skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was defending my earlier logic (we don't know what's in Q, therefore we don't know what's not in it). Have you identified a flaw there?

I would prefer to earnestly cite Price, Carrier, Fitzgerald etc, but those citations are less convenient, especially for casual readers (clicking a link rather than obtaining books).

Disliking the style of rationalwiki seems insufficient reason to discount the clear assertions made, explained, and with original sources cited on that page.

Can you identify matters of factual error in that graphic I pointed at, or other material on that link?

I note this is the only comment you've made on the entire thread. I don't believe it moves us forward.
Worked great for me! Thanks!
Okay, this is either really good satire, or you are wildly overestimating the average startup engineer's knowledge of each of those tools and their configurations
The "crappy bespoke cloud setup" is usually the result of people whose jobs are usually just regular app devs, but had been thrown into the infrastructure side head first. I think the key is to actually have someone who knows what they are talking about.

Unlike other people I don't think you need to hire someone directly. I do devops freelancing so you could hire someone like me. Or look online for various people that do it. I mean if its a toy app without many customers then who cares, but once you start scaling infrastructure gets to me more and more important.
Yes they basically have a breach every year for some number of years now…
Can someone translate this for the layman? Why is this important?
We have been using a self-hosted Windmill instance for running batch processes in Production for a while now. It has been a very nice upgrade from cron jobs for us (adding captured job outputs, status info, ability to re-run jobs, etc).
https://www.cnn.com/2019/10/04/health/insect-rodent-filth-in...

I get what you're saying, but this is exactly the point of peer review though. It wouldn't be worse if the original author was doing shoddy work in some parts.
Not sure i would say Spanner is the only database that can do this... first of all, this new thing from AWS can't do what spanner can do and second, there are few that can deliver distributed transactions in addition to Spanner, such as CockroachDB (ex-emplyer), Yagbyte and TiDB.
I beg to differ and so would our over 1000 customers, none of them with less than 100 seats (we don't sell below that). Most have 1000 users or more.

The largest has several tens of millions of users and they are using Global Scale. One customer runs nearly 4 million users on a single cluster.

Nextcloud is a complicated beast, and scaling to tens of thousands of users isn't trivial, but then that is what Nextcloud Enterprise is for. So if you need a large scale installation, no problem - contact our team and we get you up and running.
There really should be no excuse for sexism.
Simon Willison has a great post on this https://simonwillison.net/2023/Nov/29/llamafile/
limitless is hyperbole
I literally said that the depleted battery would be physically detached, I don't see how there is any other interpretation?

I saw a concept once that had the plane drop the big battery after takeoff (maybe after reaching cruising altitude too) and let the battery fly back to the airport autonomously. Then it doesn't have to carry that dead weight for the entire trip.

It's unrealistic because of all of the details in making a an autonomously flying battery pack that can detach from an aircraft in flight and do it with the kind of safety a civilian passenger aircraft demands.
"Disagree and commit" is also the core of Lenin's "democratic centralism" (there with a claim of adhering to the idea of discussing it on equal terms first). As you say, it can make sense in small groups, but in larger groups it quickly becomes a means to demand compliance by controlling when the debate is shut down (conveniently when you have the upper hand)
That sounds a lot like what I'd do if I had to make that setup. So you could pretty easily make a little tool you could call like `make-password example.com`, have it prompt for your master password on stdin, and write the generated pw to stdout, with only the unsensitive info in a `make-password.json` file.

I think I could get into that for personal use, but would dislike not having a place to store TOTP, recovery codes, usernames, etc. alongside the passwords.
I mean, it's a hero image above a technical article. What percentage of readers even did look at it for more than one second?

I thought it was awesome, even though it was pretty obviously AI-generated for the reasons you stated.
This is why I always delete by ID when cleaning up after tests.
The robot can carry small weights on its own, yes, although it's way more stable when the arm is retracted closer to the body.

Pick-and-place style problems are one of the earliest tried on our robot platform, Hello Stretch, which is why this project doesn't spend too much time on it. You may enjoy something like the OVMM project [0] which focuses entirely on open-vocabulary pick-and-place problems: "Pick up $A from $B and put it in $C".

[0] https://ovmm.github.io/
About 110€/MWh, and also the government is planning the nuclear reactors to produce around 70€/MWh from 2026 onwards.
I have good news for you: https://apps.nextcloud.com

Nextcloud is nothing more than a collection of small apps. You can disable even core things like sharing.
> why invent PowerShell, why not just use ksh or bash? I’m a long time Unix dev so that was my first instinct. I tried and failed. There is a core architectural difference between Unix and Windows. Linux is a file-oriented OS and Windows is an API-oriented OS. In Linux, if you can modify a file and run a process, you can manage anything. That is why awk, sed, and grep are management tools. At the time, nothing on Windows worked that way. Everything was behind an API which returned a structured object. That is why awk doesn’t work with WMI, sed doesn’t work with Active Directory, and grep doesn’t work against the registry. I had to invent a new tool that manipulated this environment.

