skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
FWIW it isn’t a new thing exactly.

https://slate.com/technology/2015/12/the-best-funny-clever-o...

They had an example from 2004 that I saw at least; but the article is from 2015 and lots of their links have died, so there might have been an older one. Anyway, 2004 is long enough to not call this a new phenomenon, right?
That men who want sex, but cannot have it for a period of month should be counted as incels regardless of whether they think they are incels or not.

People seek divorce if their spouse isn't having sex with them for a month. I am applying that same heuristic to inceldom.
Books are more reliable in nature than phone reception
It's always going to be cheaper for a library to lend internet/devices for reading than maintain a large physical collection for lending books.

And then there's print-on-demand. You don't need a library for that. That's awesome that you personally love reading on a physical page, but that's not a reason to warehouse hundreds of millions of physical books that get checked out once a decade.
I am old enough to remember the aim being the year 2000 for us to be carbon neutral. Then it was 2010. Then 2015. Then 2020. Now its 2035. In 2040, we will be totally absolutely complete committed to making cuts starting in 2050.

This is why no one does the obvious: If you ACTUALLY want a 100% cut in 2035, why not have an 8.5% cut per year for each of those 12 years? Or even just a 1% cut? Or even just a 1 car less cut?

Because the plan is to do nothing for 12 years then give ourselves another extension.
Are microservices still what Google chooses for Google-scale problems?
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yes, specially that you don't have to deal with buying it, maintaining it, etc...
Now go back and read Linus Torvalds' first note on writing Linux.[1]

[1] https://fossbytes.com/linus-torvaldss-famous-email-first-lin...
I don't understand why we can't have something like this:

```

.target {

name: myname

}

.tooltip: {

left: var(myname.left),

bottom: calc(var(myname.top)-20px)

}

```

What's hard about exposing some element properties in var()? Instead of just making specific APIs all the time.
In my experience the customers, and even the POs, are the easy ones to convince. “We get 99% of the uptime for 30% of the price? Great!”

It’s the resume-driven mid dev in the next office you’ve got to watch out for.
Show HN: Free Database Schema Documentation Tool – SQL Spy
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an important question - what did you build Thorium in? How happy are you with it?
It does, but N new keywords are always going to mean less breakage than N+1 new keywords.

On top of that, the best keywords - e.g. in this case "let" or "var" - are also the ones most likely to clash with identifiers in existing code.
Per provided link https://www.usds.gov/apply:
"Salaries in government change every year. For 2023, you may be paid up to $183,500 depending on where you are located in the United States."
You could argue that #3 is the Library of Congress.

And to a smaller extent (not everything, but all the main stuff), university collections at places like Harvard and Yale.
That would be a refreshing change for this industry. It's always nice to see a company that just charges the money it needs, instead of playing 4D chess with their business model.
Low-income households are falling behind on car bills
Yes, I'm "kkremitzki", one of the founding FPA members and a FreeCAD administrator/dev.
Maybe they don't want that. They don't want you as The Reasonable Guy show up and react upon all the warning signs and be a nuisance.

What they want is to have extra careless, out-of-touch guys to filter themselves in by responding to somewhat questionable profile.
Apple boosts trade-in values for iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Apple Watch
What iPhone color is most popular? Here’s what the data shows
UK minimum wage takes into account the current supply of labor and many layers of politics / economic theory. This is not comparable to the cost of labor wrt supply in ancient Maori culture.

And disregarding the fundamental error in comparison, the currency needs to be converted to the present Easter Island conversion rate -- does that even exist?

Additionally, total cost is probably not the bottleneck. These were allegedly hunter gatherer's, so TIME was more precious than cost because current theory is hunter/gatherer's didn't have spare time to spend on statues until agriculture.
Apple has the volume. Random search shows they have roughly a quarter of the world smartphone sales (I also would expect Apple users to upgrade more frequently). Apple has just several SoC packages with the same cores across all its products. Samsung (2nd is sales volumes) has many more product lines and uses vastly different silicon.
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Related:

ARC 2 — https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32740353

The Measure of Intelligence — https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21547958

Neural Abstract Reasoner — https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25167182

A first lesson in meta-rationality (Bongard problems) — https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27411960

A HN dicussion about ARC — https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29867200
One I found with profiling--when writing the code n was quite small. Many database operations simply iterated over an array to decide where to store an item. The time spent dealing with the data was a tiny fraction of the database round trip time, there simply was no reason to get fancy.

