skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The stack is very volatile and unmaintainable because it doesn't need to be maintainable. Exactly why we have unmaintainable software in other domains. During the last 10 years there are ALWAYS totally new model architecture with new operations (or in case of CV new bizarre uses of Conv). By the time you get your performant perfectly maintainable masterpiece ready it's not needed anymore. The stack optimizes for flexibility and iteration speed naturally, just like why people use Rails.

In fact I'd love to see that Transformer really dominates. We can then start to converge on software. And compute-wise transformers are really simple, too!
Pretty much everything you've stated is either false or a distortion.
I'II leave it there.
Elon has said he wanted more reach and experimented with getting it. He also loves attention and tweets a ton.

There’s benefit of the doubt then there’s just… whatever the polar opposite of that is.
I have some kind of CFS / Fibro and I meed to avoid alcohol (mostly)
and train at the gym to keep up with the average person who does what they want. But I remember back in the day a heavy night out per week means a constant state of fog. For what really.
Fascinating. thank you.
> I don't personally think that there are reasonable use-cases for human users with 5 million files.

% find $HOME -type f | wc -l

4969169

Almost 5M there.
If you do things you really want to do you'll find yourself concentrating wonderfully. Maybe there's something else you'd rather be working on.
I pay for 5 TB and planned to use the drive to store a copy of my data.

Things I store that have lots of files:

- The frames for my Timelapse videos = 400,000 files

- The files in my Eagle app photo database = 400,000 files

- Other image files, my programming repositories, documents, music, stable diffusion Deforum frames = 400,000 files

80% of these files I've accumulated in the last 12 months and can see myself easily hitting this 5,000,000 file limit well before I run out of TB's

So now I know I will never be able to use all the space I'm paying for, I'm going to stop uploading my files and instead search for a proper backup service, something I should of researched in the first place.

Anyone here have any recommendations for a backup service?
Fair point, thanks.
*as if the US is the only country out there
Yea! Our FE is React/Next and BE is a mix of Supabase, Pinecone, BigQuery and QStash. and mix of HF endpoints and PoplarML in our batch for some embedding models
What corrective actions can be taken by the average American?
All in all this seems to be "graph databases, only the simplest parts", and yeah sure SQL can be coerced to traverse an acyclic directed graph, doesn't make for a very efficient not interesting solution for the general case.

Also calling a graph database a serialized tree structure seems quite a stretch.
> Average life expectancy for a man in the US is still higher than a man in Scotland

A quick check says this is not true, with the US being at 74 and Scotland at 76. I don't know which sources are correct though, but maybe you can post yours since I didn't find that anywhere.
Do you mean Jacky Dorsy?
You went to the effort of creating a new account just so you could be that snarky and flippant?

Hope you have a better weekend than this and that you maybe spend some time working on yourself.
I think the answer to this is to adopt Land Value Taxes. This would naturally incentivize property improvement and dis-incentivize people from owning large swaths of unproductive land. Communities would grow upward before they grow outward. Infrastructure costs would drop significantly and communities (over time) would become more walkable.
Obama visited Flynt. Even drank the water.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u2ZynkD3N_k
I’ve never had a problem with NFS, and modern filers would laugh at 3 million files.

I really dislike Google Drive. I can’t imagine people would use it at all if not for the fact that it’s bundled, monopoly style, with the office suite and gmail.

Since Google won’t ever fix it, I’m hoping they rapidly make it so crappy some other competitor crops up.

Of course, with our luck, it’ll be some Microsoft offering.

I wish software would stop getting worse.
I have never found much value in these distinctions or analogies, particularly because the top tier is usually 'software engineering' which I find to be largely self-congratulatory given there are basically no requirements around ethics or rigor to claim oneself as an 'engineer' (at least outside of Canada who ruled recently that software engineers aren't engineers, IIRC - read that article a while ago).
wouldn’t it have saved you time to ask chatgpt instead?

if you would consider using it to answer others, why not to answer yourself?

your question puts your question into question.
> You're basically just running the heat pump backwards to provide heat instead of air conditioning

It is absolutely not that simple. Even a passing knowledge of heat pump technology as actually implemented would dispel that simplistic idea.

