skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ok, nuclear is not dispatchable and therefore sucks at coping with spikes in generation or demand. You need either gas turbine (responds in minutes), hydro (seconds) or battery (milliseconds). "Base load" is not a good thing, it's a "this is useless for anything else, so all we can use it for is base load" thing.

Does that answer your question?
But these say exactly the opposite, the more tok/param the better. There is some optimum after which you need more training FLOPS to improve than if you add parameters but it is definitely not the other way around
I wouldn't call reactivity in Vue "fine grained". Every object that gets loaded into component state becomes reactive, and every piece of code that touches it gets dragged into a massive internal dependency tree.

Vue has blacklisted reactivity, everything becomes reactive (and observed) by default and you can opt-out, while MobX features whitelisted reactivity and is much more fine-grained
> I wish the article would also mention Nim, a Python-like language that compiles to native, and compare it to Mojo.

I would not say that Nim is “a Python-like language”. The only significant similarity is in the usage of indentation instead of curly brackets. To me, it is much more similar to Pascal/Ada/Oberon, but less verbose.
> I don't see any reason to believe that prices would go down.

and they won't. Lowering inflation is not the same as ensuring prices drop (it might happen, but it would be an unintended effect of the Fed's policies).

prices will remain high (compared to pre-covid) but be stable after inflation drops down. And i would imagine that the Fed's policies would change if they start seeing deflation (which is when prices drop).
> Two green changes merged to a green main can produce a red main.

I'm sure this happens occasionally, but I've never experienced it, and it seems to be rare enough that it's not that big of a concern. Especially since it'll be easily remedied by either just fixing the error or just reverting one or both of the changes.
Interesting! That’s actually significantly more than I would have expected.
That's not Python syntax though. Please rewrite the above in semantically equivalent Python, then make the same argument again.
You have to measure effective (not theoretical peak) instructions on a specific workload.

DSPs will beat CPUs on DSP workloads, but, as expected, utterly fail for any general purpose workload.
Awesome features! Nice! Now work on reducing your costs and making each subscription with 5x more searches a month :D.

I was a subscriber and I absolutely hate the feeling of "spending" searches every time I search
Show HN: PlaceKit – Geocoding API and address autocomplete
We’re thrilled to announce PlaceKit, a worldwide geocoding API and toolkit! It’s the successor of Algolia Places, a discontinued product. Nico (my co-founder) and I worked at Algolia for 3 and 6 years respectively before launching PlaceKit.

Unlike big competitors Google Places and Mapbox, it’s a single REST API, with a unique and transparent per-request pricing. PlaceKit combines OpenStreetMap, local datasets and the Algolia engine into a unique sub 50ms worldwide address search.

We’ve made our JS libraries from scratch to make them lightweight, customizable, and compatible with any stack. We provide integration examples, and an annotated OpenAPI reference for other languages/use-cases.

Give it a go at https://placekit.io! We offer a free plan with 10k requests per month, including all features. Any feedback on your PlaceKit journey would be very valuable.

Which use-cases would you consider using PlaceKit for?

More about:

- In Defense of OpenStreetMap's Data Model: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31638648
- Sunset of Algolia Places: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26490137
> The main scaling bottleneck in the architecture was the orchestration management that was implemented using AWS Step Functions. *Our service performed multiple state transitions for every second of the stream*(???), so we quickly reached account limits. Besides that, AWS Step Functions charges users per state transition.

This is so obvious in my head. I can't think of a single good reason where a SFN makes sense here.
> - the order of objects and -l flags to the linker matters! I remember being very surprised / frustrated by this.

This took so long for me to actually find out... and then beat most build systems into submission because they have no ability to configure priority of linkage.
> But for stays of 30+ days, Airbnb is still the best option

This really depends where you are. In countries where monthly apartment rentals are common it's still a terrible deal.

I was looking recently for a trip and it was 40% more for the exact same building where the management simply puts an ad on the local rentals site with their walk-in monthly rate.

