skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ask how many farmers do not a single thing for their pasture fed cows. The pasture takes maintenance, the cows take tending & care & health services, then they are transported to a slaughter house, butchered, & packaged. These all have costs, energy costs. Just making the fences to hold them had energy costs: not big ones, but measurable ones.

> My criticism does not suggest any such thing.

It rather ran roughshod over considering energy & didnt recognize any worth that I could see.... yes it frigging did suggest inputs were irrelevant. Callously & with prejudice.

I really dont get you agenda of disregard here. It's weirdly in denial, snubbing rudely. I dont think this energy is the ultimate way of viewing things, but it has value, it'a worth regarding. But you are playing this like a cheap game of Battleship, focused on blowing up a thing not without worth. Not without worth today, and certainly certainly not without worth as an interesting historical artifact of people actively working to expand humankind's self understanding. Why all the TNT?
It was definitely about the implementation in the beginning.
I missed that, thanks for the link!
The key to being able to transition to value based pricing is having a differentiated skill set
As the saying goes, ten people have nine hemorrhoids. Hemorrhoids are a very common disease. If long-term hemorrhoids are not treated, it will have a great impact on the anus. There are 19 folk remedies for hemorrhoids that everyone can use for treatment. Such as washing with houttuynia cordata , washing with honeysuckle for internal use, washing the anus with glauber's salt , soaking fig leaves in water, washing with pepper , fumigating wormwood , and washing with salt water.
> What kind of speed improvement can I typically expect?

For a typical skilled reader, up to about 25-30%. For people with reading challenges (dyslexia, ADHD, vision impairments), it could be much greater. One fellow with ADHD (and two PhDs) said that he could read about 3x the speed with BeeLine versus regular text.

To get a sense of what the speed difference could be for you, check out our "Reading Challenge". [1] It's not super scientific (you might have more knowledge of one of the topics already, which would bias your results), but it can give you a ballpark figure.

Thanks for pointing out the issue with the research summary link. I'll get that fixed ASAP! There's actually newer research that shows even larger gains for students with reading challenges, as well as data from companies (including a YC company) who saw dramatically lower churn rates and/or higher engagement for users reading with BeeLine in their apps.

1: https://www.beelinereader.com/challenge
Engineers usually think so. After spending some time with GitHub Copilot, as annoying as it is, I think we've got a decade, max, before the lower 3/4 of the software development trade is rendered unnecessary.
What do you mean by "bypass" this?
How about leaving fiat to the retail and central banks and not trying to invent wheel on top of a rocket ship
Who's they here? The non-data-science analysts? They were running SQL in the cloud on other products. Non-sql workloads were the domain of data engineers and data science in that org.

The data scientists were using Databricks, but data eng was instructed to try to replicate a few core pieces because it was $$$$ as far as "a way to run notebooks and such" went.
That's pretty intense. I'm a contractor and my clients have all been happy with my ability to work independently - they give me goals and I figure out how to meet them. That being said, I only work in high-trust environments and generally get word-of-mouth referrals for contracts.
I don't know... but there are some articles here:

https://www.nih.gov/news-events/nih-research-matters/sleep-d...

https://www.nih.gov/news-events/nih-research-matters/viagra-...
Isn't the US "founded" on the principle of diversity of thought? It's contradictory no?
In studies it seems to take about 5 positive experiences to undo the mental impact of 1 negative experience. [1]

So yes - generally these are not considered equal. From almost every perspective, this also makes sense - trading 1 for 1 doesn't lead to you improving your situation.

[1] https://www.seekingbalance.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2016/06...
The sick bastard in this case is still alive. I'm usually not one to wish suffering on any human, but I make some exceptions... I hope his treatment in jail/prison doesn't leave him with anything to smile about
Business Graphs for KYC Checks
The best part of this is that it is concrete evidence of Google Search result quality decay. The screenshot of the search in the article shows a result from a Blogspot blog called "Frankie's Joint".

If you do today the exact same search that the OP does on his screenshot, that result does not show up. ALL the results I get are either a reference to this Hacker News post, or computer generated pages. A short 2 pages worth of useless computer generated content, including binary analysis pages and alternative frontends to the HN post.

The original article on Frankie's Joint still exists, here it is: https://frankiesjoint.blogspot.com/2014/08/nein-doktor-nein....
>Netflix employees to request to remove all content that glorifies gun violence.

Maybe when hell freezes over. I've noticed in a couple shows that started elsewhere and got brought on to Netflix, the amount of gun violence increases dramatically. I wonder if it's a budget or culture thing that does it. Or maybe it's just the writers way to up-the-stakes and boost the action to a series that's already got a couple seasons under its belt.
Tell HN: AWS Experiencing DNS Issues
I'm having issues with routing of connections from EC2 to RDS.

