skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It looks like it could be a binary intended to be snuck in with third party package dependencies and such that you might unintentionally execute within your lambda runtime. It's one thing doing mining at a slow trickle within the free tier of a single account, and another thing altogether when potentially millions of lambda functions in the wild are mining for you.

But agreed, it's not necessarily functionally different from any other crypto-mining malware hidden in public repos, save for the focus on runtime. Presumably Lambda provides a standardized enough runtime for reliable execution.
I'd generally understand "gender and queer issues" to mean problems with how society treats people who don't fit into norms.

I'm not sure how plastics contribute to people becoming more accepting/norms changing over time
Knowing apple with their retina-everything resources, of course it should be print quality album art.
If I was a FAANG hiring manager, I’d tear up any resume from these get rich quick dollar chaser wannabes
I've never encountered it in English, only in Czech ("pikantní")
Staging can be a helpful alternative to micro commits. I'll write some code, make some progress, revise, and once I get a small changeset that I'm happy with I stage it. Then I'm free to make a bunch of exploratory changes and the diff will show only those changes, and I can back them out easily. I move forward bit by bit like this until the feature is done then commit.
I expected this to be about how Windows was better/worse fifteen years ago. Instead it's just a list of whining about every little way Windows differs from Linux. We get it, you're pissy because your boss is making you use an OS you don't like.
Ask HN: Can ML help filter YouTube better
I really need the following things filtered:

1. Any video using sentimental music (usually piano) to explain a story (helping someone etc, rescuing and a dog and shit).

2. Need someone to model those video with cadences where someone talks like a YouTuber, you know when their voice cuts right into the next sentence, sort of like removing frames from an action movie. They are getting to sound like that TV reporter archetype.

3. Identify the ‘please please like and subscribe’

4. Can we model the live ad reads and catch those?

I honestly don’t know anything about ML but I’ll literally sit through anyone’s Coursera (Will pay $$$) if you just walk through the concepts and how things like this can be tackled.

In other words, I’m suggesting the future of spam and ad blocking has to occur on this level, because there’s no other way.
> I need to write this all in a blog post.

Please do. It would be very valuable to find these things when searching about Azure, because this absolutely matches my experience.
> Most often, brits will then get angry and just leave...

If only we could've gotten them to do that eight centuries ago...
> He writes in a very marketing-informed way.

I'm going to borrow this phrase. I always struggle with dismissing BS without being abrasive.
what the fuck are you talking about
It isn't the Realtor accepting the price, it is the owner. At least in my state they are obligated to present every offer. Price is not the only dimension to factor in either. Just off the top of my head:
(1) inspection contingency
(2) mortgage contingency (or how much to make up for the appraisal)
(3) timing for closing
(4) lease back option

Can all affect what you would select, not just the price.
https://youtu.be/QUjYy4Ksy1E (YouTube: "Why Gifted Children are Special Needs.")
Rebase works if you're comfortable with it, but it would make working on multiple tasks at the same time a bit harder wouldn't it? I'll be honest I'm not great with rebase.

If you do 'git checkout wip .' it pulls in all the changes committed to your wip branch into the staging area of your current branch. Then you can just 'git commit -m "My meaningful commit message."'

That's the cool thing about git though, it has a lot of compatible workflows so you can do what's most comfortable personally.
I guess I got fairly lucky when I was using Linux as a daily driver. The only thing that I would need to fix after a major update was my Nvidia drivers, and I ended up writing a Bash script to do it for me since 99% of the time it was just installing the latest version.
You can like his policy or not, that's your aesthetic choice. But are you claiming he didn't do what I described?
> My company's strategy is get one extremely solid person across all our verticals (Android / iOS / Backend / Infra) to minimise communication overhead and maximise iteration speed (since we throw out half the code we write anyway).

but ... but ... that makes sense ...

I have found that having fewer good engineers is much better than lots of bad ones.

