skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is the system working as intended... it's the problems that don't get caught you need to worry about...
It's safe to assume if Errol is on your side, you've won.
Compressing data has a cost, right? Modern systems have a ridiculous amount of memory, if you are bumping into that limitation, it seems like something odd is happening.

If your web browser is using all your ram, it is probably misconfigured, maybe the ad-blocker has accidentally been turned off or something?
Same page merging only works for KVM, as that's the only case that enables it without intervention that nothing else supports. It's MADVISE for everything non-KVM, and no applications are compiled with support for telling the kernel "hey, it's OK to dedupe me". The only way to get KSM to work with userspace applications is to use LD_PRELOAD to inject the necessary bits (https://github.com/unbrice/ksm_preload) or to use a custom kernel that has a patch and extra daemon to globally enable KSM for everything (https://codeberg.org/pf-kernel/uksmd).

I really wish this was a standard, configurable sysctl. There are many container environments (and heck, even browsers) that would benefit from this, and I cannot see any real downside.
>Meanwhile, solar and wind have plunged in cost.

Which famously, received no subsidies at all.
My favorite siege weirdness is circum- and contravallation. Caesar's seige of Alesia perhaps being one of the better examples. The man built a wall around the already walled fortification of Alesia... then built a wall behind him to keep the besieging army safe from Vercingetorix' allies.

That's a wall around a wall around a wall. Like a frickin' onion.
The de-facto current status is already three-states at war.

Making is so on paper does little to change the behavior and situation on the ground.

Sure, any durable solution would have to have three states, but that doesnt mean there is any viable roadmap to get to a situation where they ce-exist peacefully.
Note: California ONLY.

(commment: pity all states don't publish this in machine-readable formats. Id say this is more important than the monthly food report in the nnewspaper.)
Please excuse my ignorance here, but how do we know that?
Unusual applications of spaced repetition memory systems
Has anyone tried running it in a Lambda? Bundled with esbuild or similar?
It's obviously not high contrast in any respect. It's rather high end of low contrast. Medium contrast, we could say. But it sadly only attends to contrast between foreground and background and seems to completely ignore contrast between foreground elements.
>The lawmakers behind the bill assure us it will only be used against "corporations and executives who conspire to evade a mitigation order or ban — not everyday Americans". However, there's nothing in the bill that excludes "everyday Americans" from the penalties.

It's slightly more complicated than that. As it stands right now it's unclear whether personal use of tiktok would violate the proposed law, because it only bans US companies from dealing with chinese companies. That said the bill also allow the commence department to enact "mitigation measures", which if you tried to bypass them could get you in trouble.

>This bill is not a “ban” on personal use, or even on a technology directly. The bill may result in a ban on TikTok because it grants the Commerce Department such broad authority. That ban may take the form of removing it from app stores or a forced sale, or other mitigation measures imposed against the owners of the technologies.

>[...]

>The bill authorizes the Department of Commerce to impose “mitigation measures” without any restrictions on what those measures might be. Couple that with a vague enforcement provision that grants the power to broadly punish any person who “evades” these undefined “mitigation measures,” and the result is a law that can be read as criminalizing common practices like using a VPN to get a prohibited app, side-loaded installations, or using an app that was lawfully downloaded somewhere else.

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/04/broad-vague-restrict-a...
Researchers see a future for agricultural solar parks, but also challenges
Ha, this is definitely an eye-of-the-beholder type comment.

I think this is a GREAT idea for the users. Terrible, of course, for the site owner. :)
I think these staircases evolved to make it impossible for rapey male ducks to impregnate the castles. Ancient sources agree with my theory, so it must be true.
If X wanted to be a real pot-stirrer they'd enable commenting on ads all over the web: Google, Instagram, Facebook, news sites, etc. There should be enough unique identifiers in an ad to make this possible. This is a service I might pay for. A bonus side-effect for X is the browser extension would also capture a bunch of real user ad impression and click data.
I work a bit in this space. Current LLM architectures are missing a fundamental "state of the world" as well as the ability to counterfactually reason out of error propagation. Simply a limit of the architecture.

