skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
ok lets look at it. Start with the absolute best case for sharding - a perfectly segregated data model, say either by user or customer id. No shared data, no joins between tenents. Some relatively straightforward framework code to redirect queries between N shards. cool. Operationally now you need N database clusters (at least a primary and a replica per cluster). You need to manage and monitor all those, figure cluster local and shard promotion schemes, figure shard based backups and restores. Probably figure out shard rebalancing. None of it rocket science, but a lot to get right, test and maintain.

Now do all that operational stuff in a way that works with on prem installs (gitlabs primary customer type).

And then add in the fact that practically noones data model is that cleanly shardable, so add support for cross shard joins, and global tables.

Its pretty easy to see how a couple of read replicas (that are near zero cost operationally if you're using a cloud db) are a VASTLY simpler solution.
This is cool. Is this how robots normally balance themselves, or are there implementations that don't require spinning wheels?
Minimal Linux Bootloader (2012)
Yeah, I amended my thoughts reading the thread. I left out a pretty important detail. I do have one, other, high entropy password that is memorized for my Google account. I don't use social login, but Google = Gmail = everything.

So yes, I was too dismissive. Given the nature of "security", I think it's impossible to have a silver bullet of secure + easy.
XFCE released in 2014 has significantly less bugs than XFCE today: and that's all due to Gtk3 being broken underneath.

Things are going to get much harder as the Gtk foundations keep being eroded away by the GNOME people removing features and options from Gtk. And they're basically hard coding in wayland spec now, no considerations for X.

The Gtk based DEs like XFCE/MATE/Mint/etc need to band together and fork/mantain Gtk3 if they have any hope of surviving long term or even fixing the multiple bugs introduced by progressive removal of Gtk features (like the 2014 breaking of gtkfilechooserwidget.c so you can't paste in file paths).
Similar thing in France, however related to degrees: a Master's Degree fits within the common framework of European tertiary studies, AKA your 2-year graduate cycle that ends up totalling 5 years if you include a standard undergrad cycle (Licence). However, a "mastère spécialisé" (which is an actual trademark) is not an officially recognized diploma at all, but a label used by schools to denote (usually paid and expensive) "specialization paths". They provide no academic credits, and you can't move forward to a PhD with one. Many prestigious schools (grandes écoles) provide those kind of certifications to clueless foreign students who end up paying huge sums of money for something that holds no formal weight in any academic framework.
Little unknown story: the 8088 was designed in Israel, but was inspired by Italian physicist Federico Faggin. [0], who invented its predecessor, the 4004.

You can see in his foundation page [1] that the 4004 had its initials (FF) circuit-stamped in the board.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federico_Faggin

[1]: http://www.fagginfoundation.org/it/biografia/
> If we're going to be brutually economic about it: Are you invested in stocks or bonds at all? If our population collapsed, so would those. Today's investors' wealth is tied to the success of future generations.

That's brutally market-oriented. The brutal economics looks like starvation.
Human labor isn’t going to be more affordable, and child care is the one field where productivity is mandated to not improve via required student/teacher ratios. In fact productivity has gone down since regulatory agencies keep lowering those minimum required ratios.
Prompt Engineering Is a Job of the Past
I had the same feeling, once meeting the right person. You can’t help when it happens.
The loss of things I took for granted
rust the compiler, hell no.

But there is an llvm-mos project to generate 6502 code and that can be used to cross compile rust code.

https://llvm-mos.org/wiki/Welcome

https://llvm-mos.org/wiki/Rust

https://github.com/mrk-its/rust-mos
I'm not a lawyer so take the comment with a grain of salt, but employee's should likely insist on using company devices as well. If the company were to be sued it may open up the personal devices to all sorts of subpoena for the contents of the device.
So you expected to find a way of increasing quality of kids while increasing quantity of kids at the same time?