That approach is treated as heresy, in today's tech industry.
Rich societies are generally plagued by a lack of reproduction, so I don't think that's likely as more of the world becomes rich
I came here wondering if anyone has already dug out this piece of information. It's wonderful news and the announcement does mention the ACM Digital Library, but a link would have been very welcome.
I don't even know what schools in the country where I live, are considered the best :-) I just picked the closest uni (worked out fine. This is in northern Europe)
WebAssembly Opcodes
Which law?

Oh, this:

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-59400762
You are 100% right — for late stage startups where you would normally see 500 people.

At the Fast stage, the only viable promotion path is ship work that impacts the business or close deals that bring in revenue. The promotion levels game is something you play in larger organizations to engineer a rat race for people because it turns out they really like that. But no, a startup does not benefit from hierarchy quite the opposite in fact. That crap is all overhead it’s necessary as you grow but actually detrimental to your success.
I dunno, it kind of seems like I do. My city has the same land use issues, without the alleged xenophobia and we still target foreign wealth way more than domestic. Its just easier.
> The company was a disaster, but part of building a disastrous company is hiring the engineers who want to make everything webscale and have no sense of pragmatism.

I mean, the engineers held up their side of the bargain. They were hired for webscale, the company got webscale…

Now, if this was a more strategic startup, that had tried to hire pragmatic engineers, that insisted on webscale, I would blame the engineers. However, in this case, I think it’s pretty clear that the engineers did exactly what they were hired to do.
> The TailScale folks caught a bunch of flak for their "do things that don't scale" approach to databases.

I've seen this repeated on HN, but never saw the alleged flak.
Russia’s Diabolical New Approach to Spreading Misinformation
I was also wondering this so I just looked it up -- looks like they recently (well, Nov. 2021) expanded to Virginia.
Large repos make sense or don't make sense based on companies that work with large data or not based on predicate calculus and derivatives usually dealing with repos as well as stories and have more problems with ssds too.

There is lots of problems associated with ssds as well as large monorepos.
There are more complicated than people realize but if you did google code jam it teaches them somewhat but needs to be explained too.
There problem is stories sort of intersect with programming too. Clockwork with ssds needs to be reworked for google code jams.
The problem is elixir sort of works with stories and programming. Predicate calculus and proof theories sort of are the only way programming will really make sense in a world full of ssds.
Leveldb could be a more interesting problem for google code jams if it has some newer features too.
Conflict resolution is tower of hanoi and that has problems with consensus algorithms and concat too.SSDs need to do derivatives for pieceing and parting software too and that is more interesting too.
No, Debian always asks before overwriting anything in /etc and provides convenient options like showing a diff during the process.
I also find Twitter nearly impossible to follow. The threaded model is difficult to build a mental model around, you must click/tap endlessly to read a whole thread, I see error messages daily that are incorrect ("this tweet has been deleted" when it has not, or "offline" notices when it is not, etc), significant confusion on tweet metrics (reply count is sometimes visible, sometimes not?), etc. I could go on forever about my issues with it.

Been on since 2009, follow/followed by a few hundred people, use reddit since 2006, blahblah. Reddit isn't great either but I find it a lot less confusing to read on a day-to-day basis. At least old reddit...new reddit is quite confusing IMO in many of the same ways twitter is.

If I had to guess I would vote with other commenters here who are saying that the UX is likely on purpose, and has been built with metrics in mind and not user comprehension.
Production of renewables has, in fact, increased by 10x several times over, and is still increasing as costs continue on down.

Storage will not be in batteries, so it doesn't matter what production rate of batteries is. Huge amounts of pumped hydro are being built out right now. Bulk storage will be in synthetic chemicals, principally anhydrous ammonia and hydrogen, which besides being storable, are both readily transportable and valuable as industrial feedstock.

