skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> So not so well documented.

You're criticizing a rule of thumb, here. Sure, the rule of thumb isn't perfect … but it also never claimed to be.

But from that, you're drawing the illogical conclusion of "spelling isn't documented", which … the aforementioned rule has no logical connection to.

Plenty of dictionaries exists, good ones, ones that even document non-standard spellings or local variants.

> I think you will find that actual linguistic scholars error twords (sic) descriptivism (sic) vs prescription.

I'll highlight the irony, but this is besides the point, but doubly so when teaching someone how to write. You start with the prescribed spellings, and once the skill is mastered, or the language evolves, then either they know when to break the rules, or the new spelling is simply trending towards prescribed.

… it's the same for a lot of pursuits: in dance, we teach footwork first. Later, you learn when to bend the rules, and when to outright break them. I'd say it's the same in music, too.

> Only the less informed population of lay people stick to the prescription model as a proxy for intellectual ability.

This really isn't what upthread is trying to say, at all. If I had to rephrase it, they're suggesting that, when you teach spelling, some "get it", some don't, even repeatedly, and questioning whether there is some tacit knowledge that the first group has formed that the latter is struggling with.

I taught CS, and I'd say there is a similar pattern amongst students there. Some intuitively seem to get it — particularly, once given the rules for syntax, ifs, while, etc., how to synthesis new programs to solve until-then unseen problems. Yet other students struggle with this. (The closest I've come is "the former have a decent rule system/model in their heads, and the latter are just trying to bum by on heuristics.)
It's not. Every instant of your life you're making choices that lock you out of opportunities. To claim that you're able to measure the opportunity cost of your current path is to claim that you're able to know the path that would have led to the greatest reward and measure that reward. At best you could say that in hindsight a previous choice you made was suboptimal.
They're not making a living from that comment, and they are worried that authors will not be able to make a living from their writings.

Taking a big step back, I guess that question is: Do we value people who write enough that we want some full time writers? We can then structure our society accordingly.
Tldr: the author failed to read the wiki article explaining what the power symbols mean
What kind of sales growth looked good to shareholders at the time*
I don't consider playing video games time wasting. If they were, then watching movies is time wasting, enjoying art is time wasting, playing board games or sports with friends is time wasting.

Certainly, an addiction to gaming is bad, as is playing games too much to the detriment of the rest of your life. Ultimately, everyone should do what they find enjoyable in the moment that they will simultaneously not regret later in life. Totally understand if video games fall under that category for you, but I dispute them as "time wasting" as a general statement.
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I've wondered if it's a good/awful idea to use the widely used food irradiation tech [1] on manure to kill the microorganisms that can cause disease, while keeping the bioavailable nutrients intact, just like how radiation kills bacteria in food without affecting its taste.

It's also very low energy as, unlike electro-shocking, the radiation sources are "always on".

[1] https://www.cdc.gov/foodsafety/communication/food-irradiatio...
Sorry for my ignorance but is not having a home charger a deal breaker for most people? I understand apartment buildings that it can be an issue, but for a private residence is it an issue?
We use a custom trigger to build an event log in Postgres. We actually found it more straightforward to use this approach than to use the WAL packages we considered.

If you're curious, you can read more about our approach to it and the actual SQL we use here: https://docs.usebracket.com/streaming#postgres
I imagine there's a handful of solid reasons for this.

- Greenfield tech is simpler, and more stable. There's only 1 or 2 CPEs, a handful of distribution gear types, and a much smaller network. As a result, the support cost is much cheaper, more stable, and less prone to failure from equipment damage. These networks aren't traversing over 40, 50, 60 year old coax or 80, 90, 100 year old copper, it's fiber all the way down.

- Profit as a motive for the ISP is purely to pay for the costs of the service. Wages, equipment, investment in the service. Without a need to spread dividends to investors, and those investors leading a board to shift the motive of the service provider to generate revenue as a first priority, pricing priorities can be much more simple. This also mitigates choices to stay on existing infrastructure to squeeze more money purely for the purposes of paying more dividends. Those choices will happen, but they should be to buy time for the next upgrade that is planned.

- Manufactured monopolies by virtue of connection agreements (Cable provider X is allowed to have a monopoly as a service provider for a municipality so long as they provide service to N% users) have turned out to be a poor incentive to provide up to date, quality, affordable service as the service matures. New fiber providers, whether muni or independent, seem to be taking a much more sustainable approach to buildout and growth. As a result, because they are capturing the market by virtue of a better product, at a better price, whenever these ISPs onboard a new neighborhood, they have to do what they do well to retain the subscriber base, because the alternatives may not be as good, but they're not awful.
> No need to sealion.

