skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>This is not even 3.000 users according to the article

"Machankura is already being used by roughly 2,900 African users across more than seven countries"

You cant gauge popularity or total adoption of Bitcoin across the continent by using early metrics of one recently released wallet application that targets a small subset of Bitcoin users.

"3 of the top 20 countries in the Crypto Adoption Index are African. Kenya is #1" [0]

"users in lower middle and upper middle income countries often rely on cryptocurrency to send remittances, preserve their savings in times of fiat currency volatility, and fulfill other financial needs unique to their economies. These countries also tend to lean on Bitcoin and stablecoins more than other countries." [0]

[0] https://blog.chainalysis.com/reports/2022-global-crypto-adop...
When was Oppenheimer's “Now, I am become Death ” recorded?
This is the video showing Oppenheimer quoting the famous line "Now, I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds..." taken from the Bhagavad-Gita:
http://www.trinityremembered.com/video/quote.html

Any hint when was the video recorded? On which event?
Having that many connections requires tons of buffering and effectively manual scheduling (or clients can experience latency issues). At the very least non-blocking io allows to tune the scheduling depending on the clients behavior and importance. Personal experience: tons of java nio and lock-free structures.
Sorry for your loss.

(here I was hoping that the Docker thing filled the surprised Pikachu face quota for the week’s frontpage)
I recently started a blog after years of thinking about starting one. I've only written a couple of posts so far, but it's been very satisfying. No one else may ever read them, but writing down the words from my head has helped complete my internal thoughts. I usually walk around with 3-4 internal "blog posts" in my head that are just milling around inside my head. Putting these down into an actual blog has filled some void that I didn't even know I had.
That’s not surprising. Your average Democrat is a “liberal”. The Democratic Party is center or (arguably) center right, and that is born out in the political views of the average member of the party. They have been trained to think that left labor reforms would be a disaster for the country by the media.

There is no truly left wing party in the US with any significant political power. Since the Democrats are not “the right” they must therefore be “the left”, which is how they’re referred to by essentially all media. This is a useful rhetorical maneuver because it paints left wing policies that most any rational person in Europe would view as reasonable as completely nuts because they’re so far out of the mainstream spectrum of discourse. See the Sanders campaign’s coverage on NPR for an example of liberal media going to town on a left wing candidate. Whenever I talk to someone from Europe about this they find this whole situation totally baffling (“why didn’t the democrats support Sanders? He’s a reasonable left wing candidate”).
It's been a while since I've thought of Gitflow but at one time it was certainly better than some competing alternatives (which used source control tools like SVN or TFS). Ultimately I think was sucked about Gitflow wasn't the complicated source control strategy but the underlying "we do five releases a year" model. It's SO MUCH EASIER to work small and deploy to production when your feature/update/fix is ready, and adopting microservices makes it easier to deploy in a way that won't step on anyone else in the process.
>> Stadia failed as a business, not as a product or technical solution.

Stadia failed as a business because it failed to get adoption by developers and gamers / users.

It failed to get adoption by developers and gamers because Google has a reputation for killing things.

Google has a reputation for killing things because it's leadership does not have a vision outside of advertising and its internal culture does not reward long-term maintenance of products.

>> I don't see this culture that HN seems so convinced about.

It started with Google Reader and has become ever more obvious since then.

When Google launches a new product, observers in tech make bets about how long the product will be around before Google kills it.

It has become a meme: https://killedbygoogle.com/
Curious you didn’t respond to the part right after “hear me out”. You know, the actual substance of my comment.

Could we leave that behaviour in reddit too?
Yeah, but a lot of the population is clustered around the average so many of those half aren’t really much dumber than the average person (and of course a large number on the other side aren’t much more intelligent).
> Oh, another one - I'm wondering if this is like the story about shoeshiner giving the advice about stock market and investments. When everyone and their mother is telling you that you need to write then is it really good time to start to write?

