skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree with you. I mean to say that after reading the author's ideas my takeaway was not that they were suggesting that I irresponsibly construct a single-point-of-failure system for a situation that demands a strong availability story. My takeaway was to mull over and challenge what the availability requirements are before building the ubiquitous cloud system that I'm familiar with. What tradeoffs are made and what risks are budgeted are not ubiquitous, therefore, our architecture should not be.

I, for one, appreciated the thought experiment and I took it for that: a theoretical alternative that would otherwise seem untenable being held up against a known pattern. I take it as theoretical because the author didn't actually build the system they're proposing for BusinessInsider, and without putting it into practice, I can only see it as that.

In practice, articulating and defining the cost of making choices is still the responsibility of the engineer and I don't believe the author was ignoring availability to suggest that we should too. In fact, I'm left with: "I find this proposal interesting, of course there are availability concerns, how might I solve those concerns from here?" The difference between that thought and the "straw-man" I pointed out is that the straw-man argument reads: "throw this all out because that system is only going to fail."
Wow this is an awesome breakdown!

Do you have written anything more extensive about this? Especially the ANALYIZe or PRAGMA OPTIMIZE, and/or Litestream?

Or maybe you can refer some links?
> guy responsible for mac laptops having class-action-lawsuit-quality keyboards for the better part of a decade

Ive was always more smoke than fire but his achievements are significant going back to the Newton era.
No need to bash gen z alongside correcting the inappropriate usage. Unless you want your behavior to be labeled as classic non gen-z?
Just play around with audio tools, so you can get to throw ideas at a thing and get results that you can hear?

The things you can hear scale pretty well all the way down to DC, and all the way up to daylight (or beyond, I suppose).

After spending a few (or dozens, or hundreds) of hours tinkering with audio-range frequencies for fun, then maybe you'll have a real place with which to associate the maths that are involved in electronics and programming, and having that place might make that math (and whatever is needed to accomplish it) feel lot more worthwhile to actually-learn.
".. but it also means that innovation is risky, and new products tend to be evolutionary ones that don’t change the overall construction process... In some cases, those efforts are successful, as with PEX piping replacing copper piping."

Out of curiosity I searched 'pex piping microplastics' and several articles/studies came up about plastic shedding in pipes, including in pex piping, so innovation is risky indeed!
Cool, I am using Django on some projects so I'll check this out.
I like to have several alternatives. Many of these sites have disappointed me over time. And https://chat-to.dev is a great alternative
Use the best tool for the job, most of the time is the best thing to do :)

I never dabbled in multiple files, but I can see how that will be beneficial. Especially if you have a service that have completely isolated instances - like let's say per organization basis.
Back in the day if I copied (geophysical air) survey data 11 times and put all the copies in the same walk in fire proof safe (in the hanger), that offered no real additional security in the event of a direct hit by an aircraft and explosion while the door was open.

If you're going to make 11 copies, they have to go to different physical locations, different devices at least, geographically different places to be sure, or it's pointless.

In this instance, block de-duping on a single device makes sense .. expecting mutiple copies on the same device (with or without duplicat block reuse) to offer any additional safety does not.
Mostly I've used Momondo for flights and Google Flights always seemed like the worst search engine for flights, so I don't see Google having brought much innovation to the industry. Maybe my use is just weird, because I use the flight search to find the departure I want, then go to the airlines website to book the flight.
ASML set to comply with U.S. demands on China exports
Is that just hypnagogia? Many people experience that before falling asleep, I could also do this while awake but with eyes closed, it is usually colors and shapes but not anything concrete.
> With proper error handling, that's about 50 lines of C code.

Writing proper error handling in C is a very tedious and error prone task. So it doesn't surprise me that people would rather call another library instead.
Irregular conjugation strikes again:

I believe in comparative advantage and the gains from trade
You believe in sale pricing to reduce inventory levels
They believe in dumping overcapacity on foreign markets
> If you buy into this line of thinking then it quickly becomes apparent that LLM's are more or less a dead end when it comes to AGI. Simulating isnt emulating... an LLM is as likely to become intelligent as a forecast is to control the weather

Up until this point, I agree.

This puts humans on too high a pedestal: LLMs aren't magic, and we're not magic either.

