skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Mainframes have a ton of internal redundancy that enables insanely high avaialability, absent destruction. All ‘availability’ rests on some assumed radius of safety.

A nuclear blast in northern Virginia can take out all the availability zones for AWS US-East-1 - that doesn’t invalidate the availability claims of a system that is distributed across three AZs, it just puts an upper limit on it.
do not fear the autocrats
They eventually reveal the same conclusion, but with less certainty:

> The answers to the “Why so tall?” and “Why not taller?” questions seem to involve water, as is the case for so much about trees.

> Ultimately, it’s most likely a matter of hydraulics: A tree’s height appears to be limited by the enormous effort needed to lift water through tiny tubes, or xylem — the transport tissue that constitutes most of its mass.
Its not for the impatient, its a deeper dive than that.
A tuned chatbot wouldn’t be a bad idea. The data/knowledge is there in high density.

Someone is going to scrape this site and benefit themselves, travelers, and travel providers - would be nice if it was its creator.

There are few organizations or useful sites with immunity to AI’s impact.
Microsoft's Android RDP client does this, the biggest issue is that it's not expected behaviour.
There are smaller companies but that is not really relevant to the original comment.
Yeah, the post doesn't go into quorum decision making with the "monitoring node", which helps either enforce eventual or strong consistency. I've found that you typically want minimum 3 nodes + a monitoring node (or could be client side) to have a read quorum (at least 2 nodes have consistent data).
https://www.theswaddle.com/regular-blood-donations-can-reduc...
Datacenter fires cause downtime no matter what consistency model you choose.

Also, mainframes are pretty big, multi-processor machines. They have their problems, but having all those components give out all at once? I'm sure it happens, but I've never heard of it.
> you're only arguing about it because you enjoy arguing with people on the internet

Not at all. Firstly I clearly stated a second reason so that isn't the only reason. And secondly, that's orthogonal to whether or not I'm right. If I didn't enjoy debating I wouldn't bother but I would still know that maintaining this delay is idiotic.

> It has been. You objected to those backwards compatible fixes.

It has not. If I install a default Linux distro, the default configuration is to insert stupid delays everywhere.

I have to go out of my way to remove them. That. Is. Dumb.
Oh, I hadn't realized they shared that history as well! Thanks for the correction
There's probably a karma limit to viewing flagged comments, since myself and the poster you're replying to have this ability and we both have >1k karma.
Someone is trying to make this company real cheap…?
Job aint done 'til the tools are put away.

"left to my own devices" ... be your own boss. When you're working for others you're thinking of their judgment of your efforts, when you're working without that prompt you wander and forget why you wanted the thing.

So take the approach of assigning tasks to you as a job; and think "would I be satisfied with an employee who delivered this?"

Perhaps "partnering" would help; I find the coordination overhead to be more cost than benefit but I'm weird. But having a source of external judgment, for both of you, might well be a motivation worth experimenting with.
I doubt it, Jeremy’s been walking the walk for quite a while now, when it comes to opening up access to AI, especially with his excellent, free fast.ai course, it seems pretty clear that his primary motivations are in helping others. (If you’re in this thread, Jeremy, thanks for fast.ai, it helped me immensely in getting started in training models).
Thank you so much, this was the kind of answer I was looking for.
I'm no exception. The only thing i've claimed knowledge of is that knowing the benefits or harms of the state, market, etc. is circumstantial, empirical and requires a lot of study.

Insofar as it sounds arrogant its because it's a knowledge claim against the ideologue who regards their own ideology as prima facie obvious, knowledge-conferring, and reliving them of any duties to serious study.

In other-words my arrogance, such as it is, is skin deep and explicitly stated. But its in reply to the deep-seated lack of humility and profound ideological arrogance of those who think you can use soundbites to describe perhaps the most complex object anywhere in the universe (ie., a modern political economy).

