skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a nice insight.
I slightly disagree with the first example in a gambling context, although it makes sense in the context of information theory.
I don’t think the choice of prior is right when giving 20:1 posterior odds you’d be willing to bet on. A better prior should be related to the probability of a random person lying about their name when introducing themselves. And the posterior then doesn’t really depend a lot on what name he says.
Feels a little bit misleading to say that honestly. It runs on windows in what is effectively a chroot/jail/container esque monstrosity. I personally consider that to qualify as a totally separate userspace and therefore not the same operating system as one would assume when you use the term windows without any additional qualifiers.
I'm hopeful AI will end up being probability/statistic's "CS", in the same way that CS relates to its mathematics.

IOW, an intellectually-linked discipline that drives so much revenue (and thus has so much work to be done in it) that it comprises its own field (about 75% of which is unique "applications-of-thing" problems).
Indeed. And watches reusing the markers (when they're say just a bar or a dot on the dial and not a number) for both hours and 5 minutes increment.

We use these 5 / 12 / 60 every day.
> Act Blue to never text or email me again.

I have been tearing my hair out over the Act Blue spam. I would crawl naked across hot coals to make it stop.
Things I just don't like about Git
In today's environment, home prices really seem to be getting nuts.

As I said, anyone in software is likely making over $100K. A $500K house with 20% down would have a P&I payment of $2,715 / month (at 7.2%, plus taxes/insurance.) That's less than $33K / year. (I bought my first house for $155K making $55K / year, and my second house for $390K making $100K.) If you're making over $100K, and spending under a third of it on housing, you should be able to afford to live, unless you're careless with your money.

I don't think I'm making any sacrifices in my life, because I don't think of the things you can overspend on as sacrifices. As I said, I eat well (at home and at restaurants), I travel, I have great technology / toys. And at 44 I have a 7 figure net worth. Because I'm still spending under $65K USD / year, I could likely live off investments in a few more years, though being in software, it's easy to continue contracting on my own terms and having extra money.
This has nothing to do with the comment you replied to. Even the quote at the top of your comment is a quote from the article, and not from the parent.
For secrets or credentials, I've had a reasonable experience putting the name of the secret into a terraform resource, but then setting the secret's actual value outside of terraform (i.e. via web or cli).

This avoids storing the secret's value in the state file (it's stored as an empty string) and also keeps the terraform plan clean.
Comments from the usual offended of this generation
Fun at a party is not running a commercial ML system. Maybe when ML model starts having fun at parties you can revisit this question.
No comparisons to SBE in the benchmarks?
> it's only 8W (the 5 is 12W)

It's 12W under high load, but at equivalent load (in terms of output performance) to a 4B draws less power.
> For example, when you're employed, you have to live where the jobs are.... Whereas when you're retired you can live... [in] a place that is both less expensive and warmer.

I think that it may be just the opposite. From what I've observed, access to good public transportation is a major contributor to quality of life in old age. In the US, that requires someone to live in a much higher cost of living location.
Or increase sales from $1B to $1.001B, or increase efficiency of 1,000 of those employees by $1,000. If literally nobody is viewing a dashboard then it's probably useless, but even a small number of views could have very high value.

Other possibility: I had a non-programmer friend who worked at BigCo and worked hard for 2 months out of the year, doing nothing the other 10 months. He asked his boss for stuff to do and the boss said "just try to look busy". Seems like a good case for outsourcing, but that 2 months of work was pretty important and in-house employees will generally be more reliable and knowledgeable (about the company specifically). So really they were being paid (not much btw) for the 2 months of work and spend the rest of the time being prepared. This was an extreme and obvious case but I suspect this type of thing is pretty common, just usually people get busy-work (eg "make this BI dashboard") rather than being told "try to look busy".
it does seem like there is an in between that might be nice. specifically something at the roughly 4 gigs RAM but 5 watts, lower clocks and worse graphics. I think that's just about the right specs for a machine to run Linux without a fan and provide a good entry level experience (i.e. can do some real work in a terminal and watch video in a browser)
Because it's incredibly difficult to do. Look at just something as simple as launching an instance. How do you know the state of the instance ahead of time? The instance ID doesn't exist and you can't do search filters for it because it's not there yet. Yes, you could use some half baked conditional logic to try and search and load values only if your instance exists and create if empty but terraform really isn't good at that. And that's just the very simple case. You could use something like the CDK or pulumi and avoid state but it's still work and it's useful work.
What's wrong is taking an outlandish hyperbolic conversation-starter premis so literally.
Never heard of it, I'll check it out
This is something I feel like gets forgotten in this AI debates too often.

It matters not what you could potentially do with a tool but rather what you actually did with the tool and the consequences of what you did. "Fraud" charges already can capture a lot of these things without additional regulating around what models you can legally train in the first place.
> that she was often caught interacting with those babies when she had been instructed not to

This is only a piece of evidence if:

- it's not a common behavior among nurses in her unit.

