skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> They KNOW how busy they are. They are the ones tracking and forwarding connections to them.

Well, they do when they're the only ones sending work to the workers.

The article uses a literal black box for the load balancer, but there are workloads that are too heavy for a single machine, so in those cases (and others, like HA) you have to have a pool of load balancers. You can try to make those load balancers know everything about what's happening in the whole system but it can be hard and expensive.

Or, you can have them operate on less-than-perfect knowledge. This is what the round-robin strategy does, and just like round-robin, has its tradeoffs (much simpler, worse 95%ile latency).

All of this is assuming the load balancers and workers servicing connections are the only things running on those machines. In real world usage there can often be other loads on the same hardware, belonging to tenants your team doesn't even have a relationship with, which can complicate things quite a bit.
Not necessarily a contradiction, no. It can be very easy to do something, and lots people failing to do so because they refuse to follow the simple rules around it. (how much that is the case with shitcoins I don't know, but it's at least believable that many of them didnt make a serious attempt because it'd get in the way of making lots of money by exaggerated marketing)
The point of the sanctions was to impact Russia's economy. Remember whole 'ruble is rubble' thing? The IMF expects Russia's economy to see net growth this year [1] after seeing a total decline of -2.1% last year. Their inflation rate is currently 7%, expected to hit 4.6% by the end of the year.

As for oil prices, it's important to remember that oil prices before the war were very high, and they got even higher in the early parts of it. In February 21, 2022 (the invasion was on the 24th) prices were at $90/barrel. They hadn't been that high since 2014. [2] So it's easy to be somewhat misled just considering before/after scenarios.

[1] - https://www.imf.org/en/Countries/RUS

[2] - https://tradingeconomics.com/commodity/crude-oil
They have a page on their site where you can signup for notifications, too.
That's really neat. I mean, I'm reminded of the M. Night Shyamalan movie "Old," but yeah, that's really neat.
>> The space shuttle normally orbited with it's payload bay, opposite of the landing gear facing Earth

That wasn't a choice. The doors had to remain open and pointing away from the earth so that the radiators could properly dissipate heat. It also, in theory, kept the most important thermal tiles pointing away from incoming space rocks.
This seems like an elaborate scam. I never eliminated my facebook account, but I definitely stopped using them. I think the Cambridge Analytica abuse is the least of their privacy abuses.
>Only U.S. users are eligible for a payment.

This is so unfair, I want my $1-$5 damnit!
OK. And what do we do about Pelosi's husband? What about his brother? What about his business partner who lives in another country? The primary issue with this line of thinking is that it simply makes things more difficult to track. The idea with the current system is that at least it's all out in the open.
For the record; you were observing the behavior of Apple's Bonjour Sleep Proxy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonjour_Sleep_Proxy
This has nothing to do with year one though. This is hitting companies that are in year 5, 10, 20, etc.

If you were running a small software company that make 2m in revenue and puts 200k to the bottom line, your business no longer works.
FB users in USA: ~250M, if half of them end up claiming then its $6/person (before expenses, lawyer fees etc.)

In these kind of cases, only lawyers make a windfall.
> Isn't this all referring to the "R&D tax credit"?

No. The terminology is confusing. Section 174, specifically point 3, classifies software development as R&E as of 2022 and requires amortization over 5-15 years. This prevents software engineering salaries as a standard business tax deduction. This has nothing to do with the R&D tax credit (section 41).
Your "now" implies that I didn't know before. That isn't the case.

