skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Definitely used in production ;) and at rather some scale.

It runs thousands of clusters, daily, both in CSP hosted offerings (including our own ClickHouse Cloud) and at customers running the OSS release.

Never accept any claims at face value and always test. But, in this case, it is quite battle-hardened (i.e. the Jepsen tests run 3x daily https://github.com/ClickHouse/ClickHouse/tree/master/tests/j...)

But yes, ZooKeeper is pretty amazing. We are building on the backs of giants.

I'd also argue the RAFT v. ZAB is an important production scale conversation. But, as the blog says, Zookeper is a better option when you require scalability with a read-heavy workload.
This is passing itself off as a religious text as much as The Book of Eli passes itself off as a gospel. That is, not at all.
This isn't true. There's plenty of people who are verbally fine but can't read or write. Spoken language is a far more common and fundamental skill than reading or writing.
Distribution channels are endless, and as large as Amazon is, they are only one amongst many, albeit with plenty of vertically integrated advantages.

In the case of a firepit, local consumer channels would likely be speciality shops, hardware and big box with probably a couple of layers of distribution and logistics in between. That market however is more likely to offer $500-$1000 firepits, because that's the way it WAS before Amazon, ALi, etc etc opened up new digital channels to drive down volume, manufacturing and up quantity (which eventually results in either greater margins or lower prices).

Those same non Amazon channels will also sell Joe FBA's $200 firepit as well, perhaps for $400 using those other channels.

To access and operate a business around those traditional / other channels however is nowhere near as simple as "order 50 of these on Ali" + "sell these as FBA on Amazon" = $profit.

It's a lot of work. I wouldn't necessary call Amazon a shortcut, but it's a path to market that is easier, but at a cost.
It's only not feasible because that's how the infrastructure and town planning in many urban areas has been done, and has somewhat succeeded because the degree to which you'll be dependent on a car to get everywhere isn't a super high priority for most when first choosing somewhere to live. The challenge is convincing governments and home buyers that the pros of less car-dependent cities massively outweigh the cons (which are mostly around accepting being closer to your neighbours and having less yard space/more stairs, plus governments having to focus on more than a single mode of transport when building roads etc).
I see a lot of people complaining about display. These are not meant for that use case. Maybe someday the tech will be available to have a display. That said, I have v1 Rayban Stories and use them as my daily driver sunglasses. I use them mainly for answering calls or listening to music but take occasional photos.
https://nitter.net/mckaywrigley/status/1707101465922453701
I don't think that's the right answer. I don't see anything in that meme image that indicates it's about price discrimination and elaborate narratives about consumer psychology, as opposed to a simpler point that 'NVIDIA GPUs are imbalanced'. Skimming what seems to be the meme origin on Facebook, I don't see a single gamer there mentioning price discrimination, or come even close to getting that. That may be why they skimp on VRAM, but you're adding a lot of context & editorializing into it that neither the meme author nor recipients are focused or even understand.
> We were talking about "looking a gift horse in the mouth", as in it's still a positive thing regardless of the semantic quibbles about open source

Your gift horse in the mouth comment was visibly an aside in the greater discussion being enclosed in parenthesis.

> Nobody would argue that a hypothetical openly licensed Windows binary-only release is "open source" and I'd appreciate it if you read my comments more charitably in future.

That's why I'm using it as an example metaphor in my favor. It's clearly not open source even if they released it under Apache 2. It's not what their engineers edit before building it.

> Source code licenses are naturally quite clear about what constitutes "source code", but things are murkier when it comes to ML models, training data, and associated software infrastructure, which brings up some interesting questions.

I don't think they're all that murky here. The generally accepted definition being

> The “source code” for a work means the preferred form of the work for making modifications to it. “Object code” means any non-source form of a work.

Is this the form of the work that Mistral's engineers work in? Or is there another form of the work that they do their job in and used to build these set of files that they're releasing?
Not a big fan of how server-centric the LLM landscape is. I want something that can run locally, and doesn't require any special setup. One install + one model import maximum. Currently unless I want to go clone git repos, install Python dependencies and buy an Nvidia GPU I'm stuck waiting for it to become part of https://webllm.mlc.ai/. That's a website, come to think of it, but at least the computation happens locally with minimal fuss.
I sympathize with the general paranoia regarding home automation dependencies but pretty much nothing about this article is accurate.

The so-called "forced" update on the Bridge is to upgrade older Bridges that are as old as 2011 or 2015. The upgrade allows this ancient hardware to leverage features of the newer generations of bulbs.

So it's a compatibility update for old hardware. So that you can buy any generation of bulb and use it with any Bridge. If anything, it shows commitment to longevity, customer convenience and the prevention of waste.

