skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
At Amazon, there is no monorepo.

And the tooling to handle this is not even particularly conceptually complicated - a "versionset" is a set of versions - a set of pointers to a particular commit of a repository. When you build and deploy an application, what you're building is a versionset containing the correct versions of all its dependencies. And pull requests can span across multiple repositories.

Working at Amazon had its annoyances, but dependency management across repos was not one of them.
There is a point he's not making that's important here: the ability to learn and absorb knowledge peaks when people are young. What you do around that time matters. If you waste your time, you never get it back later.

The modern education system emerged as part of the industrial revolution. It's purpose was not to produce enlightened individuals but to produce productive/obedient laborers. People needed to know how to read/write and do simple calculations. Maybe a bit of math on the side. And there had to be some kind of system to rescue the really smart boys (mostly at the time) from being wasted on blue collar work and get them on some track to higher education. But mostly universities were for the upper class. You were born into that, not cherry picked from the lower classes. Education was about getting lower class kids up-to a lowish standard so they could be productive. And modern education hasn't really improved that much.

We have an opportunity to rethink education. Like many, I had lots of different teachers in high school and in university. Some really amazing, some not that great. Being a high school teacher is a tough job. It's a very rigid program that is sort of standardized for everyone. Mostly there isn't a lot of wiggle room to go beyond that. Lots of kids have trouble dealing with that and they kind of drop out or fail.

The opportunity with AI is that education can be much more personalized now. Anybody can get access to that. For free even. Education no longer has to be a group thing where everybody does the same things, gets the same tests, and then get the OK stamp of approval to be unleashed on an indifferent job market. Lots of people just coast through high school so they can finally start their lives not realizing that they just burned up their most important quarter of it.

I love Neal Stephenson's the The Diamond Age: Or, A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer which is about a poor young orphaned girl getting her hands on an AI powered book that starts teaching her and adapts to her context. That's slowly becoming science fact with modern LLMs.
i am assuming the majority of those users are not active then?

are you using external storage for user media elsewhere?

do you federate with the broader ecosystem?

these numbers are otherwise nonsensical, a 20 dollar do droplet has like 100gb of storage space, and 3Tb of transfer, that'd be chewed up in less than a week by those users.
this one is from July too
Have to agree. With as much reading that's done on small screens these days, I find it discouraging that a project about good web typography looks broken on my phone.

I see adapting parameters like size, measure, and line height to different screen sizes (and the related reading distances) as one of the main challenges of web typography.

Not as sophisticated of a project but I've tinkered with a stylesheet to address some of these issues here: https://pglevy.github.io/typeset.css/
In the early 1990s I did a round-trip, coast-to-coast trip on Amtrak (basically NYC to Seattle and back), stopping at major cities for a few days each. I had a USARail pass (equivalent to a Eurail pass), which at the time was only available to non-US citizens, so I was quite stoked to have 30 days of unlimited travel for a fixed cost.

On the first route (westward) I took the southern route and on the return trip (eastward) I took the northern route, through Chicago. I stayed in youth hostels (except for a couple of cities where I had friends and relatives), and didn't have a fixed schedule so delays were usually tolerable.

While in San Francisco, Amtrak went on strike for about a week, and my pass was extended correspondingly. An extra week in San Francisco was fun! But again, I didn't have any fixed deadlines so it was all good.

All things considered, the unreliability of the system makes me loathe to travel long distances by train, unless my plans are flexible. However, one huge upside is the views, especially in the middle of the country. In fact, some train lines even exist largely to tout their views, e.g. the Rocky Mountaineer (a Canadian company). Train travel is much more leisurely, and a great way to meet people.

These days many Amtrak routes are actually covered by bus, which may come as a surprise when you get to the train station and are told to board a bus. This is not immediately obvious when booking online, although you may be able to tell by reading carefully; the telltale sign might be as subtle as the icon (bus vs train) shown for that leg.
Although not probable in this case as far as I know: if vegetable oils seem to cause problems for you, you should be aware of sitosterolemia (phytosterolemia), caused by rare mutations in genes ABCG5 and ABCG8. It needs to be homozygous for symptoms.

(I have it, discovered by a full-genome sequencing by myself, accidentally around the age of 50.)
I think the title doesn't go far enough, as it removes the "sufficient" part but leaves alone the "necessary" part.

School is neither necessary nor sufficient for achievement. Certainly education, in some form, must be required. E.g. learning to read and perform basic math, but "school" as it's known today is not the only way, nor likely even a good way, to learn those skills.
Sounds like a back-then reasonable attempt at building something that can be easily scaled and carried certain risks. You simply cannot know after the fact what the basis of the decision and approach to risk was, what the agreeemnts and expectations were of and with the "anonymous investor", etc.

"Hindsight is always perfect".

