skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think there's a uniform agreement to not have hints, and even for devs opposing the idea of hints is there is not a single universal reason and it's more like every single dev has his own reason(s) to not like them. For example:

1) The dev may be working on something else entirely, not caring about hints at all. I'd bet most devs are actually in this group.

2) PG does the right decisions for the use cases the dev needs/supports, so there's not much motivation to make this complex, or feeling hints are needed. Everyone scratches their own itch in the first place.

3) There's a feeling we shouldn't be fixing planning issues by hints but by fixing the optimizer. I agree it's rather idealistic and perhaps not very practical (how does it help that in 2 years there might be a fix, when you have the problem on PROD now?) or supported by history (there's a bunch of cases that we know are a problem for years, not much progress was made).

4) Often bad past experience with applications overusing hints to force plans that the "smart" developer thought are great, but then it grew to 100x the size over years, and now the plans are insane. But also the hints are part of the application code and that can't be changed and it's obviously he fault of the DBA to "make it work". If I had a $1 for every such application I had to deal with ...

5) There issues are fairly rare (depending on the application/schema/,...) are there are other ways to force the database to use a different plan. You can do CTEs, set different cost parameters, disable some plan nodes, ... Not as explicit as hints, but good enough for no one to spend enough time on hints.

6) Belief this can/should be solved out of core. The fact that pg_hint_plan exists suggests maybe it's not a bad idea.

7) Concerns about complexity - the optimizer is quite complicated piece of code already, hints would make it even more complex (both the code and testing). If the community is not ready to accept this extra complexity and maintain it forever, it won't be added.

8) There are proprietary/commercial forks that actually do support hints - for example EDB Postgres Advanced Server supports this. (disclosure: I work for EDB, although not on EPAS.)

9) I don't think there ever was a formal patch adding this capability. And without a patch it's all just a theoretical discussion.

10) ... probably many more reasons ...

I'm not saying any of this is a good reason to (not) support hints, it's merely my observation of what devs say when asked about hints.
I agree, however source engine does have a history of some RCEs. The first one that was phished could have been used to phish the other as well.
- I don't know if this will work well to you, but try to find someone in the same field to make some Mockup interview [paid] try more than 1 interview with different people.
- Try to know the hiring process of the Corp. Comp. etc. you interested in through asking questions in LinkedIn or even look up through Glassdoor App
What a cool project. I downloaded today's album and it's not bad. Sunshine Ward - Live...

https://terminalescape.blogspot.com/
https://about.fb.com/news/2023/08/audiocraft-generative-ai-f...
Very nice. I can even read the Declaration of Independence, as archaic and unfamiliar as the text is.

If you are having trouble with it, try this: "Use the force!!" By which I mean, forget that its written in a very small font, don't go looking for the individual pixels, but just relax and read like any other text. Don't look at the letters, look at the words. Your brain fill in the details for you.
I'm not being pedantic, as far as I understand the meaning of your comment. Asbestos is a very good material for making very cheap brakes, and in developing countries brakes are sometimes still made with asbestos for that reason.
Oh, if only it were that simple.

The networking that makes Second Life go uses long polling HTTPS for an "event channel", over which the server can send event messages to the clients. Most messages go over UDP, but a few that need encryption or are large go over the HTTPS/TCP event channel.

At the client end, C++ clients use "libcurl". Its default timeout settings are not compatible with long polling. Libcurl will break connections and make another request. This can result in lost or duplicated messages.

At the server end, Apache front-ends the actual simulation servers, to filter out irrelevant connection attempts (Random HTTP attacks that try any open port, probably). Apache has its own timeouts, and will abort connections, forcing the client to retry.

There's a message serial number to try to prevent this mechanism from losing messages. The Second Life servers ignore the serial number the client sends back as a check. Some supposedly compatible servers from Open Simulator skip sequential numbers.

