skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It sounds to me like you're motivated by deep technical challenges. This is opposite of what you want when building a sustainable business. Running a business means creating value for other people. It means potentially hiring and managing people. It means worrying about finances. It means doing marketing.

Let me put this in perspective: the NYTimes bought Wordle for >$1m.

As for your specific case, you're talking about databases. The startup world is littered with the corpses of database startups so it's already a tough situation. On top of that you're talking about replication and query caching so of all the people who care deeply about databases (where those databases are generally free) you're talking about a small selection of them where something like this actually would matter.

Now you can make a business out of serving a small number of customers by providing something that is of incredible value to them but you will have to identify those customers and sell to them. Often such companies start because someone identifies such a problem, leaves one of those companies and starts a business to do just that. They already have the contacts to sell back to them.

The other side of this is that in the US as a senior engineer making $400k+ every year completely risk free with good work life balance and good benefits is relatiely easy.

You say you want to start a family. Assuming you're in the US then things like health insurance and paying for education are going to matter. But here's a big one: you will want to (or should want to) spend time with your children, not sweating over the possibility that you can't pay the mortgage this month.
The three car manuals I just looked at were 10A, 10A and 15A.
15A on my mx5, cigarette lighters are short circuits that incandesce in open air without disintegrating.
Thanks for sharing those figures. I've always known "it's amazing" and "it's far away", but those numbers really put things into perspective.

Is there anything particularly special about the antennae on the spaceship? They must be rigorously aligned to point at Earth, and even a slight knock would spoil everything? Or is it more resilient than that?
By implication, you are saying that the 9/11 attacks were morally justified, right? In fact, there is a case that they were strictly more so: as everyone asserts, American elections are more fair and free than Russian ones, so American citizens would have a better chance to elect someone who did not brutalise the Islamic world, and American citizens have more money and stronger passports, so they would have a much easier time leaving.

(Arguably, 9/11 indeed backfired badly for the perpetrators.)
The other thing I wonder, how narrow is the beam? Perhaps if the road is only moderately bumpy it wouldn't be enough to disconnect from a satellite.
this is pretty cool! especially the opinionated structuring part.

now Sagemaker allows u to download ur running code and docker (https://docs.aws.amazon.com/sagemaker/latest/dg/data-wrangle...) . Also allows u to simulate local running - https://github.com/aws/sagemaker-tensorflow-training-toolkit

rather than anything else, this is basically just a way to calm worries about lock-in. Google ML resisted this for a long time, but even they had to finally do it - https://cloud.google.com/automl-tables/docs/model-export

are you planning something similar ?
Data set is broken... he just want to earn some HN traffic and ads money
This seems pretty cool! I deployed a model to a REST endpoint and am trying to test it out now using a Jupyter notebook running Python.

Two things that happened to me:

1) I wasn't able to install `slai` using Pip and PyPi. I ended up downloading the source tarball from https://pypi.org/project/slai/#files and installing locally.

2) I am following the example for how to "Integrate" my model using Python under the "Metrics" tab. However, the call to `model = slai.model("foobarbaz")` is failing. It looks like the regex check for `MODEL_ROUTE_URI` from line 21 in `model.py` doesn't like my custom email address :(. For example, the following model endpoint isn't valid according to the regex: "s@slai.io/foo-bar-baz/initial" (My custom email is very similar to `s@slai.io`). I'll post the regex below.

`MODEL_ROUTE_URI = r"([A-Za-z0-9]+[\._]?[A-Za-z0-9]+[@]\w+[.]\w{2,3})/([a-zA-Z0-9\-\_]+)/?([a-zA-Z0-9\-\_]*)"`

Just wanted to let you know! Looking forward to experimenting with this more.
> miss the implicit type conversion dynamic typing provides

Implicit type conversion is not an inherent property of dynamic typing. For example, Python does not do implicit type conversion except in arithmetic. You can't do, e.g., `4 + "hello"`.

Leaving that aside, though... I'm actually not convinced implicit type conversions are much of a win, especially when it comes to types other than the simple arithmetic ones (and those can often be handled in explicit type-checking anyway, through a numerical type hierarchy). I would rather be forced to handle explicit conversion everywhere I want it than accidentally forget about some edge case and end up with an unintended implicit conversion that causes unexpected behavior at run time.
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I don't think this is a new problem. Its largely a problem of the way its taught, particularly at the high-school level where professional teachers and politicians choose what is important in the curriculum (and yes, I know a lot of engineering programs require an "engineering calculus" taught at the college). Nothing has changed since Feynman's little rant, if anything looking at my kids schooling its worse than ~30 years ago when I was in HS. Although, i'm told I can't compare my HS education because I went to one of the best HS's for math/science in the country (one of first of what are now called "STEM magnets" long before that term was even coined) at the time.

