skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Stark how there were minimal excess deaths in in the under-44 age range throughout the whole of the pandemic. Pandemic communication (which is a hard problem!) definitely did not paint that picture.
More like Braun and japanese industrial design than Apple (which apple is heavily inspired by)
I hate subscription pricing for software.

But BBEdit is so good and has been such a key part of my livelihood for decades that I gladly pay to upgrade every time a new major version comes out, even if I don't need any of the new features.

That's the way to keep revenue coming without subscription extortion: make something genuinely useful that people truly like using.
You're not crazy that it used to[1] be less clear what exactly FDIC insurance applied to.

Originally:

> Gemini is a U.S. company regulated by the New York Department of Financial Services. GUSD reserves are eligible for FDIC insurance up to $250,000 per user while custodied with State Street Bank and Trust.¹

Later:

> Gemini is a U.S. company regulated as a limited purpose trust company by the New York State Department of Financial Services. Each GUSD corresponds to a U.S. dollar held by Gemini in accounts at U.S. FDIC-insured bank accounts and money market funds holding short-term U.S. treasury bonds and maintained at a custodian. The cash portion of these GUSD reserves may be eligible for FDIC “pass through” insurance for Gemini customers, in the event of the failure of a bank holding the U.S. dollar deposit portion of the GUSD reserves.

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20211201224824/https://www.gemin...
Please educate me on how my statement about MySQL upgrades is incorrect, I'd love to hear this. I've been using MySQL for 20 years, and while 2 of those years were at Facebook, 18 were not. I've performed MySQL upgrades in quite a wide range of environments, and what you're saying here about lack of in-place upgrades or eating data is simply not aligned with reality.

I haven't made any comments regarding performance comparisons, and have also run extremely large DB footprints with tiny teams, but I don't see how any of that is relevant to the specific topic of new-version upgrade procedure!
'Reversed' sunspot may spark bright auroras this week in Canada and Northern US
Funny timing, I was just discussing with a friend that I can palpably feel a slight loss of edge, I know sometimes that I'm working through something with a little less raw horsepower, and I still wouldn't trade away the experience advantage for anything.

It feels like a shift slightly away from "build the thing right" and toward "build the right thing". There's no sense racing to a destination that we don't want to arrive at in the first place.
Why does anyone think the role of creating new jobs in the wake of losing jobs to due to AI should fall on the shoulders of the government, and why do people believe they could be successful at it?

> Governments will have to find a solution for knowledge sector workers whose jobs are automated away thanks to the advent of artificial intelligence, a leading expert in the field warned.

This is a horrible way to solve this possible future problem.
Yup. They just were not called "McMansions" at the time.

Affluence definitely followed the conscious policy decision to build a network of freeways and highways, with a focus on suburban lifestyle.

To expand a bit on that, car-oriented cities allowed US citizens to:

1. Have shorter commutes than Europeans. This _still_ holds true!

2. Be able to access more businesses within the "reasonable commute" range.
Try a browser or a clean profile without any ad blocking turned on. It took me a couple of tries to figure out how to get it working but you should see a modal with a form when it works.

FYI the waitlist form submits a regular POST request so it'll reload the main page instead of closing the modal dialog. I opened network monitor with preserved logs to double check that I made it on the list :facepalm:
In which country do you live? At least in Germany heating with electricity is not that common.

I do have separate expectations on electricty vs heating.
They are ridiculously overpriced.

They are terribly limited, which is marketed as a bonus - I don't see it that way.

I wouldn't go so far as to call them trash - they're very expensive toys.

You may enjoy this video about the OP-1's feature set, even without the background knowledge to know everything he's saying is 100% true (which it is) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zU8alMWUmDI

I like Apple, quite possibly too much. I put a lot of value on user experience. But I would never buy a Teenage Engineering product with my own money. I find that 'I only drink $500 bottles of wine' kind of thing deeply uncool.
AI Can Help Us Make Decisions Faster
See the lvmcache(7) manpage, which I think may be what the earlier poster was thinking of. It isn't an asymmetric RAID mode, but a tiered caching scheme where you can, for example, put a faster and smaller enterprise SSD in front of a larger and slower bulk store. So you can have a large bulk volume but the recently/frequently used blocks get the performance of the fast cache volume.

