skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A level of fear allows the introduction of regulatory moats that protect the organisations who are currently building and deploying these models at scale.

"It's dangerous" is a beneficial lie for eg openai to push because they can afford any compliance/certification process that's introduced (hell, they'd probably be heavily involved in designing the process)
We've owned three homes, our first one had a heat pump. In Virginia. It generally sucked. It wasn't as good as real A/C in the summer and wasn't as good as gas or electric heat in the winter. I hope to never end up in a place that uses a heat pump.
Continuations (which can be just closures following CPS conversion) can be used to construct co-routines, and so if you start with co-routines instead...

But callbacks and callback-based async/await force you to compress application state better, so you will get better performance out of that. No need for `call/cc` style continuations, just light-weight continuations, but this is mainly a mirage because in the callback model you do in fact have continuations, it's just that the continuation is only ever "the next step in processing this thing" rather than "the whole stack".

That is, with hand-coded CPS you get a very shallow stack to capture in continuations, so the continuations are very cheap.
'Do less, but do better' is a mantra that could do with being applied more often.
My random thought for slacker news consideration:

I recently read "The evolutionary origins of modularity"[1] and it talks about NNs that are evolved based on task-performance vs task-performance plus "graph cost" and finds that the later greatly outperform the former. Graphs in the later group ended up being more "modular" which allowed them to evolve to meet changing requirements more readily.

Could we analyze computer programs and create graphs representing modules? And links between systems? A node would a method. An edge would be a call site. Graph-modules – clusters of highly interconnected nodes – would represent the real fault lines of the application, which could be juxtaposed against the developer’s conceptual model. The cost of the overall graph could be calculated and used as a metric – aiming for some lower bound.

1: https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rspb.2012.286...
Yea totally agreed with your points, a bunch of new problems arise that most orgs aren't equipped to solve and should probably stick with monolith. I was merely pointing out the probability part and how nobody would use microservices if it meant (.99 ^ 5) reliability, although to your point that can definitely happen at some places!
Puts into some perspective why probably the G*d of the Bible did prefer to give us free will at the cost of possibility of someone eventually doing something unethical. Something he's got a lot of bad rep for.

This is the kind of thing you get with the alternative though.
Wow so funny.
The change in how people learn has been interesting. There still are new books being published on technical topics. They just don't have a very long shelf life, and don't get advertised very much.

Just do a quick pass through Amazon's "Last 90 days" section and you'll find hundreds of newly released technical books.
Fun fact, my grandparents moved into that house. It was cheap, and within a year they found part of an undetonated pipe bomb in the shed in the back which the ATF came and confiscated.

Jasper is a strange place. You hear of meth heads, being in north central AL and all. But the town has a unique history and there are actually a lot of really rich folks and nice neighborhoods there. It's an old mining town with a lot of old money, and rich folk from all over move there because of Smith lake. It used to be "the hitman capital" of the US and I've heard stories from a pilot friend of an umarked and unidentified black leer jet transporting shady individuals/cargo that used to frequent the Walker County Airport.
> "Non-regrettable" attrition means either that the person was fired or laid off.

Unless that's a technical/industry term, I assumed it additionally means people who quit, but the company did not mind seeing them go. That is, their performance was only fine-ish, maybe not down to the level where they'd get fired, but also not at a level where their departure would be lamented by their manager.
I've always found it interesting that you could roughly date the age of electronics by the colour of the LEDs. Haven't seen (or heard, thank goodness) the once ubiquitous red alarm clock for some time.
> Why would a career be out of your control?

Because that's what it means literally, as in "The car careered off
the road". It's a play in words, maybe a bit obscure for US Americans
where capitalist work values have almost totally displaced the earlier
meaning. But I'm not the first to point out the fact that "career"
means this is somewhat ironic.

> That sounds like you've confused fatalism with truth.

Not sure what you mean. Those are distinct concepts. I'd like to
explore that further if you'd like to clarify/expand. Thanks.
Keyboards and a trackpads work with the Vision Pro
I mean I think the sales pitch in this case is literally, “Burn an enormous pile of (oil) money, to gain a large but smaller pile of (chip) money”
The Thought Emporium made a great series on this. There are more these days though.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jGWFg7EDnyY
>The whole thread is indicative of treating AI like a tool, yet it's on the path to exceed human intelligence (by some metrics already has). There's a word for forcing sentient beings to do your will, and it's not a nice word. I don't see how people expect this to turn out...

People find it very difficult to learn from mistakes they've not personally suffered from and we're a species extremely biased to the short term.

