skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Some of us do need the real world-ness though.

IMHO there should be two versions of linear algebra. One for computer science majors and one for mathematicians. I regularly run into stuff at work where I say to myself, "self, this is a linear algebra problem" and I have next to no idea how to transform the problem I have into a matrices or whatever.

But I can write a really stinkin' fast matrix multiplication algorithm. So there's that I guess.

Modern CPUs with big ass SIMD registers are incredibly fast at slogging through a linear algebra problem. Lots of incredibly intelligent people (ie, not me) spend an incredible amount of effort optimizing every last FLOP out of their BLAS of choice. For several years the only question Intel asked itself when designing the next CPU was, "How much faster can we make the SPECfp benchmark?" and it shows. Any time you can convert a problem using whatever ad-hoc algorithm you came up with into a linear algebra problem, you can get absurd speedups. But most programmers don't know how to do that, because most of their linear algebra class was spent proving that the only invertible idempotent nxn matrix is the identity matrix or whatever.

Discrete math has the same problem. When I took discrete math in college, the blurb in the course catalog promised applications to computer science. It turns out the course was just mucking through literally dozens of trivial proofs of trivial statements in basic number and set theory, and then they taught us how to add two binary numbers together. The chapters on graphs, trees, recursion, big-O notation and algorithm analysis, finite automata? Skipped 'em.
Those metal straws a fucking dangerous. You wouldn't let your kid play around with a butter knife in their mouth. Somehow though because plastic = bad people are running around with these absolutely dangerous things in their mouths.

I won't have them. If I'm worried about the turtles I'll just burn the plastic in a hole in my yard.
> And the main changes will be that the % of Hispanic population will go up (immigration + higher fertile age population) and % of White population will go down (mostly aging).

This is misleading, because it's not tracked like this on the US census. Hispanic is a separate question from race - people are "White Hispanic" or "Black Hispanic" or "(something) Hispanic", not just "Hispanic".
Of course there’s no mention of performance loss or gain after migration.

I remember when microservices architecture was the latest hot trend that came off the presses. Small and big firms were racing to redesign/reimplement apps. But most forgot they weren’t Google/Netflix/Facebook.

I remember end user experience ended up being _worse_ after the implementation. There was a saturation point where a single micro service called by all of the other micro services would cause complete system meltdown. There was also the case of an “accidental” dependency loop (S1 -> S2 -> S3 -> S1). Company didn’t have an easy way to trace logs across different services (way before distributed tracing was a thing). Turns out only a specific condition would trigger the dependency loop (maybe, 1 in 100 requests?).

Good times. Also, job safety.
Major shifts at OpenAI spark skepticism about impending AGI timelines
Whats the difference between AWD and 4WD? Luxury SUVS are AWD and have transfer cases with locking diffs. G Wagons, Range rovers, Cayennes. The luxury crossovers have limited slip diffs and brake torque vectoring.

Edit: Not sure why i am getting downvoted. Here are the specs to a G Wagon. AWD with front and rear diff locks.

https://www.caranddriver.com/mercedes-benz/g-class/specs
https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2024/01/amazon-ec...

This was actually added beginning of the year. Definitely was on my most wanted list for a while. You could technically use EFS, but that’s a very expensive way to run anything IO intensive.
Love this line from your post "The marathon is simply an exhibition of the labor it took to achieve it, it is not the goal in and of itself."
Because the group in question isn't the majority group, and still isn't after this increase.

It's definitely eliding a lot of the nuance of the article, but technically it's not wrong.
That's torches bad software distribution problem. No one can solve it apart from torch distributors
I scanned a lot of positives on an Epson V850 flatbed just fine. Except for the resolution and the setup being a bit finicky, there wasn't much between that and the $25K X5 scanner I had.
Yeah, I didn't mean this book specifically, rather the presentation as an example.
How much ELO on chatbot arena does 4 bit lose vs full fp16/bf16?
That’s disappointing because zero calorie sweeteners and products that use them are a game changer for those who need to manage calorie intake or glucose levels.
Feels like you're rewriting history, to me. Smartphone SoCs are not hugely profitable, and a big point of the past 10 years were Chinese manufacturers entirely ignoring ARM IP to increase profits. The only people that make money off ARM hardware are the export-officiated manufacturers that don't pay per-unit licenses; which is exclusively Apple. Nobody else has a more permissive ARM architecture license, not even Nvidia.