When you are on the road a lot, I'm happy to pay more for a kitchen but you should be aware of the local conditions, AirBnb takes a massive cut that obviously the customer pays. It only makes sense in cities where short term rentals are rarities.
Scada - Supervisory control and data acquisition
If you can live with cross-compiling from a modern PC (or Mac) you can use https://github.com/autc04/Retro68 which uses a recent version of GCC.
Show HN: Ask Albert, ChatGPT Widget for Android
Ask Albert is the ChatGPT powered widget for Android. Add Ask Albert to your home screen and have instant access to ChatGPT.
Sure, ChatGPT will automate in a short time what tens of thousands of top engineers have built over a decade.
It's been said a hundred times already, but putting unenforceable laws on the books still serves to oppress because these can be used to intimidate or convict "criminals" that have otherwise done nothing wrong. Unequal enforcement of the law reinforces existing class and other social inequalities.
I'm developing an ML based sideproject. All the modern ML tools are written in python, which is a reality good language for it. However, it is an abysmal project for writing business logic and third party integrations, and if I have some free time I will split the whole thing into one Python and one Typescript service.
I don't have the data to back this up, but from what I've heard it is not unusual to drink alcohol in some predominantly Muslim countries like Turkey. Despite that, I agree with you that there are definitely more factors at play than just the law.
https://huggingface.co/datasets/thailux/saang/blob/main/Vide...
https://huggingface.co/datasets/thailux/saang/blob/main/Vide...
https://huggingface.co/datasets/thailux/saang/blob/main/Vide...
https://huggingface.co/datasets/thailux/saang/blob/main/Vide...
https://huggingface.co/datasets/thailux/saang/blob/main/Vide...
Show HN: Jackrabbit Ops – AI Project Manager to Finish Projects
Jackrabbit Ops helps projects make money sooner by reaching their goals through aligning teams with video updates.

Jackrabbbit Ops provides instantaneous feedback, just like an AI manager, to help you iterate faster. It summarizes your updates and provides highlights of the road box with clear visualization of your goal status.
It's kind of funny that Jack Dorsey sold Twitter to someone who he probably knew might tank the site, only to turn around and rebuild the same thing :)
Isn't this legal lingo to prevent 'tendo from DCMA requests?
Where else is it used? In some countries it’s considered a human rights violation because of the asymmetry of power.
I really don't understand this antagonism between different branches of the "AI safety" community. In the 1960's, some people were concerned about preventing a nuclear apocalypse, and some people were concerned about lead emissions and CFCs and exploding cars. But did the nuclear apocalypse people tell the exploding cars people they should stop their work on exploding cars because nuclear apocalypse was more important long-term? Did the exploding car people tell the nuclear apocalypse people to stop raving about nuclear apocalypse because there were more pressing problems affecting people right now, like exploding cars and lead poisoning and a hole in the ozone layer?

I mean, maybe they did; but if they did then I think it was kind of silly. Both kinds of problems are important, then and now.
Are you familiar with a study where merely changing something improved outcomes for a while? They made lights brighter and workers were more productive for a bit, then they dim them back down, workers are again productive but for a bit. First they though oh, let's just make lights brighter everywhere eh? but it turned out nah. Probably it's just workers feeling like you are doing something for their benefit, so once you stop it's back to the baseline.

It seems important to eliminate that possibility, because otherwise sleeping mask or not literally doesn't matter and it's just about doing something and the study is simplified to "caring about sleep improves sleep". Which can be totally true even if bollocks per western medicine tradition to date, but then the study should be about that and not about sleeping masks eh?
I was going to go with the under-8s in the local park on Saturday, but I don't think the bots are that skillful yet.
It's similar, but when the price of the product is closer to the willingness to pay, market share becomes important again.

It's also has an impact on what products get made, and investment in r&d. If you fall behind the competition in terms of quality, you loose marketshare.
> I won four lawsuits/charges; & two more charges led to enforcement actions

Anyone know the cases she's won? I can't find them.
I remember hearing that Salamanders are involved in pollination at some point in my life, but I'll be darned if I can find any references to it online.
Got it. So Tesla can’t even get braking correct. They should be able to do AEB before they are allowed to do FSD in my opinion.
Nope. AWS makes it dead simple to move from RDS to Aurora by clicking a button. There's no way to move data from Aurora to RDS short of doing a SQL dump and reloading everything that way. I found this out when my previous employer was looking at moving from RDS to Aurora.
I don’t think “mathematicians” is the right category. More like scientists/engineers who would otherwise use Fortran and Matlab (both have 1 based indexing) to do number crunching. That’s actually a lot of people though writing quite a bit of code. It’s just they just don’t work in the software industry, and usually for them the code is not the work product.

I think the aspiration was to provide something that a Matlab user can immediately pick up, that is almost as fast natively as Fortran, that also provides features to do good modern software engineering if you want to. And it succeeds amazingly at this.

In my own view, adoption has not been wider because 1) most people don’t need speed so the trade offs with the compiler + using a weird language aren’t worth it, and more importantly 2) outside of some incredible software gems, the package ecosystem tends to be flaky and maintained by overworked academics in their spare time.
Yes, but here the issuer is strongly related to the levers of interest rates and money supply which directly impact the long term value of the issued bonds.
Apparently I've been using Kagi a year longer than that but I can't work out how to find my stats though. I signed up to the Team plan for my company as soon as I saw it was available - before Kagi I couldn't imagine paying for search, now though, I couldn't live without it. It's impossible to overstate how useful a functioning search turns out to be.
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How is this off-topic? It gives potential applicants a fair warning about unfair treatment.
Same.

