skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> What are my options? How much do those cost the company? Do we get 2 of them?

What options do you want? You come to me with the specifications, and I'll get back to you if you can. I'll work with you to get what you want.

If I am the one with the power to create, the gatekeeper to the virtualization cluster and with a ballpark figure this makes my life so much easier. It allows me to make my justification easier too. "Hi Manager, X needs this. I think it needs this. I'm going to setup this and evaluate, no manager I don't think your correct."

"Here's my tech specification for what I'm setting up. here's the documentation for configuration and setup and these are the results" Lets ride.

Let me give you 8x core and 64GB see how the performance spikes and go from there. I'm not stingy and always happy to give more to test performance and than decrease if it's overkill. But don't dispute if I start to take away because of.

> what you have is a bunch of 3 generation old 28 core Xeons with 128gb of RAM. Can I get access to one of them to test thoroughput?

Sure. Yes you can. Why do you think you can't?

> Lead time

As fast as you require me to setup the VM. If I have all the docs, I can fly-by and have this thing setup under a day at minimum. Heck, I'll even work no-paid overtime to get this for you. I can escalate this on the fly. I'm in the good books with the NetOps, I even know the backup-ops. Tough crowd every time to please, but I manage so.

Production lead time? Sure, probably six months to get stake-holder approval and the rest, but I'll try to get it sooner.

Prototype lead: a week.

Just give me figures and I'll do the rest. Enterprise or not. I'll push for what you want but you have to work with me. However I need the figures and documentation before I can. I can't be seen creating the documentation on my own time based on made-up figures when I have an estate of 100 VM's needing security patches. That makes me look bad and if it fails the tests, I'll get the blame.
Are we certain this wasn't caught up in the recent purge of bot accounts? I expect Musk will probably reinstate this account soon.
Not OP, but they’re clearly comparing it to other car companies. TSLA’s is arguably still 10x what it should be.
I wonder if this could be improved by using the Hartley transform instead of the Fourier transform.
It would be helpful if anyone can add links to their mastodon accounts
It spun out of Meteor, which was then sold to another org.
4 x the energy density, but 8 x the mass. These will be heavy batteries. Kinda defeats the point.
Elon Musk starts banning critical journalists from Twitter
That's right. On PCs, Page Up, Page Down, Home and End move the cursor, but on Mac, they only scroll up one page, down one page, to the start, to the end, respectively, without moving the cursor. (Also, the cursor is called the insertion point on Mac.)
There's a few caveats with SentenceTransformers that impact my ideas, so I am willing to give OpenAI a try.
Mastodon has been pretty good at defederating from journalism-based servers: https://www.cjr.org/analysis/journalists-want-to-recreate-tw...
Valve answers our burning Steam Deck questions
You should petition Dan to extend the edit window for your comment because the list will probably get longer.
I returned mine for two reasons:

1. The UI is horrendously slow/laggy/crashy.

2. It is yet another disposable device with a battery that cannot be easily replaced[1], which I consider to be unconscionable.

Otherwise, I liked it.

[1]: https://www.ifixit.com/Guide/Steam+Deck+Battery+Replacement/...
There's literally millions of places you can go to have conversations while completely ignoring the news, I'm not sure what you feel is missing beyond a vicarious feeling of power.
I own and operate a high intensity organic farm.

My use case is to attempt to predict how much water I can expect for the growing season and other growing conditions like date of last frost.

I'm trying to apply my software engineering skills to my farm. I am also researching automation strategies.

Your offering is most intriguing.
base64 is far too much work. A new dev turned '"AKIAIOSFODNN7EXAMPLE"' into '"AK"
+ "IAIOSFODNN7EXAMPLE"' to make the security alert go away.

Thankfully, the alert was sent to enough people it was caught by someone else, and the key was destroyed before someone outside could have fun with it.
Searching for creds can be tricky if they can't be readily distinguished from other text.

Can anyone think of a problem with generating customer API keys that have a known prefix that makes them more detectable?

