skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Soo... What's next when they've determined that you're conscious ?

How is being trapped inside your head, potentially forever less of a nightmare scenario?

I'll go the opposite "If you detect I'm conscious, kill me asap!"
Imagine you are 15 and your parents are struggling and you getting a full time job in the summer and part time job in during school would keep your younger siblings fed. That's "too young" to make that decision?
Related:
https://guerrillafoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/n...
This is apparently a common response. Check out Reveal’s major investigative series on the punitive and profit-driven rehab industry which depends on unpaid labor. The government has done virtually nothing about it for 50 years.

https://revealnews.org/american-rehab/
A couple years into my career I came to the realization that working in the tech side of a non-tech business is not necessarily about providing what the business needs. It’s about convincing the business to pay for what you want for your own reasons (resume, prestige, continued employment )

I have been on many teams that could’ve easily been in maintenance mode and not changed anything for years. The business would’ve hummed along stably and profitably. But it’s hard to justify your job in IT if you say your roadmap is to just keep doing what you’re doing. Nevermind the people in between business and IT who really contribute to neither.

So we get these pendulum swings and huge projects (move everything to cloud, move everything back, make engineering do ops, make a dedicated ops team, micro segment everything, flat network everything) just so IT management can convince the business they’re providing some value.

Gartner is the “independent” third party that allows IT folks and tech vendors to convince the business they are doing the right thing.

And yeah I’m sure some of these pendulum swings have come at great cost to the business, even halting it entirely (SAP)
Officers of Wells Fargo, Credit Suisse, and HSBC all seem to get away with a very great deal.

I had gathered that HSBC, in particular, was (in the past, and maybe still?) the favored financial conduit of CIA projects, making investigating anything there what is called a "career-limiting activity" for any incautious FBI agent.
I was very happy with fly.io - migrating my Rails app from Heroku was an absolute no brainer, took me like half an hour.

Then I tried Django, and all hell broke loose... Still some ways to go to catch up with Heroku on all fronts I suppose, but for Rails, clear recommendation.
Two plus two equals four is true, but not funny!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j4Ph02gzqmY
Every time I have a problem or miss a feature, or it behaves in an unexpected way, I check if there's an issue open. Most of the time there is, multiple years old, sometimes with a bunch of missed release goals.

With all the recent pricing changes and the way billing if set up, I can't help but feel their end goal is ticking boxes on as many "enterprise" shopping lists as possible by adding as many features as possible to provide a nice resume, but without actually maintaining those features.

Smaller teams are becoming increasing irrelevant, and when you call them out on it and they say they do care, you just get pointed at a sales representative whom you never hear from again.
I would enjoy real world (apples to apples) comparison of the cost of cloud vs self hosting. There are many speculations and approximates, but some hard facts would go along way.
OP, the Stripe guy said this

> We’ve been investigating this case for the past 24 hours, and it's not straightforward. I can’t share more publicly here, but we’re in touch directly with OP.

Can you lay out your version of the events please and give written permission for the Strip guy to lay out his version as well?

Curious to see how the two line up.
That's really not how regulation in the payments industry works
Thanks John ! Where will the notification be sent exactly ? By emails ? As a todo https://gitlab.com/dashboard/todos ?
Right, historically it hasn’t been worth it, but now that it’s getting hotter people are still AC hesitant because of cultural norms.

The mini split is definitely the way to go, though; so much easier than ripping up your house to install ducts.
In other times it was said that a woman takes away a job a man might to, or a black man the job a white. You may want to google the "lump of labor fallacy".
Can’t wait for their post in 3 or so years about moving their workloads back to the cloud.
Find purpose, but don't involve unwilling person (the kid) who did not ask to be experiment in your problems. That's pretty selfish and harmful for to be born kid. Most people only care about consent when it's them, not others and even refuses.
Single Board Computers Benchmarks
> Lars shoots a different style, which is basically "draw and loose" with very little "aiming". The aiming done in that situation is to basically "look at what you want to hit".

