skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Disclaimer: I currently work for Redpanda.

It's just my polite way of saying it's safe enough for most use cases and that you're wrong.

Low volume data can be some of the most valuable data on the planet. Think SEC reporting (EDGAR), law changes (Federal Register), court judgements (PACER), new cybersecurity vulnerabilities (CVEs), etc. Missing one record can be detrimental if its the one record that matters.

Does everyone need durability by default? Probably not, but Redpanda users get it for free because there is a product philosophy of default-safe behavior that aligns with user expectations - most folks don't even know how this stuff works, why not protect them when possible?

The fsync thing is complete FUD by RedPanda.

You want durability? Pay the `fsync()` cost. Otherwise recognize that acknowledgement and durability are decoupled and that the data is sitting in unsafe volatile memory for a bit.

They later introduce write caching[1] and call it an innovation[2].

There are legitimate cases where customers don't care about durability and want the fastest possible system. We heard from these folks and responded with a feature they can selectively opt-in for that behavior _knowing the risks_. Again the idea is to be safer by default, and allow folks to opt-in to more risky behaviors.

those that are super concerned with safety usually run with an RF of 5 (e.g banks)

Going above RF=3 does not guarantee "more nines" since you need more independent server racks, independent power supplies or UPSs, etc, otherwise you're just pigeonholing yourself. This greatly drives up costs. Disks and durability is just cheaper and simpler. Worst case you pull the drives and pull the data off them, not fun and not easy, but possible unlike in-memory copies.

And you can configure Kafka to fsync as often as you want[3]

Absolutely! But nobody changes the default which is the issue - expectations of new users are not aligned with actual behavior. Same thing happened during the early MongoDB days. Either there needs to be better documentation/education to have people understand what the durability guarantees actually are, or change the defaults.
Our human designs strive to work in many environmental conditions. Many early AI designs, if iterated in the real world, would incorporate local physical conditions into their circuits. For example, that fluorescent lamp or fan I'm picking up(from the AI/evolutionary design algorithm's perspective) has great EM waves that could serve as a reliable clock source, eliminating the need for my own. Thus if you move things it would break.

I am sure there are analogous problems in the digital simulation domain. Without thorough oversight and testing through multiple power cycles, it's difficult to predict how well the circuit will function, and how incorporating feedback into the program will affect its direction, if not careful, causing the aforementioned strange problems.

Although the article mentions corrections to the designs, what may be truly needed is more constraints. The better we define these constraints, the more likely correctness will emerge on its own.
Number Go Up book also has couple of chapters on those and how they are tied into the whole crypto business[0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Number_Go_Up
That's exactly what I thought of too when I saw the title.

Basically brute force + gradient descent.
You underestimate how poor Ukraine is. When I was in college, one of my teachers was a recent graduate, and when I talked to her, she said she was getting paid $200/mo, and she even added that she thought it was good for a young woman. But, shortly after, she left the job. I hope she's doing alright. So what I'm saying is that it's not really the company's fault, in fact they seemed nice, it's more like they probably just couldn't afford to pay more.
I honestly don’t even see how this benefits them.
I might be falling for what I've read second-hand but isn't one of the issues that it doesn't matter where the forum is based, if you've got significant UK users it can apply to your forum hosted wherever. You've got to block UK users.
This is exactly the point, isn't it? The smallest websites are destroyed, leaving only the megacorps.
A forum that merely has good moderation is not automatically compliant with the act. It requires not just doing things, but paperwork that shows that you are doing things. The effort to do this well enough to be sure you will be in compliance is far beyond what is reasonable to ask of hobbyists.
Does it allow to setup up two tasks, convert webm to mp4 and convert mp4 to webm, such as all I have to do is drag-and-drop into some shortcut?
Whatever the current government says it means. What did you think it meant?
> yet it has about the same life expectancy as an average European country

Not quite. Let's take, for the sake of quantification, the life expectancy of a developed western European country: France. Considered poor when compared to American wages, it has health care system of average quality when compared to its neighbours. (So this could be done with any other west European country)

2023 life expectancy: 83.5 years.

2023 life expectancy USA: 79.3 years. Which is the same life expectancy as France in 2000/2001.

> They are somewhat more optimized for efficiency and the US healthcare system is much more optimized for outcomes - partly because Americans are so litigious

So by having the "customer" die early the system ensures that they can't be sued..?
Verification and validation of LLM output in this context would mean doing all the same research, training etc done today for human staff and then comparing the results line by line. It would actually take more time. How do you know if the LLM failed to apply one of hundreds of rules from a procedure unless you have a human trained on it who has also examined every relevant document and artifact from the process?
You know what's really rich about the OSA?

