skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, for the sake of
argument, let’s say the federal government prints all of the money the state would need for an endowment and hands it to the state. There is inflation, but the state never has to collect taxes again.

I think there are some small optimizations we can make to this flow though, like what if the feds who printed the money held the endowment for the state and just distributed payments, instead of letting each state manage its own endowment.

Pretty much the same? Inflation, but no taxes.
It mapped very well to HW, but only to dumbest part of the hw.

at least from pov of someone dabbling in SDNs around 2014-2017 including deep guts implementation details of one commercial one...

OpenFlow encoded the approach of dumb ethernet switches, combined with Cisco Express Forwarding - which is a common aspect of many switching ASICs, but not entirety of them, even for Cisco.

It never abstracted that historic aspect, if anything the leaking was the internal model of OpenFlow (editing forwarding table) rather than internals HW (which sometimes was a systolic array of CPUs that exposed "tables" as detail of interaction but nothing actually fundamental).

All was fine so long, like CEF, you dumped everything to CPU/northbound API outside "IP with this address should go there, and TCP flow with those parameters go there", in case of early openflow bejbf essentially "packet with dstMAC shall go to port X".

This does not work well with acceleration engines, or in beefier chips the aforementioned systolic arrays or similar arrangements, outside of hardcoding idea of specific accelerators and their interface tables.
Looks like they've quietly (?) deprecated the hobby plan too. Getting 3 instances a month for free was probably too good to be true forever..
BM42: New Baseline for Hybrid Search
The biggest thing for me with maps is the refusal to allow multiple tabs on phone.

If you're the passenger on a road trip and doing the navigation you're unable to use maps to make plans for tonight or tomorrow.

Okay the driver could be nav, but now they also need to be the music, and everytime you the passenger wants to use it to look for petrol on route or change music you have to ask their code or hold it up to their face. Plus now you see all their notifications.

Even without being on a road trip, on a desktop i'd be making plans in multiple tabs before making a decision. On a phone it's a nightmare when it could be so easy.
Well, the differences between western cultures are less pronounced, but I do think that knowing, say, Chinese etiquette when meeting mainland Chinese people is essential to not come across accidentally as rude. There are significant differences there, and natural body language does differ with culture.

Nonetheless, I agree with your general point/sentiment.
If this is true in general, it might have been a factor in why the scientific and technological 'revolutions' of the so-called Enlightenment occurred in the West.
1) Not all surgeons save lives

2) Not everyone can be a doctor

We can all find meaning in our own work.
Yeah I know about git-annex. It might be good solution for big data. In my case, I do NOT want to decouple storage from metadata. I want single repo for single project that is self-contained. Easier to manage, its truly distributed. No need to bother w/ backups because every replica have everything allready. Its good model for several GBs of data.
How has Flys reliability been as of late? From past discussions I got the impression that despite it being quite polished on the surface, behind the scenes their operations are a bit of a mess.

e.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36808296

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39365735
He did write an essay [0]. Because it was very short and not deeply insightful due to such length, he wrote a longer book talking about the concepts.

[0] https://nickbostrom.com/views/superintelligence.pdf
Having never used Shipt, I also find that part unclear:

> Target… offered same-day delivery from local stores. Those deliveries were made by Shipt workers, who shopped for the items and drove them to customers’ doorsteps. Business was booming… and yet workers found that their paychecks had become… unpredictable. They were doing the same work they’d always done, yet their paychecks were often less than they expected.

Edit:

> On Facebook and Reddit, workers compared notes. Previously, they’d known what to expect from their pay because Shipt had a formula: It gave workers a base pay of $5 per delivery plus 7.5 percent of the total amount of the customer’s order through the app. That formula allowed workers to look at order amounts and choose jobs that were worth their time. But Shipt had changed the payment rules without alerting workers. When the company finally issued a press release about the change, it revealed only that the new pay algorithm paid workers based on “effort,” which included factors like the order amount, the estimated amount of time required for shopping, and the mileage driven.
Ehm, it's the opposite: kanban was the ancient Toyoda system to produce mechanical parts in Toyota factories. Scrum is a way to adapt such model to the commercial IT.

