skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That may be your experience, but not mine.

Yes, the cloud is _different_ to manage and has some of the same fundamentals to overcome such as security and networking, but lacks some of the very large pain points of managing an OS, like updates, ancillary local services, local accounts, and so on.

I'm not sure why you would state that it doesn't solve the problem I'm invested in -- namely operating websites. It is the perfect cloud workload.
I dont think that helps me understand it at all. That still doesn't explain why landlords give up that value. Why let a 3rd party make 10k off renters when you could pay some maintenance man $20/hr and keep the difference. If lazy and disinterested landlords are the answer, why are landlords less lazy in every other high demand city?

The question of if the marginal broker can or cant live off of 10k per transaction is entirely sperate. my guess is that there is some city regulatory barriers to entry here, but I haven't looked into it.
How to remember everything you have ever said or heard. Forever. For $60
Please keep in mind that these metrics can change from update to update, monthly or even weekly. As an example: I started playing Ubisoft's Tom Clancy Ghost Recon Wildlands some six months ago and the performance was jarred with occasional inexplicable framedrops completely ruining the whole experience. So I stopped playing it and went on to other games. But, about a month ago I've noticed two updates coming via Steam for Wildlands, and now when I run it it is absolutely stunning. Not a framedrop or a hickup or a glitch anymore. Now it is finally running flawlessly in 4k, everything on ultra on an RTX4070Ti. So, what I'm trying to say here is that these things can change from patch to patch, both for games and for the operating system or drivers. By the way, I didn't manually update anything in my Windows 10 Pro x64 (automatic updates are on), nor did I update nVidia drivers, for Wildlands to become "perfect" from "unplayable" as it was for me some six months ago.
Because the wrongness is intentional.
Genes don’t tell you about someone’s nutrition and fitness level, and it especially won’t tell you about the things most people value in a partner like their personality, values, sense of humor, etc. Even someone looking for a one-time hookup is usually going to be looking for at least a few of those characteristics if for no reason other than building trust that they’ll enjoy the experience.

There’s one known factor which genes can tell you (MHC complex compatibility) but studies have been mixed on that and researchers have found fewer matches in married couples than a simplistic theory would suggest:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Major_histocompatibility_compl...

Again, my point is simply that humans are not field mice. Our flexible brains are what make us human and you’re not going to be successful trying to build any model which doesn’t assume that.
I mean places where the police do have such an obligation.
But people don't often turn every opportunity they have into an a large autobiography and memoir of their life.
Great concept.

But the reality is that there IS, and likely always will be (short of wholesale genetic engineering of the race), a significant portion of the population that WILL act as you describe — i.e., have zero ethical boundaries and will behave according to whatever they can get away with.

The prevalence of psychopathy in the general population is about 4.5% [0], so about one in 20 will be entirely immune to any ethical expectations.

Moreover, up to 30% [1] have significant tendencies including low empathy and remorse, grandiosity, impulsivity, and/or aggressive or violent behavior.

So, the large majority, around 70-85% of the population will indeed be subject to, and indeed welcome a society primarily based on high ethical expectations.

However, a far too large minority will be immune to ethical expectations and will relentlessly prey on that majority.

Simply put, your idea is wonderful, but does not match reality, and would fail badly in practice.

[0] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8374040/

[1] https://www.apa.org/monitor/2022/03/ce-corner-psychopathy
Not sure, but I at least am certainly aware of possibilities that such writeups exclude.

In particular, you can do (a subset of) the following in sequence:

* write your own grammar in whatever bespoke language you want

* compose those grammars into a single grammar

* generate a Bison grammar from that grammar

* run `bison --xml` instead of actually generating code

* read the XML file and implement your own (trivial) runtime so you can easily handle ownership issues

In particular, I am vehemently opposed to the idea of implementing parsers separately using some non-proven tool/theory, since that way leads to subtle grammar incompatibilities later.
Except with git this is all built into the git client out of the box. Git has built-in tooling for sending patches over email and applying emailed patches. It's not something bolted on top, people have collaborated on git repos this way for ages.

Some other federation method through centralized platforms like Github would have to be bolted on to git, email is just the built-in and very much intended method that already exists.
"when they were on the clock all of them (machinists, etc too) were deadly serious. No fucking around."

