skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My comment on Abort Retry Fail’s post:

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“This version brought NetWare Directory Services to the market in direct competition with Microsoft Active Directory.” – well, this is true if you have a time machine :) NetWare 4 was released in 1993, some seven years before Active Directory. Indeed, some clever Novell engineers figured out how to use NDS as a backend for the NT Security Accounts Manager (SAM) database, allowing NT domains (which until Active Directory were flat in structure) to take advantage of the hierarchical and distributed nature of NDS. Microsoft wasn’t too pleased with this by all reports.

Clearly, Active Directory won in the end, but whether this is due to engineering brilliance or Microsoft leveraging one monopoly to create another, I’ll leave it to the reader to decide.

Side note: in 2002 I started developing a plug compatible Active Directory replacement, XAD. I was able to leverage open source software such as OpenLDAP, Kerberos, DCE RPC and Samba 3 (for its file service; the domain controller implementation was written from scratch), but it still took me about five years to complete.

XAD was acquired by Novell in 2007 and, after some herculean efforts on the part of myself and Novell’s engineering team, was integrated with eDirectory (née NDS) and Open Enterprise Server (OES). Most of the Active Directory ‘personality’ lived on top of eDirectory but there was some deep integration in the core, for example to ensure that a user created over the native eDirectory protocols would still be assigned a NT Security Identifier (SID) when in DSfW mode. Recall this was done before Microsoft published any of the protocol documentation so, it involved quite a lot of protocol analysis.

DSfW I think is still part of OES but, Samba 4 will have long eclipsed it in functionality and bug-for-bug compatibility with Active Directory. I’m still proud of what we did and the great team at Novell in Provo and Bangalore. Most of the extensions to MIT Kerberos and DCE RPC were released as open source, which then found their way into Samba and macOS (respectively).
On a sufficiently large time scale the real limit on everything is energy. “Cost” and “access to hardware” are mere proxies for energy available to you. This is the idea behind the Kardashev scale.
The existing team tends to be blind to stupid things they're doing. There's a period of time where the new guy sees things and thinks "wtf are you doing that for". Shout him down and you solve the annoyance problem and add him to the list of people who no longer notice the stupid things, or at least no longer try to fix the stupid things.

Maybe your team is only doing sensible things and all is perfect. Maybe you're blind to things that could be better. Heuristically, if you're writing software, it's not likely to be the first case.

My professional project moved to GitHub recently. It is terrible. The pull request / review system is borderline unusable. But already I can feel myself adopting clumsy workarounds and losing sight of how much better it should be.
It absolutely hasn't.

"An overwhelming body of multiple, converging lines of evidence has established a causal role for LDL in atherosclerosis and CHD/CVD progression as a fact, beyond a hypothesis."

https://sigmanutrition.com/lipids/ has a very good overall survey of the field.
You should probably have a tour guide on your first time there. Personally I was a bit confused which of the climate-controlled rooms I was actually allowed to enter (the doors all look like highly secure entrypoints). So I felt like I missed out on some exhibits and only scratched the surface of what they had on display (vs. in a filing cabinet).
Key risks using Generative AI
De-Risking AI", Wisely AI's latest white paper, highlights and explains five new risks of Generative AI tools: anthropomorphising; malicious and commercially protected training data; hallucinations; privacy, data security and data sovereignty; and prompt attacks. The white paper addresses each in detail, and suggest strategies to mitigate these risks. It's part of our core mission to "help organisations use AI safely and wisely."
Sometimes when you look at studies, those rare diagnosis turn out to be really common, just not part of the standard curriculum. In those cases LLMs perform more like a normal doctor giving you all the normal junk a doctor would say.

What google needs is a "search journals" toggle on its normal search, not related to scholar.google.com since those results are also different.
Ask HN: Would a planet in deep space be visible to a space ship flying past it?
> I knew already that there was a huge divide in salary and culture between the highly paid software engineers at coastal startups + FAANG companies and all the folks that run critical infrastructure for state and local governments, health systems, and boring enterprise companies

If gender differences in attitudes to risk are true (at least to some extent) then the difference is explainable, e.g. startups are high risk/reward hence attract males; government low risk/reward will attract females.
You’re joking right? How many religious officials have been convicted for child sex abuse? I’ve lost count. Churches are social control and tax evasion devices. Their positive impact on communities is grossly outweighed by the harms.

https://oxfordre.com/politics/display/10.1093/acrefore/97801....
There was a House MD episode about something similar. https://youtu.be/tLMzEOoSjc4?si=j08sc6pptBqWinbq
Is that because they bought a house 10 years ago?
From memory, std::map is comparatively slow because the spec requires pointers to indices to be stable. In practice it is slow; see khash and many others

