skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If that was the assumption, then this whole thing makes even less sense. If your operation is already idempotent in its implementation, then wrapping it with this function is the last thing you'd want to do. By introducing at-most-once semantics on top of the call, it would defeat the point of making the operation idempotent to begin with.

The scenario where you'd want to use this `tryOnce` policy is probably the following:

1. You have an operation that is not idempotent and can't be made idempotent, for whatever reason.

2. You would prefer the failure mode of that operation to be that the effect doesn't take place, rather than that the effect takes place more than once.

BTW, you don't need to have an answer for everything. I don't think there has been any miscommunication or misunderstanding of the docs. I think people in this thread, including myself, have accurately identified that you haven't fully thought some of this stuff through. That's fine and normal for a product in this stage, but not being willing to admit it is less of a good sign. Good luck with the startup.
Damn, I forgot how harsh on the eyes the default color scheme/theme was. It's like a road worker's high-vis jacket.
Can anyone name one person who was listed on Wikipedia as being active in the KKK (from June of 1908 on) who was not on the FBI payroll while they were active in the KKK?
> 8 - 10 miles on an ordinary bike is considered a pretty normal bike commute.

People on e-bikes were more likely to get more exercise (i.e., more calories burned) than regular cyclists because of less (perceived?) effort, and therefore a willingness to travel further distances:

> Physical activity levels, measured in Metabolic Equivalent Task minutes per week (MET min/wk), were similar among e-bikers and cyclists (4463 vs. 4085). E-bikers reported significantly longer trip distances for both e-bike (9.4 km) and bicycle trips (8.4 km) compared to cyclists for bicycle trips (4.8 km), as well as longer daily travel distances for e-bike than cyclists for bicycle (8.0 vs. 5.3 km per person, per day, respectively). Travel-related activities of e-bikers who switched from cycling decreased by around 200 MET min/wk., while those switching from private motorized vehicle and public transport gained around 550 and 800 MET min/wk. respectively.

> Therefore, this data suggests that e-bike use leads to substantial increases in physical activity in e-bikers switching from private motorized vehicle and public transport, while net losses in physical activity in e-bikers switching from cycling were much less due to increases in overall travel distance.

* https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S259019821...
Feel free to use the Wayback Machine to find old Wikipedia articles.
> The basic Buddhist teachings and practices even for lay people cover this vast domain concisely

Not so concisely I would say. What source are you refering to here? Because the Pali Cannon is very long…
I don't call myself a great programmer, even after 40+ years as a professional programmer. Whether my projects succeed or fail depends on a lot more than my own skills.

I think I have a set of talents that make me good at methodically solving problems. I have natural curiosity. I like learning on my own and from other people. I self-taught, read everything I could find (back in the '70s and early '80s), practiced a lot, started at age 14. I got lucky with some good mentors early on, that made a big difference. My grandparents bought a terminal and modem for me when I was 16 so I could spend more time programming. I had some great jobs that let me work with people with more and different experience.

I think a lot of luck and circumstance goes into success, but you also need hard work and probably an innate inclination to put in the extra work. Everyone I have ever known who succeeded, in any field, put in a lot of work, but they also had talents and traits that made success easier or more likely.

I don't think in terms of getting "great" at programming. I think in terms of solving business problems and adding value for my employer or customer. What does it even mean to call someone a "great" programmer?

If I have to give advice I'll say read a lot of code, learn from your peers, especially those more experienced than you. A good mentor or two can make a huge difference.
I saw a demonstration of this in this very old documentary once. Not sure what the latest research says but it doesn't seem this kind of situation is entirely impossible.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NYAfmyMZe5g
see https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/2008-11-24

> "Oh, he comes back every two weeks or so. We gave him this big box of chocolates when he first arrived. Why? What'd you guys do?"
For sure! While there were definitely civilizations there, there are still huge areas that were likely never clear cut. And even the areas where pre-colonial civilizations had developed have been reforested for 600+ years, which by itself makes it interesting forest.
In previous topic, people told me that they would never want to live in a place that expects criminal liability from CEOs and executives in companies.

