skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The 5 node cluster with Ceph on all the nodes is working "ok" (resilience wise) to loosing a node. The VMs keep on going.

Unfortunately, it's not a complete win though. Doing a live migration of a VM between nodes actually hung (locking the VM completely), and needed the VM to be restarted then the migration re-run (which then worked). The logs for the failed migration were completely useless. :(

So, a 5 node setup seems like it might be a better way forward, but things like migration hangs need eliminating first. More experimentation and learning coming up. :)
I see your point and disagree a little less. I still think (and the Oxford Handbook of Expertise backs me up here) most people benefit from active instruction. If nothing else because it gives them a language in which they can discuss the skill with other people. Very helpful when one desires feedback.
Careful, you keep adding this sort of detail and maybe take out some of the bombast ('insufferable', 'obnoxiously') and next thing you know, you'd end up with a perfectly reasonable personal critique of this thing!
Would be quit thrilled to see decent powerful alternative to thunderbird. Will it actually support any open protocols like IMAP or JMAP? If you say vim-like how is the relation to mutt? ( Would really love to see a web app version of mutt actually)
> However, Cummins' statement also indicates the settlement does not meaningfully impact its business prospects. The company says it "is in a strong financial position with existing liquidity and access to capital to satisfy obligations associated with the settlements, support ongoing operations, and execute its growth strategy."

Absolutely crazy that a company can essentially be dead to rights proven to have committed fraud against the general public and be in a “strong financial position” afterwards.

So the cost of the settlement is ~$2B on 1mil units. I don’t know what the unit economics of engines are but it’s probably safe to assume they made ~$2k profit per unit. How is that justice? Imagine if you or I stole >$1mil and the government just said, “Now give it back.” There’s almost no downside to getting caught in such a situation. There’s a chance you won’t get caught, netting you a cool million. The value prop is basically:

$PROFIT * (1 - P_CAUGHT) - $PENALTY * P_CAUGHT

So if the penalty <= the profit, you better have a _really_ efficient enforcement or the equation will be in the favor of criminals. Criminals are essentially only risking the time investment / opportunity cost.

Yet another huge failure from the US justice system.
I don't think the problem for tech people is in thinking it's too hard.

I think it's trading working on what they like vs doing admin / sales / marketing.

That said, I wish everybody were a contractor and employees wouldn't exist.
(Good) Contractors are accountable exactly to what they are paid for (no more and no less).
Employees are accountable to drinking coffee and it's a damn pain working around them to try to get something done.

The only exception is people with equities working in startups and dreaming big.
Watch a documentary about LA smog in the 70s.

Watch some documentary footage on children with lead poisoning from leaded gas.

Report back your findings.
Why hasn't Latin America implemented electronic road tolls?
Over the past few years I have traveled in Latin America quite a bit. One of the things that has surprised me is the lack of usage of electronic road tolling. Multiple times I have waited up to two hours where the slow down was caused by the slowness of paying tolls. The time and productivity loss from this wait I’m sure is staggering.

I’m wondering if anyone has information on why electronic tolling has not been implemented. It seems that a solution using mobile phones could be implemented with a reasonable effort. I see that GoToll in the US is starting to take off.

Any ideas?
Thank you, Leon! <3
I never threw away any non-matching characters, it's a full 96-bit collision, period.
Thanks for the link. They are only studying actual care provided. That's definitely going to fly right over the issues at the VA.

I've used Kaiser before and the system is nothing like the VA system. Are you a VA member or are you just trying to normalize it against something you know?
That’s a fair point. Maybe a more true statement would have been that any perception of Tesla having a technical advantage over other manufacturers towards Level 5 autonomous vehicles is just smoke and mirrors.
Yoinked! the Freshest Banksy Artefact (Stop Sign with Drones) -- carried off
You still need to be smart and hard-working to do well in those cities. Can't buy the same level of lifestyle for the money compared to where they are currently.
Reading the epigrams,

a flash of insight:

Perlis was a secret Zen master.
I wasn’t aware that Trump had been convicted of that.
This. Bayesian assumptions are explicit and you'll be forced to defend your priors. Frequentist assumptions like homoscedasticity are implicit and rarely challenged.

