skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
False. And wrong.

Read: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consistency_(database_system...

We are talking about the word consistency. Which is most often used in the context of databases. Eventual consistency is here:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eventual_consistency

It refers to the same concept and technically and colloquially its referring to databases or things similar to databases. If it didn't then every system on the face of the earth is eventually consistent because of browsers and caches and timing. Every browser eventually presents an outdated view if it's not refreshed. If that's the case what is the point of the word? The word is obviously used for categorization.

Thus The scope is usually and colloquially a database systems or some combination of services that represent a source of truth.

If you read further into the article you cited you will encounter this:

"In order to ensure replica convergence, a system must reconcile differences between multiple copies of distributed data. This consists of two part..."

Literally the article assumes we are talking about distributed systems where replicas can exist.

Is a cache a replica? Is a browser a replica? No. The scope is obviously the source of truth at the resolution where you can have replicas aka: two or more sources of truth.
Whoever hired and oversees the consultant is accountable for their work.

Who do people point at when the consultant drops the ball on their responsibility? The person overseeing the consultant. Meaning the person overseeing is ultimately accountable even if they aren’t doing the work.

These nuances are important in project management.
> I hope they haven’t started down the slow and painful process of enshittification by following vague, ill-defined industry trends!

Has anyone else found themselves wondering if GitHub switched to a different web framework?

I feel like they moved further down the client-side rendering rabbit hole recently. Their UI feels increasingly janky to me. Several times a day I get a view of completely un-styled HTML that eventually organizes itself into the appropriate presentation.

For many scenarios, the GH web UI used to be preferable over navigating through visual studio because of how responsive it was. Now, I find the exact opposite to be true. I avoid the GH web UI as much as possible. VS2022 isn't great, but at least it's not implemented using react on top of some bullshit chrome wrapper.
> The researchers found that individuals who met their spouses online were generally younger and had more dating experience prior to marriage than those who met offline. Interestingly, online-origin marriages were found to be more recent and more likely to be same-sex or interracial.

Sounds like they need to correct these biases in their sample if they want to draw conclusions about online-origin vs offline-origin marriage quality.
So you’re saying sovereign immunity is good because that’s how the legislation was created. Since it wasn’t designed to deal with emergency, it’s okay to not update the position on sovereign immunity?
Title should read: Paramedics are rarely charged if someone they’re treating dies. The Elijah McClain trial is testing that.

Determined to be too long, thus the title.
> What about gun ownership (oh thats the nerve), its easy to assume things will be better when guns are banned, but what is the actual game theory in the balance of power between a people and their government when the people are stripped of their ability to defend themselves from an oppressive government?

While this has surface appeal, this theory of "gun ownership as bulwark against oppression" falls apart when you examine both how the US still manages to exert power over its populace and how democracies where guns are much harder to get continue to function just fine.
My team was product managed by a gutless PM who essentially made senior devs & tech leads do all the legwork.

Requirements gathering, mean user upset about a bug, weekly status call, need to break some bad news re: priorities? - send a senior dev or tech lead. Skipped most of the agile ceremonies too, busy guy. Never wrote or edited a JIRA ticket, that was for tech org to manage. He PMd 2 other tech teams the same way.

Tech leads/senior devs knew our PM was bad news from his first week but he outlived all of us until finally getting hit with a RIF after 4 years.

Management worshipping at the throne of agile become really enthralled with these guys and can derail an org for years. In theory a PMs stakeholders are the users, but in practice it is buffing the egos of the senior management that hired them. Can become a self reinforcing closed loop between senior management / agile consultants / PMs.
The worry there would have to be from a PDF requiring some secure signing key in Adobe Reader or something like that.

Otherwise you can always decrypt/unlock a PDF using open source software.
Does it matter? Hasbro probably has growth targets. They may have concluded that price hikes for legacy content matching their growth targets were unlikely to be feasible.
This post bothered me.

Perhaps I'm being too nitpicky, and there's nothing inherently wrong with their final choices, but their criticisms of the other systems alongside their reasons for choosing what they did are contradictory; overall the article was internally inconsistent.

Gitlab was dismissed for the SaaS being only open-core, despite opting for self-hosting in the end. Codeberg was dismissed for having limited CI, but in the end they went for a separate standalone CI anyway (& almost the same platform as Codeberg, just with the added overhead of self-hosting).
Yeah you can call yourself an engineer in normal conversation.

The line is testifying in open court or advertising or performing engineering as a service where the state engineering boards might get involved.
When trying to view this specific episode from Canada (without VPN) I get:

> Video unavailable The uploader has not made this video available in your country

Which seems especially odd considering there's a segment regarding the rail disaster in Lac-Megantic, Quebec.
Well, why wouldn't they sell (license) the rights to make Transformers films (which as far as I know is just extending their existing contract with Paramount)?

