skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They put individual video frames as images in S3. That’s ubsurdly dumb. It’s like putting a frame buffer on an HDD.
Mow lawn? Is that really a thing in some places?
It spends a little time on the topic, and imho doesn't argue the point very well.

It points out that MoltenVK doesn't work very well, and I agree, although I think it's questionable whether the Molten-compatible subset is worse than WebGPU or not.

It says that Vulkan has driver issues on Linuxes, but provides no citations for that, and in my experiences, Vulkan drivers and developer tools have been the best for Linux, overall (my experience is limited to Nvidia, so maybe that's why, Idk).
>What happened to my body my choice?

Are you implying that this is a hypocritical stance for feminists to have? Why do American feminists speak for all feminists in the world?

Even if these were American feminists, you could make the argument that there is manipulation and coercion happening so the "my choice" part might be less than safe to assume. So a ban may be against human trafficking and coercion first and foremost.
> I’d be surprised if this doesn’t get taken down as it casts AWS lambda in an unfavorable light

“There are use cases where Amazon EC2 and Amazon ECS are a better platform than AWS Lambda” is…not actually a message that anyone involved in AWS has ever been afraid to put forward.

I mean, the whole reason that AWS has a whole raft of different compute solutions is that, notionally, removing any one would make the offering less fit for some use case.
How is the calculation you're describing different than the calculation of optimal pricing for a monopoly?
No, I am correct. Unsigned integer overflow has wrapping overflow semantics. Absolutely idiotic.
Can also be molecular biology-scale robots.
> their browser is irredeemably buggy.

Are we talking about Orion? It is one of my absolute favorites!

> On to neeva.

Not available where I lived last I checked, which also means I now don't like them.

Please someone who knows neeva let me know if they are good enough to forget that they disrespected me last time ;-)
If all the money goes to the park, none is going to the poor people. Seems like you are advocating for a system where rich people get to go to public parks, and poor people get nothing.

And if you are doing a raffle for park tickets, you are not deciding to "help them in the form of tickets" for them. They signed up for the tickets. They want to go to the park. Is it a bad idea to allow poor people that want to access a park to have a chance of doing so?

And auctions are a way of optimizing pricing of stuff. But not everything in life is about money. For instance, organ donation recipients. Do you think an auction system for organs would be a better world than the existing systems? Should we just give the poor people that wouldn't be able to afford an auction for an organ some money, and then let them die?
IMHO, ECS is more closer to IaaS than PaaS. And therefore the lock-in is much less bad than with the serverless PaaS approach
Let's re-phrase that same, fair question.

What are the odds that a story of hollywood skulduggery ripping off the non-famous is actually dishonestly maligning hollywood execs & deal makers?

Possible, sure. My prior on hollywood execs turning out to actually be honest is pretty damn low. Yours?
The concept is nice, but the implementation done wrong.
Re-educating users how they should use interfaces is a bad idea
While piracy is the most common use, it's not the only use for emulators. There's also the speedrunning communities, as well as modding communities which are steadily growing.
- Because boss said we have to.
I don't think that was the point.
The point was that the majority of people like convenient things, but a small subset of users on here like complicated, old and hacky things.
Show HN: PolyglotMail – internationalized transactional emails for SaaS
Dear fellow hackers,

Taking a break from AI discussions, I'd like to share something I've been working on.

As a solo founder, I've been running a successful SaaS for the last three years (success to me is over $10K MRR). However, the saturated market and high churn rate made me eager to work on something new.

One of my main struggles with my current SaaS was internationalization, specifically sending internationalized transactional emails to my users. I ended up building a solution from scratch within my app.

After two years of using it, I thought it might be helpful for other developers out there and possibly lead to a low-churn business. I asked ChatGPT for a name, and it suggested "PolyglotMail". The domain was available, and I built a functional MVP that I integrated in my own SaaS.

I'm excited to hear your feedback on PolyglotMail and would love to find at least one passionate early adopter who can provide deep, actionable feedback by using the product.