- she did that specifically to the victims.

Otherwise it could be that this rule isn't applied in practice, or that she is just the kind of people who don't really listen to instructions if they think they should not, which albeit a questionable attitude in an hospital isn't the same thing as “she killed them”.
Yeah. I've certainly stayed at B&B's/small inns--especially outside of cities on vacation--and have generally appreciated the experience. Some were listed on AirBnB although that's not how I booked them 99% of the time.

Not sure that "good"/vetted B&Bs is a VC-scale business model. I do book trips through agencies that arrange housing at places they've had experience with (doing so at the moment) but that's basically a specialized travel agency-level scale model--not a VC one.
Can you elaborate?

As I've never raised my standard of living to spending over $100K / year, I don't exactly know what I'm missing.

I think more to your point, yes there is a choice - to make $500K at a "big bad tech company" and then spend like there's no tomorrow on things that you feel are worth spending all that money on, hoping that it makes up for the 40 hours you spend working (and maybe hating?) Or you enjoy your 40 hour job, make less, spend less. But spending money doesn't have a direct and equal correlation with life satisfaction. I spend about $65K / year (for two people, no kids), and I feel like I have an amazing life, and spending a bunch more money would, at best, have small incremental returns on life satisfaction.
Ask HN: What's the book that people in your field pretend to have read?
The book is perhaps really dry or long and people kind of act like they've read it, without saying so explicitly. But most haven't read it.
I think I fixed it now, lol
I don't know if this has any impact on the page tables, but the way it works is relatively simple: the hypervisor communicates with a driver inside the VM and tells it to "allocate" large amounts of memory. How much depends on the configuration; if you tell the hypervisor to configure a minimum of 16GB and a maximum of 48GB, then the driver will "reserve" 32GB of RAM. To the VM, it's as if some kind of driver is taking up 20GB of RAM, while I reality the hypervisor just doesn't allocate the RAM to the VM.

Then, when the VM runs out of memory, the virtio driver starts releasing pages for as long as the hypervisor lets it, slowly increasing the amount of RAM allocated to the virtual machine. This works until the hypervisor runs out of memory to allocate, after which the driver inside the VM will refuse to release pages and the VM's OOM will kick in.

The default is grow only (start with the minimum amount of RAM and only release more to the VM as time goes by), but it's possible to ask the driver to start "allocating" memory again with enhancements, like the ones proxmox do or by using scripting. With the guest tools installed, the hypervisor knows exactly how much free RAM each VM has.

This shouldn't cause problems for page tables on the client side as far as I know. However, certain workloads may not work well; if the VM allocates memory faster than the balloon driver canrrelease it, you'll get out of memory errors. Similarly, quick allocate-free cycles will prevent any auto shrink mechanism from working right.

You could try and run an experiment if you wish; the balloon driver works just as well regardless of whether you're allocating 16GB of RAM or 512MB. You could run a bunch of VMs with a model of the memory allocation you expect on your desktop and see if you end up page trashing like you fear.
An uncooled Pi5 is faster than a Pi4 running the same code.

A Pi4 is still a perfectly fine microcomputer.
Donations are appreciated, but so are connections.

Mixing the extremes of intellect, social connections, and wealth offers benefits to each group. It’s an old formula and arguably a larger factor of what makes an elite school than its faculty.
the iterm mode allows one to create, split, resize remote terminals as of they were native terminal windows, instead of all of them being contained within one terminal window and controlled using completely different keyboard-only shortcuts (via tmux)
It's important to note that they are holding off on deprecating dependents to see if they can swap in replacements. For example, programs that depend on Terraform will likely be able to use OpenTofu as a replacement.

Unfortunately it doesn't seem like there are going to be open source alternatives to Vault, Consul, or Nomad (that last one is hilarious to me: nomad was a good product until hashicorp stopped investing in it, now that it's closed source it basically has a snowballs chance in hell of being adopted).
Why do modern organizations suck?

1) Power corrupts - individuals who acquire power don't concern themselves with the well-being of others. They are blinded by greed.

2)The bureaucratic trap - the idea you can just think really hard and anticipate what all the problems will be and then write rules. It always fails.

People need agency. A smart, careful, considering person or community thinks about the actual situation and how to deal with it in some way. Top down thinking and the belief that you can predict everything and subject it to a process, is flawed.
Right.

> extremely common for people to increase their standard of living

That was a choice. But the opposite is "not a choice"? You choose to spend so much money that you are forced into work you may despise to support the spending choices you make, so there's no option to... not make those spending choices?
For starters, HN has a monthly "Who's hiring?" thread with a lot of cool companies posting. Personally I find a lot more of the posts there to make me go "hey that sounds like a cool place to work" than eg a search on job sites or Stack Overflow career ads. In a broad sense I mean, eg there's tiny startups, healthy profitable SMBs, and VC-fueled unicorn rocket ships posting there, but they all seem above-average cool for their category to me.