Here is what AWS says (blaming some third party):
7:21 PM PDT We are aware of intermediate DNS resolution issues for certain specific AWS names. This is due to an issue with third-party DNS provider outside AWS. DNS queries for domains hosted on Route 53 are operating without any issues at this time. We are actively working with the third-party DNS provider to resolve the issue as quickly as possible.
> Python allows you to get pretty creative with the code you’re writing. For instance, you can:

Use MetaClasses to self-register classes upon code initialization
Swap out True and False
Add functions to the list of built-in functions
Overload operators via magic methods
Use functions as properties via the @property decorator

These features are fun to play around with but, as most programmers will agree, they often make the code harder to understand when reading someone else’s work.

---

Who actually does any of that, particularly at the office?

No one has the time for shenanigans.
> > Announcing the deal, Broadcom said the acquisition was part of its strategy to buy “established mission-critical technology businesses”.

> Seems like their software strategy is to buy a business which doesn't have much room to grow but is extremely entrenched, and then reduce staffing and raise prices as much as possible.
Yeah, we moved away from spark for a reason (you kinda have to babysit it or it’ll crash on anything actually big data). Snowflake took care of things much better than that. Their lake offering is like the worst of both worlds.
AWS already has EMR. If they added some of the delta lake features they could do that.

Azure seems to be at the ‘embrace’ stage with Databricks. I’m waiting for the ‘extend’ phase, and we know what comes after that.
The controversial answer might be that the wealthier brackets are more likely to be holders of financial investments, and the tax code seems to clearly benefit wealthier groups because the tax code is influenced BY the wealthier class through lobbying and the sorts.

If I had no context of the situation, I would see the lower % as a way to incentivize people to invest their money in things that would fall under capital gains.
There are far more "fake dollars" in the world than just that, even.

Ask someone with non-cash investments their net worth. They'll give you a number that includes a lot of non-cash assets. They can borrow against them. They expect to be able to cash many of them out, so they often spend as if they're "real" dollars. But they aren't "real" printed dollars.
> Sorry to hear that. Have you seen a doctor? This is not something that typically happens to 30somethings.

Yeah. Got pretty standard advice from him. Exercise more, lose weight, book some pilates sessions, pause more often, stretch more often... The point is, your self-maintenance burden only grows as you age, and it starts chewing away time you could spend otherwise. When you're younger, given you have the basics of life taken care by your family, it's easier to give a ton of attention to a few things (say, videogames or even the next big scientific breakthrough) at expense of everything else.
Living with Kubernetes After the ‘Honeymoon’ Ends
inflation? qe? rate hikes?
Imagine paying taxes your entire adult life, and then in an honest-to-God life-and-death emergency concerning your children, the police not only aren't doing their jobs, but actively prevent you from trying to save your own child.

Then, imagine watching as mass media hide the atrocity of normal police service being turned inside-out with the police essentially serving as accomplices to the murderer, and instead use the tragedy to advocate the restrictions of rights. That is, the press hides the abuses of the state while trying to restrict the ability of normal people to defend themselves against the state.
Physically detaining & threatening parents with charges if they tried to help.
Ask HN: How do you read AWS Cloudwatch logs
Do you use the web console or the CLI. Ideally is there a desktop native app that can use my locally stored keys to read Cloudwatch logs and can give decent search and filtering features for each logstream? Does anyone know about any such tools?
This blog is by the author of Tortoise-TTS (stylised as TorToiSe): https://github.com/neonbjb/tortoise-tts

Very cool work being done in ML these days, both inside large corps, and also by independent researchers/"hobbyists" (quotation marks because there is some really expert work being produced by them).

And from yesterday, an open-source version of Google's Imagen by lucidrains: https://github.com/lucidrains/imagen-pytorch
Same here. AWS is blaming some third party without naming names?
Sealos Kubernetes-kernel-based cloud OS distribution
I tend to just go with a project box that fits the stuff I want and use my dremel to open up whatever I need.
>if creating good enough RL agents can lead to AGI, and if AGI can do anything humans can, and if humans can write good RL agents, doesn't that seem to imply it should be possible to use an RL environment to incentivize RL agents to write good RL agents?

Juergen Schmidhuber and Eliezer Yudkowsky are suddenly knocking on your door.
I used to love walking in the concourse beneath center city Philly, but it is now a campground of sorts, and pretty unsafe.
That's not the sort of bank being talked about here in terms of "money multiplication." That's more like a VC firm or other institution.

If you could open a bank, accept 10 dollars in deposits, and loan out 100, you'd do it! You'd loan it out to your best friend and keep the cycle going until you're rich AF.

