skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> considering the benefits of moving to cloud (which are real!) but not the costs

I was being very tongue in cheek :)

> if by moving to the cloud you get someone else to take on that aspect of it, but otherwise keep your job, then aren't you always going to prefer cloud?

Quite possibly, yes. Paraphrasing Dan North: "Infrastructure is like surgery. If you need surgery, you really want to have surgery. But you always want to have the smallest amount of surgery possible."

Having a rack in a basement or co-lo might be "cheaper" for you. It might end up being a pain. The BMC infrastructure was relatively simple. We were early adopters of EC2 (so the financials _might_ have changed since then), we saved about 60% in explicit cost by shifting from co-lo to EC2. And my time was freed up because I didn't have to plan for or handle anywhere near as much infrastructure work.

We didn't make money directly from infrastructure so it always made sense to reduce the amount of infra I had to do because it increased the time I could spend closer to revenue generation
> b2b only

That’s be why. Only the retailer charges VAT, though you may want to be really sure you’re only dealing with companies (ianal and ianac, no idea how case law handles individual padding themselves as companies).
I'm not sure you understand what "FUD" means.
the longest that I fasted was about 3 months and the biggest challenge that I faced was that if you omit protein from fasting then you have this weak/tiredness feeling throughout the time that you're fasting. what I found is that if you drink One of those 30g protein shakes everyday and a vitamin B complex vitamin (which supposedly breaks down lipids/fats) during the fasting, those feelings went away. on average I lost about 1 lb per day of body weight by doing such a fasting,.. and then after about 2 weeks of fasting it appears that your stomach gets smaller, and you become less hungry as a result, and the desire for food itself decreases.... during that 3 months I lost about 50 lb, and I think only because I would cheat once per week on Sunday.
How to Steal an Army
Who says there isn't? It can start with an imaginative hunch, and after a hundred or more years we finally get some evidence.

What they propose sounds an awful lot like systems theory to me
Who can tell you what to do with your money?
See also:

https://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/05/us/05tapes.html
My startup is a consumer of the Graph API for Instagram (OP appears to be using Dispay API). We have about 1000 loc that just deal with weird user specific bugs in their API and it’s impossible to give feedback about it to anyone at Meta.

OP - is there a way to contact you? Drop me a DM on ig Instagram.com/i386 I may be able to help with a workaround
The comments section is very good.
The Biggest Winner of the Gas Stove Fight Is Induction Ranges
Did you watch the video? The author has nothing against trucks themselves, it's SUVs (light trucks) in suburbia and cities that he argues is the problem. Specifically, the many cases where people never even use the capabilities of the larger car (off roading, towing, stuffing it full of shit) and instead the choice of a larger car becomes an overall negative for society (more dangerous for the other guy in any collision, harder to see around, harder to see kids or pets as the driver, headlights more blinding to oncoming traffic die to their greater elevation). Anyhow, you sound very angry and closed minded, maybe give other opinions a chance, you don't have to agree but you also don't have to be an ass about it
Superglue also works under water
Sam Altman 'A Little Bit Scared' of ChatGPT, Will Eliminate 'Many' Jobs
The number one problem is that a visit with a discussion costs $250 which is absolutely ridiculous, obscenely expensive.

Healthcare insists on the very best, most expensive in gauzes and then when they can’t afford them they let people die, instead of using cheaper gauzes which are just fine and have been used for years.
The distortionary effect of VAT is much better than taxing income. If you're worried about its relative impact on poor people you can just redistribute more (which EU countries obviously do).
Windows's system is terrible though. It's buggy, it requires to use of MS Store, the user experience is terrible. The HEVC extension for example causes incorrect HDR playback on certain AMD cards for years now, with no fix in sight. It's surprising that you've forgotten the shit web was with all the "You must install Adobe Flash Player to view this content" banners or shudder, Java and ActiveX applets.
That's really an example of bad journalism.
What you find in the text is quite distinct from the title:

> Hawking announced: “I have changed my mind. My book, A Brief History of Time, is written from the wrong perspective.”
> BBC is one of the best news sources around.

