skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> unless you're talking about sun's energy

What other source of energy results in a decline in plant yields when clouds obscure the energy output? Of course we're talking about the sun. Is there some reason we want to keep avoiding the original question while sharing nothing that farmers, of which you know I am from the same comment, haven't already heard of a million times before? This is like the tech equivalent of someone asking how to prove P=NP and, in return, getting: Have you heard of microservices?
My concerns with modern infra abstractions
Hello, it’s my first time posting here. I figured this would be a good place to discuss my current concerns about modern infrastructure management abstractions. I am hoping to have a fruitful discuss about how to best tackle multi scale infra management (i.e. side project -> FAANG) in a way that is easy for devs to manage. I basically have 3 MAJOR problems with most infrastructure solutions. The first is premature abstraction. In this case you end up with things like AWS amplify. For these cases they are great for very early beginners. As in “this is my first full stack project” beginners (I hope that isn’t offensive, just trying to give context). You get basic management behind a UI or CLI, and rarely if ever is it transparent about what is actually going on. What do you all think about services like these? Are they useful? In my experience most have been a headache EXCEPT firebase for auth management. The next I see pretty consistently is mixing code and infrastructure (even iac). This is a problem due to state management, but things like terraform are helpful here (hot take). It’s just that when you have no state management it’s hard to scale beyond a simple app. It’s also difficult to do right without a proper vcs to manage your infrastructure. But you’ll then run into the problem that early founders or solo engineers or whoever don’t want to do the work to prepare to scale efficiently. Which is partially why, in my opinion, those abstraction (read: aws wrapper) services are so lucrative and prevalent. And then as you scale you run into the issue of transient compute more and more (especially in Data science and ML). And even if you have a good pipeline, state management, etc. You still have a bad dev experience because there’s no good way to transition between a pre-devops and post devops team. Maybe I don’t have enough experience, but I am also looking for opinions on what may make that transition better. The last major issue I see commonly is that modularity is still a problem. Bundling, building, and deploying code is still configured in yaml files. Makes it really hard to write reusable infrastructure OR in the UI case virtually impossible (though I’m not sure why you’d use a simple UI to manage infra after a certain point, so maybe someone can shed some light on that).
Yes, it should have support for over 180 different countries.
Go to any yardsale or scour online ads: people almost pay you to take their big old wooden furniture off their hands.
which is exactly what the AI is attempting to achieve
Do the rovers at least still work?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28361320

There was this discussion... some suggestion that iceland is one of the freer ones, and looking at wikipedia it seems some unpalatable websites were hosted there, which imo is the best way to see if a registrar is not going the take your stuff down.
And since there are no details what is included on Cloud, number of new customers, example of large accounts that moved to Cloud, or info how much is Workspaces versus Enterprise Cloud customers...the moment those details leak, or if this is shown to be financial reporting engineering, the market will turn very sower, very quickly.
I was suddenly picturing a sleek gamer desktop with unsubtle RGB lighting and acrylic panels highlighting sumptuous walnut veneers on the motherboard, cabling insulated with the smoothest silk, and a delicate aroma of apple pipe tobacco emanating from the heat sink.
I just went and looked up 'San Francisco empty residences'... it's somewhere between 40,000 and 60,000 depending on where you look. I then looked up 'San Francisco homeless population'... somewhere around 8,000.

I am not convinced of the narrative that there isn't enough housing.
TFA gives this number as ~1.5GW per year -- I believe calculated by the JPL proposal.
Temu Goes Global
I remember an astronaut describing being in orbit as permanently being on an amusement park ride.

I went like: "oh..."
The point is it lost because Joe and Jane doesn't want to spin up their own email server even though they can.

But even if they did, once Gmail and Outlook block them in their spam filters they have just been de-federated from the billions of accounts to send emails to, let alone fight the mountains of spam going on in email.

