skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Competence or incompetence is not really relevant. Company as big as Boing gets employees on a bell curve, just like everyone else.

They get average people in a profession and from there, it's on management.

It's management job to put into place system to make employees competent (i.e. trained to efficiently to do the tasks required with a certain quality) and weed out the ones who can't deliver.

There will always be individual failures, but anything over low single digit percentage is a systematic problem = management fault.
> docker doesn't create an overhead by itself

Yes it does, the Docker runtime (the daemon which runs under root) is horribly designed and insecure.
The mice-infested restaurant is a great metaphor for the web....the only problem is that we don't even have a waiter :-) If you have a problem with Facebook there's nobody who comes over to your table and asks you how they can help.
Computers used to be very, very expensive. Residential telephone lines were acquired through mortgage a couple decades ago in my country so being expensive now doesn't mean expensive forever.
Idi Amin could be quite charming. Same for another dictator, who will not be mentioned, at the risk of Godwining the conversation.

He could talk to a family, leave them smitten and hopeful, then whisper "Kill them" to the guard, on his way out.
Is this really true? Arguable lance stroll is better than Logan in f1.
C++'s canonical reference is a very thick book. I figure there is a conflict of interest between the published version and presenting an equivalent online.

It's worth noting there is no good C documentation in one place, either.

Python dumped the book quickly and went online, but that was probably more for the publisher not being interested in releasing new versions every time something changed. It's also a little younger, but still appeared before the widespread use of broadband internet.

I think Perl was probably the first one to make documentation a real first class citizen, with perhaps Emacs shining a light in that direction.
And they certainly have and will and it has had an impact. But what’s the alternative? Let them decimate your industries one by one until they own them all?

It’s not great in any case and one hopes diplomacy can solve it but I don’t see another path.
It says this is the company that produced, among other films, She? Did Megan Ellison have anything to do with it?
I don't know, but people like Ben eater or Pikuma can definitely have great connections with their students over zoom.

Maybe the teachers also need to change the teaching method? I could be wrong because I was not poisoned by social media and short videos when I was young and I did read a lot. I also read Moby Dick although didn't enjoy it.
> Single-monitor is a common way to run Ceph.

What?

> A Ceph cluster must contain a minimum of three running monitors in order to be both redundant and highly-available.

* https://docs.ceph.com/en/latest/glossary/#term-Ceph-Monitor

> Our Configuring ceph section provides a trivial Ceph configuration file that provides for one monitor in the test cluster. A cluster will run fine with a single monitor; however, a single monitor is a single-point-of-failure. To ensure high availability in a production Ceph Storage Cluster, you should run Ceph with multiple monitors so that the failure of a single monitor WILL NOT bring down your entire cluster.

* https://docs.ceph.com/en/latest/rados/configuration/mon-conf...
Interns, at least on paper, have the optionality of getting better with time in observable obvious ways as they become grad hires, junior engineers, mid engineers etc.

So far, 2 years of publicly accessible LLMs have not improved for intern replacement tasks at the rate a top 50% intern would be expected to.
Data Commons
Ooh yeah it's great for bouncing ideas on what to name things off of. You can give it something's function and a backstory and it'll come up with a list of somethings for you to pick and choose from.
AT, SK?
> The company counted an average of only 42 employees in 2023, down from 61 two years earlier. During the year, it generated $31MM in net revenue per employee (13-28x that of Amazon, Apple, Google, and Microsoft) and $15.5MM in operating profit (27-560x).

This is the wildest part. One company that is proving all the "why does <company> need 10000 engineers?" takes true.
I fixed the strawberry problem because OpenAI couldn't
So this lets you compress a collection of strings and cheaply decompress any of them individually?
This is hackernews after all!
I think we in the US have a lot less low-level corruption than poorer countries, with large police departments being the outlier. But we also tend to deal with high-level corruption by regulating it, rather than banning it. Lobbying and campaign finance regulations are basically a framework under which some bribery is legal as long as it is done according to the correct procedures. We also have a problem with impunity: at a lower level, qualified immunity for cops, at a higher level, the Supreme Court declaring that there is no legal authority under which they can be held accountable for anything, as well as substantially raising the bar for holding presidents accountable.
I don't understand what the scam is.

