skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As far as I understand, when you use an EC2 volume, it is already backed up for you. It is not the case for an OVH dedicated server. For instance, backing up your OS image is a lot more work with a dedicated server than with an EC2 instance.
Can anybody explain "Gollum writes his autobiography"[1]? The images themselves look extremely well "rendered", good lighting and all and they capture the description quite well. But the "Gollum" in the images doesn't look like any common version of Gollum I could find. Google Image Search and most other places are completely flooded with the movie version of Gollum, which looks very different. There are animated versions that look a little closer, but nothing I could find looks like the images produced by the AI.

I'd love to search through the training data to figure out what is going on here, but apparently that isn't public available either.

[1] https://twitter.com/Merzmensch/status/1513611885576347658
C was named in pre internet times. So I understand.

With go, they had to come up with a nickname for it (golang). So now the language has two names.

As a result, the typical "go <something>" and "golang <something>" search results will always be potentially imprecise, and partial (unless everybody in the world stops calling it "go" in favour of "golang".

The really incredible part of this story is that Go came from... Google.
My favorite is this one: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30621445 (might need showdead option)
Can you share anything more about your technique? As far as I know, Confluence hasn't supported a markup format natively for several years. I've found some tricks to allow me to author stuff in Markdown but it seems to come with a lot of limitations which ultimately mean that I have to start using the web editor as soon as I want to start collaborating with others.
It's an organization that receives donations based on people's perception of them as ethical. This move is intended to communicate the values of the organization, as (at least according to this RFC), their community considers accepting cryptocurrency to give the wrong message.

An interesting tangent here is whether the fundamentally relevant thing about cryptocurrency is technology or ideology/politics. I'd probably argue the latter - the tech is cool, but I don't think it's cool enough to fully explain the appeal of the idea.
In France the 'nuclear success story' led to a state law (2015-992, from 2015, the "loi relative à la transition énergétique pour la croissance verte") stating that the part of nuke-produced electricity must fall to less than 50% in 2025, from 72% then, and that renewable sources must replace it.
In France nuke-power is backed by gas (which produced 7.9% of the gridpower in 2019).

The sole reactor currently in building phase (Flamanville-3) is a complete disaster, more than 11 years behind schedule, it will cost at least 19.4 billion € (initial budget: 3.7 billion ).
This is just sophistry. You're omitting the crucial context of what it is in these sentences, and it is only when this is done they appear contradictory.
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The problem with webp is that if you use a good jpg encoder the filesize/quality improvements are negligible especially with the higher parsing time for webp. The problem is like with x264 bad encoders from adobe.
Lost in space: Chiat Day's deskless office experiment (1999)
Awful negative comments today. Congratulations on releasing your language. What were some of the challenges you faced?
The amendment Int. 134 can be found here:
https://legistar.council.nyc.gov/LegislationDetail.aspx?ID=5...

There is a list of key points for the proposed changes at https://pfnyc.org/news/employers-call-on-city-council-to-ame...

One key issue is that Minority and Women Owned Business (MWBE) will have a harder time competing under the new bill.

It seems likely that the May deadline will be moved back.
For personal work, consider starting with "Show HN" in the title. https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html
This guidance is specific and explicitly calls out some dos and don'ts. Your comment implies that there is one flavor of utilizing generics that applies across all languages and that is most certainly not true.

Other languages don't tend to be as prescriptive about best practice as Go is trying to be here. Just because it's syntactically valid doesn't mean you should type it often. (Most language standard libraries are several contrasting styles shoehorned together. Although, to be fair, even Go suffers from this a bit.)

This guidance isn't heralding in a new age of programming, it's explaining the right way to think about a new feature within the language.
It's normally a separate clipboard, allowing you to wrangle two bits of text at once.
Are critics even in sync with each other?
On most modern systems you can't, not without going out of your way to specify --no-preserve-root.

It sounds like they have a "type system" problem, e.g. you shouldn't be able to give a script an ID for a "cloud site" when it was expecting an ID for an application. That is, this sort of outage should not have occurred because it should not have been representable to begin with.
As an author who depends on royalties as part of my income I am coming
more to the opinion that copyright should not be reformed, it should
be abolished entirely for the sake of humanity. I'd gladly give up
what I make to live in a better world for my children. But then I have
to remind myself, this isn't about us creative types. It never was.
Let us build a community of folks who build developer tools
> HFA is not included in either the American Psychological Association's DSM-5 or the World Health Organization's ICD-10, neither of which subdivides autism based on intellectual capabilities.

