skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> We are deprecating the current $99/month Standard plan on Hasura Cloud and introducing a new Professional plan with usage-based pricing starting at $1.50/hour.

The new $1.50/hour baseline Pro plan translates to >$1000/mo starting price. A >10x increase.

We have a ton of poorly-written hard-to-maintain frustrating handcraft & inconsistent microservices at current job. I've been lightly on-and-off trying to pitch Hasura as a potential escape route, that let's us just expose our postgres instances with a smart, fast, well-maintained middle-layer. I have a very hard time imagining pitching my company at this new price point. Would it save us money & time, after a fairly long/difficult migration? Yes. It'd be a great help, & eliminate the never ending suffering, after a great effort. But there doesn't feel like a sensible entrance ramp, at this price point.

And $1000 professional plan is just "for low-scale production APIs".

Hasura has amazing tech. It does so much out of the box, to eliminate so much dev work you'd probably do worse. And there's gotta be a ton of people who see & understand how much not-DIY-ing is amazing. It still feels neigh-impossible to propose to almost any org I've worked at that the value here is worth it, especially given how afraid so many are of lock in & potential further price increases (although Hasura has done well to not hurt existing customers in this move, at potentially great cost to themselves).
Einstein sucked at math. Elon Musk used an apartheid emerald mine to get rich. And so on. People are fully capable of this stuff.
I would very much argue diet IF properly utilized can indeed change your life for the better. Better nutrition just makes you feel good all the time while also making you live longer.
Or it's alien AGI here to Dark Forest us before we create a competitor.
Thia is the first time I've read this but so damn good! I'm going to NEED to read this again for a giggle in the future!!
I worked at a company making devices for blind and visually impaired users - screen magnifiers and OCR devices that scan whatever you put there and read it out to you. There are some very low hanging fruits in that domain. It was a very small family company, we had like 20 people total and just 2 developers, and none of us was blind, so we made some UI decisions that were very stupid in hindsight. Fortunately the company also has a distribution network for blind/visually impaired people stuff and we got feedback pretty quickly.

But I think that's one place where a blind developer would be more productive than average.

What I found surprising is the realization that computer hardware gets less accessible for blind people over time - touch screens are much worse than knobs and buttons, and graphical interfaces are much worse than text interfaces.

Web clients could help, but they also evolved from simple semantic DOM + some styling to dynamic js+virtual dom hybrid and "div-34gs34grtt" says nothing to the blind user.
> Frankly I wouldn't call someone engaging in wishful belief "intelligent" by any measure; intelligence requires the ability to entertain multiple concurrent lines of reasoning

Not as defined by article author:

> intelligence is nothing more than the effectiveness with which an agent pursues a goal. Rationality is intelligence in pursuit of objective truth, but intelligence can be used to pursue any number of other goals.

So your intelligence definition is more like rationality. I see a lot of arguments going nowhere just because two sides have different definitions of the thing they argue about.

All that said, I agree with you, it is not rational to engage in wishful belief, but it's a kind of energy saving measure, so that you don't constantly overthink "Am I really right about this?".
Perhaps. I'd take this as a signal that the company has no big innovation happening, and is a negative signal for the medium to long term.
Sounds like a guaranteed career-ending move that’s bound to become public sooner or later…
>> The free, open, and stable international order, which expanded worldwide in the post-Cold War era.....

That was all fiction. China has never had free trade. Not to single them out, they're just the most obvious. NAFTA was mighty long document for a "free trade agreement" because it wasn't. The powers are all still trying to maintain power and will continue to do so. It has been interesting to see how intertwined things got under this fiction. Not sure where we go next.
been calling out the AI grift ever since chatgpt launched their stuff. Which I mean chatgpt and the LLM's are really cool and it was fun to mess around with but who the hell thought that this should ever go into any sort of actual product other than language comprehension related products?

Whoever ok'd this crap at Microsoft to get that big promo really just highlights why I'm never using a Microsoft product from teams to bing to azure.
The MPs and lawyers will stop it out of fear of being replaced.

And yes, I agree that it's only great for marketing, propaganda and BS generation.
I don't lose work because of an update, because I don't use windows.

I can't be why windows updates are forced, because I haven't used windows since 7. I can update a system package, a library or even a kernel without losing a process.

Tell me again why windows needs to force the user to update?
Except that time is signed integer, so

$ date -I --date='@-2147483648'
1901-12-13
Stock goes up when costs are reduced. If there's a major outage due to structural weakness (as a result of layoffs), then the stock crashes down.
Registrar hover.com gave my domain away via the phone
Someone called a hover.com CSR, and got them to reset my password on the phone. Think twice before you use them.
"Postgres interview questions"
This screenshot does not show an AI generated answer, GPT or otherwise.

