skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I went looking for information about Sennheiser's wokeness, and found a picture of Martin Luther King Jr. using one of their microphones in 1965. Is that what you're talking about?
Agreed. So much of it is identity (going back to James Clear in Atomic Habits). "I'm not a smoker" is more powerful than "I'm trying to quit".

"We just don't watch Youtube on our phones in this house." [and you work to develop that into healthy self-confidence rather than ego]

Growing up homeschooled, we had the same simmering sense of pride in not doing what others (e.g. "public schoolers" did). Never had a rebellious teen phase, etc. Some families overdid it, but...idk...I'm still quite close to my parents, so I never felt stifled.

It makes it -very- natural in life to focus on what my SO and I think are optimal and more or less disregard what's normal.
> refers to the traditional insurance business model operating under normal conditions. This is different from the current market disruptions we're seeing in specific high-risk regions.

I've yet to see a capital markets discussion with an InsuranceCo where someone says, "Oh! Your combined ratio under normal conditions is at/over 100%. Good job management team!" Please provide some sources supporting combined ratios >= 100% as OK/sustainable, or this will continue to be circular.

> Insurance companies are indeed leaving certain markets and raising premiums dramatically, but this is happening because...

Dude, your #1-5 just listed reasons why the core insurance operations have to be profitable, or they cease operations. That's making my point. You made no reference to their investing activities overcoming losses as you implied. If they can't price risk effectively in their core business "under normal conditions," then they will get competed out of the market.
> I was taught that you want, usually, more threads per block
> than each SM can execute, because SMs context switch between
> threads (fancy hardware multi threading!) on memory read
> stalls to achieve super high throughput.

You were taught wrong...

First, "execution" on an SM is a complex pipelined thing, like on a CPU core (except without branching). If you mean instruction issues, an SM can up to issue up to 4 instructions, one for each of 4 warps per cycle (on NVIDIA hardware for the last 10 years). But - there is no such thing as an SM "context switch between threads".

Sometimes, more than 432 = 128 threads is a good idea. Sometimes, it's a bad idea. This depends on things like:

Amount of shared memory used per warp

* Makeup of the instructions to be executed

* Register pressure, like you mentioned (because once you exceed 256 threads per block, the number of registers available per thread starts to decrease).
Fair dice rolls is not an objective that cloud LLMs are optimized for. You should assume that LLMs cannot perform this task.

This is a problem when people naively use "give an answer on a scale of 1-10" in their prompts. LLMs are biased towards particular numbers (like humans!) and cannot linearly map an answer to a scale.

It's extremely concerning when teams do this in a context like medicine. Asking an LLM "how severe is this condition" on a numeric scale is fraudulent and dangerous.
Just another big government Republican.
This has been going on and investigated for a few years now.
Do they make them the same as they did 8 years ago? It seems that whenever I want to replace a product I really enjoyed 10 years ago, the replacement is a cost-reduced piece of junk.
Great work @rianadon!
We're open core and have been since 2016. We've deliberately limited the scope of what the open source project is supposed to do. It should be great at this use case of collecting processing, storing, and querying recently buffered data.

The commercial offering is the historical time series DB along with a bunch of other features around high availability, read replication, fine grained security, and the compaction engine which enables longer range queries and row level deletes.

I think Scylla had most of their DB in the open and then a small slice of Enterprise functionality (although I'm not super familiar with their product line).

Ideally, we'd have many open source users and even our commercial customers would use the open source in addition to the commercial offering.

But ultimately, it's about finding a sustainable business model that keeps more software coming. We have a preference for permissive open source over source available. In my view, we may as well create freemium rather than source available.

With this version of InfluxDB, we've been able to invest heavily into Apache projects that lie at the core of it: Arrow, DataFusion, Parquet, and the object store crate, which we developed and donated to the ASF.

We'd like to continue that work because we think that a highly performant, modular, vectorized query engine (i.e. DataFusion) should be a free commodity that's widely available and widely contributed to.
ffmpeg has always felt like a gui application crammed into tui format. I've had the displeasure of using the C api a few times, while it's straight forward in many respects, it makes invalid states extremely easy to represent. I would love a realtime AV1 encoding framework that "just works".
Here is one article stating an estimated 80% of jobs are filled through networks:

https://www.forbes.com/councils/forbestechcouncil/2020/10/15...

That would be consistent with 4/5 job postings being "fake", though the article also says "are 70-80% are never posted". So unclear.
I get how you can have a profitable steady state in with equal inflow and outflows given a surplus tank.

I get how even an immediate claim takes time to settle.

Would you agree that this puts an upper limit on the loss they can run? If more aggregate auto claims are submitted than premiums paid in a day, you can only make interest on they delay duration. If payout delay is say 3 months, annual interest is 4%, you break even at a 1% loss on premiums, right?

