skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A1 built tails mostly at 64 and 2mbit to the first generation integrated modems. The backbone was otherwise built using Telecom Australia/Telstra's Metro Network product, which ran out of W.A. and was very unforgiving. Rackable modem product was complicated to run. The Cisco integrated device was nice, but it's s/w stack was immature (I also worked on this at connect IIRC)

There were often boundary issues around who talked to whom, who was an ISP, who wanted to be, who was an intermediary. Having a pair into an MDF was the least of the problems sometimes, I went to some meetings (I'd rather forget) about peering (financial settlement) issues. Ideally yes, you'd just plug stuff in and go. In reality, that wasn't how business worked.

Labtam had a /16 direct from IANA, (not through AUNIC) from their manufacturing days. Now, that would be worth $3.5m -At the time, it was a godsend but not enough. The company had been bought at a low point in Australian PCB manufacturing at a stock-sale floor price, by two "entrepreneurs" who may well have been good businessmen but didn't understand the Internet one bit. Maybe they understood it too well, I remember a screaming match at a pre-sales tech meetup where one of them floated heads-up 3D VRML shopping malls and when I said "not technically feasible yet" I was roundly pasted for being defeatist. I didn't last in that company long.
I do not want to be too much of a downer, but is there something keeping us from just using the traditional verbiage we've used in the community for years and call it "projecting into a shared latent space" (or something bland but descriptive that a researcher like me could quickly latch onto, like 'separate key and query encoders')?

I understand that proprietary names are necessary to sell ideas, architectures, etc, but projecting things into the same latent space is an....old concept, that, like the old Ecclesiastes verse, come up in new and unique ways/applications. Though there is nothing new under the sun, indeed.

Please forgive this stodgy young person. Frippery and grumpiness are a deep skill of mine, and I apply it to my own DL research as well. I do not want to discourage the author from writing more pieces, explaining concepts is I believe a great trend to have in a community.

Thank you and curious for anyone's thoughts. <3 :) :')))) <3
But mRNA doesn’t replicate as much right? And it does not use the actual virus. Chances are that it doesn’t damage anything
More kids got Covid than got the vaccine.
Well, it seems to be a common theme to build a server that uses the flag eval _server_ SDK to evaluate a bunch of flags and then pass them back to the client.

For example, a client may call myserver.com/mobile-flags?merchant=abcdef&device=123456&os=ios&os_version=15.2&app_version=6.1 and the server will pass back:
flag1: true
flag2: 39
flag3: false
flag4: green

This seems to be a common theme. For example, LaunchDarkly has a mobile client SDK, but they charge by MAU, which would be untenable. So folks tend to write a proxy for the mobile apps to call. If the client (as in my example above) doesn't specify which flags it wants, then the metrics are missing, whether you're using a commercial product or your own: it'll simply tell you that all the flags got used. (Of course, you could be collecting metrics from the client apps).

But based on our experience, you'd be better of having the mobile client pass in an explicit list of desired flags. Which will give accurate metrics.

Hope that clarifies what I meant.
Yeah, I wonder how much 'hustle culture' and 'YOLO/FOMO' plays a role, whether it's cryptocurrency speculation or e-hustling on Shopify. Young people want to realize their millionaire dreams, like their idols online, even if it means being scammed. Due to high inflation and sky-high housing costs, get rich quick schemes have become a compelling alternative to comparably paltry wages--the so-called lottery mindset and economy--but also comes with the cost of unscrupulous opportunists preying upon these people's desires for shortcuts.
> I've ever heard they never do RSUs

Well...I'm surprised you didn't bother doing google search. You choose what percent of the 500k cash if stock. 0% or 90% if you want.

I don't get why you are complaining about the location - all the bay is expensive and you can easily afford a 2 million dollar home on a 500k salary.
Passenger trains, we lead the world in freight rail.

(outside China, I have no idea whether Chinese freight rail is or isn't great).
The squatters should attack this in an international arbitration court at considerable cost if they think it's abuse and they have a chance to win.
There is also a separate project of humans reading public domain works, called LibreVox: https://librivox.org/
Here is real journalism about these kind of humans.

https://archive.org/details/historyofgreatam01myer
https://archive.ph/f0uE2
I would have thought so. But flagsmith apparently does primarily server-side eval. And even OpenFeature has `flagd`, which I guess is a sidecar, so a sort of hybrid approach.

And LaunchDarkly's Big Segments fetch segment inclusion data live from redis (although I believe they then cache it for a while).
> What's the one thing that 200 million people did in the USA, particularly children, that had an unknown potential for adverse health effects and that occured at just the same time and that was new and different? It had to be something different... something new, because this has never happened before.... especially among children. Just think about it. Yes, the vaccine.

Yes, of course, because nothing else different and new was circulating through the population at the time.

