skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I work on Grafana Tempo and this is not at all how I see things. I'm sorry if you've had a bad experience, but we work quite hard to field questions, PRs, and suggestions.

Every day I wake up and spend at least an hour reading and responding to issues and PRs in the Tempo repo.
Given the relationship between MS, GitHub, and OpenAI, do we think there will be a fair analysis or review? Is GitHub still independent enough or not?
Paycheck to paycheck surveys are just vibes, last time these companies ran this survey 36% of people making over $250k said they were living paycheck to paycheck: https://www.cnbc.com/2022/06/03/wealthier-americans-live-pay...

It is cool for young people to doom over money and spend all day looking at much richer people on on social media. Main character syndrome.
You should start selling ad time
I stand corrected. I thought the discounts were applied at random times, not to non-members to encourage signups
Did you have to apply for some kind of permit to do that? Or is it low power enough that FCC doesn't care?
I'm sorry but that doesn't track. There's no need to be this agressive.
This is a major loss for Twitter. When I lived in NYC the majority of my Twitter usage was to check the MTA. I might browse around but otherwise this was the department store that brought me to the mall.

I wonder how many NYC residents—- especially Gen Z—- only use Twitter to check the MTA? How many new users will be lost? Given its notorious unreliability, it must account for a large share of page views.

Twitter should probably be paying the MTA to stay.
So https://twitter.com/killersundymann/status/14461312839695892... but with money
In China, this started as “lie flat” and turned into “let it rot.” It’s also a contributing factor in driving down the fertility rate.

https://www.scmp.com/yp/discover/lifestyle/article/3194858/l...

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jan/20/the-last-gener...
Mathematics exists, we can build consistent (up to a point of course, not everything can be free of contradiction) models that are pretty rigid.
Discord only requires a phone number on servers that have it turned on as a requirement
In my experience in the US, every bike trail/walking trail success has been local; a local group in the area that can benefit from it, getting support from businesses and people in the community and working with the local government.

They sell it as an "option" not as "let's ban all cars" which helps people either support or ignore it, instead of being opposed. Often they work for years, talking to the railroads (lots of these are rail conversions, see https://www.railstotrails.org/policy/ ), etc. They work on plans that slowly take shape (for example, widening sidewalks when they're replaced, modifying roads when replaced, etc). After 10 to 20 years, it all starts coming together.
I don’t understand this attitude.

Process A is a miserable dehumanizing process. Instead of pushing against the people who are unnecessarily making it a miserable dehumanizing process, your complaint seems to be that a similar process B isn’t a dehumanizing miserable process.
"He saw that gas can explode."

This ambiguous sentence stuck in my head some 30 years ago, when the AI was popular at that time.

There was a research paper discussing the issue of ambiguity.
New ‘Waterlily’ service offers AI image generation that pays artists royalties
No. Thank YOU for giving me the idea of cloning that repo.
yeah there is some magical downward pressure on wages due to layoffs, compared to last summer's job market

canadian tech wages are absolutely pennies compared to US wages, i'd hardly consider it an example to follow
Discord requires a phone mumber?
Gene Therapy for Neurodegenerative Disease
Not sure what you mean. Grafana as in the dashboard do seem to not accept patches in some sense, I think it's related to their enterprise offering. Loki was quite the breeze to send patches to. Thanks chaudum!
Unlocked gift article link: https://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-says-some-companies-cheat-h...
There’s a post every 1st of the month on here with job openings. Better question are there jobs that pay fang salaries out there? That’s what’s getting affected.
AI and the Future of Programming
All over Scotland - which is kind of centred around 55°N, way further north than these guys with their vertical farms - potatoes grow like crazy. Some types do well in Ayrshire, some do well up here in Angus (yes, like Aberdeen-Angus cattle). Different types of soil work well for different plants.