I hope it's a joke. No one could say this with a straight face

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-64855760
Maybe don't begin with the assumption that everyone that has a different opinion must be an idiot. And then continue with gathering facts - like the fact that every receipt must by the same law indicate exactly how much VAT is included in the price. Then you might not come to such obviously nonsensical conclusions.
If you don't have a nice clean break, a combination of thread and superglue can be a useful trick for some repairs/bodges: https://www.flitetest.com/articles/Tip_Thread_and_Superglue
This article sets Kant up for a failing. It compares Kant's spiritual description of the 'classes of creatures on Jupiter and Mars' and their behavior, with NASA's earnest scientific attempt to find extraterrestrial life. It's an apples to oranges comparison.

The "balloon being filled" metaphor for collecting knowledge (data in this case), as a replacement for Kant's linear study across time, does not work with the author's intent. Studying and gaining knowledge is limited by the human lifetime, there's no two ways about it.

For example; An army of sensors could collect all the data (filling the balloon) from extra-solar planets and an interpretation algorithm could crunch down exabytes of data into a human readable format. But in the end, a human has to read it and understand it. And the most the human could read and know, is limited by time.

This article really does not plausibly discuss Kant.
> I never managed to use a tube more than 2-3 times without the glue drying up.

I used to have the same problem, then I followed a friend's recommendation -- I keep it in the fridge inside a tiny Ziploc bag. I've never had it dry up since.

I actually keep a little bag with all my superglues in the corner of the fridge door -- regular, gel, liquid bandage, heel-seal, and nail repair. (Liquid bandage and heel-seal being designed specifically for skin.)
Sorry I didn’t clarify. It is fiction, but I think it describes a plausible reaction of the general public (the layman of the comment I replied to) to this hypothesis if it was discovered to be true. Don’t want to spoil the good part of the story beyond that!
> I’m not sure that this matters much in terms of solving actual problems though ...

That is certainly correct. But The Industry hasn't successfully abstracted things such that pure problem solving is all there is to software creation. Current abstractions create a reliance on (probably inefficient, likely costly) infrastructure. One needs to understand how so much of a system works so that changes can be made to improve performance and/or reduce costs.

I took a look at EndBASIC and I find it rather awesome. But I also think it's limited to folks who have experience a perspective similar to my own. When looking this from my 7yo's POV, she would have no idea where to start. I could guide her, but it would be nothing like how I learned, alone, on an Apple //c. I'm certainly biased in thinking "how I learned was a pretty good process," and I wouldn't want to assume anyone else learns like that, but exposure to a simple (but complete) system and the ability to program it seems like a phenomenal way to learn.

----

I was thinking recently that it would be beneficial to teach the last century of technological advancement at a slow-ish pace. Kids spend a few months getting to know/understand how early telephone systems routed calls by using the same equipment from the day. Advance up through rotary dial, touch tone dialing, cordless phones, mobile phones ... over the course of a couple years. Parallel to that, the same kind of thing with computers and programming - switches, punch cards, tape, disk; mainframe, mini-, micro-computers; ...

It'd be pretty expensive though... :(
This seems to be the current step rather than next one.
> why the EU is so pro it

It's mostly a non issue in european politics tbh, the debate tends to be at the National level on the specific rate. But abolishing it outright is not something that is really discussed

> why left leaning governments don’t get rid of it

Because if you cut taxes you need to also cut benefits?

VAT is easy to apply and makes tax evasion harder. What's there that would make left-leaning legislatures remove it?
Show HN: Code to Prompt (Chat-GPT)
I have implemented a small Go program that reads files in a directory and compiles their data into an output file or prints the results on the terminal. This program may be quite useful for people who are tired of copying and pasting individual files in ChatGPT in order to ask questions about their content.