Intel at the time was fabless, would have needed to license or design a RISC architecture, and would have ended up just as squeezed as any other part of Apple's supply chain. And if Intel made a serious profit, Apple would have replaced them anyways. It's an all-risk-no-reward scenario.
Why skip point 1 and do some strange tangent on a SaaS product unrelated to using k8s or not?

Most people looking into (and using) k8s that are being told the "you most avoid vendor lock in!" selling point are nowhere near the size where it matters. But I know there's essentially bulk-pricing, as we have it where I work as well. That it's because of picking k8s or not however is an extremely long stretch, and imo mostly rationalization. There's nothing saying that a cloud move without k8s couldn't be done within the same amount of time. Or that even k8s is the main problem, I imagine it isn't since it's usually supposed to be stateless apps.
The way ouf of authoritarianism isn't to comply and hope it stops...

If you're at an organisation and they implement or try to enforce something you disagree with, the answer is simple -- don't comply.
I don't blame the USADA for doing things their own way given WADA's complicity in the Chinese doping scandal.
There was an AI picture someone made of a typical person from Huntsville, Alabama. It showed an ~60 yo guy with glasses and a NASA shirt. Someone on the local subReddit said, “You’re looking at the world expert on the maximum bend radii of avionics wiring harnesses and conduits and he’d be happy to talk to you about it.”
Funny, but it made me think that the engineering shops around here are full of people like that with similar, hard earned, expertise in aerospace engineering and design and they’re all retiring or retired. What percentage of this expertise did they pass along to the younger engineers? I’m sure they tried, but maybe 50-60%?

We know that everything doesn’t get written down (hence the reverse engineering of the Apollo systems). And the stuff that does get written down doesn’t have the experience that created the document. Remembering a failed vacuum experiment with some adhesive which led to “You must use <some different adhesive>” isn’t going to prevent some bean counter in the future saying, “Why don’t you use <failed adhesive>? It’s cheaper and seems to have the same specs.” Or, for avionics harnesses, “There’s enough room. Just make it fit!”

All of that to say, Boeing ain’t what it used to be. And I know people who have worked there in recent years and they say the same.
But what language is the program written in? It would have to include all of the possible data types and formats, and include all possible operations with the correct semantics.
This is the joy of my martial arts path as well.

In my experience, (This is a Mechanical Elves take on it (I studied Bujinkan Budo Taijutsu, Danzan Ryu, Small Circle, and my Professor Larry Cary said to me one session:

"The movements I am teaching you awaken dormant brain circuitry. When you do these movements, all the old Masters are with you"

That was the moment it really clicked for me.

Later, Soke Hatsumi was quoted in the infamous "Understand? Good. Play!" book -- my favorite quote:

"I am teaching you to wield a sword, even if you have no arms!"

--

The reason is that these two statements allowed me to see what the true nature of my Joy of Movement truely was: I was able to see the Principles of Movement flow through me - (we call this The Mode) - and it was that feeling that was being fully present is what I sought and I feel thats the nature of Mastery of any craft.

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@sebg:

You'd really love this Scientest's interview:

"Things like 'YOU' - that took the Universe Billions of years to generate 'YOU' - you have a lot of Time embedded in you..."

https://youtu.be/6o8OFTrSTpk?t=7832

Fn prphetic. This Scientists entire podcast and more is worth Time.

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I wrote this Haiku a long while back:

Movement and Measure

All is One, flowing through Time.

Another yourself.
By that he means that Irish were considered by racists from 100 years ago a subrace of white, as were eastern European until the late 90s (that sentiment still exist in some places), and Italian were considered 'colored' until the 70s.