> implies needing other sources of power for when the sun isn't shining in the wind is not blowing

The sun is always shining somewhere, and the wind is always blowing somewhere. So, you just need to be equipped to transport the energy from somewhere to here. That will probably be, most often, via high-voltage transmission line, but also via supertanker. Absent transmission lines, you only need to stockpile enough to hold out until a shipment arrives from the tropics.

Recycling solar panels is not being done at scale because very few panels have aged out, yet. There is, furthermore, a ready market for panels with degraded output. In any case, even if they were just piled up somewhere, that is no more a problem than doing the same thing with eroded wind turbine blades. There is plenty of room to park as much of them as you like. They don't even need a roof overhead.

When the CdTe panels finally age out, there will be a ready market for the scrap, because Cd and Te are valuable.

Building solar over pasture does not, in fact, substantially increase installation cost. But it does eliminate the need to buy land to use. Siting over cropland will be done more for the benefit of the crops, while providing revenue year-round.

But in any case there is absolutely no shortage of suitable land for solar, even without co-siting. So, farmers can take up solar or not, at their option. Many will, probably most won't.
See the previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30731605
> How do you get both sides to have the same infinite random pad?

With Quantum Key Distribution both sides have access to identical streams of random bits not available to anyone else.

Without invoking quantum mechanics, you can just treat the portion of the pad you have on hand as a prefix of an infinitely long pad which is being delivered incrementally. If you run out of pad bits you just pause and wait for someone to hand-deliver a new set of identical storage devices to both parties with the next segment of the pad. This is the same principle behind treating physical computers as "Turing complete" when a Turing machine is technically defined to include an infinitely-long tape—you can always extend the system with more storage as needed.
Hope a website will work, assuming your trip is not too imminent :)

https://simplifier.neocities.org/index.html
> Depends a lot on where you live and work. My experience was the exact opposite in Chicago. Heck, for some of my jobs I could outrun car commuters on my bike pretty trivially.

I got a taxi from Gare du Nord to a hotel on Champs Eleyse this evening -- took about 40 minutes to go 2 miles. That's ridiculous, but it's apparently a thing.
Rocky Linux Arrives on Google Cloud
Install the games inside a Qemu virtual machine. Put the VM file inside an external drive, connect it only Thursday nights

Maybe start a new game. All games that I play over and over, alone, similar matches, like CS, I just uninstall it. And try something new

Maybe a different style, puzzle like Portal, Talos... Or open world like Valheim, or Raft, great to relax. Sea of thieves 50% at the moment
The point I'm making is that the increased cost of nuclear wasn't due to greater safety standards. It was due to lower rates of construction, losing the economics of scale of serial production.
Wow, never heard of Nimbus but the kickbacks for open source projects are an awesome idea - fair play.
The correct way to mock HTTP requests in Go
Seriously? What's the mechanism of this magical connection? Rental prices go up if there is more demand in the rental market.
I gamified "real life" by using task tracking apps like Todoist. The dopamine hit from completing a real task was like that given by completing a quest in a game. Completed changed my relationship with gaming to a much healthier one.
I didn't know about SMP. Cool!

Yeah, NKS clearly came after Mathematica, but I think there's a strong through-line there that goes back to his early work and connects directly to this meta-math stuff he's doing now.

The core language is a pattern matching substitution system, and that's what he eventually distills into his 1d automata and then generalizes to meta-math.

"at the core of Mathematica is the notion of storing collections of rules in which each rule specifies how to transform all pieces of data that are similar enough to match a single Mathematica pattern. And the success of Mathematica provides considerable evidence for the power of this kind of approach."
https://www.wolframscience.com/nks/p627--human-thinking/

It's been a while since I read NKS but I recall him saying he started playing with automata earlier and getting some of the ideas for NKS then, but then did Wolfram Research/Mathematica for some time while he was noodling. I think that's kinda supported by his timeline:

https://www.wolframscience.com/nks/notes-1-4--timeline/

Indeed there is not much for Mathematica physics on GitHub:

7,833 repos using Mathematica [1]
363 repos of that containing "physics" [2]

I expect that's a pretty heavy undercount as they've not pursued open-source. That's disappointing to me and I agree they missed out on a lot; I think those two are strongly connected. But also he kept his business afloat and did crazy (good) science on the side.

