skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Firstly, this is the UK. The study compared with people who own & socially rented housing:

> Costs are higher, conditions are worse and tenure is more precarious than in owner-occupied housing or socially rented housing.

This is clearly covering the situation of a very specific income level.

> Policies to reduce the stress and uncertainty associated with private renting, such as ending no-fault evictions, limiting rent increases and improving conditions, may go some way to reducing the negative impacts.

Again, it's pretty clear it's about specific things with respect to how things work in the UK. It's hard to translate this to America. For example, I suspect people who can rent fare better than people who are doing Section 8 housing even though Section 8 housing would be considered the "equivalent" of social housing (& projects which are the direct equivalents have been largely abandoned as failures in the US).

As for your claim that '08 happens cyclically, it's now 15 years since & hasn't happened since. The longitudinal study starts in 1991. I don't know how many housing shocks happened in the UK, but if it's anything like the US IIRC there weren't any macro economic conditions that affected home owners and not renters unlike '08. I believe like most countries the UK only offers ARM rather than 30 years which means interest rate shocks are guaranteed to hit homeowners just with a bit of added lag. There's just not enough of a cycle and the cycles don't last long enough to tease out health impacts.
Whenever I see an automated lawn mower I always thought why not just engineer a grass that has maximum height in its genes so no need to mow.
I said this in another comment, but I have seen _two_ applications in my career that actually had a request load that might warrant something like one of these databases. One was an application with double digit million MAU and thousands of RPS on a very shardable data set, which fit Spanner's ideal access pattern and performance profile pretty well, but we paid an absolute arm and a leg for the privilege and ended up implementing a distributed cache in front of Spanner to reduce costs. The other just kept the data set in memory and flushed to disk/S3 backup periodically because in that case liveness was more important than completeness.

In the first case, the database created as many problems as it solved (which is true of any large application running at scale; your data store will _always_ be suboptimal). A fancy, expensive NoSQL database won't save you from solving hard engineering problems. At smaller scales (on the order of tens-hundreds of RPS), it's hard to go wrong with any established SQL (or open source NoSQL if that floats your boat) database, and IMO Postgres is the most stable and best bang for your engineering buck feature wise.
This is my favorite CS paper of all time. Reason being, it distills multiple different areas of CS down to one idea: state machines. Now I'm frequently able to map a complex idea down to a state machine, which makes all kinds of problems more manageable.
Thanks! Yes, the wording is confusing, and there is very little detail. I'll guess I won't risk it to save a few hundred pounds. I'll see if I can get phone insurance some other way also. Thanks a lot!!
Koboldcpp has an OpenAI (and kobold api) endpoint now, and supports grammar syntax like you said:

https://github.com/LostRuins/koboldcpp

The biggest catch is it doesn't support llama.cpp's continuous batching yet. Maybe soon?
Temporal tables, most likely. Although even SQL Server only supports system time versioning, not full bitemporal tables (as per the spec).
What was unusable about the previous site?

(I'm a technical writer, not affiliated with Vulkan, just trying to get data points on what generally makes good / bad docs sites)
"Tech company salaries" is itself kind of begging the question -- if a technology or software company pays a low salary, is it not a tech company? For that matter, I hear the salaries are pretty high at Goldman Sachs too.
Thanks for your perspective.

How has your experience been with Longhorn? Performance, flexibility, issues, maintenance...? I'm interested in moving away from a traditional single-node NAS to a cluster of storage servers. Ceph/Rook seem daunting, and I'd prefer something easy to setup and maintain, that's performant, reliable and scales well. Discovering issues once you're fully invested in a storage solution is a nightmare I'd like to avoid. :)
Pretty neat! I assume it's just measuring traces right now? Any plans to add some top level metrics like build times, prompt length, etc?
AT&T actually enforces it for tethering. If I really need something I can still use my phone, but it’s convenient to leave the phone where it gets reception and then use the tablet nearby.
I want to heart this <3 and there's also some interesting stuff in Clojure, F#, even Immutable.js with higher-order methods.

