skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's actually fucking crazy how expensive GitLab is in comparison to GitHub.

Let's say we have 40 employees who code and 30 employees who create tickets, and we want to get all of the security scanning features that the platform has to offer.

For GitLab, we need the $99/user/month plan because the security features are only available in that subscription. Guest users are completely free, but they're extremely gimped when it comes to issues, so most likely you'll have to have most if not all of your non-coding employees at the $99/user/month tier. Final price is $6930/month (or $3960/month if you can really handle the gimped guests).

For GitHub, you need to pay $19.25/user/month plan for every user and $49/month for every person that commits code for the security features. So that's $1347.50/month for user accounts and $1960 for security features for a total of $3307.50/month.

GitHub is not even half what GitLab wants. It's even less than the gimped guest user experience that you can subject yourself to with GitLab.
This is also a spot where having failover strategies and circuit breakers can help. Microservices make you think about these things but you don’t have to wait for that forcing function to think about them.

When the database goes down, you have to do something else. Could be the server crashed or could just be a Postgres upgrade. Five minutes is just about the right amount of time for an open circuit to do its job.
> I do not think of my argument rests on the degree to which I am an LLM.

That's the point - in fact, I would even speculate that you are may not be [currently] able to.

> I was fairly specific in speaking about the ways in which an LLM is different and the ways in which it lacks the functional capacity to be aware of itself.

Right, but don't forget that this is what you think, and what one thinks is typically what one "sees".

> What I am saying is that an LLM is definitely not aware of itself.

I tend to lean strongly in that direction as well, but I am a ~~strict epistemologist~~ pedant (in ~colloquial reality).
Because having a neat smartphone or a fast GPU completely counteracts the rising cost of food, housing, the rising blatant inequality and utter lack of political will to address it, the lashing out of an entire section of the population against any "others" that were born different and a rising animosity towards education, reality, and intellectuals of all stripes.

To the chagrin of hyper capitalists and tech boosters, being able to run a million computations a second in your pocket is NOT a replacement for affordable food, housing, and a society that believes in helping other people. Candy crush doesn't fill your stomach. Cheap entertainment doesn't stop you from getting arrested for sleeping on the sidewalk because you were thrown out of your tent on the side of the road. Different products and market segments do not replace each other in the majority of cases.

Previous generations could live a full life on a single, boring, average salary, including paying for occasional entertainment and splurges. Microchips don't magically unfuck the rest of the economy, and arguably have only worsened income inequality, the imbalance of power due to individual wealth, and the hatred of the destitute and "have nots"
KYC is part of the underwriting process... You have to first know your customer before you can understand their business and assume the risk of processing their transactions..
Isn’t it equally disingenuous to call CCS1 a standard when it’s the minority of charging stalls in the US?

> my biggest gripe with tesla is that you can simpy unplug someone else’s car.

This is not true, the locking mechanism of NACS is built into the car, not the plug handle.
It’s not just WA. It’s everywhere. New campgrounds are popping up fast and people are becoming disenchanted with the failure-prone covid wagons, so I don’t think it’ll be this way for long.
Congrats on your funding round!

I was very impressed by render when I was investigating hosting platforms, but if I'm being honest I got scared away by the postgres pricing(free for only 90 days: https://render.com/docs/free#free-postgresql-databases).

Question: After some more research, I noticed that even among competitors there aren't really any "always free" options(e.g. even AWS directly only offers 1 year free for RDS). What is it that makes free-tier postgres so uncompetitive in comparison to hosted compute? Is it because dedicated disk is more expensive than shared cores?
TBH that sounds like a sucky life and I don't think we should expect all fat people to live it just because they're fat. That sounds like something's wrong with your hunger sensors or something.
Things like libc are a convenience. You can write a program completely without it.

A script always needs a runtime.
No one thinks the world is going to get 'destroyed'. You're really donwplaying the 'more extreme weather' and life in hot areas is 'going to suck more'.

More extreme weather doesn't mean you can't go outside and play. It means mega-droughts. It means crop failures. It means extreme flooding. It means paying more for everything as more people fight over fewer resources. Wealthy countries will be able to somewhat deal with drought in parts of their territory, but poorer countries will experience more famine and hunger. More people will die from heat-related illness.

>But add up all the deaths and inconveniences from this, assume it gets worse, and the world is still incredibly better off than it was in the 1980s.

In the 1980s, an American with a high school education could expect to make a good living and maybe have a stay at home parent.

