skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Simplest terms - your app needs several different services or instances of a service to agree upon a value. There are a lot of reasons you can't use things like the system clock to agree upon when something happened for example - this is where RAFT steps in.

You'll see "fault-tolerant" and "replicated state machines" often alongside them. Let's break those down in this context.

For "fault-tolerance" - think production environments where I need to plan for hardware failure. If one of my services goes down, I want to be able to continue operating - so we run a few copies of the app, and when one goes down, another operating instance will step up.

In that case - how do we pick what's in charge? How do all copies agree on things while everything is working smoothly? Raft.

For "replicated state machines" - let's stay in this world of fault-tolerance, where we have multiple instances of our app running. In each service, could reside a state machine. The state machine promises to take any ordered series of events, and always arrive at the same value. Meaning - if all of our instances get the same events in the same order, they will all have the same state. Determinism.

This is where it all comes together, and why I think the jargon becomes tightly coupled to an "easy to understand" definition.

You will reach for replicated state machines when you need deterministic state across multiple service instances. But the replicated state machines need a way to agree on order and messages received. That's the contract - if you give everything all the messages in the same order, everything will be in the same state.

But how do we agree on order? How do we agree on what messages were actually received? Just because "Client A" sends a messages "1", and "2', in a specific order does not guaranteed it is delivered at all, let alone in that order.

Raft creates "consensus" around these values. It allows the copies to settle on which messages were actually received and when.

So, you could use other approaches to manage "all your service copies getting along" but a replicated state machine is a nice approach. That replicated state machine architecture needs some way to agree on order, and Raft is a great choice for that.
care to share a link?
They should have handled the situation in a more pragmatic way.

Germany and Europe are the big losers in this war
You need to at least try.
To influence policy, become an expert on specific and boring topics
>this answers nothing

Then listen to the music, not the song.
What's legitimate about that? That it saves the inefficiency of leaving an empty slot? I'd have thought a system that offers both the same legitimacy and more fairness too would have test bookings arranged in a stack, where cancelled slots get offered to whoever is booked into the proceeding one should they wish to move it forward, or if they don't, then whoever had the next slot booked after that, and so on. So any holes that come up in the schedule get closed pretty quickly, and nobody gets preferential treatment simply because their driving school happened to own the other slots
Couple of additional great reads around the subject:

The Doors of Perception - Aldous Huxley

Food of the Gods - Terrence McKenna.

And honestly reading Erowid trip report is super interesting/fun (especially DMT! Heh).
Show HN: Quiz App API (Django Rest Framework)
An interesting discussion of ideas for prototyping hardware interfaces with web UIs. I appreciate the author's discussion of the design space.

Given the introduction, I'm suprised the author didn't mention another option. They talk about the limits of hand-writing the web UI for such prototypes. I wonder if components could be extracted from earlier prototypes to save time? Hand-rolling everyting would be tedious indeed, but slapping together a handful of previously-written controls would make it easier. The don't need to be slick or cover every use case, just scrappily abstracting the repeated lines of code.

Or maybe the author has already reached the limits of that strategy, hence the goal to generate a UI.
it would seem that profit, like life, always finds a way. Even if the way is exploitation of a system meant to provide people with driving licenses.
Evil Eyes and Tall Poppies
Good point -- if you're shipping it direct to the recipient, yes, it might be pretty easy to identify "for someone else" -- but that's a post-purchase nugget of knowledge.

When you buy as a gift though, you probably ship to yourself first in many cases, right?
The irony is that your "simplification" uses even more "jargon."

But yes, thats how I would read that, and I also see no issue at all with the language in the paper. These terms are used for precision, and have meaning to those in the field. Papers are written for other experts, not laymen.
At the end of the day, it's all emotional and biased human beings subjectively evaluating/judging other human beings. This guy that worked with Tim believed that he added great value to the team. A manager came to a different conclusion. It's impossible for them to determine who is "correct," let alone us. Of course we can come up with all sorts of potential scenarios but it seems pointless and unfounded without first-hand knowledge of the situation. The skill of being a manager is deeply understanding the specific and individual nature of their team rather than trying to apply a more generalized "playbook."

