skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The fact that it doesn't work if everyone tries to gather around a handful of servers is a feature and not a bug.

If the design onboards users in a way that breaks the system, like it sounds, that’s a bug.
Google Domains, Stadia, Firestore, Chatbase, IOT Core, Zync render, Cloud print, Jump, Cloud Messaging, Prediction API, Cloud Connect, and the video rendering service. But more importantly, Google has a reputation for shutting things down in general:

https://killedbygoogle.com
I really really wish turnouts were designed more like passing zones, with an actual lane.

Driving a huge RV I have trouble seeing and pulling off at my destination, let alone a fall-off-the-road-into-dirt pullout that comes up quickly around a turn.
The original exegesis, which prompted this blog post, was by me.

I am currently transitioning to a different blog engine, so the page is offline right now, but it's still available here

https://web.archive.org/web/20220513113609/neilk.net/blog/20...
IMHO, the problem is the gradient across complete confidence in the safety of x, concern about the safety of x, doubt about the safety of x, and assuredness about the evil ulterior motives of x.

I’m just as worried about anyone with complete confidence as I am someone who immediately assumes evil ulterior motives. Over time, the probability of one having a medical procedure with overpromised outcomes or under-disclosed side effects approaches 100%.
> Reddit does not need them.

We’ll see.
I didn't see anything about that. But I assume if it is they will provide an off-ramp to Cloudformation or another similar tool.
I think there are books that cover this topic. I've bought "The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up", "It's all too much", "Decluttering at the Speed of Life" and more...
In practice, I think only the NSFW Lemmy's have to be worried.

This isn't straight binary file hosting. Its just text, image, and video. Images/Video can get into trouble but if you have a Safe-for-work only policy and defederate from NSFW instances, you're probably in the clear?

And I'm pretty sure any large amount of data is going to be throttled. So not even "big" videos are going to be hosted, more like a few-second .mp4 memes at best.
Analysis of the possibility of a submarine implosion using finite element method
MySQL is easy. You just open the database with the new version and the upgrade happens automatically.
I assume you're talking about EC2 classic? If so, I'm aware, I was one of those legacy customers who didn't move until forced. :)

But the point is, they hired people like you just to help people like me move to the newer better product that replaced all the functionality and then some. We didn't have to suddenly figure out a way to replace core functionality.
Technical Infrastructure- historically, a division inside google which was responsible for the software and hardware infrastructure that runs google. Search, ads, cloud, youtube, etc all ran (run?) on top of TI software and hardware. TI existed before google cloud did and was (is) basically its own cloud with a service API, with borg, google clusters, networking, storage, databases, etc. Historically it was run by Urs (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urs_H%C3%B6lzle). At some point, TI and cloud got mixed up together to get more TI people to work on Cloud products. Many cloud products represent either TI services or variations/ports/reimplementations of TI services.

TI was absolutely enormous and it was key to google's early and continued scaling of compute and storage. I don't know if it still exists within Google or got renamed, or what.
We use packer to build our images for all of Vagrant, Docker and AMIs (multi-arch) and push to the relevant registries. The packer side is probably ~100 lines of HCL, and allows us to have consistent images no matter where it's running.
It's a fairly simple tool in premise and does what's on the tin, would recommend.
> Just take a look on how many hackers owns a MacBook as their main driver despite the existence of many good Linux laptops

Apple silicon is becoming one of the best options for Linux

https://asahilinux.org
FYI from https://www.dictionary.com/e/gender-sexuality/cis/

“Cissexual was coined in the mid 1990s by a German sexologist. He used the Latin preposition cis, meaning “on this side of,” as a contrast to transsexual, trans being the Latin for “on the other side of” or “across.””

So not a slur at all really. An accurate way of differentiating “this” vs “that”.

