skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Auctions are terrible because of the uneven distribution of wealth.

You end up with a situation where the wealthy can do everything and the poor can do nothing.

And then there's the super rich, who could buy out the possibility of anyone else participating, literally turning such places into their private playground for eternity if they so wished.

Like, what price could you price it at where:

1. You could afford to go occassionally

2. Elon Musk couldn't just buy out every single ticket for the next decade to make it their personal playground.

There's simply no feasible solution to that.

Just auctioning everything and letting capitalism take its course just denies a vast segment of society from participating at all for activities where demand outstrips supply.

Supply & Demand only works if supply can be increased, so that as prices rise there's incentive for greater supply.

For things like National Parks or Taylor Swift concerts, price discovery through "supply and demand" does not work because supply can't increase to match supply no matter the price.
From Amazon's PoV, AWS is on-prem ;-)
campflare aint pay 2 play #freeforthepeople
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It is one of the best-selling systems of all time and has a digital distribution service with a relatively low barrier of entry.
Sometimes you have to do more to do less…
Ryujinx has replaced Stack Overflow as the canonical "C#/.NET" showpiece. And it is fantastic for it.
The title is editorialised to be clickbait. The original title is "Scaling up the Prime Video audio/video monitoring service and reducing costs by 90%".

They changed a single service, the Prime Video audio/video monitoring service, from a few Lambda and Step Function components into a 'monolith'. This monolith is still one of presumably many services within Prime Video.
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Not really - what they realized is that the billing model was not well aligned to what they were doing.
I would also happily accept an invite if provided by any kind person.
We could call it a polylith.
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If you want to stay in the command line there is an excellent cli you can use https://github.com/yitsushi/totp-cli.

It’s an excellent tool that has great encryption and handles multiple accounts and can paste into your clipboard with `totp account.name|pbcopy` and asks for a password on stderr. Pretty cool stuff.
I do not use Twitter (nor Mastodon) and have exactly the same feeling when I incidentally open a Twitter post.
Yeah. This is a very good point. Overall I think the user experience of the web when accessed through google kinda sucks in an overtly annoying way.

I also think it's one of the big selling points of GPT-like search engines. It's not that they necessarily arrive at the answer quicker, they're just so much less annoying to use than Google, not only because you don't have to wrestle with an ambiguous syntax, but you also don't need to wade through bait-and-switch spam results, dismiss newsletter requests, get roped around by filler text, etc. The typewritered text is also a brilliant move to circumvent the sort of skimming-like reading pattern most of us have developed due to exposure to the spammier side of the web.
If hackers can use AI to find the vulnerabilities then surely the good guys can find the same vulnerabilities with the same AI. And once you are aware of them you can protect against them.

I don't think the bad guys have any special advantage that would allow them to produce AI better than the good guys. Hackers are good at finding vulnerabilities because as you say they only need to find one vulnerability. But you can't IMPROVE the state of the art in AI with just a single discovery. So in the AI-race the hackers don't have the same advantage as they have in finding vulnerabilities. I think.
I have come to despise and be really tired of timeline firehoses. If you are spending precious brain cells to "reinvent" social, consider something more adapted to the animal you want to help communicate digitally. Show me a firehose that has taken onboard the bitter lessons of decades of failed social media.
Unfortunately there has and always will be the obvious cheaper way to produce "expendable soldiers", as a certain current conflict brutally illustrates.
That's the right assumtion: you'll get nothing.

As for having a saving, pension account I'd put a little bit aside in bitcoin,
just in case in 10 - 20 years it will be a small fortune.
My personal appreciation for the HN UI is that it's completely free of distraction.
But the next frame takes a while to actually show up on the screen, so the "as actually visible to the user" part simply can't be right. This may be isolated latency of just the program, but definitely not something reflecting real-world user experience, it's 1-2 orders of magnitude off in that regard.
All new Bluesky posts as they come in real-time.
I felt the same way until a drunk host in Canada cornered me in the room and yelled at us until I barricaded the door and my wife called the police.

True story.
This seems flawed to me. Two countries with the same population and the same behaviour are treated differently because they have a different land mass? That's crazy.
That's very hypothetical. Building a distributed system just might always be way more resource intensive than comparable monlith regardless of number of developers involved.
Your asks seem easily answered with docker + kubernetes. Actually, this is in fact the use case for kubernetes — a fault tolerant distributed system running arbitrarily, simply packaged code. This has to be what you’ve tried — what issue are you running into?
Lets see if this doesn't turn out to be yet another "Swift for Tensorflow", remember when fast.ai used to say the same about it?
If all one cares about are that only their fellow millionaires get to savor some publicly-owned campsites, then sure that's a great solution.
Passwords, particularly passphrases, are easy to remember and you can reuse a similar structure for probably decades:

- There-are-three-ducklings3-in-the-lake

- There-are-five-swans5-in-the-lake

- There-are-six-hedgehogs6-in-the-bush

And so on. You only need to remember the latest number and animal, but the entropy of the whole string is much higher unless someone also knows your personal password structure (which is kind of like a second factor).