For example, one of the biggest issues to contend with is condensation. Making your outside fan unit cold instead of hot will quickly destroy it due to moisture accumulating in ways that were not expected.
This pattern holds in many bases:

1.0 1 1
1.4 12 21
2.111111111111111 123 321
3.020618556701031 1234 4321
4.002680965147453 12345 54321
5.000262295081967 123456 654321
6.000020444462617 1234567 7654321
7.000001321561743 12345678 87654321
8.0000000729 123456789 987654321
9.000000003504939 123456789a a987654321
10.00000000014928 123456789ab ba987654321
11.000000000005706 123456789abc cba987654321
12.000000000000197 123456789abcd dcba987654321
13.000000000000007 123456789abcde edcba987654321
14.0 123456789abcdef fedcba987654321

https://ideone.com/DvljON
To be fair to the Unix people, almost everyone got disruptive technologies like PCs wrong, especially back then. PCs actually were garbage for the tasks that people used minis and mainframes for... but they enabled different tasks.
I’m not sure this is fair - a lot of the performance optimisations have come from applied mathematicians rather than programmers, and python is not generally considered to be the bottleneck (it is the interface rather than what is running the computation - it calls a C API which then often uses CUDA and may also run on hardware specifically designed for ML).
https://web.archive.org/web/20230327174335/https://www.lapha...
So where is the device that I can buy and put next to my house plants so I’ll hear when they are thirsty?
My Ioniq 5 and (iirc) Teslas charge better if you use the native nav, as it starts preconditioning when a charger is the destination. For mine in particular, I’m not sure there’s another way to fire off preconditioning. May or may not matter but it can make a difference in cold.
What about expats without pan card?
What are the paths to learn new language with it
Not for me :(
In ML python is effectively the interface rather than the bit that is doing the heavy lifting.

The interface is designed to be easy to use (python) and the bit that is actually doing the work is designed to be heavily performant (which is C & CUDA and may even be running on a TPU).
Backblaze seems decent
Zoom for me but not for thee?
Qualified Immunity only protects the individual. You can still sue the department or city.
Yeah, I've been using python for the first time in a while to try out some of the llm stuff and I can't believe how bad the dependency hell is. It's probably particularly bad due to the pace of change in this field. But I spend an hour getting dependencies fixed every time I touch anything. 80% of the Google Collabs I find are just outright broken. I wish there were other viable non python options to try out these things.
A lot of it is. And yet, it works so well it conquered the world.
I very much agree with the author's thesis here. I think there is a kind of derangement especially among SV types about making every job about rescuing the world. And I think it comes from exactly this place of the human need for spirituality which is currently starved. But I had to screech the breaks for a second at this conjecture.

> Their work was a matter of subsistence and necessity; it was not a race for status or an existential search for meaning.

As far as I can tell, this cannot be farther from the truth. Pre-industrial people explicitly found existential meaning in their labor.

Their culture, religion and traditions enveloped every aspect of life. Their spiritual frameworks provided direction on everything like how to milk a cow, how to prepare meals, whom to marry and how to raise children.

Milking a cow and raising a child were responsibilities conveyed by a celestial benefactor. The proper execution of both paid praise and showed thankfulness to that benefactor. In this way labor was suffused with meaning.

Humans lost this for sure. This is partly why labor strife was so intense during the industrial era. People were not just stripped of their standard of living but also of a huge part of their ability to structure the world around them. Without a labor environment suffused with meaning they became desperate. It took their agency and dignity. The Luddites for example were driven more by disdain for the subservience the factory system creates than by a fear of total displacement.