They still own the underlying IP[^1], so as long as the contract is a decent one, Paramount has to deal with the actual making/distributing the film, and Hasbro just gets the money, and a toy line off the back of the film. Feels like an easier set up than taking the risk on movie-making yourself (which they did attempt with eOne for other properties, but seemingly have decided that it's probably not a good deal with them)

[1] yes, yes, it's a bit more complicated with Takara in the mix too, but you can essentially view it as a Hasbro-owned property
Cliven Bundy still walks free as far as I know, which I personally find mind-boggling, but there is precedence.
This is such a bad headline. The story is mostly about an author posting fraudulent reviews to promote her own work.
See, the thing is that you are not thinking of each companies incentives. Google makes money out of the web. Apple and Microsoft make money from people using their operating system. They don't want web standards to be more powerful and to replace native apps.

And the market share doesn't matter, cause for iOS users, 100% of them use Safari, and you are not allowed to build a competing browser for it. This freezes web standard development, since it is a major player in the space the is literally against improvement in the space.
In addition to the other comments: you could use the zfs-dkms package which builds it from source on every update
In that specific circumstance because of politics, it was added retroactively.
That's why you just tell the Big Lie so much it becomes the majority of the training data.
Karpathy: A from-scratch tour of Bitcoin in Python (2021)
I would say it’s probably a combination of two things:

Touchscreen controls are bad, and there not much that can be done about it. A flat screen just isn’t very good for action games.

If you are trying to make a profit it makes a lot more sense to just make a skinner box to sell microtransactions. This is starting to become the case with a lot of console and PC games too. A lot of FPS games don’t even come with a single player campaign anymore. Making a complete game and selling it as a complete product isn’t nearly as profitable as selling microtransaction.
To me this is just one in a continue set of examples of GR's lack of care for their platform. The issues mentioned that lead to and encourage this behaviour have existed for well over a decade. Their solution is to make it a userland issue.
There is a bitcoin that is useable (and used) as a currency, which has maintained value, and fast transaction speeds. But maximalists don't want to read of it…
I don't care if the author shares their opinions, but I'm free to share mine as well, and I agreed with the parent comment at the time it was downvoted.

I've just been noticing a trend of people, like the article author, who are quick to dismiss things for reasons that are inconsistent and dogmatic. Why be so close minded? I think it's okay to be dismissive of the dismissive. Which, I didn't really dismiss him did I? I read his entire article.
Yeah, Chimera OS should have been more careful before choosing their name.

https://github.com/ChimeraOS/chimeraos/issues/593

I guess the Chimera OS maintainer was polite about it, and Chimera Linux was pretty under the radar for a while.

The confusion is indeed unfortunate.
PCA does not make sense after one hot encoding
It wouldn’t, long term IMO. The parties would end up roughly with similar overall proportions. Their positions would change. Democrats, with greater electoral power, will focus on internal competition for who is more ideologically pure & thus experience a leftward shift, to the point of probable over-reach (while Republicans, losing a lot of their in-built electoral advantage, will focus more on electability and thus will moderate, making them more palatable for marginal/independent voters), which is the mechanism for restoring the balance of power.
I’ve worked with a number of Fortune 500 companies and seen many examples of a disfuncional culture. I’ve seen in those places that PMs solve most problems with the one tool at their disposal: meetings. Incentives for promotions are such that the bigger your meeting the more important you are. I’ve been in hi dress of hours of cross functions team meeting where 1-2 people did any work, and usually the PM talked the whole time, while 10-20ppl are on mute and only sign off at the end to show they indeed exist. The end result see teams of dejected engineers that don’t have time for actual technical work, and are asked to give estimates or commitments on the spot without any research or even understanding of the code. I’ve seen PMs reject technical designs because they didn’t like the number or “points”, and engineers just had to reformat the same ideas into different “tickets” to satisfy some inscrutable PM aesthetics. Entire projects delayed and derailed because of lack of understanding and pointless status signaling rituals. On the other hand I’ve worked with brilliant PM who protected the team from such nonsense and helped them stay focused on the right goal. These people are invaluable as much as the others are detrimental.
Try monsterwriter. It supports academic features (footnotes, cross-references, citations, captions...) and it supports export to HTML, LaTeX, PDF
well, sorta, since caches are just sram+tag logic. you can parallelize tables, so that each remains fast, but it costs you power/heat. the decoder inherent to sram is what introduces the size-speed tradeoff.
I think that still counts as hard-wired, just a general hard-wiring! Whatever you call it, it's certainly not as well known as it should be in the word2vec discourse.
> You very often also need some backchannel from the printer, e.g. for toner levels

Fine. That runs in a separate sandbox with access to the printer and the ability to display a UI. No other privileges.

