skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Fascinating that Akamai apparently thinks that the brand equity of "Linode" is less than whatever people will impute to some new "Akamai cloud computing" among their target customer base. Which is...puzzling!

I can only assume this is an attempt at targeting enterprise; tons of engineers know Linode (and given how long they've been around, there's probably plenty of enterprise CTOs around now with fond memories of the project they spun up in college on Linode), but it wouldn't be my first (or fifth) thought for a large cloud deployment.

I guess Akamai wants to change that, and is happy to just toss the old brand in the dumpster to do it.

I've used Linode a few times over the years for various small projects, and never had anything but positive experiences. I'm not sure I would have had cause to turn to them again, but...there's basically zero chance of me turning to Akamai cloud computing, so for me, I think this is the end of the road with them.
I was actually thinking about elastic AWS instances when I wrote that. IIRC they're meant to be spun up and then shut down as a service's demand varies.

VPS providers are already overprovisioned anyway, so they have less idle hardware to begin with.
Amazing that billionaires still seem to have the urge to be cool.
If you are within customs rules, you don't have to pay anything. Else pay the right duty based on the original invoice you should be carrying with you. I have taken TVs, laptops, iPhones, game consoles and have never been bothered by customs.
Can you think of any restricted-use items that do not degrade with use, so that the cost/trouble of replacement is not an issue?

I don't think something like Christmas decorations would qualify. I don't use a hammer when I'm not pounding something and I don't use decorations when I'm not celebrating that holiday. "Restricted" would mean that you don't use it even in an appropriate situation.
There is a thin "atmospheric" layer of molecules floating around the lunar surface. Indistinguishable from vacuum for most purposes but it might affect that many 9's of purity.

https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/LADEE/news/lunar-atmosphe...
Dystopia’s Ghost: Architecture, Power and Nationalism in India
You should either be an executive, or over 40 to have heard of Akamai. They were all the rave in the beginning of 2000s, but these days they don't need advertisement anymore.
>they're just as much a part of the European pay and expense scheme as anybody else in the mainland is

Maybe for the average pay, but for outliers on the high end, the ceiling is higher in London than what you can make in most other Mainland capitals.

A German guy I know maxed out his TC locally then doubled it when moving to London as nobody in Germany would pay anywhere near that.
You don't even need magic packets from a dedicated machine for wake on lan for some NIC's. For example on linux using `ethtool -s enp3s0 wol pug` will wake the system on p (PHY activity), u (unicast activity) and g (magic packet activity). Of course this is entirely dependent on how "noisy" your network is.

This is something I've been thinking about for some time as I'm working on re-building my homelab for a more powerful system with more storage. On of the big things I'm trying to find out is if there is a good way of truly shutting off hard drives when not in use or if the hit to longevity of the drives would be too much.

source https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Wake-on-LAN
I think these artists work in kind of similar way that a renderer work. They would fill in different areas of the painting an move on to the next. Almost painting by numbers style. Therefor you get idiosyncrasies and disjointed artifacts
Hasn't it already been trained on what is effectively the entire contents of the scrapable internet? There isn't another 10x to be had there, let alone 100x.

I assume that whatever future improvements we get from improving algorithms (or perhaps through throwing more compute at it), not through larger datasets.
Jonathan Blow: “Video Games and the Future of Education”
> Salesforce bought Heroku but kept the brand name.

They kept the name, but killed the product.
Exactly...I pay $$ for linode as soon as that turns to $$$, count me out.
Weird cultural attacks and criticisms here. I'm sure everyone here started as a Principal Engineer calibre engineers straight out of college.

It will be a fair criticism if this same factory is having same quality output 2-3 years down the line.
Note that the book credits Illustrations by John Kascht

"‘For the book's illustrations, Watterson and caricaturist John Kascht worked together for several years in unusually close collaboration. Both artists abandoned their past ways of working, inventing images together that neither could anticipate—a mysterious process in its own right.’"
Hasn't it been established that the copying necessary to run a program on your own computer is covered by fair use?
I guess I'm just wondering how I could piecemeal it together without using cloudflare. A friend had suggested checking out bunny DNS and that got me going down the rabbit hole.
This sounds amazing. Probably my major problem with custom elements. Coming from angular 1,this was an enormous problem as the app grew.
I think anyone with the experience of Linode's good points isn't going to forget from a renaming of the service if all else stays the same for them. Having Akamai branding can bring in much more new business that the Linode branding hasn't brought in thus far.
There’s this eternal cycle in every space.

1. There’s a big behemoth corporation. Loaded with money, 100K+ employees, bazillion features, complex, slow clunky product that a lot of users hate. They can’t grow by adding more value so they resort to money extraction tactics by making user experience worse.