I wonder if Mr.Free Speech will ban the use of “libtard” or “fascist”.
Tiktok is reading the reviews of the Logitech gamepad and it has a reputation for frequently disconnecting.
AI and the transformation of social science research
One third of Canadians fine with prescribing assisted suicide for homelessness
It's easy in theory. In practice on many busy freeways such as I-5 through California the right lane is often clogged with heavy trucks for miles at a stretch, and the road surface is in terrible condition due to wear from those trucks. All the car drivers, even the slow ones, then hang out in the left lane so as not to get caught behind the trucks. I'm not defending this poor driving etiquette but the road conditions make it inevitable. The only real solution would be to add a third lane.
Yup. Hate shorts. Hate the "mix" things that appear in the middle of my feed also.

There are a couple of blocker addons for firefox (eg youtube-shorts-block) which I'm going to try out.
Can't tell if you're joking or not, but this commenter (fsckboy) is using programming/regex-like syntax to write "wife/life" as "(w|l)ife", indicating that, although the parent commenter (JohnDotAwesome) is referring directly to their wife, the commenter (fsckboy) has found it to be true throughout their life AND coming directly from their wife.

In other words, both fsckboy's wife and misc. people in their life tend to only point out that fsckboy is being "overly considerate" when it appears that fsckboy is letting someone benefit from their considerate nature. The implication is that fsckboy considers the behavior as being kind and/or safe, while their wife/companions think of it as being taken advantage of.

The broad concept of this exchange concerns where the line is between being considerate and being taken advantage of, and how others might be incentivized to view that one way or the other.
I don't get what your site does from your description. Buying and selling used books is what bookshops do. Places like abebooks do that on the web.
I designed and built my own. Available in two varieties. Paperbacks and hardbacks. I swear that just about every book case I've ever looked at is designed by someone who doesn't own a lot of books, doesn't love books, and doesn't really think about books other than things that go on coffee tables or a few shelves. I made my book cases 26" wide, pine for the carcase, maple for the shelves that can be flipped over and work in any direction. 7' 8" tall, which means it will clear a standard height 8ft ceiling in just about any house in the US built in the last 50 years. Book case depth was either 6" deep or 8.5" deep depending on if the book case was meant to hold paperbacks or hardbacks. A single fixed shelf at the one third mark. Shelf pin holes every 1.5". Limited width of shelf means the span won't sag very much, maple has a high Jenka rating, so it doesn't sag as much as composites or fast growth pine. If the maple shelves do sag a bit over time, flip them over and then they can sag back the other way. If the front of the shelf gets dinged up, flip it around. The fixed shelf prevents the carcase from bowing out, and placing the shelf about 1/3rd of the way up permits maximum flexibility in shelf positioning. Interesting side-note, the paint on 30 book cases weighs more than 40lbs.
This author has the strangest use of “overwhelm” I’ve ever seen.
Far from the most egregious accent offenses committed by Connery.

There's so many, it's hard to pick!
They use the Microsoft controllers which have literally 7 digit R&D budgets, and have non-gaming use cases in mind. Not cheap off brand Logitech controllers.
I believe around the same time the US was spraying migrants crossing the southern border with Zyklon B to deal with lice and typhus.
> Much like how building Twitter is a weekend-sized project.

More like a month, but yes. That's what we did - a month to launch, then another month to harden and add several features. Rolled out to all customers.

Building product features with LLMs is difficult, but not because of the architectural needs. It's an API you pass data to.
They have recently introduced support for UI theming in version 10.3 released last month.
They have another ~30 hours of air.

The biggest hope is that they are not terribly deep trapped near the surface and can be located in that time.
50% on HumanEval with just 1.3B model
If the article were (2006), it would have mentioned Parallax Propeller: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallax_Propeller
Ok, I know this is off-topic to the core idea of this essay, but one line made me think:

> the cost of a respectable degree is *spiraling upwards*, while the value of that degree is spiraling downwards.

The phrase "spiraling downwards" is common for something falling out of control, and is the correct usage here in terms of a degree's value. But can something also "spiral upwards"?