Both are used by nazi ignorant management who fails to comprehend the difference between a factory that mass produce already designed and tested parts vs the production of software.
There are some Facebook groups, but I sold a lot of what I had through craigslist. Ultimately, I had to give away half of my collection because no one was really interested in vintage Apple hardware and computers. It's a tight market.
It would be better if the compiler could take the async code and transform it automatically to its sans io equivalent.
Doing it manually seems error prone and makes it much harder to understand what the code is doing.
Great feedback. I have updated the post using convolve instead. There is a huge difference convolve/naive. On the other hand, convolved is slower than the FFT as expected, but for greater than 3000 degree polynomials or so.
See diff: https://github.com/alrevuelta/myblog/commit/9fcc3dc84b1d9b66...
I'm sorry to say but I'm very much burned out already. It all went well for a while after switching jobs, but the lockdowns and remote work ruined what was left of my life. My friends noted that they don't miss me, my company switched to completely remote etc. I can now only sleep and work, I can't even think of anything else anymore.

I did put that behind me after switching jobs.

My initial outlook and attitude on professional life was that I need to try hard and stay positive and help everyone. I expected other people to work for common goals, put their own goals aside, and be friendly. As in school, that mostly lead to abuse. I'm only advocating against trying too hard because I've hurt myself with it.

As a child, I was taught to go the extra mile, work in a sustainable manner and never blame anyone. At work, I have never refused to work on a problem because it's not my fault or someone else would be a better fit for it - and that makes me a very good scapegoat and a fine target for impossible requests.

Guess what happened? I'm right now stuck with a person who is asking daily for something I have explained to be impossible, and does not accept my answer. So he asks again. I have no idea what to do.

I can't set boundaries or take care of myself, so I'm a bad employee and a bad person who doesn't try enough. Great.
>> I’m also noticing a lack of literature on Perl on the command line, I.e “perl -nae <some script>”.

Searching for 'perl one liners' and the related term 'perl golf' gives many articles and books:

https://www.perl.com/article/perl-one-liners-part-1/

https://www.perl.com/article/perl-one-liners-part-2/

https://catonmat.net/perl-one-liners-explained-part-one

https://catonmat.net/perl-one-liners-explained-part-two

https://catonmat.net/perl-one-liners-explained-part-three

https://catonmat.net/perl-one-liners-explained-part-four

https://catonmat.net/perl-one-liners-explained-part-five

https://catonmat.net/perl-one-liners-explained-part-six

https://catonmat.net/perl-one-liners-explained-part-seven

http://novosial.org/perl/one-liner/

https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/perl-one-liners/9781457...
> Add in monocular cues of depth perception like motion parallax and lighting, and you get a startling level of presence, especially if viewers can’t move.

Sounds like they're talking about the same thing. :)
He did not literally ask for this, actually.
you can be very hard working on things that aren't your day job.

As I'm writing these words, an aspiring musician is probably sleepwalking through his day job because he was up all night practicing his music.

Or Paul Graham, when he talks about writing the book On Lisp during his time at Interleaf [0]

[0] https://paulgraham.com/worked.html
Indeed, updated: https://github.com/alrevuelta/myblog/commit/9fcc3dc84b1d9b66...

Thanks for the feedback.
Had a friend that went there, a couple of months ago. He had the cheap seats, even though he could have easily afforded the VIP.

He said it was amazing.

Like the early IMAX, though, I'll bet making media for this sucker will be eye-wateringly expen$ive.
That is probably what it will take for me to finally understand Calasso's The Ruin of Kasch.
Game routing is not remotely similar to real world routing. Neither in scale, nor in other aspects like road traffic or incorporation of human preferences.

