skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Wikipedia article isn’t too bad: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microservices

One aspect where I think it is accurate is that “microservices” is an architectural approach of how to modularize an application into services, as opposed to a clear-cut definition of whether a given single service qualifies as a “microservice”.
Nope, I used correct units. 4TWh/year (https://www.eia.gov/energyexplained/electricity/use-of-elect... not 4000TWh) is a unit of power (energy per unit time) and is about 475GW average. Hour and year are both units of time so those units cancel out with a unitless factor of 8760 (roughly, as there are leap years, etc).

I didn’t make mistakes in my calculation (except using 575GW in my calculation instead of 475GW), EVs won’t require drastically more power on average (again, gasoline displacement requires about 30% more electricity, as I showed).
Honestly this is the worst take yet.

Go open that Excel 97 with a spreadsheet containing 65,537 rows.... Oh, you can't.

People aren't building modern software that does the same set of things so attempting to measure it is much more difficult than opening up a zillon year old VM.
I'm not sure it really is. Dial your time machine back to Victorian London and I bet you would find lots of similarly-run factories. As another poster pointed out, the choices are essentially 1) be honest that you are kind of a bad factory, and can't really produce anything that people want or 2) pretend that you are a great factory, get some business, learn and iterate. Eventually you can honestly promise high quality, but you have to survive that far first.
This. The IRS will only come after you if they think you were deliberately lying. Mistakes are simply to be fixed even when they are doozies. (One year I ended up amending my previous year's return because I had managed to fat-finger an extra digit into a number. It didn't change my tax bill *that year* by a single penny so nothing looked off. It was only when I saw the huge amount of losses being carried forward that I realized something was off. I didn't get any sort of complaint from the IRS about that despite it being a 5-figure error.)
I don't recommend adding black to get shadow colors — you're not going to get pretty colors if you take that approach. Shadows have a bit of a color of their own. What you need to do is think of the bounce light in the scene, and I'll use an example to explain.

First of all, if you've got a sphere in deep space, its shadow side is going to be pure black, since there's pretty much no light bouncing around, and so there's no light to be reflected by the shadow side of the sphere. Now let's take an indoors scene: Imagine a room with red walls, a white floor, a single neutral (white light) ceiling lamp and a white sphere in the middle, what color is the sphere's shadow going to be? In the red-walled room, the shadows of the sphere would be subtly red — especially in the parts of the shadow where it's facing the walls more than the floor. That's because the light you see in the shadows of an object is light that has already been reflected from other surfaces in the room. This reflected light, in the case of the red walls, is red.

Of course in a more complicated scene you just approximate it. For an outside scene, you usually want to make your shadows only a bit darker and move your shadow color's hue a little closer to the color of the sky. But colors are difficult, you learn through experience really.
I've always thought "orthogonal" as in ideas came from "orthogonal" as in vectors - meaning to be independent of each other.
I see a really common pattern of "thing people like if they don't pay for it" being confused with "thing that we can use to print money if we make them pay for it instead."

I'm very curious to see if Twitter tries to push further down that road. It hasn't worked well for others. Quibi is probably the highest-profile example so far, misreading the market for short-form downtime video.

It's the cable TV model, in many ways, except missing the bit where cable quickly started to give you new exclusive channels that people couldn't get anything like anywhere else (HBO, ESPN) instead of just repackaging your locals.
“Tired of being treated like robots,” Tesla Autopilot workers try to unionize
I don’t know what to do with my life right now. I just want to be able to be with you and I know that I am not alone in my feelings.

Wow. Very “Valentines Day” meets therapy session.
It has been a fun adventure. We used a lot of RHEL at work, so I set out to get it to work on my Centos workstation and was shocked how well it worked. Gave the SteamOS distribution a try, which worked great for Steam... but really made me work harder than expected to get a terminal so did not expand on that, beyond seeing how it got the hardware right. Current workstation is Ubuntu, which also matches up with how work is done today. Proton is amazing.

