skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I haven't been out that way in years but my understanding is that Vancouver is a SF-tier disaster though, no? Huge influx of semi-speculative money into real estate.

My house, on a 30-year, 10% down, if bought today at the Zillow valuation + my property taxes and insurance, would be about $3800/month. That is absolutely not nothing, but the same square footage in Alameda, CA--a better substitute in some ways, esp. re: transit--is in the $1mil to $1.25mil range, which would be more like $7500/month (if you could make the 10% down at all).

Given that staff+ compensation in the Boston area is pretty reliably north of $200K these days, these are much friendlier numbers. And again, Boston is still an expensive area! There's lots of places in the country that are cheaper. I use Boston as an example because even on the edge of the suburbs there's still decent-to-good public transit. Go just down the road to Providence, which has a thriving local scene of its own and is still on the commuter rail to Boston but otherwise kinda lacks local public transit, and you can get a house like mine that's roughly as walkable to the basics (restaurants, supermarkets, etc.) for like $380K. And if your job is in Boston you can still be at South Station in under an hour and a half of sitting on a train that, IMO, beats BART and CalTrain pretty solidly, let alone driving (which I've known a lot of people, historically, to do from Providence--and that seemed awful).

Me, I work mostly-remote, so I'm not tied to being here in the first place. I just like it here. But realizing that there are significant options is important.
I don't understand what you're saying or understand the logic of blaming a third party for the failure of the first party.
Would it be possible not to notice them? The more probes there are, the more likely one of them happens across Earth. Interstellar space should be full of them. Unless we're talking about, like, one or two probes making a breadcrumb trail to Earth from wherever.
> I get that this isn't a trivial service to scale and deploy, but the $20/month fee to use ChatGPT reliably is one of the most unreliable and low-value products I subscribe to.

Meanwhile, after 25 happy years in the industry, I suddenly don't want to work when it's down. It's hard for me to imagine describing it as low-value (though I certainly believe you that it has been to you.)
Never read such a long list of inaccurate statements here on Hacker News.
requesting quota: poking the SRE or sysadmin to troll up and down the aisles of the colo datacenter sometime this week to find a QEMU hypervisor thats underprovisioned to the tune of $cores/$ram you want.
Streamliner
The Switch can use Vulkan but it's unusual in offering a wide range of APIs, from OpenGL and Vulkan (the implementations likely derived from Nvidia's existing PC driver) or a custom low-level API tailored to the hardware called NVN. From what I gather from the emulation scene, the majority of Switch titles with non-trivial performance requirements use NVN. Even idTech, which famously uses Vulkan on PC, uses NVN instead for its Switch ports.
You are making a typical overgeneralisation (or lack of consciousness) error thinking about "afterlife" as if it were any other object you're used to think of, thus making half of the question ill-formulated.
I never heard this to be the case. Yeah VC might recommend SVB but I’ve never seen or heard a term sheet that said you must put money in SVB. Once VC wires the money, it’s in the company’s control and they can put it or do whatever want with it (obviously within reasonable corporate governance). VCs don’t have much power, even if they do in some companies, you don’t want to spend it on something like where the company banks.

Companies put money in SVB because it was often the default option that everyone used that understood how startups operate.

Then in some cases, companies would raise additional venture debt from SVB and for that you had to park money there. I got invited to events too and rep pushed the debt as “dilution free money” (as opposed to normal money for equity vc deal).

I never took it as didn’t need it.
Cybercriminals capitalize on Silicon Valley Bank's demise
Looking at the CO2 concentration per year chart: how long until we've got Spaceballs' "Perri Air" to avoid cognitive impairment? Anyone already experimenting with getting their indoor air closer to the (extrapolating a bit) ~250-280PPM of the pre-industrial atmosphere? This'd be a step farther than people who vent in outdoor air to keep indoor air from creeping even higher due to respiration and such.
For anyone interested in a professional typographer's thoughts on this sort of thing, Jonathan Hoefler commented on Word-As-Image for Semantic Typography [1] and I believe those comments are applicable to DS-Fusion as well.