But if you're not into that, the update is triggered by means of the official Hue app, which is the sole reliable touch point by which the company can enforce/communicate anything because they have no other way of reaching you. Use any of the 100+ other apps and they will not force you to update the Bridge. And if even that isn't solid enough for you, disconnect the Bridge from the internet. Everything you own works and keeps working.

As for the upcoming update triggering you to create an account: this is because too many people have shitty network setups, connect their Bridge to the internet and then complain that their lights are hacked. Whilst this account is created online, that interaction is one-time only. What it does is to create a username and cryptographic key on the Bridge after which that authentication is fully local. Which is the exact same mechanism in use by 3rd party Hue apps for over a decade now. Many people already are using an account because this is needed for some advanced use cases like syncing with Spotify or with your TV. Not to mention that it prevents "funny" house guests from messing with your lights.

The idea that your hardware is unsafe and might be rendered useless in the future is completely unwarranted and pure misinformation. Any Bridge, any bulb, no matter how old, will keep working until the hardware itself fails. This system is a shining example of longevity.

12 years of full compatibility, an open API, hundreds of 3rd party apps, ground level Zigbee compatibility, meaningful security updates, if this is a "collapse", what would you call other systems?

And no, I do not work for Philips or Signify. But I did build software on top of their system.

What is especially interesting is how a poorly researched article has an entire community nodding along. Immediate consensus on something blatantly false.
Curious about the kids. I know kids will generally make friends wherever they go, especially when young, but my closest friends have been with me since I started school. 30 years later we’re still very close despite being a bit further apart. I think any significant move after approx age 13 and I wouldn’t have been able to develop those relationships starting somewhere new.
By calling human beings zombies I’m going to assume you lack any empathy.

As someone who works on the forefront of this epidemic (EMS) I can say with near 100% certainty you know people who consume drugs.
> It's hard for me to imagine better evidence that Google needs to be broken up than this.

But it never happened -- the omnibox stayed -- so it doesn't seem like very good evidence to me. It actually shows the opposite -- that the product team built what was best for users in spite of opposition from sales.
"rockstar", "we work hard, we play harder", "hybrid", "works well under pressure"...job ads are choc full of anti-human bullshit.
I believe the amish don't use insurance.

They also don't do social security (although I'm uncertain if they pay, or just don't use it)
Plenty of developers paste arbitrary bash commands posted on sites like GitHub without thinking because they look "legit", I suppose. I see it similarly as you do: StackOverflow (and Copilot) can be helpful to start but it's.

Had an exchange like this some time ago:

Me: Hey, I'm reviewing your PR. Looks pretty fine to me. Except for this function which looks like it was copy-pasted from SO: I literally found the same function in an answer on SO (it was written in pure JS while we were using TS in our project).

Dev: Yes, everyone copies from SO.

Me: Well, in that case I hope you always copy the right thing. Because this code might run but it is not good enough (e.g. the variable names are inexpressive, it creates DOM elements without removing them after they are not needed anymore).
As a Hoosier I'm thankful that they used an example of our absurd pork tenderloins sandwiches.
You can get llama CPP or kobold.cpp binaries and load a quantized model right into them on the CPU only, no need to install Python or have an Nvidia GPU.
That article literally contradicts the claim made, which is that the law was changed to remove penalties.

There have always been crimes that aren't particularly well enforced, and lately the whole system is struggling to enforce low-level criminal law since prosecutors and judges' calendars are full, jails and prisons are full, and yet there is still more crime. Perhaps the difference between places (which all have the same laws on the books) is cultural; perhaps it's that "word got around", as per your link; but it's not because the law says it's not a crime.
Foundationdb doesn’t use locks, due to that it’s relatively easy to build distributed systems on top, but the trade off are 5sec transaction limits.
LangChain for Elixir
good documentation is the key to php's success along with a bunch of other things that get dismissed as "inferior technology".

The worst documentation are the jargon filled abstract vibes-based ones where the authors basically typed it with one hand on the keyboard. It's like "ok, you're amazing. Now how do I resolve this error and what are your command line flags?"
> Houses here cost 1/3 or 1/4 of what they do in a big city.

And salaries are also lower. People don't move to the big city because they want to live there. They go there to study and then to make money so that they can afford any kind of real estate in their home town.

> Everyone just finds whatever job that enables them to do those things, and the priority is life, not work.

The condition of your quote above is that you already own real estate, which isn't true for but a few from the younger generations. Or that you live with your parents until you're 60 years old. Other than that, the deal is "get the hell out" and you're only welcome back if you can purchase some real estate.

It's true what you say about working online though, but then suddenly the whole world is open to you.
I am a longstanding Mac OS X user that wishes Linux had an easy way to remap modifier keys. For now, I've settled on having keyd installed:

/etc/keyd/default.conf

[ids]

*

[main]

leftalt = layer(control)
leftcontrol = layer(alt)

With AutoKey, I can swap Alt and Ctrl keys for Terminal apps and make my remapped ⌘C and ⌘V work as I expect.
Self-hosting should work with a change of configuration, no?

