skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Doing dry runs regularly makes sense, but whether actually shipping it makes sense seems context-dependent. It depends on how much you can minimize the side effects of shipping a release.

Consider publishing a new version of a library: you'd be bumping the version number all the time and invalidating caches, causing downstream rebuilds, for little reason. Or if clients are lazy about updating, any two clients would be unlikely to have the same version.

Or consider the case when shipping results in a software update: millions of customer client boxes wasting bandwidth downloading new releases and restarting for no reason.

Even for a web app, you are probably invalidating caches, resulting in slow page loads.

With enough work, you could probably minimize these side effects, so that releasing a new version that doesn't actually change anything is a non-event. But if you don't invalidate the caches, you're not really doing a full rebuild.

So it seems like there's a tension between doing more end-to-end testing and performance? Implementing a bunch of cache levels and then not using it seems counterproductive.
Netflix's Tyson-Paul Boxing Bout Gets 65M Viewers at Peak
http://archive.today/23cMd
Someone thought they were funding a non-profit instead they gave money to a [trillion $ unicorn] startup for free. Foolish.
Density of references isn't a metric of quality, particularly when, as a peer comment listed, so many are references to people "Just asking" about well established medical links (eg. the HIV|AIDS debate).

Stephen C. Meyer's books on Intelligent Design are also dense with references.

> But you wont know that if you get your information from corporate media.

We should avoid books that are

#1 on AMAZON, TWENTY WEEKS on the NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER LIST, and a WALL STREET JOURNAL, USA TODAY and PUBLISHERS WEEKLY NATIONAL BESTSELLER

? ( eg: https://www.amazon.com.au/Real-Anthony-Fauci-Democracy-Child... )
I particularly thought this part was really fascinating, where they start complaining about a EMAIL SPAM SPECIALIST COMPANY which uses, surprise surprise, shady email marketing list sign-up tactics. It does what it says on the label, as the saying goes.

"5. Scammy Email Tactics
Then there’s their sneaky signup process. When creating an account, there’s a checkbox that reads: “By NOT checking this box, I agree to receive promotional emails.""
The amount of thought that's gone into that cat lavatory really makes me envy your belief in yourself. Here I am rewriting my dB schema 4 times.
Edge caches are not useless for live streaming. They're critical. The upstream from those caches has no way of handling each individual users. The stream needs to hit the edge cache and end users should be served from there.

A typical streaming architecture is multi-tiered caches, source->midtier->edge.

We don't know what happened but it's possible they ran out of capacity on their edge (or anywhere else).
Yggdrasill is a name from Norse mythology. It's the tree along which the nine worlds were believed to exist.
“Kids don’t care about money” um absolutely not true in my experience, I know several kids (8 years old) and all they care about is cold hard cash or buying stuff on Fortnite.
I strongly doubt this - they don't have enough training data either - you are confusing (i think) the scale of their success with the amount of verilog they possess.

IE I think you are wildly underestimating both the scale of training data needing, and wildly overestimating the amount of verilog code possessed by nvidia.

GPU's work by having moderate complexity cores (in the scheme of things) that are replicated 8000 times or whatever.
That does not require having 8000 times as much useful verilog, of course.

The folks who have 8000 different chips, or 100 chips that each do 1000 things, would probably have orders of magnitude more verilog to use for training
Possibly for some of the reports. Does that explain foo fighters from WW2? How about the "F-22 escort" report?
> This person is 100% correct that git will never see adoption outside the tech industry

And nor should it. The workflow is awful for anything but software development (and even on that, views differ). It is unsuitable for versioning binary blobs. It contains dozens of footguns that routinely catch out software engineers who use it all day, every day.
I believe the keyword here is "assert". As people have free will, you can either motivate/entice/lead them or you can demotivate/punish/control them or a combination of the two.

"Assert" implies O'Brien has already chosen the punitive route. In other words, O'Brien is not revealing some deep secret of human power dynamics. Instead, O'Brien is giving a self congratulatory self justifying explanation for his wrong doing.
The real problem is that school personnel don’t want to deal with the parents of the actual problem kids, so they get away with it even under zero tolerance.
The funny thing is I was just reading something on HN like three days ago about how light years ahead Netflix tech was compared to other streaming providers. This is the first thing I thought of when I saw the reports that the fight was messing up.
Waiting for Angela Collier to make a video on this, I'm sure many people will forward her this article. MOND is actually a niche in cosmology despite its PR.
Dark matter isn’t much of a theory in the first place.
Have you thought about using Clonezilla and broadcasting out an image using PXE boot?