But even so, my calc for engineering classes suffered from basically the same problems of focus. It was frequently hard to tell what was really important vs what was an interesting sidetrack I would never use again. Which is why I distinctly remember a number of my engineering classes having week long math refreshers as the first week of class for things like Laplace transforms/etc or a math refresher TA lead study groups the prof would strongly suggest people attend at the beginning if they couldn't solve some basic math problems written on the board the first day of class. Where I went, the first week or so was add/drop and many of the professors would toss in a "prereq" quiz to scare people into dropping who weren't strong enough in the prereqs as another method. And being an engineering class grades weren't "given". For some classes it was well known that there were going to be a lot of C's and D's because the prof wasn't going to dumb down his material if you couldn't keep up because they were believers in normal distributions (and I remember a physics professor who would show the distribution for tests/etc) and that A's really meant you were excelling.
it's actually much older than that.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Set_theory
Under which circumstances, and how, is money ever physically transferred? E.g. with international transfers - unless the netting cancels exactly out, or there is an already funded account at a correspondent/intermediary bank - there has to be cash transported at some point. It'd be understandable if this only ever happened between large, international banks which smaller banks are usually customers of. Other than depositing at the central bank and providing cash withdrawals, does cash ever enter the equation?
Wow, this is utterly alien to me. I have always had a head for numbers but they are never shapes.

The unique thing I think I have is that I visualize long strings of digits as notes on a musical scale. 735 is high-low-middle. I have found I can retain strings of up to 15 or so digits in short-term memory by chunking them into triplets and memorizing them as arpeggio chords, or by their relative positions.
Afghanistan yeah, but you can tell the difference between Iraq and Afghanistan by who participated in the invasion.

Lack of actual policy making to me is more that the US empire was at the peak of its power. Being punished by America at the time would be worse than trying to maintain a rules based.
North stream 2 has very little to do with this whole conflict. Because mining is quite expensive in Siberia, Russian gas may not be price competitive as soon as 2030. Renewable energy is getting cheaper. At some point, natural gas turbines will use hydrogen produced with nuclear and renewables to balance the peaks.
> If you don’t check yourself, you will actually leave your other tables without any of their basics, or their food will get cold waiting in the window, because you’ve developed tunnel vision to please this one needy table.

o/~ I guess it's true what they say about the squeaky wheel / always getting the grease o/~

-- James Taylor
in German also "chirurgisch"

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/chirurgisch
That's at least more respectable and reasonable then what's going on in fortnight or the average android game.
Reducing the risk of nuclear war should be a key concern of our generation
> Coworker: You should put it in the wiki.

> You: If I put it in the wiki you would have said to put it in the group, and if I put it in the group you would have said I should have put it in the wiki.

.. Yeah.. It should be in the wiki...
> And yet those early employees who joined before they were profitable took a risk, and likely below-market rates, and got equity. Because that’s one proven strategy a startup can use to try to find people who can get them to not-a-startup.

I was interpreting the original comment that kicked this off ("Would they have ever managed to hire anyone if they didn't?") as referring to their hiring practices now, not 15 years ago when they were first starting up. Granted I may have misinterpreted the nature of their remark.

Obviously back then, yeah, folks would probably have been given an equity stake.

So we're arguing different points.

What I personally don't know is if they were continuing to give out options to new hires to this day. Based on my own experience in a startup-now-going-concern, my bet is "no", given that it would no longer be strictly necessary to entice folks to join the company, but I could be wrong.
Oh yeah, I think you're right. If it's all fully-connected (and parts of a transformer are) then more thinner layers use fewer FLOPs than fewer thicker layers, for the same number of parameters. As long as the layers are wide enough to keep the GPU busy it'll run faster.
> What you consider a feature I consider a bug. Whatever was the predecessor of SWIFT was, was probably not intended to cut people off of international settlements, it was intended as a way to establish trust between otherwise untrustworthy parties. It's kinda to normal banks what the BIS(bank for international settlements) is to central banking.

