skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is there any evidence that these things are harmful or just vibes?
We'll just have to disagree on those points. For the most part I think one has to interpret all those events with the worst intentions and biases against Trump in order to arrive at such extreme conclusions (that Trump is such a threat and so evil etc).

> So what if it was?

It shows the gigantic double standard that only anti-establishment conservatives are scrutinized by the establishment and persecuted into oblivion. There were many riots that were condoned by the Left with fires and people getting injured. We had a several groups take over several blocks in multiple cities, and then declare themselves independent from the union (CHAZ), and that was not called an insurrection? Nobody was jailed, or charged, and the mainstream media downplayed as "mostly peaceful", with politicians even celebrating it... meanwhile for J6 they locked up people who were just trespassing or were in the wrong place at the wrong time, including some older people. They went after people for years, opened investigations, etc.

I simply don't buy the demonization of everything Trump, which started many years before there was any "insurrection". Before J6 he was still the most hated person by the establishment and those who trust the establishment.
I searched the term before posting, and got this https://www.indeed.com/career-advice/finding-a-job/how-to-be... and similar results. So that's what I assumed you meant.

And that said, I don't think you need to be a lawyer to submit a DMCA claim. You or I could and I'm not a lawyer at least.
Depends on who is trying to sell you what.

Currently all the tools on the market just use a different prompt and call it an agent.

I've build a tool using different models for each agent, e.g. whisper for audio decoding, llava to detect slides on the screen, open cv to crop the image, ocr to read the slide content, llm to summarize everything that's happening during the earnings call.
The problem with discussions like these, and one that goes nearly always unspoken, is the problem of credibility.

When you deal with deceitful people, credibility matters.

The only time credibility does not matter is when you can independently verify what is being said, such as through a framework like Descartes Rules of Method, Logic, or some other epistemological method that is appropriate. Only then does credibility not matter because you can judge for yourself because it has appropriate rational backing.

When you are solely down to an entity that does not use such a framework; credibility matters.. and by extension reputation and past actions take on more importance than hollow words.

Microsoft, especially when it was run by Bill Gates, was never a credible entity. Today, it is run by accountants seeking to ride the knifes edge of what the market will bear, and in the process provide as little value as possible for creations that were made decades ago, ride the gravy train until it goes into the ocean.

While the people at Microsoft certainly have come up with some neat features and projects, when looking at these features/products and the history behind them (i.e. looking at Powershell), these were largely complete accidents, and/or significant internal politicking that could have gone either way because there was little to no profit in it. Their engineers used to be some of the best, but it matters little when the Accountants are in charge and see everything in a risk averse lens.

Once you lose credibility, it is almost impossible to get it back because you have to do so much more than it would have cost originally just to tip the scales back to even. Perception is sticky like that.

To get back to the core question, can we trust Microsoft with Open Source...
No you can't, not ever, because they are solely concerned with making profit and stealing whatever they can under the color of law. Open Source doesn't make profit.

The rise of open source is the natural outcome when barriers to entry in a market impose costs so high that you can't do business without those features, (excluding participants from that market, monopolistic ally), and open source is exploitive free labor that's been used to create an alternative to those products when no business can compete due to the simple mathematics of costs.

Even the big players can't compete with free for long without diversifying which is why FOSS is still around today. Volunteers, and some non-standard funding routes which aren't really all that viable at scale. This is also why Microsoft as an entity has been trying to poison pill Linux for awhile, they want to be the only game in town and read everything you write in Office; build a dossier, and sell it to the highest bidder. What could be more valuable then the thoughts of every single person using their product.

Of course they'll claim they aren't doing this (deceitfully), just like Google claims they don't wiretap and listen to surrounding endpoint devices they don't own to show you ads related to what you were talking about in your own home.
Try it for classification tasks.
> We try not to cross subsidize our products or services.

Could you then at least start offering object storage on top of your regular storage offerings in the cloud? You have repeatedly stated you won't do this, but I don't understand why. I think people using your services would pay a premium for an AWS compatible storage API.
I trusted it much less when the government was ordering pre-Musk Twitter to take down stuff they didn't like for political reasons. Unfortunately most other social media is controlled in that manner.
I think it's more that we have different amounts of time in mind for "relatively soon". I'd be happy with that roadmap.

