skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree, in this case it's hard to defend against a rogue script or container image, as you need to give it read-write access to your source code, so it could add a malicious payload to your source code or install a Git hook to break out of the container into your host or get some malicious source code onto your company's Git server.

There are measures that could defend against this (run all your development tools inside containers, and mandatory PRs with reviews) but they are probably beyond many/most developers are willing to do security-wise.

There are a lot of scenarios where I think security through isolation/containerization makes a lot of sense (e.g. for code analysis tools, end-user applications like video games, browsers, etc.) but not too much for this particular one.
What is notable about this specific exoplanet?
I live in one of the "any other states" (Washington) without a car quite comfortably. A lot of us can't or don't drive. It's nice to not have to put up with car insurance companies.
It seems kind of like a scam, though, credit card rewards. I don’t know enough about it, I generally don’t like participating in those sorts of things. Do you have a ref on the 95%?
Here’s a dose of reality:

https://www.star-telegram.com/opinion/opn-columns-blogs/othe...

We can be ideological, and ignore this, or realistic and face the challenges head-on.

The only way we achieve a clean energy future is by being brutally honest, because that’s the only way we solve real problems.
GP isn't saying "non economically profitable neighbourhoods are non white."

GP is saying that white non-economically-profitable neighbourhoods get no protection from that rule.
Oh, right. I missed the point of that step on first read.
Yes. They need less oversight, more training (particularly in tech and tech-adjacent issues) and more power over curriculum.
I think awkwardness results when the goal of the interaction is unclear.

Say I go to buy a coffee. It's never awkward: I step up to the counter, spell out my order, the server acknowledges that and tells me the cost, I pull out my credit card and pay. Very clear cut and not awkward. It's almost like a video game: I have a few stock phrases, I choose from them as does my partner, we complete the interaction, it's all very smooth.

The awkwardness comes in my experience when I'm standing in front of someone and the way it should go is ambiguous. Are we... close? Going to become friends? Will there a follow-up? Is this interaction a prelude to dating? What would that mean??

I can think of two types of interaction that are often awkward that nicely demonstrate this: first dates, and job interviews.

Note that, if you can remove the ambiguity, you can also remove the awkwardness, in my experience anyway.
You may like Haiku, which maintains backwards compatibility with ancient beos while still being posix system.

Never used it myself, just repeating what heard.
Was about to ask if you had k8s api models available internally, and that someone should create some tool to generate that from the spec. But turns out it already exists in the open!

https://github.com/apple/pkl-k8s-examples
Nooo :'(
Maybe not your software
Quite likely, but I have never, not once, found myself thinking "thank heavens we're not getting raises anymore".
Why does it matter whether they're biased if they're correct? Plenty of short sellers are biased (massively so) yet that doesn't necessarily undermine their analysis.
minified version courtesy of GPT-4
(disclaimer I have no clue how this works)

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We don't have a "docker dependency" - we run OCI containers. You're equating Docker which is a tooling eco system with containers.

Containers have been around for a LONG time, Solaris, jails, cgroups, etc are all built-in to the kernels we use today.

You don't need to use docker.

The idea is fungible services, whether it's literally just a container that starts with a go binary I can quickly scale 1000s of COMPLETELY independent processes and ORCHESTRATE THEM over thousands of clusters from one centralized system.

If I need to shift 1000s of that one go binary to US-WEST-1 because US-EAST-1 is down I can run automate it or run one command based on a kubernetes tag label and shift traffic.

These are just a few of the massive benefits we get with containers.

I can deploy an ENTIRE datacenter with a yaml file. My ENTIRE companies infrasture MTTR (mean time to recovery) from a total outage, starting from a github repo is less than 35 minutes and we're a billion dollar company and 80% of that time is starting load balancers and clusters. The only NOT agnostic hardware stuff in any of this are the load balancers and network related things as each provider has its own apis, IAM/Policies, etc that are completely unique between providers/datacenters. Nothing cares about what ram, distro, cpu or anything else is being used, we can deploy anywhere ARM or x86.

Without containers I would need a $150k F5 load balancer to distribute load between a ton of $30k dell poweredeges (and I'd need this x1000's).

I've been in Infrastructure for 15+ years at massive scale, webhosts, cdns, I do NOT want to go back to not using containers ever. None of my team writes any non container code or infra. The FIRST thing we do in every single repo is make a dockerfile and docker-compose.yml to easily work on things and every single server any company has in the last decade of my SRE career we've migrated to containers and never once regretted it.
what a waste of time.
Microsoft's Astonishing Transformation into a Tech Titan
The point of the article seems to be that the minimum coverage rates people are required to get don't come close to paying the medical bills of car accident victims. It's not a consumer argument, it's an argument about externalities.
I've been a C++ dev for most of my career. Not looking to change jobs at the moment, and I like C++ a lot. We still occasionally start new projects in C++ where I work. I've tinkered with rust in my spare time, but never introduced it at work. I think the borrow checker is a fantastic tool, but Rust has just never been the right tool for the domain we're in.

