skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Trying to figure out what's unique here, but it seems like Proxmox is being used to create VMs that then run docker. Then docker on these VMs is used to spin up a bunch of containers. So really, it's just Proxmox -> VM -> Docker -> Containers. So it's dedicated docker VMs to coordinate containers...

I was expecting Proxmox's LXC capabilities to be used to scale up to 13000, but this is just VMs + docker allowing that. Seems like the same thing could be done with any LVM hypervisor and VMs? Can someone correct me if I'm missing something?
For what it’s worth, the phonics book you mentioned was worse than useless for my child. After hearing from friends whose son was reading at four about how great this book was, we tried it out for months. It didn’t go well and eventually we gave up. Our daughter took things at her own pace and only really learned to read in second grade. Now she’s a voracious reader, writer, and straight-A computer science student in her junior year of college.

The lesson I took from all of this is that kids learn things, even basic things, very differently from each other or from their parents. Any school that insists on a single way to teach a particular basic skill is going to leave some non-trivial number of students behind.
I don't know how Bing is any better. I tried Bing today and the results are awful! The search results page is very bloated and there's too much going on everywhere. Too much irrelevant information. What surprises me is that they managed to make content look like ads, irrelevant and noisy.

Comparing the screens to Brave Search, I'm surprised how good Brave Search is. Not only are the results much better, but the UI is super-clean! There's only digestible information and no bloat.
If it is not phonemic, what is it? It is not necessarily "regular" or "uniform" in the phonemes that are represented, but you can't consider it anything other than phonetic, as the characters represent phonemes. Pretty much period.

As said in other threads, you are not wrong that there are more direct 1:1 scripts to phonemes. You are wrong to think that is what phonetic means.
If anyone can verify that Cache as RAM actually works on AMD though or explain how AMD boots without it that would be great:

>Cache-as-RAM (CAR) is no longer a supportable feature in AMD hardware.

https://git.furworks.de/coreboot-mirror/coreboot/commit/a245...
Just one example: the firmware for some piece of hardware could control the DC biasing of the device. Set the bias incorrectly and now you're drawing more current than is safe for the hardware and drastically reduce the lifetime.
Other than a 30-year fixed mortgage?
There is no safety-certified Linux. As far as I know there was no safety-certified QNX 6 either (QOS 1.0 was based on QNX 6.5 SP1, which is not the same as QNX 6 despite the numbers looking eerily similar).

With a safety-certified system, you do not receive a patch because it violates the safety certification. Of course, you can get a patch and use it but then you're responsible for safety-certifying the entire stack including the closed-source vendor code, and best of luck.
so without a default search engine what happens when you type some words in the address bar like every user has been trained to do?
I wonder what the value add in India is.
The public education system in the US is ~6 hours per day, ~180 days per year. Of course anybody with the means is supplementing that.
And they could close overnight from lack of millions of users.

Apple is not required to make it “download file and double click” easy, the best course for action would be making it relatively hard to enable so that no one’s grandma will be able to follow the instructions.
Google absolutely could spend 10-20% of what they currently do and just have absolutely massive margins. The problem is they'd get regulated.
Was it a miss? I think it’s too early to say.
Here's a snippet I use for this kind of thing:

(defun my/org-insert-wikipedia-link ()
(interactive)
(apply-to-region (lambda (string)
"Convert a string to a link to English Wikipedia"
(concat "[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/" (subst-char-in-string ? ?_ string) "][" string "]]"))))

I imagine you could do something similar for the other examples in the post. Makes adding these links pretty painless.
How so?

I think it's clear that the references to 1984 are being used as explanation, not evidence.
What is EE?
Several other financial institutions offer similar or higher yields with higher FDIC insured limits (eg Betterment's cash reserve), with the additional advantage that the account isn't locked to a particular hardware vendor.
Looking at them and their focus on AI, and especially stuff like the "Summarize Page" feature, I'm quite against them! We don't need more search engines that take traffic away from websites.

I understand that I can simply not use those features, but I don't want to support a search engine that does not support its search results.
My "favorite" part was '"read" this word I have covered with a sticky note'.

You need X-ray vision like Superman to actually read that.

Scratch that, it was recorded video, so even Superman couldn't do that, you'd need a time machine in addition to the X-ray vision.
RE the OP's work to add probability-weighted state transitions, more generally TLA+ doesn't have the ability to talk about state transitions (i.e. actions in TLA+) themselves in a first class way, which makes certain invariants very annoying or impossible to state (e.g. we will converge after no more than 5 steps). I wonder if there's a clean way to extend TLA+ to cover these cases. Admittedly they don't come up that frequently.
It's really hard to read long winded literary analysis when there's ads at the top, bottom, and inserted between every paragraph or two.

Good job web team you made consuming your content a chore!