Where can I find info on that roadmap, by the way? I've found a few things but they're very vague about price at best.
Where are you getting 1500 Soyuz flights? As far as I can find the number is more like 150. It also experienced failure and loss of crew on two missions (Soyuz 1, Soyuz 11).
The Children's Hospital
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A Prayer for Owen Meany - John Irving
This is for enterprise gear, the drives might cost something like that but whatever storage array these go in will be at least 6 figures on its own with a 3 year support contract.
I disagree. Making a satellite for observing space is great and all but you have a massive turnaround and it is super expensive. A ground based observatory can have upgrades, different equipment, lots and lots of modes of operation, and is much more accessible to the public. Sure it would be nice to have satellites with various spectra of analysis and it would be great for that to happen sooner, but the number of ground assets which have been impacted is very high and science gas been set back because of it.

Will this pay off? Eventually very likely it will. Will it be soon? Probably not, and while making space cheaper to access is great it is not a universal good. Remember that if a satellite has a collision we could be in for a cascade of awful and we could lose those satellites we were aiming to benefit from. Maybe if we had some much further away satellites I would agree, but LEO is becoming quite crowded and the benefit is not being shared around, it is enriching and small number of wealthy people.
If your eyes are exactly parallel the distance to the image shouldn’t affect its required size. The images need to be exactly as far apart as your pupils, and that doesn’t change with distance. Of course, your eyes don’t need to be exactly parallel so there is some wiggle room to the size.
List of Dictionaries by Number of Words
This is seriously so cool. Thank you.
I imagine there is also a real concern that a lot of these things are using Lithium batteries from no-name companies that cannot be tracked down and held responsible if there is an explosion.
Unfortunately the US demolished such urban structures to make space for cars and parking spaces. We now get a small downtown with clusters of skyscrapers, and then endless urban sprawl. It definitely made the cities of the US ugly, especially when compared to the European cities.
AWS offers a solution which is OpenSearch serverless collections. A dedicated collection can be spun up for each user/tenant, e.g. «thing1-user345», «thing2-user123», instead of co-mingling the «user123» and «user345» in the same collection index. It increases the overall overhead but with the infrastructure repeatability, courtesy of IaaC, it is easy to roll out and process/consume «thing1-user123» and «thing2-user123» as discrete datasets.

Tangentially related. I have been finding multi-tenancy to have become more of a liability at worst or a nuisance at best due to the increasingly frequent customer demands to satisfy the data sovereignity, data confidentiality (each tenant wants their own, non-shared cryptography keys etc), data privacy, compliance, the right to forget/GDPR and similar requiremenets. For anything more complex than an anonymous online flower shop, it is simpler to partition the whole thing off – for each customer/tenant.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grandmother_hypothesis
Always great to see Postgres-based alternatives.

One clarification question - the blog post lists "lack of ACID transactions and MVCC can lead to data inconsistencies and loss, while its lack of relational properties and real-time consistency makes many database queries challenging" as the bad for ElasticSearch. What is pg_bm25's consistency model? It had been mentioned previously as offering "weak consistency" [0], which I interpret to have the same problems with transactions, MVCC, etc?

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37864089
Hey, earlier it was going into Manage and unchecking the Google Analytics. I realized that was a bad design and have it updated now. Now, you can simply reject the cookies :)
My programming career dates back to the '70s, so I can tell you what programmers did back then from my experience: examined core dumps, inserted "print" statements, desk-checked (manually read through) code with a colleague.

We didn't have debuggers per se, but we could step through code one instruction at a time and examine memory. On the PDP minicomputers you would do that from the front panel with switches and lights.

I had to read assembly code and dis-assemble memory contents into assembly routinely back then. I'm sure Dennis Ritchie did that too, that skill was part of the toolbox.

While TDD became a buzzword and cult much later, in the companies I worked at back then we often/usually had to submit a test plan with code to run the tests for any non-trivial code. At my first job (Nike, 1979) we called that code a test harness, more or less the same thing as modern unit tests without the automation. Most companies I worked for through the '80s would run a parallel hardware system for testing/staging, and we worked with business and systems analysts who could verify correct implementation of business rules and look for performance bottlenecks (more of an issue back then compared to today).

Brian Kernighan wrote a book about his days at Bell Labs that covers the development of Unix and C.
Fair point - in the case of a revoked cert, it'd probably be feasible to just watch the revocation list and pkill a user's sessions - with an expired cert, I'm not sure if there's anywhere to watch for that state-change.

Probably the best one could do out of the box is set an 8 hour session limit or so?
I do this on my Steam Deck. I love how it has so many buttons on the back.
Right?! I'm about to purchase a copy too.
What doesn't go into statistics is

1) the negative externalities of being near crime. Suppose you live in a densely populated enough area that you can expect a person to be murdered within 1km of you every year. There's another area, with an identical crime rate but a much more sparsely populated population such that you'd expect a person to be murdered within 10km of you every year. Most people would much prefer the latter.

