skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> this phrase really needs to be explained with more context

No, absolutely not. This is a first person problem.

The primary reason to reinvent wheels is to provide the most immediate and/or portable solution to a problem. By immediate I mean only from the perspective of the product.

That is a first person problem because many people cannot, such as neurological impairment, imagine any operating condition beyond the efforts of their own individual labor. That is where the cliche of not reinventing wheels is most used as an empty defensive argument.
To be fair, the right has effectively captured the left. Any fool can see it now, even if somehow they couldn't prior to the past couple years.
Salt to injury? I give you props for a nicely mixed metaphor there.
Gotta make a living. "First" rolls off the tongue more easily than "to date the oldest statistically correlated."
Makes me think of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ionization_chamber which can work at atmospheric pressure.
https://archive.ph/uonJ4
comparing POTUS and MSM in terms of telling the truth might be like comparing LeBron’s basketball provess to mine :)

and posting state-controlled-media links tops it all - too funny!
I've always pronounced 'pypi' as pie-pie and assumed it's a homonym pun.
I'm also experiencing issues
Trolls often have clear title to a patent that covers something. Many of these patents should not have been granted, but they were. If you fight them to the end, you can often get the patent invalidated, but the trolls are smart enough to settle before that happens.

But they generally don't have a patent that covers anything real. Even ignoring the situations where the patent is indefensible through defects in process or due to prior art, the claims in these patents often don't actually read against the businesses being sued.

The problem is that it takes tens of thousands of dollars per patent to get an opinion from your own lawyers about whether the patents bear on your products or processes and you pretty much have to do that even if you never go to court.
My wife and I recently went to Hamburger America for less than $20 each, including tip. We had rice rolls at this hole in the wall in Chinatown for probably $15 between us.

Obviously the average meal is on the pricier side but there are tons of great options that don’t break the bank.
Same here, it's been so difficult to find good shows after Bluey and Avatar. The gap between those two shows and everything else is almost breathtaking.
Thanks. I'm in most ways just wondering if there is either a quantitative or qualitative trend change here. Remediation lies elsewhere.

I now tend to have concerns even replying "troll: ignore" feeds the troll.
The article seems to imply that fsyncs need to happen in a linear order, that is, 1ms / fsync -> 1000 fsyncs/sec. It seems to imply that any batching happens in a linear order as well, that is, we have to completely finish one batch of fsyncs before the next one begins. Is that true? Obviously some systems (including databases) will happily let the beginning of one transaction overlap with another, only simulating linearizable transactions when that is required by the isolation level. But I don't have a great mental model of what the file systems are doing under the hood.
How would that work without risking loss of committed transactions?

> Fully durable transaction commits are synchronous and report a commit as successful and return control to the client only after the log records for the transaction are written to disk. Delayed durable transaction commits are asynchronous and report a commit as successful before the log records for the transaction are written to disk. Writing the transaction log entries to disk is required for a transaction to be durable. Delayed durable transactions become durable when the transaction log entries are flushed to disk.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/relational-databases/l...
A man's quest to show the Social Security Administration he's alive and kicking
I've found the original debates video on the National Assembly website. My French is good enough for that (not enough for cooking et al. though), so I believe I understood. I'm positively surprised by some deputies remarks. But Bruno (interior minister) Retailleau is either totally incompetent technically, with his advisors as well, or is a liar. "We will apply the math selectively, only for those that are a threat and when the big brother approves"... In every country it's the same narrative. This time it was not about children, but "Freeing France from the drug trafficking trap" ("Sortir la France du piège du narcotrafic"). And it looks like it was not the main point and they tried to pass it as a minor subnote or something. ... They will find dozens of other issues to cancel the math.

https://videos.assemblee-nationale.fr/video.16453163_67dc786...
Thanks. I mean it’s from 2018 and that is ancient history as far as storage costs are concerned. But yeah those $/kWh numbers for PHS are orders of magnitude higher. Thanks for the link, I’ll try to find the final study tomorrow
I'm sorry no amount of mental gymnastics can convince me that location is user friendly.

Reminds me of Zoolander haha. Either that or what you describe is Stockholm syndrome.

A port on the side is harmless. In an alternate world, it would have become the design zeitgeist and a port under would've seemed just as preposterous as it actually is.
…What do they actually do all day?

I understand what line managers do just fine, but our company works on a process where important projects are supervised by a VP, which really leaves you with the feeling that you never see what the directors are doing. Presumably they're doing something. Although my last one got fired because everyone under him thought he was useless, so maybe not.

