skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Speaking as someone who's been on there for years, the process is about as fair and transparent as it can be.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:BOLD,_revert,_discus...

You make a change, it gets reverted, and then you discuss it. The number one mistake I see new editors make is they don't understand how discussion works and when to seek additional input.

After being reverted, you're expected to start a discussion on the talk page. So many people do not do that, and instead try to communicate through 200 character edit summaries.

But talk pages are just the first step. The next step is to get more people involved. There are a bunch of informal rules which editors have tried to write down on how you can bring more people to a talk page in a fair way (otherwise you would only solicit input from people you would agree with).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Dispute_resolution

The typical way this is done is through an RfC, which is a structured discussion between multiple options. When you set up an RfC to resolve a dispute, a bot randomly messages people who are interested in the general area to comment at the talk page. That means you get a bunch of uninvolved editors that don't really have any stake in the dispute and are more level-headed.

The discussion's consensus itself is then evaluated by someone (a closer) who must be uninvolved. In a contentious subject it is often an administrator who has never edited in the topic area before. The closer must give reasons for their decision and an explanation, and there is a working appeals process.

Contrast to virtually any other website where decisions are frequently made by people involved in disputes, you typically don't get reasons for why something is moderated, and you can't effectively appeal to another decision maker as you don't understand the reasoning upon which the decision is based.
> Does that mean I should advocate that pool tables are important things to have in the home?

Yes. Write your own Dwell magazine and advocate for whatever you wish.
Eight-Legged Essay (2009) [pdf]
This is a great point. We completely agree that high-quality results is essential for adoption. It's basically table stakes for any tool like this to be useful. We've had several versions of this tool that weren't quite "good enough" and never saw any real use. Our latest version seems to meet the first quality threshold for actual work use.

Our method of evaluating quality is not super systematic right now. For this competitive landscape task, we have a "test suite" of ~10 companies and for each we have a sort of "must-include", "should-include", "could-include" set of competitors that should be surfaced. We run these through our tool and others and look at precision and recall on the competitor sets.

In terms of errors, right now our results are a little noisy, since we're biased towards being exhaustive vs selective. There are obviously irrelevant companies in the results that no human would have ever included. Our users can fairly easily filter these out by reading the one sentence overviews of the companies but it's still not a great UX. Actively working on this.
Big things they still need to hit are soft splashdown of both stages because recovery and reuse are critical to the economics of Starship. From the stream it looks like they had barely any engines light during the landing burn and I could see several missing tiles on the second stage. Way fewer were missing though which is a bonus, last time they were visibly missing a lot of tiles even before they lost the stage.
This perception has been around almost as long as HN itself has: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17014869.
That's one, the other starts with a 'T' and ends with 'CS'.
DarmokJalad1701 below mentions about hearing a podcast where new engineers did work on VMs
> Don't confuse objective with easily quantified.

You say this and then go on to do the exact opposite in

> Did those features turn out well, with a low defect rate?

And likely in this

> Did they ship the features they were responsible for?

So which is it?
Can you run a vim plus sbcl lisp server on top I wonder?
This research smells like industrial sabotage. Benzoyl peroxide is cheap and effective. The alternatives are either expensive (adapalene), loaded with potential side-effects (accutane), or far less effective (salicylic acid). The study is claiming decomposition at 50C (122F). Who the hell keeps their acne medication in an oven?
Paul Graham posts in place of Miguel de Icaza's shadowbanned X account
Ikea. Can't beat price/quality.
Fastly and Google are "partners" --- so they are allowed to share your personal/browsing info under the terms of Google Privacy Policy.

With these two sharing info and how the hashes are formed --- I'll pass --- but nice try though.

Google = Privacy Invasion

https://www.fastly.com/partner/gc
Well, I can only say that it's what goes into my decision process. And it is a good part of what the written guidelines focus on.

No promises about what anyone else might be thinking at AfD!*

*(Articles for Deletion. The place where people spend a lot of time discussing notability)
I am sure most people never asked these questions to a human doing this research.
Stop giving them ideas! The last thing I need is for someone to figure out and monetize the correlation between my Oreo / Johnny Walker consumption rate (not together, obviously) and my job satisfaction.
Understandable, I’m in the desert southwest, so not a concern here.

I did recently attend a workshop by Dr. Ronald Rael (Professor of Architecture @ Berkeley), and he mentioned that as concerns building with adobe bricks, with proper roofing, rain is a minimal to non-existent issue. I am not entirely convinced, however, and have also heard of solutions such as using “plasticure” on the outside of the walls.
The article mentions they're trying very hard to stick with Postgres. FoundationDB is great but doesn't even have a SQL access layer, let alone a Postgres SQL access layer. :)
Always use a fake name, like we taught kids to do on the internet in the 1990s!
More from 34 days ago (when Gemini first launched and people noticed they were providing canned responses to election related prompts): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39313080
> Rather than “I don’t know the ‘why’ “, I think it would be better to say “I don’t know if there is a ‘why’, nor what it is if there is one.” .

