skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Due to the quorum requirements, probability of failure increases with larger quorum sizes

Well, that's not true due to two key design points:

- Size of the read or write quorum can be chosen on a per transaction basis depending on what level of availability and consistency you want. The design goal is to lower the likelyhood of the minimum number of quorum members you need for your transaction will not be available.

- Given the transaction processing nodes are ephemeral and independent from storage nodes, if a transaction processing node which is designated as a member of a quorum dies, it can be quickly and instantly replaced with a new one and all in-flight operations will be retried by the smart clients.
Todo lists can quickly become wishlists. The initial enthusiasm for a hobby turns into extremely unrealistic grand plans which then lead to disappointment when the lofty goals aren't met.

Try to keep your planning focus on now and next. What will you do today and what's the next step. Don't try to make a year step by step plan because the new knowledge you gain will inevitably change your original plan.

For me, ADHD was a huge part of my over planning problem. I knew I had issues finishing things, so I thought time management books and todolists would help. They did not. If you feel inhibited by your lack of focus and ability to do things then don't hesitate to get checked out by a professional.
And the remote user's authentication is handled, how? And the routing, NAT, and discovery of your server's private IP address is handled?
It's called "taste".
You don't need mental gymnastics, and you don't need to believe that people can own ideas or that they should be commodified (though it's fine if you do). You just need to understand that people deserve credit for the ideas they came up with. This is particularly important for academics, who live or die by their ideas.
Does it actually work now if you img2img your input files, or do any type of detection that a tool like Nightshade may be in use?
This, plus I log all terminal output:

script -q "$LOGDIR/$LOGTIME.log" --timing="$LOGDIR/$LOGTIME.timing"

The log files are noisy with ANSI codes, but they can be stripped, and I only refer to the logs extremely rarely (but when I do, it's extremely useful).
The number of digits in their bank account.
Same but for intelligence
Ask HN: Sites like HN for game development?
Heh. This problem reminds me of back in 2019 when I was working with Shawn Presser on finetuning GPT-2 using Google Colab - there was a problem where it would randomly error out every once in a while, but also it would take like 10 minutes to redownload the last saved checkpoint from our server IIRC and it would take minutes to save the current checkpoint, so the question was, how often should we save to minimize the time spent restoring+saving? I did a bit of algebra and I think we wound up with an answer like '40 minutes'!

DL infrastructure & training practices have gotten better since then...
The World Hasn't Seen Cicadas Like This Since 1803
It is. But just because you speak English doesn't mean you use sarcasm constantly. Sarcasm is a lazy way of communicating in almost any language. It reveals lazy thinking and poor vocabulary. I never assume someone is using sarcasm when they could actually be speaking intelligently, albeit with a common grammatical error.
The real internet died long ago. Even if the content you see was made by a real human, chances are it's been reposted a million times by bots, quite commonly strategically in order to evoke certain emotions.
An app like "Share via HTTP" does that for you.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.MarcosDiez...
I recommend spending a night in Wengen (nearby Lauterbrunnen). It has stunning upclose mountain scenery; better than Grindelwald or Interlaken IMO.
Apple don't even have to sell server hardware. They could build an IaaS service relatively easily and undercut every existing cloud Mac company on price. Easy win for next quarter profits too. Maybe they don't want to be a cloud provider, but they're missing out on a lot of money.
The functionality described by the person you are replying to is part of all Apple devices. It also works without being on the same messengig app and without having the recipient in your contacts in the first place.

Another example for AirDrop use cases is transferring large media files to another device. People use that all the time for moving recordings to their editing computer, for example. Even if you have all your stuff in the cloud (which not everyone does) - it‘s much faster to do a local transfer than uploading and downloading something like a high res raw video from a modern phone.
The problem with grey is that it's blue-ish and therefore feels dark and cold.

greige fixes that.
I'm currently halfway through The Idea Factory: Bell Labs & the Great Age of American Innovation by Jon Gertner. The stories and characters behind all the inventions and ideas are absolutely fascinating, as is the culture they cultivated there. Definitely recommended!
They were quoting the article, which complains that "shells are too slow to start", with examples of running echo in non-interactive shells.