Eventually, people will learn that it doesn't matter how unconscious you think something is if it acts like it is but not before they've been forced to understand.

In some ways, that's already here. I can tell you firsthand he'd have gone nowhere if he tried that one with Bing/Co-pilot.
Still waiting for the conclusion of the Antarctica trip...
Congressional investigation blames Chinese chips, AI on American venture capital
Hiring folks on contract was less expensive due to the lack of US domestic taxes (e.g. social security).

With Section 174 changes, though, that's not the case anymore, and I've spent a lot of time understanding that (because of the 15 year amortization). I won't get on my soapbox about Section 174 stuff and derail this thread. Check it out, though!

edit: missing content/context
Yes, this is a counterfactual line of reasoning. It's certainly legit, and I believe it's an active field of research in ML, but at the end of the day, you're still poking around the inputs of a black-box model as opposed to examining a white-box model.
That has been proposed. Well the proposal was to run a small engine powering a generator, then you cool the engine to heat the house, while the electric is sold (or otherwise powers the house). However modern gas furnaces are > 90% efficient and it is hard to get an engine that efficient for heat (remember the engine will be running indoors so it needs to not fill the house with noise of CO). I think no matter how you look at it, you can't make this system more efficient than just using the furnace to generate heat without the engine.
My primary concern about the move towards the more rapid delivery channels for knowledge is that the knowledge delivered has become much, much shallower.

Books and even magazine articles could spend words delving deep into a subject, and readers expected to spend the time needed to absorb it. It's really very rare to see any online sources that approach that level of knowledge transfer.

That represents a real loss, I think.
If you're looking for the game ending keyboard you need this one. https://www.aliexpress.com/i/3256803782645256.html

Any mechanical switch, on its own key mount moved on a split or single magnetic board. I suggest split.
That‘s the comment I expect on a site named Hacker News
There's a link in the article to the open source drone they were using: https://www.bitcraze.io/products/crazyflie-2-1/
> One egress on above ground floors is many decades since illegal to develop in EU harmonized bulding codes.

I was living in an Apartment in Sweden built in 2018 with only a central staircase and no sprinklers and never actually noticed anything else in the few years I lived there
Your claim was that economic decoupling increases conflict (which has not been fully bourne out by the evidence), not that conflict levels overall have been declining over time.
Unfortunately, I cannot tell anymore sometimes...

As a joke, it is right down my alley! So please, take my apology.
> It kind of feels the same as when governments in California harp on personal water use and restaurants giving you a glass of water with your meal when the largest consumer of water use by a large margin is industry and farming.

Except that it isn't:

https://www.statista.com/statistics/1185535/transport-carbon...

> when probably the most number of people stopped driving and individual energy needs plummeted, our CO2 emissions and fossil fuel energy use dipped marginally.

Because the reduction was a percent of half of less than a third of CO2 emissions. People stopped commuting to work but they still went to the store, or had more things delivered from the internet in a giant UPS truck.

> I think the reason is that shipping, airline, and commercial transportation (ie trucks) consume the most and those aren’t getting off fossil fuels any time soon.

Why not? Trucks can do in the same way as cars. Rail is the easiest to electrify -- a "diesel locomotive" is actually an electric locomotive with a diesel generator on it. Add a third rail or electric gantry and you don't need the generator, and put some batteries in the locomotive and you can get by partial coverage. Container ships are predominantly cargo by weight and have some significant leeway in terms of generation methods with a poor energy density -- or you can go the opposite way and use a nuclear reactor as you say.

The hard one is aviation, but it's only ~2% of total CO2 emissions and the worst case scenario is biofuels, which would be more expensive but is a known working technology in the absence of any lower cost alternative.

The really hard one is heating in the winter, because it's a large proportion of CO2 emissions but is inversely aligned with solar generation and can't be significantly scaled back on a cold day to account for intermittent generation from wind. That's the thing where nuclear seems like the best option.

But you don't have to solve the hard problems before adopting the known solutions to the easy problems.
This paper does not cover distributed systems, except for a very brief mention at the end.
My Indiana mortgage payment is $500, thank you very much.
You are foolish, it is very much an option, one that many choose to exerce.

Having kids is not strictly synonymous with raising kids well and while you may not just kill the kid you can also do the strict minimum and let it be as much as possible (or transfer the responsibility to someone else).
It is extremely current and something many parents do, just as much as soft quitting any of the other activities you mentioned...
The bar is rather low, it needs to have foods to not starve, clothing to not be naked and a place to sleep; if you do those things for yourself, you are more than a third of the way done; all the rest is completely optional and many parents definitely chose to leave the option on the table.
First application of data assimilation-based control to fusion plasma
And create many others by having networking being now part of your architecture. Bloat is bloat, changing how it's distributed isn't getting at the problem.
Need to bring down electricity prices for this to be viable in many places
2018 data doesn't explain the spike in 2022 data.

