skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Correct me if I'm wrong but bitrot only affects spinning rust since NAND uses ECC?

If you see this I wonder if S3 is planning on adding hardlinks?
AutoCisco: https://aplaceofmind.notion.site/AutoCisco-My-First-Project-...

I used Rust to automate the process of opening the company's VPN app, entering credentials, and disconnecting after I'm done. I did it because the company uses SSO and it's a PITA to enter long usernames and passwords each time you want to simply ssh into a machine for a few minutes. Autocisco takes care of that.

macOS only. Also available on Homebrew.
Livestock industry co-opts academics to downplay its climate impact, study says
"Tim, today’s society needs a dose of offline. We need to touch grass. We need vitamin D. We need to get away from our dopamine addiction to likes, feeds, and everything involved." Totally agree. At some point of my life, I had to reconsider my activity status. I cut my online time in half, and it made my life healthier and more fulfilling.
/shrug. Never saw any popups or anything. Just a flat page reads without any obstruction. Try a new add blocker.
Wow, thank you for sharing this. The author echoes a lot of thoughts I've had working with rust.

However, doesn't the explanation given for why the Go version was 10% faster mean that esbuild was built to take advantage of a fixed number of cores rather than all of them? Sorry if this is a dumb question, I'm not really that experienced with parallel computation
Yeah the writing is on the wall. I'm a senior AI programmer for an AAA games studio that you probably know (I worked on a very famous RTS game). I have reduced the code I write by about 90% since ChatGPT 4 was released. My colleagues have also reduced their coding time similiarly. This technology is going to remove all the toil and any need to hire/communicate with junior devs.
I imagine it will be the same for other seniors in the programming community. An industry where it's just seniors and LLMs within 4 years is likely, if not sooner, 2 years tbh, and if this slowly transitions to just LLMs and a small team of code reviewers on each site, that would be ideal. Programmers in my area (AI) have a lot of domain knowledge and specialization, we just use code for implementation.

So we don't care if LLMs replace coders by auto generating code. All the better for us. The people who are trying to support families ... by offering the world to write CRUD or maintaining codebases are doomed.... they are going to end up as the homeless guy on the street holding a sign saying "will code html for food"
Reposting my comment from earlier: I once created a bash pipeline debugger that preserves the intermediate outputs. Has a few limitations but maybe generally useful: https://github.com/ketancmaheshwari/pd
I feel the solution here is to say all price increases (for any service) must be announced at least 2 weeks in advance, and you cannot increases prices more than once a week.

So you don’t say “you can’t surge prices in these markets, or these conditions”, you just make it so surge pricing (or as it used to be called “price gouging”) is not a viable strategy. You leave open the ability to charge more in times of generally high demand but people know ahead of time, and can schedule around that, and there’s no risk of the standard emergency/disaster gouging Uber and co are so fond of.

This will also stop the gas company BS where there’s a minor disruption and they use that as an excuse to instantly increase fuel prices.
There are an infinite number of algorithms to compute A from Q, given a se tof (Q, A). Almost none, surely, are intelligent.

These proxy measure of intelligence are just arguments from ignorance, "I don't know how the machine computed A from Q, therefore...".

But of course some of us do know how the machine did it; we can quite easily describe the algorithm. It just turns out no one wants to because its really dumb.

Esp. if the alg is, as in all ML, "start with billions/trillions of data points in the (Q, A) space; generate a compressed representation ZipQA; and for novel Q' find decompressed A located close to Q similar to Q'"

There are no theories of intelligence which would label that intelligence.

And let me say, most such "theories" are ad-hoc PR that are rigged to make whatever the latest gizmo "intelligent".

Any plausible theory begins form the initial intuition, "intelligence is what you do when you dont know what you're doing".
Who is FT for, compared to other premium news outlets in the United States?

In the recent years I’ve been shopping around a news subscription, trying to avoid clickbait and thought bubbles. I don’t think I understand their target audience, even after reading the entire interview.
Exactly, and it’s not just the prices it’s the taxes. Sure you make more but you lose a huge % of that and what’s left over goes to insane prices, cost of labor, etc.
The QA team will tell you how the game plays but the difference is they're professionals.
How do we know the cars are moving? It doesn't seem clear to me, they could both be standing still.
Which also means that the regulatory agency most be structured to remain un-captured by the corporate interests it regulates, and empowered to react and adapt rapidly to the 'clever' legal hacks.
Claude 3 Opus does a little better https://shot.3e.org/ss-20240310_141855.png but still doesn't get the interaction with the convertible.
I'm not, just asking a question out of curiosity, but I suppose it's being seen as though I'm deriding it (since tone doesn't carry over text).
If you are just trying to get along and make your program work, there's nothing morally wrong with mmap, but it is far from optimal and optimality is where the interesting discussions happen. Making the kernel deal with your magic page tables, and asking it to infer what to evict, what to read ahead of time are not the best approach. The page fault cost did not matter much when they invented mmap, back when disk accesses took tens of milliseconds. Today it matters a great deal. Using `fio` on my system, mmap is the slowest way to access the SSD.
My opinion is that attitude is a big deal, in some teams/orgs it's more important than technical skills.

