skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Let me take you back to March, 2020. When millions of Americans woke up to find out there was a pandemic and they would be working from home now. Not a problem, I'll just call up our cloud provider and request more cloud compute. You join a queue of a thousand other customers calling in that morning for the exact same thing. A few hours on hold and the CSR tells you they aren't provisioning anymore compute resources. east-us is tapped out, central-europe tapped out hours ago, California got a clue and they already called to reserve so you can't have that either.

I use cloud all the time but there are also blackswan events where your IaaS can't do anymore for you.
Correction: You have chosen to give Pocket your most personal data. No thanks.
Can Covid-19 Result in Erectile Dysfunction (ED)?
This is why I like Cloudflare's worker model. It feels like the usefulness of cloud deployments, but with a pretty restrained pricing model.
Which video? The guy has open sourced the library he uses to construct the animations
What were their reasons?
Google knows you wont get an offer for months, and the hiring freeze will be long over by then.
I love Go. Just checked my Go server pushing terabytes of data per month has over 4 years of uptime now. Run and forget...

Every time new version of Go is released I am thinking about updating it, but then why if it works...
Except compilers aren't used in isolation, if one writes the compiler toolchain in C++, chances are other system critical components are also written in C++, if nothing else for the comfort of single language use.

Security must be applied end to end, and not pontual.
I don't think this is the same issue as the exploit.

The real issue was half-caught in a review on a pull request however. https://github.com/nomad-xyz/monorepo/pull/289/files

If this legacy enum value had been handled later in the code, there would not have been a vulnerability.

(This isn't to say that the developers were bad. The person who wrote the code was extremely knowledgeable. It's just really hard to be perfect every time. )
Completely agree, yet initializing a value to zero ain't no smoking gun.
Robinhood lays off 23% of staff
https://www.redbooks.ibm.com/redpapers/pdfs/redp5510.pdf

I want one of these.

a system with 1TB of ram is 133k, 8.5mil for a system with 64TB of ram?
Dave Van Ronk's recording of Death Letter Blues.

eta: No wait, I change my mind! John Coltrane's My favorite Things! Live at Newport.
I can't remember why I did that, probably to keep the data separate from the rest of the code.
> Once Google and Facebook started growing it's clear they realized that every talented engineer on the market is a potential threat.

You could count on one hand the number of startups that are serious threats to either. And when one arises, they can pretty much just buy the company, as Facebook has done repeatedly. They hardly need to be concerned with individual engineers, and even if they were, the idea that they could hire them all is pretty far-fetched
This was the first email I received, after my welcome email on July 15.

This was a dev instance, maybe I was hacked, cannot rule that out. But was not expecting an outright ban with no details on what has happened.
Do you have plans for a self-hosted version (ie, enterprise use case where third party hosted tools cannot be used)?
They really shouldn't. People don't get randomly shadowbanned. Turning it on just shows a whole lot of vile, aggressive, hysterical rubbish.
There might be a hierarchy of value, but that to me doesn't imply lower classes in the normal sense. We're talking about people being paid some of the best salaries in the history of the world, and with very little personal risk.
We're already on it. Bing.
One issue I've seen with this is that if you have a single, very large database, it can take a very, very long time to restore from backups. Or for that matter just taking backups.

I'd be interested to know if anyone has a good solution for that.
Nice!
Most tooling is not even working with 1.18 ahah
Yeah there's no app icon in the Dock because we don't have any GUI besides the menu bar icon.
Yeah, Airflow isn't multi-tenant.

People can potentially overwrite each other's DAGs. Credential management is complicated. Broken DAG can stop whole Airflow. Slow DAG can impact performance of whole Airflow. Getting DAGs to wait for each other (like one team prepares data up to a point and then other team builds on that) is kind of a nightmare. Sometimes people want features from newer Airflow, but some other team built DAG that isn't forward compatible. Etc etc.

But I'm not sure there actually is a better solution elsewhere. At least I have not seen it yet, maybe Dagster is on a good road.

But as I said, for centralized solutions it works really well.
it's not a company requirement that no one questions. it's an industry requirement that literally everyone questions all the time.
Thanks for making it and keeping it online!

My kids often want to “work like dad” so I plant them next to me with the spare laptop, open Hacker Typer, F11 and let them fire away.

The 7yo by now knows it’s not really him typing all that but still thinks it looks cool.

The 3yo pecks the keyboard key by key and then stares intently at the screen to try and correlate his typing with what shows up on screen…
I think we need an "alternative fun facts" thread to replace these well-worn ones.
Will DALL•E 2 make human taste obsolete? No, absolutely not. But DALL•E 3? 4? Other similar models in the next 5 years? Absolutely yes. This blog post proves that with current algorithms, human input is needed, but it proves nothing about future algorithms.