With a password manager, you only need to remember that one passphrase. If you have to enter it daily, I think it’s very difficult to forget.

You can access your passwords mostly independently from any device and it’s probably about as secure if good generated password hygiene on websites and services is used.
And then team 1 needs to upgrade pandas to 2.0, but team 2 is still on pandas 1, so when the main app pulls them in nothing works, so you need to start a cross-team committee to schedule the work to upgrade a single library...

Separate services aren't a silver bullet, but as an fyi to the younger software developers, we tried "just have all teams work on the same code base and deployable artifact" for a long while and it didn't work very well either.
Indeed, it does seem rather ridiculous at face value. On the other hand, I have coworkers that run CPU-IPC bound workloads inside x86-64 docker containers on M1 macs (incurring the overhead of both machine code emulation and OS virtualization). I have other coworkers sweating for hours whether to use 32-bit or 64-bit integers for APIs designed for microcontrollers running at 300Mhz. I have even more coworkers writing stuff in rust because it's "memory safe" and "so fast", but they have no idea that they're doing thousands of unnecessary heap memory allocations per second when I naively start asking questions in a code review.

Even really smart, capable people in general have really poorly calibrated intuition when it comes to the intrinsic overhead of software. It's a testament to the raw computational power of modern hardware I guess. In the case of AWS, it's never been easier to accidentally a million dollars a month.
They've also banned pretty much anything remotely controversial since maybe 2015. It started out with shock videos and gore, but gradually progressed into pretty much anything deemed offensive by the demographic they're catering to.

The connecting thread in all these bans is that if you're not in the niche of American 'polite society' that they market to, you can expect to be tolerated only to give an illusion of plurality to the site.
Right, it is probably us humans that will have to fix the vulnerabilities :-)
The goal with a hardware device is partly avoiding having to label the begin/end times on a bunch of videos.
If you find yourself stressed by the process of reserving campsites online, I’d encourage you to just go to random public land and camp there. It’s legal by default to camp on BLM and Forest Service land and you do not need permission from Booz Allen Hamilton to do it. There are endless adventures to be had and plenty of room for everyone. People competing to fill out online forms so they can be allocated appointments to enjoy specific small segments of the great outdoors is a truly bizarre phenomenon. If you enjoy participating in that system, more power to you, but if you don’t, then just go anywhere in the much larger portion of public land that isn’t administered in that fashion.
Because, you see, if you surround shit with other shit, that original shit doesn't look quite so bad in comparison. So take your shit monolith, surround it by shit services that distributed it across a shitty network, and now your original self inflicted shit design is just 1/3rd of the shit you gotta deal with. Totally not as bad as it used to be!
All the tweets -er, bleets - posted on Bluesky in real time.
We are the start of a new S-curve. The current skilled employees will use their expertise to bridge the adoption of AI, bring the current use cases. The next wave of AI-native employees will build on their expertise, which we don't have widely yet, to develop new ways of doing things that we haven't envisioned yet and later to ease the next big paradigm shift.
That’s what I’m stuck with as well. I wish I could get my due and planned dates into a Google or iCloud calendar but it unfortunately doesn’t work that way. What does not work as well is using Google keep because it’s not as good as TODO.
Do placebos typically keep on working, night after night?
Yes, to keep track of costs.
A matter of opinion.
The job cuts had nothing to do with keeping the company profitable. In fact, the company was significantly less profitable in Q1 than it could have been due to not yet realizing any savings but additionally having billions in charges from the layoffs.

It's possible that Google becomes a significantly more profitable company as a result of this, but it seems equally plausible that in three months they'll go on another hiring binge. That's what weak leadership like Sundar's gets you: no vision and no consistency.
It’s also not really serverless to begin with, because at the end of the day code is being executed on a physical device that many of us might call a “server”
Yes! It is about splitting your business in reasonable chunks/domain/boundaries. Pizza rules/rewrite rules ... that is all nonsense.

But doing it right, is nevertheless hard. Because cutting your business into chunks ... is not as easy as it always looks.
Nice that sounds like a really neat workflow. I haven't used stacked PRs before, I feel like everywhere I've worked has generally been: work on a feature, PR/MR the branch and try to keep it small. Any idea what it isn't more common?
> In no time we'll see SO spammed with questions using `computed(async () => ...` or race conditions when using `effect`.