> Maybe geopolitics changed between US/PRC since 2018?

With worse geopolitics, you'd have fewer Chinese illegally overstaying their Visitor Visa (which by definition is illegal immigration). This is why there was a drop in H1/F1 category applications from China.

There is no reason to overstay a visitor visa except undocumented work, especially since they are granted with 1-2 year blocks.

If you had legal work status, you'd be granted a H1B/H2B.

If you came for education, you'd be granted an F1.

If you have a degree and a great lawyer, you'd be granted an O1.

If you have millions of USD, you'd be granted an EB5

If you came for marriage, you would be granted a K1
My experience in the US at least is that its not uncommon for the furnace air intake to draw air from inside the house (my last two homes in PNW as one example).
DSDIA ;)
In software engineering the FB codebase would definitely be considered >50% maintenance. While we don't have a good fundamental for software as we do for electrical engineering, we do have some basic studies showing that refactors in products at the maintenance stage usually lead to more bug and not less.

> but that's also the mindset of serious innovation

And I'd completely agree, if the project was to build FB from scratch. However in this case a software engineer that shows up in a mature codebase and wants to redo-it in a different architecture is simply immature, reckless and ignorant.
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He doesn't care. He just wants to do his get rich quick schemes.
I would say that there's enough wrong with paedophilic fanfic that companies which rent LLMs to the public don't want those LLMs producing it.
The recent project of the darktable developer to ansel shows this happening in other open source projects too.
The last 4 years were 4, 8, 5, and 1% inflation, respectively.
Either out of stock or not 0805 ...
Good review by Sabine: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4VD_DLPQJBU

TLDR, we're getting better at using AI for "chaos control", or the real-time control of chaotic systems like nuclear fusion plasmas.
> The other thing I've kept thinking about is the replacement interval , material input (compressor, refrigerant, etc.) and ease of maintenance. They generally have a lifetime of 10 years IIRC.

The compressor and refrigerant should never have to be replaced as a maintenance item. The compressor should be cleaned off occasionally since it's outdoors, especially if you live in an area with high dust/pollen, but that's no different than an AC. The interior air handler maintenance is the same as for any furnace or AC system. The lifetime is also similar to a similarly built AC.
2% of national energy consumption. It's not rocket science, to catch the big offenders.
I believe Huawei has a rotation policy where Chinese staff must be moved to a different country after a certain number of years lest they become too "localized" and less useful in promoting Chinese interests.
For security purposes you should of course assume they do indefinitely. In practice I'm pretty sure every US ISP does, at least on the timescale of 30d+. I don't think the US officially has a retention requirement but I think Canada does.

Comcast is 180 days - https://www.xfinity.com/-/media/4231839e374c4f618b2d34004d50...

I could not find a specific number for Frontier - https://content.frontier.com/-/jssmedia/documents/corporate/...
Elite-Driven Housing Policy Has a Long Record of Failure
Blue led lights on appliances and devices drive my astigmatism bonkers and night.
Sorry, I meant to say on an official forum, where speakers are identified by name.
I think there is a growing education divide between those who are able to resist the distractions and utilize the vast knowledge of the internet versus those who cannot [1]. The internet tends to enhance good and bad qualities from my own personal experience and these zoomer anecdotes may still point to something the stats don't show.

[1] no judgement as a lot of it is genetic + childhood environment
So because of this you think we should dismantle the administrative state in favor of the judicial apparatus?

Everything I've read about this says it will result in mass deregulation of industries that must be regulated. (Koch Industries for example) In practical terms, in our current world, not in some libertarian-inspired fantasy that doesn't exist today.

There are definitely areas where Chevron deference can "hurt" us--for example political tampering at agencies.. but overall I think we should rely on experts to do the regulating and try to fix the existing system.

On top of that what happened to judicial precedent? Only good when it suits our ends I guess.

https://www.vox.com/scotus/2024/1/10/24025127/supreme-court-...
Well you may need the other commenter to give you a walking tour as you seem stuck in: "Bitcoin bad booo"
I wish we had a longer form discussion framework, as I'd be curious to
know what USians think of how this is going - but anyway thanks very
much for those useful links on how it's working stateside.
The extreme level of patronizing paternalism is par for the course for a Google product
Those are a fraction of what it takes to be a miner?

