skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> but let's assume positive intentions.

This TMWNN person is literally saying this about this entire matter

>> When children get into a fight, adults intervene by separating the combatants and sending them home regardless of who is "right"

They actually see themselves as the "adult" and this matter as a children's fight even though its been ongoing for several hundred years prior to Columbus ever set sail to find India and accidentally found TMWNN's america.

And as the other commenter noted, this person has also argued in favor of deportation and blanket censorship on discussing caste matters.

I don't think its fair to continue assuming postive intentions at this point. If not racist, they are extremely condescending at the very least.
looking forward to the day I can turn off DSL - Godspeed.
The problem with filters is they have a lower limit. PM2.5 cuts out much of the smell, but none of the carcinogenicity (PM0.1 or so). The only filter that really works is a sealed cap. Burning biomatter is just not worth the health impact or the cost and effort to mitigate. It's like capturing CO2: a stupid idea.
Even so, this is so ominous anyone would be excused to suspect something more nefarious than sheer incompetence. Whether or not the lawmakers made it with vested interests, there should still have been someone to point it out! If the democratic setup of the most powerful country in the world can allow such degrees of stupidity it is quite concerning.
Yeah I think IPC has too much of an established meaning here. Something like OpenIPCam might be a little safer.
Thank you, that was hilarious!

Spoiler warning:

"Are cats liquid? I saw this question asked on the Internet. It was based on the common definition that a liquid is a material that can adapt its shape to its container. <Cue photos of cats fitting inside a jar, a basket, a wine glass, etc>. It seems to be the case."

This moment at 35m25s was also priceless:

"We have two past winners who have been kind enough to join us tonight.

First, the 2008 Ig Nobel Chemistry Prize was awarded jointly to one team who showed that Coca-Cola is an effective spermicide. And that prize was jointly awarded to another team who showed that it's not."

On a more serious note, I'm not sure if I will ever understand why many of the Ig Nobel prize winners got funding for their research...
You having some Amiga accelerators and “basically never shipping” can mean exactly the same thing.
Could you please stop posting unsubstantive comments and/or flamebait? It's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for.

If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful. Note this one:

"Don't be snarky."
This is an El Niño year.
https://www.weather.gov/news/230706-ElNino

El Niño can cause these effects.
https://oceanservice.noaa.gov/facts/ninonina.html
Thank you so much for this write-up. Reminds me strongly of when we were exploring GKE container native routing. It really makes it so much efficient being able to route directly to the pods, rather than passing through all these Service layers.
This seems like an overly simplistic "capital owners greedy/labor-good-capital-bad" kind of take. I don't know if you've applied for any tech jobs recently but at least outside of super-senior and FAANG positions that I'm familiar with, it's pretty brutal. When I applied for my current role I was basically going against 3-4 other people and we all matched about 80% of the qualifications for the role. My boss is hiring right now and within a day received over 100 applications, and as of last week he has at least dozen who fit 100% of the qualifications for a comparable role to mine.
Even if this was true, so what?
I would have thought it was Raspberries Pi instead of Raspberry Pies.
I don't think the 1% that pay their share are very relevant. The only example I know of a suburb that pays its fair share is the beach front suburb near Charleston, SC and that's very wealthy area that we couldn't expect to replicate on a widescale.
Do people have startup time issues with Flatpaks?

I can't say I've ever noticed a difference, but everything I use has an NVMe. Perhaps it matters.
> And I'm not even talking about Web3, where we’re working, the situation is already just as tough for any Web2 startups

There is no such thing as "Web2". Into the trash it goes.
It’s well understood that increased average global temperature will shut down the gulf stream.

The question is which of a few different climate change model scenarios we’re in, and which of their tipping points we just crossed, not whether climate change drove the weakening of the Gulf Stream.
As an Austrian, I must say that I am amazed that this is even a topic here ... let alone a topic that gathers so many comments. I thoroughly appreciate all the comments and insights.

Personally, my only complaint I ever had about the ÖBB was that they got rid of the repeating noise trains used to make. A noise they used to advertise with in the past.
On the other hand, I heard "our current toolchain would cost 10x less" at least from one person in one firm in the industry
You don’t pay costs out of margin. That’s what‘s left after costs.
Because the temporal factor is the hardest one to game. Thus a strong predictor of quality/spaminness. Spammers used to do churn and burn and rank in a month or so. This has been killed mid 2013.
Protocol and client development spans hundreds of contributors and independent researchers. The discussions and development is public; just look at the EIPs, or even submit one yourself.

