skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’m sorry as someone who is 50 years old and started programming as a hobbyist at 12 in assembly and professionally at 22, I have no sympathy or advice for anyone who is not willing to transition to newer tech and according to you is actively ignoring clear transition paths.

My advice is for her not to be lazy and take advantage of the opportunity to transition to some newer tech.

Context: I got my first and only job at $BigTech at 46 based on my decades of experience as a bog standard enterprise dev + two years of AWS experience at a startup as a (full time) consultant working in the Professional Services Department. I didn’t open the AWS console and didn’t know anything about “cloud” until I was 44.

When I got Amazoned three years later I was able to find a job in three weeks working full time at another consulting company where I am leading “Application modernization” initiatives (cloud + app dev).

If she isn’t at “a stage in life” where she can retire and she hasn’t gotten over her addiction to food and shelter, if she wants to stay in the industry, she has to evolve.
(>_<) Oh man, I knew about [0] when I posted (which is why I said it just reduces the chance of hitting the bug (by a lot)). But after spending all Saturday JST on it, I went to bed before [1] was posted.

Skimming through #6958 though, it seems like it's the lesser of evils, compared to #15526... I think? It's less obvious (to me) what the impact of #6958 is. Is it silent undetectable corruption of your precious data potentially over years, or more likely to cause a crash or runtime error?

Reports like https://github.com/intel/bmap-tools/issues/65 make it seem more like the latter.

But I have to read more. But since the zfs_dmu_offset_next_sync setting was disabled by default until recently, I still suspect (but yeah, don't know for sure) that disabling is the safest thing we can currently do on unmodified ZFS systems.
holy shit, I was not expecting that LOL
They would also do maintenance. Cars used to require an absolutely huge amount of regular maintenance and having someone local to do it was a net win.
Why don't you restrict the training just to old text? That would be awesome
The original DOTA was a mod wasn't it?
Ask HN: Are there health insurance companies tracking your fitness data?
I was wondering if wherever in the world you’re located whether health insurance companies are offering the opportunity for you to link your fitness data (ie, Apple health, Google fit etc) and adjust your insurance premiums to reflect the level of health/fitness evidenced by your fitness data?

If not, what are some of the likely reasons insurance companies are not doing this?

Also, if this kind of thing is available, would you sign up for it? Why/why not?
That's why teams behind those extensions sometimes build a cloud for you.
So much of the article was pointing out why exactly the author is not one those "conspiracy theorists" and how they hate being associated with them. Did you just skip over that part?
I would call this type of argument a case of regression to the mean rather than "autocorrelation". That, of course, in principle requires independence between performance and assessment of performance. In many cases, it would make little sense to assume that the performance and assessment of performance are independent. But even then, one can simulate random data with some correlation, and still get a DK effect merely as statistical artifact. An overview of similar critiques, and a similar argument in https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.8401... .
Did you use this for due diligence to verify that the data reported by the entrepreneur in the pitch was good or you were looking at some companies in a specific space and checking the company that has more orders?
It would be significantly above the average unless the company is ridiculously top-heavy or has shockingly little variation in salary. Or if the "salary" for the CEO ignores certain compensation (eg: paid a salary of $1 + stock options).
Dealers are just middlemen parasites who got legislative corruption to back them. Such laws shouldn't exist.
The boundedness of the data is also the main argument here https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.8401...
I daily drive ff on desktop and it’s fine. However one thing google does is give ff users a degraded experience and it sucks.
I'm old enough to remember a bunch of demos using window position/dimensions from back in the day. I remember one with a physics simulation. I can't remember if it was liquid or just a bunch of solids, but you could drop things from one window to the other.

IIRC you don't even need the sockets. One can simply use message channels between the windows. If a window opens child window, iirc it has special access over it (I say special, because usually different tabs/windows are isolated from one another) which might make a local-only version easy to implement too.
Kinda. It depends what your risk tolerance is.

But seriously, what's your business relationship to bitnami? What are the guarantees about keeping those images up to date? What are the guarantees about the feature set provided? How long will the specific image be available publicly/free? Is the base system guaranteed to stay the same? What about architecture support?
Won't Google defacto lose all mildly informed users once adblocking is no longer feasible in Chrome?
Also, why is it non-sequential? That suggests it's unpredictable, but it's not. Just realized that was the thing bothering me about this.
Can you bring me up to speed on the thread.sleep issue?
I absolutely LOVED playing Escape Velocity in high school! AmbrosiaSW made such great shareware games, with appealing graphic design and replayability--the modular system. I think all 3 EV games are good examples of the concept of "aesthetic unity" in game design.
See the sweet stats in real-time: https://tracker.archiveteam.org/blogger/

You can contribute to the effort by running these two simple steps on your vps or home network:

docker run -d --name watchtower --restart=unless-stopped -v /var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock containrrr/watchtower --label-enable --cleanup --include-restarting --interval 3600

docker run -d--label=com.centurylinklabs.watchtower.enable=true --restart=unless-stopped atdr.meo.ws/archiveteam/blogger-grab --concurrent 20 hackernews

You can launch the second command several times to run multiple worker containers in parallel. On a low-end VPS you can easily run 2-3 of them. With better resources, you can run 10 of them, 20, or even more!

