skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Indeed it was a major point of pride among Go enthusiasts that computers could not play it well

It's typical for enthusiast of anything to believe their area is special. To be able to judge how feasible besting humans is a question for computer scientists / engineers anyway. You need some knowledge of Go for sure, but don't actually have to be a master Go player.

> It is extreme hindsight-bias of exactly the type the grandparent was talking about to suggest that obviously everybody knew all along that Go was very beatable by "non-real AI".

Maybe it was a surprise for you, but I was familiar with the pre-AlphaGo state of the art, and it was always clear it's just a technical problem. There's no fundamental difference between a game like Go and Chess, it's only the parameters which differ, where Go's space is exponentially larger.

> Others, like the inherent difficulty in constructing an evaluation function, seemed intractable

The branching factor is what makes the evaluation function difficult in Go and is therefore again a technical problem.

> Betting markets at the time of the AlphaGo match still had favorable odds for Sedol, even with the knowledge that Google was super-confident baked in.

This is a non-argument, betting markets are not rational.
People still use that tape to learn how to dogfight in modern simulators.
Might you be thinking about Falcon 4.0? That came out in the late ‘90s and struggled on the best available hardware at that time (as well as the best available hardware for the next decade or so).
> When we really should have been formally addressing problems from first principles. Because if our OS can't recover gracefully when the disk fills up, then we don't really have anything. And so many OSs (including our desktops) panic when the disk fills up, that we don't really have anything. At a low enough level, all of the tools we rely upon are trash.

Unfortunately, the OS can't really "recover" most of the time because it is being constantly lied to by several(!!!) layers of uncooperative hardware/firmware. It's zebras all the way down:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fE2KDzZaxvE

> In this case, by letting programs wait until the user has cleared off disk space

If your system is really in a no-disk-space-left state you might not be able to login to fix it:

https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/165427/cant-login-d...

And even assuming you can login, sometimes you can't delete files either; you need to free space in another way before being able to delete files.

https://serverfault.com/questions/478733/rm-can-not-remove-x...

Filesystems and persistence are hard.
Not the job itself, but contacted by FAANG recruiter initially based on Linux distribution message board and git repo.

I pushed it off for a few years -- got pinged once a year about the same time, was in grad school -- but eventually interviewed with and landed at that company.
Been using fastmail for years, and I'm very happy with their spam filter. Never had spam in my inbox, and very rarely see non-spam in the spambox.
> If the market is free, why can't employees decide to group together and negotiate a contract with a company that precludes the hiring of non-union employees?

> Sounds like freedom of association with me.

Hey as long as it goes both ways. It would equally be freedom of association to fire any union employees.

Oh wait, that's illegal.

So instead of that, a fair compromise is that it should be equally illegal for firing someone either if they join or don't union a union.

That's what right to work laws do. They give equal protections to both union and non union employees.
No. The post represents a misrepresentation or misunderstanding of what fiduciary duty is, but that isn't surprising. It seems to be misapplied or misunderstood in the overwhelming majority of times it comes up in conversation.
If you think the heavy work is solely in the back-end, I'd encourage you to go ahead and try to build and release a front-end. We would happily use yours if it were good. We built the Ottehr front-end after building "the proprietary service" and realizing just how difficult it was to actually release an EHR without a front-end reference. You are also welcome to point Ottehr at some other back-end service if you want. Our goal is to encourage a new generation of EHRs that better support interoperability.
> when these sims get too complex they also seem like work

The A-10 plane in DCS seems to be as complex as the real plane (?)

I think that's where I saw a hilarious video of a poor guy trying to get it started and taxiing to the runway for something like three hours before giving up.

On the other hand, the AJS-37 Viggen in DCS is fully accurate (I've checked it against the declassified official pilot's manual), and it can be started in a few minutes using a simple checklist. They really should be guarding them well at airshows ;)

> At some point it seemed like just work

I like flying too in principle, but all the required detailed technical knowledge about airspaces, ATC comm, etc doesn't make it that appealing to actually get a license.

