skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hosting documentation shouldn't need that much bandwidth. It's text and zip files full of text. Without bots, that's a very small cost even if the bytes are relatively costly.
It has a sharp, very bitter flavour most people hate. It's unlikely caffeine is contributing positively to the taste of anything.
> Is a map without transit even a map?

Yes. Transit is bot a majority use case.
Me neither, read it about 5 times...
Good example of what I mean:

They offer 7 different coffees. Only 1 is decaf! As if it were a "flavor"
Um, what? Bison/yacc generate compilable C from a grammar file. A CL macro would expand to Common Lisp starting from a grammar description. It's not the reverse at all.
Size Matters? Dissatisfaction and Gun Ownership in America
Share the link, not just the PDF, to give more legitimacy ;)
No return date for NASA astronauts
Looks interesting, but the contrast between white background and actual windows is preventing me to use it. How can it be changed?
Startup Finance for Founders – Part I, Accounting (2016)
Disappointed, I was hoping they came out with Agile is BS. Which it mostly is.
> My take is that identity doesn't imply mutability, if you version objects. It could well be that your are looking at an old version of an object, using its unique identity combined with its version (number).

Are you storing the version as part of the object? If so, they’re no longer equal values regardless of identity. If not, what purpose is there in versioning the same value? Even if there is a purpose, are same-value-different-version objects not otherwise interchangeable unless/until some value change does occur?
Thanks for the feedback, changed the color to orange for the highlight.
Unfortunately we haven't built a clever way to sign up for updates! I'll think of the best way to do this (eventually we'll push updates directly in the product).

Working on adding the copilot opt-out as we speak!

I love the ideas here and I would like to discuss some of these with you. If it's OK with you, I am going email/DM you!

In general, we would love to engage in conversations with folks (feedback@haystackeditor.com)
I think you're paranoid.

Seriously, I can't imagine a plausible threat from downloading that.
Open Source Asset Pricing – test asset returns and signals
Also very curious to see how this compares to: https://www.semanticscholar.org/
Being bold does not mean talking about what to do from now to 2050, it means digging. Now.

But every armchair expert with a crayon has their preferred solution to rail. Is hs2 perfect? No

Is it better than nothing? Yes.
Guns blow your heads off or 20-50 of your least favored classmates and alcohol and tobacco kill millions and young people are very vulnerable to addiction.

It's not clear that there is a similar effect from seeing boobs.
American Businesses: “How are we supposed to profit if you don’t govern poorly like we do?!”

Your country can do well too if you invest for the long term instead of chasing quarterly numbers and strip mining the economy.
Disagree! Some problems are much harder than others. If you don't believe me please go formalize P5 in this year imo.
A trap every freaking "Agile" company falls into. Don't get me started on fixed scope + fixed timeline that they all still do anyway, only now broken into "sprints".
What about prepaid credit cards, or Tor?
Happy with https://education.makeblock.com/mbot2/
I've been running guthib.mattbasta.workers.dev for years, and in the past few months it's hit the free limit for requests every day. Some AI company is filling their corpus with exactly that: infinite garbage.
Many state issued IDs are now machine readable. I've had my ID scanned when I went to buy some beer before. I assume I trusted them to store it indefinitely, tying my real-world presence to my actual identity to comply with a law that is a minor hindrance to underage people wanting to access alcohol. (I don't know if the person who scanned my ID made minimum wage, though. Probably.)
> My feeling from the article was that he worked outside the box, and THAT was simply unacceptable to the authorities, no matter how good the underlying technology was.

USSR had a planning economy, so they decided ahead what good and in which quantity must be produced in a coming five years. And then comes some genius and makes a computer better than planned. What should they do?

Something alike was with Setun[1], there was no place for Setun in 5-years plan.

Moreover I suspect that what will be included into the next plan was a big politics. No low engineer could change that. Centralization is evil.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Setun
Cameo was once valued at $1B
> Maybe they did, maybe they didn't, but the tradeoff was different to them

Yes. Because they don't value human life as much. That's the point.