Reminds me of a friend's bachelor party out in the woods where we were shooting guns. A couple friends brought big revolvers and so I tried shooting them at some targets. Missed every one. I decided if I wasn't gonna hit anything, I should at least have fun, so I took two of them and did a Yosemite Sam impression firing them akimbo at the targets in rapid fire and I heard a PING PING PING PING of 4 shots hit in a row from 2 different guns fired in tandem.

Sometimes the best aim is no aiming at all.
This is an interesting alternative compared to, say, using Elasticsearch / OpenSearch.

One caveat appears to be index size, though:

> The indices can get large. In our example index of HTML files, the index occupies about 11MB, about one-fourth the size of the original files indexed.

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Meta-observation: Whoa, the accessibility wheelchair in the lower right-hand side is unlike anything I've seen offered by a website before. It's like these people really care about user comfort. Refreshing.
Some of Gartner’s analysis can be spot on, but god some of it is so bad I can’t help but cringe. Their recent push for low code/no code everywhere and calling this the “final decade of applications” is in the later category.

There’s going to be mountain of companies going out of business in 5 years due to following Gartner’s low/no code advice.
"that System is designed to keep minorities out"

That is an extraordinary claim to make with such poorly defined terms and lack of evidence.
That was an interesting conflict from the stand point of nuclear restrain. Territories were occupied, hundreds of casualties, open fire and fighter jets; yet no nuclear threats. I haven't read up on it but just looking at the outcome of the war.
> Any such alien will distinguish true and false, will have AND, OR and NOT connectives, and will understand a form of implication (it's inherent to causality).

Implication doesn't have anything to do with causality and in fact the concept of implication in mathematical logic is broken. See: the paradoxes of material implication:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradoxes_of_material_implicat...

To simplify, F -> T (true if false) is a true implication so, for example, I can say that "I am the pope therefore it rained yesterday" and, if it rained yesterday, then the implication is true even though I am not the pope. There has been endless grumbling among philosophers and mathematicians because of this kind of paradox but it is an inevitable result of the axiomatic definition of implication by means of a truth table, and there's no way to correct it without also changing the truth tables of disjunction and negation (because A OR NOT B is equivalent to NOT B THEREFORE A, i.e. because of the way disjunction and negation work, false implies true; you will have to work through this on your own and hit your head on your desk very hard, many times, just as I did when I first realised what a mess this is).

In other words, either we accept human axioms of logic, and we have paradoxes of implication, or we don't have paradoxes of implication but then we don't accept human axioms of logic. An alien civilisation may well choose to not accept any axioms of logic that lead to paradoxes of material implication, so they won't have human axioms of logic and, if their formal system is sound, they won't have human logic, and therefore, no human mathematics.

In other words, no, aliens will not necessarily have the same mathematics as humans.
It could even be reasonable because (gasp!) the cloud might change yet again.

But I'm rather positive it won't.
If you're already (physically) dead by the time you arrive at the hospital, the chances of successfully harvesting a working organ are low.

Thus, organ harvesters prefer patients who are physically alive but brain dead. Organ donor status basically gives them permission to harvest your still-beating heart.
Given how long DNSSEC has existed, what’s your theory for why basically no endpoints actually validate DNSSSEC?
We switched from Heroku to Render about 6 months ago. It was a great experience initially, but there are a lot of sharp edges we've encountered since then, to the point that if I were switching away from Heroku today, I'd consider something else.

For example, we had a monitor set up in Papertrail that notifies us if it doesn't see our application's heartbeat log entry in a 10-minute period. We had to disable that monitor because Render will regularly have outages related to logging where logs simply don't make it to the log stream. Their status page is all green and I've unfortunately had to reach out to support on more than one Friday night.

Deploys take a little too long, around 5 minutes on the paid Pro Plus tier.