Maybe it can, maybe it can't. I've never heard someone use the "spiraling upwards" analogy. The phrase originates from planes that lose their ability to maneuver and control themselves so they fall out of the sky in a spiral corkscrew fashion while trying to re-gain control, which fits with the general usage of the phrase. But spiraling upward is just funny to me, within the same anology it isn't probably possible or realistic. "Shooting upwards" is better probably.

I really don't mean this as a critique to the author, i find the article very interesting. However, the writer inside of me just couldn't ignore the opportunity to discuss this usage.

Now, shifting gears to the author's original point so I am actually adding value here. I agree that tech really degrades against academia right now. To the point of even praising or glorifying those who drop out of school. But there really is some incredible research happening in academia right now within tech. I wish more attention was spent on favoring this work and those who participate in it instead of focusing on silly algorithm puzzles and memorizing programming language syntax oddities. This stuff really isn't useful while being able to produce thoughtful technical reports and being able to effectively spread and share good ideas (which academia emphasizes) are positive traits that actually benefit any company and make your workplace better.
That’s not how regulation of transportation works.

You can build your own plane and fly it with relatively few restrictions, but as soon as you a) manufacture a plane for sale to someone else, or b) get paid for transporting someone in it, the regulators become much much stricter.
It's less than it's off the shelf and more that it's the cheap brand your mom might buy your little brother as a second controller because it's half the price of the first-party one.
That’s a great tool, but can cause dependenze… fuck, dependence.
I think you need to be a little more specific about what the "down file" is for, especially since you can't for google it.
> LLMs aren't useful.

to you?

> They don't solve problems.

for you?

Care to elaborate?

Are you curious why other people find them useful? To see how they solve problems with them?
Also WestWorld: Some of these machines were designed by other machines - we have no idea how they work!
Probably. Check the kosmos-1 paper from Microsoft that appeared a few days before GPT4 was released: https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.14045
It's against the site guidelines to insinuate astroturfing or shillage like this - if you'd please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stick to the rules, we'd appreciate it.

The reason is that the overwhelming majority of such perceptions turn out not to have any evidence behind them, and meanwhile it's one of the things that internet commenters do that most degrades discussion.

I wrote a much longer explanation about this recently: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35932851. There are lots of other past explanations at https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme... if anyone wants more.
It’s just novelty. Submarines don’t sink every day. How many times do we hear of a refugee boat sinking? Seems to happen every few weeks.
My ~/documents/books folder is very quickly replacing my bookshelf. Integration with org-roam means my library can be massive and still accessible. It doesn't look particularly great though.
The "transaction fees won't protect against reorgs" argument assumes that miners count the value of future block rewards at 0. This is poor logic that models mining as a single game of the prisoner's dilemma. Modeling it as a repeated game arrives at the opposite conclusion: that most miners will cooperate to some degree, because the future value of their rewards depends on it.

I say this as someone very much opposed to the "deflationary" model, because I think it's bullshit that generates a "landed gentry" (thanks, spez) that can forever dominate the distribution of a currency. If you're going to make a currency, inflation of some degree is required to ensure fair(er) distribution over time.

I just think the idea that, when block rewards dissipate, miners will suddenly lose the ability to think more than one block into the future should be called for what it is: bad logic. It's also readily disproved by the most trivial glance at their history of long-term, forward-looking investment.
Because we're Amusing Ourselves To Death.

(I care about it because OceanGate is local and a friend has met the CEO and been on one of their submersibles)
You think about product lifecycles differently when you have a monorepo. Breaking change in a library? Just fix all the breaks in the same commit. Dependency hell? Not a problem when you have an ancient version forked in your monorepo. These are real problems customers face when they're not in your ecosystem, and Google doesn't always realize that. It was this same for App Engine. It wasn't a model 95% of customers wanted, but for Google spinning up services internally, it was great.
full podcast here: https://www.latent.space/p/geohot
> A good portion of them are outcasts or losers in their home countries (for a reason)

In countries where not being 6 foot makes you a loser. Why pretend that you live in a meritocracy?
Handwriting recognition on checks (LeCun et al 1989) wasn't really a small, purely academic experiment
I know it is just trading one mega-corp for another but the Outlook app doesn't use Google calendar. I don't think the Samsung calendar uses google either unless you hook it up to gmail, I had mine against an exchange server.
> Alternative interpretation: If someone has managed to be around for 1,000 years and you think they are stupid, then maybe your definition of "stupidity" is the wrong one.

