skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It does, but it’s also a frustrating demonstration of the access problem. It’s mostly a cavalcade of endless police/detective/murder mystery shows. It has Red Dwarf and classic Doctor Who, but the panel show selection is spotty and they don’t bother to add new seasons in a timely fashion. It does have much of Would I Lie To You but they don’t add new episodes when they air in the UK. They seem to have given up on adding new seasons of 8 Out of 10 Cats Dows Countdown.
> If USDT was run by the Federal Reserve nobody would question the system

that's true, but only because the US (and the Feds) have had a good history of managing the system well (enough at least).

And if that's the case, USDT is basically USD. It's the same reason why the USD is a reserve currency in the world today.

Tether is attempting to tap into that reserve currency trust (ostensibly, to generate profit for themselves).
What do you mean, you mean that?

Predictions of world domination were equally the same kind of substance-free propaganda and fear mongering. No serious people actually thought a country of ~100 million would economically dominate the world.

Nor was not achieving world domination wasn't the anti-sustainable-population propaganda fearmongering of the 90s and 0s that I'm talking about, so I don't know what part of my comment you're trying to respond to.
i don't think it's that simple. pretty much every asset class posting shitty returns this year, hell even bonds are in a bear market. so institutionals are gonna look at other managers and see a bunch of red and not necessarily stop alt allocations.

it's also relevant that you can't just ask for capital back as an LP. it's committed to a fund. you can not commit to another one but the price of much greater returns in alt assets is much lower liquidity.
Because it's a hodge podge of stuff, not a single thing made at a single time by a single team with a single vision.
> I used to think VPNs and Tor were a good thing (about a decade ago). My mind has been changed by looking at the quantitative data I have collected.

They are a good thing! Your mind has changed because your work has changed and you now are solely confronted with the negative aspects of using VPNs and Tor.

I'm pretty sure if you would have worked at an NGO on free speech you'd still be convinced of VPNs and Tor.

From you are staying the solution îs probably to increase the number of legitimate and responsable VPN/Tor users so that sysadmins don't automatically associate VPN/Tor with criminal usage patterns.
You’re missing the part where you get pipe cred by posting timespy scores in Discord after installing your 4090 and dedicated ac unit.

I historically have bought 1-2 gen old cards and it has worked well for me too.

The big filter right now is 4k 120hz. If you’re aiming for that you need a recent card with hdmi 2.1, which is like 3k nvidia 6k amd series. I upgraded displays recently and it finally forced me, begrudgingly, onto a more current gen card. Really wanted to wait for 4k/7k lines to ditch my old 1080Tis.
Layers of abstraction. Too many cooks. Too much modularity. No testing. No user feedback. No telemetry. Low price point.
It can.

It's an underground tunnel with a small exposed strip at the top.

the water can be circulating around the tunnel, flowing back and forth under the rocks. It can be pulling sideways or down at the exposed strip with the water circulating back up in the underground areas out at the sides.
I’ve used Teams every day all day for the past 4+ years and I have had minor issues with it ~5 times. Hundreds of my fellow co-workers use it and I’ve not heard anyone run into the consistent issues you’ve described.

We use it for 100% of our conference calls, sales calls, 1:1 working sessions, all-hands (hundreds of attendees), virtual trainings, new-hire onboarding, etc…

I’d say it’s the most useful software we use in my company outside of email.

Admittedly, I’m yet to experience the pure bliss that comes from collaborating on an NFT project with fellow Slack team members from my Mac Book Pro while riding in my auto-pilot enabled Tesla.

Until then, I’m pretty content with what I’ve been able to do with Microsoft Teams over the years.
I do understand the technology at at least a lay level (unless your Scotsman is true by your conclusion), and it seems to me that the idea that it's "style" and not "permuting the input data" is one that seems to be a postulate, not a fact.
The die was cast at the start of the war. Mobilization is to deconcentrate the effects of bombardment. Estimate first tactical use early next year.
Get involved with a DAO and learn by starting with the smallest tasks.
Bruce Almighty in 2003 was his first big theatrical break iirc.
> Not to be a buzz kill but things have been getting better.

