skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Let's say 3B unique people use 100 Google products. Their biggest apps get largest amount of users, but there are disjoint number of users using other products, e.g. 100M using Google Reader, 10M using Stadia and so on.

For Google, independently it might feel like "only 10M users" will be impacted by deprecation, but in total 500M people might get impacted by deprecating 50 smaller products. Google might think, it is less than 1% of our user base, but in reality they impacted 16% of their user base.

1 out 6 people will know that new google product will be killed in 3-4 years. They tell about it to others, eventually it becomes a meme.
I agree with your sentiment but disagree that AI research is in any way the domain of tech bros.

I’m starting to see the term “tech bros” appear more and more in HN - before hand I more frequently saw it outside of this site.

Some people on HN I have seen really come down on those that use the term. I don’t.

Perhaps those of us in the industry ought to recognize that the term exists because of a growing resentment among people outside of the tech industry.

Your comment hints too as to why that is.
> For some incomprehensible reasons, people seem to accept "mixing A and B is not a new idea because A and B already exist." Like... why?

In copyright-law (and I think patents?), there is the Threshold of originality. Basically you evaluate how much work and change went into something, to distinguish it from other works. Which IMHO comes down to how much of a and b can you still see in the mix, and how much did mixing them changed them in the end product. If the change is low, then people more likely consider it as not innovative.

Or how Homer Simpson once said: “People are afraid of new things. You should have taken an existing product and put a clock in it or something.”
Page seems to be offline (hugged to death?), and archive.today seems to be non-functional at the moment too.

This (2021) version of the page is shows up on the Wayback machine:

http://web.archive.org/web/20210301135016/https://devtalk.bl...

Not sure how much has changed since then.
For folks interested in the Kubernetes networking model, I recommend looking elsewhere. This post appears to be content marketing wrapped in a thin shell of introductory tutorial for an approach that isn't used by non-trivial deployments.

First, if you want to do a networking tutorial, start with something simple -- an HTTP server and curl, for example. You want to be able to tcpdump the traffic to understand what's going on under the hood. The first half of the blog post is some massively complex magic -- CRDs? An operator? Just why? -- and there's no reason to run an Elasticsearch instance just to test out packet routing.

Second, you almost certainly don't want to use kube-proxy. It uses (abuses?) iptables/nftables in a way that will make your sysadmins cry tears of blood. For small deployments, every major cloud provider (AWS, Azure, GCP, etc) has a CNI plugin that lets you allocate pod IPs out of a dedicated NAT prefix. For larger or bare-metal deployments, either use IPv6 natively (if available) or 6to4 (if on an IPv4-only network). I wrote a tutorial on the 6to4 approach[0], but honestly if you have someone on staff who is familiar with the Linux kernel network configs they'll probably have a better idea of how to set it up to work with your system.

Third, you probably want to avoid getting super-magical with your DNS. Approaches like that described in the article (coredns configured to directly resolve non-namespaced Kubernetes service names) have poor performance once you get beyond toy-sized clusters, and having to hunt down all the places your code does a single-name lookup is not fun. Instead, configure a "normal" DNS server (or equivalent non-DNS address resolver) to read Kubernetes-announced endpoints in bulk (with caching, etc), and use hostnames like `myservice.mynamespace.mycluster.yourproddomain.com`, which lets you (1) figure out where your packets are getting routed to, and (2) provision mTLS certificates to pods that let them authenticate themselves as a given service identity. Yes, it's longer, but your future self (or future underlings) will thank you.

[0] https://john-millikin.com/stateless-kubernetes-overlay-netwo...
HIPAA regulated organizations routinely store protected health information on the cloud. This has been common practice for many years. The physical location is legally irrelevant as long as security and privacy requirements are met. AWS and other large cloud vendors specifically target this market and make it easy to achieve legal compliance.

https://aws.amazon.com/compliance/hipaa-compliance/
"Ah, but can it accurately capture the depths and intricacies of a human soul?"

