skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't know what's worse, this or toots.

Can't we admit Twitter had the perfect name for it, and now that twitter is gone, we can all just call them tweets?

Its almost absurd. Like if phone companies decided to brand text messages and someone got to "Texts" first so companies came up with "Blurts" and "Yells" or "Phonomails" and now we use a different verb based on which walled-garden we are in.

edit:

In thinking on this more, I do think this might impact the image of the communty. The hot lists and other feeds are dominated by the furry community, which is fine, but not everyone's cup of tea. Now naming posts / the verb be an euphemism of ejaculation... it just feels immature and is everyone going to feel welcome?
I agree the US needs much better social services, but median US income is $40k (and median US household income is $70.5k).
This looks neat. Getting a few examples on how it can connect to multiple sources like docker engine and k8s may make it a solid tool for developers that need to develop in complex infra setup. I have seen K9s fill this space with room for improvement.
> listening ports, persistent storage, CPU, memory, ingress

These exists without k8s. I do not need a compex abstraction hiding the ways I need to talk to persistent storage. If fact, I believe it is impossible to create such abstraction without very serious compromises.

> In AWS, we use the ELB as our ingress, but my app doesn't care

Your app does not care without k8s. Running python -m http.server does not even know what ELB is. I get it though. You are using k8s as IaC.
> The whole point is that changing the original data to be able to support/reject hypothesis

How do you know this? Do you understand the reasoning behind bias correction?

> Do you understand why this is a problem?

The problem is people do not understand bias correction and you are certainly not arguing on a methological level.
Condé Nast might have helped run it into the ground but the unrecoverable dive started a long time ago. Pitchfork's content slowly turned into something more like a parody of pretentious music criticism. Paragraph after paragraph of drivel with seemingly no relation to the music. More like someone's journal entry repurposed as an album review. Maybe because they realized how stale their content had become they seemed to shift more and more of their focus towards hip hop and other genres that their traditional indie/rock readership didn't care as much about.
Does Amazon advertise in the Washington Post?
I think it's their parlance for their quantum-resistant cryptographic acceleration, but I'm not sure.
I have tendency to hope for unrealistic things too. Not a reliable trait of mine, no. But in my clear moments I am afraid that much sooner will come the world peace and union of all nations and religions than unimaginative but determined bean counters learn from millions of catastrophes of the past and future to come giving up pushing their core value and first rule of 'take more, give less' into the infinity and beyond. And giving up their personal wealth with it.
You don't think it requires some expensive mainframe admins, even with the fancy software? Anywhere I worked with a mainframe, the mainframe admin was highly distinguished within the org and extremely knowledgeable.

I would argue Kubernetes talent is cheaper than mainframe talent these days because it's ubiquitous.
The only way to load firmware to consumer esp platforms is usually via mobile apps… so, someone with privileged access to consumer’s apps, or the supply chain, used that access to load bespoke firmware to toothbrushes.. highly doubtful.
I investigated 132 columns in detail and wrote a blog post about it. It's complicated but essentially, 14 7/8" paper was a standard size going back to the IBM 402 tabulator in 1948, where it was used for 88-column output using a character spacing of 5/32". The IBM 1403 printer (1959) changed to 10 characters per inch, resulting in 132 columns on 14 7/8" paper.

https://www.righto.com/2019/01/accounting-machines-ibm-1403-...
OTOH, it must be fun to built even more 9's of reliability out of many very reliable boxes.
I've been using it for years and love it. .Net based, so it is cross platform, too! There's a docker image if you want to go that route.
Mother of Michigan school shooter convicted of manslaughter
Greenfield: Wayland in the Browser, an Update [video]
I disagree wrt licensed IPs.

There's no single right "amount" of structure to provide to inspire creativity. Different works of art, different moods, different people, different days, will all "want" different starting points. Sometimes you want to experiment with basic geometry and it's useful to start from a bucket of raw parts. Sometimes you want to dig into stories and characters and it's useful to start with something that already exists. And because you can always remove structure from a situation - Legos can always be broken down into the bucket of raw parts! - more highly structured sets strictly expand the available range by pushing out the high end.

Even more than that, kids are learning how to be creative, and having some structure to start from helps a huge amount for a beginner. If you hand a blank piece of paper to someone who's never written anybody and tell them to be creative they'll never even be able to start. If you give them something to start from they'll have a much easier time. Even as expertise builds and you pull back on the guidance it's still incredibly useful to have new material injected from outside your own bubble of experience. Concretely, when you're just getting started it's a hell of a lot easier to learn that you can have a different person win a lightsaber fight than it is to write all your own characters from whole cloth, and when you're trying to learn how people work it's absolutely necessary to examine characters and stories that you didn't make up and that don't just confirm your own preconceptions and biases.