Reading the article, it also makes them sound useless because it just says it's okay if they have an excuse for failing.
It's not entirely dropped, it's a glottal 'g' that manifests mostly as a slight pause instead of a sound, although you can often see the larynx movement.
The irony of pretending either party is LeBron in that metaphor is cracking me up.
No thanks. Stop spamming please.
You are implying that mainstream centre-left parties were somehow inherently different in the past when it came to issues like this?

And then of course actual (or especially far) left adopted authoritarian policies whenever they had any power regardless of any of their past rhetoric (conservatives are at least occasionally honest about what they want to do)
More than confidentiality agreements, this shows the current level of wacko that's currently accepted in tech elite circles.
Defensive patents don't really help against trolls since they don't actually make products. That means that they don't infringe on any patents and thus your defensive portfolio doesn't get to play.
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Is it half the population? Do a third of men and two thirds of women suffer motion sickness from VR?

If so, what kind of solutions do you imagine would be in order? The only things I can think of would be improvements to optics, resolution, frame rate, reduction of latency, better motion tracking, maybe reduce headset weight... which seem like the kinds of improvements that this company is working towards?
This is important, but you still have to manage those people because nothing lasts forever and they can burn out!
It says a lot that most of people using public transportation are the ones who have no other choice. They can't afford a car and the associated costs. If they had the ability to not use public transportation they wouldn't use it.

Road congestion is only one factor. If you ignore all the other things that keep people from wanting to use public transportation then punishing drivers is just going to piss people off.

People want to do what works best for them. Make public transportation work best for them and they'll use it no matter how deserted the streets are. Better yet, as traffic dies down, roads and parking lots can be reclaimed and nobody will care. Start closing roads and parking lots without solving the problems public transportation has, and people will be upset.
Same, but maybe pie-pee-eye is better to distinguish is from pypy?
One of the more frightening things I ever learned was that if the population of China began walking in front of you at a rate of 1 person per second, it would take approximately 31 years for the entire population to pass you.

The math, roughly:

1 billion people (there are more now, but we’ll call it an even billion) / 60 seconds ≈ 16,666,666 minutes

16,666,666 / 60 minutes in an hour ≈ 277,777 hours

277,777 hours / 24 hours in a day ≈ 11,574 days

11,574 / 365 days in a year ≈ 31 years.

That’s just China. The global population would take around 220 years, with not so much time as to say hello. A bureaucracy can of course delegate census reporting such that the groups become manageable, but it puts a lot of things into perspective when you understand the sheer scale of the human population.
There is an active fork here: https://ordoflammae.github.io/littleosbook/
I use FAR on Windows. Midnight Commander serves me well in Linux - not sure I'd prefer FAR manager. But yes, FAR is closer to Norton than mc.
I think the impression comes from banks, because you need to be a VP to sign contracts for the company or something like that, so they just make everyone a VP.
Vandalism by itself isn’t really a fascist action, so I’m not really sure what your point is.

However, it is my experience that people using the phrase “tolerant left” aren’t frequently interested in discussions grounded in reality.
> no there aren't. there just aren't.

There's no hiding anything here. You can find random articles about publicity stunts companies used to try based on these. Specifically when IBM was in the game, and Intel until they got butchered by incompetence.
That's possible.

But for a small or medium flaw, you'd expect a bunch of people that complain but keep using it. Only a really big flaw would prevent users entirely and find no complaints among the people that keep using the product. I find it hard to believe it's that big of a flaw. It seems much more likely that the people that started off against the charging decided after trying it that they didn't care very much.
It seems to have turned into a promo feed of startup companies, not any interesting tech news. I stopped going some time ago.
Reinventing certain wheels is arguably the only way to be sure you understand them. For example Monte Carlo sampling implementations.

The logical conclusion of this mindset is mathematics, where people literally prove all of algebra and calculus to themselves as they learn it. There are good pedagogical reasons for doing this.
Thank you for the below comments. I'm happy to admit when I am wrong.
Vehicles and fuel are global commodities with cost floors set by international trade and the relevant comparison is to the cost of driving rather than the cost of New York Metro real estate.
> 745 new donations have been started in the past month, increasing total weekly funding by $899.10

> 14 new pledges have been made in the past month, adding $35.79 of weekly donations waiting to be claimed.

> 20,426.66 was transferred last week between 14,076 users.

Not really encouraging stats for a system that has been around for ten years, though maybe the PR from being mentioned on here will give it a boost.

(It took considerable effort to copy that text, because they are using text-selection blocking tricks. Nowhere else on the page is this the case...)
It is my understanding that they've always been understood to be descendants of the Siberians.
> they should also not have no clue at all. Over an over again, politicians are asking for backdoors. To me it just proves that they don't understand the very basic of how encryption works.