However, not everyone (self included) has good enough in-person ability to emit a positive attitude. I've had a person come up to me and tell me I look too serious while I'm in the middle of serious and challenging technical work. I can't be immersed in technical work and appear approchable or happy unless maybe I practice putting on a fake smile.

When I'm working from home, you can't see my face, based on my chat responses you will think I have a great attitude.

The most productice and objectively succesful year of my career was during covid and it was downhill after they started forcing to have office days.

Not only that, back in the day when I did shift work, I chose nightshift despite my managers telling me my skills could be more useful during the day. I made that choice because like wfh, interactions were remote (plus no distractions), the social aspect of getting people to think positively of you is much easier remotely.

I can't speak for others, but personally, I spent almost no time socializing outside of work, I have "no life", I spent most of my time socializing on the internet or having fun with tech stuff (or just watching movies).

I had a senior manager give me some good news once, I thanked him and told him how grateful I was. My manager later on tells me the senior manager thought I was unhappy. I have no idea what I could have said or sounded/appeared like to indicate my positive reception of the news. I would love to learn and practice such skills but until then, in-person is a major barrier for me.
That's a bit like if the government said I had to put a crucifix on my front door, but it's OK because I can pick from over 100 different colors.
Cheers, all valid points! :)

With regards for compile times, I'm spoiled by languages that have sub-second compile times to the point where I actively lean on the compiler while I'm writing (see next point).

With regards to LSPs, I'm spoiled by the 1990s and can't live without auto-completion and suggestions. Why write something in 26 keystrokes when 4 will do ;)
One of those folks already tried to take out the PM.

https://nationalpost.com/news/judge-expected-to-sentence-mil...

Another attacked the PM at a campaign stop. Another harassed and intimidated the deputy PM at a hospital.
You’re free to choose your offspring’s names in Iceland too. There’s even a list to help you choose. ;)

By the way, a lot of American states have rules for that baby names are allowed too. And there have been cases where names that have adhered to state law have still been refused (like names attached to Nazism).

America is just a lot more opaque about what names are allowed and what are not.
Get real, said Pi to i.

Be rational, i replied.
Any bets on what is on those two redacted pages with the picture of a globe?
I think this is better off with me being a reliable source.
Because what's the point if user dies and forgets to pay self hosting server bills?
That will still be a huge responsibility for the user.

What about $2 per month to try, if the user likes they can move to $149 lifetime plan?
> what do you think?

Satire mismatch.
TIL thanks, I had assumed it was "journaly" because of the intro paragraph on the arxiv.org page
Sadly no. Bernie Sanders explicitly put Citizens United at the top of his legislative priority list. Clinton used her pull with the DNC to undermine his nomination, and the rest is history. This was a triumph of the corrupt status quo over a high integrity pol, and it happened within the DNC.
We need to stop censoring blood
And the band played on.
I think to some degree cities painted themselves into this corner. Various zoning restrictions preventing the densification of residential within the city meant that they were relying on offices etc. to draw in the crowds to support the rest of the city, as the workers in those offices (and in fairness, the other businesses too) were forced to live further and further out.

Since now the apparent need to commute in has been much reduced, now is a comparatively poor time to be trying to operate a sandwich shop in the CBD as a result. But it might be a relatively good time to be operating one in the suburbs or feeder towns (inflation might deflate that a little).

Back in around 2017, I remember looking at the local council's development plan for the city I worked in until 2021 - they had planned for office development for 100,000 more workers, and accommodation for 20,000 more people. Where were the net 80,000 extra people going to live? The residential property situation in the city was already popularly described as a crisis, and unsurprisingly, it only continued to get worse until 2020, with the only thing that's been slowing it since then is people leaving the city to work remotely.
Can you opt out? Are there privacy-friendly schools?