What I mainly object to is functional languages like Haskell that have steep learning curves but also impure functionality that puts the onus on users to not shoot themselves in the foot. I feel that they miss the point in some fundamental way that's hard to quantify. The simplest example of that might be that a spreadsheet is equivalent to functional programming, but one is readable and one is not. A bridge between them hasn't been successfully built yet, but I'd sure love to try.
> Foo and FOO and |FOO| are the same symbol

No, they aren't. The strings "Foo" and "FOO" and "|FOO|" might be read by the reader as the same symbol, but then again, they might not. It depends on a great many things.

By default, all else being equal, yes, reading these three strings will produce the same symbol. But there are any number of factors that can change this.

Clozure Common Lisp Version 1.12.1 (v1.12.1-10-gca107b94) DarwinX8664
? (setf x 'foo)
FOO

[Stuff elided]

? (eq x 'foo)
NIL

[More stuff elided]

? (EQ 'foo 'FOO)
NIL

Figuring out what I left out is left as an (elementary) exercise (though the fact that I had to type EQ instead of eq in the last line is a big clue).

And I know that you know this. My point is not that you don't understand symbols or name spaces; I know you do. My point is that explaining this stuff is hard, and very few people seem to be willing to put in the effort. And this is not unique to CL, and it's not even unique to software, or even to STEM. It seems to be endemic in the human condition. But that doesn't mean one should not lament it or try to improve it.
There's nothing new here to me. Heard about the individual announcements
The hardware for this, is as far as we know, not on any of the currently flying satellites. They were explicitly downsized to fit on Falcon 9 and thusly named "v2 mini". Most likely the major thing stripped off was the large folding antenna that would be required for cell phone signal.

The move from 60 to 22 (or 21) satellites was to maximize the normal Starlink service on the satellites. (21 are on board when launched from the west coast and 22 are on board when launched from the east coast.)
I'm tired of seeing comments with an apparent layer of objectivity which very quickly goes away as you reason about it for a second. You could've just said "I don't like K8s, it's too complex for my taste" but then your comment would be gray for being short and concise, so you decide to say this.

Opinions are fine and you may as well hate K8s or any tech being discussed. I just hope to see less of "people who like this just because they don't know any better vs the smart ones like me who know The Truth™" comments.
It seems like from a purely technical point of view, Qualcomm got the best deal in this space (i.e. one with Iridium, which is currently the only provider with 100% global coverage): https://www.qualcomm.com/news/releases/2023/01/qualcomm-intr...
I think it's less that SBF is a skilled manipulator (though clearly he is), and more that they get so excited about cryptoassets that they want to believe. I don't understand why but cryptoassets have a special ability to draw people down the rabbit hole.
I was going to say - Lakeland to me as a Brit is a store, lake district sounds way more proper.
> Ok I've had to double check to see where we've gone wrong.

It's okay to admit you're wrong without these sort of "include everyone else involved" type of statements.
I'm not sure. I just watched "Anime Rock, Paper, Scissors" release in February, and the quality of the animation (modulo some instability in shadows) is mind blowing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GVT3WUa-48Y
I'd place more money on Wordpress being the future of Twitter than I would Bluesky, Threads, or Mastodon.
Unquoted alias without the AS keyword cannot be named FROM.
Some pathogens simply do not die in any useful timeframe, e.g. anthrax or tetanus. Those lurk in the soil for years, decades and even centuries.

The only safe measure is heat-treatment, but that is usually too expensive. In particular, it is more expensive than just using artificial fertilizer.
What about the recycling of asphalt? It's my understanding that asphalt is the easiest to recycle material used for roads and highways; is the recycling process emissions-intense as well?
Farming the internet for kerning values is going to be a bit of a crapshoot. Many designers don't just type a headline and export to png, often kerning is manually adjusted (especially with headlines, but also during book-type layout kerning may be adjusted on whole blocks of text or just a few words in order to help balance a page or block)
Golden Rule of data: Use PostgreSQL unless you have an extremely good reason not to.