- Jeffrey Snover, Powershell Inventor.

https://evrone.com/blog/jeffrey-snover-interview

Literally designed not to copy bash.
I was expecting the article to mention a fact I just looked up: Nvidia's newest H100 GPU has roughly 80 billion transistors which is roughly equivalent to the number of neuron cells in the human brain. I would be surprised if transistors are as flexible as human neurons, but it's interesting that we're just getting to the right order of magnitude in terms of quantity assuming they can fill a similar role.
Be careful what you wish for. I don't want this kind of competition. You'd have to be crazy to use these given the sheer amount of tech theft and hybrid warfare coming out of China.
There's no competent modeler that can produce 12 models per hour for 8 hours a day, let alone 24/7.

Sure, you can probably demo your skills on one such model, but to do it consistently non-stop is a fantasy.
In my case, my memory doesn't work that way. I have learnt jq several times but I don't use it frequently enough to retain the knowledge.

A better tool for me would be something that uses JS syntax but with some syntactic sugar and a great man page.
The PyObject header is a target for optimisation. Performance regressions are likely to be noticed, and if a different header layout is faster, then it's entirely possible that it will be used for purely empirical reasons. Trying different options and picking the best performing one is not luck, even if you can't explain why it's the best performing.
I believe you're correct in this.

An aircraft carrier's catapult isn't about getting an aircraft to altitude, but about getting it to flight speed, on the attenuated runway of a carrier deck.

(Landing and arrestor cables are the equivalent problem in reverse.)

That said, a divide-and-conquer approach to reducing overall aircraft energy use might go some way to making electrically-powered flight ... at least more feasible, for larger payloads / passenger capacities, and distances, than is now conceived.

This includes ground taxiing (jet engines are quite inefficient at low speeds) via tugs, some form of take-off assist, jettisonable battery packs (after take-off and climb phases), general lightweighting of the airframe itself (already a major area of both research and accomplishment for electric aircraft), and automation and removing requirements for onboard pilots and flight attendants (the more paying bodies the more effective the business proposition).

There's possibly some room for optimisation of engine and airframe efficiencies, routing, and traffic control, and possibly some gains by hybrid designs (fuel + battery with electric drives, say).

As a whole though I suspect electric aircraft have been oversold, and that aviation as a whole will see reduced availability and usage in future.
It's a music site.

Showing that the efficiency cores aren't fully utilized by the DAWs is appropriate for the audience. It shows to less specialized users that they'll need to examine their tools and their use of efficiency cores to determine if an upgrade is worthwhile
>Over almost a decade working for the same company there's one person I can consider a friend and I'm pretty sure I'll continue to talk once we are working at other places.

I've had to jump jobs every 3 years (not because I wanted to. just laid off) and I try to make at least 2-3 people I keep in contact with at every place. Made a few close friends but not at every job.

>Work is really the wrong place to be looking for friends.

Third place is dying, so it's becoming more and more of the only place to meet friends. It's not uncommon advice to try and find friends at the place you work. But like people anything, YMMV.

>Hopefully one has a life outside of work.

3 years of pandemic and looming recession don't help much with that, unfortunately. feel so bad for those that graduate in 2019, or worse, in college as the pandemic hit.
Those two are weird; they use to have a lot of out-there designs (boxers & rotaries respectively) but seem to have slowed down on the innovation since then.
It is so boring to discuss if you want to challenge the official history
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rurik
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Russia
RAG = RecSys
Agreed, I enjoy this one more than any other but only remembered it because I saw it here after seeing on Tildes a few days ago.
Substack adds new video tools to compete with Patreon and YouTube
Same here, but it's a big and complicated beast. I never lost data but then with hundreds of thousands of servers out there, somebody is bound to. Even if it's just due to bloody cosmic rays ;-)
I guess we just disagree. I find the distribution of posits very logical, and I can see your points, but I digress.
For all the automation effort, there's always something that has to be done by hand...

From the experimental paper:
"The XRD sample holders must be cleaned manually when the lab has depleted its stock"
But that wouldn't help query arbitrary JSON files which was the point.
They've lost track of why the old logo resonated.
Yes, Record3D is an option. The problem with it, you’ll never get large scale data in the format recorded by a custom app. If you use some standard app and format that is used by general public, there is a bit higher chance. For the iPhone with the depth sensor cinematic format from the standard camera app seem to contain depth/RGB/traj. Maybe a candidate format. Also it’s much easier to operate standard camera app.