Nobody is talking about the startup time of interactive shells.
I find this to be a common defense in depth trap. A lot of engineering effort get threw at the wrong layer, when the problem can be much more efficiently solved on another layer.

It renders the whole organization working in fear -- When you have to worry about the system inserting password in plaintext into a database table, there are also a million other terrible things that can go wrong in this system, like what if your DBA copy-paste a SQL from stackoverflow? There's just endless work.

If your org has incompetence engineers, then maybe just don't let them implement their own authentication system. Use popular open source frameworks and/or buy a commercial product.
I found this headline annoying at a visceral level. This wasn't click bait, it was click hate. I vote we just remove the title of this post, leave it blank.
As someone who's been in vaguely comparable situations a # of times, but much shorter & less extreme, I've learned this distinction:

Autonomy = bring supplies, and go without outside help for X (but limited) amount of time.

Self-sufficiency = provide for one's own needs, without outside help. Potentially indefinite.

Note that one can be self-sufficient for some (like water), while not for other things (like food or fuel).

Yes, this distinction is somewhat fuzzy. But it's pretty clear where this woman's adventure fits in.

That said: impressive feat!
How Google made it easy to solve biggest emails problem in Gmail
this is a video which tells you how to put M.2 SSD into pre-made NVMe->CFExpress adapter [0]. Pretty low information density overall.

[0] https://www.amazon.com/Sintech-Mini-SATA-mSATA-Adapter/dp/B0...
Was reading about Blank Street Coffee raising money recently to compete:

https://www.fastcompany.com/90867251/blank-street-coffee-rai...
Sky's Industrial-Scale Pirate IPTV Blocking Becomes a War of Attrition
The space-hardened POWER CPU was in Perseverance.

Some info from Wikipedia:

> The rover's computer uses the BAE Systems RAD750 radiation-hardened single board computer based on a ruggedized PowerPC G3 microprocessor (PowerPC 750). The computer contains 128 megabytes of volatile DRAM, and runs at 133 MHz. The flight software runs on the VxWorks operating system, is written in C and is able to access 4 gigabytes of NAND non-volatile memory on a separate card.
Life is built on inequality, but HBR wants to guilt us into all going back to the office out of some sense of equality? What a fucking joke. The only group this benefits are those at the very top. Either that or my commute is included in my working hours. I'll never go back to the office and wasting so much time commuting per week and not being compensated.
This is an argument against pursuing equitability as an end in and of itself
Apple entering the server space feels like the kind of distraction I’m critical of businesses falling for.

I’m not sure I’m a fan of most Apple stuff these days, but I think they do very well staying focused on premium consumer gadgets.
BusPirate V5 Now Shipping
The final (Rev 10) version of BusPirate V5 is shipping.
As with anything, the services are geared towards the populous and there 85% just don't care.

We will have to continue to make our own casinos for real black jack and hookers.
Actually if you're talking about the US there are actually laws that prevent small developments; it's not just financials.
Yes. I think is key to re-assess assumptions about what a job or role profile "should be" and make the requirements and expectations flexible to make room for those differences.
This could have been an interesting talk (as have been past ones, like their recent cockroach one), but winds up being too filled with superficial banter and more interested in judging the past than reporting it.
Is there a Bell Labs of today? If so who or where?
Replying to myself. I did some digging and figured it out - the shell itself truncates the return value to an 8 bit unsigned number. If you have a simple program that consists of only "return -96;" the shell will still report a return value of 160.
This also drops the bar for other space agencies, from other countries and private alike. Getting cheaper hardware also means more launches and more testing. Instead of sendind a multi million project to space, you can send basically a smartphone (an epheumism, ofc) and some big antennas, and do it in bulk
Adversarial optimization as a field is one that is very hyped by the media, but I am entirely unimpressed by it and most ML researchers I know are likewise bearish.

