skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> This all costs money that they presumably will need to raise taxes for.

If it works, maybe not. Keeping all those people in prison for years costs; if we can keep them for less time, we can save money on the per-year costs even if the program to get them out itself costs money.

If it works.
The most interesting part of that for me was the illustration of how much mothers miss out on fully partaking in society. I hope the fathers of my generation and the next can do better to bridge this gap.
In the mid-00s I was trying to get an mp3 file off an old PC with Windows 95 and no USB support (no ethernet either, only a 28.8k modem). After thinking about it for a long while, WinRAR was my solution. I was surprised it supported Windows 95, as I didn't remember hearing about it back then either. I was able to use WinRAR to split the file up across multiple floppy disks, moved all those parts to a more modern computer, and joined them back together. I'm glad there wasn't much more on there to move. I suppose if there was I would have removed the drive completely and mounted it on another system.
I'm sorry I asked. For future reference, maybe avoid /b/ for family-friendly viewing recommendations...
I’ll join discord :)
Are you for free speech or against it? Where is the line drawn?

These are hard questions to answer, especially in the manner they were "asked." And it's probably not exclusively up to Gay to decide & answer them.
71.5% so far
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Isn’t this article just describing a halfway house?

Doesn’t really seem that Nordic to me.
> Kubernetes supports basically every storage backend you can imagine.

Text files?
You cannot have it both ways. Universities get billions in public funding and then turn around using that money to fund political activists masquerading as academics. Disciplines like sociology are now very open about the fact that academics need to be openly activist to advance. It's disingenuous to then complain about political pressure.
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Companies that don’t have a good picture of what they want or need for an individual role are rarely good places to work for. Generally, this means “we will pile on whatever responsibilities we feel like and without paying you more.”
I'm not saying we don't have a problem, but nothing you've said reassures me that UBI won't make everything worse. If you keep raising UBI to match inflation (which you'd have to do to fulfill the goal of eliminating poverty), how do you prevent that from turning into hyperinflation, where everyone's assets are completely devalued in a matter of decades?

We need to do something to raise the poor into the middle class, but eliminating the middle class altogether in the process is neither politically viable nor (for me, subjectively) desirable.
Because computers don’t have instincts. And don’t get nuances of communication or instructions.
People use JS over other languages because they have no choice (transpile to JS languages are relatively rare, and TypeScript only succeeded because it's a superset of JS), I'd imagine Scheme would be treated the same way.
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Oh yeah! I remember being impressed by acko.net more than a decade ago. Thanks for the link!
My criticism is specific to the presentation. The content itself looks fine, and that's what counts.

The presentation is only as absurd as it is because the facts were stubbornly included.

There is nothing leftist about it either: this article is clearly written to be intentionally moderate. That's precisely what I am criticizing here: the moderate political voice is blatantly shoehorned in a way that makes the whole article incoherent.

It would be one thing to actually support a moderate stance; but that isn't happening either. Instead, we have a vain appeasement to the pipe dream that is political neutrality. Who is it for? You?
Après moi, le déluge

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I've seen mail from my work Google Workspace that I sent to my own personal Gmail get flagged as spam. It's me sending to me. Google to Google. Logged into both account on the same computer.

If anything I'm nervous to recommend Google because they flag too many legitimate emails as spam. After years of not checking, I'm checking spam again.
No idea what you’re on about

You can load a CD you bought at the store into iTunes and the bytes are yours for all time

Not sure what autocracy has to do with it
all the stories are real. i just try to really anonymize them.
I think the point is that most people in prison didn't kill someone and most people come out. We would never choose for them to "just not come out" so the question is "How do you want them to act when they come out?"

Does it lead to better outcomes to rehabilitate the person who is in there for 5 years because they stole TVs from Best Buy, or does it lead to better outcomes for us to do nothing and then release them.

Genuine question. We've done the latter, let's try something different.
Open EDR
More like somebody stole their horses ten years ago and people are finally noticing.
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"Prof Yunus' supporters say the case is politically motivated "

Bangladeshi elections are in 5 days (Jan 7th). The Guardian has more coverage:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/jan/01/nobel-laureate...
Not exactly the same, but something that got me a couple weird looks at the time was paying almost $100 for RedHat Linux (6.1, Cartman) in 1999.

I'd wanted to use Linux for a couple years (I thought it looked hacker-ish and had watched _The Matrix_ in theaters not long before that). But my PC didn't have a CD writer. My 4.3GB HD didn't have enough free space to download the ISOs. And I didn't have internet access.

So I bought it at a bookstore and installed it. I didn't understand any of what was happening. Everything was hard. I didn't see "power," or "freedom," or anything like that. I just knew that suddenly my computer was a complete pain in the ass to use and I couldn't play games anymore.