Would completely bypass the iSCSI setup, and each machine would still get the latest image from your server before the lan party begins.
Annie Jacobsen Book "Area 51: An Uncensored History of America's Top Secret Military has an interesting take on UFOs. The government actively perpetuated rumors about sightings to keep people from thinking top secret projects flying around the bases were real.
Game theory of bullying. Which works right up until you realize a lot of bullies have mental health issues and are probably not going to produce identical "rationalized" results to someone who isn't.
We can see gravitational redshift on Harvard's campus thanks to gamma ray Mossbauer spectroscopy.
Maybe they considered this event as a rehearsal for the upcoming NFL streams which I am guessing might have a wider audience
I don’t understand this comment. If you master the material you know more than 90% of engineers in the field.
I think he's saying that slop is slop regardless of whether a person or machine made it.
Wayurls
The phonograph: "This is what Victorian people sounded like" [video]
Every single data point in isolation can be ridiculated and twisted in many ways and this is what Mick West is doing. it is another story when you have series of multiple data points through long timeline with recurring patterns and have to make sense of them. UAPs are raported since at least WWII (foo figters), some accounts are traced even to ancient times.
I'm really liking this. Out of interest did you have any trouble with the play store review process for getting users to turn on developer mode?
Energy content not only comes from matter but also from fields.
The World Cup when you’re 8 or 12 and not really seen one is incredible, at 40 it’s still great but I’ve seen 10 Euros or World Cup’s now and I still enjoy them, just not in the same fascination. Maybe I should try to see them through a new lens.
Are any of the MOND theories consistent with this new data also consistent with recent gravitational wave observations? My understanding is that gravitational wave detectors have recently ruled out most plausible MOND theories. The linked paper doesn't seem to discuss this.
I have two in the compartment between the front seats, and I also have an axe secured under the seat. However, accidents are random events; you never know what will happen. If these tools are still in place, can you reach them, and are you able to use them, among other things? So I wouldn’t count on it in the slightest.
> Never forgetten that the Western worlds first, most successful racist genocide occurred in Australia

oh dear, have we forgotten about The Holocaust so soon?

Or are we just going to let slide mis-information on true historical events that don't need lying to relay the injustice, and support justice?

Btw we are not going to accept that you mistyped, Again.
This is an incredibly popular opinion! Unless the "unpopular" part is that this is somehow fine or justifiable.
In the Linux desktop world, there is no single entity in control over the entire software stack ranging from the kernel all the way up to the desktop environment. In a typical Linux distribution, you have the Linux kernel (run by Linus Torvalds), various command-line tools written by many different developers and managed by different projects (some of them are part of the GNU Project, but others aren't), some type of display system (this used to be solely X11, but Wayland is growing in popularity these days), one or more GUI toolkits (Qt, GTK, some custom ones), and a desktop environment (typically KDE or GNOME, but others exist). The goal of a Linux distribution is to take these disparate parts and present a coherent system to the user.

The problem, though, is that because the Linux desktop is made up of disparate parts from separate teams that have separate, often competing visions for their roles in the Linux ecosystem, often major changes are made with little regard to how they affect the system as a whole. This is the essence of the lack of control over the entire software stack. Thus, the developers of X11/Wayland, Qt, GTK, and other infrastructure can make breaking changes, and application developers relying on those subsystems have to either adapt or lobby for forks. Thus, the churn.

By comparison, Microsoft is in full control over Windows, and Apple is in full control over macOS. Even the BSDs are in full control over their base systems (for example, OpenBSD isn't just a kernel; the OpenBSD team also has control over the command-line tools that make up the base system), though I'm not aware of any BSD (besides macOS) that is in full control over GUI environments. It's not to say there is no churn in these environments; indeed, macOS does not prioritize backwards compatibility like Windows does and thus there's some churn macOS developers need to deal with in order to keep up with the latest releases. But there seems to be a lot of churn at the GUI level in the Linux desktop ecosystem.
> Bullying in my day was at least bearable because it was confined to times when I was physically near the bully. Kids today have it so much worse with social media.

I don't get it. Anything a bully can do to you over social media, they can also do to you without using the internet at all. Anything they needed to be near you to do, they still need to be near you to do.
How would they make it harder / reduce bots without sacrificing privacy (such as SMS/ID verification/etc.)?

I think if you can realistically solve that you'd be a millionaire already.
What about https://sendy.co -- 1 million is about $100
Yes, Matt is Josh's little brother. I'm impressed - and very pleased - you noticed this.
Technically, nothing. It's perfectly possible to precompile shaders on Windows - it's just not convenient or logical for most PC users.

On console, precompiling makes sense because you know exactly what hardware a user will have and you can optimize for one or two sets of hardware. The effort required to automatically package and download these shaders for users on their first load is worth it, so it's a viable fix to shader stutter in games where it crops up.

On Linux, precompiling makes sense because shaders take an extra long time to process due to the DirectX -> Vulkan translation. Since this causes stutter in every game, a precompilation step is pretty much mandatory for everything but conveniently also solves the UE5 stutter issue at it's roots.