Instead, we should be giving model architectures like JEPA a go [0], which explicitly perform LLM-like behavior but with a state of the world implemented for ongoing error correction.

[0] https://ai.meta.com/blog/yann-lecun-ai-model-i-jepa/
Not necessarily. GCP, when used correctly, can be super cheap. You also don't know the contractual deals they have with GCP.
> Looker (which is hot garbage for other reasons as well)

From what I remember, Looker does allow you to create pivot tables from the Explore interface?

You can then also download to csv / excel from a Looker explore.

Something missing for you there?
As a reminder: CMU and its robotics program is intimately associated with the US Department of Defense, and although there are certainly civilian applications for this technology, one of the most likely short-term applications is improving legged drones for battlefield deployment (often, it should be said, in humanitarian roles, including search and rescue, or support roles, such as ammo, food, and water resupply, but deployment of armed legged drones is also an active area of research).

Here's a military news article covering the same umbrella grant program this research was funded under: https://www.c4isrnet.com/2022/06/23/darpa-adding-common-sens...
I have to ask, why bother with Kubernetes and all the associated config and pain? Why not just start a new spot instance? I can’t see any reason for Kubernetes in this architecture even though it’s the title of the post.

Also personally I wouldn’t use rabbitmq … it’s pretty heavyweight… there’s lots of lightweight queues out there. Overall this architecture looks like it could be simplified.

Also, the post doesn’t mention if the video encoding uses GPU hardware acceleration. Makes a big difference especially if using spot instances …. ffmpeg in CPU is extremely computationally expensive.

Presumably all input videos need reencoding to convert them to HLS.
What's wrong with that? They're already in hyperinflation.
I don't see how it's "modern" either, it looks very dated as if it's from the 3D logo craze era that we're long past. If they're gonna try to revive something maybe go for something that was actually you know... good.
Thank you! Definitely interesting! I had actually starred that repo when I saw it being discussed on some HN thread a week or two ago
>> Almost nobody would respect property rights if there wasn't the implicit threat of a man with a gun either, so the stuff would all get taken by someone else anyway.

> Negative rights versus positive rights, this is an old and well-documented dichotomy.

You can go on about "negative rights" all you want, but they're meaningless unless there's "a man with a gun" making sure they're respected. You may say that, you'll be that guy with the gun, but then what happens when there are more bandits than you can handle? Try to solve that problem, and pretty soon you've invented government with taxes and everything. Refuse to solve that problem, and you're a serf to some bandit lord.

The libertarian dream is like an unstable element that has a half-life of a microsecond. Sure, maybe you can imagine conditions for its existence and people can (and do) write books about how it would work under those conditions. However, that's all moot because those conditions are unstable and it will quickly decay into something else.
Back when I played WoW I would occasionally run into issues with windows trying to put the game into memory compression, as opposed to basically any other process. It turned the game into a powerpoint.

You could either get freaky with process explorer, or just keep some overhead so the system wouldn't try to do that. When I asked my guildies, they told me the 'default' for gaming is 16GB now, I was on 8 at the time.

Pretty much every gamer will at some point tab out to process manager to see wtf the computer is trying to do and exactly zero of them will think to themselves "I'm so glad there is no wasted memory!"
https://archive.ph/9QZyb
> There are US states without an income tax

Yes, I live in one of them, Washington state. But your reasoning here is highly flawed:

1. Even within Washington, much of society's necessities are paid for by the federal government, which DOES use income taxes.

2. Instead of using income taxes, Washington simply relies on other taxes. Not having income taxes doesn't automatically mean the tax burden is lower.

3. Because it relies on other taxes, the state's overall tax burden is highly regressive*, with poorer people paying proportionately more of their income than richer people. This is great for me, a SWE, but it's a lot less great for poor and working class folks.