Most modern Americans wont be able to buy a house much more raise a family on a single income. Everything is getting rapidly expensive while wages stagnate or decline through inflation.
Is it hydroxyzine? I am prescribed it as a non-habit forming anxiety medication, but it just knocks me out too so I only use it as a sleep aid. And if I take two my heart races and I can't sleep. My anxiety and depression have been significantly improved since starting TRT (I was way under the normal range for my age). I am waiting for cannabis to become legal here because smoking miniscule amounts as a teenager helped me tremendously in all aspects of life, but I never enjoyed, nay I feared, getting stoned.
Which sectors do you see at 200k+? Seems like a general problem that the large banks pay 250k+ but don't have very interesting work.
In many US cities, low lying areas near water (rivers, large lakes, oceans) were often used as cargo ports. Factories and other industrial facilities were then built nearby which made it easier to obtain raw materials and ship out finished products. And naturally low wage, blue collar workers tended to live near those jobs. Such areas were also at greater risk of flooding, and suffered more from air, water, and noise pollution. So, affluent people tended to build homes on higher ground away from the dirty waterfronts.

Now that trend has somewhat flipped. The US has deindustrialized and offshored most heavy industries. Stricter environmental laws have reduced pollution. And civil engineering measures have somewhat reduced flood risk. So, now waterfront residential areas have become expensive and fashionable.

This is just a general trend. We will still see exceptions in SF and other cities.
I'd argue it's not quite as terrible as the author suggests. Getopt(3), for example, uses it, so many programs pick it up from there. As do many popular getopt() variations for other languages...Golang's "flag" built-in, for example. So it's not universal, but it's also more common than you might imagine.
Describing descriptors: a complete Python reference
RIP

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aWmRrfCrMPI
They were produced by the million by Smith Corona for electronic typewriters and “wordprocessors” in the late 80s/early 90s. Those things had the worst fucking keyboards imaginable https://youtu.be/R2rhOUk-dsM
Continual growth has been there for decades, what's new is a focus on this thing called "profits." Until recently the incentive structure has favored growth almost to the exclusion of anything else, at least until you got very big.

The reason so many companies are doing such a terrible job of it right now, is that frankly there aren't many c-levels in tech who are mentally equipped to think about their business that way, and even fewer who have ever been in a position where they had to. Reddit's the latest example of this: 18 years and never been profitable? And Huffman calls himself a libertarian? Good grief.

I'm glad of it. Our industry is filled with basically con-men who have no idea how to run a business profitably (or interest in doing so) but have made up for it by having the right phone numbers etc. It's good that they're being squeezed, because it creates room for people who want to run an honest business.
> Of course without agriculture we'd all starve to death

Can’t we just farm in places with abundant natural sources of water and transport it to places without? Or transport the water.

Places without water tend to have more sun, so we could probably work out some kind of energy-for-water trade.
Actually, I feel that making strong statements of opinion regarding code style is probably the best way to go about doing things.
This is a bad and needlessly complicated solution because the authors don't know anything about ML.

It's both incredibly slow and it will perform poorly (in the sense of the final accuracy and the number of training steps) because you can't just software engineer your way through ML.

The important insight is that you do not need all patches from every image! Actually, showing patches like this in sequence is extremely detrimental to training. The network sees far too much data that is too similar in too many big chunks. You want random patches from random images, the more mixed up the patches the better.

So knowing this, when you look at their latency equation there's a different and obvious solution. Split the loading process in two steps that run in parallel.

First step constantly downloads new images from the web and swaps old images out.
Second step picks an image at random from the ones that are available and generates a random patch from it.

The first step is network bound. The second step is CPU bound. The second step always has images available, it never waits for the first, just picks another random image and random patch. You get great resource utilization out of this.

That's it. No other changes needed. Just use an off the shelf fast image loader. No need for a cluster.

This is a huge waste of engineering time and ongoing computing resources for what is a simple ML problem, had anyone with any knowledge been around.

Hey, tweag! If you want to do ML, reach out. :) You can do far better than this!
It seems the solution would be to find people you like. If you struggle to find people you like then the solution seems it could be to figure out what you like about yourself.
> Once you get on the schedule 1 list, not many PhDs are going to want to come to your rescue.

And yet, I bet most of these people consider themselves both smart, and concerned about ~all important matters.
Ask HN: I'm being pushed out of my job
I’m a backend engineer with ~10 years experience currently working at a fast growing startup with plenty of funding, good market fit and a product that I really believe in. I joined the company before the launch and architected, wrote and implemented all the critical parts of our backend. As an early employee I have a stock options plan.

Things have been working almost perfect until a few months ago.

In my last one-on-one review with my manager, he was very upset with me. Partly is because of some technical mistakes I had big responsibility (and fixed in record time), but mostly because he’s been hearing bad comments of my work from a co-worker.

I came to the conclusion that this person wants my job hence why he’s trash talking to my manager, making the case I am messing things up and I’m not a good engineer.

While I’ve done a few mistakes in the codebase, and failed to meet a few deadlines, I also have prevented or fixed bad mistakes made by my colleagues (including the trash-talker), but instead of denouncing them to the manager, chose the path of being a good guy and do my best to help them.