The structure is opaque which indicates there might be some scam but how would one know what it is?
Austria and Slovakia
Now I wonder which side is angry about my comment.
Morals like "don't harm others" and "be nice", sure. "A woman should be modest and keep her body covered"...not really.
1 < a gazillion

I think the problem here is different expectations for what a “game” is.

If you tell a room full of programmers that something can make a game they’re going to expect more than that.

I look at that and I don’t really see a game, I see flashcards.

Still pretty cool chatgpt can put that together.

Also the “try again” button doesn’t work.
Everything gets spun, but the simplest way I can understand this is that water shouldn't be getting dirtier in England. It should be cleaner. Of course the regulate-everything crowd will jump on this as delicious confirmation bias, but there are also plenty of sensible people who also think this is worth investigating and enforcing.
Why do you say that? Most individuals that aren't respected by society had that respect, yet lost it through some action (like dealing drugs).

I think we're seeing things in different frameworks, and I'm considering the end result more important than the principles here. If you don't accept that some seemingly individual decisions have a cumulated effect on society long-term, and that shaming is the only mechanism to make changes here, there really is no discourse possible.
ie when you cant beat them, make new metrics

and you can absolutely evaluate how smart someone is in a 2min casual conversation. You wont be able to tell how well they are in some niche topic, but %insert something about different flavors of intelligence and how they do not equate do subject matter expertise%
Blippie the children’s show star has somehow come out unscathed after literally shitting on his friend while doing a Harlem Shake video. I’m not really sure how. I tell every parent I meet who mentions Blippi but it’s like trying to stop a river from flowing.
> It will also take demand from existing airlines making fares lighter for everyone else.

That's not how airline economics work. The first class passengers (the ones who could afford to leave for supersonic) subsidize the economy seats[1]. If they left you would probably see worse prices, worse amenities or both.

There are airlines that don't have business or first class seats (e.g. Spirit), and they're generally a terrible experience.

[1] https://www.wsj.com/articles/first-class-vs-coach-a-game-of-...
It’s why I now doubt the motives of all people that seem too personable :/
Just coded this this morning using chatgpt o1 - it is the reimplementation of an old idea now music, multiple dots, more and more bug fixes

honestly, chatgpt is now a better coder than i ever was or will be

https://lsd.franzai.com/
It's easy to say this without knowing what is suffering as a result.
They're dangerous because waste management (sewage, drainage, etc) was dependent on the waterways for hundreds of years; only with modern infrastructure, laws and regulations and good water management can you change it. And even then a lot of places also depend on what's happening upstream, e.g. the Rhine passes through various German industrial areas, the Nile passes through half a continent, etc. Besides that, it'll be weather dependent; if there's a dry spell and not enough water flow, toxic algae or bacteria build up.
But when working with an LLM you can still contribute.
Beyond the Success of Kotlin / the Documentary by EngX [video]
Very cool! I love the demo video and I could definitely see how this would be useful when diving into an unfamiliar codebase.
I think it comes from txting culture.

I feel it makes it easier to scan text quickly; aiding both retention and rebuttal.

I prefer it to a dense, overly verbose, single paragraph “wall of text” sentence layout.

Are you old? Did you grow up before cell phones became ubiquitous?
It's funny because OPs solution was his docker-compose-anywhere, which is exactly what, from my experience, I've seen so many start-ups running with. Sure it works while you're running an MVP but it's incredibly brittle for running something in production as soon as the application grows in complexity. IMO the primary draw of k8s isn't necessarily "infinite scalability" but its resilience.

I sometimes wonder how many of these post boil down to "I don't want to learn k8s can I just use this thing I already know?".
"Producer" == $WALLET
Presumably this was a one-off PR move, that wasn't intended to make it into common culture like this.