None of these techniques are general to all models (obviously) nor do they typically withstand adding a very small amount of noise to the image.
We have loads more data available. For text, as LLMs start to converse constantly with users and receive direct feedback, this unlocks more and better data.

Multimodal (image/video, audio) is barely being scratched. You likely could 100x training compute and not run out of video content.

Not to mention synthetic data from simulators, compilers, and other sources of infinite ground truth data.

If you listen to the big labs (OpenAI, FAIR, etc) they have started to say they are not worried about data anymore.

Quite obviously, at some point you put the agents out into the real world and they can collect new training data there too; this is what all the ChatGPT plugins are allowing OpenAI to do. The plugins that give good responses which are valuable will be disproportionately popular and therefore overrepresented in the new training set of user interactions.
I don't think it's that building: the visual description matches, but Brownsville has (thus far) resisted the gentrification that the author describes in the associated area.

My educated guess is that the building in question is somewhere in Williamsburg, Greenpoint, or maybe Bushwick.
I find it so insane that in 2023 you still have to be on Apple to have the following experience:

* I have a file on a device I own.

* I wish to send it to another device.

* I send it.

On Windows, it is still regularly true that the easiest way to send X from one laptop to another one, FIVE FEET AWAY, is via Dropbox or Gmail.

This was technically easy twenty years ago. It's a concrete proof that collective action problems are alive and well in software.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Souffl%C3%A9_(programming_lang...

https://github.com/souffle-lang/souffle
AI Means Kids Should Learn Good Judgment, Not Code, Centerview Founder Says
Right, for example if I was shopping right now a house elevator would be a huge positive to me as my daughter is a wheelchair user and will be getting more difficult to carry up and down the stairs.

That said as someone who was in a lot of middle class and upper class homes due to a previous job, I saw exactly one elevator in a single family home. I doubt it would even factor into the price because most people would have no interest in even using the elevator beyond a novelty.
The original Elon Musk biography describes how a legacy aerospace engineer joined spacex and was tasked with a part:

> He got a quote back for $120,000. “Elon laughed,” Davis said. “He said, 'That part is no more complicated than a garage door opener. Your budget is five thousand dollars. Go make it work.’”
They used the hardened PowerPC for the rover, similar to previous mars rovers and the Snapdragon chip for the helicopter.
Some more numbers (in German), sorted by states and cities:

https://www.tagesschau.de/inland/demos-gegen-rechts-bilanz-1...
https://archive.is/2024.01.19-180554/https://www.bloomberg.c...
Can you give an example of a device that has an end-user accessible shell, but not an end-user accessible browser? Every iOS device is the opposite.
> I'm happy to use heuristics, but Victorian England also included uncomfortable starched collars and crinolines; having yourself mummified is not a great deviation.

Oh, but it was. Wearing a starched collar in Victorian England did not make you a weirdo by the standard of the times, while having yourself mummified did.

I personally like people who are a little weird, but I don't pretend that they're not weird.

And yes, a lot of human behavior seems weird when seen from a distance.
Given my experiences with Catholics, I have a hard time believing it isn’t just as common across Christianity as a whole, at least in the US. And in that sense I would sooner say it is a failing of teaching and faith in The Lord, that atheist (and thus hedonistic) thoughts are more pervasive and people believe they can “trick the system” in the future.
False vulnerability claims based on non-viable attack patterns
To a certain extent participation in organised religion is an indicator of the propensity of the subject to be manipulated.
There was a maintained Firefox containers extension that worked well for me. Even logged into sites would be fooled that it was not me logging in with my username/password and 2nd factor. It is no longer maintained.

Their solution was to use Chrome.

Someone mentioned yesterday using the extension which clicks all advertisements. There is a long list of anti fingerprinting extensions.
>though they sound more "math-ey" than engineering-ey

Isn't math necessary for most real-world engineering, and even in CS research? And what were you expecting? You asked for a cutting edge Bell-Labs type of R&D place, and that's what research is all about, even in CS.