So the biggest providers have won and email, with centralization.
It highly depends on the region and the local manufacturers they use. IKEA furniture is of very good quality in the Baltic/Scandinavian region in my experience, and significantly poorer quality in the UK.

I’ve also seen many packing mistakes (like two right sides of an armchair and no left side being packed) and similar in the UK that I never encountered around the Baltics/Nordics. I think a lot depends on the work and business culture in the region, as I’ve noticed more emphasis on quality in a lot of things in Scandinavia.
The growth is way lower than AWS when AWS was at same revenue numbers.
People tend to do better in communities, but spiritualism doesn't provide community. Institutional religion provides community; that's the function of the institution. (It's not the only thing which provides community, but unlike most it provides community from cradle to grave.)
That is misinformation. We absolutely cannot meet our needs with other clean energy sources until we figure out how to deliver reliable, economical base load power. There are a variety of proposals for grid scale energy storage but so far none have been proven to work at scale. We certainly can't build enough batteries to keep industrial customers running through several days of minimal sunshine and wind. So the reality is that nuclear power is the only viable non-fossil fueled option to service the base load in most areas.
I am not sure why people defend Google results so much.

When they IPO in 2004, Google was expecting to dominate the world. First trillion dollars company, 10x the size of Apple, and Microsoft being acquired as a fun side project for them. They are so far behind this and the future does look dark.
Do not invest too much in any browser. This will make it easy to hop when they go to shit. Avoid using anything sticky such as password saving, bookmarks, and synchronization. Instead use other tools you control for that. We have so many browsers to choose from. I can adopt a new browser within minutes because of my setup. The same principle should be applied to any proprietary software or platform.
Because Google's got its own version of ChatGPT and everybody thinks it'll do just fine incorporating it into its products?
Hard, hard disagree. LLMs will reduce the blogspam driving a lot of ads. Competitors will enable bypassing Google entirely. LLM is more expensive than traditional search. I find it likely it won’t fuel additional ad spending but merely be required to keep the spending they have and defend their moat.
What problems do you face as an individual?

It seems like having no ideas is at least one problem you have - what about a way to expose people to new ideas or curate ideas that people have and want to give away.

I’d say get out and experience life and enjoy being in college/young and maybe get exposure to problems other people are facing too along the way

Edit: typos/words
This is the second post from codeium basically shitting on competitor products, the other one was copilot supposedly giving out GPL code.

Maybe its a way to get attention to check codeium out but leaves a bad taste in my mouth to perceive codeium as improved.

The comparisons don't seem right and heavily biased on the website. For example it lists some supported languages from Copilot those languages are really good but are mentioned as 'potentially lower quality'
or Saudi Aramco. They're #6 in the world by revenue, but #1 by profit, just above Apple.
Sundar Pichai becomes CEO on October 24th, 2015, GOOG stock price is ~$36.87

On Apr 25, 2023 GOOG stock price is ~$103.85.

I don't understand this narrative against Pichai. This is objectively a massive success in any reasonable metric. I can think of one glaring reason why there's this crusade against him.
Erlfuzz: Fuzzer for the Erlang Compiler and VM
First, don't put words in people's mouths. You'll find that doesn't usually engender reasonable discussion.

Casablanca is a good film, but its pacing, storytelling, acting, and direction are all very dated to a modern viewer.

Acting in good films since the 1970s has tended to be far more naturalistic and less stylized, which makes older work feel fake and cloying. That's not always a dealbreaker, though, as you note. It just puts a gulf between a modern viewer and the work that the work has to do more work (so to speak) to bridge.