As someone mentioned elsewhere, they have documented the protocol, so yes you could reimplement your own remote KV store.
Remove the word monopoly from this and there is nothing wrong with it. It's standard and smart business practice to create synergies among your business units in this way. It's one of the key reasons companies acquire other companies.

While I would agree that Google doing it may be detrimental to consumers, it's not suddenly nefarious when they do it. They're just doing what any company would do. It's not their job to look out for the health of the market or what's best for consumers. That's the governments job. It's Google's job to look out for Google and their shareholders.
It’s interesting that OpenAI themselves are not calling this “you can browse again” and also throwing in the “no longer limited by September 2021 cutoff” even though it is January 2022.

Stinks to me like they are pulling a little marketing campaign to lure in new users and the media is happy to oblige to use the same language/phrasing.

For reference, they disabled browsing because you could bypass paywalls with it.
Hopefully these will be banned
If one table had millions of rows and the other only a few dozen and you are querying the few dozen often then it could make sense to have two tables. Different database treat indexes with sparse data differently.
> OpenAI posted today that ChatGPT can once more trawl the web for current information, offering answers taken directly from “current and authoritative” sources, which it cites in its responses.

The list is apparently cited in responses, but is the list of possible sources itself public?
I can’t see this happening. People have been saying this for a long time. On top of that, a lot of young girls are going to go through a lot of pain in the meantime - hoping for societal change seems negligent.
They are slightly bigger but not everyone has the same face shape. Looks like they made them even slimmer in this gen and have more options.
yeah, I often have more keyboards than that on my desk at one time. (But as someone who knows Marcin Wichary and Jesse Vincent - I don't have a problem, I am the problem :)
You can call it survivorship bias, however we are genetically suited for some tasks because of evolution. These predispositions are what nature, implicitly, intended.
I think that's an interesting point about being present. I actually love the act of taking photos, adjusting the colors and lighting to capture how it looked, and then I rarely look at them again. My wife thinks it's bizarre, but it's not the reflection on the past, but the act of photography I like. I've turned some into prints and have a digital picture frame to scroll them through, but sitting down to reflect and look through them rarely happens.
> Would you be willing to pay an extra $3.5 per month to never have to worry about a drought again?

Yes, you'll never have to worry about your basic supply of 50 gal/d/person being threatened in a drought, but just think about this for a second: the population of Melbourne is around 5 million people. In the 2020-2021 year, Melbourne Water delivered 439 billion liters (116 billion gallons) of fresh water[1]. That is roughly 318 million gallons of water consumption on an average day. What kind of drought would reduce the available water from 318 million gallons to 25 million gallons per day?

Personal consumption (drinking, showering, household washing) is not the primary driver of water use. In general, it is dominated by agriculture, and to a lesser extent by industry. The economics of these activities would not permit an order of magnitude increase in the cost of fresh water.

[1]: https://www.melbournewater.com.au/media/18976/download
Cruise and Waymo are in production in really difficult cities. I think it's definitely in the last 10 years of not being here.
Or it signals that Google limits bids to what's profitable, and Yahoo outbid them. Which would suggest it does care, but only up to a limit.

I don't know offhand how the contracts work, if there's a minimum traffic sent clause, or any other direct tie in to user behavior, or if this is a lump sum auction "give us a billion dollars and we'll make you default for a year" scenario. Either way, I expect Google would scale the amount they pay based on traffic sent. Happy to read details from anyone who has them =)

But my question is: why did Yahoo outbid them? Yahoo doesn't need a fig leaf at all.
This is pretty nice. I've written some tools for my own softsynth that revolved around parsing various DAW formats and having a standard format, even just to export to, would have been very nice to have.
"Cracking Code on the Frontier: Lessons from the Cowboys of the Old West"

https://pastebin.com/DhdHsR3i
On the contrary I think many people desire conformance in themselves because they are afraid to stand out. However, often weirdness is admired when it is observed. This is why 'artists' are a thing. Granted, the specific ways in which you are weird could definitely influence this, no one likes a creepy person.
The more AI can produce customized stuff for us the less we need companies. Full personalization of our products might be possible. Probably first software, then art, then 3D printed products and maybe later houses, cars and clothes.

I wonder what we will work and if we will work at all in such an environment. Maybe some people still like consuming and copy different designs and products and because of the Blockchain you have to give them something in exchange or everything is open source and it is free for you to take.

I wonder whether such life would contribute to humanity making further progress or make it stagnate (or possibly decline)?

