skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Can you link to documentation for Google's LLMs? I searched long and hard when Gemma 2 came out, and all of the LLM offerings seemed specifically exempted. I'd love to know if that has changed.
I don't want people to think TinyPilot is a bad option but this is where their marketing really grinds my gears. PiKVM and TinyPilot both have preassembled ordering option.

TinyPilot's compare and contrast point of "To exercise the full functionality of PiKVM, users must install a custom circuit board on top of their motherboard and re-route their power supply's ATX pins." is a complete farce (it's not required) and worded in an intentionally scary way (the only reason TinyPilot doesn't have this requirement it doesn't offer the feature while PiKVM does). The "custom circuit board" is literally a PCB that, optionally, allows you to jumper the inline the remote power controls in a way that the normal power buttons still work too rather than rely on ACPI signalling over USB.

It honestly makes my blood boil to see this underhanded approach works so well... the TinyPilot device is good though, as are some other options. Just keep in mind if you opt to go with ACPI only remote power controls via USB things may still go bad if your system hangs/crashes/gets in a weird power state whereas plugging in the wires to the PiKVM will be no different than holding the power button.
56 years ago tymshare connected the world before compuserve: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xIWMvtM02NA (oral history interview with my friend ann hardy, who wrote the operating system that ran tymshare for many years)

but the more interesting systems, to my mind, were usenet (born 01980) and fidonet (born 01983), because those were bottom-up, federated, peer-to-peer, grassroots systems
> when they report that their friend Austin has two moms?

Depends on what kind of child she is, and how old she is, I think.

A dismissive reply of the sorts of "Yeah, some children have two moms. It is unusual, but it happens" is a likely answer. No reasom to make a fuss about it. If children are picking on the Austin kid for having lesbian moms, I'll try to teach her to be polite to the kid.

Children can be cruel sometimes. I know I used to be.

> Or when their other friend Keesha says that two moms being together is wrong and God will send them to burn in hell?

That one I have been debating myself how to address. Not specifically about some religious parent on a screed about gay people going to hell, but how to explain to her in simple terms that God, Hell, and so on are fictional ideas, allegories to try to explain the world, in a way that a child can understand, that is.

> Which is my point. You are exposing your child to sexual and gender concepts - you're just limiting the exposure the ones you feel are normal.

Yes, absolutely.

> What age is proper to start teaching, say, math at? If a child can not comprehend geometry, is it too early to teach them how to count?

Depends. My father started to teach me some simple math concepts when I was around 3 or 4. I already could do simple addition and subtraction when I started school, for example.

I plan to nudge her with those concepts when it comes time to play with her, but she has to show interest too. Forcing does nothing good.

> Acknowledging that women can like women and men can like men and sometimes people aren't attracted to either one and all of those are OK and normal, that's something that can be done quite early in life. So can the acknowledgement that someone can be born a girl and grow up as a boy and that too is OK. Neither requires any discussion of the mechanics of sex, nor do they require sexual, physical, or mental maturity.

I fundamentally disagree with basically everything written there. At a too young age she will be ill-equiped to understand the consequences of her choices, both at a personal level and at a social level.

> My rationale is aimed at more than your child's years as a baby. They won't be a baby for long, and if you're determined to bury your (and by extension their) head in the sand until they're 13 is going to do them no favors.

I can only do my best, to the best of my judgement. As she gradually grows and builds her own interests and desires, my plan is to be a sort of guide, helping her navigate a complex (and sometimes malevolent) world.

I can at most nudge her in some directions, but ultimately I can't really force anything.
An agent will still look at the property and provide a check/advice, so you wouldn't miss out on that benefit if you use our service. Regarding point b), while we send a licensed agent to the property, we understand that different buyers have different preferences. Some may want to fully leverage the agent's expertise, while others might prefer a more hands-off approach. We believe in giving clients the flexibility to choose their level of engagement.
The first read would be to find all the squggles of Sergio Aragonés...

Brilliant marginalarian.
Bountysource is long dead.
Definitely. I am going to hire an attorney ($650), property inspector ($500), and title company ($1,200), and that is about it.

I've purchased two homes and I'm confident I can handle the paper work involved. I mean, most of the paper work is the attorney's and title company's anyway. The realtor is basically inserting himself in between those companies and then relaying that information to the client. In my case, my realtor was copied on all communications, but that is it. I was the one producing all the documentation, signing agreements, reading reports, following up on inspections, etc.

And I had one of the top Keller Williams agents in my state. The guy is known by everyone.

