skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That’s a one-time trick, and it only really works if you were already wealthy enough to own in a HCOL area to begin with.

Plus “moving to a less desirable area” doesn’t really dovetail with most people’s assumption of “increased personal wealth”. It is sometimes a good option for retiring somewhere cheap, which absolutely reflects a real increase in net worth. But it’s far from liquid worth and requires steep compromises not everyone is a fan of.
So I’m acting as an “anti-vax” troll by citing from the CDC and DHHS and saying that I agree with what they say?

It seems like you are acting more like the troll by refusing to believe the exact words that come from the CDC and DHHS and just having a “belief” system without proof.

I have posted from only three websites to support my arguments - the CDC, DHHS, and Yale medicine.

You have posted…nothing
Zooming in on check 4, ask 'why' until you find the root. For some reason I tend to do this almost naturally, with mixed results though.

Especially when reviewing code, you often see how things can be done more simply, and asking "why" to the reviewee can sometimes backfire because of touching a sore point.

Thinking about it, not only when reviewing code. Also, when you question the used processes you often bump into "we found out from experience this works best" or "why change a working process". So always using the "why" tactic can be frustrating at times.
Viagra Lowers the Risk of Alzheimer’s by Almost 70%, Study Finds
People absolutely LOVE slow animations for general OS use.

Personally, I want for what I asked to happen to actually happen when I press a button, but I am far and away the minority.

What’s even worse, is that developers today have taken this “people love animations” stance and decided “hey, we can get away with utterly shit tier performance by just making an animation!” And so 15 second page loads are now the norm because you are rewarded with a few fade effects now and again.

And now the “fuck performance” has invaded literally everything.

We now even have technology being built for the express purpose of letting developers off the hook for performance characteristics (Look hard at you DLSS). Somehow, the general public has decided that DLSS is an optimization, and not actually just a way to not optimize at all. In the conversation of Starfields utterly dogshit optimization, the first “optimization” always brought up is DLSS.

Our industry is completely fucking sideways.
As a frontend dev, what are good resources to learn about principles and heuristics that I can apply in my work?

I have some knowledge, albeit very primitive, that I picked up from an HCI introduction and some good designers, but nothing too technical / formal yet.
What I find most intriguing about the JFK assassination is the fact that parts of it still can't be declassified.

In 1992, Congress passed a law saying everything was to be declassified in 25 years. October 2017 came and went, and the FBI blocked around 7,500 documents from release. The DEA didn't want CI names related to organized crime in them. The State Department blocked some due to "national security and foreign affairs concerns".

Trump claimed while running for President that he was now going to release everything, yet the FBI and CIA stepped in again and those plans changed.

Trump finally said he couldn't release them due to some being "of such gravity that it outweighs the public interest in immediate disclosure".

So they remain secret, 60 years later.
No one wants to reuse the existing radiators.
The problem is that low-temperature radiators/underfloor heating isn’t viable in 200 year old houses
Why are load balancers so popular in the first place?

I've never seen an architecture diagram for a high availability horizontally scalable system that included a generic load balancer.

When I give system design interviews, it's a bad sign of the interviewee adds a balancer. It ends up being a hand-wavy solution to difficulties on either side of the balancer.
I try to write mine, to avoid that kind of thing. It often involves a lot of arguing with the graphic designer.
i don’t understand, what do you mean?

if you can form your criticism into more coherent points and less generalized angst and snark it will be more helpful. i trust you have something to say, please do say it well.
> and is faster.

After a very long warmup time, which may make one-shot applications much slower.
I agree. Having gone through stuff I know how my mind can distort / hallucinate stuff in confusing / high stress situations. Even without questioning the person's honesty.. your brain is not a high quality source of information.
Not at all. Many humans are definitely surviving this no matter what. It's just the extra 2 billion or so that won't have access to whatever new "technology" is needed to survive.
But it’s still weird to put something that you still need into the trash can on your desktop computer.

Like, if someone at an office physically put a printed document into the trash can next to their desk, and then they started screaming the next day because the cleaning staff had emptied the trash can of “important documents”. Most people would agree that that would be an insane reaction.

So why people decide to intentionally put important documents in the trash can on the computer I don’t understand.

IMO the purpose of the trash can on the computer is to give you a chance to undo throwing it away, just like in real life. Instead of putting it straight into the shredder irl. But to expect things to stay in the trash for more than a little bit, that’s bonkers.
Huh, I didn't think that was the case, but looking around it sounds like it is:

"Most life insurance policies include a suicide clause that prevents the insurer from paying out the claim if the insured's death was due to self-inflicted injury within a certain period from the start of the policy (typically two years)."

https://www.progressive.com/answers/does-life-insurance-cove...
Indeed, I've found it to be quite accurate in my city when zoomed in enough to where the hex grid transitions to green/red dots on individual properties.