Over the years they've grown and one bin showed up where jobs would sit around for weeks--for that case n went from rarely having a screenful of lines to a few thousand--oops, now more than 2/3 of the time was spent in those searches. (And I have a sneaking suspicion that a good portion of the remaining time comes from using field names to retrieve values. The profiler doesn't separate that out, though, because it's not my code.)
The obnoxious thing about CLOSE_WAIT is that it's supposed to time out after 2 minutes or 10 minutes, but I gave up and kicked the box out of the cluster after a half hour of trying to ask it nicely. Which is probably what everyone else does.
I recently found out that I was overpaying by about 20% by just looking at "Recommendations" tab in AWS Console and buying RIs. It was mostly RDS.

I would love a product that automatically manages the RI renewals (ex. every year) and instance type changes.
does OpenAI the 501c3 still exist?

it would seem that it owns the OpenAI trademark, and OpenAI-the-for-profit should be paying for it at an arms-length price. (which, as I recall, is the tax dodge that IKEA the non-profit furniture company uses to pay IKEA the wealthy owner of the trademark)
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Collaborative whiteboard app
To add to that list of factors: it's also the end of the decades-long ride in Technology stocks which drove a lot of FOMO sentiment that made that money so easily available... nobody wanted to miss out on the next Facebook, the next Uber, the next Airbnb, the next Theranos--wait

The quality of the assets for these moonshot unicorns declined over time (IMHO partially because they were increasingly moving away from pure-bits to bits-and-atoms, making business cases much harder to execute and expensive to fund) and then the macro backdrop soured and here we are

Bonus: here's what StableDiffusion drew for "A dream of moonshot unicorns, 4k trending artstation" because why not... https://i.stack.imgur.com/sFxIw.png
Even if you record both when it arrives and when its completed a power failure mid way will still leave everything in between in a partial state unless everything has XA transactional behaviour and as we know that scales quite poorly.
I believe the poster is trying to say if you provide an objective assessment of the situation, a person who hasn't been tainted by the media would have the more accurate take.

Large chunks of the media assured us that it was not only impossible that the virus came from a lab but also racist and xenophobic to even suggest it. If you told the average person who didn't watch the news that a lab that studies corona viruses is in a city where a corona virus started many would just assume it came from the lab.
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I've work in data science, data engineering, and software development for 7 years. Currently doing data engineering but would like to return to more mathematical work. In the past have done lots of ML, Bayesian stats, various types of regression modeling, optimization, and genetic algorithms.
But those A100s only come by eight and it’s speculated the model requires eight (VRAM).

For a three year reservation that comes to over $96k/yr - to support one concurrent request.
I'm interested but I have no idea what this actually is, after reading the whole page.

> You can play it as part of a larger event, or with your friends in your living room.

So this is a video game with couch co-op?

> part of a larger event

There's an online mode?

> The USS Voyager Mk II

Is this a simulator that requires you to be in that room from the picture?

---

Is this like Space Station 13?
Web2 was about user-generated content. Web3 will be about companies owning the user-generate content realizing they're sitting on a goldmine - and using that content as training data for their DNN models.
There is something paradoxically ironic about the concept. Much of social anxiety has risen since we tend to have less real social interaction as we live more of our lives virtually.