I don't really know why I stuck with it, but it led to me fighting with computers for a living, which is fantastic.
I miss Hello Internet as well, and don't know why they stopped. Did they ever talk about why?
"And yet, dissatisfaction with virtual meetings is real. There is now a growing understanding that tech alone will not be enough to effectively bring people together to work. What’s needed just as much are physical spaces for employees to meet in."

There's an even more obvious solution--not having so many meetings. I mean, are you there to work, or to gab about work? Also, the reason you need 'meeting spaces' is because you've taken away everyone's office, in favor of a sweatshop model of space usage. No amount of "envisioning new office technology solutions" is going to make up for the fact that most offices are just lousy places to work.
> I'm not sure I can look favorably at a murderer, or even someone that commits manslaughter or negligent homicide while drunk driving.

You simply choose to. It’s not easy, just like it’s not easy to “choose” to study or go to the gym, or do anything, but you just choose to.

It’s hard, but you can choose a tit-for-tat mindset, it’s a proven strategy in the iterated prisoner’s dilemma, which is very similar to life.
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A much more informative video is https://youtu.be/6NbVdIoJsHY?t=169 ... you can see the accident aircraft enter the runway then stands there for 40+ seconds before the other aircraft lands on it. It seems like a lot of time during which controllers could have detected the conflict.
So that's where both Stephenson and Disney got the first name of their concurrently written Jacks from (I assume that both Shaftoe and Sparrow were already public when BBC writers created Harkness who is basically the same character as the other two)
I thought I was the only one considering the praise it's getting throughout the thread and others saying that they didn't even notice it until it was pointed out in the article. I had to reduce the opacity by at least half for it to not be so distracting.

Perhaps the noise doesn't "scale" on mobile as I'm also viewing it on an iPhone and/or is just more apparent in dark mode.
Have you driven in SF?
> I think it’s perfectly reasonable to expect “trust me, I know what I’m doing” users to have to step outside of the language to accomplish their goals and use facilities like inline assembly or implementation extensions.

I agree with most of the author's points but this one goes too far. C is the low-level thing you step out into when you're telling the system "trust me" and taking direct control. Asking people to write raw assembly more often instead of using C is a non-starter.

I understand the underlying issue with "trust the programmer" (it's too parallel with "unsafe by default") but a more nuanced solution than "make it so C is 100% locked down" is going to be required. Even Rust has `unsafe` and pointer-fiddling utilities (but I don't see how a similar idea would make sense for C).
Thanks for the feedback. In fact I hadn't worried about that because I thought that adding sources isn't something frequent even if it's a bit long at first and I thought that adding an "add source" button in the hamburger menu would be annoying since it wouldn't be used often.
I didn't say it wouldn't be costly - I'm sure in many cases it is. But it is not a legal process - the platform just removes your content. Just because a law requires platforms to do something, does not mean this is a legal process or proceeding.

Just like if a law requires business to enforce mask-wearing, and then I get kicked out for not wearing a mask, that was not a legal proceeding. They just kicked me out.
No, this cards would be inferior to 4090, that you can get everywhere and you can buy 3 of them for "spare parts"
Because of the specifics of how this is done you actually can play past this point, but you have to intentionally dodge the crash and the conditions for the crash can be different per level.

It is technically possible to go up through level 255 at which point it loops back to 0. It's been done through a tool assisted run (carefully doing inputs frame by frame rather than playing in real time)
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Did you keep adding and removing replicas into your cluster based on a scheduler policy? How often did you adjust the number of nodes (and how long did it take to make a node available)?

At the high-level you are describing your setup, it doesn't make sense. You'd spend way more resources managing any cluster than what you would gain from a normal-looking policy. I seem to be missing some important detail.
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Heh, those are called "Rouladen" but yeah they're pronounced almost the same ;-)

And yes, they are delicious
The animation seems to tax the CPU. I ran Chrome profiler and compared to hackernews (my performance gold standard) ...

Hackernews = 99.9% idle , 0 rendering

Your new blog = 94% idle, 4.7% rendering + painting

Someone mentioned the fans / activity monitor showing cpu usage as well
This reminds me of the weird AC behaviour at one of the London office buildings I used to work in. The AC or heating would turn on or off seemingly at random and when enough people complained about it (i.e. our CEO got sick one more time) it was revealed that the building is managed remotely by a company from Iowa and the thermostat that controlled our building was installed in their office and not in London. I was glad my contract ended and was not interested in renewing.
Whether it was perfect or not, there are only a few words/phrases that allow an aircraft to cross the hold short bars at an airport with an active control tower. "Cross", "line up and wait", and "cleared for takeoff" are pretty much it. Runway incursions are very dangerous, as this incident shows, and pilots must be very sure they have clearance before entering a runway. If anything is ambiguous in an instruction, pilots are trained to ask ATC for confirmation before proceeding.