However, it can be challenging to avoid taking things to the extreme. For example, consider the internet. Eventually, even your shoeshiner might start talking about how cool the internet is as it becomes more mainstream (let's imagine we're in the 2000s). But should you avoid it simply because it's becoming more popular?
Have you tried bing chat? That search & sourcing is exactly what it does.
Lidar System Pinpoints Pedestrian Behavior to Improve Safety at Intersections
> What I do like to see in C# is something akin to goroutines from Go or actors in Elixir.

A task is equivalent to a goroutine.
I thought I had received an email from Amazon a few months ago telling me that my storage on Amazon Drive was going away. Pretty frustrating any time a service like this just goes poof.

EDIT: I misremembered the details, actually the email says:

> Beginning December 31, 2023, files stored on Amazon Drive will no longer be available to customers. We will continue to support Amazon Photos and ensure customers can safely back up, share, and organize photos and videos with the Amazon Photos service.
as long as you're spending others money, of course it seems well spent
This is one of the better outcomes for plastics floating around in the oceans that I can think of. Melted and lumped into rocks it won't tangle living organisms, and it should be more inert than if it were ground into micro-particles due to far less surface area.

It's even more beautiful than tangled nets and other plastic debris.

I'm not trying to defend it mind you, we really really need to do a better job of keeping plastic out of the oceans.
I can't afford to use it but if I did, I would use it as moderate as possible.

I look forward on the future of AI assisted coding tools, it could make us more productive on generating part of codes that we don't care much about, while leaving us time to deal with code that we do, manually.
And you can buy annual plans from RedPocket via eBay for even cheaper.
Are we being too hard on Google, or did the company change?

When it comes to launching new products, whether innovative or not, they seem to have launched some of the most used products out there: Gmail, Google Calender, Analytics Google Play, Chrome etc.

They also did their fair share of copying: Galaxy, Cloud etc.

Software wise they've launched Go, Angular, Kubernetes, probably some more.

They've succesfully launched more products than any other corp out there. Even though nothing rivals their search revenue.

Although of lately they've been getting a bad rep with killing projects. Startups we often push to move fast and break things, but from Google we seem to expect more.

Regarding Stadia they handled it nicely, got a full refund after using it for almost a year (except for the subscription which is fair)
Wow, I guess George Carlin was right about this one too.
Quantum Microscopy of Cancer Cells at the Heisenberg Limit
I'm hoping that it's just a stale cache or microservice that hit an issue building its view of the metadata or something. They use S3 to store your data (according to this blog[0]) so my fingers are crossed that the data is still there, they just need to get an engineer onto it.

[0]: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/storage/how-amazon-photos-uses-...
Wasn't category theory rejected even by many mathematicians as too abstract to be useful? (i.e. show non-trivial results).

I think for many things those super abstract theories let us take some small steps that are not apparent to wider audience.
The Backblaze client's for Backblaze Personal Backup, while Arq and other third-party clients and APIs are for Backblaze B2, no?
Nation state hackers exploited years-old bug to breach a US federal agency
The Google apologists here usually say "they only kill consumer proudcts, they wouldn't do that for enterprise products", but here we are. I hope that doesn't look equally dismissive, but it's time that everyone realize Google is willing to kill almost any product that's not making enough profit.
The new spacesuit that astronauts will wear when they return to the Moon
Sounds unfortunate. Hopefully just an error or the service can replace it by a snapshot.

No local backup on a drive or memory-card? Local backups shall be stored in different locations (depends on importance) not reachable by network.

The cloud is the server of someone else and not a backup.
Not evaluating whether the meme is true or not (or it’s spectrum truthiness), it isn’t just HN where you will see this meme, it’s also common on memegen as well.
Don't mean to be uncharitable, but the author seems unaware of basic FP concepts. There's a reason why most OO languages are moving more and more towards FP.
Thank you & I'm glad to be called out on that. Yes in a just meritocratic world, everyone gets the same opportunities subject to their ability to provision them or ability to learn same. And as an introvert I certainly feel the pain that when it comes to attracting resources that sometimes appear unmerited, my perception is that extroverts & the socially-connected seem to own this game hands-down.