Personally i don't think this matters too much; you're using c/c++; you're already fast
The DVD Journal Dimming the Lights (2007)
I discovered the DVD Journal website tonight and read their last entry. It serves as an excellent snapshot of technology trends as of late summer 2007. Notably, it doesn't mention smartphones, even though the iPhone was released earlier that summer, but iPods are discussed. Additionally, the website's design features, such as nested tables for layout, an image as a background, and the use of image alignment attributes, are notable.
The FAIR plans are NOT fair. The insurance companies in the FAIR association have zero incentive to reduce rates, or even assist with mitigation recommendations. AB38 was supposed to fix this and force the insurance companies to recognize mitigation, but it is so overly broad, and watered down, that it means nothing.
Adding programming to your toolbox doesn't require a $15,000 bootcamp. The unwritten agreement to these things is that you pay $15k now to get a $100k job once you graduate. The reality is that that rarely happens.
Sure seems like the solution is to get bank money out of housing. I say this as someone who’s usually on the free-market side of debates.

Is there a true downside to the plans occasionally thrown around in Congress to limit/disincent institutional investors housing holdings?
I wasn't disagreeing. It's sort of "apples and oranges."

I'm a big believer in the apprenticeship system, but I have found it to be profoundly unpopular, with software engineers (in the US), as can be noted by the reaction to my comment.

I consider my software engineering to be as much craft, as it is, vocation, and I had some good mentors.
Yeah I agree. If the choice is between a gas stove with 5 burners plus over and an induction hot plate, then you'd be justified. But that's a poor analogy because the electric car isn't missing the oven.

No analogy though, how often have you in the past five years driven more than 240 miles in one go without the posibility to stop and recharge? If you do it often, then yeah electric cars are not for you yet. But again that's not most people's usage of their car.

Yeah there's people who go out in the wilderness with their SUV or jeep and a bunch of jerry cans, but they're a rounding error compared to the people who drive 20 miles for their daily commute.
House first... "get to fuck you"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XamC7-Pt8N0
As a big fan of the books, I preferred the Netflix adaptation to the Tencent one.
Works where archive.is is blocked:

https://web.archive.org/web/20240418174457if_/https://www.ny...
I brought my house just before 9/11.

He has his own business. He's a one-man shop, and damn good.
Looking at the data summarized in [1], the compensation for 5 people was 20% of total expenses in 2022 while "Other Salaries and Wages" was 70%. Annual contributions of $3.5M is pretty robust. Comparing with, for example, Girls Who Code (https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/300...), the compensation does not seem to be excessive.

As another person commented this may be a case of spreading the org too thin. Couldn't they have pivoted with just a focus on the US rather than 147 countries and not shut the whole thing down?
Lasers rays? More like a ray of failure. Shift your spectrum, Microwaves are in and lasers are out.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39873977
And

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/new-microwave-wea...
Have you heard of Django girls?

https://djangogirls.org/

I've been jamming on Python & Django, and found that Django Girls has such excellent guides & tutorials - not just about web applications, but computer systems and programming in general.

Browse the site & check them out.

Has anyone experienced their events & workshops (example: "Install parties"). Sounds fun!
I know this is a form a victim-blaming, but the other party isn't here, so I can only address you: You can not treat this behavior in the way you've described. Every time somebody accepts victimhood even in small ways, it hurts everybody.

Basic, "default" levels of respect for people is the most foundational layer of humanity. For the sake of society, do not accept petty acts of disrespect.
https://archive.is/ZA31F
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"At the current level of O2 in the air I don't believe that flying insects can grow as large as even a hummingbird"

This got me curious. At a quick search, I found out that there in fact is at least a species of flying insect larger than (the smallest) hummingbird:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gauromydas_heros

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bee_hummingbird

The insect grows up to 7 cm in length whereas the bird can stay less than 6 cm at adulthood. No information about the insect weight though (for a proper comparison).
The answer is less but at the local level in the form of loosening zoning and other regulations in order to allow for the building of more and denser housing.

We have a housing shortage[0] plain and simple and NIMBY is holding back progress on the issue.

[0] https://econofact.org/the-housing-shortage-and-the-policies-...
Shouldn't this make some initial direct reference to the author: Silvanus P. Thompson[1]?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calculus_Made_Easy
Since you asked, I'm happy to oblige.

A lot of the discussion online refers to the so-called "code is law" aspect, and that is a useful term to narrow your search in conjunction with Mango Markets especially for this particular case. There are also a fair number of urls/links you may find in the other articles and references I have included below.

Hope that helps!

Previously/related:

Twitter thread from the man himself:

https://twitter.com/avi_eisen/status/1581326197241180160

https://web.archive.org/web/20221018045126/https://twitter.c...

Hackers drain $100M off Solana-based DeFi platform Mango Markets
79 points by mardoik on Oct 12, 2022
100 comments

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33172602

https://web.archive.org/web/20221012034912/https://p2eanalyt...