For example, a key like "FooSecret.ZTNiMGM0NDI5OGZjMWMxNDlhZmJmNGM4OTk2ZmI5". I wouldn't think that'd open up any new attacks, but I'm no expert on the matter.
Good for plenty of applications, such as power plants and renewables.
One wonders if Google, Meta, Apple, Amazon are working on a replacement platform?
I must admire the tone-deafness of posting a link to a Tesla product tonight...
>As smart as these apps seem, they will still need a human to decide where and how to use them. They won't replace us

Well, they will, if the AI plus 1 human deciding "where and how to use them" can replace producers and musicians playing...
If you don’t transfer the knowledge, help setup the monitoring/alerting cases, write runbooks for others, periodically review metrics, you absolutely should be paged for a critical outage. Devs can’t just write code and throw the operational part over the wall.
It feels weird that the CSS WG does a popular vote for a different syntax implementing the same feature, something that an expert opinion should weigh way more then popular demand. But at the same time TC39 picked an archaic version of the pipeline operator (|> https://github.com/tc39/proposal-pipeline-operator) despite a clear demand from the community to pick a functional one.

Perhaps the two committees should learn a bit from each other.
Wow. I’m really surprised so many people have voted for option 3 so far. Option 5 feels much more in line with the rest of the other proposals and features in CSS, and option 3 introduces at least one quirk we’ll have to internalize and teach to everyone forever. Those suck. I have to teach those kinds of things to juniors until my throat is sore some days.

I don’t have much of substance to say about option 4 other than that it just feels… gross. I’m sorry, but those butterfly brackets are really extra.

Circling back, I think my preference for option 5 is that I personally moved away from nesting with preprocessors after watching too many developers create specificity bombs in their CSS from selectors nested 4 or 5 layers deep. I think it makes sense for this syntax to have a clear, distinct weight to it. CSS should be meant to be read just like all other code.

Finally, and I won’t spend too much time on this because I’m not trying to be a detractor, I’m not sure this is really high up on my wishlist anymore. Component-based design has changed a lot about the way I write CSS. I’ve found that I write a lot fewer highly-specific selectors these days, and I never have to bother with heavy id/class syntax conventions like BEM anymore for things to be easy to understand either. Those two things alone were big, dangerous motivators for me to use or encounter nesting. Anyway, I voted for option 5.
What does this have to do with Mastodon?
That's a false analogy. Variable renames does not change anything, it's still the exact replica of the algorithm in question. Also, in engineering and computer science circles, cloning designs or code is often regarded as an acceptable practice, even encouraged (within the bounds of licensing). And for good reason, if there is a good solution to a problem, then why reinvent the wheel?
Sure, so now that we have new tech, let's update the socioeconomic system to accommodate it.
This was EXACTLY the same case against Twitter though: they are obviously politically bent, but they market themselves as the public square. They pitch over and over that they absolutely don't moderate on the basis of politics. If they simply admitted they're politically-bent, that'd be fine, but they don't. That's what Elon is doing now, that's what Twitter did then.

To be clear I'm not a fan of what Elon is doing either (because he's doing the exact same thing Twitter did: posture as unbiased while obviously being biased), but I also recognize the only thing that's changed here is the direction of the bend.
It says all StableDiffusion capabilities work, so you can prompt it with an image (either "img2img" or "textual inversion"). Their UI just doesn't expose it.
This is exactly what Stripe and I believe some other companies do, partially for this exact reason.
Yep. Also, I moved from France 7 years ago. Last year I went back for vacation and rented a EV on a whim.

I thought about charger after the fact.

Well; in those 7 year the territory got covered in chargers. Private / public mix. Some will likely disappear once things settle a bit but damn, I was surprised
Does C#/.Net support monads? The article really doesn't get into C# at all..
I've heard both sides, especially that the older models have been reliable. That phrase just seems to be particularly sticky (and that's what I understand it to mean). It makes me wonder on the point about maintenance.
Tiny sample size, and seemingly zero effort to determine whether the myocarditis was already present prior to vaccination.

