skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Depends on the bank and what the code is. I know of insurance jobs that pay very nice salaries. 9-5 job where if you are around at 5:01 they tell you to go home. Vacations are mandatory as well (all banks have mandatory vacations - they need you gone long enough that if you are embezzling money whatever scheme you had breaks and someone else figures it out investigating what is wrong). It is however boring coding that will suck your soul so many around me accept less pay for more interesting work.
On top of those, the Wikipedia page also has a list of examples: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloom_filter#Examples
RAID rebuild times make it an unviable option and customers typically expect problematic VMs to be live-migrated to other hosts with the disks still having their intended data.

The self hosted version of this is GlusterFS and Ceph, which have the same dynamics as EBS and its equivalents in other cloud providers.
It's already part killed off and the way things are going will likely be fully killed soon. Since January 1st it's 30% for 20 months, then 20% for 20 months and finally 20 months of 10%.
It's worth noting that in communist theory (which you mentioned), the dictatorship of the proletariat is an intermediate step before communism is fully achieved, it's not the end goal.

In practice I'm not sure the proletariat ever held this power (as a class; individuals may have).
Unlike video games and movies, there's just not much overlap to aggregate for any given consumer product because there are just so many devices in every category.

The best case scenario seems like it would be PC gaming gear, for example, since there's so much coverage. But consider "best gaming mouse": the first handful of google links all cover different mice. I'm not sure what that UI would look like if you tried aggregating this. And I think your aggregator would feel like a shallow passthrough rather than anything independently useful like those low-effort made-for-adsense spam sites.

If you're fishing for ideas, I think first-party curation is far more useful and in line with what people want. Consider how https://www.logicalincrements.com/ works for PC parts, something I use every time I want to buy something PC related.

I don't want to compare a bunch of options. I want someone to filter down the selection for me.
Oh yes and I remember a time where people who were not on facebook kind of stopped existing in your mind. Where "I don't have facebook" was feeling like an insult on the community.

Times have changed now my facebook feed is only ads (from facebook or people in my list promoting their own thing) and news articles where people are writing things to each other that they would be ashamed for if read to their parents
The auto-correct that turns regular ascii single and double-quotes into their fancy equivalence is the first thing I turn off when installing OS X.
PCI bus, etc too
Serious question, for a consumer does it make any sense to compare SSD benchmarks? I assume the best and worst models give a user an identical experience in 99% of cases, and it is only prosumer activities (video? sustained writes?) which would differentiate them.
https://www.investopedia.com/ask/answers/08/nonrecourse-loan...

The full-recourse loan instrument gives you access to any other assets Bob may have (including future assets such as wages).
PRC has plenty of coal reserves. They only import coal for steel making. Thermal/power coal negligible and only then to plug domestistc production gaps. They're building a lot of domestic coal plants because advanced plants are "clean enough" and supplement energy security. But yes, I don't think anyone expected renewable costs to come down that much.

The other consideration is crack down on RE freed up a lot of compatible construction capacity to to mass rollout renewables. And relatively "lowskilled/cheap" construction overcapacity is going to disappear as PRC demographic transitions - old manual labour excess supply on their way out. Economics may swing back to plants.
representations' efficiency increases the more flexibility you give it
"Frequency hopping" does nothing when your adversary can blow out the entire 2.4 and 5.4GHz bands, even before getting into sophisticated radio-specific attacks.

Urban radio environments are crowded, not actively hostile.
There is a lot more I can say of course, given its a book length discourse. I'll just say one more thing. The book criticizes and rejects the idea that "science is the only genuine source of knowledge". I think this is a common misunderstanding of what science is. The books says "The trouble now is that scientism becomes completely trivial, arbitrarily redefining “science” so that it includes anything that could be put forward as evidence against scientism." But that is what science, or more precisely, the scientific method is!

For instance, if the 5 proofs had actually logically and definitively proved that a personal God exists, then yes, that knowledge would become part of science.

Conversely, is it not true that the actual bedrock of religions are the books/revelations. Imagine a world where were no such revelations. Would people have as much faith in a personal caring God just on the basis of proofs?

And if the revelations were actually shown to be true, that would become part of scientific knowledge. Say God appears on Earth today and agrees to undergo scientific observations of His nature (say by turning water to wine or parting the ocean under experimental scrutiny), then naturally His existence will have to be accepted as part of reality.

The scientific method is used by everyone, whether consciously or unconsciously and to the best of their ability, to survive and understand the reality we observe. There is no other way to judge right from wrong. Scientists obviously use it to study physical reality. And theists use it for instance to judge which among the various religions (and which denomination within a religion) is actually true. Yes, that is also an application of the scientific method, looking at the arguments for the different religions and judging which one (or none) seems to be true. The disagreements come in when we don't have enough data to make a definitive judgement between the alternatives. And that's where all the wonderful imaginative ideas continue to exist.
There was a fun thing in London couple years back where for sale apartments would be staged with scaled down furniture for the same effect.
> Until now, someone needed to know your phone number to reach you on Signal. Now, you can connect on Signal without needing to hand out your phone number. (You will still need a phone number to register for Signal.) This is where usernames come in.