PostgreSQL is extremely good at append-mostly data, i.e like a chat log and has powerful partitioning features that allow you to keep said chat logs for quite some time (with some caveats) while keeping queries fast.

Generally speaking though PostgreSQL has powerful features for pretty much every workload, hence the Golden Rule.
Hacking FIFA World Cup Rosters
Linux on Scratch [video]
The next step should be a machine learning system which looks at samples of a font, learns what the font looks like, and then can generate characters in that style it hasn't seen, based on a large training set of other fonts. This would be useful when you want to fill out a font that doesn't have all the characters you need.
If you are interested in this kind of sociology, visit public libraries in random places while you pass through. They are sometimes hugely different. Perhaps in which foreign languages they favor. Perhaps in the proportion of religious or political books in the "new" section. Perhaps in the money or care that goes in the building. Then there are things like the Death Star's public library.

But then I like libraries in general.
That would be irrational, the trick of going somewhere far away is that you rationalize it through something else and you don’t have the option to have the Internet or the phone.

No one goes somewhere far away, explicitly for being disconnected, that’s an implicit goal.

Otherwise, you can just turn off your phone do I have to leave it.
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"Personal failing" has idiomatic meaning, it specifically refers to things which are that person's fault. Medical issues generally don't count as "personal failings". If you did something wrong that caused a medical problem, that could be a personal failing. For instance if your organ failed because you drove your motorcycle too fast and crashed, that could be described as a personal failing.
How else would they bypass your home network and any firewalls in place?

Novel problems require novel solutions.
Sacrificing a real DB to use serverless is exactly why serverless makes zero sense.
Agree with your comment on L3. The only exception I will make is communication in true life/death scenarios. Even then I understand the desire for some to intentionally disconnect that too.

>> We won't all be addicted to digital cigarettes forever.

>Yeah we will. Why wouldn't we?

That's why I called them cigarettes. Smoking cigarettes used to be ubiquitous. We have dramatically reduced smoking and it's now more normal to not be addicted to cigarettes.

As we better understand how things negatively impact our health we gradually adjust our behavior. This makes sense from both a natural selection stand point and by simply observing consistent advancement in healthcare.

I don't claim it will go away entirely but it will be more socially acceptable to disconnect from the bad parts and you'll have better tools and support to do so.
C++ seems to be a glaring omission, though.
Because people like the propaganda of the suburbs more than they like looking at hard numbers. The entire American dream is based on the notion of suburban car-centric infrastructure: each family a single unit home with a lawn and a car. We've been peddled this lie for 70 years now. It's hard to break free from something like that, especially when the consequences of suburban maintenance are so delayed. This lie has socioeconomic value because it maintains the narrative that rich people contribute the most to the economy and they're carrying the weight of the "inner-city" poor

City mayors still think that the suburbs are profitable because they're just as vulnerable to this propaganda as you and I are. The Feds help maintain this lie too.
Yes but there is a much larger effect on gas oven suicides than overall.

Suicide prone population dying out would not cause one type of suicide to reduce in a much quicker rate - as is implied here.
I don't think the API you interface with fundamentally changes the point that Spanner is hard to recommend from an engineering perspective at anything except the absolute most massive of scales, and even then it will create nearly as many problems as it solves. I'm not saying spanner is _wrong_ or shouldn't exist, but it's very difficult to be in the position where Spanner is the critical key to your application's success and not replaceable by <insert other, cheaper database here>.
I’m a writer working on a piece on referral bonuses. If you don’t mind, could you email me at shikhar@careerfair.io? I’d be curious to learn more, thanks!!
"But if you want money for people with minds that hate

All I can tell you is brother you have to wait"
Thanks for the link, but I still think there's enough nuance in the court system (in any country) to recognise that a manufacturer shouldn't always be held liable for a system just because their logo is on it. There's no law dictating that manufacturers have a duty to make farming equipment impervious to mechanics' failures, and unless there's a clear indication that courts will interpret some law this way, I wouldn't bet on it.