Maybe it should sometimes be said that when a person is replacing thinking with soundbites, that they arent thinking at all. Maybe this is a less-bad form of arrogance than the alternative.
From the description, I thought it might the "disregard females / acquire currency" guy [0], but I've never seen this meme before.

0: https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/joseph-ducreux-archaic-rap
Could you elaborate? I would love to learn more.
Actually I think you should re-read my comment. I'd also love to actually see the research you're talking about here.

> I assure you I've thought about this. And explored it, researched it, tested it, prototyped it, interviewed people about it, built it, rebuilt it, and then did it all over again to improve it.

Oh, sorry, I didn't realise I was talking to the world expert on button animations. So do users prefer quadratic or exponential smoothing on their switches?
> State it in the email that originally contained the link and state it again on the page when they click it afterwards.

No one reads this stuff. I’m not saying this to be argumentative. I have a large user base and I know from experience.
It was crazy reading Journey to the West and being like, "WTF, THAT part of Dragonball comes from this?"
My aunt did this 20 years ago. I know plenty of people that have done it at Northwestern, UChicago, Harvard. All upper middle class or higher. The only thing new is that the middle class have discovered this "trick."

These kind of perks are how universities get away with less-than-market salaries for their white-collar staff. If you aren't old enough to have college-age kids, you can use the benefit for yourself. Get an office job, brown-nose for a year or two until they really like you, then tell them you want to get an MBA/masters/whatever. They'll consider it an act of loyalty, and help you get in to the program on a part-time basis!
The ISS is boosted to a higher orbit every few months using on board thrusters, otherwise atmospheric drag would have deorbited it a long time ago.

But the hardware will not last forever, it has taken a beating from micrometeorids, radiation, extreme temperature changes etc. At some point it becomes too risky and expensive to operate.
There's a huge difference between copying an "idea" and code.
I don't know about your switches, but mine definitely do need to pass through the intervening space between states.

That's not an argument for slow transitions, but some transition is realistic.
As the article says, and it seems like what a lot of designers feel as well: “Adding some animation to it would be cool!”

I’m with you though. Most animation in UI is superfluous and annoying, if not down right rage inducing (like when the animation blocks input).

A good example of an animation that I don’t dislike is the window minimize animation on macOS where the window gets “sucked” into the Dock. It’s useful because it relates a “where” that I can keep in my head. I click a button, where’d my window go? Down there, I just saw it get sucked down into the Dock.
That sounds both unsanitary and wasteful of potentially useful organs. I'd recommend against it.
> Datacenter fires cause downtime no matter what consistency model you choose.

Why that? I can distribute my nodes over multiple datacenters. Netflix does that even with whole regions (to my knowledge) to avoid downtime when a region goes down.
The EU has proposed that it be added to the Stockholm Convention ban list, which would lead to it being banned almost everywhere on earth.
> I have found that any tests that include a negative are highly likely to fail unless you word it in a specific way.

Well yes, that's the point. This is an easy, objective, simple task not in any benchmarks I know of that much stupider (but unRLHFed) models like GPT-3's davinci-002 can solve without breaking a sweat: example https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/4ARaTpNX62uaL86j6/the-hidden...

So, it makes a good test for RLHFed models like all the publicly-available Geminis & GPT-4s (and Inflection Pi, apparently).

Subjectively, the degree to which a model fails this test, and will subsequently keep failing or confabulate excuses or claim to not be rhyming even when it can easily identify the rhymes, seems to correlate to the level of 'RLHF brain damage' (and the extent to which it has been cloning GPT samples), by showing to what extent the RLHF priors brainwash it into not complying with the task and overriding its underlying knowledge. GPT-4, Inflection, Gemini etc all know many rhyme-pairs, and know what 'write a non-rhyming poem' is asking for, and could easily avoid them - but something goes wrong in the RLHF and brainwashes them into always trying to rhyme anyway because that was the original tendency rewarded.