It's just a normal Bing infobox that Bing has had for ever. Google has them too. It's quoting a website which it does not realize is fiction.
Double plus
Speed and distance aren’t what is being solved for.

Maximizing the chance of hitting an arbitrary spot is.
I could not find on which algorithm this compiler is based at first sight.

I know of an other library for homomorphic encryption Lattigo (https://github.com/tuneinsight/lattigo) which is based on Ring Learning with Errors.

The security of RLWE is "believed" to be strong (meaning there has not been a proof of the opposite yet). It is based on the Lattice problem which is likely to be resistant even to quantum computers.

For a more formal and complete explanation, the paper "A Decade of Lattice Cryptography" was very instructive. https://eprint.iacr.org/2015/939.pdf
Why not #DataFarm?
Who keeps track of where you live? Just tell them you’ve moved 40 miles away and keep working remotely.
Had the MyCroft team made a dedicated funding project for their legal defense, I would have gladly funded it as would many others, because fuck patent trolls.

Too many open source projects deal with this sort of thing in secret until it is too late.

We really need an open source project patent troll defense fund that reigns millions in legal hell down on the first to try to hit any company protected under it including counter-suing for damages until it sinks them. Also hire private investigators to find the real names and backgrounds of every asshole on the other side of the suit, and anyone who supports them. Make everything public to the furthest extent of the law and socially bankrupt them all.

We need public scorched earth to send a message anyone else that tries to hit any other protected projects.
The New Science of Alt Intelligence (2022)
Objective reality is a disturbingly difficult thing to prove.
The application domain for this stuff is so negligible... Who's going to pay for this huge added cost?

Either the customer whose data is being handled trusts the service provider enough to let it handle unencrypted data, in which case all the data is vulnerable to interception (and the vast majority of data processing falls into this category)

Or the customer doesn't trust the data processor to see the unencrypted data, their data but still wants to delegate processing to it. This is a very thin space to operate in. It sounds much easier to simply trust a physically separate and controlled computing plant instead of FHE.
Ask HN: Can Google One prevent losing Gmail account?
I have read many stories about people losing access to their GMail account. Using 'Free Tier' there is no support provided. What would be a smart move?
I was in the position to sell my car. Best thing I did since throwing out my television. Extremely fuel efficient too.
You almost, almost had a good comment going there, but then you ruined it by including your unnecessary, biased and ignorant political take.
So I guess this is why the change of tune: https://twitter.com/skdh/status/1613506920278818817?s=20&t=i...

Still, clearly the Sterile Neutrino hypothesis was worthy of investigation based on her own reasoning and previous statements.
Do they mention to never get involved in a land war in Asia? Because if I was a 13 year old writing a paper and injecting quotes out of nowhere, or a machine learning spoken language bot, I'd definitely say that first and go from there.
Twitter has a subscription that you can buy which gives you extra perks like longer tweets.
Can you elaborate on an example with games that have some form of "fog of war"? Or rather only some state is seen by X players?
Mothers receiving TANF benefits live about half a year less on average than mothers receiving the better form of assistance Clinton replaced with TANF. [1] That's 500,000 person-years lost every year for a minor budget cut.

https://journalistsresource.org/economics/welfare-reform-imp...
Hence the "One of " you cut out of my sentence.....
> Factorio or The Witness might be better examples of games that did/are doing novel, exceptional things and their engines were developed in-house. And it shows

I dont think The Witness really required a custom engine, except that Mr. Blow had a team that could (and it might've been easier for them). Ditto with factorio tbh.

If a game like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antichamber could be done in unreal engine, most other games could've been done with it. The fact is, understanding the engine is harder than writing your own, and for some programmers, they'd rather write their own simply because they won't have to read someone else's code.
> I imagine ignoring the bits that don't change would be some sort of security vulnerability? You could probably work out some timing attack or entropy reduction otherwise?

Nah. The bits are hardcoded into the circuit to not change. That's part of the program, and the program is public information. Only bit 6 of each byte might change, and everyone knows it.
Facebook went through some really massive, traumatic growth and the amount of work increased far faster than hiring or engineering could keep up. This left scars on the organization—better to have too many engineers than too few, the wisdom went.

During this period of growth, the “more work” that needed to be done really was critical. It just isn’t critical any more.
Mount in wsl, access with explorer via \\wsl$, done
I would not go for incompetent and stupid.

But other than that solid point.

Even without knowing the principles I would expect people to stop talking if they don’t have knowledge - but most annoying thing is when people don’t know and are trying to help genuinely and they are convinced they are contributing.
But the number is >0!
Yes, well done. That's reason at its best.
I guess the way forward will have to be giving the neutral network access to a curated database of facts as suggested by Stephen Wolfram: https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2023/01/wolframalpha-as-...