[1] https://twitter.com/JonathanHoefler/status/16335344615256064...
Except this thread isn't about blaming the users, but assessing the potential for improvement, where this simple mistake leads to inaction
So yeah, they should change the stupid name and be more clear that users should use letters as well, but it's still valuable to increase argon work factor parameters
Raheem.ai is building the PATCH network as an alternative dispatch system for community crisis responders to show up instead of having to call the police for non-criminal situations. They started with trying to build better complaint systems to support data-driven reform but pivoted toward building an alternative after failing to get buy-in from civic institutions.
Do you live there? In a utopian ideal it seems kind of nice having "everything you need" close by. Thinking about it critically I currently live in a 15 minute city, but there is a car involved. I'm kind of confused about how people living in mass transit even get groceries, can you take your own cart on the train?
While there are plenty of folks who have reason to push a repatriation narrative, and there will always be examples (Dropbox!), I'll believe it's real when cloud providers like AWS and Google start eating into their considerable margin and begin meaningfully dropping prices again.
TypeScript is now tenable for bash scripts with the fast-starting Bun runtime https://bun.sh/.

Before Bun, Node+V8 was just too slow to start.

IMHO all scripts should be written in TypeScript...you get typechecking and all the rest of the editing experience. Plus things like Wallaby.js for live coding/testing.

My `.bashrc` now just runs a TypeScript script with Bun. Allows you to use proper structure instead of brittle spaghetti stuff. The number of times I'm debugging silly PATH stuff was too much...
The DMA will force Apple to allow sideloading (well, let's just calling it installing applications) soon outside the App Store. At least in the EU. It looks like they'll have the functionality in iOS17. I'm looking forward to a native xCloud application. I can't believe Apple blocked game streaming apps. What a terribly anti-consumer move.
Are there server circles? I'd guess they talk about intel and AMD more than Apple.
Medieval monks were distracted too
> Your entire argument revolves around why content ought to be free to copy. What ought to be has no relevance to what is

What it is, in the US, anyway, is copyright violation. That is not legally theft, but a different violation entirely.

Arguing that piracy isn't theft is correct. It's not arguing that piracy isn't wrong, or that it is harmless.
Not just that, but there has been a public data gathering effort[0] running now for a few years, specifically with development of speech and text recognition in mind. According to national news today, when OpenAI was approached about this project last year, they were offered this data to train their models on.

[0] https://almannaromur.is/
In developed or advanced developing countries, social welfare programs, including pensions and healthcare, are based on tax contribution from the working population. These systems were mostly set up during a period of high fetility where population growth projection appeared to be perpetually increasing. With a declining working population and longer life expectancy, there will eventually be more withdrawals than contributions, causing the welfare systems to run dry without additional intervention.

Modern economy systems also function on the assumption of gradual inflation. A chronically deflationary society is one that's at the risk of spiralling into either stagnation or collapse. Post-1990 Japan is the only approximate example of a chronically deflationary society and they have been in almost perpetual QE since 2014 to no avail.
Not sure I agree with this - I like the part about being privately pessismistic (or I would probably instead describe it as being privately skeptical). But I have found it works best to try to mirror the other person (or persons). If you walk into a room and know that everyone are the kind of people that find pessismism and skeptics funny then roll with that. Etc etc. Essentially know your audience.
Maybe, but that's probably not happening, and we already have a mechanism that heavily disincentivizes it: make risky deals that go bad and you only get the money that was insured, but not the risky deal-part.

It's just that we've decided that this time the risk mustn't be carried by those that profited from the deal.
> Modern streaming services will recompress songs to a common standard, negating all of the loudness war stuff, but I haven't looked at new releases to see if heavy compression is still common practice on the master releases but I'd assume they still do it because practices change slowly.