This kind of modernist/progressive thinking towards history is probably the worst thing people take away from high school and undergrad history courses. It's so misleading and it creates this psychic barrier that most people never break down.
I don't think so. If the token was "author_is_jake" for example, it would have changed to "author_is_ceo" on second pass
There isn't really anything comparable - there's too much cruft and too many platforms, devices, and peripherals to support, so the simple close-to-the-hardware OS isn't all that practical anymore. Maybe one of the realtime operating systems for microcontrollers are simple enough? Parallax has some products that are fun to play around with as well as being technically interesting and quite capable (they're discontinuing the P2 eval board in favor of their modules, so you can get a decent deal right now, too).
NY tried that forced registration trick. Look up the compliance rates for it sometime.
On the other hand, I kinda loathe Bootstrap. I started web dev a bit after it peaked so maybe that's why but I'm so sick of the look and find it hard to think people ever thought it was good.

Another trend Twitter popularized that I can't wait to die: absurdly large border-radiuses
As an affluent tech industry Australian living in the US (Bay Area) I’d say there’s very little practical difference in my standard of living here compared to back home. It’s more the poorer parts of society here where the figures quoted in the article apply and that feels just as removed from my life here as it does to you sitting in Australia. The US is a big place.
I sure hope this is not an April fool's joke
A history of the test scene: Digital Photography Review
If I was teaching anybody programming I would teach them to copy the folder over every time they added a new feature, rather than teach them git at the same time.

With some C++ libraries or node_modules that can run up fast.
I've used Backblaze for years and never had a problem. There's no upload file/data limit, but downloading it back can be slow. There's an option for them to mail you a hard drive but I never tried it.
Today is the last day. Perhaps the email will arrive very soon or perhaps you were not selected. Either way, good luck in your journey.
Lame April Fool's joke. It sure would be nice if Snaps would go away though.
Would it in theory be possible to back up only 1 file (of several TB in size), your disk as a block device file, here? Or would this require reuploading the entire disk every time any single file inside changes rather than only the blocks that changed?
> The plume of chemical vapors covered a significant proportion this country's breadbasket.

Does anybody have a scientific (not clickbait) citation for this?

The quick HYSPLIT plume simulation I ran[0] showed the plume crossing over New England on its way to the Atlantic. There is agriculture there, but I would hardly describe it as the nation's bread basket.

Don't get me wrong, there's a lot of contamination of the food supply from pesticides and soil-accumulating heavy metals in fertilizers. Buying local and organic food isn't paranoid, but it would be a mistake to over-attribute these pollution sources to the East Palestine incident.

[0] https://www.ready.noaa.gov/hypub-bin/hyresults.pl?jobidno=28...
ah that's empathic, presumptuous, reads more like a disclaimer but maybe it affects them personally.

could just as easily be "aspirational". or happenstance. unnecessary feeling toward this observation.
> pretty much works like before

... did you see the source code? Blue checkmarks are weighted 4x as much as non-checkmarks. That's just one example of a major change that wouldn't have happened were it not for Elon
Also, run zpool scrub regularly to detect and repair any corruption early.
1964: Arthur C Clarke predicts the future
It is, article links to wikipedia page for april fool's day.

Sure got me.
Human sociality was, in our evolutionary environment, built on reciprocity. Tribes were complex webs of interdependence and mutual aid. The closest to that today is inside firms, where transactions are not mediated through markets but instead depend on relationships, personal favours, power hierarchies etc.

It's hardly surprising that work plays an increasingly central role in everyone's lives when the alternatives are ersatz forms of sociality where people who share no common interest whatsoever get together under the pretence of 'having fun'. Anecdotally a lot of people I know who lived through long lockdowns realised that they didn't really miss having to make small-talk with strangers at parties. It might look like lockdowns greatly impaired their social life, but their social life was mostly a chore anyway. The weekend life of meeting people for drinks or hobbies etc. is failing not because people don't put in enough effort, but because that's not how humans bond, and they've in fact put in a lot of effort in an approach which hasn't paid dividends.
It's also programming, and coding, and developing. They're all synonyms.