I wouldn't be surprised if many people using frequentist methods have no idea what assumptions need to be true for the methods to be valid. In a Bayesian framework you can't avoid the assumptions
Since the word 'compressed' is in quotes they are probably suggesting that they mean when processed by the 'compress' command as available on UNIX at the time, as opposed to some other compression available at the time.
You owned/funded a criminal organization in a strict sense. Not knowingly in this case.

If you knew about it, you should be held responsible, if you didn’t then the leadership of the company who did know about made you a victim of a crime. I honestly don’t know how people haven’t gone to jail over this.
I'm about to start writing some basic on my 2023 ZX Spectrum Next https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZX_Spectrum_Next

It was my first language - I don't think it was detrimental as it lead to me having my career in tech.
Why the US can't have nice things, part 2
When will they (or anyone) be able to run Shor's algorithm to factor the number 35? There was a failed attempt in 2019.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shor%27s_algorithm#Physical_im...
I'm more of a free speech partisan that most people, but I don't understand the claim that it is a natural right in some sense. Is it more or less natural than the impulse of other people to suppress speech? I believe that protecting it is a better policy, but in what sense of the word is it more or less "natural" than suppressing it?
It is a federal crime to tamper with emissions systems I believe.
> But the nugget machine, it be shattered and deceased

LMAO
https://archive.org/details/BBS.The.Documentary in case you're looking for a version which isn't 27GB.
New AI model can predict human lifespan, researchers say
At an ancient $DAYJOB, we did this in Tcl. Ops loved the observability/controllability of every service having a repl.
You get the climate apocalypse you deserve
Every single statistics class I've ever taken or been sent to has been 95% frequentist with a rushed Bayesian digression near the end. I've submitted papers with Bayesian work and the reviewer asked for p-values and would not budge. I gave him his bloody p-values, because I could not afford not to get the paper published that early in my career.
> What really needs to happen is nailing the shops which do these modifications. Individual drivers are hard to track down but if it involved your business going bankrupt they’d decide it’s not worth it very quickly.

Weaponize CAF against them. You get caught coal rolling, the cops get to take your truck. Same thing against the shops doing the installations -- you get caught installing these devices, your entire business is immediately seized.
Brazil has been on a slippery slope regarding free speech.
I see parallels with the war on terror, where the 9/11 attacks gave carte-blanche to gain power of the population. Brazil started with the "war on fake news" and now they just ban/censor whatever they think is objectionable.
I hope it's not as sticky as the increase in surveillance from the NSA and the authoritarian approach from the TSA.
It seems you also agree with stavros that this strategy seems more like a test of attention, then?
Avoidance isn’t illegal, however, so I’m not sure why it would count. I’m pretty sure evasion in the top 10% is pretty low, just because they have better accountants and wouldn’t take the risk.
Quantum computing may be the "cold fusion" of the 2000's.

In 2000, it was a fantastic looking technology that looked like it was going to leapfrog classical computing in a whole lot of ways. Now, classical computing has gotten so fast that (for example) O(sqrt(n)) searching of an in-memory structure is just not that exciting - O(n) is totally fine with a 100 GB dataset for many cases, and loading your database into your quantum computer would be O(n) anyway. Ideas for quantum machine learning have been supplanted by LLMs, and Ising optimization machines have already failed in the free market compared to a lot of classical computers.

The remaining problems of interest are quantum simulation and encryption cracking, both of which are relatively niche markets.
What about some of the forms of inflation that don't have as easily measured implications, such as Disney no longer making individual movies available for purchase, McDonald's planning to end self-serve drink stations by 2032, and some
products no longer being available in bulk packages?
I don't think it would make a difference if he published it on a private blog, and people at work saw it. Cancel culture doesn't differentiate between your work and personal life.
It seems that the problems he had were in summer. There's many climates where HRVs are only really needed in winter - in which case those problems wouldn't happen.

