skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How does one put code in escrow?
I have heard a few people on HN casually mention that one can pass code on to a client “in escrow”. This is suggested as a way one may alleviate a client’s concerns that should you or your business stop supporting the software for any number of reasons, they can pull the source code from escrow and presumably keep running the system.

How does this actually work in practice?
Two years ago, the Boston Dynamics Atlas could do mid-air somersaults - that's better than most 10-year-olds. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tF4DML7FIWk
I think it’s shells and other ammo rather than tanks, trucks, etc.
At its root, I don’t think this question is really about the logistics of taking a sabbatical.

Something I didn’t fully recognize when I was burnt out: burnout is a personal emotional issue. At that time I (mistakenly) considered emotions a bug and not a feature.

So whatever direction you decide to go on the sabbatical, I highly recommend endeavoring to discover some emotional support and growth.

Online talk therapy has helped me greatly, but mostly the book I wish I had back then is “The Happiness Trap: How to Stop Struggling and Start Living”

https://www.amazon.com/Happiness-Trap-Struggling-Start-Livin...
Not sure. Contact bonding can be strong enough to pull chunks out of one or the other of the glass pieces when you try to separate them. I've not personally seen this happen, only the results.
There is a fudge factor there that the landlord can play with. Common utilities like sewage, sometimes water, and some other stuff can be tacked on to the monthly bill. Some buildings will also make a deal with comcast and take a cut out of internet/cable. It varies based on the jurisdiction and what they can get away with. A typical case would be 10% or so in junk fees.
On the bright side, if they do that Godot will just Fork, the same way Urho3D did. This would be a big bow but it may also be a small chance to truly dig in and fix some of the issues that were talked about for years in the community.

But I'm probably just daydreaming.
I actually worked on system just like OP is describing and we ran everything ourselves including DBs (on k8s) so I can offer some perspective. For egress heavy services such as video minimizing outrageous cloud egress fees is key. Having an ability to tell your cloud account manager you can easily run multi-cloud or on-prem makes it a lot easier to negotiate sane rates.

Ultimately you’re competing with the likes of Twitch (IVS), youtube and cloudflare on price and they ALL run their own compute so at certain size you will have to run your own hardware to stay competitive especially now that zirp is in rear view mirror.

See Dropbox as another example of this but in documents/storage space
Are you suggesting that there were not conflicts between say Catholic Americans of Irish descent and other Americans? I don’t know whether you are magnifying caste based conflicts in the US to an absurd degree, or are not aware of ethnic based conflicts in US history.

Please read about the Fenian raids for example - these things did have impacts in North America and to a very violent/impactful degree.

> That includes prejudices and behavior that would cause societal turmoil in the new country. The onus is on the new citizen, and not the new citizen's new country.

No, the onus is on my country to uphold the charter of rights for every citizen. If I was the victim of caste based discrimination I would absolutely expect my government to protect me, not deport me or reduce my rights in any way, simply because the issue originated abroad.

The same thing would apply if I belonged an Indian religion and was discriminated for it. Whether the prejudice was developed in India, or Europe, or Canada, is irrelevant- I expect my government to act to protect me.

Anyone saying this is not Canada’s problem would be wrong. It is in fact Canada’s problem because I am Canadian and it is happening on Canadian soil.

> Again, speaking as a non-Indian, how is this possible? Were you naturalized as a small child, and your parents never once spoke of the caste they belonged to

I was naturalized as a child and caste is never spoken of with my family. The city I live in has lots of south Asian immigrants of all stripes and I have never discussed caste wit anyone. I asked my mom today, who spent most of her life in India, she would also not be able to determine someone’s caste.

Keep in mind she is non-Hindu, and grew up in a big city more insulated from caste based identities & issues. Nevertheless, any kind of blanket prejudice would apply to her (and me) as well.
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China's actual military budget is close to 700B dollars
At least you can tinker with it and add your own weights and such to float better results, hopefully?
Built by negligibly paid largely-lower caste workers imported from India on religious visas. I wonder what the status of the court case against them is.
Meta/off-topic: we gripe mightily here about clickbait titles (and legitimately so), but huzzah to this headline.
Majestic and mellifluous. Pure poetry.
The relative scarcity of castle sieges doesn't mean they weren't a major concern. It's quite likely that castles served as an effective "siege deterrent". That is, sieges weren't common specifically because the likelihood of success was low.
Someone once calculated that a few seconds of fiddling with USB connectors across millions of people was actually entire years worth of wasted time.

Actually, I just made that up, but it seems kind of plausible.
I think you're mixing up separate concepts. The USPS has a fully normalized format for all deliverable addresses. Anything above that is purely for the convenience of the recipient.