If you are consistently drawing down your float to pay claims instead of adding to it, you are better off leaving the auto insurance industry and simply operating an equity investment firm.
This isn't anything new, or exclusive to Google, or exclusive to OAuth.

My workmate hadn't used Facebook for many years and it was associated to an email on a custom domain. Said domain expired and somehow hackers/script kiddies/bots must have an email list, run a whois, buy the domain if expired, setup email, and do password resets across social media and common websites. His Facebook was stolen.
In this specific example, police coercing or using shaky evidence in a perp lineup has always been known and a big problem and led to a lot of false convictions. This just has the added wrinkle of "AI" giving it more credibility than it should. You can see, even in this story, the victim tried to say he wasn't really sure and they basically ignored him. They aren't trying to be "right" or catch the right guy. Someone goes to jail, solved. If you're wrong, let the courts shake it out. You can also probably make more insidious assumptions as to the type of people that typically end up in jail from this stuff and all the perverse incentives there.
> a failure on DankStartup's part, to not shut down their business accounts

They seized operations, why should they be responsible for any other assets?

I mean ethically yes of course. But there's no law/obligations to make sure domains are closed.
Heritability: Five Battles
have been booking 3 weeks last fall for a road trip exclusively with "Booking". The more I booked, the higher the discounts became, going from 15% to a staggering 30% off. When sharing the location with my partner (via verbal communication and without us being on the same network) they got an even lower price for the same spot without her having gone through the same booking history (or barely any booking history).
Executive AI Assistant from LangChain
Well, what's the alternative? Live in some poor country with a happy and contented existence? Fuck no, I want money: happiness is for suckers
President Blinken is trying to get a few last things he wants in before cashing out in the private sector.
You should instead support businesses with a business model that fits your philosophy and try to persuade other users to do the same. If you aren't helping make other business models successful, you aren't really achieving anything.
I'm sure it's brilliant, but I have no idea what it's capable of. What will it do? Send me a push notification? Have an answer waiting for me when I come back to it in a while?

I switched over to the "GPT4o with scheduled tasks" model and there were no UI hints as to how I might use the feature. So I asked it "what you can you follow up later on and how?"

It replied "Could you clarify what specifically you’d like me to follow up on later?"

This is a truly awful way to launch a new product.
I don't see why. My read of the research paper was that they went looking for correlates to gain some insight into why it's unpopular.
It reads like the author didn't even try to understand NixOS.

> But not always. Why? Because there are so many ways the context can vary as everyone is doing different things. Is that config you found:

This whole section reads like author gives ChatGPT code snippets and asks it to explain.

Nix snippets are not very copy-pastable because everyone creates different abstractions to reduce boilerplate. I have probably done "JSON -> list of packages" conversion 3 different ways in my codebase.
If he's as successful with this as he was in his last venture, it won't be good.
the chart in the streetsblog article puts some values in the wrong boxes, too. pathetic
This led me to go do a deeper dive.

1) WHOIS has been partially replaced by RDAP although many ccTLDs don't support it yet (notably .au and .us for example). Spec for RDAP query results:

https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/rfc8977/

2) RDAP does specify that the registration date should be of the last time registered - if a domain has lapsed and picked up by somebody else it's supposed to use the verb "reregistered". But of course, you're depending on the registrar to do that. It does look like "registered" is properly followed - I looked into some known cases of poached lapsed domains and checked their RDAPS and the registration date corresponds to the date the domain drop-caught but no past expiry or re-registration is listed (example[1]).

3) Either way, don't use the content of the WHOIS/RDAP, just the dates.

[1]https://www.adrforum.com/domaindecisions/1967817.htm
ADHD is a real neurological condition that people are born with; not something learned via an app. Post links to research please.
https://openzfs.github.io/openzfs-docs/Getting%20Started/index.html

ZFS runs on all major Linux distros, the source is compiled locally and there is no meaningful license problem. In datacenter and "enterprise" environments we compile ZFS "statically" with other kernel modules all the time.

For over six years now, there is an "experimental" option presented by the graphical Ubuntu installer to install the root filesystem on ZFS. Almost everyone I personally know (just my anecdote) chooses this "experimental" option. There has been an occasion here and there of ZFS snapshots taking up too much space, but other than this there have not been any problems.

I statically compile ZFS into a kernel that intentionally does not support loading modules on some of my personal laptops. My experience has been great, others' mileage may (certainly will) vary.
After asking it to schedule something, it prompted me to allow or block notifications, so sounds like this is just chatGPT scheduling push notifications? We'll see!
Yes. The pure market solution to "overcharging" people seeking housing is that people with available housing (near Palisades) go stay in Nebraska for six months, and sublet their existing available residence for $10k/mo.