Sounds like true professionals. There is no fucking around with serious work, when real lifes depend on it. I wish, more people had that attitude, then there would be less mess everywhere.
We've gone through three refrigerators in about four years...the first one had survived more than ten years and had just run its course -- all the cheap plastic had broken on it, but it still kept things cold. Replaced with a second-hand LG, and you know how that went - compressor went out after two years and would have cost as much as a new one to repair. Bought an outlet store domestic brand (I forget which one now) - freezer didn't work, back to the store it went. Bought a Kenmore (I think?)... turns out it is one of the models that has known issues, and the parts backlog is at least 6 months. Living in small town America, the problem is made worse because we only have two, maybe three repair options - first they tell you they won't work on LG, but whatever you buy they won't work on that either. Good luck getting a warranty honored on anything. Have decided when I remodel the kitchen, I'm going big - some kind of commercial fridge, as it is clear that consumer grade stuff simply doesn't work. If you are going to spend $3K a pop on a fridge (the prices have gotten crazy too!) and they aren't going to last more than a couple years, just spend the $10K on a commercial model and get your decade+ out of it.

And then there's Bosch, etc... now, I'd like to buy a Bosch, but my current partner doesn't want to spend the money, she likes buying outlet / second-hand / feeling like she got a deal, which is a problem. But - even the top end consumer Bosch is relatively small and I'm not sure the plastic bits are any more durable. I do like the dual compressor system though.

And then there's dishwashers... oh Maytag, how you've fallen thanks to VC/ PE...
came looking for feline-related content. left disappointed.
> If you're using a monolithic setup with erlang or running any kind of queue on the side you are fine. You might need to setup some retry logic and alerts but that is done once.

I could be misunderstanding but I think the argument is

if something/somebody is pushing to your webhook URL, and you are down for whatever moment of time, unless they retry, you lost the message

therefore

that's why you ask the entity pushing the data to your webhook to put it into something that is high availability (like an HTTP frontend to AWS SQS I'm guessing), and then you get around to processing it on your end when you can

Webhooks seem to be the publish/subscriber side of message queues without any of the "acknowledge successful processing of the message" parts defined in standard. 5 different companies pushing 5 different webhooks might all handle timeouts/500 errors/ECONNRESET differently retry wise.
On the other hand, maybe a broken vending machine wouldn't be a national talking point if even one person in this entire chain of events had simply accepted that the machine was malfunctioning and might not actually be an instrument of the surveillance state.
> I did see the full video and that's not assault. The police are well within their right to break up a congregation of disorderly juveniles outside homeless shelters. When they resisted that they arrested them.

It's very easy to verify that this is not what happened by simply watching the full video, which has been made public. The fact that the police omitted the first half of the video showing how the fight started is a tacit admission that they were, in fact, at fault.
Curious what model the dentist bot is running on? Tried it out, was surprisingly good, though eventually it contradicted itself (booked a slot it said previously was not available). (I get that’s the programming but am curious especially given the latency is really great).
As they say, the best time to start something was 10 years ago, the second best time is today.
Coal's influence on US energy generation is fading fast
"- The world isn't getting worse"

Bad stuff has always happened, but when something bad happens now, more people are made aware of it.

For example, when I was in high school in the the early '80s there was a shooting at a high school in my Midwestern US city. A kid brought a gun to school and shot two kids who said something about his brother. The shooter then turned the gun on himself. One of the other kids died too.

This was big news locally, I don't remember national TV coverage of it. There was no internet so if someone was 500 miles away, they never knew about it. It didn't spur a national debate about gun control, kid's mental health or school safety.
Worse in cold weather? I thought conductors get more efficient the colder they get (or is cold relative to humans insignificant to high voltage lines)?
>The solution is to identify, arrest, and prosecute criminals. Which the government is not obligated to do in the US.

The solution is to pass laws that allow citizens to defend property with the same force that they can defend their own and others bodies from injury.

It should be pretty clear that humans are pretty good optimizers. Its never about if the activity is legal or not, its about what is the reward is, vs what the actual risk is (i.e, getting arrested is not really a risk when your source of income doesn't depend on your criminal history)

The only way to stop humans from doing said behavior is increase the risk of doing it. If laws were passed that allowed citizens to freely own guns, and use those guns to defend themselves and property, you would see massive decrease in property crime.

And yes, you do get an increase in shootings. Statistically though, the shootings happen more in alteractions where tempers flare rather than home invasions or robbery situations. Suicides still preside overwhelmingly as the leading cause of gun deaths.

Overall, from a personal harm perspective (amount of harm * risk), its much safer if you have loose gun/self defense laws. Unless of course you are so well off that you can just replace stole stuff indefinitely, but again, the humans taking your stuff will optimize for that over time as well.
You do not want to host someone else's code. Webhooks are great because they simply require an endpoint.

If you host someone else's code, you also need to host their 3rd-party API keys, etc. You'll also have to combat spammers using your IPs to do bad stuff.
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> deploy and host the server somewhere where it’s always available

This is such an underappreciated aspect; a naive webhook consumer service will just completely miss events in any outage. It means that if the information contained is important, you need a fallback approach to gathering it, usually by periodically polling the source system. And, it turns out that a lot of times that polling mechanism is good enough on its own; engineering to get the instant push, but only most of the time is of questionable business value.