I can't make sense of paying someone $20,000 to say, "Let me know if you have any questions about the inspection report"; or to tell me, "I wouldn't buy this. There's moisture in the basement. There's a leak in the ceiling. The patio is not level." etc. I'm knowledgeable enough to see things like this, and if not, my inspector will educate me on it and identify issues.
Is there a pack of AOL, CompuServe, Prodigy, Shaw etc CDs as coasters one can buy nowadays? There must be an Atari E.T.-scale landfill of them somewhere. Asking for a friend.
Looks like someone just removed 180K lines of plugin source code from the repo too. Checkout from here: 7ce05499ff0508f9eb06f7194407f676de7d72f4
Fair question! To figure this out, you could calculate the price per GB that you're paying and that you would pay for local and compare the two values. Cloud storage can and often does have a better deal in instances like yours!

With that said, your instance is just your instance, and for swathes of people it will be cheaper to have local storage. Them having the option of local storage wouldn't hurt you, so I would hope for their sake you would still support giving them that choice.
There's a great TV show called "Halt And Catch Fire" that parallels the development of the tech industry, including what I think may be a nod to CompuServe mentioned in the article.
It's only four seasons, it has some fantastic characters, excellent writing and is thoroughly enjoyable. It's fresh in my mind as I've only just rewatched it!

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2543312/
> Standups are actually useful for keeping an eye on the newbies.

If you're relying on a daily standup to keep the newbies on track, then something is deeply broken with your management and people development structure. They should be continually coached one-on-one, rather than left to fend for themselves only then to pipe up once per day. A little time investment by both the noob and someone more seasoned really, genuinely helps them to get up to speed. It's something that will pay itself back many times over in the future.

I've experienced both when I stepped in as a greenhorn, I leveled up so much faster when I had the ability to pepper questions throughout the day to someone more seasoned. And I remember feeling discouraged and listless in a culture where you don't interrupt the senior people, wait for the standup, regurgitate your problems, speak the scrum prayer every morning.

Does it cost something in terms of efficiency, or vElOCiTy? Sure, but like I said above, the returns on investment compound when you really care about developing people, and not being a slave to the scrum process.
Ideally yes, thanks.
I am one of those weirdos that like to work on "un-sexy" things behind the scenes which hopefully makes the life of my colleagues a bit better with every attempt. I don't think it is necessary for small teams, and may even be considered a waste of time, but once a team is sufficiently big and spread out, I think a few people working in the background, keeping watch of things, cleaning up after people, proactively improving stuff, creating and enforcing rules and standards is very beneficial and necessary for a team's next growth spurt.
Nice article. These stood out to me:

> Software architecture matters probably more than anything else. A shitty implementation of a good abstraction causes no net harm to the code base. A bad abstraction or missing layer causes everything to rot.

> Pencil and paper are the best programming tools and vastly under used.

> Code coverage has absolutely nothing to do with code quality.

> Micro-services require justification.
Appears to be broken, there are no rooms and the 'create' functionality leads to a 404.
AI GPU Clusters, from Your Laptop, with Livebook
https://archive.is/1i5F8
Who are you kidding?? This isn't minor hardware...these fittings are ~$5 a pop!

Priced individually:

| Fitting | Price (ea) | Qty | Total |
|---------|------------|-----|-------|
| T | 3.34 | 12 | 40.08 |
| 90 | 5.79 | 4 | 23.16 |
| 45 | 4.95 | 4 | 19.80 |
| 180 | 4.95 | 2 | 9.90 |
|=========|============|=====|=======|
| 22 | 92.94 |

In contrast, the bundle lists for $88.10...that's a lousy price delta of $4.84 (approx. 1 fitting). In consumer hoodwinking terms, it's the equivalent of buy-21-get-1-free...except the "value proposition" comes at a cost of zero optionality and overweight T fittings.

If you've got the cash to burn on benchstock at this price point, more power to you, but the point is you're really paying a premium to throw away choice for the illusion of value with this bundle.
I made my own custom packages for Alpine Linux and Arch Linux for personal use. It is so easy that I am honestly I'm not seeing the point in doing things the way Debian does it. It just makes things unnecessarily difficult for no reason.

What does a maintainer realistically do?

He builds the software, so you expect that the package builder automatically installs the development dependencies and runs the build software inside a chroot.

In case the software requires modifications, there needs to be a way to deliver patch files or additional files that aren't part of the original software or at least a standard location to store the distro specific fork that everyone agrees on.

Once the software is built, the maintainer creates a directory structure that conforms to the distributions's conventions, adds things like systemd unit files or desktop shortcuts and other distro specific changes that exist outside the software.

I would encourage everyone to at least give Alpine or Arch Linux packaging a try. It really is quite easy. Almost as easy as writing a docker file.
Blue Cross Blue Shield of Louisiana is a $2.5 Billion dollar company
My understanding was that he said that the headlines report numbers that are not backed off by science (your first quote) and then goes on explaining why (your second quite).