In my personal opinion as an (admittedly junior) ML engineer and lifelong artist, we've got <10 years before the golden age of human-made art is completely over.
If I was one of the few productive people in a company of lazy slobs the prospect of the dead weight being cast off would make me happy
Yes, and that is explicity referenced in the article under "Unix Version 6" section.
No religious flamewar please. This thread was hellish enough already.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32306035.
Looks great, seems really well made and thought out.
Sounds like you want to solve the oracle problem with a... central authority?

It's so poetic.
You definitely glossed over it - the Dall-E 2 homepage has the three main features of the program with examples (Image Generation, Edits to Existing Images, and Variations of the image)

https://openai.com/dall-e-2/
It's bad. The root cause is that Canadian provinces all decided to short-sheet each other by not paying to educate and train sufficient doctors, for many decades. Socialism run by governments that despise socialism quickly rots. If even a few (conservative-run) provinces decide to short-sheet, the rest tend to feel obliged to follow. Granted, democracies tend to be short-sighted; the furthest horizon is hardly more than one election away.
I've done this though the data in the table was split across DataFrames in many concurrent processes.
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/49438954/python-shared-m...
It's one of a set of image macros people with no personality use to express their feelings on something. Like an emoji, but it signals the user is insufferable and hangs out with equally obnoxious people. Often paired with that frog that was so abused by twits that the comic's creator killed the character off.
From a design point of view, with all the back and forth and the need to curate and guide the algorithm, I think we're a way off getting perfect results from prompts alone at this stage.

I can see an immediate use-case for an AI layer in apps like photoshop, figma, sketchapp, gimp, unreal engine, etc that works in the background to periodically fill-in based on the current canvas.

You could prompt for inspiration, then start cutting, erasing, moving things around, blending manually, hand-drawing some elements, then re-rolling the AI, rinse-repeat.

I'm sure someone's working on it already but it seems there's a lot of scope for integration into current workflows.
Even on an AVR, you can implement lightweight cooperative scheduling with low resource consumption. That gives you many of the benefits of an RTOS with less risk of creating heisenbugs. Arduino should have broken free of its main-loop architecture long ago.
Congrats on launching! Using Session Replay in the CI space makes a lot of sense. And agreed that there’s a lot that can be done by hooking into Cypress’s events. By the way, we’re doing the same and hope to show a Cypress reporter soon as well.

Re pricing: we’re still refining the pricing, but we assume that most of the time you’ll only want to debug the failing tests and while the recordings are fairly small, the larger piece is actually replaying the browser as it ran before so you can add print statements in your application and play to when a network request was returned or an error was thrown.
Majority were not on medication.

>Eighty-five FES patients and 35 CHR subjects were psychotropic medication naïve and all participants were free of substance abuse, suicidal ideation, and unstable medical illness.
I’ve asked everyone and they googled around, found the GitHub project and from there the API service. I haven’t been able to convert that knowledge into a strategy.
As so many people learned over the years in storage org, essential modus operandi was “just do your current shit, this new shit you are proposing is too hard and we don’t want to do it”. I lost count of improvement proposals that ultimately were not getting supported (there was a funny one with (first) hosted NFS prototype, when they tried to turn it off, turned out there were pissed-off customers running business workloads already). Instead we tried to fit square pegs into the round holes “by using existing technology”.
Seems like Beam is a more specialized tool than JVM but if you need that sort of functionality it's phenomenal. With things like built-in performant persistent key value stores and cluster management I'm kind of surprised more people haven't pushed through the "this is useful but lacks broad adoption" barrier.
Added details here[1]. For clarity, I'd just add that I was also running my backend on the instance which could have been buggy and compromised (cannot rule that out). Was not mining crypto, hosting porn or doing anything else that I'd think is clearly against their terms of service.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32323655
This is some old school stuff right here. I have a hard time believing this sort of gumption and moxy are as prevalent today.

> The best perk is the number of parking spaces the requisite orange utility traffic cone opens up for you.

That's hilarious.
Hi Markus!

Thanks for your kind words.

I read your comment[1] which explains what you are doing and suggests by implication why you might think you are insufficiently prepared.

However, no law requires perfect preparedness. Why not take a few small bites of delicious dessert and see how they taste?

Best wishes and kindest regards,

Tom

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32314583
Someone else here claimed they don't yet have a public token and it's all vc/institutional money.
Presumably it doesn't matter if you break your DB up into smaller DBs, you still have the same amount of data to back up no matter what. However, now you also have the problem of snapshot consistency to worry about.