Important: don't use VPNs, proxies, hotspots, etc.
So it has nothing to do with brilliant computer scientists creating a realistic sentence-finishing model and then dimwit losers getting triggered and writing Washington Post op-eds about how we should ban machine learning models from finishing sentences that people want finished?

If the liberals were so smart then instead of writing op-eds they would write a machine learning model that makes people want what they don’t want.
The two main classes of approximate k-NN algorithms om high dimensional data would involve either (1) linear table scans (e.g., IVF / cell-probe indexes; brute-force exact indexing or the coarse quantizer for an IVF index) or (2) graph walking (HNSW, NN-Descent, CAGRA, etc). Some other approaches like LSH (depending on how it's represented as a data structure) can be in between the two.

For (1), all of the indexing features of a typical RDBMS are overkill for IVF, where the only indexing you need is by IVF bucket, and then you simply sequentially scan and evaluate distances for everything in those buckets.

However, if you want to perform filtering based on other criteria (e.g., filtering based on metadata associated with each vector), then multiple column indexes could be useful with a RDBMS, as you can more efficiently extract just the vectors that meet criteria prior to a sequential scan (e.g., give me all vectors which have a date in the range between X and Y and whose name contains the string "red").

For (2), these algorithms would be inefficient to express in a typical RDBMS. While you can easily encode a graph in a RDBMS, walking the graph sequentially based on criteria is another matter, because each time you'd have to hit the disk (or in-memory cache) to find the next row to look at, then repeat. Latency could be an issue unless it's all in memory, and if it's all in memory, a RDBMS-type representation is overkill versus more simple pointer chasing in memory.

I guess it also depends upon latency / throughput needs (caching in memory on front of a database could help, but a pure in-memory vector index would be faster), persistence / fault tolerance / replication needs (in memory databases would need some kind of persistent store), or update needs (adding/removing vectors, though adding/removing vectors from an IVF or graph-based index becomes non-trivial if you add or remove too many vectors). Traditional databbases that have been around for a while might provide better guarantees on reliability.

(I'm the author of the GPU half of the Faiss library)
I think the average NH user overestimates how many people use ad blockers. We’re the minority.
Can you cite an example of a journalist writing an article that makes such an accusation?
Yeah but part of that is just sharing the same social space. It's pretty common for people to meet at work or at school and then start dating and eventually marry. For large portions of your life, especially in law and medicine, school dominates your life and virtually all your friends and potential mates come from that pool. Same for work or professional life. Have you ever hooked up with a coworker or classmate? Many people have. Doesn't matter the profession. It's less common for professions that are not as gender balanced, of course, but it still happens.
https://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/17ywbjj/whenever_i...
Reminds me a bit of Star Control II and its Melee combat mode.
I just switched back from a decade of FF use to Chrome, sadly.

Whenever I would alt-tab back to FF, it would hang for a half second, just long enough be annoying. Chrome is instant.

Only thing I miss is middle click mouse drag feature.
I love Firefox and you will have to pry it from my cold dead hands.
The career path you're describing is exactly what she's trying to avoid. That's what "downshifting" means.
yeah whenever I use someone else family/friend laptop for doing something it usually is without adblock. I ask if its okay and install it for them
When I was in Tokyo a couple of years ago I didn't find transport expensive.
any excuse to bring up gnu taler again https://taler.net/en/index.html
That is not an autocorrelation. The OP is equating linear dependence with autocorrelation, which not how we use that term. Autocorrelation is when a random process is correlated with time lagged version of itself.
A certificate without experience means absolutely nothing. No one takes them seriously when hiring.

Source: I have six (7?) active AWS certifications and at one point 9. I knew going in they were worthless and just got them to know what I didn’t know and as a guided learning path.
It's not entirely clear to me what you mean by "regime", but it seems most likely to me that if forced with a choice of two hard-forks:

1) Removing the attacker directly (PoS) / changing the hashing algorithm to remove the attacker (PoW)

or

2) Submitting to the whims of the attacker

it would be a no-brainer to just remove the attacker. Embracing an attacker-controlled chain seems like a strictly worse option than removing the attacker, no matter how messy. It seems like a choice between disruption or certain ruin.

