skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From their clarifying response to their own comment : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38930441
It's a horrible title. "PC" means personal computer. It may be a bit pedantic, sure, but if you're going to write an article that talks about technical things, it really smarts to read such a glaringly non-technical title.
It is important to node here that by "Server" they mean the Discord logical server concept which may more generically be called a "community", "group" or "workspace". It has nothing to do with the physical compute architecture.

So a title that would make sense to people not familiar with Discord terminology could be:

> How Discord Serves 15M Members of a Single Workspace
I tried playing around with NixOS. Unfortunately I broke Plasma messing around trying to turn on Wayland.

Flakes are why I stopped and likely won't go back. I tried to add a flake that contained PragmataPro (a paid for font). Having a git repo was easy I just wouldn't push it anywhere to avoid copyright issues.

Figuring out the syntax to actually get the font files installed was maddening. It probably didn't help that I followed best practices and built some crazy cross compilation mechanism into my flake but it was almost impossible to figure out how to extract a zip file and then copy to the final destination. Well unless I downloaded the zip file then it was trivial...

Avoiding flakes except as an isolation point likely would have allowed me to stay engaged with the project. Might have to check this out if I ever feel the need again.

Yeah looks like callPackage is what I needed.
Possibly the additional time investment required to master two different throws vs learning a specialized throw for foul shots.
India plans to double its coal production, but it ignores climate threat
A WSJ editorial "The Military’s Phantom ‘Extremists’: An independent study puts to rest another false media narrative." archived at https://archive.is/GKVFD has the opposite interpretation of the report.
> The article says the public inquiry started in 2021 and is ongoing.

...?

That wont assuage the 700 people who were already wronged, 4 of whom committed suicide.

Damage has been done, the inquiry is too little too late, and I am confident nothing will come of it.
Great summary of the problem and solution! My question would be how do you get from the bloated org with weak communication values to a focused team WITH top-notch communication values?

Do you think that starts with a few empowered individuals in the working ranks, top-down leadership, or is it impossible to pivot?
Or replace user id with a hash, that way one could identify patterns without premature witch hunts.
They got a huge infusion from Microsoft, so not really.
Regarding 6 - this strikes me as not being a million miles off from using radiant heating methods to warm individuals. Would be very unusual to have in a house but you sometimes see them in churches in the UK and Europe where heating the space isn’t feasible.

Regarding 4 - https://www.granddesignsmagazine.com/grand-designs-houses/gr...
It's a way of doing stream processing that sacrifices a little bit of update latency for higher throughput and exactly-once processing semantics. Regular streaming has single-digit milli update latency, while microbatching has at least a few hundred millis update latency.

By "exactly-once processing semantics", I mean that regardless of how many failures are on the cluster (e.g. nodes losing power, network partitions), the updates into all partitions of all indexes will be as if there were no failures at all. Pure streaming, on the other hand, has either "at-least once" or "at-most once" semantics.
Hi nice to meet you I’m a 40 year old with no safety net but the one I made for myself

I was just out of for a year and had to live off savings and do small gigs. My community I’ve built on my own for the last 20 years (including my friend jacquesm) sent me money and bought me food and took me to the doctor…

Luckily I got a full time startup job a month before i was insolvent but i have to rebuild my finances

Oh and simultaneously I’m starting a residential waste cooperative that won’t make me any money by design

Risk taking tolerance can be taught but you need to have an unquenchable fire and be intelligent
So, the Expanse.
Regulators aren't convinced that Microsoft and OpenAI operate independently
Its actually damn near impossible to retrieve all of your photos/videos from icloud for a backup if you are using a windows machine to do so. It will constantly fail to sync fully, duplicate files, takes eons to download even on a fast connection, and there are bizarre file format conflicts with certain types of images. Very infuriating, and its been an issues for at least 5 years. 'Buy a mac if you want to actually adhere to proper backup standards' i guess this is the apple stance on the issue.
Yep, we are still generating bindings, but I don’t think that’s going to change anytime soon. WebAssembly to JavaScript is what the C ABI is to Python, with an additional bounce back to JavaScript land.
Argument holds validity, not!