2. New startup realizes they can build 80% of product in a few months with a small team. They build a sleek, swift, sweet product that takes off.

3. The tech behemoth first ignores it, then tries to trample it and then gets angry, but too late. Someone stole their lunch.

4. The new startup is hiring like crazy. Their growth is slowing, their investors are asking for new avenues. PMs are resorting to shady growth tactics. Ads in users faces, app is becoming complex, clunky and dog shit slow. Who cares though? Growth at any cost, gotta increase market cap.

5. The startup is the behemoth. A large chunk of their users hate it and want something better.
> They are the new ACLU

They do not claim to handle more than a fraction of what the ACLU does (which is fine):

https://www.thefire.org/about-us

Versus the ACLU:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Civil_Liberties_Union...
Update: as a result of another comment, I stumbled into this:
https://mdpi-res.com/d_attachment/ijms/ijms-23-09112/article...

My quick take on their experimental results is in the other comment, but in short it appears there will indeed be a trough of disillusionment somewhere down the line.
This is cool! Posting to say thanks. I tried it with a screenshot that I had saved from Firefox's built-in screenshot tool.
> Well you're just a jumble of electrons and protons interacting with each other. That's a 100% true interpretation is it not?

NO.
There are fascinating studies from people who have been blind through childhood and have their vision restored late enough that we can talk to them. For example (https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28533387/). In particular it takes several months for these previously blind children to learn to distinguish faces from non faces. I recall a pop science article which I can't find the source for now that explained that people with newly acquired sight struggle to predict the border of non moving objects, though they can typically accurately predict border of moving objects and over time they learn to predict for stationary.

So yes after a lifetime of video humans can quickly learn to distinquish animals they've never seen before with a few examples, but the wonder of these AIs is they seem like they're closer to that too. Certainly I can make up a way I want to some words classified, show chat gpt a few examples and it can do the classification.

I think you're mistaking a generalization across a lifetime of experience with learning. And compounding this is that a newborn while not having themselves experienced anything is born with a brain that's the result of millions of years of evolution filled with lifetimes of experience. It's honestly impressive we can get the sort of performance we've gotten with only all the text on the internet and a few months
Does it really need a tutorial video? I've made an `Introduction` document that opens on first use ,which is self explanatory.
It depends how one uses the storage, but on my home server I didn't need to access the (external) HDD storage often so I created a systemd service that spun it down after set time of inactivity. The response when the HDD is needed again is not instant, but okay enough for what I needed.

/usr/sbin/hdparm -S 120 /dev/sdb

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Hdparm
This is quite fascinating. Would love to hear more.

Have you ever enjoyed any music whatsoever? What about movies? Reading fiction? Looking at art / photography?
What is this thing? Never seen it but you two got me curious.
I agree, I think the people saying it's irrelevant haven't used them in years, they had one of the best set of controls I've seen.
The orange logo while everything else is green (linode's design system) looks weird.
That's interesting to hear, I didn't know Rails was a growing community. I haven't gone to public tech talks in sf in a while (3 years before covid), so wouldn't have as updated pulse on the market. Fwiw, the best advice i got in my short stint as a ruby developer was to check out "Destroy All Software" - https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/screencasts/catalog - the strongest engineer I knew loved it, hope it helps someone out
Investing in a company and/or integrating with its technology is not the same as acquiring it. For example, it's quite clear that AI is a major part of Google's strategy from the personnel that they have working on it (e.g. Jeff Dean) to the actual results they deliver, both in research and products. These come directly from their full time employees, not partners or investments. Microsoft is not particularly noteworthy in the field.
I think her experiment with the notebooks is misleading. This is a well known issue among stationery enthusiasts, that you are afraid to begin using a nice notebook because it means committing it to a specific use. People buy Moleskines or the like and are afraid to start using then. I got around that problem by switching to spiral notebooks, so I could tear out used pages and start a new task "fresh".
Jeez you make that sound awful. If my kids want to play outside they can play in my enclosed, private, backyard. If I want to sit and read on my iPad in the hot tub or watch a movie in the pool I can do that. If I want to tinker, I can do that and grab a beer from my garage fridge while cooking. I'll take that over what you're offering.
I was perfectly happy using mingw with gcc in my build environment to create nifty little graphical exes with raylib. Now, Windows Defender likes to flag anything built with mingw as a virus, and the official answer is "Just use WSL!". This isn't a problem for me personally, as I trust my own software, but it's absolutely unacceptable if I wanted to ship something on itch.io or Steam or the like. I suppose I've been extinguished for now, and will probably just start building to html5/webassembly, but I'm 110% onto their tricks.
I've been with DO for 8 years. Still happy with them.
To be fair many cloud providers offer some kind of DDoS protection to their customers.
I am not a lawyer either, but we can deduce logically that Walmart's lawyers approved it, so it's cool.