If you need to backup/restore just one set of tables, you can do that with a single DB server without taking the rest offline.
This entire conversation has managed to diminish my enthusiasm for Rust. =/
Obviously the fewer you need the better. Zero-knob GC not yet discovered.
Good feedback. Will do.
When AI reaches the point where we can talk to a system like DALL.E in real time and work with it to solve a problem, it's game over.

Art will become a commodity. Human art and ai art will be indistinguishable, "artists" will become as common as "photographers" since the inception of digital photography and social media.

Movie and TV scripts will be iterative with a creative director and AI working together.

Animation will become a lot easier, less people needed, fewer creatives.

Software will become easier and easier as developers will simply guide AI. This is already beginning to happen, but imagine paired programming with natural language interacting with an AI.

Architecture, civic planning, engineering, medical, law, policy, physics, it's all gonna change, and rapidly. DALL.E 2 shows how a leap in sophistication can revolutionize an industry overnight. Microsoft has exclusively licensed DALL.E 2, I can only imagine the myriad of creative tools it will serve the creative industry with.

The working in real-time will be the biggest leap. Asking DALL.E for an image and refining it as you talk is going to be nuts.
Gee, that appeal to international accords might hold some more rhetorical power if we didn't have that whole Hong Kong unpleasantness recently.

Seeing as we did, China can shove it.
Leaving Facebook/Meta was the best thing we could do for the community
One thing to keep in mind is separation. The prod environment should be completely separated from the dev ones (plural, it should be cheap/fast to spin up dev environments). Access to production data should be limited to those that need it (ideally for just the time they need it). Teams should be able to deploy their app separately and not have to share dependencies (i.e operating system libraries) and it should be possible to test OS upgrades (containers do not make you immune from this). It's kinda possible to sort of do this with 'one big server' but then you're running your own virtualized infrastructure which has it's own costs/pains.

Definitely also don't recommend one big database, as that becomes a hairball quickly - it's possible to have several logical databases for one physical 'database 'server' though.
> I found working with Google people impossible, which includes on the account side. They are rude and unhelpful.

I ran a business on GCP and paid for the $150/month support option. I was honestly pretty amazed at how good the support was (like, multiple google engineers stepping through my code line by line to find the root cause of an issue). For $150 a month (and only a few thousand a month total GCP spend) this seemed like a really good deal and included 24/7 4-hour response times.

This was at least five years ago however - no idea if they still offer this plan today.
Please don't cross into personal attack and name-calling. It's against the site guidelines. It also discredits what you're arguing for, and is therefore not in your interest.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Yup!

Typically our customers see the pain around debugability and currently waste dev & CI cycles rerunning tests and seeing their CI as largely ignored, or a productivity bottleneck to pushing code into main/production quickly. On top of that, they usually look for some tablestakes ability to load balance tests for parallelized runners, and some basic reporting to get a health check on their suite now and again.

Teams where their primary concern is around in-depth analytics and graphing reports, we have those on the roadmap, but can't say we're better than Cypress Dashboard yet :) But we think our focus on debugging overall gives teams a better chance of fixing errors, as opposed to reporting on them.

We have a free trial if you want to take it for a spin yourself! A lot of teams start off introducing us in an experimental PR to try out the product, and then merge into their main branch when they see the benefits. I'm also happy to chat in-depth on specifically where we might be able to help if you already have an existing Cypress set up, feel free to ping me at mike [at] deploysentinel.com
The most “amusing” example of PFA use I’ve heard of is in waterproofing the compostable paper single-use food containers, and most ridiculous of all, paper straws.

Talk about cutting off one’s own nose.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33770693/
Also I should note that WinUI 3 is separate from Windows App SDK so it can theoretically become the standard UI kit for other Windows dev approaches as well but it’s still early.
Please don't respond to a bad comment by breaking the site guidelines yourself. That only makes things worse.

Also, it looks like you've been repeatedly posting flamewar comments. Can you please stop? It's not what this site is for, and it destroys what it is for.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
It's the opposite. Paid services where you get to speak to a human require more affluence.
> Microsoft, Apple, Google, Amazon: MAGA

Google, Apple, Microsoft, Meta, Amazon: GAMMA
> To be completely honest, I would prefer something slightly simpler with less complex shapes, but I failed to persuade Dall-e into generating that for me. Moreover, I really am content with this logo.

well, that's pragmatic! I think they should go back into their image editor and simplify it themselves though
Climate endgame: exploring catastrophic climate change scenarios
Decahexipus*
A thing common in ultra-processed foods is that they are heavily optimized to be palatable while also often losing its satiating effect. Those are things that can be measured only difficultly.
> I would point out that chains are indeed a popular fashion accessory.