* The lowest income quintile pays 17.8% of income to state and local taxes, whereas the top 1% of income earners pay only 3% to state and local taxes - https://itep.org/whopays/washington/
The linked problem goes far past the result object being unstable though - namely, with it you can affect any string in any class file that the JVM loads in the future. That is, you can get yourself into a situation where the following function returns false:

boolean foo() {
System.out.println("hello world".startsWith("hello"));
}
This doesn't look like an extreme environment at all, yet the robot still has his legs sliding quite a bit on various obstacles, which surprised me since it can do complex stuff. They only show slow-motion on perfect moves, which is a bit disingenuous. I thought SOTA was better than this honestly.
I'm not sure how the behavior of the MPAA or RIAA has any relevance on how the DoJ functions.
How to get what you want out of llama2 without being censored
The cost of twitter ads is so low right now. Add to it that you need to scroll on mobile for many of these notes, they're probably still having the effect the advertisers want.

Of course, the quality of advertisers is also quite low right now..
We did, it’s called the free market.

People still want roads and hospitals and schools, and the same money used to fund them today will be available to the same people consuming the services. Imagine how much more good people could do in their own communities if you stopped stripping a fifth of their paychecks to pay for foreign wars?

The difference is competition. There is no incentive whatsoever to do a good job or be efficient if there is no change in your funding for failure. There’s no reason to spend efficiently if it’s not your money.

It seems silly to me to force a common pool to pay for schools but not clothing, for health care but not food. Why not just raise taxes and get rid of checkouts at the grocery store?

Consumer choice is important. Critically so. If you centralize everything, it will invariably suck as much as possible.
So i guess the question is, if you could stop it from happening via laws, would you?
In addition to swap on zram, there's also zswap. zswap is not quite as good as swap on zram, but almost certainly is better suited to systems that you want to have be able to hibernate.
Current RAM usage from my Windows 10 dev machine, as reported by Task Manager:

> In use: 18028 MB

> In use, compressed: 2718 MB

> Compressed memory stores an estimated 9013 MB of data, saving the system 6294 MB of memory.

That's not a small amount.
Are you going to acknowledge the point, or just move what we're talking about? You asked why that would lead to money printing, which I answered, then you jumped to something else.
I'm not actually convinced, there's been a disconnect between the theory of war and the reality for as long as there's been war. Just because you'd never actually want to fight on a staircase doesn't mean that money and thought didn't go into defending a staircase from its middle. How many militaries today still issue bayonets to foot soldiers and handguns to rear line officers?
> I personally hate it when SV moral arbiters nanny me.

I've been annoyed with them pushing their mores on the global internet since at least 2010.

I suspect you'd also hate the substantially different mores that I would have in their place.

> Who is driving this big push for "safety", anyway? Do consumers actually want safety or are a concern-trolling vocal minority pressuring AI corporations to kowtow?

1. Yudkowsky, whose general vibes are an important part of the discussion for about half the people who work on these AI in the first place, even where they disagree in particulars.

2. Anyone who noticed the way biases in training data propagate stereotypes, an observation which substantially predates any of the currently interesting generators.

3. Anyone who has been on the receiving end normal old fashioned inappropriate content, or who is the parent or guardian of such a person.

4. Also the usual concern trolling types, as some people have already been arrested for using such models to sexualise specific people including, indeed, at least one case where it was a minor.

5. Anyone who can see the potential for these models in automated personalised propaganda.

6. Anyone concerned with the potential for a fully automated system that A/B tests with a constant stream of newly generated output until it finds a super-stimulus you can't help but engage with.

These groups don't all talk to each other, and in many cases dismiss the severity, likelihood, and timescales of each other, though often still using overlapping language that makes any conversations on these issues even more difficult than figuring out exactly what someone who just used "woke" as a pejorative is actually objecting to.
> It just feels easier to traverse stairs as close to the inside as possible.

