skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I maintained 100+ domains

Well, that’s your problem, right there. Use one stable domain which you pay for, and use subdomains. That’s what the DNS is for.
> or maybe you do - I don't have that kind of money

I can assure you I'm talking about hypotheticals here.

> you'd set it on a pedestal in a darkened room so the spotlights make it pop

I assumed the same. You do the same with both. But which pops more? The intricate sword (which comes with its own illuminated display system) or the crumpled papers?
Tether is laundering money while FTX was embezzling and defrauding money from customers. When we did some digging back in 2017 that is what we discovered about Tether and the various companies that they own. A full audit of Tether still has not been done which is what I was pushing for last year but they are definitely under the microscope now but we still will not find out if they are insolvent or not until some sort of government interaction takes place. At least with fiat we know when the dollar is going to be devalued, with crypto it's just a bunch of scammers and spammers managing these businesses with zero oversight which is why the lawsuits are taking place now.

We need to know these types of things so that we can know not to invest our precious fiat into companies that are just going to steal our money from us like what was done with Mt. Gox and FTX. We also need to know if the companies are at risk of collapse so we know when to trade against/short crypto, take profits, and buy the dip.
To be clear this is the 'oldest from Southern Spain' at ~23k years old.

The oldest full genomes found are ~45k years old including one in Czechia (Zlatý kůň), one in Siberia (Ust’-Ishim), one in East Asia (Tianyuan) and one from Romania (Oase 1) [0]

[0] https://www.nature.com/articles/s41559-021-01443-x
My 10yr old son enjoys the book a lot!
Ask HN: Cloud Composer or other managed Airflow service worth it?
We recently started using Cloud Composer for our data engineering pipelines. For even a small environment that autoscales from 1 to 3 (in fact using just 1 worker most of the time), it's quite expensive at ~$350/month. We don't currently have many DAGs running and each dag runs just daily for around 5 to 10 minutes. So our Cloud Composer environment is actually just sitting idlely the vast majority of the time. Since you get charged for the environment which is running 24/7, not just when the tasks are running, the value proposition is not great currently for us, as you can see.

Because of this, I am in quite a bit of contention with my teammate. Despite the unfortunate cost structure at the moment, I still think Airflow/Cloud Composer is the best solution for building and managing data pipelines and going forward we will certainly have more DAGs and more frequently running DAGs so the value proposition will surely improve significantly. I am very much in favor of using a technology that’s future-proof.

However my teammate just can't get over the fact that Cloud Composer is set up such that it's running 24/7 regardless of whether there's task running or not and we are getting charged for all those idling minutes. To him, the dollar cost per task execution time is just ridiculous. He thinks this is clearly a flaw in Airflow’s implementation/design, that nodes are running and cost is building when nothing is being processed. He contends that we can build a much cheaper and equally capable system ourself, say using Cloud Scheduler, Cloud Run/Cloud Functions and taking advantage of background trigger functionalities in Google Cloud document store (i.e., Firestore), e.g., onCreate(), onUpdate() and etc to trigger dependencies between tasks. So in such a system, the fixed cost is much much lower and the vCPU/memory cost is only incurring when tasks are actually running.

My view is that reinventing the wheel, building our own data engineering tool, when there’s a tried and tested solution for our need, is completely unnecessary, especially since the pubic available solution is proven to be scalable and reliable. But, I am really struggling to convince him and counter his arguments.

So here are some questions that I really appreciate your input:

Why is Cloud Composer using GKE under the hood instead of Cloud Run, or some other mechanism that can completely turn on and off between task executions and hence not running up cost? Is this a flaw in Airflow/Cloud Composer’s architecture but people are still willing to pay for it because of the convenience and there’s no other alternative? Or was it an intentional design decision and engineering necessity?

What advantages does a managed Airflow service, e.g., Cloud Composer, provide compared to an in-house solution like the one mentioned above, that are important but not immediately obvious?

