skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would place a much higher significance on the reported mental health issues - it’s hard to get on disability in the US, and if you’re truly on $3k/month because you are unable to work, you have a serious disability.

Otherwise? Totally agree. The worst developers are the ones that make everything they touch that much worse merely by virtue of touching it. I’ll take dead weight, “go write a bunch of printf’s and accomplish nothing” over them any day.
Just gonna throw this out there... perhaps those who were "let go" were not all let go because they were the best of the bunch? Not that such a thing should stop you, we all love a good rag-tag band of outcasts overcoming the evil empire story, but, you know.
https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/raspberry-pi-debug-probe-a-...

They didn't give a cost difference.
I guess the title should have been "Four Ways to Deploy Web Apps", not "build" them. Granted, option #2 (functions) is a different beast, but all others can be built the same way but deployed differently. For example

- You can develop a static (Hugo) web site then deploy it on Fly.io using containers.

or

- You can develop a container based web site, then deploy it on a bare Linux server (k8s is not necessary for a few containers).
I assumed that option 3 was a "Fermi estimation", I. E. "single handed number of servers"

I'm used to 3 tier legacy apps (web / app / dB) but I assumed that would fit into number 3 the best, I could be wrong...
Whatever Happened to the Metaverse?
Lol whatever. I just stand up because it's easier, less work. Never going to change it. And how are they going to check this in a closed toilet?

I doubt this is common here in Spain though.
Competition is good, even if ideological purity is better.
>> Focus more on the content and just ensure the process of writing and posting is simple enough.

I wonder if there’s any tools or pipelines for 1 place to write content and then deploy to many platforms based on our config / api keys..
Ask HN: What do you use for basic data analysis, visualization, and graphing?
I often find myself with some JSON data that I want to visualize. I usually end up converting to CSV, uploading to a Google Sheet, and manually creating charts. BUT this is really time consuming and I find Google Sheets charts pretty difficult and painful for quickly exploring different views of the original data.

So what do you use for this type of thing?

I know python has lots of good utils for data wrangling & graphing, but I'd prefer a solution which is: no-code, gives me a bunch of common graph views I can quickly choose between, and that "just works" 99% of the time.

Thanks!
And the La Brea tar pits.
https://archive.ph/CFyBn
These all seem super arbitrary - like Product development for example, who says that commercial development isn't artistic? So if there's money involved it's not art...? What about video games, I am pretty sure a lot of people consider those to be art, and it's also a collaborative commercial creative process.

Same with music, there are plenty of jam sessions where people create music together totally improvised on the spot. I mean pretty much all of them can be done collaboratively if people felt like it, and often do.
I'm thinking most of those are customer-owned cooperatives, not employee-owned. Big difference.
From wiktionary[0]:

> chapeau (interjection) - well done, a verbal representation of a hat tip

Don't go to wikipedia[1], or else you'll be confused by "A chapeau is a flat-topped hat once worn by senior clerics."

Thanks for the new word, justinator!

[0] https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/chapeau

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chapeau
By that logic, they should also charge independently for: rolls of toilet paper used, water used, electricity, booking fee, advertising fee, email fee, listing fee...
Sponsorblock is pretty good for avoiding those, too.
ChatGPT and UTF-8 encoding rules
Default Alpine install uses ash, not bash. But they compile everything with gcc although they probably could substitute with clang at this point.
Tessitura and NISC are successful.
Even without compression, most audio (including YouTube's) is sampled at 44.1kHz which filters anything >22kHz. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nyquist_rate
I think it’s because most people assume that their setup doesn’t need maintenance at all. So any amount of time just needing to be invested simply to keep things working is strange - 2 hours seems excessivr
This is why leetcode problems might have some actual use.
Shameless plug: why not switch to Hurl [1], an open source cli tool to run and test HTTP requests in plain text, with libcurl under the hood? (I'm one of the maintainer)

[1]: https://hurl.dev
Posted from 9front (using netsurf).

I also run https://shithub.us, which is hosted from plan 9, and more or less needs plan 9 for push access. It uses the hjgit:// protocol for push access, which requires plan9 auth to establish the channel. The fact that there are so many repos up should give a hint at how active the community is.
But not CIA
At some point, we need to accept that HN is not the broader community. Most people don’t care about this problem; most don’t even see it as a problem. If they did, politicians would be talking about it all the time, and it would be a major issue, but it’s not. Sure, the privacy angle has gotten political traction and that’s fine. But it’s the privacy angle - not the overexposure to ads - that is connecting here. Just look at the penetration of ad blockers - it is not that high.

HN has a default assumption sometimes that people enjoy spending hours looking at specs and trying to figure things out. My experience is that human beings are weird, wonderful and different. Some people enjoy doing this. Most people do not.