32 VASSAR ST

CAMBRIDGE MA 02139-4309

https://tools.usps.com/zip-code-lookup.htm?byaddress
Ah, per limited edition & popular demand, will eventually be a real world, example of type sematics of the topoid ducktype. aka worn out & held together by duck tape.

At moment, looks like the electronic version seen as having an incompatible structural type system [0].

----

C/C++ has type punning [1].

Lisp has nil punning [2].

Python has duck typing.[3].

[0] : http://nullprogram.com/blog/2014/04/25/

[1] : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Type_punning

[2] : http://ericnormand.me/podcast/what-is-nil-punning

[3] : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duck_typing
Are you suggesting that there were no conflicts between say Catholic Americans of Irish descent and other Americans? I don’t know whether you are magnifying caste based conflicts in the US to an absurd degree, or are not aware of ethnic based conflicts in US history.

Please read about the Fenian raids for example - these things did have impacts in North America and to a very violent/impactful degree.

> That includes prejudices and behavior that would cause societal turmoil in the new country. The onus is on the new citizen, and not the new citizen's new country.

No, the onus is on my country to uphold the charter of rights for every citizen. If I was the victim of caste based discrimination I would absolutely expect my government to protect me, not deport me or reduce my rights in any way, simply because the issue originated abroad.

The same thing would apply if I belonged an Indian religion and was discriminated for it. Whether the prejudice was developed in India, or Europe, or Canada, is irrelevant- I expect my government to act to protect me.

Anyone saying this is not Canada’s problem would be wrong. It is in fact Canada’s problem because I am Canadian and it is happening on Canadian soil.

> Again, speaking as a non-Indian, how is this possible? Were you naturalized as a small child, and your parents never once spoke of the caste they belonged to

I was naturalized as a child and caste is never spoken of with my family. The city I live in has lots of south Asian immigrants of all stripes and I have never discussed caste with anyone. I asked my mom today, who spent most of her life in India, she would also not be able to determine someone’s caste.

Keep in mind she is non-Hindu, and grew up in a big city more insulated from caste based identities & issues. Nevertheless, any kind of blanket prejudice would apply to her (and me) as well.
The RIAA generally only threatened to sue people who were infringing thousands of songs, and generally offered to settle for around $2-3 per song.
Everyone has a phone that can manage calculations nowadays, few people can or want to calculate precise taxes. I still don't see how it makes advertising prices with taxes a "lemon market", which somehow prevents businesses from advertising such prices, if I understood your assertion correctly. Some businesses do advertise prices with tax, most don't. If people really wanted prices to include tax they'd naturally took their custom to the businesses that advertise "inc. tax" and took it away from "plus tax" ones, resulting in the situation opposite to what we have now.
It wasn't supported by those who designed most of the circuit board though.
> This isn't free.

It's not free but it is negligible relative to routine relabelling. How many times do you think the tax rate changes per year? Maybe twice, at most, if the government budget is facing some major upheaval. More likely is every few years. Compared to the number of times the store will put things on sale or change the prices, that is negligible.
IMo,it provides smooth development experience. I had some trouble while trying to pass initialize global variable which seems more easier in C (eg: skel->bss->mypid) than go
Yes. Ive seen cheap/bad sata cables cause all kinds of problems for people running home servers.
That's hardly the sticking point - the very notion of "state" is relatively modern with respect to practices such as slavery.

In 'recent' history, Viking/Norse-Gael Dublin was one of the major slave trading centres of Europe from the 9th to the 12th Century.

Do we classify the Vikings, here settled in the one city and raising crops for three hundred years, as nomads? Is their state the state of Ireland, the place that they are taking many slaves from?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery_in_Ireland#Viking_peri...
It seems like most of these problems can be alleviated by two actions:

1) don't have servers in Europe

2) don't hire Europeans

If Europe wants to regulate themselves into the stone age, they should be free to do it.
IANAL, but my understanding is, in short you nominate a trusted third party to hold onto the source code of the seller/provider you're dealing with, to avoid the source disappearing and leaving you high and dry.

This prevents the 'buyer' from accessing the IP (although I'm not sure if that applies to all cases), but gives them assurance they can still function if everything goes to pot and the selling company disappears/deletes their source etc.

How its actually implemented I guess depends and I don't think there's a uniform process - CD-ROM, a git clone to them etc. Basically a legal/contractual agreement when dealing with IT vendors in (big) stakes collaborations or ventures.
it also requires transportation and a flexible work schedule that allows you to make trips during business hours.
Also this is search for LLM not for humans so optimal solution will be different. Or even with models it is not that hard to imagine that Mistral-8b will need different results than GPT4 which has 1.76 trillion parameters.
Good luck fitting a 16 "GB" RAM dump on a 16 GB flash drive when you hibernate the computer.