Please take a look and share your feedback =]
Here's an article that seems to indicate yes:

https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-unpredictable-abilities-e...
I'd add to your point with one correction (but I think you're correct in terms of the translating) the stuff we work on is always a work in progress and usually the business doesn't know the problem until we're already almost about to ship. EG. Supposedly youtube was a dating site.
The Ghost Map, by the author, is one of the best popular science books I've ever read.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ghost_Map

It was quite satisfying to see someone solve an epidemic, rather than make things worse than if we had done nothing at all.
Ok, and appreciated! Will dig it up, thanks.
Last year, I bought a win10 pro to avoid microsoft login BS. It was a $1000 upsell.
I think a lot of people are thinking about that right now. At least I read that idea a lot here on HN and on Twitter.

I personally cannot wait to try it. But for now, I wait until there are better options for local LLMs. Given the current development speed of all things AI, probably that won't take too long.
> I think this benefits our users

How?

I think that subscriptions to pay for software is deeply user-hostile, personally.
Even if they did get paid half a mil, after tax it’s what a contractor earns in the uk. Probably have to pay private health care too and the cost of living is high. Not that much left.
Besides opening your own company does a role exist where you can do both?
There would have to be an underlying mechanism that determines which laws out compete the others. The "environment" upon which the rest must adapt. Ultimately, you'd still have "laws," itd just be a layer up, as far as I can tell.
It’s just a game of hot potato with platforms that are willing to foot the bill for the bandwidth and storage for some other business gain.

Self-hosting your own private registry is easy and cheap but for a public registry you’re essentially writing a blank check letting randos across the internet pull your image a million times from their CI pipeline and cost you egress fees.
I’m not sure what point you’re trying to make. Are you assuming that a layer would be transferred in its entirety, even in cases where the majority of the contents are already available locally? The purpose of bringing up hard links was to state that when de-duplication is done at a per-file granularity rather than a per-layer granularity, it doesn’t introduce a ru time overhead.
Back in the 90's I lost 120 pounds on a multi-month protein shake "fast" ... and then gained it all back plus more. In total, despite the wonderful if brief relief from morbid obesity, it was a highly negative experience that I don't recommend, at least for weight control.
Do you not even notice the anger in your response? This is exactly the kind of response to different points of view that he's talking about.
21st century Luddites, afraid machines will threaten their jobs.

If we're smart we will continue to find new ways to use new technology to make more new technology. Software written by hand is like a brick building. Certainly it can be nice, but it requires skilled labor. Faster and cheaper with less skill would be pre-fab units.
HN discussion about the topic https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35214985
Small business or not doesn’t matter here. Twitter blue does charge VAT, they just don’t include it in the sticker price they show up at the beginning of the sales process. The law stipulates that consumer prices must be advertised with VAT included, small business or not.
Welcome to Meta API
Sure, they will exist if someone intentionally codes them in. But not when fetching data is done in one pass.
Technological singularity is very precisely located at the point in time when technology can / could continue to exist and develop without humans. This is clearly not the case right now.

The invention of LLMs is surely closer to that hypothetical point in time than the invention of steam machines or iron swords, but even nowadays technology is still very dependent on a working human society to continue functioning.
Some have ambitions to green the Sinai Desert:

https://www.greenthesinai.com/back-to-the-garden-john-d-liu

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/mar/20/our-bigg...
I save even more on subscriptions by refusing to subscribe.
When a business buy anything from a foreign seller they should buy it without VAT and calculate and pay VAT on their own.
Annoying Roommate Is Slaying on TikTok
I don’t think it is inevitable we’ll reach AGI. I think that question is very much up in the air at the moment.
As in, it will keep holding if exposed to water after it has set, not "you can apply it under water", correct?
Thanks for the effort there. I’m disappointed this post didn’t get more attention, but I suppose you’re right, it’s a bucket in a flood.