As an employer, I find that the inverse holds too - applicants that find us via the "Who's hiring?" thread are much more often a potential fit than those who find us via other routes.
Isn’t a large part of the underperformance of the hedge funds due to their fee structure? Investors lose 20%+ of the profits just in fees. While I don’t think stock picking is a great idea for the layman, that fee structure isn’t generalizable to the average Joe picking stocks.

I believe there’s some evidence that low-volatility trading has been shown to beat the market over long periods of time. Although, “picking stocks for volatility” may be different than “timing stock picks”
What do you mean? I run a lot of things in ARM64 boards, and the Pi has an almost insane amount of software support compared to most alternatives (I'm running an unofficial port of Proxmox on my 8GB Pi 4...)
First world problems everywhere...
This was a study of US residents.
> This makes Terraform significantly worse for the majority of its users (users of public cloud providers with APIs whose resources all have such attributes) so the remaining 1% (or less) can use it.

I think the author misunderstood the problem (maybe because it's not crystal clear on Hashicorp's website): it's not that not all cloud providers provide tags, the problem is that only certain percentage of resources are taggable.

So imagine you are using your stateless TF code based on tags only: you could only deal with those resources that support tags. Whereas now, after configuring the backend on S3 with DynamoDB, it's basically "fire and forget" - you can use practically any resource. Paradoxically, TF supports even more actions on resources on AWS than CloudFormation.

So maybe for some simple setups like EC2 with S3 this could work somehow, but for anything more complex the current implementation is far superior.
Who’s going to go to the trouble to untangle the bread board wires and drag them out of whatever dusty drawer they were forgotten in to sell them?
They're trying to use VMs to run multiple page table managers on one single host. Containerization will use the same kernel's page management, so I don't think that'll solve the author's problem.
This is only true in IP heavy areas, isn't it? You still need effort to pull ore out of a mountain.
Like with the unauthorized interaction with the babies[1], this is only relevant to the case if (1) it's not a common behavior among nurses in her unit and (2) she did that specifically to the victims, and not with many of her patients.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37810382
The concept of a voting shareholder is a myth. Most shares are owned/managed by funds so they are the true voters. They just vote to make sure the that the boat isn’t rocked too much.
Look for owner-managed companies without middle management, or where middle management consists of engineers and not MBAs. Look for small(ish) companies that work on topics you find interesting. Connect with people who are looking for the same. You might not find the fulfilling job in a sane company on the first try, but if you keep looking and talking to people, you’re likely to find one.
Cool little device, but will it work with the RGB2HDMI, PiStorm or PiSCSI? I doubt it but if it were, that would be awesome
That's a pretty big caricature of anarchists. I'd expect an anarchist to say something to the effect of businesses creating insulin if there's enough market demand for it.

You seem to assume that businesses, markets, and innovation are tied to governments and couldn't exist without the powerful hand of authority making them exist. Governments can help all of these things, but they can also hurt them, and government absolutely didn't invent any of them.

The Chop wasn't any real attempt at anarchy. It was a protest that took a weird turn and a city that let it happen. There was absolutely no plan or expectation that it'd be anything other than a stunt trying to make a point. You don't cut off a handful of blocks in a landlocked and largely residential area and call it a government free zone while being completely dependent on the government-controlled area around you.
Missing opportunity to release 16GB version or at very least give specs of the memory so someone could swap chips.
This study focuses on the US.
$100k for a down payment - how many years of saving does that take and what happens to that $500k price tag during those years of saving? One hardship like a medical issue, a setback in employment, or a child you weren't ready for, then what? And I'm not sure you could find a one bedroom, one bathroom for $500k in a city with tech jobs.
I think you’re right in the aggregate and the abstract.

But it’s also funny that two of the situations you mentioned (Johnny Depp “victim” and Bud Light) are fake stories based on conservative media astroturfing where any judge would be hard pressed to find that there was unreasonable behaviour on the corporate end.

And of course, being a white knight only works if you’re privileged enough to be able to jump ship or fight your social wars and still have something to fall back on. Not everyone here is a US citizen with US resident parents and US college education, earns 6 figures, or has had decades of working experience to accumulate savings and make a CV.
So if I’m reading this right, for never smokers who lived in a house that used a woodstove between 1-29 days of the year have the same risk as smokers who used one everyday if the year?
Atari is releasing a new cartridge for its 46-year-old 2600 console
All the Patreons I subscribe to are YouTubers (Big Clive, Technology Connections, etc.)
I guess we have different use cases. The first thing I do after installing an app is to make sure it won't auto-update, for various reasons.
I for one am sad to see this go. I understand the rationale—not wanting a spec dependent upon a single implementation (SQLite)—but IndexedDB was never a better alternative. It worked in a pinch, but IndexedDB was always a solution in search of a problem. The old adage of data storage still applies: a lot of folks hate it, but everyone knows SQL.

