skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
According to the article, subscriber growth forecasts are down and the new (returning) CEO is combining business units.
Thanks for the analysis. Something still sticks in my craw.

You can read a letter. You can play an audio recording. You can look at a photograph. You can print a word-processing document. Those feel like static records. Each tells a single story, no matter how many times it's read.

An ML model, on the other hand, is just a long sequence of floating-point numbers. There is no meaningful model "viewer" that spits out a text file or JPEG. The only thing a non-engineer human can do with an ML model is interact with it when it's running. Thus, any output is the product of both the human and the model. It doesn't feel like a record. It feels more like a performance -- and a performance by the interrogator, at that.

If an ML-model "record" is a special kind of record that needs manipulation to produce human-readable output, then it feels like we're back in the 5th amendment department. No, chatting with a chatbot is not torture. But it produces a kind of evidence that is an unwelcome collaboration between the interrogator and the record (unwelcome by the owner of the record). It's one thing to let a jury look at a screen full of numbers. It's another thing to say that an expert witness used those numbers in a chat session that printed "Yes, it was my owner, in the living room with the candlestick."

If you lock up a person and ask them the same question over and over again, eventually you'll get the answer you want. The same will probably turn out to be true for that person's chatbot. Should society allow that second case?
I just play the whole Red Remover and I found it very fun. I like the realization, the face that the boxes make, the music.

edit: just found out there is even a level maker !
edit: A bit sad that this Show HN didn't gather more attention at the time, just found it when searching for something else
Clearly you are not going to be convinced because you came into this conversation with a conclusion and backtracked from that just like the other poster. That is a common problem when discussing both Tesla and Apple. Both companies evoke a lot of emotion and "foaming at the mouth" type responses. Both companies have continued track records of producing stellar engineering.

But for anyone else reading this try to separate your emotion for "lord elno" and just let the engineering speak for itself.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m1kHsd3Ocxc

[2]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_P-UilAalvE

[3]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FXpfU6I_T3w
Hakana: Taking Hack Seriously
When I see people explaining recent mass layoffs as "CEOs going with the flow", it really seems the case for companies such as Microsoft, Amazon, Salesforce, etc. But Alphabet and Meta seems to be in a different class. Both have too many people to justify the number of services they have that generate profit. Although I can't see them disappear in the near future, it seems that they can work just fine with 1/3 of the headcount they have now, which is somewhat scaring for the IT job market in the next years.
> Definitely not Russia which was using it as significant leverage over the Europeans.

There's still one pipe of NS2 left unscathed; Russia had offered to start delivering gas over this pipe, prior to the winter turning out to be incredibly mild.

So the potential leverage is still there, and would perhaps have been useful had the climate cooperated. Maybe Russia took out three of four pipes just to ratchet up the sense of risk to Europe.
https://archive.is/VnYRJ
Show HN: Use Apple's Vision APIs and OpenAI to Automate Nutrition Label Reading
It’s not out of the realm of possibility but that statement is hardly an admission of future sabotage. I would imagine the US has more tools than deep sea bombing to convince their allies. Very high risk operation
> physically rolling dice

Thanks for the reminder to buy (in person) and secure dice against physical tampering!
>There’s a simulator (have only tried on desktop) to run the worm model in your browser.

The scientists gave it life, the hackers hugged it to death.
The real pros generalized this concept into so-called "supervision trees" - building your system as a hierarchy, where whenever a program misbehaves in any way, it gets restarted by a higher-level program, which itself will also be restarted if it can't get a handle on things, recursively to the top of hierarchy.

(Yes, talking about Erlang/OTP here.)
As a game consumer, Linux works well enough for 99% of the cases.

As a game producer, the editors and engines might work, but it's missing a lot of polish and it's kind of a frustrating experience.

I think you missed the first "As a game developer" part message of the comment you replied to, they are speaking about developing games, not playing them.
The swtch.com post is the "introductory blog post" linked at the end of the GH discussion OP, and the GH discussion is the "discussion about how the Go toolchain can adopt telemetry" linked at the end of the swtch.com post.
.NET itself is about 20 years old. How are you supporting VB apps that are 25+?
More current information is at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34716666 .
A US amphibious warship USS Arlington[0] was sailing near the nordstream location. It left a Swedish island in the middle of the Baltic Sea 6 September 2022.

Meanwhile, the US controversially transferred SEALS to Germany earlier in October 2022[1].

USNS William McLean left a German port 5 September 2022[3] (there are also port call records) and headed to meet the USS Arlington on 10 Sept 2022[2] to transfer cargo.

USS Arlington loitered around docking in Lithuania and only reaching the straight near Denmark on 22 Sept.[2]

USS Arlington then meets the exact same USNS William McLean for another cargo transfer 20 days later and just 6 days after leaving port.