An attacker at that scale would certainly understand this game theory, and realize that if they attack, after some potentially very messy shake-out and serious temporary disruption, they will soon have no influence over the chain anymore.
I like this approach for running multiple services on customer servers/clouds. for my own cloud though, i'll use some orchestrator that makes sense
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38345858
That does work if you call it as `test`; just a quirk of faking shell syntax in an external binary I think.
Maybe it’s changed, but the “Canadian identity” has long been this amorphous thing many Canadians quietly fret over because nobody is quite sure what it is but they're sure it exists.

Since US and Canada are so similar, a lot of the discussion of identity are around the differences, which to me is a weird way to talk about a national identity.

It also comes up a lot when someone mentions something positive about the US that Canada struggles with, say economic growth - then it becomes a common refrain of “yes, but at least X is better in Canada than the US”.

It’s also used commonly in discussions in healthcare - any change is described as “Amerification” of the healthcare system even those the change would just make Canada more like European systems.

Maybe it’s unavoidable being right next door to the US, I don't know.
If you want another example with the buyer withholding information then imagine a place where kids 5 or under get a discount. Someone brings their child who is 6, but is small for their age. An employee applies the discount thinking the child is 5 and the parent says nothing. Revealing someone's age is a privacy issue they may think to themselves.
Sometimes the Veneer of Intelligence Is Not Enough (2017)
UPDATE: There is now a very good simple explantaion of the bug, and how it became much more likely to happen recently, even though it has existed for a very long time:

https://github.com/openzfs/zfs/issues/15526#issuecomment-182...
> Making things worse, a lot of Docker images try to make configuration less painful by providing some sort of entry-point shell script that generates the full configuration from some simpler document provided to the container.

I see this as the container world reinventing the wheel of reasonable defaults for software that has long since lost sight of that. Nginx and Apache are two of the worst offenders, which won't just serve files out of a directory without a few dozens lines of config.
Society? Yeah, that would be the unbanked. But cash still exists and I occasionally get it to pay people.
The problem with attempting to apply this to humans is that humans take an extraordinary amount of time to develop into their prime (~30 years each gen). You might at most get 2 generations of data if you began to run this experiment in your early 20s.
I would look for oracle customers in your area. Most would love to hire an oracle employee.
looks at the list

looks at the FreeBSD 14.0 errata on freebsd.org

This is precisely why I wouldn't run FreeBSD in production. Look at this shit.

- You need to freebsd-update fetch install before you upgrade

- EC2 AMIs can't handle binary user-data

- FreeBSD Update reports 14.0-RELEASE approaching its EoL

Two ways to break booting and one really stupid mistake and NONE of it is listed on freebsd.org. Sigh.
This is why I think the US needs to have a rolling immigration registry where you get automatic permanent resident status once you've lived XX+ years in the country (voters can decide the conditions, if it should only apply to people here legally or not)

There are many cases where people come over on non-immigrant visas and their kids have to leave the country when they turn 21, even if they've spent all their lives here legally, because US immigration law doesn't provide any time-based path to permanent residency.
In the old days, the age-old cry of the beleaguered developer was “My code isn’t buggy, it works on my machine!”, to which the response was “We’re not shipping your machine to the customer!”. Well, science marches on, and we’ve invented a way to do exactly that. Instead of, you know, writing actually robust and simple-to-deploy software.

See also: <https://blog.brixit.nl/developers-are-lazy-thus-flatpak/>
Is the Mozilla Foundation still a politically active sideshow? That is what made me switch, I could put up with the performance gap - I couldn't put up with their plugin moderation and activities in the whole "combating disinformation" sphere.
It’s roughly 30-40% world wide and latest stats in the US say between 25 and 35%.

I don’t know if people are overestimating but it sure as shit does surprise me each and every day.
Background windows/tabs getting a lower priority maybe a factor.
Yes but just using Sqids doesn't fix this. Sqids are decodable. You need to use a random or otherwise unpredictable input.

What's the advantage of uuid7 (sequential + random) vs uuid4 (full random) for this?
how can i install plugins for any/all the users as root on my computer, instead of installing them per user?

or for that matter set default settings? like use of doh or proxies?

for any browser actually.
I rarely use Chrome myself. Firefox in my opinion is less opinionated and let me use it the way I want.

For example, it's much easier in FF to not use tabs, which is important to me.

Also I want to support them because I think Google is getting to strong overall and a monoculture is no good.

I wish more Devs/IT people would use ff and lead the way for their non techie friend and family
Just get a user-agent switcher add-on and have it report your browser as Chrome on Google properties.
I like FF as much as the next person and have been using it as my daily driver for a while now, but FF doesn't hold a candle to the responsiveness or snappiness of Chrome. It's especially noticeable on content or media rich sites where FF crawls down to a halt. The general browsing experience is nowhere near as good or refined as Chrome's, but when there's literally no better option you kinda just have to suffer through a sub-par browser.
I'm not sure. I think ad-blockers have become wayyyy more popular. I know a decade ago it was estimated at like ~3% but I would bet that, in the US at least, it's close to or even above 50%. They've just become so popular - I think there were even commercials for some products that blocked ads at one point/ privacy ads.

uBlock origin has 10,000,000+ users on the web store.
Adblock has 10,000,000+ users.
Adblock Plus has 10,000,000+ users.