> The very fact that one party can bully others to completely shut off parties from international banking is probably not what a lot of countries thought when they joined the system.

I don't know if that was necessarily the case. SWIFT was founded in the 1970s, during the cold war. I doubt any bank or country attaching to SWIFT expected to be able to use it to transfer money into the Soviet system. I can't find any easily available history of Russian connection to SWIFT, or whether that was before or after the fall of the USSR.

I would expect that any bank participating in SWIFT would expect that it is reliable and durable throughout the West, but that using it to connect with what used to be called the Second World would be best effort only, and could be cut off.
Bitchute doesn't use P2P, but it's a HUGE part of their marketing. Their target demographic is technically illiterate so don't know any different, which really actually is a huge problem in general.

How many people fall for the latest buzzwords (like 'web3') without having the first clue what it is? Even investors aren't immune.
How to effectively torture software developers
I saw in German magazine that you can charge your car from the cigarette lighter, so i presume that it gives you a lot of power.
I've certainly bought products and services from Russian companies in the past, and would like to do so in the future, but today I did cancel my Kaspersky antivirus subscription. If this escalates further, could Kaspersky's software be weaponised to compromise computer systems worldwide? I would like to hope not, but where do you balance that risk? It's easier to remove it than take the risk. Maybe that's a bit paranoid, but where does the influence of the Russian state end?

That wasn't the main reason for my action. The main reason was to cease doing business with a nation behaving in brutal and barbaric ways we have long considered completely and utterly unacceptable, and haven't seen the like of since WWII. There has to be a cost, and this is an additional cost, albeit minor, on top of the existing sanctions. I'll consider re-subscribing when this is all over, perhaps. I might not have been able to renew the subscription in any case, now that making payments is nearly impossible.

We haven't even begun to see the full economic cost of the sanctions yet, but from what I can see I suspect it will be significant, way beyond what's been reported so far. Within just a few days of the freezing of the payments systems, commercial contracts can no longer be honoured and are being cancelled wholesale. That business is going to be redirected to other countries, and I'm afraid that's going to be extremely painful for the affected companies, employees and families. And that's including for internal business projects, and is on top of companies which are explicitly pulling out of consumer-facing Russian markets. Whether this will actually effect any change in policy I don't know, I hope it does, but doing nothing would have been worse.
They keep nukes to keep EU (well, NATO) out of the war. The gas is flowing because it's their last card, if they stop the gas they will lose it and EU will be forced to look for alternatives asap and won't come back.
Selling more to China is not a good short option because as I understand there is no infrastructure, most pipes go to the west. Russia needs this money to trade with China, they won't accept Rubble.
Nuclear war probabilities are useless - counter to the nuclear gambler’s ruin
I'm surprised any gas was still flowing from Russia to the EU - it would seem like that would be the first thing they would have stopped in response to sanctions.
I always type messages in an editor (EditPad Pro for me) and them paste them into the text boxes. I do this for email also.
I wonder what the ping/latency is...
> Punishing civilians for the actions of its government is absolutely insane and will backfire badly.

That's what sanctions do. That's what military responses do. There's no real way out of the box. If a country responds forcefully to an aggressor's actions, the aggressor's civilians will pay a large part of the price.
I use an overly simplistic way to compare how I see GCP vs AWS: MacOS vs PC.

AWS is great, has many options, is ubiquitous across verticals and is everywhere, but it lacks polish in many ways. GCP offers similar tools to that of AWS but, in many ways, feels more polished and offers tools that are integrated across the ecosystem by those who don't want to have to mess with the underpinnings of the infrastructure, roll their own, or have to buy third party services if they do not want to.

That all said, IAM on both absolutely suck. I should NOT need to read the documentation or study the systems like I do to get it up and running. Both providers seriously need to up their game here and offer sane and secure defaults that just work. The last time I dealt with AWS I wanted to pull out my hair (and this could be due to my heavy investment in GCP) and while GCP is frustrating with IAM, it wasn't nearly as arcane as I felt AWS was.

YMMV.
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> It could come off as a little snarkier than I would like to be, but as soon as someone says something should have been documented better I ask them where they think I should have put said document.