Where USNS William McLean went after I don't know. I know it docked somewhere close as there's an entry for 26 Sept 2022, but I don't feel like paying to know the exact location.

If you were conducting a SEAL operation on the high seas, a San Antonio-class ship would be a perfect launch vessel. A cargo exchange would be the perfect cover to swap ships. Delayed bomb detonation isn't dangerous and could explain why only 3 of 4 pipelines were impacted (aka, something went wrong with one).

I'm not saying it 100% happened (and is somewhat at odds with the anonymous source in this story), but to me, it seems like the US had the motive, means, and opportunity.

[0] https://www.navy.mil/Press-Office/News-Stories/Article/31497...

[1] https://www.stripes.com/theaters/europe/2022-10-20/seals-gre...

[2] http://www.uscarriers.net/lpd24history.htm

[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h3pp-ehkS2o
Pretty straight forward. Townsquares are owned by the public, not by mentally unstable billionaires. On townsquares people make laws concerning conduct democratically through their representatives. Any townsquare would escort people from any venue if they behaved half as crazy as the average banned twitter user.

Musk buying himself a media company because he was upset by what he read about himself in the news isn't "creating a healthy townsquare". It's letting the arkham asylum inmates loose on his newfound political enemies.
not OP but the hyperdex paper is interesting along these lines: https://www.cs.cornell.edu/people/egs/papers/hyperdex-sigcom...

the central thesis being that actually at some point scaling tasks across multiple machines increases contention. having every request hit every machine runs that one query real fast since it's using the resources of a large number of machines, but running a lot of queries in parallel produces long queues and lots of network traffic.

in a way this is sort of what microservices do explicitly, but, you can partition the data implicitly into hyperdimensional spaces and then queries will only hit certain shards in the cluster. If there are shards that are particularly loaded up, you can increase the resources of those particular shards.

I think you could probably do the same thing in a lot of databases that use sharding, but, it does a good job of outlining the issue and the tension of one fast request vs good aggregate throughput. And this was 2012 which really was before noSQL caught fire and maybe before the maturity of some of those nosql systems around sharding/etc.
That's unfortunate domains are being blocked in your country, but not relevant to GP's outlandish comment.

Let's break this down...

> all state controlled media from Russia has been completely censored in the west.

> all

No.

> completely censored

No.

> in the west

No.
"256 TB should be enough for.."

Instead of using true 64-bit addreses AArch64 systems only use 48-bits. In a decade or two (or maybe even less time) it's reasonable to expect systems will exist with > 256TB of memory in a single machine.

Thus is it ill-advised to leverage such a hackey feature? Particularly since the bits are guaranteed to rot.

From a power efficiency perspective the appeal of using only using the minimal set of 6/8 "strictly required" bytes is understandable.. Oh wait, this design choice doesn't reduce power consumption? Hrm.

Would appreciate hearing from an expert about why this is a thing. Also, if the addresses are virtualized, why not take the memory savings that'd come with efficiently packing the addresses into only 48-bytes? Too much overhead?
How so? I read the entire page and it's just rational and level-headed predictions made using the information at hand.
On many systems, processes that are rapidly restarting or crashing tend to be throttled; depending on whether cores are enabled you can flood the system with core i/o. In addition, forking servers are often deliberately written to limit the fork frequency (fork bomb prevention).
Elon Musk is never going to be able to buy twitter

oh wait maybe he got the deal, but he'll never pay for it, the whole thing is just a stunt

oh wait maybe he got the deal, but he's so stupid, he'll never be able to pay for it, but he'll be forced to buy it anyway, bankrupting him in the process!

oh wait I guess he just bought twitter. well it's going to fall apart immediately next week now that he fired everyone who kept the lights on!

etc. etc.
Sure. Or it could just the kind of mistake that is being made all the time. I remember for example facebook taking itself offline[0], or cloudflare taking itself offline[1]. And of course pre-Musk twitter is well known itself to regularly have had significant incidents.

This new twitter incident could well be a result of layoffs and the resulting loss of institutional knowledge, but that's hardly a foregone conclusion.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021_Facebook_outage

[1] https://blog.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-outage-on-june-21-202...
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We've been consistently getting a lot of 'cancel Fuller' posts on here, which have wrong details and ad-hominem attacks. This article even stoops as low as using a race based ad-hominem.

For the last few of these on here, I wrote a detailed response pointing out the misinformation. I am just going to link some of those here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33083498

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32513327
They added so much red tape and bureaucracy to it that it is a distinction without a difference. Innovation went from a stream to a trickle after 2013.

It went from "spend 20% on whatever project you find interesting!" to "spend UP TO 20% on a project your manager approves of and can defend from their manager, with routine reporting on the status, direction, and potential outcomes."