But I'm a bit confused by your statement. There's a lot of overlap in the domains that C++ and Rust serve. Isn't it a good thing for job candidates to have an interest in learning about other approaches to their work? To understand what makes C++ better or worse than Rust in difference circumstances?

Why would a mere mention of Rust be a red flag?
“rips” -> “kilorips” etc.
CIOs weigh the new economics and risks of cloud lock-in (2023)
Apple Vision Pro: First Impressions
After using the Apple Vision Pro yesterday I wanted to write down what I thought about it so far.
I think some clarity in terminology may be required here.

Those cabins in MT are not in anything that could ever be called "suburbia".

Suburbia has its problems (many of them), but we're talking about a different class of living here: actual rural living, with neighbors a mile (or miles) away, no infrastructure other than dirt roads etc.
This has happened to me while living and travelling in the Northern Triangle of Central America in the 2010s which at that time were the unsafest not-at-war countries of the world.

Depending on the time of the day and location I just ran errands with only the smallest amount of cash needed and an old phone. And sometimes I kept an emergency $1 bill to pay the bus in my socks . If I was robbed, the most they could get from me was the small cash I had on hand.

As money became electronic, organized crime changed tactics, and instead of only taking money from victims, they'd take the victims to ATMs to withdraw all their funds. Banks then reacted by limiting withdrawals at about $300 in ATMs depending on the risk of the area.
What would even be the point of existence anymore once FTL is figured out? Just curious.

Seems like it would just remove any grandeur about the universe entirely.
Just saw a demo of this last week. The most exciting use case was when multiple tags “programs” composed. For example, one program measures a value, passes that to one that accumulates values, and another that plots.

I think there is a very cool version of this where the primitives are simpler and easier to compose (the composition demo I saw was a bit difficult to pull off). Then, rather than program the purpose of individual tags, you can create programs physically on the table
Wikipedia is non-profit and so is https://theguardian.com. Do you LOL at them, too?

In fact till mid-1993, with a few unimportant exceptions (Clari-Net, early "retail" ISPs like Netcom) the entire Internet, which was already the largest network of computers by a comfortable margin, was non-profit.
This post was intended as a source of information for developers who might want to implement vector networks in their own projects.

Back in 2018 I wanted to support vector networks in my animation editor project, but had a really hard time finding information. I didn't have a math or CS background, so just knowing what concepts to Google was somewhat of a brick wall. Googling "vector networks" didn't yield any useful results, because there weren't any resources discussing them (aside from marketing content from Figma). So in writing this post, I wanted to create the resource I needed back then.
Typical american crud bs.

Make an app get VC money and jump ship to cool new tech.

Had great potential but sadly went tits up.

I wonder why no good CRUDs come from europe. But then i remember they are busy moping.
This book? Jeremy rifkin 2010, The Empathic Civilization: The Race to Global Consciousness In a World In Crisis, Jeremy P. Tarcher, ISBN 1-58542-765-9
Redox OS Porting More Linux Software Over, Including Cosmic Apps
...without the cruft and needless complexity of Angular 1 ;)
It only works one way though (at least in this case). If you know C++ you can quickly become proficient in Rust.

But not the other way around.
> People can still have their analog phone directly connected to the socket in their house but now their call will be a VoIP call. Not sure where the transition from the analog signal to VoIP happens, but I guess it's a the end of the customers copper line.

The transition happens at the telephone exchange, or possibly occasionally in a FTTN/FTTC outdoor cabinet. And it only works that way if you're really only using a plain phone line without internet access. Otherwise, the transition needs to happen in your router.
Facebook: social over random content. Streaming services: commissioned content. Arguably non-monetized YouTube: where its used simply for its utility of serving video.
That's not the issue. The issue is that in the regions where you do have good public transit, most of the drivers are commuting from places that don't. So until those areas have at least decent access to public transit, you risk excluding people from those areas from economic opportunities in the city.

So you still need a comprehensive public transit system. It doesn't need to be super regular or blazing fast but it needs to be viable enough that commuters can still commute if they can't get a license.
> Say I go to buy a coffee. It's never awkward

Baristas and prostitutes are paid to be nice to customers.