How about no phone numbers for registration at all?
My take… Reddit clones .. Facebook clones get shut down pretty quickly by the government as soon as they start to gain any traction.
I've been using GPT-4 (mostly for coding and general knowledge, use it a lot more for personal projects than actual work) for the past year, and just switched to Gemini Advanced (since there's a 2 month trial, that includes Google One, which I'm already paying for), and so far it's pretty comparable. The "check sources" google button is sort of handy but it only works maybe 25% of the time to get a confirmation of a statement.

It sort of adds a "confidence level" check that saves me from doing it myself afterward like I would for GPT-4.

Edit to add: Gemini Advanced seems to be a lot faster as well at responding, in terms of tokens/second, compared to GPT-4.
This is an example from a UK gym that I know holds lots of comps. Scroll down for the novice/beginner comps.

https://www.kaosstrength.co.uk/strongman-comps

Note also that is not unheard of for people to "blank" i.e. not complete any reps of a particular event. It's often said that if you don't (particularly at the lower levels) you're not challenging yourself.

It's also bad form to enter a novice comp if you already have a 300kg deadlift.
AMD Expands ML Development Capabilities with ROCm 6.0 and Extended GPU Support
Literally step for step what I spent my weekend putting together. Here's the preview blog I wrote on it. https://blog.bonner.is/using-ai-to-find-fencing-courses-in-l...

Only step you missed was embeddings to avoid all the privacy pages, and a cookie banner blocker (which arguably the AI could navigate if I cared).
I hate that states do this, but yeah it’s called “surveillance” when legitimized by norms, statute, and precedent.
So I'm assuming this decision was made quite a while ago? Years, maybe even over a decade?
My understanding is that, they will support the architecture as long as one of the OpenBSD developers doesn't mind maintaining it. It isn't like Linux. Linux developers will make a top-down decision. OpenBSD is more of a, if a developer has the physical hardware and will to do it, it will remain supported until that is no longer true. Same with NetBSD, but I think NetBSD is a little more loose with the 'having physical hardware.' The spirit of OpenBSD is, no, you need to build on physical hardware. NetBSD doesn't mine the primary mechanism of testing and development being a QEMU image.

Which hopefully gives some comfort. There isn't a shortage of cheap 32-bit x86 machines. The biggest problem are probably like sparc machines that getting your hands on one in good condition can still be pricey. But you can find a functional 32-bit x86 desktop machine on ebay for 30 bucks.
yep. I used to develop web applications for smart televisions and we just targeted webkit
Everything is always a new solver away.
>but if people really like to be bombed with ads and (mind) seeds planted to their brains, I can't argue.

I can argue. The whole point of society is that we can choose to say "no, you can't have/do the thing YOU want because it has externalities that affect everyone else"

The advertising economy is corrosive and toxic to society
I feel that the more immediate and impactful opportunity that people are doing is instead of scraping to get/understand content. LLM agents can just interactively navigate websites and perform actions. Parsing/Scraping can be brittle with changes, but an LLM agent to perform an action can just follow steps to search, click on results, and navigate like a human would
> A neo-nazi, a zionist, a christian, an atheist, etc should have a right to study, teach, opine, etc in an american university.

Of course. But they're not free from the consequences of e.g. espousing neo-nazi nonsense.

> The problem is that the lunatic fringe has coalesced together and taken power not only in academia, but corporate america and government

But enough about Conservatives. /s
He is saying, there is not much difference between tribal people in Afghanistan and Pakistan.
I think if you ask 3 communists to define communism you get 4 answers. For one, some are anarcho-communists and some aren't.

Adn when I ask, is it okay if I have possessions, is it okay if I trade and make contracts, I think they're mostly on board with that. But then there's some boundary where they say it's not okay if I make a contract to own stake in a company. Capitalism seems to obviously work great for me cause I get paid in fiat currency to work on startups that are likely to fail, and I have no risk.

Maybe communism is like "Simple software architecture", lots of people agree they want it and it would be easy to have "if only everyone else agreed", but then they can't agree what it is, or when you go to actually implement it, there's a good reason nobody really does it.
This is how I do it.

I send the URLs I want scraped to Urlbox[0] it renders the pages saves HTML (and screenshot and metadata) to my S3 bucket[1]. I get a webhook[2] when it's ready for me to process.

I prefer to use Ruby so Nokogiri[3] is the tool I use for scraping step.

This has been particularly useful when I've want to scrape some pages live from a web app and don't want to manage running Puppeteer or Playwright in production.