Racism do not have any internal consistency, that's why I heavily judge the intelligence of those subscribing to it. Indians were 'black' until weren't in my country.
This article says a bit about the differences:

https://www.caranddriver.com/features/a27630736/awd-vs-4wd/

The primary reason there's a 4WD vs AWD distinction is the ability to lock the differentials, and that determines the mechanisms that the wheels are driven by.

And that's why they use those terms in a prescriptive law context.

to simplify:

AWD -> power gets to all wheels (driven wheels) but wheels are usually allowed to spin at different speeds to facilitate pavement driving and turning.

4WD -> power gets to all wheels, but there is a locking mechanism that locks all wheels so they all turn at the same speed - if you know the physics of turning objects, it means turning while underway is either impossible or damaging to the drivetrain. This is however, useful in mud or rock, or challenging terrain. When on mud or rock or whatnot, you turn, move a bit, stop, check, turn a bit, move, stop, check, turn a bit, movie, stop, etc. So the fact that all wheels turn at the same time is an advantage.

The reason some 4WD don't have a "differential lock" is that it's fused by bare metal - it doesn't need a lock because it's welded together, so no lock needed!

The car and driver article gives an easy test: if the car manual tells you "this is bad for road driving" - that's 4WD.

you might think "well 4WD is terribly useless for regular driving" and you would be entirely correct. That's why most 4WD cars incorporate both modes of driving mechanisms so they can switch.

You can tell apart a permanent 4WD / full time rock climber by the owner needing to use a trailer to move the vehicle instead of driving it over the highway, usually they use a pickup truck or SUV with a regular drivetrain to haul gear and pull the trailer with the 4WD vehicle to the trailhead, unload, then go into places like Death Valley Back Country or Moab with the 4WD vehicle.
My understanding is domestic births are practically irrelevant compared to border crossings, the growth isn’t people being born here.
Also, importantly, how hard will the US government be taxing imports and propping-up Intel? I think that an anti-Apple and pro-Apple administration would both want them to stop shipping jobs offshore. There's a tariff knob that can be adjusted until only Intel (or GlobalFoundries, lmao) are feasible choices, and if the US wants their Intel investment recouped then they may well push for that kind of deal.

Personally, I find the "samurai's honor" shit where one company avoids another to be childish and stupid. If you make Apple's board choose between ending their grudge-match or blowing up their margins, I don't think they'll care much either. Or maybe I'm wrong, and the 2027 iPhone is manufactured with 24nm wafers intended for the Toyota Prius.
No. Britain was our homeland but the same thing has been done there, so as I said we can't just leave.
The biggest advantage of 3D printing is that every item can be customised. It would be possible to make really cool designs without inncurring higher prices for customisation. I wonder if they've done that here or just Carbon copied the same design like traditional construction.
I'm in the group that uses multiple browsers. Its hard going between Safari and Firefox:

* Safari has tab groups. I guess Firefox is working on it again

* FF 129 just got Tab previews, but you have to hover over each to see it. Safari can show you previews for everything in a tab group

It sounds like FF is catching up slowly, but compared to Safari's UI, still feel like IE6. I use it for uBlock mostly.
Yes ans that is the greatest reminiscence and given you couldn't name any politician I guess everybody sees how fringe it is.

Most Germans aren't aware of the German speaking minority in Silisea.
> I think much of the hate on HN comes from the "ruby on rails is all you need" crowd.

Maybe - people seem really gungho about serverless solutions here too
I think you're correct -- there's not any functional benefit to 4WD (vs AWD) without locked diffs. The signage should probably demand locked diffs.
Sideshows are out of control. Can nerds with annoyances take back the streets?
Has limiting the amount of asylum seekers or people coming over the border to claim asylum crossed your mind?
You don't think there's a medium to be found here?

