skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Deployment comprises copying the tarball to the server

You must not scale servers up and down very frequently then.

> both steps are done by a release script, so there is a single user-visible step... we do deploy the JDK separately

Wait, so it's not really a single user-visible step. You have one user-visible step to deploy the application server, and a different user-visible step to deploy the JDK.

Look, there's a reason why this way is old-fashioned. If you bought the server outright (i.e. running on-prem/colo), and so it represents a sunk cost, and the usage is all well within the ceiling of what that server is capable of providing, then sure, that's an eminently reasonable setup. If that server is humming along for several years, and electricity/data center costs are cheap, you're probably even saving money.

But in most cloud-first architectures, if you're not scaling down on low-usage times, you're wasting money. Scaling up and down is much, much simpler with immutable infrastructure patterns, and it's much simpler to just replace the entire image - whether that's a VM, or a container, or something else - rather than replacing just the application.
SheepShaver was the successor to the Amiga's ShapeShifter Mac emulator (also written by Christian Bauer). I had fun running Mac OS and games on my Amiga. It also had the interesting property that my Amiga had a 68060 processor, which no Mac had, meaning that it was faster at running 68k apps than any official hardware was.
Can you elaborate? Sounds like a non sequitur to me.
type Kind enum {
Simple,
Complex,
Emacs,
}

const kindStrings [Kind]string = {
"simple",
"complex",
"emacs",
}

func (k Kind) String() string {
return kindStrings[k]
}

func t() {
var a = Kind.Emacs - Kind.Simple // a has type int and value 2
var b = Kind.Simple + Kind.Emacs // type error
var c = Kind.Simple + 1 // type error
var d = len(Kind) // d has type int and value 3

for k := range Kind {
fmt.Printf("%v\n", k) // prints what you expect it to do
}

// not sure about legality or runtime behaviour of the followng
var t = Kind.Emacs
t++
t = Kind(42)
}

Would be nice, not gonna lie.
I feel extremely to have attended one of his keynotes in one network conference once and for the quick opportunity to greet him.

Well deserved.
The impossible job: inside the world of Premier League referees
The Diff Challenge
When the Pandemic Came, the Zoos Shut, and the Animals Began to Act Differently
They are good but not ChatGPT/GPT-4 good which is the standard of good that really blew up lately. Meanwhile Mozilla is investing in… AI ethicists? The most useless segment of the AI landscape? (Information is scarce so maybe this interpretation is wrong.) Well, at least it does align with their other activism.
Less efficient methods were used for gene editing before CRISPR. The candida strain of yeast is likely not used as base for editing or industrial purposes. Given what we have learned about covid's origins, an analysis of the gene in this yeast is probably needed to confirm its origin and quell any suspicions.
> want to download all the pictures or capture a screenshot of the whole web page

This so much. A few sites I use don't offer a way to download invoices, so I rely on screenshots to save a copy.. except for firefox on android (I either take multiple screenshots using android's native screenshot functionality or avoid using firefox completely)
The Beauty of Earth from Orbit
Heck, I'd be OK if the automakers went old school with replaceable stickers/panels.

Hm. Should I patent it? Off to USPTO!
It's a problem of entire Russia. My Asian girlfriend from china was denied to enter a restaurant in Moscow because of her origins...

It's absolutely legal to put restrict your rental apartments nationality. In yandex you can ads like " will lease my house only to russians". It's everywhere.

If you will ride a taxi in russia, an offensive words to other nationalities/ethnicities is everywhere.

The problem is so big, that even non russian/slavic people applied to offend each other. I've been in a taxi when two middle east decent people start screaming to each other "churka" even they are both could apply to this definition.

I personally trying not to invest into anything Russian, simply because that society is very, very sick and they are very far away even from recognition of this problem. They think it's their strength...
I'd say it's a lot closer to Valorant than to the max-saturation graphics of Fortnite. But I think they found a good balance, it still looks like you can take the world seriously imho.
How do we get early access?
> It's an endurance test.