Users (non-devs) have agency through the software they choose to run. If mainnet was seriously affected by some attack, users could choose to migrate to a healthier network run by honest nodes. This agency happens with every hard fork: the DAO, but also the PoS merge.
Not in your country, but my point about compliance wasn't that a law requires it specifically (laws don't specify technical "solutions" anyway) - just that often the IT dept is compelled by other depts (eg Risk) to implement and support stuff that allows that other dept to show auditors that they are doing something rather than being negligent.
I took a night train from Prague to different locations many times, but I cannot sleep well there. The incessant shaking of the carriage wakes me up, half of the journey my head is lower than my legs, and loud station announcements during stops don't help either.

I envy anyone who can catch more than 2-3 hours of sleep on a night train.
This is a case study in why there's the word "dev" in devops. While Kubernetes gets really far towards giving you all the dials you need, at the end of the day those dials are the result of low-level code, and of people who made specific (and often well-documented) assumptions in tooling repository pull requests and RFC processes. Just like an application developer might debug or work around an issue with a library dependency by looking at its source code and understanding the nuance of the extension points that exist, and contribute documentation updates or new extension points upstream, a devops team should be empowered to do the same.

And from my experience devops is a really welcoming community - people take great pride in making sure their infrastructure tooling covers unorthodox use cases, and meeting them as a collaborator (not just an end user) can be incredibly fulfilling for all involved.

(That said, yak shaving is definitely a risk, especially since testing can be complicated with these systems when making low-level tweaks. But it's still often useful to roll up one's sleeves and read Go code rather than just restricting oneself to coloring within the existing configurability lines.)
It's a good question. Consultants fundamentally have different incentives than the organizations that engage them. Look at the "gilded age" of Rockefeller, Carnegie, JP Morgan, Vanderbilt... did any of them build their business empires on the advice of consultants?
check out uniffi for a complete workflow for FFI in many languages: https://github.com/mozilla/uniffi-rs
Is there a popular and performant open source model that uses mixture of experts?
That article you linked is just one big causal fallacy. It claims that the TSA admitted that the liquid ban was bullshit, citing a Slate article which does not itself even quote the TSA lol.

I'm not a chemist, but I'm under the impression that the liquid explosives in the 2006 plot are a much more feasible approach to explosives than what the shoe bomber attempted.

I'm also not going to pretend like I have any idea how effective any of these security measures are, I'm only explaining that I'm under the impression that there's at least a real precedent for them.

I don't know what the solution is to terrorism in air travel, but it's a very hard problem and the liquid limit isn't something that personally bothers me that much -- who wants to carry around full bottles of shampoo and shower soap and whatever else anyway?
>It then deletes every resource that role has the power to delete because you nothing for it defined in that particular root module

You would see the deletions in the plan and bail out.
Working with Variables in Python
Yes, but.

You have to remember that speed sailing is effectively an efficiency competition. The theoretically perfect sailing machine would a foil in the air and a foil in the water connected by something with as little weight and drag as possible. Syroco are alarmingly close to making this happen.

An interesting choice to use a supercavitating foil. "Back in the day" there was an assumption that hydrofoils could never run above 50 knots due to cavitation, but the America's Cup people seem to do that (just). There are nice consistent supercavitating surfaces but they're called propellers.

Either which way, my money is on syroco.
Nobody is claiming that crypto UX is currently superior to Patreon or Stripe.
I've been to the Keck (back 15 years or so ago). It was a once-in-a-lifetime experience seeing that telescope which was in so many PBS specials (the astronomers comes to mind)… but I couldn't help but feel we took our lives in our hands.

As a Californian, I was not prepared for the bitter cold at that elevation. We drove up in an old suburban--the roads were treacherous. If the car had broken down, or we'd gotten delayed past sundown, we would have simply died up there.

I don't know if it is still there, but there was a gift shop at the base of the mountain that you were advised to stop at for 20-minutes to acclimate to the pressure.

When we got to the telescope, it was essentially self-serve. There were a couple of exhibits, and we were able to see the telescope itself, but there wasn't anyone up there as near as I could tell.

It doesn't surprise me that it’s closed.
Particularly sensitive to uncanny valley? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncanny_valley
Risk is a continuum. When it is unknown the people interested in risk accept it. Eventually people learn the risk model and change behavior based on that. As an example of newly known:

All models of Onewheel electric skateboards are being recalled after the maker Future Motion received reports of four deaths of users between 2019 and 2021 and multiple reports of serious injuries.

https://www.cnn.com/2023/10/01/us/onewheel-electric-skateboa...
Nonsense. People don’t want people driving into their cities and making noise/ taking up a bunch of space with their cars. We have zero problems with people taking transit in. Suburban residents want to treat the city as both a low density car friendly space and a place filled with culture/concerts/plays/restaurants, not realizing that the two are opposites.
It is interesting because right before the macro conditions went haywire, when we were raising capital for our current startup, we often got responses like, Oh, well, you guys are not from SF, or you should build your team in SF; all the action is here.