Edit: By that I mean that I am highly skeptical of metrics used to evaluate people. It's a lazy way to make the job easy and avoid doing the hard work of getting in the trenches, gaining unquantifiable insight into what's going on, and effectively communicating that up the chain.
The reading experience is mediocre. It looks like he went a bit overboard with the site. As for the ideas mentioned, it's more fluff and designer hype/dogma than anything solid.
> NNs are decision trees anyway -- take any classification alg and rewind from its decision points into a disjunction of conditions

By that argument, every computation can be reduced to a lookup table. Take every possible input, memorize the correct output and store it in a database of sorts.

If decision trees were truly equivalent to NNs, you would be able to solve any problem currently addressed with NNs but using only decision trees without learning from the output of the NN. Same input datasets same output quality metrics.

Not really feasible, is it?

Likewise with all the other equivalences you made here.
Business Source License
https://www.infoq.com/news/2023/08/hashicorp-adopts-bsl/
Browne wrote a number of books I found helpful, such as How I Found Freedom in an Unfree World.

http://harrybrowne.org/

(corrected title)
I think that the only purely technical level complaint I have about the language, something that I haven't seen discussed in the docs but bit me because it worked differently than I expected is that return types are not part of a function's typing. Ie, when doing function polymorphism, functions "a :: (b: s32) -> bool" (a function called "a" that accepts a signed 4byte int and returns a boolean) and "a :: (b: s32) -> s32" (a function called "a" that accepts a signed 4byte int and returns a signed 4byte int) trigger a compilation error when you call one of them even if the type of the lvalue is known (either bool or s32).
CFexpress 4.0 to Double Card Speed to 4 GB/S and Be Backward Compatible
Like the self driving car revolution?
Is there any actual extremist content even left on youtube? There's a TOS more restrictive than the actual law and a reporting mechanism to remove content that violates the law/TOS and many, many channels have left to bitchute/rumble/etc that were often outside the TOS but not outside the law. I really worry about this kind of rhetoric because it seems to be more accurate to say "views I don't like" or "people I can smear with association with genuinely bad views but who I primarily don't like because they are expressing dissent against a seperate view that I hold"
Go read any article in the first 200 years or so of philtrans. There's lots of crucial science there written in a way that doesn't have the modern trappings of the form. It's good reading. Maybe some style perturbations borrowed from earlier eras would be good

https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/62536 menu on the right

Benjamin Franklin, Robert Boyle, Isaac Newton, Maxwell, Ohm and Volt - they're all there. If that style was good enough for them ...
For what it's worth, there's no product yet with Jai so that's all there is to talk about.
>Lone investigators created theories, built instruments, conducted experiments, and wrote accounts of different aspects of nature. There could then be decades or even centuries before the next major recorded advance.

Lots of times they were doing things that no one else they came in contact with can begin to even understand very well.

Natural scientists have often each made constant progress around the world as long as Homo Sapiens has been around.

It's just that the records of what and when they did it are so few and far between, and most of them have been lost or never even recodred to begin with. It simply took decades or even centuries before some of this ultra-rare stuff turns up, often unexpectedly.

If only one percent of research today turns out to be outstanding, you would have to expect that over the whole of human history, and especially prehistory, orders of magnitude more of the outstanding stuff was lost than the paltry developments one single generation can come up with.
Huawei Mate60 Pro Unboxing and Hands On: Kirin 9000s Chipset – 5G and Satellite [video]
Believing that adult human beings shouldn't be restricted from writing, or reading, anything they damned well pleased is not an "absurdist philosophy".
Damn. UPI shares your phone number?

Instant PLONK.

