skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nobody does much in ops without making mistakes. I’ve done all of the roles you mentioned and learned from mistakes and oversights, which is why I know that you should start by looking at what you assume is available in each scenario. For example, I’ve twice seen prolonged outages in a data center due to failures in the power distribution equipment when doing a failover test – the physical plant guys had checked the UPS/battery systems but didn’t think about what would happen if that component failed and then learned that spare parts were out of stock in Southern California and the manufacturer had to put someone on the plane from Colorado, which meant we had to roll the failover to another data center. All of us had technically known that the redundant hardware didn’t mean n=2 parts could fail simultaneously but had incorrectly assumed the odds of a correlated failure were much lower or that the vendor a couple miles away would be able to fix a failed unit.

I mention that last because that’s what happened to a lot of people here. They had DR plans assuming that they had their management infrastructure or could quickly bring it back online, but then they had things like CrowdStrike taking out the servers holding BitLocker recovery keys and other critical infrastructure. One of the under-appreciated outcomes from the general push to secure things has been that a lot of systems are now less robust because they depend on a few security critical components with no easy path to recovery if those fail. Full disk encryption is great from the perspective of data loss but it also means key management is mission critical in a way senior management probably wasn’t fully appreciative of when setting funding plans.
CrowdStrike BSOD Fiasco with Katie Moussouris [audio]
Hyprland has way more features than Sway. There's 1:1 touch gestures, animations, and per-window screen sharing. Also there's all kinds of tiling configuration available, which allows Hyprland to do manual and/or automatic tiling.

Sway's lack of features is also its advantage, because it's been the most stable and consistent window manager/compositor experience I've ever had on Linux (X and Wayland). Hyprland sometimes has its bugs, which does make sense given how young and fast-moving the project is.
My longtime favorite prompt to trigger a hallucination was "Did King Henry VIII have any grandchildren?" Famously, he did not, but almost every model, till quite recently, would answer yes, often with the most bizarre reasoning.

The way to resolve it on most models over a certain size is a common tactic used with LLMs: ask the LLM to "think through your answer first". For example, you have a system prompt akin to: "Before answering, think through the facts and brainstorm about your eventual answer in <thinking>..</thinking> tags. Answer only 'yes' or 'no' in <answer>..</answer> tags. Do not include any other text in the answer."

In my current evals (based around numerous similar tricky factual questions) this tactic works on all but the smallest and least proficient models (since they don't tend to have strong enough factual knowledge to think it through). Forcing the models to answer simply 'yes' or 'no' yields only a correct answer on the SOTA models (but some speculate GPT-4o might actually be doing this sort of 'thinking' process on the backend automatically anyway).
Got an nvidia gpu in that machine?

The Sway author has strong opinions about nvidia (historically warranted), so you need to specify a magic flag (now --unsupported-gpu, previously --my-next-gpu-wont-be-nvidia).
So you think he will take the news gracefully that he isn't getting $45M after all? LOL.
That is incredibly confusing. If you are showing a demo landing page, then definitely don't make the demo landing page selling the same product that you are selling.

"Bootstrap your landing page with ConvertFast UI" uhhh and your product is called ConvertFast? please look at how other landing page creators do their demo pages.
Presumably if you do not have social media, you will be weeded out of the banking system like the terrorist you are?
CrowdStrike blames test software for taking down 8.5M Windows machines
I kinda want to try myself at building one but no idea whatsoever how do I even approach getting started. I've never done any projects that involved custom hardware.
What exactly does a "air pollution meter" measure, and how do I get one?
some of them are. But I have markdown and graphs in my notebook that they read.
I'll tell the other side of the story.

I am not allowed to use ChatGPT and Copilot in my work.

As a result, I feel hampered, terribly. Especially because I usually work on hobby projects in the weekends where I use both consistently. Not a day goes by that I don't ask ChatGPT to reorganize some code, tell me what a function of some library does, or tell me about a specific error I am facing. Multiple times a day I will write a comment about what is going to happen in the next line and have Copilot generate the rest for me.