And, minor gripe, but the web UI feels like an SPA, and I think it's built to be one, but the frontend state isn't stable and will often show the wrong information. From time to time, you'll need to manually refresh the page to get the correct information.

The security issue that happened with Heroku back in April and the subsequent flubbing of communication around the issue made it so we had no choice but to migrate. But the platform itself was rock solid in my experience. I don't get that same feeling from Render.

I'm holding out hope that it improves in the coming months!

EDIT: I double checked the deploy times because of the comment below, and it's actually closer to 5 minutes, not 10, so I've updated my comment accordingly. 5 minutes is much more reasonable.
You'll wind up just knowing the formulas from paying attention in math class, and especially from doing all the homework problems and taking all the math classes your high school offers. To be sure, maybe your high school is deficient in teaching math (mine was). For test prep, then you need some extra math instruction, not test prep.

> not about solving the problem but eliminating options and determining when it's faster to validate if a given answer is correct

Those skills are not specific to test taking, they are general problem solving skills. You'll use them all the time in industry.

BTW, I picked up an SAT vocabulary prep book to see what was in it. I knew nearly all the words. That's simply from reading a lot. I kinda doubt that memorizing words from a vocabulary book is going to help. The SAT prep book had "hundreds" of words in it. The typical high school graduate has a vocabulary of 10,000 words, for college graduates it's 30,000 words. Hundreds of words isn't going to make much difference. Besides, memorizing words is not the same as organically learning them from routinely encountering them.

The TV vocabulary is 3,000 words if I recall correctly. That's right, TV is dumbed down. (On the other hand, that means one can learn a foreign language by only learning 3,000 words!)
I think the new Tesla Roadster is not yet available and unaffordable for most people due to its $200k base price:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tesla_Roadster_(second_generat...

I owned a number of Mazda MX5/Miatas in the last two decades (some NBs and a great ND), and would love to see an electric version of it. However, given Mazda's reluctance to offer electric cars with a useful range (or acceptable design...), I don't count on it.
It hasn't even started development or testing yet, calling it unstoppable is a little premature.
otoh: very few workload are static. our world isn’t (circadian rhythm is a thing!) and this drives most of our systems not to be such.
That entire thread is just a dumpster fire of bad analysis. He dismisses everything that doesn’t fit “serverless” as a niche and doesn’t mention cost of maintenance, transition, or lock-in in serverless.

It’s just a super lazy take from someone who likes to use serverless because he doesn’t like to maintain things. It’s essentially an argument to live in a hotel because they can do maintenance at scale better than you.
Not sure where you went to school but I went to a public school in DC.

Both my immigrant parents worked crazy hours so I spent my evenings playing with friends and in various clubs.

Computer Club, Orchestra (early morning practice), various sports like tennis and soccer.

None of it cost my parents a penny, it was all free. Even school uniforms were free. I know generally in public schools, things are almost always free. If they aren’t, there are pathways to pay for it.
I wonder if all these sacrifices were because of a lack of food. Better to give your kid to the gods than to watch them slowly starve to death during a bad winter.
What is the distinction between Bezos vs. Ellison? They are both sociopathic jerks. In any case, more power to you, friend.

In my eyes, a rented server is a rented server regardless of which data center or network provider is behind it. It's not emotional, merely an optimization game.
> however bad they were, they were infinitely less brutal than native civilizations

1) This is excusemaking for genocide.

2) This also has little basis in either the historical or the archaeological record.
War mongers is a dangerous oversimplification.

The basic problem in the world is that while a majority of the people may want to live self-determined lives, and be governed by a self-ruling democracy, there is a significant minority who wants to, at a personal level steal, extort, or extract value from others, and at a societal/governmental level rule over others. The latter are perfectly happy to steal, extort, extract, and/or rule over others using deception and violence.

If the people who want to live free and self-determined lives and under self-determining governments are not better prepared and better armed than the bullies, thieves, and authoritarians, they WILL be ruled by those bullies, thieves, and authoritarians.