Employees went from wanting to work at Google for the "20% Time" to not using it because it was a huge hassle that could risk their career advancement, if your 20% time project didn't pan out. It went from a perk to a gamble almost overnight.

The result in the same either way though: Google stopped innovating.
I love this show. It really makes fun of the fact that the people who run the country are the civil service not the elected representatives.
Which is probably for the best.
This is accurate. I barely passed high school with heavy help from the counseling team. Then I went to a community college for a few years with low stress and learned how to study before transferring to a liberal arts college. I count myself lucky that I ended up in tech with an average career given my lack of guidance and motivation in my younger years. I wasn't anxious until more recently when I started building a house.
Elm Slack has literally made my career. Hats off to every last one of the regulars for their patience and kindness.
Yeah right, and you would be picked up by a Russian patrol boat pretty quickly. The article doesn't insinuate that the operation itself is difficult, but to do it without anyone detecting it and not leaving enough of a trace that things can be tracked back to you.
Windows 2000 was peak Windows.
(40 JPY is .304 USD today)

Most of Maine is paying .264 USD/kWh this winter.
See also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34716666 .
> Which remains there when people switch to Chrome

Fewer than 5% of iOS users will switch to Chrome as their dedicated browser. (In-app browsers will continue to be WebKit.)

> They will just flip on the non-existent rumored Google-level search…

Just like the flipped on the M1 after a long gestation period, exactly. It was 2015 when Applebot was first noticed crawling the web. A couple hundred employees with Apple's resources can do a lot in 7 years.

> …and the non-existent public email service…

iCloud Mail is Apple's public email services, and very few companies hosting email at Apple scale — iCloud has over a billion active users. If you have access to a Mac or Windows PC (https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204283), you can set it up today. iCloud+ adds support for custom email domains.
If you look at longer-term data there doesn't appear to be any recent trend at all. For example look at https://www.childtrends.org/publications/teen-suicide-databa...

Looking at the "suicide attempts requiring medical attention" we see a low of 1.7% in 1991, then a peak of 2.8% in 1995, and another low in 1.9%, and then now another peak (but less than 1995).

For actual suicides I found this chart https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/66/wr/mm6630a6.htm which shows we are well below baseline trends for males. For females we do seem to have an increase lately, so that part seems like the main thing to be concerned about. Although it seems to have started more around 2007 than 2012 which seems a bit early to be blaming social media (almost no one really had smartphones in 2007, let alone teens). So I do think it's worth looking into this but it's easy to try to find data to fit our preconceived notions rather than the truth.
The board succeeded in selling the company and returning value to investors. I think they did their job.
Indeed. Shipping new changes is actually the reason these glitches are occurring.
What lockdown rule could farmers possibly be breaking more than programmers did? They live on a farm usually right?
See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34716666 .
Problem with mongo is if you start using more SQL like things like pipelines and aggregations your perf goes out the window

you really have to think about how you structure your data in mongo for it to work with lots of queries since joins are untenable (even if aggregations support them)
Sure, a threat is not an admission of guilt. But I think most people were unaware of this statement, and how aggressive the US' posture towards the pipeline was, which is important context for this article.
This ^^^ I miss Windows XP. I was one of the last holdouts, forced off because XP lost security updates and apps just wouldn't install on it anymore.
Well, they are going to "fix" the problem by removing the FPL code. I don't trust that for a moment. They'll morr likely remove any identifying clues so no more gpl. Don't trust anyone
Israel, Iran, Turkey, the gulf states have the money to pay someone who’s good
> in the long history of ML, tensorflow is not that significant.

I don't necessarily disagree, but that's only from a technical pov. However, I think the release of it as a open-source library made it so that it's far easier to learn the tech that already existed. Vast majority of university courses use it to teach lots of different concepts that were far more "mathy" before.

> MapReduce was not and isn't something that made ML possible. It made data engineering at scale possible.

Yeah. Maybe I worded that wrong. I wasn't saying it made ML possible. Just that it's a huge contribution to the Open-Source tech overall.
I'm pretty sure you're wrong even just going by (edit: pre-2022Q4) features listed on the wikipedia page[1], and that appears to leave out a number of cool and useful things such as polls and the extensive support for image alt-text.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Twitter
It’s real-time and not temporal.
Interesting how it's a side panel, so it integrate with existing pages.
Don’t they offer C++ on .NET to some degree? I know it’s not supported on the same level as C# but it’s still there, is it not?
> But a lot of people fed up with Google and will be glad to try something different.

Why would they replace Google with another bloated adware search engine then?

I used to be one of these people, not going to lie, but Bing is worse than Google when it comes to UX. The results are not as high quality, bloated and really messy UI.

I switched to DDG and then Brave Search later on and I can honestly say that Brave Search gets a lot of things right. Mainly the results quality and the clean UI and widgets.
Since you seem to have a lot of experience with printers I'm genuinely curious to know what goes wrong with Brother laser printers
This is the thing. I used it for debugging stripe and AWS SNS webhooks a bunch last year.