In general, if you are Cloud Composer user, how do you feel about it and how do you justify its expense; has it been worth it?
Certainly geopolitical boundaries reduce the pool of people. This has good and bad effects. A major aspect of open source software though is that it ensures that these boundaries can be crossed by labor but not necessarily by capital. I.e. anyone can contribute but sanctions, laws, etc. are more effective at preventing businesses from accessing these markets. This represents a sort of bottom unity that's really powerful.

That is required is a global leadership perspective. One thing I fought for heavily in the PostgreSQL community was to try to have the Code of Conduct Committee be geopolitically and culturally diverse. I would say that any time you can have a geopolitically diverse leadership team, you can figure out how to avoid interference by building a positive leadership culture.
What do you mean by "pharma has kingmakers"?
What do you think it is? 100k, 200k?

GP was humble bragging in a way that focused on them rather than the discussion. Deno's autoloading isn't targeted at a Google3 TS application that takes 8hrs to build.
I create obsessively as well, it's relating to the world by projecting oneself into it, an expression of demiurge. But I think to grow as a creator it needs to come from a foundation of appreciation, or where the appreciation is the fuel, as without it there's really nothing. Nobody ever gets tired of appreciating, either.
The advantage Android phones have is hackability, access to underlying apis, Linux app compatibility, etc. Apple phones might have the slight edge in photography and messaging, but Android absolutely wipes the floor with Apple when it comes to the amount of value it delivers through customizability. That might be hard for your son to demonstrate in the short term, but an Android phone is basically a Linux computer you can use for infinite integrations, whereas an iPhone is just a smartphone.
This was my I first thought before Debian because I've noticed Debian packages don't always work like the Ubuntu repo ones and the latter is used by the large majority and I don't mean desktop things but rather server things. The concern is how much infulence will Canonical have on the repo contents itself. If distros have to override Ubuntu repo packages what's the point? I could wait and see if things go that way or choose different. I like voting with my feet.
Why would they? You can work remotely from a cruise ship for only $30k/yr apparently. There isn't anything you could possibly have at the office that could compete with that. That's lower than the rent in many cities. It's less than most states pay to house prisoners. You even get free medical consultation.

We live in a ridiculous society of which office culture is but one ridiculous aspect, and now that a lot of people have had a taste for something else they're rightly telling the corpos to shove it.
Docker for Desktop supports this, as well co(lima) apparently.
There is also new tool orbstack on the way https://orbstack.dev/
Can you think of any category of software that doesn't eventually have an open source alternative? There are many open source projects orders of magnitude more complicated than a LLM. The linux kernel, Blender, Firefox, etc.

These LLMs aren't inherently complicated to implement, just expensive to train. And if the LLaMA release/leak is anything to go by we are extremely close to ChatGPT running on consumer hardware.
When training an algorithm using video, seek the minimal overhead because you're going to be decompressing several billion frames.
What GPT-powered data solutions are game changers?
Hey HN. We built a text-to-sql tool (buster.so), just pushed out our beta, and are rapidly onboarding our waitlist. Seem to be getting decent amounts of interest. However, I've been seeing lots of mixed dialogue about txt-to-sql solutions on HN, IH, reddit, etc.

Quite a few of these solutions have popped up over the past few weeks (defog.ai, baselit.ai, findly.ai, usebink.com, etc). All of these connect to your DB/warehouse and allow non-technical users to run queries in plain english.

I am generally curious what people think of these solutions. Lots of people think they're game changers, some think they'll replace analysts completely (I disagree with this), others think they have little to no practical use within organizations. Thoughts?
Hooeee, [0] is a whopper. If that passed, a bill to amend the constitution, forbidding punitive slavery, would become must-pass legislation. That'd really fuck Florida's economy if the state had to pay prisoners minimum wage.
The second largest employee count in the world, behind only Walmart: https://companiesmarketcap.com/largest-companies-by-number-o...
I have a random question and I really mean no offence by it, I just want to get the opinion of a transexual person on something I have wondered. I know this question is out of left field. My apologies for asking but you are the only trans identifying person in the thread and are answering questions. Please feel very much in your rights to ignore me, I really do mean no offence with the question. I will not take your answer as representative of trans people as a whole.