As usual, this fails to be the smoking gun antivaxxers want it to be.
You know that Twitter has a blocklist that you can control yourself? It's pretty easy to use too, just two clicks and you'll never see an account again. As for where to sign up, typically you go to the website you want to sign up for and then click 'Signup'.

Right now that's the bottom right button when you visit if you are not logged in, it has the text 'sign up' on it to help guide you.
They claimed to not moderate on the basis of political opinion but recent leaks reveal that's false.
Those making the decisions can very well just say "WE and a 10-20% still needed just need to live comfortably, and the rest 80% can live in slums in the edge of town".
That's one cultural point of view. Another point of view is that we should get ourselves in a position where we can produce (and consume) infinite clean energy, for example, but building a thousand nuclear power plants. Team mushrooms vs team cocaine.
Oh Sigils aren’t bad. It’s just they’re more consistent in Raku, particularly with regard to arrays and hashes.
It's sad to see this kind of censorship and suppression of FOSS alternatives. But on the other hand, I can concede there's no inherent wrongdoing here--Twitter is a private company and can enforce whatever decisions they please on their own platform.
>Artists have all my sympathy.

Humans have my sympathy. We are literally at the brink of the multiple major industries being wiped out. What was only theoretical for the last 10-15 years started to happen right now.

In few short years most humans will not be able to find any employment because machine will be more efficient and cheaper. Society will transform beyond any previous transformations in history. Most likely it's going to be very rough. But we just argue that of course our specific jobs are going to stay.
Can you share this script? I'm interested to see how 2,650 lines of C got boiled down to seven lines of shell.
While the timeline is rushed and the explanation is disingenuous, the sentiment here is way too reactionary.

- dbt has made a huge impact on the data ecosystem. It's made data engineers' lives way better, speaking from experience. It's so central that most new data tooling builds on top of or integrates with dbt.

- The core product is completely open-source, they have dozens of people working on it.

- It's good for the world if open-source companies can be profitable! We should want more of that. The overflow from open-source is much bigger than closed-source companies.

- It's good for the world if they can stay independent — getting acquired by e.g. Azure would be a decent exit for them, but would balkanize the ecosystem.

- dbt cloud was fairly cheap relative to competitors — something like Looker is multiples more expensive.

I wish Tristan had written "We need to increase our prices — we've had a huge impact on the space but don't yet have a reasonable path to profitability. And we're cheaper than these 5 comparable services!" rather than "isn't this great for you all". But they deserve a bit of leeway given their contributions.
Yeck. I read—then skimmed—through this article. Do others have the same “another mediocre engineer turned manager who I detest?” Don’t want to work where this guy works.

The first sin they embark in is framing their argument, in part, as one of titles/labels. This is usually an institutional smell. And it’s not a pretty odor.

The second is that the person believes there role is to question others. It’s a move that insecure people play. The idea is that you keep your opponents defending themselves against questions you define, and that means there’s no time to address some of the hard questions that might circle your own “roll.”

It sounds like the guy feels he knows the answers. If so, why doesn’t he jump in and do them? If he knows better how to do this SRE thing as defined by him, clearly his company has pulled a Peter principle, promoting him from something he did well, to a position where he now harps on others using their nostalgia. Value may have been lost. If he’s really that good, we can use him in the trenches. If not, he’ll learn how to try to explain why some of these PHB questions are actually hard to answer and execute.
Subreply is an alternative, but it is demodded on HN every time it reaches front page.
Cable TV doesn't sell ad time, the networks they carry do. And you won't see ads for NBC sitcoms while watching CBS.
For US contractors, I wonder if the pay is sufficient to cover health insurance (which I'm guessing the contractor has to arrange for themselves). Are there flexible contractor groups (that aren't agencies) that are able to negotiate for lower insurance prices?
Musk is an authoritarian at heart. Silencing critics is straight out of the authoritarian playbook.
Seems like the answer is no, that's a suspension.