That's not the same as a cocktail party. Well . . . not ones I've been to, at least.
I don't see where the person said that some feature was added to SvelteKit on behalf of Vercel.
> For years after I purchased a new car, my car insurance was basically half of my car payment

Different cars have very different insurance rates, it’s a big part of the TCO. If you aren’t rich enough not to care, insurance rates need to be considered early on in any car purchase decision. I don’t even know how much my car insurance costs because it’s too small to matter because I have a basic paid-off car that’s cheap to insure.
Wikipedia has short section for this

> Aperiodic frequency is the rate of incidence or occurrence of non-cyclic phenomena, including random processes such as radioactive decay. It is expressed with the unit of reciprocal second (s⁻¹)[14] or, in the case of radioactivity, becquerels.[15]

> It is defined as a rate, f = N/Δt, involving the number of entities counted or the number of events happened (N) during a given time duration (Δt);[citation needed] it is a physical quantity of type temporal rate.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frequency#Aperiodic_frequency
Related, thinking out loud:

Why is the following timeline counterfactual (as far as I know) for basically all household appliances:

1. it was invented
2. it was commercialized
3. some decades of varying modes of specialization, advancement, innovation
4. reach technological maturity/saturation
5. open source designs with idiot-proof manuals emerge
6. everyone uses the open source versions
7. maybe a freelancer market emerges
8. it's no longer commercially viable
9. it becomes a near-zero-cost improvement on the baseline human condition
10. focus on new technology

The hopeful view (IMO) is that we're just at a point historically where things like washing machines and refrigerators are still at step 4 and people like me are starting to wonder why we're not further down the road? In 10-20 years maybe we'll be at 6 or 7?

The cynical view (IMO) is that the capitalist system operates by pulling a bait and switch on the average consumer. As technology becomes commercially viable, we use the slack it creates to pump everyone full of skittles and pretty little liars and then sell refrigerator-television-vending-machine appliances until the Decadent Society collapses under its own weight.

Maybe a more moderate view (IMO) is that it's naive to think that everyone could possibly have the time or desire to maintain their own refrigerators? FWIW My take on this particular view is that we should be trying to develop a society where it's not naive, where the average human stands on top of centuries of innovation rather than cocooned inside of it.

/idk
You technically can't drive a car off a lot without proving you have insurance coverage (at least in every state I've lived in), and, when you re-register your car every year, you'll again need to prove insurance coverage; failure to re-register deprives you of a sticker you'll need to keep from being pulled over. So in that sense, the system coheres.

But insurance coverage can fluctuate over the course of a year, because unlike with health insurance, there's no annual enrollment period; people switch insurers, or miss bills, or sign up ruthlessly for a month of insurance to get past the state bureaucracy and then just never pay again.

There's the SR-22 system, which is a court order to maintain insurance at minimum levels, which you get for getting repeatedly pulled over without insurance (or, perhaps, for getting pulled over without proof of insurance and then not proving you did get coverage afterwards). But that's not a fix, because you can only enforce it at police traffic stops.
> luddite techie" market.

I honestly wonder how big that market has gotten in the last few years, and I’m including software/services in it.

I know I’m definitely part of that market and also that the most technophile people from my list of friends and acquaintances are mostly working in non-tech industries. For example I was very surprised when visiting an acquaintance that works in the media and the first thing he did when he entered the house was to “talk” with Alexa, we have such a device at home but to this day it still is unboxed, hence uninstalled (received it at an IT event).
I imagine it comes down to the handling of threads vs anything else. Technology is rapidly adopting the more cores strategy of technology since we are hitting some IPC limitations and in the server space more cores is better.
I hope this new era of trust-busting grows at the same exponential rate Big Tech drooled over.
Comprehensive!

> In this case, that's b. We repeat the previous step and keep selecting the CCW edge until we reach the original node.

Isn’t it a?
People are very complicated. That’s why we have huge heads, in order to make sense of their mess
What happened to the developers who wrote the back-end in the first place?
Totally agree. The .NET team itself is probably costing above 100 million every year, probably more. Microsoft is not ditching .NET, they are heavily investing it.

The office division is implementing some code in Rust while the same division just posted a success story of their usage of migrating some low latency server code to .NET Core.

Microsoft is a big company and like any other they use JS, TS, Rust, C++, Python, Go and so on. The only thing they do not use is Java ... And I am not 100% confident there.

So let us congratulate Rust for entering the office domain and stop writing swan songs about .NET.
Total size is about 23.4 GB. Creative Commons license with attribution required. Uploaded on 2024-02-02.

Curious what can be done with such a dataset. The first thing that comes to mind is to feed it to an LLM somehow, to have a conversational interface to query the data.
Perhaps, but "citation needed" is always just an attempt to shut down those who don't fit the 'decorum'. It adds nothing to the conversation and is not good faith forum participation. There is no quote taken that could be cited, and there never is. The request is impossible to fulfill. Of course, that's the point.

This anti-social "unless your words come from someone I respect, I don't want to talk to you" behaviour has most definitely shown to extend out into the real world. That became quite apparent during the COVID ordeal. But it is less clear if that was always the case, or if social media has made it more prevalent.
>The entire back-end ended up being re-written.