I wonder how many things we consider to be common sense are actually due to this kind of thing.
It definitely has real metal frame, engine, drive-train, wheels and brakes. It is just a lego shell around that metal body.
The alternative view is that, left to themselves, people don't save enough for retirement and, for better or worse, social security in the US really isn't enough for a comfortable retirement.

That said, there are a lot of reasons why traditional defined benefit pensions aren't a good match for a lot of jobs today. I have one (for a non-union job) but it's mostly a positive because I'm sure I never gave it a second thought early career when I was earning into it.
Blue algae blooms will make you real sick though.
Create Diagrams with ChatGPT
You are confused, $60 will be the fee after the increase.
No, we have cars that can drive themselves quite well in good weather, but fail completely in heavy snow/poor visibility. Which is actually a great analogy to LLMs - they work great in the simple cases (80% of the time), it’s that last 20% that’s substantially harder.
Arguably Logan was in F1 to draw American audiences and sponsors, also his uncle is a billionaire.
"Don't anthropomorphize Larry Ellison"

Funniest thing I've heard in a while!
IDK, perhaps OP believes child labor laws were bad for shareholders and the companies long term?

That underscores the point for me though — the company and shareholders both take a back seat to the well-being of "the rest of us".
UK != Europe
It also goes back, when CP2077 TV show premiered, sales and number of players skyrocketed again, same for Fallout.
Original packaging won't save you. Moreover, dealing with the manufacturer directly won't save you either in some cases[0].

[0]: https://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/on-microsd-problems/
Conversely, I've seen a lot pivot from aero to auto and flounder. They are kind of opposite industries in terms of pacing and design compromises, as well as the fact that most of a car has to plasticize in crash events which is not a primary consideration in aero.
Isaacman seems to have his shit together.
For the client side, when servers do this, look for a library like:

https://tenacity.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

This is one of the easiest when slinging third party APIs in Python:

- Generic Decorator API

- Specify stop condition (i.e. limit by number of attempts)

- Specify wait condition (i.e. exponential backoff sleeping between attempts)

- Customize retrying on Exceptions

- Customize retrying on expected returned result

- Retry on coroutines

- Retry code block with context manager
I was in Novi Sad for work a few years ago, they've got a walkable boulevard, artificial beaches and beach clubs set up along the Danube, it looked really nice.
Maybe having AI generated TikTok-like people read your AI generated flash cards to you…
No, coffee from a 250 EUR espresso machine and a higher end machine are still espresso. Stovetop doesn't make espresso coffee.

They are fundamentally different processes which product a completely different output.
Cool! I wrote something on the same spirit but for Clojure, called FlowStorm http://www.flow-storm.org/

For instrumentation, instead of an instrumenting agent it uses a fork of the official Clojure compiler (in Clojure you can easily swap compilers at dev) that adds extra bytecode. What is interesting about recording Clojure programs execution is that most values are immutable, so you can snapshot them by just retaining the pointers.

Edit: Since the OP demo is about exploring a web app for people interested in this topics I'm leaving a demo of FlowStorm debugging a web app also https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h8AFpZkAwPo
More than 25% of the Ukrainian population have left the country or died. We're figuring out how much of their territory they lose, looks like more than 10%. Word on the street suggests Russia is committing war crimes against their infrastructure so they're unlikely to be seeing much economic success in the next 5-10 years. They've also made an enemy of Russia for the foreseeable future, and Russia seems to be part of the bloc with the economic advantage that is forming around China.