Could you enroll your child under a fake name? How messed up would they think that is :D
If you've ever played for a high level competitive team, you'd know this is moreso true than the reverse (though technical skills definitely matter a lot). If you play in a Hall of Fame guild in World of Warcraft (top 200 guilds to clear Mythic in the World), they evaluate you in two ways. Number one is how you respond to criticism, and number two is how competent are you playing compared to others at a similar level that play your class and role. It's number one first, because those that want to be the best typically will have a great attitude toward failures. It's also because attitudes rub off on others you interact with a lot, so you're bringing everyone down if you complain, shift blame, take it personally, etc. The amount technical skills matter here is just that you won't get into one of these guilds without good parses and full mythic clears already.
"The regime"

You probably consume too much right wing nonsense. I'd check my media diet were I you.
It's basically WSJ with a somewhat more global perspective, and Euro-centric instead of US-centric.
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Nowadays VLMs are kind of Frankenstein models where the vision model is separated from the LLM and the communication is only one way where the vision embeddings are projected into textual embeddings and aligned; I think that this method severely limits the visual capability of the model and I think that it would be fixed by training a single decoder-only transformer on both textual and image tokens, I think that this method would allow some new incredible emergent behaviors like accurately translating images of logos to SVG, actually good ascii art, more meaningful openscad scripts and the ability to generate images with more meaningful composition and text (for now models can only generate meaningful text if it's available in the prompt, this is true even with Dalle 3 as the prompt is rewritten by ChatGPT).
I don't see how you can convince a skeptic who doesn't have the same knowledge as say a educated professional working on vaccines.

Either the skeptic needs the same level of education or an explanation from someone they trust with the level of education needed. You can't convince the skeptics with a sound byte. If they truly believe the government has it out for the entire country. I don't know where you would even begin.
For now, LLMs are a lot better when you express this kind of task in text, preferably as a 1D arrangement.
GPT-4's performance on the Abstraction and Reasoning Corpus.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.18354

Also, this model trained to predict image tokens seemed to be able to perform Raven's Matrices type questions when expressed as an inpainting task in context.
https://yutongbai.com/lvm.html
I don't known nearly as much about thisyhud specifically, but I've seen compelling arguments for how the Boeing merger really damaged leadership and the company as a whole. I can't vouch for that personally, but it was convincing to me.

Moreover though, if my original argument is right, the failing system of regulation will fail slowly (presumably then all at once). The FAA and other bodies involved in the air industry may be broken, but it still takes a kick to push a company over the edge. A company like Airbus could continue to operate extremely well despite the broken system, though I'd argue with enough time they will be hit by it as well.
> I'm not sure the FT makes sense for US readers on a budget.

As you note, they're inherently an upmarket brand like the WSJ not a blue collar read like the NY POST. Readers "on a budget" are probably not an interesting market for their sales-seeking advertisers or any influence-seeking investors or editors.

What they probably see is the endless fracturing of American media among its deep political fault lines and opportunity to position as a WSJ competitor with a more transatlantic and global angle on topics of US interest.
The blameless fact finding is necessary to know who to blame. The NTSB needs to know the answers to a bunch of whys about how things got to this point so they can work to prevent it in other aircraft. That requires them using their time-testing blameless process.

Afterward, criminal prosecutors can use those facts as leads to pull on when doing their investigation.
Gotta keep the wages down somehow! Now if we could only find a way to keep people from losing their homes due to laziness!
Higher GPM shower heads usually cost more, so this certainly passes the “it’s expensive to be poor” test in that those who can’t afford a $75 shower head eventually pay for the difference and possibly then some.
I agree it’s a positive, but each one of us has to sell our value-add to the rest of society. This is actually a wonderful constraint to have because it keeps each of us in touch with the rest of humanity
This state space is pretty small - is there a super-optimizer that will just spit out a similar result?
> "X Æ A-Xii" is just a joke...

To be fair, this kid will be in social circles where being maximally exotic is highly valued. It will probably never see a normal school from the inside.

Don't get me wrong, I don't particularly like this name, but you have to see it in context (just like a traditional Icelandic name would be fine in Iceland, but not so much in the IS or Germany).
No, it's not. At least in that case you could be making a case that you hate every color (because the color is irrelevant to you, or whatever reason you might have).

You haven't made such a case here at all. Hence my question: do you actually hate every name on the list?
They also have to make an example out of cases which they know they can win dead-to-rights. The chilling effect can be a societal good if used correctly.
Giving the police expanded powers won't backfire the next time an authoritarian-adjacent party wins an election, will it? After all, look how well the enabling act turned out for the lawmakers who passed it.
> having laws passed that force a pizza parlor manager to turn their drivers into unemployed app users

this sounds like an exaggeration, but I'm not familiar with the law you're referencing. what exactly are you talking about?
Where / what are these "exchanges" in Europe?
examples ?
No there isn't. AWS does not use the traditional filesystem layer to store data; that would be a massive mistake from a performance and reliability POV; the POSIX filesystem specification is notoriously vague about things like fsync consistency under particular scenarios, i.e. "do I need to fsync the parent directory before or after fsyncing the contents" for instance and has many bizarre performance cliffs if you aren't careful. At the scale AWS is at even a 10% performance cliff or performance delta would be worth clawing back if it meant removing the POSIX filesystem.

Filesystems are not free; they incur "complexity" (that favorite bugbear everyone on HN loves to complain about) just as much as any other component in the stack does.