People saw kids as a source of income through all the history. It's just that the modern ethical liberal sees somebody else's kids in that role.
As mentioned in the article, reaction wheels are the standard method used to control satellite attitude.
> Many times I heard people ask "have they found the problem yet" as though.. what? We were the best tech support they had for an entire data center going dark?

Possible. Some companies are mostly lacking in competent technical people, so anyone who knows what they're doing will quickly find themselves pulled into every possible task; I see no reason why this shouldn't include external parties.
My first reaction when I see one of these is "where can I buy one?" And then I realize that it's not unlike having an open-face blender with those flywheels spinning at 6000 rpm. I am not sure I would feel comfortable with something like that near my hands.
If the poor have it so good why don’t the rich simply become poor?
And that's one of the reasons GDP is a pretty junky measure.

Stuff that breaks often enough to be replaced
Just healthy enough to still go to work
Subscribed to everything, owning nothing
More food, less nutrition (and flavor)
Everything without a transaction valued at 0,
Family, Sunsets, compliments, mentoring the next generation
On sundays I usually get hyped reaching new heights with code. Gratified by pushing perseverance and crearivity. then I come across posts like this one and feel totally powerless, having very short patience span, and too scared to even try such things.
I'm pretty sure ingress started off costing less due to the nature of usage. If you were to see a graph of the usage you'd see ingress is used less. One reason is an http request takes less bytes than the response to the request. So the disparity in cost can't simple be attributed to a desire to trap customers
Another problem with the title: the article is about DPO, which doesn’t do reinforcement learning. So not RLHF. I guess RLHF has more of a name recognition than DPO.
No.
Your point is not clear at all.

And I can ask for clarification concerning if you read the original post, since your objection/point was already covered.

Did you read it and simply making some additional argument against it, or did you miss it entirely?

"5. Controlled transportation between the stars, sufficient for colonization, is sufficiently impractical that there are no grabby aliens within our light-cone.
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This is covered in the other points of the theory? So should I assume you read it?

"The universe isn't a rock concert, “we're here too early” is not the only possible reason why there's no band on the stage.
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"Don't be snarky. "
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
When certain people don’t need to pay taxes, someone else still has to pay. Either taxes need to go up for others, or the deficit grows accordingly, which is kicking the can down the road for future generations to deal with.
I disagree. The colloquial understanding for logic is technical. OP is using the term incorrectly and in a strange way. I understand that most of us can still 'understand' his point but that does not mean he's using the term colloquially or correctly. Think about it.

I get what your saying here but basically the article and all responders are dodging the real issue here with this wordplay.

The OP article is actually saying CSS is not terrible. And people who disagree are saying yes in fact css is terrible. It's just a way to be not so on the nose about saying css is a shitty way to do things.

You missed my point which may be my fault as it's a bit obscure the way I said it. Let me rephrase it to be more clear:

I'm saying it's pointless to say or claim css is logical. He's using the term incorrectly. The real argument here is really about whether or not css is shitty or not shitty and using the term logical is not only dodging the point, but also awkwardly using the word logic.
Europe certainly isn’t uniform. The story I linked is about Finland. Here rents are stagnant or down. Energy prices are much more reasonable and predictable after a 1,600 MW nuclear plant came online last year. The new government has even made tax cuts.

But the overall trend of shrinking fertility is unmistakable over a substantially longer period than just the past few years. There isn’t a direct link to the economy, as the Finnish demographic researcher explains in the interview I linked.
Please don't deflect the question. You claimed you need millions and millions of LoC to get something running on Kubernetes. I stated the fact that I have multiple apps running in my personal Kubernetes cluster and they only require a couple of dozen lines of Kustomize. You are the one complaining about complexity where apparently no one else sees it. Either you're able to back up your claims, or you can't. I don't think you can, actually, and I think that's why you are deflecting questions. In fact, I'd go as far as to claim you have zero experience with Kubernetes, and you're just parroting cliches.
I agree completely. This is what I always tell my family in Europe: Sure, my salary on the US West Coast may be high, but the lifestyle this affords me (while being reasonably future oriented in preparing for retirement, family planning etc) is almost certainly worse. (Not to mention cultural differences in attitudes towards work.)
You can't assess salaries as someone who would temporarily work somewhere else and then export that money back to their home country. You have to view the salaries in the context of someone who will spend their life there.
> We want the best we can get,

The hiring market is a market, though.