Interesting times. I think we are close to the times of the moon landing. Which had an immense Impact on humanities culture.
Yes, by writing it by axle on the regulation is common. There is also a requirement for a minimum number of operating tires in an axle. (I don't keep close track of this, but I don't think it's always 2.) And requirements for tire pressure (that changes how much damage the truck causes too).

On practice the impact of the truck is determined by law independently of the weight (on those superficial models, but there is also some depth where the regulation starts to fail).
Glad to hear it.

Not sure why I'm getting downvoted. The Chromebook Pixel was an awesome home computer until it stopped getting OS updates, which also pinned it on a version of Chrome that got obsoleted from the web. (Unlike IE, nobody cares if something works in old Chrome, and some sites actively reject old versions for security reasons.)
Seems like the order should be employees/contractors, then bills, then owners.
Should AI really be writing code that was made for writing by humans?

Seems inefficient. Shouldn't the AI just be generating machine code for the computer to run?
It is extremely bizarre to advertise with typical Mixed Reality use cases (with display elements overlaid in your field of vision).

Is this actually true or do the people here who say "it lacks a display" mean something else? That it's not suitable for VR or non overlay applications?
If you don't have a PC powerful enough for VR then you're probably not going to drop a lot of money on a combined PC+VR headset either.
Even gen 1 is great--replaces need for airpods for music/calls if I am going out and they look nice.
I don't doubt it. They definitely don't respond to radars or ack concerns even from partner groups in MA_NG.

Apple's concept of feedback is like Whitehouse petitions: ostensible appearance of engagement connected to the circular file. At least Netflix just has no feedback mechanism at all.
Those might be better, but neither is a tag that is used in kernel commits. There is a list of specific tags that are used, and specific conditions on their use. "Reported-by:" was not a wholly arbitrary choice of words by the maintainer.
3 pesticides pushing hundreds of endangered species toward extinction, says EPA
Not 5 levels, but I once wrote debug visualizers for a compiler using funceval (the visualizer uses the debugger to run code in the target process).

I think I once had to debug the debugger debugging the compiler compiling itself which felt like another really weird kind of recursion.
The Jan 2022 thing is likely not helpful anyway as it doesn't give higher weight to newer information (i.e. pre-2021 info could be returned even if Jan 2022 info may contradict it).
I seriously don't get this argument, which I see far too often. Meaning, writing being simply a means to an "end" of a product. I like a good piece of fiction especially because it was written by a human being. It is that human's way of communicating something to me / the audience. Do people out there really want to read something written by a machine? Of course, if you have some bottom of the barrel corporate-approved fiction, it may as well be written by AI. But that isn't what I seek to consume and I would wager there are many others who feel the same way. What is the appeal of AI-generated fiction?
one possible test would be if a model trained solely on naturalist and earlier paintings could eventually start producing expressionist and abstract works, without carefully engineered prompts.
There is a cancer that does exactly that. Probably not fun.

"Teratomas"
It’s still MIT licensed right? Seems like we need a Vscodium for Insomnia
> I get VAT refunds on my expenses because I pay more than I take in.

That's an exception rather than the rule. Most businesses have higher income than expenses, otherwise they go out of business pretty quickly.

> If they were local clients they would also get the VAT they pay through me refunded, so it doesn't cost them anything.

Those clients too would generally have higher sales than expenses and so be paying more than they get refunded.
As sad as it is, this is true. AMD has never spent lots of money on software, while Nvidia always has, which was fine for traditional graphics, but with ML this really doesn't cut it. AMD could have ported Pytorch to OpenCL or Vulkan or WebGPU, but they just... can't be bothered???
Wearing the same glasses constantly just in case your kid makes a thing?

There is a reason why people get lasik.

But hey if people start wearing more sunglasses outside good for them it's better for the eyes.
Oh sure. But if the startup doesn't know it's gonna take $MONTHS and $DOLLARS and $HEADCOUNT of non-business-value engineering just to get compliance, that's money and time they may not have
I'd speculate that the problem isn't related to the VPN connection, but to how the Mullvad client app handles the interface (especially if keepalives frequently fail and the interface keeps getting downed).

Even the official clean OpenVPN app has its own sense of up and down tunnels, which could cause similar problems. Wireguard, at least in its official linux implementation, is much lighter weight and if necessary reestablishes an active session on demand (whenever there's traffic) without any interface-level tweaks. That's probably invisible to applications, or at least much less visible even if there are low-level syscalls that can inspect the state of a wg tunnel interface.
As you alluded to... How many compiler bugs materially affect the C->ASM bit of the pipeline rather than the C source code just being incorrect? I'd wager it's a tiny ratio, but I honestly don't know. Could you point to any research on this, if you happen to have links handy?

I could imagine even 0.01% being significant for e.g. space missions or (if we're being optimistic) lives are at stake.
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Crashes for me on iPhone a few steps in. iPhone 14/Safari.