Looking forward to your thoughts!

Have a great day,

Conrad
> The only time it makes sense to use edge/serverless anything is lightweight APIs and rendering HTML to end users so they get the page loaded as quickly as possible. That’s the only use case good for edge.

Serverless and edge aren’t the same thing.
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> I think the author is far too pessimistic about the capabilities of ML. I think we're already beyond the "it might not live up to the hype" stage and well into - "holy moley this is actually really well (for certain things) already - now let's figure out how to use and iterate upon it" stage.

I think we are rather in the "oh wow there is a slight possibility that chatbots are not a waste of cpu cycles with this" stage.
> People have to use "the internet" to install Chrome

That's not been true for a while. IT preinstall Chrome in most companies nowadays, and obviously it's already on the phones and tablet you buy for the home.

Yes, MS dropped the ball after killing Netscape and being humbled by antitrust laws. But the current situation is as much a product of Google's "growth hacks" and mobile monopoly.
Putting ChatGPT in the text is a surefire way to get a click. Bonus points if you ask a speculative question.
> Give poor people money, if you want to help them.

Giving poor people money will not help the situation. How much money do you need to give to a family, that would want to have a picnic over the weekend, so that Bill Gates and Elon Musk and others, could not outbid them.

Yeah wont happen in real world. I wont assume bad faith from you, but generally speaking saying just give them money is a huge copout.

> Auctions work just fine for eg van Gogh paintings, and they have been in decidedly fixed supply since 1890.

Glad you brought that up.

Van Goh sold his paintings and owners of such paintings then sell them on auctions etc.

There are people in the art world who would argue that such paintings do belong in Museums, so that public can enjoy them. So they band together and collect money so that their local museum can afford to buy such Van Goh painting.

After such painting are displayed in Museum where anyone can view them, for a fixed price, that generally covers the upkeep.

Which is the same situation as here. there is a public park (that is by definition there to be used by the public), that sells tickets, that should cover the upkeep. But since the demand is too high, it sometimes need to raffle them.

Auctions would defeat the purpose.
This is less an example of why serverless was bad but rather an example where using non-suitable services for tasks they were not meant for.

In this case they were using AWS Step functions that are known to be expensive ($0.025 per 1,000 state transitions) and they wrote:
> Our service performed multiple state transitions for every second of the stream

Secondly, they were using large amounts of S3 requests to temporarily store and download each video frame which became a cost factor.

They had a hammer - and every problem looked like a nail. In my experience this happens to every developer at a certain stage when he/she gets in touch with a new technology; it doesn't mean that the tech itself is bad - it depends on the scenario, though.
Massive architectural refactors are so attractive (at least to the kind of mind that likes Factorio) and so expensive. At least make sure you've got some concrete benefits that you think might arise from breaking apart the monolith, so you can do some semblance of a cost-benefit analysis!
Human drivers also don't need wheels. We can't pretend humans and computers are the same today so wishful thinking that "we do it so cars should be fine the same way" is the recipe for killing people every time the human fails to intervene and prevent it.
Try it yourself. I take placebo for all sorts of small ailments and it's surprisingly effective.
> our 770M T5 model outperforms the 540B PaLM model using only 80% of available data on a benchmark task.

That sounds too good, can someone more knowledgeable comment?
I wish world (Apple, Google, Microsoft etc.) had implemented SQRL instead of PassKeys :(

SQRL: https://www.grc.com/sqrl/sqrl.htm
Big Metric is a group of French scientists from the 18th century going around with a 1 metre long, 1 Kg heavy stick of pure platinum, hitting people's shins whenever they hear nonsense like "it's cold, it's only 50 degrees this morning" or "is that a 39 and 3/8ths inch stick in your hand?"
I think it is fine. There are scenarios were you need distributed and there are scenarios that you don't.

IMO, distributed software is more practical for working development than for technical reasons.