If I wanted to summarize my opinions, I think that playing with licensed-IP Lego sets is actually a critical step in the development of creativity because it lets you get started on more complicated topics earlier, makes you less afraid to adapt existing works, and provides inspiration and outside influence to break filter bubbles. I would compare it in many ways to writing fanfiction, and in a very literal sense it absolutely is.
Bellevue's population is ~14% Chinese, over 21,000 people, and mostly high income tech salaries. It would be bad business not to have Chinese speakers on staff.
> There are ways to scale this, ie the lightning network, but those are essentially centralized solutions to scale.

Some nodes are more popular than others for open a channel to, but there are still several thousands, so calling it centralized is misleading.
Everything I Wish Knew About People Before Becoming a Manager
IBM Cloud has mainframes available (running z/OS).
At the turn of XX century, in St. Petersburg they would lay rails on the ice of Neva and get a tram going across the river [1]

Will not possible nowdays due to a combination of climate change and the fact that megapolis makes its own weather - it now thaws regularly. Also not necessary due to all the bridges :)

1. https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ледовый_трамвай_Санкт-Петербур...
If you want a family server you will have to set it up for your non-technical family members if you want them to use it. You have to be the IT person and create the accounts, join the rooms, and so forth. Then you get them to install the app, give them the login, and help them change the password.

Once that's all out of the way they should be able to just click on the app and chat hassle free.
This is why people have adopted corp speak. They're traumatized by words and need to replace them to help with their ptsd. In 10 years "learnings" will be replaced by something like "considerations" or "updates" when zoomer managers get to set the rules.
Interestingly, this is almost exactly how I draft a contract as an attorney. Westlaw has tons of what you might call “templates” but which have tons of information concerning when and why a client might need a certain part of the template.

The difference is that when Westlaw presents me with a decision point and I choose the wrong option for my client, my client sues my insurer and is made whole. (My premiums increase accordingly).

If you make the wrong choice in your choose-your-own-legal-adventure, you lose.

(For some contracts, this is probably the right approach).
Zig docs are all one page:

https://ziglang.org/documentation/master/
Why not? They are —- rightfully —- pro-LGBT+. Apple: “It’s ok to be gay, just not horny.”

How is that not a dichotomy, and (possibly) hypocritical?

We as a culture have a weird relationship with horny, and it’s mostly a negative one. Sexuality is fine. Horny is not.
> No. The distinction between the two is that involuntary servitude covers being forced to work while being paid or otherwise compensated; a slave, in contrast, doesn't get paid.

Do you have a citation for this claim?

> > If one was with a child, and the child saw a chain gang working, and the child asked "Are they slaves?", no sane person would say "yes" and leave it at that.

> Correct, because at a glance, you don't know if it's forced labor. Some states do voluntary work gangs; in some scenarios it's even considered a perk.

What if the adult in the scenario happens to know that the prisoners are not being paid? Then you think the correct answer to the child's question is "Yes, those are slaves"? With no further qualification necessary?
Don't be hasty, I mean, if they dont even ship properly to entire europe, how can people have parts to sell?
PTX is more or less the same as x86. What's even better is that unlike x86, Nvidia allows you to see and step through the SASS instructions which PTX compiles into. Although SASS is not documented, seeing it alongside the PTX makes it possible to infer the meaning. In contrast to this you can't see the micro-ops running on x86 cpus (although people have inferred quite a lot about them).
The IBM mainframe: How it runs and why it survives[0] from last fall.

From way back in 2004[1], Commercial Fault Tolerance:
A Tale of Two Systems compares the reliability / philosophy of IBM mainframes with Tandem Servers.

[0] https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/07/the-i...

[1] http://www.engr.newpaltz.edu/~bai/CSE40534/bar04.pdf
"You shouldn't stay up that late you know"
> improving in an irrefutable way

The book was great and I think the main shinning point was to base each arguments on actual measures, but that's far from creating an irrefutable narrative.

At the end of the day those are numbers they chose and dressed, and other researchers will come up other equally true numbers that they'll filter and present in a different light.

An instance of this is in this article is the number of infant mortality: sure it's improving, but birth rates are also plummeting. To me the overall picture on infants is greyish and I'm not sure it's overall better than a few decades ago (I have no idea, didn't crunch the numbers), but here we're only getting the bright side and shown a sheer positive trend.

My point is probably that having numbers to back a claim is better but they still need to be looked at critically and in a context
Elon promoting far-right conspiracy theories has been pretty instrumental. Even just six months ago it wasn't nearly as bad on Twitter.
Is ZeroETL not in early stages, still? I heard it replicates everything. No filtering yet on parts of the binlog (tables/columns). But other than that, i like the idea.

(I would like to know, where their ZeroETL originated from, usually AWS picks up ideas somewhere and makes it work for their offerings to cash in. A universal replication tool.)
> But she also faced pressure to cut costs as traffic from social media platforms declined and Spotify’s algorithms siphoned off more casual fans who’d used Pitchfork for music discovery.