He could have used "high" and "USA" instead and it would have been the same.
Not sure if I'm missing a joke here - if so, whoosh, I guess. But he played as everything. At the time his main was a rogue :)
They claimed the actual extortion took place over the phone. The closest he gets to acknowledging it in those texts is mentioning %. I would be curious if that is enough evidence. Pretty stupid behavior, either way.
There are other radioactive types of sands. Black sands ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_sand ) can be quite active, and they can be found in many places.
The first $5 i ever made online was on Compuserve. I was walking home from school (i think 1994) and i found a used Boston Bruins ticket stub on the ground. I put it on the classifieds section and sold it. The buyer sent me a $5 bill in the mail.
The history section just above the prior properties section is what's now the case with winamp & shoutcast under unrelated organisations nowadays. Though it's all a bit murky as radionomy & audiovalley were the same top people.

-dro
Hit that download button while it hasn’t been force-push cleared.
There is no alternative afaik. The issues however are:

1. Friction in getting the card in the first place, especially in cases that are out of the ordinary.

2. Extensive and mandatory use of the card for routine non-governmental things that are not benefits or bank accounts. This is more pervasive than one may realize.
Telegram now shares users' IP and phone number on legal requests
> Many of the local librarians are trans.

Not sure what you mean by this... are you accusing them of deliberately under-aging trans related books?

> Telling a child they may be something they’re not

This is already a weaker statement than "telling kids they're the wrong gender". And I don't think that the linked book even goes that far. "Some kids feel this way" is very different to "you feel this way" and 16-17 year olds are normally smart enough to tell the difference.

> I personally know parents telling their kids that they are the wrong gender.

That sounds awful. Although to be frank I wonder if you're also making this sound worse than is actually the case. Either way I'm not sure it's relevant.
NCTA Backs 180-Day Automatic Mobile Device Unlocking
> "until recently"? More than 10 years just going by HN.

The TCP protocol is from the 1970s (according to Wikipedia, it's from 1974, which is 50 years ago). Something which only happened 10 years ago is recent.
There doesn't need to be infinite growth potential for there to be potential for massive expansion of civilization.

The energy that is being wasted every single second from the sun emitting its rays out into empty space is many orders of magnitude greater than what humanity collectively uses, and all of that energy could be harvested and even saved if civilization expands to colonize the entire solar system. Until it does that, the vast majority of the energy outputted by the sun is going to waste. So slowing growth is generally extremely wasteful.
maybe not exactly but this is still a good resource! Thanks
I liked when they’d come on floppies. You could rewrite it after taping the hole and get a free disk.
https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/terms this?
We're getting away from the point. What does it matter what the specific use case is? Who are you to be the arbiter of a valid or invalid use case? This one guy didn't justify himself to fulfill your arbitrary personal requirements; I guess that means nobody should even have the option of removable storage and that we should all be okay with paying an extra few hundred dollars for five more gigabytes of space on our phones (or whatever the insane going rate is now).
Doesn't seem healthy for community that they are jumping the gun like this
He had time to think. Something so rare these days.

30 years later, Henry Cavendish measured G and estimated the density of the earth.
Using candles, mirrors and telescopes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cavendish_experiment
Agreed - the tooling and advocacy needs changing. How many times has VS shipped with broken F# functionality.
Unless the US passes extensive legislation to prevent US companies from unlawfully accessing their clients devices all over the world, Google will comply. But the US isnt likely to do that.
I completely agree. Even seniors who have just joined your org need a buddy to help get up to speed and pick their brain. Standup isn't the place to learn how to do your job.
If you know the tile numbers, you can just copy them out of the Btrfs image.
maybe because of too much /r/askmen and /r/askreddit, but that's what i assumed this question would be about.
> should include only project managers and/or team leaders

The daily standup comes from XP, which has no real concept of project managers or team leaders. Under XP, everyone is considered to be the project manager and team leader, so to speak. Thus, that isn't technically possible in the strictest sense.

If you have a "standup" in name only for the benefit of distinct project managers and/or team leaders, then I suppose you can just not show up. If that raises alarm in the organization, you're the newbie and just don't realize it.
This is a surprising position.

Can you link to any?

Everything I have read on the subject says obesity, a nutritional imbalance, is one of the main contributors to cancer growth, and specifically a reduction in sugar and meat have significant positive results in combating cancer's growth.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9559313/

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9775518/

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/0470869976....
Thanks for the link. That's unfortunate, though perhaps the benchmarks will be updated after this latest Gemini release. Cursor with Sonnet is great, I'll have to give Aider a try as well.
> I wonder how evolution came up with the current number of mitochondria per cell

One of my probably-wrong ideas that I can't usefully ask* is if chronic fatigue/post-acute infection syndromes may be due to insufficient mitochondria for whatever reason.