"Yep."

"Yeah but a specific Appalachian human soul at around four o'clock in the afternoon on a day in mid-autumn when it looked like it would rain but then it didn't?"

"Also yep."

"Yeah but specifically at 3:56pm and the human in question is standing on loam and holding a book in their left hand and listening to Music For The Royal Fireworks by Handel?"

"Uhhh..."

"See, told you AI is useless."
Sorry, that's patently untrue. Perhaps it's anecdotal, but I know a host of undergrads who got head hunted into quite elite tech positions either directly from Uni where I studied, or due to private projects they were in. And I even know a few that doesn't even have any uni edu that got hired to very high technical positions. Usually they were nerdy types who had worked with or had exposure to large systems for whatever reason, or who showed some promise due to previous work, demos or programs they'd made. But sure, most people have to go the edu route. It's the safest way into tech, as you are - at least in principle - fully vetted before you apply. Thinking that you can get a data science or hacker job just by installing Kali is ofc also very untrue.
Do they?

Is Lego not compliant until someone asks for the source code and they refuse?
i have been using icloudpd for years. there is a docker image that makes it simple to install on my synology. because of 2fa, i have to re-authenticate it from the terminal every couple of months, but that takes one minute.

https://github.com/icloud-photos-downloader/icloud_photos_do...
Nothing beats the duck's nuts
I managed to get a bit better than that story-wise, but I really felt this problem with battles, it just refused to do an actual battle. When a battle scene started, it always rushed to "after a long and tiring fight, you eventually come out victorious" or something to that effect.
Working out which Docker namespaces and images you most depend on
Did "AI critics" actually claim hands wouldn't be fixed soon, or is this just a strawman?
I for one was surprised few times what actual lyrics said in song that wasn't in my native language and I kinda just interpreted what it sounded like
There's two variations, one stupid one not. The stupid one is "novelty no longer exists and maybe never did". You've covered it. The not stupid one is this question about the closure under creativity in the same sense that numbers are closed under multiplication and addition. Sure you can make infinite numbers, but you can never multiply and add your way to a cat, because a cat isn't a number. Is everything we do rearrangement of basic known parts much like numerics is rearrangement of basic known digits? Its a deep question.
Yes, the hands were not the only problem, perhaps the most obvious, the teeth were usually pretty bad too, they too have improved largely with Midjourney v5, I suggest going to the Midjourney subreddit to see the different results.
> Your DAW example would work if DAWs could generate samples, beats, and whole songs by the click of a button. But are you truly the author, then?

They absolutely can, at least with 15-20 clicks rather than 1 at the moment. Drag in drum loop, drag in melodic loop, use Scaler2/Cthulhu/Captain Chords to come up with a chord progression, use a synthesizer preset to play the chords, drag in vocal sample, put on Ozone AI Mastering on the master bus, done. If you sent me back in time to 1990 with that track, people would be really impressed.

As to whether you can claim you're the author, this gets debated a lot. I'll just paste the famous goat farming quote.

> I thought using loops was cheating, so I programmed my own using samples. I then thought using samples was cheating, so I recorded real drums. I then thought that programming it was cheating, so I learned to play drums for real. I then thought using bought drums was cheating, so I learned to make my own. I then thought using premade skins was cheating, so I killed a goat and skinned it. I then thought that that was cheating too, so I grew my own goat from a baby goat. I also think that is cheating, but I’m not sure where to go from here. I haven’t made any music lately, what with the goat farming and all.
> You’re getting paid because you provide real value to someone.

Often you're getting paid because you provide potential future value to someone. Meaning that plenty of projects whole teams are paid for eventually get canceled with very little or zero ROI.
A birthday card for Richard Stallman's birthday
I plan to offer him the card later today, as well as have people sign it at his party.

Please forgive me for resubmitting, but I forgot to turn off authentication on the site when I submitted it the first time.
Very little of it. The causes of homelessness are pretty well understood and it's basically poverty, high housing costs, low wages, lack of access to affordable medical care.