GWTW didn't have to do that work in 1939.
Intro to Logisim Evolution, the free logic simulation software (2021) [video]
Two days later: Gmail spam detection auto deletes user's Google account and all of their synchronised keys. User looses their entire digital identity.
I'll make sure to let my PhD advisor know he was wrong about me since that's clearly under your jurisdiction.
Thanks for the reply, I appreciate you taking the time to write it - there is a lot of useful info in-here and def food for thought.
Note that this article is plotting "% of women 40-45 currently married". Limitations: 1) only women, 2) "currently married" instead of "ever married", 3) the 40-45 age band is when kids finish HS if you had them in your early 20s, which could juice the divorce rate. I tried to get a broader picture from data.census.gov, but I don't know how to navigate it well enough to recreate the Brookings graph.

https://data.census.gov/table?t=Marital+Status+and+Marital+H...
Who will benefit the most from MSRK?
Dislike how google owns abc.xyz like the internet starts and ends with them.
Relevant: Andy Matuschak: People who write extensively about note-writing rarely have a serious context of use

https://notes.andymatuschak.org/zUMFE66dxeweppDvgbNAb5hukXzX...
Grimes invites artists to use her in AI-generated songs and split royalties
"The AARD code was a segment of code in a beta release of Microsoft Windows 3.1 that would determine whether Windows was running on MS-DOS or PC DOS, rather than a competing workalike such as DR-DOS, and would result in a cryptic error message in the latter case. "
You can buy all the dirty, old fashioned stocks that still pay dividends like oil & gas, banking, integrated grocery, even Microsoft - at least until the activist investors push them to fundamentally change their business models.
I built and used Hackintosh desktops for years, always paired with a Macbook Pro.

When the M1 Air came out, I bought one on launch day. I replaced my Hackintosh shortly after with an M1 mini...and haven't looked back.
I've had good experiences as an interviewer doing code review style interviews.

The candidate gets some code and a ticket description of what the code should do.

If he spots an issue, he can fix it right in the code or simply explain it.

I'd that testing the ability to read and understand code is both less stressful for the interviewee (no "judging every key stroke" stress) and more helpful for the interviewer.
BBBY was publicly in default in December 2022 (and this was announced to the world in January 2023), and their plan to get out of it was to print hundreds-of-millions of shares and sell it to the APES to raise money a-la AMC.

As much as the APEs want to compare this even to Hertz... Hertz wasn't printing hundreds-of-millions of shares in its troubled time in 2020. (They tried to, but unlike today, a judge shut that attempt down).

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So on the question of "what if the apes just pump the stock up and everyone makes money?". The "financially literate" counter to that question is rather simple: how can the stock price go up if the board of directors is printing 600,000,000 new shares? (Note: BBBY only had 117-million shares in December).

If the stock price fails to go up, why would the apes keep investing? If the apes fail to invest, how does BBBY get out of its default with JP Morgan/Chase? And here we are today, with the formal bankruptcy being filed. It was an attempt (IMO, an immoral attempt) to get money, but it did raise ~$700 million from the apes. But that's not enough to rescue BBBY.

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Now this is where Hertz did well by the way, after the bankruptcy. If you really want to gamble "like people did with Hertz", today is the day, post-bankruptcy filing, that you start sinking your money into this stock. I don't recommend it though.
I agree that's the main problem that needs to be fixed, but even so some people and most business will still need to file taxes because the federal government isn't omniscient. It would be better if those people had free software to do do their taxes on.

I could imagine a scenario where everyone from your average taxpayer to a large corporation uses the same desktop application to pay taxes. For most taxpayers, they'd fire it up and it downloads all the relevant data from the IRS and asks you if it's correct -- done in five minutes. If people need to add more information they can enter it.

You could accomplish the same thing with an IRS website, but I think it's a little better if there's a desktop app that talks to the IRS over a standardized API, as it means users aren't locked into using the app if they don't want to, and if the source code is available then if someone wants to add features or improve the interface, they can. It's also good to have the business logic be out in the open in a way that users can inspect and change.

(Best case might be an app that can run either as a stand-alone desktop application, or as a web app. The IRS could run their own instance for users who just want a website with the default experience and don't want to install software. States could also run their own instances with whatever extensions they need so you can figure out state taxes at the same time.)
IIRC as well as characters they can output a "stop token" which tells the generation loop to exit.
Same here for todos (just with pen and paper).