* if I ask StackExchange, I'll probably phrase it wrong enough to have it closed; if I ask an LLM then it will probably make something up because if the answer exists at all it is probably behind a paywall, and even if it isn't they do that 10-20% of them time anyway.
I can still remember my CompuServe ID. I wonder why they had the curious pattern of xxxxx,xxx.

I miss Prodigy as well. Both excellent services in different ways.
I think you have fundamentally misunderstood my argument.

"28 people on payroll" is not at all important to my point. The financial report says how much money is spent on salary. The important part is that most of it doesn't go to developers.

I don't see bloat because of how many staffers there are. I think funding is misallocated because developers don't get it (rather, they aren't hiring more people that can actually work on Python full time - my understanding is that most core devs have a day job) and because international events apparently run on a shoestring compared to PyCon, which in turn doesn't seem remotely important enough to justify its expenditures.

This results, among other things, in an ecosystem where basic PyPI support requests (see e.g. https://github.com/pypi/support/issues/2771) go unanswered for months, and Pip has embarrassing flaws (asking it to download a package without installing it can cause it to run arbitrary code from setup.py - https://github.com/pypa/pip/issues/1884 and many others) that have persisted for almost the entire history of Pip.

That said, I do see "bloat" in the social overhead of Python governance, given the proliferation of (volunteer) Work Groups that don't seem to be accomplishing very much.

And just to emphasize, I did already describe the PSF as "woefully underfunded", because it is - just like most other open source orgs.
I'd recommend at least 200 GB.
> blood cells can travel through narrow capillaries to deliver oxygen to cells within extremity tissues

Mammalian red blood cells do not have DNA or mitochondria. They lose them during the maturation process in the bone marrow.

But apparently this might just be one of the evolution's blind turns. Birds have even faster metabolism with higher oxygen requirements, and their red blood cells have nucleus.
I thought it was interesting that the climate caused them to decompose, when orange peel is one of the most common forms of garbage I see on higher elevation (6000 ft. / 2000 m) trails. It's dry enough that the peel effectively never rots.

Just goes to show that it's all about the system.

https://thetrek.co/pacific-crest-trail/how-much-trash-gets-l...
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A fork is a linked copy, a clone is just a copy. They are not the same.

Deleting your repository or changing its visibility affects that repository's forks.
I like the subtle threat at the end where Blue Cross says they'll punish Louisianans for this.
Removing link underline styles between icons and text
Cerebras has ridiculously large LLM ASICs that can hit crazy speeds. You can try it with llama 8B and 70B:

https://inference.cerebras.ai/

It's pretty fast, but my understanding is that it is still too expensive even accounting for the speed-up.
The paper he linked though isn't a distribution where the age 72 is a special modal number. The paper suggests 68-78 is the adaptive lifespan for some small communities.
> How are these sufficient when Germany still bumps coal, gas and imports in off peak hours?

Because they bump coal, gas and imports in peak hours.

> The question isn't if you can build them, the question is how much storage do you need and the cost. Like how much storage does Germany need for dunkelflauten? Are there any estimations?

I suppose you did not spend a lot of time researching this. That can be easily found by mere googling.
> 2 developers, a PM, 20-30 content writers and $5B ARR

Please tell me that these 30 people weren't the full company generating $5B in annually recurring revenue?
I've seen it and it's good. Thanks for reminding me, I'll watch it again.
Hard agree. It's all just devolved into cargo cult nonsense, follow the process, to parrot what they think large orgs are doing. And if you have an adequately competent culture, those noobs aren't going to be left hanging, they're going to learn that it's ok to ask to help get unblocked, and that's what should be taught.

And yeah, I also can't agree more with your assessment about status reports being this relic from the past. What is this? The military? "SITREP. NOW!" Such a waste of breath, time, human life.
There was investment in the internet pre-90's that built the infrastructure that allowed Amazon to exist. There were winners and losers. Maybe there were losers in the 80's and Amazon was a winner the in the 90's.

Because there were losers doesn't mean there should not have been any investment, which seems to be the argument against AI. That it costs a lot and not producing anything. When we can clearly see that the rush to invest is exactly to not be left behind and get to winning.
How to Stop a Looming 'Splinternet'
When I was a kid, I called up AOL and asked them for 1,000 floppy kits. For Reasons. They never questioned me, and they were fairly reliable and I never really had to buy disks again.