> The company in its argument to the EU competition enforcer said it operates five App Stores on iPhones, iPads, Mac computers, Apple TVs and Apple Watches, with each designed to distribute apps for a specific operating system and Apple device.

This is absolutely true. Each OS has a different set of apps. And the catalog is different for each OS.

And this will now bite them hard. MacOS has alternative app stores from third parties. iPhone does not have an alternative app store. So iPhone is not following the same rule. Same argument goes for the iPad.

And if a simple OS filter can dictate the "number" of app stores Apple maintains, then allowing third party app stores is just another filter away. A new app store by --Company X-- can be added with its own catalog of apps and curation on the front page as well as its own search engine and own roster.

This will bite them hard.
My guess is those paths didn't have automated tests, or the automated tests missed some important aspect of real-world usage? Issues engineers working on the product ran into were way more likely to get fixed (among other things because reproducing the issue was easier) and almost all engineers primarily used Chrome.

(Not defending; trying to give background.)
They buy the game for the... game. The game is fun. The loading times are bad but don't affect gameplay once the game starts (for the most part, but they can in heists I guess). Still, they buy the game for the game content not for the loading times
Heroku took them away, or in the least took mine away, when they shut down their free tier.
They're responsible for using street legal cars, yes. But I don't see any taxi company being responsible if they used GM cars that turned out to have a defective ignition switch back in the day for example.

I assume airlines do some degree of due diligence and, I believe they choose the engine type if there are options available but you probably overestimate the ability of a business whose primary job is to ferry passengers from point A to point B to do a serious design verification of every tiny detail of an aircraft. And those details can be tiny; take the case of the Airbus engine disassembly mentioned elsewhere on this thread.
I explicitly addressed this in my last comment:

>Cars are still more dangerous than planes on a per-mile basis, but at the same time you're also traveling less miles on the car trip compared to the flight.
And moreso than passenger complaints. Passengers don't buy airplanes.

Boeing will listen to the airlines and the markets.
The planes are all flying IFR flight plans which are submitted in advance and include airplane type. How far in advance is a little bit random but still in advance of leaving the gate.
Girls don’t like Boys; Girls like Cars and Money.
I am the owner of this rogue washing machine.

If anyone has any ideas on how to investigate this, I'm open to ideas.
As of now, I've just blocked the internet access.
I read the comments before I watched the video and I'm actually way more optimistic about this now than I was expecting to be.

Yes, google or apple will probably ship LLMs on their phones eventually and make an overall more compelling product than Rabbit _if_ you're only willing to have one device.

Considering the relatively low price (and assuming they actually deliver it in a timely fashion) I can see this being useful as a pocket assistant between now and whenever google et al eventually catch up, and potentially past then if rabbit keeps innovating.
> Complaining there is only an Apple App Store is like buying a Ford and complaining Chevy parts don’t fit

Isn't a more apt comparison be that Ford does not allow Chevy to make and sell parts that fit to one of their vehicles.
This is a game changer. Looking forward to you expending to other LLMs.
Our production-ready, Twitter-scale Mastodon implementation in 100x less code than Twitter wrote to build the equivalent feature-set (just the consumer product) begs to differ that it's "a bunch of buzzwords". https://github.com/redplanetlabs/twitter-scale-mastodon
Undead platform continues to flail, news at 11.

Zombies have feelings too!
IIRC there is some evidence of hormonal changes related to some volatiles associated with certain types of plastics. That might have something to do with it. But Obesity can also easily be explained by more mundane things like terrible diet and lifestyle and there's a huge body of evidence to show that if you change those, you lose weight.

>So I don't think we know enough to say confidently that people aren't just dropping dead inexplicably.

Well proving a negative is impossible. Further research into the potential health effects is needed. But at this stage I think worrying over every report that we found plastic in more and more places isn't cause for alarm until we actually know its dangerous.
Hmm I would hope that the richest company in the world could build a better browser than anyone else and market it like no one else.