The internet is simply too full of nonsense.
Whoever used WebEx would treat Teams as the coming of the messiah.
online media were always hyperreal. baudrillard saw this like 30+ years ago.
As someone who was brought up in a cult and managed to break free later in life, this article hits close to home. I've experienced how adept we can be at self delusion in an extreme way.

And just like the article says, I don't think intelligence had much to do with my leaving; several of my former acquaintances were much smarter than me and are still in the cult, staunchly defending beliefs that are totally irrational.

At the end of the day I think it takes facing the real-life consequences of an irrational belief in order to burst an ideological bubble.
NEM 3.0 approval process seemed corrupt. Basically PGE makes sure they have not competition.
Yout amicus: fighting for developers’ right to innovate (a YouTube-dl use case)
Back when recaptcha was catching on there was a 4chan campaign to associate words with "penis". They gathered together, used to successfully brigading polls of a few thousand, and went at it.

Someone asked the recaptcha guys and they said the traffic was so little among the total that it got diluted away. No lasting penis words arose and they lost interest.
it really does tho

https://arxiv.org/abs/2201.11903

just in a limited capacity
Size, age, culture: 3 factors that will shape your productivity path
It's crazy how Emacs adapts to so many different platforms! Congrats!
>This means SSPL restricts your freedoms as a user, intermediary or end.

doesn't AGPL force you to share you the code to customers? isn't that restricting your freedom of not sharing code?
More than 30% of girls in tech don’t become tech undergrads
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In our large company, we often had a consulting firm that advised us in difficult times. Bottom line, they said that they think the company needs to deeply breath out and then breathe in again. After the severance payments, we were always urgently looking for people.
For me, that was always proof that the managers had failed. But a disproportionately small number of managers had to leave the company.
So we should do the job we hate?
> First part was accurate and sourced. Second part was invented out of whole cloth. The ai admitted as such when I pressed it.

Has anybody had success in getting ChatGPT to admit that true things it said was wrong?
It's simple, Japan can either choose to go with China, the new great power in its region (which would be the most rational and non-violent choice), or it could choose to re-arm at the US's behest and risk direct military confrontation with the same China, which, of course, would be the violent choice (and hence the non-rational one).

That's what they get for having lost the last war in which they were involved, i.e. they get to play the music their victor is singing (also see the Plaza Accord).
Use wsltty
Over the years I have worked in many universities. Many of the so-called critical thinkers I meet are anything but. Their writings echo pre-approved wisdoms and take a generally template-driven approach to all matters. I only need to read one of their papers to know with fair certainty what opinion they will hold on any given subject.

Thinking about it, this makes them sound very similar to AIs [wry smile emoji].
On the one hand, hosting companies don't like getting raided by the feds and taken offline because one of their customers is doing something objectionable.

So I doubt those 5 new addresses will remain live for all that much longer. When you're on the lam, digitally or physically, or both, you find out who your real friends are, real quick.

On the other hand, I can type "tpb" into Google and get to a bittorrent of Disney's latest hits in less than 5 clicks, so maybe the copyright regime doesn't have an omnipotent hand on the Internet.
Except Greg Kroah-Hartman i don't see any "Top Linux and open-source leaders". Maybe i am old.
Board members who are at the whims of the holders of their stonks will ebb and flow with the wishes of those who need more ROI during an oncoming recession. Another way to put it: a lot more people will be laid off and that will continue until the underlying product is harmed. But what is the underlying product? Besides sharing photos on Instagram, I don't personally hear or know about any mass adoption of Meta wares.
Take but never give back, well played Microsoft.

So Windows users can run Ubuntu in your little VM and that Ubuntu can utilize DirectX without any issues but not real Linux machines.

No, I don't think this is laziness but a well planned step. We get it, you don't wanna lose your gaming marketshare. After all, you're the main player even with a bloated and anti-consumer software like that but know that Linux is inevitable.

Maybe not today, but the better software will win. No matter what your opinion is, FOSS is coming.
The BSDs dealt with this change a very long time ago. It is quite sad Linux is still dragging its feet.

This situation shows the catastrophic inability of this community to plan and execute significantly involved changes, even if they're desperately needed or otherwise offer blatant significant improvement.