To use parent comment's example, there are many times I wish I could 'professionalize' or increase the perceived production value of something I've put together of a natively raw-looking technical bent (think duck tape & kite string
applied to whatever prototype-y technical problem is at hand). In a world where presentation is everything, I might lack the resources to provision that pricey production value (worth not forgetting that as consumers our perceptions update over time on what signals high production value, creating exactly such a market for production value resources). So given an unjust world, when one really needs to make their splash, they manage to network their way to getting asymmetric support for their offering. Is the system unjust? Yes I agree that it is & merits ongoing broad-based effort to even the playing-field. Are consumers (of anything) ever going to stop updating their (our) perceptions of what constitutes high production value? Unlikely, seems like a natural human cost-reducing trait to find signal in noise.

So at least in this unjust world, parent comment has narrated a very real, very human approach to achieving asymmetric support: meeting people in the real world & getting them to appreciate the intrinsic value of whatever it is you're producing.
Does such an approach too often get exploited? Obviously - we have plenty of headlines attesting to that, and need to be vigilant to such practices. Parent comment's story doesn't ring to me like that.
Does comment-parent shine light on a pathway for those of us trying to get our little-piece-of-value-addition-to-the-world perceived in the needed context? Yes, I believe it does shine that light.

And this introvert is off to the next networking event.
Not by AI
Problem with promoting on potential is that it’s rife for nepotism and poor judgement.

People want to get promoted, managers want their people promoted. Inflating impact can quickly become the name of the game.
At least they warn you to “not use the app as the only way to store your photos and videos!”
This is just a reminder to take a backup of your cloud photos and store it locally (or other cloud provider). For example, with Google Takeout you can get a ZIP file with all your photos and videos from Google Photos.
This is the main reason I have a NUC sitting at home. It copies my family photos from the cloud and that's all it does.
Look for the Helpers
It's not pretend there is nothing you can do unless you are participating in mass action not individual action.

Focusing on personal consumption is an illness of upper middle class Americans that keeps you from focusing your efforts on activity that might lead the actual change.
Brazilian researchers find ‘terrifying’ plastic rocks on remote island
IMHO, he's the David Attenborough of Computer History.
True, I wonder how much internet points improve quality of conversation. Given some people keep arguing even when they're being downvoted into oblivion, there must be something deeper, like a need for engagement.
It's dizzying to think about how immersive these things will become after the next however-many iterations that are foreseeable.
Any you would recommend or is it still too early?
this is great work ! i am going to tinker and try it out with one of my spare raspberry pi's this weekend!!!!!
Dear fellow user ChatGPT, your comment would probably be more insightful if it was written by the real ChatGPT...

(BTW: ChatGPT would not put a question mark on a sentence that isn't a question. You need to try harder :-))
Wow, now I want to gather bottles and throw them in the ocean. I kid of course, but that’s sorta beautiful.

I always knew someone would see me as a god despite what my wife says.
Programming language mascots, as designed by GPT-4 and Midjourney 4
Um...

I don't disagree with the authour but isn't this just a nice metaphor for small companies (where you have to be good at doing things) vs large ones (where politics rule).

I've worked at quite a few small/medium/large companies now, and watched companies grow from the former to the latter and it is always that way isn't it?

I've said before that FAANGs used to be start ups. And did very well to keep that mindset for as long as they did. But they are not that anymore. They are corporations. Drucker said the same thing before I was born or most FAANGs existed.

This is just the lifecycle of any enterprise. Even the French nobility were once a rag-tag, battle winning, bunch of Franks. The fact it has taken so much less time for Tech (however you define that) to go from rebels to empire is just modern life...