As opposed to the very few questions about rxjs, where people understand everything perfectly.
Circled i in the top left corner is clickable:

"What is this?

The new social app Bluesky makes all of its data available over the public AT protocol.

This web app republishes every single new post/reply from the Bluesky firehose in real-time – useful for observing the current mood, monitoring for key words or phrases, or discovering something new.

Created and maintained by John Spurlock (@johnspurlock.com on Bluesky).

Made with Deno + Denoflare, hosted on Cloudflare Workers."
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The thing with these authentication services is that if Google doesn't like you and blocks your account, you're fucked.

This is not a remote possibility. It happens to thousands of people every day, for entirely frivolous reasons.

Until there is some authentication system that is genuinely robust to corporate control attacks, I'll keep using the imperfect password manager model.
Yeah merge hell is what sorta keeps me shy of doing the stacked approach. Is this something you've encountered?
Give poor people money, if you want to help them.

Giving them a park ticket is equivalent to giving them the auction price for the ticket but restricting them to use it on park tickets. Very condescending and paternalistic.

> Supply & Demand only works if supply can be increased, so that as prices rise there's incentive for greater supply.

No? Where did you get that idiosyncratic notion from?

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

Auctions also work well for things that are in fixed demand. Of course, in that case you have suppliers bid, not buyers.

You can also have a two-sided auction where both suppliers and buyers bid.
I am likewise a historian/author who relies on newspaper archives for a lot of my research. I have been maintaining my site for 17+ years, and if one visits my older writings, many of the source links are long dead.

Of course there is the Internet Archive, but if one looks into the stewardship of that project, it is quite vulnerable in the long term. There are key people whose departures would compromise the viability of the project. Perhaps we need the digital equivalent of the Svaldbard seed vault for digital archives--a state-maintained facility storing the bulk of Internet history in a geologically stable server farm.
Look up the skyline to sea trail, it's near you.and wonderful.
I like firehoses for doing network diagrams, albeit at the API level. In UI terms and endlessly scrolling feed is the equivalent of a log fire video - or a dumpster fire, depending on your perspective.
What you describe make me think of Tomme Vaudoise[1] (widely available in Swiss supermarket). It's a little bit firmer than a classic french Brie (it really depends on how old it is and how long you let it rest out of the fridge).

But this is from the french part of Switzerland, I'm not aware of any well known soft chesse from the german part. But then small cheese production in not unheard of in Switzerland; you having it may be very well be in fact a local production (think nano-brewery, but for cheese).

[1] https://www.cheesesfromswitzerland.com/en/cheese-varieties/r...
My word. I'm sort of gob smacked this article exists.

I know there are nuances in the article, but my first impression was it's saying "we went back to basics and stopped using needless expensive AWS stuff that caused us to completely over architect our application and the results were much better". Which is good lesson, and a good story, but there's a kind of irony it's come from an internal Amazon team. As another poster commented, I wouldn't be surprised if it's taken down at some point.
Give poor people money, if you think they need the help. No need to decide for them what is best for them by giving them help in the form of tickets.

Giving them a ticket is equivalent to giving them money, but restricting it be spent on park tickets only. Very condescending and paternalistic, isn't it?

Are you afraid they are going to spend their ticket money on booze?
All the teams will need to migrate sooner or later so figuring out all of the potential problems in migrating and having everyone do it an once is more efficient than each team needing to figure it out separately.
At the moment, we're still trying to turn the question from an easy and obvious natural language form ("give me what I meant to ask for") into a form that is amenable to being solved in the world of weights and biases.[0]

So several of the AI labs are published work on this topic, but it looks like e.g. "interpretable models" or philosophy of ethics etc.

So today we're doing today with AI alignment research is the equivalent of asking Ada Lovelace how to prevent the Therac-25 deaths and the best response is "Why would you even do that, just don't write the wrong commands on the punched cards".

[0] Some, myself included, are optimistic that early AI can help us do that. Yudkowsky appears to be dismissive of all options, but I don't see why any near-term AI would care to insert errors into later types of AI, so we've only got out own blind spots to look out for and we had that already…

…but all the AI doomers I hang out with seem to consider me a terrible optimist, so YMMV.
Those sleep quality measurements barely overlap at 1 SD. I don't care if anyone says it's not statistically significant; the trend is enough that I would not be convinced without a lot of additional data which pushes the mean values much closer together.
> Porn is a pretty major contributor to divorce and otherwise blowing up relationships

Citation needed.

