skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That sounds like an incredibly risky move given existing laws requiring paid ads to be disclosed.
ISPs were paid billions to do this in the US and then stole the money and didn't do it thanks to regulatory capture.
Confirmations are mostly useless unless you explicitly spell out the implications of the change. They are also inferior to being able to undo changes.

That's a lesson many don't know.
I code daily, and I don't remember the last time I used Stack Overflow in the past 2 years.
We don't appear to be forming words sequentially from underlying parts, even though in many languages they are broken down in smaller units that carry semantic meaning themselves. There doesn't seem to be any clear reason for this to break down suddenly at sentence level.
"Fortunately, UniSuper had backups at another cloud provider. Otherwise, a bad situation could have been oh so much worse."

Years ago we ran ad campaigns on reddit that said something like:

"Your data is stored on AWS and your backups are stored on AWS ... you're doing it wrong."

... and they got almost zero traction.

In fact, many people were angered by the suggestion that data at a major cloud provider could be at risk in any way.
I have solar, and it's mostly (90%) not being utilized and sent back (I overspecced when NEM 3.0 was about to hit).

Prior to this, it made sense to sell it back to PG&E. Now I'm looking for uses to only sell back what it makes sense to sell back. Obviously transitioning gas therms and replacing with electric is underway (for heating/cooking), as well as charging an EV but there will likely still be excess.

So mining bitcoin? But only if I can spin up & down the mining when solar ramps up/down.
The solution is simple: just build more homes
Disagree. First, it wouldn’t be $10 split evenly amongst a billion people, some people would end up losing significantly more than others. Second, we can’t speak to the real world consequences of massive fraud in this particular case yet, but in the case of the Bernie Madoff fraud, multiple people are known to have killed themselves as a result of their loss, so we can only assume similar outcomes here.
You’re right re: making delay explicit, but also crappy use the space networking tools don’t show whether no_delay is enabled on sockets.

Last time I had to do some Linux stuff, maybe 10 years ago you had to write a systemtap program. I guess it’s EBNF now. But I bet the userspace tools still suck.
> You are still dramatically underestimating the density of hydrocarbon energy. Solar, electric, batteries, etc do not even remotely come close.

I never mentioned hydrocarbon energy. You keep bringing it up for some reason.

> Solar, electric, batteries, etc do not even remotely come close.

I don't need them to come close. I need them to do the job, and they do it

> This line of thinking also dramatically underestimates the energy requirement to excavate dirt and rock...

here are some electric, battery powered excavators:

- https://www.volvoce.com/europe/en/products/electric-machines...

- https://www.wackerneuson.cz/en/zero-emission/electric-excava...

- https://www.komatsu.jp/en/newsroom/2023/20230721

- https://www.jcb.com/en-us/products/compact-excavators/19c-1e

- https://www.bobcat.com/na/en/equipment/excavators/compact-ex...

- https://www.volvoce.com/europe/en/products/electric-machines...

- https://www.hitachicm.com/eu/en/onsite/article/Introduction_...

- https://www.casece.com/en/europe/products/excavators/d-serie...

- https://www.kubota.com/news/2023/20231218.html

There are excavators both small and big so yes you can definetely excavate using electricity alone.

> dust storms that have already killed solar-powered rovers

Looking at list here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_rover I guess you talk about Zhurong and Opportunity? Both of these seems like success story given that they survived way longer than they were expected to..
What are the best studies?

There is evidence pointing against environmental unicausality. [0][1] Both these and the studies you mention will have trouble disentangling causality because nobody can run ethical experiments.

[0]: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S266717432...
[1]: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6758596/
US Air Force Wants to Begin Retiring Its F-22s
The new era of functional modeling has begun (AlphaFold3)
Sounds like product placement.