This is pretty much it. There’s no need for arbitrary tastemakers now. What’s good can emerge from what similar listeners happen to like right now. It takes even less effort for users as well and probably gives better results.
> a namedrop of AI

The Telum has a lot of its surface dedicated to an inference accelerator. Their aim is to be able to very quickly run fraud detection while processing payment operations.
> The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation Limited opened in Hong Kong on 3 March 1865 and in Shanghai one month later.

pesky acronyms.
I think having occasional law enforcement compliance checks at auto mechanics (with escalating fines for performing illegal installations) would probably be more effective at reducing the problem.
> If you complain about noise you get labeled a Karen

It’s incredible how effective that social media campaign was/is.

Moan about bad service from any company and you’re a “karen”, not a customer who rightfully demands good service, given the cost of things. Suddenly you’re not allowed to complain about anything and all employees are literal heroes on the same level as war veterans
first generation tax
> Hmmmm. I would argue the web would have been significanty different.

One can imagine a world without JavaScript...
can you fine-tune the LLM?
For me, it's because I got a cloudflare interstitial.
They could. IIRC, they have quantum-resistant cryptography baked into their hardware assists.
If not familiar: https://learnxinyminutes.com/
It is and it isn't. I can't control the world but I can control my reactions to it and expend my mental energy where I decide. Is it a little annoying that I have to scrape a little sticker off every apple? Maybe, but on the other hand I can buy several varieties of tasty apples year-round. If it bothered me enough I could choose to live differently.
The mass market Nigerian prince style scams are basically a completely different industry from the $100M art scam one.
And you can load the ad blocking lists into anyway so you get solid DNS, ad blocking and none of those random youtube spinners from rando dns issues. For nothing but a little configuration.
Yes that's exactly what the person you're replying to said
It doesn't work with subdomains?
Wow - gave me a goofy smile.

Also cool 'Zig Zen': https://ziglang.org/documentation/master/#toc-Zen
Historically sums it up.
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Just run it in a container. No need to use an actual Pi.
I switched over to fully decaf coffee earlier this year.

One of the coffee roasters nearby me highlighted their decaf single origin and thought to try it on a whim one day. It was so good, I stopped drinking decaf coffee that day and bought three bags of the stuff.

It's been two months since I did this. The biggest benefit I've noticed was feeling how insanely tired I am. Fortunately, I've been working on that problem, but damn, coffee really covers up sleep deprivation well.
Would be much more interesting to read a letter from my future self. Any likely future self would do.
Bret does plan on publishing everything soon - https://twitter.com/worrydream/status/1753116042254340526
The difference is that GraalVM, OpenJ9 and ART, have the capability to feed PGO data into the AOT toolchain, as a means to automatically generate a rd.xml like archive, thus preserving the existing language ecosystem.

In ART's case that metadata is even shared across devices via PlayStore, which gathers and uploads it, packaging it for download along the APK for new installations. This metada is dynamic, as more devices take party into executing newer code paths.

This is the beauty of Java ecosystem versus .NET, the plethora of implementations, with different approaches solving the same set of problems, allowing us in many cases to pick and choose.

From Real Time GC with AOT compilation used by US and French military in embedded systems, factory automation robots, phones, infotainment systems, M2M gateways, runtime snapshots between executions, or crazy ideas like having PGO data from cloud based JITs sharing executable code.
Which one? Canadians I find are pretty ignorant about the health care in Canada and think it’s the same thing across the board, while it’s actually the individual provinces that each have their own setup (with pros and cons)

It’s easy to spot when people speak of healthcare in general without being specific.
snap was so overhyped during pandemic. People thought this would be as big as Instagram, not even close
Yeah - I usually watch the network tab in debugging tools to figure out whats being blocked, then whitelist and try again.

I also realize that you shouldn't expect most people to do that, let alone know how to.

I am someone who is very aggressively anti-ad.
Does AdGuard support regex matching?
I tried to fact check it also. They talk about a "java-based" os that could have been the cause.

I know java me was a thing and there are micro jvm that can run on microcontrollers but still, it does not add up.

I think a DDoS attack happened (happens all the time) and security "experts" mentioned that these things could come from anywhere, even toothbrush, and the details got lost in translation / used for click bait.
And yet this narrative ("They present how the world is improving in an irrefutable way") falls exactly into the trap pointed out by the link in this story: "Solely communicating the progress that the world has achieved becomes unhelpful, or even repugnant, when it glosses over the problems that are real today."

(Even though I agree this narrative is mostly correct)
The ads are never going away. We tried the 'pay your way' system with things like netflix and prime video, and guess what's on the way? Now you get to pay for it AND see ads.
An underrated alternative to Unstructured/Nougat for text extraction
Put together a document text extraction server using Apache Tika (with ~30 lines of code) that can be used to vectorize text for retrieval-augmented generation or to create LLM training datasets.