Yes, very nice! But I didn't want to go down that rabbithole as you actually need more correction factors... because a person who doesn't know, doesn't know if they know or not. ;) But functionally, they can't say they "know" - they are not conscious - so they don't know if they know or not, and they don't know what knowledge they have may contain a "why" or not, etc., i.e. there is great knowledge in history but people don't realize or have forgotten what resides in their own consciousness or history yet.

> Though, really, I think the question of “why” in this context, is a little unclear as to what exactly it is asking?

Also very good. 'how' and 'why' converge. That's why a person should make clear what they're asking. Just because 'why' and 'how' converge doesn't mean 'why' is meaningless or useless. In fact, why does something exist is different from how, since any "how" explanation is implicitly about a process of existence, yet a "why" sometimes explains mechanisms that do not "exist" yet cause what exists. That's why understanding this and enunciating it perfectly is a little beyond human eyesight for now. Philosophy exists for a reason and it's not just bullshit some thinkers made up (nor does it culminate with some semi-Wittgensteinian cop-out that words are the best we can do. What a nonsense self-contradiction).

Why means many things. People should stop conflating them and ask one by one concretely what they want to know if they truly want to know. But many people can't even realize what their real questions are without some dialogue.

Why there is something rather than nothing is that nothing can't exist. One little modern explanation: the moment you put boundary conditions on, you get virtual particles. QFT is clear about that. Without boundary conditions or a metric, there is no way to even consider the notion of a vacuum or nothingness.

Answering your question involving SU(3) symmetry requires you understand why/how SU(3) is pre-determined.

The place where "why" and "how" diverges is when involving a subject: "why am I alive" vs "how am I alive". The second one is a lot easier to answer if you consider only the biological. If you don't understand what the point of life is, it will be a lot harder to understand your distant past and a lot harder to understand your ultimate "why" i.e. your path and your purpose in this life. Consider what you know, for starters: you are like a child in this universe, growing up and learning through your life. When someone has to learn and grow, it means they're on the path to realization, mastery, and complete knowledge. I'll leave it at that for now.
Adult Americans read so few books per year, on average, that it’s barely an exaggeration to assert that we don’t read books at all. And most of what we do read is romance novels or juvenile fiction. Been like that for a while.
Not really. Regular retailers aren’t immune.

Let’s be real too: nobody’s going underneath the sofas at Crate and Barrel to see how they’re constructed. It doesn’t really matter that you can see and touch them.

I don’t even think the luxury brands are much better (e.g., RH). They’ll give you some solid woods and finer materials where you can see them. They are better but not by the amount I would like.

The cheapness isn’t something these manufacturers need to do, it’s just in their interest. Higher margins, more repeat purchases.

It’s not like salaries are high in big furniture production countries like Vietnam. They could do things in a more labor intense way and still make a profit. It’s just that they’ll make more money by making the construction cheap, and making a product that lasts decades is a good way to restrict future business.
They seem to have specials at Costco periodically. They’re not my thing but I suggest taking their discount if you can.
List comparing prices for various LLMs
I created a list comparing the prices for various LLMs against GPT-3.5 and GPT-4 Turbo. If you're building some projects with LLMs, you can use this list to choose the best model for your budget. I was surprised to see Claude 3 Haiku with a 200K token context costs little more than half of GPT-3.5.

Btw, list is missing the Gemini models right now.
Hoping Eric pops in here like he does on other Beeper threads and sees this. I'm still checking every day for a small android phone.

I found my Xperia z3 Compact in a drawer the other day. It was immediately such a pleasure to hold, I love the concept of having something as powerful as a smartphone in such a small package.
Teable – Postgres-Airtable Fusion
Telenovelas would seem to be a strong counterpoint to the idea that it's only Americans who talk about TV.

If anything, TV has become dramatically less of a shared cultural experience for Americans since the post-network era began.
When looking at their bridge documentation for my own homeserver, I noticed that they do provide a way to self-host the bridges to be used with Beeper's homeserver as well.

See https://github.com/beeper/bridge-manager
Reanimated? :)
It isn't. Or at least wasn't back in the UMTS / early LTE era that's being discussed; I got out of that game before 5G.

The base stations and terminals are constantly monitoring the signal quality and adjusting the error correction rate. A bad signal will mean that there's more error correction overhead, and that's why the connection is slower overall.

Second,the radio protocol doesn't treat data transmissions as a one-and-done deal. The protocols are built on the assumption of a high rate of unrecoverable transmission errors. Those rates would be way too high for TCP to be able to function, so retransmissions are instead baked in at the physical protocol level. The cellular base station will basically buffer the data until it's been reliably delivered or until the client moves to a different cell.