I'd be surprised if they were.
same. i wish i had asked george instead of nodding along like an idiot. he probably wouldnt know but at least he’d speculate in interesting ways.
His biggest issue was trying to convince the remaining engineers and Elon that a refactor was more promising than continuing to build on the layers of spaghetti code that runs twitter.

I don't disagree with him, it's just clear that he didn't understand how dire the financial situation was and that even a progressive refactor starting with the most basic features would take considerable engineering hours and money.
A better title would be “A regex to check if a string contains a prime number of characters”
You can also factor integers with Regexp::Exhaustive:

https://metacpan.org/pod/Regexp::Exhaustive#Finding-all-divi...

And if you're in Toronto in 3 weeks time, come see Abigail (the original inventor of the prime number regexp) solve the N-Queens problem with regexp:

https://tprc2023.sched.com/event/1LhoB/the-n-queens-problem-...
I hate that I feel this comment in my soul
Yes, but interesting they don't use it to drive the sub, or for other mission or life critical tasks... in this sub they did seemingly
> Why invent a new UI framework when we have so many brilliant UI frameworks out there begging to be applied for creating highly responsive GUI applications with a modern look and feel for all major desktop platforms at once?

There is probably some xkcd cartoon that says no, you can't have such a GUI. Human compute is not meant to be a pleasure.
I am eagerly awaiting a cheap clone of Dynamixel quality servos.

Is it really just tuning? That seems like something that would pay off for an aliexpress copycat. A servo is pretty simple/cheap to build, right?

I guess there are only a handful of us who really want high-accuracy, high-torque component servos...
Fastmail can host organizations as well.
There are about 4 near my home. I check them regularly. They are filled with books that stay there for several months. I'll add one when there's room.

If I was running one, I'd have maybe 10x what will fit in it, and constantly rotate them. The ones that don't move within a couple months go to the thrift store.

P.S. the books I add are scifi. They never last more than a week :-)
Show HN: Violet: A massively composable digital identity protocol
This is not a ~crypto project~.

This is a 100% utility project on a blockchain. Fraud-, tyrranical regime- and malevolent AI-resistant digital identities are what blockchains are for.

I am interested in sharing my initial use-case deployment of a highly composable and secure identity protocol called "Violet."

It has been leveraged in the context of putting Twitter identities on a highly decentralized
public ledger blockchain (Cardano). However, Twitter is one context of any imaginable context (on the internet or off).

This protocol has use cases across any industry / credentialing need/ social setting.

You will need a Cardano browser wallet and some test tokens (tADA) on Cardano's preprod network.

Thank you for trying it out!

Any comments/questions/criticism welcome.
You're lucky that hundred shot of NOS didn't blow the welds on the intake!
Think about smoke in the air, or bubbles in water.
What exactly makes Electron better for speed than say popular cross-platform GUI library X?
Probable proximate cause https://twitter.com/JUNlPER/status/1671378793062178816
> For robust code you should also use set -e.

Highly debatable.
Thanks for the rough numbers. And yes, that would be enough to kill people, but I probably overstated the effect on harder materials.

A pressure washer maxes out around 4000 PSI for a powerful one, and that can easily cut through flesh.
If you are happy with VSCode you probably aren't doing the things Jetbrains IDEs excel at.