I assume good mastering engineers create dedicated masters for each major streaming service because of their different requirements.
And that's why UBS not only paid not a lot but also got a guarantee from the Swiss National Bank for about, I don't know, perhaps 100 billion Swiss francs.
Green threads usually refer to single-threaded runtimes such as Node.

This doesn't sound right. How is the single-threaded event-loop of node green threads?
We live in a very small town and I built a cargo bike from scratch to drive my (disabled) son to school. Excellent experience, despite not having motor assist. We still own a car, but we can easily make do with that one car now, where we would likely have had to buy a second one without the cargo bike. And having built it myself, it cost below 1,000€, including the welder I used to construct it.

My sister lives in Berlin, has a very young child and just bought an electrified cargo bike. She is not a bike rider, never has been, but loves it. Great alternative not only to a car in a crowded city, but also to crowded public transport if you are transporting a small human.
most will categorize a black widow bite near a bee-sting.

I have been bitten by black widows multiple times, because I liked to stick my hands inside piles of cut wood looking for bugs as a child. yes, these were verified black widow bites.

the only time I had any sickness or wound to show was when I had a small wound that took two weeks to heal instead of less than one, and it was very tender the whole time, which was unusual.

maybe black widow bites just don't bother me, but I doubt it. every other bite from every other bug always hurt a lot and left a mark, at best.
I went there around 8 years ago at their old location, then last year at their new location. Many more machines were disabled last year. I get the impression that the guy running it is very old and maybe is unable to keep up on maintenance.

It's a shame, the place has many old games beyond pinball and is truly a museum of gaming. If you get the chance, support them. I hope someone takes up the torch.
In the age of clustering software are there still admins that are proud of their high uptimes?
Just want to say, I'm really enjoying your site, thanks for all the tuts, they're timely! Just decided to ditch Wordpress because my content is static. Wordpress is ridiculous bloat for that. With CSS grid and flexbox I can replicate easily in HTML. Only reason I adopted WP, ~ 2014, was to get a sidebar, and escape from the dreaded float. Comments are my only dynamic content, easily transferred to a forum.

Anyway most appreciated, thank you.
Paper Notes: Bitcask – A Log-Structured Hash Table for Fast Key/Value Data
*spoiler alert*:

The television show Mentalist explores this idea of serial killer law enforcement officer.

But, the crimes are committed with support from a network of accomplices (some coerced).
> Many car drivers are also dickheads

Yes.

I know.

If you actually read what I said carefully you'll note that I said some portion of the population: a very general statement which is inclusive of both cyclists and motorists. I am an equal opportunities disparager.
I got my CS degree back in the early 2000s from one of the most renouned CS schools in my country. Back then, there was only a single class where a computer was needed to do the weekly exercises, all other classes from the first to the last semester were theorems and proofs done with pen and paper. And that class was an elective, I could have passed without taking it.

Likewise, I could have taken a database class but I wasn't interested.

I did take the programming class, though. Theorems, proofs, pen, paper.

Obviously, my university's CS department came out of the math tradition of CS, not the engineering tradition. That doesn't mean I didn't take a hardware design class, though.
1) They have a row of coin-op machines by the front door if you just want to swing by for a quick round or two.
2) That is how much an activity costs in Alameda. A game of bowling for two or a round of mini golf for two costs the same at nearby facilities.
3) Before I visited I thought it would only be interesting f for like an hour. I ended up staying for hours of entertainment and learning.
> Should these “open collaborators” have caught the Free Team snafu before it happened? Perhaps. But the point with Docker, as with any company, is not what it does at a given moment in time, but rather its general direction over time.

There were HN threads looking at the overall direction Docker seems to be taking[1]. I'm personally not outraged, but the way it was communicated eroded a bit of trust. The FAQ that came after emphasized that no existing images will be deleted unless the maintainers delete them. Damage in trust is already done though.

