skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
hahaa; wow. So, we were doing this sensor project; and I picked "boring" things like raspberry-pi, python scripts, wiring the GPIO with a screw-down terminal or using SDR for other off-the shelf sensors to build the network. And in one of the demos showing our very low-budget type project a reviewer said: "you should look at IoT managers like the G offering, we're using it". So, they declined to use our methods and built their own around G-IoT. It's important to "own" what you can in your stack otherwise this vendor-driven-churn is forced on you and is outside a schedule you control. Sure, 365 days is a lot of time to migrate -- which, IME, leads to "we can fix this later" which then leads to "oh crap!"
(I work at Discord.)

It's not even the most interesting metric about our systems anyway. If we're really going to look at the tech, the inflation of those metrics to deliver the service is where the work generally is in the system --

* 50k+ QPS (average) for new message inserts
* 500k+ QPS when you factor in deletes, updates, etc
* 3M+ QPS looking at db reads
* 30M+ QPS looking at the gateway websockets (fanout of things happening to online users)

But I hear you, we're conflating some marketing metrics with technical metrics, we'll take that feedback for next time.
There would be consistent policy if an official recall was put out, but that looks even worse.
Weird Al does.

He doesn't have to, parody is inherently transformative under copyright, but he's a decent guy, and he's kept a song or two in the crate because the original artist didn't want a parody released.

I support that, and I also support not caring, as a matter of principle. It's supererogatory; it shows that Weird Al is a good person, but not that someone who releases a parody without asking first is a bad person.
> man it's always a trip to see how much of a jerk torvalds could be, even if exasperation is warranted in this context (i have no idea), by god, this is not how you build consensus or a high functioning team

True. I think Linux could've been pretty successful if someone with good management practices had been in charge from the start.
> One paper’s title begins with the candid exclamation: “Panic!”

Completely burying the full title "Panic! At the Disks: First Rest-frame Optical Observations of Galaxy Structure at z>3 with JWST in the SMACS 0723 Field" which is the best Panic! at the Disco pun I've seen in a long time.
I wonder what Zig does?
> I always imagined it to automate away our boring, mechanical, repetitive stuff

Which includes most art produced.

Do a google image search for something stock-photo-y like "man in business suit kicking". You'll find a staggering number of photographs and cartoons designed to be used in power point slides.

If you play around, you'll find any variation of "man in business suit" paired with an action will produce similar results. People were paid to make all of those, but it's so repetitive that it's not hard to see how an AI could find the pattern.
Not redoing steps that appear to be already done has its own challenges- for example, a transfer that broke halfway through might leave a destination file, but not represent a completion (typically dealt with by writing to a temp file and renaming).

The issue here is that your code has no real-time adaptability. Many backends will scale with load up to a point then start returning "make fewer requests". Normally, you implement some internal logic such as randomized exponential backoff retries (amazingly, this is a remarkably effective way to automatically find the saturation point of the cluster), although I have also seen some large clients that coordinate their fetches centrally using tokens.
Is he of Spanish or Portuguese descent? Sounds like a Galician last name but I'm not sure.
A robots.txt Problem
I would also like customizability to stop being trimmed away, and ideally for some of the things that users currently accomplish with userchrome hacks to be supported directly one way or another.
Greed created the problem. It will not fix it. We must form a functioning government.
YMMV but this is absolutely not true in my case. I have building inspections filed with the city to back that assertion up. Our local building office is actually quite good to work with as a DIYer.

It makes sense really, it's better to work with DIYers to "backstop" their work by having an inspector look at their work and not be an A-hole about it, than to have them do the work anyway and cross their fingers. I love having the building inspectors check my work, worth the couple hundred bucks I pay for a permit.
I probably use my laptops harder than most people, but this has not been my experience with plastic laptops. I lost two laptops in a row to the plastic case cracking. In the first case the case broke around the hinge and destroyed a fan. In the second, about half the keys on the keyboard stopped working. I'll never buy another plastic-chassis laptop after that second one.
Our messaging stack is not currently multi-regional, unfortunately. This is in the works, though, but it's a fairly significant architectural evolution from where we are today.