But, in this case, the proof is in the pudding.
The most consumer-friendly outcome would be if all market participants used transparent pricing at each tier of product/service.

This maximizes what the consumer receives per dollar spent, because they can easily compare apples to apples and oranges to oranges across many competitors.

How about this for an A/B test (rhetorical): show consumers one universe where perfect competition is enforced like I describe above, and one universe where most market participants bait and switch customers, forcing them to shop for hours and then ending up paying more for less.

Or compare shopping at the grocery store vs shopping even the most fungible medical procedures between 2 hospitals :) (if you can even manage to shop the latter)

If you think consumers like to be tricked, you either need to zoom out of the narrow context where that seems to be true, or you’re financially incentivized to swindle the plebs.
Along these lines...I'm surprised the HN crowd isn't into blogging in markdown, published in a git repo. About as simple as it gets and you don't get tied to a single platform. You could key sign it to ensure authenticity for when somebody rehosts it or whatever.
I hope they'll fix this everywhere.

It's really annoying when they want me to change the seat I paid a premium for because some family wants to sit together and didn't bother paying for it.

Especially Vueling Airlines in Spain does this all the time and I don't use them anymore. Ryanair is just as cheap but they respect what you pay for.
I really know what you mean. It almost seems like the first epiphany never gets it right one hundred percent. But oftentimes epiphany number two is a step back and the right one after that is just number one with a small twist.
If these networks were only being used to model other systems, like protein folding or something like that, people wouldn't be mistaking them for anything other than clever prediction engines.

Since they're modelling our own languages, people get spooked and start bringing up theory of mind.
This essentially makes credentials more meaningless than ever, even as tuition has grown astronomically.

The cost of making a poor hiring decision can be vast throughout an organization and punish its velocity. It’s pretty typical to want to minimize risk in scenarios like that, so reputable credentials can instill confidence and get past gatekeepers.

Wouldn’t it be nice if we could have a better way to prove domain expertise, adaptive reasoning, and collaboration skills?
There aren't many things more dangerous than that.
> With the technologies of today, the ability to recite knowledge (versus using said knowledge when provided, and the ability to look for said knowledge) is rapidly losing value.

I didn’t think you are implying that having knowledge (ready to go) is of no value.

Having more knowledge gives a huge advantage in time and space. Not only can you solve problems much faster (you don’t need to find, read, understand, and internalize the “knowledge”) you can also make connections that others would miss because to gain knowledge is deeper than mere recall.
The money people spend is roughly proportional to the ecological damage caused by that spending. Spending the same amount of money at Costco or the local heath shop makes little difference to carbon footprint.

That is, your income is proportional to your damage almost regardless of what you choose to spend your money on (indirect damage is high for every $ whether spent or invested).

The US is roughly 25% of the world’s GDP with ~5% of the world population, so each person in the US is on average causing ~5x the damage of the average person in the world (often indirectly in other countries).

The single easy thing you could personally do to reduce your long term footprint is to not have kids.
> usually by the sweat of a lot of talented individuals who are then denied credit for their toil at the altar of the "visionary auteur"'s brilliance

I don't know about this part. Media is the only industry I know of where most people involved get credit. When you buy a phone or a car or a cup of coffee, you don't get a list of everyone who contributed to making it.
For it to be truly sustainable the carbon needs to be stored in a way that humans wouldn't get at out of greed ever again. So it would need to be in some useless form like maybe diamonds or something.

A ton of CO2 is produced by about $150 worth of fuel (oil). So if you can do carbon capture for less than $150/tCO2 it would make more sense to sell the fuel and capture more carbon.
That sign doesn't seem like a very comfy home for people to live in, so no wonder it didn't do well as a housing development. That was a very bad design from an architect if they thought people were going to live there.
This stuff is not competitive with electrochemical methods.

A big problem with these methods, besides abysmal efficiency is that the light that drives the photochemical processes has some probability of generating side reactions that destroy the artificial enzyme. Nature overcomes this with unbelievably complex protein repair structures that literally swap out defective proteins for new ones. We have zero chance of replicating this type of thing anytime soon.

Bio oil from algae is much closer to practical utility than this tech. And electrochemical CO2 reduction will be an even more scalable and practical solution in the near term in my opinion.
This is a much better outline of the article than the article's own table of contents. Makes much more sense, even if it's still incredibly narrow in scope.
And that would explain the difference in the number of people who have studied basic arithmetic, versus, for example, number theory.
This was an issue with the M1's when they were first released. Took a few months until they released a fix

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/253647922
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/252564061
Calling this garbage is absolutely wild. The authors make it very clear that this is optimized for throughput and not latency. Throughput focused scenarios absolutely do exist, editorializing this as "running large language models like ChatGPT" and focusing on chatbot applications is the fault of HN.