If companies are "allowed" to lay people off, then why not this? I'm pretty sure this is within the boundaries of "at will employment". You'd have to show some kind of civil rights violation.

Companies don't have to show cause to fire anyone. That's a cover your ass situation. This ass-covering makes sense with more than half of the US population now falling into some kind of protected class.

Ironically, here in the United States, they have everyone distracted with race wars and gender ID while workers' rights are still nonexistent.

That's why corporations love Corporate Black History Month and Corporate LGBTQ Month so much. They get to virtue signal that they don't discriminate while continuing to rob everyone blind.
> Its like a juggling act. The ball with the conclusion is thrown up highest, a bunch of other balls are thrown up in between, and they should all start arriving back in your hands, in the correct order, one at a time, without having known the exact sequence to expect when they were first thrown.

"experience tranquility"

--zenyatta overwatch

Yeah, that metaphor works. ;) As an extremely ADHD person, every thought comes with extra bonus thoughts (and parentheticals!), and the trick is knowing when to introduce each supporting point without re-introducing concepts needlessly but also try to have my bizarre brain make sense. Internet arguing and trying to preemptively address counterarguments with supporting points has seriously broken my brain and it leads to very longwinded posts. Keeping it short and coherent is specifically something I really have to work at because I love to write and people don't want to read a novel every comment. It's a matter of effective communication though.

Personally the description of the transformer as "writes words and then edits the output as a unit once the words are complete" really describes my writing at both a sentence and paragraph level. I'll go back and edit a comment a ton to try and tune it and clarify exact meaning/nuance with the most precise language I can.

A ton of people read my comments and are like "did an AI write this!?" and yeah only the finest biological neural net.

Another friend described it as "needing to slow his brain down" and perhaps a similar metaphor would be a database pivot - taking sparse facts and grouping them into a clustered dense representation as an argument. It's an expensive operation especially if there's more there than you thought.
> “From what we know, [Boston Consulting Group] made some significant recommendations on how salespeople and developers should be measured to improve productivity,” Wang told TechCrunch.

Huh, so SalesForce, up to this point had, no idea on how to measure if their salespeople or developers were doing anything useful?

That seems implausible so I assume this is just about reducing headcount without having to pay the costs of laying people off. Or am I being too cynical?
I think the browser telling you what an extension is technically capable of is different to the extension letting you know what it’ll be doing and why.

Installing my adblocking extension the browser told me the app is capable of reading all web pages and editing them, but I assume they aren’t using that capability to track me.
The ACLU was never a "libertarian organization." It is an accident of language that in modern American politics "libertarians" and "civil libertarians" sound more similar than they actually are.
These kinds of features are like solutions looking for problems. Is this a real problem people have, that they are getting everything done but they can't figure out what to do enough that they'll write out the whole thing to get suggested tasks?
This general concept is very similar to Apple’s Bonjour based “Sleep Proxy” service. Basically, if you have an Apple TV or something similar it will automatically wake up a sleeping device when someone requests its services. SSH or media sharing for example. While a device is sleeping the proxy will keep advertising its services via Bonjour. Low power always-on Apple devices are sleep proxies by default but you can turn any Mac into a Sleep Proxy by passing a flag to mDNSResponder.

More details: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonjour_Sleep_Proxy
So the user's are now suffering for the sake of neurotic data collection.
I think that the assumption is more along the lines that the cost of losing the Linode brand is lower than the value that can be built from brand awareness around Akamai.

As long as they don't change the nature of the service, they might not be wrong - people are unlikely to switch providers over just a name change, and people looking into Linode probably won't care that it's now called something else.

Conversely, lower information decision makers might be drawn into an ecosystem that is advertising a degree of consistency through unified branding.
Wow. This response showed me a big blind spot of my own, and how I could have been using the same language to talk about something completely different without clarifying a basic point in advance: I've written customer-facing software and in-house employee software for 20+ years. But almost all the code I've ever written has been for companies whose business is something other than software... and where I have worked for software companies has been in the early prototypes and beta phases where bugs were an embarrassment. I've never worked on retail software that had generational code debt - or even ones that had a dedicated sales team driving features and development. I have worked with people who were more interested in feature explosion than in nailing down existing issues... and assuming they're not the boss of the company, I consider it important to speak up about fixing issues before moving on. But that is, I realize, a completely different ballgame than working for a company that primarily sells software to end users.
They're all out of hats now :(
Out of the Slums and into Open Source
To paraphrase Frank Herbert, it's not that power corrupts, but rather that the corruptible seek power. This is also a problem with revolutionary movements. Who gets to be in charge if you win? Odds are someone who ends up using the revolution to get power.
"I question the timing in wake of the upcoming elections and Modi leading the G20"

So, at which phase of various intersecting elections and global obligations does the sweet criticism window open? (Note that the elections are upcoming in 15 months.)