You'd need literally megawatts of power to provide the same amount of light. Where are you going to get that from? Solar panels...?
Again, dangerous != instantly killing you. At least there were animals and plants in the Andes, and oxygen in the Himalayas.

(BTW it was the Denisovans not the Tibetans. Tibetans got the mutation from the Denisovans).
There's also Signoz (https://signoz.io) a YC-backed company but open source with (recently) paid hosted.
In Defense of Merit in Science
When I had a cassette deck in my car, I added an AUX input by soldering a cable to a chip on the PCB, and running it out through the cassette slot.
I'm usually pretty pro-business, but it just seems... inappropriate? to not have some kind of additional tax or levy on "record profits" in the context of the existential threats fossil-fuel driven climate change presents. I know the oil industry is so much more than "gas" for the cars and planes — industrial chemistry and plastics are obviously highly dependent on petrochemicals — but. I wish I had more of a point here than to say "something feels off."
To be fair, the Fed has fairly blunt monetary policy tools; distributional impacts like that are the realm of Congress and fiscal policy. (Which fairly consistently drops the ball, but blaming the Fed for the inaction of the entity which both sets the Feds toolset and mission and then doesn’t deal with the problems inherent in the Fed executing that mission with the toolset it has is kind of badly missing the point.)
My parents are not technical but view pretty much all changes since Windows 10 as downgrades and annoyances. Things in the UI change randomly for no reason (e.g. copy/cut/paste are now unlabelled buttons placed in an unexpected spot of the context menu), the dark theme is buggy and can make the minimize/close buttons invisible and the few areas not touched by Windows updates were absolutely ruined by Dell. You may think the latter isn't connected to Windows, but you can't buy a Dell with Mac OS.
I’m surprised that you find it surprising. There’s a Twitter account called The Pacific that exists for the sole purpose of mocking the kind of articles that The Atlantic publishes.

Awhile back one of their reporters blocked me on Twitter for mildly questioning the government’s narrative around a political event.
Prince’s The Ballad of Dorothy Parker recorded ‘wrong’, but he used it anyway
These aren’t news articles. And they’re not individual sensationalized cases. For example, the amnesty link mentions 8000 families being separated.
> * Log ingestor ships the logs to a durable queue
> * Log processor reads from the queue and ships the logs off to persistent storage

Why do we need the durable queue in between? Why not let the Log Ingestor ship the logs off to persistent storage?
FWIW I know an exceptionally talented hacker who applied for an EB and then gave up after... a year? a while, anyway. And moved to Canada. The process was just too kafkaesque.
So H1B visas are only available for jobs paying >$200k/year, right?

Oh wait...
Clearly it's good for the H1B person?
> Can one disable json support ...

Yeah, it's pretty configurable, including the JSON support.

Being able to include/exclude things can be done at compile time:

https://www.sqlite.org/compile.html ← lists the options for including/excluding stuff

And there's a function for loading 3rd party extensions at run-time too, which itself can be turned off. :)

There's a fair amount of 3rd party extensions too.

eg: https://github.com/nalgeon/sqlean

GIS stuff, encryption support (several varieties), Excel/ODS support, and tonnes of other things
Ugh , wait till you hear about green card process for Indians. Despite living here legally for past 15 years, I might have to wait for another 10 to just get permenant residency.

And if it is going to be this hard, why do I have to pay social security and medicare taxes? I call it a donation/yearly fees at this point, working with such a shady system.
Not loki but regarding tempo, I've had good experience with running the components in kubernetes using the operator.

These components are typically build to be "cloud-native" which often means run on kubernetes. If you already run on kunernetes, grafana products are typically straightforward to run.

In general I think that is the target customer and use case for out of grafana cloud deployments. The all in one binaries are more toys to say hello world or maybe test things in local development.
Among the interesting speculations is how he got access to such data and which countries were affected.

"The man had information on passport data, taxpayer numbers, birth certificates, driver’s licenses, and bank account data."

