skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Those only help isolate somewhat predictable errors. Which is rare for what ECC is designed to protect against.

If it’s a random, once in several billion reads/writes issue, it can just stop/identify the bad data from further propagating. Sometimes. That data is still lost.

ECC does forward error correction, which is extremely rare for the type of data protection you’re talking about. and if the data is corrupted in RAM (say when initially loaded/read) before the software can apply FEC, there is nothing the software can do.
I'm not sold on on-die DDR5 ECC providing protecting.

On-die ECC allowed DDR5 to be competitive with DDR4. Is it really protecting your data at rest if the DDR5 die is running at such tolerances that it's correcting single bit errors from internal signalling issues every transaction? It's only single bit ECC, if something else outside of the die(Cosmic Ray, sudden voltage change, sudden temperature change) induces a bit to flip while the internal circuitry causes a different bit to flip your data is now corrupt.

https://www.atpinc.com/tw/blog/ddr5-what-is-on-die-ecc-how-i...
Three months ago you copied the design and wording of another company. I provided a screenshot and you promised to correct that "I 100% accept fault on our end"

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36108232
She can call you, and you could use your Uber account to book a ride for her. At least, I succeeded in helping an elderly friend the one time I tried that.
The argument is camera makers are dead, yet they made more money, and sold less hardware from 2022 to 2023.

Doesn't that fly in the face of the premise?

The consumer angle for most camera manufacturers is the icing on the cake. Most funding/research/sales comes from science, military and space...

Canon, Sony et al - aren't competing with phone cameras. They're complimentary. The rate and rise of cameras and lenses and devices 'seeing' the world will forever increase. The only thing dead will be us.
> imagine an OS today that requires literally 4x the RAM of your mainstream OS

This is just every OS when a new version comes out... sad!

WinXP needed 64MB RAM and was considered hugely bloated at the time.
A contemporary explanation of near and far pointers on page 16. Today I learned.
Valve rejects Steam games with AI content over copyright concerns
> third parties like states deciding what is or isn't "for the benefit" of the people (as opposed to being told what the people want)

I'm gonna keep picking on this point.

The majority of people want regulation on a variety of things.

It's infantalizing for you to claim that they aren't consciously choosing that.
It's not really up to you to redefine meaning of well known long standing historic technical terms. They're well defined, widely understood, frequently discussed terms that you would learn if you studied the history of AI, read any of the numerous papers and books and discussions about it that I already cited and quoted, and learned about the works of CogSci and AI pioneers like Robert Abelson, Roger Schank, Marvin Minsky, and others who've written numerous papers about it.

The wikipedia page about Neats and Scruffies that I linked you to is in my opinion well written, clearly defines the meanings each term, and presents plenty of evidence and citations and background. I'll give you the benefit of doubt that of course you've already read and understand it, so if you disagree with the history and citations on the wikipedia page and all the original papers and books and people cited and quoted, and can present better evidence and arguments to prove that you're right and they're all wrong, then you are free to go try to rewrite history by sharing your own definitions and citations, and correcting the errors on wikipedia. Good luck! I suggest you start by writing suggestions and presenting your evidence on the talk page first, instead of just directly editing the wikipedia page itself, to see what other experts in the field think and achieve consensus, or else it will likely be considered vandalism and be reverted.

You seem to be missing the point that the world is not strictly black and white, and ever since the terms were originally coined, the people who defined them and many other people have strongly recommended fusing both the "neat" and "scruffy" approaches, and LLMs actually do incorporate some ad-hoc "scruffy" aspects into their mathematical "neat" approach, and that's why they work so much better than simple perceptrons or neural nets. But they are still much more "neat" than "scruffy", and combining the two approaches does not flip the meaning of the two terms. I just discussed the fusion of scruffy and neat here, and quoted the original 41-year-old essay from 1982 by Robert Abelson that defined the terms and recommended fusing the two different approaches:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37359235

And also:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37354564

But before you go off and edit the Neats and Scruffies wikipedia page with your own definitions, please take the time to read the original essay by Robert Abelson that defines the terms first, like I did. In the link above, I cited it, tracked down the pdf, and quoted the relevant part of it for you, but you should probably do your homework first and read the whole thing before editing the wikipedia page about it. But be aware that it uses a lot of other technical terms and jargon that have well known definitions to practitioners in the field, so the common layman definitions of words you learned in grammar school may not apply.