If someone comes to your home to steal, rape, rule, or otherwise harm you or your family, is your response to say "sure, do what you want", or will you defend yourself?

Will you not call the cops if you have a chance because they might use violence to subdue or even kill your assailants (because they'd be doing violence on your behalf)?

If you defend yourself, or call the cops to do so, are you a warmonger?

If someone attacks our land and people, or a neighbor's land and people, and we call the military to defend ourselves, are we warmongers?

It is a useless accusation that undermines real understanding of what is happening.
> The energy estimates are just that, estimates. The [sic] rely on estimates of the electricity price paid by bitcoin miners and estimates of the model of equipment used, both of which are impossible to know.

The argument has never been about the cost of the energy. That's actually completely immaterial to estimating the energy usage.

Sure, I realise that energy cost is a factor, for both understanding the economics and for the author to develop his later points. But the energy estimates don't rely on the price of the energy — this is just poor logic, and/or poor writing.
That's the path I took and I don't really mind using github actions but deployment is just a pain compared to other apps I built in compiled languages. (really excited to try deno in the future where I have a single bundle)
Not sure about other things, perhaps you're right, but I clicked on the link in the header and there's a predecessor, which is a working product with some interesting code and quite a few "stars" on Github. Anyone tried it?
The publicly known US tests of hypersonic gliders all failed or rather disintegrated, as I said there is a genuinely hard problem to be solved here and the US stopped research into it in the 80s for quite a while.
The actual rules, from Wikipedia:

"Once the vaulter enters the competition, they can choose to pass heights. If a vaulter achieves a miss on their first attempt at a height, they can pass to the next height, but they will only have two attempts at that height, as they will be out once they achieve three consecutive misses. Similarly, after earning two misses at a height, they could pass to the next height, when they would have only one attempt.

The competitor who clears the highest height is the winner. "

So, it takes some planning, and some athletes start at heights that they know they will clear easy, just to guarantee them 2nd or 3rd place. Then they continue their attempts at higher bars. Once they know they have won they have 3 more attempts to try and break the record.
https://archive.ph/GfxpM
People are not arguing SAT is 100% fair, but that it's most fair compared to alternatives.
Our school was in a better neighborhood but still a part of the historically pretty dysfunctional DC Public Schools system.

Not sure how much was teachers volunteering, but we did have old instruments, old computers, etc.
It’s 100% work load dependent. Cloud makes dealing with complexity cheaper in many cases by letting you outsource admin to managed services, and is great if you need elastic scaling. Bare metal on the other hand can be many orders of magnitude cheaper for compute and especially bandwidth. Cloud bandwidth pricing is completely insane, up to 1000X more than bare metal hosting.

There is no one size fits all advice. You have to model your work load. Take scale into account too. Cloud often makes far more sense at a small scale than a very large scale since labor costs can amortize. There comes a point at which hiring admins may be cheaper than paying cloud costs.
The part where you said that floats were used because it was easier. It has definite benefits for audio quality to have higher dynamic range in your numerics.

Edit: You said it was nicer, not that it was necessarily easier. They are synonyms.
GTA IV was my favorite for this. I'd expect this to be hard to achieve since verisimilitude is expensive, but manageable if your character is only going to go down a fixed path.
OP giving written permission to Stripe is going to result in exactly nothing detailed being posted here by Stripe.
I’m saying I’m fine with forced labor being part of the consequences.

Like if you steal a car, six months working a shitty job while locked in prison seems appropriate. The money shouldn’t go to you, it should go to defer the cost of catching, prosecuting, and housing you.

We even have “community service” which is literally forced labor for zero compensation, are people unhappy with that?
It's not quite ready to share but hopefully soon :)
The code at Ticketmaster is not a 'smart contract' - I mean it's reasonable to use that as an example to clarify the similarity between TM and 'defi contracts' - however, it truly is 'just code'. There's nothing 'contractual' about it. The 'contracts' and legal implications are signed when you accept terms (a 'contract' between you and TM), and the transfer of money for tickets is regulated by the prevailing regulatory conventions.