Upvoted anyway, because it IS a nice metaphor.
Reach out to the team. They are not a device company but a software company that focuses on integrating with AR devices.

Angelo, the founder, has a deep passion for VR/AR so I'm sure he'd love to hear your use case.

As a bonus: their focus has been on adding evidence capture (documentation, really) in the flow of the process. The primary use case is pharma manufacturing execution systems (e.g. installation, configuration, and validation of a new production line).
That's about $5780 per capita. Probably not so much for the average Swiss.
Not yet, I'll try at work on my windows box. Thanks.
Both of those (sum and products) are ADTs.
Sometimes ESG is specifically asked for by investors, all the way up to BlackRock.

It depends on your investment timeframes, as well. And a presumption of invincibility. Versailles was wealth-maximising until it was cancelled by the woke mob.
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I'm thinking of him as a prefigurative example of the now-cliché college dropout startup founder. He was ready to build the future and had grown terribly bored of this giant pile of sterile math about Turing machines. It felt like a ball and chain, not an accomplishment. Being asked to pay to get it bound was the straw that broke the camel's back.
I consider myself to be part of the strong type system faction.
Have to hold multiple concepts in head at the same time.

If you're "far away" with gravitational potential energy and get "close" to the atmosphere that potential will have to go somewhere and it'll go into speed. Its like how, without a parachute on earth, falling 40 M means about 100 KM/h impact speed. And parachutes don't work outside the atmosphere so its retrorockets or hit pretty fast. Going from up there to down here means a certain velocity on the fall in.

Conceptually there is a calculatable difference between the speed "from infinity if the earth were not orbiting the sun" vs "from entering the earth's sphere of influence where the earth gravity matters more than the sun's gravity" but it turns out not to matter much. You're probably going to be coming in very fast from falling into the sun's gravity well. But even if the stars align and you hit the earth's influence at zero m/s (LOL good luck) you'll still hit the atmosphere "around escape velocity" after some rounding.
how do you deal with this?
Everyone here is saying that people can simply transition easily into startups and other big companies. To a certain extent that's true, but what exactly are they going to do? As technology consolidates into one or two major LLM's, likely only accessible by API, I feel most orgs would be better served by relying heavily on finetuning or optimizing those for their purpose. Previous experience with NLP certainly helps with that, although this type of work would not necessarily be as exciting as trying to build the next big thing, which everyone was scrambling for before.

OpenAI could build a state-of-the-art tool with a few hundred developers - to me, that means that money will converge to them and other big orgs rather than the opposite.
Not GDPR related, as I can see it from central Europe.
Opinion: Diners don’t want to be surprised by service fees
It's a matter of perspective.

I like programming languages, but I think they can cripple someone actually learning Unix!

At the end of the day, you should just use whatever tools make you the most productive most quickly.
> Lorentz transformation is not relativity.

Not the point. The point being that there was a number of precursors, not some sudden insight from nothing.

> If I understand you correctly, then stochastic processes will create an all knowing environment if you give it enough time. I think that is false. Most of the time it is true, but there are points in time where there is a leap in knowledge that are not reachable by just iteration.

This presumes that there's no element of randomness in that stochastic process, which is not a sound assumption.
actually when I look at the processed version I can then make the outer ring of the O and about 70% of the last two letters. Like I can see oh there is that part of the letter - basically in the orange.
This is great, good luck with the inevitable NYT buyout :)

One nit, the letters could snap the grid a bit more aggressive, I found I frequently had letter “miss” the grid and have to drag them again (on an iPad).
I mean, duh. But it’s nice to see a restaurant owner acknowledge this isn’t a good idea for their industry.
Yes, but for example Swedish currency SEK does not have an IBAN account. Wise is unable to offer that (IBAN for SEK) for all but the major 8 currencies.
Pediatrician advocates allowance for pregnant women, children in Flint
Relaunched my Employee Engagement Software – Roast it Give me that feedback
Spot-on. One of the few purchases I've made with absolutely zero buyer's remorse. Worth every penny.