Disclosure: I work on Urlbox now but I also did this in the five years I was a customer before joining the team.

[0]: https://urlbox.com
[1]: https://urlbox.com/s3
[2]: https://urlbox.com/webhooks
[3]: https://nokogiri.org
You should treat this the same as you would something like the Obfuscated C competition. Just because it's supposed to compile and run properly doesn't mean it's good code.
Protocol ratcheting, but 90 days would be quick if there’s a lot of apps.
But I'm dead? So why does it matter?
This is about early testing (on code) of Gemini 1.5, but presumably that will come to the Gemini consumer product in not too long so …

I've put a complex codebase into a single 120K-token prompt, and asked 7 questions GPT-4 and Gemini 1.5. Here are the results!
https://www.reddit.com/r/singularity/comments/1atjz9v/ive_pu...
Did a tumor write this?
Renewables.org is an environmental non-profit, so the first order effect of what we do is prevent carbon emissions by helping to accelerate solar development in the Global South.

Incidentally, there are great second order benefits to building solar like jobs created, a more reliable power grid, and more resilient economic development.

We barrow money from our investors on our site and lend it to regional solar developers who finance commercial solar. We return principal to our investors at a 0% rate of interest and charge the developer a reasonable rate of interest which is used to fund growth and product development.

Since we are a non-profit, we could not lend out money for free since that would be a private for-profit entity benefiting from our non-profit status.

Thanks for the question, happy to share more.
AI can handle the mixed form... Perhaps now with LLMs we can just scan all the stuff with crossed out words and cicled conditions and have the ai make it searchable.

Then again we should always ask ourselves if a drug dealer would ever recommend someone stop doing drugs.
That's not exactly accurate. Have you seen the pages and pages of red and black circles? They track the reliability of vehicles over time (5-10 years) broken down by problem area (transmission, electrical, etc). That's where the real value is.
Odd. I'll give you that it's slow to type, but I can't agree that it's painful. Colon is on the home row under my pinky, and equal is next to the delete/backspace key that I hit all day long.
People will inevitably comment regarding the X.com suspension of Yulia Navalnaya (Alexei Navalny's wife):

“X does not have a choice but to obey local governments. If we don't obey local government laws, we will get shut down. We do our best to provide free speech that is possible under the law.”
--Elon Musk

If x.com was shut down in Russia, another channel of citizen organisation and dissent would be removed. Musk is in an near-impossible position when it comes to free speech in totalitarian regimes.

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Update: it looks like this argument is somewhat moot as Yulia's account has been restored: https://www.cnbc.com/2024/02/20/x-suspends-account-of-navaln...
They're both perfectly valid; but the expression style [0] is shorter and more obvious, especially compared to Optional. Even the documentation for Optional states [1]:

Note that this is not the same concept as an optional argument, which is one that has a default.

[0] https://docs.python.org/3.11/library/stdtypes.html#types-uni...

[1] https://docs.python.org/3.11/library/typing.html#typing.Opti...
It is because on reboot you may not get the same physical server . They are not rebooting the physical server for you , just the VM

Same VM is not allocated for a variety of reasons , scheduled maintenance, proximity to other hosts on the vpc , balancing quiet and noisy neighbors so on.

It is not that the disk will always wiped , sometimes the data is still there on reboot just that there is no guarantee allowing them to freely move between hosts
I just learned that there is 2 year lock-in, but otherwise I think it is unrestricted.
Anyone who cares will heed this language and not use them in the first place. For everyone else, Google's reputation as a "secure" place to host your proprietary files, docs, and emails will be flushed away if they cooperate with (foreign, mostly) law enforcement or have such a glaring security vulnerability that allows an org's files to leak from Google servers.
Sure I asked it to generate a picture of a Swedish woman and it generated four white women that look Swedish to me (not that I would really know).

I then asked it to generate a portrait of a woman and it generated a white woman, a woman that to my eye looks East Asian, and a black woman. If you consider a random sample of all skin tones and regions on earth, this distribution seems pretty normal.

I’ve seen some people get very annoyed when people who don’t look like them get represented somewhere. Maybe those people were being extra loud about the representation. Or maybe I’ve not been able to generate the purported weird distributions you have heard of.
I agree with the majority of this with respect to simplicity in general, and only really take issue with this bit, about GraphQL:

> • Our various apps (user app, support app, Wave agent app, etc.) can mostly share one API, reducing complexity

This could of course be done with a RESTful API.

> • Composable query language allows clients to fetch exactly the data they need in a single packet roundtrip without needing to build a large number of special-purpose endpoints

This, too, can be done with a RESTful API. Two approaches which immediately spring to mind are passing desired items as query parameters or passing a template item as a query parameter or request body.