I know people in academia who are pushing for a return to older-school forms of assessment, particularly in-person written and oral exams. These don’t scale as well as newer assessment types, and maybe that’s appropriate.

There’s plenty of clear evidence that only an “elite” education carries meaningful odds of getting into top positions in the private and public sectors. Even a “good” education is basically a self-selected exceptionalist longshot.
One example of selection is a matter dominance over antimatter. Standard model shows many heavier muons and fermions are unstable yet in different conditions these might be dominant.

Obviously from our observed laws perspective we can find (we did not yet) reasons for such preferences yet changing conditions (time, matter density, energy, velocity, gravity) can potentially influence preferred laws and states of matter. Think of superconductivity, how is it even possible that there is no resistance in electron flow, we only make use of this phenomena without understanding the theory behind it.

I am looking forward for the book, just a tiny glympse of different perspective can influence a series of new inventions.
“At risk of refeeding problems” is not the same as refeeding syndrome.

This is something that applies to holocaust survivors and hunger strikers.
jump past the intro:
https://www.youtube.com/live/kaandEt_pKw?feature=share&t=672

announcement:
https://www.youtube.com/live/kaandEt_pKw?feature=share&t=347...
Worth noting, GPT-4 is hopelessly lost at 19x19 Go. It can barely make it through a few opening moves without losing the board state entirely.

I asked it to provide commentary on both my and its moves (though I had to be a little sneaky and not actually ask it to play a game otherwise it refuses). It could regurgitate some garden-variety commentary on the moves being made, but since we didn't get more than about 5 moves in before it totally fell apart this is not surprising.

On a 9x9 board it fared slightly better. By which I mean it didn't completely lose the board state almost immediately, but it also played very poorly and its commentary was largely nonsense. It also lost the board state within 7 moves.

It's still impressive that it can reason about the board at all and from time-to-time properly represent the nature of a move, at least in a simplistic fashion, but could be trivially defeated by any human after they grasp the rules.
You're referring to the Electoral College. I won't get into much detail about it, but it serves the purpose of ensuring that the rural vote is not swamped by the urban vote. Shockingly, those who are of the urban clans believe it should be abolished, but it has long tradition.

Personally, I think the Electoral College is not nearly as bad as the first-past-the-goalpost-winner- take-all electoral system for every single office from President to town council. Your best strategy will always be to put all of your resources behind one of the two front-runners in any election. Voting for anyone else makes it a certainty that your opposition wins. Fixing that somehow to be a more proportional representation system would at last break the duopoly and calm everyone down. People would finally feel like their values are represented in government, rather than compromising or settling.
Educators, generals, dieticians,
psychologists, and parents program. Armies,
students, and some societies are programmed.

by Alan J Perlis, the first Turing Award recipient.
Is he serious or just trolling?

(He has previous form for trolling/having a laugh)
Pretty sure if you download the anarchists cookbook i the usa, it'll probably get flagged.
> What are they supposed to do, just close up shop and fire everyone when it's "done?"

Of course not. You continue to develop and sell software, both new and new versions of the old.

> You need people to maintain the software. Fix bugs. Add new features.

Correct. That's why you sell subsequent versions.
I don't find such perspectives useful because they only consider two extremes: either we keep our jobs or become jobless.

The fact is, AI is currently capable of replacing some jobs, and it will likely replace even more in the future. However, this does not mean that we will all become jobless. Instead, engineers will become more valuable as they are needed to support and develop these complex systems.

Though, the amount of engineers will be reduced for sure.
I am fairly certain that you're misreading that, though as with all regulations - having a legal team on standby is practically a requirement. It's talking about literal in-country discrimination. For example many touristy locations will have a price for locals and a price for non-locals at places like e.g. zoos. That would be illegal in the EU. By contrast it explicitly states that:

"When you buy goods online in the EU, prices may vary [their emphasis, not mine] from country to country or across different versions of the same website, for example due to differences in delivery costs."