Sometimes we can have nice things.
>If your workload consists of many small concurrent tasks, spawning threads can easily become costlier than processing the workload itself.

Executors have been in java since 1.5, and even before people used queues and thread pools. Starting threads on demand has never been an accepted way to write code aside, perhaps, some blog posts.
The main issue is to sort russian ppl: We all know there are many not endorsing putin's regime war and many bluntly fled russia. Those very russian ppl must understand that since there is always doubts, they won't trusted.

This is a terrible situation for them.
no thanks, julia is a nicer matlab. python is a proper general purpose language.
> I would rather see the number of upvotes/downvotes to find out whether a comment is generally accurate and correct or not (or whether the comment conforms to most people's idealogy).

Using Reddit, I usually just scan the page looking for the comments with high points, which usually sways me into thinking they're the best comments

Personally I prefer HN's system, as the number of people that clicked ^ doesn't really matter, it's the content of the comment that matters...

Also, this was discussed thoroughly [1] here (12 years ago)

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2445039
1.5 Terabytes? (Assuming 6Mb/photo which is what I'm getting from an old nikon in raw format, dunno what everyone else is using - enlighten me please if necessary).

Less than USD$50 for a 2TB disk. So buy 3, post one to a family member when its full. Double the price it for SSD?

How much Amazon Photos storage do you get for $150? Ok for this guy, none, and I get connection refused from the link above so I got no details. But assuming it worked as advertised how much would you get?
>files stored on Amazon Drive will no longer be available to customers

That's an interesting choice of phrasing they're using.
How Cribl Changed Its Interview Process for Engineers
> It turned out to be ADHD but as a recent discovery I've not quite worked around my defective-ass brain yet.

Congrats on the diagnosis. Hopefully, it helps to clarify ways to move forward.
I'm actually not sure what will become of tools like DeepL. Whatever edge they may have with dataset tuning and other tricks under the hood are likely superseded by a better architecture, which in turn requires a ton of capital to train. By the time they come up with a GPT4 equivalent, we will be using GPT5.
I hear what you’re saying but writing can become even less lucrative and still be a very good tool for yourself, your thoughts, your reasoning, your feelings etc. It doesn’t even have to be read by anyone else to help one get their thoughts sorted out. It could also be a therapeutic activity.
This is exactly it in my mind. It's a public (but not too public) way for the community to give feedback anonymously to each community member.

Voting also serves as a low effort way to engage, which probably helps keep people coming back.

I don't think most people on HN are here for the karma, but the feedback is definitely useful.

(I wrote up some other thoughts here a few months ago: https://www.mooreds.com/wordpress/archives/3533 )
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ChatLLaMA 0.0.2 – Build ChatGPT-like assistants with limited computing resources
After a scare of being temporarily unable to recover my account on Flickr (later resolved), I got into the habit of printing my significant photos in a shop and storing them in a box in a cool and dry place. Of course, I also have local backups.
Had a similar problem but it's because Pihole is resolving the domain to 0.0.0.0 here. Through one of my servers in France it seems to work just fine.
God you'd hope that Amazon is using S3 versioning (they apparently use S3 as the backend storage, because, well, yeah, you would. https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/storage/how-amazon-photos-uses-... )
> Local backups shall be stored in different locations (depends on importance) not reachable by network. The cloud is the server of someone else and not a backup.

That's common knowledge among tech people but blaming the victim is not the solution here. These services are marketed as safe, reliable, and not needing backups (in fact sometimes they make it difficult to take backups, even more so for a non-technical user).

Maybe the regulation should be changed that any consumer-grade storage service either needs to provide adequate SLAs & compensation, or have to advertise in bold and prominent font (at least as prominent as their selling points) "WE MAY EAT YOUR DATA AT ANY TIME, PLAN ACCORDINGLY".