In Go, I presume?
I'm still on Vue2 for my personal projects because the migration path is painful. Someday I'll get to 3!!!
> Moreover, if it wasn't for people living in remote areas, people in the cities wouldn't have food.

We need to be careful with the words here.

Not much in the way of food is produced by people who live in what I would term "remote" areas.

Lots of food is produced by people who live in what I would term "rural" areas.

We can and should and must provide improved communications services to rural areas - I think we have a moral imperative to do so. The remote areas, however, are a different story. If they happen to end up being serviced by e.g. Starlink then great, but I don't think we have the same moral imperative there.
Jesus... 6kW...

I'd be paying more than 1000€/mo for that
I'm not sure I fully agree, I've found some useful things, but I like long form content that expands beyond what's on Reddit comments and occasionally you hear interesting stories.

The problem I have is, the content I usually see is essentially the regurigation of youtube videos stealing from imdb's trivia section: "Top 10 things you didn't know about $film!"

Quora does the same thing for clicks in a way, and it ends up being misleading.
> Holy shit, how did THAT happen ?!?

Because OFSTED have been hounding critics, compiling blacklists,
sabotaging careers and attempting to have conference speakers critical
of them deplatformed.

I'll have a dig and see if I can come back with some reference on
that.

best I can find for now [0]

EDIT: added link

[0] https://www.theguardian.com/education/2023/sep/30/revealed-u...
> I'm not sure that there was an inrush of programmers because "it could make a lot of money".

This is all I've seen within the last 5 years.

For context, I've been working in-industry for ~8 years. I don't live or work in one of the big tech cities in the US nor one of the biggest within my state.

Within the last 5 years, I've worked at two companies and have seen 12 developers join. Of these 12 ten came from various local React bootcamps. When I've asked about their history with creating software it's always the same response: "I've never written any before <insert boot camp name>" and when asked why they decided to get into this industry it's always "<insert tech influences name> said I could make great money with only a 3-month boot camp".

The other two are oddities and also the most recent two hires I've seen. They both had ZERO programming experience before getting the job. No college/university, no at-home learning, no boot camps. Not even a basic printf("hello world") attempt. The company decided they could do 'on-the-job training' by letting them watch Udemy courses for the first 3 months then they just threw them at the senior devs like a grenade with a loose pin.
> They won capitalism? The government regulations are entirely responsible for the lack of competition.

Capitalism isn't the absence of government regulations, you seem to have confused it with anarchism.

Capitalism is the name applied by critiics to a real world economic system existing at the time it was described based on particular structures of properry rights and the resulting class system. Government regulations systematically benefitting the dominant class is... very much one of the features widely observed to result from that system.
I bet whoever suggested this insanity got promoted because “user engagement” went up. Users becoming more confused.
Where has this happened in New Mexico?
Let futures be futures
I think 1 banana should be 16 requests per second.

This is because a banana has around 12 - 18 Becquerels of radiation. 16 is a nice power of 2 number.
Quora had all the opportunity to invest in AI for LLM based on user responses. It didn't. I wonder if other sites will go down this way side.
Yeah, but look at its period:

>>>ts mass is 3.02 Earths, it takes 19.3 days to complete one orbit of its star, and is 0.083 AU from its star. Its discovery was announced in 2023

https://i.imgur.com/ghLnFrH.png

--

What would gravity be on that thing, it doesnt say what its circadian rhythm is.. so how long is a day, if a "year" is 19 earth days (or is the period in 'day' local-solar-system-days?)
> venture capital hub Andreessen Horowitz blessed Quora with a much-needed $75 million investment

Most shocking of all is that anyone would dump more and $1 or two on Quora at this point.
Yeah there are some cities where you can meet your soulmates for the night within a few beers
I hate this name. I unfortunately think it was made on purpose.
it's required to have it, but in my state (ohio), you only have to prove it if you cause an accident or get pulled over by a cop

the poor or un-insurable go without and just hope they aren't caught
There is a real difference between the computational power of different computing systems even if in practice nothing is really Turing complete because nothing is infinite. In practice there really is a difference between something that is DFA-like and something that is Turing-machine-like.

> It's not important how Turing complete transformers are, only that they could potentially learn any class of computations necessary via training.

There is no real argument for this and persuasive evidence against, as I linked to above.

> Memory or not, all the computation is still being performed just in the forward pass.

This was clearly not the meaning of "feed forward" in the discussion above (especially since no one was talking about transformers with memory because those aren't really in use).

> It also doesn't mean it couldn't be.

You were making claims about current systems which are false. Now you've switched from "it's present in current systems" to "we haven't theoretically ruled out that we could invent such a system one day" but there is no reason to believe even this claim is likely.

> I have no proof you are performing any 'higher order computation' either

Humans perform recursive computation when they count or add and probably when they form sentences.