I've found that this is one of those things that half of the developers never learn to use properly and is therefore a net negative.

In Angular specifically it offers a spectrum of footguns, my favourite by far being passing an observable as an input.

Will the component re-render when the observable emits? Who knows? It depends on more than one factor.

Interesting things also happen when it's a cold observable, it errors out or just completes.

Overall it's quite the circus and I've been in teams where most of the developers had only a surface understanding of what was going on.

That in and of itself is actually not a showstopper until someone decides to create their own component library.
According to https://github.com/taviso/123elf/issues/105 there is no real chance for getting a FOSS license here.
Thank you for sharing, this will come in handy at my workplace.
I use "something like this" (GPT4) all the time. Use a good model. Can't wait till proper open source models catch up, but they're not there yet.

Here's GPT4's response:

```

import math

def clamped_tanh(x, n_terms=10):
"""
Approximate the hyperbolic tangent (tanh) function using a Maclaurin series expansion.

Args:
x (float): The input value for which to compute the tanh.
n_terms (int, optional): The number of terms to use in the Maclaurin series. Default is 10.

Returns:
float: The approximated tanh value.
"""
tanh_approx = 0

for n in range(n_terms):
coef = ((-1) ** n) * (2 * n + 1)
term = coef * (x ** (2 * n + 1)) / math.factorial(2 * n + 1)
tanh_approx += term

# Clamping the tanh approximation to the range [-1, 1]
tanh_approx = max(-1, min(tanh_approx, 1))

return tanh_approx

# Example usage
x = 0.5
result = clamped_tanh(x)
print(f"clamped_tanh({x}) = {result}")

```
giving people tools like Word/Docs, Excel/Sheets, etc that they can use to express themselves and calculate things? Providing email for people? Giving people "it just works" (albeit not as well as Apple's stuff) operating systems (Windows/ChromeOS/Android) that they can use without having to deal with the complications of getting Linux working (although you could argue in recent days Ubuntu does this as well)? VS Code? Creating widely used programming languages (C#, TypeScript, Golang, Dart)? Paying people to work on open source projects? Google search, which, while far from perfect, does still enable people across the world to easily access information that is useful to them?
Dead horse and all that but please just stick to Boring Tech, it is better for your mental health, not to mention your business, development velocity, defect rate, etc.

Most importantly it's good for mental health though.
(Based on the name, the author's probably a she.)
It says it has those things, but it changes absolutely nothing for corporate use - you're still exfiltrating important information. To say nothing of sending personal information there, that is an even worse idea (because you have less money and are therefore less important to keep in mind for a large corporation).

Saying that they're "working on it" is not useful IMO - at the end of the day, they'll be exactly as unethical as they can get away with. We live in a time where we can comfortably say that that is "very unethical".
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> I would argue the flip-flops are the main thing to realise is dedicated hardware

Fun fact: The Microchip [1] ProASIC3 logic area is mostly composed of core cells, each of which can be configured to be either one 3-input LUT or one D-flip-flop, so not even the flip-flops are dedicated hardware.

[1] Formerly Microsemi [2].

[2] Formerly Actel.
Familiarity and more importantly discoverability:

If you type a. in the REPL or IDE you should get a list of all functions applicable to the object
It really doesn’t matter what you think or how you feel. That’s not how it works.

It’s an objective fact that drinking is down and life expectancy is up there.

Some people are so Rusaphobic on here that they are borderline racist. It’s gross.
Do you have a link to documentation on that method of highlighting text? Hard to search for due to the all the non-letter characters.
Not good for resume padding hype chasers. Especially the managerial types who never need to actual write the code.
it makes sense though
The article is about Serverless, which is not necessarily microservices
>But if it is genetic that doesn't really mean it's fundamentally different than ChatGPT, it just took a different and drastically longer training period and then transfer learning when children learn their mother tongue.

It doesn't necessarily mean it's fundamentally different, but it doesn't mean it is comparable either. Geoff Hinton doesn't think the brain does backpropagation. Training a neural net uses backpropagation. So if Hinton is correct then saying "it just took a longer training period" while brains doesn't learn like our current neural nets is glossing over a lot of things.
Over engineering at its best. I tend to see microservices as a doubled edged sword and in this case, there was no need for them.

Also, the pricing of AWS quickly goes up as you go from EC2 -> Fargate -> Lambda. I don't know why on earth someone would build microservices at the lambda-level.
It goes to the beginnings of Western science.