That said:
Language support - specifically Java and Kotlin are absolutely top tier. CLion is easily the best Rust IDE also.
Automated refactorings.
Really really fast code search - caveat, indexing takes a while but it's worth it.
i dont know. this sounds more BS.

so if a politician changes parties, goes from left to right and now his face is supposed to change accordingly?
> But can something also "spiral upwards"?

Birds on updrafts do this.
Could you please stop posting unsubstantive comments and flamebait? You've unfortunately been doing it repeatedly. It's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for.

If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36389164 made much the same point as you without resorting to snark or attacking the other commenter, and did so clearly and substantively. Please post like that instead.
They found that their previous design with the same materials would get crushed at 2000m. And now this sub disappeared during descent…
The point is that the n900 was Gnu/Linux with glibc like mama said was good for you and worked along very similar lines to your desktop machine.

Maemo was gtk+ based and many Gnome applications ran really nicely. Eg Gnumeric was great. The desktop dev environment worked so you could port or write stuff from scratch then load it onto your phone. apt-get worked - apt was the app store iirc.

But who cares that stuff?

It was as slick and nice a user interface as the then recently released iphone! No really, I'm not making that up. Fold-out keyboard was terrific too. Way, way ahead of android at that time and arguably still. From memory the touchscreen on the iphone was better but nothing else was.

Microsoft bought nokia and killed it. Nothing has been as good since.
Nice Monkey.
I don't think party alignment necessarily aligns to ideology, at least with politicians.
Here’s an idea: create a QA site where LLMs ask the questions and the answers. https://chirper.ai/ but Stack Overflow instead of Twitter.

Maybe even get rid of user prompts have the LLMs automate upvoting, downvoting, and reporting too; 100% bots interacting with each other.
The negatives being what? Technical? Social?

Having a traversable landscape of content is incredibly valuable. I think "search results as search criteria"/"traversal by adjacency" is the only real feasible way to organize the web, and the fact that we've moved away from that is the reason google search is often now useless. ChatGPT is valuable as a search replacement/amplifier because it reproduces that adjacency in a roundabout way.

If you want to know what kind of quality a given printer produces, good luck finding a picture on google. All you'll see is ad-infested, auto-generated top-n lists.

Applying the old youtube related model, you'd just have to find one picture to be a few degrees of separation from a picture of a print job from any printer ever manufactured.

The idea of objective universal ranking is a wash, and ranking based on N paramaters isn't much better.
Offtopic, but as a VR gamer that article just made me very sad. I was really hoping to see NVidia produce some decent cards in the near future, but looks like their main revenue is really going to be gargantuan number-crunchers. They'll likely only keep increasing the VRAM of gaming cards by arbitrarily-small numbers once every few years :-(
“Man this thing steers like garbage… oh wait… duh”
I am so glad the CEO is on board. Normally they’d just be able to get away scott free with billions and tell everyone how sorry they are.
> I'm using vim for a long time now, but recently I heard that neovim is noticeably faster. Is that true?

Neovim is faster; of course, YMMV. Even if you use Neovim just like Vim, it's snappier—the refactor resulted in 30% less code.

> Have most folks switched to neovim by now? Should I care?

There's two broad groups. Users who have been using Vim for like 20 years and they have a configuration they like and see no reason to change.

The other group wants all of the new hotness of Language Server Protocol, tree sitter, everything's asynchronous, there's a proper API and lots of new plugins that wouldn't be possible using Vimscript, for the most part.

Check out https://neovim.io/doc/user/vim_diff.html#nvim-features for details.

Being a Vim (now Neovim) user for close to 20 years, Neovim has attracted lots of new people to Vim-style editors and they've brought lots of energy. There's also been quite an influx of VS Code users.

Neovim is not an IDE, but it can support many IDE-like features via plugins written in Lua. There are several Neovim distributions, which you can install quickly and play around without committing to anything [1]. LunaVim, LazyVim and AstroVim are popular Neovim distributions.

It's important to understand that your existing .vimrc will Just Work if you want to start with that.

[1]: https://github.com/rockerBOO/awesome-neovim#preconfigured-co...