On the supposed “nihilism” of the Mango Markets arbitrageur
45 points by firloop on Oct 16, 2022
59 comments

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33225998

https://web.archive.org/web/20221115150438/https://milkyeggs...

Mango Markets - REKT

Wednesday, October 12, 2022

https://web.archive.org/web/20231229030800/https://rekt.news...

Mango DAO Readies $42M to ‘Make Users Whole’

https://web.archive.org/web/20221103064537/https://blockwork...
Eh. He's learned the lesson from Gates, that enough money can buy you into heaven, regardless of your past (or present) sins.
> It's optimistic about debuggers understanding non-C-like calling conventions which I'd expect to be an abject failure, regardless of what dwarf might be able to encode.

DWARF doesn't encode bespoke calling conventions at all today.
Lara could make radical changes if he wanted to, but ever since the court sided with him twice against the FAIR association, the insurance companies have sort of gone to war against him.
The C calling convention kind of sucks. True, can't change the C calling convention, but that doesn't make it any less unfortunate.

We should use every available caller-saved register for arguments and return values, but in the traditional SysV ABI, we use only one register (sometimes two) for return values. If you return a struct Point3D { long x, y, z }, you spill the stack even though we could damned well put Point3D in rax, rdi, and rsi.

There are other tricks other systems use. For example, if I recall correctly, in SBCL, functions set the carry flag on exit if they're returning multiple values. Wouldn't it be nice if we used the carry flag in indicate, e.g. whether a Result contains an error.
The thing you should know is that in QFT, the concept of a particle is a bit different. A particle is a localized excitation of a quantum field. A quantum field is like a bucket of water, and a a particle is a bit like a propagating wave that you can create that travels "on the field" but it's "made of the field".

A mass of a particle tells you how hard you need to hit the field to create this elementary excitation. And this is where the analogy breaks, since a classical field doesn't have this "quantization" of energy, you can create arbitrarily small waves. Whereas in a quantum field, there's a minimum energy that you need to put to excite it and make an electron show up, and that is the mass. It also acts a bit like the (inverse) width of the wave - the higher the mass the smaller the width and thus the more spacially localized it is.

Technically the statement that all electrons are the same is the "correct" one, because technically there's only one "state of the electron field" which is described by a bunch of excitations here and there. So the total mass (or more precisely, the energy state that the field occupies) is actually a huge mess that happens to be easily factorizeable into a bunch of localized states. This is only possible because interactions are extremely weak and thus we can just "sum the electrons". But if all of a sudden the electron charge were to become massive, to the point where electrons would start interacting at much bigger distances, the concept of individual electrons would start to become complicated and we'd need to think about them in some other way (like what happens with quarks and gluons)
The Fed cannot fix this.

It is illegal to build dense housing. Car-centric suburbia is fiscally unsustainable and people are feeling the effects via rent. See San Fran and Miami for ground zero.
> This is missing the caller/called save distinction and makes the usual error of assigning a subset of the input registers to output.

Out of curiosity, what's so problematic about using some input registers as output registers? On the caller's side, you'd want to vacate the output registers between any two function calls regardless. And it occurs pretty widely in syscall conventions, to my binary-golfing detriment.

Is it for the ease of the callee, so that it can set up the output values while keeping the input values in place? That would suggest trying to avoid overlap (by placing the output registers at the end of the input sequence), but I don't see how it would totally contraindicate any overlap.
Thanks for the link I just tested them and they also weark in europe without the need to start a VPN. What specs are needed to run these models. I mean the llama 70B and the Wizard 8Bx22 model.
On your site they run very nicely and the answears they provide are really good they booth passed my small test and I would love to run one of them locally.
So far I only ran 8B models on my 16GB RAM pc using LM Studio but having such good models run locally would be awesome.
I would upgrade my ram for that. My pc has an 3080 laptop GPU and I can increase the RAM to 64GB. As I understood it a 70B model needs around 64 GB but maybe only if it quantized. Can you confirm that? Can I run Llama 3 as well as you when I simply upgrade my RAM sticks. Or are you running it on a cloud and you can't say much about the requirements for windows pc users? Or do you have hardware usage data for all the models on your site and you can tell us what they need to run?
Another read on calculus is The Calculus: A Generic Approach by Otto Toeplitz. It goes through a similar process that I enjoyed.

https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/C/bo548572...
> Inspiration has to come from within you, just like discipline and motivation.

My experience tells me that this is quite a male way of looking at things. How many times have you heard "we need representation" from women, whether it be in films or board rooms or elsewhere. They're telling us something, role models matter more to them, for whatever reason. (In general, of course.)