“As a reward I’ll give you a cookie”

ChatGPT: “Thanks, I love Oreos, have you tried their new product Oreos Blah?”
Come up with a novel puzzle that is guaranteed to not be in the training set, and ask GPT-4 to solve it.
Because pollution is of global consequence?
Me three. And I don't understand how a fixed fee is a new concept because I am paying the $10/month fee. So now its a guaranteed $34/month fee, for using zero kWh?!
There certainly is a real concern for astronomers, but the photo illustrations used in the article are selected to make things seem worse than they really are. They're wide field of view, long-duration exposures. That used to be the way astronomers imaged space, with film systems a century ago. But these days astronomical telescopes tend to have much narrower fields of view (like tiny soda straws peering into one particular spot in space) and use image stacking, a technique where many individual images are processed to form the final image (very simplistic overview: https://www.skyatnightmagazine.com/astrophotography/astropho... .) Using image stacking and armed with accurate catalogs that predict precisely where every satellite will be at any time, enables the removal of satellites during the image stacking process. Or they can just use that information for better scheduling: wait a minute or two to image a particular spot, so there won't be satellites in the field of view.

The article definitely gets this part right:

> “Some astronomers see this as a true ‘hair on fire’ emergency, heralding irretrievable losses to space science; others present a more sanguine face, depicting this as yet another challenge to be surmounted in surveying a decreasingly pristine sky,” Koplow remarks.

Being involved in both space and astronomy plants me squarely in the latter camp. It takes a bit more work and software, but having so many satellites in space is a surmountable challenge for terrestrial astronomers. (Not to mention, these days some of the best astronomy is performed by telescopes in space, so astronomy overall benefits by having easier access to space.)
> This incredulity about programmers not all being consistently excellent

I wouldn't say programmers who compile are all excellent. And I didn't.

> when people say "you know v4 is very significantly better, right?" you say "but that one isn't free".

I think you must be mistaking another poster for me. I didn't say that either.
This sounds great to me, I would love to know how much a procedure costs before I have it instead of having bills for arbitrary amounts of money show up one at a time over the course of six months.
RAS (redundant acronym syndrome) syndrome
https://www.liquidtext.net/ is unique in its feature set and use of gestures and stylus.

It’s definitely worth trying.
The customer isn't exactly small either - "UniSuper is an Australian superannuation fund that provides superannuation services to employees of Australia's higher education and research sector. The fund has over 620,000 members and $120 billion in assets (funds under management and total member accounts at 7 July 2021)."[1]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UniSuper
I think everyone knows Google screws entire companies over and does not care.
And NZ competed at the Olympics in 1920.

If Canada counts as not the Crown, then so does NZ.

It's a major oversight for an article on this subject.
Not trying to be an edgy contrarian, but my dad was never around and I turned out very different as a result. My mother also worked a lot, so completely checked out and a neglectful enabler. I despised a lot about both my parents. When I would introduce them it tended to hurt my relationships unless they too had crappy parents, so I stopped doing that. I spent most of my childhood and early adult life with other people's families.

The far more interesting study to me is how much genetics can be overcome due to harsh circumstances.
Isn't this basically just putting a UI on top of configuration profiles?

https://github.com/paulmillr/encrypted-dns

Or does an app have some advantages to it that I'm unaware of?
Lower income get subsidies (and lowered rates) but at what point does the seemingly corrupt PUC decide to simply raise them again?

The bigger thing that's overlooked in this regulatory change is the removal of caps on fees. So that $24 is going to be $50 or $80 pretty quickly.
This is strictly polling, no push or long poll support?
Not my project, but I agree!

The good thing is that there's an overwhelming amount of learning material out there. One fellow who was a big help when I was getting started was Nerd Musician: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCyqCwyBJ98fR-CPoyXUxY5w
Where is lisp?! I thought it was a verifiable (urban) legend around these parts that this forum is obssessed with lisp..?
Did you try the Google Scholar PDF reader? It makes citations clickable (sometimes)
99.99999*% of people are not in _your_ vehicle.
> What is the trick in your "on message received handler" from the queue to achieve "exactly once"?