Do people like you all just start with a quasi-religious belief that Covid itself must be harmless? I understand being concerned about the possibility of vaccine side effects, but the constant insistence that a novel respiratory virus is safe strain credulity.
Combining embeddings is the backbone of multimodal LLMs, such as InstructBLIP[0] or LLaVA[1]. Those architectures take the output tokens from a (frozen) vision transformer and train a very small projection layer between the output token space of the ViT and the input space of the LLM.

[0] https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.06500
[1] https://llava-vl.github.io/
I think the order matter at least because you want to have some FIFO approximation, otherwise some tasks can forever stuck in queue and never be picked up.
Van parking is a flat lot. This can be built in multiple floors. Suburbs are a problem, more density is a solution
> What evidence do you have that “Asian” parents (whomever that refers to) show more devotion to their children? Or that “western” couples show less care?

I come from South Asia. It’s my observation that Americans are far less willing to sacrifice their personal happiness and well being for their kids.
The article to me is about the cost of a box to sleep in SF. The person they interviewed was just one of the renters. There are all sorts of people living in that place. Most I would wager are the people who cannot afford anything better.

Why do you think minimum wage workers should not be allowed to live in SF? If everyone is writing code, who would make the food? Who would deliver the packages? Who would clean the workspace in your office? They don't deserve a place to live near you even though they are providing you with all kind of services? Genuinely asking here because I can't fathom what you were saying when you said SF is not for minimum wage workers.
This year I upgraded my Pixel 2 to a Pixel 5a. Had the Pixel 2 for five years. The upgrade to platform that was four years ahead was great, and only cost $150.

Patience.
I’m not against using Postgres for this. But I am against the rolling your own distributed task queue. It always seems like a simple task but snowballs in complexity. Any gains you get simplifying your stack will be wiped out by the fact that things like Celery (for example) don’t support using Postgres as a broker so now you have to do your own DIY Celery instead of say, just using Celery with the SQS broker (which… since we’ve established scale isn’t being considered here, SQS costs shouldn’t be an issue either).

Anyone know if there are Celery or Celery-like tools that support Postgres as a broker?

As a side-note, if you want a simple no-frills task scheduler ap-scheduler is a dead simple option. It’s even more limited than the solution described in OP (you can only run one worker so it’s not distributed at all) but often it is all you need especially for toy projects.
On the local network, there are ways to MITM without touching DNS, like ARP spoofing.
I wonder who will take these "drugs".
I went through a phase about a year ago where I started all my hobby projects in Crystal. It was a pretty fun exercise but I stopped eventually for the following reasons:

- Ultimately, I ran into some bugs with things in the standard library. There's still a lot of warts and a lot of vague error messages. Hopefully this has improved since I last touched it.

- No windows support. Much of my hobbyist time is spent dabbling with gamedev so it always felt like eventually this would be a dealbreaker.

- I found it hard to grasp some of the type grammar. Mixing the looseness of Ruby syntax with strict typing can sometimes result in weird ergonomics.

That said, I think if/when it matures further I plan on going back to it. Macros were really cool and at the end of the day I just really like working in ruby style languages. The community was also super helpful on Discord.
Layoffs are often quick and unexpected, and the impacted employees are essentially "dead to the company".
I guess this is a bit outside of microcontrollers, but it is nice to see currents going towards things like FPGAs too, for example.

GPUs are great but for my usecase they also can be a bit limiting, because I'd like to do high throughput bitmagic on numbers, which starts to get difficult past a certain point. And certain bit depths like 5, 3, and under get weird too.

All that said, definitely agree that much more powerful microcontrollers is extremely nice, less fiddling with weird fiddly quirks, more devvy magic. <3 :'))))
Schengen is not the same as EU, it’s a borders free zone.

Anyway, what does it mean global government? Is WTO or UN a global government? Why do you need this “global government” to let people travel around?

Don’t forget that travel restrictions on people is a very new phenomenon, not too long ago people were able to travel wherever they wanted without visa or passport or anything like that.

Why do you think that we should keep those restrictions?
Retinol is the form of Vitamin A that comes almost exclusively from meat and other animal products.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Retinol
Yellowstone is actually tricky because of how the Wyoming, Idaho, and Federal jurisdictions overlap. There are some people who believe that in the so-called "Zone of Death", it's impossible to be convicted for murder. The only person who has been charged with a felony in a similar region was given a plea deal that was conditional on him not bringing up the 6th Amendment issues
Yes, any logic that explains the reality on the ground and makes US/NATO look bad must be Russian propaganda. Russkies have been making a lot of sense lately.
I like the focus on simplicity of uMon, and agree with author's criticism of behemoths like Grafana.