I suspect AI will accelerate the phenomenon. Yet, we will also ask AI to also solve it. Not sure hallucinating AI's are right for the task however.
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Why are you making an effort to transition to Chrome if you don't even notice a compatibility improvement?
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Are there examples of them doing this in the past? What would be the upside for them to do it now? How do they achieve 'acceptance' when users would notice the difference in charging speed every time they plugged in their phone and iPad?
I can see AI being used in safety critical systems like cars, it's already happened and it has already killed people.
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Market_for_Lemons

Looking at the "Critical reception" section on that wiki page, meaning this part:

> while the reviewers for Journal of Political Economy rejected it as incorrect, arguing that, if this paper were correct, then no goods could be traded.

I can't see how that basic observation is not taken into account anymore. More exactly, 50 years from when that study was published we still have a well functioning used car market in pretty much the majority of the world countries, which would contradict the main point made by said study. Is there anything else that escapes me? Why did people in the economics profession fall for this study? Was it because of the maths?
You're confusing "you" with "someone you've been associated with".
The alternative is to mess devices up.

The issue with USB-C is that the port fits everywhere, but wattages may be wildly different.

I have an early Nintendo Switch, which I rather not play and charge at the same time except with an official Nintendo adapter, because it overdraws power while running games such as Breath of the Wild.

I also have a travel router with a 20W power adapter, at 5V and 4A. Not too big of an issue at lower loads, but it will crash if I plug a hard drive in its USB port.

And what's the point of standards if they are not enforced, anyway?
I'm going to be blunt, for the sake of bystanders, because I think HN can suffer sometimes on non-tech topics when we try to all be excessively-nice and it gets hard to sort out what's true because the confidently-wrong and confidently-right all look the same: this is clearly very much not a topic you have expertise on or have studied very deeply, and you're wrong about a lot of it.

> No, there isn't punishment.

Simply wrong.

> Achievement of their students has no affect on it. Teachers can't even be fired.

> (Well, they can be fired, but only for things that have nothing to do with teaching.)

Wrong, even with the modification.

> Teacher pay is entirely based on years of service and what degree they have. Achievement of their students has no affect on it.

This part's true as far as pay goes, short of firing (which, yes, happens). Student achievement, however, can absolutely have an effect on quality of work-life—which courses a teacher is assigned or allowed to choose (this is huge for a lot of teachers), grade- or subject-level leadership positions that can effectively afford greater freedom in the classroom, and on career and pay advancement opportunities. In teaching, career advancement means "leaving the classroom" in practically all cases, which is a real problem, but it doesn't necessarily mean shifting to admin—it can mean moving into curriculum design, subject-area coaching, or other specialist roles that still work closely with students and teachers.

> See "Waiting for Superman".

Yeah, I've seen it.
I guess I'm sort of lucky that it's impossible for me to get seasick. Though I don't think it'll ever be useful in a situation like that.

p.s. first time I've seen a real em-dash in someone else's HN comment, very nice :3
What would cause the stone statues to shrink as they move further from the quarry?
I saw this used recently to automate some process for a Tik Toker selling cosmetics consulting services[0].

My question is why is this a specialized service? Is there prior art for this? Why can't it be built as a Postgres extension à la TimescaleDB[1]?

I think seeing this offered in a less proprietary capacity or hearing a valid justification for why this requires such a stark departure from the current state of existing, very mature, and borderline insanely flexible RDBMS available
would get me more excited about using this.

Disclaimer: I'm not an ML expert. I have only cursory knowledge of the space from playing with Tensorflow, reading various blogs, and general openAI hype.

P.S. The integrations look cool, so I hope my comment doesn't seem to insinuate that I don't see any value here. The risk for lock in without recourse just seems huge.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34939053

[1]: https://www.timescale.com/
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Looking to get into console/PC gamedev, have worked with mobile, VR, and desktop platforms, including multiplayer.

NOT looking for crypto/pay-to-earn (sic)/ad-supported models.
I'll reserve your instances for only a 10% savings fee. Or we can do a 20% fee and I'll kick you back 10% cash. Hit me up y'all.
Really unfortunate that a lot of crypto was just these rich dudes pumping and dumping, and all getting together to perform rug pulls on a bunch of 'retail investors'.
It feels like Nix is crossing some kind of developer awareness threshhold. For me as someone perusing various tech threads, this feels like the year that, among developers, Nix is going mainstream.
Not to sure how to make it one section, aka, one session mode, so chatgpi can understand the previous talk.
> We buy Reserved Instances on your behalf (a billing layer change only)

> and bundle them with guaranteed buyback.