I suppose this must imply that quite a few governmental services have been breached (or, alternatively, a single big one).
I’ve heard this from so many people, and I just do not see how it matters in practical terms. A car has four wheels and an engine. Other than that, as long as it’s safe and functional, why care what it costs?
Tell HN: Cloudflare verification is breaking the internet
Across many different pages including science journals, ChatGPT, and many others, CloudFlare verification goes into an infinite loop of:

1. "Verify you are a human"

2. Check the box or perform some other type of rain dance

3. "Please stand by, while we are checking your browser..."

4. Repeat step 1

I'm on Fedora Linux 37 using Firefox 110.

The workaround is to use Chrome.

After experiencing this dozens of times and getting annoyed of needing to use Chrome, I finally went and deleted all my cookies and cache which I had been dreading to do.

It did not help.

I don't have a CloudFlare account so I wrote up a detailed post on their community forums. I offered a HAR file and was willing to do diagnostics. It received no responses and it was auto-closed.

It's unacceptable that CloudFlare is breaking the internet while offering no community support.

Edit: I'm in Texas. I'm not using a VPN or Tor, just AT&T Fiber. I don't have ad-blockers. No weird extensions. Nothing special (besides being on Linux).

Edit2: Since this got traction, I opened a new community post: https://community.cloudflare.com/t/infinite-verify-you-are-a-human-loop/503065

To be clear, I'm not against CloudFlare doing DDoS protection, etc., but it can't be breaking the internet while ignoring community posts on it.

Edit3: The CloudFlare team has engaged. Thank you HN!
>There is a recession

Outside of tech, nothing has really changed. Consumer spending is going up.

> Massive layoffs in tech

Business be booking everywhere else. Outside the giants who overhired and VC hyped overfunded startups, pretty much every other company has open positions and is hiring. The hiring bar is high, but they are hiring.
Yeah, ChatGPT could integrate Akinator[0] and trivially be great at the game. Without the help, though, It's a good, revealing benchmark for the LLMs ability.

[0] https://en.akinator.com
I follow this segment closely because, among other things, we develop technology and software for the industry and have multiple installations. As a result of this, I have spent time working at these farms, some spanning over 20,000 square meters, and have a reasonable understanding of the challenges involved.

My impression has always been that too many of these entities end-up building what I call "monuments to computer science and technology", rather than farms. The last paragraph in the article is, to me, a typical sign of this issue:

“What Upward Farms calls Ecological Intelligence is a proprietary microbiome technology that introduces a biologically-based reinforcement learning flywheel. By curating a diverse microbiome with genetic capacity for key functions, Upward Farms achieves an autonomous, self-optimising, and highly productive biological manufacturing platform.”

Right.

Maybe this is just marketing/fund-raising language. I get it. There's stupid money out there that will throw dollars at anything that sounds like it is aligned with trends. Maybe they should have added "GPT" to that paragraph.

I know indoor farms that are doing well. It's challenging, yes, most businesses are. Upward Farms decided to raise fish and plants. Yeah, good luck. That's likely where some of the "infinite challenges" they refer to came from.

Yes, technology is an absolute requirement for indoor farming. The key is to not make it about technology for technology's sake. Don't introduce a backhoe for a job that can be done with a shovel.

The farm business equation isn't, at a basic level, terribly complex. You are no building a data center. If you do, you will eventually be plowed-over when you fail.
Someone could be Making 250k and absolutely be living paycheck to paycheck.

Yes, I agree with your sentiment that its "different" than being "poor" but that's the media for ya.
Autofree already works (to a significant extent) and has been demonstrated[1], for years now. Vlang's Vinix OS[2] uses autofree.

The situation (as I understand it) is unlike using a GC, autofree requires the user to have knowledge of memory management and how to use it properly. One of the objectives of Vlang is to be easy (easier) to use. Using a GC as the default, proved to perform very well with the language, and presented less complications for users.