From the company point of view that might make sense if they don't think about the consequences. But for the person, since we all know that usually any such projects are silently rejected without explanation it's totally not worth the effort.

Having been on the inside watching some people review take-home projects and arbitrarily reject them for the most random reasons ("I don't like the way he writes comments, what a loser") I also have zero faith on them being evaluated fairly.

The only way I'd ever consider doing any kind of endurance project for an interview is if the company guarantees results if I put in the effort. Could be something like: Write code to interact with and/or provide these well-documented APIs, it'll be run against a test suite where I can see the results and it needs to meet xyz performance criteria and if you can deliver it in X hours or less we guarantee a competitive offer. Only then would it be worth the work.

But to spend a lot of time just to be ghosted? Big no to that.
I suppose it depends on your background and goals. Most non-techies I've worked with find it easier to learn Arduino than an entire Linux stack.

On the other-hand, if you have existing software that you want to move over to a small system, then a platform with a widely supported OS is going to be easier.
Re-reading the comment, I misunderstood what they were saying the counterargument to MMT was. But I still think they're wrong. The rest of the world accepts all sorts of things that we might not expect, such as a debt to GDP ratio over 100. A lot of conventional economic arguments are rigorously weak, and while I think policy recommendations from the MMT camp are very debatable, I find their model to be thoroughly thought through.
Yep, Dark Sky's way is standard. Weather.com and the like show the next low. Today in my area is actually the perfect example, currently ~40f. It shows a high of ~55f and a low of ~53f.

Apple's weather app shows a low of ~40f.
> As a result, regardless of tick rate, your moving and shooting will be equally responsive and your grenades will always land the same way.

Is this a signal that they will reduce tick rate? Based off what they said, what would the reason be not to?

I’m familiar with tick rate as a user but I’m not sure how it manifests in the code/hardware. Like, if it’s some setting they can easily change or if it’s the consequence of something else. I wonder if they can easily reduce it to lower costs or something.
Let me give you a different perspective than "employers want power" etc. Not everyone can work remotely. Remote 100% is not always the answer. If you are entry level and want to learn from your peers and seniors, nothing beats in person collaboration. Nothing. People can claim otherwise and it may be true for a small percentage of people but if you have less than 3 years of real professional experience, 100% remote is a bad idea.

The answer is hybrid (my opinion) and even though it may be true that employers have commercial real estate and all, but if productivity was really up, why would they care ? The truth is that there are many people who either are not a good fit for 100% remote (juniors) or use 100% remote to do things that they wouldn't be able to otherwise (overemployed, slacking off further) etc.
>When a light wave enters the new time interface and the device changes its optical properties, the signal keeps moving forward in space. However, the signal gets reversed—if it was a spoken word, it would sound as if it was getting played backwards. In contrast, with a conventional reflection, a light or sound wave would travel back at its source but mostly look or sound the same as it did before

So it's reflecting in a novel way. It's not sending information into the past. The headline gave me the wrong impression. Relativity lives. Time travel doesn't exist.
We're unlikely to ever actually run out. Ethernet addresses are expected to be universally unique, but they're only required to be unique within a collision domain. If someone started reusing addresses from 3c503s, chances are high nobody would notice. If we did run out, devices would need to start generating randomized addresses, and maybe probe for collisions, which isn't unworkable; the number of nodes in a collision domain tends to be low, and the space is large, you might only barely need to to probe for collisions at all if you have a good random source.
> people in Cupertino pay lower overall taxes than people in Austin

Only because most people who can afford to buy in Cupertino aren't paying for it with earned income, right? Google tells me a $2.5M mortgage has minimum payments of $230k a year, anyone who makes enough to afford that is probably paying at least $50k/year in CA state income tax, on top of ~$25k in property taxes. Austin has high property taxes but I don't see them coming anywhere close to that, and the sales tax is lower.
For me it is solely a financial motivator. I've not had any reason to expect that jobs will keep my skills marketable or allow me to develop true knowledge in a relevant tech stack. Being away from them is the only reason I've been able to really foster much of anything. Yes, there is part of working for a larger organization that can put me in a position to use more resources in the pursuit but I've yet to find a position that truly made good use of my skillset and allowed me to grow. As it is most of my jobs have been a lost opportunity cost. I'd much rather work on something where I can develop myself alongside it.
Are suppliers using media news stories about supply chain issues in order to hike prices and increase profits?
Which is great! You only had to exert a bunch of extra effort, and it sounds like you've enjoyed the results.