I'm lost. What do seals have to do with this? Is this a typo, or a turn of phrase I've never seen?
Based on the number of replies you've made that have been downvoted, I think maybe as a child you are one of those people that would have benefitted from a mechanical turk guiding you how to behave.

Maybe you should reflect on the abuses some humans have received from other humans. For example like your^H their own parents and teachers?

Not all of us have had great lives. People that have been abused tend to abuse others unless someone/something breaks that cycle (and it's almost never about pulling up your own bootstraps).
I'm afraid I don't understand your comment, nor what you mean by epistemic soundness, but I'm pretty sure HN has no policy against it.
Youtube-dl still functions quite well. You can even grab the CLI here: https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl

And occasionally you can find one of their TLDs just by doing a search on DDG or Brave.
This war didn’t start on September 7th. It’s been going on longer than any of us have been alive.

The atrocities on both sides are horrible, and I feel sorry for the civilians on both sides who are just trying to live their lives. Unfortunately the Israeli government has all the power here, and they have been completely unable to find a solution over, now, decades.
The blockade of Gaza and expanding settlements in the West Bank are just continually stirring the pot. That government, and Hamas, both have to go.
It's not a full course, but this set of principles influenced my approach to design:

https://anthonyhobday.com/sideprojects/saferules/

EDIT: To be clear, not the author. Just found this on HN at some point
So, one writes a book to make a living?

You made that comment to make ends meet?

It is only "for free" if it has any value.

This is the gift economy, where reciprocity is just a special (restricted) case of it.
The former Israeli ambassador in Italy has been on Italian TV saying that the destruction of Gaza is their goal.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=luz1jnI6OIk (video in Italian).

So I believe that civilian casualties are intentional, and all the talk of safe areas (with no clear indication of what these areas are) is just a sham.
That's such a very niche topic to teach. What usecases?
Walled gardens make it very difficult to move.

It's like living in a place where solar panels are illegal to install and you're suggesting to move house. How about we remove silly restrictions?
That explains what happened in 50s and 60s. Leveling Gaza in 2023 doesn't fall in that category, Hamas never had the power to do anything about Israel's existence as a state.
> Yeah, OpenStack is very much not a great competitor. If you can afford an expert to set it up for you, great!

If you know (say) Ubuntu and Ansible, then there's pretty good automation with openstack-ansible and kolla-ansible. There are a number of moving parts, but an intermediate-level Linux sysadmin can get things going without too much difficulty. There are vendor-provided solutions (e.g., from RH) as well if you don't want to do a fully DIY, or want commercial support.

* https://www.openstack.org/marketplace/distros/

At a previous job we had a team of 4-5, and 1.5 FTEs split their time between our HPC cluster and our OpenStack cluster (20+ hypervisors, ~10 Ceph servers; >350 VMs/instances).
Possible spoilers below (but probably not if you've seen the first movie or read any of the books)

I enjoyed the first movie, but they fucked with things they shouldn't have. Dune's technology was cleverly laid out to create a kind of scifi fantasy world of swords and wizards. The 100% effective shields could ONLY be penetrated by a skilled knife wielder, creating a scifi world of knights. The bene Gesserit served the role of mystic and wizard, which the Kwisatz Haderach could finally unify.

It offers a very in your face style combat, which sets up the Dune Fremen as the strongest force in the galaxy. However, the movie effectively stripped the value of personal shields: they are penetrated by dart guns as well as conventional explosives. This effectively nullifies the whole advantage the Fremen would give. AFAICT they did so in order to have more ships and explosions.

(There's also the original shield+lasgun=nuclear-detonation, which I always found absurd since it would be trivial to have a remote controlled lasgun demolish any target. If they had nerfed anything I would have nerfed the lasgun, not the shield)
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In no jurisdiction, it was the motto behind abandonware movement.

All of laws, this one, IP laws, everything concerning software is far too simplistic.

Tho if you want to dance in the grey zone, universally I think it's worthless for a company to sue you when they can claim no damages. This is why old software piracy sites exist by a shovel. If site owner and hosting doesn't care about cease and desist letters and just routes them to spam, the lawyers sending them know they cannot actually mount a case. Else they have to explain how $0 of projected damages is worth court's time.
NIO are doing battery swaps: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hNZy603as5w
Right, "up to 20%", whereas the threshold for "barely eruptible" is in the 50% range, according to this article: https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.1617105113 Unless the rules are way different for supereruptions, which I guess we have to consider, but probably not 30% different.
Where I live (admittedly not representative of the entire country) I see a ton of non-tesla EVs, but they are all compact SUVs like the mach-e, vw id4, hyundai etc. Not many trucks other than that Rivian
The problem is it isn't "Android baseband", it doesn't run on the CPU that Android does at al. Instead, an entire second whole computer (not even a "microcontroller", in many cases they are just as powerful per-core as your real CPU) that runs a closed source realtime OS that Google (et al.) has zero visibility into.