You're bidding on talent.

If you have an infinite budget you can just outbid everyone, everywhere and get whoever you want. Companies like like Netflix do something like this.

If you don't have an infinite budget, you have to start making compromises. You can try to pay everyone according to the highest possible local salary you might compete against, but now you're arbitrarily paying more than you need to everywhere else. Could be fine if you have unlimited budget, but most companies don't.

So you could try to set a median pay that's higher than the LCOL targets but lower than Bay Area salaries. Now you're attractive to some talent, but other people won't consider your company because it pays less than their alternatives.

Location-agnostic pay is one of those things that sounds great when your company has limitless money (or feels like they do, as in ZIRP), but most companies at scale realize that they're either missing out on certain talent pools or spending unnecessarily to acquire people.

In the case of GitLab, the author was making a great compensation for their location. If the author had zero knowledge that other employees were getting paid more, would they have even cared about their own compensation?
Personally, I rather enjoyed Dropwizard, because it had a bunch of idiomatic Java packages that most developers would have already seen elsewhere, all put together in a way that doesn't seem to have too much boilerplate:

https://www.dropwizard.io/en/stable/

https://github.com/dropwizard/dropwizard
What are you basing your protein requirements on? Even a gram per pound of protein is overkill [0] (Menno knows his stuff), and the protein you get from other sources besides meat (rice, beans, dairy) counts as well. There are plenty of vegans that lift that prove that. That clean eating is a diet of nothing but lean meats, rice, and broccoli is a myth. There's lots of flexibility in your macros once your basic requirements are satisfied. All those chickens don't need to die for you to get strong.

[0] https://mennohenselmans.com/the-myth-of-1glb-optimal-protein...
This was discussed in another comment, DPO is pretty much strictly better than RLHF + PPO, and far more stable when training. Yes, DPO is not technically "RL", but it's semantics for the most part. DataDreamer does support PPO training if you want, but it's so unstable, it's a less popular choice now.
Waiting for the first RedHat+Gnome lawsuit against nerds trying to maintain old software
If you've got 2 wheels side by side like a Segway, all you need is the IMU and those 2 wheels.
> Estrangement and shunning is a type of abuse and has the same sort of effects as actual harassment. They happen at the same time. Do you think this is an OK alternative?

Yes. Freedom of association is perfectly acceptable, even if it makes people unhappy.

> Trans isn't a sexual identity, btw.

I'd disagree. It's strongly related to sexuality. I have also had two good friends who were trans, and both killed themselves, one due to depression from realizing they could never be their old self again, the other in a psychotic episode. I'm not anti-trans-people, I'm anti trans-as-the-first-solution for dysphoric disorders. Most people in my area simply don't get good vibes and therefore don't engage.
Reminds me of the self balancing train that rode on a single, small rail track. Project got cancelled because the double rail system was already well established.
Yeah obviously, for best health and sleep try to avoid all stimulants altogether, including caffeine, alcohol, shrooms, weed, tobacco, hard drugs etc, but what I'm saying is it appears that correctly micro-dosing some of those can sometimes, depending on the individual, be as efective or even better as the sleep medication, which for me has always caused drowsiness and brain fog during the day as side effects.

The trouble is self medication can always go horribly wrong which is why no sane health professionals ever recommend it but that doesn't stop people from experimenting.

As per alcohol tolerance, that varies so much from person to person on genetics. For example, my uncle is a hardcore alcoholic and drinks almost a liter of wine per day and he's already in his 60's, yet his blood tests for kidney and liver function still show up within normal limits. Insane.
> And that's post-tax, because our politicians love talking about the problems but no solutions in sight.