A Farewell to Arms is a great book though.
Feast your brain on this Wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_multiple_discoveries

It is really amazing to see how many discoveries and inventions I've heard of were independently made by two or more people within a few years of each other.
JBang + Mats3: Explore Mats3 Message-Oriented Async RPC with JBang “Java Execs”
JBang’s tagline: “Lets Students, Educators and Professional Developers create, edit and run self-contained source-only Java programs with unprecedented ease.”

Mats3’s tagline: “Message-Oriented Async RPC. Message-based Interservice Communication made easy! Naturally resilient and highly available microservices, with great DevX and OpsX.”

JBang is a cool "execute single Java source file with dependencies" solution, which offers a simple way to test new libraries. The article tries to showcase Mats3's core concepts through a series of JBang scripts.

To streamline the process, a small library called 'MatsJbangKit' has been developed, which not only takes care of pulling up the Mats infrastructure but also depends on all the necessary dependencies. This means users only need to reference this single library in their JBang scripts. The aim is to pique curiosity and inspire further exploration of Mats3 and its potential.

If you like it, a star on Github would be much appreciated: https://github.com/centiservice/mats3
(So that buying stars won't be necessary! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35207020)

There's a previous discussion of Mats3 here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34765578
Besides, Orwell put a lot of his actual knowledge into that book.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jan/19/three-children...

This can lead to some very tragic outcomes!
until you have felt the wrath of shipping a production stopping bug, you know nothing john snow.
> I work for a <1000 employee firm, and AFAIK we're spending in 6 figures monthly with AWS.

The argument for 6 figure cloud spend was always "it'll help you not need as many infrastructure-related dev ops engineers", right? Would you say that's true for your org?

Every org I've ever worked at has had 6 figure monthly cloud bill, and the 6 figure monthly payroll bill related to teams working with cloud infrastructure
Hence "Yes". Lots of things are "possible", it's just not how things are.
We're circling around a straw-man
Let the car drive itself, but do all the work of driving anyway so you can take the wheel when it screws up.
The author (who grew up in Poland while it was a puppet state of the USSR) offers examples literally in the same paragraph that you quoted. The full paragraph is:

Russia’s expansionist policy, on the other hand, continues to cast a long shadow across Europe. The country has a long history of conquest, but for centuries, its vast dominion resembled a loose federation of fiefdoms, not a single state; it wasn’t until the emergence of the USSR that a cohesive national identity — along with a renewed focus on global expansion — started to take hold. Through various machinations, the USSR soon ended up annexing Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania; and seizing military and political control of Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Bulgaria, Romania, and other neighboring states. For decades, the residents of these lands suffered repression and economic hardships — and were barred from leaving the Soviet-controlled world.
Ask HN: Have you been (or had) a workaholic parent?
Would you have traded the career growth and financial success for more time with your parents (or, if you were the workaholic, your kids)?

It’s common to hear from older folks who regret working too much. Does anyone feel like they didn’t work hard enough? Like they didn’t work enough hours? Or that they wish their parents had worked harder/more?
I think we should drop the word firmware. Firmware is just software.

And to be honest, the distinction has never been so much a technical one but more of a ownership one. Firmware is really software that you take for granted and “software” is the software on top that you can maybe configure yourself but that line is so blurry.

Firmware vs software has more meaning when applying for jobs but it kind of comes down to an indication of culture more than technology.
But the point is when the bag is that big, "thought control" is also not apriori bad, and implying it is so by comparing corporate education and policy programs to China's liquidation program is, at best, incredibly disjoint.
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The USDA Food Pyramid was replaced in 2005 with MyPyramid. http://web.archive.org/web/20050830024356/http://mypyramid.g...

In 2011, the pyramid was done away with altogether and replaced with MyPlate, which remains the USDA's current nutritional guide graphic. https://www.myplate.gov/
Making any claim about its inception is misguided, because it is not a single thing. One could argue that Robert Moog and Don Buchla invented techno in the 60s. It probably goes back further. It’s all standing on the shoulders of giants.
> making a WebGL viewer that does the anaglyph processing in the browser but that’s a non-starter if I can only output in the sRGB color space.

There's apparently now WebGL support for display-p3[1] on Chrome and Safari.[2] Anaglyph shaders can be straightforward[3] - I had fun playing with shallow-3D desktop UIs.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DCI-P3
[2] https://caniuse.com/?search=drawingBufferColorSpace https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/WebGLRender... https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1771373
[3] https://www.shadertoy.com/results?query=anaglyph https://threejs.org/examples/webgl_effects_anaglyph.html
Anyone knows what the mystery catalyst might be?
> Being a borrower is the way to go, where your interest payments are less than inflation AND you get to deduct each year on your taxes and save keep more real dollars in your bank account than you would otherwise.