A plug-in hybrid would hardy fit the definition if it had a 1kwh battery more typical of a conventional hybrid but with the technical ability to plug it in. No more so than the ability to run an old fashioned manual petrol on the starter motor for a few meters made those hybrids. Usain Bolt and a marathon runner both use their legs to move but they are hardly equivalent.
Doesn’t riffusion create music based on spectrographs?

https://github.com/riffusion/riffusion
Dumb question for those of you familiar with coding Win API these days -- can you easily build 64-bit Windows applications using Win32 API? I did a little Win32 C coding many years ago, but that was long before 64-bit Windows hit the scene. Is there a Win64 API now?
But the price of oil and gas is still up in Europe.
Build a secure web application with Platformatic, Auth0 and Next.js
Someone's been watching Ted Lasso.
If you're involving an RPi in this, in order to save power, might as well just have the RPi be the main driving force behind everything. Flip a switch to power on the server, command the backup once a custom app on server informs the RPi that server is ready, shutdown the server again by setting the above switch to OFF. This way your server will not even consume those idle watts when waiting for wake packets.
The Cold War absolutely did not feel resolvable at the time. The popular conception was that of present day North Korea cranked up to 100; there were crazy people in Moscow, they had thousands of nukes pointed at the rest of the world, and they’d successfully set up a system to prevent sanity from being restored. (In Russia, my understanding is that they generally saw it as a story of capitalists who could not stand to let a worker’s movement survive; in the rest of the Warsaw Pact, they saw it as a permanent system where the country must remain communist because the Red Army will invade otherwise.)
this is starting to smell like "fake concern"...technically-astute people who are nonetheless ignorant of this tech trying to "participate" by shrieking in terror over imagined dangers
We tried Web Bluetooth in a project. It was extremely flaky. Notably it also only works as a server, so you cant peer two browsers over it either.
Consider adding a bit of overlap to the text chunks. Say, 300 tokens:

text_splitter = CharacterTextSplitter(chunk_size=1000, chunk_overlap=300)

Otherwise, you'll likely end up with too many edge cases in which only part of a relevant context is retrieved :-)
Weird to not include that in the example then.

Maybe this will help you.

If (as you imply) SW developers are critical to this year’s revenue (vs. building for future years revenue), then why don’t they go in COGS?

Seems like an easy way to solve the problem…
Huh? It's not about startups. It's about small software businesses that were moderately profitable yesterday and are potentially out of business today.
Do you have children? How old are they? Do you actually believe that "sitting your kid down and explaining XXX" to them is likely to cause substantive changes in what are fundamentally deeply non-cognitive takes on the world?
So what was this concept that you struggled with?
Have you ever used the app BeMyEyes? It looks like a very nice project. I've subscribed but never had a chance of using it
Richard Saul Wurman
If the developers worked on this years revenue, they should go into COGS, but if they are building things that will have value over many years they should be charged over many years.
...and more surveillance.
Agents are the next AI killer app after ChatGPT
Languages need words with specific meaning, and also words that are broad and vague. "lekker" is in the same category as "nice" in English. The imprecision is useful sometimes.
The goal of sanctions wasn't to raise the price of oil, it was to crush the Russian economy which the west assumed depended on Russia exporting oil and gas directly to Europe. That goal appears to have failed as Russia just made new agreements to sell oil/gas to other countries (who then sell to Europe).
This sounds like an isolated and highly specific experience being generalized to an entire operating system.
Bit of a stretch to label an organisations shitty website security an AI incident just because it's a portal to the AI chatbot. I guess aviation disasters should now include passengers privacy incidents from hacked booking websites?
Yes, lots of innovative new algorithms to process the diffusion tensor metrics and images. That is how we got down to nominal resolution of 5 microns for the tractography. The effective resolution is closer to 10 microns.
Yes, I do understand the electrolysis process. I also understand that it is a very inefficient process that takes significantly more energy as input than is produced in the hydrogen output. That is also something that must not be ignored.
The OP relies on ARP spoofing, so I don't think NDP would work.
The problem with going public is that performance is now measured quarterly. This incentivizes mortgaging the long-term health of the company for short-term gains. Brand loyalty and trust become assets that can be profitably liquidated by diluting the quality of products and services.

By the time customers catch on and the company falters, the investors/owners that profited financially, and managers that profited on their resumes, from the short-term gains may have moved on. The party that's really hurt is the customer base.

