skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's a loaded question. Presumably you have a person that needs food. On order for that person to get food in our society, you need (lets focus on grown food for now)

- People that plant things

- People that harvest things (may be the same people, but maybe not)

- People that a order things to be planted (seeds)

- People that order/plan short term things to facilitate planting (fertilizer)

- People that make those short term things (who other industry, lots of people)

- People that order/plan long term things to facilitate planting (tractor)

- People that maintain long term things to facilitate planting (repair men)

- People that build systems to allow ordering of short term things

- People that build systems to allow ordering/renting/use of long term things

- People that build systems to allow finding people that maintain long term things

- People that handle making sure those ^ people have the infrastrucure they need (government + industry)

- People that handle making sure those ^ people get hired and paid

We are WAY beyond "in order to get food for people, we need Doug the farmer". So yes, a LOT of the people participating in this thread are in the set of people that are responsible for making sure people, as a whole, have access to food.

And food is only _one_ of the things needed for a society to function
Why not? That's a fantastic idea, and I'd love to see Nintendo do that.
I was just thinking didn't Netflix already have its own workflow engine: https://github.com/Netflix/conductor, but found out it's archived/EOL so this makes more sense now.
Planck stars, White Holes, Remnants and Planck-mass quasi-particles
Metallic minerals on the deep-ocean floor split water to generate 'dark oxygen'
Interesting. My team recently built a thing for managing long running, multi-machine, restartable, cascading batch jobs in an unrelated vehicle. Had no idea it was a category.
Instead of a sensor bar you can use two burning candles.
You can read Dostoesvsky and watch pro sports. They're not mutually exclusive. Do you think going to a music concert to listen to professional musicians play is also "wasteful" and of no benefit for anyone?
A personal question: if modern TVs are essentially low power computers, why not buy a low power desktop with a good enough monitor? Why people in 2024 buy TVs if it's possible to have ONE damn computer with little extras to serve video content on multiple screen, a homeserver maybe?
I think what you describe is the application of entropy in the thermodynamic setting, which doesn't apply to "all definitions".
why would one consider this over something more established such as Temporal, also I see Maestro is written in Java vs Temporal's Go
"This is a review of some recent developments on quantum gravity aspects of black hole physics. In particular, we focus on a scenario leading to the prediction of the existence of a Planck-mass quasi-stable object, that could form a component of dark matter."

— Carlo Rovelli & Francesca Vidotto (the authors)
That definition doesn't work well because you can have changes in entropy even if no energy is transferred, e.g. by exchanging some other conserved quantity.

The side note is wrong in letter and spirit; turning potential energy into heat is one way for something to be irreversible, but neither of those statements is true.

For example, consider an iron ball being thrown sideways. It hits a pile of sand and stops. The iron ball is not affected structurally, but its kinetic energy is transferred (almost entirely) to heat energy. If the ball is thrown slightly upwards, potential energy increases but the process is still irreversible.

Also, the changes of potential energy in corresponding parts of two Carnot cycles are directionally the same, even if one is ideal (reversible) and one is not (irreversible).
With container workloads, "Linux" is just the kernel; userland can be largely absent.

That kernel runs on cheapest phones, and on largest supercomputers. With a similarly wide diversity of software. A much more heterogeneous environment than Windows can dream of.
in the bracket that intel mac pro from 2019 competed, 1.5TB capability would be about normal. With some supporting more.
BTW, for those who don't know, which includes some Westerners I have met in the course of work, or who were touring India, Indian milk tea (chai in Hindi) is not called chai tea. chai means tea in Hindi, so saying chai tea is like saying tea tea, which is redundant.
Easy answer.
If you are not comfortable with the basic requirements that each and every CA in the PKI is required to follow, you should host your own PKI and manage trust yourself as well.
Does it though? For all of the use cases that a user might expect including device drivers like graphics cards, audio drivers, BT and wifi device drivers, print drivers, etc.? I'm sure a Linux distro could, but somewhere someone would have had to write a driver for it.

The Windows ecosystem supports a ridiculous variety of hardware.
If you refer Canary deployment as the vendor's internal deployment? I definitely agree.

What I find it hard is those in Software that suggested to roll it to a few customers first because this isn't cloud deployment doing A/B test when it comes to Virus Definition.