(There's other reasons for me to think Transformers aren't the answer, but not this kind of reasoning).
Yeah. I guess the answer is that there weren't (m)any configuration languages which had functions - even YAML itself (which doesn't have functions) came out a few years before nix. Cue, starlark, dhall are all much later.
Medium Trout may be the intended market?
From what I understand, it wasn't even the performance testing itself that caught the backdoor. The developer wanted to have the machine as quiescent as possible (so that nothing else running on it would interfere) before starting the performance tests, but sshd was using much more CPU than expected (and this could be observed with simple tools like "top"). My guess is that the usual "backscatter" of password guessing ssh login attempts from all over the Internet normally uses very little CPU time in sshd before being rejected, but the backdoor made each login attempt use a significant amount of CPU time to check whether it was an encrypted request from the attacker (and this particular machine had its sshd open to the Internet because it was a cloud machine being accessed via ssh through the open Internet).
In Europe people live in tiny apartments, 40-75 square meters and SFH is out of reach for regular people, like a Porsche car.
Contacted a few brokers and had a 6 month assignment within a week. They took 10% of all my invoicing
Not the author of this reply, but what we do is just to scp the file into another instance and use Metabase on it. It is pretty sweet as we can have metabase not running on production and "pollute" the environment. Extremely easy.
I can't even resize the window on New Teams and have the text reflow nicely on my Mac without massive lag.

I could resize web pages nicely 2 decades ago. What on earth is it doing that so special where it can't resize a window?
Aphantasia and face blindness are correlated it seems like.
CNN's answer to the question: 'What's wrong with Tesla'
The Windows XP Waltz [video]
That looks really cool, thanks for sharing
I don't think currying happens without you asking to, though. It happens because it happens, it's part of the language, and it's something you implicitly keep in the back of your mind every time you see a function call. I don't program a lot in Haskell, only some maths things I sometimes might need since it is rather useful for that, but the concept of currying is so natural that it's constantly expressing itself in the code. Very rarely do you apply arguments and consider that to be a function call in itself instead of like, three function calls. And since partial application is so incredibly important to Haskell and other similar languages, without currying writing would be very difficult. Consider the actual simple example of

gears = filter ((==2) . length)
. map (neighbouringNumbers numbers)
$ filter ((=='*') . fst) symbols

which without currying would have to look like

gears = (\xs -> filter ((\x -> x == 2) . length) xs)
. (\xs -> map (\x -> neighbouringNumbers numbers x) xs)
$ filter (\(c,_) -> c == '*') symbols

It just makes partial application a lot easier, especially when this kind of code pops up all over the place.
Cheap money on tap from the bank pushes up house prices. Combine this with municipalities being unwilling to free up zoning for residential, and you have a limited supply which people will borrow as much as the bank will give them in order to obtain.
Hey Tazu, great breakdown. How much is "write-heavy" in this context? And do it depend also more on the hardware?
Much of JavaScript's underlying machinery is also written in C++, how do you feel about that?
Sophia: Scalable Stochastic 2nd-Order Optimizer for Language Model Pre-Training
Likely. Though people not seeing the problem is quite frustrating by itself.
Yea, I know. My Chromium, firefox, and other uses it of course. What I meant with "Production" is in a server production env.
This looks like actual brutalism, it prioritizes function over the form - as opposed to the submission. I’m guessing the goal of the latter was to look like brutalist works, without caring for the UX.
Maybe something could be built to put more eyeballs on things.

A kind of online-tool that collects the sources to build some relevant distributions, a web front-end to show a random piece of code (filtered by language, probability to show inreasing by less-recently/frequently/qualified viewed) to a volunteering visitor to review. The reviewer leaves a self assesment about their own skills (feed back into selection probability) and any potential findings. Tool-staff double-checks findings (so that the tool does not create too much noise) and forwards to the original authors (bugs) or elsewhere (backdoors).

A bit like wikipedias show random page.
No middle name, just first name last name.
> Currying is one of those things in Haskell that always makes me think that Haskellers were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, that they didn't stop to think if they should.

This had to be said! Sure you can make the argument that this improves your productivity as a coder, or makes the code more concise, but to someone coming along cold and trying to pick apart your code to fix something it's going to be a nightmare.
Hopefully one day DPDK will be ported to OpenBSD. Altough I think OpenBSD also lack proper network card documentation.
There are some options nowadays, but in generally you haven't done that before. This is one of the limitations of SQLite. But then again, most websites could probably fit on one of these beasts here

https://www.hetzner.com/dedicated-rootserver/matrix-ax/

for 200 euros per month.
No, names needed to match my ID document, which only has first name and last name.
Nix allows you to install packages without naming or version conflicts. It allows you to make source repositories act as first-class packages. It can be installed on any Linux distribution and MacOS. Changing and customizing packages is trivial. All the building and installing happens outside of the source tree, so you don't clutter up your $HOME. It's reproducible. It's simple. And it's build with the needs of Free Software in mind (unlike snap or flatpak which seem mostly concerned with packaging proprietary software). Also Nix is 20 years old at this point.

Simply put, with Nix I can do:

nix run github:project/name

to run a program. Not many other package managers are capable of that.
>The name Discord was chosen because it "sounds cool and has to do with talking", was easy to say, spell, remember, and was available for trademark and website. In addition, "Discord in the gaming community" was the problem they wished to solve.
I thought "ah maybe they're saying scarce digital assets, because they don't wanna be conflated with NFT pyramid schemes".. clicked link, and found fullblown ponzinomics with "assets" paying out tokens.