That's only for petty criminals, murderers and people who can't pay bills.
Important to note that a lot of this is a statement of goals not results. At the time this was written, they had initial, rough implementations of some of the intended toolkit (e.g., KBEMACS), but a lot of the other components are described in the future tense.

And the intended implementation technology was explicit, handcrafted rules or semantic networks -- which did prove to be disappointingly brittle in practice.
I used to live in NY state. I remember reading about this group of motorcyclists protesting the states motorcycle helmet law by riding around at rallies helmet-less. Their argument against helmets was the usual “I’ll be dead anyway with or without a helmet” or “I’d rather be dead than a cripple.” Then at one of these rallies, while riding at fairly low speed, this guy hit a rock or oil patch or something, dropped his bike, hit his head and died. Medical experts agreed if he was wearing a helmet he’d almost certainly be fine.
I completely forgot to do that part, thanks for the reminder :)

The firmware is at https://git.sr.ht/~martijnbraam/mixolydian-4x4-fw and the hardware is at https://git.sr.ht/~martijnbraam/mixolydian-4x4

I've updated the blog post to include these links as well.
https://tomas.github.io/jix/

Yet another Git client for the terminal. ;)

It's been on "coming soon" mode for some time now, because I haven't gotten the time to finish some stuff that's missing (handling merges, conflicts, rebasing, etc).

Still, I use it on a daily basis! It really makes crafting commits much faster.
> And listing files is slow. While the joy of Amazon S3 is that you can read and write at extremely, extremely, high bandwidths, listing out what is there is much much slower. Slower than a slow local filesystem

This misses something critical. Yes, s3 has fast reading and writing, but that’s not really what makes it useful.

What makes it useful is listing. In an unversioned bucket (or one with no delete markers), listing any given prefix is essentially constant time: I can take any given string, in a bucket with 100 billion objects, and say “give me the next 1000 keys alphabetically that come after this random string”.

What’s more, using “/“ as a delimiter is just the default - you can use any character you want and get a set of common prefixes. There are no “directories”, ”directories” are created out of thin air on demand.

This is super powerful, and it’s the thing that lets you partition your data in various ways, using whatever identifiers you need, without worrying about performance.

If listing was just “slow”, couldn’t list on file prefixes and got slower proportional to the number of keys (I.e a traditional unix file system), then it wouldn’t be useful at all.
It strikes me as amazing that we went from the general recognition that AGI wasn't anywhere soon to suddenly having this widespread idea that it was right around the corner.

Sort of reminds me of the late 90s super-proto-VR stuff where people thought any day now we'd be jacking into full immersion (tactile, smell and all) virtual reality.

Don't get me wrong, LLM's are useful tools. But ChatGPT aint Neuromancer. Or even Wintermute. It's Clippy after a few years of community college.
Very nice to know. I didn't. Thank you.
I can also understand adopting the e-bike. It doesn't look at all like a slippery slope that will lead to an automobile lifestyle--at least for the rest of the world, it has the effect of making car sales less likely, not more.

The e-bike is a symbol of degrowth, the way forward for future cities. Why shouldn't the Amish help wave that flag?
There is an honesty in humour.
Billions of students?

Curious about how many kids in India and China are relying on it.

I'll accept the prospect of hundreds of millions, generously.

And "relying on it" is a strong phrase. Using it as a curiosity, sure. The ones relying on it seem to keep ending up in the news because of how, well, unreliable it is.
Bicycle helmets are a cultural thing, a kind of uniform to show everyone that you are a "bicycle rider" and not just a filthy normie.
The whole read made me reframe Better Call Saul as a documentary.
Came here to recommend this.

It does just about everything you can think of, and since it’s just “a text file”, easy to store in git.

The ability to easily use the output from previous responses in subsequent requests makes for great story demos and/or test cases.