This article reads a bit weird to me though. Instead of also reporting on what open source maintainers thought about this (some are supportive), it reads more like PR damage control. With the way Docker rolled out these changes, this isn't a good look for Docker either.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35168802
> volatile policies

Polite way of saying 'straight up lies by the Fed'
> There may be a future where an AI is smart enough and demonstrates enough analytical, cognition, and deduction ability that it can take over specifying what a computer should do

When we reach that point, anyone's job will be at risk. Give that AI an AWS account and a credit card and it'll take over the world, not build websites when someone asks it to.
I had ChatGPT help be write a Dr Seuss d&d campaign. If someone sees it let me know what you think. I especially love the part about the media portraying rebels embracing the term about buttering their toast upside down
Is that true?

An email client like Thunderbird or Mail will save a copy of the email on your local hard drive, which will include the HTML. This isn't something I do regularly, but would be first first response if I needed to see the HTML of an email. Maybe Mailchimp has protections against this route too?
Is there an extension or workaround that prevents sites from knowing you opened devtools (without breaking everything else on the site)?
Yes, but that is just one facet. Alignment theory affects everything regardless of scale. It is about whether or not you can reliably get the intended result given a particular goal or task.

We want AI to reason like humans and have humanities values. According alignment theory. Yet humans will also cheat to get a result. Our values also are what put us in conflict with each other.

FYI, I've elaborated in much more detail here on such issues with containment/alignment - https://dakara.substack.com/p/ai-singularity-the-hubris-trap
Oh hey, I wrote this. Thanks for submitting it, I'm glad you enjoyed it!
Why not just run IaaS on the cloud? Maintaining a datacenter is expensive. Now I’m not sure if there are companies that provide management of actual physical infrastructure - battery backup, generator, cabling, certifications of premises etc.
The public square is still right there. Go tweet, it’s the same as ever.
> The fact that you don't think the thing that's 10x bigger can cause inflation, but you think the minor foonote that is covid spending can, shows that this is 100% ideology-driven and not fact-driven.

What a weird comparison.

If it's true that something doesn't cause inflation, then if you make it 10x as big it still probably won't cause inflation. That's not an illogical position at all.

10 times zero being zero is not holding ideology over facts.

And even if we say defense spending was a significant part of the 2% inflation, that doesn't mean it also caused the huge spike we just had.
Seattle has the Seattle Pinball Museum as well, with ~50 machines: https://www.seattlepinballmuseum.com/
In an absolute sense it’s wrong, but compared to almost every other industry on the planet it’s right.
Agree. Srsly, the expectations on new grads is stupid high, for many professions, not just CS.

And leetcode does not prove anything.
How is the coup narrative so pervasive? There was no institutional support, nobody got killed except for a rioter, they all cleared out promptly by curfew. By all indications it was a riot and a pretty mild one at that given the previous summer. How is that a coup?

We know what rioters are capable of when they actually want to overthrow govt: look at the autonomous zones and capitals that got ransacked in the upper north west (Seattle, Portland, etc). Those were over weeks where cops weren't allowed into entire city blogs, they declared themselves autonomous, and people were killed to that ends. They also received tons of institutional support from media, politicians, and wealthy people.

I don't get how any honest assessment takes the actions by the partisans in DC as a coup. At LEAST the other riots were coups too, or more truly, only the leftist partisan riots can be considered attempted local coups given their stated goals and actions.

If you remember how the narrative evolved in real-time: in the preceding months the talking point was "only leftists riot", then on the capital riot and following days, the dominant narrative was "SEE! right wing people ALSO riot". Only days after that did the language start to coalesce around "actually this was was a COUP", and even then it was seen as hyperbolic even on reddit. Now it's been repeated so many times it's just taken as fact.
> Jobs are going to be lost, it's a fact. Even if it's just that junior who was learning code reviews and supporting basic development, that job will be around for maybe a year or two at the rate we are moving.