However, all the incompetence of the team is being blamed at me with fury from the manager, and this person who trash talks about me makes a lot of effort to befriend him and boost his ego, which makes him very convincing. I don’t have the personality to pull off this kind of politics game.

Because of this I’m at the lowest point in my company career, I feel very stressed and angry, because I’ve really contributed quite a lot to the success of this company but I’m not getting recognition and everyone in this person’s influence won’t trust me anymore.

What to do in this situation? How can I recover my team’s trust? Should I leave the company?
I have heard this argument but also the argument that the reason people woke up in the middle of the night was to stoke a fire (or other heating device). Personally I am not entirely convinced.

I am a believer in some people being more tuned to night owls or morning people however (not that it is super firmly set in stone - just a bit of a trend). There is also the theory that this benefited smaller societies since having a few people awake at all hours while others slept would have been good for noticing threats.

Combining these two thoughts actually may be the answer - perhaps we are not biphasic but that few hour window in the middle of the night was driven by the night owls and the morning peoples drive to socialize with one another (sex, eating, etc as you say)
Of what purpose would getting into an argument serve? I ask, why would a mod care if someone else posts something illegal to a forum they don't own?
Hi @anurag, congrats on this funding round!

I'd like to give it a shot but I often don't get past HR because I'm in (theoretical) CS and lack "real world experience". Which is lame because the stuff I've done from my trench is amazing (source: trust me, lol).

Anyway, I'm really good on the backend, creating high performance REST APIs, documenting them, etc... and know a great deal of postgres.

I also have a good intuition for what's going to stick or not in the field. I was doing AWS ~15 years ago, back when you had to use an ugly SOAP interface to get things done, but I saw the potential and created the first automated cluster of bioinformatic tools in there. Right now, I'm betting on Rust, WASM, V8 isolates, and everything that has to do w/ lightweight function execution.

If that sounds good for render's mission, I'll be glad to take part in it.
Thanks Meta, that's going to be a great boon for impersonation scammers.
RSS Autodiscovery
Ercot asks Texans to voluntarily conserve electricity due to the extreme heat
* Don't go to sleep until you feel really sleepy, take a short nap (15-20 min) in the afternoon right after drinking coffee.

* Meetings are enthusiasm drainers, switch jobs.

* Find something really motivating to do.
OTOH, RSS is looking more appealing than ever (in the last decade) with recent changes at Twitter and Reddit.
> Ireland: High taxes, extreme dysfunction, crazy housing costs.

Totally agree with you on this. The country is on a verge of collapse, I have been trying to switch rental apartment and its been 6 months that i am sending my references and no one has even responded to me. If i get evicted from my place, i will have to move out of the country. Its mental, nothing works. My wife is waiting for her driving test date, she has applied online 3 months ago and she hasn’t even gotten a date yet. Same goes for most government services.
The fastest way to switchover is probably adding a iptables rule on the old server to DNAT to the new server. Unless you have a load-balancer or another network middleware like Kubernetes' clusterIP services (which uses iptables or IPVS internally).

Waiting for a rolling restart or DNS cache expiration could take a while, during which the app is talking to a read-only database, if I understand correctly.
> Roll those out to every light post near apartment buildings and throw in some curb-side stalls if you need more capacity

Don't forget your local electrical grid will likely need a significant upgrade too. An LED streetlamp probably draws a couple of hundred watts, tops.
Video description: "In the 1000-ball part balls are initially mutually separated by less than a millionth of the plot width. "
Very interesting. Any idea how pure water could cause diarrhoea?
The Second System Problem
I used to have this attitude and regret losing good friends over it. It’s too easy to be independent these days, and, if you’re naturally introverted like me, too easy to neglect friendships due to self-reliance. I’m gradually learning to reach out to friends for no other purpose than spending time together, and it’s broadened my horizons. I think modern life is by default too isolating to allow most relationships to build themselves like this. You don’t have to hug people, but reaching out for non-transactional contact is rewarding IME.
Different people express and experience/receive love in different ways. You need to understand your loved one's personal "love language": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Five_Love_Languages
Yes, it is hydroxyzine.
Apple really is a awful company. You vote with your money! - don't vote Apple, FFS.
"These people are so childish!"

"The people who generate the value?"

"Yes! It's not for them! It's for Reddit shareholders!"

How else would an observer expect bad faith actions on Reddit's part to end? Reddit users don't care if they kill Reddit, they'll just move on.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96h5SfUOke8 (NSFW|L), Fight Club - Lou Scene)
Surprisingly GitLab feels very dated. Their drive has been toward enterprise sales instead of product IMO. Nothing bad about that - but focus on product development at least as well.
The Etruscans read the entrails as well, and look where that got them. I don't think there's quite enough information to speculate.
I'm looking for backup providers as well. I absolutely hate how you have to go to complain on HN (and have the post noticed) to get any support at all from Stripe. What is the hassle involved with Paymentech? How easy is it to integrate like Stripe is? How is it cheaper?
Sounds like something straight out of a Cold War spy novel.