Customers must know what's going on when it comes to virus definition and the implication of them whether they're being part of the rollout group or not.
I think the real miracle here is the amount of support a single company provides for Windows, while Linux support is very fractured (in a good way) among many companies with varying levels of support.
Prometheus' Performance and Cardinality in Practice
In this article, I will explain how I analyzed and configured my Prometheus setup in order to significantly reduce its resource usage and worked around cardinality issues. This follows my previous article about Prometheus metrics analysis: How to find unused Prometheus metrics using mimirtool.
Tangent:

How do you navigate Fred effectively? I can usually find something close to what I want, but not exact through Google searches of the site.
> wasn't quoting him

Norman coined the term user focused design.

> may not be focus groups per se, but showing your idea to potential customers, getting feedback, refining and showing again is how it's done

Sure. I’d argue both focus groups and the lone visionary are myths. But in order to show an idea properly, you have to start thinking about building it. And to start thinking about building it properly, you have to start building it. For every Juicero there are teams iterating around a local optimum.
Off the top of my head I'd say to throw in Outer Wilds (wilds, not worlds), Tunic, The Riven remake, and The Talos Principle 1 & 2 as well.
Is there any evidence that the equations in the blog post model the real world?

I ask, because these intellectual property protections are intended to incentivize creation. If that incentive overwhelms these models of information sharing and testing frictions then the model is incomplete.
crowdstrike end of the world: https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/likely-apocalypse
Personally, I don't want to have children because the risks and downsides aren't even remotely close to the benefits.

Best case scenario: 10% chance you and your spouse are great parents, who stay healthy enough to be good parents, who have a physically and mentally healthy kid, who doesn't end up in a life-changing accident or addicted to substances or down an ideological rabbit hole, and you don't lose your income for 18 ~ 24 years while the kid grows into a self-sufficient adult.

More likely scenario: something (physical, mental, environmental) is way off and there's lots of despair and suffering in your family for years or possibly forever.

I don't like other people's kids, who are seemingly healthy, and I don't want to roll those dice for one of my own, who might not be.
> Some ingredients that were in old games has vanished due to the post 2000 culture

Hmm, like what?
> People have different definitions of UBI, but in my mind 'basic' doesn't translate to quitting your job and not working.

There's nuance worth teasing apart here.

The only definition I've ever heard is that UBI allows you to lose your job and still be able to pay for the basic necessities (food, water, shelter, transportation, etc.). Anything less misses the whole point.

However, just the basic necessities would make for a pretty dull and repetitive life, which most people hate. And so the idea (as I understood it) is that it's not supposed to go beyond that, so your incentive would still be to keep your job if you at all can, not quit it.
Sigh.

Guys, eBPF provides more limited access to kernel features. That’s by design. Whatever the platform, the idea with eBPF is to limit kernel access and provide safe access only where ‘necessary’.

The entire issue is that MS limited access to their kernel. If you want the people who use eBPF, windows developers, to have the same access to kernel features as the providers of eBPF facilities, MS themselves, then you’re effectively giving them kernel access.

There is no such thing as safe full featured kernel access.
> With container workloads, "Linux" is just the kernel; userland can be largely absent.

That's my point:

It supports the $200 junkbox your gran bought from Walmart to $20,000 enterprise racks and is expected to support all of those different workloads
As long as there are new ideas, those without such ideas will copy them
Budget doesn't typically include marketing and associated overheads.

You typically would double it i.e. about $400 million needed to break even.

It would be considered a flop if it was just a theatrical release.
Tell me about the rabbits again George.
How would the AI keep itself running?
All this is fine and dandy for async web apps but would make things like async-as-state-machine, which powers a lot of rust embedded development, basically a non-starter.
Reminds me of the book I read “The Culture of Make Believe” about how we pretend the world is different than it really is. It has a chapter called “Holocausts” and notes that in US culture we tend to think there was just one, but there have been many.
Windows is a pile of shit and only managed to stick around by bundling an actual Linux kernel in WSL2 to cling to relevance with software developers and ultimately because retards who want to play-pretend they are IT and shouldn't be anywhere near computers beyond muh video games keep installing it everywhere.
Arguably, but imho the difference between search engines and GPTs is akin to punch card coding vs modern IDE - theoretically the same activity, vastly different in practice.
I've never read a book that was able to slurp up my data.
> But no salaries -> no consumption -> no profit for companies.