I would expect that depends on the design of the spiral staircase.

In a spiral staircase, you want to go up about 3 meters in a 360° turn because you need a bit over 2m of headroom and some space for the stair itself.

That means that, 1m away from the center of the staircase, the slope will be about 50%. The ideal staircase has more or less “step width + twice the step height = 63cm” [1], so that would give a good step width of 31cm and a step height of 16cm.

However, 2m away from the center, that same stair would have a slope of about 25%, and the ideal step would be 41cm wide and 11cm high or thereabouts.

3m from the center you’d have a 16% slope, and the ideal step would be 45 cm wide, 8cm high, etc.

Now, in ‘standard’ designs [2], step height can’t change with distance to the center, so the designer has to pick one, and thus has control over the distance from the center where it’s easiest to step.

[1] https://www.practicalarchitecture.com/blog/the-geometry-of-a.... Of course, that’s a heuristic, and the ideal will be different for different persons, but what’s important is that simply scaling up a staircase in order to get wider steps is not a good idea.

[2] very wide stairs can and sometimes do have steps that are sloping upwards. I don’t think these are non-standard, but can’t think of a better word now.
Add to that:

- no sex ed

It really feels like there are a lot of parents who think they can keep their kids safe by keeping them dumb about how their bodies work.
And I was working at Brio Technology in the late 90s, they had a similar product called DataPivot, first sold in 1991. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brio_Technology

I don't remember Brio's pivot tables "blowing up" per-se, but I suppose computers had a lot more memory by the time I joined. They used a patented algorithm to create the pivot structure by aggregating a result-set from an SQL query.
malloc will take away from the disk cache.

Fwiw without swap there isn't really any paging in or out (yes mmapped files technically still can but they are basically a special cased type of swap) so your question is hard to parse in this context. The disk cache is all about using unallocated memory and an allocation will reduce it. Paging is irrelevant here.

Btw you should always enable swap. Without it you force all unused but allocated memory to live on physical RAM. Why would you want to do this? There's absolutely no benchmarks that show better performance with no swap. In fact it's almost always the opposite. Add some swap. Enjoy the performance boost!

https://haydenjames.io/linux-performance-almost-always-add-s...
I think the reasoning is that you already paid taxes on the income before it became wealth.

That said, I don't have a problem with wealth taxes for sufficiently high net worth.
When you can't make a product that works well, throw a bunch of marketing at it to add some lipstick :)
DiscrimiNAT Firewall seems like a useful product: https://chasersystems.com/

Reminds me somewhat of Zscaler.
It's a really good explanation. Castle sieges were big events, so historically we know the outcomes. Nearly 100% of the time, the garrison has already surrendered if it's this bad. Medieval sieges come in three major flavors: ones where you sneak in, ones where you bombard the fortification, and ones where you don't let anything in or out and you wait until they give up.
Something can be both fraudulent and an antitrust issue. In fact there is probably a specific type of fraud which is just this (at least in the UK), which is "Fraud by abuse of position"

The UK legal definition of this would be met if a person/company:

1. occupies a position in which he was expected to safeguard, or not to act against, the financial interests of another person (e.g. operates an auction to tender their online marketing spend?)

2. abused that position (e.g. by putting in fake bids, which only they could do because of their position?)

3. dishonestly (e.g. intentionally failed to disclose or was otherwise intentionally dishonest)

4. intending by that abuse to make a gain/cause a loss (e.g. they intended to raise profits)

The abuse may consist of an omission rather than an act (e.g. number 3 can be a failure to disclose).
PT is the gold standard imho. Mainly around the fact that it does such a great job tracking velocity. The primary issue is that outside of developers who've worked at Pivotal (I have), most people don't understand the process of using PT.
This made me chase red herrings when debugging oom issues in production. Wish free would just remove the 'free' column and replaced it with 'available'.
I used to run a Linux workstation in the late 00's (sorry FreeBSD folks, I know, the shame...), and I ran a closed source PVR application on it.