I've seen this play out again and again.
Russia has $75T in known resource reserves. The US is second at $45T.

Do you really think Russia can't afford to insure oil tankers if the West refuses to do it?
Yes, a selfish take from some IT guy making significantly more $$ than the average Brit or EU citizen. It's nice to be insulated from the rising COL bc you can lecture others from the safety of your home.
This is a pretty naïve take. Even products you pay a subscription for want you to keep using them (or you'll be at risk of cancelling), and they will resort to the same growth hacks to do so. The key difference is whether a product relies on recurring revenue, and the source of that recurring revenue makes no difference.
A very useful product for many. Thanks for making this. The website looks clean as well. I was curious to know how did you record the screen cast of the product as shown on the website, as the animation looks really smooth.
You said:

just replace those with another instance of your ai, as well as the boss.

I interpreted your statement as meaning to replace even the boss with AI, i.e. a fully-autonomous AI answerable to no one. That is just a paperclip-maximizer since it is no longer under human control.

Perhaps you never meant for the boss to be replaced, in that case you may ignore my paperclip-maximizer statement.
Show HN: Checksum – generate and maintain end-to-end tests using AI
Hey HN!

I’m Gal, co-founder at Checksum (https://checksum.ai). Checksum is a tool for automatically generating and maintaining end-to-end tests using AI.

I cut my teeth in applied ML in 2016 at a maritime tech company called TSG, based in Israel. When I was there, I worked on a cool product that used machine learning to detect suspicious vehicles. Radar data is pretty tough for humans to parse, but a great fit for AI – and it worked very well for detecting smugglers, terrorist activity, and that sort of thing.

In 2021, after a few years working in big tech (Lyft, Google), I joined a YC company, seer W21, as CTO. This is where I experienced the unique pain of trying to keep end-to-end tests in a good state. The app was quite featureful, and it was a struggle to get and maintain good test coverage.

Like the suspicious maritime vehicle problem I had previously encountered, building and maintaining E2E tests had all the markings of a problem where machines could outperform humans. Also, in the early user interviews, it became clear that this problem wasn’t one that just went away as organizations grew past the startup phase, but one that got even more tangled up and unpleasant.

We’ve been building the product for a little over a year now, and it’s been interesting to learn that some problems were surprisingly easy, and others unusually tough. To get the data we need to train our models, we use the same underlying technology that tools like Fullstory and Hotjar use, and it works quite well. Also, we’re able to get good tests from relatively few user sessions (in most cases, fewer than 200 sessions).

Right now, the models are really good at improving test coverage for featureful web-apps that don’t have much coverage (ie; generating and maintaining a bunch of new tests), but making existing tests better has been a tougher nut to crack. We don’t have as much of a place in organizations where test coverage is great and test quality is medium-to-poor, but we’re keen to develop in that direction.

We’re still early, and spend basically all of our time working with a small handful of design partners (mostly medium-sized startups struggling with test coverage), but it felt like time to share with the HN community.

Thanks so much, happy to answer any questions, and excited to hear your thoughts!
We already have robo-advisors. And passive index investing is already known to provide the best returns long-term. No neural networks needed.
This is getting to be less and less true. `telnet MACHINE PORT` was my go to quick connectivity test for a couple of decades. And increasingly that's being replaced to me having to think about the right non-telnet way to do it.
I'm not on board with shoving consent dialogs in people's faces. But a nice little warning line next to relevant controls seem like it would be a good idea.

> I suppose we could require users to take a test to prove that they read the privacy policy

That wouldn't really address the main issue with them, which is that they're written in a deceptive manner. I can tell you right now what 90% of them mean: "you have none". But that's not how they read. How they read is things like "we may share your data with trusted partners in order order to deliver you a great experience".
Have a look at the paper and the PR video. MRI superresolution is at 5 microns today.
Probably they use SSD's, not HDD. So no hardware stress.
2 things can be bad at once
> Does it have to be in California rather than another state?