Except they didn't. Apple relied on their browser ban on iOS, on users not being able to set a default browser for 14 freakin' years.

Sorry, this is their own fault. Safari could be competitive, but if it turns out it isn't, it's on Apple and no one else.
Fujitsu provided shoddy software that was inadequate for the job, then lied about it. The Post Office threw hundreds of subpostmasters under the bus, rather than admit the issues in the system. Senior management at both the Post Office and Fujitsu should be in the dock.

There has only been 1 Fujitsu whistleblower (as far I am aware). Surely hundreds of IT people must have known?

The mainstream print media mostly seem to have ignored this scandal, perferring instead to write about celebrity tittle tattle (with a few honourable exceptions, such as Computer Weekly and Private Eye).

This scandal has been known for years. But only the recent TV drama seems to have forced most politicians to care about it (with a few honourable exceptions, such as Lord Arbuthnot).
Sort of! But also not really. If you want to get into this, I wrote a post about this: https://bernsteinbear.com/blog/typed-python/
Maybe https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/relations/
According to their wikipedia page, at least, Spirit AeroSystems are a Boeing spinoff in any case, and something like 85% of their sales is only to Boeing. It seems like corporate budget maneuver, and a distinction I, a member of the flying public, don't really care about.
MU archaeologists uncover bronze belt buckle linked to unknown pagan cult
Well, SpaceX kinda runs contrary to that. And who's to say they're wrong? Sexy rockets bring interest and make engineers proud.
> That seems unlikely given that both Apple and Google have been employing the world's top ML scientists for years, have unlimited budgets, have better access to customers than any startup.

Both of those companies had it handed to them, like, literally got completely smoked by OpenAI, a company with a thousand employees +/- in San Francisco. The giants are incredibly vulnerable, just like the giants that Google and Apple disrupted such as IBM, Yahoo, AOL, etc.
If, like me, your first question was "Which protein should I eat more of to avoid microplastics?", you can find the study's results graphed here: https://ars.els-cdn.com/content/image/1-s2.0-S02697491230223...
> Everybody agrees that FAA is not what it used to be, these days the Boeing engineers are basically self-certifying their planes.

I think Boeing /engineers/ would argue that statement and instead tell you that Boeing /management/ is self certifying the planes.
Google has extended RCS with proprietary extensions [1] including E2EE.

So there is plain RCS and Google RCS.

https://www.theverge.com/2023/11/30/23981350/google-messages...
More by force of law than willingly, really. Similar to what PSD2 defined in Europe. If they can charge for it, then the financial institutions that you deal with have an economically interesting tool against GenAI!
That's why I said it's an indication, and not an actual proof.
GTA online made I think a few billion dollars in microtransactions. It's one of the biggest money maker in gaming history and most of it is in post game purchase revenue.
This is the wrong assumption to make. I can tell you as someone with a powerful rig that is by no stretch a "slouch" sitting at 0% CPU and 0% GPU I have seen Youtube act like garbage for absolutely no reason. I've even had video playback skip ahead a second as well and it throws me off when watching videos.

> Get a faster computer

or... and keep up with me here. Google has been known to do A/B testing on users. Just because your part of "B" group that doesn't see it doesn't mean that it's not happening. It only means Google is artificially putting their thumb on the scale and I take serious issue with people handwaving issues with "get a better computer" Nothing is wrong with my computer and only Youtube has this issue, any other video platform does not do this so why is it only Youtube?
I wish i could be more bullish on GPTstore and what you've got here. It's hard for me to foresee these not getting rolled up into the "one all-knowing interface". Unless a GPT brings data that's truly unobtainable elsewhere and I still don't grok having multiple sources for things.

I'm sometimes very wrong about things like this. Very curious if that's the case this time.
I see this as less of a competitor to a smartphone, and more of a competitor to a Light Phone [1]. Seems like it might help folks avoid doom-scrolling in a similar way, while providing a higher level of functionality.