But politicians in California have forbidden the market from functioning in such a way -- so those with housing (possibly) available chose not to offer it because the price isn't worth it.
There is an editable tasks list and in the settings menu you can choose to receive notifications via push and/or email.
It depends on the use case, I was curious on price. It is geometrically limited too, with regard to how to mount the magnet to the servo horn (vs. taking the body apart). I just like how you can use that tech, I've seen someone make a USB joystick with a magnet/hall effect sensor to use as a 3D mouse for example. Also have seen people taking hs and using them as rotary encoders on BLDC motors.

edit: I probably should have watched this video before my initial comment, servo I thought RC servo not these big ones. Even so the bigger one would be easier to work on than a smaller hobby one.
> If your internet server serves content, I'm entitled to connect to it.

Nope
So basically canibalizing Siri ?
It's not? I recall reading that coping with a variety of languages was one of the main motivations, but do correct me if I'm wrong and you have a citation.
I know if I still have time to try to cross or not. Especially on wider roads it's nice not to have to worry about being in the middle when it goes red.
I was an S1 app user as well, I've never even used or heard of S2 until the recent drama. I think it's worth highlighting that "Play X in Room Y" mandates defined rooms, and if you are in any kind of living situation in which this is not the case, Sonos is not right for you.

As a long time apartment/condo dweller, Sonos basically can't do what I'm looking for.
I've never broken a mechanical keyboard, but I have gone through a few mice. None of my MX mice (MX Master, MX Anywhere) have failed, but only gaming mice. I have a feeling gaming mice just aren't built to last, especially in recent years as brands have chased lighter and lighter mice, likely sacrificing durability.
No-bid contract awarded to one of his friends with no expectations and no audits.
FWIW, mine:
https://github.com/ericfortis/quick-reference/blob/main/ffmp...
I've been using nixOS on my laptop for over a year now and I still don't have an answer for 'my version of firefox/darktable has a bug in it, but I can't update it without upgrading the entire rest of all the software installed on my machine.' I keep thinking there has to be a way around this, but it doesn't seem like there is one that's clean and not hacky / brittle. Other than that I love it, but that's a pretty huge caveat
So use a different example? Einstein isn’t interchangeable, lol.
I am using Safari on iOS - I disabled private relay and tested again, still seems oddly slow. No extensions; the settings to periodically delete cookies and block popups are enabled, don't see why those would affect this. Maybe it's just HN traffic, thousands of people flipping through the first dozen or so pages.

Edit: I just checked again and it didn't load at all... I also see this is on the front page again, at 5:30pm Eastern US time :) Probably HN hug of death.
I brought it up because people seemed genuinely confused on the idea that job listing background could matter for one person and not for another.

Of course it is subjective until you introduce a context.
The "misogyny" that article purports is just... being publicly trans.
Right kind of similar to how the IRS is above fault, immigration can make a complex scam where they only take the results when there was no harm done.

I have no idea what part of that text you read that made you sure you had to hire a qualified candidate or that a consequence could exist if you don't let alone that their department would look at it. It's my understanding that they are not even allowed to consider past behavior of an employer.
Victor Shaw died in the Eaton Fire last week with a garden hose in his hand. https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-01-12/los-ange...

Accurate risk assessment is difficult when a fire is barreling towards you.
I think grading people to a standard is very difficult.

At the last place I worked I was managing people and we were given a set of "standards" to rate employees on, used to determine raises, promotions, and so on. I tried my best fairly evaluate my reports, but obviously the standards are inherently imprecise and so the evaluations are mostly qualitative. I found that other managers, wanting to do well by their reports, more leniently interpreted the standards and their reports were promoted more and treated better than my own.

So, wanting to do well by my reports, I re-calibrated my own evaluations to be more lenient. The other managers responded in kind. This arms race continued until upper management found it to have essentially broken the whole system. So then we were asked to rank the performance of reports on our team. I liked everyone on my team and wanted the best for all of them, but also had no difficulty putting them in order from most productive to least productive, with maybe the occasional tie here or there.

Anyway, the whole experience kind of highlighted to me some of the issues with "objective" standards and some of the benefits of relative standards.
I've had many mice, and I've never had one fail. I've got mice that are over 20 years old and still work.

So unless you are the hulk and not aware of it, I have to wonder if something else in your environment is affecting them.

Do you buy them all from the same retailer? Do you live underwater? Or next to a high power transmission station?!
I've taught 5 kids to ride bikes this year. The method is quite simple and takes only a few minutes and some light jogging behind them. Take a scarf or a rope (or anything really) around a child's chest and behind the armpits pulling both ends behind the bike. Have the kid pedal the bike while providing balance for the bike to stay upright, this is the jogging part. The kid will inadvertently attempt to fall on a side so hold tight to provide balance and tell them to pedal faster. As soon as they realize that while pedaling and turning does not cause them to fall it clicks for them. Provide a little balance for the first turns. I usually do this for a few minutes and then let go of the scarf/straps/rope without telling the kid as they'll continue riding with no help. Before long they're riding around happily. And then a bit later there's a milestone, the first fall.