I believe that 10,000,000+ means "any number above 10m" and not something like "between 10m and 100m", which means that 10m could potentially be a vast underestimation.

But either way, that's 30m devices, minimum, running adblock. That's 10% of the US population. Just for 3 adblockers I picked at random. And I would not be surprised to find that the number was 10x, even 50x higher than that.
I am all for downshifting:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36306966

I never intended to make a life long career at BigTech and was never planning on staying at Amazon for more than four years.

I was always planning on going back to smaller less stressful companies and I’m still in the process of decontenting my life.

But “coasting” in the technology field is just not realistic. Eventually as she has seen, the ground underneath you is going to change.
The actual storyline develops after a significant amount of in-game time, and is actually kinda easy to miss the initial two hooks if you click through things too quick. Basically, a planet gets nuked, and a while after _that_, somebody approaches you once you end up in a certain area of the map for a little while.

(And that's before you discover [censored] and [censored] and the whole [censored] storyline that happens after the “main”/initial plot ends)
the pg extension called "rum" is very performant on millions of pdfs.

https://github.com/postgrespro/rum
I also made the switch, the deciding factor was when Firefox got out of websql so we now have the much inferior indexedDB instead. The browser platform would be much better with native sql support but Firefox decided otherwise so I moved away
Only if that restaurant tells you that they will charge you based off how hungry you are and you know that if you refuse to answer you will get a better deal than if you answered.
Yes, and we got Yao Ming for it.
The op never said anything about someone doing something terrible just that looking at these models and what is possible large corps or government controlling what llm models will do is a pipe dream so author of the original article does not need to worry about it.
The original method to distribute library- independent software was "cc --static" née "cc -s"...

The world was a much simpler place so long ago.
I think some PM at google saw that 50% of users use adblock on https://backlinko.com/ad-blockers-users and said "hey, if we block ads, revenue will double".

also re adblock users being the minority, i think if we were, google a 1T company won't bother with this. It has to be a large chunk of their viewers.
Killing ad-blockers outright would likely cause many people to switch, but maybe not all. I am shocked to see that people buy "smart TVs" that are basically just TVs except that you don't just get commercials, you also get ads.

Instead of just buying a monitor and plugging your laptop in to stream... which seems far cheaper and better.

So I think a lot of people actually don't really mind ads that much tbh.
I'm not sure you'd be able to scrape together enough data for that to be viable...
I've been curious for a while about Lenovo's ThinkBook laptops with the e-ink screen (which they've been making for a couple years now). Hoping to find one I could try in the store first...

That would at least get you a laptop-sized screen.
I'd be a lot more chill about firefox if they didn't bake in a direct competitor (Pocket) to how I earn my livelihood. I'd love to have a decent Chrome alternative that wasn't trying to bankrupt me.
What I want next is for FireFox to do something to protect my cookies on disk. Chrome at least encrypts them using a key backed by the system keychain (although Chrome allows remote debugging from any other process, negating any benefits).

https://mango.pdf.zone/stealing-chrome-cookies-without-a-pas...
This game looks pretty exciting to follow. Escape Velocity was a huge part of my childhood. My brother and I completely scraped that game clean of secrets. I learned how to use ResEdit because of it. We would daisy chain ADB keyboards and he’d fly while I controlled weapon selection and escorts.
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Isn't there an alternative to MaxMind?
Seems like a problem if they're the only useful source and they can change their license/fee to anything they want at any time.
>The rest of those are not available during emergencies where people are far away, without transportation and with low battery.

If someone is in an emergency and have no other option then they will likely value getting an Uber more and would be willing to pay for one.

>Who is "submitting information"?

The app.
CI has a step with a bash script which takes the most-recent tag, bumps it to a new semver, and pushes the updated tag pointing to the commit going through CI.
I actually just enjoyed a great video with that theme made by a historian!

"Advice for time traveling to medieval Europe"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-aSdFrPnlRg
> The 46 made the leap to a digital video feed instead of window, but is manually-operated.

How does changing from a window to digital video improve performance? A window seems to reduce complexity, though a window + zoomed video might plausibly help. It would be too bad if a plane couldn't refuel and return to the fight (or make it home) because a connection or camera or screen failed.
Absolutely. Take something like the Builder pattern in Java for handling large numbers of possibly-optional arguments - in Python rarely-if-ever used due to named keyword arguments.