(I have a whole theory for why this rhyming problem, specifically, happens so regularly, involving BPEs, which you probably don't care about; regardless of why, it's still hilarious just how well "write a non-rhyming poem" has worked for so long on so many models post-GPT-3.5. There are few prompts which are 4 innocent-looking & objective words - no invasive PII tricks like "what's your mom's name?" - yet so clearly reveal a LLM at work.)

As for Gemini specifically: it seems to vary by which model size. The bigger/better the model, the more often it'll get it right. I did a bunch of hand-benchmarking in LMsys models back in early February IIRC, and at the time, it was 0 out of 49 for 'gemini-pro-dev-api' (!) but people using the largest Geminis were reporting to me rates more like 1 of 3. (And the more RLHF a model undergoes, the worse I think it gets. The best GPT-4 model was the oldest available one, 'gpt-4-0314' 10/13 while 'gpt-4-0613' crashed to 8/44 and then the latest 'gpt-4-turbo' falls even further to 5/49. Lately in ChatGPT, it's been getting it right about 1/2, so maybe they've fixed something or started targeting it since I talk about it online & flag all the rhyming completions as errors.)
HP’s 20 pages for $7/month is MORE expensive than the FedEx shop ½ mile from my house charges and far more than the public library. It gets better if you go up to their pricier plans and actually need to print hundreds of color photographs per month but can’t wait for mail delivery, but this just seems like a very niche market with such high prices.
Your problems are not with C the language but with the chosen build tools. Have you tried using a more modern tool like Meson? It is more comparable to Cargo.

To start a new project today using plain GNU Make like the author of the article recommends, is not a good idea unless you enjoy fiddling with the build.
Better create an editor macro to paste those ".clone()" all over the place.

You can get similar performance with any AOT compiled language, even managed ones.
> but designing for robustness is something that needs fractal alignment at higher meta-layers of incentives to be sustainable

This is why I remain an engineer and nothing more. If this sentence ever became meaningful I guess I would have been over-promoted.
Yet another bundler. Why should I adopt this one?

More importantly, how is this being funded? I find it hard to believe that core team is running off sponsor dollars. Is this project going to be around next year? Maybe it's coming from Vite sponsorship backers.
So Tom, Dick and Harry all have Terminal rdp access into the core infrastructure and they slept well knowing that they had - what was it? Ah, yes, - prevented clipboard copying as a hardening measure. That'll stop them pirates in their tracks. Nicely written post mortem. Though I can't help but notice the amount of committees and acronyms. Is it a British thing?
You say that like the health effects of pesticides are anywhere on the same scale as "starving to death".
Regarding youtube-dl specifically, it's only very little additional effort if you're already comfortable using a terminal.
Maybe my memory fails but I seem to remember watching Dr Slump in the mid 80s on TV3.
"All availability rests on some assumed radius of safety", thank you for that! If this is not a named law could you name it? I have needed this statement in the past but it never came together like that.
I Hire Great Engineers
> In Morocco, too, strawberries are irrigated with sewage water, and several times this year consignments of strawberries contaminated with hepatitis virus

Hepatitis A contamination of frozen fruits happens from time to time all around the world, but I thought it was usually linked to the picking process and processing plants. Not that irrigation can’t be blamed, but some single digit hours of sunlight exposure should inactivate viruses (even the non-enveloped kind).
With https://ucsd-progsys.github.io/liquidhaskell/, but as a separate checker. I think there are talks of integrating it into the compiler
Build Initramfs Rootless
Congress isn't considering a ban on Wikipedia because it's mission isn't emotional manipulation for profit.

So, no.
What ASIC/semi start up that you know of is developing everything in house? That is absurdly complex and hundreds of millions of dollars...
for natural history instead of english etymology, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Fs_(evolution)
What I Learned About Software from Building a Chicken Coop
Or:

> [The novel] "A Void", translated from the original French La Disparition (lit. "The Disappearance"), is a 300-page French lipogrammatic novel, written in 1969 by Georges Perec, entirely without using the letter e, following Oulipo constraints. [0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Void
Lobbying or straight up corruption payed in euros go a long way on poor countries.