The end result is an HTTPS based system which can both lose and duplicate what were supposed to be reliable messages. Some of those messages, if lost, will stall out the user's activity in the game.
The people who designed this are long gone. The current staff was unaware of how bad the mess is. Outside users had to find the problem and document it. The company staff has been trying to fix this for months.
It seems to be difficult enough to fix that the current action is to defer work on the problem.

So, no, long polling is not "stupidly simple".

The right way to do this is probably to send a keep-alive message frequently enough that the TCP and HTTPS levels never time out. This keeps Apache and libcurl on their "happy paths", which work.
There was some discussion on another article about premanufactured homes of the past whose sub-structures were mass-produced then were delivered & assembled on-site. This never has gotten far beyond the niche stage, but what is really needed is still domestic factories working around-the-clock taking the timber, steel, and other raw materials and fabricating them using mass-production into ready-to-assemble building components, anyway.

Not much differently than they have been doing traditionally, but increased output on steroids.

And concentrating on mobile home parts and accessories.

There can probably be nothing more leveling for a market than a quick infusion of nice, clean, new, low-cost, and most importantly rapidly depreciating dwelling units. In abundant quantities. Convoys coming in from all directions until normalcy is restored and stock can accurately be taken. There needs to be some balancing force that can tip the scales to make it possible for a SFH buyer to get their money's worth like it hasn't been possible for a very long time. Naturally the amount of homeless has always been a function of whether there is "any" housing which is affordable for the least wealthy citizens, while the real estate people do best when there isn't even anything affordable for people who are far from the least wealthy. The widening gap is easier to fall into, and if you do, you're inches closer to the recently homeless who are moving back up, trying to get back to where you were.

"All that's needed" is a decent cohort of citizens to commit to trailer park life for a period of time, and pave the way whatever it takes (politically, legally) to make sure the settled cost of the dwelling is eventually proportional to the underlying value of land, materials & labor that were involved. Which is a small fraction of what they will be paying for a SFH sooner than otherwise, since they won't be drained as badly while living in a trailer compared to a high-rent home or complex. And the next residents in the trailer can have the benefit of a lower-cost dwelling when they might need it most. Trailers can get run down pretty fast but it can be a good option to have, especially if things don't turn around for everybody.

By then of course, Linux would have long taken over the desktop ;)
Probably why it's reported by a garbage website.
Maybe I think a bit further down.
We can speak past each other cryptically if you prefer that but I don't think that is constructive. I believe that necessary protections generally already exist through existing legislation and the AI part doesn't need to be specified, but I'm open to changing my mind with new information. Just like cookie banners won't stop the CCP from slurping up TikTok comms, I don't see how this legislation will stop adversaries from weaponizing AI. The definition of AI is going to be vague enough to cause significant hurdles for companies looking to operate in the EU, which is already struggling to keep up with the US economy.
Nah, wallstreet doesn’t understand what it’s looking at.

That’s fine, it’s a developer conference for a founder lead company that hasn’t reached the “stock price is the product” state. He’s not trying to optimize the next 5 days of stock.

There’s a full ecosystem grab with Nim there, a new GPU that forces every major datacenter to adopt (or their competitors will massively increase their compute density)
This is a developer's conference, not a financial one.
No mention of clearly labeling ads made using AI. The deepfake Youtube ads are so annoying. Elon wants to recruit me to his new investment plot? Yeah right.
Sorry, can you clarify more? I don't think I understand. The part you enjoy the most is the integrating of systems, right? If that's really your passion, I'm not sure you're in danger of losing your job to AI. AI is not great at nuance and this is exponentially more challenging than what we've done so far. I'm just assuming that since this is your passion (if I'm understanding correctly) that you see it as the puzzle it is and the complexities and uniqueness of each integration. If you're the type of person that's frustrated by low quality or quick shortcuts and not understanding the nuances actually involved, I think you're safe.