On PC, it's basically a maelstrom of worst case scenarios. You don't know what hardware a user will have, so you can't package precompiled shaders. You're not translating shader calls so you have to rely on each version of DirectX's specific DXIL features instead of the unified Vulkan 1.2+ SPIR-V that you get from DXVK. And of course, even if you did get a magic "Compile the Shaders!" program working most users wouldn't bother since they're impatient. Some games try adding optional precompilation screens, but I wager most people just skip them when given the opportunity.
Scientists unveil strategies to make self-driven vehicles passenger-friendly
I‘d call this politics instead of social dynamics and argue that its importance differs across companies, but generally. I’d agree though that I also don’t find this out of the norm (in those specific circumstances)
See also https://www.reddit.com/r/artificial/comments/1gq4acr/gemini_...
You’re right - it’s far too common, and serves an objective of ultimately turning young people away from education, while not getting to learn what was possible for them and isn’t heir lives.

Maybe it’s a feature of industrial education - enable creation of compliant adults where bullying is disproportionately allowed by tolerating it, and also build bullies to manage future compliant adults.

Bullying is everywhere including in the ranks of teachers and leadership in a school. Those who play the game of bureaucracy (bureaucracy must survive at any costs) must concede to enabling a system of too often failing upwards while standing on the capable folks.

Too many schools abdicate their responsibility and hide behind doing their job and turn it into a daycare of expecting children to figure it out on their own.

Bullying too often is toxic parenting coming to school.

Standing up for one’s self in the right circumstance, especially when the leaders, institutions and experts in our lives, especially as children intentionally traumatizes children that the world is like this, and because it doesn’t bother teachers or affect them it will only get so much attention.
I was going to say that's silly, but I guess we need to be able to hold our breath sometimes.
How does that make any sense? More moderation clearly means speech is less free, in that you are blocking some of it (whether for good reason or not)
It's very hard to do a representative dry run when the most likely potential points of failure are highly load-dependent.

You can try and predict everything that'll happen in production, but if you have nothing to extrapolate from, e.g. because this is your very first large live event, the chances of getting that right are almost zero.

And you can't easily import that knowledge either, because your system might have very different points of failure than the ones external experts might be used to.
Put a gopro on every kid and teacher. Document everything. Problem solved.

Ok, why is this a bad idea? Do the cons outweigh the pros?
How about humanitarian toolbox? https://www.htbox.org/
Yet you haven’t suggested why that might be.
The noise of a room full of mechanical keyboards, dear god.

Me, I bought a mechanical keyboard but I despise it. Switched to a Logitech Keys.
High quality proxies, depending on the site i'll use anything from data center proxy up to residential :)

Almost all requests goes through a proxy to be honest.

You pay per GB transferred basically which works ok for me at the moment.
Suspension or expulsion of the victim is far too common.
No it’s not. More moderation, more false positives, less free speech.

Just having ‘moderation’ means the speech is not ‘free’.
Unfortunately kicking doesn’t work, it needs to be strong enough with momentum which you can’t do from the inside with current position, not to mention any injuries from the impact.
Nobody said that general relativity is "switched on" around black holes.

But ok, let me put it this way: outside of extreme energy/mass environments, gravity is described by Newton's law of gravitation with very high precision. If you look very hard, you may notice differences on the order of 10e-MANY. But for all intents and purposes, gravity is Newtonian in 99.99999% of the universe.
Can't just be the salamander. I saw an iguana regrowing its tale just last week. Geckos too. Pretty sure starfish as well.
> It seems in our world people seek power for many reasons and only a small minority seek it simply to make people suffer.

Are you sure? Your assessment is probably specific to regional experience; I'd probably have agreed with you at another point in my life. It's not something I was familiar with before living here, and it's not the same kind of (hierarchical/organizational/bureaucratic) power alluded to in the quoted passage, but in Austin I'm acutely aware that a not-insignificant subset of "normal" people here seem to be driven to seek enough power in whatever position they occupy that will allow them to make others miserable. I see it in people here who are nasty to me for no reason, and I see it in people here who are nice to me but nasty to others for no reason.

It's a shame that "the cruelty is the point" is so tightly bound to politics, because it captures in a few words a perfect description of the phenomenon.
It's very familiar to anyone who knows how to read it.

"Anyone who know the system can easily learn it" he said with a sniff.

Yes, the similarity to Prolog lets you draw on a vast pool of Prolog programmers out there.

I mean, I studied a variety of esoteric languages in college and they were interesting (I can't remember if we got to prolog tbh but I know 1st logic pretty well and that's related). When I was thrown into a job with SQL, it's English language syntax made things really easy. I feel confident that knowing SQL wouldn't oppositely make learning Prolog easy (I remember Scala later and not being able to deal with it's opaque verbosity easily).