In any case, I'm not suggesting it's impossible, just costlier than people imagine when they ask for the feature.
"I dont know anything about politics" ... "activity I can possibly imagine at the highest level of politics."

So you don't know what you're talking about and you're just making up scenarios in your head?
Host here, thanks for sharing.

PowerShell faced extreme opposition at Microsoft, and its creator Jeffrey Snover was demoted for pursuing it.

Jeffrey was originally brought into Microsoft to help MS learn how to compete in the data center, but culturally they were so tied to the personal computer model of the world, that they fought him every step of the way.

Edit: Another interesting thing, is how Powershell exists because Windows isn't file based. Jeffrey's goal was server administration, but on Windows you can't just edit files to administer things, you need to call various APIs and get structured data back forth. The rich object model fell out of that. It was the only way.

( Also, apologies if the transcript has errors. I've gone from professional transcriptions to Descript and then a pass of GPT4 trying to find the right punctation breaks and then me doing a quick read through. I don't think its coming out as high quality as I'd like. )
Waze sort-of does this, it tries to keep you moving by taking lots of left turns and side streets. I hate it :).
What do you mean by "not in working condition". I use it frequently and it just works. The little development on the project is probably due to it's age. I'm pretty sure we were using Spiderfoot when BackTrack was still around.
Is it? It would be super cool if we did know, but is it bad if we don't? I am genuinely asking what we lose by not knowing.

I was talking to my mom yesterday about my immigrant grandparents and great-grandparents. I realized a lot of the details are irrecoverable. But I struggled to find a reason why that mattered.
Relatively cheap vservers (GER hoster, now with DC in VA)
We've been using their products in Germany for a while now and they do their job just fine. I've been on the lookput for a similarly priced hoster in the US a while back and couldn't find one. Today netcup announced they are opening a data center in Virgina, so thought it might be worth sharing. I've no affiliation with netcup in any way (other than being a customer for years now).
I don't think training materials would be necessary. YMMV. Most people get and appreciate the threading model.

Clients could be improved, I guess. Myself, I use a self-improved version of Tass that I originally got with a copy of Coherent (a UNIX Version 7 clone) around 1991. It uses an ncurses 'gui' which I admit I have thought of upgrading from time to time so that it uses a real GUI such as GTK.

However it works well enough, and though I suppose it could do with improving, it works well enough that I can't be bothered spending the time to debug/rewrite it.

My main thrust is that most people have never heard of Usenet and what it is capable of.
There's a castle in France, near Dijon, in which one wall, about eight meters high and five wide, is covered with a detailed map of all the area that belonged to that castle at one point in time. It was so detailed you had to stand close to it, two or three feet, to read it. I have never seen so much information in one map.
Not Broadcom, but Microchip has list prices straight on their website (how refreshing!), and yeah few hundred bucks sounds about right; for example this random 128Gbps switch chip is about $120 in single quantities, $80 in volume

https://www.microchip.com/en-us/product/vsc7552#purchase-fro...

It feels bit bonkers that a actual switch based on that probably costs thousands.

The software side is crap as usual. They sell their Linux-based package at $75000, with maintenance (basically updates) at $17500.

So even though the chip is cheap, you need to burn six figures to do anything with them :(
Philosophy is not all about hypotheticals. Philosophy of technology especially is mostly about technologies that already exist and their impact on society. Not speculation.
Not one of those reasons constitutes a valid excuse. Holy cow.

