skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
[PRQL dev here]

We don't have LSP support yet, but it's on the Roadmap. We've designed the language to be very LSP-friendly — one of the benefits of starting with `from` and pipelining each function.
I think there is great wisdom in your comment, but I am struggling to recieve it. Can you give examples for #1 please?
I wish paying with the phone would not only transfer how much we paid where. I'd like to get more details like single item prices. This would enable us to track prices ourselves.
I suspect any of the larger companies that use Unity are going to weight in with their lawyers instead of public appeals.
And, it looks like with PCIe 5.0 x4 performance exceeds 2,500,000 IOPS reads, and 14 GBps sequential read rate.
Might be a good idea to bring back the concept of the gentleman scientist, who are generally independently wealthy. Charles Darwin is one such scientist.
Stock prices have nothing really to do with the company itself. Stock is issued by companies, but the value of a stock is proportional to the expected future hype value of the stock. Given sufficient hype, more people will buy in to it after you buy it, and the unit price of the limited stock issue goes up. Stock picking is simply gambling for retail investors which have zero say in how a company is run.
Why Airbnb risks being unbundled
Every horizontal platform faces the threat of being unbundled by vertical players.

The Acquired podcast compares Airbnb to eBay:
eBay had great network effects, but was slowly unbundled by 1000 niche e-commerce players.

Amazon, in contrast, has fended off all threats of unbundling.

This begs the question?
How can a platform like Airbnb prevent the same fate as eBay, and instead be more like Amazon?

The answer I came up with is to:
Focus on perfecting the hard-to-perfect "anything-features" that are common among all your supply.

For every product on a platform, there are some features that differ among every product, and some features that are common among all products.

I call these features that are common among all products for "anything-features".

For example:

1. Apple’s anything-features are the iPhone's screen, camera, speakers, and all other physical sensors.
Regardless of what website or app I’m interacting with, the iPhone is the best way to do it.

2. Amazon’s anything-features are their fulfillment and logistics services. Regardless of what I need to
buy, Amazon is the best way to get it delivered.

Apple and Amazon became great by perfecting the anything-features that are common among all their supply. By being the best

Also, all these companies perfected features that were hard to perfect.
It’s really hard to build:

1. Such a perfect phone as Apple, or
2. Such a perfect fulfillment and logistics service as Amazon.

Because these features are hard to perfect, they create a moat that fends off all competitors who try to perfect the same thing.

The anything-features of Airbnb are the photography services, host-guest chats, payments, and reviews.

The photography service is pretty hard to replicate. The review feature isn’t difficult to build in itself, but it’s difficult to get reviews.

Chats and payments, in contrast, are extremely easy to copy.

This is why Airbnb is facing a greater risk of unbundling than Apple, Shopify, Google, or Amazon.

Airbnb hasn’t perfected enough hard-to-perfect anything-features of their supply.

Two hard anything-features that Airbnb could perfect are:

- Cleaning service for hosts
- Personalized gifts for guests

If Airbnb offered these anything-features, they might have a better chance to survive than eBay.
I have a similar story.

I was working at a Big Startup, on ML side of things. All the senior engineers in my team left and me and a few others became the senior-most engineers (with <1 YOE). The models we built were contributing 100M$+ to the top line of the business.

My then manager tasked to do some data analysis to determine whether building a "new nonsensical ML Model" was the right way forward. I like a diligent bee crunched the data and came to the conclusion that "we shouldn't build the new model".

I showed the results to my manager who laughed and told me to do it again. It's also important to note here that my team lead and old manager had left the company. This person was completely new and a senior manager.

I in my naive mind (and oblivious to politics) thought he's telling me to say that the results "do make sense". and that's what I said. We even presented the results to product people who gave us go ahead. Since we were doing such pivotal work, even the company's CTO was involved and tracking our progress.

The next few months were one of the most painful times of my life. Immediately after the meeting, we were tasked to actually build those models. I knew that they wouldn't bring any results, everyone else in my team knew, even PMs knew. Everyone except the manager.

I led a few interns and we built the damn models and got the expected result which is 0% improvement.

What happened next taught me a lot about life. Their was a meeting (which I wasn't a part of) where everyone senior who had their ass on this project came together. They invented a "new metric of success" and asked us to train ML models optimizing for that. We trained the models and obviously since the optimization target changed, we saw improvement.

Then we created charts according to that metric which were obviously good. the PMs showed slides to Upper management. and all was well again.

The best part of the new metric was that the actual results will only be visible years down the line. So we called it a success regardless. I switched my job soon after that.

I learnt from this experience to just say "NO" firmly on doing things I'm not comfortable with. and always keeping a text trail. The manager was kind of an oddball so I never fully got whether he actually knew this from the start or was just plain incompetant.
In North America at least, the term is Professional Engineer. PEs are generally licensed in a way similar to doctors and lawyers. At one point there was a push to professionalize software engineers, but it never got very far.