Sure, denying yourself all pleasures isn't a lot of fun. But living entirely in response to those urges is a great way to feel sick and unhealthy all the time. I feel physically way healthier and better at 196 pounds than I did at 328. That's not just because it's likely added many years to my lifespan. It's because I don't have to check the sturdiness of a chair before sitting down, because I don't want to collapse after climbing a staircase, because I can share my body with a sexual partner and not feel ashamed.

Self-control does not have to mean self-denial. It means making the trade-offs between different things you want (which often conflict with one another) deliberately and consciously instead of accidentally.
I'm an actual computer user and I disagree. Now what?
There are many 4WD vehicles that don't have locking or even limited slip diffs, though.

> 4WD -> power gets to all wheels, but there is a locking mechanism that locks all wheels so they all turn at the same speed

This isn't universally true of 4WD vehicles.

E.g., https://www.reddit.com/r/overlanding/comments/61yyam/4x4_wit... or https://www.quora.com/Do-all-4WDs-have-lockers
What happened to L.A. bank robbers who did heists in the 90s?
What do you use for a bookmark server?
> Energy has no feelings, no conscience, no self

> Where did you get that idea?

It is not an idea that one needs to have given to them. It is the simple conclusion of known physics. However, the claim that "energy has consciousness" is a non-obvious idea, which can't be derived from the evidence and mathematics we use to describe the universe. It should be supported if you believe it. It would be an important learning about the universe. That, or you're redefining "energy" as "any system that contains energy," (including a human being, which very few would define as "pure energy").

Is there any meaning to this position you're taking? Does it support predictions about the world? Does it change how you think about the world?
Stevie Wonder, maybe Herbie Hancock
My friend has a subaru that he regularly takes on stuff that always impresses the truck and jeep riders. This includes soft sand on dunes, straight up the sides of leaf covered hills, through high rivers with rock bottoms. I think he has lifted it slightly but just about an inch or so with new performance shocks.
"Some", which is what, just Rivian? I wouldn't take our dual-motor Hyundai Ioniq 5 down anything more technical than a forest road, if only because of its (IIRC) 7 inches of ground clearance. And I imagine the AWD software is tuned to icy suburban streets, not something like this trail. Best I can tell, the AWD is supposed to get you to the ski slopes, not down the Rubicon.
To me, the tragedy of rewriting is the underappreciation of why the gnarliest 5% of the codebase is there.

Occasionally, usually because initial requirements were sorely lacking or changed, you can simplify the system via rewrite.

More often, everyone ends up realizing they didn't actually understand that last 5% of edge cases.

And then you've either replaced the working system with a 95% complete solution (so common in modern software) or you produce a system equally ugly once you handle that last 5%.
This museum is a must-see if you’re visiting SD or south LA.

I suggested we visit it, and was very surprised that my family and I spent >2 hours (kids younger than 10). For the kids, they have scavenger hunts which require some attention to complete.

It is great.
Do you really think there’s no upward mobility for someone not born into privilege?
NameCheap for the ones they support. I don’t like how tightly wound Cloudflare domains are with the account. I’m nervous about putting too many eggs in one basket with them. I sometimes need to switch hosting a domain in a cloudflare account with another cloudflare account. They don’t let you do that without moving a domain to a third party registrar first. I just shortened that process.
But "clearance, strong tyres and suspension travel" have NOTHING to do with 4WD vs AWD, which as far as I can tell is kind of a silly distinction since nowadays cars have sophisticated enough drivetrains that they can use brake-based torque vectoring to force up to half the engine torque into one wheel.
It's completely cursed, but I've started deploying helm via terraform lately. Many people, ironically me included, find that managing deployments via terraform is an anti pattern.

I'm giving it a try and I don't despise it yet, but it feels gross - application configs are typically far more mutable and dynamic than cloud infrastructure configs, and IME, terraform does not likey super dynamic configs.
This is likely only true for very poorly run companies — but a LOT of companies, especially big companies, are very poorly run.

It would be a disaster if such a high percentage of employees at my company quit. But my company is very lean and mean. The productivity of each employee is extremely high, and a big reason for that is most employees have been around a long time (10+ years). They know their jobs extremely well and the team is very tight-knit.