Why?
Probably not considered simple, but the free tier of DaVinci Resolve is excellent and can make custom dimensioned videos. I produce a lot of videos in a variety of proportions (including 4x5 and 9x16) and it works well. Downside is that the interface is best for landscape videos; I always wish I could rearrange the interface to accommodate a larger vertical preview.
Ministry considers allowing police to use passport fingerprints in solving crime
What about builder patterns?
Are food critics losing touch with people who eat in restaurants?

The fundamental problem is that someone who would become a critic usually has some bias for "interesting", relative to the consumer.
For me, as someone who has to use stock photography often, this doesn’t make much sense. What I really value is an AI system that sorts pictures fast. I don’t need exactly the depiction I’m looking for, but I want to discover a look and style that fits well with the project. This is not what Dall•e is capable at providing. The first stock photography dall•e service has a big chance of turning into the Microsoft clip art of photography more than a disruptor of the market.

From an artistic point of view, the value is zero. Dall•e pictures will never have any Aura to them. And for an artist to use them artistically Dall•e is “too easy”, as the artist won’t have produced or worked on the model itself.

All in all, Dall•e is the most exciting, technologically advanced, and beautifully useless AI project I’ve ever seen.
FWIW, Restya Core works good for us. Disclosure: We were privileged to be on their private beta.
FWIW, I think I would be particularly confused by a "Show HN" on a project that the author explicitly didn't intend for me to actually use?
Cool stuff! Thx for this work.
I can answer this. The biggest insight I've gained from going deep into language implementation is that primitive and fundamental concepts do not go away even if things are abstracted by high level features in high-level languages. For example, loops, jumps, will find themselves underlying in any language implementation regardless of the languages abstractions.
You're filtering it out because it's chinese. It's not racist, but biased because it doesn't feature... I'll stop right there
You assume everybody who understands crypto thinks it’s awesome?

Dead wrong.
Color profile support
> If you have a storage array sure. But if you're getting bare metal hosting from a provider, you're not always getting hot swappable storage arrays.

If you have any server-level hardware bought in the last 20 years or so, it will have the drives in hot-swappable bays. If you then choose to not set it up in RAID, it's just incompetence.

> If you have a storage array sure. But if you're getting bare metal hosting from a provider, you're not always getting hot swappable storage arrays.

If you're getting bare metal hosting from anywhere including your own colo, you have failover and the ability to order replacements while your system is still running. This is only an issue if you're architecture is fundamentally flawed, in which case you're likely to mess things up whether you're on bare metal or in a cloud.
India's UPI payments growth visualised using data sonification
Somewhat relevant https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25590846
I got very excited about this tool. It's exactly what I need. I wrote a custom calendar app in it. But I got disappointed by performance. A list of 10 items takes 3 seconds to draw. I yet have to check if that is not caused by some other tool in the call stack. I wonder what is others people experience with performance of mlr?
Adding a hardcoded extra check for / to rm feels like theater because it barely makes it more safe. It's nearly as damaging to most Linux systems to remove /bin or /usr or any number of other directories. If you wanted to actually solve this problem, it seems like you would need to add some kind of "dangerous-to-remove-this" metadata in the filesystem.

Nonetheless, even with rm you can override the check you mentioned with a flag. In principle, that seems to support the post you are referring to, not refute it (not in detail but in spirit).
I follow simple rule - don't watch anything under 7/10 on IMDb (with less than 500-1K votes) - to save my time and then I still choose mostly movies I like.

This obviously doesn't work for Indian movies where users patriotically rate even crap movies way higher and have tons of votes because of size of Indian population, never seen such problem with movies from any other country (consistently I have to say, if I choose Iranian movie with good rating it's almost guaranteed it's not overrated, same can't be said about other countries, maybe Scandinavian movies to some extent are usually not very overrated unlike IN/US/KO production, Japanese have very few votes so it's hit or miss if you rely on lower number of votes).

After watching thousands of movies in recent decades I came to conclusion 7/10 it's sweetspot dividing mediocrity from decent movies on IMDb, though it doesn't mean you won't find bad movies rated higher than 7, but it's extremely unlikely to find good movie underrated under 7 from few exemptions I ocassionally try, if the movie looks really interesting.
Edge lack of support is more baffling, while the Safari one is not
Saudi Arabia Concluded Jared Kushner Was a Joke, Gave Him $2B
Another commenter has said i3 isa scam company. Taking money to do trials that will never work.
> What is really happening is that nobody is using it for payments at all

[Citation needed]

Over the past years I've been able to book flights, shop hardware, get hotels and rental cars, renew my domain, pay for my server with cryptocurrencies.
I’ve seen glimpses of this in tech recently. Could you please give some explicit examples? I’ve been sheltered from it for a long time and I’m wondering if what I’ve seen are examples of what everyone means by “brogrammers”.
For a little more color on your modulo, the major omission in google3 I can recall from ~9 years ago was Android. For Reasons, I think legal.