And crucially, not only is the physical protocol reliable but it's also in-sequences. A packet that wasn't received successfully shows up just as one (radio) roundtrip latency blip during which no data at all shows up at the client, not as packet loss or reordering that would be visible to the TCP stack on either side.

Other error cases you'd get are:

- Massive amounts of queueing, with the queues being per-user rather than per-base station (we measured up to a minute of queueing in testing). The queue times would translate directly to latency, completely dominating any other component.

- A catastrophic loss of all in-flight packets at once, which we believed was generally caused by handover from one cell to another.
Most are cheap junk bought sight unseen. My stressless couches are built from real wood, full grain leather, etc... My eames chair likewise. But you're adding a 5-10x multiplyer to furniture costs for that quality.
Construction ends up looking lazy because they're locked in combat with Amdahl's law. You've got a complex system of interlocking task dependencies, with tasks requiring a variety of other tasks to reach varying levels of completeness before you can start on various other tasks, which rely on specialized labor and various materials provided by various third parties.

It's hard to get good estimates of how long any individual task will take, but you don't want to be in a situation where work could be getting done, but isn't because the necessary workers aren't there, so it's more efficient to pay for workers to be present and ready to begin as soon as their unblocked, versus having to wait for those workers to show up once their blockers are cleared.
How much COVID has changed our lives, but also how quickly we have started to forget how much it has changed our lives and still poses a threat.
I deleted my LinkedIn account fifteen years ago, and it's been fine. I don't have random recruiters beating down my door trying to interest me in jobs I don't want, but is that such a loss? I've had no trouble getting the jobs I do want.
Pick your unit of measurement and use it everywhere.

GB is standard enough and specific enough at that large of a size and most people don't know what the hell a "gibibyte" is anyway.
And yet I am gainfully employed and haven't had problems switching when I want to..
Do you know of any performant relational-db layer on top of FoundationDB? It seems there usecase would need at least simple join, which raw FoundationDB lacks.
According to the dates in the pop-up windows, these prices are from 360 days ago.
> You can't trust the automatic door schedule to be correct in case somebody with ADHD (a lot of architects including me) forgot to check and edit all the semantic information after they made the visual change they wanted.

Would it be useful if elements contained some kind of "confirm date" field as well as "create date" field (create date would be the time it got pasted) and likely "last modified" on objects? Or would it be unreliable due to them e.g. not really taking surrounding changes in account?
Oof! For $5k you could get something from Herman Miller, Hay, or Design Within Reach[1].

[1] https://www.dwr.com/living-sofas-sectionals/quilton-chaise-s...
I cannot help but think this all sounds pretty much like a hack (a clever one, though).

We do not handle, let's say low-level I/O buffering/caching, by ourselves anymore, right? (at least the folks doing web development/saas). We rely instead of the OS APIs, and that's good. I think we are missing something similar but for db sharding. It seems to me that we are still missing some fundamental piece of technology/infrastructure to handle horizontal data sharding.
I hear this a lot, but my fairly inexpensive IKEA sofa is about eight years old with no problems at all so far.

EDIT: Actually, in general I've found that my IKEA furniture has done pretty well (basically everything in the house is IKEA) with the sole exception of a "Lack" coffee table, whose surface is kinda disintegrating after 8 years (I think it's basically made of cardboard with a veneer...). The name should perhaps have been a warning.
And there's tons of evidence to support your point #2: the blossoming liberal democracy currently in Afghanistan that was created by post-9/11 US military force, the crushing of the pro-democracy rebellion in Myanmar by the military junta, etc.

And I have no idea how a Second Amendment advocate could imagine they could fight and win against a nuke-wielding government, they'd literally get vaporized by an ICBM before they could fire a shot.
> unless you need to learn about the facts and arguments for voting in important elections

Nobody should be trusting an ai chat bot at this stage in the technology to give them "facts" let alone political arguments in important elections.
The KYM article mentions the harassment but is less editorialized.

"The term has also since been used to describe the group of internet users, based mainly on Twitter, who claim that there is a lack of transparency within the video game journalism industry. These same people have also been criticized of practicing misogyny and sexism by many, through harassment and trolling, referring to their opposition as social justice warriors."

Compare that to the indignation dripping from the wiki paragraph.
Good question.

I expect that we're moving into a phase of AIs talking to AIs, and initially it'll be wasteful (because it'll be mostly English), but eventually, they'll derive their own language and seamlessly upgrade protocols when they determine they're talking to an AI. No clue how that will come about or what that language will look like, but honestly, it's kind of exciting.