But I have been hearing raves about how great it is, from my Indian friends.
This is an incredibly editorialized headline that blurs the distinction between SAG-AFTRA leadership and membership, and the article itself contradicts the title in the very first paragraph:

> In a statement posted to its official website, the union confirmed its board had "voted unanimously" to "send a strike authorisation vote to SAG-AFTRA members" in interactive media ahead of its "forthcoming bargaining dates with video game companies".

https://www.cnn.com/2023/09/02/business/sag-aftra-strike-str... has more details that this is just one of multiple steps:

> While a strike authorization does not launch a strike, it can be a useful tool at the bargaining table because it gives the union the ability to declare a strike if negotiations break down. Eligible SAG-AFTRA members will be able to vote on authorizing a strike until September 25 at 5 p.m. PT, the evening before discussions resume.

If and when membership does authorize a strike, we would see language akin to this announcement: https://www.sagaftra.org/sag-aftra-members-approve-strike-au...
You're either reading Russian propaganda or American Propaganda. If you live in the US, which one will affect you more? (Genuinely asking)
Imagine a zero-day in Linux kernel cleaning out bank accounts of entire continent.
I used to work on yachts. Expensive watches were a pretty good asshole signal.

Plenty of fabulously wealthy people out there wearing timex, Ironman, or Apple Watches.

If you’re judging someone’s business acumen based on their watch, you also seem to think that telling us how much your buddy grosses is supposed to tell us anything at all.
Do you run into issues with parsing the prompt result? And if so, have you tried using “function” calling versus parsing the more free text output?
Have you read the text of the DMA? It addresses this exact point in section 50, and is nowhere near as easy to wiggle around as you suggest.
That is coming too. It may take a little longer than expected but it will come for sure.
I think that there is a lot of room for compassion and donated time and effort here. I have helped family and friends adopt foss on many occasions, and it has been worth my time.
https://www.panelook.com

Hint: click Application, then e-books.
What's the Cheq UPI business model? Standard VC-backed startup one, of get bought or IPO, or stay in biz and make profits. If profits, how?
The problem is Blink might just be too big for what little community exists to feasibly maintain it. If it is just a Chrome that doesn't work an select asinine sites, it isn't in a great position to catch on. And perhaps most important; the point is to have something viable before that even needs to happen.
You see promotion, I see a guy that's excited about his project trying to give educational content to the next generation of developers.

If it's promotion for anything I think it's rather for his sokoban like game.
How is criticizing the creator of a project a form of clout chasing? It seems important to know the philosophy of the creator of a project, especially when that project is not yet finished.
Why Americans are desperate to seek admissions into Ivy leagues?
Skill can be gained from anywhere.
UPI is not free and people should really stop parroting that talking point. It is free, FOR NOW.

There are plans in place to charge a 1.1% fee for transactions to merchants. The indian government claims that there will be savings via banks handling less cash but it provided exactly zero in the way of calculations, estimates or data. In 2022, the indian digital payment industry expected a net loss of around 60 million USD.
Only Westerners who use Hepburn would write it as shiri. Most native Japanese speakers use Nihon-shiki where they would absolutely write siri.
"An alternative interpretation is that the cost-of-materials is insignificant related to brand dilution and/or the intended promotional value of the URLs themselves."

Cost will be some fraction of the retail price. But that's coming from a streamlined production + packaging pipeline.

As soon as you'd choose to repackage product, then you need a whole lot of hands (people) to do that. And then cost of repackaged product easily goes to 2..5x what it was on the first run.

That's not worth it for manufacturer. Profit is lost on that batch, disposal is the next cheapest option.

Sometimes there are alternatives, like food banks, or use as cattle feed. But often not (or manufacturer is too lazy / doesn't care).
I think there is a very clear open spot where Jai fits in otherwise why would google be doing the same thing with their carbon language. People want a better c++. It should compile fast, have all the low level stuff of C. Have Metaprogramming and introspection and including a decent library for basic stuff would be nice too.