Some phones straight up admit the baseband is actively hostile and only communicates with it via serial (which leads to poor performance, but a secure phone). Some phones, such as any using a vanilla Qualcomm Snapdragon setup of any generation simply don't care: the baseband firmware has more holes than a slice of swiss, and the IOMMU refuses to allow the OS to restrict the baseband processor's view into system RAM.

This is a known attack vector used by state sponsored actors, including the US breaking into the phones of so-called "drug lords" to ease drop on them live from their own phones , without a call being active.

Until basebands are mandated to be FOSS for security and safety reasons, Google is just moving the chairs around on the deck of a sinking ship.
Users usually flag them, but yes, moderators often downweight them too—and then there are times that we turn off the flags.

The answer to your question goes like this: (1) some stories with political overlap are on topic (see https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so... (2) we try to be careful about which those are, so the site doesn't go down in flames; (3) I think it follows from HN's core principle (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...) that we have to allow at least some discussion of this topic—to suppress it altogether would contradict the intended spirit of HN; and (4) I've explained (or tried to) the sense in which this particular story can be on topic for HN, in my other comments in this thread.

If you or anyone reads that material and still have a question that isn't answered there, I can take a crack at it. Just please understand that the answer may or may not be satisfying, because even if we agree on the principles, different people interpret and draw the lines differently. The important thing for HN moderation is the principles, though, not the individual calls.
Meta observation: lots of YC companies basically build their startups around some workload (e.g. salesforce <-> db) and sell some managed service around it. This game is quite difficult to scale and sell to enterprise. But it's understandable that many technical founders are most familiar with these types of "painpoints" and thus have their startup thesis around them.
That law was already fixed in Portland (and the rest of Oregon). Test strips are still classified as paraphernalia, but there’s a carve out making them legal now.

https://olis.oregonlegislature.gov/liz/2023R1/Measures/Analy...
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The place I've just joined has an extremely big problem with this. There's a lot of documentation, but it all relies on an immense amount of background knowledge to be useful. It's difficult to strike a balance between excessive detail in docs versus wide readership, but I'm inclined to prefer the former as it helps alleviate situations like this.
A bit, but in that case the buffer overflow is arguably still "in C" in a way that it isn't in my example.

As I said, you won't write a buffer overflow in rust, but unpacking why can be interesting and it doesn't end at "bounds checks".
I was going to ignore this as a troll comment because computer memory has its antecedents in human memory but the commenter is right - the combination of memory and cache to talk about human memory seems misleading.
Hope you're looking for good-faith discussion here. I'll assume that you're looking for a response where someone has taken the time to read through your previous messages and also the linked ChatGPT interaction logs.

What you've shown is actually a great example of the what folks mean that LLMs lack any sort of understanding. They're fundamentally predict-the-next-token machines; they regurgitate and mix parts of their training data in order to satisfy the token prediction loss function they were trained with.

In the linked example you provided, *you* are the one that needs to provide the understanding. It's a rather lengthly back-and-forth to get that code into a somewhat useable state. Importantly, if you didn't tell it to fix things (sqlite connections over threads, etc.), it would have failed.

And while it's concurrent, it's using threads, so it's not going to be doing any work in parallel. The example you have mixes some IO and compute-bound looking operations.

So, if your need was to refactor your original code to _actually be fast_, ChatGPT demonstrated it doesn't understand nearly enough to actually make this happen. This thread conversation got started around correcting the misnomer that an LLM would actually ever be able to possess enough knowledge to do actually valuable, complex refactoring and programming.

While I believe that LLMs can be good tools for a variety of usecases, they have to be used in short bursts. Since their output is fundamentally unreliable, someone always has to read -- then comprehend -- its output. Giving it too much context and then prompting it in such a way to align its next token prediction with a complex outcome is a highly variable and unstable process. If it outputs millions of tokens, how is someone going to actually review all of this?