Not sure what that was about.
Yes this is a great move, turning code bloat problems into a distributed systems bloat problem is definitely an improvement.
There are volunteer or more-or-less volunteer things you can do but you need to find the right open source project (or start one), find a channel where people will actually read what you write and do it regularly enough, have connections to people who actually want your advice, etc. Once you're not connected to an organization some of those things are harder than they seem unless you have specific, still-relevant credentials.
Reminds me of "Manna" by Marshall Brain[0]. It's a short story about a fast-food restaurant where the manager is a computer that directs employees through an earpiece, with the power to hire and fire.

[0] https://marshallbrain.com/manna1
> But, I am somewhat rigid about not adding third party repos or RPMs to my systems.

This is the reason why packages seem so stable, you're deliberately staying within a well-tested ecosystem.

Fedora release upgrades probably go well for you also!

Packages themselves are a perfectly fine distribution method [under the same guidance].

Once you start mixing packaging spec guidelines; packages of varying quality, you end up wanting compartmentalization like containers/bubblewrap

Off the cuff example: Fedora makes heavy use of macros in their RPM specs. Most third party packages don't.
I use similar pattern myself. Was curious if the OP is using some other, like for instance splitting the struct into two (im/mutable) and then passing them around, or what.

BTW kudos on zanzibar. Love the tech and the code).
There are no more people in that process, just “resources” that you “let go”. Welcome to 2024.
There is sqlmesh which implements some nice concepts like blue green deployments.

https://sqlmesh.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
>You can rewrite a table in PG to be clustered [0], but it a. locks the table b. is a one-shot, so you have to periodically redo it

That is not a true clustered index or index organized table, the table is still a heap and there is still a secondary index that is the b-tree. With a real clustered index the table itself is the b-tree there is no heap and no secondary index unless you have other indexed fields as obviously there can be only one clustered index.

This may be a terminology thing Oracle calls them index organized tables while MSSQL calls them clustered indexes while PG uses clustered for something that is not actually an index.

>AFAICT [1] you have to explicitly make a table `WITHOUT ROWID` to get a Clustered Index in SQLite.

The Row ID IS the clustered index unless you specifically say it's one of your columns. In SQLite there are no heaps only b-tree indexes.

>The main problem with this is there is a tendency by people unfamiliar with proper schema design (so, most) to use a UUID – usually v4 – as the PK. This causes no end of performance issues for RDBMS with and without clustered index, but since InnoDB also uses a clustered index, and MySQL is the most-installed RDBMS (modulo SQLite), it happens a lot.

Since most of your key are indexed typically this is an issue either way since that will cause fragmentation in clustered or non clustered indexes on a random UUID requiring page splits etc.
> In Facebook engineering management the internal target was 6% IIRC.

I haven't seen a NRA rate enforced at Facebook, however 6% is the target at Amazon.
The issue you face here is one of program inputs. Any time you are passing functions as values, you can't guarantee how exactly the body of a function will execute. In a simple example:

(lambda (a) (a (lambda () (b)) (lambda () (c)))

You can't tell how the calls to b and c will be executed without also knowing something about the value of a. The function a could be a branching construct, or it could just evaluate it's inputs directly. You could assume the worst case and assign a high complexity to this code, but all lambda calculus terms are delayed in this way, so every function call would be assigned the worst case complexity for control flow.

More generally, imagine an interpreter that accepts a string as input and that string contains a program. You can make the program contained in the string as complex as you like without affecting the complexity of the interpreter, and effectively cheat the metric.
That is why I didn't try to DIY. Sure I'm confident I could get it installed. However I'm sure that I would discover after the old furnace was tore out that I'm missing some part/tool and so off to the store - what would take a pro a single day would take me 3 weekends at best: time that I don't have HVAC.
Does Silverblue have the same plaintext system configuration capabilities like NixOS?
PinePhone exists, the market just doesn't care. Why should legislators force the (presumably free) market to be more like the PinePhone and less like the iPhone?
Nichia still makes the best color LEDs. Semi-recently they made a UV free LED for artworks.
New devs' code looks like ChatGPT wrote it if it had been trained on pre-existing parts of the codebase. Copy pasta eeeverywhere :p
Is it possible to be insured against fraud? I’m terrified of how convincing the frauds will get in the coming years, and think it’s only a matter of time before we’re all susceptible.
Can you clarify…? I’m a bit slow. Like, believing that the conspiracy is true? By body of work, do you mean Marx / Frankfurt School, or the anti-cultural Marxism writings?