skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
100% agree. I have been running my own NAS the hard way: FreeBSD, ZFS, manual samba/NFS shares, dhcp+gateway+firewall, PXE Boot, Jellyfin (can't remember if it's in a jail or not). All this stuff is a huge, utter PITA and never works quite right.

- I have to manually check the zpool periodically to see if there are faults. I went about 30d with a DEGRADED disk before I realized it, turns out it was a bad cable but if another disk failed I would have been hosed.

- I have to manually run zpool scrub (yeah I know about cron but chances are if I just add the cron entry it will fail, probably some permission thing or a 1-character bug in the cmd line. Nothing like this is ever easy, it's a 1-hour rodeo, at minimum. And yeah, I'm lazy too, not gonna deny it)

- I can only get NFS v3 working, not v4, no idea why. IIRC v4 isn't technically supported by either FreeBSD yet. But rather than just say "not supported" it gives you some cryptic bs that you waste minimum 20m on googling and trying things. Everything you try, you have to triple check: restart rpciod? Or was it nfsd? exportfs -ra? Or was it some encryption version in /etc/exports?

- Samba kinda works, no idea how the permissions are supposed to work, but turns out SMB is more resilient to network interrupts than NFS which just hangs the client indefinitely. So for listening to music or reading a book its fine.

- I wanted to set up VPN on a 2nd network (not VLAN, just a 2nd subnet that routes out the tun device. I thought since I control DHCP, I could force certain devices to only ever have access via VPN), turns out this isn't possible or "very hard" doing some hack to the NAT pf rules, way above my skill level. I wasted hours on this, got the VPN and tun to authenticate, but got stuck at the routing layer. Oh also I think dhcpd doesn't like routing to different adapters? Can't remember.

- PXE was a disaster, as it usually was. I got it barely working enough to boot my tape backup computer off it and run backup scripts.

- I want simple logfile aggregation. I dont want to have to ssh into the NAS and check the logs/dmesg. I admit I haven't done a lot of research (10 years ago there was nagios, thats all I know), but it bugs me profusely that I cannot easily monitor the logs of all the machines on my network, and I rarely ever hear about anyone else doing it.

so probably 40% success, 60% (frustration|half-assery|disappointment). I guess it's just masochism, like the weightlifters who love the pain of adding 10 extra pounds to their set. At least they get some results eventually. :/

Overall, I don't regret doing it the hard way, but I am often times envious of the Proxmox users who (presumably) just plug and play.
I noticed the yearly revolutions seemed short. Then came across this line in the article “The entire system could fit inside the orbit of Mercury”.

That is a very crowded space in orbit close to this star!
That's just leverage. Nothing non-serious about it. No reason to sacrifice one's life for a corporation when you have better options. They generally don't want people like that, they want people who will sacrifice. People without options.
Datapoint - as a Wall St tech guy, AMZN & META are the only FAANGs who has reached out to me.. repeatedly. Same for my coworkers.
The problem with housing is that people view it as an investment. And it is, but that same mindset tends to drive people to pay as much as they can possibly afford, loans included. This drives housing prices up. Reducing the max mortgage will not reduce demand in the least, but it would reduce the maximum price people could pay. This would drive housing costs sharply downward.

For this very reason, this stands exactly 0 chance of ever being passed, but it almost certainly a viable solution. It's not like people would just endlessly sit on vacant houses on a large scale.
> gear shifting

Removed in Model S Plaid and rumored to be removed in the cheaper models in future iterations.
Rackspace cloud storage runs out of storage in LON
What I want to know is how these systems compare to simple keyword search algorithms. E.g. presumably the person using these systems are medical professionals, typing in some symptoms perhaps gleaming for answers.

Theoretically, all these date could be cataloged in a way where you can type in symptoms x y z, demographic information a b c, medical history d e f, and get a confidence score for a potential diagnosis bases on matching these factors to results from past association studies. A system like that I imagine would be easier to feed in true information and importantly would also offer a confidence estimate of the result. It would also be a lot more computationally simpler to run I’d imagine given the compute required to train a machine learning model vs keyword search algorithms you can often run locally across massive datasets.
I think the rivian is a better push towards converting people over to electric. I thought I saw it helped some people win an off road race recently and that’s a good way to catch traditional truck owners attention. Plus the slightly modernized but not ugly design language makes the transition more smooth
I used to have one as my only laptop for years and I miss it dearly.
Built quality was above average, keyboard was great, mate screen (not as rare back then though), easy to open, lack of hardware shenanigans and usable/open source BIOS, no proprietary drivers required, came with Linux preinstalled. Reasonably fast.