Past performance does not guarantee future results. In fact, what this article is saying is that mathematically, our future results are practically guaranteed to be worse than they have been in the past. I don't find your comment at all persuasive because you have not even attempted to grapple with this issue presented in the article.
This is correct, it's why things like solar panels have a surprisingly low albedo despite being mostly black, they are completely flat.
> Do we have double the population we did in 2016? Double the resources? Double the technology? If not then why is the stock market twice as high?

One easy answer is that the "value" of a dollar is half what it recently was. And that seems to hold fairly true whether you want to use that dollar to buy groceries, a house, a hotel room or a share of a company.

If I measure my investments not in dollars but in say, days of vacation (so hotel, food, gas/airfare, tickets to things, etc) then my S&P500 investment is about where it was in 2016.
Orkut's biggest problem was that Google didn't want to devote any resources to moderation but its creator had enough political power to keep the lights on. It didn't take long for users to figure out they could do whatever they wanted.

It quickly became a cesspool of racism, child porn, and other illegal activity, mostly by Brazilians, who bullied everyone else off the platform
>Skype for Business' exe was lync.exe right up until the end

What do you mean "end"? We still use it!
Of course the flux of water into any volume is equal to the outward flux. But I would imagine the situation is that there are circulating turbulent branching streams of current pulling you down. If you were incredibly lucky, and not killed by impacting the walls, you might pop back up by catching a ride on another section of current.
I’ve known people who work at Microsoft. Their attitude is we are the biggest so we don’t need to be good. This may seem too simple, but it’s their corporate culture.
> 20% of ALL profs in the US come from just 8 universities: Berkeley, Harvard, Michigan, Wisconsin, Stanford, Illinois, MIT, and UT Austin.

> the top 5 universities have minted more faculty (13.8%) than all non-US schools combined (11%).

https://twitter.com/ninastrohminger/status/15727038763647713...
A business that would die without software will write it's own software. A business that would die without getting that software for free is not a viable business.

I can see putting some message of intent as a developer, but people change their minds. Lots of the problems we see today that we are discussing involve people who started out with an intent to maintain full time but then for burnt out or otherwise lost interest. A message of intent like you say does nothing for a business already dependent on their work. This scenario is the more common problem with these dependency chains and what I thought we were discussing, most slapdash proof of concept projects say so in a README. If you can't discern whether you can depend on something, then you need to be prepared to take over the project or live without it.
It does not need to be that complex. It could be the interest rate where the supply and demand of money meet, assuming the Fed stays out of the way.

The Fed does not need to skew the market for money by conducting QE or QT, or manipulating short term rates.

I'm not a "no-Fed"-type of guy. The Fed is great at a lot of things. Their research arm is top-notch. They regulate and oversee banks. They are the bank of the commercial banks; in particular they are a lender of last resort for them. Also they can be a lender of last resort for US dollars for other central banks, and for the World Bank and the IMF. They can monitor and interdict financial crime. There are lots of things to do.

Stimulating the economy should not be their business.
OT: Am I wrong in thinking the correct word to use here would be "deceptive" instead of "deceiving"? "Deceiving" in this context just sounds wrong to me but I feel like I'm suddenly hearing it a lot these days.
In what circles does it mean that? I’ve never heard that one.
Just as a PSA:

The translations from The Mahabharata by W.J.Johnson and published in Oxford World's Classics series are highly recommended. There are two;

1) The Bhagavad Gita - A very nice and succinct translation that you can read and re-read many times. Pair it with the more detailed 2-vol translation by Franklin Edgerton and you can understand the text better.