Incidentally I think that consuming webhooks and converting them to messages on a queue are one of the true killer AWS Lambda and Lambda-like use-cases. Very spiky traffic, shouldn't matter if it's warm, availability is paramount. And if you stay disciplined about it--just routing the message to the queue, nothing else--you sidestep many of the function-as-a-service developer lifecycle frustrations.
Learning Resilience the Japanese Way
A few months back, I was waiting at the RTO for my Driver's License when someone sitting next to me struck up a conversation. He told me he was the secretary of a big cosmetic company. And that his work allowed him to travel to many countries.

Out of curiosity, I asked him about his recent travel, and he showed me some pictures taken during his visit to Japan.

When I asked how he enjoyed being there, he gave me somewhat of a mixed reaction. As much as I liked Japan for its people and culture, he said, the difficulty in navigating to places because of the language barrier and fear of earthquakes were real concerns. "Every year Japan experiences more than 1500 earthquakes."

I was shocked to hear this, though. I knew that Japan experiences frequent earthquakes relative to other countries(although only a few are of higher magnitudes). But I never imagined that number.

This new data deepened by appreciation for the Japanese Spirit. It helped me clearly understand where the grit and resilience of the Japanese people come from.

In his Autobiography, "Made In Japan,"* Akio Morita talks about this. In the context of how the Japanese approached the post-WW2 phase, the Sony's co-founder explains:

But in both eras, after natural and man-made disaster, the city was rebuilt with a speed that amazed even some Japanese. Accustomed to dealing with privation and natural calamity, some families after the war managed to move into the bomb shelters of their burned-out homes, while others built shacks using corrugated iron, cardboard, and wood scraps for shelter. They accepted their misfortune as something that had to be endured but no longer than was absolutely necessary, and they immediately went to work rebuilding, ingeniously fashioning cooking stoves from rubble and odd bits of shattered metal, patching together remnants of usable material from among the charred ruins. In rebuilding the city, new ways were sought and new technologies employed in an attempt to learn how better to survive the next calamity, whatever and whenever that might be.

Imagine the number of back-to-back natural calamities a country must be prone to, that its people only focus on rebuilding their homes and lives and not cry over what happened. They simply don't have time for that. It's these hardships that have made Japanese people stronger.

Every setback and failure we face is only an opportunity to make us even stronger and resilient. Life becomes much easier if we approach hardships this way.

People who win crores worth of lottery money spend all their money in a year or two and get back to square one. Why? That's because, you can give people money, but you can never teach them the character that generated that wealth in the first place. The ability to handle failure and bounce back stronger is a critical skill that can only be learned from personal experience.

So, from now on, don't be disappointed when you face hardships; instead embrace them. For only they shape you and make you a better person.
To me, the issues stemmed not from the platform itself, but from its users. Facebook was enjoyable until I encountered individuals compelled to comment on every post I made, regardless of its significance. The situation worsened during the 2016 election season, when Facebook became a battleground showcasing the worst of humanity. This turmoil prompted me to take an extended break from the platform. Although I've recently returned, I'm now much quicker to use the "block" button to safeguard my peace of mind.
There are only 5478 game states (without even taking symmetries into account), so 13 bits should be enough actually.

I did something like this a while ago here, to produce the smallest possible implementation of the game in pure HTML: https://code.up8.edu/-/snippets/6
How Many Views Are Needed to Reconstruct an Unknown Object Using NeRF?
This is very interesting. One thing I wondered about the per-minute pricing is how to keep a phone agent like this from being kept on the phone in order to run up a bill for a company using it. It'd be very inexpensive to make many automated calls to an AI bot like the dentist receptionist in the demo, and to just play a recording of someone asking questions designed to keep the bot on the phone.

As a customer of a service like Retell (though of course not specific to Retell itself), how might one go about setting up rules to keep a phone conversation from going on for too long? At 17¢ per minute, a 6-minute call will cost just over $1, or about $10 per hour. Assuming the AI receptionist can take calls outside of business hours (which would be a nice thing for a business to offer), then such a malicious/time-wasting caller could start at closing time (5pm) and continue nonstop until opening time the next day (8am), with that 15 hour span costing the business $150 for billable AI time. If the receptionist is available on weekends (from Friday at 5pm until Monday at 8am), that's a 63-hour stretch of time, or $630. And if the phone system can handle 10 calls in parallel, the dentist could come in Monday morning to an AI receptionist bill of over $6,300 for a single weekend (63 hours × $10 per hour × 10 lines).