Cyc is clearly the paradigm of "scruffy" and like biology, and perceptrons and neural nets are clearly the paradigm of "neat" and like physics, and that's how those terms have been widely used for more than four decades.
The Hard Problem of Consciousness remains as hard as ever. The “Understanding” aspect of our cognition is still very poorly understood.

Our growing understanding of psychology and the mechanisms of the brain have not gotten us much closer to understanding understanding or consciousness itself. This is not to say that progress thus far is not meaningful, or that we won’t get there. The point is that we have barely scratched the surface, but often behave like we know much more than we do.
Almost all of this already exists:

* Apps that offer any form of social login must also offer Apple ID login
* Apple ID login can anonymise your email address per-provider
* Every app already gets a distinct device ID, and indeed every app install gets one. Reinstalls regenerate it.
* Wifi APs and Bluetooth scans require location privileges, which you can decline.
* Apps are required to continue functioning (minus functions that clearly require the permission) if you decline them.
This is a relatively new trend in recent times following a failed coup.
Not so different form Germanys GEMA regime, just for news.
Thanks for the hint. Very interesting

https://www.openpolicyagent.org/docs/latest/
That's not what is meant here by case-based reasoning; CBR instead is an AI method which was prominent in the eighties and nineties where knowledge was represented in a semi-formal text representation and similarity was established by multi-dimensional assiociative indexing. One of the leading figures of the method was Roger Schank.
I find this particularly interesting because I am in the US and I am also looking to move back to the EU, but the massive salary difference is a barrier. I was on talks with a company hiring for Spain for e90k, which admittedly is very handsome for the local market, but they were almost offended that I was looking for more.

Would you be ok with sending me the highlights privately? you can reach out at roesp2@hotmail.com
Such a great read. I've done similar historical research and it's always so satisfying to get that final document that solves the puzzle. It's amazing what you can find online and in archives, and how helpful people are along the way.

In retrospect, it's not difficult to guess that the bridge was likely built for the school, because the school and church property is quite large, and there is a footpath on the side with the housing development. But it's always much harder to see things like that in context at the time.
As a contrepoint, when drawing you can emphasize on the specific features of the mushroom you're drawing whereas pictures are always being more ambiguous. And if the mushroom you're about to pick has unclear specific features, you should not pick it anyway!
A collection of the best writing about the Venture Capital Power Law, with an editorial by me
This indeed is the better approach, and unfortunately the answer is that the motives, just like in Australia, are muddled by media ownership
I use my setup as a 'pre-cloud' test environment where my costs are fixed.

I slap $400 worth of memory in my workstation and I can load large datasets or piles of VMs without worrying that some mistake on my part is going to generate a huge bill on my part.

It's pretty common for me to run 60-80GB worth of VMs during the working day, so not using could is a pretty massive savings for me.
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No, it's not even comparable. Windows NT came in the early 90s and required a whopping 16MB of RAM (at a time where most home PCs could not even address that much). Windows 9x came _years later_ and only required 4MB. And 9x was already considered bloated (new GUI et al).
Same with any other R&D once the findings become public domain, like NASA & university research.
Ex-Wells Fargo Exec Deserves Prison in Accounts Scandal, US Says
So less and local and grass-fed?
I'm curious what type of company has these team demographics. Startup, agency, SMB, bigcorp, academia, or?
The moral of this article seems to just point out what we all already know, and what has already been discussed on HN countless times: don't measure performance solely by things that should never be measured in a vacuum (like story points, lines of code, etc.).

Not sure why this is the #1 article on HN right now, other than maybe the (what I would consider) click-baity headline. But I wish there was an acceptable way for HN to use more fitting titles for articles (especially since most articles always use a click-baity headline). E.g. would it be at the top if the title was "Don't measure performance by story points"?

I guess some interesting anecdotes have resulted in the post, but the message of the article itself doesn't seem to share anything particularly new or enlightening.
The built-in Compass app shows your longitude, latitude, and elevation in addition to providing heading.
Dora, SPACE, GSM, or DevEx: How to measure developer productivity?
Honestly India already has a solution for this that is not being implemented fast enough. The monsoons every year provide more than enough water to supply India for years every season, most of it just ends up in the oceans. India has to massively invest in catchment. There is some of this happening but it needs to be on a much larger scale.
> Only the claims you like are claims you will accept as true

My personal feelings are irrelevant. I judge claims based on the veracity of their evidence, as should everyone.
I have always considered substack to be the reddit of blogs. That is not a compliment.
Yeah the main thing I've found helps is if there's a regular Teams/Zoom meeting where everyone just pops in for like 30 min to ask questions. Then you can use that as the springpad to launch into one-on-one sessions.