Even in this case, one of the lines of argument seems to have been that the manufacturer was aware of pre-existing safety issues and injuries, yet did not recall the product or adjust its design. That's certainly different than a one-off unauthorised modification blowing up.
"East of I-5, lucky to be alive"
Eben Moglen and SFLC – abusive employer and LGBTQIA+ unfriendly
The blocker is starship. The tech isn't unique. There's two other competitors. They'll launch test sats subject to approval soonish.
If you make a claim, you should be able to stand behind it, by citing it. Responding with circular logic about who's responsibility it is to actual research is counter productive, and giving the appearance that you don't actual have a citation to back up what you are saying at all.
I do have Ubiquiti, actually, including two 8x10G SFP+ USW-Aggregation, but AFAIK all devices within a VLAN can still communicate with one another. In an ideal world I'd want them to be completely isolated from one another unless I explicitly set up an ACL allowing access.
Yes! Saw that and was relieved I have nothing on them :-)
What do you expect surgery to cost?

It's not like it was 1/10th the cost a while back and has suddenly became exploited by Big Veterinary or something. It was always expensive and you just wouldn't even ask unless you were especially wealthy or were unusually willing to sacrifice.

What's changed (perhaps for the better) is the sense that pets are worth the sacrifice. If you're younger or from a more wealthy background, you may not have a good intuition how much more accepted it was that pets (and people) simply don't get all the care that they might. The idea that intense medical intervention is a right for people, let alone animals, is actually pretty new.

Vets are NOT being predatory just because their work continues to be expensive.
Surveillance coming to every inch of the earth
This is going to feel like a non-answer: but if you need to ask this question in this format, save yourself some great pain and use Postgres or MongoDB, doesn't really matter which, just something known and simple.

Normally you'd make a decision like this by figuring out what your peak demand is going to look like, what your latency requirements are, how distributed are the parties, how are you handling attachments, what social graph features will you offer, what's acceptable for message dropping, what is historical retention going to look like...[continues for 10 pages]

But if you don't have anything like that, just use something simple and ergonomic, and focus on getting your first few users. There's a long gap between when the simple choice will stop scaling and those first few users.
Definitely interesting development.

How does it work tho? It's just like the 'old' RSS->tweets kind of thing? or does the whole blog post get sent into the fediverse as a post? Making it kind of unwieldly? Microblogging is dead? Long live microblogging.
I'm particularly curious about TX - it's really impressive that a satellite would be able to pick out a signal coming from the tiny thing I'm holding in my hand.
> Kamal is named after the ancient Arab navigational tool used by sailors to keep course by determining their latitude via the Pole Star. (Kamal was formerly known as MRSK).
Pardon? I don't understand the question.

It's an example of how an explicit label doesn't mean the label must be correct.

In this case your flagged comment did not make sense as sarcasm. How can short stories written 40 years ago be tied to GPT?

Had the story been about short stories discovered in his papers, and published posthumously, then it would be a (imo low-quality) sarcasm implying his literary estate is trying to pull a fast one.

But the article was clear to point out that those materials were deliberately destroyed, that Pratchett did not want that done, and that these articles were published decades ago.

Thus, your comment came across not as sarcasm, but as trolling an author beloved by many HN readers, or simply oblivious to the content of the article.

Explicitly labeling it "sarcasm" is also what a troll or an oblivious person trying to get a cheap laugh might do, even if your intent was neither.
Flowtable: Netfilter's Fastpath
How is a dead kidney a "personal" failure?
Certainly energy intensive since the asphalt needs to be broken/ground up, moved back to an asphalt plant, then heated back to molten.
The good news is that nobody would force you to. They could go to quack veterinarians and you could go to certified ones.
Rewind seems a lot more developed than this, and they already support iPhone and plan to support more than just Apple products. Layer1 claims to already offer transcription, though I guess only being on Mac limits the usefulness. I’m not affiliated with Layer1, nor have I used it, I just thought it seemed interesting and novel, though I’m glad to see that it isn’t.
It's all about getting paid by both sides in a dispute.
I don't think I've ever worked for a company with such a referral program (including a couple of large tech companies). Or maybe I just wasn't told about them. Although they wouldn't make any difference in terms of encouraging me to bring in new hires.