IMHO a PM of the largest nation on Earth should be able to weather criticism night and day. People responsible for 1,5 billion souls cannot claim sanctuary against the press. And if Modi's domestic results are as impressive as other HNers claim, there will be no risk of him losing an election from a BBC documentary that the vast majority of the voting population won't ever see.
I saw a talk where the gist was that objects are made to be used. They serve us, we don't serve them. A device or a tool will never thank you for taking care of it.

An example is that professional photographers don't "baby" their cameras. The corners are dinged, everything is worn, and they pick them up in one hand without putting the strap around their neck to stop it falling. If it's too fragile to use, it's too fragile.

My application of this philosophy is that I don't put a protective case on my iPhone. I typically buy the most expensive model, and I have dropped them, and even scratched the screen.

But here's the thing: the bare phone is beautiful. It has a very well designed glass and metal body. It's shiny. It's elegant. It's as small as it can be made.

If you put a plastic cover on it, the phone gets bigger, heavier, and uglier. You're sacrificing something (usability, comfort, appearance) for the benefit of the device, not for your own benefit.

PS: Everyone I know who has a protective case on their phone has broken the screen at least once. Typically they just get it repaired for ~$100 and then... they still have their unblemished pretty phone again, which they put back inside an ugly case.
I have had to do some non-trivial work with quadtrees, and one thing I realized, which is not so well-advertised, is that there are really two main categories of quadtrees. So-called "linear" quadtrees are a somewhat different beast that the more typical "pointer to children" ones.

They're really just different representations of the same thing (a quadtree), but those representations have such different use-cases and performance characteristics that I tend to think of them differently.

Linear quadtrees typically use Morton codes (or another space-filling curve), and are good at doing fast queries against static data. You build the tree once, then query it lots. Whereas "standard" quadtrees are more about dynamism — being able to add and remove items quickly.

This is a great SO post on dynamic-style quadtrees: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/41946007/efficient-and-w...

It was quite hard for me to find open-source implementations of linear quadtrees. Whereas there are all kinds of implementations of the more common kind.

One day I'll open-source my code. I was going back to papers from the '80s for some of that stuff (:
>they never asked

often there are shady "by using this service ..." type clauses in the most obscure places. I've even seen them in black text on a black background and only noticed because my mouse ran past it and I noticed the change.
I hope they don't wear prescription glasses.
>we're not talking about the failure modes of moderation when moderators are incapacitated, we're talking about moderatorial discretion.

I saw the conversation as one about the structure of moderation. Paying a mod that you meet with every week to sync up with is very different from someone making some small sub themselves and enaccting any rules that don't break the sitewide rules. Likewise, a mod has no vested interest in the site nor its policies.

That mod-admin relationship is special on reddit, in a mostly bad way since admins ignore many mod issues. Dang is more like a moderator and an admin rolled into one.
Thnx for writing!
In academia we're getting the next step operational: training on Android. Any advise for us what to watch out for?

Obviously you need a bit of patience and lots of volunteer devices. With unsupervised continuous learning this is solved, in emulation. See "G-Rank: Unsupervised Continuous Learn-to-Rank for Edge Devices in a P2P Network" [1]. Optimal learning rate is left as an exercise for the developer.
(disclaimer: our own work, I run a lab with "systems for peer-to-peer machine learning")

[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.12530
My guess is that Salesforce execs already wanted to do this and then hired BCG to back this idea.

At least, that’s how a lot of MBB consulting is.
That's why I'm still skeptical about whether we are heading the right direction with current DNN techniques. We're basically brute forcing extremely complex statistical models that rely on countless data to build those regressions because we don't yet know a good model for training with minimal data.
"just before the 2024 elections"

Elections are in 15 months, so the election cycle is in three quarters right now. That is not "just before elections", much like 9 pm is not "just before midnight".
Make Linux safer, or die trying
The benefit is to deprive the government of the power to decide which speech is allowed, which will likely depend on which party is in power, and how the cultural winds are blowing. Which might be in your preferred flavor today, but not tomorrow. If you're a progressive, do you really want to risk curtailing speech on the possibility that religious conservatives will get a chance to wield that power? We've seen what that's like in the past.
You may prefer Svelte, but Vue is fairly simple with its single file with template, class, css all-in-one. Making components, using them, and getting events is super simple.

For backend F# with simple Giraffe lib/framework? worked pretty nicely. You won't get the full ecosystem of crates though and mixing C# libs might not be the most natural. I want concurrency/parallelism but have no patience/need for a borrow checker. Rust is a nice language though and wish I worked on something where it mattered, liked it more than I'd expected.
As one might expect, it has a Wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cool_S