Embrace mistakes? They will learn from it, and I'm already looking forward to their new project(s) (and new mistakes)!
The solution is to ignore them and close their issue. Open source maintainers have enough to worry about and are unpaid, it's okay to be a little dictatorial when it comes to "bad questions".
>edit: Actually, it's worth mentioning that there are other non-Western cultures using psychedelics to treat mental health issues, such as Ayahuasca ceremonies in various South American countries.

South America is non-western culture now? Lmao ok. Also, practically nobody uses Ayahuasca to treat mental health issues over here. That kinda thing is an extremely niche and small practice of usually affluent people. Ayahuasca retreats are super expensive and half of the people you see there are rich Americans looking for some anecdata to share in sites like this. Everyone else is using standard medicine and therapy.
One thing seems apparent: the strategy of the West to try and isolate Russia in response of their attacks on Ukraine has failed.
> Don't forget about the decent chunk that believe evolution occurs/occurred but was done or guided by a creator rather than natural selection as the mechanism

I'd wager that represents the majority of religious scientists. I'm not disparaging faith itself (not here at least), just creationism and denial of evidence because it is contrary to preconceptions. Why I consider creationism as contrary to the hacker ethos is precisely because being a hacker involves thinking outside boundaries and engaging in playful curiosity (often with a disregard for established authority). Creationism is mental gymnastics to support an established orthodoxy. It's excessive effort spent to explicitly avoid exploring the boundaries of one's own beliefs.

Honestly, I don't know on the throwaways and I don't blame you for the assumption. By all accounts, this would look like a throwaway. I don't think there's a great word for it, and my pattern of social Internet use is admittedly uncommon.

I disagree that they aren't off-topic. It's an article about a specific observation of evolution, and their response is to question the entire reality of evolution as a whole. It's like the people who go into a programming language update announcement to complain and trash talk the language (which happens a lot in Rust submissions in particular). I also think it's inordinate. It's likely a tiny minority of people who think this way, but because they are the loudest, they still managed to determine the topic for the entire comment section. Thus there is much argument and disagreement over something that the vast majority of scientists and commenters here already agree on.

Edit: I also find it funny, in retrospect, that this is an exact example of Poe's Law as originally stated.
> But are you suggesting I will be able to flip a switch to use their cloud for all the same AI stuff instead of my battery-powered phone?

Yup! That's the idea. Compute negligible tasks run locally, but for requests that would hog battery and compute (or even be impossible to run on your iPhone), the data center will be used!

> though suspect that using their weird Mac hardware in the DC can’t possibly be a truly superior option to the NVIDIA hardware

So they are doing this for two reasons:

1. They get remote attestation and hardware root of trust when using their own hardware. No need to load proprietary blobs from Nvidia, introduce a new unvetted third-party supply chain, etc

2. Apple Silicon is actually much more cost effective than Nvidia's GPUs for inference. You can get a 48GB Apple Silicon Mac for like $4k and run large models - it's $40k for similar VRAM from Nvidia. I imagine Apple's costs are much lower than $4k as well.
Not the parent, but you can have a base image + set of offline only setup scripts.
Stability Through Randomness (2022)
Did you read the article?? There’s a character with 176M messages whose prompt is “your friend who is a boy who has a secret crush on you”. These predators are targeting children all so they can show a slide deck with numbers going up to secure their next round.

I hope the CEO, who was apparently one of the people on the transformers paper, feels every ounce of shame and guilt, because they put their own agenda ahead of public safety, and now a 14 year old boy has had their life taken from them
The big difference, and why I've never personally aligned well with the fediverse, is that its a push model rather than a pull model.

RSS works without authentication (though you can require it) because your server doesn't have to know who is following you or how to notify them. ActivityPub is an attempt to add pub/sub to RSS, they actually started with many of the same data models from RSS and its successors if I'm not mistaken.
The point of the article isn't just the voltage. It's that they created a photocathode which converts laser pulses into electron bunches with a particular set of qualities(polarity, density). It's also how they diverged from traditional designs and placed the HV supply outside the chamber(it is difficult to get 350kV through a metal vacuum chamber wall for somewhat obvious reasons).
He wrote a science-fiction book, then did some things with e-ink hardware and some with AI.
Private Equity and Medicine: A Marriage Made in Hell
Personally (not the parent) I'm vegan for moral reasons, so I'm being vegan despite (not for) it's health effects. As every extreme diet, it requires monitoring nutrition intake and occasional supplementation in order to avoid micro- and macroelement deficiencies and health problems.
Freenet: A decentralized alternative to world wide web
Queue https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2024-06-13/teleheal...

Everywhere, all the time, at all age brackets. It's absolutely terrible, having suffered a terrible amphetamine addiction in my past.