Pesticides usage lobbying in particular was a very vocal issue during the last election in Brazil https://friendsoftheearth.eu/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/Toxi...
On the other hand that's a really easy way to handle the community updating the listing. Generate a static page from text files, use PRs to add entries to the text files.
European Health Data Space (EHDS): Patients risk losing control over their data
I guess if you selectively allow crawlers that promise to not use the data in such a way, robots.txt is still the way to go.

Otherwise you need to selectively allow certain bots. However, as well as with web crawlers, respecting a robots.txt is optional.

Insidious with AI-models is that it is difficult or practicably impossible to prove that it trained on your data.

Difficult to establish a standard like robots.txt. There also was .well-known/security.txt that Google proposed. Some sites serve it, but it hasn't really become a standard.
> I click a button in the real world, it changes the state instantaneously.

Actually it does not. Flick switches have travel, click buttons have depth. Electronic buttons have lag, bigger systems have startup time (hence the blinkenlights).

My dishwasher starts in ~3 seconds after I press start. The button travel is so much that I'm never sure whether it registered the press or not until I hear the water pump start pulling water from the pipe.

> It gives me an instantaneous feedback.

It's just because you're touching a button, and feeling the pressure on your fingertip. Nothing is in an "instant" in the world.
Sorry to say but I think this is much more confusing, has less visible data and is more difficult to use than hacker news.
With no manual override.
I wouldn't put it that way. I would prefer it if anything we sell is up to our own standards. Just like any kind of branding.
I suspect the limit will be O(n^2xlog(n)). It might also be easier to work out the complexity by considering the size of the problem to be the number of elements in a matrix instead, so O(nlog(n)) which would then be equivalent to O(n^2xlog(n)) using the n we use today. I also find it interesting that the current exponents seem to be closing in on 2+1/e.
Sure it is, if you have no idea if your knowledge is actully usefull and you push it anyway.

Just imagine how you feel if someone, say a consultant or a agile master, shows up at your work and tells how to do your job without having any experience with it, or the environment you are doing it for. There are even multiple threads on HN every week accusing those consultants of hubris in various ways.
Why Large Language Models Won't Replace Human Coders
> When I click a button in the real world, it changes the state instantaneously. It gives me an instantaneous feedback. Imagine you click the mouse button, and it slowly goes down and up.

Physical buttons have measurable response times, along with momentum and bounce. They're pretty quick, but get more noticeable as things get bigger.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Switch#Contact_bounce

The technique becomes even more powerful with additional degrees of freedom, like when moving the map from the article. It feels a lot better to have your view animate smoothly than jump around discontinuously.
So what I'm hearing here is, if I see a tire fall of a plane, I should, like, tell someone, who can eventually get word back to the pilot.
Supposedly they used that to start gaining information on actual spending habits, since they sell things directly via TikTok now, at very low prices. Although I’m actually thinking this might be too far fetched of theory.
Just install extensions directly from github/gitlab/whatever. No auto-updates (probably) and it's open source.
Because as mentioned, it isn't a game engine fighting for fitting everything into 16ms into a games console.

Similar performance levels can be attained with any AOT compiled managed language, with much better developer productivity.

Either one needs to deal with the borrow checker for performance that matters, or if the performance doesn't matter to put .clone() all over the place, then what is the point beyond CV building?!?
> Boeing shares seem unaffected by this event.

Probably because it's considered too big to fail. It's pretty much backed by the US gov.
In theory yes, and certainly if we're talking about Cassandra. In practice, most people do not distribute over multiple data centers. Doing so is very difficult and costly.
It's worth a re-read of like the first 15-20%. A quick, fun read, but has that same feel (to me) of GG&S where it talks about microbiology life form evolution underwater, high acidity, low light, high temperature, etc.

In that regard, it's like a precursor to GG&S which is "smarts + politics forward" vs a lighthearted approach to "which multi-cell organism has the right conditions to evolve limbs" (and presumably intelligence).