Gliders / hanggliders / paragliders are much nicer in that regard.
> Nah, POSIX on servers is only relevant enough for language runtimes and compilers, which then use their own package managers and cloud APIs for everything else.

Those things are a different level of abstraction. The cloud API is making POSIX system calls under the hood, which would allow the implementation of the cloud API to be ported to different POSIX-compatible systems (if anybody cared to).

> There is a reason why there are USENIX papers on the loss of POSIX relevance.

The main reason POSIX is less relevant is that everybody is using Linux and the point of POSIX was to create compatibility between all the different versions of proprietary Unix that have since fallen out of use.
> Some people were sufficiently prudish and/or puritanical to make a formal objection about an illustration of our species -- an illustration being sent into the Cosmos -- into the Cosmos where there are _no other humans_ -- an illustration, I say, that was destined to leave our Solar System and likely never be seen again.

It is not exactly correct. This illustration is widely known now. People look at it, not aliens. I'd say the whole idea to send a picture is directed not at aliens but at humans: it is plainly improbable someone will see the original plaque.

I can imagine that someone finds this plaque, but it will be space archaeologists from Earth. Once again: humans.

This plaque was made for humans. They keep saying that it was made for aliens, but they like to daydream.
This is like Langchain but for text to 3d. Awesome project!
Still vastly cheaper than a fighter jet!
Question, do individual merit pay increases or bonuses exist in unionized software shops?
That’s really cool

Did you had to go through the leetcode as well
Right, Unions work differently in different countries. Unions in the US spread the management is always evil message, and treats all negations as a hostile encounter. As a result many of us in the US have a bad impression of unions. However in Europe they tend to be less hostile and so make more sense both for the company and the workers. Different contexts mean different results from what looks like the same thing.
Yeah, we need to do better on the visibility of this for owners. And we're trying to scale the system so it's not a problem at all. In the meanwhile, you can ask support to index all the repos in your orgs and we can take care of it.
It seems to me that this is the risk you take when you create an unofficial add-on to any product.

I've helped reverse engineer vehicle ECU's to reprogram the fuel injection, turbo pressure, and spark timing systems. But, we wouldn't have expected the manufacturer to do anything except officially discourage the use of the aftermarket tools. That is the name of the game with unofficial add-ons with access to sensitive control systems.

Disclaimer: I did work for a Middleby subsidiary at the time but I don't know anything that isn't public about this situation. We were all very separate companies.
If something goes wrong with my generator, there are dozens of companies I can hire to service it.

If something goes wrong with a powerwall, I don't have enough followers on X to get the attention of someone at Tesla.
The closest alternative, which offers only text-to-speech mode, is Speechify. However, they charge over $100 per year, which is significant. A lifetime license for Quickify is available for just $39, or $1.99 per month.

I don't want to seem assuming, but I haven't seen such a set of features in any application yet, really.
Yes! Learning to edit config.sys and autoexec.bat (from a book) for games was probably the catalyst that pushed me into IT.
And now Gyfcat is dead, while the spinoff lives on
That's certainly the pattern for the attack, but the vulnerability itself is just "We figured out https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In-band_signaling#Telephony In-band Signalling was a mistake back in the 70s and stopped doing it, chat bots need to catch up"
> often groups also sell you the inputs/ingredients and force you to purchase through them to "maintain quality/consistency"

QSR franchisees are famous for cutting every corner they can get away with (as well as cutting even more corners until they get caught by the brand or local health/labor inspectors), so maintaining quality and consistency is a very real concern for these brands.
Not to get reductionist but if you interact with more than one (e.g. Linux) process, it's already a distributed system.

> A distributed system is a system whose components are located on different networked computers, which communicate and coordinate their actions by passing messages to one another.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distributed_computing
This is a great and thoughtful comment.