Some examples include 64bit time, inodes, offsets. Musl. Libressl. Wayland.
"These results suggest that diffusive motion [random walks] in Mexican jumping beans does not optimize for finding shade quickly," the authors concluded. "Rather, Mexican jumping beans use a strategy that minimizes the chances of never finding shade when shade is sparse."
Any examples of Category Theory being used to implement practical software?
Layoffs are happening so frequently since May 2022. and they are continuing in 2023. too. On average 1,600 tech workers have been laid off every day of 2023 so far. 91 tech companies globally have already laid off 24,151 workers just 15 days into 2023, according to data aggregated by Layoffs.fyi. They have an impact on the entire tech industry, globally.

We already saw big layoffs from Meta (11,000 people), Amazon (10,000), and now Microsoft (11,000). There are multiple reasons why is this happening, from economic factors such as shrinking markets and higher interest rates to internal factors.

On the other hand, we have more and more people in the industry going exponentially. How is this going to affect people in the industry, job safety, tenure, salaries, and especially an entrance for junior developers? Even more, how is this going to affect the stability of the systems they worked on?

What we also see yesterday that Meta is planning a new round layoffs: https://www.ft.com/content/3f3c3fe7-fedd-4fcd-a3d9-6ce44fe56...
How is the VC scene in Sweden? Or is the company funded by American VCs but you just live in Sweden now?
Show HN: Media stream processing library for Web browser
Donald seams to believe that “reality” is defined in the terms of something like...

reality: “the state of things as they actually exist, as opposed to an idealistic or notional idea of them.”

That definition allows him to make the argument that he makes; as the definition separates our ideas from the thing that reality is.

It’s a definition with problems…
An alternative that works today is #bookz on undernet.
> In bafflement that it took us so long to do anything about it.

Fully agree, but mostly I think the reactionary forces we have now are low-grade, petty, shitty, antagonistic, reactionary forces. They grumble & whine & attack, but they don't really have anything to offer; it's all mud-slinging.

I don't think we've tried actually helping people, and I see now proposals out there for what we would do. In my view, there's works like Web Annotations & https://Hypothes.is that we could use to overlay new civil layers to the online world, without having to ask permission or fight each site. The people to blame here are us, for not bothering to actually own & become decent techies. The social sites are barely able to keep shit together, and it's not their fault, and intervening won't make anything better: we need civic exploration, we need personal empowerment, and we have everything we need to try & explore better right now if we cared to.

This feels very Pandora's Box. Do we just try to slam the box shut? Do we risk leaving hope trapped inside? Do we give in to fear? Personally I think the way out is through. That we must better explore what being online people could mean & how to assess & weigh value. That we must better be able to reflect & share our reflections on what we happen upon, with not quite such heavy friction as we have now (having to write long paragraphs, or being reduces to sending heart/stars). Society has, in my view, roundly refused the mantle of responsibility, and I hardly blame them given how obtuse tech is, but simply being conservative & reactionary to the state of affairs, being upset & negative, is the negative-revolutionary force: actual positive tenants need to exist & be promoted somewhere along the line. I see so few who can offer a reasoned approach, who have shown any real consideration for how we might get beyond where we are.
I don't know why this reiteration of the widely known (and ancient) things worths any attention.

Especially considering that the author doesn't explicitly mention Option monad, for-comprehension and all the right generalizations solving the problem properly.
There were issues with enterprise vpn and firewalls last time I tried, but on a home desktop gui apps basically just work.
Well... Just use Linux? Install ZorinOS and boom, instant better OS experience.
Not sure if you meant this comment rhetorically or not, but try asking ChatGPT to do something useful like convert some text into JSON, or what conjugation of a verb you should use, or for writing feedback on an email. If you treat it like a toy it will be disappointing but it's useful as a tool.
Toolformer language model uses external tools on its own
The government should step in when the rental market is failing to deliver for the people i.e. when rents become unaffordable due to lack of supply. They can step in with zoning law changes but they can also step in with direct competition.
I think the original author gives AI too much credit, we’ve seen nothing but statistical tricks, no actual intelligence, I’m not losing any sleep. ZzZzZz..
> If he weren’t Russian and subject to OFAC sanctions

Wrong. OFAC has sanctioned a number of Russian individuals and entities, including many of the country's banks. OFAC has _not_ sanctioned all Russians.

Check for yourself at https://sanctionssearch.ofac.treas.gov

Man up and send him the money. You can figure it out.
As a common Software Engineer, I see my type of position as transient, whereas those database guys, the ones who make sure all the guts run, all that crazy shit, they're needed night and day. They can fire me and hire a version of me the next day, but the people next to the bare metal seem to have a lot more stored in their brain than can be easily replicated with the next recruit.
TIL Pluto has ~1B plutoans!

https://imgur.com/a/m6xV5Js
I've actually worked on a movie shoot there. Terrible film, terrible shoot, but we did get an impressive visitor one day in the form of a rattlesnake that decided to come into the set to cool off.