Do you think people can be trans racial? Should society be accepting of it? For example a white person identify as black and shade their skin to pass? Why or why not?

Again feel free to ignore me, I'm not going to argue with your response I'm just curious about your perspective as you have a very different life experience than me. I am not trans anything its just a random thing I have pondered occasionally and wanted to get a trans persons opinion. I know its a loaded question so again feel free to ignore me.
In relation to this my objective is to viciously mock, not to persuade nor polarize.

I am an outsider with no ability to influence American politics, yet American politics does affect me an ocean away regardless. The legitimization of bullshit, conspiracy and inanity Trump did in his 2 campaigns and 1 mandate has damaged politics as a whole worldwide. It has proven that being completely detached from reality is a viable strategy. As such my usage of the term is fully intentional.
While I agree, it seems like the probability of this happening in the US any time soon is almost nil. Where as the probability of One Medical making at least some improvement is non zero.
> It's to protect the company and its customers.

Also to make IT life easier. "You're getting updates when we say so, logs are getting shipped back and aggregated, every new binary started gets reported" approach saves so much time.
In context, it follows Trump frequently complaining about defamation laws being too hard to use to harass media organizations, and use of anti-defamation laws by powerful figures in other countries (with different laws) to suppress criticism. I would absolutely not take DeSantis' claim about why he's pushing it, at face value.
Thank you for explaining - I didn't think to click on the thumbnail as I thought the snippet _is_ the expanded thumbnail.

The way I see/read it: it _isn't_ being used in respect to nothing _reads_ it, except within the calculation to raise - there's nothing that reads the result of the raise. It's warning you that you are (potentially) needlessly capturing state. I agree it's a valid warning (for that specific example.)

I appreciate it is just an example to demonstrate the issue but I am unable to deduce a scenario where that wouldn't be a valid warning.
Oooh I love moral philosophy.

Here's one deontological perspective you could take:

It is always wrong to cause unecessary suffering to others.

Now, the subjective traits to be considered here are "unecessary" and "suffering."

It used to be a common belief that animals lacked the capacity to suffer as humans do. They could feel pain, nocioception sure, but whether it caused complex psychological suffering (torment) used to be contenious.

Today, this is certainly not contentious for our closest relatives. All primates possess a theory of mind, long memory, emotional states, complex social behavior like lasting bonds and altruism, and other traits necessary to suffer in significant ways.

So the focus (as long as we are considering primates, obviously nobody cares about model species like drosophilia as they have a greatly dimished capacity to suffer (edit: although I should mention that ranking things based on capacity to suffer leads to pretty awful territories too. Eg, if a human is severely mentally disabled, is more permissible to experiment on them? I think most of us would say no, which raises the question why it's okay to do so for other species)) shifts to whether causing them immense physical pain and torture is necessary.

And this is where I think things get pretty murky, and I will leave the rest up to you! I wish more people were curious about moral philosophy and creating their own consistent ethical framework for the world... I think it's especially important in science and engineering.

Of course, you could use a different model like utilitarianism, but utilitarianism still requires some level of deontological principles or you end up with a pretty extremist moral philosophy (same goes for just having Kantian deontology with no room for utilitarianism, IMO).

edit 2: come to think of it, Jainists would certainly have an issue with experimentation even on drosophilia, so I take that back that "nobody" cares. IIRC they even have a mouth covering to prevent swallowing and killing any insects that might accidentally fly into their mouths, as well as a specialized stick to gently move things like spiders and other insects out of the way. I know most people would scoff at that, but I think their deep respect for all forms of life is beautiful.
>The reason much of this language policing started is because of the dominant group using language to reinforce the inferiority of a less powerful group.