If its not, they don’t pay California sales tax based on its location at the time of sale (but Apple meets the requirement too instead be required to collect and remit similar use taxes based on the California destination; in neither case, unless the applicable endpoint is in Cupertino, would that be Cupertino.)

> China could always put their fulfillment centers in favorable tax districts

I presume you mean “Apple” not “China”, but, sure, if they want to optimize sales/use tax rather than logistics and customer experience.

They could just have a centralized wherehouse for all California orders in Cupertino, if they want to make sure all their California sales tax is allocated there. Not sure they are willing yo do that for the current payment deal, and I’m not sure Cupertino would think that’s worth the revenue, either.

> California should really just tax where the product is definitely going rather than same vague notion of where it is could come from.

Where an item physically is when it is sold is not an “vague notion”
What part of it do you believe is a scam? Seems like a standard class action suit where I might get a few dollars five years from now.
I'm curious how Apple Passkeys will affect the Yubico business. Competition for U2F products may increase drastically as consumers begin adopting it. This may be prescient timing to go public for Yubico.
I have heard stories of patients, entirely on their own, using black markers to indicate which leg/arm was to be operated upon. Surgeons are entirely OK with this. They appreciate it. I also heard a legend of a patient who themselves marked the wrong leg. This wasn't discovered until after sedation. The procedure was canceled until everything was clarified.

When having my arm x-rayed years ago they places a small pad with an embedded metal "L" to indicate that it was my left arm. But if you place the L backwards, then they will think the image has been reversed, which just makes everything more complicated. So the L-pad needed "this side up" label.
honest question, who needs another web browser?
Russia has bounced back and are continuing to wage war just fine despite the sanctions. What is the point of them now?
If you pick a trade pick one of the less physical ones. Like plumbing or electrician. Every homeowner wants a reliable plumber in their contacts, and they’re expensive as fuck in the United States. It’s not just dealing with poop either like some people think. There’s a pretty big variety of things plumbers do.

I live in Mexico now and from what I’ve heard from every person I know who owns a house or manages a rental it’s just as hard to find a reliable one here, so it’s not like immigration or AI will have a huge effect.

Don’t get into tree cutting. It’s extremely dangerous. General contracting can be very lucrative but is much broader.

With these trades you can eventually “hang your own shingle” and become a business owner.

As I was writing this I was thinking “fuck maybe I should become a plumber”
Leading from the Heart
That's OK. 100% of my skills have no commercial value.
There is a lot of value to an engineering degree with a liberal arts (English, PoliSci) minor. Learn technical skills AND how to communicate with folks who don't have technical skills.
An excellent teardown of modern capitalism.
This is actually pretty insightful - I have done something similar with splitting my obsidian data into chunks using paragraphs and headers as demarcation, but this solves a more interesting problem of nuance! I like it.
Airbnb CEO says he wooed first investor with boxes of cereal
Knowledge is not becoming meaningless. If anything, we are approaching a phase in which it will get even more value because only people really able to master and recognise knowledge will be able to ripe all the fruits of AI.

I would not consider any job that is mostly based on pattern recognition (like medicine). Enter coding only if you think you'll be top 1% because those will be the only people who will still be able to work. Any creative job should still be ok, provided you have a good understanding of AI.
I think you misunderstand capitalism. The market value of their skills is amlost $0

There are other ways of valuing those people, but you have to break out of a capitalist framework if you want to value them at more than a few dollars a day.
There are basically zero hunter-gatherers left except in national parks in a few places; like elephants and tigers the farmers and settlers tend to hunt them to extinction given the chance.

Even the bottom billion are probably a lot more incorporated into the state than you would expect.
It’s a global race, folks. Do German or other European artists believe thst AI will not affect them anyway? Translation is a real thing, and English is the current lingua franca anyway.