Or rather, they're used by different companies for the same type of jobs, some people make distinctions that other people don't know about, terms go in and out of fashion. They're all essentially synonyms because if there are differences, nobody agrees on them and there is no context in which they matter.

Same for junior, medior, senior, et cetera.

Except for architects. They're ex programmers.
Or big cloud platform could give some compute for free, give back some of the profit they get from oss.
Which is exactly what Google was found to be doing for Bard with ShareGPT.
In short, having someone on the inside recommend you is better. Thanks, Captain Obvious.
Windows do snap to edges, maybe it’s too subtle to notice.
https://rsync.net

https://backblaze.com

https://jottacloud.com
April Fools jokes are supposed to be funny and lighthearted. This one is just going to crush anyone it fools.
What’s wrong with vast.ai? You’d be probably looking at $2/hr. So like $50 for the whole fine-tuning.
Python is the 2nd best language for everything.

It doesn’t excel at anything, but anything a software can do, it can be done in Python somehow.

So, a great pick when you’ve got no idea where you’re going to, when you’re prototyping, when you don’t care about performance or perfection.

I agree that for large scale systems when you already know what you’re doing, Python shows its limits quite soon (and we should add the problems with missing/slow type checking that slows down large scale systems development).
As a correction, the first three were failures and Musk himself acknowledges that had the fourth failed they would have folded:

https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2017/09/29/elon-musk-9-years-ago-sp...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falcon_1#Launches
> ZFS doesn’t handle that well generally.

Can you expand on that?

The purpose and benefit of a zfs mirror is that every disk in the mirror contains everything. So it's expensive in space usage, but great for reliability. As long as any one of the disks in a mirror survives, you can recover everything.
What? Why would you teach someone to do things the wrong way?
Good point and this is some of the reason I am getting a bit more serious about open source coding and writing on a blog. Although friends and coworkers are good they tend to work in the kinda places you already worked, so it is harder to make a quantum leap that way.
Putnam asked "can a parabola of arc length 4 fit inside the unit circle?"

Should be simple for a computer to just try every parabola but all the LLMs try to solve it like a human would (and get it wrong)
Just tried this in both English and Korean. Fumbled a bit with voice control but worked well once I got it going. Very nice. Korean prompts got translated to English so had to tell ChatGPT to respond in Korean to get full non-English UX.

Well done.
Immediately before this accident, the rail workers were striking over inadequate safety rules.

Multiple trains derailed in East Palistine. Netflix even filmed a documentary about it there.

Knowing all that, both parties sided with the railways and voted to force the rail workers back to work.

Post accident, audio recordings of a railway supervisor ordering safety inspectors to ignore safety issues were released.

Poisoning an entire town is not a good look for either the Democrats or the Republicans, so the CDC has every political incentive possible to downplay this incident, regardless of who wins the next election.
I do like Array.prototype.includes vs. Element.classList.contains also which APIs use promises vs. callbacks vs. events. Like I said, JavaScript is the grandmaster of mixing and mashing idioms.
Regardless of how people feel about work, no government agency should ever aim for job creation as a goal. The irony of modern life is that it's often people who don't need to work who enjoy work the most... The game is fun to them mostly because it's rigged in their favor. On the other side, when the game is rigged against you, it's hard to think of anything worse. If I could get the same salary as I do now to literally stare at a wall and watch paint dry, I would do it and I'm not even joking. At least that would free up my my mind to wander, plan, reflect - Something which I'm desperate to do more of but don't have the time; can't afford it.

I'm 100% sure that I hate working in the current economy because the best time in my life was when I didn't have to work for 2 years, even though I was earning very little (just enough for basic needs). There's nothing better than having nothing to do and being able to choose what to do. Watching paint dry is second place, working is the worst.
sounds like `He who remains`
Totally had me until this line:

>Not everyone is happy with the decision, of course.