Usually a man's porn collection is not "public". If one shows it to his wife then ...
"..with basic regularization of the behavior during training led the robots to learn safe and effective movements"

Safe and effective - that phrase gave me the gag reflex.
This is incorrect. Passkeys on iOS and Android are locked to Apple and Google account ecosystem. They cannot leave their ecosystem. Also, only the OS platform can use the BLE transport for CTAP2 protocol on iOS and Android devices. That is, a 3rdparty app (like 1password) cannot implement a FIDO2 BLE or NFC authenticator on iOS and Android – which is a huge handicap.
The worth here is that Amazon is writing about not going into AWS PaaS native programming (what Lambda is) because it is too expensive for them.

That has some newsworthiness and the title kind of reflects that.
Printed has obviously declined, but the quantity of local information has vastly increased thanks to Facebook, Reddit, Twitter, Flickr, hyperlocal news sites, etc. The unknown is how much of that data will be accessible, say, 100 years from now.
I'm waiting for the AWS Lambda team to talk to Marketing to get this taken down ...
I will make it live online by integrating it into extendedmachine.com, my new operating system running in a web browser
Feels more like the initial version was a prototype not meant to scale

Wouldn’t have expected prime to be pushing around images on s3
> This is awesome. I'd love to see this at scale.

What scale do you want ?

It's already employed in Switzerland (the second part of the paper describe the result of a routine check from a supermarket). Switzerland is a small market, but not that small.
Yep, expect the Lambda team to raise hell.
Archived:

https://archive.is/LFtNg

http://web.archive.org/web/20230504060528/https://www.primev...
Related:

Universal Turing machine - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Turing_machine

Self-replicating machine - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-replicating_machine
How then we should call it instead, if the source code is openly available?
This is a really interesting set of insights. I definitely see the theoretical benefits of stacking but as you indicate it feels like it requires a pretty good grip of git to manage. Do you have tooling to support with this in your team? To your last point, so let's say you've got 5 stacked PRs chained off of each other, you then need to merge master into each of them individually?
That we get this link today has surely nothing to do that Zelda: Tears of a Kingdom was leaked yesterday? Surely not ;)

Independent of a bit sarcasm, this project is a nice showcase how versatile C# and .NET is.
I would like to know this as well. Not just “can you write general purpose programs” but is that one of the fundamental design goals. For example, in my personal opinion Julia does not meet the bar.

One of Python’s powerful features outside of being a great glue language for AI is rich runtime reflection and introspection. This is what allows things like FastAPI/Pydantic to work. Will Mojo support this level of runtime introspection?

I’m also curious about the type system. Will it be Python level or TypeScript level?
There is still Unity ;) ... which okay is not exactly pure C# but ;)
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> iCloud is objectively the best cloud service in your opinion? You're really not just picking that because you're using Apple products and thats the only one that allows backing up an iOS device (funny that) for example?

Had my phone stolen. Bought a new one the next day. First boot took several minutes but when it did boot, everything was there - all my documents and pictures, all my apps, all my preferences and settings (not only for the phone itself but for each app too), even the background image and app icon layout was the same. IIRC I didn’t even have to re-login to many apps, just the security-conscious “trust this new device?” ones.

Such a seamless backup and restore experience is remarkable in and of itself, and I don’t think if Apple allowed third-party backup services they would get to that level of seamlessness. I don’t know for sure that Android (or Windows/Linux, same seamless backup on Apple laptops) don’t have a backup service with a comparable levels of seamlessness and thoroughness, but I don’t think they do.

iCloud backup is a genuinely impressive service and I have to respect it.
Statically typed functional programming is number 2 for me

And stackoverflow is number 1 :)
You don't get (and stay rich) by wasting all your resources.
They're different, but not that much. In all 3, the cops are definitely NOT working for the citizens, they're working for the people in power and oppressing and brutalizing the citizens. The root causes are a little different, and the targeted groups are a little different, but overall it's pretty similar. In civilized countries, the cops mostly work for the citizens, to keep the peace, and don't brutalize and murder people with impunity.

I'd say one big difference is who the people in power are, that the cops are working for: in China/Russia, it's the dictator. In the US, it's really for themselves, and whatever corrupt local leaders they're friends with. In the US, law enforcement really resembles organized crime.
You know, sometimes I get mad at Chinese food fetishes killing off a species or another, then I remember American car fetish is destroying the human habitat...
How does the MLIR that Mojo generates differ from https://openxla.github.io/iree/

Or does Mojo sit on top of iree?

Will the inference engine support multi GPU setups?
Yes, this is just the defect detector and not the actual video streaming service.
IMHO The biggest roadblock to use AI to rewrite code and blindly trust results is having good tests to validate results. This is mood for simulations and models.

Also, neural ODEs are already taking traction. It won't be hard to replace lots of obscure spaghetti code that deal with edge cases in models with maybe inscrutable neural networks that deliver the same results. Better tools are already developing to deal with interpretability of NN, as higher-level blocks become standard abstractions.