skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I switched from Android to iOS a year ago. My first annoyance was the autocorrect, it was slightly worse, especially switching languages a lot, but what was unbearable was that iOS would often correct my last typed word AFTER I HIT SEND. That is a deadly sin imho. I've since turned autocorrect on again because I guess I'm just not precise enough, I try to always end with a space now. I still gets me every now and then though.
Yes, and it sucked for anything more complex than filling sky with more clouds or foliage with more leaves.
The solution never tried: share the spoils of efficiency with your teams. Give them a percentage or even a few basis points of what they save back as charitable contributions to an organization of their choice.

Watch how fast the bill will go down
Nick Lane is another interesting person who is exploring alternative ideas related to cells. Although their work is not exactly the same, I find it interesting to ponder these ideas together.

Some videos:

1. Krebs cycle and Transformers at Royal Institute: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vBiIDwBOqQA

2. A wide-ranging discussion on Lex Friedman podcast: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tOtdJcco3YM
There's a great subreddit for crowdsourcing things like that: http://www.reddit.com/r/tipofmytongue
I don't think it's an excuse to not having kids, but I do think generally I have yet to find an excuse to have kids. So far it doesn't interest me. But still, I do wonder whether there's a good reason for that.
Seems to even work for samsung keyboards. Thanks, I actually have a helpful keyboard now.
That's actually really helpful! Thanks!
Hell yea. Biggest life improvement in the past year has been this, outside of work as well, just not trying to fill every empty moment. Thanks for the reminder to minimize passive HN use :)
Hm, I have no results, I can only see Google on the left side. The console says:

Uncaught TypeError: data.queries is undefined
web https://swurl.com/?q=google+translate:1179
jQuery 6

But no blocked requests.
> but this number is still indicative of how far Germany is behind in remote culture

Don't even get me started. The stubbornness on that matter of many business owners in Berlin + the apartment market in Berlin, makes a good script for a shocking documentary.
I think it's not unreasonable to expect there to be written dialects as well as spoken ones. A comparatively huge amount of a person's communication is written these days, where previously it would have been face-to-face or with a phone call.

The general spoken register where I live skews informal, so I assume this has carried over to written communication. Using capitals and punctuation comes across to me as stilted and like an email or a letter rather than a text message.

It's an interesting subject definitely
The article doesn’t mention it but I thought jellyfish have very little calorific value and for that reason are only a viable food source for creatures like turtles that can spend all day grazing on specific parts of them (like just the tentacles).
WOW!

I just got Perthed, he's a local from where I live, and I swear I recognise a more recent photo like I may have seen him at a tech event some time in the last half decade or so.

Small world.
It would be stupendously bad judgment to permit the semiconductor fabrication industry to exist with no redundancy whatsoever. Tail risk is ever present and the tails seem to be getting fatter every day.
> The problem

is a good thing. A monocultural WeChat future sounds utterly dystopian (in the Huxley sense)
This was addressed at length by Cal”deepwork”Newport in one of his recent podcast.his thesis being in order for our brain to focus it needs to deal with boredom A lot! For instance whenever I come to a traffic signal my immediate Pavlovian response is to pull my phone and check HN. Now that won’t get me to focus for a long period of time in the long run. Instead he suggests involving in activities where failure to focus results in not attaining a desired outcome. Playing 1:1 basketball, racquetball, tennis, poker, chess and list goes on.
I'm working on fine tuning a very fast online search algorithm I invented, provisionally called HashChain.

It's already faster than all other algorithms for most data, pattern lengths and alphabets, but it also has a lot of different ways to parameterise it. So I'm exploring the parameter space, so the algorithm can auto tune itself.

Not sure if anyone really cares about this sort of thing anymore. Most people still seem to think Boyer Moore is the best, but that is positively ancient and long superceded by others.
I’ve tried it on mobile and it works very well. Super smooth navigation, nothings lagging or moving in unintuitive ways.

But for me personally the preview of the next column takes up just a little too much space. Coupled with the fact that the active column has no white space on the left and is off center makes it feel a little cramped.
But I think this could be solved with a little tweaking. The overall layout looks and fells great.

I am using Kagi at the moment, but were I to use Google I’d definitely consider using this.
Usually not, perhaps noise filters, but mostly not.
There was amusing case of reversing twirl filter a while ago: https://boingboing.net/2007/10/08/untwirling-photo-of.html
PDKMaster circuits and layouts for bandgap and ADC
I hope this gets extended into a class about radio frequency communication. Everything here applies to all the wireless gadgets ubiquitous in our modern society, yet many haven’t the foggiest idea how antennas, carrier waves, and modulation combine to beam the Internet everywhere.
I think you're really on to something there. It's quite along the lines of something I've been practicing the last 18 months or so, particularly not stopping short when uncomfortable feelings come up as I examine an issue or feeling and try gain a proper perspective. It's something I consider part of my own mindfulness techniques, which have really been powerful and profound mental exercises for me. I think something like Soliloquy could really not only help people with the intended goal of the project but even to just expose more people to the very idea of truly exploring things from different vantage points.
Yes I was going to say Docker is just a wrapper around exec so the list of things that can go wrong for Docker seem a lot smaller than those that can go wrong with Java.