What this really reads to me is why not just use Rust. Rust is useful for the things Rust was designed for. Some people love it and think its the greatest language out there and that's fine but a lot of people have used it and they either do not like it or they like it but they wouldn't want to use it for the type of work they like to do.

Having more languages and each influencing another is the only way we can get better and better languages.
Just so I understand, is this article saying that in fact the revelations about unmarked graves at Catholic institutions in Canada remain unsubstantiated? That the findings that caused the outrage were in some way preliminary and did not stand up to further scrutiny?

I'm trying to understand if it is saying this about some (small) subset of such news, or in fact about the whole wave of news.

And if that's right, is that corroborated by other sources?

The original news was huge (and of course it would be), this seems quieter so I'm just double checking I understood it right.
If by ahistorical you mean we do not conform to Greek and Roman era of homosexual activity, you have to keep in mind there were societal pressures at the time as well. I don't think you can take those eras as a gold standard of laissez-faire approach to sexuality.

For the record, I am gay guy and whilst I can identify an attractive woman, it is such a fleeting attraction I can't ever imagine mustering the activation energy to even try.
>The context that Jon uses is bad = careless, good = careful in the sense that I will make sure I deallocate my pointers.

Well I think this interpretation is reductive to say the least, and as such i don't agree with it.
So that's that
And just doing nothing is somehow a better solution?
> Think of it as a way for Google coercing websites into implementing WEI.

And why exactly do you think they'd want to do that? What do they gain from it? What do you even think the WEI is that you think this motivation makes the tiniest bit of sense?
Privacy loss is like climate change. People don’t care because the really bad things haven’t happened yet. People who keep telling them about the bad stuff that is likely to happen are alarmists, and like with climate change there’s an industry with a vested interest in downplaying the issue.

A sneak peek may be coming with what some states are doing to police travel for abortion. Does the algorithm think you might be pregnant? Congratulations, you may now be stopped on state lines and charged with a crime because you are driving someone one state over. Even if you have no intent of getting an abortion you may have to prove that in court if a prosecutor is feeling particularly self righteous today.

People in the US are not accustomed to totalitarian politics. We have rights. But loss of those rights are one populist demagogue away.

When that happens all that surveillance and remote control will suddenly become as relevant as Antarctica’s Thwaites glacier would become if it fell in the ocean.

(Left wing populist demagoguery and authoritarianism are possible too. I’m just picking on the right wing sort because it’s the kind that has traction most recently. But that too can change.)
And what would the domain name be? Maybe some users would try "devpayments.com" or "slashdevslashpayments.*" but others will try "/dev/payments.com" -- lots of marketing needed to educate.
> “Rule 9: Don’t ever do anything you don’t understand.”

In 2021 I bought $500 of stock in a VR software company who was crowdfunding. Price per share was $4 on a valuation of $60M.

Fast forward two years and they raise again…this time at a valuation of $170M. Naturally, I assumed my $500 was worth close to $1500 on paper.

Wrong.

By some magic, the common stock share price went from $4 to only $4.75 even as the company tripled in value.

Even though I “picked” well, my investment still lagged the general S&P of the same time period. I thought I understood what I was doing, but evidently I was the sucker.
I always assumed that people knew a fair bit about the Spanish flu, but maybe that’s due to my family history. My great-grandparents died of the Spanish flu, leaving my one-year-old grandfather and his older siblings as orphans. His birth parents were Swedish immigrants, and he was adopted by an American family. The change in surname is a marker of the event that stays with the family every day.
> From what I remember it's quite easy to have a SVM overfit ... It'd be interesting to understand why