The jump from
https://i.imgur.com/dGOw1G4.jpg

to steam (2019!)
https://i.imgur.com/H5QYFbz.png

was incredible. My Linux box has the 'good' CPU/Video card these days.
Musk was happy to have Starlink used for military purposes when DoD was paying the bill.
> >Self-distributing a version that we rejected due to policy violations is circumventing our review process and our policies. We ask that you stop self-hosting rejected and/or violating versions immediately (by Friday, Dec 2). Otherwise we might have to block your add-on from running in Firefox.

Blocking a sideloaded add-on from running for any reason other than it being unambiguous malware world be a major abuse of power and breach of trust on Mozilla's part.
Reddit aims for IPO in second half of 2023
There is no average podcast listener.

And if they were then based on Apple Charts they would be apolitical and not interested in your diverse range of tastes and interests. Which I assume means not left-wing based on the not so subtle examples you listed.
Yeah we were told not to use it by the lawyers at work and have an official policy against using it. Not having that would open us up for liability if we’re sued as there’s no defence that what we did was clean room if we admitted using it.

We’ll hang back until other companies have litigated their way to some legislation around it.
Not all Markovian maximum likelihood estimators are made equal, ChatGPT can be considered sui generis.
I did it, the insiders > casual analysis is partial english/chinese

here:
https://i.imgur.com/5QCXdoG.jpeg
> Have you tried fine tuning GPT3 via the OpenAI APIs for this

I haven't. That's not a bad idea.

> it would at least help demonstrate it it's possible to get the results you want with the current best-in-class language model before you try to run that against a smaller model that you can fit on your own hardware

The dataset you saw was (mostly) generated with ChatGPT and davinci-002, by using prompt engineering instead of fine tuning. So it's definitely possible to produce good results like this (though no judgment here on the question of prompt engineering vs fine tuning).
Search still relies on content that doesn't suck though, and like GP said, if the internet today sucks, then the competing search will also suck.
Will Github indemnify users against potential copyright lawsuits related to the code it regurgitates?
No idea, but that's really clever! I hope someone from Pocket Casts is reading this.
This is the main reason I stopped biking to places in the city. Now I just use bike paths in places where they're wide.
I've met people that take pride in bullying cyclists because of course when we drive we become the most impatient creatures in the planet.
>Each of those would lead us to drastically differing ways of trying to mitigate the next virus.

Except we did already know some stuff but a bunch of people ignored it anyway, including chunks of the government. We learned from past viruses and a certain admin just decided to ditch the literal playbook
China boasts about successfully reigning in things like drug trafficking/use, cryptocurrency investment, firearms ownership, liberal reforms and revolutions, etc. They can even prevent you from using basic public services if your state-assigned social credit score is too low.

Are they lying about this? Exaggerating it in some major way? If not, I see no reason they can't shut down big wet markets like the one in Wuhan.

I'm left to assume they know that COVID-19 did not originate in such a place. If it had, there would be an "all hands on deck" campaign by the security services to shut these markets down. It would be accompanied by a massive propaganda effort to convince average Chinese that wild and exotic meat is unsafe.
Gotta move fast!
Has it been kept a secret? I think its more of a question of whether you believe whats out there or think there isn't sufficient explanation for what 'definitive' evidence there is (tic tac video for example).
If you wander around the Diamond District, in NYC, you'll see all these skinny little guys, in rumpled suits, walking around; very often, accompanied by a much larger guy, in a more fitted suit.

These chaps can have millions of dollars' worth of diamonds in their pockets, and they routinely exchange them on a handshake basis.

Integrity has worked for them for a long, long time.

It's not dead. It's just resting. Probably pining for the Fjords.
I've definitely seen it get reflections/lighting/shadows wrong. In exactly that sort of "this is an unusual perspective and it can't actually do the math" way.
Science fiction: Fictitious experiments in patents
> gain of function research
Some reading about the factory - https://www.investigativepost.org/2023/01/11/teslas-solar-fa...
Don't forget the endgame https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IjJmTeBSEzU

> The last war broke out. All the people are dead, but the machines continue dutifully to follow orders.
In fact, they both require the same DNS record: the HTTPS record.