Data storage is going to be multi-regional soon, but that's just from a redundancy/"data is safe in case of us-east1 failure" scenario -- we're not yet going to be actively serving live user traffic from outside of us-east1.
> The bullshit thing in my mind is that Apple took away the ability for store staff to make discretionary calls to bypass stuff like this and do what’s right for the customer.

It could be that, or retail workers are sick of us and aren't making calls in our direction anymore.

https://www.businessinsider.com/retail-workers-leaving-quit-...
I know someone who put a square of gaffer's tape over their Macbook Pro's video camera (in theory to protect their privacy) and one day they lifted up the screen and it was cracked. It seemed like that little bit of tape might have been the culprit.
I took the question to be whether having something like that available, at the time, would have solved any of their problems with distributing Google Earth for Linux
Signal replaces messaging services that were all keyed by phone number. Use something else. I don't think anybody can do better than explaining why Signal works this way, and what the benefits are, vs. the (amply articulated) liabilities.

This is one of the most boring repeated conversations that occurs on HN. It's incessant. Avoiding these incessant superficial conversations is, in fact, part of the premise of HN.
See https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=pro. It is short for prostitute.
Yup. Same here. totally down.
I wonder whether this is an example that in part also might cause us to question the utility of second/nth-order thinking? Because the more distant causal links are also estimated with more and more uncertainty (and necessarily so, insofar as uncertainty compounds across causal links), to the point where it becomes hard to weigh highly uncertain distant consequences against relatively certain near consequences?
No, it’s like claiming the internet is centralized because google exists, except the alternative to things like coinbase is way more difficult to use than alternatives to big search engines. It’s a pretty valid argument
I just read an article that Discord is heavily relying on Google Cloud [0]

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32474093
> or if it's just the enormous customer base of Apple amplifying owners who damaged their screen and would like Apple to replace it for free.

Apple has had an enormous customer base for decades, they've had a support forum for probably as long, and people have been wanting free repairs for their broken idevices since forever.

And while I'm no expert on the history of Apple's support forums, I think it's safe to assume that a 49-page forum thread about an issue like this isn't a common occurrence. (maybe the butterfly keyboards got one like that)

Plus Apple is not the only manufacturer with a support forum and a large customer base, and I don't think I've ever heard of a mass concentrated effort to get free repairs by spamming a support forum.
>“Right now I find myself lying awake at three in the morning,” says Alison Kirkpatrick, an astronomer at the University of Kansas in Lawrence, “and wondering if everything I’ve done is wrong.”

This is science. It differs from the media's Science™
Forgive my ignorance, but from a business perspective, is Google Docs, Drive, etc. considered part of Google Cloud or is GSuite distinctly different?
AWS has never discontinued one of their services?

Not trolling, seriously asking (I don't use hyperscalers)
How do they disallow it?
> when dealing with data encryption susceptible to brute-force attacks

The "brute-force attacks" imagined here are a bad guy somehow controls Signal's systems, or else the US government seizes them and then decides to try to brute force them, right ?

But these are attacks where for various rival systems it was already game over. So your assumption is that Signal's casual users, people who maybe were also considering Whatsapp or iMessage or something, should be required to have a cryptographically strong passphrase so as to defeat this unlikely circumstance, as a minimum?

Moxie's whole deal is that this stuff only works when it's for everybody. If there are a five people in your country who use Signal, guess what, the Secret Police can round them up as suspected terrorists and execute them. Were they planning to bomb the President For Life? Or just organising a pizza party? Don't care, it's just good policy. But if there are five million people who use Signal that's a different matter.