> If you stand up an S3 instance with Ceph,

Okay, but AWS does not run on Ceph. Even then, Ceph is an example that recommends the opposite. Nowadays they recommend solutions like the Bluestore OSD backend to store actual data directly on raw block devices, completely bypassing the filesystem layer -- for the exact same reasons I outlined above and many, many others (the actual metadata does use "BlueFS" which is a small FS shim, but this is mostly so that RocksDB can write directly to the block device too, next to the data segments, and BlueFS is in no way a real POSIX filesystem, it's just a shim for existing software).

See "File Systems Unfit as Distributed Storage Backends: Lessons from 10 Years of Ceph Evolution" written by the Ceph authors[1] about why they finally gave in and wrote Bluestore. The spoiler alert is they got rid of the filesystem precisely because "a filesystem with files" underneath, as you describe, was problematic and worked poorly in comparison (see the conclusion in Section 9.)

Many places do use POSIX filesystems for various reasons, even at large scale, of course.

[1] https://pdl.cmu.edu/PDL-FTP/Storage/ceph-exp-sosp19.pdf
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My experience is that people get slowly indoctrinated into thinking it’s ok. They see the pattern over and over and never see a bad outcome just due to the low probability of bad events. It leads people to get complacent, “normalization of deviance” and all that.
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That's interesting just because it's such a perfect complement to GPT4's answer. Both models recognize that an unsafe situation exists and that immediate action is needed to avoid something bad happening.

I agree that Claude's answer is better from a purely-analytical standpoint. The only problem is, the car can still save itself (barely) but it's too late for the truck.
>California is run as a real estate cartel

Literally the political power that got Tesla off the ground (with fed funding) to save real estate prices in the San Bernadino Valley, LA, etc.
Like a train driver facing a similar issue, the cabin is equipped with a lever that must be continuously pressed, otherwise, an alarm will sound. This lever is designed in a manner that prevents it from being pressed if the driver falls asleep, serving as a mechanical safeguard against dozing off.
The dementia rate is 25% at 80 and raises to 37% at 90.
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It is not length but how secure you feel and how fast you can peddle.

It's also how dirty/sweaty you get on the ride. In the USA, bike showers are a rare amenity from employers.

My last employer said they had showers for bikers, which seemed like a great amenity, until I actually looked at them -- the shower room was down a little used utility corridor that was only unlocked during 8-6pm business hours, so if you got to work before or after that time you couldn't get in. There were no lockers, so you couldn't even leave a wet towel there for the day, you had to take it up to your desk.

I had a 14 mile ride to work, 90% on a separated bike trail so it was a great commute, but I rarely rode to work due to the poor bike shower situation since after an hour's ride I definitely needed a shower before work. But I was lucky enough to be able to share a drive in to the city with my wife on most days, then I'd bike home since I usually left work later than her.
I’ve worked with these cheerleader types. They have mastered the art of not doing any work, always nauseously happy about everything, even when it’s not appropriate for the situation, and are nowhere to be found when a project or task is due and you need help. In the worse cases, they play politics and actively undermine anyone who is critical of them or point out their (lack of) actual contributions.

If someone is overly enthusiastic and doesn’t have the skills it’s not always the case but often they are running a game on you.
Oh okey, isn’t the comment more suitable under the topcomment?
In my anecdotal experience, they're usually the first to scoop big Japanese business stories. (Some kind of Nikkei -> FT pipeline?)

Edit-

> It’s been owned by the Japanese company Nikkei, Inc. — an employee-owned company that publishes The Nikkei newspaper — since 2015.

Okay that makes sense now, haha.

Nikkei is employee-owned?! I need to look into this more!
Check out the ARC benchmark.
https://lab42.global/arc/

Iirc, humans get something like 80% on the test, and the best performing AI models are at 25%
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Sure, attitude should be right, but this as well could be a survivorship bias - Chen has been working for a couple of years and turned out to be a success. Was the conclusion made from one example?
I hope that more employers start to value other skills in additional to technical skills. It’s absurd to me that you can be a successful software engineer, but will likely be unable to land a new job without dedicating time to brushing up on Leetcode-style programming questions. Investing time on this won’t make you better at your current job and as simply a gatekeeping exercise.
The author didn’t say the aren’t equal, at least, just technical is overrated. And I’d tend to agree. We historical weigh technical skills at like 95% of the assessment. It probably should be more like 60% and as we’ve moved in that direction we’ve had much better hires.
Personally I’m a fan of putting a mixture of salt, water, and vinegar through hydrolysis to get sodium hydroxide and hydrogen chloride.

Super cheap and effective cleaner, easy to make at home.

Only downside is it isn’t shelf stable, so you have to make a new batch every ~2 weeks.

Force of nature has a pretty neat kit that automates the chemistry.