Unless you're claiming that it's literally impossible to construct a cipher with multiple decryption keys, I don't see how you're implying that asking for a backdoor "proves they don't understand the very basics of how encryption works".

Their stance differs from yours due to their values being different from yours, not due to inferior literacy.
I would like to know what the public opinion on these issues is before blaming politician's ignorance, considering that to them the relevant knowledge is knowledge of what voters will support or tolerate. The impossible promise of backdoors that France can enter but no other country, organized criminal syndicate or petty government-employed stalker can find is only one impossible promise among the many we can hear from the world's parliaments. In fact, the impossible promise is something of a stereotypical tactic.
> firebombing people's private property

So any destruction of private property due to political or ideological reasons is inherently "fascist"?

Anyway not that this justifies anything but wouldn't insurance pay for the destroyed Teslas? If so the terrorists are doing those people a service in an indirect since they would be able to buy a car they wouldn't have to be ashamed of driving anymore, so win-win (as long as nobody is harmed, there is no valuable stuff in the car etc.)
Freaking fuel rods. Can we start melting salt yet please?
People labeling everyone who disagrees with them as "fascists" or "right wing", aren't capable of any kind of discussion or rational thought.

It's my fault I got involved in the silly discussion in the first place since nobody starting a discussion with blaming "the right wing", is fully allright in the head. We closed down the asylums, and so they moved online.
Yes, at a very large company, though I still had an interview. No coding interviews though, I skipped that part.
Flash attention natively supports packing multiple variable length sequences into a single call, what is the advantage of jagged flash attention?
Trump and Musk's Takeover of NASA
They declared an incident: https://status.ubicloud.com/incidents/wwjvgx89k9gx
A big one is video encoding. It seems like GPUs would be ideal for it but in practice limitations in either the hardware or programming model make it hard to efficiently run on GPU shader cores. (GPUs usually include separate fixed-function video engines but these aren't programmable to support future codecs.)
Pretty sure it was "Ask ChatGPT". I wouldn't really rely on it. Too many mistakes.
Agentic AI Document Review Is Transformative for Complex Litigation
> but actively disinterested

They're disinterested because they get to sell more hardware that way. Combine all functions in one device and you'll only buy that one device, split those functions arbitrarily over several devices while making sure that those devices only really play along well within their own family and the target market has shown to buy those devices even though they sputter and fume about it being astounding that they're not combining functions.

The solution is clear but hard to implement since the congregation will have to be convinced to stop going for the next sacrament.
AMD Strix Halo APU is a CPU with very powerful integrated GPU.

It’s faster at AI than an Nvidia RTX4090, because 96GB of the 128GB can be allocated to the GPU memory space. This means it’s doesn’t have the same swapping/memory thrashing that a discrete GPU experiences when processing large models.

16 CPU cores and 40 GPU compute units sounds pretty parallel to me.

Doesn’t that fit the bill?
A rule is itself unreasonable if it can only be made reasonable with selective/lax enforcement.

If the HOA just wants to combat "untamed blight" then the rule should be about untamed blight. Don't write the rule such that it demands a specific species of grass, with a length requirement specified to the centimeter.
Starting at 1, infants can form memories, but they don't last until later
People expect the llm version of siri to be an agent, not a chat bot. There's a very wide gulf between a chatbot like chatgpt and an agent like... well I haven't found any good agents I'd give write access to my calendar yet so I don't know what to cite.
Look you can muddy the waters by considering all of transportation, much of which isn't infrastructure, but what anyone reading can clearly see is all this source lawyering doesn't get past the fact I have at least some data pointing towards my claim. The standard you set yourself for the majority funded by property tax was an uncited _trust me bro_.

I've well cleared the bar you set for yourself. Which even were it true, merely points back to my argument of public transit being a regressive welfare program disproportionately burdening the working class.
> Onlyfans creators creating pseudo-relationships.

Twitch, as well. I've stopped watching streamer after streamer when it became clear they were only responding to people throwing money at them constantly.

I've watched people spend $50-100 a night with a streamer. It's insane. Well over $10k a year.

The same people probably write a $100 check to the local food pantry.
Look at the history of 5nm process for example, from the first prototypes to mass production.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/5_nm_process
Hard to get excited about a crumbling empire telling me they've taken on a badass project and tasked a company like Boeing to make it badass.

I was working in a dept full of very talented engineers at Cisco in '19. One of the engineers got a bit fed-up with things and took a new position at Boeing. He returned a month later. Take that however you want.
I've always wondered if you could use iGPU compute cores with unified memory as "transparent" E-cores when needed.

Something like OpenCL/CUDA except it works with pthreads/goroutines and other (OS) kernel threading primitives, so code doesn't need to be recompiled for it. Ideally the OS scheduler would know how to split the work, similar to how E-core and P-core scheduling works today.