With mortgages at over 6% and personal loans at 8-9% (according to my local credit union) I'm not sure if it's that much better and if deductions would offset high interest rates, but it's definitely a nice kickback.
Ask HN: What are the real dangers of AI that everyone is warning about?
It seems fashionable these days to talk about the dangers that AI will bring in the future. Some people even warn that AI will destroy lives of people. How exactly will AI do this? What exactly are the potential dangers? I just don't see the scenarios how AI could concretely do harm that would warrant such dire warnings. Any insights? Any concrete cases that readers here can point to?
> Explanation: It's just that…you have all these squishy parts, master. And all that water! How the constant sloshing doesn't drive you mad, I have no idea
Assuming there is enough science to research turrets.
I used to be a mobile developer, and I literally got death threats for charging $6 on Android. People just paid it on iOS and got on with using the app.
Where they are mandated, surely they also belong in the same bag.
Their search engine doesn’t make money. Ads do.
I was there early on (not in the first 1000 though), and some people did try to point it out, but it was very hard because there's no way to say "maybe we can't hire more people without becoming less elite" in a way that sounds non-asshole-ish. So such sentiments tended to be voiced in private. Also it's just so vague. What is the right size for a company like Google? How many people should you hire for projects like AI or self driving cars? And finally, it was totally against the founder's and top executives self image. They felt that the potential of the company was nearly unlimited, that they would never run out of ideas. So they just kept hiring, over and over again, without any connection between headcount and need.
Ask HN: Enabled or Disabled
Apologies for such a trivial question :)

I have a mobile application where the user can add and manage of data source and rule entries. I now would like to add a feature which allows the user to selectively disable individual entries without deleting them straight away, but wonder if it is better to have an "Enabled" checkbox in the UI, indicating if it is enabled or not, or rather the opposite one with a "Disabled" checkbox.

Similar question also about the database field. Naming it enabled or disabled?

Again, apologies for a rather trivial question but some UX insight would be appreciated.
I really like all of Will Larson content, and this one post is a gold mine. I always recommend to mentees early in their career. I find the sections about Pace and Prestige particularly insightful.

Unfortunately during the last decade+ we haven't really talked that much about long careers in tech. Instead it's been mostly about FIRE, or people quitting the industry due to burnout.

When instead of thinking how can you make the most money to quit your job the fastest, you think how you can sustain and grow in your job the longest, the whole framing of your career changes. I personally joined the industry because I love tech, and imagine myself working on it on some form for a really long time. At the same time I have been burn out more than once (this is actually and ongoing issue) so more discussion on how to handle career long term is appreciated.
Mortgage debt shouldn't prevent you from sleeping at night. You can live inside your investment, and the purchasing power of the money you borrowed just decreases over time. The way you go astray is to take on too much debt (everyone buys way too much house) or to choose exotic loan products that sound cheap today, but aren't. (2008 seemed to kill most of those off.)

As with anything, approach it rationally. Is there a home you want to buy, and can you put 20% down today, and can you afford the monthly payments + property taxes + insurance + random repairs that you'll have to make? If so, it's not a bad investment; after all, you have to live somewhere. As with any investment, there is some risk. Your neighborhood could become bad. The entire house could be supported only by dead termites. But most of the time, the horror scenarios you read about don't happen; you enjoy living there, and sell it some years down the road for well more than you paid into the loan. It's worth considering over pure investment vehicles; you can't live in an ETF, and there are no tax breaks.
https://www.npmjs.com/package/jscpd turned out to be exactly what we were looking for
> kids best learn to read via phonics.

parent comment didn't say "learn best", it said "learn first".
The suggestion that an individual or a community could actually build, let alone maintain, any of these OS distributions for older hardware is disingenuous.

There is literally no chance whatsoever that, even with complete access to all of the sources, any individual or community organisation could build an iOS distribution; not even once, let alone on any sort of cadence that would make the effort worthwhile. The required build infrastructure is massive, and maintained by a dedicated priesthood whose existence and experience are an integral part of the machinery.

Let's not even get into testing, or carrier qualification, or support, or ...

This is well known, and not a subject for meaningful debate. Any writer claiming that "just releasing the source" would result in any of the claimed benefits is lying in service of some other objective (or delusional, but probably just lying).
Looks like this is supposed to be U-Boat in ordinary English.

Plus the original Skunkworks was an autonomous engineering division of a major defense contractor, but well-known & initiated by top management, mainly only kept secret from the public and those without a "need to know".
Yeah the grammar is off on the comment. I’m sorry about that, but from what I can understand, they saw the joke-y advertisement in the parent thread that’s poking fun at AI generated images looking weird, and we’re concerned that this is “training people to produce art that looks like AI art”.

That argument aside, it just struck me as depressing to call people “organic neural networks”.

And you’re right, maybe it just feels like a change in culture here. I wouldn’t say anything like this feels like Reddit, but I’ve seen those comments too.
Thank you, blixtra.