Even if all five million are terrorists, that's numbers where you're going to have to tear up your "no negotiating with terrorists" policy, 'cos there are just too many of them.
I see the potential value, I just don't understand the principle that enables us to dictate that private companies provide it to us.
No, your attempt failed.
Next they find out that capitalism exploits the masses and the planet and only benefit the few.
So no unavailable pitch black sky save for our local group? This is the best freaking cosmological news I've ever heard!
It's called 'idiosyncrasy points'. If you have built up a reputation for quality work, then you are allowed to have some weird/crazy ideas. Most people do not have this privilege. The don't yet have the reputation.

Social shaming is another problem...people can face serious irreparable social or workplace consequences for having bad ideas.

Life is not like a Ted talk, where you can keep failing until you succeed. Sometimes you need to get it right fast. Survivorship bias means you only hear about the people whose weird ideas turned out correct and were vindicated.
I am not convinced many people are free to chose, particularly in the west. When your life depends on a mortgage, ever increasing bills and being in an office at least eight hours a day you dont have much of a choice. Thats just fancy poverty.

People with actual freedom seem to reproduce beyond replacement rates:

https://www.statista.com/statistics/299077/billionaires-chil...

https://qz.com/1125805/the-reason-the-richest-women-in-the-u...
Yes, if you were ruler of the world, you're going to have an awfully huge amount of people doing f.a. There are only so many hairdressers, masseurs and plumbers required.

What you need is a kill switch, something to slow down population growth.

Anyway, are you up to date with your mandatory medical treatments?
Exactly, everybody who bet on Google in IoT has just got a giant RMA bill.

Same has happened when Azure changed its root cert, which was likelly hardcoded into 99% of deployed devices using it.
While I agree that 'requires motivation' is a thing, and likely more of an issue than others, I must add that location may many times be a bigger thing for many people / places.

Being close to a hip city and having no trouble traveling, I did find motivation (for actually going, doing the scheduling, etc) to be a thing - and there are sometimes many layers to that thing.

As I encouraged others to do meetup dot com and find groups to hang with - I found that people do indeed have to muster up the motivation - but also location can be an challenge / obstacle.

I also think meetup has changed with less options, partially for pandemic but also they went pay to play for listing groups I think?

Looking forward to more decentralized group listings and virtual water coolers in the future, maybe web rings coming back to help with that.

Also been planning to open more real world 'third place' options hopefully - scouting locations and sketching ideas anyhow.
Thanks for the info. It is possible to do something like transfer learning on top of existing models or do you train your own models from scratch? I'll check out that Vision of Chaos thing. I'm just beginning my journey into this generative art stuff and just basically trying to get this running right now.
It's not just spam; in fact, spam might be the least of it. Part of the reason companies require specific clients is that doing so makes it easier for them to build the product and deliver the specific value that they've decided they want to deliver.
> My work network has a /64 for WAN (yes quite a lot of addresses for a point to point link) […]

Technical footnote: /127 addresses are supported (and were a thing for a short while) on inter-router links:

* https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc6164

Technical technical footnote: you can just use link-local address for inter-router links because all the router cares about is the next next-hop, and you don't need a globally routable address for that.

In an IPv6 network, it is possible to use only link-local addresses
on infrastructure links between routers. This document discusses the
advantages and disadvantages of this approach to facilitate the
decision process for a given network.

* https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc7404
Isn't this the other half of the equation for "I host all my pictures/art on site xyz because it's free" and somewhere buried in the accepted terms of use was "you give us permission to use it for anything we want"?
You’re conflating two separate issues:

(i) Is Apple anti right to repair?

(ii) Does Apple solder certain components primarily because it makes repair more difficult?

Even if the answer to (i) is yes, the answer to (ii) can be no.