We all know from basic stuff that performing software comes from single structures that does not require packing and unpacking data
But scaling large applications is hard, and it was much more expensive back then.
Now that we overreacted to microservices we will overreact to monoliths again. And we will bounce many more times until AI take our jobs and do the loop itself
Have you had AWS tech advisers advise teams in your company to go with this stack? Because I haven't.

AWS doesn't have an equally distributed interest in selling all of its products. Some AWS products exist because customers need/demand them and others exist because they provide higher margins and tighter lock-in to Amazon: the first type of products are great for customer acquisition, the role of their sales folk is to then convince people using the former to migrate to the latter.
This perspective or line of argumentation does strike an intuitive chord with me.

There is a difference between being able to leverage AI to accomplish more than without it, and merely outsourcing intelligence and knowledge to the AI and effectively becoming complacent (which as you say, the 99% will end up doing).

My bet is on AI causing equality to worsen, unless there is a major political will to counter this with policy.

IMO such policies will need to provide both carrot (equalizing measures) and stick (lessening the options for the 99% to become complacent).

EDIT:
There is a third route that could play out. Leveraging AI or “teaming up” could be equivalent to a faustian pact, because of the nonzero possibility of AI to develop their own goals and agency.
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AI is not artificial intelligence
Hi Jacobi. I love the content but the design is too busy for me. I can't concentrate on one clip because the others distract me. How about allowing to switch to a style where only one clip is shown and I can scroll down to see more? I wouldn't want to click to advance (like it is now when I zoom in on a clip), just endless scroll like you did it with one clip on the screen at any time.

Also, is https://eycndy.com/crab-shot?itemId=cxns025fad8r33ene8rmxxnw... actually a trucking / crab shot? For me it's just a pan.
I'm with you that it's possible for some, just like the money drain "Blue Origin" is possible for JB.

But hardly everyone can afford to lose money like that.

Besides, it's not really possible to keep the costs low if you take into account the opportunity costs involved. Therefore it's not rational to expect that from others however I agree that it would be nice if those who can would just do.
If you still want privacy you can one-time use prepaid cards.
No Java/Kotlin driver.
Especially with all of the meetings switching to virtual spaces with transcripts. This would be so powerful. When you can ask (or create documentation) based on all of those meetings. Then enriched by all of the chat messages, the company's code. Best thing, it doesn't even have to run in the cloud. As it looks like it can be an on-premise inference machine. The future is bright for surveillance.
It seems like Java and Python are only just starting to get a place in COMPETETIVE programming :) I definitely think we will have to wait before we get stuff like Haskell or Idris in there.
Does the fines you post for sneaking into the park and getting caught go directly to blm? Because that's a good solution if they do.
> Another architecture that would work is to stream the encoded video from the encoding machines to other machines to decode and inspect. That would work as well. And again avoid the inefficiencies with saving and passing around individual images.

No, that’s still a bad architecture. Bandwidth within AWS may be “free” within the same AZ, but it’s very limited. Until you get to very very large instance types, you max out at 30 Gbps instance networking, and even the largest types only hit 200 Gbps. A single 1080p uncompressed stream is 3 Gbps or so. There is no way you can effectively use any of the large M7g instances to decode and stream uncompressed video.(Maybe the very smallest, but that has its own issues.)

In contrast, if you decode and process the data on the same machine, you can very easily fit enough buffers in memory, getting the full memory bandwidth, which is more like 1Tbps. If you can process partial frames so you never write whole frames to memory, you can live in cache for even more bandwidth and improved multi core scalability.
Half of the AWS certifications isn't about what's what but what to use when and using it for the right use case.
The thing is nobody was even trying to create a smartphone platform remotely like the iPhone. The standard approach was crippled cut-down mobile OSes with shared memory architectures and proprietary tooling stacks. There's no way to get from Symbian, Windows CE or the Blackberry stack to a workstation class, pre-emptive multi tasking, multi-threaded full stack OS.