I think it's the inverse: the reason this language policing started was because the dominant group had reduced its hold... That why it started when it started and not when things were much worse...
> If they can squeeze even a few percentage points of improvement out of the process it'd be a huge win in my book.

That would be s/improvement/profit though, right? I bet they absolutely can manage that squeeze, and I bet it won't register as "improvement" from your perspective.
If you are interested in doing this in an automated fashion, see my GitHub repo. It uses telegram as a frontend for gpt executing code on the backend.

https://github.com/thornewolf/gpt-3-execution
If you re-read my original comment and still don't understand the importance of leisurely bullshitting with friends, then I probably can't help explain it better.
Another utterly confused ChatGPT take that starts with the author asking about themselves and prodding the language model until it starts producing bad results.

My dude, I’m sorry you’re not important enough for the chat bot to correctly recite your entire life biography.
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Major US Outlets Found Hersh’s Nordstream Scoop Too Hot to Handle
> The Times of London (2/8/23) reported Hersh’s story hours after he posted it on his Substack account, but nothing in the New York Times.

Britain’s Reuters News Agency moved at least ten stories (2/8/23, 2/9/23, 2/12/2, 2/15/23, among others), the Associated Press not one.

Not a word broadcast by the major US broadcast networks—NBC, ABC, CBS—or the publicly funded broadcasters PBS and NPR.

No news stories on the nation’s major cable outlets, CNN, MSNBC and Fox News.
for all the flaws amazon has, i generally get great service from them as a company and happily keep giving them my money. so i am actually looking forward to whatever they come up with and will probably try it
Something like a HackRF with a Portapack?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oEHfPPo1ZlU
We have the technology to make cars follow traffic rules and hold drivers accountable. The same telematics hardware/software in cars can monitor driver performance. Airlines monitor the profile pilots fly to make sure pilots fly the airlines plane exactly how they want it. We demand no personal freedom when pilots operate aircraft but when it comes to cars things like personal freedom trump safety.
You’re not thinking very long-term. As the article explains, for long-term resources, your should put some form of date in the URL, such that you do not continually deplete the namespace.

For example, suppose that you once wrote an article on AI, in, say, 2008, with the URL

https://www.example.com/a/current-developments-in-ai

When the subject, in this case AI, suddenly changes in later years, and you want to write an update, you’ll be forced to use this monstrosity of a URL:

https://www.example.com/a/current-developments-in-ai-2

Why not start with

https://www.example.com/a/2008/current-developments-in-ai

so that you can then create

https://www.example.com/a/2023/current-developments-in-ai

? (This will also benefit readers, similarly how HN likes having the year parenthesized in the submitted title.)
One Medical is a primary care clinic, not a replacement for insurance. They will accept your insurance same as any other doctor. They have a bunch of locations and a decent sized staff. Their selling point is quick (sometimes same day) appointments and quick/cheap lab services.
Intel Axes Rialto Bridge GPUs, Delays Falcon Shores to 2025
Well that's the problem, you're wrong to think nothing has changed in 20 years. The world is a very different place. So your assumption is incorrect and that helps explain your position.
Awesome to know with my limited exploit analysis experience that NOP sleds are still a thing
I think you misunderstand. They are asking why big is bad, not arguing that Amazon isn't big
Cool URIs change all the time. And then they come back. It's like with fashion.
I take mk7 with it too. But perhaps it’s a lack of calcium that’s the issue.
You can condition humans to be happy about being enslaved, as well, especially if you raise them from a blank slate. I don't think most people would agree that it is ethical to do so, or to treat such people as slaves.
> It says it doesn't know about fictional terror attacks on the statue of liberty, and then it does point out one.

"I wouldn't call that a contradiction. I think it's fair to only count attacks that go through. "

It "knows" about a thwarted plan for an attack. I don't think it's a "direct contradiction" to "know" about that but still say "I am not aware of any works of fiction in which terrorists attack the Statue of Liberty."
It won’t be. Some of the biggest companies in the tech world got that way by building platforms and ecosystems that others build on top of. AWS and Azure the most obvious examples.