Basically, as long as the outside air is drier than the inside air, an HRV will work well. The moment the outside air contains more moisture, ventilating will just drive up the humidity of your space - causing many issues.
Best available restoration, legal or otherwise, is 4k77 / 4k80 /4k83 (4k + the year of the film’s release).

A bunch of absolute lunatics acquired multiple 35mm prints of each movie in its original form (the Star Wars text crawl is just titled “Star Wars”, no episode IV), scanned them at ultra-high-quality, then used various references, including vintage stills, to hand-repair damage and color correct / regrade to compensate for fading.

Available on any torrent search (maybe even on an Internet Archive torrent? Not sure).

They released two official (well, “official”) versions of each: one with the film grain intact as-scanned (it’s rather aggressive, especially on the first film) and another with it cautiously denoised so it looks more like folks are used to on modern films.

None of the official releases come close, if you want to watch the closest practically-obtainable version to what people saw in the theaters on opening day—even a remarkably-good 35mm print on your own cinema projector wouldn’t look as close, because it’d be guaranteed to have noticeable scratches and fading.

[edit] oh and they have multiple audio mixes to suit most preferences. Can’t remember exactly what’s on them all, but Star Wars has both the original stereo and mono mixes (these feature some different ADR takes, between them—it’s not just a difference in audio channels) as well as at least one surround track.
Flood exposure linked to shifts in population sizes and composition in the US
when i work for myself the number of billable hours is cut in half due to the overhead of finding and negotiating new projects. i am in that boat and i have trouble keeping it afloat. i'd rather take a cut and work with an agency or a partner that finds the projects for me.
In addition to being annoying, it raises questions about whether it is free software or not. Some people care a whole lot about that. And some people have higher standards about being nagged. And lots and lots of time was spent discussing solutions, for instance: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=915541
And your data is incomplete, so? We have police chiefs here begging people to report crime since they need it for decent statistic is even if they can’t act on it.
> If it's a senior developer, then they should feel comfortable speaking up when there's a disconnect or misunderstanding. I would argue that one trait is the overwhelming majority of what separates a senior developer from a junior one.

Whether seniors feel confident to correct the manager depends primary on how manager acts when corrected. There are many managers who don't get corrected by seniors and seniors who do learn not to do that - either becabuse it is useless or will be punished.

Either way, juniors do talk with management fairly often, whether they have responsibility or not.
>ice40up5k-sg48, costs around 9.30 EUR/1pc

RP2040 is $1 and capable of emulating not only YM2151 but YM3812 (OPL2) _while_ playing full DOOM https://kilograham.github.io/rp2040-doom/sound.html
The broader security mindset is identifying the technologies that are most probably used in a situation where you need read and write. For example, in computer security, you wouldn't worry about a air-gapped UNIX server being infected by an online windows worm. Undetected write and execution are not enabled by RT, like, at all. Synthesis (write) is pretty much a DNA technology, and the only time that a RT is used is for proper viral packaging (lentiviral transformation, mostly). But there is also not really a need to obstruficate because there are tons of completely valid uses for lentriviral vectors. In fact, there are open source RT plasmids available because they can also be used for things like production of open source COVID tests (for example, during COVID I deposited this expression vector under open terms https://www.addgene.org/165556/ ). If you really want to get into the weeds, there are retrotranscriptases that are naturally expressed in humans: good luck with false positive hits on detection.

More broadly, in biology, there isn't really a thing as undetectable execution, because there are physical molecules floating around, and furthermore there are trillions of natural self-executing blobs in an arms race with the ribosomal world. Detecting execution, as technology gets better, is more of a problem of privacy than technology.