> What do you mean, "trolling"?

Taking pride in shocking westerners with your recklessness.

> A delay in a Soviet operation had vastly more disastrous and costlier consequences (in lives).

Notice how when it was politically beneficial - soviets waited for over a month on Vistula river bank while on the other bank Polish resistance was securing passage and fighting Germans.
What does the research say regarding the negative effects of social media on children?

Social media seems far more pervasive amongst young people than porn.

Social media ain't never going to be banned though.
A good question, and mostly beyond my pay grade. Almost certainly based on models rather than direct observation, though informed by the latter.

I'm struggling to find a strong source, but this page, by M. Coleman Miller at the University of Maryland, describes properties suggesting modelling over observation. Specifically it describes "the guts of a neutron star":

Even further down, you mainly have free neutrons, with a 5%-10% sprinkling of protons and electrons.

With an subsequent 'graph:

Yes, you may say, that's all very well for keeping nuclear theorists employed, but how can we possibly tell if it works out in reality? Well, believe it or not, these things may actually have an effect on the cooling history of the star and their spin behavior!

What follows is more description of theory with a few points based in what is directly observable, largely spin (via radio astronomy) and some temperature observations largely in X-ray observations, and the occasional gamma-ray burst.

<https://www.astro.umd.edu/~miller/nstar.html>

Miller's bio at UMD emphasizes his theoretical work:

Cole Miller's research in the last few years has focused on theory and modeling of high-energy radiation from neutron stars and black holes.

<https://www.astro.umd.edu/people/miller.html>
> Interesting fact from the article...

That was the case in many countries. In France for example a huge part of the resistance was way too sympathetic with Stalin's ideas (and btw didn't join the resistance up until 1941 and Hitler's operation Barbarossa, when Hitler betrayed Stalin) so one of the very first thing the government did in France right after WWII was to disarm the resistance as much as they could. Most people don't read about that but it's well documented.

These (back then) superpowers were paranoid and rightfully so: the cold war started right after WWII and both blocks were very careful not to have ennemies from within.
We’re the largest producer of petroleum on the planet. China is not.
Macros are something where usage tends to go

1) OMG confusing -> almost never use them
2) OMG exciting -> use them faaar too much
3) Huh. Powerful, but so powerful you should use only when required. Cool.

Quite a few things turn out to be like that skill-progression-wise and at this point I've just accepted it as human nature.
You think China subsidizing manufacturers so they make cheaper sneakers is similar to the Apollo program? That one I'd never heard before. Did you come up with it yourself or is that a take you've seen somewhere?
"Instead, China appears to be stockpiling materials at a rapid pace—and at a time when commodities are expensive." 2nd paragraph in the article disagrees.
> Working-class people are undoubtedly annoyed by low wages, despite the fact that real wages have been rising at the bottom of the distribution for a decade now. Working for $16 an hour is better than working for $12.502, but it’s still not amazing, and low-paid workers still tend to get treated poorly in many workplaces. I’m sure that fuels plenty of online complaints. Most of those workers would probably rather just get paid more and get treated better, but I’m some would accept a UBI-supported life of leisure as an alternative.

This is often the retort of certain types of privileged people have when you bring up the fact that wages across the board have historically in the last ~30 years severely lagged behind inflation, especially at the lowest levels. It's like telling someone who just got in a horrible car accident that involves the amputation of a limb and the death of a child "hey but you're not dead, right?" It's little consolation. Go look at rent to income ratios in practically any US city or state and tell me how much of the country you can live and meet your needs on $12-$16 hourly wages, let alone the federal minimum wage. It is seriously depressing.
The author's premise is wrong. The real question is, how much work is there to do? Thanks to automation and other factors we only need a certain number of people to work. At some point, more people helping doesn't actually increase productivity.

If you believe there is work that needs doing and isn't getting done, then train and hire people to do it until everyone who is ready, willing, and able to work is doing so.