2) How people adjust their behavior (to avoid the externalities and risk of being an accidental victim). There are places in SF I simply won't step foot in or even drive through after 10pm or so. That's a cost being absorbed by people; if they didn't do so, there would be more additional accidental murders.
It's not about the ethnicity of one suspect. It's about a continual disregard of the will of the people who don't want the UK to turn into North Africa or Afghanistan. The government seems hell-bent on flooding the UK and EU with migrants to destroy any social cohesion. Did you know that thousands of people have been arrested in the UK over the last few years over social media posts? Some freedom you got there...

By the way, did you see the multiple instances of reporters being surrounded and intimidated (maybe even attacked) by "diverse" protesters out there as they claimed that protests were mostly peaceful? I have, and I'm on a different continent. You won't get good information unless you look for it. The mainstream media and most popular online stuff is completely controlled in most of the world.
The Untethered Soul: The Journey Beyond Yourself
- Michael Singer

It had such a deep impact on me that I ended up using it as a "holy" book to take my oath of Canadian citizenship.
It's correct. I have confused Soyuz launcher with Soyuz spacecraft like newbie. It's true. Soyuz spacecraft has early failures (till 1971, none after). Shuttle has late failures (2003, then project decommission). I suppose design improvement in Soyuz, engineering quality decrease in Shuttle. Incompetent early Soyuz design team. Incompetent late Shuttle engineering team. Lack of ethics to make such broken devices.
I used to live in the Tenderloin in late 90's early 00's. Nice affordable studio on Turk. There was always a diverse party going on during the day on the streets. Definitely had an old fashion skid-row vibe. Market street wasn't too bad then. Ah the memories.
You'd need functional pedals, and for the electric push to be equal or lower than the human motive power.
What numbers are you looking at for 5x?

Making sure I'm looking at new hard drives, I see prices around $15/TB at the cheap end. There are a few name-brand SSDs at $45/TB, many more at $50/TB. They're not high end but even the low end is fast these days.
> The list of eligible voters might be not published to protect personal identifiable information and to prevent misuse of such information (in my country it is not published). Therefore you cannot sample anything.

Trusted third-party auditors can have such access without linking the public key to a person's identity. They can also access government databases on a sample basis. This is no different than linking the passport serial number to the person's identity.
depends if you need low latency

modern codec do motion prediction and don't work with with low frame rate out of the box.
Cypronomicon is a pretty fun read
Ever done a game jam? The deadline forces you to focus on shipping whatever iteration ships
Turn of the millennium?
good thing thing you wrote a comment here so you can remember what you were thinking next time you read it :)
Alas, in spite of nvme website saying that the specs are released, https://nvmexpress.org/specifications/ hasnt been updated in >18 months. Looking forward to getting to read in, once these become available.

[Ed: Oh! Subsystem Local Memory Commands and Computational Programs both shows up since I first checked.]

> Enabling live migration of PCIe NVMe controllers between NVM subsystems.

A little confusing to me, but they want to be able to suspend a vm with nvme and Live Migrate that virtual drive somewhere else. Not sure what the problems with this today were but ok?

> New host-directed data placement for SSDs that simplifies ecosystem integration and is backwards compatible with previous NVMe specifications.

This sounds potentially related to Zoned Namespaces? That has been the basket that everyone put their eggs in after the "let the host do it all" Open Channel Flash folks kind of gave up, it feels like.

Hypothetically this is supposed to be much less work, just writing into blocks of storage & deleting the while block. But so far there have been only one or two drives with this capability, afaik, and you can't just go buy them.

Haven't seen any videos or resources on this host directed topic. The wins we could get by doing less are so huge; hoping there's some overlap with these Open Channel flash ideas.

- Support for offloading some host processing to NVMe storage devices.

Very interesting to see where this starts! On-drive data processing can get a real start now. The nvme video talks about, for example, doing CRC processing.
https://youtu.be/w3eiI7IUM8k#t=16m51s

More advanced work (dedicated hardware accelerators, not software) & not NVMe (CXL), but look at Marvell's just announced CXL memory controller Structera, which has hardware lz4 encoder/decoders.

The more basic use case is likely to be query pushdown, putting one filtering directly on the ssd. As noted in the nvme video above, it's actually not that fast in singular (since hard drives don't have 3GHz manycores chips on them) but with lots of drives it can aggregate to big wins.
Was looking for one in Canada. Tried this out and it seems like some of the data is missing from where I live (halifax). Got an email I can hit you up at? Mine's in my HN profile - couldn't find yours on HN or your site.
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I swear, from my personal experience, that this effect is real. Would love to hear a scientific explanation of it though.
Unsure where you are, but in most of the US ebikes that can go over 28mph are not ebikes. They are electric motorcycles, and must be registered as such.