In a longer term the stick is likely not needed too. Ideally you’d want a human demonstrating with regular human tool, like pliers to generalize.

This is a particular mount that I’ve used. https://www.amazon.com/Starboosa-Smartphone-Microscope-Unive...

It’s pretty solid, but it doesn’t open completely, so you need to disassemble and reassemble the stick to put it on (which is not that difficult).
OpenAI's board needs to say something
Related. Others?

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The Unix-Haters Handbook (1994) [pdf] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19416485 - March 2019 (157 comments)

The Unix-Haters Handbook (1994) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17614992 - July 2018 (1 comment)

The Unix-HATERS Handbook [pdf] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15403642 - Oct 2017 (2 comments)

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The Unix-Haters Handbook (1994) [pdf] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9976694 - July 2015 (5 comments)

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Anti-foreword to the Unix haters handbook by dmr - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3106271 - Oct 2011 (31 comments)

The Unix Haters Handbook - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1272975 - April 2010 (28 comments)

The Unix Hater’s Handbook, Reconsidered - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=319773 - Sept 2008 (5 comments)
Is this honest ignorance or cynical rhetoric? One can never tell these days.

Nobody thinks that the left's liberal policies are creeping fascism, but rather its leftist, illiberal ones.

The right is criticized for 'fascism' for merely existing--the same policies they've advocated for decades without such accusations are suddenly 'fascist'! It's a matter of linguistic manipulation--of bad faith--and nothing more. It's frankly sad to see folks on HN who fall for this gutter sophistry, which is clearly aimed at people who have no conception whatever of history, whether of American politics or of fascism.

The left, on the other hand, is criticized for 'fascism' because they increasingly adopt, encourage, and condone the political program and tactics of fascist authoritarians. Because wherever they have control of institutions, they seek to use them to pursue political goals. Corporate DEI, corporate ESG policies, banks freezing assets of protesters, social media banning conservatives, corporations pushing the trans agenda--these are all examples of a now-familiar phenomenon in which captured corporations push unpopular progressive political goals. The merging of state, party and corporate power for the furtherance of progressive goals is, of course, the very heart of fascism. But that's not all! The left increasingly embraces the streetwise, strong-arm tactics of the brownshirts; by encouraging/defending the anti-social harassment of conservative politicians, remaining silent as conservatives were silenced on campuses around the country, defending corporations who censored conservatives (the only point on which progressives aggressively defend corporate power at the expense of the consumer), aggravating racial tension for political gain, openly encouraging riots that caused billions in damage and took many lives, and so on. Remember, on the eve of the 2020 election, city centers around the country were boarded up in fear that the mobs of angry people, masked and dressed in black, would swoop down and resume their months-long campaign of wonton destruction. And it wasn't the right that they were afraid of, but the left--and for good reason!
What a bullshit article, they don’t even link to the tweets. Let me decide the severity of the misstep, don’t just tell me that it’s very dangerous, you couldn’t possibly handle seeing it.
A versatile circuit for emulating active biological dendrites
> cone

For physical tiles, clearly not as the curvature would be wrong. I'm sure there remain interesting questions, but it's not sufficiently obvious to me what projection makes sense that I'm able to get further into the problem.
I feel like if we’re serious about decarbonization it’s likely that the solution involves fewer people flying, particularly on overland routes.
Maybe learn to code?
On the other hand, that big pixel board thing they do once a year is a great idea. Some of these other things also led to fun community behaviours.
It needs the right balance. 95%+ of classes absolutely should not do this, but it's great for the handful of times when a class is complex, nuanced, and used prolifically.

Assuming good documentation, it just means a few extra minutes learning what some terms mean, and that's worth it in the long run in my experience.
hmm, are you sure about that? the whole reason I use the linuxserver offerings is that they all follow the same pattern of not using root privileges in the container and also factoring the uid and group id out as compose variables so you can match them to other containers if needed.
If it is in the terminal (command line to be specific since GUI is possible inside a terminal too) then it is already ready for automation, containerisation, running on a server.
Many companies already pay for Google Workspace so Google Drive is included.

And for personal use, it's much cheaper than Dropbox.

I pay R$6.99/month for 100GB of Google storage (most of which is used by Google Photos), while Dropbox costs R$10/month for 50GB of storage and doesn't integrate very well with Google Photos.
But that assumes that with the same inputs, the outputs are always the same. As far as I know this hasn't been proven for quantum mechanics. I'm just a layman but in my understanding you can only predict a probability of the result.