That said, Docker networking… :(
What a refreshingly honest LinkedIn profile.

First time I've seen "left there very disillusioned" in someone's employment history.
Pretty heavy selection bias in that sample. All the people who chose not to have kids obviously are not going to be in the NICU. Among the people who do choose to have kids, those with good prenatal care and healthy habits are going to be very underrepresented in the NICU, particularly if you're in a community where you see a lot of substance abuse. So what's left is what you've observed.
Thank you and also the parent for the perspective. That's also what I experience. Not sure kids will fix that, but it always feels better knowing you're not alone.
So there are three choices, essentially to argue over:

- run on demand instances (maybe mix in spot)

- run fargate instances (maybe mix in spot)

- reserve them.

Every company hates #3, but it's usually the best choice if you can't go spot - you can swap them within the family for size, use them for baseline, it's fine. You're incorporated right? So if you fold, it's just another debt on the pile, stop worrying. Go no upfront if you really want to avoid the cash outlay, or go spot if you can defend limited outages.
Plan is to make enough to fund mars. Where are the holes in that plan?
Have you heard about Soviet Union before? I hear that things have significantly improved in its former borders since it’s gone.
Was wondering the same, but taking into account the planes are flying with its nose lifted a bit, most of the drag should be created by its lower part
Sounds very interesting. Is public already?
This by any chance? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ccEpeuqdHGM
No planes are flying over Russia anyway
I noticed that when the keyboard is set to the wrong language accidentally, it becomes comically bad.
I got a 3d printer this weekend. I'm starting by just printing DnD minis, but I've got schemes to use it to make a cleared game of my own design. Something almost like, chess crossed with Magic the Gathering.

For years now I've kinda just dismissed 3d printing - it was cool, sure, and had it's uses. But it always seemed like something that I'd be looking for a real reason to use it but never find one. Then I learned about resin printers, and how much more fine detailed those are, and it all came together. I've had it running basically non stop since I've got it. I'm first just starting by printing entirely too many minis that I will probably never need. It's been a real delight to just watch this little army of characters come out of the goo like uruk hai.

I'm not in it too make money, I just want to know if I can at this point. It'll probably up on the pile of failed game prototypes, but at least I'm having fun.
By exponential back-off, do you mean always doubling?

To be nitpicky, the Fibonacci sequence also grows exponentially, with successive terms tending to the golden ratio. You could equally well keep using exponential backoff, by replacing 2 with a smaller number (such as the golden ratio) instead.
There's a third reason for companies outside the USA who buy cloud services in USD - the strengthening dollar/falling exchange rates means everything is more expensive so to keep the budget the same you have to cut usage.
> How could a non-technical person decide what is to be built?

Agreed. My somewhat controversial position is that the rise to power of product management has ruined silicon valley. We now have non-technical PMs making decisions about technical details and prioritizations they are not qualified to have an opinion on. This leads to endless technical debt, security vulnerabilities, scalability problems, fragile systems, etc.

It used to be that PMs brought in requirements from actual customers and provided reasoned direction on where the product should go given what customers wanted and the competitive landscape. This was taken as a strong signal by engineering but ultimately it was engineering leadership that decided how to fit it into the roadmap along with all the other factors mentioned above (sane architecture, security, scalability, etc).

Today in most organizations, these other factors have no seat in the table and we only have PMs managing jira sprint stories, with the inevitable outcome of lousy products.
But does it have an IRC gateway?
Azure creates 100-200 IndexDBs in their single page JavaScript admin application
Oh, good point, I should probably mention fuzzing in similar work. Since we're not modifying the input data or input program, I might not count it as fuzzing. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Wow, I didn't think you would find one. I thought I'd be digging through some esoteric academic paper. Thanks!
Cauterizing wounds with fire as a way of stopping bleeding out and infection has been known for a long time. Alternatively, when slave boys were castrated/emasculated to become eunuchs, they would be buried up their necks in sand until the wound healed. Apparently the death rate was still massive though.
And I was responding to the idea that a retirement package is a meaningful protection against espionage.

Even if a cleared military member gets nothing after their separation (perhaps do to a court martial or the like), there's still no justification in spying, especially not after the agreements and acknowledgements cleared individuals sign throughout their careers. Those documents are what put convicted spies in places like ADX Florence, and no degree of whining about one's pension changes that.
If anyone who is capable is reading this:

What we (the unmanicured masses) crave most is a clear blueprint for reconstructing the new Internet once our consumerism-based, debt-aggregation system inevitably comes to a screeching halt, complete with a spectacularly bloody and sparkling implosion.