> Printer manufacturers also don't think like this.

This is irrelevant. The whole article is about MS forcing a certain model on printer manufacturers.
Then you dig up a billion for training and probably a few more billion for clean training data.

You're kinda saying if you hire Bob's Handyman Service you should be able to tell him to break down the neighbors door and cart out the contents of their house.
I'm still unhappy about the API discontinuation which was wrapped in a "this is better for you" announcement.
Re-read the article, or at least the second paragraph. They (and some buddies or sock puppet accounts) were low-ranking other authors’ books, specifically targeting authors of color.

They’ve admitted this publicly. https://amp.theguardian.com/books/2023/dec/13/cait-corrain-p...

> “I boosted the rating of my book, bombed the ratings of several fellow debut authors, and left reviews that ranged from kind of mean to downright abusive,” she tweeted.
It raises the question of whether these old guild systems and professional bodies provide value in exchange for governance anymore. Medical doctors have created a monopoly on a lot of things we can train children to do, and drug scheduling for basic treatments means people are using up artificially scarce appointments just to get perscriptions for things they can do themselves in their homes.

In engineering, it's romantic to say that professional engineers have accountability, but CAD software, limited liability corporations and E&O insurance policies have replaced the meaning of that almost entirely. Sure, we all like our bridges built by people with integrity, but we know that's not necessarily the case either.

In recent years, they have become a para-governance layer used to blackmail members into political alignment and compliance to radical edicts, such as those in psychology and medicine.

The backstory on this guy for non-Canadians is that he was a political candidate for a controversial party, and it's pretty clear this case was brought as part of an oppo research ploy to discredit him, which is fairly consistent with how these professional bodies are used these days.
My org tried this, but being in financial services no one thought through this problem - our customers are much better paid than any PM we could hire.

That is to say, the only customer we could convert to a PM was one who was fundamentally bad enough at his existing client side job that he was OK capping his income at 25-50% of his potential.
I agree, but it's a hard balance to strike and depends on the writer's target audience. RACI is a pretty common acronym for anyone doing project management professionally. I'd not define REST, HTTP, etc; in an engineering doc.
Sounds more like a chat bot answer, TBH. It misses the point of the question in a much too subtle way.
My point was you don't seem to believe that government is part of a functioning society.
> the US still manages to exert power over its populace

exert power != oppression
was it MonsterWriter?
It's probably the best way to get into game development if you already have some programming experience (LOVE 2D if you're inexperienced). I tried it a while back but when I did the documentation left much to be desired.
They almost certainly do. However most captchas allow an alternative solving method. On top of that, you'd have to find a lawyer willing to take the case.
I use Haxe personally and professionally, and I love it. My use case is slightly different though, I work in R&D, so the emphasis isn't on production code but on getting a wide-ranging set of proof-of-concepts built quickly. For example, my current project required that we run the same logic in a Java service, Java client, Python client, and (coming soon) Javascript and C++ clients. Haxe worked great for getting that infrastructure up and running quickly in all of those locations so that production teams could start experimenting. I find that Haxe is great for that use case, I've got a core set of utiltiy libraries that I've been using for about a decade now that run in Java, Python, C++, and Javascript, so for a given new project I've already got a good set of code that I can use.

I've also written Maven plugins - and later when I ditched Maven, Bazel rules - to incorporate Haxe projects into our build systems that work pretty well. This makes it pretty seamless to incorporate say a Haxe built Java library into a project, and the same utilities in Javascript - including debugging in Eclipse or the browser.

It's not all sunshine though, I find that Haxe-compiled Python code tends to be underperformant and needs a lot of love to become as performant as, for example, the equivalent Java code. And it is true that the community is smaller, so it can be hard sometimes to get answers to questions. But it's still fun to write and work with, and I definitely see myself continuing to use it in the future.
or zettlr
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newport_sex_scandal?wprov=sfti...

It was basically that episode of South Park where Butters becomes a pimp and it almost cost FDR his career.
The Pros and Cons of Using React Today
arguably, the current race is down to TSMC making the right decision on hi-NA EUV (ie, to run with low-NA). it's not as if Intel couldn't have acquired EUV, they just chose not to.
I tried to find more information about this and I only saw a location where the drive-thru was automated. I think it would be very difficult for McDonalds to automate the food preparation and assembly steps, given the current state of the art in robotic manipulation.
This guy wasted a lot of time and money just to prove to himself that the legal system is unfair and stupid. I have to wonder whether it was worth it.
They’re not saying that the author can’t post whatever they want on their blog.

