a fullstack position with some Ruby scripts here and there mostly centered around scheduling. Had a leetcode style takehome that requested I build out a pretty simple reservation system with time off and quarter hours and stuff like that.

I boot up into the leetcode environment and was surprised at just how many things were Rails-specific, rather than being in the ruby STD lib. Completely threw me off since I suddenly had to figure out how to wrestle the Date STD lib to work for me, and anything date/time related is my personal hell :)
Some times there's a reason, some times it's just luck.

While I appreciate we love to try and explain the present as an inevitable destination, some times it's just the way the dice rolled on this iteration of the simulation.
In contrast to "Socialism" (Big S), democratic socialism seems to be possible and provides evidence of effectiveness, with the Nordic Model being the reference example.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nordic_model
> Mcdonalds will chose a provider with good enough parts or have a broken down machine... like it has now.

So, what's the issue?

This entire thing is not about Right to Repair. It's about corporate McDonald's contractually enforcing standards on their franchisees. Which is reasonable.
florish? flourish?
It appears this is the source of the complaint adding context to what is being discussed by the EFF, no reason it should be dead.
I don’t understand how is in well functioning democracy we can have secret courts and paywall for court documents

They should be free and readily accessible even if they cost a lot to produce and host (which they don’t)

- for civil litigation the claimants can pay any costs as part of filing fees

- for criminal government can bear the cost as part of prosecution.
https://archive.is/QQiWV

The Electric Vehicle That Suburbia Needs Could Be a Golf Cart
Some companies like AT&T are taking this a step further. People who have spent their entire 20+ year careers working remote are now being told they must report to an office. And to address the inevitable hypocrisy of forcing you into an office that may not be the same office as your team, they are designating specific offices for each team and you have to relocate to that office at your own expense.

Now it's obvious this is just another massive layoff in disguise for them in particular, but apparently their wave 1 impacted group (relocate this year) is somewhere about 50/50 on people committing to relocate vs effectively volunteering to get laid off.
Massive Emergency alert test message to be sent to US cell phones, TVs, radios
> My intent was not to dispute their argument

indeed, with whataboutism, the intent never is to solve the problem, only to deflect, with the aim usually of ensuring the problem remains unresolved, and perhaps even undiscussed

> If the OP didn't point out that tech overall has become a cesspool industry doing comparable things, then someone had to.

I suppose this is true if you start with the assumption that someone is going to engage in the intellectually dishonest fallacy of whataboutism

as for your portrayal of HN, it is as self-serving as your prior analogy.
Ask HN: How to Build Military Drones?
Hi,

I'm a software engineer working mostly on CRUD applications.

I would love to learn how to build military drones.

Did anyone succeed in doing so with a software engineer background ?

Can anyone suggest a learning path ?

Regards
> how bad actors will abuse systems

I’ve seen both ends of the spectrum - I remember Usenet, that had no moderation at all, and having to wade through a sea of spam, wishing somebody would get rid of it. But then I saw what reddit moderation turned into… I’ll take the spam, thanks. The spammers are bad actors, but moderators actually become evil actors.
https://archive.is/A9Pkg
“Memory directories” in Intel processors (2023)
Start up a Wikipedia page entitled "Wikipedia Scandals".
There's plenty of room for security researchers running infected machines to monitor for behavioral and developmental changes in the malware to be more than a little irritated by the notion that the FBI or anyone else abused the malware servers to remove the infection surreptitiously.
Clift?
A Code Red Warning about TESCREALism
https://archive.is/1afwZ
I learnt about this situation, as it happens, from the founder of Griffin, so was particularly interested in this blog post. It seems like the initial excitement of developing a banking system in Clojure might have transitioned to more bread-and-butter aspects of banking now, but immutable data is an ideal match for their mandatory audit trails.

I have to admit that I wouldn't mind being paid a large sum to switch to Griffin, but then again, my current provider is one of the more responsible ones which didn't have to be bailed out in the crisis :)
Got it, appreciate the clarification.

(1) yes, that's what many of our users are doing while swapping might refer to changing model parameters, prompts, embedding stores, embedding parameters, or splitting a "layer" into multiple (parallel) steps. Alternatively when experimenting on a higher "layer", we often see wildly different implementations that are experimented with over time. We added version and release tagging which to build dashboards on the impact of these experiments on quality/latency/cost (currently in alpha, we will release it soon).

(2) I see how metadata propagation could be much more elegant via OTel. Currently the metadata fields on traces/span and filtering based on them kind of does the job but I see how it could be much easier to ingest and use. Thank you!
Mamba: Fast, robust, and cross-platform package manager for Python
Who invented Kubernetes? Ok, water it down if you must. Which of the FAANG was in at the birth? Yep.

What Google missed on, was taking cloud outside of itself as a visible customer product. AWS leapt into the breach, but the irony is that we want to use AWS to run a technology platform which Google has significant DNA in.
There is no encryption.
>- Flights where no one is a first-time traveller, in fact you must have flown at least 20 times.

Can we expand that from flights to airports? And have 'training airports' for people to learn on?