Feel free to call yourself a software engineer (or even a software doctor). The titles aren’t controlled and as a result don’t really mean anything.
There's an alternate concept for rotations called a rotor that is just as capable as the quaternion concept but does not require reasoning in higher dimensions: http://marctenbosch.com/quaternions/
> An LLM will always and only output variations of content that exists.

I envision a stage in data preparation before training when the model will review and analyse its training data, integrating information that sits in different examples.

And not just the dataset, but the model itself can be sampled and the generated corpus be analysed and result in some kind of introspective signal that can be added to the training set.

A third source of signal for analysis would be chat logs generate by the previous iteration of the model. Tendency to be a yes man, sycophancy, hallucinations etc would be apparent in the reactions of the users.

In fact we are seeing a surge of synthetic datasets generated from higher models like GPT-4 to train open source models like LLaMA. I think the next few years "dataset engineering" will dominate over architecture engineering as the main approach for improvement.
Gsplat – 3D Gaussian Splatting WebGL viewer
I've found it darn near impossible to successfully download any large dump via Tor because of the low bandwidth and interruptions.
I would guess they try to get 3-5 years out of a new server, and this was done in 2021...so still a bit early for a refresh. The servers prior to this one had E5-2650 processors, so they would have been bought sometime between 2013-2016. Meaning their last refresh cycle was at least 5 years.
We work with families, but the initiation always comes from parents. The kids are typically eager and nervous. The parents anxious while attempting to appear confident.

On paper, the child is the client and we work with them. In practice, their are decisions that the family needs to make and sometimes parents are in a better position to build or start relationship networks. Parents typically come with crazy impressive networks already though and we help them leverage what they have.

The sense I get is that these are people who highly valued their elite education and want the same opportunities for their kids.

None seem particularly entitled or like jerks. They just have the resources to get their kids opportunities that most people cannot.

I would think of it like this. There is almost no way two otherwise equal kids will get equivalent SAT scores if one has done any kind of prep course and the other has not. One kid is going to be answering questions that look just like ones they practiced while the other is still reading the test instructions.

We do that kind of leg up but for every aspect of the admissions process.
^ unchecked exception handling, really, rather than anything specific to C#.

Some discussion by the architects of C# over why they made this choice: https://www.artima.com/articles/the-trouble-with-checked-exc...
You should probably understand how the term is used worldwide before arguing about it on the internet.
Meanwhile Carrefour profits rise even when accounting for inflation.
‘It’s them, not us!’.

https://www.reuters.com/business/retail-consumer/carrefour-p...
Those 2021 servers will probably last them 4-5 years so they haven't upgraded yet.
Blazor server or WASM?
Definitely but Unity itself isn't really doing something "legal" here with their extortions, but I guess time will tell with the eventual legal battles.
What Mircea Eliade can tell us about The Legend of Zelda
Thank you so much for your detailed answer.

> clubs to join and avoid

What clubs would you ask them to avoid?

> We help them get recommendations from people the colleges trust and value

Are there any financial motivations for people writing the recommendation?

> Most candidates want entrepreneurship opportunities or tracks in business, business tech or law

So, about none using such services opt for Math/CS/Physics major?
The dynamic price simulation reminds me of Primer ( https://www.youtube.com/@PrimerBlobs/videos ), specifically: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PNtKXWNKGN8
> I personally would be wary of running OpenZFS in production on Linux

A ton of people in the enterprise have been doing this for years without issue; https://openzfs.org/wiki/Companies

> especially ZFS on root

I've been running ZFS on root on NixOS since this excellent guide (https://openzfs.github.io/openzfs-docs/Getting%20Started/Nix...) for about 2 years. Zero issues. (Actually, I see they've updated it, I need to look at that. Also, they default to encrypted root. I turn it off, because the slight hit to performance and extra risk of recovery impossibility is not worth it to me.)

> It has bit me in the ass too many times on Debian with an update breaking DKMS and rendering my system unbootable

Well, I think you've found your problem, then. (That also might be why FreeNAS, which I also have running as my NAS, switched to Linux from Debian when they re-branded as TrueNAS Core/Enterprise.) Come over to NixOS, where you can simply reboot into any of N previous instances after an update that borks something (which almost never happens, anyway, because you can actually specify, in your machine configuration, "use the latest kernel that is compatible with ZFS"). No USB boot key needed. Here's the magic line from my own declarative configuration:

kernelPackages = config.boot.zfs.package.latestCompatibleLinuxPackages;

Aaaaand... DONE. ;)

> Also, it's very, very strange/worrying to see no mention of disk encryption anywhere in the post or the tuning guide. For a company with encrypt in the name, that is responsible for the majority of trust on the internet, WTF?