It's also a neat result that fp4 quantization doesn't cause much issue even at 175b, though that kinda was to be expected.
Latency Compensating Methods in Client/Server Game Protocol (2001)
It's not obvious but you can host an entire website or simple web app on AWS Lambda (as simple as a single function).
Did you even look at the repo? There are many files.
That is a really cool idea!

It helps students learn history, but also gives them a critical eye toward stuff that is mindlessly produced (this includes both ChatGPT and human produced clickbait).
This seems to happen more frequently than people realize - ie more project equals more meetings equals less time to do real work. I've heard people talk about it before but not as frequently as I expected after noticing it. Steve Jobs seemed to be aware.
I feel like this can be mitigated with the right by-laws and whatever, and also screening very heavily for culture fit during the hiring process.

The flattest companies (meaning, the ones where individuals had the most autonomy, and were actually interested in business ideas that came from the bottom up) cared more about culture fit and the ability to learn things quickly.
Yes - it's the US police and their training.

Consider the UK with some ~ 70 million people, mad scotsmen on raging drunken benders (sorry, stereotype), no shortgae of drug addicts, plenty of mentally ill, etc.

Per capita US police kill members of the US public at a rate 20x that of UK police killing UK members of the public.

US police have little to no training wrt defusing situations, they are trained to always reach for a gun.
If you can connect it to the data source, Metabase is exactly what you want. https://www.metabase.com/
I'm going off of lists such as this one, which I believe are 100% representative of reality.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lists_of_killings_by_law_enfor...

It's not like when somebody gets shot by cops, there's immediately a huge cover-up operation. Just because departments don't spoonfeed people this information doesn't mean it's completely unknowable.
I’m not. When you meet a good manager with an MBA, chances are they’d have been (or were) a good manager without one, too. But in my experience, no bad manager has ever improved by getting an MBA. All they get is an indication they’re upper class enough to get into a program and possibly to take time off of work to do it.
You probably think you're being clever but I won't take the bait. While good procedurals require talented writing as well, they operate under constraints and are both low risk and relatively low reward compared to something in less charted territory.

Writing even good formula is hard to screw up too badly given some level of talent (and clearly communicated and guardrailed formula).
A lot of 2U cases won't fit a consumer GPU. Furthermore, Tesla-equivalents are usually either significantly cheaper than their consumer counterpart (for last-gen and older GPUs) or similar in price with far more RAM.

I bought a bunch of Tesla P40s at a really low price compared to what 1080tis are going for.
Clarksworld closes submissions due to GPT spam
Now you are actually sounding like a racist. Just dressing it up in some "principle" isn't going to change that fact.

Where did I defend protectionist policies? Instead you, from the very beginning, tried to reverse engineer a so-called principle to mollify your paranoia of yellow peril. If you actually think your principle is neutral, maybe you should explain why the US shouldn't be forced by your principle to allow more immigration until say it achieves the average population density of the world, or average GDP per capita, or average energy consumption.

We don't do what you suggest because we have our own values and we think treating people as equal individuals is good for our country. What China does has no bearing on our value.
The US's immigration system is not "broken". It's working exactly as designed. If you don't like the way that country is treating you, then why are you so eager to go there and endure that abuse?
I haven't touched Postman since they started pushing me to log in, but for me it was just an alternative to hitting GET endpoints with my web browser or piping curl to jq. If I'm looking through an API's docs and figuring out how it works, I often want to quickly test endpoints and see what they return. I could've written a script to do it, but Postman made that slightly easier by removing the need to write code or remember syntax.
Looks like the hiv resistant donors are more evolved!
And a counter for that could be a laptop device with the usb ports disabled. A lot of this stuff is solved with some basic IT imo.
> I'm surprised we don't have better, performance-neutral hardware support for safety constructs like bounds checking.

It isn't necessary. Languages that have properly bounded arrays just emit the code and optimize it. E.g. if a loop steps a variable from i from 0 to N-1, accessing arr[i], the arr[i] bounds check can be moved out of the loop: if N-1 is within bounds, it's good to go.

I think the tooling being alluded to here is for checking bounds in programs that not only don't check it themselves, but don't pass around the information which makes it possible to know the size of an array.

The tooling has to build its own data structure to track objects and instrument the binary to intercept accesses; all of that is expensive.
Do any sources state that Valve transitioned to a traditional hierarchy? There's been reports of cliques and internal opaqueness going back a decade, but the only concrete difference I've heard versus pre-2012 is a shift towards microtransactions and hardware design.
I don’t think it really makes that big a difference.

Apple already open sources their kernel.

The issue is mostly device drivers, which even on Android tend to be external binary blobs.