The chains of a chattel slave are popular fashion accessory where now?
But the words "humiliate, undermine, and disrespect them" in the context of Taiwan is to visit them.
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Also, the main reason I did not initially add a lot of info to the story is I do not know what is relevant and what is not because the email I received from them contains even less detail than my post. That is the only thing I really wish changes in the future. Would totally use Hetzner again with that (if I am allowed to, that is)
Fascinating to see this today! Things I found interesting to consider:

- They are integrating NFTs into their marketing (to some this is amazing; to others kind of the opposite)

- The default look goes all the way back, it seems: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JTrwP2eDRKQ

- QMMP, similar to WinAMP with a lot of nice features, has a Qt 6 branch that is stable now http://qmmp.ylsoftware.com/

My top 5 favorite WinAmp / QMMP skins:

- Benuamp Silver https://archive.org/details/winampskin_BenuAmp_Silver

- nuance-green https://archive.org/details/winampskin_nuance_green

- LightWave8 https://archive.org/details/winampskin_LightWave8

- DarkPi v2 https://archive.org/details/winampskin_DarkPi_v2

- calculator https://archive.org/details/winampskins_calculator
This is an interesting conversation. Good taste is what we see and like … but also patterning after people we want to impress / be associated with, is it not?

Taste is very complex: it's hierarchical, social, not fixed, not absolute, not rational, is specific to audience and has irregular overlaps across groups, much of it (all?) derived from human sensation and context-specific situations.

The path to something being considered as good taste is generally not simple: much of it flows through lines of power/desire/moment whose branches are not easy to trace as they're being formed. Much of taste is the hidden "why" which most of us never see.

It's realistic that Dall-E could understand what trends are on the rise, or in good taste … it's much harder to say if Dall-E could create something of originally good taste.
I was replying this:

> It feels as though our society has collectively forgotten that mental illness can be socially transmissible.

How is this not relevant?
Not even a little, storms destroy tons of productive businesses.
I took a course in University (Eth Zürich) which referenced "Chapters 5 and 6 in Computer Systems: A Programmer’s Perspective".
Wow I'm sure that's been tough. Hopefully you will both have ample opportunities now though. Good luck!
I don't think this one was North Korea. And yes, most aren't.

North Korean cryptocurrency hacks are a bit distinctive. Rather than finding logical bugs in contracts, they tend to use traditional spearphishing / social eng to get targeted people to run malware which they try to pivot to stealing keys / access credentials. Then after a hack, most crypto hackers try to obfuscate and store their stole coins on chain somewhere. North Korea already has a large and practiced money laundering network, so after a hack the money immediately starts going to hundreds of different places in the real world, perhaps to mules or to faked accounts in Southeast Asia.
I'm no security expert, but this discussion leaves a large part of the threat model implicit before discussing countermeasures: what is the asset that needs protecting, who is the threat actor, what is the threat vector, what would be the likelihood and the damage. Not spelling this out leads to a lot of "yeah, but what about XYZ" discussions.
Fair, and I don't necessarily disagree. I think this leads rather close to object oriented software being easier to reason about concretely than functional programming, though. And since most people are trying to get a concrete job done, that feels like a significant claim.

For turtle geometry, it is also important to acknowledge the metaphor and shortcomings of a more traditionally analytic framing of drawings. Specifically, X and Y coordinates for a drawing are surprisingly hard to work with. For example, I challenge you to describe the fractal snow flake in an easier way than using directions as a metaphor. Same for the dragon curve. This can be seen akin to picking a different coordinate system, I presume?
The real issue is client-side.

The WhatsApp client is proprietary software, meaning you can't easily inspect it to see if it's doing as claimed, and you can't opt out if Facebook decide to update it to do something you don't want, say, by removing its end-to-end encryption.

With a FOSS chat solution, and especially a federated one, you no longer need to place such trust in any provider.
Train Dall-E on more logos that you like. I can imagine a creative agency purchasing a Dall-E 2 instance and training it up on a model specific to the work and clients they have ongoing.

If nothing else, inspiration is just a click away. No more searching for ideas, just talk to the AI and it will pump out numerous ideas for you.
You can't post this sort of aggressive attack here, regardless of how bad another comment is or you feel it is.

If you'd please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stick to the rules when posting to HN, we'd appreciate it.
Covid seems to cause all other damned evils, it might as well cause ED.
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I went to the New York race a couple weeks ago. When they pass by you as a group, they really sound like a TV spaceship taking off
and mayhaps the plural of the plural of octopus is trigintidipus?