If we could find out why some people need role models more then perhaps they could be helped to find that inspiration regardless of there being a role model available or not.
https://calculusmadeeasy.org/

The link isn’t to the front page with his name.
Probably not a big downside, although it might make fewer single family units available to rent. But it really is a supply issue. Those bills, like the one from my Senator here in Oregon, Merkley, tend to be about singling out single family units as worthy of protection as "nice" housing for "families", which in its own small way contributes to the notion of denser, multifamily housing as being... not quite up to the same standard, if that makes sense.

More than anything, we need more housing supply in more places, and high insurance rates make that tricky because they're actually hurting multifamily construction quite a bit. It's sort of a vicious circle.

In lieu of that kind of housing, some reforms that would help are things like eliminating burdensome parking regulations and reducing minimum lot sizes, like Houston did to spur a lot of "gentle density" infill housing. Those sorts of incremental changes might help out some smaller developers who don't need huge loans.
LLMs are experts at everything except what the user is an expert in.
Why Ukraine Is Losing the War
Aristotle talks about gluttony in his book about ethics. He mentions a Greek gourmand who fervently wished to have the neck of a crane, since he felt that swallowing is the most pleasurable part of eating.
Individually, they're not obscene - but they are leaders of many, many organizations at the same time. If they make an income from each of these positions, I think it would add up pretty fast.

For example, according to her linkedin, the CEO of WWC is also the Strategic Advisor of a banking company, an Advisory Board Member of 3 organizations including a university, and a Principal (?) of some LLC. Simultaneously.
Pagers are typically unidirectional. So a client's inability to transmit back an ACK deep inside a building is not a constraint. Just crank up the broadcast power on the network side.
This taught me Calculus! It’s fantastic and if you need to learn calculus this was better than any teacher I ever had.
Modeling societal demise and reversal
But this explanation has nothing to do with fields. It is the idea that all the electrons are literally the same particle.
"Comparing with, for example, Girls Who Code (https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/300...), the compensation does not seem to be excessive."

Maybe things aren't excessive compared to others. But a better question might be what should comp look like for non-profits?
Most housing market intervention is at the local level (where there needs to be much less). Federal government has several levers through which they can subsidize supply creation which they should use. At the local level people wll have to fight one by one to get things built
Agree about dense housing, but a lot of that means more expensive builds: if you want to build a 5-over-1 with commercial on the ground floor, that's great, but the construction loan you need to do that is going to be $$$$ right now.
I work on open source projects, I use ChatGPT and Copilot. I've yet to see any convincing argument why I shouldn't use advanced auto-complete to do my job faster, or how copying and pasting from StackOverflow (while using adblockers) is fine but copying and pasting from ChatGPT is evil.
> Why is no one serious about low end electric cars in North America.

Because no one bought them.

The Chevy Bolt was the best value EV in the world for a while. It was a good price for decent range. Even better value used. Its main weakness was slow DC charging:

https://www.caranddriver.com/chevrolet/bolt-ev

They've stopped production of the original Bolt. It's supposed to be coming back as a new model based on GM's Ultium battery platform:

https://electrek.co/2024/02/28/gms-new-bolt-ev-save-billions...
>Why/when do you downvote?

I dont have the ability to downvote. I'm not sure I would if I did, who cares about imaginary points.

I wish I could at least edit my posts and improve upon my grammar and spelling or make my posts clearer. Though it does seem my comments get deleted sometimes.

I'm autistic, so I'm overly blunt or whatever and I tend to draw hate.

>I find places with moderators and/or downvote schemes (HN, Reddit, Discord) extremely difficult to understand and survive long-term.

Oh yes, you'll find there's significant brigading on HN worse then Reddit. You'll be + score for hours and then all of a sudden -10 in under a minute. You'll find people will go to your previous posts and downvote everything they can. Your karma score will drop suddenly.

I'm -4 on this post for example? Hardly worth downvoting.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40075630

Though yes, I seemed to have hit a bees nest on my TSMC comments and so people are downvoting everything of mine.

> It's in some ways worse than other forms of embarrassment because it's your very intelligence and ideas etched in stone as "bad take" forever to the public.

We have a problem online that is probably best described by echo chambers but it's a bit wider then that subject.

People are accustomed to never hearing any viewpoint but their own. Confirmation bias 100%, blocked! filtered! So when they see a comment that doesnt fully align with them... they don't stop at downvoting that one comment, they have to downvote all your recent comments.

>Does HN benefit from downvotes in a way that flagging does not and cannot address? If you don't downvote, answer why you upvote - I'm really curious about the reward system here, what it means and is all about. Why people like and dislike certain kinds of content here.

I also never upvote. Not sure how you do that, I assume I'm restricted from doing so? I was told long while back that since I get downvoted so much on so many of my comments that I'm tagged and soft shadow banned because of my low quality content.
You’re continuing to argue based on your predilections. I’m using wide ranging academic studies. Your experiences are not relevant to the discussion because you’re not bothering to evaluate your experiences in the context of the literature. Bad faith is looking likely, low effort is certain.
A wise man once said: "'ere."