In my neighborhood and adjacent communities within a roughly 5-mile radius, utilities are all underground, but the pattern that emerges in these parts when attempting to predict whether a community will have fiber to the home or not appears to be some combination of existing easements/city right-of-way, relative community affluence, and housing density.

For example, AT&T brought fiber to my neighborhood likely because they could easily bury it along the city's right-of-way where not even HOA radicals can stop them. The more affordable townhome community to the immediate west didn't get the same infra though, despite there being comparable townhome communities less than a mile away surrounding a regional park that did. Similarly, the expensive homes within a gated golf country club to the immediate north of us doesn't get fiber despite the affluence living in that community, but the deed restricted community outside the gates to the immediate west which shares the same name did, while the mixed single- and multi-family community to the south of that community didn't. The homes in this area are anywhere between mid-80s to late-90s construction.
Despite better paper specs, AMD laptops have numerous issues on linux. Gaming aside, if you want a good productivity laptop, I would advise T/X Intel Thinkpads.
> Resist the urge to refactor major systems to achieve simplification, because there's a risk you will end up with a similarly complex system after some time

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Oh, I misunderstood your previous position. Yes, "because it's there" is always a fine reason to climb a mountain.

I guess I'm just personally burnt out on this topic because I've been watching people bandy conspiracy theories back and forth my entire life, and the odds of this changing the understanding of the day's events in any meaningful way aren't larger than the other "revelations" I've seen in my time. I guess upon further reflection, I do have some concern that people will take the stuff too seriously and do something foolish.

To give an analogy, the Titanic disaster is extremely well understood, but the disproportionate obsession with it has recently led to people getting killed again. One could certainly argue that they were free people making free choices and I would agree. But similar obsession in the political spectrum seems to have a nasty tendency to end up with somebody showing up in a pizza parlor with a firearm demanding to see the basement that doesn't exist. So it makes me twitchy.
It's not really a comparable situation as the US Federal Government isn't an international organisation. I think the aim is just to avoid having countries that happen to host lots of EU institutions receiving lots of national tax revenue as a result. It's also not an exemption that's entirely unique to EU employees. For example, NATO employees based in Belgium pay no income tax, and neither do employees of the United Nations.

Similar response here: https://politics.stackexchange.com/a/4968
Jarred Sumner has been doing 90 hr weeks
That's really fascinating. But does this mean that strong magnetic fields impact biological reactions in our body?
I wasn't talking about the visible spectrum, I was talking about near IR below the bandgap (which is just below visible for Si cells.) This light does not contribute to the output of the cells, so reflecting it back into space would reduce heat generation at no loss of efficiency. If anything, by keeping the cells cooler it would slightly boost efficiency.
Disagree. A senior engineer should make evidence based decisions, as should any engineer. If there's missing evidence for a conclusion, then a senior engineer should be able to design experiments which gather more evidence to derive a conclusion.

Senior engineers should not be con-men.
Because the Github post is the original source. The HN submission should be to the original source and a link to the "interesting comment(er)s" on Twitter could be in the comments here.
good work. i've always found bezier curves impractical and overrated, using standard polynomial interpolations or more easily understood variants.
Literally any multiplayer game will have a "fatal fault" if its connection to the other players and/or server is interrupted for long enough, but it seems disingenuous to describe a system tolerant of delays variable across several orders of magnitude, up to hundreds of milliseconds or even full seconds, as "hard real time" in the sense in which the term is generally understood.
My nationalized healthcare comment is unlreated to the existence of the dental industry in its current form. It was just an example to point out that protecting jobs is something our elected leaders are worried about when lobbyists are paying up (they're not really that worried about jobs dissapearing due to automation or mergers or monolopies, etc..)

Regardless of the type of healthcare (nationalized, private, etc..) the dental health industry is still getting paid, the only diffference is who is doing it. The original statement was that a breakthrough in preventive medicine will destroy a large portion of the bread and butter of the dental health industry, which will lead to it being only a fraction of what it is today. Industries fight tooth and nail to keep growing. Guess what they do when their existence is threatened.
Hitting a moving target is really hard.
Some might be testing price elasticity with the changing market. This could be temporary.
The one you also have to keep in mind are edits and drafts.

So even if you don't post any wrongthink, the very act of typing it out, even without hitting "post" or "save", means its stored in some database ready for the regime to crush your social credit score, possibly ip to the FBI raid you.