Being homeless also does a number on your mental health and my intuition says a lot of those "psychotic breaks" were experiences of homelessness, not causes.
Yeah, I just stare at my desk, but it looks like I'm working. I do that for probably another hour after lunch too, I'd say in a given week I probably only do about fifteen minutes of real, actual, work. -- Office Space, 1999
hahaha, my inclination is almost always the exact opposite. Half the things I wrote a year ago are shit and need to be rewritten and I know it and so do all of my users
I guess we are living in two different universes. Any job ad for an ML role or ML adjacent role says Ph.d required or Ph.d preferable. Maybe it is also a matter of location. I am in Germany.

For a plain SWE role a Ph.d might be a disadvantage here too, but for anything ML related it is mandatory from what I can see.
Gonna start slapping this on all my AI generated content
>In other words, if there is truly no such thing as an "original idea", then how did the ideas that we are pulling from, deriving from and combining come into existence?

By observing nature, and then iterating on that over thousands of years of culture. Of course the question is whether and to what degree the process of iteration and transformation matters.

How would you define an "original idea?" An idea with no origin or source, that spontaneously manifests from the aether? That isn't possible, everything must be extrapolated from something prior.
Questions to Ask Yourself When You're Frustrated with Your Team
What is this study actually finding then? If we already know so much about volcanic activity on venus.
I'm a psychiatrist who works with lots of people who are homeless and mentally ill. My experience faces a strong selection bias in that I don't see the homeless people who don't have marked symptoms of mental illness. The ones who come to my attention usually have delusions and hallucinations. Beyond anecdotes, there's some reasonable and ongoing research on the topic.

Methamphetamine remains far more strongly associated with psychosis than cannabis, but both anecdotes and research support that THC extracts are considerably more likely to cause psychosis than whole flowers. There also seems to be something protective about CBD, so THC extract (dabs/oil) products appear to carry more risk due to both their high THC content and the absence of CBD. People who use cannabis heavily in adolescence also have an increased risk of developing a psychotic disorder.
Besides the known problem of multiple and missing fingers, it is also missing the golden ratio phi for proportions between fingers and palms.

We are almost there I guess. Just need to add the concepts of known proportions to image construction.
But isn't the habit necessary in the first place on the path to mastery?
Bitcoin just ate all my cat videos!

But they were backed up to Ethereum, but Ethereum might be declared a security, so they'll be gone too!

At least I've also got them on XRP.
I'd say Inter is pretty close to Helvetica Neue or San Francisco, the system-ui font for macOS and iOS.

So I'd say the Neo-Grotesque style. But that uses Arial on Windows which I find pretty awful.
I will never use Google products again.
I got carried away and made this single command, 'commit' , that adds, commits (with a ChatGPT generated message), and pushes. It will be convenient for my ‘notes’ repos that really don’t need thoughtful commit messages, as well as for throwaway projects.

https://github.com/stevecondylios/gpt-generated-commit-messa...
It is a well known fact that everyone who gets down voted is always wrong
I don't think there's a valid analogy in physical manufacturing processes like machining. Certainly not this. Few people are upset at the idea of using AI to help draft emails that you then edit by hand, or to help write boilerplate code.
https://github.com/icloud-photos-downloader/icloud_photos_do...
Having a high say-do ratio has always been important to me

I've never encountered this idea, but as soon I read it I suddenly see it everywhere. My roommate who tells me he'll clean the kitchen then doesn't; my cousin who says he'll come to dinner then cancels. My best friend who says she'll start going to the gym and never does. My world is awash in people who say the most wonderful things and then don't do any of them; it feels like a distinctly modern phenomenon. I find it hard not to resent people for this, but I try, because not everything is equally important, and not everyone can be as determined as we might like. As this article illustrates, we are ultimately only in control of our own actions.
It's worth noting that there have been some high-profile cases of legal action being taken against GPL violators, such as the BusyBox lawsuit in 2007, which resulted in a settlement requiring the defendant to comply with the GPL and pay damages. However, many GPL violations are resolved through non-legal means, such as negotiating a license agreement or reaching a settlement outside of court.