You'll work with a lot of new yet-unproven theoretical concepts for which you need a lot of math to prove they have a high chance of working in practice and being better than existing solutions, before someone approves budget for the costly development and implementation of an actual product.
You think you're not mainstream, but your whole spiel is written in imperialist, anitsemitic tropes, which Russia is so well-known for. Corrupt police in Russia not persecuting drug dealers? A true underground. Human rights abuses? All par of the course.

Here's what my country lost with your 'union': our occupiers, abusers, and enslavers. 'The time' already showed us what's what. Good riddance.
How Jim Simons' Trading Strategies Made 66% a Year (Medallion Fund Algorithm)
While the app sounds interesting, any takes on the theory behind the so-called planning poker? Why Fibonacci numbers? Why not "probabilities" like one would do in "real" poker, risk analysis, etc.?
Big discussion a month ago: "SMTP Smuggling – Spoofing Emails Worldwide"[0] (289 points, 73 comments)

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38727987
I don't think it reduces the physical effects so much as makes you -feel- the cold less and therefore be more able to keep going.

Let's never find out.
The rules haven't changed, its just that its always about the details.

Most services, short of financial ones, choose to sacrifice consistency for availabilty. Example being social networks, it doesn't matter if I get "inconsistent" social media feeds depending on where I am because my European friends posts haven't had time to propogate across the database shard.

OTOH financial systems, you best believe they are going to choose consistency 9 times out of 10. Exceptions being being very small amounts. I don't want someone to exploit network/node downtime in order to steal millions of dollars.

But the reality is that network outages, rarely last very long. Then its just a matter of making sure the nodes themselves are reliable.
The thinking is if they have a kid then they’re the victims of heartless monsters (e.g. me) who expect them to work at the same level of professionalism as people who don’t have kids.
You are laughably hilarious or deliberate. Israel is doing an actual genocide - a terrorist attack on 10/7 is not a genocide.

But killing tens of thousands, marketing it as “mowing the lawn” and cutting off power, food, safety, hospitals, religious facilities… is a f-ing genocide.

Stop pretending israel is just “responding” to 10/7 attacks. No response, even if the real “responses” began in 1916/7 and later in the 40’s… no “response” ever deserves a genocide.
It was a PoC, I assume mission critical hardware will go through the same vetting, hardening, etc processes that they currently do.

It does bode well for sending cheaper "nice to have" experiments on missions, though.
The question of poverty vs. instability
Prestige AI labs. But for hardware? I am not sure.
I’m sure those Somali pirates would pay no attention to them!
If you mean u-substitution in definite integrals, that is something called the change of variables theorem. I think you mean indefinite integrals or antiderivatives, and I think you're asking for an explanation with using the "du/dx" sort of notation. Here's a quick explanation which may be more than you wanted to know. :-)

You have ∫ f(g(x)) g'(x) dx. [So it might be something like ∫ [cos(x^2)] (2 x) dx, where f(x) = cos x and g(x) = x^2.] You do the u-substitution u = g(x), so u'(x) = g'(x):

∫ f(g(x)) g'(x) dx = ∫ f(u) u'(x) dx

You want to say that the second integral is ∫ f(u) du -- essentially (to go back to "fractional" derivative notation), you want to do (du/dx) dx = du to get rid of the x's. Why is this justified?

Let F(u) = ∫ f(u) du: F is the antiderivative of f. By definition of the antiderivative, F'(u) = f(u). So by the Chain Rule,

d/dx F(u) = F'(u) u'(x) = f(u) u'(x).