The pedalless bikes aren't as effective. One of the kids I sued this technique with used to have a pedalless bike and was fine with it for a year but could not handle a bicycle at all. This is how I remember learning to bike from my own dad when I was probably around 5-6.
I'm not saying you anyone should feel bad. If you have a principled objection to the status quo you should support companies with business models you prefer, and try to persuade others to do the same. Otherwise your just taking advantage of a loop hole, and shouldn't complain if/when the company tries to block it.
Worse, they mention supervised traffic, so presumably at some point people standing outside next to speeding traffic and radiation.

Also, how fast is "safe" when seemingly you'll regularly be encountering crashed cars from people who didn't make it?
The link doesn't work, presumably because I won't pay OpenAI which stole my API credits by making them have an "expiration date".
Love NixOS and Nix in general (just not the language). I've started using `steam-run` to run things I'm too smooth brain to port.
You can get multi-turn absolute encoders for these applications.
Nope, on principle. I’ve tried to make YouTube as “healthy” as possible — disable shorts, disable watch history, only watch subscribed channels — and I’m still not convinced it’s a net positive in my life.

The trick is finding something else to replace it during that time at the end of the day when I don’t feel like I have the mental energy for anything else.
NVIDIA does have a bunch of FOSS libraries - like CUB and Thrust (now part of CCCL). But - they tend to suffer from "not invented here" syndrome [1] ; so they seem to avoid collaboration on FOSS they don't manage/control by themselves.

I have a bit of a chip on my shoulder here, since I've been trying to pitch my Modern C++ API wrappers to them for years, and even though I've gotten some appreciative comments from individuals, they have shown zero interest.

https://github.com/eyalroz/cuda-api-wrappers/

There is also their driver, which is supposedly "open source", but actually none of the logic is exposed to you. Their runtime library is closed too, their management utility (nvidia-smi), their LLVM-based compiler, their profilers, their OpenCL stack :-(

I must say they do have relatively extensive documentation, even if it doesn't cover everything.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Not_invented_here
eduroam is not your everyday WPA{2,3}-PSK, it's WPA2-EAP. There are official shell scripts to provision certificates, but they only seem to work on major distros, and for some reason the eduroam website made different scripts for every university. Also, for most people this is their first (and last) experience with 802.1X, especially setting it up themselves.

In my experience few years ago, it was a pain to set it up on everything except macOS and iOS (which come with eduroam certificates preinstalled in their trust stores).
Our kids play Roblox but we don’t let them chat or add friends. They just have FaceTime on in the background while playing with school friends. Seems fun to me, and none of them appear to have become demented.
Statistically, denials of medical care are highly likely to have killed more Americans than the ~2k Americans killed in Iraq by enemy fire over a ~20 year period.
Not sure what I wrote that upset people so much. Do whatever works for you and/or your kids. I apologize for suggesting that there are multiple approaches to solving this problem.

Looking back, perhaps I was offensive for suggesting that Europe and America were pretty much the same on the topic of learning to ride a bicycle. If that was the issue, I do not apologize.
Why even make this comment?
> Accurate risk assessment is difficult when a fire is barreling towards you.

Yes, hence it must be done (Step 0 above) _before_ there is a fire
A list of open source hardware tools, generators, and reusable designs
Prior to modern AI, one could be done at scale, now I suppose both can which may change my calculus on this one. I hadn't thought about that until your comment. Thanks!
The demographics of those online were probably more healthy than today.
Cat boarding.

Got privvy to the idea when we needed to find boarding for our cat when going on a holiday. Scoped out a few businesses and they were costly, so explored private. All the private ones we visited were simply a largish cage with 3 or so levels, all with litter + bowls within cage. Ranges from $30-40 per night (Australia).

I have a spare room. I looked up Cat Cages and purchased 3 for $150 each. Then I considered what could happen (Vets, abandonment, etc.) and consulted with a lawyer to help write up a contract for customers. (~$1000)

The bare minimum work required is about 20 minutes per day for breakfast, dinner, water top up & scooping the litterbox.

The 3 cages all are booked out about 200 days of the year each for about $18,000 yearly.

Yes I have had 2 people abandon their pets. This was difficult to go through.

edit: I should add - There may be some business hours work required if a cat falls ill and vet trips required.
> Not sure if what I said makes sense.

Not sure either. But here is the lesson from this and other sources. To improve the output use multistep approach. Get the first answer, one or more, and pass it through the second verification step(s). Like 'for this * is this *' relevant? Or is it correct, does it solve the problem, etc.. Then select the answer with the best scores on the filters. You see, it's very similar to that in the original post. Get first candidates, filter.