The others weren’t “oh huh” enough to be easily recalled writing this comment, which probably speaks to their interestingness. But yes, you can chdir from search to calendar to borg and their dependencies, internal and vendored. It’s pretty much all there. It was pretty splendid, actually, and influences my thoughts on monos to this day.
goat** != goat. I honestly never made the connection between the shock website and the animal.
> The largest and only tank factory has gone idle for lack of parts.

This has been reported in western media; it might be true, or it might be a part of information war. Assuming it's true, shall we expect this to be a permanent problem or a temporary one?

> it's hard to steer, power, target an enemy, or communicate without chips

Hard but not impossible. Given that there's a military attache in each Russian embassy, and given the chips are sold over the counter pretty much anywhere, shall we expect this to be a permanent problem or a temporary one?
The environment? Then run a lightning node, or use Cardano, problem solved. Why are we trowing the baby out with the bathwater?
We've slipped from love-ins to hate-ins
This is for Europe:

https://brilliantmaps.com/europe-fight-war/

Results are heavily dependent on how you ask and the context of current conflicts.

I am honest enough to refuse military service if I don't have a horse in the race so to speak. That can be a constitution that grants rights, it could be land or political participation, the vastly more important reason would be if friends or family that are threatened. Without any of that there is little to be gained and I believe many soldiers are exploited and dependant on the income. But it is a bad trade in many cases.

But for active military participation few conflicts would qualify to convince me to take up arms. I am not from the US but a relatively wealthy country. Some might see that as decadence and lacking thankfulness for the opportunities the country is granting me. But in a lot of cases wars aren't fought for soldiers, just by soldiers. And if I have the impression that the leadership isn't honoring civil liberties, the countries constitution or values, I am not putting my life on the line for it. In the end it is a decision for what you would exchange your life because you have to accept the possibility of death.
The AI maximalists simply refuse to entertain this possibility.

The most interesting thing about DALL-E is its understanding of the prompt, objects, concepts and scenes. Which has improved significantly but is still very far from perfect.

The rest is a rorschach test that abstracts the flaws away.

I'd be almost as impressed with it if it spewed out stick figures.

In fact I wish it had an unstylized mode, so one can more clearly see and think about the way it composites things.
Right next to all those law enforcement agencies' logos :D
It's disingenuous arguing. Free association for me, no cancelling for you, amounts to a plea for a get-out-of-Coventry-free card.
The report is deliberately obscure.

My interpretation is... Atlassian Cloud is hosted in shards where a shard is allocated a single AWS RDS database with (say) 100 customers.

Their script was run improperly and dropped tables from 400 customers across 400 different shards (across different databases)

Their backup strategy was just to restore RDS backups (recover whole database with many customers data together)

But they can't simply restore from RDS backups due to the co-mingling of customers.
As otherwise unaffected customers would now lose data.

I suspect they're manually restoring RDS backups to new DB instances and having to scrape out the data for a single customer - a process they'd not built any tooling for as it was a fault case they thought they didn't need. Possibly as running the Jira/confluence backups are very heavy and create a lot of load/disk that they can't easily accomodation in a multi tenant hosting architecture.
I have no idea what you think the costs of this is. I have managed setups like that. Every year we priced out what a cost to EC2 would cost us, and every year it was about 3x the cost of running our own, with my time - accounted for to the hour - of running the system added in. Every year we also priced out Hetzner and a few other options. After a years Hetzner eventually won out (colo space in Germany was cheaper than where we were in London). So we tied Hetzner servers into our private cloud layer, and migrated containers and shut down servers as it fit into our schedule. Not having to physically go to the colo's to swap drives now and again saved me an average of maybe 2 days a month to deal with several racks worth of hardware.
Thanks! For the negative comments, I'm proud to say that I don't care. I've had bosses even ask me what the point of this is when I've shared it. Some perhaps don't understand that you can do things for the sake of doing it.

Overall the most difficult things to understand were:

- How context-free grammars are parsed, and how they're defined. I'm still not an expert, but I can say that I can write a recursive parser by hand. I wrote my own JSON parser based on my understanding [0]

- Garbage collection. I think most GC's are based on the mark-sweep algorithm. Perhaps even Java's
most advanced algorithms are a version of mark-sweep. Mark-sweep is so simple, that it took me a _long_ time to understand it. Reference counting and mark-sweep go together.

[0] https://github.com/rmccullagh/libjsonparser
> Well then it should be "a goat format" instead of goated...

First Google search result when I googled for 'goat format':

> https://www.goatformat.com/
It's all probably technically possible, but requires a lot of resources currently. I doubt that bookstores do that on scale, unless you are targeted by a state actor.
This is just one way to fix the vulnerability. There are others, with different tradeoffs.
Pythia is a mystery!
Exactly. Who’s to say what’s a scam app and what’s not? Where to draw the line between fraud and an app that just doesn’t meet my expectations?