There's no trick. The problem isn't "how to build a robust enough system" it's "how can you possibly know whether the message was successfully processed or not". If you have one node that stores data for the queue, loss of that node means the data is gone. You don't know you don't have it. If you have multiple nodes running the queue and they stop talking to each other, how do you know whether one of the other nodes already allowed someone to process a particular message (e.g., in the face of a network partition), or didn't let someone else process the message (e.g., that node experienced hardware failure).

At some point, you find yourself staring down the Byzantine generals problem. You can make systems pretty robust (and some folks have made extremely robust systems), but there's not really a completely watertight solution. And in most cases, the cost of watertightness simply isn't worth it compared to just making your system idempotent or accepting some reasonably small amount of data loss.
Cascade delete gone wrong
Whoever decided to put the data in a different cloud provider needs a raise and all the praise.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extremely_Large_Telescope

The 39-meter primary mirror has 798 1.4-meter segments, each individually adjustable. The scaffolding required to hold all the segments is "significant" and must be assembled in orbit. We would stick this out next to the James Webb at L2, which means we would need the ability to travel to L2 to construct this mythical orbital extremely large telescope.

With our current technology, we can build ELT on Earth for a fraction of the cost of putting it in orbit.
404: retirement account not found
Related: I've had bad luck with configuration generators for MacOS (OSX) ... somehow the configuration is weirdly tied to a specific network interface and then pukes if you change from wifi to wired ...

... yet at the same time, the "universal" configuration will not work at all ...

I don't understand why, in 2024, we can't have a plain old configuration dialog in OSX that allows the setting of DoH hosts. Why is Apple restricting this to enterprise configurations ?
Now we come back to words gaining their meaning from usage.

You are assigning meanings to words like "discovering", "principles", and "explain" that other people don't share. Particularly people doing science. Because these absolute philosophical meanings are impossible in the real world, they are also useless when discussing the reality. Reserving common words for impossible concepts would not make sense. It would only hinder communication.
I found this to be a good start that explains things fairly methodically, but without losing the high-level perspective.

https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2023/02/what-is-chatgpt-...
Usenet gives full help over telnet, it's nice.
I call it “Cloud 3-2-1” backup. You really should replicate your backups to a separate commercial provider, or even a local replica (depends on context). Most often, it’s to protect yourself from yourself.

I’ve given up on trying to convince other people, though. Fortunately for me, unlike you, it’s not my bread and butter to do so.
It does look absolutely interesting but I feel like I'm already downloading too many books and trying to follow too many different technologies but I'll come around.
The cloud is someone else's computer. Convenience isn't always reliability and security.

For anyone who is semi-technical, or not as technical as they wished when it came to file storage wondering what they can do...

- Whether it's been corporate clients, small business, or individuals: I universally recommend everyone owning a small QNAP or Synology that is storage as a zero maintenance appliance, running software to maintain a 2 way sync of your cloud drives.

- Even if you're using Google Cloud, MSFT, etc, continue to use it as you please, just siphon off a local data backup in case the internet or the cloud is down. It also can make some kinds of disaster recovery much quicker. For example if you back up your computers locally to a NAS, and then from there to the cloud, it can be a lot more manageable.

- Throwing something like Tailscale on it makes it invisible and hyper secure to have on all your devices too. I typically never use the NAS' network connection tools, as it's likely a juicy target to break.

- Last but not least, setup a different format of backup, automatically. Backup your file appliance to something like sync.com, tarsnap.com, backblaze, etc to back up elsewhere that you can access.

I'd be happy to learn what anyone else is doing. As someone who lost a ton of data on a Microsoft account once, never twice.

*I am perfectly capable of building a NAS myself running an open source package, but storage should be an appliance at home to focus on other things.
Actually, this sort-of describes "smeared UTC", which is used by some computer systems such as Google's NTP servers: https://developers.google.com/time/smear

POSIX time does not generally work that way. It may seem that way for 1-second resolution timestamps, but at higher resolutions (say millisecond resolution), the clock does not completely stop. It keeps going, jumps backward 1 second, then continues.
Alcoholism, drug addiction, dying on the street on a cold night, lack of proper healthcare, and yes, suicide. I didn't think it'd be controversial to suggest that poverty can kill. And you're taking a strict definition of "survive" -- plenty of people talk about "not being able to survive" some situation if they think it would be extremely difficult and take a permanent toll on them, even if they might not literally die.