I feel like a carpenter being forced to use a screwdriver instead of a drill.
I enjoy that podcast, only really listened to it a few times, but they definitely bring up some interesting topics, the kind I come on HN for.
Not sure why they call it "first" and why they call it "disaster". Some drug addict, coincidentally a hard drug maker, ended his life in a vegetable state - isn't that worth a Darwin Award?

If we're going to look at the real tragedies of early times, it's probably best to consider thalidomide. Unlike people who took hard drugs in those days, knowing the consequences, thalidomide users consumed the pills for anxiety, trouble sleeping, "tension" (whatever that means), resulting in more than 10000 children over the same decade born with deformities.
Dreaming of a mad billionaire bootstrapping a balanced ternary ecosystem from the ground up.
The best sources I can find indicate that doctors work ~25% more hours than other workers, on average, though this has declined since the 70s.

https://www.ajpmonline.org/article/S0749-3797(23)00166-6/ful...

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2915438/
Indeed I’d be surprised something like this doesn’t already exist. This article almost reads like a press release for the product that has been developed. What it needs is an air of legitimacy, hence the appeal to a public-private partnership.
There are people who cheat in fucking tetris competitions.

What do you mean your mind is boggled that pro cyclists cheat? Some people will literally sell their grandmothers if it brings them an inch closer to worldwide fame and fortune.
My only Solaris experience is using SmartOS. I find Zones there to be fairly easy to deal with. Is this just because SmartOS is papering-over the awfulness?
I'm sure this will be downvoted as a low quality HN comment, but honestly the only valid response here is: lol fuck off
jack welch ?
The major companies are such as nvidia Cuda (nvenc encoder/nvdec decoder) and VAAPI in Intel CPUs. FFmpeg has lot of good documentation on this subject.
That link basically say a unified Social Credit system doesn't actually exist as imagined and the heavily covered Zhima Credit system basically just didn't even work.

Though I'm sure there's no shortage of AI snake-oil vendors who promise banks the world over that they can do it but it "just needs more data to train on, 6 months tops, trust me bro".
> They genuinely seem to think the age of employing people is ending which I guess isn't a shock since that's what Sam Altman and the media have been telling them.

I wonder if they have good answers as to who will buy their products after all the jobs are gone. Reminds me of https://quoteinvestigator.com/2011/11/16/robots-buy-cars/ . An anecdote 70 years old at this point but seemingly evergreen in its applicability.
Where in London are you?

I also live in London and never had that.
I do use uBlock Origin. The video seemed to be 'content' of Forbes, which reflects upon Forbes more than whatever ads they run.

I don't use Firefox Reader Mode because (against all reasonable expectation) it bypasses the blocker, permitting tracking like crazy.
P/E is a good measure for value stocks, where you're looking for consistent returns.
Waymo still has to scale, the number means nothing.

Tesla for example had a P/E ratio of 1000 two years ago. Okay it's still potentially overvalued and the share price has declined but their P/E ratio has dropped dramatically.
Neither. I guess we'll try argument from authority. A sibling post called out pony.

Lean, coq, isabelle define integer division by zero to be zero. E.g. https://xenaproject.wordpress.com/2020/07/05/division-by-zer...

So by case analysis either:

- I am a moron, and so are the developers of lean, coq and isabelle

- Most of the responders to this thread are failing to think for themselves

- Responders all think "number" must mean "real number"

Reading through the various responses, it's looking somewhat likely that "number" means "real number" for most people here. And divide zero on the reals is not well formed. Which is weird given it's a programming themed board and your language is far more likely to give you integers mod word size and floating point than real numbers.