It's not just post-tax for you, daycare providers also pay taxes so it's a double whammy. Most European countries give you a tax credit (which would help a lot more than tax deductions) and have special generous tax schemes for the providers themselves to ensure they get licensed & declare their revenues. Without these schemes, you end up with the current situation where upper-class folks hire nannies under the table and essentially stiff the government instead.

France had the same issue and fought it successfully in the 80s by making sure providers make more money by being declared and licensed. It would not that hard with enough federal government intervention. Which will likely not happen because white Americans still think more like German people ("why would you be a working mom") than French people ("why would you stay at home").
I’m mid gen X and my kid is 7. But my wife is a millennial, so it somehow works out. We are thinking about kid 2, it’s a bit more risky now.
Data is oil (including synthetic), and consumer data companies (social networks) are sensing that their data is soon going to be the only defensible IP they have. Gotta hoard every little bit of it to maximize market cap
You would expect them to learn after a couple of times that it's not a legit report, so yes 47 times would be entirely police getting played like a bunch of five year olds. Which I hope you'll agree is not good.
ah fair enough xd, my bad for being pedantic
> In the US child-to-teacher ratios have maximum limits usually set and enforced at the State or municipal level.

As someone who has a partner who spent years working in a wide variety of childcare (from "high end" to "low end"), these ratios are _routinely_ ignored. There's also significant pressure to come in when sick. She was very sick - "Well, good thing there's a bathroom in your room, huh?"

On the rare occasions they really couldn't meet staffing levels and didn't open for the day? Congratulations, everyone gets the day off! Unpaid, of course! Why, yes, we're still billing families the normal weekly/monthly rate...
Of all the social networks, I think Reddit is actually the one with the highest signal to noise ratio. It's invaluable to get real human opinions on product recommendations, travel recommendations, how to do something, etc.
Time to Rethink Our IDE?
> ‘He worked remote’ thought popped into my head. He wasn’t there to “grow into leadership role” with the rest of the early employees.

GitLab is fully remote. Everyone works remote, including leadership.
> Like any experienced controls engineer, I spent a few days flipping the signs of various signals before I got them right.

As somebody with a M.Sc. in controls & signal processing (who ended up doing way more boring things), I always figured that I was doing that because I wasn't experienced enough. Turns out I also had the sign wrong on that one all along!
Totally does work, lots of spacecraft use reaction wheels to control attitude.
> Wondering if this technology can be used to control spacecraft attitude

It can indeed, and is already used in the wild today!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reaction_wheel#Examples_of_spa...
A set of crappy RSS scripts to handle RSS in an Unix way
Most robots are passively balanced by having multiple wheels on the ground. Walking robots balance actively without active gyros by moving their limbs.

Spacecraft (which most roboticists would call robots) typically orient themselves using a combination of reaction wheels, magnetic torquers and thrusters. The reaction wheels spin rotate the aircraft by “taking” angular momentum into their own rotation. They don’t require a local magnetic field or the expenditure of fuel, so are a nice choice.
Why Russia Is Treating Arms Control Treaties as Bargaining Chips
> "I am really burnt out and want to take the day off to go skiing" once in a while, I become the team pariah.

I'm gonna say to my 7 year old daughter "hey I read this comment on hackernews .. so sorry daddy won't be there to deal with you.. cause I'm like burnt out, so I'm gonna go skiing, take care of yourself"
True, but for something like this, would it work with a magnet?
> Who is there only to provide services? Don't businesses also want to fill their pockets?

Business don't put me in jail if I don't buy their services. Choice, freedom is an important distinction. Also this is nonsense because taxes are a one-way obligation, government has no obligation to provide services just because you paid taxes. There's a distinction between taxes and fees.

> Government waste is long been a trope of the right-wing propaganda, as a way to persuade people to cut taxes (for the wealthy) and reduce government's influence (which democratically counters that of powerful people), but I've never seen evidence that government is more wasteful than other sizable institutions - if you've seen the inside of a mid-sized corporation, you would recognize it. Same with churches, non-profits etc etc.