https://mobile.twitter.com/TexasObserver/status/160354905128...
This is the correct answer. I hope this is where they land because all of the options they’ve presented are pretty awkward
Amazon Shows Off Lofty Plans for Delivery by Drone
> Among the reasons given for blocking users from the server are that it is allegedly populated by “click-bait/tabloid journalists” who “can be expected to collect, search through, and misinterpret anything you say with the goal to share this publicly to an as big audience as possible, enabling hate and harassment to any one as long as it gives them clicks [sic].” Others who have blocked the server say that its members are likely to be “surveillance capitalists” or “mainstream propagandists.”

I couldn't have said it better myself.
>Basic income or revolution. That's going to be our choice

Basic income sounds good in theory in some imaginary futuristic society of harmony and grace.

In real life, it's a way for the masses be controlled down to your very substinence by the state. Where the state is basically an intermediary for big private interests and lobbies.
For me it's the opposite. I find the nesting far easier to parse, especially when deeply nested. One thing to consider is what the average dev uses - looking at the 2021 state of css ( https://2021.stateofcss.com/en-US/technologies/pre-post-proc... ), SASS was used by 90% of responders, and of those 84% of them were satisfied with it.

There's a strong argument to be made that nesting is the standard way to write CSS these days (at least among the demographic that responded).
I noticed this as well. There was no integration testing? No manual testing?

I don’t pay for Lichess, love the UX, and I know it’s a labor of love, but come on. Surely Lichess refactoring aren’t so urgent and user critical that they should just go straight to prod?
It's ironic seeing your earlier comment on chatgpt coding and then this. If anything is easier to automate, it's programming which can be rigorous and have rules while art really isn't, it's only "easy" for those who don't understand it, which is what the person is actually talking about.

You're in for a rude awakening when you get laid off and replaced with a bot that creates garbage code that is slow and buggy but works and so the boss gets to save on your salary. "But it's slow, redundant, looks like it was made by some who just copy and pasted endlessly from stackoverflow" but your boss won't care, he just needs to make a buck.
Advances using Copepods in Aquaculture (2017)
Twitter was a public square. Right now it is slated to become the Elon adulation machine, which is about as far from a public square as you can be. Twitter as it was was far from perfect, but at least they were trying to ride the line and to find enough middle ground that as long as people behaved they'd be able to post there. The current Twitter isn't even trying.

As for the politics, if Elon is free to do as he pleases (which as far as I'm concerned he is as long as he drops the hypocrisy), so were the previous Twitter owners. You can't have it both ways.
Twitter at this point is like watching a train wreck in real life. It's a spectacular shitshow you just can't look away from.
Not only this but Amazon is a marketplace for buyers AND sellers whereas it appears McMaster-Carr is the seller. Sellers on Amazon are also Amazon customers who want their own pages, copy, etc.
Severance is common in high paying tech jobs. Severance is not common in general.

Almost 60% of US workers are hourly and most of them don't get severance. A lot of the other 40% dont either.

https://www.workstream.us/blog/hourly-vs-salaried-jobs-benef...
Twitter applies 7-day suspension to half a dozen journalists
It's going to be weird when ChatGPT like models are mature businesses and they have advertising platforms embedded into them, and they learn to optimize for being convincing sales people.
In some cases deduplication happens at the file system layer transparently without you even realizing it. E.g. there are tools like https://github.com/lakshmipathi/dduper

I agree that image editing workflows are a different use case more suited to perceptual hashes than cryptographic hashes.
You have a serious axe to grind, pal. Best of luck to you.
GREAT to know about these filters, thanks!
> My coworkers and family really wouldn't appreciate my shit posting. :)