One of the exemptions is for "Services provided by persons providing education or childcare."
Tulsi is an ideological tool of BJP/RSS/VHP. Who knows how many people she is going to pawn the family jewels to.
I think you are right! I am realizing that many of the other book covers can be dated as well
I had plenty of scholarships and even the GI bill covering me. But I still ended up with 40k in debt at a state school (note that I took 5 years in college).

Luckily, software jobs in the beginning of my career was a strong market, so I aggressively paid them off early into the pandemic. About 3-4 years post grad. But I know that's not the normal story.
I don’t know for sure, but I’d bet that their construction can only implement “Clifford” gates, which are a subset of the gates needed for arbitrary quantum computation.

This is a common situation. Lots of proposed quantum computing architectures are built to support only Clifford gates, and then they have a separate subsystem dedicated to implanting non-Clifford gates. The keyword to search here is “magic state distillation”.

More info here: https://quantumcomputing.stackexchange.com/questions/13629/w...
I had a road trip, and pretty much all the time I got 95-100% charge while having lunch with supercharges, which are everywhere. It takes 30 minutes to do it.
I think in Python REPL you just have to redefine the whole larger function. I am not aware of a way to access internally bound identifiers, or even modify what values they are bound to.
I feel like there’s a minimum developer quality that’s needed when using a language like Clojure, without static typing, and with a wealth of idioms and best practices that need to be followed and libraries that need to be known.

Without it it’s a matter of time before the codebase can’t be developed anymore and the software doesn’t work as intended.
No sarcasm. I totally understand why a local news website in the US would just block since its irrelevant for them any traffic from outside the country and they're have little resources. I don't judge them from blocking.

Fact is that its very unlikely they would ever face any issues about having it not blocked.
On the other hand, I’ve also been lucky enough to be able to meet, and occasionally work alongside, people I would consider scientific geniuses. Yet never once did I feel that an IQ test would capture these people operating at the highest level of intellectual output (who I will avoid the embarrassment of name dropping).

Why does Erik think he can predict the outcome of an IQ test, based on information gleaned solely from 'working alongside' people?
Eh, oligarchs are already in positions of significant power. If you're talking about Elon, then to be accurate, he is not managing the federal workforce, but rather overseeing an audit of it. He himself has no executive powers. Those reside in the elected official (the President). It is also the case that most of the federal workforce is already managed by unelected officials but they are accountable to the President (elected by the people). The problem becomes when the President's assigned administrators are met with widespread #resistance from federal career civil servants who choose to ignore the will of the majority, embodied in the person of the President.

This will all make more sense when you incorporate the concept of "lawfare" into your framework. Laws at this level are very often used as political tools. The courts are not immune to practicing lawfare, either.

The current administration is reducing graft and corruption of necessity because they are breaking up established patronage networks (NED, USAID) and Tammany Hall-style vote harvesting progams (welfare, immigration policy, voter id) that rely on graft and corruption to function. If you understand networks as political weapons then these acts can be understood as disarming your political opponents.
in terms of scientific research though, America is ahead of much of Europe. It's historically been easier to get a good job in research in the US. Some research is also harder to carry out in Europe due to regulations. Now, whether the European lifestyle compares to the US is a different story. But when it comes to university-level research, it has been the case that there is just more money to throw toward it in the US, leading to more highly-cited papers. That might be changing, though.
I’m somewhat skeptical of the idea that salary money cannot be shifted around.

Grants paying for PhD students- sure, those cannot be shifted to pay for admin; that makes sense.

Are administrators line items in the state budget? Then this would make more sense.
I find it ironic since your complaint about DEI almost certainly comes from the dreaded trolls you're referencing. I don't actually need a "troll" to tell me I don't want to spend billions of my tax dollars defending Europe when everywhere you look in the US things are falling apart. That's not Russia, it's just reality.
Same here. I work in an office with lots of daylight and dark mode makes it actually very hard to see.

Also, light theme allows for more distinguishable colors.
Easy fix, limited edition exclusive invite only sexdroid runs. You could easily set exclusive droids up as a status and fashion symbol.
I've talked to AI hardware companies using rust for firmware. A couple other companies needing firmware that decided to use rust. Another three companies doing firmware infrastructure in rust. One company doing wide area SDN services. Two database companies. Every single crypto/web3/defi company. Two groups doing datalog-esque work. Two cloud AI infrastructure companies.
i think you need to find a better publisher.
Answered different thread - superchargers get from 5-10% to 95-100% in line 30 minutes.
When we are on roadtrips I often have to go and unplug it so I don't get extra charges for idle. I know superchargers are not everywhere.
This is one of the reasons I ditched Amazon for Kobo a couple of years ago: not only was it getting harder to strip DRM (which I did regularly), but harder to get non-Kindle books onto the device. My Kobo Clara B&W is comparable to a Paperwhite, and I don't miss Amazon or Kindle at all.
sorry, did not realize
No, you can discharge a cartridge by hitting it with an improvised device. A bullet is just the metal bit in the front of the cartridge that goes flying. Hitting a bullet with a rock does nothing except maybe dent it.
Safety from dissent, for an authoritarian government. This is just weaponized "empathy".
This problem was traditionally solved with menu bars (File, Edit, View etc.).