And it’s all done in VS Code, using tools/keystrokes/colors you already know and love. :)
LLM is not a knowledge engine.
Yes. yes it is. It’s basically compatible with the vs code variant too so team compatibility hasn’t been a problem.
Backblaze is like if Amazon spun AWS S3 out as its own business (and it added some backup helper tooling as a result) though, I wouldn't really worry any more about it. You could write a second copy to S3 Glacier Deep Archive (using B2 for instant access when you wanted to restore or on a new device) and still be much cheaper.
I had a twelve mile bike commute in Los Angeles and it was about 50 minutes on a recumbent when I was in great shape. Lots of stop lights though. That'd get old after a while for most people, though I was young, childless, and loved the ride. Free gym too!
eBPF Documentary
Why Can't Programmers Agree on Anything?
They know it's not coming, but don't mind seeing their 401(k) go up for awhile.

Why tell the children Santa's not real, when he's the reason they're being so good?
When would that be confusing? As in what would an AWS service offering OOP object storage be/mean?
Hip: Runtime API and Kernel Language for Portable Apps for AMD and Nvidia GPUs
S3 not implementate vfs api, but you can treat it as a software defined storage filesystem. Just like Ceph.

there are so many applications depends on file storage, such as Mysql. But horizontal scale for those app still difficult in many case. Replace from vfs api to s3 storage perhaps is trending in my experience.
Well to put it mildly, monitors at the time weren't exactly color accurate.
From what I (think I) learned writing https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39373558 they seek to minimise transactions with the rest of the world, so buying durable manufactured goods is acceptable (and higher-tech goods are even preferred as long as they have longer lifetimes) but subscribing to services is avoided.
Bayesianism is not wrong (it more or less can't be), the main problem is exactly what you mean by "knowing" and "entropy". Obviously, an embedded agent knowing from within physics is limited, but that's not a problem with theoretical Bayesianism, and it's not a problem if you're dealing with cards.
We need to be the historians of our software
It takes about 45 minutes to travel that distance in a city (Berlin in my case) and you arrive all sweaty. I used to do this a couple of times a week when our office was on the other side of town. I would bring a clean shirt obviously. It's doable but not for everyone.

Ebikes make such a distance very easy. A friend of mine lives on the edge of Berlin (Friedrichshagen) and his commute is a full hour with an e-bike. A bit over 20 kilometers.

I walk to work these days. Much more relaxing and I listen to podcasts. I don't mind if it takes a bit of time. Anything up to 5, 6 kilometers is fine with me. I gave up my bike last year (I was renting one) as I don't need it anymore.

The issue with biking in Berlin is similar to what the Amish in this article are experiencing: it's dangerous. Traffic is not well adjusted to bikes and city planners keep producing these crazy traffic situations with their ineptness. Construction sites. Buses that have to cross the bike lane to the bus stop, etc.

And that's before you consider that the rule that Germans love rules has one giant exception: traffic rules. Jumping a red light. Not a problem. It was orange a second ago and who can tell the difference? Taxis driving 90 in a 50km zone (i.e. the city limits): happens constantly. 30km speed limits? More of a guideline and those signs are used very sparingly. Speed cameras are science fiction. I've never seen one in Berlin.
At the same time tuitions are not cheap at all - money burned on administrative and questionable activities.
I think a melodica is a good comparison and goal.

A melodica is not good for learning piano obviously but is a really interesting musical instrument in and of itself.

Trying to replace the real instrument makes about as much sense as a paper computer keyboard for learning typing. If you really want to learn to type, you obviously are going to "invest" in a real computer keyboard.

If that investment is too much up front then you have already set yourself up for failure so what is the point?
It doesn’t look like there’s a lot to know… I mean, Wikipedia article has a screenshot at least.
That doesn't seem to be the case here. Reading through the article and twitter thread, the impression I get is that between moyix and the author, a decent amount of time was spent on this. A valid criticism that could have been made is the use of Claude Sonnet but based on the twitter thread, it looks like opus was what @moyix leveraged.
Critical thinking? Psychology and social skills? Ethics? Self-discipline?

These are skills necessary in the middle ages that are still necessary today.

Also, basic math, science, language, history, gym, etc. most likely aren’t going away. Everyone has a calculator and encyclopedia in their pocket, but mentally computing basic arithmetic and understanding basic facts are still important skills.