2) The Sauptikaparvan of the Mahabharata: The Massacre at Night - This is an excellent and rare translation (pdfs available online) of a section from the end of the Mahabharata where after the defeat of the Kauravas in War, Ashwatthama with his two other colleagues sets out to eradicate the entire progeny of the Pandavas in revenge. With colourful and evocative language it paints a good picture of all the doom and gloom at the end of the epic.
I'm re-watching 'Law and Order: Criminal Intent' and S02E14 "Probability" depicts exactly this kind of financial whiz with autism. The explorations of the patterns was really good, but ultimately it is a disability with a lot of sadness due to missed connections with others.
Yep. Reality sure does make a mockery of the western bourgeoisie liberal's infantile anti-western worldview doesn't it.
I can't necessarily speak for anyone else, but for me; at the back end of my career I find myself contributing financially to FOSS projects. This is possible courtesy of more success than I have deserved, facilitated in no small part by the contributions of many other FOSS developers.

Paying it forward, I guess?

Also, +1 for stop doing it when it stops being fun / worth your time. For anything really.
Good summary of this on the All In Podcast last week (in the context of Adobe buying Figma) https://youtu.be/_UpczzfeAFA?t=1162
When I started enjoying a blazing fast connection at Rice University in 1998, I frequently enjoyed MS Netmeeting video calls with friends who were scattered across the country. Within a few years it was a distant memory, and it surprises me how it was well over a dozen years before reliably easy video calls became commonplace.
Wow great read. Thank you!
> I think auto-generating art from other people's creations and hard work is wrong personally, unless they have specifically granted that permission when sharing their work.

I think this is going to be one of the more interesting aspects of any attempt to ban the sort of technology, because a system like stable diffusion is just a denoiser attached to an image fitness algorithm that has been trained on a bunch of input. And we certainly can't make training such algorithms illegal; if we do, YouTube loses the ability to police uploads to its site overnight because such image recognizers can also be used to detect likely instances of copyright infringement.
I had to use Teams a lot in the past years as I worked for companies that they went all-in for O365. While O365 is not bad (and even some of components of O365 are quite good) Teams is the epitome of terrible software. Terrible UI, unreliable delivering notifications, terrible at handling external devices (headphones, webcams). It's very untrustworthy when it gets to automatically updating status based on activity (happens more often than you think). The concept of "Teams" (group chats) in MS Teams is the worst I have ever seen. It clearly promotes isolation between groups! I can go on for hours about how bad it is but I will stop here. I will say though that when I interview with a company, if they don't use MS Teams, they get extra points! :-)

Edit: also this came up recently: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/microsoft-tea...

Good ol' MS!
There's a fairly simple olivec_text() function there that uses a built-in bitmap font.
I'm forced to use it on a Mac. Every. Single. Time. I try to navigate to the window through command-tab, it fails to actually put the window in focus. So I end up having to hunt through my XCode windows, IntelliJ windows, whatever other nonsense I have open - to find a message ping that I probably would rather not have received anyway.
Time is difficult.

Reminds of me this post on mtime which recently resurfaced on HN: https://apenwarr.ca/log/20181113
population cannot shrink forever
Not if people quit because talking to each other is made to be a terrible experience.
> because it would cripple the field of AI text and image generation

I don't disagree with this statement. But arguably, it's becoming clear that these fields exist, on an economic level, as a means for already powerful corporations and technocrats to gain ownership over and repurpose the labor of previous generations for profitable automation (not simply to create C-3PO or something).

Not unlike all those other non-digital areas of the economy (e.g. railroads were built on the blood, sweat, and tears of previous generations and they are now owned by a small few, likely unrelated to the descendants of the laborers who built them).

For some ML-related commentary on this subject, see e.g. https://nathanieltravis.com/2022/08/01/ai-research-the-corpo...
There's an emphasis on bad NFTs in this article, but some NFT projects encode the traits of the collectible into the token itself, or host images from a decentralised source like IPFS. Bored Apes do this, for instance.

Yes, there's are bad ways to misuse NFTs and do things incorrectly. That shouldn't mean that the entire concept is flawed.
You need to push to get 1-2 junior devops engineers that you can handle the day-to-day tasks (unblocking engineers, fixing common issues), so that you can focus on larger picture tasks (evaluating new technologies, setting strategies, etc.). The story you need to sell is that investment in devops will make all the other engineers faster (better CI/CD, less manual work, etc). And that only having a single devops engineer limits the amount of unblocking that you can do (which will slow down engineers) and leave no coverage when you go on vacation (and you should be going on vacations).