No, you just need a little more imagination. What would the economy look like if you didn't need employees to utilize resources or undertake projects? Some very mass-market consumer oriented companies would eventually go bankrupt during the transition, but that doesn't mean a doom scenario like I describe can't or won't happen.

> I don't see how that's effective capitalism.

And you know what? The end result of the transition might only vaguely resemble current-day capitalism, and may be more properly understood as a transition to a new economic system.

However, I think it would probably be like our current economy, except with:

* the B2C segment withered mainly to luxury goods of elites (yachts, supercars, elite-level fine dining) and sustaining a much smaller elite-service-focused labor pool;

* B2B being most of what's left of the market; and

* non-market vanity projects taking up a substantial slice of the pie (e.g. Elon Musk using a robot army to build ziggurats to celebrate himself, because why not).
Severance was good, but three years between seasons is too long.
There are dedicated bike paths, separate from cars. Where they cross each other, there are traffic controls. And, as I understand it, in Amsterdam at least, any collision between a car and a cyclist is automatically the car driver’s fault: so drivers are very careful.

These countries have been doing this for a long time.
So that's why those ancient philosophers despised writing anything down and had secret assemblies!
Why aren't philanthropists stepping up to support nursing education?
Does the MacOS Falcon app running in userspace have the exact same monitoring capability like the Windows variant running in kernel space?
Thanks, I'd really appreciate it! The blog post you linked earlier was what finally made RAG "click" for me, making it very clear how it works, at least for the relatively simple tasks I want to do.
This answer is as confident as it's wrong and full of gibberish.

Entropy is not a "distribution”, it's a functional that maps a probability distribution to a scalar value, i.e. a single number.

It's the mean log-probability of a distribution.

It's an elementary statistical concept, independent of physical concepts like “pressure”, “potential”, and so on.
> How do you navigate Fred effectively?

Kagi :P. I know the names of most of these data series, so it’s searching e.g. real weekly earnings fed fred.
Men are also more likely to do strength training, which also helps build bone density. Women are also more likely to regularly perform cardio/aerobic exercises, which can reduce bone density when done in excess and without adequate nutrition. Lack of estrogen is of course the root, but I think we can't dismiss behavior differences contributing to the effect. In my experience, many women do minimal to no strength training because they're worried that muscle tone will make them look masculine. Maybe this is a really bad idea to live by.
> Depleted uranium is not explosive: You will not have an explosion like a nuclear bomb.

This was similar to the confusion in Chernobyl. Engineers were saying "The reactor has exploded", while the Chief Engineers were retorting, "Tell me how it explodes. There's graphite rods and uranium rods". Tangential to the waste byproducts, absolutely.
The alternative is that everyone in the Microsoft security ecosystem gets off kernel-mode drivers. Once ebpf-for-windows lands, it should be possible for Microsoft, CrowdStrike, and everyone else to run their filters in user-land. That puts everyone on a level playing field, and makes the ecosystem more secure overall.

https://github.com/microsoft/ebpf-for-windows
Yikes. Chill out
In shock decision, Google abandons third-party cookie deprecation plans
This bullshit again?

Outsourcing is nothing new. Companies have been outsourcing jobs to cheaper locations for longer than I have been working. In fact, my first job was as cheap outsourced labor.

This comes and goes in waves, because outsourcing to cheaper locations have a lot of downsides too.
why axios? JS has native fetch everywhere for ages. let’s remove the moving pieces.
> As a designer, I feel the need to be original. If you’re a designer, or even if you’re just interested in design, you probably feel the need to be original, too.

I've been a professional designer since 2006, and I got over that thinking pretty quickly. A designer trying to be strikingly original is rarely acting in service of the design. If you want to be strikingly original, you probably want to be an artist instead of a designer. What a designer fundamentally does is communicate the best solution to a problem, given the requirements, goals, and constraints of that problem. Originality is subordinate to that at best.
According to the unsolicited email I regularly receive, there are already products on the market for making bones longer. And lasting all night, which would I guess make it significantly easier to get out of bed in the morning.
Illegaling working as a daycare no less!
> I broke into his house

Not fun at all. Microsoft is like Disney, they steal from others and trounce others for stealing from them.

Absurd people.
If your kids have to live on the street if you take that part-time job, it's not only short-sighted to stay on welfare, it's the rational thing to do even in the long term.
> Housing costs are not included in measures of inflation

Yes, they are [1][2].

[1] https://www.bea.gov/sites/default/files/methodologies/RIPfac...