Filesystem overhead notwithstanding, it's worth noting that NAND flash usually had true capacities too, with some additional hidden extra for error correction/wear-leveling. I have a 16MB SLC one that truly has 16,777,216 usable bytes (32M 512-byte sectors), and a slightly newer 2GB one with 2147483648 bytes.

Let's not forget the original IBM PC "10MB" hard drive held a little more than 10MB: 10653696 bytes, a bit more than the 10485760 one would expect.

No one seriously talks about "GiB", and the only ones I hear using it are pedantic assholes. It just sounds absurd and stupid.

As for JEDEC, standards bodies are made of people and people are fallible.

I can say the same goes for SI and their "iB" nonsense.
Ehh, given that reddit doubled down on pretty much every decision they made post Pao, I'm inclined with hindsight to think she was indeed scapegoated. Not necessarily for sexism reasons (try would happily do the same thing with Hitler as a CEO) but that's just a semi-common strategy with big business, especially towards an unpopular board member when the opportunity arises.

Really taught me not to celebrate these "CEO steps down" stories. Short of an entire board replacing itself it's just a new shade of black coming in to lead the change they want all along.
A very popular joke in kids' joke books in the 80s.

Q: Where does a policeman live?

A: 999 Letsby Avenue.

999, of course, being the UK's emergency number.
> with the popularity of Unix and its descendants

and with that the Internet. In 1990 UK higher education sites had "high speed" (megabit sometimes!) networking but they used X.25 "Coloured Book" protocols. There were a handful of well developed applications for services such as email, but experimenting with novel software on X.25 was difficult. In 1991 JANET (the people providing these network services to Universities, then and now) began JIPS, an experiment to try out Internet protocols.

Enthusiasm for JIPS was enormous. You could buy or, since you have an electronics department and an essentially inexhaustible supply of nerds, build, a Unix computer, and just like, write your own BSD sockets software. I hear a guy over a CERN has invented a World Wide Web we should check out... In less than a year JIPS ceased to be an "experiment" and by the time I arrived at a University a few years later X.25 was deprecated and few people cared that it was still technically available somewhere.
Yes, I’m speaking in generalities. Your specific case isn’t terribly relevant.
Why .NET apps specifically?
lol I mean I've never seen it written down I guess so that's how I spelled it off the top of my head. midwest fwiw.

Skittish makes me thinks of skittles
I use smart dimmer switches for overhead lights and smart bulbs for lamps.
you don't see how going to the bank during work hours to get an overdraft charge would be difficult for a lower income person? I'm going to guess you live in the suburbs for one and that you have a vehicle and a flexible, white collar work schedule.
> If you need a break - you need a break

Who is to say that a break in the form of a sabbatical is the only way to improve OP's mental health? What about other time off, changing the structure of the work-week, changing how time is spent outside of work, therapy, etc?

> if you're strong enough to leave, you're strong enough to find your way again afterwards

This may be true about OP's individual effort, but it is a separate question whether that amount of effort (or _any_ amount of effort) will be enough to land a job in a bearish market.
Imagine thinking stopping the horrors of child sexual abuse makes you an evil person. Perhaps you are projecting.
While not a bad idea, it doesn't have the urgency of C->Rust because Java is already memory safe.
I don't really understand your metaphor.

As you say, the M&Ms are just a proxy indicator. They indicate the instructions were read, but they have no direct role in the stage set.

The backup diesel generators, at this nuclear power plant, could be considered a proxy indicator that attention has been paid to more fundamental pieces of the reactor, as your metaphor implies, sure. But the backup diesel generators themselves play a direct and critical role in the preventing a power outage from turning into a nuclear meltdown.

Imagine if the M&Ms actually did act as a fire suppression system that would stop a pyrotechnics mishap from burning down the concert arena. That's more like the kind of M&Ms that were supposed to be in the bowl at this power plant.
You can't do "auto crossover" with USB because it needs to distinguish between D+/D- for speed selection.

https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/73295/in-a-u...

It works for Ethernet because the transmit and receive lanes are separate, but with USB, there's only one pair used for both directions.
LLMs: Our future overlords are hungry and thirsty §
Sounds like you'd have to be sinister to attack up a medieval staircase.
edit: Nevermind, saw what kind of comments you post, not engaging with trolls.
Sorry, what does swift have to do with this?
TL;DR:

- FTX invest in a bunch of companies. Most are crypto, but he also invested $500M in Anthropic, an AI startup.