If there is a surplus labor force, don't doom them to die homeless in a gutter. Don't ask them to waste their lives doing undignified pretend-work. Guarantee for them the basic human rights of clothing, food, water, shelter, health care, and education. Whether you do that directly with taxation and government services, or indirectly, by handing out money that can be used to purchase those things, doesn't much matter either way.

And those people who aren't officially working jobs with wages, how many of them will truly not work at all? Sure, some will sit in front of the TV the rest of their lives. But many or most will find the freedom to still do valuable things without profit motive. I predict there would be an explosion of artistic production that would enrich our entire society even though it wouldn't show up on any balance sheet.
I'd be surprised if they could get that to work. They're pretty proficient with apples as long as there's a catcher, and that's the primary goal, but cherries are small and no one wants slimy or bruised cherries.
Just identify your "gatekeeper" points. If you have lots, there's no way you're really doing any form of agile.
This is really neat, quite a paradigm shift from the IDEs we’ve been using for decades
> I'd imagine those who grew up before 1990s and after aren't fans either.

What India became for the US in the 2010s is what China was for the US in the 70s and 80s - a regional power to help blunt a major competitor.

Nixon's detente with China was done in order to blunt the USSR - with whom China had a border conflict that almost turned into a war in 1968 (sound familiar?)

American soldiers were even posted in Xinjiang and Inner Mongolia manning signals collection stations aimed at the USSR, and the US and China began technology transfers and shared research in the 1980s with the signing of the US-China Science and Technology Pact in 1979.

The US-China relationship collapsed with the fall of the USSR, as that was the primary impetus for relations.
Llama 3.1 web search integrated into GPT4All Beta
From the moment Llama 3.1 was released, GPT4All developers have been working hard to make a beta version of tool calling available. We're happy to announce that the beta is now ready. The first tool is web search implemented through brave.com just as in the Llama 3.1 paper.

A wiki has been made to walk users through the setup here: https://github.com/nomic-ai/gpt4all/wiki/Web-Search-Beta-Rel...

Join us on discord to give feedback and get help with the new Llama 3.1 Beta for GPT4All: https://discord.com/invite/4M2QFmTt2k
They think they have a pro-Christian anti-Federalist Supreme Court majority on their side. They won't back down.
Looks great, you guys made it really easy to integrate!
https://zapatopi.net/treeoctopus/
Is that such a bad idea:

> 37. (Henshaw's Law) One key to success in a mission is establishing clear lines of blame.
I don't think US states can really criminalize VPNs. Countries can, but I don't see how a state is going to justify a VPN ban. They're clearly useful for all sorts of things, and it's awfully hard to confirm what it's used for.

And it would be a big overreach of state powers IMHO.
I am not in SF, and so I've never heard of any of those roasters.
Not sure every mathematician would be happy to do this... it sounds much less pleasant than thinking. It's like saying mathematicians would rather be programmers lol. It's a significant difficult problem which i believe should be left completely to AI. Human formalization should become dead
Or kids will be driven to free VPNs that track them/inject ads into them/etc
> it's a display of some of the advantages of their governance model

It’s the reality of countering an air-sea superpower as a country supplied by sea. We do a tonne of long-range logistics readiness exercises China doesn’t. Because they don’t need to.

There is no inherent virtue in stockpiling. An attritive war is all about production anyway, not starting stock. Our weakness is in low production rates of all manner of materiel, not a lack of stockpiles.
Image delivering a race car to a customer via Agile, starting with first delivering a bicycle
... in Kenya.
Conversely, China is the largest producer of EVs on the planet, and will reach peak oil demand this year or next due to their EV manufacturing ramp rate.

China is playing to win the future, and it’s clear in how they operate.
Agile can be waterfall-like when the minimum viable product is otherwise too large to avoid waterfall analysis paralysis.

For example, zonal controller for an electric .. tank.

Under relaxed Agile you would deliver a high-level plan (module architecture) as a deliverable, and then do JIT design of each module as a deliverable followed by implementation as a deliverable.