You're not mad at ebikes, you're mad at people with unregistered vehicles, and potentially drivers driving motorcycles without motorcycle licenses.
I've never been thru YC, though I know many who have.

Unless you are already well-informed, well-connected, and well-resourced, it seems like a no-brainer.

(1) Education (2) Connections (3) Near-guaranteed seed fundraising

And two of those three you keep even if you don't wind up succeeding.
Im not an active developer with Microsoft products, but I have questions.
Why is this relevant now being this was written in 2021? Is something similar happening again?

Also I am confused, with many corporations getting into poisoning products for financial gains (enshitification) why are people still talking about engaging with companies that have a proven historical track record that they do not have good moatives?
They're a nudge to move users to install the app. Using the app to redeem a deal gives them much more data on individual customers than using a coupon.
You ignore the fact that many European cities are much smaller than the North American mega city landscape and still have lots of jobs in those cities. But it's also easier to have safer yet walkable and publicly transportabel neighborhoods in a city of 150k or 300k than 3 or 10 million.
reading this as a mariner who works 2-4 months straight, on a ship, in deep sea, 12 hour work day, and no days off (working saturday and sunday).. lol you dont know how bad it really is..
> is right wing

I still think it's funny he publicly changed political parties immediately after his horse sex scandal came out.

And even funnier how they welcomed him despite the direct contradiction to their stated beliefs.

I don't really see him as "right wing" so much as exploiting the right wing. But maybe those two things are synonymous anymore.
Shorter TFA: "What if instead of AGI we 'only' get things that haven't been delivered and may not even be possible? Wouldn't that justify all this expenditure?"
Just don’t drive.
> where you have all [public or private] loops register - and then you can route logic based on loops that exist - and since its promptable

This is actually where we started :)

We had trouble keeping all the context in via RAG and the original 8k token window, but we're aiming to bring this back in the (hopefully near) future.
Fun fact: sometimes the sprint button doesn't actually make you go any faster, it just changes the cameras field of view to make it feel like you're going faster.

https://www.eurogamer.net/mass-effects-sprinting-was-an-illu...
Windows has nothing equivalent to systemd. Windows "Task Scheduler" is very simplistic and disorganized compared to systemd. systemd is definitely one of the nicer things in the Linux world.

I like it a lot and my team uses it extensively to precisely specify the behavior of our embedded products. systemd has a low memory footprint for what it does. It also helps us make our products more secure by making it easier to isolate processes / different system services as much as possible. So the risk of getting hacked over a network service is reduced a lot. Without systemd we would be forced to create our own which wouldn't be as secure.
Exa is hiring ML and Full-stack engineers. Role is in person in SF.
They're working on their own index, embeddings-based model and crawling infrastructure.

https://exa.ai/careers
> patent for rear buttons

Being not familiar with games joysticks area (a keyboard user) this reads as mad as it can. Feels it's like a minefield. Is there anything from this area left not patented yet?
My Hetzner wish list:

1. Dedicated servers in new regions. (Like USA & AMD 7950X3D / AX102 server)

2. See above.

3. See above.

4. Support BGP so I can Bring my own IP.
How much more do you need from Microsoft?
The answer is no, it's always been no and it will always be no.

They don't see the value of OSS. Stop developing in M$ related technologies if you value your time and your DX.

I agree that C# is Java done well, but there are plenty of languages with feet on more solid foundations than a company with a track record of writing crap code and playing games with their developer community.
> At the time the study was conducted, SpaceX had not yet applied its routine brightness mitigation techniques to the DTCs, such as adjusting their chassis and solar panels to reduce the portion of spacecraft illuminated by the sun, study lead author Anthony Mallama of the IAU Centre for the Protection of Dark and Quiet Skies from Satellite Constellation Interference (IAU-CPS) told Space.com.
This is an excellent analysis! It's amazing what can be found with a minimal source code review.
Even with modern marketing like tv ads, display ads, or even paper mailers the expected conversion rate is tiny. It's always a numbers game. If you have a sales script that captures 0.7% of people who hear it while your competition is capturing 0.4% then you have a huge advantage. But you still have to reach thousands of targets to sustain a business.
> Shouldn't they better just update the law to add an exception?

No, the point is in crowded places like airports you don't want people zipping around on electric scooters, suitcases or otherwise, running into people - esp elderly.
U.S. Army seeks to expand space expertise among soldiers