It was a MIPS little endian, which is also very good. I can't remember if it was fanless or not.
Perhaps if the employee leaves the company entirely, all parts of the company get a chance to pretend the deficiency was in the employee. [0]

Like some weird inverse of the "You can't fire me, I quit!" trope.

[0] P.S.: Even if the employee left for a more prestigious role in another company, the social-circles in the old company aren't forced to acknowledge that the same way as if it were an internal move: HR will just say "they left to pursue other opportunities", and that permits the assumption that that the worker--their incompetence discovered--has fallen into ignominious chronic unemployment.
What dialect of American English treats /ʒ/ and /dʒ/ as allophones at the beginning of a word (or any other context)? You've already (weirdly) accused me of being a prescriptivist, here's your chance to counter with some descriptive evidence of the kind of variation you are talking about.

I'd love to be wrong, because I'd learn a new thing. Please, educate me.
From Michael C. Kohn's Practical Numerical Methods: Algorithms and Programs (1987):

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Fortran and Pascal programs for selected methods are included for the reader's convenience. Although computer scientists have attacked Fortran because it does not force the programmer to write clear, structured code, no other language provides so many easily used tools for mathematical programming. Many of the newer languages suffer from an impoverished mathematical library and primitive input/output functions. Structured program control can be easily achieved in Fortran; all that is required is discipline.
Looking at the only-slightly-wider chasm between the ag. commodity price of wheat, and the retail price of wheat grains - note that wheat needs less than 1/2 of the steps you list - I'm thinking that the actual processing only justifies a tiny fraction of the markup for rice.
> AI is not reproducing it any more than someone inspired by it creating something new in the same style would be.

This argument implies that AI scientists have replicated the human mind. Despite the hype, they have not. The two processes are not the same, nor is the nature of the "training data" both entities have been trained on.
Anyone serious about comfort would use a litter ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Litter_(vehicle) )
You're right but there's also a survival bias there. I've risked before and it went well but now I don't see it clearly at all.
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Well someone didn’t get their bribe! Or maybe UK just not very important any more. Boo hoo!
What people hated about Microsoft’s acquisition was that it will deprive its competitors IPs they used to have access to - eventually.

Sony’s acquisitions are less “egregious” as the companies they acquire usually generated few to no (valuable) IPs for their competitors - there are exceptions of course. That’s why most all of their acquisitions fly under the radar.
The reference to Rawls's work is really spot-on.

> The point is that a liberal pluralistic society needs to learn to accommodate people with different worldviews. A key part of that is getting people to understand that their own worldview is subjective, and that other worldviews are possible and acceptable.

And, to state the obvious, this is specifically why the "outrage engagement economy" incentive models that drive almost all of our at-scale communications channels (Twitter, TikTok, YouTube, FoxNews) are inherently dangerous to that liberal pluralistic society. For all of the lip service that these players pay to values like, "civic discourse" and "the town square," they only exist by subdividing their users into "affinity groups," and then pushing them content that triggers maximum emotional response and affirmation of group identity.

The platforms don't simply reinforce commitment to particular worldviews; over the last few decades, we have seen them create worldviews to increase user engagement and ad revenue.
In theory yes but look at what Apple did. In the name of convergence, they destroyed the UI/UX of many of their classic softwares born in the early 2000 and yet you don't even get to run them cross platform anyway. Their performance also sucks balls.

I used to be on the other side, but now I think that it's more likely that web apps meet the old standard of the classic software than the old software somehow becoming better and more useful somehow.
For now, the only things that have not switched are large software with big performance and latency requirement. As the hardware evolves and the web platform matures even more (especially with web assembly VM) it is unlikely we will go back to previous ways.
Heck, even Apple build half their apps with a lot of web technologies mixed with their own stuff. I wish they would just commit to the web completely because this way we could somewhat have decent cross platform experience; but that wouldn't sell many Macs so it's wishful thinking. In the end, they are probably obsoleting themselves in the long run...
Unfortunately, there's a HUMONGOUS difference between "not allowed to" and "can't" when a company optimizes for profit at the expense of human well-being.
It takes me 2 seconds to switch to a different design tool. Adobe has 30K employees and been around for 30 years. Figma is a small scrappy startup. It seems pretty preposterous to me that the deal will have any meaningful impact on consumers.
Turn your picture into a Lego character
IMHO there's a huge blind spot in leadership exactly due to the stack rank, because how do you recommend changes to the system to someone who succeeded and owes their whole career and professional reputation to that system? The answer's going to be "well it worked for me, so it must not be that bad."