While surrendering in the first week is an uncomfortable option, I think they'd have been better off exploring that as an option even before nuclear weapons come into the picture. Russia in 2024 is bad but not the USSR. Ukraine'd be putting a brave face on to describe what just happened to them as mere buggery and they don't appear to have achieved much. There is a serious argument that their choice to fight was a mistake.
Not fully convinced by the "will make fares lighter for everyone else" argument. The economics of planes are heavily weighted towards the passengers up front - business & premium economy make more profit per sqft for the airline than seats at the back. So I'd imagine that a reduction in demand for premium seats could actually increase prices.
It’s definitely not good for producers either. But yeah, the broader cultural impact is on the scale of many millions of people, some of whom develop debilitating addictions, including many kids. “Sex work” has always and probably will always exist, but it’s never been a publicly consumed service at this scale.
> but for what purpose

It was a quite special case. Two young girls, in a very popular hiking area on the outskirts of one of the larger cities here in Norway. Don't think there had been such a case in "modern times" here. As such, there was a massive pressure to find and convict the perpetrators.

And, since there weren't many such cases here in Norway, the police was quite inexperienced in handling them well it seems. Nice that we don't have more of this happening, but sad that it leads to such poor investigation, handling of evidence and interrogations etc.

It feels like a trope saying the police just wanted to convict someone, but I really feel like that was the case here and in other high-profile cases in the same era.

That said, I also do think the public and media had a role. Without the massive public pressure in such cases to find and convict the perpetrators yesterday, perhaps the police had made other choices...
> Would you not have a relationship with someone you like and likes you back?

For a lot of men the knowledge of the OF carrier kills the attraction that they had. Just like some women lose attraction when they learn that you subscribe to OF content.
Very interesting article, thanks.
My immediate thought to the headline was newspaper heiress Patricia Hearst who was kidnapped and ended up participating with her kidnappers to rob multiple banks in the 1970s. It was an amazing story at the time (I was in college).

https://apnews.com/article/patty-hearst-kidnapping-anniversa...
Federal minimum wage is largely an irrelevant number. <1% of hourly workers in the country are making minimum wage. And most of those are making below minimum wage (under the table), so their wage would remain low even if the government raised the number.
Once you do it for long enough it might be worth it to consider configuration management where you declare native structured resources (users, firewall rules, nginx reverse proxies, etc) rather than writing them in shell.

I use Puppet for distribution of users, firewall rules, SSH hardening + whitelisting, nginx config (rev proxy, static server, etc), Let's Encrypt certs management + renewal + distribution, PostgreSQL config, etc.

The profit from this is huge once you have say 20-30 machines instead of 2-3, user lifecycle in the team that needs to be managed, etc. But the time investment is not trivial - for a couple of machines it is not worth it.
Microfiche development for its own sake has mostly disappeared.
But we have a lot of great new substrates used in displays. A well produced acetate sheet may still be the best for the range of properties including aging, ink adhesion, etc. I no longer remember if microfiche is made by printing or by photo-development.
Concurrency often is about running your I/O routines in parallel, achieving higher bandwidth. For example, one computer handling 50 concurrent HTTP requests simultaneously.

No single HTTP request uses all the CPU power or even your Ethernet bandwidth. The bulk of your waiting is latency issues. So while one task is waiting on Ethernet responses under the hood, the system should do something else.

Hard Drives are another: you can have random I/O bandwidths of 5MB/s or so, but every request always takes 4ms on the average for a 7200 RPM drive (aka: 120 rotations per second, or about 8 miliseconds for a complete rotation. So 4ms on the average for any request to complete).

So while waiting for the HDD to respond, your OS can schedule other reads or writes for the head to move to which improves average performance (ex: if 8 requests all are within the path of the head, you'll still wait 4ms on the average, but maybe each will be read per 1ms).

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Parallelism is often about CPU limited situations where you use a 2nd CPU (today called a core). For example, if one CPU core is too slow, you can use a 2nd, or 8 or even 128 cores simultaneously.

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Hyperthreads is the CPU designer (Intel and AMD) that the above concurrency technique can apply to modern RAM because a single RAM read is like 50ns or 200 clock ticks. Any RAM-latency problem (ex: linked list traversals) would benefit from the CPU core doing something else while waiting for the RAM latency to respond.

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Different programming languages have different patterns to make these situations easier to program.
Personally I consider it more along the lines of heroin.
Vadsø, Norway mayor wants 26-hour days
They employ hundreds of contractors to run the operations.
Unlike the idea I’ve initially got from reading some of the comments here, the workers aren’t striking for long overdue measures that will save the company and get engineers back in charge of Boeing.