But likely this will just cause minor reputational damage among HN-types and have no real consequences.
He says in the article that he quickly realized the 50 billion threshold was too low and began advocating to raise it. Why would you expect him to follow the part of his legislation that he thinks is a mistake, after he succeeded at fixing that mistake?
How is the concern misguided? I’ve heard people say use is down since legalization but I’ve never seen them provide data and that isn’t the case in Washington state. It’s trending up across all age groups.

https://doh.wa.gov/data-statistical-reports/washington-track...
Nah, it will just eliminate the middle class. I’m sure the millionaires will figure something out from their villas and yachts.
I see you have six fingers on your right hand. Someone was looking for you.
Lee Kuan Yew explicitly cited Switzerland as the best run country in the world and a model for Singapore in the 60's when he designed (with the help of foreign advisors such as Albert Winsemius [1][2][3][4]) the way the country's institutions would work.

[1] https://eresources.nlb.gov.sg/infopedia/articles/SIP_1457_20...

[2] https://www.worldscientific.com/pressroom/2022-05-25-01

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Winsemius

[4] https://thekopi.co/2019/09/02/albert-winsemius/

So, not sure your point carries much weight.
>legalization creates in general more accessible weed, and so more teens could get it?

When I was an NYC middle school teacher, one of my students offered to get me all of the weed I wanted, if I could get him some beer for his party.

The illegal, unregulated weed was obviously far more available to him than the legal, regulated alchohol.

That argument doesn't hold.
How "recent" are we talking about?

Last November, my Logitech mouse's scroll wheel started acting funny. Tried to check on Amazon the warranty situation, the docs said: take it up with the manufacturer (note: the mouse was sold by Amazon, wasn't a marketplace item). This was like two weeks before the 2-year warranty was up.

So, I headed on over to Logitech. Man, their site sucks. My mouse was a "gaming" model, so it wasn't directly clear where I should seek help. I end up with some support guy who was obviously doing something else in parallel, judging by the time between replies. Went through the usual checklist (is it on / did you try unplugging and plugging it back again?). Never mind that before getting on the chat, I had to fill up a form with the exact same questions, up to and including the serial number, which is the first thing the chat person asked for. Half an hour later, he asked the killer question: where did you buy it? Amazon. Oh, take it up with them, then.

Went back to Amazon, opened a new "other" case. Less than two minutes later, I was on the phone with someone from Amazon, asking me point-blank whether I wanted them to try to fix it or reimburse me. Said the latter, and he asked me to be sure to send it within 30 days.

Guess where I bought my next Logitech mouse?

So yeah, Amazon's retail support experience is still top-notch in my book, at least on this side of the pond. This was for an account without prime support that doesn't do a lot of business with them.
Maybe he modified a typewriter to allow manual control and precision, probably specifically changes focused towards his goals. A typewriter would have been easily available, access to tools would have been easy considering the prestigious university he was part of and finally, he definitely had the brain power to do something like that. E.g. maybe he had multiple Selectric balls made to allow superscript/subscripts/symbols and changed them to accomplish different "levels" of a line.
I'd look to alcohol first. It's been legal for much more of the modern age, and certainly also carries with it the risk of psychosis.

And as the other commenter points out, "Whither Meth?"

Probably all of these things are contributing factors, in some form.
Because people value walking up to the car and just opening it vs finding the fob in their pocket and pressing a button, and that convenience outweighs the small risk their car gets stolen which is replaced anyway via insurance.
‘Endless, brutal heat’: Argentina’s late-season heatwave has ‘no similarities..’
> But you've GOT to improve the sharing feature. This is a great, accessible daily game. Connect it with Facebook, or at least give people something they can cut-and-paste without having to open an email client!