However, ngrok totally lost its soul in the past few years. It looks like the pricing was lowered again recently, but for a while there they had no “personal” or ~indie priced plan.

Meanwhile they did a feature takeaway from annual subscribers, and a less than good transition of those plans to their new system and pricing tiers.

If you go to ngrok.com right now there is a big header banner that reads: “ Announcing 50M round for API-first ingress-as-a-service. ”

This service used to be run by maybe one or two people. I could not be less interested in a developer tool that treats VC funding as something I should be excited about. The product was good the way it was.

I’m glad whoever was involved seems to have found an exit of some kind—-but all that is to say zrok looks great. I won’t renew my ngrok sub, and will go through the trouble of updating the saved dev testing URLs at stripe and AWS.
Twitter glitch wrongly tells users they’ve hit “daily limit” for tweets
Subreddits seem to alternate between power-tripping moderators who ban for little to no real reason (or even because you are a subscribed member of another subreddit they don't like), and completely open season subreddits with no moderation at all.

HN is so much better, because we self-police more effectively, and because dang is even tempered while still being thorough.
That doesn't change the veracity of what I said at all. You're attributing the act of humans to the act of a machine. ChatGPT has no intent or opinion, and therefore has no moral code. The humans controlling ChatGPT, though, have all of those things.
Putting text on the screen which would inform the user if the user was to read and comprehend it is not consent, no. (I mean, try to apply that logic to any other situation. You put a post-it note somewhere noticeable which says that you will silently mix some medication into your coworker's lunch unless they write some text on another post-it note placed on the kitchen fridge. When you then notice the absence of that second post-it note, and mix in some medication into their food, is that "consent"?)

Furthermore, looking at the asciinema from OctoSQL, users apparently have to edit their profile files on every single machine they intend to use Go on, then remember to verify that the profile applies and has no typos, make sure to never ever accidentally run the program in a context where environment variables aren't respected (would you remember to always use `sudo -E` if you need to use the tool as another user for example?). The danger seems extremely high that the user would, at some point, accidentally run the command without the env var set, even if they were technically proficient and did their best to opt out.

This is not how consent works.
I met someone with Crohn's disease who swears by the lactic acid bacteria in sour cream to help relieve their symptoms. Apparently it is only certain brands, as the probiotic is added back in after pasteurization.
> It being hands-off so far means that YC and dang have current consensus and trust exists.

But this is the very point of contention, and is not actually known.
It make sense. russia's agenda is to destabilize Europe. And they were the only ones who had anything directly to gain from it with certainty as they wanted to create an energy crisis in Europe. They knew that after the EU sanctions, Nord stream would be a dead project after their illegal invasion. By blowing up what now had no real long term economic value, they created uncertainty and it helped to get the energy prices to skyrocket in Europe and they succeeded in their goal of destabilizing Europe's energy market. All the Russians want is to create as much havoc for the West they can and create conflicts and make west weak, just of that reason it make totally sense to blow it up.
I see far more bickering over whether or not this article is appropriate than actual discussion of the article, which is unfortunate. Unsubstantiated claims can be dismissed, but there's no requirement to do so. The NS2 destruction itself is a notable story, and it's worth discussing as resource dependence is important.
I'm not super familiar with Linux's syncookies, but if being used as for a reflection attack, you're probably into syncookie territory, and that gets you down to one syn/ack per syn anyway.

I guess if the attacker is sending a low number of SYNs to get the reflection, you could still hit the the 5 retries (is that actually 5 SYN/ACKs or the original + 5 retries?). But then again, if it's a low number, does it make a big difference? Maybe, but there's a lot bigger reflection vectors out there.
Love my Brother laser printer. Never any issues with it and the cheap toner I can get on eBay lasts so long!
Would be interesting to see how far a J2EE app will take you on this!
you have a way with words
That quote doesn't say that the US didn't kill Bin Laden. You're implying that by adding an unnecessary parenthetical "in which the terrorist leader was killed in 2011."

There's nothing simpler and better for your case than typing the quote where he said the thing you say he said. Otherwise, you're actively spreading misinformation on social media, and intentionally using rhetorical games to obscure the lack of evidence you're offering to support it. That's conscious spreading of misinformation.
> Rome didn't fall in a day.

the expression is "Rome was not built in a day."

When dealing with issues like "the Sack of Rome", they pretty much did take place on particular days

http://web.archive.org/web/20180318005947/https://www.histor...
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While I would highly highly recommend against it there is GWT, & Vaadin.

They transpile java code to JavaScript, HTML, and css.
They are tightly coupled to their RPC apis.
Oh wow. Thanks for the link, first time I've heard of that.