It kind of leaves you in the same place in my opinion
I wonder if there would be interesting results if you make this model talk to openais chatgpt, since they are different models. Seeding them with some topic.
If growth is not marketing, then what is growth marketing?
“Hunter […] spent eight hours watching orientation videos on his phone. A frequent pop-up asking for a facial scan made sure he was paying attention.“

This is truly dystopian and horrifying.
Google CloudRun with direct serverless VPC access of a CloudSQL instance with no public IPs
I dont understand the sentiment behind these kinds of comments. They listed an alternative. Since when did alternatives mean open source only? I dont see it mentioned in HN guidelines either. And why is closed source considered to be bad by default? I have no idea.
There are wonderful closed source apps out there that are reliable and have been well maintained and never had any issues and nefarious open-source apps that did bait and switch, pulled off out of spite, shut down because of lack of funds and many more reasons.
We dont have to be snarky every time someone tries to suggest or do something. We could do better by listing may be a favorable alternative.
We are insulting both the developer and the commenter by being snarky.
Can we "embed" these visualizations into a web application -- say a React app?

Any guidance on how one would go about that would be appreciated. Thanks!
Now that’s a good teacher.
> At which point, it’s a stretch to even say IPv6 is worth it.

ISPs being retarded is not a fault of IPv6 though.
The core CPU isn’t really the biggest issue. It’s the drivers for all the extra stuff: networking interfaces, displays, input handling etc…

Also of course, the GPU which already has incredibly high variance across vendors.
Another correction worth pointing out - it’s Richard Rodgers, not Rogers. I thought it was the latter, but it’s actually spelled Rodgers.
This. To state it a slightly different way, instead of "create me an instance and inject the following AWS credentials in it" and then having the application running on that instance know where to look to get the AWS credentials, you go "create me an instance and assign it an IAM Role of 'webserver'" and then you write access policy that says "any of my instances with the role 'webserver' can access this bucket/database/queue." The magic is your app uses the SDK to say "assume the 'webserver' role" and it does this under the covers by going out and finding ephemeral keys that AWS injects into your instance via the metadata service. No shared keys == goodness.
I don't care. I'm not going to create an account on some website just to install addons on my OWN browser. Period.

Firefox will continue to bleed users like me who don't know how to dance this stupid dance or refuse to do so until it completely collapses. I wonder why mozilla chose this hill in particular to die on.
I wish. They are the most easily exploitable, sadly. People memorize and dump stuff all the time, and it usually doesn’t show reasoning, just how much money and effort you spent on CS fundamentals.

My team has weeded out a lot of bad candidates with super simple, practical tasks. Explain DNS. Order keys from a JSON object. Make a 2 column layout in plain html. You would be amazed at who can’t do that.

What we don’t do is ask the same questions too many people times, as we know some candidates compare notes and even publish the interview questions. With large language models doing the talking we have already found candidates that have been unable to describe the for loop copilot made for them off-screen… so I guess the best system is to be good at being humans and having a go at working together in something.
I think most Brits know VAT is 20%. If they don't it's because it's changed three times in the last 15 years.

I couldn't even tell you what the California sales tax is without referencing this table.

https://www.cdtfa.ca.gov/taxes-and-fees/rates.aspx
That's the logical conclusion is it not? A society of the strongest selected by none other then nature herself.

It's our biases that prevent is from acting this way.

It's easy to stray off topic here. My point is that we can never fully disconnect ourselves from our biases. The fact that it's so hard to think about eugenics from a neutral perspective without getting confused proves my point. Even you aren't addressing my original point right?

You got so caught up in the ethics of eugenics that you're trying to rationalize why eugenics is wrong... which isn't even the main point.

A truly unbiased person, who likely doesn't fully exist, would be able to say that eugenics is the most correct solution, but he would say that he wouldn't act out on it because he's an illogical creature with morals.
I'll always think of it as "Hollywoo" https://bojackhorseman.fandom.com/wiki/Our_A-Story_is_a_%22D...
> If sentience is a necessary feature of a mind producing the kinds of texts we produce, it is an open question whether LLMs have or will recover the structure that endows sentience.

I kind of agree, but this is a big If. If it was necessary, then I’d expect some kind of breakthrough moment in which LLMs or some other model suddenly perfectly mimics consciousness and language instead of the gradual improvement based on the already massive training set that results in uncanny resemblance with infinite malleability.
What makes that quote powerful is that it isn’t prescriptive. Unlike self-help books and business literature, it doesn’t purport to have the wisdom to tell you what to do or how to behave. Instead, it presents you the two paths in front of you and gives you context what you can expect in choosing either, but then leaves the choice to you. You have to take full responsibility, you cannot scapegoat the author.
Stem cell transplants for HIV are the opposite of groundbreaking.

Now, I'd they had crispr'd the CCR5 mutation into his immune progenitors, that would have been the next step of giving people HIV resistant genetic profiles.