But looking at the installation instructions[1], I can't help but think that their reluctance to use Docker feels contrarian for no reason (and the quip about it being "out of fashion" completely misguided). This whole procedure could be automated in a Dockerfile, and actually running uMon would be vastly simplified. Docker itself is not much more than a wrapper around Linux primitives, and if they dislike it specifically for e.g. having to run a server and run containers as root, there are plenty of other lighterweight container alternatives.

There's an argument to be made that the "Simple" Network Management Protocol they're a fan of is far from being simple either[2]. Configuring the security features of v3 is not a simple task, and entire books have been written about SNMP as well. They conveniently ignore this by using v2c and making access public, which might not be acceptable in real-world deployments.

I'm all for choosing "simple" tools and stacks over "complex" ones, for whatever definition of those terms one chooses to use, and I strive to do that in my own projects whenever possible, but simplicity is not an inherent property of old and battle-tested technologies. We should be careful to not be biased for technology we happen to be familiar with, but be pragmatic about picking the right tool for the job that fits our requirements, regardless of its age or familiarity.

[1]: https://tomscii.sig7.se/umon/#Installation%20and%20getting%2...

[2]: I have a pet peeve about tools or protocols with "simple" or "trivial" in their name. They almost always end up being the opposite of that as they mature, and the name becomes an alluring mirage tricking you into its abyss of hidden complexity. I'm looking at you SMTP, TFTP...
> Worse for everyone involved. Adults in bad marriages do not make for good parents.

Statistics show that neither do divorces and single parents.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4240051/ (“The best scientific literature to date suggests that, with the exception of parents faced with unresolvable marital violence, children fare better when parents work at maintaining the marriage.”).

> Children exposed to abusive marriages are predisposed to considering abusive marriages normal, therefore perpetuating the cycle.

Abuse used to be a ground for divorce prior to modern no-fault divorce.

> And the implication that "love" isn't desirable in a marriage because it's a modern idea is laughable.

Obviously it’s desirable. But if you take a shot at your love marriage, and then you “fall out of love,” should you be able to inflict the financial and emotional damage of divorce on your kids?
One cool thing about the Samsung s-pen is it can select any text on the screen (drag while holding the pen button)
Currently, the availability of ad blockers is limited on smartphones, which are used by many people for web browsing. In some regions, web browsing may be restricted without using a VPN. In such cases, smartphones cannot be used in combination with a VPN and a standalone ad blocker such as AdGuard. As a result, some people may give up using ad blockers. DNS-based ad blockers can achieve some of the same goals, but they are less effective than standalone ad blockers and are more likely to be detected by anti-ad blockers.
Love that site. I used their page on Secret of Mana as a reference [1] during my work making ROM hacks for the game [2] and a large focus of my work was restoring content that was cut, including unused graphics, dialog, and even unused music. Fun project.

[1] https://tcrf.net/Secret_of_Mana_(SNES)

[2] https://www.romhacking.net/?page=hacks&genre=&platform=&game...
Yeah okay but device drivers in C#? That sounds very impractical when you could pick any other language. C, C++, Rust, D, Zig, Objective-C, all seem more suitable than C#. I agree with all that stuff you said about Rust; I was asking how drivers in C# would work
Viable ROP-free roadmap for i386/armv7/riscv64/alpha/sparc64
For listening, you can pretty much just throw some wire up and you'll hear stuff. When I first started, I got an RTL-SDR, and with alligator clips, added some random wire I had to the dipole antenna that came with the RTL-SDR. I was able to hear some FT8 signals from overseas. Helped that I lived in a top-floor apartment, but still :)
Ah, thanks. I was confused by that part too.
> Sometimes I think it would be fun to do a bunch of interviews with the people making everything happen back then and make a podcast or video series about it.

The first Australian BBS | internet (pre WWW HTML) bridge I regularly dialed into (early 1980s) was run by Trevor Marshall who also built an amp or two for AC/DC's Bon Scott in the 1970s.

He features in BBS: The Documentary which might tickle your fancy or prompt you to chase up famous names from Whirlpool and interview them before they croak.

http://www.trevormarshall.com/

http://www.bbsdocumentary.com/

http://www.bbsdocumentary.com/photos/104marshall/index.html

https://forums.whirlpool.net.au/
Sorry to burst your bubble here but there's no special meaning to my username. Whenever I created this account I was trying to think of a psudonymous name and I just happened to have The Origins of Consciousness... sitting on my desk. I should probably change usernames and also finish reading that book someday, haha.
Disney evidently doesn’t care about profit loss from bad human writing so it’s not clear that they'll care about same from bad AI writing.
What about netdata?
> Or more closely the sleeping pod scenes in Tokyo in Wim Wenders Until the End of the World (1991)

Can you give a more detailed description? Was just a run-of-the-mill Japanese capsule hotel (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capsule_hotel)? Those were already common in 1991 (https://www.flickr.com/photos/glenhsparky/4820691940), and would have been certainly exotically sci-fi to an early-90s American audience.