Really interesting to think about how they might handle context, as well. Even though we have much bigger context windows (and they'll only get larger), context management is still a resource-management issue, which we'll probably continue to refine, as well. Imagine different strategies for managing both what is brought into the context of each request, as well as what form it could take (level of detail, additional references or commentary on it, etc). Things could get really unreadable even in English, and still be very interpretable for an LLM.

W.r.t. the graph-oriented interfaces, are you thinking something like Node-RED [1]? I'm seeing more and more people mention having LLMs produce non-text or structured outputs, like JSON, UI, and other things. Easy to imagine an LLM that wires together various open-source platforms, on-demand. Something like Node-RED for pipelines/functions, some UI tools for visualization/interactivity, other platforms for messaging, etc...

[1] https://nodered.org/
Who said anything about 0-based indexing?
One thought that comes up: Wouldn’t it be easier to have each customer in their own (logical) database? I mean, you don’t need transactions across different customers, right? So you’re essentially solving a harder problem than the one you’ve got.

Not sure postgres (logical) databases would scale that well, but don’t see a principal reason why it couldn’t. Has anyone explored this further?
I do agree with this. When you build them yourself and see the underneath of them they really aren’t that awful compared to a store couch that is possibly using even worse construction techniques.

The only problem I have with them is that they have almost no couch designs that have a more plush style. Almost all of them are firmer foams and just plain not appealing designs.
Don't worry, if you don't know what BIM is, you don't need BIM and you should be thankful about your previous life choices. Weirdly, no one in BIM really seems to agree on what BIM actually is either.
Global consistency is expensive, both latency-wise and cost-wise. In reality most apps don't need global serializability across all objects. For instance, you probably don't need serializability across different tenants, organizations, workspaces, etc. Spanner provides serializability across all objects IIUC - so you pay for it whether you need it or not.

The other side of something like Spanner is the quorum-based latency is often optimized by adding another cache on top, which instantly defeats the original consistency guarantees. The consistency of (spanner+my_cache) is not the same as the consistency of spanner. So if we're back to app level consistency guarantees anyway, turns out the "managed" solution is only partial.

Ideally the managed db systems would have flexible consistency, allowing me to configure not just which object sets need consistency but also letting me configure caches with lag tolerance. This would let me choose trade-offs without having to implement consistent caching and other optimization tricks on top of globally consistent/serializable databases.
No matter how you try to explain it, trying to force other kids to play with you is not a rational behavior. Rational behavior would be trying to find out why they don't want to play with you and try to do something about it. Would you say that if a girl doesn't want to date you then forcing her to date you is a rational behavior?
Cost and risk of providing inaccurate answers to election-related questions is high, so they are avoiding them.
Think this is great for Vancouver which needs more housing. The zoning is broken, and far too conservative. Glad to see the Squamish addressing a need that will likely benefit all, and hopefully this encourages the city of Vancouver to do the same on their own accord.
President Biden recently announced that software should be using memory safe languages. The command sent to Voyager - poke - is a command to directly set a memory location with a value - totally not memory safe:)
Probably not for $1000.

$2700 is what I got mine for. I think price might have been lowered to $2300 now.

It's built in Poland. Solid wood with steel reinforcement in the form of steel tubing in places, springs, and then a pillow system on top of that. The firm making it is the Swedish company SITS.

But I think one has to actually sit in a bunch of couches to see whether they're good.
I see they don't mention Citus (https://github.com/citusdata/citus), which is already a fairly mature native Postgres extension. From the details given in the article, it sounds like they just reimplemented it.

I wonder if they were unaware of it or disregarded it for a reason —I currently am in a similar situation as the one described in the blog, trying to shard a massive Postgres DB.
I hate people just random throw in capitalism. Is the communism better in maintaining old code … do they even exist. Not to mention please we are here not for the money as most does not, just awe of what can be done for a computer job which love to do and have such legacy.

Capitalism does not really exist. It is money, incentives, job, human … or love to hack.
French parliament votes to slow down fast fashion
If the service is down then how would the validation happen. Or if you just allow stolen components to be accepted whilst the phone is unvalidated then state security services will just DDOS the service. They would love to be able to swap out a screen and gain access to the password for journalists, dissidents etc.

And you can't bypass the current pairing check since it is happening before the OS is launched.
Communication, in general, is an energy-consuming process. And when a message is intended to evoke specific emotions in the product consumer, you are doing a great job. With experience, crafting such messages may become easier.
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Thank you pg for being awesome.
You may be interested in a feature in the new app:

> On-Device Signal Bridge

Haven't tried it yet.
I've liked reading this blog - https://insidersguidetofurniture.com/buyers-guide-to-furnitu... and basically what it comes down to is most modern cushioning will fail in five years or so.

You need 2.5 density foam or higher, or you need a "uncushioned" style couch.
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