I assume this applies to every "cloud" application on your desktop computer as well. Very little is offline unless you make a particular effort.
The carbon capture odds are certainly low, but when compared to changing the forward momentum of the current system...ships of that size don't change direction easily or quickly.

Either we hit the iceberg, or we find a way to blow it out of the water. Avoiding it? That'll take a miracle.
That goes without saying.

edit: I don't like your linked article at all. Subtly misleading and/or misinformed. Like a yahoo news but for ML.

to clarify: No one (certainly not OpenAI) suggested that RLHF was useful for reducing hallucinations. It's not for that. The insinuation that it was designed for that purpose (at least partially) and yet "failed" is a faulty one. It was not designed for that purpose. Hallucinations are a known issue with large language models, and while I appreciate LeCunn re-iterating that; lesser researchers than LeCunn are aware of that fact.
My whole point is that usability is not about small details but the ability to complete a task. The big picture.

I don't use windows, I don't like it, but if [it being impossible to tell which window is focussed] doesn't impede people accomplishing the things they need to do, it's probably a cosmetic, at best a minor usability problem.
Sometimes (often) you feel like following the requirements is not the correct way, because they look fine at first sight but not so bright when doing a first analysis or design. Then you tend to get involved with the "none of my business" business.
io_uring already supports zero-copy networking (it's basically an RDMA API after all), and I believe the latest versions of Samba use it to great effect. I'm pretty confident this server could be ported entirely to userspace and maybe even get better performance by avoiding the userspace listener for DCE/RPC.
> Of course Marvin (the paranoid android) was an anomaly - a depressed AI - maybe a quality control failure who was released by accident, like the old unchained Bing people miss so much.

He was a failed prototype of the genuine people personality program.

It should be noted that an edition of the Encyclopedia Galactica which fell through a rift in the time-space continuum from 1000 years in the future describes the Marketing Department of the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation as "a bunch of mindless jerks who were the first against the wall when the revolution came."

Douglas Adams probably got that one right too.
> because it’s comparatively expensive

that's my point exactlt.

switching beef with pork wouldn't make a big impact, because

- it's already not the preferred source of protein anywhere

- Americans eat too much meat anyway, regardless of where it comes from.

Reduce is the most important of the 3 Rs (reduce, reuse, recycle) but the western World settled on the least important, recycle, because it can be turned into a profitable business, while reduce promotes moderation, which is like swearing in a church for many Americans.

I am Italian and still eat nuts, legumes and eggs for proteins much more than meat, especially beef.

It's the culprit of the Mediterranean diet and it's shared among many other cultures that built their culinary traditions around the same ingredients. Chinese traditional food is much more similar to my own family's traditional food in center Italy than the typical US diet will ever be.

So maybe Americans should simply embrace other, better diets, instead of replacing some type of meat with some other type of meat. intensive farming of pigs it's not much better than beef

The environmental impact of pig farming is mainly driven by the spread of feces and waste to surrounding neighborhoods, polluting air and water with toxic waste particles. Waste from pig farms can carry pathogens, bacteria (often antibiotic resistant), and heavy metals that can be toxic when ingested.
Not just a front end problem. As a customer of facebook, netflix, hbo,prime, disney+ etc., it continually amazes that these expensive devs can't make the backend remember what I watched and not. Combined with an "engaging" front end that hides what I'm interested in and shifts the interface randomly, the experience is pretty low.
Your right that there is no parallelization improvement, but it does not reduce parallelism either, its just a different(imo easier) way to think about concurrency.

Because it is easier for me to think about it is easier for me to see where things will contend the same resource and actually helps me improve potential parallelism. Once you recognize a particular opportunity where SMP can speed things up, you can stray a way from the actor-model a bit and have multiple threads receiving on your message queue, or if that isn't possible, you can just add more actors and split up the data better.
This is very well done. There’s success to be had in asking the model to list its own steps in the preamble of the output, too. “Give it space to think”. In the context of an app wrapped around the LLM, you can ask it to wrap those steps in a <plan> tag, and then trim those plans out of the conversation context (and display!) when the completion has returned.
Really digging the list, especially the emphasis on simplicity in systems. Reminds me of that age-old principle: "What is the simplest thing that could possibly work?" I've been on teams where we battled convoluted systems. Sometimes a refactor, even a daunting one, clears so much technical debt and revitalizes the team.

The 'ask "why"' bit? Gold. It's not just about coding but understanding the bigger picture. Feedback loops in software? Amazing. Feedback in career growth? Equally crucial.