I set it up in the past with an mdadm RAID1 array over SSDs as a caching layer in front of another mdadm array over HDDs. It performed quite well in a developer/compute workstation environment.
Please tell me software development technical online assessments companies use?
I was wondering what all the the software development technical online assessment tests companies use? Are the solutions to those assessments posted online. I will be taking a PHP or C sharp assessments. What online test will the company use for PHP or C sharp?
I don’t see this in the article. Has Anthropic explained the mechanism by which they were able to cost-effectively expand the context window, and whether there was additional training or a design decision (e.g. alternative positional embedding approach) that helped the model optimize for a larger window?
> how are we going to get fertility rates back up to replacement or higher once all countries have dropped below?

Some of this is contingent on issues that can already be resolved through policy (e.g. work-life balance, affordability, daycare). AI could help but it's redundant.

Even if there were a decline in population globally for a few decades, it will be working backwards from 10+ billion. Who cares?
If the enzyme is produced by genetically altered microbes like bacteria or yeast, wouldn't that make it practically useful on some scale?
Made the $20B through excessive leverage, too.
It was also 30 years old last year: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31008290
> being sued by the SEC over this, claiming it's an unregistered security

Good, but insufficient. Misleadingly using the FDIC’s brand should open a criminal investigation.
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I am a seasoned Backend Developer with deep expertise in JVM languages like Java and Kotlin, and a Master's degree in Computer Science. With over a decade of experience, from startups to large corporations, I've developed a comprehensive skill set and the adaptability to thrive in various environments.

Throughout my career, I've demonstrated strong proficiency in Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), microservices, SOLID principles, event-driven architecture, and Domain-Driven Design (DDD) principles. A recent role had me managing a system of 1200+ microservices, showcasing my ability to handle large-scale, complex microservice architectures.

I'm not just experienced in maintaining existing systems, but also in initiating new projects. I spearheaded the development of an IMSI catchers detector from a Raspberry Pi prototype in a shoebox to a mature product.

My technology stack includes, but is not limited to, Java, Kotlin, Python, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Elasticsearch, RabbitMQ, Kafka, AWS, and Spring Boot. Recently, I led a massive refactor of a 4-year-old application, adding support for multi-currency and multi-market, illustrating my skills in modernizing and upgrading existing systems.

I'm currently seeking new freelance opportunities that could benefit from my skills and experience. I've been working remotely for over a decade and am comfortable with such an arrangement.

Please feel free to reach out if you think my skill set aligns with your needs. I'm looking forward to discussing how I can contribute to your project.
For being rarely mentioned, it sure is mentioned a lot...
MemComputing vs. Quantum Computing
That's not a loss, that's an investment in an asset. It's a loss because the assets have devalued.
FWIW, Chrome answers this question neatly. Just select "Search images with Google" from the menu and it scores a direct hit.
Agreed. People say that "X isn't around anymore" but what's really happening is that X doesn't dominate pop culture/isn't the Big New Thing anymore.

It's become effortless for people to get into artistic creation, including music. So it's everywhere, you just have to dig a bit to find it.
On St Patrick's Day I drank a non-alcoholic Guinness and was shocked that it was indistinguishable from the "real thing" in flavor and consistency.

401k's are also a no brainer if there's decent company matching.
I think its a bit of a stretch to argue the OB-4 has no peers? There's no shortage of premium battery powered speakers out there. While the design may be much more to your liking, there are good options.
I get this: „ERROR. Quota exceeded for aiplatform.googleapis.com/online_prediction_requests_per_base_model with base model: chat-bison. Please submit a quota increase request.“

Has anyone gotten this fixed?
Teenage Engineering adds a recorder to their growing range of field gadgets
Proactive AI Regulations Are Dangerous
> to siphon money from the poor and middle class and deposit it into the bank accounts of the wealthy by utilizing the equity the poor and middle class have in their vehicles

What poor and middle class assets does SoftBank manage? (EDIT: Nvm. I misread “vehicle” as an investment vehicle.)
Ah, you're thinking about embeddings which are basically the encoder stack on a traditional transformer architecture. Modern GPT-like models (including Claude), however, drop the encoder and use decoder-only architectures.