> Just the trailer - it's a 5 hour film and hard to find the specific scene on youtube

Wow. some time ago that film connected with me for some reason (why, I have no recollection), so I have a VHS copy (because it was unavailable in any other format). That cut is much shorter.
When i read that they thought docker was outdated I figured i would open the repo to find go code and pre built binaries… when i found c++ i was left thinking the same as you.
What happens when teenagers start throwing traffic cones in front of these things for fun.
For at least 4000 years... there's actually an old Sumerian joke about how men and women flatulate differently (IIRC it's not based on physical differences but on cultural expectations for men vs women).

In the time since then you may have stopped thinking about sex/gender differences, but most people haven't.

I personally wouldn't find your proposal funny, but it might be more well received if you asked men vs women a question like "How often do you think about Taylor Swift's relationship with John Meyer?". That would probably get more views on your tiktoks. IMO part of the humor is that women are so surprised that men frequently think about the Roman Empire [and republic], but for the men it's a matter of course.
best solutions will be "Insane value to instantly teleport to the point. Insane anti-value to instantly stop."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brightline#Planned_and_propose...
I’ve used this for a queue with millions of items and some indexes. It “just works”.
Care to give us a capsule review and reason for recommending that here?
I was confused by the 2nd rant using metric and imperial randomly (e.g. describing distance in feet but speed in km/h and temperature in c).
This was me in college also. I remember finding 3rd party or not-quite-matching oem firmware for my pc's dvd drive to speed up reading and burning. I think I had a Pioneer driver, all sorts of stuff was available for it.
> would only impact that 8 hour period of each kid's day

That 8 hour period of each kid's day where they're surrounded by dozens of other potential disease vectors. The period before they go home and infect their parents, and potentially kill their grandparents. It's expensive but let's be frank, we're okay with thousands of people dying annually because we don't want to spend the money to do anything about it.
This is very wrong. Retinol (vitamin A) only occurs naturally in foods of animal origin, with the bodies of vegans needing to manufacture it from other sources. A lack of it can cause immune system problems.
This result really surprised us too, but it seems like we were not alone in observing this: https://medium.com/@gabrielgrinberg/openai-api-fine-tuned-gp...

That being said, both accounts that we experimented on were personal accounts ( with a very limited budget) so maybe there are some special behaviors (e.g. some rate limit that only exists for base models)
“Live action role play is an old theatrical behavior and a new excuse. The concern that this label can be used as a defense for planning and preparing a targeted attack on a public official, democratic government, or anyone else is a real one.”

Boy is it. I’m gravely concerned the threat LARPing posed to our democratic government.
You are correct that we have two modalities projecting into a shared latent space. However, that doesn't convey anything about how to jointly train the embedding models, does it? That's what the two tower embedding model shows - how to jointly train the models using distance functions like cosine distance.

On an aside, others, as esteemed as Yann Lecun, are talking about learning in a shared latent space between 2 modalities, but use different names - joint embeddings, because it's a different method.

https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.12698
Else Nuances
Sounds to me like in-person really was faster for this company.

You more quickly arrived at the point were the company fell apart, which was clearly inevitable.
Nobody is likely to catch corporations obtaining or holding information on just a few people they have some special interest in.

They wouldn't even have to store that info in their regular systems.

But making it unsustainable for them to make a habit of it, which is something that impacts millions of people, is possible, with escalating fines.

Also, it doesn't make sense to say a business will just take fines as a cost of business, without taking the size of fines into account. Clearly there is a number that they will respond to, because that is what they do. Respond to hard currency numbers in whatever objective way will let them maximize what they keep.
Oh man I love fish. I spent so long in settings where I had to SSH into random prod boxes and so I’ve tried to drag bash along for the ride.

But in 2023? That use case isn’t a big deal anymore.

I’m going to treat myself and go fish properly.

Thank you for your work on it and the reminder to do something nice for myself today :)
I did not think they were streaming movies in 1997 and I did not say I thought they were streaming movies in 1997. I thought they simply did not exist until years later when they started streaming. This should have been obvious from what I said, I'm not a total moron.
Claiming that only unique or original things are good is toxic to growth and the development of culture.

Saying "who takes pictures of lighthouses" is like saying "who writes their own [editor/operating system/firewall/whatever], there are already dozens of great ones".

People get better by doing, and if they never did anything that had already been done they'd never be any good at all.

Besides, Lighthouses are cool and pictures of them are pleasant.
Interesting how the immediate reaction is “postgres does not scale” when there is a single table lacking an index.

This also tells how important competence and knowledge of the system is. People that came in new and didn’t know the system like you do probably lacked the confidence/skills to just “get in” like that.
NPR here is the Norther Pacific Railway. Usually abbreviated simply as NP. And surviving today as BNSF (the Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railroad).

Not the somewhat later broadcast operation.