I don't see AI pushing out deep thinkers and the "annoying" nuance devs anytime soon. I'm that kinda person too and yeah, I'm not as fast as my colleagues. But another friend (who is similar) and I both are surprised how often other people in our lab and groups we work with (we're researchers) talk about how essential GPT and copilot are to their workflows. Because neither of us think this way. I use GPT(4) almost every day, but it's impossible for me to get it to write good quality code. It's great at giving me routines and skeletons, but the real engineering part takes far more time to talk the LLM into than it does to write it (including all the time to google or even collaborate with GPT[0]). LLMs can do tough things, but their abilities are clearly directly proportional to the frequency of the appearance of those tasks. So I think it is the coding bootcamp people that are in the most danger.

There are expert people that are also at risk though. These are the extremely narrow expertise people. Because you can target LLMs for specific tasks. But if your skills are the skills that define us as humans, I wouldn't lose too much sleep. I say this as a ML researcher myself. And I highly encourage everyone to get into the mindset of thinking with nuance. It has other benefits too. But I also think we need to think about how to transition into a post scarce world, because that is the goal and we don't need AGI for that.

[0] A common workflow for me is actually due to the shittiness of Google. Where it overfits certain words and ignores the advanced things like quotes or NOTs. Or similarly broaching into a new high level topic. I can't trust GPT's answer, but it will sure use keywords and vernacular I don't know that enable me to make a more powerful search. (But google employees should not take away that they should push LLMs into google search but rather that search is mostly good but that same nuance is important and being too forceful and repeating 5 pages of essentially the same garbage is not working. The SEO people attacked you and they won. It looks like you let them win too...)
I'm just spitballing here, but I'd wager that the human toll required to evolve effective resistance to regular and prolonged asbestos exposure is more than most of us would be willing to pay.

We already evolved these massive craniums filled with (to date) the most intricate and powerful general computers in the world - it seems like the solution to asbestos exposure is simply engineering a way to avoid it. No evolution necessary.
Throughput Is Not All You Need: Maxing Goodput in LLM Serving via Disaggregation
New work from the vLLM team that disaggregates prefill and decoding to maximize goodput (throughput subject to latency constraints) in LLM serving
Most human consumption is useless trash by some metric.
This year's symposium for the subfield will no doubt be called "Learning Ornithological Languages '24"
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someone just watched the recent Indiana Jones movie...
There's also an enforcement aspect, too - it becomes significantly harder for police to determine the difference between "I was hosing it down" and "I was hosing it down and washing it with soap" so they just ban all of it.
Ravi is interesting to work with. It's simplicity is was draws me the most.
Ah, I think that's about what I had in mind. Just didn't know what to look for. Thanks!
Also, because telling fictional stories has always been one of the most common applications of video technology.
They would solve the problem by making nuclear power too expensive for anyone to consider. Insurance companies don't like risks they can't quantify reliably. They either won't underwrite such risks at all, or they charge unreasonable premiums.

The risks of nuclear power are still largely unknown, as there have been only two major disasters over a few decades. Both of them cost ~$200 billion, at least according to some estimates. We don't know how much worse the reasonable worst case could be. Chernobyl and Fukushima were also one-off disasters with specific causes. Insurance companies would also have to be prepared for multiple disasters in a short period of time caused by systemic issues in the design of a particular reactor type.
I envision a situation closer to the walking dead vs what you described.
I haven't had a breakfast on BC Ferry for a while since they redid the interior/livery on all of the boats. Pretty sure I used to eat the jam packets on the tables.
The entire Stanford campus (which is much bigger than a typical university) has a prop 65 warning at the entrance.

898 Bowdoin St
https://maps.app.goo.gl/uHTTd7yYtAibAg1QA

Some of the street view passes the sign is washed out. Click through to different times to see the sign.
Near bars (and colleges, etc), you'll find security guards Denny's and IHOP both. Mostly to deal with the drunken foolishness that goes down.
> Havana Syndrome doesn't seem to have much to do with communism

Of course, this is actually about Unitary Marxist–Leninist one-party semi-presidential socialist republics, not communism.