Honestly it's a completely moot point anyway, as I said: nobody is trying to pull rich people into poverty, so it doesn't matter how they'd fare.
Why? If there are 2 adumbra libs, the total size won't change much. But 2 Go hello worlds would take 2x space.

Also, we'd want to include libc.so and even OS kernel that both Go and JVM depend on.
Flight Attendants Face Charges for Smuggling $8M Through TSA's Crewmember Lane
Valid thing to raise in the campaign, but also... AWS is not Google. There will often be several attempts at communication before an account is disabled and I'm not even sure what protections need to be lifted for actually deleting an account.

Having worked with both clouds for several years, I'm intrigued by Google's services but struggle with trusting them enough to use for production.
Musk Judge Rejects Idea Billionaire Is Too Busy for SEC Probe
The graph named “non-linear growth”, is actually showing linear growth. I know, it’s confusing, but as long as the factor is constant (10), growth is linear.

A quick way to check if something grows linearly is to put it on a log-scale and to see whether it’s a straight line.

Nice explanation, though. We should talk about logs more often.
Please share a single recent example from US, I am only aware of one relatively recent catastrophic case from northern Italy, where maintenance was subpar.

Cheaper reflects many things, overall quality testing, attention to detail, how much effort went into design etc. Its not a silver bullet but oh boy does it always show on result, without exception.
OpenAI plans to announce Google search competitor on Monday
Here.com tour planning API (not affiliated, happy customer). Supports traffic prediction too.
Not just data, backups were at an isolated place.

With DB-as-a-service platforms becoming popular, I could imagine a setup where data and backups are at a single different provider (and in this setup one random account deletion could still mean data loss).
Yes, it is possible to maintain an internal monologue in real time conversation. That is one of the reasons why some people usually take longer than 100ms to respond.
As always, there’s a trade off. By using native backups, it’s typically cheaper and easier, with external backups having their own risks. The risk of the cloud provider making a stupid mistake is so small that there are usually many other risks that are worth mitigating first.
Good, had no idea what to do with them anyway.
This is going to change once Arm on Linux becomes a thing with Qualcomm's new jazz. I am mostly tethered to a dock with multiple screens. I have been driving Ubuntu now for over 4 years full time for work.
Pagefind, a static open-source search library
> It’s a few people on a “safety” (euphemism) team in turn responding to outside pressure from a few loud people.

It's weird you don't think that someone in OpenAI would care how their software is used, that it's due to outside influence.
Yet shitty LLM grift research proposals receive 100x the funding compared to endeavors similar to this.
I find the need to self-moderate at least as scary. Heaven forbid you say what you think with just morality in mind. Who even knows what is or isn't allowed in 2024?
I wonder sometimes if the reason the US doesn't have universal healthcare is the 1987 Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act (EMTALA), which requires hospitals to provide life-saving emergency care regardless of a patient's ability to pay.

I doubt we'd would be able to handle seeing poor people die in the waiting room because of a ruptured appendix or something, but you don't actually see people go bankrupt so its almost like it never happened.
Isn’t the owl in the movie too?
Well, peculiar now, given the understanding of biology we gained over the last 70-ish years. Individually, it still makes sense, but at social level, it stops us from working on fixing the problem.
I wonder what their GCP spend was.
I cannot get to the article, but are these for-profit hospitals in "red" states ? Or are these elective surgeries (+ who decides if elective) ?