Now read some stories from women who've also made that extra effort and then some, having more experience and knowledge than the mechanics trying to rip them off, and still being given the runaround more often than not.

A shady mechanic will be shady to some degree to everyone to the degree they think they can get away with it. No amount of self-education on the part of women lets them escape the shadiness.
It appears it just uses infrared sensors, not cameras.
Here is an article on it:

https://www.yahoo.com/video/everything-bigger-texas-includin...

But basically the higher property taxes and additional taxes and fees that Texan's pay on consumption, like energy taxes, end up more than making up for the lack of income tax, unless you're a top 1% earner (which is somewhere around $700k/yr). Energy tax is a big one because Texan's use a lot more energy since they have hotter summers and colder winters.
This is huge! I looked at every home listed on Zillow in my area for months before checking out 2 in person and submitting an offer on 1, which was thankfully accepted.
Thats not the excuse they were giving...
> 1. Build a better browser. People browse a lot.

We're at the point of marginal returns on nearly all of our "traditional" tech (browsers, cell phones, gaming, etc, etc).

There just isn't room for enough improvement in the browsing experience to be "that much better" for people to switch.
You might be surprised at how much land and sea trade was going on across Eurasia at the time.
Variable tick-rate, volumetric smokes, Source 2 engine. It will be AMAZING!
The Lighthouse at the Edge of the Universe
It's definitely not considered high status here to be positive about anything
TLDR

"being a jerk gets you rich, promoted, and laid. Being a jerk is sounding pretty attractive."

and much later

"when he gets found out — when people fully realize what he is — then he will be alone and outcast"
This project is interesting, we at https://www.databoutique.com are building something similar, a curated dataset marketplace for web scraping data.
We believe that using standardization, quality controls and high density verticals, we can cut prices and time to value for web scraping data.
This looks like a nice option, but no android app
Valve is getting rid of tick rate entirely. Here is a video which explains it briefly: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GqhhFl5zgA0
I can't help but remember back when they got purchased and we Android users lamented that we were losing it and Apple was going to ruin it, and many of the responses were "Haha, you should've bought an iPhone, Dark Sky is going to be great with Apple's financial support!"
The housing is just one aspect. They do this the same thing to the entire economy.
Best of luck! Here's one paper I referenced for a starting point, may be the most useful one (not sure..been a while..) https://journals.ametsoc.org/view/journals/atot/35/3/jtech-d...
Semantic-visual shared knowledge graph for zero-shot learning
Does anyone know how they used the slurs?
It is still used by some, but most importantly it shows a lack of portability. In the past the view that "all the world's a VAX" hampered portability, now we have "Everything is MacOS/Windows/Linux"... yet lots of properly designed software is easily ported to all kinds of platforms, even the BeOS-derived Haiku...
Ask HN: Are there banks/crypto companies immune to bank run?
With SVB and other banks having issues now, with crypto companies with stable coins (UST for example) collapsing, I’m wondering why there is no bank/crypto company that just holds your money 1:1, so even there is a bank run they can return all the money. You need some revenue to operate a company, but you can do it by charging customers a monthly fee and keep money as is without investing it anywhere and do not provide deposit/loans services, just storing your money and providing money transfer services (wire, checks, debit cards). Is it just eventually any company would love to earn more, so they invest it in some assets thus increasing the risk or something else?
I think a big problem is that there are few choices because of constant consolidation. This is reflected in two ways:

a) every big tech company tries to do a ton of stuff. I'm not happy with this weather app. Usually the market would reflect this by me buying a different weather app. However, Apple isn't in the weather app market, they are in the phone and computer market. If I buy a different weather app, Apple actually gets more money! Buying a different phone because Apple made the decision to kill my favorite weather app is now muddled in with so many other factors and Apple and their shareholders are unlikely to link a drop in phone sales to killing the weather app. Now I also need to look at the very few real competitors and probably have issues with them as well. It's a mess because they all do too much. Maybe I don't want Android devices because Google built Bart without disclosing training sources. What a mess!

b) someone builds something nice and it just gets killed by an incumbant. No real competition between most startups and incumbants. It's more like a buyer/seller relation

I'd love to see this all fixed in my utopia by prohibiting acquisitions and instead force companies to fight for customers. But I'm sure that would need to happen globally to avoid putting our own companies at a disadvantage where they'll just get their lunch stolen by companies that aren't limited like that. I'm also sure this solution has other side effects I cannot think of.
I use copilot, and I feel that it is useful about 40% of the time. Most of the time the suggestions are not what I'm going for, sometime the suggestions are close or help me think through the solution easier, and occasionally spot on and I can tab complete the code.

I've noticed that the suggestion quality/usefulness varies considerably between projects and programming languages. For a self-contained bash script, it is incredibly useful. For a rails application, less so.
Yeah maybe we need to leave these sort of high level discussions to experts and the media... Ordinary people don't have any business discussing these issues because they don't have the expertise and the credentials
I suppose HELOCs can’t get margin called so that’s probably right.
Related: Weather apps could in general be better, not just in terms of visualization. One thing which always annoys me is how they handle rain predictions. They give "probabilities" for rain. But what do those mean? The probability that it rains for at least one minute in the given time frame? And with at least x mm/inches of rain coming down? And isn't a low probability of short and weak rain totally different from a equally low probability of strong or long rain?

But there is a perfectly elegant alternative: Just use the expected amount of rainfall. The epected value combines both amount and probability of rainfall in one single number, without being highly arbitrary like other approaches, such as the usual reporting of plain "probabilities" with unclear interpretation.

(Of course one could add to the expected rainfall amount also the variance, to distinguish more certain predictions from more uncertain ones, though this information might often not even be that important.)
Yandex has definitely made it extremely easy to leverage their tech, by selecting to use the Apache 2.0 license.
Maybe I'm too cynical, but this type of 'climate optimism' sounds like green washed vaporware.
"Sub-tick updates are the heart of Counter-Strike 2. Previously, the server only evaluated the world in discrete time intervals (called ticks). Thanks to Counter-Strike 2’s sub-tick update architecture, servers know the exact instant that motion starts, a shot is fired, or a ‘nade is thrown."

Not sure what it means but it's probably related to the rollback tech in the source 1 engine, which is pretty outdated.
I can confirm that only about half of my bathrooms are like this...
Property taxes are a lot lower in California because of Prop 13. For a new buyer, they are about the same. But after just a few years, the Texas property tax will be much higher because California property tax pretty much doesn't go up after you buy. Also energy taxes soak Texans because they use a lot more energy than in California due to the hotter summers and colder winters.
Realistically you will need to use an RTOS for threads and scheduling on a micro.
While you're back there, convince people to do IP truncation rather than fragmentation. Truncation would probably be a lot more useful at lower cost than fragmentation, and maybe path MTU problems wouldn't still be an issue. *grumble*grumble*
Interesting, I will watch that when I get a chance. Maybe it addresses some of these thoughts already.

I wonder how much this is just reframing the concepts though. It kinda seems like they are just increasing tick rate tremendously because the type of system we call tick rate has changed.