I think part of the sexual repression I was talking about is a big reason why porn is so popular and why: "Things like claims "I didn't pay for this!" when a partner happens to see a charge for a pornographic product, buyer's remorse as the truth of a parasocial relationship plays out to an unsatisfying conclusion, whatever the reason" are so prevalent.

It is a sad thing and something that I really wish we could address as a society but corporate owned streaming sites/other social media are really not the place for this type of conversation because of the inherently ad revenue based structure of these sites.
Eerie, if you compare the situation to today.
> our preference

no... that is your preference

There are people who believe that abortion is equivalent to murder.

Beyond the binary decision, there is more nuance to when pro-choice laws allow for abortion or not, and similar for pro-life.

- pro-choice often does not include late term abortion

- pro-life can make exceptions for rape and incest

These nuances can vary between states that fall under the same half of the binary part. All of them can change much more easily now
As someone who worked at LI.

They spent years and god knows how many millions TRYING to move to Azure with the Blueshift project..before pulling the plug. They hired armies of contractors.

They didn't stop by choice.

They stopped because their tech stack is a giant over engineered unmovable turd.
She was not bi-lingual either and I didn’t want to intrude too much on someone’s work time with my random tech nerd curiosities
So we're going to end up in an Awesome Mix Tape situation, with our lost V'ger rocking out to the music of its homeworld?
Unions also mistreat their members at times. That isn't to say unions are bad, but they are not a perfect answer and you need to watch the union.
This has been a thing for many, many years (my guess is, since 5 minutes after journalism was invented). See "yellow journalism" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_propaganda_of_the_Spa...).
more like activists are increasingly engaged as journalists.
I like the idea of Nix, but I quickly moved on after a few days of testing. Mostly because I just don't have a use case for the stronger tools.

On Ubuntu you can make something work, then ship it in a box and it works anywhere, with some sandboxing. What more would I want?

Reproducible builds are nice, but I don't currently do any significant compiled language work aside from embedded.
YES to absolutely everything you said here!

> Gnome/Windows/macOS suck so badly at window management that you need to have "manual" window management at a program level

Have you tried hyprland? You can have a keyboard centric experience with perfect window management.

I have a browser, a terminal and a few other things (ex: deadbeef to play music, sioyek for reading PDFs) each in fullscreen for maximum information density and concentration.

I can reorganize anything (ex: have the terminal and the browser next to eachother), but I find it more convenient ti use keyboard shortcuts to jump from one to the other as needed
> It can also be cheaper in headcount since you need fewer operators and less expertise in datacenter operations.

I've not really seen this work out well. I think it might be true for simple set-ups, letting a tiny developer team also handle infra and support without going nuts doing it, if they set it up that way from the beginning, but more-complex setups always seem to have so damn many sharp edges and moving pieces that support ends up looking similar to what a far more DIY approach (short of building one's own datacenter outright) would, in terms of time lost to it.

... and so does downtime, for that matter.
Mistral MOE model is 8*7B parameters, so you should compare training time to similar sized models, not to 7B ones.
Following this line of logic no one should have empathy for anything except the victims of the worst disaster or atrocity in history. A lot of the people who are rightly supporting Palestine now showed no empathy or support for the many much larger atrocities happening daily elsewhere in the world, will you criticize them in the same way?
> That's how unions work by default everywhere else too.

Not true for Norway, at least.
because McDonalds corporate profits off of the deal with the manufacturer/servicer who in turn profits off of the McDonalds franchisees. The franchisees aren't given a choice of what machine and servicers they use as corporate dictates what model of machine they are allowed to use and who is allowed to perform service upon it. So Mcdonalds corporate doesn't care because they aren't the ones loosing money on sales or service fees as they don't run many of the restaurants fore them its a profit center.
Another amazing node-based app that was deprecated is Quartz Composer on Mac. It was extended by Mike Matas' team when he was at Facebook: https://medium.com/the-year-of-the-looking-glass/introducing...

although this was also later deprecated in favor of Origami Studio, which retains the node-based UI: https://origami.design/
> Apple sauce tastes sweet as well though so I am not following the logic here.