> so there are all sorts of radio beams flying around those areas. The simplest hypothesis is that one of them accidentally also interacts with humans and Cuba doesn't really care much to fix it

No, that's by far the most complicated possible explanation. You can measure radio waves, and they did, and they're normal. We also know how radio waves interact with humans, and it doesn't cause Havana syndrome. Radio waves have a frequency, and all of those frequencies have been known and categorized and studied for many decades.

Its seriously a million times more likely that someone has found the brown note and left it playing on a laptop in the conference room. That's how insane it is to say that there's a radio beam that is accidentally interacting with humans and causing these supposed symptoms.
This is about as realistic as the next generation of congress people ending up 40 years younger.

We literally have politicians talking about pouring acid on hardware and expect these same bumbleheads to keep their signing keys safe at the same time. The average person is far too technologically illiterate to do that. Next time you go to grandmas house you'll learn she traded her signing key for chocolate chip cookies.
Yolink requires cloud.
Oops, you're right - I counted w/ Ctrl-F and that's not accurate with references.
It's more about raising the quality floor.
The DataFusion repo has a lot of good write up’s, as does Andy Grove’s blog - he started datafusion before it was donated to Apache.
Perhaps, but evolutionary results are difficult to test. They tend to fail in bizarre, unpredictable ways in production. That may be good enough for some use cases but I think it will never be very applicable to mission critical or safety critical domains.

Of course, code written by human programmers on the lower end of the skill spectrum sometimes has similar problems...
Correct, it's the inverse that requires disclosure by Youtube.

Still, I find it interesting. If you can't synthetically alter someone's performance to be "worse", is it OK that the NFL synthetically altered Alicia Key's performance to be "better"?

For a more consequential example, imagine Biden's marketing team "cleaning up" his speech after he has mumbled or trailed off a word, misleading the US public during an election year. Should that be disclosed?
This is still a huge step up compared to the broadcom chips in raspberry 1-4.

On the big brothers, you have this odd CPU + GPU mish-mash and everything (including interrupt and mem layout) can look different depending on which one is currently running the show.
Because he missed the train. My guess.
>> You’re asking for things that you plan to “no true Scotsman”. If I name an institution you will claim it doesn’t count because it isn’t big enough, or that it actually is corrupt by your measure.

> I don't see how your qualification is correct as I haven't said no true Scotsman yet. Prejudice already?

> As to the Adventure Cycling Association which I had never heard of, nor heard of any cycling associations having acquired some exclusive control over anything to do with cycling, they may or may not be corrupt, but they aren't centralized institution.

Called it.
> You just made it clear that the goal, at least in part, is to make a tax so high that it more often goes unpaid and the city can take the land away from the land owner.

Have you ever lived near an empty lot or abandoned building in a city? Yes, I want those going back into circulation, whether via the owner doing something with them, selling them to someone who will, or it falling to the city. You do know we're in a housing crisis? There simply isn't enough space to go round, something has to give; I'd rather see those absentee landowners who don't care enough to do the minimum lose their stuff than have hard working people living n to a room like we do now.
Love it. Use case is difficult to grasp at first, but seems to be somewhere less powerful than LuaJIT, but with typing; and more powerful than Typed Lua, but with the same typing?

> Lua is perfect as a small embeddable dynamic language so why a derivative? Ravi extends Lua with static typing for improved performance when JIT compilation is enabled.

> There are other attempts to add static typing to Lua - e.g. Typed Lua but these efforts are mostly about adding static type checks in the language while leaving the VM unmodified.

> Of course there is the fantastic LuaJIT implementation. Ravi has a different goal compared to LuaJIT. Ravi prioritizes ease of maintenance and support, language safety, and compatibility with Lua 5.3, over maximum performance.
I had mine fail on me a few years ago. Mine was a single spring, and after researching on how to replace, I decided that I'd rather pay someone else to take the risk.

It was around $700 at the time and the installer installed two springs (side by side) to handle a failure event with one of them.
I'm assuming you're leaving out the time it takes to drive somewhere to dispose of the used oil and driving back. I grew up in the boonies, and my dad was one to dispose of oil "out back". It was such a shock the day he brought home a proper catch can to have it disposed of properly