I mean, there has to be some interval at which the game is updated right? Wouldn’t that be the tick rate?
Some spaces have rules about who can join. Try out some for freelancers.
I respectfully disagree, I don't believe the literary quality matches someone who graduated from one of Canada's top business schools with really good grades.
.NET Framework will be supported for much longer than that. It is used in many internal Windows components including MMC snap-ins, ADFS, and other Microsoft technologies like Exchange and Sharepoint.

Or maybe it will not be supported as in "we won't provide support for any applications needing .NET Framework, but they may or may not still work"?
> If you think AOC and Trump's level of corruption are even within one order of magnitude of each other then you need to seriously question how you evaluate the information you are receiving. Trump is orders of magnitude more self-serving, greedy, full of avarice, corrupt, and debased than any other politician in the U.S. right now.
Trump's son-in-law made billions during Trump's Presidency. Trump forced the Secret Service to stay at his hotels while he traveled and charged exorbitant prices. The list of examples goes on. There is nothing remotely comparable about AOC and Trump when it comes to corruption.

Corruption != Grifting

Nice try though.
I've been hearing about Source 2 port of CSGO since 2015. Now I can't believe it actually happened. When I quit playing a few years ago I was at over 5000h played. I might add a couple hundred for old times sake
Another datapoint, first hand report from a random internet person that 7B took 2.5-3hrs on a 8xA100 80Gb setup. If it ends up being a straight up linear thing, that means about ~27 hours for the 65B model. Depending on the host and if it's a preemptable instance or not, that could be about $12-30 per hour.
Isn't google analytics + excel enough ?
I used to use only this to report my PPC metrics and it was fine.
There are plenty of solutions but it was very simple and easy to do.
Maybe you should just look for an Excel template ?

But maybe you can look at https://www.kpitracker.io/
> As a photographer I'm livid that Amazon bought DPReview just to run it into the ground.

Amazon ran it for longer (13 years) than it's original owner (12 years). That's not "run it into the ground".

Complaints are more convincing (I don't like dpreview being closed either) when they are reasonable.
Well, I tried to install this on Android and was met with "unable to connect to server."

I wonder if Carrot is using the Dark Sky API.
But just like building more roads induces more demand by making driving more attractive, this will lower the cost of custom software development and create new demand. Perhaps one day soon it will be affordable for every company of every size to have a fully custom ERP solution instead of shoehorning their business processes into Salesforce or the like. Perhaps every family will have a custom app managing their household's smart home appliances, childrens' allowances, autonomous vehicles, home maintenance, bill payment, child homework tracking, etc. in an integrated system.
There is no such thing as removing tick rate, the video is confusing, I think it's improvement with rollback and also gameplay improvements with how grenades work etc ...
> if a fungi could have wiped us out, it would already have

If a fungus could have already wiped out entire amphibian species, why didn't it to so before?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chytridiomycosis
Ah, please don't get me wrong: I love playing with old tech too. The first computer I used was some 386 or 486 machine running Windows 3.11, it even had a turbo button and a 5.25" floppy drive. Really wish we still had that thing.

It's just my path never crossed PowerPC's, so I don't have the nostalgia for them that I do for classic x86 hardware. Regardless I'm sure they are an important piece of computing history.
Nah Fortnite is much more vibrant especially since the new Unreal
engine update https://youtu.be/O6GC8TZbJmI

It’s more colorful for sure but still looks “pale”
Who cares ?
Great work by the team. Let's see how it all feels when the game comes out. The new smokes will have a massive impact in competitive play, perhaps more so for the entertainment value which comes from all the live events throughout the year.

Good for Richard Lewis who pretty much put his reputation on the line by calling out the fact that the release was coming. [0]

[0]: https://richardlewis.substack.com/p/sources-yes-counter-stri...
How is it possible for AI to be "trustworthy"? I don't think Mozilla understands what AI should be doing nor their position as "barons who advance the web" could be doing with AI.

AI is not a web browser or a web service or a web utility. Interactive AI is a mixer masher of info and works.

As others have said, this is another way Mozilla is trying to stay relevant after losing the browser market.