In my opinion, Europe has been holding itself back for decades on issues just like this. Trying to use local legislation to keep things the same is just a bandaid, and it perpetuates the myth.

Adapt, change, integrate, innovate, reinvent. Europe is chocked full of smart people. Throw away the crutches and start running in the race!
> Next you'll be telling me that I shouldn't use Bash because Bash 5.0 came out in 2018 and only got two minor point releases over the next 5 years. But that sounds dumb, huh?

What's dumb is not being able to tell the difference. It's not about the numbers.

https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/bash.git/ shows there are constant updates. Things are being worked on. Your example proves my whole point. There are updates every year for many years.

Express? Not so. There are many gaps in its history. And for a tool like Express that has way more surface area it is in need of a lot more testing and updating e.g. if NodeJs changes something it breaks.

Does Bash need to make sure it works with HTTP3, Brotli or many other things that came out? No.

> Because for the most part - it doesn't need them.

Right, let's go back to the Stone Age. You don't need clothes either - just a leaf. You're just so dismissive on innovation then why bother? You don't even need NodeJs. Back to assembly and punch cards...

> Is an ignorant take.

Yes, yours. As shown above by your example.

> People promote it because it's a good tool.

And how do you know that? Where are the stats? Or people just google for NodeJs server, see the top response being Express and just do that. The cycle then repeats. Have people promoting it actually benchmarked, compared and investigated all the tools before making this informed decision? I'm sure you've heard from each and everyone 1 of them to know the answer eh.
We need to improve our emotional intelligence by talking about emotions and feelings to become more resilient. We as a society are emotionally immature and let others manipulate us and cede power to them because we are scared of our true selves.
It was more of a question I was curious about, than advice. I see how it could be read as advice. It made think of the ~4 days I was in bed with covid I didn't use my phone at all and the first time I did I kept getting the passcode wrong. Once it got to a high enough number I started to worry I was about to unintentionally erase my phone.

That made me think if I were in that position to hand over or unlock a device, I could imagine the stress of the situation causing errors or even wiping the device. I imagine would be hard to prove intent but probably more difficult to prove it was unintentional as well
No one. Until a better one comes along to capture the entire market for a while. See Internet Explorer, Firefox and Chrome for various examples of "no one needing a browser until a better one comes along".
I've seen comments on Reddit claiming six-figure, part-time jobs in the skilled trades. To which I have responded: the more you talk about it, the faster you'll lose it. Motivated supply will fix any power imbalance in the field.
> So, back to software. What kind of coding is considered R&D and what is considered "just doing the job"? I guess creating new algorithms, or new features that you expect to be in the product for years to come; those would be R&D. Whereas fixing bugs, working on Kubernetes stuff, writing database backup routines, etc. would not be?

I would still count the later as R&D. It's akin to having an industrial engineer re-design the manufacturing floor to accommodate for the different manufacturing process of the anodes.

As soon as you need to customize something, it becomes R&D (else you would have purchased it). The "just the job" part is invisible because, well, it's the machine who's doing it (applications auto-start, install, send updates).
>the most famous being Cambridge Analytica, a consulting firm that supported Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign.

Did this read strange to anyone else? Did Trump really break people’s brains like this?
The important part to focus on here is "small". Any idea you have, shrink it. Make it 10x smaller. Create whatever that is.

It's kind of the problem with games, they consist of so many fields it's easy to think you have a "small" idea only for that idea to actually be substantial. Then, reasonably, when you want to nail the details it becomes a gigantic mountain. To me this isn't perfectionism, everyone wants to nail details, but when the scope is too large it's difficult for that to happen - hell it's difficult for that to happen on teams of tens of thousands operating as cogs dedicated to their tiny section of work!

Any one of your bullet points could have been the "small game" to demonstrate how large you're still operating.
For very high degree of interactivity I've been working on LiveSvelte which might solve that issue for you. Your other points still stand though.

https://github.com/woutdp/live_svelte