> • Eliminates bikeshedding over what counts as a RESTful API

This may actually be a benefit of GraphQL! There’re a ton of soi-disant ‘RESTful’ APIs which simply don’t follow REST principles at all (e.g.: ‘REST’ ≠ ‘JSON RPC’; also HATEOAS is hugely important, even when the hypermedia is in a non-HTML format such as JSON). But I also think that real REST really is a powerful framework for distributed computing. Sometimes the discussion really is bikeshedding, but sometimes it is a definition of terms.
Does this mean the protocol still exposes your phone number and it's hidden only by the client side?
if you're using requests in python, requests-cache does exactly this for you, saving the data to an sqlite db, and is compatible with your code using requests.
A LOT... especially here.
How would you propose doing that in a way that is consistent with the First Amendment?
This is Hyrum’s law at play: AWS wants to make sure that the instance stores aren’t seen as persistent, and therefore enforce the failure mode for normal operations as well.

You should also see how they enforce similar things for their other products and APIs, for example, most of their services have encrypted pagination tokens.
You don't "need" a compiler sidecar unless you're specifically writing code to exploit obscure bugs. This is a 0.0001% case
I am interested in the back of the envelope calculations you did to come to this conclusion. Would you please elaborate if possible?

I know of an early stage YC startup that has a 6TB Postgres DB.
Would it be fair to say that the DB hosting (neglecting replica, engineering time) can be done at $150/month?
Old Facebook now exists in group chat
lots of countries share data and also require you to get finger printed, iris scanned, photo taken etc which is already a lot of biometrics.. not sure for this DNA thing looks a little excessive...
I make it a point to hit "block all from" everytime a friend shares something from someone else. Then after two hit blocks from I'd done and log off. It had made my feed better, but not by much. It makes my life better though because it stops me from endlessly scrolling in hopes that maybe the next post will be what my friends are doing.

I encourage everyone to do the same - if enough do maybe facebook will notice and hopefully get back to what makes them valueable: what my real life friends are doing.
What do you mean? I have been a member for a number of years and they ask me either yearly or semi-yearly if I still own the product, if I would still recommend it and about any new major purchases.

Products I have been asked about more than once:

Heat Pumps

Cars

TVs
I wonder why that solution hasn't solved piracy (or any other form of violent theft) in the history of humanity.

It's literally an arms race, and non-combat measures reduce the risk of loss of life, cargo, and vessels, which makes them much more economical than trying to train and arm crews.

Plain old escalation may work (modulo combat effectiveness of crew members) on an individual case, but there will always be more pirates, especially in the most desperate parts of the world.
I didn't get that same feeling from reading the two articles, but Turchin's article on Elite Overproduction is relatively new and the idea is only as old as 10 years. It's a theory that's very convenient for explaining the present but seems to be grounded in past political instability, so who knows... maybe it'll stand the test of time. It is interesting though.
Exactly. An another aspect of this respectful attitude and character would involve accepting the loss if one is destroyed rather than replacing it with a fake.

However, precise replicas to already exist for the most popular and widely known lifting stones- the Húsafell and the Dinney stones have been carefully copied and replicated, to allow people to train for the real thing from a distance, and to allow for their use in strongman competitions when removing them from their historical site isn't appropriate or allowed.
There's objective reality IMHO, but humans have demonstrated that we fail to see it clearly, and that our view of reality is biased by our beliefs, drives, experiences, etc. This understanding of human nature extends back to Plato, at least.

One strong bias is that we follow social norms; we follow the herd. Challenges to that norm are upsetting, disruptive. But norms are not privileged in truth; there have been endless evil and ignorant norms in history.

> If there can be no reasonable way to get closer to an objective truth, the very foundations of universities are in question and the entire institution destroyed.

Nobody said we can't get closer, but the way to get closer is not to accept one set of beliefs and supress the others; it's to innovate and improve. We know much more about economics than we did 50 years ago and 100 years ago and centuries ago, but we still have far to go.

> that is exactly what Queer Theory promotes

Could you give an example of that?
I have a very close friend pursuing an advanced degree in sociology. They're an excellent student, highly intelligent, from a well-off background having benefitted from extremely good schooling their entire life - yet seem barely capable of critical thinking. They often talk about how research is just "food for thought" and has little use in any endeavor the requires decision making or informing policy and that truth as a concept is "frowned upon". These are paraphrased points this person has made to me on several different occasions. I want to understand their perspective but it's frankly shocking the conversations we have. The farther I've explored what this person believes the more bleak it gets. They argue that all perspectives are valid yet have extremely specific beliefs and perspectives on all sorts of things. These beliefs and perspectives are also exactly in-line with what you'd expect from a sociology department at a major US university. Seeing these topics at least being broached gives me some small amount of hope.
Would signing into Signal on a work device not negate most of the security benefits of using Signal? Genuine question; I am only vaguely familiar with Signal.
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