By "number" I mean "the number your computer can represent", which appears to have been accidental trolling on my part. The reference to a mechanical calculator struggling was perhaps insufficient.
I discovered this during the anniversary. I played it non-stop from start to finish. What a treasure.
These discussions (ie, everything that follows here) would be much easier if the crowd insisting on the OSI definition of open source would capitalize Open Source.

In English, proper nouns are capitalized.

"Open" and "source" are both very normal English words. English speakers have "the right" to use them according to their own perspective and with personal context. It's the difference between referring to a blue tooth, and Bluetooth, or to an apple store or an Apple store.
Sounds like a good way to fight for better pay
Wouldn't manufacturers try to increase potency even if it is legalized? Marketing it as "better bang for your buck"?
You require at least a low level of insulin to keep metabolic systems in balance. Whether they eat carbs or not, T1 diabetic patients need insulin or they will go into diabetic ketoacidosis and die. Because insulin necessarily lowers glucose in addition to suppressing ketoacidosis, T1 patients need carbs.

T2 patients are on a spectrum with some having enough insulin production and sensitivity left that they can do okay with no/very low carb intake and may even get better as they lose weight. Some T2 patients get a kind of burned out pancreas and severe insulin resistance which requires exogenous insulin to treat and behaves more like T1 but with the caveat that due to reduce insulin sensitivity, they usually need much higher doses in insulin than T1 patients.
For sure, this would lead to marginalised and vulnerable groups being denied access to the banking system.
If you're building a product, maybe use a CDN during MVP phase while you validate?

Don't think your end customers will care who's serving the video?
I once build a 8s20p battery for a drone using nickelstrips and a spotwelder. At one point the battery looked exactly the same as the one in this article. I made a dumb mistake by letting my scissors fall on the exposed battery cells. Causing a huge spark and flames with black plumes covering my whole 100m3 garage in black ash and other crap. Always have a metal case, and fire blankets nearby.
Is there a specific shortcoming of the model that could be improved, or are we simply seeking better APIs?
It is probably a mix of people who got nowhere else to interact with people, and people using Groups. Facebook was where you'd go to talk to all your friends and family, most of my friends have been getting shadowbanned since 2012 ~ so it made me use it less. I got auto striked on my account for making a meme joke about burning a house down due to a giant spider in a video. I appealed, and it got denied. I'm not using a platform that will inadvertently ban me by AI. But the people actually posting to kill others, and actually burn shit down, and bots stay just fine?

Plus I didn't want to risk my employers Facebook App being in limbo if I got banned, so I left Facebook alone, never to return.

Facebook trying to police the world is the only thing keeping me away, if I can use the platform and post meme comments again, maybe I might reconsider, but I doubt it. Reddit is in a similar boat. You can get banned, but all the creepy pedophile comments from decades and recently are still up no problem.
They make you undo the plugs and connect the wires from the motor to their battery mount.
I wonder if anyone ended up saving a copy of the Spring operating system.
How is this different from China's social credit score?
It's a high effort way of calling the GP an NPC, so just an insult.
I'm interested in the security of the app. Is it authenticated? How? Can an attacker change cell types and start a fire or other dangerous situations?
It doesn’t bring me peace of mind to know I have the privilege of flying, today, while other innocent people are banned by a racist authoritarian government. It gives me fear that I could be the next victim.
I'd love to have Ballmer back. The Microsoft products I use (Windows) have become increasingly crappified under current leadership.
Crossbow as well.
Banks find AML "Ineffective" because the premise is erroneous. KYC is a sham because bankers don't actually know their customers and checking that you have a valid ID before you can open an account has no value. Criminals, or their straw men, have a valid ID.

To detect crime you need detectives to investigate crimes. The transaction record by itself means nothing because the banks have no way to know what any of the transactions are actually paying for. But if you independently know that someone is buying cocaine or selling state secrets then you don't need their financial records to arrest them.