The other part of the problem is yes, there are times when the military has every right to expect folks to endure hardship. I mean, the whole point is to send folks into combat if needed, and combat sucks. Being in the field or underway for months at a time sucks, but they're necessary. But because of this, it's easy to slip into "just suck it up" as a response to a whole bunch of hardship, stupidity, or inefficiency that isn't necessary.

The reserves have their own breed of stupidity revolving around reserve center staff enforcing Kafkaesque bureaucratic "readiness" requirements on the drilling reservists. At some point, taking 1/4 of your weekends off to come in and be told you're delinquent on something you turned in three times already, or having to flail to complete some late-breaking tasker gets old. I loved supporting my gaining active duty commands. I retired because I got sick of the hoops I had to jump through to keep doing it.

Cyber is having to bring folks in at a high level to get the experience base they desperately need. This isn't totally unusual though. Surgeons have come in at that level when the military has needed their expertise. And in WWII, FDR brought in an automotive executive as a general officer to supervise wartime production.
TheCleric says >"I’d have quit months ago."<

But no one gave you the chance. Why not, pray tell, since you were by far the better choice?8-))
I'm surprised it hasn't spilled over to the rest of the industry, unlike their hiring practices.
Well, at least there are many independent chip providers, and that they use the same ARM architecture (i.e. detail design specifications, etc.) even has the advantage that tools and know-how are re-useable by the companies using these chips (and that each of these chip providers has the ARM detail design at hand is even an advantage compared to RISC-V, where "only" the ABI is open source); in contrast MS is indeed a single provider keeping the source code of most of its products closed (which virtually makes it a potential "single point of failure" for a large market).
Small feedback:

> No knowledge of web development is required!

Then right below

> $ pip install taipy

If it's truly no-code and you don't need to know how to use pip, and your audience is people without web dev knowledge, showing a pip install command so high up on the page might scare that audience away.
A better recipe than this truck:

* Honda Civic sized

* Honda civic priced

* 400 mile range

* only one small CarPlay display in middle

* no 4g chip for the car whatsoever

* free roadside charging assistance for 10 years
I think you're right on the money. and it's completely Toxic. i would never work at a company like that.

if FAANGs can get away with treating their employees like dog s*t then there must be vast over supply of talent.
We give hall passes to more than AI. We give passes to humans. We could have a detailed discussion of how to blow up the U.S. Capitol building during the State of the Union address. It is allowed to be a best selling novel or movie. But we freak out if an AI joins the discussion?
As it stands, each token processed by transformer requires a constant amount of computation and energy. For an AGI system, this would imply the ability to solve problems of any complexity with a fixed amount of energy. But if this were true, it would essentially mean that P equals NP, a major theoretical breakthrough in computational complexity theory. IMO we are still missing something.
I was put on a PIP at Red Hat that was quite farcical and very much about personality disconnects between myself and my manager (and made much more annoying by the fact that he had told me before the PIP that multiple other managers had let him know that they would be interested in me being on their team if I was looking for something different - instead he went the PIP route).

There was room for improvement (isn't there always), and on the face of it, to read the PIP "Objectives for success", they all seemed reasonable, and were very ... objective. Specifically to craft some extended documents around a potential product, to capture and present some of the research around that product to a group, etc. About five items.

I completed them. All of them.

My manager and I met for our regular 1:1s where he expressed that things were looking good (well, he no-showed for one, and my skip-level came for another).

I show up to our end-of-PIP review and immediately know the outcome because HR is there with my manager. Part of me was pragmatic. However...

What really ground my gears?

"I have been reviewing the documents and material you created as part of your objectives for the PIP and I feel that they are not of the standard that we need."

I expressed confusion. "When we discussed this in our meetings, you expressed no concern". "They're just not the standard of what we need."

And then literally during the call, I pulled up the documents and discovered/remembered GDocs access list.

I started screen sharing in front of him and HR.

Document 1: Manager - Last Viewed: Never

Document 2: Manager - Last Viewed: Never

About this point he turned his camera off.

Rinse and repeat. Of about 5 documents, presentations, spreadsheets, he'd only ever looked at one of them, at that was months before the PIP.

He mentioned that he had given me feedback more in Google Chat than in our 1:1s. I pulled up our chat history, simple to review, since he'd actually 100% ghosted me for the duration of the PIP. Sitting there in front of HR, with me firing off about a dozen questions, updates, etc., and there's just no responses from manager.

HR had at least the decency to look rather embarrassed about it all. My manager said nothing for the rest of the call.