You're assuming they're not doing it, without evidence. Also, if they're already managing the security around their certs and cert generation properly, they might not need FDE. FDE is overrated IMHO, frankly, and also incurs a performance cost, as well as an extra risk cost (try recovering an encrypted drive to know what I mean). In short, religions are bad, even in technological choices; there is no single technological configuration choice that is 100% better than all possible alternative configurations.

> That should be highlighted in their benchmarking. ZFS supports native encryption, MariaDB does encryption, how are they encrypting at rest/transit/use?

Multiple layers of encryption incur an extra performance cost with almost no gain in extra security.
China's #1 oil company says peak gasoline demand has already passed
Oh nice, I learned something today! Thanks for the informative and entertaining resource :)
I like the sentiment, but I'm legitimately scratching my head trying to think of any game-proof metric
>Almost 15 years after the launch of bitcoin and at least tens of billions of dollars invested in development in the space there is still nowhere on the horizon any of this is ready for anything approaching mass adoption.

You hit the nail on the head. Nobody can directly buy water, milk, fuel, transportation, or anything necessary with bitcoin. Its only legitimate use is an exotic and volatile investment vehicle for millionaires to play with.
Of course I can dismiss it, pretty easily: I do need that feature, and yes it's fundamental to any UI in computers or real life, and if he doesn't - I don't mind and don't really care since I'm not talking about HIS needs (or yours personally), I'm discussing his dismissal of MINE (and that of kakoune's devs and whoever else values such feedback) and your characterization of that dismissal as some kind of rebuttal

(also statements like these

> Deleting the current word, sentence, or parentheses block does not involve uncertainty

are obviously false, of course it does, there are different types of w/Words (and different separators, and those separators could also be conext-dependent), many nested blocks you might not be immediately aware of borders of, and also with sentences you might not know exactly where a period is, etc., so there is uncertainty in every such case, so again he's just saying there is no need when there is clearly one

And that uncertainty only grows with muliple selections
Again: That's not a helpful comparison. Cruise ships have absolutely ridiculous emissions. HN does not.
Yep, my reading peaked when I read 45,000 pages of books in a year, including many classics and large non-fiction (think Gödel Escher Bach). Then I realized my life wasn’t all that much better for it and other areas of my life were suffering. I still love reading, but all things in moderation.
Make sense!

Khwaja Khizr and Ganj Baksh are also venerated in my area - often at the same time with Sakai Sarwar (eg. This random whatsapp forward -
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/XFZuubbGNXQ?feature=share)

By Gurdaspur, I meant the undivided Gurdaspur division, which included the hill regions of what's now Pathankot District in East Punjab and I think some of northern regions in West Punjab
I'm pretty happy with Gitea, does the job, simple to set up and now it support actions with multiple runners.

Tried gitlab, was a nightmare to set up and consumed a lot of resources.
Comp.sys.sinclair Crap Game Comp 2023
> We currently use MariaDB, with the InnoDB database engine.

Oh hey, it's not often that you hear about MySQL/MariaDB on HN, so this is a nice change. For what it's worth, it's a pretty decent database for getting things done, even if not as advanced as PostgreSQL in some respects.
"We won't go into a lot of detail" but they still expect to be paid based on the data they collect? What happens when a popular game or publisher claims they had X installs and Unity claims they had Y? Hard to imagine people will simply accept Unity's position when there's real money at stake...
And here's mine: https://github.com/sowbug/b39tools

This is specifically for an SSSS-based distributed physical backup of a BIP-39 wallet seed and passphrase.
I do visualize it but the logic is the landmarks. It's like living on a grid system such as in Utah or New York but you still know where Times Square is and how Broadway connects everything
Usually you aren't updating production servers unless it's a security patch, fixes a problem you have, or adds a feature you want/need. Even then, usually you have a test environment to verify the upgrade won't bork the system
But it does break them. That's what happens when you enable root, they break.

You have to use pretty shaky workarounds to trick them, and there is a known way to make those workarounds impossible.
Note that there's also a /usr/bin, with complete GNU coreutils (or at least most of them), and vim.
The difference is this would require a hard fork, and the value of this fork would be determined entirely by market forces. Imagine if when the US decided to 'print' a few trillion bucks, it resulted in the creation of a new USD2 currency. And you were free to keep using USD1 or swap over to USD2. More or less the exact same thing has already happened with Bitcoin multiple times, with the outcome you could expect.