Every action in the app would be listed somewhere in the menu, spelled out in text and with the icon and keyboard shortcut listed next to it if available.

That user interface tradition was eventually lost, first with ribbons, and then with web apps.
The US will get closer to Russia in order to pull Putin away from China. Isolating China is a higher priority than saving Ukraine.
How about:

Individuals and small groups not held directly liable for comments on their blog unless its proven they're responsible for inculcating that environment.

"Safe harbour" - if someone threatens legal action, the host can pass on liability to the poster of the comment. They can (temporarily) hide/remove the comment until a court decides on its legality.
check this "Machiavelli for kids".. seems gone as of now, so in archive.org:

https://web.archive.org/web/20160304023516/https://www.claud...
> “It’s medical-grade meth.”

No, that exists and is called Desoxyn. For many people who have ADHD in the US, this myth makes getting their medication more difficult and adds unnecessary stigma to its use. Don’t perpetuate it.

Stimulant therapy for ADHD is one of the (if not the) most well studied and effective treatments in all of psychiatry. Yet, the DEA has done a fantastic job making this one of the most difficult drugs to get a prescription for. It is ironic that patients who would struggle to keep a routine must remember to call their doctor to get a script every month because of the drug’s schedule.

This guy is just talking up the drug he was taking to make it seem worse than it was. An adderall addiction is no joke, sure, but it is a far cry from meth.
when it comes to scientific research, sometimes a research breakthrough is life or death to people.
Not with this current government.
So far firings were mostly just from the subset of executive agencies they directly control, for ex USAID is legal because it wasn't create by legislative branch like the hundreds of other agencies. They can only fire probationary employees in those, with the exception of 'with cause' firing - a newer executive power as of 2020 supreme court ruling.

But I don't think employment is the primary waste issue. Federal employment has grown relatively slowly compared to local and state administration.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c4/Go...

Which is why my point was about doing macro spending analysis. Most of the waste is in gov cost-plus contracts/procurement (feds outsource everything which is why employment hasn't grown much), how agencies operate (large duplication, old systems, etc), and more generally the unwieldy 1000 page congressional budgets no one reads.
Fully agree with you there - building cloud-only stuff has always seemed foolish to me. Even Azure Functions can be done as e.g. simple C# programs which would be trivial-ish to port ovee to VMs.

But my concern is for those that have built something as Azure/AWS only, who are now stuck with the bed they've made. Sure, there are lessons to be learned here, but if the volume of these is too high, then there will be pushback on any meaningful change since it will be too expensive
>You can't have it both ways. You can't say "I want to have nothing to do with Rust", and then in the very next sentence say "And that means that the Rust code that I will ignore cannot use the C interfaces I maintain"

Seems fair to me. I wish the title replaced "you get no say on it" with "you get no say on rust bindings"
> It is for the some "leader".

Exactly. It’s so the leader can ask “do we have an update?” every 10 minutes when nothing has changed.
You can still be fined for 'failing to comply' with the legislation even if no objectionable content has been posted.
To be in compliance there is a whole list of things you need to do, some of which are expensive.
I disagree.

Why would encrypted data, which the provider holds no keys to, be a dangerous way For a government to hold a secret?
“Eat that kal vas flam and have a side of in nox you PK sob!”
this feels like a feature of claude.ai or chat.deepseek.com not a stand alone product. I can already get what you are selling for "premium" for free with deepseek search toggle.
How about have separate laws for CSAM and "hate speech". Because CSAM is most likely just a fig-leaf for the primary motivation of these laws.
I don't have a strong view on this law – I haven't read enough into it. So I'm interested to know why you believe what you've just written. If a country is trying to, for example, make harder for CSAM to be distributed, why shouldn't the person operating the site where it's being hosted have some responsibility to make sure it can't be hosted there?
working on v2.0!! realizing how it comes across now. Oculus link does not allow for recording & we have a shitty mp4 in a google drive of it working thru a phone camera. Left this out because there wasn't time to compile. Just pasted everything into the medium blog.
Rather than re-write, since we all flew home & separated the parts, I'm working on a souped up version w/ friends. We're designing a new pcb in kicad & just want to get something cleaner out.
Happy to email an actual video though if you care to see the blurry pov
to be clear, this is an opinion pertaining to the preferred behavior of eg the american government and not anything like a summary of its history in this regard. that is, the tech industry since its inception in the 60s has accepted, to its benefit, [massive] federal subsidy.
Learning clojure has improved all of my programming in every language. I’m in love with the simplicity and smallness of it. Rich said one of the reasons he built it was he was programming like this already (pure functions acting on data) but the languages he was using didn’t support it well. There is a lot to be learned and applied even if you can’t use clojure at work every day.
Two antennas get married. The wedding was ok but the reception was great!
I do not believe this article at all. The evidence they provided is not compelling. Who ya gonna believe, them or your own eyes?