I don’t see why I’d need an admin dashboard and a DBMS to effectively prioritize what I need to accomplish in 16 hours.
they also hired skilled lip readers to try to make sense of what the troopers were saying. not just color but discussion.
I noticed this too and was wondering if there was any more info. Sounds like it's effectively just changing the payment plan such that they can say it was a net gain this Q?
Because he found the "I'm Feeling Lucky" button on their paycheck website!
We're talking about US taxes right? The US tax code has lots of places where the complexity is purely happenstance. I think Vox did a piece recently about some of the silliness that's not some loophole helping a few tax payers it's just what happens when a sprawling tax code is appealing to special interests.
Seems like you both don't understand LAION and don't understand hyperlinking.
Oil benefits from scale of demand and excess demand. I don't see how reducing oil demand down to only those who can't switch from oil would do anything except increase the price. Making oil more niche of an application can only increase its price in the long term.

This is of course assuming the current price is somewhat competitive.
Red Hat's Layoffs
Let's not blame the Inuits.
> like Java, which has a library for everything and high quality well documented libraries

Unless it's a library that has been around for a while and is probably hosted at Apache.

There was a marked shift in 2010s in expectations, and now we expect libraries and code to be somewhat well-documented. For older libraries... well, it's often "here's a dump of autogenerated reference files with maybe a blob of prefacing text at the top. Good luck."
Edge is cross platform: Windows, Mac, Linux, iOS, Android https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/edge/download
With qualified dividends, you pay the LTCG rate anyway. The problem is that dividends are taxed twice: the corp pays corporate income tax on that money before it's distributed
Not sure what to tell you. A sharp new developer I respect a lot pointed me towards Obsidian, and so it goes. Other than that, my recent search history shows the past few years are focused on python, pola.rs, Rust, data science, databricks, Oracle, Postgres, DuckDB, and the legal and administrative aspects of running a business, with the occasional dataset documentation search.
I just never look a the tabs it opens after an update. Unfortunately that's the exception the ad blockers can't catch, but at least it's just one click every 30 days or so.
I seriously wonder if that's true. In a purely AI chat-style conversation, there simply isn't much real estate to insert ads.

In your classic scenario, you navigate the SERP and hit various websites, that's a lot of surface area for ads. In this supposed new situation, you don't browse and scan, you just get the answer. The end. It's a way shorter interaction. I'd imagine you see 1 ad. Instead of dozens now.

Also, if you're never hitting any individual websites anymore, surely they'll become hostile, protect content, put up walls, or push for legislation.

This is not a done deal.
It seems that paper authors themselves replaced whole paper with a Dracula story in the latest revision. You can download previous versions [0], they contain fewer Draculas.

[0] https://osf.io/download/5fa6d1f29c7a4e006ca006be/?version=4
> When a custom ROM, even a "degoogled" one, is made, you include a customized kernel and custom drivers, and the AGPS URLs are part of this "driver".

Thanks, this should be the top comment.

Both, Sony and Google, provide driver downloads for their smartphones[1][2].

In this case, the tested "de-Googled" OS (/e/OS) did exactly what it promised to do: removed all network connections made by Google – and not by Qualcomm or anybody else.

Since Pixel smartphones now use Google's own Tensor chips (which are based on Samsung Exynos), they obviously don't make any connections to Qualcomm servers.

This blog post is clearly an ad for NitroPhone, which is simply a Google Pixel smartphone with a different open-source OS pre-installed.

GrapheneOS[3] is only targeting Google Pixel line-up at the moment, and therefore is able to make sure that even A-GPS URLs are "de-Googled" on the latest models.

But the older Google Pixel models with Qualcomm chips make exactly the same connections – from the driver, not from the firmware[4]:

> GrapheneOS has modified all references to these servers to use HTTPS rather than a mix of HTTP and HTTPS. No query / data is sent to the server.