It's a solid reminder that our game isn't just code; it's the soft skills too. They can seriously make or break your trajectory. But as always, while guides are great, everyone's path in tech is unique. It's like code; it evolves, iterates, and adapts.
Useful and succinct summary for people who don't know what finance does beyond being a kind of villain or force of political superstition. Couple decades ago I decided I couldn't consider myself educated or seriously engaged in society unless I could understand the articles in every section of a newspaper. Seems like a low bar, but it's surprising how few people can do it, and some of them even make policy.

The summary in the article gives you an idea of why a private equity firm would buy a certain type of company (consistent cash flows over long time period) vs. why a hedge fund might invest in one (arbitrage, distress, exotic risks, etc.) I'd still say an educated person should be able to read most of a financial newspaper these days. Worth a read to get a sense of it anyway.
It's not uncommon to want to shut off the display independently while a machine works on stuff. It seems with Macs you can learn to invoke that easily in the OS but it's probably not "discoverable" at all.

Meanwhile, displays with indepdent power buttons have been around since decades ago and still tend to work that way with typical TV/media setups. Although that was always unergonomic and we now have semi-reliable HDMI fixes.
As I understand when you are blocked on I/O and sends a signal to the waiting thread, that system call will simply be released and return an error. Ruby (Java etc.) does make it simple because of GC, so I don't need to worry about file descriptor leaks etc. But talking about Rust, shouldn't it be a part of a thread management? Basically if an error happens during normal blocking system call, it goes through the same sequence, no? E.g. you have to release any thread-local allocations no matter by each way system call was terminated. Rust threads are supposed to be memory safe, not sure about file descriptors. I don't quite understand what you mean by "yielding" though.
Transducers are functions that return transformed reducing functions.
Hi, Please take note that the listed median income is for a financial family. It does not reflect the aprox 32 000$ income of single workers. It does mean that most people cannot afford to be alone.
The blocked app shit really gets me. Installing compilers by hand is always a fight and a half.
Pretty much every dentist I've seen throughout my life has told me that I'm somehow immune to cavities

My dentist told me there's two types of mouth flora: one that causes cavities, and one that causes calculus. My mouth seems to be of the latter.
Building the Simplest Possible Linux System – Rob Landley [video]
> courts have ruled that law enforcement can use illegal tools during investigations, and then lie about it in court

No, they haven’t. Parallel construction is lying to the court about how you got your evidence. It’s never been court sanctioned to my knowledge.
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You know the real reason behind this was to get a GPL2'd Samba that (other) people would be forced to support, right?

Plenty hw manufacturers still won't touch the GPLv3 Samba with a ten-foot pole but do not want to commit to support a fork themselves with all the CVEs it would entail over the years. By putting it in the kernel where it'll have high visibility and with some excuse about performance requirements, at least someone may take the bait later on and maintain this one for free. May even become more popular than Samba itself. Win win!
There are plenty of counterexamples here, with languages that had corporate sponsorship but did not succeed (e.g. Go) and vice versa (Perl, Python).

In the case of Lisp, it was done in by two things: AI winter, and the fact that the Lisp community was never able to organize itself. This is the famous "Lisp curse": it is precisely the fact that Lisp is a productivity multiplier that seals its fate because it allows individuals to get things done without collaborating.
The argument is that you aren’t moving additional energy into the city from power stations to run the AC, which ends up as heat. Instead you’re using energy that’s already radiated into the city from the sky.

As others have pointed out, you might do better bouncing the incoming radiation back out of the city with white roofs. And still others say you can do a bit of both.
I feel like the section "How Does NGINX Unit Compare to NGINX Web Server?" does answer some aspects of it.
Likely yes. But "solving" hallucinations is not really important as long as mitigating it to some sufficiently low level is possible.
its also funny how the most committed communists are those who wants others to fund it. Their exact level of "take home money" to spend on what they want, is the EXACT amount that "should be allowed". Similar to how bernie sanders were giving his "millionaires and billionaires" spiel, when he then became a millionaire himself, the tune changed, and his speeches became "billionaires!". And suddenly "you too can become a millionaire if you write a book"
In this case it's a design decision, to priorice the discussion of the community over the opinion of the OP. If you watch carefully, small features are added regularly without announcement.
The problem is, this is a testable idea.

If the body is key to emotion, such as the cited furrowing of the brow, then people with a sufficient injury to the related body parts should no longer be able to feel that emotion at all. You'd have literally cut it out of them.

While such injuries do have profound effects, it hardly erases emotions.
I'm not sure what the "unelected" bit means here.

You want to elect 60,000 bureaucrats?

Is it supposed to mean that they have no mandate to do what they do?
This is a cop-out.