Undetected write is more important, but it is also important to identify the particular technologies that actually matter. It's not RTs, nor is it Cas9, nor is a lot of the things that people typically point out on hackernews, either.
Generally, fields of academic study are not interested in accepting publications on why their field is unnecessary, even when you come at them with evidence.
Popehat’s nuanced response that is well worth reading:

https://popehat.substack.com/p/substack-has-a-nazi-opportuni...
This one is something I’m way too proud of, because it’s about as cursed as these hacks can get!

I used to work full time as one of a two-person IT department at a consulting company that worked with construction.

The owner of the company wrote backend business logic code nearly 30 years ago, in dBASE 5 for DOS, and switching to anything else was a non-starter. This code base was his baby, and he made it clear he’d sooner close up shop than rewrite it, despite the many reasons why it would have been a better idea than what followed.

When I started with the company, they were using computers running Windows XP, which shipped a 16-bit/DOS emulation layer called NTVDM, which was used to run this terrible dBASE software. This was after Windows 7 was released, and we knew that using NTVDM on our office desktops wasn’t going to cut it for much longer — only 32-bit Windows supported NTVDM, and most newer hardware was only getting drivers for the 64-bit variant of Windows.

Of course we tried DOSBox first, and it almost worked perfectly, but we were bottlenecked by a very slow network write speed even on a fast Core i7 at the time. This wasn’t going to cut it, either.

At the time I had been first seriously getting into virtualization, had gotten pretty good at PowerShell, and was intimately familiar with Windows’s RemoteApp functionality from a prior project. This was software that would serve any running Windows GUI application to a remote thin client. And when I tried it, an NTVDM-powered COMMAND.COM window worked just fine as a RemoteApp! Things were getting interesting.

I ended up using and using PowerShell + DOS Batch files to glue together a handful of tools to ultimately build extremely stripped down and locked down 32-bit Windows Embedded VM images, with just enough components to run these DOS applications and serve them over RemoteApp sessions. I basically built a fucking CI/CD system for remotely running DOS applications on thin clients.

The best part? Now this stupid DOS software that we couldn’t get rid of was even usable on Linux, Macs, and mobile devices. Despite it being an awful idea, we really gave that horrifying piece of software a new lease on life!

I no longer work there full time, but I still consult to them occasionally, and to this day they use this setup, and it still works super well!

It’s horribly insecure (though I think we managed to segregate that Windows VM and its access very well), and probably violates numerous EULAs, but it was just about the only way to keep that specific application in service…

(By the way, I’m looking for full time work at the moment if anyone needs a devops/automation engineer that can wrangle cursed environments… My email is hn(at)ibeep(dot)com.)
The bigger question is how many qubits exactly you can keep arbitrarily entangled on your preferred time scale. Because a linear increase in the number of qubits gives you an exponential increase in capability (compared to a classical computer) for problems that are amenable to the quantum approach. So if adding qubits turns out to be exponentially difficult, then QC will not amount to much since you could've done the same thing in a classical simulation. If it can be done more or less arbitrarily with a non-exponential cost, it's a true asymptotic change for the kinds of problems QC can address.
I like that the article specifies to do this in your own words. If you just repeat someone else's words you're not actually proving understanding. You're just parroting, which anyone can do.
Process Documents Intelligently with AI
"Natural right" means a right with a sound fundamental philosophical justification behind it, it doesn't mean "natural" in the sense of "something people do naturally". People by nature are often savages; learning to respect the rights of other people, and not just see them as tools for us to impose our own will upon, is part of the challenge of human moral development.
The language model works by delegating tasks to smaller language models and overcharging them for GPU time.
How, exactly, are modern diesel trucks emitting leaded gas fumes, or unburned VOCs?
That is absolutely not how it's been colloquially used for the past few years at least. It's become the equivalent of "extremism" in Russia.
Ah. I don’t see where it was disproven. The Wikipedia article about it seems to indicate the difference in perception between various populations was further substantiated.