You do need to cultivate a culture in the team of people being willing to lower their guard and ask questions though. And I think the key to this is just staying humble so people feel comfortable approaching you.
Why are you not sending text messages to each other if it is so hard to understand? You can have plenty of error correction to make sure the message always is correctly received.
My experience at Google has been that TLs were generally strong engineers who were doing that kind of mentorship and product leadership, so to the degree that it's a "promotion" (same money, more responsibility isn't a promo in my book) it does seem to go to those who are doing it.

Now TLM (Tech Lead + Manager), however......there's a role that's set up for failure. Be a manager but be judged entirely on your technical contributions.
Two counter points:

1) The Freedom of Speech and of the press by extension at the time it was created was working under the assumptions of the printing press and carriage mail. I think it's long past time for a re-evaluation on this in the modern age, not only when bulk mailing can done at a scale that would make a press-printer's head spin today with modern machinery, but also and especially with regard to email, which is basically free minus the trivial cost of electricity to send a truly mind bending amount of spam messages.

2) I think it's beyond ridiculous that so many people will bring up that "well having any standard of information (to prevent misinformation) can be used by bad actors, so it's better to not have the mechanism at all to review the content of things." On subjective matters of opinion, it is certainly much, much harder to determine bad-faith or say with certainty that something is misinformation. But tons and I do mean actual tons of spam can be easily flagged as misinformation: be they advertising products that are flagrantly fraudulent in nature, be they advertising 419 scams that are... scams, be they fake amazon alerts about missed shipments, etc. etc. I would go so far as to say a majority in fact of spam email can be objectively determined to be misinformation of one kind or another, even if you totally discount political things from that system which I can see the logic of even if I don't necessarily agree with it. And if you agree with that assessment, then why in the world are we permitting this communication to occur? Why have we just thrown up our hands and said "nothing to do about it" as spammers have basically ruined an entire medium of communication?
Many countries have tax funded public television. In many countries one could argue that public television (BBC,CBC,ARD,ZDF,NPR,etc) carry generally high quality programming and often hard hitting investigative features compared to private interests.

Government, as professional public service, does not have to mean executive branch and laws for separation of power exist
The merging of CXL and NVME is just one frustrated vendor away.
This is not really suspicious. I regularly went foraging for shrooms in Ukraine with my gram gram, but I was not allowed to pick anything, of course. It requires expertise.

In that part of the world, this is very common, and so are the cases of people poisoning themselves because they think they are good at it.

If you can't relate - think of all the "gun people" who think they are experts on gun safety and then they end up shooting themselves by accident.
I use Postgres as a queue for some bits at work using Graphile-worker [0] and it works perfectly. No need for another moving part when the data I need is in the db. Also avoids having to do outbox stuff.

It’s quite cool just how far you can get with postgres

[0] https://github.com/graphile/worker
I'm usually the catalyst for change, but that's usually around tech and process. It's more effort for me to try and change my managers mind on what our development culture should be. The company I work for has a reputation for being a bit of a grinder and I've managed to help reduce that reputation in my team gradually at least.

But at the moment I have work to do and deadlines to meet, so it's a hard sell to suggest stepping back from active development and focusing more on incubating our less experienced devs. Even though it's better in the long term, and my manager would even agree on that, important short term projects just take priority.
Lenovo has them. Again, not hard if you look.

I know some people won’t be happy until every laptop has ECC RAM and is super cheap, but the reality is that the demand for ECC RAM is very low. The majority of users would choose the extra battery life and lower price if given the option.
Tax prep companies: $90M lobbying against free tax-filing
That sounds about right. In fact for some types of billable consulting work, it's probably low. (It was a bit more complicated when I was an analyst because some of the non-production work was client service. On the other hand, a lot of the production work (call it writing) wasn't paid for. So, net, your billable hours per hours worked can be fairly modest.
Is Russia running out of windows or what?
> Plenty of edible mushrooms are just "twins" of poisonous mushrooms

These are also living, evolving organisms. There will be mutants who knock back on a poisonous gene.
The renter yuppies of HN hate farmers, even (particularly) small farmers, because they look at farmers and see land owners who probably don't share their political values; they see kulaks. You can tell because the criticism of farmers is always paired with allusions to their party affiliation, talking about 'swing states' and lobbying.
If you don't need something quite that fancy, I find LabGopher is a good place to check: https://www.labgopher.com/
In-memory vs. disk-based DB: Why do you need a larger than memory architecture?
HAH! I had been thinking about this concept for a while. Apparently, I was not the only one. There's more types of applications that I think could potentially benefit from ActivityPub, too: maybe I'm not too late to find one to be first with.