I could imagine something where encoders pad up to the context length because causal masking doesn't apply and the self attention has learned to look across the whole context-window.
Turns out they just get in the way, and in-between showing ads, sell your usage data to advertising companies.

We were better off without them.
Agreed - a friend in Tokyo mentioned that his neighborhood had small apartments that didn't have their own bathrooms but instead came with unlimited access to the public bathhouse down the street. If you were down with that tradeoff you could get an apt in a super desirable neighborhood for ~$300/mo.

Sounds like an amazing option to me, but totally prevented by zoning / regulations in the US.
Looks like a feature borrowed from their radio

https://teenage.engineering/products/ob-4
> The class syntax garden path is much nicer than the weed-filled hedge maze it mostly replaced.

I agree. Honestly I don't understand the obsession some people in the JS world have against classes.

React components with state made more sense with classes than hooks. And yeah some people argue hooks are composable yada yada but if you need a React expert to write a useInterval hook to use a fundamental language feature, then maybe the model is not a great idea to begin with.

https://overreacted.io/making-setinterval-declarative-with-r...

Of course I know I'm in the minority here.
Are there any YT series that are worthy of mention?

I think I've a PDF copy of The Art of Electronics. One day...
Show HN: Clover – server routes augmented with Zod and OpenAPI
I worked on a library I hope might be interesting to folks :)

Today, adding type safe wrappers to API routes (in frameworks like Next.js) requires reaching for solutions like TRPC or Zodios. I created a lighter weight alternative called Clover. It uses Zod for input validation and generates an OpenAPI schema. It also provides a type safe client. I welcome any feedback!
...on around $100B of capital raised.

i.e., -39%. Poof!

So far.

--

For those here who don't know, Masayoshi Son almost lost everything in the dotcom bust of 2000-2002.

A single investment saved him from ruin back then: Alibaba. Was that luck or skill? In hindsight, it looks a lot like luck to me.

Either way, he's clearly a bet-the-farm-and-actually-can-lose-the-farm kind of guy.
Postgres WAL replication is a physical replication stream. MySQL binlog replication is a logical replication stream, a higher-level abstraction which is independent of the storage engines.

Postgres does separately support logical replication now, but it has some limitations, such as not permitting replication of DDL: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/logical-replication-...
Or go to a casino. Would have more chances.
> Most of these AI

This is as meaningful as saying most of the hominids can't count. You can't usefully generalize AI models with the rate of change that exists right now. Any statements/comparisons about AI has to contain specific models and versions, otherwise it's increasingly irrelevant noise.
Early employees have to work like crazy and get very little upside for the risk they take. It's literally the worst deal you can take, and in this economy it's just a bad idea - I imagine most of the candidates at WaaS right now are college grads who couldn't find a job.
Not really fair assesment. At pro level that price really doesnt matter. Saying that its bad because it looks is stupid. What matters is if its reliable and functions well. If it does it might just mean that the premium materials make it last longer.
>> These investments were comparable to money market funds. There’s no way passive cash is viable at those returns.

Totally agree. But why would you compare crypto high yield accounts to MM funds, rather than, say, CLOs or CLO funds, or structured notes (https://pprcapitalmgmt.com/invest-in-a-real-estate-fund/) or factored receiveables funds
I had a bit of a discussion with some of the more level-headed commenters via Mastodon.