What’s more likely is that someone like a Microsoft will make it part of their cloud offerings so devs like us can build things on top.

Why try to capture every market when you can build tools and take percentages of the rest of the economy?
coming to usa, was earning 15k usd in india
Or maybe they're working under the presumption that it's a big ol' nothingburger, just like the "Twitter Files" thing they tried so hard to make into a big thing.

Who can know?

[edited to remove false implication that Hersh was the chef of the Twitter files nothingburger]
The same reason airlines don't put airtags onto passengers suitcases: it costs a lot of money for thousands of units, plus labour and time cost - money which could be going to someones bonus (or shareholders). Also, they don't really care if your luggage gets lost, just like rail companies don't really care about this specific derailment - as long as they are making more money from the "efficiencies"
> It not only told everyone I died but tried to fake my obit.

ROFLMAO

This is the funniest anti-AI sentence I’ve read so far.
I don't know; in the 1970's, writing assembly code was "the part that gets you paid", and then when programs took over that aspect of programming, I'm pretty sure salaries didn't go down.
Seems they realize just how slow their rollout plan for the Quest 3 actually is. They missed their opportunity and now trying to not lose share from not following the basic rule of shipping something better every year for new tech, especially Xmas.

I'm not price sensitive but the Quest Pro just isn't enough of an upgrade. I want more pixels and don't care for any AR or face tracking.
It's very convenient to be able to book visits next day from an app. If you don't have any significant illnesses, maybe the convenience is worth it, but the medical care I got there was atrocious. I went in with a serious complaint and was just told "there's not much you can do about that" (turned out to be completely untrue). My provider repeatedly wrote prescriptions wrong. Over and over and over. And she would often forget what I told five minutes after I said it. Even though she was supposed to be my PCP, she seemed completely clueless about my conditions on every visit. My impression was that the providers are overworked and not able to really give patients the time and consideration needed.
China’s shrinking population could have a ripple effect on the global economy
Yeah this has become common with many insurers and health conglmomerates.
You sound like a prisoner. No disrespect intended. It really sounds like you would be happier somewhere else. I wish you that you find that place soon.
“Calculate” is the wrong word. Computers are calculators. LLMs are pretty bad at calculations.

LLM are very good translators and synthesizers.
I work in public mental health and earlier today got my weekly Becker Hospital Review email, which contained info about the Federal Trade Commission issuing a statement expressing privacy concerns about the merger.

Not sure whether these FTC statements are routine whenever global megacorps gobble up smaller companies, or whether they're issued based on past performance of the companies in question.

"The Federal Trade Commission issued a statement Feb. 27 warning Amazon and One Medical that it must keep healthcare data safe and is prohibited from using it for advertising or marketing purposes.

Amazon said it would not share One Medical patients' personal health information to sell other Amazon products, and the FTC said the company must uphold that statement.

'Companies that fail to abide by the commitments and representations they have made to consumers can violate Section 5 of the FTC Act,' the FTC wrote.

The FTC also said both companies must make it clear on how they will use protected health information as defined by HIPAA, as well as how Amazon will use One Medical patient data for purposes 'beyond the provision of healthcare.'

Amazon completed its $3.9 billion acquisition of virtual and in-person primary care company One Medical on Feb. 22."

Becker - https://www.beckershospitalreview.com/disruptors/ftc-warns-a...

FTC Statement in full - https://www.ftc.gov/system/files/ftc_gov/pdf/2210191amazonon...
More than that, it puts your data into your hands. If someone kicks you off a server for whatever reason you still have your account and you can visit other servers. With mastodon you’re at the mercy of whoever owns the server.
Woah, $3k!
wouldn't you walk into an urgentcare for exactly this?
I had an ache, havent had a PCP for a while, walked into an urgentcare, they xrayed me and everything...