> .. We make money off of a 20% Savings Fee.

so this is similar business model, like https://archera.ai/guaranteed-reserved-instances/

"Find big-time savings with short-time commitments.
Unlike typical commitments, Guaranteed Reserved Instances can be sold back to Archera within a month of initial purchase and with higher savings than standard offerings."
Mortgages for 95-year-olds?

Certainly. Any rejection of a 95-year-old as a mortgage-client is ageist.

In my own case, I am 78 years old. I recently obtained a 30-year mortgage. The fact that I might have required a mortgage to cover the time between buying one house and selling my old one means that a mortgage IS required for very old farts like me. Period.

By making it a 30-year mortgage, instead of a (say) 3-year mortgage, it means that the payback instalments are low enough for the Bank's client (me!) to be able to afford.

Strictly speaking, it would be better for the Bank to have given me an interest-only loan, but Bank Rules and Government Regulations are very likely the reason for not allowing that. Besides, if I had snuffed it before paying off the loan, the Bank would have had no collateral to force repayment from my heirs.
> We buy Reserved Instances on your behalf (a billing layer change only) and bundle them with guaranteed buyback

This is by setting your AWS account as the payer account so you can aggregate? I’m curious how the finances will work out - at least one of them had challenges balancing their RIs with customer changes since there wasn’t a feedback cue for developers not to change instance types casually.

On a marketing level, I have an instinctive negative reaction to the claims like the title here has because I know it’s not true for me (my accounts are dominated by storage and network egress so even if EC2 were free you couldn’t get 57%). I’m wondering how best to phrase it to help people understand they can save a lot but not make it seem like you’re misrepresenting the possibilities. It’d also be useful to compare with compute savings plans.
Kaggle Models
That is not correct. You can not have offline caching and otp enabled at the same time. That is why things like yubikey exist. If your are not using another 2fa method besides otp it's either the security risk or entering otp each time you access the vault.
Obviously the later is not feasible.
If there isn't a long list of valid feature requests, perhaps it's just finished.
You may be part of a minority, sadly.

Most people I know are of the idea that if it fits, it works.
Most college educated people do not make the salaries that software people do. So, we shouldn't expect that. Making better than the mean or median within the US should be noted.

High schoolers don't make decisions on economic realities for themselves. Many will make decisions on economic ideas that often don't match reality. Ideas they are taught through the school systems and that their parents by into as well.

I know many people in the trades. Many places in the US are not like CA. Some places it's much cheaper and easier.

A lot of people who go through college and get a lot of debt hate their job and only make a median level salary. They did it because they thought that's how you make it. Many would be much happier and make better money in the trades.
At the same time, don't trust any network middleware not to break your expectations on TCP behavior... also don't trust that middleware will be visible and you'll know what's going wrong.
I always just assumed that it didn't come from a lab because it's not like polio or HIV or Chicken Pox came from a lab either.
Same here. That was the sole reason I upgraded. There were a few times where I really needed ChatGPT at a specific time and got the "we're at capacity" message. $20/mo is nothing to have that go away.
In a way. Resellers typically incorporate a company's AWS organization into theirs, and via resource sharing of savings instruments, are able to pass on savings to their customers within their portfolio. Since they have an AWS organization that is comprised of many companies and their AWS accounts, they are able to negotiate special pricing arrangements with AWS (typically in the form of an EDP) based on the total spend of that consolidated organization.

We use similar instruments but allow you to maintain the independence of your AWS organization for what is usually higher savings.
Your comment should kneel before the reasoning of his argument.
I'm looking forward to companies that actually have viable product ideas.

When money is tight, you are less likely to throw it at an AI-powered cheese-straightener, just because the founder did a great TEDx talk.
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