Gave it away
What do I do if I want to "go back" to church but I don't believe? Speaking personally, and without spilling a few paragraphs of text here, it seems like that's where I am today.
Velocicaster – Oscilloscope Nonsence
Cool graphics with oscilloscope. Hacking at it's finest.
This made me hate Snap and Canonical even more than I used too.
Fool's Gold Loaf
Europe is only a tiny fraction of the world, though.

Compared to India, Japan, Singapore and (depending on the metric) China, the US looks clearly left of center. Compared to most of the Middle East, the US looks extremely left-wing.
American social media companies have the benefit of a large homogenous deeply interconnected culture with a vast ad buying community. Simply put, a U.S. social media platform can get more revenue with less effort than a European counterpart (because they have to go country by country, language community by language community), and will generally outcompete those EU counterparts, with social network reinforcement effects doing the rest. This holds up for most ad-supported online services, which together with a much stronger private investment sector is the reason American platforms absolutely dominate Europe. The EU has a stronger government subsidy system for software but that system does not reward or expect market success, which is why it delivers very little value.
Hi Ken_At_EM, thanks for looking into our code! Our approach with context managers for defining "belonging" in NiceGUI resembles the nesting of elements in HTML. By implementing the __enter__ and __exit__ methods, we can manage the context when used with a "with" expression. In NiceGUI, elements pass down to the default_slot (https://github.com/zauberzeug/nicegui/blob/main/nicegui/elem...), which is a 1:1 representation of Vue slots.

We maintain a slot stack (https://github.com/zauberzeug/nicegui/blob/main/nicegui/slot...) to keep track of the current context (see http://127.0.0.1:8080/documentation#auto-context). When creating a new element, it finds its parent slot on the slot stack (https://github.com/zauberzeug/nicegui/blob/main/nicegui/elem...).

What do you think. Does it make sense? We appreciate your feedback!
SpinLaunch is going to cannibalize the small sat launch market. No one will be able to compete with largely eliminating the first stage.
Or a really slow talker?

High WPM might be achievable with shorthand though.
It's only when you are the product that you actually need to prove you are human
"translate requirements into working software systems" demonstrates fundamental misunderstanding what programmers do. It is a decades old and rather common misconception. It is why there is "mythical" in the Mythical man-month book (1975).

More https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35297082
sounds like you need a timeout. i know that feeling from burnout. not a doctor etc.
'buzz' doesn't usually come with examples!
> data needs to be validated regularly and cycled to a new media every 5-10 years in order to ensure it’s safe and easily accessible

I used to do that but found it to be a gamble. I have files back to the 80s, so I rotated them from 5.25" floppies to 3.5" floppies to zip drives to CD-R and the DVD-R. But it's a fragile system, files can get corrupted somewhere along the line and if I didn't migrate in time it can be hard to go back. For instance I lost a handful of files during the iomega zip drive phase when the drive died and I had no way to recover (and the files weren't that important to try to source a new iomega drive).

Now I simply keep everything online in a big zfs mirror pool.
> but rather social problems like drug overdoses, gun violence, and car accidents.

I think you could make a reasonable argument that much of these actually are healthcare problems. But either way, investment in looking after people is the solution, what that looks like is probably more controversial.
We understand the need for a solid Electron-like solution with a Python backend and good deployment tools, and that's where NiceGUI aims to fill the gap with it's 1.2 release (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35386990).
Overly generalized rant.

Sure some jobs happen outside the resume submission system, but most of the employment market works via resume submission.

There’s no value in reading this post.
You keep saying this as if it’s some profound wisdom.
> The freedom convoy and it's repression with suspension of constitutional rights

This was needed because the convoy of morons was seriously damaging people's quality of life and the local police did not do their job. The police in other towns DID do their job and blocked the trucks. You should be mad at the cops who just sat by and watched the convoy of morons roll in with their thumbs up their butt.
Please don't flag it @dang , just preppend "April 1st joke: " to the title
snap firefox crashes all the time

it can't just be me
Forced air Furnaces cause health issues when the filter isn't changed very often, or there is dust in the ducts. Best form of heating is under floor radiant heating.