Digging into anybody's Facebook isn't going to change that because posting about your criminal activities on a public forum is already how dumb criminals get arrested. This is nothing but a data grab by the banks.
I think it’s just an expectations question. Current gen models are a relatively minor productivity enhancer on the margin. Orgs that treat it as such are yielding the benefits. Those that think it means they can get 20% extra out of their existing workforce… are not.
"Steve Ballmer played a powerful part in Microsoft’s comeback" (2019):

* https://qz.com/1551842/steve-ballmer-played-a-powerful-part-...

"Satya Nadella credits Steve Ballmer for pushing Microsoft into the cloud":

* https://www.cnbc.com/2020/01/16/satya-nadella-credits-ballme...

I think the biggest knock against Ballmer was not being able to figure out a (smart)phone strategy that ended up working. Having more than just Android and iOS would probably have been a better situation for everyone to be in.
This is a free and open source CLI tool, and the landing page is just template generated by the tool, not real product and pricing.

For sections details, it's on the docs page: https://ui.convertfa.st/docs
Would have been nice if the headline was prefaced with "Book Review" as it is once you click through. Then I would have been less disappointed that the article did not answer the question it apparently asked.
I think the adoption of 3d secure will be better in preventing fraud than giving banks more access to my personal information.

I suspect access to this information won't be limited to fraud detection but loans, mortgages, etc.

What happens to people like me who don't really use social media as well?
Wanna elaborate, friend?
"Hey canonical, hire me! I failed every single class in high school including gym. You want me to explain why or not? It's incredibly relevant to how I operate as a 36-year-old today." I said in a monotone voice dripping with sarcasm.

"Yes actually could you explain why your grades were so bad?"

"Well my mother was going through a mental health crisis for most of my teenage years and was abusing my father mentally and essentially driving him to attempt suicide multiple times unsuccessfully. I was going to a special school at the time, actually I was being shuttled through multiple special schools. I didn't feel like doing homework. I didn't feel like participating in gym. I had a lot of other shit going on. So, are you going to remove these silly silly questions from your job applications? Because now you've made me extremely sad and unmotivated and uncomfortable and honestly Linux sucks so I'm going to go apply at Microsoft now bye!"
Yep, the one and only
Fine-Tune Multi-Modal Models – A Complete Guide
Having profiles doesn't really change the fact that even Ampere generation encoding block at slowest profile won't come close to visual quality at same output bitrate to x264s slow+ profiles (and we're not even touching on H.265/AV1 here).

> For your comparison, are assuming that the objective is best quality, e.g. that you'd accept 10x the computation even if it gave only a 2% quality improvement?

The difference is more like 150% encoding time for half the filesize at same SSIM - depending on configuration and video type of course. And that ignores the fact that a server machine with 64-core Threadripper or equivalent can handle parallel encoding of many more videos at massively lower dollar cost than using nvenc. Especially at current GPU prices and GPU power consumption.

There's a reason why all online services are encoding in software (usually with x264 & co.) for mainstream most used profiles (that is, SD/HD, many also for 4K).

It just doesn't make sense from product quality, user experience or financial perspective. It only makes sense if you never check the results of your production.
Inch by inch were just becoming inhuman nodes without any rights or privacy.

Slowly slowly catchy monkey.
The Skill Trees Project
You probably noticed that before Oracle's legal dept.
And twice as expensive in comparison to the source providers’ APIs
This is unrelated to that post - vaxry and wlroots was to my knowledge cooperating quite well before vaxry got banned from freedesktop (where wlroots is hosted) for breaking code of conduct and handling it in a very bad way.
often they do and it's just copium because they're bald themselves. bald people hate the idea of other people saving their hair.
Ever been to Oxford Street in London where one preacher or another is banging on about god?
No, 4:3 is not a square.

I found a discussion on the topic here[*]. The consensus seems to be that “wasted” sensor area outside the circle would not be marketable.

https://photo.stackexchange.com/questions/109452/is-there-an...
I'm currently unemployed, and my last job ended over two years ago, so my experience is more related to the pre-AI boom era.