It appears the strategy of the Vlang developers (as stated on their website and documentation) is to go with flexible memory management. That is the GC can be turned off whenever the user wants (-gc none), and other memory management options can be used such as autofree (-autofree) or their arena allocator (-prealloc).

This flexible memory management strategy would be somewhat similar to what Nim did, and interestingly, I don't see people crying as much about it. Furthermore, there is more to Vlang as a programming language than just autofree, as if its the only thing that counts. People use it for many other reasons.

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gmB8ea8uLsM (Autofree demo)
2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mJG4Zg6Ekfw (Vinix OS)
Digression, but why do they call it "pre-trained"? Don't they train it from scratch? Or is the point that they pretrain it and it's intended only for downstream fine tuning ok specific tasks? If so, does ChatGPT use a fine-tuned version? Is the non-finetuned version good for anything on its own?
A database is also an artifact that requires maintenance, unlike curl.
Fed review pins blame for SVB failure on 2017 rule changes
Most engineers aren't getting paid 200k out of school.

If you want to focus on the top of the top, which 200k out of school would be, then H1B1 should be a pure auction system: take the top X salaries offered, and let them in.
Anyone know if this fixes slow SFTP? ie https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2014/05/14/why-sftp-is-still-slo...
One tip and I know its not easy to think about this but don't make me create an account to test yet another page builder. Not when you are unknown in a crowded space and you need to show more value before asking for account creation. Just my 2 cents.

Speaking of "unknown", I would be more inclined to do $1.9/Month and then cancel if it doesn't work for me. Plus I am not interested in lifetime deals because that reduces my value as a customer and you don't want a customer who only paid you once.
While MD was real neat for the time, the first revision of the format didn't sound as good as a good quality cassette recorder with a high bias tape and Dolby B, especially with transient broad-band signals like cymbals and snare drums. Later on they fixed this to some degree but the issue was compatibility hell. A couple friends of mine had MD portables and while they were neat I was never really tempted because as a Linux user at that time, there was no way to get music onto them. I also had blown a big wad on a professional cassette Walkman.
Like this: https://asteriskmag.com/issues/1/they-may-as-well-grow-on-tr...
Did we? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hooverville

> Hoovervilles served as a common ground for many different nationalities and ethnicities. Economic disparity in the United States during the 1930s was not limited to American born individuals. Migrant workers and immigrants greatly suffered from the lack of work and made up a large portion of the Hoovervilles across the country
Thanks, will do!

Because this is HN, where someone is sure to nitpick and/or take my next statement to logical extremes, I must be very careful about how I word this. I will regret it, but here I go:

I like eating chicken. I know lots of tasty recipes. I understand this involves killing the animal. Yes, I don't do it myself, but I could if I wanted -- I'm not squeamish. But factory chicken make me uneasy, it seems well past the inhumane line, almost like an extermination camp for chicken. I think free range chicken are happier, for whatever degree of "happiness" their tiny bird brains can understand. I like thinking that the chicken I eat lived a happy if short life trampling on actual grass and all that "breeze in their feathers" stuff. Yes, in the end it still involves killing them, but I think it's way better.
MIT 6.S191: Text-to-Image Generation
Sincere question, why do you think HN tends to down weight discussion on Visas or immigration?
Release of a Technical Report into Intel Trust Domain Extensions
We don't even know what type of takedown request they received my friend. There are many ways to legally request removal, the linked page explains nothing. Who knows what's going on based on the current information.
Ain't nothing wrong with a little unencrypted HTTP between friends. In your localhost.
And to top it off, people come from families and may be using the family email server/setup because it's easier/cheaper than switching.
That was when we still built housing.
Don't look where the recent California policies restricting exclusionary zoning and otherwise expanding development come from...
Like I said in my previous comment, you can certainly characterize the current state of affairs this way. There is a certain qualitative similarity (an inevitable one, if you ask me, since _all_ societies require ways to manage anti-social behavior).