[2] https://www.brookings.edu/articles/how-does-the-consumer-pri...
Microsoft also has userspace APIs available, such as AMSI https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/amsi/antimal...
Citizenship and a form of retirement through service is a time-honored military tradition, it’s true.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38586918

> I'm not sure we could offer VA benefits to every adult without massively raising taxes.

If we eliminated waste and slippage/loss and gained efficiencies of scale by eliminating private health insurance obligations except for high net worth, like is done in some countries like Australia, I think we could come out ahead actually, due to reducing the cost of employment borne by businesses, while maintaining or increasing health outcomes for those on public healthcare rolls.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medicare_(Australia)

> (Also, we treat our veterans quite poorly.)

To our great collective shame. That being a veteran is essentially a greater risk factor for peacetime structural violence in the form of homelessness, food insecurity, and lack of health care is a travesty only eclipsed by the how commonplace these issues are among fellow countrymen who are merely civilians.

What is this grand democratic experiment even for, if we still suffer from the same failure modes as that which we originally fought to save ourselves from?
That is why I publish freely the audio versions (which only consist of about half of the stories within each book), but not the PDFs.
Many people thought Trump supporters were trolling, but here we are. The invocation trope is standard for social regressives, to the point where Colbert parodied it. https://64.media.tumblr.com/d01f4eae84afbffb01ea43a9c6995b2d...

I see his argument often, but it's always about how the art makes them feel instead of a Bechdel test for wokeness that we can apply objectively.
I am deeply unimpressed with most of the 4K texture packs out there. I see a lot of this:

https://twitter.com/letofski/status/982947652072488962
Actually Nintendo consoles used to be powerhouses until recently. The NES, SNES, N64 and GameCube were all considered state-of-the-art in terms of performance. It wasn't until the Wii when they began cutting down on performance in favor of fun features like they had been doing in the handheld space.
This is the situation, yes.

So what I've done is remove my works from the open web and put it behind a login wall. If you want an account, I have to be certain that you're a human being and that you will not proceed to put my work somewhere where it can be scraped by an AI bot.

Which, in practice, means that I have to personally know you. I don't know of any other solution to this problem at this time.
There is more to life than just what I do for my job.
Presumably, these employees probably need email, web access, and file sharing.

There you go. Those are your threat vectors now.
That must annoy Mr Cutler https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_Cutler
> if history is any guide then the result will be less collaboration and a decrease in productivity

Which history? Rome and Sparta had profligate (for the time) public benefits and didn’t do much worse for the wear.
I felt like I finally understood Shannon entropy when I realized that it's a subjective quantity -- a property of the observer, not the observed.

The entropy of a variable X is the amount of information required to drive the observer's uncertainty about the value of X to zero. As a correlate, your uncertainty and mine about the value of the same variable X could be different. This is trivially true, as we could each have received different information that about X. H(X) should be H_{observer}(X), or even better, H_{observer, time}(X).

As clear as Shannon's work is in other respects, he glosses over this.
> You can still fly businesses and pay the same price as before

You can't really though - e.g. 25 years ago you could fly economy from Vancouver Canada to Sydney Australia for $2600. (Inflation adjusted.) You can now do that flight for $1400. Pretty good, but the kicker is that flying business class is now $5300. Even premium economy is $4400. (Prices are all the cheapest I see on Google Flights over the rest of 2024, so some of them are limited to very specific dates.)

Probably the most equivalent price to 25 years ago is basic economy plus paying for a meal, snack, checked bag and selection of an exit row seat, but today's premium economy is probably the most equivalent service level to yesterday's basic economy.
I use lsd, because I like the name and it does what I want so far.
I've heard negative income taxes suggested as an alternative to our current approach. I'm not an expert on them, but it might be worth looking into for people who are interested in ideas for improving our system:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negative_income_tax
In the blog, it claims:

> … schedule hundreds of thousands of workflows, millions of jobs every day and operate with a strict SLO of less than 1 minute of scheduler introduced delay even when there are spikes in the traffic.

I wouldn’t necessarily call it over engineered if it can handle this type of workload.

But if you are running a fraction of these workloads with a much more relaxed SLO (service level objection), then yea this is overengineered.

Like any solution from FAANG, or “big tech”. It works for _them_ at scale but for 90% of companies the sheer management of this service will quickly outweigh the benefits.