The author mentions an audio editor that costs $125 per year as if that in itself is a scam. It might be considered one, I don’t know the app. However audio software can be expensive and value is a very subjective measure. In any case pricing alone shouldn’t be the deciding factor.

Neither should it be up to Apple to decide whether an app is worth whatever it’s asking for - unless there’s actually anything illegal going on. For all I care they could offer a calculator app that costs $999 per month. People don’t have to agree to that and we shouldn’t act as if users aren’t able to understand clear pricing information and the explicit consent that is given via the subscribe button. If they don’t I think that’s on them.

Furthermore speaking of free apps that turn out to be anything but: Is Netflix a scam? I’m sure it’s a top free app in the store and yet I can’t do anything with it unless I’m subscribing to the service.
Made a mistake and googled "Danbooru" at the office
You must not be paying attention then, because many detractors have made the claim repeatedly. It would be funny if it wasn't clearly the result of a predictable feedback loop. I'm really not interested in skylining one particular individual, but if you are genuinely interested in understanding what is happening: pick any one of the many tech writers appearing in the multitude of obituary compilations, then pull up their twitter timeline and observe their increasingly venomous attacks on cryptocurrency over the years.

With regard to them being useless: that argument falls apart very quickly when challenged. Unless you actually believe that software agents won't cause a massive economic shift, and that a weaponized financial system is really a good thing that brings stability. As far as it being a "ponzi scheme", a pump and dump, a tulip mania, a beanie-baby fad, etc... Just look at the time scale for a big clue as to why such an argument is laughable.
I dunno, to me all photos in article are extremely oversaturated hurting my eyes, can't even see difference. I don't understand motivation of people oversaturating their photos.
They did some filtering to make it difficult to generate certain things like people, celebrities, nsfw, etc. This has unpredictable consequences on downstream tasks, particularly if the filtering is aggressive and removes false positives.
Did you read or skim?

> The odds of two UUIDs being generated with the same values on the same system is very low

…snip analogy description

> Except it could still happen. You usually get some hand-waiving from software engineers when you say this, but... collisions could still happen. Google found one.

That last bit is a link to Google brute forcing a sha1 digest
Not really surprising and often the EU isn't really a present anymore. This is Finland, but the context is that the EU basically prescribed to collect biometric data from its underlings.
Adding a UK take here: In my area in the South East of England, we have overhead power (and POTS) on poles down the streets. Recently Openreach have been stringing fibre alongside the existing cables.

Virgin Media (the other provider) just dug trenches in the pavements about 20 years ago.

Added bonus of having overhead power lines? Your lights flicker when it's windy...
There is no extra cost to have hot swappable unless you're considering buying consumer grade hardware, but consumer grade hardware is more expensive to host because it won't fit in 1U bays.

> Do you believe you're getting redundancy when you go with hetzner and a cheap desktop grade processor, ddr4 non ecc memory, and a consumer grade SSD?

Irrespective of how much I'd skimp on the hardware, I always have a HA setup, including on EC2, so it doesn't matter in any case.
Show HN has its own rules and so forth but they are about posting work under the Show HN rubric. They aren't a requirement, though, you don't have to post personal work as a Show HN.
This isn't a criticism of Linux itself or the GPL, it's a criticism of the fact that both people replying to me and vendors treat Linux as if it's the only operating system worth caring about. Support for Linux is neat but it is not (and cannot) be the definition of open hardware because Linux is not the only things.

>If it weren't for the GPL you would just get a binary blob for a proprietary Linux fork and then you would have to reverse engineer the undocumented features from raw machine code.

Just because they could be doing significantly worse does not mean that they're actually good. Yes, they could do this. It would not be an open hardware platform. They could also upstream software support in such a way that it is a pain in the ass to figure out how the hardware works, which I also contend is not open hardware platform.

And, anyways, it's a rather bold assumption of yours to assume that the drivers actually work as intended lol. I'm sure many in the Linux kernel community would deeply appreciate being able to just write the damn drivers themselves instead of being left with broken and incomplete drivers with little recourse outside of reverse engineering the hardware or begging random vendors to fix it. This is not indicative of open hardware, this is literally just the same problem except now you've blessed the platform as open.
> I wonder what would happen if crypto somehow managed to replace central banks and how the world would change

My personal guess is that we would recreate most of the infrastructure on top, but with monetary policy now in the hand of a select few individuals instead of governments. The consequences for the world at large would be interesting to explore.
> 1. I wonder if they'll keep this enabled or not?

I was wondering the same thing -- hopefully they will, as I'd like to see that model succeed.