"Surely in a hotly competitive market" there is no need to hypothesise about what "surely" would happen according to some wishful thinking. We know from countless past observation exactly what happens in any market of low skill low investment labor, wages go straight to the level of the most desperate willing to be slaves and make nothing at all, because there always are enough of those for everyone else to take advantage of, and having no money they have no power to demand better. They can't afford lawyers and ad campaigns and lobbyists and politicians, and they can't afford to strike, and that same wonderful magic market means there is no one better to work for, all employers are essentially the same. Unions and strikes do exist, some places where they are allowed to, and it's always a big news story and a miracle when they actually accomplish even 10% of what they needed to once in a blue moon.
I think this has more to do with budget. In many countries, professors are not paid specifically to write books, but if no proper book exists in the local language then they sort of have to do it one way or another. It usually ends up as some hodgepodge document, each chapter written by a different professor - whose are experts at their fields, but not at book writing!, which is a specific skill. Some or better at it, others absolutely suck. Then they just print it some way without any lecturing, unification of styles, references and use it as the course book, because they were sorta forced to.

In English, there is competition and people with actual experience can publish books, which will be used by multiple universities, if it becomes famous than multiple generations of students from multiple universities and years have criticized it making the nth version better, etc.

This is very different from the budget solution my med university (of which 4 exists in this language alltogether) could reasonably come up with.

Nonetheless, there were smaller topics, documents, chapters which easily surpassed the same found in any English language book, especially in mathematics (the Soviet block used to be famously good at mathematics, so the level was much higher than the west’s), for these small gems it does worth speaking obscure languages.
Few things are more internet than people telling half truths and whole lies to try and get their way.
Are the remains displayed the way they were found? As it is, it looks like they just dumped out a box of bones. Sort of a shame given that the remsins had been "carefully and deliberately buried."
From personal experience, still not great. Sometimes things just don't deploy.

I host my little mobile braai simulator on it (braaisim.com) because it's an art project and easy to add new domains / certificates. Convenient to be able to scale up easily if it went viral in ZA. Nice that they support Johannesburg region (jnb), though, which is close to me.
I didn't feel comfortable with Google controlling my entire digital life, should I feel comfortable with migrating it wholesale to Proton?
Actually, they are: https://nixsys.com/legacy-computers/windows-98-computers, https://nixsys.com/legacy-computers/windows-xp-computers, etc.
None so blind as those who will not see.

"Stumbling into War".

"Huh?? Wha' happen?"
Those overrides could be stored locally and the maps service could still return the same optimized graph. The client device can then swap out and override it and do the calculation on device.
Apple is bowing down to fascists.
My experience of cycle.travel is pretty good -- it finds routes over small roads that I've already chosen in the past when I look locally.
The Fellegi Sunter model is able to estimate the importance of different types of information from the data itself (i.e. unsupervised learning).

For instance, a match on a date of birth column lends a greater weight of evidence in favour of a match than a match on first name (since dob has higher cardinality).

The method is also able to estimate weights for fuzzy matches (how much evidence in favour of a match is close match on dob with one character difference), and also how much evidence against a match a mismatch is.

For instance, if you have very high data quality on gender, then a match on gender doesn't tell you much, but a mismatch on gender is quite strong evidence against the idea two records match.

I have a blog post here that delves into this a bit more:
https://www.robinlinacre.com/fellegi_sunter_accuracy/
He should have had a shield to defend himself.
They can set offers however they like and you are free to not accept.

If the algorithm detects that you are likely to accept for little money and short you with lower offers compared to other users, is it still morally fine?
Philosophically speaking there is no difference.

What parent commenter probably refers to is that you think in terms of computations and not in terms of data units.

And that is just tremendously elegant.
OpenFlow is a protocol, switchdev is a driver API for exposing access to essentially the same operation model as OpenFlow targets. You don't replace OpenFlow with switchdev, you might use OpenFlow to integrate a switchdev with an SDN
Is it a matter of pretention or rather them rebranding to open the doors to having more than one "Sphere(tm)"?

IIRC the idea for a Sphere(tm) was dropped for London, but keeping "The" in the title, to their credit, does give them impression it is the "one and only".
Definitely eBay.
The trash comments are very flame-baity but the underlying assertion is true that it’s been a long time since it was “the obvious choice”.

One of the somewhat ironic things that I don’t know is well understood within the React community is that just purely by the nature of its particular architectural details, it’s only going to continue to become and worse and worse choice as time goes on.