Back then, I often felt that the software products we were developing could have been created by much smaller teams of experienced programmers, or even by a single programmer. I'm referring specifically to direct programming, excluding management, QA, and devops. My professional experience is primarily with startups and small companies, but I believe this idea could extend to some larger products as well.

This raises the question of whether I, as a programmer, was productive enough. I believe that my colleagues and I were quite productive, and we performed our daily tasks honestly and fairly. However, I feel that our responsibilities were artificially limited. I think my productivity could have been much higher if my responsibilities within the company had been expanded. At least, this is what my personal, non-commercial experience with my pet projects in my spare time suggests.

I understand that a pet project is not the same as a business solution, but I believe the core issue is not that AI affects programmers' productivity, but that AI has helped management realize that increasing the number of programmers does not necessarily improve product quality.

I also found Josh Christiane's video on this topic very insightful: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hAwtrJlBVJY
Ask HN: HN-type platform with in-house content, would you use it?
When I want some quality content, the only platform I can confidently visit is HN.

Other platforms I have checked out (substack, medium, etc.) are horrible. They are too bloated with dumb people who write dumb articles. Finding high quality articles is very hard. (No, I don't care about 10 awesome tricks in React)

Good essays are even harder to find. Most people post those on their own websites. It does not help that such people rarely care about SEO so their websites are almost impossible to just come across by just googling.

HN has its own issues. Out of 30 displayed articles, I might be interested in 3-5 in the best case scenario. It would be great if there was some kind of category or tag-based filter I could apply.

My question is this. If there was a platform with content of similar quality to HN, that allowed you to:
- If you are a reader, quickly find intellectually engaging content (created by writers on the platform), which you can filter if you want, keep tabs on creators that are to your liking, and participate in discussions.
- If you are a writer, get access to comfortable (not over the top) environment for writing and revising/editing your content in markdown, publishing the said content and getting feedback in the form of comments.

Would you use it? Or is HN enough for the readers, and the writing alternatives enough for the writers?
Nah, those questions wouldn't trigger me as hard as using Windows does.
It's not bad if we do it.
How about a rational number? Why not a complex number? That you especially like the real numbers is particularly unfortunate when they are so poorly represented in essentially all programming languages.
> That's what I get for choosing to work for something I'm passionate about.

Are you passionate about working for your current employer or passionate about your career?

I’m passionate about my career (programming/software development): I love reading the classic tech books out there (TAOCP, DDIA, etc.), I love working on side projects, sometimes I contribute to open source, etc.

On the other hand, I couldn’t care less about my employer. Not because they are bad, but I just don’t care about most of the tech companies out there. I do what I need to do to get paid, but i’m not passionate about deadlines, conversations with other engineers about subjective topics, daily standups, on call, etc.
Having worked at GE, during Neutron Jack's time, I concur.
The actual proposal is short (9 pages including glossary) and linked in the article: https://db.wolfsberg-group.org/assets/e3d83d2f-fad9-46d2-b5a...

I'd encourage you to draw your conclusions from the PDF rather than the journalist's interpretation.
Open data for open algo for open AI is the path forward.
My dad worked at a hotel and he noticed that anytime Amex card holders did a charge back, even if their signature matched their ID, they'd always pull the funds, and the hotel would lose money.

We got Amex after that, since it means if we ever have a true theft/card skim issue, chances are high they will back us, instead of putting the debt on us. If that ever changes, I'll ditch them. The small shops might not take them, but every gas station does, and I rather not pump gas with my debit card.
I have long since believed that maintaining a token "acceptable" social media presence is much more powerful than abstaining with regards to privacy/anonymity. The two suspicious things are overuse/misuse of social media, and no social media at all.

It's like having a honeypot of easily found money in your home (barely hidden in a sock drawer, etc) so that a potential thief will be satisfied with the find and not dig deeper.

Stories like this only solidify the power of maintaining a controlled social media presence.