(Well, technically ECH can obtain server configs any way, but HTTPS is recommended.)
I got:

> We know that Sally will go to the dance if James goes to the dance, and James is sick and can't go to the dance. Therefore, we can conclude that Sally will not go to the dance.

> Since Michael will go to the dance if Julie will go to the dance, we don't have enough information about Julie's attendance to the dance. We only know that James is sick and can't go to the dance, so it's possible that Julie could still go to the dance. If Julie does go to the dance, then Michael will go as well. However, if Julie doesn't go, then Michael may or may not go to the dance, depending on his personal decision.

That strikes me as more nuanced than either of the other two. Worth mentioning I'm paying for the Plus subscription, though, and we just got a new "Turbo" model that answers faster. I think that model may be allowed a little more power as well, so the answer quality might be slightly better.
Who are good registrars these days? I'm with Enom, Namecheap, and DNSimple; Who should I be using and recommending to my clients? It's not surprising how much power a registrar can have; One of my clients just got burned badly by GoDaddy (and another one is about to and doesn't understand it yet).
There's nothing respectful about asking something that someone has very blatantly made a deliberate decision to leave out of their post, for completely understandable reasons.
I need a break: I read this as

"Thoughts on getting laid after nine years at Twilio..."

and my first though was "...and I thought my job was bad!"
If you're a native speaker listening to native speakers, you can probably easily do 2x after a few hours of getting used to it.

If you're listening to someone with an accent you might have to slow it down a lot.

Likewise if your audio quality isn't very good or if you're concentrating too much on another task.

E.g. when I'm walking in familiar neighborhoods 2.7x is easy but when the area is even somewhat unfamiliar I either slow it down to 1.x or turn it off, because I suddenly find it hard to grok the content.

I first started speeding up my podcasts when I heard that blind people can listen above 4x ~ 6x speed without missing a beat.

I'm still trying to break the 3x barrier.
Al Capone was not a "political enemy" of the state. He wasn't prosecuted "just because the government didn't like him." He was a mass-murdering crime boss.
You do know that Tata owns Jaguar and Land Rover... right?
Wish granted! monkey's paw curls

* Bicycles are now granted the same "always have right of way" status as pedestrians. The ensuing panic following the damages payout for the first cyclist to be maimed by a vehicle causes local governments to enact laws restricting cyclists to designated bike lanes and sidewalks. The bill is sold as a measure to protect cyclists but it's really so insurance premiums for drivers don't go up. Since breaking local laws doesn't eliminate the liability the city police aggressively ticket cyclists who "jayride."

* Minimum parking spaces mandated by the city go away. And nothing changes because parking spaces in tight areas are worth their weight in gold to the businesses that own them.

* Zoning for multi-family homes and apartment complexes open up. Developers see $$$ and buy up land in trendy well-to-do areas and build "luxury" apartment complexes. It's great for a while until those apartment dwellers want more space and to stop paying rent forever and move to where you can still find affordable single family homes -- low income areas! Ooops, you wanted to avoid gentrification, right?

You can't law your way out of a culture that likes cars and single family homes. You have to make a desirable end-state for people with kids and hobbies. This might work in SF where there is a huge amount of latent demand but in your average med sized city it'll backfire.
Can't you just stop the car for a minute to place the order? The whole UX is designed around an absurdity.
With pressure from cycling groups over 10 years ago, it wasn't made a legal requirement for cyclists to use a cycling facility where one exists.

That's not the case in every country. In Denmark, if there's a cycle path/lane you're required to use it.
xBASE (dBASE derivatives). I did lots of "table oriented programming" experiments with it. It's essentially a semi-relational "tabular scripting language" with lots of meta ability so tables can be used to generate other tables, and it's easy to put code in tables and vice versa. Table-driven UI's were also looking bright.