And people wonder why most of us are tired of this stuff.
> We definitely converse on autopilot, indistinguishably from LLMs talking to each other, after an opening line every word of every sentence in the entire exchange perfectly predictable to a stranger

Some people report speaking like this: opening their mouths and not knowing how the sentence will end.

I don't experience that, I think.

Possibly used to? I have in the past had some autonomous verbal responses, for a bit this included echoing greetings — great when it's "hello", embarrassing when it's "happy birthday".

> To say LLMs are not intelligent is easier if we agree humans spend a good deal of time being unintelligent

Kinda; System 1, system 2 — the best LLMs do better than most people's system 1, worse than most people's system 2. Bat and ball, $1.10.
Where and how did you find these brokers?
Tangentially:

Writing this at 1:30am, might not be very insightful.

We actually are phasing out the use of pm2 in our org since we are already running within kubernetes. And running pm2 within k8s seemed redundant (and is likely a relict of previous deployment strategies).

It also made certain debugging tasks trickier as we very rarely like to attach debuggers to our staging environment and the cluster/fork behavior of pm2 made it hard to effectively target indivual executions/processes.

Further we had some issues running nextjs after upgrading to the latest version within pm2 when using custom configuration files (we did not end up finding the root cause but decided to drop pm2, least path of resistance etc).

One other thing that also gave us headaches was the fact that pm2 allows specifying different env variable values for different environments but no other configuration (such as cluster count etc.)

We were successful entirely replacing it with docker-compose configs locally that are ultimately closer to how our services are deployed in production.

Overall I think pm2 is suitable for local dev and prototyping small to medium complexity services.
Yeah exactly, I have been doing the same though from Postgresql to SQLite.

It greatly simplifies the server environment when you just have a file. And backup is so much easier.
It says there are 6 people with my last name in Spain, guess you can call it uncommon :p
The law just says they have to do it. It doesn't say they have to like it.
SELECT * FROM "/etc/passwd"; does not work for me.
My own armchair economics theory of why housing is so expensive is that places where housing is not expensive tend to wither economically and people move elsewhere.

Let me elaborate. We have made pretty much everything else than housing cheap. In places with cheap housing, people don't have an incentive to work and contribute to the economy anymore, which drives the economy down in those places. As a result, people have to move elsewhere (since the jobs will also disappear with the economy), driving housing prices up there. There is a feedback loop between housing prices and overall economic activity and people have to live in places with at least some sort of functioning economy, and thus all of the world gets partitioned into parts with cheap housing and no jobs and expensive housing with jobs.
Trying to close the circle here, there are exceptions to at-will (e.g. discrimination laws) but AFAIK this bill [0] does not add "less than perfect responsiveness" to that list of improper reasons.

Instead it provides a mechanism for employees to complain to government authorities who can fine the company.

[0] https://legiscan.com/CA/text/AB2751/id/2965645
Well he wasn't wrong, in a sense. If I know I can check something somewhere at any time I'll never really remember it, just the vague notion of it and the process for looking it up. It has to be some sort of mental optimization that offloads what isn't critical to remember.

It still amazes me how in the ancient world they were capable of successfully transferring information from generation to generation through pure word of mouth, accurately remembering all aspects to a T. It just seems impossible now.
Expose Platform APls over Wrapping Them
Willing _and_ able.
Cool, I was thinking of making somehting like tender but for businesses. I always have an issue with expenses being everywhere and nowhere (to be found).

Have you written about your experiences? Especially the write-throughput?
A colleague of mine tried to apply for a mortgage in the UK. He had good savings, enough to cover 20% deposit (the lenders officially accepted 10% deposits) and there would be enough left to pay mortgage for a year. Good, steady income to allow him to comfortable pay the mortgage and put aside some money for savings/investments. One bank after another refused him a mortgage unless he'd agree to put all of his savings into the deposit, essentially forcing him into a precarious situation where any adverse event (loss of job, health problems, etc.) would jeopardise his ability to pay off his debt. Each bank he spoke to massively increased (doubled+) the interest rates way above what was advertised even if he'd put all of his savings into the deposit. He walked away and is still renting.
But there is a seemingly infinite supply of fiat but a finiye supply of housing. Only way is to property tax second homes to a very very high degree.
Edit: the problem we are trying to solve is getting people a first home, so naturally other categories must suffer untill the problem is solved
About a year into my first IT role we installed a lot of networking infra into schools. Every school, bar none, had their network infrastructure named after characters from Blake's 7 (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blake%27s_7)

The domain controller would inevitably be named Orac. So much so that we set them as defaults in the routers we installed.