Most unpluggable components in most laptops are never intentionally unplugged over the lifetime of the device. Connectors take up space, can come unplugged accidentally, and degrade signal quality. Those are the reasons for soldering components in a modern laptop.
AppleCare is a good idea in general. Even if you’re generally careful, you never know when the mac will break because of something that was your fault
Linux has a more stable windows ABI then windows itself. If a game stops working on windows it will likely still work with wine on Linux.
To the best of my knowledge, no. At least none of the AWS services I've used. They've deprecated support for some CAs and stuff, but that seems reasonable.
Random rant: it feels like over time Two Minutes Paper has started to lean more and more into its catchphrases and gimmicks, while the density of interesting content keeps decreasing.

The whole "we're all fellow scholars here" bit feels like I'm watching a kid's show about science vulgarization, patting me on the head for being here.

"Look how smart you are, we're doing science!"

I dunno. I like the channel for what it is (a vulgarization newsletter for cool ML developments) but sometimes the author feels really patronizing / full of himself.
Some theories say water plays a critical role in crust formation. There aren’t a lot of local planets with liquid water on their surface.
Yep. Started 21:56 UTC / 14:56 Pacific for us.

It's sad to see, because they used to be fully on top of stuff like this.
In Safari it's part of the window restoration setting. There are options to reopen those tabs if it fails (in the History menu) but getting your tabs back when you quit Safari without closing a window is part of the native state restoration.
Defund the CIA, NSA, FBI, and ATF.
Generate random icebreaker questions for meetings
Yeah, that's what I'm saying :) I thought the parent comment was saying that NAT was bad and NPTv6 was bad, but maybe I was mistaken.
How many years did it take for apple to issue their 'recall' (Service Program, in Apple parlance) for the butterfly keyboard woes?
The weirdness of ideas can also behave cyclically.

Consider nuclear power. Until this year, it was roundly condemned as an unworkable solution to CO2 reduction and energy supply. The waste problem hadn't been solved and never was going to be. The effects of an accident, no matter how unlikely, were not worth the risk.

That largely came about because of Fukushima accident a decade earlier. Prior to that point nuclear power was tolerated, if not welcomed. After that accident, the idea became weird. Plants were decommissioned and plans to build new plants shelved.

Oddly enough nothing about nuclear power itself changed at those two inflection points. Same principles of operation. Same reactor designs (mostly). Same risks. Same potential.

What changed was people's minds - on a large scale.
Ah, I misunderstood what you were saying
@KaliYuga did - she got hired by StabilityAI just a few days ago.
Here is a link to the Pixel Art Diffusion notebook:

https://colab.research.google.com/github/KaliYuga-ai/Pixel-A...
Definitely checking it out, thanks!
>repeated runs were shot down by the legal department (Fintechs which want to become a bank care about law a lot) due to gambling laws of the EU.

>CPAU (cost per active user) was way better than the later implemented real referral program which worked with moneytary incentives.

the secret ingredient was crime
Nuclear power is so successfull in France that we have to send them our solar panel generated energy to compensate...
Same here. What's funny is that T-Mobile announced that they were going to use a McAfee anti-phishing solution to compensate for the breach. So the thieves who got a hold of the customer data have been using that to target customers with their real names through email, giving them fake invoices for "McAfee services" and links to where they can make payments
Ideally I'd like to hear about messages per second at the 99.99th percentile or something similar. That number says far more about how hard it is to service the load than a per-day value ever will.
To be fair, every computer got obsoleted fast on those years. The Moore law was strong back then.
That's good observation. We've spent a lot of time on our control plane which handles the various RAID1 failure modes, e.g. when a RAID1 degrades due to failed local SSD, we force stop the node so that it doesn't continue to operate as a slow node. Wait for part 2! :)
Ok…. So I’m going to try to rephrase what I just learned from this comment. Can someone tell me how far off I am?

The universe is not 100% empty, so the index of refraction is not 1. This could be explained by lots of phenomena like dust particles or stray radiation, etc. Because of this effect, for practical purposes, light that we see as res “travels slower” because it has traveled through more media than blue light.
I'm not entirely sure what the point of updating Wine is in the first place. If you have a version that works with the game you're trying to play, why not pin it? Things definitely tend to break with Wine upgrades by nature of what Wine does, that's why it's common for people to have multiple versions of Wine installed.
For sure, but that's a predictable event that you can plan for and get ready to renumber your network / handle the renumbering.