They're using the "Wordle" share method which worked insanely well, precisely due to the fact it didn't try to share with facebook or anything annoying, you just copy paste into an IM client
The skill ceiling isn't higher. It's just in a different building next door to the current one. The same thing happened with the film to digital transition. The skill range didn't change, the set of skills itself changed.
A couple of other resources about writing:

John Swartzwelder on writing scripts:
https://www.thewrap.com/simpsons-writer-john-swartzwelder-su...

Revision Strategies of student writers and experienced adult writers:
https://psychology.yale.edu/sites/default/files/sommers_onre...
Completely subjective. The final rating is the average of what three radiologists think about the joint conformation. And, it gets worse, some breeds are rated more harshly that others. For instance, a GSD with an ok looking hip joint will get a “good” rating, but a white Swiss shepherd with the same hip would get a “fair” as OFA wants the WSS to have better hips, so they judge it differently. Also, they take age into consideration, so a 2yro dog will be judged more harshly than a 4yro.

We use PennHip, which measures the distraction in the joint, and uses it as a predictor of future health.

GSDs on average have a median rating (working from memory, numbers will be handwavy) of something like .5. Thd WSS is more like .4.

I’ve seen our kids come back with a pennhip rating of .28/.29, and a fair OFA rating.

We’ve stopped sending X-rays for Ofa hips as it doesn’t give us any actual information.
External help is not at all unusual in artwork. Eg, many artists just look for reference pictures online when they want to depict a tricky pose. Apparently the infamous Captain America picture happened because of a bad usage of a reference.

Or manga artists use things like screentones: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q2U4EfKCfjI

I think AI will go down that road. Yeah, lots of people will mess around with prompts, but artists able to retouch the output, and to mix and match stuff will get much better results.
The point of these services is they're supposed to be an easy-to-use, worry-free photo backup. Amazon/Google/Apple should surely have the resources available to keep my photos stored somewhere with some redundancy. I don't want to worry about how they do it, but that's the idea. In exchange they're probably training image recognition algorithms or what have you on my photos, and I certainly wouldn't keep anything too personal on those services (i.e. nudes). I may even be paying them for more than the free storage limit. The least they can do is be a reliable backup. Yahoo Mail doesn't disappear emails randomly, YouTube doesn't just disappear videos randomly (barring stupid robot moderation). You'd expect the same for your photos on these services.
what you did there, I see it.
we can't define "night" either.
hi, Chainloop developer here.

I completely agree with your comment. We might be doing a poor job at explaining what Chainloop is compared to Sigstore.

Chainloop is built on top of Sigstore's (among from others) great OSS building blocks. We use cosign, in-toto and DSSE for generation or OCI for storing the attestations. It's true that today the signing is done using a asymmetric cosign key at the moment of the attestation crafting but we have plans on implementing keyless/identity signing and verifying using Sigstore fulcio+rekor.
> I'd rather they don't insult me and just send me the prompt.

and the prompt makes no sense to you, because you are not able to interpret it the way you would interpret the generated output of said prompt. The information isn't in the prompt, and never was.
Been wanting to get my kids into this as they get older, I’d expect Lego to do better.
Does anyone know how they make those hand drawn style kubernetes diagrams?
I've been working on a dungeon map making tool for a while as well. It was originally intended for whipping up a really quick map, but it's expanded a fair bit since then, and I'm currently working on adding tools for world maps as well. Check it out here if you're interested!

https://dungeonmapdoodler.com/
It definitely can. GPT-3 can too. You know the joke about "idea guy"? Who has "idea" but no programming/design skill and no connection to bring funding? New ideas aren't always very valuable.

At least GPT brings funding sometimes.
I'd say it's possible that there have truly not been any original ideas, and the earliest human ideas might've been just remixing observed natural phenomena. What would muddy the waters there is that humans are complex organisms that in turn exhibit naturally complex behaviors both on an individual and a societal level. And there's even emotions that we feel due to our biology. But if you define all these as phenomena we observed about ourselves, I think my initial assertion still makes sense.