- Anthropic recently raised funds that would value FTX's equity at 3.5B - 4.5B.

- SBF wants to introduce this new valuation, as proof that he didn't squander customer money. Some people, including customers who lost money, think there would be enough money in selling the Anthropic equity to make everyone whole. SBF may think that this would absolve him of any crime.

- However, FTX is ~8B in the red. The Anthropic equity would not cover this. Also, it's not clear that FTX could get 4.5B if had to immediately sell all their Anthropic shares. Are there enough buyers at that price? Not sure.

- More importantly for SBF, the ends does not justify the means in the eye of the law. He misrepresented the riskiness of FTX by lying about FTX's relationship with Alameda. In particular, he told everyone that Alameda was treated the same as all other customers and could be liquidated when its funds got too low. In practice, SBF directed employees to allow Alameda go negative, putting customers at risk of FTX becoming unsolvent, which ended up happening.
Lookup tables can be competitive with SIMD
https://darkcephas.blogspot.com/2018/10/validating-utf8-stri...
I used to work on system like this and even built the logic to use preemptible pool effectively just like OP. If I had to design it from scratch today I would use Temporal for job scheduling - their durable compute concept is perfect fit for this and we had a lot of trouble maturing the equivalent scheduling system trying to keep up with rapidly growing scale
I like pivot tables. When I was developing my own database technology, I found that it could create pivot tables very efficiently. I put a lot of work into refining that feature; but almost everyone I show the demo to does not seem to see much value in it. What am I missing?

Here is a short video where I use it to analyze data within an 8 million row table:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ScBd-71OLQ
The two most intelligent people I know are very physically fit. One went to Harvard medical school, the other cal tech. Both have extremely enviable careers with extensive publication history, great resumes, etc. One is a runner and by my understanding has great times/stamina. The other is straight jacked. I think it’s reflective of their work ethic. They’re arguably gifted with intelligence to some degree but that needed effort to flourish.

Also Thucydides said “The society that separates its scholars from its warriors will have its thinking done by cowards and its fighting by fools.”
But if Berkshire didn't exist, would the stock market have performed the same way?
Apple claims M2 Ultra "can train ML workloads, like LLMs"
My point was to criticise this paragraph: "
For attackers it’s also not a very tempting scenario.
If you’ve already breached all the outer walls and defeated all the soldiers there, who would want to risk their life crawling up some stairs where the defenders are waiting for you?
Sieges often didn’t involve much fighting at all, as simply waiting outside the castle till the people inside ran out of water and food was a much easier and less bloody way to win.
In many cases simply realising the enemy was going to sit outside and wait was enough to surrender."

The author seems to be claiming that beyond the outer walls castles don't have defensive elements as they are pointless once the walls have been breached. This claim is false.
> There's a high amount of impedance mismatch trying to write GUIs in a non-GC language like Rust

Sorry, what does the idea of a user interface have to do with garbage collection? They seem entirely unrelated at first blush, and it's not difficult to find GUI code written in rust.
I strongly prefer this more flexible/future proof proposal:

https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/7561#issuecomment...
This post explains why your NTFS for Mac can't work on macOS Sonoma and gives you some fixes.
> There's a reason Chrome is mostly written in C++

Yea, security is not a concern. Apparently.
To be a bill of attainder it would have to criminalize things that have already happened and were not criminal when they happened.

A bill that says it is criminal to have ever had TikTok on your phone or it is criminal to have every distributed TikTok in the US would likely be a bill of attainder.

A bill that says that after some date that future it becomes illegal to have TikTok or distribute it would not be a bill of attainder.
Or generally what are good vector dbs have tried LlaMaindex, pinecone and milvus but all kinda sucked different way.
The EU is a total clusterfuck when it comes to tech regulation. Maybe the only good thing out of the EU is GDPR, everything else has been a massive overreach doing more harm than good.
Did they not get a mechanical engineer to design the thing? And if not, why not? I wouldn't expect a mechanical engineer to know anything about electrical protocol design, so I wouldn't expect an electrical engineer or software engineer to know anything about designing a mechanical assembly (like a connector housing).

Some part of the design process here was managed very badly.
So long as this is equally applied to a domestic hostile government I'm fine with that.
> But the lack of ECC was a huge bummer at the time of purchasing my system.

Why?..
And this is kind of the point, if HN commenters can’t figure this stuff out, what are the chances that normal people can?

Speaking of which, every time I ask the question about “tell me just from looking at a USB C cord…”, I learn something new.