What started as its main selling point (an abstraction over the messy parts of web standards at the time) has actually become one of its biggest liabilities.

It was fundamentally designed around solving problems that just haven’t been problems for some time now and much better options do indeed exist.

That’s to say absolutely nothing of how it has since been hijacked by a for profit VC backed company who are just making everything worse and more complicated with more lock in.

Now is a good time to start looking for the exits. I don’t think having it as the default for a new project in 2024 is a good idea either.
Why do you think that? Still visible here: https://fly.io/plans/personal

I hope they don't cancel this plan, currently on it :D

EDIT: Ohh, it's only visible when I'm logged in, weird...

EDIT2: ...indeed

> The paid Hobby plan and the Legacy Hobby plan are not available for new sign-ups.

https://fly.io/docs/about/pricing/

damn :(

> If you were on the free Hobby plan at the time that the paid Hobby plan became the default for new organizations, your plan is now called the Legacy Hobby plan. Your costs stay the same as they were, with no monthly subscription fee, and no included usage beyond the free resource allowances.

so i get to use the legacy hobby plan because i'm grandfathered in, nice. only use it for a hobby project with one instance anyways(see bio), if they really decide to start charging me i'll gladly leave.
I am speaking of my experience, and I am an enthusiast for new things. I used the Jupyter Notebook before it was mainstream, or, say, PyTorch, in times when it was obvious that TensorFlow was the default option.

However, in general, I believe that any approach that works is good. And I don't think there is any reason to think that we need to settle with the current data science programming UIs. However, some went with mixed success, e.g. ObservableHQ never took over Jupiter.

In my view, PyCharm and VS Code are not that close to each other. PyCharm is a traditional IDE, while VS Code is more like an ecosystem of extensions. In particular, there is one (surprisingly good) for Jupyter Notebooks.

When developing any new way of interacting with code, there is a question of which ecosystem to use. Having it as a VS Code extension (or clone) has benefits and limitations. So is having it as a Jupyter extension or (the way you went) - clone.

If you want to talk more, happy to move it to emails.
We are one of the retool alternative and I don’t think it is shit. You need to dig deeper and spend some time. I must say they have done a great job of what they have built and we have a lot of respect for them.
Which options do you mean!?
“Dumb” could be reworded ;)

I would say “irrational when it comes to costs”. Not all developers ask questions such as:

Does paying 10K for convenience save me and my team more than 10k worth of time? Does this vendor make it easy to migrate out?

Of course I’m biased, because I like it better when the answers favor us, cloud vendors. But there are no catch all answers; as always, it depends.
Nobody is fabbing more of the custom silicon you're going to find in non-PC vintage computers. There are FPGA-based replacements for some custom chips of yore, but there won't be any more real SID, POKEY, etc, chips.
In my history the best sales people I've met wouldn't have me believe they were in sales at all. They are just great at relationships and solving problems for clients. You want to give them your money to solve your problem.
None of the apartments had running water. People emptied their chamber pots out the window so the streets and walls were literally covered in shit. There were no elevators despite many buildings going up 14 floors.

Now on top of all that imagine sharing your apartment, which is not much bigger than a car, with your entire family.
What do you propose instead, if the standard ways are used by Nazis?
Have you seen some of the 'rules' that govern auto-deletion?

One of mine got deleted because there were 'not enough words'. I kid you not.

Perhaps I should have added the first three verses of 'Jabberwocky' to the end of my post to make it turgid enough to keep.

'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe;
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe.

"Beware the Jabberwock, my son!
The jaws that bite, the claws that catch!
Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun
The frumious Bandersnatch!"

He took his vorpal sword in hand:
Long time the manxome foe he sought—
So rested he by the Tumtum tree,
And stood awhile in thought.
That looks like the old Saboteur 1/2 games... Wondering if they drew inspiration from Kowloon.