SVMs with well-tuned kernels and regularization are reasonably resistant to overfitting. The problem is that you can easily end up overfitting the hyperparameters if you're not very careful about how you do performance testing.
I work remotely and wrap up a lot of my mindless chores during the day. I fold laundry during morning team huddles. If I'm needed on a call to listen in or only to offer occasional opinions then I will load the dishwasher, clean out the fridge etc while on the call. It's not exactly exciting, but those things have to be done and it requires no real attention or brainpower, which means I can remain focused on important job items.
Indeed tricky problems; I suspect the same thought process that leads you to doing it for them in a heartbeat is likely theirs for you. The difference of a few dozen years in expected longevity due to your head start isn't that massive.
Here is a similar exploration in South Carolina. There is a fairly remote pedestrian bridge in Ridgeland, SC

* https://www.google.com/maps/@32.4592184,-80.9837102,343m/dat...

which I noticed while on an east coast trip. And here is a look, sort of, into why it's there:

* https://www.greetingsfromthepast.com/2019/05/juanita-m-white...

It wasn't looking great in 2021:

* https://www.blufftontoday.com/story/news/2021/01/12/cleanup-...

It does connect two neighborhoods but doesn't seem to create access to a school or anything.
Retconning? What does that mean?
What TV doesn't start without an internet connection?
I'm still waiting on that sufficiently advanced compiler they've been talking about.
Maybe the AIs will take the studio's jobs before they take the artist's jobs (enabling much higher pay for creatives). After all the script is just 5% of the cost [1]. I'm sure there are pieces of the multi-hundred-million dollar movie-production process that are easier to automate that script writing and acting.

[1] https://www.investopedia.com/financial-edge/0611/why-movies-...
Also, you didnt use to own your mobile phone number.

In the US, at least, it literally took an act of Congress for customers to be allowed to port their numbers between wireless providers.
Even with large context windows, this technique is useful. I have found breaking down a problem into “map reduce” does much better than stuffing it into a huge 32k context window and asking it solve it in one shot.
An anonymous SMS sending tool with a WebGUI
Do they cover datura?
But what if I really like this stuff- learning, teaching, coming up with new ideas, solving problems, writing papers, presenting them, etc.?

And my field is Deep Learning.
Garmin watches have an SDK with their own entire goofy "Monkey C" language and an entire bytecode VM to run it. It's not "hidden" I guess (there's an app store), but neither was this Timex one.

https://www.atredis.com/blog/2020/11/4/garmin-forerunner-235...
Most work was done as a part of my day job. It took about half a year. Significant amount of that time is for writing an academic paper. Same content as the blog post, 10x less readers, 10x more time...
My great grandmother did remember the Spanish flu, though it was hazy gauzy fragmentary sorts of memories much like my remembrance of the fall of the Berlin Wall or the first gulf war. She was born in 1909, and I was asking her about it in 2001 or 2002.
But what if a company, for example, a utility, owes you money? This is still done exclusively via checks.
I think we all want jobs where we are challenged, work on interesting problems, are are appreciated! However, the fact is, that just doesn't happen all the time. You'll be challenged with interesting stuff sometimes, just much less frequently than you hope. This gets back to needing to lower your expectations. If you do ask about this in an interview, you won't get a valid answer. The answer will be from their context, not yours. "Of course it is challenging and super exciting place!@" Right.

If you want something challenging and exciting, look for an early stage company where you can wear lots of hats. That's where I've had the best luck. But still, it's not 100% solution. You'll still have plenty of dull days.

If the working world was built only for smart people with genius IQ's, there wouldn't be enough workers. It's built for the other ~95%. Don't get me wrong though, because when that other 95% needs you, they really need you. There are things you'll be able to figure out that nobody else can. But most of the time, those problems aren't happening. You'll see stories on here about someone going through some incredibly difficult leetcode interview, only to discover that after they take the job, it's all simple CRUD API or HTML form work.
I think maybe all unions should ban together for a general strike to force a ubi vote

The Trump checks/Biden checks caused too much inflation for that to be politically tenable.
How to size text using ems (2004)
Enhancing Chromium’s Memory Safety with Armv9