Behold Simpsons Paradox. The question isn’t “are people paying more or less out of pocket”. The question is “how much is the school I want to go to going to cost me”. Perhaps costs are “down” because people can’t attend the good schools they got into and they’re choosing to go to lesser schools. The author would have you believe this is a good thing!

The school I went to and the degree I earned in 2007 costs more than 3x today what it cost me then. But yeah sure go ahead and tell me the real price is going down.

What an imbecile.
In theory:

https://minecraft.wiki/w/Tutorial:OpenBSD_startup_script
You need teams of people, the good news is that they're available here. It's not hard as such just requires time and money (quite a lot).

It's not just kubernetes and openFaaS, what about that thing that's a virtual appliance and requires a VM, now you need KVM. Network and firewalls? Storage as in fully replicated cannot ever lose a byte or have it unavailable storage? Object as well as block. Databases, point in time restores/backups/automated maintenance for postgres and then you've probably got a mssql server for that one app, and mysql for that other app.

It becomes just a fairly massive task back in the real world.
see other comment on this thread. v2 soon :)
will also repost with FOSS tutorial since i didn't realize rules of show hn. my apologies /gen
High-Performance, Application-Integrated Far Memory (2020) [pdf]
The elephant in this room is that the "school shooting" numbers are being inflated.

People say "oh America is so bad it has so many school shootings" then you look at what counts as a school shooting and it's stuff that poses no danger to students and may not have even happened at a school.
If that's the price tag, then I fear that "let it slide" will win the vote when governments decide what to do. Put another way, if the effort of making a change could be lowered, it's more likely that a change will be attempted
The odds of a city-killer asteroid impact in 2032 keep rising
"... unlikely ..."

Political winds shift, and if someone is saying something the new government doesn't like, the legislation is there to utterly ruin someone's life.
> The AI also considers each chip as a single artifact, rather than a collection of existing elements that need to be combined. This means that established chip design templates, the ones that no one understands but probably hide inefficiencies, are cast aside.

there should be a word for this process of making components efficiently work together, like 'optimization' for example
For one thing, because that person is not obliged to follow due process and will likely ban everything that even might even vaguely require them to involve a lawyer. See for example YouTube’s copyright strikes, which are much harsher on the uploader than any existing copyright law.
Sure, but an individual income in the top 20% ($130,000) is enough to be comfortable pretty much anywhere in the US.
I'm interested in hearing your thoughts.
>I am surprised this survived so long.

Maybe it wouldn't survive that long if people opened issues for this sort of thing in appropriate places (perhaps https://github.com/python/docs-community ), rather than spontaneously expecting an underfunded open source project to think about the documentation of decades-old functionality that barely anyone would consider using for new code (and which has been removed in the latest version anyway).

(At this scale, or anywhere close to it, the only OSS orgs I would consider not underfunded are Linux and Mozilla. And if you count non-code Creative Commons stuff, Wikimedia.)
2. Enforcement follows naturally from the funding mechanism:

Access to joint funding, industrial cooperation, and defense capabilities is tied directly to maintaining democratic standards. Very simple - fail the democratic checks (Rule of Law index, ICC membership, etc.), and your access to the system's resources and voting rights gets restricted - like originally mentioned.

Continue backsliding on democracy? The restrictions escalate proportionally. This creates both carrots (access to shared capabilities) and sticks (potential exclusion) that make democratic standards self-enforcing through practical incentives rather than just moral arguments.

The Orbán playbook stops working when undermining democratic institutions has immediate defense and industrial consequences. It's a more robust enforcement mechanism than the EU's current Article 7 process.
> Honestly that's a miserable way to live life IMO, being afraid to that extent.

I know right. Ignorance is bliss.

> How old are you if you don't mind sharing? I'm wondering to what extent COVID may have impacted the development of your views here.

I'm 19, but no worries, when COVID happened I was not affected because I rarely went outside.
The trouble here is that the law is so crazy that third parties allowing users in the relevant jurisdiction to access the site could result in the site still be liable, so then they would have the same reason to block your proxy service if a non-trivial number of people were using it.

To do any good you don't want to cause grief for the victims of the crazy law, you want to cause grief to its perpetrators.