Even with the iPhone right in front of their eyes it took Microsoft 2 years to even correctly identify the problem. The only reason Android managed to catch up was they happened to have started from a Linux kernel base. The thing is they'd done that for the developer tooling, not because of the platforms capabilities. What they were aiming for was an open source Blackberry clone because that was the dominant platform in market and mind share.

Given that it took Microsoft until 2012, 4 years after the launch of the iPhone that's a reasonable absolute minimum lower bound for how long it would have taken. I think it's quite plausible the modern smartphone might not have existed until 2015 without Apple, possibly more. Bear in mind the only reason such powerful ARM cores were developed since 2008 was due to the smartphone arms race.
I enabled the pstate driver yesterday for my T14s gen3 (AMD). It almost doubled my battery life, the fan never spins anymore and it's very very quiet and cool now. You need to specifically enable it in Linux kernel, this is how I did it:

https://github.com/pimeys/nixos/commit/17e8a9e2ce4b0f34ef6cf...

It should also be used together with the `shedutil` governor for the best results.
Montana’s Governor’s Changes to TikTok Ban Bill Would Ban Social Media
Yeah that's correct, I owned one for skiing and happened to try reusing it in frustration after being awoken by the light coming in through the curtains.

I had no idea they had such a large range! I just use a basic original, full size one, made out of thin material. Full size means you can fold it over two or three times to make it block out more light, I'm not sure a half size would work so well but I've never tried one.

I think it would be the "Original EcoStretch" model, though I can't say for 100% certain as I bought mine in an outdoor wear shop and just bought the cheapest, thinnest, darkest one.
I know there are activation fees but I didn't know there are per-transaction fees. A system like Bangkok's Rabbit cards would be better (no fees beyond the fee for getting a card) or Japan's SUICA cards. They are transportation cards that also get accepted at convenience stores and some restaurants and you can top them up at any train stop.
Ah amazing, a fellow Buff sleeper haha :)
I started using Kagi exclusively around the same time, I'm almost exactly on the same boat as you. Interesting to see that even though you seem to have a bit more variance than I do we land around the same range of searches/month:

Apr 2023 651
Mar 2023 708
Feb 2023 613
Jan 2023 611
Dec 2022 759
Yeah, this is my takeaway too.

I'm pretty happy with the monolith that we run at our business and this seems to validate our decision to stick to that monolith, but I'm also pretty confident that where we use AWS Lambda, serverless is absolutely the right way to go.

For example, I've written a Lambda application to reply to webhook calls and send API calls whenever those come in. It costs maybe $2 per month to run in compute and requests. Would that make more sense to rewrite as a monolith and run on EC2? I really doubt it.
Technically you can mold firehoses into other metaphors at the UI level (whether deterministically or algorithmically). And vice versa, any system that processes data in real time can be shown as a firehose.

But as they say, biases in technology creep in so early on, they are not even considered as such. If your main mental model for online communication is an amorphous agitating mass of delocalized entities that exchange tiny bits of information then this is what you are going to build and this is what you are going to get.
It appears they've overclocked the RP2040 quite a bit without also increasing voltage. First time seeing that. Eg, slightly higher at 250Mhz some RP2040's have been unstable without it: https://github.com/pimoroni/picosystem/pull/57
> In the extremely unlikely case that battery technology fails completely it would always be possible to use hydrogen as energy storage in combination with refitted gas peaker plants. But that scenario appears unlikely to me.

That is not "extremely unlikely" it is 100%ly inevitable. Luckily hydrogen as energy storage is already happening now.
because it works!
Thing is, they embraced open source, not libre software aka copyleft. Non-copyleft as always been about taking from others and not giving back. Whoever has ever thought differently never understood that non-copyleft is a tool of liberalism, not community building
Thanks to them Pokemon Scarlet Violet is actually playable in smooth 60fps https://youtu.be/33Ao4elXwtc

The Switch has many great quality
ports but somehow Nintendo’s first party titles are so bad, as if they don’t care at all (casue people buy the Pokemon games no matter what)
Thank you for your feedback.