It's quite interesting in an economic sense too because, unlike our USD2 analogy, in the Bitcoin world users actually keep all their money in both forks (so if you have $1000 in USD, you'd also have $1000 in USD2) yet disproportionately favor one currency to the point that e.g. Bitcoin Cash is worth $217 per coin, while BTC mainline is worth $26,000 per coin.
This quote was a direct cause of me to decide to abandon my physics research job
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It's a bit of a street hustle to invent a condition where someone has to defend slavery to reason about another idea. I'll give this line of criticism some standing when its proponents lift a finger to type something against its current incarnations and its beneficiaries. It's like me saying it's impossible to consider your argument seriously because it was typed on the backs of Congolese child laborers in cobalt mines and unless your comment justifies their suffering, you might as well be chaining them there yourself. It a trolling tactic for policing weak minds.
I have born and raised in a little similar environment, a semi catholic cult called Neocathecumenal Way, but after a massive growth in the 80s and in the 90s the movement is declining. Right now, only the teen agers (sons of the members) are joining the Way, but they usually leave as they grew up.
Notably, this happened before any of these events, and to help you with Austrian history, the entire "family" has been since dismissed. (Kneissl is now a blogger in Russia, far from Austria or its politics.)
> Just doing your job as an engineer and looking for bugs is not a pen test

A pen test’s goal is to find security bugs by posing as an attacker. There is no requirement that it is systemic, formally documented, performed by a “security expert,” or that it is done by any external party.

Those are all desirable _properties_ of a pen test that may be required for various certifications, but an engineer can absolutely conduct a quick and informal pen test at any time.
I actually like it; it makes sense at a glance, without having read a single line of the official documentation. But I think people should be free to use either syntax -- method or query -- as they see fit, without judgment of which one is better.
Its very common for people from Salzburg/Austria to shop in the Berchtesgaden region, however with bigger distances from the border this doesn't make sense.

Re Austrian products cheaper abroad than in Austria - there was the curious case of a beer drink from Gösser, that was sold cheaper 700km away from the brewery in Berlin than in the town of the brewery itself: https://twitter.com/KernNiko/status/1692954540293947408/phot.... Gösser argued they wanted to promote the drink in Germany against local competition and that this was a temporary price drop.

Again, Germany made a smarter move by developing beer powder concentrate (https://www.wa.de/verbraucher/bierpulver-klosterbrauerei-neu... German). This allows them to remove the 90% water share of the beer when exporting it to Asia and still sell it as "brewed in Germany".
I do not believe that it is a bad thing for the home to be a less attractive investment.

Certainly, having something like one out of five homes being bought up by investors simply for the investment seems to be very skewed - something along the lines of old coin collecting or acquiring art.

Housing has a specific purpose and if the supply is so downregulated that it is losing that purpose something has gone wrong...
Yes, the idea was to make a commitment that would then be hard to avoid. They can fire you I guess, but it's a reasonable course of action to get some pen testing in place.
If apple buy unity the last thing I see them do is make it open source.

I can see them make it apple exclusive and more integrated to the apple ecosystem though.
Bluetooth chips are complex. That’s why the companies that make them are worth billions of dollars and have thousands of employees. Making a phone is also very complex but it would be exponentially so if every component had to be made in-house and not purchased from another supplier that is an expert in that area.

The way companies express their pique is that they try to aggressively poach engineers from the company to make their own in-house team, in a process that frequently takes years. All the time they continue buying chips because until that is complete they don’t actually have any Bluetooth chips to ship in their products. Even then the process frequently doesn’t work because it turns out that throwing a billion dollars at something doesn’t necessarily mean you can make what the other company has spent 25 years on. If you want examples, just look at Apple: they aggressively pull things they think are strategic into their own hardware team, and they still talk to a bunch of terrible suppliers because they aren’t willing to shell out the money to do it themselves and they don’t consider it worth going to war over. And the things that they do actually try to make (modems, for example) frequently don’t work out.

Nobody is going to sue a guy in his basement working on Linux drivers. You can scare him with lawyers but fundamentally there’s not much that you can extract from them. But going after Google for IP infringement in a phone that sold ten million units is actually very much worth it.

I think you feel that Google has infinite money to just use on tantrums and despite them having a lot of money their is probably no entity on earth that can engage in these kinds of things regularly and get away with it. Companies are not like people. Even the smallest ones have legal teams that can make engaging with them very painful. And in hardware people have a ton of options to sell to, so you’re just a tiny piece of anyone’s pie.
This is what the internet is for. This right here.

I wrote an even awful-er knockoff of the centipede game on my TS-1000. In BASIC. In 2k.
I would have self-hosted.

I had a super popular Tumblr for a few years, hundreds of thousands of followers, but when Tumblr went conservo and de-platformed adult blogs, blog "no more was".

I could have moved it to another platform, of course, but the tedium and volume didn't satisfy my means-ends. I had no backup strategy, mechanically abdicating to Tumblr's platform and its theretofore liberal content policies.

Had I self-hosted, it would still be live and popular.

In short, consider your host carefully. Self-host with a backup strategy would probably be best.
>There’s no difficulty to this decision.

That’s just not a realistic sentiment for most people in most jobs.