But since F(u) = ∫ f(u) du differentiates to f(u) u'(x), by definition F(u) is the antiderivative of f(u) u'(x). But the antiderivative of f(u) u'(x) is ∫ f(u) u'(x) dx. So putting all this stuff together,

∫ f(g(x)) g'(x) dx = ∫ f(u) u'(x) dx = F(u) = ∫ f(u) du.
The review references a NY Mag profile that I also found to be good Graeber background. https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2021/11/david-graeber-dawn-o...
What Stops Learning? think about removing barriers
It’s very common in South Korea as well as in Jewish and Muslim populations globally.

Your comment reflects a very Europe-centric view of the world.
It’s better now that you can choose only to expose it to contacts, and only enable it for “everyone” for a limited time. I seem to remember in the past you could leave “everyone” enabled indefinitely, evident anytime you stood in a crowd.
No. Your second sentence is not in the slightest implied by your first. Try again.
At the same time that RAM costs have plateau'd and seem to be going up, non-volatile storage prices and speeds have been getting better and better.

We need more software engineering progress on paging & persistent storage systems.
Well, you don't have to use the two pane mode if you don't want anyway. You can switch to single pane mode, use the second pane for file info, use the second pane as a directory tree in the manner of a "regular" single pane explorer, etc.

To perform your "copy, navigate, paste" task while in mc's single pane mode you could either:

a) tag files, pop open the second pane temporarily, navigate and copy.

b) tag files, swap the panes in the background, navigate and copy.

c) tag files, use the bindings to copy them to the inbuilt command line, navigate and copy. Using the "quick cd" dialog would probably speed this up.

d) any of the above with inverted target and source movement.

e) probably a thousand other more sensible ways than the three or cheat-y six I just thought of ;)
I'm describing regular sit down restaurants. Everything about the restaurant is the same except ordering with the waiter is replaced with a webpage you order off of. The QR code even automatically enters your own table number since each table's QR code is unique. The PDF thing sounds super lazy, thankfully never come across that before.
How high are the costs and how much can you reduce them before you reach diminishing returns? Will it reach zero?
I second this. I discovered Djot last year and it's been my preferred markdown ever since. Very extensible, easily parsable.
Yeah, Covid will probably result in waves of refresh.

Anecdote wise, my corp forced a refresh in Q4 so I expect a crest is coming in 2024.
Any prestige research lab - MS, Google, OAI, etc.
Above it’s noted at being north of 300gb, most cheap cloud providers will give you quite a bit of bandwidth for a 300gb server.
>You see similar things all over the place.

It's called society. If most people didn't follow other people (or demand it!) we would not have societies at all. We'd be individualistic animals, or at best small tribes.

>It's also dehumanizing

You're completely wrong. People copying and following the path of others is one of the reasons we've dominated earth. Only a very small portion of us are risk takers that make new trends that others follow.
> The term "conspiracy theory" is stop-think. The government only has to use the label in order to discredit a claim of wrong-doing.

I don't think so. The government calling something a conspiracy theory does not discredit a theory automatically – in fact it could lead to the polar opposite. If your theory is legit and other people can check it objectively a government calling it a conspiracy theory likely leads to more eyeballs checking that thing and if it is not someones anti-government-fan-fiction it might gain traction. The best move a government can make when someone has a legit conspiracy theory that has some factual basis is don't make any public statements about it.

Conspiracy narratives (the word theory should be reserved for things that can be actually replicated) are good when the government wants to muddy the waters, but to do so they don't have to call things a conspiracy theory, they just have to sow the right seeds and let the right people disocover it.

That being said, when I hear conspiracy theory, I typically think about people who have a believe, ignore objective facts that don't fit said believe and cherrypick "evidence" that does. And half of those people don't believe this themselves, they are in it for the greater fool. It isn't called a conspiracy theory, because it is a theory about a conspiracy, it is called a conspiracy theory, because every fact speaking against it can be explained by a big enough conspiracy.

That doesn't mean there are no real conspiracies and actual historic, scientific and/or journalistic ways of pinning those down. It just means that what we commonly call "conspiracy theorists" aren't good at not lying to themselves (something good journalists, historians and scientists are good at).