It's also possible that there was more ATC communication that was not recorded. LiveATC comes from feeds provided by volunteers, whose receivers may be some distance from the airport and which may not receive signals 100% reliably. The investigators will have access to the official recordings made by JCAB (the Japanese aviation authorities).
> But, after consultation with members of the Corporation, it has become clear that it is in the best interests of Harvard for me to resign so that our community can navigate this moment of extraordinary challenge with a focus on the institution rather than any individual.

This makes it clear that it was a forced resignation, IMO. Anyone stepping down of her own accord would not say "after consultation with".
You're probably better off analyzing how different models work with different RAG subjects/content.
It will proxy the work you're trying to do of analyzing models trained on different datasets. Find an HF model trained on natural lang/web, one on code etc.
Trackers seem a lot harder to use than DAW piano rolls
Languages with Java-like syntaxt are much more popular than LISPs in general even not taking JS into account. I think it’s just more intuitive to parse it in human brain, at least to me.
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That would dissipate about 50% of the power in the output circuit, and unless the impedance variance across the frequency ranges matches the headphones, then it will significantly color the sound (as the fraction of power dissipated will vary from the nominal 50%). Power amplifiers almost always want to be orders of magnitude lower impedance than the loads they are driving (so a fraction of an Ohm for driving speakers) for this reason.
I don't see how that analogy applies. There is no depletable resource being exhausted.

There is a Nash equilibrium where experts and those who are interested read/know the topic of the article and write some commentary about it. The most insightful comments usually receive more upvotes from everyone (including non-readers). reading the top comments is thus generally a good timesave to risk of being misinformed tradeoff that many users have decided to be worth taking.

Being less reliable can be acceptable if it reduces the time to read by 10x or more.
I thought "The MANIAC" was electrifying, particularly that final section on Lee Sedol, and now I'm even more excited to pick up "When We Cease to Understand the World."
It's not hostile, it's just practical. Seats with backs would take up way too much space. And you don't need it anyway because the maximum time you'll be sitting on these is like 5 minutes.
> doesn't Go Lang (another Google creation) have roots in Plan 9.

They come from the same people (Ken Thompson, Rob Pike). The Go compiler was the first program written for Plan 9, although it processed C code at that time – the Go language would come later. Eventually it was machine translated into Go sources.
see my comment above about Chrome Profiler
This article seems so disconnected from my own lived experience that I can't even say it's wrong -- it just seems to describe an alien world that bears no relationship to the one I live in. As an example:

> “Innovations” like booking systems for hotdesking become obsolete when the office is already optimised in terms of its overall flow of people. Employees don’t need to stress or fight over limited workspaces; there’s always a free desk available for everyone.

This seems to accept that hotdesking itself is an acceptable thing. The problem with hotdesking isn't the booking systems or whether or not the office is "optimized in terms of overall flow of people". The problem is that hotdesking is inherently an anti-human thing. There is no way of doing it "correctly".
Sounds like many of these issues could be described with better knowledge sharing and more tightly coupled processes between planning/building/maintenence.

It sounds quite fatalistic what you've said, that we've basically reached maximum planning saturation so we can only pay the costs afterwards when things go wrong.

But surely questioning these assumptions is good for our civic involvement and for the lines.
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Saw the title and thought it was a site with DIY guides for blind people. Which would be pretty cool.
I was setting fairly important database with Zalando pg operator and after first good impressions it went downhill.
after like a month of use WAL files used for point in time recovery started failing to offload to dedicated nodes and kept growing on database pods filling up all the space.
I firstly assumed that maybe there is not enough space for some scheduled work (I do not really know details how this process work, I assumed that operator should handle all implementation details for me) but even after upscaling database 2.5x it just kept failing with full storage and requiring manual recovery to bigger storage, where most of it was WAL files.

HA didn't handled this case at all whole cluster went in crash loop

there was also issue of huge pages caused crashing and not easy way to disable those without some dirty injecting of config files at runtime

there could be some my fault at misconfiguration on by side, but I wasn't able to figure anything better from docs
+1

I usually do this when flying for work. Wallet, passport and phone in my pocket the whole flight. Anything else can be replaced.

If anything happened I'd hope to at least send a SMS to my wife to say "I'm safe".
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I can't imagine the level of leadership incompetence in any organization that would rely on Twitter to distribute urgent information. Seriously wtf?
I used to be neighbors with the owner of this business. Good people. Never in a thousand years would have expected to see this on HN though!
A big emphasis to the "if done right" part.

You should test your setup, because it's very often not done right, and it's easy to overlook a problem.
Improving Text Embeddings with Large Language Models
No, just no. K8s shouldn't be used to host database systems. Its main function is micro services.

Cloud provider provide managed versions of Postgres that are highly available. Even if you self host, Kubernetes isn't the answer.
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Too abusable. How about the platform owners actually pay people to enforce the existing guidelines?
Why? A good chunk of humanity showed via covid that they are not interested in inconveniencing themselves for potentially reducing overall harm to others.
Because of course, its an arms race.