I wish there were an open-source dynamic interactive version out there (Harbor is compiled). It fell out of favor largely because it didn't scale well to "enterprise" projects, and couldn't gain OOP fast enough, but for small-group apps and ad-hoc data fiddling, it was wonderful.

Yes, it had warts, but all tools do, and many solvable if not tossed away. There's nothing common like it. RDBMS-based products are too stiff and verbose. If Lisp is "everything is a list", xBase was close to "everything is a table". It's kind of half APL and half RDBMS.

Hearts!
It's not as easy, certainly, but I know of several founders who grew up poor.

Steve Jobs father never graduated high school and fixed cars for a living.

Larry Ellison grew up in an apartment in the South Side of Chicago.

Starbucks founder Howard Schultz grew up in a public housing project.
Me as a European software engineer, understanding tech stuff well, but not American politics, what's the problem with the Republicans? Why would you prefer the other party, Democrats (right?) do the origin research instead?
RubyConf 2022: Bending Time with Crystal: 6 hours to 15 minutes [video]
Reminds me of a book I just read - Critical Mass by Daniel Suarez
They are aiming to develop a standard... of sorts...

https://github.com/stackblitz/webcontainer-core
Is Copilot HIPAA compliant? It sends data to the cloud, so if you paste PHI…
> Sure, but the harder part is measuring whether the developer is actually 5% faster. Otherwise you can make the same case for every $10/mo subscription service in the world, and so we should all be operating at infinite efficiency.

After n such iterations, the developer gets 100*(1-0.95^n)% faster. So, after some such $10/month purchases, the developer gets so fast that buying another improvement yields diminishing returns.
This is interesting. Will definitely reach out. I'm wondering where the AI bit comes into play. Is it in streaming updates across resources without involving grunt work from ICs?
A lady was killed by a stolen Kia doing 70 mph on a residential street a block away from me a few months ago. They did end up catching the kids that did it, somehow. I’m sure she’s not the only death resulting from this.

I hope the shareholders of the Kia/Hyundai Corporation are happy about their extra penny per share (if that) in dividends from the immobilizer savings. The reputational harm from this will be long lasting.
I would too. You work for the money, and it is natural to want to hold on to it. I am arguing that I don't believe in gaming the system of taking government handouts, because I didn't earn it; I qualify because for some reason I could not earn enough to subsist. I want to work on my earning power for now and the future. I never said get rid of the food stamps. I am glad my Dad didn't have us go on food stamps. My brother and I are successful compared to our parents who never finished high school or owned a house. But it also taught us to be realistic with our money. I have acquaintances who complain about inflation on their second or third trip to Starbucks and they update their phone every year or two, because why, I don't know.
Saw an interesting video about Precision Scheduled Railroading[1] saying it is related to this accident. Not sure how accurate it is, but definitely worth checking out. I'd never heard of it.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K2-fdkGsnf4
On the other hand, I wouldn't punch a human being for getting the order wrong, but shitty software systems from a shitty corporation whose only goal is to cut down costs to maximize profits? Oh boy... that awakes the beast.
> I usually have the entire sentence in my inner dialogue before I even start typing

Interesting. Perhaps the question then becomes, does your inner dialogue simply chain the words one after another, or does it come up with sentences as whole?
Software programming rule #1: "Never fix bugs at their root cause." (joking, of course!!)
ChatGPT Omnibox
Those pronunciation guides confused me a lot before I scanned back, and read the words themselves (trying to ignore the pronunciations I'd already seen!) - so let me proffer:

- weary 'weir[in a river]-(r)ee'

- wary 'wear[clothes]-(r)ee'

Which just goes to demonstrate how weird and multi-sourced English is, doesn't it. And also maybe we just pronounce these very differently (I'm British) - 'way-ray' is way off to me.