Those weren’t necessary in the middle ages if you were doing manual labor (except some could still be useful, such as STEM letting you develop more efficient techniques, and history teaching you what to expect from the outside world). But I believe most were taught to nobles, and most were definitely taught post 1918 when public school became mandatory in every state.
Jeez let me guess the Jews right? Wow they must have so much power, probably because they control the media
I would love to show this to my colleagues, but sadly we don't talk about bruno (/s)
Amtrak adds more service throughout the US Northeast Corridor to meet demand
Source: https://academic.oup.com/bioscience/advance-article/doi/10.1...
> why did the US shift to a focus of techno-supremacy?

In theory, we (the USA) can develop the tech during peace time and ramp up production during war time.

The problem is that during small brushfire wars, some of our less useful politicians decided to spend huge sums to avoid a few civilian casualties and even fewer US casualties. The more correct path would gave been to consider what weapons we would want to mass produce during a war that threatened our survival and take the opportunity to field test those weapons, not $100,000 artillery shells.
There is no universe where I see myself paying for postman. It was a bloated, hobbling mess that is now a chundering monster that has to somehow make money to satisfy VCs who invested in a glorified cURL interface and have to stuff it with features to try and entice enterprises. It is everything wrong with software and I welcome any lightweight alternatives
I've yet to find a single dead comment that isn't just trying to troll, insult or peddle the whole "it's a hoax" meme.

In fact one of the top rated comments with child comments is specifically as you claim is bring censored mild but fair criticism of mRNA vaccine and it's effectiveness.
The original source linked from this post [0] is using models that assume exponential growth of bandwidths over time (see the JavaScript at the bottom of the page): this is fun, but these figures are real things that can be measured, so I think it’s very misleading for the site in this link to present them without explaining they’re basically made up.

The 1Gb network latency figure on this post is complete nonsense (I left another comment about this further down); looking at the source data it’s clear that this is because this isn’t based on a 1Gb network, but rather a “commodity NIC” with this model, and the quoted figure is for a 200Gb network:

function getNICTransmissionDelay(payloadBytes) {
// NIC bandwidth doubles every 2 years
// [source: http://ampcamp.berkeley.edu/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/Ion-stoica-amp-camp-21012-warehouse-scale-computing-intro-final.pdf]
// TODO: should really be a step function
// 1Gb/s = 125MB/s = 125*10^6 B/s in 2003
// 125*10^6 = a*b^x
// b = 2^(1/2)
// -> a = 125*10^6 / 2^(2003.5)
var a = 125 * Math.pow(10,6) / Math.pow(2,shift(2003) * 0.5);
var b = Math.pow(2, 1.0/2);
var bw = a * Math.pow(b, shift(year));
// B/s * s/ns = B/ns
var ns = payloadBytes / (bw / Math.pow(10,9));
return ns;
}

[0] https://colin-scott.github.io/personal_website/research/inte...
The last fatal accident in a commerical airliner in the US was in 2009.

We have to zoom out here, the FAA are not dropping the ball.
> Israel is an inherently inequitable and therefore likely terminally conflict-ridden ethnostate. Israel is a reasonable reaction to a long and terrible history of ethnic persecution

How can these two thoughts go together? Either its a horrible "ethnostate" or its a reasonable construct due to Jews special history.
Does anyone know if this site is getting geoblocked? I can't access it for the past few days.
Not really, the answer received was correct. But it makes absolutely no sense for an AI assistant on Amazon to be answering this question.

I am no fan of AI at all, but this is on Amazon.
Is it more important to dole out punishments or to get the best result? Because the best result isn't going to be from draconian punishments for CEOs.

The strongest irony of what I suspect you are suggesting is that the #1 lesson of high-performance safety cultures is a blameless attitude to accidents. Criminal liabilities for the CEO ... are better than criminal liabilities for lower level employees. But still not the path to the highest levels of safety.
The dwarves who are forging all the GPUs and control the mithril supply they are made of.
The Only Way to Make Money (2022)
The supposition of them being pinups implies that they were intended to be used by adults.