The memory access pattern was pretty much pessimal for my use of the box as a workstation. I'd use it from 7am -> 8/9pm every day, then when I'd walk away from the keyboard, I'd watch HD recordings (which could be 7GB or more per hour). Those would get cached in memory, and eventually my workstation stuff (emacs, xterms, firefox, thunderbird) would start to get paged out. In the mornings, it was painful to start using each application, as it waited forever to page in from a spinning disk.

I eventually wrote an LD_PRELOAD for the DVR software that overloaded open, and added O_DIRECT (to tell the kernel not to cache the data). This totally solved my problem, and didn't impact my DVR usage at all.
I don't think this is a binary situation, but a matter of degree. It's not like the founding fathers weren't aware of propaganda, but the sheer scale of it today IS unprecedented. We have followed these laws for decades, and the result has been a democracy in its death throes. It's not a hypothetical, we're living through what happens when our legal system can't keep up with the rampant corruption and capitalist takeover.
I thoroughly appreciated this article as I've been building a short-form video content streaming service and the performance hasn't been what I expected.

Granted, I knew that my service needs to be able to scale at different bottlenecks, but a lot of "build your own video service!" tutorials start with:

- Build a backend, return a video file

- Build a frontend, embed the video

And that leaves a lot to be desired in terms of performance. I think the actual steps should be:

- Build a backend that consists of:

- Video Ingestion service

- Video Upload / Processing Service that saves the video into chunks

- Build a streaming service that returns video chunks

- Build a frontend that consists of:

- Build or use a video streaming library that can play video chunks as a stream

Edit: From the author's links, I found this website which is very informative: https://howvideo.works/
But they aren’t all the same, they are 1/3 : 2/3
Money in an economy is a flow. Yes, it's 'already taxed', this is always true because money is always flowing around.
Thank you for the feedback! Our table views as well as the list views allow grouping by status and will show the vertical groups as you described. Is that what you are looking for? There are a couple screenshots on the repo. (Though they show the group by milestone, status is possible the same way)
I'm born and raised in Manaus-Amazonas-Brasil, it's the capital of the state of Amazon.

My question to my fellow friends here is, how do you see the amazon from outside? What have you heard and seen on the news about it?
The community notes are amazing, commonly hidden key info gets sussed out to the top like with the notes on the Samsung phone that hid their use of AI to generate lunar images rather than photographing it.
Not yet. There have been some experiments with this in mind, but nothing practical yet that allows dumping data discs. Considering that we have large control over the firmware, it should become possible with more work (and time).
This feels like a UX problem. If this is a normal and expected part of linux operation, it should be called out in the {T,G}UI.
The Original Sin of a Software System (2018)
'Social Media' isn't a product category with safety and quality guidelines like agriculture or steel. It can't be banned on the basis of tit-for-tat without triggering a trade war blanket-banning a whole range of consumer software.
I would feel very bad, but I would also expect a whistleblower to intervene “eventually”. Many of these things are explicitly illegal. And it would be kind of shocking for executive leadership at Facebook to decide this was worth the risk.

YMMV for different scales of influence. I don’t trust Facebook at all. But they’re not an antagonistic nation state.
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Exactly this. You can end up with some weird situations. I saw one guy get a criminal conviction for this: he repaired elevators. He left RepairCorp where he worked and set up on his own. BuildingCorp continued to pay him for their repairs not realizing it wasn't RepairCorp. In the trial they stated that they were always very happy with his work and the price was identical to RepairCorp. They were pissed he had lied to them though, and the guy ended up getting convicted for fraud.
It looks so much better in person too! I had a difficult time accurately capturing the CRT screen with an iPhone. Perhaps I could borrow a DSLR with a tripod to take a better photo one of these days.