And how is that not a disaster for those who are out of work?
so laying off 20%-26% of staff. wowzers.
Even in the middle of the country you can hear cars. I lived in the country and you could see the road about a mile away, and when I put my ear to the ground I could still hear the cars when one would pass by every once in a while
I've head about improv and I'd like to try it (or quantrix)

How would you start it in this emulator?
It's a poison attack that randomizes the output, but it does not allow the attack to manipulate the outputs.
Hubris is a part of booting on our systems in that it executes on both our root of trust and on our service processor -- but both of these execute long before the host CPU. To understand how we boot our host CPU (AMD Milan) on an Oxide compute sled, see my OSFC 2022 talk[0][1], as well as the episode of our Oxide and Friends podcast on holistic boot.[2]

[0] https://speakerdeck.com/bcantrill/i-have-come-to-bury-the-bi...

[1] https://www.osfc.io/2022/talks/i-have-come-to-bury-the-bios-...

[2] https://share.transistor.fm/s/24beb248
A Recipe for Watermarking Diffusion Models
if an organisation is giving out money that it doesn’t have, presumably from the deposits of other clients, is that not just a ponzi scheme?
All true, but as a reminder, more energy in a pseudo stable chaotic system means more extremes in both directions: more frequent floods, more frequent extreme snow events, etc., all across the globe.

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/global_weirding
> (disclosure, I'm a founder at a cloud-cost management startup)

Isnt it natural that your service gains more users at this time when everyone is trying to cut down on cloud costs... Cloud usage may be declining, but those who are still using it would want to cut costs...
The interesting part is the part about the AT1 "bonds". I put them in quotation marks because according to the article, they are more like a form of subordinate equity. In some ways. Weird and fascinating instrument, it's not often I come across a new one.
FRC is now down to $15/share from a high of $170 so it's no surprise that anyone that's holding FRC is running scared. If it fails, however likely/unlikely as it may be, what we've seen is that shareholders will be zeroed out by the FDIC (at least in the immediate term, there's at least one lawsuit pending, and we'll have to see how much can be recovered), or in a purchase by, say, JPM, then it's likele not even worth that much. A bank in recievership after a bank run is worth about as much as a Snickers bar, as Matt Levine opined, and a Snickers bar split a million ways is not worth the digital bits the certificate is printed on.
I doubt he did write the title, aren't editors usually responsible for titles. Which is unfortunate because the article's title is Betteridge's law without a question mark.

Credit Suisse has a half trillion in deposits (aka liabilities), so UBS paid a half trillion dollars for Credit Suisse, minus the hard to value assets of Credit Suisse.
> Instead, Johnston suggests, the idea is to make it simple for open source projects to move to the sponsored open source program: “You don’t have to do anything with your account. All you have to do is apply. And if you apply, then we’re just going to bless you, wave you in, you’re good.”

I'm curious, has that been anyone's experience? From the discourse it seems like there is a disconnect between how the sponsored open source program actually works and how the CEO thinks it works.
AFAIK Attribution is the minimal requirement for all the free/libre/open source licenses, as well as (almost?[1]) all of the open content licenses.

If you plagiarize, you will also tend to automatically violate both copyright law and most licenses, including BSD, MIT, and GPL. The GPLv3 is a bit more complicated than the other two, but section 4 and 5 state that you must include "appropriate copyright notices", which means full attribution.

Here's a more in depth discussion specific to the GPLv3:

https://opensource.stackexchange.com/questions/4577/does-gpl...

[1] (edit) I was thinking that CC-0 (being close to PD) would not require attribution. But on looking it up, it's a bit more complicated.

(edit 2) In general I don't think "that is understood" holds. If you plagiarize copyrighted content, you might be breaking one or more laws. Depending on what you did exactly, how much you did, and how nasty the other party is feeling: you may be forced to take "your" work down, delete it outright, hand it over to the other party, pay damages, pay a large fine, or even go to jail.

(edit 3) I agree that plagiarism by itself need not be illegal in some contexts. But if you then distribute your plagiarized work (which is very easy to end up doing these days), you do end up infringing copyright law.