Had they been dolls, they would have been intended to be used by children.

The first supposition might be supported by the fact that carving any of these would have required much work, which might have not been justified for just making toys.

On the other hand it is easier to imagine children playing with such small statues than a busy adult using them for any purpose. It is unlikely that the kind of dwellings that may have existed at that time included any part that could have been decorated with such figures.

The article contains the supposition that they may have been used as some kind of home guardians, but the choice of a small feisty female figure does not seem very appropriate for such a role (instead of a more scary guardian).

Perhaps they could have been owned by some shamans who used them in some rituals and they were small to be easily carried in their luggage, but being just toys for children seems an equally likely possibility.
Musical Tone and Perceived Dissonance (2011)
>>> Not sure about FAA rules, but I assume they are somewhat similar. So at the very least, those individuals, at Boeing and Spirit Aerospace, should be a tad worried now.

It’s funny to see comments like. You think this isn’t just a dog and pony show? They don’t give a damn. They will sleep just fine. Nothing will happen because the government is in bed with these folks and they don’t implicate their own and the sooner you understand that the less it shocks you when nothing happens.
It ain't much, but it's honest work: https://github.com/hiAndrewQuinn/finstem

I moved to Finland a few years ago to be with my then-fiancee, now-wife. I started learning Finnish and found that constantly going to Wiktionary to search for the root forms of their words was tough. Finnish nouns can have stem changes, vowel harmony, 15 declensions, possessive endings, clitics similar to Japanese particles... Brutal!

I wrote this to let me very quickly strip away all of that and get just the original dictionary forms of words. Later I wrapped it into a little `fzf` script to make it easy to analyze entire sentences or paragraphs at once.

The code is nothing special at all, but I use this thing dozens of times daily, and it's never let me down. I'm especially happy that it is useful for non-programmers as well -- I'd like to wrap it into a simple web app and throw that online too someday, once I've reached my own language goals of course!
This kind of thing is arguably the real injustice in higher education - or "structural oppression" if you prefer. At least half the other college diversity initiatives are at best smokescreens to hide any discussion of how non-tenured faculty are treated.
There's a difference between merely tweeting nonsense and spending a large part of your fortune buying Twitter and driving its commercial partners away with the nonsense you tweet though...

And, back on topic, dependency on infrastructure provided by a company lead by someone who is publicly campaigning for you to surrender and occasionally publicly threatens to switch it off is a more conspicuous security risk than most.
Interesting that I got downvoted, and I completely agree with you.

If there was something bad commited here then the legal system should be able to hand out punishment for "revenge porn" or sexual harassment, or whatever they feel fits the crime.

But suspension is not punishment. Shitty kids will still see this as extra holiday to cause trouble elsewhere.
Sneaky Drivers Dodging Toll Cameras Cost Authorities Millions
Apricot Xen (not IBM PC/AT compatible) used Windows 1.0, 80286@7.5MHz, and had a paper-white monitor - was fantastic to use. Windows performed really well on it.
It only makes sense if your only metric is cost. There are a lot of reasons why Airbus owns the subsidiaries who do Spirit's type of work for Airbus (such as the airframe). Airbus does not do the same thing as Boeing.
And I think we might underestimate amount of downtime people have. Like keeping guard or watching herds of animals grazing or drinking... You could probably very well carry some tools and small figure during those times.
Slightly off topic, but I’m surprised that helmet manufacturers haven’t made more helmets for other people whose practices make wearing traditional helmets challenging (like Sikh men with turbans).
Open source does nothing if you can't verify the shipped code is actually running that. Plus after the whole Supermicro controversy we'd have to check what appear to be ball bearings for embedded spying circuitry.
No, that's a quote from the top-level commenter (who wasn't me, as I said when I first commented), hence 'they', because they said that, not me.
Also worth noting that you can run Windows 1.0 in the browser:

https://archive.org/details/windows-1-0
So, basically, a racket.
This condemnation comes to mind :

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/02/french-journalis...
Well they WOULD say that, wouldn’t they?