The alchemist Cornelis Drebbel successfully harnessed what he considered to be the perpetual motion of the universe for his perpetual motion machine...

https://antonhowes.substack.com/p/age-of-invention-why-wasnt...

... that now we know to have been changes in temperature and atmospheric pressure, both concepts which were very fuzzy at the time, especially the pressure.

Sadly, his machine had made such an impression, that the legend of it then continued to plague patent applications for centuries !
I'm more thinking of rewriting the application (a bunch of Lambda functions + API gateway + random bits and bobs) as a monolith and running that separately on an EC2 instance (or any other VPS).

In this article, they didn't bolt the serverless architecture onto another existing monolith, but rather rewrote the Step Functions and Lambda functions to be a single ECS task.
Hetzner ?
It can probably be a bit simplified by using IPv6, as that avoids the IPv4 checksum.
what is "cone of care"?
What I'd like to see is a global repository of just pure metadata, file hashes, descriptions, thumbnails, everything you can get away with under the current law. That way you could organize all the data freely and publicly, while you could leave the retrieval to other, potential illegal, parties (torrent, IPFS, random websites, ...).

But due to having all the metadata, one of those parties going down wouldn't be the end of the world, you could just wait until somebody else reuploads it and retrieve it from there.

The main problem after all isn't storing the data, storage is cheap these days, but that the act of mirroring is so damn ugly and brittle. URLs don't last because they encode the storage location, not the content and that's something one could fix with such a metadata database.
You're being downvoted, but you're absolutely right. Even though I personally enjoyed some of his books they'll never quite be in the same realm of those of my favourite authors because it's glaringly noticeable when characters that represent half of humanity are systematically written more poorly than the other half. It knocks the readability of a book like Hard Boiled Wonderland down from exceptionality and into the realm of guilty pleasure reading for me (and lessens my inclination to reread it).
An older yet still excellent take on this topic is https://joeduffyblog.com/2016/02/07/the-error-model/
I've never knowingly had an AWS solutions architect recommend something because it would make AWS more money in the short term. The most frequent advice I've seen from them has been on how to give AWS less money by making use of different features, or changing how particular services are being used.
> these small services

I think you might be unintentionally arguing with a strawman, as everyone else here is talking about using monoliths instead of that.

Few people want to administer a bunch of micro services themselves, but running a single service on a box is pretty low effort, even if you duplicate it for fail over/redundancy
Really glad to see I am not the only one who is gravely concerned, especially in the new-world of "cancel culture".

Even being willfully blind to the danger our dependency on github portends, Microsoft's purchase of github should be enough reason for the development community to diversify.

This is very very well written.
Tesla also prioritises long term
Coding Courses on Udemy
This Google Sheet curates all Udemy courses that are currently available for free. The sheet is updated every few hours, and it internally uses the Udemy API with Google Scripts to scan the Udemy database for free courses in the dev category.

https://www.labnol.org/tech-courses-200403
SDN - Software Defined Network
I'm a huge fan of the underground emulator community. Such amazing things have been made in that scene - dynarecs that do things everyone said were impossible, etc.

https://dsp56300.wordpress.com/faqs/

One of my favourites is the effort to emulate the Motorola 56K DSP processor, which is widely used in many hardware synthesizers and effects units. Things have progressed so far with this emulator, that it is now possible to directly boot the firmware from many of these devices, and produce results that are indistinguishable from the original, long-since end-of-lifed, hardware.

Watching the development of this emulator from the sidelines, I was regularly amused at the competence and sheer persistence of the authors, especially when running into very hard edge cases. It seems this style of development attracts folks with the Right Stuff, indeed ..
Who the hell is giving my name, email, mailing address, zip code, etc. to Google? I'd like to have my lawyer get in touch with them.

I definitely did not consent, in fact I go out of my way to tell companies I give such information to not to share it with anyone.
Unless you have an EMP. Then the people with sticks win.
Having occasionally looked at them for workflow driven tasks I'm not sure what the use case for Step Functions is, unless your workflow being called once an hour or something they seem infeasibly expensive for what they offer, and somehow manage to be more complex than just writing some code to model the workflow.
What a delightful euphemism for "leasing".
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Devils advocate, but is it possible microservices need a shared feature-ful message passing layer, and good tooling, to be working well? Eg schema, auth, flow control, ttl, persistence, partitioning etc in the message layer, a la Kafka? I mean it’s kind of implied that microservices can only work if they can talk to each other, and “talking” is a lot more nuanced than we tend to think.
My bank (in NL) provides a separate device for authorization. It has a camera to scan a colour-coded QR code, then lets you see the total amount you're authorizing on its screen, and gives you a TOTP code to confirm the transaction.

Having a separate device may not be what you're looking for, but for me it beats installing a closed-source app on my phone.