I add the '(r)' because being British (and I believe some of the US) an 'r' following a vowel is under-pronounced (in the opinion of some other accent holders), as in 'wear', but not when followed by another (pseudo)vowel, in 'weary' - but that may not be the case for you.
Perhaps. It's also possible that this reverses causality and that they use the product name "LibreOffice" because of the existing term "libre software", rather than using "libre software" primarily because that's what the product is called.

After all, "libre software" has been used in English since the 1990s, the EU was writing legislation about libre software in the 2000s, the Free Software Foundation has hosted an annual LibrePlanet conference since 2006, and even gnu.org recommends using terms like "free (libre) software".
You've fundamentally missed the point that I was making in order to take more 'technically correct' potshots.

Perhaps you should try to internalize the whole of my comment (i.e. comprehend it) before trying to reply again. Sniping individual pieces by being needlessly pedantic is--again--not productive to conversation.

Anyhow, I won't be replying again unless if you have something constructive to add to the conversation; I'm not interested in debate club with you. Perhaps ChatGPT is though!
Will the West ever get its Super App?
> I think the problem is a "safe C++" might look a lot like C++ but will have enough fundamental differences to be like a new language from a practical standpoint

C++ already crossed that threshold many years ago. Today's C++ is essentially a different language from C++ of yore. But it maintains compatibility with the old C++.

This is, I think, the central flaw in modern C++. Because of trying to keep that compatibility, so many newer features are bags-on-the-side and the language is bordering on unmanageable.

I think it would have been better to have branched off from C++, given it a new name, and waved goodbye to code compatibility. It would have been a better language for it.
Another reason that people often overlook is security. Even if each individual software product has a good security model, differences in the way they interact can lead to security vulnerabilities and opportunities for attackers to move laterally through a network. In the case above, it may be that IT knows how to integrate SAP with their Active Directory system in a manner that ensures that users have access to the data that they need, without giving everyone write access to everything. A brand new product from some small startup, even if it's competently engineered, won't have the same pre-set integration playbooks as SAP. The in-house IT will have to figure it out themselves, which adds time and overhead for every operation. New hire? Before, you'd give them a SAP account, and you'd have a playbook that would automatically or semi-automatically provision everything for them. Now, you have to provision accounts in two systems. Compliance? IT already knows how to validate an SAP install for compliance and generate a report for the appropriate regulators. Now they're going to have to learn to do that with your new system. And so on.

I listen to several infosec podcasts, and one recurring theme in those podcasts is managing users who do "shadow IT", i.e. by buying and integrating new products or software that make their day-to-day jobs easier, but do so in a manner that opens up huge gaping security holes that IT doesn't even know about… until the breach happens and the company is all over the news for leaking customer data.
Low sulfur is longevity-limiting. Magnesium sulfate might be a useful form to administer it.
Both parties primarily serve the interests of the 0.1%, hence the reduction in safety protections under Trump and the imposition of an unfair contract and the removal of the right to strike under Biden. Got to squeeze out every last fraction of a percent of profit to keep Berkshire Hathaway's stock price up.
There is a Recently Played screen.

It is accessible from Listen Now at the very bottom.
Raskin is a serious guy actually. The headwear is because of cancer.
Trying to setup chronological podcast playback on the Apple Podcast is horrible, and they are constantly fiddling with the terrible UI. I just want to binge 5 consecutive episodes of a history podcast, but everything in the UI tries to funnel you into listening to the latest episode of multiple podcasts.
Don’t entrust your freedom to tools you don’t understand.
A little detroit techno vibe? https://peel.fm/15f0762

This is really neat! the kick some sweet distortion when you put an accent on it and have it layered with some other samples.

I've been using the Volca Drum recently and an idea from that which I imagine would be relatively simple to add to this would be a divide step option - allowing for double-time hats and the like. It would make a great addition to this fun little drum machine.
Geekbench 6 Benchmark Adjusts for Hybrid CPUs, Machine Learning