[1] https://www.thelightphone.com/shop/products/light-phone-ii-b...
That may not be the case. It could have been a personality clash, some manager wanting to shake things up a bit, or maybe despite the good will Yihui Xie has with the community they may have been unpleasant to work with.

Tech work, from engineering to programming to grunt work, is a lot about your skills and talent, but it is much more about your ability to integrate with your coworkers, to get along with others, and create a pleasant atmosphere.

If you fail that, regardless of whether it is your fault or not, it can easily lead to the end of your employment with that company.

Of course, if your company makes life unpleasant for you, then make your escape plan and quit asap
> 2% profit would be a banner year for Samsung. 85% reduction from that would not be that notable.

Which history? The last 20 years have been extraordinarily lucrative in semiconductors. All eras aren't the same and today's semiconductor business - which is heavily consolidated and gigantic - is not similar to the distant past.

A normal operating profit margin for the semiconductor business is 15-30%. No healthy semiconductor business today is routinely operating at sub 5% operating income margins.

2% profit isn't a banner year, that's a bad year for any relevant semiconductor company of the last quarter century.

Intel, Taiwan Semi, Nvidia, Qualcomm, Texas Instruments, ASML, Analog Devices, LAM, KLA, Broadcom, NXP, ON Semi

Take a look at their operating profit margins. Nobody in that sector with a normal to healthy business is operating anywhere close to a 2% profit. Nearly all the majors more routinely operate with abnormally fat profit margins compared to other types of business.

ASML has a 30%+ operating income margin.

Nvidia has historically been around 15-25% operating income margin, and are now approaching 50%.

The average operating income margin for Intel over the past 25 years is closer to 20-25%.

Taiwan Semi is at 40-45% operating income margin.

Qualcomm is at 20%.

Texas Instruments is over 40%.

Analog Devices is at 30%.

Applied Materials is at 30%. KLA is at 35-40%. LAM is at 25-30%.

Broadcom is at 40%.

NXP is at 20-30%.

ON is at 20-30%.

These are normal margins today for semis. And you could cut them in half and they're still drastically above the low single digit area.
Ah, yes. Where adopting a fringe belief isn't enough, we need to force it on other people, too.
It will conclude in the 2030s, when anybody who could have been held accountable is long dead, or retired and overseas or too infirm to stand trial. This is how it goes in the U.K., far too frequently - particularly when public bodies or government connected parties are involved.

They also aren’t typically about finding fault or figuring out who to blame, and don’t often result in criminal proceedings - they are about preventing reoccurrence.
P != NP.

Link and everyone can look, but I sure 'ain't gonna search for this "reliable data" and then try to figure out if what I find is or isn't, in fact, reliable.
It's a private platform. Freedom of speech doesn't mean freedom from consequences. [XKCD showing affected pundits the door] https://xkcd.com/1357/
>I don't really understand

Really? They have a massive pipeline built on generating content for their sites 100% dependent on mining Twit...er,X. It's really easy to understand if you're being honest about the situation. Just because you don't like the content doesn't mean the masses of sheeple feel the same way
Wasm isn't a replacement for JavaScript. I think it's clever to leverage JavaScript as an interface to an ever-changing and extremely broad suite of native browser APIs, and keep Wasm small, fast, and secure.
Sure.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fatal_accidents_and_in...

You'll note the last time a major carrier in the U.S. experienced a fatality due to an engineering, manufacturing, and/or design error attributable to Boeing was in 1996, when a spark in the center fuel tank in a 747 caused it to explode midair.

Before that, 1994. Then 1991, 1989, and 1988.

We did also see one fatality aboard a 737-700 in 2018, but this was due to an issue with the CFM engine and which isn't attributable to Boeing.