A generational thing.
That sounds a lot like you're confusing correlation for causation. :)
This reminds me of a great conversation I had on a whiteboard during my masters in the dynamical systems group:

"So energy is pumped into the system on the left, and is dissipated over here on the right"

"But the system is rotationally invariant, there is no left and right"

"I meant in frequency space"

"Oh I thought you were talking in real space"

"ARE YOU STUPID, WHO THE HELL THINKS IN REAL SPACE??!?"
Silence is best for digestion
While diversity is needed the main issue are the absence laws. There needs to laws to hold spokespersons and engineers accountable. Every provider from tiny to any of the tech giants can hide behind both secrecy and security for their decisions. FTC or FCC need to subpoena or whatever these people and one needs to have an independent (NTSB type) board to evaluate these. The way we are progressing forwards is like the banks. Unless there is any large problem law makers or society dont care about it. For example, I found the CTO https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mAUpxN-EIgU - just refusing to answer what videos or material was used in openAI's vast learning. (Note I dont mean only openAI, every CEO/C-level from all companies that have influence on common people)

At the end, journalists also need to be tech savvy + socially responsible. There is still a lot of them that just want to make bucks.
In my experience, indicies tend to trust the date in the article more than the date it was discovered. That’s also how some people fight bad press: copy an article verbatim, set the date to the day before, file takedown notice for theft of content.

By the time the actual content comes back up, it won’t matter.
> Most importantly, owning your home in full means that you're not paying landlord each month and it can also be passed down to your children.

You can own an apartment in full and not pay a landlord. You can even own the land the apartment is standing on[1].

I don't know if that exists in the US, but legally that's how it's managed in some of Europe (The Netherlands at least).

What you will have to pay indefinitely is a membership fee for a housing association, which owns the common parts of the building (stairwell etc.).

That's still going to be way less than the costs of maintaining a yard, driveway etc.

1. The other owners of apartments in the same vertical stratum can also "own" it. It's a legal mechanism that essentially comes down to forms of property tax.
Are there any licensing restrictions to using this library and the images it creates?
> Would the proposed regulation prohibit explicit clauses requiring employees to read that email? If not, there's no issue from the laissez-faire perspective.

Did some searching, and:

> (b) An employer shall establish a workplace policy that provides employees the right to disconnect from communications from the employer during nonworking hours.

> (c) Nonworking hours shall be established by written agreement between an employer and employee.

> (d) An employer may contact an employee during nonworking hours for an emergency or for scheduling.

So it looks like employer can't put a blanket "you agree to respond to anything at any time" thing in their contracts, at least not without also defining "working hours" as 24/7.

https://legiscan.com/CA/text/AB2751/id/2965645
The size thing is getting out of hand. I grew up in older housing built in the 60s and 70s -- fairly small by modern standards, but there was a bigger backyard and still enough space to store everything. It felt adequate and honestly more than enough for sleeping, eating, and resting from the outside world with friends and family.

And then I started visiting my friends' more modern home and I was flabbergasted by the sheer size. You have to text someone to get their attention because yelling across the house is not very convenient anymore. And so many rooms just stood empty like gallery spaces -- "to be used on specific occasions".

I don't quite get it -- and I hope that construction costs come down and permitting eases. For once I am ready to buy a home, I want to be able to custom build my own small house.
I actually got different embeddings from the exact same text. I should have been clearer about that.
Interesting, it was the exact opposite for me. Once I realized that things only exist physically, many things became clear, especially the nature of souls and lack thereof, and of many elements of religious mythos around the world that were invented purely for pedagogical and eschatological reasons and don't literally exist in reality.

I also don't think you're correct about the laws being found nowhere physically, of course they're found physically, otherwise how would we have observed them? I believe you're falling into the fallacy of ignorance, saying that the laws don't exist because you believe they can't be found physically (even though this part is wrong).
This is my go to method for pretty much every hard problem that I'm forced to solve where I don't have the domain expertise / interest / time. The trick lies in coming up with a clever similarity metric that incorporates penalties etc. You can even go a level deeper and use multiple similarity algorithms and then poll on top of them. Here's a taxonomy extractor for text that I made using similar principles that is surprisingly as good as anything else that I've seen - https://dash.scooptent.com/text
Ask HN: Raspberry Pi 5 ideas for 4 yr old girl
What could you do with a raspberry pi 5 that would interest a four yr old girl? I have a monitor with keyboard and mouse, but open to any ideas tho. Using it as a computer would be nice but if there is some other way to leverage it that would enrich her knowledge, maybe spark an interest in science or math, that would be amazing too. I was thinking making it into a retro game emulator, but then maybe the use case is just too narrow. I don’t want to be strict either way, like “you can play games all day” vs “you must only use educational content!”. Would love to here some ideas ;)