I lack the proper academic terminology to even understand the field enough to discern what exactly it is that I don’t know that I don’t know, and personally my time “wasting time learning things on my own for seemingly no reason other than wanting to know” has recently been cut short, and I am left aching for someone to emerge from this chaos and hopefully be receptive to these messages/instructions/explanations before they are pulled from beneath us.
I run a small consulting practice and we have pivoted almost exclusively to helping customers reduce cloud spend. Across 100+ engagements, with cloud spend raging from $500k-$40M per year, I can confidently state the following:

>90% of companies are overspending on cloud resources. On average, 30-40% depending on provider (AWS is typically the worst).

>75% of IT/Engineering teams have overbuilt their environments to leverage the latest & greatest tech stacks / toolsets with no justifiable business need.

>50% will confidently state they have “optimized” their environment and in almost every case there is money being left on the table. We have only engaged with one customer that we couldn’t offer savings. They spend $30M+ per year on AWS and had a full time staff of 3 engineers solely focused on cost optimization.

>50% of IT / Engineering leaders became incredibly defensive when presented with savings analysis which almost always included reduction in technical complexity of stack. We have since pivoted and marketing/engaging almost exclusively to CEO/CFO as first contact.

>50% of companies had one of more cloud costing/monitoring tools in place that was not being leveraged, or worse, gamed to produce inaccurate reports.
Cars have gotten larger. They've gotten faster, accelerate a lot quicker, and can stop a lot faster. Take a look at any video of driving from from the '70s-1990 of American drivers. Cars were small and a bit uncomfortable, and accelerated slowly. The National Speed Limit Law also had some effect on keeping speed limits low. All of this made it more viable to be a pedestrian or a cyclist even with little dedicated architecture.

Today a collector road with a speed limit of 30 mph is seeing drivers at 45 mph, despite stoplights. Nobody is going to bike around 40 mph cars.
yes, and not for the cost savings, but for the quality that I can't get at any commercial farmer
What if AI will get an ability to answer any question about some code exactly as it can answer about some picture whether it contains cat or dog?
In what respect is ada nicer about its staticness than, say, an ml?
It really depends on your demands; a lot of companies are running 1000s of trivial web applications and that’s it. Those can run on 10 year old servers which cost nothing at all anymore and never break; I have a few racks of them (HP dl360). We have not had issues in our colo for those 10 years; I didn’t even replace a drive and these are mostly spinning.

Sure cloud is easier and if you need things that aws offers then go for it; we run well on a few $100/mo. Our most sold/popular product costs (I did this calc because of another ‘cloud is great’ HN post a few months back) less than $1/mo to host and maintain and has 50k+ active users.

I like and use aws but it makes no sense in many cases; I would rob myself running most of our products on it because they don’t require remotely anything that it offers. I think the ‘make a unicorn’ mindset messed up people’s bottom line understanding; making 10k-100k$ more profit seems pathetic to companies that raised 100m$. Thing is; that is real money and I definitely rather have dinner with my colleagues than send it to Amazon.
If you wanted to make this work, you could.

Step 1. Have a thousand cheap solar (or buoyancy/wave) charged sonar drones spread over hundreds of miles.

Step 2. Have a hundred silent listening drones spread over the same area.

Sonar drones can tell anyone and everyone that they exist and where they are, and encrypt what they see to transmit over whatever channel.

Listening drones learn what the sonar drones saw by whatever means (satellite, VLF radio, etc).

One of them gets close enough to the sub to tell it. The others all whisper into the void somewhere.

Or the sub just listens directly if it's close enough.

There's probably some better way of the sub learning what's around it that's top secret though
If tou feel absolutely bored to death a good idea is to stand up, walk around, look out of the window and sit down. Gives you even more focus than staying put.

We tend to move too little anyways.
Does anyone know what tools are used to make the visualizations? They're silky smooth and work just as well on mobile as desktop. The elements are just a <canvas> element so I'm not sure how they're populated.

Edit: Oh, I think the answer is 6493 lines of artisanally hand-crafted javascript + WebGl. Beautiful.

https://ciechanow.ski/js/sound.js
Interesting article, but could have used a definition of “F&B”. I presume it’s probably “food and beverage,” but it drives me crazy when an article uses an acronym (in this case, about 50x) without ever defining it.
But what does "understanding of a concept" mean if you have no idea how they think?
And I disagree, I reckon even as humans we could come up with ways we might be able to build a device able to send radio signals interstellar distances without even having any real understanding of how it works.
After all, beings as complex as ourselves came into existence via mechanisms that didn't involve, as far as we know, any sort of sentient understanding of the concepts of natural selection or basic laws of physics/chemistry/biology that you might think would be "hard prerequisites" for an ecosystem that can generate such an outcome. If there were a high selective pressure for the ability to transmit long-distance radio signals, do you really think natural selection could never have led to species natively capable of doing so?
Thank you conelion. I am super glad the UX feels great to you, and you are understanding the design advantage :)

That is a really good UX optimization find. Yes on mobile, since it is just 1 column at a time, I could remove the title label.