I don't really buy Mr. McMahon's defensive. I suspect he deliberately didn't ask any details about what he was doing for whom.
Coast Guard says extensive search has yielded no sign of missing sub
A woman at work recently told me she naps in her car after her daily walk. It made me think that I could probably put the back seat down in my car and put an inflatable mattress on it and nap anywhere.
With RSS autodiscovery[1] your browser (or today an extension) can identify an RSS feed and with one click submit it to your RSS reader. You don't even need to find the RSS link in the HTML.

[1]: https://www.rssboard.org/rss-autodiscovery
My immediate thought is the design isn’t there yet. Maybe the tool is but people also pick tools based on how they look, and this could take a facelift before mass marketed.
Debugging Production: eBPF Chaos
Why the waters around the Titanic are still treacherous
I have to say the experience of reading the comments here (and all similar stories) gives a lot of Stockholm syndrome vibes.

"The city's actually really safe if you completely ignore this whole area that sits in the middle of it otherwise all bets are off" isn't exactly an endorsement.
Level 2 can charge up to 19kW (240V at 80A) but 12kW (50A) is more common.

NACS also can't do three-phase power. Three-phase power is rare in the US, it is only found in commercial locations that need it.
No, when people owe money to the bank, that's an asset on the bank's balance sheet. That's the opposite of a liability. Companies will purchase the bank's assets, because the bank's assets (which are your liability) are worth something.

It doesn't work the other way around: if your end of it is a liability (your loan/mortgage/whatever), nobody wants to buy that from you, because it's worth a negative amount of money, it's a burden, a liability. Companies want to purchase the other end of the deal, because it's what makes them money: it has a positive value.
ok. so;

it used to be:

$0 - for as many users as you wanted

$4 - per user, with some important additional features, including SSO and merge request approvals

$19 - for nearly all the features except very enterprise/security ones

€99 - for all festures.

—-

over the last 2 years they have dropped the $4 option and increased the $19 option.

so now there is a cliff; free for 5: $29 for everything.

Not sure why I would use gitlab over github if thats the up-front hill I will have to climb: for what its worth Perforce also has almost exactly this pricing model and has the games industry by the balls, but perforce has no real competitor.

fwiw I am a gitlab user for 10 years and have advocated for its use, the only reason I haven't migrated off at this point is the switching cost
Humorous question: Could moving there be a privacy advantage? I can imagine insanely long locations break a good bunch of databases and CRMs, specially legacy ones... I would give my location to every spammer and scammer and refuse to spell it.
"Oh yeah... I'm super interested in your product. But you gotta ship it to Taumatawhakatangi­hangakoauauotamatea­turipukakapikimaunga­horonukupokaiwhen­uakitanatahu. Is that ok?"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taumatawhakatangi%C2%ADhangako...
> All of the things you mentioned are activities for the wealthy

That's really the key aspect of this story for you isn't it? Screw them because they're rich; I get that, but just own it.

And for the record, you don't need to be rich to go skiing and break your neck on a tree. A whole lot of working class people save up money for a vacation then go skiing. A whole lot of working class people save up money for a once-in-a-lifetime trip to Hawaii and go scuba diving. If you find it hard to believe either of those scenarios then believe this: a whole lot of working class people buy motorcycles and drive them fast. Hell, when I was a teen I used to pedal my $100 bicycle down steep hills as fast as I could. Taking risks for thrills is something that's broadly accessible to just about anybody.
No, they're for completely different use cases. While it's technically possible to edit a video in After Effects, its main use case is compositing VFX and advanced motion graphics.
Not mentioned in the emails I had. They did suggest splitting it into 5 and 3 hour chunks but I couldn't fit it into my schedule (between work and my other half's health issues, I had to move around a lot due to several days of ER visits)
It does not mention the canal of the pharaohs, the predecessor of the Suez Canal: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canal_of_the_Pharaohs
I'm not in the field, but some of your questions are research problems regarding boundary conditions of the laplacian operator.

There's also similar work framed in terms of billiards:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamical_billiards
Don’t forget no income tax in Florida! And with lower income means lower federal taxes also. That makes the difference much smaller between the two.
Well, then why not buy that water from the farmers at a market price?
Internet too, please
About five years ago I got to know a new woman colleague. (I’m a man.) Very soon it felt like she was confiding in me. No one just confides in me like that, so I thougt we were developing a friendship -- I would never think to do something like that to anyone that I didn't trust. It felt great that someone would go out of their way to seek my Platonic companionship.

But I eventually realized that I was just the most convenient guy/person (most of her immediate coworkers were men) for her to complain about work while stuck at work. We never did anyhing together otside of work contexts.