But qualitatively things are also profoundly different. Most people who take psychoactive drugs do so willingly and involuntary commitment is relatively rare. In the United States and other places the criteria for such is typically danger to self or others and the process is subject to legal review. Compare that to the circumstances of the Catholic Church before reformation and secularization: the Church was not just a mechanism by which the state exerted a limited control of citizens. It was, in fact, a totalizing worldview which, for the average citizen, was as immovable as the earth. As you have pointed out, it even operated in parallel with, instead of as a subject to, the state. In some sense it was also a state or a meta-state. Psychology, in contrast, is hardly more than a disorganized cultural force with some minor powers given to it by the state and subject to its review. The average citizen is only vaguely aware of it and many people (I'd hazard a guess that most people) have no real interaction with its ideas or apparatuses. I would argue that even where psychology is given some temporal power to restrain citizens, this is done so not out of a blind acceptance of its content as true (or even a cynical assertion of its absolute truth by those in power), but as an attempt to "do the best we can" with our limited understanding of what makes human beings and human societies function or even what functioning might mean.

There is one other critical difference (if you ask me): Catholicism and Christianity (religion and spirituality in general) is freighted with a tremendous amount of utter bullshit. Physical and metaphysical claims which are transparently false or absurd. By positioning itself as scientific, and by making substantially fewer claims about the fundamental nature of the universe and the human condition, psychology is, though imperfect, substantially better than what was, if anything, an even more disordered pile of fabulation, fantasies and weird ass ideas.
These profits only exist because externalities aren’t being internalized. So no, you are not wrong whatsoever - something is very much off.
So because five people you know weren't harmed you're saying things like family separation aren't a big deal? As stated in the links, CBP themselves admitted to splitting up over 6,000 families. Don't get me wrong, I'm not defending the wait times for marriage visas but at least those waiting aren't forcibly separated from children and kept in detention facilities.
> counterintuitive as we see Germany shut down nuclear plants for "green" reasons, only to have to spin back up some coal

I've read that Poland is having issues where the grid will only support so much, so they need to disable or dial back the renewable energy sources because it's impossible to turn down or off a coal firing plant.
Blinded by the person? Experimental evidence from idea evaluation
I, like probably most other people, tend to start a habit and then it quickly fades away, not necessarily due to lack of wanting. I find that I might want to start, for example, strecthing my hamstrings regularly, I do them for some days/weeks and then I forget some days, then forget some more, and then after a while I realise I haven't done any for months.

So I wrote a webapp that I usually myself constantly now, it's very basic. I enter a habit I want to keep up and then visit the site everyday and click the "done" button when its done. It also has a calendar so I can see how often I've been doing it because not every habit is to be done every day.

I started this for exercising but i'm not using it for very basic/stupid things. One example is cleaning my glasses. I would never remember to clean them and I'd occasionally realise I'm viewing the world through a layer of grime. I now click "done" every day and the world looks crystal clear.

I guess it's just gamified habits a little bit and its working really well for me. There's a ton of habit trackers out that but I never found anything simple and quick to use.
Good for them. I hope they invest wisely. Sometime in the coming decades demand for oil will drop, but as long as there are no bailouts, I am fine with it.
Interesting WaPo article on what SCIFs are and how many people have access.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/interactive...
CloudFlare's been "breaking the internet" for years
> A couple years ago a single Bitcoin transaction cost $60.

Ah yes let's counter an argument with something that is a couple years old.

This was brief during a time of high usage, which has also been fixed. Today, the average bitcoin transaction cost is a couple dollars.

https://ycharts.com/indicators/bitcoin_average_transaction_f...

Let's also not forget that there are a lot more chains now, where the fees are pennies.
You joke, but I have heard radio ads for hydroponic supplies in Canada, which very much had the tone of "wink, wink y'know for your veggie garden".

There was even a chuckling group of people in the background when they mentioned "veggies". This was in Toronto around 2011.