The label does help to anchor the column a bit more clearly and gives consistency between mobile-desktop. What do you think about that? Is the extra few pixels height more valuable? Really value your opinion!

I'll try coding it up tomorrow morning and see how it feels!
But do they have to care? The right answer is to set an actual budget. Finance to engineering: you have $x to work with.

Then engineering cares, and the needed talks/concern about resource usage can happen. Part of engineering is optimization, cost is one metric to optimize.
The person making the deadlines isn't full of shit if they have plans after the deadline. Not making the deadline means rescheduling or canceling plans, which probably will piss other people off. It's especially effective to have your life fully scheduled, as you know that even if you miss the deadline, you can't easily pull an all nighter later because you have other commitments. It's all interdependent.

But sure, if you have only one important task and you have an abundant supply of time (e.g., single, young, no children), then yes, it's much easier to fool yourself into thinking you'll have ample time around the deadline. And maybe you'll have it. But that's not an effective strategy for when life gets hard and people depend on you. It's easier to mold your brain to work consistently early on, instead of trying to change your habits abruptly when life gets hard.
Voice.ai
For some reason seems a bit fishy to me.

Thoughts?
Changing perspective is not as easy as changing personal pronouns. It also affects the knowledge of a character as well. First person perspective has insights of the main character's inner thoughts and feelings, since they are the narrator, third person has not. Then there is third person limited and third person omniscient, which require totally different approaches and need to have different twists and turns to be belieavable. Changing the pov basically requires total rewrite of the story.
It's not public yet. I intend to write a paper on it and hopefully get it published in some relevant journal. I'm not an academic though, so no idea how to go about that!

I will also publish code and the algorithm on the web somewhere, once I've nailed down the parameterisation.
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Ask HN: What’s Happening at Ola Electric?
Saw news posts about toxic culture at Ola Electric. Does anyone know what’s happening with the company?
HN is a publicity tool for YC, so they are suppressing topics that are politically inconvenient to their business partners.
FYI, you were shadowbanned four days ago, probably automatically for your multiple flagged-to-death comments here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33208156. Maybe you should try to appeal to the mods.
for that price, you probably can buy 3 equivalent machines, a consulting shop to setup redundancy (this thing isn't!), install a living cabin to your colo and have someone sitting there on watch 24/7...

(should have read the licensing issue - still you can buy 2 and the consultant)
Datacenter skills have NEVER been in more demand, datacenter is BOOMING and even the people who work in the AWS datacenter aren’t doomed to work there for eternity their skills forever captured by big tech. I honestly don’t know what you’re talking about, the skills are out there, they just don’t come cheap. Many businesses at a scale to run their own datacenters are also at a scale to have a relationship with local schools and managers will literally build pipeline of employees and maintain this pipeline for decades. The only staffing issue is these datacenter workers are just making so much money and getting so much work can you afford to hire them during this boom?

Being able to avoid most of the costs and training and staffing you’re talking about has been a thing for a LONG time before the rise of cloud. There’s long been plenty of companies that will run the datacenter infrastructure for you or ever servers and let you hash out the details. People still made their own datacenters and continue to do so to this day. That is not why cloud has been so successful, the biggest thing cloud did to be successful was pioneer a new pay per use business model and the tools to enable it. Later on they created a bunch of new business innovations like EverythingAAS. If those innovations don’t come into play, AWS isn’t more attractive than Hetzner.

I’ve built and decommissioned smaller datacenters for different businesses a bit under 1MW. I’ve seen datacenters make no sense, I’ve seen datacenters make complete sense.
(Objects in 100s of playlists)
Airlines should def offer sections - party/drinkers, quiet, families, the rest come to mind.
Calmness is a superpower – Stephan Ango
You don't need to build your own datacenter. Rent a server or a colocation rack in an existing datacenter.

The result will still be orders of magnitude cheaper than AWS.
The problem with things like this is that "compile to C" isn't really just done for ease of implementation, but for sheer portability - individual C compilers are widespread, and the totality of them are basically ubiquitous. The Quick C-- compiler mentioned in the article only supported x86.

So the only way I would see something like this work, is as a frontend for an existing compiler. LLVM itself makes this kinda superfluous there, so that leaves gcc?
Wow, thank you bckr! I appreciate your kind words.

Here are instructions on how to default it on Chrome
https://swurl.com/default.html
Who says he isn't? We all have our strange hobbies that we pick (and sometimes discard/change) throughout life