Sufferers of real ADHD need to understand that when people critique the guidelines, they're critiquing the fact that this is possible, and its leading to serious problems getting on with life.
All the comments here are so short sighted about how the fediverse functions. Instead of one big app doing all the aggregatation by interests the fediverse is naturally divided by what makes that group cohesive.

You do not need the algorithm when each users feed is being pumped by what has been siloed within that fediverse.
That would be nice. Was stepping through some modern react code, and the amount of cruft you see is terrible in the transpiled result.
exactly! my org had one of those bowling trips a few years ago for a holiday party, and it was a lot of fun. just need a way to quantify the benefits to productivity...
> Let’s demonstrate this by example. Say that you’re working in a widget factory, and management has decided you’re supposed to produce 10,000 widgets per month...

It then discusses ways that the factory might cheat to get higher numbers.

But it doesn't even mention what I suspect the most likely outcome is: they achieve the target by sacrificing something else that isn't measured, such as quality of the product (perhaps by shipping defective widgets that should have been discarded, or working faster which results in more defects, or cutting out parts of the process, etc.), or safety of the workers, or making the workers work longer hours, etc.
I think the fractal patterns match our million year old brains expectations, "stuff" in the article refers to "stuff i need to focus on" (which is everywhere in traffic but mostly in front of you while hiking, and in general, focusing 100 yards away is better for the eyes, and a good walk helps everyone feel better. But this is mostly off topic opinion.
An Interview with Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff about AI Abundance
This is impressive and mirrors a lot of thoughts I have had about the future of backend frameworks. I love the focus on local development for things like pub/sub.
> It’d be great to find a new economic axis that can break us out of the planned economy/radical free market axis.

Here's one start:

https://jacobin.com/2019/03/sam-gindin-socialist-planning-mo...
I dunno about that. Peter Norvig would disagree with both of you. He argues we reached AGI some time ago. It's a good read - https://www.noemamag.com/artificial-general-intelligence-is-...
The elephant in the room is that nutrition studies (whose results influence health and economic policy) are frequently funded by dominant players of the food industry, creating a huge conflict of interest. This has to end.
Gus Gorman Takes on the Election
There are several alternatives using Lua too, including for instance PICO-8 https://www.lexaloffle.com/pico-8.php
How can you read this from a snapshot list of GDP at PPP?
Not arguing against your "majority" characterization, it's certainly true, but throwing out there that my wife and I travelled by train:

Oslo
to Stockholm
to Copenhagen
to Hamburg
to Amsterdam
to Brussels
to Luxembourg
to Paris
to Nice
to Monte-Carlo
to Milan

I think I have the order right? And all of that cost something under $500 each.
Also, could I ask for advice to increase my hourly rate? Mine is closer to $25. Granted I am in Europe, so the ceiling here will be quite different, but I'd love to hear how you did that!

I hear (even for those based in US) that location plays a huge part, but even so, I assume specialization also played a big part?
Ibis: Federated Wikipedia alternative
>put whole grains specifically

This is false, in the 90s when I grew up there was no such criterion, and the posters of the pyramid prominently depicted sliced white bread.

The worst part of the food pyramid was the indication to use all fats and oils sparingly. There's never been any point in which the evidence suggested that olive oil or other monounsaturated fats should be avoided
> The food pyramid put whole grains specifically at the base of the food pyramid. Not sure why you consider this objectionable, the body of evidence overwhelmingly points in the direction of benefits for wholegrain consumption.

Citation please or I'm calling extreme bullshit. Everything I've ever read has argued for putting more nutrient dense fruits and vegetables as the basis for a healthy diet.

More importantly, I think the nutrition community was woefully naive to the point of being negligent when they tried to defend the food pyramid. One quote I heard was "When we were recommending lower far intake, we never imagined Snackwells." Well, why TF not??? It should have been blatantly obvious that by demonizing fat and making people feel like carbs were "free" that companies would react appropriately and come up with fat-free, sugar-stuffed replacements that had a huge amount of calories, left you feeling unsatiated, and tasted like sweet cardboard. Probably even worse was frankenfood like Olestra.

I agree with the original point - while I think the field of nutrition science has improved a lot over the past decade, they have a ton to answer for and never did an appropriate "mea culpa" for all the great harm they caused.
https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/field/real-gdp-per-ca...
The author hits on a powerful point that is getting missed in this HN discussion. That is: talented and driven students are limited by the US education system.

Some of those young people cultivate skill by getting practice during youth. Doing that while young builds a compounding machine of personal interest + confidence + progress.

I have never seen broad data to support this, so discussions revolve around anecdotes[1]. That's fine by me though because we have countless examples of the legends of their craft who fit that mold: bill gates, zuck, warren buffett, taylor swift, mozart, da vinci... the list is long.