The goal is to identify common problems and have junior engineers fixing them and working with you on how to automate your way out of that problem. And you are setting the devops future plan. What are the tasks/technologies you need to do and how will it speed up the developers? And that's what you need to sell, speeding up developers and making their development life easier.
I did it for honeycomb grill with metal scissors, and replaced to cheap metal wire ring grille. It significantly reduces noise.
You assume the published volume is legit. I have my doubts.

Crypto is a scam. Nothing about it should be trusted.
If You Laugh at These Dark Jokes, You’re Probably a Genius
> I doubt they do it as aggressively as google.

While I would like to believe you the problems is that until there is a law on how much you can pester people with captchas (and you basically can pester them into oblivion) , privacy-conscious people are simply at the mercy of the sysadmin deciding for them how usable the company service is made. Which is a decidedly bad state of affairs, since he could simply wake up at any day, whip up Google-style captcha-ing and as a VPN user you simply would have no option for recourse :(
JFC, that explains a lot.
So much effort has gone into optimizing the worlds-most-ok language.
I'm of the opinion that Microsoft Teams' badness is actually a feature, and makes people not waste time and gossip in it. I'm quoted in this article about this specifically: https://www.protocol.com/workplace/founders-sick-of-slack
“This is another reason I really liked running this computation on Charity Engine — we actually did use a planetary-scale computer to settle a longstanding open question whose answer is 42.”
Thank you for this. I was under the assumption one could open any number of accounts at the same bank and get the same insurance guarantee. It is good to read the specific language.
There's a reason it's called "splitting hairs" and isn't generally looked upon favorably.
wrong. As system constraints are reached, growth becomes negative. In other words, you need a steady supply of resources just to maintain existing stuff.
if there's an exception that proves this rule, it's gotta be top gear. I know plenty who have watched every episode with the Clarkson gang and not sat through a whole episode of the American port.
Key points: a range of autonomous delivery vehicles will reduce the number of trips that families make, especially those in more built-up areas.

Sidewalk bots that weigh 50 lb and move at 4 mph (already in operation); bike lane bots that weigh 100-150 lb and move at 12 - 15 mph (ditto); golf cart bots that weigh a few hundred lb and move at 25 mph (being trialed); large trucks on freeways, and eventually vans.

Also, aerial taxis for slightly longer trips: 6-10 seat short range electric planes that can use small local airfields to fly point to point, up to 200 mi or so.

The shrinking role is more about reducing annual mileage on the Camry in the garage from 12,000 mi to 6,000 mi or less, than it is about autonomous electric taxis.
Having being a high scale AWS user with a bill of +$1M/month and now working since 2 years with a company which uses GCP. I would say AWS is superior and way ahead.

** NOTE: If you're a low scale company this won't matter to you **

1. GKE

When you cross a certain scale certain GKE components won't scale with you and SLOs on those components are crazy, it takes 15+ mins for us to update a GKE ingress controller backed Ingress.

Cloud Logging hasn't been able to keep up with our scale, disabled since 2 years now. This last Q we got an email from them to enable it and try it again on our clusters, still have to confirm these claims as our scale is more higher now.

Konnectivity agent release was really bad for us, it affected some components internally, total dev time we lost was more than 3 months debugging this issue. They had to disable konnectivity agent on our clusters, I had to collect TCP dumps and other evidences just to prove nothing was wrong on our end, fight with our TAM to get a meeting with the product team. After 4 months they agreed and reverted our clusters to SSH tunnels. Initially GCP support said they said they can't do this. Next Q Ill be updating the clusters hopefully they have fixed this by then.

2. Support.

I think AWS support always were more pro active in debugging with us, GCP support agents most of the times lack the expertise or proactiveness to debug/solve things in simple cases. We pay for enterprise support and don't see getting much from them. At AWS we had reviews of the infra how we could better it every 2 Qs and we got new suggestion and was also the time when we shared what we would like to see in their roadmap.