You can't loan out more than you have, but even loaning out 10 of 10 dollars has some risk - if someone comes for their money and you can't get your money back from the people you loaned it to. And it definitely increases money in circulation since it's not parked there. But it's not a magic money printing machine.
> In contrast it's easy to build high efficiency electric motors, and we've been doing that in many applications for years.

Playing devil's advocate: in the case of EVs, the hard part is not the motor, it's the battery. If it were easy to build high efficiency and high capacity batteries which are also small and light enough to be used on a vehicle, we'd have EVs everywhere long ago. (A second hard part is the power semiconductors, to convert the DC from the battery to variable frequency AC which can be used by these high efficiency electric motors.)
Seeing this all across our EC2 fleet for anything on AWS. I think their service bulletin is underselling the severity because we are not using any third party providers. https://phd.aws.amazon.com/phd/home#/account/dashboard/open-...
I think you are misunderstanding me. I'm saying that having time in the field is the exact problem. If you have established a pipeline of graduate students and you have 5 of them at various stages of completion. It's difficult to convince new students to join you in a new endeavor because no one in your group does that. Keep in mind, your role as a professor is to take on students. You would also face pressures from your current students to stay in the forefront of your field as that is what they are banking on getting advised from you. If you're 20 years old, you don't care about any of that, you just switch fields.
> I was running an x86 VM on my 16Mhz 68030 Mac LCII in 1996 in college - SoftPC by Insignia Solutions.

That's called emulation. That's not what VMWare does.
There are homeless in London of course, but access to the underground is reasonably tightly controlled with barriers and the staff will very quickly deal with anyone that hasn't paid a fare or is trying to deface the environment
Clean separation of concerns is good architectural practice. Whilst you are of course correct that you can potentially rely on mitigations (eg. authenticated APIs) if those subsystems change in future you have an emergent scenario producing undocumented vulnerabilities. Security people call this 'defense in depth' - ie. make sure you cover your ass religiously, all the time.
I mean I guess this makes sense, but at the end of the day it seems like Denmark lost its confidence in Rome and had to move everything out of Rome anyways, so it also doesn't make sense. Maybe it gave Denmark time to roll its own infrastructure?
My current job is billable hours + unpaid time working on things required for those billable hours.
I think this binary view is itself problematic, and indeed not really valid:

> "At root, the big question for the future of powerful technologies is this: whether they are ultimately economic entities which should be governed according to market principles, or whether they are in fact political in nature, and so should be governed by democratic norms and principles."

First, why not democratize the economic entities to some extent? It's been proposed before: let the employees of Twitter have as much net voting power as shareholders or private owners do when it comes to major corporate decisions (like, say, who to appoint to upper management). There can perhaps be some degree of hierarchical voting power (more experienced people might make better decisions), but the notion that economic entities should be absolute dictatorships run from the top down like private feudal outfits makes little sense in today's world.

Second, everyone should recognize that 'market principles' have at least as much power when it comes to who gets to hold political power as these 'democratic norms and principles' do. See the Supreme Court's Citizens United ruling: everyone knows politicians need large sums of money to gain electoral office, and more often than not, that money comes from major players in economic markets. Indeed, there are reports that the two major US political parties demand that elected politicians who seek powerful committee positions deliver >$1M to party coffers as a minimal condition of appointment. Is that a democratic norm or a market principle?

One thing is fairly certain: both state and private entities have a great interest in controlling what information and opinions are delivered to the general public, as the past 100 years of radio and TV broadcasting makes clear. The internet opened the floodgates to a much broader range of information and opinions, and now the very same interests who worked so hard to control what got onto TV and radio are trying as hard as they can to do the same with the internet. Blocking them from doing so is certainly in the interest of the vast majority of human beings on this planet.
Has anyone attempted to create a "search engine benchmark" of, say, oddly specific phrases that almost certainly need to return a certain set of pages as the top result? This could quantify the loss in quality we keep talking about.

If the full list were public then the results could of course be gamed, but if only a sample were public and the full set were private then it would probably provide a useful metric (and would be able to measure attempted gaming by the score on the public and private datasets).
I think the incentive to bill 41hrs vs 40hrs is real, but talk to a lawyer about whether they care about 2301hrs and 2300hrs for the year and I think you’ll get Avery different answer
From the looks of it, documentation as a first class part of the schema definition, and enforceable, arbitrarily meaningful subtypes of scalars. There are tons of use cases for those features, which are achievable with Protobuf for struct-y types, but the advantage of using scalar subtypes is better integration into common host systems without gymnastics to wrap/unwrap the values.
You don't need crypto to know how this experiment ends.

It was called the Argentinian Peso, and it was pegged to the dollar. It didn't get to 50% of the existing dollars, it crashed and burned way before that
Good old InstallShield. At one point it was everywhere, and then... it wasn't.