It turns out the original problem stemmed from their CPO speaking at the European Police Conference.

https://mastodon.matrix.org/@element/110310853505977058

The vitriol spiraled out from there, because it's one thing to allow police and governments to use your FOSS (because, you can't really stop them, no?), but to actively support that and use that in your marketing is another thing altogether.
Raid5 works ok until you scrub. Even scrubbing one device at a time is a barrage of random reads sustained for days at a time

I’ll very happily move back from MD raid 5 when linear scrub for parity raid lands
Expertise, time and money are indeed all it takes. But that doesn't mean it's easy. :)

You can absolutely build beautiful stuff in your own home shop.

The Chris Ramsay Playing Card Press
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3PwAQZNLy0I

What you need to understand though is that these kinds of projects take ridiculous amounts of time.

CAUTION: That video is Clickspring. You will get sucked in and lose hours of time. Do not open unless you can afford to waste a lot of time. :)
Here's a really important reason to care about open source models: prompt engineering is fiddly enough without the risk of your model provider "upgrading" the model you are using in a way that breaks your existing prompts.

OpenAI already upset a lot of (admittedly non-paying academic) users when they shut off access to the old Ada code model with only a few week's notice.
I have seen some nature museum as a kid, and the older the life forms were in there, the more they looked "fractalish" to me. Ferns, fossils, the older the repeating'er.
Older developer here (I started my career by writing 3D graphics software in the mid-80's).

I recently spent a number of years in semi-retirement, concentrating on my photography [0] and filmmaking [1] and thinking I was done with (and too old for) software development.

Professional software development had lost its lure for me as the CG and VFX industry had grown into a massive factory-like industry. Though I had worked on some satisfying projects -- writing the animation code used in "Jurassic Park", leading the R&D team for "Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within", working on "The Hobbit" movies -- I had lost the desire to write software.

Then about a year ago a friend asked me to teach him some Common Lisp online. So I wrote some tutorials and as we did our sessions [2] I got increasingly enthusiastic about developing for fun, especially if I could use the tool of my choice (Common Lisp) for the domain of my choice (computer graphics). So I started a new 3D graphics project and made it open source [3]. Even started a blog about the journey [4].

Although I don't consider myself to be up on the latest buzzwords and web architectures and the only scrum I'm familiar with is from my rugby-playing days, I have found -- rediscovered -- the pleasure of designing and implementing software. Surprisingly (to me at least), I don't feel over the hill. Yes, I probably can't do the marathon programming sessions I used to do, and all-nighters are a thing of the past, but I don't find my mind being any less sharp than it used to be.

[0] https://www.kardanphotography.com

[1] https://vimeo.com/kavehkardan

[2] https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLTA6M4yZF0MzsMlNL0N67...

[3] https://github.com/kaveh808/kons-9

[4] https://medium.com/@kaveh808/once-more-into-the-breach-a-new...
The syntax sugar paves a "garden path" for the common experience to be the best experience. It encodes "best practices" from previous prototype-based code, including private members. (They were always possible/always existed [as closures inside a constructor function, among even wilder solutions], but the patterns for building and using them was all over the map. It is nice to have standards now over a lot of ad hoc solutions.) I don't think it is wasteful, because it saves you from having to read books like "JS: The Good Parts" and hunt around for the right toolkit or design pattern to do the right things easily.
You completely missed the point made here, which was a very good one.
> Humans in general cannot 'time the market'. To think that you can is a fool's errand.

OP wasn't trying to time the market. They had a liquidity issue and needed cash.

> Therefore, the fact your stocks are down isn't a good reason not to sell them.

Realizing a loss is the perfect reason not to sell. This is why smart people recommend having an emergency fund, so you don't have to take a hit and damage your long term goals when you find yourself in a short term pinch. Not selling is actually the most important part of owning stocks.
Thanks. That's wild, never heard of them before.

Now I am indeed curious what the minimum amount of sunlight required is. I'm sure the angle of the sun is just as important as the duration, on top of weather and seasons and temperatures.
Yep, I replied in a sister comment [1], I am wholly turned off by cryptocurrency at this point.