A dynamic IP change can just happen without much warning, and enjoy possibly spending an hour befuddled before you realize what happened.
See also: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/wkuDgmpxwbu2M2k3w/you-have-a...

With no weirdness points, you duplicate others' work. With too many weirdness points, you're almost certainly wrong. The sweet spot for innovation is in between.
>Supposedly the funding for Google Cloud will go bye-bye if they don't beat Azure by 2023.

Source on this?

Also, Amazon was just an eCommerce store before AWS.
How are they going to keep the “google home” ecosystem alive without IoT Core ?

They said they were going full on the matter protocol but I don’t see how this will replace it fully yet.
time slows down as speed increases, so in theory, it may be possible, for the traveller to leave? (Although the observers would be long gone on the return journey. Relativity is a crazy thing)
I mean CoPilot is already similar, no?
G Suite / Workspace is not typically considered part of Google Cloud Platform (GCP), which is Google's equivalent/competitor to AWS and Azure.
I saw this talk in person at DEFCON. Great talk
Not all distributions have made the change for the defaults to pipewire. Ubuntu 22.10 (the latest LTS release of Ubuntu) still uses ALSA as the default, as just a quick example. It can still be changed easily enough.

And yeah, there are apps like qjackctl and Carla and others which do let you do this kind of mixing. But yeah, I'm talking about the basic sound settings that most users are going to instinctually mess with and make quick changes. As mentioned, there are software stacks that will let you mix inputs and outputs on Windows using synthetic devices, but that's not the natively exposed tools present on a standard install. On most modern Linux distros, you could get it done with some fancy CLI work out of the box, or you'll want to install tools like qjackctl.
> if none of those 2 work, you're out of luck

That's not true. There are multiple tools for managing multiple versions of Wine and Wine-related tools for gaming, the oldest one being PlayOnLinux. Lutris is the most widely used one, and works great in my experience.
You wouldn’t pay tailscale if you used headscale, you’d just be using the efforts they funded by using their app.
I'd imagine most people deliberately using Apple products have made considerations for other options. Unfortunately there is no panacea like you seem to be alluding to, just a different set of tradeoffs.
Yes. They already angered the game dev community, and few believe Stadia will stay around. This angers the industrial internet-of-things community. You can get Siemens industrial equipment tied to Google IoT Core. Hopefully you don't already have it installed. Industrial controls people think in terms of decades, not months.

A Coursera class on Google IoT Core for industrial control started today. 77,000 people signed up.
The ranking algorithm is not simply raw points.
Gen Z have 86% less purchasing power compared to baby boomers in their twenties
Robert A Wilson's blog, hidden assumptions, has been arguing there are also problems with general relativity and the conservation of mass. His work, consistently rejected despite respect for his mathematical expertise, has recently been published in peer review. He has also questioned whether the Big bang doesn't raise more questions than it answers, alongside dark matter.
This article/rumor from 2018-ish:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21815260
Nuclear paired with pumped hydro is very flexible, being able to handle peaks at any time. It's also very reliable, since the vast majority of outages are scheduled, and the plant's output can be increased or decreased to ensure there is enough surplus to store enough energy to meet expected peak demand. It also uses much less land and material resources, and results in less waste, substantially reducing damage to the environment.
I needed a new laptop last year. I decided to care less about my computer and so I chose not to get another Mac. Got a small Lenovo instead. Runs great with Linux. Does exactly everything I need it to do.
> The technical solutions are there, but I don't have faith ASUS and co will build a competent product.

The last time I was looking for a home router I specifically went for Asus because their default firmware is pretty good, and third-party options are available:

* https://www.asuswrt-merlin.net/features

Currently running an RT-AC68U.