Basically, SQL syntax makes easy things easy. This gets underestimated a lot, indeed people seem to have contempt for it. I think that's a serious mistake.
I don’t think you realistically can. I’d instead approach it from limiting the reach of new accounts until proven as good actors.

Or switch it back to invite only, as there’s a massive userbase now, and if you invite a problematic account it becomes a problem for your account too. Operate on a vouch system.
If an iguana loses its tail, it doesn't just bleed until the new tail starts forming, right? Doesn't it seal up and then regrow?
> the Metal/Vulkan mess

But what about MoltenVK?
its watever
> what was missing from Dlang to achieve widespread adoption

This: https://godbolt.org/z/s49qzPn81
It seemed to be some capacity issue with the CDNs. When I stopped and restarted the stream it worked again. Perhaps they do not use real time multi-cdn switching.
I played on Legion Go. It's basically a Steam Deck with newer specs and native Windows support.

It ran, but barely. I probably spent half my playtime restarting the game, trying to find the happy coincidence of playability (because the other sessions were too rough). Being able to play Alyx was one of the reasons I chose the Go over the Deck.
Some rather affordable dev board is: GateMateA1-EVB

https://www.olimex.com/Products/FPGA/GateMate/GateMateA1-EVB...

This board has RP2040, not the successor RP2350.

Still looking for similar board with 1Gbit-Ethernet.
It has a parliament (of 1) that makes laws within its jurisdiction (membership of the club).
But is there a way that Netflix might have learned from all of Youtube's past mistakes?

The only reasonable way to scale something like this up is probably to... scale it up.

Sure, there are probably some generic lessons, but I bet that the pain points in Netflix's architecture (historically grown over more than a decade and optimized towards highly cacheable content) are very different from Youtube, which has ramped up live content gradually over as many years.
It'd be funny/awesome if the AI can find usage scenarios not thought of by the developer. E.g. period trackers ending up being a tool for prosecution of women in misogynistic regimes...
> under powered broken dynamic linker.

In your mind what would a good dynamic linker look like?
Reference for everyone else: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=9IGvzb-KCpY
> No weird OOP-style class instantiation for something as simple as just getting the name.

I understand the desire to no waste your time, but I think you're missing the big idea. Those statements define logical relations. There's nothing related to classes or OOP.

Using those building blocks you can do everything that you can with SQL. No need for having clauses. No need for group by clauses. No need for subquery clauses. No need for special join syntax. Just what you see above.

And you can keep going with it. SQL quickly runs into the limitations of the language. Using the syntax above (which is basically Prolog) you can construct arbitrarily large software systems which are still understandable.

If you're really interested in improving as a developer, then I suggest that spend a day or two playing with a logic programming system of some sort. It's a completely different way of thinking about programming, and it will give you mental tools that you will never pick up any other way.
I took cs61a at Berkeley as my very first computer science class I couldn't program I never tried to so scheme was my first language.

My ta told me that everybody should take the class twice when you first come in and when you're graduating.

When you first take it especially if you know other languages like C at the time you don't get the full depth of the problems you're given a great introduction and you think you understand everything but you don't realize the depth of complexity. Message passing the metacircular evaluator, continuations as the basis of all flow control, etc

You think they are neat tricks that you understand the curriculum because you can do the homework you don't understand how those neat tricks are really the basis of everything else you'll do.

When you're graduating you've had time to go through all your classes you realize just how foundation was principles are and you get so much more out of the book.

Well I didn't take the class a second time I need help grade and TA for a couple semesters.

I work as a quant developer and in trading now and even though my field has nothing to do with that I still think it's the basis of me as a developer.
I need years of experience in your tech stack to contribute to your opensource project? Is this common?
Unless you’re taking the stance that free speech as a concept applies only to the government, then it’s definitely not orthogonal.

Almost all moderation concerns are obviously restrictions on free speech, it’s just that for several reasons people have started to shrink “speech” into “political speech within some Overton window”

For some obvious examples of typical moderation that conflicts with pure free speech , consider amoral speech like abuse material, violent speech like threats, and economically harmful speech like fraudulent advertising or copyright violations.

Extending these to things like hate speech, bigotry, pornography, etc are all moderation choices that are not orthogonal to free speech.
There's twice as much surface area. Bullies can now do their thing 24/7 from behind the screen _and_ still physically torment.
Those taxes were often imposed because of past engineering errors. For example, Don't deploy during business hours because a past deployment took down production for a day.

A great engineering team will identify a tax they dislike and work to remove it. Using the same example, that means improving the success rate of deployments so you have the data (the success record) to take to leadership to change the policy and remove the tax.
Even assuming a civilization can predict the alignment of the lenses (galaxies), they'd still need quite a powerful signal just to reach the first lens, let alone the second, and then a potential civilization who may be listening at just the right time on the other side. Hard to beat background noise even at distances of a few light years.