No single system will work for every single student. But that isn't the point. The point is that the best of the best deserve to feed their interests at a young age, which the current US upbringing limits. How many more bill gates and zuck-level creators could the world have if more talented youths could cultivate their talents very early in life?

[1] Although not broad data, the thinking behind these works build on a similar point: Thiel Fellowship [https://thielfellowship.org/]; PG's essay How to Do Great Work [https://paulgraham.com/greatwork.html]
In terms of the effects on other drugs, it's quite clear anecdotally that marijuana usage displaces tobacco and alcohol usage.
It is strange that when Arabic and Hebrew languages are written from left to write, that is not the case with numbers, a common saying in Arabic is 'zero on the left', that means worthless.
Arabs in old times hated zero because it signified no gains in trade and wars, and was called a vacuum sign because any number multiplied by it ended up with nothing, the Arabic zero word ‘cepher ‘ was a translation of Sanskrit word śūnya that meant empty. The first English use of zero was in 1598. Al-Khwarizmi or Algorismus made common in use in 773 in Baghdad.
In recent times is a combination of work injury (stress fighting insurance, legal system, and work), combined with opiods getting massively deregulated (with massive lobbying to hospital administrators to over prescribe afterwards).

In my opinion this is the ripe field that allowed antivax stuff to grow and stop being mutually ridiculed by just about everyone in the US. (The hate and observations of how "antihuman" pharmaceutical companies are)
Now do per capita
Further in the article he discusses the 'virtuous cycle'; connections between writing, speaking, and reading. With phonetic alphabets, the way something is spoken reinforces the way that it is read, the way it is read reinforces the way that it is written, the way that it is written reinforces the way that it is spoken (for the most part, even English fails this cycle sometimes). However, with character sets the cycle is broken, and the speaker has to learn 3 different memorization techniques.

Regarding your question, there is a difference between not knowing how to write a word and not knowing how to spell a word. If someone in English doesn't know how to spell 'sneeze' or any other word, they can at least come close enough and convey information 'fuzzily' via text using an incorrect spelling. Now that I'm writing this, though, I suppose with character sets like Chinese if you know characters that are close enough you potentially could use other characters to convey the information, like mouth-fart for sneeze or something along these lines. But I don't speak the language, so that is just a theory.

Do Chinese speakers use the language this way if there is a character they don't know how to write?
Don’t throw the babies with the bath water, education as a group thing is good as long as all in the group are at the similar level, it becomes even efficient when students stimulate one another. Also being part of the group students learn more about interacting in groups. Then problem is that these groups are mostly made up of students at different levels, abilities and so on.
If most consumers do not need the reliability feature then companies that don't offer reliability deserve to be high market cap. They will have a lot of revenue and likely little debt which is deservent of high market cap.

For consumers that do require reliability, they should be ensuring that they're purchasing it. Crowdstrike did not claim to be high reliability. If they had, then sure they're being fraudulent. Instead, Crowdstrike operated as described and for that I think no lawsuit is valid.

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Imagine you hired a plumber and they duct taped your pipes together.

Are you going to sue the duct tape company? Especially when the duct tape company never claimed to be a watertight seal or to use it in plumbing purposes?
There's nothing "arcane" about WebAssembly Text format. The fact that you don't recognize it just means you don't know much about WebAssembly, which is fine, but you're whining, lashing out, and attacking people who are trying to explain it, and trying to police and derail discussions between other people who are more knowledgeable and interested in it, which makes you a rude anti-intellectual asshole.

Why don't you just go away and let other people have their interesting discussions without you, instead of bitterly complaining about things you purposefully know nothing about and refuse to learn? How does it hurt your delicate feelings to just shut up and not bitch and whine about discussions you're not interested in?
Devolved in the ability to speak on-point without ad hominems.
Doctors have messy handwriting, but I don't think I've ever met a native English speaker who completed elementary school who would pick up a pen and pause, completely uncertain of how to draw a letter of the alphabet. They might make minor spelling mistakes, but I don't think that's closely analogous to the phenomenon the author is talking about.
That has the benefit of Systemd not letting more than one instance run at the same time, which I'm guessing is one of the reasons the lock was needed in the first place.

You just have to make sure that the type of Service used is correct, so that Systemd can track whether Restic has actually stopped running.
In the short term at least. The Economist explored the topic recently:

Vladimir Putin spends big—and sends Russia’s economy soaring
https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2024/08/11/v...
> No argument re: translation, but crime?

The bar is clearly set to “no caveats”, and European sourced or copied or adapted from are all more European than “first American” is allowed to bear.
Completely agree. In the long term though it's not surprising if the US Congress eventually set up a special committee to open investigations against Wikipedia and possibly other websites, because as can be seen below, some Wikipedia admins have been implicated in serial harassments against women and even actual employees of the USG.

https://www.reddit.com/r/justwikipediathings/wiki/index