Sorry. My implication was that either the manufacturer was using apples that weren't sweet enough, or that the added sweetness made them more palatable than they could achieve using just fruit (and who knows how many legal additives).

[Edit] Glass isn't made with lead, unless it's lead crystal (and even that doesn't use lead nowadays).

I'm with you on plastic bottles, and packaging generally; even if it's "recyclable", you can only really recycle virgin plastic, not recycled plastic. And most of it isn't recycled anyway. The only legitimate use for plastic nowadays is to make things that are meant to survive basically forever.
Can‘t you do it the old-fashioned way and call the phone? If it’s on silent, it might make it harder, but it still makes a buzzing sound since it vibrates.
You're not making sense. Exercising control over other people is a very high price to pay for implementing someone else's idea. It has to happen at times, sure, but the onus is on the group outcome outweighing the individual preference. Here the only persons directly affected by a choice to abort is a very small family unit. If the concern was the group outcome then we would instead be encouraging births rather than punishing those who don't want a birth, but that's definitely not the intent as we've seen time and time again in these punitive laws.
You have to admit, there is a very "will no one rid me of this meddlesome priest?" ring to it.
British tabloids do this a lot

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/news-world-phone-hacki...

>In the latest revelations, people linked to missing Madeleine McCann and murdered schoolgirl Danielle Jones are said to have had their mobile messages broken into by the Sunday tabloid’s journalists.

>Police have also contacted families of victims of the July 7 bombings to warn them their phones may have been accessed in the days following the 2005 terrorist attacks.

...

>The News of the World has been accused of hacking on an “industrial scale”.

>Notebooks seized from former employee Glenn Mulcaire – the private investigator at the centre of the scandal who was jailed in 2007 – revealed 11,000 pages of documents and several thousand names of targets.

>Police are now examining every high-profile case involving the murder and abduction of children since 2001.
Curious: Why would you use ed over ex, or vi for that matter?
Is a Calorie a Calorie? Processed Food, Experiment Gone Wrong [video]
I had an uncle that was huge into flight sims at the time, and I'd get his hand-me-down flight sticks & throttles. I spent soooo much time playing Falcon 3.0, and teenage me would get so sad when one of my favorite wingmen would get shot down on a mission.
One more reason health care should not be employer subsidized. You want insurance (and you should), go buy it: same as you get car and house/apartment insurance.
602K (616,448 bytes) of free conventional memory. I looked it up in the manual ;)

It's the only DOS game I played that needed >600K of conventional memory, and I too remember the struggle to free that much.
"Fast forward" from a statement last week to this week doesn't seem like much time for anything to have changed.

I'm also not sure anyone really expects high journalistic standards from tabloids. This kind of junk 'reporting' has been in Britain since the 1700s.
It goes up to eleven
Do you know of any literature that looks into this? This is a pretty interesting hypothesis.
I think you're speaking here about 1. queue-based event-store systems, e.g. combining a compacting Kafka topic with a CQRS reducer agent to serve as a store-of-record + snapshot-state representation respectively; 2. where you've likely restructured what were fundamentally CRUD-esque operations into CQRS commands and events, to hold in the store, just so that they can be folded back down to CRUD updates to a snapshot living in an RDBMS by the reducer? I do agree that this kind of system can get really messy/painful once you have a lot of data.

But I'm thinking more about:

3. "the Dynamo/Hadoop model, in the small": a single-process client-server row-store, but where a table is made of immutable, read-only 64MB chunks, with the newest chunk being an "open" buffer that becomes "closed" as soon as it's filled up; and where these chunks are of a known file-format such that you could directly compose them outside the DBMS in parallel and push them to the DBMS as chunks to be ingested "whole" (i.e. "mounted" as micro-partitions of the table);

4. where the business-domain's types are already fundamentally immutable datatypes, that don't need any "projecting" into a CQRS representation; i.e. where the thing the DB exists to store (and query on!) is the immutable business data, not some latest-computed-state reduction over it, so there's no need to ever play a log into a CQRS reducer, let alone replay that log.