It is true that action is still in SF. But suddenly, the VC ecosystem has started appreciating capital efficiency as we are building quite a large team in India. It has its own issues, but overall, you can be really competitive with a Bay Area startup. A 2 million-dollar venture may take two years for a Bay Area startup, whereas if you have a team in India or elsewhere, it goes way further. People talked about moat, hype etc. before the downturn now everything is talking about capital efficiency (which I think is good)
I wonder whether they really want open source, or this is a commercial effort that's trying to leverage 'the community' to get the hard part of the engineering for free.

For really wanting open source, the OpenWrt model has seemed pretty good, and the nature of the engineering work seems similar. Some hardware vendors use OpenWrt for their firmware, which seems to help the mainline open source OpenWrt also have good support for that hardware.
> If the democratic setup of the most powerful country in the world can allow such degrees of stupidity it is quite concerning.

Well, it's a democratic setup, so its competence is unfortunately proportional to that of its voting public...

edit: to be clear, my two comments in this subthread should not be construed to be the typical cynical "politicians are dumb and corrupt" opinion; many of them are smart and well-meaning, but the overall system is not conducive to allowing or encouraging anyone to do anything useful.
I think its interesting how takes like this are always stated so matter-of-factly. Growing up, inevitable maturation, leads to the discovery of individualism and the desire for something more than being a cog in a machine.

I believe, strongly, that this reverses the cause and effect. No one wants to be a cog in a dysfunctional machine; and the sheer density of dysfunctional machines in our society has induced a renaissance of individualism. Its a reasonable response; you can't trust the machine to reliably arrive at the correct outcomes, but you can trust yourself.

The biggest reason why I believe so strongly that this cause and effect is reversed correlates toward human nature, which has always angled toward social organization. Some philosophers would argue that there's nothing more fulfilling than being a part of an organization larger than the individual; taking any form from marriage and starting a family, to organized religion, government service, or capitalistic corporations.

Individualism isn't a symptom of maturity; its a symptom of systemic dysfunction.
There's no constitutional right to vote. The Second Amendment makes it clear that the government cannot infringe your right to bear arms.

https://www.democracydocket.com/analysis/what-does-the-const...

https://supreme.justia.com/cases-by-topic/gun-rights/
> What a mess.

It’s such a mess that the EU took one look at it and said “let’s make that a universal standard and force it upon everyone!” Modern USB truly is the government bureaucracy of standards.
Beware that such a mutual fund buy transaction closes at end of day. A sale of a stock or ETF closes 2-3 days in the future. So if you place both orders concurrently in your margin account, you may find you've borrowed from Schwab for those 2-3 days on margin, at a rate of ~10%. Schwab's order screen will not warn you of this in advance.

What happens if you make this mistake in a "cash account" i.e. no margin allowed I do not know and hope not to find out by means of usual accidental carelessness.

An alternative to SWVXX is VUSB, which trades with standard ETF timing.
Now I'm anxious about cancer and I didn't even get to the secret about lowering the stakes :-/
I would like to add, diet doesn't fix getting old. One thing I've not seen in this thread is demographic shifts from the majority of the population aging and the percent of youth dropping significantly.
We need another Giuliani (90s Giuliani, not what he's become).
Seems like "backed by law" is just a synonym for the Latin "fiat", "let it be done", as in "the current regime decrees that this particular figment of our collective imagination is their preferred medium of exchange, which can, will, and always has changed throughout history to different socially constructed figments of the collective imagination".

Not to say that it's dumb or silly to align yourself with the current regime, even though we all know that it will, sooner or later, be replaced by something else. Maybe that's next year, or maybe it won't happen in my children's lifetimes.

But for me, I already have 95% of my life and wealth tightly coupled to the stability and durability of the current regime, and it doesn't seem completely mad to diversify a bit into something that might possibly have a chance of surviving a regime change, or could retain some value in the event the current regime decides to appropriate or restrict or sanction how I can spend or transfer wealth currently locked in their system.

Perhaps twenty years ago it was unimaginable that the current regime could end, or transmute into an totalitarian hellscape, or even just continue with the appearance of liberal democracy but be undermined by authoritarians.

If it's become easier to imagine scenarios like these in recent years, is it insane to want a 5% allocation to independent, uncorrelated, uncensorable assets to correspond to a 5% probability of previously unthinkable scenarios?
Perhaps it has taken the term 'apex predator' a bit too literally.
They're describing sending a signal to a thread, not "killing" it. IIRC, the only thing tgkill is going to do for you is ensure which thread runs the signal handler. For example, if you send a SIGTERM, (IIRC), you will terminate your entire process.
Don't you think it's interesting that taxes dramatically skew the example?

Think about people earning $50k - $100k. 37 million households in the US. Another 34 million households earn less. 128 million households in America total.[1]

12, give or take 2, years into professional life, you sign a 30-year note and cash out all of your savings. Wages and cost of living won't be constant, but that's basically the optimistic case. Working 42 years to retire by owning one basic shelter.