If you follow guru agile for this and deliver 1 feature at a time, it will take 10 years to get your desired feature set. Because you’ll rework and refactor each module 100 times, followed by tear up and tear down of physical testing, 100 rounds of regression testing…
I'm just trying to make an allusion to how people might model the data in a simple CRUD app. I think you're getting too concerned with the details wrt your prior experience. Make it Pet = Name x Weight x Species, and Species = Dog + Cat if you prefer.
Your question was answered by someone else but you've triggered a different form of dread.

We lost a preprod database that held up dev and QA for half a day. To bring the server room up to code they moved the outlets, and when they went to move the power cords, someone thought they could get away with relying on the UPS power during the jiggery. Turned out the UPS that was reporting all green only actually had about 8 seconds of standby power in it, which was a little longer than the IT person needed to untangle the cables.

So in the end we were just fucked on a different day than we would have been if we had waited for the next hiccup in the city power.

I mention this because if you've split your cluster between three racks and someone manages to power down an entire rack, you're dangerously close to not having quorum and definitely close to not having sufficient throughput for both consumer traffic and rebuilding/resyncing/resilvering.

It's a slow motion rock slide that is a cluster that was not sized correctly for user traffic plus recovery traffic as the entire thing limps toward a full on outage when just one more machine needs to be rebooted, because, for instance, your team decided that restart a machine every n/48 hours, to deal with a slow leak is just fine since you're using a consensus protocol that will hide the reboots. Maybe rock slide is the wrong word. It's a train wreck. Once it starts you can't stop it, you can only watch and fret.
This is probably partially what they did idk why it's downvoted lol
Moving goalposts. The claim was they never apologized, and they did.
You've set up a strawman argument. If viewing pornography on the internet only meant "seeing boobs," age verification surely wouldn't have gained as much traction as it has in the US and UK. But there's a lot more than that. It's disingenuous to ignore that fact.
Depends on the situation.

E.g., if a project's general rule is one file per class, I prefer consistently following that rule, even of it makes some files be really short.
PornHub is free. There are no laws against leaving porn where a minor might find it. Arguably, the websites are being held to different standards. You can go into Barnes and Noble and find all kinds of filthy books, and they're not locked behind a glass display cabinet requiring a clerk to check your ID.
Docker's good at packaging, and Kubernetes is good at providing a single API to do all the infra stuff like scheduling, storage, and networking. I think that if someone sat down and tried to create a idealized VM management solution that covered everything between "dev pushes changes" to "user requests website" then it'd probably have a single image for each VM to run (like Docker has a single image for each container to run) then management of VM hosts, storage, networking, and scheduling VMs to run on which host would wind up looking a lot like k8s. You could certainly do that with VMs but for various path dependency reasons people do that with containers instead and nobody's got a well adopted system for doing the same with VMs
> China is the largest producer of EVs on the planet, and will reach peak oil demand this year or next due to their EV manufacturing ramp rate

Sure. They have a strategic incentive to electrify their military. In the meantime, they need stockpiles.
“WCML 6 track project”
Arch is something a fairly non DIY user can easily conquer and use for many years and it will just work. As long as they don't choose to do anything exotic, they can use it basically forever.

NixOS is nothing like that, there's limited docs, the docs are sometimes just RTFM that links to another RTFM and oh yeah don't be afraid of breaking userspace because userspace is doing something wrong. It's fine for some of us who can of course get shit done.

Ultimately, I think some subset of Arch users who really wanted to be Gentoo users but weren't because "drama" and then NixOS scratches that itch.
Why are you ending all your messages with =3 ?
I support basically any limits on porn. I’m not religious, but I used to watch a ton of it and it had lasting repercussions on my real sex life. While I would believe religious groups don’t like porn, I think they’re just a part of it
Are you sure alphaproof can't
> I actually wonder how much "overhead" a VM actually has. i.e. a linux kernel that doesn't do anything (say perhaps just boots to an init that mounts proc and every n seconds read in/prints out /proc/meminfo) how much memory would the kernel actually be using?