This is in no way a reflection on Retell (I think the service is compelling and the usage-based pricing is fair, and with that being the only cost, it's approachable and easy for people to try out). The problem of when to end a call is one I hadn't considered until now. Of course you could waste the time of a human receptionist who is being paid an hourly wage by the business, but that receptionist is going to hang up on you when it becomes clear you're just wasting their time. But an AI bot may not know when to hang up, or may be prevented from doing so by its programming if the human (or recording) on the other end of the line is asking it not to hang up. You could say it shouldn't ever take more than five minutes to book a dentist appointment, but what if the person has questions about the available dental procedures, or what if it's a person who can't hear well or a non-native speaker who has trouble understanding and needs the receptionist to repeat certain things? A human can handle that easily, but it seems difficult to program limits like this in a phone system.
A country with a leader who believes he’s entitled to conquer. The people aren’t allowed to disagree. If they do they go to prison.
I think your example is not a good one. Nordic countries have the concept of Jante law. If you can verbalize such a concept and also recognize that it exists in your society, by definition it makes your society more intolerant than a culture that has no such concept (such as the USA).

In fact, I would argue the open-ness and tolerance of nordic culture is specifically exploitative of the cultural expectation that you do not raise concern or object and are expected to be in agreeance with everyone else that "this here is a tolerant society". It's a valid theory that the fastest culture to adopt any philosophy will be the one that has the population with the greatest number of people who don't disagree.
OP explicitly talks about the system interfaces - i.e. the kernel. I don't see any sign that they are talking about the whole OS. In fact, if they were talking about the whole OS, the post would be nonsensical: any OS has a userspace implemented in some language, so any OS is 'pushing a language' in this limited sense, by definition.

Either way, the OP is clearly confused about what Linux-the-kernel provides vs Linux-the-OS. Their example of async IO is nonsense - async IO is built into the kernel itself, as are threads (which are not even available in libc, at least until very recently).

I will admit that I was "greatly exaggerating" (read: lying) when claiming that kernel maintainers don't know/care how libc uses their API. But the point is that, while the needs of libc obviously inform their designs, they are not directly writing or maintaining it, unlike virtually all other mainstream OSs.
I've been using Claude recently and as a product, regardless of the benchmarks it feels much nicer to use, I haven't spent a lot of time playing with open models though
Thanks, glad you like it! I'm all ears if you have any suggestions (here or there's a feedback form linked at the bottom)
> Lucky! I applied for a government job in a state that used exams. So my crappy GPA could be overlooked by good test-taking skills.

I had the exact opposite experience; I was told by the test-administrator that such a high test-score combined with such a low GPA was almost certainly going to be seen by his superiors as a sign that I had cheated on the test.
Boeing removes head of 737 MAX program in wake of safety incidents
How can there be an RFC for something that is not implementable by anything other than the main yaml library?
They were talking about on Android. Signal supporting SMS was never a thing on iOS.
The luxury of having 10 hours a week to code
Nothing in and of itself, other than "why would you want to limit a community to Christian men?". It signals a particular worldview and set of values, most of which involve excluding or degrading others.

Look around the webring. You'll find statements like:

> "Feminism is without a doubt one of the key ideologies in perverting the Christian worldview. The rhetoric “patriarchy”, is a denial of spiritual fatherhood. I’d wager most feminists would admit they’d give up their man-like life in return for a loving father."[0]

And

> "What would happen if we got rid of the lower education industry? Kids wouldn't have anywhere to go during the day so many mothers would probably be forced back into the home and fathers would be forced to stay with and support their families. This would actually be really great for society."[1]

So: jikes.

[0]: https://tfaz.xyz/articles/toxic-femininity

[1]: https://jacobwsmith.xyz/stories/build_fix_grow.html
you know that the melting pot analogy is meant to say that we integrate immigrant cultures into "our" culture by both changing the immigrant culture and the dominant culture. The contents of the pot as a whole are less changed than the individual components are.

I think you may be thinking of the Candaian conception of a cultural mosaic.
Relevant HN comment:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18463181

Apparently their software development processes are terrible.
Their website is SO SO bad. It is almost like they don't want you to easily be able to see your bill and investigate the rates. The only part of the website that is easy is making payments.
It starts with one. If China attacks Taiwan uncontested it’ll look to the next opportunity.
Which places regulate alcohol and drugs more strictly than the US with an order of magnitude lower deaths?

If we look at alcohol in isolation, for example per capita deaths are like 25 ish for both US and EU.

US drug OD is higher, like 30 per 100k. EU drug OD rate is like 18 per 100k. But it's not order of magnitude different.

I'll grant I don't know much about EU drug regulations, but the alcohol regulations are way less strict than the US on average.