If I enjoy working at the company, then I will do that regardless (assuming I know a qualified dev who's looking for work, which is pretty rare), and if I don't enjoy working at the company, then I won't.
There's not enough bandwidth. This is 2G pre GPRS performance
That's an interesting point of view – is the same true for MVNOs today? That seems like a similar situation.
Also leads in developer headache benchmark
I have, I couldn't get into it. Might have been a learning curve issue; Grease pencil also had a giant learning curve and I've only recently started to feel more comfortable with it.

But I just found Inkscape really awkward and clunky to use for any kind of illustration or free-drawing. I think Blender in some ways might have an advantage there because there are enough obvious cool features with Grease pencil (3D integration, rendering pipelines) that it provides more motivation to get past the "how the heck am I supposed to draw comfortably in this" hurdle. And it needs those motivators, Grease pencil is not comfortable to draw in without changing some settings and learning more about the general Blender interface; it's got a huge barrier to entry.

It's possible I could get Inkscape configured and comfortable to use, but I just didn't have enough reason to get over the hurdle. Or maybe it is actually too clunky to use more like a painting app; but I want to give it the benefit of the doubt since I'm less familiar with it.
If you can't give me an example, I'm going to continue to assume it can't learn a grammar. It isn't hard to come up with a simple (useless) grammar. Why not prove your assertation?
AI researchers joke that AI is just whatever a computer can't do.
Type from the 18th century or earlier (pre film/digital) is imperfect. Not every 12 pt 'm' slug in that font drawer is identical, and not every imprint from the same 'm' slug in that book is identical. It is a lot of work to create digital versions of these metal/wood typefaces.
America's First Banned Book Survived and Became an Anti-Authoritarian Icon
The software in question is open source, which means it would be legal even ìf they directly copied and modified it.
Mostly, yes, but not completely. A better generic term might be an ILC (interchangeable lens camera).
Yeah, should've mentioned that probably (though a post is already a mess of footnotes, aside notes, and parenthicals).

I do believe though that a lot of modern languages got that from Ruby (or, via Ruby, from "JS that Rubyists wrote" and such), when it was a "hot new thing" for a brief moment in 2000s. Or maybe it is my skewed perspective.
Been trying to apply to this company, but they don't respond and keep reposting the same job(s) regularly. I meet the requirements perfectly, this behavior makes me think they're scraping resumes or something.
T-Mobile PCS I believe.
Probably true, and I enjoy using my phone for social snapshots. But the way in which everything ends up looking "iphony" annoys me for anything where I care about the image, and so I'm shooting more with my dumber digital cameras that are about documenting what was actually in front of me rather than spinning up a "good looking" image. I like being able to remember what a scene actually looked like, rather than what the AI in my phone thought it should look like ; )
GitHub Availability September 2023
It's 2G performance
Back when I was broke I owned a cat. There were literally times in my life that the only reason that I didn't paint the ceiling with my brains was because I was worried what would happen to that cat.
There anre also environments that are high-speed but high-cost or capped gb/month.

I like how I can tell an iPhone that a wifi AP is a “low bandwidth” one so it holds off on many tasks. But you can screw yourself over if you tether a computer, even a Mac.
Each company has a partner. The issue is the bands
Someone thought Intel was too clear in their naming of ISA extensions?

One a more serious note, it looks like RISC-V extensions are single letters, except for X (vendor extensions), S (collection of supervisor-mode extensions), and Z (collection of user-mode extensions).
Postgres; the schema is still structured. But even if you want something less rigid, Postgres has a jsonb type and great operators for querying json.