Hey, here’s a thought. Maybe if there were any locally observable consequences to that behavior you’d stop and the Internet would be a better place…
This should be a Leetcode hard test. Deploy a JVM for a large production upgrade without issues
But what is it?
or line counting is just a carrot, in reality he/she must be feeding the text to his/her machine learning algorithm.
I'm interested in this history, any where I can read about all this?
"_As one might have guessed, this is not an essay. It's a transcript of the following talk by R. Martin with some substitutions made (SmallTalk -> Haskell, Ruby -> Rust, and others). You are free to make any conclusions from this._

[What killed Smalltalk, could kill Ruby, too](https://youtu.be/YX3iRjKj7C0?t=342)"
Food will be automated. A lot of it is automated even today. Robots that will till the soil, manage nutrients, plant the seeds, water the plants, and pick the crops. It’ll even be done without pesticides, as robots with vision and plant detection can work 24/7 to remove weeds and pests. Or we’ll switch to hydroponics, still fully automated and done on a mass scale. In this world, there’s no purchasing food. You would just request it and that’s it.

Now imagine that automation in food and expand it to everything. A table factory wouldn’t purchase wood from another company. There’s automation to extract wood from trees and the table factory just requests it and automation produces a table. With robots at every step of the process, there are no labor costs. There’s no shift manager, there’s no CEO with a CEO salary, there’s no table factory worker spending 12+ hours a day drilling a table leg to a table for $3 an hour in China.

That former factory worker in China is instead pursuing their passions in life.
Given how Trump abused the DOJ during his tenure, one might suspect that he was looking forward to employing the CIA to do the same to his own enemies.
Yes, he can do what he wants, but it can still be despicable.
The Apple II interaction ad with an Apple on the kitchen table (also one on the wall!) is delightful for both of its naivete (in the last the past 20 yrs or so, an ad agency would be put through the ringer for the husband plays with cool devices wife does the dishes) and power (showing a gadget unknown to most people in a familiar setting).

The Atlantic has a great article (https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2015/06/cl...) on how Apple did its early marketing. They compare this ad with a "Kitchen Computer" concept from Honeywell that's beyond ridiculous.
Any car that you intend to drive for more than a few thousand miles will need maintenance. These are no different. But the engine design (chain, not belt for the timing) and the oil pump taken together are massive factors in ensuring that engines will last. I have a 25 year old SLK that I've passed on to other people several times now on the condition that when they stop using it they give it back and even though there are all kinds of smaller issues the engine runs like new.
Depending on how far you want to take this - 1 and l look the same on many fonts.
The architecture behind the chatGPT and the other AIs that are making the news won't ever improve so it can correctly write non-trivial code. There is a fundamental reason for that.

Other architectures exist, but you can notice from the lack of people talking about them that they don't produce any output nearly as developed as the chatGPT kind. They will get there eventually, but that's not what we are seeing here.
The recent free speech angle many tech leaders have taken has left a horrible, horrible taste in my mouth. An article comparing trust & safety to "censorship teams" made waves all around twitter last night, including andreessen and musk.

It has nothing to do with speech but everything to do with making sure they know who's in charge. None of them will say anything about this. Despicable.
People are complaining about the idea that the developer is ultimately the owner of any service they wrote.

I don’t see how this is even controversial. Consider the case where a SRE is responsible for 5 or 10 such systems. They could never be expected to know as much about those systems as the people that wrote them.

Now if there is a one to one relationship between SREs and systems then it might make sense to expect that level of understanding from the SRE.

In my experience it would be a great privilege to have a dedicated SRE to your application.
Another approach is to identify likely ones based on the entropy of the strings. I used a tool that did precisely this once and found some, but can't find it anymore.
Amazon has roughly 350 MM products if you account for third party sellers, so yeah, the scale is massively different.
Not much of a downside, but it means that they are really easy to detect for attackers as well.

Really easy to just grep through something looking for that prefix
The bar for "shitposting you don't want your coworkers to know about" is so low nowadays that it's almost a free speech issue to allow anonymous accounts.

If you post about not like drag shows in front of children, that itself is harmless enough in a vacuum but polarizes people to a serious extent