They’re saying that we, as a community, should not elevate unsubstantiated writing that comes across as “I don’t truly understand these things or have deep experience, but this is what everyone else says on every other blog post or comment, and I’m parroting it”.

I would add on to it that I feel there’s sometimes a real thing in these discussions where reviews like these often come from people just tinkering and looking for the next thing to mindlessly experiment with. It’s not always representative of real world trade offs.

(I say all this as someone who self hosts a Gitea instance)
I guess I don’t mind using edge to install firefox or safari on os x. You got me.
There was a company in Boulder that was using it, at least a little, as recently as 2019.
https://www.dbvis.com/thetable/postgresql-jsonpath/

https://github.com/obartunov/sqljsondoc/blob/master/jsonpath...
Dodge Tomahawk
Becoming a go-to person gets you promoted
It may be "free money" as you frame it. But a cash stream that provides n dollars per year forever can be valued in today's dollars, assuming a discount rate of d, at n / (1-d). So it's reasonable to prefer cash now to revenue forever, at that exchange rate, depending on your corporate interests.

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/p/present-value-annuity.a...
I live in a major metropolitan hub, have a degree, and spend time tailoring applications proportionally to my interest in the position. I look mostly at large companies and government agencies, especially if I get word they’re currently hiring a lot.
LLM Arena. Mistral-small best open model. Gemini Pro beaten by 2 open models
I've always seen risk management as essential to project management, not a separate concept. It's a way to manage expectations. The same work and results will get you a very different outcome if you managed risk and expectations from the start.
> Overall, if you have a product management organisation, you're doing it wrong.

Agreed, the best (and most successful) products I've worked on have all had product ownership by actual implementers (engineers, designers, customer success, etc). I loved being on the support rotation as an engineer because it closed the gap of abstraction between my work and the real humans who were using it every second.

Very rarely, I have worked with PMs who add net positive value, and in every case they would have made okay engineers as well.
apolloinrealtime is a fantastic resource.

However, it only details the MOCR and some SSRs -- it doesn't reveal much about the hundreds of engineers around the country that were called in for more confusing problems.
Building Dreams: The Art of Startup Success – Part I
I ended up using it to play with development around 2013 for writing an algorithm that could be cross compiled to "any programming language" [1]. Really think about Haxe often and like it but have not found a personal necessity to use it again.

[1] http://blog.databigbang.com/searching-for-substrings-in-stre...
One commonly encounters a conflation of the philosophical idea of atoms, time, matter, motion, etc., with the (modern) scientific concepts. That atoms are composed of quarks of course has no bearing on the original (and persistently recurring) idea that there has to be a fundamental element, some irreducible "thing", whether that's framed in terms of energy quanta, information bits, integers, sets, or what have you. Similarly, Einstein's relativity of time and the curvature of space, this idea of space-time, does not invalidate the fundamental notion of something following another and of the instantaneous arrangement, notions that are orthogonal to the concept of entanglement in a Riemann manifold.
I'm always amazed at how people can make out anything without having the individual metal layers present as well to show vertical and horizontal connections in these die photographs.
And "terrific" is from the Latin terrificus, "terrifying, frightening"[0].

I'm not sure if it's a formal fallacy, but "argument from etymology" is, at best, an extremely weak argument. Just because that's what the word came from over 1000 years ago doesn't mean that's how we do or should use it today.

A doctor is one who has a doctorate. Period. That is what the word means today.

Plenty of people without doctorates teach, in all kinds of ways. (For one thing, grade school teachers in the US are only required to have a Masters at most.)

[0] https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/terrific
He claims that his plan isn’t to get rid of those high schools, it’s to focus instead on the neighborhood schools.

I’ll give him the benefit of the doubt (why not? I don’t live in Chicago anymore).

In addition to these high schools and the regional gifted center K-8 schools, Chicago also has classical schools (test in), charter schools, and magnet and lottery schools. It’s the latter that I think they are trying to limit or get rid of.

Basically, any public school in Chicago that is not running at capacity can open up spots that any student from anywhere in the city can take. Those are lottery schools. So in the spring, any parent that cares can fill out a ranked choice form on the website. Over the course of the summer, they run a lottery. Kids get offers and also their place on the waitlist for each choice they made. You get a couple days to accept or decline any offer you get, and then they make new offers and adjust everyone else’s place on the waitlist, as do this as many times as it takes for all spots to be accepted.

So… the “good” neighborhood schools are running at capacity with a highly diverse set of kids driven to do well, from all over the city. The “bad” neighborhood schools are running 2/3 empty with mostly only kids with bad luck or whose parents don’t care. I agree that this is a problem, and I’d like to see if their proposal has any hope of improving the situation. But as far as I can tell they haven’t figured out the details of anything yet, have they?