There's already some memory sharing available using DAX in Kata Containers at least: https://github.com/kata-containers/kata-containers/blob/main...
If its 35 days at 700 mil, it's 15 at 300. 35 days doesn't seem like a lot but in case of emergencies, I'll take 35 over 15 any day. You need to give yourselves time to at least react to situations.
What's a better way to make VM images?
"import wat" would be great, but Python has some restrictions about modules not being callable. That's why I ended up with longer `from wat import wat`. Not sure but maybe this would be more convenient `import wat; wat.wat / object`
They're absolutely fine with that, because then they can prosecute anyone for it whenever they want. Especially once they expand the definition of porn to include any lgbtq+ content like they're already trying to.
You're welcome, and yeah, that is the statechart. It's actually at the low zoomed-in level. That's the controller at the heart of the example. A lot of the diagrams in the article are higher-level, not sub-charts. I am not a 100% advocate for the BDUF-flavored model-driven-design approach in the whole document at that link, though I can understand why some industries would take it.

Remember, too, this is undoubtedly a simplified example. Just off the cuff I'd expect a real-world window motor controller in 2024 to have at least open-loop ramp-up and ramp-down in speed, if not closed-loop speed control. I also would expect there'd be more to their safety requirements.
It is part of an effort that will have impact. Remember that the US federal government is the largest IT spender in the world.

This is part of their efforts to move agencies internally I using a carrot first. Now that the GAO officially released an agile audit guide, the stick is in place.

GAO Agile Assessment Guide

https://www.gao.gov/products/gao-24-105506

Note that in the public sector, appropriation committees have the power, and see how they are targeting states here.

https://guides.18f.gov/derisking/state-field-guide/budgeting...

TOGAF, ITIL and the other crusty frameworks all had to take steps to modify their long held dogma over the past few years.

I would give it another 5 or 10 years or so before federal funding to even states depends on compliance.

Remember that the military moved away from Taylorism to mission command a long time ago.

This is moving IT the same way.

If you have or aspire to have government contracts it is probably a good idea to pay attention.

Note how that 18f page links to the above document and goes farther, saying that if there is a single individual who can insist on a Gannt chart
, you aren't 'agile'

There is two centuries of experience in the military setting, with only about 70 in the biz world, the feds are quite clear that they won't wait for IT.
It was a read operation during bytecode template initialization, in a driver that reads userland memory. An out of bound read operation to load code in a driver that maps user memory can easily lead to code execution and privilege escalation: if the attacker finds a way to get the out of bound read into memory they control, they could cause the driver to load a manufactured template and inject bytecode.

It's not clear that this specific vulnerability is exploitable, but it's exactly the kind of vulnerability that could be exploited for code execution.
And some metrics aren't just a "game", but are gamed for very real benefit (e.g., gaining admission to a college, getting a promotion, being more employable) in ways that are counterproductive to pretty much all other goals.

So, when something like HN has goals, and you create, say, something akin to a contest and link it to real-world benefits (e.g., people expect a recruiter or hiring to use that "who knows what" info), then many people will modify their behavior, probably to the detriment of original goals.
I see DeepMind is still playing around with RL + search algorithms, except now it looks like they're using an LLM to generate state candidates.

I don't really find that this impressive. With enough compute you could just do n-of-10,000 LLM generations to "brute force" a difficult problem and you'll get there eventually.
Agenda (1988 Video Game)
thanks roanak!
I think there's domains where rigorously establishing requirements ahead of time is necessary and creates better outcomes than shipping quickly and iterating. Especially safety-critical domains. If your product can kill someone (either on failure or success), defining expectations, behaviors, and specifications ahead of time is responsible.

I really like this article, about the space shuttle dev teams: https://www.fastcompany.com/28121/they-write-right-stuff
You hit them after dozens of uses on the big models and hundreds on the small ones.