My point is that Flatcar positioning is too cryptic and ambiguous for a lot of folks. People don't really get why they should pay for it, and that's a customer reachability issue, - a marketing problem, not an engineering one.

I'm not saying that no one should use it, or it's a bad product, it's just takes too much time and effort to get into it, to understand how the pieces of the puzzle are tied together, and why. It's really great that you've picked up EOL'ed CoreOS services and developed your own. A visual component diagram, with a couple of license icons, and a simple graphical bare metal installer would've been really nice.

> you can find all licenses for each release...

Packages SBOM doesn't give a full answer regarding architecture, existing priorities (if there's any) and project structure: what had been adopted from CoreOS and why, and what had been developed from scratch, and why ?

My primary complaint regarding "Pro" feature set, and further monetization, is that literally every growing business, with a cloud hosting provider, would target those, which makes them a necessity, not an extra option to choose from.

FlatCar should've developed something innovative to differentiate the market a bit, and monetize complex enterprise deployments, instead of sabotaging onboarding for the new folks (customer reachability), with a flat fee and "unpublished builds", of a supposedly free Open Source product. At least that's the feedback I've been able to gather on my own, so far.

> We just didn't release public builds of those.

So, if I get it right, FlatCar monetization may crumble with a "Community build" that will package all the "Pro Features" and let people use 'em for free ?

Not trying to devalue anything, but "just a viable CoreOS fork" doesn't make things magically self sustainable. It's all about the extra services that you can put on top, and real engineering problems that you may solve, for those who are willing to pay.

People expect FlatCar Linux to be Free.
teaser rate to get people to move from other banks, probably won't last
This sounds like the type of situation where money becomes worthless.

An asteroid the size of Texas just fell into the Pacific? What will happen to my FDIC insured funds!?
What? The AWS UI is much better than that slow ever-slowing-progress-bars RandomError throwing Azure portal.
"Look at ChatGPT be wrong" isn't great satire.
Calling next month's headline: "OpenPajama: RedPajama weights fine-tuned on liberotica and fanfiction.net"
Create websites with notebooks using nbdev and Netlify
I've recently discovered the best of personal mobility item: An electric skateboard.

It is much easier to carry it around than an electric scooter or bike, also slightly faster than either of those. Getting 10 mile range even on a lower end option.

The only challenge for mass adoption is high skill barrier to effectively and safely use.
1. At which point does it become cheaper for AWS to offer discounts to customers rather than optimizing their spend?

2. At which point does it become cheaper for AWS to just simplify their pricing structure?
My take is a source is "bubbly" or not on the basis of its content.

Not the portion of people in your immediate vicinity who happen to read/listen to it.
Even internally I got the same sense of the iTMS team. To this day I don't know where they got that attitude from. If I were to guess it would be they had a ridiculous revenue-to-engineer ratio and got a lot of attention/praise at the executive level. Every time (for some approximation of every) their pipeline ran they generated millions of dollars in revenue. Meanwhile the QuickTime Player/plugin/QuickLook was invoked likely billions of times a year and generated revenue on a tiny fraction of those invocations. I can't say for sure but it was very annoying at times interacting with them internally. Dealing with that externally I could imagine being a complete pain in the ass.
Yeah, I think every person is different. My first kid learned to read himself from watching educational material and using a computer. He knew the alphabet before anyone could really understand his words. His siblings needed someone to walk them through the concepts.
You can see flavors of this in the anti-abortion bands where people turn in doctors for providing health care and patients for receiving care. You see this in Florida where they define drag as grooming, grooming as a sex crime, sex crime as punishable by death, and a death penalty by 8 jurors. You also see this in education where student turning in their teachers for history and lesson that don't meet the GOP political standards.

So now we see. Now what? Make a buddy. Everything starts with the buddy system. Make a friend and ally in a state under authoritarian control, provide them with the support personally, monetarily, and help them evacuate when necessary.
And it needs to refuel to get to Mars despite being the largest rocket ever built and an incredible feet of engineering. The limits are height and space to put engines under it.
The most comforting AI news I have read this year.
We already have an example of what Meta would do with sideloading: trick clueless users into installing highly invasive spyware that inspects every traffic going in and out of your device, even MITM-ing TLS connections.

https://techcrunch.com/2019/01/29/facebook-project-atlas/

They did this by abusing their enterprise certificate.

As much as I'd like the ability to sideload apps, abuse by commercial vendors is a very real concern. With a few exceptions, commercial software has proven itself to be untrustworthy with the growth of surveillance capitalism. I'd rather that sideloading be reserved for free software.
Sorry not as plugged into memeworld as you so don't know WTF this is.

Us both wearing masks protects you as much as you wearing two masks. But even better, you can just wear an N99 or N100. Also you should consider P95 or Pxx because of the much nicer seal.

I don't understand why you need to get other people involved in this simple thing you can do yourself.