Much credit to the tika-python project for making the Python bindings!
Well what are they then?
I had a chat with one of the IETF chairs about this a few years ago. He said the value the IETF provides is giving independent teams/companies a room to talk about how a protocol should work, so they can make their implementations compatible. If a protocol only has one vendor, the IETF doesn't add any value and isn't really interested.

If bluesky ends up getting implemented by multiple vendors, then the IETF might make sense. But its a bit early for that at this point.

I suspect the bluesky team might also be able to make big changes to the protocol in private for the time being, so they can iterate rapidly. Iterating on a protocol at the IETF would be way slower. The IETF usually takes years to publish big, complex protocols like this. Look how long it took http3 to work its way through the pipeline.
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Honest question: when the government gives back that $60B, and the thousands of other billions, where do they get THAT money from, since the original $60B is surely long gone. I assume you’ll say from other money it collects from new sales of bonds. It sounds like a shell game.
How do I sell to SREs?
it's stated it may be a possibility here:

https://atproto.com/specs/atp#future-work

> Protocol Governance and Formal Standards Process: The current development focus is to demonstrate all the core protocol features via the reference implementation, including open federation. After that milestone, the intent is to stabilize the lower-level protocol and submit the specification for independent review and revision through a standards body such as the IETF or the W3C.
I’ve been playing with diffusion a ton for the past few months, writing a new sampler that implements an iterative blending technique described in a recent paper. The latent space is rich in semantic information, so it can be a great place to apply various transformations rather than operating on the image directly. Yet it still has a significant spatial component, so things you do in one spatial area will affect that same area of the image.

Stable Diffusion 1.5 may be quite old now, but it is an incredibly rich model that still yields shockingly good results. SDXL is newer and more high tech, but it’s not a revolutionary improvement. It can be less malleable than the older model and harder to work with to achieve a given desired result.
snap, formerly snapchat, which removed the “chat,” promoting in-person collaboration. through layoffs. for an app that somewhat expects not being in person.

if it weren’t for there being individuals impacted, it might be funny.
There is still the specter of nuclear war…that side of the equation has gotten worse.
Your third paragraph is like talking about Tiger Woods without mentioning a green jacket.

There’s an implicit moralizing in your stance. Why do you presume that the dark triad traits you assert “””these people””” have in common are unrelated to merit? That suggests a moral, not pragmatic, stance that valorizes “the hard worker” while denigrating things like charisma, vision, boldness, and ruthless drive which, to sample your phrasing, are “trivially provable” to be essential traits of merit in leadership.
Oh no their bonuses. I’m sure it was tough not being able to spend the summer in Martha’s Vineyard that year.
> The muting you observe of police footage isn't of the first part of the audio, it's the prior 30 seconds from before the record button is pressed. They have a constant buffer going, as things can happen... unexpectedly.

I just want to clarify that it only buffers the video. The way you worded it still doesn't explain why the previous 30 seconds of audio isn't included in the buffering.

When the button is pressed is when audio recording is started and the previous 30 seconds of video buffer is prepended to the live recording.
Same people even, isn't Dorsey involved? And it is a public benefit company that sort of laughably hasn't disclosed its charter, like how OpenAI backed out of revealing the details of its corporate structure.
This looks great.

Qs: this says “ Technitium DNS Server is an open source authoritative as well as recursive DNS server”

Are pi-hole/Adgyard also recursive DNS server or just a blockers?

Edit: I’ve been using pi-hole for ages, trying to figure out if this has any advantage.
Hot on the heels of recent research[1] showing forcing RTO doesn't do anything to improve firms' valuations, but does reduce morale. Remote workers provide a convenient scapegoat for low performing CEOs:

> Our empirical analyses find that the probability of RTO mandates is higher for firms with poor prior stock market performance. However, institutional ownership significantly decreases the probability of RTO, and CEO stock ownership does not have a significant effect on RTO mandates. Further, the probability of RTO mandates is significantly higher for firms with male and powerful CEOs, who are more likely to grab power back from employees through RTO (Cragun et al., 2020; Business Insider, 2023a). 5 Overall, our results do not support the argument that managers impose these mandates to increase firm values. Instead, these findings are consistent with managers using RTO mandates to reassert control over employees and blame employees as a scapegoat for bad firm performance.

[1] https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4675401
You don't need to necessarily be looking for pilot error to want the recording. Maybe it picked up the sound of the plug separating and that could be useful. Maybe it records an alarm, a call from the cabin, whatever. Maybe the way they work the checklist for decompression reveals some problem that should lead to a change in the checklist. Maybe it corroborates or disagrees with the FDR.

Of course I think it's most likely that it wouldn't be that relevant in this particular case.