3.Enterprisyness is missing with design

A simple thing as cloudbuild doesn't have access to static IPs. We have to maintain a forward proxy just cause of this.

L4 LBs were a mess you could only use specified ports in a (L4 LB) TCP proxy,
For a tcp proxy based loadbalancer, the allowed set of ports are - [25, 43, 110, 143, 195, 443, 465, 587, 700, 993, 995, 1883, 3389, 5222, 5432, 5671, 5672, 5900, 5901, 6379, 8085, 8099, 9092, 9200, and 9300].
Today I see they have removed these restrictions. I don't know who came up with this idea to allow only a few ports on a L4 LB. I think such design decisions make it less Enterprisy.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32934694
An End to Doomerism
Unless it contains C++ templates, it's fairly trivial to compile a "header-only" library and use it as normal, even in unusual cases where the author has made no effort to support that.
Why spend X/kg to get something from mercury when you could spend 1/4 or 1/8 as much to get it from the asteroid belt?
Try running pytorch/pytorch docker. But you will need nvidia container runtime installed. I am sure somebody will soon release docker for this also.
I often ponder if there is some sort of heuristic law that determines the level of bureaucracy based on an organization's structure.
Running `guix pull` and restarting the daemon should update guix to the latest given it's a rolling release.
many apps already have "wget docker image" as the first step
You can reserve capacity on both of these services as well.
It was added about a year ago so it's fairly recent. Before this another group had made this same thing on a different website (turns out a big advantage of Electron apps is they can be converted to web apps without TOO much difficulty). With that one you'd just replace the domain of the URL with whatever that website was
> Tether didn't keep anything so tawdry as "accounts" - the only documentation of the reserve was a single shared spreadsheet.

There are soooo many red flags with crypto. So many shady people at the top of its pyramid. It is amazing how people can be so blinded by greed so as to not see how big of a scam crypto is. It is truly impressive.
Yes this would be incredible. You get it.
If you read the linked article, it is a c cpu rendering library compiled to web assembly.
Analog.
"all" is an extraordinary claim.
There are other types of p99 events that have similar results.
Uber Engineering open-sourced Kraken [1], their peer-to-peer docker registry. I remember it originally using the BitTorrent protocol but in their readme they now say it is "based on BitTorrent" due to different tradeoffs they needed to make.

As far as I know there aren't any projects doing peer-to-peer distribution of container images to servers, probably because it's useful to be able to use a stock docker daemon on your server. The Kraken page references Dragonfly [2] but I haven't grokked it yet, it might be that.

It has seemed strange to me that the docker daemon I run on a host is not also a registry, if I want to enable that feature.

It's also possible that in practice you'd want your CI nodes optimized for compute because they're doing a lot of work, your registry hosts for bandwidth, and your servers again for compute, and having one daemon to rule them all seems elegant but is actually overgeneralized, and specialization is better.

1 https://github.com/uber/kraken

2 https://d7y.io/
Woah! I was gonna play with Astro for a new site test, but I wanted the prefetch fast-nav that I’ve seen in NextJS and Gatsby. This looks like exactly what I want to make Astro so the trick! Thanks for sharing
The ideal setup is probably CO2 levels quite a bit higher than today’s, but with a sunshade filtering out UV-B wavelengths. All of earth would be habitable, but without major weather swings.
AdSimulo is a revolutionary lift traffic analysis and simulation application for architects, lift (elevator) designers and consultants.
I miss skype, only because there was a pidgin plugin that allowed you to use a nice lightweight and snappy client.
Nice! An awesome retrospective.
Deceptive is the better word as it's passive, deceiving is more active.

I think they're both technically correct, but there's a nuance in their meaning.
The question is not whether Tether is backed by USD, everyone knows it’s not.

The question is whether Tether is too big to fail.

At this stage it’s unclear how many decision-making people have skin in Tether staying afloat.