I keep all the bundled installers I've ever had in a folder. Currently there are files there from 2009 onwards (older ones are archived somewhere). I didn't bother looking for the older ones, but running grep -a ether-rot-mutex quickly yielded a match containing the entire snippet! The culprit is the installer for Ulead (now Corel) PhotoImpact 12 and it has been there since 2010.
I mean I'm hardly an expert on your business but it seems to me like you might want to put that front and center at the very top of your website.

"Read 30 to 300% faster with Beeline."

Cool stuff!
Do you have a link to benchmarks?
Broadcom Inc. bought Broadcom Corp. in 2015 (and presumable got its name from it).
There has been a 13.5 percent increase in children mortality due to firearms between 2019 and 2020.

https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMc2201761
I was thinking that, too. The thieves just steal the same modules over and over as each trucking line buys them from the black market.

Nice business if you can get it.
The problem with that is you need to get update definitions from Microsoft

Finding 2022 malware with 2015 Windows 10 definitions wont turn up much
Ukrainian volunteers in the east feel abandoned as Russia advances
Looks like an IPO is coming soon.
Bombs Fall on Oregon: Japanese Attacks on the State
No, I think double billing crosses an ethical line.
> your self-maintenance burden only grows as you age

People of all ages ought to exercise. Young people often play sports, no?

> given you have the basics of life taken care by your family, it's easier to give a ton of attention to a few things (say, videogames or even the next big scientific breakthrough)

I'm not aware of any big scientific breakthroughs achieved by teenagers living at home with their parents.
> The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recently released updated official mortality data that showed 45,222 firearm-related deaths in the United States in 2020 — a new peak.

Wonder how this has changed since the lockdown. I bet its wildly different, probably a lot more is my guess.
I think both of those are free now for consumer usage, for at least a couple years now?
Then what?

You have “a record”. What does that get you?
I wonder if simdjson is going to replace the native JSON parsing in various languages at some point.
The Dunk Web, only visible by archaeological reconstruction from photos of past Google searches.
Do those things have no impact on revenue (or costs)?
But it seems like everyone is (mostly indirectly) impacted by the ransomware epidemic that Bitcoin has enabled.
> If you've seen 100 cases of a missing girlfriend, and in 97 of those cases the boyfriend is the cause of the missing girlfriend, it is going to be very difficult to convince a cop that the boyfriend isn't the most fruitful avenue for investigation for their 101st missing girlfriend case.

Yet, that is the job. If it is difficult for police to keep an open mind, then they need systems and rules in place to force them to keep an investigation broad enough to correctly handle the 3% cases where their intuition/bias is wrong.

In reality, I would guess that the failure rate for "cop intuition" is much, much higher than 3%. Allowing cops to overly trust their intuition results in some very biased, racist and clasist policing.

One solution, is facing real consequences when you are wrong. I think it is absolutely incredible how few consequences the bad cops in this story faced (instead of consequences, they got promotions and the city paid for the settlement with the victims. The cops didn't even get around to apologizing for years.
> Given how pluggable k8s is, it should not surprise you that there are companies at every integration point.

Of course, this is pretty much what ended up destroying OpenStack outside a few niches. HP OpenStack that only worked with 3PAR SANs was a great example - every finger in the OpenStack pie was trying to push OpenStack to have corners that they could monopolise and tie to their proprietary products.
Forgive me, it looks like I had mis-remembered, and Transmeta’s translation layers were mainly software?
Isn’t this just a marketing puff piece with no substance?
wild guess: there was some sort of registration or copy protection that generated a unique machine id or cryptographic key by applying some simple transformations to the mac address. it was trivially defeated because it was easy to find where this was calculated because of the naming of a mutex that enclosed it. after defeat and remediation, this was added as a grumble.

for background: it wasn't uncommon in the old dark days of proprietary windows software to have an installer generate a machine id that would then be used to compute a machine specific install or registration key.

i don't want to use the word sign, because that was probably more advanced than what actually went on, but the registration key was often a function of the machine id.
This is a good HTAP system for PostgreSQL ecosystem. Emm, what about a MySQL compatible HTAP system? An open source project (https://www.vldb.org/pvldb/vol13/p3072-huang.pdf) seems a good fit in this area that process both transactional and analytical workload at real-time.
An old Mixergy episode from around 2009-10 was a legal software firm. They were having lots of sales resistance until the crisis hit, and a lot of large corporations moved their legal work in house to save money. That customer segment was product/market fit, and they thrived. Today we are entering a downturn, more legal work will move in house, and efficiency is rewarded. You can be assured that if that legal work eventually moves back to outside counsel, it will be very hard to bill more hours than the customer knows the work takes with modern tools.