Did find this though. Looks neat!

https://github.com/FeynCalc/feyncalc
maintained by: https://github.com/vsht

[1] https://github.com/search?q=language%3AMathematica&type=Repo...
[2] https://github.com/search?q=language%3AMathematica+physics&t...
> the actual foreign ownership is like less than 5% in Vancouver

It is probably much higher than that, 5% is just what ownership can clearly be traced to a non-resident foreign owner. But you have a lot of property owned by Chinese students. The government is really conservative when they measure these numbers. Heck, I think the empty Seattle townhome next to mine, which I know is owned by an old retired couple in Beijing (the daughter told us as much before she left), is not counted as foreign owned even though it for all practical purposes is (and was bought with money from China...but then again, I bought my townhome largely with money I earned in Beijing as well).

I'm sure plenty of resident Chinese and Indians own property in Vancouver also (since there are so many of them), but I wouldn't count those as foreign owners either. At that point, it is mostly Canadian money chasing after Canadian assets, rather than Chinese or Indian money. Here in Seattle, it is rich techies driving the market, and many of those just happen to be Chinese or Indian (citizens, permanent residents, and H1s). That is a different problem (rich techies like us bidding up the market, not that many techies are Chinese and Indian).
> every small business needed custom engineering work to be done, making integration slow

This is the killer for SMEs. If you're not selling to enterprise, find a solution you can whitebox and quickly ship with minimum customisation.
> Related to your point, if Wolfram hadn’t had the history he did, would Hacker News general suspicious reaction still be present?

Without Wolfram's history, would he even be mentioned here?
I've tried this, it does nothing, I visited the page 3 weeks later no help. Neither does this script give instant feedback it still manually has to be actioned by a human. I think this tool is only useful if you own the channel and use it. Otherwise, it doesnt matter. YouTube just doesnt care.
Everything is a meme and common on the internet, depending on your bubble
That's why it is important to be clear on what idea you criticizing, opposed to just "those people"
There’s a certain street in SF across from a shopping mall where there are fatal accidents involving pedestrians every year. Consequently, the city planned on building a crosswalk. Well, the NIMBYS blocked it because it would ruin their view.
There's two different questions:

- can ML algortihms do these things? yes, to all of your points

- can you realistically run such an ML service? only if you're youtube.
1600x1200 is 1.92mp, while 1920x1080 is 2.07mp. Technically more pixels, but juuust barely. For quite a few years my setup was a 1080p panel next to an aged ColorSync 20" and the difference was mostly the falloff in the corners of the CRT. (And the incredible weight of the CRT, of course. 78 pounds!)
Our per capita property crime numbers are horrible, and it doesn't have much to do with our neighborhoods being dense so much as it has to do with Seattle being a welcoming place for unhoused neighbors (encampments and derelict RVs on the street drive much of the crime). So we get all the problems from a large region that isn't so welcoming.
Best thing I ever did was install Nitter redirect. Even though Nitter breaks every once in a while, it makes Twitter usable (assuming you don't mind read-only interaction).

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/nitter-redirect/mo...

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/nitter-redire...
Army Corps of Engineers Withdraws SpaceX Application for Starbase Facility in TX
I agree with using cheats as a way to get rid of addiction.

You can see that what you depend on is just a number.

I was able to get rid of game addiction this way too.
More like the 1930s. Don't forget economic crises and democratic backsliding.
try org roam
> If it is across apps... I cannot imagine the use case for maintaining formatting

You have some formatted text (maybe some bold or italic in a line) on a webpage, you want to copy it into an email (lets set aside the argument that email should be text only).
Yes I have considered canvas. Parts of the grid are canvas (cell background colors).