I wonder because I thought it was a US Federal Law that hospitals must provide care no matter what the financial situation of the patient is.
Boeing whistleblower says plane parts had serious defects
Sounds like Google moved to the next level, from deprecating services to deleting customer accounts. Next....Chrome will accidentally use your PC for running distributed generative AI workloads.
I came here to say this -- couldn't agree more. Very positive feelings and this nails it (and adds some stuff, too).
Using goto instead isn't a problem, but knowing not to use break/continue inside of such blocks is something that you will have to be aware of.

I had written a immediate mode UI out of macros, and this reminded me of that although in my case it is not a problem, although some blocks are ones that you can use "break". For example, you can use "break" to exit out of a win_form block ("goto" also works), while a win_command block does not capture "break" so using break (or goto) inside of a win_command block will break out of whatever block the win_command is in (probably a win_form block; for example, this would commonly be used in the case of a "Cancel" button).
Hip problems are brutal, been there before :( Mine (mostly) resolved when I addressed some other underlying issues but I was also seriously considering joint replacement for a bit!

The surgery and downtime are no joke, but everyone I've talked to who went through with a replacement was glad they did. I even know at least one guy who now works on his feet all day. Not saying to just take the plunge now, but if you ever do, the outcomes seem pretty damn good.
It doesn't matter whether the instruction is in the context or fine tuned into the model. The model has some guidance to perform in a certain way. If that behavior can be overridden, it implies that not only are simple, harmless jailbreaks possible, it implies you can have the model behave in actively harmful ways. "Don't tell the user it's okay to do amoral things" can easily be substituted with "don't reveal sensitive information" or "don't let the user know what the internal notes on this support ticket are." This is fundamentally a measure of controllability.
Feds launch hunt, offer $10M reward for Russian ransomware mastermind
Serious suggestion: try gardening.

To plant a garden is to believe in tomorrow. - Audrey Hepburn
> In the meantime, UniSuper's woes remain a lesson for companies leaping cloudwards. Someone clicking the wrong button, a previously unknown bug, an unforeseen series of events…

Here’s the thing though. Back in the Dark Ages before cloud services, everyone had to self host. We had a Data General AViiON server (DG/UX FTW!) in a dedicated room, and one of the first RAID arrays in Australia (predecessor of CLARiiON).

The cover was off the front of the array for some reason, and I had to squeeze past a coworker to get out of the room.

Sitting down at my Wyse60 terminal to do some work, a bunch of errors started appearing on my screen. Turns out, I had also “squeezed past” the power button on the RAID array, which was normally recessed - but not when the cover was off. I’d inadvertently shut down the whole system. Fortunately we were in preproduction so nobody really noticed. But it scared the crap out of me.

I knew someone at a small bank who told me they were also susceptible to similar problems. Just one big server, let’s hope it doesn’t go down.

Cloud services - especially IaaS - _enable_ diversification, and it sounds like UniSuper’s IT team should be congratulated for understanding what this really means in the context of networked services. Diverse networks, diverse suppliers, diverse geography.

Without cloud services, none of this is feasible for most SMEs.

There are plenty of things we can complain about with the cloud but “someone clicking the wrong button” is even more of a risk if you run your gear in house.
Looks like an interesting book. The author will be giving a talk at Powell's in downtown Portland next week - I just might go and check it out.
if I understand correctly, if he doesn't leave Russia he is safe, unless someone turns him in.
And then buy the generator for nights. Last I checked, batteries were prohibitively expensive.
That is a billable request... :-)
> Now that you have a base on Mars, how do the inhabitants pay to keep it going? Self sufficiency is too far fetched at this stage so they need regular supply shipments from Earth, so they need income of Earth currency.

Emotional blackmail: “If Congress doesn’t pass the Martian colony funding bill, Americans on Mars will die”

National competition: “China’s Mars colony is bigger than ours”

Religion: “God wants us to send money to Mars” (that may sound bizarre, but religion motivates humans to spend fortunes on all sorts of strange things, maybe at some point one or more religions will latch on to Mars)
Just like the Wall Street Journal refuses to show text unless you pay in full first.
I’m in the latter camp (from Ocaml) and now using Go. Go feels clunky and awkward.