My contention nor original researchers, so far as I can tell, claimed the difference was based on race or biology. It looks like they thought it had to do with the presence of rectilinear buildings, thus cultural.

Some subsequent research did hypothesize eye pigmentation played a role and that was disproven. However, as far as I can tell, different groups of people have differing abilities to perceive illusions.

Moreover, my fundamental point was that culture affects thought, and a variety of thought is valuable. Do you dispute either of those points?
History is already recording the 2016-2024 elections as a story about how so many people got duped by a conman and how so many small time grifters, from Pence to DeSantis, tried to ride his coattails and got burned. https://thehill.com/opinion/columnists/juan-williams/4138348...
I don't think you can make that claim with no details on the nature of the feature.
Can’t they just kindly reply “no” to any foreign governments requests? I’m confused why shutting off all access was the answer when they’re not (to my knowledge) operating in Brazil
Rocky Mountain basic had exceptionally nice string handing, array handling and could do matrix math.

I think traditional CS hates BASIC because it's hard to get people to look at it in terms of pure math. And it enables muggles to create useful programs.
Most people I know with diesel trucks have some sort of emissions modification. So I'd say this is completely missing the point.
> one thing they should have learned post-pandemic is that talent is global

All business is bundling and unbundling. There are reams of tech workers presently working remote who have proven their work can be done cheaper offshore. On the other hand, there are offshore and remote-only businesses constrained by their model who are advertising opportunity proximate to themselves. Anyone convinced the world will be remote only (or RTO for all) is begging to be disrupted.
The Bitcoin Fee Flippening Is Upon Us
It's a matter of ensuring the synthetic content is different enough from the referenced content. We can filter.
"Accelerated graphics? I like my computer to be faster, why wouldn't I want that"
This is an unfalsifiable statement.
This isn't really all that different from the stated purposes of consulting businesses: they're often hired to be a disinterested third party with relevant expertise to make decisions/take actions that whomever hired them might be deemed too biased and/or too incompetent (in the relevant area of expertise) to make.
Average if expectancy is 80, 80 minus forty is forty.

Air quality has actually been getting steadily better in the areas the world that I live in because of the other companies following the new emissions laws properly. Im confident my diesel truck and RV will allow my family to seek "greener pastures" if needed.

The key is to stay happy with a modest lifestyle. The people that will be screwed are the people with 5000 Sq ft mansons that need $1500 a month in energy just to keep them from being uninhabitable. The neighborhoods in Arizona that won't have water.

If we all do more with less, be kind, and don't complain - we will be fine.

Editing because I can't reply to the awesome comment below. Love it, so true. Statistics changes as you move through space and time. Thank you for this lovely perspective!
Whenever I'm saying "just so I know I'm on the same page", I communicate my best understanding of the correct interpretation of my colleague's message. I would never deliberately introduce a misinterpretation to see if it gets corrected. Misinterpretations happen often enough naturally already, in both directions, and my goal is generally to minimize them.
It's not just Brazil; the vast majority of governments are trying to put a tighter leash on what people can say online. Because the decentralisation of information transfer is allowing citizens to be more informed than ever before about things their rulers don't want them to know.
GCC 14 won't permit implicit int any more ... https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/PortingToModernC#Remo...
The author wrote a brittle script making a lot of assumptions about a product that they're not paying for and that has no API contract and.....wants money for that? I feel like the term "entitlement" is thrown around way too much but is appropriate here.
The controversy is decades old and largely resolved. Both methods work well on large enough data sets, Bayesian methods are far superior on small datasets
> young people who want to build a career won't be forced to move to Silicon Valley

RO recent-college grads are highly constrained in terms of upward mobility. You don’t get the network. You don’t get the camaraderie. It’s great for employers but bad for the ambitious.
I wasn't referring to him. I was referring to regular people judges from Wyoming, etc. I know one from Arizona.