That's why with exactly the same inputs, the output can actually differ. Whether or not that's free will is another discussion, but the "we are a very complex yet in theory predicable computer" argument doesn't hold.
OpenEXR looks very interesting! Especially if OpenEXR can compress depth data nearly as efficiently as we can compress image data by making everything a video, it would be a game changer. For example, our RGB dataset is 814 MB right now while the RGB-D dataset is 77 GB, even though depth "just" adds one new channel to our data.
The main drawback to that suggestion is that aircraft really don't need more charge as they descend.

The high-energy flight segments are take-off and climb. If you're charging batteries on descent ... the only gain is that the next take-off/climb phase can use that recovered energy.

But from a mass and capacity standpoint, which seem to be the real challenges for electric flight, you're gaining very little. The ability to get rid of the battery you've spent on take-off/climb would be far more useful.
Carbon offset payments kind of smell like a sham to me. I don’t think it really solves much.
The fully-enabled 8p2e CPU config is the same as the one in M1 Max.
How do you like this setup?

I've been thinking of moving from docker-compose to podman, specifically using the [podman-play-kube](https://docs.podman.io/en/v4.2/markdown/podman-play-kube.1.h...) but haven't gotten around to it.

I like Podman has a lot to offer for self-hosters but it isn't popular (yet?)
Very nice in this regard is gron, too. It simply flattens any json into lines of key value format, making it compatible with grep and other simple stream operations.

https://github.com/tomnomnom/gron
V8 Killer: Simplifying Electron/V8 VM Injection
Of course in this case there's no FFI involved - the open function is built-in. It's as pure-Python as it can get.
Injecting Electron without compromising integrity is typically challenging, but this project offers a new approach.
There are two dedicated mobile apps for Paperless:
- https://github.com/paulgessinger/swift-paperless (iOS only, nicer interface)
- https://github.com/bauerj/paperless_app (iOS and Android, built in scanner)

I use them in combination with Tailscale, both can be used to rename documents and edit tags.
The premise is that any time you say "Python [...] faster than Rust [...]" you get page views even if it's not true. People have noticed after the last few dozen times something like this was posted.
It'll depend on your requirements. Keep in mind that Nextcloud is the largest on-prem collab platform out there, so more users means more complaints... It is used in huge enterprise and government installations so it can definitely work, but it needs a decent setup. For a small company, use the Nextcloud AIO container I would say. For a big one, get Nextcloud Enterprise (starts at 100 seats) to make sure you get any issues addressed quickly.
>X Windows is the Israel-Palestine of graphical user interfaces: a tragedy of political compromises, entangled alliances, marketing hype, and just plain greed. X Windows is to memory as Donald Trump was to money.

FTFY
I'll assume you mean govt (public) debt to GDP ratio not private debt to GDP. I'm not sure if private debt to GDP has increased or not since 2008. I would guess it has if mortgages are counted.

The problem with QE is it drove up the price of land/housing as I think a lot of it ended up as mortgage loans. Rents rise with land price increases which affects businesses. It would've been better if the QE had gone to business loans not mortgages. But home ownership trumps more businesses when it comes to getting votes so no govt official is going to make a stink if too many loans go out to land asset acquisition vs creating small businesses.
Fun with Postgres Text File Mazes, Charts, and Routes
The Case for a New Social Platform
> Considering how most of the software we run is open source, I don't think legacy support is that important

At the bottom of the open software pyramid are drivers, and they are often closed-source. Qualcomm is a major contributor to a lot of Android devices having short support periods. Even though Android is open source, Qualcomm's drivers are not, and Qualcomm would rather have consumers buy devices with the latest snapdragon than keep using an upgraded device from 5 years ago.
There is no One True Definition™, but I think most people understand "microservices" as "an application where splitting the functionality up in small services is core of the architecture", or something along those lines.

"We split off 2 things in to small services because it made sense" is rather different. I mean, I don't really care if you call this 'microservices" I guess, but it is different, right?
It's like Dobby from Harry Potter!
For sure. Though pre-covid, I wouldn't say many of these companies (at least perception wise) thought of themselves in those terms. They were perceived as the cool-hip tech companies that constantly disrupt industries... Now that veil has lifted.
The Golang loong64 linux build is all "green":
https://build.golang.org/
Yeah, it's hard for me an outside to understand how drugs get into Fed Penitentiaries, other than corruption, but there must be more than simple corruption/bribery going on.
Lidocaine is cheap, FDA-approved, well-understood, and potentially well-tolerated as a therapy for this type of cancer.

When one of the alternatives is traditional chemotherapy, finding anything safer and more pleasant is an achievement.

I have no idea if this will be eventually be used widely in clinical practice, though.
Not once a year, it was supposed to be a one off in 2017, and they did it again in 2022 and 2023.