I think the point of the article is that for these people, the answer will always be "whatever I can find that shows my opponent is wrong." So, if the doc was supposed to be in the shared drive, they will say "the shared drive." If it is in the shared drive already, they will say "It also should be linked in the Wiki." If it is linked in the Wiki, they will say "You should also have sent an E-mail to the team-announce@ list." If you did do that, they will say "It would be helpful if it were listed in this Team Resources doc." and on and on and on. And, when they finally find some thing that you didn't do, you say "OK, I will do [that thing] too." and they will come back with the passive aggressive "Well, don't do it because I told you to do it. I want you to understand why!" I worked with a manager like this and it was infuriating. Every conversation's goal was to conclude that I was wrong in some way, no matter how much prep I did.
It's Russia's last independent station, not the last independent station in the world.
A privilege that anybody can adopt.
Hi, thanks! The main difference is that HuggingFace contains a huge repository of pretrained models, whereas we're providing the scaffolding to build your own end to end applications. For example, in Slai you could actually embed a HuggingFace model (or maybe two models), combine them into one application, along with API serialization/deserialization, application logic, CI/CD, versioning, etc.

You can think of us as being a store of useful ML based microservices, and not just a library of pre-trained models.
That seems like a totally reasonable request.
It's not shielding Russia nearly as strongly. Being a friend of the US is more important than having oil. American friends and allies can do no wrong to the eyes of the western world
I think you have the implication backwards. Priviledge does lead to valuing education. But lack of priviledge can also lead to valuing education.

For example, the janitor dad who wants a "better life" for their kid, and pays for their college education by working overtime. Or the single mother who puts her child through school working two jobs as a secretary and waitress.

These are generic, but just look around. There are countless examples I'm sure from your own life.

So the problem lies not with privilege or lack thereof of parents. It's the fact that in this country good education is scarce.

Education is a public good and should ideally not be a scarce resource.
Everyone has the right to have children, we don't need gatekeepers telling other people whether they're rich enough to have kids.
I have to admit I found the very concept of using a value that could change as a primary repulsive from an aesthetic point of view. It's just bad database design.

Still, I feel for you. My primary concern, though, was that it made life more complicated for me. But email adresses were separate from ERP user names, and we did not have two employees with the same name, so first.last@company.com was good enough for our purposes.
This is a good reason to establish clear written communication and to use that as documentation to cover yourself when someone is being insidious.

"Let me confirm, you would like X, and that I should post in Y for X purpose. Can do!" then when they try to say you should have done Z, you just show them what they said and say, I did what we agreed to, happy to make adjustments in the future but let's make sure to establish a common ground/set expectations up front.
Not necessarily synesthesia. I think what OP describes is closer to Ideasthesia which indeed isn't as uncommon.
"Rights with wiggle room" are not rights. When someone else gets to decide that your "right" will be curtailed because of some "edge case", that's known as a privilege, not a right. Likewise, your concept of "rights" is flawed if it includes any possibility of conflicts. Real rights—negative rights—do not conflict with each other. If an action would infringe on someone else's natural rights then it's out-of-bounds without their consent. If not, it's permitted. Simple and entirely conflict-free.

There are flaws in the American Constitution but this is not one of them. The failing lies in the courts, for making up exceptions contrary to the law and to natural rights, and in the EU for codifying those flaws into its own legal system.
For a period of time, counterinsurgency doctrine for Afghanistan was entirely based on humanitarianism - i.e. "winning the hearts and minds".

We stopped pushing that around the time I was there, as regular Army folks can do a fantastic fucking job of erasing months of progress in one patrol or meeting.

I $till haven't landed on a $ati$factory explanation for our geopolitical motivation$ to $tay in Afghani$tan, though.
I'm fine with global competition if it isn't arbitrage of environmental regulations.

That used to be palatable to Americans when the polluting resulting from manufacturing their kewpie dolls in Walmart was a local concern of the third world factory.

But global warming pollution isn't localized.

Thus "being globally competitive" amounts to code words for bypassing environmental regulations and further dooming the entire human race. That is a big big big issue.

So while this is amusing and farcical, loopholes are dangerous at industrial scale.
I work at YugaByteDB as a software engineer, and I encounter people in your situation regularly. You are asking HN for product-market fit basics on something that is more like a tool or innovation than an end-to-end company. If you join a growing startup (Series C+) related to the product area you like, then you'll be able to understand how that market works from the default company culture. You'll also be able to pitch your own product ideas of similar scope - if the company isn't too established - after the first year or so when you understand their focus more deeply.