I don't do HPC professionally, so I assume I'm ignorant to why this isn't possible.
I’m so sorry, I don’t understand the disconnect.

> Hunter-gatherers from Europe and North Africa could have traversed

“May” and “could have” aren’t meaningful, and the quotes ends with additional ambiguity.
Typically the SQL engine will allow flexibility on this. Not all transactions need to prioritize write-to-disk confirmation over throughput. If you're collecting observability metrics, for instance, these don't have the same data coherency constraints your app model (account etc) demand. In this case you can accept the logical commit and the tiny chance it might not actually hit the disk. Postgres at least allows customizing this per transaction, I believe, although I'm not quite sure how it works if you compose transactions with distinct syncrhonization constraints.
Cool! Next step roller skating. It could be even useful in real tasks like delivery as it's more energy efficient and fast in urban environment.
Reg like regular, from whence it comes. Regular Expression.
It is impossible to construct a cypher with just one key, such that the good guys (spanning several allied nations, dozens of government agencies, perhaps even local police) can use the key, but bad guys (spanning several opposing nations, dozens of intelligence agencies, thousands of hacker groups, tens of thousands of individual cyber-criminals around the world) cannot. We are talking about every single person who can buy a copy of a piece of paper carried out of HQ being able to read all of your personal and professional correspondence: no doubt a possibility.
No, why try doing this?
> hard "c"

So "k" (as opposed to "s")?

I still find it strange that there is letter "c" in English, while not really used.
you sound like a very empathetic person. But hear me out - at end of the day, it's all just business. I was let go on Thursday, 1 hour before end of shift, in a 60 seconds zoom call. Got told that core team is working hands on in the office, has high velocity, and me being remote is slowing them down. I strongly suspect it was also about the fact that this week they had me work on a project I haven't touched yet, and I got no support to set the dev env properly even. So I was developing blind, while also working overtime to push changes to backend I joined to work on. My wife just lost a kid, this was first job I had in 8 months, just started on new year. We are in small debt. I worked from 6 in the afternoon to 5 in the morning (timezone difference) to output a lot, so they keep me and raise my rate. Company raised 16mm but they're still startup, yknow. So when push comes to shove you get let go without them asking about any of that, or concern themself with it. CEO almost bitterly thanked me for working with them and notified me my contact is over and that's it, hung up and left to work on their launch. Team didn't even notice I m gone. I still went to coworking space today to send CVs because I didn't have heart to tell wife we are cooked again. But look, it happened before, I chose to do this job. I'll deal with the fallout, find new one. It is O.K., I'm not entitled to anyone's pitty. Like I said, that is the risk of business. As manager you cannot set rules of the company. And even if you could, sometimes you still need to make hard decisions. You're not a rock in the stream they can latch on, you are another man floating downstream. Don't lose sleep.
now we have president and his apostoles publicly calling on journalists to be jailed. “free speech” for right means “only shit we want to hear” and for left means “you can’t really say shit that entices violence and is blatantly false” neither of course is “right” but as you initially stated this shouldn’t be political and then you proceeded to politicize it fully :)
Thank you! Peanut butter for the win.
Again, this assumes that the protections implied by search warrants in the United States are a universal principle of criminal justice, and they are not.
But reducing traffic directly solves one of the major problems with public transportation, because it reduces commute times for buses and lets them keep a schedule more predictably, improving transfer times and reducing waits.

Increased ridership (as people are pushed to alternatives from cars) also leads to increased bus frequency, which also greatly improves the experience for all riders.

So it's actually a big step towards solving some of the major problems with public transit, but of course not exclusive with other steps being taken too.

Plus, reduced car traffic directly increases comfort and safety for walking and cycling as well.
An adjective. He was saying "less of a PDF blob".
Couldn't some innovative insurance company create a policy that adds a clause like "policy kicks in if the litigant fits the criteria of a patent troll (as described above, lacking any assets besides the patent or a few patents that don't pass initial muster as legitimate, or has fewer than two physical locations with at least 4 non executive employees). Even saying something like "if the litigant has no health insurance for their employees" would actually easily preclude patent trolls as you'd have to be an actual decently sized company to be able to negotiate real health insurance for your employees.
Similarly, I worked at a place where, before I joined, a system upgrade gone wrong had caused the retrieval of backup tapes stored in a metal safe, where the safe's temperature had been below the dew-point. Neither the tape cases nor the safe were sealable against moisture. This meant they had no backups of data they were required to retain for five years. And of course, the person who attempted the upgrade resigned.
> The junior engineer asking “how can I become a VP?” is classic.

How are they going to know what you just said without asking?