I chose DOM for a bunch or reasons: natural font scaling was a big thing (easy on the eyes even if zoomed in all the way) and another big thing was that working with canvas was difficult for me, even workin with a canvas you would have to apply lots of tricks in order to get the performance.
How would this problem be different if Ruby did not have syntax support for regexes and instead offered a regex module in the standard library?
OTOH, those machines were already quad processors (at the high end). And I don't know if you can feasibly have 16TB of RAM in a single compute node. In that case you'd need a rack-scale multi-node system like the gear the Oxide folks are pushing for "hyperscaler" workloads. (My guess is that such a thing could be made useful to a single user - along the lines of Alan Kay's quote referenced in a sibling comment - but it would likely need to be something that involves chewing through humongous amounts of data, to really make use of that scale. Not sure if the art-creation use case has any real need for that nowadays. Some sort of compute-heavy data analytics for decision support and the like would be a lot closer to the mark.)
But they don't have so much utility that they should offer such returns on top of depreciation. The market is broken.
Lambda function code tends to be fairly single threaded, as others have mentioned, using a lower memory size with Lambda, also lowers the amount of CPU performance available.

However, it appears to not only lower the amount of cores available, but the performance of those cores.

So even if your code is very single threaded, and has low memory requirements, you still might want to provision a larger lambda memory size.

The frustrating thing with this, is that your single threaded code might only be using one of up to 6 CPU cores made available to it.
This is the only reason I sometimes use Reddit's search over Google.

If this problem was solved then it's game over.
If I don't tinker with things, it stays somewhat stable until the next update. It could be anything from a -dev package distro update conflicts with but I need for something else to needing to install a package from source or out of repo that in turn needs more conflicting deps which I somehow manage to get working until something else goes crazy because I hurt its feelings by using a foreign repo or built from source.

It was a passionate love/hate relationship.
How practical is it to run some of this client side on the browser via WASM, with a few things offloaded to a server hit? Our computers are getting better. Think plug-in, think ad-blocker.
I was excommunicated from Twitter on fairly laughable grounds (like all social networks these days, they elude exposure by being as oblique/obtuse in moderation as possible), and then allowed endless nonsense because it was 'engaging' which is basically why we have the goat rodeo of today.

I went to Mastodon a while ago, and while I miss some of the pocket communities of Twitter (mostly academic/political science and the arts type of stuff), the UX for Mastodon is far more sanity-friendly.
> it's okay to take 2 minutes to celebrate that nuclear wasn't such a bad idea.

And just 20.000 years to celebrate that the area will be as safe as it was before 1970.

180 years at least if we feel optimistic.
He's an Engineering Manager of Amazon trying to recruit people for Amazon that is losing people at the moment.
If you want to use that metric then the Onyx would be:

4x 250MHz R4400s + 12x 40MHz Intel i860s = 1480 MHz when maxed out.

But clock speed is a very poor metric for comparing older CPUs. The size of these CPUs were much smaller, the number of instructions they could cram into each clock cycle and complexity of those instructions was no doubt far lower, and the variety of instructions and ability to specialise far lower (i'm not even considering the whole RISC and MIPS thing, just the fact that they are working with much smaller dies and far fewer, larger gates)... instructions per second might be a better comparison, but then you still lack that qualitative difference in the variety of instruction as i said.
I do believe my DOM approach is faster. The rendering is a faster than Google Sheets.
previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23732384
> These are all ways to ignore the real problem.

> I suggest you stop looking for policies […] you’d spend your whole life renting and paying off someone else’s mortgage anyway.

> Now ask yourself if that’s the future you want, and act accordingly.

Sorry? I don’t speak in vagueries.
Good.

8ish years ago, I wrote a script to search out Pis with port 22 opened to the internet with default un and pw. Let it run overnight.

The next morning I checked the log and it found thousands of Pis that I could have just logged into with root privileges if I wanted.

Never trust users.