A nice rule of thumb for translating legalese is to translate "may" to "will" (except when it would benefit you), and to strip off examples. So for instance: "We may share your data, for instance with trusted partners or in response to legal obligations." translates to "We will share your data with whoever we want." And here too you can translate it to simply, "Prices will vary from country to country."
Thanks for sharing this! Comments like yours are why I love HN comments. Despite all the arguments and negativity, I managed to find a useful comment which is directly applicable to my current needs!

I have been trying out Vite on my latest small project and was wondering if I should enable pre-rendering or perhaps alter the build process. I have markdown files which form some pages, currently they are imported and this causes the *.md files to be fetched when navigating to that page. It's mostly fine but it wouldn't be the best for blog SEO. So thanks again for giving me another option to look at, it may be just the right thing!
An older developer I once worked with said his manager (in the late 1970s) started hiring typists as programmers since with upcoming programming languages, the hardest part was typing it into the system.
Legislate user replaceable batteries
https://archive.ph/qhY0j
I think it's pretty hard to say that was because they weren't doing subscriptions. Tons of companies will always go out of business because of various reasons. That was true then, that's just as true now.
In that case, how is the AI going to keep tens or hundreds of thousand of lines in memory to produce cohesive code that works with the rest of the codebase?

It seems prohibitely expensive to build and run transformer models with that much capacity.
"8GB ought to be enough for anybody", I guess?

Also, he said "Raspbian", rather than the "Raspberry Linux" in the title...which I don't think is a thing.
> How about design the coffee maker so I don't need a program to use it?

The coffee machine is just an example, don't get hung up on it. If you think all possible coffee machines should be made so simple that they don't need instructions (1), then mentally replace it with a machine that you can accept will need instructions, like a 3D printer or a CNC lathe or whatever.

(1) a fallacy in itself because even if you are a genius who finds every well designed machine obvious to use, there are plenty of us who are not geniuses and require instructions even for the simplest of mechanisms.
I don't have a good resource that summarizes the various rules, but high-level this is the mechanism:

For B2B:
1. If the seller is extra-EU, and the buyer in EU, no VAT is charged
2. If the seller is in one EU country, and the buyer is in a different EU country, no VAT is charged by the seller, but the buyer has to do a "VAT reverse charge" (it still nets to 0€ paid, but there is extra paperwork involved)
3. If the seller and the buyer are in the same EU country, they charge the regular VAT rate

For B2C things are a lot more complicated for cross-border transactions, and there is a difference between selling goods and services. For digital goods, as a seller, you would need to charge the VAT of the country of the _buyer_, and gather two pieces of evidence about the country the buyer resides in, then remit the taxes through the VAT MOSS system. Not fun. That's why Paddle & co are popular.
Haha so what? If I ran an online business I wouldn't attempt compliance with foreign laws
Given how much of a shit-show Debit Suisse has been lately, I’m not sure I’d buy them, even for 1 billion Zimbabwe dollars. Who knows how many more skeletons those closets contain?
After reading the description of the problem, I also had the thought, "Maybe FixedBufferAllocator is a bump allocator?". So before reading further, I checked the documentation to see if I was right. Turns out .. there is no documentation for FixedBufferAllocator?

Here's the documentation page: https://ziglang.org/documentation/master/std/#A;std:heap.Fix.... It just lists a couple methods, most of which have the description "No documentation provided". From those docs, it doesn't even look like there's a way to allocate memory using the FixedBufferAllocator. You might guess that it implements a bump allocator based on the fact that it only has an 'end_index' and a slice, but wow, I feel like an allocator is the kind of thing you really want to have documented well; especially a bump allocator, and especially especially a bump allocator whose name makes it sound like a general purpose allocator which happens to allocate within a fixed buffer.

I knew it was still early for Zig, but that's a bit disappointing.
"UBS has also insisted on a material adverse change that voids the deal if its credit default spreads jump by 100 basis points or more, they added."

Sounds like they want a way out of this deal.