You can try entering simple sentences such as "Sci-fi movie poster" or "Minimalist living room" to help you make Prompt more diverse.

If the first generation does not produce ideal results, please try "Regenerate".
These days when project managers of new products seek my advice as a solutions architect I tend to suggest they create a minimally viable product that is written modularly so it can scale, but deploy it very simply on a few servers just like we used to 15 years ago.

Scaling is definitely a good thing, microservices make scaling easier, no doubt about that. But an MVP rarely needs k8s level scaling, it just needs to be written well so it can scale in the future.
The robots used are commercially available:

https://emanual.robotis.com/docs/en/platform/op3/introductio...

$14,199 on AliExpress.
Last time I worked on Ember app (many years ago) the selling point of Ember Data was seamless integration with JSON:API endpoints.
I was thinking about this idea the other day - python++, but with a diverse standard library for everything. I should never have to look up a function that turns a textual IP address into a form I can work with. I should not have to really even do a normal for loop to transform data. If it's something everyone would have to write a function for, why not pre make it.
Apple AI is lagging behind with Siri
Looking forward to seeing how much % of performance improvement we'll get with the release of .NET 8 (even better arm64 codegen, better Dynamic PGO, which RyuJinx uses and more struct optimizations)
This is a very top down thinking approach. Yes we should give poor people money. But actually is that the job of parks? Perhaps parks should try to be as equitable as possible to let whoever wants in entry. Then a raffle not an auction is the best way to do it.
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That's fair. I haven't evaluated any alternatives but the powertoys launcher can definitely be slow at times.
> We should not be talking about ethics if we're talking about Mozilla either. From shameless extension backdoors to not blocking trackers from Google on purpose, it's all over the place when it comes to ethics and privacy. At least Brave directly challenges Big Tech by making bolder decisions to block them instead of being afraid like Firefox, enabling trackers and not providing any privacy against Google.

You mean the Brave that collected rewards revenue for websites that weren't enrolled in their program? Or the brave that literally changed the url that the users typed in the url bar?

Also, do you have any source for Mozilla not blocking googles trackers? AFAIK they do, and did, block their trackers thou they had to do it differently for google analytics as to not break some webpages. Because of that you did not see those being blocked in the UI but they were blocked.

> What Brave has done with respect to privacy features, Firefox couldn't even do it in decades:

Well, unlike Brave, Mozilla is making a whole browser.

> I do understand that Brave is a chromium fork and that they depend on Chromium for patches but this is still a FOSS browser that is independently funded

You asked earlier how long would Mozilla exist if google cut their founding. How long do you think would Brave exist if google decided to go closed source with chrome?
Thank you for clarifying. It's seems my definition doesn't correspond to others'. Then do we lack a word for a monolithic application that handles everything and that can only have one instance running?
Yeah that seems closer to my experience. From my perspective, 2016ish was peak. At least thats when I had to to argue the most against trying to needlessly break up services.
Love your comment.

What are your favorite Math and Programming books?
How do you write C# for mac?
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Going digital detox but still want that sweet 2FA? My J2ME vintage feature phone HOTP/TOTP app has you covered. https://github.com/baumschubser/hotpants
Dune Part 1 has a runtime of 2h 35minutes. Assuming that Part 2 has a similar runtime, we end up with 5h of film total.

The miniseries "Frank Herbert's Dune (2000)" in the extended directors cut - has a total runtime of 4h 55 minutes. So very similar in length to the movie.

The miniseries "Frank Herbert's Children of Dune (2003)" has a runtime of 4h 25minutes. So, shorter than the new movie (similar to the regular cut of the first miniseries).

So, it would seem that your typical miniseries has actually less time to work with, than a 2-Part movie...
The ones they used are Robotis OP3, a snip at $14,199 each (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35812475)
Yeah, we should restrict the creation of emulation software to authorized parties only. /s