Given this, it's pretty obvious on face value that—however you slice it—flying on a Boeing airframe on a major U.S. carrier is safer than every other form of transportation, including literally just walking. Driving, buses, trains, trams, bicycling, scootering, ziplining, whatever. They're all less safe.
Last time I searched on Google for some decent blog search engine I couldn't find one. People say Google Custom Search is good, you can also see Marginalia and Kagi getting mentioned a lot. I didn't try neither of them, well except Marginalia but I think Marginalia prefers text only search results but modern blogs are not text only. There was good HN blog search project[0] but it is dead now.

I think most probably blog search engine wouldn't be viable as a commercial product but some hobbyist can definitely pull it off. Good example is listennotes.com a hobbyist search engine for podcasts.

I had a decent idea for a blog search engine, I will try to pull it off if time and health serve me.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30844149
Could not they do that by arguing their chip requires using only ARM-SAFE apps?
Very often the first launch of an entirely new rocket is sent up with only a "mass simulator", so anything of scientific or R&D value that could go up instead of a boilerplate satellite is a bonus.
>I ask you to carefully consider that responsibility in the hands of government bureaucrats, which are generally of low skill and intelligence,

Bro you have posted this on an article where GOOGLE fucked up PARSING A USER AGENT STRING to the point they deliver an empty HTML document. What feature on the Google search page even NEEDS such feature switching based on user agent? Google search worked pretty well on internet explorer 4 for heavens sake

But please, keep telling me how private sector is so much less incompetent than the public sector
Part of the problem is that for historical reasons the post office can charge and prosecute people without the police needing to investigate.

The post office was a part of the country /government (I’m not sure what the right term is tbh) and it was privatised but kept those powers.
This comment misses the mark so badly it's actually hilarious.

The main problem here is Boeings steady decline in QA.

And no, panic and fear were not the drivers behind MAX inception. Greed was
> Offline is very hard. A lot of bugs happened due to trying to make Horizon v1 work with flaky or very slow connections, and losing transactional consistency as a result. The SOTA here has barely advanced since the 90s, instead the industry has just given up on this and now accepts that every so often there'll be massive outages that cause parts of the economy to just shut down for a few hours when the SPOF fails. Should there be more focus on how to handle flaky connectivity in mission-critical apps safely?

If there's a network partition you have two options: accept reduced availability and keep your consistency, or have better availability and have reduce node consistency. Not much else you can do, that's just life.

Obviously, ways to increase consistency with consensus algorithms etc with 2 phase commits, and you reduce consistency with consensus algorithms. Depends on your requirements.
I liked the vibe, but I felt like it was either poorly written or my reading skills need help.

The pronouns were very confusing. The author used "they" to replace he/she, and I often couldn't tell if a sentence referred to the main character or a group.

I became frustrated and put the book down.
The thing is, all self checkout systems have remote access like that.

When I was at Kroger, corporate demanded that you never use it and instead walk over to every single kiosk every time and go through the ordeal of logging into maintenance mode and fixing the problem.

The software tracked how many times you did a remote action and you'd get chewed out for it.

That's why you have to wait for the single employee to fix 12 machines one at a time. It's not a technical limitation at all. Corporate thinks that the "personal" interaction is more valuable than immediately fixing your problem with no waiting.

Aldi respects your time. Kroger et al only care about MY BRAND
There is an excellent Computerphile video discussing some of the issues in the Horizons software system at the heart of this scandal:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hBJm9ZYqL10
Its even in Excel nowadays!!
I hadn't heard about Amazon in court but curious to see what you and others in this thread are referencing with this comparison.

Is it about this article? Maybe you would have another link I can read about what silly thing Amazon tried? https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2023/09/...

Thanks!
Where can I find more information about managed data types in WebAssembly?
Because I know I'd feel much more miserable during the flight compared to being on an A320. (Not that I'll feel comfortable then, I hate flying on single-aisle planes in general.)
> Ian Hislop (the editor) is apparently the most sued man in history! (I may be exaggerating).

Wikipedia says he's in the Guinness Book of Records for that but equally a whole bunch of links say it's unverified (and I believe he himself has said he isn't recently.)