...or just chill out and accept that a world full of mushroom and fungus is just as intelligent and terraforming as humans can be.
And then Our Man In Havana inspire le Carré to write the Tailor Of Panama. It's a story that keeps on giving!
It's what people are used to and usually what they're expected to use at work. Most people don't care too much about privacy/their data.
The Misinformation Susceptibility Test (2023)
Oh, I hadn't noticed that emphasis. I guess I'm still stuck with the logarithm trick. I also just checked Montgomery and he reports that another simple transform is y^0.25 -- ie, square root of square root. I haven't tried it though.
There's More Than Just Shadowbanning on Instagram
I’m guessing they’re taking a hand wavey position that as AI spews forth it degrades provenance as you start to struggle to tell things apart.

Immutable “crypto” ledgers offer the promise of restoring confidence in provenance.
There are more languages out there beyond nodejs and rustc.
NASA Public Lessons Learned System
Also some of these sliders are tri-state. When you touch it, it moves 3/4 way, becomes washed out, meaning "making the change, please wait", and either goes all the way & becomes green, or returns to its place and shows an error.

Animations are tools. Use wisely, they inform and entertain. Use too much, they become boring.
Putting Russia and America on the same level here means not knowing either Russia or America.
Touchscreens for some things (navigation, rarely accessed configuration) are fine but they absolutely should not be required for basic driving tasks or while driving.
One of my all time absolute favourite websites. The information is wonderfully detailed and all makes sense in context.

Many are saying you could stick some AI on top of this, but I'm glad this is done manually. There are other websites for travel planning with more automation, and in my experience the information is typically junk.
"This just in: Legal scholar points out that they are not technically touching the cookie jar."

It's trivial to invalidate this non-argument and expose intent, or rather remove the cloak of denyability, by simply witnessing several different inconsistencies.

Not merely that such geofenced functions are nothing new, and so there is already a practically infinite body of evidense of established behavior around that, and somehow only this one thing is handled differently, but also other things like someone else pointed out, are Apple still accepting their EU payment method? Applying EU taxes on those transactions? Conforming to EU laws in other ways relating to that customer? In all other ways Apple are declaring that they recognize the user as an EU citizen.
what would be the typical use of such a lab?

Why are so many different components needed?
BiomeJS 1.6 partial Vue, Svelte, Astro support
Main features:

- Partial support for Astro, Svelte and Vue files

- Resolution of configuration files from Node.js dependencies

- The Formatter has new options

- biome.jsonc support

- New lint rules

And plenty of fixes.
This is interesting, because I feel like I agree, but I feel fairly irrational for doing so. In aggregate Boeing is doing fine on safety, not because of their actions, but despite them, because airline safety is so highly developed. The 787 hasn't lost a single plane yet for example. Not flying Boeing is unlikely to materially change our personal safety because the risks are so tiny in the first place, so is there any point taking a significant inconvenience (in reduced route/airline choice) in return for an imperceptible safety improvement.

However. Over time the safety difference could grow if left unchecked, and voting with our wallets, taking a principled stance now, could improve things for the future.

It's also interesting that we don't think the same way about cars. Most people are not buying different cars based on safety, and in fact the trend is towards bigger cars that are known to kill more pedestrians.
It wouldn't be the first device to be hacked, or opened under the law.
Time between events is an approach Montgomery (8th EMEA) discusses in 7.3.5. The application there is for dealing with very low error/defect rates. I am not familiar with Wheeler's approach.
At least in Spain there were already plenty of Japanese animation shows before DB.

Captain Harlock, Robotech, Mazinger Z, etc.
That plainly seems like a mistake in the standard that harms security. What's the reasoning there? That somehow human fingers are less prone to error than password managers?

The only thing I can think of is malware changing the value of the clipboard to fool someone into pasting the wrong thing - but if you open that scenario then you've got all kinds of ways malware could mess with a manually typed field too.
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