They are striking to get the biggest share possible of the pie before Boeing completely crumbles down. Reading the news, there isn’t a single demand from the workers that’s about trying to get the company back on its feet.
Hmm, I think you have more in common than you differ. It’s hard to escape the human condition using money.
> Mastercard/Visa do set some policies around this, but only due to, quite frankly undemocratic, political pressure. There been a few documented cases of particularly puritanical US politicians sending letters and making arbitrary public claims to “embarrass” Mastercard/Visa into restricting certain types of perfectly legal commerce.

Not much political pressure as much as online smear campaigning by Bill Ackman. And for good reason. The platforms then went overboard and swung the pendulum hard.
> examples abound in which NNs are discovered to learn weird esoteric algorithms when simpler ones exist

What examples do you have in mind?

Normally it's the opposite, where one hopes for the neural net to learn something complex, and it picks up on a far simpler pattern and uses that instead (e.g. all your enemy tanks are on a desert background, vs the others on a grass background, so it learns to discriminate based on sand vs grass).

You're anthmorphizing by saying that corrupted b64 text can be recovered. There is no "recovery process", but rather conflicting prediction patterns of b64 encoding predicting the corresponding plain text, and the plain text predicting it's own continuation.

e.g.

"the cat sat on the mat" encodes as dGhlIGNhdCBzYXQgb24gdGhlIG1hdA==, but say we've instead got a corrupted dGhlIGNhdCBzYXQgb24gdGhlIHh4dA== that decodes to "the cat sat on the xxt", so if you ask ChatGPT to decode this, it might start generating as:

dGhlIGNhdCBzYXQgb24gdGhlIHh4dA== decodes to "the cat sat on the" ...

At this point the LLM has two conflicting predictions - the b64 encoding predicting "xxt", and the plain text that it has generated so far predicting "mat". Which of these will prevail is going to depend on the specifics. I haven't tried it, but presumably this "recovery" only works where the encoded text is itself predictable ... it won't happen if you encode a random string of characters.
Seal Team 6 has been training over a year for China invasion of Taiwan
https://archive.ph/buVyN
It may be Boeing's only chance of having a future.

Good luck, Boeing. (And I mean that.)
> The first step to alleviate these specific situations could be to stop marginalizing this kind of content and give them a regular professional status, instead of systematicly pigeon hole it

I dislike arguments made in this vein, it's sortof a way to intellectually dismiss someone's point without addressing it.

I share the grandparent poster's concern. Parasocial relationships feed us in a certain way, but do not nourish.

Don't get me wrong; I'd rather have OnlyFans than pimps. But that's not the point.
I did some digging in the days of yore just because I was curious about how these things worked, and I found absolutely nothing on how people make these things work.

I'm really amazed that unbranded 512GB NVMe drives doesn't randomly eat my data at this point, yet I still can't trust any of these drives w/o file level checksum patrols. So, instead I buy Samsung 9xx drives and use them.
is a selfie leasing your head?
But the OP is right about the parasocial aspect. OF content and other such platforms is about the personalization aspect. Sure, there's some kinks/fetishes too.. but it is primarily about engagement. In some ways, it's just an explicit, subscription based, social media platform where it feels like you're being treated uniquely... But most times you are not.
> To some extent emissions are not as bad as you'd think since they are being emitted over less time in the course of a shorter journey.

Emissions are usually compared in amounts per passenger-kilometer.
Sure buddy, can't have pensions, how else would Boeing afford $43 billion in stock buybacks?
Those are the Vertuo line, I believe they focus to sell it in the US market, since it is able to do way longer extractions. It goes up to 500 mL extractions or so.

I don't like it, I think Original Nespresso tastes way better. Of course nothing compared to a good espresso extraction, but for a quick sip it is good enough.
End of cash bail in Illinois has not resulted in more crime, has impacted courts