The company has to pay for that low turnover — we all get big raises every year without having to ask, bonuses, etc. — but they can afford it handily because the company is well run.
I think you're on to something here. There is definitely a much looser standard for whiteness in the United States. The one drop rule was used only w.r.t. former slaves. But the definition of whiteness in the United States seems to be much broader these days.

Contrast that with Europe, where whiteness is a very strict category. This could partially explain the unrest that's going on in the UK. I saw a group of X users arguing with a British citizen with an Italian surname. They claimed that he was not really English (really what they were implying was, he wasn't white), even though his passport said so. I found it strange, because in the States we often consider Italian Americans to be white.
"Got Eem" - Worldcoin

*for those that aren't familiar with Worldcoin.... https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/07/technology/worldcoin-iris...
Most AWD systems do not have the ability to vector torque like that. They're usually based on mechanical limited-slip differentials that require some amount of slip before they partially lock, and sometimes the limited slip is only between front and rear, not left and right. There are different types, with some requiring a lot of slip before they lock up and others requiring little.

Limited slip differentials cost more than open differentials. Limited-slip differentials that lock up quickly cost more than those that allow a lot of wheelspin. Electronically-controlled torque-vectoring differentials cost yet more.

The system you describe seems to meet the NPS definition of 4WD someone linked elsewhere: "a means to mechanically power both front and rear wheels at the same time", though I wonder if there might be some more technical regulation with specific requirements. I agree that sort of thing could work well for off-road use.
I wouldn't say 4WD vs AWD is the best filter but if that is all they can come up with I guess it works.

Some Audi's have locking differentials and they are AWD.
That explains migration within a country which doesn’t change population counts. Unless you’re claiming that white people are moving out of America because it’s too expensive and simultaneously Hispanics are moving into a higher COL area (even if not high COL cities, America as a whole is going to be higher COL than Latin America).

Based on the news I’ve been following, a more likely explanation is that Biden’s immigration policy has been more welcoming on the southern border at the same time as Latin America destabilizing quite a bit politically and generating a lot of refugee migration.

I just don’t see how high COL or lack of housing being built explains the population growth being dominated by Hispanics.
As a freelancer myself, I am delighted by the amount of freelancers in the comments. We're very often heavily underrepresented in the wider software world. Guess it has to be that we are still the minority, lol
Depending on your definition of "good," probably most of them. While I have been guilty of taking questionable AWD rentals on questionable roads in places like Death Valley when younger, you really want properly-equipped Jeep Rubicons and the like that you're not going to get from the average car rental place.
This falls apart when you consider that courts aren't robots.

I couldn't stand on a street corner and swing my arm every day, and when eventually my fist collides with somebody, claim to the court "oh, I didn't assault him, I swing my fist every day in this arc and he just got in my way".

Likewise, for warrant canaries, it's unlikely that the court would consider it compelled speech when the entire premise is to use repeated speech to subvert the court's rulings.
Where are those people going and why are Hispanics moving in?
Bell was released in 2021 after serving more than two decades. Around two years later, police say, he attempted to rob two banks and stole tens of thousands of dollars from two others.

So much for the notion of criminals 'aging out of crime' , which has become popular in recent years

Authorities were puzzled at the jump. The number of banks had not quite doubled between 1944 and 1964, but holdups had soared from 20 in 1945 to 121 in 1963 for the L.A. metro area, according to a Times article.

The marked decline of bank robberies from the peak in the '90s explains why tough sentencing works as a deterrent even if it's an unpopular or untrendy opinion compared to the more popular and compassionate 'Nordic model' of criminal justice. Even the most uneducated criminals respond to incentives. The prospect of a quarter of one's life behind bars is a poor tradeoff when considering committing crime. Additionally, the threat of a long sentence also increases the odds of an accomplice cooperating.
Stop putting this into your Python Dockerfiles – Aleksa Cukovic