My main concern with ActivityPub right now is operators that are serious about keeping the lights on long-term. I think community-run servers are way better in terms of the ceiling of quality, atmosphere, etc. vs corporate servers and servers ran by VC-funded startups. Having a lot of people posting software on ActivityPub federated instances might not be so bad, though: at the very least, it does offer some natural replication across instances, so presumably anything popular enough would tend to travel around.

I know there's a lot of fervor over whether Mastodon is good or Twitter is good or whatever. I think that right now, today, the "fediverse" as it is is still nascent and far from its full potential. The software is still clunky, there's a lot of inter-instance drama to sort out, etc. I strongly believe, for one thing, that instances and software need to get serious about the overall health of the federation: allowing users to communicate and interact with eachother are more important than instance-related squabbles, so I think discouraging full defederation is important for the fate of the federation long-term. (Importantly, having better tools to solve issues with a less heavy-handed approach would be preferred.)

Even with all of these problems, though... There's just a little glimmer of hope that maybe, the modern web does not have to be so shit. Outside the influence of poorly moderated, massive, corporate-ran social media, there's an undercurrent of a different kind of web. Open networks, real moderation, and even the coveted "nuance" exists, in some small corners. Yes, there's a lot of stupidity too, but the thing about it is, stupidity on massive borderline-unmoderated networks is impossible to avoid. On federated services, it can in fact be compartmentalized to a degree, and if instances really are causing trouble and refusing to moderate themselves, the nuclear option always remains a viable one.

A part of me does wonder if all of these defederated networks just want to be P2P networks but the technology and platform just isn't there today. The most advanced P2P technology I'm aware of is in the IPFS stack, but I'm unconvinced it would be a good foundation to build much on today. One must wonder, though...
Strides, not great strides, unless you redefine great. Why the universe has a mind (human) emerging from energy (atoms etc.) is probably unknowable.
pairing is taking stories, it’s two people working on one task together.
Your counter example is one guy dying from poisoning, in a country that does a lot of shroom foraging (берем гъби у гората).

The Russia rocket expert was likely killed.
They're saying Google derives a lot of revenue from having news and linking to news. So yes. Google can exit this market and stop deriving revenue from the work the newspapers do, or they can pay the newspapers for the work they do.

Facebook, in particular, has been trying to strangle/EEE news outlets for many years now.
I didn't read the book, but I watched the recorded [lectures][1]. I got the sense that course was the tip of an iceberg of an entire academic discipline of programming philosophy and practical wisdom. On its face, though, it is an introduction to programming that starts with symbolic substitution, moves on to mutation and other tricks, and then I think gets into interpreter design.

If you want your mind blown, read "The Little Schemer" (or the original "The Little Lisper," or another of its variants). I particularly like the section near the end where the Y combinator is (secretly) described. The goal of that book is to "teach you to think recursively." It's not about writing recursive functions at work, but about appreciating the self-referential properties of algorithms.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8FE88AA54363BC46
At risk from rising seas, Norfolk, VA, plans controversial floodwall
> There is a "funny" story in Bulgaria how the most famous mushroom foraging expert in Bulgaria a few decades ago died because he made a mistake when foraging.

Do you have a citation or evidence for this? I ask because a while ago another commenter on HN said that the president of a mushroom society in Boston died from the same thing, and when I looked and searched I could find no mentions of this.

Without additional evidence I'm putting all claims of "Mushroom expert does from mushroom misidentification!" into the "old wives tale/bullshit bucket". These types of stories just seem to be the ones that people love to talk about and share, even if they originate as a falsehood. Again, not saying it's not possible, but I am saying without a reasonable citation I'm discounting it as BS.
It isn't as if our process of understanding the world is even remotely mysterious, nor is the basic mechanisms underlying neural computation. Thus, to me, it seems like saying that we haven't begun to understand this stuff is ridiculous.
“Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.”

Just because you've thought about these things doesn't mean the other half has
The environmental impact is still number_of_individuals * mean_consumption.

Urban areas often use more resources and generate more waste due to higher levels of economic activity. This contributes to a bigger environmental footprint.

Cities can also shift some of their environmental impact to rural areas or other states or countries where things like food production, resource extraction and waste disposal happen.

So, the true environmental cost of cities is often higher than it appears, especially when you consider the carbon emissions from transporting goods and waste.