I was kind of enamored with the tech behind blockchains (and to some extent I suppose I still kind of am), and saw the insane growth it was going through, and drank the stupid kool-ade.

Seeing it all go pear-shaped has really highlighted why we regulate banks in the way that we do. It's not perfect, but I sleep better knowing that an actually-insured bank won't really run away with my money.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35907377
It's really hard to prove anything about some things being different in this space, I'm certain it's not a unilaterally good thing.
Citation? Numbers? What do you mean by "vast majority" and "gang-on-gang"?
I don't mind investors loosing money, that's part of the game and if you fail to do a proper due diligence and risk evaluation, well, you get what you deserve. All the people loosing money with FTX as users, well, they are a different story.
You can also add journal_async_commit,noauto_da_alloc

> maybe disable flushes with https://github.com/stewartsmith/libeatmydata

overlayfs has a volatile mount option that has that effect. So stacking a volatile overlayfs with the upper and lower on the same ext4 could provide that behavior even for applications that can't be intercepted with LD_PRELOAD
Interestingly, even today you can still get much better than 7% in DeFi. No need to give your money to a curly haired dude living in a condo on an island. Who, at the time, was making a lot more than that on your funds.

In DeFi, you give your money to a "smart" contract, which can of course still get hacked or what not. Always assess your risk/reward ratio.

Where does the yield come from? Collateralized lending/borrowing markets. People are still gambling with crypto and they can do it better, if they can borrow funds. It got a lot smaller after the collapse of FTX, but hasn't stopped at all.

Aave still has $7.5b locked up.
The Future of Vehicle Recycling – Cars stripped, boxed and on eBay within hours
Did anyone else get on the waitlist, get in, and now their console link doesn't work? I remember deciding the code generation wasn't good enough to bother. Not sure if I actually ever activated it but I guess not.

Now I tried to request access again on their form and it just redirected. Can't even tell if that worked.

Does anyone know if this can program as well as GPT-4? Because if so then the larger context window is a big improvement.
He meant Uber. Uber is siphoning residual equity in people's vehicles into cash for Uber by underpaying for depreciation.
The system is designed in this way though. If it wasn't meant to be a two step process, which allows a new party to make a different (painful) decision later on, then it wouldn't have been designed this way.

There's a big problem with US debt these days. I'm not sure the Republican's gimmick today is the appropriate solution, but something has to be done, or this will be the undoing of the US. Increase income, reduce spending, there's not many ways to go about it. And you need to do both. Unless you just plan on devaluing the currency, which isn't going to last long with the nascent tug of war in reserve currency status being mounted by China.

The US is very vulnerable right now and most people aren't willing to swallow the hard medicine required. The undoing of previous prominent powers historically came in similar fashions.

More tax, reduced spending. Harder work.
Can you name a company that used to hire part time staff and has since gone to only zero-hours contractors? I find the idea that non-gig jobs don't exist anymore extremely hard to believe.
Today you get to learn that words can have multiple definitions!
Gatrel also got a conviction and a 2 year bid. This doesn't seem like a matter of 'parallel construction' but instead FAFO.
I think a lot of the impetus to return to offices is the corporate real estate market. If corporate real estate tanks, then companies that own offices will take a huge hit on their valuation and possibly affect the secured credit based on those offices. In addition to all the other investors who've paid these billion dollar atrocities of beige and concrete.
Simple to anyone with significant sums of money to invest.

Either someone is competent enough to earn thousands to hold with FTX or competent enough to inherit win and not have it wasted away.

Either way, if I have $10-100k or whatever and this isn’t simple for me then the issue isn’t FTX, it’s me and I’m going to eventually lose it.

I’m saying it is OP’s fault because he invested in magical thinking. Of course it’s also SBF’s fault for committing fraud. But this is an entirely avoidable fraud as it’s not a complicated con.

If I buy magic beans from a traveler whose fault is it? It’s certainly the traveler’s fault for claiming they will grow into a beanstalk to heaven, but it’s also my fault for believing such a tale.
Rather depends. Are you paying those devs?