I think NFT's may eventually become a form of 'ownership by convention' in which case maybe we could apply a general legal principle (i.e. obtaining and NFT is tantamount to accepting some legal terms). But we'll have to see.
What's your source for this? What makes you think this is the reason, as opposed to the nature and nurture rationales?
Subscribed to monthly while I figure out if it fits on my workflow.

Anecdotally, it provides higher accuracy in a more relaxed style of narration than Just Press Record or native dictation.

Either way, thanks for sharing. Hoping the side app is working out.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29489842
> Sure it does! Main memory is much slower than cache so on a cache miss the CPU has to stop and wait for main memory to respond. The CPU may even switch to executing some other thread in the meantime (that's what hyperthreading is).

Cache is a memory. And which cache, by the way? Even L1 cache on modern processors doesn't have 0 latency. And this is a rather poor way of describing hyperthreading - the CPU doesn't really "switch" - the context for the alternate process is already available and the resource stealing can occur for any kind of stall (including cache loads), not just memory. Calling this a "switch" suggesting it is like a context switch is very misleading. It's not similar conceptually.

In any event, by this definition even a mispredicted branch or a divide becomes "blocking" - which sort of tortures any meaningful definition of blocking.

The essential difference is - memory accesses to paged in memory (and branch mispredictions, cache misses) are not something you typically or reasonably trap outside of debugging. mmaps, swaps, disk I/O, network accesses are all something delegated to an OS - and at that point are orders of magnitude more expensive than even most NUMA memory accesses. I sort of see where you're coming from - but I don't think it's a useful point.
According to Wikipedia. Spanish Inquisition executed between 3000 and 5000 people over 3 centuries:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_Inquisition

According to this article. “When the Great Pyramid of Tenochtitlan was consecrated in 1487 the Aztecs recorded that 84,000 people were slaughtered in four days”

https://qz.com/374994/aztec-sacrifice-was-real-and-its-not-f...

So, the math checks out.
Yup same here. Public school was walking distance (20 min walk but not a big deal) so I didn’t rely on my parents. We also had a public metrobus route with discounted fare.
Looks good! A customizable split keyboard was one of the better investments I've made recently. No more hand pain after my work day.

Retail options like the Kinesis and Moonlander are perfectly fine products, but there is also an abundance of (typically open-source) keyboard designs these days:

https://github.com/diimdeep/awesome-split-keyboards

https://golem.hu/boards/

Note that anything that runs QMK and Pro Micro MCUs can generally be made wireless using ZMK and nice!nano MCUs.

Be warned that it's a deep rabbit hole. Personally I use and really enjoy the TBK Mini:

https://github.com/Bastardkb/TBK-Mini
This is what I did with Heroku and will continue to do if I am trying out fly.io or render (1 dollar for cronjob). I know you could get free cronjob on Heroku if you provide them your credit card info.

So, here is what I did. Added a simple API layer in front of my script. The API layer takes in a secret message to a specific endpoint that initiates a background process. Initially, I used my raspberry pi to periodically make the API requests. But I plan to try out: https://cron-job.org/en/
True enough, as far as that goes.

But other communities, a long way physically and culturally from Berkley have the same problem.

Here in Aotearoa we have just bought in a law that allows housing intensification, as a right, in three of our largest cities. (The local councils are screaming blue murder in at least one of those). This is because of nimbyism and a chronic housing shortage.

Watch this space. See how it goes.
yes, cost was mentioned in my original post.
The math part is not so bad, but I definitely would agree that the verbal/written strongly favors students educated in affluent private schools. You just not going to get that vocab prep down in a poor public school with a lot of minorities. The SAT tests in the language of the US white elite.