I have experience working for big-sized organizations including NGOs. The bigger the more inefficient. And you know what are the biggest organizations in the world? Government. e.g. California budget for 24-25 is $291.5 billion.

The truly wealthy are able to circumvent high taxes. They can have fiscal residencies in tax heavens along dozens of other loopholes to avoid taxes.

> If you have evidence, that's one thing. Just repeating these claims doesn't make them true. It makes them ripe to be challenged.

Honestly I think your worldview is limited to "Democratic" vs "Republican" parties. There's ample evidence. Historically socialism and big government lead to poverty. This is explained both by economical and political theory.

e.g.:
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_calculation_problem
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_choice

If you want to learn more there's Milei speech in Davos: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pfcd0gWNIog

> Also, we are grouping all of South America, from Columbia to Argentina, into one broad generalization?

Yes, because unfortunately this is a broad issue in South America. If you want specific cases look at Venezuela, Argentina and Brazil. I'm Brazilian.
In many non-western countries the social framework is completely different.

- People have kids as retirement plans.

- There's religious and instituional pressures to have more kids. Most people don't think about how they're brainwashed by instituions that have a political motive to expand their group size. The end result is that someone that doesn't have kids is heavily scrutinized. Made even worse in societies where your 'face' and reputation are everything since things like the legal system might not be as strong.

- The minimums for raising a kid in the west is much different. You simply can't just have 8 kids and send them off their chimney sweeping jobs when they turn 12. You can't just have the kids, and wander off to the bar all night while their 13 year old sibling watches them.

- Western countries also put a lot of emphasis on sex education and provide resources like contraceptives.
> 2024-02-11 17:15:35,764 INFO [io.quarkus] (Shutdown thread) Keycloak stopped in 0.064s
> 2024-02-11 17:15:37,754 INFO [org.keycloak.common.Profile] (main) Preview feature enabled: token_exchange
...
> 2024-02-11 17:15:44,694 INFO [org.infinispan.CLUSTER] (jgroups-8,a4c127cdee40-48683) ISPN100000: Node 72d48695e84c-46513 joined the cluster

so 7 seconds altogether on that restart, though a lot of that time is spend waiting for other nodes before it bootstraps the cluster.
(its single node as its a toy server, as i said before)

this is the dockerfile:
https://pastebin.com/rVdXjUkP

which is basically just the officially documented way to make the image, albeit set to use a reverse proxy for https

https://www.keycloak.org/server/containers

your CI pipeline probably downloads the runtime dependencies each time from the internet, as building this image does indeed take around ~40s.

the resulting image is ~620MB.

As I said earlier, making this image has become basically mandatory with their switch to Quarkus. You should really address that ;)
> Crappy KVM solutions are easy. Good ones are hard.

In this case what's crappy is those desktops rearranging windows when you turn off a monitor. I'd rather have my PC not know whether a monitor is connected or not, like used to be with vga.
How does that make any sense? If you’ve built something that provides good value to people, more than they are paying for it, how can you believe that it is a morally questionable arrangement?
This kind of whining is basically trolling. 'I've tried nothing and I'm angry it doesn't work!'
How long has it been since then?
> or are there implementations that don't require spinning wheels

Tons of different implementations out there for balancing. Maybe the most common one is the one we humans use, which requires zero wheels :)
Yes, it is possible. Briefly, you use your solar system's star as a gravitational lens. There are currently a couple proposals working their way through the system to do that here in our solar system. It doesn't require technology much beyond what we already have, nor is it much more expensive than other unmanned deep space missions.

We wouldn't be able to see pyramid sized objects on alien planets that way because the Sun is only about 1.4 million km diameter, and from other comments it would take a few million km. But for aliens with a bigger star? No problem.

Here's a PBS Space Time episode that talks about the proposals for building a Sun based gravity lens telescope [1].

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4d0EGIt1SPc