[1] https://www.statista.com/statistics/203183/percentage-distri...
Not who you asked, but for me (I use a custom language for work) it was a matter of being able to do what I wanted, in the way I wanted. The other added benefits were I could ensure that code I wrote for clients and for my employer met the ethical and professional obligations that I incur as an attorney. The only downside (according to others) is that my language implementation belongs to my employer, the theoretical foundation and language definition are owned by me. Overall, I feel more productive and I feel like the value I deliver is greater than it would be in another language.
The Paparazzi Costume
In the context of this article, the small/tiny models were 1--30 million parameters and the large model was 1.5 billion parameters. Efficient training of a 7-billion parameter model already requires algorithms for training across multiple GPU because the memory requirement for derivatives and optimizers will not fit on the typical 80G Ram of the current high end GPUs.
Not every container is based on the LinuxServer.io stack. I can't take any arbitrary container and use the docker mod and have it work.

I have over 25 containers running on my home server and not a single one of them is based on a LinuxServer.io image. This "universal" mod would work with 0 of them.
It's a General Purpose language, not a "generic" language that's a particular kind of thing, depending on how much you've been exposed to you may never have seen any programming languages which aren't general purpose because, tragically, we seem as an industry to have decided we all want a single tool - we want to buy a chainsaw and then use that to cut everything, toenails, steak, trees, the tags in new clothes, everything gets the chainsaw treatment because apparently we don't like learning new things.

Special Purpose languages are very narrow, they solve one problem and they solve it really well, but if you have a different problem then too bad. I think we should use these much, much more often, and we should have many more of them, but we don't and for the foreseeable future we won't.

Because a Special Purpose language only solves a narrow problem it often gets to sidestep lots of horrible Computer Science problems which arise for general purpose languages. To revisit our chainsaw analogy, while using a chainsaw to cut the tags out of your new shirt has lots of opportunities for truly life altering (or ending) accidents, if we use instead a tool that's purpose made the potential accidents are trivial. Oh no, I slipped while using the tag removal tool and... didn't remove the tag. Better try again.
> global warming could result in local cooling in Western Europe because of a weakened Gulf Stream. We are still far from that.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantic_meridional_overturnin...

In July 2023, a paper from a pair of University of Copenhagen researchers suggested that AMOC collapse would most likely happen around 2057, with the 95% confidence range between 2025 - 2095.

It may be a controversial paper, but all probabilities are off after this year. So there is a possibility that it could collapse as soon as two years from now.
Why can this not be added to x86? Is the ISA immutable now?
> The compatability layer would have allowed any init system to be used.

I don’t see how such a compatibility layer would work in a way that doesn’t suck horribly.
When it costs absolute bullocks to actually build/revamp any sort of infrastructure, I’d say it’s kinda hard to level up the quality to other cities’ levels.
I agree with all of this. But I do wonder, hasn't it always been this way all the way back to the Greeks? I can't imagine they just let anyone in the polity influence weighty matters in the early democracies, they probably gossiped and bickered nonstop like the schoolyard/workplace drama we see today. I don't think its in human nature to just let off the controls and let everyone have an equal part in anything, you have to be some sort of trained monk free of desire and agenda to actually do that, along with everyone else too. I think most prefer to pick their friends and family ahead of strangers, and this in turn snowballs into the sort of world we see today, full of varying shades of nepotism and pulling up the ladder behind you whether you work at the top level of government or at a truck stop.
I really don’t think so. People should be shamed for needing these things, not praised for doing them in spite of their success.
Own capital costs are exactly the thing that margins pay for.
> For example, if you want to install Sublime Text, or VS Code, there is no way to do it securely, without giving untrusted software access to your browser history and SSH keys.

First, if you don't trust a bit of software, why are you installing it?

But more importantly - you don't want your text editor to be able to open and edit your browser history files, or your ssh key files?

If my text editor wasn't able to open and edit those files, I'd consider it extremely broken!
Based on technological advances and an increased need for renewable intermediates in different application fields, BASF and Corbion Purac have been working on the development of biobased succinic acid since 2009.

https://www.basf.com/ru/ru/media/news-releases/2014/03/p-14-...
Except that taking transit in, especially for an evening event, is often not a reasonable option. I'll happily take commuter rail in if I have to go into our urban office for the day but it's utterly unworkable for an evening event given how few trains there are and how long they take.

And this is a city (Boston/Cambridge) with relatively good transit options. If driving in for the evening became any more difficult than it is today (which is not trivial) I simply wouldn't come in. So your comment boils down to not wanting people to come into the city for a night activity because they don't have a reasonable alternative to driving in most cases.
Are these "woke SJWs" in the room with us right now?