I know that, for example, Clickhouse's MergeTree engine is at its core akin to the kind of system I'm describing in 3 above — but because Clickhouse is designed as a general-purpose RDBMS (and so still offers an API that includes UPDATE and DELETE) rather than being purpose-built for use-case 4 above, it needs to do a whole bunch of stuff on top of that constrained chunked-immutable storage primitive, to virtualize those updates/deletes pre-merge, and to present MVCC transactions. Same with, for another example, CouchDB: an immutable-data-store core, with a ton of logic on top to allow the user to pretend they can update/delete.

If you imagine a version of Clickhouse or CouchDB that was solely focused on delivering use-case 4 above, then you could strip away all the "extra stuff." For use-case 4, the "64MB immutable-once-full micro-partitions" paradigm is literally all that's needed to losslessly convey all domain state; and so a storage engine akin to the one described in 3 is all you need to support it.

(If you're wondering, the business domain I'm working in, where this pertains, is: analytical querying of blockchain data. All the "CQRS events" [blockchain blocks and their transactions] come from third parties, and are all guaranteed-immutable upon insert, if not guaranteed-canonical. [But canonicity can be tracked as a log of chain tip changes, like a git commit log.] If you don't care about blockchains, though, domains with similar needs for immutable append-only analytical stores include financial forensic accounting, and structured API audit-logging as state for rule engines inside Intrusion Detection Systems.)
> Information about the future can never reach us in the present

Sure it can, you just have to be patient.
lh and 4dos were my spirit guides for that
This is this not using the plain and simple C vkd3d (dx12) from wine but valve c++ dxvk. I still dunno why valve has not the decency to backport that into vkd3d, at least we would not need an absurdely and grotestely massive and complex c++ compiler, but the worst: it is using a ton of copies of windows DLLs from winetricks (I am better off installing windows).

I guess the win64 gog galaxy client does update the game to its latest patch.

Come on, nobody has to be proud of that.
Look up "scandal sheets" for examples over a hundred years before that!
I had a very tiring Christmas day (mostly tiring for my dad, though) putting together boot floppies for various games.

Eventually I got really good at it - selecting what drivers were required and packing them efficiently into base and extended (I think that was it...) memory.

Sometimes IIRC I'd swap boot disks around and discover extra features in games that only appeared with even more base memory.
My first was six weeks old when lockdown hit. She spent nearly the first two years of her life with just my wife and I.

We always resolved to speak to her as an adult would and only used YouTube videos which encouraged speech and some signing (look up Miss Rachel to get an idea).

She's now way ahead of most of her peers in terms of speech. I'm sometimes still surprised with how she manages to communicate with us.

Just my n=1 experience.
Smallest USB-C MIDI Synth
A tour of the Bellingcat radar inference tracker
Someone in your group searched for "Corinthian leather" on their phone because they didn't get your joke. But because they searched on your wi-fi, your general IP address is now getting targeted.

This happens all of the time in our household. I'm seeing ads for things I never talked about, but are related to my wife's searches because that's as close as they can target.
Interesting side note, my new browser (Brave for windows) had a prompt to check the wayback machine for this page. Never experienced this before.
This is the Daily Mirror, who has been doing exactly this for decades. This kind of "activist" behavior is called "tabloid journalism" because of the tabloid format in which the Daily Mirror is printed.

(Along with a few others. I don't know why the half-broadsheet format seems especially popular with such disreputably tactics. But regardless, this is absolutely nothing new for the Daily Mirror and its ilk.)
Seems like maybe Ask Jeeves just got undercut by regular search engines learning to ignore irrelevant query words