A few days later someone higher in HR acknowledged that they’d looked at the same things and confirmed my perspective and said that the managers handling of the PIP was not how it should have been but that their decision was final (which was fine, I never expected it to change anyone’s mind).
Yep, same issue. and the error message is unhelpful
Got this: Terminating on uncaught SIGILL.
The Intel 386 processor die: the clock circuit
It amazes me how we could do things so quickly in the past (e.g. build a nuclear power plant, get to the moon).
Shippingport was built in 4 years.
Unless you think that the abbreviation const stands for some other word than constant, I'm not sure how that's relevant here?
Substrata C++/OpenGL Metaverse open sourced
Structural racism actually exists and we need to work to eliminate it. The problem is that when patently false stories like the one referenced in TFA are surfaced and receive acclaim, the people who don't believe structural racism exists will use it as ammunition for their cause, which is to throw out all reforms that might eliminate structural racism.

Lying about incidents of racism that never happened gives aid and comfort to racists.
"The part of the Victorian maiden aunt will be played by a woke barista from Portland".
How does this stack up to diffusion policy learning?

https://diffusion-policy.cs.columbia.edu/

Looking at the figures and videos it seems... worse? Sort of surprised they didn't compare it but I guess they're trying to limit the discussion to purely reinforcement learning methods.

EDIT: Ah, I see this is an older result and was published concurrently to the diffusion policy paper, so it's likely the authors didn't know about it in time to add the extra comparisons.
evolution.

/mnt came first. and distros started mounting stuff into it. but actually it was never meant to be used for that. it was supposed to be an always empty directory where a sysadmin could mount something temporarily if they needed it.

so distros moved away from /mnt and started using /media

then /run was invented as a place for all that semi-automatic temporary stuff that needs a place while the system is running.

by looking at where a distro mounts stuff, you can see how long they have not bothered to follow changing standards.
He didn't make it out?!
Even Bezos?
I mean, even if messages are encrypted in the wire, surely most platform holders will comply to law enforcement requests. Exposing your messages from databases, logs, analytics, installing keyloggers..

Most of people use smartphones and there isn't secure smartphone platform. Even on PC, all you can do is to hope nothing in the chain leaks your messages.
TLDR; Don’t stress guys, no existential risks here, everything is just peachy, we’re all one happy family.

Oh by the way Microsoft will now gently watch over what was our main ethical accountability mechanism.
Yep, if this is an acceptable fact pattern, it seems to create a bunch of loopholes in the legal treatment of non-profits vs for-profits. I think the simpler conclusion is that it actually isn't an acceptable fact pattern, and we'll be seeing fines or other legal action.
Or it was just hard. Plus it depended on 4680 improving and scaling and that was definitely hard.

But look at all the models in production. They don't have discrete model years, they're pushing out new updates all the time, even for hardware.
The question is not how many prior messages there were in the conversation. That's irrelevant for context window purposes. The question is how many tokens there are between the prompt and the point where the reply breaks down.
The one-person framework monitoring tool
No one put you in charge of what is "acceptable language".
What does bcachefs need that it doesn't have?
Rectangle is free and open source software, there are no strings attached that I know of
That's not even crazy considering you can do tens of Teraflops/s on modern GPUs.

Get your data into the system via PCI-E, do some RDMA magic to get the data onto your GPU and put the cores to work.
Is it true you stand a crazy wife distance apart when queueing or at bustops?
I modified some functions from:
https://github.com/junegunn/fzf.vim

And added my keyboard shortcuts.
It would be nice if they sold more blank or Linux machines without the Windows tax. They have a very small number of the latter.
Yes, but also - they lie about the inflation and force the public to hold the bonds anyway (aka. financial repression, yield curve control).
A11Y Style Guide
Actually the CAFE standards allow car makers to pay to compensate for less efficient designs. So we already have what you suggest.
A DIY Kinetic PC Case
Combining function with designey-ness, last year manufacturer CyberPower unveiled this PC case with automated cooling vents:
Apparently this guy like a bunch of others like https://github.com/ggerganov/ggml are implementing transformers from papers for people that want them. Pretty cool.
Thank you!

Unfortunately, I'm not optimistic about terms of war in Ukraine.

Unfortunately, war in Ukraine looks not like war of one country against another country, but this war like Democracy and free market against Communism.

And rumors said, military support for Russia from North Korea is larger, than support for Ukraine from US.

Just now military power of Ukraine is near to equal to Russian, but this is not sufficient to return occupied Ukrainian territories in some overseen time. I'm not sure, if we could afford Korean variant of large part of country sacrificed to communists to end war, because Russia will not stop there, they want to occupy territories of other countries - Poland, Baltic states.

So, we working hard, to make Ukrainian military more powerful with new technologies. All possible to save people lives. And yes, we use robotic units at real war, but their intelligence extremely limited, even GPT-3 is too resource demand to be useful, only image recognition technology now is practical at field.