[1] https://developer.sony.com/develop/drivers/

[2] https://developers.google.com/android/drivers

[3] https://grapheneos.org/

[4] https://www.reddit.com/r/CalyxOS/comments/pym8l1/comment/hev...
Anyone can post a course/youtubelink/article on how to read these earnings sheet? I am not a business person but would love to learn it from people who actually understand it.
> Profit is always going to be returned to shareholders via dividends or buybacks (they're basically the same thing) or corporations wouldn't even exist in the first place.

[Citation needed]

1) Corporations exist for a purpose that they have to outline in their charter which is never "because I want to make a lot of money" 2) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nonprofit_corporation
And costly to maintain as well. Source: have some wegner y stol or whatever from before me where the rope/strings are about to disintegrate (thanks, cats..). A small fortune if I want to refurbish them.
It possibly could work, but we would be pushing our system beyond its already maxed out limit. We can hardly handle AC units in the summer. Imagine your entire neighborhood has their AC systems cycling. While stoves/microwaves come on (because people come home from work and cook food), then everyone decided to run an Arc welder in their garage at full power for 2 hours. It's a big issue of timing. If you split up these actions and only do some at a time, you can make it work. Barely. But in reality these power draws are corelated.
>The main thing we'd have to fill in ourselves would be cost basis adjustments for RSU vests.

The cost basis thing used to be a nightmare. At one point with some old stock that got converted to another company's stock with an acquisition, I just threw up my hands and put in a plausible number. (It wasn't a huge amount of money in the scheme of things.) But these days, the only time I've had to manually provide a cost basis to my accountant was when I was donating some stock.
> which is already on shaky legal ground

…

> The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes

— The Constitution of the United States

Oh, and the 16th Amendment,

> The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes on incomes, from whatever source derived
He's apparently in a rare category of performer to have one song break into the top 40 chart in two separate decades.

Banana Boat showed up in the charts in 1956 and 1988.
Dividends and buybacks are both neutral in the short term for shareholders. Buybacks provide deferred gains if any only if the business grows to justify the buyback.

If you buy back 10% of shares, you have also paid 10% of the market cap of the company out in cash, which is net neutral for share NAV in the present. Ignoring sentiment based factors.

BBBY bought back 50% of shares over the last 10y and what did that amount to for shareholders in the end?

https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/BBBY/bed-bath-beyo...

Similarly with dividends, you’re paying out a portion of NAV in a distribution, net neutral. Though if your business can reasonably expect to cash flow steadily over time, of course your total wealth will grow as the business accrues earnings.

Dividends are a return to shareholders in the present, buybacks are a deferred return which may never materialize as tangible value for the stockholder
Hard disagree. The main reason Google was so successful with advertising is that users weren't wholly aware they were feeding Google private information upon the which to base suggestions. They were out of sight and out of mind.

Users will know they're talking to a corporation and feeding it information in the case of LLMs, and they're likely to give it a loss less information voluntarily than tracking was taking (and will continue to take).
Windows is not free. It may come pre-installed on a ready made build, but they purchased a license, and you must purchase a license for a custom PC.
Turns out there are different classes of people with different preferences. There will ALWAYS be some customers unhappy with their decision, and they will typically be the loudest. The fact that you see more users hitting your site from DuckDuckGo than Bing is a pretty good indicator that this audience is not typical, since Bing usage is generally much higher than DDG.
Apple has bought back roughly $75B per year since 2018, at least. https://ycharts.com/companies/AAPL/stock_buyback
I couldn't find a EUV within 10 hours of where I live, so I had to buy EV from a dealer 4 hours away. At 80% charge it has ~235 miles range, we charge it once a week and serves very well for what we need it for. However, tried to trade it in for a Tesla this month, but the trade-in value was way too low.
Seems like Azure and GCP are growing at the same rate of 27% despite the size difference. Looks good for Azure.
Sundar has done so many giant mistakes: overhiring, under firing, zero substantial acquisitions and of course missing out on LLMs.

How is he still CEO? Not to even mention his insane salary.