In my experience using ChatGPT, GPT4, and a few other LLMs, I've found that it's pretty good at coming up with little bits to jog one's own thinking and problem solving. But doing an actual complex task with lots of nuance and semantics-to-be-understood outright? The technology is not quite there yet.
This looks like a perfect class action case. There's really no physical harm or financial harm to the users, but a class action might be the only way for it to hurt. But IANAL, and probably have it all wrong in my head???
At the time, "real workstations" were not Intel based and Jobs wanted his machine to be considered such. My employer at the time had excellent Sun contacts - we were told the SparcsStation effort was strongly driven by rumors of what Jobs was planning. It was quite a letdown for Sun that when NeXT was revealed, it was so technologically blah (don't get me started on Jobs' "mainframe on a chip" == DMA controller) vs the quite amazing SparcStation, which was truly revolutionary in price/performance in its market.
Zionism has at the start and to this day major support from Christian institutions as well
It didn't need to be 100% defensive, it can be a calculated deterrent.
Reading non-fiction, writing open-source software, taking continuing education classes at my local university, learning foreign languages, self-study, volunteering, travel.
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OpenSuse
They scaled the production for the $40,000 truck they promised, but only gave the dealers the $58,000 or up models to sell. If you could buy a Lightning for $32,500 after federal tax credit they wouldn't be able to keep them on the lot. But that inital pent up demand was very high so they jacked the price way up to try to capture more money, and now they can't drop it back to Earth to reinvigorate the demand. Also, they're losing money on every truck they sell so dropping the price is undoubtedly distasteful to management, even though everyone knows that volume is how you make money.
A theory about this that may also affect other older solid software: the assumptions made on where to optimally "split" a problem for multi-threading/processing has likely changed over time.

It wasn't that long ago that reading, processing, and rendering the contents of a single image took a noticeable amount of time. But both hardware and software techniques have gotten significantly faster. What may have made sense many years ago (lots of workers on a frame) may not matter today when a single worker can process a frame or a group of frames more efficiently than the overhead of spinning up a bunch of workers to do the same task.

But where to move that split now? Ultra-low-end CPUs now ship with multiple cores and you can get over 100 easily on high-end systems, system RAM is faster than ever, interconnect moves almost a TB/sec on consumer hardware, GPUs are in everything, and SSDs are now faster than the RAM I grew up with (at least on continuous transfer). Basically the systems of today are entirely different beasts to the ones commonly on the market when FFmpeg was created.

This is tremendous work that requires lots of rethinking about how the workload needs to be defined, scheduled, distributed, tracked, and merged back into a final output. Kudos to the team for being willing to take it on. FFmpeg is one of those "pinnacle of open source" infrastructure components that civilizations are built from.
I'm guessing the GP's scheduled jobs are running within Salesforce, probably Apex. I'd note that I've seen inconsistent async processing delays even in EE and UE clients. First of all, I'm pretty sure everyone is on shared infrastructure, and second, the delay is at least in part relative to the amount of recent processing.
Just go and intern at any startup that takes you. That's how you will learn the most.
They don't blindly repost Israeli propaganda.
This might be a shorter timeline to destroy a company than a Musk.
Hah, these magic-heater ads seems to be more common than I thought.
In another comment in this thread, I just linked to a different one (in German):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WorrpfjAYdc

Yours is much more interesting though.

Here's Big Clive doing a teardown on the device in your video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sPnLnk35XsY
Huge HIPPA violation as well.
Not the OP but Netanyahu is living on borrowed time — he won't be replaced in the middle of the war, but even Likud is having private talks about who replaces him once it's over. I would give very high probability that he is replaced well before his term is up.
They have been firing rockets for decades.
They killed 28 people over 20 years with 20k+ rockets[1]. Israel killed 17 000 people in two months.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palestinian_rocket_attacks_on_...
Yes, but technically sophisticated entities can also use methods that require less effort.

https://xkcd.com/538/
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> From the MacRumors article:
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> > For especially sensitive actions, including changing the password of the Apple ID account associated with the iPhone, the feature adds a security delay on top of biometric authentication. [...] However, Apple said there will be no delay when the iPhone is in familiar locations, such as at home or work.
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> It's fascinating how the device is using location as another security factor.

Another vector for law enforcement or state actors to request private information. We will see warrants for all users who have these coordinates near their "familiar location"
Can't you just go to system preferences and privacy and security and then scroll all the way to the bottom and then click open anyway or something like that?
I almost think it's impossible to enjoy the movie at all without having read the book. The movie was more like visual candy for a universe similar to the book.
Claiming that "All reports" are saying this does not make it less of a conspiracy theory.
None of that changes the fact that you need competition.
I have neighbors just run extension cords from their front door or window across the sidewalk and plug into their car on the street.
I agree (or at least see the argument) if it's like the original creator who decided they want to keep their hands on the work (or maybe like if a company wants to withdraw one edition of a book to sell a new edition), but in cases where works are orphaned, or the rights are in limbo, or a huge corporation merges with another huge corporation and permanently deletes creators' works for a tax break, I don't think there's any real argument.

If I Johnny writer am like "Ok when I was 15 I thought that many consecutive slurs was funny, but now the alt-right is rallying around what was supposed to be satire, so I want it off the market" that's kind of reasonable. If James Writerson has classics that are kind of out of fashion and got converted to ebooks by Big Publisher™ which was then bought by Bigger Publisher™ who decides it's not worth the money to keep the classics on the market (but also refuses to release them back to the estate of James Writerson or to the general public), that's less reasonable.
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