At least there are alternatives waiting in the wings (https://sqlite.org/wasm/doc/tip/about.md), but a lot of sites are going to break with WebSQL's removal. It may not have been an official part of the spec, but compared to using IndexedDB, Session Storage, and Local Storage, it was awesome.

Pour one out for the browser API that could have been: truly SQL on the edge, far more the edge than even Lambda@Edge. The web has always been distributed computing at its most extreme.
It’s there but not easy to find
I stand corrected. You rarely spell out these larger numbers, so the exact spelling can be hard to remember. On similar lines, seeing "tredivte" on the list gave me a start - it somehow doesn't look right, even though it is.
True for the restaurant business as well, I've noticed people prefer to eat cheap fast food instead of expensive restaurant meals. I also noticed that people prefer to not have a car than paying for an expensive new car, that they prefer to not have children and that they prefer to work low wage jobs instead of those hard to get high wage jobs.
The new static constexpr std:integral_constant idiom
I think most people working with hypotheses and theories should read this.

All too often I see authoritative figures dismiss presented evidence because their theories suggest it is (close to) impossible. It often goes like this:

A: "Hi my name is Mark Xu"

B: "Our models say it's practically impossible that this is true, so it must be an unfortunate glitch, or you are a liar. You don't have a PhD, so I guess I'll assume the latter"

Later...

"Despite rumors that the person Mark Xu has been spotted near South Park, Colorado, scientists say there is no evidence to suggest he really exists. Xu continues to be a mystery confounding scientists till this day...."
It reminded me the movie Embrace of the Serpent.

> the film follows two journeys made thirty years apart by the indigenous shaman Karamakate in the Colombian Amazonian jungle, one with Theo, a German ethnographer, and the other with Evan, an American botanist, both of whom are searching for the rare plant yakruna. It was inspired by the travel diaries of Theodor Koch-Grünberg and Richard Evans Schultes, and dedicated to lost Amazonian cultures.

Highly recommend

Wikipedia: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace_of_the_Serpent

Trailer: https://youtu.be/4ff7TcnqHUc
I use Patreon. I wouldn't use crypto to pay a content creator. (In fact, I've never used crypto other than to try to get the software for Bitcoin running once in the early days of it.)

A person who is completely non-technical would be even less likely to use Crypto than me.
1-29 days is… vague. However, the study also does not seem to consider the much, much tighter particulate emission rules that new wood stoves and similar have had to follow. The EPA has tightened it every few years (I think the last one was 2015?)

An old wood stove is almost nothing (and I literally mean almost nothing) to a modern wood stove in efficiency or air cleanliness. It would almost be like if you did a study about the toxicity of cars but used data from when we had leaded gas. There’s still a toxicity there but your results are going to be a mess.
I want to create 3 servers with randomly chosen names from a pool of 10.

How can you express this without state? Or more generally, any “random_password”, “random_choice” etc, or even anything that is a “write only” property

You can’t. So this is dead in the water.
I was just assuming you were talking about managers not independent contributors. The "you" would be the person with the authority to fire though, as a working programmer would have absolutely no power to fire anyone saying there are no problems.
If statisticians can build large scale software they’d be really angry.
The real answer is that the original core proposition of Patreon was a fairly [b]boring[/b] business. It's a payment processor alongside a smaller hosting business. For most consumers of their platform it's not something they need or intend to interact with that often.

Unfortunately Patreon saw itself as primarily a tech-company able drive interactions via its own platform and capture more value from creators[]. The pandemic - and the ensuing explosion in the number of creators and consumers - fed this illusion further.

Both factors led to an influx of VC money, and now they are stuck trying to make returns against a mostly fictitious valuation.

[] This should have always been a warning sign, the average creator isn't rich, they aren't making bank on things like t-shirts.
These are simply more opinions and do not justify your desire to enact fascism via rigged elections.
I think a simpler example is how do you know to delete something. It won't be in the config any more, so won't be queried, unless you have some tag on managed resources for this module, but then you'd need to persist that somewhere
Ah, thank you. I will resubmit

https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/new-approach-to-cosmic-m...
> It's not that all organizations don't have disfunction, but as a younger person I was very fixated on everything I saw that was wrong and ignored either the problems I myself was introducing which were (and probably still are) numerous or the systems and programs that made the organization successful.

speaking from my own experience, when I look at my earlier career years I didn't appreciate how resilient organizations can be to disfunction, yes 100 things are broken, but for the most part everything will still be fine.